satisfactory

[minor vale]

hm.
so it is. I was mistaken.

[steady glade]

a mod that automatically colors miners would be nice

[oak night]

shouting you out again, this is saving me so much time rn

[steady glade]

there are supposed to be 2 quartz node deep in the rocky desert with red leaves and gas rocks

[minor vale]

Those quartz nodes are underground.

I built a train station in there.

[steady glade]

and i cant find them or any cave entrance

where is the cave

[minor vale]

it has 2 enterances. one closer towards the forest start and one towards the... .north west-ish coast
It's a very big cave.

[steady glade]

near the geysers?

oh no the coast

[minor vale]

but yea I used that quartz to supply my aluminum factory on my last save.
2 trains with 4 cars running thousands of silica out of there

[west jackal]

can you remove the undefined category in blueprints?

Or atleast change it to be something that looks decent?

[prisma peak]

Speaking of blueprints, is there a way to save your categories/subcategories that the blueprints are in? Would be nice to not have to roorganize after every move

[dense violet]

Why are you moving them so often?

[trim vine]

#screenshots message

@sullen gull @zenith pecan
Finally done

[prisma peak]

Cause I forget to copy them instead of dragging them to my other save 😅

[west jackal]

what is a good early game item to sink? I want cosmetic construction things

i sinked like 400 spare rotors, other than that I dont have any overflowing bins yet

[trim vine]

Unlock smart splitters, sink everything that overflows

[west jackal]

im doing that, nothing is overflowing yet really

[trim vine]

Give it some time?

[west jackal]

well, like iron plates and such, but those arent worth much?

[trim vine]

it adds up though over time

[dense violet]

Why are you making so many saves xD if you’re just gonna do the same bps.

Just build another base elsewhere

[trim vine]

Like I'm getting millions of points per minute, and to this day I still have iron plate, screws, wire, all being sunk as overflow

[dense violet]

The map is huge

Or use SCIM to delete all the things you built

[west jackal]

i will do that, i need to rebuild those productions first tho... they havent been rebuilt since they were built tier 0

[trim vine]

Mmmhmmm

[west jackal]

was waiting on trains though and doing a mega factory

[prisma peak]

Because I took someone's blueprints, put them into my main world, found out that I couldn't load them into my mk2 blueprint to edit slightly (after I had sorted them), moved instead of copied them into my testing world, sorted them there so I could see what I was editing, moved instead of copied AGAIN, and the cycle has repeated like 2 more times

[dense violet]

Ok you’re just causing yourself pain then, fair enough

[prisma peak]

Yes. And I would like to cause myself slightly less pain

Its mostly road BPs. I have way too many cause I really don't like building roads but I really like looking at pretty roads

Up to 10 stacks with full mam tree reasearched

Dylan

[trim vine]

up to 5 stacks of an item, not 10

However, limited by mercer spheres, you can have an unlimited number of depots uploading up to 240/min of a single item

@west jackal

[prisma peak]

Ah mb. Thank you

[west jackal]

thank you!

so its 5 stacks per sphere?

[sterile blade]

You wish

[trim vine]

have you unlocked dimensonal depots?

[west jackal]

yes

had to go mine some sam to build one

[trim vine]

Then no, its not

Up to 5 stacks of an item in your dimensional inventory.

TYPICALLY, only one depot is needed per item, with exceptions for belt and pipes materials, if you're prone to making highways

For those materials, 3 uploaders might be better

[west jackal]

thats confusing lol

I just want an ender chest full of shulker boxes smh

thats 729 stacks 😛

[trim vine]

Not really,

you can have 100 dimensional depots uploading wire, it doesnt change the fact that IN your dimensional depot you will only have 2500 wire

However, whenever you use wire, you will have 100 depots uploading wire into your storage at whatever your upload speed is

[trim vine]

Hence why materials you use en mass (such as belt materials) are better to have a couple uploaders

[west jackal]

but you can only have 5 items in your depot?

[cursive crane]

@clever hollow huh... thats interesting. Looks like it on its just not casting light on the ground

My thoight would be its either aimed too high, or maybe something in your video/graphics settings. Otherwise yea best to ask in #1038092680493801533
Nevermind see that you did

[trim vine]

5 stacks of an item mate

[west jackal]

but any item? Thats what i was trying to get out

[trim vine]

you can upload every item in the game if you want

[cursive crane]

5 stacks of each item is better wording

At full upgrade

[trim vine]

either manually or in a depot

From leaves to Ficsonium fuel rods

[west jackal]

oml okay thank you

this is sick!

i need to upgrade it though, slow asf for me rn

[cursive crane]

If you ever feel like depot isnt good, chances are you dont understand or have something for it lmao. Depot revolutional

[trim vine]

It is one of the best additions to the game, and should be gotten as soon as one is comfortable doing so

[prisma peak]

Now Im kinda curious, does nuculear waste in your depot hurt?

[trim vine]

Test it out in your creative world

[minor vale]

aside upgrades, you can actually use multiple depots on a single item to increase the speed of uploading.

[west jackal]

would be good for concrete and belts and such

[trim vine]

#satisfactory message

[west jackal]

is it possible to remove from depot with a belt?

bluetooth belts :D?

[minor vale]

no

[west jackal]

aww nuts

[cursive crane]

Not efficient really as you only get so many spheres but worth it early game. Much easier at that point if you need massive amounts of something to build hypertubes to the storage.

Its basically used to allow you to build random stuff a lot easier.

[minor vale]

The depot exists specifically to let you use it.
Pulling stuff out or building stuff with it like a second inventory.

[cursive crane]

Since you can set it to pull from depot before your inventory

[trim vine]

When you do get your depots going by the way, check your inventory and make sure you check the box that says "Take from inventory before depot"

[west jackal]

yeah i need to automte the sam part

[cursive crane]

You can pretty much get by just automating it up to the constructor and letting it build up over the playthrough, at least just to upgrade that

Just max out a node
Hint ||they are usually alot closer than you think||

[west jackal]

i have a sam node

[trim vine]

but what about two sam nodes

[west jackal]

and there is steal capabilities right next to it 😄

[cursive crane]

You in grassy plains?

[west jackal]

erm... no, im in desert

[minor vale]

who are you stealing from

[trim vine]

Sounds like you need 19 SAM nodes

[cursive crane]

Idk about phase 5, but you can get by most of the game off of just one node

[minor vale]

yea 1 node is good till phase 5

[trim vine]

-stares in phase 5 tier 9-

[steady glade]

my boi been running around checking out my prefab for defects #screenshots message

[trim vine]

KILL IT WITH FIRE

[trim vine]

[cursive crane]

This fence appears to be a fence

hiss or whatever they say

Idk i dont own a puppy

Not me on my way to tame me an army of spooders

[steady glade]

im torn between staying put and watching it for a while or blasting it and moving on

[clever hollow]

there's a weird thing, where if you hook up 2 floodlights to power, the second one will always work

[cursive crane]

Youll end up afking a few days from now, coming back wondering where your inventory went

[clever hollow]

but the first one never does

and if you add anymore, they all stop working

[cursive crane]

That must be a new glitch or graphic settings related cuz ive definetely made entire facilities well lit through parallel lighting

[steady glade]

i jumped to the other lane and now he's inspecting the one i left

[clever hollow]

I think this is only for the floodlights

the street lights too maybe

[cursive crane]

Im afraid to tell you, you have a roomba, not a pet

[west jackal]

are mercers scannable?

(i dont have a scanner to check)

[cursive crane]

Yep

Sloops and drives as well. Scanner op

[steady glade]

same way you're not allowed to move when a cat lays on your lap, i'm now obligated to supervise the inspector

[sterile blade]

Can't wait for you to repeat that in the Swamp

[sweet thorn]

Yo

[cursive crane]

Cant supervise the inspectors supervisor, causes issues in chain of jurisdiction

[sweet thorn]

Hello guys

[steady glade]

helloo

[sweet thorn]

Heya

just completed phase 2

[steady glade]

nice, its about time you start exploring the map now

[cursive crane]

Congrats you've finished the prologue to the tutorial

[sweet thorn]

fr

that was pretty ez tho

[sweet thorn]

already explored a lot. https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057

too many dismantle crates in all factories

[steady glade]

hehe you barely reached a quarter

[sweet thorn]

yea but there's pure resource nodes, and fuel in abundance

[steady glade]

you need a bunch of artifacts too

[sweet thorn]

like?

