Bulldog 1 Freedom Start: Fast progression from Burner to Bots and Nuclear Power, to let you focus on what you want.

The Bulldog 1 Freedom Base speeds up and simplifies the process of getting to the point where you can build "what you want". Use all of the Blueprints or only the ones that suit your play style. Designed for Factorio 0.17.

Useful to beginners and experts alike. Should be an ideal start for railworld, megabase and other play styles.

Discussion thread on Factorio Forums:

• https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=59968

Version 3 update Notes:

• v3 is a complete overhaul and massive expansion. Can produce Bots and Nuclear Power quite early, and trickle the research all the way through yellow if you have no desire to setup the usual big smelting and science build. You do those at your pace. Sorry, it will not serve coffee or deliver pizza :)
• The original v1 blueprint is still available, as well as a previously unpublished v2 that reformatted it into a 1x3 chunk.

Important tips:

• *** Miniloaders are completely optional ***. I love them as they make for very compact train stations, but you can remove them easily from the blueprints and replace them with a design of your choice.
• The Freedom Base/Mall is a low volume mall. It is normal for it to choke up due to lack of green circuits or other supplies if you are not cautious on what you build. Its productivity will increase later once you start feeding the bottleneck resources produced later elsewhere via the mini-bus. Even so, you might reach full yellow science research before doing that. Disabling low priority assembler output chests is critical to minimize throughput problems. If stable, enable a few more and let it trickle-build a stock. Eventually you'll reach the point that you have all the resources you need pre-stocked in the chests.
• The blueprints might include things you should not be building yet. Focus on building only parts of blueprints that you need at the moment, to conserve materials, power and minimizes pollution. Don't worry, you will build the rest later.
• Consider using chunk alignment as you lay out your base, you won't regret it. Press F4, Show Tile Grid, F4 again to see the chunks as you build.
• At some point, combat will be necessary. Do Military Science research, Turrets, AP ammo, Tank and Explosive shells when appropriate for your map settings.
• Since the Freedom Mall is just 3x3 chunks and probably very close to your initial ore deposits you will not walk far for anything, even before trains.