satisfactory

[jaunty jewel]

i managed to get my uraniyum fuel roda running yesterday, might suffer with plutoniyum today

[sturdy mural]

gas msk

[real wolf]

right

[zenith pecan]

Those belts don't look very safe!

[sturdy mural]

why not?

they are supported

[zenith pecan]

They look like they're sagging, preparing to fall off 😛

[upbeat jacinth]

Yeah we need a new catenary build mode

[peak wasp]

Man the new wall holes are gonna be nice to have for that exact reason lol

Im so tired of the default conv walls

[jaunty jewel]

should i do plutoniyum today or leave it for another time

[upbeat jacinth]

Make every spline sag

[peak wasp]

make every spline physics-based

boom

[sturdy mural]

OH MY GOD you can nobelisk the lil deco rocks

i'm so stupid i wanted to automate some wire

i have it automated
Just without depots

[jaunty jewel]

cannon

[sturdy mural]

you can stack entrance/exits one after another that boosts you

[jaunty jewel]

more entrances before the tube itself

[sturdy mural]

wait i might show a pic rq

[real wolf]

ok so why cant i turn on frame generation

[sturdy mural]

you need to build the generators /joke

[real wolf]

well ofc!

[jaunty jewel]

swap to amd fsr i think

[night gust]

does anyone speak polish?

[real wolf]

but im on nvidia

[real wolf]

@jaunty jewel

[jaunty jewel]

yea so am i

[real wolf]

so amd's thing also works?!

well that is odd

58 to 110 fps, wow

[sturdy mural]

wait fr

[real wolf]

yeah and my game feels super smooth

like scary smooth

[sturdy mural]

okay its smooth for me too now

but HUGE delay??]

[real wolf]

i have no delay

[sturdy mural]

like half a sec

[real wolf]

mine is super fast like 0.01ms

[sturdy mural]

like input

[real wolf]

ye

so my settings are amd fsr, TAA, frame gen on, performace 60%

and i have v sync on

[sturdy mural]

also bruh it feels floaty now

not snappy

[real wolf]

yeah i love it floaty feeling

[sturdy mural]

i don't :(

and now i'm getting screen artifacts

[real wolf]

cant you inf nudge on 1.1 aswell?

[real wolf]

what gpu do you have?

[sturdy mural]

GTX 1050

[real wolf]

thats prob why

[sturdy mural]

but its at like 6%????

[real wolf]

oh you have a bottleneck

[sturdy mural]

CPU at 100%good lord

also 7/8 gigs of ram used

[real wolf]

8 gigs of ram in the big 2025

[sturdy mural]

screw you a year ago i was using 4

or 2 years
i was playing update 7 on 4 gigs

[real wolf]

i mean 16gb isnt expensive

[sturdy mural]

unless you must rely on someone else to get it for you

[real wolf]

wait you dont get like money every month or week from your parents?

[sturdy mural]

i'd wish.

[real wolf]

do you do chores?

[sturdy mural]

yeah?

[real wolf]

oh damn

[sturdy mural]

but my parents are like "you can just ask us to buy it for you" or smth like that

[real wolf]

then ask, idk

[sturdy mural]

i do
tho i'm not sure if i should?? i already got a "job" and might be making a bit of money

maybe better to get a pc??

[real wolf]

you could upgrade part after part, thats what i did

[sturdy mural]

im on a laptop.

so RAM? sure
anything else? good luck

[real wolf]

oh buy a desktop pc

[sturdy mural]

thats what im thinking of doing

[real wolf]

for like 180 bucks you could get a 1080TI 16gb ram and a good cpu

[sturdy mural]

unless its worth upgrading a ~10 year old pc

[real wolf]

look on facebook or java.gg

[zenith pecan]

Welp, here's the SAM project so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4LcICPnkI , 8 of 17 belts completed, the plan is to move all 10,200 ore to the dunes, for the hell of it tbh.

[dusky relic]

What does the "Temp" Purity mean

[real wolf]

but facebook is def the place to rip off a older woman or something

[dusky relic]

#streams-and-videos

[dense violet]

group of nodes

[real wolf]

i like the new thing that checks how many items you have on a belt, super good for nuclear powerplants and coal powerplants

[zenith pecan]

The throughput thing on the belts does if I recall take a minute or so to calculate before displaying, and they have sometimes gone a little wonky.

[real wolf]

no its just i know that the gen gets the amount it should

[zenith pecan]

I got a horrible feeling my current project is going to be like 15km.

[sturdy mural]

you can do it m8

[zenith pecan]

It'll get there, though I'll probably end up as a case study on why you don't move all of one material to one location.

[timid rune]

probably not gonna finish my steel/iron ingot factory tonight lol

if I stick with what I am doing at #design-and-architecture

[finite latch]

are pumps only 300/s? I have a mk2 pump on a mk2 pipe.. but its won't let more than 300 through..

[timid rune]

300m^3/m max yeah

[finite latch]

nvm.. there was a tiny little mk1 pipe section hiding inside the pump.. disassembled, reassembled.. I'm at 600/s 👍

[coarse geode]

pipes make no sense, im pumping in 120 and 6 are required, pipes are empty

[sturdy mural]

yeah no a spitter just respawned right behind me and killed me

what the hell

[tough seal]

Quick question -- I have 18 fuel>turbofuel refineries, that require only 400 fuel for all of them, I only need to run one mk2 pipe down the middle right? don't need any sort of loop?

[coarse geode]

does anyone here use satisfactory modeler?

[tough seal]

Yep I do

[coarse geode]

i think i already answered my question

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys, I was passing through a cute Bean and it did an evil laugh, is that.. normal?

[prisma forge]

Never thought I would be using Paint for a game.

[prisma forge]

I once was sliding through my power line with the zip line thing and a bean got on the way, kicked me out of the power line and laughed at me

[dark rapids]

chat how much turbofuel does a fuel generator take?

[mortal ginkgo]

Beans are evil confirmed 100%

[true mulch]

!wikisearch fuel+generator

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=fuel+generator

[prisma forge]

Boy wait until you get to rocket fuel
IIRC, from one pure oil node, I got 147 generators running

[coarse geode]

good to know that trucks also dont work

how are you supposed to expand when theres not a single way to transport resscources but betls

[mortal ginkgo]

but... they work?

[jaunty jewel]

from one pure oil node i got 576 fuel gens running with rocket fuel lol

[coarse geode]

they dont

[jaunty jewel]

ignore him, he just wants attention

[coarse geode]

just wasted 40 minutes recording a path just for it to not work

really great game design guys good job

almost as useless as rockstar

[mortal ginkgo]

aright buddy...

Guys there are some Paint Finishes in Awesome Shop, do we get to change their colors too or Copper Paint Finish is something unique on its own, for example?

[jaunty jewel]

he was saying the same thing about trains, when people gave him advice he ignored it and said the game was shitty and buggy

[mortal ginkgo]

I can understand trucks to a degree because of few stuff I saw but trains are literally conveyor belts. You can only go so wrong with them.

[green fiber]

Literal skill issue

[mortal ginkgo]

Anyknow knows? 😄

[green fiber]

no you get the finish and the finish can not be edited

Theres a few different ones

[mortal ginkgo]

Ah got it, thank you so much ❤️

[zenith pecan]

I've been using the unpainted finish a lot this save 😄

[upbeat jacinth]

chrome should be able to be set as default color

[zenith pecan]

All of them can, just right click and select what you want as default.

[frail sleet]

manifold on 2/3 of pipe flowrate capacity is probably fine

[zenith pecan]

Time to continue gathering SAM ore nodes in the current tunnel project.

[tough seal]

Cool was hoping that it would be. I got the coal 3:8 working but first time on mk2 and doing a large refinery (large for me anyway.

[zenith pecan]

4800 SAM out of the 10200 already claimed and routed 😄

[quick sky]

What if I use BPs of giant hollow cubes with holes in them for belts to build my whole factory

[pallid wasp]

Is there a way to load fluid into a pipe as a blueprint? I'm trying to just put in water to make sure pumps are able to work vertically and wanted to test it within the blueprint

I got a packager built to unpack water but I can't power it

[green fiber]

nah. fluids never get saved

[quick sky]

I think there is no way to operate machines in any way in a BP. No parts, no power, no connecting outside

But you can save the BP quickly and build it just outside to do the same

And then delete in blueprint mode so it's basically the same thing

[pallid wasp]

Ugh this is getting so tedious just to make 3 vertical pipes

[old yarrow]

mk3 pipes when

[mortal ginkgo]

Brother I have some truly bad news for you.

[pallid wasp]

I forgot to even look at mk2 pipes 🤦‍♂️

[quick sky]

Would you ever need 1200m^3 flow?

[spark ruin]

or 900 even

[pallid wasp]

Me in the morning after drinking

[quick sky]

Mk3 pipe would just be 601 because reasons

[spark ruin]

TBH it would be convenient for nuclear and stuff

[quick sky]

Dr robotnik has come to make an announcement

[spark ruin]

+im not sure that the fuild system would handle it

[quick sky]

Tbh tbh I do have some pipe spaghetti too, if I could make that all into one that wouldn't be so bad

[old yarrow]

yes

Diluted fuel is 3 machines(200%) per pipe

[reef basin]

and? as long as one machine fits one pipe, it's enough

[spark ruin]

for me its a do i NEED it ? no, not really but do i WANT it ? yes.

