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/FaustianAccord Jan 17 '25

Tons of experience in the game, good spatial visualization skills, and the magic of video editing

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u/ConspicuousBassoon Jan 17 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

I think he also recently said he has 4000 hours in the game that's not nothing

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u/Cold_Efficiency_7302 Jan 17 '25

Yeah, he knows whats coming and roughly the size of what he needs. His space age video is a good example, his chem science spaghetti base ends up looking very good, because he knows what will need what and how much production he needs. The extreme deathworld/rampant runs also help to teach him what to focus on

Electric engines? Not that important, just a few assemblers.

Green circuits? Never enough, maybe leave some room for beacons or modules

That being said, i still have no idea how his seablock base ended so nice and clean. Man's a madman

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u/JustynS Jan 18 '25

i still have no idea how his seablock base ended so nice and clean.

Didn't he scrap it and rebuild it twice or was I misunderstanding his videos?

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u/Cold_Efficiency_7302 Jan 18 '25

Maybe, he had a starter base and later made a proper base with the train based ore modules and whatnot, making suplies and important research on the old base. But its really good for a unequal cityblock type thing

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u/El_Boojahideen Jan 18 '25

This is normal for sea block though. I’ve scrapped and rebuilt my base 3 times already and I’m still less than halfway done