How Hard is it to Beat ULTRACUBE?

[@DoshDoshington]

The word "Cube" was uttered 222 times this video.

[@subzero3664]

I was about to ask tha question :D

[@Alastair_Ulven]

I don't believe you. That seems WAY to low for a 83 minute video and just what this mod is about. That said I am not going to be the one to check if it is true. Great video Dosh this had me in stiches with how silly it all is.

[@laz272727]

*™

[@dakiesalamander5221]

That calls for 222 likes

[@kulgydudemanyo]

wait... at the end of the video when the car got destroyed... did the cube survive?

[@zombieranger3410]

Having your main and pretty much only limited resource simply be “the cube’s time” is just hilarious and I’m impressed someone was creative enough to make something like this.

[@ecogreen123]

it definitely stands out as one of the most unique mod/modpacks out there (edit: there are more then one modpack for factorio out there lol)

[@Kveldred]

is it that we are using the cube's time or is time itself a cube? a *TIME CUBE* even, might we say?

[@halomont]

@@Kveldred Respect the TIME CUBE

[@chrisprice8112]

Having played this mod and gotten burned out halfway through, almost everything good about it comes down to this premise, and everything bad comes from not committing to it hard enough. Adds a lot of its own necessary fiddliness but doesn't remove enough of vanilla's, and I found myself wishing it'd gone in a more 'shapez-esque' low-friction direction for its planning and building.

[@uwu_smeg]

​@@Kveldred thanks for reactivating this cognitohazard within me

[@solizwei4458]

"There are more important places for the the cube to be than inside my car." >stranded on an isolated planet >away from pesky neighbors and inconvenient pedestrians >with a car that can go 300 km/h and smash through anything You were handed paradise, and you spit on it.

[@mambodog5322]

Don't worry, he managed to enlighten himself by the end of the video

[@thememelordbobbeh3107]

@@mambodog5322 The first drink of cube will make you an engineer, but at the bottom of the glass is cube.

[@sweetiewolfgirl]

Paradise is happiness, and happiness is practically a waste product.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

The Cube(TM) is more important than driving or pointless pleasure.

[@noobartz0890]

ew car

[@dragonkingofthestars]

The Factory reminds you that the Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.

[@Skibidigokyllyourself]

nice one

[@_Ike]

Another small change this mod makes that isn't mentioned is that gun turrets now fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet per bullet.

[@m0n5a80]

In the event that the Ultradense Utility Cube does speak, the Factory urges you to disregard its advice.

[@ChucklesTheBeard]

Please note: "Threaten to stab you" and "actually stab you" are not the same thing. Do not taunt the Cube.

[@orionstokesweiss2344]

​@@ChucklesTheBeardI've only been stabbed by one cube, but it certainly gave no warning

[@frankvandorp9732]

43:02 "There is very little practical use for happiness however, and it's mostly a waste product. We need some, but to ensure that my factory doesn't come to a halt due to excessive joy, I need to bottle it first and then release it as steam." This is one of the greatest out of context quotes I've ever seen. You could write an entire dystopian science fiction novel around these two sentences alone.

[@Toksyuryel]

That line convinced me that this mod is simply an allegory for Amazon

[@nalangda]

Wow..insight

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Or children's fantasy novel.

[@thedesaj2]

*Monsters Inc. intensifies*

[@shadowsovereign4948]

I was gonna make a joke about all the bottled emotions and how engineers would either see them as wasteful or useless.

[@StuDotScot]

thank you so much for playing my mod! May your calcium be forever in just the right quantity

[@bb010g]

thank you for the Cube™!

[@lelandbatey]

Thanks for maybe the most unique Factorio mod ever made!

[@johgekpunkt9516]

Why did you make this eldritchian Mod? Anyways praise the Cube!

[@nicmoo588]

This is SUCH a cool, creative and interesting mod 🙂. Thank you!

[@Kirizan]

Gene Ray would be proud of you promoting the real truth of the Cube

[@ripecontext]

24:00 >dies >conscience is contained within a small flask >inserted into a robot to place rails for the rest of your infinite existence Might be a horror mod

[@Woxis12]

Are you finishing your playthrough?

[@ripecontext]

@@Woxis12 soon™️

[@Hawk7886]

​@@ripecontextnice, looking forward to it

[@Kaiimei]

That's just an ordinary day in Warhammer 40K

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

Remember kids, every living being, and your entire reality, is actually just the dreams of a bottle of intelligence generated by a cube. Once we are used for research, everything you know and love will be gone. Have a nice day

[@greedtheron8362]

"There's very little practical use for happiness and it's practically a waste product." That seems like my bosses motto

[@sweetwill6233]

The beatings will continue until morale improves. - Management

[@brayachdragonbane7529]

US economy in a fucking nutshell

[@lechking941]

@@brayachdragonbane7529 JAPAN IN A NUTSHELL!

