Hello World

Using the amazing work of ob_105 for ai-player, factoring in work from factorio-agent by lvshrd, using claude I made this mod... it is definitely still a work in progress.

Discussion

• This thing is fun and buggy, and has lots of potential for better solo and co-op play
• Love to see if and how it's working for others
• Would to hear about the bugs - fun and not
  -- Like setting up steam power by dropping an offshore pump on a crude oil patch with random pipes, a boiler and steam engine

Installation

Follow https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ai-player installation instructions for setting up LMStudio, the requirements.txt has been updated for the current version of factorio-rcon.py
- Github has detailed instruction for this version

Github for more details (setup, skills and commands)

• https://github.com/thedemon117/ai-player-v3
• Skills are better documented in github
• console commands for ai commands, deterministic workflows, loops, etc.

Local Recommended Model

• qwen/qwen3-coder-next
  -- Super fast model for fast action (not having to wait up to 240 seconds for Minimax M2.7's reasoning)
  -- Capable model, albeit the skills equipped need some improvement (blame the human, not the model lol)

Factorio MCP

• Opus created an MCP from RCON to assist with
  -- ClaudeCode taking controls
  -- Interrogating the game_state and factory to better task the ai-player over RCON

ClaudeCode recommendation

• Sonnet is recommended if you're going to connect ClaudeCode to the game, Haiku might be reasonable
• Opus was instrumental in getting this version of the mod functional

Future

• Further local agent work
• More and better looping
• Better use of skills, perception and less dropping of so many furnaces and cheating miners (refer to thumbnail for a burner-miner configuration)

Challenges

• Infinite bootstrap, always dropping and starving furnaces
• Triple burner miners - the ai cheats over RCON - illegal placement of machines

Thanks for giving my mod a shot!