Here's my full analysis: • I use the fact noticed by others, that the research uses only red, green, blue and purple science packs, which limits possibilities greatly. • Let's calculate labs speed: 2.3 speed (beacons) and +20% productivity and +140% speed bonus from research => 6.624 total speed [this number can be also seen at 16:00, 5.52 * 1.2 from prod modules] * 8 labs = 53 total speed •Researches possible (sorted by time at 1.0 speed): Fuel reprocessing: 50 * 30 secs = 1500 secs Blue belts: 300 * 15 secs = 4500 secs Inserter stack size: 250 * 30 secs = 7500 secs Labs speed: 500 * 30 secs = 15000 secs Bots stack size: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs Modules: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs Kovarex: 1500 * 30 secs = 45000 secs • Analysing video near 16:30: 67% research done at 45:12:33 in-game time mark 100% research done at 45:13:01 in-game time mark 33% of research done in 28 seconds 100% of research should take about 84 seconds Multiplying by total labs speed: 84 secs * 53 = 4452 secs Considering I'm multiplying time passed by 3, then by 53, one second off in my measurement gives 159 seconds of error. 4452 secs is closest to 4500 (Blue belts) and I'm off only by 48 seconds, which can be less than 0.3 seconds of error in calculating passed time. Thus, I'm pretty sure about this result. Also, anything else is pretty much far from our result: 1500 secs for fuel reprocessing, or inserter stack size for 7500 secs. My final result is: 99% sure that he researches blue belts, unless progress bar is edited in. The second research can't be calculated in the same way, since we can't see any progress, and blue belts don't have any obvious next research.
Also the blue belts is the only one that takes 15 seconds per one science pack. Start: 45:12:32 Stop: 45:12:59 Inserter moved: 10 times (59-32) / 10 = 2,7 seconds per one pack 2,7 * 5,52 speed [without prods, because it doesn't eat our packs] = 14,904 which is EXTREMELY close to 15 secs. I'm now 99.999% sure that it's blue belts :D
And this is basically why you should never cheat in a speedrun lol. There's just no way you can outsmart an entire youtube audience, and the more viewers you have, the worse that "problem" gets! Good job sir. But now, earn bonus points for spotting WHY blue belts are first...
@@MichaelHendriks If my memory serves, the main issue your wall design has is that it can be outranged by the biggest worms/spitters, yeah? This is a bit of a crackpot guess, but I know biters don't like aggroing on belts when military is nearby. So you can add belts shoving inwards to your wall design to prevent biters from settling/standing in the dangerous 'sweet spot' near the wall.
@@MichaelHendriks Because blue belts have longer underground range, will allow you to better have them go under your walls when you expand :D! Well done Ekler!
@@Akirasip Now that's up to a personal preference. You can find some great series. It takes years to make an anime and they're high quality, scripted by professionals and drawn by artists. Doing anything alone is nothing compared to a professional team, but technology such as frame interpolation can help a lot. Michael could try it and upload in 60/120 fps, but we're playing factorio and not some racing game.
From doing a frame by frame analysis of the ending labs I didn't see any lab or inserter move any yellow or military science. After checking his tech screen, that means the only techs he could take are, braking force, fuel reprocessing, inserter stack size, blue belts, bot cargo size, speed and energy modules 3, lab speed, or kovarex enrichment. Can't be anything else with only those sciences.
Those damn detectives... Thinking I'm smart trying to hide the evidence, but barely 30 minutes after release and he already did a full comprehensive analysis... For another clue, take another look at my battery setup...
@@MichaelHendriks someone else did another analysis that saw the second tech had yellow science and no purple science, so there are even better detectives than I. Even though I thought the series would get boring after the suspense from almost dying every episode was over, it didn't happen. All the videos in this series are still insta clicks from me, even though they are like 1 or 2 am my time.
@@MichaelHendriks i guess first research is efficiency modules mk3, and second one is RCU. I confirm frame by frame analysis of @MIKAEL212345, first research was definitely red, green, blue, purple. They listed possible techs, out of those only kovarex and efficiency modules seems to be real progress, as kovarex is one step closer to nukes, efficiency modules is one step closer to spidertron. But the research seemed to progress bit too quickly for kovarex for me, as its 1500 science sets expensive, while efficiency modules only 300. Second research definitely used yellow tech, and no purple (purple would be inserted in sync with yellow/green) and probably no black. My guess is you are going for the spidertron, and the big battery setup you hint about is to make personal battery mk2.
OK, heres my calculations, however they might be wrong: 2.3 speed and +20% productivity => 2.76 total speed * 8 labs = 22.08 total speed Researches possible (sorted by time at 1.0 speed): Uranium fuel conversion: 50 * 30 secs = 1500 secs Blue belts: 300 * 15 secs = 4500 secs Inserter stack size: 250 * 30 secs = 7500 secs Labs speed: 500 * 30 secs = 15000 secs Bots stack size: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs Modules: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs Kovarex: 1500 * 30 secs = 45000 secs 67% at 45:12:33 time mark 100% at 45:13:01 time mark 33% of research done in 28 seconds 100% of research should take about 84 seconds Multiplying by speed: 84 secs * 22.08 = 1854 secs AND - 99% never actually showed up. This could mean that the packets required is less than 100. My best bet is uranium fuel conversion - the only one that could be researched that fast, and skip 99% progress mark.
