Top 1% Factory Building in Shapez.io

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Shapez.io Part 2 - we construct more complicated factories and begin on a SUPER HIGHWAY! Fun game, definitely check it out.
Edited by: Tyler and BenBenRanger ( / benbenranger )
Shapez.io is a minimalist factory building automation game inspired by Factorio! Optimization in its purest form, we must extract shapes from the source, cut them up in different ways, color them, and combine them with other shapes. Starts simple, gets increasingly complex due to the extreme shapes you must create and the infinitely expanding map.
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[@Aliensrock]

For those who missed the first episode, be sure to check out Shapez.io here: bit.ly/shapez-ar It's getting some large content updates in the near future, so I don't know how long it'll be $4 for.

[@weegeeismad9298]

me when shapes idk never played the game

[@concentratedrefrigerator2791]

Ok

[@businessrat6741]

You might be one smartest people I’ve ever know

[@digiotale6908]

shapes is gonna go to iirc $7 when the wires update comes out

[@justsomeoneelse5942]

K

[@aregulargamer4144]

Game: * has a problem in it * Tyler: *TUNNELS IT IS THEN*

[@jameskivenko]

undergrounds are your friends... we may make a factorio player out of him yet!

[@johnnyw4607]

he is going to LOVE the tier 2 tunnels

[@orinbecker9937]

I just unlocked tier 2 tunnels and holy crap yes

[@certifiedpossum8655]

Tunnels are the flex tape of Shapes.io

[@apoklinon]

When in doubt, use tunnels

[@Adam-pv4qn]

I love when you play this game, please make it a regular.

[@2bad2bemad20]

he wont because he only plays cuz its sponsored

[@weegeeismad9298]

2bad2bemad Aww man

[@adilmzese5346]

@@2bad2bemad20 even tho its a sponsor doesn't mean he won't continue if he likes it enough. But I doubt he will continue because the game isn't the most fun once u reach late game

[@cooperdunn3808]

This is not a play forever game there isn’t really infinite content like polybride and other games

[@bobasaursquared1633]

Cooper Dunn I too love my infinite poly bride

[@Eromasin]

Seeing as Factorio version 1.0 came out recently, I'd love to see you play some of that.

[@quixotic3377]

Or Mindustry!

[@SateLight]

@@quixotic3377 Mindustry PvP is really fun, battling your towers and armies with other people is really challenging

[@1996Pinocchio]

Nilaus has a great series on Factorio 1.0 :)

[@jammingend3781]

@@quixotic3377 I see, you're man of culture as well

[@dashthecat0]

@@quixotic3377 I came to say the same thing

[@yosh5161]

“I need something that just gets the job done, it doesn’t need to be perfect” literally the opposite mentality you should have when playing Factorio

[@teslapenguin1]

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

[@z1re784]

THE URBAN SPRAWL CANNOT COMPETE, FOR WE NEED TO MAKE THOSE GAHD DAYHM ADVANCED CIRCUITRY

[@arandominternetperson437]

I'm convinced the factorio community is one big hivemind focused solely on maximizing efficiency while brainwashing people to join the factory and these two comments confirm it

[@z1re784]

@@arandominternetperson437 nah i dont rlly recommend playing it, its rlly complicated, heck i did not reach science pack threes in it, so yea play a more simpler game like shapez.io its kinda like factorio but without overcomplicated researching, those GAYHD DAMN ADVANCED CIRCUITRY, and the enemy bases

[@z1re784]

Also what dawn said

[@thadiamond1667]

This game, when you get down to it, can get really fun. Factories you make can look like circuit boards.

[@Mikemk_]

I wish it had a conditional component so you could make actual computers in game

[@purpenigma]

@@Mikemk_ that's coming soon

[@Mikemk_]

@Matthew Trevino Did who pay who

[@shypeOW]

@@Mikemk_ Play factorio. It's like this game, but much more complete, and it does have logic

[@Mikemk_]

@@shypeOW And $30. I downloaded the demo though

[@andrewdeleon7150]

You know you've been playing this game correctly when you have 5 million blueprint pieces

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

may you post your modules sir?

[@orinbecker9937]

I only have like 30k bruh

[@felixroux]

But... he didn't.

[@andrewdeleon7150]

@@felixroux That's how much I have in my playthrough

[@gabrielbreeding6073]

Whenever I first built my blueprint factory I was still a noob and didn't know about the wonders of optimization, now that I do i dont want to redo the blueprint factory cause its good enough and I have like 1M worth of them

[@bagua465]

I literally playing shapez.io as this video comes out. I just want to say I am so glad you got sponsored by the developer. This game is so fun and relaxing. (I’m building a peppermint-colored circle right now)

[@NStripleseven]

Bagua oooooooo, that one...

