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Do you have a community Discord server?

Looking forward to this series :)

Congrats, you reinvented PWM (Pulse Width Modulation). :D In real life it it's used, for example, to control apparent brightness of LEDs. I picked up this trick on the Factorio forums and it's extremely useful, I'm glad you're putting it out here. One note: you have to tune it for your ship, specifically the amount of thrusters one pump is handling - a pump has a throughput of 1200 and if your engines have a combined consumption of, say, 600, then any "duty cycle" setting above 50% means "full thrust" and your thrust control is really between 0 and 50.

good luck with the series! I'll be following :)

I don't understand the point of these contraptions. Just ditch the storage tanks and feed chemlabs directly into engines, making sure there are more engines than the labs can supply the fuel for. After burning through rather insignificant fuel buffer in the pipes, the engines would end up naturally starved at about 20-30%

Nice video. Ive watched a bunch of your videos and i like them and them helpful. I think it would help if you explained your goals before you start making changes. In this video, there was a part where you made a move, and I only understood your reasoning after watching it. It would be great if you could share what you're trying to accomplish as you go-like 'I'm aiming to make a 4x4 square here for a battery later, so I'll leave a gap for that.' That way, I can follow your thought process and understand the steps with you.

I do not even own the "Space Age" game and why did I listen to you spouting on and on about clocks and filters and shit, when I believe the real issue is you have no clue how to build a ship in the first place. But I guess that doesn't matter since if UA-cam does not hide this video from me I will block your feed so I never ever have to listen to you. Bye.

I wonder why watching this is so relaxing. I can spend 6hrs when I play when I only want to play 4hrs to take breaks, but that doesn’t happen without an alarm that harshes my calm… But I have to say foul with your use of BPs 😂. For some reason I think you’ve played this game before… What’s your theory of playing without mods? You don’t like sneaking through things? Or other QoL mods, like the miner placement perfectly across a resource patch, or the mod that makes my logistics wires much more visible when I’m setting stuff up… Today I found it sad that my forests were dying, (first time for everything I guess) so I got the tech to the second phase of uranium processing because why kill trees when you can make more radiation so the spitters I turned off could mutate! (I still have the nests that actually get more numerous over time which is amazing; must be all underground bitters now (!)

Nice, didn't know about thruster efficiency and my ship takes a lot of time to refuel. Thanks for sharing!

Love your setup, i use it with some Minor changes. One big improvement though with really little changes for you: Integrate the new Selector Combinator. It can give you the stack size for any given Item the station is using, so your calculations will also work well with stuff like curciuts or rocket fuel which have other stack sizes than 100.

It's a very compact little starter ship. I also like the relaxed style of the video. Felt like sitting in a lounge and relaxing.

Personally i dont have the need for priorities. Another approach for depot trains is ltn style but fully made in vanilla through the new signal interrupt that can make schedule depending on what is needed in the network. Its abit complicated but the gist of it is requester station sends negative item value to the network when it requires a train worth of stuff. The schedule is assigned to a train in the depot accordingly. I play around by negating that signal if a train is on its way and also train limits to ensure it goes to the correct station that actually require/can provide the stuff. Theres a video in youtube about it (made by someone else) if you wanna understand the logic behind it. But from his video i made my own implementation and Ive honestly overengineered it to the point that it is configurable to be compatible with any wagon train (i can use 4 wagon train but stations could be 2 wagon worth only). And another thing i made is it makes another request of a train if the current train in the station isn't gonna be able to fill it up. My station usually only has 1 train worth of space so setting train limit 2 if it needs 2 train worth isnt feasible, so what i did was to send request for another train only when the first train is in the requester station so the 2nd train can go to the provider while 1st train is unloading. Usually this way 2nd train arrives in the requester when the first train finished unloading

just use the Speed value V to regulate instead.

The factory must grow

You can skip the clock by just controlling the pump directly based on the speed -- this will have the same end result. Depending on mass and amount of thrusters your most efficient speed will vary, so you'll still need to tune it, but it's a lot simpler than adding a clock in between which basically just acts as a % speed limiter. For my quite large platform with 3 thrusters I disable my fuel pumps once V > 105, which works great!

I'm here for the tips - Factorio got me here but I have a feeling there's more to keep me around - automation games are my favorite type now. This currently includes Captain of industry, DSP, Timberborn, and The Crust. I wish you much success with the channel, wouldn't be the first one I've seen rise from the low 100's to the tens of thousands

beep boop indeed!

I find I have better speed control when using a empty tank as buffer between the pump and the thrusters and having the pumps controlled by the levels in the buffer tank. Sure it uses up more space but at least this way, but you have a much wider control of the speed the platform goes due to being able say how much fuel goes to the engines based on the buffer tank capacity of 25k instead of the 60 speed steps that the clock has. Also side note: may need more than one pump on either fuel type as you get more thrusters.

