Base-In-A-Book | #1 | Factorio Lets Play/Walkthrough/Guide

welcome to factorio my name is nilas and this is a brand news let's play here on my youtube channel so uh i know that some of you have been waiting for a long time that's several months for me just having a um taking a bit of break from youtube let's plays but i did that because i did not have a good idea and now i think i have a good idea and that's what i'm going to be presenting to you so first of all if you just want to get the gameplay and you don't want to watch all of the introduction where i just built the map then look in the progress bar and there should be an indicator where the actual gameplay starts so you might be a bit lost about what why and how we're playing this but if you want to skip then by all means so this series is going to call be called base in a book there is already a base in the book series uh in my repertoire you could say and the reason why i am going to oh let's do that one and that one and the reason i'm returning to this base in a book concept is because it's it's an old base of mine that's super outdated but a lot of people are still using it a lot of people have been asking for updates on it and i i've been i think like well i do have my master class but maybe if you want to go all in then let's go really all in on this and really make a base in the book so that it'll be i'll build a really nice and structured base that can be easily upgraded it'll have city blocks it'll have a main bus it'll have trains it'll have robots and that will i'll be saving the blueprints for specific city blocks so that you can just stamp it down and roll out your base if that is what you want so this will serve as inspiration for new players if you want to build a base and you really don't have this structure then you can just adopt the structure into it and you can say that it's basically a paint by color paint by number yeah paint by call paint by number so you could you have my suggestion of course it depends on what map you choose this is what we're working on right now but for the more experienced players it also serves as maybe you learn something in terms of how the structure of the space is going to be built but if nothing else if you want to build a megabase but you really don't want to build this database but then this series will give you a full blueprint book that you can stamp down and then with that you will have a nice base that produces everything you want produces a bit of science and then you can start working on a megabase from there that's actually something that's really neat because i don't think that exists around here in terms of resources the map exchange string and the blueprints are all available in the description below if you want to have the save games that is something i reserve for my patreon supporters and they're available through discord let's have a look at the map settings so i want to start with a real world i found this map this is a it has what i need what am i looking for here is a clumped up resource patch here and of course looking at oil somewhere and i want sort of like a big area here that i can build my base so i think i like this one but there are some things that i'm like i don't like this brown surroundings so we are obviously going to take out clips because they absolutely hate cliffs you can leave them in if you want and on enemies that's fine but i'm going to give myself a bit bigger starter base because i need to spread out and i just don't want i want to be broken mainly on building and you might say this is kind of not really super challenging but it's um it is uh it's it's gonna still present a few chances and we do need to make some protection here after games we are going to this one research queue i really wanted to always be there and that's going to be the resource settings that is it and before we press this magical button here to get started then i just want to say that this series is going to be we'll just press it anyway this series will be used by masterclass blueprints so it's going to be very similar to the let's start automating and you can of course find all the masterclass programs in a pastebin link or in from my discord so i would encourage you to follow on the discord i'm going to pick these up before and not blow up thank you very much that means some of the things will be slightly well you you should already know what they look like and oh oh oh more important thing color purple boom there we go very important and i'm going to set these down here and this one down here and this one down there and i am going to get just a few more here so the beginning is kind of tedious to be honest i think i want to build like a line over here or something to that effect this one and then i have all of three there we go and then what you will see in this map is that i have nothing no stones at all so i have to start chopping down these stones which is gonna be super tedious so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna skip make some skips when something we want to display is actually pretty trivial such as laying the path build these city blocks or maybe later on solar panels but in the beginning stuff like chop chop hack away some stone and get the first bits up and running i'm going to take these two and get that one and here so even at this point i can go yeah and now i have that and then i need to get some more more trees to chop down and that will be the next part so this is going to be a lot of shopping simulator which is super unfun so let's uh have a look when we've built the stuff let me just build that for four hours for us and now we've progressed a bit further i've set up some of the things and we're almost done to ready to set up some more things i'll just show you what i've done i have set up i have set up some copper here i set up some stone builds and that will just continue i set up some core build here that we can just harvest harvest harvest and harvest here and these two as well and sometimes they will fall out and oh that's kind of and we'll just use a blueprint and take this one not that it really matters but it's just gonna be easier i always build way more of these than most people do so that's uh that's one thing one thing to be in my keep in mind i'll do that one and then i'll do the inner ones the miners always take way more power so there we go now we have the setup that i want to make the reason why i built this bigger is because then i mean it's pretty easy to manage and i can yeah i can do it i'll build this one two three four one two three four five six seven eight and an awful lot of these because we can and then even more of this and also some allies