Talk:Factory/@comment-202.160.16.158-20200423223913/@comment-112.204.68.98-20200604143822

By the start of year 2 my production line was 8 c.grinders, 8 c.cutters, 8 industrial furnace, 4 adv skiver, 4 electric furnace and 2 blenders all running on a fire generator. Getting the factory not only made production faster/easier, but also helps in inventory management since pressing sort automatically drags whatever resource material you have in your backpack to storage. it's also an important tool for workshop layout designing since it frees up so much space.

Had I known the factory was this efficient I wouldn't have made that much workbenches and focused only on getting through the story line to get the factory because I ended up selling all my comprehensive workstations, fire generators, and conductive flooring anyway (sold my c.workstations since regular workstations plus industrial furnaces provide more balance to factory slots).

There are downsides to the factory but the positives heavily outweigh its negatives.