11 Not Obvious TIPS, TRICKS and MECHANICS | The Riftbreaker Tutorial 

1. 0:33 Use concrete, it looks nice and makes you walk faster (20%) 2. 0:56 Set custom keybinds for stuff you use often 3. 1:56 Build buildings with max unlocked level by holding ALT while building 4. 2:36 Some weapons use the same ammo type. Recommend always using weapons with different ammo type. Hover in Inventory to see ammo type. 5. 3:29 Always build and upgrade Arsenal, Ammo Storage and Communications Center to max. 6. 6:06 Always upgrade mining factories. They give more stuff for the same amount of ore. Prioritise reseaching better mining factories. 7. 7:19 Each day is 12 minutes long. Solar panels work from 8:00 to 21:00 (13h). Use 5 Solar panels to 4 Storage Units. Multiply Energy consumption by 330 (duration of night) to check if enough storage is available. 8. 10:20 Build more Rift Portals. They're almost free, and have no upkeep. 9. 11:13 Units dont respawn inside radar covered areas. (Attack waves will still come though) 10. 12:05 In the mid-late game, dont bother defending resource mines. 11. 15:10 Dont stay in other maps (outposts) longer than necessary. If you are not there, you cannot be attacked there. I tend to forget most tips quickly when only watching, so here is a written list. Thanks for compiling these tips, learned a lot!

Another thing that may not be obvious to some people... When you first start and can only craft the basic Armor Plate for a small HP bonus and damage resistance, you can craft multiple to fill all your empty slots with them and they stack! Same with more advanced ones later.

The most important tip is that you can literally get infinite materials from cultivators... Cultivators CAN GROW DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANTS and you can harvest them to get EVERY SINGLE MINERAL TYPE even the rare ones (titanium, hazenite, uranium.... Everything)

Your base is so much more organized and slicker looking than my 6 hours-in save that I think I'm gonna start over lol

Mind if I add a tip? You can edit which plants your cultivator plants by clicking on it in build mode and then clicking the middle button. Different plants will give you different resources. You can get all the rare resources by cultivating them in your HQ or an outpost, and it won't ever run out!

I think one big tip you missed was certain equipment for the suit. At max rank there is an equipment that reduces build costs by 16%, and they stack additively. This means with 4 of them you're only paying 36% of the original cost of whatever you're trying to build and that includes those really expensive upgrades on stuff like research labs and the main base.

Few more Tips: 1) Build the Alien Camoflage as soon as possible. When you riftjump to another location you can trigger it, and then run around and scan everything. The only thing you have to take into consideration is, that you CAN NOT!! attack any creature you see. Otherwise the Camo just goes away. After scanning the whole region, getting all the "Loot Towers" (with the mods or resources in them), you can start cleaning the map out. You end up with soooooo much more resources that way and obviously familiarity with the fauna and flora. 2) Go for the Ironium & Carbonium "factories". They ONLY use energy, but produce Iron or Carbon for you. On lvl 1 they give +2/sec and they can obviously be upgraded. 3) For resource production, you can utelize the Cultivator & Farming station. Depending on your familiarity with the plants, you get different resources out of them. Plant Biomass is the easiest to get. That can then be used in a Biocomposter to produce flammable gas, which can then be used in Gas Power plants and produce 500 Energy/sec. 4) If you have a sludge pool (green stuff) close to your base, utelize the gas filtering plant. Pump the gas in the Gas Power Plant and it will also produce 500 energy/sec Hope those tips help :)

Additional tips: Prioritize campaign missions to discover new materials and research the corresponding handling research ASAP, until then all creatures or plants that yield the resource will not drop them no matter how many times they're scanned/DNA collected. On the topic of DNA, make sure to scan all starting Baxmoths (the big striderlike creatures that spawn flies to attack you) before killing them as they become quite rare after the early game. Same goes for the Lesigians, you need the base level variants to unlock the most OP movement ability which is the Teleport/Blink (very useful for exploration as you can cross chasms and mountains). The only consistent place where I found level 1 Lesigians in bulk for scanning was the Uranium gathering mission in the location where Mr Riggs sends you to collect a larger quantity after which you can start Uranium handling, and hopefully the Teleport as well. Lastly when you're opening the "loot" nests you can keep spamming mines and turrets under your feet while holding "space" to harvest it. This way you can kill all the critters that come to interrupt you without losing time.

A tip on outposts. The synthesizer buildings that cost a lot of power can be built on outposts and feed back home. On for instance the lava biome you have easy to use high power from the lava. Use it it to create a super powerful grid and support a bunch of synthesizers.

the tip about radar coverage preventing spawns is soo usefull, thank you!

The easiest way to defend is to build defensive outposts at the four edges of the map and in the middle of the map edge. The enemies attack the closest structures, so if there is no mining around those areas they will go after combat outposts. In my campaign, I haven't walled my base at all or bothered with the Great Wall of Map Edge.

