How 2 Factorio

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Hey folks! Thanks for requesting this one - it's been a pleasure explaining my head off - please send help.

[@coldaardvark25]

Hey man, do what you like we are always here to enjoy the content :)

[@commanderfoxtrot]

When is viewer multiplayer happening?

[@raelgil111]

Look up Nilaus's Factorio Master Class series.

[@Trooperttristan]

If you run over a belt and hold f it picks up stuff on the belt which is a bit help, And your gonna need a lot of power for the lazer turrets they use so much when they shoot.

[@jackbrown2805]

ambiguousamphibian can you do a series on infinite resources from deposits and try to go as far as you can and automate as much as you can this will be edited with links to videos as well

[@androth1502]

i play factorio at home, then go to work at a factory where the inefficiency of the production lines kills me a little inside each day.

[@jadenlilly6113]

Olf

[@evangarza2309]

lmao talk to your managers about how it could be improved maybe theyll give u a raise

[@supersonictumbleweed]

Oof

[@supersonictumbleweed]

@@evangarza2309 most factories don't care about efficiency. They instead care about costs and how easy it is to replace each workplace machinery and/or workers

[@brohvakiindova4452]

@@evangarza2309 help improve efficiency ---> make your own workplace obsolete ----> be unemployed ----> surprised pikachu face

[@businka1]

"I have more steel plates than I could ever possibly know what to do with" 10-20 hours later: There are only 2 quantities of any material - "not enough" and "barely enough"

[@heyhoe168]

also, "I can not deliver enough" problem.

[@poijnve3912]

"barely enough" i think you mean "temporarily enough"

[@SilverMe2004]

What about the "Oh No I have heaps of them! $%#@ What's broken?"

[@jamzee_]

I sometimes empty my entire inventory and walk by my buses, holding the F key like a deadman’s switch and waiting until i get the gross sound of a full inventory. To which respond to this by filling several steel crates. The factory must grow.

[@HoneyBadgerVideos]

Eventually it'll fluctuate between way too much and way too little one you get better at future planning

[@Gearjerk5]

Honestly, it's great just watching you enjoy and learn about factorio. I suggest NOT looking at too many tutorial videos until you've beaten your first game, as much of the joy in this game comes from figuring out your own way of doing things. I want to see you try to get your head around running a reactor; while they don't explode or anything (fixable with mods), they are rather difficult to get running at decent sizes. And if you're going to lean hard into lasers you're going to need all the power you can get.

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Gearjerk Thanks! I love the sense of discovery too - I'll try to keep improving either way, haha - I love the learning aspect - thru a combo of both tutorials and natural discovery

[@bencor4193]

To manage lasers, my usual way is to over engineer accumulators. If you have really a lot of them, you can store all the power you need for a while. This can backfire when you get constantly attacked on the other hand.

[@elliejohnson2786]

Nuclear reactor? They definitely explode. That's how I died on my first save.

[@markonciox2353]

I just finished my first game with a factory that was way to small, my production of red circuits was just 4 yellow assembly machines at practically full speed XD i was to scared to try the reactor and got the achievement of not using the intelligent chests just because i had no fucking idea how to use them, over all a fucking great time. But what i learned was that everything i do, must be at least 4 times larger than i guess, and, of course, that *THE FACTORY MUST GROW.*

[@cool_scatter]

They only explode if they get destroyed, so just keep them away from biters.

[@MrWhiteVzla]

"Factorio is perfect if you enjoy learning and masochism." *Remembers that I have played Factorio for 1000 hours since I got it in February* That.. that actually explains a lot.

[@panzervpl9406]

Yea, nice I bought the game 3 years ago and I only have around 400h since last week I'm slowly caching up on my playtime 4-5h daily I regret nothing, and lastly: Factory must grow

[@organicleaf]

true, the game finally clicked with me and leaving a world to die in a ditch just to start a new one because i learned something new to then just sit there for an hour trying to figure out how to automate green science while having to deal with spaghetti truly is pure agony... anyway imma start a new world.. again

[@cvalentine5851]

I feel loss every time I recognize that the words have transitioned from content to outro.

