If you haven't reached bots yet, you can unlock the Shortcut Bar (used for importing BPs, creating BP Books, etc.) with this console command. (Does not disable achievements): /unlock-shortcut-bar

@TheRojo387

3 жыл бұрын

0.3125 = 5/16

@poseidondredd

3 жыл бұрын

Phew...just when i get bots...only to know this

@kayakMike1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@poseidondredd yah... I unlocked bots just so I could blueprint...

@venominblx9333

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering where this was

Who else already has the blueprints but watching anyway because KoS? Btw that same side IO is great, I'm stealing.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Aww!

@cfhnyy

4 жыл бұрын

I completely agree!

@zacharymoyer3455

4 жыл бұрын

Wait you can get the blueprints that she uses or did you make them in game yourself, im new to the game and blueprints would be an amazing help

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

@@zacharymoyer3455 Building it yourself would be an "amazing help" ;-) By building a structure yourself, you can see exactly how it works. I urge you to create your own blueprints, not just download others'. You'll have a lot more fun with the game!

@michajastrzebski4383

4 жыл бұрын

The timing is excellent. We'll have a lot of new players in a few weeks and I'm sure they will be very thankful for these up to date tutorials.

I missed this content so much from you. So happy to listen to the most pleasant voice talking about Factorio again. Hope you are feeling better!

Your Factorio tutorials are always top quality! I love your series with other games, but Factorio will always be the one I associate with you most haha

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks so much Ahmed!

KOS back with da Factorio Uploads! Love it

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

More to come!

@SpaceDave-on8uv

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky nice

@voxelrifts

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky Yay

Kos I love that your pumping out factorio videos again. So relaxing and perfect for my 1.0 prep!

OHHH the engineer in my head turned into an ecstatic puddle when it saw the "displace input belt with output belt" trick. OK, I'm firing up a new game just to do that.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

haha! I really like that design!

my mind exploded. like i understood a quarter of that then at some point the math took over and my mind just shut off so i could just watch. i truly am amazed at how the factorio community comes up with these things.

The same side I/O is lovely. I may need to incorporate that into my next playthrough.

This is fantastic. 🙂 You have an excellent voice and manner for teaching videos. I do use electric furnaces mid-game, shortly after being able to build even the first level of efficiency module. Two of those makes the electric furnace 20% more fuel efficient than the steel one, and frees me to stop having to worry about fuel in my smelting builds and reduces smelting as a pollution source. And with two level two efficiency modules it becomes 60% more efficient.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@DavidLindes

4 жыл бұрын

Wait, woah... someone who actually uses efficiency modules?!? Haha, cool. :)

Just stumbled on your channel and I'm loving how exact you are with your guides. There's a lot of thought that has gone into it and it's got me wanting to jump back into the game.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! They take MANY hours to do. This one took me around 12 hours between writing the script, recording footage, and editing together. I really appreciate your appreciative feedback! 🧡

Your videos are really nice because you actually show stuff. Most of the Factorio videos are frustrating for beginners like me because people are just clicking and placing stuff everywhere.

I'd just like to say that I appreciate you uploading in 2k. Thank you.

I do in fact enjoy them, because i save them to a factorio tutorials playlist so that whenever im playing i have access to it if i want/need it.

I am so happy that you are back playing factorio. It has been a long waiting. :)

Cheers for that I’ve been using the same array they give you at the end of the tutorial for a while and it’s starting to have problems so this should help a bunch

New to factorio and all I can say is thank you, you’ve made a big impact on my automation

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Have fun!

I launched my 1st ever rocket only weeks ago with a completely newb-driven base. It was really difficult, so I decided to carry my new-found knowledge into my 2nd play-through, yet I encountered the same exact problem from the last one, and that was smelting! Thank you for the great vid! You've got yourself a new sub.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on the launch! I hope your second game gives you plenty of reasons to innovate :-)

@brohvakiindova4452

3 жыл бұрын

why smelting? as a noob I just used electric furnaces so only iron input required which makes it really easy combined with nuclear or solar energy, my struggle began only with oil refining and my solution to nuclear material was just storing the excess in growing storages, so really messy and bound to crash at some point also I still completely suck in using my time efficiently my starting base is under constant ressource shortage while I can't expand safely enough to not be distracted by biters punching through but after watching this video I'll definetly adopt going back to coal furnaces, simply because it's more space efficient when you got not enough ressources to equip boosting modules

@anima94

3 жыл бұрын

@@brohvakiindova4452 I already did 4 playthroughs and still run into all these problems. That's why I'm watching videos to steal ideas now lol. I think a big part of why we fuck up so much is that you don't feel like there is time to take a step back and plan.