[pallid wasp]

It would be funny if they made a mk3 pipe that was 8x wider than the current pipe and it had to go to a merger and splitter to be used

[worn garden]

@quick sky hi

[timid rune]

one of my factories does 3000m^3/min so would love 1200m^3/min if possible

tbf piping layout is the bigger problem to deal with

[quick sky]

hello

[worn garden]

meanwhile me struggling with 3 water extractors and 8 coal plants

[spark ruin]

[timid rune]

my quickwire plant no.1 needs about 4000m^3/min

(not counting copper ingots which was supplied elsewhere)

[pallid wasp]

So far I've relied on hooking up all the geothermal instead of expanding my initial 8 coal plants

[worn garden]

the what??? geothermal??? i think its my first time hearing that name in my life

[quick sky]

wait until this man hears about petroleum

[timid rune]

but then I use tiny train stations mk2 mod

[reef basin]

hook pipes 1:1, no issues 🙂

[old yarrow]

yes, it would be a blessing of a convenience

[timid rune]

gonna be a lot of water extractors when I have pure iron + wet concrete floating around lol

[pallid wasp]

I just finished package 3 and have been trying to start a big factory for all the package 4 parts, was keeping it small and simple and isolated up until this point

[reef basin]

well you can also do 1:X or X:1

[timid rune]

oh yeah I did overclock all 24 refineries to 250% because laziness

100.7MW each, tasty!

[worn garden]

package 3 and 4?? why is this guy speaking in a language i don't understand

[old yarrow]

i assume phases

[pallid wasp]

The space elevator phases are called packages ?

[worn garden]

they are called phases

[old yarrow]

they are? no right?

[quick sky]

I call em quotas

cause the HR lady called ADA won't stop emailing me about them

[pallid wasp]

The speed runs break it with to different packages

The game calls what you send up a package with all the parts

[timid rune]

really gonna have to start nuclear once I finished this steel+iron ingot plant

[mortal ginkgo]

omg guys

I got my first Tractor operation, its ULTRA cute ❤️

[timid rune]

I made the mistake of relying on trucks/tractors for power generation and it went haywire once 😄

[mortal ginkgo]

ok now thats on you brotherman

I kek at your general direction.

[timid rune]

ended up replacing with trains

because I was relying them for compacted coal lol

[mortal ginkgo]

ok now you deserve a bonk at that point

[timid rune]

and now It is strictly trains only 😄

[junior laurel]

Doggo burg tasty

[worn garden]

guys i have 3 lizard doggos as pets, how can i bring them to my base and make them sit so they can't get away from my captivity (minecraft reference)

[viral olive]

anyone have a guide for the turbofuel compacted coal fuel generator setup? the one on the wiki is outdated apparently

[true mulch]

guide for what exactly? you can use a production planner like https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production

although it's true that the guide on the wiki should be updated too

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys I am in a cave and ı am going deeper and deeper. I don't want to. Help.

[dense violet]

reload autosave

[mortal ginkgo]

But I found both Quartz and Sam in the same cave!

[dense violet]

they will still be there if you reload

[cyan garnet]

It’s a good cave, Leon

[mortal ginkgo]

No worries, I am joking 😄

[mortal ginkgo]

Thank you bones. ADA said the same. Maybe you are ADA.

But I trust you both.

[cyan garnet]

I built a train line through that cave and those quartz nodes supplied all of my factories for crystal and silica

[mortal ginkgo]

Not a bad idea 😄

[coarse geode]

is there a mod to fix pipes and all the other bugged stuff?

[ember tide]

is there a train signals guide anywhere

[cyan garnet]

There’s plenty on YouTube

I liked the series from toaster gaming (three parts) totalxclipse made one recently as well that is comprehensive

[cyan garnet]

Game’s not bugged. Literal skill issue. But there is a separate discord for modding, you can go annoy them instead

[fossil ice]

Official Modding Discord

Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @cyan garnet

[coarse geode]

how is it a skill issue?

[cyan garnet]

Everything you have complained about has a solution. You aren’t listening to any of the advice or guidance given by multiple people here and continue to insist the game is bugged. It’s obnoxious

[coarse geode]

i didnt recieve any solutions

[cyan garnet]

lol

[coarse geode]

nothing said here helped me fix my pipes and trains

[dense violet]

people have , several times, instructed you to make a post in #1038092680493801533 with images ect to gain help

you never do

[coarse geode]

i did post pictures

[dense violet]

I never saw a qna post

feel free to link it

[cyan garnet]

idk how many times we can tell you your train station is backwards. 🤷‍♂️

[coarse geode]

wdym backwards theres only one way you can place it

[cyan garnet]

Sigh

[dense violet]

pls, for the love of god, either link the qna post you made, or make one

[cyan garnet]

This is an elaborate troll. It has to be at this point

[dense violet]

I'm perfectly willing to help you, but you need to follow at the very least, very basic and minor steps yourself

[dusky relic]

I think hes just fucking with you guys honestly

[dense violet]

I'm starting to believe it

[cyan garnet]

Serious commitment to the bit

[spark ruin]

it literally is
OR your just living in your moms basement typing up BS here **just **to annoy us in which case, get a life
(in simpler words, you are a very commited troll)

[chrome cloud]

compulsively restarted after getting to oil

[spark ruin]

kind of unlikely TBH cuz he posted this : #math-and-meta message

[empty spoke]

any1 knows how i can fix the bug that when i place pattern they get placed in the wrong direction eventho it shows visually the right pattern before placing it

[zenith pecan]

I've sometimes had to replace a foundation, but rotate that before replacing, you describe a similar issue to when I'd go to place a pattern, but the wrong one would appear when rotated, it could be related to what I thought was fixed.

[worn garden]

guys i need help choosing alt recipies, i am new to the game

[real wolf]

lol

[dense violet]

Pick a recipe if you think it’ll be useful for your next factory

If neither are pick at random or rescan

[worn garden]

NO

maybe yes

[empty spoke]

there are websites that show you what the best recipes are from S-F Rank

i'd go with that if you have no other idea

[dense violet]

And those pages are wrong

[simple echo]

Wahoo, I finally made an HMF factory

[empty spoke]

better than having no clue at all..

[dense violet]

Every recipe has its use and you’re never locked out of getting them

[empty spoke]

yea maybe one isnt B but C Tier or not B but S Tier but its better than going for F ranks than S ranks

[empty spoke]

the biofuel one..

[simple echo]

The charcoal?

[empty spoke]

ye

[dense violet]

Blindly using recipes without thinking about their use cases is worse

[simple echo]

Yeah, that’s garbo

[dense violet]

Bevause the tiers front exist

[empty spoke]

can u actually get every single alt recipe?

[real wolf]

yes

[dense violet]

Bio coal is great for munitions factories that don’t need to be on all the time

[simple echo]

Gotta love getting it after I rescan the disk trying to find a better recipe

[dense violet]

Like, it’s very niche sure, but it has its uses

[simple echo]

Especially when the first recipes are fine, but I want better
And then I get utter trash on rescan
Lovely:)

[empty spoke]

obv everything has his use somewhere with enough creativity, but generally speaking its just garb

[dense violet]

But that’s the point of thinking about them.

Early tier recipes tend to be more generalist bevause it’ll have the most impact downward through the process

Often those are regarded highly just because they have more use cases

But that doesn’t make them better. Just better at what they do

[empty spoke]

is it just me or has 1.0 more bugs than 0.9?

i'm coming across issues i never had before

[lament niche]

so yes, that by definiton makes them better.

[dense violet]

Ime only a few non game breaking things. Like some awkwardness building rarely

[empty spoke]

yeah its mainly building related

[cyan garnet]

Tier lists for alt recipes are bad because a lower “rated” recipe might actually be perfect for your use case for a given situation. But you may not even consider it if it’s not S-tier or whatever

[gloomy heart]

do we have any eta on the next patch?

[lament niche]

^^^

[cyan garnet]

Everything we know is in #announcements

There were lots of holidays in Europe recently and their main QA had been on vacation which I believe is why there has been a big gap since the last patch dropped

[dense violet]

You could make a qna post - like I said ive only had the rare abd minor issues that got working after minor effort

[covert talon]

time for a 12 hour session of satisfactory right before math finals

[empty spoke]

can i somehow increase the receive range of power for the hoverpack?

or do i rly have to place poles everywhere around the base

[leaden ether]

I just hopped onto my personal transport train and a space whale was standing over it, or so I thought. After getting in it turns out it was standing ON it (though flipper legs clipped into it) and went along for the ride for a while before hopping off.

[leaden ether]

The latter I'm afraid

[cyan garnet]

Apparently there is a mod that extends the range, otherwise yeah you need to place extra poles

Wall sockets on the underside of your foundations works too

[empty spoke]

yea il do that for now thanks

i assume mk2 will be no difference to mk3 regarding the range?

[golden furnace]

Does the direction of the sign in train junctions actually matter? I have a track splitting into two but the train's route is whats gonna be deciding which path it takes, not the sign, no?