[@ambiguousamphibian]

D'aww

[@Trupen]

I'm glad to see new factorio players in their cute factories

[@raumerherr1057]

:))))))))))

[@SpoookyChannel]

ur moms a cute factory

[@SpaceKebab]

@@oenlel why not?? they are friends and this is a factorio video

[@crashmatrix]

Everywhere I look, I see *him* Hi Tru--BLYAT!

[@mrwaffles188mw9]

I've never needed a tutorial on a game more then this one, especially one that has that special humor.

[@mrwaffles188mw9]

@@sklevalio I love the randomness among other things.

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Thanks! ^.^

[@pabloelia6615]

Really? I usually watch a ton of tutorials in a new game that I'm learning but factorio is very very fun to play and learn and discover how to improve efficiency. It's not a hard game in the sense of a big enemy thread, I can just sit down and take the time I need to make everything work

[@americankid7782]

“I have gone crazy, I’m just enjoying it.” Every Factorio player ever

[@lexray12]

He's nearly to the stage where he learns about ratios, and soon he'll learn about more of the principals of industrial design. I however would recommend installing a QOL mods these being, Helmod allows for getting correct ratios without sitting down with a calculator for 20 mins, Bottleneck to see where your bottle necks in your factory are, and Ghost placer express allows you to place ghost by hovering over them, useful for pre-robotics part of the game. None of these mods change the core gameplay but just make it a little easier.

[@aaronshapiro2542]

I like squeak through and long reach mod. I hate the noise of being too far away to place something.

[@chatter2765]

“Sitting down with a calculator for 20 mins” This is the reason why I hadn’t launched a rocket yet.

[@HellBaron-rb4vu]

Leaving a comment to remember to install these mods when i get the new psu to fix my toaster.

[@jeffanderson3424]

Helmod is a necronomicon. It is a mod that adds a spreadsheet that calculates all of the factories to your capabilities from iron ore to satellite module. The only documentation is a KZbin video by it's creator in French. IT IS BLACK MAGIC.

[@Mecrom]

Having a calculator always open is half of the fun

[@feryth]

This feels like the old Factorio gameplay trailer. "Do you like grenades?"

[@chardonnay5767]

"Do trees always get in your way?"

[@JustSilverCh]

@@chardonnay5767 Factorio is the first game I've ever played where I willingly said " I fucking hate trees" The day I found out you can clear trees, I went on a pollution filled genocide. I'm 99% sure Ive used more grenades to clear trees than for actual combat and research combined

[@kylemcgarrity3677]

press "p" then go to the tab that says "all" this should show you your production and consumption of the factory over the whole game. It'll tell you how many iron plates you've used

[@darlantro]

2:40 the classical music and it's timing with buildup were great... Amazing editing in this, really fun.

[@chardonnay5767]

The piece before that sounds like Beethoven, can't quite recall which composition it is though.

[@conradhyde4318]

@@chardonnay5767 i can recall, the glow of your lowbeams numerous times

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@chardonnay5767 i think that's Edvard Grieg, not "good old Ludwig van". :-B

[@Force2reckonVods]

"I could play some multiplayer with a friend" Yes, a thousand times yes. Playing this with a friend is amazing, I miss my brother messing up my lines so much xD

[@packediceisthebestminecraf9007]

"Thinking is F U N" Someone send help, he's gone mad!

[@samstoddard4191]

tbh i dont even care about editing for factorio id watch hours of straight unedited letsplay especially multiplayer

[@thehunattila1]

yes please. Easier on you, ambiguousamphibian, more content for us.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Yeah, I will still have to edit my factorio video down, because of few stupid mistakes I made and the fact that since it's a brand new factory there is a lot of just walking around to various resources nodes.

[@Grizzly4damz]

7:05 I'm just learning this game too and not even 24 hours ago I found out.....you can chain labs one after another with fast inserters. They'll take the research vials out of the first one and propagate it down the line from one lab to the next, so no need for a long line of conveyor belts & multiple inserters for each lab. -edit 9:22 Ooh ooh and you can set a limit on how much your factory produces/stores by opening the storage chest, clicking the red X, and selecting however many stacks you want to forbid.

