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hello guys and welcome back to another
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beginners layout guide this time to
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steal in the early game of satisfactory
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and I really hope you find this one
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useful because a few of you in the last
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video said that though it was really
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useful and you got what you needed out
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of it you did find moments a little bit
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too complicated and that wasn't helped
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from it all being from a firstperson
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point of view so that was my concern
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from from the start and given that
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feedback we are going to now trial doing
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a twers set so we'll have a top down
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view like this and I will also be
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building on the floor as well so
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hopefully we can flick between the two
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to give you a better understanding of
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the whole process and if you find this
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easier please do let me know in the
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comments below please give me this
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feedback because we are going to be
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doing next hopefully fingers crossed the
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first episode of the guided playthrough
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of the perfect Factory and so we're
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going to break down everything about the
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game through that and if you find this
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particularly helpful then we will use
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this system in that video as well but we
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have four layouts that we're going to be
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breaking down today this is one of them
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this is the encased industrial beam
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setup we'll be showing at the end but we
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will get started with the other three
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now starting off with the very basic one
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so let's jump to it the first build that
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we're going to do is really simple it's
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going to be taking two foundaries and
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we're going to produce from it steel
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pipes and steel beams and you can set
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this up straight away so the first thing
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that you want is going to be to place
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one Foundry and we're going to hold
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control and immediately to the right of
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this place another one this here is
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going to have to receive the inputs of
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your resources and this is going to use
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90 iron ore and 90 coal per minute so
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we're going to set the recipes so we
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have steel ingots here here and steel
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there again contrl c contrl v allows you
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to copy and paste the recipes from here
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we're going to be setting up our bus or
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manifold I should say and we're going to
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have one along the
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top let's make sure that we've got our
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conveyor splitter in our oh wait we
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already have this is sub merger but
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we're going to turn that to a split by
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holding e or pressing e we're going to
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place these directly on the top section
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then below we'll place just in front of
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the second inputs the second Splitters
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of the manifold now the through line
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needs to be at least a mark two because
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this is
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120 uh line and we have 90 items passing
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through at any one point however the
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conveyor or the elevator going into the
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facility needs to be a mark one well can
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be a mark one I should say so the idea
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with this is that one of these will have
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90 iron and the other one 90 coal so
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imagine that coming from this direction
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here okay so we have our foundaries here
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each producing 45 steel ingots that's a
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total of 90 ingots that we're producing
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per minute now in front of the outputs
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we are going to place two Constructors
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so one in front of each one we're going
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to place them about a foundation to a
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foundation and a half in front of the
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foundaries and you can see that these
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are in line from the green output to Red
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input line so make sure we do this on
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both sides hold control so they're in
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line here marked by that blue line and
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from here we're going to select our
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recipes the the first one is going to be
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set to steel pipe and you can see this
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requires 30 of the 45 steel ingots we
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receiving here and we're going to also
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have our steel beams that require 60 of
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the 45 and fly enough the 15 extra from
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this Foundry so to do this we are going
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to have to do a little bit of load
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balancing but this is one of the really
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simple ones we're going to grab our
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conveyor splitter and place that right
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in front of the The Foundry that's
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feeding the steel pipe Constructor and
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then we're going to grab our merger and
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we're going to place that directly in
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front of the splitter behind the
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Constructor here from here because we
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have 45 ingots coming through to the
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splitter we can split it three ways that
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would mean 15 in each Direction and so
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15 on this Bel 15 on the middle one
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would mean that we have 30 heading into
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our steel pipe Constructor
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and then we'll have a third
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output which takes 15
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ingots to the other foundaries line and
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this is going to our steel beam
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Constructor so it's receiving the 60 and
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producing 15 per minute so this is a
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really simple facility to get started
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with I highly recommend placing down
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your containers in front of it and then
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as soon as you can upgrade reading to
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Mark I belts which you will need for the
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next build speaking of this we should
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also bear in mind that you can unlock
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the dimensional storage and I do
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recommend doing that for this because
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you will be using steel pipes and steel
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beams a lot in this phase but there you
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are we're going to set this up now with
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some resources so that you can see it
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all running and hopefully you'll get an
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idea thanks to our second person over
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there as to how this all
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runs so for our second layout it's super
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simple we are just going to do what
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we've done previously and we're going to
