Welcome to this guide! This section will give you a brief overview of what to expect and how to play as efficient as possible. Remember that you can always post a comment in case you have any questions.

There are a few achievements which are missable. Most often related to not doing something during a playthrough. They can often be identified by having a red border in their icon, so make sure to read through all achievements before your start. You can of course have another attempt by starting a new save. Some achievements are disabled when you alter the enemy stats or turn them off completely (peaceful mode). Achievement you've been locked out of are marked red in the ingame achievement list, so you can always check that if you ain't sure. Using mods will disable achievements, even if they won't affect gameplay, so you can't use any.

Playing the game with at least one other person will make most of the achievements a lot easier, so I highly recommend doing so. To be eligible for an achievement in multiplayer you must have played at least 50% of the total time of the save. So when you host a server, be sure you or your friends clock enough time (perhaps by idling all night) to not be locked out. Or simply only have the game running when you all actively play.

To 100% this game you need to own the Space Age downloadable content (DLC). Achievements which can only be unlocked if you own this DLC are listed in their own section. Some recipes and strategies change when you have the DLC enabled. For this guide I assume you play with the DLC, as it is required to complete everything.

Over time the developers decided to make the most difficult achievements more difficult by adding extra restrictions. For example: for years you could alter the starting area, pollution and evolution settings on world generation without locking any achievements. This made biters less difficult to deal with at the start. This change invalided a lot of tactics, of which I used some myself as well. I will try to guide you through, but I don't have any hands on experience with this new meta. You could also try to install a version prior to version 2.0.45 to revert these changes.

The game allows you to make blueprints of factories you made and import them into an other save. While you still need to acquire all resources, this greatly reduces the time required to plan things out, which is especially useful during your speedrun. You can also find plenty blueprints made by others online. I will try to link some good blueprints wherever it is relevant.

And remember: the factory must grow!

Launch a rocket to space.

You 'finish' the base game by launching a rocket into space, but you can still continue afterwards. Work towards the rocket silo through research, create rocket parts, and press the launch button. Once the rocket left the screen the achievement will pop.



Launch a rocket to space without building any solar panels.

Steam power will easily suffice for the first couple hours if you focus on launching a rocket. Hard to miss when you go for the speedrun achievements. You are allowed to craft the panels, you just can't place them on the map. This achievement is disabled when you play in peaceful mode.



Launch a rocket to space without building any laser turrets.

You can still use normal turrets, which suffice for quite a while. Hard to miss when you go for the speedrun achievements. This achievement is disabled when you play in peaceful mode.



Launch a rocket to space while manually crafting no more than 111 items.

While the name might be true for the late game veterans, this achievement is actually hard work early on! You need to use an assembling machine for everything. To get an assembling machine you need to craft the following things by hand:

• Steam Engine
  
• Boiler
  
• Offshore Pump
  
• Small Electric Pole
  
• Lab
  
• Automation Science Pack (10)
  
• Assembling Machine 1

This strategy will bring you to 103 crafts, leaving a little bit of space for errors. Keep in mind that in multiplayer the crafts are shared, so have just one person do this.

You will need to setup a basic power plant near water and manually research Automation to be able to craft the assembling machine. From that point on you need to use machines for everything you wish to craft. It is wise to make a hub of assembly machines which create commonly used parts like transport belts, power lines and inserters.

Hub Blueprints[factorioblueprints.tech]

It's also wise to save a lot and keep the achievement pinned to the corner of your screen so you can reload when you accidentally mess up (believe me, you will).



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You need to launch a rocket into space with a fish as cargo. You can get a fish by right clicking one in the water. If you don't want to waste your rocket parts you can save the game before launching the rocket and reload after getting the achievement.



Launch a rocket to space within 15 hours.

Launch a rocket to space within 8 hours.

Probably one of the hardest base game achievements. While speedrunners can beat the game in under 2 hours, you'd probably be aiming at something like 5-6 hours. To be honest this is really complex and difficult to write down in a text guide, as you need to adapt to your play style and map seed. These achievements are disabled when you play in peaceful mode.

There is also the Express Delivery achievement, where you need to complete the whole game within a certain amount of hours. When following the steps for that achievement you will likely also unlock these achievements.

You can consider the following things to improve your chance on success:

• Finish the game at least once; you probably won't get in on your first playthough.
  
• Play together with someone else to give yourself a bit more room for error.
  
