satisfactory

[wicked grove]

i originally turned it into plastic bc i didnt have a factory for it

[leaden ruin]

q: if I have <locomotive-car..x9-locomotive> will both locomotives run, one forward and one in reverse, or is only the locomotive in the direction the train travels going to run? wondering because otherwise one locomotive for 9 cars is not enough

[dense violet]

try it out

if it doesn't work, slap more locos on

[lost wagon]

do portable miner works to stop creature respawn? Or needs to be a proper powered building

[atomic notch]

No clue

[dense violet]

powered buildings.
as manual miners are not powered

also, not a building

[lost wagon]

maybe I shouldn't have killed the spiders stuck on top of the ceiling, now they might respawn back on the ground

[fathom shuttle]

What’s the tallest production machine in the game?

[dense violet]

!wikisearch

[fossil ice]

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

[graceful plinth]

#1389659680359321761 wtf is going on with this, the other trains can go there!

[swift pebble]

how the fuck do you get to the SAM and quarts deposits underground on the north west of the map

[dense violet]

your rails are a cobweb mess , I have no idea what is going on there

[dense violet]

caves?

[swift pebble]

Yeah but where's the entrance

[dense violet]

go east or west by the water

[swift pebble]

any entrance

[dense violet]

the west one is bigger to see

[bright shore]

Anyone know how to sync blueprints from local pc, to geforce now

[swift pebble]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1389770052986732634

What water?

[dense violet]

the water to the west.

or east.
directly in those directions you will hit water

[safe rose]

Well I done a thing. I couldn’t wait for consoles. I bought the game to play on GeForce now. Only played about 30 min of it tonight. Gonna really dig in tomorrow. And I must say it plays really great with controller. Really smooth.

[atomic notch]

I been playin in controller as well

Couch gamin ftw

[swift pebble]

I've been looking here for the past half an hour and still haven't found anything

[safe rose]

You betcha!! Loving it already. Btw. How do you slide with controller?

[dense violet]

from your green person on the map. keep going west until you hit water. Look for cave

I really don't know how to explain it more clearly

[swift pebble]

Do you mean the ocean

[dense violet]

is it water?

[fathom shuttle]

If seems the refinery is the tallest one

Except nuclear power plants

[fathom shuttle]

The B button

[lost wagon]

the most efficient way to get biomass for liquid biofuel for jetpack is basically kill shit and turn protein into biomass?

[untold ember]

there anyway to disconnect 2 locomotives tha tmay have "accidentally" bumped into each other and connected couplers?

[fathom shuttle]

Sloop the entire process yea

[dense violet]

dismantle?

[untold ember]

really dont want to have to cause then i have to reprogram their whole route

[dense violet]

I didn't think routes got deleted with a loco but you'll have to click a couple buttons I think

[boreal musk]

when trains derailed from crashing to each other, you can press E to fix the trains

also, did you not use any signals? bcs thats the reason why trains can crashed into each other

[untold ember]

oh i have tons of signals.

lets just say mistakes were made in one tiny spot

[covert talon]

any ideas for an early game factory?

[dense violet]

what about them?

[covert talon]

like a layout

im new idk what im doing

[rigid raven]

how early game?

[dense violet]

experiment with layouts . there's no right way

[covert talon]

like started today

[dense violet]

you can treat tiers 1-9 as a tutorial

oh very new, yeah just play. you'll get the hang of what works for you.

[rigid raven]

prob dont make a factory yet

experiment and what not

[lost wagon]

powered miner is enough to disable respawn they said
why there is a hatcher under the smelters then game

[dense violet]

just make stuff as needed

[covert talon]

started this run today i mean
ik how most of the stuff works i just want it super organized

[dense violet]

a powered miner is a building and is powered

[dense violet]

that's not going to happen early on.

[lost wagon]

yes and didn't stop a respawn

[dense violet]

maybe a hiccup

[boreal musk]

your first time will be most likely a spaghetti nightmare, happen to pretty much everyone

you will learn overtime

[covert talon]

when do i want to start making factories?

[rigid raven]

even if u build one ur prob gonna have to tear it down and start from scratch again

[dense violet]

I mean, every line of machines you make is a 'factory'. but just practice.
You're in the pre tutorial

you'll probably want to rip it up when you get coal power

[covert talon]

okay thanks

[dapper forge]

After you unlock steel

[elder river]

Expect to tear everything down multiple times. Just get through the tech tree far enough to unlock ||Coal and Steel|| production.

Find ||Quartz, Caterium, and Sulfur|| and go through their ||MAM|| upgrades. (You can make due with about 1000 of each to get started)

Then you'll want to unlock ladders in the ||Awesome Shop||, as well as ||Concrete|| and/or ||Asphalt foundations||, small and medium ||signs||, ||wall mounted|| power, floor and wall ||conveyor holes||, ||windows||, ||catwalks||, and, I'd suggest some kind of ||beams|| (||concrete beams|| are probably the best). Oh, and ||elevators||.

THEN you can start working on building a proper factory. Up until that point, anything you build is gonna be pretty ramshackle.

But, you could take it as a fun challenge.

Oh... And don't forget to CONSUME

[calm turret]

or when distance is less of a constraint

[elder river]

Sorry, I forgot the spoiler tags

[covert talon]

Thank you

[elder river]

Oh right. You'll also want to find some ||fungus|| so that you can research ||Mycelia||. Once you get ||Blade Runners||, having a ||Parachute|| makes ||movement|| SOO much easier.

[reef wasp]

It seems like you're a big fan of redacting.

[vestal mica]

||spoiler||

[shut trout]

@somber cedar

[somber cedar]

Yo

[shut trout]

https://tenor.com/view/speech-bubble-bottle-yellow-emoji-guy-gif-4117361560120345601

[topaz raven]

Hey guys. Im currently on phase 3 of the space elevator and im thinking about starting to build semi big factories in the dune desert (i dont want a megafactory). Is it still too early in the game or can I move?

[reef wasp]

I'm pretty happy with the 1.1 update.

[untold moat]

its never too early per se, but phase 3 is generally when factories start getting bigger and further

[topaz raven]

Yeah and I began in the rocky desert and the whole place is a mess i just want to clean up🤣

[supple mica]

how bad is it to use vechiles

[dense violet]

not?

no one is going to shoot you

[tropic juniper]

i'll shoot you if you use a vehicle the wrong way. you better do it right

[white dawn]

They have a learning curve, but they're quite useful

[wicked grove]

extremely useful just confusing. btw dont use fluid cars, package the fluid instead

[sharp sentinel]

One of my biggest peeves is despite being called 'Explorer' if you ride around in said vehicle, you don't map anything.

[flint spade]

tangle the cables

[feral jay]

Phase 2 complete!

I am not entirely incompetent, ADA told me so!

[dense violet]

fluid cars work fine

[wicked grove]

its not that they dont work wel, its that they can be inefficient

[dense violet]

not if you build them right, which is simple

[wicked grove]

i guess, but for longer distances it would objectively be better to package the liquid rather than fluid cars

[dense violet]

no? you need to have extra cars to manage the empties

[ocean whale]

I really wish we had ways of either sinking or releasing fluids (or at least water) that didn't require that the fluid be packaged.

[boreal musk]

theres a few buffer design for fluid car, and they are very reliable

ive been using it for a while when transporting oil with trains

[wicked grove]

nevermind, i still thought fluid cars held 500 m3 of liquid

[boreal musk]

ppl prefer packaging bcs solid car has more slot than fluid

but the fluid car itself is fine

[wicked grove]

thats what i was referring to

anyways does anyone think that the elevators should be a bit less abrupt?

[dense violet]

the things that produce waste water can be recycled within itself very easily

[boreal musk]

waste water can be easily get rid off just by using them in wet concrete or pure recipe if you dont want to recycle them back into system

[dense violet]

I mean, it's objectively easier recycling it back into the system

[boreal musk]

the same applies to dmr, making them into dark crystal is far easier

[feral jay]

Sanctum 2 is getting a bit repetitve, I need another mixtape

Worst Of Goat Simulator!

[hollow vector]

lunaistabby cat petting simulator.

[undone yarrow]

You say that like there's something other than Ficsonium that uses DMR

Huh... Jeez, Warp Drives need a lot of Crystals, 42/min need to be sourced from elsewhere per... (8 if I didnt do a dumb can be made using the super oscillators)

[left totem]

belts ?

[vagrant knot]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631270/StarRupture/

this game is straight up just satisfactory

[left totem]

strait as in straight ?

[shell lichen]

lol

[knotty swift]

Anybody got a better prediction of a release date for console? 2025 isn’t good enough for me

[shell lichen]

no i dont think we do quite yet i would think maybe before the end of the year

[knotty swift]

Alright thank you

[shell lichen]

yw sry i couldnt provide much

[knotty swift]

It’s alright

[leaden turret]

between 2024 and 2026

they aren't due back to dev stream until august, so not july

[vagrant knot]

whatever word that makes it work grammatically

[flint spade]

guys i just spent 400 hours crafting and nobody told me you could use machines

not impressed

[leaden turret]

ada told you

[flint spade]

i cant read

or listen

[leaden turret]

verbally

¬_¬

[flint spade]

the crafting made me deaf

and i cant see also

[feral jay]

That's nothing. I can't think

[cyan bough]

Satisfactory or Forza horizon 5?