great so we are going to go up here but this is where things get a bit weird because i'm actually going to take a blueprint that is somehow disappeared from my uh blueprint book okay we're gonna take it we're gonna take this one this one this one and this is our city block build but i am actually going to do a new copy of it that i'm gonna put in here so i'm gonna have a copy of it i am going to remove this remove this i'm going to remove these i'm going to remove this and i'm also going to move these into here but what i'm going to retain is the setup except that it still has these really bad designs in the corners i can fix that myself so the idea here is we are going to have to make a city block pattern and this is linked to the grid and i want to stamp this down so that i know what i'm what i'm working on so i'll have this one this part here being mainly for our mining or our mining operation this one will be for power and then i'm gonna build one over here which will be where we build our jump start base so i can't build anything here but i can at least sort of get a sense of what it will look like i can then like make this part actually i want to make this as a as a ghostly thing a proper ghostly thing and i should have some power poles as well as soon i should have some powerhouse do i have some more wood yeah i think i need just a few more just a bit more wood just to get this up and running also i only have 40 power so that's kind of a thing and we'll just get a few more so we can get a few more power poles there but that's time for us to get the power sorted and then we can figure out from there move on from there and let's see i still don't have the power out there they can here they come they are going to live here and that'll be that one that one oh also don't have any inserters and maybe a few boxes so let's get some inserters built here and they'll be so this is going to be my design i want to build it and if i can't build it like this i'm going to get a one up and then i'm going to get it sort of as foreign but still have it connection yet yeah and then i'm gonna reverse it i'm gonna have a line in here and this one let's see it'll just fit in here that's perfect that is i think exactly how i want it and i don't want to build this though but i just want to make sure that i have room for it but i do want to build this part so build this part and we can use it to extrapolate it and also what i need is a few of these boom boom and then we have also here we can get some this might seem a bit silly that i do this but you know there's going to be a path at this point and i don't really want to interrupt my power line just for making things change and i will have one here so of course you can't copy this exactly unless you have the same build but the idea should be the same that you want to have a design that is i would call it robust in this case that you um you can copy this and build it in your own place i would say just reserve this for power at this point by the time we're going to need this for something else it will will also not need the power anymore and i love the fact that i have yep and this is a good moment to talk a bit about the mods i have like that one you can see it's spread out evenly it is distributed evenly that is a mod called even distribution that's super awesome the fact that i can run through this is called squeak through i'm adding these kind of mods i also have one that makes me allows me to actually drive in a straight line yay called vehicle snap but aside from there's nothing that changes the gameplay but exclusively so that i can it's so those convenience mods that i've just you can say that i've gotten used to it but also it's it's just really nice to have all right so things have been uh we've now gotten power we have power line down here we're gonna use that power line we're gonna start by just harvesting all of this beautiful thing here look at how amazing that is gives us now we are we scaled up there and let's see if anyone turns red nope they don't again here i just fill these up and this one i don't have very much in terms of copper because we don't really need a lot of copper it's only needed for power poles and green circuits and we don't need a lot of those so the first the next thing we want to build is now i use my blueprints from the jumpstart base so if you want to use that feel free and uh that's basically where we can uh let's see that one that's uh where do we want oh i don't want to build this here this one is just serving so that i can we can make something nice here i think i'll build it at this point that seems like a good location so now my objective is to build this thing i'll start the very first research and that means we are going to get a lot of things built here i will need to build this i will also uh maybe i also need to build some electric mining drills yep just to get the initial the initial power line of the initial co line up to the power so we have automated our power right now i have to run all the way up there and it's kind of far away so i don't want to run up there many times so i think it's worthwhile for us to make one two three four five six of those and that should be a good location for us to do that that will be built over here i'll just take this out for now and i can take here that will be let's see i think we'll build it like this one two three four five six yes and obviously we don't have any yeah i don't think that's necessarily needed to do that right now but oh we also don't have power balls yeah so let's you know what i am going to uh to build here this one it's going to go up to this location oh we need radars we definitely need some radars as well maybe also get that one just before we get attacked okay so let's uh let's build this part get the power up to here so that we are we can continue on the next part and here we have uh sort of built this out i decided to do this so that because there's a lot of manually crafting just a few things here and a few things there so we are working a bit on the science the initial science is always basically in this case i'm focusing on that i don't think i want to basically the research we have done here is just a few getting the military and turrets and also some automation that should give us keep us pretty safe i want to be sure that we are safe early on we have biters all the way up there but aside from this we are good i put in some radars in the corners and just drag the lines here so that we can get that and over on this side we are now going to get so basically we can do this and i can do there okay the next thing we want to do from this base is actually well this one should be sufficient