TerraTech fans - what did you think?! Can you beat my time? ;-) What would you like to see next?: Ep2 of this crafting playthrough, a different speedrun or pure tutorials on crafting? Terraria fans - I've been thinking more and more about how I might make some more Terraria content. These vids are testing the water as to how much I can do (with my health limitations - ME/CFS). It'll take a lot of time and effort to pick back up with the technical side of Terraria (I can't easily switch between these things). But I'm definitely still interested. :-)
If you lack ideas for terraria videos, perhaps try studying boss AI and setting up perfect dodging machines, using hoiks/teleporters, or trying the same for events. The Old One's army is vulnerable to advanced arena design, as actuated blocks aren't taken into account when placing the crystal. Also, as long as the guys coming out of the portals have a line of sight to the crystal, they remain solid and hoikable. I've made some arenas that trivialize beating the army using this. I don't play TerraTech, but now I'm considering it, thanks to you! keep up the good work!
> I've made some arenas that trivialize beating the army using this Cool. Having you posted them up (to T-MEC maybe, sorry, I'm not in the loop there still). I'll definitely need to check out Old One's Army, as I've never played it. I'm not so sure about making perfect dodging arenas, though. Others, like DicemanX, Mappy, etc, are very good at the high end, complex, perfect builds. I tend to stick to the smaller, more accessible stuff that I can explain how to build. :-) I did try making a Duke Fishron cheesing hoik loop, once, but he was too smart for that (and DicemanX'd made a couple auto-farms for him already. Thanks for suggestions, very helpful. :-)
Love it - I've been looking for some decent TerraTech content today and was generally disappointed. This was a good find. Now that I know multiple mining platforms can be placed on the same seam, I've a feeling the game is about to become even more trivial.
> I've a feeling the game is about to become even more trivial. Lol. Yeah, it's certainly easy enough once you know what's going on. The devs have balanced it for the youngest of players, thus far, I think. And (sensibly) don't want a difficulty slider. There are various challenge rules you can give yourself, though (for later runs), like "no projectile weapons!". ;-)
I love your more "technical" videos. That is why I am here. I don't really care what game you play, as long as you continue to explain the technical aspects I will continue to watch. Love your videos, thank you so much!
Thanks. That's good to hear. That's largely what I'm aiming for. :-) And I see you go for the technical side on your own channel too. I'm yet to grasp Minecraft, myself - first person 3D building environment. :-s
I occasionally come back to watch this series again because it's so entertaining. It's overall really fun to watch and your builds are amazing. Are you ever going to make any more TerraTech videos?
I'm very late to the party but I just wanted to mention that I enjoyed your editing here very much. Seeing all your weapons fire off in turbo speed makes it look even deadlier. I found your channel a couple days ago and have been learning more from your videos than any other TT creator. I may have to make an attempt at my own speedrun but I don't expect to beat your time.
Really enjoying the MOBILE refining and selling on the Determinist after converting refinery to the Venture Mobile variant and the Sell canon to TWO of the Venture mobile variants. A simple trip through a green biome is MONEY!!!! Drive straight through trees and erudite veins..... refine, sell, repeat...all on the go! Only time I have to anchor now is to refill batteries or craft.
Cool! Do you have the Venture Refinery in the same place as I had the GSO Refinery? (Do you have to set the Fabricator to call resources to pull them through it, would that even work, I forget...?)
@@ZeroGravitas Yes, I just hot swapped the components out. As for setting the filter and fabricator to sell: yes, same applies on XB1 and because you are using mobile parts and have already set the fabricators and filter to craft compressed bricks it sells as you drive. Having a mobile refinery, 2 mobile delivery cannons, pacemaker, filter and, setting the fabricators to refined Erudite and Fibron turn the Determinist into a LAWN MOWER that shoots out money in the green biomes. GOOD TIMES! After thought....even with all of these mobile parts installed while using YOUR core design you STILL have to anchor to set the fabricators. Perhaps the Better Future update will examine this and add some mobile fabricators.
@@solidus3168 It would be cool to have mobile fabrication, for sure. But I don't think the devs will play with the function of any core crafting blocks for a while... The sky anchor kinda helps with this to an extent and makes mobile crafters easier to use.