[@user-zp8kj2cl9g]

​@@brayachdragonbane7529you're free to leave whenever you like. Can I keep your stuff tho?

[@brayachdragonbane7529]

@@user-zp8kj2cl9g yea sure, enjoy my debt and lack of possesions... (and no you cant, gotta have money for that and oh wait the us economy is designed to strangle anyone but the 1% of all their money)

[@TintedAspect]

It's incredible that every mention of the Cube™ in the subtitles is properly trademarked. It's that sort of attention to detail that keeps people coming back.

[@realityveil6151]

Don't get too excited, find and replace is a thing. probably took all of 20 seconds to achieve.

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

@@realityveil6151 Don't get too excited. This probably still took a couple proof reads to make sure everything looked good. That's still time and effort that didn't necessarily need to be afforded to this easter egg.

[@nsmith131]

​@@realityveil6151Debbie Downer says what?

[@TintedAspect]

@@realityveil6151 y'know, your assumption that I'd be watching a factorio video while being unaware of find and replace is a lot more odd than assuming it was a joke that was also expressing appreciation for subtitles that aren't autogenerated

[@SRBONUS1912]

This made us realize that someone took the time to properly subtitle an 83 minute video. That is highly respectable

[@KamiSanzo]

I got this mod, modded it so i could have two cubes. My computer exploded. That amount of greed isn't allowed it seems.

[@DoshDoshington]

Divine punishment

[@karotgamin790]

Retribution for thy sins

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

gluttony is a deadly sin for a reason

[@SuperPickle15]

the answer is cube, not cubed. noob mistake.

[@StepperBox]

I see the Cube works on the same principle as the Bucket from The Stanley Parable.

[@Kazmahu]

Honestly I admire the sheer balls of the mod to allow the player to irrevocably deadlock themselves at the eleventh hour is they FUBAR the cube reconstruction. I mean you can obviously have backup saves (and given the nature of the game and what it's asking you to do you'd be silly not to drop a manual one before shattering it) but the fact it's at all possible creates the biggest "oh shit" moment I think a Factorio mod can manage.

[@adissentingopinion848]

When you reword it as "Complete this 1000 to 1 crafting tree or destroy the concept of 'machine' in your Factorio game", the premise is beyond threatening.

[@pretzel4626]

I'm wondering if that last cube reconstruction circuit could've been made simpler with back-feed balancing using the deconstructor that seemed to only have been referenced with making the MKII

[@alexsiemers7898]

And now the DLC is planning on doing a similar thing by making it possible to get stranded on the last planet!

[@robobuilder1335]

@@alexsiemers7898 Wait, which Friday Facts did they say that in?

[@alexsiemers7898]

@@robobuilder1335 it was in one of the first ones when discussing the gameplay structure, they said it would technically be possible but only if you somehow lost control of all your surface factories to enemies and space platforms to meteors.

[@AnonJuggerbot]

The most important change about CUBE is that channeling the energies of Hell becomes a necessary infrastructure- And vodka production is a core component of that.

[@spieler125_de6]

so the problem in doom was that they didnt have the CUBE™ when they tried to harness the power of hell.

[@comet-fy6pd]

the rogal dorn pfp makes this so much better

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

​@@spieler125_de6 the cube in the DOOM universe is actually locked away inside doomguy's suit, that's how it manages to stay functional despite Hell's best efforts Also, of course you can contact Hell with Everclear, what else are you supposed to do with it?

[@mambodog5322]

Literally a Minecraft modpack lol

[@jerico1299]

@@bobthegamingtaco6073 As someone who has tried drinking Everclear once before, using it to contact Hell and harness its power seems the more likely intended use of it.

[@megamangos7408]

With Seablock, Dosh was playing as a Techpriest on some former water world. Now with Ultracube, he's playing a Chaos Heretek, complete with bottling emotions, creating chaos spawn tendrils, and having to figure out how to fit a cube back together using a thousand broken pieces. 11/10, would fall to the dark gods again.

[@50_Foot_Punch]

If he does the x100 research mod does that make him a planner on Ultramar?

[@YukonHexsun]

I'm not sure if it's more or less concerning, but I don't think he's with Chaos. That is a cube containing endless resources, from which he's extracting consciousness and abstract concepts. The Cube is a C'tan, he's the other kind of Heretek.

