The first thing I've always done when planning on building a vanilla megabase is to build a large module production base that uses the modules it makes to ramp up before I use them anywhere else. Really enjoyed the video!
Hey all, I just wanted to say the response to this video has been absolutely insane. Thank you to everyone for the nice comments, it's been really encouraging. The next video is already in the works so expect it soon
Lots of nifty tricks here! Some thoughts: 1. One trick I picked up to keep fuel usage and pollution to a minimum with my steam power setup is to collect all steam into a tank, then connect all inserters to it in groups, with each group of inserters set to trigger when the steam drops below a certain point. I can throw down one blueprint with enough steam power to keep me going until nuclear, yet it will only fuel the _exactly_ number of burners to maintain whatever level of power I need. It also works well to provide the small amounts of power needed for inserters/etc. on remote defensive walls. 2. Rather than using 'Water Fill' to supply water wherever I want it, I switched to 'Water Well', which works exactly as you would expect and looks better, too. 3. To save your time, wrist, and sanity, install 'Mouse-over Construction'. Any time your cursor passes over a ghost and you have that item in your inventory, it will be placed. It isn't OP because you still have to move your cursor, but it is a *GREAT* deal of help before you get clouds of construction bots to help you. 4. 'Fill4Me' is the perfect companion to Even Distribution, as any time you deploy something, some of what it needs to operate is automatically placed inside. (ammo in turrets, coal in miners, etc.) 5. The 'Robot Army' mod allows you create an army of robots that can actively scout out and destroy biter nests. You just set it up then ignore it. (Look up 'Factorio Mod Spotlight - Robot Army (Automated Combat!)' here on CZcams for a quick overview of what is possible.) Cheers!
@@KeithOlson If you aren't talking about nuclear on the first trick, then that's a oretty meaningless way to do it. Burners will draw only what they need for fuel. Boilers will not consume more fuel than what is necessary to supply a base's demand, and the only power you are potentially saving is the ~half a kW from the inserters' base demand (if you are using electric inserters).
You are much better at this than most of the Factorio streamers. I came here b/c I thought you had somehow done a TAS speedrun to 1000 SPM in 40 minutes, but wasn't disappointed to see that you had condensed a lot of content into a polished 40 minute walk-through. I don't know what you plan to do with this channel, but this is a strong start.
How'd you know there was no like and subscribe. It would have taken you 40~ minutes to verify. And you claim it was "Instant" Im reporting you to the internet police.
Stubbornly Optimistic Focused Patience. With these personal attributes you can get really far, whether it is Factorio, Video editing, Software development or so many other aspects of life.
Great job on your first video! Truly! Very nice editing, I really liked the music during the biter extermination parts and the way you did them. Whenever there is a Factorio playthrough with those I tend to skip those parts because they are boring but not yours. Really good job here. I think you went a little bit fast when explaining the beacons and modules effect, but it was clear nonetheless, so I'm just slow at visualizing I guess (I guess I could also have paused at that moment) When you started just pasting blueprints over and over while explaining that these were the most boring part, I feel like you could have done a little bit more with the editing. I was thinking of something like naming the product created with each one, with some quick cuts for every blueprint placed. That could make a boring part less... boring? One last thing before I forget, I really like that intro, it sparked interest without spoiling the rest of the video! Again, really good job here! You should continue making videos!
GREAT VIDEO!! It best to add a white science to ur starter base, and do mining productivity in background while u build a base, it save a LOT of resorces in long term (sorry for bad english)
first I thought "this guy doesn't sound good - either he is sleepy, bored or just not into it", then after I decided to continue viewing I saw that this is actually a good video I want to watch and get some ideas from - so I even screen-grabbed some of the builds (most of the base until the mega-stage started) mainly for my practice to achieve the "there is no spoon" 8hr to launch that I still need 😀 - so I just watch the whole thing twice ! and I subbed in the hopes that more good stuff come in the future
This is one of the best put together videos I have ever seen. The editing is beyond on point. I don't know what I was expecting but this being your first video was definitely not what I was expecting :) Good Job!