[lime ermine]

Nope

[lime ermine]

Yes it will trains will only go through a signal the right way but for a two way track you can place one on each side

[golden furnace]

I mean the little arrow sign that pops up when you split a track, to be clear

[lime ermine]

Yeah that's what I mean too

[cyan garnet]

The little arrow sign direction does not matter

Automated trains only follow signals

[quick sky]

Dang alt recipes actually give a whole different way of planning stuff out

I can get rocket fuel without nitric acid which allows me a head start to automating phase 4 stuff

And the holy encased heavy frame

[bleak osprey]

Any Mindustry players here ?

[lament niche]

ew

only sabiscracktory Feed The Baste and fartorio fans allowed here

Mindustry illegol

(If you can't tell by the high number of intentional mispellings, this was a joke)

[bleak osprey]

lol

[brave wasp]

power storage is also a drain on power when empty right?

[torn forge]

Guys anyone wanna help me solve my power? Kinda need help.

Dm me if you want to

[stray tendon]

how do you activate the experimental mode? can you do it on a already ongoing save

[rigid flint]

through steam, on your library go to the game, preferences > beta > and you activate experimental mode

[wanton stag]

can someone please explain why the hell you cant align a merger on a foundation to a miner on a foundation

[lament niche]

it only takes available power, it'll never overload

[rigid flint]

is there any mod that removes pipe holders like the one that eliminates conveyor poles?

[elder apex]

the construction preferences mod has the option to build pipes with self-destructing stands

[rigid flint]

oh cool

thanks

[naive pendant]

The resource nodes aren’t aligned to the grid so miners aren’t aligned to the world grid. If you want to maintain perfectly 90 degree belts for miners you build the miner on foundations, build a belt 90 degrees to the miner, snap a merger to the belt using a separate merger aligned to the miner.

[hoary ruin]

Do you guys have any suggestions on where I can find inspo for factory buildings?

[true mulch]

#design-and-architecture

[naive pendant]

Really depends if you mean aesthetics stuff (#design-and-architecture or #screenshots), if you mean functionality, efficiency then #math-and-meta is good.

[leaden turret]

see also https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/

[hoary ruin]

Cheers!!

[soft orchid]

Does anyone here speak french. Its been three weeks that i try to make my truck work. Sometimes they work sometimes they dont even charge their stuff. I'm tired. What did i do wrong? Do i have to make fuel in each station?

[mortal ginkgo]

As long as a Station got fuel, Truck will request enough fuel for a round trip. Make sure Truck and Stations use the same fuel.

[soft orchid]

They are all on solide biofuel for now. But does they have to be all with fuel in them?

I have done one for refueling truck and the other have no fuel receiving on them

[lament niche]

are you running out of fuel?

[soft orchid]

No i produce too much...

[lament niche]

I mean in the trucks.

[soft orchid]

Never. They take like 10 solid biofuel for one run

[lament niche]

so what's the issue then?

[soft orchid]

The truck dont charge or discharge when i want to use it. They dont do their duty

[lament niche]

you mean load or unload?

[soft orchid]

Sometimes they do when i'm on it running myself someti.e they dont

Yeah sorry loader and unload stuff

[lament niche]

The stations need power.

[soft orchid]

I try to set à storage with truck that take the stuff and send it on a storage. But that dont work all the time

They are all with power

[lament niche]

No, the stations need electrical power.

you also need to configure them to either load or unload.

[soft orchid]

Yeah thats done too

[lament niche]

Are you sure?

[soft orchid]

Yes

[lament niche]

Please go double check.

[soft orchid]

Yeah i Will sorry for bothering. Thanks

[marble tinsel]

Started to use the uh Sink machine and some nice little things in there 🙂

Stuck on how I want to design the build though 🤔

Going to make mini factories at the nodes and transport them either to other nodes for advanced crafting or transport the ingots to like a big factory and do all the crafting there

[zenith pecan]

I've been doing the opposite, moving the resources to work at larger facilities.

[marble tinsel]

Thats what I have kind of been doing but I have belts going miles everywhere and idk it just looks like a mess

[zenith pecan]

Doesn't have to be a mess, this is phase one of me moving all the worlds SAM ore to one spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4LcICPnkI

Though some structures showing with ordered belts help make things look a little alive.

[leaden ether]

I like your tube exit bump stops 😄

[marble tinsel]

oh damn that looks cool

[zenith pecan]

Made using 1 metre square signs and a small piece of painted beam, I haven't considered an image to use on them yet.

[marble tinsel]

#screenshots thats what Ive been doing across a lot of nodes 😂

just slapping belts everywhere

[zenith pecan]

I tried to group belts into tunnels or overland causeways,

Just tidies things some.

Forgive the Ex prototype, but when cleaned up, here is an on miner solution #satisfactory-experimental message , my slender tower vision of two years ago finally becomes practical, a vertical stack of smelters/constructors in a 1x3 foundation footprint.

[cunning comet]

my explorer teleported inside the terrain, is there anyway to dismantle it?

[zenith pecan]

Here's the original '23 prototype 🤣 #design-and-architecture message

[marble tinsel]

hmm interesting vertical layout

[zenith pecan]

Sorry about being slow, I'm trying to track a clip I posted to be of assistance.

[cunning comet]

cool, is there a noclip cheat so i can just fly into the terrain and dismantle it?

[zenith pecan]

Not quite but not far off, found it, I posted it to assist someone who had a death crate inside terrain #screenshots message , but you will need to make the clip tube on the blueprint designer.

[cunning comet]

oh thats a good idea, thanks 🙂

[zenith pecan]

The reason for having it done on the blueprint designer is to have a powered entrance at both ends, getting trapped wouldn't be cool.

[rocky wigeon]

So cute

[trim vine]

Fighting a spider in the swamp, it wont die, a non greena adult one, tried reloading the game, but its still invincible

Any advice on how to get rid of it?

It's right around where I need to build

[cyan garnet]

Load your save in SCIM and update its position

[trim vine]

When I reloaded, it spawned a bunch of other spiders that I had killed, and they died no problem

[cunning comet]

already got it, Taromani idea worked perfectly, thanks though 🙂

[zenith pecan]

The SCIM approach is a valid one for those sorts of fixes, I didn't think of it because I don't save edit.

So it just didn't occur to me at the time.

[cunning comet]

i know about it but i was trying to avoid it, theres always a chance it might mess something up, however small that might be

note to self for future, dismantle the explorer immediately after getting out 😅

[bold wyvern]

quick question. is there a place where i can submit bug reports and suggestions?

[fossil ice]

Satisfactory Questions

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[undone jackal]

Whats the best way farming sink points?

[trim vine]

As you build up factories, things should be overflowing, unless you are literally only building exactly whats needed to supply something.

Install smart splitters on lines that should be overflowing, and set overflow to go to a sink

Certain things, like screw/iron plates, might not yield much, but that add up over time.

Elevator parts, same deal, I had bins enough for 2500 of a thing, and any made past that would be sunk for a ton of points, etc etc

[frail sleet]

^this gets you all coupon items (golden nut etc) before you finish game

[marble tinsel]

well I got lazy building more storage even though it takes a few mins so I just rerouted the overflow belts into some bigger belts into the sink machine

got a pretty good amount of points that way

so although not much something like Screws that I generated a lot of gave a decent amount over time

[flint elm]

is there an item or something to see which burners shut down?

[cyan garnet]

Look at their status lights. If they are yellow they are not running (eg no fuel)

[fresh sorrel]

hello. am i only one who have this visual bug? https://youtu.be/xV5B9zMWzN8 (it was screenshot but because i cant upload photo here i send it thru youtube)

[zenith pecan]

You can use #screenshots & #1038092680493801533 to drop actual screens here, as well as short (sub 100mb) video clips.

[split badger]

is it just me or does turbo fuel make the truck faster?

[shrewd palm]

it does

i think so anyways

[sturdy mural]

guys are you like just unable to put floor hole elevators to refineries?

[split badger]

because when i switched from petroleum coke and coal to turbo fuel, i feel like the acceleration got a slight buff

[shrewd palm]

yes

[sturdy mural]

my refineries are straight up broken?? 😭

also are radar tower signals

specifically for the existing things
or overall (like i have 31 mercer spheres showing, is that just exactly 31 in the area or are there 31 left)

[forest bridge]

how much fuel do drones need

[reef basin]

depends on a lot of things, can't be easily estimated

[leaden ether]

It's a surprising amount IMHO. Using regular fuel it costs my one currently running drone 81 cans of fuel to travel about 1/2 the vertical distance on the map and back. Maybe rocket fuel burns slower like it does in generators, but I have yet to try it out

[cyan garnet]

Depends on the fuel type and the distance (and sometimes vertical travel from the port)

[forest bridge]

Ok noted

and how do the inputs work, why are there two in and one out

My drone just made a trip, picked up nothing and dropped off nothing even though I have a conveyor belt with copper sheets going in

Looks like it was the wrong input

[split badger]

does that mean rocket fuel would increase the acceleration further?

[dusky relic]

Is there a map of the route for the flying mantis ray guy

[lament niche]

if it has a checkmark, you've already got it

[distant hill]

🤔 That awful moment when you realize you can cut out a massive production chain just by throwing a sommersloop in a single machine....