[@LeahJohnson-co9yl]

the production chain of calcium into intelligent calcium into bottled consciousness into bottled anguish into ectoplasm into haunted batteries into 400 MW of power is insane

[@Kveldred]

IN A SINGLE ROTATION OF THE EARTH SPHERE, EACH TIME CORNER POINT ROTATES THROUGH THE OTHER 3-CORNER TIME POINTS, THUS CREATING 16 CORNERS, 96 HOURS AND 4-SIMULTANEOUS 24-HOUR DAYS WITHIN A SINGLE ROTATION OF EARTH - EQUATED TO A HIGHER ORDER OF LIFE *TIME CUBE.*

[@awareqwx]

Oh god, time cube XD

[@Namelis1]

I see you, and you make me feel seen. Never thought I'd see time cube again. God bless!

[@gyrgon]

Hah, I knew Time Cube would show up somewhere, glad to see it.

[@jordancantrell6598]

Damn a time cube reference, what a refreshing memory

[@Shenaldrac]

A reminder that we were all educated stupid.

[@kanetw_]

Ah yes, the mod where you're stuck on a CPU (single-core for a lot of things, too) and your job is to write the scheduler and peripherals.

[@gfasterOS]

So what you're saying is that, being a computer engineer, Dosh ought to be a professional Cube(tm) wrangler

[@mariocamspam72]

It's a Linux scheduler writing simulator, cause it barely works :P

[@wumi2419]

Then is phantom cube just hyperthreading?

[@kanetw_]

@@wumi2419 I was gonna say multi core at first but it's more a MIMD coprocessor that needs everything to finish before going back to normal instructions

[@Gh3ttoboy]

Is there a way to make more cubes once you unlock the everything research

[@limeylime8027]

Factorio God: I hereby give you this cube with infinite power Factorio engineer: ok what do I do with it? Factorio god: Boil water and make inserters

[@sansprobus7209]

Based Enlightenment Joke.

[@masterzoroark6664]

I mean- isn't it what humanity does with radioactive material (besides bombs and cancer treatment)

[@jonsimpson6240]

​@@masterzoroark6664I mean... if you squint, those are sort of just inefficiently boiling water with byproducts...

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

@@masterzoroark6664 all humans know how to do is kill each other and boil water

[@Breakdown5297]

"Hey 约자約, the humans came up with a new power source!" "Is it just boiling water again?" "hehe yeah, lmao"

[@iamnotgonnatellyou]

Every turn in this mod was a left turn and I wasn't prepared for any of them. It starts off pretty tame with making matter and processing metals that's all straightforward, then you get to stuff like... Intelligent Calcium? And bottled consciousness? And you go like "Okay sure, consciousness like a computer AI thing I guess?". But then you get to emotional decomposition and bottling joy and you're just lost in the insanity-

[@FeepingCreature]

The intelligent calcium is a reference to "Look Around You - Calcium, Part 2." It's the video Dosh quotes at 27:07. _Look Around You_ is a wonderful series of parodies of 80s educational school videos. "Write that down!"

[@alexsiemers7898]

The bottled joy/despair and the stygian lab is where I went from “oh this is just some silly sci-fi jargon” to legit concern about where this mod was headed. It’s like the grandmapocalypse in cookie clicker

[@alexkaplan6581]

​@@alexsiemers7898"News: nightmare continues as wrinkled acres of flesh expand at alarming speeds!"

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Every turn in this mod was a left turn So you ended up back where you started?

[@Syaniiti]

@@Bloodlyshiva highly unlikely, not only does ending at the same point require a turn number divisible by 4 but also the movement between each turn to match (or time, since the video kept moving at a constant rate).

[@NCG337]

The whole zigurrat ordeal is one of the most clever subversions of expectation I've seen in a while. The whole game you've been using this ONE Cube™ as the bedrock your entire base is built on, so what will you have to do with it to overcome the final hurdle? Why, SHATTER it into a million pieces, then painstakingly puzzle it back together before your entire infrastructure comes crumbling down with it, all in the name of progress. SUPER cool mod idea, and a banger video as always!!

[@BolognaBoyTK]

putting this on in the background and tuning back in 50 minutes later to hear "the cube can store up to 40,000 tendrils" paints a good picture on Factorio mod progression

[@snarkymoosesshack8793]

>bottled consciousnesses >"Implications I'd rather not think about." Dosh encounters an Orokin Cephalon :^)

[@ThePrime262]

Not the place id expect to find a warframe refrence, but yeah pretty much "So howd the orokin create AI?" "The same way they solved every other problem, vicious violations of human rights. Cant make a computer as smart as a dude? Make a dude a computer." There's some admittedly old refrences to the corpus having Cephalons so i gotta wonder....are we still melting dudes down to create self driving cars or is there just like a limited number of orokin era ship Cephalons being carefully preserved and passed around like signed baseball cards after a nuclear apocalypse

[@lechking941]

@@ThePrime262 more like preserved passed and copied.

