Top 1% Factory Building in Shapez.io

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Shapez.io Part 2 - we construct more complicated factories and begin on a SUPER HIGHWAY! Fun game, definitely check it out.
Edited by: Tyler and BenBenRanger ( / benbenranger )
Shapez.io is a minimalist factory building automation game inspired by Factorio! Optimization in its purest form, we must extract shapes from the source, cut them up in different ways, color them, and combine them with other shapes. Starts simple, gets increasingly complex due to the extreme shapes you must create and the infinitely expanding map.
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[@Aliensrock]

For those who missed the first episode, be sure to check out Shapez.io here: bit.ly/shapez-ar It's getting some large content updates in the near future, so I don't know how long it'll be $4 for.

[@weegeeismad9298]

me when shapes idk never played the game

[@concentratedrefrigerator2791]

Ok

[@businessrat6741]

You might be one smartest people I’ve ever know

[@digiotale6908]

shapes is gonna go to iirc $7 when the wires update comes out

[@justsomeoneelse5942]

K

[@Adam-pv4qn]

I love when you play this game, please make it a regular.

[@2bad2bemad20]

he wont because he only plays cuz its sponsored

[@weegeeismad9298]

2bad2bemad Aww man

[@adilmzese5346]

@@2bad2bemad20 even tho its a sponsor doesn't mean he won't continue if he likes it enough. But I doubt he will continue because the game isn't the most fun once u reach late game

[@cooperdunn3808]

This is not a play forever game there isn’t really infinite content like polybride and other games

[@bobasaursquared1633]

Cooper Dunn I too love my infinite poly bride

[@aregulargamer4144]

Game: * has a problem in it * Tyler: *TUNNELS IT IS THEN*

[@jameskivenko]

undergrounds are your friends... we may make a factorio player out of him yet!

[@johnnyw4607]

he is going to LOVE the tier 2 tunnels

[@orinbecker9937]

I just unlocked tier 2 tunnels and holy crap yes

[@certifiedpossum8655]

Tunnels are the flex tape of Shapes.io

[@apoklinon]

When in doubt, use tunnels

[@Aerotactics]

"This is a good white dye factory!" *coughs* /r/shapezio *coughs*

[@papskormsepic7670]

yea, the efficient designs seem so simple but like almost noone discovers it on their own

[@nanatsuki8722]

I got a white dye design that works pretty good

[@tonik2558]

*coughs* discord server *coughs*

[@ryst8226]

Yeah, it's faster to ask someone for a bit of help in Discord than search on reddit.

[@davidmorley7495]

Thanks for the sub reddit!

[@andrewdeleon7150]

You know you've been playing this game correctly when you have 5 million blueprint pieces

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

may you post your modules sir?

[@orinbecker9937]

I only have like 30k bruh

[@felixroux]

But... he didn't.

[@andrewdeleon7150]

@@felixroux That's how much I have in my playthrough

[@gabrielbreeding6073]

Whenever I first built my blueprint factory I was still a noob and didn't know about the wonders of optimization, now that I do i dont want to redo the blueprint factory cause its good enough and I have like 1M worth of them

[@yosh5161]

“I need something that just gets the job done, it doesn’t need to be perfect” literally the opposite mentality you should have when playing Factorio

[@teslapenguin1]

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

[@z1re784]

THE URBAN SPRAWL CANNOT COMPETE, FOR WE NEED TO MAKE THOSE GAHD DAYHM ADVANCED CIRCUITRY

[@arandominternetperson437]

I'm convinced the factorio community is one big hivemind focused solely on maximizing efficiency while brainwashing people to join the factory and these two comments confirm it

[@z1re784]

@@arandominternetperson437 nah i dont rlly recommend playing it, its rlly complicated, heck i did not reach science pack threes in it, so yea play a more simpler game like shapez.io its kinda like factorio but without overcomplicated researching, those GAYHD DAMN ADVANCED CIRCUITRY, and the enemy bases

[@z1re784]

Also what dawn said

[@frogja]

“All i need is tunnels, i think the beatles made a song abt that” If they did i cant find it

[@rafaelb2934]

All you need is love

[@optmus3]

I as a mediocre factorio was rather disappointed when he made his “main highway” thinking to my self just make a main bus man

[@venticuiliar9136]

A main bus isn't really that useful in shapez.io. For the most part, you'll be wanting to make the shapes and color them with local resources, since the production ratios for the machines, extractors, and belts just make it more efficient to do multiple parallel modular factory chunks rather than chaining production lines together for more output, so that you can get full single belts of output from each of them if that makes sense. So instead of having a main bus that has all of your colors and shapes that you draw from whenever you need to make a new kind of shape, you just make a chain of modular factory chunks so that you get a full single belt of your desired shape output directly from the source. Then you just expand that production to produce multiple more single-belt-fulls of final product.

