Michal Kovařík

Hello, I'm the Factorio founder, and this is the answer to all of the people comparing Factorio with modded Minecraft. I would like to make clear, that I never ever tried to hide the fact, that Modded minecraft, mainly buildcraft/industrialcraft, was huge inspiration to create Factorio. In fact, before even the idea to create my own game came to my mind, I started to make my own (private) changes to these minecraft mods. I loved and enjoyed these mods A LOT and saw a big potential in the automation game, but I wanted to grab the subject and implement it my way. I wanted to be able to avoid the limitations of the Minecraft engine, so there can be huge factories with hundreds of thousands of items on transport belts while keeping smooth gameplay and without the need to think about activated/passive chunks. I wanted to have some other survival challenge than surviving the first night, that is somehow compatible with the industrialisation progress. I wanted to make it more about strategy, planning and timing than about a lot of hard work. I wanted it to have more variable logistics possibilities. I wanted to implement lot of good concepts from other games, as well as some of my own ideas. I wanted it to be all balanced and carved to work as a whole, because once the count of mods you use in minecraft (or any other game) starts to rise, the overall balance usually suffers a lot. Wasn't Minecraft created because Notch saw some concept in different game that he just wanted to do right? Factorio is the same thing I believe. I would also encourage anyone who plays Factorio (and has a lot of time to spare) to try the Minecraft industrial mods, so he can compare these two things and understand better what I'm trying to achieve.