satisfactory-consoles

[wary chasm]

Oh okay great

Hey so I’ve done a fuel powerplant that runs only on turbo fuel but for some reason the power decided to cut and now idk how to fix the blown fuse thing I removed one of my assembler and one refinery but nothing changed is it properly because I’ve put to many power sources on my save file

[wary chasm]

Should I use power storage and place then on my powerplant

[wary chasm]

So I have powerline mk2 and I wanna know should I always use that from now on then using mk1

[surreal lichen]

You can find SAM itself basically from the very start of the game; just gotta find the nodes.

There's some research you can do in the MAM to start making useful things with it quite early on as well; I think you just need steel for starting to make some useful things

Though you can't fully automate SAM production until later on -- you'll end up having to handcraft some materials for a bit

[modern heart]

If you want. they only offer more connection points.

[surreal lichen]

Adding to that: over time I've found I nearly always just "daisy-chain" all my machines, so given the way I currently build, I rarely use more than mk1 poles/sockets

But there's certainly situations where you might want more than four things plugged into the same pole/socket, and if you don't daisy-chain machines to power, then you may certainly find them quite useful. On my earlier playthroughs especially I'd often end up just defaulting to mk2/mk3 'cause I'd be hooking groups of machines up to the same pole

[high jacinth]

Built.a train to haul compacted coal to my fuel factory areas ...forgot to bring regular coal for the aluminum....🤔 🤦‍♂️

Shoukd be able to add a freight car platform at each end and one more car to train?

They are always into same platform right?

[tribal rover]

is there a future where Satisfactory comes to the Switch 2?

[drifting coyote]

You will learn to leave an extra buffer of straight rail at each station before starting to bend rails. Make these "adjustments" way easier. The lock function is your friend for that.

[high jacinth]

Ok thanks I know I have to at the drop off point. May have to adjust at start point.

[surreal lichen]

No plans currently; can get a few statements from https://archive.satisfactory.video/topics/features/console-release/

[daring tiger]

Are there any reports of the 100 hard drive achievement not tracking or can i grind it?

[clear moss]

Haven’t seen any, I unlocked it a couple days ago.

[hushed oasis]

I think they should move SAM scanning to just after MAMing a sphere and a loop
make up something about detecting a similar resonance frequency
with SAM so useful so early in the game it doesn't make sense to hide it away, but it shouldn't be lying around everywhere like sulfur/quartz/caterium either

[buoyant panther]

Just started the game today, just wanted to know what the Christmas presents do since I haven’t found a use for them yet

[fluid kettle]

Nope, crashing every time I try loading into the game. :/

Can’t even get past the loading screen into the main menu without it black screening

[heady umbra]

You can use them to research in Christmas event to unlock some Christmas themed things, not worth the hustle if you are new tbh

[buoyant panther]

Fair enough, is it purely cosmetic?

[heady umbra]

Not really, I suggest you look up a video. Also you need to advance in game to keep up with the research

[buoyant panther]

Thank you for the input

[fluid kettle]

Well, it looks like this issue might be more concerning and I’m probably going to have to take it to Microsoft.

Just bricked my console

Trying to play satisfactory

[heady umbra]

What console are you using

[fluid kettle]

Series X

I would Post a clip, but I don’t have permission

I would also contact coffee stain, but they seem to just ignore it.

Update, For now I’m offloading the game to a separate drive and probably going to forget about it for another year and then I’ll see if it’s functional.

[undone knoll]

Is it possible to share the video in my DM ?

[fluid kettle]

Ye

[blissful sail]

did they fix the "efficiency" first trophy for ps5? I Know about the others but I don't wanna have to do another playthrough just for the trophy to not pop

[stuck geode]

Not as of now

I'm stuck without the platinum as well lol

[blissful sail]

weird, the other 2 bugged trophies, varied diet and let's see what's out there were fixed

[stuck geode]

Can confirm this yeah

[blissful sail]

I guess I'll try to keep up with updates and see when it gets fixed

[warm temple]

Are you sure? That sounds a little extreme from just launching satisfactory

[warm temple]

You may send in dms

[pseudo bobcat]

for me, also the two fixed trophys didn't show up.

went to all biomes again, nothing, picked up fruits, berrys and shrooms again, nothing

[mossy bluff]

Wuzzuup, anyone fancy starting/playing in a world? I had one with a friend but with him now working a metric ton its left it to somewhat just me and thus I lost interest.

If anyone fancies a game do lmk

Xbox btw

[rustic jackal]

I find it funny how the censoring is really whack at times. Heard it sometimes just censors 'E', for me it thinks ' Dil. Fuel' is offensive.
Like how dare I abbreviate Diluted Fuel in my exclusively singleplayer world

[mossy bluff]

Lol

[rustic jackal]

I already dread placing down ~40 Refineries just so I can make Turbofuel

Or the ~70 Generators to use the fuel

[amber cloak]

I dread adaptive control units.

[lilac edge]

-# insert joke about stubborn control units here

[granite thunder]

Is anyone else’s game getting progressively worse as the hours go up? Every autosave creates huge lag spikes that launch me in the air if I’m using the jet pack or just straight up crash my game. Just wondering if it’s a common issue before I go complaining

[topaz basalt]

The game pauses while saving.
And the save time depends on how much you have built.
And there is bug where some of the physics don't deal with the pause correctly, and still count the time during the pause.

Jetpack is one of those is there is active input when pause starts, it will deal like there was very long frame, causing excessive boost.

[granite thunder]

Feels like it’s creating boost out of nowhere with the jet pack, earlier was about to land after shooting halfway across the map had basically no fuel and it decided to launch me high enough to kill me lol

[amber cloak]

I've been stubbornly putting off automating ACUs by working on a temporary test rail line just to learn how the rails work for when I actually build the main line. And I am just not understanding how this works at all. Can't get blueprints to snap at all

[topaz basalt]

Because it is.
Like I said, bug where the jetpack code doesn't remove the autosave time from the frame time difference calculation.

[granite thunder]

Lovely

I do have a rather large factory the game handles it better than I honestly expected for console

[topaz basalt]

That autosave pre-notification is there for a reason.

[granite thunder]

At least the save actually completes before it crashes my game so I just gotta get back in

[river rapids]

Nice thing about running a LAN server is there is no pause on autosave, all that is done on the server xD

if that is possible on console, not sure

[topaz basalt]

The server stops responsing while saving.
Anything you do during the pause might or might not be lost.

[river rapids]

I have never noticed or had a problem

[valid scaffold]

Hey yall, love this game but im not good at making a factory that works and is also not...messy any advice

[granite thunder]

Embrace the spaghetti

[valid scaffold]

See its not the spaghetti that's the problem its efficiency

[wary chasm]

Hey is the adaptive control unit the hardest item to construct in the game like in phase 3 I mean

If I build a train network would it make my playthrough easier?

Is the game crossplay?

[rustic jackal]

It's crossplay between xbox and Playstation. It doesn't support crossplay with PC because of performance
-# please someone correct me if I am wrong about the performance thing

[topaz basalt]

No crossplay between consoles and PC because of various technical and console maker control things.

Not directly performance.

[rustic jackal]

Fair enough

I wonder what the condition for the respawning of enemies is? Is it just time or upon loading into a save, because I could have sworn I just killed that group of cats spiders

[granite thunder]

It is difficult to begin with but nowhere near the hardest or biggest factory layout required

[rustic jackal]

In my opinion, the modular frame line of products is the most annoying part. Got a headache just looking at the planner layout

[granite thunder]

Honestly just go for hard drives until you unlock alternate recipe for that

I built the original first and then later on another line with the alternate and was much more chill

And you get more of them for less resources

[rustic jackal]

True that. But alas, I must first finish my power generators

[river rapids]

I always imagined it was performance related but after they were saying that even the use of keyboard/mouse has to be "approved", I can totally believe it's more like maker control things XD

Assuming by maker you mean the console manufacturer

I don't understand why crossplay between console and PC is still such a hit and miss thing in 2025.... they're not really competing platforms and it just should be a thing by now imo

[topaz basalt]

Yes, Microsoft and Sony.
And there not being dedicated servers for consoles is probably from same reason.
Are there any console games that have self-hosted dedicated servers?
And not just rented from few specific companies servers?

[river rapids]

Not sure, I am a noob when it comes to consoles, never owned one, so that doesn't help. All I can say is that Epic and Fortnite have done PC <--> Console (or even all platform crossplay) very well. It can be done

[topaz basalt]

But again not P2P or player-hosted-on-PC MP, just hosted on secured servers MP.

[river rapids]

Yes in the case of Fortnite it's on Epic servers, but there is no reason why consoles couldn't connect to dedicated servers just like the PC build. No technical reason anyway. Consoles are just PCs at the end of the day

[topaz basalt]

Which was why I asked if there were games that allowed console players to connect to self-hosted servers, not rented servers only.

[river rapids]

This is where my knowledge runs out I'm afraid, I honestly don't know... maybe? but just not sure

[topaz basalt]

Goes into that control.
With rented server, the renter doesn't have lot of control.
With self-hosted, the hoster has full control.
Basically about console makers being paranoid about external connections being used to "attack" the console ecosystem side or to try to go around console access protections via game bugs in the MP code etc.

Bugs in save load code have been used to circumvent console protections in multiple cases with edited saves.

[river rapids]

Yea it's very walled garden. I can understand why they are doing this - there is a very broad and diverse use-case for consoles and probably overall the walled garden is for the best

and then you think wider about the approval just to plug in a keyboard and mouse, and then start to think about this philosophy, it's a potential big consideration - they are HID devices after all, being able to just plug any one in could introduce potential vulns, exploits, etc

[topaz basalt]

That goes to requirement "Playing with original controller must be fully supported and as nice as with anything else" type things.

Which should really only matter for competitive MP, but isn't limited to it in actuality.

[rustic jackal]

I am pretty sure ARK allows console players to join self-hosted dedi. servers. Or at the very least they used to, haven't touched that game in a good while

[rustic jackal]

Apparently, blueprints you ended up deleting somehow find their way back and crash the game when you click on them

[river rapids]

Not deleted then xD

[rustic jackal]

That would be the most logical reason, but I am almost 99% sure I deleted my old conveyor bus blueprint and when clicking on it, it decided the last 8 minutes of building have to be done again

[wary chasm]

Will they make it so console players can play with pc players?!

[wary chasm]

What it the hardest factory layout required?!

Is the Sam ore will it make the process of well doing factory layouts for more complex items a lot more easier

[rustic jackal]

Not anytime soon

[rustic jackal]

what do you mean by that? Sam ore early on is only for the MAM and the items you research there

[simple lantern]

Current unobtainable trophies? Milestones?

I know some are now unlockable

[acoustic mortar]

Only ones you can't get atm are the all milestones and platinum trophy

[river rapids]

PC has no restrictions. If crossplay with console doesn't happen, this is due to your side, not ours

[river rapids]

Why do you use Consoles when PC is so much better? Genuine question. You are all intelligent enough to chat here. So why not PC

Mystery that has eluded me for a very long time xD

[pulsar fossil]

Console has always been the budget gaming option - couple hundred Vs 1000+. The next gen ones are looking to be the same price as a pc though so will likely end up with less people upgrading and instead just going to pc.

