satisfactory

[reef basin]

You can sink plutonium, din't need ficsonium for it

[tranquil ibex]

I'm too weak to resist the allure of even more fuel rods

[leaden turret]

throw another nuclear shrimp on the barbie

[grim scaffold]

how do I use difficulty tuner

[junior laurel]

@buoyant perch ya know those things are just from the press kit right?

[spice otter]

why does the game not use the sprite of the item sometimes and just gives the outline like we are playing "who's that Pokemon?"

[buoyant perch]

Just cool pics

@junior laurel Just cool pics

[junior laurel]

And from the press kit. . .

[leaden turret]

jigglebeanpuff scrawling graffiti on everyone's face

[tranquil maple]

Was wondering smth recently. Will trains pathfind around other trains or find alternate routes to their destination if the best one is blocked?

[leaden turret]

nope

[tranquil maple]

oof

Would be cool tho

[turbid ledge]

Im pretty sure ive polluted my world so much that the airs turning yellow

[junior laurel]

You have entered:
||MEXICO||

[turbid ledge]

This sounds about right

[spice otter]

the game just looks like that, I just had the same thing happen, I thought the poison near my base had spread lol

[lament niche]

important info:

||I regret to inform you||||But, unfortunately,||||It seems that your||||mother is a murloc.||

[junior laurel]

Missing spacing, my mother is safe

[grim scaffold]

help pls #1038092680493801533

[lament niche]

I don't see how that contradicts my statement

[junior laurel]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[dense violet]

#design-and-architecture

[sullen gull]

Dumb question maybe, but does headlift always start at the center of the port? Like for refineries and such.

[dense violet]

should do.
but also don't try to push headlift to the limit

[sullen gull]

Nah, I've always had a 'rule' to myself to target at least 5 M above where I need to be

[hot quarry]

beginner here, may I ask how to freely rotate building on foundation as if there is no foundation ?🐳 Thanks in advance

[dense violet]

you don't

[sullen gull]

Don't hold, and hold ctrl

Oh, wait, buildings lol

[dense violet]

you would need to have a different foundation spun in the orienatation you want

snap the building to it

then remove the old foundation and replace it with the new

[sullen gull]

With 1.1, and vertical nudge, you can do some trickery now 🙂

Though, in 1.0, you just rotate, and build one underneath.

[dense violet]

verticality does nothing to building orientation on foundation

[hot quarry]

well thanks anyway

[sullen gull]

I just meant you can rotate, and then nudge the foundation down to the level of the one you built ontop of.

[dense violet]

I mean, I gave you a solution.

like most design and architecture thigns it requires a few steps to put things in weird spots

not everything has to be at a 90 degree angle. Like so https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/932761153703149659/1318079364377743471/image.png?ex=680d1051&is=680bbed1&hm=66bb126020ceced6606e7f7a65e3111dc1d574f2ab1dd54e052030076b9c766b&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[hot quarry]

ah

Okay!

[dense violet]

though as you're just learning I probably would focus on the basics.

It's actually a lot of learning to put down pipe and belt layouts as well as building in 3d space.
and you need that for any sort of fancy architecture

[grizzled lotus]

just curious, but is there by any chance a function that dismantles every thing in the map?

[hybrid crystal]

You'd use the save editor for that: https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[trim vine]

Hey, I'm using the SatisfactoryTools website

I am working on a computer line

Is there a way to see the maximum number of computer I can create with a given set of inputs?

I do see a drop down for Maximize, but it adds a ton of other inputs that I dont want

Nevermind, I had to zero out the raw resources in the other section

[turbid ledge]

I wish i could drive a forklift

Idk if theres a mod for that kinda thing tho

[lament niche]

YOU'RE NOT FORKLIFT CERTIFIED MR

[hybrid crystal]

I built a power tower zipline so steep that I died of fall damage when I reached the end

[trim vine]

So not steep enough

[hybrid crystal]

Ok, now it drops me in water

[terse rain]

stopped playin for a long time cause I got burnt out. now I can't remember what I was doin

got this massive steel factory that's fed directly into some sinks ans obv that wasn't the end goal

[zenith pecan]

Was you aiming to build heavy modular frames etc, but got the sinks there just to take up the load until you built further down the line?

[terse rain]

according to the satisfactory calc tab I've had idle for a few months it looks like I made it so I could make 2,821 steel ingots for pipe, beams, and iron rods?

idk if I have the concrete for this since I went with the molded pipe AND beam recipe so ig what's the next step?

[hybrid crystal]

How many Singularity Cells would y'all shoot for late-game? I'm trying to figure out how many FMFs to make

[boreal musk]

so many stuff you can make with steel, especially hmf

[terse rain]

past me is really confusing. at the polymer factory I made for iron plates and reinforced plates I made 2 assemblers making 180 concrete?? why tho

like nothing in the planner needs 180 concrete??

and it doesn't lead anywhere??

[hybrid crystal]

I feel you

Even present me is confusing. For example, why does present me think this is a good idea? https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=epQZ9pOY3yypSOMmX4oJ

[terse rain]

wish I had a time machine so I could go back and ask myself why I did this. also to tell them to take better notes cause wtf??

[grizzled lotus]

is the explorer faster than the blade runner?

[hybrid crystal]

I would stick with blade runner, personally, because it's not going to flip over if you hit a rock

but to answer your question directly, the explorer max speed is about double the speed of blade runners

[terse rain]

just make a hyper tube cannon and watch ur pc audibly curse ur bloodline for using it

unless u got a pc that can handle it then idk

[boreal musk]

if you have a lot of road infrastructure, using explorers is better than blade runner

[hybrid crystal]

I never understood building roads

[boreal musk]

trains also an option since it boost the momentum of slide jumping

and use jetpack

[terse rain]

I tried driving an explorer down train tracks to get home faster once. it failed multiple times and I fell down cause 1 tire slipped and it was over

[grizzled lotus]

honestly this is something I find probelmatic

[shrewd palm]

vehicles in this game dont like tracks/belts very much

[grizzled lotus]

transport vehicles shouldn't have such a serious downside. they should at least have a short jump function. some places you cant' reach at all because there's a very low conveyor belt

[terse rain]

2 straight lvl 6 belts and an explorer go zoom?

[grizzled lotus]

damn it. I found a warthog that spit rocks at me. and when I came up close to it it jumpscared me because of how ugly it looked

[tranquil ibex]

Managing signals is kinda the main thing with trains so I'd rather not have them just avoid each other automatically, that's up to the player to prevent that scenario from coming up in the first place. Having trains be capable of using a route that isn't the strictly shortest one would be neat tho

[lost blade]

You can "jump" with vehicles (cars and trucks), you only need to use the jump pads and that will propel it through the air

[boreal musk]

its kinda fair, before unlocking trains and oil, you need to dedicate a single or bunch of coal nodes for the fuel, and most starter area doesnt really have that much coal to begin with

in grassy plain, theres 2 pure coal nodes but you wont have mk4&5 belt at that point so you can only use a bit of it

in rocky desert, the coals nodes are better used for steel and power

in northen forest, theres plenty, but the lack of horizontal space makes it harder to build roads

prob the best option is starting in dune desert, lots of coal everywhere, the space is enough to practically build everything there until you finished the game

and theres plenty of impure coal nodes that u can dedicate to fuel all your vehicles

[hybrid crystal]

I did use tractors on one save, and it was a northern forest start, so that checks out

Agreed dune desert is probably the best start. The issue I ran into there was finding enough biomass for early-game power

[grizzled lotus]

can't believe how far I traveled just for some oil. I think I'll need to build another independant factory

[hybrid crystal]

I picked grassy plain for my 1.0 save, since I figured that was peobably the "intended" starting area for the new content

[boreal musk]

you can always start at the small oasis in the middle east of dune desert

lots of woods for your biomass

[hybrid crystal]

That's fair. I've heard there's a lot of conflict in the middle east, though

[boreal musk]

everyone have their own preference, but for dune desert its my favourite starting zone

enough woods that you dont even need chainsaw to chop down the trees

[grizzled lotus]

nah, things are chilly, people play satisfactory

[latent prawn]

I was of the same mindset as you for quite a while, but if you need the truck's capacity, building a road for its route makes it a lot more pleasant to drive and makes it behave quite a bit better. What i've always disagreed with is that the thing looks like it could scale a mountain and handle off-road better than it does

also, roads just add a bit of polish to factories when you spend some time on them

[boreal musk]

its always nice to see roads and train infrastructure around your factories, making them looks alive

[latent prawn]

i'll agree with that 🙂

having a few vehicles puttering around adds a bit of motion and life to things

i did no-train playthrough back when update 7 was released, and um, when you rely too heavily on tractors & trucks, things get pretty ugly

there was a point in that playthrough where nearly every delivery route i had ended up getting converted to drones

[grizzled lotus]

I found an underwater forest, but it's nto underwater

[boreal musk]

tbh same, i like trucks but im not doing large system with them, it gets pretty messy

train is more managable

[latent prawn]

yeah, when routes start crossing or dovetailing, vehicles start getting really derpy

[boreal musk]

dealing with signals is far easier than vehicle deadlocks 😆

[latent prawn]

totally agree

[grizzled lotus]

can I not carry fuel?

[latent prawn]

if you package it

[grizzled lotus]

it looks bottled but I'm guessing it needs to be packaged

[latent prawn]

i don't think it is a really compelling thing to package and use that way anymore, but every playthrough is a bit different. my 1.0 playthrough, i ended up using yellow fuel in drones for quite a while, lol

[novel jacinth]

ok whoever created the collision for railways. I just wanna talk. and ask questions. why. why is the collision so weird.

