To the people who say this episode is "too fast for new players". I agree and have made significant changes to the following episodes. Please give this series a chance for a couple of episodes to see if it matches better. Thank you for watching and the feedback to help me improve
it was great to have you there when i first started with all the master classes and this comment once more proves that you're always looking out for your community, stay awesome.
I know I'm a bit late, but something that would really help new players is having a small on screen highlight of what buttons you click so it's easier to reinforce what buttons do what.
New player here. I've watched all 15 episodes already (I want more!). This guy is so damn good. I'm thoroughly enjoying learning, building, and watching. You've helped me so much! Please don't stop.
Wow Nilaus, of all the things I've learned from you (with over 1,400 hours into my longest run) and I just now learned you can press the Drop key while hovering over something to put one item in it.
New player here, been playing with 1.0 for a few days, enjoying figuring things by myself as reviews said this was one of the great pleasure of this game. I found this 1st video extremely useful, with a lot explained, and a lot hinted at which, for me, incite discovery and self experiment. Also, lots of doc on the wiki to figure what's going on keyboard wise... Thx a lot !!
Some thoughts: * you're using furnace without opening it and explaining what happens there * you have also different toolbar comparing to a player who just starts. AFAIR blueprints icons are not visible for new players at the start.
Uh, more than one Factiorio epesidoe a day. thats great news :) Btw. you capped your box for iron gears to one stack and then put copper plates in it. this way nothing will work.
glad to hear this is going to be an every day series. I've been looking for a new like starter to megabase type series so I'm really looking forward to playing along !
Nilaus is one of the best players of Factorio. I have learned a lot from his videos about the game for over three years now, so for all you new players, listen learn and pick up the hints while he does this lets play for you guys and girls. He's an interesting guy with a wealth of tips that can help break the challenge of how to get a feel for the game as well as the intricate details of getting all the way up to a mega base. Thanks again Nilaus. Keep up the good work.
Found a link to this playlist on the Steam forums. Gotta say, it's gone much smoother than my first two attempts at getting this going. I didn't realise we could go direct from miner to smelter, for e.g., and used belts everywhere. This is much better to get started! Will continue along with the playlist to learn then will try it out on my own. Thanks for putting the time into this, even if it was 2 years ago :)
Looking forward to this series! One thing I noticed especially in the first 5-10 minutes is that a lot of times you would start saying something and then get distracted by something else and cut yourself off, completely forgetting to come back to what you were talking about in the first place. I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, you're still my favorite factorio UA-camr!
@@Sonicstorm81 to be fair, that's factorio. "I need to automate this, lets start with OH SHIT i'm out of coal, lets go set up another line of OH SHIT BITERS.. what was I doing again?"
With the Cntrl / Shift clicking - It's Cntrl in both cases. Cntrl + left click from outside will pick up as much as it can. From inside, Cntrl + left click will pick up as much of whatever you clicked as it can (OR, if you click an empty space, pick up everything just like clicking it from the outside). Shift + left click will transfer the entire STACK of whatever you click, but not all of that particular item.
Right, considering this series is supposed to be for newer players, it might be ideal to go over the basics of controls and shortcuts rather than just jumping right into building things. Like there are a lot of hotkeys and whatnot that not everyone remembers, but the basics of interaction should be a thing. It doesn't even need to be standalone, but rather as you go about doing it, say what you are doing. Like left click to open the inventory, right click to do this, ctrl-left click to do that as you are doing the various things would be incredibly helpful.
Thank you for doing this. While I have been playing since .15, I have gotten overwhelmed as I move into mid game, only to get frustrated and then quit. Issue I have had... Once oil starts... and getting trains to work?!! I get lost. Looking forward to this series to help guide me along.
Not a big deal, but nice to mention it : Factorio supports Razor Keyboards/Mouse. Nice!! From the razor site here are the functionalities : Game Effects Background: Factorio orange (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset). Damage taken animation (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset). Player Healthbar when damaged (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad). Player shields when damaged (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad). Progress-bar during game loading, savegame loading, multiplayer map download multiplayer map loading, multiplayer catching up(Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset). Flash technology key on technology researched (Keyboard). Flash map key when building are destroyed (Keyboard). Custom Ripple animation when achievement is unlocked (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset).
Thank you for doing this. Most people I have looked at have tutorials in a developed base and don't really go into detail as to why they do what they do or explain how to get to end game. Thanks.
Thank you for the videos, I purchased Factorio a couple of years ago and played it only once until I launched the rocket (about 40 hours of scrappy playtime). With the introduction of new sciences, UI, etc, watching your videos was a bit harsh as you were talking about things I didn't have a clue about (arithmetic operators, etc). This is definitely the videos I needed to get back into Factorio. You were a bit too fast for completely beginners but we appreciate the time you put into the videos!
i just completed the Factorio demo, which i played for 17 hours, and im eager to learn more before i pick the full game up in the coming weeks cannot wait to digest this series as i've enjoyed some of your other videos here and there
Constructive criticism: You copy/pasted the ammo production without explaining it. Also, your box feeding the red science assembler is limited so it can't hold any gears.
