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@@mckni5 thanks 😀 let me know if you see other areas I should cover!

@@Pashandr93 😬 I do want to release a lot more! Unfortunately I had a very busy end of year and had some plague, so I've only been managing the streams. I intend to do better in the new year though!

Good luck! I'll be waiting. 😊

@Pashandr93 thanks! I've got a woodwork video on the go as well, so lots of plans!

Yeah, I feel like there's a "no pizza" sign flashing over my house at the moment!

Yeah, the non-acid one is just straight up better; doesn't use acid, gives out more oil per coal. I'll switch at some point! Actually, come to think of it, it does use a bit of acid, since that's how you get water on Vulcanus!

I'm not familiar with a battery indicator, but I expect car batteries to last about 10 years, unless they're abused (ie, flattened completely). If your car is still starting reliably and easily then there's probably no need to replace it. I generally wait until it's not working properly.

People are making train tutorials and not mentioning train limits? Disgraceful! Still, my gain, I suppose? I've tried to make it complete, without making it overly waffly.

@LaurencePlays I got through two long ones and one short one and didn't hear it mentioned once. Maybe I missed it? 🤷‍♂️

@@ex0ja Hah, I was being rude about other people's videos, not your listening skills - I'm happy to believe they were just bad videos 😀

You don't really need to - they'll pop out and start working when they're needed, however if you do want to have them in specific places, as long as you've upgraded to 2.0, you can set requests on the roboports to say how many of each type of bot they should try to maintain in themselves. If you can't find the option, let me know - I'm not in game at the moment, but I could take a look this evening.

@LaurencePlays I found it. You need to create a group and set the minimum. Thanks for the reply!

@@X_Potato Excellent! I knew it was in there somewhere 😀

Thank you 🙂 Yes, making the walls self sufficient is very useful because then you can just ignore it while you work on more important things, like growing the factory!

It's been very interesting! I'm impressed with how well the devs have given us very different experiences on the different planets, whilst still keeping everything feeling like Factorio.

I've not played with high quality bots yet, however I have checked the wiki! Apparently bot quality affects their flying reach and their energy capacity (so, sort of the same thing twice), and their health which is sort of irrelevant. So, that means when running from your personal roboport, they'll be able to do more building before needing to recharge, but otherwise will seem exactly the same. Sadly, even if you get a higher quality personal roboport, the range stays the same, you just get faster charging and more robots. So, overall building will be faster (because your robots charge faster and can fly further before needing to charge), but you won't get any extra range, or speed from any individual bot. That's a shame!

Excellent! I'm glad I could help! I assume the laugh was for the mishap with the 10mm socket?

The item count doesn't tell the train what to load, it only tells it when to leave. If you want to have different trains load different things from the same station, you'll need to turn the inserters on and off based on which train has turned up (or set filters if you're using the same inserters). This is ... tricky, and to be honest, you'll be better off using separate stations for different resources.

@@LaurencePlays arh.... that is what i see from most player saying use different train/cargo instead...alright at least now i understand the cargo schedule is to determine "when to leave" instead of what to load... tq very much :)

@@七仔日记 Exactly! You're welcome 🙂 If you want your trains to behave a bit more like you're describing, you could try the LTN mod. It's a lot less necessary in 2.0 than it was in 1.1 and earlier releases, but it would still let you do mixed stations. Check out my videos on it: th-cam.com/video/Hk446UVlCuQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/5B4bkl_ChqA/w-d-xo.html The first one tells you how to get a very basic setup working, but the second one goes into having multi-function stations and other weird and complex things! I used this sort of setup a bit in my first Space Exploration run, 3 or so years ago.

I did discover that! Fortunately my proper Fulgora ship had enough ammo production and stock that it's able to sit up there essentially permanently - I've even got it shipping spare iron ore down to fulgora when required.

Yeah, flying a spaceship isn't like driving a car or a tank! Manually controlling them is pretty trivial, but the automation can get quite deep and complex, depending on how clever you want to be with it! If you want to see a more extreme ship design, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/F-sQRV3udBw/w-d-xo.html

There is indeed a playlist of all my Tutorios - th-cam.com/play/PLALTzJaRcgW_HiwViLzH0owcxI1UoThKD.html - I haven't sorted them into ones that are relevant for 2.0, but they are sorted by vanilla/mod. Hope that's useful!

