Design ➡️ Build ➡️ Copy ➡️ Paste ➡️ Repeat 🟰 HAPPY FACTORY BUILDER | 02 | Shapez 2 |Lets Play

[@Nilaus]

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[@gabirumaxx]

Just got the game to test. "Tested" for 6 hours, went to bed 3:30 am

[@jasenmorin4936]

lol ditto. looked up and it was 3am.

[@danielwilson9122]

Lol I did the same yesterday haha

[@Frogstoney]

Yup same. The factory must grow

[@flwi]

Yup. It's now 2am. Very nice game. Now I got spacepaint 🎉

[@brennancurrier806]

Yeah I played it for a few hours too, pretty fun. Never played the first one. Now i just need to be more effecient

[@Coldsuu]

If you weren't aware because it only pops up in a tip once randomly and then never again, if you select a belt section and press the "i" key it'll clear it of any shapes on it, probably better than cut/pasting entire production lines. If you want to clear the whole production line, select a belt connected to it, press O to select any connected belt, then press I to clear.

[@Len923_]

I think he's doing cut undo, not cut paste, but agreed.

[@TheSkuami]

He‘s doing cut and paste. On the first episode he found out that by cut and undo, the belts will keep the items.

[@Firebuck]

really useful tip, thanks!

[@gavin.d.m]

In the menu that pops up on the right-hand side when objects are selected, you can use the sweeping brush icon to clear the belts etc too. Also the connected tool allows you to highlight all connected belts and buildings, right click an object for that side menu with that icon too. 👍

[@bekar_au]

He showed using that in the first episode.

[@Firebuck]

Swapper is a blueprint-shrinker. Thanks for showing us the magic.

[@avert_]

Swapper is the OG. I am on milestone 6 and haven't unlocked it yet ffs

[@theleaningaxehd]

Bought the game a while ago, decided to try it tonight, put on your videos and made spaghetti belts until way too late, got work in the morning wish me luck 😂

[@chad2470]

I was really afraid to use the swapper. I'm so glad I've seen it used. Looks super useful.

[@marshallc6215]

Considering how cramped later modules get, using the swapper to be able to combine things using only a single logistics layer is absolutely massive. Thanks for that tip. Edit: the challenge for me is not only building something functional, but getting as many of that module as possible to process as many full belts as possible per foundation

[@238Hero238]

Oh man, I've been sleeping on the swapper!! I have whole blueprints set up to make "bowties," but I didn't even consider the fact you can swap a shape part with an empty space!

[@igrvks]

10:07 I was so proud of my unnecessarily complex BMW logo machine that I spent quite some time figuring out until I watched you tackle it with three parts... 😂

[@guntiselb8077]

Its the rotator on the bottom who delays the top one. Cause it takes the time to rotate

[@RealCyclops]

when you need to move a blueprint one tile, I noticed earlier when you were demonstrating the blueprints, undo refunds the blueprint points. So, instead of paste, cut, then paste again, causing to spend double points, use undo for the first paste and you are refunded the blueprint points, thus only costing you blueprint points once.

[@prisonbread]

Nilaus, at one point when you were troubleshooting the backing up "hopper" things in the nice square module you cut and paste the whole module to clear the belts which I assume costs blueprint points - remember you can shift-select over an area and hit the "I" key to clear all belts/machines. Probably quicker and cheaper way to do it. Anyhow, loving this series!

[@ZeDlinG67]

You know, it helps a lot, that out of the letsplayers, you actually play well :D

[@ralphenlinda]

@32:08 You can also select the belts and buildings (shift drag LMB) and hit i, that clears the belts and buildings. If you want to delete a complete line of belts and buildings you can click a belt or building and press O (not zero but o Like OK) this selects all belts and buildings of this line, the press X tot delete all of this line, saves a lot of time when cleaning up

[@xipheonj]

and in this case he didn't want to clear everything, just the clog, so select only that belt and press i

[@shamanson3443]

Hey, been watching for a bit, love your energy in these videos. Inspired me to try out satisfactory with my friends, we are all eagerly anticipating 1.0, thanks for being my introduction to the genre. Love watching this game, so satisfying. Gonna think about picking it up myself once i have a bit of income again. Thanks for the videos.

