satisfactory

[azure swan]

The machine will tell you if you look at it with the menu (default key = "E")

[stiff wolf]

im using normal coal nodes.

ok

[azure swan]

This is helpful for this problem but not helpful for figuring out how to solve problems with information we should be able to find in game even.

[turbid lantern]

Coal generators burn 15 coal per minute at 100%

[azure swan]

Try going to the coal generator and hitting E

[stiff wolf]

in the menu or the built.

[azure swan]

It should tell you, and confirm what bonksnp is saying.

[steady dome]

Of course it is helpful for that as well. Every piece of information is on the wiki

[azure swan]

Very true

[stiff wolf]

im just going to trust this.

[turbid lantern]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Coal-Powered_Generator

[azure swan]

In any case. Once you've figured out how much each generator consumes it's a matter of division. Divide your belt limit by how much each generator consumes.

120/15 = 8. So you can feed 8 generators with a single 120 belt of coal.

[stiff wolf]

ok thanks

[stiff wolf]

yea i know how to i was trying to figure out coal con per min.

[azure swan]

Being able to do this math and understanding why it works will certainly help your future builds.

Wiki can be a big help, but also know that you can look at any machine to see how many parts/minute it is consuming or producing (with the E key on the machine after it is built and recipe is selected).

[valid hull]

Hey, <@&387163995947270144>, do you guys have any idea when 1.1 will be full released?

[dawn idol]

prob a few months

also prob not a good idea to ping them for just thta

[valid hull]

The instructions are to ping them first, then if you don't get a reply use the ticket system

[valid hull]

Few months? geez

ty

[green fiber]

Mods are not likely to know more than we do already

[azure swan]

It's a very sizable update and they want to be sure it's stable before moving it to "stable." If you want rushed results with more risk of instability that's exactly what experimental is there fore. Be thankful it's even an option! In most games it is not.

[dawn idol]

its usally a few months after we get access to experiemental

[bitter crow]

Should i build my coal factory in the ocean? Since building vertically gives me headache

[green fiber]

You can build them however you like

[dawn idol]

do however u want

[dreamy nova]

Please don't ping moderators for game questions we don't know any more than you guys do

[valid hull]

Chill, I didn't say anything about want rushed results, I'll never ask anything here again, thanks

[dawn idol]

??? hes very chill about it lmao

[abstract heron]

Hi Cmdata

[turbid lantern]

I also posted a table that shows the amount of coal and water you need for however many generators in #screenshots

[azure swan]

What in the world made you think I wasn't being chill or that it's not ok to ask questions? Be cool bro. You're fine and I wasn't attacking you.

I was giving casual information about software update workflow and expectation.

[placid stirrup]

Probably that other guy's alt account

[azure swan]

I feel like suddenly in the last couple years there's a new thing where 1 out of 50 people take being told something as an act of unreasonable aggression. I've had so many countless people think I'm starting a fight when I say something I intend to be educational. Maybe I need to work on my tone?

[molten dragon]

Thanks. A portion of that actually solved the issue. The crucial info is that e.g. 2 generators don't need to be connected to the grid, but only to a pole between them. After that was established then everything clicked into place. The startup grid is essentially only for the extractor, which became clear by watching the only vid I found that actually simplified it enough to see what was going on. A happy ending 🙂

[placid stirrup]

Not your duty to compensate for people's brain rot. I for one am glad you're unapologetically you.

[zenith pecan]

Sometimes people deliberately get offended.

[azure swan]

Ultimately both your miner and your water extractor need power to keep the coal gen running. You said your miner was being powered by the biogen which made things more simple. Ultimately when it's all set up the coal should very easily support both the miner and the water extractors. I am glad it sounds like you got a better understanding of the system. Cheers and have fun!

[frozen cloud]

prolly just read "If you want rushed results with more risk of instability" and got offended
but then again saying "be thankful for" isnt really educational tone

[reef basin]

the ticket system is for discord-related issues though (so are the moderators)

[azure swan]

Your second point is totally accurate. That's a good note I'll try to keep in mind.

[molten dragon]

Yes I have 2 gens powering 3 miners and the extractor in this setup. I am now going to tear it down and rebuild the actual functioning grid for the rest of my machines, because, y'know, I am NOT a damn lumberjack :p

[placid stirrup]

That is true, I've been transitioning from suggesting or telling people what to feel or do, to framing it how I feel or what I personally do. They can take it or leave it at that point.

[unkempt sable]

can i have multiple drones per drone port or is it 1:1

[true mulch]

a drone port can own 1 drone, but an unlimited amount of drones can have it as its destination

[stiff wolf]

@turbid lantern Question Can 1 water pipe supply 8 or 16 coal powered generators?

[true mulch]

6.66 generators

[steady dome]

Or double that if it's a mk2 pipe but you're not liekly to ahve those at that stage

Spelling is hard, okay?

[stiff wolf]

ok this makes it a lot more confusing to deal with.

[true mulch]

!wikisearch CG

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=CG

[unkempt sable]

alright

also if im moving items from port 1 to port 2, i can have 2 drones moving back and forth right

[true mulch]

yeah, in that case each port owns a drone that travels to the other port

[turbid lantern]

I posted a table in #screenshots thats from the wiki and shows how many water extractors /coal you need for the amount of generators you're running

[unkempt sable]

ooh that makes sense

ty!

[stiff wolf]

ah i did not see that thanks this is very useful.

[turbid lantern]

but to answer the question directly, no. 🙂 You need 3 extractors per 8 generators

[unkempt sable]

oh then for fuel, do i need to put fuel into both port 1 and port 2 or can i just have fuel input into port 1

[placid stirrup]

If you're doubling up on a station you have to be sure one of the drones isn't going to idle there, making the other one unable to dock

[unkempt sable]

okie

[spice otter]

Hey, I'm finding conflicting information on this, do leaves respawn? the ones you just press 'e' on to gather from the start of the game

[mortal haven]

they will sometimes respawn when the game receives updates. traditionally tho, they wont respawn.
iirc. you can use SCIM (satisfactory-calculator.com) to respawn them, but ive personally never used the feature.

[latent prawn]

they don't respawn, but environment/map changes are saved async from the autosave's quick action, so there's often a time period before the world changes get properly saved where you can do stuff and have it not end up in the save data

[silk rose]

you can use any amount of drones for each port for example you can make 3 ports in one side and 1 on other and you will have 4 drones looping, this setup will easily break so i recommend using trains for any resource transport and only using drones when you have to transport like 10 supercomputers per min from one side of the map to other so its not worth building rails, also consider that drones use fuel...

[azure swan]

Wood ends up being the bigger fuel source during the biomass days anyways.

[latent prawn]

kinda depends on where you start. grass fields & north forest are leaves, the deserts are all about wood

[silk rose]

you just need drone to have enough fuel to go back to fuel port, there are stats like fuel per trip, those help much

[unkempt sable]

o

[spice otter]

alright thanks

oh do you need leaves for anything besides fuel, or am I safe to burn them

[latent prawn]

also, while the game was in EA, just about every patch that was made reset the world foliage on you. I don't think that's going to continue happening moving forward unless CSS really screws something up

really just for generators. you'll unlock the ability to create a production chain for it later that burns better in the biomass burners and ultimately can make some great jetpack fuel

[spice otter]

yea I think the resets from ea are what made the confusion about whether they respawn or not

alright thanks again, I just hate footgunning myself in these games

[turbid lantern]

are you turning them into biomass first?

[latent prawn]

technically the u-jelly landing pads use biomass as a construction ingredient, but that's the only thing

[azure swan]

North of the starting area in grassy fields there's a hillside LITTERED with sticks/branches that alone practically powered me through to coal.

[spice otter]

It sounds like that comes later, I'm doing the intro still

[turbid lantern]

When I first started I was running around for days collecting leaves and wood and putting them directly into bio burners like a twit

[latent prawn]

yeah, you really want to start converting them into biomass and solid biofuel asap instead of burning them directly

[silk rose]

you will need some biomass for some things later but its not that hard to get to store it

[latent prawn]

protip: use a constructor to turn leaves into biomass, and hand-craft wood into biomass initially, you can craft the wood quite a bit quicker

[silk rose]

protip use coal power as soon as possible)

[azure swan]

The poor guy doesn't have biomass yet. Let him cook.

[latent prawn]

also, shortly after finishing the tutorial, the chainsaw becomes unlockable which significantly speeds collection of fuel stuffs

[azure swan]

Death by information.

[latent prawn]

'back in my day, you had to hand-feed your biomass burners' 😄

[silk rose]

ahhahahha

[turbid lantern]

ever since they added the inputs (and thank GOD they did) I've setup automations for leaves and wood to where I can just dump the leaves into one storage container and wood into another and they both go through their respective constructors into biomass >biofuel > burners

before then, it was barefoot, uphill, both ways

[latent prawn]

yeah, i eventually end up getting to that point, but initially, just getting the leaves constructor going is less power

[silk rose]

back in my day i was so damn stupid i had tier 7 factory running on leaves

i have some screenshots from that 2022 world

[dawn idol]

truuu

[dawn idol]

WTF

[silk rose]

check screenshots, but there you cant see burners

[turbid ledge]

Good job being eco freindly i guess

[dawn idol]

thats crazy tho

[silk rose]

ahahhahahhahah

[dawn idol]

how many did it take lol

[silk rose]

there also was frakin radioactive nuclear power plant of top of all that bc i decided that it would look cool

[silk rose]

like 5x5 foundations

[cosmic delta]

"eco friendly" - burns thousands of trees

[silk rose]

manually feeding ofc

[silk rose]

and animals

[tiny river]

Biomass burners kill me inside

Coal rush 🙏

[leaden ether]

There have been a couple places so far that I've found that were so nice looking that I decided I just couldn't build a factory there and ruin it. So just belted out the resources to somewhere else.

