Factorio Base Tour - Faulkner's 10k SPM, 13,000 Hour Factory with HUGE Trains

In this video we do another Factory Base Tour, covering Faulkner's 10k SPM Megabase that uses HUGE trains with over 100 wagons, bots and belts to create a sprawling factory. There is over 13,000 hours of time on this map, and more rockets launched than I've EVER seen before! This is truly the biggest factory / map I've ever seen in my time playing Factorio. Wait until you see the all time production graph and number of rockets launched, as well as how big the actual map is.
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[@Trupen]

This is a kind of save what you could include with cv when you are applying for engineer job :D

[@Xterminator]

Haha pretty much.

[@Xterminator]

@Blind Bob This was definitely intended as a joke... Lol

[@Trupen]

​@Blind Bob No, it doesn't have any application in "real world", fizz buzz also does nothing useful and that is not their goal to solve problems like hunger in world. Creative projects like working computer in minecraft or 3d engine in factorio are something difference that shows how passionate you are about computers, problem solving, algorithms and definitely stand out in a pile of boring CV. Of course if you want to get a job as a engineer you have to have necessary skill and save like this can by only cherry on top :)

[@vaxton]

@Blind Bob if someone has a save like this, it means he will be the best at any job.

[@najatski]

@Blind Bob for fuck sakes do you honestly think that this wasn't a joke?

[@justinborriello5740]

my whole factory fits in one of those trains

[@Edmar_Thorn]

a single solar patch is larger than any base I've made..........

[@shaneschenkel4324]

I hope, one day, in the far future, to have a base large enough to fill one of those trains.

[@egeguney6163]

Lmao

[@mennoltvanalten7260]

Fun fact: When Germany invaded the USSR, hundreds of factories producing war material such as ammunition were evacuated over the Ural mountains. A single ammunition factory that was evacuated used about 7000 rail cars. So, this is still nothing compared to a real factory... either that or the Soviets hadn't figured out making rail cars bigger on the inside yet.

[@renni9813]

Notice how the game still runs well, thats called good game design.

[@rrralpop157]

By far the best dev , hands down. I would pay them a few more times for this game quality

[@finalcam1740]

Because he is using solar power instead of nuclear I believe. Still nice.

[@handsomejack697]

Because its 2D

[@finalcam1740]

@@handsomejack697 borderlands fan over here doesn't think a pc can be taxed by processes other than 3d graphics 🤣 Also, I'm a bl fan too 🙂

[@finalcam1740]

@@kibkatara1204 DLSS is a feature that dynamicly reduces resolution to achieve stable frame rates so that is a moot point. Also while the game is not demanding graphicly it has a lot of moving parts compared to a typical game that focuses on graphics and simple systems in comparison, and the fps only gets low when your base is ridiculously huge with an extreme amount of calculations. Also no one is running graphicly demanding games at 100fps at 8k and RTX turned on, just not a possibility right now so that is just a big exaggeration.

[@alanwatts8239]

When your factory is so big that your trains become your belts

[@3pg4kd]

THE. FACTORY. MUST. GROW.

[@scottbarbary5112]

Damn straight THE FACTORY MUST GROW.

[@DEmentED72]

You mean: SPICE. MUST. FLOW! Right? :-)

[@VinyZikss]

at that point i think it has already grown alright

[@noahzenn2353]

I like to watch these megabase tours while playing my own factory. Those destruction warnings get me every time

[@DavidLindes]

Haha... "oh no! ... oh, never mind." :D

[@zombieshuffle2680]

This base is nuts! Now I want to build a 100 car train base. The scale of it is just wild, 2.1M rockets! Props to the builder, this is an absolutely amazing base.

[@sedivh0]

This base literally sent more satelites and rockets into space in this video than I did in my entire Factorio career

[@scottbarbary5112]

4.6+ Million have now been launched. You should come back to the fold. ONE OF US. ONE OF US, ONE OF US

[@antonyhillson1273]

I'm so new to it do you think i should play peaceful mode till I get the fundamentals??

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@antonyhillson1273 No the biters leave you alone until you make enough pollution to annoy them. By then you will be well into the game.

