FactoryPlanner VS mods

Using a planner like YAFC, Foreman, Helmod, and Factory Planner is highly recommended. Also, the following mods are recommended for a megabase needed to finish a high-multiplier game:

FactoryPlanner or Helmod - Helps designing production chains. Quite complex at start, but well worth it. Factory Planner is the newer and cleaner design.

I personally use the Factory Planner mod because it has some nice in-game features like automatic blueprints from the calculation.

I mostly use Factory Planner and Max Rate Calculator.

factoryplanner

There is a mod for that, and a mod for that, and a website for that, and another website for that, and a standalone application for that for big modpacks like Seablock and Py

Using a calculator for Vanilla is pretty convenient or when playing modded, Factory Planner helps a ton.

i really hope you don't play SE without Factory Planner or a similar mod because that just sounds like pain

But I do a bit of planning for individual outposts/subfactories just to get a sense of what the ratios are, and I use the Factorio Planner mod (or Helmod) for that. And I use Rate Calculator (or Max Rate Calculator) nice for measuring stuff. And I'll admit to having a spreadsheet for calculating reactor ratios.

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Mods

Another enthusiastic vote for https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods - this is precisely the UX I was looking and waiting for - the day that I cloned it and started using it within my terminal was the day I no longer needed to even window out to firefox - and it feels very natural to compose with pipes, wrap into shell scripts, etc.

Early days, but you can see some of the ways this is already helping me out quite a bit (and increasing my enjoyment of things I already like to do): github.com/zackproser/automations

Charmbracelet recently developed 'mods' which has some cool ideas around Unix pipes.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods