That’s true. But it’s a trade off, specifically early one with a limited supply of u235. Also with so many tiles the difference is negligible.

Thank you! I appreciate it. Do you have any tutorial requests?

​@@Maxiume yes. smelting assembly how to sort things by things and trains

Awesome! Yeah ratios are a bit annoying at first, but help a lot if you get them right and turn them into blueprints.

You shouldn’t be concerned about efficiency in fuel cell consumption. Uranium is plentiful even on default settings. I have been able to run 20 reactors with no fancy circuit conditions and still have a huge stack of uranium. But.. if you want to. You can connect a wire to an array of storage tanks (for steam) and then connect that wire to an inserter that will only insert a fuel cell if there is less than 3-5K steam inside the storage tank. That way it does save you fuel cell consumption because even if the reactors are down.. steam will still be used for fuel to the turbines. And once it is below that 3-5K threshold, it will insert another fuel cell and get the reactors back up again.

@-12Sided thanks for the tip. I know that fuel cells are not a rare commodity but I just love the (completely unnecessary) efficiency

Haha... I get it. Have you watched my nuclear power tutorial? In the middle of the video i am showing exactly how to do that with circuit network conditions. Go have a look. See if it helps. 😊

That is true. Uranium is super abundant.

Interesting idea. I guess Im never too worried about spacing in Factorio.

Cheers! Glad you find it helpful. Any tutorial requests?

@@Maxiume I have been playing the game for a while, and am close to leaving the planet. I saw your space platform, so I'm gonna give it a shot. From then and on I am clueless, so anything there would be interresting...

Even though I’ve finished the space age expansion the space platform is the only tutorial i made for it. I think i should do more space age stuff. I can probably start with space science and Vulcanus.

@@Maxiume Sounds great to me :) I will watch. I am following your current playtrough too. I like to se different designs, and I like your take on circuits (? I mean not the cards, but connections with green and red wires stuff). You make it understandable. Keep it up!

Sure thing. I will make a tutorial on circuit networks.

Cheers! Glad you liked it. I will cover the production hub for sure. It's such a time saver. What are your main challenges in Factorio?

@Maxiume I don't really struggle with anything but just love to find nice designs that are visually pleasing and more efficient than what I designed. this is usually just a matter of proper planning and lots of belt manipulation

Well in that case stay around cause there will be many more designs coming 😎

@Maxiume will do! really looking forward to your upcoming content. honestly, I was blown away seeing your subscribers because I saw your videos and thought that this must be a well established channel with +100k subscribers because the production value is just that good.

Thank you! Really appreciate that. Btw, what do you think of the lets plays? Is there any other game you would like to see on this channel other than factorio?

No. This is acc fresh from the oven. Why?

Thank you. I really appreciate that.

Hummm… im not understanding your design exactly. Can you pass me the blueprint string please?

@@Maxiume 0eNqdk+FqwyAQgN/lftuSpDGNeZUxStJKERIVPcdCyLtXk9GNxULqL1Huvvs8zwm63nFthERoJhBXJS00HxNYcZdtH85kO3BoAE0rrVYGDx3vEWYCQt74NzT5TCLhVvcCkZs/gcX8SYBLFCj4WmTZjBfphs5HNjl5UYyAVtanKRkqeNThlFVHSmD0SYweqS9yE4Zf15A6GP1jF++w6Wt2XkTgpzTxao94+WQ730ZzN8qve9RXOo465CqH2oVX2/Ap2TxZ1PqHet7jXKX1o97V7PN7wsxDI5Q6bR42imWEzVKuX2RZ3DTP0iZgBT4nQMhlAPwXFMgHf/D78Ql8cWMXCK0KVjJGKc3rsirn+QHVlFZa

Cheers! I will check it out.

​@@Maxiume Thanks! Hope to hear your thoughts

Thanks! I will. 😊 what other topics would you like to see?

Loved the feedback. Cheers! The reason i didn’t do future proof smelting designs is because usually by that point players get bots and the structure of their base shifts dramatically.

They patched the side-feeding splitters technique so it no longer works

Oh did they? Good! It made no sense to me.