[shrewd palm]

one of the inputs is fuel. also i think you need to make sure the drone ports are set to load/unload properly

[lament niche]

don't say that out loud, some here will throw a fit

[fresh wharf]

Yo, is there a way to grow beryl nuts?

[lament niche]

with mods, yes.
Vanilla? no.

[distant hill]

Chaos! 🤣

[fresh wharf]

Thank you rugby knight

[lament niche]

they do regrow on bushes after a while

[fresh wharf]

Alright

[lament niche]

Also, she is holding the football like a rugby ball, isn't she

I don't mind, I used to play at wing for my high school team

[sturdy mural]

a chcekmark??

[lament niche]

yes

[sturdy mural]

so it shows an overall number, not current?

[lament niche]

are you looking at the map?

[sturdy mural]

at the radar

you unlock in the MAM @ quartz iirc

[lament niche]

things within range of the radar will show on your map.

[sturdy mural]

but interacting with the radar

shows a "weak signal" or smth like that
With #s
are those overall or current

[lament niche]

go pick something and then check

[sturdy mural]

it didn't do anything when clicked??

could only show in codex iirc

[plush phoenix]

IS THERE AN ISSUE WITH PORTALS IN EXPERAMENTAL FOR YOU GUYS, SORRY CAPS I REALISED when i finished typing\

[brave wasp]

got all my mercers wooo

[junior laurel]

Congrats on the collection! :D

[junior laurel]

Wanna explain what you mean over here? https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/572784151439081472

[plush phoenix]

sure gimmie a sec

[tranquil maple]

Bro just recreated the thumbnail of that vid before 1.0

[junior laurel]

eeyup thought they'd make good emotes so I cropped them and now I can do that

[cyan garnet]

One input is clearly labeled for fuel, by itself on the left side of the port. Unlike trains and trucks, drones will both load and unload anything at the port. They can only go A->B so be mindful of your drone routes and what you are putting into or taking out of a port as there is no way to filter or control that behavior

[tranquil maple]

cool

[plush phoenix]

nvm

[flat tundra]

lol why did i just now had to verify the account

[grizzled lotus]

I'm building some far away mini factories. is it worth it to build hypertubes all over?

[forest bridge]

ok cool thanks

[junior laurel]

I mean, I didn't ask them to be made into emotes, I just posted them in #satisfactory-memes message and they were selected to be emotified, very pog

[forest bridge]

how do you usually go about fueling all the drone ports

do you have like one drone port that transports fuel and then one or more used for transporting items

[cyan garnet]

Set up one drone port as a fueling station wherever you are making your fuel. Don’t build a drone on it. Send the fuel into the cargo and fuel inputs

At each of your remote drone depots, set up one drone port as a fuel fetcher to “pull” from the fueling station. Send the cargo output of that drone port to all the other drone ports’ fuel inputs. Manually load some fuel into that drone port for its first outbound trip to the fueling port

You can repeat this pattern as many times as you like. By making the fueling drones “pull” you can have any number of remote drone stations fetch fuel

Remember that when you build a drone on a port, that becomes its “home” port and you can only have one drone per port

I would recommend keeping your fueling drones completely separate from others and not try to get cute with sharing resources both ways

[forest bridge]

So many ports 😔

[cyan garnet]

This is one of the tradeoffs w drones vs other logistics methods

[dense violet]

that's why it's a good idea to try to have many drones share a similar location for one of their stops, as you only need to fuel that spot

[cyan garnet]

Pros: fast, pretty compact, can be placed in out of the way areas where train stops are impractical. Doesn’t require any other fixed infrastructure other than the drone ports (no rails, no autopilot recordings)
Cons: can only do A->B routing, needs fuel source, limited stack capacity

There’s no universal “best” logistics for all scenarios. Choose the best tool for the job

[dense violet]

basically

but even if you do have a lot of independent A to Bs ... it's really not a huge issue having a dedicated extra port for fuel for each.

they don't take much power.

and they won't use much fuel refueling as they won't go to pick up more until they can fully unload

[cyan garnet]

Yeah, they are good at back pressure which is helpful for certain types of logistics, such as packaged nitrogen, or fuel for that matter

[dense violet]

mechanically it's a trivial cost, and the real benefit of having central drone location is enjoying making a lean system

[azure swan]

I can already see several outposts I ran rail to that I should have done with drones for sure.

[forest bridge]

getting stuff to different places all over the map is definitely the biggest hurdle for me right now

[azure swan]

144 nitric acid a minute going like 1km...and good lord fitting the train station in there suuucked

[cyan garnet]

Nitrogen is my favorite thing to transport w drones. Closed loop w the empty tanks, easy peasy

And all the nitrogen wells are in fairly remote locations

[azure swan]

Getting a rail network going will go a long way for you, but some drones here and there seems to be the ticket if it's difficult to get rail into and you're not moving a ton of material.

[dense violet]

part of that is having an overall design plan for your world

this is very difficult as you're going up the tiers as you grow as you need rather than make a Masterplan

I tend to just slap crap together until everything is unlocked, and then basically start from scracth for whatever projects I want

[forest bridge]

By everything unlocked do you mean all the space elevator stuff done?

[dense violet]

I mean, I've never finished the final phase xD just all the tiers and recipes

after that I make my own things

[forest bridge]

I'm definitely considering just razing a factory or two and starting over

[sturdy mural]

guys will the vehicles on autopilot throw themselves off of cliffs / onto bouncepads

[forest bridge]

are tiers 1-9 all the stuff to unlock?

[dense violet]

make sure you keep a very large stash of parts for building if you're taking out your core base part factory

[sturdy mural]

there's also the MAM and the shop

[grizzled lotus]

should I be concerned about how much mycelia is in the world? I get it mostly from chopping down weird trees and they don't respawn

[dense violet]

hard to even decide what youre personal goals are if you haven't unlocked all options

[dense violet]

nah, once you get good equipment you don't get hurt much

[grizzled lotus]

?

[dense violet]

it's mainly used for medical inhalers

[grizzled lotus]

also fabric?

[forest bridge]

how many phases are there

[dense violet]

you automate fabric with oil

[dense violet]

phase 5 is the last unlock you do.

[grizzled lotus]

so I should go ahead and chop down every thing and use it for research?

[forest bridge]

oh I see

[dense violet]

if you want? but it's a bit of a waste of effort. you only need a bit for research.

[grizzled lotus]

ok

[dense violet]

make a stack of 50 inhalers and you'll prob be good for ages

as long as you're not constantly being a goof and breaking your limbs 🙂

[cyan garnet]

“Days since last incident” sign permanently stuck at 0 days

[dense violet]

-1

[dusky relic]

I can sink resin right>

[dense violet]

there's very little you can't sink

[dusky relic]

Just uranium and power slugs?

[dense violet]

uranium waste to the 2nd to last step of plutonium rods

power shards?
maybe some of hte ficsonium stuff.

there's probably a list on the wiki for the sink

[lament niche]

can't sink ficsonium at all

power shards, hard drives, any liquid not in a container, mercer spheres, etc

power slugs

I think? some kinds of project parts

[harsh steppe]

Hello, I got a question, does anyone know why the damage border on the east side is a big oblique line cutting through the sea? And if there's any way outside of mods to play like it's not there?

[dense violet]

it's a damage border - they decided to make it there and that way

and you could I suppose turn on advanced game settings for god mode to not take damage?

water out there becomes fake though so if you're building over the water for that benefit you'll be out of luck

[harsh steppe]

I did try that but I still take damange when I walk into it

[dense violet]

rip. Mods for you.

although there's so much space on the map I have no idea why you need to be out there

[harsh steppe]

I only have to go a little bit in that direction thankfully. About 20 foundations or so, so I guess for the water it should be fine

[dense violet]

generally the water becomes fake long before the death wall

[leaden ether]

It is odd though, I'd love to know why they did that. All I can think of is some future expansion area or something.

[harsh steppe]

Well because I created the whole factory there, I thought there was the space necessary when I started and I'm more than 100 hours in, I can't do it back from 0

[dense violet]

move the sections that go over the border to the other side?
or make a new floor and build up. 3D space

[dense violet]

the death wall? I magine so you don't go off the map

[leaden ether]

Specifically the shape of the death wall

[harsh steppe]

It was importan for it to be just above water because I'm gonna need tens of thousands of water pm

[dense violet]

afaik they are just straight lines that roughly go around the landmasses.

extend over water in another direction? you can also jsut pipe to the 2nd floor

[dense violet]

in any case - mods or in another direction

and I highly recommend you test out if the water under you is fake or not now

and see where the fake water starts

[harsh steppe]

Yes, I could, but that's insanely more complex than I was trying to do. It's for nuclear powerplant and the way I did so far is by putting the water extractors right below each one to pump it up directly and occupy as little space as possible

[dense violet]

well those are your options. Also check out the real/fake water line. You might be more screwed than you realise

[harsh steppe]

I'll check the water for sure. As for the mods I thought about it but in 1.1 they're not available rn and reverting back to the stable branch means I'd have to remove all things that are new to 1.1

[harsh steppe]

I'll look into it

[dense violet]

Honestly I'd just get the mod that gives an extractor with 5 outputs and can pump out 3000 water pm over clocked. Uses a bunch of power but saves a lot of space

[harsh steppe]

Personally I wanted to stay vanilla if possible. Having to put a lot of buildings and arranging everything is part of what I like in the game as a challenge. But if the water will be entirely fake then I don't know what I'm gonna do

[dense violet]

well it sounds like you haven't put down the water extractors yet as you haven't discovered the fake water. You'll probably need logistic 'halls' of pipes coming from other directions

[harsh steppe]

I'm placing down one now to see if they still work normally

[dense violet]

well you'll want to put down a bunch further out to test where it actually stops

not sure if it's a straight line or not either

[wanton stag]

Is there any reason to not overclock power generators?

