satisfactory

[shy mulch]

Indeed!

[light token]

what was it that MAM said upon researching somersloops? the little "glitch" in dialogue for lack of a better word, something about harvesting until it reaches the shores.

[feral jay]

I'm just laying out the foundations of another ridonculously over-engineered power network tonigh

Cuz that's just a thing I do

[prisma forge]

You can press "O" and go to Inbox

there you'll every message log

[light token]

thank you

"let the effegies harvest until the waves reach our shores. consume." strange

[prisma forge]

get used to it

[feral jay]

Also if you press N, that quick search box also functions as a rudimentary calculator

[prisma forge]

my favorite is "Your curves are beautiful"

[open pollen]

This is a great idea I love it
(But idk where you found spiders man, this game only has cats obviously)

[light token]

i assume the calculator part is intentional?

[prisma forge]

yes

[light token]

seems oddly prophetic

[feral jay]

Yeah it's feature they built in because the game needs a lot of math

[light token]

ah, pretty good foresight

i just have my NESA wtv calculator on my desk, works fine because the game always gives exact values

the supplied one by DET

[shy mulch]

you can also put equations straight into the numbers in machines
for example if you have 7 machines and want to output a total of 50 items per minute, you can just enter 50/7 in the clock speed bit and it'll do exactly that

[feral jay]

LOL @light token love your username, I award you four Internet points!

[light token]

will it slow production to match?

[light token]

i have a pfp for it but this is better 💔

[shy mulch]

yes it will change to whatever you tell it, you can do the same in the % box too

[light token]

wonder how i never figured this out...

[open pollen]

Do many people play on arachnophobia mode? I feel like having still images of cats jumping and meowing at you is just as thrilling of an experience

[hollow holly]

I use it tought im not arachnophobic

[open pollen]

(But if I personally didn’t have arachnophobia mode on I’d probabaly die of fear cause I can’t do spiders lol)

[hollow holly]

Cat are just funier

[feral jay]

Yeah the spiders in this game give me goosebumps

And I'm in no way arachnaphobic

[light token]

the eyeless part of them is really weird

eyes make spiders how they are, without them theyre offputting

[lament niche]

all my homies hate trucks

[open pollen]

I find it funny that the stronger spiders can be just as surprising to me as cat images when they jump at me from ages away

I swear they never stop chasing sometimes

[lament niche]

they don't.

[hollow holly]

I dont like truck too

[feral jay]

I rarely use them. Once in a blue moon in very specific situtations, but almost never, I just find the pathing system... frustrating and underdeveloped

[prisma forge]

Well I may be, but I usually leave them in their corner. Spiders are just as scared of us as we are of them.
Also they eat mosquitoes.
So it's a win win in my book. I let them live and they get rid of mosquitoes

[light token]

trains on top, better in every way

[prisma forge]

I only use one pair of trucks to bring coal and sulfur to a ballistics factory where a train seemed to be an overkill for the job

[light token]

"winess our scripture, witness our windows, have you come to defile our shrine? sing us a song." even weirder.

[feral jay]

Sing the blood-song. Defile the woven windows.

[prisma forge]

As I said, get used to it lol

[next meadow]

Can someone help me out with my question in #screenshots please?

[light token]

figured id be use to it by now but its not exactly a comforting message

[feral jay]

It's not supposed to be

[light token]

figured that one out lol

and why does it not reply?

[feral jay]

It has defiled the melody. The resonance-song is voiceless.

[timber shoal]

how do you attach multiple hypertube entrances to a hypertube to build up speed?

[dense violet]

leave gaps between them. there's yt vids on how

[feral jay]

!wikisearch hypertube_cannon

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=hypertube_cannon

[feral jay]

LOL

[strong fiber]

Devs are cooking with the console release rn

i already know it

[feral jay]

I'm actually really impressed with Coffee Stain about that, a lot of studios keep shit like console support in the "We're working on it and will update you when we know more" pile. But CS actually delivered on that.

I have no idea how good the support actually is because I'm on PC and a keyboard, but kudos for delivering on it

[mint ice]

yay!. im just reaching steel at like 24 hours in

[feral jay]

You're fired. Most pioneers are far more efficient. This sounds like a you problem.

[mint ice]

buuuut

idk

i was going to rebuttle but didnt cuz im a lost cause

[feral jay]

(It's an ADA quote, I'm trying to be funny)

[mint ice]

(never seen it)

[dense violet]

ADA is the voice that talks to you

[mint ice]

( i havent seen that line before)

[feral jay]

Probably an amalgam of a few lines actually

[pseudo island]

Does anyone know if there is a release date for consoles yet?

[feral jay]

Two months ago

[mint ice]

i think i just had a stroke

[void belfry]

So blue crater there is a massive void space in the corner... Can I build there

[feral jay]

yes

[sinful idol]

Is there a way to nudge vertical splitters/mergers up or down a conveyor because it's really annoying that I can't seem to

[void belfry]

And is it a bad idea to build giant power networks across the map

[feral jay]

That is LITERALLY the best idea ever

[void belfry]

Basically I am using it as a way to get around with my hover pack

[mint ice]

anyone wanna go look at my beautiful leaf sorting???

#screenshots

[ripe stump]

What is the multi colored circular image at map coordinates -1644, 2636? It out side the boundary line there. Its in the general Southwest region.

[feral jay]

I have a whole seperate circuit for hoverpack power

[ripe stump]

I segregate sections with the Power Switches, As I learned my lesson when the whole system shutdown and it took 3 days to bring the game back on line.

[mint ice]

dang is my leaf sorting so good no one can comment? thats crazy

[feral jay]

Sorting leaves into... stacks of leaves?

[mint ice]

yeaaah

no the leaves are just a placeholder

itll be for coal in steel

[cursive crane]

Paradise island?

not sure what you mean otherwise, can you share a #screenshots

[mint ice]

well ill be driving somewhere at 6 am so i must go to bed

GG GN

[feral jay]

Oh wow, the new decoupled camera mode is fucking awesome

[void belfry]

so blue crater

Now once I get the blender I can start doing more research

[cursive crane]

is there a mod or some niche feature I dont know about that allows you to replace building conveyor poles with stackable poles?

[feral jay]

Construction Preferences

[cursive crane]

That a mod?

[feral jay]

yeah

[cursive crane]

sad

[feral jay]

Agree, it would be really nice to be able to build stacked conveyors without first needing to run back and forth placing more poles

[cursive crane]

really feels like something where you should be able to right click the pole you wanna use in build menu, or maybe an option in gameplay settings

so annoying

switching all my factories over to using stackables, this is gonna drive me insane trying to get maximum size out of them lmao

[sour ledge]

Upside: copying over my blueprints lets me make rail without having unlocked rail in this save. That's kinda neat.

Downside: I didn't blueprint any actual trains because.... why would you ever... so it's kinda pointless to do. But still!

[shut vigil]

i might be dumb but is their a missing stair now?

like have i gone nuts

[feral jay]

You are henceforth known as "DumbNuts"

(I dunno, I haven't used stairs yet this save)

[shut vigil]

clearly lol

[feral jay]

I'm handcrafting 2,000 quickwire, am I also dumb?

Or just nuts?

[shut vigil]

combination most likely

[feral jay]

Correction, 4,000

[wicked nacelle]

quickwire is something that you make on demand for each few machines

ingots are much more efficient to transport

[feral jay]

Need it to make a few stacks of AI limiters right now

For sweet sweet smart splitters

[wicked nacelle]

whatever you do what you like but eventually you'll want to make sure you're making pure caterium and then have modules that make quickwire themselves from ingots

[feral jay]

You mean automate this? Blasphemy!

Automation is for cheaters

[wicked nacelle]

it's like having a screw factory

unless you're a pimp, it's a poor choice

and you obviously want to automate ai limiters as theyre needed for basic building blocks

[feral jay]

I obviously want to automate all the things, I just haven't got that far yet

[leaden turret]

#1201555265942724758 automate automating things

space capitalism: it's only manual labour if you're the one labouring

[fickle tusk]

i think so too??

