satisfactory

[delicate ocean]

how long is each conveyor in meters?

[zenith pecan]

Seven foundations max length, eight meters per foundation, and my brain switched off due to alcohol 😵‍💫

[hard ivy]

Yes. I suggest looking for new, post 1.0 designs. If it doesn't work, and it's old, it's likely been broken by some update

[rotund pine]

Thanks I'll look for a new version

[junior laurel]

They are still working as of the last exp update a couple days ago.

[hard ivy]

You could always just use a linear design. I've been using the same one since hypertube boosters were a thing

[lime ermine]

That's not gonna work, the tube you exit is not aligned with the entrance next to it. Also you'll never exit that one unless you add a junction

[rotund pine]

I noticed 😆

[hard ivy]

Nah, those definitely used to work. Apparently not anymore

[rotund pine]

Got locked into this one after messing around and putting an entrance on each exit

[jovial oracle]

Can someone show me a nice, efficient, beginner friendly manifold?

Would highly appreciate it.

[reef basin]

--S--S--S--S--S
  |  |  |  |  |

[reef basin]

there you go 🙂

[jovial oracle]

5 splitters?

[reef basin]

one splitter for each machine, depends how many machines you have

[hard ivy]

or 1 splitter per 2 machines

[jovial oracle]

Understood. If I feed a Mk1 belt (60 parts/min) and utilize all belts of a splitter, will each splitter belt distribute 20 parts/min?

Cause splitters have 3 output belts.

[reef basin]

yes, unless one side is backed up

[vestal mica]

yes, they split evenly unless one or more belt backs up

[jovial oracle]

Okay and for mergers, if I feed it with screws and iron plates (2 different inputs for the merger), will it evenly distribute both the parts for constructing reinforced iron plates in 1 belt?

[vestal mica]

don't do that

[reef basin]

depends on how fast the belt is

[hard ivy]

unless you have smart splitters, this is a horrible idea

[jovial oracle]

Okay will not do that but for the sake of curiosity, will it work?

[reef basin]

if the output belt can handle all the items, then yes, it will just have mixed items on it
if the output belt can't handle all, then it depends on a lot of factors what happens

[jovial oracle]

You mean priority merger/splitter?

[reef basin]

fyi, there's no reason to not do it, go ahead and try it. it's a perfectly valid way to play, but requires some special care in some scenarios

[zenith pecan]

I'm so going to sink a mk6 belt into foundations, add railings and use as a travellator.

[leaden ether]

Can you actually send a single sushi belt into a manufacturer?

[reef basin]

yes

[leaden ether]

450 hours and I had no idea...

[hard ivy]

as long as it has the correct ratio of ingredients, yes

which is why it's a horrible idea

[vestal mica]

there are reasons not to do it.

[reef basin]

like?

[hard ivy]

because getting the right ratio is often a nightmare

[vestal mica]

there are reasons to do it as well

[reef basin]

getting the right ratio is just merging two belts with the correct amount of items, which is just changing clock speeds on machines

[jovial oracle]

Why can I not send images?

[leaden ether]

Yeah I can see that being problematic, I.e. needing WAY more fine control of the rates of everything up front. Way more work I'm betting

[reef basin]

depends what you want to post

if you have a question about something, use #1038092680493801533
if you have a math related query, #math-and-meta
if you want to talk about design, #design-and-architecture
if you want to share a pic of your base and have others look at it (without discussion), #screenshots
if you want to share fan art, #fan-art
for memes there's #satisfactory-memes
for non-meme offtopic things there's #off-topic-media

[zenith pecan]

Back in update 7, I had three inputs and a backward elt on the input side of a manufacturer, was too funny to be maddening.

[jovial oracle]

Okay, I will post it in #math-and-meta.

[leaden ether]

Problem is if you are off on your rates even a tiny bit you wil eventually starve one item and the machine will shut down as no more of that item can now ever reach it.

[reef basin]

it's not much more work. You change clock speed on a machine and it will output the amount you need

the only thing you need is to sink the product so that production never stops, which is mostly recommended anyway, even if you don't do mixed belts

[jovial oracle]

I gave it in #math-and-meta.

[vestal mica]

i would be worried about the boot strap. how do you control the initial merge?

with only standard splitters and mergers as this is clearly a new player you're advising to mix rods and screws together

[leaden ether]

Yeah the more I think about mixing items on a belt for anything other than storage or the sink, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

[reef basin]

I'm not advising them to do it

I'm just not telling them to never do it like other people did, because there's no reason to scare them off. If they want to experiment with it, go ahead, I've warned them about problems they may need to solve, but other than that, it's completely fine

[reef basin]

given that the machine has a buffer of one stack of each, it's most likely it won't be a problem. And if somehow it becomes one after the startup, you just take the stack out of the machine

[zenith pecan]

A clogged system and a laugh in a game is better than fear of trying something.

[lime ermine]

I stepped out for some water while driving a train and came back to no power warning. Have me a small heart attack as I just finished my nuclear power plant.

Turns out I had crashed into another train

[zenith pecan]

Whoops!

[vestal mica]

if you say so. If I was new and someone said sure, go ahead and use sushi belts as you're just figuring out how to use an assembler for the first time. i'd be mad at them later

[reef basin]

I didn't say "go use sushi"

I said "it can work", because their question was "will it work"

I'm not sure why answer to "will it work" should be "don't ever try it"

that ^ is what I would be mad at

[zenith pecan]

I started sushi in my first game, it was a spectacular failure, but the fault lay with me, not the person who suggested it.

[vestal mica]

i think you're being disingenuous. but as you like to say 🤷

[leaden ether]

I think maybe, "Works great for the sink, or other very specialized uses, but is likely to be problematic or disastrous for anything that requires precise ratios." I mean if you are off by 0.01% eeven high OR low, the machine it's feeding will shut down after an hour or 5 hours or whatever of use til you hand un stick the clog every time.

[reef basin]

why would you be 0.01% off, if you can set clock speed with precision up to 0.0001%?

[vestal mica]

because they are a new player. they forgot to use a mk2 belt there or they forgot to underclock one of the machines. and when a sushi belt fails, it full stops. and everthing before it or after it that may also be sushi since it's perfectly valid also stops. more standard beginner designs typically just go slower than they could

[summer galleon]

hiiiiii

[leaden ether]

Even at that you are likely to still see a shutdown if the ratios arent super simple like 1:2 or something. It's just needlessly finicky and not at all resiliant. THe alternative will stil run at 99.99% instead of 0%

I think it can be said that for most uses it is simply "Not a good idea[TM]"

[reef basin]

and factory stopping is a thing that happens multiple times across your learning experience of the game. It's normal. It happens. It's not a problem, your PC won't burn down, and you'll learn a thing or two

[zenith pecan]

We ALL fail the first time, this game rewards you for solving it, I've tried pushing 800 through s mk5 due to lack of thought, who's fault is it?, mine.

[reef basin]

it's also much better to have players learn by experimenting, than telling them the "solution" or straight up saying to not try something

[delicate ocean]

are mk1 conveyors enough to feed a coal plant with enough coal

[zenith pecan]

Mk1 can feed four.

[delicate ocean]

oh good enough for me

[reef basin]

the belt tells you how much it can carry 🙂

(and the power plant tells you how much it needs)

[vestal mica]

the first thing I would learn, is don't listen to jokers on the discord who tell me to use sushi belts in my starter factories when i don't have any smart or better splitters and don't now how basic splitters work. second thing i'd learn is all those parts i went back to get to continue building my factory, now I have to wait because it all shut down. But yeah, I'm sure new players love "learning lessons"

[reef basin]

for like the third time, I didn't tell them "go use sushi"

they asked "will this work", I answered truthfully

[tawny urchin]

Is anyone able to help me over in #1038092680493801533

[vestal mica]

fyi, there's no reason to not do it, go ahead and try it. it's a perfectly valid way to play, but requires some special care in some scenarios

[reef basin]

no reason to post here, wait until someone answers there 🙂

[reef basin]

sure, that's after they got 4 messages about "never ever touch it"

[vestal mica]

for like the third time, I didn't tell them "go use sushi"

[reef basin]

quoting out of context is nice 🤷

[tawny urchin]

been waiting for a bit so i thought id ask here where its more active. and lo and behold im getting help now.

[reef basin]

people answer a lot in QaH, just need to wait for someone who knows the answer

[delicate ocean]

how do I make a coal plant provide power for itself

[zenith pecan]

I don't do so well with trains, I couldn't offer any useful advice.

[reef basin]

coal mine -> power plant 🙂

[delicate ocean]

wait i meant provide power for the miner that mines coal

[vestal mica]

yeah, like there's some additional context than this argument

[delicate ocean]

so basically provides coal for itself

[leaden ether]

You start out by placing a bio plant next to it to use to power things up till you get your first coal generator running. THen you can switch it off.

[reef basin]

well you have other ways to make power, right? 🙂

[delicate ocean]

yesyes

[cunning merlin]

I’ve never said this game would not or doesn’t support surround sound felt like it would be good to have but oh well

[jovial oracle]

@reef basin I gave you a picture in #math-and-meta.

[zenith pecan]

When onlining coal for the first time, I use a single bio to prime all the water, then just toss hand mined coal in, each gen started that way will run at full whack, and the miner will catch up, the water system should stay at full press.

[lime turret]

Yo i need help with setting up coal power who wanna pop in

ill drop sesh id

[summer coral]

is there some sort of resource that seperates items by how many machines they need to go through?
ex: iron ingots in one tier, iron plates in a tier up

[reef basin]

I know, but you didn't ask anything 🤷

[zenith pecan]

Not in pub mate, do that in DMs for your own safety.

[junior laurel]

Time to join the session and secret gather all the Mercer Spheres and hide them in a cave

[reef basin]

#1201555265942724758

[dusky relic]

I'll do the same with slugs ❤️

[zenith pecan]

Hide in a can under the map.

