In this video I’ll show you Good amount
of tips and tricks for factorio
so beginners and advance players will
find something for them.
What’s more I made timestamps in video description
to make finding information easier for you
when you comeback to this video after some
time.
I also ask you to write in comment how many
tips did you already knew and what is your
playtime in factorio, I’m curious.
Hello my name is trupen and if you want to
know even more about factorio
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and now lets go to the game.
(1) If you forgot to turn of biter expansion in
word generator, at enemies tab, you can still do it
with command, press ~ and past this to the console
and confirm with enter to disable expansion
all necessary commands will be included in
video description for your maximum comfort
(2) Cliffs are annoying and can
be disabled in word creation
like biters expansion or in
case that you wanna destroy them on current save
you can still use this command, and
to prevented those sones of a biscuit
from generating on new chunks use that script
also everything is in description to increase user experience.
(3) Timelaps in factorio can be easily
made from any save
if you turned on "Record replay information" in advance settings during word creation.
People who play they very first game can also
look how ?yyyyh? unique their base was.
I can made video about timelaps in factorio
if you want, because setting this up for the
first time is a bit tricky and will take too
much time for this video, but you can prepare
some saves for further timelaps now.
(4) Alt is your friend, it will show you every important information what are you looking for in your factory
some people don’t like having this option
always turned on
but even they should use it from time to time because,
amount of data provided from this is huge.
like you can see boiler don’t use coal at
this point
red bar stay still although moment
ago it was burning
that’s because boilers made already
small buffer in steam
and without power consumption
it will stay like that
this is no a Minecraft where coal burn
even without items to smelt.
It also works the same way in furnaces, cars
or trains.
Button “Q” works like “Pipette tool” from photoshop,
it will Pick items from your inventory
used to build the currently selected
entity and places them in your cursor.
So just put mouse on building, press “Q”
and machine will appear in your hand.
To make machine disappear click “Q” one
more time on normal ground.
(7) It’s hard to mine big amount of stones for
furnaces at the beginning of the game
so to make start easier you should look for rocks
because, those are good source of protein
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stone, stone, good source of stone.
What’s more huge rocks contains also coal
for early game fueling.
(8) To direct feed your machines with resources
you have to first pick those resources
and then hover over your building and press “Z”
to drop only one item at the time.
It’s very useful to feed your furnaces and
drills with coal at the very beginning of your journey
when fuel is worth more then gold.
There is no point to drill big amount of stone
or copper at the very start
because iron is the most important resource to craft more drills and to push your progress forward.
You should start mining copper when you got
enough iron to begin with power and science.
(10) Burner miners are very effective at the beginning
so place them as many as
you can to speed up your slow start.
When you dedicated to switch for electric miners, it's still good idea to keep old burner drills on coal path
to maximized your coal production.
(11) You are the only assembling
machine before automation research
and you should take advantage of it
by always crafting something, it doesn’t
matter what because everything will be useful
*burner inserters*
ok maybe not everything,
but crafted gears will help you with making drills
and pipes decrease crafting speed for
boilers and steam engines
so its good to have some ingredients for later.
(12) it’s good idea to put 4 miners on stone
like this, to prevent yourself from running out of stone.
In the beginning stone is only necessary for furnaces so this small mining area will be enough in our case.
(13) You can use assembling machines like this
to craft ingredients
like gears or copper wires to make crafting
advance machines easier
if you decided to hand feed those machines
they will take almost no place, so you can put even more of them to maximize your crafting  speed.
(14) If your neighbors already hates you for your
no eco friendly factory, you can use pipes
to build a wall between.
Walls are hard to get at this point of the
game, so it will be smart way to defend yourself
from native citizens of this planet in this way.
(15) To see how your power production is going
on, you have to click on the power poll somewhere
in your base with left click, it will open
you window with all necessary information
about power in your base, on the left is production
and on the right is consumption, don’t mess this up.
(16) you can have two completely difference items
on the same belt, for example here is a belt
with coal and iron at the same time to make
smelting area more compact
its also smart to have mixed belts in your
mall where space is important.