[leaden turret]

the old poopy stairs got removed

[fickle tusk]

i miss them :(

[leaden turret]

they poopy tho

ooh, I checked if there's a mod that "restores" the original stairs (either there's not or the search sucks), but there's an actual spiral stairs mod

[vagrant oar]

a rule for "scary"/"disgusting" insects in general I have is:
We're chill at a distance, but the moment you encroach on my personal space, expect to get smacked until you either skitter away from my personal space or die

ah mb for necroing that one, discord decided to show that message as if it was the most recent one

[vagrant oar]

what stairs are we talking about

[leaden turret]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Foundations#Stairs

[shut vigil]

same lol

[fickle tusk]

yeah but there’s nothing really like them anymore :( they had their niche uses

[vagrant oar]

oh these

ngl I need more catwalk/stair types, why remove something that's already super limited

[fickle tusk]

for REAL

[timber shoal]

Are drones suitable for massive distances? (Such as cross-map transport)

[dense violet]

very good for them

arguably better for long in fact

[fickle tusk]

yes, as long as you consider throughput

[elder apex]

long distances but somewhat smaller payloads

[fickle tusk]

or just a lot of them

[dense violet]

can always add more droens though

[timber shoal]

Do drones need fuel inputs at both stops? Or is one stop with fuel input enough

[dense violet]

just one

[tawdry moth]

How come I cannot change the conveyor item frequency?

In settings

[dense violet]

wdym?

[tawdry moth]

It's stuck on Unlimited

[dense violet]

never even seen that setting. Graphical thing?

[tawdry moth]

"Conveyor Belt Item Frequency" set to "Unlimited"

My CPU has been having a rough time with temps so I'm trying to mitiage

it says it's hard on the CPU

[dense violet]

maybe its a setting that's being worked on?

[sterile blade]

It might depend on other settings being not at maximum

[limber flax]

Why use php

[reef basin]

because it's great?

[limber flax]

"unlimited" is bad for your CPU. Try setting it to lower.
Also lower conveyor item draw distance, idk how it is called.
Limit your fps. - this really helped me

[tawdry moth]

ye I want to lower it but it wont let me

[limber flax]

Idk man

[sterile blade]

Trucks are better

[sterile blade]

Have you tried restarting the game?
If so, also try to verify game files to make sure there's no error in your game's version before (if you have the patience for it 🙏) making a bug report

[fossil ice]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[peak wasp]

Am I doing this right?

#screenshots message

[arctic swallow]

where are the foundations?

[void belfry]

Why would I need those lol

[peak wasp]

Well I didn't need much verticality there so didn't include any

[arctic swallow]

but use foundations to place them more organised not all over the place

[reef basin]

or don't both is fine

[peak wasp]

that does make around 450 turbo fuel

[arctic swallow]

and can you provide me with your inputs?

[peak wasp]

let me recreate it

[arctic swallow]

how much oil do you have?

[peak wasp]

well I am not using it all because I have two impures and two normal nodes to work with

[peak wasp]

#screenshots message

[mossy briar]

react thumbs up if ADA should have a song at the end of the game like GLaDOS or thumbs down for no song

-FICSIT values your opinion

[mossy briar]

something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&list=RDY6ljFaKRTrI&start_radio=1

[peak wasp]

yes I am aware that this setup uses 2.5k power

it also creates about 15000MW as well

[arctic swallow]

yeah seems okay

[peak wasp]

close to 3.5k power but still

[peak wasp]

nice so I did it right?

[arctic swallow]

i mean you could make more

[peak wasp]

I could yes...I mean the amount of diluted fuel i make is ridicilous

about 250

[arctic swallow]

thats not that much....

[peak wasp]

it is for what it is needed for

[arctic swallow]

also you can turn on grid snaping in satisfactory modeler and the way the lines from

[peak wasp]

let put it this way for calling it ridiclous amount of fuel

so each turbo fuel blend needs 37.5 fuel per minutes which means that set up can power 6.6 blend stations....which would lead me to having 4 extra blend stations

which would be around 45,000MW of turbo fuel

so yeah 250 fuel per minute is a lot for my purposes

[green fiber]

I recently found out that if you have generators from before update....7? where generator fuel usage was adjusted, then those generators still use the old values for fuel usage.

But they show the new values.

[desert panther]

im trying to power 12 coal generators with 3 slugs in each

how many water pumps do i need?

[reef basin]

0

[desert panther]

0??

[reef basin]

pumps are only needed if pipe goes up

on flat ground you can do without pumps easily

[desert panther]

by pumps i meant water generator

[reef basin]

ah

[void belfry]

Bout a few

[reef basin]

(well say extractor then, there's a literal pump in the game)

[desert panther]

yeah i confused the two

[reef basin]

just check how much it makes and do math 😉

[desert panther]

rn i have 6

and sometimes a water pipe that has full water when it starts going downwards stops getting water :(

[void belfry]

So you have 21 coal generators

[desert panther]

12 generators with 3 slugs in each

they take 113/min each

each water extractor generates 120/min

[reef basin]

well, 112.5

[void belfry]

The equivalent to 6 x 250% is 21...you are powering the equivalent of 21 coal generators

[desert panther]

it says 113/m3/min

[reef basin]

it lies to you

[desert panther]

oh

[reef basin]

45*2.5=112.5

[desert panther]

fair enough

can i combine the water from all the extractors into 1 pipe

[reef basin]

can the single pipe handle that water?

[desert panther]

pipes have been buggin

probably not :(

[reef basin]

pipes don't really have bugs that would affect this

[desert panther]

hmm

[green fiber]

How much water can a single pipe segment handle?

[desert panther]

300!

[void belfry]

You can put 2 coal generators on each pipe then

[green fiber]

If you do it simple, yes, roughly

[desert panther]

but still 1 water extractor per coal gen

should we go extract the water from the ocean and pipe it all the way over

[void belfry]

Depends if you wanna slug it

[desert panther]

we only fit 6 extractors on this lake

[green fiber]

Its better if the coal gens are built near water

[desert panther]

mm you right

[green fiber]

Long distance piping sucks

[desert panther]

so put all our coal gens by the ocean

[green fiber]

If you want, sure

[void belfry]

If you wanna save room for future water pumps you can actually do three water extractors at 200%

And put each extractor on one pipe

[lament niche]

reported

[dense violet]

there's always at least 1 area near every starting zone that has 3-4 coal nodes right next to a big water source 🙂 maybe go look for that

[reef basin]

what

[void belfry]

Honestly my opinion is just make enough coal for powering your factory

Because the thing with coal is you have to deal with water...and water sources are very limited in my experience

[dense violet]

there are so many large water sources near lots of coal nodes
there are in fact more coal nodes next to water than not

I think you've essentially not explored the map to any degree

[void belfry]

I have explored the map, but I also am a northern forest spawn

[dense violet]

eaither east of the starting zone, in the canyons, nice water soure with coal, or west, there's 2 places like that on the border of the rocky desert

[void belfry]

Tough terrain there to work with, I found using fuel generators was vastly easier then dealing with water due to that canyons relative small area to deal with coal generators

[dense violet]

? you can build coal gens over the water extracts. That spot you probably want to OC the water. But I named 2 other spots that have loads of space

[sterile blade]

Now this makes me wonder: which power source uses the most and which the least amount of water?

[dense violet]

and most people don't unlock fuel right when they unlock coal

[reef basin]

least: biomass and geothermal

[void belfry]

And fuel generators if you don't use any alt recipes

[void belfry]

I mean I can do that but then you are dealing with pumps and at that point screwing off to the desert near the northern forest...one you get to fuel generators you get access to the jet pack and can jump off the side of the cliff into the desert

[dense violet]

I'm not sure what that has to do with 'water sources are very limited for coal power'

[void belfry]

That the places where I could run coal power in my spawn weren't worth doing so outside 3 or 4

[dense violet]

yes, the game makes sure you expand and very close by, with very little effort, there's shit tons of water and coal

if you're argument is that you have to run 3-4 minutes to get there then I don't see a point to it or value arguing

maybe even 2 min to get to those spot with blade runners

[void belfry]

No my point was that coal generators were big and that canyon was a smaller area to deal with, and pumping up water to foundations over the lake would be in pain in the ass to do so...my decision ended up being to limit my use of coal and using more fuel generators as the desert near my based proved to be a better area to set up my power.

It did mean I was more power limited during the coal generator section of the game but yeah

That was my experience with my play through of the game...because I did go down to that canyon and ended up using that coal more so for steel as foundries had a lot smaller of a footprint then those massive coal plants

I have explored the area around my base quite a bit and do have my more favored locations

That said I do have a place I plan to use for bigger fuel generator power plants

Blue Crater seems like the place to be for my next generation of power plants

[atomic notch]

Dawg why you always arguing with ppl

[void belfry]

So general question

Good satisfactory content creators?

[atomic notch]

Idk i just watch the kibs guy

[void belfry]

I ended up watching pickle and he did a new 1.1 let's play that started northern forest which is why I made my base there

[atomic notch]

Cool

[void belfry]

https://youtu.be/qwerZqalap8?si=P4I9S-AKE-zs5-Xc

[atomic notch]

Cool

[prisma parrot]

Guys my frend accidently switched to controller in game setting and pressed apply ,and he doesn't have a controller ,so he can't click anything on main manu, is there a way to change it back?

