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 Also feel free to remove outdated tutorials.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
- 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/ru
- Circuit network cookbook/zh
- Combinator tutorial
- Combinator tutorial/de
- Combinator tutorial/ru
- Combinator tutorial/zh
- Inspecting a live mod
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts/ru
- 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/tr
- 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/vi
- Quick start guide/zh
- Script interfaces
- Scripting
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority Splitters: Maximum Throughput off your Main Bus | v0.15 | 2017-06-05 | Single video about Priority Splitters |
| CaptainKonzept's Factorio Video Tutorials | v0.13 | 2016-09-03 | Video series about Circuit Logic, Smart Steam Power, Smart Oil Cracking, Smart Trains and more |
Starting strategies
- Main article: Tutorial:Quick start guide
As the player is spawned, they start with a small array of items: 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
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.The map can be explored using a radar, or by searching the area using your character, though enemies may be a hazard for any explorers.