satisfactory

[rugged abyss]

like trick the game into thinking i have bought it

[cyan garnet]

Why not just buy it? Most of the shop stuff is an unlock of the recipe. All the architecture lighting organization stuff etc

It’s a one time purchase

[sullen gull]

You "could" use SCIM I believe.

But yeah, I agree with @cyan garnet, they aren't terribly expensive. a few DNA shards should get you what you need... If you haven't sunk any yet that is.

[rugged abyss]

what is scim?

[sullen gull]

And @sturdy mural Thanks for trying though!

[sturdy mural]

this
Just beat up some hogs, turn them into paste, and capsule it

[cyan garnet]

Online save editor

[sturdy mural]

no problem, if i were you i'd just
slap a 1m foundation on top and forget it ever existed lol

[rugged abyss]

point me in that direction please

[sullen gull]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[sturdy mural]

wait is there

?faq tools

[sullen gull]

You can't put foudations ontop unfortunately. And, I was planning to put a water extractor in that exact spot lol.

[sturdy mural]

oof

[sturdy mural]

wait wouldn't even the halfpipes work

[cyan garnet]

SCIM is a full map spoiler too

[zenith pecan]

Chuck a map marker on the spot and DM me the save, let me have a go 🙂

[sturdy mural]

@zenith pecan

[rugged abyss]

i know

[sullen gull]

Don't be judgy on my builds now 🤣

[sturdy mural]

you get back the save without the quartz and you find like 40 diffirent signs with OSHA violations written on them

at your HUB

[sullen gull]

Definitely at the hub 🤣

[frail sleet]

you can get rid of the nut trees, but not the ligma

[zenith pecan]

I'm aiming to problem solve, not judge, many builds I've seen posted put mine to shame 😛

[sullen gull]

Lol

[rugged abyss]

ok, how do i unlock the lights?

[sullen gull]

Sorry, that I am not 100% sure on as I have never unlocked anything in that manner.

[rugged abyss]

oh, ok

[sturdy mural]

you go to the HUB and you see
855, 1616 | 1910.29(a)(1,2)

and stuff on the signs

[sullen gull]

Wait @sturdy mural , where you under the map here? #screenshots message

🤣

[sturdy mural]

right under the quartz
hypertubed between the lake and the iron deposits

around where you're standing at #screenshots message in the 2nd pic

[sullen gull]

Gotcha.

[rugged abyss]

is there a requirement to mine pure nodes?

[sturdy mural]

no, node purity is just how much you'll get from it

[sullen gull]

You have to be True Pure of Heart... 😏

[sturdy mural]

it think it was

miner| Impure | Normal | Pure
MK1  | 30     | 60     | 120
MK2  | 60     | 120    | 240
MK3  | 120    | 240    | 480```
mineral/m, without OC

[sturdy mural]

#screenshots message

[sullen gull]

Heh, already built there I see 😏

Also looks like someone already reported the bug: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/680ed23c6b7c57319636b784

[sturdy mural]

that iron is the closest to the crater

[sullen gull]

Yeah, I am just using that spot to make some encased uranium cells for the weapons factory 🙂

[sturdy mural]

ooo?

you know what
screw it
boom boom factory

also do you guys think that alt blackpowder recipe is good

[sullen gull]

IIRC, it requires more machines since you have to make compacted coal. Can't remember if the production is higher though.

[sturdy mural]

OH WAIT IT IS COMPACT COAL

normal is
30 coal 30 sulfur for 60 powder
alt is
20 coal 30 sulfur for 60 powder

without compact alts

imma let it be for now

[sullen gull]

#screenshots message My weapons factory build I am currently working on.

[sturdy mural]

are you doing like a bit of everything or what are you getting actually

[zenith pecan]

I think we can write that particular quartz deposit as completely bollocksed, I tried it from three different angles, it just nope: #screenshots message

[sullen gull]

Everything except for gas Noblisks.

I may add an assembler there to make a few here and there, just didn't want to deal with manually dropping Biomass

I can send you the Satisfactory Modeler export if you'd like.

[zenith pecan]

@sturdy mural here's a quick look at how to not be swimming when building under the water #streams-and-videos message

[sturdy mural]

oooo

btw do i gamble or do i go with 6 inventory slots (hard drive)

[zenith pecan]

Inventory slots imo, I take them asap.

[sturdy mural]

i finished phase 3 !
just need to launch it

[zenith pecan]

Clips and save ended in my experimental bugs folder 😄

[frozen ingot]

i like to start from input/raw materials, and having things powered on from the start. I like to use manifolds so that way a) manifolds saturate as I work on the next thing and b) I can troubleshoot more easily along the way

some people like to build the whole thing unpowered and switch it on with great ceremony 😄

[prisma thicket]

I do halfway in between that lol, I get my inputs going and primed, then leave the rest unpowered as I build it up, then switch it on in sections to allow manifolds/pipes to fill.

[rugged abyss]

my idea exactly

[sullen gull]

That's about what I do as well.

[odd estuary]

So how do i know if i can use mods?

Do I had to manually go to experimental or did the game update itself on 1.1?

[prisma thicket]

1.1 hasn't released yet, but you can play it on experimental if you wish

[odd estuary]

So all the time i could just play with mods? 😄

[sullen gull]

So long as you're not using 1.1, yes

[rugged abyss]

anyone got a 2-3 belt balancer i can copy?

[sturdy mural]

guys why do you unlock quartz scanning in tier 7??

[prisma thicket]

Because that's when you NEED it to progress, but you can get it earlier.

[frozen cloud]

radio control unit needs quartz

[unkempt blade]

isn't this just two lines go into a merger 1 goes from merger to splitter and 3 exit the splitter?

[rugged abyss]

idk man, thats why im asking you guys

but also i dont need it

[tulip orchid]

Not necessarily a single merger-splitter because belt throughput limitations

Split first then merge across should bypass that issue

[pure dagger]

Hello, I have the question where I can report a bug from the satisfactory wiki so that it can be changed there

[sullen gull]

Which Wiki?

[pure dagger]

Fandom

[sullen gull]

says that five times fast in his head

[sullen gull]

Nope. Fandom is junk. look for the gg wiki

[white dawn]

The official wiki is https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/ btw, regardless of what the Fandom one says

[pure dagger]

I found it thanks

[white dawn]

The Fandom one has been out of date for a real long time now

[sullen gull]

Thanks.

[white dawn]

(In fairness, Fandom used to be the official wiki, so it was a valid claim in the past. They refuse to update it now that it's not true, though)

[pure dagger]

Yeh I found a fith uranium mode and the wiki said only 4 exist

But thanks

[white dawn]

Also, keep in mind that it's a public wiki -- if you find something that's wrong, you can just go ahead and change it yourself

[true mulch]

I recommend installing https://www.wiki.gg/redirect so that search results bring you to the correct wiki

[pure dagger]

Thank you

Do you know how much uranium plutonium and ficit fuel rods you can make if you would take all 2100 uranium ore

[sturdy mural]

guys how do i get rid of the water in the aluminum

[true mulch]

depends if you allow converter conversions or not

[pure dagger]

No converting

[true mulch]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production

add the products and change from items/min to maximize

then allow or disable recipes/buildings

[true mulch]

pump less of it in the first place, have a group of refineries using fresh water and a group using recycled water

the ugly alternative is to burn it off in generators or package and sink

[peak wasp]

satisfactory curve conveyors is the best thing ive seen oat

[worn garden]

I TOOK AN ENTRANCE EXAM TO JOIN THIS SERVER

[pure dagger]

@true mulch it says that it couldn't calculate it

[sturdy mural]

what

[true mulch]

oh, forgot that you need to manually input the waste

[pure dagger]

Ok thanks

[worn garden]

!lizarddoggo

[true mulch]

that means you have to calculate how much waste to input

the wiki has a table on how much waste you get per fuel rod

[pure dagger]

Ok thanks

[sullen gull]

Dang, is there a way to count the Uobjects? I keep getting the Maximum number of UObjects error, and not sure if it's 1.1 or not..

[pure dagger]

Is it right that I can power 160 power plants by plutonium rods or is it completely false

[vestal mica]

using all the uranium?

[pure dagger]

Yes using all of it

[vestal mica]

but not allowed to convert sam for anything?

[pure dagger]

Yes

[vestal mica]

i get 114 power plants doing uraniuma nd 305 doing plutonium

and 152 doing ficsonium

the only place sam is used is to make the ficsonium stuff

[pure dagger]

Are you using all of the uranium?

[vestal mica]

yeah

[pure dagger]

Do you use alternative recipes?

[vestal mica]

yeah

[pure dagger]

Ok

@vestal mica do you also overclock your power plant?

