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	Recipe
	0.5+ 2+ 2 → 1
	Total raw
	4+ 3+ 6
	Recipe
	0.5+ 2+ 2 → 1
	Total raw
	6.5+ 8+ 12
	Repair packs heal building damage for 300 health.
Stack size	100
Prototype type	repair-tool
Internal name	repair-pack
	Required technologies
	None required
	Produced by

	Recipe
	0.5+ 2+ 5 → 1
	Total raw
	1+ 1+ 5
Stack size	20
Shooting speed	2 /s (melee)
Damage	8 physical
Durability	5000
Prototype type	mining-tool
Internal name	steel-axe
	Required technologies
	Produced by

	Recipe
	0.5+ 3+ 2 → 1
	Total raw
	1+ 4
Stack size	20
Shooting speed	2 /s (melee)
Damage	5 physical
Durability	4000
Prototype type	mining-tool
Internal name	iron-axe
	Required technologies
	None required
	Produced by

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

Crafting items and entities personally from resources using your craft menu (Default: e)
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)
Harvesting resources from a tile (Default: Hold RMB)
Firing weapons at enemies (Default: Press or hold Spacebar depending on weapon)
Picking up non-placed Items from the ground and placing them in your inventory (Default: Hold f)

For more key-bindings, please see Keyboard bindings

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

Tools

Removing or harvesting placeable entities, Trees, Iron Ore, Copper Ore,Raw fish, Stone or Coal from the world requires effort and this is implemented by way of a progress bar that needs to fill uninterrupted in order to complete. Starting without a pickaxe (blank hand icon in the top left square in the display at the bottom right of the screen), it will take around two seconds to cut down a single tree. Since this is the sort of action required thousands of times over the course of a game, it is heavily recommended to craft an iron axe as your first action in the game.

Main article: Iron axe

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	The information on this page pertains to a previous version of the game. It may be incorrect, or concern a removed/changed feature.

The Iron axe is a tool used for the manual mining of resources, for cutting trees, and for collecting items deployed on the ground (so they can be placed elsewhere). They can also be used for melee fighting when the player is out of ammo.

They are mostly used in the beginning of the game where the player has no resources to set up drills to automatically mine, and when the better Steel axe cannot yet be made. It is possible to stack multiple Iron axes in the tool slot.

Durability

Durability of the Iron axe is consumed based on the "mining hardness" of what is being mined, at a rate of

Durability loss = Mining hardness × 60 × Duration (s)

For example, mining one coal that has a hardness of 0.9 and takes 2.08 seconds to mine consumes

Durability loss = 0.9 × 60 × 2.08 = 112.5 durability

History

0.17.0:
- Removed pickaxes and replaced them with research effects.

0.10.3:
- Update icon

0.2.6:
- Can be used as melee weapon.

0.1.0:
- Introduced

Durability

Durability of the Steel axe is consumed based on the "mining hardness" of what is being mined, at a rate of

Durability loss = Mining hardness × 60 × Duration (s)

For example, mining one coal that has a hardness of 0.9 and takes 1.08 seconds to mine consumes

Durability loss = 0.9 × 60 × 1.08 ≈ 58 durability

History

0.17.0:
- Removed pickaxes and replaced them with research effects.

0.10.3:
- Update icon

0.2.6:
- Can be used as melee weapon.

0.2.1:
- Introduced

History

0.15.0:
- Durability increased from 200 to 300.
- Speed increased from 1 to 2.

0.13.0:
- Durability increased from 100 to 200.
- Stack size increased from 50 to 100.

0.10.6:
- Updated icon

0.8.0:
- Introduced

Trivia

Repairing walls and stone furnaces makes a rock-hammering sound, while repairing anything else makes a drill sound.

Achievements

So long and thanks for all the fish

Spoiler! Click to view.

Gallery

Inserters can catch fish.

