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

Bought the game, started the tutorial, got a slight migrane, googled this video, watched it, now i have a full-blown headache. I think i'm falling in love with Factorio.

2 very important things: -don't stand on train tracks -produce more red circuits. doesn't matter how much you already have, just make more

"You can press Q to pick up buildings" Me after 800 hours: "Today I learned a thing".

Another thing: Don't be afraid to do remote outposts. A train full of iron plate carries twice as much iron alone as one full of ore.

About the chest limiting: You are telling me that I won't need this 400 satellites!?

When you get there: DONT RUN ON TRAIN TRACKS

One thing to mention is: “yes, the oil patch yields are decreasing and you’re not just going insane” because for a new player this is a lot of headache

best tip:Build your factory how you want, having fun is most important.

Yet another entertaining and informative video. Another tip is new players may find it useful to cut off contact with their friends and family, stop eating and sleeping, and spend every moment of their waking life planning and developing their factory to achieve 17% faster gear production

I will from this moment forward call biters 'Diplomatic Representatives'

I actually have a train track trap to kill invaders too. Best defense ever. The bugs think the train tracks is a opening in my defenses; except there is a train constantly running in loops to destroy any invaders.

Having almost completed the train tutorial, I'm basically a veteran.

As someone who has played this game for over 1200 hours this is a great video! My two favorite things you've said are "no one uses green modules" and "if you kill your neighbors you don't have to worry about their feelings anymore."

Pro tip: be ready to have hundreds of city blocks of red chip production

stone walls have the most satisfying placement noise, and super satisfying connection mechanics. It's been a while now, but I think when I first placed a wall it triggered a release of dopamine so dense in my brain that I've been riding that high ever since. That was 1,000 hours of factorio ago

Tip: The first time you do a main bus layout, only build on one side of the bus. Sure, the bus will end up 2x as long, but you'll be able to expand the bus as you realize you need a belt of this or 4 more belts of that. With experience, you'll get a feel for how wide your bus will be for your goals.

"Green modules are eco friendly but... nobody really uses them" *my noob ass sitting on the deathworld who survived only by sticking greens into literally everything* - "am I a joke to you?"

No matters how big you build it you'll always miss red chips

Reminds me of a Factorio meme chart I saw somewhere: Do you have enough Iron Plates? -> Yes. -> No, you're wrong, build more iron plates.

Eventually stone veins are not very useful to most players, I recommend creating a landfill production area, pumping it to a huge lake, run a narrow line of land far out in the lake and build a power plant there. You place turrets on either side of the narrow route the plant on land plots that are floating islands and not actually connected to the land route so the diplomatic representatives do not have access. This way your power plant will always be safe and out of the way

"If it looks stupid but works, it ain't stupid" I knew my Italian cooking skills would be useful

Many new players don’t know how to remove a selected item from the mouse cursor: Q

Although i just played it for few days, i really like those feeling when i can finally connect two materials at the opposite side of the base through spaghetti hell of belt conveyors

Biggest thing that clicked for me on this game was when I realiized that the fast belts were more about capacity than speed, so if I wanted to fit two yellow belts worth of material in a small space I could use red belt components instead

I would add about the blueprints: Treat blueprints from other people like a learning opportunity. Analyze them so that you know *why* they work and *how* they work, so that you can use that knowledge to make your own designs better. Don't *just* copy and paste them, or you're going to rob yourself of a lot of fun.

City Block designs are the best pick up topic. You must be doing something wrong. The topic works. Guaranteed ;)

Спасибо за субтитры на русском языке. 08:07 "Я все еще не говорю по русски". Улыбнуло. Даже шутка про демократию была. Ты хорош.

My tips: 1. Regularly shaped (train/cityblock) grids are amazing, but also very boring in the long run. 2. Experiment with some logic circuits, it adds a whole new dimension to the game 3. Self-imposed constraints lead to interesting variations. If you always gravitate to trains, try a peaceful belt-only run, or a bot-centered Deathworld.

I recommend using green modules in miners at your outposts, since they greatly reduce the pollution that's produced and outposts are one of the main pollution spreaders. With full green they just won't create any pollution cloud.

man, i miss *looking* at a spagheti factory, like the first one, i dont miss expanding that *thing* tho once main bus, always main bus

It took me too long to find this video, but I have five [5] things that you might want to include if you ever do a follow-up video; -There is a literal sheet of balancers that are tried and true. It is certainly worth trying to come up with your own crazy pasta balancers at least once, but the sheet is always nice to come back to when you just want material going everywhere. -There is no shame in having your ammo production system feed via belt to your gun turrets. If anything, it's better than robots as it needs only a fraction of the power. -Gun turrets don't need power; all hail the gun turret. -You will never have enough ammunition for your gun turrets. Are your belts, buffer chests, and gun turrets full? Across your entire quadruple wall base? You still don't have enough ammo. -You will never have enough iron; so ****ing much of your products uses iron.