[vestal mica]

you need to sloop parts of the sam -> ficsonium line to have enough to get rid of all the plutonium waste

[pure dagger]

Ok thanks

[vestal mica]

no those numbers are running at standard

[pure dagger]

Ok

Thank you

[prisma thicket]

#screenshots message almost ready to get underway 😄

[sturdy mural]

what the hell

i used an inhaler and died

[prisma thicket]

were you dying already?

[true mulch]

don't vape kids

[vestal mica]

inhalers suck. (pun intended?)

they have some funky animation lag and it looks like you got healed but if you let go of the mouse too soon you don't

mushrooms for me. one click - one heal.

[glass relic]

Hey

I dont play Satisfactory but i hav a idea thats look good and bad in the same.

[sturdy mural]

you don't need to hold??

what is your idea

[vestal mica]

i don't know . I sort of do. Or I don't know if clicking it again can interrupt it or what the deal is, but i often have the inhaler fail even after i've initiated the animation by clicking. but the food never fails for me

the health bar even comes back for a second, but then it goes away

[glass relic]

My idea is a machine thats like a thing that coming things out. And you can place it to the end of the world where you can drop things with this in the void

things that you didnt want like atomic garbage

[vestal mica]

i can't parse that first statement.

[sturdy mural]

could you rephrase it

[quick sky]

One of us is having a stroke

[earnest ridge]

Awesome Sink is for stuff you don't want and want to throw away.
Nuclear waste / atomic garbage is something you deal with, intentionally in the game.

[junior laurel]

Yeah that just sounds like the sink . . .

[glass relic]

My idea is actually a garbage disposal that can throw things like nuclear waste into the void.

[junior laurel]

Why would we want that?

[quick sky]

The point of nuclear waste is that you can't do that

[glass relic]

i dont mean the sink

[earnest ridge]

After it goes into the void, what happens to it?

[sturdy mural]

getting rid of nuclear waste is literally the challenge

[quick sky]

It spawns in the real world in your house

[earnest ridge]

Infinity money glitch you say... as that might be valuable to some...

[quick sky]

Infinite cancer glitch

[glass relic]

I mean a machine that throws things out of a warehouse like a dropper in Minecraft.

[sturdy mural]

infinite demon core simulation

[vestal mica]

don't go in that room. full of giant butt-faced spiders

[junior laurel]

Just spawns a gram of U235 inside your PC case

[tall lantern]

that just sounds like a storage crate without the crate lol

[sturdy mural]

perfect for that chicken w/ rice seasoning

[tall lantern]

just dumping your items on the floor or wherever the output is, rather than in a crate

[junior laurel]

Uranium taste like banana

[earnest ridge]

And that machine drops the item on the ground or the void?

[tall lantern]

items don't have gravity, so wherever the output is

[junior laurel]

Time to add gravity :p

[glass relic]

Someone tried to throw nuclear waste into the void before, but it took too long. And that's exactly what this machine is designed to solve. It drops the nuclear waste into the void.

Can i do pictures in this chat?

[tall lantern]

the solution to that problem already exists though, process the waste

[junior laurel]

. . . But... you ... no?

[tall lantern]

not being able to dispose of waste as-is is a feature not a bug

[junior laurel]

If you want to get rid of waste that bad without just reprocessing it like intended, give it to a doggo and throw that over the edge of the world

[earnest ridge]

Basically you want to delete nuclear waste? Cause there is no other reason to throw in the void, like Josh from LetsGameItOut.

[tall lantern]

at least not automatically, the doggos and toilet will happily take it

[junior laurel]

Doggos are just entity crates ;3

[glass relic]

I also sea this video

[tall lantern]

but yeah, having to deal with the waste is a very intentional part of its design

[glass relic]

her try it with pets

[tall lantern]

if you want a mod that trivialises it there's probably something, but it wouldn't happen in the base game

[junior laurel]

There is a lot of mods that make things trivial...

[sturdy mural]

they should add a mod that lets you get underpaid workers to build the factory for you

[tall lantern]

who is "they"

go make it yourself

[sturdy mural]

the mod people

[tall lantern]

you can be a mod people

[sturdy mural]

i'm a person, not people tho

[earnest ridge]

1. Throw the waste with vehicles/doggo, expect FPS to drop due to entities in the void increasing
2. Do not create nuclear waste in the first place, avoid nuclear as much as possible
3. Process nuclear waste into items that can be put in the Awesome Sink
4. Use a mod

[prisma thicket]

And we ARE the underpaid workers getting sent to make the factory lol

[sturdy mural]

pyramid scheme mod
be an underpaid worker to hire underpaid workers to hire more underpaid workers that build the factories for you

also can you process nuclear waste instantly? or is it

• nuclear power
• wait or store the waste
• unlock processing later

[tall lantern]

depends when you do it and what stage you go up to

[sturdy mural]

like
is it unlocked instantly when you get nuclear powerplant

[tall lantern]

no, because that only gives you the ability to make and burn uranium rods

[sturdy mural]

uh oh

[true mulch]

they're both tier 8 milestones though

nuclear power and particle enrichment

so you can just delay nuclear power until you have both

[tall lantern]

or wait til the T9 one and go all the way

[glass relic]

can i add pictures?

[true mulch]

#screenshots

[tall lantern]

(or just store the waste until if/when you decide to deal with it)

[sturdy mural]

ooh

[junior laurel]

Have you heard of friends...

-# wait

[sturdy mural]

hey >:(
-# no i didnt

-# is that a DLC or smth

[earnest ridge]

Yeah, that is not happening in vanilla Satisfactory. #screenshots

[tall lantern]

yup, that's exactly as I expected it to be, never happening

[junior laurel]

I don't think so, buying people was abolished in 1833

Let's play "where's the line at?"

[glass relic]

Do everyone see it?

[sturdy mural]

unless you hire a friend to fill their inventory and jump into the void

[sturdy mural]

no i think that would be access DLC

[tall lantern]

yes, see previously-mentioned trivialising

[earnest ridge]

A pile of nuclear waste in the void, for the memes, is possibly mod territory.

[glass relic]

its just a idea

bye everyone

[tall lantern]

for reference, if you're looking to make an actual suggestion to the devs, you want the QA site

[sturdy mural]

imagine you're waking up one day and you look into the void and its just a big landmass of nuclear waste

[fossil ice]

Satisfactory Questions

You can send Questions, Feedback, Suggestions, and Bug Reports
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com
<3 @tall lantern

[tall lantern]

but realistically, that one just won't happen

[junior laurel]

Oh now it works >:(

[sturdy mural]

all the waste fell into the void and started a new waste planet

[earnest ridge]

It works only in some channels.

[junior laurel]

Factorio Gleba is that you?

[glass relic]

Well, its possible

[junior laurel]

:(

[sturdy mural]

hey
gleba isn't just nuclear waste

[tall lantern]

just store your waste in crates in the void, that's what I do

[junior laurel]

It's just Mold, sorry

[green fiber]

Moldy bread planet

[true mulch]

two of our space age playthroughs were put on indefinite break as soon as we had to deal with gleba 💔

[sturdy mural]

don't disrespect my man Mbread like that

[junior laurel]

I only was able to do Gleba while drunk and after that I stole someone's blueprint.... Mold planet

[sturdy mural]

guess who's not going to gleba

(i don't have space age and i love Vulcanus)

[true mulch]

we tried to figure it out ourselves, failed, then stole a blueprint, couldn't figure that out either

[green fiber]

Engineers when faced with mold and bacteria:

[junior laurel]

looks at my current playthrough's Gleba

Power dead, nothing is working
I fucking hate you Gleba

[true mulch]

based
easily the best planet

[junior laurel]

;---; Every belt is 100% mold REEEE

[green fiber]

just get faster or shorter belts lul

[junior laurel]

Vulcanus my beloved

[green fiber]

<- (has never played the space mold DLC)

[junior laurel]

In this playthrough I didn't set up the mold

[earnest ridge]

Are we talking about cheese?

[green fiber]

by technicality of fermentation and bacteria, yes

[sturdy mural]

also
is anyone else not a fan of the red swamps

[green fiber]

you mean the noire swamp ?

[sturdy mural]

whatever is above the crater lakes biome

[prisma thicket]

Bamboo forest

[junior laurel]

srsly tho Gleba looks like a moldy orange.
I am not joking when I say I have seen an orange that looked the same as Gleba and it was there for about a year...
I... need to stop I feel sick.

[sturdy mural]

full of gas pillars, and full of enemies right in your way

[green fiber]

above crater lakes is the... desert... or the coast

[quick sky]

Should Satisfactory devs implement the book "De re coquinaria" by Apicius? I really think the pioneer could benefit from knowing how to make authentic ancient Roman garum fish sauce.

[green fiber]

you mean the blue crater lake, right?

