In Factorio, expanding factory power requirements necessitates systematic infrastructure upgrades: steam engines provide initial power generation (18 MW per engine), while oil refining unlocks advanced technologies including plastic production, sulfuric acid, and laser turrets. The progression from basic steam power to oil-based systems demonstrates how factory automation requires balancing power consumption with resource availability, with oil patches serving as critical bottlenecks that determine production capacity.
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A GROWING FACTORY NEEDS POWER | Factorio: Space Age
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Hello. Okay.
Okay.
Uh, today we are playing Factorio the game first.
Hello, Omar. Welcome back.
Ooh, there's overwater. That's cool.
Okay, let's continue back in the world.
Um, I forgot to watch the Subnotica 2 stream. That's all right.
I think uh I think I scheduled one for next Tuesday. So, okay. Last time in this world, we finished our expansion of the base.
We got our main bus going. We're also being attacked like nonstop.
Um, wait. What does it mean if I can destroy things from here? Oh, that just marks it for destruction. Never mind.
Okay, so last time I said I wanted to get more power because this little contraption we have here is supplying us with enough power, but we're going to need more power. So, I have a little outline for I don't know, one, two, three, three sections of of steam engines.
Uh, for now at least because our coal supply is kind of small. We don't have we have there's a bigger coal path over there. Eventually, I think going there would be a good idea.
Um but for now we we'll just do what what space we have. Uh so steam engines I want to make I think I do 10 10 boilers on each side. So, one boiler, 10 here, 10 there, which means each of them will have 40, which means I would need 120 steam engine, which is a lot of pipes.
Uh, pipes.
Get some iron first.
69 uh 82 full of iron. 93. Oh, I should probably instead of doing that, I should probably steal all these gears and make as many as I can.
Oh, I forgot they stack in tens.
Okay, that's all right. That's already one of them. I need more than that.
Also, what's with like the YouTube chat thing like auto translating things that it thinks it's not English?
because that confused me with the first chat from you, Omari. It said like of because it was auto translated into of from whatever language.
But when I mouse over it says a to ease.
I think I should place a chest somewhere. I don't have any pipe production.
Well, I guess at this juncture I don't need too many pipes, so that probably makes sense.
Um, and with my usual usual how I play this game is that I'm going to place a bunch of chests in random areas because did I put my better suit? Heavy armor, light armor. Okay. Yeah, I did.
Oh, each of these have um different sounds when you put them in the chest.
Look at that.
Right now, I have It's better if I do this.
What am I missing?
Well, pipes is the biggest one.
I don't want to be making gears.
Right now we have 62 which is halfway. I need 120 which also means I need Well, I have 20 boilers. No, wait. Well, each two steam engines for one boiler, which is 60 boilers.
I have enough for uh two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. I think that should be 60.
And then I need how many?
72. Let me do the math here.
77 79 84 89 94 I think that should be the right math.
So 94 which means we need six plus. So we need 26.
One, two, three, four, four, five, and one more.
Think I should have everything else all set and done. Let me get some more pipes just in case.
Oh, I guess we're still trickling in a lot of bullets, I guess. I don't know.
Game looks so confusing. It is, but I play this game so much that it's pretty normal to me. though.
Oh, they're on different sides of the belt.
Weird.
Or is that just um No, that is that's H.
Never noticed that.
Um they should be getting ammunition.
Oh, this just doesn't have an inserter in the first place.
Okay.
Uh, I think I should make like more pumps. Okay, that should be everything for Why are there so many biters? This is a death world.
Uh, so there's biters all the time.
I'm going to put some power. I'm going to move this. Uh, I might as well put these also. Oh, yeah. No wonder this is It's probably why nothing ever looks correct.
I should probably get rid of this old no longer used bullet factory.
I think I I think reclaiming a lot of this iron ore would be really nice. Good luck. That's all I can say. Well, I'll take that. Uh I usually play in Death World, so it should be fine, but who knows? It's been a while since I played death world, so could end up bad.
But so far, so far I've been doing good.
Um, when I first landed in this world that we're not doing good, but right now it's fine.
I put 20. One, two, three, two, four, six, eight.
Wait, do I do Oh, I think I allowed space for a lot more than I thought.
Wait a minute.
How much water does the pump make?
34 out of 1,200 per second.
Oh, so this can pump a lot of water.
Okay, so I think let's keep it. I think I'm allotted space for 20 in length instead of 10.
Uh but for now I think fine.
You should try out the No Man's uh No Man's Sky. It's a space game that can let you warp to other galaxies. And the story the story is pretty long. also very awesome ship building. Um, I think I I've seen No Man's Sky.
I think the only reason I didn't I don't have is because I think I just didn't want to spend that spend money at that time. Um, currently I don't think I have any interest in No Man's Sky. I'm sure it'll be fine. I have like 40 connected to one pump and it's still working somehow.
Yeah, I just don't remember because I I kind of remember the steam engines to boiler ratio, but I forgot like if pumps mattered, but from your experience, I think one pump is more than enough. And just by the math, I think it's more than enough. Yeah, I feel like it was 20 or maybe not. I can't remember.
I definitely made space for 20. That's what it looks like.
Okay, then we want I think this should be correct.
And then there's the space. Um, okay. The efficient way.
Oh, no.
I'm going to make these face this way.
And I'm just going to lot as much space as.
Okay. Maybe I should turn on some of these first because I want to destroy that to a lot space. But I'll turn on one of these sections first.
I'm not like dead on arrival, whatever they say.
Okay, so that's most of the infrastructure done.
What's even supplying all this coal?
I'm going to do something.
So, how much more space can this hold?
If I were to do this, then I would have to place my belt here.
I will place my belt here.
And then I guess I'll turn this on first.
I run out of power. Okay.
Oh, I need another connection here.
Where did my pipes go? Did I burn out pipes?
Here.
