Edit: It's a early-midgame tech, requires science pack 3 but.

May 14, Also I've found that the Basic Grenade, a fairly early-game item, is pretty good at clearing Trees. It's silly expensive to use against one or two Trees at a time, given that it requires 2 Basic Grenades to do enough damage to destroy a Tree (50 HP, 25 down per Grenade), but if used against larger amounts of Trees, often 5 or 6 at a time, it looks like a decent bargain, compared to using AP. Whats a quick and efficient way to chop trees early game?

Or just a fast method in general. Dec 23, Very early game, they can destroy forests quickly and cheaply, and even into late game can be a solid choice over some of the other solutions.

Shotguns and Poison capsules are also decent. Poison Capsules take a little longer to get to, but have a large AOE which will kill just about any trees inside, simply coat the trees and wait a few seconds. For a game based on automation, early game tree clearing sucks.

I mean its not really super bad, but for a game that's main focus is creating this automated super base, I really feel like there should be an early game solution to trees. In life as in factorio, you have to do the shitty stuff first before you can move on to do the better stuff. early. if all you can find early in the game are small crappy patches of ores (that aint worth setting a base on) in or very close to forests, smelt them with your only coal mine, chop trees, use wood as fuel and keep searching for a better place once the ore deposit has no more trees over it.

preferably search for a desert after a while. Aug 14, Factorio guide and top tips - Our practical top tips for Factorio beginners. Factorio early game walkthrough - How to ace your first weeks in a new Factorio world. Factorio mods for - Here are the very best Factorio mods we've ever used. Factorio console commands - The most useful cheats in Factorio bushfalling.bar: Ollie Toms. Apr 12, later in game I would recommend having your construction robots and the removal redprint.

They will do the work for you if you logistics network is within range. Drones are the fastest. you can clear enitre forests with the click of one button.