[@BinarySecond]

Ordis :(

[@jameskirkland3187]

Operator Ordis is sorry - HAPPY - that his good jokes Argon.

[@Zoozorocks01]

I did a double take when I saw this Warframe reference. It’s very true though

[@40watt53]

1:05:15 - 1:06:15 is the coolest concept I've heard for a recipe in a Factorio mod, I can't believe it's the same mod that requires you to wring out ghosts for power.

[@rogo7330]

Beware the portals to Argent D'Nur opening inside your base!

[@demetriousramirez]

It's kinda just quarks

[@snejjames6499]

Holy shit, I haven't thought about Look Around You in years. I had a friend whose father was a teacher, and he used to show episodes of that to his class with a completely straight face. "Look around you." *Shows some leaves blowing in the wind. "Look around you." *Shows a couple sitting on a hill, and then a ball bouncing down a road* "Just look around you. Can you tell what we're looking for yet?" *Shows people playing football in a park, a kite blowing in the wind, a young woman reading a book, a man juggling* "That's right. We're looking for ghosts!"

[@Anon-cf4qe]

"As we know, germs come from Germany"

[@Carwinley]

It always amazes me when anyone has a single clue about that show. The phrase "What are birds? We just don't know." has ingrained itself in my consciousness.

[@Chumbaniya]

Water, water, what hast thou donest? Bless you, ants. Blants.

[@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso]

Thants

[@Atoll-ok1zm]

This is kind of like an old mainframe, you have a single resource that everybody wants and need to decide how everything shares it. Just a bit simpler cause the resource isn't essentially managing itself. This is becoming more and more like an opperating system as it goes on. Touching a machine with the cube to get it started then moving it immediately while the machine unloads is kind of like DMA if we're continuing with the OS comparisons. All hail the Cube

[@GigasGMX]

Dimensional Folding Engine: "The time has come to build a new base around my majesty!" Dosh: "No."

[@sansrriorar3967]

All the people here who bought this wireless tungsten cube to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this cube to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum. I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion. Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary. Schopenhauer once said that every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Tungsten expands the limits of a man’s field of vision by showing him an example of increased density, in comparison to which the everyday objects to which he was formerly accustomed gain a light and airy quality. Who can lament the tragedy of life, when surrounded by such lightweight objects? Who can cry in a world of styrofoam and cushions? Have you yet understood? This is no ordinary metal. In this metal is the alchemical potential to transform your world, by transforming your expectations. Those who have not yet held the cube in their hands and mouths will not understand, for they still live in a world of normal density, like Plato’s cave dwellers. Those who have opened their mind to the density of tungsten will shift their expectations of weight and density accordingly. To give this cube a rating of anything less than five stars would be to condemn life itself. Who am I, as a mere mortal, to judge the most compact of all affordable materials? No. I say gratefully to whichever grand being may have created this universe: good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense. I sit here with my tungsten cube, transcendent above death itself. For insofar as this tungsten cube will last forever, I am in the presence of immortality.

[@MrCanerican]

There's ... A lot in there

[@sansrriorar3967]

can't do the Cube justice with any less (also it's a review someone made on an actual tungsten cube on Amazon, in case you didn't know)

[@tyguy5712]

I LIKE YOUR FUNNY WORDS MAGIC MAN!

[@xanabomb0]

Heavy Boi Almost impossoble to pick up with one hand. It came well packaged in a wooden crate and lots of foam. I'm gonna smash stuff with it.

[@lapisliozuli4861]

As a famous lifter once pronounced, “There is neither good nor evil. There is only weight, and those too weak to lift it.”

[@vaultence9859]

I love that you've put a trademark for every mention of the cube in the captions lol

[@EnRandomSten]

You mean every mention of the cube™

[@vaultence9859]

@@EnRandomSten Yes. All hail the cube™ (just didn't like the way it converts it into the emoji in youtube comments)

[@wersywerxy]

So glad you picked up Ultra Cube! Can't wait to see all the crazy circuit shenanigans! Edit: I exist in a superposition of euphoria and anguish. All hail The Cube.

[@adamyoung976]

I am glad you vented happiness, wouldn't want your mind to get clogged up with that junk.

[@Ghosty99675985]

Please be careful Dosh! It's not safe to interact with Intelligent Calcium without your REMS Oscillating Converter. I've lost many friends to the Helvetica Scenario.

[@kubuzetto]

"Mashed potatoes" as an ingredient got me thinking what the Engineer has been eating so far... Then it hit me. Spaghetti.