Thanks Frank. What would we do without you, going around constructively criticizing Factorio Lets players. We applaud you, you absolute saint. If it weren't for you UA-cam would be in ruins.
@@neer-do-wells5211 Pointing out factual errors while not criticizing the person for making them...in a helpful manner...such that they don't propagate and confuse newbies...is exactly helpful. Your comment. Your sarcastic ad-hominem strangely...isn't.
It's early, but I always find that the biters are a bit overwhelming the first time you encounter them in the game. You should explain how to shoot so people can practice before they are being attacked. It's good you built the bullet assembler, but just the basics of armor/turret/pipe walls are really helpful to have in your early game tool kit especially if you don't make a giant starting area.
@Nilaus references at the start that the map was the one taken from his Masterclass on map settings. In that video he set Biters to Peaceful mode, so they won't be attacking anyway.
Here are my notes for improving the commentary on the series to make it more beginner friendly. Be specific and intentional with your word choices. For example in pretty much every YT video you make, you call something by the wrong name ("red circuits" instead of "red science" for example). This is highly confusing to someone who doesn't know what circuits and science even are. 4:15 You mentioned trees are a "pretty good" source of fuel. You know they are the worst source of fuel in the game (in MJ) but they are what is available now. You don't want a noob thinking they need to cut down trees in order to fuel their furnaces. They don't know that experienced players burn the wood because otherwise it just piles up. You also zoomed through the crafting menu. Missed opportunity to explain how you can build something even if you have only the raw resources by first automatically crafting the intermediates. 8:03 you have to ctrl + Left Click to pick up inventory from the furnaces. Again, you know this so intuitively that you said you could run past and hold control, which technically won't work. Precise language is important. 8:34 missed opportunity to explain how the miners (and other things) consume fuel (green line) and produce output (red line) 9:20 your keyboard and mouse presses are really loud in the mic 10:08 ooh, so close. you corrected from stone to coal, but said furnace instead of burner miner. But, good effort on trying to get the precise wording. 11:26 GG on the half/whole thing. 18:54 missed opportunity to talk about power pole power footprints when placing the inserters. Overall with the power, you didn't say what was going on the belt when you placed it, and your overall plan for why power is where it is. 20:20 great explanation of fuel consumption based on demand 23:43 the ore ran out. could talk about how you can see the resources underneath and what ores running out means for expansion 24:12 why logistics next? 26:30 really gotta explain the ins and outs of these mini assembler setups. ingredients go into a box, they are inserted into the assembler (which way do the assemblers go?) then the assembler makes something, and then the inserter puts it into a storage box for you to pick up. If this comment is seen as mean by someone reading it, please note that Nilaus has said in streams and other videos that he thinks he'll have a hard time making a beginner series because of the thousands of hours he has already played the game. This comment is intended to help him at his request (made in this video at 28:56). It's not intended to be mean-spirited.
Adding a reply so it possibly moves this comment up a bit. All relevant points. It's gotta be hard going back to new player mode after so many years of muscle memory.
I much appreciate and second your detailed constructive criticism. It is SO hard for people who have played hundreds or thousands of hours of Factorio (hint: I haven't) to appreciate "why?", "why now?, "how much is enough?" and similar absolutely basic questions and concepts are what I would like to see explained in a beginner-friendly video. Mention core concepts like pollution and initial resource patch depletion as these things come up, the need to not waste lots of time because of biters, manufacturing time being an important part of recipes, techniques like doubling up the yellow inserters unloading coal for the boilers because yellows are so slow. Take a moment to highlight the raw resources information for green circuits when you put the right ratio of copper/iron in the supply chest so beginners connect the dots. Just circle your cursor around the important information. Mention commonly used jargon that beginners will come across like green circuits, red science as these come up. "These are officially 'Electronic Circuits' but everyone calls them 'Green Circuits'." Other non-obvious jargon and concepts will include things like multi-lane balancing, using a bus, planning expansion well before it happens...
Excellent feedback here. I agree with most all of this in terms of helping new players. I know it's truly difficult to keep track of what isn't obvious to a new player after thousands of hours in game yourself. (For example, I use all that ctrl/shift-left/right-clicking stuff subconsciously at this point. If you ask which combinations do what I honestly can't tell you without the game and a keyboard in front of me. It's pure muscle memory)
Algorithm! Loving this episode! Seeing how you do things helps give me ideas on how to create automation setups. Without having seen this video I wouldn't have even thought about chaining together assembly machines! This game has me hooked and I've only played a few hours. I can't wait to see your series unfold. Very excited!
Nilaus, used to watch your series (enjoying the Death world one a lot atvm !!). I have many many hours in game now, learned a lot from you and even with such experience, I will also watch this one. So thanks a lot for the huuuuge work and share ! City blocks will be incomiiiiiing !!! (I hope, that is something I learned from you and I always build ! Including the so called SACRED PATH, oh yeah !!)