[@bagua465]

I heard shit gets real crazy later on

[@NStripleseven]

Oh, it does, it does...

[@raputha1148]

i bought the game because of his last video too. its so much fun

[@user-iz2rc7rr3v]

I spent hours on that peppermint one and then he just bam done in like 3 minutes with a sleek design :/

[@divinenightmare3029]

"I've been Attempting to create this for the last five minutes" *At least he's being honest*

[@weegeeismad9298]

*_*laughs in 1h 15min train*_*

[@teathesilkwing7616]

I’ve been trying to do what he’s done for weeks and I still can’t It might be due to the fact that I don’t have the game and have never played it but idk

[@frogja358]

“All i need is tunnels, i think the beatles made a song abt that” If they did i cant find it

[@rafaelb2934]

All you need is love

[@menizdakul7311]

Just a tip, you can look at the number of items each building processes per second, and can use those ratios to your advantage and make full belts and modular designs that produce those full belts

[@Aerotactics]

"This is a good white dye factory!" *coughs* /r/shapezio *coughs*

[@papskormsepic7670]

yea, the efficient designs seem so simple but like almost noone discovers it on their own

[@nanatsuki8722]

I got a white dye design that works pretty good

[@tonik2558]

*coughs* discord server *coughs*

[@ryst8226]

Yeah, it's faster to ask someone for a bit of help in Discord than search on reddit.

[@davidmorley7495]

Thanks for the sub reddit!

[@optmus3]

I as a mediocre factorio was rather disappointed when he made his “main highway” thinking to my self just make a main bus man

[@venticuiliar9136]

A main bus isn't really that useful in shapez.io. For the most part, you'll be wanting to make the shapes and color them with local resources, since the production ratios for the machines, extractors, and belts just make it more efficient to do multiple parallel modular factory chunks rather than chaining production lines together for more output, so that you can get full single belts of output from each of them if that makes sense. So instead of having a main bus that has all of your colors and shapes that you draw from whenever you need to make a new kind of shape, you just make a chain of modular factory chunks so that you get a full single belt of your desired shape output directly from the source. Then you just expand that production to produce multiple more single-belt-fulls of final product.

[@ayporos]

@@venticuiliar9136 Sure whatever.. but can you explain to me why he merged 2 lanes into 1 and then in the very next block he split them again into 2 lanes?... That doesn't seem like a very effective thing to do, or are lanes not speed/throughput limited in this game?

[@venticuiliar9136]

@@ayporos What part of the video specifically are you referencing?

[@Drache832]

@@ayporos He does that to balance the belts, so that there are an equal amount of resources on both belts

[@cliffthecrafter]

@@Drache832 he could have just used a regular balancer for that

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

You're gonna love this next update Tyler. In the alpha, Tier 2 Tunnels...are now 1 longer

[@Fogolol]

since tier 2 tunnnels are a thing, then tier 1 tunnels are like completely obsolete aren't they?

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

@@Fogolol no, because you can put tier 1 tunnels in between tier 2 tunnels. You can have multiple intersecting pairs of the same tier of tunnel

[@TlalocTemporal]

Can you weave them like in Factorio?

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

@@TlalocTemporal no. They can only go straight. That is a suggestion I can put in the discord though.

[@Anson_AKB]

@@KazLordOfLightWarriors without mods, tunnels (underground belts, underneathies :-) in factorio are straight only. and what someone calls weaving, the other calls braiding. but factorio has three types of belts to do it and this game only has two.

[@ciancaldera6542]

aliensrock, a.k.a. “The Mole” It’s cuz he tunnels...

[@xems8910]

Turmoil flashbacks

[@OhGoodGreef55]

I started when I saw the first video and I am on level 19 with almost all tier 7 upgrades. :P

[@henrihell]

I also started after the first video and am now out of stuff to do. So I created a massive make everything machine. But now that I have that I never have to make anything ever again. I just change input belts every time a new level shows up.

[@itsdemiblue6017]

Same here, not 19 yet but close. It's cute coming back and watching this

[@mrmandem2327]

It’s so addictive I spend hours trying to make the largest possible production lines and I’m level 20 everything maxed

[@kylesantell4603]

i just downloaded it today and am at level 15

[@weegeeismad9298]

“You thought tunnels were insane? Wait ‘till you see tier 2.” “This isn’t even my final form.”

