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It's not city building but Factorio (factory building). Be VERY careful as it's an extremely addicting game. It pushes ALL the right buttons for me and I highly recommend it. The mod community really takes a great game and makes it amazing (but play at least some Vanilla before you go modding like I did).

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After a couple hours, factorio starts to feel a lot like programming, as you get to progressively higher abstractions.

Factorio is Programmer Crack. I love it!

I've played a lot of Factorio, but I haven't played with any mods. Any you would recommend?

I am eagerly anticipating Satisfactory, which looks like a first person Factorio.

I play with a good number of QoL mods (I’m on mobile but reply back if you want that list) and then I normally play with Bob’s mods. Never got into Angel’s or Py’s but I like Bobs. I also play with LTN to help automate trains. I’m happy to give you a full mod list of the last 3-4 play throughs (each ranging from 50-150+ hours). I’m excited for 0.17 to come out (it’s in experimental, beta, right now) as I’m growing bored with my current megabase.

I’ll have to look into Satisfactory!

Bob's mods and Angel's mods, of course !

That's your google keywords, there are modpacks but I don't remember the names. They are useful because the configuration is important though.

I don't recommend going the Seablock way right away.

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