[@sedivh0]

@@scottbarbary5112 I absolutely love the rather more realistic freighter trains and it's definitely inspiring me to try out something similar to this! I have nowhere near the experience nor knowledge of the game yet but I'll more than gladly dedicate my free time to learn and have fun with this concept

[@captainbube1217]

@@scottbarbary5112bro your launch statistic sounds more like the "rockets launched by all players statistic xD you are truly barbaric (in a good way)

[@mortenmadsen8461]

WOW... 0.15 Factorio survivor... a lot of stuff changed since then. Really impressed - no mods - no trains pileups - 10k SPPM and still 35 FPS - Insane. And I really liked the long trains that get all mats for production in each cargo wagon and works as a depot on arrival. Makes total sense to have huge amount of mats on huge trains when used like this. Less belts, less trains running about = better efficiency and FPS... a lot of smart stuff here... and agree on oil production - no robots needed...

[@yiorgospolonyfis5288]

As someone new to Factorio... this broke my brain. Im stupid now. Thanks a lot

[@Xterminator]

Lol. If it makes you feel better, it kind of broke my brain too a bit.

[@VeganCheeseburger]

Don't feel too bad - this person played for years to get to this point. They weren't born with Factorio ability

[@michajastrzebski4383]

@@VeganCheeseburger Factorio ability is one thing. Sheer will to continue, and persistence ability is quite damned another on that guy O_O

[@comraddisc2783]

Just watch the trailer - this should help.

[@QemeH]

This factory consumes *2 million units* of water *per minute* - for a total of *1 trillion* during play time. To put that into perspective: If we assume that one unit of water is a standard _barrel_ then this base consumes the entire waterflow of the Niagara river at its mouth (or Niger, Uruguay, Detroit, etc. - they are all in the same ballpark) - i.e. if you put the falls into this base, the basin would stay empty.

[@Xterminator]

That is crazy! Really interesting comparison, thanks!

[@scottbarbary5112]

That is a totally cool stat thank you. I love the Niagara Falls if anyone hasn't been then go. It was one of the few things I have seen in this world that was better than the hype.

[@bellicose4653]

I think 50 units would be a standard barrel. We know this because that's how much water you need to make a barrel of water in game

[@alanwatts8239]

Bah, he only launched 2,181,601 more rockets than me.

[@Xterminator]

No biggie right?

[@lars6261]

Actually within the 40 minutes of this video he launched another 168 rockets.

[@mikkihintikka7273]

at what part of the video?

[@SoMuchFacepalm]

@@mikkihintikka7273 The Rocket Silo Stats in the top left was creeping up throughout the video.

[@Qabra-]

101 GW!?! You could time travel about 83 times with that kind of power!

[@Xterminator]

Great Scott! Haha I got a good laugh from this. Thanks!

[@scottbarbary5112]

Is that what we call going back to a previous save game :-)

[@InservioLetum]

@@scottbarbary5112 pretty sure that's Groundhog Day. We should ask Venkman before he croaks.

[@kensavage7657]

8:20 - I, recently, celebrated sending rocket number 1000 to space in my main Factorio game. I'm a little behind these guys...... :)

[@wlmckinnon]

Monumental. Insane. Beyond our realm. Base optimization before this may as well be fighting over nanometers in a mile race. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have discovered peak performance.

[@Haze1434]

I love how they have so many resources that there are just untapped ore patches everywhere, and the base it just built over them. I have yet to play a game of Factorio where I haven't sucked every patch I can find dry.

[@scottbarbary5112]

They will all be used. I jumped over many of the early patches because they just use to be used up too fast. Now productivity is 14000 I am coming back to 20 Million patches as they are worth it. They tend to last several months which makes putting a train on them worthwhile. The occasion patch has been built over and I might not go back from them. A few times I was just desperate for power and plonked down solar over the top of a patch.

[@therealjammie2371]

Fun fact, this man is so insane with the rocket launches that he has launched about 323 times the number of sattelites into orbit in one save, compared with the total number of sattelites that are currently in Earth's orbit. The Kessler syndrome would be insane on that planet.

[@Agnathor]

The beautiful part about this base on top of all the things xterminator went thru is that most of the enviroment is intact and there is no excessive usage of concrete.

[@scottbarbary5112]

I like having trees around things. I do wish we could plant trees. Seeing trains run through tress is the best however fast forward to now and basically all the trees are dead or dying, from polution.