[boreal musk]

wdym by weird collision?

[latent prawn]

because rails can be arbitrarily laid, the hitbox on the trains is the way it is. keep your rails spaced 8m apart and you won't run into problems

the way the spline fitting function for rail laying works, if your start and end points are always centered on a 2-foundation wide chunk of foundation, and the rails are even with the middle line of the foundation (this is much easier on experimental now), you're rails will maintain consistent spacing

[grizzled lotus]

I'm assuming fluid buffers can only take one type of liquid. what happens when I change the output of a refinery if it's already connected to a fluid buffer with a different liquid?

[boreal musk]

unless you flush the whole system, it wont accept other fluid type

[grizzled lotus]

I can dismantle the pipe and the buffer will hodl the liquid, right? I plan on just building another buffer

[boreal musk]

sure, you do you

[cobalt sentinel]

is there any chance a boombox merch item will happen because it looks epic and i want to blast satisfactory music with it :3

[latent prawn]

i think heroic replicas was looking to make such a beast at some point

[wary blaze]

ok chat so

the screw problem

is it even worth it to send excess screws to storage or just sink them

because almost no buildable that i use often uses screws

[boreal musk]

no reason to store screw unless you want to handcrafts reinforced plates or hmf

[wary blaze]

yeah true

me when i just redesigned my iron factory to actually make rods and screws and now im scrapping screws

[prisma thicket]

If you already have it set up, just remove the storage and send them straight to the awesome sink

[wary blaze]

yeah thats what i plan

[prisma thicket]

less hassle than redoing it again

[cobalt sentinel]

YIPPIE

[wary blaze]

idek why i designed it ti have excess screws

[vapid idol]

Hi has anyone used this Blueprint from Satisfactory Calculator before? it is a 12 in 12 out load balancer but I cant work out how to configure it for 9 in 10 out https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/blueprints/index/details/id/5483/name/Compact+Belt%2FLoad+Balancer%2C+up+to+12+In+%2F+12+Out

[latent prawn]

without taking a look at the bp, theory of balancers is they equally distribute their inputs to all outputs. as such, just leaving 3 inputs and 2 outputs unconnected should be all that you need to do to 'configure' it

incidentally, using such things in this game isn't really a great idea. balancers are something of a necessity in factorio, but in this game, other solutions are generally preferable

[vapid idol]

Yep I underdtand, but I do prefer them on large builds

11500 iron ore for example

Ah I worked it out I think, had to do some loopbacks

[latent prawn]

yeah, its easier to do whatever ingot prod you need where you need it than to ship it all to a smelting factory

[vapid idol]

I normally use this method, and reached "end game" with it and have now set about to max out the map. I pick an area and take all resources in it, choose something to build (in this case Motors) and throw it all into Satisfactory Tools and build everything it says hehe

Just for something different to what I usually do thats all

[latent prawn]

your game, your rules

[vapid idol]

indeed 🙂

[median shell]

There is (or was) one on the merch site

[pseudo hemlock]

anyone else look through a old world from months ago and realize the hell u went through to finish space elevator

[golden furnace]

Hello all. Im pretty new to the game and am still trying to understand the ins and outs of logistics. I just have a couple of questions:

1. Sometimes my input rate isn't a nice number, needing some sort of decimal amount of machines to process (Ex. 5.33333 smelters for 160 copper ore/min). Will underclocking a 6th smelter to 33.333% (or overclocking the fifth to 133.3333%) account for that extra decimal?

2. When over/underclocking to account for that extra smelting power, will I have to do anything special to the manifolds feeding copper into the smelters? Right now, I'd have a smelting station of 6 smelters, one of which is underclocked at 33.333%. This means that one half of the station would require 90 ore/min to fill, whereas the other would only need 70. If I split my ore intake in half, meaning each side would receive 80 ore/min, and then prime the whole system, will it still work effectively, or will I need to do some balancing?

3. If I set a manifold system to input to a set of machines, as long as they have been primed (and all the numbers add up ofcourse), every machine should receive the same amount of resources, correct? Even if the final machine should technically be receiving 2^-n units? Should I leave every conveyer in the system to ones that can hold the total unit rate?

Sorry for the wall of text I really just wanna learn this shit

[pseudo hemlock]

i normally round up not down

ex if u need 5.3 go to 5.5 machines

but if power shardes are low go down

[golden furnace]

Should I be clocking exactly to .33 or should I go up to .50?

[south sinew]

if you're using a power shard may as well get max out of it

but honestly, it's easier to just add the sixth smelter and not care, it works a lot easier if you come to add more smelters later for example

[golden furnace]

Yea im using a 6th and rounding down rn. I also only need 160 ingots/min so for the sake of everything flowing smoothly im trying to make every number add up

have no unnecessary extra output staggering my conveyer systems and whatnot

[cyan garnet]

Inputs on machines can go up to four digits for percentages. So you won’t get it exact but at that level of precision it doesn’t really matter

[golden furnace]

Will I have to balance my input, or can I just manifold it all and still have it run efficiently?

Even with the uneven consumption rate from the underclock?

[leaden ether]

It all go onto the belts and as long as the belt speed is fast enough (and whatever it's being fed into) there is no backup.

[dense violet]

manifold

[leaden ether]

And even if there is a bit of over production the machine will just pause til there is room

[cyan garnet]

The only thing that matters for manifold is that your supply belt is fast enough to handle your total input

[dense violet]

also that you have at least enough ppm

[cyan garnet]

The split of the clocking across the machines does not really matter. 5 at 100% and 1 at 33% works just as well as other combos of 533%

More machines in the manifold will take longer to warm up but will run at full efficiency when warm

[golden furnace]

nice

thank you all

[dawn idol]

hmmm im having a issue where steam says my game is running but nothing is happening

and is most def not doing anything\

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000 oh interesting

[latent prawn]

1. yes, doing what you suggest will work to fix the fractional numbers. i typically like to clock all machines in a line to the same clock rate, however. If the last two machines on a manifold are set to uneven clock rates, it'll take much longer for the manifold to reach 100%, whereas if their consumption rate is even, the second to last machine's buffer doesn't need to fill.
2. manifolds will eventually self-level if the input rate matches or is greater than the consumption rate
3. yeah, you got the idea. once a bucket is full, it'll only pull what is consumed from the feeding belt

you're also on the mark in your understanding that each successive machine on a manifold fills at half the rate of its predecessor until the predecessor's buffer is filled, and that is why manifolds take a while to warm up

[terse rain]

either past me had an actual plan and just didn't write it down. or they built the factory at like 3am with 25% of their brain left cause wtf

the numbers don't make sense

[latent prawn]

happens. helps to make some notes that you can pick up later when fresh

[terse rain]

the problem is I DID. and I still don't get it. they're kind of light reminders cause back then I KNEW what I was gonna do. but I needed to know what step I was on or something. but it's been so long I've forgotten the whole plan so I'm basically stuck re-writing the plan and hoping it fits with the numbers I got

it's like gettin a book but all the pages are ripped out except the table of contents and the other pages are scattered in my brain and in the 7 opera tabs I've had idle for ??? months

#screenshots message
another planner? barely know how the satisfactory calc works. is it any easier?

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cause this is the factory plan past me made and I'm pickin up the pieces as I go

makin many factories to lead up to 1 large end factory so I have a bunch of iron based resources for building and whatever

[prisma thicket]

Man the manufacturers take forever to make crystal oscillators

[molten dragon]

I have hopefully a simple question about truck stations.

I have a quartz mine going to a truck station. I have a coal mine that is also going to its fuel intake.

The problem I see occurring is that the truck is not refuelled so keeps stopping. Added to that it seems probable that the station's storage will fill with coal, meaning no room for the quartz.

Am I using this correctly? I can't see a way make it function as I expect it should.

[dawn idol]

does anyone happen to know why a freight platform wont accept ores?

[latent prawn]

sp.runesun.com is really barebones. what it does have is the ability to keep track of what you were going to build and have built. i like it because of the bookkeeping it does for me, but it doesn't figure out the production chains or do the min/max optimizations

[latent prawn]

the stations have a dedicated fuel port. belt the coal into that port

[dawn idol]

has anyone found anything that allowed to customise recipies?

im playing satfiactory+ mod, and theres nothing that supports it

[latent prawn]

give sp.runesun.com a try, i believe i've seen sf+ recipes listed in it

[dawn idol]

where? I took a look at it but I dont remember seeing any

[latent prawn]

i have zero idea of how current it all is

what's the name of a sf+ specific recipe?

[molten dragon]

Yes, I have done that, but the coal goes into the same storage as the quartz, so the coal will fill up the storage leaving no room for the quartz.

[dawn idol]

the basic belt?

let me check the fr name

[latent prawn]

5 ports on the station. 2 cargo inputs, 2 cargo outputs and a fuel port. if the coal is going into the cargo, you have the wrong port

[dawn idol]

or like rotor

whats the recipy for rotor

[latent prawn]

a recipe in sf+ that isn't in the base game

[dawn idol]

Bronze Frame

[latent prawn]

nah, doesn't look like it has the recipe 🤷

the author of the tool is very hands-off with it, last it was updated was 1.0's recipe list

[dawn idol]

I cant find anything that supports satifactory+ or being able to make custom recipys ffs

[molten dragon]

Um...uh....yeah, about that. In my defence I played for 15 hours yesterday and this was the last thing I did before logging off....

So I had, for some reason, coal feeding into both the fuel and the storage.