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triple it so we're going to get rid of
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the the storage that we've just built
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we're going to take away the bus for now
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and we can leave that there and all this
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is is going to require a few little
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adjustments to what we've got so far we
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going to Triple this up so we're going
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to place four more foundaries two to the
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left and two to the right for this so
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that it fits mostly within the
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grid remember to hold control while
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you're doing this just for ease and then
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we're going to place our four extra
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Constructors now with this one there is
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the requirement you can't go straight to
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this one or at least it won't run
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efficiently if you do without unlocking
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the tier three belts this is your first
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step really into the uh faster tiers of
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automation because it jumps your
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throughput of belts from 120 with the
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mark 2 to
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270 but for that you are going to need
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to have your steel beams already
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produced so that you can unlock them
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which is why why we did the smaller
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setup first and I hope you found that
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useful but we're now repeating
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everything that we've done so far so
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make sure that everything's in line like
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so then we're going to connect them once
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again with all the mark one belts and
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you could do this as two separate lines
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but I just find it much easier to set it
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up like this personally so remember
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we've got steel pipes in the first one
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with the merger and the splitter and
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then over here we're going to be doing
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the steel beams now there are all
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recipes that are much better for
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producing items like steel beams and
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steel pipes but we are basing this
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tutorial off the vanilla recipes there
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is also the perfect guided playthrough
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I'm going to call a guided playthrough
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but the idea is that we are going to go
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through the whole build of everything
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together and piece it all together
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including all the logistics so that you
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guys all get a good sense of
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how the game runs and how to to piece
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everything together so that you can
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always refer to that if you need the
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extra help I'm snapping everything to
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the elevator belts here because it's so
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much easier than setting up a dedicated
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manifold above where you you snap the
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elevators to Splitters it I much prefer
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it these days and I highly recommend you
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get into the the the swing of things
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when it comes to using that so because
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because we have three of each we've got
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45 steel beam being produced per minute
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and 60 steel pipes which means we can
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run this with a mark one to our storage
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just
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like so next we are going to set this up
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with the factory running just so that
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you can get a feel for how it is you
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know what I'm going to swap that round I
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think it's going to be easier for us to
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just run it using the Straight build
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mode again if you're using the convey
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straight uh different build modes you
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can hold R to get the radial Arrow um
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radial dial up straight allows you to do
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90° angles with your conveyor bels but
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not pipes but it works perfectly in this
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circumstance so let's set up the
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manifold the other end and guys please
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let me know if you find this style of
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guide a little bit easier so we're
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getting a good mix of first person
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building and then the overhead view as
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it's being done as well
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hopefully it's a little bit easier to
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follow because I wasn't too happy with
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what we had done with the iron setup the
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other day at this point we are setting
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up the manifold for the steel facility
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and do remember that because this is
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going to be taking
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270 resources per minute that it is
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going to require along the throughput
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line which is the one going through the
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manifold it will need to be a mark three
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which means we have a throughput of
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270 and then the conve that are
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connecting these they only need to be
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mark one again now just a heads up I am
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flying very quickly with the advanced
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game settings just so that I can quickly
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fill these up now with a manifold items
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split off sequentially and so the end of
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the manifold will take longer to receive
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the items that you need because it
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prioritizes the ones in front at least
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in initially and so providing you've set
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everything up efficiently it will
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eventually catch up uh with the
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resources but you can warm them up just
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by filling each of the buildables First
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with the resources and that just
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kickstarts the buffers because the
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production buildings need to be filled
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with resources before the items flow
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through to the end one anyway let's see
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it running and here you can see the
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whole system running I highly recommend
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doing this because steel pipes and steel
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beams are really important in the early
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mid game where it comes to building your
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train lines and also those MK II belts
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which will really help you start to
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scale your system and get you prepped
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for the markv belts which we'll be
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covering with the encased industrial
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beam setup which will be the one not
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next not the next layout but the one
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after that because the next one I want
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to show you how you can build a really
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smart clean Foundry setup that I do all
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the time for my facilities just so that
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if I need a lot of steel ingots in a
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very short amount of time I can just set
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one of them up and then I can distribute
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the resources how I see fit so with this
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running we're going to move over to the
