#satisfactory

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dreamy kestrel
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i am aware it was a joke but its a common misconception

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theres plenty of reasons to be opposed to coal power but "we'll run out eventually" isnt really a good one

obsidian bluff
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Bro didn't have to go with the public execution method ๐Ÿ˜ญ

dreamy kestrel
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anyway i digress sorry

obsidian bluff
dreamy kestrel
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well its kind of my job lol

obsidian bluff
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Lmao yeah that makes a lot more sense

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I don't understand why people are so afraid of nuclear power

boreal musk
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ig ppl are still afraid of chernobyl incident

obsidian bluff
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I honestly believe it's the Simpsons and other cartoon's representation of it

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As some Green glowy liquid that kills everything

obsidian bluff
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No, it's a rock, dunk it in water it'll sit for thousands of years

hollow vector
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THAT IS SO TRUE

dreamy kestrel
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acute externalities are a lot more visible than diluted ones

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pollution from dirty power sources is a lot more harmful than nuclear but a single nuclear accident gets a lot more bad press (even if its a fairly minor incident)

hollow vector
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"12 people dead in coal power plant fire"
no one cares
"cat meows within 80 miles within a nuclear power plant"
tragic11!11!1

obsidian bluff
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Facts

tepid bear
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People are short-sighted. Big nuclear accident is bad right now. Coal usage is bad later.

Same reason why people would rather pay $10/month instead of $100/year for something. It's only $10 right now.

obsidian bluff
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But idk, I'm all for green energy... if it works

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If it's efficiency is lower than it is worth installing then what is the point of it?

hollow vector
obsidian bluff
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Ikr

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It all depends on efficiency, cause panels need regular maintenance too, same as any device

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It also needs to be recycled after about 5-10 years to maintain peak efficiency, and it all adds up over and over and finally you realise that 1 reactor replaces multi-kilometre solar or wind farms

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In co2 emissions

hollow vector
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nothing is truley unreliant on oil

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wind turbine needs lubricant for its generator
nuclear requires lubricant for its turbine
solar needs replacing

obsidian bluff
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Yeah so green energy without nuclear is no more than a scam

hollow vector
reef basin
obsidian bluff
cyan moss
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Really struggling to figure out why my load balancer isnt keeping up

I decided to make lanes of 6 coal gens so each needs 90, I have been sending 180 to it by splitting 1 normal mk2 with another normal mk2 so should be 120+60 and not clue why the 12 gens arent being maintained properly

obsidian bluff
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So same as in satisfactory's geysers, your demand is constant, but your energy variance increases

reef basin
cyan moss
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Mainly because then I need to do water in a funny way

queen lodge
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does anyone know fi theres aus satisfacroy servers to join?

reef basin
dense violet
fossil iceBOT
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Official Satisfactory Wiki

Coal Generator Schematic.png
The Coal Generator is a power generator building that generates power by burning Coal, Compacted Coal or Petroleum Coke and Water. It is the first fully automated power source the pioneer has access to and also the first power source to use a mined resource.
One Coal Generator...

hollow vector
dense violet
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it's very simple

reef basin
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obsidian bluff
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I have a clip which explains it but theoretically, at our current state, electric car total efficiency of power to movement conversion CANNOT exceed 25%, in theory

dense violet
cyan moss
hollow vector
cyan moss
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Fine if I get bored tomorrow I'll rebuild entire coal plant. Idk

reef basin
obsidian bluff
obsidian bluff
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And it's mainly done with electrolysis, so, again, efficiency plummets

hollow vector
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uhh
this is a terrible stupid idea which will have at most 12% effiency but

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cant we perform that on sewage systems?

cyan moss
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Can use rotation of wheels to help maintain efficiency of hydrogen generation

obsidian bluff
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We need technology, on that I can agree

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We also need MANY MANY more nuclear reactors cause if people were to go electric the power consumption would be ungodly

hollow vector
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fusion?? perhaps?

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fusion is always coming but never arrives

obsidian bluff
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Fusion is a good step

cyan moss
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Fusion is like at least 20 years away

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I think they maintained one in china for 17 minutes or something

obsidian bluff
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Ideal way to do this is to make oil more expensive so people stop relying on it as much and let the change come to them NATURALLY rather than forcefully

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Through laws or fines

reef basin
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also not sure where you got the info, but electric cars have like 90% efficiency (when including recaptured energy)

obsidian bluff
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Once demand is up, car manufacturers will invent stuff to incentive further purchases same as what happened to ICE cars

cyan moss
wide cedar
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ohhhhh

cyan moss
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Does nothing for emissiojs unless everyone does it

reef basin
wide cedar
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this explains why @trim vine said im raw dogging the game

obsidian bluff
wide cedar
hollow vector
wide cedar
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A mining and crafting game*?*

obsidian bluff
reef basin
obsidian bluff
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Electric car efficiency is exactly proportional to the energy source it uses, and currently the most popular one is fossil

hollow vector
reef basin
obsidian bluff
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Fuel to movement conversion

reef basin
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but then it's irrelevant where does the power come from

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because you care about already stored energy

obsidian bluff
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?? It's VERY relevant

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How are you supposed to calculate efficiency of a motor without the motor? It's entirely illogical

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You Have to take into consideration the method of energy production

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There is quite literally no other way to do it

reef basin
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the car always uses e.g. 85% of energy to move, 15% is lost

whether the original energy was generated from wind, solar, nuclear or coal is irrelevant, because in all those cases the efficiency of the car is the same

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yes, different energy methods have different viability or whatever, but the car itself doesn't care where the energy comes from. The MJs aren't different when they come from nuclear or coal

obsidian bluff
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So you're proposing to calculate efficiency without taking the method of energy production?

And thus ignoring that it is the deciding factor of co2 impact?

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I do not agree at all with your logic, do as you might

reef basin
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I'm saying those are two different things

hollow vector
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can we all agree that mpge is ass?

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litterally only made to make evs look good

obsidian bluff
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True that

reef basin
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let's say a car needs 100kJ to move from point A to point B. And the only thing that matters is how many kJs of stored energy the motor needs to generate that movement (aka how much is lost due to e.g. friction and such)

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so if it needs 125kJ, then the car's efficiency is 100/125 -> 80%

obsidian bluff
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"The results show that power plant efficiency has a significant consequence on WTW efficiency. The total WTW efficiency of gasoline ICEV ranges between 11-27 %, diesel ICEV ranges from 25 % to 37 % and CNGV ranges from 12 % to 22 %. The EV fed by a natural gas power plant shows the highest WTW efficiency which ranges from 13 % to 31 %. While the EV supplied by coal-fired and diesel power plants have approximately the same WTW efficiency ranging between 13 % to 27 % and 12 % to 25 %, respectively."

reef basin
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you're talking about conversion of fuel to power in power plant -> charge in vehicle

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but that's efficiency of power plants, not electric cars

obsidian bluff
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They're multiplicative

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I'm just saying there is no incentive atm as until nuclear or renewable are more popular, the real world efficiency or WTW is same or lower than ICE cars

reef basin
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but you can't say "electric cars are inefficient"

obsidian bluff
reef basin
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because the cars themseleves are efficient

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it's the power plants that aren't

obsidian bluff
reef basin
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(and for the same reason you can include the whole gasoline processing into the gasoline powered car's calculations and see how crap that is)

obsidian bluff
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But we're not talking about car efficiency specifically are we now? We're talking impact and WTW

hollow vector
reef basin
hollow vector
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why cant people use bikes?