No, I don't need I don't need these slow regular ones. I want the faster ones.
You know, I don't think they'll make much of a difference in this use case.
I need to power these up first. Connect them to our main power grid. I want this to be in the same No.
Oh, okay. Whatever. This put some lights here as well.
Okay, so that's that. Uh, I think I'm going to reroute the coal upwards and we're going to go around.
I'm going to keep this on for now.
Also, I want to repair these pipes.
Oh, well, that's what I wanted to do.
Okay, there's no power in that, but we can do a fix.
Okay, now we have more power on uh Okay, let's let's deconstruct these.
The factory must grow. Yes, indeed.
They always does. Let me scrap this kind of duct tape together.
also pick up this coal.
These steam engines are still running on like fumes right now.
How much steam did they store?
Oh, now it's running out. It's running out now. Okay, that's strange.
Okay, that's our first one. Our first one makes 18 megawws, which means this makes in total 18 time three, which I don't know what 18 time that's 9 * 6. So that's 54.
Okay. Well, better than nothing.
But if I actually if I double this and have 20 on each of them, then it'll make like 108.
trying to automate uranium centrifuge production and it takes so many resources.
Yeah.
Wait, the actual centrifuge itself or just the production of uranium 230 something and power that power this.
Oh, the actual centrifuge itself.
Yeah, that's good. I think Yeah, that that sounds that sounds really difficult.
I don't think I've ever Have I? I don't know. I think even when I had like a bunch of reactors going at the same time, I never needed to make Unless you Is there something? You know what? Uh, I don't need to know right now. Maybe maybe there's something different buil along the lines. But if it's not related to space age, I wonder what their use is.
If it is something with space age, then I don't want to know. I want to I want to see for myself.
Oh, wait. This is not going to work. I'm not able to fit.
I'm just try to smush this in as far as possible.
It's base age. It's my first through of the game, so I'm trying my best.
I think you'll do fine. I mean, if you're if you're um automating centrifuges, I think you're I think you're doing great.
I think every time I've used I think I think I just handcrafted them or at least just made like a set amount.
Oh, wait. I should probably put f first plan to go is in space age is Vulcanus.
Okay. Uh, I should probably put something like nose blows or something.
It's fine. Um, I guess sword heal eight, but probably put like a disclaimer or something.
Uh, oh yeah, I forgot. These are not even connected to water. No wonder they're not working.
Oh man, that's going to look Wait, but that's not even the right one.
Okay, now that's correct.
It's going to be two. Wait, no.
That's also going to be two.
Fine, I guess.
Then pipe here and then a pipe here and then water. Water.
I definitely need more mining for coal.
I don't think that's going to keep up. I think I should just mine all the coal at this point. I have enough materials to make like a whole bunch of uh electric mining drills. Much power.
Oh, 75 megaww. So, I did do my math wrong.
Maybe I did do my math wrong.
Well, whatever. No big deal.
Um, I can probably fill up the whole coal patch with like 50 or so mining drills.
Okay, I can make exactly 50 without without making the foundry. Is that a space age thing?
If so, um I'd like if you uh not say uh any more space age things, space age things. I want to explore these um new as I go through the uh the game This doesn't mean cool, does it? No.
How far can I get? Or no, I mean copper, not coal.
this far.
Wait, this is not power.
powered.
Need more poles.
I'm just going to connect this to that.
Uh, make this go output priority left.
So this will just go all into there.
Okay. Nice.
Uhhuh. Hour is looking very very nice.
Production is good.
Well, we haven't played for 50 hours, let alone probably close to 10 hours.
Okay, so we have better power. Um, that was just the first thing I wanted to do.
I guess oil would be another thing. I guess that was the main thing I wanted to do in this um stream. But we're only 30 minutes in.
We definitely have time to do a lot more.
I think first things first, how far does the say the bacteria, but this is not bacteria.
Um, okay. So, at this juncture, we can do a couple of things.
One, I think something we definitely should do is oil. Um, and to get that started, I think we're basically bottlenecked. Yeah, we're Yeah, but I think oil is is the logical next one.
So, oil oil is going to be a difficult one because our closest oil patch is this one.
Now, there's not much oil in there to begin with, but it is our closest oil patch.
We could go for this one, but I think it's probably easier just to go right.
So, what I need is a bunch of turrets.
So, this is going to be my first experiment. I mean, I've done turret creeper with regular turrets before.
I don't particularly like doing turret creep with regular turrets.
Um, now how is the Okay, doing pretty good.
We have surplus.
Okay, I'm going to poke a hole actually.
Yes.
Well, that's not going to fit, but whatever.
I'm going to poke a hole straight through our wall. And I'm I could do tur creep. What? Maybe I should do Maybe I should get some more powerps first and some more insertters, I guess, because I don't want to constantly have to refill these turrets. I want to I'll just pull it off of the main walls belt, which means also to bring power This is why I am a fan of laser turrets.
I'll have to bring bullets. That's why I don't have to bring bullets for them.
How far can I go before I start getting killed?
I should I should also bring walls.
Crap.
Um, how should I do this?
Oh, we have grenades is here as well. I forgot we have some grenades. I don't think these grenades are really that good, but you know, we'll actually research that as well. Uh, why not?
I don't have lights on me, but I don't think I'm making lights anyways.
I'm going to make my first set of fallback turrets here.
Grenades can be useful against nesters.
Be really careful about the worms. Yeah.
Um, assuming I know what you're talking about, it's the worms that just pop out of the ground. I have to be careful not to walk too close because I don't want to Oh, they're coming from down there.
Okay. Strange.
Um, okay.
We'll slowly creep upwards and I'll make Couple of these for that one to come in. Okay.
How good are these?
Oh, it's right click. I thought it was left click.
Okay, I am not close enough. I need to be way closer than this. How's our Okay, we're still good and everything.
Oh god.
