Theorycrafting an Entire Base in Factorio 0.18 - Midstrap #1
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Over a few months I designed an entire Factorio base without testing any of it. The goal is to create a mid-sized base capable of building a megabase. A secondary goal is to not break down or rebuild anything ever. I developed the base into a blueprint book, which is included below. These videos are my first time building and testing the base.
Blueprint book with notes:
pastebin.com/P...
Basic rail book if you want to use it:
pastebin.com/6...
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Other youtubers: “So i just spent a few hours off camera designing my smelting layout...”
Zisteau: “So I just spent a year off camera designing an entire base...”
He has to social distance his episodes
it would have been the same time but he condensed it to just one sitting
Minecrafters: "So I did some mining off-camera."
Factoriotes: "So I did some theorycrafting off-camera."
Man, holy crap. This is a lot of brainpower and effort. Well done Z!
this video is a perfect example to why zisteau is and will always be my favourite youtuber. so much dedication and planning into one project, truly magnificent.
love your stuff, been a fan since Legendary
On the 23rd day of quarantine, our lord Zisteau smiled on us and delivered a new Factorio video.
ah yes. now that we have Midbase we can begin planning on Jötunbase and Svartalfbase
Watched your first series on factorio when I was about 11. Factorio is one of my favorite games now and I’m so glad to see you’re still playing it!
:o he's back in factorio can't wait to see what you do
OH MY factorio with Zisteau? I waited so loong man! Please do more
He has a lot of other factorio series, but I assume you've seen them. This is just for if you haven't.
@@luckylmj its hard to find a good factorio series. He is the best and i watched all of them
@@stanley4290 If you're looking for more Factorio, Nilaus is pretty good, not as good as Ziestau, but altogether pretty good. :)
@@luckylmj Lately im watching Dgray Krastorio 2, but will check out your sugestion
@@stanley4290 If you want to see something crazy (not the player so much, but the base) check out Otaku Showboat and his Pyanadon series.
This is what I love about Factorio. You can just jump in and create stuff all willy-nilly or... You can take a year to design THE MIDDLE PORTION of your ultimate design. Wow! Love it!
Same here! Love the freedom the game gives you 😄
No video for like a year and then THIS masterpiece! This is really making me want to get back into factorio (I haven't played it in like, 2+ years. Last time I did, the rocket launcher didn't even have a sprite yet and just had the 10 minute 'aliens attack like mad' thing going on). Nice to see your back to doing the youtube thing though. Hope to see more soon!
One of the changes I like is that your character now permanently has a mining tool, before you needed to keep crafting new ones as they ran out, now, you don't need to worry about them anymore.
I just got readdicted to Factorio thanks to all this free time, and now you post this. Perfect!
Zisteau, PLEASE... you are one of the only players that can actually make a pyanadon series. It is the craziest mod EVAR! (Also Krastorio2 is probably the best mod that has been made for Factorio)
Long time no see, Glad to hear you're ok and doing well.
AYYYYY ZISTEAU'S BACK!!!!! Good to see you again man, love the content!
i started playing factorio in october and stopped for the last few months but i got layed off and now i have been playing for 15+ hours a day... excited for the series
The editing on this was brilliant. While I’ve done the start of the game a bunch of times I still enjoy seeing it and the cuts were a perfect balance of seeing it without wasting time. Nice one.
Oh WOW!! I am so glad you are back!!! Your factorio gameplay verges on being art!! I have been craving a new video from you now for almost a year, THANKYOU!!
Glad you're back on YT! As a factorio newb, I love seeing you play through the early game, and as always your editing style is great! keep it up!
YOU ARE BACK.
We needed this pandemic.
Nothing makes me happier that a new Ziesteau Factorio video!
Hype! Zisteau plugs things in!
Welcome Back! Nice to see more Videos from you, Zisteau. :)
Glad to have you back again
Happy to see you upload Factorio content again, Zisteau! :)
Have you considered using the latest experimental version of Factorio? The UI looks much better in it. (I could understand you being hesitant to use it due to potential comments asking why they don't have the same UI as you do if you didn't explain it first.)