I'm surprised this is your first video, it's so good!! About this more classical approach to building megabase being boring - I actually enjoy more to design a tilable base. First you design a single unit, which consumes trains of raw recourses and outputs for example 2-10 SPM, and then just copy it as many times as you want. I think this is more fun way of megabaseing, you should try it. Also you can make your units pretty, which results in a somewhat aesthetic megabase
damn, making such a base in only 40min is a feat i thought was physically impossible. But seeing the raw footage convinced me that speedrunners have indeed cracked a new barrier in space time manipulation!
Love the video, and the base! Looking forward to future videos. I do have one suggestion, the montages were great but sped up too much. After a few seconds I got dizzy, and it was hard to tell what was happening. Many times this video I wished you'd take a moment just so we can appreciate the builds.
Very nice video! When I made my own attempt at a vanilla megabase, I went for the fully modular approach: I made BPs for smelting blocks, plastic, and green circuits, as well as modules, and finally a 450spm fully autonomous lab block (takes input by trains from the former blocks, and creates everything intermediate needed + the labs to consume the packs). In the end, I went up to 12 or 13 lab blocks (~5k spm) and the accompanying production blocks, when my PC decided that it was too much and the UPS dropped down to 30ish. It was fun at the start, but tedious in the end (plop a lab, plop the smelters + circuits, go claim patches, repeat), and I eagerly await the expansion with all the goodies for megabases :)
Yeah I feel you, I was considering making the base bigger, but by the time you can make 1k SPM there just isn't much interesting happening anymore. Just slam down more blueprints and get more resources :D at that point everything to talk about has already been said so wouldn't be very fun to watch
thanks for the vid, great for passing nearly an hour, also picked up some tips as a beginner to the game. for anyone wondering, I have just over 100 hours in the game so far.
this was really delightful to watch. I've really wanted to see more of this "in-between" stage, and it was nice to see other people hitting some of the roadblocks i've run into trying to scale up. let's all hope collectively that Space Age lives up to its promises of making the endgame much more interesting, yea? c:
Personally, I prefer a 45 spm starter base that takes me to chemical science for the bots. I was kinda surprised that you didn't bother making a gigantic square with flamers/gun turrets to never need to fear biters again tho. Have you considered doing space exploration run? Considering that space age is coming in... 100 days or something, plus SE changes beacons from surrounding buildings with beacons into surrounding beacons with buildings so that's cool. Also found this video from reddit. Represent!
I had no idea of how much space and resources i'd need so I figured making a big wall would be a waste of time if I got it wrong so instead I opted to just kill every biter nest close to pollution cloud, + it was more fun using a remote spider army :D I've played a bit of SE (like the first 20-30 hours) and I probably can't manage an entire playthrough+editing before Space age launches sadly, I have thought about making mod videos though
Nice work man, hopefully you had a good time making it. I am super pumped for the expansion to come out myself. I want to see how the reworked beacons are used. It always thought it was weird how they work currently, you just need sooo many of them if you want max throughput.
Man, this is a great example. You absolutely know that you need to build modular to scale, but also exploit the intermediate structure fully at every stage.
Hi, nice video! Btw, you can smelt ore directly at the mining place since 1 stack of iron plates is 100 compared to 50 of raw ore... So you can double the capacity of a train using that trick! Waiting for another video, NEXT TIME
Yo I fell asleep listening to this. Thanks, I haven't slept in 46ish hrs 😅 (oddly relaxing between the laid back commentary and the music choices lol. No worries, I'm going back to re-watch what I missed!)
For a first video, this is a banger! Such a fun video to watch. The right amount of cheesiness and talk. Keep it up but make sure to not rush anything. This is what happens when you don't try to force the video
Halfway through your video sofar and i really enjoy the way you made it. I am curious about the Mods you use, can you put dem into the description aswell? Keep up the good work!
Instead of waiting for module production you can dedicate your entire factory to it and start by putting the first modules in the most important things like green and blue circuit assemblers, and do the furnaces last. By building the factory without modules and then adding them in starting where they do most work; your modules will help accelerate module production. You can build some extra furnace rows instead, to get the same amount of plates.