[@maartenschepens2549]

Replacing one part of a shape by another (#5 Blueprints) task Get a swapper - left input circle and right input squares Above the swapper - LEFT: rotate left - RIGHT: Rotate right Swappers above both rotators and both being filled with circles again You get 4 belts with the same shape...

[@EPgeek]

There are many ways to measure "efficiency": number of machines, number of tiles used, wasted throughput, etc.

[@brettclifford2723]

you exploded my brain twice with how this game can operate on a organization scale.

[@indralohita1529]

When every time he said "wooh, look at that!" i also amaze how simple and smart he is

[@chimmy_jim]

My biggest issue with this video is that you said, we can fix it by whooshing forward, and then there was no whoosh. It was such a disappointment. I'm behind so I'm right on to the next and I love it! Great series, more please!

[@K-o-R]

Using the swapper to combine two halves is "mind=blown" level.

[@yufeng1707]

Man I love Shapez 2's belts

[@justanormalguy4885]

Still doing the tutorial section myself and got blueprints before I went to sleep last night. Really cool game so far!

[@algramic195]

YOU SIGNED THE CERTIFICATION CONTRACT, YOU AGREED TO BE EFFICIENT. "I will strive for >>>efficiency

[@nicky2coats]

I breached that promise in about 5 minutes.

[@elfaroncarnot]

The key takeaway for me is that I need to use the swapper more!

[@julien_5049]

Damn the swapper is sooo good, some shapes are tedious to make without it, it would have saved me so much time lol

[@danielh.9010]

Very cool to see the swapper in action! Bought the game yesterday and played until milestone 4. Already designed my first modular platform blueprints (e.g. stack on self, stack N on W input, rotate 90 clockwise/counterclockwise, rotate 180, and similar for cutting, I even have a platform for cutting out the NW corner of the input). I'm currently a little bit stuck on designing a painter platform (i.e. one input is the paint, another the shape, and the platform should paint all 4 belts, and it's a horribly spaghetti and requires lot's of space). So looking forward to what designs Nilaus will come up with!

[@aRandomPersonThatPlaysGames]

My respects for him are insane

[@Nicothekat]

so good this game! i love it ! The number 1 was magnific, this second is better and beautifull, chill and so cool !! Thx for video! it was fun

[@ObsidianG]

There's a hotkey to clear items from a selection, so you don't need to cut and paste. Simply highlighting an area and pressing the i key on your keyboard clears all belts in the affected area.

[@computerdave06]

really enjoying the slightly updated music from the original, just purchased this so I can play it tonight

[@bomber66a]

I was wondering where my blueprint shapes were for the points and then I read the guide and found out that's not a thing for normal difficulty XD

[@deanoet]

Seeing how the swapper works and realising that my brain just does not work like that. Good video(s) as always.

[@redzeckx]

So the module you made though compact and amazing the belts will never work at 100% speed always because the rotators are slowing it down. It might almost look full or be at 99% forever but rotators need to be in pairs to get 100% through put. It's a compact module but you have to combine and Separate the belts in other ways to get them to be full. Also the cutter can go down to 2 of them because 4 belts come out of it.

[@WesselB]

But the rotator is placed behind a cutter, and the cutter has a slower throughput than the rotator, correct? So how can the rotator be limiting in this scenario? Sorry if I am missing something obvious.

[@MrGilidry]

I seriously underestimated the swapper... back to the drawing board!

[@boomer.beasley]

Enjoying this game through you!

[@deathm00n2]

I think you should keep progressing the milestones as soon as possible, the game even gives this tip. You can still progress on the secondary objectives even whe ahead in the milestones and later reasearch will take a lot of time, so ending all the secondaries now can give you waiting a lot with nothing to do

[@evajanekelly7067]

really nice video thanks. perfect. only thing is the really kool perfectly working module needs 6 instead of 4 processing units. it does a full belt load at full capacity with 6

[@gregorpilatzki7706]

Can't wait for the Platforms to come!

