Goodbye old friend. I'll miss you Just kidding. Hey guys, my name is
DocJade. I have never played Krastorio before so this will be a
completely blind run. as per usual, I have started with default settings on a randomized seed so I
have no idea what to expect Unfortunately, it
looks like we got a desert with no trees great. What
the heck is imersite? guess We'll find out later. Looks like
there's some biters fairly close by so we'll have to take them out before
starting any serious automation. Inside the spaceship is some pistol
ammo. Also looks like we start with a few slow assemblers on the
ground, and it looks like They nerfed mining
speed a ton too, picking up these bits of rocket debris
is taking forever and a half. We also get a
little lab, but it takes tech cards instead of
science packs. Oh and a tiny 240 kilowatt reactor.
we haven't even researched anything yet, and there's
already some new stuff to worry about Inserter parts? Weird... Now
that all the rocket bits are picked up I'll grab some wood to make
power poles and hook everything up. Man this research tree
is insane. There's so much new stuff here that I have no
idea where to even start. For now I think I'm just gonna
go take out this biter nest and free up the coal
patch. Bullets now have physics Which is pretty cool, but it also
means I need to aim more precisely, and holy cow These biters seem to have
a lot more health than usual. I should have brought some fish. it
seems I have severely underestimated the biters Which is good news
and bad news. The good news is it'll make gameplay and
base defense more interesting But the bad news is
I'm terrified of biters again Another little quirk of Krastorio
is you have to set the recipes in furnaces manually. smelting plates
now takes 10 ore to make 5 plates Hopefully there's a way to
make that ratio better later on. It seems like a lot of
crafting recipes haven't had their ratios changed, but their
crafting amount has been inflated, So instead of crafting
two copper wire from a single plate, you now have to craft
eight copper wire from four plates. I think this is an
interesting gameplay change, but man, it's annoying when you're
low on items. I'll hand craft some... "Basic tech cards" and holy crap, they take forever to craft but
thankfully you get five at a time Which makes it slightly more bearable. Might as well use
these little ship assemblers to make the tech cards
while I'm doing other stuff. (psst, hey!
im hiding in the subtitles! Keep an eye out for more
Easter eggs!) And there's automation cores.
They're a prerequisite to assemblers. next up I'll research military so I can try
taking out those biter bases again. Automation cores require gears
sticks and copper plates. Early game recipes already
requiring three ingredients. Oh no... Pistol ammo requires coal
now, which makes sense and honestly I think it should require coal in
the base game too. and military is done. I Just realized that
rifle ammo is separate from pistol ammo and I can't even
make rifle ammo in the assemblers we have so, I have to handcraft it. It seems to be a lot
more effective, but I can hardly aim once the
biters get up in my personal space. Next up is automation tech cards
which require these blank tech cards as well I tried to fight this other nest
as well, but I wasn't prepared for worms So I had to bail. The
ship lab is pretty darn slow, So I add a second
one to hopefully speed things up a little but since
I don't have inserters yet I still have to move the
tech cards around manually. It looks like the purple stuff under
the biter nests absorbs pollution That's cool.
Speaking of absorbing pollution I want to unlock
air purification as soon as possible so biters
will be less of an issue The ship's reactor
can't keep up with power needs anymore. So I'll have to
build a few of these wind turbines These turbines make a hilariously
small amount of power 20 kilowatts is laughable But I've got no
other choice right now. So I'll just have to
spam the heck out of them Why do the ores stack above 50? This feels so wrong! plates too. Well, I've been procrastinating
long enough time to throw down some more miners and
furnaces to really get things moving These turbines man,
they're hardly making a dent Automation cards are
done now I'll research turrets. Red tech cards require quite
a few intermediate ingredients And that is both
exciting and kind of scary. I hope the later tech cards
aren't extremely complicated. A bit of waiting later and turrets are done Next up is automation, and then light
armor. An hour in, and I finally place our first assembler to
boost basic tech card production. But we don't have enough power to run it So it's time to make even
more turbines. And light armor is done time to make some
more rifle ammo and get those biters. I seem to be missing a
ton of shots up close guns are definitely more balanced
towards long-range combat in this mod Or the more likely
case is it's just a skill issue Geez that took forever. Back to
research now. We're working on electric miners. I'm hoping to get a
smelting array up and running soon. Next I'm going to research crushing. For some reason I thought it would let me refine ore so I
could smelt it into more plates, I have no idea where that
idea came from. While that researches I'll start belting the ores over
to where I want the smelting array to be. I Really should have set up
steam power before using electric miners. That was kind of a
dumb move on my part... regardless of how slow it is.
We've got ore. There's the crusher Next up is logistics. I Made a crusher and
past me was immediately disappointed that I didn't
get special items from crushing ores. Moving on, time to start
working on the smelting array. I can't actually build
it yet, 'cuz I'm still waiting on logistics. After adding
a second lab, logistics is done! Next up is fluid handling which will
bring us one step closer to steam power A little tip came up
while I was building the smelting array, informing me
that I can switch what side of the belt inserters
place their items. Pretty cool! And there's basic fluid handling!
Now we can research steam engines. ( Did you know:
The term "easter egg" used to describe hidden
secrets in media was coined in the 1980s
by Steve Wright! The first video game
easter egg is in the Atari 2600 game
"Adventure"! ) After setting up
the inserters to fill both sides the belt, the
melting array is done! Now I just need to set the recipes and
get some more coal. Steam engines are done! What's with modded
factorio always making offshore pumps need power? anyways with
some coal now we've got more power. Iron plates are starting to produce.
I just realized they're slightly retextured which looks strange at first,
but overall I like the lighter color. With these new ratios
for smelting I have no clue what I'm doing ratio wise,
so this is probably way too big. Anyways time to
finally automate some belts I'll tear down all
the old lab equipment and build a dedicated
setup for making the tech cards Now we finally
have fully automated science Except for wood, we
still need a greenhouse for that Speaking of greenhouse, all we need
now is stone processing and then we can unlock it. This tip scared me
because I thought it was triggered By a biter attack, but
nope it was just a random tip. Man with all these intermediates,
crafting inserters takes forever. Time to set up a stone
mine we're going to need it for crushing into sand and
then smelting that sand into glass. Also loaders make their first appearance. Now that stone processing is
done we can get started on greenhouses. I wonder how major of an
ingredient sand will end up being, but for now I'll
just turn it directly into glass. Next up I'm going to
automate rifle ammo so I can have a little stockpile
for purely diplomatic reasons. Here would have been the
perfect opportunity to use a loader, But I didn't really
consider it at the time because I had already forgotten they existed.
Old habits die hard I guess. Greenhouses are done! I'll also research the
trees you can place 'cuz I'm hoping I can spam them to
avoid pollution spreading too much. Underground pipes
are super long. I wonder why. After hooking up our
first greenhouse we can now turn water directly
into wood! Seems kind of cheaty,
But it's probably well balanced. Wood on the bus now, that's
something you don't see every day. It's just-
it's so cursed. I don't like it. I'm done
researching trees yet another thing I never thought I
would say. looks like the dream of spamming
the trees is dead for now Long craft times
means it takes a total of 90 seconds to
create one tree out of water But maybe later on
I'll scale this up a ton. Next up on the
research tree is electronics. This will unlock green
circuits. Here comes our first tree! But for now, I'll
switch back to making wood Electronics are done Next up is logistic tech cards Green circuits require wood... I Think I'm going to be sick. Whatever, I still have to set them
up regardless if I have a distaste
for their biological nature. I'm an unbelievably indecisive
player sometimes so I made some more trees. I have a suspicion that I'll need
glass later on so I'll add it to the bus. Logistic tech cards are done. So now I'll
start working on scaling up science production. First up, we're gonna make
blank tech cards. Making gears on the bus
for this run is kind of strange because gears are actually
the same density as plates in this mod. But whatever I like having
gears on the bus. So I'm doing it. The bus is about to hit
the lake. So it's time to turn east With the bus properly
rotated we can set up some serious science production. First up
is the super simple basic tech cards. ( If you notice possible errors
in the captions, please comment the timestamp
so i can fix it :) ) Next is automation tech cards, and
for those I'll have to make automation cores. I also researched steel, but I forgot why. Time to make logistic
tech cards, they're super easy. There we go, all
three tech cards are done now. So I'll go ahead and tear down the old research setup since
we don't need it anymore. Fluid chemistry looks interesting. All of my trees are
starting to die from absorbing pollution. I guess I'll need
to plant more of them soon. But it looks like they hardly made
a dent in the pollution cloud anyway. Looks like steel
processing unlocked coke. I'll go ahead and set that up. It looks like it's using the wood for
fuel, and I'm not sure how to prevent that. Oh well. Last time I checked, coke is white, so this must be a really bad batch. Anyways, I'm purple now,
and it's time to make some steel. And there we go, steel. We're almost four
hours in, and finally the biters have decided
to attack us for the first time. Now it's time for some retaliation. First I just have to find
where the nest attacked us from. It's probably to the west. Scratch that, it's probably towards
the south, but at least I found some oil. And they didn't
come from the south either. Must be from the northwest. It would be nice
to have a radar to reveal the area around
us, but I can't research it yet. There they are. Back to the base now,
it's time to add some more labs. Fluid chemistry is done. Next is fast
inserters to load the labs faster. After upgrading the
inserters, next I'll research sentinels. They're like a little mini radar. I'm also going to
set up engine production. Once again, I
don't have a specific reason as to why, but I
feel like we'll need them later. Oh my goodness, he's so cute. Little tiny little guy, I love him. I went ahead and placed
enough of them to cover the entire base. Next up is automation 2. Now I'm just
researching stuff that looks cool. Silicon processing is next. I went for a little stroll and found this worm, and that made
me realize that guns have a lot bigger of a range than usual. Man, these immersite caves are pretty. Double the labs
means double the reused jokes. Water electrolysis looks interesting, but I'm not looking
forward to dealing with all these separated chemicals. There's oil processing. Next is mineral water extraction. To show off the lab
speed, I researched stone walls and heavy
armor, but heavy armor ended up taking a lot longer
than I thought it would take. I also made myself
some of that heavy armor. And steel axe, because why not? Okay, let's start
working towards chemical tech cards. We're going to
eventually need oil, so might as well set it up
sooner rather than later. Apparently, oil is a
limited resource in Krastorio. In the base game, pumps
just slow down over time, but nope. After 2.5 million oil,
this pumpjack will completely stop. I'll put a turret here, just in case. Sulfur is done. Next up is plastics. Our new oil setup is going to live
where our old science production used to be. I'll set up stone brick production. Basic oil
processing is the same as it is in the base game,
so no special shenanigans yet. Also, plastic is done. Next up is red circuits,
which take electronic components. That's new. Since we aren't going to do anything with it for a bit, I'll
throw all the petroleum in a tank. The tree delusions
returned, so I'm setting up a greenhouse to
make trees with the excess wood. Red circuits are done. Next up is chemical tech cards. That only takes
about a minute to research. We're still trying to work towards air filters, so next up
is atmospheric condensation. Now let's set up some sulfuric acid. I always forget that you need iron plates for sulfuric acid,
so for now, I'll be lazy and just grab it
directly out of one of these furnaces. For the electronic components,
we'll need glass, silicon, and plastic. I've already got glass,
so I'll set up silicon next. Silicon is made from
quartz, and quartz is made from sand and water
in this filtration plant somehow. Whether the filtration plant has
inherently magical powers or not, we do not care. What we do care
about is the quartz, which we have now gained
from the plant's unknown methods. I'll go ahead and bring this quartz up north, and then we
can smelt it into silicon. To finish making the electronic components, we're going
to need plastic, so it's time to slap together some of that. A single chemical plant
will probably be enough for now. I'll run the
plastic over by the silicon and glass, and now we can
finally make those electronic components. There we go, that wasn't too bad. Now for the hard part, I need to get the plastic and
components onto the bus somehow. No worries, I'll just cut straight
through the middle of the pre-existing bus. I love playing new modpacks because they bring a bit of chaos
back into the game, since I can't plan things in advance anymore. Spaghetti and belt weaving is my
specialty, so it wasn't too hard after all. Although the bus is
starting to get a bit uncomfortably wide. Time to make red circuits. And holy crap, that is a lot of fluids. Honestly the whole production chain up to red circuits wasn't
nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I was worried there
would be some additional steps, like maybe
fluids to mimic immersion lithography. With red circuits done, it's time to move the labs to make
some room for chemical tech card production. Glass and red circuits in the
same tech card sure does feel strange. But now the blue cards are done. I'll combine the 4 belts into 2 belts, because combining 4
belts into 5 belts wouldn't have made any sense. Time to put the labs back together. While we wait for atmospheric
condensation to finish, I'll do some base maintenance by placing more trees and fixing
the iron supply for the sulfuric acid. With the research done, we'll queue up advanced chemistry,
and then we can take a look at the new condenser building. Looks like it just makes
nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and water. I have a feeling I'm going to need these rare metals, but I
still haven't seen any on the map. Oh well, that's a problem for later me. For now, I'll set
up another smelting array for iron and
copper due to low throughput. That'll do. Also, we're starting to run low on glass, so I'll redesign
the glass smelting to fit a few more furnaces in there. Advandced chemistry is done, time
to finally research air purification. If you pay close attention
here, you will notice a major mistake. The new copper smelter is done. I also accidentally mixed
copper plates into the iron plates. After I finished cleaning
that mess up, air purification is done. The air purifiers are surprisingly inexpensive, so I'll
craft a few of them and put them all in separate chunks. I'll chuck a few filters in
them, and we'll check on them in a bit. But first we need to defend
ourselves from the world's smallest biter attack. According to the
pollution graph, those four air purifiers alone
absorb as much pollution as all of our miners produce. I can already tell this is going to be slightly overpowered,
which gives me a great idea. Cleaning the used air filters has a 90% chance of returning
the filter, which is nice, but the cleaning process