Oh, that the acid they spit is terrible.
I should have brought fish with me, didn't I? But I didn't bring fish.
Who are you spitting at?
I need to distract some of them. Oh, I keep forgetting it's not left click, it's right click.
Oh crap.
Uh, okay. I'm a little quiet because I have to concentrate.
Okay, now it's time to lob a bunch of grenades. Oh, I forgot these grenades are sucky in the beginning.
This is going to be difficult.
Who's spitting at Uh, okay. I'm definitely living on borrowed time right now.
Oo.
Oh my god, this is bad.
I'm not using the grenades against them.
Oh god, I definitely need some fish, don't I?
Uh, I wonder if I should do trick creeping like this.
This is a turret creeping method I've never done.
I'm willing to experiment.
One bunch of grenades. Oo.
Okay, I'm making a nice dent in them, but it's nowhere near what I would like.
Still too many of them.
I can go around.
Okay.
reduce some of This that goes.
the worms.
Holy crap.
Oh, I'm going to need I need more grenades.
Okay, dodge and weave. Dodge and weave.
That's the best thing I can do right now. Just dodge and weave.
I really wish I had bots right now. Oh, shoot. That's not what I'm meant to do.
Might get rid of this thing.
that I'm going to preplace a bunch of free place a bunch of those so I can just sacrifice a bunch of turrets.
Oh, okay. Well, that one's gone. Ah, I didn't mean to. Oh, I'm keep forgetting that's tossing grenades.
Oof.
And oil's up there, but we need to go up as well.
I think at I think I definitely should clear out this board. And then maybe do a split and move the wall to here.
But for this one, that's going to be a little bit more.
Oh no.
Well, let me get more grenades first because I think I'm out of grenades. I have 25 left.
Also, we're not doing too good on the production side of this stuff.
We're making as many as we can.
More grenades. More grenades.
I really need fish. Too lazy to get fish.
There's like no Z is drop. F is the pick. I keep pressing the wrong button.
do another one of these. I have 35 turrets left, so I should be to go on able to go on for a little bit more before I totally run out.
Yeah, they're really good against worms, but these things are also really good against me.
I think it's time to bring another one in as well.
Come on. Reach that one.
Okay.
Holy crap.
I see there's fish right there. Is there? No, there's no fish anywhere here.
I think I might have blown all them up.
Okay, that's good. That's good. That's good. Okay, it's time to push another one of these up.
I can see the water. We're almost there.
We've probably gotten around I don't know. I think being I think saying a quarter would be gracious would be generous for this.
If I can just blow enough of these up.
I think I should try to reach the end of this water before I go head downwards.
Oh, I'm on the wrong side of the water.
I just use these as like a distraction.
Yes, it's actually very effective as a distraction. But I'm almost dead.
They can take that. They can take those.
I'm out of here.
It's an absolute waste of materials, but I'm going to I'm going to throw them at them.
There's no tomorrow.
I should get more more grenades and all this just for four puddles of oil.
What? How many repair packs on me? I have five.
Should be enough.
Oh, these are pretty heavily damaged.
Them back to tiptop shape.
Let's do another round of expansions.
Oh god.
They're in the way. Oh, the water's in the way.
Come on. That is so close. Oh, the first one's already dead.
Uh, where's my grenades? Start tasks.
Oh, okay. That one. Okay.
Where can I go?
Oh.
Oh my god.
Let me bring you along. Do I have any?
Okay, I have regular insertters I can throw at them.
Come on.
I better not run into my own grenades.
That would be a terrible idea.
Oh, I'm going to get back. Okay.
I've nearly gotten run over like five times since I've been watching you.
That's why you don't you don't Well, it's not drink and drive, but it's distracted driving.
That's bad even in game.
I can't tell if you're being I think you're probably being run over by your trains, which is different thing. It's like don't look at your phone while crossing the street.
Okay, I am so close.
Not there yet.
Oh god.
Okay.
Oh wait, these don't have Come on. I'm at the water.
Okay, get him. Get him. Get him.
I can see the water.
It's like a minefield.
No, I meant by trains I'm playing. Yeah.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I mean, I'm multitasking as well. I'm trying to throw grenades and also look at my turrets and also not run into these puddles of acid. And I'm doing that already already. Uh on Oh, that's right into.
No. Come on. There.
I made it.
Holy crap. After so many turrets, I've made it to Oh boy.
Hopefully they're holding strong. I I hope I'm going to make a temporary one going up.
Oh, wait.
What the hell?
Oh, wait. This is not powered.
Oh, I'm out of grenades.
I might have to just do this with a with a shotgun.
Shotgun in a dream.
Oh, I'm out of bullets again.
Why they're spawning the medium ones?
Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay.
Yes.
Where's the single? Here it is.
Wow.
All of that just for one steaming patch.
Well, I mean, there's three more over here.
Oh, maybe I should not be standing in the line of fire.
That would be good if I was not standing in the line of fire. Okay, so we made it to the ocean, which is good.
I think this wall should be extended all the way to the ocean and then curve downwards.
I think that would be the most have to clear out. I don't have any grenades.
Oh boy, this is Rough.
Uh, we still have a plenty of turrets.
What else do we need? Uh, insertters.
Grab some more of those. A bunch of grenades again.
The reason I'm building a new mine is that is where one of my trains runs through it and cuts the mine essentially in half.
I don't think I quite understand what that means.
Okay. Uh, now I have a new set of grenades ready to just throw a whole salvo of them at the front lines.
Those don't have any. That's fine.
Got a Uh, avoid all the acid puddles. Just ran to another one. Oh, you don't run to that one.
Come on.
Oh, but like when you're crossing through your mind, you're just you were not looking. So, he kept getting run over by trains.
Okay, I can't see what Okay, so it's definitely dropped a bunch, but I still can't quite get a hold. I did not mean to lure a bunch of them over here.
terrorists.