[@lchn12345678]

so i bought this game and steam play time is 12.6 hours, but i am starting to find it hard to feel excited to continue this game even though i really want myself to, so i am making this comment and hopefully someone can give me some ideas as to why i feel this way and maybe i am doing something wrong that makes me feel this way. first of all i love factorio. as for shapez 2, the first few hours was pure bliss, i didnt have to worry about electricity or rebuilding stuff taking ages, i could just focus on building the factory i want, i would also say this game has better building mechanics than factorio, but after a while i realised that this game seems to resemble a puzzle game way more than a "factory" game, because everything i built eventually became useless because the vortex no longer requires that shape so i just destroy my design, and unless i go full modular, it seems like basically none of my designs are reusable, this makes me feel like my 12th hour playing is too similar to my 1st hour playing, i am back at square one trying to solve the next shape and nothing i did before that mattered anymore. i think i enjoyed the ability to sometimes sit back and feel acomplished looking at my factory in factorio and i dont think i can do that in shapez 2 unless i never delete anything and keep sending shapes the vortex doesnt need. any contructive reply is welcome

[@RealNovgorod]

Labview - the game.

[@alansmithee419]

1:50-2:35 tl;dr: "Perfect is the enemy of done."

[@knilkrad]

Thanks for the ideas

[@benjaminr1876]

enjoying shapez2

[@daveruble5150]

a downstream dump of the stuck parts will free up throughput jams.

[@Smilies-hb3mr]

Great gameplay, love to see people making videos and know what they're doing.

[@pjx95]

Really Nice game! Keep the videos coming! 🙏😍

[@graydonpivec6728]

“Our new module is working perfectly” *Red buzzer sound

[@shunporn]

i know where u can improve, more shapez videos!!

[@agentmor]

This is such a different approach than my attemps ... I tend to cut each type of shape --- and then stack them .. I should use the 'swapper' more often to get the base layer shapes .. I feel so inadequate ;)

[@DmanDmax]

Kinda wish it was asking you to meet a certain production rate, like parts per minute or something. The way it is now you an make the most inefficient thing that makes one part per hour and still technically fulfill the requirement as long as you're willing to wait long enough.

[@dougdaniels7848]

Fucking amazing game, thank you for the recommendation. Fantastic factory game.

[@codeman4334]

Im 3 minutes in. And you just made a fool of me haha. I made that way harder.

[@StigmADiabolicuM666]

Im lured for the future!

[@DrDogtorPhD]

I wanna play this so bad

[@OniNaito]

I like circles

[@MrMisterBlondie]

CITY BLOCKS!

[@shadowhenge7118]

The hardest tjing about tjis game will be keeping track of what you are making and where, heh.

[@atimcgt]

They added labels so you can remind yourself.

[@lainverse]

37:24 It's a really cool looking module, but note that output belt isn't full. So, it doesn't seem to work at max speed even after copy/paste trick. Not sure what is the bottleneck, though.

[@Slize1707]

To me it looks like the problem is the jumping part. The jumping half has to wait for the other half to get through the cutting/rotating proces. And that's why it is waiting to get launched.

[@MisuVir]

​@@Slize1707 Yep, that was my thought too. It's a very neat/compact design but it's unbalanced in that the splitter's right piece skips most of the processing. So you end up with it queuing and waiting for the left side to process.

[@guy7329]

@@MisuVir Basically the part that's jumping doesn't have enough space for shapes for the second half to reach the last swapper BEFORE the cutter stops completely because of the right side being full

[@Eddishar]

I think in the meanwhile you know how to flush belts with "I" instead of Cut and Paste again. ;)

[@Cristoversik]

26:53 is nobody gonna talk about this

[@flwi]

3:00 lol - I assembled this shape _waay_ more complicated. 🙈 Have to wrap my head around those swappers more. For some reason they don't compute in my brain.

[@MewzikMaker]

One of my favorite things about this game is how it challenges your brain in new and interesting ways

[@PyroYeet]

You're doing great with the content man, got nothing to say about it, just good content, has been for years :)

[@danielwilson9122]

Will you be live streaming this game at all any time soon?

[@Nilaus]

20.00 cest on Twitch.tv/Nilaus

[@85matticus]

I'm wondering if I'm on a different difficulty because I have no option for blueprint points. yet I have blueprints unlocked

[@m0n5a80]

Bp points are only in the "challenge" difficulty. You're probably on the default "normal".

[@85matticus]

@@m0n5a80 right on. I figured that's what it was. Thank you for the response

[@TheWhorl]

This is one of those games that's super boring to watch, but super fun to play.

[@Thyana-ig5no]

Or the other way around. I love the theory, inventing designs and optimizing stuff, but have no interest in executing them When you see a shape, pause the video, think about a possible solution, think about if you can optimize it, and then compare it with his solution. Or don't pause and just enjoy his sleek designs.