also produces dirty water. I currently don't have a use
for dirty water, so I'll research flare stacks so I can just burn the fluid. These air filters last a super long time. Armed with the
flare stack, we can burn off the dirty water,
which will actually occasionally produce stone, but we
can worry about that later. Now I'm going to build this
huge belt all the way around the base. The plan is to have an air filter in each chunk so the pollution
can never escape the base. Also I forgot
cliffs were a thing, so while I build this, we'll
start researching cliff explosives. Cliff explosives are
done, also the belt loop is done. Now I'll bring up
all the ingredients to make air filters and set
up production and cleaning for the air filters. Now I just need to place
an air filter in every chunk. This might take a while. Through the magic
of editing, you have now time traveled to a
future where I've finished building the filters. And the filters are already
starting to absorb a ton of pollution. Now that we shouldn't have to worry about pollution induced
biter attacks, I'll start working on advanced oil
processing and then ore enrichment. Ore enrichment will
allow us to wash the ores with water and
sulfuric acid to produce enriched ores, which take half the
amount of items per plate to smelt. This will effectively
double our iron ore output. Oh and I'll also
set it up for copper ore. Now that the iron ore has drained out of the smelters, we
can swap in the enriched ore and change the furnace recipes. I'll do the same for
copper ore off camera when it empties. I still don't have a use for
dirty water, so time to burn more of it. Would you look at that? All the pollution is gone. I'm curious as to what lies
beyond the horizon, so I'll research radars. I've got a bunch of random stuff in my inventory, so I'll just
destroy some of it in this wooden chest real quick. Now if there's anything I've learned from the American school system,
it's that guns kill things, but for some reason that
doesn't seem to apply to this wooden chest. I'll figure out
another way to destroy it later. There's still a
little bit of pollution hanging out around the oil pumps,
but some trees should fix that. Since radars are
done, I'll throw one down. Next up on our to-do list is
construction robots, so I'll get started on lubricant. Next up is electric engines. And batteries. Looks like I found
a use for the dirty water. If I run it through a filtration
plant, I can make a small amount of rare metals. It makes stone most of the time,
but at least I'll get some rare metals. And batteries are done. Now we can research the robot frames. After some pipe
shenanigans, we've got batteries. While I was upgrading
the labs, robotics finished. Now we just have to research construction robots, then modular armor
for the personal roboport. I forgot you need solar
panels for the personal roboport. Whatever, while we wait for
that, I'll go ahead and set up lubricant. Now I'll start
working on electric engines. There's solar panels. Next up is personal solar panels. Now I can actually
research the personal roboport. Portable generator, huh? Sounds cool. I'll research that too. Once I finish running this pipe for lubricant, we've got
electric engine production. I made myself some modular
armor, and that is a wide battery. I'll make myself a roboport, a small
portable generator, and a big solar panel. It's slightly weird to have a combustion engine strapped to
your chest for power generation, but at least it's convenient. This big solar panel almost
makes as much as that generator does too. I'll make some
construction robots, and then we can finally teach
this wooden box a lesson. I'm wondering if there's a way to cheese power production
with these gas power stations, 'cuz I have an idea. I was thinking I could burn oxygen in
the gas power stations for infinite power. This was dumb for two reasons: Oxygen isn't flammable, and gas power stations don't work
with anything besides oils. With my lack of basic chemistry education out of the way,
let's start working on the prerequisites for utility tech cards. Flammables, and then rocket fuel. The gas power stations make a decent amount of power when
hooked up to petroleum gas. I think I'll abuse that a
bit to supplement our steam power. And rocket fuel is done. That is loud and awful, but still sounds better than any
riced Subaru I have ever seen. Next up on the
research tree is blue circuits. I'm feeling a bit
ludicrous today, so I'll run the filter belt into
the middle of the base. Oh, and blue chips are done. Next up is low density structure. I have no idea why I did
this, but the more the merrier, I guess. Here I take a slight
detour to research fuel for no reason. Looking at the
recipes for rocket fuel, it turns out it's
possible to make it from iron plates and thin air. I'll throw together some atmospheric condensers and a
chemical plant to make ammonia. Fuel is done, back
to low density structure. You thought that detour to
research fuel was pointless, huh? Well apparently we
actually needed the fuel refinery to make the
rocket fuel, so I'm glad I did it. And there you have it, spicy canned air. Production was a bit lacking speed
wise, so I rebuilt it to be more modular. Low density structure is done. Next up is the research server. After massively
scaling up the rate we make gases and
completely ignoring ratios, we now have three times
the rocket fuel production. Research server is done. Now we can actually
research the utility tech card. Unfortunately, those cards require blue circuits, which take
rare metals as an ingredient. And after all this time, the
filtration plant only made a nice 69 of the ore. Apparently rare metals are supposed to be in ore patches on
the map, but I do not see any nearby. For now, I'll just set up
everything I need to wash the rare metal ore. Next up is an
electrolysis plant to make the chlorine and
hydrogen for hydrogen chloride. And the tech card is done. Add that to the list of
things I never thought I would do. Making chlorine out of sand. Time to actually do something
about that filtration plant's output. I'll stick the
stone back onto the main stone belt with a priority
splitter and also accidentally mix it into the coal. After cleaning up that mess,
it's time to wash that rare metal. Every single time,
man, these pipes get me. Like, you would never
expect this to reach, but it does. It's so great. And there we go. Enriched rare metal ore. What a mouthful. I also researched level 2 mining drills. I'll put some on
the coal patch in a minute. I'll make a tiny
smelting setup for the rare metals. And there you have it. Rare metals. I use those few rare metals
to make these level 2 mining drills. Well, now that
we're officially out of the ore, guess it's
time to go exploring to find some more. To explore for the ore, we need a car. So I'll research
logistics 2, and then cars. Now that we've got a car, we can go
ahead and slap it down and throw some coal into it and get going. ...Except you can't use coal. I have to use fuel. I'll temporarily make some fuel
from light oil, and then we can get going. I discovered the car has an equipment grid, so it's time to throw
some random junk in there. Apparently, these
electric engines help with acceleration a bit,
so I'll put one of those in. Yes, I know there's
only one solar panel in there. This car will be parked most of the
time, so it'll have plenty of time to charge. Now let's find some ore! After some driving around, I
found a patch next to this biter nest. Running a belt that
far would probably annoy a few of you, so I'll
start researching trains and grab some ammo. And there's trains! Might as well research
fluid wagons while we're at it. Rails are a tad simpler now,
only taking these steel beams and stone. No more iron sticks. And there's fluid wagons! Next up is train stations. Since I'm not mass producing rails at
the moment, I'll just hand feed the stone. Even though I don't need them
yet, I'll also research rail signals. I'm not sure how many rails I'll need to get there, but
definitely a lot more than 138. Whatever, starting
early never hurt anyone. Except Jeffrey Dahmer. After grabbing
some steel to build a train and a wagon, we can start
working on the dropoff station. Inside of the train,
there was a little surprise. Looks like every vehicle in
Crastorio comes with an equipment grid. And this one is huge. I'll stick some of
these electric motors in it later. Another surprise is
rocket fuel stacks up to 100. This sucker will probably go
hundreds of trips before needing to refuel. Eight of these electric
engines should make this train super quick. Time to start heading in the opposite direction of west, but
looks like there's a few biter nests I'll need to take care of. These worms sure do seem
a lot more tanky than before. Definitely a lot scarier to deal with. As we continue to head northwestn't, we come across another
biter nest, but don't worry. I shall let the
blood of John Moses Browning flow through my veins
as I hand build a sniper rifle. Unfortunately, I still needed to
run back to the base to make more ammo. After resupplying, I can now take out
the nests and worms from a distance, but it's pretty slow. As cool as the new weapons are, turret creeping with fish
spam just seems to work the best until very late game. Now that the train is fully
charged, the acceleration is nuts. I pushed a little bit too aggressively. Let's get out of here. After I came back with some more
ammo, we've finally conquered the rare metals. Apparently the
stuff around the biter bases is called creep, and I can
pick it up with robots. But after reading the in-game tips,
it turns out I can pick it up with alt-c. Time to build a pickup station. I don't have enough materials to
set up mining yet, so I'll come back later. Some people may say that I'm addicted to handcrafting, and that may
be true, but, it is nice to take a little breather and plan out
what I want to do next while I wait. I think right now
is a good time to take a little detour and
set up military tech cards. The first thing I want to research with those cards is energy
shields, so I'll queue that now. Time to set up the cards, but I got distracted by the
surplus of bricks in my inventory. Setting up military tech cards isn't too hard, but it sure is
a lot of fun to try to get all these things off the bus. I don't think I'll need biomass
on the bus, so I'll just handfeed it. I need the biomass
to make these biter research data cards, which is
a nice intermediate step. I like it. We'll get the military cards
soon, so I'll belt them to the labs. But how? Belt weaving. And there we go, military tech cards. Now that that subplot is over,
we can get back to the rare metal mine. Using loaders on the train
should make loading time super short. I started placing the miners down, but
lo and behold, I apparently need chlorine to mine the metals. Whatever, I'll finish building the
miners and worry about retrofitting the stations for fluid wagons later. Energy shields are
done, and apparently we can research the
next level of power armor, so I'll do that. I need to get
power to the mining outposts, but conveniently my
arms are long enough that I can hand
assemble a power pole and string the wires between
them while moving faster than freeway speeds
over eight times a second. It seems I forgot to park the train,
but luckily I can just stop it with my face. Power armor is done. Next I'll start unlocking
all the different types of modules. After attaching the fluid wagon to the train and then
helplessly watching it ride into the sunset, I'll expand the station slightly so we can
load chlorine onto the train. Also efficiency modules are done. Next up are productivity modules. *quietly*
Come on man. Now that power is finally
connected, I'll hook up the miners to the loaders. Now we can bring the ore back to
base, unload it, wash it, then smelt it. Our balance of chlorine to hydrogen
isn't quite right anymore, so I'll have to use some circuit conditions
to burn off the excess hydrogen. I'm super grateful that the
wires don't require green circuits to make. This is how it
should be in vanilla, honestly. Two steel furnaces isn't going
to cut it long term, so how about six? Now I just need to
snake the metals over to the bus. I was making the bus a tad longer and
ran out of belts, so it's time to channel my inner American and
drive 500 feet to get some more. That mining outpost creates a lot
more pollution than I thought it would. We should probably
do something about that. Oh and I forgot to do
speed modules, so there they are. We're actually getting surprisingly close to launching a
rocket, but luckily there's a lot more to this mod after the rocket. I don't feel like putting air filters on the train or
running a belt of them all the way over to the mining
outposts, so I'll just build a ton of trees. This definitely isn't a long
term solution, but it'll help for now. But this nest is still
a bit too close for my liking. Also the Krastorio devs are smart. You can't just run up and grab the creep. Apparently trains
produce pollution when they move. Neat. We don't have enough sand to make
chlorine, so I'll upgrade our stone production. Yeah those trees aren't helping at all. I'll just ignore the
pollution until it becomes a problem. But it would be nice to have some
laser defenses, so I'll research those. Why did I put speed modules in here
instead of just building a second crusher? To be honest, I have no idea. You know what, I'm going to automate all three types of
modules so we can just chuck them into random buildings more often. Also lasers are done. Next up are laser turrets. And there we go, fully automated modules. I kept putting off
building a mall, but now I think it's
finally time to just bite the bullet and do it. Although I will be building
it with cargo wagons just for fun. Cargo wagon malls
can take a little bit to set up, but I think
they're actually pretty cool. Now I just need to figure out
how to get the items into the wagon. After a slight mix
of sushi, spaghetti, and circuit conditions,
we can now automatically load in iron and copper plates. Oh and green circuits. Now we have
automatic inserters, except for the stack inserters,
which we just researched. I'll also set up assembler assembly. Finally. I forgot we unlocked
energy shields so I'll quickly make one. I'm not sure how much it'll
help, but it's nice to have regardless. Our iron patch is
slowly starting to run out. We're going to have to find
a new one soon, but not quite yet. It's time to start
working on utility tech cards, but first we
need to set up blue circuits and low density structure. I'll do blue circuits first. ( Long silent section... I should
put another funny message here.. ) ( Maybe later. Remind me. ) Don't worry about the research, I'm just doing random ones in
the background to get them out of the way. And there's blue circuits. I don't show it much on camera, but cliffs are still
occasionally getting in the way. So let's finally automate
them with some mouthwatering spaghetti. Now that we've got
explosives, I just need to figure out how to
cram grenades and barrels in here somehow. I need steel for barrels, but
guess who forgot you need coke to make steel? Me. I'll just make some coke on site. Okay now we just need grenades,
and luckily they fit in here quite nicely. Now we have fully
automated cliff explosives. Back to that tech card, let's
start working on low density structure. All done, hopefully we have
enough copper to keep up with demand. My train schedule was super messed
up, but I finally got around to fixing it. Oh and I also made myself
the next level of power armor. And since the new
armor is a tad bigger, I'll research
exoskeletons so I can throw one in. I'll also research
everything up to personal laser defense. A single exoskeleton is only a 20%
speed boost, but it's still nice to have. Now we can start
automating the actual tech cards. And there we go, slight problem, we
can't use these tech cards in our current labs, so we need to
upgrade them all to advanced labs, but we can't
use the basic tech cards in the advanced
labs, so before we upgrade all of them, I'll
research everything that requires the basic
tech cards in the background. While I wait for all that random stuff
to research, I'll cobble together a new iron mine just south of the base. I'll also surround
the mine with air purifiers. (3kliksphilip impression)
I don't remember
why I was driving around, but I could not for
the life of me fit between these two cliffs. Wube, please fix. There we go, I haven't built all
the miners yet, but it'll do for now. And we're done with all the
researches that require the basic tech cards. Now we can disconnect the production
and swap military tech cards into their place. And after I reverse this belt,
we just need to upgrade all the labs. Making 41 of these new labs is
not fast, crafting them took a while. Let's take some of them for a spin. In this case, quite literally. And there we go, that's
