Can you beat Factorio without wires?

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[@DocJade]

There may be some slight stutter, sorry. I tried cutting around it, but my older GPU has frame syncing issues with OBS. Also this is the first video made with my new editing tools, definitely felt a lot quicker. Remind me to not record voiceover 20 minutes after waking up, i sound dead/depressed :( And one more thing, you should join the discord :)

[@MizunaGames]

Funny, I said exactly the same thing about my video yesterday. I think it's the nature of the beast. 8 AM is when I have the motivation to record, but the vocal cords disagree. You're an inspiration friend, keep doing what you're doing :)

[@skmgeek]

What editing tool do you use? :3

[@tynumo7142]

In the docks tab of the top menu bar, there's a stats page that includes some useful information at a glance, like frames missed due to rendering lagg, free disk space, and estimated time until full. Might be helpful for diagnosing if the issue is still happening and managing pesky drive space. Hope this helps.

[@sveinhongset4725]

do you remember when you crafted an axe to havest faster with?

[@DavidEdwards9801]

OMG 1 Rockstar at a time

[@swattofficer6624]

You're really lucky that the absolutely definitely wire copper wire that gets used for all the sciences is called 'copper cable'- dodged a bullet there.

[@TheGeneReyva]

I never noticed that...

[@elianas1121]

I for one thought this challenge was going to be “can’t use anything that has copper wire as an ingredient” and I was wondering how the heck nothing required to beat the game needed copper wire. This makes much more sense.

[@gazehound]

>buy wireless factory >look inside >wires

[@Kitten-Master]

>buy wireless wires >look inside >w̷͓̤͔̻͕̥̖͚̟̹͈͉̞͔̅̀͆̃̊̔̾̇̌̇͜ḯ̶̡͔̬̈́́͐̓̃̏̾̂̽͌̕͝ṟ̵̛̖̆͛̈̊͗̒̑̍̾̿̀͑͘̚e̸̛̝͂͊̉̆̓͐̚s̸̗͈̠͚̣̯͈͖͕̬͕͎̒̊͂̉̎̀͛̔

[@tomsterbg8130]

*bUt tHOsE arE CablEs!1!!11*

[@maltardraco9555]

"Since I can't move power around, I'll just move steam around instead." Industrial Revolution in a nutshell.

[@ojek3400]

One must imagine Sisyphus as a man stranded on a planet building a factory without using wires.

[@laytherian]

"projectile damage couldn't hurt" i think the biters would very strongly disagree with you on that but okay

[@viniboi_4963]

hahahaahha

[@almachizit3207]

When you think about it though, when there's more damage, there's fewer hurt biters, because there's more dead biters and you can't be hurt if you're already dead

[@Revicarrus]

All of the wires are under your skin, you have to dig them out to play factorio with wires again.

[@thelostcause7983]

Okay jigsaw

[@manboy4720]

mmm, blood wires.

[@Salmacream]

Hot

[@jamessawyer9816]

Factorio shcizoposting is new

[@dadutchboy2]

there are wires under your skin

[@jacksonstarbringer7972]

Can really tell you stepped up your editing with this one. Literally one of the best youtubers, period

[@DocJade]

The new hyperlapses are super easy to make with my new tooling, def a lot of fun

[@tric30]

There are some super cool tricks I noticed that are absolutely unnecessary for your run of the mill game edit, but I think it pays off with how freaking dope they turn out. Great work!

[@Konraden]

I'd love a little more commentary on what you thought of the challenge after you've completed the run. Just a minute or two after rocket launch to talk about the ups and downs would be neat. Love the content. Heart emoji heart emoji.

[@Polygonetwo]

“The biters are really starting to annoy me, so I relocated them six feet under. For my non+American friends, that’s a tad less than two washing machines.” These two lines were absolutely brilliant. Good show, mate. XD

[@sivart0]

Us Americans will literally measure in anything other than metric.

[@justeunfan3364]

@@sivart0 how long is an "anything" ?

[@sivart0]

@@justeunfan3364 About 14 cheeseburgers.

[@justeunfan3364]

@@sivart0 Are your burgers standard banana sized ? bananas are the only real unit.

[@sivart0]

@@justeunfan3364They're about 9/16 of a banana.

[@TheSmacker20]

Alright almost time for bed, let me just refresh KZbin one last time and.......oh no

[@SuperOtter]

Same problem here but then at 4am

[@rinunderscore]

THIS 😂😂 RELATABLE

[@ernestocabana3838]

Same 😔

[@DavidEdwards9801]

I'd hate to be the spoiler here, but this is why the government is trying to regulate Tik-Tok and other programs fr, people aren't getting enough sleep because we're too "wired"

[@Mulakulu]

This kind of belt spaghetti is so disgusting. I love it

[@Gemoron]

For those who attemp this challenge as well. putting powerpoles in the power area of other power poles doesn't transmit electricity, but putting an accumulator in the power field of two power poles allows a transfer of power equal to the charge/discharge rate of low power applications, like reloading turrets or inserters in a coal smelter setup.