[atomic notch]

Could try steam input

[prisma parrot]

How?

[void belfry]

Just delete anything in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\Windows\

[atomic notch]

Sure

[prisma parrot]

All those ini files?

[atomic notch]

Nah im finna crash dude

[hollow vector]

#screenshots message @river moth then try posting it in offtopicmedia??

[leaden turret]

#1201555265942724758

also don't try to ping everybody, is rude

[atomic notch]

So?

Get over it

[leaden turret]

people who are looking for group are in looking for group
if nobody is responding to looking for group then nobody is in looking for group because nobody is looking for group

[void belfry]

I am unsure which INI file you need to delete but worse case scenario is you delete the wrong INI files and the game crashes and you get to press the verify and repair button on steam and since INI files are so small the risk seems relatively small if you have to repair

[prisma parrot]

I see, thanks

[hollow vector]

https://tenor.com/view/piss-nuke-piss-nuke-tutorial-truth-nuke-true-true-morgan-freeman-gif-1990497734463688507

what the fuck is that name

[leaden turret]

?

oh yeah you might wanna delete that out of embarassment, lol

[hollow vector]

truth nuke.

[simple echo]

Question
If I build a train station with two freight platforms, can I set one to load and another to unload?

[leaden turret]

yes

[simple echo]

Hehehehehehehehhehe

Thank you

[undone lichen]

Does jumping off into the void with radioactive waste gets rid of the waste forever

[leaden turret]

no

[undone lichen]

Aight

[leaden turret]

option 1: learn to deal with / process waste
option 2: cheat

[simple echo]

You always leave behind a crate on death

[undone lichen]

Even on the void?

[simple echo]

It appears somewhere on the ground

[undone lichen]

Oh ok

[simple echo]

Tho, I noticed that the overflow crates seem to have infinite capacity(instead of spawning a new one), so you can place a single overflow crate somewhere far away as dump all your waste there

[simple echo]

3: Lizard doggos

[hard ivy]

4: Toilet

[leaden turret]

falls under cheating

[simple echo]

I assumed cheating meant putting cheats in the console

[hard ivy]

I assumed save editing

[leaden turret]

cheating is doing anything outside the bounds of intended gameplay

corpse disposal is not intended 😛

[simple echo]

It doesn’t feel like cheating if the game just lets you do it, you know?

[leaden turret]

It doesn't feel like cheating shop lifting if the game shop just lets you do it, you know?

[hard ivy]

I'd say it's more of an exploit than a cheat

[leaden turret]

which is a cheat

[simple echo]

It’s not crime if you’re not caught

[sour pilot]

what is an overflow crate?

[simple echo]

A crate that appears if you attempt to disassemble something, but your inventory is full, so the excess goes to the overflow crate

I once forgot 12 power shards in that crate

I forgot its real name

[shy mulch]

dismantle crate

[simple echo]

Yeah, right

[leaden turret]

you were told earlier that #1201555265942724758 exists

it still does

[simple echo]

I can

[leaden turret]

people who are looking for group are in looking for group
if nobody is responding to looking for group then nobody is in looking for group because nobody is looking for group

[shy mulch]

Nobody responds on there means the following
1 - Nobody wants to play with you right now

Anyone who is looking for a group will go there and see your post

This is not a suitable place to cross post

[reef basin]

that means that nobody wants to play?

... by breaking server rules

[shy mulch]

Rules are there for a reason
If you don't understand the reasons, then you are the reason they are needed

[leaden turret]

so you're breaking the rules / social norms of the server, encouraging others to do so

[simple echo]

That’s just uncalled for, man

[reef basin]

I'm not crying about it but they are there for a reason

[mortal ginkgo]

you must be really fun to play with huh

[reef basin]

I wonder why nobody wants to play with you

[simple echo]

You literally just did and when called out said “cry about it”

[reef basin]

Some channels may have specific rules. Please check the pins/channel description before using them.

[simple echo]

How old are you?

[shy mulch]

He comes across as someone very young...

[reef basin]

Be kind and respectful to others.

[simple echo]

I don’t wanna play with literal children

[shy mulch]

The specific words don't need to be "bad" for your attitude to be bad. That's something you should learn at school or from your parents.

[mortal ginkgo]

joins today - breaks the rules first day - acts terrible when called out

like bro.

[leaden turret]

• Be kind and respectful to others.

• Don't post spam

[mortal ginkgo]

what about the other allegation?!

[reef basin]

you posted message that doesn't belong in this channel = spam
(you even did multiple times)

[shy mulch]

Please just give yourself a timeout, do something else for a bit, think about your behaviour here and how you present yourself. Then come back when you're willing to have a better attitude

[leaden turret]

you posted unwanted messages to an audience after being told there was a specific channel for the message you were wanting to send.

spam is defined by the recipient, not the sender.

[mortal ginkgo]

you are not dodging it kid. real life doesn't work like that. everyone knows what "cry about it" means.

[simple echo]

Bruuuh

[mortal ginkgo]

ok, you are underage, thats now obvious

[mortal ginkgo]

dont sacrifice your time for the sake of helping someone that doesn't deserve it

you surely needed help about your boredom. Listen, it ain't working.

come back after a few days, reflect on what you did today.

[shy mulch]

I've never felt the need to downvote a person before, until now

[mortal ginkgo]

God damn we got an alpha here.

[leaden turret]

XKCD 386 time

[simple echo]

Lmaoooooo

[reef basin]

I like how some people, even when confrontend by literally everyone else, still think they are absolutely fine and it's all the other people who are doing wrong things

[simple echo]

Maybe come back when you’re at least 14 years old

[shy mulch]

Everyone is wrong, except the new guy who just joined today and immediately started breaking rules, must be that the rules are wrong

[mortal ginkgo]

Rules are there to be broken. REEEEEEEEEEEEE-

[simple echo]

You’ll look back at this moment and think “gosh, I was so stupid back then”

[mortal ginkgo]

let kids be kids but he is surely underage for discord

[shy mulch]

Maybe you should, that could be your problem... If everyone is telling you that you're wrong, have you considered maybe that you are actually wrong?

[leaden turret]

seals are there to be broken.

rules are there to measure.

📏

[mortal ginkgo]

ok now you deserve a bonk. this is 100% honestly deserved bonk. totally justified:

is it considered an insult to tell someone "go back to playing call of duty, kid" ?

[leaden turret]

wax seals on envelopes, not 🦭

no 🦭 clubbing allowed

[shy mulch]

he seems like more of a roblox kid

[leaden turret]

yes, it implies cod is a game worth playing.

[velvet idol]

do kids even play Call of Duty these days?

[stuck dagger]

well there's Warzone

[velvet idol]

I thought Fortnite was the cool new thing

[mortal ginkgo]

I think most of them do?

[simple echo]

They play like Fortnite, I guess
Even then its probably outdated by now

[stuck dagger]

I thought that counts, it's a battle royale (though that genre might also be outmoded these days)

[mortal ginkgo]

Ah yes, Fortnite and Roblox might be the correct games but I assumed they played CoD a lot too.

[leaden turret]

now that everyone has calmed down, can we take it back on-topic or go back to sleep?

[mortal ginkgo]

Pipes suck.

[ivory condor]

I wonder what games Ada would play

[simple echo]

Anyway, I’m 120 hours in and only not I decided to finally automate the automated miners

[leaden turret]

<@&387163995947270144>

[simple echo]

Looooool

[velvet idol]

and there it is

[mortal ginkgo]

ok now we know he plays Call of Duty.

[stuck dagger]

meh

[leaden turret]

vacums suck, pipes flow

[mortal ginkgo]

Valves useless.

[simple echo]

“You’re breaking the rules and being an ass”
“KYS waaaaaah”

[sour pilot]

it's too easy nowdays )

[leaden turret]

plays satisfactory on steam

"I don't spam"

spams moderator

[mortal ginkgo]

Duality of men

[simple echo]

I thought it was not worth it tbh, but having to come back and build miners by hand every time gets annoying

[stuck dagger]

I got a fish eye lens, and made rap video with a couple of friends

[sour pilot]

it's a good QoL thing, yes

[mortal ginkgo]

kid, there is a reason you made an extra account because you are probably banned in everywhere else.

stop it

[worldly pelican]

Please move on, we are here

[mortal ginkgo]

Cheers. ❤️

Now, where were we. Oh yes. Pipe mk3 when.

[leaden turret]

if gameplay is tedious, cheat a starter ?

[simple echo]

I’m 120 hours into the save, I’m just stubborn

[sour pilot]

right after mk2 will work correctly with 600 m/sec in all cases )

[leaden turret]

January 14th, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: Pipeline Mk.3, when?
https://youtu.be/4dpQBDV3VFc

there's technical reasons why the Mark II is the like the last one you can get and and it's you know we can't go further than that

[hollow vector]

be ??? and ??? to others?