[steady glade]

sommersloops, mercer spheres, hard drives and slugs

[sweet thorn]

yk what. i messed up, do i have to rebuild whole thing???

[sweet thorn]

i got. a lot of em.

[proud oasis]

can someone tell me the best way to make a smart plating factory at phase 1

[steady glade]

wing it on a large floor, it'll be fine

[proud oasis]

i need 1000 smart plates

plus more

[steady glade]

its probably not enough, you need like 40 or 50 spheres to get a useful depot

[proud oasis]

i also need basic and advanced steel production 😦

[sweet thorn]

Oh c'mon i left half of them on way cuz i had my inventory full

[steady glade]

you need more than smart plating, itll take a bit more time to make the rest too so just make 2-5/m

[sweet thorn]

i got 5/m (ik u didnt ask but told.)

[steady glade]

oof, hopefully you didnt do the same for hard drives

[sweet thorn]

ummm, my inv was full tho.

[steady glade]

yikes

welp, time to go back out there, get more alt recipes, advance on the mam and get some spheres and sloops

[sweet thorn]

caterium is 100%.

sulphur is 100%

(thanks to my lizard doggos)

and 4 nukes. yes. 4 freaking nukes.

some 100 nobelsik

wtv it is

[oak night]

I promise it's never enough...

[sweet thorn]

i got like 17 alr recipes

[sweet thorn]

what's the use of mercer spheres duh

[steady glade]

lol thats nothing, you need soo many more

[sweet thorn]

ikr

[oak night]

You need like 200+ or something for research alone, not counting building depots

[steady glade]

start on alien tech in the mam

[sweet thorn]

done (a bit)

[steady glade]

dont you have the dimensional depot then?

[sweet thorn]

ive

now ive, so i dont have inv problem

[steady glade]

you need more, to get more stacks and upload speed, for when you build factories

[sweet thorn]

ohh

[sweet thorn]

btw im so confused

[visual rose]

man i got satisfactory like 2 days ago and i have 12 hours already lol

[steady glade]

about what?

[steady glade]

keep going

[sweet thorn]

i got it 3 days ago and ive 61 hrs already lol

4th day ongoing

[visual rose]

i can't rn im on mac

[sweet thorn]

what should i do, i literally did most of things manually till phase 2

and motors are pain. yes they are.

[steady glade]

oh boy

[visual rose]

i only have 6 motors rn

[steady glade]

you're about to learn

[west jackal]

i remember my first playthrough that was like that

hurt like hell to recover

[visual rose]

i hate smart plates so much

[sweet thorn]

fs fs

[steady glade]

i used to do motors by hand too

[sweet thorn]

i got 5/min factory for that

[sweet thorn]

THAT'S PAINFUL.

[west jackal]

ive 20h into my current playthrough, i do motors by hand still but i have stators and rotors produced (just seperate)

wait, 15h not 20h

[sweet thorn]

and btw, my old base was in northern forest, and it got 10x10 setup in which it produces 5 rotors/min, 3 modular frames/min

[visual rose]

i am very scared of spiders and when i saw one, i got off the game

[sweet thorn]

.

[west jackal]

play in arachnaphobia mode

[sweet thorn]

💀 .

[sweet thorn]

i unlocked everything in tier 5 just rn (except that petroleum power)

[sweet thorn]

Oh. Did you make a factory for that later?

[west jackal]

im automating everything before i unlock phase 2

[west jackal]

its up next, but its 2am and i dont wanna start it

i needed those 2 to stay seperate as you need those resources for other stuff, and just havent gotten around to planning a new motor factory

[sweet thorn]

I literally made a 50x versatile framework per min producer for fun 💀

(for tickets)

[west jackal]

ouch

[steady glade]

oof

[sweet thorn]

For coupons alr.

[west jackal]

im probably going to do 10 or 12 per min

[sweet thorn]

then removed it once i completed phase 2

AND NOW I CAN SEE PHASE 3 NEEDS THOSE TOO

🙂

i aint making that again

[visual rose]

biofuel is so annoying

[sweet thorn]

use the freakin coal gen

[sweet thorn]

what tier are u in?

[west jackal]

i think you also need it for something... that may be plating though

[steady glade]

you're fine, if you stored some of them

[visual rose]

i don't have that yet

[sweet thorn]

i got coupons out of all.

[steady glade]

its fine, as long as the factory still works, itll take long enough just to make the other 2 items

[sweet thorn]

i messed up everything

[steady glade]

oh you sweet summer child

[west jackal]

trust me... the other two items take way longer to produce

[steady glade]

things are about to get so rough for you

[sweet thorn]

im 19.

[sweet thorn]

i messed up in fuel stuff

its sphagetti of conveyers

[west jackal]

i will say, i often have a semi-auto production for space elevator parts

[steady glade]

its a saying for a naive/clueless person

[west jackal]

me too!

[hollow vector]

@steady glade #screenshots message thanks bruh 👍

[sweet thorn]

i made 5 encased beams/min factory too

[visual rose]

i think tier 3

[steady glade]

its fine for personal use

[visual rose]

idk

[sweet thorn]

yea

conveyers

[west jackal]

slow

[sweet thorn]

just for conveyers

[west jackal]

need 50/min

for conveyors

[steady glade]

phase 3 takes a while, here's a somewhat optimized gaph #screenshots message

just for scale not spoilers

[west jackal]

only use t4 conveyors, dont need any pesky t2 anymore

so i upgraded the dim depot but it doesnt seem to have sped up? its still only 30/min

[visual rose]

i still use t1 conveyors lol

[west jackal]

does it start at 20/min and im just dumb?

[leaden ether]

well, after looking up the last two hidden achievements, I think Satisfactory may me my first 100% compleation game on steam 😄

[steady glade]

1st upgrade sets it to 30

[west jackal]

dang okay im stupid then, thank you

i need more spheres

[steel sluice]

5 encased industrial beams per min is great for belts. Make sure they feed into a storage box beforehand and you'll basically never run out. Also, don't worry about spaghetti and messy belts. It's all learning and trial and error... It's meant to be fun, not a chore

I have 1k plus hours and sometimes you still just use the mk1 belts unless another speed is required. Case by case basis, and one isn't inherently better than another.

[steady glade]

like 50 or 100

[sweet thorn]

yea there are 10 I-Storages

[steel sluice]

I think people are trying to be funny in here but just in case anyone was taking it too seriously - you can have the messiest factory that only works 10% of the time and uses the slowest belts and eventually you'll still finish the game

[west jackal]

is there a way to use one depot for multiple items? it seems it might backup with one of the items

[visual rose]

is it just me or when i play satisfactory sometime my keyborad just breaks and my esc key becomes the windows key?

[sour ledge]

y'know, conceptually, i love the hypertube splitters - i used to setup ghetto lane changes at intersections where it'd smack me into a pillar with hypertubes going multiple ways to pick from, this way i don't have to actually stop!

[steady glade]

it will back up, dont bother

[urban root]

On some lines slower belts look way better. If you don't need high through put the smooth motion of things moving looks nice.

[sour ledge]

but practically? I have died due to this stupid splitter more than anything else with unfinished intersections, and been shot to the wrong base because i forgot i had to pay attention to switch directions...

[peak wasp]

So question

Can I use dogs to get rid of nuclear waste?

[west jackal]

i dont have the spheres to afford enough depots right now...

[sweet thorn]

use cats..

[urban root]

Yes. It will kill them

[peak wasp]

Ficsit has no time for morales

[zenith pecan]

That's a hell of a lot of refineries and blenders for the production of 8000 rocket fuel though and what's the assemblers making?