[@woobilicious.]

Red or green wire the chest to the inserter, and then set a limit on the inserter.

[@irrelevant_noob]

well, i mean my field of research labs is 2d, so i still get that long line of conveyor belts on *_one_* side, they're just chained in depth. ;-)

[@coldaardvark25]

Even more greatness It’s really cool you technically help me for my future of playing factorio, which will be fun, plus anything you make that had your voice in it is 100% better

[@mothman8300]

the audacity to say its only 100% better

[@alacer8878]

Your voice rides that perfect line that makes question if this is a god tier shitpost while simultaneously making me think that the narration is absolutely perfect.

[@colin_henry1]

aa: parallel production me: spaghetti factory

[@TheHughgee]

Your factory is so much more organised than mine. When I look at my factory I can hear the ethereal crying of every educator I had over the entirety of my academic career

[@camdentrain]

I've been playing factorio for years now, and I would love to see a series of this! Watching a new player discover the game sounds really fun to watch, especially after years of watching hour long tutorials on the best way to optimize ever single system in a factory. Watching a new player create garbage while having a fun time sounds super interesting!

[@tomsimpkins1211]

You know, I've spent hours trying to figure out the resource bus and how it's supposed to work. You just, giving that brief, non-mathy non-5 hour explanation made it click for me instantly.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

I played a single game for like 20 hours and I think I did between 10 to 20% of the research tree. It's so weirdly relaxing when you spend hours and hours doing something with no clue why you are doing or if you are doing it right. You're focusing more on understanding how to do things better instead of just trying to do it faster. It's even nerdier than it looks, 10/10

[@iwillbecomeimmortalordietr8506]

next episode: the factory that builds itself!

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Say, you're one of those idea people, aren't you?

[@iwillbecomeimmortalordietr8506]

@@ambiguousamphibian one word: drones!

[@blizzard9890]

ambiguousamphibian a man did actually make a self building factory.

[@fjshdf]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rneQXmSOmciCm68

[@Korribane1]

@@fjshdf Yeah, this is insane! The possibilities are incredible in this game!

[@shishkebab64]

What you did there is called "Main bus". You should add items to it that have smaller I/O ratio (takes 5 plates and makes 1 item is good, takes 1 copper and makes 2 coils is bad). It has a limit - you will run out of your belt throughput, especially with just 1 copper and iron belt (that's less than 1 green circuit belt) and you won't be able to expand vertically anymore. It does work for small throughput, small amounts of specialized items that require various different resources. Also google factorio cheat sheet, it's amazing

[@SlavaThereshin]

Me: trying to enjoy the content… My brain: "Fuel! Need fuel! Something stopped! Fueeeel!!!"

[@vincevictory2443]

New to the channel but love the Factorio vids! One tip i have is that you can have 3 copper wire assemblers for 2 green circuits and just pass it on with inserters for increased efficiency and no belts with easy expansion potential. The factory must grow...

[@thegamerdudeabides]

I love when you said, left more space for expansion. Its so cute when they are this young. Keep it up, look forward for more.

[@imaytag]

9:26 omg this cracked me up so hard! Hearing you talk about all the little epiphanies as you learn the game gives me such a nostalgic feeling. I'm jealous of you.

[@glorywings9928]

It's always fun to watch you play theses games, you can always tell if your having such a good time with it

[@businka1]

10-20 hours later: The Main Bus is a lie! Every assembly needs is own train station to satisfy its resource needs.

[@Puschit1]

And another 10 hours later "Whoa! Flying robots!" Actually, there is another video where AA, Trupen and two other KZbins play together and AA lost it when the robots appeared. That video is even greater than this one.

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@Puschit1 i thought you meant the "Can 3 Players Survive a DEATH WORLD in Factorio?" from 10 months ago (May 2021). Although it's AA, Trupen, and PBL, not "two" others. And they didn't get to the drones yet. :-?

[@Puschit1]

@@irrelevant_noob No, check out "I locked 4 KZbinrs in my Unethical Factory", it's hilarious on so many levels.