if as long as i have the power let me just check that it is actually getting up there and they do have that power so what i want to do now is look at the next city block here and there's going to be some chop chop and some other things but this is where i want to make my jump start base so again i'm going to take my blueprint this is from the master class so you might go like ah but you're just going to snap down blueprints from masterclass there's the other side of it the flip side of this is basically why would i not is another way of saying it um and and if if i have spent a lot of time designing this and i'm really happy with the result i don't really think there's a good reason why i wouldn't do that i'm gonna do this and then one up i'm gonna stamp this down and this will give us sort of the big design but what i'm gonna do though is i'm gonna take that's gonna be iron coming in and that's gonna be copper coming in and now i'm going to delete there but these stay here because they are real and there are no robots to take them out and what i can then do is i can take the blueprint again but in this case the reduced so this is the full one and this is the half one but we now know exactly where the half phone is supposed to be and that's gonna be here so this is now the half one and that's the one we have to work on building and for that we are going to need an awful lot of not at all any of these thank you very much an awful lot of electric miners and an awful lot of furnaces and awful lot of inserters and some belts but the belts are automatically crafted so those we don't really need to worry about and this will be sort of the start of our build you can see here that one and i'm gonna get the colon from this side so we can get more coal as well here so let's build another line of coal oops built the line of coal okay and while we uh we're just building this it seems to be pretty straightforward to build these kind of things then i want to just mention some things about this series here so this series is how long is it going to run that might be one of the questions you are wondering yourself well how long is it going to run well i want to make sure that each of these episodes are have a sponsor and that's not the usual thing i don't do sponsorships on this channel but in this case well it's actually not a sponsor in the sort of the traditional sense i am basically saying that each one of these episodes will be dedicated to one of the lovely patrons who are supporting the channel so obviously and we are going to take the higher tier patrons first and the higher tier patrons uh will get an episode each that means if you're a master of the path or if you are templar of the path the highest tiers then you will get an episode for for this series and i think that's a that's a pretty cool way of doing that i'm going to make sure that this one if i put it here that it overlaps so i'm going to have to put it at this point and then i want to get it as far down as i can without overlapping with the stone so that's gonna be it here and do i i just used alderman that means the first episode this one is going to and maybe you saw that in the beginning in the little corner you will see that at every episode and the this episode is of course sponsored by saint cabbage the patron who is been supporting me the longest and the most so obviously he is coming first for the first episode so thank you very much since for sponsoring this episode for us and also for supporting the channel for so very long and i kind of actually want a few more of these so that muslim and that means uh tying it in with how long the series is going to last well it's going to last for as long as there are patrons of the highest tiers and if that means it's going to be very long then this means it's going to be very long it means that we're going to be ending at some point then so be it and i do i believe that i can with the current patrons that are here then i believe that i should be able to complete the base here but whether how far we transition beyond the sort of the normal base is kind of depending on well a lot of things one two three also obviously interest from me and from you are these kind of things 164 and i'll take this i'll get a few in here and i'll steal that immediately so we can get going and let's go back and then what we're doing now is just build the builder build and you can see up here now we can get the copper the iron inbound oops and inbound here that's gonna go into this build the copper will get in here eventually i guess it's gonna go in from here and some kind of thing like this and i'm gonna get it from oh they are done actually i don't think i want this one here i think i'd rather have uh yeah i'll take this out for now it might be a problem and i want to make more of these thank you very much yeah and they could start like that that would probably be like the best place to do it you know copper again you really don't need a lot of copper in the beginning so i don't really want to build too much uh you know what i could leave the other one here it might as well i'm not gonna use it for anything anyway so this one leave it here and leave that one here by the killing will not be a particularly uh dominant part of this series i will be building defenses because well you got to build some defenses but i'll not be sort of going out and going crazy but if you want something that is crazy difficult and challenging in that respect well that is where i also have a twitch series and this might be while i'm you can see like filling in the banks here uh always abc the always be crafting always be crafting here if yeah so some of you might have seen my updates on what's going on in the channel and what's going on and what the series will be about and some of them some people have at least been a bit confused about sort of thinking that this is just rehashed or content no it is not but the thing is if i am to build a base such as this then i oh i running out of this and then i need to do some practice run i mean although this space might be like hey haven't you built this before yeah i do i have i don't have any iron then then i do need to make sure that i have a practice run so that i know exactly what is going on and what i need to do and for that i will do that on twitch and just doing the same thing that is not going to be fun so what i'm going to do instead is oh i actually did get that one here what i'm going to do is we're going to do some design work and basically build a similar base on twitch so that i'm gonna be ahead on the twitch episode so i can build this uh more structured and i'll know what to do where to build it and how it's