And here it is, a month and a half later:

We did it!

This time, I had a quick save game in order to crank through a train in 90 minutes (that was actually closer than the 8 hour run, believe it or not) and then it’s time for the long hall. I have two achievements left to achieve:

• Mass production 3 - produce 20M green chips (I had ~13M before this run)
• Lazy bastard - win the game with no more than 111 hand crafts

It’s … actually not that hard, just long. There are guides out there for what your 111 hand crafts can be. With recipe changes, you only need 103. Then you can turn off hand crafting permission (/permissions is allowed) and… just do everything by hand. You don’t even need biters on.

All together, it took about 28 hours to set up my rocket for Lazy Bastard… but I wanted that one to be last.

It may have taken another 30 hours to complete the remaining 7 million circuits…

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Factorio is an absolutely delightful game. Recently though, I’ve been taking a look at my Steam Achievements for it and realized… I’m not that far off.

So I decided to take a chance on a few runs to finish things off.

For this first run, I was going for:

• Raining bullets - don’t build any laser turrets
• Steam all the way - don’t build any solar panels
• No time for chitchat - beat the game in 15 hours
• There is no spoon - beat the game in 8 hours

You can’t turn biters off all the way (for any of these), but you can turn them down enough that it won’t be a problem. 8 hours is… tight enough, so that’s what I did.

I did also crank up resources, but other than that, it’s a standard vanilla game.

And away we go!

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