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I was not sure which area this would fit, the art area might be better, true.

One more idea from the story. The game could have optional modules to make the game more role-playing if the player chooses so. Stephen would tinker and spend science time to find more different foods and better collectors/cooks and recipes. If Stephen was hungry or bored of same kinds of food, his ...

Day X: epilogue:

Stephen was thrilled. His factory complex now covered enormous areas and he watched it from his hovering command station, equipped with a raspberry dispenser. Train systems delivered materials over long hauls and the logistics chains were optimized for efficiency. Huge lab ...

Day 9: Scaling up.

After breakfast Stephen started to enlarge his complex more. More drills, more belt, more assemblers, more energy, more everything. He practiced optimizing the flow of materials and made assembly chains utilizing a chain of assemblers, inserters and chests. Through the day he ...

Day 7: Logistics nightmare

Two days had gone mostly developing so now Stephen wanted some action! He began creating burner drills and belts and started to bring iron and copper to the furnaces in a larger scale, and the iron and copper plates were delivered to assembler units upgraded to utilize ...

Day 5: thinking big.

Stephen started his morning in his routine breakfast and daily planning. The collector robot now new how to gather blueberries from the ground, and his fish traps had brought more different fish, which was good. He had updated his helmet with the starlight system, as that was ...

Day 3: Expansion.

Stephen made a plan for the day during breakfast. First he organized his resources and stared a careful cataloging of data, especially different matter and energy flux. He had "blueprints" of his nanobot tools. He had plans for a small solar array, some physical helpers of various ...

Day 2: Plan ahead.

Stephen woke up sore, already missing his comfy Label 5 Level 13 bed. Some of his coworkers wondered why Stephen would direct such a big portion of his income flux to sleep in a level 11 bed, but Stephen felt he slept better and such he worked more efficiently. He made a fire and ...

Tl;DR: A fun story about scientist Stephen, who accidentally ends up at a strange planet and has to figure out how to get home. Also gives some pseudoscience to explain how Factorio world works.

Sometimes in the future: Engineer and scientist Stephen was working with his space/time machine he was ...