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Spaghetti, fish, well water, and some choice cuts of laser-seared biter meat.

[@uhrguhrguhrg]

the assemblers are the meatballs of my factory spaghetti

[@Cadber]

Is it a canon event that the Cube™ is just infitely compressed Binifran?

[@antlover5493]

yes

[@submachinegun5737]

The bean lore expands

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

The cube actually is a portal leading to his KZbin channel, giving him access to every base he's ever built, including all the infinite power of the Beans

[@alexsiemers7898]

The cube is blue like the ocean, meaning we can jump to the conclusion that all of seablock actually takes place on the cube. And the reason he spontaneously spawns on this new planet is simply because of him emerging from the cube at the end of seablock

[@KadentheBacon]

CUBE

[@ROMAGNUM45]

CUBE

[@ninja55111]

CUBE

[@kingawsume]

CUBE

[@Sporkyz74]

CUBE

[@DoshDoshington]

CUBE

[@KingTwelveSixteen]

You didn't even need circuits for the final smashed cube challenge. Just use a crapton of splitters to split the output of 256 smashed cube pieces 6 times each into 64 separate machines which each use exactly 4 dust. Or if you want a more sane solution, do it with 4 splits each to put 16 dust in front of each individual machine. That way there is no possibility of extras since all the machines pull from separate belts.

[@DoshDoshington]

Yeah, at that point I'm like, "There's definitely a much easier and simpler way to do this, but I'm committed"

[@Keykey70]

@@DoshDoshington lmao once you start using circuits it's hard to think simpler

[@sjoerdvogel3352]

will this always work, what if by some voodoo magic a splitter gets out of phase? Safe bet is probably handsize 1 and count off the amount enabling one inserter at a time.

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

If you want to be absolutely sure, you can stop it at the belt. Have a circuit set up to disable the belt until both chests next to it have 4 items in them. Then disable the belt->chest inserters and enable the belt until production is complete.

[@nathe7964]

As someone who finished Rimworld's Anomaly dlc, the idea of a base running on THE CUBE's power is both alluring and terrifying. Hope I'll have the room for the sculptures...

[@bmobmo6438]

Ironically, in Rimworld THE CUBE is the only entity that you can't generate power from

[@BardBoss64]

I had no idea how any of this worked or what any of it meant. This was like watching a video from another dimension. Awesome video.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

I started playing Factorio this week after stumbling across this channel. I've never played a game like this except maybe spacechem, so I want to thank you for being the direct cause of my hundreds of upcoming hours staring at belts.

[@patricktolosa6457]

Good luck, from a 1500 hour player. Worth it!

[@adamyoung976]

ahhh good sir Factorio is only the start although it is by far the hardest in my opinion. You have jumped into a rabbit hole the depths of which only the cube can know. You must also have a look at other factory games like Satisfactory and one I enjoy a lot Dyson Sphere program. Good luck on your journey!

[@uhrguhrguhrg]

​@adamyoung976 i still think factorio is the golden standard of the genre

[@limeylime8027]

Space exploration: haha you have to deal with all my stone byproducts good luck!! Ultracube: hold my calcium

[@Roxor128]

Nullius: hold my chlorine

[@smithsmith6402]

Man, Look Around You was such a fantastic show. Everyone should watch it. The sulfur episode was my favourite. Loved the clips from it inserted into the video!

[@torazis3286]

5:48 at this moment I realised, that the cube is literally cpu - it does everything and every program takes turn to use it.

[@daisukeakihito9832]

I'm about 15 minutes in and I have to say, I'm really impressed with how "backwards" this overhaul is. You hinted at this with the gear/cube brain joke and I really like the fact that compared to gear brain where you optimize for efficiency, with cube brain you optimize for time instead. Definitely an interesting challenge to flex the ol' grey matter.

[@Slywyn]

"All of humanity's advancements in the science of power generation ultimately come down to new and interesting ways to boil water" Edit: I love that a random, half-remembered quote from I-don't-know-where is my most-liked comment now, lmao. Also this was just meant to be like a joke because he kept mentioning using the C U B E to boil water and I wasn't trying to be critical of green power or make a 100% factual statement or anything, lol.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

I mean, we're making some pretty impressive leaps in creating pre-boiled water too, though the sun still has us beat...

[@gamertimetrue]

Waer

[@anonymouscausethatshowirol828]

Hydroelectric, wind, and photovoltaic solar technically do not require water boiling. Also you can boil sodium instead

[@fasddfadfgasdgs]

I mean we also use said boil water to spin a magnet around a coil.

[@crashkojote5627]

Currently, we are working on using pre-boiled water (like theapexsurvivor9538 put it) and using it to NOT boil water, but to make power directly. However, it's still a bit dodgy and will likely only float about as a concept for like 200 years before some other smart bloke manages to make it convenient, sooo... Time to once again boil water, I guess.