[harsh steppe]

I'm not sure how to do that though. I'll die pretty quickly if I try

[harsh steppe]

Imo no. Unless you're early in the game and power shards are too expensive to use without care I think overclocking generators only benefits you

[wanton stag]

Well I'm just asking since I'm building my new power plant section of my oil coast oil plant, and I'm having some really weird issues with 2 of my 6 overclocked fuel generators not getting any fuel while the other 4 are full, the pipe has fuel in it, it's being fed, but it won't fill that much

[harsh steppe]

Well overclocking the generator will increase the fuel consumption as well, it could be a problem of the piping that can't provide enough fuel for various reasons, or you're just not producing enough fuel

[dense violet]

well the fake water tends to come before the death wall, so you shouldn't die in most. I haven't thoroughly tested where all the fake water is though

[dense violet]

well you can fit 4 over clocked water extractors under the foot print of 1 nuclear gen

so you can do 2 floors of generators easily like that

[harsh steppe]

I made a copy of the save file and I'm gonna use ags to see if it can work

[wanton stag]

Well I'm producing 1800 a minute coming thru 3 mk 2 pipes, the row was the first row of 4 rows of 6, I was trying to just oc one row to save space, and all the rows after are fine

[harsh steppe]

I think they are using fuel combustion. But if you meant about my npp problem then yeah, I could do that but it would mean I'd have to rethink all the logistic

[wanton stag]

I built the generators that were being accounted for via the overclock individually and removed the generators overclock and now it works fine for some reason

[harsh steppe]

Can you send a pic? Maybe there's a problem with the pipe setup (couldn't load pictures)

[dense violet]

that was for you. And it'd just be the rod distribution. 1 manifold isn't much

even spliting a load balanced system in 2 is barely any work

[harsh steppe]

Well it's fluids in this case so it's a bit different, but yeah it's not particularly drastic I guess, at the moment I was running my npps with this setup

[dense violet]

well the main benefit of building over water for NPPs is that you can just have 1 pipe go straight up. with 2 floors you just do that twice

[wanton stag]

I'll send you one after i shower, tbf this plant has had some real fucking weird problems like a backup issue in a place where it shouldn't have even been possible (2 200 belts merging to make a 400 belt)

That was fixed by just cutting off the oil until the rubber and plastic refineries ran out of oil, turned the pumps back on and the problem fixed itself

[harsh steppe]

Yeah, that's what I was doing. I guess I'll be forced to do that, hoping there will be more space later, more north for others that I need to place down, even though there is less of them

[harsh steppe]

Sure then, send me when you want

[grizzled lotus]

Do debris always have a cargo pod nearby? Because I found some but no cargo pod

[leaden ether]

Sometimes the pod is way up high or down low from the rest of it.

I don't remember ever not finding one eventually

[grizzled lotus]

found it

and I'm so sick of sprinting 2km to pick up my death crate only to die again

FOUR times now

[sturdy mural]

??

[frail sleet]

you can and probably should disable that

[grizzled lotus]

disable what?

[dense violet]

ah hit reply to wrong comment

[frail sleet]

dropping your bag when you die

[boreal musk]

keep inventory

[sturdy mural]

lmao, no worries

ykw guys

imma automate RCUs

after like 8h of sitting after aluminum

[grizzled lotus]

I didn't know I could

[sturdy mural]

5/m seems like a good number for that

[grizzled lotus]

but won't that make the game too easy?

[dense violet]

up to you. It's a sandbox

[grizzled lotus]

is it the keep inventory option?

[boreal musk]

having to pick death crate everytime i die is more annoying to me than dealing with 5 alpha stinger and 3 alpha hogs guarding a single drop pod

[sturdy mural]

why are crystal oscillatiors such a pain to make
both recipes

[boreal musk]

option > gameplay > keep inventory > keep everything

[dense violet]

you can make them with 2 types of resources very easily

the alt add complexity for big crystal savings

[sturdy mural]

2 types?? wdym

[dense violet]

cable and RIPs can be made with just iron
and then you have crystal

[sturdy mural]

ooh

my truck ran out of fuel

how.

[dense violet]

maybe a stack isn't long enough for hte route. Or something happened to the supply of fuel

[sturdy mural]

it's like
25 fuel per round

and fuel is smooth going

the only way i see it happen

is that the prick just

did its thing and wasted all the fuel

[dense violet]

afaik they only use fuel when accelerating? so I don't see how

[sturdy mural]

OH MY GOD

Ficsit sent down onto me the alt recipe i was wishing for

[grizzled lotus]

starting to think oil production is too hard without a railway or something

[dense violet]

why? you can create plastic/rubber on site

[grizzled lotus]

don't know how much I need to be honest. also power is an issue

I'm relying on 3 biomass burners for one oil extractor and one refinery

[leaden ether]

If you are extracting oil, use some of it for power generation to self power your plant atleast 🙂

But on the other hand, making a primarily oil/fuel based powereplant and then using the waste residue to make plastic and rubber on site is the way to go

[grizzled lotus]

haven't unlocked that yet

[dense violet]

why aren't you using coal power?

[grizzled lotus]

oil -as usual- is very far away so I ended up just hiking it there and then setting up

[sturdy mural]

okay something happened to fuel

[dense violet]

so sprint along the way dropping cables

[grizzled lotus]

think I might do that

[sturdy mural]

okay turns out i forgot to hook up overflow to sink and it backed up

[dense violet]

having 1 grid really makes your life easier

[grizzled lotus]

might as well set up a hypertube too

[dense violet]

yup. often a good idea too

[prisma thicket]

Hmmmm do just overclock my miner and smelters or do I sloop the smelters... not even sure which one takes less power lol

[sturdy mural]

also anyone knows why does the truck hate me? (it loves just reversing randomly)

[sturdy mural]

oc the miner and keep smelters at 100% iirc

[leaden ether]

It hopes you are standing behind it so it runs you over for the achievement. So it's helping really...

[sturdy mural]

1. i have the achievement
2. it does it everywhere

[leaden ether]

I guess it's not smart enough to know you already got it 🙂

That's one I still have to set up for

[sturdy mural]

oh crap its 4:30

i'll

go to sleep
goodnight chat

also turns out i made a 2h long video just now.

[dense violet]

you likely recorded it weird

[peak wasp]

I hate biofuel so much that I've decided to make a 36 generator large coal power plant.

...Before automating basically anything required to make it

And I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to build it in the middle of the desert.

[dense violet]

you didn't automate the thing you needed to unlock the next phase?

eh, desert is fine

[peak wasp]

I have spent maybe two hours crafting, by hand, several thousand copper sheets

[dense violet]

might want to look into why you hate yourself

[prisma thicket]

Probably want to do 32 or 40 generators, just for the ease of numbers

[peak wasp]

Can you really call it automation when you haphazardly slap down a manufacturer and manually input the things to make smart plating?

[peak wasp]

It's got three isles of twelve generators each

[dense violet]

how did you have a manufacturer at that stage?

[prisma thicket]

Probably means an assembler

[peak wasp]

Or whatever the 2-input crafty device is

[worn garden]

anyone wanna play together?

[peak wasp]

Yeah, the assembler. It's been like, a year and a half since I last played lol

[dense violet]

assembler. And doing that with space parts is fine. but you should have the rest of it automated fully

[dense violet]

#1201555265942724758

[grizzled lotus]

uh, trying to set up a hypertube launcher. is the entrance and exit fixed?

[peak wasp]

The rhythm of manually crafting items will be burned into my head for decades...

[dense violet]

i do wish crafting benches heated up to explosion if used too long

[sturdy mural]

are they fixed??

[grizzled lotus]

I realized I need to rotate every other entrance

[dense violet]

tube cannons break every update. find a design for the new one

[prisma thicket]

Go to sleep lol

[grizzled lotus]

but between every entrance and exit there needs to be a certain distance, I can't keep make it them too close to each other

[sturdy mural]

iirc it's just 1 support wide gap

unless it changed in 1.1

[sturdy mural]

5 am o_o
atp i might just game it out till 7

[dense violet]

probably. I can't recall an update that didn't break it

[prisma thicket]

Your call, but sleep is needed, and more is better 😛

[grizzled lotus]

I'm on 1.0, but oh well

how do I angle an entrace upwards?

[sturdy mural]

get support
click once, when setting height scroll to change angle

[grizzled lotus]

support?

[dense violet]

the entrance takes multiple clicks, tilt with mouse wheel between clicks

[pallid wasp]

Is there any particular phase 4 parts I should start with first?

[grizzled lotus]

hypertube support 👍

[dense violet]

nope. build stuff as needed

just automating all the new parts basically gets you on the way to completing space parts

[grizzled lotus]

does both the entrance and exit need to be powered?