For a first video, the editing, cinematography, and overall quality was insane. I thought you were a regular uploader until you said it was your first video. Nice dude :)
Can't believe this is your first video, i can't wait to see what else you do! If you could be bothered, maybe look into how you're processing your mic audio as it's kinda hard to hear you properly or understand what you're saying at times. If u aren't an audio person, there's a bunch of AI tools out there to auto-mix narration
i m used to everyone screaming at me, feels different to have a creator that is so low voice :v it just turned my speakers to max that works too i guess great video
oh wow, this is your first video? man, thats an awesome first video... i really enjoyed the music here, i want to know where you got it from, because i want to listen to MORE!
An enjoyable piece of complicated engineering. Love it. If there will be a chance, I will be very thankful if you drop a useful blueprints and seed for the world.
You build so similarly to me! I do that funny splitter and underground setup in my furnace stacks too. It looks cool and reduces the footprint height by a whole tile!
Genuine question from someone with only like a hundred hours in Factorio: why do you build your rail intersections so huge? When I first found out how I could make roundabouts with rails, I figured that I had basically solved intersections forever using the simplest possible shape. But seeing experienced players's more complicated intersection designs, I feel like I must be missing something.
10K SPM when?
When you give me your autograph
@@ImNotVenzerking behaviour
This was the most Trupen like answer you could've ever given 😂🤣👌
@Trupen do you have one of your own?
@@ImNotVenzer truly a good response XD
The first thing I've always done when planning on building a vanilla megabase is to build a large module production base that uses the modules it makes to ramp up before I use them anywhere else. Really enjoyed the video!
Yeah thats definitely the play, making tier3 modules in your starterbase is not ideal, glad you enjoyed :)
Hey all, I just wanted to say the response to this video has been absolutely insane.
Thank you to everyone for the nice comments, it's been really encouraging.
The next video is already in the works so expect it soon
Which mod is this 15:37?
@@arthurtochetto1185 It was mentioned earlier in the video, "Mining Patch Planner" if I remember correctly
@@Th3Curs3dChild thank you so much brother
Lots of nifty tricks here! Some thoughts:
1. One trick I picked up to keep fuel usage and pollution to a minimum with my steam power setup is to collect all steam into a tank, then connect all inserters to it in groups, with each group of inserters set to trigger when the steam drops below a certain point. I can throw down one blueprint with enough steam power to keep me going until nuclear, yet it will only fuel the _exactly_ number of burners to maintain whatever level of power I need. It also works well to provide the small amounts of power needed for inserters/etc. on remote defensive walls.
2. Rather than using 'Water Fill' to supply water wherever I want it, I switched to 'Water Well', which works exactly as you would expect and looks better, too.
3. To save your time, wrist, and sanity, install 'Mouse-over Construction'. Any time your cursor passes over a ghost and you have that item in your inventory, it will be placed. It isn't OP because you still have to move your cursor, but it is a *GREAT* deal of help before you get clouds of construction bots to help you.
4. 'Fill4Me' is the perfect companion to Even Distribution, as any time you deploy something, some of what it needs to operate is automatically placed inside. (ammo in turrets, coal in miners, etc.)
5. The 'Robot Army' mod allows you create an army of robots that can actively scout out and destroy biter nests. You just set it up then ignore it. (Look up 'Factorio Mod Spotlight - Robot Army (Automated Combat!)' here on CZcams for a quick overview of what is possible.)
Cheers!
@@KeithOlson If you aren't talking about nuclear on the first trick, then that's a oretty meaningless way to do it. Burners will draw only what they need for fuel. Boilers will not consume more fuel than what is necessary to supply a base's demand, and the only power you are potentially saving is the ~half a kW from the inserters' base demand (if you are using electric inserters).
You are much better at this than most of the Factorio streamers. I came here b/c I thought you had somehow done a TAS speedrun to 1000 SPM in 40 minutes, but wasn't disappointed to see that you had condensed a lot of content into a polished 40 minute walk-through. I don't know what you plan to do with this channel, but this is a strong start.
Almost spat out my drink when you casually mentioned at the end it was your first video 😂 Great job, instant sub 👍
Instant like and subscribe, since you didn't ask for it
How'd you know there was no like and subscribe.
It would have taken you 40~ minutes to verify.
And you claim it was "Instant"
Im reporting you to the internet police.
