An Hour in, "Ok, so now we have Bots," me, peeking over my shoulder from my screen after 25 hours, "The Wut?"

you beat your actual speedrun from 2 years ago, while making a tutorial. Nice!

its kind of crazy how fast this guy is even while making a guide... i followed step by step on exact same seed and settings and finished in 6 hours, while pausing to watch the video. damn.

This guy makes a bigger factory in a hour than i do in ten

finally got that freaking There is no spoon achievement using this. Finished @ 6:40:22 . Thanks nefrum

Thanks for the guide. I was finally able to beat the game without getting anxiety about the placements of my buildings and belts. I finished in 11 hours.

Wahoo. Thanks Man Im working on the timeline index, i'll finish it soon and will post it so everybody can easily find the part they want to look at

In your description, if you reverse the times and the description, KZfaq will actually parse it, and show the timestamps inside the video bar at the bottom, for increased viewer experience

Bought the game last week, spend 6/7 hours in tutorial and free-play mode. Didn't know what I was doing, wanted to build a rocket so I grabbed the guide and video and started. Got a time of 11:15:37. Just watching the video and having the guide next to me saved me countless hours of figuring things out. So the achievement 'no time for chitchat' is totally doable as a total noob. Now I know the basics and can try again :).

Awesome! Just smashed this first time for the there is no spoon achievement, so helpful! There were other guides but they all wanted you to download a specific seed and copy blueprints, which takes the fun out of it imo. I liked this because I made a new map, so I could follow along (for factory size, ratios, and other thing that is too hard for a casual player), so I had to be creative with my factory design and this guide was just that - a guide, which I could follow when it suited me, and deviate when I need to. I also got another 5 achievements at the same time - icing ontop of the cake!

Beat the game in 06:23 using this guide! Wanted to get "There is No Spoon", but it was so fun I'm thinking of trying some actual speedrunning. Thank you so much for this guide!

Looking closely at the video there are so many small but important tricks that I'm stunned. Also the written guide is a valuable tool not found elsewhere - thanks again for your dedication

I had been trying to get the achievement, and was struggling to get under 10 hours. Following this (with my own map), I did it in just under 5. Thanks!

Well..! I did "There is no spoon" literally yesterday for the Steam achievement (since I was playing offline before). Took me 4h15 but I was following Anti's spaghetti base. I wish I had that guide yesterday, that's way more clearer with the google doc. Thank for that, I might try to get sub 3 hours with it :D

Thanks for making the slides with all the steps, screenshots and crafting lists. This is amazing. Great guide overall. And a nice run. Really leisurely pace, placement is very flexible and the various builds are simplified compared to the WR builds which makes it way easier to comprehend. With Factorio 1.0 just released, it would be excellent.

I've never played factorio, im just going to watch this to get a general idea how the game is actually played

Thanks for the tutorial! I've only been playing a short time and I've never built on the proper scale; this really opened my eyes to how fast you can actually build, place, and pickup items. And I managed to finish with 20 minutes left. Woohoo!

Man you deserve much more subscribers. Idk why youtube doesn't recommend channels like this. You've taught me so much. Keep it up man

And here I am, at 540 hours total play, and can't even finish a slow run lol

Thank you for this very nice tutorial. After a few attempts, I managed 3:42, but there were major mistakes, so I'll try to improve it. One thing is for sure: I had a great respect for the speedrunning community, now I have admiration. I obviously knew that the planning was essential, but now I begin to realise how important the actual execution is, and how difficult it is to master it.

This is a whole different way to play the game! Thanks, it is really fun to watch you place things down so fast and your calm commentary is very helpful. Cheers!

A very sincere thank you for continuing to post your Speed Runs as well as this guide. I was finally able to complete "There is No Spoon" achievement!

Thank you! Just received my anti-spoon achievement!

I've been falling in love with this game again after a long hiatus, this has been very helpful and informative, thank you!

Thanks for taking time out of your any% wr prep to do this.

Thank you for such a comprehensive guideline! I ll use this as a timing benchmark but will try to beat it with my own designs

Thanks for putting this tutorial together! I just finished a 4h35m run thanks to this. I also learned just why you have specific steps in some places. Like, because I was slow, there were a lot of robot frames, so I thought 'sure, lets put all 1000 of them in the yellow science'. in the end it ate up all the speed modules and I didn't have enough rocket control units. And when I ran out of science to do, before setting up the purple sci production, and used up valuable resources. Definitely going to try again for an under 4 hr time. :) Thanks again for recording this tutorial and sharing the guide document!

Thanks for the guide, Nefrums! I followed the video / presentation and got No Time and No Spoon in 7:52:15!

wow so this is what an actual factory that automate everything looks like. I just started so i hope i can get like you someday, this video showed me a lot of new things. thanks

Why is this speedrun guide better than 90% of the new player guides I've found?

