Factorio | 2023 Guide for Complete Beginners | Episode 2

[@DrIncompetent]

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[@JustShineLikeSky]

This is so great for beginners. I love it. Even though I am a little more advanced I love the way of your explanation and the way you build spaghetti things at the beginning without the "perfect optimized" factory at the beginning to let beginners explore the game instead of optimize them from the beginning. Real classy. I wish all tutorials were like this

[@DrIncompetent]

Haha, awesome! So glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, my factories are still spaghetti but I love this game haha

[@almondmilk1939]

Man, I hope these never end. I have struggled to get past blue science and never finished the game because it all becomes too overwhelming. With these tutorials, you have made it soooo much easier for me to understand and breaking things down so easily that it makes me pumped to play it again. You are the BEST, and so are these tutorials. I hope you get the recognition you deserve from this

[@DrIncompetent]

I am so glad you are finding this series to be helpful and I hope you are enjoying the game!

[@BenchongDy]

I wanted to get into this game but got sunk with Workers and Resources. You really helped me out gon getting the ropes. City-builder/management game KZbinrs like you deserve more attention.

[@DrIncompetent]

I'm so glad to hear that, thank you for the kind words!

[@Patric_S]

This is making me finally pick up this game for the first time, great videos. Thanks Doc!

[@DrIncompetent]

You are so welcome! I hope you are having fun with Factorio! ;D

[@CDiepenbroek]

I've played this game a lot and these videos are still great to go back to. Thanks for the quality content!

[@DrIncompetent]

I'm so glad you are finding this series to be helpful!

[@deputyswine]

I am so glad i found your channel! Your game selction always seems to be on point with my own. From qud, quasimorph, gloomhaven, doors of trithius, rimworld etc etc you got it all and i love your style of guides and playthroughs. Thank you! I finally hopped on the factorio bandwagon lol Trying to figure it out on my own but was overwhelmed when i found out the items needed to make a green science pack! Found out real quick i need to scale up my automation big time! Came here to pick up some ideas

[@DrIncompetent]

Haha, awesome! Thanks so much for watching :) Yes--the Factory must grow! I always underestimate how much I need in my factory to scale up haha ;D Science packs take a ton of resources.

[@dennishouthoff6103]

Very detailed and easy to follow along. Been learning a lot as i have just picked up the game :D

[@DrIncompetent]

Oh fantastic! I am so glad it has been helpful! This game is so great ;D

[@MrCubflyer]

Im learning a ton watching your tutorial thanks.

[@DrIncompetent]

Oh great! So glad you are finding it to be useful!

[@beez1717]

I like using burner inaerters in areas where they may need to run without electricity, such as when fueling the boilers. If you get a coal shortage for some reason, you can fix it and insert thr coal automatically to restart your power using coal alone.

[@DrIncompetent]

Good idea!

[@daelpixphotography]

Being someone who has been interested in Factorio for a few years, but dare not buy it because it looks comprehensive, your tutorials are very informative. Thank you for spending your time in recording them🙂👍

[@DrIncompetent]

My pleasure! I was overwhelmed by this at first, too haha ;) Luckily some kind friends of the channel really helped me along and it's so much fun once you get into it ^_^

[@Dracuvindepeste]

I recommend you buy it. It is worth the price! Very very fun!

[@daelpixphotography]

@@Dracuvindepeste Already bought it when watching these

[@numb0t]

​@@daelpixphotographyme who pirated the game years ago

[@michaelcorti507]

Absolutely Useful & informative. Great Job!!

[@DrIncompetent]

Oh great--I am so glad you are still finding this to be useful!

[@KaiorxH]

I started playing yesterday. In the first video you mentioned that the tutorial was not that useful, and you were right! I learned a lot more by just playing and figuring out what I needed on the go. The only problem is that now I need to rebuild the whole factory with proper planning. I was doing fine when I started automating the red flask for research; I just needed to sit there and pick up a new research and the factory made everything for me... but when the green flask came in picture everything went downhills xD. Everything is a mess and need to redo the whole production line and assambling machines to fix it. Your videos have been a bless to understanding everything and the little tips and tricks on shortcuts! I love them!

[@DrIncompetent]

Haha, yeah green science is much harder and it only gets more complex! I am glad you are finding this series helpful and I hope you are enjoying the game!

[@naudiatf2791]

I must subscribe now, thanks for making Factorio much more fun

[@DrIncompetent]

I am so glad you have found it to be helpful and are enjoying the game!

[@vervastar]

Loved the first episode - playing along - I appreciate your great explanations! Thank you!

[@DrIncompetent]

You are so welcome! I am very glad you are finding this to be useful and I hope you are enjoying the game ^_^

[@JohnnyJiuJitsu]

I started Factorio yesterday and your videos are amazing. I hope you get tons more views and subs.

[@DrIncompetent]

Oh great! I am so glad you are finding them to be helpful ^_^ This game is so good once you get going--enjoy Factorio! ;D

[@IAMDonk]

Good stuff. Though rather than mixing ore and plate on the same belt on the output side, you could mix ore and coal on the input side. That way you avoid having to separate the ore from the plate.

[@DrIncompetent]

Correct! But, as it is built, I have iron AND copper using the same interior belt for coal, so I'd have to redo the whole thing to allow 2 kinds of ore through, right? Now that I have long handed inserters, I can do better, but we will do better still with splitters and underground belts soon haha.

