User:Technical 13/Lazy bastard

Lazy bastard is an achievement you can earn in Factorio by completing the game by handcrafting 111 or fewer items.

This task isn't as easy as it first appears because it counts all of the prerequisites for crafted items as well as the item itself. For example, making a pair of small electric poles requires 2 wood and 2 copper cables. You have to hand-craft the wood and copper cables, so a pair of wood is crafted with a raw wood and a pair of copper cables is crafted with a copper plate. Hence, it requires the hand-crafting of 3 items (a pair of wood, a pair of copper cables, and a pair of small electric poles) to get a small electric pole.

Theoretical minimum

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Total cost	Item	Prerequisite
5 + 3 + 8 items	1	2	2
			6 (2/ea)		3
		1		1
		1		2
34 + 15 items	1	10		20
		4		4
		10
34 + 15 + 40 items	1	10	10
			30 (2/ea)		15
		10		20
		4 (2/ea)	2		2
			2
1 + 1 + 3 items	2 (2/ea)	2 (2/ea)		1
		2 (2/ea)		1
20 + 10 + 20 items	10	10		20
		10
4 + 1 + 5 items	1	1 †		5
		4		4
22 + 4.5 + 13.5 items (14)	1	3	3
			9 (2/ea)		4.5
		5		10
		9
22 + 4.5 + 1 item	1	9
		3	3
			9 (2/ea)		4.5
		5		10
		1 ‡	3	3
				9 (2/ea)	4.5
			5		10
			9
104.5 items hand crafted + 141 + 38 + 1 + 1
† If you are sure to gather up all of the other resources you are going to need and have a few extras for the future things you will need, you can use your free furnace for the boiler and save on crafting an item there. You can then craft a new furnace in your Assembling Machine 1. ‡ You can use Assembling Machine 1 as an ingredient for your Assembling Machine 2. You can then craft a new Assembling Machine 1 in your Assembling Machine 2.