gonna look like but then on twitch i'll have some interactions with the with the yeah with the chat so you can the viewers can spawn spiders and bombs and just make it make my life an absolute misery but it's fun and that's going to be the challenge over on twitch but the bass will look kind of the same so it also means that if you kind of lose track of the of this serie of the series over on twitch if you're following that you can just watch the next day's episode of youtube and then you can see sort of the progress being built at that moment but not not actually the part where where it's going to be built specifically i'm you can see here i am building things specifically i'm just not the copy based thing or i'm not just going like and then we have everything built but there so you can see we have we are now making a good progress here this is looking good we got iron in copper in colon the whole thing is working from now on that means i can just get my cop my ironing copper here if i need it that means i can more easily keep building the stuff i need such as such as assemblers red circuits screen circuits whatever red circuits probably not red circuits yet so now i need to clear this out and that's kind of one of the things where i just do that off camera so we can clear this out we also probably need to expand our power as we start making getting all of this done so that would be a a good thing to to take a look at so now we cleared out the forest yay that was fun you should be happy that you're not part of that part but that's the whole point isn't it that's the whole point of this part is that i am going to do these kind of things oh someone left the tree in the middle here disaster um that's uh oh wow uh i completely forgot to milk to make some long-handed inserters let's bake a lot bake a lot of those not make but bacon there we go more of those as well and uh yeah so this is the jumpstart base this is what it does it this is the first level of it there is a master class for this if you're kind of in doubt or what serves the purpose basically the purpose is that until you have a real bus and a proper hub upgraded then you want to make sure that you build sort of the essentials here that you need for building the base and that's basically what this does it just makes you the essentials and that's really what we're going to do here we are going to make essentials and there we go that's the green circuits are green science updated or green science green science press that one and that one and that one here some of these a bit weird up don't do that there we're going to be building this because it'll help us with basically everything we want to do here so that will give us just exactly what we need to build the rest of the base there and it'll last us quite a while as well so that one down that one no more complaining great now we can start okay that one we can start filling this one in this one and then start getting this i'm also building all the power things we need there let's build the first thing looking good and that one's gonna inbound and we can now see down here and then basically at this point i want to just make here uh do i have a lot of these not a lot but enough and if you put a blueprint and then these ones will actually cap out you can still use the circuits even if you not reduce reset the circuits uh some people would think that's cheating i don't really care then you just limit it if you really don't feel like doing this then you can just limit the boxes i just prefer having it this way it's about a pro more personal preference than anything else all right so these things go in this won't go out and that one is going to be the underground belts there that is going to be in that one and then i'm going to go all of these things here and as you can see this will now go into the green screen science that's on these ones which we just researched so that's oops that's why we don't have it here we're going to do green science done and the red signs here yeah of course build that ratio so you can see that and i am going to take that one so we take only the and look at this i i really love this part i really love this design it of course it's it's kind of because it's mine but it's uh it just it just really does what it's supposed to really really conveniently and we are now having this one outbound if i put this in here then we can suddenly get a boost of science as well as long as it's only the red science which is what we're getting still working on the red science and now let's get all these in so we can get automatic inserters uh totally not what i want i want this one and then i wanted to shift rotate yeah oh we don't oh we don't have any more oh that's because it's at the end oops and we'll just do all the other stuff this one will be the blue inside out but you don't have that yet research this one and let's get these in here i'm actually gonna add an extra one because i want this one to go faster and i think we got everything built there they all working or this one isn't working yet and this will be the lights so that's also going to be good all right look at that it's actually it's all spinning except this part is not spinning but it will be now and as soon as we build this the next thing we want to do is just scale it up and build the next part okay you go in here yep and that will be all the boxes all the things get some lights in here let's get more lights in here so that we can get all the beautiful lights lights will always belong in this corner and as you can see we are now having look at how fast the base just really kicks into gear and just from immediate little start baking making not baking damn it you're not baking new things we're making oh that one oh is that an ethereal one yes it is can we then get that one yes we can and then we can just basically get all the remainder here there we go now we have ace this one will just keep working and all we need to do now is get some more power up and running because i am now straining the power just a bit so we want to make sure that we have more power and protect our builds generally up here and i think this is actually done and i also definitely need more of these because they are needed for this part and then we have we are really really well functioning in this space when you when i get the jumpstart base then i just feel so much more comfortable because now i can go out and build stuff and then know that when i come back i'll have all the things i need but there are still two things that i don't have in my jumpstart base that i want to get that will be getting steel and oops getting steel inbound see that's now updated fully upgraded look at