I think this was filmed in 0.18.12 or so. Once I start filming a series I try not to update versions. I'll check them out after this series though.
Welcome back Zisteau, missed you man but glad you’re here.
Holy crap I just went back yesterday to watch some of your seablock factorio and then today we get a new vid. Amazing.
The return of the king! I'll be waiting for more!
Hell yes, he's back on Nauvis!
I love it! Design, ideas, blueprints, the video, and everything. Keep on going please.
zisteau! i watched your whole last series and i didnt even get a notification for this video dang well i cant wait to watch!
I love the idea you have here. Been trying to do something similar for some time now but never been able to quite get it where I want it.
Thank you, I got a couple of very good ideas from here
This is the most Zisteau thing ever ...
I love it!
Omg thank god I've been missing some good old zisteau factorio. Really hyped for the new series :D
What a lovely surprise! I found myself just last week missing Zisteau's Factorio shenanigans.
Great video, really liking what I'm seeing so far. Can't wait for more.
Great job putting this video together, I can tell you put a lot of time into it!
I played since March, before 0.18, the first base I built and launch the rocket on, teach me many things.
1. Belt can only scale up so far, unlike bot, the more things you put on 1 belt, the worst performance the machine are near the end, since all the resources get suck up before reaching.
2. Train layout is VERY important. The mine set: think as we go is very bad, as complex train system is harder to correct later on, unlike belt.
3. My god blue circuit take shit tons of green. I have a whole section run by bot belt hybrid, (1 requester box onto belt per 4 machins), 8 trains for iron and copper (4 each, 1:5:1) to keep the whole beast running, and it barely supply enough for 20 blue chips factories. At this point, all speed 3 is already overwhelming. Haven't think about beacon it yet.
4. Resource counter using circuit network and logistic network is the best tool to trouble shoot problem. Because the bigger you build, the slower problem will shows. Point 3 took me long time to realize that I'm not supply enough green chip to make blue.
hi Zisteau love all your work i no it my be a bit late have you thought of doing a bootstrap factorio 1.0 +i think it it would be cool.
PostBase PreMegabase Base, can't wait
I'm always so happy when I see your videos Drop in my subscriptions
I've actually done this my self, called it "Beginner Base" and had it designed to upgrade in place. However, unlikely Zisteau I only designed it to upgrade from yellow to blue belts and still work and didn't pick a science per minute target. Instead I just aimed for 4 belts (yellow, red, blue) of iron and copper and used those as the limiters to how much I could build.
I still feel proud of what I did, but thanks to that, I know how much effort this must have taken. I spent about 200 hours working on mine, I can't imagine how much more Zisteau spent.
Yessss!!!!!!! Zisteau is playing Factorio again!!!!
'Bout Fricken Time. Good to see back online.
Y'know, I was hoping that you'd pick up ZPM season 4 again soon, but this? This is just as good.
Your video popped up in my feed, and less than 5 minutes in, I smashed that subscribe button.
Hold alt when placing power poles, and it will always place them on the spot in the blueprint. It does occasionally have issues when it interacts with power pole's other mechanics
HELL YEAH! Welcome back Z!
3 things.
1: This is awesome.
2: There are mods that allow you to see the productivity of assemblers. This is usefull to debug builds and discover if you've made a boo boo somewhere.
3: If compactness of the base is a factor, why didn't you choose to have gearwheels be produced at the start of the bus since those are more compact than the iron (2 iron plates goes into a single gear).
Yesss very excited for this!
30:15 Etho would be proud!
Yo i'm working on a vanilla megabase 1.1k spm, shooting for 2.5. If I ever want a 'do-over' as there's more that I've learned than done right, this book is how imma do it. Sincerely appreciate your efforts!
You tried to hide it. Your OCD. But I saw it, and now everyone knows. You had to remove your first steam turbine, to add 1 pipe, so it all looked like the rest. Welcome back Z!
