How Hard is it to Beat SPACE EXPLORATION | The Second Coming

Is this video, more space.
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0:00 Space Base #2 (mistake)
7:42 Astronomic Science
11:13 Verbti
24:08 Calidus Asteroid Belt
30:45 Wayland
42:00 Buttercup
51:20 The REAL Space Base (real)
1:07:19 Outro
Music Used:
Super Mario 64 - Merry Go Round
Siren - Carpe Diem

[@defender9200]

The fact the space trains don't output stone or sand is proof they're from a different mod

[@mr.spiffy1260]

Funny KZbin comment? Impossible

[@delourtmaplees1676]

Most anticipated sequel of the century

[@christianlachniet5785]

Literally

[@hckr_-gh7se]

yeah i was WAITING for this for so long, this guy makes the best shit

[@4Hupf]

absolutely

[@Kingofdragons117]

Me waiting for Martin's sequel....

[@bobmcboblin]

Dosh has perfected the one hour format, he somehow makes it packed with hundreds of hours of gameplay, but you don't miss out on anything, and you never get bored of the video, sometimes I watch his videos twice because of how good his videos are.

[@SnancyNegative]

The fact that there's a data card that is 100% just "Crash a train into a wall and record what happened" is just hilarious to me

[@fluffly3606]

As they say, the difference between screwing around and science is writing it down

[@BrianatorFTW]

@@fluffly3606 real life case and point: crash testing, the namesake of the related dummy

[@simonnachreiner8380]

That is quite literally about half the work in designing transport vehicles. Designing countless prototypes ramming them into walls and recording if the passengers can survive. If not tweak and start over.

[@tristen9736]

To be fair, failure analysis and material testing is a really type of research

[@mrnice4434]

YEAH SCIENCE ! :)

[@Olliekay]

It's embarrassing that I'm literally going to wait for a more comfy time to watch this because it's such good content I want to be entirely engaged

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

Literally this

[@sbmhawk290]

Same, no way I'm starting this in a college dining hall

[@skittle7649]

I'm watching this on the toilet

[@BloodyMobile]

What's embarrassing about wanting to make the only first time watching anything a good time? Am I too old to understand this?...

[@Akronymus_]

It is 4 in the morning. I have to get up in 3 hrs. Oh well, 2 hrs of sleep is enough.

[@fluffly3606]

Fun fact: Real life scientific data are sometimes so huge that it's actually faster to physically ship the drives to the processing center rather than trying to transmit it there electronically

[@underrated1524]

Ah, SneakerNet.

[@lchristmas7394]

@@underrated1524 What if that was a reference.

[@Shenaldrac]

What about that do you find fun?

[@skyleite]

Amazon even provides this service in AWS. It's called AWS Snowmobile

[@caliperstorm8343]

I once went to a lecture about the logistics of the Large Hadron Collider. The thing produces so much data that even after pruning out 99% of the irrelevant information and heavy compression it is still more than any landline can handle. To get it around the world to the labs that research it, the only option is to load it onto thousands of magnetic tapes using a giant robot, and ship it out on container ships. It’s a massive effort.

[@dualrotorhelicopter]

God, I can’t wait to watch a gameplay video adjacent in effort to Homer’s Odyssey

[@maruko7321]

Love it at 1:00:19 when Zyllius says "thinkin" and Raynald replies "stop that", made me giggle

[@QuantumRipple]

Good minions, no thinking allowed

[@CoolGabrijel]

lol

[@thedyingmeme6]

Me and my friend group be like

[@Wiwiwab]

Very excited by a no-bot base, it looks very beautiful already! 36:10 That "water droplet crossed out" recipe lets you void water, so you can avoid the radar contraption. 41:51 Normally the confirm extinction button only needs you to kill spawners and worms. Not sure what was up with that. 52:28 Sorry about that, still working on that crash...

[@DoshDoshington]

Literally never noticed that recipe to void water. It's an interesting phenomenon how because you think you've already solved the problem you're effectively blinded to other potentially better solutions. The crash made me laugh more than anything. I didn't lose any progress because of it.