I put everything down as you said and im having my trains stuck at unload station and the station is full with items in the train is full to but it’s not moving to the parking area and my loading stations. Chest are full, but the station is disabled and looks like the station you’re enable It’s reading everything that’s in the base for that one item. and trains they’re going to load stations with half cargo and they are going to other stations like copper and getting loaded with copper so now I got a mix train with cargo. 26:13

The problem with speed control is that there is a chance of deadlocking the ship if your thrusters can't get you up to (20 in your case, which is unlikelybut bigger ships etc...) speed with 1000 units of fuel. If you add another combinator you can check if you are moving (any planet signal == 3) and then turn them on. This means your thrusters always have between 40-60 fuel in them whether or not you are parked and you don't take the small efficiency drop right when you launch.

I don't see your video showing your first space platform (what I'm up to too, 🤔 I call it the JSS for Jeff Space Station, like the ISS but mine (!)) the JMG Space Platform, which I assume was for Space Science, which is something I need to produce as well... given your heavy use of circuit logic, I'm interested. And, I'm gonna have stuff chucked back into space because I saw that somewhere, and I think that looks cool. In space nobody can hear you scream (except in Disney Star Wars, or put fires out in space without an oxidizer) and I was told many times in various Exec Board emails that pollution doesn't exist if nobody sees you throw it out... ask DuPont!

Not for nothin' but you've seriously expanded my thinking about how Factorio's game system is deep af. I just started to learn circuitry, and both this "simple" happy trails space platform, and your trains and loaders videos showed me how much I don't know after a month back from not getting too far in 1.1... tyvm!

If you want to "coast" you can shut off the engines past mid travel distance

Tyvm for stuff to potentially use _after_ I study it to understand what the heck you've done! Given you don't need space science packs, given I just made my first space platform, I'm hoping I can use this as is after the week it'll probably take for me to understand your logic network stuff (and why you used the white radar wires, being the 3rd logic wire...) along with your "heavy" logistic bot loading system... I'm afraid of the load on my CPU, though having some additional heat in my room just from my workstation, isn't so bad in winter... 🥶 Wait, you're "Secret to Factorio Trains..." uses belts with belt balancers with the logic system here, but without radars (I don't understand everything you presented yet, so that may be missing given you mention in this one you can't set the amount in the loading station based on the unloading station... which I thought you can do given this video... (?))

Another great vid. Glad to see collectors controlled by logic. You might want to consider adding a inserter that uses logic to drop items off the belt and into space. I usually use the logic for the collectors (collect until 80 ice for example) and multiply it by two to get the cutoff limit (start dumping ice at 160)

It's becomming really compact. Nice. One thing missing yet: the blue inserter for the lower left furnice got lost. You can restore the place you need to place it by using underground belts on the left side too. 😉

I will leave my questions until I've watched Part 2. But just a small bit of constructive criticism, at some points your voice was a little low, like when you were doing the math for working out power requirements for "thruster" section, I had to replay and turn up the volume on my TV to pretty much 70% of max. Most of the video I managed to hear ok when TV was set to about 50% of max. Looking forward to Part 2.

Great video mate, looking forward to seeing more!

Awesome video! Thanks for explaining it so clearly. One little notice, at 14:00 there are 2 musics playing, yours and factorio, and its really offputting :)

I didn't understand why or what was happening

Always enjoy hardcore biter gameplay so I can muster up my courage to do so😁but honestly informative videos to help grease up my factory is much appreciated your train network was how I discovered you. As a suggestion outside of factorio content, I would recommend Dyson Sphere Program. I haven't played it since Space Age came out, but its fun and unique twist in the factory genre. When I first found out you could build vertically, I knew a dense and tall factory must grow and soar to edge of the planet(s)... Plus you can customise your mecha to resemble your avatar!!

What's the benefit of this over having an interrupt for depot, fuel, load when no train, train x unloads at x? I know I'll always have a train waiting to empty at unload and loaded trains waiting for an open unload station but that buffer seems like a benefit to me.

Note that this can clog. When the train sits in the cargo row with full cargo, after the 30s have passed, it will stand in the station for a few seconds and try to find a path. In that time, even if it fails and goes back to standing in there, in the meantime, it isn't considered to be in the station, thus the pickup station for the cargo won't be disabled. It would probably not have more than like 3 or 4 trains per item, but depending on the timing, there could be a lot of full trains in the depot. Unsure how to fix this without removing the 30s timer, which would require the more advanced wildcard I mentioned in my other comment.

Does this system handle over provisioning so when a requester needs something 2 waiting trains don’t end up going there? And you get a left over train with loaded with something. So you don't end up with 10 trains full of iron plates sitting at the depot because there was 1 request

Man, you've got to write a script. This is impossible to follow with you just ad-libbing the explanation.