[@cooltv2776]

"making any sort of late game base is completely out of the question" as someone who stayed on cube steam until I had researched the second to best option, and heavily relied on loaders, I dont agree, it can be done, but you really shouldnt. switching off cube steam as quickly as possible is a big deal its fun to see dosh run into most of the same problems I did, and use wildly different solutions. its also interesting seeing him run into problems I didnt because of how I chose to organize my base. I only had to rebuild once! and with a little more planning I could have avoided that entirely

[@criticalmichael5636]

As someone who might download this mod, do you have any advice?

[@cooltv2776]

@@criticalmichael5636 using the cube efficiently is your bottleneck. if something makes the cube available more often its good, doesnt matter how inefficient it for other resources buffers are good. they are very good. both at the input and output for everything cube related. they mean the cube doesnt have to wait for resources to accumulate, and they give an easy way to measure if a system is ready for the cube have an automated way to turn off calcium production. the bulk metals recipe is great, but you get too much calcium, you will always get too much calcium. alternatively be prepared to have extremely large calcium storage and maybe to run it over with a car to vent it. do the same for coal circuits are your friend. they make managing the cubes time way easier if you can use them well. I had to learn a handful of new circuit tricks, this mod definitely increased my comfort with them

[@isawadelapradera6490]

@@criticalmichael5636 1. Adore the cube, It's your soul and savior. 2. Cube is the quintessential shape. All hail the cube. 3. All other shapes are impure. All hail the cube. 4. Never doubt the cube. Its shape is pure. 5. You are impure, for you are not a cube. 6. There is a single acceptable number of faces, and that is 6.

[@АртемТезиков-щ1р]

I love that scene in Avengers where Dosh launches factorio at 3am and says "It's cubing time". Truly we're blessed with this video

[@Durngor]

I love the 2 different robots, the fast ones get the items to the machine, getting it to run, and the slow ones keep it running by delivering a lot. And depending on the ration of carried items you can save so many robot trips. One yould even filter for specific ones in specific logi cells..Cube

[@dzuchun]

gotta love how real-world particle physics terms are used along ecloplasm and void tendrils

[@bayanzabihiyan7465]

Fastest Click I've ever done

[@unarmedarc6470]

Same

[@mrgiolie]

Same

[@keatonmontroy5120]

Same

[@amateurishauthor2202]

Same

[@leechy1035]

Same

[@Salmacream]

Me, "Mr Doshington would you Cube?" Dosh 12 minutes after posting Cube, "Cube."

[@Shiegrant]

damn seems like i will have something to see before sleeping

[@steph_7775]

Same, I was gonna go to sleep but here I am lol

[@jokerofspades-xt3bs]

Same here

[@azhei_4332]

Add me to the bandwagon

[@TheCatGuy666]

Count me in.

[@pilopuha]

Same

[@MichaelYouTubetube]

You are the only person I know who puts subtitles on videos like this. A true champion. Seriously. Thank you.

[@yoshidude64595]

I haven’t finished this video yet, but if I’ve learned anything from “Look Around You”, it’s that this is going to end in the helvetica scenario. Edit: I knew it!

[@coldcallerloopy]

Hey Dosh! super early lol. Love your content! I've never played Factorio nor many other of the games you've promoted but you've gotten me super excited to play Factorio with my eldest brother and look into other games like Cogmind. Thank you for being such an entertaining personality!!

[@rhudezooka6320]

It’s doshing time

[@pilogun1454]

And then he doshed all over the modpack

[@niceballsjoseph1597]

1 doshillion science per minute

[@Sterl500]

@@pilogun1454 that was my favorite part!

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Careful, you might summon the Killing Floor fandom. Assuming there are members to summon...

[@SUNG0DRA]

alright where we doshing guys

[@FloweyFanClub]

I am so fucking happy and so incredibly surprised that you put (tm) after every instance of Cube(tm) in the captions

[@bensonprice4027]

Thanks for showcasing this mod. It seemed like a lot of fun so I paused the video about 20 min in to try it out myself. After a couple days of trying it out, I decided that I wasn't having fun but I couldn't stop trying the mod. But watching the rest of your video gave me the satisfaction I needed to let go. You're doing the Lord's work.

[@MrShipp100]

This was such a great video about a super interesting mod I hadn't heard of before - thankyou! I'm very excited for the next one!

[@Phraxas52]

I almost thought the "Look Around You" series was in my head or something. Love to see it here.