[@ayporos]

@@venticuiliar9136 Sure whatever.. but can you explain to me why he merged 2 lanes into 1 and then in the very next block he split them again into 2 lanes?... That doesn't seem like a very effective thing to do, or are lanes not speed/throughput limited in this game?

[@venticuiliar9136]

@@ayporos What part of the video specifically are you referencing?

[@Drache832]

@@ayporos He does that to balance the belts, so that there are an equal amount of resources on both belts

[@cliffthecrafter]

@@Drache832 he could have just used a regular balancer for that

[@divinenightmare3029]

"I've been Attempting to create this for the last five minutes" *At least he's being honest*

[@weegeeismad9298]

*_*laughs in 1h 15min train*_*

[@teathesilkwing7616]

I’ve been trying to do what he’s done for weeks and I still can’t It might be due to the fact that I don’t have the game and have never played it but idk

[@bagua465]

I literally playing shapez.io as this video comes out. I just want to say I am so glad you got sponsored by the developer. This game is so fun and relaxing. (I’m building a peppermint-colored circle right now)

[@NStripleseven]

Bagua oooooooo, that one...

[@bagua465]

I heard shit gets real crazy later on

[@NStripleseven]

Oh, it does, it does...

[@raputha1148]

i bought the game because of his last video too. its so much fun

[@user-iz2rc7rr3v]

I spent hours on that peppermint one and then he just bam done in like 3 minutes with a sleek design :/

[@ciancaldera6542]

aliensrock, a.k.a. “The Mole” It’s cuz he tunnels...

[@xems8910]

Turmoil flashbacks

[@thadiamond1667]

This game, when you get down to it, can get really fun. Factories you make can look like circuit boards.

[@Mikemk_]

I wish it had a conditional component so you could make actual computers in game

[@purpenigma]

@@Mikemk_ that's coming soon

[@Mikemk_]

@Matthew Trevino Did who pay who

[@shypeOW]

@@Mikemk_ Play factorio. It's like this game, but much more complete, and it does have logic

[@Mikemk_]

@@shypeOW And $30. I downloaded the demo though

[@menizdakul7311]

Just a tip, you can look at the number of items each building processes per second, and can use those ratios to your advantage and make full belts and modular designs that produce those full belts

[@OhGoodGreef55]

I started when I saw the first video and I am on level 19 with almost all tier 7 upgrades. :P

[@henrihell]

I also started after the first video and am now out of stuff to do. So I created a massive make everything machine. But now that I have that I never have to make anything ever again. I just change input belts every time a new level shows up.

[@itsdemiblue6017]

Same here, not 19 yet but close. It's cute coming back and watching this

[@mrmandem2327]

It’s so addictive I spend hours trying to make the largest possible production lines and I’m level 20 everything maxed

[@kylesantell4603]

i just downloaded it today and am at level 15

[@timezoneiiichickenisaveget9745]

“Shapez.io, factorio without steroids”

[@TonyRoni]

It’s the factory that allows tours

[@godlyvex5543]

I'd compare it more to mindustry

[@matascekas7663]

@@godlyvex5543 this feels more sandbox-y you need shapes to level up but dont need any for machines

[@NStripleseven]

Exactly

[@gengarisnotinsmash...]

5:38 Is... Is this actual editing in my aliensrock video!?!?

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

You're gonna love this next update Tyler. In the alpha, Tier 2 Tunnels...are now 1 longer

[@Fogolol]

since tier 2 tunnnels are a thing, then tier 1 tunnels are like completely obsolete aren't they?

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

@@Fogolol no, because you can put tier 1 tunnels in between tier 2 tunnels. You can have multiple intersecting pairs of the same tier of tunnel

[@TlalocTemporal]

Can you weave them like in Factorio?

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

@@TlalocTemporal no. They can only go straight. That is a suggestion I can put in the discord though.

[@Anson_AKB]

@@KazLordOfLightWarriors without mods, tunnels (underground belts, underneathies :-) in factorio are straight only. and what someone calls weaving, the other calls braiding. but factorio has three types of belts to do it and this game only has two.

[@weegeeismad9298]

“You thought tunnels were insane? Wait ‘till you see tier 2.” “This isn’t even my final form.”

