satisfactory

[reef basin]

heavily recommended to make your own, you'll learn much more than by copy-pasting other people's factories

[fathom shuttle]

Tbh idk, should I just let it go to waste? It would be nice to extract that extra little bit

[reef basin]

why do you make extra if you don't need it then?

just underclock the miner

[hollow mural]

i got max cons on my power lines is 330 im new i got the game 3 days ago

[fathom shuttle]

Or I can just overflow the 120 belt so that it overflows 20/min

[fathom shuttle]

I do need it, just not really

[reef basin]

also, I'd just keep it on the 450 belts

[fathom shuttle]

I actually didn’t do the numbers for how many pipes the manufacturer needs one second

33.75

How do I make it consume 50/min pipes or 75

Oh Nvmd I just divide

[steel plume]

Any new players want to start up a world today? I’m new and would love to play with someone

[gritty arch]

Is there a way to use the dimensional depot to feed directly into a production or generator building?

[reef basin]

#1201555265942724758

[reef basin]

no, that would completely break the game's balance

[lost wagon]

I should learn how to make load balance, not because efficiency but because the belts everywhere with things going through it looks cooler than manifold

[reef basin]

on manifolds things also move 😛

[hollow mural]

@reef basin i checked my gens there was not enough coal but i fixed it but now 2 of my water pumps keep going out even tho theres enough power going into them. It doesnt even show that its yellow only the sound effect plays for when it shuts down

[lost wagon]

One line, with some going to the sides, pretty boring

We embrace the spaghetti that is on purpose

[fathom shuttle]

Is there a way to make lifts coming down from the ceiling look clean

Mine are just kinda hanging there

[onyx fern]

Do Smart Splitters not work vertically?

[fathom shuttle]

Clipping through bullrings occasionally

[onyx fern]

Lift Floor Holes work, or you could surround the lift with the Steel Frames

[fathom shuttle]

How do you line up the lift floor holes

I tried it once and gave up

[onyx fern]

I'm not too sure what you mean? I always try to place the hole on some identifying part of the foundation it's built on, then pipe everything accordingly

[sick heart]

is there an easy way to place a power outlet on top of the actual machine outlet, so i can daisy chain them (i'm attempting to blueprint it, but cant quite get my power outlet to line up)

[atomic notch]

Frame pillars

Or whatever theyre called

[atomic notch]

You can leave like a floating wall outlet

[late heart]

Screws are still being annoying

I didn't build my per machine lines with easy injector manifold positions and I'm suffering for it

The question is how do I fix this, God I don't want to rebuild everything

[formal owl]

Hello guys, this day is the day I dive into Satisfactory and also the day I'm going straight to hell
On my path I'll lose my job, my wife, my other passions and eventually my life

[fathom shuttle]

You need alternate recipes

What are you making right now?

[late heart]

Right now I'm just making the reinforced iron plates and rotors

[fathom shuttle]

Do you have any hard drives

[late heart]

Yes

I just got myself the iron ingot screws

So making screws isn't the issue

[fathom shuttle]

For reinforced iron plates the recipe to avoid using screws is the stitched plates one, and with the iron wire recipe you can make it out of pure iron

I just build a set up for 80/min reinforced plates

[late heart]

Hmm

I mean that's better, but it's an ugly number

[fathom shuttle]

I’d recommend just totally avoiding screws all together

Especially at low tiers since you’re heavily bottlenecked by belt speeds

[late heart]

Yeah, it's the belt speeds that are bottlenecking me

[fathom shuttle]

Yea that’s why you should avoid screws, you need lots of them, and a lot more

Even at higher belt speeds I’m avoiding them since the alternate recipes are better anyway

[late heart]

And then you can pretty much just cut out screws altogether right?

[fathom shuttle]

Yep

[onyx fern]

Does anyone know if this is the case or not? My testing seems to indicate they don't, but I could be doing it wrong.

[fathom shuttle]

Yea they don’t, no vertical smart ports

[late heart]

Yup. Just gotta wait until tier 3 for steel rotors

Do you know what the map button is on the Lenovo legion go when playing

Found it

[fathom shuttle]

It’s the home button

[sharp sentinel]

Taking a moment to be stupidly satisfied with myself. For the first time in a save ever, I have a factory setup making AI limiters and high speed connectors. Next stage is other parts for nuclear power stuff.