[flint spade]

fortnite

[leaden turret]

satisforzary

[left totem]

Satisfactory : Math Automatisism

FH5 : Driving Cars, Competiting against others, Learning how to control car (or just driving around and having fun)

[flint spade]

same thing

[left totem]

forza has a higher offer

-50%

[cyan bough]

Satisfactory still cheaper tho

I might js get both and go work at McDonald's

[left totem]

60 bucks becoming 30

but Forza's downsides : if you don't have a controller it's worse, game is known to be able to crash every 1-2 hours for some people (me included)

[cyan bough]

That sounds like a pain

I do have a steering wheel tho

[left totem]

then it's great apparently, like any other driving game

also do know that forza isn't mario kart

[cyan bough]

Ik yeah I've played fh3

[left totem]

great, then you know what to expect playing FH5

I'd recommend you reading good and bad reviews from either game

[cyan bough]

Okay, thank you 🙏

[left totem]

np

[cyan bough]

Is Forza 6 still a while away?

[left totem]

apparently 2026 apparently could be in japan

either way in about a year or more I think you'll have 60 bucks to spare

[cyan bough]

Yeah lol, ty again. Cya!

[timid rune]

time for electrode scrap :x

[burnt ferry]

path signal in a nutshell (kindly asking for confirmation):

• i always want my signals to be before junctions (looking into the direction the train is going), such that the train, does not block the junction, waiting.
• i use block signal when im fine with only one train being within the block at a time.
• when the block is very long however, i might want to use path signals, where i can 'split up' the block into smaller section.
• i have to make sure that the longest train using the track will fit in between two path signals, unless i dont care about one train blocking two path segments at once.
• train stations do not come with an implicit signal (In some games, train stations, do, hence im adding it, to be sure on that)

is this about right?

[timid rune]

when the block is very long however, i might want to use path signals, where i can 'split up' the block into smaller section.
block signals if and only if trains are running in one direction on that particular track

[burnt ferry]

well im making sure about that by using two way lanes.. although i would expect block signals, if placed correctly, also properly block the path in both direction

wait.. it says for path signals they are directional and a train wont enter it the wrong way

[timid rune]

yep

[burnt ferry]

how can a path signal then be used for a track that goes both ways?

reads like you have to use a block signal then

[timid rune]

place a path signal the other way on the path signal

[burnt ferry]

ah

i can allow both ways by putting both sides

[latent prawn]

really, you've got it all about right - path signals going into an intersection and block signals on the way out. splitting rails into more blocks lets more trains exist on a network (one per block, usually). train stations should always have a block signal on entrance (and a path or block signal on egress). besides that, you can get fancier, but that's about it

[timid rune]

time to convert to electrode scrap lol lmao

[latent prawn]

also, you can forego using path signals entirely if you don't have a lot of rail traffic

[burnt ferry]

iirc i tend to go the other way around as i only find it confusing when you mix them

but its al ong time since i have played transport fever or the like

hence ineed to refresh 😂

[burnt ferry]

so youre saying i can split up a track using block signals as well? then theres still a tiny something, that i dont get right yet.. but as far as i remember, this will resolve over time after building a few lines 😂

[steady glade]

block signals separate the track into sections where only one train will stay, separate a long track block signals, not path signals, make sure the longest train will fit between 2 block signals
train sections do not come with an implicit signal so put a block signal at the entrance and exit

[steady glade]

path signals exist to signal dangerous sections that should only ever be crossed in one go without stopping, this they refuse access if the following signal (whether path ot block) doesnt also allow access

[burnt ferry]

ah. i think i remember, while prolly could use path signals to split up as well, they kinda make no sense and in worst case have some logic overhead/interference with other signals, that will cause an unexpected deadlock.. hence its saner to use block signals to split up into segments (given you put them path signals at all junctions correctly)

ye so i wasnt going path signal only in the past

[steady glade]

yes, and you should remember that trains will slow down to between 20~40km/h in front of a path signal, so you should only use them on dangerous sections where tracks diverge or cross each other

[latent prawn]

kind of as a thing, your rails should have more block signals than path signals

[burnt ferry]

ah right.. ye so far my curves are good for max speed... although i have a section where the train takes up 170 kmh because of a long downslope

[burnt ferry]

you havent build an even numbers only rail network yet 😂

[latent prawn]

path signals 'chain' their locking until the next block signal so if you have no block signals on the network, the chains never end

[burnt ferry]

i would like to have trainstations with multiple lanes..

seems like we can only build them with either very wide lanes or by splitting them up (visually) before the multi track station

but since those would be several stations i guess managing them is a nightmare in the timetable

[latent prawn]

yeah, unfortunately there's not more complicated train stations or routing and stuff, but there's a limit to what's reasonable for a game as complicated as SF

[burnt ferry]

you have to terminate a path with a block?

thats where the ingame description is rather unclear about

[latent prawn]

yes, path blocks must eventually end in a block signal

that's why the rule 'path in, block out' is often given

[fathom shuttle]

I’m disappointed no YouTuber has done a “beating satisfactory with 10 players” video

[latent prawn]

there's a vid of something like 50-60 people doing a low% speedrun in update 6 or 7

[burnt ferry]

i come from transport fever, having a vision where you would mix up euro truck simulator with satisfactory, transport fever and cities (or rather 'planets' in this vision).. and you can kinda choose which part you want to play at, whether you want to make deliveries as a truck driver (or traiin driver of course, getting in trainsim as well 😂 ) or to manage the distribution networks or to build the cities where the people consume all the stuff.. you could prolly pull in sims as well, so you can roleplay being one of the people buying that stuff.. oh and of course the satisfactory player would be responsible for the production part 😂

[steady glade]

#screenshots message
you can have a bunch of stations in line

[latent prawn]

yeah, well, transport is probably the area of the game that could use the most polish, lol

[burnt ferry]

ye im rather worried about the management of these in the timetable.. as i would like to have them considered to be one station

although i cant say yet how annoying it really is to have multiple stations

maybe its even easier to manage with that separation

[latent prawn]

the reality is that there's so much other stuff to do in the game that transport ends up really being a means to an end rather than the game

[steady glade]

the list will be a bit long, you probably wanna have a naming convention to quickly find your stations

[burnt ferry]

could be integrated in the cities part 😂

[burnt ferry]

ye thats what i was thinking, i would just name my stations ''<Stationname> Track ##'

as it is meant to be

[steady glade]

yes a signal sets the end of a block, not the start of it, and defines the rule for entering the next one

[latent prawn]

i still feel that the game needs some TLC when it comes to building long distance rails. as far as the control aspects of things, they're just about as sophisticated as they need to be, although there's some rough edges on the timetable's edge triggering

[burnt ferry]

ye the only thing that wasn clear yet, is that you have to terminate necessarily.. like i have seen it kinda, but wasnt sure about it as the ingame description istn clear about it (or me not clearly reading it)

[steady glade]

i used "[EastSea] Coal Input" for example, simply say where the track is and what it takes

[burnt ferry]

but i did indeed noticed, that without a block signal, path signals were not working

[latent prawn]

i use a labelling 'location item import/export'

oft times the location is some meaningful abbreviation

i.e. 'DD HMF export'

[burnt ferry]

ye that seems to make sense.. i spend the last hour fixing the fuel delivery, which i noticed while i fixed my rubber deliver that was stuffed with plastic, due to wrong order of the freight stations

fuel was also stuffed with plastic.. i feel like im in some earthian ocean with all that plastic

[latent prawn]

one thing i've taken to doing is that every train only carries a single item. each train is 4 cars long regardless of volume, though i have a some long hauls where i split loads btw 5 cars

[sinful carbon]

do people even get more than 100 fps with ultra settings? ive got a decent system and get like 90 on average but some guy from 2 years ago says he had 170 on ultra?

whats wrong with my game

[burnt ferry]

I’m still on wrapping my head around building in 3d. Like all my locations are at different heights with huge differences. I’m still trying to find a way to conveniently meet at a common height for the tracks . Or a few of them.

[latent prawn]

no idea, lol, i've never seen framerates that high on my oldish rig, lol

i try running rails as close to the ground as is practical

[sinful carbon]

the problem is those are the fps i get in grassy fields. the moment i go to a forest it drops to 50-60

[burnt ferry]

Ye I’m playing in 50% ram because one module broke and I’m also broke to broke to get a new gaming pc currently 🤣

“Drops” 🤣🤣🤣

[latent prawn]

yeah, you might want to twiddle some of the foilage quality setting

[burnt ferry]

Another counter strike platinum player who can tell the difference between 60 and 120fps 🤣

[burnt ferry]

But that’s no ultra!!