[surreal lichen]

Also, folks might just not want to have to tinker with hardware, drivers, system updates, incompatibilities, etc.

Not that consoles don't have problems too, but they're generally just "plug in and go"

Some folks don't want to have to work for their entertainment

[rustic jackal]

For me it's because it's what I have been using for the better part of 13 years now. I got an Xbox as a wee little guy and have been getting games, DLC and friends.
I wanted a PC, still do but it is kind of impossible with the current RAM and future GPU shortages.
If I had the money, I would switch over in a heartbeat, but as of now the cost of a decent PC and all the games I want, is way too much

[surreal lichen]

Also some folks might want to be gaming on their couch with a controller in front of their bigscreen TV. And obviously you can do that with a PC, but if so that's likely to be a second PC you're maintaining and paying for and debugging, etc.

It's almost as if there's a huge market for consoles out there, etc. :)

(Also also, while console performance isn't something you can count on quite as much as you used to be able to, there's a lot of advantages to having an extremely limited set of hardware that developers can optimize for)

[rustic jackal]

Oh the headache of having my mind set on a layout and then down the line figuring out i forgot to keep the tolerances of belts and pipes in mind...
(I am in missery)

[topaz basalt]

Which doesn't help much when they don't really optimize anymore, but just slap dynamic resolution on etc.

And just target 30 FPS in many cases.

And that dynamic res can make the actual rendering happen at 480p at times.

[simple lantern]

What reason do you have to look into the console channel apart from rage baiting?

[rustic jackal]

Damn

[surreal lichen]

Heh, yeah. Though it's at least a theoretical advantage. :D

[wary chasm]

I assumed that it would be kinda like a mid game ore and I’ve seen people use items you craft with Sam so I kinda assumed that it would make the game simpler in some way

[wary chasm]

K

[surreal lichen]

Nah, SAM doesn't simplify factory lines or anything like that, though you can use it to simplify managing inventory for building things

Well worth researching in the early game

[simple lantern]

Anyone know if collecting mercer, hard drives and sloops in a coop game affected?

We do know that purchasing nut had to be reloaded for the other player to recive trophy aswell

[surreal lichen]

Not sure what you mean? You can certainly collect all that stuff in coop and use them in factories

I believe all coop players share the same alt recipe unlocks

[simple lantern]

For trophy / achievements

[surreal lichen]

Ahh, gotcha. I think that co-op players have to be "near" when stuff is collected, for it to count

(though don't quote me on that)

[torpid rampart]

Feeling burnt out on phase 4, any suggestions?

[cloud jasper]

I'm a little over halfway through getting phase four done myself and about the only thing I can suggest is just do the magnetic and thermal devices first (the ones wanting 500 and 250) then worry about the assembly director systems and nuclear pasta last.

I'm also able to drive around my base at high speed in the explorer so I just regularly check on what my manufacturer machines and assembly machines need and bring them what's needed to continue production instead of trying to have some massive spaghetti system trying to feed them all.

[simple lantern]

Your not wrong, all mam research was exactly like that, host got it then I wandered over to him after a while and only then it popped

[topaz basalt]

But reloading and doing thing again works.

[torpid rampart]

Fair, I have the magnetic devices going. I’m trying to get the others going. Just trying to figure out my oil plant first to make sure I have plenty of rubber and plastic.

[cloud jasper]

I'll show you my oil producing setup that's also producing rocket fuel, aluminum products, and fuel burners.

I'm using both recipes for plastic and rubber the originals that feed off crude oil and another that feeds off the HOR.

[mossy bluff]

Wuzzup folks

Anyone wanna game?

[rustic jackal]

Finally, I have completed 1/6th of my turbo fuel burners, only 120 more to go, yippee

[torpid rampart]

Can you dm them to me?

[torpid rampart]

Yours is much cleaner than mine and we’re in the same space. Might tear out everything 😂😭

[mortal otter]

Is yours producing what it needs? No reason to tear it out unless it's going to bother you in the future, or if you want to use those resources for something else. Some of my first spaghettified factories are still sitting there working hard in their inefficient glory!

[torpid rampart]

It’s working fine, it’s just not using all the compacted coal a train is bringing to it

[mortal otter]

Ah gotcha. From your comment I thought you just didn't like the way it looked 😄

[torpid rampart]

I don’t like it either but it’s work. Have ammo, packaged fuel with a drone port taking plastic to another setup

[cloud jasper]

I thought about using drones but so far I've been using trains to bring coal, quartz, and caterium to my home base.

[torpid rampart]

Where is your home base?

[cloud jasper]

Gold coast area that has a lot of crude oil nodes basically northwest part of the map

[torpid rampart]

Gotcha, my spaghetti base is in the grasslands lol

[mortal otter]

I love the look of a mixed use world where there are trains going back and forth as well as drones flying overhead. Drones for the small batch items like RCUs, etc and then the trains for either huge quantities, or long distances. Also drones can be a quick way to get a factory up and running if it's the first one in a new area, and then switch it over to trains once that infrastructure is built

[high jacinth]

What best fuel for drones I have regular fuel

I can make turbo if I set it up right.

Also just got access to blenders

[pure hamlet]

Skip turbo and go straight to rocket

[cloud jasper]

I've been using batteries from my blender specifically for the drone and rocket fuel for everything else.

[high jacinth]

Don't have all the resources together yet for batteries I don't think.

[cloud jasper]

If you're making aluminum casings then you can already make batteries in a blender with sulfuric acid, alumina solution, and aluminum casings.

[uneven jolt]

Whats a fast way to get/farm mycelia

Wait nvm. I found an alternate recipe for fabric

[cloud jasper]

Fastest way for me was to go to the upper northwest corner of the map and using chainsaws cut down a LOT of those pink glass looking structures all over the beach and near the various rocks cliffs mountains etcetera

[uneven jolt]

Thanks

[river glade]

Hello I want to know if anyone can join me on Playstation mainly want to play with someone but I don't have any Playstation Friends

[surreal lichen]

#1201555265942724758 btw. :)

[wary chasm]

Yo I wanna know if I should build a central hub

[hearty vault]

Hi all. Got a question about the base ps5 version before I buy it. Does it have an FOV slider like the PC version? Thanks!!

[naive monolith]

you can adjust it in the settings yes, tho im not sure how it looks like on PC cause i only play on ps5

[wary chasm]

Should I overclock my fuel generators

[modern heart]

If you want

Doesnt do anything except save space

[wary chasm]

Wait overclocking your power sources don’t do anything but save space?

[surreal lichen]

Yeah, clocking on power gens works differently than on production machines. Power + resources just scale linearly with clockspeed

[granite thunder]

I have figured out what consistently crashes my game

Leaves.

No joke when I’m farming animals and accidentally pick up some leaves instead of remains it often crashes my game

[wary chasm]

But I thought overclocking your power sources it makes it so they produce more mw

[modern heart]

they do

but not "magically more"

if you clock them to 200%, they use twice as much fuel and make twice as much power

thats why it "saves space"

you can do with one generator building what you would usually need two for

[midnight tangle]

press f in chat to pay your respects to my first 50 tickets which I lost.

🪦

on PC u can do something about that..

I forgor lol

[buoyant panther]

Does anyone know when I will unlock the ficmas research tree? I just started the other day and am currently working on steel production

[modern heart]

go to your hub and open the calender

[proper pond]

how do i switch ammo types with the rifle

nvm

[fallen cypress]

Just got the game and have movement difficulties but love it so far. Would there be any pioneers willing to come help me set up things properly I have a lot set up but feel like I need help streamlining.

[uneven jolt]

How do you swap ammo types

[silk palm]

Random question i see people on pc drag and build i believe just plain foundations like how the conveyors are instead of placing piece by piece is that a level unlock or mam research or something or only a pc thing

[uneven jolt]

Its a build mode called Zoop

Push down on your d-pad and you'll see it change

[south pecan]

Hi guys! So I am super hyperfixated on satisfactory, but sadly I have no money to get it 🥲 This might be a lot to ask, but if anyone could buy it for me, I'd be eternally grateful 😭🙏

[lofty bison]

u cant ask for game copies on this server btw

might get you banned

[uneven jolt]

Also, who the hell just asks a server to buy them a game? Sounds scammish

[south pecan]

Shucks

[daring tiger]

Does anyone know when the next patch is coming out? Im scared to play further into the 100 % because i dont wanna softlock myself out of a trophy

[uneven jolt]

Hey do the pipeline wall attachments work? The guide im watching said there was issues with them in 1.0

[warm linden]

I've never had issues with the wall attachments, though the floor holes for both conveyors and pipelines have always been finicky

[midnight tangle]

that can happen?

[daring tiger]

Yes i found all the 118 hard drives in the game but i didnt get the trophy for 100 hard drives so as soon as it gets patched i have to load an old save where i have under 100 hard drives

[midnight tangle]

mm I see.

[acoustic mortar]

Hold down on dpad

[uneven jolt]

Thanks

[noble mirage]

Yall think if i get my crush satisfactory and right a huge message in the sky saying will you date me she will say yes

[rustic jackal]

You might lose her to the Factory™

[noble mirage]

nah

[cloud jasper]

Finally got to phase five on Xbox and I noticed according to Xbox achievements only 4% of player's get the achievement of finishing phase four in comparison of phase three finishing being 15%.

Ouch.

[rustic jackal]

I mean, i feel that. It's pretty smooth sailing until phase 3 and the jump from 3 to 4 is pretty big imo

[final jungle]

I feel like most people that could probably rush it easily just get sidetracked because they don’t really want to finish lol
Me and my buddy started making our Wonders of the world.. a drone aircraft carrier, a McDonald’s, the bass pro shops pyramid, a giant dam, and we’re going to do large scale nuclear just for fun
We couldve just kept pushing the phase but we just don’t wanna yet lol

[rustic jackal]

That's what I've been doing. Completing the next stage has moved down several pegs in the importance ladder for me, just because I am having so much fun figuring out my Turbofuel plant, future proofing it for when I want to upgrade to rocket fuel (not anytime soon, I am running out of resources as I tore down my little rat-tail mess that was supplying me with all the supplies)

[wary chasm]

What item gives the best points in the awesome sink

[fickle mesa]

ballistic warp drive, by a large margin

[cloud jasper]

I'm pretty much doing the same thing in a way. I've built my giant home base city, a SAM outpost in the mountains, multiple train lines, and so far thirty rocket fuel burners with the eventual goal of maybe hitting seventy burners lol!

Especially when the phase five if that's even the last phase is rather steep

1,000 nuclear pasta

1,000 biochemical sculptor

256 AI expansion server

200 Ballistic warp drive

At this point I'm just going to build up tier 9 tech and try to enjoy a slower pace lol.

[rustic jackal]

Those numbers. In combination with the names... they scare me

[lofty bison]

im on AI expansion server and its really easy to automate you just need trigons, superposition oscillators, neural-quantum processors and excited photonic matter

[cloud jasper]

That already scares me with just those names lol

[lofty bison]

this is my factory for neural quantum processors very small see its so easy to make #screenshots message

240m at least

[cloud jasper]

The way I did phase four stuff was since I drive around in my city i had one building with six manufacturers, another with six assemblers, and various other buildings making iron steel and copper products

I'd check each machine see what they need, drive to building, get it, load up said machine, let it build and go at it lol

If I tried to automate every single part in the game I'd go insane with probably something like a million spaghetti conveyor lines 😂

[cloud jasper]

I just realized phase five stuff or at least the first tech matter conversion deals with SAM.

