A spidertron is a good choice - I have equipped mine with two fusion reactors, one exosceleton and the rest tier 2 shields. Meanwhile my personal powerarmor is equipped with four fusion reactors, the rest are laser defenses. If I'm sitting in the spidertron with that setup I just need to circle aro...

You are doing impressively well if this is truly your first ever factory. I got overrun 3 times before I was ever able to get past blue science. That said, use every weapon you can, try them all, they’re fun. Thanks, its my 4th factory though. Although none of the others got past red circuits becau...

You can sit in one spidertron yourself with a power armor designed for that, then control one more spidertron with a remote. 2 with some practice. However in your case any manual work is too much work with biters set to maximum. I'd say just claim the area that your artilleries have cleared, then m...

Use flamethrower turrets. 2 or 3 layers of walls is generally enough with flamethrowers and laser turrets behind them. Gun turrets with uranium ammo are also very good and do more damage than lasers, but are more difficult to supply. By launching rockets you can invest in laser damage and artillery...

Hello factorio friends, im surrounded on all sides by large biter nests. They are at 0.97 evolution. Im quite new to this game, this is my first proper factory. I need more space to spam more solar to power the 12 beacon setups I will make. What is the best way of clearing out these things and takin...