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next one now for this next one we are
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doing my favorite way to process ingots
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uh steel ingots that is and we're going
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to find a location that is about halfway
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let's bring it into here across a
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foundation and it's going to be centered
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on a foundation as well and we're going
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to have the input the output sorry
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facing the center we're going to place
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two more directly after them next we're
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going to find the same spot facing
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inwards mirrored so we're looking at the
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halfway point and we're going to place
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three more in a line now I've done this
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for many of my builds you can do this
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much tighter but for this
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um particular demonstration I thought it
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would be best to give you a bit of space
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so that you can see a little better
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what's going on uh right now we are just
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going to place mergers every time we see
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that input line showing up and we should
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have six of these now for this you are
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going to have to have the tier three
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belts unlocked and we're going to run
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that tier three belt all the way through
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this merger line and then we're going to
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have our Mark ones going from the
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outputs to the mergers and it should be
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each line goes to an alternating merger
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like so the idea of this is that all of
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our steel ingots will run along this
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main line and then you can distribute
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them as you see fit but we are going to
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also have to get our inputs for this
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which is going to require 270 coal and
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270 iron so for we're going to grab our
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Splitters and I'm going to place these
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three high above the merger and then
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we're going to delete the first splitter
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we're going to do this on top of all of
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these and you'll see why in a minute
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from here we need to connect them all up
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with the Mark II belts again so we're
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placing them in between you might be a
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little bit tricky initially to get them
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but I I promise you if you look between
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them you should be able to get them in
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between one another from here this
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section is where we're going to get all
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of our iron and all of our coal and
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we're now going to add our Mark 1
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elevators and they're all going to go
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over this little Gap see this L-shaped
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Foundry we just want the first elevator
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over that little Gap and we're going to
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do it on the other side as well um I
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should mention I am using the no power
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creative option with this build uh but
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you will need to add power lines to
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these if you're wondering why I'm
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building for free and why I have
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unlimited power that is why it's just
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for the ease of doing this guide quickly
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for you and hopefully not making another
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25 30 minute one so you've just seen me
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I should have mentioned the second uh
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input is going to be facing above the
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elevator that you just placed and it's
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it's too two steps higher so this one's
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its lowest stepping you can't get it any
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lower without doing some crafty little
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snapping Master workor which I'll talk
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about in a future video but from here
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you're going to go up not one but two it
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has to go up two otherwise it's going to
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clip through the elevator which you guys
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might not be too keen on so do bear that
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in mind we are using a mark one belt now
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and all we're going to do is once you've
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found the splitter you're going to click
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on it and then you're going to run that
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Mark one belt to the very
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first uh elevator and then on the second
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line above we're going to do the same
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click on the splitter and then I've set
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it to straight mode for ease we're going
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to click on the second elevator we're
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going to do this for each of them now
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really quickly
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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and now that that's done we should be
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able to place down a container and have
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our output line remember it needs to be
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270 so you're getting quite a lot of
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items there and we're going to do the
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same with the input lines really quickly
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here so we should be able to bring it to
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oh actually we could probably do it like
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this so the first one's going to be one
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high the second two high one two and
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then we're going to upgrade these to
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Mark II if you're using a miner make
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sure or any way of merging them make
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sure that is Mark I if you're having
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more than 60 or 120 items on the line
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yeah look at that that is much easier
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we're going to grab it and just place it
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grab it just place it and there
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everything should momentarily start to
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turn on which my other character up
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there should be able to see running and
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there you are everything is starting to
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turn on and you can see that is warming
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up pretty quickly we still have to wait
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a little bit for the whole manifold to
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to fully do its job and fully saturate
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but we're we're probably at about 70 to
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80% capacity at the moment and that is
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how you produce 270 steel ingots per
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minute using a really uh clean setup
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there's actually a blueprint that you
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can do from this to fit it within the
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four 4x4 grid and uh looks pretty sweet
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anyway we're going to move on to encased
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industrial beams now which is our final
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layout for this and guys please let me
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know if you find this top down View and
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this first person um view really helpful
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then we will do this in the guided
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playthrough which I hope to release
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later this week in fact I would love to
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have it out this week moving on to our
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final build we're going to set up our
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encased industrial beams this is a fun