[latent prawn]

i'm pretty oblivious to the framerate

[sinful carbon]

its really not that hard to tell

[latent prawn]

in this game, you build enough, you'll see it start to degrade for you

'tis the curse of all factory games

[burnt ferry]

Well if you have a game demanding that. Sure. But apart from maybe the belts there’s nothing where it would be relevant in sf

[latent prawn]

i also play a lot of DSP, and i have to say, the fps in satisfactory degrades much more gracefully than in DSP

[burnt ferry]

dyson sphere?

[latent prawn]

yeah

[burnt ferry]

you bet 😂

[sinful carbon]

building becomes 10 times as annoying because it slows down the ability to build by a lot

[burnt ferry]

but then again, they could make those stars just white pixels 😂

[burnt ferry]

hmmmm

[sinful carbon]

its not about low framerate its the low input control that results from it that is annoying

[burnt ferry]

ah.. so you top 120 actions per second? thats impressive

[latent prawn]

yeah, it actually doesn't really become a problem in sf until you're doing insane sizes

[burnt ferry]

if theres actually notable input 'lag' or delay of any sort, it rather sounds like a cpu issue

[latent prawn]

it seems from the dev log that dsp is addressing some of heir issues pretty soon

[burnt ferry]

the game loop should not be dependent onthe rendering loop anyways, in terms of accepting input

[sinful carbon]

if you played on 30 fps your whole life you cant know the difference

and it doesnt matter which game, its the same in all of them

[latent prawn]

what gets me at times in SF is that every now and then, there's some memory movement that causes nasty lagging especially on mass-delete

[burnt ferry]

nah.. i was giving a seminar about software development and we gave the students the task to make a game each year, hence im relatively certain, that the fps - if lowered by the gpu - should not affect your input

[latent prawn]

it isn't really enjoyable to experience, but hardly makes the game unplayable

[burnt ferry]

if your input is still affected then either the rendering thread is doing shady business on the game logic thread, or there is a cpu bottle neck rather than a gpu bottle neck

but go ahead, trying to insult me with '30fps' .. i am in fact old enough that this indeed used to be the default 😂

[sinful carbon]

its not directly the input being delayed

[burnt ferry]

my first display was a 15 inch crt monitor.. rocking 1024x768 on, you guessed it, 30 fps 😂

[sinful carbon]

it just feels like it because the mouse movement of several frame gets cramped into one average movement of like 2 frames if we compare high vs low fps

[latent prawn]

what happens in practicality is threads need to lock each other in order to communicate, and often one thread will take slightly more time than it should. it's a hard problem in computer science, let alone real-time environments

[sinful carbon]

atleast i think its that

[burnt ferry]

thats what im saying, i fprogrammed that way it would be kinda bad.... but unreal engine is also known to have a few 'kinderkrankheiten', so it could indeeed be just dad

lul

i wrote kinderkrankheiten and therefore dad instead of that 😂

[sinful carbon]

yea idk

still kind of annoying that the system that got 200 fps 2 years ago now only gets like 90 in the same game

[burnt ferry]

just set everything to the lowest setting.. then crank them settings up one by one

see which one causes the drop

[sinful carbon]

yea i might do that

[burnt ferry]

since you mention 'years' .. consider reinstalling windows... most people upgrading their hardware dont even realize, that the initial speed boost they feel ist not because of their new hardware but because of the freshly installed windows... although it rather shows in desktop than in games, but could still pay a role here

[sinful carbon]

hmm

[burnt ferry]

rule of thumb -> reinstall windows before buying new hardware and see if you even need it first

[leaden turret]

thermal throttling through dried-out paste? (p.s. #off-topic-tech folks may have more insight)

[burnt ferry]

just say were going off topic straight up.. you wouldnt be wrong and we can take it 😂

[south kindle]

Is the only way to change my sex in game to die or am I stuck as a chick?

Or did I choose that without remembering it?

Sorry I should search this

[tranquil hemlock]

Took the time to be smart and plan out my next Satisfactory project - advancing to oil and fuel powered generators. Unfortunately, it's happened on a day when I'm already low on spoons, and now I need a break before I actually go and build it all 😅

[tranquil hemlock]

I don't recall any option to change sex. AFAIK, there's only one character model

[south kindle]

Seems all pcs are women yeah.

[tranquil hemlock]

But I know less than Jon Snow, so don't take my word

[south kindle]

what are the men even up too in this world?

Setting*

[tranquil hemlock]

Too busy trying to hit on ADA

[south kindle]

The more I think about it the more cyberpunk it becomes

[eager tartan]

Currently im sinking cable for awsome points but im not getting that many, shld I switch over too feeding wires directly or would it be better to keep sinking cable? Or something else which ive never done b4 like screws?

[leaden turret]

everything but the beryl nut is of the feminine persuasion.

[south kindle]

Also yeah burnout is real. 90 min sessions help

[tranquil hemlock]

Screws will also be pretty low value for the sink, same with wire

Things like that you only bother to throw in when you have excess, or you have an overflow storage system

If your goal is points, then the best bang for your buck is alien dna capsules

Keep in mind, I shouldn't be the final say in this. I'm not all that bright, and I don't fully understand the game. I'm just speaking from my own experience

[eager tartan]

Also currently I have 3 setups,

Inp: 120 Iron, Out: 120 Screws, 40 Plates, 30 Rods
Copper: Inc: 60 copper ore, Out: 60 cable
Concrete - Idk

What should my next automated setup be?

I'm thinking reinforced plates and motors but idk how much i shld aim for, I'm in Tier3. Coz I'm still limited by mk1 miners

[tranquil hemlock]

Reinforced plates, then rotors

Also, I highly recommend splitting your wire so at least half is going to storage, with the other half going to be made into cable

[eager tartan]

Will I require that much wire?

Isn't it mostly cables after T2 is done

[tranquil hemlock]

You will need a fair bit of wire

[eager tartan]

Advice implemented

[tranquil hemlock]

Also, a single 120 ore output will keep up with 4 smelters. When it comes to copper, I only bother with 3 smelters. 1 goes into 1 wire constructor, 1 goes into a second wire constructor, which then goes into another constructor for cables, and the final smelter goes into a constructor for copper sheets

[eager tartan]

I have too many screws

[eager tartan]

Also in my first Iron factory, I'm just storing it all and taking it out for building and stuff

[tranquil hemlock]

Ah, but better too many than not enough XD

[eager tartan]

do u recommend me use these resources directly for the construction of reinforced iron plates and motors

or should I make a new one from sscratch

[tranquil hemlock]

I use a seperate input line for each reinforced plates and rotors

So 3 iron inputs at this point: -

• basic iron (Plates, rods, and screws)
• reinforced plates
• rotors
  Each one of these is fed by a 120 ore input

[eager tartan]

Rn I only have Mk1 miners so it's a bit more challenging

Also check ur dms rq

[tranquil hemlock]

It is, I admit that

[eager tartan]

If I kill something does iot spawn back

[tranquil hemlock]

Yes

[eager tartan]

Im tryna clear a area for my coal setup but idw those fire shooting things to kill me

[tranquil hemlock]

I don't know the timer or whatever it uses to respawn, but enemies do respawn. I think I read somewhere, however, that if you have powered and active machinery, it has a respawn-blocker radius, but I can't recall details

[leaden turret]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Combat#Creature_respawn_mechanism

[native prism]

You're screwed!

[grand sluice]

And yet, it's not enough

[mortal ginkgo]

oh no screws are mentioned

[eager tartan]

Problem is I’m just yoibking them in my container

Not using them yet

[vagrant oar]

screwed conversation

bolt outta here if you still can

[mortal ginkgo]

dont make me call mods

[vagrant oar]

would be ironic

[obsidian zodiac]

did someone say mods

[lost wagon]

They were talking about the good type of mods

The ones to modify the game

[obsidian zodiac]

understandable have a nice day

[jolly kernel]

Hi all, can somebody help me to make this game more "summer friendly". I've reduced everything in the options to minimum, but my CPU still heating with 80° C. It's an i7-13700k

[lost wagon]

You're ok too

Belt frequency is cpu

[jolly kernel]

Ok, so if it's the only point, I'll see, if I can reduce the power for my CPU. Thank you

[trim bramble]

alguien español para jugar??

[obsidian zodiac]

#1201555265942724758 en español

escribe en español y quizás alguien te responda

its on sale on steam atm! but thats the only reduced price we currently have

[left totem]

Paying for your english exam ?

[frail axle]

yea why?

[left totem]

why

[obsidian zodiac]

AP english?

[left totem]

is it like an aptitude test ?

woaw

goodge for you ig

[hollow mural]

How do i overclock a coal generator? Im new to the game and the control panel of the generator is locked for me

[left totem]

MAM -> Power Shards

[steady glade]

make a mam and have fun with all that

[hollow mural]

Yes i do have that but its still locked

[steady glade]

unlock more stuff

[left totem]

ye

[hollow mural]

ima just use biomass burners on some stuff cause 6 coal generators cant power my small factory

[steady glade]

oof

[left totem]

just build more gens no?