[turbid ledge]

I see nothing wrong with this sentence

[silk rose]

#screenshots message
and that production was sit please
the first production where i actually used numbers to build factory correctly
before i was just putting production chains, 1 machine each

[turbid ledge]

Listen if trees were not meant to be used as fuel then why make them burnable

Just saying seems too coincidental to me

[frozen cloud]

every time i start in northern forest i run somewhere else to cut down trees because i dont wanna ruin the look of the forest

[turbid ledge]

[silk rose]

bro why make earth nukeable

bc its supposed to be nuked

[turbid ledge]

Exactly this person gets it

[silk rose]

you stole my pfp to make sticker

ahnahhahahhahahhahahahahahha

[turbid ledge]

You cant just give me uranium and not expect me to cause a nuclear meltdown with it

[silk rose]

that average 4 am convo

[silk rose]

very far i have a picture of cat saying like 'you can totaly trust me nuclear weapons'

[turbid ledge]

Humanity was given free will for a reason larik i will be damned if i dont do whatever i want

Cause then i dont have free will

[cosmic delta]

insert i have a permit meme here

[obsidian bluff]

you will be damned if you do as well XD

[silk rose]

according to your nickname i know exactly what you want to do with nukes

[silk rose]

lmao

[turbid ledge]

Nuke france

[silk rose]

bagetueoeue cruasanoueoe

[obsidian bluff]

the baguettocalypse

[turbid ledge]

Fallout 5 new france

[mild pumice]

Is there actually a way to move the todo list on the other side?

[silk rose]

we will make new dedicated nukes those blow up formnig baguetoeuoueoe shaped cloud

[silk rose]

sorry but here we only talk about how to nuke france

[silk rose]

actually i dont know if there is a way

[zenith pecan]

Outside of a possible mod, I don't think there is a way.

[mild pumice]

Fair enough

[mild pumice]

Shame oh well

[cosmic delta]

might be a good shout for a mod tho. sticky notes you can place anywhere on the screen

[silk rose]

no, just everywhere in a world

[silk rose]

would also be a good mod where you can nuke france

@turbid ledge why france btw

[opal wolf]

but the croissants D:

[gilded marsh]

Is there a way to change spawnpoints of megaprints on satisfactory calculator

[prisma thicket]

Is the Alclad aluminum casing alt recipe any good?

[spark ruin]

if you wanna use less aluminum and dont mind using copper then, sure its good

[prisma thicket]

Thanks. How much are casings used anyways? My first time in phase 4, so I have no idea what's used for what lol

[frail sleet]

solid biofuel is only +20% energy and a pretty slow craft so it's not worth doing without a constructor (unless afk or something)

biomass is huge value so always convert that step

[turbid lantern]

you'll need a TON around tier 7 & 8

[austere crag]

If I want my trains to get loaded and also unload stuff at the same station do I need to do 2 freight stations?

[turbid ledge]

I dont like there flag

It looks dumb

[frail sleet]

yes

[austere crag]

And 2 carts?

[frail sleet]

yes

[prisma thicket]

Thanks, then it'll be good to get production online asap lol

[cosmic delta]

do you mean when importing it? You choose the place where you want it, have a single foundation in that place, right click the foundation and paste the print. It then lets you adjust position on all three axis. You might have to rotate the foundation, cos it's orientation matters when pasting.

[spring otter]

Are there any mods that make straight up corner foundation blocks, not ramps but just straight up corner blocks? I can't figure out how to use ramps and inverse ramps to fill in the gaps with what I'm doing now.

[gilded marsh]

I love you so much

[wanton summit]

is satisfactory in steam deck good?

[stiff plover]

there HAS to be an easier way to make ionized fuel instead of using power slugs right?

[frozen ingot]

yes, tier 9 lets you automate them

shards that is, not slugs 😆

[stiff plover]

ohh, i'm on tier 8, thanks for the info

[prisma thicket]

Did they fix the "conveyor lift + floor hole = infinite length" thing?

[hollow anvil]

am i going insane or do rebar guns make the mlg hitmarker noise on hit

[distant pilot]

that seems like the sort of thing they'd intentionally not remove due to the convenience it offers while being non-intrusive to those who dont want it

[distant pilot]

I thought it was just a thing ImKibitz edited into his videos but I definitely think ive heard it too

[hollow anvil]

thats so silly

i love the little things they add into the game

[austere crag]

How can I automate getting rid of polymer resin?

[distant pilot]

The awesome sink accepts them

[austere crag]

Oh yeah I forgot about it

[obsidian bluff]

the sink is your best friend when setting up oil products

it's easy to end up with some excess product that you dont have an immediate use for, and that's why the sink is oil's best friend

[austere crag]

Yeah now I have way too many oil products

[wanton summit]

is satisfactory in steam deck good?

[frozen ingot]

that's a feature, right?

not a bug!

[hollow anvil]

no idea but on a gaming laptop that had a 2060 and a ryzen 7 4000g it ran fine on lower settings

[prisma thicket]

Yah, but it doesn't seem to be working for me, I had to attach 3 conveyor lifts to get down from a platform I made

[proper hound]

should be able to spawn at foundation

[frozen ingot]

maybe they weren't lined up?

[prisma thicket]

I had everything snapped to the world grid, so it should be perfectly lined up

[frozen ingot]

that's my hunch anyway

i always like to do conveyor lifts with foundations in vertical mode first

then remove foundations, add holes top and bottom, and connect

[tiny sonnet]

Question: on my main save I have collected aproximately 50 of the hard drives.
To get the achievement, I need to have collected 100.
I now have access to buying hard drives from the mam.
Can I purchase those to count toward the achievement, or do I need to physically collect them

[azure swan]

Were you building the lift by attaching it to the hole not a machine?

[prisma thicket]

Yup

[azure swan]

to get the length you must be building directly from the hole.

[prisma thicket]

Attached to the hole, and it only came down 48, the normal maximum

[azure swan]

5 days ago I made this: #screenshots message
So if they changed it, it would have been VERY recently.

[prisma thicket]

You have foundations at the back of that right? Maybe that's the key. I'll go try that

[azure swan]

I do, but I feel like I've had success floating in space recently too (just have no pics)

It's just that if the two holes aren't lined up PERFECTLY it will not work, perhaps using a backsplash will give you the confidence that they are lined up. If that works you can delete the backsplash and repeat to confirm.

Being on the global grid or not, when you're sending a lift 100+m it's easy to be off by a tick.

[prisma thicket]

Still not working

[azure swan]

You're 100% sure they're lined up? A bunch of beams end to end could confirm this to be sure.

[prisma thicket]

Lined up a pillar, still no luck

goes to 48 and stops

[azure swan]

For me it doesn't "go" beyond 48. It stops at 48 and only extends out to the hole when I get close enough for my mouse hover over the hole to work then it just SNAPS right to the hole. Is that what you're doing?

[prisma thicket]

I'm just trying to go from the hole at the top to the conveyor line at the bottom

Not snapping anything

[azure swan]

The floor hole trick only works hole to hole

So you'd need a hole at the bottom to accept the lift, then another conveyer below the hole to connect between the hole and the conveyer you have at the bottom.

Notice in my pic even though I have the belts coming out the bottom there is a line of foundations blocking your view from how they connect (because I needed the floor holes at the bottom for the trick)

[prisma thicket]

Oh, I was going based off a TotalXclipse video where he went from a hole down to the floor and it was 76 long

[azure swan]

I've not seen this. I haven't been around a long time so don't know what changes may have happened but it's only ever worked hole-to-hole for me.

[unkempt sable]

if i need 3600m3/min of water for 15 nuclear power plants, would it make more sense to package water elswhere, transport the water to the plant then unpackage it at the power plants or run pipes 300m long around a mountain for the water

[azure swan]

That's completely up to you, but to me 300m doesn't sound THAT far.

[stiff plover]

soo i fell into the void and died, did i lose everything? i can't find my death crate

[wet shoal]

Man I love Iron Pipes

No Coal? No problem.

[eternal plume]

Can someone help me with this a problem with the train everything is connected right and the station is facing outwards to go into it but when I press dock it will do it but the claws will not move

[spark ruin]

it'll run for sure

[wet shoal]

What is the train set to?
Only full loads?

[azure swan]

Are the decks set to the proper mode (load vs unload)?

[spark ruin]

it might bo good with 720p medium but IDK, i havent used the steam deck/anything of that tier

[eternal plume]

You know what I never checked that I need to wait until the train comes back but I'll check that

[azure swan]

You can check the platform mode at any time. You can also look and set the train schedule parameters even without the train there by interracting with the station.

[thin tundra]

#screenshots message @potent berry how did you make those curved beams???

