Map editor

This page is heavily a work in progress.

Factorio comes stock-standard with a map editor. You can access it by selecting "Map editor" on your Factorio main menu.

The editor is much like in-game, except there is no player, and you have unlimited resources.

Placing Entities

To place an entity (labs, powerlines, transport belts, mining drills, etc...), select "Entities" from your toolbox, select a tool, select what you want to place down, then click somewhere to place that item down.

You have three tools.

Cursor

Appropriate for most situations. Places one of the selected entity at the current cursors position. Much like the normal in-game mechanics.

Spray

Good for resource piles and trees. You can select a size, intensity and speed, the larger the size, the more area that the spray places entities, the higher the intensity, the more often entities get placed, the higher the speed, the more rapidly the spray continues spraying while holding down the mouse button.

Paintbrush

The paintbrush is virtually the same as the spray, only difference is that if you hold down the mouse button, the tool won't continue to place entities. Also good for resource piles and trees. Whether you use spray or paintbrush is personal preference.

Deleting entities.

Cursor

When using the cursor tool, you can hover over the entity you wish to delete, and press "X" on your keyboard.

Spray/Paintbrush

When using either the spray or the paintbrush, right click to "unspray" - though, this process can be slow, using the cursor to delete entities is much more efficient.