yellow tech cards and all the new labs. Now that I think about it, we've got 2
out of 3 ingredients for launching a rocket. But we aren't quite ready, we need purple tech cards to
research the silo, and for those tech cards we need uranium, so
I'll finish researching uranium processing. Once that's done, we can scout out our surroundings for uranium,
there's a small patch to the north. In the background,
I'll research logistics robots. It's time to start
building our uranium drop off station. I'll use some rail signals to
make sure the trains don't kill each other. Mining uranium requires
sulfuric acid, so I'll hook it up. Here's where we'll
split off the main rail to head north, but
I'm missing green circuits for rail signals, so I
ran back to the train mall. Unfortunately, our sushi shenanigans have surely backfired,
resulting in a surplus of copper plates, so I'll
have to relocate the excess. Logistics robots are done. Unfortunately,
this lights up my ADHD brain like a Christmas
tree, so I'll take a major detour to set them up. After placing our first roboport, I'm informed that you can
pick between different modes, either expanding your
logistics area or construction area. That's pretty neat. I'll start placing
passive provider chests everywhere, and
then we can get to work on automating the logistics robots. While I wait for
the rest of the logistics chests to be
researched, I'll work on some of the
prerequisites for purple tech cards. First up are red belts, and these
assemblers kinda act like fidget spinners. Logistics system is done. I'll start researching purple tech cards while I finish
setting up robot production. Using logistics chests
will make this a piece of cake. And there we go, fully automated robots. With logistics robots being produced at a large scale, I'll
throw down a bot-based mall. There's the tech card. Our new mall completely overshadows
the wagon mall, so it's time to say goodbye. Next up in the research
tree is rocket control units. Continuing the
trend of automating anything and everything
before uranium, I'll set up the productivity modules for purple tech. Small problem, power problems. We're not making enough petroleum for the gas power stations,
which makes sense seeing as we only have two
oil refineries, but don't fret, I'll whip
together another four refineries. There we go. Back to
procrastinating, we're running low on red circuits
due to a shortage of green circuits. After expanding the green
circuits, we now need more copper wire. I expand and upgrade the wire production several times, but it
just leads to an endless battle of needing more wire. I'll postpone the war temporarily and
finally get back on track, no pun intended. I ran into a few biters on my way there, and I even wrote a
cringe-worthy rap about it while I was editing. Now on my way to
the uranium patch, I find a few biters
that I need to dispatch. Using bullets, turret creeping and guns galore, I clear my way up to the coastal shore. After fighting off
some more of those biter attacks, I scroll up on the
huge world's mini-map. What's this? Oh it's more biters, I see. Good thing they're just a lock and my guns the key. Once we finally arrived, I was pleasantly surprised when I
started to take radiation damage, although it did
get a bit annoying after a while. While my Geiger
counter continued to inform me that I would be
a mutant by next Tuesday, I set up uranium mining. Originally I was planning to run just the pump off of solar
temporarily and run a power line back to the main base, but then I realized that running
the entire mine off of solar wouldn't be too hard, and
more importantly, would look cooler. So while I handcrafted some solar
panels, I ran back to the base to resupply. After a few more
trips back and forth, we've got enough
efficiency modules and solar panels to run this sucker purely
off of silicon's hatred for sunlight. Stick a few accumulators on
there and we can run all night too. Slight issue, we aren't going to run a belt of air filters
out this far, so I'll just have to wash the filters on site. Once I'm done setting up the filters and throwing in more
efficiency modules, we can head back home with some uranium ore. Back at the base, we can set up the unloaders and then try
to figure out why we're out of sulfuric acid. Turns out I accidentally ran two
underground pipes in line with each other. After fixing that sad attempt at pipe sushi, we'll run over
to the rare metals mine to add some filters to it. That'll work. Rocket control units are done. Next up are speed module 2s. Then productivity module 2s. Now we can do efficiency 2. Speed module 3s
take purple tech cards, which we still don't
have, so I'll research worker robot speed instead. Centrifuges take concrete, which I have neglected to automate
thus far, so I'll get started on that right after
I fix our coal shortage. Also there's another
level of worker robot speed. I'll go ahead and keep the ball
rolling with another level of worker robot speed. Now let's start working on that concrete. Luckily I already have some pretty
decent brick production, but one assembler isn't
going to cut it. So, how about 7? That should hopefully be enough. Now, our smelting
array is currently quite the bottleneck, but
luckily I can just upgrade all the furnaces to
steel ones for a 2x speed boost. That speed boost means nothing if I can't supply the ore
fast enough though, so I'll upgrade the copper
mine to level 2 mining drills. I'll also upgrade to
red belts in strategic spots. Back to uranium, I'll
finally start setting up the centrifuges. Looks like processing the uranium now has a chance to output
some byproducts, so I'll adjust my setup
accordingly using some splitters. After plugging it in and throwing in some speed modules, we
managed to get some uranium 235
in our first batch. Rare metal refining stopped, looks like we're backing up on
dirty water, so I'll bodge a second filtration plant in here. With all my side tangents done, we've now got all the
ingredients for purple tech cards. After running a belt of 238 up and
slamming down some research servers, we're done. Now we just need
to research level 3 speed and productivity
modules, then the silo, but let's not research it ill prepared. Let's set up rocket control units first. Luckily we can just throw speed module production on top of
productivity production, but it seems that blue circuit production is starved of red
circuits, which is in turn starved of green circuits, which is in
turn starved of yet again copper wire. The war continues. I'll expand copper wire production...
again, and use the extra headroom to squeeze out just a few more green circuits. Looks good to me. Turns out we were a
tad light on iron plates before, so we need
to expand copper wire yet again. Now we're low on
wire for red circuits, and with no room to
expand I just pipe some in from green circuit production. And thus we are
losing the war on wire again. Time to expand even more. Copper wire looks good
again, but now we're low on wood. I'll throw down a few more
greenhouses, and by a few I mean 10. After routing the wood through the pipe pasta, we start having
power issues again, so I'll add a few more gas generators. Next I'll upgrade
iron ore mining and enrichment. Our increased red
circuit production outpaces our electronic
components, so we need to get some more silica for our silicon. I'll set up a secondary
filtration plant for more quartz. We aren't making enough sand for quartz, and once we fix
that the problems move up the chain again. Now we don't have enough plastic,
so I'll add four more chemical plants. Now we've got a bit of a surplus, so
I'll expand electronic component production. We still aren't keeping up with
productivity production, so I'll expand that too. I'm just upgrading things
for fun at this point, so here's some
more blue circuit production. And now we've got a steel
shortage due to a lack of iron plates. I'll just change the splitter
priority, we can deal with the iron plates later. Let's get back on track for a
bit and set up rocket control units. I finished
researching speed module 3s and productivity
module 3s, now we just need to research the silo. In my secondary furnace array I had saved room for an easy
upgrade to electric furnaces, but now I've decided they're not really worth it right now,
so I'll remove the gaps and add more steel furnaces. And more furnaces require more ore,
so I'll expand the ore enrichment some more. Now we're low on copper,
and when I say low, I mean low! Our patch has completely dried up,
luckily there's another patch a tad more south. I'll run the air
filter belt around the new patch, and then we
can start extracting that ore. The single solar panel in my power armor isn't quite keeping
up with my robot port, so I think it's time to
research the portable (nukular) reactor. But first I need to
research the regular reactor. There we go, and while we wait for the portable one to
research, I'll finish building the air filter belt. I totally forgot about it,
and the pollution triggered an attack. I'll place a ton more air filters
to clean up the pre-existing pollution. Personal laser defense is super handy. Here's the portable reactor. These are actually surprisingly cheap. Next up is kovarex enrichment. *distant viewer*
But Jaden! we need to launch a rocket! We'll get there. But first I gotta
take yet another side tangent to get MK2 power
armor, because this little power armor, too
small for my (nukular) reactor. These biter bases
expanded a bit too close to the base for my
liking, so unfortunately they must die. ( Come here often? ) ( I do. ) ( I work here. ) There we go, no more looming threat. Power production has died again, so it's time to chuck in some
speed modules, add a pump, and double up production. It takes a little bit to
stabilize, but we're back up and running. Military four is done, now we can
start working on the power armor itself. Rocket control units have been
stockpiling in the background for a while now. Hopefully I can use these all eventually. But right now our
science is being limited by low density structure, so I'll blow up some cliffs and build more. I lost five minutes of footage, and
somehow we're done researching power armor. The suit takes a
lot of level two modules, but fortunately I
could just spam the heck out of them with bots. By the way, the level two power
armor is the last side tangent, I promise. Now that I've got
most of the modules, I'll just handcraft the
remaining four, and we've got mark two power armor. After some kajiggering, I can
fit another exoskeleton and roboport. Back to science, we're low on yellow tech cards due to blue
circuits missing rare metals. Looks like the
pipes have backed up again. I've been clearing them occasionally off camera, but I'll
finally rebuild the pumps and the chemical plants so
they don't clog anymore. Now we're low on
sand due to a stone shortage, so I'll rebuild the
mine with level two miners. We're short on red circuits
again, so it's time to expand it even more. Here's a lesson in
the dangers of belt waving. Upgrading undergrounds can seriously mess things up, but we
were lucky in this case. Blue circuits stopped yet again. This time because of sulfuric acid. That's understandable,
seeing as we only have one acid plant. I'll build a completely
oversized array of acid plants to support it. There we go. Now our limiting factor is rocket fuel. I'll spam some
more atmospheric condensers and rearrange the
bot mall to fit more fuel refineries. And there we go, the
rocket silo is finally researched. I just bit my tongue. ow Gathering all the resources to
make the silo is easy except for steel. We aren't making
any coke right now due to a coal shortage, so I'll have to set up a new mine for coal
before we can do anything else. After connecting the new mine and upgrading the belts,
we've finally got enough steel for the silo. Now we'll just place it,
mod it, and hook up the materials. Rocket fuel is definitely going to be our bottleneck, so I'll
have to upgrade it again. In the process of upgrading it, I seem to have somehow mixed
the fluid systems together, so I'll just tear everything
down and start from scratch. Good as new, but still not fast enough. Yes, I could totally bring light oil
over here and make it the easy way, but what's the fun in that? After I finish rerouting the uranium
belt, we still don't have enough nitrogen. Good thing speed modules exist. Really? That's still not enough? Fine, more condensers. And that's still not
enough, but I don't care anymore. I'll just, I can wait. Speaking of waiting, we're only 9% of the way there, so I'll
spend my free time setting up uranium enrichment. Which also makes stone. Gotta love byproducts. Genuinely, I do
like the byproducts, and they add a bit more
challenge to the design process, but when it's in such small
quantities, you can usually just ignore it. Does anyone know of a modpack that makes byproducts a pain in
the ass besides pyanodons? Pie-anodon? Pie-an-da-don? How do you pronounce this? Anyways, uranium
enrichment is up and running. Hopefully I can
find a use for it later on. I handcrafted some level 3 productivity modules, so hopefully
this rocket will finish soon. Unfortunately I realized that
satellites are actually quite far off. There's a few things that need to be
automated before we can even unlock them. But I will be
launching this sucker anyways. I can't let it leave
empty-handed, so I'll throw a fish in there. Why did I get a dolphin? Let's christen the base with
concrete to celebrate our first rocket launch. Immersite seems to be a pretty common late-game ingredient,
so now's probably a good time to set it up. We're out of stone due to our
stone mine running out of, well, stone. *win10 unplug sound* And we just lost all game audio. Nice. There's another
tiny stone patch below the base, and we can
use that temporarily while we find a more permanent solution. The Immersite quarry is done. Next up is AI cores. They seem to also be slightly important. After gathering all the resources for a quarry, we can throw it
northeast to the coal patch. Very convenient that all
the resources are right here. Before we do that, we should
probably enclose it in air filters. While I wait for those belts
to build, we can hook up the quarry. After hooking it up, we've
got Immersite... on one side of the belt. There we go. Now we can finish placing all
the air filters and remove the old belt. Next we need to
start refining the Immersite into Immersite
crystals, and for that we'll need Immersite powder. So, I'll set up another crusher. Thankfully the loaders have
filters, so this is pretty easy. After connecting the
belt, we've got the powder. I'll route the sand over to the other crushers, and let's
figure out how to turn that powder into crystals. Looks like we'll need
sulfuric acid and nitric acid. That's new. Nitric acid is made of rare
metals, ammonia, and mineral water. Now where do I find mineral water? Looking at the
map, I don't see any mineral water anywhere, so
it's time to go exploring. *me making car noises* I very quickly got
in over my head with some biters and lost my
car, and since I haven't paid for auto insurance since 2012, I quickly fled the
scene and got another one. After driving by quite a
few nests, I lost my car yet again. I still haven't found any mineral water. Back home I check the tips and tricks for any information
about mineral water, and come up dry. *ba-dum-tss* So back to
wandering around looking for it. A ton more exploring later,
and I still haven't found anything. But AI cores are done
researching, so that's cool. Even more wandering later,
I've finally found some mineral water. I'll clear out the nearby biters
and start running a pipe back to the base. Once I've completed said
pipe, let's set up the pump jacks. I'll put a big
tank on the other end of the pipeline, so it's fine if it
only runs during the day. Now it's time to set up ammonia. I'll build
something bigger when I know the ratios, but for
now I don't need very much. I'll run the Immersite powder up,
then we can get started on nitric acid. Here's that big tank of
mineral water I was talking about earlier. I'll run the rare metals up, and
now we've got a tiny amount of nitric acid. I'll set up the chemical
plants, and now we have Immersite crystals. In the background I
unlocked these advanced radars. They're pretty cool as they allow
us to cover the entire base with one radar. I'm going to cancel our research as it is so mind-bogglingly slow that
there's no point in continuing. We desperately need stone, and all of
the bigger stone patches are quite far away. So it's time to change tactics. Yes, that's right, it's finally
time to start building actual defenses. Due to putting it
off for so long, we don't have to worry
about boring old gun turrets. We can skip them and
go straight to laser turrets. I want my wall designed to be based