Apparently just this took me six hours. I assume I did something else a few a couple times...

[oak sorrel]

yo wassup i just finished the second level
i have those farms
iron rod /plates
wire / cable
concrete
which farms should i make/destroy ?

[mild finch]

keep everything if it makes enough for you

[frozen ingot]

yeah i'm hoping vertical splitters and mergers get some love soon, there's this weird 0.5m offset issue atm

[feral jay]

Why destroy anything? This game has TONS of map space...

[frozen ingot]

and a few other things i'd like

[oak sorrel]

idk maybe not usefull after this level

but which one should i make?

[feral jay]

Ah, what's next?

Steel pipes/beams would be my next one

[mild finch]

worth it in the end game, but yeah

[wicked nacelle]

good resource nodes are valuable though - especially good combinations.

[oak sorrel]

steel is the 4th i think

[wicked nacelle]

but tearing anything down before you have mk3 miner doesn't make sense because you'll jsut do it again

[onyx owl]

Efficiency’s sake
Ficsit doesn’t waste

(honestly true though(the lots of map space))

[honest void]

Am I dumb or is the cyber wagon a troll?

[late heart]

Is there anything else I should research in hard drives before I go to the next tier (tier 3)?

[feral jay]

The wagon is a troll

[oak sorrel]

which farm should i make though?

[honest void]

They at least could have made it useable :(

[feral jay]

eh, it's random enough that I lean into the randomness, it makes each playthrough a bit different

[feral jay]

I'd say it was... phophetic

[honest void]

RIP my 20 tickets

[fathom shuttle]

Nah

Just keep progressing

[late heart]

Gotcha. Cause it's easier to save scum for specific alternates at lower tiers

[rare thunder]

did yall see they found diddy not guilty

[late heart]

Tier 3 is oil right

[vivid hinge]

hey, im trying to figure out fuel generators and things, fluid can go in straight lines that just branch off right? i dont need to split like conveyers with fluids?

[late heart]

Sorry not oil, coal

[rare thunder]

fluids can go in lines that branch off yes

[hollow mural]

I have more than enough power flowing into 2 of my water extractors but both keep taking turns switching to idle for 1-2 sec is there any fix?

[vivid hinge]

ok cool, its not gonna deprieve the gens at the end of the line or anything?

[rare thunder]

maybe what theyre pumping into is full

[rare thunder]

as long as your fluid goes high enough and youre within the throughput it should work

if you need more than 300 m3/min and you only have tier 1 pipes you'll need more pipes

[hollow mural]

the generators are full but the extractor isnt full its at like 190-198

[vivid hinge]

i have tier two so the pure oil nodes should fuel 8 gens correct?

[mild finch]

power won't cause that, power will cause a fuse break

[vivid hinge]

tier two pipes*

[mild finch]

non overclocked, yes they take 3x120 = 360

[hollow mural]

They are not even full they are at like 190-198m3

[feral jay]

I'm confused, water doesn't flow into extractors, it flows out of them

[hollow mural]

i said power not water

[feral jay]

ah sry

[mild finch]

not flow, how much is inside?

[keen hawk]

im using my trains to carry over quickwire, but its turning out that tier 5 belts are not enough to ship buttloads of quickwire efficiently

[feral jay]

The extractors will pump water until their internal storage is full, then the storage will empty until there's a bit of room to pump it back full again

[hollow mural]

theres been like 4 different problems with my power plant today i havent even gotten 1 hour of normal electricity where my machines dont go to idle every few sec

[keen hawk]

i dont want to restructure my factories too much, but this is undoable tbh

[hollow mural]

inside extractors its 190-198 they dont get full cause they pump into my coal gens

[mild finch]

why not shipping the cat ingots instead

[mild finch]

there cannot be 190-198

it's max 50, you are, once again talking about the flowrate

[mild finch]

and how much water are your cola gens using?