Thanks for pointing it out, although I do now feel extremely daft :p

[dawn idol]

does anyone know why my freight platforms is not accepting inputs hmmm

its legit accepting inputs for 1/3 platforms tf

does freight platforms need to be directional?

[latent prawn]

wrong ports?

[dawn idol]

on the left side?

[dawn idol]

its legit correct

[latent prawn]

maybe you have it set to unload or something?

[dawn idol]

nope its set to load wtf

does it need to be set to left side? I did not think so?

[dawn idol]

ok its just being really bugged....replacing it works

why the hell are satifactory servers so buggy rn

Woooooo first step done for hmf!!!

got my iron train up and going ;D

hmmm im getting a singal error of no block exit sig?

nm strangely just working now xD

[latent prawn]

haha, i'm working on the oil for the mf portion of hmf's 😛

[prisma thicket]

what's the better/easier idea, running a train of oil way tf up a mountain or running trains down said mountain filled with ore?

[sterile blade]

Some belts/pipes taking care of the vertical part might save you a lot of railing (eg: having a station at the bottom and one at the top avoids all rails in between)

[solid plume]

i want to bp a strip of labels, facing downwards, to use as lights, but i cant get the bp to snap properly to beams. any tricks to this? or am i stuck placing literally hundreds by hand lol

nvm i found a solulu

[potent berry]

I hope mods soon gets ready for 1.1 - Due to i have "nocturnal amblyopia" with other words, i am night blind, i really cant play without the mod making it day all the time. 😦 I wish some devs actually take something like that into account when making simulator games and not only for color blind people. 🙏

And yes, it is the same when i look in games 😅 Dark is dark. The eyes don't care about that 🤣

And when there is a bright light directly at me at night, then i become a deer on the road, total focused on the light and nothing else 🤪

Good luck with all your projects Pioneers ❤️ Love to see all your awesome builds in #screenshots ❤️

[ruby gyro]

Just like, inverted colors, duh

Jk, having an allways day option should be a thing

[alpine tartan]

Hey, is there any way to make like a 90* curve

with foundations

i'm trying to use catwalks for it

but it's not really working

[dense violet]

try sorting out hte issues in #design-and-architecture ? this is hte only channel that can't post pictures

[wary blaze]

chat can i in theory make a huge hypertube cannon and get the world heigth achievement

[acoustic plinth]

Hi guys. Can anyone help me with oil pipes through my save? I've tried a hundred times and nothing works. My ass is burning because I can't eliminate starvation

[boreal musk]

use #math-and-meta or #1038092680493801533 , share the upview screenshot of your entire setup

[solid dawn]

I have to be incredibly dumb to ask, but when did almost all the kitchen appliances become interactable? (Damn, i wanted to blend something, too!)

(Also, I think they should get that hidden Mr. Meeseeks box an interactive button, too.)

[boreal musk]

new feature in 1.1

[solid dawn]

Ahh, explains it all.

[wary blaze]

chat i launched myself across the map using a huge hypertube cannon and in doing so i discovered a random dismantle crate and idk if its a bug or a thing im not supposed to see yet

#screenshots message

[fallen orbit]

Took me 5 hours today just to make a 2/min hmfs factory
The functioning part of the factory is somewhat proper but
The looks and the connecting input lines for the ores look so bad
As the factory is vertical aswell just looks like a box lol
Will work on the aesthetics in a bit

[zenith pecan]

Planning aesthetics can sometimes be a pain, I'm still trying to fit stair wells in at my power station on the production levels.

[silk rose]

where can i get good gas pillar png?

or any good png
i know satisfactory tools but there only are buildings and items

[leaden turret]

photo mode

[silk rose]

i mean not a screenshot

i can edit one ofc

[fallen orbit]

My aesthetic planning rn is just to make the factory look less like a metal box lol

[zenith pecan]

My blue crater design #screenshots message

[split badger]

i hope vehicles are immune to explosives (becauase my truck is stuck on a rock)

[neat osprey]

I started a playthrough recently and am wondering if 1.1 will mess up the save, does anyone know?

[silk rose]

backup your saves

[frail sleet]

It shouldn't, but back up your saves and blueprints regularly 😄

[silk rose]

where can i get stinger sounds?

i mean download

[mossy moon]

im concerned why you need them

[silk rose]

im making vid

[hollow anvil]

did they buff petroleum coke burning in coal gens?

i swear it used to be burning 60/min

now its 25

thats so good for heavy oil residue byproducts

[rancid turret]

best i can see on the wiki history is it's always been 25

[frozen cloud]

#math-and-meta message
this math from 2022 did 900/36=25
so its been 25 for atleast 3 years

[whole ermine]

150 MW????? for one machine????

god dam, not even overclocked

[frail sleet]

wait til you see OC sloop particle accelerator

[whole ermine]

time for new turbofuel factory

then nuclear i suppose

[rancid turret]

rush rocket fuel

it's so good

[whole ermine]

i can make a 40 GW turbo plant

idk if i wanna use nitrogen

or 120 GW plant with rocket fuel...

[wet shoal]

Not that great of an idea, trust me.

[whole ermine]

too little or too much?

[rancid turret]

either way, i highly recommend the turbo blend fuel recipe

[frozen cloud]

turbo blend into rocket fuel

[rancid turret]

and use the by-product compacted coal to make default turbofuel

[frozen cloud]

yep

[rancid turret]

yuge power

[wet shoal]

You basically build something that takes quite a lot of work, which will later be an obstacle to swap to a superior recipe choice when it comes to rocket fuel.

If you stick with blended fuel for a bit longer, you can just entirely skip that.

[frozen cloud]

i did turboblend for a while and later expanded to rocket and it went fine

[wet shoal]

Well because you probably used base recipe rocketfuel then

which requires TF

[frozen cloud]

yes

[wet shoal]

And the alternate is much more portent

[frozen cloud]

its not?
its easier but uses more nitrogen

also default doesnt need coal which is nice

[whole ermine]

k ill do rocket fuel

4.16667 burn rate?

[frozen cloud]

yep
60/14.4

[rancid turret]

nitro rocket fuel is simpler to build but heinously resource intensive

turbo blend / default rocket uses more oil, much less nitrogen / sulfur, and eliminates coal

[whole ermine]

is there a sweet number?

[frozen cloud]

i like 500 pipes into 48 gens at 250% since im making 3000 RF (and dont trust 600/min)

[rancid turret]

i only make 700 lmao

i have enough resources to go to 2800

[whole ermine]

3.33 blenders?

[azure swan]

ADA needs to have a slider you can use to adjust her moodiness, sort like how Iron Man can adjust Jarvis' personality. Honestly this is a video game that for me is for getting into that flow state and enjoying myself. I like having ADA around saying things but I don't need someone acting like a complete bitch to me now and then.

I know they're trying to be funny with it, but I don't need that.

[whole ermine]

calculator is showing 333.33 fuel

[frozen cloud]

mute it then

[whole ermine]

ADA gets less bitchey the further you progress tbh

[azure swan]

Refer to the last sentence of the first post.

[frozen cloud]

#screenshots message

[whole ermine]

spaghetti

[viral vector]

Can I get one of these but for people irl?

[azure swan]

Now THAT would be a feature.

[rancid turret]

noise cancelling earbuds

[viral vector]

@frozen cloud Why not do 600/min pipes?

[frozen cloud]

because they dont do 600/min in long manifolds, more like ~550

[azure swan]

Sloshing etc from machines clicking on and off makes it VERY hard to get capped out 600 working.

[viral vector]

Does something similar apply to 300/min regular pipes?

[rancid turret]

mcgalleon recommends splitting a 600 pipe into three pipes and having manifolds from there

[rancid turret]

nyet, it's only 600 that gets screwy

[frozen cloud]

i think so but only when splitting very small numbers off and that doesnt really exists with normal recipes

[rancid turret]

you can get 600 down one pipe but it's not obvious how to do so

[viral vector]

Cool, because I'm not a fan of the 600 pipe design so I'm planning to use the MK1s in bulk instead

[rancid turret]

and also for high flow manifolds, use mk1 pipes into machines to minimise backflow

[shrewd palm]

i think you can get a skin to make them look like mk1s from the awesome shop

or at least it makes them not have all the grey stuff

[viral vector]

Good to know, but I think I'm sticking with the clean MK1s, having 2x as many will just look cooler :P

[shrewd palm]

fair

[viral vector]

See #screenshots for example :P

[rancid turret]

i was planning on using huge trains to move enough water for 72 nuclear plants but that's clean as hell

i might use pipes instead

though the thought of troubleshooting 40 pipes that are just under a kilometer long scares the shit out of me

[viral vector]

I'm planning for some 3x3 configurations of stacked pipes for bulk water transport

[frozen cloud]

build the nuclear plant over the ocean

[viral vector]

For my nuclear plant I plan on making it over water XD

[rancid turret]

nah I am building a gigantic tower in the center of the map on top of the red forest

[viral vector]

Either that or I'll make it down-hill from a big lake

[rancid turret]

I am very aware building it over water is easier; I want to irradiate the stinger nest as revenge for scaring me

[frail sleet]

don't OC your plants to use 600/min water, stick to like 500 and they will be fine ez 😄

[rancid turret]

gentrify the neighborhood

[rancid turret]

yeah I'm not OCing the nuclear plants, more will look better

72 total plants, 9 vertical stacks of 8

[frozen cloud]

hm i never had issues with 600/min for npps but i also oc my water gens so its a simpler 300:300 split

[viral vector]

Do you need bridges? #screenshots

[rancid turret]

will need 57.6 250% water extractors, round up to 60 just for nicer numbers and a comfortable margin of error

by the time I get to this 1.1 will be out and I'll be able to use blueprint connection wizardry to make it much simpler

[mossy moon]

but the second half of your name tho (ig it applies to other situations)

[frail sleet]

600/min for npps is fine, but 600/min across a kilometer plus to feed something that requires 100.0% of the pipe flow is a bit cringe

[rancid turret]

I'm gonna keep my pipes to 450

3 extractors at 300 each, into two pipes of 450

[frail sleet]

i think even a little under 600 or even 600 is probably fine, it just gets more and more likely that an issue will be introduced somewhere with longer or more complex pipes

mostly though complexity (uneven splits and height changes) are the issues

[frozen cloud]

it applies to long manifolds

[buoyant musk]

What are the best alternate recipes for maximizing Supercomputer production, like 120/min? I have a crazy idea to max out all resources in the game.

