Player

Factorio is played from the top down perspective of your player character, who is always in the centre of your view. You have four primary ways of interacting with the world:

1. Crafting items and entities personally from resources using your craft menu (Default: e)
2. Placing entities by selecting them from your inventory or toolbar and placing them on a tile (Default: LMB)
   1. Opening contextual menus for entities like Assembly Machines or Chests
   2. Removing the entity from the world, returning it to your inventory (Default: Hold RMB)
3. Harvesting resources from a tile (Default: Hold RMB)
4. Firing weapons at enemies (Default: Press or hold Spacebar depending on weapon)

In the process of building and expanding your factory, different pieces of equipment will be necessary from the first minute onwards, starting with your first Iron axe:

Tools

Iron axe