[@timezoneiiichickenisaveget9745]

“Shapez.io, factorio without steroids”

[@TonyRoni]

It’s the factory that allows tours

[@godlyvex5543]

I'd compare it more to mindustry

[@matascekas7663]

@@godlyvex5543 this feels more sandbox-y you need shapes to level up but dont need any for machines

[@NStripleseven]

Exactly

[@gengarisnotinsmash...]

5:38 Is... Is this actual editing in my aliensrock video!?!?

[@divinenightmare3029]

Tyler: *uploads * My sleep: *Bing Bong I'm already gone*

[@flameri]

This game is great. Thanks for playing it so I could discover the literal perfect game for me.

[@cstelpstra]

Man, I can watch this all-day. Love it. Keeps my inner compulsive neurosis in check.

[@AJMansfield1]

Interesting to see your chaotic approach to factory building, compared to the tileable/expandable units approach that a lot of other people seem to take.

[@MrNexis3]

You playing Factorio would be an absolute treat now.

[@nate9137]

Finally I was waiting for this I love this series

[@1FrostySlime]

Definitely want more of this, such a fun game to watch you play and I went ahead and bought it as well

[@1996Pinocchio]

"I regret this design" he said, without even having a design haha

[@aidanwarren4980]

Concept for this game: pipelines. They move items 4x faster than conveyers, but require a 2x1 Pipeline Pump at both ends to connect to conveyers. This would be great for moving items at higher capacity more compactly, but because of the space constraints it wouldn’t replace conveyers within factories.

[@outboard_thunder]

I don't know if you have realised but you can figure out how many extractors you need per belt is by checking their output per second (this also applies to any chain) . If a belt speed is 12 items per second, and an extractor is 2 items per second, 1 belt can support 6 extractors. Hopefully this helps when making new production lines

[@ruplo13]

This is so satisfying to watch, hopefully you can make more in the future

[@tyrohellion]

These videos are amazing. Really glad they sponsored you because it’s a really cool game!

[@weegeeismad9298]

3:00 “Where we distribute the shurikens” The shurikens : *Ding dong you’re so very wrong*

[@killthemtodayrightnowtoday]

is quantity over quality your motto on Tyler’s videos considering how much you comment on each one

[@weegeeismad9298]

jalapenohead If that was my motto, Tyler would have 3k+ comments lol. I keep it to the few that I know will get likes, or else it gets annoying.

[@Ronin11111111]

I remember tge supermassive monstrosity I made to create the red and white circles. I think it was around that time I started tearing down old factories. I know the game tells you not to, but you thankfully don't need miilions of the more basic shapes, you'll only need a couple hundred thousand of the most complex shapes too.

[@AidenWarrior]

it’s so painful to watch him build the factories with all of those tunnels. still so much fun to watch tho please make this a regular.

[@topnott_4767]

The most frustrating thing is the fact he only ever uses ONE extractor

[@gabrielbreeding6073]

@@topnott_4767 yeah heres no excuse for only using a few stacking extractors and not getting a full line of extraction when you unlock them

[@CannOfSoup]

you should make more of this, its oddly satisfying to watch

[@weegeeismad9298]

Bridge game? Portals. Train game? Wormholes. Shape game? Tunnels. Hotel? Trivago.

[@tjorvenblader]

my guy stuck in 2016 with that joke

[@Kdkreig]

Honestly, the last shape before free mode took me 4 hours to make the factory for it. It wasn't just functional, it has style. Then again I had no readily available easy shapes to take from. Had to split like 3 different shapes into 4 pieces to get the right amount of everything without lacking anything and not making a massive mess. It was quite the journey, but I'm glad I finished it. Then I had to wait for free mode.

[@owenr2725]

Tyler, I got this game after watching your first vid on this. It’s a fun game, and I don’t regret buying it at all!

[@kylenapp8507]

I saw your first video on this game 2 days ago and within the last two days i've played about 1000 minutes of it.

[@calebjohnson4828]

I really hope you continue this series

[@mattholsten7491]

Love this series keep it up

[@armedmonkey5846]

if that's the background music of the game i must say that's a really good soundtrack and i respect it.

[@user-vk2cd9qw7i]

This reminds me of a game called Factory Idle I used to play on Kongregate in the good old days of flash games. I normally buy simple indie games like this, but this seems like a super entertaining game!

[@zaccheus5270]

Shape bridge game time

[@greentornadofx]

I like how I started playing this after the first episode and I already have an overly advanced factory at level 15 and have played for over 750 minutes.