the power here we have vast quantities of power it was actually kind of close that um so what we want to do is we actually just want to take the next blueprint here and i just want to show you that that is where what it does is if you if we can align it it will add some steel production it'll add another iron smelting column it'll double the copper's melting column and what i want to do on top of that just because and that's going to be out here i want to make at this location at this way look at how fast it goes it's crazy there yeah this is gonna be a bit of a mess because i'm gonna get this stone from here and that's gonna get somehow going maybe in here uh i don't know don't want this to make stone and there you go that's gone so this is making stone bricks because we need that for the mast for the path sacred path and then we need to be able to expand it as well so we have power here let's uh let's build it again now that i don't want to fill this in blank as well so we're going to be i'm going i can do that and we can look at the last piece of the expansion here and things have been filled in here this has been completed there's a bit too much spaghetti here but that again this depends on how you want to look at this part but what is really important at this point is that now we can start looking outwards and that's right now there is nothing really structured about this there's nothing about what we've done here that is particularly linked to anything else that means you really don't need a lot of blueprints for this but i do want to make sure that we can now go into cityblock-based blueprinting and what i want to do is the first blueprint i want to to actually look at is actually going to be this one and that's basically also how i'm going to do it in the future so if we look at it then obviously it's going to be this part here that is the main but there's going to be a lot of these things out here that i need to remove from the blueprints and that's what i'm going to do so we don't have these kind of things so the blueprint for you will look nice and robust and sort of more modular because you will not have it's exactly the same base as i do but you will have oh that's funny i can still scroll in the background all of this has to go out all this has to go up so that so that your base looks slightly different there we don't know how these are coming in but we do know that i would recommend building such a base like this in the middle of a city block because then you have it available for later on and again yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna clean this up so you will have this blueprint it will have a notification and that's really where we want to to look at now if i didn't even do that we want to now start expanding out because now we have a base it's working it's producing our large power poles and it's just chugging along i did upgrade all of them to blue because well why not we also have boxes being made here that's actually going to be a massive mistake i do not want to do that thank you very much i only want to have half of them being built and i might even do this one because i want more of this so i can build some sacred path out there but i want to illustrate for you the design that i want to do because this one will always often look very much this by its own but it this is kind of meticulously integrated to what we actually want to do in our in our base so i will in oh we have to use this new way i am going to have some place that makes makes copper's melting that's going to be right there then i am going to have a place that makes iron smelting that's going to be in this square over here then i'm going to make a location that makes the first thing we want on a or we want to make potentially the bus that means i'll reserve all of this block and also the top block here this will be more busing and i'll even go one more up that one here and then we'll take the first things we build off the bus that will be green circuits they'll be built up here and the next one will be the hub that will be built out here and this one will leave empty but will be used later on for oil and this one will be replaced and used later on for uranium processing that's going to be the plan so you can see here that we're building this really close and then all the other things are going to be built around it so this is basically what we want to move on into next episode and that's where we're going to start transitioning from our jump start base into a bus build that's going to be built sort of around us but we will not have this one getting stuck because that's always what happens you either build this really far away from your starting base or it's going to get stuck we're lucky in a bit in this scene we can use this copper to feed in here i'm not really good needing it i think i'll just take this one and we can take this iron and feed in here or this iron for that matter and feed in here either way eventually we are going to need trains to bring things in but this is just basically the starting part so what i'm gonna do sort of next time is we're going to start making the city blocks and we're going to start making the smelting columns the bus the branches of the bus and maybe even the hub i don't know that depends on how fast slow we can do things i hope that you enjoyed this weird first episode and i hope that you want to follow it what i can will ask you is that if you like it then hit the like button it means a lot especially for a first episode like this that oh automobilism we can have a car and start bumping into things um yeah it means a lot especially for the first episode so like like it comment share it you know the drill and it helps me get the word out that there's a new let's play on youtube that we're gonna be playing so i hope you want to uh follow along uh as i mentioned i'm also doing kind of some design work for this series over on twitch i'm assuming it on tuesday thursdays and sundays at 8 pm central european summer time and the address is in the description but it's twitch tv slash nilos that's pretty intuitive and there will be a lot of biters and bombs spawning everywhere and it's madness and it's super fun but i'll just desperately try to do some cool designs that i can then use for the few the the next episode of this youtube series so this youtube series will be running monday wednesday friday every week it'll be coming out in the afternoon european time so somewhere between four and four and six pm somewhere around that i hope you enjoyed it thank you very much for watching i'll see you guys in the next episode until then take care and you know it as always stay effective [Music] you