[pallid wasp]

Okay, I got aluminum up and running and was just getting the tier stuff I needed for the parts and nitrogen

[dense violet]

any entrance you want to entre

[leaden ether]

Well both ends need an "entrance" if you want to go both directions

[grizzled lotus]

well, for a launcher I only want one entrance

[dense violet]

I don't believe you build 'exits' in the spaces between the launcher segments

[dusky relic]

#screenshots message

Hell yeah

[mental niche]

I've been playing for 455 hours (I know this is not a lot, but I just started) and I feel like I'm getting burn out on my world. Anyone experienced that, and have any tips to help maybe?

[dense violet]

take breaks
do different projects.
go explore for alien parts and hard drives. Or just to enjoy seeing all the nooks and crannys

[sturdy mural]

why do you need 2246 rods???

[leaden ether]

Yeah exploring for collectables really lets you experience the terrain. Fun thing to do in the evening before bed.

[dusky relic]

I was getting to the build limit, so I made a bunch of ladders

When I dismantled them, they just went into my inv

[grizzled lotus]

that's a lot. Life is more than just video games. If you're feeling burned out it's a sign to do something else.

[dusky relic]

I avoid burn out by putting a lot of thought into each factory

If you are purely focusing on just producing something, it feels like a chore

But if you sit down and plan, design, and be creative with what you're doing,... its fun

[prisma thicket]

It's also fun to make unnecessary things, like I just automated explosives 😄

[wanton stag]

sent :P

[prisma thicket]

Can you use a programmable splitter to put all the required parts for something into a manufacturer via one input slot?

[white dawn]

Not without risking bottlenecks; if one resource ever has its input buffer filled, the whole machine would clog

Best to stick to one resource per input

[prisma thicket]

You can't just overflow through a different output on the splitter?

[elder apex]

the buffer on the splitter is small ( < 10 items ), therefore once it fills up it can't split or overflow anything until existing things move through

[prisma thicket]

Ahhh, ok then. Was a dumb idea anyways, was just curious if you could make it work 😛

[grizzled lotus]

can I use a smart splitter so that it only takes one thing from a storage container?

I want to take only plastic out of a container to feed it into a packager

[prisma thicket]

You have more than one item in a container?

[white dawn]

Sure, but you't technically run into the exact same issue on the next input, so you'd end up with one splitter per input anyway

[grizzled lotus]

yes

[white dawn]

Not the way you're hoping to, no.

[grizzled lotus]

ok

[prisma thicket]

Oh I was thinking just having an overflow line that goes to a sink

[white dawn]

Belts will pull from the end of the container's inventory

If the smart splitter only has an output for Item A but the next stack in the container is Item B, it'll be stuck forever

(until you clear out the belt or change the smart splitter's settings)

[grizzled lotus]

this won't make sense, but if I ahve two fluid buffers can I merge them into a pipe to go into the same packager? or does each need a packager?

[prisma thicket]

I would assume as long as they are the same fluid

[white dawn]

1. Fluid Buffers are only actually useful for buffering train stations; you never actually need them in pipe networks. At best they cause no problems, and at worst they introduce new ones. So I'd recommend doing without. :)
2. As mentioned, if they're the same fluid, sure, combine and use a single packager. Just know your average flow rates, and keep in mind the rate consumed by the packager

[white dawn]

Sushi input for machines is entirely viable, and yeah, having an Overflow splitter on the end is a nice safety measure if you're not 100% sure that you have the exact right amount of all materials going into the system

But you still want one resource per input, so a splitter per input.

[grizzled lotus]

I see. so definitely not two fluids. and in general I can forgo the buffer and feed straight into a packager

[white dawn]

You never want a situation where a blocked belt can block other resources

To be more clear re: the sushi inputs for machines like Manufacturer: ```
| Manufacturer | | Manufacturer |
+--------------------------+ +--------------------------+
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | | | | |
(A) (B) (C) (D) (A) (B) (C) (D)
| | | | | | | |
[Sushi] ---> [SS]-->[SS]-->[SS]-->[SS] ---> [SS]-->[SS]-->[SS]-->[SS] ---> [Sink]

             (All rightbound SS outputs are "overflow")

So each machine input has an SS output for that specific resource defined, with the other output being Overflow

Can line up as many machines as you want, so long as you stick within your belt speed limit

Technically if you are 100% positive you've got the exact rates of each material heading into the sushi manifold, then you can do without the sink

[prisma thicket]

Yah, I know that one, I just wondered if you could squish it all to one programmable splitter.

[white dawn]

Gotcha

[prisma thicket]

And that method also doesn't work if you NEED one line to backup to ensure the proper amount going another direction off a prior split, since the overflow will just dump the excess.

[leaden ether]

Well I finished the tutorial, 412.5 hours.

[prisma thicket]

Phase 5 complete then? xD Congrats

[leaden ether]

Thanks :D, though as with the other phases, the "factory" used to complete the phase is a mess and I always took a break to clean it up before proceeding. But before doing that to the phase 5 factories (multiple tiny ones) I'm thinking of going back to the start and redoing everything up along the way that I am not happy with which is most of it.

[prisma thicket]

Anyone roughly how much smokeless powder you need to finish the sulfur reasearch tree? Or at least the offensive portion of it?

Oh, nvm, after I unlocked it the rest of the tree showed up, I count 400.

[leaden ether]

My coupon production really fell off a cliff working on phase 5 -.- I hadn't even noticed till just now. Should pick up again soon once all the pipelines start overflowing again.

[latent prawn]

yeah, its only a few stacks worth

[prisma thicket]

Yah, just gonna setup a small one extractor one refinery line and hand feed the black powder to get what I need for research.

[elder apex]

if you aren't going to automate anything using the smokeless powder why not just buy what you need for unlocks from the awesome shop?

[prisma thicket]

Because I don't want to wait for tickets xD

[latent prawn]

i usually knock out everything but the nuke nob research right when i build my intro oil

[elder apex]

you are seriously having to wait for 8 tickets?

[prisma thicket]

I honestly didn't even think of it until just now, after automating nobelisks.

Yah, I've used all my coupons on other unlocks and it takes like 2 million points to get 1 coupon atm, and I'm feeding 50k points per minute lol

[latent prawn]

yeah, i find it easier to use some of the byproduct hor from an intro oil build (since all you can really do with hor at first is make coke) to make some smokeless, heavy tf and packaged fuel

[prisma thicket]

Yah, I used all the materials I had on hand and fully unlocked oil production right away, and my first oil base is my turbofuel power plant that's only producing 40 plastic, 20 rubber, 20 fabric with the polymer resin, and then fueling 32 fully overclocked gens with turbofuel xD

I am siphoning some TF for MAM research though, slooped one refinery so it doesn't interrupt my generators.

[frozen cloud]

you gotta pump those numbers up
those are rookie numbers

[prisma thicket]

I know, I'm only on phase 3 on this save lol just taking it easy, exploring lots. Still need to automate HMF and then the spelevator parts

Ooop, guess I need more smokeless powder than I though, need 1500 rifle ammunition to unlock turbo rifle ammo and homing ammo.

Is explosive rebar the highest damage offensive option aside from nuke nobelisks?

[upbeat jacinth]

It should but it has a strange damage falloff mechanic

[cursive crane]

You can pretty much kill anything in the game cheap with stun rebar and a basher

Add in bunker blueprints to trap and its trivial

[prisma thicket]

I don't enjoy the idea of beating nuclear hogs to death 😦

[cursive crane]

Get moar filters lol

[prisma thicket]

Phase 3, no hazmat suit yet

[subtle palm]

Did the latest announcement say there will be no Vertical Splitter/Merger coming in 1.1?

[flint elm]

is it worth using a hard drive for compacted coal?

[prisma thicket]

If you want to use turbofuel, yes

also, there are more hard drives than you need for everything in the game, so don't feel like you're wasting them for research

[dense violet]

you are never ever locked out of any recipes in the game

[flint elm]

im debating if i should research it or if the compacted coal is worth it right now

[dense violet]

do you want to make turbo fuel?
if yes? yes
if no? no

[prisma thicket]

Compacted coal isn't super worthwhile to use in coal generators, so if that's your only reason to go for it, better to just scan it, but if you can get to turbofuel quickly, then use it for the research

[dense violet]

other uses for compacted are super niche and generally more effort than it's worth

[flint elm]

can i use that instead of biomass?

[dense violet]

for what?

[flint elm]

burners

[dense violet]

burners only take bio fuels

[flint elm]

oh ok

[dense violet]

solid types.

you need coal generators

[prisma thicket]

and for coal generators it's not really worth the effort or the sulfur

[flint elm]

ok im just researching instead then thanks

[prisma thicket]

Man, I love the heavy encased frame recipe but I hate the numbers involved... https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=8gm4JUIxz1Hos4M7LKYQ such ugly numbers for 3 manufacturers worth of HMFs

[forest bridge]

Oh sick recipe

I'm trying to figure out HMF production myself, working on phase 4

the amount of resource input needed all for single digit HMFs per minute is insane

[prisma thicket]

Yah, it's really nice, and when combined with Encased Industrial Pipe and Iron Pipes alts, it makes HMFs super simple iron only.