What's missing from the answers so far is that coal has to be "in your hand" -- which I believe Nilaus is doing by pressing 1, because he put the coal in the 1st position in the top-line shortcut bar, and the keyboard shortcuts for selecting the top-line shortcut bar items are 1-9 and 0. So first press 1 to get coal in the hand (or press E to bring up your inventory screen, and click on a stack of coal), and then hover over a miner or furnace, and press z to place one in... [or the mentioned control-click options for half and full stacks.]
I hope you go beyond just launching a rocket with this series, would be nice to see the transition to megabase, beacon and etc. Because there are tons of tutorial videos on how to get started and very little about the very endgame base.
I know that people have complained about this being too fast but this actually exactly what I was looking for even if it may not be what you set out to make. I've played a bit and know the basics but always lose control of my spaghetti base ending up moving stuff manually even after getting robots. I'm mainly looking for a good playthrough that shows off the concepts of advanced base building and this feels like it would get there faster than the "this is coal. Coal is used for power. Power good" style of beginner content. Anyway, if you end up changing it later, I'll just skip ahead of the trivial stuff a bit, I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the content.
I'm brand new to Factorio, I'll be watching these. Bare in mind 1.0 will bring in a lot of news players who have not got a clue about anything. Like me 8)
Hi Nilaus! I've found my way here by way of @Nugiyen's Twitch play and you being in his channel. Great content!! Really helps out someone with ~200 hours to optimize and master Factorio!
I see you should say and repeat more times which keys and keyboard shortcuts you use. For you are obvious but are not at all intuitive. Also, don't open and close the windows so fast: your mouse movements are fully automated, but new players need to see what window you open, why you do so and where you click to do what you have to do. I have learned a lot watching you play! Keep it up!!
HI Nilaus, very happy with some of your playlists. Of course, it´s difficult to go back to basics when you are so familiar with a game. Don´t worry too much. Still, people who start the game have to figure some things out on their own. I appreciate things like mining coal into each other unit, etc. I am sure those little things are a great help for new players. Stay effective. :D
This is precious content, I watch your stuff for quite a while now and I learned something already! Q-ing the ore for miners. Do you know you can rapud-fire the 'z' key for faster single item input? It's less annoying as well than keep smashing that button
I started with the demo of this game today and I played the first two parts. It took about an hour because I had to find out what to, why do it, etc. I thought I would find a beginner introduction here. I didn't find it! You do a lot of things which a beginner does not understand.
Nice👍. I just think that it is important for beginners that you're explaining more why you do something. An example are the machines that you put for circuit, belts etc. You built them but you didn't explain what there is going on. But otherwise really great content👍! Keep up👌
I just found this after watching a little bit on your bus videos. I'm glad I found this though because it's been a couple years since I played the game but my friends and I are back into it now they game got fully released. :)
Agreed. I bought Factorio years ago on Steam sale but have dipped in and out. Take a look at the launch video and the 2020 trailer. ua-cam.com/video/BqaAjgpsoW8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/J8SBp4SyvLc/v-deo.html You start with almost nothing and have to "bootstrap" yourself to glory, but the path is far from clear. There are many, many ways to do the same thing, this is a sandbox game of the highest order. Experienced players like Nilaus have hard-wired their years of experience into "better, best" ways of doing things, and what things need to be done when. It's hard to bridge the gap and give you a good explanation with time enough to consider things.
As an experienced Factorio player, I was never really lost... but I definitely saw moments where things were being done without explanation. Some explanations happened, and were useful... and some things were missed. Thanks for putting this feedback in. I think this is exactly the kind of thing Nilaus wants to know.
Some topics you may want to cover for beginners: resource attributes (fuel value, mining speed, how to learn more, etc.), map gui, mods, achievements, the Factorio website, the factorio community (speedrunning, SPM, megabases)
I think the community related things should be in a separate sort of guide. Not part of a gameplay guide. You can play the game perfectly well without knowing about what SPM is. Also, things like ratios/stats can get really complicated really fast for a beginner (even experienced players aren't perfect with them either) you can play just fine without knowing them as well. Not making enough of something? Add more stuff to make more of it? Making too much of something, either don't worry about it because it will likely eventually be consumed by something or take out some of the buildings doing that.
Co-worker bought this game for me as a "hope you feel better after your vasectomy" gift. I've already reached the "oh, just 5 more minutes *watches the sun come up*" point and only have about 20 hours in the game.
I just bought Factorio after finishing Dyson Sphere Program twice... so even though it did kinda feel like you were going a bit too fast, I was not totally lost. The basic mechanics of the same seem to be the same as DSP from what I'm seeing. Would you make a starter HUB like DSP as well here in next episodes? Where all the buildings and machines are automated without having to manually pick up and deposit iron/copper and stuff?
Why do I hear in a lot of veteran players of Factorio say that "the trees are the real enemy"? I just picked up the game and really enjoying the experience. To Nilaus thank you for making these walk through videos this has been very helpful.
