Goblins

Goblins are the first creatures you meet. They come through the Portal of the Ancient for worked metal, study your products at the research center and, from Epoch 2 on, fly items around your factory like Factorio's logistic robots. Their bigger cousins, the Hob-Goblins, build for you.

Where you need Goblins

A Trapped Goblin is a crafting ingredient. Every building that Goblins work in uses one or more:

Building	Trapped Goblins	Notes
Goblin Research Center	2	Pays Gob points, see Research
SlaughterHouse	1	See Hunting and Farming
Goblin Cart	1	A rail cart pushed by a goblin, see Railways
Goblin Hut	2	Home of carrier Goblins and Hob-Goblins
Hob-Goblin	1	See below

At the Goblin Research Center, two Goblin Scholars stand in front of the building while it works and wander around when it is idle. They laugh when a scroll is done, murmur happily when you deliver something, and sound bored when you bring the same item over and over.

Goblin Hut

The Goblin Hut is the base for flying Goblins, like a roboport in Factorio. What a hut does depends only on what you put into it:

• Trapped Goblins carry items between Logistic Chests.
• Hob-Goblins build ghosts, tear down marked parts and upgrade them.

Both can live in the same hut.

	Goblin Hut	Big Goblin Hut
Epoch	2	3
Unlocked by	Goblin Logistics	Goblin Logistics 2
Size	4 × 4	5 × 5
Range (radius)	32 blocks	64 blocks
Slots	16	32
Goblin speed	5.2 blocks/s	7.8 blocks/s
Goblin load per flight	4 items	8 items
Goblin stamina	200 blocks	400 blocks
Hob-Goblins at work	up to 10	up to 20
Hob-Goblin speed	3.9 blocks/s	3.9 blocks/s
Recipe	2 Trapped Goblin, 20 Wood, 10 Iron Plate, 5 Electronic Circuit	1 Goblin Hut, 20 Steel Plate, 10 Advanced Circuit

A hut with neither Goblins nor Hob-Goblins inside, and none of its own out flying, shows the No Creature status icon.

The hut network

Huts of the same team whose ranges touch form one network, as in Factorio:

• Goblins and Hob-Goblins work anywhere in the range of any hut of the network, not just their own.
• Each job starts at the hut where the creature's trap-stone lies. Afterwards it flies home to the nearest hut of the network.
• The trap-stone flies with it. It leaves the hut on take-off and lies in the new hut after landing, so the next job starts there. If that hut is gone or full, a Goblin flies on to the nearest hut with room (or waits in the air if there is none); a Hob-Goblin lands in the nearest hut of its team with room.
• If you tear down a hut, its creatures out flying keep working and land elsewhere.
• A creature in the air when the world saves is back in its hut after loading.

Seeing the range

• Open the world map and press the hut button in the top right (or use /maplayers). The Goblin Hut range layer paints the range of all huts as a blue haze. It is off by default.
• While you hold the Goblin Planner, a ring of sparkles shows the range of huts near where you look.

Carrying: Goblins and Logistic Chests

Goblins carry between three kinds of Logistic Chest (32 slots each, 1 Steel Chest + 3 Electronic Circuit):

Chest	Role
Logistic Chest (Provider)	Gives everything inside to the network
Logistic Chest (Requester)	Asks for items; Goblins fill each request up to a full stack
Logistic Chest (Storage)	Stores items and gives them out again; Hob-Goblins put torn-down parts here

To set up a Requester, put one of the wanted item in it as a sample, or crouch and use it to open its window. There you search all items, press Request, and press Strike on requests you no longer need.

How Goblins fly:

• A request goes to the free Goblin with the shortest path from where it is, to a chest holding the item, to the Requester. Free means charged and resting in a hut, or out and just done with a delivery. Providers are used before Storage chests.
• Goblins fly about two blocks above the ground, with a propeller on their back.
• Stamina: after a delivery a Goblin flies straight to the next source, as long as its stamina covers the way there and the delivery. When it runs low, it flies home at half speed. With no work left, it flies home at full speed.
• In the hut, an empty Goblin recharges to full in 5 seconds.

Hob-Goblins

Hob-Goblins are the builders. They work from a Goblin Hut like construction robots.

• Recipe: 1 Trapped Goblin + 2 Rune Slate + 1 Processing Unit in a Fabricator (10 s). The item is called Trap-Stone (Hob-Goblin).
• Unlocked by Hob-Goblin Construction (Epoch 4). Hob-Goblin Construction 2 (Epoch 5) makes them 50 % faster.
• They build ghosts, tear down parts marked for deconstruction and upgrade marked parts to a higher tier. You place ghosts and marks with the Goblin Planner.
• Material comes from the network: a Hob-Goblin takes the part from the Provider or Storage chest in the network that gives the shortest path hut → chest → target. Requesters are never used.
• Torn-down parts go to the nearest Storage chest with room in the network, otherwise into the hut.
• A job goes to the free Hob-Goblin with the shortest path, and the shortest job starts first.
• Hob-Goblins fly like Goblins, sink down at the target to work for a second, and fly home to the nearest hut.

If nothing happens after you place ghosts, the chat tells you why: no Goblin Hut in reach, no Hob-Goblins in the hut, or parts missing from the chests.

The Goblin Backpack module of the Modular Armor is a personal builder: a goblin in your backpack builds ghosts within 8 blocks from the parts you carry, without a hut.

See also

• Goblin Planner
• Portal of the Ancient
• Storage
• Railways
• Golems