[mortal ginkgo]

"maybe not have silly gameplay elements like sloshing that game doesn't explain and we need an actual pages of manual just to NOT understand how it all works in the first place and even ADA doesn't tell whats going on with pipes as there is no tutorial about them in game too so like I dunno bro."

[hollow vector]

what is that

[mortal ginkgo]

[hollow vector]

lategame stuff?

[stuck dagger]

Sloshing?

[mortal ginkgo]

Lemme slosh you away

[stuck dagger]

Some fluid physics thing I never bothered to figure out

[leaden turret]

April 22nd, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: Any plans to explain Fluids in-game?
https://youtu.be/CZ99Flu6vFE

[simple echo]

The pipes take a while to fill up sometimes for no damn reason

[hollow vector]

you are not packgod

[leaden turret]

satisfactory simulates fluid viscocity

[hollow vector]

you are NOT humbling anyone

[leaden turret]

no, I am marv

[hollow vector]

ok sign

[simple echo]

This kinda sucks tbh

[modern sable]

would satisfactory be less fun if the belt tool could automatically split, merge, and move vertically? Then merger, splitter, and conveyor lift would be obsolete.

Or is it an important part of the puzzle?

[leaden turret]

no, nobody clicked the bundle referral links 🥁

[hollow vector]

"needs more realism, sucks."
"realism sucks ngl"

[leaden turret]

you mean like treating belts like rails?

[mortal ginkgo]

I think devs actually did try mk3 pipe only to see how insane fluid sloshing happens and taxes CPU

[lost wagon]

Like factorio

[modern sable]

I mean like shapez does it, if you've ever played it. basicaly the tool splits/merges belts without having a separate building piece

[simple echo]

I didn’t ask for realism
I prefer fun and tight gameplay instead of realism for the sake of it
Sloshing doesn’t add much to the game but pain in the arse

[leaden turret]

wouldn't know, tried the demo, didn't like it

[ivory condor]

Other games actually have a more simplified fluid simulation, like foundry fluids in pipes is very simple

[leaden turret]

if sloshing and water hammer had visual/audio feedback, there wouldn't be as big of a problem with it

[hollow vector]

the humble watertower:

[stuck dagger]

Shapez uses a grid system though, and the auto-splitting/merging works by the grid

[mortal ginkgo]

THis game HEAVILY relies on splitter and merger stuff due to lack of sorters.

I have no absolute idea why a space-age factory company would avoid using sorters because Ficsit says being efficient is key and they are not using them is just a big bruh moment.

[stuck dagger]

also iirc it can't split/merge 3-ways

[lost wagon]

Factorio belts have 2 sides, so you can use it for 2 items instead of one, if you end a belt and at that end you pull one belt to each side, it will split, same as merging, if you end a belt into another belt crossing, it merges with that belt

[mortal ginkgo]

not to mention the times splitter and merges just simply doesn't work because of no reason and you need to reput them even if it occurs rarely

[lost wagon]

I think DSP has it too, but it's one item per belt

[simple echo]

Or make priority/actually programmable splitters that let you set how much stuff should go each way

[leaden turret]

weird people in there do sushi belting

[mortal ginkgo]

This eventually get solved by manifold design but I wouldn't mind it for people who want it.

Still, this game loves splitter and mergers too much.

[ivory condor]

I remember have had to rebuild my splitters/mergers because sometimes they just break, even if they were originally working, those are fun bugs

You know the fun bug when you go back to your factory and wonder what chaos this is👀

[leaden turret]

@obsidian zodiac did you sleep well? any be-tassled lizard doggos show up in your dreams last night? 😛

[simple echo]

Manifolds have their problems(says I, the #1 manifold enjoyer)

[mortal ginkgo]

I think it is a corrupted belt segment bug. Because I know a splitter that simply refused to output one direction no matter what I did, and only way to solve it was redoing the belt

[mortal ginkgo]

they eventually solve themselves, I am happy with it

[leaden turret]

the only problem with manifolds is having to justify their existence to the load balancing factorio enjoyer

[mortal ginkgo]

Its like trying to tell a flat earther that planet is round, yet their twitter account says "Falt earther community across the GLOBE" which I giggle to this day.

You send them out to space to show them planet is round and they will say "I am sure you are projecting a video to my window."

[simple echo]

It can take a while to sort itself out depending on the item, but still
You can pry my manifold out of cold, dead hands

[near glacier]

hello guys

ı have question can you help me?

[simple echo]

Hi

[hollow vector]

counterpoint: the planet is a doritio

[mortal ginkgo]

I see you everyday, you are not gone.

[mortal ginkgo]

Donut*

[hollow vector]

dumbass

[near glacier]

how can i tranfer sw on satisfactory

[hollow vector]

its a hp laptop cn2xxx

[mortal ginkgo]

Goddangit brotherman.

[hollow vector]

how could people fail this easy question

[leaden turret]

doughnut*

[hollow vector]

cat*

[mortal ginkgo]

Are you farming bonks today?

[leaden turret]

[mortal ginkgo]

Is this your reason to exist for this moment of time and space?

[leaden turret]

well it was either that or bagel*

[sour pilot]

do you mean save files or?

[near glacier]

???

[near glacier]

yes yes

[simple echo]

When I saw how much space balancers vs manifold takes I switched real quick

[leaden turret]

copy/paste from save folder in #faq

[lost wagon]

What I want is side lifts, won't really lift anything but sometimes I just want the output be a little to the side and using 2 splitters is kinda eh

[hollow vector]

card*

[ripe basin]

Did you know that semi-automatic systems exist in satisfactory

Pressure conversion cube killed the chat

[fallow girder]

I got fandom to remove "Official" from the pagetitle on the old wiki finally.

[hollow vector]

success

[ivory condor]

[leaden turret]

is still there

cache purge, is gone 🎆

[leaden turret]

cc <@&1077298315558920285>

[leaden turret]

cc @void gorge, re: that blurb you mentioned about speaking to legal department

[hollow vector]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1159698005235093555/1255186397711826994/togif.gif

[mortal ginkgo]

there are 2 Fandom links, one says "Satisfactory Wiki", other one says "Official Satisfactory Wiki"

[hollow vector]

guys this is the planet

[mortal ginkgo]

this is so silly that you cant get rid of fandom, this should be illegal

[leaden turret]

kebab menu, purge

[mortal ginkgo]

kebab is good shadap

[leaden turret]

(the three dots menu button is called "kebab menu")

[mortal ginkgo]

first time hearing this

[leaden turret]

three lines menu is burger menu

three dutch coffee stainers planking is beuger menu

[mortal ginkgo]

...

[near glacier]

thank you man

[leaden turret]

now giving all lurking coffee stainers the mental image of clicking on the beuger menu

[true mulch]

How'd you pull this off? 😄😄
They sent us to hell when we reached out as admins and neither the community managers had any success. Thank you so much, I mean it

[hollow vector]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1255914487127736341/1343827284452442163/media-iv-text.gif

[fallow girder]

Just emailed support

[hollow vector]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/780950830848802856/901558156323356712/image1.gif

[true mulch]

Prooobably depends on who gets to handle the email ticket

[hollow vector]

1 gif is all i have to say for that

[true mulch]

Ah this is such great news

[ripe basin]

Stop sending gifs please

[leaden turret]

now we just have to go purge the cache on all the pages so it stops lying (already did the landing page)

then we have to wait a few months for google et al to catch up

[true mulch]

I think I still have bot access

[hollow vector]

k

[leaden turret]

and then we watch someone still post fandom links

[true mulch]

But I don't have AWB set up since reinstalling Windows

[hollow vector]

perhaps they might be using a stone as their mouse

[ripe basin]

Fandom is shit

[hollow vector]

or a couple a potato as a keyboard

[leaden turret]

shit is a useful fertiliser.

fandom is not useful.

[ripe basin]

Fair enough

[hollow vector]

try eating the shit ferilized food then

i mean eat the shit directly

[ripe basin]

Toxic spotted

[leaden turret]

I don't go to mcdonalds any more, thx

[mortal ginkgo]

I understand that Fandom does not let you take the website down, but cant it be completely content deleted pages that links to the actual wiki?

[leaden turret]

?

[hollow vector]

what the fuck does that mean

[mortal ginkgo]

you cant get rid of a Fandom website even it is you made it.