I LOVE THIS GAME. I have been waiting since 17.79!!!!!! After 1,100ish hours I decided to take a 1 year+ break so that I could justify another 1000+ hours once 1.0 was released. SO here we go again! lol
when you do something the first time, like opening the mapview, you could mention that you get into that mode by hitting the "M" key. when i started, figuring out a lot of the button combos was one of the main issues
Speaking from a player that has. off and on for the past 4-5 years,put in about 350 hours put into this game. (It's unfortunate and intimidating that I feel like I need to preface my comment like this, it's a bit of waving around, but it also keeps engineers honest about their personal experience). Early on I was really impressed by the conciseness of you're explanations while still covering a lot of important ground. Side note; how many of here have felt video tutorials generally waste your time? You left just enough room to the imagination, that if your video was taken in little chunks and messed around with the controls in game, brand new players who are curious can have their own "ahah!" moments. Which honestly might not even isn't the best way to go through this particular series, but it was a really cool element to notice. But early on you lost the stamina to explain things starting at the basic level. Honestly at the end of the video I felt this was less of a tutorial on how new players should approach this beautiful game that keeps sucking me in every 6 months or so, but how you specifically play the game. I mean all this with the very best intentions, I love the fact that comments are being read before the next video is out, what dedication. I wish for you to guide me from the ground up and help me build rockets even though I've cracked oil only twice.
When you refer to a masterclass video, please could you provide a link to it in your 'more info' ? e.g. the map creation masterclass mentioned early in the video
Felt like you were rushing a bit, I'd advise giving the new players who might be watching a moment to let things sink in. I know path is prime, but stone is only future stone bricks/path :)
To the people who say this episode is "too fast for new players". I agree and have made significant changes to the following episodes. Please give this series a chance for a couple of episodes to see if it matches better. Thank you for watching and the feedback to help me improve
wow what good timing for me to stumble upon these videos, thank you!
it was great to have you there when i first started with all the master classes and this comment once more proves that you're always looking out for your community, stay awesome.
Such a nice guy 👍🏻👍🏻
Bruh I'm in! fast, slow, English, Dutch, I'm in!
I want to like your comment but I don't want to ruin your 69 likes
Just wanted to say 2 years later this series is helping a new player, namely me. Thanks for the effort, it was an exercise in posterity.
Best Factorio content
We have "landed"
*pans to burning remains of what one once a spacecraft*
if you can walk away from it it's a successful landing
Bug plasma took us down from orbit.
Another Happy Landing!
Don't worry, the same thing will happen when he "parks" his car
@@photinodecay xD
Thank you. 3 years later and I’m a brand new player. Still helping out. Will be watching this whole series, thanks for the help once a again
I know I'm a bit late, but something that would really help new players is having a small on screen highlight of what buttons you click so it's easier to reinforce what buttons do what.
New player here. I've watched all 15 episodes already (I want more!). This guy is so damn good. I'm thoroughly enjoying learning, building, and watching. You've helped me so much! Please don't stop.
Mic sounds much better/louder than the last few episodes
good to hear. I've made some changes
Others: "Oh no, poor ship, that looks miserable"
Nilaus: "I think we want to leave it, it's pretty"
Wow Nilaus, of all the things I've learned from you (with over 1,400 hours into my longest run) and I just now learned you can press the Drop key while hovering over something to put one item in it.
New player here, been playing with 1.0 for a few days, enjoying figuring things by myself as reviews said this was one of the great pleasure of this game. I found this 1st video extremely useful, with a lot explained, and a lot hinted at which, for me, incite discovery and self experiment. Also, lots of doc on the wiki to figure what's going on keyboard wise... Thx a lot !!
Some thoughts:
* you're using furnace without opening it and explaining what happens there
* you have also different toolbar comparing to a player who just starts. AFAIR blueprints icons are not visible for new players at the start.
You've been making great content for years. Keep it up!
Uh, more than one Factiorio epesidoe a day. thats great news :)
Btw. you capped your box for iron gears to one stack and then put copper plates in it. this way nothing will work.
damn, I wanted to combine too many things
came looking for this comment lol
i feel he does this on purpose like spot the deliberate mistake o.o
glad to hear this is going to be an every day series. I've been looking for a new like starter to megabase type series so I'm really looking forward to playing along !
Oh god, a beginner series, too!!!
It's... everything I've ever dreamed of... at very least since I started Factorio.
Nilaus is one of the best players of Factorio. I have learned a lot from his videos about the game for over three years now, so for all you new players, listen learn and pick up the hints while he does this lets play for you guys and girls. He's an interesting guy with a wealth of tips that can help break the challenge of how to get a feel for the game as well as the intricate details of getting all the way up to a mega base. Thanks again Nilaus. Keep up the good work.
Found a link to this playlist on the Steam forums. Gotta say, it's gone much smoother than my first two attempts at getting this going. I didn't realise we could go direct from miner to smelter, for e.g., and used belts everywhere. This is much better to get started! Will continue along with the playlist to learn then will try it out on my own. Thanks for putting the time into this, even if it was 2 years ago :)
Looking forward to this series! One thing I noticed especially in the first 5-10 minutes is that a lot of times you would start saying something and then get distracted by something else and cut yourself off, completely forgetting to come back to what you were talking about in the first place. I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, you're still my favorite factorio UA-camr!