on Factorio's 32x32 grid for easy snapping. Oh, and I'll research substations
to make this blueprint a bit prettier. And now I finally notice
that OBS isn't recording any sound. Understandably, this makes me very angry. *win10 plug-in sound* Finally, sound is back. The straight wall blueprint looks pretty good, so now I'll
build the outside corner. I'm going for a
more brutalist style wall, as opposed to the
curvy walls from the Green Circuit series. There's the outer corner done. Now it's time to do the inner corner. Rails don't curve
quite this tight, so I'll have to make a
little loop that goes outside of the chunk. This wall is super
overbuilt for our current defense needs, so
I'll trim it down and use a lighter version
that we can upgrade later. Concrete is stealing
all of our brick production. I'll shut it off
so we can make more walls. Speaking of walls, let's take
those new blueprints for a test run. Now we just need to sit back
and wait for the Roboports to be placed. It would be nice to
see what's going on next to the walls, so I'll add a
sentinel to the blueprints. I enclosed some stone with the new
wall, so let's set up another mining patch. New mine means new train station. I'll set that up. I'll run a belt over to the stone input. Hopefully that should
help speed science back up. These biter bases are decently
close to the wall, but I think we'll be fine. Power consumption is slowly climbing. Hopefully the new solar panels and
accumulators will be enough to offset it. I'll run a secondary
belt for maximum stoneage. More laser turrets! We've now got more stone than we can consume, and we're
still low on bricks, so it's time for a dedicated brick smelter. Here I fix accidentally mixing the belts, and then I mix them again and
walk away without noticing. With loaders, wall
production is pretty easy. Having some higher
tiered modules could come in handy later, so I'll set up a
few assemblers for that. We aren't getting enough
batteries for laser turret production. I'll build some more. The test wall is almost
complete, and I'm quite satisfied with it. I'm gonna make this little grid
blueprint to make connecting new walls to our power and bot grid a lot easier. I started working
on the south wall, but that project is short
lived because we have a major problem on our hands. Power production. I'll build a
tileable solar panel setup, but I can't build any right now due
to resource shortages. We're low on iron
due to a fluid backup of dirty water, which
is backed up due to the filtration plants
being backed up on clean water. I'll add another flare stack. Now we're making
more enriched iron than we can smelt, so in a
classic move I'll completely ignore our power problems for
now and expand our iron smelting array. This new smelting array fits pretty
nicely over here, and I didn't even measure it. After hooking up the iron, coal, and
setting up the recipes, it's up and running. There's not an easy way to snake the iron onto the bus, so
I'll have to go up and around the lake to sneak it in later. And would you look at
that, the consequences of my actions. Our petroleum production is easily affected by our power
production, so once we start to dip, it's basically game over. And since offshore pumps need
power, we can't even use steam engines. I'll attempt to remedy this by putting efficiency modules in
the oil refineries and chemical plants that are
dedicated to petroleum, and then I'll
disconnect the entire thing from the main electrical network
so we can run it off of solar power. But now our oil
pump jacks have stopped as well, so I'll
disconnect that and add solar to it as well. I forgot about the offshore pump. After isolating
everything essential to power production onto its
own separated power networks, we get about a 50% duty cycle
for power during the day, which is fine. But the moment it
comes night, we don't have enough petroleum to
support all the generators, so it's time to make a
secondary oil refining setup. With the secondary
setup up and running, the accumulators are
actually starting to charge up, so hopefully we shouldn't
have to worry about power for a while. Never mind. I think it's time to continue our path
of world domination, so let's clear out some more biters. I pushed a bit too
hard here and died, but luckily my turrets
were able to take out the rest of the biters on my behalf. After recovering my
body and massacring more biters, let's start
setting up our southwestern wall. A bit of walking and pasting later, the wall's all blueprinted,
now we just need to wait. While we wait on that, I'll
throw a second belt down for more iron ore. Woah, that's a lot of
walls, but not a lot of concrete. I'll throw the excess
bricks over to concrete production. Still no satellite for the rocket. Bummer. Back to wall building, I'll manually place
the roboports to help speed up the process. I can also speed up the
video to speed up the process. Next up is our northwest wall. Right after making the turn to head
east, this biter nest absolutely destroys me, so I come back with grenades. That did not work. How about poison
capsules, guns, grenades, and fish spam? There we go. I want a spidertron. Badly. But there's more
to research before we can build one, so I'll work my
way towards fusion energy Copper supply is
lacking, which leads me to finally discover
the stone being mixed into the ore enrichment plants. Once that's fixed, we're good as new. Power is still
cripplingly low by the way, but we can ignore it and
just go back to working on the wall. I made some more personal laser
defenses, and now guns are merely a suggestion. We're now done blueprinting
the northwest wall, so let's finish the
southeastern one. There we go. Time to wait yet again. Power is still a major issue. Let's try to finally fix that. Literally 1984. Let's try solving our power
problems with yet another steam power plant. Old habits die hard, so
I did the wrong ratio again. After building the
whole thing and hooking it up, I am very
disappointed in the relatively tiny amount of power it provides. And you know what? It's time for a real solution. We're switching to (nuku kul kul kul kul kul
kul kul kul kul kul) We're switching to Nuclear. Thanks to Nilaus
for this 4 Reactor build. I can highly recommend
his base in a book and masterclass blueprint books
that are scattered around the internet. Let's tear down
this stupid steam power and start automating the pieces
we'll need for the reactors. Also I'm slightly modifying his
design to use robots for uranium delivery. There's one reactor. There's two. It's not even near fully built yet, but we're producing
enough power to finally not worry about blackouts. While it finishes building in
the background, I am a bit curious. Will I get something special if
I launch the dolphin back into space? Nah, it's a waste of a rocket. Maybe later. And later is now. Let's go. Aw man... The walls are all finishing in
the background and fusion energy is done. We are barely
using any of the iron ore, it turns out we've got a
shortage of sulfuric acid. A lot of petroleum
is being consumed in the gas generators and
with our new (nuclear) power plant we don't really need them anymore. So let's just get rid of them. Portable fusion is done. Next up is efficiency module 3's. Enriched iron production is still slower than a headless chicken crossing
a road made of molasses. Turns out our oil refineries are out of oil, and we're out
of oil because we're out of oil. Two of our pump jacks have
completely dried up, so let's go get some more. There's a pretty
dense oil field to our south. Let's surround it with
roboports and we can get cracking. I'll hook all the pumps together into one of these huge
tanks so we can stockpile the oil while we build the pipes. After laying some mad pipe,
the refineries are back up to speed. And now we've got more
sulfur, and thus more sulfuric acid. Ore washing is back up to full speed. Research has basically stopped. We're out of purple tech cards and
purple tech cards are out of... red belts. Having gears on the
bus has bitten us in the butt. Our red belt assemblers are starved. Gear production is
also starved because those darn green circuits
are eating all of the plates. I'll put some localized gear
production, that should do the trick. After fixing a few
misplaced inserters and force feeding the
research server some red belts, we've got purple science again. Efficiency modules are done. Now we can start
researching the spider-tron itself. And we're out of purple science again. It's the belts again. All of the iron plates from the secondary smelter are being turned
directly into steel plates. And a lot of them are being consumed by the bot based mall,
so I don't think they're gonna back up anytime soon. I'll remove the
priority from the steel plates. Still not enough belts, and
we're also running out of blank tech cards. Once again it's green circuit's fault. They're stealing
all of the iron plates from the blank cards, so no
more priority for it either. But guess who loves overkill solutions? This guy. Let's put together an
entire additional iron smelting array. Nothing in life is good without balance. In this case, 5 to 2. The old design for
ore enrichment was cool and all, but I want
to try making a slightly different design. Now unfortunately I neglected to make
it actually work, so I spent a bunch of time designing a... design that
was completely and utterly useless. Pasted it down and fully built the
whole thing before I realized the mistake. With the shocking
revelation that you can't use multiple
underground pipes in a line with different fluids, I tore down the new design and
reluctantly went back to the old one. After building a smelting array
and hooking it all up, it's ready to go. Except we don't have any
belts to finish making it with. A tale as old as time. I need iron to make iron. After scavenging enough iron to get some belts placed, we start to smelt,
albeit a small amount. Good thing we can rely on
good old trickle down belt-enomics. Plates to gears, gears
to plates and belts to belts. Slowly but surely,
all the belts are placed. Now we can deconstruct our temporary production, and move an
incredibly overbuilt amount of iron into our purple
science red belt production. And we're researching again. Yeah, this is way too much iron. Oh, since we've got walls now, we don't need the filters anymore, so
we can tear those all down. Now we've got a shortage of
green circuits for productivity modules. We need even more iron for the circuits. We just made more iron, but nobody in
their right mind would run a belt that far. Now we're actually
starting to put that new smelter to use. We've got green circuits again. Still not quite enough
prod mods, so here's some more. We're still low on
blank tech cards somehow, but it looks like I just accidentally
disconnected copper plates. That's an easy fix. Prod mods stopped again. This time it's 'cuz we're out of
electronic components due to a lack of silicon. So let's up our silica production. I won't get into the gritty details,
but I hope you can sand some rough jokes. After upgrading our quartz production,
it's pretty clear... that should be enough. Now we're low on glass, which is
great because I get to make more pane-ful jokes. I'll put it off for now and I'll
fix it when the cracks start to show. Science production
is looking pretty good now. It's not a problem
quite yet, but we're slowly running out of copper
for low density structure. And that's because all of our extra
copper is being chucked into this chest. But where are these bots taking it? Oops, I still had the heat
exchangers and turbines automated. I'll tear that down. Evidently that was the issue. Now we've got a
steady flow of copper, but purple science is
out of prod mods yet again. And yet again, it's
because of the electronic components. Time to fix the glass. Our current glass production
is tiny, so let's build another one. After some horrid belt
shenanigans, it's all hooked up now. And I managed to build that entire
smelter without cracking a single glass joke. Wait... That still wasn't quite
enough glass though, so I threw
down even more smelters. That'll do. Yellow tech cards are
running out of low density structure. Not due to shortages this
time, just not enough assemblers. I'll paste some more. And finally, we've got
the spidertron researched. Now we just need to build this sucker. The recipe looks pretty normal
besides the fusion reactor and the AI cores. AI cores require nitric acid, so I can't handcraft them, but one
assembler should do the trick. The rest of the items don't have any
weird quirks, so I'll just use bots for them. We don't have any
tier 3 efficiency modules, so I'll use bots
to build the correct ratio of them and crank out a few. And there it is, our first spidertron. And man, I can't wait to take it for a drive... Wait, apparently the
spidertrons require fuel. I guess since it doesn't require a
fish anymore, they can't use fission power. DT fuel cells don't look too difficult. They require tritium,
empty DT cells, and heavy water. The empty cells are easy, it's
just rare metals and low density structure. Tritium is a tad more complicated. It needs rare metals, lithium, and U-235. Well, let's do this one step at a time. Lithium is made in an
electrolysis plant and requires lithium chloride. Oh, and water. The lithium chloride needs
mineral water and hydrogen chloride. Mineral water is easy, it's nearby,
but the hydrogen chloride is a different story. We use it to make
enriched rare metals, but it's currently
stopped due to a lack of sand. After changing the
priority, it's up and running again. Making the hydrogen
chloride is currently pretty wasteful. I never worked out
a proper ratio, so these pumps are discarding
a lot of the gases we need. I'll remove the pumps and just clear the tanks manually if
it becomes an issue again. I plugged everything in, and
now we just need water and heavy water. Unbelievably, heavy water is made
from water, so that's easy to set up too. Although it is very slow. I forgot to remove the spidertron assembler,
and now we've got two extra ones. After a bit of waiting, we've
got tritium, and we're making DT cells. After chucking them into
the spidertron, we're good to go. I was worried about how long these will last, but it looks like they
actually last quite a while. Nice. I started filling
the Spider-Tron with personal Roboports that I made
earlier, but unfortunately the DT cell just
powers movement, not equipment. Might as well
simplify fuel management and use a portable fusion
reactor for power as well. Five Roboports have a pretty good
range, and they handle about a hundred bots. This will work great. I'm going to stockpile a few more DT fuel cells, and then we
can start mass deconstruction. That's right, we're starting over. Shoot, I forgot to launch another
fish before deconstructing the rocket. This deconstruction planner should leave all of the power
poles intact, so hopefully we won't
accidentally disconnect anything. The (nukular) plant is
staying though, at least for now. Deconstructing an entire base takes a bit longer than I
expected, but I only did have about 1700 robots. Most of the base is gone now, and
I'll also deconstruct the solar panel grids. I made some landfill and
filled in two of the lakes as well. Now I'll start
deconstructing all the power poles and Roboports
so I can place a Roboport grid across the entire base's area. This disconnected
the walls from the (nukular) power plant, so I'll
quickly plug them back in. We ran out of substations and
Roboports, so I'll make some more of those with the buffers left over from the base. We ran out of steel plates and red
circuits, so we can't expand the grid anymore. I'll cancel all the ghosted
building and tear down the assemblers. We need to decide how many
lanes of copper and iron we'll want. I picked six lanes
of each, purely because it divides evenly
between the substations. This lake is kinda
in the way, so we should probably start the
bus a bit further back. Before we set up iron or copper
production, let's make some concrete. I was using my upgrade planner on the miners, and it turns out there's
a second tier of substation. Oh well, too late. Now let's mine the iron for the concrete. Okay, time to
smelt the stone into bricks... ...Oh, I never researched electric furnaces. Luckily it doesn't
look too expensive, and I should have
enough science laying around in storage to research it. I think it's safe
to say we've got enough. Cool, let's tear down the
labs and start making some furnaces. With those being
slowly produced, I'll whip up a silly design
for brick production and hook it up. Now we can set up the
actual concrete production. This setup works just
fine, but it's kinda boring. Let's try something else. Recently I've been
having a lot of fun with these tiny tileable
designs, and thus I redesigned the concrete production. With enough concrete production to
