Stranded

by GuidanceProtocol

If you find this log, it means that I've either survived this entire experience and gotten back to civilization, or died in the attempt. Maybe this system is cursed. To survive I'll need to mine resources on multiple planets, process them, build a system capable of transporting resources around and do science. A lot of science. **** This is a Factorio Lets play in a written for

2. Chapter 2 - Starting the factory

Day 2:

I did some more exploring - it looks like my presence on the planet has caused some of the natives to expand out and create new hives. There's a new hive to the factory's south west that I'm pretty sure wasn't there a few days ago. Its entirely possible that the pollution field that my industry is creating is the cause - I'm not all that certain. I'm going to keep an eye on them (as well as the pollution field) and see what I can do to keep it from spreading too far.

In the meantime I've been doing quite a bit of research, including starting down the line of research for military applications. I've researched the first tier and I'm able to upgrade from a pistol to a SMG, though I don't have any special rounds for it yet.

Not sure if I detailed things yet, but there's a lake to my north west, resource patches to the south of that. My power fields are to the east and I've started building a bunch of smelting columns to the north. I'll run the factory that way and see how well it goes.

I also checked the navicomp that was in the shuttle - this planet is called Nauvis. I've no idea why no one has surveyed it before, but here I am …

Day 3:

You know how I mentioned that I was pretty sure that the natives were setting out new nests? Yeah, I've confirmed that they're moving closer to the Factory. I've made sure I'm properly armed, though I hope that I don't need to fight them - I'm not sure if they'll do anything other than take up resources I need for the factory.

Speaking of the factory - I've continued working on the smelting columns and I've even put a couple of assemblers in place to pick up resources directly from the belt. I know it isn't something that I want to do long term but I don't think I have much of a choice at this point. Belts are something I'm going through too quickly

I spent a bit of time doing some research on the shuttle's computer, then doing a few rough designs in my head. I've decided to do a main bus of resources heading north, with assembly areas to the going to be the neatest method I can think of, not to mention easiest to get new resources to where they're required.

There's going to be a lot of resources just sitting on the bus at times, I don't think that can be helped all that much - at least not until a better solution comes to mind. And while there's limited resources nearby - my main iron field is only 2 million units and copper is only at 1.3 million, from what I can see there are other fields scattered about that hopefully will contain more ore.

I moved the solar fields over to the East a bit more, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need the room.

To add insult to injury - there have been meteor strikes all over the surface the time that I've been here. Who wants to place a bet that the factory is going to get hit one day?