[@tomsan45]

some people are meant to build a factory. some are to cook spagetthi.

[@sky0dragon]

I make a good spaghetti

[@tomsan45]

@@sky0dragon hey man, all spaghetti are good, i mean no offense!

[@comraddisc2783]

Not only i cook a good spaghetti, i also never ever overcook it.

[@afacelessname1378]

When the video started my initial reaction was 'Holu Shut'... I'm sure i wasn't alone.

[@EllipticGeometry]

One thing to say about these junctions is that many trains are so huge that common sense doesn’t apply anymore. The short chain sections of traditional junctions are irrelevant when the trains are so much longer still. And then what are you going to do if you have two junctions within 800 meters of each other? Correct signaling would put them all in the same chain section. That’s the scope of junction design now. You can see how unconventional arrangements come into play here. I imagine throughput could still be good with so many wagons traveling back to back, and with long sections guaranteeing a decent average speed despite slow acceleration whenever it’s free.

[@Xterminator]

Yup you are exactly right. Sometimes with these custom super long trains, the typical junction design goes out the window a bit

[@trippybruh1592]

Just wow... not millions but Billions of raw resources. I can’t fathom even just getting into Factorio it’s just exciting to see how far you can push this game.

[@mrpocock]

Really impressive base. I do love these train 2 train builds, and this is by far the largest of them I've seen

[@Xterminator]

Yeah. The two station builds seems to becoming more popular. I think it works quite well if done correctly.

[@WoJoFe]

@Matthew Pocock two train builds?

[@tahsheemusman8047]

Motivation over 1million rockets...!

[@KG_Grandpa]

wouw this base, LOVE how you use chain signals for your trains (not many do that). Its a insparation for me!!! My self doing my last expansion for 1k spm maybe 10k spm

[@DarthQuietus]

Some people have a PC running constantly to mine crypto. This guy has his PC running to make science packs.

[@Xterminator]

I like his style!

[@Ramash440]

I like how the outskirts of his map are completely scanned through artillery.

[@scottbarbary5112]

I am trying to push the bitters back beyond the pollution cloud but it's proving very difficult the cloud just expands at this point with no end in site.

[@Ramash440]

@@scottbarbary5112 Guess that's what happens after 2 years on the same map. At this point you gotta bite the bullet and thicken your defenses.

[@GKStarcraft]

Me with less than 80 hours just learning to optimize trains. I would say half of that is idle time.

[@Matt-sk6hi]

Me with only 1000 hours in the game being humbled and blown away by the largest base I have ever seen. This is possibly the most optimized game on the market.

[@Xterminator]

Absolutely! I love how optimized Factorio is, because it allows you to do crazy things just like this base!

[@scottbarbary5112]

It is crazy the things you can do in this game. I love the fact they let you play the game and build until your CPU wants to cry. I wish more games were like this. Factorio has kinda spoiled nearly all other games for me.

[@Matt-sk6hi]

@@scottbarbary5112 Yah it's easily my favorite game of all time. The only games that even come close are FromSoftware games and Baldur's Gate 3. Maybe satisfactory, but that's mostly because my fiance plays it.

[@koltonhenricksen4173]

My god... its beautiful.

[@sirusmaj]

Food for thought, that 6.6M coal ore patch will net 792.6M ore with that productivity bonus.

[@scottbarbary5112]

One of the very few things not shown on the video. The map extends out to the west for about an 8 - 10 minute train ride. Over there I'm on 400M patches so that's 48 Billion per patch. It's where most of the Steel trains come from.

[@lukakorsic5820]

@@scottbarbary5112 :O

[@sirusmaj]

That is incredible! Very cool 😎.

[@puritan7473]

@@scottbarbary5112 Is this your base?? Absolutely awesome job man, thanks for sharing!! I look forward to seeing it again in 2 years time :D

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@puritan7473 It is my base and glad you enjoyed it. I am still playing it I just clicked over to 2.8 Million rockets launched and I'm about to start the 0.5 Billion Laser Turret Research.

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

540.000 Iron plates per minute, that's 300 red belts fully compressed!🤯

[@scottbarbary5112]

Anyone got a BP for a 300 to 300 Balancer? 😊

[@cyruspowers7355]

That base is at the scale where it would still be very impressive if cheats were used. It's insane.