[junior laurel]

In that case I'll get sloops too

There are soo many slugs my god

[lime turret]

oopsies accidentally changed to singleplayer!!

[junior laurel]

Teehee I do like doing a little trolling

[junior laurel]

I'll put everything at 0,0,0 with the rest of the quantum infused fun times

[zenith pecan]

Mix in cyrillic cндгдстэгs to mess up text to speak 🤣

Sorry to any cyrillic readers for the above abomination of faux cyrillic, I know it's horrible to read.

For those who can't, it reads sndgdstegs 🤣 😜

[elder apex]

Sndgdstegs was the name of my first dog.

[zenith pecan]

🤣

I'm just getting more drunk, don't mind me 😁

[junior laurel]

Do I need to out an actual place in my world for [functions] to get sloshed together in?

[zenith pecan]

They do need a bar, and golf course!

[junior laurel]

Vodka for you, fireball for me, who else joining :]

I shall make a bar and a golf course.

They shall be finished by 2030 at this rate

Will everyone else accept mini golf? I have too much planned to do a.. maga golf course

[zenith pecan]

Maga golf?, typo?

[junior laurel]

My phone doesn't like words

Actually no.
Now it's an American golf course. Fuck it

[delicate ocean]

Is 1 water extractor enough for 3 coal plants?

[zenith pecan]

I'm missing the point I guess, sorry for being slow.

[junior laurel]

Every respawn will be charged to your insurance.

[zenith pecan]

Not quite, 3 coal needs 45x3, one water outs just 120

[lime turret]

well instead of putting my code out there imma ask if anyone want to help setup coal power in the early stages

[delicate ocean]

what about 2 extractors for 5 coal plants?
i think thats 240 for 225

[junior laurel]

That is what #1201555265942724758 is for

[delicate ocean]

i wont have enough coal tho

[junior laurel]

Click N in game and do math :)

[lime turret]

no one ever answers

well people did its just i waited too long

[reef basin]

then nobody wants to play 🤷

in general, people are much less likely to play with randoms

[zenith pecan]

I have had profound negative experiences joining peoples games.

[junior laurel]

This has bonus funny because his username.

[lime turret]

none of my friends play satisfactory so i have to play with randoms

[reef basin]

sure, but then you have to accept that the amount of people willing to play with you is very small (especially at midnight europe time)

[lime turret]

does anyone notice that sometimes you punch while meleeing?

[junior laurel]

Mhm eeyup

[lime turret]

im in america lol

[zenith pecan]

The last game and its owner brought out all sorts of Блять, the less said the better there 😜

[junior laurel]

This is a known issue.. Hope it gets patched soon

[reef basin]

well that's not relevant, my point is that most europeans will probably go to bed soon-ish, so won't really go into looking for a player

[lime turret]

crazyyy

[zenith pecan]

Well played, I spewed booze reading that!

[junior laurel]

I bring the Блять. I am the one who knocks

[zenith pecan]

🤣

[lime turret]

i hate america

[junior laurel]

That's why i said I hope it gets patched.

[jovial oracle]

What's the lore behind a Mercer Sphere? I randomly got one and it started telling weird stuffs.

[junior laurel]

:)

[delicate ocean]

i just finished making an automated coal plant and this feels op

[junior laurel]

Noone tell em

[peak wasp]

yo

[junior laurel]

The first thing intend to do on a fresh server is a lap of the map to get me all the spheres, sloops, slugs and whatever else starts with s... like scrap from ship wrecks .. I am the scout

[lime turret]

is there a russian translated satifactory

[zenith pecan]

One of these days, I'm going to just build a starship.

[zenith pecan]

Я не знаю 🤷‍♂️

[junior laurel]

How completed is the Russian translation? I don't check very often 👀

[zenith pecan]

I just have no idea.

[junior laurel]

Somewhere between 0 and 100% :>

[lime turret]

portable miner animation is so cute tbh

[junior laurel]

Lil guy is indeed a cutie pie who does not stop working until our far less efficient pioneer enptires them.

[lime turret]

smash

[junior laurel]

Smashing up ore to be more easily moved is what the portable miner does, yes

[lime turret]

uhuhhh

thats what i meant

#screenshots message

Conspicuous looking shadow

[stone python]

devs knew what they were doing 🙂

[outer sparrow]

how do I void water automatically?

[stone python]

like purge pipes/tanks?

if so, you cant automate that

[outer sparrow]

like flushing but automatic. its an annoying byproduct

[stone python]

you have to process the byproduct in some way. use it in another factory, turn it into a solid product and sink, etc

[zenith pecan]

You need ... nm I was slow.

[outer sparrow]

how do I prioritize one pipe over the other? like I want to feed a refinery with byproduct but it isnt enough so I need to attach a pump too but the pump can just fill it itself and the byproduct will build up

[stone python]

if the extractor can fill it itself, then use the byproduct elswhere, or bottle it and then sink it

but if you want to try your hand at pipe prio, there is a diagram in the pipe manual

[outer sparrow]

why does aluminum had to be this complicated ):

[stone python]

compared to what comes later, it isnt that complicated honestly

it is just the first real step up up in complexity the game throws at you

[outer sparrow]

Im screwed

[stone python]

it is to prepare you for the future

[outer sparrow]

space elevator phases already took so long

[zenith pecan]

Just send the wastewater onto wet concrete and send that on to another factory/store/depot/sink.

[stone python]

^^

[outer sparrow]

oh yea water can be used for concrete and ingot production

thanks for the reminder (:

[frozen ingot]

it's not like minecraft modpacks if that's where your usage of the word void is coming from

got to deal with byproducts waste one way or another

you can sink most things though

closest thing you get 😄

[frozen ingot]

distance. Shortest pipe will get priority

also input from the top

[tawny urchin]

hey guys. im doing a little planning, and i want to send some nitrogen gas from the blue crater to the grassy fields. i have a turbofuel power plant in the blue crater that i eventually want to make into a rocket fuel one. i dont have the nitric acid recipe unlocked yet, but i want to know how much nitrogen gas it takes and how much nirtic acid it makes, so i know how much nitrogen gas i can send to the grassy fields. thanks!

[hard ivy]

!wikisearch nitric+acid

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=nitric+acid

[hard ivy]

!wikisearch rocket+fuel

[fossil ice]

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

[peak wasp]

What are some quality of life features you think would be nice?

[wanton stag]

is it intended for the hoverpack to drain when you move while wearing wearing it?

like not flying, just running and jumping

[leaden turret]

hover pack level is distance from power source, unless they changed it

[wanton stag]

i thought it had its own battery?

[junior laurel]

It feeds off of your power grid so you need to be in proxy of a power pole

[wanton stag]

so then how can i use it when im not connected to the grid (like i take it off, run away from power, put it back on then start using it)

[junior laurel]

Err

[elder apex]

it will automatically stop and start working as you leave and re-enter range of the power grid

you don't have to take it off, it just doesn't do anything if you aren't in range

[peak wasp]

Working on a big factory is way more confusing than I thought it would be.

I'm conveyor-ing things together now and I keep finding things and asking "Why are the furnaces for these things five rows behind them, and not in the furnaces directly behind them?"

[dusky relic]

#screenshots message

Am I stupid for thinking these could be combined...

[rotund pine]

As in mix different fluid types?

[dusky relic]

What?

[rotund pine]

Nvm, I read wrong

[dusky relic]

Both are crude oils -> Heavy oil

[rotund pine]

Those could prob be combined yea

[dusky relic]

Do fluid freight train stops generate headlift?

[hard ivy]

Once again, SCIM proves to be a terrible calculator with no redeeming qualities

Just use Satisfactory Tools instead lol

[dense violet]

there's some headlift from the buffers of the fluid platforms afaik - I don't know if they stick to hte 10m of machines or variable headlift of buffers

I wouldn't rely on it in any case

[golden furnace]

I need to pay someone to decorate my shit

[leaden ether]

Satisfactory Tools are awesome 😄 Though of course you do still need to go over what it produces very carefully, it's not 100% error free, and the aggressive use of alt recipies needs careful consideration at each point. I usually end up only ising maybe 1 in 3 or 4 of it's suggestions in that area.

[hard ivy]

Nah, I use 90+% of the recipes it suggests.
Unless I don't have access to them yet, obviously

[dense violet]

it has it's own resource weighings. It can't know what you have available unless you tell it specifically

and if you have your own resource weighings swap out recipes instead of giving a planner multiple options

[leaden ether]

I use 90% of the entire factory tree, but less than half of the alt recipies (remove them from the list and make it try again)

[dense violet]

yeah that's why you're not getting results you want

[frail sleet]

making anything complex with tools is an exercise of turning off a bunch of buildings and recipies until it's not bad, cloning that tab, and then trying different builds manually to compare.

The plain default settings try to do stuff like convert iron into coal when you're just trying to make steel pipes in P2 (maybe not an exact example, but i'm sure everyone is familiar with this)

It's the best planner but it does need a lot of handholding as it is right now, can be confusing if you aren't familiar with how to do that

[leaden ether]

Also, my latest factory with 16 product outputs, I asked for 20 extra concrete and it only gave me 10 but gave me 20 of Reinforced Iron Plate instead of 10. THus the not 100% error free comment.

[hard ivy]

That's just a skill issue lol

[dense violet]

send a link to greeny - but I'd guess there was a missread or you did a weird maximise option

[hard ivy]

Nothing like this ever happened to me

[dusky relic]

Theoretically you can bring fluids up using them then?

[leaden ether]

Still overall it save a ton of pencil/paper work 🙂

[dense violet]

I suppose? but you'll need to properly buffer your fluid platform in any case, you'll need pumps. So the problem really isn't one that exists

instead of asking about this specific thing - what are you trying to do overall?

