Factorio Tutorial - 12 Tips, Tricks & Features You May Not Know About [Contains Spoilers]

Xterminator goes over 12 Factorio Tips, Tricks & Features you may not know. All these are shown and tested in version 0.16 stable. Includes fun things like launching yourself in a rocket, as well as more useful tips like Splitter filters and quick replacing belts!
Full list:
- You can launch yourself in a rocket with car/tank/train it's inventory
- Launch Fish to get achievement
- Pass Science Packs between labs
- Read entire ore patch amount by wiring a drill on it
- Get free wire when placing blueprint with robots
- Quick replace signals
- Quick replace belts, underground, splitter
- Filter Splitters
- Hook offshore pump to logistic network
- Landfill offshore pump to get water well pump (still pumps fine).
- Burn wooden boxes, and wooden power poles as fuel
- Fluids will drain back into buildings
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[@gman8771]

I can't believe after like, 750 hours in the game I didn't know about 9 of these. I was really expecting a "press alt to see inputs" type hints... Well done

[@Xterminator]

Glenn Manning Glad it helped! There are so many little things to learn in the game, it's crazy. After 1000s of hours there is still some stuff I'm learning

[@TonyMontana185]

Weird... I only didn't know the first two and the last one after 15h into the game... This is a great video for absolute beginners, but anyone who completed the main mission and played around in free play should know most of these already.

[@pocarski]

Who in their right mind would think "Hey let me just stick this circuit wire onto a drill"

[@waity5856]

I knew 6 of them

[@waity5856]

I didn’t know 6 of them

[@samuelo5052]

Just a funny story with the labs feature. I was playing on a multiplayer game with friends and one of them was in charge of the science labs. He set up around 50 something labs and connected ALL of them in a giant web with inserters. It is the most impractical setup ever... but it is so fun to watch a single pack be moved around in a endless loop!

[@originaldahha]

my friend did the same thing... then i decided to add lights and sound to the inserters so that every time science was transferred you got a seizure inducing drum & bass light show =D. was my favourite creation ever

[@electrum5579]

[Late] My cousin and I did a spiral of about 64 labs and it's hypnotizing to watch

This game amazes me every time! It shows that the developers put proper effort into developing an awesome game.

[@purplexsium]

The fluid backtraking works if you have low amount of the liquid in the pipes, if its not connected to anything, if you dissasemble the pipe at the end, the rest of the pipes will have a higher amount of fluid

[@AzaleaJane]

I love the ore patch thing. That can let me use combinators and lights to put a "fuel gauge" of sorts next to resource patches!

[@pauljs75]

Another thing that may be useful to know... Artillery trains can store 100 shells on-board. Artillery turrets only hold 15 shells if manually filled. Other than that, they're functionally the same as far as I know. Also it's possible to set-up a parking station to use inserters to load and unload stuff from a vehicle. I haven't seen it as a common thing on too many maps but it's useful. (Trains is obvious, but I'm talking about cars and tanks.) Sometimes I use those two things together. :)

[@ryanotte6737]

That is fun to know, though, regarding the car and tanks being able to be filled via the inserters. These Factorio devs seem to think of everything!

[@Anson_AKB]