[urban root]

Speaking of now that buffer stops exist I need to test not using them and ghost riding a train filled with waste into the void

[cursive crane]

Dont do that its a trap

[sour ledge]

well, that's one way to solve the radioactive waste problem. Yeet into the void....

i wonder if that's where the energy for the somersloops comes from

[steady glade]

the train will exist way down there

[cursive crane]

Yea they dont dissapear, and I hear eventually they cause problems

[urban root]

Maybe I'll use my experimental server instance to redirect my waste from the recycling plant into trains and repeatedly yeet trains into the void and see what happens

[peak wasp]

Also how does radiation work in this game

[atomic notch]

Damage over time

[peak wasp]

Can I build up high enough that radiation stops being a issue

[atomic notch]

Area of effect idk prolly i dont think its worth tho

[peak wasp]

Like if I build up high can I stop myself from being irradiated

[atomic notch]

Just dont stand next to radiation

[urban root]

Nor really. But kind of. If nothing builds up it is manageable. It's kind of hard to do because you need a belt load of uranium or drones flying it in .

[peak wasp]

After all building a massive network of huge amounts containers of radioactive waste up in the sky seems like a good idea

[atomic notch]

U can just shove em in a corner if youre planning for long term storage

[peak wasp]

I mean can I build a storage area above a abyss of a void

[urban root]

I have a container of plutonium rods and waste processing about as high as you can go and still build. You start getting rads when anywhere near it within probably 75 meters any direction

[atomic notch]

U can build wherever tf u want dawg

[dark cipher]

the beauty of a sandbox game 😄

[peak wasp]

So if I put the radiation 75 meters up I'll be fine

[minor vale]

You could also avoid using radioactive stuff until you automate protection.
And recycling of nuclear waste

[urban root]

Lemme check numbers lol

[atomic notch]

Maybe but somethings gotta bring it up there

[steady glade]

you can technicallly build into the hurtbox

and down in the sea

[atomic notch]

And under the map

[zenith pecan]

Underwater construction is not difficult, you can use the hover pack down there with creative use of a ladder.

[steady glade]

make loops of containers in a bp with a belt hanging for auto connect

[urban root]

if anyone knows how to build under the map or water its this guy.

[atomic notch]

Make a proper waste processing facility

[north widget]

they need to add someone that speeds up hard drive research

like something you can upgrade

[rancid sandal]

Guys does your game crash sometimes?

[dark cipher]

start research, go build, come back

[north widget]

i need a certain alt recipe to build what i wanna build

[dark cipher]

i agree tho, a way to speed it up would be nice

[north widget]

im trying to get the electrode circut board

for a super computer farm

becuase i have like 500 oil per minute

[minor vale]

Not picking recipes and leaving your hard drive library filled up will help weed out results

[peak wasp]

Or we could make it the wildlifes problem

[north widget]

shoot should be doing that

i forgot about that

but yeah i think the electrode circut board recipe is broken

[peak wasp]

So how much does a nuclear plant even make

[north widget]

its just oil

[peak wasp]

And I am guessing nuclear is end game power?

[minor vale]

I'm using the one that uses silica and copper myself

[leaden ether]

30 reactors make 75GW without the alien boost

[peak wasp]

Although I was hoping fusion would be a option

[dark cipher]

so like...how many of you play the game solo

[minor vale]

Most of us tbh

[peak wasp]

Wait you can play with others?

[minor vale]

You can reporcess waste like 3 times over. Pretty advanced on its own if you bother with the setup instead of sinking plutonium fuel

[dark cipher]

i hope this is a joke

[leaden ether]

It is, though it exists only to be fun to build and tune. Rocket fuel power plants are much easier to build and provide just as much power. So Nuclear is just an end game project for fun really. ANd it was probably the most satisfying single thing I've done in the game.

[peak wasp]

Nope

[dark cipher]

oh, well then yes, you can

[sand glacier]

Wait how good is rocket fuel

Because it’s so easy to make

[peak wasp]

Wait what's the point of rocket fuel

[tame violet]

its good for jetpacks

[sand glacier]

I use it for my jet pack

[leaden ether]

My two tower rocket fuel plant makes 74 GW compared to the 75 from my 30 reactor nuke plant.

[sand glacier]

Isn’t 75 what one coal plant provides

[peak wasp]

Since a power plant makes the same amount of power no matter what fuel you use

[leaden ether]

ANd it has no waste to deal with and isn't irradiating you to death every moment you are working on the machinery 😄

[dark cipher]

that MW not GW

[sand glacier]

So why are we using the measurement not provided by the game

[tame violet]

?

[prisma peak]

In case you were wondering, it does not

[sand glacier]

Idk what to do with my nuclear waste I got like 250 a minute or something

[leaden ether]

And is much much easier to build. (Not as fun though)

[sand glacier]

Building stuff lowkey sucks but seeing it after is nice

[minor vale]

build a waste recycling plant as fast as possible probably

[sand glacier]

What u mean waste recycling

[minor vale]

you can recycle nuclear waste back into a new type of fuel rod
Which can be used for more power or put into the sink

thus eliminating it

[sand glacier]

Ok but how much effort does that take

[leaden ether]

Yeah Mine poops out 300 / min. I processed it into plutonium fuel and then sink it. At some point I'll expand through ficsonium, again, just for fun.

[minor vale]

less e ffort than putting down 50 more storage boxes every hour

[sand glacier]

I built a nuclear pasta factory that makes 3 a min and it took hella long

[minor vale]

and living with an ever growing nuclear exlusion zone

[leaden ether]

Yeah the nuke weaste to plutonium part of my plant is super hot 😄 I Should have built it a little further away from the office building 😄

[sand glacier]

Office building?

Like ur hub?

[leaden ether]

No just the admin and control room for the plant.

[sand glacier]

What do plutonium pellets do

[minor vale]

they can be further processed into plutonium fuel rods.

[sand glacier]

Oh hell nah I just build the factory and leave it

[minor vale]

plutonium fuel rods can be put into the sink. And is gennerally speaking the typical solution to the nuclear waste problem.

[leaden ether]

Little office building by the parking lot. THe entire building to the left is the plutonium processing building. #screenshots message

THe plutonium processing is easier than the chain of events to make the uranioum fuel rods by FAR. So if you have come that far, a little more to beable to sink the waste should be a no brainer.

[minor vale]

I say typical solution because you can use plutonium fuel rods for power, and get plutonium waste
And reprocess that again, into another fuel type.
but most people say it's not worth it.
wouldn't know I honestly never got that far

[sand glacier]

Yeah so my factories consist of just floors of gray foundations with no support or anything

Plutonium fuel rods are hella expensive idk if it’s worth the time it’s gonna take

[minor vale]

it's either plutonium fuel rods or a never ending buildup of nuclear waste.

[sand glacier]

Or I could just make non fissile uranium and sink that

[minor vale]

you can't sink that

[mortal ginkgo]

they are not sinkable. only plutonium fuel rod is

[frail sleet]

plutonium waste is still good for waste storage, because burning plutonium generates more power and you reduce the actual amount of waste by -95%. So GW for GW, you get like 1/40'th of the waste.. and can store it in 100 containers instead of 4000.

Rawdogging uranium waste storage is quite highly problematic

[urban root]

so my nuclear processing, waste and plutonioum rod storage is built on a platform 235 meteres in the air. i start gettting radiation at just 13 meters up. So the radiation from my stuff is traveling down 222 meters lol

[sand glacier]

Not even plutonium pellets

[minor vale]

no

you have to fully complete the processing into plutonium fuel rods
those can be sunk

[sand glacier]

Yeah this game is doing too much

Like fr it’s never that serious

Idk if I got enough resource nodes for that we’ll see

[minor vale]

at the end of the day, the primary end goal of the game is the space elevator.
Could always just
Not use nuclear power
So you don't have to worrya bout the waste problem.

And just use the uranium products you need, as you need them for project parts.

[sand glacier]

Lowkey haven’t even finished the game

It requires so much shi I don’t have

[minor vale]

You're not very far off if you're working with nuclear

[sand glacier]

I got 25 reactors but that’s not providing me anything but power

[frail sleet]

nothing other than fuel rods and bombs actually uses uranium

[minor vale]

I thought there was some project part that needed it.

[frail sleet]

nop

[urban root]

I think rocket fuel is the move for power. I just did a small cluster of nuclear power plants for fun.

[minor vale]

So you can just, skip uranium all together then.