[prisma thicket]

no, the crater lakes up the mountains and east of rocky desert

[sturdy mural]

2000, 400 place

i think yeah

[vestal mica]

keep looking for hard drives until you get the fish sauce alt

[sturdy mural]

OH WAIT SORRY CRATER LAKES IS NOT THAT
THE BIG PURPLE CRATER
WITH SHROOM LIKE VEGETATION

[prisma thicket]

Oh, you do mean the swamp

[sturdy mural]

the SE spot

[tall lantern]

Ficsit mappers must be red-deficient because they call that the blue crater

[tall lantern]

swamp is north of blue crater

[prisma thicket]

Yah, when they said crater lakes I assumed the ones just north of of the bamboo forest, near the northern forest

[junior laurel]

many moons ago before we had names for things, when things were first being discovered I had called that lake the oil fields

[prisma thicket]

Ooooo tell us another story Grandpa xD

[junior laurel]

"But how is it a field?"
Why is Greenland called Greenland?
To fuck with people >:)

[sturdy mural]

oil lake ‼️

[junior laurel]

Back in my day we were only able to have stackable pokes up to 3 belts tall and if you wanted more you had to juggle some bullshit

[vestal mica]

you never had a day

[junior laurel]

It also looked like this #satisfactory-experimental message

[sturdy mural]

they were capped???
tell us more

[prisma thicket]

xD well that would have been the end of my last save, had things stacked 7 belts high in places lol

[junior laurel]

Well I linked the picture of the thing :)

#satisfactory-experimental message
Also this was one of the first belt "lifts"

[sturdy mural]

change your nickname to Gramps Natro

[sturdy mural]

those mergers oh my

[junior laurel]

No, I've had the theme of a cult leader since 2018

[frozen cloud]

"no conveyeur lifts"
"coal generator without water"
"oil pumps output barrels"
sure grandma
lets get you back to bed

[junior laurel]

ARrgh sunny Jim hard drives used to be crystals #satisfactory-experimental message

[frozen cloud]

"mining minigame"

[junior laurel]

That was before anyone outside the office got it :p

[covert talon]

Hello, does anyone know a good source for decorational blueprints? want some to decorate my interior

[junior laurel]

Let's not forget when they had it so crafts was click based and no holding down for a couple seconds.
One auto clicker later and I could beat the game (at that point there was like 2 teirs) within 3 hours (while distracted)

[sturdy mural]

this looks like an UI in a Roblox game thats trying to be like factorio/satisfactory etc

[junior laurel]

That was actually Satisfactory in late 2018

[frozen cloud]

were you in the closed alpha?

[sturdy mural]

Natro IS an alpha

[junior laurel]

Don't... you fucking dare

[sturdy mural]

i will dare to not repeat that ever again

[junior laurel]

pulls out the ancient rites

[frozen cloud]

i was there
7 years ago

[sturdy mural]

history was made there

[frozen cloud]

did you think we would actually get the quantum encoder, dimensional storage?

[junior laurel]

I had a bunch of people nickname themselves as part of the Alpha cult by replacing any A in their name with an α

[junior laurel]

Yus :)

[sturdy mural]

woah

[junior laurel]

You can search "From: natrogltor Alpha cult" and sort by oldest

And that evolved after the alpha to just being a CultLeader.
So yeah I'm not changing my nickname, shit has history

[sturdy mural]

funny how i accidentally learned why you won't change it

[frozen cloud]

aint no way my first post on this discord is "help how do i get more fps"
#satisfactory message

[sturdy mural]

download more ram

[junior laurel]

In some form, there was a leak a couple years before that showed them off in proto form, those are on the wiki

[frozen cloud]

ye i know
they were in the alpha just not buildable right?
its super crazy to me that they had all of this (somewhat) planned all along

[junior laurel]

Server Lore YAY :D

[sturdy mural]

guys i'm building my first aluminiminimum

[frozen cloud]

yaaay
mk5 belts are within reach

[junior laurel]

They were not in the alpha.
They did have the train back then however you could only get it if you "cheated"
Also they had a cheat menu a couple ... Pioneers knew about.
The cheat menu allowed you play in 3rd person and how I the start of this #fan-art message

[analog palm]

hey has anyone got a phase 3 world thats tidy and sophisticated please , my world a mess and its just making me not wanna play no more

[junior laurel]

Start again

[analog palm]

way too much effort lol

[sturdy mural]

you can just rebuild stuff eventually

what

[junior laurel]

Anyone else want some history lessions? kek

[sturdy mural]

do i count still

[junior laurel]

What part of history do you want?

[frozen cloud]

you live and you learn
next factory is gonna be better, trust

[junior laurel]

I have my first ever lizard doggo kill as a screenshot

[sturdy mural]

you monster (tbh everyone did at least once)

[sturdy mural]

all of it, i'm hungry

[sturdy mural]

you're making me want to give myself an aneurysm by revisiting my 0.7 save from like 2 yrs ago

nov 23, 2023

[frozen cloud]

can always restart
restarting is fun imo
makes you appreciate all the stuff youve learned before

[frozen cloud]

oh my first save is ABSOLUTE spaghetti
like horrendous
pretty sure everyones is

[vestal mica]

maybe. then you're like, wait, i don't have any alternate recipes or blade runners or hoverpacks or ... you know what my other save wasn't that bad

[sturdy mural]

im pretty sure i found the landing spot from my first save
even driving past it fills me with dread currently

[sturdy mural]

i actually had blades and a para i think

[junior laurel]

Wow I found saves that date back to March 2019.
There is zero chance they will boot up

[analog palm]

Finna just break everything put all items in storage and go from there

[sturdy mural]

thats what i did fr

[vestal mica]

yeah, just pretend like you started a new game and just go to a new biome and start over

[frozen cloud]

or just go somewhere else
theres 4 starting location just go to the next one xD

[vestal mica]

but not lose all your research and shit

[analog palm]

i fw my spawn lol

[junior laurel]

#satisfactory-experimental message
This image was the first ever belt "lift" that I made a tutorial on how to make. You can tell how much of a bitch it was by the fact I had make a tutorial how to make belt go up

[frozen cloud]

issue is that rebuilding all gets kinda tedious if you do that imo
since theres no dopamine from unlocking milestones

[sturdy mural]

eats the lore

[junior laurel]

The day I got into the alpha I played for a solid 14 hours and Snutt said I was a madman in VC

[sturdy mural]

Snutt?

[tall lantern]

snewt

[junior laurel]

< this guy

[sturdy mural]

omg

[junior laurel]

this guy (put in purple)

[vestal mica]

that version of snutt turns into 5 power shards

[prisma thicket]

Anyone know what Snutt moved onto?

[junior laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/c/thegamedevcircle

Thank god that didn't get deleted

[sturdy mural]

no thats fair
looks at my saves that are at 15m, 3.5h, 7,5h, 12h playtime respectively, one after anotehr
or how my first save on this world is at 8h

[tall lantern]

I don't think any youtube links do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[junior laurel]

dQw... that's the ancient link that houses great sin

[frozen cloud]

do you know what jace is up to?
❤️ jace

[tall lantern]

he also has a channel

[sturdy mural]

is there a way to get ceiling pipes like ceiling belts?

[prisma thicket]

Pipe wall holders do that

[grizzled lotus]

how do I change ammo on a rebar gun?

[sturdy mural]

hold Reload (R)
same with Nobelisks and (i'm pretty sure) the rifle

[grizzled lotus]

thank you

[junior laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/@jembawls
He is making his own game and also working for Nugget entertainment doing some CM work for their game.
Their dev team is also half made up of people that worked on Satis

[grizzled lotus]

how much stronger is the normal nobelisk than the xeno basher?

[junior laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY6eWfXyFjo

:)

[grizzled lotus]

I'm facing a hog that killed me before and I plan on using a stun rebar and then blasting it with an obelisk

[frozen cloud]

i miss jace
jace was cool

[junior laurel]

Well... Among the wilds, coming to a Steam... when it's ready

[grizzled lotus]

KILLED IT!

[junior laurel]

Anyways, yeah I love nobe combat, yeet and pop

@frozen cloud hope those links helped <3 Enjoy

[frozen cloud]

yes watching right now ❤️

[junior laurel]

The most recent video was 2 months ago, the one before that was 4 months and that shows a couple bugs that are funny

[hollow vector]

that have 0 right to living and do not deserve to only consume and produce nothing on this planet

[junior laurel]

[sturdy mural]

produces 12 steel beams once in a while

[hollow vector]

i wish i had nuke nobelisks

[sturdy mural]

get them

[junior laurel]

You can get one for free early game if you know where to look ;3

[sturdy mural]

well a big cat stinger just tried to jump on me when im building and just failed beatufiully

[hollow vector]

its fine

ill just run them over with a explorer

[sturdy mural]

what where

i might have picked it up already 😔

[frozen cloud]

[sturdy mural]

yeah i did

[junior laurel]

It's on the dune's mountain :)

[sturdy mural]

the top of the map?

[hollow vector]

killing doggos feels so rewarding whenever ada calls you a physcopath

• i dont like them in general

[junior laurel]

close enough

[trim vine]

Hey all,

Does anyone have a good guide to throughput rate on train stations?

