Wow, a well-organised tutorial that explains the entire thought-process without having to watch a 100 hr long series to get the gist of it. This is the definitive video for factorio megabases and is required watching for any player that wishes to make a megabase. Well done, loved the format.

This reminds me of when I was a small child and wanted to make a bridge across the lake we were having a vacation by. Not realizing that putting stones and mud into the river bit by bit would take a me a thousand years before I'm done. That's how I feel when trying to start a project like this.

Yes, those dashboards would be a great follow up video. An idea for another season, see what max rate science you can produce at a capped 1 gigawatt power supply. See how high you can go with efficiency modules.

Video is over a year old but still such an amazing contribution to the factorio community. Great work Nilaus. This is gold!

after watching this I now got to realize how much more i need to do to reach a mega base, I love it Nilaus, as always you explain things in laymans terms, easy to understand and follow.

my guy has a literal one man k2 civilization by 180 hours meanwhile i haven't even launched 5 rockets by 130

Love it. Especially the things that you only know when you're watching. How happy he is 11:54 when saying the right color and product.

please do an episode on the dashboard

I have watched many of your videos and many Factorio videos in general. It's nice to see you explain all that you are doing without having to watch the minute to minute details. Very nicely done. Thank you!

Without these kinds of videos i would be clueless on how to play this game

Wow, my impostor's symdrome came back hard when I watched this video. Everything is so clean, well explained and even if you use mods to help, it's impressive what you achieve in just a couple of hundreds of hours. I have 700 hours clocked in on Factorio and yet I would like to ask you so many questions, about other playthroughs as well, thank you man, I'll drop a twitch sub soon, you deserve it !

Over 3k hours in, I'm almost an expert at the first half of most mod sets because i just cant get the switch over to mega done right. This is exactly what i needed, thanks so much!!

Love your Factorio content, keep the great work up!

I'm glad you went and made the dashboard video later. Thanks! Love all that circuit stuff.

I was struggling with own transition into a megabase and this video really helped me out. Thank you Nilaus.

Fantastic video. I just say, this is your best. I'm still on my first game (standard mode), I transitioned to Main Bus some 100 hours ago, and thanks to your guide, I now know how to go to Mega Base (I'll settle with 1k spm) in my very first playthrough. I just have to clear some space from biters. Actually, a lot of it. ;-) Plus, you had me with Dashboard. That's a great motivation to learn about signals. P.S.: I'll drop some on your patreon, as my way of acknowledging your work.

Love it NIlaus. Thank you for producing this.

I really love these videos, great content and handy to fall back on for people who don't want to spends hours and hours of figuring out stuff... But that's what i love about the game, made a 5K spm base after hundreds of hours figuring things out in previous bases. The exteme feeling of proudness from seeing that stable graph at 5K spm. (Without the use of complicated circuits outside of oil)

Thank you, this is a great overview of the thinking process. Great explanations

A guy I play with who is a circuit wizard has a fully logic controlled expansion train. It memorizes train serial numbers. If you build the destination station, any BP you drop will have all of the exact materials delivered, rather than having a train full of resources. It produces less waste in that way, and its just super cool. You can also be in an entirely different logistics network, drop a requester chest, and the train will go to wherever the destination station is and deliver the goods. I have the BPs if you want to give them a try.

Great video Nilaus. I would watch that dashboard video, so please do one

I am very interested in how you build your dashboard. If love to see that video! This was super interesting, too. Nice to see the in-between without sitting through a couple hundred hours of twitch streams. :)

Great video. Thanks for the short but very detailed explanation on how to transition and which steps are recommended. It would be nice to see a tutorial on how to build these monitoring systems you had and maybe even some alternative ways on monitoring in Vanilla. An Idea for another tutorial Video, as I am struggeling quite hard with it: How to build your own Blueprints with modules and Beacons.

Great video, Nilaus, thank you!

Nice vid! My last, and final, megabase got to 12k spm 55ups. Got many of my ideas from your videos, cheers

Genuinely really good video

Great tutorial - thanks!

my first 28 hours were spent unlocking drones, this man builds more factory in 1 save in that time than i have built in all saves (ok i played 100 hours or something total because i suck at planning and get stuck with a stupid base

Very useful, thanks. I stuck with how to expand my base for a long time (I might be lazy and didn't run risks doing it because I played death world).

I've aways gracitated towards train based bases and oh my GOD I feel like an idiot for never thinking of having my supply train auto re-stock by hooking it into my starter base. Wonderful video and really good bits of wisdom! I'd have incorporated refueling really early on. I usually do this with small decentralized fuel stops, naming them the same thing, and adding the refuel stop to the start of the "There and back" philosophy of train scheduling you talked of here. "Won't that back up?" You might ask. No, if I make sure to build enough buffer space and refuel stations. I run into issues when there's about three times the amount of trains in the network as I do buffer spots at refuel stations. You don't technically need LTN to do megabases, but I'm a stickler for needless limitations so I'm biased haha. I like the challenge of managing the system, and how the challenges of running a huge train fed base really evolve over the run!

