More Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Factorio (Tips And Tricks Tutorial) 

Yes, yes we can.

Have been for a long time now :)

Hello Delefon!

BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME IM NOT ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TRUPEN

i did it will you be my dad now

Agree.

he is THE Martin though to be fair

can't emphasise enough how long winded Nilaus always is omg pls get to the point

Nilaus is terrible at explaining things, almost ruined my enjoyment of learning the game

With all due respect to Nilaus, he tends to say alot without saying anything at times.

Tank you very much.

with better fuel it can even pass through nests

A tip for the tank. Driving through trees slows you down which can be a death sentence if you have a big enough herd on you. Using your flame thrower will delete any trees it touches so just point it straight ahead and hold to drive through forest without stopping only to get stuck on the lip of a cliff.

They make a breeze of difficult terrain like trees, rocks, and assemblers

@@simonnachreiner8380 or just point it backwards and kill the horde chasing u

It never crossed my mind because I never play the game long enough for a long line of turrets to be cost effective.

@@fiddleriddlediddlediddle Agreed. In my case, my pc gone super slow mode when reaching past robotics era. Even the speed up cheat doesn't work anymore.

500 hours and never thought of it. And I've been using turret lines long past when everyone else stops :)

I like the build where you make two rows of turrets, one tile gap between them, no gap between them horizontally, and the two rows offset by 1 tile. Then you can use an endless line of blue inserters zigzagging up-down-up-down to supply the entire system. But boy it uses a lot more power that way. The only advantage maybe it's pretty compact (dont need a belt)

900 hours into the game, countless belts going around my base.... You can to the lab thing with the turrets? 😂😂😂👌

You spend to much time on commenting dude, go expand factory.

@@magictoffee7066 (Clicks on a blueprint, pastes the blueprint, then clicks on a remote to send out a group of 10 Spidertrons with building material to the location so they do all the work) "Expansion done."

maybe this comment was already automated?

Robot fun reply: - Just make more bot - Did that all the times, doesn't matters since the networks will connect *somewhere* anyway - You simply not produced enough resource, go expand your FACTORY - Well the point of bot is to not have to do stuff yourself so I'm fine with stuff being a bit low - EXPAND THE FACTORY IS THE ANSWER Also you forgot: - bot trying to fly pass a lake - they are generally very stupid, for example you paste down blueprint that have 1000 entity, you have 999 bots nearby with local supply, and instead of having one of those 999 bot build 2 thing you will have a single bot flying in from the other side of your base. So the moral of the story is, having disconnected logistic networks is actually a good thing, you can deliver stuff to the place yourself, use train, or even better yet, just use the trusted spidertron instead of relying on the logistic network to do its job.

yes!

I was wondering if this was possible! New player here. Thank you 🙏

this is the way I want to go Entertaining for veterans and helpful for beginners

its the voice

@@Trupen and you do it in the best possible way!

you did watch it 9684 times didn't you but eh who can blame you is a good video

RU-vid asked me to rate your comment from great to terrible lol

@@masonmunkey6136 Great game, terrible for life :)

Oh dear. How's your life been? lol

100% true, I just wanted to show radars as a tool to build from the map view

@@Trupen yeah fair enough :D

I haven’t even been using accumulators for my recent radar outposts, just 6 solar and 1 radar. Quite convenient even before getting industrial solar production going or oil

@@apotatoewithanaginata8482 its just nice to have accumulators so they dont have any interruption, but if you really want that scouting as early as possible than not spending resources on accumulators will save you some time, your scouting is going to be slower and shotty tho

Artillery my friend is the best radar

"Build your _________ with expansion in mind" is an awesome tip not only for trains

This is also how trains work in real life

@@catinthebox9400 with nuclear fuel?

@@billybob2388 Yes

I died twice from the trains, so i dont use them anymore -_-

Thanks :D

this being the first video of his ive seen the turn on subtitles instruction was not only funny but helpful

@@Trupen I had to go back to check that "...Kevin. FAC!torio" in the subs. I just got factorio today and was introduced to your channel with this video. Love it and thanks for the content :)

Is there any disadvantage--other than taking up more space--to putting the reactors by themselves attached to the heat exchangers by a long heat pipe? Such that if the reactor blew up, almost nothing else would be within radius besides its fueling system.

@@keamu8580 Sadly heat pipes have a distance limit that is smaller than the explosion radius. The best solution is to just not let enemies get near the reactors.

