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Factorio Tutorials - 0.15 STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS - Perfect Ratio, Early Game Electricity!
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00:00:00.030 greetings and welcome to another 00:00:01.91000:00:01.920 factorio tutorial I'm Katherine of sky 00:00:04.51900:00:04.529 and in this video I'd like to show you 00:00:06.28900:00:06.299 how to set up steam power for the early 00:00:09.25900:00:09.269 game so the first thing that you're 00:00:10.94000:00:10.950 going to need is a coal field which is 00:00:12.91900:00:12.929 providing you some coal which I have 00:00:14.81000:00:14.820 coming in on a conveyor belt line here 00:00:17.00000:00:17.010 now the next thing we're going to need 00:00:18.92000:00:18.930 is a pump and I have I can make 25 over 00:00:23.06000:00:23.070 here but I happen to have one in my 00:00:24.83000:00:24.840 inventory so we need to get this set up 00:00:28.00900:00:28.019 so let's put this over here or well 00:00:30.80000:00:30.810 let's put it over here why not 00:00:32.15000:00:32.160 and I like to leave just a little bit of 00:00:35.20900:00:35.219 space from the shore line so that I can 00:00:36.95000:00:36.960 walk in between the pump and the steam 00:00:40.97000:00:40.980 column so after you've put your pump 00:00:43.43000:00:43.440 down you may only have enough materials 00:00:47.54000:00:47.550 to make one or two boilers and that's 00:00:49.49000:00:49.500 just fine 00:00:50.15000:00:50.160 so I like to do a pattern of basically 00:00:54.56000:00:54.570 two together and then the first one is 00:00:56.47900:00:56.489 separate and I'll show you why in just a 00:00:57.92000:00:57.930 second 00:00:58.45900:00:58.469 right so these boilers have a side input 00:01:02.11900:01:02.129 here where the water goes in and as you 00:01:03.88900:01:03.899 can see this one has water and I have a 00:01:05.87000:01:05.880 gap here and these don't have water so 00:01:08.09000:01:08.100 we need to connect those with a regular 00:01:09.89000:01:09.900 pipe so that they all have water now the 00:01:13.28000:01:13.290 temperature is 15 degrees C and that's 00:01:15.53000:01:15.540 what it comes out from the the lake or 00:01:18.53000:01:18.540 the ocean whatever you want to call it 00:01:20.17000:01:20.180 and to get the temperature up we're 00:01:23.35900:01:23.369 going to have to feed this with some 00:01:24.98000:01:24.990 coal but before we get to that let's 00:01:27.20000:01:27.210 hook up the steam engines each boiler 00:01:30.53000:01:30.540 can produce enough steam to power two 00:01:33.80000:01:33.810 steam engines and it's an exact ratio 00:01:36.23000:01:36.240 which is very very nice so we're gonna 00:01:37.85000:01:37.860 put these two in a row like this and 00:01:40.49000:01:40.500 then can we walk through nope okay we're 00:01:43.49000:01:43.500 gonna get our power poles and at this 00:01:45.88900:01:45.899 point you will be having wooden power 00:01:47.33000:01:47.340 poles and basically you'll extend them 00:01:49.63900:01:49.649 up this way to connect the steam engines 00:01:51.77000:01:51.780 alright you can press Q which is that 00:01:54.02000:01:54.030 the pipette or picker tool to just grab 00:01:58.28000:01:58.290 it from your inventory it doesn't even 00:01:59.69000:01:59.700 need to be on your hotbar okay and then 00:02:02.24000:02:02.250 here we're gonna have another couple of 00:02:04.17900:02:04.189 power poles 00:02:06.41000:02:06.420 right so the back of these boilers if 00:02:10.21900:02:10.229 you turn on alt view with alt the 00:02:13.19000:02:13.200 detailed view you can see that water 00:02:15.80000:02:15.810 goes in these ports on the sides where 00:02:18.50000:02:18.510 they're connected to each other and then 00:02:20.63000:02:20.640 this produces a little puff and that 00:02:22.61000:02:22.620 puff is steam and these steam engines 00:02:26.33000:02:26.340 will only take steam they do not take 00:02:28.64000:02:28.650 water as in the previous versions of the 00:02:30.68000:02:30.690 game all right so these guys need to be 00:02:33.97900:02:33.989 hooked up to something that uses energy 00:02:36.14000:02:36.150 or else they'll keep flashing forever so 00:02:38.44900:02:38.459 put down something or your entire 00:02:39.92000:02:39.930 Factory I'm just gonna put down a radar 00:02:42.32000:02:42.330 for now and so they've stopped flashing 00:02:44.33000:02:44.340 yellow but the radar is now flashing 00:02:47.42000:02:47.430 with a red lightning bolt thing that 00:02:50.24000:02:50.250 means there is no electricity getting to 00:02:52.40000:02:52.410 this guy so we need to fill these guys 00:02:54.86000:02:54.870 with coal or some other fuel source so 00:02:57.50000:02:57.510 that they start making steam heating up 00:02:59.96000:02:59.970 well heating up the water and then 00:03:01.72900:03:01.739 they'll make steam we have a coal mine 00:03:04.04000:03:04.050 here alternatively you could grab coal 00:03:07.85000:03:07.860 from your inventory and feed it into 00:03:10.40000:03:10.410 this machine and as you can see the 00:03:12.94900:03:12.959 boiler is heating up it's at a 00:03:14.96000:03:14.970 temperature of 165 degrees and these 00:03:17.39000:03:17.400 guys are both running so that's really 00:03:20.33000:03:20.340 really nice but when you