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or public transit

obsidian bluff
hollow vector
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bikes are able to be used anywhere unlike public transit so theres 0 difference

reef basin
obsidian bluff
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Anyways, let's leave this topic, it's spam in this channel atp

obsidian bluff
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Embed fail

exotic oak
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lmao

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the double fail

reef basin
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not fail, just disabled ๐Ÿคท

exotic oak
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aw

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dangit

hollow vector
exotic oak
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How do i switch what side of the hypertube Juntction i come out of cus even if i hold Right while in the tube i come out the left

boreal musk
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press E

hollow vector
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or q

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source: i dink

exotic oak
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ooooooooh

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yea

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das a bit weird i feel like just holding the direction would make more sense

true mulch
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Funny that it even tells you the key (unless you have them disabled) yet everyone gets it wrong

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Really unintuitive. I hope they'll fix it

sterile blade
covert vault
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If you're referring to it's power source, that's not a deficit of the vehicle, that's a deficit of the power grid.

obsidian bluff
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Topic's closed man, read the room

covert vault
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because that statement is more of a reach than Mr Incredible scratching his own ass by reaching around the globe.

pearl nova
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guys im a bit losted i reached phase 3 but now idk...should i make a factory for all the parts that are not the basic ones like (screws , iron plates and rods) or should i just build everything in each factory? idk if that would cause a problem latter for lack of crude oil nodes or something

timid rune
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Cooling device alt seems to be a decent alt by trading off nitrogen usage with more complex inputs

lilac plaza
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i love spagetti

latent prawn
boreal musk
latent prawn
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btw, the handful of motors you need for cooling device are easily made with iron pipe & iron wire

pearl nova
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so i should build 1 factory for each more complex part

boreal musk
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independent factories are easier to manage than centralization

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plan from endgoal, how much you want to produce/min, how much resources you need, and find the location you want to build that factory

wide cedar
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@spiral badger ๐Ÿ˜ญ

crimson jewel
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I remembered to turn my factory back on before going afk for a couple hours, are you proud

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I've forgotten every single other time bc a single power pole was unlinked somewhere

timid rune
pearl nova
boreal musk
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build how much you need for now

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if u still cant decide, build at least 1-2 machines of said item
for example, 2 manufacturer of hmf

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no need to build big on your first playthrough

pearl nova
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ok thx for helping now i think i kinda now what to do

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im using satisfactory calculator so i kinda now what resources i need

boreal musk
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use tools, better planning than calc

lilac plaza
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i just started this game where is crude oil at

boreal musk
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hold and press V with crude oil icon to scan nearest node

fathom grove
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He probably wont find em doggobonk

pearl nova
south sinew
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mk5 is really nice

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super cheap, you can stop worrying about belt cost and just use mk5 everywhere

rapid wren
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yeah mark 4 can be annoying if you don't let the assembler work for hours to build up a store

hidden pendant
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fun fact: the regular hypertube junction will by default always suggest the left exit, while the branch junction will always preffer straight.

crimson jewel
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found a drop pod and every single item around is something I've never seen before, woah

fathom grove
jade glade
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how can I rename a vehicle?

fathom grove
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We can rename a vehicle ?

simple echo
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Just found out I can double the amount of shards I get from slugs by using somersloopssnuttpog

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Now I will actually bother w semi-automating slugs

shell sluice
shell sluice
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because doggos?

reef basin
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because T9

ivory condor
simple echo
ivory condor
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I don't know how many people know of the sloop tricks with slug power shard crafting

simple echo
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(On T8 currently)

ivory condor
spiral badger
wide cedar
spiral badger
wide cedar
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๐Ÿ˜ญ wha

old yarrow
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Is there a limit to how long drones can be in a holding hover for? will they run out of fuel

dense violet
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afaik, no

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doesn't count towards 'distance'

old yarrow
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alr thanks

true blade
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Anyone knows why its just loading when i try to join a friends world?

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its just standing satisfactory and a wheel spinning for ages

reef basin
true blade
hollow pelican
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random question am i the only one by who the game crashes when i open my inventory

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alright it was because of mods

reef basin
true blade
cyan moss
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You dont need to be friends lol

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You just give them session ID

hollow hazel
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@proper hound #satisfactory-memes message
Got inspiration from Wonko the Sane, I see? ๐Ÿ˜„
For context: From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there lives a man on Earth who built a house where outside was Inside the Asylum with all the furniture and inside was Outside the Asylum looking like a park.

spice patio
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<@&370483737957236737> Stream thread wasn't created when the information post about todays stream was made.

tall ivy
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DL'd a patch today, prep for release?

green fiber
spice patio
covert talon
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what technology do you guys think the resource scanner uses

hollow hazel
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MAGIK snort

unborn orchid
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AI ๐Ÿ‘€

fathom grove
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Server badge when ?

reef basin
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hopefuly never

fathom grove
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why ?

reef basin
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shit feature that just pollutes the space

rough bolt
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what's the shortcut for taking half of every one type of item?

green fiber
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Dont think theres a shortcut for only half of everything

wanton mist
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is there a dimensional depot downloader?

green fiber
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Nope

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Its only for you personally, not a production teleporter.

wanton mist
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well that sucks

urban root
green fiber
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And would take away the fun of building logistics

hollow hazel
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And I just made a discovery. Signs do not make a good substitute for lighting up a place. They do not light a wall if their front is not in view (facing away or not in camera view).

urban root
hollow hazel
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Which option is that? Global Illumination?

trim vine
urban root
hollow hazel
# urban root Yes! That's the one

It was on, I looked at a single-color super-bright sign that was turned towards a wall, and the wall did not light up until I looked into the bright light.

plain shard
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how many hits does it take to kill an alpha stinger with the xeno zapper? bc ive died like 15 times trying to get my stuff back from this guy

true mulch
plain shard
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then this guy should be dead wtf ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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ive definitely hit this mf over 20 times

rough bolt
plain shard
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takes me about 10-20 seconds to get there

rough bolt
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Why don't you just rollback your save?

plain shard
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bc theres coal there that i wanna get :(

rough bolt
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Well you know where it is

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You can just roll it back and try again when you have your equipment

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Better than fighting an alpha stinger with a zapper.