nice and useful tips !!! here are some additional hints for these tips: tip 3 : even when labs research a bit less, it probably is quite useful to only feed one lab and not need lots of belts, splitters etc. I found a comb like pattern to be useful, eg having one line of 10 labs, and then have two lines of chained labs from each of those 10 labs. the resulting additional 60 labs work at 99%+ and even the "main chain" still works quite well if their chain is built with 3 stack inserters for each link. that "main chain" can also be fed from multiple points, but then requires filter inserters to avoid labs "stealing" bottles back and forth between each other. this applies to unbeaconed labs only since 50+ beaconed and moduled labs need more than half a belt of each science anyway. tip 4 : mining drills can also be switched on and off. it's a bit complicated, but i have built a mining field that first only mines the spots with most resources (above average ore) and then enables more and more miners. result is that an ore field doesn't slowly die, but instead starts mining slowly at first (eg while still building a furnace array) and becoming faster later until (watch out for this!) the entire ore field is suddenly depleted at the same time :-) tip 5 : since wires are already free when built with blueprints and since you don't get wires back when removing them, i don't consider it to be too cheaty using a mod that makes production of red and green wires free (this does NOT apply to copper wires that are needed as intermediates for other things), eg mods.factorio.com/mod/freenetworkwiring or mods.factorio.com/mod/free_circuit_wires tip 7 : quick replace of normal and underground belts and splitters is nice but can be annoying when replacing lots of them by dragging (eg when upgrading the tier). there is a mod that i like a lot: it still allows you to quick replace any of them by clicking, but sticks to only belts when you start replacing a belt tile and then drag along the belt: mods.factorio.com/mod/Slower_Quickreplace tip 8 : when using a splitter to merge two lines, i set the output filter to "fish" on the non-connected output side to avoid having "stuck items" there. someone else who did it that way too even created a mod that replaces the fish icon with an invisible icon to make it look nicer (i don't use that mod since i don't want an invisible icon in my storage chests that i also block by filtering with fish)

[@michelguenette8998]

I am impressed with your use of the circuits to even mine an ore patch. Ingenious! Do you still place everything tight or do you allow for room between the miners? Their hardware footprint is 3x3, but the ore gathering footprint is 5x5. MadZuri mentioned that summing over all the miners will introduce too much "potential" ore because of overlaps. How do you overcome that problem? I have seen the deconstruction planner used as a placeholder, instead of fish, to do the same thing. As long as it is something that should not be on a belt, it will behave correctly. Also, based on the recent Factorio Friday Facts, it might not be possible to use blueprint as objects, so fish might become the de facto item to filter on splitters.

[@Anson_AKB]

you have to be very careful to not feed back or merge the wrong signals when counting the total amount of ore and the amount of ore of a single miner and at the same time needing ore signals to enable the miners. remember that the input and output connections of a miner are at the same location and can't be separated from each other. the whole setup requires some additional combinators for each miner, and thus i was glad when i finally could put the miner, power poles, belts, and all the circuitry in a small 5x5 area which automatically avoided the "overlapping problem" you mentioned :-) the only tiles which might have overlapped were the tiles under a belt which could have been shared by two miners. the final blueprint was very modular and included everything for one miner, even providing a count of +1 to the number of miners with available ore for computing the average later. it has been a while that i built it (maybe in an old 0.15 or even 0.14 map), but except for that blueprint, it probably only needed one combinator outside the mining field to compute the avarage. of course, this was more of a fun project than useful since having a few combinators for each miner is some kind of overkill, and making that blueprint (avoiding all those feedbacks) probably took as much time as mining all the ore field the usual way :-) but that's exactly what makes factorio such a great game :-) blueprints as objects: i haven't yet seen that info, and to use all that stuff related to recursive blueprints, blueprints *have* to be objects that can be moved by belts, inserters, bots, etc and also be used as signals. Anyway and strangely, using decon planners instead of fish didn't occur to me, although having a red block would clearly be an indicator for something blocked, and less probable than a fish that might come from a fish farm to provide health. thanks for that idea! :-)

[@Mice-stro]

6:00 this feature is great for perfectly merging belts. Just put the filter to somethign you dont have running on that line on the OPPOSING side to where you want the objects to go, and it will merge it better than just a conveyor to the side

[@NathanGracie-Raitt]

This. I have been using arrays of filter inserters to achieve the same result, so this just changed my (factorio) life. Thanks.

[@Draygarth]

New to the game, wouldn't have thought to chain feed labs out of a single box. I was feeding them out of conveyor belts and was having trouble once I needed more than 1 kind of science. That is going to help me so much, lol.

