Factorio slang
- 1-4
- Standard train configuration: one engine, 4 cars. Other common configurations are 1-4-1, 1-2 and 3-8
- balancer
- Setup of multiple splitters, distributing the items from input several belts between output belts. Often accompanied by the number of input and output belts.
- blues
- Microprocessors
- bootstrap
- Getting basic necessities working on nauvis or another planet. Usually includes setting up supply lines or a mall
- buffer
- A single or a row of chests with inserters for both input and output. Used in train stations or after ore smelters
- casino
- Space platform that washes asteroids into higher quality
- compressed belt
- Belt fully filled with no gaps between items
- cryo...
- Things from aquilo
- cuba
- Small island only occupied by biters. Usually kept alive to eat pollution while being unable to cause attacks
- democracy
- Biter genocide
- di
- Direct insertion. An inserter moving items from one building into another, without belt
- early-game
- Stage of a game before having construction robots
- effing
- Running over a belt while pressing the F key, picking up items
- eff1, eff2, ....
- Efficiency modules level 1, 2, ...
- emp
- Electromagnetic plant. The circuit assembler from Fulgora
- greens
- Basic circuits
- LDS
- Low density structures
- LDS shuffle
- Using a foundry making LDS and a recycler to get quality copper/steel from quality plastics. The foundry uses liquid copper and iron as input, who do not have quality and ara available in large quantities
- legs
- Exoskeletons
- mall
- Setup that produces parts to build the factory - belts, inserters, assembler
- one-way
- Train systems where trains never change direction and instead use loops
- patch
- Field of ore or cluster of wells.
- prod
- Productivity research level or productivity modules
- pylon
- The large power pole
- reds
- Advanced circuits
- sa
- Space Age, the DLC for Factorio
- se
- Space Exploration, a popular mod for the base game
- spaghetti
- Messy setups and belt knots
- t1, t2, ...
- Tier levels. t1 belts would be yellow, t2 belts red. Also used for different tiers of assemblers
- taxi
- Train dedicated to transporting a player. Usually to get back to fighting after respawning.
- washing
- Looping items through machines and recyclers with quality modules, increasing quality levels
- zoo
- Biter nests being walled off to neutralize it, done to capture it later with gleba tech