KOWALSKI, ANALYSIS!!! So the research you were doing at the end: the first one was only using red/green/blue/purple science, and the second one (that I can confirm), was only using red/green/blue/yellow. Maybe purple/military was also used, but I can't say for sure. For the first research, the only ones that are possible are the two related to nuclear power (kovarex and the other one I forgot), stack inserter, blue belts, bot speed, speed/efficiency module, and lab research speed. I'll rule out the stack inserter, robots speed, modules, and lab research speed. They're good to have, but not always a necessity. Since you set aside 160 green candies for Kovarex, I'd say that's probably the most likely first research you did, just to make sure the base won't run out of electricity while you're gone because... For the second research, (it could potentially be anything), but I'll go ahead and guess you're doing the RCU for the Spidertron, especially considering you also built some new explody toys. Boom boom! I'll see if my predictions are correct in the next video :D!
You did a better analysis then me. I forgot that two techs were being researched so I didn't check to see if the second tech used different colored science.
Those damn detectives... Thinking I'm smart trying to hide the evidence, but barely 30 minutes after release and he already did a full comprehensive analysis... For more clues about the first tech, take another look at my battery setup...
@@MichaelHendriks Laser turrets baby! I would combine with some artilery or atomic bomb hand controled spidertron, but I think priority is find resoruces and get to them fast.
@@MichaelHendriks Oh yeah... you also setup a LDS and blue chips factory, could very well be preparing to make a fusion reactor soon, have one or two in your armour, plus lasers, plus Spidertron, plus rockets... Then spread your new technologies with the natives... To be continued
clearly what michael meant as "better armor" was a trainsaw. two trainsaws, in fact. One to park in base for repairs and refuels, and the other to do what trains in factorio do best: kill unsuspecting pedestrians. Therefore, i conclude the next tech will be max braking force
Thanks mate! Perhaps also find a series which covers the basics for new players to help learn the game, this playthrough is not... representative of a normal gameplay experience lol
@@AdmiraldPeroxide Post of the fun is figuring some things out. You can turn off biters if that'll take some pressure off you. They're just another thing to manage balance and the game is fun either way. There's no need to go all bonkers with trains unless you feel like it. And those aren't too bad either and it can be another fun part of the game if and when you feel like getting to it.
M I C H A E L ! ---- I love the fact that the title of this video is AABBCCDD, followed by the fact that you kept the "backdoor lube" joke going. Also, I have never seen anyone showcase the bots and their logistic network in such a fun way, it really makes me want to go and play. As others have said, it's nice having the anticipation build up for a week until you deliver your super fun episode. It's great. I am on the edge of my seat to see how you'll deal with behemoths. I hope you have a lovely weekend!
FYI. Fuel cells accept productivity modules, and so as it is quite valuable item and usually not needed in large qtys, I personally use them, often without even a beacon. PS. Thank you for the great series!
No-you-don't-ism 1 and 2... And then there are even some madlads that do frame analysis and resource computation to predict possibilities... Speechless.
@@MichaelHendriks your videos have to many hidden layers and easter eggs. I have to watch them multiple times... And even then I'm not sure I get them all.
I wish that these episodes could be done every other day, but I know that, this isn't possible because you have a life, but I don't want you to have a life Michael, the factory must go on and I need more content. 🤣🤣 I'm learning circuitry in the game at the moment and would love it if you were able to show off some insanely complex circuitry in future builds for you base. If not though, I'll still be watching this series as I've learned so much! Thank you for this amazing series :)
Michael, you absolute monster, keeping the chosen research hidden as cliffhanger until next week. That's just cruel! Anyone know any trick to make next Friday arrive faster?
Seriously blown away by your base setup, both beautiful and productive. It's awe inspiring! Loving the series. I thought I'd seen it all but you are managing to teach this Factorio veteran of many years new ways of doing things
I would guess that the two sciences are efficiency module 3, and rocket control units. These are on the path to the Spidertron, and the rocket production backs this up.
Thanks to Eklers detective work and math, we know that the first research is blue belts. After slowing down the video at the end I am certain that the second research uses the yellow science packs, but no purple OR grey science packs, which only leaves the RCU research. As for why, Bloke14 pointed out that battery production doesn't quite work with the setup and could be fixed with blue belts. This would be my only guess for why blue belts was researched first and this poses another question, what to do with all those batteries? One might suspect that it is to make battery modules for a spidertron, as the second research is RCU, which enables the spidertron research and the big green party popper research. Each of these are a bit further away though, as you need Efficiency 3 modules to actually make a spidertron and kovarex enrichment as a prerequisite to making the craterizer, and I don't think you'd need increased battery production for either of these. With behemoth's so close and fire only being able to do so much before they break a wall, I think he wants to first ensure his defense with laser turret production as well as possible extra accumulators. My reasoning for this is that behemoths are resistant to both explosives and physical damage with lasers doing full damage. While he may have a bunch of laser turrets and accumulators lying around from his earlier conquests, he has a very large area to defend. He needs both accumulators and laser turrets all along the wall so that his nuclear reactor can charge the accumulators which can then power the turrets locally, and the reason for doing so is so that by chance if there are multiple attacks while his reactor needs to refuel it could consume much more fuel than would be needed if there isn't a degree of separation with a clever setup. Once this is taken care of the rest of the research will be complete and he'll feel comfortable going on the offensive with spidertron(s) and potentially some big bada-booms. The second half is all just my theory though, the only way to know for sure, is to wait patiently for next weeks episode. I'm looking forward to it!