[steady glade]

start exploring, find more coal veins you can dedicate solely to power

[lost wagon]

Find a pure node, with mk1 miner it can feed 8 generators, 16 with mk2 (not counting overclock shenanigans)

[round patrol]

how many alternate recipes are there?

[smoky forge]

like a hundread or so

[smoky forge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1ff515j/alternate_recipe_ranking_10_optimizing_for/
this is a ranking where every recepie is listed

[round patrol]

i see thanks man!!

[smoky forge]

i do not suggest to follow the ranking 100%

[round patrol]

i dont even understand what this is all about

[lost wagon]

If you explore enough you don't need ranking, you will mostly unlock everything on the way, just pick the ones you believe will help you in that exact moment

[dense basalt]

My dogs keep getting stuck under foundations for some reason

[dense violet]

and a terrible one at that

[lost wagon]

Or just keep scanning and leaving them there without picking so you remove 2 recipes from the pool per drive

[dense violet]

recipe ranking lists are mostly going to be counter productive

[versed mirage]

how rare is jetpack hog

[lost wagon]

Apparently really rare, I've "seen" one

[dense violet]

most of the value of recipes come from how and where you use them.
Just blindly following a random list will mostly just screw you over. Might as well pick at random at that point

[lost wagon]

And by seen I mean it exploded behind me when it hit a spitter

[round patrol]

i see

all i need is the alternate recipe for screw

[lost wagon]

Tbh depending where you are in the game just get the recipe to remove screw from the game

[round patrol]

wdym by remove the screw?

[lost wagon]

There are alternate recipes that makes itens that needed screw to not need anymore

[round patrol]

OHHH I SEE

[dense violet]

also Steel Screw is good for screw recipes in quantity

very compact

[round patrol]

yes i think its 250 per minute?

[dense violet]

something like that

[dense violet]

one of the recipes whose value depends what you combine it with

it's technically a bit less resource efficient but damn is it useful.

and it is essentially impossible to use all the resources on the map in any case

[round patrol]

things start to get complicated after phase 2

[dense violet]

it's really just the same thing but more steps

planners, notes and experience help a lot

[round patrol]

cuz yeah tryna build my factory as efficient as possible

dont wanna rush things, planing to automate all of the resources

all items rather

[sinful carbon]

when you start using manufacturer specifically

[dense violet]

imo? don't really try for strict efficiency while going through the tiers.

Be more tight with your fluid systems, but spend the time learning mostly

[round patrol]

i see

[dense violet]

the tiers are a very thorough tutorial and whatever you make now probably won't mesh well with yoru end stuff, or whatever projects you think you want to do yourself after you're done with the phases

and you'll figure out how you like to build things too, which will also likely grow and change as you learn

[round patrol]

thanks for the advice man!!

[dense violet]

no stress 🙂

[wind sequoia]

Anyone know how to edit the elevator signs?

[south sinew]

at the bottom of the panel

[onyx owl]

this might be a skill issue but why are all the materials around me situated so far away like 700-1500m over the most annoying terrain (northern forest start)

[minor estuary]

Anyone Romanian here?

[wind sequoia]

Thanks

[south sinew]

it is classified as an intermediate start, 700m isn't that far I think

[dense violet]

northern terrain is advertised as rugged.
mostly you just need to build vertically

and 700m-1500m is extremely close

thats the main benefit of NF

[onyx owl]

well I just struggle with belting over materials to my main base while still making it look nice

idk any nice ways except building giant foundation bridges across then laddering down

[south sinew]

build the base up

[dense violet]

there's a couple spots in the zone where you have everything you need in the one spot, you can do that.

huge portion of the game is figuring out locations

[onyx owl]

built my main base around a giant cluster of pure iron nodes, a limestone node and a copper node close by with coal also nearby via a comically long ramp (steep edge area idk what it’s called)

[dense violet]

and if you process a bunch of things on location rather than the raw goods you reduce how many belts you need dramatically

[dense violet]

that sounds extremely convenient. Along a cliff?

[onyx owl]

yea

I used that past spot in my update 4 gameplay

I’ll see if I can find it on the map rather

Not home rn 😭

[dense violet]

so you chose speed runners cliff
the most densely and most varied spot of materials on the entire map.

the spot where you need the least logistics to do anything

and you're complaining about logistics?
Prepare yourself for pain later then

did you see the spot suggested in a video or something?

[onyx owl]

is that what it’s called?

[onyx owl]

my bad gng 😭

[onyx owl]

No it was a old spot me and a friend made our old spaghetti base on and I decided to come back to it

I just really struggle with getting all the materials to one general area and making it look nice considering it’s my first real attempt at a save file

[shy mulch]

People pay for exams? That seems wild to me. What is the purpose of the exam?

[dense violet]

have you gone through the tiers yet?

like how far have you gotten before?

[mild finch]

you pay for the certification you get after the exam

[onyx owl]

I got to tier 4 before quitting back in update 4ish now im tier 5, being my first time there on a single player world

[dense violet]

my advice might be to start over in grassy fields. Things are further apart but you have a lot more room to manage things and get the hang of building in the 3d environment

and it sounds like thats your biggest issues rn

[plucky plank]

how can i get started on mass resource transportation across satisfactory map. im almost finished getting the modular engines for phase 3 but im having trouble making all my conveyers from different nodes coming to my mega factory and not looking ugly

im in dune desert btw

[dense violet]

basically impossible at that point

you're making a 'mega factory' that's not being made with the end goal in mind?

[onyx owl]

Alright

[dense violet]

at best, it'll be messy

[onyx owl]

Thank you for your advice

[plucky plank]

i mean i have the spot for where its gonna be built

ive already got a bunch of factories there

[dense violet]

no stress 🙂 and don't worry about management THAT much, just learn and progress, youll get it bit by bit

[plucky plank]

but for transporting ores efficiently across the map idk how to make it look clean

[dense violet]

you can do a belt high way?
trains?
trucks? lots of options.

[south sinew]

trains on an elevated bridge is probably the best option

[frozen ingot]

'making it look clean' is going to be a very personal thing

i would recommend trying each option, experiment, and settle on the one you like the look of the most?

[plucky plank]

by clean i mean something like this where its in order

[frozen ingot]

like i think vehicles look way cleaner than big ol' belt highways

[plucky plank]

i saw kibitz vid and he did trains

[onyx owl]

copy copy, super happy you could help me 🙏

[dense violet]

yeah pick an option
trains
belt highway
trucks

[frozen ingot]

don't forget drones 😄

but they're tier 7

[dense violet]

not at their tier

[plucky plank]

ill go with trains then small roads for trucks around the factory for smaller transport

[south sinew]

you say "like this" like I know what "this" is

[frozen ingot]

but still, don't forget about 'em! 😄 like you might want to plan for them

[dense violet]

with trucks you have to put a lot of thought as to the terrain, path, and structures youll be dealing with and how it goes

[plucky plank]

i was referring to the message a replied to

[south sinew]

ah ok

[frozen ingot]

if you stick to the natural roads and terrain in the world, trucks and tractors are very straightforward

[plucky plank]

imma try trains

wish me luck

[dense violet]

my advice there is zoop lines of foundations the entire path you want

then plast with blueprints pylons you'll connect up with rail. It'll keep it neat and tidy, plus help you plan the path

also, keep stations off to the side. And make it 2 way rails. Don't hurt yourself with bidirectional

[plucky plank]

so if i have a blueprint with a singular rail i can just place them and they will autoconnect to each other

[tranquil hemlock]

Me, not too far from trains myself, taking notes like a nerd

[dense violet]

yes, but have two rails.

and build them on the path I described

[plucky plank]

ok sounds good

thankyou

one more thing is there a way to lock blueprints onto the world grid

[tranquil hemlock]

I just plop them down on a foundation floor

But I haven't used blueprints in the way you want yet XD

[dense violet]

put them on foundations.
but also, screw the world grid. Just makes designing around terrain shit

and doesn't meaningfully benefit things

[plucky plank]

alr thanks again

[onyx owl]

not my convo but I do have a question
how would you style two separate buildings if they had no grid

[dense violet]

wdym by 'style' ?

[south sinew]

hmm

[onyx owl]

like making them look nice but also interconnected

sorry didn’t make that clear

[open pollen]

You could always merge the foundations

[dense violet]

ah well part of that would just be general design.

for example you can put buildings in the same factory at different angles to each other pretty easily and it'll really make a difference in looks just by doing that. Rather than everythign at 90 degrees to each other

[open pollen]

It’s what’s used to make funky shapes

[dense violet]

and yeah you can clip foundations together easily
the Concrete foundation skin is very clipable

[onyx owl]

gotcha

[dense violet]

there's even ways that make it pretty trivial to connect distant grids with each other if you really want that too

[onyx owl]

wym by this?

[dense violet]

so lets say you had 2 different factories on the other side of hte map

and you suddenly decided
' I want to build foundations all the way between each other to link them up with.. whatever'

there's ways to merge foundations (that will need clipping) so that it looks good and you still manage whatever you're doing

even though the yare completely different grids

I don't bother linking stuff up like that myself though

[onyx owl]

ahhh got it

thank you so much

[onyx owl]

what do you do then?