[@crackedemerald4930]

i love the scary iron man arc core death train loading screen throbber where the cube is kept prisoner

[@desertsage6932]

Before time began, there was the cube. We know not where it comes from, but DAMN does it make me happy to see another dosh upload!

[@MrOnosa]

18:26 Oh my goodness, I love Look Around You! I had no idea it was the source of these references. That's fantastic.

[@Lackel]

Hey dosh i wish you could see this message but i wanna say thank you for all the logical and brainrotting videos you make. i want to tell you to keep doing these videos they are awesome, just like you ;), i love to watch all your videos while eating popcorn and learn the ways of the genius you are. thank you again and i hope you continue this cool content love you man!

[@DoshDoshington]

I don't plan on stopping any time soon

[@Arnavion]

1:06:13 If I understand correctly, there's no point in resetting the sequence. When combination N succeeds, combination N+1 is as likely to be the new correct combination as 1 is. You may as well just try all 21 combinations in a cycle regardless of whether any particular one succeeds or not.

[@kraba1081]

+1, I came to the same conclusion independently while watching the video, it does seem a bit overengineerded. For the same reason, the same clock and memory can be used for both assembly machines, no need to duplicate per machine. Resetting the sequence would only help if the earlier recipes were more likely than later ones. You don't even need to store the values in memory cells technically, simply number n,m in [0,5] for the six ingredients, then loop through a counter from 0 to 35 for the 6x6 combinations, use modular arithmetic to extract row and column, skip over entries where n>m, and you get the triangle pair numbers (think of it as a 6x6 matrix, you want to exclude mirrored pairs you have already done, leading to a triangle shape), and cuz of strict >, you get the duplicate signals in a convenient split up way for later processing (from the diagonal). Alternatively you could make a nested for loop with the same ">" comparison logic. Guess I did my own over-engineering?

[@DoshDoshington]

It's a random sequence, there's no appreciable difference between resetting on the correct combination and resetting at 21. Both are equally likely to encounter the correct sequence, so ultimately it's up to preference, and to me resetting on correct is more photogenic.

[@Arnavion]

The only difference I can think of (other than the obvious one of needing more circuitry to introspect whether the output is success or failure, of course) is that resetting on a correct combination will lead to a skewed distribution because earlier combinations will run more often than later ones, so inputs for earlier combinations will be consumed more than those for later ones. But yes it might not be an appreciable difference vs looking photogenic :)

[@adissentingopinion848]

​​@@ArnavionYou're calculating big O complexity when you should have used big O_cool. Just look at all of the pretty sorting algorithm videos :D

[@zerker2000]

re: circuitry, in particular if you never reset them the sequence can just pass an "activate" next signal around without a central counter. and then maybe run a sequence of 6 against a sequence of 7 where the last one is "skip this recipe", to get the whole outer-product of combinations. (or equivalently 6 vs 6 but put "advance first sequence one extra" on the last element of the second one)

[@alexlewis8341]

That scream from Serious Sam brought back memories. 9:52

[@eskimotruffle3327]

I've been waiting for you to play ultracube. I can't wait to see what ridiculous circuit stuff you are going to do!

[@pledger6197]

First two minutes of the video: "what? it's even more obscure than usual. Who made this mod? It's terrible. And it's 1.5 hours long... will someone actually watch it?" 15 minutes in: "It's genious. It's so cool and fresh. And there are more than hour left" 1 hour 20 minutes in: "Cube"

[@cooldud7071]

Watching these videos is like reading a really dense book. I end up having to rewatch sections over and over just so I can fully understand WTF is even going on.

[@ikta9765]

Spouse: "It's bedtime" Me: No, new Dosh video.

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

Spouse is temporary, Dosh's suffering is eternal

[@djupstaten2328]

"actively " is my favorite phrasing among all.

[@Foreststrike]

I feel like this mod is like Mindustry. Constantly reconstructing bases from the ground up because it's a new level of achievement.

[@ChrisBigBad]

bwaaahahaha. you also fell for the mineral water. i was waiting for it since you uttered the words "mineral water is not used for anything" - just my thinking ^^ i had to reload and could not rescue The Cube. 140 hours, 16 SPM. No plans, all spaghetti, first time trying to use a bus.

[@anabsentprofessor6120]

7:04 while rewatching this I spotted the non-filter inserter going onto the cube belt, went ‘huh, that can’t be good’ and seconds later was rewarded with the sight of matter on the cube belt and the offending inserter now being a filter inserter. The little parts of videos. Thanks for that, Dosh.

[@Bleuducky]

I wasn’t prepared for Cube.