I am looking for something alil more scientific than "eyeballing it" if possible

For example, I will always be using 780 belts

But things stack differently, 50, 100, 200, 500.

Now most things that stack to 500 likely will never need to be loaded on a train.

But looking at things like silica and such, 200, kinda annoying.

Anywho, I know time is variable, and with multiple trains moving in a system (which I havent even developed yet), but looking for a good rule of thumb I guess?

For example, I have 600 Silica being made, and I am trying to figure out, without load testing it for an hour or so, if I need 1 cart to move it, 2 carts, etc.

Any advice?

[junior laurel]

I dislike them more because their loottable was buffed to be stupid broken...
Like I had a whole bit before but now ech

[white dawn]

The wiki page for trains has some equations you can plug things into, I believe.

Though honestly I generally don't bother calculating ahead of time

I just start out with one car's worth, leave some extra empty platforms at the end of the stations, and see how the route works

If a single car ends up being sufficient for the route, great -- if not, I add another car

The throughput can depend on round-trip time anyway, depending on circumstance, so you may need to have the route running anyway before you'd really be able to know

I realize you said that's what you were hoping to avoid, of course. :D

Though IMO it shouldn't take you 1+hrs; just a couple of round-trips should get you what you need

I suppose the other bit of advice I'd have is to avoid pushing too close to a single car's throughput limit. If you're right at the edge, any unexpected delays could end up with shortfalls because there wouldn't be enough room to "make up for it" on the next trip. So if I'm close, I'll add another car even if it might not be totally needed

[hollow vector]

i just hate them

because i couldve turned the doggo cave into a motor factory

[sturdy mural]

i just found a slop in the wild
nice

[junior laurel]

I mean you still can, just remove them

[hollow vector]

"ooo oo ah ah, unethical!!1!!"

[white dawn]

[grizzled lotus]

in cases where I need two resource nodes or more (such as stuff requiring steel) how do you guys usually go about finding a good location?

I usually search for the rarer node (such as coal) and from there search for the other. Wondering if there's a better method.

[trim vine]

Would you say its better to an extra cart, not getting full, and just drop balancers on the other end?

[sturdy mural]

i usually look for for a spot that has both

[white dawn]

A lot of it's personal preference, of course; I wouldn't say that the way I do it is better than alternatives. :D If I'm using two cars I'll generally not load-balance per se; I tend to have each car output to specific lines which require the exact rate that's going into 'em

Though if two cars end up being compressable down to a single belt I might do that

(In practice I don't actually tend to do multi-car transfers too often, so maybe someone else's input would be more helpful anyway. :)

Or at least multi-car for a single resource, that is

I suppose I do often have multi-drone lines, which amounts to about the same thing

[sacred mountain]

does anyone know how to get the 3d file with the materials from satis?

[white dawn]

I assume any UE5 extraction tool would get you whatever data you need. The modding discord is likely to have folks who are familiar with those kinds of specifics (there's a link in #welcome )

[sacred mountain]

thank you

[sturdy mural]

well i found a cave of extreme death near the swamp

you can slide into a rock formation that you cant slide out of, and you're getting slowly irradiated

you can try cybertucking out of it
but it puts you in an even worse spot

and i ended up locked in a slug crevice behind cracked rocks

okay i escaped out of it

[trim vine]

approximately how many batteries per minute do you think I would need to produce to completely supply a fleet of drones at various factories across the map?

[sturdy mural]

depends on how many drones

[trim vine]

I've never used drones, so sadly I dont have a clear idea

My goal is to have a factory producing each of the Tier 7/8 end game stuff in different areas, then use drones to fly these high end parts to a single factory to make the elevator stuff

[white dawn]

Depends on the specific drone routes, of course. Anecdotally on my 1.0 save, I averaged about 2.5/min battery usage for my drones (and actually 2.5/min for my Rocket Fuel-fuelled drones, too)

[trim vine]

So i am working on setting up a train network now, will start setting up a large aluminium plant, as that shit is needed EVERYWHERE, then start doing things with heat sinks, up and up for the "mid level" end game parts, then have those go to where is needed

[white dawn]

Keep in mind that you can't trust the drone port's "fuel per min" rating; the game does the math wrong. "Fuel used per cycle" is usually accurate (though I've seen one other player where it was misreported while using regular Fuel), and the round-trip time will be accurate so long as the drone has made a couple of round-trips after loading the game. So you can use those two to compute the per-min fuel usage of a given route

[trim vine]

So really, a single classic battery set up doing around 30 a minute should be more than enough?

[white dawn]

Alternatively, SCIM does the math properly, so you can check there, though make sure to save the game after the drone has completed a couple of round trips first

[trim vine]

wait, 2.5 per drone, or for the drone fleet?

[white dawn]

Oh, yeah, per drone

[glacial geyser]

where do i report a bug?

[white dawn]

The specifics will depend on how long the route is, but I don't think I ever saw it go less than 2 or more than 3

[trim vine]

kk, plan high then 😛

[hollow vector]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/670203778712076288

[glacial geyser]

i was play and just noticed a gitering problem with the textures one of the walls

thx

[hollow vector]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/

[glacial geyser]

im not understanding how to post the bug i can see the rest but idk how to post mine

[white dawn]

Need to be signed into an account

[latent prawn]

pipe wall mounts work on the ceiling, but can't be stacked downward. An old-school trick for such things is to build a temporary wall down from the ceiling and put wall holes in it as mount points

[tall lantern]

newer-school trick in 1.1 is vertical nudge

[latent prawn]

not 100% sure i'd be happy with the look of that, but definitely worth a try

[tall lantern]

pairs well with things like the cable "beam"

[latent prawn]

pretty rare that i'm doing piping on a ceiling though

[tall lantern]

yeah same, made my DMR a lil more visible this time

[latent prawn]

for gases i'd be more inclined to do so

I try to avoid more than a single elevation change in a pipe network

[bleak osprey]

Aaah !!!!!! O M G : AWESOME_Shop

[leaden ether]

So gas doesn't require any pumps but is if free from the fluid effects of manifolds as well or is that still a concern?

[sturdy mural]

from what i know yes - you don't need pumps for gasses, and i don't think manifolds should be a concern

[weak scarab]

Howdy-do buckaroos

I possess an inquiry that only a developer can answer regarding a potential 'easter egg' that I've discovered (and haven't seen anyone else mention). Which channel might I share my query?

[junior laurel]

What easter egg?
-Not a dev, just someone with a blue name

[leaden turret]

if only a developer can answer it, dm mikael

[weak scarab]

It's not an easter egg in the sense of being a pop culture reference, but I was in a forest and heard an ambient noise that's very special and unique

[weak scarab]

which one doth that be? Mik4041?

oh wait

[leaden turret]

that one right at the top of the user list 😛

[weak scarab]

nvm lol yeah sorry haha

[junior laurel]

What sound?

[weak scarab]

It's a birdsong of an extinct species

[junior laurel]

That really does sound like something they would do

[weak scarab]

very distinct, and I picked it out

[junior laurel]

What species? I would like to hear is to see if I recognise it from the game

[weak scarab]

Kauai 'O'o

There's a youtube video by the same name, and it's about 1 and a half minutes long.

[junior laurel]

Holy shit yeah, I haven't been in that neck of the woods in game in a while but I do vaguely recognise it it.

"Sad Fact: The song he’s singing is supposed to be a duet.
The pauses in between the song are supposed to be where the female sings her part."

My soul cries

[weak scarab]

Exactly

[lean quail]

the most probable answer is that the devs used some "Bird chirps" stock sound that randomly includes that bird

[weak scarab]

It's heartbreaking

[weak scarab]

naur

it's too unique to be in a stock effect thing

I have a video that has the sounds side by side that I edited earlier, and posted to reddit

I don't think I can post links though lol

[junior laurel]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/553257340108013568

[weak scarab]

oh swag

[junior laurel]

Should be able to there :)

[weak scarab]

posted :3

[junior laurel]

"Whats sad is that when the person played the recording again, the bird came back thinking he wasn’t the only one :("

I need to stop reading these comments I actually might start crying

[weak scarab]

LITERALLY

When it clicked in my head that it's that one, I actually was tearing up

[prisma thicket]

Sweet, my Turbofuel plant is fully online and everything is running smoothly 😄 Diluted Packaged fuel conquered!

[junior laurel]

I have now listened to the video of them side by side and eccch feels a little like a stretch to me but none the less painful

[weak scarab]

I think the in-game one might have been pitched down a tad bit

[junior laurel]

If I were you I would re edit the video and pitch the Kauai down to match the in game one

[weak scarab]

I'll see if I can do that

[sturdy mural]

there's only 1 oscillator alt recipe right?