Trivia

The fish item icon is meant to represent a European perch, a freshwater fish widespread in Europe and elsewhere. This was chosen because a perch is the favorite plushie of the artist's daughter, see the Reddit comment by V453000

History

1.0.0:
- Launching a rocket with space science packs inside now returns fish (Undocumented)

0.17.77:
- Inserters can now catch fish (Undocumented)

0.15.0:
- Fish can be collected by robots
- Amount of fish collected at once increased from 1 to 5
- Amount of health restored by fish increased from 20 to 80

0.6.0:
- New fish graphics

0.1.0:
- Introduced

Weapons

Eventually, whether in a peaceful game or not, you will need the capability to destroy the various Enemies that live on this world. This capability mostly comes in the form of Turrets for your base's defence, but personally in two broad categories for the player, more traditional weapons and capsules discussed below. To fire the main equip-able weapons, the weapon must be in your equipment bar in the bottom right corner of the screen somewhere on the top row (the first column is for pickaxes and armors), for the weapon to be selected with a red highlight (Default q to move the selection) and for appropriate ammunition for the weapon to be placed in the slot below it.

If all the preparation is done, fire the weapon with your target enemy key (Default: Spacebar) or your target cursor key (Default: c). Target enemy is a somewhat safe auto-aim that will snap to any enemy in range and begin firing at it for as long as the key is held down. Target cursor will fire your weapon in the direction of your cursor, which is mainly used to clear obstacles such as Trees and rocks that block placing things. Bear in mind that damage is calculated as a combination of weapon, ammunition and technology together.

Each player starts with a Pistol and ten magazines of Regular Magazine, which will fend off the first few biter attacks, but will quickly be insufficient against the growing alien forces.

Note regarding friendly fire: Pistols and Submachine guns are perfect for in-factory combat, as they have no area effects, however all other weapons use some form of spread or explosion which will likely lead to you causing far more collateral damage than the actual alien attack could hope to. Play with your rockets outside.

Main article: Pistol

Player

Recipe
5 + 5 + 5 → 1
Total raw
5 + 5 + 5

Stack size	5
Range	15
Shooting speed	4/s
Ammunition
Prototype type	gun
Internal name	pistol
Required technologies
None required
Produced by

The Pistol is the most basic weapon in Factorio. In Freeplay mode, the player starts with a pistol and 10 firearm magazines.

The Pistol can only handle the smallest of enemy threats and the player will frequently take damage when trying to use it for self-defense. It is recommended to upgrade to the Submachine gun as soon as possible.

Main article: Submachine gun

Player

Recipe
10 + 5 + 10 + 10 → 1
Total raw
15 + 5 + 30

Recipe
10 + 20 + 15 + 30 → 1
Total raw
17.5 + 20 + 90

Stack size	5
Range	18
Shooting speed	10/s
Ammunition
Prototype type	gun
Internal name	submachine-gun
Required technologies

Produced by

The submachine gun is an upgrade from the pistol. It fires the same ammunition types and deals the same damage as the pistol, but has a much higher rate of fire. This same type of weapon is installed in the car and tank; the car and tank's version of the submachine gun fires +5 rounds per second and has +2 range compared to the handheld one. This weapon can easily handle moderate waves of small biters, even with regular ammunition, but destroying nests efficiently requires damage upgrades or the more expensive piercing round.

History

0.7.0:
- Introduced

History

0.7.0:
- Introduced

History

0.17.0:
- Rocket launcher range increased from 22 to 36.

0.8.0:
- Increased the range of the rocket from 20 to 22.

0.1.0:
- Introduced

Achievements

Steamrolled

Destroy 10 spawners by impact.

Run Forrest, run

Destroy 100 trees by impact.

Combat

The tank is a strong fighting vehicle due to its large health pool and the very high damage of its main weapon, the cannon. Additionally, due to the ability to employ drones from within the vehicle, it can be used as a form of drone or capsule transport vehicle, with the player simply using capsules to fight their battles. The tank particularly shines in battle against Worms, as their high damage projectiles are much less of a problem for an entity with a high health pool.

