#I'm a little overwhelmed, please help

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glad flint
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Hi all, I hope you're well. I'm absolutely loving Factorio, it's fantastic but I'm now a bit overwhelmed. I've got 2 bases churning out stuff, but now most of the things I need require gas, I've managed to find a few bits of gas that are miles away which are too far for the pipes, I've managed to work around it and I'm not really getting the throughput from it, since getting on to the gas/liquids I'm so confused and my well working factory is just rubbish now

I've also been researching robots and have a modular armour with the portable robots and solar power on me but I have no idea how to use the drones. When I click them they just stand still. I think I want to destroy everything and start again, I'm up to building yellow tech but again I'm manually doing that and have been building them on my character for 10 hours as I'm a bit overwhelmed. I'm finding I'm just running around now really doing much now. Any advise, please?

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ember mural
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+faq robots

cedar iglooBOT
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Robots

If your personal roboport (in the grid of your armor - right click the armor to access it, even while equipped) isn't working, consider the following:
• Is it charged? It takes a while to charge, especially on solar panels.
• Is it enabled? There's a toggle in the shortcut bar, with default hotkey Alt-R.
• Do you have construction robots in your inventory? They're separate from other networks.
• Do you have the items in your inventory? Final products, not ingredients.
• Are you in range? Hold a deconstruction planner in your hand; you should see a green square around you, unless inside another network.
• Are other bots taking the job already? If you're inside a network, your personal bots will try to take jobs first, but once the job goes to the network, its bots are responsible--even if it is slower than your personal bots would have been.

(If NO BOTS seem to be responding, and all of the above check out, turn on the robot overlay on the map and make sure you don't have bots stuck somewhere in a hole in your network!)

severe belfry
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There's no need to tear everything down.
Construction robots will build blueprints.

ember mural
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This is for personal robots @glad flint
If you want other bots you need roboports

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Also NEVER destroy a useful base

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It can make items
It has use

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Unless a new base does everything it does it has use

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Also make a mall it's always important and I don't see you having one. With robots it's even more important

glad flint
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Great, thanks both. I'll take a look at that FAQ and see if I can figure it out. I've had a quick search for mall and it's not showing anything

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In regards to this, how do I bring that up? Like if I want to get these bots to chop down a range or trees? When I deconstruct I just right click stuff "Are you in range? Hold a deconstruction planner in your hand; you should see a green square around you, unless inside another network."

severe belfry
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A mall is a small collection of assemblers that automatically make things that are needed for expanding your base: belts, assmeblers, inserters, power poles, pipes etc.

ember mural
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A mall isn't an item

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+faq mall

cedar iglooBOT
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Mall

A mall is a place where you can get all the things you need to build more things.

ember mural
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With bots you want the chests to be those new red passive providers as then bot's can have access to it

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Green science is meant to show you "the factory can make more factory"

glad flint
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Ahhh yea' sorry I didn't include my 2nd screenshot, sorry. Is this what you mean with the mall?

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ember mural
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No

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Also that's HUGELY overkill

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That is just science

glad flint
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Ahhh ok

ember mural
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1 inserter assembler feeds 12 green sci
That many feed 84
Belts are 1 to 24 so those feed 144

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Your base isn't able to keep up with that much consumption

tribal steppe
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If you want some advice, mouse over your assembling machines that aren't running and it will give you a reason why it isn't running. If you manage to get your assembling machines running the factory will work way better (or alternatively delete assembling machines that aren't useful to leave space)

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For example, if your belt and inserter assembling machines should be saying "output full". This means that you have too many of them and so they have shut down while waiting for work.

glad flint
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Ok that makes sense

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I think I've gone massively over kill for stuff I don't need

tribal steppe
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And actually looking at your base you seem to have no iron

glad flint
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Yea' sorry I'm giving half truths here

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got lots of iron

tribal steppe
glad flint
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It's going towards building the chips and the stuff needed for science

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Like steel plates, iron plates, iron sticks

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The gas/liquid stuff is where I feel I'm falling down the most

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Is there a better way to get it from that far away to my base or do I bring my base stuff closer?

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tribal steppe
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Well your oil pumps aren't running for some reason. You should go check that out

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When you mouse over your oil pumps what does it say? Output full?

glad flint
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It does mate

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Some of my stuff has ran out of materials for example so I think that's blocking it

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So I need to get the belts bringing stuff over here

tribal steppe
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OK, so that means that you are not consuming any oil. Now go to the refineries where oil is supposed to be being consumed and mouse over them

glad flint
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Or I guess this is where I want the robot stuff setup right?

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So I'd want my robots bringing the iron and copper

tribal steppe
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Don't use robots for iron and copper. You will get a blackout

glad flint
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Ok so I'll get my belts bringing over the iron and copper which I think will sort that out

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Ok I got some stuff to work on for the time being, appreciate the time and help.

ember mural
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Robots are great for low quantity mixed items
Like a mall

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Do you have the blue chests?

glad flint
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I don't yet, I have the red/yellow one

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I have added the research to get the blue one to my next one

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Should my priority be on getting the yellow science material being processed?

ember mural
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I more asked because blue chests make making malls easy
Also you need those for bots to move items around instead of just building

glad flint
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Ahhhhhhhh ok, I'll get focusing on learning that then.

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so in regards to the mall you showed earlier, should I only be having for example 1 of each out putting rather than like 5 + of each like I am or do you build based on consumption needs?

ember mural
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Unless youre mega basing it's near impossible to need more than one

glad flint
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Ok I think I've gone massively over kill lol

main sphinx
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I think it was missed earlier but Alt + D is how you make a Deconstruction Planner, you can place it in your toolbar or inventory and right click it to set filters if you just want to hit trees

You can do an upgrade planner on Alt + U to upgrade all your assemblers, belts, inserters etc if you want that either

glad flint
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I think I have like 30-40 iron furnaces and copper ones and like 4-20 of each

glad flint
ember mural
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Ohh thats fine

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A fuckton of furnaces is good

glad flint
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My robots are finally doing stuff hahaha

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Deforestation here i come!

ember mural
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Just use grenades

main sphinx
main sphinx
# glad flint My robots are finally doing stuff hahaha

Automating Roboports and having your Mall assemblers output to Red Chests is the true use of bots, you can then copy paste e.g. your Green Chips build and Robots will just make the second one while you're doing something else

glad flint
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Ok here are a few more snaps of my base

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That's the 2nd base

glad flint
main sphinx
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Overall your base looks fine you were just missing a few fundamentals tbh So imo you're in a great place

glad flint
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That's great, nice to hear as well as I was pulling out what little hair I have left!

main sphinx
glad flint
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That's great, this has been very informative, thank you all

ember mural
main sphinx
glad flint
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Is there a way around that?

main sphinx
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There should be a pipe with a red X on it there

Replace it with a pump, then put the pipe at the end of the pump

glad flint
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Ahhhhhhhhhh there's a pump, bloody hell I thought there was only the offshore pump

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That's awesome 😄

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Time to lose another 20 hours this weekend lol

main sphinx
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Come back to us when you want to fix your advanced oil setup if you've just found pumps it almost certainly needs work 😂

glad flint
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Yea' the oil is possibly the most confusing thing BUT I think I've got enough to go on now and to be able to make it better. Again thank you all for your time.

safe gorge
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Oil is so much simpler now with the new fluid system and being able to circuit control chemical plants. No complex pump systems to do cracking.