Factorio on FreeBSD

Thanks, sidetone.

I've played mindustry. It's no factorio clone at all. I know, it's named so on several sites, but it's not.
Calling mindustry a clone of factorio is like you call baseball a clone of icehockey... ?
It's a complete other game of it's own. (yeah, I know ... they're both games containing two teams hitting a small ball with a stick... ?)
Mindustry is very promising - when it will be finished, some day.
I checked it out several times:
- under ubuntu it's free
- under Windows you need Steam, which charges you 6,- for it, and it didn't run (another brownie point for steam)
- no ports/sources seen for FreeBSD, yet so far

A peek at Jactorio's site brings up the question:
Why even try some "attempt at recreating", if I have the original already running on my machine?
 
I found this thread when I was looking for information on how to install Factorio on FreeBSD, very helpful!
In my case, I'm using FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE.

All I had to do was:
  • download the Windows demo zip package from factorio.com and unpack it
  • install wine and winetricks, and set the WINEPREFIX:
Code: 
pkg install wine winetricks
WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/.wine winetricks d3dcompiler_47
 
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