[@fiskrond9212]

this may sound like a cliche but irl I just caught myself slightly open-mouthed with a roll-up ciggie stuck to my bottom lip.. It's taken me 2 weeks to get a green science automated.. If they do this for fun.. what do these guys do for their day job??.. I am genuinely awed in the true sense of the word

[@scottbarbary5112]

Keep at it. The trick is construction bots and a build train. All of a sudden the speed you build at will increase drastically as you realise you can automate building your automated base.

[@ramonbakker7501]

rewatching this for the 3rd time damn id love a copy of the save file

[@scottbarbary5112]

It's in the top pinned comment. For some reason I can't post the link anymore.

[@lolmao500]

Holy fuck. Half a billion science pack for one research

[@Sowells]

No wonder the green research bar looks like it's stalled. I've actually have had several downloaded megabase saves with a lot of production stalling in the lab department like it will stop making purple science or stop making multiple ones or whole sections will just stop and I clearly don't see what's up with them doing that after an hour plus of trying to trace the problem. I'm glad he went to the lab section of this map so I could see that the labs were working in this video's save. After I saw the labs working I downloaded this map, haha.

[@nein3405]

i like trains (and im also impressed by the base in that vid, 10k really is a feat)

[@scottbarbary5112]

I like trains too. On reddit I once described Factorio as the best Train game out there. It's because they're doing real work not picking up goods generated by an algorithm.

[@АлексейСташков-р8м]

I'm scared to imagine, how mutch time will took such progress with bob/angel mods :D

[@finalcam1740]

Why use productivity in miner when it has 12,000% already. Adds 30% only, beyond miniscule. Better to put speed modules to boost the speed of that 12k%. I guess either way it doesn't matter.

[@scottbarbary5112]

Your absolutely right. If you spotted some miners with prod mods in they are rare and not normal. Sometimes when I get down to the last dregs of a patch there isn't quiet enough to keep the smelters running flat out. When that's the case if I have some prod or speed modules on me and I'm passing I'll bang them in just to keep it going flat out for a few days longer. At the start of a new patch when I chuck down like 50 miners to cover it all I never bother with any modules at all.

[@finalcam1740]

@@scottbarbary5112 that's a good point. It's so massive there will be oversight or simply you didn't have speed modules on you when you placed them and why return when they are already churning out ore. On second thought them belts are already completely maxed I'm sure speed won't help either lol. Thanks.

[@MiguelAbd]

This is absolutely incredible. Holy shit.

[@Hawokki]

I'm even more amazed how optimized this game is to run this kind of builds with no issues :D

[@scottbarbary5112]

It is amazing. I recently tried to find a train game that was as good as factorio and anything that had close to this scale ran like a dog. Remembering that they don't have to animate inserters and manufacturing.

[@nicvallecillo7557]

Just got this game 2 days ago. I have no idea what I'm doing here. This looks diabolical, I'm truly terrified considering I have an extreme desire towards farm/crafting/building games... and time to blow after work but need to crash by 11pm.. Pray for my well being. This game is great for defending Alzheimer's right?

[@scottbarbary5112]

I don't know I don't remember who I am anymore.

[@misterfister8641]

at 12:01 "[Cheating ore patches into the game] is certainly a viable way to [build huge bases] if they want..." WHILE A FUCKING BLUE CHIP TRAIN TAKES MORE THAN TWENTY FRIGGIN SECONDS TO SNAKE OUT OF THE VICINITY. Blue chips stack to 100 each, 40 stacks per wagon, times 100 wagons equals HOLY SHIT FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND BLUE CHIPS IN A SINGLE SHIPMENT!

[@scottbarbary5112]

Yellow Science supply trains are one of my favourite trains 30k light weight, 10k flying frames and 20k blue circuits. That's an expensive train.

[@LassetUnsSpielen]

mom (or any other person): "have you finished your game yet?"

[@scottbarbary5112]

Just another million rockets pleeeaaaasssseeee

[@anthonybarker1843]

Rookie numbers! Only a trillion space science a second??? lol

[@scottbarbary5112]

Your right. I will try to do better in the future.

[@factor7791]

How do the solar panels work with all those satellites blocking out the sun?

