God dang hilarious video, also great info, don't worry about the doofuses saying to edit the long bits and "technical errors" out, the humor and silliness are what gaming is about, awesome video man.
Great content, thanks for the vid. Would be thrilled to have a much shorter version of this, ''stealth editing'' out all the stuff not pertaining to the title, e.g moving through map, getting res for stuff that can be prebuilt, building transportation methods like trainrails, etc. I found myself trying to skip through most of this and the last vid- to the point where I was losing interest, and considering trying to find another tutorial (this is just intended to be constructive criticism/feedback- hopefully not seen as a complaint). The tidbits on how to apply circuits for efficiency were useful. It seems this is part of a series, so for the sake of understanding the type of viewer that's making this remark, I will mention I have never seen it before, and quickly youtubed a tutorial to give me an idea of what to expect/ how to go about uranium processing, now that I've reached that point in my game---perhaps i am not the intended viewer base.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes this series is really intended to be a Let's Play with a concentration on explaining things to an otherwise overwhelmed beginner. Just hopping in and looking for what's mentioned in the title can be (and based on comments has been) frustrating for those looking for something specific. I did consider doing a more focused series once I completed this one, but frankly I don't play Factorio anymore after Dyson Sphere Program came out.
Hey Superfluous J, nice vid. One thing I wanted to point out though, was that at 03:56 you try to compare the nuclear reactor to the steam engines by indicating that that nuclear reactor produces 160MW of "power" and that the steam engines produce .9MW of "power", but I need to point out that your comparing apples to oranges, or in this case Nuclear Reactor's "Heat power" to the steam turbine's "Electrical Power", so your 2 nuclear reactors don't actually replace the 40+ steam engines, they power the 40+ steam engines -- or else you would just be able to connect an electrical pole to the nuclear reactor directly and wouldn't need to deal with heat pipes. Your nuclear reactors are actually only replacing the coal as a source of heat, so you would have to compare the megawatts of "Heat power" that your water boilers produce internally from the coal they burn (which, unfortunately due to the fact that each of the forms of fuel [coal, carbon, etc] contain different amounts of joules which isn't listed in the tool tip at 05:12, only the max "Heat power" consumed which is 1.8MW). If you want to want to compare nuclear energy to conventional heat generation, you'd have to read the tool tip for each fuel source (such as 1x coal = 4 megajoules according to the in-game tool tip) and then calculate the amount of watts produced at the rate of burn. For example, if it took exactly one second for the piece of coal to burn, then the coal would produce 4 megawatts of heat energy (1 watt = 1 joule / 1 second). So if that burn rate of 1 coal per second could hold steady (which it doesn't as I've seen coal burn much faster and much slower than one second depending on the amount of steam required) your 160 MWs of nuclear heat energy would be the equivalent of (160MWs / 4 MWs = 40) 40 coal per second. Due to this, you statement about Steam Turbines being the nuclear version of the Steam Engines (05:27) also isn't exactly true, because both the Steam Engines and the Steam Turbines can be operated by either conventional (coal/carbon/etc.) or nuclear heat produced steam. Bottom line: If you want to compare the amount of electrical energy that your base's machines need to consume, then you would have to stick to the amount of electrical power megawatts that your Steam Engines make compared to the Steam Turbines which can both be operated with conventional (coal/carbon/etc.)-produced steam OR nuclear-produced steam (or a mix of the two). So in other words: 1) Nuclear Reactors are comparable to the internal heat generated by boilers burning conventional fuel (coal/carbon/etc.) in that they generate watts of "Heat Power". 2) Boilers and Heat Exchangers are comparable because they both consume watts of "Heat Power (nuclear or conventional)" to produce "Steam" by boiling water. 3) Steam Engines and Steam Turbines are comparable because they both consume "Steam (from any source)" to generate watts of "Electrical Power". Hope this helps, and other than that thank you for making tutorial vids and helping make the gaming world a better place!
Haha, nuclear power is more efficient than steam power but it seems that in terms of setup it's almost as vast and convoluted as steam power. ^^ Anyway, great tutorial. Thanks!
Question. How are you taking an item from your inventory, ghost placing it and having you minions build it. I seen you were too far to place a building, but I had the building robot do it.
C'mon, you don't start building nuclear reactors but simple staff and you learn trough the game more complex staff. It's not a hard game, just requires a bit of patience.
I love this series it even that I have more than 300 hours in this game I find new and new things in this game with your help!
God dang hilarious video, also great info, don't worry about the doofuses saying to edit the long bits and "technical errors" out, the humor and silliness are what gaming is about, awesome video man.
loving the tutorial. been following along as a beginner
Great content, thanks for the vid. Would be thrilled to have a much shorter version of this, ''stealth editing'' out all the stuff not pertaining to the title, e.g moving through map, getting res for stuff that can be prebuilt, building transportation methods like trainrails, etc. I found myself trying to skip through most of this and the last vid- to the point where I was losing interest, and considering trying to find another tutorial (this is just intended to be constructive criticism/feedback- hopefully not seen as a complaint). The tidbits on how to apply circuits for efficiency were useful.