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Or without one I mean

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Either way

plain shard
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how long does it take a monster to reload

leaden turret
plain shard
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then why the hell isnt it dead

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ive hit it WAY over 10 times

leaden turret
hollow hazel
leaden turret
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hit what with? sf_xeno_zapper ? ๐Ÿ˜›

plain shard
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i only have a xeno zapper :(

leaden turret
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get you some catwiggle sf_xeno_basher ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ

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or some

sf_nobelisk sf_nobelisk sf_nobelisk
sf_nobelisk catwiggle sf_nobelisk
sf_nobelisk sf_nobelisk sf_nobelisk

plain shard
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it got stuck in terrain

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it is now dead thank GOD

leaden turret
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this is where you turn around and get yeeted off a cliff by a radioactive hog

plain shard
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god i hope not

leaden turret
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hog hog hog ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธโ€โžก๏ธ

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@open bone <@&370483737957236737> off-brand Pioneer Minigfig merch, scale articulated Pioneer merch, golf in game, or skateboarding in game, which'll come first?

small owl
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What's the purpose of the extra belt holes on the industrial storage containers, is it just extra slots to put more items in at once? Or does one output slot have priority and you can setup overflow? Am I overthinking this?

brazen goblet
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hey guys, anyone know a decent way to snap road barriers to ramps without save editing?

brazen goblet
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essentially double

leaden turret
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stack them vertically, flipping them back and forth, connect with belts, all of them fill up

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but yeah, also that. lets you skip using splitters/mergers in some scenarios whilst also giving you the opportunity to steal/inject production

white dawn
open bone
hard ivy
white dawn
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When belts can't be saturated out of an ISC, one output will have priority over the other, but which one gets priority is basically randomly decided, and can change every time you load the game. So definitely can't be used as a splitter

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(though, again, if the ISC is full -- can saturate both output belts -- then it'll split evenly between them)

leaden turret
open bone
leaden turret
leaden turret
leaden turret
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mini-A or usb-c charging?

open bone
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And remote controller takes two AAA

hard ivy
open bone
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Or, micro?

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The cable is included

leaden turret
hard ivy
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do you mean micro-B?

open bone
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Yes, I have edited my past comment. Nobody will know my prior error.

trim vine
leaden turret
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@open bone .... does it have enough juice to yeet itself up a scale quarter pipe?

open bone
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Using that reference, it's just "Micro USB"

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It's super zippy. Extremely easy to do a quarter backflip.

hard ivy
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micro A and micro B are different

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it's just that nobody uses micro A anymore

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so mirco B is just micro

leaden turret
open bone
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Some people say "Quarter backflip" just means falling backwards, but whenever I do it, I hear the Tony Hawk orchestra hit.

small owl
hollow hazel
leaden turret
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@open bone would remote control truck work in not-lego format, or would the scale be too yikes to have a cart-compatible truck?

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(cart-compatible as in made of the same sizes bricks but to-scale with in-game size diff)

open bone
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A scale Truck would be a few feet long

leaden turret
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so... that's a "we would make one just for CSS but we don't think it's a good idea to sell a several-feet long not-lego set" ? ๐Ÿ˜…

white dawn
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Ooh, that merch all looks pretty hot

leaden turret
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FICSIT does not waste

open bone
white dawn
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Was this just announced today, or did I miss it earlier?

open bone
leaden turret
open bone
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As I said, it's bigger and more complex than the first impression

leaden turret
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also, will the kickstarter pledge system support getting both pad & mat (i.e. one not-in-box as an addon) ?

open bone
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yes, we've done that with "Your choice of Coffee Cup" in the past couple.

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The pad or mat doesn't fit inside the box. They ship along side, so it's easy to switch.

abstract heron
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is there a video this week or is that next week?

leaden turret
latent prawn
scarlet kettle
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hello, what kind of fuel should i build? turbofuel or rocketfuel?

brazen goblet
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hey anyone here have experience with the SCIM save editor?

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Im trying to rotate something within my blueprint designer

leaden turret
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yes but also it has it's own discord if nobody here has an answer

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oooh... I have not rotated anything in SCIM in quite some time

brazen goblet
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Im trying to rotate a road barrier so it fits to a ramp

leaden turret
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(I did some math to align some pillars "perfectly")

brazen goblet
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because why ramp road barriers dont exist

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is beyond me

leaden turret
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something something context menu something something tada

brazen goblet
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ahah i found it

leaden turret
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did I half-remember it correctly? ๐Ÿ˜…

brazen goblet
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i just needed to reduced the z axis until the blue print designer disappeared but the roadbarrier was still there

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then i can rotate it normally

leaden turret
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ah, altitude filter of everything else in the way?

brazen goblet
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but customising it to my roads

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because my roads are special...

brazen goblet
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honestly fuck google, how is arctan of 1/8 5.625 degrees, its 7.125056...

atomic notch
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Should turn like refineries sideways

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Then u just need vertical manifolds. Would be super compact

weak steeple
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I just finished fase 3, i am kinda overwhelmed but, one thing i dont understand is, u build a massive factory of reinforced iron plates, like 50/m for example, how do u distribute it, like if a factory needs 22/m and another needs 28/m how do u distribute it effectively?

trim vine
trim vine
weak steeple
trim vine
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not in 1.0, in 1.1 I have heard of priority splitters and such, but not sure if they can handle rations and such

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I tell all "new" players this; the following is your priority list throughtout the whole game

  1. Power
  2. Aggressive MAM Research
  3. Whatever you want
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To give you an example; alt recipes allow you to NEVER use a single screw or iron rod again

weak steeple
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Lmao really?

trim vine
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Yes

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With the exception of Rebar ammo for the rebar gun

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and screw for building a few things such as MAM, and some player equipment

weak steeple
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Thats wild thanks

trim vine
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but automated stuff, you can get rid of them for the most part

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Hard Drives are so important, and most new players beat their head against the wall trying to use baseline recipes

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which work, and can be done, but logistically, it can be daunting

weak steeple
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Yeah i felt that when doing fase 3 components

trim vine
# weak steeple Thats wild thanks

Also, one more BIG thing

You do NOT need to select a recipe when the hard drive is done scanning, it moves to the hard drive library and those recipes will not appear again when other hard drives are scanned.

You can also load a hard drive into the MAM and then delete the MAM, and the hard drive keeps scanning

frail sleet
south cliff
atomic notch
frail sleet
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cast screw is highly efficient

atomic notch
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Bolted plates or whatever

vestal mica
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isn't cast screws the same amount of screws for x amount of iron as the base recipe?

atomic notch
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Steel screw is the goat for production lines.

vestal mica
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it's just slightly more convenient. but not really efficient

hard ivy
atomic notch
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This guys afraid of screws

vestal mica
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steel rods and a billion constructors making base screw recipe is the way

hard ivy
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no, they're just inconvenient and expensive. I see no reason to bother with them

frail sleet
# vestal mica it's just slightly more convenient. but not really efficient

They're both the most efficient ways to make screws, but cast screw does it 1 fewer constructor stage.

Screws are the most resource-efficient way to make some items (the alts to remove screws cost more resources).

