Build System Basics: Opportunity Cost 

Can’t imagine these aren’t already on your list but: diminished returns, and additive vs multiplicative bonuses (ie, multiplicative isn’t always better across the board, oftentimes you need some amount of additive bonuses as well)

yeah, I've never managed to get the kinesis pipes properly working, or figure out a good way to stop items from spilling when a chest backs up. Any recommendations?

@@chrisfrancis4572 some similar stuff was on my list, but hearing how you'd put it is still useful to me! It's also one of those things where putting myself on the spot to list out a ton of these concepts makes me surprisingly bad at thinking of them (even though I use them and say their names practically every day), so while I can just wait until they bubble back to the surface on their own, it really prompts ideas better to brainstorm with someone else. So thank you, it really does help!

Ah the simple joys of finding one's audience :D hope you enjoyed the video!

A wild Pyre fan appeared! Glorious. Yeah I think it's particularly useful here as a great example of a good build system done in a way that isn't at all overcomplicated. You can expect Pyre to return as an example in this series at least a few more times!

Absolutely, most games have some opportunity cost but Hades can be pretty brutal with it! You'll often see two Boons you want, and know that if you take this one or that one, you risk not getting the other this run. You might get it, you might not, and trying to get it by picking more Boons from that Olympian comes at the further opportunity cost of not getting Boons from other Olympians! Fantastic example!

Blood for the blood god! Thank you!

I'm happy you thought so! I did purposefully include some summary/reiterating to see how it feels for folks, I think some of my previous videos are a bit light on clarification. To some extent, the problem is more of a scope thing, some of my videos are about too many things more than they're necessarily too confusing about those things. But it's a place I want to improve in from both ends! Feedback really helps, thank you!

Aha, perhaps just because "buildcraft" has gained more of a connotation with Minecraft and less of the "making builds" meaning over time? I know very little about Minecraft so that went over my head, may be cause to retitle the series ahaha

Hahaha didn't see that coming! I am experimenting with a new approach to thumbnails, with multiple rotating options as well as just weirder and different imagery, so dialing in what those thumbnails say to people helps me out a lot! Tell me more, if you can! I know next to nothing about Minecraft!

Just as a quick update, I renamed this video Build System Basics, but for the sanity of this comment thread, the series was "Buildcraft Basics" at first. I didn't know buildcraft had been so significantly recontextualized as a Minecraft term instead of just meaning general buildcraft!

@@XandyPants Buildcraft is a famous mod for Minecraft, one of the very first big ones that added significant automation and industrialization to the game and which continues to be used to this day for certain unique aspects no other mod has quite managed to replicate.