[weak scarab]

Using free video editing software isn't easy lol

[junior laurel]

And considering the quality of the footage of the game... 💀

I... might actually save the bird song to add to my list of "sounds I might use in a project at some point"
Thank you at the very least for that <3

[tight swift]

does anyone have a hypertube schematic or just a design that i could use

a hypertube cannon i mean

[elder apex]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/blueprints/index/index/query/hypertube

[tight swift]

thanks

[elder apex]

might want to narrow it down more with a more detailed search

[tight swift]

yeah

how does one add a blueprint to your world

[leaden ether]

My motor production is about 10x too slow to build this 10 floor rocket fuel power plant 😦

Heh, that'll help a little 🙂

[elder apex]

copy the file to the appropriate session folder in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\Blueprints

note, you need to have unlocked blueprints for that session first by building one and saving it

[tight swift]

right, i've done that

once i've added the file, how do i get it to load in

it's not in the bp menu

[elder apex]

after you copy the file in reload the game and it should show up in the list

[tight swift]

alr thanks

[elder apex]

reload the save that is, don't have to exit the game

[tight swift]

do i need the sbpcfg file too

or just sbp

[elder apex]

only if you want to edit that blueprint later with all the colors and other metadata

[tight swift]

okay thanks

[lofty hollow]

I think life would be perfect if coal generation would be twice powerful.
20 full overclocked gens and I'm still struggling, and im not even on phase 3.

[leaden turret]

overclock your coal miners and build more unclocked coalgens, moar power

[lofty hollow]

I understand the joke that we need to E X P A N D, but I always go from Biofuel to oil fuel generators, cause Coal feels very bad.

[obtuse granite]

So... I'm guessing the awnser is probably no... but if epicgames syncs the wrong data and you loose a large chunk of your game time... there's no way to get that back? files just get over written, not stored somewhere else for a temp time? hard drive revert or similar?

[clever pier]

is turboblend fuel worth it? I don't normally have all the needed components in one spot... but this run I do

[sturdy mural]

posted it, should/can i like throw a link to it somewhere?

[sullen gull]

I think you can post it here, but not 100% sure 🤷‍♂️ , or DM is fine too.

[sturdy mural]

throwing it into the DM then, cuz i either failed at poting here or it got deleted

[white dawn]

I'm curious what feels bad about coal? There's no pollution mechanic in the game, so Massage 2(a-b)b will remain as pristine as ever, even with large arrays of coal gens. :P

I generally end phase 2 with anywhere from 48-64 coal gens, by the end

(obvs you can do with far less, but I like a healthy power overhead)

(I suppose 20 coal gens at 250% is actually right inside my 48-64 range, eh?)

Also, I can't imagine having to do Phase 2 on just biomass burners; waiting for fuel would be agonizing for me

(admittedly, biomass burners are a lot less hassle now that they have belt inputs, but still)

[sturdy mural]

I just realized that there's the Lets Game It Out screenshot on the steam page

[sturdy mural]

mk1 pipes + belts make it a bit of a pain imo

[lime ermine]

Yep

I love spaghetti

[white dawn]

mk1 belts I'll give you, but you've got mk2 belts pretty much right away, and will have mk3 before you finish phase 2

[elder apex]

it's phase 2 for coal, so at least mk3 belts

[stiff garnet]

Why is a miner mk1 saying "invalid placement" on a limestone node?

[white dawn]

As for mk1 pipes, that's just a matter of knowing how to run the pipes; once you've internalized that it's not really a problem

[white dawn]

Might have to hand-mine a deposit that's sitting on top, first?

[stiff garnet]

well, I feel dumb now.

[sturdy mural]

dont worry
everyone was there at one point

guys can you still get the Early Access Supporter Pack?

[marble socket]

Got the mail about Lizard Doggo shipping the OST!

Hyped haha

[swift kernel]

Just go back in time and support them there 5head

[thin fiber]

anyone have any tips on how to be more creative? im not very good at building right now

[sturdy mural]

first - you could look up stuff on youtube for inspiration
second - get out of my shower (pfp ref)

[sturdy mural]

no like genuinely asking, wishing a friend got it too, tho they couldn't afford it

[swift kernel]

I don't think it's available at all. The game was in early access for years

[sturdy mural]

aw dang

[dreamy granite]

how much fuel does a fuel generator take per min

[left totem]

20 fuel

[tranquil maple]

I feel like hide and seek would be a really fun idea but there is just SO many variables

[soft thunder]

1.1 is no longer in beta right?

[white dawn]

1.1 is currently only available in the Experimental branch

(which is generally considered in beta, though I don't know if they use that term)

[soft thunder]

ok thank you very much

[static surge]

can the rifle draw ammo directly from the Dimensional Depot or no

wtf

[white dawn]

Nope, only building (and crafting at the equipment workshop/crafting bench)

[static surge]

my personal storage box disappeared

is it because it's near SAM processing stuff

I put homing ammo in that 😭

[white dawn]

Sure the model didn't just go invisible? Try reloading the save

Or if it's really not there anymore, try loading your most recent autosave

I've not seen anyone else report actually-disappearing-objects before; would be a pretty rare thing if one legit did just disappear entirely without being dismantled

[static surge]

reloading save

ok it's back

phew

[white dawn]

Yeah, sometimes the models on machines will go invisible. I've usually only seen it on actual "machines" but I suppose it can probably happen to anything

[tranquil maple]

kind of different, but I once had a dismantle crate glitch when it spawned and went straight to 0/0 (which prolly also means its at y-coord 0 and impossible to get)

[white dawn]

Fortunately pretty rare. Sometimes it'll just come back on its own without even a reload. When they're invisible they can still be interacted with and have their usual hitboxes, etc.

For machines often they'll still have some visible geometry

[white dawn]

Yeah, that one's not uncommon, sadly

[tranquil maple]

Oh rlly? I haven't seen anybody else mention it.

[white dawn]

I wouldn't go so far as to say "common" but I'll stand by "not uncommon." I'd say we hear about it at least once a week in here. :D

[wispy oak]

Hi everyone! just beat the game for the first time and now I'm sad

[worthy hatch]

Isn’t there a patch that is to be released soon?

[atomic notch]

i assume they are currently working on something and it will be released when they finish

[young crest]

i love math!!! i love efficency!!!

[hollow vector]

when can we sell dead doggos

to ficsit
for coupons

[young crest]

tommorow i think

[hollow vector]

@junior laurel peak idea?

[young crest]

does anyone else get really disgusted by the sound the giraffes make when standing up

[junior laurel]

Nah, all lizard doggos get sent to the [MILL} to be [PROCESSED] into and

[hollow vector]

incredible

doggolicious

[junior laurel]

They have a taste that is somewhere between pheasant and prawn

Just take both of those things and smash them together and you got what the doggos taste like, if you want to try "close enough" at home :)

Good luck getting the pheasant tho

[young crest]

i always thougt lizard doggos would taste like frog

[junior laurel]

That's if you season it a certain way.
We have a cook book somewhere on the Project Assembly

[hollow vector]

another reason to insult pioneers for not working on project assembly

[toxic zenith]

Do power storages count for blocking creature spawns (provided they have power)?

[dusky relic]

THERES RADIOACTIVE FAUNA?

[toxic zenith]

... incidentally, this is the reason for my question.

[leaden ether]

Just completed 34GW (43GW with power boosts) rocket fuel power plant. Rocket fuel is surprisingly resource efficient to make, I was surprised... #screenshots message

[worthy hatch]

I just placed a bunch of foundations and it seemed to work

[toxic zenith]

Yeah, I'm trying to do it with as few buildings as possible so I have less to need to deconstruct later. Sort of trying to build a safe perimeter in an area my pioneer has no business being in yet to build a new main base in it.

[peak wasp]

Should I start the game over again?

[young crest]

its your choice mate

[dusky relic]

Should my game be dying any time I explode a rock....

Im getting a frame every like second or 2

Even if not looking at the rocks

[young crest]

happens to me too. whenever my friend blows up rocks the game freezes for a couple frames

[naive pendant]

There were certain rocks around 1.0 that would cause extreme fps drops for a brief time. Not surprising if stuff like that still exists especially in multiplayer.

[dusky relic]

Yeah it seems that's what happened'

blew up some other rocks and I was fine

and Im 1.0

[young crest]

its not that bad tho just a bit annoying

[trim vine]

Trying to figure out my intersections for trains, saw a cool looking 10x10 or so circle, anyone know of any outright issues with circle 4 war intersections?