[@RenirGames]

helped me to allot when i first learned it! 😅👍

[@edison_ef7727]

in 0.16 if you place ghost objects they conserves red and green wire

[@Humaricslastcall]

To copy configuration between machines, shift right click on the preconfigured machine to copy and shift click on an unconfigured machine to paste. You can also paste things like recipes that require items onto logistics requester chests to fetch 3 equivalent crafts off the network by default. Inserter settings can be copied across to other inserters regardless of tier as well. I'm not sure how far this feature goes, but it's especially useful in modded environments where there are lots of fiddly bits that you have to manage.

[@racerboy916]

Yea only found this one recently saves a lot of time

[@th3warm0ng3r]

Another quick replace I just found is your mini factories. When upgrading to a yellow or blue just click it over the old one and it will keep the same settings without needing to reprogram

[@IxodesPersulcatus]

Factorio: You can launch yourself on a rocket, in a car Elon Musk: Haha, yes

[@christopherploog3310]

You can shift + left click any power pole and it will lose all its connections. Don't know what it can be used for XD

[@draksis4591]

Christopher Ploog I use that occasionally if I only want red/green wires running along a line of power poles. Purely for looks though.

[@Ipurgepeople]

This can be immensely helpful in conjunction with power switches. In a previous base I had massive smelting complexes that could smelt some absurd amount of plates if ran all at once but it required like 5GW of power just for the smelting which was a tad absurd. I set it up so when the chests were full, the train stops turned off and the power was switched off as well. The result is that as long as I don’t let my outposts run completely dry for too long (there’s some 80k storages at the smelters for each type) it uses an average of about 2GW of power. Such things can be used to mitigate pollution as well. Disconnecting the power lines and connecting them through the switch is what that feature is primarily for. :)

[@yvrelna]

It's useful in conjunction with being able to place copper wire to wire back those connections. This allows you to isolate electric networks. For me, I usually just put everything into a single electric network, so I don't find it useful to disconnect the electric network, but it seems like some people find it useful to make bases that can prioritise electric power to critical sections of the factory when damaged by biters or when the system is running low on fuel.

[@acynder1]

I use it to discriminate energy comsuption on my base alongside swiches. Like if my batts on main feed are bellow 50%, I drop mining machines; if below 40%, I drop raw ore procesing; below 30%, I drop sience and all non defense oriented receptors; and bellow 20% I start up my steam generators back up power plant.

[@krzysztofw3614]

@@yvrelna Especially when low power slows down your coal drills -> they mine less coal -> even less power -> less coal -> until your whole system collapses. It's quite funny to revive it back to working.

[@gloweye]

If you mine the water well pump, you can't replace it, but if it gets destroyed by aliens, your bots can rebuild it if they're fast enough.

[@DRY411S]

#1 I did not know thanks! #4 is a bit misleading when bare patches appear on the ore filed so there are separate detached areas of ore. 'Next up' offfshore pump can be enabled on logistics network condition, I did not know (but cannot think of a reason why I'd use it) 'Finally' I did not know thanks.

[@ultraa19941]

Xterminator, this video was very helpfull but may I please ask that you make another tutorial on circuit network. But This Time it would be cool if you covered more advanced stuff like the combinators.

[@Xterminator]

Linus Widlund I have had lots of requests for this, but I still don't understand the more advanced circuit stuff enough to give a tutorial on it.

[@maverickstclare3756]

The backdrain works with tanks too, two joined tanks 10k each turn into 1 tank 20k if you mine the other one - which is a recent change

[@DRY411S]

Does it work forwards too to remove tanks?

[@Cruz0e]

for free wires u don't need the bots, if u just blueprint (shift click) the wires are placed automatically... try it out.. for example if u put power poles and connect with red wire then blueprint it... place down the poles yourself... then put the blueprint on top of it again (without bots) and the wires will be there !

[@Cruz0e]

(thats how I copy wires when I make displays and stuff):D

[@DaemosDaen]

I knew all of these, and here's one you missed: Press L to view the inventory of a logistics network.

[@Xterminator]

DaemosDaen I've already done that one in a previous video.