[hard ivy]

Funny you should mention turning stuff into coal. Tools doesn't do this exact thing (it often turns iron into sulfur and bauxite into uranium "because it's cheaper"), but I've literally seen SCIM conjure biomass out of nothing to make coal for steel lol

[leaden ether]

Couldn't snap the entire graph but here is the RIP discrepency. #screenshots message

[dense violet]

just send a copy of the link.

but at a casual glance I'd guess you have a lot of manual inputs and it converted leftovers into plates

I'm sure @reef basin would be interested in the actual link though

[hard ivy]

Yeah, to Tools inputs are completely free. So it'll happily waste them if it means saving on actual resources. Or not care about efficiency if the output can be entirely made from inputs. I never use inputs for those exact reasons

That, or you have 10 RIPs listed twice in the outputs. Then they just need get added

[leaden ether]

Yeah I had about 6 or 8 other inputs from other factories...

[dense violet]

makes sense. The only times I use manual inputs is when I know the exact number needed for X factory. I don't think the system likes wasting those if there's extra materials

[hard ivy]

But considering you're making plates as well, unless you have iron ore or iron ingots as inputs, I'd lean towards the second possibility

[dense violet]

simplest method I find for breaking up a plan with manual inputs is do the whole plan w/o inputs, and then when you get someting you like start replacing components in the inputs tab

so if you know Y factory will need 124.4 encased beams pm, but you're having that done at another factory? just slot in that exact number in the inputs tab

[junior laurel]

That challenge already exists...

[dusky relic]

Nothing actually, just curious

[dense violet]

ah fair. Do you know how to buffer them properly?

[gray sedge]

Somehow, a truck beamed itself into a rock, while I explored a cave. I cannot reach it anymore. Is there a way to reset its position?

[leaden turret]

can edit position with SCIM

[hexed hazel]

I like trucks

There, I said it

[dense violet]

or load previous autosave

[gray sedge]

What is SCIM? Previous autosave is no option. I would lose a week of very annoying work, I would need to do again.

[leaden turret]

interactive map, linked in #welcome

lets you edit save files

[reef basin]

please send me the share link for that

[lime ermine]

Guys should I sloop my particle accelerator to get more diamonds

[junior laurel]

If you have sloops to spare... there's quite a lot of coal on the map

[elder apex]

as long as you have the power to support it, sure, why not? you can always remove the sloops later if you need them elsewhere

[jovial oracle]

Bruh, manually supplying biofuel to your power plants is so irritating.

[junior laurel]

Could be worse. At least the bio burners have belts now

[lime ermine]

So power shards are super easy to make but they require an ungodly amount of power

[elder apex]

doggo farm > synthetic shards IMO

[lime ermine]

How make doggo farm

[elder apex]

especially with the mod that auto-collects from them

[lime ermine]

Mod I presume

[junior laurel]

Something I cannot do... it goes against my ways

[elder apex]

doggo farm itself isn't a mod, just requires time setting it up

[lime ermine]

Huh

[elder apex]

make an enclosed area with ramps so that you can lead the doggos you befriend into the pen but they can't get out

[flint aspen]

I’d be happy to make a doggo farm just to have doggos lol, but I wish I could make them a better habitat

[dense violet]

might want to autosave every 5 min

[elder apex]

two different farm samples - #screenshots message

[hollow vector]

dont

[grizzled lotus]

I did it! Only took me forever, but I finally built a simple railway network and made sure my train can load and unload stuff. It now picks up SAM Fluctuator and Rubber from two different locations and unloads it in my base : )

[left marlin]

my brain cant comprehend trains right now, but I can sure Belt everything to a location lmaooo

[prisma thicket]

Anyone know if there's any spots in the swamp with usable water or is it just along the coast?

[austere valve]

It's pretty simple if you use one line per train.

[boreal musk]

north east side of swamp is pretty much ocean

[jovial oracle]

Is there a way to get rid of the spores that release poisonous gas?

[atomic notch]

yes

[prisma thicket]

Explosives

[sullen gull]

Noblisks

[timid rune]

are there mods that forces night time so I can play around with lighting?

[leaden ether]

There is one for setting a static time of day (or night)

[timid rune]

heh I like my modular load balancers

[atomic notch]

i feel like a search engine sometime lmao

[leaden ether]

At least mods gave me vertical nudge before 1.1 comes out. In fact it was the one mod I installed till I completed phase 5

[timid rune]

I can't live without modular load balancers nowadays

[hollow vector]

will he endorse mews?

[timid rune]

and tiny train stations

[hollow vector]

oh my mew

we might have just get a 3rd best cm

ive seen smokey.

is best mew

better than humans

[jovial oracle]

Found a lizard doggo. I can pet it but can I make it a pet pet?

[prisma thicket]

Well, watched Jason's introductory video, seems like a good guy to have as Co-CM. Now back to my death metal music videos lol

[jovial oracle]

What

....

[prisma thicket]

If you fed it a paleberry, it will follow you around, as long as you don't go too fast or too far. Not sure of the limitations as I haven't played around with them much.

[old yarrow]

Is rocket fuel a liquid or gas? It just flowed up like a 20m pipe without pumps im so confused

[elder apex]

RF is a gas

[old yarrow]

okk ty

I wasted so much time thinking it was a liquid

[dense violet]

besides not needing pumps they don't need to be treated much dif

[sullen gull]

Is it worth the trek for ionized fuel to use as drone fuel?

Meh, headlift ain't no worry

[tawny urchin]

I’ve heard people say not to fill a pipe completely but I want to travel nitrogen gas a long distance to a train, is it really that bad if I fill some pipes up to 600 gas/min?

[vapid falcon]

how can i load a blueprint from a world to another?

[dense violet]

it's fine, just need to be more careful about it

[sullen gull]

Why would someone say to not fill a pipe completely? Unless maybe when recycling?

[tawny urchin]

Idk. I’ve just seen a lot of people say not to use 600/minute in a pipe

[sullen gull]

That's what I am working on atm, same speed as batteries, but lasts a bit longer it seems.

[jovial oracle]

I was surprised to see cats labelled as Stingers in the wiki and then I found out there's a mode for arachnophobia 💀

[sullen gull]

Yeah, working on a full map alu production atm.

[dense violet]

There’s lots of things that make pipes more or less stable. Running a mk2 at 600 will take more care and attention than 400, but not a heck of a lot.

If you want fewer issues and less effort do like 400 pipes

[sullen gull]

If only there were 400 pipes 🤔

[marsh heath]

recent play-through i started in the desert, if i quit right now i’ll be able to go further tonight than i’ve been able to in the 10 hours i’ve been playing on this profile. (don’t know the exact amount of time i have on it)

[marsh heath]

it’s actually crazy how much the planes spoils you

[sullen gull]

Rocky desert in the NE is where it's at 😏

[marsh heath]

i only ever used mk2’s for nuclear, never anything else.

[marsh heath]

i’ll check it out, thanks for the advice.

[sullen gull]

There is just better variations of pure nodes more near each other I think.

[marsh heath]

i think i’m just gonna scrap this current area, and relocate if it’s good, not gonna even connect the power grid to it.

[sullen gull]

Not saying the Desert is bad. Tons of pure iron for sure. And most of the rest around the edge of it.

42

[marsh heath]

this is only my third play-through of it

think my last profile was 110 hours, heavily optimized, but not enough.

[sullen gull]

I'm sitting on 2583 hrs played.. Saved the day only once though.

[marsh heath]

how

are you monopolizing the whole planet brother?

[sullen gull]

I'm more interested in the building and layouts than completing honestly.

There's no brownie points for completing at any speed, so meh

[marsh heath]

it’s really hard to not build a mega factory for a single item, my power grid limits me though.

and reminds me i’m still early game

[sullen gull]

Eh, through this play through, I have just done the minimums for everything and throw it in the DD. Only thing I am 'maxing' out this time through is aluminum so far 😏

Too many

[marsh heath]

i had an aluminum farm that had like 180 sheets per second 😭

[marsh heath]

never too many

[sullen gull]

Per second or per minute?

[marsh heath]

second.

that was just a rough estimate though, i’m gonna hop over and look at the profile in a min.

[sullen gull]

I'm working on about 4100/min atm lol

4100 sheets, 3075 casings, and then some tanks, and heatsinks from some of all that.

Sad thing is I havn't even worked on phase 4 yet, so it won't do much till I get mk6 belts lol

[marsh heath]

this entire factory started because i needed 60 sheets per minute but i didn’t want to steal from a different line.

[sullen gull]

Sometimes it's easier to just build what you need at location, provided to have the resources.

[marsh heath]

ok it was 30 sheets /sec or 1800 /min unless im doing my calcs wrong

#screenshots

all going nowhere since i don't use it

[strange pivot]

so with 1.0 out and early access finished, aside from general fixes and tweaks, whats next for the game? are we likely to see additional maps, some sort of procedural world tech eventually? if not procedural, themed maps? like one that is a massive desert or a frozen tundra or even a map that is mostly underwater, each presenting unique challenges and quirks lubricant and upkeep requirements in deserts, belts freezing if unheated in cold places, 3D terrain navigation challenges underwater, etc.

[cyan garnet]

IMHO nitrogen is much easier to move via drones. It compresses 4:1 and the drones can handle the empty tank return in a closed loop

[marsh heath]

so many memories from a silly lil factory game

[prisma thicket]

#screenshots message why so many fluid buffers?

[latent prawn]

well, 1.1 is out on experimental, there's some small changes with it involving a few new buildables and a lot of polish with controller support and just general building mechanic improvements. past that, there's an upcoming release to console and then plans are pretty unknown

[leaden ether]

Most of that has been officially shot down :/ Though who knows hat mods might bring. there is some substantial gameplay changes available already. As for what is in store (Besides the 1.1 update on the way). I personally haven't seen anything specific.

I think the one map idea not specifically shot down was the slight possibility of an empty/flat map.