Come on.
This is going to be staggered.
One. Oh, that's too much acid.
too much.
Oh, I'm still being acided.
Oh, that's not being powered.
Oh, some those are getting destroyed.
Oh, there they go.
Oh, well, that was never Oh, that was already destroyed. Okay, they're being destroyed one after another.
Okay, get rid of the worms. That's what I'm worrying most about.
The turrets can handle everything else, but Oh, now they're starting to rain from up top.
Genius.
Thinning them out pretty well.
Going for some more riskier moves.
So, now we have a closer one. Okay, those three musketeers of worms better be killed because they're they're doing a lot of damage.
Oh my god, they all shoot at the same time.
I think I killed a couple of them.
Killed two of them.
Okay, I think I've essentially split the their network in half basically.
I think it'd be really bold for me to do to continue like this.
I'm out of grenades again.
Oh my god. Okay. Uh uh uh uh uh. Power these up. Oh.
No, I need grenades. This is not doing good.
Oh no.
Uh can I shoot all of them? Oh, do you have access to defender capsules yet? Um, let me see if I can Oh, I can almost I can research them.
Wait, no. I think I should have Well, no, I don't have access. That's actually a good idea.
Good idea. I forgot about I forgot I forgot about those.
That's a good one. But how? Wait, how do you make these?
Oh, they're actually pretty cheap. Okay.
In fact, I can probably make them just by hand. I mean, they they shouldn't cost too much, right? Well, they take 8 seconds to craft.
Anywh who, I can carry gears and bullets and everything on me.
Wow. Immediate reception is terrible.
Come on.
Get him. Get him. Get him. Get him.
Yes.
That corner is gone. Now just this corner left.
Crap.
Oh, I I used them along with grenades to basically steamroll nest and it's pretty good up until you hit blue bugs for biters.
I mean, I guess.
Yeah. Okay. Um, I think they spawn like three, don't they? Like spawn like three per.
Oh.
Yes. I think there's like like two one more. Two more.
Yes.
That is the first nest fully cleared out.
Uh now I guess it wouldn't be too hard to clear out. Yeah, I think I think it is a better idea to clear out these nests and get the tiny bits of oil we have there instead of getting these because there these are way bigger and there's way more of them.
I think for now this should be a good end for here.
Um I want to extend the wall down there for now, but I think one I need more grenades. two. I definitely want to make more of these.
They launch. Oh, no. The crate one.
Okay.
It lasts 45 seconds.
Oh, I'm not going to be getting many grenades like this.
Probably wait for research to done to finish.
Or I can just go in now.
Would not be a great idea.
Possible idea. Or I can just make like a tiny corridor for oil because we don't need that much space. We just need a little bit.
And a little bit goes a long way.
Let's make the foundations for this expansion.
Okay, let's do a pilot.
Oh god, they're like dying super quickly.
Um, I am not Okay, it's not bad. I'm I mean, just for how much I have right now, they're doing pretty good.
Oh, I should not I should stop running into all of them. Oh, a pretty good That's a pretty good dent.
Uh, what else can we do?
Not much. Guess we can research the stuff that we don't need oil or uh military.
I definitely need more grenades. I definitely need more everything.
My grenade stocks are like nothing.
I need for this three iron gears and a Let me just get a bunch of iron gears.
bunch of circuits.
And now we can probably make a whole bunch of these.
I want these grenades. Give me them.
Wait.
So, how many robots can I have?
I should look at the research.
What did I just research? I don't know.
I think as many as you want at one time.
I haven't found a limit.
Thought there was a limit.
What did I research then? What was that?
Uh, follower robot count. Oh, wait. So, now this was from 20 to 25 or 24 30.
I think 30 Then some more of these.
Oo.
Okay. But there's still way too many of these spinning things.
Not a bad idea. This is not a badge.
Big rock in the way. Ah.
See if there's any fish in the water.
They didn't remove fish, did they? No, they didn't.
Oh.
So, how do I eat fish? Oh, right click.
Get him. Get him. Get him. Get him.
Get him. Get him. Get him. Get him.
Oh god. Eat more fish.
Not a bad strategy. It's actually pretty good.
Hope I don't get Shoot.
rock.
Oh, they're all out.
Oh, someone. Oh, they they broke a Wonder there's no more of them.
Oh, this is going to take forever.
Okay, now we're back in order, but we lost like I don't know.
Okay.
I can't even see the ground. There's too many biters and stuff.
Oh, and these are off.
One, two, three. Uh oh. What is this?
There's rocks in the way.
Okay.
Oh, grenades.
171 grenades.
More grenades.
182 grenades. Okay.
Feel like that should be enough to do some major carnage on these punks.
Okay, time to go hard as I can. I better they better not attack now. At least I'm going to try disperse them. Those are all spitters.
Wow.
Okay. H. Stop this.
Let me through. Oh, I did not mean to open. Whatever.
How many can I have? Like Oh, 20.
Holy crap. They they die like butter. I need more fish.
I still need to bring these up though, which is going to be my downfall.
Ah. Whoa.
Can I spawn them like here?
Oh.
Come on.
Fish.
Look at all these fish.
Ah, I didn't mean to open my map.
Oh god, it's all of the worms.
Let me heal back up all the way. And I'm going to go like this. I did not mean to do that. Oh god.
I cannot eat fish fast enough for this.
It's all the worms. All the worms.
Nope. Nope. I have one fish left. I'm leave. I'm going to leave. I'm leave.
O. Okay, that's a big piece of them. Something's not going right.
Don't destroy this.
What are you doing?
These are hungry, hungry, hungry turrets.
I think they mispaced them. One one of them. I don't know which one.
You don't camp. Oh my god.
Okay, we have our steaming puddles of oil. Where are they?
I lost them. Oh, they're right here.
Do fish respawn? I hope they do.
