I Spent 250 Hours In Factorio To Build An Insane MegaBase

Follow my journey as I build a Factorio MegaBase from Scratch, step-by-step. This is a recap of a 70-part Factorio series (link below). In this series I cover everything from start to finish and touch on all topics of the core game. Hope you enjoy!:)
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. In the beginning you will find yourself chopping trees, mining ores and crafting mechanical arms and transport belts by hand, but in short time you can become an industrial powerhouse, with huge solar fields, oil refining and cracking, manufacture and deployment of construction and logistic robots, all for your resource needs. However this heavy exploitation of the planet's resources does not sit nicely with the locals, so you will have to be prepared to defend yourself and your machine empire.
Join forces with other players in cooperative Multiplayer, create huge factories, collaborate and delegate tasks between you and your friends. Add mods to increase your enjoyment, from small tweak and helper mods to complete game overhauls, Factorio's ground-up Modding support has allowed content creators from around the world to design interesting and innovative features. While the core gameplay is in the form of the freeplay scenario, there are a range of interesting challenges in the form of Scenarios. If you don't find any maps or scenarios you enjoy, you can create your own with the in-game Map Editor, place down entities, enemies, and terrain in any way you like, and even add your own custom script to make for interesting gameplay.
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[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Hello everyone! Here's the link to the 70-part step-by-step series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGaYiJyci8yogc0 Thanks for watching, liking and subscribing! I appreciate it:)

[@lianvitos]

factorio is the game with unlimited space where you always run out of space

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

👍

[@ipadize]

😂 😭😭

[@mattlewin72]

Nathan, I like this so much more than the typical, short, time lapse summaries of this kind of series. Having watched each of the 70 series episodes, I still find this fun to watch. Thanks for everything you do.

[@toddstephenson9849]

It was really fun to watch this Nathan. I've got 16,000 of playtime according to Steam. My biggest map runs 24 hours a day and still produces & consumes only 4ksp/m. It can go a week at a time without maintenance, but its a hige job bringing enough resources online when something starts to run low. I run vanilla, no mods. I'm nowhere near as good a designer as you but its fascinating how you can get there in different ways. I did mine primarily with trains and separated botzones. There are 1200 trains, 5000 stations and millions of bots. Even with a Factorio max optimized PC I can only get 10 or 11 FPS.... There is just too much stuff, and I like Nuclear rather than Solar as I like the complexity (and consuming all the resources on the map, haha). Train congestion is no longer an issue as I have distributed production of different products and resources all around the map. I didn't do a grid system, so my map looks very organic in comparison, and I mostly go around the lakes rather than fill them. When the TL feature came out awhile ago it took me months to change from disabling stations to TL instead. I don't use spiders to build expansions, but robots. I lay down a construction station. Then the train comes in with the parts and builds a receiver for all the parts and finished products to come in automatically. Additional robots keep getting brought online anytime there are less than 100 idle in the zone. Everything gets built automatically, (mostly) and then the trains start coming automatically. My world is enormous and hard to play... I need to ride trains and spiders everywhere with that low FPS, and work mostly in map mode. Ill lay down a few BPs in the morning to expand and rhen leave it. Mine is so inefficient compared to yours and my reciever stations are filled with vast quantities of goods gathering dust... But its fully automated and Ive been amazed at what ive been able to accomplish with the free time im blessed with and much more limited programming and design skills compared to you and some of the other guys out there. Sure love this game... I play it more than I work. And sleep... Haha... All the best

[@putinstea]

Dude, you are crazy.

[@boi2323]

how much adderall do you take?

[@blakeluvsu1]

This was a poetic read, i bet ur base looks beautiful

[@dwylie83]

Factorio is coded for full belts if you don't have full belts it tanks your fps very basically every slot on the belt empty is like 0.01% less performance so blue belts will fuck up your fps

[@ivan0912]

i love factorio because of how unique it is; so many things to optimize, to build, plan, and the satisfaction you get as you progress keeps you hooked.