[latent prawn]

i doubt we'll see more than incremental improvement changes to the game as it stands. perhaps such things as additional/procedural generation of expanded maps will come in a future DLC or 2.0 type of release

[prisma thicket]

I'd say a new map/planet would almost be sequel worthy

[latent prawn]

i have a feeling that all CSS wants to do with the game right now is get it out on console and address a few nagging unimplemented or unfixed things in the push to get 1.0 out the door

[strange pivot]

like the misplaced and missing water volumes? 😛

[latent prawn]

lotta those were fixed in 1.0, but yeah some still linger, lol

[tawny urchin]

I don’t quite have drones unlocked yet, is it worth it to unlock them for this? And if I do, should I transport the gas from the gas node just to the north east of blue crater, to my train station on the left side of the blue crater, then transport via train from there? Or should I transport it to the grassy fields, which is where I want it to end up?

[strange pivot]

possibly later implementation of nanite foliage and better lumin configs too. lots of cool stuff from this era of technology, for all the controversy some of it sparks.

[latent prawn]

yeah, it is worth it, nitrogen gas was meant to be moved via drone. they are exceptionally well suited to doing so

[cyan garnet]

No reason to hook a drone port up to a train station. Drones are point to point and the drone ports aren’t that big, you can cram them just about anywhere

There are several nitrogen wells around the map, one in the middle and the rest are basically on the four corners

[tawny urchin]

Ok, I was just curious if it was too long a distance

Thanks guys

[cyan garnet]

You can go from one far corner of the map to the other w a drone, just depends on the fuel you use

[prisma thicket]

It also depends on what fuel you have the drones running on

[tawny urchin]

Turbo fuel if drones can run off that? Or can they only do batteries

[cyan garnet]

They can run off turbo fuel and other packaged fuels (except biofuel)

[prisma thicket]

Turbofuel is great

[cyan garnet]

Different fuels have different energy values which determines fuel consumption rate and top speed

[tawny urchin]

Takes away from my max power coming off my turbo fuel power plant tho

[strange pivot]

does that apply to jetpacks too?

[hidden sparrow]

I would love seeing the drones just fall off from the sky if they run out of fuel ngl

[prisma thicket]

Yup

[hidden sparrow]

Yup

[prisma thicket]

lol

Drones take as much fuel as it takes for a round trip unless there is fuel coming into both drone ports.

[tawny urchin]

I already have a belt highway fairly close to the nitrogen, wouldn’t it be easier to add some pipes to the highway? That way I could save some power and trouble with packaging more turbo fuel

[prisma thicket]

You could also bottle the nitrogen and run another belt to where you want it to go, with a return belt for empty bottles. Nitrogen packages at 4:1 ratio, so you can move it faster when it's packaged then you can via pipe.

[cyan garnet]

Nitrogen isn’t as bad to move via long pipes (since it’s a gas there is no headlift), but I generally try to avoid long pipes whenever possible

I understand not wanting to go on a side quest for drones since you don’t really have the fuel infrastructure ready to go to support it

But drones are great so you’ll want to figure it out sooner or later

[tawny urchin]

I see where you’re coming from, right now I think that it might be easiest to transport it via a highway to my train station. I will definitely be using drones later for nitrogen transport though. This is just the simplest way for me right now, it needs no extra setup

The problem is figuring out how much gas can go per pipe into each car. Cause there’s no way that 600/m could work if the cars hold 1600.

[elder apex]

you can still package the nitrogen for transport via train

[prisma thicket]

I'd still suggest packaging it and putting the bottles on the train if you're determined to do it by train. You get 4 times more per load

[tawny urchin]

How?

[elder apex]

nitrogen is compressed when it is packaged so it takes up 4 times less space in that form

[prisma thicket]

Each bottle is 4 units of nitrogen, so a liquid freight car full is 1600 but a solid freight car packed with stacks of bottles is 6400

[tawny urchin]

Should I package it if I’m sending it on drones?

[elder apex]

drones don't carry fluids at all

[prisma thicket]

Yes, that's the only way to do it by drone.

[tawny urchin]

Dang

[prisma thicket]

Basically the best way to move Nitrogen over large distances is in a bottle, regardless of how you move them.

[tawny urchin]

Hmmm

I just built a very large train track to the grassy fields

Lots of space for many trains

[prisma thicket]

Then yah, packaging the nitrogen and running a train load of bottles to the fields while another train returns with empties is a great way to move a ton of nitrogen quickly

[tawny urchin]

But….. is it gonna be thatttt bad if I don’t package it? Most recipes I’ve seen use unpackaged nitrogen

[prisma thicket]

Well there's only one recipe I know of that uses it bottled, but it's just about the volume you're transporting. You get 4 times more doing bottled vs piped, and you'd need a LOT of pipes to match what one train car can move in the same time.

[tawny urchin]

I think you’re right actually, just looked at a packager and it looks way more manageable to package it. Sorry I guess it just had to see for myself lol

[prisma thicket]

Yah, one packager packs 60 bottles per minute, but that's 240 units of nitrogen per minute. So you can get a lot done with just a few bottles per minute.

[elder apex]

you can also blueprint the packing/unpacking portions to make it easier to deploy

[prisma thicket]

I mean eventually I want to set up a drone fleet and bottle up the massive nitrogen well in the middle of the map to send everywhere. Can get 3000 units of nitrogen per minute out of that one well, so 750 bottles a minute to go wherever I need them lol

And I'll probably be wasteful because there's 4 bauxite nodes nearby and just constantly make new bottles and sink the empties when they get where they're going lol With the right recipes it's 1:1 bauxite to bottles, so it should be easy enough.

[hollow vector]

just use trains

drones for long distance low thruput items

trains for long distance high throughput items

[latent prawn]

you can use trains for practically anything, but there's some items with small stack sizes that they're not well suited to. Enough train cars of capacity can smooth out pretty much any problem, however

[pastel carbon]

Generally, the small stack size items are required in such small amounts that you're better off using something else like drones

Although if you do use a train, even a 1-1 train will likely be enough for those

[sacred summit]

Is the general community consensus positive or negative about the Mk1 Blueprint designer?
I'm trying to use it, and even taking advantage of verticality, it seems almost too small to be useful for any sort of involved workflow, without being an absolute clustered mess 😭

[pastel carbon]

The easiest way to use blueprints is to make groups of buildings

That's easy to do even with just the MK1

[sacred summit]

Yeah, but if all I'm doing is putting 3 of the same building next to each other, it feels like there's no damned point to the blueprint mechanic. The idea, at least in my head from other games, is that you should be able to blueprint actual "designs"

[elder apex]

have you checked out the blueprint library on SCIM for some inspirations/ideas? Plenty of blueprints there for both components as well as complete plants. https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/blueprints

[sacred summit]

Nope, not familiar with all the third-party tools tbh

[elder apex]

check it out, even just to view the ideas that people came up with and how they managed to organize/fit things onto the blueprint designer

some of the blueprints there are do violate the vanilla constraints on clipping and collision, just be aware of that.

[ivory condor]

If you want my impression, its mostly going to be negative🙂

[flint aspen]

Positive imo. I like it, it’s just big enough to do like manifolds for assemblers and stuff

[elder apex]

i do feel that all of the blueprint designers are all acquired too late for them to be of optimum use though. The 4x4x4 Mk1 is fine for doing phase 1 factories, but after that it's significantly constrained for later machines

unless of course you ignore clipping and stack things closely

[ivory condor]

Because imo they made the designers to small, mk1 should have been able to easily been usable with coal power plants, for example, as thats a early game power source and as soon you unlock mk1 designer should be able to start blue printing at least those, but they made the designer so tiny so.....

[elder apex]

even the 6x6 Mk3 designer can't handle 2 refineries end to end, and can only handle a quantum encoder if you orient it at a 45 degree angle

[ivory condor]

yep unlock the mk3 designer in quantum technology, cant even blue print the buildings you unlock in that tier....great move🙂

[elder apex]

if you are seriously interested in doing most of your work via blueprints, I would suggest getting one of the various blueprint designer mods, such as Megaprinters. 48x48x48 should handle just about anything you can throw at it.

[sacred summit]

Yeah, I feel like it's both too late, and too small to be useful as an actual time saving metric. Like I'm not trying to go batshit crazy... I'm trying to make a simple one that just makes 1 assembler worth of smart plates... but to take it from iron ingots to smart plate (i.e. the entire little workflow).... dude, fkin black holes don't have to be packed that dense. 🤣

I'm not saying it's impossible to fit in the space, I'm saying it has to be so crammed that it looks like a car wreck

[ivory condor]

see the megaprinters that feels like a actual tier 9 blueprint designer, instead we have this tiny designer that apu has limited use cases....

[elder apex]

personally I use the Mk3 for just about everything, but I also ignore clipping and collision limitations via mods

so I have no problem fitting an entire 600 RF/min plant onto one 6x6 print

[latent prawn]

the one thing i've found that having a larger-than-nilla bpd for is making a recycled oil loop in a print. very few other things of that size will i entertain building more than once

i've definitely since the bpd's introduction felt that bigger is needed.

the 6x6x6 size in phase 5 is pretty ample for most stuff, but still the size gets in your way at times

[prisma thicket]

Trying to figure out a layout for a factory in the swamp. Do I build it close to the most resources or do I build it close to the water/oil and train/belt in the rest?

[hollow vector]

depends

[prisma thicket]

Ok, can I ask you to elaborate please?

[hollow vector]

like what are you making

[prisma thicket]

Main item I'm looking to make is radio control units, with some extra crystal oscilators because I like to throw up radar towers 😛

[hollow vector]

prob just resources then

you wont need water

[prisma thicket]

You need water for aluminum though...

[hollow vector]

yes

ahh i see

yea but not much
you can just build a railway and put pipes under it

[prisma thicket]

True. Or I can use the water at the base of the waterfall, pretty close to the resources and deep enough for extractors

Thanks for the input though, definitely going closer to the most resources, less trains/belt highways needed.