[@benwhite2226]

I have not seen anything else you have made on youtube but I love watching you play and ramble about your factory. I'm sure every other factorio player can relate to this experience. I hope you keep making more video about this.

[@tonyromero8219]

MODS MY GUY! THERE IS AN ENTIRE WORLD OF MODS TO BE DISCOVERED.

[@snajper47]

You can put a limit on how much inserters fill chests using the red "x" on the chest's screen. Than you can produce just two stacks of assemblers instead of thousands of them and preserve some resources for later that way :)

[@pengmaeda9908]

“I think I’ve used over a million already” You actually can see the amount of something you have produced and the amount of something you’ve used in production throughout the entirety of the game using one of the icons at the top right. So ya. You can keep track of everything.

[@Skellitor301_VA]

Lasers are incredibly power hungry btw, so watch out for that cause when you start using them as your defenses you'll notice a spike in power draw when the biters attack. Best to work those babies in slowly while working up upgrading your power network. I'd also suggest putting a cap on the end product items like assemblers. That red X in the boxes allow you to limit how many stacks goes in a box. *shuddered when he saw the assembler box* Also welcome to the community! May the factory continue to grow.

[@trieayuningtyas833]

For me, drones have changed my world of Factorio! One of the techs I'd research as sooner as I can.

[@SleazySpliff]

Press m and build the factory from everywhere. God like feeling

[@elliejohnson2786]

Just watching you play is a wealth of information and insight. For a player who doesn't watch others it's definitely a viewpoint that I didn't expect to see. I've been recommended robots a LOT to help with building, but never got to them - I'd probably recommend those to you, then. Also, uranium power to power all your laser turrets, because with enough turrets your entire power grid will TANK the moment a raid comes in.

[@LunarChicken]

"Thinking is fun!" Yes. I agree. I also have to add that I'd love more vids about factorio, or maybe be some more Project Zomboid stuff, whenever you feel like getting back to it. It was my first experience with your channel and immediately made me purchase the game. I also bought Factorio. And I don't know what time it is anymore, nor when I started playing.

[@blaze4metal]

I love this game and love watching you discover it. A good suggestion is to have a central "repository" where you route all your produced goods in one area. So you have a big spot with a lot of chests so you don't have to run all over your factory to restock on things like iron plates.

[@devilmaycry1980]

I really loved watching your first "homemade" factory. I never really got that experience myself since I watched some videos on the game before playing it so I realized early on that you usually need more than one machine. Btw, I love how you survived with just one iron belt and one copper belt this long. I usually use 4 and 4 (there is only so much stuff that can travel on a single belt no matter how much you produce, so you need more belts to carry material, the longer the bus gets). But to be honest you only need a lot of copper when you are building blue circuits (processing units) and iron is needed in large amounts when making copious amounts of belt and green circuits (electronic circuits).

[@pyrodillier1380]

Your playing, and experiencing Factorio as a new player, is what I'm using as my tutorial for Factorio. So keep doing what you're doing!

[@Beardwhip]

It's as entertaining hearing your explanations as it is watching the game unfold. Hope to see more

[@greeniehead]

Love these videos. Factorio has always been a favorite of mine. One thing that you can do to improve efficiency a bit is to ensure that all your belts are transporting stuff on both sides of the belt. I think I noticed your stone production had only one side of the belt moving because the other side had filled up. For a single belt like that you can split the belt into two and then have each of them put theirs onto a different belt but have them each go on different sides of the new belt. You should probably do it where the resource is being produced to ensure that the entire belt is being used for as much of the line as possible.

[@nexus8765]

Short answer is yes, I think we all want to see more factorio regardless of editing. Just raw gameplay and we’d happily watch.

[@LethalOwl]

Been playing Factorio for a few years, been waiting forever for another KZbinr to come along and have a hilarious playthrough of it. Keep 'em coming, these videos are hilarious! Edit; The not so subtle hello to Norway with Dovregubben's Hall (Hall of the mountain king) was appreciated. Love from Norway. Edit2; Nilaus is great for guides. His masterclasses are superb. Also, like many others, I wouldn't mind watching longer videos of this with less cut-outs.