[@lukethomson4355]

When you are so early that no one has disliked yet: Everyone Liked That

[@theguythatasked6400]

Yep that is a correct statement

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

@@theguythatasked6400 and I am so mad about it.

[@godlyvex5543]

reddit moment

[@Fogolol]

@@godlyvex5543 r/technicallythetruth i guess

[@divinenightmare3029]

Tyler: *uploads * My sleep: *Bing Bong I'm already gone*

[@lenguyenthi8848]

Good if this is top 1% because i've passed this part since i've spent 5 hours playing

[@simonepez9879]

I've actually finished the game, sometimes your layouts make my eyes bleed 🙃 but the game itself is so relaxing anyways

[@1996Pinocchio]

"I regret this design" he said, without even having a design haha

[@weegeeismad9298]

Can’t wait for the _semi-demi-hemi-half red circle with 8 shuriken rainbow layers,_ real excited.

[@flameri]

This game is great. Thanks for playing it so I could discover the literal perfect game for me.

[@zaccheus5270]

Shape bridge game time

[@juliusminklei7846]

I literally posted “you should make more of these videos” on the first episode 30 minutes ago, therefor this video being uploaded is attributed to me. I get all the credit. All my doing

[@catburger2850]

Thank you, i also wanted him to play more but you single-handedly persuaded him to do so

[@MrNexis3]

You, sir, are our saviour.

[@MrNexis3]

You playing Factorio would be an absolute treat now.

[@weegeeismad9298]

Bridge game? Portals. Train game? Wormholes. Shape game? Tunnels. Hotel? Trivago.

[@tjorvenblader]

my guy stuck in 2016 with that joke

[@dubplater]

*dumbkidsayswhat?* “FIRST!!!”

[@AidenWarrior]

it’s so painful to watch him build the factories with all of those tunnels. still so much fun to watch tho please make this a regular.

[@topnott_4767]

The most frustrating thing is the fact he only ever uses ONE extractor

[@gabrielbreeding6073]

@@topnott_4767 yeah heres no excuse for only using a few stacking extractors and not getting a full line of extraction when you unlock them

[@AethernaLuxen]

2:39 W-what's e point of merging them when you're going to separate them

[@tonyaldrich8131]

Be Aliensrock -Go to Madison University the gem of Wisconsin -Make a video on the Top 1% factory buildings -Make an extremely inefficient build -Make it multiple times -Be Proud.

[@weegeeismad9298]

3:00 “Where we distribute the shurikens” The shurikens : *Ding dong you’re so very wrong*

[@weegeeismad9298]

jalapenohead If that was my motto, Tyler would have 3k+ comments lol. I keep it to the few that I know will get likes, or else it gets annoying.

[@AJMansfield1]

Interesting to see your chaotic approach to factory building, compared to the tileable/expandable units approach that a lot of other people seem to take.

[@npswm1314]

God you would be AMAZING at road management in Cities Skylines. Please play that btw.

[@weegeeismad9298]

_When you have 14 Poly Bridge jokes ready but he decides to play __Shapez.io_

[@NStripleseven]

Weegee Is Mad it is a good game, though.

[@weegeeismad9298]

NS777 Yeah I know, it was for the sake of the joke.

[@kingdavid2207]

Aliensrock, you can turn the game into dark mode in the settings, so your eyes dont hurt, love the content

[@divinenightmare3029]

Have any of you listened to Hadestown? If you havent, I seriously recommend it.

[@huhnocorn7397]

me who is a pretty good oxygen not included (especially with automation) player (and generally good at factory like games including this one) watching tyler make conveyer spaghetti creations that arnt how i’d do it O-O >:O >:( me after i remembering it’s not about being compact or 100%space efficient because he’s having fun and not everyone thinks how i do or has thé same knowledge i do :D OvO 👍 :> (also that i’m not the best either (like i’m not a pro but i’m pretty decent and have ...nothing else to do so ive absorbed a lot of knowledge from youtube)and there’s someone who’s way way better than me looking at what i think is super good but really isn’t amazing)

[@collinb0454]

I absolutely love this game, I bought it myself as well and played the f*ck out of it. In 1 week I already got 11 hours in, such an awsome game!

[@willnelson5289]

Neato. We are no more than shapes floating woards a shape, floating around shapes, floating through more shapes, floating around a shape, floating around through more shapes. Actually true.