• Learn common factory building techniques, like a modular production hub or main bus.
  
• Look online for a good speedrun map seed which fits your play style.
  
• Fiddle with the map generator settings without locking the achievement.
  
• Prepare blueprints for things like your main bus, hubs, smeltery and science packs.
  
• Learn keyboard/mouse shortcuts to play the game more efficiently.
  
• Watch a speedrunner play the game to learn some tricks you might didn't know.
  
• Plan ahead on what research to focus on first, depending on your needs.
  
• You don't need a perfect factory; just something that can launch a rocket within time.
  
• Always be busy! Collect, build, fight. Idle time is wasted time.

Research a technology using automation science packs.


Research a technology using logistic science packs.


Research a technology using chemical science packs.


Research a technology using military science packs.


Research a technology using production science packs.


Research a technology using utility science packs.


Research a technology using space science packs.

Science packs are used to research new technology. You will start with the automation (red) packs quite early, and expand to more advanced packs with more difficult crafting materials as you go. The achievements are ordered in the most likely way you will encounter them while playing, but there isn't a strict path. The final space science packs are acquired through space platforms.



Research oil processing.

This research is required to beat the game, so you will get this automatically as you progress through the game. The research only requires red and green science packs, so you will get this quite early on.



Research all technologies.

Go through the whole tech tree and unlock everything. There are a few researches which can be researched infinitely. These are marked with the infinity symbol (∞). In that case you only need to research till the point the endless cycle begins. For example, if a research shows "5-∞", you need to research that tech to level 5.



Finish research with any planetary science pack without building any active provider, buffer, or requester chests.

To be honest I got this achievement the first time I played, because I didn't know how the logistics robots worked. Usually at your first playthrough you are still figuring out how to use the transport belts and trains in the best way possible, so try to focus on that. You can also still use the passive and storage chest, which are most commonly used by simple logistic networks, so this really isn't that difficult. The planetary science packs which are mentioned can only be crafted on the planets added by the Space Age DLC and can be found in that section.

Trigger an alien attack by pollution.

As your factory grows you will pollute more and more, causing the biters to attack (as long as you are not playing on peaceful mode). "I'm not under attack, but it still popped!", you might say. Well congratulations, you are about to be attacked.




Destroy a biter spawner.

Spawners are the circular nests of the biters which you can find in their bases around your factory. You can shoot them, or simply run them over with a tank, which is also required for an other achievement.




Destroy an enemy structure using artillery.

Artillery is a late base game weapon. Build an artillery piece, load some ammo and they will automatically target nests if they are within range.




Destroy your first enemy structure using artillery.

The text can be somewhat confusing. It means the first out of all spawners you destroyed in your world must be destroyed by artillery. It's not about destroying a spawner with artillery for the first time, because that's what the Art of Siege achievement is. Since you can't craft it early, you might have trouble keeping the enemies away from your base long enough. This achievement is disabled when you play in peaceful mode.

Do it the easy way! Play on an island seed so the enemies can't reach you. Take your time, prepare all research needed, then move to other land by either using landfill, elevated rails or the mech suit to reach the enemy. If you encounter biter nests you can encircle them with pipes to prevent enemy spawns. You are also allowed to kill any worms that may have spawned.



Destroy 10 spawners by impact.

You will need to destroy spawners with your vehicle by driving over them. The buggy deals minimal damage and easily gets destroyed, so you definitely want to use the tank for this.




Build a spidertron.

The spidertron is a endgame vehicle you can construct using various rocket and exosuit parts. You will first need to research this, and is located near the bottom of the tech tree.




Use an atomic bomb.

Unleash your inner Oppenheimer and show your neighbours who is boss. Nukes are an endgame weapon you can craft. You will also need a nuclear power setup in your factory to provide yourself with enough enriched uranium before you can craft this.



Survive a hit of 500 damage or more.

First you need to acquire some power armor and put three Energy Shield MK2 in it, which gives you 450 extra health on top of your 100 base health. Make sure they are also charged up by a power source. Next, make a decently sized circular train track with one station. Stand on the track some distance away from the station and let the train depart. Once it hits you, check how much of the energy shield bar has been depleted and choose a new position based on that. You need to lose your entire shield and half your health bar. If not enough health was depleted, move further. If you died, move closer. Rinse and repeat until you got it right for your armor setup.



Have 100 combat robots or more following you.