Love the video Nilaus! I am about to undertake the massive task of transitioning my base to a megabase using your method, and I was curious if you had links to any blueprints you use, especially for your train loading and unloading and your circuit and smelting production lines? Unless you made them yourself, in which case, bravo!

Awesome base.

Amazing Base!

27:09 *100+ hours in* “ Sooo... thats the essence of the base, at this point.” XDDD Im dying

a way that you can do train organization is if you make all stops that need a certain item the exact same, same wagons same items same train logic, meaning you just name the stops the same thing and use some basic circuits at each stop to disable stops that are full/ backed up, and use point to point with the train logic

I've seen mega base videos, but never really considered what's going on. Trains are my achiles heel, I find that up to my first rocket, 2 car trains running constantly to keep my base fed just sort of matches the size of the vanilla ore patches and belt speeds. It never occurred to me to "go big" with far larger trains that just never move.

Those trains are Perfectly Balanced! XD

Somewhat ironic that there is an active megabase series now which (of course) is quite popular :-)

i can't imagine how you're building so fast

My map has resources rich but very far between so I'll have to use wider train networks. Looking forward to it!

Help I’ve been on a Factorio bender lately and I can’t stop!

I love this video. Very informative. One question. What is the mod your using to create chuck parts with the power poles

that dashboard would be a great video ... and usefull even early game if you start with all the tech

Would love to see a video about the dashboard.

Thank you. =)

Thanks for the vid, I understand all of what you said, and that is what I would like to work towards, however,t he problem I always have is getting what I need to those locations to build them. That seems to be the major issue for me. Do you have a vid on outpost loaders and unloaders?

would love a video on creating a megabase dashboard

Well I did try to do a harder transition from bus based to a train based, but removed the original base way too early in the game. Had many blackouts and run out of cannon ammunition. It was a chaotic time

2 people who disliked this never built a mega base, you are the best factorio player I’ve seen man. Congrats I hope streaming and KZfaq are working out for you!

This is all awesome, but now I have to look to find out what a 'Logistic Train Network' is, the way you just casually drop the term and say how much more efficient it is makes me think you _must_ have a tutorial on it, right? Edit: Seconds later you say you have two tutorials, lol.

heeya nilaus, awesome work you put into that base, i got over 400 hours on Factorio and i think it's time to finally try a megabase, do you got a list of mods you where using in this playtrough?

I'd love to know how a mega base dashboard works but I doubt that I would ever actually understand it. I still struggle with chain signals on rails.

Nice video as always, Nilaus! The only thing that bothers me a bit in a mega base is this ridiculous amount of beacons every where. Maybe in the future this could be replaced by some research, tech tree or some like that.

Hold shift and pressure space bar to toggle gridlines on and off if you haven't found that gem out by now.

4:50 When I build trains I go Amtrak. Never on time and get delayed by couches on the tracks.

Hello. Great video, you are awesome! So, whats mods you use in this video? For example, Better trains and purple logistic.

i would like to see how you make the dashbord.

Just 20k satilights. LoL. I’m happy at 100 hours playing Krastorio2 to have one ship launch every 6 mins. You’ve got 8 of them going. LoL your buds still blow my mind. I’m 2000+ hrs in the game and still gettting schooled.

if i'm playing to build a megabase, i play with polution off. I'll usually still play with biters and expansion ON, so the biters present SOME challenge, but pollution hits performance SO bad that it's the easiest mechanism for getting some performance BACK.

Hi Nilaus! Great videos as usual. I am subscribed to your channel now! I am wondering if you can capture these videos at a higher resolution, say 1440p or 2160p. Some aspects of the bases you are showing us are not clear. Is the belt running to the right? Or to the left? Etc. I have a 3K monitor, and when you zoom in, it looks blurry. Thank you!

I'm curious how your designs change with the new train stop limits

Can you put productivity modules in miners? And is there a good reason to do so?

31:50 Do enemies count toward entity updates? My map performance is almost entirely limited by entity updates even though I use only trains and short-range bots. My map does about 2k spm.

Are you going to add the Megabase blueprints for Military, production, utility and space sciences packs?

Would LOVE a dashboard tutorial!

Do you name your unloading train places the same for main processing, circuits etc? Or you name then differently and have separate trains for those unloads?

Slow to this one, but what if you went to a world like this after the locations get crazy and install re-distribution hubs, then reset all the train stations for production locations that require red circuits to instead draw from the new re-distribution hub, which is basically just a train switching station

So, I see at 27:00 or so that you have outposts dedicated to building a specific thing, like Red Circuites. There seems to be one output train that carries the red circuits, and then there is one train station for each of the main inputs, like green circuits, plastic, and so on. For the trains that carry resouces, do you have multiple of them? Multiple "Green Circuit" trains, for example. All running around the network. Do they run from their production base to a specific destination area like the Red Circuit area, or do they go to every possible place that would need green circuits? How do you calculate the throughput of a single production facility with trains and figure out how many other production facilities (if more than one) that it can support? How many smelting locations do you have around this time in the game?