@@solidus3168 Yes, in theory, although the restorative force it produces will continue to increase... Also, i have no idea what would happen if you manage to get it's anchor part over 500m away, such that it would normally despawn... That sounds like the basis of a stupid/fun episode. Heh.
Hey, I was just wondering how you protect your miners and sellers from rogue techs. I always have difficulty keeping my anchored blocks safe. Cheers for the though, was looking for a fast way to glorious money. I like watching this game sped up its really cool haha.
Hey, thanks. :-) Well, enemies only spawn around the player's tech, at 200m-300m range. One every 40 seconds.And they are immobilised beyond 200m, so if you just stay still, nothing can hurt your stuff. Also, none can attack your stuff while you're far away. They despawn beyond 450m from you, so driving far away will clear any troublemakers. Also, they can't spawn within 100m of an anchored tech. So if you alternate between moving about purposefully and staying completely still, you're likely to just have no issues. Milling about near your base is the worst things you can do (like when testing a new plane, or something). Also, enemies are very small and weak this early in the the game (GSO level 2 and driving a small tech), so they don't cause much damage, even if something goes wrong. Later game you'll want to make fairly powerful turrets around any crafting base. But with mining bases it's kinda optional - the miners are very cheap, so if some get destroyed it's no big deal. Good luck. :-)
@@ZeroGravitas Yes I have just been doing it for a couple hours and now have a hefty 4 million AND The 1 mil achievement which is what I was really doing it for :) Thank you so much aha!
Heh. No one's picked me up on the missing "r" in the title screen or video thumbnail: "Crafting Playthough Ep1" - dyslexia typo strikes again! Probably more errors there too... :-\
This vid is a classic. Sucks that the refinery still jams though. Factories in this game could still use some bugfixing, like when I build an all-purpose base and select something to fabricate but only most of the silos get pinged, or something moved from a silo to a conveyor but just goes straight back into the silo, requiring an extra belt.
Yeah, those are all OG crafting bugs that I documented and showed work-arounds for in my guide (on Steam). I've wondered if my guide helped the devs feel like it was less important to fix the bugs, ironically.
Heh, the OST tracks are very short and limited, I had to branch out to cover the audio side of these pretty long videos. Of course, I've started doing voice over now, so music's less of a thing (for better or worst).
Yeah I watch alot of Lathlands videos on TT, which are great, but this was a really pleasant break from the heavy level of dialogue in most videos I watch. I don't mind listening to you guys at all 😊 but TT videos with the proper music seem to be hella satisfying and meditative for me 👍👍 On a side note, I play on console atm 🤪 *cringe*, and it would be interesting to see how quick you can get to 1 mil BB with a 5000 block limit. It's an interesting challenge to apply to alot of things I'd normally do on PC.
@@thebeardedjosh1516 Heh, that's very 'brave' of you, lol. And yeah, I'd be interested to see how well you could do with money mining under such limits... The tech unloading distance is closer, so you may have to drive around more between mining sites to get them to pay out. And the 200 BA cost per anchor tech is going to be a killer, even with 4x auto-miner techs... Ironically, it might actually make more sense to have them set up *further* apart, so that no two bases are loaded into game at the same time. Hmm... I do like a challenge but I'm not buying my first console at this stage in my life, lol. :-)
Really? What I've heard, from other players, is that they don't work out much better than having 3 or 4 GSO miners on the same spot. Did I get the wrong end of the stick? 🙂 You can go a lot faster that this, anyway. One player got there in under 2 hours, easy.
God, I don't know why there are so little likes here. I've subscribed to your channel since you started to work on hoiktronics stuff and you put so much math and research in your builds, I absolute love that playstyle, please, carry on! Also, can we have a full slow version of this speedrun? I'd really like to look at the progress of building the harverter-seller-crafter closer, but speed-up makes me unable to see some details. (If it's somewhat inconvenient, well, I could just download and reverse-engineer that, you know, REVERSE-ENGINEERING)
> I don't know why there are so little likes here. Well, I did only properly release this video this afternoon. (And, yeah, of course more of my viewers would be thrilled for Terraria content. ;-) > Also, can we have a full slow version of this speedrun? I've thought about it: the original recording is 72GB, heh, so even with my good internet connection that's not really viable. I'll see what size it is after compressing it for archiving. I might post it as an unlisted video, and link it here. Would a 4x speed version be almost/more helpful? I have a version that I used in the production process. > I could just download and reverse-engineer that[...] Yeah, so you saw the link to the mobile crafter I shared on the Steam Workshop?: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1293348837 The problem is that the early game builds depend a lot upon RNG, as to what enemies spawn, how lucky you are with killing them and the shop inventory - my techs were fairly different each play-through. So it didn't seem to useful to specify an exact design. (Also you can't load techs very early, of course.)