pave a small city every 12 minutes, let's start working on iron smelting. Six lanes sure is a
daunting task, but since we don't need the
full capacity immediately, let's just work on one lane for now. Although I will test to make
sure we can fit all the smelters here. And they do fit, so we're good. For now I only need a little bit of
iron, so let's skip ore washing temporarily. We ran out of
substations and roboports again, and unfortunately we
can't really expand without them. Time to make some more, but I'm out of copper wire, so time to make copper wire. But now I'm out of red circuits, so time to make red circuits. But know I'm out of steel, so time to make steel. But now I'm out of red circuits again, so it's time to make more red circuits. But now I'm out of copper wire again, so time to make copper wire. But now I'm out of steel, so time to make ste... The iron smelter is up and
running, we're slowly filling the belts ...But, I'm out of copper plates, so time to deconstruct everything, and make copper plates. Building at this massive scale is kind of
intimidating, not gonna lie. Oh also keep in
mind there's no way I could possibly feed all
these smelters with these little patches of ore nearby, so I'll definitely need to bring
in the ore with trains later. And there we go, we're
making copper. Not very much in the
grand scheme of things, but at least we're
making some. Now it's time to set up ore washing. Washing the ores in the chemical
plants is actually quite fast, you only need 16 plants per
belt. We need sulfuric acid to wash the ores, so let's go set
oil back up. Even bigger tank this time. After piping it
around, let's set everything up over by this
coal patch for easy plastic production. Continuing with the theme of just guessing production
amounts, I'll build enough plastic for two
red belts. That's a lot of refineries. Let's get cracking on cracking. We'll crack the
heavy oil down into light oil, then recracked the
cracked oil into petroleum. 32 chemical plants and some coal
later, we're almost done setting it up. After hooking up oil
and water, it turns out I built most of the
refineries out of alignment. After rebuilding the refineries and
running some more pipes, we've got plastic. Iron, copper, and
plastic. What's next? Wood. It still feels strange putting wood on
the bus, but two lanes should do the trick. I have no idea what I'm doing here. Instead of just mixing the belts
earlier, I decided to balance each individual belt and then stick it into a 6-2 balancer. This is stupid. Oh well, it's basically done. I just need to wait for
all the greenhouses to be built. Imaginary wood is now on the bus. Oh yeah, ore washing. Should probably finish that. A bunch more oil refineries and chemical plants later, we can
set up sulfur and then sulfuric acid. But I need iron plates for the acid, and we don't have any
belts to get it over here. So let's set up belt production. A couple wacky
designs later, we've got belts. Let's finish the ore
washing setups for copper and iron before we
plug in the sulfuric acid. After connecting everything up and hand feeding a few iron plates to
test it, we're washing the ore. I'll swap the recipes
around and we've got plates again. Slight problem, dirty water is
backing up, but we can just burn it off for now. Now we can get
started on steel production. Let's make some room. I'm aiming to make two belts of
steel, so this will be yet another huge setup. Time for coke. Thankfully, its production isn't too complicated, so we can
just produce it locally instead of smuggling it in from other countries. Let's steal coal from plastic
production, split it, and then grab wood off the bus. Don't forget to set the recipes. Oh, speaking of
wood, we still don't have any. And speaking of not having
any, iron production has stopped. Looks like we somehow
disconnected our oil supply. I'll hook it back up and
then finish a line of coke...'s wood. With the wood starting
to trickle in, coke is done. And while we wait
for the CIA to send me a check in the mail, let's
hook up the iron plates. While belting the
plates around, power died. We ran out of (nucklear) fuel cells. That's fine, we've got a decent
amount of processed uranium in storage. I'll just throw down an assembler. It takes a minute,
but we've got power back. A few substations
later, and we've got steel. I'll chuck it in a chest for now. We're out of base supplies again. Time for another bot mall. Except this is ugly. Let's make it look prettier. That's better. After placing the rest of the chemical plants for ore
washing, we're output limited. I'll move the input belt to the middle. And now we're input limited. A second belt should do the trick. There we go. Full belt of output. Now I'll rebuild the copper side. I needed more
substations, and for some reason I thought it was a
good idea to just deconstruct these ones. Let's see how long it takes me
to realize that oil's been disconnected. I'll put steel on the bus,
then we can fix that dumb wood splitter. It's time for some green circuits. Let's make four belts of them. I was originally going to use this
side split design, but it looked extra dumb. I'll go with
something a bit more traditional. I'm not sure how many times we'll have to tile this build
vertically, and I'm worried about running into the lake. So let's make some landfill. Yeah, not much to see here. I happened to pass the (nooklur) setup,
and it looks like we're out of fuel again. We ran out of 238, but we've got a decent amount of uranium
ore chilling in storage, so we can put off
the mining for a bit longer. Back up and running. It's green circuit time, and wouldn't
you believe it, the assemblers fit perfectly. Each one of these towers
makes two belts of green circuits. This looks super
silly, but hey, it works. Time to plug it all in. Oh shoot, I forgot to switch every
other inserter to fill both sides of the belt. I'll fix that. There we go. Now I'll bring all four
belts down to the bus, and we're done. Now let's do red circuits. Yeah, we don't have any stone on the bus. I'll mine some, and then we can
just squeeze it into the middle of the bus. Okay, now we can crush it all into sand. Yeah, that's a lot of sand. And now we get to make a bunch of quartz. Like a lot of quartz. Two belts of quartz. And we'll turn that two belts
of quartz into one belt of silicon. Then the other eight crushers
worth of sand will be smelted into glass. After running a
belt of plastic over here, we've got
everything we need for electronic components, so let's whip them together. Three belts go in, one belt comes out. There's the oil pipe. Took long enough. After expanding the bus a bit
more, we can start working on the circuits. I built this way too long. We wouldn't have been able to feed the whole thing, so
let's split it into four parts. Then I'll design this
ridiculous distribution head. Paste it, modify it, and
start hooking up all the resources. Done! Now we just need to wait
for the bots to place all the belts. And there's our first red circuits. Would you look at
that, we're out of uranium ore. Glad I caught it early this time. Luckily the
uranium outpost is a sovereign state, so we can just
renegotiate trade agreements with it. The real problem is
figuring out where to put the rails. I'll route it
directly over green circuits so we can unload next to the centrifuges. After doing a loop-de-loop around the
uranium centrifuges, I'll set up a station. I'm feeling a tad lazy. I'll bring the
sulfuric acid over with bots. Here's our first delivery. Man, I love loaders. Now that the uranium is taken for a spin and then spun, we
should be good on power for the foreseeable future. Hopefully. Now we just need to
wait around for the rest of the belts to be
produced, placed, and then we're all done. Four belts of red circuits. Hopefully that'll last a while. Next up is blue circuits, but
we don't have any room to build them. We're getting
pretty darn close to this lake. So it's time to start filling it in. Small issue though,
if we fill in the lake, there isn't any walls
protecting us from biters, so we'll have to build
some new walls too. Luckily for us, if we take a look at storage, we've got a
lot of walls on hand already, so no need to automate them. There's a few things we
need to work on before expanding. For example, only one side
of our copper belt is being filled. It looks like I
somehow managed to swap all the recipes on the
bottom furnaces to iron. I'm just glad the enriched
ore didn't end up on the belts. Next up is explosions, then explosives. We're going to use the explosives to make rockets for the
Spidertron to help with expansion. Just a few more. I- I can stop whenever I want, I promise. Since we want
these rockets to be actually useful, I'll set up a
temporary lab and research stronger explosives. Biters are starting
to actually damage the walls. I'll just upgrade this part
of the wall and hope for the best. Stronger explosives is done. Let's take these rockets for a spin. I am extremely disappointed. The shooting speed is super slow. The rockets feel more
akin to a toy than a weapon. They do supplement my personal laser defense attack at
range, so I guess that's nice. I was hoping that
using a slowly shrinking spiral pattern
around the bases would make taking them out less tedious,
but it ended up just not working at all. Time to start building that wall. I turned on my
personal roboport to repair the Spidertron, but
I forgot I also had some building materials on me. This did not make the biters happy. Now the path is completely
clear for the wall. But there's
still a few internal nests that we need to deal with. Now let's start filling up that lake. Now for the next wall, but before we can get started on
that, let's set up some minor bot production to replenish
the ones that got killed in action. Their sacrifice will be
forever remembered, until I forget about it. Let's get those biters! This nest is easy, but then we
have to move on to Big Bertha here. Oh boy. I tried that spiral strategy
again, but it had a predictable outcome. Several minutes
later, that huge nest is gone. Let's blueprint that wall. There we go, now all
the bots will get to work. I'll throw down a radar, too. Now I'll head home and we can
start working on making more landfill. This little patch we're using isn't
quite fast enough, so how about another patch? We'll have to make a little
bump in the wall, but that's fine. While I was casually looking around the base, some biters managed
to destroy the uranium train. Guess we'll have to
surround it with walls, too. Back to that stone patch we'll cover
in miners and stuff all the output into this one assembler. Looks like there's
two recipes for landfill. Let's just go with
the old fashioned recipe. We're mining faster than we can craft, so time for a second
assembler and some speed modules. Robot production also stopped. We're out of electric
engines, but we can make some more. Slight problem is we don't have any lubricant production, So I'll steal some heavy oil
and make a little. Barrels make fluid
delivery so convenient. I love them so much. And now we're making electric engines. I also whipped together some
battery production for laser turrets. And our new east wall is basically done. Let's start tearing down the old one. I made a new fluid tank for the
uranium ore train and now it's back up and running. It'd probably be nice to have some decent modules on hand, so
I'll use bots to automate all three kinds and all three levels. Then I'll chuck some speed modules
into the landfill stone patch down south. Waiting for
landfill is driving me bonkers. After upgrading the
assemblers to speed module threes, that should hopefully
speed up production quite a bit. At this point I think our lack
of bots might become the bottleneck. So I'll cancel the
lake of landfill and focus on filling in only the important
bottom part for now. Let's extend the bus. Man, these biters on the
landfill production are brutal. I've got upgrade over here too. Might as well upgrade
the entire wall while I'm at it. Okay, let's finally
get started on blue circuits. First up is rare metals. We're going to
need a lot of it and I want to make one red belt of blue circuits, so two belts of rare metals is required. But before worrying about any of the
other complications of washing the ores, let's just build a huge smelter. 96 electric furnaces. Now we need to wash that ore. Let's get started on the refineries. Three belts of ore go in,
two belts of refined come out. This build ends up
being pretty long due to the underground
belts in the middle, but it's only 30 refineries. Now we need to make the
hydrogen chloride for washing the ores. We only need 10 refineries to make it,
but that's not the hard part of this build. Now we need
electrolysis plants to make the chlorine and
hydrogen from water and sand. This is the hard part. We need 50 of these electrolysis plants. And to fill these plants
with sand, we need six belts of sand. Yes, this design has
five belts, I'll fix it later. To make those six belts of
sand, we need 20 crushers, and their size makes them
a pain to deal with. I'll hook them up
in a way that looks nice, and then we have to
start worrying about trains. Yep, we're going to deliver
the stone for the crushers by train. Oh, and the rare metal, too. Fitting the train stations into this
grid is a tad strange, but it doesn't look too bad. There's the stone station,
time for the rare metal station. After repeating myself about hooking up stuff, let's place
the trains and go hook up the mining outposts. Rare metals is easy
because we've already built it. Gotta be careful to make
sure the rails fit inside of the grid. Now let's go set up stone. I'm worried about output, and I don't really want to
upgrade this for a while, so I'll put speed modules in all the miners. Stupid biters on the landfill wall again, they're a lot tougher than
I give them credit for. I'll just spam more turrets
willy-nilly inside of the walls. Let's finish that stone outpost. I'm able to fill the train with 11 loaders, but
unfortunately I don't have a balancer that big, so I'll have to
use a 3-4, then a 2-6, and a 2-5. Elegant, I know. After hooking up the rail and setting up the schedule on
the stone train, we're good to go... as soon as I
fix some broken signals. Did you know if a
bot places a rail signal while you're on the
rail, sometimes you stop dead in your tracks? Fun, right? After getting a load of
stone, the crushers start crushing. Looks like there's a slight issue with my design though, only one side
of the belt is being filled. I'll fix that. After hooking up the water to the electrolysis plants,
we've got chlorine and oxygen. Let's steal some of that
chlorine and go get some rare metals. Well, the train left early, but
hey, at least the signals are working. After upgrading
all the miners and waiting for the train to
come back, we've got a tiny load of rare metals. I'll hook the water up to the ore washing refineries, and now
we've got enriched ores. A short trip through the
oven later, we've got rare metals. Now we need to deal with the dirty water. Good thing we can just burn it off. The electrolysis plants make slightly
more hydrogen than chlorine, so we'll have to burn some of that off too. Okay now that we've
got fully automated rare metals, we can start
working on blue circuits. A few things to do first. We've got to put the rare metals on the bus, expand the bus,
and then take out some of these darn biters
attacking the landfill production. They're driving me nuts. With that done,
rare metals will go on the bus next to steel
plates, then we can start designing the blue circuits. Thankfully they aren't
very complicated, just expensive. Oh and this build
will also be huge, but we're input limited by
red circuits, so we can only make 3/4ths of a red belt. But still, we need 160 assemblers. Design 1 looked good, but it was
too fat to fit between the substations. Version 2 was a tile
skinnier, but still a tile too wide. Version 3 was a
lot smaller, but now it had belts that went
under the assemblers, making it less dense. It would have worked fine, but it was way too big, and just
hilariously low density, so it got scrapped too. Design 4, instead
of putting the belts under the assemblers, I
instead put pipes between the inserters. This was a lot more compact,
but I just didn't like its personality. And here we are,
the fifth and final design. With underground pipes and belts
down the middle, it's decently compact. This'll do. After pasting it a gazillion times,
we just need to hook up all of its inputs. Unfortunately,
after hooking it all up, this once beautiful
design now resembles a popular Italian dish. With our tiny input of rare
metals, we've got blue circuits. We're definitely going to
need to up our mining capacity. Let's set up a huge lab. That should do, and it's time to
automate something we don't even need anymore. Basic tech cards. Why am I building it, you may ask? Well there's a fun reason, actually. Uhhhhh...... After setting up the