Thats typical Nilaus, lol.
@@Sonicstorm81 to be fair, that's factorio. "I need to automate this, lets start with OH SHIT i'm out of coal, lets go set up another line of OH SHIT BITERS.. what was I doing again?"
@@patricktolosa6457 yeah, it is. I was just pointing it out so that it might be something to be more mindful of
With the Cntrl / Shift clicking - It's Cntrl in both cases. Cntrl + left click from outside will pick up as much as it can. From inside, Cntrl + left click will pick up as much of whatever you clicked as it can (OR, if you click an empty space, pick up everything just like clicking it from the outside). Shift + left click will transfer the entire STACK of whatever you click, but not all of that particular item.
Right, considering this series is supposed to be for newer players, it might be ideal to go over the basics of controls and shortcuts rather than just jumping right into building things. Like there are a lot of hotkeys and whatnot that not everyone remembers, but the basics of interaction should be a thing. It doesn't even need to be standalone, but rather as you go about doing it, say what you are doing. Like left click to open the inventory, right click to do this, ctrl-left click to do that as you are doing the various things would be incredibly helpful.
YES! I have no idea about all the CTRL functions etc
Thank you for doing this. While I have been playing since .15, I have gotten overwhelmed as I move into mid game, only to get frustrated and then quit. Issue I have had... Once oil starts... and getting trains to work?!! I get lost. Looking forward to this series to help guide me along.
Not a big deal, but nice to mention it : Factorio supports Razor Keyboards/Mouse. Nice!! From the razor site here are the functionalities :
Game Effects
Background: Factorio orange (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset).
Damage taken animation (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset).
Player Healthbar when damaged (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad).
Player shields when damaged (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad).
Progress-bar during game loading, savegame loading, multiplayer map download multiplayer map loading, multiplayer catching up(Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset).
Flash technology key on technology researched (Keyboard).
Flash map key when building are destroyed (Keyboard).
Custom Ripple animation when achievement is unlocked (Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset).
You can mine the ship parts to clean them up and have a tidy base. Some of them have raw materials in them as well.
Thank you for doing this. Most people I have looked at have tutorials in a developed base and don't really go into detail as to why they do what they do or explain how to get to end game. Thanks.
I just watched a random dev log from a youtuber who mentioned the game factorio. So glad I found out about this game!
Thank you for the videos, I purchased Factorio a couple of years ago and played it only once until I launched the rocket (about 40 hours of scrappy playtime). With the introduction of new sciences, UI, etc, watching your videos was a bit harsh as you were talking about things I didn't have a clue about (arithmetic operators, etc). This is definitely the videos I needed to get back into Factorio. You were a bit too fast for completely beginners but we appreciate the time you put into the videos!
i like it the way you do it nice and slow like the game goes
The crashed ship at the start looks amazing. Really great art, I'll have to try this game again
i just completed the Factorio demo, which i played for 17 hours, and im eager to learn more before i pick the full game up in the coming weeks
cannot wait to digest this series as i've enjoyed some of your other videos here and there
congrats on the lithobraking spaceship maneuver. Can't wait to see more of this series!
I'm excited for this new series. I'm not new to factorio but also not super experienced and I know I'll learn lots from watching.
Thanks very much for addressing the commentary volume Nilaus, so much better!
3:27
Ctrl-click tries to get all the items, but shift-click tries to get the one stack your mouse is on
One request, i dont want to download blueprints, but learn how to make them piece by piece.
Looking forward to this LP. I always give up around oil/ plastics. So this will be very fun to watch and learn a few new things at the same time!
The landing site is so rad.
Similar to Krastorio 2
I've never seen someone use 'rad' unironically online before. Fucking factorio man...
This is a perfect pace for me as I have a few hours of gameplay under my belt, but i am still very much a beginner. Thanks!
Thanks for the video and the new player perspective! I am a new player and also a new viewer to your channel, so I found this very helpful.
Hey Nilaus! Long time subscriber here and I love your content. An episode / master class episode based on your preferred mods would be awesome!
Constructive criticism: You copy/pasted the ammo production without explaining it. Also, your box feeding the red science assembler is limited so it can't hold any gears.
Thanks Frank. What would we do without you, going around constructively criticizing Factorio Lets players. We applaud you, you absolute saint. If it weren't for you UA-cam would be in ruins.
@@neer-do-wells5211 You don't seem like the smartest person. He literally asked for criticism in the video or if it goes to fast.
@@neer-do-wells5211 Pointing out factual errors while not criticizing the person for making them...in a helpful manner...such that they don't propagate and confuse newbies...is exactly helpful. Your comment. Your sarcastic ad-hominem strangely...isn't.