The tank lags behind in speed, however, compared to the player and the car. As a result, it may not perform as well in combat against melee enemies or enemies with shorter range than the player, as it has more difficulty dodging enemies. This may result in the tank being destroyed quickly, leaving the player in a tight spot.

It is possible to use throwable items such as grenades, poisons, and follower robots while riding in the tank. This makes it possible to perform drive-by attacks on large bases with a reasonable area of effect. Since grenades and tank are available fairly early in the game this enables an effective means of early game expansion before the better known turret creep strategy becomes viable.

Movement

The tank is very robust, and unlike the car can move through and destroy trees without taking damage. Even when not moving, simply driving into an entity is enough to damage it. This can also be employed as a weapon against enemies, although certain enemies and structures (nests in particular) will deal high damage to the tank in the process, requiring repair after skirmishes.

The tank is slower than the car and can be rotated in place while standing still, unlike the car.

The speed and, in particular, responsiveness of the tank can be improved somewhat by burning better fuel: The tank, like all other vehicles, gains top speed and acceleration bonuses when running on solid fuel, rocket fuel and nuclear fuel, as opposed to wood or coal. The bonuses are +5% / +15% / +15% top speed and +20% / +80% / +150% acceleration for solid fuel, rocket fuel and nuclear fuel, respectively; wood and coal both yield the base level of top speed and acceleration.

Speeds

Tank top speed (km/h)

Top speed with various fuels on different tiles

	Wood	Coal	Solid fuel	Rocket fuel	Nuclear fuel
Sand	50.1	50.1	54.8	67.1	79.1
Grass	50.9	50.9	55.8	68.3	80.5
Red desert	50.9	50.9	55.8	68.3	80.5
Dirt	51.4	51.4	56.8	69.6	82.0
Stone path	53.4	53.4	58.5	71.6	84.4
Shallow water	53.9	53.9	59.1	72.3	85.3
Concrete*	55.0	55.0	60.3	73.8	87.0
Refined concrete*	55.0	55.0	60.3	73.8	87.0

* The same stats apply to the hazard version of these surfaces.

Speed in reverse

The top speed of the car in reverse is ~70.6% of the forward top speed.

Capsules and Bots integration

Capsules can be used while inside the tank, including combat robots. Construction robots, including those from a personal roboport within range of the tank, will repair damage if repair packs are available. Also, logistic robots can still refill the player's inventory.

History

0.18.0:
- Updated sound effects.

0.17.0:
- Decreased tank machine gun damage to match the player held submachine gun.

0.16.0:
- In multiplayer players can now ride as passengers in cars/tanks.
- Tanks no longer take minuscule amounts of damage from hitting trees.

0.15.0:
- Added tank flamethrower.
- Buffed tank:
  - Increased health from 1,000 to 2,000.
  - Added a +100% damage bonus and a +5 tiles range increase to the tank machine gun.

0.14.0:
- Added support for equipment grids in tanks.

0.13.18:
- Increased tank machine gun range to 20 tiles.

0.13.0:
- New icon for tank.

0.12.26:
- Running biters over in a tank in peaceful mode will now anger them.

0.12.21:
- When attacking a player in a tank, the tank will be attacked instead of the player directly.

0.12.2:
- Tanks can now turn in place.
- Tank inventory can now be filtered.

0.12.0:
- Updated sounds
- Added muzzle flash for tanks
- Tank ammo inventory is refilled from the trunk and player inventory when exhausted.

0.11.6:
- Added a small scorch mark when heavy weaponry like the tank cannon fires.

