Essence of theFactorio Engineer

Your mind is improved to better handle boredom and trauma, maintain focus for longer, and learn faster.

Your long-term memory becomes perfectly accurate, infinite in potential size, and accessible with both an association system similar to (but better than) what a human brain uses, and a more stable indexing system like a library or database. It also includes auto-transcripts, blueprint support, mind’s eye photography, and other useful quality of life features.

Your working memory also becomes perfectly accurate but “only” expands by dozens of orders of magnitude.

You gain an improvement in your understanding of various scientific fields. For the following, you have a level of proficiency beyond that which any human could achieve, requiring centuries of education and millennia of experience.

Industrial Engineering.

Automation Principles.

Logistics.

For the following fields, all leading experts in the field would consider you an excellent person to go to for advice.

Computer Science.

Mechanical Engineering.

Electrical Engineering.

Factorio Physics (or whatever the technical term is called for the blockification effect and related technologies).

For the following fields, the average person within the field would probably consider you an expert.

Nuclear Physics.

Nuclear Engineering.

Aerodynamics.

Optics.

Fluid Dynamics.

Anatomy & Ergonomics.

Astronomy & Orbits.

Biology.

Geology.

Metallurgy.

Materials Science.

Your ability to do mathematics is greatly improved, making your calculations as accurate as a computer’s, though only about a hundred times as fast as humanly possible.

Your ability to learn, research, and develop has been improved by multiple orders of magnitude. This comes from boosts to thoroughness, quality, speed and persistence.

This can be augmented by your labs, buildings that consume packs of materials in order to assist you in thinking. This assistance can either be to create a parallel line of thought or accelerate an existing one. The more complex and expensive these “science packs” are, the more powerful the assistance the labs provide.

You have excellent instincts when it comes to identifying the weaknesses and failure points of devices and systems, which in turn allows you to fix those problems much faster and easier.

You gain a perfectly healthy body. In addition, it has unlimited endurance. You will no longer get tired and no longer require sleep or food. Those will instead help you recover from injuries or damage. Your body is also significantly tougher than before. It also has no hygiene requirements and does not age.

You may customize the appearance of your body, and also may customize the color of equipment and vehicles you use.

You can now also see your perspective from a top-down perspective, including inside caves or buildings. This will reveal subterranean resources as well.

You have an overview function, which lets you use a map view based on your sensors, and can provide real-time and historical data on your factories and deployed technology. You can use this to make notes and configure your own machines at a great distance, provided they are within the view of one of your sensors. This can connect and disconnect to your systems anywhere in the multiverse.

You can bypass the interfaces on technology, immediately giving orders that might require tedious, complex, or lengthy inputs to achieve, as long as you have access to an interface where you could give orders. In doing so, you can treat any technology as an extension of your body. This will not bypass password locks unless you know the password.

You have an inspection function, which you can use to examine a single creature or machine at time. This can reveal its status, properties, and traits. This can also work through remote sensors.

You have an internal inventory capable of holding a large amount of raw materials, pre-constructed buildings, and other items. Objects in your inventory are stored in a compressed, block-like state. When removing them from your inventory you can undo the blockification effect or not. You can “mine” things at a short distance directly into your inventory, place objects and structures out to that distance, and interface with other inventories within range.

Your inventory also allows you to “handcraft” objects, acting like an assembly machine. This can mimic any machining operation, fuse parts together, and otherwise mechanically manipulate an object.

You may don and doff clothing and armor directly using your inventory. This will resize them to fit you.

You may safely learn, adapt, use, and mass-produce any technology from any world you travel to. This includes forms of technology that the users call “magical,” “supernatural,” or other terms meant to imply that you aren’t supposed to science it.

This also includes the ability to modify one’s self and others to be able to use various esoteric energy types or principles of physics.

When it comes to your blueprints, you may use Factorio-style logic on them. This means you can upgrade instances of machines or items by adding more and better materials to the original, without increasing size or mass.

Machines and infrastructure you build may neglect several important considerations that would otherwise hamper them, like heat transferring out of hot fluids, or startup and shutdown times.

You gain blueprints of Factorio buildings and items up to blue science. This technology can blockify and unblockify objects like your inventory, as well as manipulate the blockified state for transport and processing.

You have blueprints for equipment that allows others to have reduced versions of your overview, inspection, and inventory powers. These systems also have security measures built into their designs to stop unauthorized usage, keep track of users, and more.

The most advanced blueprints you get immediately include things as nuclear fission reactors, machine modules, energy shields, and power armor.

You may use your rocket silos and space platforms to create space science, which you can use to boost a specific aspect of your technology. This boost does require an increased cost each time you want to do it to a given aspect.

Your space platforms can travel across the multiverse, once you are capable of building FTL technology. You are limited in when you can travel back to a particular universe by the time that has elapsed for you since then and when you were last in contact with that universe (whether it be via your overview power or your physical presence.)

You get a starter kit. It consists of a power armor, (loaded with a portable fusion reactor, exoskeleton, shields, robot-port, and batteries) a stack of construction robots, a SMG (loaded with AP ammo) a combat shotgun (loaded with piercing shot) a rocket launcher (loaded with normal rockets), a steel pick, and two burner miners and two furnaces.

Optionally, when you drink this, you are transported to Nauvis and left on the surface.