Making QUESTIONABLE DECISIONS in Factorio: Space Age!

Oh, you're the one who made that great ribbon+trains video! (I love your voice... and silly humour. ^^) I'll green circuit YT's bell into my main bus, and I can't wait it to ring! =)

I think we need a full version of the yumako mash 🤣🤣😭😭😭

The way you avoid sushi belts is just by having more dedicated belts. One for ammo feeding from back to front. One for ore, feeding from crushers to smelters. One for plates, feeding to ammo assemblers. You just need some belt storage for asteroid chunks, thus a single outer sushi belt with just chunks on it.

I have no idea why people hate spidertron so much, because making one is my emegency task as soon as I got to Gleba. Just leave one of that baby one gleba and I don't even need to setup defense

fyi you can insert nuclear cells without solar, you can place them as a ghost and if u have some in your hub they will be placed.

So much respect for doing a gaming video with subtitles. So few do!

This was VERY entertaining. I loved everything about it especially the script. Please do some more. You have a talent for these type of videos sir.

Loved the goodnight moon bit! Lol

for those who aren't aware of how difficult it can be to get to space in this update, there's an achievement for getting into space before 8 hours, and another before 15 hours.

okay, day one of requesting a full version of yamako mash...

Worst fulgora, but the best gleba I've ever seen! Nice job!

That good night moon segment was 🔥🔥🔥

I think that rocket launchers do not nessessarily be the "intended" way. A minefield against stompas has the same damage category, but see: Stompas have five times to opportunity to step onto mines... A mine costs about the same as a rocket and some additional backup feels good. But for me it feels Gleba is the perfect place for minefields. And viewed from another angle: Replacing turrets or replacing ammo is more or less the same from a factory standpoint. It surely feels different at first. I am so used to thinking that damaged turrets are more serious than just resupply ammo. But thats what we have robo ports for. As long as safely nothing reaches the production line my I should enjoy the onslaught with collateral damage.

That intro is 100% accurate XD

Belt immunity equipment is a constant drain, unless the devs have changed that... That's a LOT of your power on Fulgora :)

How to get water a LOT faster on Aquilo:
Only have that single chemical plant connected to the solar panel power network!The reason it took so long for you was the idle power draw almost all buildings and inserters have, so you were using a lot of power to do nothing...

Overall however, this was a really fun video to watch!

The answer for Gleba: Bots. lol

Like for arthas lines

I've heared there are problems with power on Gleba initially, so I just didn't bother and just put a Nuclear Reactor in there and forgot about power troubles
As for spoilage, I run a belt between every two biochambers and connect feeder lines the spoilage belts with a splitter (and a inserter to unclog the splitter. Splitter might be redundant, but I figured, it would allow me to clear the spoilage quickly). All the excess spoilage that is not backfed to the bus is turned into nutrients or incenerated (I didn't even connect the heating tower to anything at first). Excess eggs are routed via splitter and incenerated. It's a small base, there are only 2-3 biochambers doing each thing with some speed beacons and one rare rocket silo. But it is stable. It only clogged when I forgot to handle seed overflow, or when I put some junk on the belt. Biggest problem was probably pentapod raids. I left my 8 legged delegate and had to ocasionally send him to negotiate a relocation with the locals.
The design was inspired by Data Scientist plays Factorio channel, though in hindsight it doesn't seem like a revelation, to just burn all the spoilage
Overall Gleba was painless

This video is excellent. If you keep making these, I'm sure you'll grow rapidly!

Here, have some engagement. You deserve more views!

This video was entertaining as hell. Numerous times I was yelling at my screen as I watched your poorly planned ideas crumble around you, lol. Makes me feel better about my own failures in Factorio. There were a number of really cool ideas in your playthrough that I'm probably going to implement on my own. For instance, originally I made my Fulgora recycling loop with most-plentiful items first to get them off the belt, but you pointed out how inverting that paradigm helps prevent backing up and preventing other production. The later space platform designs were also inspiring, even if I won't use them myself. It gives me ideas on how to solve problems I've faced, and you reminded me that foundries can work in space.

Looking forward to what comes next

i think i made the smallest working gleba base in existence in my playthrough.
just one or two biochambers for every product and a belt loop for nutrients and spoilage. it worked surprisingly well but i still hate gleba and that won't change even with the many mods to deal with spoiling.

This was quite the interesting and enjoyable ride, thank you for sharing your journey :)

Loving all your content so far!

tesla turrets are the best for gleba. They literally target both the legs of the stompers and the main body (so the arcing hits them multiple times). Power is also super easy once you make rocket fuel as that's the best fuel you can make and is more energy efficient than simply using jellynut

Edit: well I stand corrected closer to the end of your video. good job for using them

You know you can put water in Barrels, right? Takes way less time and energy to unbarrel than melt ice..

Tbh I started not to "waste" ammo after arriving to Fulgora or Vulcanus, but instead I turn off the turrets, and let the platform repair that small amount of damage. 100 repair packs are good for a quite long time.

I tried the exact same way of taking on a small Demolisher with the tank, with the exact same result. But my low-tech solution that worked surprisingly dependably is to make 200 poison capsules, and just spam it on the head while walking backwards. 🙈 Although I did have the mech armor already from Fulgora.

Going to Vulcanus first and not using Foundries for holmium plates is a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.

Ho, boy. You CAN insert the fuel cell without power, grab fuel cell from list of items, right click into reactor, or left click for full stack. Works everywhere with bots, but on space ships you instead get teleportation magic.

Also please use em plants and foundries for recipes they can do. It's so incredibly more efficient, and yes foundries should be used on the space ship instead of disgusting electric smelters.

Im going to continue watching the video pretending that he didnt call military science black science

You're playing this completely different than me 🤣. I decided to take much longer on everything and make things way bigger and use quality. I like your way as well though. I'm currently around 100 h in and haven't gone to Gleba and Aquilo yet but I spent a lot of time making my science on nauvis 600 spm since I've never made that much science before (only finished the game once). Oh and I'm playing without enemies! Way too tedious.

Came for the Factorio content, Liked and subed for the Gleba Smash song!

I still have PSTD from gleba

You want those green modules for starting Aquilo! Less power demand means more speed at 1% solar!

It's really interesting to see the different approaches you took to different challenges, I love the way that space age has brought about so much innovation and so many new ideas. I can see places where I struggled and you thrived, and vice versa. I am still working out in my head how I want to scale up Gleba, and your Gleba base is way more impressive than mine, but I got Fulgora to handle almost a full stacked turbo belt of scrap input and upcycle the quality of several different items so I can produce better modules.

Great video. I have one note:




Quantum physics is locked behind animal husbandry. In real life.

Love the intro. Was literally my first trip to Vulcanus. Made it, but the ship blew up afterwards

Take my like for the yamako mash.