[@sillymonkey725]

Yeah, well, the 1st pole has to be near a power source (solar panel, steam engine), then place accumulator(s) (multiple would help with how much power they can provide together) within range of that pole, then a 2nd pole that covers the accumulators. But that's it. You can't repeat that pattern with another to make a 3 pole chain. I mean... you can, but power can't jump from an accumulator to another, so the 3rd pole won't provide any power. So idk, only limited use, and you still need a power source nearby anyway. A steam engine seems better than accumulators in 99% of cases.

[@dungewar]

Don't get me wrong, this is an amazing video with high quality editing, but it kinda talked little about the challenge itself. It feels like I didn't understand much about what makes a wireless run challenging, instead what made this particular run challenging. I mean there were only a few mentions of the run's constrictions and the designs that were forced because of that. Just to clarify: I really liked this video.

[@Dan-gs3kg]

Didn't make much use of fluid mechanics, or steam trains. No nuclear steam either.

[@FNBYNNTND]

It’s these challenge runs that really make you appreciate the little things.

[@Thk10188965]

I really appreciated the "Inserting the inserters on the belt belt" line

[@Gearjerk5]

This was a cool challenge. Was there a reason you didn't make heavier use of burner inserters in the early game, especially for things like the turrets on the wall and the furnace stacks? The output side of the furnaces would have been a little iffy, but the turret's ammo belt could have had coal on the other side, saving you the trouble of finagling the mish-mash of steam pipes, steam engines, and power poles.

[@DocJade]

coal and ammo on the same belt for walls is actually a pretty clever idea, i like how you think honestly i think it just boils down to "old habits die hard"

[@fainyance11]

burner inserters are just simply bad. In vanilla Factorio where you start with the recipe there's no reason to not immediately skip to yellow inserters from the start.

[@he3004]

@@fainyance11 yes, but when you consider every yellow inserter needs to be closely accompanied by an entire steam engine, burner inserters suddenly sound a lot more plausible

[@chainsawplayin]

@@he3004 It's easier to move steam than to move coal, also yellow inserters are a nice bit faster than burners on top of never wasting rotations on refueling.

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

@@chainsawplayinit’s also waaay more iron spent tho between the pipes and engine itself (until substations, that is)

[@ianlehman8342]

Steam pipes running everywhere, powering an individual steam engine for each machine. A true steam factory

[@BinarySecond]

No wires, quick 20 minutes adventure. In and out.

[@Lyakusha1]

After playing 160 hours of Pyanodon's I cannot stop thinking "this playthrough must be an ash hell" even if I understand there's no ash in vanilla

[@isaacshultz8128]

Ash?

[@Lyakusha1]

@@isaacshultz8128 There's an overhaul mod for Factorio, called Pyanodon. One of the feature of this mod is that coal (and a lot of other burnable stuff) has a byproduct of burning - ash. You have to deal with ash somehow, extracting it from burner miners (and other burner buildings) with manipulators and transporting it with belts to storage (recycling in late early-game and nullifying in early midgame). Otherwise your buildings will be clogged with ash and stop working

[@calvindang7291]

@@isaacshultz8128 In Pyanodon's, coal turns into ash after it's burnt and then you need to go dispose of it.

[@isaacshultz8128]

@@calvindang7291 oh thats awful. Is the only way to dispose by boxing it up them shooting it?

[@calvindang7291]

@@isaacshultz8128 No; there's plenty of ways to discard items you don't need, generally involving crafting it into something actually useful. (If you needed to manually shoot a chest every time it got full you'd be doing that way too often for it to get fun.)

[@andrewcurtin7003]

This is actually a super cool idea, sorta like a litteral steam powered factory. Moving steam around to power the different areas. Love this

[@ShadowKestrel]

that washing machine gag had me CACKLING

[@killingtimeitself]

thank god you uploaded just now, i lost like an hour or two of editing and im needing this RN.

[@haeppchen1603]

I've got to say, you're getting better and better with your Video production- and pun-quality. Well done.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

I don't think I've ever seen someone transport a train car full of steam in this game. Something new every day.

[@DoubleQuadDamage]

- How to transfer electricity between cities? - By wire. - Wrong! Through steam pipes!

[@Zorae42]

This was a nice little challenge after watching a ton of insane 100+hour challenge runs.

[@Masterchifwin]

"i relocated them 6ft downwards. for my non american friends, thats a tad smaller than two washing machine" why is that so funny, i love it

[@Thk10188965]

because typically you give the Americans the nonsense measurements, but he turned it around and gave everyone else the nonsense units. It is subversion of expectation.