0.11.0:
- Introduced

Development data

Weekly blogs concerning the Tank:

Armor

Once you've faced your first proper attack, you'll quickly come to learn how much damage you can handle, which is to say not much at all. Equipping a decent set of armor is therefore a priority. There are two subcategories of armor in the game, though early in the game you only have access to simple basic armor

Main article: Iron armor Iron armor

Main article: Heavy armor

Player

Recipe
8 + 100 + 50 → 1
Total raw
8 + 100 + 50

Resistances	Acid: 0/40% Explosion: 20/30% Fire: 0/30% Physical: 6/30%
Stack size	1
Durability	Infinite
Prototype type	armor
Internal name	heavy-armor
Required technologies

Produced by

Heavy armor provides more protection than light armor, nearly nullifying the damage from small biters (from 7 damage to 0.7) as well as providing respectable protection from medium biters, spitters and worms. Additionally, it provides excellent protection against accidental self-inflicted damage from grenades.

History

0.15.0:
- Acid resistance reduced
- Explosive resistance raised

0.13.0:
- Armor resistances are applied before shields

0.12.17:
- Update icons

0.11.0:
- New player animation. Three levels depending on the armor.

0.7.1:
- Increased resistances

0.1.0:
- Introduced

Gallery

The equipment grid of the armor.

History

0.13.0:
- Inventory size bonus of 20.
- Can be swapped with other power armors.

0.12.0:
- Power armors now generate and consume 100 times more power.

0.11.12:
- Changed recipe of power armor

0.7.0:
- Introduced

Gallery

The equipment grid of the armor.

History

0.17.0:
- Recipe changed from 5× level 3 to 25× level 2 modules (to avoid requiring Production science pack) and added electric engine units.

0.13.0:
- Inventory size bonus of 30.
- Can be swapped with other power armors.

0.12.0:
- Power armors now generate and consume 100 times more power.

0.11.12:
- Changed recipe of power armor

0.7.0:
- Introduced

Armor Modules

Once you have any modular armor you gain access to various general purpose enhancements, which can be free added or removed from any armor. While all of them are capable of fitting in even the Basic modular armor their usefulness greatly depends on player choice, there are no specific best modules, although some are made obsolete by later versions.

Main article: Basic exoskeleton equipment Basic exoskeleton equipment

Main article: Battery MK1 Battery MK1

Main article: Battery MK2 Battery MK2

Main article: Portable solar panel

Player

Recipe
10 + 2 + 1 + 5 → 1
Total raw
57.75 + 37.5 + 19 + 4 + 10

Recipe
10 + 2 + 1 + 5 → 1
Total raw
83.5 + 89 + 38 + 8 + 10

Stack size	20
Dimensions	1×1
Placed in

Power output	30 kW electric
Prototype type	solar-panel-equipment
Internal name	solar-panel-equipment
Required technologies

Produced by

Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron. They provide only a small amount of power, and only during the daytime.

Portable solar panels can be used to slowly recharge energy shields out of combat, but are nearly useless for personal laser defense or exoskeleton, even with a large number of batteries.

Portable solar panels are 1×1 in size and are therefore primarily used in modular armor, which has a 5×5 grid that cannot usefully hold a much more powerful 4×4 portable fusion reactor. (It could store one, but there would be no room for anything to use the power.)

The more advanced armors should almost always use portable fusion reactors instead.

History

0.17.0:
- Portable solar panels have Modular armor as pre-requisite.
- Portable solar panel power output changed from 10kW to 30kW, recipe tweaked to require less Solar panels but more Advanced circuits.

0.13.0:
- Power production increased by a factor of 10.

0.12.0:
- Power production increased by a factor of 100.

0.7.0:
- Introduced

Trivia

The model is a reference to the movie Back to the Future, specifically the "Mr. Fusion" item on the back of the DeLorean. The "Mr. Fusion" is itself a riff on "Mr. Coffee," as the prop was a modified coffee maker.

History

0.13.0:
- Power production increased by a factor of 10.

0.12.0:
- Power production increased by a factor of 100.

0.7.0:
- Introduced

History

0.13.0:
- Power consumption increased by a factor of 10.

0.12.0:
- Power consumption increased by a factor of 100.