[@junorus]

@@DoshDoshington I was wondering why you were setting all supplies rockets on letters instead of having dedicated channel for each planet on transmitters. (I suppose you like coding things) I've tried doing main bus space base. Then the bus took more than the production buildings. But the production part looks cool once one get rid off all unused flooring, so it looks like scrap/damaged ruins of station.

[@erfaniom9576]

@@junorus thats not what you would want your base to look like...

[@ryancarlile4323]

@Wiweweb not for me, it took *complete* extinction. I think it's cause the bitters can make new bases otherwise.

[@seven_chords]

regarding the extinction: might have something to do with biter expansion being turned off or on

[@brentramsten249]

dosh: "i hate how everything produces stone as a byproduct" also dosh: "im running out of stone"

[@KolMan2000]

This dude has the balls to literally turn 150+ hours of footage into only two, hour-long videos. Amazing editing and fun to watch even though I literally never have gotten past the third science in factorio lol

[@americankid7782]

Him making over 200 hours of playtime into 2 1-hour videos means that we are only seeing 1% of the time that he and his minions spent.

[@absobel]

Haven't even got the game

[@Ben_R4mZ]

Oil always gets me too... Stupid Blue Science

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

​@@Ben_R4mZsee I can tolerate blue science, it's when purple hits and I realize I need to start re-building my starter base and finding more outposts (and clearing the biters) which finally makes me give up

[@sicksock435446]

I designed my space base around belts with 0 bots except for archospheres. My wife's boyfriend was really impressed!

[@victorcaldera249]

keep going my dude you might be the first factorio youtuber to actually complete and document the entire space exploration mod this effort will definitely immortalize you in the factorio youtube community as if your other videos weren’t already legendary

Specially a series of Space Exploration with viewers at the end

[@chickentenderlover2412]

Zisteau will have some words to say about that

[@victorcaldera249]

@chickentenderlover2412 well he did it on an older more simple version meanwhile dosh did it on the most recent version at the time of me writing this comment.

[@elilewis8212]

I absolutely suck with circuit networks. Watching him do all the circut stuff in SE so effortlessly just hurts my two brain cells. Amazing work

[@devinohanlon5501]

My tip is to write down the bs math he does with the number of things needed and use that

[@simonnachreiner8380]

I mean In theory it’s not too complex as it’s just conditionals and basic math. Then I go to wire things together and think “how and what the fuck do I wire into what”

[@randomgreencat8914]

you have TWO?!? lucky...

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

​@@simonnachreiner8380The issue with basic computer logic is that our monkey brain isn't built for it. It's built for high-speed, nonlinear logic.

[@Goldenkitten1]

Not downplaying his achievements but I think it's important to remember how many hundreds of hours both in-game and offline planning things out we don't see. I guarantee this man has multiple PDF's (or maybe even hand written catalogues depending on his style) of all the components, placing and math involved. Unless he's in the like .0001% of walking supercomputers that have been born there HAS to be a shit ton of planning before the execution and even then the execution is 300+ hours. It's still impressive but I think one has to remember that before dismissing their own capabilities.

[@Rpg2Rpg]

A way to save on scaffolding and make your base look cool is to create a deconstruction planner that only deconstructs scaffolding that doesn't have any buildings placed on it. That way you can spam as much scaffolding as you want while blueprinting, and hoover up everything except what's actually used. It makes the base look like it's hanging in space :)

[@americankid7782]

Definitely stealing this idea when I get there in 200 hours

[@jwin72]

I'm taxing this idea without representation.

[@user-ul9rs2ge7x]

I'd legit be willing to pay extra for the detailed explanation of how the sushi belt works. I've spent like 5 hours designing mine and it turned out to be as big as the production block for space science itself; with crap ton of priority splitters, belt scanners, etc. And only fit 8 packs. Here yours fit entirety of science packs in the mod using nothing but conditioned inserters. Hats off

[@thomasegge5644]

I just have all my space sciences dump onto a single belt which feeds into a warehouse. Set the inserters coming from the assemblers to only dump onto that belt in the first place if there are less than ~2k of that science in the warehouse so it doesn't overflow with one kind. Then have an inserter daisy chain feed your labs from the warehouse.

