Mastering Early Automation in Techtonica! (Beginner Guide & Walkthrough) - Episode 2

[@spectrumdad_]

Hope you enjoy this episode. Let me know what kind of guides you want to see for this game in the comments! ❤

[@toml.9937]

I think I'll be starting over and this will help a great deal! Softlocked my progression by processing all of the atlantum ore before finding out that I needed some to open doors...

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

Uh, like all 10 veins?

[@toml.9937]

@@antediluvianatheist5262 Turns out that I wasn't using the scanner correctly. I started over anyway to see if I could do thinks better this time around.

[@MSouthy87]

Thanks for the video! I didn't even realize how to split/merge lines until now, thought there were actual items for that (habit of Satisfactory lol)

[@legodoze308]

Thanks for the video. Realy helped. Been playing since yesterday and began with the planters and it turned into spaghetti.

[@DarthPoyner]

Not a huge problem, but get into the habit of using splitters directly outside your high yield unit's ouputs. When you put multiple Miners or Smelters directly on the line, you will eventually run into a problem where the ones further down the line cannot output due to the saturation of the belt. Upgrading the belt CAN help, but it is even better to simply put splitters on the main line and have the output of the machine going to the splitter. When you are directly on the line, the line has priority over your inserters. So if there is a saturation, that minor will be sitting there doing nothing until a space opens up. But if you go directly into a splitter on the line, each line coming into and out of are done in a more round robin style. You will still have the "stutter" of a saturated line, but each miner will be producing and therefore not useless. And when you upgrade the line, it will be even better. And be very cautious of the spacing of your lines. You should only put them side by side if you are using the long inserters or if you are running them a long distance. As you will need to have space on either side to run lines off of them as the splitters and elevators require space to the side in order to operate.

[@FoNgThOnG]

If you don't want to dig into the spots around the Ore Veins, you can always build a 2nd Floor for more mining drills and have conveyer belts running down to 1st Floor smelters. It looks cleaner than having drills circling the ore.

[@spectrumdad_]

Everyone has their own preferences and that's what makes these types of game good. Your factory doesn't look like mine, and that's cool. I don't like the way the belts deal with height in this game so far, so I prefer to sprawl out rather then built up, but that's just my preference overall.

[@Deilwynna]

to make best use of a vein, you mine out all "soft" rock around the vein and place several floors of miners around it, that way even the small veins, like the iron vein nearest terminal victor, will produce a substantial amount of ore

[@spectrumdad_]

@@Deilwynna true. The thing is, I’ve played this game to the end right now and you really don’t need that many miners to complete it. So it depends on your goals. If you want to just finish the game vs build the biggest factory.

[@shadowlink2048]

cant wait for the video to come out great job man

[@MrDecapoda]

Can't wait to get started on this game, BUT have to finish some games goal I have already started to avoid buffing my backlog even further. :P

[@spectrumdad_]

Yea I hear you, I don't even want to talk about how many games I have bought on Steam and have yet to play :S

[@chrishohenkerk5284]

Just out of question, you mentioned in another comment regarding not liking how the belts look when going up to another level, have you tried doing a corkscrew lift yet? I worked one out last night!

[@stefannegoita5660]

So clean build...if you see mine... I have production lines one on top of the other. 3 floors, bottom floor electric gens first floor yellow flower, second floor blue flower and compost.. it's all a mess..I'll rebuild it all later

[@chrishohenkerk5284]

This was so helpful!! Ive only just started and my production of iron and copper was horendous. just put of question how do you plan your layouts? Is it just experiance? Or is there a method to it?

[@spectrumdad_]

Little bit of both. I played the entire game already so I know what to expect. Also I have experience from other games like Factorio/Satisfactory and it does help keeping things a little bit more clean.

[@kmfnj]

Hey there, this was a really useful video. I've been struggling with a cloggy factory setup near Victor and I think it's because I didn't utilize the starter veins efficiently like you have demonstrated here. I do have a question at 8:10 -- I see you set the floor above the water -- does this make water wheels harder to utilize later on? Also, does this limit the size the core composer can reach from "floor to ceiling"? TIA 🙏 Subscribed! 😎

[@spectrumdad_]

Actually the water wheels will fit underneath if we choose to do it that way, which is what I did in my first playthrough. But in this one I’ll be doing something a tad different. The core composer will eventually hit the ceiling yes, but honestly later on you can make more headroom, or place more core composers, or go somewhere else entirely.

[@georgeplays3337]

I need some help how do I get biobricks cos I look in the electronics bit on the tech tree and it’s not there for me :/

[@hexagon88-miller14]

when the next episode get's published? =)

[@Bwandonlovesmethisiknow]

That trick with filling up chests with something to prevent it from being full of what you are mass producing How exactly do I do that on console?

[@spectrumdad_]

That’s a good question. I’ll test it out and get back to you.

[@chrishohenkerk5284]

It's possible. When your "in" a crate look to the bottom of the screen and it gives you options regarding how many to place or take

[@KillaConJaro]

@@chrishohenkerk5284 yeah we're able to place the 1 unit by doing it that way but it doesn't place it into another slot it just fills up the same one. So if doing it that way doesnt work, whats the lowest-number-stack item we could use instead?

[@chrishohenkerk5284]

@@KillaConJaro see I realise now I was being dumb. I'm very sorry. Although you can place one it will just add to the stack already there. SOMEONE CONTACT THE DEVS!

[@thebossking2004]

I love your videos man! But i was wondering, are you going to stop posting satisfactory videos and just post this game? Because your satisfactory videos has really helped me i have used almost every layout you have made a video about. So i hope you will post more satisfactory too!!😁

[@spectrumdad_]

Of course. I’m working on my next one right now!

[@thebossking2004]

@@spectrumdad_ yesss i love it thanks

[@emilepouliot260]

This game is cool but it’s frustrating to don’t know how many minerals per minute a miner produces compared to satisfactory.

[@Strazman]

The devs confirmed that this is at the top of their priority list. They admitted it will be rudimentary at first, but we should have production stats in-game sometime by mid-August.

[@radiomanjk]

I am sorry but I have to disagree with you, handcrafting doesn't help speed up your progression, infact it's extremely inefficient. I believe if you automate the production of powerfloors you need half the resources plus it makes it lots faster. Besides that it will free up the queue so you can still quickly handcraft items that you don't need as much. OK I see you automate them a bit later, but this would be among the first things I would automate. That is when I get access to the assembler.

[@spectrumdad_]

It’s the first thing I automate in the video because they are important.

[@KillaConJaro]

Bruh it is the first thing he automates 😂 that tip is a "pre-automation" strategy to stay stocked on materials so you have little or no downtime..

[@radiomanjk]

I disagree here, it's true that this is the first thing he automates but he was still handcrafting lots of those when you could get a bunch for free after he unlocked automatic crafting, which wasn't very efficient at the time, but ok maybe I should have watched the whole video before commenting as I may have been a bit too soon to comment here.

[@brodyk871]

Decent videos but holy god, now we will do this...now we will do this....I think people are smart enough to know they you used to mole to clear some space. Explaining every single tiny little itty bitty step is just pointless.

[@spectrumdad_]

I appreciate the feedback. I’ll cut more stuff out next time :P

[@KillaConJaro]

@@spectrumdad_ you cant please everyone, unlike some people I appreciated every tidbit of information you offered in the video, thank you!