Or building the reactor complex away from everything else (save it's train station and power connection)

For anyone reading this - bear in mind that if your base is not using most of the steam, your reactors may overproduce heat and end up going critical. There are ways to prevent this with circuits that look at the steam content of your system and only fuel your reactors when it's below a certain amount - this is pretty important for making them hands off. Otherwise, I would recommend at least setting up an alarm for when it begins approaching 800 degrees. Also keep in mind, you can't stop a fuel cell once it's been used. The reactor has to burn it off. And it will continue getting heat from nearby reactors. Good luck! I recommend downloading a blueprint that addresses this.

@@underdog353777 these reactors don't go "critical" when they get "too hot", there is no "too hot", just wasted heat if you don't put it somewhere.

I have learned that you never really get to your "actual factory". You'll basically be constantly rebuilding it to keep production up. Or, rather... what you SHOULD be doing... is MOVING your factory every so often because at some point, your supply lines to resources are just "too long", which requires you mine MORE resources just to stabilize production. Many times, it's just easier to manufacture something "on site" of the patch and then use the trains to pull it in. "Oh, I can smelt all the ore when it gets back to the main base". Why would you waste space at your main base with ore that can't be used for ANYTHING except smelting down? Smelt it on site, ship it to the base. A stack of 100 plates is more efficient than a stack of 50 ore. Now, I know some players are going to be like, "But, then I gotta haul coal out to blah blah blah blah". Dude, you get Electric Furnaces. Yes, they are power hogs. But, they are far more space efficient and you really SHOULD be using nuclear power anyway. By the time you need these far off ore patches, you should have access to Nuclear Power and Electric Furnaces. Bite the bullet and build them both. You'll be far happier in the long run. Short of recipes that require raw coal to be used, it's almost always better to just crack the stuff down into oil production. Especially with how ridiculously common the stuff ends up being compared to actual oil patches. Seriously though, refine and produce your stuff at the location you're getting it from and ship the FINISHED PRODUCTS back to the "main base". There's very little reason to do otherwise. It's far more efficient that way. You'll need far fewer trains, and you won't have to move your base as often. At most, you'll need to make temporary "mini-bases" at patches of resources which can be deconstructed as the patches run out and constructed again at the next patch. I always see all these very large sprawling train networks in these videos that are just... criminally inefficient. "Oh, I bring in all my resources back to the main base and turn them into finished products there.". Why? Manufacture on site! It's better to refine your oil on site, it's better to smelt your plates on site, it's better to only bring back what you NEED. Anyway, back to the main point. Why does everyone just create more and more and more and more trains when they don't have to? Seems a weird bottleneck to engage in. You don't "add more trains" to "increase production". You shorten your supply lines to increase production. This also reduces the amount of factory sprawl you've got overall. In some cases, this can even reduce reliance on a "Main Bus". After all, "throughput" maxes out on belts. There's a maximum speed a belt will be able to transport anything. Put simply, if your trains are hauling raw resources, it better be because you've got a recipe somewhere that REQUIRES those raw resources. Bigger factory usually means "more inefficient". Scalable factories tend to approach inefficiency very quickly. You don't want scalable. You want "works up to maximum throughput" and then you design a new factory to do the same thing. Maximum efficiency is MANY SPECIALIZED factories.

​@@XxTaiMTxX I don't know man, I've added so many entries of resources to my past factories until I drone my way

@@XxTaiMTxXif u refine/process products on site wouldn’t that be harder bc u need to connect different resources like iron/coal and wouldn’t it be harder to manage pollution and biters? asking as a beginner haha

@@wefsii I'd process "Steel" back at the main base, since as the game goes on, you're unlikely to get a coal deposit close enough to your iron production to make it worthwhile. Thankfully, you can get electric furnaces, which means you don't really need to have coal to process into steel if you don't want to... But, if you are making Steel "on site", then you've basically got a huge base right there for no reason. It's honestly easier to just smelt the ore into Iron, ship the iron back, and plug it into existing or new Steel Processing furnaces. Your "forward bases" will then be a lot smaller and you won't necessarily have to "make iron" at the main base, which means you can salvage some of that room for other stuff. As for "more pollution". Eh... I never worry about it. Some people do, but I just don't. It's cheap as crap to make ammo and ship it onto a never-ending belt that surrounds the base and feeds your guns. Or, if you have power to spare, to just mix some laser turrents in with the ammo. If biters "get out of hand", I typically just go smash up some bases nearby and then I'm cleared up for another few hours. Heck, the biters are so negligable, then I have mods on that actually make them a threat (including giving them immunities to fire, bullets, lasers, and even poison gas... as well as gives them 10 evolution levels). Makes the game a bit more interesting than their vanilla selves, which are super easy to manage and murder in vanilla.