Steel screws consume carbon, which is more limited than iron both on the local and whole map scale

atomic notch
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Cope

hard ivy
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"Alts to remove screws cost more resources." with exactly one exception (steel rotor), this is incorrect

vestal mica
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i think by most measures, steel rods is the most resource efficient way to make screws

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not cast screws

scarlet kettle
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how do you manage 2 trains that have to go into the same station?

trim vine
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it will save you the headache

frail sleet
scarlet kettle
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so you have to build a station for each item?

hard ivy
trim vine
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or to differe locations

frail sleet
trim vine
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If the sulfur and coal are going to the same place, just build more frieght cars (1 engine for every 3-4 freight cars or so if you have a lot of inclines)

scarlet kettle
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i want to bring 2 different items to different locations

trim vine
scarlet kettle
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but theyre so wide idk if i have space

trim vine
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There is always more space ๐Ÿ˜›

west jackal
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I don't use the nas for my desktop, that has its own 6 TB of storage

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My laptop is low tho it only has 768GB ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Its enough for one satisfactory world, right?

vestal mica
frail sleet
vestal mica
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what are you saving all your coal for. i probably dont' build big enough

reef forge
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does anyone have a fix for my blueprints just showing up as a white arrow

vestal mica
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to encounter running out of coal

frail sleet
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It's not a problem for just finishing the game, but broadly looking at resource efficiency you can scale much larger if you spend iron and limestone instead of coal, aluminum, SAM etc.

distant hill
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What precisely is considered a 'mega' factory? I saw a clip where somebody was planning out an area to build 301 mod frames a minute, no idea what they were doing with them. I was looking at doing '10 per' on all of the final elevator products which clocks in at over 10k iron and 15k copper ingots just as a 'baseline' I guess... ๐Ÿค”

vestal mica
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how many diamonds are you making?

frail sleet
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you are eventually forced to stop because some resources no longer exist, but there is still 30,000 iron and limestone sitting there

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and that's if you spend zero coal or copper on something that you can do with iron, and use limestone everywhere that it can help at all.

If you're not doing that, other stuff runs out earlier while you have even more spare iron and limestone

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It's broadly true locally as well, if you say that you wanna build as much stuff as possible within say 500m of [location], you're much more likely to run out of coal, baux, copper etc rather than iron and limestone

latent prawn
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diamonds are weird. a casual playthrough doesn't require a lot of them for just completing the elevator parts. when you are looking to continuously produce things that require dark matter crystal, then the amount of diamond you need ramps up to be world-sucking on coal and possibly oil

steady edge
vestal mica
# frail sleet When you build as many things as is possible to do with the map resources, a lot

interesting. i've just never gotten close to planning something that used all of a single resource on the map. seems like copper or bauxite would be the bottleneck before coal if you really tried to generate max sink points or max phase 5 elevator parts or whatever giant project you are doing. but yeah, i guess if you are truly trying to "beat" the game you have to do pure iron ingots everywhere and use it to make iron wire and iron pipes and put all your coal into uh, turbo diamonds? is that the best diamond recipe if you're truly trying to max?

peak harness
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I a pioneer

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Wanna lick a somersloop

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For humanity and for ficsit

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I would do it

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Tell me number 408th, his deserve thanks

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"JERANIMO"

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Dies from 3 Terawatt worth of electrical current

proper hound
peak harness
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Aaww

pearl walrus
#

Stupid mathematician contradicts himself๐Ÿ˜ก

proper hound
pearl walrus
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Okay, I mean it makes sense that ouzside the fence is the mist area but lthe the mathematicians placement within or outside that area has no imoact on its volume๐Ÿฆง

pearl walrus
jade glade
#

is 1.1 coming next week?

reef basin
fiery garden
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how dare you

steady edge
#

how's quickwire stator as a recipe? good?

frozen ingot
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good if you want to make stators without copper and instead with caterium ๐Ÿ˜›

steady edge
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makes sense

tribal elk
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can a given drone port host multiple drones?

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that is, drones that each travel the same route

sturdy mural
tribal elk
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ok thanks

white dawn
tribal elk
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if a drone cant finish unloading (port output is full), does it get halted?

white dawn
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Folks get hung up on "tier lists" and stuff for recipes, and it's true that some recipes are more generally useful than others, but "good/bad" is rarely (some would say never) a label you can stick on a recipe in isolation

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It's also worth noting that it's generally the full recipe chain which needs taking into account, rather than a recipe in isolation

reef basin
white dawn
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On its own, maybe a recipe looks kind of bad compared to others, but then you realize that if you combine it with these other two recipes, suddenly the whole production chain really shines, etc. (or the other way around)

tribal elk
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also, if a drone input is full, but the port has more it wants to load into the drone, does the drone get halted?

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i can test those myself, but only later

white dawn
steady edge
# reef basin same as any other recipe - depends how you like it or not

I like recipes like cast screws because it's awesome. Another recipe which is awesome is iron wire, but I don't like it because it doesn't make any logical sense since you're turning iron (not a great conduction) into copper, a whole different element. but i'm still gonna use it because it's too good not to.

white dawn
tribal elk
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ok

white dawn
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So the only "blocking" behavior occurs on delivery, when a drone's attempting to deliver its load

tribal elk
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that's all i needed to know

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thanks

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i think i can make phase 5 a drone only operation, then

white dawn
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(Which is why I generally have "fuel/battery depot" sites not have drones attached; I have remote drone sites have a dedicated fuel/battery-fetcher drone. After a couple of fuel-delivery trips, the fuel-delivery drone will spend nearly all its time waiting at the remote site, leaving the fuel depot open for any other site to use)

reef basin
white dawn
tribal elk
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might need a dedicated iodine filter factory if i end up with radioactive drones everywhere jace_smile

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die nature!

white dawn
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If you automate a mere 5/min iodine filters, you can spend literally the rest of the game with radioactive material in your inventory and never take damage (so long as you remember to pull some fresh stacks from your Depot periodically). :)

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A filter line is well worth it, IMO

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(In practice you could get away with far less than 5/min, for most folks, though time spent doing maintenance on your nuclear setup could put a strain on the supply)

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But yeah, radioactive drone sites is one reason why I don't like using nuclear rods for drone fuel

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Which is admittedly slightly hypocritical of me, since I'm constantly saying that nuclear waste storage isn't a big deal, but I'll defend it since at least in that scenario you're generally choosing the one location that accumulates rad material. :P

latent prawn
# steady edge how's quickwire stator as a recipe? good?

qw stator saves on steel but is more costly on caterium & copper. overally that tends to make it less 'good', but if you're dealing with limited pipe production and need a slightly larger yield, it can work pretty well. I'll note for a comparable amount of copper & caterium, default stator with fused wire makes more stators at the cost of pipe

sturdy mural
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oh my god

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i found out about Blueprint BP build mode

sullen gull
sturdy mural
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and suddenly the foundation blueprints make sense

sturdy mural
sullen gull
sturdy mural
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am i supposed to be able to put like an X merge with the lock feature?

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i try to place it but i can't because too close, yet if i press H i can
will it work??

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also how the hell do you do rails nicely

reef basin
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use beams to align to any angle

sturdy mural
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beams to align??

pearl walrus
#

Someoen said gases are liquids a couple weeks ago is that true?

sullen gull
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More talking about corners on curves, but the principles still apply.

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Beams and pillars are a couple of the strongest tools for doing while things with building.

sturdy mural
sullen gull
pearl walrus
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Oh i found it, the physical definition of liquids is amsomething wothout a definitve shape but fixed volume

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Some flat earther started talking to me about " are gases liquids" so i had to double check

sullen gull
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And, gasses are compressed when packaged as well .

sullen gull
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I had a guy at a plant tell me once "Oh yeah, I'm a flat earther. And whatever the government tells me, I believe the opposite"

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But, at least lousiana is making or has made legislation to ban chem trails! ... smh

pearl walrus
#

Ye that line of tomhiught literally kills peopleand ends societies, its a tragedy

dreamy kestrel
#

Presumably what they meant is that gasses are fluids, which is true

sullen gull
#

Fluids technically have three states right?