[ripe basin]

Why does fandom even exist

[true mulch]

To be fair, despite not only being fully aware of the wiki situation but also being part of it, I also got my hand burnt a couple times and ended up on Fandom despite a migrated being up

[smoky forge]

u blessed one, every time i go to mcdonalds once a month or so i get balistic gases out of my a##

[leaden turret]

fartillery cannon

[true mulch]

Nope, you can't ever delete anything on a wiki. "Deleting" something really just hides it from public view

[smoky forge]

real

[leaden turret]

oh yeah, something something community resource something something unless demonstrable harm something something

[mortal ginkgo]

ok but not delete the pages, just the content inside?

[true mulch]

It'll get reverted by staff

[mortal ginkgo]

its literally in their ToS. that MUST be illegal man

[leaden turret]

that's vandalism

[true mulch]

Best bet is to just insert plausible looking nonsense

[fallow girder]

Someone has removed content from some pages on the old wiki and no one has reverted them yet after a week. Maybe they gave up on it?

[mortal ginkgo]

God damnit.

[leaden turret]

people already post their fanfic there, don't need to encourage them

[true mulch]

Reverted by staff just today

[mortal ginkgo]

Justified vandalism considering that Fandom has incorret and outdated info but eh...

How do their staff got time to check that?

[fallow girder]

damn

[mortal ginkgo]

Holy hell. Ok this really sounds illegal.

[leaden turret]

space wiki capitalism

[mortal ginkgo]

capitalism was a mistake

[leaden turret]

mistake was a capitalism

[shy mulch]

the main concern is that a lot of people ask chatgpt for advice, and chatgpt will be pulling it's knowledge from both the correct wiki and the wrong wiki, and will give both the same weight, and will give useless responses

[hollow vector]

dont we love seo maxing?

[shy mulch]

fandom seo seems strong

[loud leaf]

the game is showing me a dismantle crate that was in a place i was never at. I came to remove it but its not even there. What do i do

[leaden turret]

#announcements message

[leaden turret]

SnakE Oil

[mortal ginkgo]

I tried this "Seo thing" once for my website, I thought the guy I contacted would write some article about my product. I mean it was cheap so I didn't expect a lot.

I just did not expect them to "write" some "AI crap" with silly images all around that didn't make any sense.

I only found it out later that it is there to pollute Google search with my stuff to look like my product is slightly more important.

It disgusted me.

so it explains why Fandom reverts "vandalism"

[shy mulch]

yep, those of us who actively research and think about things will easily understand what is good info and what is bad info, but the majority of people don't do that, they find whatever info they can and trust it

[loud leaf]

also its exactly at coordinates 0,0

[shy mulch]

sounds like it's bugged, use SC to edit the save file and move the crate to somewhere you can get to

[mortal ginkgo]

you need to load your save to https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[loud leaf]

whats SC?

[mortal ginkgo]

and delete the crate.

game just bugged and couldnt find a place to put the crate so it put it at 0.0.0

[loud leaf]

okay

[mortal ginkgo]

I got one there too

[shy mulch]

you can edit the coordinates if you want to get the stuff from the crate

[fallow girder]

Jul 1, 2025, 10:17 GMT+1

Hi there!
 
Thank you for the heads up - we had removed the official wiki tag before, but probably missed the Pagetitle, it's been removed now.
 
If you need assistance with anything else, feel free to let us know!
 
Kind regards,
Lucas

Community Manager, Gaming```

[prisma forge]

Satisfactory Calculator

[half scaffold]

Any ideas why my Smart Splitter won't send the Mycelia through?
The constructor has power, belt is connected, and Right output is set to Mycelia. Not sure what I'm missing, but it just stops

[upper sun]

if there is no other output it is getting blocked least thats my frst thought

[prisma forge]

I'd argue it's the best thing we could come up with until now.
It's not perfect, it has its flaws, but it's better than any other alternative

[prisma forge]

Send screenshot

[upper sun]

so random aside is there any downside to building underneath what would otherwise be a sea?

[shy mulch]

only downside is it's a bit out the way and annoying to travel to/from, I suppose it could be made easier with portals

[upper sun]

ok welp that settles it fuck you pipe mechanics and pumps i am going to build my nuclear below the water

TY made 1 idiots day ^^

[ivory condor]

I remember when pipes would send my fluids to the shadow realm never to return, there was a period of time when my pipes had some real leaking problems👀

[calm siren]

Is it just me or ionized fuel is slower than liquid biofuel for horizontal movement on a jetpack because it pulls you up too much?

[half scaffold]

Posted

I have two in line. First one works fine, send the wood to the right, leaves to the right, and anything not identified to the middle.
Then the second doesn't do anything 😦

[dense violet]

why are you even using a smart splitter here? it'll divide it evenly anyway

[half scaffold]

I just set the Mycelia to all of the outputs to test it.

[dense violet]

did you rebuild the belts?

[half scaffold]

It SHOULD only send Mycelia to the right

Yes, rebuilt all belts connected to it

[prisma forge]

I guess he has a belt attached to a container in which he puts woods, leaves and mycelia

[dense violet]

show an actual image of the thing in #math-and-meta

where you can talk AND put images in

[lost wagon]

But you clearly have to talk about math and meta there

North korea of discord server /s

[undone lichen]

Was 16 rotors/min good for a tier 2 factory

[brave flame]

Ey folks quick ask I got my first hard drive should I get the copper rotor or reroll for something else?

[stuck dagger]

Depends on your current setup, really

like copper rotor would be a good pick if you got more copper relative to iron

What's the other option

[barren dove]

Anyone ever been lucky to find that jetpackhog before unlocking it through progress? 😆

Been exploring in my new playthrough but never found it early on.

[boreal musk]

are those enough for your current need?
if yes? good
if no? build more

[undone lichen]

More than enough

[prisma forge]

No one got sentenced to death yet

[prisma forge]

Save it.
The first set of alt recipes is defined when you start scanning, but the second one is always random.
So one day you'll really need a recipe and you can save the game, reroll, and if you didn't get the recipe you wanted, you can load the save and try again

[scarlet canopy]

Do the Ballistic Warp Drive and Biochemical Sculptor have variable power consumptions?

[dense violet]

if they are made in machines that do, yes

they'll have average costs though

[scarlet canopy]

They are made in Manufacturer and Blender

[shy mulch]

and the ingredients that you feed into those machines...?

[dense violet]

then no

[scarlet canopy]

they are made in machines that do

[shy mulch]

exactly 🙂

[scarlet canopy]

still weired that they have that in description

[reef basin]

honestly at this point the concern isn't "bad wiki" but "asking chatgpt for advice"

[shy mulch]

both are problems, one is mostly out of our control, one is entirely out of our control

[dense violet]

both are. Can't shut down the other wiki, can't stop AI from spouting garbage

[wet dock]

#screenshots message how do i place a merger on this?

[reef basin]

can't stop people from using AI for things it wasn't designed for

[shy mulch]

same way you place a merger anywhere, if it's not working you probably have it rotated wrong

[wet dock]

#screenshots message well it is working, but i dont like this

[shy mulch]

that's how it works

[wet dock]

it looks bad though

[shy mulch]

that's subjective, I quite like the look

everyone will have their own opinion I guess

[dense violet]

build mergers on the foundation and snap them up, then connect things together

[wet dock]

thanks

[modern sable]

why do i enjoy satisfactory more than factorio?

• building in factorio is more enjoyable than in satisfactory where i have huge machines in front of my face and have to parkour around belts then suddenly realize i missed a connection so half my factory isn't working.
• factorio has more complex recipes, and space age to explore that i haven't done much of yet.
• factorio has big blueprints - yay.

is it because my brain is small and i like simpler recipes? or maybe 3d immersion + graphics is really that important?

[dense violet]

simpler recipes? there's almost infinite variety of choices between point A and point B

[shy mulch]

I think Satisfactory feels more immersive

[modern sable]

yeah alternate recipes are super cool in satisfactory. but they're simpler in my opinion.

[modern sable]

that's what i feel too. it's like i get lost in it and then 3 hours have gone by

[shy mulch]

When playing Factorio you're always aware it's a game. In Satisfactory you can get lost in the lore and it keeps a grip on you

[modern sable]

hmmm, i personally don't care at all about the lore

[shy mulch]

that's fine too 🙂

there are a million ways to play this game and they are all equally valid

[modern sable]

100%

[wet dock]

Let's game it out?

[mortal ginkgo]

grog, tell me if greeny is wrong.

[shy mulch]

Arguably the best way to play

[mortal ginkgo]

its the correct way, actually

[wet dock]

wdym the best way?