@spaceman7019 it was a calculated decision and boy am I bad at consequences
Nice vid. Has the DoshDoshington/ DocJade vibes that I really like (I asssume they were inspirations?). Looking forward to more.
Nice base! I enjoyed your recap explaining the challenges you faced making a mega base and the changes you would have done.
Ty, glad you enjoyed :)
Start montage deserves a chef's kiss
This is it. _This is it._ The ideal Factorio experience. Please make more of these.
Stubbornly Optimistic Focused Patience.
With these personal attributes you can get really far, whether it is Factorio, Video editing, Software development or so many other aspects of life.
There's also a mod call "well planner". It is exactly same as drill planner, but oil. It will save you tons of time of connecting those pipe
Tons of time... 1 minute 😂
@@winkbrace and? I see no one here try to stop you from using that one minute to connect pipes instead of using the mod tho
the best factorio video I've ever seen.
The algorithm has deemed this video worthy. Congratulations.
For you to say that this is your first video and it is this good... I just want to say, it's inspiring. Keep, going man.
Great first video! Looking forward to the next one :)
Your editing is insanely good for a new CZcamsr. The pace, cuts and narration were just perfect.
about the audio, its really nice, its kinda soothing (idk if that's the word)
A great job such a massive challenge
Fantastic first video. Hope to see this channel blow up if you continue!
Great job on your first video! Truly!
Very nice editing, I really liked the music during the biter extermination parts and the way you did them. Whenever there is a Factorio playthrough with those I tend to skip those parts because they are boring but not yours. Really good job here.
I think you went a little bit fast when explaining the beacons and modules effect, but it was clear nonetheless, so I'm just slow at visualizing I guess (I guess I could also have paused at that moment)
When you started just pasting blueprints over and over while explaining that these were the most boring part, I feel like you could have done a little bit more with the editing. I was thinking of something like naming the product created with each one, with some quick cuts for every blueprint placed. That could make a boring part less... boring?
One last thing before I forget, I really like that intro, it sparked interest without spoiling the rest of the video! Again, really good job here!
You should continue making videos!
Thanks for the compliments and the feedback, im glad you enjoyed :)
GREAT VIDEO!! It best to add a white science to ur starter base, and do mining productivity in background while u build a base, it save a LOT of resorces in long term (sorry for bad english)
first I thought "this guy doesn't sound good - either he is sleepy, bored or just not into it", then after I decided to continue viewing I saw that this is actually a good video I want to watch and get some ideas from - so I even screen-grabbed some of the builds (most of the base until the mega-stage started) mainly for my practice to achieve the "there is no spoon" 8hr to launch that I still need 😀 - so I just watch the whole thing twice ! and I subbed in the hopes that more good stuff come in the future
Thats just how my voice sounds XD, glad you enjoyed in the end though
First EVER video? I'm impressed.
one of the best factorio videos in a long time
yeah, nilaus's, docjade's, and anyone else's vids (excluding Xane and Dosh, they're kings) are pretty boring in comparison
yeah, nilaus's, docjade's, and anyone else's vids (excluding Xane and Dosh, they're kings) are pretty boring in comparison
Cool video really want to see more of your factorio gameplay
Great video man, really cool to see the process of building up to such a large scale, and the true power of modules.
it's unbelievable how high quality this video is for a first attempt!
amazing content. looking forward to seeing more
we will watch your career with great interest
This is one of the best put together videos I have ever seen. The editing is beyond on point. I don't know what I was expecting but this being your first video was definitely not what I was expecting :) Good Job!
I'm surprised this is your first video, it's so good!! About this more classical approach to building megabase being boring - I actually enjoy more to design a tilable base. First you design a single unit, which consumes trains of raw recourses and outputs for example 2-10 SPM, and then just copy it as many times as you want. I think this is more fun way of megabaseing, you should try it. Also you can make your units pretty, which results in a somewhat aesthetic megabase
Finished a 2700k spm base relatively recently and this layout is so earily similar to mine. Lots of memories flooded back loved the video ❤️
Ngl. I clicked because of the clickbait, thinking you somehow achieved 1000spm in 40 mins. 😂
Just saying hi for interaction and to say youre already crushing it as a creator
This deserves waaaay more views
Holy, what an awesome first video! Really wants me to start Factorio up again.
