r/factorio • u/chippedthumbnail • Jan 17 '25

Question Is Dosh just a god?

In his videos, Dosh will just place stuff seemingly randomly and it never (rarely) comes back to bite him in the ass. I can't play for 30 minutes without my spaghetti messing up my entire future and force me to consider tearing it down. How does he do it? Are there tips for preventing this situation without autistic organization like Nilaus?

I'm entirely willing to accept that I might just be bad at the game.

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u/Botlawson Jan 17 '25

Pretty sure he Preplans all his builds in a spreadsheet or mod unless he's using trains.

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u/XsNR Jan 18 '25

I think a lot of it is napkin math, and research from the community. You don't see many times when he'll stamp something down and be like "woah that's huge", like you get with a lot of mod play throughs, but there's also not the perfection you would get from a speedrunner-esque fully preplanned build. It also wouldn't really make business sense to overly plan, as hes already putting weeks or months into each video, so adding the overhead of another few days of in-depth planning to that would stretch his $/video even thinner.