[prisma thicket]

@azure swan I used your method and it worked first try, thanks

[azure swan]

Bit more of a pain that you have to use a hole on both sides, but thank god it works!

[potent berry]

I showed how with all the screenshots 🤔

[prisma thicket]

Worth the effort to make it look so much cleaner and straight up and down

[azure swan]

Scroll up just a little bit he had a detailed written and pictoral description just 2 posts before that one.

[thin tundra]

oh whoopos. I shoulda scrolled up a bit

[stiff plover]

i can't find my death crate

help

[silk rose]

When coffee stain will add feature to make new pioneers?

[potent berry]

Wanna make baby's ? 😮

A bit cruel having kids on the world we live in.

[azure swan]

This isn't helpful now, but I'd recommend increasing your autosave frequency so you can just load game when something catestrophic happens like this.

[potent berry]

But hey, the hogs have something to play with.

[distant pilot]

That'll be the factorio crossover event

[silk rose]

Hell nah bro

[eternal plume]

Thx for the help

[azure swan]

I'm running a lot of slow tests at work today, what can I say 🤷

[potent berry]

When i was young and bothered my mother, she said to me:

"Go out on the rails and play with the Trains."
Maybe that is why i love making stuff with rails

[azure swan]

Hey, Hornslet, since you're lurking anyways. Any clever way to blueprint train rail spirals? I couldn't think of how I could fit 1/4 of a spiral into the BP machine...kinda...like it would fit aside from the fact that you need to anchor rail to something to get it to turn and the anchor bit would be outside of the BP machine (outside of some cleverness I'll bet you're about to suggest).

[potent berry]

1/4 is the way. that way does so you easy can go the level you want, instead of having to go full circle and remove the unwanted parts.

[turbid ledge]

I like trains

Becuase i can crash into them at high speeds causing a massive derailment

[azure swan]

I just feel like you need the entire BP machine to make the curvature so I don't get how to get the curve "started"

[frozen ingot]

curious about the straightest line through canyon (northern forest to dune desert, east/west) in which i can run a nice neat railway 🤔

[potent berry]

Depends: you play with mods or vanilla ?

[potent berry]

But with 1.1 vanilla infinite nudge both horizontal and vertically, you can just make it 1/4 and have a corner foundation as center of the spiral.
No need to use the large blueprinters.

[frozen ingot]

#screenshots message like this

[potent berry]

You just line up the Corner Foundations when you stack the blueprint.

[azure swan]

Oh I think I see whatcha mean.

Any thoughts on ideal ramp inclination? Too steep and the train goes slowly. Too shallow and the path is too long. I've been using 2m ramps but no idea what ideal is.

[potent berry]

Both 1m and 2m works great. depends on your personal preff.

Statistic wise, go with 2m, shorter distance.

[azure swan]

If I'm optimizing for travel time. I'm guessing there isn't a huge difference anyways

[azure swan]

This was my thought. Thanks for bouncing the idea with me.

[potent berry]

Any time 😊 happy to share my mind. Good Luck with your project
I will head of chat again, take care everyone ❤️ Sleep well when time comes 🥱

[stiff plover]

guys, my death crate glitched inside a rock, how do i glitch myself inside a rock?

[zenith pecan]

You can use a hypertube blueprint, with an entrance at both ends, set it down so one end sticks inside the rock, pop in, collect crate, pop back out, then use blueprint dismantle to remove the clip tube.

[stiff plover]

i'll try it now

[zenith pecan]

This is what I mean #screenshots message , video demonstration.

[zenith pecan]

Btw you cannot text message inside #screenshots

[stiff plover]

i wanted to say that my last autosaves, somehow, are only the moments after i died, they aren't helping me

i'll try following that tutorial now

[zenith pecan]

That's fair enough, that's why I added the video clip.

Make sure the end that has the power pole (that is connected to both entrances btw) is outside the rock so you can power it, that is your escape as well as way in, otherwise you can get stuck in terrain and that is a right pain.

[sour cargo]

does overclocking a fuel powered generator to 250% make it consume 50 fuel/min ?

[wet shoal]

What is its base consumption

take that and multiply by 2,5.

[sour cargo]

20 fuel/min

ok ty

[wet shoal]

np

[stiff plover]

thank you so much, i was able to retrieve everything i lost from that glitch

[jaunty stirrup]

damn, i was exploring in the game, it restarted, went to start the game again and it crashed a few times, got back in as a new player, now i´ve lost all the recources i had with that other character... anyone knows what to do now=

[vapid compass]

is there a death crate on your hud?

[zenith pecan]

Do you have an autosave prior to the crash, if not, do you remember where you where when your game borked.

[jaunty stirrup]

nope nothing

[zenith pecan]

If the latter, you can find your offline character, beat it down, and reloot your stuff.

[vapid compass]

and you dont have dismantle/death crates hidden?

[left totem]

you didn't answer the question, fabulous

[zenith pecan]

He answered in a way that made the questioner think, and it seemed to work out fine.

[jaunty stirrup]

ill look into that

[vapid compass]

is it not viable to check the autosaves or are they all stuck at the same point?

[zenith pecan]

I'm only assuming you got disconnected from your character id, as opposed to dying and losing the crate, I kind of hope it as such because losing resources burns.

[zenith pecan]

I did ask about an autosave first, I'm assuming due to the lack of response, that it is way past that 😦

[left totem]

you generally ask a question to get a definite answer, not a problem to work out if you were right

[vapid compass]

yea, ive had that happen if you idle and it autosaves past a set point, buti usually keep a manual save to fall back on also

[vapid compass]

i see it as teaching a man to fish vs giving them the fish. the info provided is more valuable than a set answer

[zenith pecan]

That's a lesson I learned the painful way also, I keep a couple of manual saves that I update when I feel I've done something I'd sooner not do again that game.

[zenith pecan]

Exactly, handing someone the answer while it'll help in the immediate term, does not promote the problem solving this game encourages.

[vapid compass]

i left my game on overnight and all my autosaves were just at the point where my nuclear ran out of fuel rods, so i was sol, had to go around and find a way to make more fuel rods to get things going again

[azure swan]

Telling someone 1 answer vs telling them how to solve that same problem for literally every one of the 1000s of ways it applies in the same amount of time. Hmmmm which is better?

[zenith pecan]

😱

[left totem]

I'd rather get the 1 answer :/

[jaunty stirrup]

It worked, i got the crate!

[zenith pecan]

Cool 😄

[jaunty stirrup]

thnx!

[vapid compass]

ikr 😂

i ended up isolating a coal power plant area and lining directly to the fuel rod manufacturer, worked pretty good, i was worried all the reactors wouldn't pick up immediately even w/ a fuel rod but they did

[azure swan]

You'd rather someone tell you what 1+1 is than know how to add?

That would be a pretty slow way to go through life, asking the answer to absolutely everything.

[zenith pecan]

Trying to ensure power doesn't blow up in my face is why I spent a couple of days troubleshooting this abomination: #screenshots message , bloody oil feed was flawed, the numbers added up, but the refineries disagreed.

[vapid compass]

thats a very juvenile way to look at the world. an answer without explaining how its reached doesn't help you progress or grow in any way. now if you understand the premise of whats explained and ask for an example to make sure you're understanding correctly would be a great way to approach it

[turbid ledge]

[zenith pecan]

I'm actually doing nothing for a few hours apart from watching my power graph, hoping it continues to remain a straight line at 1,189,350.1MW 🤣

[azure swan]

Damn. Homey has a TW. Nice.

[zenith pecan]

It'll increase when I get around to building a nuclear installation that will suck up all the worlds uranium.

[vapid compass]

nice power plant! im afraid mine was my first playthrough and everything was a disaster, only maxed out around 50-60k MW and was able to complete the game fairly comfortably. i experimented with power storage banks to try to overcome the spikes in draw from the variable rate machines later in the game. #screenshots message

[azure swan]

Oh is that just oil derivatives?

[zenith pecan]

Until I fixed my oil feed, the place fluctuated by more than 90GW, absolutely shocking.

[zenith pecan]

Rocket fuel.

[azure swan]

Nice

[vapid compass]

haha. if i had a nickel for every minute i sat watching for yellow/red lights in my power plants and troubleshooting the various issues

it couldn't have been easy to track down the issue in a massive plant like that though so kudos

[cosmic delta]

hey, that's pretty much the same capacity of my powerplant, also rocket fuel

[turbid ledge]

Waiter waiter i would more power storage devices please

[zenith pecan]

I actually connected all six disparate oil feeds via a weird shunt where they all met, I noticed refineries kept cutting out, and the constant flow of what was meant to be 1200 resin kept having gaps, that told me it was the oil, once I spotted it that was.

[vapid compass]

one of the few things i actually went to the blueprint designer for 😂

i got up to 40kMWH in power storage before i saved up 1000 tics and went on to a new save

[zenith pecan]

No thanks 😛 , the support tower nearby already has 7776 power stores 😛

[vapid compass]

they took so much copper and modular frames i had to keep them on my person to build the blueprints

[wet shoal]

Do you seek confrontation, or what is that about lol

[turbid ledge]

Currently working on my third train system

I cant wait to transport black lung

[cosmic delta]

did you connect it all separately or in blocks of xx generators? just curious, mine took about 2-3hrs to stabilize

[zenith pecan]

There are 16 floors per tower, each has 15 generators, one blender feeds two floors.

The initial startup sequence was one generator turned off, per floor, in all three towers until the loop was filled.

I powered the generators after four hours, it worked fine for about an hour, then went all nuts due to the flawed oil feed into the refineries at the bottom of each tower.

[wet shoal]

I think everyone has experienced this

lmao

[cosmic delta]

ah, so pretty much the same. #screenshots message

it's two independent systems of 4 floors, each 250 generators, 4 blenders per floor. i struggled with the conveyor lift bug, where they didnt work

edit cos i cant count apparently

[zenith pecan]

It happened in my last saves turbofuel power station, that one needed a messed up intervention to fix, because one group of refineries out of four messed up big time.

[turbid ledge]

I think im going insane

I placed down a boom box with goat simulator playing on it

And now i just cant find it

Im plagued by this joyful music as i become the reason why the industrial revolution has consequences

[rancid turret]

jesus christ

[zenith pecan]

I know what you mean about the materials for the store blueprint, I deployed one 96 times, and the print is somehow larger than the blueprinter 🤣 #screenshots message , yeah, don't ask 😛

[cosmic delta]

wth. did you build it in a blue phonebooth by any chance? 🤣

[zenith pecan]

I'm actually not sure atm, too much vodka celebrating with my brother recently.

[grizzled lotus]

someone give me tips for phase 5. priorities or stuff

[placid stirrup]

Mk6 belts should be pretty self-explanatory. It's the same with the other tiers, build to produce the items you need for the next milestone!

[grizzled lotus]

mk6?

[placid stirrup]

I will say there are many alts for diamonds

[grizzled lotus]

I can unlock mk4

sorry

I meant tier 5/6

[placid stirrup]

You said Phase 5, I think you meant Tier 5

[reef basin]

build what you need, there's hardly a "required" order, as goals are usually set by player anyway

[grizzled lotus]

I'm having a really energy crisis. I'm getting tired of building coal generators. my nearest boost is building the thing that uses the somersloop, but it requires computers

[placid stirrup]

Haha yep that'll do it. Belts are a strong priority for me in any Tier, and yeah just keep expanding and producing whatever else you want to unlock!

[grizzled lotus]

I'm feeling an urge to reset. I'm getting overwhelmed

[placid stirrup]

Luckily you get fuel power at the end of Tier 5 and it's a whole new world 😉

[placid stirrup]

How much exploring have you done?

[prisma thicket]

How many splitters and mergers would it take to divide a line of 240 into 150 and 90? or am I better off just making a big manifold?

[reef basin]

one 🙂

[prisma thicket]

One?

[reef basin]

yeah, like in a manifold, the sides will eventually back up and it will work

[prisma thicket]

Alright, I'll try it out. Thanks

[rancid turret]

fuel is next and very close

[rancid turret]

automate rubber and plastic using basic recipes

[loud quail]

anyone know how to make trains use a track buffer properly? I put a few parallel tracks before a station but the trains all wait behind one instead of waiting next to each other.

[rancid turret]

you can't do this I'm afraid

[loud quail]

rip me

[rancid turret]

trains will go the most direct route

if you have many trains waiting to go in one station, it's best to have many stations

[rocky patio]

path signals and block signals and multiple stations is what i did

[rancid turret]

you may not need so many trains

#screenshots message here's a graph of minutes round trip plotted against throughput

get a stopwatch and time your round trip

[rocky patio]

what do you use for like track elevation

[rancid turret]

all my tracks are at a constant elevation pretty high off the ground

[rocky patio]

do you use like pillars?

[rancid turret]

ye

zoop foundations in the direction I wanna build, make a pillar at the end of it, build the track, delete the zooped foundations

much easier with a hoverpack

[rocky patio]

so you build the pillar then the track, the delete the track

zoop foundations?

[rancid turret]

press r to enter zoop mode when building foundations, lets you build many in a row all at once

[rocky patio]

ill have to try it

[naive pendant]

Broadly how I made my rail system. Although I used 3x3 foundation blueprints as the “grid” for the rails instead of just zooped foundations.

[rocky patio]

rn i use big pillars and concrete supports

[vapid idol]

Hi all, I have a factory that is using the Alt Rotor recipe, and it requires a ridiculous amount of screws, 487.5 per assembler fully clocked (5850 total), and I have 12 assemblers. With 5 x MK6 belts input, is there any way I can efficiently calculate the best way to belt them up?

[shrewd palm]

fill up each belt and then throw the overthrow onto another one

use a manifold to distribute and collect screws

[vapid idol]

sounds very trial and error, is there an online calculator tool?

[shrewd palm]

not that i know of

also for the future to avoid this you want to always have as little screws in your production chain as possible

[true mulch]

Either make screws in the exact amount per assembler or use an injection manifold

!wikisearch manifold

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=manifold

[vapid idol]

I am considering this an "advanced challenge" 🙂

[true mulch]

If you need 487.5 per machine and have 12 machines, then make 12 groups of 487.5

(given you have mk6 belts, you can group those by two)

[vapid idol]

thanks all

[cold fable]

7 achievements away from 100% anyone want to guess which ones?

[ocean frost]

I did steel screws for my first playthrough, but finding ways to solve problems is a part of the fun

[wet shoal]

get yourself droven over, 1 Hp survival, height limit hit, unlock all milestones, golden nut and idk

[rocky patio]

height limit?

[wet shoal]

launch yourself into the maps ceiling

if that was a question towards me

[rocky patio]

hyper tubes?

[wet shoal]

Easiest way I would say

[cold fable]

pretty close, but no. 1hp phase 4 and 5, golden nut, hit a creature, and all milestones

[stiff wolf]

wait in satisfacory has the 1.1 come out yet because im bout to set up blue prints but im just trying to figure it out.

[rocky patio]

i didnt know there was one

[cold fable]

not yet

[cold fable]

its about double the hieght above where the space elevator's transport pod thing is

[rocky patio]

so we have to touch the top of the space elevator?

[cold fable]

eh, i used 30 or so hypertube cannon segments to just hurl myself into space

[rocky patio]

sounds like i have a space launch

[cold fable]

did you ||pet the flying manta||

[rocky patio]

i did

i was surprised i could

[thorny valley]

can someone answer this for me #screenshots message

[cold fable]

I always like to keep a fluid buffer to help keep fluid stable since sometimes without it they seem to be a bit inconsistant. but if you are using this for jetpack, i would probably also use a storage box afterward as well

[vivid jackal]

quick question ive been playing satisfactory hands down best game ive evr played but it sometimes just freezes and it happend 2x in ten mins and sometimes it can be like 5 hrs b4 anyone know why?

altho

there is one thing

[thorny valley]

verify files, you could not meet the basic system requirements

[vivid jackal]

my pc is a fking potato

[thorny valley]

could be a faulty storage drive

[vivid jackal]

it works tho

prolly my pc

[thorny valley]

how much ram you got

[rocky patio]

whats your pc?

[vivid jackal]

gets about 20 fps on lowest setting

[thorny valley]

oh brother

[rocky patio]

dam

[vivid jackal]

one sec

and im only 50 hrs in...

[thorny valley]

If you want a factory game that is just as good as satisfactory and will run on your pc, look into factorio

[vivid jackal]

tried it

didnt rlly like

by the time it becomes unplayable i will get new one

[thorny valley]

20 fps is unplayable lol

[rocky patio]

fr tho

[vivid jackal]

and here Device name DESKTOP-BBBVA61
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz
Installed RAM 12.0 GB (11.8 GB usable)
Device ID E84007EE-9593-4C93-8F20-BE90CFA5CED9
Product ID 00325-96725-11284-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Touch support with 10 touch points

[vivid jackal]

nah

still can at 15-10 i cant tho

[cold fable]

whats your graphics card if you have one

[thorny valley]

Brother doesnt enjoy the game he enjoys a slide show of the game

[vivid jackal]

lol

[vivid jackal]

idk

[rocky patio]

it has to be the gpu

[vivid jackal]

one sec this will be a long type

my dad had these in his office for like 4 years

than he gave it to me like 3 yrs ago

so its not made for gaming

[thorny valley]

Its a touch screen laptop so it uses integrated graphics

[vivid jackal]

just office work

[vivid jackal]

wtv that means

[rocky patio]

oh, your so right

[cold fable]

it means your cpu is also running all the graphics

[vivid jackal]

its bad

[cold fable]

I'd say im surprised the game even launches on integrated graphics

[vivid jackal]

same

[thorny valley]

Yeah tbh

[vivid jackal]

even tho idk what that is

[thorny valley]

Its probably the 12 gigs of ram that is allowing it to even run

[vivid jackal]

yes

well ill be back ficsits mad at me for not working

[thorny valley]

Nah ficsit is mad at you for trying to save earth on a sub par system

they have taken offense

you cant work effiecently

especially late game will be an issue for you

[cold fable]

it'll be a literal 1fps slideshow in the lategame XD

[thorny valley]

Even mid-late game will be a slide show

Like id say where im at rn would make him go to one fps

[rocky patio]

every tier upgrade, he gets show the slideshow the voice doesnt even say anything

[cold fable]

I guess all i can recommend is lower everything to minimum, make sure that the upscaling is set to 50% and make sure conveyor rendering is as low as possible. since i think by default its not

[thorny valley]

he said everything is already on the lowest settings

[rocky patio]

20 fps at the max

[thorny valley]

earlier he said that, and at most he gets 20 fps

Also how can you not like factorio? its just 2d satisfactory

imo at least

[thick harness]

not as much personality

[cold fable]

I read. but im just wondering if it used the lowest default setting or actually went through and manually set everything to minimum. since i've noticed some games default "low settings" isn't as low as it could be.