[frozen cloud]

super state is insane imo
but default is also fine, kinda preference
dont do oc its bait (unless you want it for slooping)

[rancid turret]

good lord

[frozen cloud]

im doing super state
crystal computer
classic battery
fused wire
plastic ai limiter
and its really really good

[rancid turret]

yeah I use super state

but only for 10 lmao

[buoyant musk]

yea its crazzy idea

but i will try

[cyan garnet]

nuke plants work fine at max OC using 600 water/min, as long as the water feed is short and direct (I build mine over the ocean directly above the extractors)

I defo wouldn't try and do long-distance water to a full OC nuke plant

at that point doing packaging/unpackaging is probably safer

[frail sleet]

oh yeah packagers are bae 😄

[frozen cloud]

bro water packagers are so sloooooooooooow

[frail sleet]

1m pipe > packager > a whole bunch of shit > unpackager > 1m pipe. Always super clean

doesn't matter that much cause you can tile em (and OC at p5)

[rancid turret]

that's not a terrible idea

[cyan garnet]

a single packager is equivalent to a single extractor (unpackage recipe produces 120 water/min)

[frozen cloud]

1 npp needs 4 packagers to pack and 2 to unpack

[rancid turret]

why the asymmetry

[frail sleet]

they unpackage twice as fast

[rancid turret]

okay that's weird

[frail sleet]

with OC, pack is 150 and unpack 300

[cyan garnet]

kinda wild that they arent the same rate. most other package/unpackage are

[frozen cloud]

yes cause youre not supposed to be ok with a machine doing 60/min water

[cyan garnet]

with the improvements to rails in 1.1, I've been going and redoing some of my train stations. Originally I had designed them with only one-way exits and then having to put lots of loops on the main line for turnarounds to get them going the same way. 1.1 rails allow you to do multiple rails in/out of stations

would be much easier if i had given myself a bit of space between the stations and the mainline rails

lesson learned for next playthrough, I suppose

[static surge]

I dreamed about Satisfactory last night

there was some huge wolf thingy the size of a house and I had to escape it by using my Jetpack in bursts and spamming it to conserve fuel

[ivory vapor]

that sounds nice

i might start a new playthrough soon

[leaden turret]

#satisfactory message

[static surge]

lmao

[cyan garnet]

#satisfactory-experimental message

[frozen ingot]

finished the game at a leisurely pace, and now it's got me thinking about speedrunning it 😆

[cyan garnet]

The WR speedrun is ridiculous

[frozen ingot]

yeah not looking to beat that 😆

but i am curious how long it would take me if i truly focused on speed and nothing else

[static surge]

like no MAM grinding or hard drives

[frozen ingot]

i'm not sure what the meta is, prob more fun going in with no prior knowledge

figure it out on the fly and try again!

[elfin cradle]

can anyone tell me the crude oil to packet fuel to power route plz and how is it more efficient than just making fuel and using that as is

[frozen ingot]

don't want to watch all 21 hours of Epiphane's record to learn 😆

[frozen cloud]

oh its not 21 hours anymore xD

[frozen ingot]

lol of course it isn't 😆

[stiff plover]

how do yall get rid of nuclear waste? (other than creating plutonium)

[frozen ingot]

that's all you can do with it

(to get rid of it)

[stiff plover]

no

[frozen ingot]

yes...

[stiff plover]

i refuse to believe you

[frozen ingot]

ok

[frozen cloud]

feed to lizard doggo and murder
put in truck and drive off cliff (dont do this it lags the game)

[frozen ingot]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[stiff plover]

wait you can't just put nuclear waste off a cliff?

[jaunty jewel]

you could just store it

[frozen ingot]

you can but that ain't getting rid of it 🤣

[stiff plover]

how does it lag?

[jaunty jewel]

thats the only real alternative

[stiff plover]

well, almost

[frozen cloud]

because they will just continue falling forever

[stiff plover]

ohh

[frozen ingot]

nope, not at all!

[stiff plover]

good to know

[frozen ingot]

it's a binary thing 😄

[stiff plover]

explain

i mean don't they just fall down in the void?

[frozen ingot]

i just mean you either process it to get rid of it, or store it. Storing it doesn't "get rid of it", although it's getting philosophical 😄

you can't like dump it off a belt though, you can only build storage

[stiff plover]

what if i store it in my inventory and then drop it?

[elfin cradle]

anyone plz

[frozen ingot]

can't delete it

[jaunty jewel]

#math-and-meta

[frozen ingot]

(from inventory). 'dropping it' just means it's on the ground

[frozen cloud]

probably mean diluted packaged fuel

[elfin cradle]

yup

[frail sleet]

you use HOR alt recipe, and then that into packaged diluted fuel. You get much more fuel per oil that way.

You have to unpackage it to use it in gens.

[elfin cradle]

yes

thanks

[elfin cradle]

so it's crude oil > HOR > packaged dil fuel > fuel ?

[frail sleet]

Yeah for the most efficient oil:fuel

[elfin cradle]

kk thanks

[frozen cloud]

friendly reminder that you can put canisters in a machine in a blueprint and they will get placed when placing the blueprint

[abstract heron]

Question do train still go horn when press the horn button

[abstract heron]

And canister

[green fiber]

yes train go choo when you press left mouse button

[stiff plover]

i tried doing it, and it dropped somewhere, it's invisible and it still emanates radiation

amazing

[wet shoal]

Dropped =/= deleting

If you delete ore the radiation stays till reload

[frozen ingot]

good lord i just checked, 9 hours!!

[frozen cloud]

i actually watched all 9 hours recently
really insane run

[frozen ingot]

passive creature aggression though, i guess that's the norm

but i feel like that's cheating 😛

[frozen cloud]

also keep items on death

[frozen ingot]

ah not just equipment?

[frozen cloud]

ye

[frozen ingot]

sneaky lol

yeah see i'd prob not do either of those things if i give it a go

gotta kill those hogs and gotta suffer the consequences of death 🤣

[frozen cloud]

ye same

[frozen ingot]

dude is playing this game as if they are flick shots lol

placing a power pole... POW!

boom, headshot!

[fallen orbit]

Approaching 100 hours guys
92.3 rn

[frozen ingot]

omg, the belt clipping. not sure i could do that either 🤣

speed vs aesthetics

[fallen orbit]

About time I aim for phase 5
Or whatever the phase which has hoverpack

Am tired of building with the jetpack man

[frozen ingot]

phase4 i think unlocks tier 7/8

tier 7 is the hoverpack

and yeah, i rush it 😄

get basic bauxite processing going for that sweet aluminium and get yourself hoverfun

[verbal fossil]

This might sound like a dumb question, but do you guys tend to build your railroads/stations first and then build factories around it or do you start with the buildings and then connect them with the railroad track after?

[frozen ingot]

the latter

but i would have planned the factory with room for a station

[verbal fossil]

Oh yeah I was gonna ask that. Like basically you're setting up your factories to be fitted with a train station in the future

Damn I wish I had done that lmao

[frozen ingot]

😉

[verbal fossil]

Do your trains tend to travel at ground level or do you tend to raise them above terrain?

[frozen ingot]

try and keep them low, trains are slow to climb

[verbal fossil]

I'm a slow learner and I want to build train stations

[frozen ingot]

any incline should be a gradual one

[verbal fossil]

Thank you!

[frozen ingot]

yw! 🙂

[potent berry]

@loud compass Why the 😿 on my last post in #screenshots ?

Even the chicken 😅 Maybe i am too old to get what those two emotes means 🤣

[humble vortex]

quick question if anyone can answer

is instant scrap recipe any good?

[wet shoal]

Yes

As are many others depending on the circumstances

[mortal ginkgo]

I see a bro from another discord server. ❤️

[humble vortex]

I've never touched it before (was it added later on in EA or even 1.0?)

[wet shoal]

What can I say, new worlds await

[humble vortex]

the numbers look good, adding sulfur is not nothing but I can handle

[latent prawn]

who dat? 😉

[mortal ginkgo]

ZOMG WHO IS THIS

[frozen cloud]

oh no

[mortal ginkgo]

I haz arrived. Factory grew enough in DSP.

[molten dragon]

I have an issue with my truck which I got off in a big cave, walked away from and it disappeared. Apparently there is a way to retrieve it so can someone please explain exactly how I go about doing that?

[mortal ginkgo]

I saw a youtube video where same thing happened and it seems truck just got teleported back the base

[molten dragon]

It is still showing as a marker on the map exactly where I am stood.

So would that still apply do you think. I am a long way away so want to be sure 🙂

btw it's a manual, not autopiloted

[mortal ginkgo]

Don't trust me on it. Maybe a quick reload can either make the truck reappear or fix the marker itself 🤔

Just hoping so.

[molten dragon]

Hmm, yeah I should have tried that already tbh. I'll see if it works. Thanks.