(17) In case you don’t know what mall is, I already
rushing to the explanation.
Mall is a production district designed for
most things you might need in the game:
assemblers, belts, inserters, signals, roboports, power poles, substations you know lots of things.
It is faster to grab assembling machines or
miner from chest then crafting them in your hands.
This is a well designed mall from the internet,
your can be less beautiful
but it will still fulfill his role.
(18) It’s very hard to put every single science
pack on one belt to supply science lab
this is why I showing you this complicated design
for feeding your labs from one side
it uses 4 belts full of science and its easy to upgrade
with just one wipe of upgrader planer.
Blueprints are in the description.
(19) Maybe you was wandering why I wanted to feed
labs only from one side
this is the answer.
You can looping labs with inserters between
them, inserter will take only necessary pack
to make whole system efficient.
Easy trick and amazing to use.
(20) Splitters have few mods and filters, you can
open them with your left click
and chose mode you like to use.
Important input from one side or other, output
focused on one side, or filter itself to remove
unwonted items from your life.
(21) I told you that belts have two sides and this
is very easy trick to connect two belts
with difference ingredients into one
mixed belt for later use.
(22) In bigger factory you need bigger power plant,
and to build reliable source of steam electricity
you have to follow factorio ratios
for steam power it is 1 offshore pump,
20 boilers and 40 steam engines.
If your factory is still a little toddler,
you can use less boilers and engines
with later upgrade in mind.
(23) Green circuits have ratio 3 copper wires and
2 green circuits.
So to maximize your output production I recommend you to use this direct feeding layout for your factory.
(24) factorio is a smart game.
and it can do complicated things like replacing
old belts to undergrounds or splitters instead of you
to keep you lazy…
I mean to keep you a BOSS and don’t overwork
you in your own factory.
Undergrounds will delete old belts between
and splitters will simply remove one belt.
Its good to know that this trick also works
for underground pipes.
(25) Steel need a lot of time to smelt and also
good amount of iron, it might be shocking for you
but ratio between iron and steel is
1 to 1 that’s mean you can directly feed
your steel furnaces with iron like that.
(26) difference tiles in factorio gives you a difference
bonuses to speed.
You can tile all your factory to increase
your overall speed
or build a weird walking paths and
live in cult like “order of the path”.
To put more tiles at the same time use plus
from your numeric keyboard, or make a blueprint
and use bots for this boring job.
(27) you can put power poles at maximum distance
by pressing left mouse button and running.
It is also possible to use this trick in car
or train.
Power poles has difference connecting distance
but it works for everything.
(28) Some people say that trees are
the true enemies in factorio
I’m not here to judge anyone
but if you want to destroy, crash or annihilate
those trees you can use grenades to speed this up.
This method will be more effective with damage
upgrade on your weapons.
(29) It is easy to import any blueprint from the
web and pretend how smart you are
but stealing those files will be like taking somebody else
work in the school or coping and pasting the
whole code from stack overflow yes, everybody
knows you are doing this!
In my opinion new players should avoid blueprints
from internet and learn from his own mistakes
or from video like this
Btw are you still counting
how many tips did you know
if no, then come back
to the beginning of this video?
(30) “P” button will show you how your production
and consumption is going.
You can look at difference stats like items,
fluids, buildings, pollution and kills in this window.
It’s more like interesting fact then useful mechanic, but maybe you will find good application for this.
(31) Cables from circuit network can be
connected to storage tanks
and show you the whole amount
of your liquids
it is important to connect
this cable to some power poll
to have full view of your storage.
It is possible to connect multiple fluids
with one cable so be creative with your refinery.
(32) you can make a dedicated spot for some items
in your inventory with pressed scroll button
I myself always keep spot
for my personal bots.
This advise also works for inventory in trains,
so you can make special train with dedicated
spots for important items.
(33) Radar will scan 29 by 29 chunks around himself,
revealing new sector of the map every 33.333 seconds.
You can see a progress bar when you hover
a radar.
