Can You Get to the END OF THE WORLD in Factorio? 

Happy New Year. For those of you that wanted the full train ride... Here it is! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SU1DGFvHWuc.html

Ah yes, who would spend 35 hours walking or driving to the edge of the map when you can spend 80+ hours bulding a base and 400+ hours of waiting/fixing to get there in 3 hours

The imagery of the Engineer jolting awake when an alarm goes off and chasing down a train on foot to obliterate it is amazing lmao

I like that the difficulty of this problem is unintuitive when you first hear it. Like just keep walking to the edge, how hard could that be? But then you realize, oh, you need to basically fight your way there over the course of hours. Oh wait, not hours, days. And then you realize you'd need to keep a constant supply of combat equipment going up to the "tip of the spear". And then you realize you need to keep that supply safe until it arrives. The scale of the problem reveals itself in a very satisfying manner.

I hope you sent the devs copies of the save. I bet they'd be able to figure out even more insane optimizations based on it.

"The sight of so many biters triggered a flight or fight response and my body started acting all on its own causing me to build sphagetti by pure instinct" Dosh has realy gotten traumatised by rampant understandable though

Now build a new base at the edge and run the crawler northbound. We shall see the corner of the map!

Lol here I am trying to hype myself up to finally launch a rocket after 139 hours of playtime and always stopping at oil because it felt "so complicated". Super entertaining, awe-inspiring, witty, fun and insane video! thank you for doing all that!

I held back a little smile as I thought to my self, "He never considered trees, did he." After that was addressed I thought, "but what happens if there are more trees than bots?" It turns out it breaks. That's what happens. On the flip side, programming these circuits is just a level above me. Kudos to you.

Finally, the Factorio Farlands

he always manages to one up himself in a way that requires him to spend EVEN MORE time on factorio! hes a madman!

I spent a crazy amount of time just creating train parking using circuits so that I could park full trains and have them called when needed. The Dev's announced their train-updates which basically does all that and 20x more the day after I finally perfected it. The goal of automating everything might need to include procrastinating on improvements until the dev automates the task for you. The levels of meta-automation are mindboggling.

With the "build more furnaces" thing, that's one lesson I learned from Creeper World. Having the infrastructure set up is a one-time cost. If the infrastructure is sitting idle, then it's not actually draining resources, however if you need the increased throughput, the infrastructure is already there and ready to use. In Creeper World, it's more about spamming SAMs/lasers/snipers everywhere to ensure spores don't nuke your base, but it's the same general concept.

It will never cease to amaze me how well optimized Factorio is.

The fact that this challenge is even possible shows how well the developers have optimized the game.

This is genuinely one of the best videos you have made. Just cracking open vanilla factorio like you are making the mother of all omelets.

I’m one of those noobs who got spawned in a map like this on my first world. Still have that world over a thousand hours later, and I love it. Its where I figured out all the weird ways to play the game, how train grid is better than bus, how quickly a brownout can go to hell, and of course HOW DAMN ANNOYING BITERS ARE IN EARLY GAME. Fun times!

The idea of Dosh2023's final moment being a train ride across the world and than ramping off in to the great unknown is very poetic. Despite the haphazardness and perhaps frustrating nature of your subjects, your narration never ceases to feel light hearted and calming. Its always been a pleasure to pass the time

If we give Dosh enough time, he will build a computer inside Factorio which will run Factorio. And then Dosh will start doing these challenges in Factorio running inside Factorio itself

>"vanilla run" implied >look inside >uses recursive blueprints mod 10/10 will watch more

I have 575 hours played on Factorio, and have beaten the game by launching the rocket in at least 2 different Let's Play series. This video makes me realize I still don't really understand the game.

All of this circuitry and engineering almost makes it seem like you actually have a degree in this kind of stuff, and that you perform this wicked dance of fixing bugs in production as both your job AND your hobby but that would be ridiculous wouldn't it

Dosh is so good at these things that he is going to pull a Jeremy Wade. They had to cancel his show because he literally caught every large species of fish in the world. Dosh is going to beat every challenge or difficult mod there is.

I love how you can tell about dosh’s growth as a creator, and the passion he’s starting to find in his newer videos, with better editing, and with a more general positive tone in hi commentary

I would like to mention as im watching the planning phase of the video, this requires an insane amount of knowledge to do. Not only is Dosh aware of the problems he is going to face, aware of practically every way he could counter them, and the upsides and downsides of every path he could take. It requires an immense amount of knowledge of the game, and also the critical thinking skills to figure out how to solve each individual problem. Dosh, if you have a job in the 'real' world i bet you're likely vastly underpaid for the skill you provide to your employer. Make sure youre aware of your self worth, and keep your spirits up in these lonely times. It gets hard out there for men, but you are worth something. Remember that.