And the music choice, ooh. Instant sub! :)
One of the best mega base i ever seen
Wow I never would've guessed this was your first video, great stuff! Looking forward to more. :)
we will watch your career with great interest! Great video tbh!!
damn, making such a base in only 40min is a feat i thought was physically impossible.
But seeing the raw footage convinced me that speedrunners have indeed cracked a new barrier in space time manipulation!
your comment made me laugh 😂
Love the video, and the base! Looking forward to future videos.
I do have one suggestion, the montages were great but sped up too much. After a few seconds I got dizzy, and it was hard to tell what was happening. Many times this video I wished you'd take a moment just so we can appreciate the builds.
Good shit. Keep up the work. Also, nuclear rockets are the best at clearing ginormous biter villages.
Very nice video!
When I made my own attempt at a vanilla megabase, I went for the fully modular approach: I made BPs for smelting blocks, plastic, and green circuits, as well as modules, and finally a 450spm fully autonomous lab block (takes input by trains from the former blocks, and creates everything intermediate needed + the labs to consume the packs). In the end, I went up to 12 or 13 lab blocks (~5k spm) and the accompanying production blocks, when my PC decided that it was too much and the UPS dropped down to 30ish. It was fun at the start, but tedious in the end (plop a lab, plop the smelters + circuits, go claim patches, repeat), and I eagerly await the expansion with all the goodies for megabases :)
Yeah I feel you, I was considering making the base bigger, but by the time you can make 1k SPM there just isn't much interesting happening anymore. Just slam down more blueprints and get more resources :D at that point everything to talk about has already been said so wouldn't be very fun to watch
thanks for the vid, great for passing nearly an hour, also picked up some tips as a beginner to the game.
for anyone wondering, I have just over 100 hours in the game so far.
Oh, this is going to be good!
I realized that I should verify. It was indeed good, amazing even.
Awesome video man! Loved it
this was really delightful to watch. I've really wanted to see more of this "in-between" stage, and it was nice to see other people hitting some of the roadblocks i've run into trying to scale up. let's all hope collectively that Space Age lives up to its promises of making the endgame much more interesting, yea? c:
Great first video! I really hope it wasn't the last one! In any case, you have my subscription and like. ;)
With so many positive comments there's no way I'd let this be the last one
Awesome video! cant wait to see what you do next :3
First video! 😲 I liked your commentary, great explanations of why you were doing things and making me feel like i'm bad at the game! 😆
Personally, I prefer a 45 spm starter base that takes me to chemical science for the bots. I was kinda surprised that you didn't bother making a gigantic square with flamers/gun turrets to never need to fear biters again tho.
Have you considered doing space exploration run? Considering that space age is coming in... 100 days or something, plus SE changes beacons from surrounding buildings with beacons into surrounding beacons with buildings so that's cool.
Also found this video from reddit. Represent!
I had no idea of how much space and resources i'd need so I figured making a big wall would be a waste of time if I got it wrong so instead I opted to just kill every biter nest close to pollution cloud, + it was more fun using a remote spider army :D
I've played a bit of SE (like the first 20-30 hours) and I probably can't manage an entire playthrough+editing before Space age launches sadly, I have thought about making mod videos though
@@ImNotVenzer How about 'Lunar landings' mod? It looks like a SE lite, since it only involves flying to 1 other planet.
@@runelt99 I'll see, ty for the suggestion
Your first video? I was honestly surprised when I heard that ;o To be honest I liked every part of the video so great job!!
magnificent video
Tyyy
Nice work man, hopefully you had a good time making it. I am super pumped for the expansion to come out myself. I want to see how the reworked beacons are used. It always thought it was weird how they work currently, you just need sooo many of them if you want max throughput.
I launch first rocket ever yesterday and also made four spidertrons white red green blue as You
What an amazing first video! Well done, hope to see more of your videos.
Space Age is going to make these things *way* easier to construct... as long as you're cool with waiting even _longer_ for legendary quality modules 😆
Man, this is a great example. You absolutely know that you need to build modular to scale, but also exploit the intermediate structure fully at every stage.