@@LaurencePlays k, ty for your response... I saved that link. I was thrown off by the one with the Mod title... I also heard you somewhere in your live play that you'll eventually do new tuts for 2.0.7+ so that's cool too. I was told various parts of the game I can go back different numbers of years, e.g., trains back almost 4! Circuits, none, they've added stuff... I was told even the official Wiki for Factorio's circuit pages haven't been updated yet, so no worries... I want to do more with circuits than "if this hits x turn off, or if this goes under y turn on... I have to redo my oil refineries to deal with overproduction of light oil and petrol gas by sending them to make lub or cracking... or something, I'm still working at saturation levels of learning Factorio, but that's my sweet spot... where I start to forget all the stuff I need to learn, so I go back and review it again. I made my ISS (International Space Station) to no where for white science, so I'm learning how not to get lost in space and I noticed I definitely need my refinery system to be better for all the rockets... and down the rabbit hole I go. Iterating until it's not a horrifying mess not producing enough of anything is where it's at, at least for me.

@@jeffreyspinner5437 Yeah, I do need to update the tutorios at some point, but I need to play enough of 2.0 to get a good idea of what's changed first! You can still do all the circuit stuff I've talked about before, but the user interfaces will have changed, and it might be possible to do more. The concepts are still the same though.

@@LaurencePlays k, ty. I'm trying not to do a random walk in the problem space, because historically I've actually gotten to solutions most ppl never considered, but I've also missed some of the minimum competence level solutions everyone should know... that's why I've doing my deep search to not make the mistakes of others, but learn their solutions like priming a pump.

@@jeffreyspinner5437 Yeah, it's a lot more fun to solve problems yourself rather than see other people's solutions, but once you've done something, then it can be interesting to see how other people have done it as well.

I suspected that would be the case, but it was an amusing idea! Especially if you could transfer items between ships 😀

Heh... We've got a couple of people on the Discord who are very pro Gleba! It sounds like an ... interesting place!

You're right, that's very unhelpful! In the past, it's normally put them in the right order automagically... I've fixed it now, hopefully it'll stay fixed when I add more! Thanks for letting me know 🙂

Hah, yes! The rumours were true! And now, almost 2 years later, it's here! \o/ Thank you - I'm glad you're enjoying it. There's plenty of it to watch 😀 I'm doing a Space Age stream as well, Mondays and Wednesdays, so please come along if you're free!

Ooof, that does sound like a painful way of doing it! I agree though, it's very different to anything else in Factorio and I'm very impressed with Earendel for coming up with it!

I had discovered that I could make mixed rockets by feeding them manually (where manually can be with an inserter from a blue chest), and I had noticed the setting you're talking about, but hadn't really played with it. I think I'd rather pack the rocket a bit fuller, even if I have to launch it manually. Although the last time, I just overflowed it with whatever under the assumption that I'd need all that stuff on Vulcanus anyway! I'm just starting to play with quality, and it's currently a mess and I should tidy it up, but I've run away to a different planet. 😀

@LaurencePlays when dealing with quality I always end making a mess xd last time for some reason my controlers didn't work well and I overflowed all my yellow chests with quality coal and stone 🤣

@@eriafi Nice. I've had similar issues with quality ice and solid fuel, at least until I came along and went "I don't want any of this! Bonfire!"

Yeah, early on it's just red and yellow chests - red are for machines to dump into when they make stuff so that the bots can build with it and yellow chests are for the bots to dump stuff into that they might use later, or they might just turn into a rubbish tip! I also find my base follows those lines... I'll build the first one from the starting ore patches, feeding into furnaces and then onto the bus, all directly. Then the initial patches will run out so I'll move mining away and start training in the ore. Then the furnaces will be too slow, so I'll build a smelting area and bring ore in by train and take metal away by train. Oh, and at some point I'll move circuit production off the bus as well, and train that in, with the inputs being trained in too. And eventually if I'm doing a big enough factory, I'll move science off to separate areas as well.