Nope, still says it's in front of me

[mortal ginkgo]

ok so from what I search some people reporting that they have found their trucks ABOVE the cave outside

"after following the map icon, it was on the surface directly above (not clipped into anything, just sitting there)."

[molten dragon]

Yes that was my first thought. That had me going to the highest cliff point and looking. Sadly no joy.

[mortal ginkgo]

ok, so here is another thing:

"Trucks fall through the map sometimes when you leave them behind on the ground. Parking on foundations prevents that from happening.

You can upload your save here and check where the truck is.
You can also remove it if you like.
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map"

[molten dragon]

Ah, was just about to post the same. Worth a go I guess

[sick heart]

for some reason i'm unable to load my blueprints in teh designer, says "this was created in a blueprint designer of a different size and cannot be loaded into this one"

but it was made in mk2 and i'm opening in mk2

wat

[high pendant]

How come my tractor drifts randomly to the left or right when i'm driving up consecutive 2m ramps?

If i don't course correct I will plummet off

[wet shoal]

I would assume you werent perfectly parallel to the edge in the first place

[frail sleet]

there is a bug with driving vehicles on foundations which makes their speed and grip suffer

[molten dragon]

Well...I was already incredibly impressed with the game itself, then I find this app, which is superb and solved the issue immediately. Happy days 🙂

[frail sleet]

It is an amazing game

[shrewd palm]

satisfactory is peak gaming

[molten dragon]

Honestly I've rarely been blown away by a game to the extent that this has done so. It is so incredibly polished....slick is the word.

[mortal ginkgo]

Glad to have it worked! Also jyfi, it seems game never loads cave stuff if you are not closeby so it seems trucks etc can drop almost always. It seems game teleports them to above surface but it doesn't always work. Some also says using foundations beneath the vehicles prevent this so keep it in mind.

[molten dragon]

Yeah I read those suggestions but thanks in any case. Valuable info gained today 🙂

I've only been playing for aroound 70 hrs, so at least one thing this little glitch made me do was to scale the highest peak and from there (started in desert beach area) flew down into the grasslands to find exactly what I was searching for. So a happy accident all told 🙂

[high pendant]

First time playing this game I was on ultra graphics without realizing and my CPU reached 96 degrees celcius 🥲

[molten dragon]

For sure my gpu is warming my room up nicely and generally pc is making a racket on ultra, but no crash yet, lumen on....again I'm amazed by its performance.

The only irritating thing about it, which is very damaging....

...is that I keep forgetting to eat :p

[high pendant]

I've never had a crash, I'm just more worried about my laptop components melting

[molten dragon]

fingers/toes crossed then 🙂

[mortal ginkgo]

gaming laptops are meant to run around 90*C but yeah

after getting a desktop PC and leaving laptops behind, seeing 55*C was a surprise with watercooling stuff lol

[high pendant]

I don't know much about computers and laptops I just know that 96 is close to boiling so i was worried

GPU was really high aswell

[unkempt blade]

my lap! it burns!

[high pendant]

Now I run on high graphics and stay mid to low 80s

[lime ermine]

I have the same problem

[jaunty jewel]

i am going insane i think

[unkempt blade]

eating is overrated, just wait until your health starts to get low then use an inhaler to save time

[wet shoal]

As silicon heats, its ability to conduct electricity decreases, incresing its resistance.
Higher resistance leads to more heat at same voltage, starting a vicious cycle.

Processors will usually trigger a safetey shutoff once a certain heat-threshhold was reached to protect the hardware.

90 C° is already bad

[zenith pecan]

Once the magic smoke is let out, it's game over for the chip.

[mortal ginkgo]

96 isn't good. 90 is like the ultra limit for a gaming laptop that got big fan supports with below included (mostly for MSI laptops)

laptops are designed to give BSOD when things get dangerous but you should always be around 85+ at least.

[high pendant]

What's BSOD?

[jaunty jewel]

blue screen of death

[high pendant]

Like a warning?

[mortal ginkgo]

blue screen of death

well, you could say its a warning

[jaunty jewel]

ive had it once ever and i do not remember why

[unkempt blade]

in the before time when your computer got really sad the error was on a blue screen

[high pendant]

I've gotten one of those once I think, but it wasn't due to temperature

[unkempt blade]

you had to appease the computer gods by sacrificing all your drivers and reinstalling them 😦

[high pendant]

Long time ago

[jaunty jewel]

i am really sad as crystal oscillators have come back to haunt me

[wet shoal]

Yeah bluescreens werent that rare in Xp times, especially when using MSI boards.

[rancid turret]

they always will

[mortal ginkgo]

As someone who played games on a gaming laptop, I can safely state that gaming laptops are just a lie to get you buying them.

Unless you truly travel around the world AND want to play good games, they mean little.

You are never getting your money's worth because either laptop is down throttling itself to not die from heat, or heat is making it age fast. Mostly both.

[zenith pecan]

In older versions of windows, the virtual device drivers were a BSOD pain point, especially with the older sound blasters, nothing like fatal exception in emu10k1.vxd to bring a game to a rapid close,

[unkempt blade]

and now they're so scarce they're nearly extinct, yet another victim of global climate change

[mortal ginkgo]

Just break your RAM a lil bit here and there before putting it back in your PC. You will get plently BSoD kek.

[lime ermine]

I'm just going to poke in and say I play on a steam deck

[mortal ginkgo]

Holy mother of conveyor belts.

We got a literal breathing Hero here.

[high pendant]

I go between households so PC's aren't much of an option, unless I bought two

[mortal ginkgo]

Mod this guy.

[unkempt blade]

is that the gameboy that runs on linux?

[mortal ginkgo]

then keep the graphics at mid tier I say. And get those big fan things below the laptop.

you NEED to stay around 75 *C at least.

[lime ermine]

Basically lol

[high pendant]

I'm pretty sure my laptop when for around $1500, probably could've got better specs for how much it cost but it was a gift so I didn't have much say in it

It's a ROG Zephyrus G14 2022

[mortal ginkgo]

after seeing how smol and cute the graphics "chip" on my chungus laptop was compared to the first dekstop PC I had with 4070ti, I was like, "Bruh."

Specs never mean much since all laptops are just downthrottling themselves to not burn people's laps.

Or else they would have to just name them "top"

😄

[unkempt blade]

I've been pretty impressed with on-cpu graphics lately but not for actually running games on

[high pendant]

Is 3.3Ghz good?

For a laptop

[unkempt blade]

I had a carrying strap for my first desktop for stuff like this (and LAN parties). Micro-atx stuff can actually be a decent gaming pc now and it might not even need the strap 😆

but nothing says you're cool quite like carrying a full sized tower around to your friend's house

[high pendant]

Yeah I might consider getting a PC eventually, right now laptops are just easier so I gotta stick with it! I also can't sell it for something better anytime soon because I need it for college 🥲

[lime ermine]

My steam deck has to run satisfactory at 720p to run at all, and it loses charge insanely fast

[unkempt blade]

yeah I think that's basically all gaming laptops too unfortunately

or even like mobile games on a phone

[frail sleet]

typically shutoffs are at 110-115c or so, as a safety mechanism to catch conditions that the thermal throttle is insufficient or too slow to protect from (such as cooler not attached).

For temps around 90c, parts are typically rated and warrantied for 24/7 operation for 3 years at those temps with an expectation of lasting several times that in those conditions so that even the worst e.g. 5% of CPU samples won't fail inside of warranty. Economically they don't want the average CPU to make it to 3 years and half of them to fail in warranty, it's worth them dialling down the speed just slightly so that essentially every CPU always lasts 3+ years at whatever temperature and load time it's given.

The damage increases highly exponentially with temperature (like, +10c means 5x faster degradation, +20c means 25x faster, +30c means 125x faster etc). It's not linear, so the risk at 90c can be much closer to that at 20c than it is to 120c.

The main problem, primarily on older hardware, is that parts will tend to act slowly and overcompensate when near temperature limits so they might bounce back and forth between 2.4ghz and 4ghz 5 times per second for example, creating a stutter each time they do it. AMD basically solved that problem in 2019 with designs that enable clock speed changes 1000x per second without significant (or even measurable) performance impact. Intel took a lot longer and still aren't up to parity there.

[spark ruin]

gaming laptops with dGPU's are better

[mighty ledge]

can anyone help me?

[frail sleet]

maybe, maybe not

[mighty ledge]

is there a way to link up conveyor belts like with blueprints

not the 1.1 feature i mean like if you line them up

[frail sleet]

no, that's why it's being added as a feature in 1.1

it's very annoying in 1.0 😄

[fallen orbit]

I think tommrow am gonna spend some time cleaning up some mess here and there I made

[mighty ledge]

well shit

[fallen orbit]

The temporary machines I put web power poles and stuff lol

[mighty ledge]

can i just migrate my save

[frail sleet]

to 1.1, yes. Back, no.

[mighty ledge]

i see...

is it stable enough?

[fallen orbit]

Elevator's were added in 1.1 right?

[mighty ledge]

like will i have any issues?

[mighty ledge]

yes, elevators are added in 1.1

or will be atleast

[fallen orbit]

Just used them today in a factory
They made them so good

[barren rover]

guys i need help im hoping in joining a call with somone and them helping me out im stuck

[fallen orbit]

So simple to use and fantastic in function

[frail sleet]

hard to say, people mostly didn't have issues so far with this version, worst case is that you have to go back to your current save status (back it up) or wait for 1.1 patches/release for an issue that you run into

[mighty ledge]

id help but im relatively new lmao i got the game like a week ago

[barren rover]

i did too

[fallen orbit]

I can't call but if you can explain I can help

[barren rover]

how far are you into it

[mighty ledge]

whats your problem?