Something's bugging me. All the loading station have the wildcard icon in them, though it doesn't actually do any "wildcarding", it just searches for any station named "Wildcard 4 Wagons". And I'd love to be able to call my station "Iron Plates 4 Wagons". So I tried doing that, but for some reason it just won't actually interpret the wildcard signal in the station name and search the available stations for any "[ ] 4 Wagons" station, even if I set it up as an interrupt. Wonder if that's just working as intended or if it's something missing from the game.

Things I think would be cool in no particular order: A general "let's play" of Factorio similar to Nialus' old videos. It'd be cool to see a new one for Space Age. As part of this, I'm particularly interested in your decision making process. If there was one thing that I feel is lack in Nialus videos it's that he does a poor job in explaining why he's doing things the way he is. Honestly any of the old content from other creators could do for a freshening. That said, be yourself and don't try to be them. I personally really enjoy content where the creator explains their rationale for why they chose to do something a specific way. Cool thing videos. Likely shorter content that just happens to scratch your itch and get to explain something. I've found a lot of times even if I'm familiar with a thing I can learn more about it or new ways to use it that I hadn't thought of. General organization videos. Kind of like the idea of the general let's play, just different ways that you work out the logistics of upgrades or other similar factory changing events. Again, I love other people's insights on what changes they make and why.

I feel like I must be doing something wrong, I've tried your blueprints and I'm not quite getting the same result so I've been troubleshooting my setup for a couple days now. I'm trying to see if I can adapt this to my "just got yellow and purple science" base that already had trains using the old fashioned one/two trains per commodity setup. I placed your hub, it's big for my needs but that's not a big deal. I noticed first that none of the trains would go to it, and solved that by realizing that all the hub 1 train stations were set to the fueling station and not the one in the schedule. I switched those around and got the trains to go there. I'm not sure if it was a problem with your blueprint or if it was due to how my bots built it but the red wire that informs the inserters to not take fuel missed every other pole and needed to be manually put on. I have re-setup my various requestor and supplier stations with blueprinted ones (space constraints made me have to recreate a requesting station partially), and it seems they're functioning properly, setting priorities and enabling/disabling properly. With that established on to my issues: 1) The interrupts don't seem to be working quite right. Trains in the station will just sit, empty, even when supplier stations are full. I can manually trigger the interrupt and they'll happily go get supplies and even deliver them if a requesting station is ready. They'll then return to the hub and just sit. 2) Sometimes the train logic seems to get stuck. Example I have a train of coal waiting in the hub and my coal levels dip enough to drop coal, the train will move enough that it's no longer considered docked and then sit there saying it has no path. This is doubly frustrating since now other trains will almost exclusively go for coal from the supplier, and I'll end up with loads of trains full of coal since it never shuts off. Not expecting a "fix" just kind of curious if I'm missing something obvious.

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You're Video was recommended cause of Factorio. I like the very technical content and of course the avatar. 🤪

Thanks for the bp. Gonna stamp more of this all over my base as soon as I make enough 235 to actually clear biters for more space.

why is the background all creative mode looking?

I just have two centrifuges feed the output into each other. Then I have one inserter wired up to remove only one 235 when the machine finishes and an inserter for 238 that only inserts if the machines 238 content is less than 5.

You grew so quickly these past few days! I remember subbing like last week and you were at 60 subs! Congrats!

subbed for tips n tricks for Factorio. never got disappointed.

Drop your Twitch link in description (and the jar, fresh, thingy, I believe the term (if in relation to food preservation early days)) is "fart" "belch" "relieve gas" - I could be wrong, it has been a while since Jars were modern technology..... but I could be reading more into your language than you mean me too? So, what brought me to your channel was trains, and train logic, train networks, circuits etc., so a small guide series towards "hey, you've crash landed here .... but the ""uranium/insert resource here" you need is over here"" so lets get a small, leading towards connected, rail networ, up and running :) maybe? maybe no? A start to finish on getting everything connected by rails, so that when you build a mega base, you know enough to start creating logic networks for them, or trust those who have. (?) edit I miss a ) second edit """"" inserting some of these. They're like Oregano, they don't sound like much, but when it's added, it's a palette changer.. (Please let me know if I get this food trope wrong?!?)

When you get to larger inserters, as long as the stack size of the inserter divides 40 evenly, you can use that number, so you can use 1,2, 4, 5, 8, or 10 if you want to upgrade it later. Larger stack size will allow less downtime

Okay, but what am I supposed to do with it all?? I feel like the limes meme guy, except I'm trying to hold on to too much u-235. My Nuclear plants all have *more than enough* and Im now just crafting the overages to A-bombs but soon I'll just be limes guy meme holding those..

nice video but Factorio sundtrack in the backgroud is a bit disrupting

This is an amazing tilable Kovarex system, 10/10! How did you get the Blueprint mode up? A friend and I haven't been able to do this since Space Age. We can make BPs normally in game though we want to do full test runs of systems before making them