Thanks for all the awesome tips from before - still reading through a lot of these today :) My schedule's switched up more than I could have predicted, though I streamed a bit today in case you ever want to join - www.twitch.tv/ambiguousamphibian I'll give a heads-up on the Discord whenever this happens in the future, too!

Day 1: "Ok, we gotta build a ship and get off this planet" Day 69: "My name is Ozymandias..."

Noob bases are far-and-away my favorite. Unbridled learning, literally laid to see.

"I don't know if they breed new nests..." Oh my sweet summer child.

MMMhhh! Yes, EXPERIENCE the infinite series of tasty tasty positive feedback loops that is Factorio.

"I've taken steps to make myself completely OP" oh my sweet summer child... You have no idea of the storm to come

Simple primer on train signals : You need chain signals at the entrances and regular signals at the exits to every intersection. You can use additional signals in between intersections to break things up and allow more trains to use the same piece of track. Signals go on the right side of the track from the direction of travel they're controlling. That's enough to get you started.

me before factorio: smooth brain me after factorio: Masteral in Business Management-Major in Operations with a very, palpatine-looking wrinkled brain

"The car crashes frequently" Just wait until you put nuclear fuel in a car. Can't wait for you to see all the cool stuff later in the tech tree. It's a good sign when the trees start dying and water starts turning green. It means your factory is getting thicc

KZfaqr: we have this sets of radar, probably too many Me: there is no such thing as "too many", "enough" and "sufficient" in factorio

"The water needs water to work" yes the brain is amazing

I can't wait to see how spaghetti his factory gets

Re: everything going wrong at once. Yeah I did that, I started up laser turrets without proper accumulator backups, so the lasers drained all my power. Without power, the electric mining drills mining coal stopped working. Without coal, the power stations stopped working. All the power stopped working. All the turrets stopped working. The aliens came over. We had lots of fun together.

"I HAVE 300 engines... That is a lot of engines!!!" Me: *crying laughing emoji*

I LOVE watching your path of discovery through this game.

Ah, i see you entered a loophole of addiction Remember, the factory must grow

Game has an amazing difficulty curve where every conflict is a result of actions taken by past you.

I’ve played over 3000 hours of this game and I enjoyed every single moment

Him: “I have a lot of turrets.” Me: (playing hardest difficulty and has three compact layers of turrets) “I think Im going to need more turrets”

The train station names are backers from the crowdfunding, just fyi

“I unlocked the machine gun, so I’m overpowered” Me with a walking robot spider equipped with lasers and nukes, backed up by multiple artillery outposts: huh.

Train Tip: You can enter the engine of your train to ride along an automated route or even drive the train manually.

Having played this game for many years, I have SO many tips I could give you :) But, in the interest of brevity, I'll just give a couple of easy ones for now. 1, When it comes to radars, they have a permanent vision field in addition to the long-range scanning, so it makes a lot of sense to spread them out. Like one in each corner of each base. This also saves on power compared to your bunch of radars in a single spot. 2, Train signals can be hard to figure out, but as a starting point... try to think up a section of track that is _common_ for all the trains that will use it, and have every possible _entrance_ to that section equipped with a signal that points right at it. It looks like the track you've put in the video so far needs 4 signals.

“My steam power is getting too absurdly large” *pulls out solar panels* Oh you sweet summer child ☺️

Ambiguous and Factorio sitting in a (pixallated) tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

Having many *many* hundreds of hours in this, and still being only mediocre I eagerly await the day when I'm learning *from* AA. For now however I will just giggle at all the small shortsighted decisions, like that research rig. Totally not gonna have any issues bringing in the next color, or two, or three, or four. :3c The one bit of advice I will give though for now, because I'm sure others have given more thorough and valuable advice, is that this game *heavily* rewards foreplanning. Blueprints and thinking a couple steps ahead of the current level of production will keep you from eventually hitting a massive bump where you go "Oh. I have to tear down half my factory now to do this." as well as make you feel super satisfied when you put together your bigger chains

"to get all of this to do anything we need some of this" oh man that's crazy so uhhh...you looking at oil processing soon?

I use the trains to haul ammo. Laser turrets are super power intensive and I often not plan that out effectively.

It is nice to see that my suggestion has brought someone in to this beautifull game. Don't forget that blueprints can be your best friends. They can help you plan out stuff and think about what you need before you start building. Even when you don't have something, the "Ghost" (Unplaced Item that you planned from the blueprint or by pressing shift when placing it) will remain, so that when you do have it, you immediately know where to put it. And especially handy when you get your new servants, the bots. Also, R will switch the direction of pretty much everything, no need to dig it up, probably. But never forget, the factory must grow.