Fuel power is crazy these days anyhow.

[sand glacier]

I discovered rocket fuel like yesterday

[frail sleet]

You can! Just from a map perspective, it's free real estate because you lose nothing by allocating it

[minor vale]

I'm going to have to build a fuel power plant soon enough.
my max consumption is going over what my coal plant makes now.
though i'm using about.. 50% of it at a given time usually.

[sand glacier]

Coal plant really

[minor vale]

yea I Like making over sized coal power plants early on so that I don't care about power till about aluminum tier.

This time around I didn't go as big as I had previously so need to work on that sooner rather than later.

like, in my last save I had a 9.3GW coal plant in the dune desert using compact coal.

This time it was just a normal power plant... round like... 5.4gw.

[urban root]

I still have 112 coal plants running i could take them offline but why, they're fine and just do their thing

[sand glacier]

Just make yourself some fuel plants

I think I have 3 or 4 they’re great

But lowkey gonna destroy them for rocket fuel

[minor vale]

mostly I just got sick of the process of tearing things down and rebuilding after years of playing this game.

So with certain things, like power setups, I avoid needing to move on until I have all the pieces I need to optimize the next power setup.

[sand glacier]

How can u play this game for more than like 2-3 weeks at a time

[minor vale]

But, y'know I think it'll be fun setting up a closed loop for packaged diluted fuel again. haven't done that in a few years.

[sand glacier]

It’s like a phase game like Minecraft

Beat the game again then get bored of it

[minor vale]

I never said I don't do this lmao.
i've just owned satisfactory for a good several years.

[urban root]

Not for me. There is always something to build or improve.

[sand glacier]

No way

[urban root]

Yes. i am the limit not the game.

[sand glacier]

So how many hours do you have

[minor vale]

Last year, for the 1.0 update I made a new save. Played for a long while.
Juuust unlocked the nuclear tiers and began to automate radiation filters, before quitting for..
at this point I forget.

now i'm back into it and not a fan of my old save so I started again.

[urban root]

on my newest save 543

[sand glacier]

Total

[urban root]

about 1300 hours

[sand glacier]

I think I have 300

[sand glacier]

Like the iodine ones

[minor vale]

yea

[urban root]

normally a few of us play on my server and its great.

[sand glacier]

Lowkey I just be crafting them instead of automating

[minor vale]

It was... about a 90% finished production line.
but I got bored at the time.

[sand glacier]

Does it take a long time

[minor vale]

the more per minute you want to make, the bigger it get's.
in my case I was going, honestly probably overboard so yea.

[sand glacier]

U probably don’t need more than 3 a minute or so

[minor vale]

I was dumping all the polymer resin byproduct my fuel power plant was making into it so.

[sand glacier]

I be sinking polymer resin most of the time

[minor vale]

that's what I was doing before but I wanted filters, and didn't feel like setting up a new oil node when I already had the resin right there, not being used.

[sand glacier]

I think I’m lowkey close to being out of oil nodes

[minor vale]

how many oil nodes you got?

[sand glacier]

Idk man

Not many

[frail sleet]

the 10% of the map that you're in might run out

[minor vale]

I looked it up, and while i'm not 100% sure it's correct, apparently there's 30 individgual nodes across the whole map.

and 12 pressure well type nodes ontop of that.

[sand glacier]

I’m not sure you really know what you’re talking about

[sand glacier]

Im pretty sure I have 5 or 6 left

[minor vale]

I opened up my old save with the uh filter production plant.
And based on some of the notes I still had written down....

I set up this factory to produce 200 regular gas mask filters per minute
And was working on having it make 200 iodine filters per minute.
#screenshots message

this is the location I was doing it.
And was almost done setting it up.

had a train delivering polymer resin to it.
And 2 trucks delivering quickwire.

at this point I don't know why I did this.

[eager oar]

Woohoo, FICS tag for the win

[north widget]

i currently also have a truck transfering tons of quickwire to make high speed connectors and computers

i wish i knew how to use trains

[minor vale]

Trains are rather easy honestly.
it's only a bit more complicated if you need more than 1 train on a track section.

[north widget]

i only know

one way trains

thank GOODNESS buffer stops werent a massive nerf to them

6 drives in

still not the recipe i want

[urban root]

one way trains like loop or push pull?

[dark cipher]

im ngl, the recipe you want i just got from my last drive

[north widget]

locomotive freight car locomotive

like a rail back and forth

so push pull idk tbh

[minor vale]

2 way train alone on it's own track. very simple setup.

[north widget]

yep

thats what i know nothing else sadly

[urban root]

i feel like those can get more complicated if you build addtional statitons and dont do it correctly. I have accidently rotated my trains early on by not building them correctly.

[minor vale]

I used that for my computer factory on my last save.
moving tons and tons of quickwire.

[north widget]

if you dont have a mass smelter blueprint your making the game harder for yourself

i just made one of those

[minor vale]

i've thus far only ever made blueprints for my train/highway network

though i'm never making a combination train/highway network ever again.

By time you get it setup, you'll just use the trains and ignore the highway.

[north widget]

i had one guy help me make a train system with multiple trains that would like stop for eachother

i love just riding the trains ngl

[urban root]

I am a train menace now

[north widget]

his name was baked potato

i had like a whole train system

forgot how to build train systems now though

[minor vale]

the simple explination is that a path signal reserves the lenght of train track infront of it, for whatever train is going through it. Up until the next path signal or block signal.
And all other path signals that lead into that reserved section will act like a stoplight until that section is no longer being used.

[urban root]

One thing i have never messed with is the trucks. we have them in action but one of my friends is the truck guy and i am the train guy

[north widget]

ill try to learn it eventually my dad has the game but has never played it ill learn trains with him probably

[minor vale]

I used trucks a lot more before the dimensional depot was a thing.

[urban root]

That sounds like a great time. I hope you guys do it.

[north widget]

dimensional depot was the greatest thing added

for the first week it came out i didnt fully utilize it i would go back and grab the like iron plates and manually upload them didnt know you could just put the depot connected to the storage

life changing

[minor vale]

oh yea it is amazing.
but I've found that I barely use trucks and tractors now since I don't have an item mall any more to deliver them to.

[north widget]

i will miss item malls

but so much less ease of access

[minor vale]

ok that's a partial lie, I just remembered that on my last save I did use tractors and truck stops for something actually very useful.

I had 3 of them running a route to deliver sulphur to my mega power plant.

[north widget]

i got cable ai limiters and quick wire being transfered to my main factory

[sleek sierra]

Maybe they could add farming

I mean we already have some things to plant and we can extract water too

[north widget]

have you guys discovered when you get knocked out by the somersloop in the alien power augmentor if you like spam a thing in your hotbar you will legit just fly in a random direction

7 drives in man is there something special for this alt recipe

[urban root]

I want an update that includes more green spaces and greenery that's placeable. Bonus points for hydroponic farming automation. I would also like water features. I really like architecture and these are things I want to fully thrive

[north widget]

imagine like really big bubbly aquariams

[cursive crane]

Its summer when do we get sprinklers to match the snow things

Summer event when

[urban root]

Imagine the solar farms lol

[cursive crane]

Wasted opportunity for easter egg hunt

[urban root]

Oh God. Into the caves we go

[north widget]

more passive energy like geothermic wouldnt be a bad idea like turbines and solar panels

i just feel like it wouldnt fit in and i already dont like looking at my power spike with the geothermic

[urban root]

We built too much power. It's never going to be an issue again

[north widget]

true

[dark cipher]

thats my goal

[cursive crane]

I think the reason they haven't done it yet is because the largest problem with them is balance

Either you nerf it so hard you have to make 100s of them to be useful [taking up lots of space for no real reason] or you make it so good that you can spam so many of them that any that isnt nuclear is useless.