"If something looks stupid, but works, it's not stupid." Making this motto of my life.

"Without neighbours you don't need to worry about their feelings" LMAO!🤣 You're right 👍

Frankly, the most fun I have in playing Factorio is the "build > frustration > learning" infinite process about any X material I need to produce at scale.

I cant stop listening to this guy speaking english. It's just so unique and beautiful.

Fun tip: produce a bunch of important intermediate products and store them all in a centralized location. That way you can go and collect a ton of them in one place. Also, learn how trains work. SO worth it.

I think using someone else's excel tables is the same as using someone else's blueprints. You need to make your own)

On "Everything to small", my phylosophy is: "You only have enough, if you cant use it all"

Green modules reduce pollution too, so that’s why I use them early game until I can get a good defense system up and running.

To the person who read this, It’s been hard for you, I know, and it makes me sad that you don’t see yourself in the way I see you. Sometimes they are things in life that cause us to loose ourselves, and the way you have is so unimaginable painful. I miss your smile, the way your eyes light up the whole room just by the sound of your laughter. I miss the way you accepted the way you look in the mirror without cursing yourself out about how ugly you look. I miss the way you didn’t think of yourself as a failure because everyone makes mistakes, we all have flaws and we all aren’t perfect. It’s painful to see that no one around you seems to see the pain trough your eyes, but, stranger, I do, I see how heavy your heart is and how comforting the sadness for you might be, how afraid your heart is of happiness because it disappears in the end, right? You don’t know how much impact you have in this world and it’s sad to see that your demons fight against you and want to take over you. Because you do make change, it’s something so simple and little that brightens up someone’s whole world, it can be a small smile from your lips, the way you look at things you’re passionate about, the way you make yourself eat even though it’s been hard for you lately, the way you zoom out and go in your own world, you brighten up my world by reading this, it means a lot to me that you’re here, existing, but I don’t want you to just exist, you deserve to feel alive. You deserve to get up in the morning and feel good about yourself. You deserve to feel something- to feel every damn second alive in this lifetime. It’s heartbreaking that you think you’re not capable of being loved, because you are, I love you trough all my words and I hope you let it happen in your heart. Love is scary, I know, maybe you heart had been broken once and since then you wanted to be rather numb than feel ever again, it hurts me how you punish yourself, does it not deserve love? Because YOU DO deserve love, please forgive yourself, it’s not your fault that the demons want to take over your beautiful heart. You’re not a bad person for distancing yourself from others, but you deserve someone to talk to, you deserve someone to listen. I am listening, you can tell me what’s wrong. It’s everything, isn’t it? There’s something pulling your heartstrings on the ground and no one seems to understand how misunderstood you feel, it’s heartbreaking to know that I am behind the screen and can’t give you a hug, that’s why I will give you a big warm virtual hug and send you lots of love :). You matter. You are worthy. You are loved. You deserve good things. You deserve someone to listen. You deserve to eat and drink. You deserve to feel good and alive. You deserve to smile. You deserve a hug. You deserve to be all the things you want to be, because you deserve to have and feel good things happening to you and have a fulfilled life. I know I might not know you personally but I care about you so much, I write this because I want you to stay here with me, I want you to hold on a little longer because you matter so much to me, because I will not let you give up on yourself. I want you to see that you should not give up on yourself because you DESERVE GOOD THINGS. I want you to look back on the time when you were a kid, you didn’t give up when you tried to swim for the first time, you didn’t give up when you tired to walk for the first time and fell, you never gave up on yourself, you always kept on pushing forwards, so why can’t you now? I know it’s tiring, your mentally tired, but dont your younger self deserve good things? look back at your eyes that used to be full of hope, look back on those dreams. Don’t let yourself fall, you deserve better. We will both fight, I will fight for you. I won’t let those demons get to you. You can hold on to me, I won’t let you down :). Whenever you feel lonely, then look at the sky, I always look at it and think about you. Yes, you, because it makes me happy that there’s someone looking right back, maybe we can’t see each other but I can feel your presence here with me and that’s enough for me, because I am glad your heart is beating and you’re still fighting. You’re so much stronger thank you think, you didn’t leave your spot on this earth even if you wanted to, you belong here, even though it doesn’t feel like it, when you don’t feel like belonging than build your own home here, put all your love in it and dreams. Think of you as a star when you feel alone, you shine because your heart is good, no matter what mistake you made, no matter about the past you had, you’re one of the stars that