From Starter Base to MEGABASE in Factorio Space Age!

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:35 My Modules are Legendary
11:58 Delivery Service
26:42 Getting On Track
1:01:44 Research with Metallurgics
1:08:51 Get Off My Lawn
1:19:35 Mass Production
1:34:47 Outro

SFX provided by ZapSplat

[LimeTheChef]

23:17 "If you're not using concrete and lamps, it's not a real base" Ah, good, the Dosh mantra spreads, with a new addition to the line!

[WilhelmScreamer]

1). I love your commitmemt to making things look good being counterbalanced by sprinkling in cursed optimization.
2). 'Sortition' is a good $5 word, thank you for your insight on the horrible future.

[emdeo]

the differences in factory philosophy are so fun, and these builds were beautiful.

[ThePiachu]

Some suggestions on what you could do:

1) Use more quality everything in your megabase. It really saves up on space and getting to quality 3s isn't too bad. It would definitely cut down on the amount of power plants you need, which on Vulcanus can mean saving a lot of the expensive foundations. Same with spaceships and their cargo bays!

2) Fusion power is really cheap, easy to make and it's so much smaller!

3) I guess if you were building your mall again, parametrised blueprints are great for that. But I guess that's a bit of a late advice...

4) You can get calcite from space, which can be good enough for Nauvis needs.

[ShadowDior]

34:43 Tip here in case nobody has already mentioned it but you should make a blueprint with parameters so you can set the values as you place down the BPs. Also, I know it was mentioned elsewhere but buffer chests have really grown on me for most storage chest purposes. It helps make sure your resources are where you want them to be and they aren’t scattered everywhere

[chickenlegpig]

Another banger dude! The Wall-E profile picture add in was awesome

[ONXshaman]

1:11:55 "nothing says factorio like running a train like straight through the corpses of your enemies" sounds like a 10/10 steam review

[justinroberts]

Was I expecting a Jordan Peterson diss? No. Was is very warmly received? You're god damn right it was.

[razerbrownie]

My guy, you can make a ship to mine calcite from asteroids, thus eliminating the need to send calcite on rockets. Makes it functionally free.

[vineheart]

"No more pumps for cracking control" Yeah i still use pumps, both out of habit but also its 1 point of automation configuration and not 50 lol

[bobbobkilu]

Great work on this base! I had a lot of fun megabasing with a friend when space age first released. I think an optimal megabase in space age would actually be heavily reliant on interplanetary logistics, shipping infinite raw resources off of vulcanus at scale and circuits and oil off of fulgora.
My favorite novel solution for my playthrough was space mining! I built some absolutely massive cargo and mining ships that would take trips out to the edge and come back with hundreds of thousands of ore. We straight up stopped mining on nauvis entirely and ran entirely off of astroids. We struggled a ton with oil demand for our nauvis base and ended up doing an insane coal liquifaction build using the carbon from space even lmao. I only wish there was a way to get stone out of space mining as well, that would cover basically every single resource.

[CivilReader-ek]

Another possible solution for the cargo haulers would be using quality turrets, since that adds +10%, +20%, +30%, +50% range. Just a small amount of extra range would fix it, so you don't need legendary.

[CloudPhase]

32:18 I don't know where, when, or from who I learned about buffer chests from, but don't sleep on them, like genuinely, using them even when It doesn't seem necessary can help you dozens of hours down the line wondering why your logistic's storage is half iron plates for some reason, and the only way to solve is is to give the bots a 3 hour long job of power grid straining lag-strosity

My philosophy is if you're ever using an inserter to put something into a passive provider chests, especially if you are right after taking something out of it with another inserter, use buffer chest with the appropriate filter instead, and remember to have requester chests request from buffer chest (Idk why they don't do that by default). That way your logistics network can both take stuff out of it when needed, but also let your non-logistics network fed stuff still access stuff from logistics storage, and as an added bonus your logistics storage is also self sorting

Edit: 34:20 Oh my god, why does everybody keep setting up complicated storage chest setups for specifically what buffer chest are designed specifically to do? Like what you want here is a buffer chest! I think people just don't know what a buffer chest does and never bother to learn because they don't think it would help

(No hate though, still loved the video)

[R.Daneel]

It may be a design preference, but you can daisy-chain green/red wires. E.G. along a row of containers. You don't need to hub them on a power pole. Having the daisy-chain go to one pole at the end is still handy since you can, as you know, view the logistics on a pole. The pole will show everything on the daisy-chain. Also, there's a great mod that makes wires easy to see on mouse-over.

[PeterZaitcev]

Nice idea for Space Age FUN mode – allow working with higher-quality items only with machines of that tier. I.e. splitter for uncommon quality must be uncommon or higher

[aloysiuskurnia]

Ok the way that you started from a low-mediocre base (even to my lowly standard) really lifts up the mood to play the game again. It really tells me that "hey this folk can improve this kind of base, so does you"

[HaverStone]

I absolutly loved watching this. Your gameplay, your designs, your voice and your jokes, juste perfect. It felt like watching a really intresting movie

[FoSho.]

very underrated. loved the vid man keep it up!!

[filiprako]

Oh yea midnight and one and a half hour video, this is where the fun begins.

[stral]

I'm watching at around 35m in, the mall, watching you manually set all the circuit conditioms, this sounds perfect for the new parametrized blueprints! ofc not totally removing the tedium, but i feel making it much better