Factorio: Space Age Beginner's Guide - Nine simple things I wish I knew before I started

[@hayzersolar]

dont forget you can send the platform back to navius to get anything you need. the only than you must have is the resources to make a rocket solo.

[@popyd10]

Assuming it survived the trip...

[@hayzersolar]

@@popyd10 I'm on vulcanus and having a hell of a time with circuits. so right now i have 2 ships that brink back tons of circuits. the blue ones are a pain to craft at lease for me.

​@@hayzersolar a trip to Fulgora to get the EM plant will make circuits trivial

[@eeeezypeezy]

Or just ship the blue chips directly from fulgora, you get gobs from scrap recycling

[@hayzersolar]

yep it is free a better way.

[@ThePiachu]

Another pro tip - recyclers actually output things onto the belt like miners, so you don't need inserters taking items out of them!

[@Aedi]

but inserters emptying them can sometimes be your best option

[@Frozen_Hope]

On the note of getting stuck, just send ur ship home for a resupply, if the ship died, build a new, better ship, it's new so it's not surprising that people forget that the ship can simply return to Nauvis instead of playing new game plus

[@AlexJoneses]

Tip about gleba, to avoid manually restarting your production line don't do it manually. At every, and I mean every, stage in the production line have a filtered inserter set to spoilage go into a requestor chest sent to trash all I requested items and send the spoilage to either be burnt or crafted into new ingredients. Also make sure to bring to gleba a fuck ton of logistic bots and roboports or you're screwed

[@ChosenPlaysYT]

In relation to the intro comment: Yeah in this new algorithm era, content is very streamlined. If you lose viewers because of them getting bored in the first minute, KZbin will suppress your video. The title and thumbnail should be your “intro” in most cases, getting right to the juice will be good for your channel.

[@Mike-rt8jt]

Learn logistics, it's so painfully worth it. You don't have to master it, but being able to turn a cobalt asteroid crusher off before your belt is almost or entirely full and you're running out of ice is fantastic.The combinator is your friend in space, I assure you.

[@Zam_man]

Factorio be like - pilot engineer crash lands on planet and gets so mad he decides to harness the resources of the entire solar system

[@TheFrantic5]

@@Zam_man this game is you playing as Dr. Robotnik minus a hedgehog.

[@noahbannister3333]

I went to Fulgora first, while getting the achievement where you skip yellow and purple science. Big mistake. Most of the scrap is on tiny islands. Each island will likely be on its own power grid as you can't build poles on the oil ocean. Therefore. you need to be able to cross the oil ocean with elevated rails or it is very slow going and painfully disorganized. Additionally, the solar sucks there, so without a personal fission generator you cannot use personal roboports. I wish I had gone to Volcanus first and brought enough science to grab elevated rail foundations first thing on Fulgora. But! If you are better prepared and not skipping yellow and purple Fulgora is fine.

[@dehb1ue]

The early tricks on Gleba are to set up production to filter off the spoilage automatically and setting up easy ways to “reboot” the system.

[@noonebesides]

Yeah having a copper bacteria positive feedback loop that automatically boots up when the copper runs low is fun. Just keep the fruits rolling in and the copper will always be full. Iron bacteria would be the same if you could source your seed bacteria automatically from something. But throwing it down from a support space station is easy enough.

[@RottedMushroom]

@@noonebesides Iron Bacteria can be created from some Jelly the same way Copper is made from mash, I may be misunderstanding what you mean tho lol.

[@noonebesides]

@RottedMushroom 🤦‍♂️ I missed that recipe in my madcap first visit to Gleba. And I'm keeping my watches of other builds very low. Thank you so much.

[@RottedMushroom]

@@noonebesides Np lol. There is a ton of new recipes, very easy to overlook things.

[@ArczeroS]

You don't need to use circuitry to limit the number of items in the storage. You can simply limit number of chest slots. Open a chest, click on the last slot, which is marked as X, move your mouse to cover the slots you want to block and click again. Done.

[@William0271]

We started Gleba first because I wanted stack inserters and spidertron. Huge regret.

[@dehb1ue]

Everyone who uses circuits does something complicated, for that person.

[@blastinburn]

Don't ship calcite, space platforms can generate it for free later (advanced astroid processing) just by sitting in space, alongside infinite iron, carbon, and later copper.

[@theral056]

I wouldn't pack belts early game, because sending rockets is still expensive. It's super easy to make infinite yellow and red belt and underground belt. If you send a stack of green circuits you can also do more splitters than you'll likely need. It really helps if you do this in space. I'd also recommend making pipes and underground pipes. After you unlock advanced processing and get access to copper in space definitely also make power poles there. Unless you unlock it late, in which case whatever as rocket cost barely registers as a cost after a hundred hours.