What is this? An crossover episode of an awesome show and another awesome show?
Edit: This is, where the magic begins
"Split her? I just met her!" - Zed 2020
Sounds like etho
"factorio is EZ" confirmed
Zisteau is back ... nice!
omg he returns
So excited for this new series 😀
such a fantastic idea, can‘t wait to see more😉
Zisteau can you update the pastebin link? It says it's unavailable! I'd love to try your blueprints.
Looking forward to this
Very nice editing.
Nice stuff man, keep it up
The wait is finally over!!
plug in ressources all at once when base is finished and it actualy works .. is like coding for hours upon hours, hit compile and not a single error pops up .. and even more creepy .. it actualy works .. happend only 3 or 4 times in my 10 year life of coding xD
edit: by the way you can hold mousebutton down over blueprints when placing powerpoles, it only puts em down where ought to
So keen
grr .. i have work to do ! Zisteau and Factorio .. you ruin my life ! :)
oh nice, this is beautiful
RETURN OF THE KING!
Hope your body double doesn't attack you in this game...
Love this book thanks alot!
This is amazing...
I think if the first base is bootstrap, then this one is like... beltstrap, and the mega base is a headband (headstrap) or something
Mega base is the necktie. (If you know the etymology of "bootstrap", this is a bit dark).
It's on
He's back!!! :D
Guys can you help me? I have a problem. I just downloaded the new version of factorio and i cannot add any blueprints. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Is the map generation railworld settings or default or something else? Only thing I can see by eye is that the dastardly cliffs are disabled
More factorio content, please!
Point of order sir, you said the stand alone Nuclear book would be in the description as well.
Yeah after building the base I ended up simplifying the nuclear build into one blueprint. I didn't find the multiple-phase blueprint idea very useful in practice.
I hate the early game, this will be a godsend
it wouldn't be a Zisteau video without crashing with the car.
He's back 😭
Oh! He's Alive!
Hey, any chance you can give us a run down on whats mods your using, forexample the toolbar?
No mods, this is vanilla 0.18.
Would love to see zisteau play satisfactory
Seems like you need a bootstrap base for your bootstrap base.
hi i cant copy the last blueprint you posted it says compression failing and stuff.....
It's a good thing "base" isn't a word, because it certainly doesn't sound like one anymore.
Davie504 has taught me well - it's "bass".
Slap like now, or I will delete your blueprints.
Hello. Yesterday we released a cool game Final upgrade on Steam. Indirect have a suggestion for the youtubers.
The game is indie, similar to factorio, space and robots. The key to the game can be obtained there.
Oddly enough, it doesn't give the option to import the string into Factorio. I don't know if I have a weird setting or maybe it's a bug...I run the experimental version through steam...I used to be able to import blueprint strings, but now I can't.
I used your BP and i liked it for the most part but the science packs should be a separate BP. And the end mall has too much walls and concrete
Next edition: chunk aligned base in a book?
is there a map seed for this world or do i have to be a patreon?
Might I ask if you plan to update your blueprint book for the bootstrap base? @zisteau I made my own small tweaks to the broken blueprints but their efficiency is questionable at best
I hadn't planned on it but I could I suppose.
@@Zisteau if you do decide to undertake a revamp of the bootstrap book that would be greatly appreciated i really enjoyed using your bootstrap design to actually finally launch my first rocket
Zisteau would you be interested in doing an angels/bobs mods playthrough? I think it'd be interesting watching your designs.
YESYESYES
This intermediate base is often referred to as a "builder" base.
Can we get the blueprints again please? The pastebin no longer works.
What map setting do you recommend for trees when using your Midstrap? Your blueprints are gigantic (to me) and it takes so long to clear trees for them... :(
UPDATE - as i watched our video I saw you placed over trees. A little googling, and I found that if I hold Shift I can do the same! I'm so excited now!!!
Kinda sad it ain't that one series, but I'd rather have this than nothing.
oman finally