[@ward648]

I spent 140 hours beating this mod and building a megabase, everytime I got stuck I just thought, what would DoshDoshington do. Glad to see I managed to channel some of that spirit with all the weird ideas coming back in order

[@disendromeder4347]

In this world, its ■ or be ■. And brother, im ■

[@TechnicalOveride]

hes square

[@ilyamosin3090]

​@@TechnicalOverideSo hip

[@dr.cheeze5382]

Don't worry, we're 100% ⬛. I wonder if anyone will get this reference. It's so specific yet so generic the answer is probably no.

[@percher4824]

Why are you locked in the bathroom?

[@disendromeder4347]

@@percher4824 are you talking to me?

[@rafa_br34]

"To ensure my factory doesn't come to a halt due to excessive joy" that's a very interesting sentence to say the least.

[@Moxiecore]

I was looking forward to this, and Dosh did not disappoint! I did try the mod a few times and it always melts my brain, so it was very interesting to watch. Also big kudos to the creator of the mod, how you managed to conceive and execute this... is truly mind boggling to me - great job!

[@moocowpong1]

What an amazing mod. Referencing Look Around You warms my heart ❤️

[@Jademalo]

Making sure to note this down in my copy book

[@noidex2936]

I love the subtitles: CUBE™

[@Ang3lUki]

The fantasy elements of this really got my mind turning about a fantasy themed Factorio overhaul, in some ways similar to some of the old Minecraft tech mods like Thaumcraft.

[@TheStratovarian]

This was super neat to see done. Thank you for a super fun video to watch when I woke up.

[@LuaanTi]

The Cube lives! So... what's next? Nullius? :P

[@DoshDoshington]

Nullius is a consideration, but it would need to be the last overhaul I could do until the expansion. I beat Nullius way back when, so it would be interesting to revisit. Also, thanks!

[@jackofsometrades6727]

Seeing markdown [and other indicators of attention to detail] in the captions in the first minute immediately raised my spirits. Thank you! I have not watched more than 30 seconds and am already engaged.

[@BobKephart]

A glorious day to catch this video right away

[@Kingsly9802]

This is one of the few videos you've done where I'm actually tempted to play the mod myself afterwards. Seems goofy and fun instead of totally soul crushing.

[@snottytoe6957]

0:12 you did WHAT across it?!

[@Anonie324]

I've been on a weeks long marathon of Dosh Factorio runs while working. Then, this happens. Miracles are real, I suppose.

[@EthyrielY]

Oh boy, I can't wait to see how Dosh has been torturing himself this time!

[@ethancharim7321]

Oh hey Ethyriel! Didn’t expect to see you here

[@jmatya]

Pretty well I have to say... 😂

[@devinshiggurath3325]

I really enjoy your videos Dosh. I’ve watched the entire factorio challenge playlist multiple times. You’ve taught me a lot about the circuit network that I didn’t fully get how to do. So thanx and keep up the awesome work

[@BrinchTunes]

I really really appreciate the fact that the captions always have a trademark symbol next to "Cube". Really going the extra mile there.

[@maelglorious]

You escaped beans so you can work with potatoes and a cube... you're certainly moving up in in life now Dosh!

[@dragobote]

Thanks for preventing me for having a decent sleep night before my exams. It will be worth.

[@madflam3192]

Dosh pyanondon is still waiting for you, you cannot ignore it

[@40watt53]

👁

[@ITAndroMedian]

Nullius first, Dosh did say a lot of good things about Nullius.

[@TimesplitPickle]

The concept of this overhaul is absolutely awesome

[@vaderciya]

This video totally enamored me, i watched the whole thing in a single sitting, i just couldnt look away This was amazing to watch, thank you for playing it for us, i might do my own cube playthrough now!

[@dolfintuna]

I said to myself, I must be a fake fan if I miss a video from 2 months ago. Then I reread it it that was 2 minutes ago

[@H511F1R5]

ALL HAIL THE CUBE! THY GIFTS ARE A BLESSING! THY WORK IS AN INSPIRATION! PRAISE BE THE CUBE!

[@victorcaldera249]

well looks like I’m not sleeping

[@lakelinswegheimer4611]

Damn straight

[@defeniteltriaki8034]

TRUEEEE

[@XCATX25]

9:21 it starts with this greenhouse to make wood, as well as some sand from the crusher and finally steam, for the steam clams we're having... mmm, steamed clams

[@nobob8564]

Of all the overhaul/total conversion mods you've made videos of, this is by far my favorite. Since you made a factory powered by beans, maybe you can make some tweaks to this mod so potatoes can be used for power. Although, nothing will ever be quite on the same scale as the beans from sea block. That shit was insane(the good kind).

[@dinoeebastian]

1:03:04 I'm sorry, what in the world is an optimation?

[@DoshDoshington]

Lmao I never noticed that