[@kissa02]

Count how many packs you put on the belt, and how many you take of. Only put stuff on the belt if the amount on the belt is less than what you want there to be

[@user-ul9rs2ge7x]

@@kissa02 I know how many there is fed to the lab by setting "Read hand contents" in the inserter?

[@vulkandrache1928]

@@user-ul9rs2ge7x The basics of a sushi is a decider combinator used as a memory cell. Set it to a condition that is always true and connect its output to the input. Count the items going in (for example with wired belts) and the items going out (with "Read hand" and turned negative with an arithmethic (each * (-1)). That should be enough information to get it working.

[@user-ul9rs2ge7x]

@@vulkandrache1928 I'm having a hard time understanding the principle behind self-feeding decider, will look more into it Many thanks for the info!

[@mx2000]

Fun fact about vitamelange and stone: You can get the net stone consumption to zero by not using productivity modules in the crushing step (the stone output counts as catalyst, so it isn’t affected by productivity), and then crush the stone to sand in crushers with four lvl 7 productivity modules, giving you enough sand to cover the whole production.

[@TrenButts]

Hands down the best youtube series I have ever seen. This is art.

[@Izakde]

"Thinkin" "Stop that" I love this type of companionship. Keep up the good work guys!

[@JacobSmith-cd7ts]

no joke the most invested in series ive ever been. started playing SE because of this, my space base is spaghetti beyond even yours

[@americankid7782]

How’s your base looking now? Still as Italian as 3 months ago?

[@Coolboy-zp9jg]

I honestly love seeing the two sidekicks whenever they show up. That joke on how they’re “AI” from the beginning continually sticks with me. And I imagine you all in a VC just talking to text to speech voices.

[@courierwalkthewastelandduc4700]

Thanks for taking like hundreds of hours of doing this it always is so good.

[@pickle2654]

I literally audibly gasped and stopped my other video to come over and watch this. Thanks for the great content!

[@essidus]

I lost track of what's happening about... an episode and a half ago... but I really enjoy seeing your process, and as always, you make the most mundane tasks entertaining.

[@alacer8878]

Okay but like. It's genuinely a joy for me to say it's been long enough between this and the first episode that I've gotta rewatch the first episode again to catch up on where everything is in this video. Your shit's great, and this wouldn't be the first time I've rewatched some of it. I'll be back in an hour and a half to watch this! :D

[@hookatt]

you make cool videos, you a whimsical guy. i love your half condescending half absolutely done with life tone, it ads a lot to your videos and your character

[@wumi2419]

After watching your (and Michael Hendriks') runs, my own factorio playstyle is slowly changing. I used to care a lot about cityblocks, alignment, etc. Not it's a lot more "free-flowing" and compact. And it takes less time to "despagettify" it all now. Although cityblocks taught me to leave space for the roads if possible (so you can later put down couple more assemblers you have nowhere else to place there)

[@americankid7782]

That is the best way to describe my personal play style changes. Although I haven’t gotten better at De-Spagetifying.

[@xshadow989x]

An absolute masterpiece of a series. Thank you good sir for creating some fucking good content

[@leobastian_]

Space bases: are a new and unique challenge to build factories with limited space and ressources Space trains, space elevators and scaffolding spam: sike Love how last video it was "we have to build this base with minimal space and value every ressource we sent up here" and now its just "train megabase but in SPACE"

[@cewla3348]

1. "we have a fully stocked base, and then we have Space." 2. "we have a fully stocked base where half of it kills you by suffocating, 45% of it kills you by poison, and 5% is healthy." 3. "i live by the spaceship i die by the spaceship"

[@copyriteinc309]

Holy shit I just discovered your channel yesterday from your Towerclimb and Marrow videos, and I just finished you last Factorio SE video a few hours ago. Super excited to have another episode so soon, thanks for the great content, Factorio or otherwise!

