History Videogame / Factorio

** ZigZagged by Worms and Spitters targeting the player. They will attempt to predict the player's movements, but can usually be evaded by... zig-zag movement.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: The flamethrower's stream deals an additional 100 damage per second for ''30'' seconds to biters and spitters upon direct contact, meaning anything shot of a behemoth biter WILL die after a short bit.

** The handheld flamethrower, the flamethrower turret and both artillery pieces can't shoot at targets too close to them, which can make the former two a surprisingly useless weapon against biters. Strangely, the tank-mounted flamer works differently (seems to shoot burning gas instead of a liquid) and thus averts this.

* AscendedFanfic: Quite a few popular mods ended up being eventually included in the game proper.

The game has both single-player and CoOpMultiplayer modes. A demo is available on the [[https://www.factorio.com/ Factorio website]], with the full game available on the website, and from [[http://steamcommunity.com/app/427520 Steam]], [[https://www.gog.com/game/factorio GOG]] and the [[https://www.humblebundle.com/store/factorio Humble Store]] for €30/$30. Don't wait for a sale, the developers have a policy of never discounting the game.

* ArbitraryMaximumRange:

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: The handheld flamethrower, the flamethrower turret and both artillery pieces can't shoot at targets too close to them, which can make the former two a surprisingly useless weapon against biters. Strangely, the tank-mounted flamer works differently (seems to shoot burning gas instead of a liquid) and thus averts this.

* YouNukeEm: You can eventually research nuclear munitions for the handheld Rocket Launcher. [[ArbitraryMinimumRange But be wary, because like real life man-portable nukes the explosion range is greater than the firing range.]] You'll have to OutrunTheFireball.

* LoopholeAbuse: Underground belts don't ''need'' to be placed in pairs, a single one will do. This can be exploited for splitting and organizing belts; if you place an underground belt perpendicular to a belt and orient it to carry items "above ground", then only the side of the belt that connects to the open half of the underground belt will feed onto it, while the other side of the belt stays put.

* EarlyGameHell: While in mid- to late-game, you (hopefully) have a good sized factory and most of the boring tasks are automated, you start out with nothing but a burner mining drill, stone furnace, and a [[LittleUselessGun peashooter of a pistol]] with 10 magazines. There's no small wonder that an ''entire mod'' has been created for the express purpose of skipping ''Factorio's'' early game outright. When not lightening the load between several players in a multiplayer run, the grind can feel unnecessarily intense for veteran players who just want to jump into their favorite part of the game, and are bored to tears with the first couple of hours of gameplay:
** The first few objectives of starting up power production, research, mining, and smelting can be a real slog. Often, you will be waiting to get a sufficient amount of resources to build sections of your mines and factory. Once you have those resources, manually crafting what you need will tie up your crafting queue, which occasionally forces you to wait to craft more items or cancel what you're crafting (and God forbid you're doing a [[ThatOneAchievement "Lazy Bastard" run]], in which case you ''can't even'' craft more than a certain amount of items before reaching your first assembling machine, which itself requires power). Combine all that with needing to grind through all the early game research to get to automobilism, which lets you explore more efficiently, and trains, which make transporting large amounts of resources across long distances viable (doubly so if you're playing on "Railworld" map gen settings).
** Once your factory gets to a decent stage of the game where most of the early tasks are automated, you suddenly have to watch for [[BigCreepyCrawlies biter attacks]], which are triggered by the pollution your factory constantly produces. All of your early game gun turrets will frequently run out of ammo and need to be replenished, and hand-fed ammo if you don't have a dedicated transport belt bringing in magazines and a factory supplying the belt. Neglecting to clear out biter nests early on will leave your base open to more attacks. Biter nests themselves are full of danger and can't be easily cleared out until flamethrower research is finished; flamethrowers are also a mid-game tech locked behind oil research, which itself takes a lot of setup, and often requires scouting of the map to find a sustainable oil field.

The Nintendo Directs of September 2022 revealed that a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Port of the game was in the works.

* UnitsNotToScale: Possibly. The top-down style makes it hard to tell how big things are. For example, defence walls look like they're about [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence half the height of the player]] which [[FridgeLogic doesn't make sense if you think about it]].

* GameMod: Factorio natively supports mods, which can be managed via an in-game system that connects to the official Factorio servers to allow you to download and update mods. The selection available varies from simple mods to changed recipes or make minor adjustments to gameplay, such as the Long Reach, Arborium, and Autofill mods, to entire game-changing mods that add in new resources and enemies and/or make radical changes to the tech tree, such as the collections of mods collectively referred to as Bob's and Angel's Mods. Concepts and ideas from several mods have been adapted into official game mechanics. The developers are also extremely supportive of the modding community, and commonly work with the community to find and fix bugs in the base game which are only normally exposed by mods.

''Factorio'' is a crowdfunded top-down two-dimensional FactoryBuildingGame (the TropeMaker, in fact), with RTS elements planned for later updates. Developed and published by Czech studio Wube Software, the game officially left Early Access with version 1.0 on August 14, 2020.

** Grenades are designed to be used against swarms of biters. Most people instead grab a crapload of them, run towards a forest and start hurling them as fast as possible to quickly clear trees. The same practice was taken UpToEleven when ''nuclear weapons'' were added to the game.

** Taken UpToEleven with the mod-exclusive Thermonuclear Bombs, which are essentially nuclear ''fusion'' warheads several times more powerful than the standard nukes. Their blast radius is so huge that outrunning the explosion without speed-enhancing gear is next to impossible.

** With the introduction of the [[SpiderTank Spidertron]] you get a robot with four quick firing missile launchers you can arm with nothing but nukes, you can also equip it with shields and exoskeletons which will ensure that you'll be able to either outrun and survive the nukes.

** With the introduction of the [[SpiderTank Spidertron]]you get a robot with four quick firing missile launchers you can arm with nothing but nukes, you can also equip it with shields and exoskeletons which will ensure that you'll be able to either outrun and survive the nukes.