Can You Beat Factorio Without Placing a Single Pipe? 

he wont be laying pipe anytime soon.

"Fortunately, this us not a no-pipes challenge" - DoshDoshington "Now here it is" - Ryan

i fear as if he fears the fluids

Factorio players are becoming more and more insane

aka "celibacy challenge"

Enjoyed Ryan Brown's newest Factorio video, I did! Masterful his automation, hmm. But enough pipes, never there seem to be! "More pipes we need," I exclaimed, chuckling. Like the Force, elusive they are. Yet, entertained I remained, for Ryan's trials with pipes brought laughter, they did. Hmmm!

Ryan doesn't want anyone to see his fluids

I am already triggered by the fact that you are using no steam engine at all for the "pipe" boiler. Might as well have one steam engine there, saves one boiler for every two "pipe boilers". Still gonna enjoy the video after work, but had to get this off my chest

There's another automation game called Mindustry I've been playing a lot and the building designs get pressed together like this once you play it for long enough. In Mindustry the resources are infinite but the map size is very finite so you only have so many patches of each resource, and the space is also a challenge of the game. So you end up building resource gatherers right beside your production buildings to save space on belts. The miners may not be totally efficient but the space saved for the compact designs is immense. For example you need coal and sand to make silicon, and then I might typically belt the coal right on top of a patch of sand and build the silicon furnaces there on top of the sand, then miners literally right beside each furnace so their outputs dump directly into the silicon furnace. It's a fun game if you've never tried it btw! Really addictive. Fun in a similar way to Factorio but different enough to be unique and great in it's own way.

"some kind of Puritan spirit against me laying pipe" I loled.

I love Project Cybersyn. Always a joy to see the trains zooping about. The rest of the run was cool too.

I hope the expansion releases soon, or this man will lose his mind😂

This gave me the idea that trains would be a good method of regulating barrel flux. Direct offload-onload. (I've never placed a train in my playthrougs)

A less boiler-wasteful (but way more space-inefficient) way to set up the boilers would be to alternate sides - rotating each next boiler 180° and putting the steam engines on the other side.

So net run everything is fluid and transported by pipes. To make it equal for this run.

Fun concept, but a little too compressed, I'd have liked to see a little more of the run xD

There are a lot of obscure nerd references in Factorio mods.

Awesome video! I reccomend more lights around the base though. Lights are great in general and it makes viewing a factorio more pleasant ^^

If you ever think connection of oil patches is maddening, that's because you haven't seen Ryan's way to do this 😂

Honestly, the takeaway I get from this is that I'm yet to find a single use for barrels in the base game.

This video really pipes my fluids

Factorio but you didnt call 511 before you dug so now you lost your pipe privileges

This looks like it’ll be barrels of fun

Glad to see im not the only one horrifyingly mutating perfect designs ‚borrowed’ out of nilaus blueprint library because im too lazy to design my own

So it is the opposite of the pneumatic challenge which made everything a fluid.

seems a pretty proper video, I was genuinely wondering how you'd handle the refineries. the results were... interesting.

"This is a really cool idea and a great video to watch" ... I thought to myself as I clicked on the video. Then I got distracted and forgot to actually watch. So now I'm rewatching from the start. Extra views I guess 😅

I was about to give you shit for your opener, but then you said it was your starter base so it's actually fine. I hadn't realised that was the starter base.

Sigma engineers use storage tanks as pipes anyway 4 minutes in and I'm devastated by the rules lol

I did a no belt no pipe play through a while back. I did have the early bots mod that allows bots at green science. I also allowed only 1 set of pipe to ground "no strings just oil refinery, 1 set of pipe to ground, then into the what ever building" for oil refining. It was very interesting and very different from how i normally build

You can use flamethrower turrets to transport heavy, light or crude oil in the same way that you used boilers to transport water.

1:02 oh my, you could place one boiler facing east and one west maximizing usage

14:40 building a belt barrel buffer aka an bbbb.

if you want to play faster probably want pickup dollies, tho it clashes with this run cuz they retain fluid info so you could technically pickupdolly back and forth buildings to produce even if you haven't solved the actual placement (lol)

if you haven't annihilated the save file yet, I'd love to know how many barrels were produced and consumed in the production tab

With the initial boiler setup could you not have just alternated the boilers pointing left and right

Not even 2 1/2 minutes in when I realized: Can't you just flip the special 'transport boiler' and use Undergrounds to feed it and keep the rest of the stack going to squeeze use out of every boiler instead of leaving a third unused?

6:24 english card revoked

Gonk :]

No we just need a no pipes and no belts challenge at the same time. Or for the expansion to come out so our content creators can stop becoming progressively more deranged. xD

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I've been doing this for the last couple of weeks, though it's extended with no belts, no trains and a goal of 2kSPM. Every fluid must be barreled except for the initial steam power setup. Edit: I did allow myself to turn off biters though.. The infrastructure requirements are already insane.

you couldhave instead of boiler+2 => boiler +0 just make all boiler as Boiler+1

At 2:30 got some asmr XD

the transmasc factorio run....

you know.. there is technically a better mining design

2:59 you don't have to state this explicitely - every one sees it lacks lamps and concrete and everyone knows that without these we're dealing with starter base;)

9:33 actually i haven't dive that deeply into topic but due to size constraints on Warptorio boiler floors i've successfully tested few designs with barreling water and steam, so i wouldn't ditch this idea in this run.

Can you beat Factorio without building a single rocket?

without pressing play: barreling fluids and belt/bots transportation