@brohvakiindova4452

3 жыл бұрын

@@anima94 I'm oftentimes overwhelmed by new science down the line, it's basically impossible to build your starting base in a way that allows you to just expand into purple and yellow science or even rocket science, if you don't absolutely know what to keep in mind and how much of x you will need later down the line especially green circuits force me to build a second array sooner or later because I never leave enough space, it's basically never enough space xD

Woot! WB KoS!!! So glad you're back making content again. I, among many, have missed you, ma'am! Keep up the great work!

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Interesting, I never thought to do the in/out on the same side. I like that.

I'm so happy you're doing these again! I'm really hoping I can help... Patronize you (had to :) ), soon. But right now I'm one of 12,500 pilots facing furlough in October so, we're having to be super frugal at the moment.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Aww, thank you so much! I hope to patronize you too! I really miss flying to Norway to visit my dear friends... and hope that airline travel can resume soon. It's been a hard time for so many people. My best to you!

Schweeet! I love the Factorio content! So glad you're back in full force. :)

I know this is an older video, but I was using old building methods for accommodating electric furnaces. No wonder I was having bottlenecking when I started using steel furnaces... Thanks for the great video. Really helped me out.

I love, love, love your tutorials! Despite playing factorio for over 100 hours I always find them interesting and learning something new each time.

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you. I just started to play this helped me a lot.

You are such an amazing teacher. Another few hundred hours of gameplay and I should have this smelting column thing figured out. Thanks for the tips!

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

Great video. Always enjoy your factorio content

Glad you're back to Factorio uploads KoS! Greetings from the Netherlands

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings to you Nik! :-)

This was awesome! Keep it up!

This is the most usefull tutorial i've seen, thank you.

Great content as usual.Excellent guide for new and even veteran players. A great recap of what you have covered during your amazing series (sound like a best of!). Have a beautiful day.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the compliment! :-)

@DavidLindes

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I was surprised to learn something new, but i did, at 12:55 - yay, replacing inputs with outputs for pretty!

It's just THAT beautiful to watch.

Just love your setup. Thanks foe sharing the ideas

Damn...I just started Factorio I have 24 hours into the game in 3 days I absolutely love it... This video showed me that I need to be making way more mathematics and reading extra carefully to plan accordingly I thought my 10 E-miners and 8 furnaces were enough and was wondering how people fill up those huges factories! Thanks for the video, still useful 2 years after the fact!

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Google "Factorio Cheat Sheet" for a guide with common ratios. It's great for buildings with no numbers, like smelters. Also, The Kirk McDonald calculator can help with the math.

You are amazing Katherine, ty for your videos!

Your voice very clear to hearing for foreigns, like me. I like it and thanks for your video

Quality guide in a relaxed style.

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Have been playing for years, but apparently I can still learn new beginners tricks

Omg, this was great. Really into factorio recently. Been restarting games like every day with new and improved builds. Each one I've been adding on what I've learned. But never liked the setup. This looks great

i like the look of the one side in and out smelting arrays :D

@Anson_AKB

4 жыл бұрын

yes, it's really nice to have a bus of ore coming in and slowly turning into a bus of plates :-) (similar can later be done for green circuits too) sometimes i even don't do different smelting arrays for steel, but use the same "simple" arrays to turn a bus of ore into a bus of plates and then the bus of plates into a bus of steel. it only gets a little asymmetrical since 5 belts of plates turn into one belt of steel, but even that (at least for me) is easier and faster to setup than the different wider steel layout (mostly using no blueprints but building from scratch with slight variations). another advantage of building in and out to the same side is that i can build all the bus and all the arrays right at the start, using only a few smelters per side instead of 24. thus i will immediately have spaced it out properly and can extend the length of the smelting rows later. one thing that i do differently: i leave one space between these smelting rows and put power poles there so that they can power inserters for both smelting rows. instead of needing 3 lines of power poles per smelting row, i only need 1 line next to the outgoing belt and 1 line between two incoming belts. this also gets me the later option to replace rows of stone/steel furnaces with rows of moduled electric furnaces (sharing an incoming ore belt for two smelter rows) without the need to move all other rows of smelters (and yes, electric is mostly not needed, or to be really useful requires a complete rebuild anyway to also add beacons).

