Can you beat Factorio without wires?

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  • @DocJade
    @DocJade  11 місяців тому +226

    There may be some slight stutter, sorry.
    I tried cutting around it, but my older GPU has frame syncing issues with OBS.
    Also this is the first video made with my new editing tools, definitely felt a lot quicker.
    Remind me to not record voiceover 20 minutes after waking up, i sound dead/depressed :(
    And one more thing, you should join the discord :)

    • @MizunaGames
      @MizunaGames 11 місяців тому +7

      Funny, I said exactly the same thing about my video yesterday. I think it's the nature of the beast. 8 AM is when I have the motivation to record, but the vocal cords disagree. You're an inspiration friend, keep doing what you're doing :)

    • @skmgeek
      @skmgeek 11 місяців тому +1

      What editing tool do you use? :3

    • @tynumo
      @tynumo 10 місяців тому +1

      In the docks tab of the top menu bar, there's a stats page that includes some useful information at a glance, like frames missed due to rendering lagg, free disk space, and estimated time until full. Might be helpful for diagnosing if the issue is still happening and managing pesky drive space. Hope this helps.

    • @sveinhongset4725
      @sveinhongset4725 8 місяців тому

      do you remember when you crafted an axe to havest faster with?

    • @DavidEdwards9801
      @DavidEdwards9801 5 місяців тому

      OMG 1 Rockstar at a time

  • @swattofficer6624
    @swattofficer6624 11 місяців тому +1013

    You're really lucky that the absolutely definitely wire copper wire that gets used for all the sciences is called 'copper cable'- dodged a bullet there.

    • @TheGeneReyva
      @TheGeneReyva 11 місяців тому +25

      I never noticed that...

    • @elianas1121
      @elianas1121 10 місяців тому +70

      I for one thought this challenge was going to be “can’t use anything that has copper wire as an ingredient” and I was wondering how the heck nothing required to beat the game needed copper wire.
      This makes much more sense.

  • @gazehound
    @gazehound 11 місяців тому +421

    >buy wireless factory
    >look inside
    >wires

    • @Kitten-Master
      @Kitten-Master 9 місяців тому +17

      >buy wireless wires
      >look inside
      >w̷͓̤͔̻͕̥̖͚̟̹͈͉̞͔̅̀͆̃̊̔̾̇̌̇͜ḯ̶̡͔̬̈́́͐̓̃̏̾̂̽͌̕͝ṟ̵̛̖̆͛̈̊͗̒̑̍̾̿̀͑͘̚e̸̛̝͂͊̉̆̓͐̚s̸̗͈̠͚̣̯͈͖͕̬͕͎̒̊͂̉̎̀͛̔

    • @tomsterbg8130
      @tomsterbg8130 6 місяців тому +2

      *bUt tHOsE arE CablEs!1!!11*

  • @ojek3400
    @ojek3400 9 місяців тому +42

    One must imagine Sisyphus as a man stranded on a planet building a factory without using wires.

  • @laytherian
    @laytherian 11 місяців тому +339

    "projectile damage couldn't hurt" i think the biters would very strongly disagree with you on that but okay

    • @viniboi_4963
      @viniboi_4963 10 місяців тому

      hahahaahha

    • @almachizit3207
      @almachizit3207 5 місяців тому +1

      When you think about it though, when there's more damage, there's fewer hurt biters, because there's more dead biters and you can't be hurt if you're already dead

  • @maltardraco9555
    @maltardraco9555 11 місяців тому +138

    "Since I can't move power around, I'll just move steam around instead." Industrial Revolution in a nutshell.

  • @Revicarrus
    @Revicarrus 11 місяців тому +453

    All of the wires are under your skin, you have to dig them out to play factorio with wires again.

  • @jacksonstarbringer7972
    @jacksonstarbringer7972 11 місяців тому +243

    Can really tell you stepped up your editing with this one. Literally one of the best youtubers, period

    • @DocJade
      @DocJade  11 місяців тому +63

      The new hyperlapses are super easy to make with my new tooling, def a lot of fun

    • @tric30
      @tric30 11 місяців тому +5

      There are some super cool tricks I noticed that are absolutely unnecessary for your run of the mill game edit, but I think it pays off with how freaking dope they turn out. Great work!