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little one it's going to take 120 coal
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per minute 120 iron ore so you are going
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to need to use the mark 2 belts and it's
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also going to be taking
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180 Limestone per minute that's three
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mark one belts or three normal nodes uh
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worth of limestone on a a Mark 1 minor
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so for this we are going to start off
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with the three steel foundaries we're
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going to set them all to steel ingots
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remember copy crl c contrl v and then
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from here we are going to just merge
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this time all of our steel together
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along one bus like so this does need to
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be a mark 2 belt for the the throughput
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line cuz it's going to have 120 Steel on
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it however one thing I should mention is
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that this Foundry is going to be
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underclocked if you don't have
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underclocking available you can still
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use this it's just going to stop and
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start um so it won't run as efficiently
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as it we'd like it to but I highly
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recommend unlocking underclocking or
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overclocking so that you can underclock
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as soon as you have these available or
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if not sooner um so this is going to be
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set to
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66666 7 so that we're producing the 30
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steel that we need per minute as you can
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see there so 45 45 30 that's 120
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and from here we are going to grab a
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splitter we will place it just in front
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why not we're going to push this back a
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little bit cuz I'm worried I won't be
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able to fit this in now remember this
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does need to be a mark 2 belt that's
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connecting these and from here we're
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going to add our two Constructors going
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to keep them extra tight these are going
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to be producing the steel beams so
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they're going to need mark one
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connecting them and that will produce 30
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steel beams per minute and next we need
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to produce 60 concrete and so for that
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we are going to place two Constructors
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here and then on the other side we're
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going to place our merger let's do it
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just there and we're going to place our
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other merger facing towards the steel
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line just here and we're going to do two
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from here we're going to also grab
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another Constructor so so we need four
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Constructors for the concrete so let's
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set them to concrete and from here we're
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going to grab our splitter and we're
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going to fead it into here and with this
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setup we have 60 60 60 we actually
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need uh 90 on each line so the way that
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we're going to arrange this is we're
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going to place a splitter here and a
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merger either side and we're going to
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run the mark one belt and split it
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between between those two and then on
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the other side we're going to use now a
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mark 2 belt and connect it to the first
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from the first merger to the set of
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Splitters here and the second one we're
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going to have to move it across
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originally I made this a little bit
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cleaner but uh we we we don't have much
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room in fact I'm pretty certain we're
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going to have to expand this out anyway
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but we're going to run this into this
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Constructor line you can already hear
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the constructors producing that concrete
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and then from here we're going to place
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two assemblers and they're going to be
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oh we might just squeeze it in we might
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just manage it it'll be tight but I
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think we can do it we're going to place
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it just here and just look at
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that perfect from here we will add our
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elevator in fact let's start with these
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ones we we'll do it from here just to
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make it a little bit easier for us so
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we're adding our elevators feeding into
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here and we're going to have our
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Splitters going along to the top of the
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grid these can be Mark ones as it's just
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30 resources that we need so I'm going
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to now connect the steel beam line to
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the Splitters and we're going to add
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another manifold and this is going to
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take the concrete that we're producing
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and run it into our assemblers now the
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assemblers need to be set at well one at
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100% and one at 66. 6666 7% or what you
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can do instead is just set the output to
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be five per minute on each one just to
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make it easier and copy and paste and
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that way they can be evenly distributed
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and you don't have to worry about any
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kind of balancing last but not least
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connect them together we're also going
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to add the manifold line here that we've
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done previously and remember this is 20
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so you're going to need Mark two belts
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now this is going to take a little bit
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of time to warm up but it should start
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producing almost immediately and we're
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just going to merge our encased
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industrial beams into this line now it
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is important to get encased industrial
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beams set up as soon as you possibly can
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because they are what are going to allow
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you to run mark four belts and that's
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where the game really starts to scale
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so for me M 4 and the trains really
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allows you to bring in a lot more
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resources per minute to your factories
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and allows you to build much larger
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dedicated lines rather than these small
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factories that we've been doing so far
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we'll give it a few moments to turn on
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now and uh see what it looks like from
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above again let me know what you thought
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of this guide if you like the new style
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with the top down view alongside the
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first person view let let us know
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because we're going to be doing the
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perfect guided playthrough to help you
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guys learn and it might be really useful
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to do a two-player system for that but
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guys I hope you found this useful if you
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did please let me know in the comments
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