[@scottbarbary5112]

I have always imagined that the satellites actually orbit other planets and send back science. Which we then bottle ????

[@sahaynam6470]

Just got this - reminds me very much of MAX, which is one of my favorite games. Loving it

[@Edmar_Thorn]

would love to have seen the kill counts and logistics networks of this monstrosity :o

[@scottbarbary5112]

17.2M behemoth biters. 21M behemoth spiters.

[@isdirtdirty8238]

@@scottbarbary5112 this is awesome, are you still playing in this world?

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@isdirtdirty8238 I am infact I am about to logon to the server right now. About 5 Million rockets launched, Mining Prod is 16000% and I've done the half Billion bot speed research. Were also at 2.2 Million Solar Panels.

[@isdirtdirty8238]

@@scottbarbary5112 wowsers, how many hours have you logged now?

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@isdirtdirty8238 I have about 20k hours playing but some of that is playing other maps. It doesn't count the hours in the same way on the server so it's hard to say how many hours old the map is now.

[@FerrybigGaming]

I also have a vanilla no-cheat base that produces 10kspm, but it only uses "normal" 2-8 trains, only belts & trains for science creation, no direct insertion. Probably not as impressive as these long trains tho.

[@SimpTote]

And here I thought I was doing pretty good on my 450hr Factorio save. I am such a fool.

[@scottbarbary5112]

You are I just had a lot of time on my hands.

[@scragar]

13,675 hours is crazy to me, that's 570 days, or a little over 1½ years. I couldn't imagine leaving the game running for that kind of time.

[@scottbarbary5112]

Ohh you don't want to know my play time for Factorio now then. I've had 2 years of lockdown since that video was made.

[@Alex-bl8uh]

@@scottbarbary5112 please share an update somewhere and let me know about it! Thanks!

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@Alex-bl8uh Well Unfortunately the map is dead. In the end I had launched just over 5 Million Rockets and had Mining Prod of over 16000%. However it turns out that factorio has a technical limit to how long a Map can last which is 4 Billion ticks of UPS. There is a work around however you lose all your stats and there are some problems, so I decided to take a break from the map and play a new map. I'm waiting for the expansion and then I may start a new map.

[@Alex-bl8uh]

@@scottbarbary5112 woow crazy!! Thanks for updating me. 🙂

[@anon1963]

​@@scottbarbary5112 ah so they are using unsigned int for storing it? could've used long double, which would suffice

[@ildar.ishalin.chelovek]

By the end of this video there were 168 rockets launched

[@scottbarbary5112]

I love that stat never thought of that. It's now over 3.6 Million.

[@reef6826]

the warnings scared the shit out of me lmaoo

[@aartbluestoke3352]

should have pressed 'L' to bring up all the logistics networks to peek at their size.

[@scottbarbary5112]

They are for the most part very small. Just covering the mining patch. The main production area has a large one top and bottom just to deliver train fuel.

[@djsnowpdx]

Maybe there don’t need to be new video games anymore. I’ll just play Factorio forever...

[@scottbarbary5112]

Factorio has ruined me, I look at games on steam and think "will I get more than 500 hours of fun out of this and then don't buy it.(or I buy it and then never get round to playing it)" In the last about 4 years I have played Factorio and a few hundred hours of Planetside2 and that's it. Just recently I bought DSP and I have played that a fair bit.

[@ryanotte6737]

Huh, so all those fictional concepts in movies, books, etc, of a factory planet could indeed become true. Maybe somewhere out there our universe holds civilizations that have accomplished this. The interstellar Walmarts just receive shipments from these planets for anything that is needed. 😋

[@arcade5765]

i hope that doesnt happen to earth, would be really lame. we should instead use mars as our 'factory planet'. we just have to be patient until we unlock cheap space transportation, lol

[@ryanotte6737]

@@arcade5765 Ah, the Warhammer 40,000 approach to galactic empire building.

[@arcade5765]

i've never actually played that game. sounds right up my alley though, if it includes building galactic empires

[@zotsky]

this is how the combine homeworld looks on half life lmao

[@spagotcha2061]

The base must *e x p a nd*

[@ONetDanny]

Verrrrry nice, can i have the save please?

[@hikari583]

God it's just terrifying 😂

[@Xterminator]

That was a bit of my thought too lol

[@SeriousMoh]

This sort of almost makes me want to quit. But then again, I need to build!

