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The original was posted on /r/factorio by /u/Strobopleex on 2024-10-18 14:51:52+00:00.
Many years ago, I gave Factorio to my father as a birthday gift. On that day, he has started a new game and has been playing in that single world ever since. He accumulated 3700h over the course of several years. The save file size has grown to over 1Gb. Once he launched his first rocket, he just made up his own goals. He used to be into model trains, so Factorio really scratched that itch. He built a huge network of rails and stations without using blueprints a lot of the time. When looking around the factory you can tell that it has grown slowly and organically. There are so many unique builds in this world and I have the feeling that I have not even scratched the surface after more than an hour of looking around the map. Here are some of them.
Many of the builds are only built to look pretty, but are still part of a working factory.
This is how he builds buffers.
I am not able to zoom out enough in the map view to see the whole world at the same time, so I stitched together multiple screenshots to get the image below. You can tell that there are two high density areas. One in the center and another to the east. You may be able to compare the size of the lakes to those in other images to get a feeling for how large this is.
Here is the power grid of the higher density area that you can see in the center of the image above.
He has some huge buffer stations where he parks loads of trains to manually switch on whenever he wants more action in the factory. It hovers at 60GW of power usage but I am sure that it can spike higher when he opens some of his train floodgates.
Here are some more images of random places in the factory. There is no recognizable central hub or anything, and you find a high amount of complexity wherever you look.
It is really hard to tell just from the images above how massive this world is. Here are some statistics.
I have seen this factory grow over the years as he showed me his progress now and then, and we always had a great time looking at it. But as you all are probably aware, the new add-on is just around the corner. I have told him about it and he is interested, but also understands that he will probably not be able to continue with his current factory if he wants all the new features. I think he will probably start a new factory once he gets the addon, but it will be hard for him. So I decided it would be a great Idea to show this to you guys and see what you have to say about it. I would compile the responses and create a picture book for him where he can see parts of his factory and what people say about it. In this way, it should not feel like abandoning his creation without anything to show and it would be a nice way of formally wrapping this factory up.
EDIT: Scale Comparison
EDIT 2: Download link for the save: