Every Colony Needs THE HUB To Fuel Growth | 05 | Plan B: Terraform | Lets Try

Plan B: Terraform:
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water and forests.
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[@O11O1channel]

I think the fun way to integrate these trees into your industrial nature is to use them as filler for your "completed" city blocks, where they can fill in the corners and edges that are otherwise not doing anything. That way your trees get to participate in the griddification.

[@stephenjackson1135]

your usual city block designs are useful if trains have collision mechanics and dynamically calculate their route, but at the moment in this game they only have an assigned route and no collision

[@12345678996351]

These train block designs all comes from the idea of Factorio😂

[@jasonnoronha7100]

Derailing trains full of chemicals - Nilaus throwing shade >.

[@wacekvacek9584]

Trees can only grow on wet(green) areas and you can check tile temperature in left down corner(min. temperature is temperature in winter and max. temperature is temperature in summer)

[@mp0011]

Also, if "assembling" tree only needs Water and Carbon, just build carbon extractors near water pumps, directly by the assemblers, and forget about it ;)

[@npcperson2158]

When the compost was piling up : " You got your shit together."

[@-Big_Big]

the mod that you can use to limit the items you build is really helpful. and the mod that allows you to prioritize storage flow.

[@jasonnoronha7100]

Ahh yes, my FAVOURITE KZbinr just uploaded a new video of my new obsession game

[@dendude3731]

Amazing! I've been watching this series just for this moment, THE HUB!! You're just straight up surgical! Thanks Nilaus 😊

[@graftednormalcy1376]

wow nice episode! That derailing trains full of chemicals, so much shade. And Nilaus, planting trees? More likely than you think

[@tales9476]

Trees? In *my* factory? It's more likely than you think. [free factory check here!]

[@tookatripto3000]

So glad we have hit the hub stage in the planet builder.

[@dandyooo]

Can't wait for your 100k population and see how you'll sustain and grow it ☺️

[@generationrogue5329]

I have hit 1 mill that is where the game ends unfort..

[@dandyooo]

@@generationrogue5329 is the city can self-sustain when you hit 1 million? how's the situation of resources when you hit that level?

[@joecerone]

​@@dandyooo Not self sustaining, I still had plenty of resources to mine on the map. Never started my third city though.

[@michalbednar5742]

Brilliant gameplay, love it. I just noticed that you need more unloading platforms for water at the places where yu produce food. The food production consumes water too quickly so it is then not effective as they do not work all the time so maybe more unloading stations for water would definitely help.

[@SpitefulPenguinGaming]

It's amazing how effective your designs are! Was struggling to get 100k city with "main (train) bus" pattern, then decided to try this pattern on the second city - a total game changer. This pattern can actually support 300k city, maybe more - just haven't reached yet, and only slight tweaks are needed to keep up with city needs.

[@michaelauer7543]

I have yet to see a Nilaus Video where I don't learn something about a game! Vielen Herzlichen Dank und Liebe Grüße aus Wien!

[@conmanjones]

very cool build. much more appealing than my spaghetti

[@michaeldavis8549]

I'm liking the evolution of design between your twitch and YT series! great job.. trees need water and I think your reinforced concrete from recycled steel is supplying 100% of the city.. so you should swap the second output that goes to your hub, and/or rather have a dedicated reinforced concrete for the hub.

[@RebelSyntax]

Hello. Thank you for the series. I have been enjoying this game for about 20 hours now. I suppose I have a completely different take on aesthetics and attempting to calculate efficiencies and what not. I just tend to build for convenience and respond reactively as the game progresses. I personally find the grid look to be a bit too mechanical for my senses. I suppose you could say I find beauty in the chaos? That said, I came here looking for ideas on how to develop further and you have certainly provided that, thank you again!

[@itskevo3179]

30:31, how ironic is that 😂

[@ws_stelzi79]

Assemble trees in an assembler! Heresy! 😇😬🤐

[@hairtrigga]

really enjoying this game and your videos!

[@notreal5135]

You need to grow the trees to cut them down

[@beachmaster3857]

I've noticed that only 2 unload platforms are not enough, it'll slow the train down too much. It's better to have 4 dedicated unloading platforms in your blocks. But still love your playthrough and using some of your designs in mine.

[@Poison337]

Yay new episode

[@bevaninaustralia]

FYI trees spread pretty quickly, i filled 1/2 the planet with 1 of each tree assebly plant.

[@davidaugustofc2574]

It was pretty painful watching the population drops by thousands

[@bananatreelabs1137]

the factory is looking great!

[@bevaninaustralia]

This game will be awesome when we get the quality of life stuff from Factorio!!!

[@commanderfoxtrot]

Why not set up larger storage areas for specific materials with many train outputs? I feel like that could solve some of your issues.

[@TminusDoom]

You've said it a few times but haven't done it, you can just place a supply right where you are making things like reinforced concrete and high-tech parts etc. (Just make sure you don't exhaust that supply if you are also exporting it)

[@rubhan94]

Edit: reading other comments that say you use mods for some of these things than I guess my suggestion goes out the window 😂 6:03 when I see you trying to drag hightech parts to the bottom I don’t think hubs really are that great in this game. It’s messy but better to set up a small dedicated line just to create one building. I did that, took almost no time if you find some resources that are close. Now I have about +1k of each building 😅

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

09:59 That's what she said! ;) About the hub, I think that the components which need to be moved more than 3 places up or down should probably be moved by trucks. At least you can use one "backbone" road for all of them that way, rather than what amounts to dotted lines of depots all over the place. (Of course, the depot chains running west>east would require precise spacing to cross the road, effectively making them one link longer if you want to continue them past the road, so TANSTAAFL applies again.)

[@goose2478]

Couldn’t you set up factory’s that use up the waste resources and make it into the universe storage so you don’t have to physically store it

[@mytiliss682]

I reached 100k city before making water flow. Do I have to use both greenhouse gases, or better one is the only you need? Maybe it's too early, only year 55. P.S. Yep, it's optimal to boost both gases equally, thought, seems effects have diminishing return.

[@Christian-jc6gf]

This game is in desperate need of circuit conditions and bulk storage

[@appsbyaaron]

yeah I tried a hub as well. still getting frustrated with not enough Sulfer/Concrete production.

[@dumaskhan]

The factory must....errr I mean the Colony must grow!

[@JSnake576]

Do you think we will get copy paste function?

[@OGSnoberry]

How do you have liquid water when the planet's surface temperature is -17c? lmao