Let's Play Factorio Pyanodons Episode 1 - Iron Smelting

Welcome to Episode 1 of my first ever Factorio series. It being the first I decided, why not do the hardest mod pack first? Why not indeed. In this series we will be exploring the Pyanodons Modpack plus a few QoL mods.

Here is a list of all mods I'll be using plus a short summary of what they do:

Afraid Of The Dark
Better flashlight for nighttime play

Auto Deconstruct
Marks drills that have no more ore left to mine

Big Brother
Gives you research options to upgrade your radars

Construction Drones
Adds ground-based drones to construct or deconstruct items for you. I abuse these by making them wipe out whole forests.

Even Distribution
Allows you to CTRL click and drag to distribute things across a number of entities - EG coal into furnaces

Factorio Library
High quality utilities for the mods

Factorio Standard Library
More high quality utilities for the mods

Factory Planner
Allows you to calculate production for a set output

Far Reach
Allows you to build, interact and mine from further away

Fill4Me
Automatically adds fuel/ammo to items you place down

FNEI
All recipes for all items in the game

Inbuilt Lighting
Adds lighting to power poles

Informatron
Helpful mod directory for guidance

Loader Redux
Adds loaders to the game

Miniloader
Adds mini-loaders to the game

Mining Drones
Adds mining drones and mining depots to the game

Power Armor MK3
MK3 power armor has bigger grid and more equipment

Py Quick Start
Gives the player some crappy MK01 robots and a bunch of starting resources and equipment

Pyanodons AlienLife
Pyanodons AlienLife Graphics
Pyanodons AlienLife Graphics 2
Pyanodons AlienLife Graphics 3
Allows you to be mostly self sufficient. Also includes graphics for the modpack


Pyanodons Coal Processing
Pyanodons Coal Processing Graphics
Adds complex production lines to the game in the form of coal processing. Plus graphics

Pyanodons Fusion Energy
Pyanodons Fusion Energy Graphics
Adds complex Fusion Energy production chains to the game. Plus graphics

Pyanodons HighTech
Pyanodons HighTech Graphics
Improves / makes more difficult, the electronics production chains. Plus graphics

Pyanodons Industry
Adds industry-based builds to the game

Pyanodons Petroleum Handling
Pyanodons Petroleum Handling Graphics
Adds new ways to get oil, and how byproducts are handled. Plus graphics

Pyanodons Raw Ores
Pyanodons Raw Ores Graphics
Adds more ores, processes and materials. Plus graphics

Squeak Through
Allows the player to walk between obstacles (pipes/solar panels etc)

Transport Drones
Adds transport drones and depots. Works like the logistics system with requester, provider and buffer depots

VehicleSnap
Because I can't drive.

Waterfill
Allows you to place down water tiles. Also, because I turn the water setting down a bit and don't want to have to drag water from 100000 tiles away.

Map String:
https://pastebin.com/DF1V4vQd