@@neer-do-wells5211 Frank's comment is right and polite. Same can't be said of yours
It's early, but I always find that the biters are a bit overwhelming the first time you encounter them in the game. You should explain how to shoot so people can practice before they are being attacked. It's good you built the bullet assembler, but just the basics of armor/turret/pipe walls are really helpful to have in your early game tool kit especially if you don't make a giant starting area.
@Nilaus references at the start that the map was the one taken from his Masterclass on map settings. In that video he set Biters to Peaceful mode, so they won't be attacking anyway.
Your series finally brought me to buying the game, and I've learnt a lot here! Thanks for that!
Much appreciated. With the official release I'm keen to pick this up.
Here are my notes for improving the commentary on the series to make it more beginner friendly.
Be specific and intentional with your word choices. For example in pretty much every YT video you make, you call something by the wrong name ("red circuits" instead of "red science" for example). This is highly confusing to someone who doesn't know what circuits and science even are.
4:15 You mentioned trees are a "pretty good" source of fuel. You know they are the worst source of fuel in the game (in MJ) but they are what is available now. You don't want a noob thinking they need to cut down trees in order to fuel their furnaces. They don't know that experienced players burn the wood because otherwise it just piles up.
You also zoomed through the crafting menu. Missed opportunity to explain how you can build something even if you have only the raw resources by first automatically crafting the intermediates.
8:03 you have to ctrl + Left Click to pick up inventory from the furnaces. Again, you know this so intuitively that you said you could run past and hold control, which technically won't work. Precise language is important.
8:34 missed opportunity to explain how the miners (and other things) consume fuel (green line) and produce output (red line)
9:20 your keyboard and mouse presses are really loud in the mic
10:08 ooh, so close. you corrected from stone to coal, but said furnace instead of burner miner. But, good effort on trying to get the precise wording.
11:26 GG on the half/whole thing.
18:54 missed opportunity to talk about power pole power footprints when placing the inserters.
Overall with the power, you didn't say what was going on the belt when you placed it, and your overall plan for why power is where it is.
20:20 great explanation of fuel consumption based on demand
23:43 the ore ran out. could talk about how you can see the resources underneath and what ores running out means for expansion
24:12 why logistics next?
26:30 really gotta explain the ins and outs of these mini assembler setups. ingredients go into a box, they are inserted into the assembler (which way do the assemblers go?) then the assembler makes something, and then the inserter puts it into a storage box for you to pick up.
If this comment is seen as mean by someone reading it, please note that Nilaus has said in streams and other videos that he thinks he'll have a hard time making a beginner series because of the thousands of hours he has already played the game. This comment is intended to help him at his request (made in this video at 28:56). It's not intended to be mean-spirited.
You really went in depth bro nice i hope there are more people like you that give genuine advice.
Take a Nilaus video that you saw two weeks ago, turn of the monitor. He builds allot of "this".
Adding a reply so it possibly moves this comment up a bit. All relevant points. It's gotta be hard going back to new player mode after so many years of muscle memory.
I much appreciate and second your detailed constructive criticism. It is SO hard for people who have played hundreds or thousands of hours of Factorio (hint: I haven't) to appreciate "why?", "why now?, "how much is enough?" and similar absolutely basic questions and concepts are what I would like to see explained in a beginner-friendly video.
Mention core concepts like pollution and initial resource patch depletion as these things come up, the need to not waste lots of time because of biters, manufacturing time being an important part of recipes, techniques like doubling up the yellow inserters unloading coal for the boilers because yellows are so slow.
Take a moment to highlight the raw resources information for green circuits when you put the right ratio of copper/iron in the supply chest so beginners connect the dots. Just circle your cursor around the important information.
Mention commonly used jargon that beginners will come across like green circuits, red science as these come up. "These are officially 'Electronic Circuits' but everyone calls them 'Green Circuits'." Other non-obvious jargon and concepts will include things like multi-lane balancing, using a bus, planning expansion well before it happens...
Excellent feedback here. I agree with most all of this in terms of helping new players. I know it's truly difficult to keep track of what isn't obvious to a new player after thousands of hours in game yourself. (For example, I use all that ctrl/shift-left/right-clicking stuff subconsciously at this point. If you ask which combinations do what I honestly can't tell you without the game and a keyboard in front of me. It's pure muscle memory)
Algorithm! Loving this episode! Seeing how you do things helps give me ideas on how to create automation setups. Without having seen this video I wouldn't have even thought about chaining together assembly machines! This game has me hooked and I've only played a few hours. I can't wait to see your series unfold. Very excited!
Always been curious abut this game, but never tried since it seems so intimidating. Gonna give this series a watch to hopefully change my mind.
Thank god, I started a new game today on your community server and I was out of my depth playing vanilla without construction drones :P
Nilaus, used to watch your series (enjoying the Death world one a lot atvm !!). I have many many hours in game now, learned a lot from you and even with such experience, I will also watch this one. So thanks a lot for the huuuuge work and share ! City blocks will be incomiiiiiing !!! (I hope, that is something I learned from you and I always build ! Including the so called SACRED PATH, oh yeah !!)
You could explain more Shortcuts, i don´t know how to add only one Coal from outside the GUI.