[hollow mural]

current amount in extractor thats literally what it says

[mild finch]

bruh

[keen hawk]

well its simply that my factory is horribly inefficient

[hollow mural]

79 per min

the max water in coal gen is 50

[keen hawk]

and i cant really swap over without causing structural mayhem more than already exists

[mild finch]

the max water PER MINUTE

[keen hawk]

i think my main issues are that my train tracks are too short

[mild finch]

per minute

[mild finch]

send a pic rq

[keen hawk]

and the fact that unloading stops during cargo transfer is so bad for me

[mild finch]

of your setup

[hollow mural]

my flow rate jumps alot from 40-100

[mild finch]

what about, like slighttly moving the train station to make space for cat ingots processing?

[hollow mural]

check dms

[mortal ginkgo]

have a mk2 storage between your train station and smelters etc

and let it fill up a bit

[keen hawk]

cant be done
my train station ends in front of a wall
by the time my frontal load developed, i had to resort to 2-headed trains

[mortal ginkgo]

Madness. 😔

[keen hawk]

im porting 780 quickwire per minute already
its already at about 60% efficiency on my high speed connetors

thanks to the breaks in supply during train docking

[ripe basin]

Im just going to ignore the fact that everyone i play with starts ignoring me after 1 game

[keen hawk]

i suppose i could use both ports of my train station

come to think of it

[mild finch]

oh lmfao my bad @hollow mural i spent so much time on my turbofuel factory, where all fuel types stacked up to 50, that i had no idea it could go over tha

[hollow mural]

np lol

[frail sleet]

If you build it "properly" it won't, i.e. just belt 1 screw constructor into 1 assembler.

[mild finch]

yeah, so, it's almost the max, and the even ratio is 3 pumps/ 8 gens

[ripe basin]

Cant they just say "I dont want to play anymore"?

[mild finch]

have you checked the coal supply @hollow mural ?

[hollow mural]

i got another plant running perfectly fine with 2 pumps for 4 gens ive got 100 coal in each gen and it doesnt go down i got enough coal

so if i get rid of 1 pump it should fix my problem?

[mild finch]

yep, just noticed you were using overclocking, and uuh, your power chart is flat, indicating you're always getting full power

[sharp sentinel]

Oof. Accidentally used up all my encased beams making conveyors all over the place. Takes soo long to refill too, even slooped and overclocked.

But right now, the project I'm currently working on... It'll all be worth it.

[ripe basin]

God i hate geothermal energy
Sure, its free 50mv but it is just stupid
It should be stable

[mild finch]

just redo the maths on that to make sure i guess

[feral jay]

Build more encased beam factory... the factory must grow.

[sharp sentinel]

I wish it was easier to stabilise than 'Spend time trying to make two of them cancel one another out'.

[hollow mural]

i got the game 3 days ago im not at the point where im calculating stuff i just build

[feral jay]

And yeah Mk.4 belts are expensive for some reason, I'm always running out of encased beams at that stage

[ripe basin]

Yeah

[sharp sentinel]

I'd even take some insanely expensive thing that stabilised them.

[ripe basin]

I finished the game in 53 hours, what are you talking about

[mild finch]

well, of course stuff is not gonna work perfectly if you don't make sure you have just the right amount of items coming in, the whole point of the game is doing those calculations, kinda

[keen hawk]

skip mk4 for mk5, same with mk2 for mk3

[mild finch]

bro what, i'm 200 hours in and still in phase 4 lmfao

[sharp sentinel]

I have mk5 unlocked, but I use them sparingly.

[mild finch]

270*

[ripe basin]

I just used 1, count them, 1 machine for everything and it just worked

[sharp sentinel]

I guess I might as well start using them. I just didn't want to start wanting to upgrade everything.

[mild finch]

oh god

[ripe basin]

Pure magic

[hollow mural]

i literally went into the game blind i have never played a game similar to this

[frail sleet]

mk5 is easier to produce than mk4

[ripe basin]

I playt similar games before, but never like that

[mild finch]

yep, almost never used mk4

[ripe basin]

Absolutely true

[frail sleet]

mk6 is a bit of a pain but it's a one-time thing then you have infinite belts

[feral jay]

Never tried this particular coal power setup before, works pretty well so far #screenshots message

[mild finch]

LMFAO, it just made me look at a random belt, that was in fact, tier 4

[mortal ginkgo]

I love how mk2 feels extremely expensive compared to mk3 too. This game really goofs with my brain after coming from DSP where every tier belt demands the previous belt tier to be constructed.

