Theres one important feature I forgot to mention. There is a coupon system called an awesome sink and awesome shop that lets you input a certain number of extra items and get tickets which can be used in the shop for extra materials or buildings. Its great for getting more routers or harder to make items. I didnt mention it originally because the sink takes 30mw which requires a sole biomass burner to run, and the item requirements past 13 tickets increase exponentially. Its not worth using until you get both coal power to be able to run it reliably and enough extra items to feed it. Its an added extra benefit rather than a requirement of progression.
The addition of a conveyor input to Biomass Burners isn't just convenient, it nudges players to WANT to automate the Solid Biofuel crafting process as manually crafting those takes a LOT of time, and sure it won't be as annoying if you toggle autocrafting with the Spacebar (been in since atleast Update 5 I think), but it will still take multiple minutes of effectively AFK-ing at the crafting bench to do. Before 1.0, it felt fairly pointless to set up a Biomass Factory Line as it would just pile up into a container anyways and then you had to manually move it to the burners anyways, so people just didn't bother. Now that the ENTIRE process can be automated, when you finally finish that setup and can just DUMP all the biomass making materials into a starting container and then the system sorts, processes, refines and feeds the burners with it all, you get that first BIG dopamine hit within the first hour or two of playing the game. Before it would take 4-8 hours for most new players to hit Coal for the first BIG dopamine and relief hit.
While I agree it was added for conveinence, but I, as well as everyone I have played with, have always done a quick setup of leaves and wood for biomass. It was always easy to set it up with the output container at the generators. I still do, but I don't automate input. By the time handfeeding is becoming tedious, I'm setting up my coal anyways. At most, I would have a container with a small supply hooked up to a single biomass generator, so it can kick/restart my first coal generator array.
@@MacEbesGaming You need to organize the information better. Is it a review or a tutorial? Is it for new players or for people who got in on early access? You compare it with Factorio...so again who is it for? So just better organization. Do you even know about the Awesome sink and store in the game?
@eagleeye5397 The intent was for new players to the game who may have heard about this kind of game before but were not sure about it. I have the awesome sink and shop in the video but didnt mention them because unless you have a biomass burner soley for the sink, you will need to wait until coal power to use them. The sink takes 30mw and a burner can do 40mw, and it didnt seem worth it to have a sole burner for the sink especially after you get the 12 tickets you can do before the amount needed exponentially gets higher. Past the first use it didnt seem like people would have enough excess materials to warrant using it. Ill put a comment mentioning it.
Theres one important feature I forgot to mention. There is a coupon system called an awesome sink and awesome shop that lets you input a certain number of extra items and get tickets which can be used in the shop for extra materials or buildings. Its great for getting more routers or harder to make items. I didnt mention it originally because the sink takes 30mw which requires a sole biomass burner to run, and the item requirements past 13 tickets increase exponentially. Its not worth using until you get both coal power to be able to run it reliably and enough extra items to feed it. Its an added extra benefit rather than a requirement of progression.
I think the spacebar tap in the crafting bench was introduced in a older update already
Yes. I believe it was either U7 or U8 that introduced that.
The addition of a conveyor input to Biomass Burners isn't just convenient, it nudges players to WANT to automate the Solid Biofuel crafting process as manually crafting those takes a LOT of time, and sure it won't be as annoying if you toggle autocrafting with the Spacebar (been in since atleast Update 5 I think), but it will still take multiple minutes of effectively AFK-ing at the crafting bench to do.
Before 1.0, it felt fairly pointless to set up a Biomass Factory Line as it would just pile up into a container anyways and then you had to manually move it to the burners anyways, so people just didn't bother. Now that the ENTIRE process can be automated, when you finally finish that setup and can just DUMP all the biomass making materials into a starting container and then the system sorts, processes, refines and feeds the burners with it all, you get that first BIG dopamine hit within the first hour or two of playing the game. Before it would take 4-8 hours for most new players to hit Coal for the first BIG dopamine and relief hit.
While I agree it was added for conveinence, but I, as well as everyone I have played with, have always done a quick setup of leaves and wood for biomass. It was always easy to set it up with the output container at the generators.
I still do, but I don't automate input. By the time handfeeding is becoming tedious, I'm setting up my coal anyways. At most, I would have a container with a small supply hooked up to a single biomass generator, so it can kick/restart my first coal generator array.
Not the best review. It's like a C+. Not sure what he is trying to do.
@@eagleeye5397 what else would you suggest i add to make it more informative to a new player?
@@MacEbesGaming You need to organize the information better. Is it a review or a tutorial? Is it for new players or for people who got in on early access? You compare it with Factorio...so again who is it for? So just better organization. Do you even know about the Awesome sink and store in the game?
@eagleeye5397 The intent was for new players to the game who may have heard about this kind of game before but were not sure about it. I have the awesome sink and shop in the video but didnt mention them because unless you have a biomass burner soley for the sink, you will need to wait until coal power to use them. The sink takes 30mw and a burner can do 40mw, and it didnt seem worth it to have a sole burner for the sink especially after you get the 12 tickets you can do before the amount needed exponentially gets higher. Past the first use it didnt seem like people would have enough excess materials to warrant using it. Ill put a comment mentioning it.