Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
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piebro
· 7 days ago
Hey there, I'm a big fan of the game Factorio and the beauty of factories in the game. That's why I created a website to artfully visualize Factorio blueprints a few years ago. With the new 2.0 update, a few things broke. I took the opportunity to rewrite everything from Python to JavaScript and support Factorio 2.0 and the Space Age DLC. It's now also possible to easily modify the style of the drawings. Let me know if you find any bugs or if you have ideas for features.
jvanderbot ·7 days ago
I did a similar thing for the game Highfleet, until I ran into roadblocks with the dev team.
My ultimate goal was to have a "print poster" button that would generate the image and ship it off to one of those poster drop-shippers for a small fee. In that game, you can annotate the maps, and the world map with battle annotations is really special with lots of memories of victories and defeats. Alas, no dice.
I suggest you do this for blueprints! The first thing I'm going to do is take my favorite space platforms and outposts and make posters - the colored block imagery is really artful.
And, if you want a real challenge, you could parse the end-game uploads (galaxy) if available, or save files themselves.
Or, slightly less ambitious - a game mod that generates links to this site directly.
Very nicely done!
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polishdude20 ·7 days ago
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jharohit ·1 days ago
Computer 1 - Human
Computer 2 - Claude Computer Use or other controlling the other
A chat interface or voice interface (Whisper Speech to Text) for Human to feed instructions to Computer 2?
Amazing benefits of doing this:
- infinitely scalable
- could let agents continue to implement strategy and unblock themselves without needing constant intervention
natebc ·7 days ago
grufkork ·7 days ago
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