If a structure is interact-able, left click it to open its UI. Left click to place the structure.Īfter you place a structure, you can pick it up and put it back in your inventory by holding the right mouse button over it. You can change the rotational direction of the structure by either pressing the rotate key (default "R") before you place it, or after placing it by hovering over it with the mouse and pressing the rotate key (default "R"). If the item appears red, you cannot place it there. Move your mouse around to see where you can place the structure. Your mouse icon will still have the structure. You can now press the same inventory key again (default "E") to close your inventory. You should see that your cursor has been replaced by the structure's icon.
When your inventory is open, you can select a place-able structure from your inventory by clicking it.
Some items are structures that you can place on the ground. View the crafting progress in the lower-left hand corner of the screen. If you have the ingredients required by a recipe, you can click it multiple times to craft as many as you want. The four big buttons at the top of the crafting recipes are the crafting categories. The inventory UI is split into the player's inventory, on the left, and the crafting recipes, on the right. Press the inventory key (default "E") to open and close your inventory. You can use this to gather wood, stone, coal, copper ore, iron ore, and fish only. Some resources can be gathered manually by holding the right mouse button over them. Hover your mouse over resources on the map to see what they are. Press the map key (default "M") to open and close the map. Move your character with the movement keys ("W", "A", "S", "D" by default).
#Factorio latest version guide how to
Please refer to Keyboard bindings to learn more about key bindings and how to configure them.
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More information about world generation can be found in the World generator article. Also note that the game can be completed with enemies disabled completely (set size to none), however dealing with enemies is usually a major part of the game. Note that it may be recommended to increase the size and frequency of crude oil for beginner-level players, as oil can be very difficult to find depending on the world generation seed compared to that of other resources, combined with the fact that oil is a necessity for making progress as well the fact that pumping oil will gradually decrease it's yield, requiring the need travel further to find even more oil. If you would like an easier time to begin with, consider increasing the frequency, size, and richness of the resources while decreasing the same for enemy bases.