Hey Michael, there is a small misplacement with the battery production. Only a quarter is working because of the output belt. This red underground belt is placed 7 tiles from each other, but they can only reach 6 tiles. My first suggestion to fix this would be to reroute the output belt to the right side and underground it next to the plastic. But for aesthetic reasons you might want to redesign the battery production or use blue belts.
- be me - watch the new Michael video - the setups and base is elegant and refined - go back to my base -spaghetti perfectly balanced, as all things should be I hope we'll see the EL NUKES soon
This is still nerve-wracking to watch. I'm just imagining somehow them breaking into the base, cutting supply lines, power lines, etc, and the entire base defense collapses as you are overrun
The first tech uses RGB and Purple packs. From the clues to your batteries I'm assuming it's bound to electricity. The most probable ones are speed and efficiency 3, lab speed and kovarex. You have a lot of 235 so uranium fuel recycling is useless. Efficiency 3 reduces attacks and slows evolution, but speed 3 is improves iron. Lab speed helps getting offense before the biters become dangerous. You left a lot of 238 for kovarex.
Analysis of what's being researched aside I can't wait to see how this World Peace objective is going to be completed, mostly because I have no idea how you'd set about accomplishing that
At 4:43 you could use a belt splitter in the middle of the iron line in that little space on the right and use an underground belt to take it under the fluid tanks to the inserter. But I try to use as little bots as possible because my potato can't run the game very well lol.
I think a better solution is to just remove the pump going into those tanks. That would leave room for an inserter from the iron belt. Keep the output pump if you like. There’s no real need for the input pump.
At 4:34 you say that there was no easy way to provide iron plates to the chem plant, but you can use a single splitter and 2 undergound belts to supply it with the iron plates to the right. Put the splitter bellow the light and then the underground belt from the left output of the splitter right to where the blue box is. It would only supply half a belt (since loading an underground belt from a side only picks on side of the belt while blocking the other side), but that might be enough and it doesn't look too bad or complicated.
14:19 if you build the science assemblers right next to each other you would need a lot fewer beacons and therefore have to pay for fewer modules. Right now you are beaconing roboports and open space.
4:40 a splitter and underground right there solves the need for the requester chest. Still it doesnt eat up a ton of iron so bots feeding it every now and then is _fine_.
Amazing again! What about kovax? Infinit Green Power is more worth than all. For spider u need so much rockets, Artillerie will trigger big attak groups ... There is only one way, Green Power> rockets > nuke em up :D
I've recently begun to play factorio, and well... I've found myself in a similar situation to yours, except I've only now automated blue science... My next step will be setting up the bot production and network, and... Well, I would like yellow science to upgrade my armor and create a new mall using logistic bots, but I am very starved for power, so a nuclear reactor has to be next, even long before covarex enrichment
Covarex isn't needed at all for a reactor, just expect to need a few dozen steel chests. Otherwise, a 4 reactor setup with the effective power of 12 can be easily fed by one yellow belt of uranium which doesn't take many centrifuges. Also, covarex is a massive pain in the ass anyways because it takes 60 to make 1 U235/s
@@Brent-jj6qi Yes, but as of right now, I've barely set up a single uranium ore mine, and I don't have any concrete needed to build the centrifuges... I've set up a full wall, though it only means that I have more spots to tend to now... I'm trying to create a bot frame factory now, hopefully a few roboports should be sustainable as a way to stop having me tend to the walls...
My guess is he's prepping blue belts for spitter defence, biters have not read the art of war and will therefore not understand how to properly retreat in order to win the war.
Thanks for the video ! Could you tell us/update us a bit more about your objectives for this game ?? I haven't played Factorio for years and I'm not sure what's your next plan. You mentionned that you are loosing some time regarding upgrades on your defences, what are they ? Would you make an intro with the key points of your objectives ? Thanks a lot !
Every step from here on is a step towards the final goal of world peace, as explained in the first ep. I feel laying out a detailed plan / "summary" before the actual exectution of said plan would spoil the fun of the execution, so I'd rather keep explaining as we go. Also, while I have a general plan, constant changes are neccesary due to new urgencies popping up, which would make it confusing (say A but do B)
Sorry if this is a weird comment, but I've never said it and I feel like I should: you have such a great voice. I have trouble processing spoken words, so a lot of the time I have to use captions to understand a video. Never with you. You're very good with enunciating- you seem to just do it naturally- but your voice is still very soft and pleasant to listen too. I'm sure part of that is the accent, but it also just,,, is. I've heard people with similar accents purposefully enunciate, and usually they lose a lot of that softness. You lose none of it. It's awesome, and I just wanted to let you know that. :)
Thanks, I don't think it's a weird comment. It helps a lot that I watch back the raw foorage and write a full script before editing/recording, still some tonguebreaker lines take me a lot of attempts to record
ive done a frame by frame analysis of the video and i have concluded that little johnny is actually quite rotund, and a more suitable name might be "medium joseph" as for the research, who cares about that silly stuff?