I need so much fish.
Oh no.
I wish I had the other bots. What were they called?
The ones are like stationary distractor pots.
Those are really expensive.
Heat.
Heat.
Something's not right.
Something break along here again.
Oh, you're kidding me.
Oh, they're all being destroyed.
Oh, my lovely turrets.
It was fixed once before.
I should start off from a different point of this.
I thought that belt was already pretty vulnerable to begin with.
Um, I need anything I think I need a better strategy than this. This is not panning out.
Oh my god, I wasn't paying attention.
Did that thing break again?
This bell is broken.
Oh my god.
I think it's it's high time I start expanding the wall from here.
Yeah, I feel like that's probably a better idea. Then I can free up a bunch of the turrets from below.
My god. Uh so instead of what I'm going to do is uh we'll have another split which is probably not a great idea.
Uh, how far does this go?
Pretty damn far.
That's probably Is this still firing?
Not really a good sign.
Oh, this is not what I thought was going to happen.
to escalate.
I'm going to use whatever left I have to try to Oh, bad idea.
I was going to say I was trying to peter him out with whatever I have left, but it's obviously Whoa.
not working.
I think the next line of defense I want to get is fire growers.
We're splitting. We're still splitting some of these. I'm going to wait for this to fill up.
Okay, now I think we have fully it's fully going on to one part of the line now.
Could be a better something destroyed. And that's destroyed.
I'm going to need to clear out a little bit of a buffer for that.
Uh, what else do I need?
Turrets. I have Oh, I need more insertters.
Uh, okay.
Do you have something that automatically craft turrets for me? Yes. It's one machine, but it's more than enough.
That's why I was able to just throw turrets at the biters. Otherwise, I'd probably be a little bit more conservative of how much how many turrets I'm using.
Oh, wait. We have medium spitters now.
Crap.
Okay, to slow down this, let's actually get a bunch of these down.
Dodge and weave. Dodge and weave. Dodge and weave. It's working.
Oh god, it's less working now.
Work for a little bit.
Dodge and weave.
Okay, clear out most of them. I think that's fine.
Okay, so that should quiet them a little bit at least.
At least they're a little bit farther away from the wall.
I can finish this wall in peace.
Which where does it end?
All the way over here.
I should make one that automatically crafts these defender t um not defenders, defender bots.
I definitely need that.
No. Turn this wall down.
I think we're I think I should be safe enough just to place all turrets without anything yet.
Yeah.
Okay.
Once once grenades stop working, I suggest going straight to exploding rockets or flames. That's what I did. Uh I probably go with flames. I I don't think I really tried exploding rockets, but I should try that.
Uh but currently I think it works.
F. I think it works fine.
Um, I guess for this portion of the wall, I'm going to make it a complete curve.
Um, I guess that worked.
Reason being I want ample is if I end it here again I'm going to come into the issue of they can shoot from here but if I end the turrets here they can't shoot from there at least I don't think so.
So I'm going to hope Now this works.
Power this up.
How many lights we have along this thing?
Not many.
How many can we make? Okay, more of the And we have another wall done.
Okay, let's place a a radar here.
We can see what's happening. And we have trees here. Well, actually, no. They're all dead.
What? Ah, they're all spitters basically.
H how far should I The wall can start like right here.
That gives us a ton of space for whatever we need here.
Okay.
Uh, this is bad.
So the oil is go up a little bit more.
Okay, that would just be one there. Okay, perfect. I think be just enough space.
And the lucky one is well we're in let's go with um you uh oh wait no we're going up So well like Yes.
Think this would work out.
How should I do Uh, this is a little bit farther than the other one.
I think we'll just for this one we'll slowly inch uh turrets belts. I can inch I guess farther.
I can hear them destroying something.
Don't know what. Oh my god.
Well, I can't even tell what's what.
I can't there.
Well, this is going to be a pain. Oh, it sure is.
At least we'll have a wall going on and a permanent one.
Slowly inch forward.
Slowly but surely inching forward.
You know what? Maybe it's not as painful as it might seem.
Well, actually, we're only like a third of the way through. Maybe it is.
I think it's 20. Okay, let's clear a bunch of these I mean, the the grenades can hold them at bay for a pretty good while.
I'm happy about There goes all my bots.
Where are the repair packs?
Can I repair a rock?
I'm just going to destroy that rock.
Yes, you can.
I'm tempted. I'm tempted to try. Even though I don't Well, I think I was supposed to press left click. I pressed right click anyways.
Never mind.
Didn't even get to trick myself. Even if I wanted to press the wrong button.
Uh we're so we're basically like doubling our base again just in like a different direction.
Oh, wow.
When's the next bullets coming in? Oh, never. That's when they're coming in.
Need to clear more of these in the way again.
I have 16 of these. 102 grenades in a dream.
Okay, think I can I can pro. Well, hold on before I die first.
Oh god, I need to eat fish because I can.
Whoa.
Oh, that one is almost dead. Come on.
It's like one stiff breeze away from blowing over.
What?
Oh, finally.
I'm going to add another five of these.
I Oh, when they need output ones. Uh, felt like this used to have order, but now there's no order.
Okay, that's another five of those.
Maybe they won't be so out of bullets by now.
Okay.
How long does it take for these blowing? Well, that's going to take a while.
Oh. Oh, I need to clear more of them. They're taking too many bullets in this bad.
What else can we research right now? Uh, that wouldn't be too bad, but we can't do anything else.
only. Oh, I didn't pick up circuits.
That's why I basically need to clear like whatever is already here.
I can Okay.
I'm Oh. Uh, that's research.
Hopefully that cleared at least a little bit.
Okay, we seem to be okay. We're good.
We're good to go.
We don't have any belts.
I think we'll probably set up like some pretty basic oil. Uh, I was going to say drigging, but that's not that's not a word. I say drill and rigging.