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Solid, liquid, and gaseous?

pearl walrus
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In physics, a liquid is a state of matter with a definite volume but no fixed shape. It can flow and conform to the shape of its container, unlike a solid, but it doesn't expand to fill the container like a gas.

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Oh its both fluids lol

sullen gull
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Yeah, gas is still considered a fluid.. I was thinking you meant in game ๐Ÿ˜

pearl walrus
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I guess the price of being a german is losing to a flat earther in a debate about states of matter because of the language barrier

dreamy kestrel
#

Well they might have used the wrong term themselves, I don't exactly trust flat Earthers to use scientific jargon completely accurately

keen sky
white dawn
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Er, I suppose that's slightly misspoken

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You could have a drone being sourced from the fuel depot, and it'd still end up spending most of its time parked at the remote site

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But since you can only have one drone assigned to a given "home" port, you'd only be able to do that once

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But if you have fuel-fetchers whose "home" port is at the remote sites, you can have a bunch of those configured to pull from the same fuel depot port, and it should work fine

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(Make sure to have an ISC or two as a fuel/battery "buffer" in front of each port at the depot site, since when you spin up new sites the drone will generally take 3-4 full loads before everything fills up over there)

sullen gull
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Yeah, it's best to leave port wherever the fuel is coming from empty. and just make an 'extra' port at the other sites to fetch fuel from that one port

white dawn
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I generally put in 2-3 ports at my fuel depots, and kind of load-balance between 'em, though you could almost certainly get away with just one

white dawn
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(ie: the first drone site I build takes from Depot Port 1, the next takes from Depot Port 2, etc, and then I loop back around, etc)

keen sky
#

Ok, I think I mightโ€™ve successfully stumbled onto the correct way when laying mine out. Iโ€™m currently in mid phase 4 struggling with deciding how to proceed

sullen gull
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And, as you said earlier, a single drone can only have one destination, but multiple drones can use a 'single' port.

steady edge
#

if you store your rebar ammo in the dimensional depot, can you shoot ammo stored in it while exploring?

white dawn
steady edge
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aw

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well, no big deal

white dawn
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(see also: jetpack fuel, chainsaw fuel)

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Yeah, not a big deal. I agree it'd be kind of a nice qol though

sullen gull
tranquil maple
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that isnt that game-breaking tho

atomic notch
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Would ruin my pvp worlds

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Make a mod for it tho if u really want it

tribal elk
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imagine having to consume sam to store things in the depot

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i actually wouldnt mind that change

sullen gull
atomic notch
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Make a mod for it tho if u really want it

dreamy kestrel
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SAM already limits the fun endgame things you can do

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not sure i'd want it to be even more limited

pearl walrus
molten light
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i am satisfied by this factory

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you could call it...

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satisfactory

pearl walrus
#

Guy joins the server and within 24 hours repeats the pun of the games title

wise junco
#

do mk2 pipes maxed out at 600m^3 still act a little funny?

dense violet
wise junco
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but if built properly?

dense violet
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then fine

wise junco
#

epic

dense violet
wise junco
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i'm also sort of surprised to see so many familiar faces still here after my hiatus

dense violet
#

we're all ghosts in the machine

wise junco
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felt that

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are pipes and trains still the things everyone struggles with?>

dense violet
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as in together or seperate? xD

wise junco
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HAHA

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either

dense violet
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as long as trains are properly buffered, they work fine

hard ivy
dense violet
wise junco
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yep, incorporated some of those before

dense violet
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ofc all the train throughput issues of solids apply to fluids as well stlil

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oh and don't put gas in buffers

hard ivy
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eh, I just use ISCs

dense violet
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iscs don't work with fluids ๐Ÿ˜›

hard ivy
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they do if you package them jace_smile

dense violet
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those are solids ๐Ÿ˜›

atomic notch
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I wish there was a fluid factory cart

leaden turret
tribal elk
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on one hand, i might be too dumb for path signals. on the other hand, not having trains need to care about bidirectional shenanigans is probably a more efficient design overall

atomic notch
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Yes

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All my shit is separate.

tribal elk
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not on track making economy, but i doubt i was going to avoid spaghetti in any case

hard ivy
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bi-di rails are only suitable for a single train

dense violet
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ehhh.. you can make them work with multiple... but why would you

tribal elk
#

imagine if building rails was actually an expense

hard ivy
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work? yes. work well? no

dense violet
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you can get them working perfectly. it's jsut annoying and far more work than building multiple rails

atomic notch
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And its even more work tryna walk someone through it

hard ivy
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if you understand how signals work, signalling bi-di isn't much more difficult than duplex. bi-di just has terrible throughput with 2+ trains

frail sleet
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gasses aren't liquids

tribal elk
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i cant tell if some people are seeing ai results and others just raw search results

hard ivy
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for me, yes

dense violet
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I'm seeing an ai result. Still need to find to settings to turn that crap off

leaden turret
tribal elk
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abridged ai result is actually a useful feature to me

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otherwise ai can go kill itself with its own skynet apocalypse

dense violet
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Can't trust it to do full answers, wouldn't trust abridged

tribal elk
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i dont trust it, don't get me wrong

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but weirdly it does get to the point a lot faster than my ass digging through individual results

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sometimes i can just ask a question a variety of different ways until i get it to give an answer that seems consistent, which compensates for its occasional jank

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the exact way you ask a question is very important

leaden turret
dense violet
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some people have very dexterous butt cheeks

tribal elk
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i'll try to remember that

leaden turret
dense violet
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for example I can feed myself with them

leaden turret
tribal elk
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well, if youre matt damon growing potatoes on mars, technically your ass would be feeding you

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now there's a production line quota challenge jace_smile

dense violet
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Just a metric butt load

reef basin
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maybe I just google weird stuff, but at this point I'm pretty much considering adding it to adblock

dreamy kestrel
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its probably more useful for people who google frankly obvious things

hard ivy
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im doing it right now

west jackal
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i mean who knew that 10 volts across a 1k resistor had 100 amps ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

atomic notch
bitter quartz
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Would yall say it is worth automating batteries for drones, or is fuel blgeneralky better

dense violet
bitter quartz
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Ah alright

dense violet
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basic fuel has a very low energy capacity though so if you're running a ton of drones I'd probably aim for something wit ha bit more kick, like turbo fuel

hard ivy
#

faster fuels will get you more throughput but not that much more

dense violet
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or plutonium rods

bitter quartz
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With plutonium rods, how much is used by the drones and how .much waste is produced?

hard ivy
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rods don't produce waste unless burned in a reactor

bitter quartz
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I did not know thay

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How long does it last in drones?