ZeroGravitas Well, I am curious about how did you manage to shove all the stuff you found in somewhat useful position more than interested in copying the tech right away, so under "reverse-engineering" here I mean that I would sit and "THAT A NEAT POSITION FOR THAT LITTLE SEMI-DECORATIVE THINGY HE FOUND!!!!")) That's why I've asked for slower version (I guess, 4x would do): it's always a pleasure to look at first few hours of skilled playthrough just to learn a few tricks (personally I'm just not very good on generating nice techs, some big boxes on wheels with guns on top and stuff inside are my best). Oh, and thank you for the crafting guide, that was a very helpfull one, good ol' Crafty Mike really doesn't teach, and you do.
OK, the compressed version of the 4x sped up footage wasn't too massive, so here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_0M4YBJQQY4.html I think it's more useful that the slow, native speed anyway, and you could use the RU-vid controls to reduce it to just 2x (plus pausing, etc). Good luck. :-) And, well, I didn't collect all the parts that dropped along the way. I left a fair few lights and rubbish wheels behind, in particular. Then send much of the interesting looking loot to inventory via anchoring or attaching to a cab.
Thanks. :-) ..."sweetspot"? :-s And I'm glad you've spotted the video, Mr long time TerraTech RU-vidr. :-) It demonstrates a bunch of the things I've been preaching at you, and others.
Yeah, should be able to. I think it was after this that the devs made some changes to how the build beam controls, so it might be a bit twitchier to place them right. But you can also spawn techs in directly on top of exposed seams now too.
I'm already GSO3, GEO2 and VEN1.... do you think what you built here would survive against mostly GEO heavies?? I THINK the GEOs i am seeing have some GEO2 parts or maybe 3 that I do not have. They are tanky compared to me. I am DESPERATE for a decent tech build that can do the mutli-role stuff like your's does but still SURVIVE. I have looked through your builds on Steam but alas...no way to REALLY look at them on console....
Erm, the way I move around while mining, I've not had much issue with enemies attacking miners. As you said elsewhere, you can just run away to despawn them. But also, enemies always tend to be far smaller than player. Even if they aren't, they are inherently weaker, because their blocks fall off at 20% damage (80% damage for player techs). It is awkward that there's no way to share techs on console though...
Yeah, there's no tutorial for this in-game, yet, and it's a very handy feature: "Anchor" button, bottom left of screen. Lets you turn a mobile tech into a crafting base, deploy solar charging, etc. :-)
Salt flats aren't so good for money mining because the resource seams are fewer and further apart. But you can still make a good amount from a Celistite outcrop, and if it's adjacent to a grasslands biome you can still have an Erudite farm constantly working away while you're at base.
Errm... Just as shown (you can slow the RU-vid playback rate to 0.25x if that helps). First mission. Complete it's instructions, then attach the solar generator to the base level of the mobile tech and click the "Anchor" button, bottom left of screen.
I've not played, but I think that I heard the 4 is faster, but you can't always get that many on, of course. Not sure if you can sometimes fit 2 GeoCorp miners, in theory...?
@@ZeroGravitas in theory, but I did find that even with four running it seemed my geocorp one simply produced more resources... at least it depleted the vein faster
How do you get 4 autominers mining on the same seam? I made the exact same tech but not all of them work. I even went into build beam and shifted around a lot but I can't get all 4 to mine. Help!!!
I just follow the steps shown in the tutorial part of my video. (18:34 onwards.) Yes, it's very fiddly because it's easy to overshoot. But if you keep moving it back towards the auto-miner that *are* working, then eventually you tend to get all 4 going, *if* the terrain is flat enough to have all 4 anchors deployed at the same time. Try working in a bit of a rotation to help find the sweet spot. Otherwise, give up and try a different spot. gettin 3 mining is still good.