copper wire, all we need now is wood. They call them basic for a reason, and it has nothing to do
with a pH level above 7. I'm aiming for a
full red belt of each science. Yes, that's probably
impossible, but just let a man dream, okay? For a full red belt, we're going
to need 160 assemblers for the tech cards. Good thing we can
fit exactly 158 of them. I'll just move the
rail so we can fit two more. All the tech cards will be
delivered with bots for convenience. After hooking it up, we've
got basically pointless tech cards. Next up is red tech cards. They need automation
cores and blank tech cards. We need the same amount of assemblers for the red cards, so
I'll do a little ctrl c, ctrl v, and swap the recipes. The blank cards are easy. One wire assembler can
supply four tech card assemblers. Paste that four times,
and you've got a belt of blanks. Recently my grandpa told me he started shooting blanks, which
is strange because he doesn't even own a gun. Next up is automation cores. We don't have gears
on the bus because I was proven wrong
recently, so I'll make them and sticks on site. After whisking that together and hooking it up with some copper,
we've got automation cores. And as those cores work their way
up the belt, we've got red tech cards. Time to move a slot
over in the grid and set up green tech cards,
but it looks like there's some mineral water right here. Ammonia and mineral water. Now where do I find mineral water? Looking at the map, I don't see any
mineral water anywhere, so it's time to- Whatever, I'll just skip to the next slot in the grid and
fill a tank with the mineral water, since we don't need it right now. You guessed it, we
need 160 assemblers again. And we can also steal
the blank card production. Oh, there's three ingredients now. We can't use this assembler layout. Here's a new three belt design. Now we'll hook up the blanks and
grab some green circuits from the bus. Time for some more gears. And that's green tech cards. Let's chest them. Oh, we're still filling in the lake by
the way, it's just taking a very long time. Next up is military tech cards. Technically we can't fully automate them right now, but
we'll still set them up. After we fix iron supply issues. But let me get distracted
a few times before we do that. Worker robot speed 5, laser
shooting speed 1, laser damage 1. Here I try to call the
Spidertron over, but he's dead. I sent him over to this nest earlier, and apparently he was
not strong enough to defeat them. Rest in pieces. Guess I'll walk. Okay, iron time. There we go, a second belt of iron. Except, small problem, this
belt balancer is output limited. It isn't pushing
the full two belts through. I tried another design
I found online, same result. Balancing the balanced output works. It's a silly solution
for sure, but hey, it works. Okay, military card time. This one will be pretty complicated. We need electronic
components, which aren't on the bus. Worse yet, we don't have glass or silicon on the bus either,
so we'll have to make it all on site from sand. This will be fun. Let's work from top to bottom. First up is electronic
components, three input belts and one output. Shouldn't be too bad. 30 assemblers and plastic
later, we're done with the easy part. By the way, the only reason we can't
fully automate military cards is we don't have any biomass production, and we don't have bio labs unlocked,
so it's a chicken and egg problem. Okay, time for glass and silicon. We need them in almost equal
amounts, so I'll just interweave them. 15 furnaces of each. Now we need to place a bunch of
filtration plants for quartz for silicon. I'll plug them
into water, and now we need to make sand for
all of them, plus the glass. Six crushers. Now I'll run the stone up. Four more crushers for the glass's sand. There's glass production. Now we just need to wait for silicon. Well, my inserters are misaligned,
and now I'm putting sand on the quartz belt. Glad I caught it early. After fixing that, we've got
everything we need for electronic components. Well that's that. Now for the easy ones. Slight issue, we barely have any stone. Our bus is being fed off of this
single mine, so we'll have to fix that later. But for now, we need
some biter research data. It's an easy recipe, but
it just needs a lot of assemblers. I'll request in
all the biomass with bots. Now I just need steel. And coke. Well, we don't have a belt for
that, so I'll have to run a new one. Also where the heck is copper? Oh, I never reconnected it. Oh, bad news! What? The biters are
attacking the mineral water pipes. Oh no! Anyway. Let's steal the coke from steel production and run
it over to military science. And that's biter data. And after a tad more
waiting, there's military tech cards. Next up is blue tech cards, which yet again require glass,
and a lot of it this time. Since our stone
belt is so dry, let's steal from the stone drop
off for the rare metals. Back to two full belts. Unfortunately we
need three belts of stone for all the glass we
need to make, but luckily we can just pretend we have it. Six belts of sand. That's a lot. The column of crushers is
almost as tall as the other tech cards. Now we need to smelt the glass,
and here's the first design I came up with. Now if you pay
veryyyyy close attention while I expand this to
full size, you might notice a little detail. It sucks! This design has
two more furnaces per row. That's about two more per row. After expanding this design to full size, it thankfully meets
my density requirements. Let's hook it up. I thought about being a pane and
bringing back the glass jokes, but I just couldn't sand for that. After balancing six into
three, we can start making the tech cards. Blue cards require
sulfuric acid, so we're going to need a
slight modification to our design. And by slight, I mean full redesign. After placing blanks yet
again, let's start pasting the new design. Slight issue. The glass melters are in the
way, so we'll have to slide over a slot. Slight issue again. This design is a lot less dense,
so we need to split it into two halves. That's fine. I'll just have the resources
go up one side and down the other. After connecting the tops
and bottoms, let's hook up the glass. Then the blanks and the red
circuits, which are magically here now. Now we just add the
output, sit back, relax, and wait. Just kidding, I forgot sulfuric acid. There we go. Still waiting for
these belts to be placed. Turns out our belt
assemblers are starved of input. Good thing this
single splitter can fix that. Finally, there's glass. And now we've got blue tech cards. Only one half of one side is running due to missing belts,
but it'll sort itself out eventually. Now let's research some stuff. First up is bioprocessing. That's cool and
all, but it would take too much effort to automate bioproduction, so I'm not doing it right now. Also I'm really mad that I had to
make blue science this wide, but whatever. We're about to do a lot of research. Are you ready? Weapon shooting speed four. Land mines. Refined flammables one. Defender. Refined flammables two. Follower robot count one. Follower robot count two. Physical projectile damage four. Portable generator. Braking force one. Personal battery mark two. Biofuel. Lithium sulfur battery. Reinforced plates. Braking force two. Larger logistic containers. Inserter capacity bonus three. Better Robot battery. *inhale* Tesla coil mining productivity two. Explosive rocketry. Laser shooting speed two. Laser weapons damage two. Laser shooting speed three. Laser shooting speed four. Distractor. Energy shield mark two. Tank. Energy weapons damage three. Refined flammables three. Stronger explosives three. Discharge defense. Energy weapons damage four. Follower robot count three. Physical projectile damage five. Weapon shooting speed five. Follower robot count FOUR! *inhale* And that's all the research
we can do with our current cards. Now let's make some purple tech cards. One of their main
ingredients is productivity modules. I can already tell
this is going to take a while. Unfortunately the math
does not work out in our favor here. To make a red belt
of purple cards we would need at least ten
belts of iron plates just for the red belts. Past me is very aware of this fact. Well, we can just scale the production
back to six belts of total iron plate input. We'll still be able to get
about one thousand cards per minute. So I'll do some
balancing and expand our building area. You know what? these bots are taking
too long to instruct all of this concrete. We need more. Let's take a slight detour and
set up some construction robot production. I want to make one robot per
second so it shouldn't be too complicated. I'll hook up all these
belts and then we can get designing. Now did you catch that? That slight bit of hesitation? It means I don't believe in this design. I paste it a few
more times but, it is pointless. The allure of a better
design is calling and we must heed. Tearing it down and starting over. Let's use a more analytical approach. Each flying robot
frame assembler needs the output of half of an
electric engine assembler. So we can split it like so. And in turn the electric engine
assembler only needs one regular engine assembler. So let's put the engines side by side. Now, the fun part: Hooking it all up in a
way that makes somewhat sense. After fiddling with it for a
while this is the design I came up with. Paste that bad boy
a few times then cobble together some gears and pipes and connect stuff up. Still need lube
though, and delivering lube with bots for bot
production is slightly tacky. So let's run a pipe. After connecting steel we just need to worry about batteries
and electronic components. Batteries are pretty easy
we only need 10 chemical plants. After hooking up the
sulfuric acid and snaking the copper plates
through, we've got batteries. Now for electronic components. I really wish I
would have put some on the bus. Oh well let's get started. ( Hey! its been a while! ) ( Another fun fact: Pre-sliced bread was first
introduced in 1928! ) I forgot to smelt the quartz. And now we're making flying robot frames. And there we go. Once all the assemblers
warm up, that's one bot a second. These inserters
will add bots to the network to ensure that we
always have around 10,000 construction robots available. Okay, back to purple cards. I was trying to
craft the research servers we'll need for the
cards but it looks like we're out of electronic components. Weird. Oh we stopped producing them. Oh... we're out of stone. Well since we're already stealing
from the stone train might as well go all in. I'll flip this side of the belt around. That'll fix it. Time for the research servers. We'll need 60 of them. Keeping up with tradition I'll
steal the blank tech card design yet again. Okay now let's make those belts. There's nothing
awfully special about this build it's just a
plain old boring design. But boring is boring so
let's do something less conventional. Let's put a group of assemblers
in a line with respect to their ratios. With a little bit of belt
weaving we can output in line. With a wacky belt to put iron on one
side of the belt that's one segment done. After doubling it
and giving it to the next slot and repeating
that three more times, that's our red belt of red belts. Now we just need to hook
up all six belts of iron plates. There we go we've got red belts. I'll hook those up. Also yes I know
you're probably yelling at your phone right now
that we don't have enough iron plate production. Yes I know. We might never be able to saturate
the base but hey it's fun to build huge. Remember earlier how I said we were going to need 10 belts
of iron so we scaled back to 6? Yeah? Well now we need 6 belts of
stone and that's also not going to happen. But instead of scaling back this
time I'll just pretend we have 6 belts. I'm also starting to
realize how undersized my base is. I'm going to make
another inline design like the red belts for
the electronic components. You've seen it a million times
but let's walk through it yet again. Crushers. Glass furnaces. Filtration plants. Silicon furnaces. The assemblers were a bit tricky to fit compactly but I eventually
settled on this belt weaving design. I just realized I
forgot to add an output. Whoops. There we go. Now I'll run plastic in. Hook up the stone. And now we just need to
paste this monster build 4 more times. Unfortunately the belt production is
in the way and the lake is also in the way. So I'll landfill that
sucker and then just paste what we can. While we wait for
the bitrate storm to pass I'll start hooking up
water and other resources. Then I'll start hooking up the outputs. Construction is waiting on belts
but luckily I know where I can steal some. Now let's get
started on productivity modules. Three belts of green circuits
and five belts of electronic components. Unfortunately this was waaay too long. I can only fit a third of the
build here so I'll just have to stack it. But now the ratios are
wrong so I'll redesign it real fast. But it's still too long! Time for more landfill. I took a quick
look at our iron production and it looks like we're not consuming the ore at full speed. And I'm too lazy to build a better
balancer so here's the quick and dirty solution. Does it look stupid? Yes. Does it work? Also yes. Now that I've been fully
sidetracked let's try to improve iron production. We might be able to squeeze more iron out of this patch with
some beacons but I'm not sure if we have
enough tech cards to research it. Oh looks like we already started on it. Let's see. Eh, yeah, that should be enough. Let's go for it. There's beacons. I'll put production for them in the mall. This design has a
beacon surrounded by miners. ...And that's the only
good thing I can say about it. Yeah, nevermind. Let's just focus on improving miner density and putting
speed modules in everything. Also the landfill and concrete are done. I totally forgot there's
a second iron patch over here. I'll put miners on it too. The first iron patch
will now output to the right. This is purely for aesthetic reasons. The second iron patch will also output to the right but this time
for purely unaesthetic reasons. After balancing the output we can balance the balanced
output with the other balanced output in a new balancer
to balance the balanced outputs. After all is said and done
we've got solid lanes of iron again. I think there's enough extra in the lines for a third smelting array,
so let's set that up. Once again our output balancer is
stuttering but this time it's an easy fix. Since inserters
prefer one side of the belt the belts can end up
unbalanced on their sides. So if we balance the sides
here that should fix the stutter. Our uranium mining setup is
super slow and that poses a few problems. Well one big problem. We're running out
of (binocular) fuel cells. I'm going to try and desperately
increase uranium production but there really isn't much we can do here. It's just not enough. This wouldn't be so bad if we had another uranium patch
inside of our walls but since we don't,
we have to focus on this one. Expanding with a pending
power outage is just too risky. We're down to our last fuel
cell here so it's quite desperate. Imagine if I
didn't notice we'd be screwed. Well, we're still
screwed but slightly less screwed than the worst possible screwage. I'll paste down some more centrifuges. We need to work through
this uranium ore as fast as possible. Looks like I'll
have to dip into our kovarex enrichment buffer
which really stinks because if it would have been running
already we wouldn't have this issue. That should buy us some
more time to come up with a solution. But there's really no way around it. We need more uranium somehow. But how? In classic Jaden fashion I decided
to completely ignore the problem for now. In other news we now have
12,000 construction robots in the network. Cool. In a complete
lapse of judgement I decided to plug in the rest
of the productivity module production. You might see why this is a bad idea. And now slowly but surely
we're making electronic components. Let's hook them up
to the productivity modules. There we go all hooked up. Now for the green circuits. And that's the green circuits. They'll slowly make their way across and the electronic components
should meet them in the middle. I'll speed up the video 1000%
so you don't have to wait too long. And there we go. We're making productivity modules. Green circuits can't
quite keep up but that's fine. Let's belt those modules. There we go. Now we just need U-238. Wait. Uranium. Uranium... Wasn't I doing something with that? Oh yeah! Slightly large issue. We're completely out of fuel cells now. We've got 12 more U-235 chilling in the enrichment centrifuge
but I really don't want to use them. The only way we can get this power plant back online is to
get enrichment running so we need a different power source. Solar panels won't cut it. They only provide less