shine bright in the universe because you’re heart is beautiful, that’s why the demons in your mind wants to have it. As one of the stars you see others stars, maybe they have felt the same way as you do at some point in there life, but they lighten up the universe with each other’s presence. You’re a star for me, maybe you don’t see it yourself but I can see it, you’re beautiful from inside and out, your body is beautiful the way it is. You make me happy by reading this, you make me feel something by your presence and when you can make me feel that way than you also make other people feel that way about you too. I hope you stay for yourself and don’t let your story get written by others but by yourself, it’s your story not theirs. As you can see, I say a lot of “I hope” because I have hope for you even if you don’t have it for yourself, I see hope in you even though you might want to give up. That’s why I hope you won’t see the world in darkness and will see it colorful again, I hope I will give you a glimpse of hope and make the world you see a bit colorful for today. My favorite color is yellow, and I hope the next time you see the color yellow you will think about my words. If someone left you than don’t blame yourself, don’t think you weren’t enough, don’t lower yourself for someone who couldn’t see the awesomeness in you. If you lost someone I am so sorry for your loss, they want you happy, I hope you don’t feel guilty or regret because you were there, you spend enough time with them, they want you to be happy. They are in a good and safe place now. If someone broke your heart than I am so sorry that they couldn’t see the way you look so beautiful because of the heart you have. Anyone who gets to be with you, doesn’t know how fucking lucky he/ she/ they is :). If you aren’t accepted at home or in general than I am so sorry that you have to deal with someone/ something you shouldn’t be ashamed of, I accept you and support you, I accept you as a human being no matter what race, religion, nationality, skin color, or sexuality you have. You’re safe here with me :). You’re not useless, you’re not a burden to anyone. You’re not a problem, you’re human and your feelings are valid. You’re not being dramatic. Please don’t starve yourself, you deserve food and to drink, I know it’s hard. It hurts to see that you’re in so much pain :( you deserve so much man, don’t let your emotions control you. Don’t let them get the best of you. I am sorry no one is noticing, I wish /hope I could take your pain away for today or even for a moment while you’re reading this. If no one told you, I am so proud of you, you’re reading this and it’s enough for me to be proud of you because you’re here and that’s all that matters to me. If it’s night for you, go to sleep, I know it’s hard to fall asleep right now but you deserve a good sleep. If you have nightmares, please, don’t let them fight you. If it’s day for you, don’t start it by such sad music, I know it’s impossible to have a good day with such mindset but take baby steps, start by drinking two cups of water everyday in the morning and so on.. You will start building little healthy habits. If it’s evening for you, you’re probably overwhelmed and stressed, I want you to know it’s okay to feel the way you feel. You don’t need to be scared, of course you’re overwhelmed or stressed, I mean who wouldn’t? But it’s important to know that when you feel that way you should do a little self care, such as taking a bath for example? You deserve to feel at ease and relaxed. And if you are somewhere in between I hope you know that you’re so strong for breathing despite the pain, I know you will make it :) I believe in you. All I want for you is to stay here, I really mean all my words, even if there is a lot of unsaid things I want to tell u and my text is getting longer and longer,I want you here. I hope one day your smile will become a genuine one where you don’t need to fake it anymore, because I can’t say this enough, you deserve a good smile and to feel alive. You’re worth more than every fucking cent in this world. You can let go for today, I got you, you can cry your heart out as much as you want, but don’t let it tear you down and let your emotions control you by giving up. Crying is not weakness. If you still feel alone I dedicate you a song as your friend. “Dusk till Dawn- Zayn feat. Sia (I prefer the slow version)” I hope you can think of me and will remind yourself of my words, I will for sure think of you. In case no one told you and you’re unsure yourself, you’re a good person and I am so happy you’re here. I hope this is enough to stay today, tomorrow will be a new day, a new start, let go now. Enough with beating yourself up for today, okay? Life for those who couldn’t, smile for those who forgot what a genuine smile is, love like there’s no other, hug like its your last one. If you read all of it, until tomorrow my friend :) have a good day and great years.

Ничего страшного, что вы пока не говорите на русском (8:10). Вас все равно очень интересно смотреть, вы - молодец!

Pro tip: Deconstruction planners are much better than you'd think initially. You can configure it to only effect ghosts, request slots, and items on ground, which makes it easy to see how many items you need to finish building your factory. Or flip it to a whitelist, and only mark built stuff for deconstruction (if you performed a partial deconstruction before to place the print)

I was mind blown when i learned that you can hold down LMB when placing powerlines to automatically put them at max distance.