It seems this is part of a series, so for the sake of understanding the type of viewer that's making this remark, I will mention I have never seen it before, and quickly youtubed a tutorial to give me an idea of what to expect/ how to go about uranium processing, now that I've reached that point in my game---perhaps i am not the intended viewer base.
Thanks for the feedback!
Yes this series is really intended to be a Let's Play with a concentration on explaining things to an otherwise overwhelmed beginner. Just hopping in and looking for what's mentioned in the title can be (and based on comments has been) frustrating for those looking for something specific.
I did consider doing a more focused series once I completed this one, but frankly I don't play Factorio anymore after Dyson Sphere Program came out.
Hey Superfluous J, nice vid.
One thing I wanted to point out though, was that at 03:56 you try to compare the nuclear reactor to the steam engines by indicating that that nuclear reactor produces 160MW of "power" and that the steam engines produce .9MW of "power", but I need to point out that your comparing apples to oranges, or in this case Nuclear Reactor's "Heat power" to the steam turbine's "Electrical Power", so your 2 nuclear reactors don't actually replace the 40+ steam engines, they power the 40+ steam engines -- or else you would just be able to connect an electrical pole to the nuclear reactor directly and wouldn't need to deal with heat pipes. Your nuclear reactors are actually only replacing the coal as a source of heat, so you would have to compare the megawatts of "Heat power" that your water boilers produce internally from the coal they burn (which, unfortunately due to the fact that each of the forms of fuel [coal, carbon, etc] contain different amounts of joules which isn't listed in the tool tip at 05:12, only the max "Heat power" consumed which is 1.8MW). If you want to want to compare nuclear energy to conventional heat generation, you'd have to read the tool tip for each fuel source (such as 1x coal = 4 megajoules according to the in-game tool tip) and then calculate the amount of watts produced at the rate of burn. For example, if it took exactly one second for the piece of coal to burn, then the coal would produce 4 megawatts of heat energy (1 watt = 1 joule / 1 second). So if that burn rate of 1 coal per second could hold steady (which it doesn't as I've seen coal burn much faster and much slower than one second depending on the amount of steam required) your 160 MWs of nuclear heat energy would be the equivalent of (160MWs / 4 MWs = 40) 40 coal per second. Due to this, you statement about Steam Turbines being the nuclear version of the Steam Engines (05:27) also isn't exactly true, because both the Steam Engines and the Steam Turbines can be operated by either conventional (coal/carbon/etc.) or nuclear heat produced steam.
Bottom line: If you want to compare the amount of electrical energy that your base's machines need to consume, then you would have to stick to the amount of electrical power megawatts that your Steam Engines make compared to the Steam Turbines which can both be operated with conventional (coal/carbon/etc.)-produced steam OR nuclear-produced steam (or a mix of the two).
So in other words:
1) Nuclear Reactors are comparable to the internal heat generated by boilers burning conventional fuel (coal/carbon/etc.) in that they generate watts of "Heat Power".
2) Boilers and Heat Exchangers are comparable because they both consume watts of "Heat Power (nuclear or conventional)" to produce "Steam" by boiling water.
3) Steam Engines and Steam Turbines are comparable because they both consume "Steam (from any source)" to generate watts of "Electrical Power".
Hope this helps, and other than that thank you for making tutorial vids and helping make the gaming world a better place!
Haha, nuclear power is more efficient than steam power but it seems that in terms of setup it's almost as vast and convoluted as steam power. ^^ Anyway, great tutorial. Thanks!
dude amazing video super helpful! I heard a cat meow in the background and I though it was mine hahaha thank you for doing these.
that not i was looking for but it's very useful thank you and please keep going i hope you get more views on your videos
this tutorial is great thanks !!!!
Great video, found it really useful as I'm about to get into my first nuclear power setup. Cheers :-)
I love the video.You really seem to be passionnate by the game. :D
Question. How are you taking an item from your inventory, ghost placing it and having you minions build it. I seen you were too far to place a building, but I had the building robot do it.
I've not played Factorio in a while (basically since finishing this series) but from what I remember, you hold shift while clicking to place a ghost.
@@SuperfluousJ thank. I shall test later.
I play it a lot for a month or so and then leave it for months. One of my all time favourite games
i cant see the override stack function, can it be that i forgot to research somthing?
You only see it on inserters that have a stack size greater than 1. So I'd guess you haven't researched inserter stack size upgrades.
Mind sharing the Blueprint of that Reactor layout?
I wouldn't mind at all, if I had it. I don't even have the game installed anymore, though :(
loving the game.. sadly it's for big-brain guys only...
Nobody told me that! I'm playing it just fine :)
Nah , just search for the ratios (at least for energy) and You are done
C'mon, you don't start building nuclear reactors but simple staff and you learn trough the game more complex staff. It's not a hard game, just requires a bit of patience.