Easy SPACE PLATFORM Guide - Factorio Space Age Tutorial

[@andygray8313]

This helped me a lot. I really struggled to find a succinct, accurate depiction of how this very aspect of the game works. This vid is terrific. Complete, brief without glossing over things, and it gave me a solid place to start. I launched my first space age rocket yesterday and I feel so much more well-prepared to move forward now. Great job!

[@egdod3750]

Once you get to your destination you also need turrets covering the rear. In orbit asteroids come from all directions. At Nauvis orbit they are all small so no damage, but in orbit around the other planets they are bigger and will damage the ship from all directions.

[@egdod3750]

You don’t have to manually move the science into the drop pods. Just put a request for the science in the landing platform and it automatically drops the science, or anything else on the ship you want to drop.

[@PublicLeeSpeaking]

Thank you very much. I was really confused about the power issue, and didn't realize that the platform handled distribution itself!

[@CrimsonRaieth]

After a week of playing along watching Tutorials from yourself and others I have finally launched my first rocket. Which I guess means I have now completed the Tutorial hehe. Now to figure out how to make my orbital space laboratory.

[@thomasgeorge307]

Thank you. I was a little intimidated by all the new rocket stuff and didn’t want to mess it up - good video.

[@Ic0nGaming]

Glad to hear that. Only five Space Platforms had to die in the process of procuring the informations in this video :D

[@rhnovaes1]

Everything I needed to get started on my own space platform! Thanks chief!

[@AlexanderBukh]

good one, i have two platforms so far, for science and getting the hang of it. not flying anywhere yet

[@MrXaule]

Very helpful, can't believe that I missed that the asteroid collectors can have a filter.

[@anacondaboom6417]

Love the pronunciation of Vulcanus

[@crumble1400]

I wish you showed the asteroid defense more. You talked about it and turned away right as it was happening.

[@grimneeldrakia7173]

Some tips I have for actually beating it. 1. set up a request for red ammo for 300 to get it from planetside 2. use assember 3 with speed modules to make normal ammo. 3. stockpile normal ammo inside the command module. the main issues i run into is needing red ammo for moving between planets to do enough damage to asteroids and needing a constant supply of yellow ammo for idling by a planet.

[@iab3569]

​@@grimneeldrakia7173 when you are in orbit, make it so you only have 1 or 2 turrets in the middle that barely cover all the edges, so you dont waste ammo shooting asteroids that are really far away and wouldnt hit your ship anyway. I dont know how many ammo upgrades you have researched tho, so you might need more turrets

[@XzMondayNightzX]

It's been a long time since I've gotten back into Factorio. This answers a lot of questions as I've hardly played much after launching a rocket with Bobs + Angels and I've just reached T4 Science while I work my way slowly to the space age. I'll be sure to make a good network for the delivery system rather than the insane spaghetti I'm use too. The elevated rails do help though.

[@eagleeye5397]

Thank you for the video. The mechanics on the space platform take some getting used to. Not having to be on the platform. No power lines, no chests, how the astroid grabbers work. Lots if stuff to unpack. I did figure out enough to get space science produced but what to do with the thrusters was hard. This video helped me understand some of the basics other videos have glossed over. Thanks for the detail.

[@Ic0nGaming]

Personally love the Space Platforms more and more the longer I play with them. Building your own little spaceships is fun af once you got the hang of stuff up there. Just the logistics to get stuff up is a pain at first.

[@adamcforsythe]

The only thing missing from this video are the details around sending supplies up to the platform for the first time.

[@chrisbancs22]

Thanks for the info, I was a little lost on how the Space part of the Game worked.

[@IamGhede]

You can also open the hub and press Q while hovering over stored items you want to build next.

[@ryanorionwotanson4568]

Finally I have a space platform!

[@sharpsheep4148]

I think the most fiddly thing is managing goods in the hub if you are using it to store platform production but are still building up the platform. There should be some buffer for rocket resupply. Probably the sushi belt just acts as that buffer.

[@mustafamoglu247]

This is a good video. Really helpful for me.