[@jimdandy6408]

It's been a while since I've played, but there's always mods if you need to "add" something. Granted, the mod scene felt like a bit of a clusterfuck last I looked at it, but when everything gelled, I had a lot of fun.

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Actually now that you mention it, I've just taken a closer look at it today - I was confused without the steam workshop, though the main thing I'm looking for is challenge maps, as that seems to add a lot of variety with different strategic limitations. Though I've also heard Bob's mods are great!

[@Rocky343]

@@ambiguousamphibian Theres an ingame mod browser but Bobs mods are a big step up in difficulty, though apparently Angel's mods helps. But i wouldnt recommend bobs mods till you beat the game a few times. Krastorio 2 might be a better total overhaul mod since it doesnt expect you to do in depth and detail proper chemistry, metallurgy, and engineering like bobs.

[@garygenerous8982]

Bobs mods are amazing. It can take an already super complex game and super charge the complexity beyond belief... seriously once you finish vanilla you should add Bobs mods

[@foobazabar]

@@ambiguousamphibian I would focus on the freeplay until you at least launch the rocket. Scenarios are great, but they're still in their infancy really and it's definitely not the "main" game I'd say. Honestly, it really beings AFTER you launch your first rocket, when you take what you've learned and build a real base that meets goals you set for yourself (science/min is the typical metric). One with gusto and pizazz! Maybe bring in a few mods to spice things up a bit. Overhauls like Bob's and Angles are better left for later for most players -- they are VERY difficult, complex, and time consuming (and check out the exercise in masochism that is SeaBlock too). If you want to take the next step I suggest playing Krastorio 2. It adds a lot of new things while sticking to the main game concepts. But there's no wrong way to play, do what's fun! I just hope you don't fall into any traps and get the wrong idea of such a wonderful, robust, and deep game. Here's a non-exhaustive list of QOL mods that most players are fond of (WARNING: you cannot get Steam achievements when using mods): Even Distribution - allows you to quickly dump items on multiple consumers evenly Squeak Through - lets you move between machines easier Bottleneck - adds an indicator to all machines that displays its, for the sake of simplicity here, efficiency Afraid of the Dark - makes things brighter (a must for youtubers/streamers) Long Reach - lets you interact with things from further away

[@limbridk]

It's such a pleasure to see you learn and get better. I get strong nostalgia of exploring this game, by watching you.

[@AbyssalMelody]

Love the coop idea! Some other ideas for factorio vids: limiting technologies you can unlock/use, hardcore difficulties, strange map settings (limit certain resources, or cause the map to fill with water or something).

[@ezequielblanco8659]

I use a similar technique, but I only add assemblers to one side of the basic resource belts. The other side is reserved for adding more resource belts in the future. As you progress, almost everything you produce becomes a basic resource for the next tier of production. Not just iron and coper plates. Also, the assembler making assemblers, that's not wasted, you will need it.

[@Cruzz999]

Just a super easy tip; use all of your belts. If only one side is taken up by a resource, you're wasting space. You have the lane balancers on the copper and iron belts, which ensure that you have material equally on both sides of the belt. Do this for everything, sulfur and plastic were the ones that stood out to me in this video, as only using one lane. The main point being that you'll have more of a buffer if production ever dips. If you only output to one side, it won't increase your capacity, but it will mean the gap between running out of oil to not being able to make red circuits since you're out of plastic is bigger; meaning your train may have time to come in and refill your oil, keeping circuit production up.

[@armazi2983]

"so of you may think i've gone crazy. well, actually have gone crazy, i'm just enjoying it" describes factorio mid-game gameplay very precisely

[@brohvakiindova4452]

small tip on stuff like the assemblers or building/crafting materials for yourself to use early on: you can lock spaces in chests so you don't fill up thousands of items you're only going to need much much later in the game, especially if you don't have an overflow of raw input materials it can significantly slow your progress down as the ressource fields aren't endless nothing is more annoying than having to expand because you filled all your chests with too specific items and used up tons of ressources

[@nnelg8139]

You should *definitely* go for the steel furnaces! They work *twice* as fast as the stone ones, for the same amount of fuel.