[@CoFloCipher]

I actually watched all 69 episodes of this series. I usually fizzle out on these things after 20 or so but something about this series held me. Thank you Nathan and I look forward to what’s to come.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Thanks so much for watching the whole thing!;)

[@damjnet8751]

Thank you for making this. 250h in 1h is not an easy job, but you've done it well !

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

My pleasure!;)

[@sealyboi717]

I was watching this like "Oh hey this guy watched the same Mega Base tutorial series I did". Then I realized that he didn't watch it, he MADE it.

[@denizparlak2602]

What an incredible journey from start to finish, thank you Nathan, epic stuff 👏

[@kookiespace]

I love how one of the mega modules just blends into the sea of solar xD Also... genuinely, this base reminds me of die shots from CPUs. The cores are actually TINY in comparison to the cache. The solar is a kind of cache, for power, and the mega modules are your cores :P Anyway, this is amazing! thanks for editing this together :D

[@thrashwlf6858]

Launching your rocket without productivity modules should be a crime.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

😉

[@antal-banyikkristof755]

If i'd put as much effort into schoolwork, as i do into Factorio, i would be a top student

[@matsv201]

My read of it. Smelting takes load of space. Always do it in the mines. That saves loads of space. And. Well. Stack size is larger. If you have 10 waggons of ore. That is 5 wagons of steal, iron, bricka, 1 wagon of steal or wall or 1.4 wagons of green

[@seanseen_]

Then your smelters get less effective as the ore runs out

[@Pep19777]

Great summary video of a megabase series, enjoyed watching it!

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Glad to hear it!

[@tynumo]

I liked the part where the biters and threat were used in the same sentence

[@jakedanielsen4512]

Timestamp?

[@bt3iscrazy]

was a great series, and well worth losing sleep over for "just one more episode" :P Any chance of a world download to take a closer look? I just finished my 2nd rocket launch, id be interested in going mega base :)

[@MalteJäckel]

Hey Nathan i have now round about 80hours in factorio and i wanted to ask you if you could make a list With the mods you used to make your life easyier in factorio Would really aprecaite It keep up going😊❤❤

[@SirBalageG]

Ngl at 6:00 my eyes were burning from the heressy that you used two assemblers for cables and then 1 for the circuits :D

[@markias25]

Amazing! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

My pleasure!;)

[@akujie4821]

The factory must grow.

[@charliew.1122]

Do you think that incorporating most things into a single "mega blueprint" helped with your congestion? 5k SPM is very impressive on your train system and I assume that's down to your "mega blueprint". Did you have many issues with congestion?

[@armelchiza3771]

Tremendous jpb Nathan, thanks for putting this together!

[@de_x3n]

Really enjoy your content. First series I watched was the Fortress Craft Evolved one. Still sad that this game is not continued. But I would like to see your take on Overhaul Mods for factorio, Space Exploration or Krastorio 2 for example. 😊

[@user-cz9ss4yq4x]

Holy shit, this is more science per minute than my base makes iron plates per minute

[@cpttrps5376]

I met you on a community server when you were still redstone nightmare damn dude its been a while and its awesome you still make videos ❤

[@jakob_the_dude5324]

✨I kept ob building✨

[@WuddupDok]

Great video! Love the pace and depth. Small suggestion: the sibilance of your voice recording is a lil painful. A de-esser and/or EQ would go long way in improving the listening experience 💪

[@goistoist]

Amazing series. Thank you for this.

[@kadenfrfx]

imagine you doing your next playthrough being a mega base for the space exploration mod, that would be so cool but ik it would be hard

[@kingpandagodoftaste9001]

I love this game. I love the way people just think about problems differently and there are a bunch of different solutions. Personally I would not try to use solar panels for a megabase. They take up too much space.

[@sethhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I think it would be awesome to watch you play Krastorio mod on this…I NEED MORE CONTENT

[@armydude142dontunderestima9]

im on episode 6 right now, one day i will catch up to this point 🤣

[@CheRurg]

Thank you, Nathan, the series was fantastic

[@CheRurg]

Watched it all. You made the best factorio series on the whole KZbin

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Thanks so much for watching;)

[@KrunchyKat]

This gives me some to aim for, but I think my ADD has too much of a grip for my Megabase of Chaos

[@bal20]

Wow great job. I'm soon about to get back into factorio after 3 years of my pc being I the loft 😢 the factory will grow, even though I've got a baby!!