But I kinda love this.

[true mulch]

Love?? I despise mk2 belts with all my being

[mortal ginkgo]

oh no I mean "not needing the previous version"

[sharp sentinel]

But all that upgrading q.q

[ripe basin]

Im loading computers into supercomputers production by hand because the other guy who should have automated computers abandoned me

[mortal ginkgo]

I slightly go "why mk2 so expensive?" too 😄

[mortal ginkgo]

Sadness and despair is all you are.

[true mulch]

Why would you upgrade belts that already satisfy the required throughput?

[sharp sentinel]

Nyoom.

[hollow mural]

@mild finch i fixed it i removed 1 extractor overclocked the other extractor to 240m3 per min and overclocked the gens too for more power and its working fine now

[mild finch]

shoudl've done here smh

[feral jay]

I do, because I use the efficiency checker mod, and lower tier belts confuse it

[mild finch]

that's probably just because you left a lot of pipes empty

just make the damn maths

[true mulch]

Sounds like the mod is the issue?

[feral jay]

It works well when all the belts are of the same Mark, not so much when you mix belt types

[ripe basin]

Why

[late heart]

I hate autosaves

They save like none of the data

[feral jay]

Oh for sure, but the easy solution is just to upgrade all the belts

[mortal ginkgo]

because of that guy, regardless, its a joke :p

[midnight fog]

in manifolds, i only use max belt speed on the straight line not the ones going to machine which usually mk1

[ripe basin]

I dont understand english jokes

[true mulch]

Even then, if you build a complete factory using the highest mk belt you have available at that point, it'll remain functional even after you unlock a higher mk

[fathom shuttle]

Yea reinforced iron plates are more expensive that steel beams

Same for mk4 and mk5

[sharp sentinel]

They also both upload so slow.

[fathom shuttle]

I’m almost done with the HMF build

[feral jay]

Yes, just the the effeciency checker will report that throughput is limited at whatever the lowest tier connected belt is, which isn't accurate when it's off a manifold feeding a machine for example

[true mulch]

There's essentially nothing driving you to upgrade belts unless they were too slow to begin with

[fathom shuttle]

I’ll just need to build the encased industrial pipes and manufacturers

[feral jay]

Not that big a deal to upgrade belts anyway

[ripe basin]

I built it in an hour

[feral jay]

If I feel like cheesing it, Calculator can do a mass upgrade for me

[ripe basin]

(Its only 5 per min)

[fathom shuttle]

Will need to redo the splitters to make them all smart splitters

[true mulch]

You do you, my point is that upgrading belts is typically pointless

[fathom shuttle]

If it’s 44/min then that’s impressive

[keen hawk]

wait
plastic and rubber make different amounts of HOR?

[true mulch]

Yes

Rubber makes double

[keen hawk]

this just threw all my calculations out the window

uigh

[untold moat]

correct

[feral jay]

Pointless for you, not for me, but to your point, yeah, it all still works just fine without upgrading

[ripe basin]

Why would you need THAT many

[untold moat]

and HOR makes different levels of P.resin

[fathom shuttle]

20/min was just not enough

[sharp sentinel]

I keep forgetting stackable conveyors exist in this save.

[keen hawk]

im converting it all into turbo fuel thankfully

[untold moat]

to flex on the plebs who get less than 10/min

[sharp sentinel]

Too late now. They don't snap so fricc'em.

[true mulch]

Turbo heavy fuel? Or via diluted fuel

[leaden ether]

Yeah I use belts based on the recipes average throughput, then when the factory is running I watch to see when belts start binding (When going from one level to a lower level) and upgrade the lower level one. Part of my standard factory tuning at this point

[untold moat]

<laughs in rocket fuel>

[ripe basin]

I dont have rocket fuel unlocked yet

[untold moat]

it is very fun

[keen hawk]

im ngl im not a fan of the compacted coal side product

but i could then convert it all into rocketfuel...

[reef basin]

or just go nuclear

[ripe basin]

Im too lazy to go to my aluminum factory just to make 10 fluid tanks

[mortal ginkgo]

priority merger back to rocketfuel?