0.7.0:
- Introduced

Capsules

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Production items
Tools	Repair pack Blueprint Deconstruction planner Upgrade planner Blueprint book
Electricity	Boiler Steam engine Solar panel Accumulator Nuclear reactor Heat pipe Heat exchanger Steam turbine
Resource extraction	Burner mining drill Electric mining drill Offshore pump Pumpjack
Furnaces	Stone furnace Steel furnace Electric furnace
Production	Assembling machine 1 Assembling machine 2 Assembling machine 3 Oil refinery Chemical plant Centrifuge Lab
Modules	Beacon Speed module Speed module 2 Speed module 3 Efficiency module Efficiency module 2 Efficiency module 3 Productivity module Productivity module 2 Productivity module 3
Space related	Rocket silo Satellite
Navigation	Logistics Combat Intermediate products Technology

Production items
Tools	Repair pack Blueprint Deconstruction planner Upgrade planner Blueprint book
Electricity	Boiler Steam engine Solar panel Accumulator Nuclear reactor Heat pipe Heat exchanger Steam turbine
Resource extraction	Burner mining drill Electric mining drill Offshore pump Pumpjack
Furnaces	Stone furnace Steel furnace Electric furnace
Production	Assembling machine 1 Assembling machine 2 Assembling machine 3 Oil refinery Chemical plant Centrifuge Lab
Modules	Beacon Speed module Speed module 2 Speed module 3 Efficiency module Efficiency module 2 Efficiency module 3 Productivity module Productivity module 2 Productivity module 3
Space related	Rocket silo Satellite
Navigation	Logistics Combat Intermediate products Technology

Production items
Tools	Repair pack Blueprint Deconstruction planner Upgrade planner Blueprint book
Electricity	Boiler Steam engine Solar panel Accumulator Nuclear reactor Heat pipe Heat exchanger Steam turbine
Resource extraction	Burner mining drill Electric mining drill Offshore pump Pumpjack
Furnaces	Stone furnace Steel furnace Electric furnace
Production	Assembling machine 1 Assembling machine 2 Assembling machine 3 Oil refinery Chemical plant Centrifuge Lab
Modules	Beacon Speed module Speed module 2 Speed module 3 Efficiency module Efficiency module 2 Efficiency module 3 Productivity module Productivity module 2 Productivity module 3
Space related	Rocket silo Satellite
Navigation	Logistics Combat Intermediate products Technology

Intermediate products
Fluids	Crude oil Heavy oil Light oil Lubricant Petroleum gas Sulfuric acid Water Steam
Resources	Wood Coal Stone Iron ore Copper ore Uranium ore Raw fish
Materials	Iron plate Copper plate Solid fuel Steel plate Plastic bar Sulfur Battery Explosives Uranium processing
Crafting components	Copper cable Iron stick Iron gear wheel Electronic circuit Advanced circuit Processing unit Engine unit Electric engine unit Flying robot frame Rocket part Rocket control unit Low density structure Rocket fuel Nuclear fuel Uranium-235 Uranium-238 Uranium fuel cell Nuclear fuel reprocessing Kovarex enrichment process Used up uranium fuel cell
Science packs	Automation science pack Logistic science pack Military science pack Chemical science pack Production science pack Utility science pack Space science pack
Navigation	Logistics Production Combat Technology

Combat items
Weapons	Pistol Submachine gun Shotgun Combat shotgun Rocket launcher Flamethrower Land mine
Ammo	Firearm magazine Piercing rounds magazine Uranium rounds magazine Shotgun shells Piercing shotgun shells Cannon shell Explosive cannon shell Uranium cannon shell Explosive uranium cannon shell Artillery shell Rocket Explosive rocket Atomic bomb Flamethrower ammo
Capsules	Grenade Cluster grenade Poison capsule Slowdown capsule Defender capsule Distractor capsule Destroyer capsule
Armor	Light armor Heavy armor Modular armor Power armor Power armor MK2
Equipment modules	Portable solar panel Portable fusion reactor Personal battery Personal battery MK2 Belt immunity equipment Exoskeleton Personal roboport Personal roboport MK2 Nightvision
Combat equipment	Energy shield Energy shield MK2 Personal laser defense Discharge defense Discharge defense remote
Defense	Wall Gate Gun turret Laser turret Flamethrower turret Artillery turret Artillery targeting remote Radar
Navigation	Logistics Production Intermediate products Technology