[wet dock]

how though

[mortal ginkgo]

because it is, doh

[wet dock]

ficsit doesnt waste, he does

[shy mulch]

Is there a way in SC interactive map to see how much resources I have currently unused
I'd like to know exactly how much raw resources I can make use of for a new factory, without removing any existing buildings

[onyx owl]

Do you need stators for any buildings

[mortal ginkgo]

damnit, you won

[boreal musk]

no

[wet dock]

you need them for milestones

[boreal musk]

you dont

[onyx owl]

so there’s no point in building a stator to storage room factory

[boreal musk]

you only need stators in mam

[onyx owl]

I just wasted a comically large amount of time 😭

[boreal musk]

you get enough stator for mam just by collecting loots from drop pods

[onyx owl]

thank you @boreal musk

[shy mulch]

waste is subjective

if you had fun, the time wasn't wasted

[wet dock]

just make them into motors

[onyx owl]

I have a motor factory already

[onyx owl]

Honestly, fair enough

[hollow linden]

Is there any known bug causing infinite radiation?

I emptied my inventory, moved halfway over the map and am still taking damage

[true mulch]

save and reload

[hollow linden]

ok

it worked

[true mulch]

sometimes it just gets stuck for no reason

[dense violet]

ask in their discord

[true mulch]

a bug that has been in the game for as long as I can remember

what's the latest piece of info they gave on the console release? I've gone through a bunch of videos and none seem to talk about it

[boreal musk]

when you have radiated stuff in your inventory and you sort them, it will stay there until you died or save/load

[hollow linden]

fun times. Now I know not to do that

[boreal musk]

im surprised its not fixed yet despite how easy it is to replicate the bug

[hollow linden]

easy to replicate doesn't mean easy to fix sadly

[compact mason]

I cant click anything on the menu. Help 😶

[dense violet]

did you press alt tab?

[shy mulch]

the feeling is mutual, the menu also can't click you

[compact mason]

True. We cannot click each other

[compact mason]

No. Should i?

[ivory condor]

That or restart the game

[compact mason]

Restart done, verify cache done. Still cannot. Two months ago seems okay. Refunded. And today bought again since having the controller support

[dense violet]

no, it just happens a lot if you press alt tab out of hte game. clickign errors

[shy mulch]

it is stuck beyond the tapestry of the space you call reality

[lament niche]

we sing to the effigy but the effigy does not reply. Why does it not reply?

wrong reply at first lmao

[ivory condor]

Sad trombone

[shy mulch]

I wish I could somersloop my oven. Take one pie out the fridge, put in oven, two cooked pies come out

[distant bay]

Is the chainsaw worth it in late game to clear space

[shy mulch]

use cluster nobelisks or nuke nobelisks

[maiden notch]

Clusters are better if you don't want to deal with radiation or don't have the rad suit and filters

[shy mulch]

if you don't have radiation suit, are you really in late game?

[dense violet]

only if you're constantly building on trees

[maiden notch]

Just deal with it. a little rad never hurt anyone

[shy mulch]

Just ask the 3 headed duck of Chernobyl

[maiden notch]

He asked for a shrubbery

[astral moth]

I just found out about dimensional storage?!!!
Like wdym I don't need to centralise anymore... no more 30km conveyor belts... this is game changing for me ;-;

[maiden notch]

I still need to get that going. I spawned in the top left of the map and mercer spheres are kinda hard to comeby

[shy mulch]

You can't just go around asking old ladies for shrubberies. What is the world coming to.

[maiden notch]

heh

[shy mulch]

brb, off to form a new system of government based loosely on a watery bint distributing scimitars

[ripe basin]

You cant unlock nukes without the hazmat suit

Because you need 10 encased uranium cells

[maiden notch]

Yeah. Lizard Doggos

[ripe basin]

Oh

[maiden notch]

Oh

[shy mulch]

Doggos ftw 😄
My phase 0 build I have stacks of nuke nobbys from them, really handy for dealing with the more dangerous enemies

[leaden turret]

watery bint ADA distributing scimitars

[boreal musk]

i was wondering why i didnt get hsc alt from 20 hard drive scans

i forgot to unlock it in mam

[prisma forge]

For how long have you been playing?

[maiden notch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

[undone wind]

ill be poping mangos

[vestal mica]

the mango pope.

[steady drum]

are there diodes? like one way power connections?

[shy mulch]

No, what purpose would that have?

Power doesn't have a direction in this game

[steady drum]

well i was thinking to make a powerbank that takes power from main line and is used to buffer power for power generation. so if i accidentally blow a fuse my power gen isn't down

[true mulch]

power storages exist for that exact purpose

and by extension priority power switches

[fathom shuttle]

I’m 100 Caterium ingots short bruh

[mortal ginkgo]

this is not needed as power storages automaticaly come online if the power producers are not enough

[keen hawk]

why does my power grid crash when it draws 60w and i have a coal plant for 75w powering it?

[fathom shuttle]

I’ll need to tap into a pure node that I planned to leave for my nuclear power plant

[keen hawk]

it spikes to max consumption of 60w and then crashes

my generator has both coal and water, idk why its crashing when max draw is below production

[fathom shuttle]

Just build a second one

[keen hawk]

i did, but it didnt work

i also built a biofuel burner and turned it up to 2.5x for 75w production
it just keeps crashing

[fathom shuttle]

What do you mean? Post a screenshot of the power curve

[keen hawk]

my coal plant ran dry, i just need water to flow again so i disconnected the pumps and hooked them up to a single generator
but now i cant start the water again

[plucky plank]

is there a way i can directly seperate an amount of items? im producing 248 wire a minute and i need to seperate it into 200 and 48

[fathom shuttle]

Drop down a biosmass burner to kickstart power production temporarily

[keen hawk]

i did, but it didnt work
i had it hooked up to 200w of power for 60w draw

[fathom shuttle]

A couple should be enough to power the water extractors and miners

[fathom shuttle]

Disconnect the water extractor and biomass from the rest of the grid

[keen hawk]

and it still crashed
the only draw on the system is 60w from water extractors

I DID

[plucky plank]

urgently need an answer if anyone can

[steady drum]

yea but i dont get notified that my power is not enough, so when they eventually run out, i need to kickstart the whole thing

[open pollen]

Are you sure the power system isn’t connected to anything else or to your main power l ine at all?

[keen hawk]

You can use a smart splitter and path the overflow somewhere else

[fathom shuttle]

Take a screenshot of the power curve and send it here

[plucky plank]

but no way to do an exact amount?

[mortal ginkgo]

so here is what I suspect happening: This game is REALLY wonky when it comes to waking up power lines. In the same frame of game logic, it can crash despite the fact that you provide enough power because it seems in game's code sometimes coal generator is not the first one to go online.

here is the solution:

Take your factory stuff entire off from the grid.
Get like 6 biofuel burners up and running while they are not linked to anything.
Link your water and coal miners* to the biofuel burners.
Make sure all coal gens are full, then link them up to the grid one by one.

[fathom shuttle]

You can balance it but it’s better to manifold it

[mortal ginkgo]

I think game lets you know when you run in battery mode

[steady drum]

oh, thats neat

[plucky plank]

i have 160 iron ingots going into 12.8 constructors and the plan says i need 240 to go to 4 constructors making cable and 48 to go to an assembler with a different item to make stators

im manifolding those iron ingots into the 12.8 constructors

[keen hawk]

@mortal ginkgo is there a chat i could send images in?

[fathom shuttle]

Underclock the machines to use 200 and 48 exactly

[open pollen]

#screenshots

[mortal ginkgo]

#screenshots but #1038092680493801533 is the actual place

because we cant respond in screenshot

[left totem]

or don't and enjoy

[mortal ginkgo]

this server got really odd rules imma gonna say it in silence

[plucky plank]

i gotta undderclock some overclock some

[fathom shuttle]

Yea that’s fine

Not a problem with manifolds

[plucky plank]

k

[fathom shuttle]

If you’re gonna overclock overclock the first machine

[keen hawk]

ok yeah i sent the image in q&a
i have 4w of draw and 75w gen as shown in the pic and its still crashing no matter what
send help

ok chat its fixed

[mortal ginkgo]

Hoverpack do be like that sometimes

[dusk moon]

what use does biocoal have it seems pretty useless

[ripe stump]

I posted pic in #screenshots

[south sinew]

it's.. fine, you can use the coal to make steel or prefill coal generators or something, but honestly, it's pretty crap yeah

not an alt I'd ever take

[dense violet]

its good for temp production lines, things you don't need running all the time. Like amunitions and explosives

you can also make uranium rods out of pigs

[plucky plank]

@fathom shuttle is this something people do often in factories?

[dense violet]

it makes no difference to manifolds

[plucky plank]

i overclocked all of them but in return i am using 3 less constructors

[timber shoal]

What happens if a drone runs out of fuel mid-flight? Does it crash and get destroyed?