[@Puschit1]

actually he should use electric furnaces so you he doesn't have to worry about fuelling them. He even said he is power hungry.

[@severdislike4222]

Any excuse to use hall of the mountain king for the gradual degradation of sanity is perfectly fitting for factorio.

[@LiquidxBlack]

Would definitely recommend giving your main resource belts like 10x more room, you're going to want more than just copper and iron running parallel and you're definitely going to need more than one belt of it eventually. Better to nip that now before you have to demolish most of your factory for additional output.

[@S4B3R117]

You should check out Nilaus! He almost exclusively does Factorio here on yt and ttv and is a master of little tricks and simple (ok, not that simple, but very effective) building techniques. He has thousands of hours of content but look for his videos on tips of base setup, they're good info. Also, look into blueprints for balancers, they are absolutely crucial for running an effective bus through your factory

[@akselbering291]

Nilaus and his masterclass tutorials, I'm sure he wouldn't mind a shout out too since he's been making factorio content for some 4000 hours worth of game time from what I last heard.

[@Nemodragon429]

Nilaus has some awesome tutorial series! Another good content creator is KatherinOfSky related to Factorio. She has a very nice how to train set of videos explaining chain signals and rail signals.

[@georgeholland5052]

Pro tips, if you work backwards it becomes so much easier to realize how much you need, when you find red circuit boards calculate how much iron and copper you'd need to fill one belt with red circuits. I personally build things FAR from each other and move common materials with trains, Bus concepts get ridiculously larger if you want to produce in volume, nothing wrong with that but when you have 12 lines of iron and 8 lines of copper and 2 lines of steel and 4 lines of green circuits and 1 line of red and one line of blue and and and yeah it gets huge, if you keep with bus concepts I recommend only building on the top or bottom side. The end game of factorio is infinite research and rockets, bases get rated on Science per minute or Rockets per minute. (my highest is 15 RPM after about 34 hours with 2 people) One last thing, I love how much you enjoy them game and the enthusiasm you bring to it. My friend and I got to relive a lot of memories watching you go through the same problems we did years ago, keep up the good work

[@Manic.miner2077]

Probably one of the best games I’ve played, completely blew my mind.

[@sumpwa]

I hope you continue this. It's a true pleasure to watch a new player's mess of a factory grow.

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

Aw, he’s on the mk1 bus phase

[@KrazyKaiser]

Factorio is such a perfectly design game designed specifically for not me, it crushes my soul trying to wrap my head around that game.

[@HomerGunther]

Honestly, you could make a 12 hour video of you gushing about this game and i would watch it

[@ksam7969]

Main bus good. I also had to rebuild my entire first base around that principle.that and using 4 belts with 2 or 3 belt sized gaps to allow the tapping of the bus with regular underground belts. I recently had to go to red belts and am using robots instead of belts for endgame production.

[@branllyr240]

This stands in very stark contrast to my currently prevailing Factorio philosophy. Spaghetti Railworld is my grand vision: no main bus, no belt or bot logistics, no box buffers, steam all the way, physical ammunition defences only, maintaining terrain texture (abstaining from all deforestation, cliff removal, and landfill) and keeping to the minimum of 3 pocket crafts in the Krastorio 2 mod (assemblers making assemblers was my first order of business). I want every production chain to be a unique, dizzying, obtuse, and horrifically inefficient rollercoaster from raw materials to end product.

[@moonshinedusk8787]

Consider: A mod that frustrates me to no end: Angels smelting

[@yourlocalengineer]

Would you like to know about Angel's petrochem?

[@klorskarjar132]

Once I startet with vanilla, got to blue science and thought. Hey this is pretty cool lets spice things up and installed full angelbobs. After 200 hours I lost to the biters while running out of resources. 4/10 it was just to much for me

[@quixorotica7363]

Oh, I came up with the same sort of system. A few things I struggled with are: - have ALL the materials going the same direction on a central path like your left-to-right one, - have 1 channel of incoming manufactured things per perpendicular branch with multiple conveyors on the outside feeding them, - more is more, - linear algebra the shit out of everything to find infinite resources, - arms can take things OUT of buildings (like chaining up research and such), - conveyor balancers, - modular/OO design blue prints, and - use varying types of interwoven underground conveyors to increase transport speed with limited space. Lastly everything you do before blueprints and construction bots is effectively the tutorial :P

[@patricklowe1530]

So beautiful already! I think it took me 60 hours before I converted into a main bus line system and yeah it's beautiful to see everything built almost like a circuit board on the big map. Keep up the great work my man. If you want something really fun grab either the flame thrower turret or hand held version and just start burning forests. This is the only game I think where not only is ruining the world acceptable but also beautiful to watch.

