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I have long dreamt of automating Factorio in the way that HDL and a PCB router works: just specify the ingredients and it produces a Factorio Blueprint.

First MVP stupid designs, then optimized routing, and eventually usable ingame where it connects with provided in/outputs.

Would be more fun to develop than to play obviously..

I liked the nilhouse mega base with that factory-train-blocks blueprints, its basically Factorio DUPLO.



Someone created this Terraform provider for Factorio a few years ago: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/efokschaner/factorio...

I think this could be a good starting point for what you describe! This stuff is always more fun to develop than play. Since started working on this project, I can't bring myself to play the core game myself...


I've wondered if automating Factorio would free me of the compulsion to play it.


It certainly did with me.


You should learn more about FPGA's!




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