ZeroGravitas Thank you so much!! Funny thing is, I had watched the clip and went back to the game and fiddled with my miners and the third time I dropped them, all 4 miners started to work. Also, could you please explain to me how flying works? I hold shift and W and the tech moves forward and up, but I try releasing W and holding S to drop the nose down and it doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong? Btw, you are such a great gamer! You have mastered both Terraria and TerraTech. What else will you become amazing at?
> I try releasing W and holding S to drop the nose down and it doesn't work. You need to release [W] and then press it again to nose back down. [W] is pitch forwards, [S] is pitch back, once airborne, but only after you let go of [W] for the first time. Good luck.
• Game timer - LiveSplit 1.7.5 - livesplit.org/ I had to run TerraTech in windowed for it to overlay, and resize the window to 1080p with the borderless gaming app.
I've not gotten into official speed running sites, my expectation is that there just aren't any speed runs of TerraTech anywhere yet. I'm kinda trying to kick that off. :-) Can you recommend any sites in particular that might be suitable? I've only uploaded the original footage in a 4x speed re-render, because the full original file was just way too massive. Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_0M4YBJQQY4.html
Im not sure if this was a thing back then but you could probably do it in 25ish minutes if you go to the biome with all the resources terratech.gamepedia.com/Biomes#Pillars
Hmm, interesting idea... :-) But I don't think so. I mean, first of all they're at least 5km from the spawn point and they are so rare that you'd probably have to travel (on average) 10-20km before finding one. Also, you only get a handful of high-end resources from breaking the rocks there (no minable seams). It wouldn't add up to much. You have to mine, refine and sell 4291 erudite chunks to make a million block bucks!
19:36 - I'm sorry friend, but how did you manage to stack so many automatic miners on the same mining vein? The game normally doesn't allow you to do this.
Experiment and have fun. But if you want to get into crafting, go check out my guide (due to all the bugs): steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1191458767 What platform you gaming on? :-)
ZeroGravitas I play on ps4, so my biulding is very slow and weird. I definetely subscribed to you because you seem good and interactive with your viewers
Oh cool, I've got my first TT console player sub (I know off)! :-) You'll have to be a little more conservative with your block counts and mining operations, but I think my minimalist build style will make sense with that. :-) Is it OK to look at a guide on Steam, for you? Is it problematic or feel weird?
ZeroGravitas I honestly havent gotten far enough to tell if my game is older than yours. Like I havent gotten to planes or the factory things yet and dont know of any small things. Ill tell you if I find it hard to use a steam giude. If your making a giude just assume its good for us console players.
> to tell if my game is older than yours. Not sure what you mean...? PS4, XBox and PC are all on the same game version, currently: 1.0. The only differences are your new controller oriented UI features and the "Block Allowance", which limits how many you can have, to try to assure FPS performance.
Hey there. Google translate tells me you said something like: "You're good ... thank you ... never imagine something like that ... just a question .. some method of the eliciptero maintaining a fixed height" Thanks for the compliments. Sorry, I've no idea what you mean by "eliciptero". :-s
Oh, is it "helicopter"? The only way to have a helicopter hover at a stable height is to control it manually, or carefully build it to be very very balanced for lift and weight. Nothing clever in the game yet with control systems.
ZeroGravitas Sorry... and thanks for your help, i really want that " controls system" , just think, launch to many missiles with your helicopter is awasome idea, i want cry ..... when.... when we have thant system .. i want my sistem now... and sorry for elic02nter... is helicoptero.... JAJAJA sorry and thanks for all
ZeroGravitas JAJAJAJA that not have sense.... JAJAJA sorry... ok la pregunta seria ... si conoces un método para que un helicóptero puedo mantener una altura constante ?