[dense violet]

no stress 🙂 architecture and design is a big thing for me 🙂

well any linking that happens might be by rail

and I'll just have pylons holding up the thick rails that go wherever needed

[onyx owl]

gotcha

[dense violet]

some people like having foundations the whole way around rail? not for me though

[onyx owl]

makes sense

not a big designer so thx!!!

ok gtg now thank you again

[dense violet]

look, it's a lot easier once you've gotten all the basics really solidly down

being able to manage pipes/belts/machine placement is the core skill you need before getting fancy

[south sinew]

do all fluid production buildings get the free 10m headlift? i.e. if I'm using a blender for diluted fuel, does the fuel get a free 10m?

[dense violet]

then it's practice, planning, and looking into building and design methods. Youtube vids are good for that

[onyx owl]

Copy that

[boreal musk]

every machine that has fluid output, yes

[south sinew]

nice

for blueprint autoconnect, if I want to connect say, a belt to a splitter/merger, do I need a belt on both ends of the autoconnect? or just one?

ah just one side nice

[steel hollow]

#screenshots message
Lets Game It Out has some competition here

[shy mulch]

My brain is melted, I read that question 3 times before I realised you said blueprint, I thought it was bluetooth, thought you were trying to wirelessly transmit items haha

[mild finch]

@loud ivy what does 2-8 mean?

[shy mulch]

-6

[loud ivy]

2 locos 8 wagons

needed for my rail system since it has pretty long hills

[mild finch]

wa, waiiit what's the limit ?

[mild finch]

hmmmmmm

[loud ivy]

no limit

the limit is track grade

[mild finch]

pog

[mild finch]

you don't need it on the very end of the blueprint, but i can't help you more than telling you to experiment

[left totem]

is it meta to add like 3 locos for 4 wagons to make them go faster

[loud ivy]

iirc i had a 3-20 train on my 0.7 save

[mild finch]

dayum

[loud ivy]

dawg just make multiple trains

[left totem]

nah

[loud ivy]

yah

[left totem]

i dont even play the game anymore

just for info

[south sinew]

it seems a bit glitchy, sometimes it autoconnects, sometimes not

[loud ivy]

fast is 1-2 or 1-1
medium is 1-3 or 1-4
slow is everything else

[loud ivy]

it doesn't autoconnect to splitters,mergers and pipeline junctions

also utilise nudge to experiment with placement

[south sinew]

sometimes it definitely does

[loud ivy]

probably connects to pipeline supports and conveyors

anyways bye i'll go make pancakes(in game)

[shy mulch]

Can I have some pancakes please

[fathom shuttle]

How busy is too busy for a 2 way train?

I’m gonna have 2 bauxite trains, 1 rubber, 1 plastic, 1 petro coke all on one line

[shy mulch]

try it, if it all works out then cool, if it clogs up, add more passing places

[fathom shuttle]

Hmm my main concern would be the amount of junctions close to each other

[boreal musk]

depends on how spaced you place each signals, general approach is always do longest car + 1 for each block

[mild finch]

noted

[atomic notch]

Push pull train ftw

[pulsar bobcat]

Hello

I unlocked pure iron ingot recipe and I need 135 iron per minute, any ideas?

[boreal musk]

if you have flat railway, its not a problem to only have 1 loco with 6-8 cars

[arctic swallow]

mine iron using miners and trasport them to refineries using belts

no begging

[fathom shuttle]

No 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[arctic swallow]

#rules message

[atomic notch]

Get a job lol

[arctic swallow]

mods crush his skull

[fathom shuttle]

Idk tbh, I’ll probably cancel the idea of bringing the coke and bauxite and just set up a factory on site to make the aluminum

Two less trains on the track so that’s nice

[loud ivy]

that flat railway gotta be pretty high up in the airto be flat

[atomic notch]

I just did one where instead of makin the train go up and down the mountain just had a train at the top then a belt waterfall and another train at the bottom

So 2 separate trains for bauxite lol

[open pollen]

I personally just made blueprints for the segments of tracks (straight/left/right/incline) so I found it easy to go where I needed too

[undone brook]

God damn so many conveyors in my factory

[atomic notch]

Another conveyor in the hole

Hanging belts make it pretty easy

[undone brook]

Hold on I got a question, can I attach a conveyor lift straight to a miner?

[atomic notch]

Yeah

[open pollen]

I’ve done a dedicated logi floor for my most recent big factory and it made things much neater lol

[undone brook]

Ughhhhhhh I might do this today

But then I gotta tear everything down

[open pollen]

It’s a complete mess on the little logi floor, but it hides things nicely

[open pollen]

Just do it on your next factory then

[atomic notch]

I just got a top floor where all the trains come in then all the production down below. Runnin all logistics on the ceiling

[raw dragon]

I am trying to not make a spaghetti factory but so far I have failed already the spaghetti is too strong

[undone brook]

Actually hold on I have an idea! So I have a Miner Mk1 on nodes so I might route them down to a flat area then just build foundations

[atomic notch]

Its a fruitless endeavor

Embrace the spaghet

[open pollen]

I believe in you, don’t let the spaghetti control you

[undone brook]

Mine is so bad

[raw dragon]

Going back to making everything go into giant boxes to hide their shame

[open pollen]

I have all my stuff on foundations and with multiple floors that go up if needed

[atomic notch]

I dont mind spaghet if it all works

[undone brook]

That’s my plan

[raw dragon]

Until I get trains unlocked I fear spaghetti shall take over

[undone brook]

Same

[open pollen]

Trains don’t help the spaghetti in the factories themselves, only long distance sphaget

At least in my opinion

[raw dragon]

My last train factory I built wayyyyyy up in the sky so it didn't get in the way

[open pollen]

I’m slowly working on making things pretty so I refuse to make things too too floaty

Emphasis on slowly

[nocturne grove]

Hey, why dont i drop the items from my Hands when i die?
I have the drop thing enabled

[boreal musk]

you can set them to drop everything, not just inventory

theres 2 option, only inventory or all

[nocturne grove]

Ah, found it, thank you :D

[fathom shuttle]

44/min HMF, can I do it with spaghetti?

4 belts for the steel alone

[open pollen]

Yes, but I feel like my brain would personally melt and get lost in the sauce

[atomic notch]

It just gets worse

More resources comin in

[fathom shuttle]

Lol idk where to even start with my project

I’ll need to be very precise with everything too

[atomic notch]

What u makin

Hmf?

[fathom shuttle]

Yea 44/min

[open pollen]

I personally go one resource/product at a time

[fathom shuttle]

I want everything to be on mk5 belts so I don’t need to account for other belt speeds

[atomic notch]

Yeah

I generally shoot for 600pm easier for math

[undone brook]

When do you get those?

[fathom shuttle]

I’m currently rounding down so the math is easier

[fathom shuttle]

Tier 7/phase 4

[atomic notch]

Yeah

Alloy iron would be easier. Basic iron is my fav

With that much iron setting up the pure recipes is gonna suck

[undone brook]

I got a long way to go then

[fathom shuttle]

The foundries for the stew are just 18 foundries fully overclocked so that’s nice

But I’ll still be bottle necked by the belt speeds for the outputs bruh

[undone brook]

I basically hand crafted my way to the space elevator

[fathom shuttle]

200% overclocking works better here

[atomic notch]

U just gotta split the systems. Have 1 belt per system.

Smth like that

[fathom shuttle]

I’m doing 600/min belts for the inputs, but due to the solid steel ingot recipe it results in outputs higher than my max belt speed

I’ll probably just spaghetti it just a tiny bit and use a lift for some of the outputs

[atomic notch]

Ejection manifold

[mild finch]

nawwww, lasagna it with split belts

[fathom shuttle]

I just found the magic number guys

135

[open pollen]

For what?

[atomic notch]

Nice

Magic number ftw

[fathom shuttle]

Each foundry will make 135 steel, in groups of 5 it’s 675 which will go into 9 fully overclocked constructors for steel pipes

And I’ll get 1800/min steel pipes in the end

Or 450/min per belt

[open pollen]

What did you do/use to perform this math magic

[fathom shuttle]

In my head/calculator

I should probably use tools for this

I’ll need to split off 20/min off one belt tho

[gleaming pond]

how do i make ADA speak again?

[loud ivy]

iron pipes are better

[viral tendon]

Finally, after all this pain, for 3 days, the only thing left for turbo motor is making stator production

Fuck turbo motors

[viral tendon]

Does it never speak like, NEVER?

[gleaming pond]

it used to speak but now its silent

completely

[viral tendon]

It will speak when u unlock milestones or when pick up spheres or somersloops

[gleaming pond]

the text appears but there is no sound

[viral tendon]

Idk then

[open pollen]

Have you checked your sound settings?

[gleaming pond]

yes i have

[open pollen]

Had to ask just in case. Has restarting the game worked?

[gleaming pond]

i tried but it did not work

[viral tendon]

Are you sure

[warped roost]

Hi, greetings, hello. I made it!

