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 Also feel free to remove outdated tutorials.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
Note that everything prefixed with "Guide" is currently blocked for editing and is likely to receive a major overhaul or deletion.
- 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/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 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/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
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, Copper 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
Priority Splitter
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