This guy sounds like a combination of RTGame and Swaggersouls, its awesome.

Hmm yes, my brain has become Dummy Thicc. Thats oxymoronical. I have become so super thiccly smart that it doesn't even make sense anymore. My brain is so dummy thicc that the sound of it clapping in my skull is attracting the biters.

ambiguousamphibian: im smart i have a automated base. Factorio pros: you havent seen anything yet

I’m so glad you put out another episode man, love this game and how you’re playing it. Keep it up I’m these hard times.

This is absolutely my favourite series now. Nothing brings me more joy than the joy of others.

Always excited when you post a video my man, love your content.

I LOVE SEEING THE BASES OF NEW PLAYERS PLEASE CONTINUE MAKING THESEEEEEE

It's always refreshing to see someone new play factorio. You get to see where someone's brain goes to solve problems, which might be different from your own. And hearing "It's massive!" always brings a nostalgic chuckle to me, back to the first hundred hours of factorio. Expand your mind, and enjoy yourself AA! The Factory must grow.

Glad I stumbled on your content. I am not sure if you are turning the pollution overlay off so that it doesn't clog your map, but if you aren't using it at all I would recommend keeping an eye on where it's spreading. Especially if it starts touching enemy spawns because that will cause them to evolve and become much more difficult. Prioritize those first as they can easily become a nightmare.

Your sheer raw enthusiasm for this game makes me want to play it too honestly.

6hrs of play time for a 20 minute video is so much! I don’t even want to know what the editing process looks like lol. You put so much effort into your content, and it shows!

Some tips: Splitters do more than split; they have two input and two outputs, letting them balance both directions. They also can be clicked and used as filters. There aren't really "better" turrets available. The laser and flamer turrets are good and bad for different things, same as the gun. The lasers have long range and only need power, but have a serious idle power draw and a massive spike during actual use. The flamers work as long as they have fluid, but are inaccurate and have a limited arc. The guns have a tiny power draw (for the inserter) and can be "upgraded" by using better ammo, but require more complicated infrastructure to get working. You've got way too many radars in one place; if you take a look at the power grid, radars use a lot of power, and can only 'see' a set distance. Take all but one down at the main base, and as you expand add a radar at each new location. This will also allow you to scroll in on the map to see what's going on near a radar in real time; good for train stoppages or other issues. Power grid 'batteries' are called accumulators. If you use solar and/or laser turrets, you will need a lot of them. Grenades exist behind a green tech, and are very useful for clearing nests. They can be thrown from inside vehicles. Train signals are difficult to get your head around, but very useful. Your mistake here was that they need to be on each side of any intersection. The simplest way to set them up is to have a standard signal leading directly from the nearest intersection to a station, and chain signals in both directions on every side of every other intersection. Train un/loading stations work better if each cargo wagon is added/removed from equally, as otherwise the train will spend more time at the station waiting for the last car to finally finish. You can fit a max of 6 inserters to one side of each wagon. Make sure to use both sides of the belts when possible. Train stations can be renamed (among other things) by clicking on them. Different fuels last longer and make vehicles faster; this is offset by the difficulty in making them. The box near the inserter assembler will eventually start putting circuits on the belt leading to red belt assembler. Gates over train tracks should not affect their pathing; I've tried to force this myself in the past, which resulted in trains breaking down the gates instead of stopping. You can ride in any part of a train by pressing enter while close, same as a car. IIRC, there are two train achievements: be hit and killed by one (at full speed?), and be hit by one at full speed and survive. Something I've found useful is to bring the power into outposts in one location, and set a power switch on that point. If you start having serious power issues (such as running low on coal for the steam engines), you can run around to your outposts and turn them off until you've resolved the issue. You can manipulate power cables by grabbing copper wire in your inventory; "connecting" two items already connected will remove the connection. If you run out of power, your inserters on the boilers won't be able to put coal in them to make power, so even when they have access to coal the system will refuse to restart. Burner inserters can always fuel themselves and thus will never fully lock up. Shift+click and Ctrl+click can be used for bulk inventory management. Glad you're having fun; Factorio is great.

It is so fun to watch your progress. I would recommend catching some fish from the lakes and setting up a few grenade assemblers. They will make your life so much easier. Also, try walling off that entire peninsula to the northeast: biters can't swim.