[@Hawk7886]

​@@Thk10188965why does explaining the joke _always_ ruin it, there must be away around this dilemma

[@Majima_Nowhere]

@@Hawk7886 There are two ways around it. The first is to make jokes that are self-evident (which the washing machine joke already was), the second is to not explain jokes to people who don't get it. Explaining a joke _always_ comes off as patronizing, so just let them figure it out in their own time.

[@nilrem3]

Loving the editing for the construction and deconstruction

[@PhoenixGameMovies]

Factorio looks so much better without all the power pole clutter.

[@MDHilgersom]

This, the challenge is a nightmare I'm sure, but the base looks amazing.

[@EliteTester]

This is how I imagine the idea for the Industrial Revolution mod came to be.

[@alexdavidson7498]

Good lord, I should’ve built my base normally.

[@Olegoo140]

Someone stole your "Inserted inserters on the belt belt" phrase. That someone was me. Nice video, cheers.

[@SaucePear]

love your videos! you should do a bobs and angels run, I'd love to see your take on those mods! ❤

[@Omc1317]

Christmas came early with a new doc video

[@squidddly]

Great video, as always

[@DavidEdwards9801]

9:33 almost snorted out my coffee when adding 7 totaled 5, but when you don't know how to count, less = more lmao =)

[@ianlehman8342]

When you don't want to pay for zoning rights to power, so you run your whole facility on backup generators

[@BouncingElf10]

It’s a good day when doc uploads!

[@Ishsa]

You know it's a good century when there's a docjade upload 🎉

[@brentritchie6199]

Tough challenge seems you found it easy great job

[@realdiamondplays]

"Are you looking for that special connection?" no? "Well too bad!" well ok lol 10/10 intro

[@cosmic5386]

Really cool concept with using steam as a power line for things

[@ARiverSystem]

18:40 "for my non-american friends, that's a tad less than 2 washing machines" got me XD

[@adriangrzys]

Most obscure base i've ever seen

[@redstonewolfx]

And I thought Factorio needed a lot of iron already… now you need about 10 plates per building

[@silksongreactions]

Bro actually launched a rocket with his starter base

[@koogco]

I would have put coal on one side of the ammo belt and used burner inserters for the turrets. Maybe that isn't in the spirit of the challenge 😅

[@badgerisback9762]

Return to the spoon throwing. Contact the fork man. You know who I speak of.

[@korylemon8911]

when mom tells you that you have Industrial Revolution at home.

[@PeterZaitcev]

I appreciate the fact you have Ko-Fi supporter named ""Ko-Fi Supporter"". In quotes.

[@imi___]

The whole challenge can be summarized with the one sentence at 0:44 "If we can't move electricity around, we just move steam around". After that, it was just a "slightly weird normal playthrough" :( Still.. nice little video.

[@Sidewinded]

Nice work! Would have liked to seen the power production charts throughout though.

[@lazyturtle3981]

Love this video, somehow I expected the factory to get filled with eggs halfway through (you kind of sound like howtobasic XD)

[@dervadveirzundluni]

Haha, love the movie that scene in the beginning is from, no im not telling which naked gun movie it is

[@Big-E-TheBouncer]

Great video, a big opportunity was missed here the mod that makes belts require power should have been added.

[@Psyxe1]

Me: No wires? that's easy, I barely use.... wait. power wires? oh. oh god. oh god no. Subbed. Good stuff.

[@winstonchurchill8649]

YEEEEEY IT HAS HAPPENNED!!! HOLY LORDS OF RENDERING AND UPLOADING SPEED WE BEG FOR FORGIVNESS FOR DOUBTING YOU P.s. for rel it was quite a long

[@ossicox]

bro that first clip is bombe i love it

[@clarfonthey]

I feel silly I opened this video thinking "that's a silly challenge, don't think it'd affect the game too much" and then realised how wrong I was when you were building steam engines next to every building. Nice job! Now I wonder what it'd be like to build a nuclear base with this mod...

[@arskcz8229]

just playing factorio now and trying to wire up oil mining :D

[@sanderbos4243]

"What shall we use to conduct this beautiful current with? What one particular element comes to mind? Hmm?" "Ahhhh, wire!" "Ugh, copper..."

[@Wackylemon64]

I'm kind of reminded of the steam-powered machines of the early game of the "industrial revolution" mod, by the way your primary means of transporting power is through steam pipes

[@checktaschu4492]

That’s some serious spaghet.

[@furoCrossbreaker]

wait what is the keybind for spreading a stack evenly among the turrets or other things?

[@zer0tolerance926]

Great video! Though at 4:40 I see a wire between two of the poles (non-ghosts), so run invalid 🙃

[@DocJade]

just wait till you see the actual wires on the substations that randomly appeared in red circuits run invalid smh

[@tynumo7142]

what if you instead removed copper cable "wire" and replaced everything requiring a copper cable with a more expensive logical alternative?