[@codyfabulousyt4920]

Same lmfao

[@femimark5021]

Yo know what I didn't even realize they were made by the same channel 🤕

[@MrMaradok]

Ok, watching these vids has humbled me. I’ve been playing Space Exploration, but I’m not even CLOSE to REGULAR Blue Science! I’m just gonna go back to normal Factorio

[@yellowice0]

Thank you for the upload, currently have no power after the hurricane Ian aftermath, just binge watched the entire of this video with my brother to occupy our time

[@0000Sierra117]

I love these vids. You have a soothing voice, and factorio is in the category of im-interested-in-it-but-too-smoothbrained-to-play-it that's perfect for youtube. Due to an injury, I've been spending a lot of time in bed too exhausted to do much of anything, and even reading isn't great because of the eyestrain. But this I can listen to even if I have to close my eyes for a moment, and when I can watch I'm rewarded with some super satisfying factories humming along. Thanks Mr.Dosh

[@ilanb]

Can't wait for the next part!!

[@Mtaalas]

This is so good... I can't wait for your overall thoughts on the mod. My feeling as of this time is that it's "overly complicated without good reason behind it or carrot to really overcome the challenges without resorting to brute force"... I mean, that it could be balanced like a puzzle, where you balance certain pro's with certain con's of every design and must create new and novel designs to get anywhere. Also, environment and biters coudl be more of a constant challenge where you very quickly notice un-optimal designs and bad resource utilization... but maybe it's just "unfinished" as of now and needs that overhaul before "final release" where all the fat is trimmed out... But maybe it's a Factorio thing, where you can just brute force yourself through obstacles with spaghetti, un-optimal designs and it'll just take longer, look worse, but it'll get you there if you wait long enough. The logistics of moving stuff around different surfaces is a great thing, but the mod could be (at least from the progress I've done so far) create more of hard brick walls where you HAVE TO create efficient and very large scale interplanetary production chains or you will wait for forever to get anywhere. Bit it's not a bad mod... one just has to remember that trying to speedrun the mod might be what they didn't want anyone to do. It's propably more about slow discovery and long... VERY LONG games that span over years or so with no real hurry... Oh well... we'll see :)

[@wilshireanasurimbor3068]

Usually I see people criticize the mod for being much too prescribed, forcing the player to do things that they would otherwise like to avoid. I'd say that the mod actively tries to be gentle with its prescriptions, as you said you can ultimately just do whatever you want if you spend sufficient effort, so any more heavy handedness would drive the community bonkers. My guess is that people playing a sandbox game don't like to be given rules. As for volume, even a moderate production of all the tier 9 modules will consume more than all the rest of your factory, though that is entirely optional. Otherwise, you'd need 10x, even 100x, science cost to make volume throughput a concern.

[@whosapickle]

Producing the astro sciences 5 tiers deep is such a needless ballache... it just stops being fun after doing the same thing five times for 40 hours

[@devinohanlon5501]

If the solution to a byproduct is to stick it in a box,you shouldn't have that byproduct

[@adamboyd8316]

Ive watched this whole series like 5 times this past week, as i just started my SE run a few days ago. Its crazy to think im not even to the point where you were halfway through the first vid. Thx for the series

[@BeliefDiviner]

That is a great looking space base design! All those symmetrical train stations look neat af! I'm sad that this is only going to be three videos long, but as all good things, it should end with you satisfied, yet wanting more.

[@draquonic-studios2194]

That bass at 16:35 just hits different. I love it.

[@dewe6037]

im literally half way through watching part 1 again. now i feel pressured to finish it lmao

[@SBragg88]

"I don't wanna be here all day" - Current play time at nearly 4 full days; great work

[@avoidress1018]

The wait was worth every second, this series has more anticipation them modern TV releases. Thanks for the hard work it's truly spectacular

[@ex4787]

If anyone's curious "Anion-Ion Exchange Beads" probably refers to ion exchange resin. It's a packing of small synthetic beads with a desired ion attached packed into a column and is used to replace one ion in a solution for another by flowing the fluid through the packed column. It's used often to remove salts (in the chemistry sense, not just table salt) from process chemicals as part of purification.

[@adomuir2239]

yeah i was thinking "those beads are a real thing - but named differently" havent been in a lab since uni - thanks for reminding me

[@kaimacotta403]

This is such good content, that I am glad I waited for a more comfy time to watch it. Because of this, I was able to be entirely engaged.

[@vandenburg123]

😂

[@seanellis7326]

Loved every second of this mod playthrough, understood about 10 seconds of this mod playthrough...