want to get 00:03:22.49000:03:22.500 automation going on go ahead and bring a 00:03:25.22000:03:25.230 belt of coal up so you can feed your 00:03:29.36000:03:29.370 boilers this way okay and we're going to 00:03:33.83000:03:33.840 use I like to use burner inserters 00:03:35.74000:03:35.750 because they will never run out of 00:03:37.72900:03:37.739 energy as long as there's coal on the 00:03:39.22900:03:39.239 line that can feed themselves and also 00:03:41.56900:03:41.579 feed the boilers and that is more than 00:03:44.33000:03:44.340 enough to get all of the steam engines 00:03:45.94900:03:45.959 running now with these simple steam 00:03:49.40000:03:49.410 engines and boilers they automatically 00:03:51.80000:03:51.810 tune themselves to use up only as much 00:03:54.65000:03:54.660 fuel as they need so you don't have to 00:03:57.02000:03:57.030 worry about building too many or 00:03:58.40000:03:58.410 whatever because it's just gonna tune 00:03:59.72000:03:59.730 itself to that if we look at our 00:04:02.87000:04:02.880 electric network information we are 00:04:05.47900:04:05.489 producing 300 kilowatts but that is a 00:04:08.33000:04:08.340 tiny fraction of what we could be doing 00:04:10.75900:04:10.769 if we had more draw on the system 00:04:13.78000:04:13.790 so like I said the we're not gonna keep 00:04:16.81000:04:16.820 taking coal as you can see it's burning 00:04:18.81900:04:18.829 very very slowly because of the very 00:04:22.78000:04:22.790 little need of steam now what is the 00:04:26.53000:04:26.540 proper ratio for a full setup of this 00:04:29.26000:04:29.270 you need one pump 220 boilers and a 00:04:34.75000:04:34.760 total of 40 steam engines now the 00:04:38.56000:04:38.570 easiest way to do this is to use the new 00:04:41.26000:04:41.270 blueprint functionality and I'd like to 00:04:44.11000:04:44.120 show you that you press B and you can 00:04:46.09000:04:46.100 grab a new blueprint here and it'll come 00:04:49.09000:04:49.100 in your hand and you just drag it over 00:04:51.10000:04:51.110 the area you want to copy which is gonna 00:04:52.90000:04:52.910 be this area and you can plop it down 00:04:56.93900:04:56.949 I'm gonna take off my robots because I'm 00:04:59.71000:04:59.720 at a fairly advanced state of the game 00:05:01.77900:05:01.789 at present but I just want to show you 00:05:05.20000:05:05.210 guys how to do this so basically we're 00:05:07.99000:05:08.000 going to create a blueprint here and if 00:05:12.25000:05:12.260 you have mods the early game robots will 00:05:13.99000:05:14.000 put it down for you and if not it's just 00:05:15.79000:05:15.800 a handy guide for when you want to do it 00:05:19.33000:05:19.340 yourself so how many is this this is 00:05:20.89000:05:20.900 only 38 boilers so we're gonna need 00:05:23.02000:05:23.030 another half half a thing so let's go 00:05:26.37900:05:26.389 and put this last blueprint down where 00:05:30.37000:05:30.380 did it go there goes okay and we're just 00:05:34.54000:05:34.550 gonna cut this off to half we don't need 00:05:37.81000:05:37.820 this right okay 00:05:39.93900:05:39.949 so this is basically how your entire 00:05:43.06000:05:43.070 thing might look okay we can check how 00:05:47.23000:05:47.240 many of these machines that we have if 00:05:51.10000:05:51.110 we select them with the blueprint 00:05:52.36000:05:52.370 planner we don't have to actually 00:05:53.52900:05:53.539 blueprint them it shows 40 steam engines 00:05:56.20000:05:56.210 and 20 boilers which is absolutely 00:05:59.20000:05:59.210 perfect and if you want to get this 00:06:01.77000:06:01.780 going you can just you know follow the 00:06:04.06000:06:04.070 blueprint as you want to go along here 00:06:06.18900:06:06.199 or you can just use early-game robots as 00:06:09.70000:06:09.710 I said if you'd like to use mods so I 00:06:13.39000:06:13.400 will just go ahead and magically put 00:06:16.02900:06:16.039 this all down with my robots there they 00:06:18.10000:06:18.110 go and all of these guys are soon going 00:06:21.90900:06:21.919 to be chugging along 00:06:23.64000:06:23.650 and using stuff of course we don't have 00:06:24.90000:06:24.910 nearly enough draw on the system but you 00:06:27.33000:06:27.340 can see that the steam engines are 00:06:29.21900:06:29.229 moving basically this is water limited 00:06:32.15900:06:32.169 throughput here so it's one one array 00:06:36.87000:06:36.880 like this uses all of what an offshore 00:06:40.20000:06:40.210 pump can offer now there's an 00:06:42.06000:06:42.070 alternative solution if you have 00:06:44.70000:06:44.710 insufficient space you can make this 00:06:47.61000:06:47.620 shorter these are going to be 20 engines 00:06:51.27000:06:51.280 and 10 boilers across copy that over 00:06:53.96900:06:53.979 instead and just place it down like this 00:06:57.74000:06:57.750 and that way all of these will get fed 00:07:00.75000:07:00.760 that way so this is a little bit more 00:07:02.18900:07:02.199 compact design if you don't have a huge 00:07:04.08000:07:04.090 amount of room to the left all right 00:07:05.79000:07:05.800 well thank you so very much for joining 00:07:07.35000:07:07.360 me I hope you have found this useful 00:07:08.87000:07:08.880 take care of yourselves and each other 00:07:10.92000:07:10.930 and I'll see you next time
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