[thick harness]

i like satisfactory for the whimsy personally

[thorny valley]

Yes there is, its just not like satisfactorys

Factorio is meant to be bleak, you crashed on an alien planet and now you have to try to get off

[rocky patio]

what if there was a mod to make it blocky but still playable

[peak wasp]

I like satisfactory for the pretty graphics

[thorny valley]

I get this, not everyone likes the 2d style

[peak wasp]

I played factorio before but it's a lot more math

[thorny valley]

Yes it is

Need like a note pad open for it lol

but its still just as fun as satisfactory imo

[peak wasp]

Late game factorio looks so nice when all organised tho

[thorny valley]

Yes it does

[peak wasp]

idk how to do it

[thorny valley]

I miss the drones from factorio

they were so useful

[peak wasp]

those were fun

drones in factorio and dsp were lit

[thorny valley]

Havnt played dsp yet

[peak wasp]

It's fun

[thorny valley]

But factorio drones could build whole ass factorys for you

[peak wasp]

You can fly through space and use drones and shi

Satisfactory has drones but I can't figure them out

[tranquil ibex]

Just trucks that don't suck to use but are limited to moving few things at a time

Still not as good as trains, but they have their purposes moving few things very far or moving things you want separate from your main networks, typically radioactive stuff

[reef basin]

trucks trains and drones are all good in their respective field

[dense violet]

what is the issue you're having with them? they are very simple

[tranquil ibex]

Trucks are good for testing how much troubleshooting you are willing to make to fix them before you realize they aren't worth the effort, aye

[reef basin]

skill issue

[vivid jackal]

yes manuely

did lowest settings

and im back 🙂

[vivid jackal]

when i was building my factory i had a lot of excess fuel bc of waste and blah and anyway i made some pretty cool truck paths

i think there fine

[reef basin]

they are indeed very fine

[vivid jackal]

indeed

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-meme-fancy-driving-car-ride-gif-16720268

[marsh rock]

should ramps for trains be a regular ramp 2m or double ramp 2m

[vivid jackal]

idk i literly just started with trains

[shrewd palm]

doesnt matter unless you care about aesthetic

i like to use 1m ramps most of the time

[marsh rock]

even for long distances?

[shrewd palm]

yeah

although i started using 2m ramps and im probably going to replace the long 1m ones tho

[marsh rock]

regular 2m have a steeper incline over double ramp 2m right? so they should be better at getting more vertical distance?

[shrewd palm]

i dont think so

[grizzled sluice]

how do i put fuel to power

[shrewd palm]

a straight line going from 0-2m should be the same length every single time

[shrewd palm]

fuel generators

[grizzled sluice]

ok thanks

didnt realize i needed another mlestone for that

[shrewd palm]

the double ramps i think just have a ramped top and bottom, whereas the regular ramps just have a ramped top (i cant remember what the double ramps look like but im pretty sure i know what you;re talking about)

[shrewd palm]

gl

[grizzled sluice]

thanks, feeling a little overwhelmed with all this new stuff

[shrewd palm]

that happens

[marsh rock]

honestly i dont understand it either

[shrewd palm]

oil and phase 5 are the biggest things imo

[marsh rock]

oh i cant post a pic

[shrewd palm]

the stuff towards the end of phase 4 can get pretty intense too

[shrewd palm]

#design-and-architecture , #screenshots

you'll be able to type in #design-and-architecture

[marsh rock]

i did 10 ramps out for a 2m and double 2m and the regular 2m is way lower than the double

[grizzled sluice]

This game is actually so addicting though, I’ve logged like 15 hours in the last 4 or so days

[shrewd palm]

real

i think i put 100 something hours in over christmas break when i got it lmao

[rocky patio]

put that work in

its satisfying

[tiny river]

Guys

Do you enjoy playing satisfactory

[rocky patio]

yes

it also is very confusing and frustrating depending on the math

[rich ivy]

soooo

im gonna go on a whim and assume 30 time crystals a minute is

excessive

thats just one pure coal node and i have two at my disposal, plus some normals if i really need em

oh nevermind its not

[latent prawn]

you end up needing a lot for making dark matter crystal

[wet shoal]

Sometimes more sometimes less.

[wicked nacelle]

Yeah, not if you.. you know... build belts

I have drones that just fly in diamonds from coal nodes

[celest axle]

Hello! little bit of a Satisfactory newbie here was hoping someone might be able to answer a quick question for me!

[zenith pecan]

Ask away, if I have a valid answer I'll try to provide it.

[celest axle]

Thanks! So i just got to the milestone where I unlocked the powertowers/power storage, and I was trying to fiddle around with long-distance power, but I was kinda confused what the point of them was, cause the wire length you can reach with them seems just about as long as connecting with a normal power pole, so unless im missing something im not sure why I wouldnt just span the poles!

[zenith pecan]

To be fair, I tend to route normal poles myself, I actually haven't used the transmission towers, I always thought they had a longer reach, but having 0 experience with them, I never found out first hand.

But their appearance does shout, transmission tower, which is elevated and allows for easier ziplining I guess.

[celest axle]

gotcha, yeah all good, i mean they are prettier and stuff, but if you are trying to go long range and just immedietly have to connect them to poles on the ground to reach the other tower i just thought it was a bit redundant xD

[zenith pecan]

My approach of running power is less visible, power cables running on top of tunnels 😄

[celest axle]

hey that sounds aesthetic! years of cable management with PC builds has made me a sucker for the looks of it too xD

[zenith pecan]

Old-ish image, but here's an example of one of the underground areas #screenshots message

[celest axle]

yoooo that gives dark knight batman cave vibes!

[zenith pecan]

Even older but a clip from a previous save, #design-and-architecture message

[celest axle]

hahah i still havent got the chance to experiment much with the tubes yet, seems like they will be super useful though

[zenith pecan]

If building under the map, there is a severe risk of falling off the world and ending up quite dead, also if the developers change anything that causes under-map areas to have accessibility trouble, you do end up on your own, this game is not meant to have subsurface tunnels.

[celest axle]

yeah that makes sense!

[zenith pecan]

But, if you're interested in building under the map, here's a quick primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9T_ZlDv68

[celest axle]

ill keep it in mind! I think ill try to exhaust the default game first but thanks!

[zenith pecan]

👍

[compact knot]

@celest axle you know the power towers have 2 connection points there no way short as regular power poles

The lower connects basic power poles the upper connects the towers over long range

[celest axle]

oh shoot I totally missed that! Thanks Element! I was so confused at first as to why the connection was just leading to a basic pole xD that makes so much more sense

[compact knot]

👍

[turbid ledge]

I think im going to make a copper wire factory so that i may mass produce stators for my rods

If only i could figure out how signals work

[prisma thicket]

Do you mean train signals?

[turbid ledge]

Yes. I tried to make make a station that diverted from my main train line but it wouldn’t automatically switch over to the other train line. And everytime i tried to use the two signals it gives me the trains just stopped working entirely

[prisma thicket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGw8ngs--7o at about 15 minutes he goes over signals

[turbid ledge]

Thanks

[prisma thicket]

Just watched it the other day myself xD still have yet to set up a train network.

[turbid ledge]

I have three trains lines nitrogen
Rubber
Copper sheet
Steel beams/pipes
concrete

I usually strap two train cars per

I think i have one with 3

[prisma thicket]

I just haven't found a need for trains yet, though I'm sure I will soon, stuff is getting complex 😵‍💫

[turbid ledge]

I usually them for long distances

For example most my trains head to the far north except my nitrogen

[prisma thicket]

All of my factories thus far are in the north, except my turbofuel power plant.

How good is the rifle at taking out radioactive hogs?

[frail sleet]

As good as it gets, but they tend to run out of ammo midfight unless you equip 2 or 3 of them

[prisma thicket]

Thanks. What's the best type of ammo? Keep running into the nasty beasts and taking them out with nobelisks is a pain.

[frail sleet]

I prefer regular, but the homing one can be nice

[prisma thicket]

Alright, thanks. Time to go automate ammo production >.<

[frail sleet]

you can equip multiple rifles with each also 😄

[boreal musk]

homing is good for stingers, i prefer explosive rebar to take out hogs

[rich ivy]

i will say

im glad i decided to build in the red forest for my tier 9 factory

despite the super dangerous stuff, this place is REALLY pretty

[frail sleet]

swamp is ugly, makes everything grey

IDK any way to disable the "everything is dark and grey" filter

plz let me know if there is one 😄

[cursive crane]

Move about 500m in any direction

And never go back

Also stun rebar is underrated and hilarious in multiplayer

Basher and stunbar best combo

[mossy moon]

i think there is with the console commands. but idk

[lavish lance]

And its low performance

I get way lower fps there

Not a good time

[reef forge]

how do i get my sister addicted to this game (she does not enjoy the game very much)

[rich ivy]

good god

converters are LOUD

nobody told me how deafening 10 of em right next to eachother would be

honestly i cant decide if i like the converter or the quantum encoder more in terms of design

theyre both so coolllll

[wary blaze]

chat i think i have realized why the grass area is a bad starting spot

and im also seeing the downside of having all my factories far from each other

[leaden turret]

grass area is a fine starting spot.

it's for beginners.

if you are finding it no longer meets your needs, it's because you're no longer a beginner.

