I’ll show you the best factorio mods in
Quality of Life category and at the end I’ll tell you how you can choose the best mods
to fit your very own gameplay style, so stay tuned. We need to start with the question, what are
quality of life mods? As the name suggests, they are small mods
that makes your life better. They don’t add any new content to the game
and instead, they improve the already existing mechanics. You know it’s like installing a better fork
for your already existing spaghetti. Some QoL mods may seem like a slight cheat,
but if you for example don’t enjoy a slow early game than there is really nothing wrong
with speeding it up with simple mods. The interesting thing about factorio is that
many old Quality of Life mods got implemented into factorio core in some way. The best example of this is of course the upgrade planer which wasn’t in vanilla version for a very long time. And now let’s go to the best Quality of Life mods. First on our list is “Helmod: assistant
for planning your base”. You can open your planning window by pressing
“U” and there is a place, where your dream factory starts. Press this button and choose what recipe you
want to craft, then set the output quantity and look at this amazing data. It counts everything for you, like how many
assembler you need and how many resources are required to run this setup. If this data is still not enough, you can
click on input materials and add their recipe to your planner. This mod is very well made, so you can customize
everything. Choose what assembler you want to use, what
furnaces or how many modules should boost your production. As that wasn’t enough this mod is fully
working on multiplayer and it’s compatible with recipes from all mods! There is still a lot to talk about, but developers
made a great help window so you can find everything on your own. Next on our list is “Even distribution”,
that allows you to toss your items more gently. You can just press “ctr” and left mouse
button to split all of your resources equally. It’s the most useful in early game when
most of your assemblers are hand fed or when you want to setup a quick defenses. This mod also offers you an effortless way
to get rid of all your trash by pressing “shift” and “C” copper ore will go to copper
smelters and iron to iron it’s smart modification. You can also adjust everything using the blue menu from your inventory Change want and enjoy sorting items with this mod. In addition to all of this, you can use “Even
distribution” with other mods and easily cleanup your inventory from for example Bobs
or Krastorio items. This is one of the simples mod on our list. “Auto deconstruct” simply marks your mining
drills for deconstruction when they run out of resources to mine. It’s one of those mods that don’t make
a big impact of your gameplay, but combined with other simple modifications can make your
life just easier. “FNEI” stands for I don’t know and their GitHub page also
doesn’t want to give me any understandable information. However it’s a great mod and in my opinion
a must have for heavy modded lets plays. With this mod you can check every single recipe
in the game. This is why the power of this modification
shines with other big mods because now you can just press “ctrl”, “E” and type
for any item that you want to craft. “FNEI” also gives you information on what
can you craft with a selected item after pressing the right mouse button, also shows what research
is requited to craft that item and in what machine it can be crafted. If you are a Minecraft player then this mod
it’s just a factorio version of “Just Enough Items”. Next mod is “YARM – Resource Monitor”,
which allows you to monitor your resource patches. The name of those mods are very self-explanatory,
this is why I’ll also use self-explaining iron deposit. Use this button or press “alt” and “Y”
to open a special device that will allow you to mark area of your outposts. Than the mod will track how much ore is left
and estimate the time required to mine a whole patch. Another interesting feature is that, you can
also look at your deposits from map view and simply read how much ore is left. “Tree Collision” mod, makes hitboxes of
trees very tiny. It allows you to run through condensed forest
without any problems, but keep in mind that biters also run as easily as you. Those are hitboxes with this mod It’s worth to mention that this mod makes
your shotgun bullets less effective when you clearing a forest, so use your grenades or
green rockets for that. Another great mod is “Afraid Of The Dark”,
which is very useful for every factorio players and in my opinion must have for content creators. With this mod you don’t need to worry about
scary darkness anymore, because your personal light will be expanded to make working during
night easier. You will also get access to new lamps that
reveals way bigger area. And the icing on the cake in this mod there
are “Perfect night glasses” which makes your night as bright as day. BTW what is your favorite Quality of Life
mod, share it in the comments section. “Todo List” as you can guess adds a HUGE
monster that could tear down your whole base in few seconds! It allows you to create new task for yourself
or for other people in a multiplayer game. You can just write a title for your task and
add a simple description, than choose who should do this job and you can feel even more
like you are working in your real life engineer job. I think it’s a good mod to write down all
of your factorio plans, especially before going to sleep (XD). Also by pressing this button you can look