Um, once we get the oil, but this is going to take some time.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
This is a ton of attacks.
We will make it though.
Just two turrets at a time.
It's very slow, but it's working.
Question mark.
Uh, actually, this is a pretty thin part of whatever is there. So, I think we should be able just to straight bulldo through them.
if I'm getting my calculations correct.
Uh, Yeah, flames would definitely would have handled this better.
Um, I mean, I technically could have set up some kind of like Oh, no.
I could have set up some kind of just temporary oil so I can get this over with.
What the crap?
Oh no, there's blues.
I thought that was strange.
I thought there was a strange color among them. Amongst them.
There was.
The blues are in here now.
technology research map done. Really? I thought it was just pollution.
I thought all they reacted to was pollution. Maybe that's a thing that I'm not Oh boy.
Hey, we're really close to the ocean, which is giving me hope.
Oh no, I keep pressing my mouse button which opens.
You get some more it progresses with pollution and the tech tree if remember correctly. Was that always a thing?
I don't know.
Could be. I honestly don't know. I always thought it was just pollution, but I could be wrong.
I eat fish, but they're too far away. We have one oil patch here. We have one, two, three. So, we have four in total.
They take considerable time to take down.
It's these worms.
Okay.
What? Oh, it's those. That's what's causing all this problems.
There's like lob a bunch of grenades over there. Yes.
Okay.
Should mitigate most of them.
Holy crap.
Okay. Well, that's that's how it went for me because I found blues in an area my pollution never even touched before.
I thought they just Okay, in in my mind I thought they were kind of just like a hive mind. So once the evolution level hit a certain point, not per nest. All of them once they are loaded, they start spawning in whatever is the evolution level. Like even if you have bases far far away that don't spawn um that were not affected by the pollution, if your evolution level was already high enough for blues, then they will start spawning in blues. That's how I thought they worked.
Um, the only reason why I think research may not affect directly to evolution is because how can they tell one and that's about it.
That's my inference or my my thought on it, my theory, that foolproof, but I guess I never looked into how it worked.
Man, I think I need to get them to here before they start really just those are words from someone else I heard on land so don't quote me directly I won't quote you because I don't know much either but from my just observations how I think it works is that if the evolution gets to a certain level it doesn't matter if it's been affected by pollution As long as the chunks were loaded on a base, they'll start producing whatever is the current level biter.
So if you have biters that you never loaded from like biter, like regular biters, small biters, and then immediately you lo you load them in so they start spawning.
I think they start spawning in at the current level. So if it's blue, they'll start they'll start spawning blue. It's my fury.
It's probably on the wiki somewhere about like evolution and what affects what.
You know, now I just remembered I don't know why I went back to my base. What did I do that for?
Do you want me to try look up on a forum? Um, sure if you want to. I think it would probably also be on the wiki. Um, but I think that's an interesting question to see the answer is Stop pressing that. Oh my god, I keep pressing the map button and I Why is like a mouse a side mouse button binded to map to map and I keep clicking it by accident.
Are these things also more defensable?
Because they take less damage. Also, I take more damage from the acid now.
This is terrible.
Do I even have rockets? How do you even research rockets? What did I even press?
Why?
Oh, I need explosives for that. Well, I mean that is a problem.
I would try them.
Could it also be that? Wait, I don't remember if you're playing on a death world as well. Could that I think there's also feel like that would also affect evolution rate.
I think it only affects like how big and how often the nests are. But maybe there is something This sucks. Oh my god. Fish is not fast enough.
Well, fish is fast enough. Just barely barely fast enough.
Uh, how should I do this?
Oh, those are still attacking. No wonder we're like hampered on bullets.
H what fish?
This is why I always need a backup supply of fish.
So it is only the pollution but spawn rate is some arbitrary thing in the game code 100 two to 360 ticks.
Okay that's that seems to line up from just I guess just experience from playing the game. I don't know.
Okay. Um, we're almost there.
The only issue is that they are constantly attacking this, which is a drain on my supplies, and these belts cannot supply enough bullets.
I mean, I guess I can upgrade them to head belts, but that is an expensive endeavor right now. I want to just I just want to finish these.
Uh, which means I need I just need a couple more bots.
Clear some of them. Okay. What am I missing?
One, two, three, four.
Otherwise, we're basically there.
Oh, I need to get fish.
Power consumption like 16 megawws. Okay.
Uh coal. Let's see. Coal. Coal is looking really good. Good. We still have plenty of coal.
Fish.
I think a couple should. Ah. Crap.
I think this should be enough. Come on.
If I just can quickly get all these Okay.
So, that's this side all good, I think.
Oh, no. This is a problem.
I just hope. You know what? I have an idea. Quick fix.
Okay, that should that should reinforce it a little bit.
The next one is this.
I have four fish. Really? I have I can get more fish in four Oo.
Oh boy. Oh god. Oh no. Oh yes.
No.
Respawn.
I can get my stuff back.
Uh, I wonder if that I spawn here. Oh, wait. No, I do spawn here.
Oh, there's a there's a nice handy dandy marker that says where my corpse is.
Sure. if that slowed down any Oh, that did.
I kind of I kind of did see that coming.
Well, you got to give it to me that after all this, I died once. Oh, shoot.
Well, well, now getting this back is going to be difficult.
Ooh. Ah. No, no, no, no.
How far can I reach this?
I grabbed everything but I I grabbed bricks and Okay, I got closer.
This is going to be a long time.
Stop. Okay. Okay. We're good. We're good. We're good. Ooh.
Okay. That reduced.
I would say enough.
I think it'd still be better if I reduce some more.
But currently, I still have to clean up this mess of tur creep, which is the first time. This is a new What happened here?
Were these always just damaged like this nice and fixed. Um, I'll have to Oh god, I have to do the whole thing of reclaiming all this. I should probably start from the very beginning because they're going to start they're going to keep like putting down bullets because what they're programmed to Where does this go? All the way up here.
