Can you beat Factorio with only ONE CARGO WAGON?

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[_mwk]

Dosh: "I genuinely question if it's possible to make a base worse than this."
DocJade: Hold my beer

[_mwk]

"Inserters must touch the train directly"
So, mining directly into electric furnaces and only collecting the output would have been perfectly fine.

[sirbreadstick]

“Back in my day you used to have to craft steel axes. That was over 4 years ago? Geez I’m getting old” I felt that. I can’t believe I’ve been playing factorio for over 4 years

[metasystem]

"There’s this emperor, and he asks the shepherd’s boy: 'How many science per minute?' And the shepherd’s boy says, ‘There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first science pack will have been assembled.’ You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird."

[DocJade]

After thinking about it a bit more, I could have totally finished the run without expanding the train's capacity... lol

[SassyPants]

best part about this is the simple fact that with only 1 train you don't need rail signals

[TheBloofyx]

If any of you try to try this challenge for yourself, know that you can build boilers on a coal patch and have a miner feed directly into the boiler (like in speedruns) :3

[shinnyii]

Lol that “science a minute of… maybe” was the funniest part of the video. Earned a sub

[nikidino]

I thought Dosh was a big masochist but seeing you I think I know a bigger one now.

EDIT: You are a vanilla torture enjoyer while Dosh is a modded torture enjoyer lol

[xbtsrcg]

Can't believe I'm spending my weekend looking forward to a factorio challenge video...

[digistructr]

I did enjoy the 'refueling boilers' subplot, can't wait for season 2 to see it evolve even further

[alexanderwales]

Huh, there are a lot of things that I would have done differently there, but I know you were AFK for a lot of that. One of the big things would be finding coal close enough to water so that the boilers could just be direct inserted into, or so you could run longer pipes from the pumps. Another would be to make things "directly" more often, e.g. miners insert into furnaces that feed directly into assemblers. IIRC this allows higher buffering, but maybe you already get that from inserting directly to/from the train. Certain things like yellow belt are made entirely with iron, so you could just load that directly rather than bringing ore and coal to a smelter, bringing plate to a gear maker, bringing gears to a belt-maker, etc.

All in all, an incredibly tedious run toward the end, and I quite enjoyed watching the timer take huge leaps into the future as it required more and more waiting around.

[enterusernamehere]

High quality, straight into it, no sponsor segments and no high sub count? You got yourself a sub in 4.328 seconds

[матвейлапушинский]

Love how everyone in the Factorio community knows and references each other.

[blubobo]

You can move a train remotely :
pick a train from the map and ctrl click somewhere on the rails it has access to. It will make a temporary stop there.
Actually might be a mod though, cant confirm now

[nicodemuseam]

Train conditions for each stop could eliminate the need for filtering most wagon slots and allow for more varied loads, but everything would have to be exact, up to limiting hand size on the inserters so they only place into the train what is needed.

Kudos for (mostly) sticking to your guns on having as few buffers as possible, like pipes and cars. No tanks for oil cracking sounds like a killer.

[evangelionkenner]

me seeing the title: "of course you can beat it this way"
clicks on the video while leaning back in my chair: "but how much will you suffer?"

[lordhuntington]

Quick improvement idea. You could have used one memory cell to keep track of all the items in your system. You'd just have to read the hand contents of the inserters as a push signal and multiply those that take something out of the system by -1. Then you could have disabled the stations before the train arrived, saving even more time.

Also how did you like the cheese cake?

[mediocregamer]

315 hours

Average runescape player: ah yes, a Tuesday

[fortyforty-seven]

17:07 Fun Windows tip: you can switch which monitor a program is on with the hotkey Win + Shift + Arrow keys