Solar/Coal Power Before Teching | #6 | Factorio Lets Play/Walkthrough/Guide

FACTORIO BASE-IN-A-BOOK
Factorio Lets Play with detailed design of a fully upgradeable base including City Blocks, Trains, Main Bus and Robots.
For the beginners:
- Learn to plan a base and expand it without redoing everything
- Blueprints to help build your base similarly
For the experienced:
- Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
- Full template for a starter base to be used for building your own Megabase
The designs used are based on Factorio Master Class designs, so if you are interested in more details of those or the blueprints then check out those videos on the channel as well.

SCHEDULE:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 16:00 CEST

SOCIAL:

RESOURCES:
Save games are available to Patreons in my Discord

BLUEPRINTS:

MODS:
Only Quallity of Life mods added
Afraid of the Dark - Makes the game more easy to see (particularly on YouTube)
Beatrix - Silly mod to notify when trains run out of fuel
Calculator UI - Calculator... with a UI
Car Finder - Button to locate misplaced cars/spidertrons
Even Distribution - Distribute items evenly when inserting into multiple entities
Rate Calculator - Calculator to display throughput of designs
Squek Through - Allows the movement between buildings
Vehicle Snap - Being able to drive in a straight line is nice
Power Grid Comb - Cleans up bad wire connections

#Factorio #Base-In-A-Book #StayEffective

[scialomy]

I feel the patreon sponsoring the episode should have a bit more acknowledgement, so thank you Wichu (0:07)!

[boozerbear]

500 hours in Factorio, a fan of the Master Class, and I'm still learning all sorts of newfangled things. Thanks to you, Nilaus, for this great series!

[RealCyclops]

10:21 - I believe the wrong splitter was belted to bring coal across the tracks at the station.

[stevehall]

Loving this series. I'm fairly new and learning so much. Thanks!

[RichardCurrie]

To make the bus blueprint work, you gotta turn on "Show combinator settings in alt-mode" in the settings.

[lc]

Hands down on of the coolest build along series available out there. Thank you Nilaus. What a pleasure to learn to play it right. Great series. Keep it up!

[slimpwarrior]

I am consuming these faster then they come out. Nilaus, time to get more production 😃

[alexweisbeek]

Thank you for keeping on uploading factorio content made for youtube!

[lartmaispastrop]

Yep! That was a great episode, as always 😊
It's really cool to see your base growing, in such a clean way ! Can't wait for the next video to see your oil setup !

Thanks ❤

[canebro]

Loving this series! I'm following along for the most part, but on a death world.

[just_a_tad]

Really enjoy watching you plan your factory layout. Great series and keep up the good work!

[FrozenMonkeyG]

you could change to having one radar per two city blocks, still get full coverage and halve your power consumption from radars

[MaxTheDragon]

Hey Nilaus, I love the series! Thanks. I noticed that your solar power blueprint has a missing accumulator directly behind the north-west big power pole. You can place it in without obstructing the robo port. (At 36:38 you can see that the green area has two square gaps near the north-west robo port where it only has one in each of the other corners.)

[danielpelfrey]

I like the pacing of the series. I appreciate your work!

[onemerlin]

Also note that the next-to-bottom steel smelter has a messed-up lane balancer - you forgot to delete one of the undergrounds and replace it with belt. It's the one that looks different from the others. :)

[BobbyFluffy]

I have a saying, which _really_ helps me when manual-building according to ghosts:
"If it causes more mistakes, then placing things quickly is not faster."
Which is why I always take it a bit slower, to make sure I place everything right the first time.

[onemerlin]

For the pre-robot stage, you may want to consider a particular mod: Ghost Placer Express. It is my personal fave QoL replacement for robots in the early game, and it operates as follows: once you've placed a blueprint, mousing over a ghost will pull that item from your inventory and place it in the correct orientation. It basically replaces the "mouseover-pipette-place" repetitive loop with "mouseover". The inverse mod is "MouseoverDeconstruct", which deconstructs any entity marked for deconstruction when you mouse over it. Both are by unhott (shout out!).

They aren't as OP as Construction Drones or Nanobots (though using GPE to place turrets in conjunction with the FillMe mod comes close - I try to turn that off before biter hunting if I remember), make blueprints useful in the early game, and dramatically reduce the number of clicks/keypresses for building.

[jonathanlanglois]

Watching this after I've watched a speed run, and honestly, while I like the way that you build your blueprint for efficiency, I think that you could learn a lot from speed runners as far as making your blueprints quick to layout. In most of those blueprints, the inserters are layed out so that you don't have to rotate them as you place the blueprint. They all face the same direction. Pickup on one side, output on the other, sometime with direct insertion into the next machine.

[notmynormalusername]

As always, good episode - and a fun watch.

[flwi]

I like your series a lot. Couldn't hesitate to rush to robots though. Will use them now to clean everything up again. :-)