Mastering the Early Phase of Pyanodon's Alternative Energy — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm a big fan of pionodons mods for
2. 0:03factorio
3. 0:04and I keep seeing new players struggling
4. 0:07with the same problem over and over
5. 0:09again
6. 0:10they're built too big wasting lots of
7. 0:12time and burning out too fast
8. 0:15so I decided to speed run the early
9. 0:18phase of a piano dance game and record
10. 0:21it to provide the community with a
11. 0:23counter example
12. 0:25you can watch the full videos in case
13. 0:27you are interested 25 hours full of
14. 0:31running around in the factory chopping
15. 0:33down trees and placing an absurd amount
16. 0:35of belts pipes and inserters
17. 0:37but if you want a condensed rundown
18. 0:39instead you came to the right place this
19. 0:43is the summary of that speed run up to
20. 0:45reaching Logistics science packs who am
21. 0:48I I started playing pie after the
22. 0:51release of Pi alien live
23. 0:53I participated in the beta phase of Pi
24. 0:56alternative energy to improve the mod
25. 0:58pack itself
26. 1:00I tried to help other players in the
27. 1:02Discord whenever I have the time for it
28. 1:05I have even written a very long guide
29. 1:08for new players all of that because the
30. 1:12factory Community must grow
31. 1:16the speed run turned out to be even
32. 1:19faster than I anticipated in the
33. 1:21beginning
34. 1:22simple circuit boards at around 7 hours
35. 1:25by one science picks just a few hours
36. 1:29later
37. 1:30in the metallics at around 14 hours
38. 1:32Logistics science packs and personal
39. 1:34construction Bots at around 25 hours
40. 1:39I even managed to build the first parts
41. 1:41of a rail network
42. 1:43this is a great time to look back and
43. 1:46appreciate my progress
44. 1:49but before I start to retrace my steps
45. 1:52it is important to share some thoughts
46. 1:54about my play style and strategy
47. 1:57I don't use additional mods I just don't
48. 2:01see the need for it
49. 2:02I don't like warehouses and tanks full
50. 2:05of stuff
51. 2:06that just hides production issues
52. 2:09instead I try to produce exactly the
53. 2:13amount I consume with some exceptions
54. 2:16I have no issues whatsoever to overflow
55. 2:19avoid stuff
56. 2:21especially everything that is produced
57. 2:23from raw coal Simplicity always wins
58. 2:27I automate to save time in the long run
59. 2:30I don't automate if the effort isn't
60. 2:33worth it
61. 2:34I don't change what doesn't need a
62. 2:36change
63. 2:37but also means that some of my broader
64. 2:40mining drills are still running
65. 2:42I try to wait with upgrades until the
66. 2:46right moment
67. 2:47I don't waste resources on
68. 2:49infrastructure
69. 2:51that's it let's get started at the very
70. 2:53beginning
71. 2:55the crashed spaceship is still here and
72. 2:59it will be at the end of this video
73. 3:02I have a very simple build that produces
74. 3:04Stone and stone bricks as well as some
75. 3:07kerogene for hand feeding with the other
76. 3:09mining operations
77. 3:11sure it will lock up after some time but
78. 3:14I need to rebuild it soon anyway
79. 3:17of course I fueled my iron and copper
80. 3:20production by hand in the very beginning
81. 3:22on automating that pays off quickly as
82. 3:26you can see I'm a big fan of smelting
83. 3:28iron and copper on top of the oil patch
84. 3:30Simplicity wins
85. 3:33I save some resources for inserters by
86. 3:36leaving the ash in the buildings for now
87. 3:39due to the high stack size this is not
88. 3:41an issue for quite some time
89. 3:44mining drills for coal will run for 90
90. 3:47minutes mine includes for iron and
91. 3:49copper don't run in full capacity and
92. 3:52therefore they run for two hours and the
93. 3:55stone furnaces for iron and copper will
94. 3:58even run for four hours
95. 4:00I can use the safe resources for faster
96. 4:03expansion instead
97. 4:06this setup for power and soil is just
98. 4:09temporary
99. 4:10this little base gives me everything to
100. 4:13hand craft the first automation science
101. 4:16packs
102. 4:17I automate small parts Airco inductors
103. 4:20and some basic infrastructure like
104. 4:23inserters belts and pipes and that's my
105. 4:26Mall when looking at automation science
106. 4:28you can really see my weakness for
107. 4:30Barrette insertion
108. 4:32this build can produce 12 automation
109. 4:34science packs per minute if given enough
110. 4:37resources
111. 4:38I set up a proper mining operation for
