Factory Bootstrap Guide

This guide is for players who want to stop crafting one recipe at a time and start building a workshop that can actually support Slimefun progression. The goal is not a perfect endgame base. The goal is a first factory that can reliably make your next machines, alloys, power parts, and upgrades without feeling like every craft starts from zero.

• Place an Enhanced Crafting Table first. It unlocks an enormous share of the tech tree.
• Keep a compact room with nearby furnaces, storage, and your first manual processing stations from Basic Machines.
• Resist the temptation to spread every machine across your base. Early Slimefun feels much better when your common crafting chain is in one place.

• Start stockpiling recurring materials instead of crafting them only when a recipe demands them.
• Keep separate chests for:
  • raw ores and mined inputs
  • refined metals and alloys
  • carbon and compressed materials
  • tech parts such as wires, motors, batteries, and circuit pieces
• If you keep rebuilding the same intermediates every session, that material belongs in your factory stockpile.

• Build a small grid around an Energy Regulator.
• Start simple with a Coal Generator or Solar Generator.
• Add Energy Connectors to route power, then some Energy Capacitors if you want a small buffer.
• Use a Multimeter to see whether your network is actually keeping up.
• One stable generator feeding a few machines is better than a sprawling grid that constantly browns out.

• Your first electric machines should target the steps you repeat most often, not the fanciest machine on the page.
• Good first candidates are powered smelting, pressing, carbon processing, and alloy production.
• In practice, that usually means looking at pages like Electric Furnace, Electric Press, Carbon Press, and Electric Smeltery as your factory grows.
• A factory becomes useful the moment it saves you from rebuilding the same ingredient chain by hand.

• Once power is stable, give your workshop simple lanes:
  • one lane for ore, dust, and ingot processing
  • one lane for carbon and compression
  • one lane for tech parts and machine components
• Keep inputs, machines, and outputs physically close.
• This makes later expansion much easier, even before you automate transport.

• A central Enhanced Crafting Table
• Reliable starter power from Energy and Electricity
• At least one powered smelting or processing machine
• A stock chest for alloys and shared components
• Space reserved for future expansion instead of rebuilding the room every upgrade

• Expand when:
  • you keep running out of the same intermediate parts
  • your manual alloy or compression steps are the slowest part of every project
  • your generator can already support more than one or two machines
• At that point, start reading Machine Modules and plan for more structured automation later.

• Alloys and Core Tech
• Basic Machines
• Energy and Electricity