Why create un unbalanced factory? Yeah its beautifull but doesnt work

@@gere7739 If I'm being completely honest with you all of these time-lapse videos have been about creating a cool time-lapse video. A decent sized base but not too big to manage that made an interesting video which wasn't unbearably long and was fun to build. However, voices such as yours have made me realise that this won't cut the mustard, beautiful and cool isn't enough. I need to up my game. It is coming.

@@gere7739 that's exactly what prevents me from making big bases, I want it to be perfect so I lock myself in spreadsheet hell and burn out before doing anything productive with the planning

@@Soken50 if you avoid bottleneck you have mastered the game, this is factorio

This was the third video I ever made and, at the time, I was not up to speed on what constituted a vanilla factory. In saying that, I needed a mod to make the timelapse so no timelapse video is ever truly 100% vanilla. If you want some kind of explanation, the evolution of design video (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLxjq7WYs7S4gaM.html) kinda goes through the process.

I have a couple of non-timelapse videos planned but it might be a little while before I can get to them, the real engineering world is keeping me a touch busy at the moment. Thanks for the compliments

​@@theotherbigfoot do you have a blueprint from the defence?

@@fabianpinkenburg8117 I do, kindof. For the main base I make a new blueprint for each base so I probably have 4 or 5 slightly different ones. For the outposts I have a set of blueprints that I made in the first vanilla timelapse that I still use. They aren't perfect. They need some work. You aren't the first to ask. Maybe I should do a video

No worries buddy. I'm surprised this video is still getting interest. I made it over a year ago!!

275 hours 45 minutes 4 seconds to the rocket launch!! That's actually quite short compared to some of my recent factories!!

I don't think it's as stupid as you think, I had to watch the video back to remind myself!! The answer is water barrels. These two small blocks (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5Z9jd2G3dTShI0.htmlsi=wz68yB3GR6lQizS3&t=233) feed the entire factory with all the water it needs. Every process that needs water gets it from these barrels. I have a whole video on barrels (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8t2idZzyJase58.html) if you are interested.

@@theotherbigfootgotta say, I didn't believe water barrels could keep up with a nuclear reactor :O

@@theorclord The barrels in this factory probably couldn't, this factory was the first time I had tried barrelling water for nuclear power. But give it a couple years and we get to my racetrack II and this one worked fine, eventually. Its just a case of getting the numbers right. My uni lecturer used to say that a big thing is really just the same as a small thing, the numbers just have slightly different orders of magnitude. If you can design a small thing, and you know how to scale it, then you should be able to design a big thing.

It is confusing to me too buddy. This video and the angel and bob timelapse are literally the best I can do and yet they are totally eclipsed by something that I put together as an experiment and which is clearly inferior. Welcome to KZfaq!!

@@theotherbigfoot it’s all about presentation. This is only a timelapse. A small fraction of people play factorio. A smaller fraction watch factorio gameplay on KZfaq. An even smaller fraction will watch time lapses. That being said, when I searched “factorio timelapse” yours is the 2nd video listed 🤩

@@ryuk5673 I know all of this, it is a niche within a niche within a niche. But my first timelapse, which is terrible and I absolutely hate, got 80k views. Better factories and better timelapses have tiny numbers of views. Its almost like the better I get at them the worse they do!!

@@ryuk5673 I'm not going to stop by the way, I'm in it now one way or the other, they are still fun to make regardless of how poorly they seem to do

Timelapse or factory?

@@theotherbigfoot factory, eu não consigo fazer uma base de facil expansão sem ter que reconstruir tudo

I had to google what trollface was, so no

Yup, I use it to chop down trees so I don't have to bash each one with an axe. I also use a mod to record the timelapse.

@@theotherbigfoot vanilla by definition means no mods/add ons. Saying “this is vanilla to me” just makes it seem like you are confused by the word. Sorry just trying to help. Don’t worry about this not being vanilla. Doesn’t change a thing

@@ryuk5673 I know what vanilla means. I also know that I couldn't make a timelapse video without a mod. So by your definition (and everyone else's) it would be impossible to make a vanilla timelapse. Zero mods whatsoever is zero mods. I know I'm picking hairs because I have used other mods as well and this kind a confuses the issue but lets just say that I wanted to make a 100% vanilla timelapse, would someone come along and complain because I had installed a mod. Probably. So for me the issue kind of ends there. Vanilla is whatever I consider it to be, it is whatever you consider it to be and there isn't any reason why we both can't be right.

I spent a long time trying to run my little dude through the factories I had built but because they are always so crammed together it was always a nightmare. So one day I decided to make specific paths with walls through my factories so that everything was nicely separated and I really liked it. They become more elaborate every time I build a new factory

I genuinely think you are the first to ask. 2 years, if someone else had asked I would have put it in the description. I thought it was already in there. Anyway... It is Lloyd Rodgers - On matters of consequence. I have absolutely no idea where I got it from

​@@theotherbigfoot oh, thank you! )

Was I supposed to hide it behind a paywall?

No, its legit. I think I was using an AAI miner to cut down trees, its nearly two years ago now. Regarding the tech, just because you haven't unlocked it doesn't mean you can't build it. I layout my factories way before I've unlocked the individual techs I'm building. Blue chips is generally one of the first things that gets built but it could be 50 hours before I actually turn the assembly machines on. I just route everything to it as if it was unlocked.

I have given up a few times trying to build a mega base. It could be because I leave biters on and messed around with a Mod that makes biters tougher. But its becoming a Grind for me. I am not sure but I have seen your tuber use some sort of remote access to get stuff being stored. Not logistics robots. It seems they can use Map view to refill their inventory wen they click on a chest. i end up running backwards and forwards at the default slow speed to get again 10 inserters only to have to do it again and again and again for whatever item I need. I like the game but its very grinding and then add to that just as you thought you good Biters attack and take out half your power production. My opinion you cant build a mega base with default settings. Biters off. Ore set Max yield and close. Hence why I stop and start again because I get to a point and then I find out I missed something like I should have generated a better Map that has more trees...helps with pollution. @@theotherbigfoot

@@user-jr2ue9nu6y Setting up the map at the start of a game is actually a really important thing to get right. I have got it wrong many times. If I am doing a large base then ore patches all get increased to 300% and starting area is maxed out. Screw the default settings, playing a game is about having fun and if it is becoming a grind then I think you haven't set it up for the way you play the game. For me it is all about the factory. I want the biters, it is boring without them, but they need to be setup in a way that gives me enough peace and quiet to be able to actually build the factory, which is where the fun is for me. Other youtubers like the challenge of deathworlds, with biters set pretty much to max, I think that is hell on earth. There is no one way to play this game. We all play it differently. I can give my perspective and someone else can give theirs but to you we could both be wrong. It is about finding what works for you.

@@6x614 why what?

@theotherbigfoot Why do you try to create a perfect base with no place between these boxes? It's strange for me. If you use a box, why don't you just use a cite block. I don't understand the purpose of this gameplay.

@@6x614 A city block which is the same size everywhere would seriously impede my creative freedom. I don't like gaps.