Also very true. Fused Modular frames are just as annoying, since they require HMFs to produce lol

[reef basin]

also super expensive 🙂

[prisma thicket]

But it's Iron, which is all over the place. I would say everywhere, but the middle of the map has a distinct lack of Iron nodes.

[reef basin]

I'd rather process one node of iron and one node of coal, than 4 nodes of iron

[prisma thicket]

Fair, I just like this combo because I don't have to look for coal, just Iron, Limestone and water, which pretty much gives you the most possible places to put it together.

[reef basin]

eh, I pick location together with planning, so I can have a place where nodes are nearby 🤷

but whatever floats your boat

[forest bridge]

Do y'all use Mk3 miners often

I'm thinking I might have to invest

[reef basin]

when I need them

[forest bridge]

3 pure iron nodes only gets me 3 HMF/min 😭

[reef basin]

if you're using the iron-only HMF, sure

[forest bridge]

Nah just using basic recipes

[reef basin]

but base HMF recipes need 720 iron for 3 HMF/min, with alts you can get it down to like 250

[forest bridge]

Hmmmmmm what alts do I need for that

I have coal nodes

And Limestone so I could use basic ingots

[reef basin]

well it all depends on what you want to save. I'd recommend plugging the production into some planner and see what comes out

[forest bridge]

Oh wow, 20/min with some alts using 720 coal, linestone and iron

that maximize function is pretty neat

Need to go hard drive hunting I guess

[worn garden]

what's HMF

[forest bridge]

heavy modular frames

[reef basin]

I'd recommend changing to items/min after you've figured out the max

[worn garden]

oh yeah true, you can make modular frames way way faster on terminal by yourself lol

[reef basin]

not really, you can indeed be faster for a while, but machines are just superior in the long run

[worn garden]

wait... yall use machines to make stuff?

[reef basin]

yes

[forest bridge]

It's called satisFACTORY

[worn garden]

i just craft materials by hand

i afk

[reef basin]

yeah that's not really recommended

[forest bridge]

How far in are you

[worn garden]

phase 2

[forest bridge]

That's actually really funny

[frail sleet]

hope you like afking for days

[worn garden]

i was thinking why everyone likes this game soo far... it's literally crafting while being afk

[dense violet]

yeah you can easily get the iron cost of hmf down to 1/4

and drop the other resource costs too

[reef basin]

that's why you make machines to do it for you

[forest bridge]

brother what did you think the machines were for

[worn garden]

i leave something on my left click on my mouse so it stays like that and crafts for me

instead of me manually pressing for hours

[frail sleet]

if you hold spacebar for like 2 secs it autocrafts

but 99% of the time you should use machines

[dense violet]

you can just tap space bar once and it stays crafting

[worn garden]

what machines?? i ignore the lady yapping

[dense violet]

but I'm going to assume you're trolling

[reef basin]

you only need to handcraft in like first 5 minutes

[prisma thicket]

Definitely trolling

[worn garden]

i once afked 6 hours straight at an impure iron mine

just to realise you get more items from pure ones

[harsh sapphire]

Bruh

[reef basin]

you don't if you hand-mine afaik

[prisma thicket]

Sounds like you're not really playing the game

[dense violet]

I'm just gonna jott down 'troll' on a note here...

[worn garden]

what's a troll?

sorry guys english isn't my first languange

[dense violet]

it's not how you're saying it, it's what you're saying 😛

it's an automation game. You link up machines to do work for you

[dusky relic]

It is slower

On impure nodes you only get 1

[reef basin]

eh, there's practically no reason to hand-mine anyway

[dusky relic]

I really only did it for when I was getting SAM for the research tree

[dusky relic]

He's going to be so upset when he reached project assembly 😢

[ember tide]

is the tier 9 items any good

[dense violet]

well HMF are past phase 1 I'm pretty sure? so the ywould have had to use machines to the smart plates

[dense violet]

wdym by 'good' ?

[ember tide]

like fun

[dense violet]

the processes are interesting? some feed back loops, different alts.

[prisma thicket]

Head lift isn't lost along a manifold correct? Like If I have a pipe network on a logistics floor with one pump at the beginning to account for the height difference between the extractor and the production floor, that will work fine or should I just setup my pipes on the main floor to avoid any possible issues

[upbeat jacinth]

Better, put them above the inputs

[dense violet]

Do some overhead shots to show what you’re doing? But no headlift isn’t lost horizontally

[prisma thicket]

I changed my mind and just went with main floor pipes, cleared up room for the conveyor lifts anyways.

I was just thinking of having a manifold pipe on the logistics floor below and feeding up through floor holes.

With a pump at the beginning of the manifold pipe to account for lift

[dense violet]

ah feeding from below can cause issues if you're not very careful

but it's doable.

[prisma thicket]

Eh, if it's possibly going to cause problems, I'll skip it lol

[sterile blade]

It's just a preference. How you pipe things depends on a lot of weird assumptions you may make: some people design good (bottom-fed) systems from the start, others don't

[old yarrow]

I did it, its a nightmare, but i had to stick to it. Looks very clean, but just be ready to troubleshoot. I solved the problems with a water tower

[prisma thicket]

#screenshots message was originally thinking of having the pipes directly below where they are now, and feeding the machines through floor holes with a single pump at the start of the line for lift.

[sterile blade]

Regardless of wether you leave the pipe at the same height or not, if you're anywhere close to max flow (~550/600) you'll likely have issues with such a long pipefold with just one input point. In that case, it's advisable to either break it up into smaller pipefolds or adding injection points or a "loop"

[prisma thicket]

No where close to max flow, but a loop will probably help regardless.

[dense violet]

yeah it's doable, you just have to go in learning how.

for example this loop works well for me #math-and-meta message

[sterile blade]

I personally prefer avoiding them, as they make the flow less readable imo

[undone jackal]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Turbofuel why are there only alternate recipes?

Oh are links allowed here?

[dense violet]

because you don't unlock it the standard way

[prisma thicket]

Because it's unlocked through the MAM, not as part of normal progress

[undone jackal]

Where do u guys use somersloops?

[dense violet]

non existent. don't need dupe mechanics

[prisma thicket]

A power augmenter is usually my first priority, since I like to have everything on a single grid. Couple of the people in here also brought up the fact of using them on the biomass -> solid biofuel -> liquid biofuel setup to maximize jetpack fuel.

[undone jackal]

Whoa thats actually a cool idea the biofuel one

[tall lantern]

1 in my manual-feed constructor for slugs->shards and wood/leaves->biomass->solid biofuel

[prisma thicket]

Oh yah, slugs to powershards is a must have as well

[tall lantern]

I did also put some in my semi-automation assemblers and manufacturer too. But basically none in actual production lines

[dusky relic]

I put them in my project assembly producers

Just to half the time I need to wait

[prisma thicket]

Also a good use for them, though I usually automate project parts and just leave them running while I do something else, since everything from the early phases is also needed later on.

[prisma thicket]

Man the beans have way too much hp >.< it's annoying to have to kill them when they get stuck on something I built.

[leaden turret]

you only have to give them a route to run away on, you don't need to kill them

[sterile blade]

A common suggestion is using them for anything processing manually gathered (thus limited) resources. Eg: slugs, biomass, alien remains...

[sterile blade]

Be glad their high HP doesn't also come with high damage and aggressivity

[boreal musk]

not when they stuck in the middle of your powered machines

sometimes they also stuck inside foundation

especially factory with multiple levels

[leaden turret]

stuck inside foundations = remove foundations, add ramps

[undone jackal]

Why would someone use block signals instead of pathing ones?

[tall lantern]

that question's backwards, it's actually "why would you use path signals over block signals"

block signals should be your default

[leaden turret]

1. they're using them correctly
2. they're using them incorrectly

[undone jackal]

Why at junctions pathing signals feel way more usefully than just blockings

[rancid turret]

you only need path signals when tracks overlap; branching and merging are fine with blocks, but on a two-way junction, you're always going to have overlaps

unless you make a giant multi level interchange

[tall lantern]

only if you're expecting two trains to be simultaneously using that junction on non-overlapping rails frequently, which in practice isn't that common. And if built badly, path signals can actually slow your network down in the common case, since trains will brake in advance before reserving the path

sure they can help, but they're not an automatic win

[rancid turret]

you can compensate for this by having a larger block on the entrances to junctions, and smaller ones on the exit

[tall lantern]

and path signals are almost never needed, block signals will cover 99% of cases just fine

[rancid turret]

a simple path signalled junction gives throughput that's surprisingly close to really complicated multi level interchanges

[boreal musk]

you only use path when theres a complex intersection

[rancid turret]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j939cbiQWyg

comprehensive test here

[prisma thicket]

Gotta love it when a random lag spike hits just as you're hitting your jetpack and you get flung into the stratosphere lol

[quick sky]

Project assembly parts because I don't usually have them automated but I basically build a temporary line of machines for them and dump the ingredients (which I do have automated) inside

As others have mentioned they are also good in the early game for making more power shards (which can be automated later on) and alien protein/DNA (whose only important use is sinking for points, but later on you'll likely have to automate those as well)

But I think they are mostly more efficient for power augmenters since if you have more power you can make more of everything down the line. Then again, this approach has a higher time investment until you build your more productive automated setup

[pallid wasp]

Yeah I've been using the loops with temp machines by my crafting bench to act like hand crafting with X2 the output. Also they x4 the alien meat to DNA capsules and make a lot of early coupons.