than half of the power we need. Speaking of less than half... We're quickly running
out of steam pun intended. So let's go over our options. Fusion power. Nope. We don't have any DT fuel cells. They were all
destroyed in the spidertron. Solar power. While it isn't up to the task right now... We can definitely place some more. We've got around 2000
panels chilling in storage. I'm not sure how much
that'll help but we're out of time. After 40 seconds we're out of accumulator backup and we drop
super low on satisfaction. Fun fact. When laser turrets
start to lose power they take even more
power to start shooting again so you get massive
satisfaction numbers like this. Just a casual 2 gigawatts. I cracked under the pressure a little bit and put some more
uranium in the fuel cell assembler but there isn't even
enough power to craft it right now. I'll cut back the base as much as
possible but I'm not sure how much it'll help. Disconnecting the iron
and copper plates is a good start. Now for the even more fun part. The night. As everything begins to lose power the laser turrets turn
off and since we don't have any backup defenses
we're kind of screwed till day. I can go defend
the walls manually though. But once I finish with
one attack there's always more. Even these tiny attacks with just a few spitters are starting
to cause some decent damage all around the walls. There's nothing we can
really do about it until day. Good thing laser turrets
have the highest power priority. Back at the plant
there's not much going on. Obviously. I'm going to steal from enrichment
again and craft a fuel cell with my bare hands. After melting off
all of my skin and causing irreparable damage
to my DNA we can turn the plant back on for a little while. Since we need to recharge the
base this might take a second to stabilize. We almost did it and then night hit. I made four more fuel cells
and turned on all of the reactors. That should do it. Now we've only got five 235 left. Not good. We could try expanding uranium mining but that's probably not
the best idea short term. Let's just spam the
heck out of solar panels. Hopefully that'll be enough. Efficiency modules couldn't hurt. Let's place some more solar. Well we ran out of materials. Hopefully we were able
to crank out enough of them. There's not really
a way around it is there? We're going to need uranium to kickstart enrichment so let's
just crank as much uranium out of this small patch as possible. After hooking it all up we can throw
down a beacon and shove some speed modules in. We almost doubled our output. Hopefully this will be our saving grace. Plants are down and
now the wall attacks begin. Some of them are minor but these
ones down here are really shredding it up. I'm setting up steam power again in
a desperate attempt to supplement the base. Night again, more attacks. I knew deep down
in my heart that the steam power would
probably not help but all I could do was try. And what was the result? 30 megawatts. Not very helpful. As I tore it down
I was nearly slamming my head into my desk
just trying to come up with a way to make a bunch of power
quickly with our pre-existing infrastructure. You can see the exact moment when I
realized I forgot about gas power stations. Finally a decent solution. This should actually work. I'll place down all the ones
we have in storage, disconnect the
plastic production and presto! 72 megawatts... Shoot. But! Worry not! we only
need about 500 megawatts total and we're
already making over 400 with the solar panels so
let's just place a few more. After another long pitiful night
of death and destruction, the sun rises. And it's almost working. Satisfaction is almost full. A little bit later. We're in business! The accumulators are charging again. Now we just need to amass
enough 235 to kickstart enrichment. A quick time lapse reveals that we've
got enough power to make it through the night too. Sweet. We've got 22 out of 30 uranium-235. So just a bit more waiting. Around 10 minutes later, we're enriching. I'll put in some speed modules to
squeeze out as much uranium as possible. I said speed modules. Thank you. Now let's set up a big enrichment loop. It's comically large but if I was a
business major I would call it "future-proofing". After setting up
all the splitters and their priority, I'll move 30
uranium-235 into the loop. I'll steal some of the uranium. The bots will then steal it from me. Then it'll end up
in the fuel cell assembler. And with that up and
running, let's finish purple tech cards. I'll hook plastic
production back up, remove the gas generators, and reconnect the furnaces. And place the final
belt for the tech cards. With the output hooked up,
we can start researching again. (Nukuler) fuel reprocessing. Might as well set that up. Man, that is a lot of tech cards. Okay, time for the fun part. Coal liquefaction. Advanced fuel. Braking force 3. Inserter capacity bonus 4. Logistics 3. Worker robot cargo size 2. Inserter capacity bonus 5. Automation 3. Braking force 4. Inserter capacity bonus 6. Braking force 5. *inhale* Advanced solar panel. Personal battery mark 3. (Knockular) locomotive. Lab research speed 5. Okay, let's get
started on yellow tech cards. Luckily we already
have blue circuits set up, but we still need to
make low density structure and rocket fuel. But unfortunately,
there isn't any room to build. So first up on the
agenda today is filling this lake. While thousands of bots place
landfill, I'll answer your questions. "Why aren't you building the
yellow tech cards below the bus?" Good question. And the answer is organization. Putting the tech cards above the bus consistently will leave
room below the bus to add new intermediate products if the need arises. Next question. "When are you going
to play space exploration-" Concrete production has stopped. Luckily, it looks like we just
accidentally disconnected the water. There we go. We seem to have run
out of laser turrets, and it looks like it's
due to a lack of batteries. But it's fine. The passive
provider chest is just backed up. I'll replace it with an active
provider chest and it'll start right back up. Since concrete has dried up literally and metaphorically,
I'll literally use some of our speed modules to
metaphorically get production back on its feet. Our base is now quite large, but we
still only have one lane of copper plates. So let's add another one. I'll have to move this iron supply
belt for steel, and then we can paste it down. After connecting all
the pipes, I headed north to get two more
lanes of copper ore, but this mine can barely handle two lanes already. So we'll have to bring
in the ore from somewhere else. There's more ore over here next to belt production, but I'd
really prefer feeding the smelters from beneath. This patch over here should do. Let's fill in a little bit of this lake. I'm going to
deliver the ore by train, but since we have time to
kill, instead of expanding it to just two or even three
smelters, let's finish the whole array. The third smelter fits fine, but steel production gets in the
way of the fourth one, so I'll have to shift the last
three smelters down a slot. I'm not going to
finish iron, but I can at least landfill in
the space we'll need later. Since feeding six lanes of copper
plates will take 12 belts of ore, let's be smart and build a stacker
for the drop-off station. Hopefully we'll have more than
one delivery train in the near future. Fitting rail infrastructure inside of the grid is slightly
strange, but this'll work. Luckily you can fit 12
loaders around a single cargo wagon. And here's a massive 12x12 balancer. Now I'll hook up all the smelters. The bottom three
were easy, but the rest of these belts need to
snake through and around steel production. After a bit of belt wrangling, all the
smelters are hooked up to the train station. Now I'll build the actual
train, then set up the copper mine. I'm going to use
circuit conditions on the pickup station to
disable it whenever it doesn't have enough ore. This'll make adding more
train stations easy later on. And here's our first load of copper ore. Let's finish
hooking up all the pipes, and then all the
smelters will start right up. There's a lot of gaps in the belt,
but it's a lot better than just one belt. Now I'll improperly balance the sides
of the belts, just because I feel like it. Still filling in the lake. I popped over to the reactor to
make sure everything was running smoothly. I'll give it a 1 out of 4 on smoothness. We're still waiting on
uranium enrichment to back up. I'll give it a little help by
redistributing the uranium buffers. Now they're all running. The lake is almost completely
filled now, so let's start extending the bus. Except we quickly hit a wall. A stone wall, even. The stone mining
patch is dead center where we want to expand
the bus, so it's gonna have to go bye-bye. Luckily, there's this second stone patch down here, so
let's just mine that instead. All of these steel chests are full
of stone, and we need to get rid of them. This'll be our chance to stress test the base by using all
17,000 construction robots at the same time. And the charge-pocalypse begins. I'll set up the new stone mine now. All done. And here comes the train. Now I'll finish extending the bus. Now you may know me
as the guy who never uses assembly machine 3s,
but today is an exception. I'll set up automation for
those, and all of the blue belt items. Now let's get back to yellow tech cards. Keeping up with tradition, it's
time to steal the blank tech card production. One ingredient down, three to go. Speaking of down,
power is dying again, but we'll ignore it
and hope solar power picks up the slack in the morning. And yes, we're still
waiting for enrichment to back up. Time for ingredient two, blue circuits. Now we need to make rocket fuel. I could do it the easy way and make it
out of oil, but we're running out of oil off camera and I don't want you to
know that yet, so don't tell anyone. Anyway, why would I use oil to make
it when I can just make it out of thin air? Yes, it's going to take a lot of
atmospheric condensers, but go big or go home. After making the condensers look
pretty, we can paste it down a bunch of times. Immediately after I finished
said pasting, the base ran out of power. After running over to the plant, the enrichment is starting
to back up, but I'll just steal some and chuck it
in the fuel cell assembler. Back to yellow cards again. Now I just need to connect all
200 atmospheric condensers together. There we go. Now for the electrolysis
plants for hydrogen and oxygen. We need a few of
these too, but not too many. I'll plug in the water and
now we've got hydrogen and oxygen. The ratios are slightly
off, so we need a touch more oxygen. And that's all the base gases. Now let's start on ammonia. Unfortunately it doesn't fit very
nicely, but whatever, I'll hook it all up. With the ammonia done,
let's place down the fuel refineries. We'll need to hook up the
ammonia, oxygen, and get some iron plates. Unfortunately it doesn't fit nicely either, so I'll have
to make this long protrusion to the right. I'll hook up the iron
plates, then all the fluids. And now that we've got
ammonia, we're starting to make rocket fuel. Three out of four ingredients. Next up is low density structure. Now we just need to
wait for everything to be built. Now let's hook everything up. And that's all the ingredients. Now unfortunately
I set up all the research servers with only
three out of four ingredients. I forgot about the rocket fuel. Let's try that again. Twenty four research servers. And that's yellow tech cards. Now before we do any research, I
want to clean up this build a little bit. The worst offender here
is definitely the rocket fuel. It's just too long. So let's tear it down
and split it into smaller pieces. Now that it fits into the
proper footprint, let's hook it back up. There we go. Now time for research. Advanced additional electric engine. Advanced exoskeleton. Immersite night vision. Portable immersite solar panels. Personal roboport mark two. Energy shield mark three. Laser shooting speed five. Uranium ammo. Laser shooting speed six. Destroyer. Personal laser defense mark two. Refined flammables four. Stronger explosives four. Laser shooting speed seven. Energy weapons damage five. Refined flammables five. Stronger explosives five. Military five. Energy weapons damage six. Physical projectile damage six. *inhale* Refined flammable six. Stronger explosives six. Weapon shooting speed six. Follower robot count five. Artillery. Follower robot count six. Railgun turrets. Worker robot cargo size three. Logistics four. Larger containers for logistics system. Mining productivity three. Lab research speed six. Braking force six. Inserter capacity bonus seven. Braking force seven. Atomic bomb. Quantum computer. Singularity lab. And better tech cards. *inhale* We've now finished
all of the tech cards we were making in the
old base and now we get to move on to the new stuff again. Okay, so tech cards. Next one up is the matter tech card. Looks simple enough. Needs to be made in
a quantum computer though. The matter tech
cards need blue circuits but it looks like we
aren't doing too hot on those. Okay we don't have
enough red circuits and that's due to a
shortage of green circuits which is due to low copper. So let's give the green circuits
priority but the root cause is our ore deficit. Oh and the red circuits
get green circuit priority too. There's not any more
copper ore on the inside of the wall. This patch looks good but I
don't really feel like expanding right now. Copper can wait. Regardless of supply shortages
let's set up production for the cards. Although I can only
make one quantum computer right now because I don't
have any AI core production. I have a feeling
we're going to need a lot more of them so
that means it's time to set up Immersite production again. I'm hoping to get a full red belt of Immersite crystals so
I'll use some beacons with speed modules to get this puppy really going. Now I need to crush all of
this raw emersite into emersite powder. Problem is even with
speed modules I need 100 crushers. I don't really
have the room right here but maybe I can fill in
the lake and fit it there. Although I did
just realize that filling in the lake was
pointless since we already have all this room over here. Let me run a belt and then we
can start pasting down the crushers. Love that sound. The quarry already can't
quite keep up with our quantitative quota of
two red conveyors of crystalline... crystals. That's fine though we can add
more speed modules later if we need. Oh I didn't realize
the recipe made sand too. I'm going to have to split that out. There now we just need to
balance all the crushers together. The uranium train has run out of fuel. I'll put down a
requester chest to fill it back up. Okay slight problem with
the one belt of crystals thing. 900. That's way too many chemical plants. We're going to
scale back a ton to just 28. Our crusher setup
is hilariously oversized now, but whatever
it's not worth tearing down. Now we need to make
nitric acid for the chemical plants. Luckily we only need one
chemical plant for all the acid we need. But we do need
mineral water and the water that we used to
use is all the way out here landlocked by the biters. I think they'll leave it alone
long enough for us to stockpile some though. The train never got refueled. Guess I'll go do it myself then. And since the train hasn't been making deliveries we're
starting to run low on fuel cells. Hopefully it'll catch back up. I started dumping
the mineral water into a huge tank but it looks like the pipe
is disconnected somewhere. Oh great right next to the nest. Let's go replace it. I was hoping I
could carefully get a bot to place the pipe but
it did more harm than good. But if we distract them
for a little bit that'll do. There we go now we're filling the tank. Hold on I just remembered. Wasn't there some mineral water
next to the lake before we filled it in? Oh. Well, looks like I
just wasted five minutes. I'll barrel the mineral water. I've decided I'm going to
start abusing logistics bots a bit more. I'm also going to deliver the regular water with bots even
though there's a perfectly good lake over here. I'm just crazy. I'll finish hooking everything
up and set up sulfuric acid delivery. And there we go
we've got Immersite crystals. Slowly. So let's throw the end of
the bus into passive provider chests. I'm going to use robots for
a lot of builds from here on out. Matter tech cards
are simple besides needing the matter research
data which takes lithium. We don't have lithium so
we'll just have to make it later. I also made myself two mark
two exoskeletons and I'm speedy now. You know since all
the bot storage is over here, let's move the science
production over there too. Let's get to work on lithium. It's decently simple