  • @Gemoron
    @Gemoron 11 місяців тому +29

    For those who attemp this challenge as well. putting powerpoles in the power area of other power poles doesn't transmit electricity, but putting an accumulator in the power field of two power poles allows a transfer of power equal to the charge/discharge rate of low power applications, like reloading turrets or inserters in a coal smelter setup.

    • @sillymonkey725
      @sillymonkey725 10 місяців тому +2

      Yeah, well, the 1st pole has to be near a power source (solar panel, steam engine), then place accumulator(s) (multiple would help with how much power they can provide together) within range of that pole, then a 2nd pole that covers the accumulators. But that's it. You can't repeat that pattern with another to make a 3 pole chain. I mean... you can, but power can't jump from an accumulator to another, so the 3rd pole won't provide any power. So idk, only limited use, and you still need a power source nearby anyway. A steam engine seems better than accumulators in 99% of cases.

  • @Konraden
    @Konraden 10 місяців тому +49

    I'd love a little more commentary on what you thought of the challenge after you've completed the run. Just a minute or two after rocket launch to talk about the ups and downs would be neat. Love the content. Heart emoji heart emoji.

  • @TheSmacker20
    @TheSmacker20 11 місяців тому +96

    Alright almost time for bed, let me just refresh UA-cam one last time and.......oh no

    • @SuperOtter
      @SuperOtter 11 місяців тому +3

      Same problem here but then at 4am

    • @rinunderscore
      @rinunderscore 11 місяців тому +1

      THIS 😂😂 RELATABLE

    • @ernestocabana3838
      @ernestocabana3838 11 місяців тому +1

      Same 😔

    • @DavidEdwards9801
      @DavidEdwards9801 5 місяців тому

      I'd hate to be the spoiler here, but this is why the government is trying to regulate Tik-Tok and other programs fr, people aren't getting enough sleep because we're too "wired"

  • @DoubleQuadDamage
    @DoubleQuadDamage 6 місяців тому +5

    - How to transfer electricity between cities?
    - By wire.
    - Wrong! Through steam pipes!

  • @Polygonetwo
    @Polygonetwo 11 місяців тому +123

    “The biters are really starting to annoy me, so I relocated them six feet under. For my non+American friends, that’s a tad less than two washing machines.”
    These two lines were absolutely brilliant. Good show, mate. XD

    • @sivart0
      @sivart0 10 місяців тому +8

      Us Americans will literally measure in anything other than metric.

    • @justeunfan3364
      @justeunfan3364 10 місяців тому +2

      @@sivart0 how long is an "anything" ?

    • @sivart0
      @sivart0 10 місяців тому +4

      @@justeunfan3364 About 14 cheeseburgers.

    • @justeunfan3364
      @justeunfan3364 10 місяців тому +2

      @@sivart0 Are your burgers standard banana sized ? bananas are the only real unit.

    • @sivart0
      @sivart0 10 місяців тому +3

      @@justeunfan3364They're about 9/16 of a banana.

  • @ianlehman8342
    @ianlehman8342 10 місяців тому +3

    When you don't want to pay for zoning rights to power, so you run your whole facility on backup generators

  • @FNBYNNTND
    @FNBYNNTND 11 місяців тому +26

    It’s these challenge runs that really make you appreciate the little things.

  • @Mulakulu
    @Mulakulu 11 місяців тому +11

    This kind of belt spaghetti is so disgusting.
    I love it

  • @Thk10188965
    @Thk10188965 11 місяців тому +8

    I really appreciated the "Inserting the inserters on the belt belt" line

  • @dungewar
    @dungewar 11 місяців тому +48

    Don't get me wrong, this is an amazing video with high quality editing, but it kinda talked little about the challenge itself. It feels like I didn't understand much about what makes a wireless run challenging, instead what made this particular run challenging. I mean there were only a few mentions of the run's constrictions and the designs that were forced because of that.
    Just to clarify: I really liked this video.

    • @Dan-gs3kg
      @Dan-gs3kg 11 місяців тому +4

      Didn't make much use of fluid mechanics, or steam trains. No nuclear steam either.

    • @SimonWoodburyForget
      @SimonWoodburyForget Місяць тому +1

      @@Dan-gs3kg No burner inserters either.