[viral tendon]

Made what

[warped roost]

I made it here to the satisfactory discord server. 😄

[sharp sentinel]

Does the Pure Caterium Ingot recipe produce faster than the base recipe, or just require 1 less ore?

[viral tendon]

Cool

[sharp sentinel]

I note it is 2 caterion ore+2 water, but also just 2 ingots whereas the base recipe it 3 ore=3 ingots.

[arctic swallow]

is more effiecient is terms of saving ore

[viral tendon]

It like says how much it makes/m

[sharp sentinel]

You're misunderstanding the intricacies of this question, friend, and that's okay.

[warped roost]

You have to look at the output and do the math. Since it's a per/minute thing.

[viral tendon]

You aksed produce faster

Idk how to understand other way

[warped roost]

Satisfactory = Math

[sharp sentinel]

Let me look at the closeness of water before I even bother with it.

[barren dove]

it produces faster if you build more machines and max out the ore in both scenarios

[warped roost]

Sometimes more efficient higher outputs are slower. Depends on whether you're going for speed or quantity.

[fathom shuttle]

It’s better if you need a lot of Caterium

[vestal mica]

higher efficient may be less per machine, but it's not "slower" you just need more machines

[fathom shuttle]

For pure it’s 2 ore -> 1 ingot
Regular is like 3 ore into 1 ingot

[sharp sentinel]

Looking at it, at overclock I'd be producing 7.5 less bars, but consuming half of what I would be using the smelter. This will work for setting up the Rocky Desert as my nuclear wasteland...

[arctic swallow]

the best one is leached

[warped roost]

I found that I needed to conserve my caterium so I am always using recipes so I'm always using recipes that give me a higher yield.

[fathom shuttle]

Nope

Leeched is the same as pure I’m pretty sure

[arctic swallow]

no

[warped roost]

Right.

What tier is everybody at right now?

[arctic swallow]

to make 12 ingots/min you need 24 ore/min (pure) or 16 ore/min (leached)

[fathom shuttle]

Yea you’re right

[fathom shuttle]

Tier 8

[warped roost]

Same

[fathom shuttle]

Def not worth it tho

[arctic swallow]

yeah

[fathom shuttle]

Sulfur is very scarce

[arctic swallow]

i mean worth it but not worth the sulfur

[fathom shuttle]

Yea

[sharp sentinel]

I should be working on completing phase 4 since I'm out of tiers, but my power consumption is half my production now and my brain demands I build nuclear to mitigate this. Plus, I need some pasta anyway so might as well.

[fathom shuttle]

I’m planning my nuclear build already

[arctic swallow]

you would need 8333 sulfur/min to get 100% caterium

[calm turret]

how do i get rid of a material?

[fathom shuttle]

Sink

[calm turret]

or more specificly, how do i get rid of sets of materials?

[fathom shuttle]

Or delete

[calm turret]

a sink?

[fathom shuttle]

Awesome sink

[calm turret]

https://tenor.com/view/sink-in-kody992-gif-2038662406493630813

[undone yarrow]

Relative to what max uranium sink plutonium needs, thats... not unreasoanble

[fathom shuttle]

Or use the trash can

Press tab and you’ll see it

[calm turret]

im guessing thats later on

[undone yarrow]

Unless it's Nuclear Waste

[vestal mica]

not sure what you mean, but if you hold ctrl while you drag an item to the trash, it will delete all the stacks of that item in the inventory

[calm turret]

not yet at nuclear

[mild finch]

how are you even supposed to get rid of that?

[fathom shuttle]

You’ll unlock it early on

[fathom shuttle]

Process it or store it indefinitely

[shy mulch]

uranium waste can be processed into plutonium

[steady glade]

[fathom shuttle]

Plutonium is a lot easier to store

[undone yarrow]

Early Game option: Put it in a tamed lizard doggo and commit war crime.

Mid game: launch the pioneer at mach stupid

Late game: make plutonium and sink it/burn it in a vehicle

[mild finch]

yes i know that, but i wondered if there was another way

[late heart]

Is there a way to edit the save file to unlock a specific alternate?

[silk mist]

does scim have any ability to destroy the temp nodes scattered aroud? not the ones on top of miner sites, just the loose ones

[silk mist]

i believe scim can

[mild finch]

you could save, scan a drive, and load the save before you scanned iirc

[late heart]

Oh okay that seems easy

Trying to get an alt screw recipe and all it's giving me is recipes that take more screws

[mild finch]

:kekw:

[silk mist]

yeah save scumming is always an option

[vestal mica]

SCUM

[mild finch]

i'm not sure when you need to put the save tho

i don't know when the random happens

[terse bison]

Iron pipes or bolted frame?

[late heart]

Yeah. My main issue right now is conveyor belt speeds, I'm going to have to build a second manifold and injector for screws probably

[silk mist]

save right before you start the 10 min research

[vestal mica]

i think random happens 1. when you start the scan, so save scumming before the start isn't awesome because each reload is a 10 minute wait. BUT save scumming before you reroll works

pretty sure

and no 10 minute wait

[midnight timber]

Hello...
Do you know how to select an already placed blueprint?
Both to sample it and to delete it? I ca't find the key in keybinds

[late heart]

Also does anybody know the map key if you're playing on a Lenovo legion go

[steady glade]

it does, and its easier if you're gonna save scum amyway to just use the reroll

[steady glade]

press F to enter delete mode, press R to enter Blueprint mode

[midnight timber]

Oh

thanks!

[steady glade]

yw

[mossy moon]

lmao i checked discord after studying for exams and i see that someones noticed. (i friend told me to do that thing in my profile btw) #satisfactory-memes message

[mild finch]

oh, sadge

[steady glade]

its fine just save before the 1st reroll

[fathom shuttle]

Neither

[terse bison]

[mild finch]

eeeeh, not a bad idea

[hot nacelle]

is the fiscit shop coupon thingie worth it?

[fathom shuttle]

Or just go hunt for more drives, in 10 minutes you should scan one drive and look for the next one

[fathom shuttle]

The architecture ones are a must, other than that it’s optional

[mild finch]

yeah, that's what i do, i don't wanna abuse anything (says the dude that reloads the last save when he dies)

[fathom shuttle]

But you should sink excess production anyway to keep your line flowing

[hot nacelle]

k, i need computers but im too lazy to get oil production 😭 to research everything for it

[mild finch]

... you're gonna need the oil production to make them anyways

[hot nacelle]

i dont want to get jumpcared by a spider again...

[mild finch]

i mean, i get what you wanna do but eh, if you're too lazy for that, are you ready for late game?

[arctic swallow]

turn on passive mode

[hot nacelle]

kinda, ii automate everything in game so fat inn another worrld with my friend we kinda ran out of rescources lol

we have these giant sky hiigways with coveyors on there just for steel

[mild finch]

or get weapons because they're funny

[hot nacelle]

I JUST USE NNOBILISKS alot lol (caps, too lazy)

my dog gave me a nuke not lonng ago lol

[mild finch]

eh, they kinda suck for fighting imo, get that rifle :D

[hot nacelle]

maybe, i llove nnobelisks alot im better at meelee, traps or automation weapons in games lol

ive got a full factory makking nnobelisks lol

[mortal ginkgo]

get stun rebar ammo, stun the guys, then wack'em

[plucky plank]

if i overclock my whole fuel energy plant will that increase the rates or just cancel out since the energy consumption would increase too

[thorny valley]

Anyone here good with trains

[distant bay]

nnobelisk?

[hot nacelle]

broken kkeyboarrd it double types wwords

[undone yarrow]

Other than Ionized and Ficsonium, Overclocking is still an overall net energy gain per step.

It's just less of a gain than if you hadn't (or even further cheesed by underclocking everything)

[plucky plank]

its just basic crude oil into fuel power gens

is it worth using all those power cells though

[thorny valley]

Need help with signalling a 4 way junction

[undone yarrow]

The power shards? unless you are really lazy about searching for them and don't sloop the slug constructors, there are like a couple thousand shards pre automation

[undone yarrow]

But for the question of net power: for crude > fuel directly its a difference of 11.5 vs 11.75 mw per fuel made if I didnt do a math dum

[sour ledge]

anyone else get tired of going back to their hub for milestones and just... dismantle it, to build temporarily wherever you are when you're ready?

feels like im doing something wrong when i delete my headquarters and treat is as a temporary building, but... it really is more convenient that way....

[undone yarrow]

Nothing wrong with that, it do be part of how speed runners do stuff (they also use hubs to "teleport" up clfifs and such)

[atomic notch]

Hub teleportation is the best

[sour ledge]

... explain.

[atomic notch]

When you die you spawn at the hub so just place it whereever then kill yourself

[sour ledge]

oh my god

speedrunners, man...

hey wait what happens if i die when i don't have it built

[atomic notch]

You spawn in the starting location

[sour ledge]

oh good was worried i'd been running around unintentionally endangering myself greatly with no hub built lol

back to the starter zone is fine; that's where my hub was, anyway

[atomic notch]

I just too lazy to walk back sometimes so i just delete myself then im back at base

[thorny valley]

Can someone good with trains answer this? #screenshots message

[sour ledge]

i usually make a train for when im at peak lazy - tell it the closest station where i wanna be and just alt tab for a bit

[arctic swallow]

too close to each other propably

[thorny valley]

Too clone?