These are the throwable capsules and not the constructor/logistics robots. The cheapest option is the defender capsule. To get 100 robots at once you need to have the robot follower tech at level 11. The capsule robots despawn after a while, so make sure to prepare 100 of them and use them all in one go.

Build a locomotive.

First you need to research railway, which gives you access to the locomotive and train track recipes. This is available quite early in the game. Place down some tracks and then put the locomotive on it. The achievement will pop as soon as you place it on the tracks.




Build a locomotive within the first 90 minutes of the game.

This achievement really is not that difficult, but normally you are focusing on other things during a playthrough. I suggest to make a throwaway save for this in peaceful mode. Quickly grind the research, place the train and continue with your other saves.



Have a train plan a path 1.000 tiles or longer.

If you are an avid train user you will have no problem getting this. Otherwise just pump out some tracks with an assembling machine and make some random path.



Get killed by a moving locomotive.

You'll probably get this accidentally when you weren't paying attention in your factory, but otherwise it's fairly easy to do this on purpose with a small track.

Construct 100 machines using robots.

When you have construction robots unlocked and a roboport, your little friends will start constructing any blueprint you place down (if you have the required materials that is). Everything counts, including the transport belts and chests, so you should get 100 fairly easy.



Deconstruct 100 objects with the construction robots.

With the red button in your hotbar you can mark structures to be removed by your robots.



Supply the character by logistic robot.

Supply the character with 10.000 items delivered by logistic robots.

Once you have your logistics network going you can mark in your inventory that for example you always want to have 500 iron plates. The logistics robots will then bring them to you if you have less than that. You can make them send junk items back and forth if you want to farm this.



Construct more machines using robots than manually.

The difficulty of this one kinda depends on your playstyle. If you placed a lot by hand you may have several thousand manual constructions, so it can take a while to catch up. If you are really far behind you can just make a grid of transport belts in a blueprint. Then let the robots place it, remove it, and repeat to farm.

Note: Whenever an achievement in this section tells to produce something 'per hour', it means you actually need to produce that amount within the hour. Just hitting the production speed amount for a split second in your statistics screen does not suffice.

Produce 20.000 iron plates per hour.

Produce 200.000 iron plates per hour.

Produce 400.000 iron plates per hour.

You need between two and three blue transport belts as output for the highest tier. Of course you will also need a similar amount of ore input, either by train or a bunch of ore belts.

Basic Smelting Blueprint[factorioblueprints.tech]
Advanced Smelting Blueprint[factorioblueprints.tech]



Produce 10.000 electronic circuits.

Produce 1.000.000 electronic circuits.

Produce 20.000.000 electronic circuits.

The last tier is probably one of the last achievements you will unlock. The progression is shared between all your saves. Two full blue transport belts (which is a somewhat decent start), will give you just 324.000 circuits per hour, which sums up to almost three real days. By the time you are finished with the other achievements you are probably somewhere near halfway. At that point I just let my computer run over night to farm it. Make sure to dump them into a tier 3 module factory so the production keeps going.

Electronic Circuits Blueprint[factorioblueprints.tech]



Produce 1.000 advanced circuits per hour.

Produce 10.000 advanced circuits per hour.

Produce 25.000 advanced circuits per hour.

For the highest tier you need slightly less than half a yellow transport belt as output, so this one is fairly easy to do. It unlocks way earlier than the other production achievements.

Advanced Circuits Blueprint[factorioblueprints.tech]



Produce 500 processing units per hour.

Produce 1000 processing units per hour.

Produce 5000 processing units per hour.

These are really slow to craft, but once you get a rocket part and upgrade module factory going, you will be producing quite a lot of them. You should be able to get this without really trying once you progress far enough.

Processing Units Blueprint[factorioblueprints.tech]



Produce more than 10 GJ per hour using only solar panels.

About 50 solar panels should be enough, but you actually also have to use the power. You could set up a bunch with accumulators and place enough objects around it to consume the power. You are also not allowed to generate power through any other source during the entire hour for the particular power network your panels are connected to. Networks are connected by power lines. Usually for most people their entire factory is just one power network. So either disable, disconnect or destroy your steam engines and nuclear reactors, or place the solar panels somewhere away from your factory to let them have their own network. This one tends to not really cooperate to unlock, so keep it running for a while and double check that you are not using a different power source and whether you consume or store enough power.

Build an assembling machine.

This is one of the first things you will do, so kinda hard to miss. You get it as soon as you place the first machine in the world.