[@wolfflaarcen6476]

Some of those bonus percentages sound like Diablo 3...

[@Xterminator]

Ahaha they really do...

[@codygroening6282]

So you’re saying that if I would have spent 6k hours playing factorio instead of monster hunter world and the division two I could have been making the worlds largest factorio factory?! I feel cheated by life that I only recently discovered this gem of a game. Myself I can only Clame to have spent a pitiful 20ish hours total on the game I haven’t even made a real effort to complete the base game I’ve just been starting new worlds with different mods and messing around in multiplayer

[@scottbarbary5112]

It's all good. There is still time. 5 Million rockets launched is the number to beat.

[@dann1kid]

All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!

[@scottbarbary5112]

I failed that mission so many times before I got the hang of it.

[@agentbarron3945]

I guessed 1.3 million rockets launched and was still way off, thats insane

[@scottbarbary5112]

By the time I shut the server down it was 5 million.

[@nathanielyuzon6444]

omg! 2m+ rockets!

[@chakal8778]

I got stressed out looking at it 😂

[@Xterminator]

Lol! It is quite a lot to take in

[@chakal8778]

@@Xterminator but that megabase is impressive

[@mortenmadsen8461]

Additional comment on FPS.. move from nuclear to solar power is also a way to get better FPS as solar unfortunately is still in Factorio 1.1 way better for FPS than nuclear power... I go steam - nuclear until main base (and often 2nd intermediate base) is complete and up - then transition to solar when solar train is up and running fully and solar power is more than nuclear power. Sad as I love the nuclear plant layouts and look. Not many uses of centrifuges and they are cool looking machines. And on top of this - using console command to remove pollution really helps FPS - and at this stage both pollution and biters are not needed and can be removed to help the fps... Removing pollution actually helps a lot more than removing biters FYI....

[@scottbarbary5112]

Your right about removing pollution but the point of this map is 100% vanilla with no mods. So pollution and bitters stay even though they eat up the UPS. I also love nuclear and I'm sad it has to go. One of the changes the game could do with is a use for Uranium in the normal science production. I have often put forward that you could use nuclear train fuel instead of rocket fuel for lunching rockets and then it uses less actual rocket fuel to launch a rocket.

[@justinclark9258]

Only map you can use 1k hour tab on... *doesn't click 1k hour tab* 🤬

[@bellicose4653]

Yeah this base tour was very rambling and chaotic. Probably should've prepared some notes first before making the video.

[@Antichrist696]

This is sick :) love it

[@AragornCZ]

Many viewers probably Love this content. And knowing that's an year cmnt in. But man cmon, was loughing so hard over 41:04 with a soft voice over this. 🙃 Keep up great spirit. 👍🏻

[@Redsammeh]

Less than 200 lights! You won't see this from space 😂

[@scottbarbary5112]

Can't see the planet for all the satellites.

[@bellicose4653]

So you're saying N. Korea has a secret mega factory??

[@EnchikO]

10:46 13675 playtime (avg 6 hours per day ) = 6 year :D

[@scottbarbary5112]

6 Hours a day that's like part time.

[@tvujtatata]

How do you get 8 hours a day for 4.5 years since launch?

[@scottbarbary5112]

By not having a job and being home looking after my girlfriend who is ill.

[@ED-yy4te]

How is it possible for the sunlight to reach the surface of that planet when the sky is covered with satellites?

[@Xterminator]

"Our satellites will blot out the sun!".

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

Train throughput is probably so low (like in real life) that junction/intersection "performance" doesn't really matter at all.

[@scottbarbary5112]

It matters an incredible amount. That's why there is that massive junction from the main stacker that allows often 5 trains to leave the stacker at once. Sometimes I've altered a junction and made it better and seen huge improvements to the base causing it to run low on power and had to put down another 500k solar panels.

[@SimonWoodburyForget]

@@scottbarbary5112 I don't think you understand. I'm saying it doesn't matter as much as when using many smaller trains. It's fairly logical that train throughput is proportional to the number of trains. This means with longer trains you need fewer trains and thereby need a lower train throughput.