dense violet
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it's pretty convenient.
and 1 p rod per min is worht about 250 batteries pm

bitter quartz
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I was thinking of actually automating 250 batteries per min๐Ÿ˜…

dense violet
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just make 1 p rod pm! ๐Ÿ˜„

bitter quartz
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I might be doing 5

dense violet
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you can always swap to them later once you've buffered a bunch

bitter quartz
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As I am going to be making a mega nuclear fa tory and processing the waste into plutonium

dense violet
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sounds good ๐Ÿ™‚

bitter quartz
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So wait, like with batteries do the rods just get consumed with no repercussions?

dense violet
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yup

bitter quartz
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That solves a lot of things I was working about

dense violet
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you're basically exchanging the points from sinking them for drone fuel. If that's a good trade for you , good

bitter quartz
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Awesome

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Does anyone here have am issue whete settings don't save after exiting the game?

dense violet
#

are you in experimental?

leaden ether
# frail sleet gasses aren't liquids

in Satisfactory, other than a lack of headlift, the gasses in pipes behave like fluids. For example each pipe segment fills up sequentially from the source rather than the entire pipeline pressurizing all at once.

dense violet
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small but important difference

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I think it's why gasses behave so poorly with buffers

slate pilot
#

Hey wadupp guys, anyone got tips how to get better at making clean build? Like my builds or not that terrible but i see other people make things that are so sick and amazing. Like how to build that good in satisfactory

dense violet
cyan garnet
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Get out of my head Cobalt

dense violet
cyan garnet
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Yeah yeah, phone typing always slower

slate pilot
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Mhm okay okay yeah i expected the answer haha but i get it. Its the most logically answer

dense violet
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excuses

dense violet
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Lots of trial and error
maybe some mods

slate pilot
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Yeah i mostly like copy complete copy builds from YouTube, but im not sure if thats good cause i think i will never learn

dense violet
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I've got multiple folders for images. Broken down between types of structure and whether I liked one cool part of a design or the whole general vibe

dense violet
slate pilot
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Yeah the thing is i have many worlds i never completed a world, cause if always start over at some random point. Cause im not satisfied with my worlds but the world im working on now is pretty solid so far

dense violet
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no stress. there's lots of videos like that around ๐Ÿ™‚

slate pilot
#

Oh yeah this guy totalxclipse is an insane builder in this game

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The builds he makes are crazy

slate pilot
dense violet
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I haven't really played for about 2yrs though.

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Like I finished tier 9 when 1.0 came out, but that's just a quick stroll through the tech. Pretty fast

slate pilot
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Damnn thats many hours

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Why dont start a fresh start?

dense violet
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Oh I've done a few new maps.
I think originally I restarted at tiers 3 5 and 7. And then I started a new game where I tried a bunch of big builds, getting better at design

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one of my fuel stations was 270hrs on it's own mind you

slate pilot
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Thats insane thats almost my playtime

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I have 330 hours in the game

dense violet
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xD well I was learning to build with circles and there was a lot of trial and error

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I could probably redo the same station in less than 50 hours now

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probably significantly less

slate pilot
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Yeah okay i get it, im trying to learn too with cirkels and stuff

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Its really complicated

dense violet
#

well there's a few methods you can do vanilla that work well.
but if you're doing complex circles you probably need a mod

slate pilot
#

I dont do mods idk it takes away the fun for me. Its cooler if you build sick builds in vanilla

dense violet
#

there's a lot of cool tricks vanilla ๐Ÿ™‚

slate pilot
#

Yeah youre right im learning quick so i hope one day i can build beautiful builds

dense violet
zenith pecan
dense violet
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just too muhc time on my hands.
really need Micro Manage to come back after 1.1 >.>

zenith pecan
dense violet
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thankfully all hte piping for it is fairly simple ๐Ÿ˜„

zenith pecan
# dense violet thankfully all hte piping for it is fairly simple ๐Ÿ˜„

Mine should have been fairly simple, but I complicated it by overthinking, I tried a cascade feed system that failed spectacularly, it hard locked the whole place in under five minutes, so much for bulletproof, only to replace it with individual, but oops, vertical loops, that also failed, but within half an hour ๐Ÿคฃ

dense violet
#

I thought you knew better than that ๐Ÿ˜›

jovial lark
#

on a similar note, i see that when people make like really compact builds it usually involves a buncha lifts and splitters and stuff.

i may be too dyson-sphere-pilled and this may not actually matter but would adding those lifts and splitters n stuff meaningfully impact performance across a large number of machines? or does having less belts make up for it

i donโ€™t know if iโ€™m even communicating this well

zenith pecan
dense violet
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I'm not sure if it makes any significan't impact honestly

dense violet
zenith pecan
zenith pecan
# dense violet how was the alumina pipes the issue?

The cascade feed system that I thought I was being clever with, fed eight refineries, from six, using three pipes that cross connected where I wanted the alumina to flow onwards after filling the refineries (it didn't work)

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The second approach involved dividing the place into three to four groups, and using vertical loops to move the solution (loop due to 720 alumina), that failed because gravity.

dense violet
#

whyyyy would you cross connect things

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yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

sudden flint
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(0) - (0)

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I am running on zero sleep

zenith pecan
#

I have two horizontal loops undergoing stress testing, one with, and one without valves, a vertical loop with valves failed, vertical loop with pumps worked, and the testing goes on, I'm aiming for the simplest solution that can take all sorts of flak for all twenty groups of refineries.

sudden flint
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and I am about ready to spite the entire planet

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how do you plan factory layout!?!?

zenith pecan
#

Right now, at least before I go back to my bed, I'm leaving experiments running.

dense violet
zenith pecan
dense violet
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I'm slightly dubious about the workign one ๐Ÿ˜›

zenith pecan
#

The horizontal loops being trialled are of a couple of variations as well, one type with the junctions oriented vertically, directly below the refineries, the other with the junctions horizontally, and being offset, in case there is a difference there.

zenith pecan
dense violet
#

are you sure there's no stuttering?

zenith pecan
#

Just looked at the refineries, the alumina buffers empty on cue, and the water buffers also empty, no backups on scrap, I just hate the pumps.

dense violet
#

staaaaare

zenith pecan
#

Uh oh, one of my horizxontal loop systems is choking because I stuffed up the bauxite somewhere, the thing is shorting.

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I really want to go back to bed, now I have to follow the slow bauxite belt halfway accross the map.

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Found the problem a mk4 conveyor lift ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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Now that's fixed and the compromised experiment has been reset, I'm heading to bed, have a good one ๐Ÿ‘‹

gusty vortex
#

How "bad" is having a lot of resources backed up? I have a bunch of items just lying in machines because I removed everything so I could make way for Motor production but I feel like I'm doing something wrong

west jackal
#

what is the best steel alt?

steel sluice
west jackal
#

ik thats subjective, but i mean best ratio of input to output

gusty vortex
steel sluice
gusty vortex
#

I know if I eventually got to the final product and then just waited for a bit if I had a certain item not meeting production demands It'd eventually peter out but idk lol

#

I also just... don't know how to build around terrain in this game

steel sluice
steel sluice
gusty vortex
steel sluice
west jackal
#

golly sam vein is gorgeous now

gusty vortex
steel sluice
#

Yellow means there is "idle" time

reef basin
west jackal
#

well currently im limited on coal as iron is plentiful

steady violet
#

Despite being a company that exclusively delivers packages, FedEx is shockingly bad at it

#

my soundtrack has now been delayed a 3rd time

gusty vortex
# steel sluice Yellow means there is "idle" time

Oh also I'm using Satisfactory Tools to map out my production, if I need an amount of buildings that are a decimal number, would I be able to use multiple of those buildings and just underclock one of them?

steel sluice
gusty vortex
#

Right right

steel sluice
gusty vortex
#

I'm just trying to map this all out. I need 50 motors but I'm unsure of a good "x per minute" for them.