[elder apex]

don't use the water at the base of the waterfall, use the water at the top of the waterfall - no head lift issues for your swamp level plants

[prisma thicket]

Even better idea, thanks lol

[prisma thicket]

Note to self, it takes 7 nobelisks to kill a nuclear hog lol

[latent prawn]

well, if you want to do it the easy way, use a gas nobelisk

[elder apex]

i thought the easy way was to sucker him off a cliff

[prisma thicket]

I just used what I had on hand, the bugger was stuck on the geometry of the world right under where I was building lol

[latent prawn]

that sometimes kills them, sometimes doesn't and they will respawn

[prisma thicket]

If I mine a chunk of uranium, then jetpack out over a random part of the swamp and drop it out of my inventory, will it spawn where I took off from or directly below where I was in the air?

LOL it just sits in the air where I dropped it xD well that's some uranium I never need to worry about again

[dusky relic]

@potent berry how 🥺

[leaden ether]

So I once mined some uranium off of an underground mining node and then had to drop it once I realised how "hot" it was to carry. The next time I went back the ore was no longer where I dropped it. THe net says that shouldn't happen so I'm not sure what's up. Try to remember wher ethat is and see if it is stil there the next time you start the game and reload your save.

[dusky relic]

nvm

[potent berry]

Infinite Nudge Mod allows you to rotate, flip, tilt and so on. If i had to choose 1 mod only to use, it will be Infinite Nudge mod.

[leaden ether]

100% It was the one mod I used during my initial run through the regular game.

[potent berry]

I respect those who wants to stay vanilla.
But Infinite Nudge is "vanilla" it don't give you any cheat buildings or OP items.
It just allow your creative side to evolve ❤️

[leaden ether]

I specifically installed the modloader just for that, it was so incredible it wasn't in the base game. (Specifically for the vertical nudge)

As soon as I heard it was in 1.1 to be released whenever I decided to install it. It was clearly an oversight at some level.

[potent berry]

Even when it is in 1.1, il still use Infinite Nudge. For tilt, rotate stuff. I don't use the scale function tho, it does not save in a blueprint anyway 😊

[leaden ether]

The one thing I would really like is to be able to re-nudge something that has been placed. So often I misplace something then have to delete it, reselect and replace. How nice it would be to just mouse over, hit H and renudge it into the right position.

[oblique kite]

Is there a way in either satisfactory tools or calculator to input a custom/modded recipe ?

[potent berry]

But cheers for the small chat, i know @dusky relic said nvm, but i do react on all tags 🤗 il head off chat again. Take care 👋

[prisma thicket]

I reloaded my save just to see what would happen, all the little piles I left hanging in midair are gone, not even on the ground below. The chunks I mined are still gone as well.

Nvm, they are still there, they just don't show up until you get very close to them.

[placid hill]

I do not mod my game but I do think this would be incredibly helpful

[warm phoenix]

why does this game have to be so good I go in to play for an hour and leave after 8 hours

[dusky snow]

Moin

[twilit remnant]

guys on a circuit of max 6300 MW is it such a big difference having as an average cosume of 5300MW? im basically running all at close 100% efficiency but i have still 1000mw differnce idk if its normal, shoulkd i try to reduce it ù?

[sterile blade]

Funfacts and numbers: in worst case scenarios (@ if you want the math) an imprecision in clocking of 0.001% (machine limit) could clog a "sushi-fed machine" within a hundred hours. With some care, that can easily become thousands of hours, which is much longer than most savefiles are actually ran for

[sterile blade]

By 100% efficiency you mean "using 100% of my aviable power production"?

[twilit remnant]

i mean using every machine at max production

some arent exactly at 100 but pretty close

[sterile blade]

So... Your "max consumption" is 6.3 GW but your current consumption is 5.3 GW...?

[twilit remnant]

but 1000mw looks a bit too much

yes

[sterile blade]

Then yes, about 1/6 of your machines are not at 100% ^^
Unless there's an issue with the calculation of your max power consumption, which I think can still happen (dunno if it got patched)

[rich loom]

Could somone help me with my Water Pips

[dusky snow]

pumps

[rich loom]

i got 5

[dusky snow]

distance between?

[rich loom]

They ar Close but they ar at max

[sterile blade]

#1038092680493801533 likely can. And it allows for pictures, just for that

[dusky snow]

and whats the problem

[rich loom]

Go to Questions and Help and then look foor Could somone help me with my Coal Gens

[rich loom]

ik but i was to Lazy to make a Second Post :)

[twilit remnant]

is it possible to have big factories that require like 20gw and having no difference beetwen consumption and max consumption?

[sterile blade]

Tip: Discord allows sharing links to specific messages/threads. Like this #satisfactory message

[sterile blade]

It can be quite fun, but can require a lot of fiddling ^^
Eg: I couldn't be bothered finding all the machines I may have left laying around connected to the grid doing nothing, so this is one of the bests I got #math-and-meta message

[reef basin]

If you are lazy to provide details, how do you expect us to help you?

[rich loom]

I have Done that in a Other Post Woud you like me to ping you in it?

[reef basin]

No, if you have a post elsewhere, wait until people reapond there

[prisma thicket]

Not the greatest example, but I just got my factories to "flatline" earlier today, took a lot of adjusting of clock speeds and belt speeds, but now my max consumption is only 200 MW above my current consumption, and that's purely because I have a few machines with Somersloops in them that I only use for making biofuel/power shards. So it is very possible to do, if you have the patience for it and understand exactly what you need to adjust. I'm currently using 10.6 GW of power per minute

[clever pier]

you know what time it is? It's build more trains time

-# its always build more trains time

[prisma thicket]

Can you do the same trick with pipe floor holes that you can with conveyor lift floor holes to make them infinitely long? Or do you need to have a wall to attach wall supports to?

[clever pier]

i hope you know what you're doing . extremely long pipes take forever to fill and theres a sloshing issue. I use fluid trains it the pipes get too long

[foggy onyx]

Only conveyor lifts can be extended to endless distances

[clever pier]

but you can just join pipes seamlessly anyway ?

[prisma thicket]

Damn, guess I gotta build a wall then. Trying to get pipes from the top of a waterfall to the bottom of it in a nice straight line, but looks like I'll need to build a wall to stick them to first.

[clever pier]

I use the framework foundation for stuff like that. looks nicer than the wall texture

[plucky cradle]

helloo can someone tell me why it is so hard getting forward? im at tier 5 & 6 now and i cant get a good factory together, most of because i dont understand how i provide enough recources for every item, i really dont want to get burned out by this fact

[warm phoenix]

To tell you the truth, it's not difficult, but if you want everything to happen instantly, it won't happen 😄

[boreal musk]

sounds like you didnt explore the map enough to get all the nodes needed for your factory

[warm phoenix]

I think you need to spread out on the map so you can more easily make the resources you need.

[warm phoenix]

Do you know how to get gas filter ?

[plucky cradle]

nodes are not really the problem, i think its more to get everythin delivered and spread into right amounts needed. my head wont let me do that for some reason to figure out a plan

[plucky cradle]

yes

[warm phoenix]

I found out yesterday.

I'm at the top of the map right now and I'm going to generate electricity with uranium.

[plucky cradle]

i have around 3k coal running right now. my belts are limiting the transported amounts.

[warm phoenix]

lvl 4 or 5

which one do you use

[plucky cradle]

3 i have now. just unlocked 4. thats i i am so fed up

[warm phoenix]

I can come and help you if you want.

[plucky cradle]

its okay, i dont wanna bother xD i just try to comprehend if i have an belt that transports 400-500 items and it need to provide this item 200/m into 3 different machines. the math isnt mathing

[warm phoenix]

There is a liquid thing that I don't understand, I normally take 240 out, this is less but I don't know how it is enough.

[timid rune]

is it oil?

there are pure/normal/impure nodes

[prisma thicket]

Do you need 200/minute into each machine or split evenly among 3 machines?

[prisma thicket]

Well I'm off, but if you need 200 into each machine you need a second belt for the third machine, and if you need 200 split across 3 machines you just need to use a splitter, it will automatically divide any intput evenly across all outputs.

[silk rose]

where can i find actually good pioneer images i need?
google wont give me any for some reason
i just want pioneer side view good res for one meme picture

[clever pier]

photomode in expermental branch

[silk rose]

that was like backup plan but thank you

[clever pier]

I find it helps to start at the end result and work backwards, eg I want 4 Assembly director systems per minute, put down the machines for that then work out how many feeder machines I need. build it all somewhere with lots of space and then use trains to bring in the raw materials the chain needs

in some cases I'll bring in assembled parts like computers on trains

[plucky cradle]

it bothers me with these huger spaghetti like belts, i t ried building an bus platform, turns out it cant get the many items produced onto 1 belt -

[clever pier]

Don't use a bus

Use height to avoid spaghetti

I build my factories 5 stories high for phase 5 parts

Lots of empty space , spread out stuff to make it easier to follow

Raw components go in at bottom

Finished product at top

Build each floor four full height walls high

Then you have plenty of room to run belts on the ceiling of each floor over machines

[frozen cloud]

so use multiple belts

[clever pier]

even with multiple belts a bus will become a bottleneck

I use trains to fulfill the function that a bus would do. just add platforms and carriages as you need to scale up , a two way ring with proper signalling can handle many trains

[plucky cradle]

i cant have everything producing at 1 spot right?

[clever pier]

you can but your frame rate might suffer badly

[reef basin]

you can, but it will come with tons of issues. It's doable though, just not recommended

[clever pier]

also like produce stuff that needs nitrogen where there's nitrogen

produce plastic and rubber where there's oil

[plucky cradle]

i need to figure out where to produce what. it so extremely overwhelming. i can produce 1 speacial item because i need 10 others xD

[clever pier]

I seperate phase 5 parts into at least 3 different factories in different locations

[plucky cradle]

do you have an overview perhaps?