I would love to see how your dashboard works

Is there a vid on positioning the first block at 0,0 co ordinates that i have missed ? On vanilla no mods ?

Idk how you build so quickly. I couldn't even build a 1K spm base in that time.

What mods do you use for those belts and inserters?

As someone who has built a decent bus base and finished the game, what surprised me the most here was the use of beacons and modules. I almost never use modules when I could simply extend the array and never in my 200 hours of playing have I ever made a beacon, I looked at what they do and figured they were more expensive and inferior to just making more production buildings. Do they reduce lag or something? I'm not sure why all the megabases seem to try and make as many as possible.

do you have a blueprint book for the setups you are using

I'm curious how he is handling defence against biters? I typically have my entire base walled off and get constantly attacked. Does he have biters turned off?

I’m still waiting for those train station blueprints

I don't know how are you guys using solar panels. Last time I tried to use them I had to place A LOT of panels. Now I use Uranium. Bugs hates me but whatever.

how is the mod called wich add the better belts and beacens nad the other stuff?

in like six hours in and im considering train given that my default map seems to have super low resource density! the pools arent super big at the start area and theyre far away as shit. kinda irritating for progression lol.

Any way I can get the blueprint for that jumpstart base ?

Hi, how is called the mod of those purple belts?

sa you say, can you make a separate video on how you create that massive circuit network?

100,000 Times over YES! PLEASE DO THE MEGABASE DASHBOARD! Also is the bots on map a mod?

@Nilaus would you mind adding auto-captions to this video? thanks!

7:20 Electric furnaces produces the least pollution though or am I missing something? Noting that the base is solar powered.

What is the mod that generates the purple dots?

after reading some of the comments i don't feel tooooooooo bad about my progress, but am considering trying to make a mega base starting at 200+ hours in on my first world... its a massive mess, everything runs on a main bus, i have a few 1-2 trains flying around, not enough space to expand what i have right now just to make enough things FOR the mega base (mostly modules is the problem). the temptation to start a new world with more forethought in to a cityblock base is HIGH, even though i'm still learning how to optimise certain things in my main game. i'm elbow deep in infinity research and starting to cap out what my one rocket silo can manage to consistently produce. my brain hurts trying to plan my trains and blocks (i'm going with roboport measured blocks rather than chunks and in theory its working but by god its hard). I have so much empty space inside my base borders because i'm obviously past 0.9 evolution this far in, cheap and OP defense line since midgame.

Him saying normal is killing me

Shit, my entire base would fit into one of those little locations.

7:17 What do you mean by steel furnaces producing less pollution? Steel furnaces are listed as 4/m whereas electric are 1/m, and the more solar you use, the less that electricity will translate into power plant pollution production. To be fair, my smelting operations are usually too far from my perimiter for their pollution to really have an impact, but I'm just hoping I'm not missing something.

@Nilaus i like how you allocated the grid at the beginning , i see your "blocks" are larger then those in your city blocks guide (f.e. smelting at 4:14) , is it simply grid of roboports at the distance of the large power pole ?

What kind of power poles are those? Are they from mods? Regular big power poles span 30 blocks and not 36

no Station found supplying Raw Fish. Why don't you have a fish farm yet?

I don't understand, in the first stage, you used 4 big electric poles next to each other (like a 3:12) but in the second stage (like 4:28), there is only 1 big pole each time to form the grid. i started with 4 poles each time like you did but now if i have to use only 1, everything is misaligned and i have to start over....

Miningproduktivity over 100, it starts having an impact is doubling the output a joke to you? I do understand that it's meant for the megabase scale

Hmm, about the power issue, i have a megabase with a stable 5K SPM running semi nuclear, semi solar. Just did a test and disabled all my waterpumps to my 4200 steam turbines, the base could keep running for a few minutes because of the accumulators. I noticed that my FPS/UPS only went up by +- 3FPS. Comming from 40FPS. What are your thoughts on this? From my smallscale test the nuclear power hardly took up any FPS in comparisson to the solar array (300K panels), if so: why would i take the effort of making those hundreds of thousands of solarpanels? I hope Nilaus or people in the chat can share their thoughts about this :D Love the videos!

I am right now transitioning for the first time. How do you guys manage ore outposts. Dedicated names or is every iron ore just iron - pickup?

Just started playing this game, managed to automate red science :)....watches 18 space ships simultaneously launch.....

How do you deal with biters?

Okay, I'm in the process of building a factory that generates 1000 science packs per minute, which is four times what I've built so far. After watching this video, I feel ashamed of my factory and don't dare to continue anymore.