Hi, I have a "weird" request. Is it possible to have the full length play-through "uncut" episodes uploaded as well. I like to see the engineering in motion, not only the end result. If not possible, no problem.
I don't record the full playthrough, so for this one it's impossible unfortunately. Perhaps in the future I'll stream the ful playthroughs instead of recording to pc, so that would "solve" this issue. I do have a few full streams in the "livestreams" tab/in a playlist on my channel as well
Wow it's great. First time I look and don't understand how deliver blue and grey science to laboratory. Then I saw a combination with yellow and red underground belt's. It's really cheating :)
Splitter and an underground instead of the requester for the iron is a better idea no? Pickup from the same point but from an underground chute instead of the chest
Have you thought about using a dragon's teeth design for your walls? the classic simple design isn't as effective as it once was there are still a few that really mess with the pathfinding AI, might make your battle against the behemoth a bit more bearable!
Hey a suggestion, if you put the Factorio deathworld first in the title it doesnt get cut out just looking at the thumbnail on the frontpage and its easier to see its a new episode of the series at a glance
@@MichaelHendriks Fair. But no matter how well crafted the "sits prominently on top of this for all to see, for the duration of the entire video" is. (and indeed it is, and is the reason I clicked on that video, after being up to date on warptorio) The more hidden gems, like this one (I missed it the first time, only heard it, when I started looking for, "what/why is the thing the pinned comment was looking for") deserve to be called out.
Here's my full analysis:
• I use the fact noticed by others, that the research uses only red, green, blue and purple science packs, which limits possibilities greatly.
• Let's calculate labs speed:
2.3 speed (beacons) and +20% productivity and +140% speed bonus from research => 6.624 total speed [this number can be also seen at 16:00, 5.52 * 1.2 from prod modules]
* 8 labs = 53 total speed
•Researches possible (sorted by time at 1.0 speed):
Fuel reprocessing: 50 * 30 secs = 1500 secs
Blue belts: 300 * 15 secs = 4500 secs
Inserter stack size: 250 * 30 secs = 7500 secs
Labs speed: 500 * 30 secs = 15000 secs
Bots stack size: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs
Modules: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs
Kovarex: 1500 * 30 secs = 45000 secs
• Analysing video near 16:30:
67% research done at 45:12:33 in-game time mark
100% research done at 45:13:01 in-game time mark
33% of research done in 28 seconds
100% of research should take about 84 seconds
Multiplying by total labs speed: 84 secs * 53 = 4452 secs
Considering I'm multiplying time passed by 3, then by 53, one second off in my measurement gives 159 seconds of error. 4452 secs is closest to 4500 (Blue belts) and I'm off only by 48 seconds, which can be less than 0.3 seconds of error in calculating passed time. Thus, I'm pretty sure about this result. Also, anything else is pretty much far from our result: 1500 secs for fuel reprocessing, or inserter stack size for 7500 secs.
My final result is: 99% sure that he researches blue belts, unless progress bar is edited in.
The second research can't be calculated in the same way, since we can't see any progress, and blue belts don't have any obvious next research.
Also the blue belts is the only one that takes 15 seconds per one science pack.
Start: 45:12:32
Stop: 45:12:59
Inserter moved: 10 times
(59-32) / 10 = 2,7 seconds per one pack
2,7 * 5,52 speed [without prods, because it doesn't eat our packs] = 14,904 which is EXTREMELY close to 15 secs.
I'm now 99.999% sure that it's blue belts :D
And this is basically why you should never cheat in a speedrun lol. There's just no way you can outsmart an entire youtube audience, and the more viewers you have, the worse that "problem" gets! Good job sir. But now, earn bonus points for spotting WHY blue belts are first...
@@MichaelHendriks If my memory serves, the main issue your wall design has is that it can be outranged by the biggest worms/spitters, yeah? This is a bit of a crackpot guess, but I know biters don't like aggroing on belts when military is nearby. So you can add belts shoving inwards to your wall design to prevent biters from settling/standing in the dangerous 'sweet spot' near the wall.
@@MichaelHendriks Because blue belts have longer underground range, will allow you to better have them go under your walls when you expand :D!
Well done Ekler!
buncha NERDS
That was impressive to read.
This feels like the weekly anime releases. Excited when it’s time for another episode and craving for the next.
The video published 42m ago but there is a comment of 6 days old?..
Except much better than anime, that's for sure.
@@Akirasip Now that's up to a personal preference. You can find some great series. It takes years to make an anime and they're high quality, scripted by professionals and drawn by artists. Doing anything alone is nothing compared to a professional team, but technology such as frame interpolation can help a lot. Michael could try it and upload in 60/120 fps, but we're playing factorio and not some racing game.