[shy mulch]

if you have spare biomass to use up, make it into coal and burn that to charge up some power storages

[shy mulch]

it won't take off if it doesn't have enough fuel for the flight

if the target drone port is occupied and it has to circle to wait for it to clear, no fuel is burned during circling

[mortal ginkgo]

1 wood can get you 10 coal. It is a good recipe if you never want to tap to Coal to make Gas Filters or send coal to where you making them.

Gas Filters need Fabric and Coal mainly which this way, allows you to make Gas Filters on the go, or in another zone. Iron Plate is much easier to find around or have it with you via DD.

Very optional? Heck yes, but hey, if someone needs it, or wants to use it, its there

[shy mulch]

Everyone's favourite inhaler recipe? For me it's protein, technically the only recipe that's unlimited, the others either use mycelia and/or bacon agaric which are limited and I don't like using limited things if I don't have to

[south sinew]

I hate all inhaler recipes

[shy mulch]

why

[south sinew]

none of them can be fully automated

[mortal ginkgo]

are we sure bacons dont respawn? D:

[shy mulch]

have you ever seen one respawn?

[shy mulch]

yeah that's a bit frustrating

[mortal ginkgo]

I sometimes stumble upon the places I thought I gathered from but I am just curious

you would think it is meant to be respawnable albeit with a long time

[dense violet]

so?

[south sinew]

So it's a lot better to just turn off hostile fauna rather than try to use inhalers, they are a giant waste of time

[dense violet]

you can craft a stack of 50 and they last you ages

in a couple minutes

[shy mulch]

I have a storage of them feeding into a depot, so I can always pull more out when I need them. It's really not an issue. Just would be nice if they could be automated somehow

[south sinew]

I could craft a stack of 50, but manually crafting anything in Satisfactory is already excessively punished and I don't want to go around gathering the materials either since they have no other value

[mortal ginkgo]

you can also get them out of Awesome Shop. if someone needs THAT much inhalers, maybe they should indeed play in passive fauna mode. No offense

[shy mulch]

Yep I don't use many at all, but I like to have big stash spare 🙂

[mortal ginkgo]

oh wasn't aiming at you, its ok to have tons dont get me wrong

[south sinew]

no way I'm gonna spend coupons on inhalers

the issue isn't about how many are needed, it's about the fact that making even a single inhaler is way too much annoying faffing around

[mortal ginkgo]

I personally get so much nuts in rocky desert its insane

these guys are everywhere

[atomic notch]

Good mornog

[mortal ginkgo]

and aside from the buggy stinger attack (where the jump attack cancels the regular attack and deal 2 damages at the same time), nothing really hurts a lot

[shy mulch]

yeah I grab beryl nuts whenever I pass them just out of habit, I never go out my way to look for them, that alongside killing any creatures I happen to come across, usually I end up with so many ingredients to make inhalers, I'll just drop them in storage beside my workbench. Then if I need to go to the toilet or whatever and will be away for 5-10 mins, I'll grab a bag full of ingredients and hit space and will have 200+ inhalers by the time I'm back 🙂

[pulsar bobcat]

hello

i need some advice

[shy mulch]

hello

[mortal ginkgo]

dont we all

[shy mulch]

i need more than advice

[pulsar bobcat]

i have made a 10 assembler array but i have no idea how to distribute the inputs equally

[mortal ginkgo]

manifold

let a belt run parallel

[hard ivy]

You don't need to

[south sinew]

manifolds work if you don't mind waiting for an hour

[pulsar bobcat]

problem is, its a smart plate array

[mortal ginkgo]

puppy is a bit dramatic, you dont need to wait an hour

[pulsar bobcat]

its for making the project parts

[south sinew]

otherwise, you need to distribute them with splitters

[mortal ginkgo]

every "balancer user" is dramatic about manifold

[hard ivy]

More like 10 minutes. Unless it's wire

[shy mulch]

manifolds are always the way forward, so many people exaggerate the wait, it's fine really

[south sinew]

like, make one splitter, then feed each output into another splitter, then one output of each of those splitters to one assembler

[shy mulch]

or manually prefill the machines

[mortal ginkgo]

so what is the issue?

[pulsar bobcat]

i thought of that but cant really distribute that between 10

[mortal ginkgo]

are you not providing enough to begin with?

[dense violet]

manifolds work for smart plating....

[south sinew]

it's possible to make a 1:10 balancer for sure, but it would be a lot easier to just live with 9 assemblers

[hard ivy]

!wikisearch manifold

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=manifold

[pulsar bobcat]

i can only input a limited amount of input materials so that my already inefficient factories dont get even more inefficient

[south sinew]

you probably don't actually need like 40 smart plating/minute?

[willow glen]

Do you have smart splitters? Overfeed, merge overflow into the next line

[dense violet]

as long as your belts have the throughput, and you are putting enough parts per min on them, manifolds work for everything

[mortal ginkgo]

this is not a feeding issue but a stress one. You are stressing your factory then. Use less assemblers for making project parts until you can satisfy your factory enough with materials.

[mortal ginkgo]

also this is a correct way to do it too but then you will not have 10 assemblers making project parts

again, it is a providing enough low value materials problem

[pulsar bobcat]

i put my present setup in screenshots

[south sinew]

it will work fine, it just takes longer than it should do

[mortal ginkgo]

isnt this a bit too much anyway?

I mean the setup is correct

but the amount of assemblers seems a bit big?

I had 2 assemblers making project parts at stage 2 for each item, it went fine 😛

[south sinew]

depends on if you start making them as soon as they become available or at the end

[willow glen]

Yeah idk if I’m hand feeding assemblers usually it’s better to do 1-2 of them and go do something else, like automate something or find spheres/hard drives.

[pulsar bobcat]

it only produces like 2 per minute per assembler and im not willing to wait longer than an hour or 2

[mortal ginkgo]

yup I did that too

[pulsar bobcat]

cus with just 2 assemblers itll take 250 minutes 💀

[willow glen]

which btw I did try out hand feeding this run finally and it’s pretty effective, especially if you’re strapped for power lol. But only for the last tier of unlocks usually since those materials aren’t up to snuff yet

[pulsar bobcat]

im doing it at the end after unlocking the other things

[south sinew]

I'd recommend in future to start making project parts as soon as possible

[mortal ginkgo]

I may suggest expanding your factory to provide more materials then 😄

[pulsar bobcat]

i put all the amount of required materials in the storage containers

[willow glen]

yeah a better Strat is to unlock, set up the hand fed assembly (or switch over last one), then go automate it

[pulsar bobcat]

saves time and materials cus i have limited item transportation capabilities

and mostly impure ore 😭

[south sinew]

where did you start

iron for tier 1 and 2 belts should be pretty readily available in all starting zones I think

[pulsar bobcat]

its available but its still impure and im using all of it for rotors, reinforced plates, basics etc

[willow glen]

for coal and steel, tractors are my favorite (first) option. Can fuel the truck right off the miner, only gotta overclock 4-10 coal per minute for it

[south sinew]

My start has four Normal nodes immediately available and then four more a short walk away

[pulsar bobcat]

requires a complex road system tho right?

[willow glen]

for iron usually there’s a second “starter” area nearby that should have a set of 3 iron nodes of varying quality. For grassy fields they’re pure iirc
(correction: they’re normal)

[south sinew]

so I just set up two of the Normal nodes to make plates for belts and stuff

[boreal musk]

theres no pure iron in grassy field

most are normal and some at impure

[willow glen]

idk if I’d call a 3-4 tile wide foundation platform a complicated road, but you can also use natural terrain

[willow glen]

ah, other start then, I get them mixed up my mistake

[south sinew]

grassy has no pure iron nodes, but it has a ton of Normal nodes

[boreal musk]

it has, 2 pure coal and 1 pure caterium

[south sinew]

fixed

[pulsar bobcat]

my start has 6 impure nodes in a close area

[south sinew]

where exactly is your start?

[pulsar bobcat]

grass fields

[south sinew]

oh, you're just north of the big island, close to the big waterfall?

[pulsar bobcat]

yea the one that just drops into the void

[south sinew]

there's a lot more iron not far away from you

I can give you some directions if you want

should help relieve the pressure if you're struggling for stuff like belts

[pulsar bobcat]

pls do

ill tell u whether ive already colonized it

[south sinew]

there's three more substantial concentrations of iron available

northeast of you past the small lake there's three Normal nodes

east past the big double pillar rock thing next to the big crater, there's four Normal nodes (also a lot of limestone in the crater)

and southeast there's two impure and two Normal nodes (I usually save this for steel because it's also close to pure Coal)

[pulsar bobcat]

oh damn

i did the same but for encased beams

cus theres limestone near it

[south sinew]

there's an enormous amount of limestone in the big crater past the very large double pillar to the east

four Normal nodes (three in, one very close by), and very close to a Pure Coal and four Normal Iron

wait

are you .. trying to make all your belts mk4 belts with encased beams?