112. 4:41stolen and an oversized production of
113. 4:43stone bricks
114. 4:44there is no use for kerogene yet so it
115. 4:47piles up in chests there is a bit of a
116. 4:50buffer for stone bricks should I decide
117. 4:53to lay down floor tiles
118. 4:55I also increased production when
119. 4:57necessary native Flora for automation
120. 5:00science copper plates for infrastructure
121. 5:03coal mining for fuel and power
122. 5:06production
123. 5:07my boilers receive a simple treatment
124. 5:09for the ash problem
125. 5:11a single inserter needs over 14 hours to
126. 5:15fill an iron chest with Ash
127. 5:17by using two inserters for raw coal or
128. 5:20three inserters for Ash and the boilers
129. 5:22these iron chests last even longer
130. 5:25over 21 hours plenty of time for my
131. 5:29intended speed of progression
132. 5:31this build processes a full belt of raw
133. 5:34coal into Coke tar and coal gas
134. 5:37almost the middle building is lacking
135. 5:40one inserter
136. 5:42the iron oxide supplements my iron plate
137. 5:45production colgas is boiled
138. 5:48tar is stored in gas vents because I
139. 5:51don't want to build a few hundred pipes
140. 5:53as buffer and a sinkhole needed steel
141. 5:56plates speaking of which
142. 5:58is larger than necessary and there is no
143. 6:01better recipe for steel plates for a
144. 6:04long time so at least I'm not wasting
145. 6:07any resources and it can see almost in
146. 6:11full form of production so I don't need
147. 6:13to care about all of the avoiding code
148. 6:16that would be a hassle before having
149. 6:19some potassium and of course so many
150. 6:22Advanced palm trees need more power I
151. 6:25also immediately take the extra
152. 6:26inventory slots from the light armor
153. 6:30I produce a trickle of aluminum plates
154. 6:33the pipe after the fluid mining drills
155. 6:36acts similar to an overflow valve so I
156. 6:39can void all excess color gas
157. 6:42after making a car I built my first
158. 6:45Outpost towards there is no need for
159. 6:49over building it and just need a trickle
160. 6:51for making some buildings
161. 6:54my classworks are fueled by cold gas too
162. 6:57I could have used the tire instead but I
163. 7:01will need all of it soon
164. 7:03this compact setup makes enough logs for
165. 7:07science production
166. 7:08at least after all three modules are
167. 7:11made
168. 7:11and I can tile this to the right in the
169. 7:14future
170. 7:16there is no belt for Coke
171. 7:18because I intend to take the moon drop
172. 7:20upgrade for carbon dioxide
173. 7:23and there is no belt for ash because of
174. 7:26its high stack size
175. 7:28I need more iron
176. 7:30building this Outpost required a huge
177. 7:33amount of resources this iron patch even
178. 7:36gets its own supply of coal and Ash
179. 7:39removal is automated
180. 7:41I want to leave this Outpost knowing
181. 7:44that it runs flawlessly
182. 7:46I thought this mixed belt near the
183. 7:48center of my base for easier monitoring
184. 7:51and potential changes
185. 7:53Ash treatment is also added for code
186. 7:56iron and copper
187. 7:59I set up tin mining and smelting
188. 8:02this setup is too big for now
189. 8:04but rails are expensive and I want to
190. 8:07set up a considerable buffer of thin
191. 8:09plates for them
192. 8:11I also intend to upgrade that process as
193. 8:15soon as possible and leave this melting
194. 8:17place near the center of my base for
195. 8:20that reason
196. 8:21I also set up seaweed and wound drop
197. 8:24the production goes into chests and will
198. 8:27be needed when expanding
199. 8:30a little bit more copper plates can
200. 8:32never be wrong
201. 8:34who is part of my factory converts all
202. 8:37the tar I produce into various liquids
203. 8:40and Coke
204. 8:42I will need the fluids later but for now
205. 8:44creosote and Francine oil aromatics and
206. 8:47gasoline are dumped into the ground
207. 8:51I am after the coke
208. 8:53Tower processing needs a huge amount of
209. 8:56steam and I could provide a part of it
210. 8:59by guarding the cow
211. 9:01however destructive distillation of raw
212. 9:04coal to Coke reduces its total fuel
213. 9:07value so I don't like to burn that coke
214. 9:10and if I'm not burning that cow why
215. 9:13should I burn Coke from other sauces
216. 9:15I drive out to another coal patch and
217. 9:18just make some steam
218. 9:21and I also try to dump excess tar by
219. 9:24having the sinkhole after the important
220. 9:27buildings and using some extra pipes