[@mongocom1735]

HOLY SHIT WHAT????

[@darekvrnak6029]

tutorio factorial

[@acidjumps]

Tutorio!

[@he3004]

Sometring wrhongs

[@PvTLink234]

Me : "yes I'm so happy! New tricks!" Video : "So put a fish in the rocket..." . Me "...ok I'm out of my bed and going to work..."

[@goldenscruff7676]

You can also overlay a blueprint with wires and you get the wires for free

[@tjlambaes]

Bob Builder yea I was going to say the same thing. I've used this a lot.

[@Xterminator]

That's awesome, a very useful tip indeed!

[@andresnexuschamarra6991]

It was introduced at some point of 16 and I really loved it because my play style introduces bots very late in the game (10x science cost), and hadwiring your 10th smart loader station gets pretty annoying :P

[@Kags]

Water Well Pump huh? I wonder if that's planned to be implemented as something you can craft and place at some point. Would be very handy, even if the convenience was offset by a small power cost or something

[@Yotanido]

Knew about all but 1 and 4, although 11 is no longer true with 0.17 and I learnt about 12 just today :D The "So long and thanks for all the fish" achievement is a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The quick replace for belts is also a lot less annoying in 0.17, I find.

[@reviewreaper8508]

I am assuming 11 is the part about buring wood products because as someone having grown up with Minecraft it took me about 3 whole days before figuring out you can burn wood instead of coal and immediately being disappointed that wood products did not work. Such a shame I wonder what caused this rethinking on the devs part.

[@kyraanimfox2249]

Louder intro to balance out the loud video because I set it to Max and all of a sudden it blasted way to loud

[@waynewayoaveyard9397]

lol i love that you dont know what or where "so long thanks for all the fish" comes from also the meaning of life is 42

[@reviewreaper8508]

The most interesting take-away for me is how introcate you can make the game if you want to perfect comsumption and preserve space. But then again you could also just expand and stack infinitely in the same time with ever increasing gains. But who needs 1k of liquified oil products if you can have a pipe crossing redefined and not lose a single drop of oil in a world you are spending month on not ever even using all the close by oil ressources before advancing to another world or falling victim to real life issues. Sounds just like me. Btw ships and planes are not in the game yet but we can launch all types of trains and rockets, is that correct?

[@TheNoodlyAppendage]

2:25 it works, but its not the best, since it moves partially used bottles. Over the long term this means each lab will have about half a bottle of each thing that it can never use.

[@dantontecho]

Fucking good reference to the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[@vrtex17]

4:20 now you don't need bots to do the building. You can place the blueprint and build stuff yourself over the ghost, you'll still get free cable.

[@moviewatcher7524]

Does it also backdrain if you delete pipes from the building outward or only if you delete them toward the building?

[@erichopper4979]

Actually, the wires are put in even if you personally place the items such that they match a blueprint ghost that has the wires. You don't need to have bots do it.

[@AndriusChamentauskas]

I think that was introduced in one of 0.16 patches that's probably why he didn't know. In the past only bots gave you free wire.

[@GregEwing]

So long and thanks for all the fish! Best achievement Ever.

[@evgeniyborisov2933]

"Contains Spoilers" make me laugh

[@lakecityransom]

Reading the ore patch -- does it fail once its 5x5 space is mined (no longer connected to the ore patch), so do you have to hook them all up to get longterm consistency? In any case, I could see great use in a BP to a programmable speaker, set it to silent and have a popup alert telling you the patch is running thin.