[pulsar bobcat]

also coal is really limited except the area near a massive lake east of spawn, do u know any other coal spots just in case

[pulsar bobcat]

no no, i dont have that yet

[south sinew]

there's two Pure Coal spots; one on the island in the void, and one close to the double pillars

[pulsar bobcat]

just steel beam belts for me

[south sinew]

after that you gotta go to the giant lake or further afield

[pulsar bobcat]

yea thats my energy production area

[south sinew]

yeah it's a good spot

there's sulfur close by too for compacted coal

[pulsar bobcat]

ill have to check that out

[willow glen]

I used to exclusively use mk1,3, and 5 belts before depot because of stack sizes, but I still find mk 2 and 4 are a bit slow to make usually

[pulsar bobcat]

for now my main botleneck is stators cus im not able to figure out where to make that factory

[south sinew]

but a Pure coal node with Solid Steel Ingot and some power shards should produce way more than you need

[south sinew]

I don't really like mk2 or mk4 either, they feel quite expensive for what they can do, in general

[pulsar bobcat]

true

i switched from mk2 to mk3 the moment my steel production started in full swing

[south sinew]

are you using Solid Steel ingot?

[pulsar bobcat]

nope

just normal

[south sinew]

worth looking for that alt if you don't have it

2 iron and 2 coal for 3 steel instead of 3 iron and 3 coal

[willow glen]

add in pure iron ingots and you can really stretch out a few iron nodes

[reef basin]

but more complexity

[willow glen]

costly in power tho

[south sinew]

they won't have pure any time soon

[pulsar bobcat]

is there a way to make a small load balancer

[south sinew]

anyway, in short, I think you're going to have a better time expanding production rather than trying to use too few resources in a more efficient way

[pulsar bobcat]

cus my present design of load balancers takes a lot of space

[dense violet]

make them simple. 1:2 for example

odd number splits are often far bigger

[dense violet]

or just manifold for compact belts

[fathom shuttle]

297 coupons just from sinking HMF

Pretty good

[south sinew]

that's gotta be a lot of HMF

[fathom shuttle]

Just 20/min into the sink

I just start sinking stuff

[pulsar bobcat]

whenever i watch satisfactory content they always joke about not having enough quickwire for nuclear power what does it mean?

[south sinew]

you need quickwire to make uranium fuel rods

but probably the real joke is that nuclear power is bad and you probably shouldn't use it

[white dawn]

I still don't understand where that opinion comes from

Nuclear's great

[pulsar bobcat]

like ive heard people say that 7200 a min is just enough

[timber shoal]

what in tarnation? its super efficient and gives thousands of MW

[white dawn]

If you do Plutonium + Ficsonium processing, yes, it's a pretty complex + intensive factory line

But Uranium processing is quite easy and nets you a ton of power

[south sinew]

Rocket fuel gives you plenty of power too, but isn't super complicated and doesn't produce waste

[white dawn]

I agree that Rocket Fuel competes quite well with Uranium, of course, and there are plenty of folks who prefer RF. But Nuclear's quite good

[timber shoal]

you don't even have to do that, you can just use trains/drones to send the waste to a massive storage area in the middle of nowhere

[astral moth]

Ive had over 100 hours, but accross a couple of playthroughs, latest I got was around phase 3 space elevator before quitting, but this time I aim to complete the game and am currently completing the phase 3 requirements.

[timber shoal]

it doesn't generate more power though, it just takes longer to consume it so it lasts longer

[white dawn]

Yeah, a lot of folks are afraid of nuclear waste storage, but it's honestly not a big deal

[south sinew]

The issue isn't how much power it produces, exactly. The issue is that rocket fuel generates enough power for way less effort.

[white dawn]

A single bunch-of-ISCs blueprint stamped out a few times and you can be golden for hundreds of hours. You produce waste at a constant known rate, so you can build yourself however much playtime you want (and build more later)

[astral moth]

Can anyone help me understand power switches>? For some reason if I wire my hypertube fling to my main power system with one with the wires one way, it always fuse breaks, but the other way, it doesn't

[white dawn]

I still maintain that Rocket Fuel + Uranium Nuclear aren't very different effortwise

Uranium Nuclear is more factory, sure, but none of it's difficult, and you avoid endless Fuel Gen spam, since 1x NPP = 10x Fuel Gens

[south sinew]

uranium was certainly a lot more effort for me

[white dawn]

Not saying anyone's wrong for preferring Rocket Fuel, of course! :D Just that Nuclear is also great.

[south sinew]

you need a lot more different resources to make the uranium rods, so there was a lot more logistical effort, and more complexity as well about sulfuric acid byproducts too

[white dawn]

(And also: why not just do both? :D)

[south sinew]

and I also had to automate those filters for the radiation suit

[pulsar bobcat]

realism at its finest

[south sinew]

rocket fuel is just "put down your existing diluted fuel blueprint, but now add nitrogen, sulfur, and coal and job done"

with a tiny amount of CC you can toss in a coal gen

[fathom shuttle]

Uranium + plutonium is what I’ll do

[white dawn]

The sulfuric acid byproduct is actually a really nice ratio for nuclear. If you build vanilla recipe and do it in chunks of 10x NPPs, it's 3x blenders taking in fresh, and 1x running off of byproduct. ezpz

[fathom shuttle]

Ficsonium sounds pointless

[white dawn]

(And you should already know how to deal with byproducts by then thanks to nuclear. :)

[white dawn]

Ficsonium's there for folks who want "clean" nuclear but still want to take advantage of Plutonium

[south sinew]

It's not quite that ezpz since the guy taking in byproduct also produces more byproduct of his own

[white dawn]

If you don't care about both of those prerequisites, then yeah, you won't find a use for Ficsonium

But if you do want both then Ficsonium fits the bill nicely

[dense violet]

you mean people who couldn't stop themselves from burning plutonium rods and then cried they had waste

[white dawn]

No, it's ezpz. ```
+---+---+---+--
| | | | |
[B] [B] [B] [B] |
| | | | |
[Fresh] --+---+---+ --/

[south sinew]

I did that, but it did not exactly work

[white dawn]

If you're not building NPPs in groups of 10 you may need to underclock to get the numbers to work out, but it's quite simple

[south sinew]

although it may have been because I did 12 NPPs instead of 10

[white dawn]

Helps to fill the "recycled" line with sulfuric acid before turning the system on, of course

Sure, but still, that's just making sure the clocks work out.

[south sinew]

see, that's just something that RF just doesn't have to worry about ;p

[white dawn]

You can always feed recycled fluids back like that; just make sure that you have separate sets of machines processing the fresh versus recycled

Sure, except by that point you've run into it a million times already, so theoretically it shouldn't be a problem. :)

And with Rocket Fuel you've got more piping issues to worry about overall

Lots of potentially-long manifolds, etc.

[south sinew]

there's no recipe before that where it reproduces its own byproduct

[white dawn]

(Not that that's a detriment once you understand working with pipes, but pipes do give a lot of folks problems)

[white dawn]

Aluminum

[south sinew]

except maybe aluminium with water, actually

yeah maybe I just got lucky and happened to make aluminium in the right ratio but not uranium

[hexed phoenix]

@half scaffold #screenshots message

Is that a Rocket Book drawing im seeing there? :P

[white dawn]

The right ratio is always achieveable with underclocking! :) (Or overclocking, if you prefer, of course)

Anyway, as I say, nothing wrong with preferring Rocket Fuel, of course. I enjoyed building out a decent-sized RF power plant too. :)

I just really don't understand the hate/dismissal of nuclear, is all

[south sinew]

rocket fuel meets lategame power needs and is way less effort, that's really it

[white dawn]

(Well, I suppose that's overstating it -- if one insists on "clean" nuclear, then yeah, nuclear becomes more complicated and might seem like too much for some folks)

I still disagree on the "way less" angle

But anyway, cheers! 🍻

[hexed phoenix]

Did Nuclear without any Alternativ Recipes..

Ficsonium Nuclear wasn't the funniest to setup..

But it wasn't totally undoable, if you plan it someone correctly

[south sinew]

well, I just built myself a 500 encased beam tall conveyor lift

[junior laurel]

Alpha gameplay moment

[south sinew]

also man, I love hypercannons

[hexed phoenix]

And if you overclock it to 250% - its lovely to have 1 building providing 6250MW

Meanwhile you need 10 times the buildings for Fuel Generators

[pulsar bobcat]

i recently unlocked hypertubes and they're so fun 😄

[spare dragon]

But if u use rocket fuel it’s easy to stack the fuel generators bc gases don’t need pumps

Whereas even a few nuclear plants needs a crap ton of horizontal space