@@manitoba-op4jx it is futile to appeal to non anime watchers
@@TheSinzy Patreon Watchers get early access
From doing a frame by frame analysis of the ending labs I didn't see any lab or inserter move any yellow or military science. After checking his tech screen, that means the only techs he could take are, braking force, fuel reprocessing, inserter stack size, blue belts, bot cargo size, speed and energy modules 3, lab speed, or kovarex enrichment. Can't be anything else with only those sciences.
Those damn detectives... Thinking I'm smart trying to hide the evidence, but barely 30 minutes after release and he already did a full comprehensive analysis...
For another clue, take another look at my battery setup...
@@MichaelHendriks someone else did another analysis that saw the second tech had yellow science and no purple science, so there are even better detectives than I.
Even though I thought the series would get boring after the suspense from almost dying every episode was over, it didn't happen. All the videos in this series are still insta clicks from me, even though they are like 1 or 2 am my time.
@@MichaelHendriks i guess first research is efficiency modules mk3, and second one is RCU. I confirm frame by frame analysis of @MIKAEL212345, first research was definitely red, green, blue, purple.
They listed possible techs, out of those only kovarex and efficiency modules seems to be real progress, as kovarex is one step closer to nukes, efficiency modules is one step closer to spidertron.
But the research seemed to progress bit too quickly for kovarex for me, as its 1500 science sets expensive, while efficiency modules only 300.
Second research definitely used yellow tech, and no purple (purple would be inserted in sync with yellow/green) and probably no black.
My guess is you are going for the spidertron, and the big battery setup you hint about is to make personal battery mk2.
Can anyone calculate those 8 labs setup speed, and compare % to the timer in the top left corner? Then we can say how expensive is this research.
OK, heres my calculations, however they might be wrong:
2.3 speed and +20% productivity => 2.76 total speed
* 8 labs = 22.08 total speed
Researches possible (sorted by time at 1.0 speed):
Uranium fuel conversion: 50 * 30 secs = 1500 secs
Blue belts: 300 * 15 secs = 4500 secs
Inserter stack size: 250 * 30 secs = 7500 secs
Labs speed: 500 * 30 secs = 15000 secs
Bots stack size: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs
Modules: 300 * 60 secs = 18000 secs
Kovarex: 1500 * 30 secs = 45000 secs
67% at 45:12:33 time mark
100% at 45:13:01 time mark
33% of research done in 28 seconds
100% of research should take about 84 seconds
Multiplying by speed: 84 secs * 22.08 = 1854 secs
AND - 99% never actually showed up. This could mean that the packets required is less than 100.
My best bet is uranium fuel conversion - the only one that could be researched that fast, and skip 99% progress mark.
KOWALSKI, ANALYSIS!!!
So the research you were doing at the end: the first one was only using red/green/blue/purple science, and the second one (that I can confirm), was only using red/green/blue/yellow. Maybe purple/military was also used, but I can't say for sure.
For the first research, the only ones that are possible are the two related to nuclear power (kovarex and the other one I forgot), stack inserter, blue belts, bot speed, speed/efficiency module, and lab research speed. I'll rule out the stack inserter, robots speed, modules, and lab research speed. They're good to have, but not always a necessity. Since you set aside 160 green candies for Kovarex, I'd say that's probably the most likely first research you did, just to make sure the base won't run out of electricity while you're gone because...
For the second research, (it could potentially be anything), but I'll go ahead and guess you're doing the RCU for the Spidertron, especially considering you also built some new explody toys. Boom boom!
I'll see if my predictions are correct in the next video :D!
You did a better analysis then me. I forgot that two techs were being researched so I didn't check to see if the second tech used different colored science.
Those damn detectives... Thinking I'm smart trying to hide the evidence, but barely 30 minutes after release and he already did a full comprehensive analysis...
For more clues about the first tech, take another look at my battery setup...
@@MichaelHendriks Pew Pew Laz0rs?!
@@MichaelHendriks Laser turrets baby! I would combine with some artilery or atomic bomb hand controled spidertron, but I think priority is find resoruces and get to them fast.
@@MichaelHendriks Oh yeah... you also setup a LDS and blue chips factory, could very well be preparing to make a fusion reactor soon, have one or two in your armour, plus lasers, plus Spidertron, plus rockets... Then spread your new technologies with the natives...
To be continued
clearly what michael meant as "better armor" was a trainsaw. two trainsaws, in fact. One to park in base for repairs and refuels, and the other to do what trains in factorio do best: kill unsuspecting pedestrians. Therefore, i conclude the next tech will be max braking force
I just love our tech currently.And with the factorio devs, and Michael Hendriks, it is a beautiful combination of challenge and perfecting paths
Such an amazing series , I’m too dumb to learn to play this game. But you make me wanna play it more and more ! Keep it up .
Thanks mate! Perhaps also find a series which covers the basics for new players to help learn the game, this playthrough is not... representative of a normal gameplay experience lol
@@MichaelHendriks I would love it, always loved factorio content but the game being so technical is scary . Keep making what you love!
Use mini time skips (aka: sleeping).
@@AdmiraldPeroxide
Post of the fun is figuring some things out. You can turn off biters if that'll take some pressure off you. They're just another thing to manage balance and the game is fun either way.
There's no need to go all bonkers with trains unless you feel like it.