[@plomek4706]

300h in game, still didnt launch any rocket XD only didnt know last one

[@SateLight]

there's a trick where you can make a T junction belt with only 2 belt. you use a ghost belt to do that

[@jaysdirtymusic]

a Tutorial on how to tell where the ups drain is coming from or smart trains that only go get supply's when they need to

[@TheZebinator]

The smart train can be done a few ways, one way that I do is that I "turn off" the offloading station when the offloading buffers are almost full, that means the train just sits and waits at the station before until the offloading station comes online again. The way I use it also means that I can have two iron ore stations in use at the same time and have them balanced even when using only one train. The way I make this happen is that I wire up all the buffer chests of one station so that I can read all the contents of the buffers, I then take that signal and put it in to a decider combinator which outputs a red signal if the buffer content is more than a certain number. I have this set up for iron ore which have a stack of 50 items, I use just wooden boxes which have 16 slots each and I have 4 cargo wagons which have a length of 6 tiles so that means that for each cargo wagon I can have 6 chests. This can be put in to a pretty neat formula: (Item stack size x Chest storage slots x 6) x Number of cargo wagons = Max amount of items that can be stored in the buffer chests. For me this equation looks like this: (50 x 16 x 6) x 4 = 19 200, that means that when the station is totally full the number of items is 19 200, since I don't want the station to constantly flicker between off and on I have the decider combinator set to about 18-19k items. I then put a wire from the decider combinator in to the station itself and set the station to turn off if it sees a red signal, so as long as the station is almost full it doesn't "request" a train which makes the train available for either another iron ore station or just lets it rest and not waste fuel. If you have two stations of the same kind you can make this system even smarter, here comes the balanced between stations part. So say you have two stations and you want them to be balanced so that not only one station is used, the way you do this is set up another station the exact way as the first one, so you basically have two identical copies (they don't need to look the same or unload on the same side but the wire logic should be the same). What you do next is put down one arithmetic combinators next to each row of buffer chests (only one per station, not one per wagon place) and remove the signal from the chest going to the station and place this in to the arithmetic combinator instead. This should take the item signal and just transform it to something else so that there are two different signals based on the two different stations, otherwise this won't work. I have two stations with iron ore and I have them placed next to each other, so I transform the signals into "L" for left and "R" for right but make sure you have the output amount be the same as the input amount, don't change the value to "output only one", you don't want the signal amount to change, you just want to differentiate between the two stations. What you do next is put down two decider combinators between the stations, wire up the output of each arithmetic combinator into the input of both decider combinator so that both decider combinators should be able to read both station contents. Then you set up the left decider combinator to output a red signal of one strenght if the left signal is bigger than the right signal and do the opposite to the decider combinator on the right. To test if this works, place a lamp in front of each decider combinator and wire it up to the the combinator above it (make it look for a red signal and make the lamp turn on if it sees a red signal with a strenght of more than one), the lamp that is on the same side as the station with the most items should light up, try to move some items around to the next station and see if the other lamp lights up as the item balance change to the other station, the first lamp should turn off, if all this happens you have done it right. Now you take a wire from the left decider combinator and put it in to the left station and do the same with the other, you can keep the lamp or even move the lamp to sit next the station, if you want you can enable color on the lamp, this way the lamp lights up in red when the station is turned off. The lights are not needed but it's nice to be able to see in a glance what stations are turned off, you could even wire up another light to light up green when the station is on but I won't say how that's made, you can probably figure it out on your own ;) (also I'm lazy ^^). The absolute last thing to do now is to take the signal from the first combinator, the arithmetic combinator that translates the signal into "L" or "R" and wire up the output of the arithmetic combinator in to the input of a new decider combinator, this should then output a red signal to the appropriate station with a strenght of one if the "L" or "R" signal is greater than the amount of items you want to have in the buffer area, this is the exact same as we did with the first station in the begining, only that we now use the signal for the specific station instead of the iron ore symbol. Use the formula I included in the first part to calculate how many items can fit in one station, and from there decide how many items should be missing before the station "requests" a train. If you have done everything correctly, you now have two stations that only turn on if the station is low on items and the other station has more items, this way the iron ore train will only go to the station that needs ore the most and it will sit and wait if both stations don't need ore. This system can be stacked to include more than just two stations and you can make a lot more happen with this, for example; only make the iron ore station turn on if we have enough coal in the coal station, or only turn on the iron ore station if the iron plate station is empty. Best of luck in your building and I hope you learned something :D

[@Hunne2303]

Quite easy...signals and wires...signal of ressource goes to trainstop and relayed to the train...so if me plates are low the train will start...or you set up something that keeps the signal closed until XY happens...