Before someone tries arguing "then make them only work at day, or turbines only at height" that just adds onto the spam problem

[north widget]

once you build that first turbo fuel farm your unstoppable

[dark cipher]

currently unlocking turbo fuel

[north widget]

yeah thats what i was thinking it makes it not rely on resource

same here my last world i made a 54000 power turbofuel farm

i skipped nucluear

i spelled that wrong

[urban root]

If I did a wild build for end game parts I could use it all especially if I fully oc and sloop the particle accelerators and quantum encoders

[north widget]

god bless somersloop amplification on the space elevator parts

one time i fully overclocked a quantum encoder and ampilifed it took about 20k power

and my fuse was blown instantly

[cursive crane]

Geothermal is positioned perfectly in game progression to give you a reason to use power storage, which gives you reasons to use other things like priority power switches and such.

[north widget]

i never use priority switches

[cursive crane]

You should

So nice

[north widget]

which usually puts me in a spot where im sitting there for around an hour fixing the power

[warped pawn]

should i get all bauxite nodes? or just the pure ones

[north widget]

what stage?

[minor vale]

i've try very hard to quell my perfectionism so I don't go overboard and get bored halfway through a mega project.

ANd for the most part it works.

I however do not apply this to power setups.

I must never hear that power outage sound.

[minor vale]

get all the bauxite nodes within the area you feel like building.

[north widget]

getting every bauxite node isnt to worth it unless your going to build every single aluminum thing already

like 3 nodes will suffice so much

[cursive crane]

Loaded question.

2 normals equal a pure, 2 impures equal a normal. We cant answer these questions for you, you have to decide how big your builds are gonna be and assess the resources needed

[warped pawn]

im making a train go all the way thru mid for bauxite, i wanna not worry abt aluminum after this, all nodes i get will be max overclocked

[urban root]

Then get them all

[warped pawn]

im just asking, is it worth it?

[minor vale]

then get everything along the way.
If you're going through the trouble of trying to collect tons and tons of the stuff, might as well get all of them.

[minor vale]

Everything in this game is as worth it as you are willing to put in the time and effort.

[north widget]

make sure to use the imkibitz conveyer belt highway blueprint to bring it to the train to make it look extra nice

[minor vale]

build as big as you want.
but don't tire yourself out over it.

[north widget]

actually id say one of the greatest things hes made

[urban root]

Fully oc'd mk2 miner in use, I can make about 2000 aluminum ingots/min off the 3 nodes on the east swamp alone. Do you need more than 2k ingots

[north widget]

thats what i was saying 3 nodes is amazing

8 drives fully rescanned

still havent gotten this alt

[warped pawn]

i found a bp online ill send a ss in #screenshots

im so glad things can just clip thru walls like nothing

[north widget]

that looks sick

[warped pawn]

not walls but like rocks

[north widget]

the scale looks pretty crazy

i was like oh this is tiny

and realized those were pillars

[cursive crane]

What ult

[north widget]

electrode circut boards

i need a good train blueprint type of highway

ive never made a good one

i once put like 2 hours into trying to make one

[warped pawn]

i have a question in #screenshots

[cursive crane]

Far as I can tell theres a preset list the game goes through for alt recipes. Circuit board alts wouldnt be unlocked until like... 1/3 of the way through

Its kind of random but also based on progression

[north widget]

MmM that blue print gave me an idea making sort of a subway for the trains

i never thought about that

is that blue print curveable though

[warped pawn]

i was gonna make it underground but i wanted to see it yk

[north widget]

yeah it looks good

id wanna see that

i really like the train part of it though

[warped pawn]

unfortunately not, thats why its only gonna be used for bauxide until i can remake it since bauxite is in a line

[tropic dawn]

what is the best place on the whole map for coal gens

[minor vale]

wherever the coal is.

[ruby steppe]

i dont understand the damn signals.... i have pat signal on intersection entry and block on out on every intersection... my network quite big.... some trains take the longer path rather than shorter wth...

[urban root]

On the Waters edge. Easier to bring coal to water, than water to coal. Especially if going big.

[minor vale]

snarky comment aside just go find the coal nodes near to the water. There's some like that at every starting location.

[north widget]

same here dont worry

[ruby steppe]

this is bs...

[north widget]

thing is i have every single other alt for circut board already

[dense violet]

Do a simple two lane system with stations off to the side. Just use block signals. It’ll work

[north widget]

dude the solid steel ingot where you like turn iron into ingots is one of the best alt recipes ever i forgot about it this run and had to tear down my whole factory

[minor vale]

yea, best alt.

[north widget]

just provides so much

steel beams arent a problem with it

[urban root]

Less annoying than copper powder. That's for sure

[north widget]

made me fully overclock mk3 miners for that

took so much copper powder just to make some pasta

[cursive crane]

Making a 12k ingot/m iron factory using it

[north widget]

12k steel ingot?

is there gonna be any coal and iron left in the world man

[cursive crane]

Iron ingot

[north widget]

ohhhh

[warped pawn]

what.

[cursive crane]

Sorry, steel will be part of it. Estimate probably use 1/3 of the iron

[north widget]

have you made it to like the end of phase 4

thats insanei feel like i dont make big enough projects

[urban root]

It's crazy all for .5 pasta per min

[cursive crane]

Need powder to make spicy factory pasta

[north widget]

like right now im making 2.5 radio control as my best thing being made

[warped pawn]

NOO

is it more complicated then aluminum?

like how many byproducts that are hard to reuse are there?

[north widget]

aluminum is the hardest byproducts

and i will forever hate that

actually phase 5 has quite a bit of byproducts

[urban root]

My advice is to build all space elevator specific parts outside your normal factories

[warped pawn]

i find blueprints for space elevator setup, i dont wanna waste my time making one

[urban root]

Fair enough. My second play through was much different. After beating the game I had several huge facilities that could just be turned off because nothing was used in building or general production

[north widget]

for the space elevator parts?

[urban root]

Yes you can download mega prints for the tiers/phases. Just feed the materials raw to them out come the mission parts. Not my style, but I can understand why one would do it

[north widget]

yeah

i like going through the process ngl

[urban root]

I do too

[north widget]

untillll it comes to transport lol

[urban root]

Logistics are something I can enjoy I like refining the skill to balance aesthetics and function.

[cursive crane]

Put it this way. Each step of the game is a tutorial for the next one. With each getting harder than the last and more time consuming to automate.

An example of this is the power structure. Biofuel gens to coal gens to fuel gens to nuclear.

[north widget]

andddd

[cursive crane]

The milestones are one big tutorial until you finish them and have the freedom to do what you want

[north widget]

no alt recipe guess im going to bed for now and getting it tomorrow

[urban root]

That's kind of how I play. I've rebuilt things so many times it's crazy. There's some sunk cost in there too. I think I'd be better off in many cases starting a new game fully completed then building from the ground up instead of spending the time to tear down then rebuild

[cursive crane]

I started roughly in update 4. Ive started a multiplayer and singleplayer save for each update up until 1.0

Each time ive restarted and gotten further than the time before it. Starting over is a wonderful way to gain a deeper understanding and plan ahead to give yourself a leg up later in the game

Im also about to tear down my 2k iron ingot/m factory for my 12k one soon, rebuilding for me is a great way to measure how far ive come

[urban root]

Yea I'm just thinking of how much time am I wasting during decon. maybe I'll just start using scim so I can keep my supporting infrastructure and logistics intact. Ironically building is kind of pointless too but I enjoy that, mindlessly deleting is kind of a time sink I'm not a fan of but do alot.

[cursive crane]

Dismantle filter

And premade awesome sinks

[silent rampart]

I cant connect two vertical conveyor splitters any help please

[urban root]

Maybe if dismantle could be zooped or set to a radius

[cursive crane]

Press ctrl..

[urban root]

I don't think you get how long that takes 50 items at a time in a server where multiple people build massive projects lol

[cursive crane]

Not really I have a good server Lol

[urban root]

We spend hours just deleting things

[cursive crane]

Seconds 🤷‍♂️

Set dismantle filter or just hold ctrl

[urban root]

We do that lol

[warped pawn]

anyone got a train station bp?

[tame violet]

[dense violet]

not really, they are huge and unwieldly.

just make a quick BP of the buffers and that's like 95% of the work

[ionic forge]

8 impure nodes are 2 pure nodes right

[warped pawn]

how much trains can i merge on one track?

[dense violet]

how many trains can use 1 track? many

[warped pawn]

is 12 2 locomotive:1 freight a good ratio?