at a list of all your tasks. Like you can see I’ve made some simple tasks
for myself and... WAIT?! *Did you know that ~25% of people who watch my content use subtitles?*
*And you are also in this 25% :)* Next mod is called “fill4me” and makes
fighting easier than ever before because now you can just build a turret and ammunition
will be automatically inserted into it after placing. Look how easy you can serve bullets to your
nearby friends. But this mod is also useful when you’re building a factory because furnaces are automatically filled with fuel after placing them. What’s more this mod can even fills your
car with fuel after placing it or fills your tank with destructive weapons. “Quality of Life research” adds 5 new
researches, that will improve your life in every aspect. Now you can increase the size of your backpack
to even bigger sizes. Hand crafting speed will be faster than ever
before. The speed of walking will also be faster. There is even research for mining speed that
might sounds silly because you are not mining in this game
after first 10 minutes of the game but this mining speed also makes picking up building faster,
so it’s really worth to research. Last thing on our research tree is longer
reach, that allows you to interact with buildings placed further away or to just place new building
even further. Another very simple mod that gives you the
ability to place water just like you can place landfill. First you have to research cheap technology
and then you can start crafting waterfill, but in at least tier 2 assembling machine,
because tier 1 doesn’t support fluids as a input. The only disadvantage of this mod is that
you can very easy abuse your power and build impassable wall for biters by putting 1 tile of water. However it’s a great mod for building huge
nuclear power plants without access to giant lakes. In addition to that, remember to never put
waterfill under your feet it’s not the best idea. “Factory Planner” as the name already spoilered,
gives you a tools to plan all of your production in advance. This mod is very similar to already mentioned
“Helmod”, so it’s up to you which mod you want to use because there is no sense
to install both of them at the same time. So like before you can choose what product
you want to make and this mod will calculate how much resources are required to achieve
your goal. I remember there was a very upvoted post on
reddit, explaining why this mod is better, because of the matrix solver, but I still
have no clue how this solver works so choose for yourself how you want to plan your factory. “FasterStart” is nothing more than a starter
kit that contains small modular armor, small fusion reactor, night vision, exoskeleton
and roboport with 25 fusion construction bots. This mod definitely speed up your boring start. Some people might call this mod a cheat, but
if you are a fan of megabases than I don’t see any reason to why you shouldn’t use it. Funny thing about this mod is that you can
turn off intro and crash site for your new games if you want to save even more seconds. Now is time for “Informatron”. Mod that allows other mod makers to setup
up their little wiki inside factorio. It’s pointless to install this modification
alone, but other complicated mods might use it so I just wanted to show you what it is. “Auto Research” is a mod that choose researches
for you. Of course they are not gonna be perfect, so
it’s still better to customize what you want to research on your own, but if you constantly
forgot about picking the next thing to research then this mod is for you. Not so long ago, we didn’t have a queue
for our researches, so it was a must have mod for late game’s infinite researches. Now it’s not that useful, but you still
might find it helpful. BTW “Shift” and “T” combo will open
your special menu to customize this mod. “Module Inserter” adds a new upgrade planner
that lets you set up with modules should go to with machines. The best part of this mod is that you can
put modules to machines which didn’t have any modules before what is impossible in the vanilla version. This feature will be added to factorio core
someday, but for now we need to use this mod for easy modules insertion. “Concreep” and “Belt Upgrader” are
two very similar mods that automatically set tasks for your idle construction bots. The first mod uses concrete or any other tiling
material to brick all of your factory also construction bots will harvest all trees,
rocks and destroy cliffs to make your job of expanding your factory easier because
FACTORY MUST GROW! The second mod will upgrade your lower tier
belts, splitters and other entities to their higher tiers. Are those mods UPS friendly? I don’t know but they are cool, so it’s
worth to try them in our factory. Like you can see from our list, all Quality
of Life mods are very different. So to choose the best mods for yourself you
have to first ask the question what type of player you are and which category will be
suitable for you. In my opinion there are 3 types of QoL mods:
first information/hud upgrades that are for everybody a second category that makes task
easier like “Faster Start” and the last category are slightly cheat mods that for
example expand your inventory or makes your reach range infinite. So now you have to choose if you want very
fast progress with a bit of shame by using the third category or if you want to just building a simple factory without too much counting than pick the first or second category. If this video was useful to you
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