Great fun watching as always. A bit of advice for manufacturing specific things, if you have an end goal in mind for a supply chain. Work backwards from the final objective (such as green science), and work out what you need for it, then work out what you need for those, until you reach the begining of the chain

I’m really enjoying watching you play while discovering the game and it’s mechanics rather then following optimizing builds by others. You got a good start, now let it grow and consume all! Muhahaaaa.

Please, please, *please* continue this series. Really entertaining to watch.

Im excited to keep watching this, makes me want to try it out

Nice to see you have a go at factorio. Its nice to see someone start out with the game without knowing the whole deal. I have a few tips that would help you get further, if you want to consider them. 1: More machines are better. Upgrades are something that are quite late-game and not really worth all that much early on. For now, you should expand your smelting capacity so you can provide full conveyor lines. You want about 4x Iron plate lines, 2x Steel, 4x Copper, 1x Stone, 1x Bricks and 1x Plastic. Having more, bigger smelting setups and overproducing is a good thing to do. *ALWAYS* overproduce when you initially set something up, you will need it later anyways. 2: Make use of a central "spine" of sorts for resources. Funnel all your smelted product into a dedicated space where there are ONLY belts running straight in one direction. This is what is commonly referred to as a "Main BUS" (computer science term for a central line of travel for many signals). From the BUS, use splitters to branch out sideways and have your factory modules shoot off to the side of the bus. It is worth to leave enough space among the bus to expand it later, as many more resources will go on there. Theres a good tutorial on the wiki on how to build and understand the BUS layout: wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Main_bus This will massively increase your efficiency and coordination. 3: Trains and rail signals are a beast of their own. Think of a set of tracks as a "Block". Blocks can be seperated into smaller blocks using signals. if a train is in a block ahead of a signal, the signal will turn red, blocking other trains from entering that block until that train has left the block. Trains can "reserve" a block they are about to enter, turning the signal yellow and effectively pre-blocking the path. Normal Signals look into the block ahead of them and turn red if they see a train in that block. Chain signals do the same but also look ahead to all other signals ahead of them and copy their state. if there are multiple signals ahead, aka a junction or split, the chain signal has an additional state, indicating that SOME paths are available and others are blocked. As a rule of thumb, the following applies: - Chain signal before a split - 1 Normal signal per lane directly after a split - Normal singals on every lane before a merge - Normal signal after every merge - Chain signals before a crossing(on both crossing lanes) - Normal signals after a crossing(on both crossing lanes) 4: When handling fluids with trains, it is advised to have unloading and loading buffer tanks to minimise time lost by travel. This applies especially to oil, as pumpjacks seize working as soon as the pipes are full. Adding a tank or two gains you more efficient production time while your train is away from the station. Additionally, loading from and unloading to tanks directly is a LOT faster than having a pipe in between. To the point where it is more efficient to have 2 pumps and 2 tanks per rail car than having any more pumps and using pipes to connect them. Basicly, its Tank>Pump>Train for loading and Train>Pump>Tank for unloading. Much like you already do it with chests for items. 5: Think modular! Most processing lines can be packaged into repeatable modules. For example, red science has a ratio of 1 Gear Assembler supplying 10 Assemblers for science packs. This can be set up and repeated using blueprints. If you dont want to melt your brain trying to do the calculations, I suggest a very simple QoL Mod called "Actual Crafting Time", which adds a little popup at the top of your screen that lets you see the ratios of production and consumtion, as well as In-/Outbound conveyor space usage for a set number of machines per recipe at a glance. 6: QoL Mods are a MUST. I recommend my top used ones: Vehicle Snap, Squeak Through, Actual Crafting Time, Even Distribution, FNEI. These massively help you in your endeavours without altering the game experience at all. Vehicle Snap snaps your drivable vehicles to certain angles while driving to help you go straight. Squeak Through lets you navigate tight spaces easier. ACT has been mentioned above. Even Distribution is a handy tool to manage distributing stuff from your inventory evenly to machines and adds a lot of useful little features as well. FNEI is just like minecrafts NEI but for factorio, it lets you see all recipes for an item and what it can be crafted into, which machines can craft it and how fast. Hope these are helpful to you! Keep up the good work.

A handful of tips: If you grab fish from the water, you can consume them and heal quickly during combat. Also, put your radars on the corners of your base for a larger radius. If you have multiple conveyors of one item/resource, you can use belt balancers to combine/fill the beltline efficiently. You can create dedicated areas for producing items, and then for more commonly used resources use busing lanes to transport them around the base for usage. If you hold shift while placing an item, it will create a ghost version of it allowing for the creation of templates, etc. Anyway, good content, and keep working at it. Cheers!

i've always loved your content, just wanna say that before i say: ARE YOU KIDDING ME YOU JUST DISCOVERED FACTORIO?! YOU........good luck with mods

AA: "300 is a lot of engines!" Me: **Maniacal Cackling**

Definitely enjoying this more than your City Skyscapes one. You're clearly having more fun and I'm enjoying the mix of forward progress/noob!