  • @imi___
    @imi___ 11 місяців тому +1

    The whole challenge can be summarized with the one sentence at 0:44 "If we can't move electricity around, we just move steam around". After that, it was just a "slightly weird normal playthrough" :(
    Still.. nice little video.

  • @ianlehman8342
    @ianlehman8342 10 місяців тому +4

    Steam pipes running everywhere, powering an individual steam engine for each machine. A true steam factory

  • @Lyakusha1
    @Lyakusha1 11 місяців тому +20

    After playing 160 hours of Pyanodon's I cannot stop thinking "this playthrough must be an ash hell" even if I understand there's no ash in vanilla

    • @isaacshultz8128
      @isaacshultz8128 11 місяців тому

      Ash?

    • @Lyakusha1
      @Lyakusha1 11 місяців тому

      @@isaacshultz8128 There's an overhaul mod for Factorio, called Pyanodon. One of the feature of this mod is that coal (and a lot of other burnable stuff) has a byproduct of burning - ash. You have to deal with ash somehow, extracting it from burner miners (and other burner buildings) with manipulators and transporting it with belts to storage (recycling in late early-game and nullifying in early midgame). Otherwise your buildings will be clogged with ash and stop working

    • @calvindang7291
      @calvindang7291 11 місяців тому +3

      @@isaacshultz8128 In Pyanodon's, coal turns into ash after it's burnt and then you need to go dispose of it.

    • @isaacshultz8128
      @isaacshultz8128 11 місяців тому +1

      @@calvindang7291 oh thats awful. Is the only way to dispose by boxing it up them shooting it?

    • @calvindang7291
      @calvindang7291 11 місяців тому +2

      @@isaacshultz8128 No; there's plenty of ways to discard items you don't need, generally involving crafting it into something actually useful. (If you needed to manually shoot a chest every time it got full you'd be doing that way too often for it to get fun.)

  • @miners132
    @miners132 11 місяців тому +3

    9:42 average factorio player "Damn im out of space to build, time to upgrade copper"

  • @BinarySecond
    @BinarySecond 11 місяців тому +6

    No wires, quick 20 minutes adventure. In and out.

  • @Gearjerk5
    @Gearjerk5 11 місяців тому +69

    This was a cool challenge.
    Was there a reason you didn't make heavier use of burner inserters in the early game, especially for things like the turrets on the wall and the furnace stacks? The output side of the furnaces would have been a little iffy, but the turret's ammo belt could have had coal on the other side, saving you the trouble of finagling the mish-mash of steam pipes, steam engines, and power poles.

    • @DocJade
      @DocJade  11 місяців тому +66

      coal and ammo on the same belt for walls is actually a pretty clever idea, i like how you think
      honestly i think it just boils down to "old habits die hard"

    • @fainyance11
      @fainyance11 11 місяців тому +3

      burner inserters are just simply bad. In vanilla Factorio where you start with the recipe there's no reason to not immediately skip to yellow inserters from the start.

    • @he3004
      @he3004 11 місяців тому +12

      @@fainyance11 yes, but when you consider every yellow inserter needs to be closely accompanied by an entire steam engine, burner inserters suddenly sound a lot more plausible

    • @chainsawplayin
      @chainsawplayin 11 місяців тому

      @@he3004 It's easier to move steam than to move coal, also yellow inserters are a nice bit faster than burners on top of never wasting rotations on refueling.

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 10 місяців тому +3

      @@chainsawplayinit’s also waaay more iron spent tho between the pipes and engine itself (until substations, that is)

  • @andrewcurtin7003
    @andrewcurtin7003 6 місяців тому

    This is actually a super cool idea, sorta like a litteral steam powered factory. Moving steam around to power the different areas. Love this

  • @Zorae42
    @Zorae42 11 місяців тому +8

    This was a nice little challenge after watching a ton of insane 100+hour challenge runs.

  • @nilrem3
    @nilrem3 11 місяців тому +2

    Loving the editing for the construction and deconstruction

  • @alexdavidson7498
    @alexdavidson7498 6 місяців тому +1

    Good lord, I should’ve built my base normally.

  • @ShadowKestrel
    @ShadowKestrel 11 місяців тому +5

    that washing machine gag had me CACKLING

  • @haeppchen1603
    @haeppchen1603 11 місяців тому +2

    I've got to say, you're getting better and better with your Video production- and pun-quality. Well done.

