The team developed procedural factory-generation techniques that derive the actions needed to build a factory from a declarative Factorio blueprint.

“but it didn't provide the imperative steps necessary to get there so on one hand you know we have our python code that the agent writes which are the steps one after the other to get to the factory and on the other hand we have blueprints to just say the final state um so we we spent a fair amount of time trying to try to bridge this gap and we came up with some i guess procedural factory generation techniques which could take a declarative blueprint about what this factory needs to look like and then”

“deduce the steps necessary to get there the downside of this is that it's very low level you know you're not getting the abstractions that you'd like to see but on the plus side we have a lot of that data we have tens of thousands of these factories so I'm thinking that this is the kind of thing that would be really useful just to train the model to do from scratch and just give it you know 10 000 examples of factory units that people have made learn on it”