Talk:Factory/@comment-483289-20190710223300

There are lots of complaints about the factory in these comments, but I don't know what everyone's problem is because it's awesome. Maybe it was just buffed on the Steam release recently or something, I'm not sure. All I know is it makes crafting everything trivial.

The numbers on the left are how many of each machine you have the equivalent of, so if you've got 70 "smelter points", you can be smelting 70 queues of ore at the same time, as if you had 70 individual smelters running. Hit the "multiple" button, put 1 iron bar and 70 queues, and then in about an hour, you'll have 70 iron bars. It's nuts. Basically if you have enough raw materials, you can craft large amounts of anything you need in like an in-game hour.

Only thing that would make it better is if it took your Artisan skill into account. I still try to use the worktable to craft parts, furniture, etc. so I get that 20% free.