@@XxTaiMTxX thanks for the advice!!

or you can just use transport drones and your mall will only get exactly the resources it needs

@@mrosskne Once you have bots why would you need a mall? just have the bots deliver direct to the player.

@@petermichaelgreen The mall produces the items the bots deliver to the player, obviously. That's the whole reason you build a mall in the first place.

@@mrosskne i thought the reason for building a mall was to put the items you needed together in one place, but if you are using logistics bots there doesn't seem to be much point in that, just box a few up where you are producing them anyway and let the bots deliver them.

@@petermichaelgreen yeah, "where you are producing them" is the mall

thanks you, yes I saw it :D

No belts, no trains, no request chestssould be the deal... Seablock mod ;)

So, English can be taught through tough thorough thought though. Is another from among those lines.

Wowww I just started playing and only have 1 train going between my oil and my factory, but I can very easily see how useful this information will be later. Thanks for sharing!

they do load balance? My impression was they pick the nearest available one. Or just my trains are lazy...

I mean, you aren't wrong...

reactor block, then exchangers with water wells, then turbines, then tanks.

My suggestion is to just blueprint it out and only fill a few belts in the beginning. A decent red-green base needs fewer belts than full-on-pride-flag base with seven science packs being built.

transport drones

@@mrosskne Bots are personally my go-to after i start building a mega base, even though they are quite laggy, i dont totally mind, but before then i dont typically exclusively use them. i'll still have some belts going to places inside my base. even at the point that i am fully using bots, though, belts and trains for outposts are still much-preferred unless i spread like crazy so much that there are ore patches completely engulfed by my base going unused, and even then sometimes trains are still better there.

Yay! Thank you!

Too late. 😅

hey thank you

space exploration is in the plans

yes it's editing error :/

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Glad you like them!

Glad you enjoyed it!

yeah I thought it's fine, since nothing had red underscore xd

Thanks, will do!

Ну или сразу рассчитать всё через кальк и не трахать себе мозг шиной, которая всё равно высохнет на первом же комплексе красно-зелено-синих банок. Так сxуябы не провести те же 8 полос сразу к нужным фабрикам? Если бы в главную шину помещались ресурсы сразу на всю игру, я бы понял. Но 10 фабрик когов полностью высасывают красный белт листов. И превращают 2 красных белта железа в ОДНУ фабрику красных белтов. Хочешь 2, чтобы не ждать полчаса - 4 полосы досвидос. И куда ты гнал свои 8 полос, если 4 тут же свернули в 2 фабрики и вышли в сундук? И вот у тебя уже огрызок от шины. И её снова нужно наполнять. Хочешь снова 8 - начинать нужно с 12. Прошла шина по супермаркету и все 8 полос высохли. Что, снова мало? До банок даже не дошло. Ещё 8 добавляем? 20 полос? Давай сразу 100, чтобы хватило аж до фиолетовых. А на жёлтых снова спохватимся, что 100 полос не хватает, нужно 150. Хули, всю карту заставим белтами... вместо того, чтобы на месте произвести все нужные компоненты. Потому что производиться они будут цепочкой фабрик длиной как раз с твою шину. Просто вместо бесполезной шины будет производящий комплекс. Но я не против, пустыня большая, хоть 1000 полос гони в другой конец карты. Там же нет другого железа...

I agree

@@RedGallardo имхо, главная шина имеет смысл до появления дронов, дальше от неё особого смысла нет, только место занимает. Молл на дронах получается очень компактным и останется только загрузить ЖД чтобы успевать подвозить ресурсы

Glad you enjoyed it

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He easily has quadruple that.

And also the thing with the mall. Imagine still handcrafting everything.

To few biters ;)

No problem!

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thank you

idk

Wow, thank you!

Thanks

I think there is no hope for him

Yes

Thanks a ton!

nobody can evade trains :/

@@Trupen Oh, crap. Let's just pray.

this shot gets more cursed the more you look at it :)