Thank you! It was tricky to come up with a good way to show it, so I'm glad it worked 😀

I'm glad you like it 😀

Hah, I'm surprised Mike left that one out!

Yeah, the torpedo can just land there easily enough and it doesn't matter if it's got some funny floor under it!

Hah! It's a neat trick, and an excellent way of making sure you don't overproduce because you've got stock elsewhere. If it makes you feel any better, I've got 3,000 hours in, and it was pointed out to me on stream last night that I could have done that and it would've been a much simpler solution than the one I ended up using!

Excellent, glad to hear it's worked well for you. That one didn't have start/stop, but I would expect the process to be the same, just with a slightly different battery.

You've just answered the question I was gonna ask. Cheers!

True, all signals do need to be connected to the station input lamp. I guess I felt that was obvious enough, but perhaps not!

@@LaurencePlays I was hopping around the video a LOT and doing things out of order. Depots were not depoting until I got that one wire in place. Very well could be operator error. >.> Thanks so much for the video. As everyone else has said, its an excellent reference and the youtube algorithm knows it.

@@andguent Ah, it's easy to miss a step if you're jumping around... But then sometimes you don't want to watch the bits you already know. It's a dilemma. 🙂 I'm glad it's taken off the way it has, but I expect its days are numbered - Factorio 2.0 has seriously reduced the need for LTN, so I don't think there'll be as many people using it in the future, and so they won't need the video!

I can assure you that it all works! If you're having specific problems, I might be able to help, but you can see that it works because I demonstrate it all in the video.

Thanks! You should see my actual, organically grown factories though... They're never anything like as neat!

If you're trying to build pipes with construction bots, make sure the pipes are in a red, yellow, green or purple chest (it sounds like they are) and that the area you want to build is in roboport coverage and that the roboport for the area you're trying to build in is linked to the roboport for the supply (look on the map, turn on roboport coverage and make sure there's solid orange all the way there). Oh, and that you have construction bots available! If you're trying to supply pipes to an assembler, make sure that you've got a blue chest and that it's requesting them, and also the roboport coverage and linkage I mentioned earlier. Also make sure you have logistics bots available in that area!

@LaurencePlays thank you so much for the reply. I might have zero blue chests. I will check it once I am back home. Wait a second. I thought logistic bots can supply an assembler directly. So I need chests where the bots put the items and I need inserters for that chests the bots are filling up with inlut goods? So in other words, logistic bots can never directly feed an assembler?

@@KopiG86 That's correct - if you want a bot based construction system, you need a blue chest for the logistics bot to deliver the supplies to, an inserter feeding into an assembler, then another inserter outputting into a red chest so bots can collect from it. Bots won't interact directly with an assembler.

@@LaurencePlays Thank you again! So basically logistics bots are completely useless till you research Logistic system. What a stupid system. So thats another science type. Starting to dislike this game.

@@KopiG86 Not completely useless - they can be used to supply the player with useful building materials. You're partly right though, they aren't all that useful early on - the exciting unlock at this point is the construction bots!

No - as long as they're all linked together, a bot will fly as far as it needs to. Do be aware that bots are slooooow though, so if you have a massive roboport area, it could take a long time for a requested build or delivery to actually happen. In Factorio 1, it was possible for bots to get stuck if you had a C shaped roboport network and they were trying to take a shortcut across from one end to the other, and ran out of power part way. That has been improved in 2.0, but I haven't properly tested it yet myself.

@ i put yellow belts in a red passive box in one part of my map. but the construction robot didnt fly there to pick up the belts in that red box. i made sure all the network lines are connected

@@palihensem I assume they didn't pick them up from somewhere else? That sounds about right - the red chest needs to be in an orange area, the area to build needs to be in an orange or green area and the roboports need to be linked all the way. I'd suggest you try testing it by putting a red box with a couple of pieces of belt much closer, and working away until you find the problem. I'm sure it'll be something very simple when you find it! Have you had construction working in general?

@@LaurencePlays i want to thank you so much for replying my comment. forgive my english. now problem is solve. maybe the blueprint needed are red belt not yellow belt. the belts i put in my red chest are the yellow ones. now the bots are flying across my factory bringing the belts. thank you again sir.