[@reisr4171]

Great video. Couldn’t figure out how to build on the space platform. It sounds like you can’t really get stuck on a planet either, which was my main worry.

[@sarcasmo57]

Thanks for the clear instructions.

[@ilya-koloshin]

Thank you so much! Shortly and helpfully

[@nathankeane9208]

Very Informative! Thank You :)

[@tidusx665]

Great guide! Really helping out.

[@HORNOMINATOR]

great overview

[@180secs7]

Great vid, thanks a lot. I subbed just for fun.

[@tugrulserhat]

this was very helpful thank you

[@usurpinesusanti3149]

Well done.

[@Pitrii86]

Thanks a lot!

[@Vanalleswa]

thank you !

[@CrimsonRaieth]

I would like to make an "In Space no one can hear you" Meme; but I wouldnt know where to start.

[@Everything_Nothing132]

THANKS

[@Cap-hippy]

thanks

[@NPC-x1v]

Thank you. There is only important content, no nonsense.

[@TheInsaneupsdriver]

You missed the most important thing, hot to get into space. I don't have a surfaces drop down menu

[@Xenn000]

13:27. No matter what I do, the damn rocket won't go anywhere. Wtf am I missing here? Is my platform too heavy and I need like 40 thrusters to leave or something? Space age is such confusing to understand why nothing is working. EDIT: You gotta turn the water into oxidizer first. Didn't realize it was asking for a different blue teardrop. x.x

[@jaylast5550]

I had a similar problem. The solution for me was that I did not have both the red and blue fuel going to my thrusters. I had some blue in one and some red in the other. Requires both. This may not solve your problem but this worked for me.

[@tundernerd7932]

My fault was not discovering the planets in the lab!

[@zacementirano]

Had to tinker a lot until I figured out how to build stuff on the platform, and to realize that I don't need to be on it to build. I love the game, but shouldn't there be a more self evident explanation/tutorial in the game about it?

[@robax3r]

how do you get items such as inserters on the platform?

[@Pitrii86]

i would love a video where u explain how to automaticly load send and unload stuff with ships... maybe even that it checks the fuel before start... it just doesnt work for me :(

[@Ic0nGaming]

Yeah, will do as soon as I have figured it out myself haha. Had taken a break after finishing learning the first three planets. My shitty space platform rn is not really capable of doing interstellar logistics. Currently working on my Gleba Starport and then finally upgrading to new space ships and going into the golden age of upscaling and procrastination :D

[@DjChronokun]

all my ships have used lasers, but I started to catch on that maybe this wasn't the right approach- the power demand is just too much

[@Ic0nGaming]

I started with Lasers too and then realized how much resistance the roids got vs laser damage. It's far from being efficient, even if you got the power on board ^^

[@Fightlapa]

My asteroid collector just says "Computing navigation" whatever that means and I cannot do anything.

[@stadtverkehr]

Perfect Guide to start! Thank you so much!

[@tugrulserhat]

can the space science packs be made on planet with materials collected from space ?

[@tugrulserhat]

no you can't :)

[@Zoop99]

i just want to know if once i place down foundation on the space platform can i pick it back up again and how?

[@Ic0nGaming]

You gotta mark them with the Deconstruction Tool. Sorry for not having that included, this is actually so hard to find, I had to look it up myself on Reddit cause I didn't find it out by myself either.

[@Ash-ey1cg]

Any tips on dealing with the by product (chunks)? They seems to clog up so quickly and i end up continuously sending thwm back down

[@Ic0nGaming]

I extract them on a small sidelane which directly re-inputs them. Somehow they never clogged up even without any circuitry. If in doubt, give the re-input a fast inserter and the main input a regular yellow one and then the re-insertion is always fast enough to beat the roid collectors. If they still clog up you can always dump them via inserter off of the platform too. Hope this helps o/

[@Ash-ey1cg]

@Ic0nGaming very helpful- thank you!

[@wesleysim1805]

Well hell I got the dlc but my rocket doesn’t have an inventory,….

[@brokeboyNYA]

can you automate sending down space science or not

[@Ic0nGaming]

Yes you can by assigning the white science to a logistic group on your cargo landing pad on the ground. I will do more videos about it too though.