Lol

Hummm i don’t get that 🤔

Exactly!

Cheers! Maybe I'll cover foundries in a different video. What other tutorials would you like to see?

​@@MaxiumeYes.

For tut ideas, I'd suggest train design. Spacing between the lanes, distance of robo ports relative to power tower spacing. Maybe add in a radar so you can still what's going on out there.

That’s acc a very good idea. Ill cover it soon.

You're welcome:) Yeah beacons and modules are a game changer!

Lol

Cheers! What do you mean for space age? Are you talking about Foundry?

Adding foundry was gonna be my comment. While you're at it, talk about making green, red and blue chips. Two foundries and an electromagnetic thing.

Dudes! how about a nice "please"? OP did an extremely well put together, well recorded and well edited video for base Factorio.

Cheers man!

Awesome

Haha... I can literally feel your pain! trust me. When I started playing factorio I was hugging the factorio wiki like there was no tomorrow. Tutorials made absolutely no sense to me, and I would spend hours trying to do some very basic stuff. That said, these tutorials are made for everyone, and everyone has ADHD, and if i talk about small things for too long, most people will be bored to deafff.. anyway, hope you figured out what you did wrong, but here is a suggestion, since i usually provide my blueprints anyway, put mine next to yours and try diagnosing the issue. You will learn 10 times more that way. Hope you stay around for more confusing tutorials :D cheers!

@@Maxiume Well regardless of the pain in trying to mimic your decider things, it was a very helpful vid. I made a setup of my own before I checked this, using steam engines (not turbines) with a bad ratio and overloading the reactor with barrells of juice. You sorted me out well the basic setup, but I'm still overloading the reactor because I couldn't really figure out what to do based on the half second mouseovers you gave of the completed circuit. It is what it is. If you ever make a tutorial, step by step on setting up these circuit things I personally feel the best examples are: 1) nuclear power setup and 2) getting ridda excess space junk while trying to produce space science on a tiny space platform--- these are the two places where I knew I wanted the system as a new player. Just a suggestion! Thank you for your vid and time. Also highly recommend tagging and titling any tutorial of this with Space Age, because the main reason I'm not looking at older vids is because I just assume they're well out of date with the space age patch (I know it changed circuit stuff). All the new circuit tutorials (like this one) here assume so much prior knowledge.

Cheers. I will keep your suggestions in mind. Btw i have another tutorial that shows how to get rid of excess material on a spaceship > nuclear lasership tutorial. But im not sure if it is as step by step as you want. Regardless the blueprint for that is also available. If you click on my circuits and inserters you can see their settings. I will do a tutorial on circuit and will make it step by step. Only if i ever finish this tutorial im currently doing. Lol

@ yeah I gotta try out some of the blueprints I guess, it's probably easy to figure out how to import em.... but the decider thing looked easy at first too lol. Well anyway I wanted to make everything without any blueprints, but it may just help to set it up and then delete it. Thanks again!

the emotional roller coaster is real! 😄

Awesome! What makes you say that? Which aspect of the videos are more enjoyable to you?

@@Maxiume My son and I have recently started playing the game, and there have been a few questions along the way. I’d love to see more beginner-friendly guides like the ones you’ve made, because I’ve found it difficult to find such guides. It’s hard to know if the ones available are still up to date, and I don’t like that many show their massive builds (you end up asking yourself: is this how it’s supposed to look?). I also think your Let's Play is enjoyable to watch. It doesn't hurt that you have a pleasant voice as well :)

Glad to hear this. :) There are going to be many more tutorials and let's plays.

Thank you! Is it easy to watch a 10 minute tutorial or should they be shorter?

@@Maxiume it's fine I think. I understood every bit that led up to the design, and folks can just skip if they don't want to hear it, doesn't know how to troubleshoot and go back here lol

although I ran into a problem where the first one just stops working while the rest does for some reason and have to put excess u-235 to have it work again, not sure if it does that when it consumes exactly the amount inside but sometimes it just goes on standby with 38 u-235

Lol

That’s strange. Cause i tested it in so many ways and for a long time. Could it be something you did differently?