[@benjaminsweet8911]

Ive played over 12 hours on the browser version alone at this point, and I must say... I feel very big brain while playing. Also some of the stuff you've done makes me cringe Edit: try using the balancers/splitters/whatever only at the spot you need another line to keep organized. Ex: One line of conveyors with multiple extractors leading into a splitter that connects to a painter and another line of conveyors that, once again, connects to a painter and another line of conveyors. Repeat up to 6 times for best results

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

and make shit thight-modular, when wanting to reach heavens, is important to have all the shit shapes lines backed up

[@jadesanford2857]

if ypu play it that much you should really buy the game soon! the browser version is going to stop being updated and the price is going to go up, so its a goood time to get it

[@soupermond1229]

If you like this game (and it isn't all just a thing for the sponsorship) you should check out mindustry, it's another factory type game mixed with tower defense. If you want to try it it's free on mobile for some reason

[@PokeheroDelta]

If I had a computer I would buy this game SO quickly. Too bad there's no mobile port.

[@jocabulous]

Согласно всем известным авиационным законам, пчела не может летать. Никогда не откажусь от тебя, никогда не подведу, никогда не собираюсь бегать и бросать тебя. получить палочного жука лол

[@lollystep3007]

Dang, bee movie and rick roll smh

[@chandinhenry3835]

I LOVE PAKISTAN I WOULD SACRIFICE MY LIFE FOR PAKISTANNN 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@itsTbomber]

If Tyler enjoys this game then he should play Factorio I think he would like it.

[@armedmonkey5846]

if that's the background music of the game i must say that's a really good soundtrack and i respect it.

[@aregulargamer4144]

Ah yeah big brain times with shapes and colors (dang shapes and colors sounds like shapes and beats)

[@nopefish7788]

20th Sorry for the late comment i had to delete it. Because I was being criticized

[@Midnighttigger]

Play factorio, the best factory game, its also not in early access and extreamly hard to crash.

[@Bargermaintenance]

Nice editing job 👍

[@flameri]

I hate how he found that B shape in the wild. I spent an hour and a half making a farm for that shape.

[@donovanmahan2901]

i see, it's not an io game in the sense that it's mmo, it's an io game in that it's all about inputs and outputs

[@jarodfindley9456]

Loved this first ep went out and bought

[@aurachanneler8396]

Hahah I remember when I thought 3 lanes was big. Over 2000 minutes and 1 million blueprint shapes in, and I’ve been using 8 lanes quite often now. I also made an 8-input/8 output multifunctional balancer.

[@aVoidPiOver2Rad]

Eight is a power of two so stop bragging about a simple balancer

[@flowerperson581]

As someone who's been getting good at this game this is painful to watch lol

[@flowerperson581]

And yet I still watch anyway lol

[@tjorvenblader]

idem

[@AquazFlow]

My brain hurts from this vid

[@Drakonus_]

Wait, isn't this just Factorio?

[@unworthy.potato]

Last time a I was this early he was playing bridge game 1

[@dubplater]

Unworthy Potato *riddle me this* nobody asked

[@unworthy.potato]

what... how... that’s... that’s impossible... why... who... WWHHHHYYYYYYYYY

[@NotSmartAmber]

Dude you should give Factorio a second chance

[@cakehunt3r442]

Youngster Joe: "My factory is a top 1% factory."

[@Rbum4]

For that last shape: if you painted whole circles before cutting them up, that would save you half of your white dye going in there.

[@aVoidPiOver2Rad]

That's just the top of the iceberg.

[@Evanheinkel]

This mans conveyers hurt my head

[@gamingcatago3269]

Is it weird that some of his best videos are adds

[@TruPhantomKnight]

I’m not sure how far you got in your stream but as I couldn’t watch it That checkered circle you made with the green shrunken it’s has another layer to it and making that was so much a headache maybe for the fact of all the things were not near each other and I had to find a way to make it all work PRAIS THE TUNNEL GODS

[@aidanwarren4980]

Concept for this game: pipelines. They move items 4x faster than conveyers, but require a 2x1 Pipeline Pump at both ends to connect to conveyers. This would be great for moving items at higher capacity more compactly, but because of the space constraints it wouldn’t replace conveyers within factories.

[@haxalicious]

I'd love to see you play modded Minecraft. Something like SkyFactory. It is even more complex, with energy generation, and eventually EMC. Because why harvest resources when you can just generate them from thin air.