[@raqtty]

legends say he's playing space exploration right now

[@mason-pe5lk]

I always bring boilers to the coal, because it's 2/3 the iron plate cost.

[@mandragorius9637]

Sometimes I wish for the exact opposite mod in factorio No Service area, only wires Imagine the circuit horror beyond comprehension you could Set up to 'optimize' Power consumtion if you could wire each object seperately

[@kylebennett4434]

Can I beat Factorio without wires? No, probably not. But it'd be fun to watch you do it

[@TrapChan]

This is the most masochistic run i have ever seen

[@pawesieczak6379]

Industrial revolution 4 looking awesome

[@miners132]

9:42 average factorio player "Damn im out of space to build, time to upgrade copper"

[@phazonjunky1818]

I swear doc if there aren't numerous cheesy puns and rhyming sentences in this video, then I will go to bed...

[@chillaah2000]

Its funny how people come up with more and more cursed runs for Factorio, like sushi style only or this one here...

[@DrenKillfree]

factorio with dc power, eat your heart out eddison.

[@TurnipTheBee]

beat Factorio by only moving stuff with bots and by hand of course

[@TrueMechTech]

So Factorio has now become Gregtech before Multiblock generators

[@GregoriusTechneticies]

Hi there :P

[@daa2910]

i think if place Accumulator at middle of substation, it can send power substation to substatio. Accumulator is some expansive and slow production thing, so it not helpful very much. but it can safe some steam engine's room and factory make little more smaller. yeah, maybe that's worst thng.

[@andryhhito5384]

There is a smaaaaal issue about that: every electric connection runs independently so that means instead of many electrical connections running on slightly optimized steam engines working on half force and NOT affecting ups SO much we have one big electrical connection that runs counting every single electrical rollercoaster happening with power on endgame base Good luck running that game and not crashing if mod's developers not optimised that

[@GregoriusTechneticies]

4:33 Uhm what is that assembler ratio for copper cables to green circuits there? One to Five?? I am curious as to why, honestly.

[@akakamaz7382]

Normal factorio gameplay, no strings attach 😮

[@mrpocock]

I wonder what a no wires, no belts base would look like.

[@2bb735]

How much buttering up / complementing your incredible videos do I have to do before you do Space Exploration? Because I will do it.

[@goodman5993]

Would it be possible to make “wires” by having an accumulator between 2 different power poles / substations? So excess power charges an accumulator which can be used to power machines under another power pole

[@absolutehuman951]

This trick could even be used to make energy out of nothing before some update as far as I remember.

[@lily38942]

so burner everything but with extra steps?

[@diebananne5486]

Sehr geile Video idee ❤

[@SuchBadness]

Burner inserters so hated and disregarded he used steam engines for early game smelting and no one cared.

[@Slywyn]

y'know at first I thought you meant wires as in the copper stuff that goes into circuits and I was like 'what? no of course not' and then you started playing and I realized it was no wires from *power poles* and my first thought was 'oh no this is gonna be so cursed'. I was correct.

[@user-lt5vc9ww8g]

What is mod name for putting same amount of items across selected furnaces

[@gaslitgames]

Didnt convert that into European washing machines I see. Well played.

[@nextjaeger9271]

With steam engines everywhere the base looks like the base from the old main menu background picture

[@95nhatnguyen]

16:55 look like 9 seconds is just too long for bitter's life

[@lolerthegoat8603]

Hi everyone, I have a question that I can't find an answer anywhere online or on reddit. What is the command to exit from CTRL+C/CTRL+V mode? I tried to press ESC / BACKSPACE / CANC, nothing works to exit from that. Help please.

[@DocJade]

"Pipette tool" its bound to "Q" by default

[@crazzeecaptian1745]

Love to just see a modded factorio video where we just jump right in, what's that? No copper wires to connect our power poles? Who cares just fill the base with steam engines

[@elliotlea5457]

Would it be possible to cheese this by placing accumulators in the overlaps of substations?

[@Lumie_Moth]

This has me genuinely interested, I want to say yes, but at the same time, accumulators have a lot of charging and discharging speed limitations, so its kinda hard to tell. kinda makes me want to put it to the test for shits and giggles

[@sillymonkey725]

It would work for only 1 substation to another, not for a chain a 3. The reason being that accumulators only recharge when power is overproduced in a power grid. By definition, accumulators are not power producers, so the 2nd power grid will never produce a surplus. In other words, power will never jump from your first group of accumulators to the second group, so the 3rd substation would be decoration, no more.

[@elliotlea5457]

ah true@@sillymonkey725

[@_Some_Random_Dude]

That looks like an unholy abomination. I gotta try this mod.

[@lipamanka]

BIG EXCITED

[@0804951a]

Nice!!

[@elliejohnson2786]

You can shift click research instead of double clicking it to add it to the queue :D