Yeah, I don't know about that. But if you are a PC user, on Steam workshop I have a collection of helicopter and VTOL techs (from various people) that all fly pretty well, with correct controls and handling: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1249182254
:-) Yeah, hey, sorry. A spurious copy-right claim just popped up when I published it, so quickly switched it back to unlisted. Sorry. I may push it tomorrow instead. Confident it'll be alright, because I've had this issue with the same tune before, but annoyed that it forces adverts to be switched on, when I usually start videos off unmonetised. You get to have a sneak peak, in effect. Lucky you! lol. ;-)
Hey ZeroGravitas my Boyfriend was wondering if you can do a build for him. a build like your misophist for gso lvl 3 But a bit longer (he says he isn't really tallented and his stuff gets clogged way to much to be worth building a base. and if you can get all of your mobile tech Builds for just the innerworkings for people to build around to if possible:) i'd appreciate it and so will everyone else!. :) we dont want "credit" for the idea we just want more of your designs since they work extremely well.
Always great to hear when my builds are appreciated. 😊 It has taken a lot of time to figure out the crafting issues in the game, of which there are many. Silly question, but have you two looked ahead to my 3rd crafting playthrough episode? The "Determinist" build in that should cover what it sounds like you're describing. It's bigger, with more storage, and can craft anything of that level. That and it's "crafting core" are up on the Steam Workshop for download as part of my collection of techs from this series: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1300233157
ah okay. i found it.! thanks Zerogravitas. and my boyfriend appreciates it too. its just hard for him to get how it works and such. and ill be looking foward to your "trailer" designs in the future if you do them. :)
The devs patched the block duplication glitch fairly recently. The one with using a max size tech to zoom out too far. And you'd still have to scrap all those blocks to sell the chunks, so would take a fair while too...?
Well, a bunch of the guys say they can complete a full play-through in about 9 hours (just maxing all corps). So probably about 5 hours, to get it for sure, by reaching GSO level 5. But you could get it in half that if you're lucky enough to get an invader who has them. It'd be mostly a case of repeatedly running the campaign (not my strong suit). ;-)
It's the same as any other anchor. It just needs to be attached to your tech, with it's underside unobstructed and very close to the ground. Then click the anchor button (bottom left). Helps to build beam up first, to level the tech off.
Heh. Not to worry. I keep seeing the old timer TerraTechies forget to do it too, with the solar generator. Hence why I made a point of mentioning it in the video. :-)
0:30 - No *pre-made* snapshots. Point being to keep things simple and only use techs designed during the playthrough itself. :-) I absolutely think it would be valid and interesting to do speedruns without this restriction, maybe on a map seed that one is familiar with too, just to see how crazy fast you can go.
A spurious music copyright claim popped up yesterday as I published it, so I pulled it back. It'll be fine, as I've contested that song before, irritatingly, but means that it forces monetisation on the video, which I wasn't intending to do yet. Sigh. I think I'm going to publish it now anyway. (Also, see the other comment on here. ;-)
Good luck. :-) Did you do it yet? Fastest time I know about is ReaperX1 claiming 1h42m: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4gMRHuSZeto.html
That quite a philosophical thought. Heh. What makes you say that? :-) When a car is parked with it's handbrake on, is it still a vehicle...? Or a mobile crane, or a caravan...?
Thank you so much for replying im grateful but its technicaly not parked its attached to the ground and is unable to move but once detached it able to move therefore making it semi-mobile
You think? I didn't expect many would be keen to sit through 2h42m of normal speed game-play... :-s I hope you can still see everything I've done, here, and that it's an unbroken sequence. But it's supposed to be as much a tutorial as a record. I mean, no one's tried it before, and few use this mining technique to it's full potential, in general. The original recording file was too massive to upload, but I did post a 4x speed version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_0M4YBJQQY4.html You could watch that at 1/4 playback speed, if you so wanted. ;-)
@@ZeroGravitas i came here to learn all the nice bits and pieces. how to build compact crafting vehicles, maybe some nice "good to know" facts. or simply to see how others handle resource management. Unfortunately, this video is not helpful for the learning part
@@Antiork Heh, more of that sort of thing in my following videos of this series. This video only gives a tutorial on how to set up 4x Auto-miner clusters. Can't do it all in one vid and this was more of a proof of concept, showing how wasy it is to get rich in this game. ;-)
You mean all 4 minder on the same seam at once? 3 out of 4 is pretty goo if you can get that...(?) The movement logic to position them is It's not entirely intuitive and you also need pretty flat terrain and a bit of luck.