[@ReinaKou]

Downloaded this game after your first video and had a ton of fun. Can't wait for the next update.

[@llamaman9449]

Loved the editing

[@kingdavid2207]

Aliensrock, you can turn the game into dark mode in the settings, so your eyes dont hurt, love the content

[@weegeeismad9298]

Can’t wait for the _semi-demi-hemi-half red circle with 8 shuriken rainbow layers,_ real excited.

[@Bargermaintenance]

Nice editing job 👍

[@TabbyVee]

after your first video of this i conpleted the whole game (up until freeplay unlocked) in like 30 hrs lmao After a few shapes I soon began making the most effecient conveyor belts, and every new one i made for a specific shape looked like a massive computer circuit.

[@TabbyVee]

the way that i went about making every shape was that i would make 4 Factories out of every section that i needed, then just line them all up next to eachother > make the simple shapes i need > combine all the simple shapes if i ever needed a color, or especially White, i would just import them in from where ever all 3 colors were closest I have to say the Final shape though resulted in me creating a.... monstrocity of a factory, I ended up making 16 Factories for it out of 1 patch of shapes, and just oh my god i love this game, its so fun putting everything together in the end

[@davidpavel5017]

Tyler: starts building Also Tyler: *furious head bobbing*

[@drawnfromflames7007]

Yes! im glad this is continuing, im so aditcted to it

[@cstelpstra]

So, here I am again. Bought the game. Played it almost 5 hours on the first day. Addictive as F and super fun!

[@ShadowChaosKrystal]

Honestly, I don't even know what's going on half the time and this is still somehow entertaining as hell

[@lenguyenthi8848]

Good if this is top 1% because i've passed this part since i've spent 5 hours playing

[@jarodfindley9456]

Loved this first ep went out and bought

[@Tom-zi5uh]

got this game bc of you and i really enjoy it

[@del7o]

Thanks for sponsoring this game i played it its fun asf 👍👍

[@bogremcdonald3483]

You should keep playing this game I’m loving it so far

[@ChgKesi]

There's a same game named mindustry but its a survival game, the main objective is to survive as long as possible or destroy the enemy core, and you can play multiplayer

[@tonyaldrich8131]

Be Aliensrock -Go to Madison University the gem of Wisconsin -Make a video on the Top 1% factory buildings -Make an extremely inefficient build -Make it multiple times -Be Proud.

[@Otherhats]

You should play space chem, apparently one of the hardest puzzle games out there. Design puzzle, like factories or electronic circuits. Very logical puzzle solving

[@grantmnelson]

i love this content, plz keep making it:)

[@TuckerHolt]

Love watching u play this

[@pixelator5312]

this is the most satisfying game i have ever laid eyes upon

[@RealQuarlie]

Please play this game more often, it's so good

[@Rbum4]

For that last shape: if you painted whole circles before cutting them up, that would save you half of your white dye going in there.

[@aVoidPiOver2Rad]

That's just the top of the iceberg.

[@justinh89]

Double layered tunnels for 2 paths in one is my favorite thing to build in this game

[@MGSLurmey]

It's basically Factorio but more chill, without any of the danger, survival elements, inventory and storage management etc.

[@soupermond1229]

If you like this game (and it isn't all just a thing for the sponsorship) you should check out mindustry, it's another factory type game mixed with tower defense. If you want to try it it's free on mobile for some reason

[@TabbyVee]

i love optimizing this game but sadly i dont think theres much more for me to do with it, i wanna do another playthrough of it but im pretty sure ill end up making the same old setups because holy shiiiit they were so good, lemme tell ya. I made massive, absolutely massive Sections that would accept 32 inputs (or 64 for some) and then spit out 32 outputs, then i would just daisy chain them together and make whatever i needed with little effort and it was glorious i loved it

[@youraveragechroma2139]

This is like 2-D terratech without the combat. I absolutely love it.

[@HoppingSkipper]

More like factorio or Mindustry. It's not similar at all to TerraTech

[@luckylmj]

@@HoppingSkipper yes it's more like those although of the two I'd say it's more similar to factorio

[@mementomori5580]

I think Factorio Knowledge would give you quite an edge in this game. Especially when it comes to belt balancing, as there are numerous belt balancer designs for Factorio which should be applicable to Shapez.io 1:1.

[@noahbear3464]

Love the content!!!