[formal prawn]

when do I unlock programmable splitters? I wanna split my steel pipes and steel beams

[tame violet]

from the caterium tree in mam

[warped pawn]

almost at the end of caterium research

[formal prawn]

oh ty @tidal silo

My shimy new FICSIT tag

Chat, does max power consumption account for devices that aren't connected to a grid

[warped pawn]

no

due to overflow or other factors not all machines are runnng at the same time

[true marlin]

@ionic forge another track for the Boombox. Put it in and enjoy the music

[hard ivy]

The standard ratio is 1 locomotive per 4 cargo wagons

[hard ivy]

Depends if it's a one way or a two way track

[warped pawn]

its a two way

[hard ivy]

Then 1 train

[warped pawn]

i know but i dont want to make a whole other rail unless 1 freight cant do at least 600/m travel

im pretty sure 1 freight can do at least 600/m on an all flat railway

[hard ivy]

You mean 600 items/min?

[warped pawn]

yeah

[hard ivy]

The transfer rate per platform depends on a lot of factors

So I can't tell you if you can do 600/min with 1 wagon on 1 train

[urban root]

Most of my trains can do around 870 items a min on average

[warped pawn]

i should be good then

how should i do reentry?

i will have about 12 trains so idk

[hard ivy]

I just told you it depends on a lot of factors. One value from one setup is useless information

[hard ivy]

If you have 12 trains on a 2-way track, your throughput will be near 0

[formal prawn]

if only bunny hopping worked IRL. Just run, jump, put your legs out, repeat, doesn't hurt one bit,, makes you bounce like mad

[warped pawn]

2 tracks is the only way

i was hoping to avoid it but ig not

[hard ivy]

A 2-way section can only be used by 1 train at once, so all of them will be waiting until the one currently using it moves out of the way. This leads to terrible throughput starting with like 3 trains.

[ivory condor]

I told you, only suffering awaits trying to make one track work

[warped pawn]

i sent an ss in screenshots, where should i put the new rail? outer part or on top?

single track only works for 1 train😭

[ivory condor]

Well you can make it work for multiple trains, its just so much pain and suffering that I would recommend against it

[hard ivy]

It can work for many trains, just very slowly. Useful for supplying main storage because throughput can be shit and it's still fine

And the signalling for bi-di is more difficult too

[ivory condor]

i remember back before u5, trains would just phase through each other, but made queuing at the same station impossible

[warped pawn]

i need to look into train logistics

[distant pulsar]

I wish the auto-joining of belts via blueprint was possible with conveyer lifts

I must be vertical

[ionic forge]

bolted frame or bolted iron plate

[hard ivy]

Both are shit imo

[ionic forge]

bruh

i have the woven iron plate recipe

but idk how hard itll be to use it

[hard ivy]

Stitched? lol

[ionic forge]

same difference yeah

[hard ivy]

It works perfectly with iron wire

[ionic forge]

yeah i dont have iron wire

[dusty dragon]

adding to the reply @ionic forge boombox at awsm shop allows you to do area damage with knockback so you can meme aliens off ledges and stuff while listening to music

[ionic forge]

yeah i had no clue if i got the boombox from the MAM later on lol, ill look in the shop at some point. how do i get trains though

[dusty dragon]

trains unlock on the hub i believe, at some tier

[formal prawn]

how am I getting on? 20 hours in, I have 1 main base, 3 branches (2 for coal, 1 for iron) and at phase 2

[south sinew]

not too bad

[tardy finch]

hey, in the hypertube the direction doesn't change for me with this branch, I press E - nothing, I changed it to another key - still nothing, what's the problem?

[formal prawn]

Maybe reconnect it

[tardy finch]

I tried it, it doesn't work at all, it shows me the direction I'm going to fly, it works, but I can't change the direction...

[formal prawn]

Oh maybe you could bug report it

Or less optimally, just stop it, make two seperate tubes then stop and walk into one

[tardy finch]

oh, i solved the problem... the E button was assigned to destroy objects, i changed it to another one (it was also assigned to something...), changed it to a button on the mouse - and everything works, it's amazing because the game allows you to set 1 key for several actions

[arctic swallow]

my train signals says that the "looped signal" it is the first time i see something like this. with other juntions it worked without a problem

[granite egret]

Hello fellas, I'm new here.
I wanted to ask if some map features like power slug location, deposit location and quality are randomized at the start of the new game or is it all handcrafted?

[serene oyster]

It's all handcrafted, not random

[cursive crane]

The only thing randomized is the little rocks you break that give you a bit of a resource. But even still, not all of them

According to someone else a few days ago

Even creature spawns, collectible spawns, and the giant manta ray are handcrafted to be the best experience possible.

The milestones are one big tutorial, each one giving you things to aid in completing the next one/tier.

[hard ivy]

Rebuild the rails around it

[cursive crane]

@twilit elm making that factory look like one big circuitboard is madlad behavior, welcome to the 100/m club legend

[arctic swallow]

i tried rebuilding it multiple times and it still has the same problem

[hard ivy]

Then the rails are too close. They need to be at least 6m apart center to center

[warped pawn]

Why tf am I seeing people make 40k mw of power with 600 crude oil/m and im getting 10k from 1200 crude oil/m 😭😭🫩

[green fiber]

Recipe choice

[hard ivy]

"k mw" lmao
That is a GW bro

[warped pawn]

Which one?

[green fiber]

Not a singular recipe

Its a collection of recipes

[warped pawn]

Fym bro😭 no way bro makes more🫩

[warped pawn]

Which ones tho?

[green fiber]

All start with Heavy Oil alt and Diluted fuel
Then it diverges a bit

But generally, you end up on Rocket Fuel

[hard ivy]

Heavy Oil Residue and Diluted Fuel give you 20 GW from 600 oil/min

Turbofuel can give 44.(4) GW but at an insane sulfur and coal cost

[green fiber]

NGL Rocket fuel could use some more nitrogen

[hard ivy]

And Rocket Fuel makes 144 GW from 600 oil/min (and 800 coal, 1200 nitrogen and 1600 sulfur)

[lucid lichen]

is it possible to make like a realm if you understand? like my friend make a world and i can join it whenever i want? is there a mod or something to do that

[warped pawn]

yes

[green fiber]

Thats called a dedicated server

[lucid lichen]

really? how

[warped pawn]

u can use server services either 24/7 or just when others are on

[lucid lichen]

hmm

[warped pawn]

ima work on that

i saw a mothership bp as a base, ima make a mothership base now they look sick

[hard ivy]

I should've put "up to" before the power output, because that's with recipes that maximise power output per m3 of oil

[lucid lichen]

is there a free way to make a server like that?

[hard ivy]

Yes, run it on your own computer

You'll still have to pay for the power tho

[warped pawn]

other than that, maybe but its gonna be a shitty server

[warped pawn]

do u know the recipes it requires?

[arctic swallow]

i went to the other junctions that worked rebuild them extractly the same and now they also have signal looped error

[hard ivy]

Rocket fuel?
https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=GppmPeV8lrwwYeoIVgxd

Also, that maximises power per oil while ignoring everything else

You might want to use different recipes depending on what's important

[hard ivy]

Build slower (I am not joking)

If that doesn't help, post pics in #1038092680493801533

[warped pawn]

is it like worth overclocking or is it too much power drain?

[hard ivy]

250% OC is 34% more power consumption per item produced for 2.5 times fewer machines. I'd say if you have the shards, it's always worth it

[shy mulch]

Why would you overclock fuel production? Just make more buildings

[warped pawn]

sometimes space is needed

[shy mulch]

Space is never an issue if you build vertical

[warped pawn]

ill only overclock if like anything is unequal

8 is better than 9

[spark ruin]

🤓

[arctic swallow]

can the experimental be the issue?

[warped pawn]

im gonna start basing my facctories similar to the ones irl, they look so much nicer

[hard ivy]

Both versions are currently identical

[hard ivy]

No u

[spark ruin]

♻️

no, you : )

[eternal plinth]

@void gorge I found a new bug, i've ben playing with a friend and we cant access the empty fluid tank recipe (we got all the requirments Aluminium etc.) but we cant construct them, they dont even appear on pressing N, does anyone know a solution?