  • @Masterchifwin
    @Masterchifwin 11 місяців тому +17

    "i relocated them 6ft downwards. for my non american friends, thats a tad smaller than two washing machine" why is that so funny, i love it

    • @Thk10188965
      @Thk10188965 11 місяців тому +2

      because typically you give the Americans the nonsense measurements, but he turned it around and gave everyone else the nonsense units. It is subversion of expectation.

    • @Hawk7886
      @Hawk7886 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Thk10188965why does explaining the joke _always_ ruin it, there must be away around this dilemma

    • @Majima_Nowhere
      @Majima_Nowhere 6 місяців тому

      @@Hawk7886 There are two ways around it. The first is to make jokes that are self-evident (which the washing machine joke already was), the second is to not explain jokes to people who don't get it. Explaining a joke _always_ comes off as patronizing, so just let them figure it out in their own time.

  • @PhoenixGameMovies
    @PhoenixGameMovies 11 місяців тому +4

    Factorio looks so much better without all the power pole clutter.

    • @MDHilgersom
      @MDHilgersom 11 місяців тому +1

      This, the challenge is a nightmare I'm sure, but the base looks amazing.

    • @wavehellhole
      @wavehellhole 3 місяці тому

      Just like real life

  • @cosmic5386
    @cosmic5386 11 місяців тому +1

    Really cool concept with using steam as a power line for things

  • @clarfonthey
    @clarfonthey 11 місяців тому +1

    I feel silly I opened this video thinking "that's a silly challenge, don't think it'd affect the game too much" and then realised how wrong I was when you were building steam engines next to every building.
    Nice job! Now I wonder what it'd be like to build a nuclear base with this mod...

  • @Majima_Nowhere
    @Majima_Nowhere 6 місяців тому

    I don't think I've ever seen someone transport a train car full of steam in this game. Something new every day.

  • @dervadveirzundluni
    @dervadveirzundluni 11 місяців тому +1

    Haha, love the movie that scene in the beginning is from, no im not telling which naked gun movie it is

  • @Big-E-TheBouncer
    @Big-E-TheBouncer 10 місяців тому

    Great video, a big opportunity was missed here the mod that makes belts require power should have been added.

  • @koogco
    @koogco 11 місяців тому +2

    I would have put coal on one side of the ammo belt and used burner inserters for the turrets. Maybe that isn't in the spirit of the challenge 😅

  • @realdiamondplays
    @realdiamondplays 11 місяців тому +1

    "Are you looking for that special connection?"
    no?
    "Well too bad!"
    well ok lol
    10/10 intro

  • @EliteTester
    @EliteTester 9 місяців тому

    This is how I imagine the idea for the Industrial Revolution mod came to be.

  • @Sidewinded
    @Sidewinded 10 місяців тому

    Nice work!
    Would have liked to seen the power production charts throughout though.

  • @Olegoo140
    @Olegoo140 7 місяців тому

    Someone stole your "Inserted inserters on the belt belt" phrase.
    That someone was me.
    Nice video, cheers.

  • @brentritchie6199
    @brentritchie6199 10 місяців тому

    Tough challenge seems you found it easy great job

  • @Wackylemon64
    @Wackylemon64 9 місяців тому

    I'm kind of reminded of the steam-powered machines of the early game of the "industrial revolution" mod, by the way your primary means of transporting power is through steam pipes

  • @Omc1317
    @Omc1317 11 місяців тому

    Christmas came early with a new doc video

  • @PeterZaitcev
    @PeterZaitcev 11 місяців тому +1

    I appreciate the fact you have Ko-Fi supporter named ""Ko-Fi Supporter"". In quotes.

  • @Ishsa
    @Ishsa 11 місяців тому

    You know it's a good century when there's a docjade upload 🎉

  • @sanderbos4243
    @sanderbos4243 11 місяців тому

    "What shall we use to conduct this beautiful current with? What one particular element comes to mind? Hmm?"
    "Ahhhh, wire!"
    "Ugh, copper..."

  • @tynumo
    @tynumo 10 місяців тому +1

    what if you instead removed copper cable "wire" and replaced everything requiring a copper cable with a more expensive logical alternative?