Okay. Uh, that's one one part of the wall deconstructed. I'm going to keep I'm going to keep the power poles there.
Don't think it's worth it to destroy them.
This should be replaced with regular I'm probably going going to end up just putting all these things in the random steel or iron chests anyway.
This stuff is going to go real far.
Hopefully the next expansion will I think next expansion will definitely have uh fire throw or fire turrets or fire throw turrets and probably also laser turrets because those don't require bullets, meaning they're way easier to place down. All I have to do is put a power source and we're good.
I get what you mean about putting that stuff in a random iron chest. Oh my god.
In my old bases, there are just randomly strewn about steel iron chests.
Sometimes they might just even be wood chests because I can't bother to put them in. I I've never made any kind of centralized storage in Factorio.
Oh, this is going to be Oh, this is every single player knows that that that that is never going to happen. Yeah, those iron chests are like like a time capsule. Before you know it, once your base becomes like a million acres or a million miles or whatever, you just come back around and you see a random chest somewhere strewn in the middle of your base and you're like, "Wow, there's just a bunch of coal and iron ore in here. or maybe some blueprints that you somehow left or a bunch of blueprints because you keep clicking uh the blueprint thing which just makes random blueprints and sometimes uh you just put them back in your inventory and now you just have a inventory full of blueprints.
I wonder why they removed that recipe.
Maybe for just convenience sake.
I don't mind it.
I don't mind I don't have to craft blueprints. I'm full. Yep. I have like 6 million.
Good gosh.
Place these. I'm going to put this in a random steel chest just in the middle of nowhere. That's a lot of stuff.
That's going to end up being lost to time.
My chests are probably filled with random raw resources by the amount of times I've changed my belt and rerouted things in the production areas. Yeah, that's that's definitely another one.
Um, yeah, besides obsolete things and I I find myself just putting blueprints in chests and never taking them back.
Oh, this is easy to break because all the turrets already destroyed.
They're all gone already and like half the poles are eaten up.
And I think we're good.
Okay, last thing to finish up these walls and finally get to getting oil after three hours is uh lighting up these walls.
Never mind, they're still shooting. Take it back.
One day I'll I'll put I'll push them back a little bit.
And I think Don't I have another one of these? No, I'll just make one. Uh there.
Now we have real time coverage.
This spot.
Oo, there shows an island full of uranium ore.
That's cool. That's a lot of coal.
That's a lot of iron.
Still, I haven't I might have found a Oh, no. There's copper right there.
But they're all kind of inconvenient.
Oh, no. There's copper right here.
Well, that's a lot of land area.
Okay, so we have our walls now. They're defending our four puddles of oil. So, let's actually I'm going to clean out my inventory and throw it all into that. Where did the chest go?
Where'd it go? Oh, here.
What don't I need? This. This. This.
This. This. This. This. That. That. That that that.
I want the partially damaged things.
I also don't want these raw resources.
They're great, but I don't need them right now.
Okay, so we have four puddles of oil, which means we need four pump jacks, which are very, very, very, very cheap.
Steel gears. One, two, three, four.
Uh, and then what we need next is well actually I have to have the mine crude oil first.
Then probably need a bunch of pipes.
You know, I'll just take some of this from here.
Oh, there's still power poles for oil. We have oil right here. And we have an oil right here.
And the oil pumps look more or less the same.
And Not going to lie, I've never used blueprints before. Really? Have you ever used construction bots? Oh, those are the best.
I think you're missing out. I think you have to use some blueprints.
Unless everything you make is like super specific to a certain area, then I guess. But I think there's at least a couple of structures that you can just make templates of them.
Uh let's actually put lights here.
You haven't used them either. I I recommend I really do recommend using uh construction bots and blueprints. They make a lot they make turret creeping really easy. They make making like huge smelter arrays or huge ascent or production areas very easy.
Oil.
We have oil.
Okay. So do I need now?
As far as I know, you need there's a thing called advanced oil process.
Yeah. So that makes So the original one the the first one makes just petroleum and then the other one makes heavy and light as well plus water or plus needing plus water input.
What is it being destroyed?
Oh yeah, they're Uh, I don't know how much of oil I want to do today.
I definitely want to research a lot of these.
Uh, I don't think the order particularly matters. Well, actually, these are actually fast.
Um, what do I need for I want I want lasers. Oh, they need blue science.
Oh.
Man, I'm feel like I feel like lasers might be a next dream thing.
I just want to set up basic oil.
So, pollution crafting speed. Alexa, when is your next room on Factorio?
Um, I want to do them at least every week and so far I probably going to do them well I'm going I'm doing two streams next week. Um, so one's Tuesday. Uh, so probably Thursday.
Most likely Thursday. 99% guaranteed Thursday. just like um hand sanitizer. Can't guarantee 100, but I can guarantee almost.
Oh, these eat stone bricks.
Thank you for telling. No problem.
I usually like um finishing a stream in in the series before I schedule the next one in the series. Uh because that's how you that's usually how I pull the thumbnails and pull out um pull out ideas.
It's hard to predict the future too much.
What am I missing?
Steel.
What else am I missing?
Pipes, we have plenty. Steel, we have plenty. Iron, we have plenty.
Oh, we can make seven of them.
Oh, more steel.
Uh, I see about making 20.
How much should I need? I have two.
That should be good. That's 20.
That's going to take a while.
Uh, as far as I know, plastic should be the same thing. Okay. Yeah, petroleum plus coal. Uh, sulfur should be the same thing, which is Oh, yeah. Petroleum water. Oh, wait. Oh, no. Sulfuric acid.
Is that okay?
Um, so those are pretty simple to make.
Blue science and modular armor is definitely something. Modules. Yes.
Oh, those are really expensive. What is this?