[delicate egret]

Anyone here has experience with gportal?

[digital depot]

G Portal is super in Customer support stability and service in general ,.. in regard of satisfactory no idea

[delicate egret]

And the bisect or whatever Server 😂

[digital depot]

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[delicate egret]

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[digital depot]

i never heard from them ,.. so i have no idea ,.. but i personally did a lot of different server with g portal and always been satified

[leaden turret]

it's best to ask about dedicated server stuff in the #dedicated-servers channel

[acoustic plinth]

Have you noticed any issues with liquid in version 1.1?

[red sun]

it's best to ask about experimental stuff in the #satisfactory-experimental channel

[thick vine]

question, when approcimately can we expect another update?

[leaden turret]

Mon-Fri during swedish working hours

[thick vine]

makes sense

but like, theres no holidays currently right?

i wasnt sure cause the latest update mentioned easter holidays and i have no clue how that works in sweden

[leaden turret]

look for recurring gaps in weeks on https://archive.satisfactory.video/ for an estimation of when holidays are due

[split badger]

how does headlift work?

does it force liquids to travel in a certain direction? Or do i need to use a valve instead?

[tall lantern]

headlift just sets a max height

[split badger]

so it can go higher before needing more?

[dense violet]

yes, they also stop fluid from moving backwards past them

[worn haven]

Good Morning, Would anyone have a setup for a 9 (MK2 Belts) to 4 (MK3 belts) Merger layout?

[peak wasp]

Copper powder is such a pain

[mossy moon]

if all your output belts are carrying the exact max amount of MK3 belts of 270 so 1080 you can use smartt splitters and mergers cant you?

[reef basin]

why not use whatever you have on the belt?

[mossy moon]

wait uh for exact insturctions ig just make a merging chain thing by using priority mergers and smart splitters

[mossy moon]

who knows what hes trying to do, i do similar seemingly confusing things but they just for aestetics reasons

[reef basin]

which is why I asked 🤷

[naive pendant]

The game doesn't have that good of ways to deal with those belt manipulations, hence people recommending to not do it.

But your factory, your choice.

[mossy moon]

priority mergers improve that i think

[worn haven]

I am only unlocked upto MK3 belts so I am limited to 270 max. I need a total of 1080 "Screw" I do not yet have a batter alt recipe for "Screw". So I built 27 constructers in 9 groups of 3 giving me 9 belts of 120 Screws. Then I tried to merge them down in to 4 belts that would max the for lines at the 270 rate. How ever It seems to bog down and I don't feel I am getting the full 1080.

[mossy moon]

#screenshots message
yeah with priority mergers you dont need half the belts and mergers, i think

[naive pendant]

@fallen lintel Just ask here about the belt pic from #screenshots

[fallen lintel]

oh ok

[naive pendant]

@worn haven The usual solution is to split up that production line into multiple smaller parts such that the screws item/minute for a given production line part fits on your fastest belt.

[fallen lintel]

so how did you do it?

[reef basin]

build screw machine in front of the machine that needs the screws

don't merge them

[mossy moon]

maybe he cant and the mahcines are shoved against a cliff

[naive pendant]

@fallen lintel The belt manipulation diagram is just a diagram of how you do that belt setup. You just directly copy it in game to do the thing. Do you not know the meaning of the symbols?

[reef basin]

maybe they can answer themselves

[mossy moon]

or he dosent want to build the machines there

[mossy moon]

fair

but they cant do what they want

[fallen lintel]

no no that's not what i wanter to know. what i wanted to know is the site or aplication you used to do that diagram

[azure swan]

At the very very least you can merge 2 120s up to 240 to cut the number of belts in "almost" half

[naive pendant]

Oh, it's just an image from the wiki that I have saved. Idk the software someone used to make that. Probs just photoshop/MS Paint.

[worn haven]

I am still on 1.0, Priority Mergers are a 1.1 thing, Correct?

[mossy moon]

correct

[fallen lintel]

oh damm. well thanks for the help though

[mossy moon]

so ye follow that diagram he sent

[naive pendant]

This is Satisfactory not graphic design naturally.

[zenith pecan]

Building towers, or under the map are still an option 😄

[mossy moon]

sure but is it ever a reasonable option to go under the map

[zenith pecan]

Yes! 😄 #screenshots message

[mossy moon]

for uh like 10 consturctors or smth? idk hes building around that muhc right

(i do agree that you can go u,p before we forget that)

[zenith pecan]

I plan to process 10200 SAM ore under the dunes, it is never an issue to build what you want, where you want, this game is a sandbox.

[worn haven]

Not what I am looking to do. The screws will be used in several other places.

[reef basin]

it's generally recommended to not centralise screws

[zenith pecan]

Belting screws is asking for pain vs just have the machine making the screws directly feed the machine consuming is madness.

[mossy moon]

how do you casually go to and from the under world to build things, you just use a train? or some other bug?

[mossy moon]

its fun to play the game your own way

[reef basin]

it's fun letting people speak for themselves 🤷

[zenith pecan]

Very basic primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9T_ZlDv68 , once the shaft is in place, you can tube back and forth np and build whatever you want where.

[mossy moon]

ye but i dont want to pressure him to change his factory lay outs and things

[reef basin]

if they don't want to do that, they won't do it

[zenith pecan]

I have yet another new tunnel network threatening to swallow the underworld 😛

The SAM plan is seventeen floors of constructors, going downwards, making reanimated SAM for later production.

[mossy moon]

thanks

[naive pendant]

@fallen lintel No chatting in screenshots, you'd want to make a question in #1038092680493801533 or ask here with a #screenshots link for reference. That recipe chain uses alts (pure iron ingot, iron wire, iron pipe). You should get comfortable with a calculator like satisfactory tools and look through the alt recipes. The belting is left as an exercise for the reader.

[zenith pecan]

Looks like it won''t be 17 floors, 5 machines per input is tiny 😄

[worn haven]

I am not saying it is wrong to build under the world but it does not seem like the intended way to play. I am trying to not use short cuts or Mods for my first full play through. Maybe next time.

[fallen lintel]

okay my bad but i still want to learn a app or site to help me organize things like that picture does

[zenith pecan]

You're not wrong, underworld construction is absolutely NOT intended, I usually advise anyone that does it, if something goes bad due to an update, they're on their own, But I still build there because, well I'm the Tunnel Rat.

[burnt ferry]

should i go for pure copper ingot (6 copper, 2 water make 15 copper ingots) or pure caterium (2:2:1)? i feel like caterium but the the yield from copper is greater

but then thers plenty copper mines

[mossy moon]

caterium more valuble

[burnt ferry]

ye definitely.. and iu cant have both, can I?

[naive pendant]

@fallen lintel A lot of people design factories using from raw resources to a final product. The calculators like Satisfactory tools give line diagrams like those pics, so you can just save the calculator page. I do a bit of pen n paper to keep organized beyond that.

[burnt ferry]

or will the one i dont choose roll again in another hdd?

[mossy moon]

uou can

[mossy moon]

yes

[burnt ferry]

ah k.. then def cat it is

[mossy moon]

you can unlock every alt recipe and there will be extra hard drives incase idk you lose some or you want inventory slots? is that still how hard drvied work its been a while since i dealt with them

[burnt ferry]

hdd for inventory slots? dk about that

unless from research somehow enabled by hdd

[mossy moon]

i remmeber sometimes you can chose between a recipe and smth like 6 extra inventory slots

[burnt ferry]

ah.. ye that might indeed be possible

[mossy moon]

ye research too

[burnt ferry]

but theres no research i cnt do without some hdd, cant I?

[reef basin]

you can get all recipes anyway, so the choice is just "what you want right now"

[burnt ferry]

ye understood

[reef basin]

there's no "good" or "bad" recipe, all recipes have tradeoffs

[fallen lintel]

okay thank bro

[mossy moon]

but main point is you can get all the alt recpie, you wont have to pick one and not have the other forever

[burnt ferry]

ye but some are not that bad.. water seems easy to aquire

can i fully automate biomass generation, or is there no 'mine' for some base material?

[zenith pecan]

I'll use alt recipes based on what materials are nearby 🙂

[reef basin]

what I mean is that no single recipe is "always good" or "always bad"

how useful the recipe is to you depends on a lot of parameters (including your playstyle and such). So while people can tell you "I like that recipe" or "I don't like that recipe", it should be taken with grain of salt, and you should in the end decide yourself on what you'll do in your game 🙂

[reef basin]

there's no way to fully automate biomass, there's always at least some manual step in the chain

[zenith pecan]

I'm considering converting the quartz deposit in the dunes to pure because the water well nearby.

[burnt ferry]

all good bro. we wasnt really discussing that.. it was merely like you put it before , what should i get right now

just wasnt sure about the system 100% anymore

[reef basin]

well "what should you get right now" is also what you need to decide yourself, as we can't see into your head and your game 😛

[burnt ferry]

bruh

the question is long been answered

without making that big of a deal about it.. so all good mate

[reef basin]

I was just replying to your messages 🤷