[spark ruin]

blame foliage
for some reason i get waaayy lower fps whenever theres a bunch of foliage on screen

[turbid ledge]

I just had a cruel mechanic for this game pop into my head

A nuclear meltdown mechanic where just it makes a certain piece of land irradiated around it changing fauna and animals to more irradiated versions

Like if you dont cool off the reactor long enough it just has a meltdown

[leaden turret]

so... factorio?

[turbid ledge]

I never played that so sure

[leaden turret]

devs don't want to do factory maintenance, meltdown sounds like factory maintenance

[turbid ledge]

Ye

[leaden turret]

you could still get that from your nuclear waste storage though.

[turbid ledge]

Isnt nuclear waste buried underground in reality

[leaden turret]

don't floating platforms crash to the ground in reality?

[turbid ledge]

I guess

I try to be expect the unexpected about real life at this point

[wary blaze]

yeah no i also realized ive havent explored all of grass area so there might be some saving factor that makes me not wanna move

[leaden turret]

I moved out of grass fields when I realised I was spending more time building manta gates than I was building factories

[wary blaze]

whats a manta gate

[leaden turret]

https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q="manta+gate"

[spice patio]

Basically making sure that the moving terrain known as Flying Manta doesn't clip into your stuff.

When it moves along its route.

[zenith bronze]

It’s really sad that the vehicles are kinda useless once you have a jetpack and fuel

Would be cool if we had like a fighter jet or something to act as a better fast exploration option

Never happening tho smh

[leaden turret]

vehicles can be used for factory automation as well as exploration

[zenith bronze]

Actually, given the vehicle physics in this game, I doubt it’d be great

[wary blaze]

tractors carried my early game when i was getting into steel

[zenith bronze]

You aren’t wrong but I have a belt obsession

So I kinda just

Never really used them

[leaden turret]

🏭 🏭

[zenith bronze]

I mean I used a truck for steel, but like

Vehicles in satisfactory kinda act like… burst transportation? If you get what I’m saying

And I enjoy the consistent stream of the belt

[frail sleet]

buffers solve all

[zenith bronze]

Also for the love of god

please

More custom swatch slots

[marsh rock]

do train stations stop loading the conveyor belt from its inventory when the rains unloading?

[stiff ivy]

Omg I think i give up making nice closed in buildings for every damn factory. Making the game take forever

[frail sleet]

yes

[reef basin]

You can modify the 20 custom slots

[zenith bronze]

They’re not the same as custom swatches

Custom swatches don’t change already placed buildings if you change the swatch

[prisma thicket]

What happens if your freight platform is full and a train comes in to unload?

[leaden turret]

presumably it wouldn't unload

[reef basin]

Well I know but why do you then need more than one custom swatch? For any reused color, use the 20 swatches, the custom one is just for one-off colors

[zenith bronze]

Because I for example don’t like hardwiring my building colors to slots

I keep a text file of hex values and paste them into the custom swatch when I wanna paint something

And it’d be much less tedious if there were more than one slot

[quartz crag]

Is there any limitation for unlocking alternate recipes. I want to go look for the aluminium alternates but have yet to send the space elevator since I'm waiting for a friend.

[rancid turret]

you'll only see alts for things you already have unlocked

so if you haven't unlocked bauxite stuff, you won't see aluminium alts

[quartz crag]

ahh okay thank you

[cyan garnet]

There’s more hard drives than recipes so you will be able to unlock them all too

[molten dragon]

Hi. I see many people managing to snap foundations etc to 5 degrees but for me I only get 10 degree increments. Is there a trick to it orhas it changed . I am running experimental btw.

[heady night]

im pretty sure it should be 5

i dont know what might be the issue here

[molten dragon]

I'll ask in exp...see if they changed it

[leaden turret]

@void gorge re: pending gym video, I'm wondering what's going to be more frustrating- community asking for diagonal splitters or youtube comments saying "do you even conveyor lift, bro?"

[dense violet]

use the catwalk trick

[molten dragon]

Yes that is what I'm trying and it doesn't work for me

always 10

[dense violet]

you could try showing yoru steps in #design-and-architecture

you following a video guide?

[molten dragon]

Yes a couple of different ones show it working fine. Maybe it's me doing something wrong but it seems pretty straightforward tbh.

[dense violet]

like I said you could post images showing the steps youre taking in another channel

[molten dragon]

It's fine, I missed the guy in the vid actually saying that the catwalk pieces do only turn 10 degrees

[dense violet]

that shouldn't be the case?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJiL4JznaU

[pastel pewter]

i finaly have my new pc to play satisfactory i had a 2005 pc i had to put everything on potato mod and i still wouldnt work

[hidden sparrow]

I have a 3070 and 48gb of ram, at the lowest settings i have around 30 40 fps

[vivid harbor]

Is there a way to access previous versions of the game?

[rancid turret]

there is on steam

you can find guides on Google, but I can't link them here

[vivid harbor]

Cool o. Thanks

Last time I checked for betas on steam it’s only gave me the option for 1.0.0

[rancid turret]

it's not in betas

it involves using the steam console and the download_depot command

it's not a super easy job

[molten dragon]

Thanks for the link. I have actually just found that none of those methods is necessary, as we can use nudging vertically to simply reposition a block. Saves all the other steps 🙂

[dense violet]

how does nudging vertically make a 5 degree turn?

[frail sleet]

That will be because of your CPU and your RAM's performance (frequency, timings, amount of bank groups and ranks etc)

--

What's the best way to find all of the sloops that we've already picked up? Missing quite a few in odd places i think

[tidal cedar]

Hello! How's the mod support going? Do mods work now? I remember them all breaking with release

[molten dragon]

Sorry, I meant that you can make the turn as normal, on a block that's on top of another, then nudge it down into place

[rancid turret]

probably satisfactory calculator interactive map

[frail sleet]

i'm on it, but i don't know how to find the sloops that way

[rancid turret]

upload your save to it

[frail sleet]

Yes i have, what then?

[fossil ice]

Official Modding Discord

@tidal cedar Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @true mulch

[rancid turret]

hide every layer, unhide sloops in the collectibles section

[frail sleet]

That shows the location where the sloops were when we picked them up, 400 hours ago. It doesn't show where they are right now, which is what i need to know

[rancid turret]

greyed out sloops are ones you picked up already

oh you picked them up and put them in containers

I see

[spark ruin]

do you have like hunderds of thousands of structures or something ?

[frail sleet]

containers, buildings, whatever

i do not know 😄 and i want to know

[rancid turret]

let me look around SCIM, I forget if there's an easy way to search

[frail sleet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1365292474972639365/1365293419135766608/image.png?ex=680cc815&is=680b7695&hm=98d8edf48e9991a06cfe4c926fc5a9934bfa964bea73a153cfc011968eb6c5d0&

this button was the answer! thx zen man

[hidden sparrow]

Mayyybe

[spark ruin]

then it makes sense

[hidden sparrow]

#screenshots message nah thats the real reason of why

[left aurora]

pls allow us to make the SIGNS blink 😄

[frail sleet]

DM me the world plz 😄 i'l tell you my fps also

[left aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/cube-technology-box-led-lights-gif-16930833

[hidden sparrow]

I'll do when i can :)

[rancid turret]

ah jaysus

[hidden sparrow]

Listen its not THAT bad...

Maybe a little bad but uknow

[crude canyon]

hey guys, how do I use interactive map to pass things from one map to another

[spark ruin]

are you josh from lets game it out ????!!!

😱

[rancid turret]

https://tenor.com/view/hop-on-satisfactory-satis-factory-gif-13296165766158799746

[wintry herald]

is the non-solid rock in rocky desert a known bug in 1.0 ?

[spark ruin]

❓

[placid stirrup]

There's quite a few instances of geography your character passes through where they probably shouldn't, I'm sure the team is aware of this.

[maiden ridge]

Any information when will 1.1 be stable ?

[cyan garnet]

“When it’s ready” - everything we know is in #announcements

CSS won’t post a date until they are very close to release

[hybrid crystal]

I've just discovered that gasses don't need head lift, which is a nice surprise. Is there anything unique I should be aware of with how they operate? Is there still a use for pipeline pumps to prevent sloshing or anything like that?

Do I still need to loop my manifolds?

[reef basin]

looping manifolds is always good
"prevent sloshing" is impossible, so better to just loop pipes to eliminate problems that come from sloshing

[leaden turret]

neigh

[hybrid crystal]

I guess I mean prevent backflow

Point taken, though

[rancid turret]

strangely, for fuel powered generators I see lots of people use manifolds but I've never seen anyone else use a grid

just seemed to me the best way to minimise sloshing

[leaden turret]

package all the things, no sloshing

[rancid turret]

how's that help generators

[reef basin]

in general you want fluid systems to be as simple as possible, so grid kinda goes against that idea

[leaden turret]

pipe length is only as long as the connection between the packager and the fuelgen

[rancid turret]

you want one packager per generator?