First thing to say, big respect for being able to not only speedrun and tow the line for world record paces, but today for providing guidance to everyone like this! I've bought myself Factorio a good while ago, back before it was on Steam, when I was watching Arumba way back when, playing an unknown game that really intrigued me despite the relatively simple graphics. I have since then completed runs several times, using bus, spaghetti galores, challenging myself with things like direct feed only and more. But while I had most of the achievements, There is no spoon kept eluding me. All of my attempts ending in frustrations and failure, and often by not really more than an hour or two of playing. But I couldn't seem to quite wrap my head around doing anything faster. I couldn't quite follow the guide straight and forward, because of things like my attention span or knowing I would end up reading it over and over and over, over every lil details, rendering me a bit mad and not leading to much progress being made. But between it and watching you do a few runs. I did pick up a few little things. Like the steel array, which kept confounding me. Or buffering light oil for the rocket fuel step. And I think the biggest thing that bogged me down in the last steps, cutting off science parts and using their resources to boost out LDS and RCUs. While I did use production modules before, I was still surprised at the result of using those along several speed beacons around the Silo. Never before have I seen a rocket ready in about five minutes or less. Never ever. Despite some struggles with needing to go for a second oil array that was further then I had wished, finicking it up a storm with balancing heavy and light oil to keep plastic alive, since my first setup had the advanced refineries on it. And one stupid mistake with a miner placement putting iron ore on my boiler lines breaking my power twice instead of just once, because I wasn't seeing more coming down and I thought I had messed up something that I didn't see while building up more copper lines for blue chips and I had solved things. That was quite a mess.... I am happy to celebrate by saying thank you to you too. And affirming high and loud, with a 7h58 minutes and 15 gosh dang seconds..... Finally! THERE IS NO SPOON!

Excellent job! Your factory is much tidier than mine, does so much more than mine, yet you built it so fast. Thanks for explaining as you went too, I have learnt some things I can use. I look forward to watching the actual speed run now.

I just bought Factorio about a week ago and I've been playing for about 10-20 hours total. I must say that I love how you're keeping a steady pace. It's not too fast, and it's not too slow either. It makes for a splendid guide overall, very much appreciated! 😄

This man is literally a pro at this, very impressive!

Thanks to your guide, I was able to finish the game, for the first time! Took me well over 11 hours. And I've added a fish to the rocket for an extra achievement lol

Thanks a lot Netfrum for work you put in. Can't wait for your next WR.

First thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. The index guide as well. Not only has this helped me get the no spoon achievement but has made me a much better player. :)

Currently following your guide and video as we speak! Thanks for your time and effort with this amazing game. Kudos!

thats awesome dude, thanks for showing how you do what you do. Then its just practice, musclpe memory, honing those nuances in your flow

1:14:24 "because i'm slow....." alright pal you're slow xD

I just finished the achievment in 4 hours 38 minutes thanks to your awesome guide! Keep it up!

Thank you for awesome written + screenshot guide + whole run in video. Helped me a lot. (my first run 5h 30m :-D so others know noob time first trying). I learned a lot of nice tricks during it.

Thanks for the guide! I was able to complete the same tasks you did in just 7 hours, maybe one day I'll get faster at it.

Thank you Nefrums for this excellent guide. Finished 6:04:06 on my first attempt following it. Thank you.

omg man. you are the first guy post a presentation with your gameplay speedrun guide. thnkx for that.

as a new factorio player this is just mind blowing

Thanks for the written guide, I love it. Going to try this soon!

Used this video and was able to launch in 6 hours as an average player. Thank you for the guide!

This will improve my gameplay speed for sure, thanks!

I"m just stunned by this.

Thank you, Nefrums! Having a fixed starterbase layout in mind definitely speeds up every game

Finally got the achievements with a time of just over five hours using this guide. Very helpful =)

Thx for the nice tutorial. It's very cool to see a commented speedrun.

Thanks so much for making this video guide. Finally got that last achievement after all these years! :D Took 5 hours 38 minutes of game time even with the help though. >_< And probably more like 10 hours total between building and pausing to watch and re-watch parts of the video! I'm terrible at planning where to put things quickly. Usually takes me forever to get to the rocket stage. I think my previous best was around 12 hours... good enough for 37/38 but I could never come up with a plan good enough to get me that last one. Thanks again!

Thanks for this guide! I got 05:31:12 following along and now I REALLY appreciate how damn good your 1:27:28 any% WR is!!

Just finished my first sub 7 hr (also first sub 15 hr) run. This was immensely helpful.