[keen hawk]

hm?

[true mulch]

You can just sink it if you don't want to deal with it, but it is a waste

[untold moat]

why are you making fluid tanks?

[keen hawk]

ohh

[mortal ginkgo]

reuse the compact coal that is byproduct that is

or sink it ya

[ripe basin]

Cause you need 10 for the research

[untold moat]

ah

forgot about that

[feral jay]

I just sink it unless and until there's a nearby use for it

[keen hawk]

im in

[true mulch]

Or, another option, burn it in coal generators

[keen hawk]

northwest corner of the map with oil from the coast

[true mulch]

Free power

[untold moat]

was about to say that

[keen hawk]

i could pull some nitrogen over...

[mortal ginkgo]

a good power too.

[ripe basin]

Also you need 1 hard drive but explorer as said above abandoned me

[keen hawk]

is there a way to make fuel gens go directly from taking one fuel source to another?

[sharp sentinel]

Maybe when it's my hyperfocus for the day I'll go back and clean up my spaghetti lines with some stackable poles.

[keen hawk]

please say yes...

[untold moat]

not without flushing the system

[keen hawk]

oh

i could do that

but what does flushing entail
i could flush the pipes and then run a new pipe in?

[untold moat]

yep

[wicked nacelle]

select "whole pipe system" and it will reset what fluid types the pipes take

just make sure you don't have any new sources of your old fuel

"fuil pipe network"

[frail sleet]

there is no need to upgrade if it works

[keen hawk]

all of my pipes lead to/from a storage jug

[wicked nacelle]

storage jug is part of what will be flushed

[keen hawk]

i can disconnect it, flush system, and run from a new jug?

oh fr

hm

[wicked nacelle]

only thing you need to discconect is any buildings creating the old fuel type

like refinery or blender

[viral tendon]

Finally

Turbo motor production is done

[wicked nacelle]

for now 🙂

[keen hawk]

well i currently have 2 storage jugs of turbo fuel
i would prefer it if they connected to my new setup, would that be possible

[feral jay]

And here I am still building my first motor/stator factory

[viral tendon]

Fuckass game

[late heart]

That isn't building it properly, that's building it improperly

[wicked nacelle]

fluid buffers are generally not a good idea to use, so you should probably just kill them. unless you're transporting with a train or something.

[keen hawk]

wait
i just got recycled plastic
isnt this kinda op with diluted fuel since rubber gives double hor

[keen hawk]

i thought they were good for head lfit

[wicked nacelle]

no

[keen hawk]

i thought i was being bigbrain...

[late heart]

Also answer was yes, I just saw when I was doing it I'll want iron wire from this tier first

[feral jay]

Buffers and valves generally create more problems than they solve

[keen hawk]

is that by design or by bug

i havent encountered any issues so far...

[wicked nacelle]

other than train stations and seriously consider if you should be shipping fluids anyhow

[feral jay]

By design, the fluid dynamics engine is more realistic than most people realize, and folks have trouble conceptualizing it

[wicked nacelle]

fluids are implemented via a particular algorithm and it's just... a byproduct. It's not really intentional or not intentional, it's just how it is.

[smoky forge]

yeah. and the buffers are the exact opposite, quite unrealistic and confusing physics

[wicked nacelle]

They really feel bolted on

like someone just copy/pasted an advanced fluid dynamics algorithm and then threw them on without understanding what's going on in the first part

[keen hawk]

what kind of issues are typically encountered?
i used buffers to solve my issues with water extractors and inconsistent pump rates and it worked like a charm

[feral jay]

I use industrial buffers to store fuel or water so I can gravity feed it to the generators if there's a massive power failure, they work well for that

[frail sleet]

I would say that's not true for valves since 1.0

the only time they may be misused is if you put them backwards, or valve only one of several paths without understanding that the flow rate % limiter is a percentage of total flow, rather than an absolute value.

[smoky forge]

like they would work better if they have a top input and a bottom output, but fluids dont work directionaly in the first place

[keen hawk]

so i kept on using them...