[@intrifix4536]

Tour starts at 12:30

[@MikhailFederov]

Is it a thing in the Factorio community to allow others to download your save and poke around? Just 10 minutes into the video and I've noticed about 30 things I could be doing better.

[@Xterminator]

Some people out their save up to the public to download and look at. In this case Faulkner approached me purely for doing a tour. I can ask if they'd be willing to let add a public download for the save in the description, but I never do that without the creators permission first.

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@Xterminator I'm happy for you to do that. There are infact older versions of the base publicly available from where I have reported bugs on the factorio forums and posted copies of my base to help them diagnose the bug.

[@EnragedRabisu]

I would love to walk around this base if either of you end up publicly hosting it somewhere. This base looks nuts.

[@nein3405]

"Just 10 minutes into the video and I've noticed about 30 things I could be doing better" so where is your 10kSPM megabase then? or are you one of those who just know everything better, but dont actually get anything done.

[@wellendowedplatypus9024]

@@nein3405 Learn to read or better yet, keep quiet. They are noticing things in this megabase that showed them what they could improve in their own base.

[@fredrikhalvorsrd9823]

meanwhile i'm struggling to make blue science packs

[@scottbarbary5112]

Keep at it. It gets even more fun after Blue Science.

[@elric19765]

I just wanted to let you know that the link to your factorio blueprints and mods links back to the home page on your website

[@Xterminator]

Oh shoot. I'll look into that. Thanks!

[@zyto7904]

What's the point in using productivity modules in most of the assemblers he's using when he already has near-infinite resources? Wouldn't putting in speed modules instead be better?

[@Xterminator]

It will still helps with not requiring as much input ingredients so there is less strain on the train and bot / belt systems. And also depending on the item being made, putting prod Modules in the assemblers and speed beaconing them can actually produce more items per Minute than full speed.

[@scottbarbary5112]

There is this mis conception that 12000% is like having infinite resource it's not. Since the video went up I have run out 3 Copper, 1 Iron and 1 Stone patch and because about 6 months ago I put a bunch of miner arrays on copper patches around my base I can see them all running out at about the same time probably in the next few weeks. Xterm is also correct in his comment that a fully beaconed assembler actually makes slightly more per second with prod mods in it but most important is it still means less UPS is being used. UPS is EVERYTHING when building a megabase and is my most important resource..

[@zyto7904]

@@scottbarbary5112 Thanks for the explanation.

[@TritiumHD]

does it still run? how far are they with the researches?

[@scottbarbary5112]

Unfortunately no it is no longer running. The game has a max time a map can be played which is 4 billion ticks. I hit that point last year and although there is a work around you lose all stats. I took this as a sign I'd played the map long enough and stopped. In the end I had over 5 million rockets launched and was well over 16000% mining prod.

[@TritiumHD]

@@scottbarbary5112 thx sad, new one in planing?

[@Malikor]

"so we dont get bugged by that"

[@turbo9284]

Hi, what was your CPU on the moment of recording this video?

[@xXGalacticSniper50Xx]

Yeah but its not making 1.21 gigawatts so close but unfortunately im not impressed. Fr thought that base is amazing holy crap

[@xXGalacticSniper50Xx]

Woah that was fast dude 😂thanks

[@InciniumVGC]

Probably a noob question but how are they not running out of ore on the map with that kind of production?

[@Xterminator]

So he has such a high level of the Mining Productivity research that it effectively makes the Ore patches infinite. Each level of mining prod research adds 10% of productivity to miners (basically a free piece of Ore for every 10 mining cycles). So if you have level 10 of that research, you're basically getting 2 Ore the cost of 1, effectively doubling the Ore patch value. He had hundreds of levels of it, so even if he was mining on a 10mil richness Ore patch, he would get probably 200mil Ore from. Hope that makes sense. :)

[@scottbarbary5112]

Also the maps are huge. A basic map goes a million squares in each direction. As big as my base is it only covers a fraction of that area. As well as the massive mining bonus I have which is currently lvl 1310.

[@patrickchristensen9842]

6,6m=792.660.000 OP?

[@scottbarbary5112]

Not sure what you saying here. Your correct in your maths if I mined that patch I would get 792.66 Million Coal back. 1191 Research = 11910% bonus = 119.1 times plus 1. so 6.6Mx120.1 = 792.66 Million.