[leaden turret]

yup.

means you can use smart splitters for flow control if you want to

[rancid lantern]

is there a way to make items in invtneory not go into storage if i click store all

[leaden turret]

... don't click store all?

[wet shoal]

Uninstall left Mousebutton

[mossy moon]

wierd question but i asume you want to move a certain item and a lot of it into sotrage without other shit going in there. press controll and click that item

[rancid lantern]

ill try it

that is exactly what i needed thank you

[mossy moon]

see this is how you help someone ^

[leaden turret]

see this is how you be passive-aggressively unhelpful^

[mossy moon]

im confused by english now

[leaden turret]

don't worry about it. english is a poop language.

[wet shoal]

I mean if a question is phrased that poorly you can't even blame anyone having fun with it.

[leaden turret]

fun such as saying neigh in relation to stables

[hybrid crystal]

I thought "nay" is how you spell it when you don't mean it the horse way

[leaden turret]

yes

stable is where horse go

hence neigh

if the question is phrased as "when will experimental be more stable?" one can respond with "when horses are added"

[hybrid crystal]

Makes sense

I'm still holding out for golf, though

[leaden turret]

April 15th, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: Is there any secret stuff coming in 1.1 that we don't have in Experimental?
https://youtu.be/34H0QERKlmA

yes

looks at @void gorge suspiciously

[leaden turret]

@void gorge if we asked if 1.1 was going to have golf and you said no, should we believe you?

[celest olive]

Have the devs ever been asked about creating a phase or milestones that dont need a set # of items but need a set # of items per minute? For example to unlock something you need to feed into the space elevator 100 computers per minute.

Though, I guess it would be tricky because you could just load up a storage container and then it will just unload at belt max speed. Needs to be something that checks over a longer period of time

[leaden turret]

November 22nd, 2022 Livestream
Q&A: Possibility of switching to a Game Mode where you had an item-per-minute requirement?
https://youtu.be/av3ed3zOTG4

[leaden turret]

the issue with a per-minute arrangement is that the space elevator doesn't automatically ship stuff.

on the other hand, the awesome sink is explicitly designed to automatically do something with stuff, achieving a rate of x points per minute for y minutes is achievable

[hybrid crystal]

Does this count as a looped manifold? #screenshots message

[frail sleet]

Not really - if you're only connecting a few things anyway, just use junctions and even splits

[dense violet]

technically? maybe

will it do the same job? I wouldn't bet on it

[hybrid crystal]

This line needs to feed 18 refineries, so I'd rather run a central manifold for those

Alright, I'll do it the less convenient way

[dense violet]

this is probably the most stable loop yo ucan build. It's easy https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1358651087137018006/1358651311587070013/satisfactory-cobalt_of_doom-pipe_manifold.png?ex=680c5923&is=680b07a3&hm=45a8e2162b0b4707456d363af7b09fc698bf62cef65468e52b3ba6502e45708a&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

if possible, with 18 refineries, I'd have 9 on each side. 2 per junction. Tends to be more stable with fewer feed inputs

[hybrid crystal]

That makes sense. Thanks!

I'd never thought of the elevated input before

[dense violet]

well the inputs here are at the same level as the machine. But the feed loop is above the input pipe

[hybrid crystal]

Yeah, ig I meant input into the manifold

[dense violet]

definitely feed it through the top though

ah right yeah

[ocean fulcrum]

anyone noticed the golf club in the video 👀

[random wasp]

I got 300 hours, dune desert or rocky desert? Got sick of the weird terrain of the northern forest, my go to

[true mulch]

dune desert then

so much space you won't know what to do with it

[random wasp]

Sounds like my wet dream

[leaden turret]

do note that @void gorge didn't say that golf wasn't going to be in 1.1

[ocean fulcrum]

idk why but I feel like theyre gonna do another pipe thing

[leaden turret]

what is a golf hole but a very short pipe...

[ocean fulcrum]

exactly

[viral vector]

It's really fortunate that satisfactory pipes are air-permeable

Really helps with making overflow valves

[hidden sparrow]

Truee we should make pipes have a random chance to leak a few m³ out on each sections

[viral vector]

oh hell no, I'd rather have fully sealed pipes and have to worry about syphonic issues than that

[hidden sparrow]

It would be very funny for the 1st 5 seconds tho, "uh oh ! One nuclear reactor isnt working properly ? Gotta trace back the entire pipeline !"

Or like

Fast belt randomly drops items on the ground in tight bends

[old sequoia]

Hey all, does anyone know if the dev team is working on a DLC or a 'Satisfactory 2.0'? I was considering doing a 2nd playthrough, but would wait if there's some larger update in the pipeline

[spark ruin]

would need a crystal ball for that
unless mikael somehow sees this and decides to reply

[old sequoia]

got it, I wasn't sure if this was something already announced or not

[spark ruin]

what we DO know is that the devs havent ruled out big content updates /DLC

but they havent announced one yet @old sequoia

[left aurora]

i think they should add blinking options to lights

cannot make myself alien club 😭

[hidden elm]

Question on Train signals, do we put a path signal at the entrance and a block signal at the exit? or do i need path signals at ever intersection.

My thinking is coming from factorio. but i'm having trains just parked at Intersections not going anywhere

[digital holly]

What weapon does best against those big spiders? i was on a spot where there were 3 of them.. i didn't survive.. i had a rifle with homing ammo..

[hidden sparrow]

Nukes

[chrome dust]

whens this game coming to console

[oblique aspen]

later this year, no fixed date

[junior shell]

BRO I PLACED A TRAIN STATION AND IT AUTOMATICLY HAD THE NAME OF MY CITY WTH

I DONT LIVE IN ANY OF THOSE LISTED ON THE WIKI

[oblique aspen]

the station list is hard-coded pretty sure, but may have been extended since

[hybrid crystal]

Depends on what kind of intersection. For just merging/splitting tracks, for example, block in block out works

[austere valve]

They know where you live

[hidden elm]

I'm trying to make a T intersection

[junior shell]

I live in a "city" with under 10k residents bro

[hybrid crystal]

If you really want to understand train signaling, this is the thing that did it for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/qxe0jv/a_psa_against_common_but_inefficient_advice_on/

[hidden sparrow]

Satisfactory doxxing update 🔥

[leaden ether]

Given the names I've seen auto generated so far I'd guess you lived in Poland or Czechoslovakia.

[junior shell]

I live in Sweden

I've placed 20 stations every single one has been in my county

im scared

[hybrid crystal]

It's almost like the developers are Swedish or something

[leaden ether]

Yeah I just looked it up, indeed they are 😄

[hybrid crystal]

(that's the joke, lol)

[junior shell]

no but its all the citys like 1 hour close to me

[hybrid crystal]

Do you live within an hour of Skövde

[lime ermine]

I've only gotten things from Europe and Canada

I'm in the USA

[junior shell]

i got my own "city" with under 10k resident then citys gradually more far away from mine

[leaden ether]

I get names like "Kraznoyarsk" but I live in the US.

[junior shell]

I almost got doxed by Satisfactory

[hybrid crystal]

I think the devs just used cities near them

[lime ermine]

Then explain I got Toronto

[junior shell]

I only get citys near me

They know my location :000000

[hybrid crystal]

tbf, anything you install on your computer knows your approximate location

[junior shell]

even the free RAM?

[hybrid crystal]

Even the free RAM

[junior shell]

nOoooOoo

[hybrid crystal]

Especially the free RAM

[junior shell]

😭

[spark ruin]

even my PCIE 12HPWR cable ?

[hybrid crystal]

I wouldn't call that something installed "on" your computer, rather "in" your computer, but fair point

[spark ruin]

ARRRGGHHHH

🤓

[hybrid crystal]

The decorative magnets installed on the side of my computer are another exception

[spark ruin]

does the VRM heatsink know my location too ?

plz dont tell me it does
i'd cry

[earnest ridge]

Building a slopped rail on 4m ramp / 8m double ramp is not possible in 1.0, right?

[leaden ether]

So is a network of hypertubes the best way to travel around to your various factory locations? I like the trains but for travel you have to wait fof them and I always seem to miss the one just leaving.

(No not thinking of using the canons)

[hybrid crystal]

I go for ziplines and power towers, personally

You can also build a locomotive on the spot whenever you want to travel by rail

[leaden ether]

I tried the zipline but was having a heck of a time getting it to work well. I gues I just need to practive more.

[hybrid crystal]

Could be. The power tower platform makes it easier to jump on imo

And remember right click to toggle + shift to sprint

[silk rose]

what mikael meant by ' multiple elevator entrances' ?

[leaden ether]

I was kind of disappointed that the hover pack cannot be used between the long distance electrical towers 😦 I was figuring it was 64 meters from an electric line but I guess the game really doesn't know where those are really, just the tower locations when it comes to knowing where to power things.

[silk rose]

btw where can i ask mikael to film his videos in 4K as snutt did?

[inner echo]

You want to make sure their skin care regimen is up to snuff?

[hybrid crystal]

1080p videos don't look as nice on a 4K screen

[fierce temple]

Guys do I will be able to survive playing satisfactory in my stick drift ps5?