[hard ivy]

!wikisearch empty+fluid+tank

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=empty+fluid+tank

[hard ivy]

Do you have either of the prerequisites unlocked?

[warped pawn]

if im not wrong, nitrogen does not need headlist since its a gas

[eternal plinth]

yes i got tier 8

[safe bison]

did anyone try completing all tiers with 0 automatic crafting (no miners, smelters, etc)

[distant pulsar]

this sounds like a biblical tier punishment

[rare thunder]

did they fix trains yet?

[dense violet]

yes all trains are neutered now

[rare thunder]

wdym

[dense violet]

fixed is a term also used for neutering pets

[rare thunder]

ohi i found a video

[dense violet]

I have no idea what issue yo'ure talkign about though

[rare thunder]

building rails sucked

also splitting rails makes no sense

[dense violet]

?

wdym 'splitting rails'?

[rare thunder]

oh yeah it says they reworked building rails

[hard ivy]

I'm afraid that's just a skill issue

[rare thunder]

its a monorail

the wheels glitch through the rail

[dense violet]

they haven't done any significant changes to rails since they added signals

[rare thunder]

the only person i know who doesnt have an issue with them is my friend who paved the whole world 😭

[dense violet]

it's... really really easy to build rails w/o paving the world

[rare thunder]

Railways have gotten some major improvements with their implementation, so they should be a lot nicer and better to build overall than ever

whatever issue i had i guess devs saw it too

[hard ivy]

I haven't had issues with rails, trains or signals since I spent a day studying them back in U6

[dense violet]

they did auto connect with blue prints. but it really doesn't do much if you're building them in a tidy fashion anyway

[rare thunder]

this is my biggest issue ngl but it doesnt even matter

[dense violet]

then you live a blissfully blessed life

[rare thunder]

with the game i mean

[dense violet]

then you live a blissfully blessed life

[rare thunder]

oo tree falling animation

cant wait for them to add normal rails in the ticket shop in 1.8

[warped pawn]

i forgot aluminum needed quartz coal and coperr😭

[hard ivy]

It doesn't need quartz and you can use oil (coke) instead of coal

[dense violet]

use the silica free recipe and ship the ingots to copper

[warped pawn]

whoch recipes?

[hard ivy]

Sloppy alumina, electrode scrap and pure ingot

[warped pawn]

more=better even if that means having to process way more stuff/i dont want to worry about this after im done

[warped ridge]

hypertube junction: which way is the "default" if I don't select anything?

[dense violet]

sloppy solution, pure ingots

[dense violet]

just bring in more bauxite. much easier

[warped pawn]

im getting all the bauzite from the map to the factory

[dense violet]

silica ingots produce very little more

[warped pawn]

large scale its wayy more

[hard ivy]

Either way it's 25% iirc

[dense violet]

then use the silica free solution recipe, produces more solution

[hard ivy]

Yeah, using default alumina to make silica for default ingot doesn't save you any bauxite and instead you have to deal with silica

[warped pawn]

i will be doing so

[hard ivy]

If you want the 25% extra, you need to use sloppy alumina, electrode scrap and default ingot

[eternal plinth]

or what do you mean?

[hard ivy]

But it costs like 2 quartz per ingot so imo it's almost ever worth it

[warped pawn]

i was about to ask about which one to use for alumina solution

[hard ivy]

There are prerequisite milestones listed on the wiki page I linked

[warped pawn]

answered before i asked

[eternal plinth]

yeah unlocked by completing tier8 aluminium roight?

[cyan garnet]

I like sloppy+electrode+pure because it produces one ingot per bauxite ore

[hard ivy]

There is no "aluminium" milestone in tier 8

There's multiple milestones in tier 8

Only 2 unlock tanks

[warped pawn]

what recipes should i use for casing and sheets?

i plan on slitting the aluminum

splitting

[hard ivy]

Sheets only have 1, alclad casing if you want more per ingot

[warped pawn]

i would work on power but im stuck, as shown in #screenshots

[eternal plinth]

thanks alot mate, turns out i am stupid, sorry to have wasted your time

[warped pawn]

unfortunately since i only have mk2 miners this wont be the only time ill be working on aluminum 😭

[hard ivy]

Also, like, I suggest you check out Satisfactory Tools so you can choose recipes yourself instead of relying on others' suggestions

[warped pawn]

no idea how to use it

[royal lantern]

Can I ask guys what is the safest I can mod my satisfactory like double it's production I'm sorry in advance that I ask a question here that I'm supposed to say it in the question help server suddenly there's no tag for mods there so I'm just asking guys ?

[warped pawn]

u can use sloops

[hard ivy]

Choose for any item, set the production rate and then tweak recipes to your liking. I suggest turning on all of them at first and the calculator can choose the cheapest recipes and then disable the ones you don't want to use

[warped pawn]

oh wait mods, yeah idk

[dense violet]

do you just mean a mod that doubles outputs?

[shrewd raven]

Genuinely how do people make such cool factories I swear half of y’all are secretly architects from other worlds

[dense violet]

practice and planning mostly. And some mods sometimes

it's basically art

[royal lantern]

Not just that a faster making kinda thing

[cyan garnet]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=eA3xkmRfmicqyC4EJepI

[dense violet]

you can over clock machines with shards. But all that does is save you space.

use more machines

[cyan garnet]

Research production amplification in the MAM

[fossil coral]

How tall should one floor be? 8m? 10m? If I want multiple floors

[steady glade]

28m

if you want refineries

[dense violet]

depends on your machines and how you like things

2-3 walls is enough for most machines

[steady glade]

otherwise 16m is a good default

[dense violet]

some of hte bigger ones need more though

[fossil coral]

I'm just working on my first real factory outside of my temp setup so just working on the basics right now

[cyan garnet]

Particle accelerators are the worst

[cyan garnet]

16m is probably fine then

[steady glade]

then 3-4 foundations high is good, wont feel claustrophobic

[fossil coral]

Are you always working off a mall setup and a crafting desk or do you eventually start making completed products like miners etc with assemblers?

[steady glade]

both

stuff like portable miners is very rarely used in the grand scheme of things so just make a bunch every so often, but for most building materials you want a little stockpile of them

[sweet thorn]

Yo

@steady glade Sup

[south plume]

I have an mk1 miner on a pure iron node. It outputs 120 ore on an mk2 belt. That goes to 4 smelters. From smelters it goes to other machines on an mk2 belt. I have a demand higher than 120 iron ignots. Still last 2 smelters are nearly full all the time and the belt does not stop at all. I must be missing something here

[steady glade]

helloo

[sweet thorn]

I'm restarting, ofcourse in dune

Should I?

[steady glade]

wait why?

[green fiber]

you are likely running off of some surplus

[sweet thorn]

I guess I messed up so

[green fiber]

You'd have to monitor it for at least 10 mins or so

[steady glade]

with the slugs and sloops?

[sweet thorn]

Nope, ive a lot of em

[sweet thorn]

spaghettis

[dense violet]

I mean restarting every once in a while can help base skills. But depends on the person.

[south plume]

I will empty the smelters and see if that works

[green fiber]

Restarting doesn't fix the habit of spaghetti making, it just gives you a chance to make spaghetti yet again

[steady glade]

spaghetti is fine, you can delete it and make more

[sweet thorn]

Lemme show you my spaghetti

[prime crane]

what should i do if im having trouble finding my death crate? im next to it on the map but i can't find it.

[green fiber]

It may be underground then?

Alternative is to load an autosave from before you die

[sweet thorn]

Or maybe floating in sky?

[green fiber]

then you would be able to see it

[prime crane]

i think that was like 90 hours ago of gameplay and 8 months ago. ive came back because i wanna get rid of all the death crates.

[hidden sparrow]

100% you're not beating me

[cinder depot]

hey guys, how do I open a ticket?

my game doesnt open

[green fiber]

ah

[prime crane]

yeah...