221. 9:30it probably doesn't work perfectly but
222. 9:33it makes sure that the factory does not
223. 9:36lock up
224. 9:37here is the place that consumes all that
225. 9:40sweet Coke
226. 9:42it makes a bunch of acetylene
227. 9:45half of it is intended to use as liquid
228. 9:47fuel the other half is used for mining
229. 9:50lead
230. 9:51there is another coal patch nearby to
231. 9:54provide energy
232. 9:56I make sure to move all Ash back to the
233. 9:59base similar to Tim this melting happens
234. 10:02near the center for easier upgrading and
235. 10:05I will build a Baja of lead plates to
236. 10:08produce more rails later
237. 10:10ideally I never need to return to my
238. 10:14lead mining Outpost
239. 10:16I start making some set freeze and I
240. 10:20need more power
241. 10:21the steam coming from the left is
242. 10:23feeding the steam engines and excess
243. 10:25steam goes into my Global steam Network
244. 10:29at the moment I have enough steam but
245. 10:32not enough power
246. 10:34so I add a few extra steam engines
247. 10:37I select the upgrade option for free
248. 10:40carbon dioxide using wound drop
249. 10:42greenhouses
250. 10:45I'll build this splitter abomination
251. 10:48to consume the coke from destructive
252. 10:50distillation with highest priority
253. 10:53mainly because steel production is
254. 10:55throttled due to the iron patch slowly
255. 10:59running out
256. 11:00the last required metal for simple
257. 11:02circuit boards is zinc
258. 11:05I built a pipe for aromatics and a belt
259. 11:08for fuel and bring back the sink ore and
260. 11:11Ash by now you know the drill
261. 11:14I don't intend to come back here
262. 11:16that's also why I don't add a sinkhole
263. 11:19after the fluid mining roads I will get
264. 11:23access to real overflow valves soon and
265. 11:26if aromatic backs up I can clear the
266. 11:29system manually this setup produces six
267. 11:32zip circuit boards per minute enough for
268. 11:36a good wire
269. 11:37I should mention that some circuit
270. 11:40boards were changed a bit in a future
271. 11:42update on the mark
272. 11:44so if my word will keep the speed run I
273. 11:48need to build a bit bigger to compensate
274. 11:50for that
275. 11:52I couldn't have done the speed run less
276. 11:55than six green circuits per minute
277. 11:58of course I make good use of my simple
278. 12:00circuit boards and placed split asset
279. 12:03overhaul valves in strategically
280. 12:06important places
281. 12:08I use a little bit of my acetylene to
282. 12:11mine a trickle of Titanium Ore smelting
283. 12:15happens somewhere along the way to my
284. 12:17Mall
285. 12:18I also need to increase my wood
286. 12:20production to keep science and sit the
287. 12:23circuit boards both running at the same
288. 12:25time
289. 12:27the mining Pearls at the edge of the
290. 12:29iron patch have run out of resources
291. 12:33I have a good amount of Steel plates
292. 12:35already but I don't want production to
293. 12:38stop so I replace some iron smudging
294. 12:41and the copper mining now covers the
295. 12:44whole starter patch
296. 12:46some development soon gas plastic and
297. 12:49concrete later I can make my first rock
298. 12:53and set up something small to get more
299. 12:56modules for the real thing later
300. 12:59I already build up a nice buffer of
301. 13:03aluminum plates but the releman is still
302. 13:06heavily constrained by the lack of
303. 13:09copper plates
304. 13:11I don't have any other choice when to
305. 13:14use another copper patch luckily it's
306. 13:17not in that far away
307. 13:19I place some chests for ash near the
308. 13:22center of my base again
309. 13:24with the copper shortage solved I now
310. 13:27find the time to build the real
311. 13:29production of rocks
312. 13:31still lacks most modules
313. 13:34I did the slaughtering of rocks to make
314. 13:37latex but I still don't have nearly
315. 13:39enough modules
316. 13:41the relamine is an important material
317. 13:44for buildings in the future and I'd like
318. 13:47to wrap up production a bit
319. 13:49so I expand my aluminum Mining and
320. 13:52smelting operation
321. 13:54I finished the build for pi one science
322. 13:56packs
323. 13:57I even slaughtered two of my precious
324. 14:00Rock modules for a milestone below the
325. 14:0310 hour mark
326. 14:05the buffer for basic substrate might
327. 14:07become valuable in the future
328. 14:10this whole build will make six Pi one
329. 14:13science packs per minute