[@stephenwalker1984]

Very good beginner’s guide. I’m thinking about buying this, as it seems that this a game I would start playing and then as if by magic several hours have flown by. Is this quite simple once you get your head around the basics?

[@thebigvlad]

@@stephenwalker1984 The systems and mechanics of the game are quite simple. The difficult part (and fun part, in my opinion), is putting everything together into a functional factory. And not just functional, but expandable, clean, efficient, space efficient, etc. There are so many solutions to the problems you'll come across, and coming up with your own can be very rewarding. If you're new, I would also follow Dr Incompetent's advice in the first episode and go through maybe the first 2 or 3 tutorial maps, then just go to freeplay from there. The later tutorial maps are not necessary and take far too long to complete. And yes, it can be a time sink if you really get into it!

[@David-eb8lh]

Awesome!

[@DrIncompetent]

Thanks for watching!

[@epgui]

MW is megawatt, mW is milliwatt. Milliwatts are a tiny amount (much less than what a small lightbulb uses), and megawatts are a large amount. A megawatt (or a million watts) is a billion times larger than a milliwatt (or a thousandth of a watt).

[@DrIncompetent]

Thank you for clarifying this ^_^

[@apoolem]

To put things into perspective by numbers: 1000mW=1W 1MW=1000000W If you translate them directly you can see, that milli and mega are not the same at all. 1MW=1000000000mW (By the way... 1kW=1000W so 1MW=1000kW)

[@R-L-D]

29:56 Why would you bring power from waaaaaaaaay over there when the copper is so much closer to the power plant? Just an oversight I'm sure :)

[@DrIncompetent]

Probably! haha ;)

[@Div9LeYuno]

question. Do electrical drills need to be put together that closely at 28:00 ? if you place them there's this blue outline that goes one square further than the visible machine, I assumed the machine would also cover that area and placing them that close together would not make maximum use of the machines on the ore patch. Thanks for your input. Love the videos, started playing this yesterday (but have hundreds of hours in satisfactory so I caught on quickly)

[@DrIncompetent]

This is a great question! I always put them really close together, but I bet you could space them out more like you say if you want! It would save you some drills. They can both mine the same tiles, I think, as well.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Getting drills closer together means extracting ore faster. The total amount of ore on a patch doesn't change so if you have more drills mining the same amount at the same Speed you'll mine more ore per minute.

[@patrickgraves5390]

I made a custom playlist of your series so i can listen to it while at work.

[@DrIncompetent]

Awesome!

[@TheREALTripleT]

I do it different but there isn't no wrong way to play which is what is great about factorio! I am advance Ive had the game for years now i think maybe even close to when it first came out. my first game on steam was Factorio I have over 1500 games now and been on steam over 10 years I believe.

[@DrIncompetent]

Well said! Wow, 1500 hours is a testament to its greatness!

[@TheREALTripleT]

@DrIncompetent hehe 1500 games on steam(YES I KNOW). Factorio was my first one on Steam. I have close to 2300 hours playing it. Never launched a rocket, though I'm going to try and follow your series to do so I got to much into modding and never played it all the way out. I hope SE brings in that mod feel I want more resources to mess with.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Good guide , only thing i would add is turn off cliffs in map settings, theres no point to them imho

[@DrIncompetent]

This is a good point for sure! I just blow em up or build around them haha ;D But they can be annoying.

[@TheOnkarj]

At 30:00 why didn’t you take electricity directly from the source for copper mining? It was much closer that way

[@DrIncompetent]

Good idea!

[@patrickgraves5390]

Never thought to supply my burners automatically. I always just did it by hand lol

[@DrIncompetent]

Haha, yes! It's crazy but the idea is to automate everything! ;)

[@neonblack211]

Ive been using burner incerterrs for my boilers because they refuel themselved anyway, but i guess wjtb electrixity theres little point

[@DrIncompetent]

They are good at the start! Or in places where you don't have electricity flowing.

[@alheeley]

Im getting a problem with the mixed belt of iron ore and steel plates - the grabber arms are sometimes taking the steel plates back in further down the line and making steel beams, so my line is getting contaminated; any fabricator waiting for steel plates is then forced to stop. Can I tell the furnaces only to make steep plates?

[@DrIncompetent]

Great question! Furnaces make whatever you give them, so you can't tell them what to make, sadly. What you can do is use filter inserters instead of regular ones so that they only pick up what you want, even if your line gets contaminated! Sometimes, I just have to break belts apart because maintaining a 2 lane belt can be hard at times.

[@Yggdrasil42]

It's generally considered better to mix coal and ore on the same belt, since those are both valid inputs for a smelter. That way you can get one belt for input material and one belt for the output plates. Build a separate smelter array for different ore types like copper or for processing iron into steel.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

I think up to 20 boilers that support 40 steam engines is the current vanilla ratio

[@DrIncompetent]

Perfect! Thank you ^_^

[@28nhed]

First 5 minutes and I learned what I was doing all along was wrong.

[@DrIncompetent]

Haha, that's how I was too at first ;D

[@28nhed]

@@DrIncompetent I have to say. You have made my gaming better my good sir.. thanks.

[@AyushGupta-wn6zd]

i love your guide and I've been watching it, but man you say a lot of "alright" and "Okay" 😝

[@DrIncompetent]

Thanks for watching!