  • @redstonewolfx
    @redstonewolfx 11 місяців тому +1

    And I thought Factorio needed a lot of iron already… now you need about 10 plates per building

  • @zer0tolerance926
    @zer0tolerance926 11 місяців тому +12

    Great video! Though at 4:40 I see a wire between two of the poles (non-ghosts), so run invalid 🙃

    • @DocJade
      @DocJade  11 місяців тому +7

      just wait till you see the actual wires on the substations that randomly appeared in red circuits
      run invalid smh

  • @winstonchurchill8649
    @winstonchurchill8649 11 місяців тому +2

    YEEEEEY IT HAS HAPPENNED!!! HOLY LORDS OF RENDERING AND UPLOADING SPEED WE BEG FOR FORGIVNESS FOR DOUBTING YOU
    P.s. for rel it was quite a long

  • @_notch
    @_notch 9 місяців тому +2

    Ok that's a subscribe from me.

  • @mandragorius9637
    @mandragorius9637 8 місяців тому

    Sometimes I wish for the exact opposite mod in factorio
    No Service area, only wires
    Imagine the circuit horror beyond comprehension you could Set up to 'optimize' Power consumtion if you could wire each object seperately

  • @DavidEdwards9801
    @DavidEdwards9801 5 місяців тому

    9:33 almost snorted out my coffee when adding 7 totaled 5, but when you don't know how to count, less = more lmao =)

  • @SaucePear
    @SaucePear 9 місяців тому

    love your videos! you should do a bobs and angels run, I'd love to see your take on those mods! ❤

  • @daa2910
    @daa2910 11 місяців тому +1

    i think if place Accumulator at middle of substation, it can send power substation to substatio.
    Accumulator is some expansive and slow production thing, so it not helpful very much.
    but it can safe some steam engine's room and factory make little more smaller.
    yeah, maybe that's worst thng.

    • @andryhhito5384
      @andryhhito5384 11 місяців тому

      There is a smaaaaal issue about that: every electric connection runs independently so that means instead of many electrical connections running on slightly optimized steam engines working on half force and NOT affecting ups SO much we have one big electrical connection that runs counting every single electrical rollercoaster happening with power on endgame base
      Good luck running that game and not crashing if mod's developers not optimised that

  • @ARiverSystem
    @ARiverSystem 6 місяців тому

    18:40 "for my non-american friends, that's a tad less than 2 washing machines" got me XD

  • @kylebennett4434
    @kylebennett4434 11 місяців тому +2

    Can I beat Factorio without wires? No, probably not. But it'd be fun to watch you do it

  • @CaveJohnson376
    @CaveJohnson376 3 місяці тому

    now that i am thinking about this, you can put one steam engine per power pole and not worry about having enough steam engines, and only worrying about having enough steam boilers

  • @adriangrzys
    @adriangrzys 10 місяців тому

    Most obscure base i've ever seen

  • @arskcz8229
    @arskcz8229 11 місяців тому +1

    just playing factorio now and trying to wire up oil mining :D

  • @raqtty
    @raqtty 11 місяців тому

    legends say he's playing space exploration right now

  • @badgerisback9762
    @badgerisback9762 10 місяців тому

    Return to the spoon throwing. Contact the fork man. You know who I speak of.

  • @TrueMechTech
    @TrueMechTech 11 місяців тому +1

    So Factorio has now become Gregtech before Multiblock generators

  • @BouncingElf10
    @BouncingElf10 11 місяців тому

    It’s a good day when doc uploads!

  • @pawesieczak6379
    @pawesieczak6379 11 місяців тому

    Industrial revolution 4 looking awesome

  • @chillaah2000
    @chillaah2000 11 місяців тому

    Its funny how people come up with more and more cursed runs for Factorio, like sushi style only or this one here...

  • @lazyturtle3981
    @lazyturtle3981 11 місяців тому

    Love this video, somehow I expected the factory to get filled with eggs halfway through (you kind of sound like howtobasic XD)

  • @phazonjunky1818
    @phazonjunky1818 11 місяців тому +1

    I swear doc if there aren't numerous cheesy puns and rhyming sentences in this video, then I will go to bed...

  • @ossicox
    @ossicox 11 місяців тому

    bro that first clip is bombe i love it

  • @checktaschu4492
    @checktaschu4492 11 місяців тому

    That’s some serious spaghet.

