Our world first Factorio: Space Age speedrun (Default Settings, Multiplayer)
This’ll be a short post. The first verified run by Dom, Greaser, and I was the world first for the category, came in at 27:38:41, and ran on 2024-12-09. This post is made after our second verified run, coming in at 20:38:52, with NightKhaos joining us.
Despite shaving off seven hours, there’s still a lot of room for improvement. Nefrums did his solo run in 14:33:14, and much of our design was based on his. There’s room for up to 8 players in this category, too, and we’ve only used 4 to date.
I’m not sure when we’ll attempt this again. This was fun, but also a lot of work. If we could consistently make runs happen below 16 hours, it would be much easier for everyone to commit. There is some very interesting routing coming up by the speedrunning community, but most of that is going towards blueprint-permitted categories, or assuming maximally favourable initial settings. We did use some circuit logic on our platforms, but not to the same extent as the very narrow rodships that are being designed.