Got this game and I've never been so addicted AND overwhelmed. It's odd, but amazing. I love It. Thank you for the tips my dude.

The "everything" belts... I died a little inside.

New players often ignore logic systems completely, even though they can be extremely practical in some situations. Oil is probably one of the hardest steps for new players, mainly because you have to somehow get rid of overproduces oil. Most new players deal with that by huge buffering, or destroying tanks, but once you have researched advanced oil refinement you can super easily balance it with logic systems. Basically, you just set up tanks for each oil type, and once they pass a certain threshold they activate a pump that refines the oil to the next kind. There are also a lot of other small things where it can help. For example, I like to use solid fuel later in the game, but only if I have enough oil, so I did the same with the balancing and solid fuel production is only activated when there is enough oil to spare. But that means that sometimes fuel production will be low, so I have to change back to coal. I dont have to do this manually, as I use logic to activate the belt feeding coal onto the fuel belt. Nuclear power is another part of your factory that can really be optimised with logic.

The buffer design you showed first with inserters in middle of belt is the best buffer design as long as you connect the two ends with an underground tunnel. That way the flow won't be stopped from normal operations while allowing the materials to be picked up into the box for you to use or incase of emergencies the box will supply the belt with materials so the production is not hammered too badly.

What is wrong with my eco friendly factory, using only green modules? I mean, yes, it is 6 times bigger than needed and I did have to burn one whole continent for it, but that few remaining neighbours seem to not mind it at all...

Wait a second, i think he actually speaks russian

Yes, I need to get back to Factorio. Rimworld caught my attention for too long😂

I like to have a 'garbage belt' that goes around my entire factory, usually a belt that was previously used for ammo. I have it go by my shopping mall, and offload with priority to the shopping boxes, and by the start of my bus, so it can offload materials. This means that, at any time if I have to ditch stuff, I can just toss it in a box and let it unload to the belt. It also means that those mines with only a little bit left can just mine strait to the garbage belt, and they'll eventually empty. By the end I'll also have a 'garbage train' that I can call to me (by placing a station), fill up, and then send back to the garbage berth which will have early priority on the belt, so I can get all the materials back on the line.

My favorite modpacks in minecraft are the ones with extremely convoluted crafting recipes that make automating the simple things feel very gratifying. Factorio has that in spades and I love it.

1. Look for huge rocks at the start. 2.Don't waste time on manual repairs.

Great Video Trupen! (+1 Like from me) Some feedback as requested: - Precise and to the point facts are really valuable, awesome. - Your editing was great, really kept me engaged. - I can't believe you turn Factorio into a comedy, well done sir! - I learnt /got reminded of things that I havent used in ages. - THE FACTORY MUST GROW. I've got just over 900hrs, but this just goes to show that you can never stop learning! Looking forward to your next video!

Three tips that i can think of: Splitters have priority lanes and filter in them which is very powerful Use wood as fuel with input priority u can mix belt with coal Trains are not only a cargo transport it can serve as passenger transport as well u can plan your factory for this

7:25 h-hey, that's mine..! 0_0

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Even though I have hundreds of hours in the game I still watching these videos! You have such a great sense of humour, thank you very much for bringing joy to RU-vid. You make the world a better place!

My only tip would be : don't bother deconstructing anything that works. Just let your less optimized factories deplete their inputs while you make a more optimized factory someplace else, preferably closer to resources. I have to admit that I suck at planning trains. To make my life easier and beat my personal record, I simply made a second base, as I could not scale up my first one in a satisfying way. First base had labs, low tier science packs and basic utilities production. Second base had high tech stuff, high tier science packs and an ever expanding engine and circuits pool. I never had to bother with too much train signalling since I was close to resources and I mass produced productivity modules as soon as possible.

English subs: please, don't speak rushn, i don't understand((( Russion subs: хах, зато я тебя понимаю)))

One thing I had to teach my wife about playing factorio: THINK BIGGER. She would always box in production, or make it way too small :/

8:08 LMAOOO for the non russian speakers, the savefile says "I still don't speak russian." Great joke.

I've been playing factorio like a tower defense game against the bugs. I've got a huge factory on my save with layered defence walls. It's fun.

one of the greatest lesson of life "if something looks stupid but works , it's not stupid" thx man for everything

the rainbow puke belts with a bit of everything on them kinda hurt my insides.... not only would it be extremely inefficient in terms of actually moving materials, they would also be able to cause issues when it comes supply lines that don't use perfect ratios of things. if there is an end stop to that particular line, it could fill with items that aren't needed for that line. and god, I' d hate to clean that mess. better to just give up that piece of land and call it a diplomatic peacekeeping accord.