And those aren't too bad either and it can be another fun part of the game if and when you feel like getting to it.
@@bpc610 I arleady bought the game so, might as well give it a try, thanks !
M I C H A E L ! ---- I love the fact that the title of this video is AABBCCDD, followed by the fact that you kept the "backdoor lube" joke going. Also, I have never seen anyone showcase the bots and their logistic network in such a fun way, it really makes me want to go and play. As others have said, it's nice having the anticipation build up for a week until you deliver your super fun episode. It's great. I am on the edge of my seat to see how you'll deal with behemoths. I hope you have a lovely weekend!
FYI. Fuel cells accept productivity modules, and so as it is quite valuable item and usually not needed in large qtys, I personally use them, often without even a beacon.
PS. Thank you for the great series!
No exaggeration, this is my favorite series on RUclips! Incredible work as always!
I feel like the "Better armor" will be a certain arachnic friend
What a title! Love this series and I'm in the process of stealing your storage ideas for an amazingly afunctional megabase.
No-you-don't-ism 1 and 2...
And then there are even some madlads that do frame analysis and resource computation to predict possibilities...
Speechless.
yes-they-do-ism, apparantly
@@MichaelHendriks your videos have to many hidden layers and easter eggs. I have to watch them multiple times... And even then I'm not sure I get them all.
Dude I love your playthrough! It's both informative and enjoyable. Keep up the great work!
Here's hoping for the ecofriendly rockets to appear next episode and the overwhelming conquer of all nearby iron patches.
I wish that these episodes could be done every other day, but I know that, this isn't possible because you have a life, but I don't want you to have a life Michael, the factory must go on and I need more content. 🤣🤣
I'm learning circuitry in the game at the moment and would love it if you were able to show off some insanely complex circuitry in future builds for you base. If not though, I'll still be watching this series as I've learned so much!
Thank you for this amazing series :)
Michael, you absolute monster, keeping the chosen research hidden as cliffhanger until next week. That's just cruel!
Anyone know any trick to make next Friday arrive faster?
The solution is in your name!
@@MichaelHendriks ahh, the billy Mitchel approach
Seriously blown away by your base setup, both beautiful and productive. It's awe inspiring! Loving the series. I thought I'd seen it all but you are managing to teach this Factorio veteran of many years new ways of doing things
I would guess that the two sciences are efficiency module 3, and rocket control units. These are on the path to the Spidertron, and the rocket production backs this up.
I’m so happy I found this channel it fills my factorio cravings
Thanks to Eklers detective work and math, we know that the first research is blue belts. After slowing down the video at the end I am certain that the second research uses the yellow science packs, but no purple OR grey science packs, which only leaves the RCU research. As for why, Bloke14 pointed out that battery production doesn't quite work with the setup and could be fixed with blue belts. This would be my only guess for why blue belts was researched first and this poses another question, what to do with all those batteries?
One might suspect that it is to make battery modules for a spidertron, as the second research is RCU, which enables the spidertron research and the big green party popper research. Each of these are a bit further away though, as you need Efficiency 3 modules to actually make a spidertron and kovarex enrichment as a prerequisite to making the craterizer, and I don't think you'd need increased battery production for either of these. With behemoth's so close and fire only being able to do so much before they break a wall, I think he wants to first ensure his defense with laser turret production as well as possible extra accumulators.
My reasoning for this is that behemoths are resistant to both explosives and physical damage with lasers doing full damage. While he may have a bunch of laser turrets and accumulators lying around from his earlier conquests, he has a very large area to defend. He needs both accumulators and laser turrets all along the wall so that his nuclear reactor can charge the accumulators which can then power the turrets locally, and the reason for doing so is so that by chance if there are multiple attacks while his reactor needs to refuel it could consume much more fuel than would be needed if there isn't a degree of separation with a clever setup.
Once this is taken care of the rest of the research will be complete and he'll feel comfortable going on the offensive with spidertron(s) and potentially some big bada-booms.
The second half is all just my theory though, the only way to know for sure, is to wait patiently for next weeks episode.
I'm looking forward to it!
really love how compact this base is. I always hated how much space a standard bus base took up. this is a really great alternative!
I always hated how much space a standard bus base took up --> this
Ive finally figured out what the worst thing about your videos is.... THE WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE!!! These are amazing!
Hey Michael, there is a small misplacement with the battery production. Only a quarter is working because of the output belt. This red underground belt is placed 7 tiles from each other, but they can only reach 6 tiles. My first suggestion to fix this would be to reroute the output belt to the right side and underground it next to the plastic. But for aesthetic reasons you might want to redesign the battery production or use blue belts.
You're on to something :)
- be me
- watch the new Michael video
- the setups and base is elegant and refined
- go back to my base
-spaghetti
perfectly balanced, as all things should be
I hope we'll see the EL NUKES soon
0:45 Bugs be like "I'm fast as f**k, booiiii"...
@10:30 weeping in sadness for tress? F those trees we need more production modules and beacons.
Great work as usual. Your analyse of your base and your pogression is as interesting as the fight !