@@palihensem Aha! I'm glad I managed to help shake something loose. 🙂 I have noticed over the years that every time I think there's an issue in Factorio, it's actually something that I've done wrong, so I'm glad you were able to find the issue!

Thanks! I'm glad I can help! I'm always happy to answer questions, especially during the streams, and I've made a number of Tutorio videos that go into things like bots in more detail, typically in about 10 minutes each. I'd love the wider viewership too 😀

@@LaurencePlays I'll check out your by topic videos, thanks. I've been watching your streams but 6hr streams when I learn and apply, learn and apply iteratively makes going through them, e.g., when I found your use of ctrl + LMB to fill a machine (level of noob, yes, I had to research how you did that) isn't trivial at all. These newfangled digital recordings really are useful! That being said, you did get your roboports online, and showed me I misinferred needing the bots in my suit first, which is actually harder to make. Thanks for that too! Given Trump's win, the misandry and heterosexism of this platform may take a turn for the better with crackerjacks (sans the jacks). After all, today it was reported the Obamas took their jets to Dubai _for some reason..._ All I got from Trump's last term was the ability to say "Merry Christmas" without getting attacked, so I can't say he never did nothing (sic) for meh. So, now I'm curious how often comments will be going poof and if Ritz Crackers™ like us will not be as suppressed as before. We will see. On a live stream yesterday, it seemed even though the Brits on it were fretting there goes their monetization, I have to check if it was demonetized or not. I watch Mr Brown Alliance which is based in UKistan. We were saying way too much truth if it was the pre Trump era... So keep an eye on your subs and views, it may be allowed to reflect the actually data now, maybe... then again in the West most ppl have a shorter attention span than a goldfish... so I have no predictive confidence on this one way or the other...

@@jeffreyspinner5437 That's true, watching someone actually play and seeing what they do gives you lots of clues to the basic stuff that we don't even think about making into videos. Do keep asking any questions that come up, or come along to a stream and ask them live if you want. Yes, personal robots and base robots aren't dependant on each other - it's the same bots for both, but you don't need to set up one before the other. I should get personal ones up and running at some point though...

Yes! I just added that in my Space Age run last night; I unlocked full logistics, so I've now been able to put green chests in the middle of my belt assembly plant. 🙂 I just set the request to at least 5000 and make sure the inserter adding brand new ones is limited to maybe a few hundred, so there's always room to pull any spares and it's always trying to.

Yeah, the logistics bots don't do a huge amount in the early game - they're basically there to supply the player (and something else if you play Space Age!), which is still quite useful, especially when paired with a personal roboport and construction bots. But yes, construction bots are amazing, logistics bots are a sort of mildly useful side effect. Fortunately, the recipes are almost exactly the same so it's not difficult to make them both! The filter you put on the yellow chest will sort of work - any bots which grab things that are filtered will take them to those chests if they can... But they won't grab from red chests to do so unless you have them deconstruct the chest. That means they're good for ensuring that when you deconstruct a belt of iron plates, they don't just get dumped into general storage. They don't work for feeding assembly machines.

Build a megabase so you can use all your bots 😀 I'm happy to help - normally, I link to a roboport so I'm only building bots when there aren't any available, hopefully keeping the number at what the factory needs, rather than what'll fit in the roboports!

It has been quite annoying! I want the achievements and the bragging rights though, so I'm sticking with vanilla for now! I've got bots being built though so I'm through the worst of it!

Aha, that seems to be right! That gets to 8 anyway, I think I usually have vehicle snap at about 16 to give more flexibility.

Agreed, so much has been included! My most popular video (ltn) is now hardly needed! So much has changed.

So far, I'm enjoying 2.0, but I haven't got to space yet, so it's basically still just Factorio 😀

Thanks! Yeah, I've always been annoyed by guides that just tell you what's possible, but don't actually show you how! You could complete factorio without circuits, but they allow you to do much cleverer things. Like balance oil processing!

Not at all! They can build the blueprints you lay down and they can bring supplies to you. That's 90 percent of what I use bots for!

@@nosteinnogate7305 probably not! This video was made before that update came out and it's probably much easier now. I've not looked at the new systems though, been too distracted with Space Age (and a holiday!)