[wicked nacelle]

not sure what kind of issues you have but I have no problems with those things and never use buffers

There are issues to be had, but not with simple things like water extractors

[keen hawk]

before my pipes filled all the way i had some flow issues
the buffer solved the filling problem and i never had to remove it i think

maybe i just havent found a large enough issue

[feral jay]

Buffers take a problem that show up quickly if all you have is pipes, and make it take longer to appear, leaving you with the false impression that the problem has been solved. You walk away from that factory, and an hour later, the problem happens again, instead of right away

[ripe basin]

Why does 2p/m for supercomputers feel so slow

[feral jay]

Buffers are not much more than a pipe with a huge storage capacity

[wicked nacelle]

This is true for containers, as well. But there are more sane uses for containers than fluid buffers

[ripe basin]

But 2p/m for magnetic field generators feel so fast

[feral jay]

For stockpiling things though, they're a good use case

[keen hawk]

i ship crude oil from my fields to the northwest corner of the map via fluid freight

isnt that just one bigass fluid buffer

[wicked nacelle]

things don't need to be stockpiled nearly as much as people think -- and especially not in a production line.

[feral jay]

No but I like stockpiling things

[wicked nacelle]

Satisfactory is a game about rates masquerading as a game about quantities

[viral tendon]

Fuck turbo motors

[ripe basin]

True

[viral tendon]

Just 20 more turbo motors and i will be able to do nuclear power without waste

[wicked nacelle]

See, I hate RCUs so much more -- and then oscillators before that

[viral tendon]

Rcus are genuinely so easy

[open pollen]

My concrete, steel beam, and iron plate stockpiles for building say otherwise

[ripe basin]

Why

[feral jay]

Turbo motors are always worse for me

[viral tendon]

Just use radio control system alt recipe if you have it

Even without it, it's not that hard

[feral jay]

Just, at that point in the game, the resources are spread around the map, whereas I find with RCU's, they tend to be in just one or two places at that point

[wicked nacelle]

I have fields upon fields of crystal occilator manu's

[viral tendon]

I love rcus they're easy to make

Turbo motors need EVERY basic resouce in the game except uranium and sam

[sharp sentinel]

Hm. I have 4 concrete constructers and 4 foundries making steel pipes. I need the concrete for another stage in the production I'm working on, but should I pull some aside to do molded steel pipes or stick to regular steel pipes so I can keep them all for my march towards nuclear?

[viral tendon]

Like literally every resource is needed to make turbo motor

[ripe basin]

You can make steel pipes in foundry???

[sharp sentinel]

No. It's to make the ingots to make the pipes. I got a bit mixed in there.

[wicked nacelle]

do you have wet concrete?

[sharp sentinel]

Yes, but I already have my water doing a lot of work in this setup.

[viral tendon]

Turbo motors when it comes to being literally the most annoying thing to make

[wicked nacelle]

limestone is oddly valuable in this game because of how much stuff takes

[wicked nacelle]

get more water - with 1.1 it's easy to make a small blueprint that lets you drag 8 pipes (or more) at a time long distances

[fathom shuttle]

It’s kinda dumb that we can’t upgrade splitters to smart splitters

[ripe basin]

I love classic battery

[wicked nacelle]

you can except for vertical ones

[fathom shuttle]

Like you can with different tier belts

[feral jay]

You can

[fathom shuttle]

How

[wicked nacelle]

middle click it, hit e, then control click over the existing one

[feral jay]

Hold CTRL with smart splitter selected

[fathom shuttle]

Perfect I guess

[viral tendon]

Could you give me video or photo or whatever of that blueprint?

[wicked nacelle]

I mean it doesnt' matter how you get a smart splitter in your build tool, btu that's the easiest 🙂

[feral jay]

Generally CTRL works game-wide for "replace in-place", works for walls and foundations too

[keen hawk]

can that upgrade work for tier 1 storage to tier 2 storage?

[viral tendon]

11 turbo motors and partricle enrichment is done

[hard ivy]

Uranium isn't. And depending on your recipe choices a lot of the other ones aren't either

[viral tendon]

Can we like read 💔

1 message above i said except uranium and sam

[wicked nacelle]

just make a 4 high stack of "stackable pipeline" with a nub of pipe sticking out both sides and then autoconnect will connect them for you and more importantly show how far you can space them

[fathom shuttle]

The most annoying parts of them is the radio control units

[true mulch]

Nope, probably because they're different sizes

[fathom shuttle]

Like you need so much of it, and lots of electronics

[true mulch]

Works for splitters and walls

[sharp sentinel]

You fell for his absolutely desperate attempts to get someone to talk to him about his turbo motor factory, and even then he's still toxic about it.