Ur bases look so neat, Mine looks like the unwanted good chucked at the side of a black friday sale.

I have tip for faster mining ores, in a single node you can place 4-5 mining factories to mine the node faster, it doesn't matter how many a factory can cover ores they mine the same anyway, so two lvl 1 factory covers 18 tiles = 2 ores/sec, while 4 factories covers 18 tiles = 4 ores/sec

If you're in an area that isn't electrically connected to your hq, it will say 'local' up top. Useful for noticing if parts of your base have become disconnected. When you get a meteor shower, it's centered on your location, but you get a bit of advance warning. So if you're in your main base you can warp over to an outpost, wait until it starts, and then warp back while the wildlife is getting pulped. And build things to fit around repair stations. Wish I'd known that to start with.

Nice! I've really been enjoying this game and these tips are very welcome. My biggest tip would be to try to start outposts on top of a geyser or bio-sludge. This will gives you access to a very potent power source to bootstrap your base, or just provide 100% of power to smaller outposts.

A few more tips: There are modules for both weapons and towers. You access a tower's module interface by pressing control, selecting the tower, then clicking the gear button in the center. The majority of the creatures won't cross liquid, so it is fairly safe to use pools of liquid as natural base walls. The more natural base walls you have, the easier it will be to defend your core base. Along with the above tip, you'll need water in your main base at some point, so having access to a pool within your base is something you should plan for (the output from a geothermal is an option too). You can quickly add research items into the queue by just double clicking on their icon in the tree.

My contribution: Inside game folder find the file "initial_config.cfg" and add this missing line anywhere> set camera_enable_zoom "1" Now you can zoom out and enjoy full view of the base as the game show on the trailers... Adding this other line could help to improve audio when playing from a far distance view> set sound_max_distance "500" There are mods for the game but they aren't that good, like extra ammo, more resistance building and walls, etc..

couple small tips i have is to mix and match turret types on your walls, and seperate them from the wall by a couple tiles, some enemies have resistances and gun turrets wont do much, theyre also not great for massive swarms, mixing a few flame turrets and a mortar or two helps both these problems a LOT. and i seperate them from the wall to avoid some splash damage from the spitters hitting the walls

The radar tip alone as worth the watch, wow. Great info, thanks Nilaus!

Fighting enemies go into the middle of the sludge, they come all around you but not in the sludge, proceed to mow them down

Another tip: Put your production facilities (factories & storage facilities) on secondary biome areas. When you're not there they are not attacked or damaged by random events. This will free up your primary base for pure defense and power generation. In the 'jungle' biome - where there are mud puddles - set up a farm (i.e. plant 'cultivators' and harvesters). This produces prodigious amounts of plant biomass not limited by storage capacity. On your main base you can then set up Bio Composters to produce gas that can then run gas power generators. These, for the space, are among the most efficient power generators that do not require specific rare materials to build or maintain.

Adding Research Stations to a Cultivator/Harvester setup will auto farm familiarity levels.

i'm obsessed with this game recently..

Incredible tips. These are huge. Thanks for putting this together man.

1. If you do not have the teleport skill, you can use the jump skill to get over walls, sludge and mud. You can even use elevated firing positions to boost your distance and height going over walls. 2. Enemies always attack the closest building/player (not walls). 3. If you already have cultivators you can make future missions easy by building a base in an easily defendable location (without a mine), build a mine outside, sell it and easily fight the big wave, after which you can take the map in comfort. 4. Use the camo skill to backstab the snails on big waves. 5. You can sell and relocate outposts, you CANNOT do it with your HQ so scout the initial map well before placing it.

Bn subscribed for years and I don’t think typically care for watching others play games cuz it’s usually pointless, but I find every once in a while, when I’m playing anything automation related and I’m searching for layout plans or strategies, Niklaus always gives the most comprehensive tips teaching me who stumbled upon Rift Breaker yesterday yet again the most efficient defense/industry ratio. So hello again. Thanks for the Factorio tips, and now I’m happy to discover ur rift breaker videos. Let git it.

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Thanks esp. for #7; I was using a rough 3:1 ratio for solar/batteries as that keeps to the "city block" tiles nicely but good to know the math works out closer to 5:4 if I want to get too deep. I could do a 5 solar, 5 wind, 5 battery pattern with that extra battery pack being there to pick up excess wind if I happen to have a heavy energy draw spike. And the math for making sure the batteries lasts was very helpful! Very easy to run a quick calculation when you look up and see your power production in the red at night to avoid the urge to dump down a bunch of wind turbines now that I know the math for it!

Put defensive 9-12 "keeps" with turrets on the periemeter edges of the map, enemy will only attack the closest keep. The rest of the base and miners in the middle of the map are safe and don`t need wals.