You press the "Z" key over the entity you are trying to interact with
Johannes I agree, the keyboard shortcuts would be a good piece to emphasize for the new player (and some older ones ;-) )
It's actually one of the few shortcuts he gave here. It's indeed z (the one you can use to throw object on floor too)
What's missing from the answers so far is that coal has to be "in your hand" -- which I believe Nilaus is doing by pressing 1, because he put the coal in the 1st position in the top-line shortcut bar, and the keyboard shortcuts for selecting the top-line shortcut bar items are 1-9 and 0. So first press 1 to get coal in the hand (or press E to bring up your inventory screen, and click on a stack of coal), and then hover over a miner or furnace, and press z to place one in... [or the mentioned control-click options for half and full stacks.]
yep, Z key usage shown at 5:27 to add one wood to a burner miner at a time
I hope you go beyond just launching a rocket with this series, would be nice to see the transition to megabase, beacon and etc. Because there are tons of tutorial videos on how to get started and very little about the very endgame base.
He already has a transition to megabase on his channel. Very visually appealing base
@@joshuaspeer2503 he already has begginers guides too
@@Eirael Yes, but not for the full release. A lot more content now since his last guide :)
@@foniks100 i wanna see him play with the new spidertron
🙌 yay a new series. Welcome to all new players
I know that people have complained about this being too fast but this actually exactly what I was looking for even if it may not be what you set out to make. I've played a bit and know the basics but always lose control of my spaghetti base ending up moving stuff manually even after getting robots. I'm mainly looking for a good playthrough that shows off the concepts of advanced base building and this feels like it would get there faster than the "this is coal. Coal is used for power. Power good" style of beginner content. Anyway, if you end up changing it later, I'll just skip ahead of the trivial stuff a bit, I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the content.
I'm brand new to Factorio, I'll be watching these. Bare in mind 1.0 will bring in a lot of news players who have not got a clue about anything. Like me 8)
Welcome to sect
Yay, new Nilaus series! ;)
Good job considering how many times you have done this type of fresh start videos. :D
Thanks Nilaus, this series is going to be great :)
Hi Nilaus! I've found my way here by way of @Nugiyen's Twitch play and you being in his channel. Great content!! Really helps out someone with ~200 hours to optimize and master Factorio!
Just bought factories and discovered this channel, exciting times!
Thanks for the videos!, i bought the game a few days ago and i was really
disorganized but with this i can be a bit organized in my world!.
Comment for the algorithm. Love your stuff, Nilaus
When you harvest the space ship, you get the contents 🙂
You can just grab the contents from it and leave it there looking cool :)
@@sintaxera damn yes I'll let a city block just for the space ship. Because it's cool
Help I'm new and stuck on stone brick that I can't smelt in furnace. I'm stuck in tutorial and don't know how to progress😢
I see you should say and repeat more times which keys and keyboard shortcuts you use. For you are obvious but are not at all intuitive.
Also, don't open and close the windows so fast: your mouse movements are fully automated, but new players need to see what window you open, why you do so and where you click to do what you have to do.
I have learned a lot watching you play! Keep it up!!
I have a new video coming online now about tips and tricks ;)
HI Nilaus, very happy with some of your playlists. Of course, it´s difficult to go back to basics when you are so familiar with a game. Don´t worry too much. Still, people who start the game have to figure some things out on their own. I appreciate things like mining coal into each other unit, etc. I am sure those little things are a great help for new players. Stay effective. :D
27:33 -- "making a radar is super important" -- how come? I could follow everything else, but I didn't understand this piece.
It reveals the area around the base, so you know where Biters are and where good places to expand are.
Thank you Nilus!!! Greetins from Argentina!!! Cool Tutorial!! I will be watching all!!!!
This is precious content, I watch your stuff for quite a while now and I learned something already! Q-ing the ore for miners.
Do you know you can rapud-fire the 'z' key for faster single item input? It's less annoying as well than keep smashing that button
I learned more in the first 10 min of this video than I learned in the first 10 hours of playing factorio
I started with the demo of this game today and I played the first two parts. It took about an hour because I had to find out what to, why do it, etc. I thought I would find a beginner introduction here. I didn't find it! You do a lot of things which a beginner does not understand.
Nice👍.
I just think that it is important for beginners that you're explaining more why you do something. An example are the machines that you put for circuit, belts etc. You built them but you didn't explain what there is going on.
But otherwise really great content👍! Keep up👌
So excited to watch more of this series :D
I just found this after watching a little bit on your bus videos. I'm glad I found this though because it's been a couple years since I played the game but my friends and I are back into it now they game got fully released. :)
as someone who is still considering factorio, this is going way too fast
Stop considering and just buy it already!
He was going really fast, faster than his other videos even. Thanks for mentioning it, hope he sees it and relaxes a bit more next time.
Agreed. I bought Factorio years ago on Steam sale but have dipped in and out.