[@Anolaana]

Sounds like it's pretty tough, but thanks for the tips and advice to get past it! Getting a vulcanus rocket foundry and building a fleet sounds like an awesome plan.

[@mangamaster03]

SponsorBlock auto skipped to 1:18. Make the intro 5-10 seconds and get on with it.

[@crafty1818]

u don’t gotta watch it if u don’t like it lil bro

[@89elmonster]

if i just want to place a couple magazines in the turrets how do i do that?

[@xenoxaos1]

5:31 that's where Vicky went... She owes me $30.

[@icurnvs776]

I JUST got to that part when I saw your comment and I have to say, well played! 😄

[@TheFrantic5]

I started with a decent science production line, but I micromamaged getting my personal bots and a space platform so now I need to restart my economy to even have a chance of scaling up in space. Oh and I need to get solar or nuclear before my coal runs out. But with personal robots it should be much easier to rebuild everything.

[@KeithOlson]

FWIW, you can add a tank to the steam side of the burners, then set up each set of inserters to only add fuel when the steam is below X, increasing X for each set. When my base is idling, only 6 or so of my 40 burners are actually in use, as that is all the steam I need to maintain enough power. A simple circuit--which doesn't even need combinators!--minimized fuel use and pollution production, both of which saves you a *LOT* of hassle in the early game. ...and, in a pinch, you can use solid fuel/rocket fuel to power your burners/trains/etc. It may not be the best use of your oil, but it works very well. Cheers!

[@TheFrantic5]

Thanks for the advice. I used a circuit to skim 10% off of the light oil to make solid fuel to supplement the coal. Meanwhile I ramped up production of tank shells and defender robots and used the two to spot clean the biters hanging out on the path to a new coal patch. You can also use map mode to remotely request 30 ammo into a gun turret ghost, copy it to a blueprint, and set up a self ammoing turret front line right before you engage with the biters.

[@KeithOlson]

@@TheFrantic5 You are most welcome. /bows FYI, the defender bots are *REALLY* effective when used properly. Instead of just letting them follow you around, move in slow circles. They take a while to change direction, so they will swing around you in really large circles; large enough that a cloud of a couple of dozen can be swung through the center of a nest and clear it out *REALLY* fast. You can even just drive in circles.

[@Bierfuizl91]

I chose to 'get stuck' on the planets on purpose :)

[@Holota_Dorota]

Fun and helpful video, thanks.

[@oldnight5337]

great tips ^^

[@TheKetsa]

Shall I start with a vanilla game first ? I never launched a rocket.

[@Alex10000131]

Launching a rocket is made easier in space age (since you’ll be using a lot of rockets). Space age is made very incremental so you’ll not be overwhelmed if you decide to spring for it

[@silversix6ailver649]

thx for the tips

[@Bredmirror]

Bruh really used chat gpt to write the script

[@bradyvanwey2048]

❤

[@DraganAlves]

Good info, but please skip the annoying long intro next time

[@Gamesear]

I'll keep that in mind for next time, but just curious, what would be an acceptable intro length for you folks? Maybe it's just me, but it's always a bit jarring to have a guide just start.

[@rijugas]

@@Gamesear You know, I would've skipped the intro entirely, but I watched it a few times just to give some of my insights on this specific intro: 0:00 - 0:08 - fine, no comments; 0:09 - 0:37 - pointless blabber; 0:38 - 0:54 - perfectly fine as well; 0:55 - end of intro - could've been condensed down to 2 sentences at most, there's no need to spend 20 seconds saying something that essentially boils down to "I'm not a Factorio expert, and this video isn't a guide, just a compilation of some tips I picked up". Hell, could probably shorten it even more lol. Honestly you could probably cut it down even further if you desired. AFAIK long intros aren't ideal, after all, you don't want your viewers to get bored of the video before the interesting parts even begin. I won't pretend that I'm an expert on the topic, so take everything I said with a grain of salt :)

[@LASSarts]

@@rijugas I disagree, pretty good video and comentarys, keep the good job.

[@Gamesear]

@@rijugas Appreciated! I'll mess around with it in the future and see how it goes.

[@Anolaana]

@@rijugas Yep, adding the numbers together it's like about 30s +/- which sounds like a reasonable target. I definitely switch off if it's 60s or more!

[@MrRhoidRage]

Damn imagine advertising save scumming as “things I wish I knew”

[@FecalFantom]

Why do you talk like that