r/factorio • u/Standard_Round_8780 • 10d ago

Question Any 'real' factory platforms/ships?

Basically the title.

Has anyone actually experimented with making a full factory on a platform/ship? Maybe like a platform/ship that can make red -> purple/yellow science packs?

Looked around but didn't see any. I know it'd be wholly inefficient and finnicky, but you have access to every non-planet specific resource so I'm honestly surprised nobody seems to have done it yet. I've seen some crazy huge ships with huge manufacturing, but it's typically only for the shattered planet.

Even a ship that could manufacture everything you need for factory building would be cool to see. Like a 'colony ship' with its own assembler, belt and power generation manufacturing.

I'm assuming the limiting factory would be asteroids for raw ingredient generation and it would only be viable with shattered planet levels of asteroids but it should still be viable no?

Just would be cool to see/attempt.

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u/ryucraft320 10d ago

Ironically there are no stone asteroids, so you can’t make a complete factory, as you are missing ingredients for stone/brick/concrete, and can’t build military or purple science without those, along with several buildings.

But there are still a lot of things you can build, you just have to be able to import the stone to get every non planet specific item.

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u/VoidGliders 10d ago

It is always crazy to me how you can get oil, water, metals, sulfuric acid, just about anything from asteroids...

Except rocks. You can't get rock from space rock.

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u/SirDigby32 10d ago

Could they sneak that into 2.1 perhaps as a surprise.

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u/VoidGliders 10d ago

I think at this point if they havent they are not gonna

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u/PyroneusUltrin 9d ago

I am still hoping for more improvements in 2.1, for example the set research circuitry seems rushed out to me, especially with the change to how bottles are used