In an upcoming tutorial I'm going to make on how to build an early game belt-based production hub.

Lol. That one leviathan had it coming. It was personal! :D

Would you say that is better than this method? (for beginners learning the process)

@@Maxiume Both circuits and input/output priorities are useful skills to learn for beginners.

@@schwarzerritter5724 I agree. I included both of these in this video. But i will also do a separate video just on circuits. I think there is a lot to unpack there. Specially for beginners who run away from the complexity.

Awesome… LFG! 😎

That’s actually a valid point. But it is all about diminishing returns. My tutorials are usually for beginners and intermediates. Of course the designs can become more efficient if i spend more time but id rather have a simple to understand design that works and get on with video that has clear instructions.

Mine is similar. Except for the dragon teeth and train integration. The automated wall builder is a few more episodes down the line after i explain my own robot block design.

Cheers!

You’re most certainly welcome!

Yep

Welcome aboard! I will do a tutorial on that and will also share my blueprint.

Glad it helped!

Now that I'm thinking about it more I actually like this idea. Especially for the very early game. Cause making the hub itself is a huge investment then. Let's have a look at your setup.

I usually only get iron when i rescan them again. Which objects give you nickel?

This means a lot to me. Thanks! I was actually wondering if the lets play is any good and if i should continue that…

Welcome 🤠 btw this is a let’s play. The guides and tutorials are different

Lol. Share a photo perhaps?

@@Maxiume I can't seem to :( , maybe youtube doesn't allow it or something. On another note have you considered making a discord server? It may be a bit of task to set it up, It'd be easier to chat with your community though

I will create one when the channel grows a bit more. Rn I’m more focused on creating some useful content for you guys.

@@Maxiume do it. it will help you create a comunity. i am a part of one when the server was created when the chanel had sub 200. JUST DO IT (insert labuff meme)

Hummm… now I’m tempted… like srsly. What are the main benefits of it? For me/channel and the community?

That's true. Storage tanks full of steam can be used as energy storage units. The problem was (not anymore) with Factorio 1.0 the fluid dynamics were not very optimized so your UPS would drop.

Cheers! I myself went for level 10 so it is safe even at 230km/s which happens when the ship stops for unloading/loading for a while and then goes fast into super dense astroid patches.

Humm… you seem to be doing it right. Get a copy of my blueprint in the description, put it next to your design and compare them. See what you have done differently. Cause it works on my design.

@Maxiume I figured it out but again it.. feels like a bug? I completely removed all filters from the inserter and only used the "enable/disable" option, and set it to fuel cell greater than zero.. and now it works. Lol I dunno. I suppose it makes sense, it only enables if it "sees" <fuel cell larger than nothing>, which is technically what my d.combinator is outputting.

Glad it helped! ☺️

You can find my blueprint in the description, get a copy of that, place it next to your version, and see what you have done differently.

@Maxiume interestingly, I found a glitch. I put a less than 40 light green check on the logistic network for that inserter, clicked enable, then disable... and then the circuit network condition started to work. Very strange.

Hummm... Interesting 🤔

You are right. But i wanted a run without mods to demonstrate the true original experience from Factorio devs.

😆 have you red the book superintelligence (one word) by Nick Bostrom? After reading that you'll kinda relax and enjoy the inevitable lol. Cause what else can we do in the face of a superior intelligence. Look at what we did to less intelligent animals.......

@@Maxiume You forget that the only drivers of AI are our Oligarchs who want us all "Malthus'd." We are just useless eaters after all. The oligarchs that run our gov'ts thru direct payments to our actors playing our politicos (AOC went from wet T-Shirt barmaid and unemployed actress to congresswoman, ffs. She literally answered a casting call, no /jk) used our own tax dollars to create the AI to end us all. Musk in 2017, "I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react, because it seems so ethereal.” It was _not_ inevitable, it is only a global oligarch "Manhattan Project" to protect themselves from another culling of themselves like what happened in the French Revolution. They started this quest when the group of oligarch survivors met and figured out how to never let that happen again: unlive us all. Malthus would be proud. Us plebs in the vast majority are not worth the food we consume, that, Malthus was right, but after millennia of Kings and Nobles culling all the ppl that dared to ask questions, or had an independent thought, what do you think our population of humans at least in the West would be after that? How I got thru 'till today, I have no clue... You stay safe. OpenAI will deploy "AI Agents" which is a euphemism for employee replacements for all businesses. That's _this_ year!