[peak wasp]

I mean to try beta 1.1

[true mulch]

roundabouts are worse than X junctions in every measurable aspect

[young crest]

i love trucks so much

[true mulch]

slower and more complicated to build, less throughput

[trim vine]

Got any good links to proper junctions, looking for 4 and 3 😛

Finally developing a network for trains, and trying to just do a circle around the map, then branch into the fringe of areas

and looking to get something decent set up

[true mulch]

https://preview.redd.it/vmn7m3hu1ck51.png?width=530&format=png&auto=webp&s=2762f172c5a69bfbd1bdab778db8c824c982af30
https://preview.redd.it/my-first-4-way-intersection-v0-f389vokk10qa1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8f9d1a868c8734a75030e4fcf9b188b51a13dc98

they're from the flat game but are the same here

there's nothing genius about them, every track directly connects to the output

[trim vine]

Ahhh

Ok, I thought that might cause problems

[true mulch]

path signals on entrances, block signals on exits - don't follow the signals as seen in the pictures

these will do just fine for most railways, but if they become a chokepoint, you can go vertical and build ramps for left turns, etc.

Cities Skylines highway junctions are good inspiration

[trim vine]

oi? Wht are those? I havent played that game

[true mulch]

oh, well they're just highway junctions 😄

[boreal musk]

recommended to just have 3d junction for less traffic

[true mulch]

thing is, how many trains do you need to have on your network for that to actually be a problem

[trim vine]

If y'all have a good guide for the 3d juction, I would love to learn it

[trim vine]

I honestly dont know, this is my first time really doing trains, and playing through to the end, I havent done a save since before phase 4 was out

[true mulch]

I was replying to soranei

(the answer is: a LOT)

[boreal musk]

it actually also depends on how many block you have for said train network

[trim vine]

Block?

[true mulch]

yeah, but still, 10 trains is quite a lot in this game, but not much at all in Factorio

10 trains running through the same junction

[young crest]

making a mod frame factory rn

[boreal musk]

if you put block signals, it will reserve the line as its own lane

[true mulch]

a block is a segment between two signals. block signal blocks can only be occupied by 1 train at a time, plain and simple. path signal blocks allow multiple trains in as long as their paths don't cross

[boreal musk]

@trim vine use #math-and-meta or #1038092680493801533, send your pic for easier trouble shooting

[true mulch]

the color on the track is a block (the color itself doesn't matter, it's only there for you to be able to tell them apart)

[boreal musk]

also in that pic, the red color is one whole block, and the use of path signal is to ensure the train that wants to go through has clear traffic before entering the intersection

[trim vine]

so its a good thing that everything in the center is red?

I can go make a forum post, if we need to move this there

[true mulch]

please do

[boreal musk]

its not about being red, its about the intersection having only 1 color

[trim vine]

one moment

[boreal musk]

the color itself doesnt matter

[dusky relic]

Is there a reason to use a gas nobolisk

[golden furnace]

Is there a limit to where I can place water extractors in the ocean? Whats up with this? https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1370566673396006994

[marble tinsel]

world border maybe?

[golden furnace]

I have a huge foundation extending in that direction and it lets me place stuff past that point so idk

[tardy igloo]

is there a flushing equivalent for conveyor belts? Contaminated my line with the wrong items and I don't want to delete everything 😭

[young crest]

can i build diagnoal roads somehow

[dusky relic]

I can make motors with just iron right??

[boreal musk]

if you have the alt for it, yes

[dusky relic]

hell yeah

Iron wire and iron pipes my beloved

[lofty hollow]

Just as quick question, does the game is HDR compatible?

[naive pendant]

@golden furnace Water extractors also get blocked by the "outline" of a blueprint even if you've deleted the parts of the blueprint where you're trying to place the water extractor. If you're using blueprints for foundation placement that error is quite common. Or its just the edge of the world.

[placid halo]

hello,

[latent prawn]

build a sink and direct the belt to it, sometimes items get stuck on the branch belts of a manifold and you just have to delete them

[dense violet]

Angle foundations

[dense violet]

Flow to sink. Though you’ll need to clear the belts to machines manually

[dusky relic]

#streams-and-videos message

Why did he do that 😭

[tight flume]

Bro wanted to take a dip.

[whole ermine]

id like to think updates are just the pioneers build gun getting software updates

[tranquil maple]

how does dimensional storage work with multiplayer?

Does everyone take from the same stockpile?

[forest bridge]

Why are the production amounts for some things so weird 😭

3.75 circuit boards and 37.5 wire to produce 3.75 high speed connector

[elder apex]

you are looking at the per minute values, not the actual production cycle values.

[celest prawn]

yes

[latent prawn]

i think so, its best to have multiple depots on your concrete

[tranquil maple]

Alr cool thx

[inner echo]

I like to think they are predetermined to make you find certain magic synergies that you only discover later. That one looks like some quantity of 4x machines will perfectly fit some other recipe down the line.

[zenith pecan]

From my trying to fix another players save, yes everyone accesses the dimensional storage.

[latent prawn]

its just 1+10 = 1 at a cycle rate that makes the numbers work out like that

[leaden ether]

a simple case of that very thing is the fact that the mk3 belts are 270 items/m rather than 240 like you might expect them to be. But yeah I think some of the odd numbers are from how they designed the highest level items and tried to balance out all the various ways you could construct them.

[frozen cloud]

new math just dropped
1+10=1
crazy

[latent prawn]

yeah, the fact the mk3's are 270 instead of 240 is very welcome though. it allows you to fit 6 constructors on a concrete node or make 24 rotors/min

[leaden ether]

Yeah there are a few items that output 45 or 90 items/m so they maade them accomodate that nicely.

[latent prawn]

it is that way for a reason

one thing i'm coming to realize about factory games, is they like throwing little oddball math problems into the game for you to solve

[leaden ether]

Then mk4 is back on track with 480 and mk5 should be 960 but maybe that was just too opwerful 😄

[latent prawn]

each belt is sized to be the max you'll need at various points in the game to conveniently build what you need

[frozen cloud]

perfectly round even number 780 xd

[latent prawn]

yeah, 13x60, lol

[frozen cloud]

lol

270/780 are there to fuck you over and teach you that even numbers are overrated

[latent prawn]

tbh, the mk5 belt can probably be sized differently at this point w/o people really missing it. the use case for it was to make 780 screws/min

i guess copper rotor and heavy flex frame still require that sort of quantity of screws

[frozen cloud]

imagine using screws past rotor

[latent prawn]

i use them with copper rotor, but the other recipes that take screws are a no thank you

even before the rebalance in 1.0, the screw taking recipes for computers & hmf's weren't very good

the thing i find really annoying about it all is the 2 bolted recipes (plate & frame) can be used together to make double the number of rips as you need for mod frames and come out to a multiple of 52 screws, but that leaves you with a bunch of extra rips

[marble tinsel]

Unlocked the jetpack 💪 Lets go

[worn garden]

guys

i am new to satisfactory

I've built a coal factory after a LOT of tweaking cuz i didnt know how the water extractors and pipes work

but now its done.... and I am stuggling with trucks

i dont even know how to use them

[frozen cloud]

have you considered
not doing trucks

[marble tinsel]

Im kind of around the part you are at and I haven't setup trucks yet

[cyan garnet]

Is there a question there? What about the trucks do you need help with

[marble tinsel]

didnt find a need to 🤷

[worn garden]

i mean.... why tho? i have this coal mine far from my base... its kinda hard to build threadmill from there to my base

[frozen cloud]

belts for days 🙃

[worn garden]

conveyer belt* i forgor its name

[marble tinsel]

well for a truck you would need a road compared to a belt that can go around up down all that good stuff

is it annoying trying to make a belt go a long way to somewhere yeah but much easier than setting up a truck I believe

[worn garden]

like i put 2 truck stations at 2 end points

and summoned a truck and checked if it can find path on its own

it didnt so i drove it but it still didnt work

[boreal musk]

youre using the same coal node for your truck fuel? then your coal plant wont get fed fully

[worn garden]

idk how to use it or use the truck station

[worn garden]

i split the 120/ min coal node into 30 for fuel and rest for recources

[cyan garnet]

You have to record the path yourself. Once that’s done you can set it to autopilot

[marble tinsel]

30 coal gonna be tough

[mortal ginkgo]

I am sure there are some youtube videos about that. Even lets play video folk teach how they work in the middle of their playthroughs.

As others said, you need to record a path.

[cyan garnet]

Place a truck at one station, drive it to the other station and pause under the dock, then drive back and close the loop. Once the loop is closed you can set the truck to autopilot

[worn garden]

so the trucks dosen't need any fuel to run?

[cyan garnet]

Yes, they do. Coal works

[dusky relic]

They do

But you can make them refuel at the truck stations

[cyan garnet]

If you pull up a truck to a station w fuel it will refuel

!wikisearch truck+station

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=truck+station

[worn garden]

thanks bot

[worn garden]

hmmm

[cyan garnet]

Coal works fine as a fuel in the early game

Transporting coal for steel production is a common first use case for trucks

[worn garden]

its very early game for me i haven't gotten to steel yet

i should create steel that's why i need coal, to mix with iron ore

[cyan garnet]

Yes

[frozen cloud]

have you considered making steel at the coal?