This is still nerve-wracking to watch. I'm just imagining somehow them breaking into the base, cutting supply lines, power lines, etc, and the entire base defense collapses as you are overrun
I'm also on this weekly ride. Keep this up
Just binged this series in a few hours, its like crack and now I'm up to date. Going to be going through severe withdrawals for the next week.
I can't wait for the episode all about *World Peace*
2:24 is a beautiful transition BTW, not sure if anyone else has pointed it out but I had to pause and comment.
You and Dosh are my favorite factorio channels right now! Always love the content!
Perfect to get me through a bit more of this work day :)
I used to realise that it was Friday and that you had uploaded. Now I realise it's Friday because you have uploaded.
Still watching and loving this Factorio series.
Recently started the Space Exploration - best mod ever IMO
It took me 1 year in Space Exploration just to get to an asteroid field. If you're intending to 100% it, expect the end of the world to happen first.
Thanks, for this series. I dont play factorio but these are the highlights of my youtube friday. Cant wait for the next!
I just finished work and I see this... Whiskey and cones o'clock!!
What a great continuation for this series. Can't wait for the next one!
Can’t wait to see how you get your next resources!
The first tech uses RGB and Purple packs. From the clues to your batteries I'm assuming it's bound to electricity. The most probable ones are speed and efficiency 3, lab speed and kovarex. You have a lot of 235 so uranium fuel recycling is useless. Efficiency 3 reduces attacks and slows evolution, but speed 3 is improves iron. Lab speed helps getting offense before the biters become dangerous. You left a lot of 238 for kovarex.
..excellent episode, fabulous factorio gamer god. Happy, happy, I'm impressed. :)
Great episode as always :)
absolute QUALITY CONTENT as always. cant wait to see the biter war epidsodes
These really seem best viewed in multiple episodes at a time...
I'll binge the series once it's done.
It's a bus. And a spaghetti. Some would call it busetti.
I'd call it sus.
Little johnny isn't killing you, he is just painting your armour green 9:10
It is nice when you release this on the Vietnamese national day since I don't have to go to school on this day and can watch your video as it posted.
Analysis of what's being researched aside I can't wait to see how this World Peace objective is going to be completed, mostly because I have no idea how you'd set about accomplishing that
These edits are chef's kiss
Damn, just in time for weekend, again! :D I also realized patreons have early access for up to 1 week... sounds kind of appealing :)
Why you don't make artillery and just smoke them?
Babe wake up, it’s Little Johnny time!
At 4:43 you could use a belt splitter in the middle of the iron line in that little space on the right and use an underground belt to take it under the fluid tanks to the inserter. But I try to use as little bots as possible because my potato can't run the game very well lol.
I think a better solution is to just remove the pump going into those tanks. That would leave room for an inserter from the iron belt. Keep the output pump if you like. There’s no real need for the input pump.
At 4:34 you say that there was no easy way to provide iron plates to the chem plant, but you can use a single splitter and 2 undergound belts to supply it with the iron plates to the right.
Put the splitter bellow the light and then the underground belt from the left output of the splitter right to where the blue box is. It would only supply half a belt (since loading an underground belt from a side only picks on side of the belt while blocking the other side), but that might be enough and it doesn't look too bad or complicated.
14:19 if you build the science assemblers right next to each other you would need a lot fewer beacons and therefore have to pay for fewer modules. Right now you are beaconing roboports and open space.
Also less power, as beacons consume a set amount of power not tied to how many entities they're buffing.
2:25 i do like this very compact designing :D
I just got the achievement “you’ve got a package” after this series inspired me to use bots outside my inventory for the very first time!
500 hours in
dang, it's a shame theres no way for us to know that you're researching rcu and spidertron until next week!
4:40 a splitter and underground right there solves the need for the requester chest. Still it doesnt eat up a ton of iron so bots feeding it every now and then is _fine_.
I think its better to upload half an episode every week rather than a full one every two weeks
Amazing again!
What about kovax? Infinit Green Power is more worth than all.
For spider u need so much rockets, Artillerie will trigger big attak groups
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There is only one way, Green Power> rockets > nuke em up :D
it seems like he was pretty comfortably fuelling his reactors, so it might not have been kovarex
love the ambiance
The final research was nuclear bomb, obviously. Revenge against the biters!
I made happy little girl noises when I got the notification for the latest video. Wheeeeeeee!
good work and thank you so much, Greetings from Egypt
Imagine how op planting trees would be~
Weird phrase used only by Factorio players
I've recently begun to play factorio, and well... I've found myself in a similar situation to yours, except I've only now automated blue science... My next step will be setting up the bot production and network, and... Well, I would like yellow science to upgrade my armor and create a new mall using logistic bots, but I am very starved for power, so a nuclear reactor has to be next, even long before covarex enrichment
Covarex isn't needed at all for a reactor, just expect to need a few dozen steel chests. Otherwise, a 4 reactor setup with the effective power of 12 can be easily fed by one yellow belt of uranium which doesn't take many centrifuges. Also, covarex is a massive pain in the ass anyways because it takes 60 to make 1 U235/s
@@Brent-jj6qi Yes, but as of right now, I've barely set up a single uranium ore mine, and I don't have any concrete needed to build the centrifuges... I've set up a full wall, though it only means that I have more spots to tend to now... I'm trying to create a bot frame factory now, hopefully a few roboports should be sustainable as a way to stop having me tend to the walls...