just water and lithium chloride. Oh looks like we already had
a little bit chilling in storage. So now we're making some of the data. How did the uranium
train run out of fuel again? Weird. Okay now I'm distracted. I see these warehouse
buildings, I've got to try one. Woah. That's a lot of storage. Let's move some of
the old chests into it. Okay let's finally set up the lithium. I don't care too
much about the ratios right now since the bots
will just deliver everything for me. Okay I'm distracted again. So let's set up a buffer warehouse and deconstruct all the old
storage and move it into the new warehouses. That's a lot of bots. And that's a lot of stone. Lithium is running
so now we should have a steady, although slow, supply of matter tech cards. The advanced labs
don't take the matter tech cards, so now we have
to upgrade to the singularity labs. And man, they are expensive. We've got everything we need for them on hand except for
electric engines, so let's chuck a bunch more of those down. Still might take a while. Oh no. How are we out of fuel for the reactors? Oh we're out of uranium 238. The bad stuff is the problem this time? Huh. Oh I think I know what our problem is. Yep this patch is bone dry. No more uranium to be had. Especially since
there isn't anymore within the walls of the base,
and I'm still not going to expand. So solar panel spam it is. Hopefully we have
enough of them this time. We do have a ton of used fuel cells chilling in storage so
let's centrifuge those back into U-238 to
prolong our demise a little bit. I'll also massively up
solar and accumulator production. And here comes night. Hopefully the damage isn't too bad. If you need to
give something priority but you're delivering everything
with bots you're out of luck. Best thing you can do
is set a massive request size. We're making more solar panels
but the day doesn't last very long. Yet again we're plunged into darkness. The biters actually
breached the wall this time too. Time to double up. And more turrets for good measure. I just realized
where all the U-238 was going. I forgot that purple tech cards need it. No wonder we ran out. We're starting to make the fuel
cells again so we should be in the clear. Although I will still keep
placing the solar panels just in case. Let's make some more batteries
so we can crank out more accumulators. There it is we finally
made a singular singularity lab. Looks like it doesn't take
any of the tech cards below purple. Huh. Optimization tech
cards is the last research in the research
tree that requires the cards below purple. Well, while that
researches let's tear down the old science since I guess
we don't need it anymore. It really feels strange
wiping out hours worth of progress. The card is done. Now we can deconstruct the old labs too. I love all the rainbow puke everywhere. I'm really glad
that I made a ton of bots. The saddest deconstruction
by far is the basic tech cards. They were pointless from their
birth all the way up to their demise. Rest in peace. All of these tech
cards have clogged up storage. We're out of room now. I might have stockpiled too many of them. These singularity labs are a lot bigger. Hopefully they're faster too. Optimization tech
cards need space research data. Gee I wonder how you get that. Let's set up the silo. And satellite in the mall? Wait. We're out of solar panels. And we're out of them
because we're out of silicon. And we're out of stone
for all of its prerequisites. This stone mine is way too slow. Rocket is ready to launch but we
still need the stone for the satellite. There's a patch up here but I just remembered that we have thousands
of stone chilling in storage. We'll use that first. I'll modify the train station a
bit to add requester containers to it. Now we're just waiting on blue circuits. Our copper lines are
getting unbalanced on their sides. Luckily that horrible side to
side balancer fits perfectly here. If something fits
somewhere it belongs there. And I'm sure this
argument has no flaws whatsoever. Back to diagnosing blue circuits. They're lacking red
circuits and red circuits were lacking stone
but that's fixed now so now they just need more copper. Since only this top
line of the copper smelter runs continuously I
want to make sure it lasts a long time so I'll
stuff it with prod modules. Checking in on the
reactor it looks good to me. We've got a nice buffer of 238 now. Looks like the green circuits are continuing to hog all the copper
so speed modules it is then. Looks like we sent a rocket. I'll limit the satellite input
to make sure we don't send too many. Optimization tech cards are easy to
assemble once you have the space research. Just add blank tech
cards in a quantum computer. We need more engines. As of editing I cannot remember why. Let's use a requester chest to sort out all the tech cards
into their own warehouse. That's a lot more than I thought. Let's place those computers
and start making the tech cards. I'll put some productivity on
the stone patch but man it's slow. If only I had a way to
turn this extra iron ore into stone... Oh wait I do! Not too far away in the tech tree is the matter conversion
recipes which will let us turn raw materials into matter and then
turn the matter into other raw materials. Pretty cool. So let's get started on those researches. First up is Immersium processing. Man these labs are loud
but at least they look cool. Immersium is made from Immersite and rare metals so I'll
stockpile some powder while we wait for it to research. And wait I did. These labs are super slow. Oh well. We ran out of stone again so let's
fix that since we have some spare time. There's a patch just outside of the base but I'm too lazy to
kill the biters myself, So I've got an idea. If we just build
the walls all the way across the biters should
be taken out by the lasers without any manual intervention. Check out how many
robots this single worm takes out. Boom. After killing most
of them to clear out the middle we can deconstruct and
build the outer wall. Now we can build the stone miners. Now I just need to set up a
train station and remove the old station. That should
hopefully solve our stone problem. Immersium is researched. Finally. Let's set up some smelting for it. Well not some. A lot. I'll set a request in the
buffer warehouse so we can stockpile a ton. Then we can start
cranking out the gears and beams. Okay maybe not quite that many. Now that we've got
a couple more labs let's start researching
the advanced tech cards. While that researches we can
set up the lithium sulfur batteries. Super easy although I'm
not sure how many we'll need. Better safe than sorry. Off camera I've been running out of petroleum and
lubricant over and over again so I'll speed up petroleum production, fix
light oil cracking, and then spam lube. Not all of the labs
have the cards that they need. Looks like the matter cards
still aren't getting enough blue circuits. Ah whatever I'll just wait a tad longer. I'll also redesign
some of the awfully space inefficient robot builds
and make some more lithium. Our power plant can't quite keep up
with our power demand but I'm sure that's fine. Advanced tech cards. Next up are energy control units. Since we already make all the
ingredients advanced tech cards are easy. Still lacking on matter tech cards though but this time it's
due to a lack of lithium. This should do the trick. And energy control units are done. Next up is matter processing. Looks like matter
tech cards are the bottleneck and we're low on those
due to a lack of research data. Which needs more Immersite crystals. Immersite crystals stopped
due to a lack of nitric acid. Water and barreling for the electrolysis plant backed up due to my
inability to use active provider chests. And there's matter processing. We also have to research
the individual matter recipes. So first up is iron conversion. And
I'll automate the new matter buildings. These energy control units and
matter stabilizers seem highly expensive. Hopefully we won't need too many of them... Once again we need more Immersite
so let's improve nitric acid production. Also iron conversion is done. Next up is water conversion. I also just realized we can
solve our uranium problem with matter. Nice. But honestly I think I'd rather use the new power production
methods that Krastorio provides. So I'll automate DT
fuel cells and fusion reactors. Tritium and heavy water. Simple enough. Hopefully four
chemical plants will be enough. Water conversion is done. Next up is uranium conversion. Now let's make some more
tritium, lithium, rare metals and 235. Uranium conversion is done. Next up is power armor mark 3. We're making tritium and DT fuel
cells are running at full speed as well. Mark 3 power armor is done. Let's make a pair. Oops. Need more energy
control units and modules. There we go. Now for another level of
exoskeletons to help me outrun my responsibilities. Yet again, need more speed modules. Let's set up some fusion power. A lot of fusion power. Five gigawatts
seems like a decent amount. Let's go give these matter plants a shot. We have a surplus of iron ore. So we're going to turn it into matter
and then turn that matter into copper ore. Man these Krastorio buildings look cool. So now that we're
turning iron into copper, hopefully we'll
finally escape this seemingly endless copper shortage. But man these
buildings use a ton of power. For some reason I thought you
could turn water directly into matter. Not sure where I got that idea. But we can with an intermediate step. Greenhouses are overpowered. Now we can make uranium out of trees. What a time to be alive. Okay now let's get
started on Singularity tech cards. We're still running low on
blue circuits due to low copper. Still... Let's turn more of
that iron into copper, shall we? We're running low on optimization cards. Looks like we don't actually make
rocket control units anywhere in the base. So let's set that up. Singularity tech cards are done. I'll ghosts the computers
like my girlfriend ghosted me. Copper supply is still woefully low. Oh the matter plants
and assemblers never got placed. And that's because we're out of AI cores. Distraction! Laser artillery turrets sound cool, and I finally got everything
I need for some level three legs. Only one pair though. We're also starting to run low on oil. So- wait, why is it green? Anyways I'll research oil conversion. Now we've got some
supplemental oil going. Still not enough though. Laser artillery turret is done. I can't make one right now though. Okay the Singularity tech cards
require AI cores and charged matter stabilizers. Great, even more immersite crystal demand. The crystals are running at full capacity until the bots
randomly decide to stop delivering the sulfuric acid. But I've got an idea. If we can make matter on site
we can make sulfuric acid on site. So let's build a
totally overkill oil setup. Now let's make the acid. Slight problem is we can't
make the plates on site from the matter. So I'll just have them delivered. Also yes I now realize that I could
have just made iron ore and then smelted it. But previous Jaden
isn't too smart sometimes. With that distraction
over we're still low on AI cores. But at least I can make some more
exoskeletons and a laser artillery turret. Slightly disappointed with the
range on this puppy but let's go try it out. Seems to be working pretty well. I'll leave it to do its thing. Still don't have any charged
matter stabilizers, And that's because
I forgot to charge them. I'll start making
some stabilizer chargers. We still aren't
getting enough crystals so let's throw away
these solar panels and expand production a bunch. Let's check in on
our laser artillery turret. You know it would be fun to fill
a spidertron with level 3 exoskeletons. Now, what do we name it? Oh, you can't put
exoskeletons in spidertrons in Krastorio. But at least I can add
the additional electric engines. I was looking through storage to see if I could find anything
else to put in the spidertron but instead I found another spidertron. And then another one. Let's start charging
those matter stabilizers. Now we're making singularity tech cards. Nice. I'll add them to the lab requests. Wait how are we out of purple cards? Oh I forgot that we removed uranium. Let me fix that. Speaking of uranium,
we need more matter to make it. But we're not making enough wood. So let's throw in some
speed modules then copy and paste. Oh wait, they just
don't have enough water. Another pump should do the trick. There we go, but I'm still going to
add the speed modules and upgrade the belts. The cards have already stopped,
we're out of stabilizers. And we also need more
rocket control units. A lot more. Let's start the research
for the intergalactic transceiver. Once we power this
puppy up we can beat the game. I'll put some
productivity modules in the labs. I'm not sure why I
didn't do this earlier. Since the
transceiver needs a ton of power I'll place some accumulators to hopefully kickstart the charging process. We still need even
more energy control units and it looks like we aren't
making quite enough nitric acid. So let's go throw in some speed modules. We're out of low
density structure now and I have a sneaking suspicion it- Yeah it's copper. Looks like what's the matter is we
don't have enough matter and we're not feeding the matter plants enough iron which matters because the
matter from the matter plants is used by the matter assemblers to convert the matter
into copper so we need to take the matters of matter
into our own hands no matter what. Looks like we just
have a throughput problem. I'll upgrade the belts. And I'll add a bypass. Why do we need a bypass? It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses. Copper ore production
is up, and these machines are so loud that
it broke OBS so everything is going to sound a
bit crispy for a little bit. We have some extra raw Immersite from
the quarry so let's make matter out of it too. And we're still low on oil, so any
excess matter will be turned into oil. Copper's now backed up
but that's not a good thing. We don't have enough sulfuric acid. Hopefully some productivity will help. Nope. Well I'll start putting productivity modules in the low
density structure assemblers. We're still low on singularity tech
cards so we need even more matter stabilizers. Which means we need even more copper. So productivity
for the sulfur and then we can research the
next level of mining drills. There's another
small patch of copper up here, but we're going to turn it into
matter instead of smelting it. The new drills aren't
super expensive thankfully. You can turn matter directly into copper plates by using the
charged matter stabilizers. So let's try that. Cool. Let's scale it up. It's not much. We need more. Now we can't charge the
stabilizers fast enough, So it's time
to engage multithreading. This should
definitely help our copper supply. Low density structure
is looking a lot better now. Oh great. We ran out of DT fuel
cells due to a lack of lithium. More speed modules and more chloride. There we go. Halfway done. Copper is low again
but this time it's due to the dirty water
backing up in the ore enrichment chemical plants. But that's an easy fix. We've made 1700 singularity cards
but only used 1300, and we're 63% done. Man productivity is awesome. Since I want to charge the singularity
as fast as possible, I'll build a couple more
fusion reactors. Man, still not enough cards. We need even more stabilizers. I'll start requesting all the
ingredients for the transceiver in advance. And there it is. Looks like we just have to
plug it in and wait for it to charge. Neat. Gah, Still need more energy control units. Also more fusion
reactors because I feel like it. Just a few more. Man I've already waited long enough. Why does it craft so slow? There it is. Now we just need
to wait for it to charge. Man the animation is cool. *siren* Wait what? Did we run out of power? No? Huh. Why didn't the tips and tricks say this? Ugh. Fine, more fusion reactors. Deconstruct everything that wastes power. Get rid of everything matter related. More fuel cells. Let's try this again. *siren* Man! More DT cells! Uh oh. *siren* More tritium! More uranium! More matter! Even more uranium! More cells! More low-density structure! *siren* *exhausted exhale* *slow, angry breathing* More solar panels! *crying* More heavy water! Halfway there come on Come on... And that's it. We're done. Oh, that would have
made it a lot easier Years?!?!?! How does it feel to
build belts? Interlinked. Interlinked. How does expanding the
base make you feel? Interlinked. Interlinked. *Amen break
with factorio sounds* *"Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai
covered with programmable speakers* Yahoo! I am a engineer. Factory! I want a factory. Big factory. Factory? Factory. Factory? The factory. I-i-i-i-it grows. 頼んだぜ
("It's all up to you now...") 俺のデビルキラー！
("My Devil Killer!") Thanks for watching,
subtitle friend :)