Love it. I feel like watching you play this will be entertaining, despite my 100+ hours

When I started playing I jumped in with no experience and did not look up anything (for the first 30 hours). My base was so much more of a mess than yours at this point.

As someone with 600+ hours into factorio, it's fun watching someone just get into it. I remember having the same enthusiasm for my early factories. Good luck and have fun, it'll keep you busy for quite a while. The only wrong way to play factorio is to give up. Also: the rail signals you have set up won't work properly until you have a setup for each direction. For single lane rails, it's essential to mark off the segments properly in order to avoid jams and crashes. Using two lanes of rail simplifies things, but also makes junctions a bit trickier. btw the max multiplayer limit is around 255

MiniBetrayal has made some fantastic time stamped tutorials. Especially the circuit network ones, like making a set/reset latch for backup power systems. So cool. I love this game.

This is so cute! I didnt think i'd watch the video since i have 1000+ hours of factorio, but this brought me back to the early days. Just being new and exploring....miss it! :)

«This wall too thicc» and the return of my all time favourite «We’re not talking talking about this, or this, we’re talking about thiiis»... You’re on a serious roll with the quality content my friend. Never tried Factorio, but you make it seem really fun!

As someone who also started playing just after 1.0 release and now "finished" the game I can only say that this game is amazing! My tip for you is start using production monitor (P) ASAP as this game is all about fixing bottlenecks in supply lines. Also plan for big big train stations with unloading bays and always lay 2 tracks (one for each direction). Any way, learning this game was great experience, have fun!

I wish I subbed to you so long ago. I would have loved watching you go thru all the phases of a Factorio player!

One of the best tubers on you. Fallen into the same trap I did with this game, it's soo absorbing!

The best part about factorio is how he explained every little part never stops you remember every little step in the process and could explain the chain start to finish.

Build a wall between the bodies of water to the left of the base and then from the lower body to the coast on the right so that you have a large area of space to work with and also less overall wall to defend and just add the turrets and ammo belt across it, also with this new space spread out the construction of items to allow for growth and look into a process of creating a main bus belt Love the content

"The water needs water to work" please keep this series up, it cracks me up watching.

You can transport ammo to outpost by train, by adding another cargo wagon for ammo. There are mini-tutorials (third button from right, above mini), several of them teach train signaling. You can also rename stations however you want

Here’s a bit of help with your train problem: Rail signals will halt a train if the “block” ahead of it is occupied by another train (red) or will be in the near future (yellow). You can see said “blocks” by holding a rail signal in your hand and looking at rails. Chain signals perform like a rail signal, however it is more complicated in that it will halt a train if the next rail signal is blocked. Chain signals are used mostly in larger intersections for that exact reason. The reason why your trains kept stopping was because you placed the signal before the branching paths of the Y-intersection; if you take a look at the rail blocks then you will see how the other train was occupying the block, hence causing the now-stopped train to... well... stop. Hope this explanation helps you on your endeavors! Love the vids man. Also love seeing your thought process. Makes me remember when I was new to factorio :)

"He's beginning to believe."

When I’m too tired to play the game myself, I come here for just a taste without the pressure to take notes. Thanks/great video!

"My brain has actually expanded", never clicked a sub that quick from a line until now

great fun learning facorio for the first time. tip: limit the amount of engines in the box by clicking on the red cross and putting some squares as off limit

I just laughed so much, at all the noobie mistakes in this base, the labs, the guns, the bunched up together radars, the circuits on belt, train unloaders unloading to one side of the belt, oh the noodle, but its all good the best thing about factorio is you learn from your mistakes and its ok to make them.

ambiguousamphibian: factorio has expanded my brain also ambiguousamphibian: the water needs water to work

Should be mentioned that Factorio has a pretty big modding community that adds tons of realy high quality content. Some of the most famous are Bobs and Angels mods which adds a crap load of additiona industry that bascially makes it Factorio hardmode. Mods are also very easy to handle and are easily supported officially in game.

I Love that you enjoy Factorio its one of ny all time favorites :)

"I'm so proud of everything" Hahaha this perfectly sums up Factorio

I was so excited for you when this came out. Hope you got the chance to experience robotics, blueprints, lasers etc

I quite enjoy watching you play this please do more

17:47 Walking on tracks like that... I have a flashbacks! Trains haunting for your soul! They're everywhere! Waiting for you to drop of your guard...