I might just have to bring that SAM stuff down to my city base lol.

[rustic jackal]

You are speaking words I had not even considered to be a worry yet. I am going to violently vibrate in place

Also... I am about to create a Train line to replace my old spaghetti of bauxite conveyor belts. Any tips I should know befor I jump into that mess?

[cloud jasper]

I'd use shuttle train line, IE a locomotive on each end and a freight car between them, then make in blueprint designer what I call SkyTrain bridges with two small pillar supports, pillars from one pillar height to seven pillars high, two half foundations, and railway track on top for clean connections.

This way you ensure that you're building above the bumpy terrain at least.

[rustic jackal]

Gotcha. Any way you can haul a screenshot my way so I have a general idea of what that looks like? I dont need it right now, still polishing off a few things in my quest to get a supply of common crafting things going, just for future reference

[surreal helm]

Was messing around on the tools site and didnt realize I put an extra 0 on my input.... was wondering why I needed 50 refineries.... so, I gathered all my recourse to build them and headed that way building my base platform.... decided to throw one up and check to see what it could produce.... realized I need 5... not 50.... PSA double check your numbers. 😅

[cloud jasper]

Tagged you in #screenshots just now

You can make those pillar supports more fancy if you like I just went basic route with simple pillars.

[rustic jackal]

It'll definitely help getting things started off. Once things are in order I'll think about making it look presentable

[cloud jasper]

Seven pillars high also I found tends to help at least in some black deep water locations where if you're lucky the railline will be just above the water 😂

[rustic jackal]

Gotcha. Honestly don't know the logistics of where I am going to have my train run, but I am sure that is a problem for later me

One thing. About having multiple cargo pieces, how are the limitations on that, because I have my plastic and Rubber set up somewhere else and I don't wanna mix'n'match them

[cloud jasper]

If you're thinking of hauling different resources with a train it's usually best to have one freight car for each resource and one freight station for each freight car to be loaded and unloaded.

[rustic jackal]

Yes, I lnow that, but I was aksing about the drivability of the train, because I heard it sometimes screws up with more than one freight car

[frigid dragon]

Hello, I might have a silly question. I’m new to the game and I play on PS5. I’ve now reached the point where I need to make motors.
Is it smart to build a completely new factory with all the components I need to produce motors, such as stators and rotors? Or should I take the rotors and stators from my existing stock? I’m wondering how you all usually play this. Do you build a new factory for everything, or not?

[surreal lichen]

I generally follow a strategy called Independency, which is described in detail here: https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency. In short, though: a factory only outputs one (or a couple closely-related) products for your own personal build-gun use, and goes from ore->product. Once that factory's done, then it's done; you never need to touch it again. When some other factory needs more of that resource, you just make more right inside that new factory (again, going from ore->product)

In general with that kind of setup you might be more aggressively expanding all over the map than you might otherwise, since you've got the freedom to build factories wherever there are convenient nodes nearby. Though you don't have to expand to still mostly follow Independency

It might seem like more work than centralizing stuff, but in the end you're building about the same amount of factory anyway. And having the same resources produced in various factories over the map lets you have more freedom to experiment with alt recipes and other build strategies. And you're far less likely to run into problems caused by past design decisions, since each factory is independent from the others

As I approach the later-game stuff I'll often have "sub-factories" chained together to make a larger factory. Like my Assembly Director System "factory" might be geographically dispersed across various sites, and I just end up sending some intermediate products to where they're needed. But those "sub-factories" are specifically just sending their products over to the next step, so the whole system from start->finish remains quite independent, even if there's logistics inbetween some steps

[frigid dragon]

Okay, thank you for your detailed and clear answer.

[surreal lichen]

And of course: that's just one way to build, of course; may or may not work for you. :D

IMO it solves a lot of problems that newer players tend to run into, though, and has a lot of other benefits besides

[frigid dragon]

Yes, sometimes I find myself wondering whether it’s normal to build a completely new factory again while I already have various parts in storage that are hardly being used at the moment. And on top of that, the fact that iron and copper or coal aren’t close to each other, so I have to make a long belt again.

[lofty bison]

or yknow explore

[uneven jolt]

Question: How exactly do you use the Alien Power Augmenter?

Like I have it built but how do I use it?

[surreal lichen]

Just plug it into your power grid. Instant "free" power, plus a percent power boost to all other power you're generating

[uneven jolt]

How do I use it out in the field when im harvesting hard drives

[surreal lichen]

(And then optionally, you may have noticed it's got a conveyor input. Once you get to Tier 9, there's an item you can start producing which increases its power-boost abilities)

[surreal lichen]

Just build it and plug it directly into the crashed pod (assuming you're at a crash site which requires power to open). :)

There are no pods on the map which require more than a single APA generates, so just one will always do

[rustic jackal]

I never thought about just 'packing up' my APA to open the pods, ive been running powerlines like a dummy

[surreal lichen]

Yeah, I took to making sure I always had the parts available in my clown storage to build an APA, while going drive hunting

Though in defense of dragging powerlines, I always figured that I would probably eventually want power over there anyway, so dragging power while I explore was potentially just saving me work in the future. :P

[final jungle]

Is anyone super into doing trains lol

[uneven jolt]

Thanks. Ive gotten like 5 hard drives with this thing alone

[amber cloak]

I am. But if you're asking for someone who's good at it, that certainly isn't me. Hah

[cloud jasper]

So has anyone tried playing Spotify in the background on xbox with the game?

Can only listen to the boombox tapes for so long and if so what music do you listen to.

[amber cloak]

Funnily enough I started listening to Spotify first (PS5) and only just recently discovered some of the great boom box tracks.
But to answer your question my general listening has been Sleep Theory, the Kpop Demon Hunters album, and The Stupendium. Sometimes a podcast I like.

[cloud jasper]

Ahh ok I'll try Spotify tommorow then even though I'll have the occasional ad lol

[granite thunder]

Works fine for me. Have about 130 hours on the game most of which with Spotify playing. My game crashes occasionally while at my mega factory but not sure if that’s related to Spotify lol

[tired meadow]

for anyone that has been playing on PS5, how is the overall performance? does it run 60fps? frame drops?
what about mega base, does it lag?

[naive monolith]

playing coop with friends, since the last couple of patches it seems to be more stable, previous time when we were nearing phase 4 my friends couldnt join anymore cause it would crash almost instantly... we started a new game, are nearing the end of phase 4 again and had just a few crashes so far so the stability has improved for sure

my ps5 is on 24/7 so my friends can join anytime, i have had a few instances i had to restart but overall it's good atm, hopefully it will remain like that till endgame

we're not really rushing, just building whatever we feel like and this time much more focused on aesthetics as it's our 2nd playthrough so sometimes i just spend hours building some aesthetically pleasing design around a factory

[granite thunder]

Is anyone else struggling with the customiser on console like me? I want to be able to just change the colour of my conveyors without changing all the buildings too and I can’t see an option to do so. Am I missing it or is it just not a thing?

[topaz basalt]

Not without painting all the conveyers with new swatch.
Because both buildings and conveyers are built with whatever swatch is designated as default for "Standard" when built.

[granite thunder]

Silly. Should be separate in the default menu like foundations and pipelines

Also it looks like you can type custom numbers on pc to get brighter colours but not on Xbox 😞

[plain holly]

I love trains. I don't use any other vehicle

[plain holly]

You can type the numbers, also you can colour anything separate and not change everything you just have to make a new Swatch and save it

[stuck frost]

Pipelines keep puzzling me.... is there any good guide available for it? Got some scaling issues with 2 pumps (2x150, overclocked) and 6 coal power machines (6x50) which don't seem to get all 300 🤨

[daring tiger]

Cant really help without a poc

Pic*

[surreal lichen]

( #1038092680493801533 is generally the best place for that, btw -- can inline images and such right in the threads. Piping issues nearly always require pics to properly diagnose)

[cloud jasper]

My home is more spread out like a concrete foundation city with plenty of buildings and a giant oil rig style frame foundations area and so far satisfactory is working with Spotify playing in background lol

[stuck frost]

#screenshots message

Still a work in progress, but wanna make sure to get it right and understand the flow dynamics better

Barely visible, but added a pipeline pump immediately after the place where the two extractors come together

[modern heart]

is anything there overclocked / underclocked?

[stuck frost]

The extractors to be at 150l/min each, totalling at 300

Other than that, not (yet)

[modern heart]

so 125% overclock then

just so you know, thats a bit too much

coal gens dont use 50m³/min water each

[stuck frost]

45/min, with max capacity at 50, right?

[modern heart]

yes, 50m³ is the storage tank volume

[rustic jackal]

I understand a lot of things, but I simply can't wrap my head around making a belt compressor

[icy vigil]

Issue is probably the junctions with the very small gaps between them

From what I understand each of the pipe segments work individually, so you have one long pipe with water, the junction holds about 10 units, then that little pipe inteween the junction will have like 2 water units then 10 then 5 and so on.

If it were me I would split the pipes across the to units of machines but have them join in the end.

So instead of having one single pipe with branches I would loop the pipes above the belts and feed them down into the machine.

Hope that makes sense, I can try grab a picture later on tonight if it would help

Fluids are a damned pain in the ass for sure though

https://youtu.be/cuSlYLebSAE?si=akv5ibVGWxZRghye

Sorry to spam but this video helped me with pipes and the guys got enough time in the game that I trust the info

[granite thunder]

Not past 1 like on pc

[stuck frost]

Oh wow... 40 min vid.... gonna watch it later .... thanks though @icy vigil

[icy vigil]

Tldr is different pipe lengths cause problems 😄 but my coal and later my turbo fuel plant really pushed to the limits of sanity with the damned pipes!

[rustic jackal]

So i am having an issue with my train tracks. I am trying to merge multiple train stations into one 'exit track' but when I try to place the signals to avoid them all trying to drive into it at the same time, it says that the track is looping into itself

[tardy oracle]

Yes that video solved all my pipe issues. Ya placing a junction and then deleting the pipe into the junction then installing new pipes from the junction joints was the key for me. second was having the patience to allow the fluid to flow so going a getting a cup of coffee time helps with my patience. ⚓

[icy vigil]

I had the same issue, follow your train track all the way along you .ought find youve got one block signal in the wrong side of the track.

This happened to be because I use left hand drive trains, but the default signal selector is right side, so one single signal was backwards miles away.

OR I think you need a block signal AFTER the exit block signal if you are working on your intersection but the exits just end and don't actually creat a full circuit.

[rustic jackal]

-# Of course i have to do that. This sucks

[rustic jackal]

I have figured it out. It is a bit wonky, and I don't really like it, but at least I have done it semi-correctly and it should not lock up anymore

[cloud jasper]

So I'm watching the xbox release trailer and the older 1.0 release trailer before game came to consoles and it shows different textures for buildings including one that looks flowery and neon almost graffiti like.

Am I missing something how to get that in game?