[arctic swallow]

close*

[sour ledge]

nah that'll work - i do two foundation wide dual rail too

[arctic swallow]

or sometimes you need to rebuild till it works

[sour ledge]

but the signals won't be happy until you build out in all directions on the intersection and have block signals for the paths to hit

[thorny valley]

Its a blue print I got off scim

[atomic notch]

Lol

[sour ledge]

them going off into the void makes the signals unhappy - they want a complete block

[harsh flicker]

its a very humbling moment restarting and doing stuff with your hands again.

[mortal ginkgo]

bing bing bing

[thorny valley]

So if I build out a little on all sides and put block signals it will work just fine?

[sour ledge]

yup - i use a similar intersection for four-way crosses

... little less barebones tho, with tubes and stuff

the last signal, the one that goes into the void, will always be unhappy though. The only way to make that signal happy is to 'finish' the track and loop it back.

But it doesn't really have to be happy if it's a direction you haven't built anything at so no train will go

also fair warning connections with blueprints that use a lot of intersections can and will get really weird, especially with blueprint linking

so if you can't get it working and it feels haunted try remaking the parts having issues to get them to reconnect properly

i haven't been able to get blueprint linking to work propertly to connect to multiple track forks at all. It's fine if they're within the blueprint, but trying to then staple a straight rail blueprint to that intersection'd turn buggy as heck

[sharp sentinel]

Looking in screenshots is a great way to feel awful about my game.

[sour ledge]

honestly, same. my builds aren't even properly modular most of the time 'cause each factory is uh, bespoke? i build it out and expand the needed space as i go

[mortal ginkgo]

everyone starts with orange shoebox

[sour ledge]

so i mean, they work and there's no weird 3d spaghetti or what have you but there sure aint no walls or thorough plan to the madness

[sharp sentinel]

Before this save I was almost always a foundation and conveyors. Heck, some parts of this save are still that. Walls were optional.

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean if you happy, you happy.

if you ain't, check designs to see what suits you

[distant bay]

Cup or nut to take screenshots with?

[sour ledge]

?????????

[arctic swallow]

both

[white dawn]

Nowadays you can hit a key to hide your hands completely, btw

[distant bay]

those 2 items don't take a lot of screen space

[white dawn]

H I think? Though it's been a number of months since I've played. It's on the list of keybinds on your HUD, though.

[sour ledge]

ohhhh i was interpreting that as using a cup or a nut to take a screenshot and was absolutely friggin' lost how that made any sense

[open pollen]

There is also photo mode now but I can’t remember the button

[sour ledge]

p

if you push p and then r you decouple the camera from yourself, which as someone who only ever plays alone was a startling experience

we are so small and the machines are so big...

[white dawn]

Yeah, the first-person camera makes you feel a lot bigger than you are

[silk mist]

is there literally no way to make the first item out of a sloop'ed machine be doubled? other than a sacrificial recipe

[sour ledge]

uh, you could prolly do it if you copied a machine that you already did a sacrifice on with middle click

or blueprinted one?

[silk mist]

blueprinted doesn't seem to work, but combining them might

[sour ledge]

i usually just make something stupid like a screw or what have you as a sacrifice tho

then change the recipe post-sacrifice and it stays doubled

[true mulch]

I think there was a way (either by pausing it/tripping power/changing the recipe), but why?

[silk mist]

trying to make myself a shard doubler BP but don't want to sacrifice a slug to start doubling

[true mulch]

Ah. Yeah, well switching the recipe works for sure

[sour ledge]

slugs are exactly when i find myself wanting to sacrifice too lol

[azure cape]

if i need more than 300 of a fluid but only have mk1 pipelines can i just connect it all into a loop and itll work?

[sour ledge]

anything else and if i gotta 'waste' the first one, eh whatever. but slugs! those are hand caught yo, treasures. treasures

[sour ledge]

if you need more'n 300 in one machine, no. if you need more'n 300 in your "array" and pump from both ends (or multiple entry points really), then yes

[silk mist]

if you're pushing more than 300 TOTAL from two ends and consuming in the middle, it should work

[open pollen]

Just do a basic recipe with the sloop first then switch to the slug recipe. The sloop effect carries over so it’s fine then

[sour ledge]

that's what i just told them lol

[azure cape]

i started a new save and i want to make 16 coal gens so i need about 720 water/min

[silk mist]

this actually doesn't work, from my quick tests

[sour ledge]

aw thats a shame

recipe switching or bust then i guess

[silk mist]

yeh

[azure cape]

i read somewhere that if you have more liquid than can carry in a pipe a closed loop would keep the pipes full

[sour ledge]

yeah if you're pumping from both ends it can work in that scenario

[open pollen]

Mk 1 or 2 pipes?

[sour ledge]

my coal layout does the same, though not as extreme

[azure cape]

mk1

[open pollen]

You can’t work 720 into a Mk1 pipe

[azure cape]

yeah ik 16 for the early game is a bit overkill i just wanna future proof a little bit so i dont need to worry about power

[sour ledge]

i only go up to 360 per 8 'cause huge pipe arrays get weird with manifolding

[open pollen]

Just make 2 completely separate pipe lines

[azure cape]

yeah true

[sour ledge]

so long as you don't need 720 into a single pipe, you can fill 720/m worth of machines using a 300 pipe if you feed from both sides.

[azure cape]

so like just making one big loop essentially?

[sour ledge]

but the flow rate will only peak at 300 so you'll need at least three points of feeding, one from each side and another from the middle

[open pollen]

Wouldn’t only filling from both sides only be 600? Unless you pipe some into the middle?

[sour ledge]

but yeah one big loop

[azure cape]

why are pipes so damn confusing lmfao

[sour ledge]

lol yes wooden that's why i just explained the flow rate

[open pollen]

You messaged as I clicked send on my message

lol

[sour ledge]

and hey don't feel like you're overbuilding with 16 generators; i've got something like 40 or 50 in this save. used a mod to randomize node locations and have had an absolute bear of a time converting to fuel power with only 150 crude oil nodes scattered around...

[atomic notch]

I been wanting to try the random node location mod

[open pollen]

I have like somewhere over 40 gens running still and I just had each 8 their own pipeline personally

[sour ledge]

its been a lot of fun but how i approach oil has changed dramatically

because they're not clustered anymore

[atomic notch]

Yeah it sounds “fun”

[open pollen]

Does it randomize the node locations to be anywhere on the map? Or does it randomize current node locations?

[sour ledge]

well, 'anywhere' depends on the options you select. i told it to do a purity zone exclusion so that the odds of a pure node near any of the starting locations was lowered

but yeah, they're all shuffled essentially - sam veins out randomly in the desert, iron off where it used to be. Haven't come across a uranium so i'm not sure if those were moved

[open pollen]

That sounds like a fun challenge tbh

[fathom shuttle]

You can’t enable the flashlight using controller??

[sour ledge]

it helps a lot as someone who has played repeatedly - eventually you know the "good" spots and your factories get kinda samey

[atomic notch]

Imagine oil node in one of those cave nodes

[sour ledge]

shuffling them all so you have to actually explore and work around randomized locations helps a lot

[open pollen]

Not being able to plan ahead with the online map sounds interesting

[sour ledge]

honestly there probably is some weird *$(@ in the caves, since it keeps the resource totals the same and some of the sam veins have been moved out....

[atomic notch]

The one under crater lake lol

[sour ledge]

and yeah its snazzy. i mean you've still got the radar tower so once you hit mid game if you wanna plan you can, but you gotta put in the legwork first

[atomic notch]

Do they randomize wells too?

[sour ledge]

being RNG in some ways you take the L and others you get lucky. i got some early caterium near my start location that i wouldn't normally have, so that was cool. very early smart splitters, and was able to use quickwire stators right from the get go.

On the other hand i spent like an hour running around trying to find my first sam vein and unlock dimensional storage.... it wasn't even that far, but i couldn't fly and didn't explore the right direction 😮‍💨

[abstract whale]

is it possible to change blueprint nudge increment?

[silk mist]

other than using ctrl to do half increments, not afaik?

[half scaffold]

I didn't even know dimension storage was a thing, so I unlocked it the same time I got trains 😛

[sour ledge]

you poor, poor soul

having to run around and carry my materials, even for the littlest thing, quickly drove me batty

[half scaffold]

I ended up exploring a lot more than planned. I'd get sidetracked easily 😛

[sour ledge]

man i feel that

every time i go out to get hard drives "just until i get <X> recipe" i find myself way off in the middle of nowhere neck deep in slugs

that little observation scanner is the devil. "Oh there's a sloop down in that cave - sure there's not gonna be a hard drive underground, but hey, lets go find the entrance to that cave, could always use more sloops!"