[@krzysztofw3614]

@@TheZebinator So the train can sit in the filling area, until a "demand" station turns both - itself and a "supply" station. This is good for handling many low consumption stations: coal, liquids, science packets, uranium (not ore). Tl;dr to read about your electronics, I can do it myself, but the idea is great, thanks :D

[@gmc9987]

If you manually build on top of a blueprint that has red or green wires in it, you'll also get those wires for free - no need to wire it up again.

[@aflixion586]

Wow, you actually know how to quick replace signals? :D

[@jadefalcon001]

Did 0.16 do away with the cargo wagon stack filter? Even with middle-click set up on my macbook I can't seem to call it up.

[@polyjohn3425]

Still works for me.

[@lokeforce8905]

How do I get achievements in the sandbox?

[@WestonPullen]

I bought a new computer and want to move an existing game on my old computer to the new computer. How would I accomplish this?

[@krzysztofw3614]

If it's not shared in Steam cloud, try copying from %appdata%\factorio\saves folder.

[@ADHDX20]

If you place concrete over water in the map editor you can tear it up and commit suicide or just put taps anywhere you want in game .

[@Gazer75]

Someone should do a megabase series using Bobs + Angels mods ;)

[@disarm2k10]

Gazer75 nilaus is doing one.. a very big one btw

[@Glowbez]

Didn't you already make one of these "tips & tricks"-videos?

[@Xterminator]

Cralle90 I've made several, but they contain different stuff in each one.

[@DAMN__________]

They should include other means of transport instead of just trains.

[@videoarchivist8546]

What's on the "BIG" pages of the crafting menu, and which mod is it? Anyone know?

[@jonathanrichards593]

Whistle Stop Factories. Xterm did a mod spotlight for it 2018-06-27.

[@videoarchivist8546]

Thank you! :D

[@swine13]

Oh thank God. If another patronising "pro tips" video told me what pressing ALT did, I was going to lose it at them. I don't see how its even a tip to tell a gamer "hey press a button and it does something". Its more of an insult, than a tip. Like: "hey, idiot, have you even ventured away from WASD, yet, you p***y?". It assumes I simply will never figure out to press alt or even press it by accident. Makes me rage lol Besides anyone who doesn't just poke and prod the buttons to see what they do can hardly call themselves a gamer, anyway. Thanks for the tips! Do you understand how signals work? Are there any good resources for how to basically program via signals? They have a binary one, so theoretically one could program signals to do anything right?

[@aratiyadav1884]

Which cheat you are using in this one

[@Mice-stro]

5:52 "All types of priorities"....... There are two xterm. Two.

[@scottwright1379]

Four*

[@havek23]

Launch a car into space like Elon lol

[@dimitrishoffmann9349]

What is the name of the cheat mod?

[@GermanLc]

Creative Mode

[@jamesday7339]

It's a console command in game

[@GermanLc]

@@jamesday7339 no

[@jamesday7339]

Yes it is /c game.player.cheat_mode=true

[@dimitrishoffmann9349]

@@jamesday7339 no it was the Mod previously stated. I have already found it

[@DanielHartz]

This should have a Spoiler tag...

[@Xterminator]

Done. :)

[@luminescentlion]

4:30 false you can place it down with blueprints and you will get free red/green wires no bots needed

[@archer_mkii]

here's one for free : you can quickly exit factorio using alt+f4

[@ColonelWillGaming]

I learned nothing here! Lol actually im glad started the video thinking ive missed just one i have failed lol

[@gmt-yt]

Not the most constructive comment, I think, but I find seeing a small number at the beginning of a video title like this horribly triggering due to clickbait naming habits of other media than your channel Xt. Not your fault, I realize, nor really your problem... but I'll bet there's others like me out there who have sort-of made a rule for themselves to never ever click on any link with a title like "12 things..."