[@Woffieee]

Any chance to get a blueprint book of the megabase/outposts?

[@mattjarvis6299]

Any chance of getting some blueprints for your base?

[@MrBob369]

Great work Nathan, such an interesting series! Any chance of a world download from the end of series? The last one i could find was pretty old. Thanks :)

[@upupa8191]

would love to see another video but with a modpack, maybe pynadon or space exploration, really good video, waiting for more xD

[@ritinfek]

Thanks for your dedication!

[@Faith_Plus_One]

You basically built mobo with PSU. Nice work!

[@argentino67]

ik im only 6 mins in, but this peeves me so much, unless u are using some alternate recipies, its 2 green circut asemblers to 3 wire asemblers for max efficency, not 1 and 2

[@konradburnett]

there is a little indie game called mindustry that you should try some time, I've personally had a good experience with it with its RTS + factory builder + tower defense style of game-play and.

[@captheobbyist6434]

why didnt you make the main bus? is it because it lags the base or because using logistic robots is just easier?

[@emiliatan6086]

12am and a 50mins vid? Time to have a goodnight sleep

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Good night;)

[@ruanvisagie8090]

Challenge: Take 1 shot everytime he says set up

[@Skeverovic]

I like your spaghetti. Nice colorfull designs.

[@toxickid0014]

What is the name of the mod at 8:37, I searched outpost planner, I could not see it, great video btw.

[@shabadarova]

8:58 you can continue to move the mouse forward to make the balancers red automatically

[@JuilioCH]

Hi Nathan, I started to watch and it is interesting. Could you please tell me/us what QoL mods you used in the progress? Edit: I found the Modlist in the Playlist.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

👍

[@OldManClassic]

Please explain your 4 lane design intersections... please =) Awesome video man! Keep it up!

[@GG8888-d4b]

it looks like i microchip, great stuff

[@maxinnn1]

Can i know the spec of your pc for this megabase you build?

[@lianvitos]

I would like to know that too, because my factory is always limited by my computer and I dont get pass 1200spm

[@erikstahl2044]

Yo Nathan! Wouldn't it be more efficient to smelt the ores at the outpost and then load the trains from there? That way the wont have to be transported by train. I'm not exactly an expert so I might be wrong, but just a thought!:)

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Yes, double as efficient, but it would also be annoying to build the smelter with every outpost.;)

[@erikstahl2044]

@@Nathans-Sandbox Ahh yeah that makes sense! I just have the smelter blueprinted together with the train station so I don't have to think about it😎

[@Vahki1000]

Insane. Good Job.

[@manelmv97]

you a genious! LOVEEEEE ITTT!

[@darkkenji1]

Awesome job!

[@nathanjohnson3948]

I tip my hat to you, one Nathan to another 🎩

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

😉

[@greatman2196]

Hi. Have you seen Ratopia it game kinda no oxygen including. Do you plan to play it?

[@szymoniak75]

and just like that i watched the whole video

[@redroyce4590]

Nice, 1 day ill finally make my own megabase

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Good luck!

[@simonprice8638]

how does this man build stuff out in the middle of nowhere without walls, or even any alerts!? Is he playing on the Train mode? Where biters don't expand into your polution cloud?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

This is on standard settings and a summary of a long series, in the series I explain it all.

[@simonprice8638]

@@Nathans-Sandbox Thank you for your response! I've never had a response from a KZbinr before! ☺

[@fine93]

what a god! cant wait to see what youll do in the epansion!

[@sonic4197]

Are you using a train manager of any kind? Im wondering, does multiple stops with the same name so that the trains pick one work in vanilla?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

They tend to pick the closest with the lowest number of trains. No train manager involved.