[surreal lichen]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, that's accomplished with signs (available from the AWESOME shop); can set them up with solid backgrounds, no text, and bump the emissiveness up for some nifty decoration ideas

(at about the 20 second mark, yeah?)

The one before it would've just been coloring walls and such with the customizer using swatches

[cloud jasper]

1.0 launch trailer you see it at around 56 second mark

[surreal lichen]

(tangentially relatedly: I still think that song is such a banger)

[surreal lichen]

Ah, the "20 second" mark was from the Xbox release trailer. :D Anyway, yeah: those are signs.

[cloud jasper]

Ahhh ok cool good to know! 😄

[green oracle]

i haven’t really used the blueprint other than for tracks and manifolds what other blueprints are useful to make??

[wary chasm]

What part of the map is there crude oil water iron ore and caterium ore really close together

[woeful bronze]

Can't u use the statisfactory map website to map it out?

[topaz basalt]

None, minimum distance from crude oil to caterium is over 500m.

[wary chasm]

Really?!

You guys think it would be a good idea to unlock as much alt recipes as I can and then after focus on building factories that make Modular engine and adoptive control unit

How can I see how many oil extractors or miners or water extractors would I need in the satisfactory tools website

[topaz basalt]

You calculate from the needed input amounts?

[south lagoon]

Anyone else jist get a notification saying "ESRB rating updated to TEEN"?

[long bridge]

That’s illegal

[topaz basalt]

So the game finally has a rating?
Was unrated so automatically considered highest 18+ rating.

[south lagoon]

Ah

[wary chasm]

How is exactly like I don’t understand like how many of water extractors would I need exactly or what should the clock speed be

[topaz basalt]

You know from tools how much you need.
You know from ingame how much one water extractor or miner produces.
Then you calculate.

[cloud jasper]

None.

About the closest you'd get would be the gold coast beach area which is northwestern part of the world map.

Find the area with lots of crude oil nodes, build a base there, outpost, etcetera, and do what I did, use three conveyor lines to bring up from down south pure iron, copper, and limestone, and further south yet, if you have trains unlocked, bring caterium from a pure caterium node to your base.

As for water, well, it's a beach and coastal area so definitely no shortage of space to use water extractors especially if you're building coal generators or need water extractors for other machines such as refineries and blenders later on.

[topaz basalt]

That area is one of the farthest from any other resources.
There are areas with oil with other stuff much closer.

[cloud jasper]

Yeah but they don't look nearly as good as the coast area though 😂

[lilac edge]

reposting your complaint about there being no place to put in a ticket when I just gave you 4 is weird

[rare hill]

Lol okay my fault!

[tranquil salmon]

.

[wary chasm]

Thanks for the info dude I’m starting in building a factory that produces ai limiters and high speed connectors there in that area I’ll probably connect the closest caterium ore node to it or build a train shuttle that goes to it and another caterium ore node ive already made idk

[lusty lily]

I wanna buy satisfactory on ps5 but does satisfactory ps5 version has EVERYTHING as pc version? or is there something missing/diffrent. I don’t count like the mods support or graphics yk, I mean like vanilla stuff

[woeful bronze]

Yee this is ine of the few games where all the versions are near identical

[split blaze]

Any one got a recommendation for a mass battery factory? Unlocked all alt recipies upto this point so using the classic battery recipe etc

Location wise^

[silent plover]

Is there any reason why this game is lagging on console

[woeful bronze]

Not really? I have quite an intensive factory and no lag

[topaz basalt]

Not enough information.
What kind of lag?
Low FPS, low fps spikes, input lag, MP client lag?
SP or MP, and how large save.

Also, which console model.

Because I would expect Xbox Series S to run out of steam with save size much earlier than Series X or any PS5 model.

[cloud jasper]

Here's the thing though I play on xbox series s and the only noticable fps drop I had was once using a bunch of cluster bombs in a heavily wooded area.

I also run at 1080p instead of 4k resolution so that helps too.

[topaz basalt]

Just that it should be the first to start having issues from very large saves compared to the others.
But no idea how large the save would need to be before any actual performance degradation starts to happen.

[cloud jasper]

Otherwise though I've been pretty happy so far how the game runs especially with Spotify running in the background.

I don't have any huge mega factories just several buildings spread out with factories in them.

Like I haven't gone super crazy trying to build something say twenty stories high jam packed with machinery or anything like that lol. 😂

[wary chasm]

What does the alien power augmenter do

[surreal lichen]

Free power!

So long as you consider its build requirements free, at least

[topaz basalt]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Alien_Power_Augmenter

[cloud jasper]

Alien power augmentor is also handy to take along when hard drive hunting for those crashed wrecks that need power to open the door.

[rustic jackal]

Sloops and mercer spheres are finite, correct?

I could've sworn I heard of a way to make sloops, but that could have very well been just my mind playing tricks on me

[cloud jasper]

You might be thinking of power shards which later on you can make once unlocking tier 9.

[rustic jackal]

I knew of that, but it's not what my mind was stuck thinking off. Could've been a friend talking about some mod that allows that, or simply my mind being all over the place

[coarse lava]

There's flavour text about attempting to make artificial somersloops, which result in the creation of another item of interest.

I forget it's actual name.

[modern heart]

power matrix

but that isnt a somersloop

nor does it act like one

[rustic jackal]

A slomersoop

[coarse lava]

That's the only thing I could think you may be thinking of.

[rustic jackal]

Kinda sad there isn't a way to make sloops. It totally would be a painful extremely fun production chain

[coarse lava]

I don't think there will, even in the future, but I could be wrong.

You'll have to balance where you have them situated- power delivery or production amplification.

[rustic jackal]

I currently am only using them for my power generation because I couldn't be asked to place down more generators and deal with more pipe bugs

But a goober can dream

[modern heart]

if you want more value from your augmenters, make actual power production. Augmenters boost existing power production. The 500 MW free is only a small treat, not the main course

theres only so many pipe bugs, the rest is really just... skill issue, as harsh as it sounds.

[coarse lava]

Yeah, early game it makes sense to use them for power gen, it's really cheap and a lot of power for not much work... but once you get even coal up to scale, the requirement for that much power is a lot less.

[modern heart]

wanna avoid most pipe issues that are related to bugs? keep your networks small (use multiple small ones instead of a single big one) and stay away from the mk 2 flow rate cap.

[coarse lava]

I wouldn't mind a Mk3 and Mk4, just for more pipe designs.

[modern heart]

wont happen

code doesnt support it

mk 2 is the actual limit

[coarse lava]

Yeah I wasn't expecting it. I was surprised to see a Mk 6 belt though.

If I could wish for something, it would be patterns for pipes, so I could apply irl colour codes to them.

[wintry spire]

Help I am on ps5 my friend in Xbox I am trying to join he’s session we have both epic account and we are friends but he’s session doesn’t appear on join

Help

[rustic jackal]

I know lol, I've got around 100GW in power without the boost as is right now, the only real issue is like I said the odd few pipes acting wonky. I have things as compartmentalized as it made sense without having clipping pipes and stuff

[cloud jasper]

100 gw? Man I'm only at 10 gw right now and that's with some coal burners and thirty fuel burners burning rocket fuel 😂

[lusty berry]

I make 143 GW you will get there after you unlock rocket fuel

[rustic jackal]

Yup. Got one full pure oil node and part of another one set up for turbo fuel, about to be upgraded to rocket fuel. Again, haven't been able to be bothered with placing more burners

[lusty berry]

I turned 1200 crude oil into 143 GW

[cloud jasper]

Already got rocket fuel unlocked that's what I'm burning

[lusty berry]

Make a bigger plant then since you already bringing in everything you need

One mk2 pipe of oil can make you 1200 rocket fuel/min with the right recipes

[cloud jasper]

I'm using the blender recipe to make fuel and another blender recipe to make nitro rocket fuel

[lusty berry]

I use turbo blend fuel and diluted fuel thats the best recipes in my opinion

[lusty berry]

And heavy oil residue

Very little sulfur needed and you use petroleum coke which is made with hor

Main issue is the massive amount of generators

[deep hawk]

is there something wrong with the epic online services

none of my homeboys can log in

[cloud jasper]

Honestly I'm not sure. I wouldn't be surprised if it was down though.

[edgy moon]

Even fortnite is messed up so I'ma say yes

My gfs kid is throwing a tantrum about it as we speak 🤷🤣🤣🤣

[outer mist]

Cool not just me then

How TF a sp game gonna go offline? 😂🫡

[cloud jasper]

Damn lol 🤣

Seriously coffee stain should think about switching away from epic in 2026 on consoles

[edgy moon]

I know nothing about it. I play console but I didn't know it was thru epic....so that means I don't require the Xbox game pass/online membership to play online?

[cloud jasper]

I'm not sure if you need gamepass or not. Anyone else know?

[outer mist]

I’d say yes you do

It opens the whatever up so online player to player interactions blah blah

Microsoft.

Man I only get a handful of occasions I can sit and play something and the shit is offline..

[cloud jasper]

Maybe one day there will be dedicated server support for consoles

Finger's crossed with lots of wishing

Lol

[inland ferry]

Yo does anyone know y you can connect to the epic games servers

[cloud jasper]

Down detector website shows epic servers are having issues right now which also affects fortnite

[topaz basalt]

Major outtage for Logins/Authentication:
https://status.epicgames.com/

[turbid siren]

Can't you still play offline?

[wary chasm]

Hey will quartz be important in tier 7 & 8

[wary chasm]

Is the steel screws alt recipe better then cast screws

Does it matter if I lower the clock speed on my machines or it doesn’t matter if they are below 100% like I can leave every machine at 100% clock speed and then overclock them when I see that they are going slower

Is one alien power augmenter enough or would I need to put down more then one

[vagrant willow]

Just dont use screws

Use alternate recipes to make literally everything without them

[topaz basalt]

Steel screws are often very nice choice when built right next to each next stage screw using machine.

You just don't want to belt screws around from any kind of centralized area, but build them right where they are needed on per machine basis.

[wary chasm]

So um I should probably stick to using cast screws instead

[wary chasm]

Is it bad that ive over fed my machines in my factories

[modern heart]

if it makes another machine stall, thats inefficient

[wary chasm]

Oh then how do I make my factories efficient

[modern heart]

by not having machine stall

have every machine work nonstop

[wary chasm]

None stop so I what I should pick wisely what lvl of belts I should place and remove most of the overclocks I already put in my machines

[warm juniper]

If you can keep a belt at its max ipm (items per minute) it makes it lot easier
Example; a mk1 miner on a normal node extracts 60ipm and an mk1 belt is 60ipm but a furnace is only 30ipm so you split the conveyor into 2 and put one into each furnace meaning each furnace gets exactly 30ipm

[timber patrol]

Does anyone else have a problem with the game freezing every now and again? Or is my world just pushing the limits of what the console edition can handle?

[topaz basalt]

Autosaves?

[timber patrol]

Yeah it is around when those happen normally

[topaz basalt]

Game pauses while save happens.
And that savetime increases as the save grows.

[timber patrol]

Would disabling auto save fix that? Cause I always save before exiting anyhow

If I can disable it that is.

[topaz basalt]

Should be setting in Options, Gameplay to change the interval, with 0 disabling.