37 minutes in and this feels like the factorio equivalent of the Apollo program jesus christ this is something, good work on you man. And I'm not even done watching.

I'm gonna play this video precisely an hour and 2 minutes before midnight so that you dive into the void at the end of the world on the New Year, because we all know the world is going downhill from here.

The pure ammount and complexity of your failsafes, alrams and plan Bs is truely awsome. Sure I get this is all just playing a game but honestly the skill to go trough with such measures is truely a mostely missing ability for many. Thank you for your suffering:)

I love to see how you go through all the engineering steps : 1- having a problem to solve 2- deciding what kind of solution to choose 3- prototyping that solution 4- implementing it 5- resolving all the real world problems occuring It's real instructive and I genuinely admirate your skills. I think your really got to the limits of factorio there (pun intended). I mean in term of using the game mecanics. It may be the closest thing to a 100% of the game.

i love how dosh casually makes a beautiful megabase, just to do this challenge

I don't mind the 'slow' parts of the video. It always hammers in the fundamentals of base building in Factorio in my brain and I learn something new every time.

As far as the sacrificial train design goes: Yours is probably the best solution though I do want to point out that one could use a double-headed train to switch the train to the other track without needing a big loop.

i did a run to the edge but with reduced map size, 5000 tiles iirc. Train took 32 minutes in a straight line. about half way through i started questioning my life choices... so yeah, respect for the grind.

I'm only about halfway through but I gotta say this is fascinating. The troubleshooting kinda reminded me of programming. You make something and throw it through dozens of test cases to make sure it'll work in anything you can think of, eventually concluding that it's as functional at least as much as it needs to be. Then you start using it, and are quickly taught that there are far more errors in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Edit: 52:37 "I still have no idea how, but I eventually fixed it" Too damn relatable.

I think this is the first time we've seen a true postgame base from Dosh. I love how the goal is basically just an excuse to showcase this, and it's a really fun journey to follow along!

I am very impressed how your videos keep getting better with each one. This one is a clear front runner for your best video yet and my personal favourite. You are truly the factorio overengineer. And i mean that as a title of respect, awe and eternal debugging hell. Keep at it! :)

Just you building the final base itself with all those belts and smelters amd the buss was well beyond anything I could ever do. Just grtting to the red curcuits is hard for my brain to do in a tidy manner, let alone setting up smelting areas *that* large. Respect+ Great content

I think the recursive blueprints mod should be integrated into the base game.

I am reminded of my first Valheim adventure with friends, in which we sailed idiotically up to and straight over the edge of the world in our mighty longboat.

That is truly amazing and the complexity is just staggering how you made all that work makes my brain go into neutral. Congratulations and Happy New Year to all.

I love how you put together these videos. Thank you for making them.

41:15: There's a way to change a train schedule using circuits - deploy a train with the loading schedule, and when the loading is finished, deploy the other train on top of the existing one. This will change its schedule while maintaining the automatic mode.

You've made a couple of comments about skipping over processes and feeling like the video's slow, but honestly, I could watch your stuff for ages. I love the details. I love just putting a video on, and losing track of the time because I've gotten so absorbed in the process. Between your voice, the content of your narration, the concepts themselves, and the lack of any real ostantation in your presentation, you're absolutely one of my favorite youtubers.

I love how simple yet incredibly complicated Factorio is ... hats off to the devs for making an amazing game

Great content as always! I always enjoy seeing the absolute mastery of the mechanics from more experienced players such as yourself. Really amazing stuff. But really I think it’s your editing and dry humor that really makes these videos entertaining for me. Keep up the great work! Happy New Year 🎉

At this point I'm convinced that Dosh might acttually be able to create Skynet in Factorio.

23:08 Another cool mod I've never heard before. 54:24 Factorio's build queue is 3 constructions/tick/surface (Hard limit). I've encountered it a couple times when laying tens of millions of concrete in a Gigabase.

Awesome job. This was really fun to watch. Thank you for entertaining me for an hour out of the day.

Yet another case of absolute madness. And I love every second of it!

I have said this many times on older videos, but i would love to see a run where the entire base is a single blueprint custom built so you only have to click one button to beat the game. Start with a miniscule amount of construction bots of course or maybe a single roboport and construction bot with a solar pannel.

I love how this video combines so much from previous videos, really makes it feel like a grand finale to the year.

You truly push factorio to its limit, I love your videos. I could never think of making such a base or machine. I love your videos please keep it up.

Such an impressive feat. Incredible work!

Probability really is incredible, all the insanely unlikely errors you were dealing with in the second half of the video is great proof that no matter how improbable something is if you repeat a process that can theoretically cause it enough times then it will inevitably happen.

the entire mutant train saga might just be the funniest thing ive ever seen, youre easily one of my favorite youtubers and i never fail to be left in awe of your programming capacities!!