Things I wish I knew: Do not ever use trains without stackinserters.

I'm gonna be honest; I started watching this video somwhat sceptic to whether I'd learn something ot not as I've got almost 100 hours in the game. But, I gotta admit, not only did I learn a fair few things still, I ended this video with a huge smile on my face. Thanks man, this video was awesome.

One month later, the best advice I could give anyone wanting to start playing factorio ; Don't, it's not a game, it's engineering you're not getting paid enough to do.

do NOT put a discord ping sound in your video's pleaaaaaaaase.

A tip about provider chests: *don't* use provider chests with limited space. Use unlimited storage (later upgrade to buffer) chests with an inserter set to only put items in if the chest contains less than a few stacks of said item. That way, you can set the chest to request any surplus you end up with, so you don't end up with 100 new electric drills stuck in storage limbo every time you deconstruct a depleted mine.

Tip: You will always need more room than you think. Leave some space between builds. You'll think you're being generous. You aren't. Leave more. You'll never regret leaving more space than you needed.

I am happy we have such an awesome creator like Trupen for such a treasure of a game

My 2 cents: When using fluid wagons, pump directly from and to a storage tank. It is lightning fast this way. You can connect inserters wirelessly to the logistic system. This is useful for robot based factories and prevents a buildup of intermediates, so instead of limiting the content of each chest, you are limiting how much is in the whole logistic system, storage chests included.

A tip I've learned the hard way: dont buffer your production. Factorio is about having stream of stuff produced, I though buffering it was a good idea at first, but it only lead to difficulties to read what you need and use

I like a two splitter buffer. First one with output priority down the main, and the second one with input priority from the main. Then a chest(s) and inserters. This means the buffer only gets filled when theres an actual over-production and only gets used when there's an actual under-production. Which is especially useful for power buffers, 25.6GJ coal iron chest is a nice compact battery.

I just started playing this game and I love your video! Great job.

This game has kept me and my bf from getting sleep at a regular time hahah, we gotta make sure our busted but awesome factory runs like a beast its not efficient yet but we love our factory

When you played Factorio on Friday evening and you didn't even notice when you were late for school on Monday Anyway, the factory must grow!!

“If it looks stupid, but it works, it is not stupid.” God that’s fire

Good video. It's fun, informative and I can it understand.

Don't hesitate to tear down and rebuild everything when you get to construction bots. Your starting factory *will* be a mess Also, 9684

Ah another Factorio video, perfect saturday evening

thank you so much I just started playing with a friend and this helped so much I did mistakes I didn't even know I could do them

Спасибо, советы реально ценные! Буду проще относиться к игре и не заморачиваться на ошибках.

One of the best lessons I ever learned about factorio is once you've launched your first rocket with the vanilla game, you're ready to start loading a ton of mods

This has got to be the most useful channel for Factorio on the platform, your vids are amazing Trupen!

This is all so overwhelming and I love it!

Congrats on 10K! Hope you get to 100K subs!

Dear god you nearly gave me an heartattack with that discord sound, I almost thought that someone wanted to do some social interaction with me :'D

Thank you for that lesson. I've played already couple of hours in Factorio and I didn't know where I was wrong with building it. My Factory is practical and allows to create many stuff, but there is so much more to build. And now I realise I thought not big enough. What I really need is mulltiple lines with the same resources instead of just one. From the other hand I am proud that I re-inwent that pattern on my own withouth any tutorial before. These templates of buildinds also looks amazing. I didn't know that I can create a pattern of building and connections and just copy - paste it to another place. very good material - dziekuje

Great tips on another note 9:49 - 9:52 is the best line I've heard in awhile.

Very nice, another video, thanks man.

In my first game I was spacing out my miners like that until I realized the the output rate of my iron mines was getting too slow *long* before I was ever in danger of the iron patch running dry.

laughed all the way through this Trupen - nice video.

10:14 Words to live by. Also, LOL, that biter train bait loop is Lowkey genius.

Transport belts can be used instead of pipes. In this case, the pumps are not needed at all. But you need a huge number of barrels.

Tip Don’t burn yourself out Factorio will always be fun, but burnout is still a thing

what great humor! I chuckled way to much watching this!!! Great tips too

thank you very much for this excellent video, spitted out fact like a MG and even sneak in some jokes! most youtubers can learn from you

Cпасибо за просмотр!