Hi Nefrums! To be honest with you... I mostly watch your vids as a "fall asleep therapy" due to the calming effect your voice has :D (meant in the most positive way possible) But now I actually want to try out the stuff you do :) So thanks for this tutorial!!! Stay safe

Thanks for the tutorial man! Been following along the guide and this video most of my day, finally got all the achievements now :) cheers

I felt like giving up a little today,this is gonna give me a refresher for tommorow,so i thank you.

Thanks for the nice guide, I played it parallel to watching you :) Had a bit of a different map layout but i got it working and was able to do it in about 6:30:00 👌🏻

I practiced the beginning of the run a big chunk of yesterday (for the first time), and as of automating steel furnaces I'm 9 minutes behind you. However, I just went to build the big power plant and saw I set up mall power poles wrong and have zero steam engines and underground pipes (poles blocking inputs of regular pipes). Back the the drawing board! Hahaha! Thank you so much for doing this! Havin' a blast!

Thanks, lots of good tips. 14:58 is genius, directly chaining a gear machine into a conveyor belt machine.

Awesome step-by-step guide! It allowed me to experience the game in a whole new way, and finally finish the run in 3 and a half hours--not bad for someone with 2 left hands and the reaction time of a dead turtle. Then I found out that the "No spoon" achievement is actually sub 8 hours instead of sub 4... wot! ^^;

Awesome guide! Thanks so much for doing it.

Wow!! Thanks so much for making this. Got me the achievement!

Thx for this awesome guide! Made it in 4:30h and had a lot of fun!

Thanks for the guild, I just got "there is no spoon" following along with you (and pausing when you were too fast for me haha)

Who actually dislikes a Factorio Speedrun Guide? Amazing tutorial

Thank you for the guide, appreciate your work very much!

Really nice with a guide video for speedruns 😁👍

thank you just finished the game in 4:50 was pretty fun to build alongside u and run into the same problems :D

Really nice Guide. Thanks :) Made it very slow at 6:30h . Messed up the light oil for rocket fuel and had to wait at the end :D

An excellent guide! I just got sub 5-hours following it on my first try!

Thanks for the guide, with the help I managed to complete the build in 3:10 :D

Thanks man! This helped me a lot. I finally did the achievement!

I don't speedrun but I've learnt alot through your vods thanks nefrums

7:09:03. Thank you so much for this - amazing work you put out. I really appreciate it

This is brilliant. Very helpful. Thank you!

I used this guide and seed and got the achievement for under 8 hours!! Thanks, you are insanely good and fast at building. Took me 5h 19min (7.5h if you count the pauses that the game doesn't), feel a bit of shame that I used the guide and did not do it all on my own but oh well.

Wow! Thanks! I finished your tutorial just in 7 hours and 50 minutes with all achievements (such as "Lazy bastard" and all other). And I had some issues, because used a bit different placement for the stuff. I got in trouble when my "processors factory" smashed into "electric engine production" after 8th assembling machine and some other my little issues. Lazy bastard was quite a challenge for me, that's was just my second world after my first win after almost 43 hours :) Feature "diffusion ratio" to 0% was quite helpful. But looked like a bit cheating for me :) Thanks again! :)

Thank you indeed for your effort

Very good job, and thanks a lot, sometimes I wish we could upvote more than once

This is so cool, like watched already 3 times maybe :D just watching you is enought, I dont need to play :D

Tusen tack! Väldigt inspirerande!

Thank you! Finished the game in 5.5 hours and got the achievement

And so somehow it never occurred to me that just because I *could* update all of my refineries did not mean I *should* update all of my refineries. This soothes so many frustrations.

Thanks for the guide Nefrums

mind-blowing videos, thank you

Wow, I'll never complain about Harvest pylons ever again

Thank you for this guide. I was finally able to do "There is no spoon" Using your presentation slides as a checklist. Took me longer than I really want to admit, but I finally got it.

Me after casually launching rocket in 30h: "Nice! I'm getting good at this!" Me after watching this step-by-step guide: "Damn, I need to learn so much more..." Great content, man, keep it up!

Thank you very much for making this guide. :)

I really gotta say this guide also helps me in my casual playthroughs. What I achieve in a week or so, you just kinda do in an hour xD

This helped so much. Thanks to your content I got all achievements :-)

doubtful i will speedrun factorio, but i learn alot from watching Nefrums plays. biggest lesson for me watching was to automate everything and how belts can be mixed and split for nicer input. thanks alot for the show

I remember the first time i played factorio, around your 40 minute mark i was already at 3 days game time lol.

thank you for this guide, now I'm like super super into speedrunning this game. I got a 5:43:25 today, and I'm looking forward to improving it

This game made me truly appreciate factories and the minds behind them.

Thank you very much! I got a 5:35:31 as my 'There is no spoon' time just by playing along this video.

I love your videos, very good, thank you