Start producing electric power by steam engine.


Start producing electric power by solar panels.


Start producing electric power by nuclear powerplant.

As you progress you will learn new ways to generate power. Should be unlocked eventually by just playing, though you might want to hold off solar panels temporarily for the Steam all the way achievement.




Craft a speed module 3.


Craft an efficiency module 3.


Craft a productivity module 3.

Later in the game you will learn to make modules to upgrade your machines. There are 3 types in the base game with each having 3 tiers. You will need to craft these eventually if you want to make efficient setups, but since they are pretty expensive to craft this will be likely in the endgame.




Completely deplete a resource patch.

Should come naturally as you expand your factory. With resource patch the game means things like coal, stone, copper and iron, all mined by your drills. If you increased the yield of resources in the world generator settings it might take a long while to deplete a patch. Optionally you can also generate a world with a decreased yield. Keep in mind that you need to deplete the whole patch, not just a single tile, so make sure your drills cover all tiles. Patches near the starting area are generally smaller in size.




Destroy a cliff.

After researching explosives you can research cliff explosives. These blue colored dynamite sticks can destroy cliffs in your world. Before you start make sure you didn't turn off cliff generation in the world generator settings.



Destroy 100 trees by impact.

You need to hit 100 trees with vehicles. You can choose between the buggy and the tank. The buggy is easier to create, but takes a lot of damage and slows down heavily on each hit. Personally I'd suggest to first unlock the tank as that makes it less of a hassle.



Destroy 10.000 trees with fire.

Unlock the flamethrower, stock up on some ammo and go crazy. You might want to save beforehand, as burning trees causes a lot of pollution (and thus more biter attacks), so you probably want to reload afterwards.

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Create a space platform.

You need to create these platforms to travel in space towards the other planets in the star system. Place turrets, catch debris, create fuel and explore new worlds with them.




Travel to planet Vulcanus.


Travel to planet Fulgora.


Travel to planet Gleba.


Travel to planet Aquilo.

There are four new planets to be discovered, so you basically need to visit them all at least once. You need to use space platforms to reach them. Each planet has it's own unique resources and challenges you need to 'finish' the game. The first three planets can be completed in any order. Aquilo can only be reached with research from the other planets.

Space Age Blueprints[www.factorio.school]




Research a technology using metallurgic science packs.


Research a technology using electromagnetic science packs.


Research a technology using agricultural science packs.


Research a technology using cryogenic science packs.


Research a technology using promethium science packs.

Each planet has it's own science pack, which can exclusively be crafted on that planet. You will eventually use them all at least once. The final science pack is an post endgame item which is acquired at the shattered planet. For this you need an advanced spaceship.

Promethium Science Spaceship Blueprint[factorioprints.com]




Research a technology using another planet's science pack before unlocking production or utility science packs.

Be warned: this achievement is all about not unlocking the production (purple) and utility (yellow) science packs before you used at least one science pack of the other planets. Simply not researching anything that requires them is not enough. You need to keep these science packs locked in your tech tree. Get a rocket in space, then research using any of the new planet specific packs (e.g. metallurgics from Vulcanus). Once you get this achievement you can unlock the packs to continue.




Disturb a demolisher by building on its territory.

On Vulcanus you will see marked areas on the map outside the starting area. These are the territories of demolishers. You will eventually be forced to build in these areas to collect tungsten. Start mining and wait for the inevitable to happen.




Kill a small demolisher.


Kill a medium demolisher.


Kill a big demolisher.

Demolishers spawn on Vulcanus in marked areas. Near the spawn area they are small, but they will increase in size the further you move away from it. They have a lot of explosive resistance, so those weapons aren't really effective. For the small ones a tank with non-explosive uranium shells usually does the trick. For the medium ones you can use a dozen artillery cannons and rain down a barrage. For the big ones you should get stronger weapons like the rail gun from Aquilo. Aim for the head or tail to deal more damage to them. It's also wise to invest in weapon damage and attack speed research.




Attract a group of pentapods using spores.

On Gleba spores are a similar system like pollution of your factory on Nauvis. Once you start processing fruits and expand your operations you will eventually trigger an attack just like you did with the biters.




Start producing electric power by fusion powerplant.

Fusion power is acquired on Aquilo. You first need to finish research from Vulcanus, Fulgora and Gleba before you can reach this planet, so you will only use this in the last stages of the game.