[timber patrol]

Ah okie dokie

I'll change that in a moment an bebop around for a short bit an report my findings

[timber patrol]

Well it seems to have fixed the problem!

[topaz basalt]

The game pausing/freezing when that autosave downcount hits 0 is to be expected.
With that duration increasing as the save grows.

[cyan ginkgo]

I don't know long your sessions are but i wouldn't recommend 0 autosaves. I'd hate to lose an hour of work if the game crashed. I'm on PS5 and had maybe 4 crashes since I started. It's your save, of course, but just throwing that out there

[timber patrol]

I don't normally play all that long, maybe 4 hours tops, so would every 20-30 minutes be good?

[cyan ginkgo]

Sure! Whatever you can tolerate for the game freezing for a couple seconds every so often. I'm at ten minutes myself. Everyone's style is different

[timber patrol]

Oh no the stutter from the auto save is fine, I mean sometimes it freezes an I have to dashboard a relaunch the game

[neat herald]

Hello, i play on ps5 can i play in coop with my friend he played on computer

[fluid briar]

No 😭

[acoustic urchin]

Not yet at least, they possibly have plans to make it fully Cross Play but I don't know for sure

[abstract lark]

What is that in #screenshots that i found

[midnight tangle]

How do I use fireworks and how do I switch grenades please

[surreal lichen]

You switch ammo types by holding down the reload button -- R on PC, and I think on consoles/controller it's holding down on the D-pad

[midnight tangle]

Yayyy

Ty

[dark girder]

🥱

🤤

[wintry spire]

I’ve been trying to play cross play ps5 and Xbox we are both friends in epic and the sessions never appears on join game. It’s like crossplay it’s non existent.

[dapper egret]

Epic might be having issues I got a network warning from palworld makers saying about their 3rd party multiplayer server having issues and it's affecting other games as well

Can vehicles help or replace belts and pipes

My buddy keeps insisting belts and pipes are far better and easier

[midnight tangle]

Tractors can carry cargo autonomously

It’s up to what you like

Trains are pretty good

[dapper egret]

My save looks like someone vomited belts and pipes everywhere

I haven't been able to set up a train line yet

I haven't been able to get lines run around map since some elevation is needed

Might need to find a way to lay track

[midnight tangle]

They’re useful.

I usually do train very late

Drones useful but glitched a tiny bit

[dapper egret]

We're half way through phase 4 and have all milestones done

Not sure what else to do

My buddy got the fuel burners running on rocket fuel got 66,000 in power

[uneven jolt]

Can they make a setting on console where we can get rid of night time lol? Shit makes me blind as hell

[final jungle]

Flashlight helps a little

[final jungle]

Make a blueprint with foundations and track and some kind of beams and stuff to make it look nice with column pillars and then you can place and auto connect the rails on them to do it pretty quick

[uneven jolt]

Like 5%

[lost crest]

i would like some tips. Im a brand new player. Im on phase 2 with only the smart Plating complete.

[lime ore]

Are you looking for tips about anything specific or just general advice?

[lost crest]

ill take what i can get

[lime ore]

two things I can think at the start are unlocking the blade runners, you get them with quartz iirc, and researching it on the MAM. Also look for hard drives and try to unlock the cast screw recipe, it will help a lot early game

[lost crest]

wtf are either of those

[lime ore]

blade runners are an equipment that lets you run faster and jump higher

[lost crest]

i have a recipe for screws that just take iron iggots?

[lime ore]

yes that is the cast screw recipe

[lost crest]

ok

where do i find that quartz??

[lime ore]

at the start you will mostly find it by running around the map, it's a chunk of rock with purple crystals on it

also, on a more random note, don't get stuck trying to make a ultra compact factory for the sake of efficiency, or sleek design, space is the most abundant resource in the game and it's better to have spare

[lost crest]

i might have that

i just built a steel beam factory

where do you recommend i build a main factory base thing?

[lime ore]

I wouldn't know, I don't do mega factories. My factory is a collection of outposts all connected via trains

there are a few youtubers that have tutorials on how to make megabases tho and they are pretty good

[lost crest]

i have raw quartz?

[lime ore]

yes, you need to use it on the MAM to unlock quartz recipes

Do you know what the MAM is?

[lost crest]

i need 20 of them???

for silica

[lime ore]

ye, you get around 30 from each quartz rock iirc, so really just look for them. It may be a bit tedious for now but well worth it

being able to slide jump over machines is great when building stuff

[lost crest]

ok

whats the most needed resourse?

[lime ore]

I know you need an insane amount of copper for the last stage of the game, but it's probably going to be a long while before you get there

so for now I guess Iron and Coal and Concrete

[lost crest]

ok

thanks

[lime ore]

you are welcome, have fun

[lost crest]

@lime ore last question what are the 8 pink things

i cant remeber their names

[lime ore]

8 pink things?

[lime ore]

can you describe a little more cause I got no idea either

the power slugs?

[lost crest]

the things that look like 8. they are like pink on tp and red on bottom

[lime ore]

ah the sommerslop

[lost crest]

mabye the other way around

[lost crest]

ye them

what do you use them for?

[lime ore]

basically once you research them, you can put them in the machines to double your production without doubling their consumption. So for example, if you could turb 10 iron ingots into 30 iron rods, with sommerslops you could make a machine that turn 10 iron ingots into 60 iron rods

[lost crest]

ohhhh

is it like those power capsules. like are they reusable?

[lime ore]

they are like an upgrade to the machine, you put it there, and it stays there until you remove it

[lost crest]

where do i put it?

[lime ore]

you gotta research it on the MAM first, after you do, when you interact with a machine to open the interface, there will be a spot on the bottom right to put sommerslops

[lost crest]

if i research it will i be able to find more with the scanner

[lime ore]

ye

well, the object finder, not the scanner

[lost crest]

ye

the little yellow thing with the 2 black intenners

[lime ore]

ye that the thing

[lost crest]

ohh the production amplifier?

is that itz?

[lime ore]

ye

[lost crest]

whats the other things?

[lime ore]

btw if you find a reserve of a material called SAM I recommend putting a simple extraction as soon as possible. They eventually lead to dimensional depots, that are depots that are directly connected to your inventory, a godsend when you gotta build big

[lost crest]

ok

ill put a note in

so what are the other things needed to make the production thing

[lime ore]

the alien power augmenter increases your electricity on the grid by 10%

[lime ore]

nothing, just the sommerslop

no wait, if you mean research you will need SAM and circuit board

[lost crest]

no it says i need 100 of something and 50 of something else. plus the sommersloop

[lime ore]

The 100 something is that SAM thing I mentioned, you will need it for all the alien tech research tree

[lost crest]

ok

[lime ore]

honestly if I would recommend checking the map to see the nearest deposit to where you are

no shame in that

[lost crest]

ok

how would i do that?

[lime ore]

just googling satisfactory map, there's a bunch of community tools to help you in the game

including planners for production chains

[lost crest]

ok

thanks

[lime ore]

u welcome

[lost crest]

i cant even make it yet

[lime ore]

ye, more MAM research first, exploration is a very big aspect of satisfactory surprisingly enough

another reason to unlock the blade runners

[lost crest]

ok

well i found a normal sam thing close

and a pure quatz thing kinda close

[lime ore]

pog, time to expand the factory then

[lost crest]

lol

idk what to expand to but yep

[lime ore]

mostly a miner into a small manifold of constructors

you won't need either of those resources in large quantities early on

[lost crest]

so just put a miner on them and then into a bin?

[lime ore]

not a bin, put the output of the miner into constructors making the secondary products. like, raw quartz into silica and the other one I forgot the name, and SAM into reanimated SAM

raw quartz into silica and quartz crystal

once you get steel pipes you will be able to make SAM Fluctuator, that you use to build dimensional depots and unlock the stuff on the alien tech tree

[warm juniper]

Does satisfactory have crossplatform play?

[lost crest]

yes

its a setting you need to turn on. not sure if its on by default

@warm juniper

[warm juniper]

Oh fr? Google said it wasnt

[lost crest]

ye should be

let me check

ye

so go to main menu

then Online settings. Sign i to epic. Then go to General Online Settings and Bam its right there

[lusty lily]

How invite friends? Ps5

[lost crest]

ummm

so go ingame. go to manage session. go to invite players. click on it and BAM you can invte friends

@lusty lily

why does everyone looking for people to play with gotta be pc. i wanna play with people

[umbral flume]

Does anyone know how to trigger the "efficiency first" trophy on console? I have done all milestones but didt get it.

[lost crest]

are you sure you did all?

[modest plinth]

@lost crest u still looking to play with people

[lost crest]

sadly

[modest plinth]

Care to join my world

Just started

[lost crest]

ummm sure

[modest plinth]

Or u want me to join u

[lost crest]

dm

[umbral flume]

Well i did everything solo 200h in and just need to make and turn in the last space elevator part but i have done every single milestone and it didnt pop

[north charm]

Bonsoir, est-ce qu’il y a des Français qui désirent faire une partie pour rejoindre ma session ce soir ?

[ionic swallow]

c'est un serveur exclusivement anglophone

per les regles

[main vault]

Hey guys, is there any way to make concrete vibrant like u would on pc since the 1.0 launch?

[wintry spire]

Crossplay it’s not working on consoles

[surreal lichen]

Might be the fault of Epic Games Services, btw -- that sometimes has problems, and that's what the game relies on for crossplay

I think they've gotten most of the actual bugs figured out, but EGS isn't always the most stable

(No clue if that's what's the current problem, but it's a possibility, at least)

[acoustic mortar]

It is currently bugged

[small hearth]

How do I switch the ammo of my rifle

[surreal lichen]

Hold down on D-pad

[uneven jolt]

When you take a picture with photo mode... does it not go to your captures folder on PS?

[uneven ruin]

Why is it every single time I try to join someone on console it says I can’t join even though I have it so I’m logged into epic

@pearl verge

[pearl verge]

its an epic fail

[uneven ruin]

Bro

[pearl verge]

facts are facts, consoles rely on EOS, and it shit the bed, does so on a regular basis

[viral hedge]

its a known bug

[open tiger]

I’m having trouble connecting to epic games on Xbox is there a way to fix this I tried resetting the game, deleting the game, and restarting the Xbox but nothing works does anyone know how to fix this

[lost crest]

Anyone oce wanna play?

[granite lantern]

.

[wary chasm]

Is the swamp a good area to build a factory and if so what kind of factory

[plucky sapphire]

I’m also having this issue… it won’t let me log in and it says to check internet and epic services both are fine please help…

Only thing I can find on google that is similar is where is crashes the game but I’m not getting that luckily

[wary chasm]

Did they patch hyper tubes I’m trying doing the same hyper tube thing that makes you go far asf but I can’t seem to do it

[cloud jasper]

Swamp i just started making a very large concrete foundation area to eventually start bringing in resources to make my first nuclear power plant while also bringing in uranium from a normal uranium node by train in the red forest to the swamp.

Idea being I'll burn uranium fuel rods and with automation turn the uranium waste into plutonium fuel rods and sink them for clean nuclear fuel.

Really fun part is going to be bringing in resources some more fun then others to the swamp.