[green fiber]

Try opening a thread in #1038092680493801533 first with some details

This discord doesnt offer support from the devs

[cinder depot]

oh ok thanks

[sweet thorn]

@steady glade #screenshots message

[green fiber]

Thats weak spaghetti

This is fixable

[steady glade]

no need to restart from scratch, take 10m to delete all that and start a factory a few meters off the ground

[sweet thorn]

Oh

actually that's not mine

that's my frnd's

[sweet thorn]

Actually, my factories are clean and organised, but

I think something is missing

I'm too lazy ig

[steady glade]

like what?

[fossil coral]

For the awesome sink do I just treat it like a garbage can? Hook a container to it to start?

[steady glade]

container, and merger if its in a factory

[steady glade]

if you're too lazy to correct this save, the next one wont be much better

[sweet thorn]

#screenshots message

[fossil coral]

So in what scenario are you diverting items to it? When storage full?

[arctic swallow]

yeah but use smart spliter so when the container fills up the overflow will go to the sink

[fossil coral]

Ah okay

[arctic swallow]

mostly you need it in your oil renifery if you use it for power

[fossil coral]

What tier are the smart ones in? I think I'm on the last part of tier 2

[steady glade]

the container with a merger is so you can actually use it as a garbage can, if you wanna stockpile into the container before sinking you want a smart splitter

[arctic swallow]

i think it is in mam

[steady glade]

in the caterium section of the mam

[fossil coral]

Ah I need to get the rebar gun and prioritize exploring

[steady glade]

that looks great, you even colored them

[sweet thorn]

i sent another one

[steady glade]

those factories look great, you even lifted the belts so it's walkable

[fossil coral]

I think last q before I get building tonight, should I dedicate an iron line per product (bars, plates, cast screws) and scale to saturate the production ? For now anyway

[hidden sparrow]

Too clean 💔

[steady glade]

no not really, you will need to stockpile some but 1 or 2 lines will be enough

i have my reinforced iron plates on one normal iron node and that stockpiles screw, rods and plates too

well it used to until i decided to sink leftover reinforced plates

[honest ridge]

how do i stop foundations snapping to the tops of walls

[south sinew]

ctrl I think

[steady glade]

you can also hold and nudge to adjust

[vapid girder]

• also needs power
• also some things cant be sinked like raw resources or nuclear waste products
• also there are a few easter eggs from sinking unlikely items

[warped pawn]

ticket and gold coffee cup

[vapid girder]

spoiler alert lol

[prisma forge]

how do I get the gold coffee cup

[steady glade]

if you answer that, make it a spoiler please

[green fiber]

Do not ask about the dark magic until you are ||near the end of the game||

[sweet thorn]

@steady glade so should I restart?

[prisma forge]

completed phase 4 already

[green fiber]

Then onto the next phase

[steady glade]

there's really no reason to

[arctic swallow]

go into your home and on the felt there should like a "wardrobe"

[steady glade]

your factories are fine

[sweet thorn]

Oh alright.

[prisma forge]

nah I started a new playthrough.

[green fiber]

Well then you'll have to make it there again

[prisma forge]

yay more automation

[green fiber]

Factory game in a nutshell

[prisma forge]

maybe I should try factorio at some point

[arctic swallow]

whats better then one addictive factory game???? two addictive factory games

[prisma forge]

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

[sweet thorn]

I got only some things automated, like steel pipes, steel beams, encased beams, iron rods and plates, smart platings and concrete

[sweet thorn]

Im playing that side by side

[dense violet]

very different game

[prisma forge]

too expensive tho, I'm broke AF

[arctic swallow]

make a factory irl and instead of sinking the products sell them

[prisma forge]

I work in a clothes factory lmao

as your average IT support

[sweet thorn]

Lmao

[steady glade]

you can start fresh if you feel like it but you could also keep going and automate more stuff, since you have dimensional depots

[steady glade]

try incremental factory

its like factorio but as a flowchart

[arctic swallow]

i haven't even finished both games i ain't starting playing new one

[steady glade]

its still in early access so its kind of short

[prisma forge]

is it free?

[steady glade]

no, i got it for like 3 bucks back then

lemme check

its 8 bucks

[sweet thorn]

yea alr, then btw

How to use smart splitters in a way that they only allow an item to pass through when there's excess of it?

[steady glade]

use the Overflow option

[arctic swallow]

you have an option of overflow

[sweet thorn]

Oh alright

[mortal ginkgo]

can I sell my fabric to you instead of sinking them? Maybe Ficsit won't notice!

oh no, Ficsit Inspector

[rare thunder]

trailer boss when

[vapid girder]

We will discuss this during your inspection

[mortal ginkgo]

oh cmon, I got a main logistic floor for my factories that share globally below and each floor has their own logistics floor too! cut me some slack it takes time to make it all lols

[prisma forge]

most of the fabric we produce ourselves is from wool. So unless you have wool to sell, no.

#screenshots message

Throwback to my very first factory

[vapid girder]

slack is inefficient
AWESOME (Anti‑Waste Effort for Stress‑Testing of Materials on Exoplanets) is a critical function of industrial optimization and space-bound logistics and cases of diverting resources for personal gain will be followed up with by ADA

[mortal ginkgo]

👍

[prisma forge]

#screenshots message

Same factory, couple of hours later

[swift goblet]

good morning...question. I have a hot rod of a pc! RTX 4090; intel core i9 12900k; asrock z690 taichi; 32 gb ddr5 ram...blah, blah. Is lag a thing in this game because of the huge graphics and the amount of things being built?

[atomic notch]

I havent had problems only lag i get is from playin with my buddies across the pond

[patent hearth]

Hey people i have a question. Should 2700 plastic and 3600 rubber per minute last me the entire game even if im trying to build big?

[radiant sorrel]

depends on how big

[dense violet]

depends on the recipes you use later. You can use recipes that minimize plastic and rubber, or go wild with it

mostly trying to future proof stuff will just be a lot of wasted time

[patent hearth]

i want to eventually use all the uranium in the world and build like 5 parts per minute of space elevator parts

[dense violet]

just make what you need now, and then make some more later if you want.

and when you finally unlock everything you can decide what your personal goals are

[dense violet]

unlock everything. Finish all the phases. Then make a world plan so you actually know what you're doing.

[vapid girder]

No matter what youre making it will never be enough. agree with making what you need for the task at hand

[vagrant oar]

I only accept forge, sorry

neoforge at best

[hard ivy]

truee

also, 1.12.2 ftw

[vagrant oar]

wrong

1.7.10

[open tree]

can programable splittters be programmed for more than one item per output?

[hard ivy]

that's the only difference between them and smart splitters

[open tree]

oh awesome.

i have programmable splitters, just hadnt experimented with them yet

[timid rune]

mmm pink diamonds

maybe enough coal to do another 1000 diamonds/min

[lost wagon]

forge dev team could end world hunger with how much spaghetti that thing has

[twilit tinsel]

hi uhm i think i might have found a bug where would i like report this?

[queen storm]

some friends are creating a server, can u joint and troll them pls 🙂

Steam://4c59d69c00008601

[fossil ice]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[hard ivy]

^

[twilit tinsel]

thank you!!

[hard ivy]

check if it has been reported already before posting

[heady phoenix]

how to hide small grasses popping up when I build foundations on ground? 4m foundtations cant hide them

[hard ivy]

Build higher

[arctic swallow]

put 1m foundation on top of them

[heady phoenix]

thanks

[arctic swallow]

or ignore the problem like a true pioneeer

[fathom shuttle]

You’re gonna be convering with machines so it doesn’t matter

Can I use rocket fuel as a drop in replacement in my diluted packaged fuel set up?

Or a third refinement set up is needed

Turbo fuel not rocket fuel sorry

[quaint flax]

are there any ways to destroy rocks?

[mossy moon]

when did this server get a tag. this is amazing

[quaint flax]

or that gas thingies

[mossy moon]

bombs

(sorry i havent been on the server for a while. exams hapening)

[fathom shuttle]

Bombs

[hard ivy]

Turbo fuel is made from fuel so you will need another stage

But if you have oil to spare, just make more fuel

It's easier

[quaint flax]

i guess i didn't unlocked it yet

[merry crest]

has there been an update recently to the gamme

because for some reason my game and my friends game suddenly crash when he joins my game

[craggy mica]

Guys if im transporting ALOT of water should i make separate lanes or one pipe is enough for alot of water at once