[@vipe_toutonche]

After finding your Kenshi videos in a deep pit of beak-thing based despair, I cannot describe how enjoyable it is to watch you struggle in a game that I know well instead.

[@blakeconnors3]

My general rule of thumb for building a core resource line is spacing them 2 tiles apart. This allows weaving underground belts perpendicularly.

[@ExtraRaven_]

your progress is stunning in such a short amount of time. i think now you should create a smelting area for your trains to drop off at and use that to increase production in iron and copper, maybe even steel, and from there you can make more stuff i guess

[@Zaire82]

I learned how to play by joining multiplayer servers and doing nothing but watch and screw around by filling cars with as many explosives as possible, driving them into things, and watching them explode into a glorious blooming flower of flame and dirt. There is nothing more satisfying.

[@ManoVHS]

hello! I just discovered your channel watching the two videos of Factorio, and i really liked them. Please consider making more as i enjoy the gameplay and narrative. Thanks for your good work

[@dunkeroni]

You should try having your materials bus along the top of your factory, not through the middle. When it's in the middle, you either have to keep stepping your factory out wider as it goes or you get a cramped rat nest of underground belts. If your factory is only on one side of the bus, then you can always add more material lines to the other side of the bus and you can always combine any two materials without running into other underground routing sections. This may seem like it doesn't really matter, since you can always just push the assemblers farther away and have more lines added, but you'll run into problems once a single blue conveyor of iron isn't enough to satisfy the factory. With material lines only on one side, you can always add a second duplicate line way up at the beginning to double your throughput without having to redesign all of your early sections.

[@ryang1480]

Nothing warms my heart more than spaghetti belts and spider webs of power lines. Welcome to the oil fields friend.

[@lordofsraam]

This was really fun; Im amazed you had a hard time figuring out belt spacing and yet got working fluid trains bringing things to your base; great showcase of how everyone problem-solves differently

[@fluffyx1556]

A factorio OG watching someone play the game for the first time is probably like someone trying to sell someone else their own house that they lived in for 20 years

[@asgrahim9164]

I only started playing this game a few days ago. Now, whenever I close my eyes, all I see are conveyor belts rolling in all directions, forever...

[@jeffanderson3424]

I am enjoying the Factorio. The mod scene for Factorio will make the machines you've currently crafted look like tinker toys. The Bobs/Angel's constellation of mods offers true 9000 IQ machines and seablock turns factorio into an idle incremental clicker where every tile must be crafted from water. Youki is made by a dude who loves building sprites for this game. There's masochistic mods and wild Warp game modes. Your take on this game is fantastic and you must expand your mind at least until you get construction robots.

[@darthkerzy]

I love your content and I'm so glad that you're enjoying Factorio!! I hope you find some good friends for the multiplayer and that you have another great month of content-making!

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Thanks darth! Glad you enjoy, and I'm grateful for the kindness ^.^

[@LoreleiBlaine]

In The Hall Of The Mountain King is an exceptional choice for factorio. very thematically appropriate. just as the song gradually grows louder and faster, the factory must grow larger and more productive.

[@jamie8602]

2:19 "Its horrible and wonderful at the same time" I cannot think of a better way to describe this game. Having to tear up 3 hours work because you sudeenly realise there is a better way to do things - That is what Factorio is all about.

[@kraven4444]

Generally you wanna leave room for 4 iron lanes and 4 copper. Also as you branch up/down from those, leave lots of room above and below the Bus to leave room for expansion of the bus and adding other materials, like Green circuits to the bus.