Take a look at the launch video and the 2020 trailer.
ua-cam.com/video/BqaAjgpsoW8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/J8SBp4SyvLc/v-deo.html
You start with almost nothing and have to "bootstrap" yourself to glory, but the path is far from clear. There are many, many ways to do the same thing, this is a sandbox game of the highest order.
Experienced players like Nilaus have hard-wired their years of experience into "better, best" ways of doing things, and what things need to be done when. It's hard to bridge the gap and give you a good explanation with time enough to consider things.
agree. looking at it for the first time, and there's so many assumptions here, no clue what's going on.
As an experienced Factorio player, I was never really lost... but I definitely saw moments where things were being done without explanation. Some explanations happened, and were useful... and some things were missed. Thanks for putting this feedback in. I think this is exactly the kind of thing Nilaus wants to know.
Some topics you may want to cover for beginners: resource attributes (fuel value, mining speed, how to learn more, etc.), map gui, mods, achievements, the Factorio website, the factorio community (speedrunning, SPM, megabases)
I think the community related things should be in a separate sort of guide. Not part of a gameplay guide. You can play the game perfectly well without knowing about what SPM is. Also, things like ratios/stats can get really complicated really fast for a beginner (even experienced players aren't perfect with them either) you can play just fine without knowing them as well. Not making enough of something? Add more stuff to make more of it? Making too much of something, either don't worry about it because it will likely eventually be consumed by something or take out some of the buildings doing that.
Best beginner playthrough!
Co-worker bought this game for me as a "hope you feel better after your vasectomy" gift. I've already reached the "oh, just 5 more minutes *watches the sun come up*" point and only have about 20 hours in the game.
this is exactly what i'm looking for.. :)
thanks 4 the detailed explanation & many tips, very useful 4 beginner like me
keep up the good work..
Thank you Nilaus for providing this much great content
I enjoy all your content, appreciate your detailed explanations
Inside the inventory of entities.
SHIFT click transfers one stack
CTRL click transfer all stacks of that item.
0:08 landed, huh... I suppose any landing you can walk away from is a good one 😆
I just bought Factorio after finishing Dyson Sphere Program twice... so even though it did kinda feel like you were going a bit too fast, I was not totally lost. The basic mechanics of the same seem to be the same as DSP from what I'm seeing.
Would you make a starter HUB like DSP as well here in next episodes? Where all the buildings and machines are automated without having to manually pick up and deposit iron/copper and stuff?
Why do I hear in a lot of veteran players of Factorio say that "the trees are the real enemy"?
I just picked up the game and really enjoying the experience. To Nilaus thank you for making these walk through videos this has been very helpful.
"I need my purple color, otherwise I just cannot associate myself with this character. "
Based Nilaus
Nilaus New Player Experience in Minecraft: "Welcome to Minecraft, my name is Nilaus, and there you are here is the Ender Dragon's head already"
I LOVE THIS GAME. I have been waiting since 17.79!!!!!! After 1,100ish hours I decided to take a 1 year+ break so that I could justify another 1000+ hours once 1.0 was released. SO here we go again! lol
I enjoyed a lot... Specially your efficient planning.
when you do something the first time, like opening the mapview, you could mention that you get into that mode by hitting the "M" key.
when i started, figuring out a lot of the button combos was one of the main issues
Speaking from a player that has. off and on for the past 4-5 years,put in about 350 hours put into this game. (It's unfortunate and intimidating that I feel like I need to preface my comment like this, it's a bit of waving around, but it also keeps engineers honest about their personal experience). Early on I was really impressed by the conciseness of you're explanations while still covering a lot of important ground. Side note; how many of here have felt video tutorials generally waste your time? You left just enough room to the imagination, that if your video was taken in little chunks and messed around with the controls in game, brand new players who are curious can have their own "ahah!" moments. Which honestly might not even isn't the best way to go through this particular series, but it was a really cool element to notice. But early on you lost the stamina to explain things starting at the basic level. Honestly at the end of the video I felt this was less of a tutorial on how new players should approach this beautiful game that keeps sucking me in every 6 months or so, but how you specifically play the game.
I mean all this with the very best intentions, I love the fact that comments are being read before the next video is out, what dedication. I wish for you to guide me from the ground up and help me build rockets even though I've cracked oil only twice.
My friends wont play this game coz its bad fricking graphics and 2d so here i am satisfying myself. Thanks bro
When you refer to a masterclass video, please could you provide a link to it in your 'more info' ?
e.g. the map creation masterclass mentioned early in the video
there is a link in the description to the playlist of all Master Class videos: ua-cam.com/video/Cx88mE-4P4Y/v-deo.html
Best factorio content creator! @nilaus Small typo in description: "celenbrate"
ctrl+left is always pick up everything(of one good,) shift+left is one stack isnt it? 3:30
HYPE for 1.0!
Hype! for SPIDERS!
@20:00 why not burner inserters?
Thank you for the map exchange string!
Felt like you were rushing a bit, I'd advise giving the new players who might be watching a moment to let things sink in.
I know path is prime, but stone is only future stone bricks/path :)
very exciting, finally 1.0!
I'm playing along and learning so much more than making spaghetti on my own.