[@andrewn3110]

can i download this map somewhere

[@scottbarbary5112]

There is a link in the top comment. Not sure if it works anymore or not.

[@PhuongNguyen-zb2en]

What the fuck 2 million satellites?????? I got 9 and I still thought it was a success

[@franciscoignaciopetrone5679]

13,000 hours on a single map.. WOW.

[@Xterminator]

I couldn't believe it either at first. Crazy!

[@franciscoignaciopetrone5679]

@@Xterminator I mean I could easily tell that all my games (and I have alot) in my Steam Library doesn't even get me to 2,000 hours in total.. and this guy with ONE map.. and the patience.. well that's another different level!

[@Sowells]

@@franciscoignaciopetrone5679 I'm wondering if this was done by a group of people and not just one person.

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@Sowells It's just one person, me. He does say that at one point but I think the fact that he uses "they" as a pronoun in the video seems to confuse people. To be fair one thing we never discussed was if I was a He or a She so he didn't know.

[@jefferyyeager7934]

can i see the 13k hour in game?

[@justmenate]

This is the oddest time waste I've ran across

[@Amingame2030]

13,000 Hour

[@dabalciunas]

Xterm, would you please provide a link to the savegame file?

[@scottbarbary5112]

It's in the top comment. I can't post the link because for some reason adding a url stop the reply from posting.

[@BobDole1216]

No mention of the 1.0 TRILLION water consumed. 0_o

[@scottbarbary5112]

There has been several comments about that. Xterm mentioned he might do a follow up on the base as I'm still playing it. If he does I'll compile a list of things you all think he has missed.

[@BobDole1216]

@@scottbarbary5112 Didn't see 'em, sorry for adding to the broken record. Serious props on the dedication; it's awesome to have something with so much time invested and it's cool to see how far the game can actually go. I'd guess this world has low-key transcended into a sentimental comfort by this point.

[@scottbarbary5112]

@@BobDole1216 It's a home away from home.

[@danielgsport]

Any save download for this? I’d love to check it out

[@scottbarbary5112]

It's in the top comment. I can't post the link because for some reason adding a url stop the reply from posting.

[@MarkSeve]

um...WOW!

[@arleendo]

We need an update on this base

[@scottbarbary5112]

Roughly 5 Million rockets now launched and it now does about 12k spm. 2.2 Million solar panels producing 137Gw at max output. Next plan is more solar as the base has started to peak at 96Gw and I actually had a brown out the other day. I'm slowly replacing all bot mining with direct into train mining. Mining Productivity is now 16000% and I have done the half Billion upgrade for bot speed.

[@arleendo]

Wow! This is nuts. Thanks for the update and congrats on the base.

[@Agent.J]

I would just be happy if i could launch a rocket at least

[@irrelevant_noob]

Yes that looks so daunting when we're still in the yellow-belt mindset. :-) But carry on and you'll eventually get there. ^^

[@agaapitodisousa6014]

i have done a base 10,000 of science per minute in less than 150 hours and designing all the modules, i don't know if anyone will surpass this, i'm serius , i'm looking on youtube for something better and can't find it. any info ?¿? For adding more information, even though I don't think anyone is going to read this, I have played factorio for so long and came up with a brilliant, simple idea that completely scales the game. You start by placing everything in a random, disorganized way, and the first exponential improvement is to create a main bus. The second improvement is a modular base that outplays the main bus. I thought, what if I could build a module of modules base, just like the exponent of that? And yes, it's possible. In fact, I have designed three different versions. It's a module of modules that produces 1000 science per minute. If you set up 10 of those ( the time it takes to set it is 10 min per module of modules approx), you can produce 10,000 science per minute. And it's infinitely scalable. You can add another module of modules and have 11,000, or even a module of modules of modules and have 10,000 per module set up. I don't know, does anyone know what type of bases are the largest? Sorry for the spelling mistakes, I don't know English well

[@101survivalist]

"Th- this amount of rockets is just unbelievable to me. Uh, and how this is possible? Well, a little background here. *loads up TEDTalk on autism*" Jk I love this world, I love this game, and love this community

[@scottbarbary5112]

Harsh but fair. 4.1 Million+ Rockets launched to date. Recently redesigned the Rocket Launch area to not use bots and now it's broken.