Channel: Nilaus

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Keywords: factorio, nilaus, nilhaus, speedrun, tutorial, guide, 0.18, 1.0, megabase, howto, how-to, master, class, masterclass, PL-FACTORIO-S41, main, bus, mainbus, science, lab, layout, design, oil, processing, refinery, beacon, module, speed, refining, hub, mall, red, green, circuit, coal, liquefaction, liquifaction, petroleum, plastic, city, block, blueprint, grid, map, settings, rocket, control, fuel, unit, low, density, structure, space, train, rail, signal, chain, schedule, kovarex, uranium, u235, u238, enrichment, station, load, loading, unload, unloading

Id: 0P44Yr1aTzs

Length: 37min 2sec (2222 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 19 2021

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[u/NilausTV]

Factorio Lets Play with detailed design of a fully upgradeable base including

• City Blocks
• Trains
• Main Bus
• Robots

For the beginners:

• Learn to plan a base and expand it without redoing everything
• Blueprints to help build your base similarly

For the experienced:

• Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
• Full template for a starter base to be used for building your own Megabase

The designs used are based on Factorio Master Class designs.

[u/Synyster31]

Over 1000 hours in and i need something in the 'begginner' section....

I always end up tearing my starter base down conpletely.

[u/PicklePinata2]

Welcome back! I love your videos!

[u/FragmentedC]

Oh no... Just as I finally managed to get my addiction under control, and now /u/NilausTV goes and makes a new series. Plus, blueprinting a base is EXACTLY what I want to do. Goodbye, free time!

[u/mr_birkenblatt]

how does this compare to Zisteau's blueprint series?

[u/DrL7L]

What is the mod that /u/NilausTV is using to absorb the pollution in this video? There are a couple of "factories" that look like they have a black smog swirling around them. One is next to the initial labs, then other above the iron smelting.

[u/Skittle37]

Cant wait to binge watch keep up the good work

[u/Mantsua]

Thanks for this. Only been playing a couple weeks and have been working through your master class series. This is just what I need!

[u/Korhaug]

Nice!

You already did train loading/unloading in the master classes, but it would be great if you could include a full train system. I keep fiddling with circuit conditions (basically setting the station limit) and I can do individual loading/unloading stations just fine, but I haven't found a satisfactory way yet to manage the overall system without running wires through my entire grid.