[storm bluff]

It can be tricky to use foundation blueprints but if you succeed it’s really good actually
Worth the hassle
It connects well to itself

[silk rose]

yes, snutt felt so real, like hes talking to me right in my room

[azure swan]

4m is too steep. You can do about 3m by alternating 2m and 4m.

[cinder kraken]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1365405967730213076/image.png?ex=680d30e6&is=680bdf66&hm=a7bb976f10207d6821be5fa2abaa5e5e6823c209bd9b40a6efa9a5a893023865&
what first? speed or capacity rn i have 51 mercer spheres

[main heron]

speed

[turbid ledge]

Im just realizing how much iron is in the dunes

That is infact alot of iron

[prisma thicket]

I'd go with capacity, you can have multiple depots to upload stuff faster, but the capacity is always the same

[unique kernel]

Hey yall know what this server is missing? A dedicated channel for sharing BPs

[sullen gull]

Or Satisfactory Modeler saves 😏

[unique kernel]

?

[sullen gull]

Free production planner on steam.

[unique kernel]

The modeler software thing on steam?

Yea but that's not a blueprint I'm talking about a way to share blueprints

[sullen gull]

SCIM does that pretty well. There is another site, I can't think of at the moment.

[sullen gull]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/blueprints

Oop, the other one was blocked. It's basically satifactory blueprints .com

[sullen gull]

And, I know. That is why prefaced with an 'Or' 😏

[unique kernel]

Scim? The mapping tool? Seems like there's more fun to be had then

[sullen gull]

Sorry, I don't know all the short jargon and what's referenced as what. Satisfactory-Calculator has the save editor, as well as a few other nice tool should one so choose.

[frozen ingot]

yeah hoverpack mk2 or some kind of upgrade for range would be nice - it did get buffed, but i think late/end game there's room for like 'ok you're OP now'

like i'm blocking out a new factory, trying to design it, and it's a pain having to place a bunch of power poles just to lay foundations down

[unique kernel]

Ok at a glance clearly I've got some exploiting to do when I get home is there a way to make a blueprint folder that's shared between all saves?

[frozen ingot]

for a game that has such wonderfully enormous scope and scale, it does make large scale building kinda slow sometimes

much better now with blueprints thankfully, but little things like that...

[sullen gull]

Yeah, I usually try to surround the area I'm working on with Power Towers as a temp solution to that.

[frozen ingot]

good idea, do they have great range for the hoverpack? 🤔

[sullen gull]

I will say, one thing that bugs me is when you see a wreck, slug, or what ever off in the distance, but you know you already picked it up. And then it goes away as you get near lol.

[unique kernel]

Cuz i know it's possible to import blueprints to a save but is it possible to have one blueprint folder be shared between all saves insted of having to constantly drag and drop into every save

[sullen gull]

To be perfectly honest, I've never paid attention. I just always did it for the height bonus

[frozen ingot]

lol yeah

LOD is tricky though, i suspect that's too baked in to be fixed easily now

[sullen gull]

Lately I have been 'blocking out' some of the different features in the land... trying to see if there is any rhyme or reason to some of them 😏

[fierce matrix]

what tool do you people use to plan out factories? the one i tend to use is broken

[latent prawn]

hoverpack range is a fixed radius regardless of power source

[frozen ingot]

ah ok

[sullen gull]

Good to know, thank you.

[frozen ingot]

i use satisfactorytools.com for number crunching, and my own brain for layout and everything else 😄

[hexed hazel]

SCIM planner for giving me the number of machines and output needed.

[sullen gull]

Satisfactory Modeler mostly. Though I also like the one on Satisfactory-calc/

[fierce matrix]

thats the one i used to use, but it thinks 20 Heavy modular frames is impossible without SAM for some reason

[frozen ingot]

you have to disable the converter machine since they added tier 9

it picks it because it is the most resource efficient option, that's what it always defaults to

[fierce matrix]

i have, im in t5/6 right now. wanna plan out my computer/hmf factory. i have disabled resources/machines i dont have. and it just shits itself

it thinks 20 hmf is impossible with my current unlocks, so geus im gonna have to find something else

[frozen ingot]

you'll be doing something wrong I'm sure, I use it all the time for stuff

takes a bit of getting used to but it's a great tool

[azure swan]

I'm guessing it's impossible with the resource and/or recipe limitaitons you've given it.

[frozen ingot]

it might be recipe dependent too. or input dependent, so many possibilities 😄

[fierce matrix]

i used it throughout my update 8 safe where i made a 44hfm fractory with it, i know im using it correctly

[azure swan]

20 HMF is a fair bit. You sure you didn't limit a resource too far?

[fierce matrix]

ive given it all resources except bauxite, nitrogen, sam and uranium. the rest i have not limited

[frozen ingot]

link me to the calc you've made if you want help, happy to troubleshoot for you

[azure swan]

and if you give it SAM it suddenly works?

[fierce matrix]

i think it might just be cooked rn, im gonna clear my cookies/history and redo the filters

[frozen ingot]

or post on greeny's discord if you're already there

[fierce matrix]

yup

[frozen ingot]

did you definitely disable the converter machine? 🤔

[fierce matrix]

yup 😛

[azure swan]

I feel like you shouldn't even have to disable converter if you take away the SAM.

But doing both should be good for sure.

[fierce matrix]

welp, looks like clearing the browser history/cookies worked

i think it was just borked

[frozen ingot]

it doesn't default to using SAM for heavy mod frames anyway

[fierce matrix]

weird, havent had this before

[frozen ingot]

lolol, glad you figured it out 🙂

[fierce matrix]

it for some reason did when having all alts on

[frozen ingot]

sometimes you just gotta delete stuff 🤣

yeah alts can do all sorts 😄

[spice otter]

how often do the stupid bee hives spawn? I literally just started, died clearing out like 20 bee hives and finally made my base, went away for a few minutes to go find copper, and now I come back and all those hives are all over my base.

[frozen ingot]

quite frequently yeah, every few seconds?

[fierce matrix]

they respawn?

[frozen ingot]

if you don't kill the hive thing

[fierce matrix]

oh

[frozen ingot]

they just keep coming

[fierce matrix]

yeah like that, i thought you ment the hives themselves

[spice otter]

I killed the hives, died like 3 times to do it

they are back

[frozen ingot]

you can sneak up on them and kill quickly enough with the x eno basher

or use the boombox

[azure swan]

Did you save/load your game?

[fierce matrix]

so i wanna make a comp/hmf factory that will last me till the games over, you guys think 20 hmf and 30comps will be plenty?

[spice otter]

no

[azure swan]

They shouldn't repop if you have built a powered machine close enough to their spawn point.

[spice otter]

I literally just started the game, there arent machines that do that

[frozen ingot]

it's really hard to say tbh, personal preferences and all but, very broadly speakingg... probably? 😄

more than anything depends how fast you want to finish the game and whether you want to finish it at all!

[fierce matrix]

i did 45 last time and its kinda just to much

[fierce matrix]

i wanna take my time this playthrough, but dont wanna overdo it like last time cuz i burned myself out

[viral vector]

I'm about to send up phase 3 and I have like 6 manufacturers and 2 of them don't do much at all

[fierce matrix]

did any recipes change from 1.0 to 1.1?

[spiral crag]

есть кто из росси

[frozen ingot]

no

[tranquil ibex]

I'm curious, what turbofuel recipe do y'all prefer?

[distant goblet]

I don't know if this is popular opinion but I skip Turbofuel completely. I stand with normal Fuel until Rocket

[reef basin]

I also prefer to skip TF, but skip the whole branch, including RF

[cosmic delta]

i don't think i've ever actually used turbo fuel for anything other than making rocket fuel out of it

[tranquil ibex]

You still need to pick a recipe to make rocket fuel with tho

[spice otter]

how do I get the workshop to line up flush with the hub? it wont let me place it close enough to cover the gap between them

[distant goblet]

If you are into alternates, there is one that connects Fuel with Rocket Fuel, skipping Turbof completely

[reef basin]

Or skip RF as well

[cosmic delta]

that's true. I usually go for:
oil - heavy oil residue - turbo heavy fuel - rocket fuel

might not be what others choose, but it suits me just fine

[silent anchor]

Turbo blend. Works well with diluted which I like as well.

[frozen ingot]

oh cool, the wiki has the building dimensions on again

[tranquil ibex]

You see, I'm allergic to radiation so I tend to avoid nuclear before ficsonium even tho I know I can just clip under the map or make a very tall tower to keep enough waste stored that my PC dies before it's full. And fuel is kinda the only alternative to get me to that point

[silent anchor]

You can also sink the wase with extra steps if you unlock plutonium cells.

[cosmic delta]

i want to try dealing with nuclear just for the challenge of it, but compared to a good turbo fuel setup the power output is kinda underwhelming tbh.

[leaden ether]

Man this one spot on the map with 20 quartz nosed in a bunch. Is there actually a need for that much at some point?

Just a tiny bit southwest of the swamp and below the large field of uranium

[slate magnet]

you'll need much more

quartz is the most usefull resource imo

[rose rose]

Hey does anybody know how to import a world? I got a save from a friend they wanted to show me but their PC doesn't work on multiplayer. They're fixing it so I aint askin abt them lol
But I got the .sav file idk where to put it to access it

[leaden turret]

#faq

[rose rose]

Ty