#factory game

It's FINALLY TIME - Snacktorio is now out!!! 💚

I've made a Train System that traverses the entire Rocky Desert. A Central Train Hub in the direct center of the map (with plans on making railways across the entire world connecting everything to a central hub). 2 separate Coal Power Factories despite having had access to Oil throughout my hours of remaking each factory to be both easily traversable and efficient.

I only have 2 working factories that produce almost every basic resource I'll need for a while. One produces Plates, Reinforced Plates, Rods, Wires, Cables, Sheets, Concrete, Rotors, and Modular Frames. The other produces Beams, Pipes, Encased Beams, Quartz Crystals, Silica, Crystal Oscillators, Circuit Boards, and High Speed Processors.

I'm currently working on making a temporary factory specifically for Steel Beams due to needing an ungodly amount to finish the Rail System that is going to go around the entire map. I'm also redesigning my Central Hub for the 5th time due to my sorting Manifolds for my Storage Network getting overworked by too many items going through it (somehow 960 items/min is way too slow to keep up). I've already connected my storage system to the Dimensional Depots which has been super useful for building and constantly having access to materials. I've yet to start on Project Assembly Phase 3 but I'm planning on building the factory for that in the Dune Desert as soon as I get my train network over there.

Part 1 of my 'big weekend' of project development has gone really well so far. Lots of new things added, and progress has been made on my big list of new-things-to-add.

Let's first show everything in a brief video overview:

Whoa! Environments!

I did end up doing some extra work outside of my intended weekend scope, mostly because I wanted a brief distraction from coding. To that end I finally added the first parts of my 'asteroid' environment that your factory is placed in. This will be improved over time, I'm sure, but now serves to make the factory feel a lot more grounded in the very place you're supposed to be!

I also re-added the factory walls, which are now correctly done programmatically - rather than being hand-placed. These scale up with the size of the factory floor, so they're more or less 'done'.

Packager

You can now drop the packager into your factory, which is a necessary first step to exporting your goods from the facility.

Routing items through here will parcel them up ready for transport. You just have to snake them off to your Exporter machine.

Ready for packaging!

Exporter

This machine must be placed over one of the new export nodes. This restricts the number of exporters you can use in any given factory (like the import nodes), and you'll likely have to merge a number of packager belts together to bundle up lots of orders in later stages.

The exporter has space for up to 6 stacks of up to 99 items. A lack of space will result in packages backing up on the import belt, so make sure you don't fill it up with junk!

The build ghost of the exporter next to one of the new Export nodes. These are limited, so you'll have to design your factory around them!

What's next?

Here's my big list of things-to-do, with my completed updates marked off:

Main objectives view

Packager machine

Exporter machine

Research tree

Technology upgrades

Money / credits system

Structure descriptions (QoL)

Audio refinements (QoL)

Main menu screens

New pipes subsytem

Not bad progress so far! I'm not sure what I'm going to tackle tomorrow, though I have a sneaking suspicion I'll want to do the research and tech trees, since they are the next 'big' things to nail down. It will also force me to finally implement a system to prevent access to building items that you haven't yet unlocked, which is a crucial part of progression.

Anyway, that's all I have for this evening. If you reached this point, thank you kindly for your time! And with any luck I'll see you again tomorrow for another progress update.

Create

The gold standard of modern modded Minecraft shenanigans, with it's smooth animations, and crazy moving contraptions, and focus on automation/factories, and trains (if you're into that).

Thaumcraft

Easily one of the best magic systems I've seen in Minecraft, with research and potentially world ending threats. Also, the basis for the spectacular mod pack Blightfall, were all the weird corruption stuff is recontextualized as an alien taint already spread across the planet.

Equivalent Exchange

If Cookie Clicker was a Minecraft mod, it would be this. Converting any item into any other item thru a points system, with really powerful items to mold and shape your world to how you want.

Dimensional Doors

Pocket dimensions for your building, and pocket dungeons for your exploring. Really cool if you're more into building interior spaces without having to plan how it will look on the outside.

Not Enough Items

Basically a requirement in every mod pack because of the recipe list. It would be a crime not to mention it.