  • @nextjaeger9271
    @nextjaeger9271 11 місяців тому

    With steam engines everywhere the base looks like the base from the old main menu background picture

  • @xk445g
    @xk445g 11 місяців тому

    Congratulations, you made Factorio steampunk

  • @elliejohnson2786
    @elliejohnson2786 8 місяців тому

    You can shift click research instead of double clicking it to add it to the queue :D

  • @squidddly
    @squidddly 11 місяців тому

    Great video, as always

  • @Slywyn
    @Slywyn 11 місяців тому

    y'know at first I thought you meant wires as in the copper stuff that goes into circuits and I was like 'what? no of course not' and then you started playing and I realized it was no wires from *power poles* and my first thought was 'oh no this is gonna be so cursed'.
    I was correct.

  • @silksongreactions
    @silksongreactions 10 місяців тому

    Bro actually launched a rocket with his starter base

  • @TrapChan
    @TrapChan 11 місяців тому

    This is the most masochistic run i have ever seen

  • @korylemon8911
    @korylemon8911 11 місяців тому

    when mom tells you that you have Industrial Revolution at home.

  • @mason-pe5lk
    @mason-pe5lk 11 місяців тому

    I always bring boilers to the coal, because it's 2/3 the iron plate cost.

  • @akakamaz7382
    @akakamaz7382 11 місяців тому

    Normal factorio gameplay, no strings attach 😮

  • @PrinzEugenz
    @PrinzEugenz 9 місяців тому

    16:55 look like 9 seconds is just too long for bitter's life

  • @MikeJones-kh2be
    @MikeJones-kh2be 11 місяців тому

    Spaghetti for breakfast - yum!

  • @TundraTurnip
    @TundraTurnip 10 місяців тому +1

    beat Factorio by only moving stuff with bots
    and by hand of course

  • @Nacaza00
    @Nacaza00 11 місяців тому

    The narration is quite one dimensional, although humorous! Instead of describing what I’m already seeing, maybe add in what you’re thinking. I might be wrong… I did enjoy the video and I look forward to seeing more!

  • @_Some_Random_Dude
    @_Some_Random_Dude 8 місяців тому

    That looks like an unholy abomination.
    I gotta try this mod.

  • @SuchBadness
    @SuchBadness 11 місяців тому

    Burner inserters so hated and disregarded he used steam engines for early game smelting and no one cared.

  • @mrpocock
    @mrpocock 7 місяців тому

    I wonder what a no wires, no belts base would look like.

  • @stephan4921
    @stephan4921 10 місяців тому

    I've been watching some of your older videos where you mentioned dwarf fortress, you should do some videos for it :D
    DFHack and DwarfTherapist are your best friend, it does actually have a lot of automation tools, but some of them are a bit obscure. I'm sure people will be more than willing to help with explaining all the 3rd party tools available (there's quite a lot).

  • @DrenKillfree
    @DrenKillfree 11 місяців тому

    factorio with dc power, eat your heart out eddison.

  • @gaslitgames
    @gaslitgames 11 місяців тому

    Didnt convert that into European washing machines I see. Well played.

  • @2bb735
    @2bb735 11 місяців тому

    How much buttering up / complementing your incredible videos do I have to do before you do Space Exploration? Because I will do it.

  • @JayTheXXVII
    @JayTheXXVII 10 місяців тому

    Ngl I never use wires so watching this for me looks like a regular playthrough lol

  • @crazzeecaptian1745
    @crazzeecaptian1745 11 місяців тому

    Love to just see a modded factorio video where we just jump right in, what's that? No copper wires to connect our power poles? Who cares just fill the base with steam engines

  • @lipamanka
    @lipamanka 11 місяців тому +1

    BIG EXCITED

  • @Strawbrb
    @Strawbrb 11 місяців тому

    good video i like i watch i go "wow good video i like"

  • @hamsterdam1942
    @hamsterdam1942 11 місяців тому

    I'm pretty sure this is a spaghetti base challenge as well

  • @Matt-sk6hi
    @Matt-sk6hi 10 місяців тому

    Considering I bumrush trains and circuits in my jumpstart base. No I cannot beat factorio without wires.

  • @ryanwaterbury
    @ryanwaterbury 11 місяців тому

    Oh dear god the ups