#

When I'm throwing that into Satisfactory Tools what should I consider?

reef basin
#

you can always build more if you'll keep running out

gusty vortex
steel sluice
reef basin
west jackal
#

well, unless you need them fast, i like to just max out a node

gusty vortex
#

Riiiight. There's also just my concern with getting everything organized, especially with how Assemblers aren't perfectly symmetrical with other constructors

west jackal
#

so i set it to maximize and then limit the input to 120/240 etc

west jackal
steel sluice
dense violet
reef basin
steel sluice
reef basin
west jackal
#

well there are some alts that are objectively bad, arent there?

reef basin
#

no

steel sluice
gusty vortex
west jackal
#

bolted iron plate?

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it uses more resources

dense violet
reef basin
#

but less time

west jackal
#

oh, i see

dense violet
#

it's amazing.

steel screw
bolted plate
bolted frame

dense violet
reef basin
#

every recipe has a tradeoff

sure, there will be "bad" recipes for your specific case, but that doesn't mean others won't find use for the recipe for their cases/preferences

west jackal
#

you make a good point, i guess i just took a min/max approach to resource management

steel sluice
#

Right now, given lots of iron, limited coal and t3 you might want to try solid steel ingots.

west jackal
#

okay! ๐Ÿ˜„

#

i was trying to get slooping ability but i need like 3 more circuit boards, so i either wait or go and loot more crash sites

steel sluice
#

But there's no bad way, and different places will have different resources so you can always put your steel factory somewhere else.

reef basin
west jackal
west jackal
#

i found some pure coal ๐Ÿ˜Ž

#

also what is the point of the water vents? is it just to supply water when its not nearby

steel sluice
west jackal
#

is it better than normal extractors?

reef basin
#

it gives you water ๐Ÿคท

latent prawn
west jackal
#

alright, i feel like the gas ones are kinda a pain to begin with so i didnt understand why i wouldnt just bring items to the water extractor

latent prawn
#

i mean the frackers for water, that was a lil ambiguous, sorry

#

what's sort of painful about them is each node makes a different amount and they're all clocked centrally, so you end up needing to play games to get the exact amount you need

wary bough
#

is this the place for general help when my factory decides to stop fuckin working

latent prawn
#

the one in east dune forest is convenient for bauxite, but metering out the water in a useful way usually requires me to set up a packaging loop

reef basin
wary bough
#

thank you

reef basin
#

here is also fine, but doesn't allow for screenshot, so anything other than a simple problem is usually better to solve in a thread in #1038092680493801533

cyan garnet
#

For example, thereโ€™s a cave in the western dune desert with two quartz nodes and a water well right outside. I just tapped this to make 1000 quartz crystal/min using the pure recipe that requires water. Allows me to ship the crystal by train instead of the raw quartz to be processed elsewhere

wary bough
reef basin
wary bough
#

like i have one pipe running down the center and six generators on each side, but the generators at the end dont get enough water before it consumers what it has

reef basin
#

how much do the gens need in total, how much are you making, how much can that pipe move?

west jackal
#

i can send you a ss of my coal gen (its better to have two pipes, though if you can find mcGalleon he can explain better)

wary bough
#

so would it be more effective to create an entirely new pipe line connected to the back or to connect a secondary extractor to the main pipe line?

west jackal
#

wait

#

second extractor?

#

one water extractor can handle less than 3 gens, the ratio is 3 extractors per 8 coal gens

wary bough
#

would it be easyer if i sent a screenshot on another page?

reef basin
#

see this is why I suggested #1038092680493801533 , it's getting longer and now it would be nice to have a screenshot ๐Ÿ™‚

wary bough
#

yea i now see the need for screenshots, im moving over there, thanks

compact spire
#

Iโ€™ve decided to start a new game but unlike pretty much all my previous playthroughs of the game Iโ€™ve decided to not use anything like the satisfactory calculator or satisfactory map. Factories will be planned entirely by me including me doing the math for it, but that sounds quite daunting. Any tips on planning factories without any external tools outside of note keeping apps?

wary bough
#

you guys take notes?

#

thats sounds so smart, i just hope shit works

compact spire
#

I did when I first started playing before I used external tools like satisfactory calculator

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But the most complicated thing I ever did back then was motors

wary bough
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THERES A CALCULATOR

west jackal
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yes

compact spire
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Look up satisfactory calculator have fun

west jackal
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i recommend the one that greeny made/upkeeps it is soooooo much better than the other

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i mean they both work, but i think his is much more user friendly

cyan garnet
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The calculator on SCIM is not very good, it canโ€™t do some recipe chains and doesnโ€™t optimize plans based on resource scarcity

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The interactive map/save editor is great tho

cyan garnet
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Also reminder thereโ€™s a calculator built into the game. Press N for Nalculator

west jackal
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in addition to bones, the calculator greeny makes is much better ๐Ÿ˜‰

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i forgot the game had a calculator, i just do shi in my head

cyan garnet
compact spire
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Iโ€™m planning on using a notepad app and desmos calculator for math I canโ€™t do in my head.

steel sluice
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You can also do fractions and math inside the machines to work out percentages more cleanly

wary bough
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thats honestly what ive been doing and its gotten me to advanced steel production so if it works dont fix it

steel sluice
crimson jewel
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ok so I have uranium, I have brute forced mining some with my hands and quickly uploading it whilst healing the entire time, when am I meant to have it?? (currently at phase 4 in the hub)

floral jolt
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hey how close should i make my space elevator to my factory

reef basin
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doesn't matter, you can move it anyway

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(also, get in the mindset of having more than one factory)

floral jolt
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i mean i kind of have multiple sperate parts to my factory

steel sluice
crimson jewel
floral jolt
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HOW DO I MAKE SMART PLAYE

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PLATE

reef basin
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  1. turn off capslock
  2. open codex
  3. find out how it is made
floral jolt
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oh my fault

soft marsh
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I have satisfactory paralysis. Took a long break and came back to discover I donโ€™t really care for my previous building style anymore but also donโ€™t really know how to change it. Spent most of my game time today just visiting all my old sites to see the builds.

cyan garnet
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You could always start a fresh save, especially if your existing game was pre-1.0

soft marsh
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Was thinking about it tbh

west jackal
upper mirage
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This game is multiplayer?! anyone want to start a world with me?

reef basin
wary bough
west jackal
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oh, i rush to 1 GW (16 gens with 2 on seperate network to power the plant) so i dont have to worry about power for a little. Once I finish my steel factory im going to go build another 32 coal gens lol

wary bough
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what point do you get like multiple floors for a factory?

zenith pecan
west jackal
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man i dont have enough concrete to build factory floors

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and tbh, i dont do multiple floors even when I do. I had a huge nuclear setup (clean) and it was all one floor, albeit very spread out

wary bough
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do you just stack foundations till you get good height

west jackal
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for the second layer in the factory?