[hollow vector]

im trying so hard not to ratio him

[hollow vector]

oh right

i forgot we used ThreadMills ™️ to move ores and parts arround
conveyors are just so last year

[steady violet]

did anyone else order the soundtrack vinyl?
curious if yours has shipped yet

placed mine over a week ago and not yet, emailed support but they didn't reply

[latent prawn]

coal works great until you need it for something else (steel)

[latent prawn]

something i'll note in the early going is that mk3 belts move 270/min. typically you're building steel in multiples of 120 iron + 120 coal, so if you want to take that last 30/min coal from a pure node, it can be used for fuel if you belt stuff properly

[worn garden]

i need everything at one place or my ADHD will make me go bananas

[worn garden]

ratio me

[worn garden]

😂

[cyan garnet]

Later in the game it will get more and more difficult to centralize production as later game resources are spread out on the map

[worn garden]

are the smart splitters what i think they are?? like you input the number of how much to split and it splits the recourses into the ratio you have entered?

if that's the case i need it sooooooo bad

[elder apex]

no, they are not what you think they are

[latent prawn]

no, they don't control rates. they allow you to overflow out one port when another backs up, and also allow you to filter items off of mixed belts

how you control rates is set machine clock speeds to what you need

[grizzled lotus]

since trees don't respawn when I saw them down for mycelia, should I just saw every one down or should I be careful?

[dusky relic]

Can I not blow up uranium nodes?

Like the rocky ones

[leaden ether]

You have to mine them. And then dump the ore before it kills you 😄

Though if you really want to do it I'd invest in research into the filters and radiation suit. Then you can do it with some impunity

[worn garden]

guys how to plan your factories?? like deciding how many items we need to produce something and designing bigger bases and stuff

[grizzled lotus]

I'm not experienced but I just tried making independant factories and it makes things so much easier

[leaden ether]

Well initially you can just start with the needs of the one item you want to make and work backwards with pencil and paper by looking at the recipies. ! of this takes 5 of that and 3 of something else etc.

[grizzled lotus]

you spend more time searching for resources but the planning is easier and much better

[leaden ether]

when things get more complex though, a lot of people use Satisfactory Tools website to plan out larger complicated builds

[grizzled lotus]

he might be in the early game, so might be a different kind of question

[marble tinsel]

Depends I just unlocked phase 3 and what I did was make mini factories at the nodes and have it transported to my base

[worn garden]

nah the answers seems to satisfy my factory needs

get it?.....
cuz satisfa-
nvm

[marble tinsel]

probably going to rebuild them soon though and use alternate recipes in them to make it more efficient

I think it depends on your personal preference and how you like to plan things out

Like Farsel said above though ^^^ The Satisfactory tools website is clutch and is good for planning out stuff that takes multiple steps to craft

[worn garden]

how are you transporting your stuff to base?

[dusky relic]

Are ADA and the alien guy in love ❤️

[marble tinsel]

belts...

belts everywhere

[worn garden]

☠️

[marble tinsel]

I mean its not that bad cause Im not transporting across the map I have only explored the grassy field kind of area

[dusky relic]

At Phase 3, you should probably use trains

WHAT

[marble tinsel]

phase 3 is when I unlock trains

I mean I have explored other parts of the map but not the whole thing

I did get the jetpack recently so thats gonna help so much

[dusky relic]

ooh okay

[marble tinsel]

especially now I can make like vertical layers at the iron nodes and stuff

[dusky relic]

I just got to phase 3 mb

[marble tinsel]

all good 😂

[dusky relic]

But I've explored like 70% of the map

[grizzled lotus]

how long before I should have found SAM?

[marble tinsel]

yeah I only explored a little bit tbh and got a few good hard drive scans but I think I should probably hunt for like the alien resources the hard drives alien stuff all that stuff

[dusky relic]

I started in phase 2

[marble tinsel]

Idk how good the dimensional depot is though is that worth investing into 🤔

[grizzled lotus]

I think it's good

[silver seal]

Yes, you should. It gives you a lot more storage

[grizzled lotus]

if you unlock the upload thing, you can upload stuff from your inventory. haven't used it much though

[marble tinsel]

ok cause my containers kept filling up when I go afk so I have a lot of storage containers with extra resources

[silver seal]

Its not that useful until you get steel unlocked

[dusky relic]

The right side of the tree is insanely good

[silver seal]

Best way to deal with that is to unlock smart splitters and put any overflow into sinks

[marble tinsel]

uh what tier is that ?

[dusky relic]

Its the quick silver MAM tree

Not quick silver... the gold wire thing

[silver seal]

Smart splitters are in the MAM under caterium, sinks are under tier 2/phase 1

[dusky relic]

Caterium?

[marble tinsel]

o I havent touched caterium yet

[silver seal]

What tier are you currently at?

[marble tinsel]

MAM wise? or like hub wise

[silver seal]

Hub

[marble tinsel]

just got to phase 3 so thats uh tier 5

[silver seal]

Yeah, you should look into doing caterium

Gives you some useful things with power like mk2 poles as well as the smart splitters

[dusky relic]

Tbh, I havent really touched Caterium

I just dont need it currently

I got the zipline then dropped it

[marble tinsel]

😮 thats how you get mk2 poles oh I gotta get into that

mk 1 poles suck I have a billion everywhere 😂

[dusky relic]

My powerlines are organized very well....

[marble tinsel]

mine is uh its something thats for sure

[silver seal]

Given you are on tier 5, you should very easily do the start of the tree up to the mk2 poles. Maybe other stuff as well depending on what you have done with rubber/plastic

[marble tinsel]

havent done rubber/plastic any of that

I just unlocked the jetpack upgrade thats it 🤷

I'll probably do a lot more exploring next time I am on and find a bunch of different resources to help with the MAM upgrades and stuff

[silver seal]

You can collect all the hard drives. I think if you plan it right you can get all but one without any prior items excluding power requirements.

[dusky relic]

What does the last research of the power slugs do?

It just says the reward is power shard

[marble tinsel]

o nice nice

[silver seal]

I haven't researched it yet, but guessing off the name you get the ability to make power shards without needing slugs

[marble tinsel]

going to have to find the SAM Resource to unlock the path to uh dimensional depots as well

right side is alien power? is that any good

[dusky relic]

Right side is great

[silver seal]

Does anyone know if it is normal for oil power to fluctuate? I recently set up a power plant and its fluctuating between 18,000 and 22,000MW

[hollow vector]

some gens may be loosing out on consistent fuel

[dusky relic]

Do obolisks despawn after a while?

[viral olive]

is there a way to change th colors of blocks on railways

[gritty socket]

is there a way to keep a railroad with a drivable road on top of it perfect when doing curves?

[rigid flint]

heyo, uhm so i'm building a massive rocket fuel power plant and for some reason the production fluctuates, i see every single generator at 100% and i've isolated the entire building to make sure and still

[viral tree]

do you have any geothermal generators still attached? If anything, make sure ALL the power lines are disconnected. restarting the game might also help, as gasses can get quite buggy in large amounts

[rigid flint]

yeah i hate geothermal gens so i just don't use them

ill restart

[viral tree]

if not i have no clue. sorry mate :/

[rigid flint]

nvm i think i just have to wait a while longer for it to fully operate cause sushi

and now i have another problem... when i connect it to the main power line, i somehow get way more power than just the add up of both parts. i'm not using alien generators either

[viral tree]

are you perhaps using any mods?

if no then that is very strange :p

[viral tree]

wait does this mean pakaged rocket fuel? because rocket fuel is usually a gas and fills machines quickly

[rigid flint]

uh the flying one only

[rigid flint]

nono, i'm using gas rocket fuel but 1 pipe of 600 is feeding 57 generators lol

[viral olive]

do path signals reserve the entire track in front of them or only until the next block signal?

[frail sleet]

at what clock speed

[rigid flint]

250

[grizzled lotus]

how are power towers supposed to work?

[frail sleet]

how are they connected

[viral tree]

power pole but longer wire-stretching radius

[rigid flint]

ill screenshot it

[viral tree]

kinda a waste bcs they are expenisve

[grizzled lotus]

wire doesn't feel longer

[viral tree]

they are bigger (?)

[frail sleet]

They have short bottom connections, and long top connections.

[viral tree]

yes

[grizzled lotus]

hmm, time for some trial

can top wires connect to power poles?

[viral tree]

no

[rigid flint]

can i pm you the screenshot? can't send it here

[frail sleet]

ye

[viral tree]

only the bottom, and the top wires can only connect to other power towers

[rich ivy]

my power grid is about to beg for mercy

i got all the sattelite portals set up for my teleport hub

18 portals, jesus christ

[viral olive]

anyone know this? Cuz my trains are waiting so far away from where the intersection actually takes place

[rich ivy]

speaking of my teleport hub im probably one of like 3 people to use paradise island for something

lol

[frail sleet]

Path signals look 2 blocks ahead, that's how they differ from block signals

[viral olive]

oh my god bro thank you so much

[rich ivy]

teleporter hub is set up

that was surprisingly painless

[twilit remnant]

is it worth using fluids like how satisfactory tools shows or sometimes is better and cleaner not using them?