29 by 29 chunks is a big amount and it will
take 7 hours to discover that area by single radar
so its good idea to place more than
one.
(34) The best idea to put radars is to keep
them in 14 by 14 chunks grid
because it will allow you to see map
in a better way
when you open a map with “M” and zoom in
to area with radar near that place
you can see everything what is going
on and also place some blueprints,
to comparison this is a map without radar,
difference is huge in megabases.
Map is also useful to look at the range of
the radar when you are placing them.
(35) Everybody love trains and you know what is
better than regular trains
FASTER TRAINS!
To make trains faster just put better fuel
inside and look how fast your life is going.
Nuclear fuel will increase train top speed
by 115% and acceleration by 250%
so upgrade will be plain to see.
(36) if you get this achievement too many times
and your trains started to be on killing spree
then you should start looking at the map to
see when train is going.
Just make yourself a habit that every
time you run across rails
you look at the map and
your life will be wonderful.
(37) when you left click a train it
will open you his inventory
from here you can change
color of your locomotive.
Its good to keep trains color organized because then you will know what train has ran over you.
You will also get information about cargo
by just looking at the locomotive.
You can use internet to find best matching
colors for your trains.
(38) With already opened train inventory you can
give a train your own direction by pressing
ctrl and left click to choose spot
where train should stop
or when you press shift and left click it will chose only train stops for his destiny.
It's safer method than driving by yourself
because in this case other trains will respect
you and your path.
(39) There are 2 types of people in factorio, half of this group is wrong but I’m not gonna say you with one.
If you want to teach your trains, how to go
backwards just put another locomotive headed
second direction and voilà.
(40) The best idea for train output and input is
station with stack inserters and chests
because this setup can reload train
in a few seconds instead of minutes.
One stack inserter can grab even 12 items
at the same time
at the other hand fast inserter grabs only 3 items,
so stack inserters are 4 times faster.
(41) I forgot to say but better fuel also works
for cars and tanks, with this in mind go and
make your friends a flatten pancakes.
I’m joking, use this for planet citizens.
(42) Its good to always research something because
this will be always helpful in a long run,
what’s more your bottlenecks will reveal
every lack of resources and with this knowledge in mind
you should repair those mistakes and
upgrade your factory.
At this point you should have assembling machines
tier 3, and to replace your old slow assemblers
just put new ones directly on them.
It also works for furnaces and inserters.
Or just upgrade everything with bots, it will
be even faster.
Nukes are very powerful weapon and can be
used to serve democracy.
You can also use them to clear big areas from
trees, it is expensive method but very satisfying.
(45) Making holes in your logistic network is a
stupid idea and you should avoid it.
You can see how sad are those bots when you
enter that dead spot.
(46) Bacons consume power constant no matter how
many buildings are in range
so to keep your electricity bills low, consider putting them, only when they boost other machines
not the air because, faster air
have no benefits to your health.
(47) Productivity modules are making something
from nothing, brilliant idea.
And even more brilliant is to use them in
a rocket silos, resources to launch a rocket
are very expensive and with 4 productivity
modules at tier 3, cost per rocket will descries
by 40%, yes 40% it's almost half
of the required items.
You can also use those modules on labs or
normal machines, but rocket is the most effective.
However crafting speed will also be decreased, so bacons with speed modules should equalize that speed.
(48) If 2 toolbars is not enough for you, there is a setting to increase that number to even 4.
You can make every toolbar for difference
duty.
It can also contains buildings from complicated
mods.
Nuclear reactors have bonuses to productivity
when they are close to each other
so chessboard pattern isn’t the best way to organize your cute atomic plant.
Like you can see this reactor have 400% bonus
to heating from his neighbors.
Its hard to feed him with a fuel but 300%
is still a good bonus.
You can press escape and find this “save”
button in the middle of your screen.
If you are still here that means you might
forgot about this little details
like sleeping or making breaks.
But if you like this, I can make even more
videos like this with BIGGER amount of tips,
if you want, because I already have notes
for like 50 or maybe 100 more tips
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