[@plasmaastronaut]

got stuck at 0:49 my resources window does not a have a rocket crafting tab. How do u get one?

[@Seagull780]

Did you do the prerequisite research? Maybe check your research tab to see if you missed anything related.

[@plasmaastronaut]

@@Seagull780 i hadn't downloaded the prerequisite DLC / expansion

[@fikriar9739]

how to open the remote view? any shortcut?

[@theblackbaron4119]

Tab or M since the map is now remote view as well. By default it's set to both of these key binds

[@Ic0nGaming]

I only know of pressing M and then selecting the Space Platform in the upper left corner. If anybody else knows a quicker keybind I'd like to know as well ^^

[@user-jr2ue9nu6y]

I literally have only armour-no weapons and blue prints. Still cant travel to space

[@theblackbaron4119]

If you have ammo on yourself in a weapon slot you also need to leave it.

[@kritchaichunawa6255]

i can't building platform

[@colbancassian127]

Shittiest oversized trains ever are the space platforms. I want my platform to wait at nauvis until ammo > 600 AND (red science OR green science OR metallurgy science = 0) No way on earth I can create these parameters from the platform conditions screen. It attaches the AND to one of the sciences all the time so I get shit like ammo > 600 AND red science = 0, OR other sciences = 0. Horrible unintuitive DLC but it can be fun when it works.

[@Ic0nGaming]

Yeah I feel like the interplanetary logistics could REALLY use some updating. It'd already help insanely if we could declare platforms to "space stations" which can receive logistics IN SPACE. It'd be not even a big stretch engineering or physics wise. But with the current system and us not even being able to swap materials in space between platforms it really makes things more complicated than necessary. But yeah, it IS kinda satisfying once you figured out sth that works for you but I still feel like the "space-to-space" logistics are missing severely. Mechanically and logically even.

[@sabersaurus7018]

Why is there drag in space????

[@Ic0nGaming]

The game abstractifies and simplifies many things. If we'd go into realism Factorio quickly would be not fun for the most people anymore. If you want to get a feel of what I mean just boot up pY mods and enjoy realism ^^ But yeah, space should have no drag, I should need to install Thrusters on both ends to accelerate and decelerate if we'd make things "more realistic"

[@egdod3750]

Or turn the ship around and thrust in the opposite direction like real space ships do.

[@singpizza8547]

No way

[@singpizza8547]

Literally right when I looked it up

[@Ic0nGaming]

Haha, nice :D

[@revolutionInc]

jesus what a bad tutorial. i cant build the first platoform as its so unintuitive and doesnt work. i was hoping you would show that but noooo

[@Ic0nGaming]

Which part is missing? I have shown how to control the building menus, I have shown examples of each space platform. If you wish a step by step building tutorial I could do that too, but most people prefer faster information and that's why I have explained the builds instead of building it step by step - this would've increased the videos duration by a ton.

[@revolutionInc]

@@Ic0nGaming building the first platform. i had the issue that it was bugged for me and had to restart the game. wrote here out of frustration and will delete later. sorry !

[@Ic0nGaming]

@@revolutionInc Please don't! People being pissed give me at least an honest opinion where I can do something better. Considering to do a step by step building tutorial too cause obviously it could've been helpful! Cheers mate o/

[@weltraumvogel2]

​@@revolutionIncWhat exactly was "bugged"?

[@revolutionInc]

@@weltraumvogel2 i selected new platform in the GUI and placed the platform item in the rocket laucher. two rockets were ready to launch but nothing happened for an hour until i delelted the planned platform in space, reloaded the game and replanned it.

[@mertserimer6928]

Thruster buildability information is wrong, u can build them aside from rear, just it needs not to have platform behind it^^

[@Ic0nGaming]

But you can't rotate them into another direction, that's what I actually tried to say

[@mertserimer6928]

@@Ic0nGaming Thanks for general information, it was useful for me.

[@Ic0nGaming]

@@mertserimer6928 I don't mind little add-ons either. Factorio is such a rich game in terms of interactions of items with one another. Glad I was able to help o/

[@dragonfire847]

thank you for your help