"I just love it. It's making me so happy to play this" Wait, is that allowed?

*BIG BRAIN* Ritalin really helps.

Watching call your base large and sending train to a patch so close brings back to when I first started. Whatever you do don't look stuff up, just meander until your first rocket launch. That is the best way to play. Just remember that *you are always thinking too small*. The only real limit on this game is your computer not bursting into flames. The factory must grow. This game also has some of the most insane mods I have ever seen, so check those out at some point.

Was always on the fence about getting Factorio but now I am in!

so awesome watchin you play one of my favorite games. bit of a learning curb but its way worth it. cant wait to see u deal with the more evolved heavily armored aliens.

Trees also help keep polution at bay, they have a practical purpose too 🌲🌲

The more nests you kill, the more the buggos evolve, so there's some merit to just leaving them alone when possible

Hey AA, a bit of advice if you're interested: Don't be afraid to rip everything up and remake your base to be more optimized. When you unlock more tech, you'll figure out better systems to use said tech with. Idk, this was the best advice I've received about Factorio. Simplifying/ optimizing your factory helps me condense my thought process and mid/ late game problem solving. Trust me, this game gets pretty complex when you get into making blue and white science. That being said your base is pretty great already, definitely better than my first base lol love your content bro

I wish someone with a beautiful mind would upload their play through of this game. I mean ffs it has trains. That shit would be so lit.

oh nostalgia, i too had been building nonsensical spaghetti stuff with no chance to upgrade, all those 800 hours ago. you do you though, discovery is fun, and your next base would look better and the one after that - better still. btw, now i build spaghetti stuff that does make sense and can be expanded without being ripped apart first. and instead of encircling yourself in walls, try to just destroy all nests that are getting reached by pollution: that's what gets you attacked, and every attack is a step towards stronger bugs

Episode 1: ok I’m new and I’ll take it slow Episode 2: so I’ve done a little mining off camera

That's a familiar response, lol. The best part is that some day when the regular Factorio starts to feel stale you can just plug in (a) modpack(s) like Bob's & Angel's or Seablock or Pyanodon or Yuoki or ... I've played since 0.8 or so in the pre-Steam days. Seeing them finally release 1.0 was expected but still strangely fulfilling, a feeling similar to designing a production block with proper ratios.

Man you love your spongebob memes.

Quick tips, for the train signals, when you place them down you'll see the train tracks covered in colored lines, and placing one down splits one colored line into two. These are called blocks, and only one train can be on a block at a time. If you look, you'll see your iron and oil dropoff stations are on the same block, so the way you have it set up only one can be unloading at a time (and as a note, if you delete a train signal and that puts two trains on the same block, then they'll continue forward without checking to see if the block is occupied, which leads to crashes). Also while you're using tracks for both directions put the signals on both sides, if you move to using two tracks then put the signals on the right side of the direction you want the train to go. More turrets, more bullets, you are going to need them, the enemies get a whole lot more difficult. Also note the day-night cycle, and what effect that has on your power supply.

Please make a very very long Factorio series. I love the game, but the person I was playing with ditched me so now I must watch

“The water needs water to work” Indeed it does

In regards to train planning, your train 'hub' should have at least two main tracks it can take, even if they make a giant loop (not effficient with scale). Sort of like a main bus with conveyor belts. You don't want to have to constantly go back to redesign early and obvious funnel points

You can really tell that AA sunk many a hour into gameplay between ep1 and ep 2. Those cobblestone paths really do look good. P.S. I would like to see how his power system handles laser turrets...

If you set up bullet production to terminate in an arm that loads a box you can have a second arm set (preferably a long one so it's easier to pull up next to) to pull it out and just pull up your car next to the arm to auto load it with ammo.

Ahhh factorio. The game a spent hundreds of hours optimizing... just everything. I finally broke my addiction after about 6 months. And now youve brought it back, i have the itch again.

Haha I would definitely say you need more turrets, yet that’s probably just because I do a crap ton of crazy scenarios where I get attacked constantly.

i ve heard of factorio earlier but wasnt really sure if i would like the game, thanks to you i now see that this game is amazing. Time to learn basics of another game lmao

Awesome video :) there is a tutorial for train signals under ur science bar. But in a nutshell u need a chain signal before the intersection and a normal one after the intersection. Since ur using one track with double headed trains u need to put them on both sides of the track 👍