[clever pier]

my current playthrough I am only producing one phase 5 part so far

I have one big factory in the eastern desert close to water, coal and iron which also makes computers and super computers

one big factory directly south of there where there's oil

[frozen cloud]

not really

[clever pier]

and one big factory at the west end of the grand canyon producing steel and heavy modular frames. and one aluminum factory in the red forest and trains connecting them

[frozen cloud]

you can if youre not playing on a toaster

[clever pier]

ok maybe I did it wrong, but I tried a bus a couple of times and it became unworkable

because parts weren't getting taken off the bus fast enough so it backed up

[frozen cloud]

#screenshots message
this is 40/min ballistic warp drives

[clever pier]

thats impressive but its way more than you need to complete the project

[frozen cloud]

it gets somewhat complicated if you have multiple belts and need to balance those but 1.1s priority mergers made it a lot easier

[clever pier]

how many belts is the main bus?

[frozen cloud]

uh no idea

like 40?

[clever pier]

it almost looks like a dyson sphere project screenshot

[frozen cloud]

most used was 4 belts of concrete and 4 belts of alu

[clever pier]

I use buses for DSP

[frozen cloud]

wait what?
in the game that literally has insane drones to handle logistics?
DSP is the only game where i dont use a bus xD

[clever pier]

I also use drones

[frozen cloud]

man imagine if drones in satisfactory didnt cost fuel

[clever pier]

but just for smaller areas build a bus

still automating the fuel isn't that hard. Josh from lets game it out made like a thousand drones

[frozen cloud]

ye but i just get fomo by knowing that i could just do belts instead and save resources

[clever pier]

especially because drones can use nuclear cells now right? since 1.0

[frozen cloud]

oh right yes

[green fiber]

wait cells?

oh you mean fuel rods right?

[clever pier]

yeah sorry

or rocket fuel.... I haven't tried but they can use any fuel now right?

[fresh wharf]

Hey, I have a pipe full of fuel connected to my packager and it's fed empty canisters, why isn't it packaging anything? Also the output is connected to a storage unit

[green fiber]

did you select a recipe

and give it power

and make sure the standby switch in the bottom right isnt set to "off"?

[fresh wharf]

Nevermind, I needed a pipe output even though it's not generating any liquids

[green fiber]

makes no sense

packagers dont need an output pipe connected if they package stuff

[hard ivy]

Machines do not need anything connected to function

The connections are just for automation

Well, except power. Forgot about that lol

[fresh wharf]

Well it wasn't packaging sooo it's pretty weird
Maybe I forgot to update my game?

[clever pier]

how do belts function without power? magic

[boreal musk]

you should try powered belt mod

[clever pier]

no thanks

[zenith pecan]

Back to digging tunnels for me 😄

[delicate ocean]

why does my object scanner not work for power slugs

[boreal musk]

set your scanner to slug and run around until the scanner catch the signal

and ofc you need to research the slug tree first so its added to the scanner

[sudden kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/satisfactory-chud-chud-son-power-slug-slug-gif-14602839749787880418

embed fail 😔

[severe elm]

crazy how much effort this game requires of you for such little outcome, just spent 8 hours building a motor factory, all for 8 motors p/m

enjoying myself though, been a minute since i played and theres quite a lot of new stuff

[delicate ocean]

where should I even build a steel farm man

[reef basin]

not fail, just disabled

[sudden kestrel]

thats no fun D: (makes moderation easier ig so its fair)

[severe elm]

wherever there is coal and iron

[reef basin]

your gif is perfect example of what was spammed here all the time when they were enabled. Chat was unreadable.

embeds are allowed in practically every other channel

[sudden kestrel]

ooooooohhh okay, makes sense

thanks for the explanation :D

[split badger]

i wish there was a mk II object scanner, the sloops are a pain to look for, and the radar tower makes it too vague to find them

[boreal musk]

use scim

[reef basin]

ahh the classic "spoil yourself with a save editor" 😄

[boreal musk]

if you really cant bother using ingame scanner

its a spoiler, yes
but its also their choice

[split badger]

but that is why i wish there was a Mk II scanner, like i'd say at least 50% more range so it's a bit easier to hunt them down without directly showing where they are

[mortal ginkgo]

Dear friends, today I learnt the tragic truth that we can't use patterns in half foundations. 😭

[zenith pecan]

I found that on release, I was also profoundly disappointed.

[mortal ginkgo]

We share sadness brother. Well I am more surprised that there are no half walls and glass ramps etc...

[zenith pecan]

Half walls would be awesome!

And quarter railings.

[mortal ginkgo]

yup. Jfyi, you can handle half wall shenanigans with pillars

so I am not crying THAT hard.

but still, sobbing slightly might I add.

[zenith pecan]

I have used a few nudge shenanigans to move walls into overlapping half configs and the likes to enforce a build, I'd still sooner have some official bits, but that's a small wish.

[mortal ginkgo]

Yeah, I checked the previous posts and I dont think we are getting them anytime soon. But alas. This is at least teaching me how to construct stuff in different shenanigans 😄

[zenith pecan]

Until I started collecting all the worlds SAM, I didn't realise just how many nodes were in caves.

Tapping those from below is quite a challenge.

[mortal ginkgo]

oh I made myself a "Small Tower - 3 Belt and Power Bringer" blueprint

[zenith pecan]

I've had to design some bespoke shaft prints because ground penetration into hard to access areas varies.

[mortal ginkgo]

Understandable. Linked a pic for you in screenshots if you like to see

[zenith pecan]

See what I mean by mined from below 😄

[mortal ginkgo]

Total madness. 😄

[zenith pecan]

It does ofc mean I'll have to go nuclear bomb nuts once I enter the cave, you just know there will be stingers wanting to give me a slap when I get inside.

Brb, coffee!

Back, time to spread the nuclear love ☢️ ❤️

[mortal ginkgo]

Gogo 😄

Meanwhile I am too busy making underground road systems...

[split badger]

can building more depots increase storage? or is it only one depot?

[boreal musk]

more depot increases upload speed, but not for the stack itself

[coarse geode]

vro how am i supposed to transport 500 quartz across the map with only belts

[zenith pecan]

All bombed up and ready to be claimed #streams-and-videos message 😄

[honest gust]

Cyberwagon just flew off the edge of the map. Is the map marker there forever now?

[reef basin]

the marker is where the cyberwagon is 🙂

so it will be there as long as the wagon is there

[honest gust]

wonderful lmao

[reef basin]

you can always load a save

[honest gust]

yeah I'll probably do that

or maybe not

I still have a marker from a tractor that disappeared on me in the first 10 hours

it gives the world some character

[zenith pecan]

Here we go, one SAM mine feeding downwards into the network from a that nuked cave #screenshots message

[clever pier]

I'm curious if a train network with one large two way loop and then a smaller loop that cuts across from one direction to another part way down will work or will it get "signal loops on itself" issues

going to try it

actually its just one big loop so far,

forming a B shape

[viral lotus]

#screenshots message

folks, what do yelllow thingies mean?

[clever pier]

i think thats the nodes you have selected in the left menu

[dusky relic]

Im going feral trying to figure out the issue in my factory

[split badger]

to clarify, building the depots themselves, not the upgrades

[dusky relic]

I am somehow producing much more heavy Oil than I should

[split badger]

oh i see now, so you can have faster upload speed by putting in both

[boreal musk]

exactly as i said, max speed capped at 240/min for single depot, meaning you can do 480/min with 2 depot so on and so forth, but the max size is capped at 5 stacks

[split badger]

i get the context now

so i could do 100 irone ore in the depot, and another 100 in my inventory

that would be much faster until i can get that upgrade

[boreal musk]

turn heavy oil residue into coke and sink, or use them as fuel for coal gen

another alternative is to turn all the residue into fuel and burn them with fuel gen

[split badger]

plus the depot looks interesting how it does inventory, basically infinite slots but instead it's based on stack size (from upgrades)

[boreal musk]

i did 5 depots for my concrete, so i basically have upload speed of 1200/min

useful when you do mass concrete paving

[split badger]

yeah, and i could really use alot of copper sheets as i need to make a pipe to my turbo fuel loop so i can start doing Rocket Fuel

I need that Nitric Acid

[jovial oracle]

Another day with 10000 leaves in my inventory

[clever pier]

liquid biofuel

[jovial oracle]

Real

[wanton blaze]

hello there

[mortal ginkgo]

omg what you doing here bro

[wanton blaze]

Sneezing

[clever pier]

i hate it when the radio quides you to a mercer sphere and its underground with no clear entrance

sometimes its just not worth it

[dusky relic]

Thats what I am doing, but I am STILL producing too much

[clever pier]

under the map or through caves?

[dusky relic]

I am producing 120, and using 170, but my pipes are still filling up and then machines

[clever pier]

theres a massive cave going east to west under the eastern desert thats good for trains.

[boreal musk]

then build more machine so it consumes all the excess?

[dusky relic]

I just dont know where its coming from

[true mulch]

huh, under dune desert?

rocky desert (in the west) has a large cave that can fit even a double track

[clever pier]

yeah and theres a sam ore and quartz node inside it

sorry I meant western desert

no large caves in eastern desert that I know of

[true mulch]

exactly

[clever pier]

unfortunately

[split badger]

yeah i hate that, makes it so hard to get them

[jovial oracle]

Solid biofuel looks like compressed haystacks.

[clever pier]

luckily there is way more mercer spheres than you need

I always though solid biofuel was like woodchips compressed into cylinders?

[static surge]

I just wanted to go to coal in those days

Now I have oil, coal, and a couple geothermal gens

coal is so much better

biofuel is horrid

[jovial oracle]

I mean yeah, when you get a coal deposit, I don't see any reason for biofuel.

But then again, after researching solid biofuel, my life was so easy.