I've put over 500 hours into Factorio, and yet here I am still learning new things.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

I do too! Factorio is such a rich game!

Back at it.

works like a charm every time

Just starting this game thank you for the useful info still learning step by step subbed!

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome! Enjoy the content!

tyy perfect tutorial, easy to understand nice

You hit my brain on...I'll subscribe now!!!

Great video KoS!

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

I like to use coal to supplement oil (I always seem to run out of oil for plastics!), so solar panels and electric ovens are a blessing. I never thought of sticking with steel furnaces. 🤔 On my Death World, I moved to solar and electric as fast as possible to reduce Biter incursions and evolution speed...

Just started Factorio. I'm so happy I found this video. I followed your info step by step. I then tried on my own and did the exact same copy. And it went charmless. Many thanks for your help!! :) :)

I didn't know that about the elec furnaces! I'm still kinda new and I've only really played randomizers

just stumbled here but by god you voice is lovely

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.

More of this please!

uh oh I have the weekend off and KoS is putting out awesome sauce factorio vids again...time to start another playthrough!

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Have fun!

@george6022

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky Do you have other suggestions for automation type stuff? I have factorio, ONI, and Satisfactory so I am def liking the genre!

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

​@@george6022 Off the top of my head: Shapez.io, Autonauts, Factory Town, Kubifaktorium, Anno 1800 (ish).

Another new KoS tutorial, feeling a little spoiled right now

realy nice tutorial

thanks!

All content from KOS is lovely. Greetings from Germany :) Your voice is best for watching 10min before sleeping :)

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Aww, thank you so much!

@Anson_AKB

4 жыл бұрын

yes, absolutely can confirm this. and to clarify about the voice: not boring at all, but very soothing :-) (in contrast to many hectic high pitched male creators)

Thank you! Again... !

Hoooray!!!! Factorio again!!!

*_THANK YOU!_*

I'm at 5:12 and you've just fundamentally changed how I think about the splitter's function. Thank you. I know. I'm a noob and I suck. It's just reality and I try to accept it.

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

You might be a noob, but you don't suck, you are just at the beginning of learning a complex and wonderful game. Have fun!

@GaryWalker

Жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky I got through to getting my fluids up and running and playing with logistics robots once before. I don't even recall if nuclear was in the game then. Long time ago.

im 2300 hours in, Katherine, and I just learned a few new ideas.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

I love the internet for sharing ideas! I learn stuff all the time!

Slept to ur vid playthrough. I luv ur channel

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

Really great video

@KatherineOfSky

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I just downloaded Factorio 2 days ago and this stuff is mindblowing to me lol

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

Have fun with the game!

There was a tip I read way way WAY back in like 0.4-ish where if you add a space and a belt between a stone furnace and the resulting output belt, you could sort of future-proof the chain for electric furnaces. Of course, to really make the most out of electrics _and_ plan ahead like this, one would also need to make space for beacons way back in the early game, which is probably more work than just tearing down the whole thing and rebuilding with a new blueprint (especially considering the fuel that becomes redundant when you reach electric furnaces). Edit: And of course KoS mentions it towards the end. One other reason to use electrics is because steel furnaces are a much bigger pollution source, so biters come more frequently and evolve more quickly.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Welll... if you are making enough production, biters are not much of a challenge! You are going to generate that pollution with the dteam engines anyway...

Very useful. Thanks.

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun with the game!

Oh I see what you did with the Coal line, Hmm maybe i should update my blueprints. I still need to make a Left and Right version, and also update them for 1.0 Glad you like them

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

It's really revolutionary concept! It completely changed the way I started building my smelting lines oh-so-long-ago. Thanks for sharing the idea!

@recklessroges

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed and appreciated the KoS shout-out to JD-Plays. (Both excellent Factorio players and entertainment producers.) I was introduced to JD-Plays by KoS ages ago, (and that was a good day to be me.)

@DavidLindes

4 жыл бұрын

@@recklessroges indeed. Hi commenter-JD! [Not sure if that's a 3rd JD, or if it's the same one as main JD or editor JD....... and for those who have no idea what I'm talking about, well... uhh... it's a joke. :D] Anyway, fun to hear your shout-out at 3:11. And nice tutorial as always, KoS. :)

Nice job 👍🏻

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

So useful, liked and subbed

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! Enjoy the rest of the content!