[@dannadx3840]

"I have no idea what it does, but it's probably dangerous and i will probably need it later, so it's time to stuff few cubic kilometers of barrels into a box now" is a motto of this playthrough

[@galak_c2516]

This is literally my fourth time watching both of these, this is by far the best factorio content on youtube. Watching these give me the same feeling as watching “100 days” Minecraft videos except your videos are even better and about a game i truly love

[@bean5350]

more legitimantly quality content from a guy who deserves to be more popular, who'd have thought

[@jonathantreleven1823]

Just watched Maxor's Ultrakill video, and now this... today is a good day.

[@lipeckih]

Much as I probably will never play Space Exploration, the idea of sending trains up a space elevator into orbit is just cool. This was fascinating to watch. Thank you for your hard work!

[@lukebrown4023]

hype. the first was such top tier content. I can't believe we get a sequel so soon

[@gabrote42]

Massively entertaining and informative. Thank you dude!

[@JoshSweetvale]

Intergrating a ground base and a space base sounds like the fast track to efficiency.

[@nilrem3]

I’m truly impressed with how much time you put into these videos. Thank you for making them, they’re one of the few videos of this length I’ll actually end up staying interested in all the way through

[@Patagonicus42]

29:30 If I'm not mistaken, the productivity modules should stack with multiplication, not addition, since after the first step you have more input to the second one. Which means you make about 37% of what you could do with productivity modules instead of 50% 🙃

[@Zaspar]

you are right. came to the comments looking for someone else who noticed!

[@Th3BlackLotus]

I've played Factorio for just about 120 hours in total over the years, and I've launched 1 rocket. Watching this is like a finger painter watching Mozart play the piano and the music notes become physical objects and they pick up paint and paint masterpieces.

[@bigtom6443]

FINALLY I've been checking your channel obsessively for this release. Whatever you're doing, you're doing it right. Please don't stop

[@ethanbeck9949]

I have been looking forward to this since the first video dropped, thanks for the timely release Dosh!

[@cityslicks1520]

Commenting for the algorithm and to say that these videos are not only full of useful info for my Factorio addiction but also amazing ASMR. I think you need a few T9 productivity modules yourself to help with these videos. Thanks for the content, glad I found your channel!

[@memegohere_brr]

Another fantastic video. I'm loving the new space base, can't wait to see it all fired up! Also props to the helpers for doing crap work so we can all watch these videos faster.

[@bigounce5639]

Love your content so much, don’t watch any factorio content but when I stumbled across you couldn’t get enough, love the way you talk like it’s so simple and not complicated yet informative

[@Hawk7886]

Tossing in another comment about the sushi belt. I always love seeing how many different ways people scramble items in a balanced manner and your setup looks awesome. Please do a walk through of it, even if it's brief!

[@Bliss467]

I was definitely pumped for this one and it did not disappoint

[@Xray394]

Dosh, thx for your effort! I really enjoy watching and listening to you!

[@Hollowpitta]

Awesome! I saw the first one and was super excited for this episode, great job, i love this game and your narration is on point, keep up the awesome work!

[@TheOracleofClocks]

Nice, I always love more great Factorio content, especially over a mod I haven't dug into, yet.

[@breacher6425]

My friend and I have barely managed to get red space science going in 70 hours, this man is insane

[@crazy_mind-ox8if]

Hey, just wanted to say I love your content. Its amazing how much you've grown in just a few months! I know these videos must be a lot of work to put together, but I really hope you keep with it. I'm very excited to see the next(and hopefully final) episode of SE, as well as whatever you have planned for the future. Keep up the great work!

[@wilshireanasurimbor3068]

Great video, and I love your train base, particularly that giant ground to space train abomination. Maybe if you're looking for video ideas after this, I might suggest making a train 'tutorial' of sorts. Mostly a slower breakdown of how you design, because there are too many people/videos that seem to encourage extremely ridged (limited, and boring) city-block-only designs. This was so much fun to watch, really you always do an amazing job.

[@natek231]

As someone who played through sea block, I definitely agree that the planning out a base without anywhere to actually build things is a huge pain

[@blackkimchi5111]

By far some of the best content I have ever consumed comes from your channel, thanks for the monumental effort that this must take.