Absolute legend! FINALLY!
Exciting!
This video was uploaded 29 Minutes ago I'm viewer number 1.319 but some comments are 6 Days old how tf? Great Video btw
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@@MichaelHendriks ahhh this makes sense
My guess is he's prepping blue belts for spitter defence, biters have not read the art of war and will therefore not understand how to properly retreat in order to win the war.
again another brilliantly bright content currently delivered directly. excellent?
Excuisite Fine Fellow, Good Game!
enormous environmentalists fight fiercely, giving gamers huge headaches.
interesting interpretation! (just joking kk lol lmao)
Lubricant is connected to the engines by the backdoor.
So woderfull, thanks !
i really like your way of making videos, after that, please do space exploration (with LTN)
huge suspense
I imagine if Michael would play a Minecraft modpack that is based on Factorio (it is caled Feed the Factory)
I did play some feed the beast modpack back in the day (MC1.8)
Thanks for the video !
Could you tell us/update us a bit more about your objectives for this game ?? I haven't played Factorio for years and I'm not sure what's your next plan. You mentionned that you are loosing some time regarding upgrades on your defences, what are they ? Would you make an intro with the key points of your objectives ?
Thanks a lot !
Every step from here on is a step towards the final goal of world peace, as explained in the first ep. I feel laying out a detailed plan / "summary" before the actual exectution of said plan would spoil the fun of the execution, so I'd rather keep explaining as we go. Also, while I have a general plan, constant changes are neccesary due to new urgencies popping up, which would make it confusing (say A but do B)
@@MichaelHendriks Ok I get that !
Thought I haven't watched EP1 :D I started when you expanded ! I'll watch it ;) Have fun !
I'd go Artii, I'd spend 20% of iron left for shells, 20% of iron on rails. you probably went green shot...
Aaaaaw yeah, back in the saddle.
I prefer the patreon names in the begining of the video.
Sorry if this is a weird comment, but I've never said it and I feel like I should: you have such a great voice. I have trouble processing spoken words, so a lot of the time I have to use captions to understand a video. Never with you. You're very good with enunciating- you seem to just do it naturally- but your voice is still very soft and pleasant to listen too. I'm sure part of that is the accent, but it also just,,, is. I've heard people with similar accents purposefully enunciate, and usually they lose a lot of that softness. You lose none of it. It's awesome, and I just wanted to let you know that. :)
Thanks, I don't think it's a weird comment. It helps a lot that I watch back the raw foorage and write a full script before editing/recording, still some tonguebreaker lines take me a lot of attempts to record
@@MichaelHendriks fair, haha! Well it definitely pays off in the quality, and I thank you for it. :D Fantastic work, man!
ive done a frame by frame analysis of the video and i have concluded that little johnny is actually quite rotund, and a more suitable name might be "medium joseph"
as for the research, who cares about that silly stuff?
Hi, I have a "weird" request. Is it possible to have the full length play-through "uncut" episodes uploaded as well. I like to see the engineering in motion, not only the end result. If not possible, no problem.
I don't record the full playthrough, so for this one it's impossible unfortunately. Perhaps in the future I'll stream the ful playthroughs instead of recording to pc, so that would "solve" this issue. I do have a few full streams in the "livestreams" tab/in a playlist on my channel as well
Wow it's great. First time I look and don't understand how deliver blue and grey science to laboratory. Then I saw a combination with yellow and red underground belt's. It's really cheating :)
Facorio belt colors are the 4th spacial dimension lol... just don't use the upgrade planner!
Very nice
Fantastic ending haha made me laugh 😂
SPAGHETTI BUS!
Splitter and an underground instead of the requester for the iron is a better idea no? Pickup from the same point but from an underground chute instead of the chest
Tried but looks messy
@@MichaelHendriks haha fair enough, even if you side load the underground from the splitter? I think that would look clean
@@MichaelHendriks like if you split the line so the underground is parallel with the current requester
that’s deadass rn
Have you thought about using a dragon's teeth design for your walls? the classic simple design isn't as effective as it once was there are still a few that really mess with the pathfinding AI, might make your battle against the behemoth a bit more bearable!
Negative. My bots shall suffer and die to repay their early-game treason!
@@MichaelHendriks Actually ... it was NOT treason. You told them to take down that wall ... just saying ;)
ima be sad when this playthroughs over
the way you play this game so efficiently and beautifully annoys me
Hey a suggestion, if you put the Factorio deathworld first in the title it doesnt get cut out just looking at the thumbnail on the frontpage and its easier to see its a new episode of the series at a glance
We all have heard of Little Johnny but what about large Jeremy?
Nautical Kilo-Miles, nice.
A cheap score compared to the title of this episode ;)
@@MichaelHendriks Fair.
But no matter how well crafted the "sits prominently on top of this for all to see, for the duration of the entire video" is.
(and indeed it is, and is the reason I clicked on that video, after being up to date on warptorio)
The more hidden gems, like this one
(I missed it the first time, only heard it, when I started looking for, "what/why is the thing the pinned comment was looking for")
deserve to be called out.