[@TruPhantomKnight]

I’m not sure how far you got in your stream but as I couldn’t watch it That checkered circle you made with the green shrunken it’s has another layer to it and making that was so much a headache maybe for the fact of all the things were not near each other and I had to find a way to make it all work PRAIS THE TUNNEL GODS

[@reflexfx9143]

Damn bro best editing I’ve ever seen on your channel I like it

[@CakeDayZ]

This game was a gateway drug to factorio for me

[@xanderblade8093]

I went from lvl 1 to 14 in just a few hours. I find that overflow type factories are prettier and more compact and just as efficient.

[@Mxdeline_]

I'm not that good with any sort of mind game but I still enjoy shapez.io, thanks for showing us the game

[@aurachanneler8396]

Hahah I remember when I thought 3 lanes was big. Over 2000 minutes and 1 million blueprint shapes in, and I’ve been using 8 lanes quite often now. I also made an 8-input/8 output multifunctional balancer.

[@aVoidPiOver2Rad]

Eight is a power of two so stop bragging about a simple balancer

[@juliusminklei7846]

I literally posted “you should make more of these videos” on the first episode 30 minutes ago, therefor this video being uploaded is attributed to me. I get all the credit. All my doing

[@catburger2850]

Thank you, i also wanted him to play more but you single-handedly persuaded him to do so

[@MrNexis3]

You, sir, are our saviour.

[@donvalentino9822]

5:45 Yes we do require more *HIGHWAY*

[@SpicyBean]

Can you do more of this? This seems awesome

[@legs544]

Love this game

[@luckylmj]

If you enjoy this game, I'd recommend Factorio and Mindustry. Factorio is basically just this but better, and Mindustry is basically this except tower defence. Also factorio got it's 1.0 release recently so that too

[@gryphong3627]

Dude u just hit the top of the iceberg because the level with the logo shape is the hardest

[@yotamshitrit6820]

KZbin: this includes a paid promotion Me: Hell yeah Tyler good for you go get that dough

[@godlyvex5543]

why are you roleplaying

[@cavemann_]

I'm addicted to this game

[@bondyj7331]

Aliensrocks master plan to play train games has led him to become a master factory builder

[@ryuu_raijin3694]

Just as a heads up, once you get to Tier 6 on upgrades, you can purge everything

[@technicolortyrant476]

I was wondering when we'd see this again.

[@someweeb3650]

There should be a search function so you can quickly find the nearest of a certain shape

[@Waffle_6]

as someone with a factorio kink, this vid was great

[@willnelson5289]

Neato. We are no more than shapes floating woards a shape, floating around shapes, floating through more shapes, floating around a shape, floating around through more shapes. Actually true.

[@xenten9686]

Tyler i would say you keep doing your own thing but if I were to give you any advice it would be that I saw a bottle neck when you first made the super high way where you put two inputs onto one belt and the split them. This would have no change in throughput as the 2 inputs got put onto a singular belts worth of through put and so unless more material was added in later the maximum amount of material on either belt would be that of the weakest link and in this case that singular belt was the weakest link and your throughput would be as much as could move across that belt. The only case where bottle necks are okay is if you have a system which doesn't use the full throughput of a belt like say the painters. The painters do not have the throughput of a belt and so the methods you were using are perfectly fine. Also you can never go overboard with extractors having like 4 of them and then them backing up is perfectly fine so long as you are okay with the amount of shapes you are getting out in the end so say you have enough painters to make a fully compressed belt of shapes that you want and that's exactly what you wanted then you can say that it doesn't matter that the shapes input and color input are backed up. -sincerely A concerned Factorio veteran ps: if you want to be the most efficient you can try and figure out the throughput ratios like lets say the painter paints 1 object every 2 seconds that's a ratio of .5/s and then your extractor extracts 4 object every 2 second that's a ratio of 2/s you can compare these ratios using some easy maths: 2/s=x*.5/s and so x must be equal to 2/.5 or 4 and so you can say that you need 4 painters per extractor in this fictitious scenario. Doing this you probably always want to start from the end saying how many items/s do you want as your output and then mathing out how many of each stage you would need to get said output an always in these sorts of systems if you get fractional answers round up and make sure you keep your non fractional answer into the next stage as if you dont you can run into problems where you assume it stays the same however you can/will be short some resources meaning your output wont be completely compressed.

[@xenten9686]

Also you can make some simple ideas for infinitely expandable setups like working out what is the neatest way to make an array of painters.

[@KeyboardQuartz8801]

i assume that the super highway is just going to eventually show up as just a line of those conveyor combiners eventually

[@bachnguyen7448]

Tyler is now creating Autobahn highway system

[@Otzkar]

Really live the music of this game

[@element9224]

You should check out this game called Mindustry, it’s kinda like this game and blooms tower defense combined.