[umbral flume]

Welp guess i will wait with finishing stuff then. Good i have a save before turning the last one in

[wary chasm]

So the swamp is good for concrete and uranium

[wary chasm]

Is building a train network very difficult

[lost crest]

The hunt for someone to play with continues

[stable pond]

Hello pioneers, after 200h I would like to play/build in a Team. Is there any Group lookin for a New member?

[lost crest]

what region?

[stable pond]

I m from germany 🙂

[lost crest]

goodluck with your search

so i need 22.5 coal/min. My t3 conveyer does 270. how do i get an exact amount of that conveyer. Cause the conveyer is also making my steel beams

nvm

[oak rain]

Hi, does anyone else has the problem that the conveyor belt splitter is not turnable in one specific direction?

[modern heart]

are you trying to snap it into a belt?

on the floor there should be no limits

[cloud jasper]

Well the concrete I brought with me but where I ended up putting down foundations was near a large waterfall.

There actually is a uranium node in a cave in the swamps however it's an impure uranium node and the uranium I'll be bringing in by train is from a normal uranium node.

[lost crest]

i dont wanna open these

[oak rain]

No, I just wanted to place a splitter on a foundation and it was possible to turn the entry point in 3 directions, but not the one I wanted. I tried to place it somewhere else and this direction was not available either.

[topaz basalt]

So that bug is back?
Where on foundations with one exact orientation in degrees, specific orientation of (some) buildables isn't available, as the combined angle goes past 360 by just the right amount.

[wary chasm]

Can you dispose any nuclear waste into an awesome sink

[topaz basalt]

No.
Anything radioactive before Uranium Waste.
And Plutonium Fuel Rods.
Nothing else.

So neither Waste is sinkable, and nothing made using either Waste is sinkable except those Plutonium Fuel Rods.

[cloud jasper]

I'm already getting frustrated just setting up one nuclear reactor to get going as I got two bauxite nodes really close by as well as one limestone however now I gotta go find another sulfur node in or near swamp area.

Ugh lol

Not too mention I'll probably need to get iron and copper nodes going too to make other stuff for various machines lol

[indigo shuttle]

Hello. Im new to satisfactory.

[heavy vale]

For me the hardest part of Satisfactory is actually like the architecture building. Like people build these super nice and clean layouts. Yet here I am feeling like a cave man just discovering fire 😂

[rose oasis]

Hello I’m new here

[indigo shuttle]

You ps5 player

[tidal lodge]

Is console version worth it to pick up yet?

[indigo shuttle]

If console you can play. Xbox and ps5 players can play together

[tidal lodge]

all my builds are just foundations....

[indigo shuttle]

Is anyone playing satisfactory

[buoyant panther]

Wdym be a part of a team? Is there competitions for this game?

[indigo shuttle]

Is anyone trying to play satisfactory with somebody

[glad perch]

Yo

[indigo shuttle]

Whats up.

[glad perch]

You on ps or xbox

Also is the cross play fixed ?

[indigo shuttle]

Ps5. But Xbox and ps players can play because both are consoles

[glad perch]

Yes but ive tried to play with my friend on a ps and we couldnt play together like 2 weeks ago

[indigo shuttle]

Huh. Thats weird.

[glad perch]

We even added each-other on epic games

[indigo shuttle]

Wanna see if its fixed

Because now im curious

[glad perch]

Yes id love to

How do u wanna add me on epic games

[indigo shuttle]

Hold on. Epic games. Give me a sec

[glad perch]

Yea we have to add through w epic games

[indigo shuttle]

Idk how to do it with ps

[indigo shuttle]

I now see what you mean my if its fixed. This is unusable as crap

[uneven jolt]

Question when it comes to Nuclear Power:

What do i do with the Nuclear waste until I can make Plutonium and Ficsium rods?

[random relic]

Store it in containers

I'd recommend waiting until plutonium and then either sinking plutonium rods or storing plutonium waste

Ficsonium isn't worth the effort at all

[uneven jolt]

Why not

[blissful prairie]

So guys I wanna play this game with my friend and he is on PC and I am on console.
Is that supported?

[rustic jackal]

Nope, only between consoles

[cloud jasper]

Just posted a screenshot of my WIP nuclear reactor.

That's gonna be a royal pain later on to set it all up lol.

[rose oasis]

No Xbox

[rose oasis]

Man this sucks

No one on console posts lfg

[lost crest]

I do?

[warm juniper]

alright so im trying to invite my xbox friend into my already running pc world but we cant figure out how. is there a way to or does he need to host and i join him?

[topaz basalt]

There is no PC <-> Console crossplay.

[warm juniper]

Are you serious?

I asked in here before and someone told me I could using epic

[topaz basalt]

There is PS5 <-> Xbox crossplay, and PC Steam <-> PC Epic crossplay, but no Console <-> PC one.

[warm juniper]

Awh man alright ty

[lost crest]

how does my xbox friend invite me to when im on ps5?

[lost crest]

so i have tried making a session. and so has my friend yet nither of us can join eachother. he on xbox im on ps5.

pls help

[topaz basalt]

Both need to have logged into Epic ingame.
Both need to be each others Epic friends.
Game MP type needs to be Epic.
And some other requirements related to profile publicity settings etc. I have no idea about.

[wary chasm]

Can you still make hyper tube cannons that make you go incredibly far or is it no longer possible

Is the dune desert the perfect place to build a nuclear powerplant?

[lilac edge]

it's still possible

[surreal lichen]

There's really no "perfect" place for a nuclear plant. The main thing is easy access to water, so make that your priority. You'll nearly always be needing to cart stuff in regardless, but you don't want to have to move water around for NPPs

(That said, for modest-sized plants, the swamp does have just about everything you need quite close by)

[vital sentinel]

I started a single player world, but am open to doing a new multi-player world. Anyone interested?

[surreal lichen]

#1201555265942724758 is the best place to coordinate that, btw

[split blaze]

Just finished fused frames, got to do turbo engines next and gaw damn

[tidal lodge]

I've just bought the game for ps5. I've put about 250 hours into the game on pc so far. But I enjoy console experience. Starting fresh has made me appreciate the infrastructure I built lol

[vital sentinel]

I was looking for that. Thank you!

[nova nest]

Why am I just exploding to radiation damage at my nuclear factory

[upper roost]

Hi everyone i start the game but i can't do the event can you help me ?

[topaz basalt]

You don't have gifts dropping, and calendar in HUB next to milestone terminal?

[opaque isle]

367 hours in....i just finished the game.

So freaking happy lol

[topaz basalt]

You mean finished the tutorial by completing Phase 5 delivery?

[opaque isle]

No. I just finished delivering ballistic warp drives

[topaz basalt]

Which were needed for that Phase 5 delivery, the last delivery.

[opaque isle]

Yea... that's not the tutorial

[topaz basalt]

Community joke about everything until you have unlocked everything and completed last delivery being tutorial for freeform.

As each phase has new mechanics.

[granite lantern]

Wanne start over or join a new game sombody have 1 room over voor new player pm me thx im at fase 4 ... so i know the basics

[split blaze]

Is the max efficiency trophy fixed yet

[topaz basalt]

No, and next time to ask is near end of January.

[split blaze]

Damn

Think they would just do it and drop a small patcg

[topaz basalt]

Seems the issue is with getting Sony to deploy new CSS code to production on their backend to fix the issue.

[split blaze]

Bit complicated for me to understand, but not surprised its a sony issue

[topaz basalt]

Basically the achievement "works" right now.
But to trigger it to complete, you would need to complete all the milestones in one sitting, in under 24 hours.

[split blaze]

Speedrun time

[topaz basalt]

No save loads at all, and the game autosaves and reloads every 24h of constant runtime.

[split blaze]

But what your saying is, is using sufficient exploits, i could be the first

[topaz basalt]

And to fix that, needs changes to code/stuff that CSS provided to Sony, which seems to be bureaucratic nightmare.

[split blaze]

Sony are horrific when it comes to players, they do not care

I mean just look at their refund policy/system compared to legit any other platform

[topaz basalt]

Basically mistake between achievement triggering when "all these triggers are hit in one play session" vs. intended "all these triggers are hit, ever"

And that checking happens on Sony managed servers.

If I understood earlier dev stream correctly.

[wraith parcel]

Got told blueprints save across files, just spent 5hrs making blueprints on a God world for nothing 😭

[lilac edge]

they do on pc

they don't on console

whoever told you they did was either lying or assuming you're on pc.

[topaz basalt]

On console you could make manual save, then reload that enabling AGS, do the BPs.
Then reload from that original manual save before AGS enabling.
AFAIK.

But I would test with throwaway world first to make sure that works and the earlier saves don't also get AGS tagged for some reason

[wraith parcel]

Dare say assumed

Majority of people are pc

[topaz basalt]

Even on PC, BPs are per world/session.
You can just manually copy or move them across on OS side.

[wraith parcel]

Yeah far much easier

[topaz basalt]

Point was that the original answer was already wrong even on PC.
Just that on PC you can go around it with OS tools.
And if the person had mentioned how it actually works, you would have known you cannot do that on Console.

[split blaze]

You have put me on a mission to unlock it in less than 24 hours

[topaz basalt]

Current world record seems to be little under 7h 15min for completing Phase 5 on 1.1.
https://www.speedrun.com/satisfactory?h=5package-1-1-solo-nmg&x=mkemm5x2-kn0zgoo8.le2g8rml-kn0kov78.q5v57zvl-ylpqopv8.10vv0rol

But that includes save scumming AFAIK to correct for any mistake from perfect, and using PC controls.

And person who has been speedrunning Satisfactory for years.

[uneven jolt]

Question what's AFAIK? And why speedrun the game

[topaz basalt]

As Far As I Know

[uneven jolt]

Aaah learned a new acronym

[high furnace]

hi kinda new to the game, any pointers?

[uneven jolt]

Take it section by section. Don't be afraid to over complicate

[high furnace]

ok, so im on tier 1

just made an iron production

can i link multiple smelters to one storage container? and can i put in from both sides? or they one in, one out?

[surreal lichen]

"Why speedrun?" is essentially just answered by "because folks find it fun to do." :D

I don't think the Satisfactory speedrunning community is too large, though

[uneven jolt]

Lol thats fair

[uneven jolt]

I do wanna platinum the game though. But if I have to wait ill wait

[acoustic mortar]

Platinum is currently impossible until they fix the milestone trophy unfortunately. I'm using the time to build up the tickets to get the golden nut + cyber wagon

[topaz basalt]

The point was that you can get that last trophy, but it needs to be done in one session without any save loads, in under 24h because at that point the game autosaves and autoreloads.

[main kite]

Greetings
Did they fix the multiplayer issue yet?

[acoustic mortar]

Ah looks like I missed that. Apologies

[split blaze]

Made it to phase 4 one run, and game crashed

[wary chasm]

Then why can’t I do it right ive made a straight line added the hyper tube entrance but nothing it either wouldnt let me enter it or if I only added the tubes and then the entrance I wouldnt go as fast as others can

[wary chasm]

So at some point when I do get nuclear powerplant a unlocked I’m gonna need to use the fluid carts on a train to transport water to the powerplant

[wary chasm]

Oh so that area makes it the best for nuclear powerplant or

[surreal lichen]

Heh, it's your grave if you want to do that. :D

You might have misinterpreted what I said: IMO, the main resource you want to make sure is available, in abundance, locally, is water.