[@Buphido]

Why didn't you create the circle-with-edge/quare-with-curve square just using two swappers? Step 1.: Swap Circle and Square to create left-circle-right-square and left-square-right-circle. Step 2.: Rotate left-circle-right-square to top-square-bottom-circle. Step 3.: Swap top-square-bottom-circle and left-square-right-circle. Your outputs are now square-circle-circle-circle and square-square-square-circle, each in reading order.

[@ramblamb4522]

❤❤❤

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

Dustborn was funded by the Norwegian government. This by the German government. Obvious winner. This game is a blast.

[@krongegoire9580]

👍🏻

[@tannerroberts4140]

2:10 Efficient vs effective My family splits hairs on the definition of terms ALL the time. Nobody likes the arguments, it’s just an excuse to take sides in a popularity contest. The ones that insist on being victims feel victimized, the ones that insist on winning find a way to feel like they’ve won. The reality here is that the words in isolation without context are synonyms, and that you have different goals than the people in the comments section. You’re being both efficient and effective in the execution of YOUR goals. And they think you are being neither efficient, nor effective in the execution of THEIR goals. Both statements are true. So you’re not getting triggered about words so much as what you feel a player should value in game play. Nobody wrote down that efficient applies only to game progression or shape part utilization. Your point there was wasted air, but more importantly, it alienates the people that insist on splitting g hairs for the definition of terms.

[@Thyana-ig5no]

Efficient and effective were never synonyms. Never argue about definitions, give them a dictionary imo. Effective means, how can i optimize towards output Efficient means, how can i work best with existing, limited ressources (here: input, space, building time, blueprint costs). You could also try to be efficient here about building costs or about assembly times, but these don't matter here. In general, if you have more than enough of a specific ressource, you should not use other ressources to try to be efficient about it.

[@danielh.9010]

@@Thyana-ig5no Yes, exactly! The difference might appear to be subtle to some, but it's definitely there. Effective = get's the job done with little effort, and efficient = resource-optimized (i.e. nothing wasted).

[@Ferenc-Racz]

I thought shapes 2 is the same crap as shapez 1.. but i was wrong! this game is really good! thank you for showing me / for the gameplay. :) Im trigal from Twitch. :)

[@John-nq7mt]

37:04 Why not just highlight the area and use "I" to clear contents instead of wasting blueprint points with copy/paste?

[@KaizarNike]

consider me lured

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

gamies

[@INCDZONE]

7:16 hes not realised hes made a mistake that square is in wrong place should be on the right not the left side

[@Thyana-ig5no]

Rotation doesn't matter for the giant swirl

[@stuch1435]

Engagement.

[@SL1PSTAR]

I really wanted to like this game but after just 30 minuets I had to start the refund process due to having no urge to grow the factory. It feels more like a puzzle game than a factory game. 😔

[@toymanjosh]

9h

[@RodJSmith]

When you put the swapper down and say you'll try to explain how it works, you start off by saying it "swaps half of it in from either" and then the description gets harder to follow because your explanation is "and then if I do that and .. that" (while dropping new pieces on the board - it's not the best 'explanation'. Your builds are impressive I realise you're used to the building techniques in this (and other games) so it's all second nature to you, but when you say you'll explain how something works, and the explanation is "i do that and that" while quickly dropping pieces on the board, it doesn't really explain much and could be a lot clearer. I hope this is taken as genuine feedback as I'm not trying to troll etc.

[@ryanm2628]

That's just Nilaus bro, eventually you learn to interpret it XD

[@uwainium]

first

[@Klara906090]

not gonna lie, I dont see the point of playing this instead of Factorio.

[@Frogstoney]

It’s a different sort of challenge. It more laid back. Some of us have 1000s of hours in factorio already, it’s something different that scratches the same itch, no biters, factorio is hardly worth playing right now with the dlc just around the corner. Maybe people just don’t like factorio.. there are tons of reasons to play this. You don’t have to though as long as somewhere a factory is growing

[@Comqr]

This gets MUCH bigger then factorio, and i LOVE factorio, it is a survival factory builder, theres biters, and dangers, and power grids. shapez is RAW factory builder. nothing but building factories, and its way more logic intensive later on in the game, i mean full on logic gates to build computers that automatically design the needed shape. they're both rly fun

[@birddiscovery2568]

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