[@97KingMaxi]

half the stuff is more like fun facts... not useful tips or tricks

[@satannstuff]

You can't quick replace 2 belts with a splitter, you have to remove one of the belts first.

[@TrapperC2112]

False.

[@DerEliteTeufel]

onto the last one: you can put items into the output-slot of a factory. usefull to clean inventorys of directinserted midproducts.

[@matthijs4661]

What? No you can't?

[@polyjohn3425]

+Matthijs Yes, you can. Specifically, you can manually insert more of whatever a machine is making into its output slot. Like, if you've got a chemical plant making sulfur, and you have a few sulfur in your inventory from changing belts, you can just manually put your sulfur into the machine's output slot so you don't have to deal with putting it where it goes.

[@krzysztofw3614]

You can also insert more items than a default stack size of an input item into machine. Just slightly more, like 116 iron plates.

[@horaz86nope24]

Thanks X I actually lerned 2 new things^^

[@itsameisterb]

I'm one of those people who didn't know about the splitter config, thanks :)

[@Schmorgus]

It's just sad that *NOONE* points out the *Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy* reference in the comments... _(So long and thanks for all the fish)_

[@gws5314]

said the 2nd smartest species. haha i cant believe i actually forgot bout it until u mentioned it despite having read it last week.

[@TheRealStructurer]

Still useful 4 years later. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

[@thejmiester14]

Why did I never think to try daisy-chaining labs together? That'll make my research area layouts SOOOOO much simpler!

[@meph5291]

exactly my thoughts. May be I am overrating myself sometimes.

[@zombiegaming5492]

Shift+R turns entities in the opposite direction. I use this one a lot with inserters, and belts.

[@pastasam4069]

The pump one and the ore patch one were both unknown to me, but I already know they will be super helpful. Thanks!

[@steelixian1705]

I bought this game years ago but never played it correctly. 300-400 hours, still learning shit! I just got my robotics done and oh my god are they amazin

[@dddmemaybe]

Factorio youtube players always have fantastic intros. It just goes to show that the mix of delightful autism and creative spirit can go a long way.

[@joostleunissen1197]

Your intro is awesome mate. Good video, ty.

[@benjaminjones8782]

How in the fuck do you spoil factorio

[@Hlebuw3k]

if you have a blueprint, you dont need wires to connect stuff, you dont even need bots. If you place things manually it will automaticly place the wires without using them

[@georggross1232]

Ah, good ol' Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy... That achievement isn't just funny. It's pretty nice. Factorio has a lot of pop culture easter eggs from the twenties (the portable fusion reactor's image is also based on Mr. Fusion on the DeLorean from Back to the Future. When I saw it for the first time, I was like: GREAT SCOTT!)

[@possumridgeentertainment4614]

They seem to have further nerfed the science pass-through. I use to be able to get 20 labs running without issue by passing like that. Now I can barely keep 16 running.

[@EvilPineappl]

wtf are people still doing with 10 second intros, we aren't 14 years old anymore

[@planetcx5316]

Wtf are people still hating and crying like that, u sure seem 14 like that.

[@hatsjer]

150 hours into the game, and I only didn't know about the offshore pump trick. (Both of them)

[@originaldahha]

so i learned that you can ride the rockets and that fluid back drains today... cheers for that =)

[@ryannixon4138]

Blueprints are free now. Why not free wires?

[@Mooncookies722]

The splitter filter is going to save me at least 300 gray hairs!

[@Lampecap]

Is it a bad sign if I knew them all xD Nice vid btw

[@ThePlanemadness]

10 tips 10% battery. Wish me luck!

[@chaossdragon]

Now give us a thing to use those initial burner miners that get replaced with electric miners.

[@pauljs75]

Nuclear fuel (not the cells) on an inserter doing its thing in some unpowered remote location. Will continue to do its thing for the duration of the game until destroyed or removed. Limited use, but still a thing.

[@Urtarded]

Sending a fish to space is a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy reference.