[green fiber]

Wdym by that?

Tools only shows you the numbers really. How you handle it is up to you

Its usually better to keep it simple and smaller. Seperate big pipe networks into smaller ones that dont need very high flow rates

[twilit remnant]

i meant to say if using fluids in every circuit to get a specific product or is better building a few more machine to avoid the useof fluids. just to simplify everything

[jaunty jewel]

what fluids are you talking about for what recipes

[twilit remnant]

for example i saw a video of a youtuber producing acu without using a fluids source, it looked way cleaner

or maybe they were hidden

[tall lantern]

"better" is up to you, if you would prefer to avoid fluids where possible then go for it

[reef basin]

Then ask Tools to make it without fluids 🙂

[jaunty jewel]

some fluids will ofc be unavoidable like oil for modular engines (rubber) so keep that in mind

if you dont want to use pure ingors then thats completely fine, every recipe is viable

[twilit remnant]

i wrote u in private

[jaunty jewel]

there are positives and negatives to pretty much every recipe

[leaden turret]

I'm positive screw-based recipes are negative

[jaunty jewel]

an example of one (imo) with no negatives is diluted fuel or heavy encased frames

[tall lantern]

extra resources and power usage for diluted fuels, none are truly without tradeoffs

[dusky relic]

Is there a way I can blow up the uranium rocks?

[sturdy mural]

uranium rocks as in the ores that appear across the map / on nodes?

[dusky relic]

Yeah

Not the actual nodes, but the rocks that spawn on them

And find occasional around the map

[sturdy mural]

you can't blow those up
you need to mine them

and in case of uranium

get the suit

[dusky relic]

Damnit, thank you 😔

[jaunty jewel]

speaking of uranium its time for power plant

[sturdy mural]

dang i'm actually trying to unlock it

just unlocked the RCUs, Supercomps etc

(just as in a few seconds ago counting only game time)

[glass relic]

And a other thing of my idea, you ca place the machine everywehere and you can fill the machine with evevery item.

[jaunty jewel]

i enjoyed phase 4 as a whole

last thing i need to do is get up to plutonium done

from my personal needs ofc i know i dont need to

ah i remember why i stopped building my nuclear power plant last time lol

[sturdy mural]

whar

[frail sleet]

I did not, but mostly because what you can do with mk6 belts vs what you can do without them is so wide a gap

[jaunty jewel]

tbh i never struggled without mk6 belts

[frail sleet]

but then i spent entirely too much time there dreaming of large projects

[jaunty jewel]

ive never "had" to use them

i use them when i get them because i think they look cool

[frail sleet]

never have to, but there is a lot of stuff that you can do with mk6 which you can't with mk5

[sturdy mural]

like what

[frail sleet]

mostly building simplificatitions where mk.5 requires many more belts, or treating them like 600 belts for simplicity

also getting a lot of resources in/out of train stations

[jaunty jewel]

other than to transport raw materials

[frail sleet]

for example i used 300 bauxite on my standard aluminum module because while you can do up to 380 while still having all of the scrap on one belt, 380 is a really shit number.

but with mk6 i can do 600 baux, and 1200 scrap.

[jaunty jewel]

i just never merged the outputs

[frail sleet]

you don't have to, but additional complexity

[jaunty jewel]

in my first 600-(whatever it would be with the basic scrap recipe) setup i balanced the two refineries that made the scrap

[frail sleet]

mostly working with mk.5 for mass volume is just painful because mk.6 can do the same thing with less time and complexity

[jaunty jewel]

mk 6 belts can definitely be useful i just havent had a need for them just yet is all

[frail sleet]

not because mk.5 simply cannot do what mk.6 can (with the exception of pure node mining - that is a huge upgrade there)

it just takes more belts to do the same thing, and if you're lucky it's as simple as running 2 belts alongside each other.. which is not so bad, but when you are running 32 belts instead of 16 it's more annoying.

If not, you can have to do some funky stuff to avoid hitting belt limits while stressing them.

[sturdy mural]

o, about belts
are you guys more of a calculated or all at once belts

[frail sleet]

what do ya mean

[jaunty jewel]

wdym

[sturdy mural]

lets say you take in 120 smth, then get it into 60 of smth else
woudl you use the mk2s for the first and mk1s for the second part? or one belt mk for all

[jaunty jewel]

ohh lmfao theres an alpha spitter stuck inside one of my refineries

[sturdy mural]

hire it

[jaunty jewel]

no he doesnt like me yet

[sturdy mural]

now you need to throw it some berries once in a while

or nuts? or shrooms? idk make a salad

[old yarrow]

how...

[sturdy mural]

actually
what would those guys eat

[jaunty jewel]

spawned inside it , think everything respawned when i reloaded my save

[old yarrow]

i think hogs

cuz they can cook it

[frail sleet]

On mk.2 it can be annoying to produce in adequate quantities early enough so i minimise mk2 usage where possible. On 3-6 i just send max speed belt everywhere.

It can be helpful to speed manifold warmup to use lower tier belts to put stuff into the machines, for example if you have a 1200 feed belt and each machine wants 40, you can use mk.1 belts off of the manifold splitters. But if you put a mk1 belt in the wrong place you can ruin your hour 😄

[old yarrow]

lmao

[jaunty jewel]

alright i disposed of him

[sturdy mural]

idk i just use mk4 (now maybe mk5s cuz i unlocked them)

[jaunty jewel]

mk5 belt my beloved

[sturdy mural]

i do whatever i have automated

[frail sleet]

it's really easy to produce an unending stream of mk3, 5, 6. And kinda 4.

[old yarrow]

yea they look the best imo, unless i need mk6 i just use mk5

[sturdy mural]

and i actually just automated like 240 aluminum, so i can have 60 casings, 60 of the plates, and a bit more than 60 ingots

[jaunty jewel]

i just like them because its SO easy to mass produce sheets

[frail sleet]

I set one node going on sheets, casings and fluid tanks when i hit p4, and never needed more than that produced (or even close, really)

[old yarrow]

thats true, but the mk6 isnt that hard to automate either

just need a boatload of coal

[jaunty jewel]

mk6 is super easy too yes but theyre unlocked later

[old yarrow]

fair

[sturdy mural]

mk6 is the 1.2k one?

what do you need for it
i heard it has something to do with ||time crystals||

[old yarrow]

yes

[jaunty jewel]

those and triangle

[sturdy mural]

triangle?

thats like ||ficsite|| stuff right?

yay
so i can say i beaten the game already
cuz i know the recipes 😎

(watch me absolutely die when i find out what do you need for nuclear pasta)

[old yarrow]

lol

its not that bad

[sturdy mural]

also do you guys actually repurpose the old Part factories, or do you dismantle them and rebuild them more efficiently/with more part output for the next parts

||(like how ACUs need like wiring)||

[jaunty jewel]

unironically nuclear pasta is the second easiest project assembly part for phase 4 imo

[old yarrow]

once theyre not useful i dismantle them, and the old ones are usually not effecient, bc yes

[hybrid void]

Hear me out guys - Wooden walls and foundations

[sturdy mural]

hear me out - uranium walls

[old yarrow]

o

[hybrid void]

Lol

[sturdy mural]

a bit more of the spice to the already spicy powerplant

[hybrid void]

Hell yeah

[sturdy mural]

i mean it makes sense looking at the amount of spaghetti you already make to get there

[hybrid void]

Nah i just think it could be cool to build a wooden house or smth around your factory, might not fit in with the vibe of the game tho

[jaunty jewel]

phase 4 is inarguably my favourite phase for project assembly too

[old yarrow]

about powerplants, any tips on nuclear powerplants, i wanna make one eventually but ive always been hesitant to deal w the waste

[sturdy mural]

iirc you should wait with it till you unlock the waste processing, its i think the last milestone in tier 8

(if you unlock tiers 7 and 8 with the phase)

[hybrid void]

Currently on that, automating radio control units and batteries in my save atm (me and my friend have different projects) I’m trying out building with aesthetics in mind aswell and its so fun

[old yarrow]

im alr at tier 9

[jaunty jewel]

i dont think ficsonium is worth doing unless you want to fully get rid of waste

[sturdy mural]

well then i think you can just make one quick

[hybrid void]

How do you deal with nuclear byproducts? Im very near nuclear power so I’m curious

[old yarrow]

ookk, ill probably try it out

[sturdy mural]

you'll learn from it

[tall lantern]

make them into more nuclear

[jaunty jewel]

what im doing (phase 4 keep in mind) is making up to plutonium, burning those rods and just storing waste since it produces so little

i need 16 particle accelerators down the line

[tall lantern]

uranium rod -> uranium waste -> plutonium rod (sinkable) -> plutonium waste -> ficsonium rod