I used to go on a leaf hunt and get 8000 leaves for biofuels 💀

[static surge]

lmao 🚡

[jovial oracle]

Leaves > Wood

[static surge]

just make a machine that turns leaves and wood into solid biofuel

put all the biomass in a storage container and output 120 biomass per minute into a solid biofuel constructor

[jovial oracle]

I have 2 constructors that feeds a solid biofuel storage, one for leaves and one for wood, depending on what I have.

[split badger]

i do like that Biofuel burners do slow down if the power draw is lower, even if you overclock to 250%

[clever pier]

set up rocket fuel and your fuel gens last 4x as long on the same amount of fuel

[split badger]

shame you cant get the power to go into the batteries though

[green fiber]

they self adjust, so there is no spare power to feed to storages

[static surge]

I dont have aluminum so I can only do Turbofuel for now

It'll be a pain for that too because I need another coal node and make a railway for sulfur

[clever pier]

sometimes its worthwhile to just make a really long belt for sulfur

I've made ones 500 meters long before

[dusky relic]

Can I not make bidirectional rails with train signals?

Nvm I think i figured it out

[reef basin]

you can

but you don't want to put signals on the bidirectional track

[crystal thicket]

hi how i build the personel elevator? I have no elevator options in the AWESOME Shop.

[clever pier]

the elevator is only in the experimental branch so far

you have to switch to that

[crystal thicket]

ahhh ok ty

[crystal thicket]

how i going to the experimental server?

[red sun]

you on epic or steam?

[boreal musk]

are you on steam? go to option > beta > choose "experimental"

[crystal thicket]

steam

[boreal musk]

@crystal thicket

[crystal thicket]

thanks^^

[red sun]

do this

should be a quick install and you'll boot into 1.1

[dusky relic]

Can someone tell me how 160-196.666.... is actually a positive number 😭

[boreal musk]

back up your save file first before going to experimental, to avoid any issue just in case

[red sun]

I recommend making a backup of your save though

[dusky relic]

Because I am still OVER PRODUCING 😡

[red sun]

is shit backed up mayhaps?

[dusky relic]

No 😭

#screenshots message

Everything is green

Because I have 3 + 2/3 petrol coke coal refineries trying to get rid of this heavy oil but its still too much

[boreal musk]

how much hor are you producing currently?

[dusky relic]

160

[boreal musk]

build array of refineries that consume 160/min

[dusky relic]

I need to learn to do math

[leaden turret]

press N for Nalculator

[dusky relic]

I've been using it, I just cant count apparently

Okay I think I might have solved it

[hidden sparrow]

I cant do math so i just use the satis modeler on steam

[cinder kraken]

any suggestions on what I can use 1275 heavy oil residue on

[green fiber]

coke

[cinder kraken]

man thats almost 4k /min

3825

[green fiber]

you ask what to do with it, not for a good plan

[boreal musk]

turn it into fuel for power

[timid rune]

HOR -> diluted fuel -> turbo -> nitro -> power

or fewer steps HOR->diluted fuel->Power

[dusky relic]

Any idea why my power capacity had a small jump?

[green fiber]

generator doesnt get enough fuel

[dusky relic]

Thats not it, everything is at 100%

I just got a small little boost

for a second

[timid rune]

a question to nuclear power friendos: do you make fuel rods somewhere else and transport it to your power plant complex?

[green fiber]

Regenerative train brake maybe lol

[timid rune]

or you send your raw mats in to make fuel rod right next to your plant complex

[mossy moon]

wait wat i never knew that was a thing

[green fiber]

!wikisearch Electric+Locomotive

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=Electric+Locomotive

[dusky relic]

OOooh

[green fiber]

Power consumption section

[dusky relic]

Thats 100% it

[outer sparrow]

Im too lazy to automate phase 4. any suggestions on how to overcome this?

[dusky relic]

Honestly, I just automate the parts to make the project parts, calculate what I need to produce

and then toss the items into storage containers and have those go into manufacturers

[outer sparrow]

smart

Ill do that too thanks!

[lime ermine]

Fuel into fuel gens for power

[swift kernel]

So it's not impossible this is somehow a mod problem, but does anyone else not have a text element in the portrait sign designer menu?

I just have a large "A" and no option to change that

[azure swan]

@vale hull are your cartoon pizza bits a reference to an existing cartoon or your original art?

[random grove]

People make lfg posts and then proceed to ignore every single person who replies 💀

[leaden turret]

people sleep

[golden warren]

Anyone know of a somewhat interesting way I could bring Coal down from a mountain to some iron?
-1100, -500 to the iron at -1670,-300, in particular.

Do I just send ramps all the way up there and bring it down on a conveyor?
Or can I somehow make a conveyor lift look interesting? (I think there's a max length on them so it'd need to be a few attached to eachother?

[leaden turret]

giant pickaxe

[frail sleet]

Also it's not really a "hop in and play for an hour" kind of LFG game. Satisfactory worlds go for hundreds of hours over as long as months or years of realtime 😛

[random grove]

Yeah thats not the problem, I just see multiple posts and people replying instantly or within 5 mins and then get never get replied too.

Do they sleep for 46 hours?

[mortal ginkgo]

Internet is full of people who can't say "no". Just consider too much time passing "no I guess."

its not about sleeping, some people may just not open the game for a while too 😛

[random grove]

Fair enough

[coarse geode]

spent 10 hours building a factory and now it doesnt work bc pipes are bugged, love it

[atomic notch]

[coarse geode]

800 needed, 2400 going in, pipes empty, fix ur game ffs

[oblique aspen]

pipes work fine if you use them right 🤷

[atomic notch]

fix ur factory lol

[clever pier]

build a big tower out of framework foundations, put glass windows on it , run the belt down the outside and put some nice colored lights inside the glass walls... will look great at nightt

[frail sleet]

offtopic but i love your pfp/quote :3

[random grove]

Screw this im just gonna make my own lfg post

[atomic notch]

Im down lol. Been lurking all day(avoiding work in my solo world)

also make sure you sort by date posted and not recently active

[pseudo turret]

Have anyone heard about the Ficsit-Network mod?

[atomic notch]

i have not

[pseudo turret]

Just found it

It’s says in the description that you can program you’re factory and automate things with Java script by placing down a computer station then you can start programming

There is also a control panel to it

[lucid pagoda]

Google gives me mixed answers, is there any chance this game comes to ps5 at some point?

[pseudo turret]

Look at this guys

https://ficsit.app/mod/FicsItNetworks

[atomic notch]

that does look cool

[pseudo turret]

Yeah I looked it up on YouTube to iam gonna use it on my save

[lime ermine]

Console support is coming later this year but that's all we know

[sterile blade]

Console publishing involves lots of NDAs... :/

[fossil ice]

Official Modding Discord

@pseudo turret Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @sterile blade

[sterile blade]

For issues or "how-to"s, they got you ☝️

[flat kestrel]

Is there a way to link my Epic Satisfactory to Steam so I can get the steam Achivements? 95% of my games are bought on steam but at the time a few years ago epic was giving away Satifactory so cheaply I went there instead which is kinda annoying beause its only 1 of 2 games I actually have on epic, half considering buying a steam version of Satisfactory

[spice patio]

No.

[frozen ingot]

i remember a time before Steam 😛

the notion of buying a game... again!... simply because it's not on a particular platform is mind boggling to me

when i want to play a game i play a game, i don't even think about which platform it is on

it's so abritrary! mind boggling away over here 😆

[mortal ginkgo]

BACK IN MAH DAYS 😄

Times change. This generation likes steam achievements but cant say no to free stuff either.

[frozen ingot]

yup 😄

i'm just pointing out (what seems to me, at least) the absurdity of buying something you already own

a digital thing at that, literally no difference 😛

all because of 'achievements' 😆

i'll go yell at some clouds

[mortal ginkgo]

if it matters to them that much, buying the game one more time wouldn't hurt. It's all about priorities.

[frozen ingot]

indeed. it would be a very worrying priority in my book 😛

[mortal ginkgo]

kek.

[vale hull]

They're from a game called Pizza Tower

[fresh wharf]

Hey, I'm currently gathering materials for the tier that unlocks the locomotive, should I use it over the zipline?

[random grove]

train for transporting things over large distances and between bases

[fresh wharf]

What about transporting me

[random grove]

zipline for personal transport only

[fresh wharf]

Okay thanks

If I have long conveyor belts, should I remove them and add the freight train instead?

[random grove]

pros and cons for each,

trains higher throughput
trains for long distance, belts better at short distance
trains less laggy
trains need stations, paths and scheduling set up, belts easier to place and adjust.
trains more complex
trains require power, belts dont.

--> trains also look much cooler than belt spaghetti

[green fiber]

Only if it benefits you really

[late steeple]

after 600 hours i finally 100% the game 🤟

that golden nut statue tho 😂 has coffee stain made any announcements for future roadmaps/content that maybe i missed?

[covert talon]

whats the best setting for "graphics API"?

[golden furnace]

30 HMFs/min using only iron, limestone, and water I need a long break

[bronze palm]

im so confused on how to use the satisfactory question website

how do you report a bug on there?

i thikn i figure dit out

[tight pawn]

somewhere in my world there is a blown power grid, and evey time i start the game, I have a blown fuse sound. how tf do i find it

[covert talon]

do u have many power grids?

[tight pawn]

only the 1, afaik, there is some isolated segment that has a blown breaker

[covert talon]

maybe upload the save to the interactive map and see there

[tight pawn]

no outposts that i cannon'ed out to and had to build a biomass thingy to cannon out of

it confirms the existence of numerous isolated grids but absolutely no clue where they are, i have filed a feature request since months for scim to add a 'zoom to fit' button on the power grids page

i have 19 tabs on the power grid view

it shows my rocket fuel is on a separate power grid than my coal and i know that's not true

and the things burning off petroleum coke as also isolate, also not true.
so yeah i guess i'm just randomly deleting parts of my map until the power grids view gets better

[lime ermine]

Depends the train draws more power but it's faster I'd say try both and use what you like better personally I still sometimes drive my resource transport trains just because they're fun

[fresh wharf]

Oh yeah also is it worth using automated tractors and trucks ?