@minecraftslover

2 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky I am, thanks!

Very useful, indeed :D

Amazing! I watch some of your factorio tutorials and I am impressed! I juste have two questions please : - To maximize one furnace array you need 30 miners at YB or its 30 miners for the 4 array of 48 furnaces? -Usually, I play in default mode without change the ore settings. But because you need 30 miners, how to do if your starting ore is a small patch? Can we adapt the furnace array (for example reduce the furnaces) to the ore patch size or to the max. Number of miner we can place on it?

That smelting array is a masterpiece... it is so old, yet it's still the most used one for early and mid game, i wonder who thought of it originally... everyone used a version of it...

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

It was JDPlays.

@vovozaum

3 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky i'm lokking him up, thanks

Loving it! One only comment, for stone ore to stone bricks, I like to put the smelting columns on top of each other (so in your setup it would be to the right, rather than below), weaving the second stone ore line down the middle. This way you have one single nice full stone brick line coming out, rather than using that ugly splitter :)

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

I like splitters! I did mention that option in the video: adding stone :-)

@canebro1

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky 13:21 you did and I missed that. Oops!

The main thing that i love about smelting is what you Said in the end... you can basically use the same array for late game... you only change the array to electric smelting when you already have modules and beacons on your entire base... And when you change to electric, you should use beacons too, so you will need to change the array a lot, so no need to plan your Stone or stell smelters with electric in mind!!!!

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

The array of for moduled furnaces is so different that you can't really use stone and steel furnaces in the same configuration . However it doesn't matter since you should have construction robots by that time .

@vovozaum

3 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky Yes, i love that they thought about that... if the electric smelter were faster without modules we would think about making our first array with late game in mind... i love that we dont have to... And robots are a godsend... need to erase all your smelting? Just one click and they do all the work They are the main reason people think twice before starting a new game, lol

Hey Katherina, where did you see the smelting speed? I mean your tutorial is awesome! but I wanna know where the data how fast what is smelted is. ty :)

Oo, Factorio again!

You can reduce the space needed at the beginning. If you move the horizontal splitter to the left 1 space, and north 1 space. Use an underneathy to go under the splitter that is vertical.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

As far as using extra underground, no thanks: when every craft counts at the beginning of the game, it's too expensive. Also, I prefer to see what's going on and not have things hidden underground. However, you can build it any way you want to!

@thegamerdudeabides

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky Fair enough. Thank you for your videos! I have actually learned a lot watching them.

@Anson_AKB

4 жыл бұрын

i always try building everything as compact as possible. at first i enjoy those builds a lot, but later i often have to add just one more belt or similar, and then have no space left, causing lots of spaghetti and that wastes much more space as if i would have used when building not quite so tightly in the beginning ... with space in factorio being almost infinite, there is also no real need to build too tightly. (well said, Anson, and now also follow the advice :-)

Am I able to use your blue prints?

This video is helpful tho, thanks :)

Hi KoS. After completing the tutorial with the demo I upgraded to the real thing. Overwhelming amount of options but great fun. I think, I reached a level in early midgame, where I have enough resources to rebuild part of the base like this. I think my lack of experience caused a less optimal structure. Too bad electric ovens are bigger and make a restructuring a little bit troublesome. Edit: With sufficient planning I could have done this earlier. Well noted about steel furnaces. What about pollution triggering the bugs more?

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

Experience comes with time and iteration, hopefully you will play many games and experiment on your own and have fun :-)

Another reason to use the Electric Furnace over the Steel Furnace is a considerable drop in pollution per minute. If you're playing with biters, you make them a bit less angry with an Electric smelting array. If you're not playing with biters, I agree: there's no real reason to upgrade to Electics. Nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you have efficiency modules in every furnace, Steel Smelters produce the exact same amount of pollution when you factor in the burning of fuel for Steam Engines for electricity.

This is one of those videos where both the beginner and the seven year veteran come here to learn/relearn something. Thanks.

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

So I guess, your health is at least a litte bit better now? If so, I'm so happy for you! Your videos are an elemental part of the Factorio community.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Health is not great... but for an occasion like 1.0... It'll be fiiiiine XD

great tutorial. I found that you can get the steel oven tech pretty fast, so maybe not build the whole column with yellow belts and stone furnaces. you can get away with building HALF a belt for iron and a tiny one for copper to get through green science Logistics 2 for red belts and Advanced mats... well, at least that was my experience.