I would personally not want to use more than a single pipeline pump inbetween my water extractors and the nuclear plants.

[wary chasm]

What do you mean it’s my grave

[surreal lichen]

I mean that you're setting yourself a difficult and complex challenge which you don't need to do, if you instead just build your plants basically right on top of a large body of water

[surreal lichen]

I'll reiterate what I said: IMO, there is no "best" place for a nuclear power plant. Proximity to water is the main concern; any other resource can be trivially brought in if needed.

For a smallish nuclear setup, the swamp does have most of what you need right there. So you can certainly go ahead and build there

[wary chasm]

Oh so your saying I should build it very close to a large body of water to make my life easier?

[surreal lichen]

But by this point in the game you've got literally all logistics options available to you, so just build near water and bring in whatever else you need. :)

(And again, if you want to transport water to your NPPs via train (or any other method), there's nothing stopping you from doing so except the time + effort required. :)

[wary chasm]

Oh really I haven’t unlocked tier 7 & 8 yet I’m still working on building the adoptive control unit

[wary chasm]

But it isn’t ideal or the best way I’m guessing?

[surreal lichen]

Heh, honestly, don't bother trying to plan stuff out for phases you don't even have unlocked yet

[wary chasm]

I thought it would be very helpful

[surreal lichen]

Just wait until you've actually got the things available, then you can see what kind of resources they need and start playing around with them

Nah, planning ahead in this game is (IMO) nearly always a trap

[wary chasm]

Really?!

[surreal lichen]

The only way to properly plan ahead would be to literally plan out your future production lines, but doing so requires knowing all the recipes and where you want to build the factories, and there's likely dozens of things you'd need to plan out

[wary chasm]

Oh okay I did not know about that

And I still don’t know what locations are the best for making any kind of factory ive just been building my factories close to the nodes I need tho idk if that’s the best way to go about building a factory

[surreal lichen]

In the end there's rarely any "best" in the game, fwiw -- it's just whatever you want to do, really

So long as you're having fun you're playing it the right way. :D

(I say, mere posts away from saying that planning ahead is a trap. :P)

All of the starting locations are good

IMO the game's at its best when you expand out and start building factories all over the map, so to me, where you start really doesn't matter much in the end

And there's a lot of viable production spots for practically everything

Especially with alt recipes -- alt recipes are there to give you options while building. A lot of times that takes the form of letting you use Resource X instead of Resource Y to make something, which gives you that many more options for where to put that factory

I tend to approach factory building with a style called "Independency" -- https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency. Basically: each factory just outputs to my own personal storage, and I do the factory from ore->product near the ores that it requires. (Then, if some other factory ever needs more of that resource, I just make more right inside that new factory)

Once I get to the later game, a "factory" of mine might actually consist of a number of geographicall-disparate "sub-factories" which are sending intermediate products around

But anyway, as I say, that's not the best way to play, that's just how I like to do it. :D (Though I do think that Independency happens to solve a lot of problems that newer players tend to run into)

[wary chasm]

Huh? Um okay

I don’t understand this independency thing of your dude

[surreal lichen]

The link there probably explains it better than I do. But essentially it's just what I said: I make a factory that goes from ore->product, right near the ores that the product needs, and it only outputs to my "personal" storage, not to other factories. (So basically: anything I need to use via my build gun)

[wary chasm]

Oh you mean like the dimensional depot where you put that at the end of like an industrial storage?

[surreal lichen]

Yeah, basically instead of trying to do something like "I'm gonna make 100/min Reinforced Iron Plates over here, and then whenever anything needs RIPs, I send them over."

With Independency you'd just like do a small factory making maybe 20/min for yourself, and then whenever some other factory needs more RIPs, I just make more right inside that new factory

So each factory's totally isolated from all the others

And eventually on your playthrough you're presumably making more than 100/min RIPs, but that's scattered across probably dozens of factories, as-needed

In addition to much simpler logistics needs, you get more leeway to play with alternate recipes, in lots more varied locations, and are also in a position of only ever making exactly how much you need (instead of potentially overbuilding)

[wary chasm]

I think I’m doing the same thing but less because I don’t have a lot of Mercer spheres to build a lot of dimensional depots ive only like put them on reacurces I’ll need the most

[lilac edge]

you might be following old guides that don't work any more

[honest helm]

Hi I tried using the troubleshooting forums but got no help so I’m hoping someone here can I’m currently playing on ps5 and when I hit join game in the main menu I get a blank screen where the join menu should be can anyone help?

[dry sedge]

Hey I got to phase 9 and decided this game would be fun to play with someone else. Anyone or 4 want to start a new game ?

[wary chasm]

Maybe maybe so how should I go about building a hyper tube cannon because I do think that it would be incredibly useful to have a hyper tube cannon

[lilac edge]

wouldn't know, I don't use them.

I prefer to use hypertubes to step away from the computer and take a poop break

[wary chasm]

Wait What do you don’t have like a hyper tube that makes you go insanely fast

[lilac edge]

no need.

hypertube interchange + really long tubes.

[wary chasm]

Isnt that kinda just like a train at that point or something

[lilac edge]

no, cos you have to manually exit a train.

[wary chasm]

What about hyper tube is it faster than a train atleast?

[lilac edge]

I don't use trains any more either 😛

[wary chasm]

Anymore huh aren’t they like a very helpful or something you’d want to use at some point in the game?!

[lilac edge]

I found that by the time I had enough resources to lay out trains, I already had a well-established set of "temporary" conveyor belts running on the sky platforms intended for rails, so I just skipped bothering

[brisk lion]

I ran into FPS and lag issues with larger factories well decorated. So I follow build medium factory place x. Then send completed components to place y. If place is short of an item I will a small supplemental factory and feed factory y.

I do very much enjoy the alt recipes I have found I was able to scale up one or two notes to supply full production vs having to go all over the place and get 4/5 nodes. Steamed copper sheets comes to mind or wet concrete

[woven quest]

Does the game actually have crossplay?

Like between pc and ps5?

[lost crest]

no

its ps5 to xbox crossplay

[topaz basalt]

Inside console space and inside PC space, but not between console and pc.

[fast mirage]

Is it possible to have a base that could make all the parts U need from everything and have it some what manageable lol

At the moment I am trying to build a iron side copper side then bring it all into the middle and all the other stuff like concrete and Sam's can be added later

But I am noticing more and more I unlock the layouts I have are kinda useless

[split blaze]

I mean i just keep ripping stuff down and rebuilding it tbh

[fast mirage]

I will be doing that alot when I get to the complect part but I am only wanting to make the most basic resource all all the ones that need ingots like screws plates etc.. and 1 tier past that so nothing to crazy but trying to merge just the copper and iron is a pain

[fast mirage]

If U want I can kinda show U what I have going so far and I could maybe give a few tips?

[split blaze]

Only tip i have, is use alot more room than you think you will ever possibly need, and when designing something, build it so you can easily scale it, manifolds are very handy that way

[fast mirage]

Way ahead of U I start building over the void so then it's almost unlimited space 🤣

[merry gale]

Any information on a switch 2 version?

[topaz basalt]

Almost certainly not happening.
Just way too low performance system.

Satisfactory is CPU heavy.

[fast mirage]

We was lucky to get it on ps5 and Xbox lol

[lilac edge]

November 11th, 2025 Video
Q&A: Does the game come to Switch 2?
https://youtu.be/QP2bdQwzGTE

No plans for that as of now, unfortunately.

[lost crest]

Would switch even run the game

[fast mirage]

A very low quality and frame rate maybe

[lost crest]

I don’t think it would tbh. It’s a factory game

Gotta build a lot of stuff

And your still confined to a certain area

[lilac edge]

there's a whole bunch of "cloud edition" games for switch

[lost crest]

Cloud?

[lilac edge]

game not actually running on switch hardware, is running on remote server

[lost crest]

Ohhh

Makes sence

[rustic jackal]

I wonder if it would be worth it to add valves for my longer pipelines to prevent sloshing along the longer straights

[modern heart]

add a pump instead

valves cannot give the pipe more head lift, they can only forward it

[split island]

Hi guys i have a little problem whit my big Rocket fuel generators (whit pipes) that dont transfer enough Rocket fuel

[fossil yarrow]

what is your guys suggestion for fixing the cable managment?

[surreal lichen]

For machine power, I tend to just use one pole/socket per machine and daisy chain 'em

I'll generally make a blueprint so that I've got a wall socket "attached to" the machine (using temporary beams to get 'em in place)

[vapid glacier]

anyone wanna help welp with my coal mine? pretty new

[hollow jolt]

@vapid glacier go to https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1201555265942724758

ask in there

but i am down to play new survival

[gray axle]

Sorry if this is not the right channel for for these two questions I just got in here and I’m dying to ask

One, how do I change the binding for any button on console. It highlights what button I want to change, but doesn’t change it no matter what I press. Basically I want to stop pinging things every time I detonate a nobelisk.

Second, has anybody ever had issues with their tractors just disappearing. I was working underground in one of the mushroom caves when I went back to find my tractor. It is not there. The weird thing is it still shows up on the map and so I know exactly where it should be but it’s like it’s invisible. A bunch of stuff was in it, which wasn’t rare, but still annoying to lose.

[hollow jolt]

Question 1. let me check
Question 2. Just started so no

@gray axle

The things is

With question 1

You cannot change the bindings

[topaz basalt]

Second: the cave unloaded and the vehicle dropped into the void.

Long time game bug.

[hollow jolt]

I know it is annoying

[topaz basalt]

So load save from before if possible.

[hollow jolt]

The devs don't focus on this part and the crossplay part

They aren't helping us console players out

[stable pond]

Sry for dumb question, can u crossplay?

[surreal lichen]

Consoles (PS and Xbox) can crossplay, and PC users can crossplay between storefronts (Steam, EGS), but there is no Console<->PC crossplay (nor are there current plans for it)

[hollow jolt]

Devs are lazy to add console<->pc

[wary chasm]

Is the fluid freight platform good?

[surreal lichen]

I mean, if that's your opinion, so be it. But just because a developer doesn't implement something doesn't mean it's due to laziness

[surreal lichen]

Yep, at least for liquids. The main thing is that you need to make sure to buffer the input/output which can be a little unintuitive

Here's two buffer designs which should work fine: #design-and-architecture message + #design-and-architecture message

Don't use them for gasses, though. Gasses really don't like buffers, in the end -- if you want to transfer gasses by train, set up a little packaging loop instead. (Package the gas before transport, then send the empty tanks back once they're unpackaged, so you have a nice closed loop)

You can also do the packaging loop with liquids, of course, and some folks prefer that to fluid platforms anyway

--
Back on console<->PC crossplay, can watch various comments on the subject from the devs themselves via: https://archive.satisfactory.video/topics/features/multiplayer/crossplay/

As I say, if you think they're just being lazy and using those reasons as a blind or whatever, then c'est la vie.

[hollow jolt]

Not in the way you think

@wary chasm

Down to play?

[uneven saddle]

hi i am new to this chat and i joined bc i wanted to talk about the game and play

[high furnace]

so im trying to Mine some catirium, but there's a rock on the node meaning it won't let me place a large miner there. is there a way to amend this?