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I base it off the tallest machine on that floor, but yes i generally would stack foundations

boreal musk
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@wary bough i saw your coal setup, are all the gens at 100% clock? bcs if it is, one pipe isnt enough water for all the gens

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mk1 pipe can only send 300/min while you are forcing more than 300/min

wary bough
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yea i havent added any power cells to the generators

boreal musk
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you need 2nd pipe

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or connect it to the other end of the pipe

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!wikisearch CG

fossil iceBOT
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Official Satisfactory Wiki

Coal Generator Schematic.png
The Coal Generator is a power generator building that generates power by burning Coal, Compacted Coal or Petroleum Coke and Water. It is the first fully automated power source the pioneer has access to and also the first power source to use a mined resource.
One Coal Generator...

wary bough
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at this point i think imma just move the power generating portion of my factory cause at the moment, the distance i have to travel t get from my extractors to my generators is insane

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im gonna build at the lake i post in screenshots cause of space and coal accessability

west jackal
west jackal
boreal musk
west jackal
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im sorry, i wasnt trying to be grammar police, i was just pointing out that it completely changed your meaning.

boreal musk
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yeah idk why i type enough twice either ๐Ÿ˜ญ

reef basin
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* isn't

west jackal
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anyways, looking bad at my old save makes me feel bad because i remember spending tens of hours on a certain build and it looks so small on the map

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like all of the infrastructure to cleanly support 15 nuclear reactors (sinking plut)

wary bough
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is there a mass create like the same way there is a mass dismantle?

west jackal
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its called zooping

reef basin
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blueprints

west jackal
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or blueprints

peak wasp
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all different worlds have same area size ?

reef basin
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there's only one world

wary bough
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oh right, blueprints

peak wasp
cunning ingot
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is coal even useful for energy past fuel?

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i'm curious

peak wasp
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where there's a viewers, social theathre follows

dense violet
cunning ingot
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what's tier 7 again

dense violet
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blenders

cunning ingot
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ah right

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i just used one pure node of oil to make 20gw it seems easier

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coal was infuriating

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oil is simple i love oil

reef basin
peak wasp
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if you dont know, why you answer ?

dense violet
cunning ingot
reef basin
dense violet
dense violet
cunning ingot
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i started in desert and built it off the right coast

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there were i think 1 pure pretty far 2 impure and one normal

dense violet
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oh were you dragging it back to your base? cause yeah that is a hassle

cunning ingot
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yeah

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i started expanding past aluminium i didn't know when to stsrt cuz desert lowk got everything

peak wasp
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@reef basin peace ๐Ÿ™

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its possible to mod ( alter) map geometry with UE?

reef basin
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probably? that's a question better suited for modding discord though

fossil iceBOT
peak wasp
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okay doki

vernal patrol
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baux is brutal. full stop.

dense violet
shy ether
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sup guys. does anyone have any curve bps? ๐Ÿ˜„ im going crazy trying to make my own

dense violet
vernal patrol
dense violet
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literally every other channel in the server can have images ๐Ÿ˜›

shy ether
vernal patrol
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bwa

dense violet
dense violet
vernal patrol
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jsut sent an image of it there

dense violet
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oh modeler, yeah I have no idea what you're doing

vernal patrol
dense violet
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awful to read.

but aluminium is easy. Almost every bauxite node is next to coal or oil, and as long as you keep the water split between waste and fresh it's easy

dense violet
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move the ingots where they'll be used as they don't exist near copper for hte most part

vernal patrol
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im planning on building it in the south west of the rocky desert

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so the copper isnt too far

dense violet
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yeah not a bad spot. but it's sall there. the worst of it is the by product water and thats easy enough if you want it to be ๐Ÿ™‚

vernal patrol
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im building it like, directly east of the pure copper

dense violet
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all

vernal patrol
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ahhh

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yea, im jsut like struggling with my theming yk

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like part of me wants to build a cyberpnk sorta think

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another wants to build big circular tower..

dense violet
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circle tower off to the side with some cyber off to the side?

vernal patrol
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if i can get myself to make a good blueprint for the actual like cirlce part ill do the tower if i get lazy do the cyber ig

vernal patrol
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-# yea i know that i dont need a central storge system because of dimensional storage but i like analog

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-# and big train station cool

dense violet
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I mean, central storages were pretty pointless before dim depots ๐Ÿ˜› do it cause it's fun

vernal patrol
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i jsut dont wanna wander around to get my stuff lol

obtuse shale
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What is the expectation that the game will be released for console?

prisma thicket
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Somtime this year.

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That's their next big focus once 1.1 is out akaik

obtuse shale
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I'm playing the beta with the Xbox Series joystick, very good and easy, plug and play

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Is there any difference between the beta version and the current one?

prisma thicket
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That I don't know about, but I have to imagine they aim to have the console release be as similar an experience as possible to the PC version of the game, there would be a pretty big backlash if the differences were too large.

cyan moss
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Plenty of games that xbox specifically has rights to but games are updates behind

static finch
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my fingers are full if bbq dorito dust and im trying to fix my coal power plant. this is difficult

modern vale
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mmm gimme some

static finch
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power? or doritos?

prisma thicket
static finch
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the water isnt getting to the generators fast enough even though the water pumps are outputting enough

prisma thicket
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Have you doubled up your pipes?

static finch
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what do you mean? like 2 pumps going into 1 generator?

prisma thicket
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No, 3 water extractors at 100% clock speed produce 360 water per minute, but mk.1 pipes can only handle 300, so you need a second pipe to handle the rest. Usually you want one pipe feeding from each end of your manifold.

static finch
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ahhhhh ok. i didnt take that into account.

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thats definately the problem, thanks!

prisma thicket
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Glad to help

south cliff
half kiln
dense violet
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they are using beams for placement, not nudging

static finch
half kiln
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But between 5 and 6 photo he is nudging

prisma thicket
static finch
modern vale
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guys can anyone help with a build I'm doing? I think the design looks good but it gets dark at night and I have no idea how lighting works in this game

static finch
prisma thicket
static finch
prime crane
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I see you had an pretty interesting day

static finch
prime crane
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I could order them but eh

static finch
prime crane
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Shit

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Autocorrector

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Invincible*

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If he's invincible how can I see him๐Ÿ’”

peak wasp
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signals shoudn't not cost whole computer.

dense violet
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yeah, they should be made of rocks and sticks

prime crane
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Please do not forget that

peak wasp
dense violet
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nah, neural computers only

peak wasp
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quantum computers

dense violet
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and 15 oscilators

boreal musk
green fiber
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AI expansion server for Smart Splitters

green fiber
prime crane
green fiber
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Revolutionary see-through steel technology

prime crane
peak wasp
boreal musk
reef basin
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people need to stop mindlessly hating screws

balmy pecan
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I, my key for leaving the buggy doesn't work, how I leave it ?