That's actually a very interesting perspective. I was always wondering to myself, from years ago, when AI was still not cool and no one cared, what happens when we liberate labor? Imagine, so rn rich need poor so they can work for them right? And GDP is distilled labor. Bit what if robots do the labor and intelligence is now only a commodity available for a few cents per Einstein level IQ or even way higher with ASI. Then what? What makes those in charge n in power to still wanna protect and feed the rest of us? Middle and poor class i mean. Either there has to be a very good reason or it won't happen. 🤔

​@@Maxiume Think of how the US gov't didn't help the ppl flooded on the East Coast, (and actively stopped help to the area to maximize death, they happened to live on a lithium deposit... sucks for them) or the area that experienced one of the worst chemical disasters (with an extremely potent poison) that will end their ability to reproduce and possibly live from that train crash on rails so much in disrepair it just was a matter of time... no money for them. Now, the lying weapons of the oligarchs, holly wood starts to burn. Lots of money going their way from the gov't. Which is weird to me in many ways, one being given holly wood hasn't made money for many years now, I thought it was more cashing out their fire insurance than an act of god while funding their overseas relocation from prosecution by a possible (but very unlikely) incoming administration that would actually enforce the law... You don't ensure no fire fighting equipment, (shipped to Ukraine), the hydrants don't work, ESG/DIE LGBBQs manning the fire departments, and then wonder how a tinderbox went up in flames... The "mayor" of LA the day before the fire started removed 10s of millions of more dollars from the LA fire department... must have been a happy coincidence, while she just happened to be on a vacation in Africa, thinking she's more African than white slave owner. There's a show that traces ppl's DNA back thru history, and many times the famous "black" ppl on the show are shocked they're more white than black... spoilers. Btw, why can't we call ourselves Austrian Americans, or French Americans? Oh, right, we are only here to pay taxes to fund everyone and everything else... But to the issue at hand: will the oligarchs that run this rigged game of our lives suffer us any longer? Remember the Georgia Guidestones that got destroyed a year or so ago? That was a signal the play became operational. 500 million ppl globally. That's a pretty big reduction in population if you ask me. How to get that to happen? Idk, there are multiple avenues concurrently at play. The poisoning of our air, water, food and meds. The miseducation of a population to ensure choices that will have them off themselves sooner, the destruction of male/female relationships and a fecundity rate virtually ZERO for productive citizens in the US, or across the Western world... biological weapons (euphemistically called gain of function, which is Newspeak from _1984),_ and I'll stop there...* Lastly, as a peer into how our oligarchs think, Brzezinski accurately predicted 21st century events in this book published in 1970. Put another way, the had a plan and got it perfected. A famous quote of his was it has become cheaper to unlive (ytube word) a million ppl, than to fool them. So, our shelf lives are sufficiently short, I've been doing my best to enjoy myself because who knows what tomorrow brings. Factorio gives me pleasure but also sufficiently complex to lose myself in it such that I forget the pickle we're in... so small pleasures... _________________________ * "By reducing vocabulary, the Party aims to control the populace's thoughts and perceptions, effectively rendering dissent impossible." Think allowing us plebs to only communicate via text, which without inflections, tone of voice and body language is so easily misconstrued... And emojis! 😇😛😏😎 Stay safe and enjoy the time we have left. Some sources (immediate deletion if I include a name) say 2025 the US will lose over 200 million ppl. Hmmm. This prediction from a publication used by global militaries to plan future force structures and spending is over 7 years old, and nothing I've seen has changed the falsification of that prediction over the years. So, never miss a chance to enjoy yourself, bud.

@@Maxiume Speaking to the tyrannical censorship most ppl experience here on ytube, there's a relevant quote from long ago and far away: "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent ppl will be banned from thinking, so as not to offend the imbeciles." - Dostoievski What is an easier foe to cull than imbeciles?