I just found your voice too low compared to the music, other than that, very nice video
Excellent video brother! Very well made:)
Hi, nice video! Btw, you can smelt ore directly at the mining place since 1 stack of iron plates is 100 compared to 50 of raw ore... So you can double the capacity of a train using that trick! Waiting for another video, NEXT TIME
Good job. nice presentation and style.
I needed to see a big-build built to understand the process. Thx
Yo I fell asleep listening to this. Thanks, I haven't slept in 46ish hrs 😅 (oddly relaxing between the laid back commentary and the music choices lol. No worries, I'm going back to re-watch what I missed!)
🙏 thank you for linking music. It's so fire
incredible vid, insane this is your first. liked and subbed, hope to see more from you soon :)
For a first video, this is a banger! Such a fun video to watch. The right amount of cheesiness and talk. Keep it up but make sure to not rush anything. This is what happens when you don't try to force the video
That's an awesome video, now I regret not doing footage when building my 10k SPM
Halfway through your video sofar and i really enjoy the way you made it. I am curious about the Mods you use, can you put dem into the description aswell? Keep up the good work!
Oh, and could you maybe add a post explaining where you found the needed information for the sushi science setup?
I just looked up sushi belt tutorials on CZcams
czcams.com/video/mxBkADgL7o4/video.htmlsi=VRnAiTLipyKvUscb
This video was good
Instead of waiting for module production you can dedicate your entire factory to it and start by putting the first modules in the most important things like green and blue circuit assemblers, and do the furnaces last. By building the factory without modules and then adding them in starting where they do most work; your modules will help accelerate module production. You can build some extra furnace rows instead, to get the same amount of plates.
Great video! Thanks for it! We will wait more)
your next challenge is 10k spm, its doable with 60 fps on a decent rig, you just have to be very UPS friendly, I was able to make mine about 40 UPS.
Yeah it would definitely be doable, maybe I'll revisit this base in the future and make it a true PC killer
Check out the composite factories mod if u want to do it with less time on entity updates
Love the Content...fun to watch and stunning although ist "just" Factorio xD
Incredible content keep going
Epic first video!
how DO YOU ONLY HAVE 10 SUBS :( ITS NOT FAIR FOR THE EFFORT
Ty
@@ImNotVenzer Hopefully not by clickbait
For a first video, the editing, cinematography, and overall quality was insane. I thought you were a regular uploader until you said it was your first video. Nice dude :)
Can't believe this is your first video, i can't wait to see what else you do!
If you could be bothered, maybe look into how you're processing your mic audio as it's kinda hard to hear you properly or understand what you're saying at times. If u aren't an audio person, there's a bunch of AI tools out there to auto-mix narration
Thought I was ready to transition into a mega base… I was wrong. Great video!!
Good video fair play lad.
I love megabase’s
Inserts quality modules here
Really good factorio video! Thanks
i m used to everyone screaming at me, feels different to have a creator that is so low voice :v it just turned my speakers to max that works too i guess
great video
oh wow, this is your first video? man, thats an awesome first video...
i really enjoyed the music here, i want to know where you got it from, because i want to listen to MORE!
What an awesome video, loved it thankyou
First video? Good job!
awesome video, keep it up 👍
An enjoyable piece of complicated engineering. Love it. If there will be a chance, I will be very thankful if you drop a useful blueprints and seed for the world.
Holy shit what a first video
this is really good for a first ever video
You build so similarly to me! I do that funny splitter and underground setup in my furnace stacks too. It looks cool and reduces the footprint height by a whole tile!
Very nice work :)
looks very nice!
Great stuff!
Nice first video
I enjoyed this.
Genuine question from someone with only like a hundred hours in Factorio: why do you build your rail intersections so huge?
When I first found out how I could make roundabouts with rails, I figured that I had basically solved intersections forever using the simplest possible shape. But seeing experienced players's more complicated intersection designs, I feel like I must be missing something.
38:12 aaaand there it is. You answered my question months before I asked it.
You can kinda do whatever with trains, unless your train throughput is really high you can just use roundabouts everywhere and it will still work
I thought you have 262000 and not 262 subscribers. Impressive video
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