[@False798]

Factorio wiki has excellent collection of all the MATHS

[@elpl1293]

As a Factorio player, while watching these episodes with pain, it is great pain. I love it.

[@dragonfly0923]

With the roboport you can automatise (sorry i dont speak english :p ) the inventory and request objects from chest directly to your inventory to auto build with blueprints greetings from chile

[@BrokenQuarantine]

AmbiguousAmphibion: Hmm maths Me: Mmm mats

[@luciusbennet2120]

I recommend playing with enemy abundance turned up to max. Really changes your priorities and the way you approach your research. (Also increase the oil frequency a little and the starting area so you're not stuck) Also, start using the red ammo. Its way better if you need to take out nests! :D

[@TheUltimoSniper]

You need way more room for your main bus. I recommended you have at least 4 belts dedicated to iron and copper each, as well 2 belts of green circuits, then 1 for everything else, and then A LOT of space between your bus and and the assembly to better manage outputs that aren't actually going on your bus, but still need to go further down your assembly. "Achieve Factorio: Destroy everything you've worked hard to create, and love every moment of it. Your dreams will be assimilated. Your efforts are futile. The goal here is not to do anything and have machines do everything." I absolutely love this line.

[@JustSilverCh]

The worst feeling is having all of your defenses be primarily lasers, and then not realize that your steam engines aren't getting enough coal, and your power goes out right as a big attack comes. Also, flamethrower turrets are absolutely essential for late game defenses, they absolutely demolish big groups. A few tips I've learned: 1. Tanks are dope 2. Always ensure walls are double layered, as larger biters can actually bite over a single wall and kill turrets if they're adjacent. 3. Electric furnaces with some boosters can actually be significantly faster than regular steel furnaces but use a ton of power. 4. Nuclear fuel takes a hot minute to get up and running, but is massively more efficient and consistent. This isn't really a tip, but when I did it I laughed for way too long at how ridiculous it looked, here's the steps: 1. Make a long strip of refined concrete, doesn't have to be wide. 2. Put a line of the blue belts along said refined concrete 3. Make the biggest power armor and fill it exclusively with ~4-5 and a source of energy/batteries. 4. Run in the direction of the belts on the concrete. 5. Laugh hysterically as you run at mach 15

[@ericquiabazza2608]

Hey! You go for the "Bus" or main line design. Yes its easier to work around it, thought it dosnt exist without faults. Main issue with it is production, the lines has to ALWAYS be Full of resources, so the longer it gets you would see problems like lack of materials at the end. Specially when doing multiple lines of the same resource for easier construction, this usually can be solve with a balancer type of design so all lines have continues resources, but it still depend on the massive output of resources. or a very common one, when you struggling with raw resources then almost nothing comes in and the first production lines dont have material to work, meanwhile after them the line is full because those later production lines dont need as much or down have other material producer before, effectively clogging the whole proces. Expecting your reaction to Drones xD

[@sweinberg62]

This is the best advertisement for Factorio I have ever seen

[@bentoo09]

watch out for your oil stuff, mainly the oil refinery, you will need to research advanced oil processing, and then you will have 3 outputs per refinery, so it gets really messy, since the amount of liquid produced through each output is different, and if any output doesnt get evacuation, the whole refinery stops working. So i would recommend you allocate a big space for oil tanks and develop a nice pipe network that can be easily expandable

[@Tobbetuna]

Gz on learning the mainbus. :) Been playing since 2014. Its so awesome. Even went and met the devs in Prague a couple of years ago. :)

[@mikhaelethier6807]

In containers the ''X'' button lets you limit the space in the containers. helps gather more specifics amount of whatever your building. In my Lazy bastard run i really used that feature a lot to not waste material.

[@Squiddy422]

If you hit f you can pickup from the ground or belts and z to drop stuff onto the ground or belts. There are A LOT of shortcuts that are useful that i have found in my thousands of hours in the game.

[@acestrelok]

Great video, as always. If you’re looking to spice up factorio gameplay, I like to play with the map creation settings. Going for something like increased resources, but maximum alien count and size.

[@rayray2glocks]

For reasons i cannot explain i must live vicariously through you to experience these games. I need more! More!!!!!