[barren rover]

i have enough power for everything but some things keep shuting down \

[mighty ledge]

on my second playthrough, i have like 20 hours on this one and im on like the tier 5 milestones

[barren rover]

im not done with tear 2

[fallen orbit]

How much power do you have running?

[mighty ledge]

hmm

[barren rover]

cap is 90

[mighty ledge]

im guessing youre still on biomass?

[barren rover]

yea

[fallen orbit]

Biomass is a headache lol

What maybe happening is that

1 or 2 of your biomass burners might run sometime low on fuel

[barren rover]

my cap is 90 and my consum is 8.9

[fallen orbit]

Causing lower power production than power consumption causing a fuse blow

[mighty ledge]

when you say shutting down do you mean like the whole grid has a blackout or that some machines dont get power?

[fallen orbit]

The consumption can spike tho depending on use
Can you put a screenshot of your grid?

[barren rover]

some of the machines keep shutting down and back up

[mighty ledge]

oh

probably being bottlenecked

you need to put more resources into them

[barren rover]

they are always at 200

yeet call?

[hidden sparrow]

Output being full ?

[barren rover]

how do i know?

[hidden sparrow]

Same as the input, if you see a big stack of items in the machine, then its backed up

[barren rover]

it says 6.67 per min

[frail sleet]

your current power display is probably not accurate because of stuff being offline, 90mw is only sufficient for the start of the earlygame. When you put the grid up, everything will start to run and maybe crash the grid again.

I usually build a 270-480mw bio plant to do T1+T2, after getting some materials automated.

[mighty ledge]

i cant rn

[barren rover]

wel im new and idk how to set a lot of that uo. us simine down to call and help me out

[mighty ledge]

crover can you send a screenshot of the machines acting up in #screenshots

[fallen orbit]

Bro my 24 gw packaged diluted fuel plant even tho after so much calculation still stutters a bit
I have checked it alot like spent 3 hours just figuring out
Got it running somewhat stable at 22-24gw
Am planning on getting blenders at phase 4 then changing the entire plant
Cuz man packaging and unpackaging diluted fuel is tough

[barren rover]

well it just says not enough power but the dont make sense

bc its using less then it con

[fallen orbit]

It might take a bit but
If your machines are not very far connect them to a single line without electricity
Then check the grid to check consumption requirements
Then connecting the line to power

Will give you better figures

[mighty ledge]

@frail sleet How do i back up my save?

do i just copy the file or can i do it ingame?

[frail sleet]

Copy file

[mighty ledge]

wheres the satisfactory save file folder?

[frail sleet]

%LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames

[fallen orbit]

Did you guys automate adaptive controllers to get to phase 4 or manually made 100?

[mighty ledge]

thank you

[mighty ledge]

ill let you know when i get there ❤️

[frail sleet]

i automated from ore but it wasnt worth

[fallen orbit]

I have heard hoverpack is crazy
So gonna rush phase 4 tommrow as I have got hmfs hooked up

[fallen orbit]

Yea I might automate modular engines as I have computers setup aswell
But I don't think am gonna do adaptive controllers

[wet shoal]

Insightful, thanks.

[mighty ledge]

Wait why the hell is it called factorygame 😭

[fallen orbit]

Because it is?

Jk

[shrewd palm]

is factory game

[junior laurel]

Can confirm, this is a FactoryGame
Not sure what the folder would be otherwise... NotAFactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames doesn't sound right

[fallen orbit]

MmorpgGame\Saved\SaveGames

[mighty ledge]

What if you have multiple factorygames?

[fallen orbit]

MultipleFactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames

[junior laurel]

There can be only one

[barren rover]

can i get someones help on a call rq,my plant is not running rihgt and idk how to fix it

[mighty ledge]

Do i get executed for playing factorio

[junior laurel]

Only if your playtime is under 2000 hours

[mighty ledge]

I see

[fallen orbit]

I really don't wanna be annoying but
I can help you if you wan't but can't call rn
If you can provide screenshots of your issues

[near quarry]

how on earth do you get concreate foundation

[fallen orbit]

AWESOME SHOP

[near quarry]

want to actually make my builds look nice

[mighty ledge]

buy it from awesome shop!

[near quarry]

i mean unlocking it

[fallen orbit]

The show which is awesome

[fallen orbit]

Yea you can unlock it in there

[mighty ledge]

you buy it... from the awesome shop...

[near quarry]

its not there

[mighty ledge]

nothing else to it

[fallen orbit]

It is

[near quarry]

unless im looking wrong

[fallen orbit]

Go into foundations section

[mighty ledge]

not in the foundations section iirc

[junior laurel]

Coupons can be exchanged for goods and services

[fallen orbit]

Oh my b

[mighty ledge]

its in like architecture

[whole ermine]

there should be a rare animation for the blender when one of the arms on the side accidentally throws the can way off

[barren rover]

i sent the ss

[whole ermine]

like how the filler sometimes spills and the beacon thingys arms sometimes hit eachother

[mighty ledge]

where

[cosmic delta]

it's in customizer section under foundation materials

[fallen orbit]

Where

[barren rover]

o i can send them to you too

[barren rover]

dms

[mighty ledge]

alright

[near quarry]

so may of not realised u can scroll down on architecture

oops

[spiral steeple]

why does making a closed loop help the fluids?

instead of a straight line

[mighty ledge]

😭

[near quarry]

or anything actually

wasted so many coupons on pointless stuff

[neat osprey]

Can someone point me to a good train guide please?

[fallen orbit]

Like a beginner guide? (Atleast that's all I know xd)

Like getting trains to actually work or

[neat osprey]

Yeah, I haven't really used trains before, so a beginner one is good

[mighty ledge]

how the hell do i remove the ugly experimental build indicator thingy

wait how do i explain this

[latent prawn]

I don't have a link handy, but Bitz and ToasterGaming have good youtube train guides

[mighty ledge]

#screenshots message

[latent prawn]

I think Toaster's is pretty comprehensive as a long multipart series, but Bitz's is good for a quick what's what

[mighty ledge]

how do i use the auto connect feature in 1.1?

[latent prawn]

hit 'r' to switch the bp build mode

[fallen orbit]

ill recommend you start putting down train station and figure it out it'll be more fun
Ask whatever issue you get

[mighty ledge]

wait wdym? if i hit r in dismantle mode it takes me to blueprint mode but i have no clue how it works

[fallen orbit]

Why do you need auto connect in dismantle mode?

[mighty ledge]

i dont.... but nothing happens if i press r if im not in dismantle mode

[latent prawn]

bp build mode, when you have a bp hologram ready to be placed

[fallen orbit]

You will need a hologram of a bp to use the auto connect feature

[mighty ledge]

i hear like a click when i press r but theres no visual indicator

does that mean it works?

also does it work with power poles, pipelines and hypertubes too?

[latent prawn]

you need to be in the process of building a bp to get the mode selection

[mighty ledge]

yeah thats what i tried i had the hologram up

[latent prawn]

pipes & htubes, yes, power, no

[mighty ledge]

oh lmao i was testing with the power thats probably why nothing happened

it says build mode straight then build mode curve then just normal what does that mean

[sullen gull]

Any thoughts on a 12x fuel gen tower? Think it looks a bit bland but not sure what else to do ...

Going to be 5 of them ....

#screenshots message

[mighty ledge]

#screenshots message @latent prawn my message if theres no message attached in screenshot so ill just respond here. i got it but how does the game know what conveyor/pipe to place?

[shrewd palm]

all the normal pipe/belt build modes

it will just change how the belts/pipes can be placed

[mighty ledge]

i see

[clear pumice]

can i ask why the miners do not have 2 outputs or are there any "hacks" im using tier 2 miner and its producing more than the mk3 belt can carry and it drives me crazy

[mighty ledge]

yeah its annoying lmao just speedrun logistiscs mk4

[clear pumice]

yeah but with max overclocks it still isnt fast enough lol i mean the mk4

[mighty ledge]

what the hell i was just building on the blueprint and the weird robot voice just told me that it doesnt think what i did was an improvement

[mighty ledge]

youre producing more then 480 from one node?

im guessing you fully overclocked a pure node with a mk 2 miner

[clear pumice]

yeah mk2 and pure node with 2 boosters

[mighty ledge]

120 * 2 * 2.5

[mighty ledge]

480 is enough for that

[clear pumice]

as anyone should no? i mean you want to be as effiecient as possible why am i not able to micro manage

[clear pumice]

ik but would be to be able to micro manage with mk3 since im phase 2

[onyx goblet]

heyy someone now how to upload my saves into a dedicated server self host on windows?

[golden furnace]

Im starting to understand the hatred for screws

[sacred mountain]

I made a Movie Poster that looks so real, it could be actual real

[slate magnet]

nah screws are nice

[golden furnace]

not with mk3 conveyors

needing 1200 screws/min but only being able to transport 270/min at a time

[rancid turret]

make screws in front of the target machine rather than transporting all of them in one belt

[slate magnet]

or use some alternate recipe that doesn't need screws

[wet shoal]

How about you unlock MK3 first and then build your factory

[golden furnace]

you mean mk4?

[wet shoal]

Yeah my bad

i went for 2 machines of versatile frames, two machines of smart plating and one machine of automatic wiring. Worked nicely, didn't run into huge belt issues.

[latent prawn]

in a nutshell, it often just guesses incorrectly 🙂

[prisma thicket]

How do you figure out if you need more freight cars on a train?