330. 14:15when I can finally start to slot out the
331. 14:18rocks
332. 14:19while waiting for rocks in the first
333. 14:21research I simply increase production of
334. 14:24selected products
335. 14:26more aluminum again
336. 14:28what watts and mold glass More Steam for
337. 14:32power more steel plates instead of iron
338. 14:36plates
339. 14:38finally I have all the rock modules I
340. 14:40need and can start producing Taiwan
341. 14:43science packs
342. 14:45I also start to produce soda from the
343. 14:49tip of lead I have stockpiled because
344. 14:52that will be needed for rails soon
345. 14:55for pi one science pack gives me access
346. 14:58to better recipes
347. 15:00for glass or lead and for tin
348. 15:03I produce hot air for cold looking gas
349. 15:07there isn't much I can do with the extra
350. 15:10Coke for now but I want to keep
351. 15:13everything running
352. 15:14this is an easy way to get rid of the
353. 15:17coke
354. 15:18hot air I can make 50 more glassware
355. 15:21from the same amount of inputs
356. 15:24this improves my pipe one science
357. 15:26production nine per minute while running
358. 15:29on the buffer is basic substrate
359. 15:32it's time for a journey
360. 15:35to some place or away
361. 15:38each resource of geothermal water
362. 15:40provides me with 60 megawatts of clean
363. 15:43energy
364. 15:45I built three of these power plants
365. 15:48can you remove the extra steam engines
366. 15:50again
367. 15:51I adjust the basic substrate production
368. 15:54to make the nine Pi one science packs
369. 15:57will come in it
370. 15:58the increase I got by using hot air
371. 16:01that puts my forest trees under too much
372. 16:04pressure so I built one additional
373. 16:06production cell for it
374. 16:08and I started producing antimony oxide
375. 16:12I set up everything I need to make
376. 16:14dinosaurs
377. 16:16while waiting a double production of
378. 16:18automation science packs by using Mark
379. 16:21II Garner assembly machines and faster
380. 16:24inserters science production is a bit
381. 16:27unbalanced right now with 9 Taiwan and
382. 16:3124 automation science packs per minute
383. 16:34but I will need a bunch of automation
384. 16:37science packs to make some of the
385. 16:39creatures and plants
386. 16:41the two dinosaurs are busy making an
387. 16:44excellent War
388. 16:45they can use slightly more meat and cuts
389. 16:48than I produce
390. 16:50nickel is lost resource needed for
391. 16:53intermetallics I make syngas on site
392. 16:56because the other gasifier in the middle
393. 17:00of my base is dedicated to plastic
394. 17:02production
395. 17:03and because there is a pretty aluminum
396. 17:06patch nearby that could use the cold gas
397. 17:09later
398. 17:10I abandoned the rest of my copper
399. 17:13starter patch because there is no other
400. 17:15convenient place about large Mariners
401. 17:19I put vitrioloid the special alloy and
402. 17:22endometallics into chassis
403. 17:25slow but steady production
404. 17:28now I could start building the rail
405. 17:30network but I don't waste time on that
406. 17:33right now and just put exhibit a on
407. 17:37display next to my mod
408. 17:39and of course I craft a better armor
409. 17:42with more additional inventory slots
410. 17:45I upgrade my solar production to Mark II
411. 17:49to churn to the buffer of plates I have
412. 17:52accumulated so far
413. 17:54and I built a fairly sized rail
414. 17:57production facility
415. 17:59the factory demands more iron plates
416. 18:02this is also the first place where I use
417. 18:04burners to get rid of the ash
418. 18:07and I bring both Stone and stone bricks
419. 18:10on a second belt
420. 18:13I make sure that these by-products are
421. 18:15used with higher priority on the stone
422. 18:18mining operation
423. 18:20I'm not voiding any overflow Stone
424. 18:23because I first want to see how
425. 18:26consumption and production develops
426. 18:28the belt itself is a huge buffer both
427. 18:32for stone and for iron plates
428. 18:35I double latex production to make rubber
429. 18:39I have to put titanium into a chest and
430. 18:42pick up the rubber from here
431. 18:45I don't want to add further long valves
432. 18:47because I plan to build my first train
433. 18:50soon
434. 18:51spoiler titanium and rubber are still
435. 18:54not automated after 25 hours and a belt
436. 18:58would have to involved the effort I have
437. 19:02a few smaller bottlenecks in my factory
438. 19:04but I want to have cdna going as soon as