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

I never switch to electrics until I get modules and beacons, since Steel furnaces are more power-efficient to run.

Once we're far enough to have steel furnaces do we have to upgrade to red belts to use them or is it ok if we use half the furnaces?

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

You upgrade to red belts when you can enough miners to feed them. (E.g. have twice as many miners as a yellow belt)

Would you just add 24 more steel furnaces (12 on each side) for a blue belt or would you have already moved to a beaconed setup by the time Blues come out?

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

What I would do is not use blue belts on the bus. If you need that much throughput, (for a megaboase), I would use a beaconed setup in outposts.

I feel it might be worth mentioning that electric furnaces are worth using in outposts (as you only need to deliver power) and more importantly, when playing in a deathworld! Using 2 eff 1 modules (and you use a lot of them in a deathworld) reduces the pollution output and therefore your "aggro range" by a whole lot. Let's assume you're using steam power for this. A single boiler outputs 30 pollution per minute. 2 steam engines can support 25 electric smelters with eff 1 modules in them. One of those smelters outputs 0.4 pollution per minute. 30+(25*0.4)=40 pollution per minute, that is If you're using steam power. if you're using electric those 25 smelters produce 10 pollution per minute! For comparison 25 steel furnaces will produce 100 pollution per minute in the same span of time! I omitted inserters and their power costs as they would add the same value to both setups and can therefore negate one another. This kind of stuff really makes a difference in deathworlds where your base and your outposts are in a constant struggle against the biting menace!

@kristigallimore7904

3 жыл бұрын

I bet you could use solar plus accumulators to make it even better!

Great builds! However, I must say I am a big fan of electric furnaces. Once I get nuclear up and running I don’t have to worry about fuel deliveries anymore. My downfall is always running out! ☺️

a bit late but is it 30 miners to one blueprint of smelters?

Hey Katherine, I would love if you would create a tutorial video on how to create a Factorio world like this one with massive "rich" ore deposits. I fiddle and fiddle with the settings trying to get a result like the one in this video with absolutely no luck.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Will do!

Wow thats crazy output of products. I just bought the game yesterday and just play without minmaxing output, just build and add as I need, using default difficulty, after a while the enemies are too many and draining my turrets out of ammo pretty fast (I produce and insert ammo manually). I'm overwhelmed and reduce the enemy, but I'm curious how to build for more efficient way and seek help on youtube.

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

It's really fun to explore by yourself and not try to minmax in the beginning. Putting enemies on Peaceful mode makes it easier to learn the game for next map you play.

I know this is super late but when you say "belt" as in "30 miners fill a yellow belt," are you referring to 1 singular transport belt or is there a specific number of transport belts you are referring to when you say "belt?"

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

A full belt, as in both sides of one conveyor belt. I try to specify the color when I am talking about it. (If you give me a timestamp, I can answer exactly)

do you by chance have a list of your BP strings we can copy instead of trying to lay them by hand?

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

They're in my g-drive, linked in the description

Iam completely new... When the arms take from the further belt-side they are not getting coal in? Whey do they here.

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

They take from both sides of the belt. I'm not sure what you are talking about exactly. Please come to our discord: YT comments are a difficult place to have lengthy discussions.

This may have already been asked but are there other styles for when you have limitations in space ? I often run into that where I have to squeeze stuff in an area.

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

Just build it yourself when you have a confined space: if you use the same ratios, it will work just the same.

@paulcosteines5556

3 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky The work is never as elegant :). I just started free play after failing at supply challenge level 10. Thanks, Ms Sky From: Crom, strong in his mountain but lives under the sky.

Hey I was wondering if you could link a page to all the blueprints you use, because the google drive you used a few years ago (i think) doesnt have everything on it... well i couldnt seem to find the blueprints so if anyone would be kind enough to do that for me, THANKS💕

@KatherineOfSky

3 жыл бұрын

I cleared out my blueprint drive to have new blueprints for 1.0. I will add more as I have a chance.

@embrace_yt

3 жыл бұрын

KatherineOfSky Ok thanks 💕

I have missed Kat ☺️

Do you have a way that we can import your blueprints? I really love your designs.

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

Yes, there's a link to my google drive in the description. Download the KoS Factorio Foundations -- that has all my best designs.