[wet shoal]

If the unloading station is empty, and the loading station full, and the train makes a trip and you still dont have enough, then you need either an additional cargo wagon or you need another train doing the same route.

[wary crypt]

78

[fierce matrix]

hey can someone help me RQ, im trying to get someone to join me via IP / session ID

i cant see my session ID

its just not there / where it used to be

[steep horizon]

do we know when 1.1 will release?

[charred sentinel]

Did the "infinite conveyor lift height through floor holes" feature get removed? I've checked in #1038092680493801533 and didn't see anything recent about it.

[zenith pecan]

Seems ok in 1.0 when I'm building, I haven't checked in 1.1

[charred sentinel]

I'm in 1.0, and I think I was doing it wrong. You have to build to the floor hole - it doesn't work if you build from it.

[slate magnet]

works in both ways tbh

[wet shoal]

Not 5 minutes ago

[zenith pecan]

Floor hole to floor hole is how I've done 500+ metre lifts, that seems to be the only rule.

[slate magnet]

oh this was about infinite lift height... I didn't read enough backwards before commenting lol

my bad

[wet shoal]

^i do this so often i stopped apologizing

[slate magnet]

happens lol

[frosty mason]

my brain dont work anymore

[charred sentinel]

I've never tried connecting two floor holes. This was bringing Iron Ore down from a plateau to a forge

[frosty mason]

can you have 2 saves or worlds in the game?

[zenith pecan]

New session, you can have multiple sessions (worlds) each can have numerous save spots.

When you hit load game, you select the session, then the save point/autosave witin it.

[frosty mason]

aight thx

[grizzled lotus]

I bought some stuff from the awesome shop but didn't pick it out of the cart. how do I get it without buying mroe stuff?

nvm, found it in the purchases tab

how am I supposed to use the dimensional storage when I first get it? I have no idea where to put it

[silent anchor]

It just acts as uploader, so put them where the stuff you want uploaded is.

[rancid turret]

you need one dimensional storage uploader for every item; if you try to sushi belt one, it will refuse to accept more items when that item's storage is full

once you have items uploaded you can get at them from your inventory anywhere

[grizzled lotus]

uh, doesn't it just upload whatever it gets into my inventory?

[true mulch]

no, the other way round

depot uploaders are like storage containers, they have a belt input and upload whatever you supply

[silent anchor]

They upload into a global storage. Only the player can download.

[grizzled lotus]

oh

[true mulch]

the depot interface in your inventory allows you to access the uploaded resources, and you can unlock uploading from the inventory too

[grizzled lotus]

it's like a dimensional pocket

[rancid turret]

ye

[grizzled lotus]

I am so dumb

[true mulch]

yes...dimensional depot

[silent anchor]

Yeah and it auto grabs stuff for building.

[grizzled lotus]

I'm at tier 5 and I'm just super overwhelmed by the factory I've built. I'm considering using a save editor and dismantling everything and starting over

[rancid turret]

stick with it

burnout in factory games is normal

[silent anchor]

Yeah especially if you can't just copy paste the lower tier stuff you keep needing more of.

[true mulch]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency check this guide out, modular factories instead of factories that rely on one another

[grizzled lotus]

ok

[boreal yew]

been wondering about block signals - assuming there's a converging Y-junction and two trains want to enter it at around the same time with high speeds, could they crash? (because Train A entering slightly earlier activates the signal, but train B can't break fast enough)

[true mulch]

trains are stopped forcefully if that happens, just like if they fail to brake to stop at a station

(and you should be using path signals for junctions)

[rancid turret]

block signals are fine if a junction doesn't have rails that cross over

[boreal yew]

sounds like block is better because of the force stop cheat code, unless a train would clog it

[true mulch]

both signals will do that

[rancid turret]

a path signal does the same thing but it allows multiple trains into a junction if they won't collide

[grizzled lotus]

so I'm uploading steel beams but I can't get them in my inventory. until I unlock that feature, I only access the items when I'm building something, correct?

[boreal yew]

but path signals will slow a train down beforehand if the section is too short, no?

whereas block jsut autostops them

[rancid turret]

you can drag them into your inventory

[true mulch]

yeah, but you can avoid that by making it long enough, + prevent trains from stopping within the junction itself and allow multiple trains to enter if their paths don't cross (hence path signal)

[silent anchor]

No the only thing you need to get separately is the ability to upload form your inventory.

[rancid turret]

the slowing down is so it can reserve a spot in the junction, and can be minimised by putting the block signal much further away from it

[boreal yew]

yeah, it's just very cramped in my situation, so I didn't want to use path signals

[true mulch]

the slowing down is caused by it reserving too late, it starts to slow down because it's "approaching a red signal"

[grizzled lotus]

can you explain this? do you mean that it only accepts one item type at a time?

[rancid turret]

#math-and-meta message

[boreal yew]

you could sushi belt feed one in theory, but when one item is full, it will clog everything

[rancid turret]

yeah, it has a buffer in it like any machine does

[grizzled lotus]

so are you saying it only accepts one stack of an item type?

[rancid turret]

so if you want all your resources uploaded you'd better go sphere hunting

[rancid turret]

your dimensional storage can hold one stack of all items; but once you have one stack in there, you can't upload any more, and the uploader will clog

[grizzled lotus]

ok, so just to reiterate, it will take iron plates, but once it reaches a single stack max (200 in this case) it will clog everything if there's a single extra iron plate on the belt. correct?

[boreal yew]

id like the trains to keep their speed, it's a bit of a bypass situation, and I wish it was only a T junction

🥴

[rancid turret]

I've changed the block signals since then so they don't slow down as much

but you can see two trains enter it simultaneously

that's the real benefit of path signals

[boreal yew]

anyway, the information about trains just stopping on block signals was helpful

[silent anchor]

Exactly.

[junior laurel]

They upload to the other side. I have made a (shitty) diagram somewhere

[rancid turret]

hence you need one uploader per item

[grizzled lotus]

thank you everyone for explaining 🙏

[grizzled lotus]

I don't think I ahve enough spheres. probably prefer to upgrade through research for now

[azure swan]

Don't you love it when you're using your jetpack as an autosave is occuring and the little hiccup in the game makes your jetpack LAUNCH you?

[unique pawn]

I just started the game and I literally am alr getting brain-dead from much my fuse has blown

[supple canopy]

that "feature" used to be better because the launch was proportional to stutter time and it has been optimized to the ground, late game you could get 10 seconds lag on autosave

[azure swan]

Early game it's a bit of a pain since you have to manually feed leaves and wood to get biomass/biofuel. I feel ya.

[unique pawn]

How mad will people be if I kill DA BEAN

[silent anchor]

Yeah it's the most annoying part of any factory game. At least they have belt inputs now.

[unique pawn]

hypothetically

[silent anchor]

Probably not as mad as killing a lizard doggo would make them.

[unique pawn]

What If I didn't name my lizard doggo Jace

[zenith pecan]

I sacrificed lizard doggos to nuclear fire to eliminate respawned mercer spheres.

The spheres cannot be sunk or destroyed, it was the only way.

[silent anchor]

Save editing or just shoving them into a storage to be forgotten forever would also have worked.

[lime ermine]

Mines Karl

[zenith pecan]

I don't save edit, under any circumstances, and having them sitting in a can somewhere would have been temptation to use them.

But nuking them out of existence via doggo destroys the undeletable.

[lime ermine]

Why not use them?

[silent anchor]

How about making them decorations? Could have named the building eternal temptation.

[zenith pecan]

While building under the map is outside the rules, getting extra items of a limited kind is a bit dubious, I already took advantage of some added sloops, using three entire full map respawns of sloops and spheres is just too damned much.

[zenith pecan]

One sloop & a sphere on a plynth isn't a bad idea actually.

[prisma thicket]

How does fluid head lift work over long distances? Like right now I have 4 water extractors pumping into level pipes, but it's a fair ways to my factory, and there will be some amount of lift needed to get up to it. Does the 10m of lift from extractors still apply or do I need pumps?

[shrewd palm]

that depends on how high up they need to go

as far as i know headlift only applies vertically (so just throw on a pump once you see that a pipe isnt filling up) but there are people here that know pipes better than i do

[unique pawn]

Anyone else want to face the same fate as all the hogs in my world (they are currently critically endangered because of yours truly) 1. KEEPING UR DAMN FACTORIES ORGANIZED and 2. NOT KEEPING ALL UR BUILDINGS ALIGNED. if u don't do these things(cough cough @tranquil maple cough cough ur dead to me. Am I the only one who thinks that??

[shrewd palm]

i think you would probably go insane if you look around in #screenshots a little bit

[prisma thicket]

i dunno, kinda sounds like they are already insane xD

[white wedge]

@nocturne orbit thanks for the list, ill do edits on those too

If its Possible

[reef basin]

wdym "aligned"?

[grizzled lotus]

the idea sounds great but I see some difficulties. The main being resources. For example, how can I make an independant factory for motors? It requires a lot. I think the concept also intends to have one resource for each part, which sounds a lot.

[reef basin]

you use same amount of resources as if it was any other way to build
and "a lot" of resources is usually just a few resource types, and since with independency you don't really make much, you mostly need small amounts of resources anyway

[prisma thicket]

Having individual factories for singular parts isn't uncommon, and once you have certain alternate recipes (Iron pipe and Iron wire in the case of Motors) it gets much easier to manage and streamline for larger scale production.