[@sonic4197]

@@Nathans-Sandbox so your telling me I can scale twice as fast because I can just use my train presets and make blueprints with the same station name und just spam trains and I don't even have to set up every single one? This game is true automation and the perfect balance of lazyness and hard work

[@vincentchauvot5899]

Holy cow, shit is amazing

[@demori2052]

at 250 hours in 1 save I accomplished launching the rocket.

[@cewla3348]

i'd still be automating red science at 0.1sph (science per hour)

[@mikeseabrooks7978]

Which mod shows the amount of resources on the map?

[@manwithanaccent4315]

When I see 1K or 5K science per minute I've always wondered - Which schience? Red? Blue? Purple? White? Which one is it?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

All of them. A 1k SPM base means you're making 1k per pack;)

[@hadri_lepro7291]

Someone can give me the mode that he used for this megabase like the auto plan for mining ? TYYY

[@TheMorbius]

Hey man, I was wondering if you could write the MES?

[@renelnielsen]

What is the mod called you use to optimise ore patches with miners?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Outpost planner.

[@RS4KING]

Amazing.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

👍

[@ritinfek]

pls explain the logic setting at 38:23 _ thanks in advance!

[@craigmcallister2310]

Ludicrous!

[@TabbyVee]

I regularly spend this long on a world just to end up never going past blue science because i fucking HATE fluids.

[@alexeyn9856]

Nathan, do you have the base save file available anywhere?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Yes, there are multiple saves across the series in the descriptions.

[@kadashov]

31:53 Is this some kind of mod? Will it work in vanilla?

[@Piratederp]

It's not a mod. They are seperate belts due to the color, so you can weave different color underground belts in line with one another.

[@FactorioBrasil]

Fantastic video I really like your channel. I have a Factorio Channel too

[@deek0146]

My framerate stutters long before I can get to this stage unfortunately.

[@yasielfranchi]

blueprints?

[@thorbaima]

It took bro like an hour to do what’s taken me 3 days

[@СашаЗолотов-щ7ы]

Как ставиш буры?

[@paprika1716]

250h? sweet.

[@bobbyslapin8099]

I have factorio but don't play it just because of the fact that the resource nodes run out so you have to get more and all that

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Why don't you set them near infinite in the settings if that is the only reason?

[@bobbyslapin8099]

@@Nathans-Sandbox I didn't know that was an option, I'll go check that out

[@ritinfek]

Would you kindly share a save file?

[@bnhuo15]

Where are the blueprints

[@ДмитрийКорольков-п4ы]

Whole bunch

[@ВиталийКобцев-щ9ч]

ничего не понял, но очень интересно xDD

[@skyzalx2987]

nice, your's factory looks like a chip of computer

[@kitsukeita]

Now do a Py run

[@asence]

Modlist anywhere?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

It's in the first two minutes of the first episode if you're really curious.

[@asence]

@@Nathans-Sandbox Thanks for the quick reply! I like the series alot, I actually started watching the episodes seperately. Keep up the good work!

[@hitle3616]

nahhh i have about 450 hours in factorio and i still didn't finish factorio -_-

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

I hadn't finished it either when I had 450 hours. I enjoy doing the starter bases a lot:)

[@RockClimberAlex]

27:38 For chicks and giggles? Lulz.

[@castoroviedovalencia164]

Like like like

[@theperson514]

i dont mean this in a rude way but you kinda speak like how i would imagine a skinwalker would. great video though!

[@kaiseraugustus1393]

Can't watch this video.... the extreme pronounced "s" is too much for me, too sharp and high pitched in my ears... as well as the incorrect pronounced "th", like most Germans usually do... arg...

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

I'm Swiss. Thanks for stopping by and the feedback! Have a good day:)

[@zekezein-eldin5024]

your name is fucking kaiser agustus how do you have an issue with german speakers

[@InservioLetum]

You don't expect this accent when you see the name Nathan. This sounds more like a Johann-Sebastian.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

So, you expected a Hebrew accent?;)

[@Krille_K]

The factory must grow.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

👍

[@jirikunc1956]

i was keeping up until the moment you built first signal light on rails xD

[@CoFloCipher]

Id love you forever if you did another one of these series