[@generalpanic9485]

Love the content! Always waiting for the perfect moment to watch your videos because they are so interesting

[@PopeMical]

The amount of time and effort that is going into beating space exploration terrifies me and and I can't believe I'm still debating about trying it out for myself. I blame you for making another great video.

[@patrickkelly8914]

I wonder how many of us watching are in college and studying to be engineers of the sort.

[@mychannelnow82]

Hey, just so you know, keep up with the youtube channel. You have a unique style, and a unique content. You will get there. I am happy to see every new video you post and listen to it as a podcast/watch some parts. Amazing work!

[@markkeep2030]

You are doing amazing. Love the video and I hope you get the popularity you deserve

[@Quickshot0]

Well I certainly understand what you're going through, played SpaceX with a group for many days, and got to about tier 3 sciences across the board except the last one of course... Then it petered out for various reasons, including the worsening lag issues and map size. Who'd have thought have more planets could make that worse, even if you do some level of trimming and so. Also people had a few question marks lets say on some of the mods decisions on how things should be made and over all balance. So as noted in the first ep, one of those that never quite finished it, but was happy we got quite far. Wonder what you'll be thinking near the end.

[@Fosuya]

Woohoo the continuation, can't contain my excitement!

[@Royalleague45]

Literally yesterday I looked through your channel to try to find this, that’s how good your content is dude!

[@MBoy2000_]

Man, this really makes me want to play this but i do not have near enough time on my hands, thank you for being the one to do it, love all your videos!

[@sebastianweigand]

Looking forward to the next episode. This mod is insane!

[@DoshDoshington]

Thanks. I just "beat" it, but I'm still working on the secret ending, and then comes all the editing. Hopefully I'll get it out before mid-December

[@chilipepper9176]

@@DoshDoshingtonIt's almost mid-December

[@mariocamspam72]

@@DoshDoshington About that...

[@TheUnholy_]

WOW does KZbin compression just LOVE this game

[@GDPanda69]

quality as always, looking forward to the conclusion! Also, would love to see your vanilla speed runs! Would 100% watch a 4-hour vid!

[@samc7486]

I listened to your stuff to sleep. Its relaxing. Thanks 😊

[@ryanfuller434]

Yes another Dosh video to watch 30 times before another one comes out! This is the best day of my life!

[@Brasstrix]

Hey man has anyone ever mentioned your videos are pretty great?

[@DoshDoshington]

Once or twice

[@Joeyfield0]

OH MY, I have already rewatched the first one for quite a bit, glad to have a second part!

[@Gahemetalman]

Mate, I have to admire your dedication and skill, it is truly amazing and so entertaining to watch. Can´t wait for the third part. Now, let me rewatch this second part at least ten times, because even though I have been pausing now and then, I have still no clue what happened there.

[@jesseparrish1993]

Impressed at the reference to ion exchange resin and an actual use for something like removing sulfates to replace with chlorides. I looked up a bit on Holmium mining, and sure enough, that's actually part of the process. Chloride resins stink.

[@thesneakman8064]

when you upload i move everything out the way to watch it Thanks for the video please keep it up!

[@Nicknassar225]

your videos are the best! Ive been waiting for this!

[@Khorvalar]

Didn't understand half of what was going on but GREAT VIDEO :D looking forward to seeing you actually explore space in Space Exploration! Good luck, have fun!

[@SWaaga]

This is a fantastic series, keep it up Dosh!

[@reycebritton5550]

Cancelling my weekend plans so I can enjoy this. So excited to see the upload!

[@aIexwiththetv]

That recap was very informative, thank you for the great content as always Sir Dosh Doshington

[@sebasimp]

omg i waited so much for this, thanks for posting it!

[@MazterOfDisaster]

i was just about to rewatch the first part. truly a gift:)

[@allenm1024]

Great work on this video and its script! This was amazing!

[@ascaban6220]

I've been so inspired by these videos that I've started a space exploration run 3 weeks before my exams! This can only go well :)

[@sugoiuseismoeabuse4058]

Looking forward to it. I am happy to see someone play mods I have zero chance of experiencing myself due to skill and time issues.

[@fluxrebro6055]

Damn man, you are insane! Your base looks sooooo beautiful!!

[@rg9622]

I've been waiting eagerly for awhile and you haven't disappointed