[grizzled lotus]

I'm guessing it's only possible to aim for this mid-game? Feels like it needs a lot of expansion and exploration

[vivid jackal]

FINALLY

[prisma thicket]

I'm not sure what even counts as mid-game at this point lol motors are relatively simple when you really take a look at it. They require 2 parts, which each require 2 parts, so that's 3 assemblers and 4 constructors for a very small scale production line. It won't be balanced unless you play with the clock speed of each machine a bit, but it still works.

[vivid jackal]

in only 65 hrs first time got phase 3 done

or wtv the space eleavtor stuff is named

🙂

[shrewd palm]

i'd consider mid game as oil
late mid game is aluminum
end game is nuclear/phase 5

[prisma thicket]

Nicely done! I think I was 80+ hours in to get phase 3 done lol

[prisma thicket]

That seems like a good guage of things

[vivid jackal]

well i have 2 things going for me

1 my cousin has 800 hrs and told me the ropes

[dense violet]

really? cause the tutorial finishes around tier 9

[vivid jackal]

and 2 i played 20 hrs b4 and made a new world so i wasnt screw by my spag

[prisma thicket]

The early spaghetti is fun though, makes you shake your head and ask "wtf was I dong?" later on though xD

[vivid jackal]

yes

this is me evy 10 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQsRHtrdlBI&list=PLN_EKfOxZHqe6DC-pscWrCvL9yTyjz8QX&index=8

[shrewd palm]

thats true
replace "game" with "tutorial" then

[hexed forum]

hellooooo

[lime sedge]

Hello

[chilly hinge]

yo

[tight warren]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1365848388293103616/image.png?ex=680eccf0&is=680d7b70&hm=7c4ada3cecd5cc18ac9ccc729fae1c191bd873465ebec6c934df0cdec22ff24e& it's sooo laggy when i look at this lmaoooo but im hella proud

[chilly hinge]

ahhh, a peek into the future of my save

[tight warren]

i did the mistake of manifolding 26 assembles and 26 smelters... BY HAND

why did i not use blueprint smh my head

[chilly hinge]

I haven't even completed phase 1 of the space elevator yet

and I've only just learnt that it's better to split your factory into multiple buildings instead of making 1 big warehouse

(however, the buildings are still very close together)

[tight warren]

i mean its two different playstyles, some prefer modularity and some prefer megafactories. I am a modular guy myself, so i agree with you 😛

[chilly hinge]

is there a fuse breaker in satisfactory? for when I want to intentionally shut down the entire powerline to do rennovations?

[grizzled lotus]

yeah, my question is how can you make an independant factory for motors without using up too many resource nodes. which is why I said mid-game, the point where you can at least explore and find far away nodes

[tight warren]

oh how i miss the newbie days... the feeling of playing the game for the first time 😄
power switch or priority power switches will do that

iirc, i dont really use those cause im a madlad

[chilly hinge]

ah, I guess that'll have to be a while before I get that

[tight warren]

not necessarily, just do caterium research in the MAM

[prisma thicket]

You can explore the game at any point, all you need to do is run a power line from your supply and you can really build anywhere on the map you want. You'll eventually unlock the ability to store items and be able to access them from anywhere on the map.

[chilly hinge]

wait what

[tight warren]

one of (if not the easiest) research trees

yes, if you havent, use the MAM often! it unlocks very strong stuff

[grizzled lotus]

sounds like too much trouble at the beginning, which is why I'm not considering it

[prisma thicket]

Well once you have your basic Iron and Copper items setup, you really should start exploring the area near you at least, you can find all sorts of stuff that will help you expand and explore faster and easier. Hard drives from crash sites, Mercer Spheres and Somersloops for research in the MAM, new materials to research as well.

[hexed forum]

hey

man all this is so complicated i did not know what i was getting into when I bought the game

[lime sedge]

I watched the game 2 times before playing it its pretty good

[lime sedge]

How are you

[hexed forum]

thought about playing this game and my brain fried, you?

[hexed forum]

watched lgio and threw myself in the deep end

[lime sedge]

I get that

[shrewd palm]

average new player experience

but yeah this game is nuts

[hexed forum]

all these planning websites make me want to cry sometimes

and i havent even thought about buildins aesthetic factories

[lime ermine]

I felt the same

[prisma thicket]

I did the insane thing and bought the game after watching Josh from LetsGameItOut and his absolute Chaos

[lime ermine]

I did that too

[shrewd palm]

tbh all you have to do is just throw on blocks of concrete until you get something that looks kind of cool (unless you're going for something specific)

[lime ermine]

That was how I found the game

[hexed forum]

literally same lmao

[static surge]

me too

now i have over 2 days in the game

[hexed forum]

thats what ive been doign bro idk where im going wrong. ill come back to this game with a fiery passion in abt a month i know it though

[prisma thicket]

The game does get more complex as you go along, but the challenge and planning of your builds and factories is half the fun lol

[hexed forum]

i have 270 hours 😭

[shrewd palm]

ive had to do more planning with this control room than i have had to do with most of my factories lmao

[prisma thicket]

I have over 120 hours just in my current save, and I'm nowhere near done lol

[grizzled lotus]

I need help. I'm in the first biome and I went north of center and found a hole, I kept going down the ledges until there was nothing left. I can't get back up and there's an abyss in front of me

[hexed forum]

its joever man idk

[shrewd palm]

you will not be able to get out of the hole unless you have building materials

[prisma thicket]

can you build ramps?

[shrewd palm]

or a jetpack

[grizzled lotus]

ramps, right. thanks

I have the jet pack, but the ledge is too high

[left totem]

I finished the game, none of my factory looked great, plain air flat factories, gotta love it

at some point (tier 8) I did do organised factories and like no noclip, but hell yeah I did a lot of stupid stuff outside of factories

[elder apex]

stackable conveyor stands or even storage containers can be used a poor man's ladder substitute if you really need to climb something

[static surge]

BROOOOO

I JUST SPENT LIKE 20 MIN BUILDING A BLUEPRINT AND ACCIDENTALLY CLEARED IT

[hexed forum]

thats a freeing way of thinking. i will destroy arcadia for factory 👍

[left totem]

way too lazy to do "beautiful" things almost no one will ever see nor care about

as long as it works, it works

[hexed forum]

if it is work, dont broke it

[left totem]

I love debugging factories for an hour because I did some things wrong

(if it is working*
don't break*)

[hexed forum]

(if it works*)

i know i was using bad grammar

[left totem]

both work, if it is working don't break it / if it works, don't break it

[left totem]

I wish someone was correcting me back then, it took me years of self study to get okayge grammar

[hexed forum]

i said if it is work, which ironically does not work

[left totem]

yep but, so awkward that I couldn't understand your intention grammarwise

[hexed forum]

i should hope i would never need correcting because english is my native language lol

[left totem]

top 10 saddest moment ever, number 9 :

[hexed forum]

what?

[left totem]

it's a joke and a reference

[hexed forum]

it's a joke and a reference

[left totem]

some things can be references without being jokes though

[stray sequoia]

Ok I'm kinda under the influence but tell me if I'm crazy, imagine if we had a thing like micro nudging where we could rotate the conveyor lifts left/right 45 degrees, or even more precise, and then the animation was tweaked slightly to slowly turn the item on the belt around the bend. I feel like it would work because that type of system would realistically work IRL and it probably wouldn't be too hard to code in, but I don't have mod experience with this game so maybe not

But the way I picture this is the lift being slightly turned to allow for a curve to meet with a belt one or two notches offset to the input, allowing for more depth in the design process

[grizzled lotus]

I finally unlocked the trains. time for sleep, but tomorrow I plan on really changing my factory. at least, if trains work like I think they do

I think I'll also need smart splitters

[shrewd palm]

how much power storage is too much power storage

[dense violet]

You don’t need much , they discharge faster than charge

[dense violet]

You’ll want to watch some tutorials, and learn how to buffer them

[shrewd palm]

i have 106 for a grid with a consumption of ~40GW

ideally i want to fill all of the empty space in my control building with power storages in case things go wrong at the nuclear plant but thats going to be stupid expensive

[dense violet]

If something goes wrong with your nuclear set up you just want to shit it down completely

[shrewd palm]

yeah

ive got shutoffs for everything

can redirect uranium into awesome sinks, turn off all water extractors, can turn off every individual part involved in the production chain (up to plutonium fuel rods) or the uranium fuel rods if needed

and im probably going to make my waste production able to deal with a little extra waste than im making just in case

[hollow hemlock]

Just stockpile iodine filters, what's the worst that could happen...

[chrome coral]

Okay so I have a question... If i were to HYPOTHETICALLY use 6300 sulfur per minute for just turbo fuel would I run into issues later?

[shrewd palm]

yes

mk3 miners fully overclocked there is only like 10,800 sulfur on the map

[chrome coral]

what else uses sulfur

[granite pendant]

a lot of lategame recipes chug sulfur

[chrome coral]

like...?

[atomic notch]

sulfur chuggers

[granite pendant]

..yknow actually checking for myself it's actually not as many as I thought I remembered, but it's needed for rocket fuel, sulfuric acid, batteries, nuclear, and several alt recipes

rocket fuel and nuclear are the big ones iirc

[shrewd palm]

although if you're using it for turbo/rocket fuel you wont have to worry about using it in nuclear

[neon kraken]

ummmm question should my pipe be loading and i am in 1.1

[shrewd palm]

this is going to be rough

the game does not want me placing water extractors in the ocean

going to have to nudge 504 water extractors unless i can find a mod

[latent prawn]

there's more than enough sulfur on the map for what you need it for. max nuclear should only require around 2100 sulfur, and 600 sulfur going to blended turbofuel is a fine bit of power to get you to nuclear, so really feel free to use 600 here and 600 there for stuff like compacted steel or instant scrap, etc