Tutorials

This page lists community-provided tutorials for beginners to Factorio. Please feel free to add your own, or ones you feel would be useful to readers. Also feel free to remove outdated tutorials.

List of On-Wiki Tutorials

• Applied power math
• Applied power math/de
• Applied power math/ko
• Applied power math/ru
• Circuit network cookbook
• Circuit network cookbook/de
• Circuit network cookbook/es
• Circuit network cookbook/ja
• Circuit network cookbook/ru
• Circuit network cookbook/zh
• Combinator Tutorial
• Combinator tutorial
• Combinator tutorial/de
• Combinator tutorial/ru
• Combinator tutorial/zh
• Diagnosing performance issues
• Inspecting a live mod
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcuts/ru
• Keyboard shortcuts/uk
• Localisation
• Main bus
• Main bus/ru
• Mod changelog format
• Mod settings
• Mod structure
• Modding
• Modding FAQ
• Modding FAQ/zh
• Modding tutorial
• Modding tutorial/Gangsir
• Modding tutorial/ja
• Modding tutorial/tr
• Modding tutorial/uk
• Nuclear power
• Nuclear power/de
• Nuclear power/pl
• Nuclear power/ru
• Nuclear power/zh
• Producing power from oil
• Producing power from oil/de
• Quick Start Guide
• Quick start guide
• Quick start guide/de
• Quick start guide/es
• Quick start guide/fr
• Quick start guide/ja
• Quick start guide/pl
• Quick start guide/pt-br
• Quick start guide/ru
• Quick start guide/tr
• Quick start guide/uk
• Quick start guide/vi
• Quick start guide/zh
• Scrap recycling strategies
• Script interfaces
• Scripting
• Solar power math
• Train signals
• Train signals/de
• Train signals/ja
• Train signals/ru
• Transport use cases
• Transport use cases/zh

List of community tutorials

Note that due to the community-driven nature of this page, the videos cannot be reliably checked for quality.

	Version	Date	Comment
CaptainKonzept's Factorio Video Tutorials	v0.13	2016-09-03	Circuit Logic, Smart Steam Power, Smart Oil Cracking, Smart Trains and more
Bentham's Factorio Videos	v0.10	2014-08-14	Oil, Trains, Burner inserters
Negative Root's Factorio Tutorials on Youtube	v0.10.6	2014-08-12
A series of tutorials to help new players	v0.8	2014-05-24
Tutorials series in Portuguese (BR)	v0.11.22	2015-07-06

Joseki (Starting moves)

For example the coal joseki: Two burner miners fill themselves on a coal field.

	Version	Date	Comment
The early game	v0.10.6	2014-08-1
Tips for a quick start	v0.9	2014-06-18

Starting strategies

Your starting items, Iron Plates, a Burner Mining Drill and a Stone Furnace

As the player is spawned, they start with a small array of items; including 8 Iron Plates, a Burner Mining Drill and a Stone Furnace, using these tools the player will be able to cultivate nearby resources of Coal, a type of fuel that can be used to power your Stone Furnace and Burner Mining Drills.

You can use the Burner Mining Drill to mine nearby Iron ore, Copper ore and Coal

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6627

Exploring the map

Whilst the map the player is dropped into is randomly generated at world creation, eventually exploring the map will prove vitally important to securing further resources, e.g. Iron ore, Copper ore.

As of Version 0.11.1, there are only two methods to exploring the world. This is either through the use of a Radar, or simply by searching the area using your character, though Enemies may be a hazard for any explorers.

The Oil Network

• Smart Oil Processing - How to Keep Your Tanks from Overflowing (Video) As of 0.15 obsolete due to fluid wagons.

Emergency Steam Generator

• Smart Steam Power - How to use Solar-Charged Accumulators Instead of Coal / Emergency Steam Power (Video)

Priority Splitter

• Priority Splitters: Maximum Throughput off your Main Bus (Video)

Train

• Rail Signaling - Easy Rules for Placing Signals (Video)
• Railway Signal Tutorial
• Smart Trains - Stop Conditions and the Circuit Network (Video)

Tips

General resource strategies

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6667&p=52272&hilit=Production+surplus#p52272