Health	20
Restores	80 health
Stack size	100
Mining time	0.4
Prototype type	capsule
Internal name	raw-fish
Required technologies
None required
Produced by

Consumed by

Recipe
10 + 10 + 5 + 15 + 10 → 1
Total raw
12.5 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 10

Recipe
5 + 10 + 32 + 15 + 50 → 1
Total raw
107.5 + 50 + 32 + 50 + 20 + 50

Recipe
8 + 20 + 64 + 30 + 100 → 1
Total raw
283 + 240 + 64 + 200 + 80 + 100

Map icon
Storage size	80
Health	2000
Resistances	Acid: 0/70% Explosion: 15/70% Fire: 15/60% Impact: 50/80% Physical: 15/60%
Stack size	1
Range	Tank cannon: 30 Vehicle machine gun: 20 Vehicle flamethrower: 9
Shooting speed	Tank cannon: 0.67/s Vehicle machine gun: 15/s Vehicle flamethrower: 67.5/s
Ammunition
Energy consumption	600 kW (burner)
Mining time	0.5
Weight	20000
Prototype type	car
Internal name	tank
Required technologies

Produced by

Valid fuel

Logistics
Storage	Wooden chest Iron chest Steel chest Storage tank
Belt transport system	Transport belt Fast transport belt Express transport belt Underground belt Fast underground belt Express underground belt Splitter Fast splitter Express splitter
Inserters	Burner inserter Inserter Long-handed inserter Fast inserter Filter inserter Stack inserter Stack filter inserter
Energy & pipe distribution	Small electric pole Medium electric pole Big electric pole Substation Pipe Pipe to ground Pump
Railway	Rail Train stop Rail signal Rail chain signal Locomotive Cargo wagon Fluid wagon Artillery wagon
Transport	Car Tank Spidertron Spidertron remote
Logistic network	Logistic robot Construction robot Active provider chest Passive provider chest Storage chest Buffer chest Requester chest Roboport
Circuit network	Lamp Red wire Green wire Arithmetic combinator Decider combinator Constant combinator Power switch Programmable speaker
Terrain	Stone brick Concrete Hazard concrete Refined concrete Refined hazard concrete Landfill Cliff explosives
Navigation	Production Intermediate products Combat Technology

Resistances	Acid: 0/60% Explosion: 40/40% Fire: 0/60% Physical: 8/30%
Inventory size bonus	20
Equipment grid size	7×7
Stack size	1
Durability	Infinite
Prototype type	armor
Internal name	power-armor
Accepted equipment

Required technologies

Produced by

Recipe
25 + 25 + 40 + 30 + 60 + 25 → 1
Total raw
18.3k + 8.4k + 40 + 3.5k + 2.7k + 310 + 60

Resistances	Acid: 0/70% Explosion: 60/50% Fire: 0/70% Physical: 10/40%
Inventory size bonus	30
Equipment grid size	10×10
Stack size	1
Durability	Infinite
Prototype type	armor
Internal name	power-armor-mk2
Accepted equipment

Required technologies

Produced by

Recipe
10 + 50 + 200 → 1
Total raw
1k + 1k + 1.5k + 200 + 100

Stack size	20
Dimensions	4×4
Placed in

Power output	750 kW electric
Prototype type	generator-equipment
Internal name	fusion-reactor-equipment
Required technologies

Produced by

Consumed by

Stack size	20
Dimensions	2×2
Energy consumption	240 kW (electric)
Placed in

Energy capacity	120 kJ (electric)
Shield hitpoints	50
Energy per hitpoint	20 kJ (electric)
Maximum recharge speed	360
Prototype type	energy-shield-equipment
Internal name	energy-shield-equipment
Required technologies

Produced by

Consumed by

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