Insert a quality module into a module slot.

Inserting quality modules allows you to get items with quality. The tier 1 modules are pretty easy to make quite early in the game. It's wise to insert these in your gun turrets and solar panel factories to make migrating to other planets in the earlier stages easier.




Craft a quality module 3.


Craft a legendary quality module 3.

The tier 3 modules require items and research from Fulgora to be unlocked, but the crafting recipe isn't that difficult. Getting a legendary one is a different story. First you need to unlock the legendary quality tier with research from Aquilo. Then you need to grind for a legendary one by putting quality modules in a machine, either hoping for a lucky legendary craft, or by getting legendary materials.




Equip rare or better quality of power armor MK2 or mech armor.


Fill every tile of legendary mech armor with legendary equipment.

You can kinda ignore the first achievement, as you will also get it by getting the second one. The mech armor is unlocked through research from Fulgora, but you also need to unlock the legendary quality from Aquilo. It's best to start with this after getting the My modules are legendary achievement, as having access to legendary tier 3 quality modules makes this a lot easier.

You don't need a perfect armor setup to get the achievement! You can just massively farm a cheap item and completely fill your armor with it. The legendary armor has a 15x17 equipment grid, so you need to fill 255 slots. I went for the energy shield and the belt immunity equipment, as they both require only steel and advanced circuits, which you both should be able to get from your recyclers on Fulgora. You need 56 energy shields and 31 belt immunity equipment to fill the grid.




Eat a legendary fish.

You can't craft fish with quality (the recipe does not support these modules), so the only strategy is to scrap them. Based on the quality of your quality modules you only have a 10-25% chance to tier up. That leaves you at a ~0.025% chance to get a legendary fish at best, assuming base quality. If you scrap your uncommon, rare and epic fish as well you have a higher chance of course.

I made a simple machine that converted biter eggs into nutrients and then started to breed fish. The machine kept a few spare fish (to keep the breeding process going), the other fish were inserted into a recycler with tier 3 quality modules. Any fish that was not legendary quality would be inserted back into the recycler, while I had an a box ready for legendary fish. Fish spoil after some hours, so I connected a speaker to the box that would sound a global alarm if a legendary fish would be inserted to notify myself. Took about two hours to get a legendary one. Might not be the most efficient way to do it, but it served me well. You can find my little contraption below.

Legendary Fish Breeder Blueprint[factorioprints.com]




Finish the game.


Finish the game within 100 hours.


Finish the game within 40 hours.

You 'finish' the game by going to the edge of the solar system. First you need to visit Vulcanus, Fulgora and Gleba in any order you prefer to unlock Aquilo through research. With research from Aquilo you can discover the solar system edge and prepare a ship capable to survive the 100.000km trip through asteroids. Make sure the player is actually on board of the ship, or it won't count. These achievements are disabled when you play in peaceful mode.

The same rules kinda apply as There's no spoon, but now you just need to continue longer. You can also read through these tips to perhaps get some ideas. Keep in mind you just need some basic bases on the planets to get enough science to continue. No need to set up a complicated highly optimised system. To be honest this achievement isn't as strict as the previous mentioned one. If you managed to do the base game speedrun you definitely will manage this one. I did a run playing quite leisurely and made a few major mistakes. Still I managed to complete it in about 20 hours, so with plenty time to spare.

Another valid option is to follow this video and blueprint[factoriobin.com]. I thought it provided a lot of important info while also being enjoyable to watch. Keep in mind though that this blueprint collection uses ships with mines, which were heavily nerfed, so you will need to find an alternative for the Aquilo and solar system edge ships. Also as mentioned in the first section they changed the rules about world generation settings. So unlike in the video you will actually also need to deal with the biters now.




Travel 10.000km towards the shattered planet.


Travel 30.000km towards the shattered planet.


Travel 60.000km towards the shattered planet.

The shattered planet is a destination unlocked after finishing the game. While you can technically reach the end of the 4.000.000km trip, you are just supposed to go back and forth to collect asteroid chunks to craft promethium science packs with. These are used for post endgame research. You need to design a ship with enough firepower from rail guns, rocket launcher and other turrets to reach at least 60.000km for the achievement.

To be honest the first 50.000km or so towards the shattered planet aren't that difficult. If your ship can reach the solar system edge quite decently, you can probably also complete this goal with it. And otherwise you definitely will when going for the promethium science achievement.