439. 19:07possible
440. 19:09I know that genetic engineering of alien
441. 19:12life will take a long time
442. 19:15this cdna setup is 100 hand fed from
443. 19:20chests but there is enough space next to
444. 19:23it
445. 19:24at train stations later
446. 19:26also I need to make Boron trioxide for
447. 19:30the optical sets
448. 19:32I'm able to make my first orgs and set
449. 19:35up manure production
450. 19:38bacteria because I don't want huge
451. 19:41amount of that being buffered in Long
452. 19:43pipes
453. 19:45I automate Fish Production
454. 19:47somehow I managed to squeeze it in next
455. 19:50to the tins melting
456. 19:52the lamps are not automated yet
457. 19:55I won't need a huge amount of fish and
458. 19:57fish eggs
459. 19:59I also got enough cdna to start the
460. 20:02ralisia loop
461. 20:04with more coke open gas I can make more
462. 20:07hot air and I can make good use of the
463. 20:10coke oven gas by building some oil
464. 20:12burners this produces a considerable
465. 20:15amount of power
466. 20:17first Ash chests started to fill up so I
467. 20:21add some voiding capacity
468. 20:24the factory demands more copper plates
469. 20:27so I upgrade to the better recipe
470. 20:30converting two bottles of copper ore
471. 20:32into more than enough copper plates and
472. 20:35a trickle of landfill
473. 20:38the aluminum patch slowly vanished so I
474. 20:42add the mining capacity that was lost
475. 20:45I set up urea production and built my
476. 20:48first rail station
477. 20:50I set up production of cotton gut studs
478. 20:54this is just needed for the modules so
479. 20:57it's not fully automated
480. 20:59unfortunately that's a lot of buildings
481. 21:02for something temporary
482. 21:04I make batteries right next to where I
483. 21:07have most of the ingredients already
484. 21:10except the urea that I bring by train
485. 21:14while I wait on Cotton gut studs to pick
486. 21:16up momentum I try to put Band-Aids on my
487. 21:20bottlenecks
488. 21:21another wood production cell
489. 21:24and more titanium plates using upgraded
490. 21:27recipes
491. 21:28and I need to make some asphalt
492. 21:32I build all the plants that are required
493. 21:35for Logistics science packs
494. 21:37Moss Moon drop and rulesia
495. 21:41quickly followed by the required animals
496. 21:44cotton guts and Orcs
497. 21:47and I start to set up Logistics science
498. 21:49itself
499. 21:51the solidified sakorous is closed
500. 21:54I finished the build a logistics science
501. 21:57packs
502. 21:58this build makes a logistics science
503. 22:00effects come in it that is a perfect fit
504. 22:03for the 24 automation science I'm
505. 22:06producing
506. 22:07unfortunately high water science
507. 22:10production can't keep up at the moment
508. 22:14and I still need to automate delivery
509. 22:16batteries and the ingredients to make
510. 22:19plasmids
511. 22:21I need to increase production of molten
512. 22:23glass and acetylene which I use almost
513. 22:26exclusively as liquid fuel
514. 22:29I make personal rubber parts and the
515. 22:32first batch of construction boards
516. 22:34I put iron and copper plates onto the
517. 22:37train Network
518. 22:39what I left out was just as important
519. 22:41for the speed run
520. 22:43no wind power no sorting of Ash
521. 22:47no warehouses full of intermediates and
522. 22:51no processing of kerogene
523. 22:53no real Mall
524. 22:55and because Pi one science packs were my
525. 22:58bottleneck I still miss many of the
526. 23:01optional Technologies
527. 23:04that's it so far I'm pretty happy with
528. 23:07my current face and need to plan my next
529. 23:10steps
530. 23:11there is so much to do I need to put
531. 23:14more products onto the train Network to
532. 23:17have science production fully automated
533. 23:20simple circuit boards batteries locks
534. 23:24titanium plates rubber templates and
535. 23:27Boron free oxide
536. 23:29I need to automatically fuel my trains I
537. 23:33need to scale up everything that is
538. 23:35required to expand further
539. 23:38and of course on top of that I need to
540. 23:41make progress
541. 23:43myobium would be nice
542. 23:46for longer underground pipes
543. 23:48big electric poles and a bot Mall
544. 23:53all the upgraded or processing would
545. 23:56increase production quite a bit
546. 24:00and last but not least I need to set up
547. 24:03a bunch of alien plants and animals to
548. 24:06make Pi 2 science packs
549. 24:08I hope you enjoyed the base tour thanks
550. 24:11for watching