Friday Facts #401 - New terrain, new planet | Factorio
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Surprise! There are 5 new planets in the expansion. The first planet you arrive on is a strange new land, rich with iron, copper, coal, stone, oil, and uranium. Everything a starting factory needs and more. There's also water, fish, grass and trees. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land" "Nauvis". So yes, the new planet Nauvis is similar to the 1.1 version of the map, but there are some substantial updates. Hopefully this is a surprise for you, because updates to the base map weren't planned at all. It just got harder and harder to not make changes after getting more experience with the other planets and seeing things that were missing or broken. For clarity, these changes affect the 2.0 version in general and are not exclusive to the expansion. This has been a solo side project for me for a while and it's only just come to a conclusion. Anyway, here's the story:
  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I’m so happy that they are not giving up on cliffs, but taking the time and effort to go over what interesting things they could bring to the game.

  • Drigo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Honestly wow, this is one of the changes I didn’t know I wanted. I might even try using cliffs again, litterly one of the first things I always disable because they are just a nuisance

    • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, like the blog post said, it’s not worth the effort to use them for defense and they are easy enough to just ignore - build your bus into a cliff and just nudge the belts around it.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I haven’t really been keeping up with reading these, but from what little I’ve read TFA and the headlines of all the Friday updates, I’m so stoked.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    This overhaul looks really nice! I mean, looking back at old Nauvis, it looks really necessary. They made so many things just so much nicer, without changing the character of the planet. I look forward to playing on it!