"Incoming alert: 2 earthquakes, 5 volcanic eruptions, 3 class-8 tornadoes" "Okay, let me..." *warps home* "Crisis averted."

I was actually wanting you to do this, I knew you would eventually!

In the mid/late game I didn't even really bother about mining carbonium and ironium anymore. You can just set up some synthesisers in an outpost with a solarfarm or some other sort of massive powerplant and use that as passive income. Can take a while to fill storages but I found it's plenty of resources for normal use situations.

You should have approximately twice the energy storage capacity of what you actually need. Events can slow down your energy production and ammo factories and energy turrets can drain more energy that is difficult to estimate. Better be prepared than suffer a blackout when several things go wrong in a row. Also, remember to scan things with the bioscanner! Plants need a familiarity level 3 to be able to farm them. And do farm plants. You can get hard to find resources with farming. And some tech needs specific creatures to be sufficiently scanned.

Alt highest level build is such a life changer. Mind blown. Thanks man!

Your solar power storage calculations don’t account for current energy usage slowing your fill rate so the storage won’t fill as fast and you don’t as many of them. Suggest 3 panels to one storage.

Thank You for the tips !

Good idea to build things in 4x4 squares. I'm just on my first go of the prologue, and I ended up building a giant block of storage. The way you have done it, it looks way easier to traverse, I will do this when I start the campaign.

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is it just me or does anyone else have a hard time building evenly by dragging? the placement always seems to drift a tile away

Using the green scanner thing unlocks high end weapons and tech. It should be used in new biomes frequently to get those unlocks.

The Radar tip is a game changer. Thank you so much. That should be number 1 hahaha

After watching all your great Factorio videos, this looks like Baby Factorio. Thanks

Muito obrigado me ajudou, bastante, tinha coisa que não fazia ideia que tinha no jogo.

This was really helpful thanks. New sub 👍

just bouhgt the game, these tips helped ever so much, thanks a million

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I like that roadwork.

Maybe it's just me, but... I'm not a fan of Solar in this game. As you point out in this video, it works for 13 hours, which means it's only 54.166~% efficient (10.833~ power). Combine that with the need to build storage, you're using twice the space, for less energy than wind. Although there's a couple weathers that negate/reduce wind, I find that most of the ones that reduce solar either also reduce wind, or drastically boost wind. Especially when considering the extra required space, I just find wind to be the better option most of the time, aside from like... the volcanic biome, with the extra solar output. I usually just use wind and completely ignore solar. I'll build a couple extra, and use some storage, for those instances when wind is reduced, but I would do the same with Solar, while still needing twice the space anyway. Iunno. Yeah, Solar's initial 20 is nice to kinda roll at the very beginning, but one I have even ONE carbonium factory started, I give up on it. And even then, the base itself provides 20, so I can just leash to it if I need to.

tips 3 is the best omg ty

this was really helpful

Not defending outposts only works for lower difficulties. On brutal survival u dont have time to sell those and also u wanna protect them because These are good fighting Points.

I'm not certain about units not respawning inside radar covered areas. In fact I'd say I'm about 95% certain that's not the case. I think respawning is dictated by proximity to any player-built structure, possibly excluding flooring.

In the early game, you’re at your main base, and if you get the warning of a random attack incoming you can cancel the attack by upgrading your HQ. So if you are still building your defenses, wait for the random attack countdown to get close to 0 and then do the HQ upgrade and you’ll get a new countdown started and the random attack doesn’t happen.

Thanks! One thing to mention is that Wind Turbine is better than Solar Panel, except for Desert biome. Wind Turbine Level 1: 12 energy/sec Solar Panel Level 1: 10.8 energy/sec average (20 energy/sec during the daylight, but 0 during the night) Not only that, Solar Panel needs Energy Storage for nights, which takes up more space in the base.

best weapon combos are= Fist+fist, Swarm+Mini, Corrosive+plasma.

Did you know that if you keep the Hive alive in the beginning of the Campaign, you can farm Cobalt by destroying the eggs? Make sure you have radar coverage over the hive. Go destroy all the eggs (DO NOT ATTACK THE HIVE). Rift jump at least a screen away. Pop open the map, assuming you destroyed ALL the eggs, they should have completely respawned (there might be a small delay, not entirely sure). Rift back to the Hive and repeat. :D

Everytime i go into a new game with this amazing idea in my head for an organized base... then about 2 hours in it's just a massive mess of machinery.

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Last tip is so good , makes it nearly to easy 🙃

the alt command is a game changer.

Big Tipp with the Radar Respawn...thx a lot

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How did you get your upkeep to go down to zero? I understand that when youre making ammo for the mech or towers it goes up, but I'm never at zero and I dont know what is costing me upkeep!

