[YouTube] Negative Root's Factorio Tutorials

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[YouTube] Negative Root's Factorio Tutorials

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So I've been working steadily on running through most of the concepts in the game.

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We've been getting tons of questions about how to do some basic and not so basic stuff. Hopefully this helps. I always found that someone telling me in text was hard to understand when compared to watching someone actually do it.

If you would like me to run through something else or expand upon something i've already done, just let me know.

Tutorial List Concepts to Cover
  • Spotting Problems and Optimizing your Factory
    Module Automation
    Using Factoratio
    Logistic Robots Based Factories
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nice, this is going to be the no. 1 place to redirect people with questions to :D

Might be a good idea to sticky this thread in the Help forum?

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I don't know. I mean I watched some and it's really good. But if I make it sticky the problem with that is, that the next will come and make tutorials, too. The game develops and in 2 month some of that gets obsolete. And why -root and not others, which already made video tutorials?

So, sorry. No, I won't do that. ;)

I invite to make that in the wiki. The wiki is exactly the place to handle such stuff in neutral way. Either do it yourself (create a link on main page under "let's play" like "video tutorials" or so), or it takes some days and I will link it.
That page can change, that page can be linked from the forum in a sticky thread.
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I'm ok with it not being stickied. I do agree with ssilk. Sticky one, sticky them all.
ssilk wrote:And why -root and not others, which already made video tutorials?
This is just a thread to document what I'm doing and to allow discussion here on what people would like. If there is a topic you'd like me to cover, let me know :mrgreen:

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https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... =Tutorials

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awesome thanks! not only is it helping me out but now i can direct others here too.


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New tutorial is up. Talking about the inserter stack bonus. If there is something that I haven't covered or you would like me to cover, please post!

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Picked a couple to watch for a quick spot check (cause I'm nice like that :P) and heard another error.
In your Alien Science Packs video, 1000 Science pack 4s for Rocket Defense research, not 1000 artifacts.

Also, not using productivity in your labs during SP4 research?
I see you're using Power Armor 2, so you got the research and resources for L3 Productivity modules.
Especially with Rocket Defense, getting 12 research credit for every 10 packs used helps a lot more than saving a little extra power.
Science labs are quite low in power requirements these days, so there's rarely a point to using efficiency modules in them.
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n9103 wrote:Especially with Rocket Defense, getting 12 research credit for every 10 packs used helps a lot more than saving a little extra power.
Mind posting the math on this?

In particular how the gain in productivity overcomes the loss in speed.

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Most importantly, for artifact-based research, it's not about speed as much as it is availability. It's not uncommon to have your labs run out of SP4s between biter killing trips. No point in speed if they end up sitting still.

Also the speed penalty can be mostly offset by building a beacon or two.
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Just posted a video on:

Belt Rebalancers

Thank you to SBroadbent for pointing out where different rebalancers can be used appropriately.

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New tutorial!

Offensive Tactics

In this one I cover some basic offensive tactics.

Thanks for watching. If there is a topic you would like me to cover, let me know.

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Very short one for this one. Not really much to cover because it's really easy!

Late Game Offensive Tactics

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New tutorial for everyone. This is more me just screwing around in the game.

Building a Clock Using Logic Gates

Someone asked me last night on the live stream what the super prank was that I was going to pull in the Hydra Dilemma and I decided to spill the beans. So considering the cat is out of the bag, I figured I had better post the build log/tutorial so everyone could see how it works.

Yes, you can build a clock (albeit, a very inaccurate one) in factorio. All you need is some red/green wire and some patience :D

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Two more videos:

Controlling Direct Insertion
Building a Smart Furnace

I've updated the first post of the thread to reflect these two additions.

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Here's another two. This time to do with the 0.11 update.

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Made it sticky.
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Thanks Ssilk.

Incidentally, I am open to requests. If there is something people would like to see me do, let me know :mrgreen:

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Speaking of requests. I've just finished a couple of videos detailing the following:
  • - Throughput
    - Compression

    - Buffer Storage
    - Overhead
    - (Production) Capacity

    - Agility (or Nimbleness of design)
    - Intelligence (elimination of overproduction)

    - Modular
    - Expandable

    - Efficiency (Space)
    - Efficiency (Assembler utilization)
    - Efficiency (Power)

    - Cracking

    - Negative Feedback Loop

    - Rebalancer/Load Balancer
    - Bottlenecks
    - Inserter Stack Bonus
I'll be uploading them over the next week.

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