[fresh wharf]

Alright

[green fiber]

its worth it if its useful for you.
How is it useful? Well thats up for you to decide

[lime ermine]

I use them for transport that's to close for trains and I don't want belts. They are however super annoying if you have two or more on the same path as they tend to crash and need you to manually restart them

[kindred gorge]

hello

[green fiber]

generally, vehicles are for mid-long range transport

[fresh wharf]

I remember a while ago some guy told me "Tractors? For transportation?"
I think he has a deep hate for that kind of transportation...

[green fiber]

500 - 750m, that kinda thing

[green fiber]

its can be difficult to set up complex transport networks with them

[fresh wharf]

Usually I do a conveyor from there to my hub...

[green fiber]

something really simple like 2 stops and a single vehicle running in circles between them is the easiest and usually best case

[fresh wharf]

Alright

[tight pawn]

my truck network as it was when i finished the gane -> #screenshots message

I also built my nuclear power plant's supply to be run off geothermal + trucks around the swamp

vehicles are fine, and fun

dumb af

[versed helm]

Hello, does anyone have a solution for the sulfuric acid loop for the uranium cell? factory stuck by output of sulfuric acid

[tight pawn]

just one tip, don't cross a path anything but perpendicular, and get used to building 'roads'

@versed helm are you familiar with McGalleon's pipeline manual?

[versed helm]

not really

[tight pawn]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/images/3/39/Pipeline_Manual.pdf

There are designs described in here that are perfect for feedback loops

[versed helm]

lesson 9 ?

i will check, thank you

[tight pawn]

page 16

@versed helm another approach is to have some of your output serve as input to another machine

that only runs on byproduct

[green fiber]

while not explicity in the manual as an example, for uranium cells theres an easy one:
4 blenders.
last blender gets all the byproduct acid, including its own

[tight pawn]

the ratios for aluminum suit this a lot

yeah, that

[golden warren]

Is there a way of telling a constructor how much of the input I want to use a minute?

Or let's say if I want to have a 250% foundry making 112.5 bars a minute, I need to open up the calculator and do 112..5/3?

Or maybe it's more efficient to overclock 2 constructors and do 2 managing the 112.5...

[green fiber]

(what you have / what it wants) x 100%

if you have 112.5 and the next machine wants 60 at 100%:
112.5 / 60 x 100% = 187.5%

[tulip pecan]

Both because I want to try playing a full vanilla game, and because I'm on 1.1 so I can't, I'm trying to avoid using mods. But my patience is being sorely tested by all the repetition involved in building even smaller factories. I made it to phase 4 and am about to build an aluminum factory, and I feel like I'm about to perform the same actions hundreds of times just to make a single "unit" of the factory, and then I want to make copies of that unit which will be hundreds more.

Before I break down and switch to 1.0 to make modded larger blueprints, can anyone recommend a good guide on ways to reduce repetition and "it's really hard to click in the exact right spot to make these dozen connections"?

[golden warren]

Ohhh, this cleared it up for me, thank you!

[green fiber]

this should go in #satisfactory-experimental but any way:
do you mean the repetition of having autoconnect connect BPs the right way?

or do you mean the manual connection of stuff in general

[tulip pecan]

not just connection, but also placement. and yes, in general.

1.1 makes it better with auto connect, when it works, but most of the issues are still there

I'm sure I'm not the first person to have these gripes. Hell, the devs make fun of it in the voiceover when you unlock blueprinters. So I'm hoping someone has put together a guide on all the interface/mechanics tricks that reduce the strain

[golden warren]

I made a blueprint in the first blueprint maker that has all smelters etc connected and 1 in.
So I build that at a new ore site for example, and then just disconnect as many as appropriate for the node I'm using

There might be a better way (Maybe some poeple have a blueprint for 2, 3 and 4 smelters for example, with the 1 input ready?)

[tulip pecan]

I have blueprints for 2 and 4 smelters

I'll probably make for 8 soon

the existing blueprint system is pretty good for that sort of thing, completely identical units that will get used dozens of times

[versed helm]

im using only one blender a 130% overclocking, so i need 36/m of sulfuric and 12/m from blender himself

[green fiber]

for a single blender there is no neat solution

other than clocking the sulfuric acid refinery to only make what the blender needs, minus the byproduct from the blender

[versed helm]

exactly what i did, but the blender stuck cause input from refinery has priority over the blender

[green fiber]

it doesnt have priority, both have equal priority.
no valves on the pipe i assume?

[frozen cloud]

can always use leached copper/iron/caterium to get rid of it

[versed helm]

i put a valve on pipe from raffinery, i will try if it works or not

[green fiber]

put it to the exact value that the blender should get and then wait a while

[versed helm]

ok

[green fiber]

or flush the pipe once

[versed helm]

i will empty the blender and see if it works with valve

Good, it works, thanks @green fiber

[tall sable]

do we have an eta of when 1.1 fully releases?

[frozen cloud]

no

[golden furnace]

No master please dont give me decimal inputs please dont make me send overflows of overflows of overflows in the name of efficiency

[reef basin]

when there will be a date, it will be in #announcements

[grizzled lotus]

how does the programmable splitter differ fromt he smart splitter?

[rose lagoon]

Hi, can someone advice what the hell is with lumen in the game? Sorry I'm already quite frustrated trying to figure it out for hours just to see everyone have beautiful images like this https://i.imgur.com/xYpBpq7.png

while I have potato like this https://i.imgur.com/NYt5KP2.png 😦

Any ideas?

[rapid wren]

i feel like satisfactory is a master class in making small things feel very satisfactory

all the weapons

the space elevator

watching things start to work

ramping up and filling up

[frail sleet]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1350576664068755476

It's still quirky and generally bad (because it's fake software RT with bad settings available) but much less bad

[prisma thicket]

The smart splitter can only set one item per output, so it's limited to sorting 3 items from a sushi belt. The programmable splitter can do several items per output.

[heady atlas]

By the way, MAM is very short, how many versions are there? All of them are 3 seconds, only the hard drive is 10 minutes. I know that the times were different in the beginning, both in the hub. Will there be such a change again? Instead of being in the hub, there is a change in the search time. Or is the artificial intelligence in MAM very advanced, so it can search quickly, but does it stay when it reaches the hard drive?

[sacred summit]

Hey all... still trying to find a way to make this Blueprint designer useful, and I've ran into what I think is a bug. Can anywone tell me why some times the conveyor will attach to a conveyor wall on the edge and sometimes it won't?

Example:
https://imgur.com/SUxYIdd

one is clearly attached, one won't.

The only difference I can see is the 90* bend being closer to the wall, but I can't see how that would matter

[frail sleet]

Your error message is that it's going out of the blueprint designer

[sacred summit]

Yeah, and it's not

[frail sleet]

I can't really see from that close up & low fov

[sacred summit]

It's going to the exact same "edge" that the conveyor that's connected to the same exact wall

Right next to it

[frail sleet]

are you connecting from conveyor pole to wall in both cases?

because sometimes it only works from thing to wall, rather than from wall to thing for example.

[peak wasp]

Had to move to the experimental branch just for a vertical splitter.

Sure hope this doesn't destroy my save 🙏

[sacred summit]

https://imgur.com/nXeMBOh Might be clearer what my issue is here.

[sacred summit]

Yep, all I did was shorten the conveyor so the 90-degree bend is closer. Both are from pole-to-wall

[rose lagoon]

I actually just figured out by updating GPU drivers (I thought I had up-to-date enough but apparently not). It was some wrongdoing in DirectX 12 (Dx11 was working ok but the FPS drops were a thing there)

[jovial oracle]

Bro this wild boar chased me for 3 kilometers and is still chasing me

Why is he so fast

I got up on a tower but he is still down there

I am so low on health
what do i do

he aint leaving

[frozen ingot]

kill it? 😄

3km though?

never had a hostile creature follow farther than like 200m or so, idk

[frail sleet]

Ah i forgot ye, one of the drivers breaks lumen. It's discussed in that thread tho

[young crest]

why are some machines idling even though they are supplied with everything?

[frozen ingot]

just noticed exp branch on Epic still has the Update 8 image 😆

[outer sparrow]

why are the items on the belts gets really blurry on some angles?

[zenith pecan]

Blurry like this? #satisfactory-experimental message

[outer sparrow]

yea

thanks!

[zenith pecan]

Np, I wondered if it was the same issue I encountered way back in testing 🙂

[sand bolt]

question do hyper tube launchers still work

or did they patch them

[sullen gull]

Nope, they work just dandy

[proper hound]

Fun historical detail:
They accidentally bugfixed the behavior in the past when fixing hypertube issues, then coded the functionality in, so we could keep using the launchers. So it is highly likely that hypertube cannons will remain operable in future versions.

[junior laurel]

They fixed the bug and unfixed it for the feature :)

[sand bolt]

thats amazing

i remember using them all the time when i game first came out

[leaden ether]

Late reply but since no one answered, a machine will also idle if the output buffer is full and not being drained fast enough (or at all)

[outer sparrow]

why are the supercomputers production numbers so... specific?

[junior laurel]

Super computer mean super specific

[outer sparrow]

is there a way to make the numbers better?

[leaden ether]

Well the numbers for the input are even, it's the 1.875 per minute output rate that makes them look screwy.

[outer sparrow]

the high speed connectors input speed doesnt look good

[leaden ether]

If you boost the output to an even 2 per minute or limit to 1 per minute the numbers should look sane on the inputs

[jovial oracle]

Finally built my coal power plant. I am proud 😃

[hard ivy]

Numbers like any other

Doesn't really matter

[jovial oracle]

You're a jaguar, you would know better 😭

No offense intended