[umbral flume]

Destroy the rock? Either manual gather the stuff until rock is gone, or its an explosive one so you blow it up

[rustic jackal]

I'm assuming you're talking about the pure node in the NW. You need a Nobilisk to blow it free

[high furnace]

nw?

and noblisk is which tier?

[surreal lichen]

Can get them in Phase 2 (tiers 3+4). Available in the MAM, not the HUB, but requires steel

Find some sulfur on the map and start researching it

[high furnace]

ok, thanks

[surreal lichen]

Relatedly: don't neglect your MAM! Check it often for anything you can research

[hollow jolt]

Ah

[surreal lichen]

Nothing in there is strictly speaking necessary to win the game, but there's a lot of great stuff in there

[hollow jolt]

You get new ores etc via MAM

[surreal lichen]

Those will technically also unlock when necessary as part of milestone unlocks

Can just get them early via MAM

[hollow jolt]

O

Better

[surreal lichen]

(see, for instance, sulfur. :)

[hollow jolt]

RUST

[untold herald]

Any one on Xbox series s having issues with online not showing games and crashing the game?

[rustic jackal]

North-west. My bad

Also happy new years from germany

[distant pollen]

Xbox here, it doesn't show any online games for me ever

[untold herald]

Ok thanks I even got cross play on

[distant pollen]

Same, I just look one here and looking for game

[thick crystal]

Im on ps5 and the join list is completely empty, I can’t even search for direct invites, any solutions?

[tawdry karma]

Guys, I need your help. I'm playing on the console versions for satisfactory and I finally got trains unlocked. I am struggling really bad to get interesting layouts for a train Network or trying to build where I can line up my grids even if they were or non-curve I'm trying to plan out a new place to build and I'm afraid that Mine accelerate will never succeed what I have so far

[untold herald]

I wonder if they don't have any servers for console yet?

[languid pawn]

Is there anyway you can change key binds I want to swap my build with my resource ping

[rustic jackal]

Nope. From my understanding they are looking into it but as of now you can't change em

[hollow jolt]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

To all of my fellow members

[fast mirage]

Happy New year 🎊🎊🎊

[shrewd dust]

Ein schönes neues euch 🍀

[wary chasm]

you asking me that Or someone else?

Yo guys I just unlocked tier 7 & 8 final after hours so what should I do now that I’m in phase 4

[lusty berry]

Automate

Automate the late game parts

And then build the space elevator

boom you in phase 5

[little crater]

Has anyone found a fix for the save file glitch?

[wary chasm]

I get that but like where do I begin doing that

[wary chasm]

Should I probably hunt for alternative recipes now that I’m in phase 4 like should I do that as soon as possible?!

[forest meadow]

Me and my friend have the error code E007 how do we fix this

[sleek crescent]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out which factories I should be making. I've just got to phase 3 for the first time. But I'm still finding myself hand crafting stuff. Because I have no idea which factories to make and the best places to make them

[ruby comet]

I also have this and dont know

I'm NAT2 my friend also

Pls help

[surreal lichen]

It's never too late to go hard drive hunting!

Personally I like to gather recipes basically immediately; I like being more or less "caught up" before opening up a new phase

[surreal lichen]

Pick something you haven't yet automated, then automate it. Repeat! There's no wrong answer

It helps, IMO, to just make real factory essentially totally isolated from others.

Like if a factory needs rotors, don't grab them from elsewhere; just make new rotors right inside the new factory

(For stuff like rubber+plastic it often makes sense to produce those near the oil and then ship them over where they're needed)

As to where to make the factories, can use a tool like satisfactorytools.com (or some other planner) to come up with a factory plan; that'll tell you what raw resources you need. Then go find somewhere which has those resources

(Alternatively, just find a spot and see what's around there, and then use sftools or whatever to see if you can get a factory plan with those resources. That's where having a bunch of alt recipes can help)

[uneven jolt]

Yes hunt them down. Im working on the turbo motor factory and with 12 alt recipes i dropped the buildings from 590 to 378

[uneven jolt]

Wtf there are 2 pure quartz nodes in the red jungle i cant find and im getting annoyed

[surreal lichen]

If they're the ones I'm thinking about, they're actually significantly below the forest

[weary plover]

When are you ment to build the space elevator because I feel like I have to build it as soon as I get it ?

[surreal lichen]

You need it to unlock Phase 2 (Tiers 3+4), and the main driver for giving you a sense of urgency is that you will eventually tire of having to collect biomass for power. (You may already be tired of that!)

Starting in Phase 2 you get fully-automated power. :)

But no, you definitely don't need to build it right away. But you'll need to, eventually, to progress in the game

[uneven jolt]

Yea I just found them... a tad salty. Was running around up top aimlessly

[uneven jolt]

Should I just triple my current cooling system factory (its currently making 20) to then split 40 of them off to a turbo motor factory? Or just make a whole new cooling system factory for the turbo motors?

[surreal lichen]

Making a whole new factory is, IMO, nearly always easier than trying to expand a current one

Though if you've got "room" left on the nodes feeding your existing factory, you could make that new factory like literally right next to the first, etc.

(or on a different set of floors, etc)

[uneven jolt]

They're pure nodes and I have a Mk 3 miner on them so I've got room.

I need water and oil so I cant run a second floor

[surreal lichen]

Well, pumps do exist. :)

Though I agree I'd personally probably avoid splitting a liquid feed between different floors, just for simplicity's sake

[uneven jolt]

Im working on dividing the ores rn cause theyre going over the top of the factory

[wary chasm]

So once I do unlock nuclear power plants will I be able to make ficsonium or is that a phase 5 item

[surreal lichen]

Ficsonium is phase 5

[gray axle]

I just completed phase 2 and I’m having trouble figuring out what my next step is. I’m ready to start building some factories and creating items but I have two questions.

Do I build a separate dedicated factory for each item based on the amount of resources it takes to create that item like for example, send all my coal and iron and concrete to one factory and have that one factory build everything that can be made out of just those three resources?

Second, what do I do with all the items when they’re out of the factory do I store them next to that factory so if I need to grab that item I travel all the way to that factory or do I have a train or truck bring it to one storage facility where all the items can be funneled into their own perspective storage containers so if I need any item, I can go and grab it. I don’t have enough resources to build enough dimensional depot for each factory so, this is my issue. Especially because even if I did, my dimensional depots will get backed up before the next item can be loaded in so I don’t even know how to use them.

[gray axle]

Also, last question does distance of a train car play a factor in how many resources it can move per minute? Like is a train car that’s moving further gonna need more carriages to transport the appropriate number of resources so that my stuff doesn’t get backed up.

[nova nest]

How many nuclear generators does 9 uranium fuel rods per minute fuel

[turbid siren]

You can add more freights to have each train carry more. Or you can just add more trains to make sure that each freight is using as much of its throughput as possible

[modern heart]

a single nuke uses 0.2/min rods
9 / 0.2 = 45
45 Nukes

[lone arch]

Does anyone else have really bad crashing issues, specifically when saving?

[wary chasm]

Okay cool then what do I do about nuclear power plants without ficsonium because without fisconium everything that fuels nuclear power plants will always produce nuclear waste as a byproduct

Are valve necessary?

[lone arch]

After using nuclear fuel rods you can refine the waste into plutonium fuel rods which can be sinked until youve unlocked ficsonium

[topaz basalt]

And might choose to still do.
Yes, burning the plutonium fuel rods will give more power, but ficsonium is very complex and mostly just power neutral by itself.

[lone arch]

Wait so the power you get from burning ficsonium just cancels what it takes to make it?

I suppose it still allows you to burn the plutonium though so its still more power

[topaz basalt]

Yes.

[lone arch]

Doesnt seem too great then,i guess ill just sink the plutonium unless i need the power then

Also would you know if there anr any specific things that can cause the game to stress alot?

[wary chasm]

Wait I’m now confused about fisconium now is it worth getting once unlocked or not and like what I should use before them

Also is the swamp a good area to build a aluminium factory that makes every aluminium item

[topaz basalt]

Allows you to burn those Plutonium Fuel Rods for power without waste, but uses tons of SAM ore and contains lot of complexity in the chain, and mostly just covers the power requirements for that Ficsonium Fuel Rod production.
So depends.

So basically just doing more Uranium power, with plutonium fuel rod sinking is easier AFAIK than doing Ficsonium.

For the existing uranium & plutonium chain.

[wary chasm]

Does fisconium give more power than plutonium and uranium

[topaz basalt]

You get the power of burning that plutonium, instead of sinking it. (or you have to store the plutonium waste).
But don't basically get any power from the ficsonium, just enough to cover making that ficsonium from plutonium waste.

[surreal lichen]

You do get power out of Ficsonium; it's just that it's only like 33ish% power-efficient

So if you spend 300GW making the Ficsonium you'd have 100GW net extra power once those plants are online

So it's not like you get nothing from it. But it's definitely the least power-efficient generation method, by a huge margin

[wary chasm]

Really then what is a more efficient or better solution then fisconium

[topaz basalt]

Just choices.

Don't do nuclear at all.
Use Uranium Fuel Rods and store Uranium Waste.
Reprocess Uranium Waste to Plutonium Fuel Rods and sink them.
Use Plutonium Fuel Rods and store Plutonium Waste.
Reprocess Plutonium Waste into Ficsonium and use it.

From least complex to most complex basically, but least to most power.
You could do with just base Fuel for Generators if you want, and TurboFuel and the new higher options are completely viable.

[wary chasm]

Oh um okay

Should I use the alternate recipe callled instant scarp or no

[topaz basalt]

And then on that Crude Oil side, Fuel, Diluted Fuel, TurboFuel, Rocket Fuel, Ionized Fuel, where AFAIK currently Rocket Fuel is seen as the "best" option with Ionized Fuel going too far into complexity etc.

[surreal lichen]

Adding on to what Baldur said: don't be afraid of storing waste. Waste storage isn't nearly the problem many folks think it is. You generate waste at a steady predictable rate, you know how much waste can fit inside an ISC (or can easily find out), so you also know how "long" an ISC gets you in terms of reactor runtime (or, you can easily find out).

Do a bit of math, head into your blueprinter, and you can make yourself a nice little ISC grid which will give you X hours of waste storage. Slap down however many of those you need, somewhere offshore, and it's pretty easy to give yourself literally hundreds of hours of playtime

(Though it's worth noting that Plutonium Waste accumulates much more slowly than Uranium Waste. Most people storing waste prefer to do so with Plutonium)

[stuck geode]

This

Indeed

[wary chasm]

So instead of adding nuclear waste into the awesome sink I should store it in a storage and it’s better todo that with plutonium waste then uranium waste & if I wanted the best efficiency for power I should do a rocket fuel powerplant?

[topaz basalt]

You cannot sink Uranium Waste or Plutonium Waste.

[surreal lichen]

(And in fact the only radioactive material you can sink "after" Uranium Fuel Rods is Plutonium Fuel Rods. None of the other intermediates are sinkable either)

[wary chasm]

I didn’t know that

Well what is the best thing todo when I get nuclear powerplants unlocked I don’t wanna mess up my playthrough because there’s a lot of radioactive waste in a area that I can’t delete