[mystic glade]

hello

i have a question

[arctic swallow]

yes?

[silk mist]

feel free to just post, we'll answer when we can

[mystic glade]

is there a grid system at all

cause my base is always going to be a mess without one

[arctic swallow]

when building foundations hold ctrl

they will snap to world grid

[mystic glade]

is there a grid when placing things on foundations?

[arctic swallow]

grind on foundations

only i think water entractors don't have any grid when placing on water

[white dawn]

World grid is kind of a trap, of course -- its only use really is if you want to connect separate factories in different areas with foundations without having to do some slightly-more-fiddly work.

[arctic swallow]

^ i never used world grid in my current save

[white dawn]

and 1) there's generally no reason to do that anyway, and 2) there's lots of techniques for connecting differently-oriented grids, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX_2i8T3Dbw

World grid just kind of arbitrarily forces you into always being aligned to the cardinal directions, and doesn't let you build "with" the environment nearly as well

(But I know a lot of folks really do like building to the world grid, so of course have at it, if that's what you want!)

Anyway: that said, using foundations in general for your factories is, indeed, super helpful, because the factory will be on its local grid, whether that's aligned to the world grid or not

[mystic glade]

satisfactory in my opinion seems like subnautica (if it was above water) and factorio combined

[polar dock]

Hey all where do i go if i need help or ideas about building my first factory. cause i keep building a base plate then just deconstructing it and tbh it is killing me

[white dawn]

My main recommendation would be to avoid the urge to deconstruct it in the first place.

[arctic swallow]

i don't want to be rude but there is nothing (atleast for me) that is similar to subnautica in satisfactory

[white dawn]

Leave it as-is, build new stuff instead

[arctic swallow]

#design-and-architecture look in there

[white dawn]

It's a huge map; you're not going to run out of resources. There are other nodes, and they're probably not very far away!

Getting caught in an endless loop of building+deconstructing can, indeed, be demoralizing

(Some folks enjoy doing that, of course, but since it sounds like you're not, I'd recommend just building new factories instead. :)

[polar dock]

Thats the thing tho. I don't think its the nodes that bother me its me wanting a good factory but then i look at it and go not good enough so im always in a loop of not wanting a box factory

[arctic swallow]

build -> deconstruct -> repeat

[keen hawk]

Automating turbo motors is an absolute nightmare
nitrogen oil and baux are so far away

[arctic swallow]

start planning good factory when you have miners mk.3

[keen hawk]

im just gonna make a new factory far away from the spaghetti i currently have

[polar dock]

So should i just start a box factory for now and go from there?

[arctic swallow]

yeah

[polar dock]

okay, thank you

[arctic swallow]

there is no point in building something very planned when in future you know you will have to deconstruct it

[polar dock]

the design i want is a form of sci-fi build or maybe moon base type mining areas. So like white/blue type builds and catwalks with miners.

i had a good idea for it but then it came to the main factory and i was like ah now i have issue cause i always start in the rocky desert

[mystic glade]

do ore nodes ever run out?

[arctic swallow]

no

[zenith oriole]

does anyone know why this error happens

Fatal error: [File:D:\BuildAgent\work\SM_BT\UE4\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectArray.cpp] [Line: 534] Maximum number of UObjects (2162688) exceeded when trying to add 1 object(s), make sure you update MaxObjectsInGame/MaxObjectsInEditor/MaxObjectsInProgram in project settings.

[mortal ginkgo]

either you built an ultra massive factory or you have been playing the game for long hours

this game got a memory leak (from what I understand) so its good to restart it every 6 hours or after intense building.

[mystic glade]

what do mercer spheres do i have like 4

[reef basin]

use MAM to figure it out

(as with any other unknown things)

[arctic swallow]

you can get neurolink

[drowsy kelp]

Can you nudge up and down?

[silk mist]

pg up and pg down

[spice marlin]

the SAM node near 813., -2213 wont accept a miner. I can hand mine it and use a portable miner but it wont accept a full resource miner. Anyone else having this problem?

[arctic swallow]

are there stones to explode maybe?

[foggy heart]

Hey guys, I've played quite a bit of satisfactory solo, but now I'm starting a new world for me + 2 friends. Just wondering if anyone has some tips/advice on what to do with multiple people in 1 world, as I think this game is very optimised to play solo?

[sharp sentinel]

Anyone know where the entrance to the cave with quartz is in Rocky Desert? I know there's one entrance like another 500-600m away but surely there's one right nearby right?

#screenshots message

[sour ledge]

depends on the type of friends you have. if they like to explore let 'em go collect hard drives and stuff for the Greater Design. if they like to pretty things up but not do the math to make an optimal factory, let 'em go behindja and pretty things up. if y'all wanna build factories from scratch then just each of ya make your own parts and you can join 'em by train or what have you later.

building the same factory at the same time is gonna be kinda hard to coordinate so its better to split it into modules you each work on if that makes sense?

[foggy heart]

Very helpful! Didnt think of it like this, thank you 🙂

[lusty pollen]

host is the slug guy, destructible objects are bugged if not in the host's render distance

[tired cypress]

there's a chunk of raw quartz in my way that I can't remove. it says press E but doing so does nothing. it's preventing me from building there even though I apparently already had built a foundation over it?

[foggy heart]

Interesting! That throws a bit of a twist in there cz I'm the host and the one good with the maths, other guy is good at decorating and third guy has mad ADHD so need to always be running around doing things xD

[lusty pollen]

unfortunate

well they might be fixed but ive never seen a mention of a fix

[mortal ginkgo]

just be prepared for unforseen consequences in this game's multiplayer. you might even find my mom playing alongside you

[leaden ether]

So first time using a splitter on conveyor lift. Is it reality that the vertical snapping points do not match the rest of the belts/lifts/splitter snapping heights?!? Also no snap for right on top of a lift floor hole?

[green fiber]

floor hole snapping would break a bit of stuff so no

last time we were able to snap splitters to them..... horizontal lifts existed

[mortal ginkgo]

using vertical splitters with floor holes misalign them, from my suspects

[leaden ether]

The snapping on the vertical lift is exactly off by 1/2 a slab height. I can place it either 1/2 slab abive or below being able to meet up with another lift.

[green fiber]

#satisfactory-memes message
those truly were times of fear and darkness

[leaden ether]

That's... ugh... That's all I have to say I guess.

[mild finch]

what in the hell

[gloomy heart]

does the game have toggle auto run?

[arctic swallow]

back in my days ahh

[north gull]

im having problems with waterflow ive not encountered before

[green fiber]

you mean "press button and you continue running forward even when button is no longer held"
?

[north gull]

ive got one water extractor going into 3 coal powerplants and it still somehow isnt enough however i have another set 3 of three and theyre running fine?

[gloomy heart]

Uh yes? That's what auto run means

[green fiber]

sorry i literally never see auto run elsewhere

so i had to ask

and the answer to that is also, unfortunately, no

[leaden ether]

This might be the most disappointing thing in the game for me so far... #screenshots message -.-

[green fiber]

though.... hold on just a moment, i have to test something real quick

[mortal ginkgo]

just to help, let the belt go through without the floor hole, then put the floor hole as a cosmetic

[leaden ether]

Yeah... I have had to do that in the past because I sometimes can't properly eyeball the position of a hole till I run the lift through the floor :D

[mortal ginkgo]

thats the correct way of putting floor holes

[sharp sentinel]

Anyone else encounter this bug where sometimes if they look at their truck briefly it ends up lit up like you're trying to deconstruct it from kilometres away?

[foggy heart]

Another quick question for multiplayer, the blade runners and stuff found in the lizzard doggo cave, can we all pick it up? Or just one person ?

[north gull]

how do i make a line of foundations? ive been placing them one at a time but i see people "toggle" the hologram?

[green fiber]

R to switch mode

you want "Zoop"

[north gull]

ty

[reef basin]

what about the times where we had no lifts

[fathom shuttle]

I can’t imagine building a factory without stacking machines lol

[foggy heart]

Any ideas? Anyone?

[fathom shuttle]

One person

Since there’s only one that drops

So I’d run over there and grab it for myself if I were you

[reef basin]

we had looping belt ramps

[fathom shuttle]

I’d be committing spaghetti crimes with them..

[foggy heart]

Only problem is that we just started and spawned Dune desert, and dont have the map yet lmao xD

[hollow mural]

How do i fix my production lines going idle? I have 330 max cons for power and my factory is using only 220 and everything is getting more than enough materials

[reef basin]

how much you produce? do your gens have enough resources?

[fathom shuttle]

Anyway so I have a very small problem, I am doing 450/min iron pipes on 2 belts, and I need to merge them together so that I get 780/min on one belt, and 120/min on the other , but I need to split 20/min off one belt but idk how to do it tbh

[reef basin]

why do you need to split 20?

[hollow mural]

yes i just went over to my coal power plant and switched everything up so my power plant is not the issue ive checked myself

[sharp zinc]

does anyone have basic blueprints i can download

i dont wanna build them in a creative world and spoil myself