My god, it’s full of stars.
Try not to scream, cry, or vomit, but the upcoming expansion to Factorio will add elevated rail lines capable of crossing over not just other rails, but factory components as well. This past week’s Factorio Friday Facts blog went through the design process for how Wube Software arrived at this huge change to how Factorio works and why they decided to implement it this way.
In and of itself it’s a big shift. Factorio takes place on a single, ostensibly 2D, plane and nothing breaks that rule aside from underground belt tunnels that you can’t enter or exit. The idea of underground rail tunnels just didn’t work for the designers at Wube, so they went for elevated rail.
“You just want to boldly see all of your trains in their full glory instead of hiding them somewhere in a cellar!,” they said.
So the Space Age expansion revealed in late August will add two new things to build: One, a 16-tile long, 4-tile wide ramp will take trains from ground level to the new elevated plane.