[@madlogger25]

I bought this game beacuse of you anda I have already finished 😀

[@madlogger25]

Forgot to say THIS GAME IS HELL

[@weegeeismad9298]

“Unless we do more tunnels” “Everything needs tunnels” “I love tunnels” *Tunnels are slowly becoming the springs of **shapez.io*

[@beljihnwahfl9903]

Tunnels are much less laggy than belts, he's just ahead of his time bro

[@xylorage6463]

Mindustry

[@andycage1657]

Can anyone else not hear anything?

[@FuriousMaximum]

This game is very similar to Mindustry, just without the surviving the waves of enemies thing. Mindustry is free and it has puzzling mechanics. Who else wants to see Aliensrock play mindustry?

[@SoftxSniper]

You should try out Mindustry, It's a tower defense game kinda like this, a couple of dollars on steam, free on itch.io. (steam version only helps with automatic port forwarding for multiplayer.)

[@Z3R0F1V3]

you should try mindustry, which is very similar game to this. tho it has more complicated graphics and enemy units that try to kill you but i havent got bored to it in over 1 year of playing it (it is avaible for free on itch.io)

[@MrNexis3]

I think he should go into Factorio more than Mindustry. I'm playing both right now and I can say that Factorio is more engaging and has more content. Mindustry saves my day when I don't have anything to do and there's a phone in my pocket though.

[@Z3R0F1V3]

@@MrNexis3 Yeah factorio is pretty good and i personally like it too, just that i like to play on servers in mindustry and i just love the community. afterall both games are good

[@yotamshitrit6820]

KZbin: this includes a paid promotion Me: Hell yeah Tyler good for you go get that dough

[@godlyvex5543]

why are you roleplaying

[@penguinflames707]

This is only like 25 % of the game. Do preparation for your mine to melt quicker than 5D chess BTW: when is next 5D chess video

[@Thetorturedpoetsdepartment22]

when are you going to do polybridge next

[@NStripleseven]

deanominecraft He still does poly bridge, not sure what you mean.

[@Aliensrock]

I don't want to roast my own viewers, but wow this level of impatience is sad.

[@Lylcaruis]

You don’t know the fastest way to do say, Color or something else. It’s everywhere. Look at speed runs. It’s way better to do.

[@icegod4849]

You like BTD? You like factorio? Mix them together! Play Mindustry Tyler for the love of God.

[@greentornadofx]

I like how I started playing this after the first episode and I already have an overly advanced factory at level 15 and have played for over 750 minutes.

[@xanderblade8093]

I went from lvl 1 to 14 in just a few hours. I find that overflow type factories are prettier and more compact and just as efficient.

[@pixelator5312]

this is the most satisfying game i have ever laid eyes upon

[@technicolortyrant476]

I was wondering when we'd see this again.

[@taskforcetorture3824]

play factorio

[@thohagYT]

Do you even factorio bro? Factorio is a game... This is a simple remake.....

[@youraveragechroma2139]

This is like 2-D terratech without the combat. I absolutely love it.

[@HoppingSkipper]

More like factorio or Mindustry. It's not similar at all to TerraTech

[@luckylmj]

@@HoppingSkipper yes it's more like those although of the two I'd say it's more similar to factorio

[@tyrohellion]

These videos are amazing. Really glad they sponsored you because it’s a really cool game!

[@RewindMods]

This is a paid promotion, right? I don't see why people would play this over factorio lol.

[@Gooslie1]

yo i got the game and its generally really good ive already played 11 hours of it WHILE BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF EXAM WEEK, but its fine im just being in denial

[@nate9137]

Finally I was waiting for this I love this series

[@UselessMiwaaaa]

More

[@UselessMiwaaaa]

More

[@ryuu_raijin3694]

Just as a heads up, once you get to Tier 6 on upgrades, you can purge everything

[@luckylmj]

If you enjoy this game, I'd recommend Factorio and Mindustry. Factorio is basically just this but better, and Mindustry is basically this except tower defence. Also factorio got it's 1.0 release recently so that too

[@xaytana]

This playthrough is super relaxed compared to what I thought it would be. Where's the optimization for efficiency, both in design and footprint, and constant evolution of those designs? Maybe we'll see it soon, as the game gets fairly demanding once you start nearing level 20; which also comes with a lot of reworking your old designs, don't be surprised if the map needs wiped for better efficiency.

[@weegeeismad9298]

“We can can now copy and paste.” _This is where the fun begins._

[@Lord-of-Lactose]

Oh no... OH NO.

[@cst1229]

This video seems more edited than most others... Probably another sponsor requirement?

[@lemonlemonlemonlemon7494]

POG new shape game video i immediately do not give a fuck about space game