Been waiting for a long time for this game and I was not disappointed, it’s great, and I can use MnK on my Xbox series X which makes it even better.

its all one planet. they are separate zones, but the same planet. it literally shows you on the screen you select them, it rotates the planet to them.

Hello Nilaus. There is a small bug when you upgrade mines. While upgrading they show different production and consume (like you see after you upgrade that mine from lvl 1 to lvl 2) . But after they upgraded, they show the right resources.

few things - you should really mention planting and gathering factories - you can get endless supply of all materials from them and you can switch plants you produce -which you get by scanning them. Gauntlet are most OP meele weapon. Scan everything is good way to get more drops, better dps, better usage of already mention factories. And as last thing - safe before you return...and then DONT go throw it.... oh -things I learned from others youtubers - crafted weapons have different stats -same tier weapons can have range of stats - like blue rifle with 573 dps or 775 dps..which is crazy spread. So maybe craft more of them and get best one. Pools of mud and acid arent infinite - they eventually run out and slower their production (but never get out completly) - not sure how this works to be fair

I like dual wielding two of the same weapon and switching to another dual wield of another weapon (of different ammo type) when they run out. It makes it much more confortable for me to aim, and it's stronger when exploiting vulnerabilities.

Great sharing bro! Why myh game doesn't allow me to do Alien Research? Can cover this topic?

I learn new things about this amazing game

Nilaus: I did the math and this is the correct ratio for accumulators to solar panels. Me: Spam accumulators. Meh, spam some more. But for real, cutting it too close won't work cause your stuff spends energy when you get attacked. So I alway double my consumption 👍🏻

Are all resources shared with outposts and the main base? for instance if I build a power or storage farm on an outpost are the resources all shared or are they unique to each area

That radar trick is bananas. I didn't know!

Radar tip is a game changer

I learned the alt trick, thanks a lot! Never ahd fun waiting for buildings to build so I can upgrade and then wait again so I can upgrade once more :) But I was hoping to hear a reason to have, for example, 2 or more laboratories, or armories. Does it speed anything up? Does anybody know? As far as I know, it only consumes carbonium, but why is there a build limit to them > 1?

I have been using double melee a lot, they join together and double power on one hit

Very nice video. But in the main base, the undefended resources will fall very quickly on higher difficulties. That strategy works on easy, may be normal. Build walls around edge mining spots and holdthedoor :)

No tutorial is complete without a bit of senseless violence? Yes. I'm going to do a tutorial on some well known (and hated software). There should be no survivors :)

The nukelauncher destroys things that other weapons or explosives wont.

Let's be honest, it makes sense two of the same weapons have shared ammo, you're using double ammo for double DPS.

How to view all the resources that I have without going into build mode?

Recently found that if you hold down 'spacebar + LCTRL', release spacebar then release LCTRL, you will just auto mine until you press spacebar again

PC has options promotion codes with some public already to unlock some cosmetics. Skins for mech and a tile/light etc

Did they change enemies not spawning under radar coverage? I noticed today that they spawned in when I loaded the save the first time. They didn't seem to after that

Hi, when you teleport to a different region. Does the place you ported from still stay active can you still mine and be attacked? Cheers

Omg, i didn't realize you could equip two guns. I've always had close combat weapons in my left hand 😂

Now I just need a guide for survival mode for both hard and brutal difficulty (dear god is it hard xD)

I wasted so much time upgrading buildings till I found out about the alt key... Why is this keybind not on that overview?

One question....how exactly does in up and running LAB work?????

Kinda wish they would allow the max upgrade building button to be remapped 🤔

Concrete also stops plants from growing on them which makes everything cleaner

Your concrete looks different than mine. Is that based on an upgrade?

how do you keep the floor clean without having the plants grow back after 2 hrs of play or when you change location and come bacl there is a forest groun on the floor. How do you keep it clean ? i thried all types oof floors even attack floors and still they grow back every time and is a bit annoing

Regarding your last tip, if you are at an outpost on another part of the planet and you get the 'attack incoming' message, if you where to then jump back to your HQ would the attack get cancelled or paused or something on the outpost?

You called them accumulators. Your Factorio is showing.

oh, killing respawn is a great tip!

For number 10 ive had the habit of protecting resource bases and then just removing the resource production and leaving the defences as small outpost bases, nothing important is lost and it makes the attacks weaken over time as they get closer

i love how neat and organized i see some others make their bases.. mine are always so messed up im sure there are homeless people and rodents living near by and it'd probably smell like dirty socks and swamp mud..

Help, why I'm loosing energy when at night even though i have 8gas powerplant, 1biomass plant, 1 animal plant and 3 geothermal plant.

It's may not look as clean as your layout but I throw down connectors everywhere across the map. Ensures even under a major attack you have power going all across the map. Got tired of losing power due to only have one power line/fail point for circuitry.