Wait, you need space science just to get speed module twos now?
Really?
Oh my god, the amount of science packs on these lists are insane.
You can make your character like invincible.
Uh Plastics is easy. Sulfuric acid is easy.
What do we need sulfuric acid for?
Nothing.
Nothing so far.
These take six seconds to craft.
Takes two electronic circuits per and electronic circuit take half a second.
So this can make two a second.
I think we need to open up the copper one.
I'm currently at blue science. I'm trying to get straight to generating power using uranium before I automate another science pack.
Think I usually automate well disclaimer this is a long time ago but or not a long time ago but a couple years ago. I think I usually automate up until purple science. I mean at well back then there was only up to space science because this is before wait a rocket launch.
Whoa.
A rocket silo is only red, green, and blue. Now they took away the purple requirement for whatever it costed before. Oh wow.
just changes a lot.
Advanced circuits would be pretty nice.
Blue science is something I also need.
I probably should also open up the second copper belt.
I definitely should be placing this contraption somewhere else.
Not vertically, but now I can put it horizontally.
Uh, in fact, I can put it in here and I can make like a huge thing for just bullet automation.
Um, Almost. We can put We could put three more.
I think for now.
Wait, batteries. Isn't it just iron, copper, and Oh, this requires sulfuric acid.
Uh, okay.
Um, I think for now I'm just going to automate plastic and sulfur and then later on I can automate all the other good stuff.
And since this can just be Probably all just flow into one pipe.
And Where is this? Okay, the oil's right here.
Need to jump.
We'll have like a good little bit of oil right here.
Okay.
Connect this and connect that.
How much oil can we produce? Holy crap.
We are pumping as much oil as we can possibly get out of here.
Okay. So, we have oil being researched.
Uh well I mean oil being refined.
Okay, next thing we can do is plastic.
Um I think one bell of plastic is more than enough probably.
And since we can make two like eight should be fine. 16 And then for sul sulfur, sulfur is their items as well. So, let me get rid of the What's production looking like?
Uh let's see in fluid.
That seems about right. Oh, but you can see in the one minute mark or or 10 minute mark crude oil and then petroleum gas water has gone up as well. Oh, that's probably because of increased power consumption.
How much power are we using that? 22 megaww. Yeah. Oh, that was a big jump.
Uh 16.
These are kind of like the same ingredients for One, two, three, four.
Got 16 for one full belt of plastic.
We need plastic for anything else.
I think it was only like red red circuits.
What else do we need plastic for?
I don't think we need plastic for anything else.
Can't remember. But one full belt of plastic, one full belt of sulfur. And sulfur is produced at what rate?
Mix two. Okay, so I guess another 16.
One, two, three. Oh, wait. Shoot.
We made two.
No, no, wait. No, I think that's rever.
Yes, that's correct.
Uh, so one of these requires coal.
I bring coal all the way around.
Which possibly means?
Well, not. Well, which 100% definitely means I'm going to split off from this coal belt already like another time.
Where should I make this go?
I think this is an okay spot.
Okay.
Do we have enough belts? Probably not.
Uh, what else do we need?
I I probably should make a thing for pipes.
Oh, I also need a pump.
That's a mining drill.
Has the coal made it to the end? No, not yet. How much petroleum do we have?
3.6K. So, we're still making quite a lot.
three there.
Okay, that should be enough for that. And then okay and that is enough for that.
This is going to make plastic which requires coal. So coal is going to be on this end. Yeah, plastic is going to come out here as put three.
Okay. Uh that one doesn't require any input.
This is just water and petroleum.
Oh, wait. This is going to need a lot.
Can I make rockets?
What do rockets cost?
Explosives, which cost sulfur, coal, water. Okay, those are pretty cheap.
I I recommend explosive rockets, not the regular ones.
Oh, I'm pressing R on that. Explosive rockets would be this one.
Oh, they're just It's just a rocket plus more explosives. Okay, that seems easy enough.
Okay, let's just They do more damage and have more area effect. Okay, that sounds really good. I really want I think I used to use a lot of cluster grenades, but I don't know where they those are. Cluster grenade.
Look them up. Cluster.
Cluster. How do you even spell these?
Oh, wait.
It's probably in this one. Oh. Oh. Oh, those are utility signs.
What's the utility sign?
Oh, it's these ones.
I don't want to deal with them, but I'll have to.
Uh, oh, how do I want to do I want to deal with this one.
Maybe this Nope.
Laundry. Water. Water. Water. Water. Uh, two more.
Uh, where do I want to get water from?
probably from.
So this could be water.
Water.
Okay, that's water.
Uh probably. Um, well, this can actually just connect with that.
Wait, that's not petroleum.
This is petroleum.
I'll put this.
Put some light.
Uh this is water.
Guess this is patrol.
Uh water can come from here.
Heat.
Oh, wait. This needs light.
Actually, we're using more oil than we can make.
Realize that.
Okay.
And then Oh no, I should power this.
No, wait. No.
Power plastic.
Oh, wait.
Now, there it is.
There's our plastic. There's our sulfur.
Okay. Where's the next closest oil field?
That's a good question. I know it's right here.
Uh, it's not a convenient one. There's one with one.
It's a pretty terrible oil area.
Next best oil is here.
which is not convenient.
I don't think I see any other oil.
Uh but I think for now that's going to be it. Uh we did a lot. We got more power, tons of more power, but we're also using a lot of power as well. Uh well, not really now, but we have a new expansion. We're going to have to get a ton of things oil related and also get our next oil supply because this is not enough oil.
Uh there's a lot of oil here.
So, we're going to do stuff to get over there. Uh but with oil comes a lot of new technologies and a lot of defense.
uh unlocking a whole cluster of new things like red circuits.
Uh but that's going to be it for this stream and hope everyone enjoyed and I'll see you all next time.
Bye. Bye.
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