Bro your crazy. Love the video, keep it up, stay motivated.

Your videos are trully epic, congrats and keep up the good work

Ima be fr you are genuinely a comfort content creator of mine, I don't really comment on videos but you are amazing. Keep it up, I love your stuff! :]

I can already tell it's going to be a certified Doshington classic

Great Video, its crazy to me how dedicated u are to this game. Kepp it up.

This has by FAR the best oil and fluids walkthrough I've seen on any factorio video at 8:33. Nothing short of inspirational. Well done.

This should be a speed run category….

Here I am figuring out oil cracking and nuclear stuff, looking at Dosh connecting 1000 cables to random things to make a railroad build itself. Insanely impressive! Seeing the rivers of iron/copper flowing through made me feel tingly inside though.

You always fine a new way to surprise me with your productions. EPIC WORK GOOD SIR!

I love your videos, i get that ecstatctic feel every time i see your machines do crazy stuff like build this tube, or your everywhere ore video. I am terrible with circuits and seeing you do these is inspirational, and I struggled with rails (because i insisted on 2 way rails) until your krastorio playthrough showed me how to snaptogrid rail and now my base is better than ever, thanks for the tutorials

I so incredibly enjoy your thoroughness with designing the EdgeCrawler(tm). I'm a huge nerd and seeing all of the bizarre edge cases crop up is just the kind of thing that I find fascinating! Well done, you absolute madman. Well done indeed.

I was always wondering how people beat Factorio on default settings (everything 100%) Turns out I had a bad seed for my first try back at the beginning of the year haha

The insane amount of effort and editing going into this video.. Holy crap. I'm very impressed. Also you're a beast at this game.

Every single time I see a video from you and think "There's no way, THIS is the maddest he can get" and then you release a new video that's insane in it's own, unique way. Astonishing

Holy. This hour felt like 20 minutes, I love how Dosh gets me SO invested into his antics. Now, off to watch the three hours of uninterrupted train.

This is some of the coolest stuff I've seen in factorio but my brain is viewing only. Your firehose of an information dump is absolutely insane!

This is the first time I've seen you, and I feel like this is the perfect vid to start on. Thanks yt recommendations

I was there in /egg/ for every post about the tube and still thought you were trolling with every single one of them. Dosh, you magnificent bastard.

The Exapunks OST fits incredibly well in the design section. Writing Exapunks ASM is kinda similar to making complicated algos with combinators in Factorio, except combinators are more complicated.

Your command of circuits is incredible, as always!

This is a masterpiece, i enjoyed every second of this video, its probably one of the best videos ive ever seen

I don't play factorio, I've never ever played factorio, or even wanted to play factorio. You have changed all three of those statements since i've started watching your videos. They are always well made, informative, and above all else entertaining. Happy new year, Dosh. cheers o7

I don't have the words to express how incredible this is. Thanks for making this.

I love how you thought of everything except the most basic things like radar range and trees.

Im sitting, watching and then bam ! Cool music. Description ? Even with timestamps ! Its such a chef kiss. Thx for that and very important project tho :)

Love the Folding Ideas reference Can't wait to discover what BiterAnon is up to

You sound a lot happier in this video, I like this Dosh

Dude wow! Good work. Thats just awesome!

thank you very much for the subtitles, it helps a ton for people with hearing difficulties like myself!

This is probably the most beautiful and intricate build I've ever seen made in this game. Well goddamn done.

The title is really burying the lede! This isn't just getting to the end of the world, it's a world-spaning base. Bravo!

Your programming skills are amazing. Very entertaining to watch

This is pure madness. What a awesome job!!

Thank you dosh for making these videos so I can get my factorio fix by just watching an hour long video instead of going on a 300 hour long factorio binge myself.

I'm really wondering if the substations being offset is actually a game bug. Sometimes coordinate systems get weird with big numbers.

I love the Folding Ideas reference :D

"And that's what finally led me to trains." Surprised that's not where you started.

What a glorious video. I can never tell if Dosh's videos are genius with a side of lunacy or lunacy with a side of genius. Congratulations on the achievement!

Happy new year! I started playing factorio recently I have like 270h now and you're 100% my favorite factorio youtuber your content is so amazing thank you so much for doing what you do

Holy cow this video was insane! Congrats and well done! Makes me want to boot up Factorio again lol

legit might be my favorite channel ever. no idea why maybe it's the mix of content maybe it's your personality maybe it's a bunch of different thing I don't know but I always find myself rewatching your vids at any time of the day even if I'm just listening.

The circuit construction bit scratched that itch in my brain sooo good.

1:01:10 Fun fact! This batch of ore ALONE has 1.4 times the amount of iron Earth currently has (at least discovered ones)

Love all the little jingles as things update

That song from the exapunks soundtrack while you're building the mad contraption hits great