[true mulch]

And without CTRL for belts, pipes, power poles, miners and pipeline pumps

[viral tendon]

I did not understand any of that but when i need it i'll just google it

[wicked nacelle]

hang on

[fathom shuttle]

I might go down the turbo pressure motors route lol

[viral tendon]

7 turbo motors, it's happening ❤️

[fathom shuttle]

But I still need the radio control units for the PCC lmao

[ripe basin]

PCC?

[viral tendon]

Personal computing computer

[fathom shuttle]

Pressure conversion cubes

[viral tendon]

Aww

[wicked nacelle]

just DM'd you

[fathom shuttle]

The last frame/cube you’ll need in the game

[viral tendon]

I was close

[keen hawk]

i hate the nitrogen ones already
anything with blenders is a pain

(i know everything lategame is a blender recipe) 💔

[fathom shuttle]

It’s modular frames -> heavy modular frames -> fused modular frames -> pressure conversion cubes

[sharp sentinel]

Went with molded steel pipe. Actually the reason I'm not doing wet concrete is the limestone is under my factory floor and I don't want refineries sticking up through it.

[fathom shuttle]

Grassfields?

[sharp sentinel]

Wait until you remember nitrogen requires nothing but pipes and you can just pipe it all over the dang place.

[sharp sentinel]

Rocky Desert. Converting the entire place into a nuclear power plant very, very slowly.

[keen hawk]

yeah i know its a gas but id rather deal with something portable by drone

drones my beloved

[fathom shuttle]

Problem for me is that I run out of nitrogen very quickly

Technically you only need reanimated Sam and iron ore lol

[hard ivy]

Even excluding resource conversion, only Bauxite, Iron, Quartz and Water are strictly required. They aren't enough by themselves but you can pick and choose the rest

[keen hawk]

is that with alternates only?

[fathom shuttle]

What are you using for your radio control units recipes

[sharp sentinel]

Dumbest thing I ever did was put smart splitters on my hotbar.

[hard ivy]

Just press E on a regular splitter

[sharp sentinel]

Marry me?

[feral jay]

Works for all kinds of buildables — power poles, machines, pipes, almost everything. Hold E to bring up a selection wheel, too

[true mulch]

Hahaha someone discovered quick switch?

You can also hold R to get a wheel for build modes

[sharp sentinel]

It's okay guys, I'm only 252 hours in.

[viral tendon]

Without alt recipes every resources is req i believe

[feral jay]

I was over 2000 hours in before I realized you could place multiple portable miners on a node

[viral tendon]

Cooling system already adds all liquids and 1 gas

And copper

[sharp sentinel]

I'll probably still upgrade conveyors on my bar, because like someone said the further along you get the easier to make they are.

[viral tendon]

Why would you even need multiple of them tho

I didn't know it either, maybe it was added in 1.0 or 1.1

[feral jay]

For rushing a few things before I've automated the necessary parts

[true mulch]

I had binds for 1/3/5 and quick switched to get 2/4 (6 didn't exist back then)

Oh and sometimes you have to hold E to access the other stuff

[hard ivy]

Limestone, sulfur and caterium aren't. But I'd say that if you're doing turbo motors without alts, you're just a masochist

[feral jay]

I haven't yet automated rebar, nobelisk, or AI limiters, so I'm handcrafting them for now

[viral tendon]

I used 1 alt for turbo motors

[sharp sentinel]

I have nobs and AI limiters automated, but not rebar. 🙂

[viral tendon]

Well maybe 2 or 3 alts ion remember

[wise junco]

Good day, fellow Pioneers

[hard ivy]

I used 20-25

[feral jay]

That is a matter of opinion.

[sharp sentinel]

I forgot for a minute why I wanted to do steel pipes instead of beams. I can do the alt recipe for the pipes and then use the alt recipe for encased beams to use them for that, while still using them for every other stage of nuclear power like the stators.

[viral tendon]

Cooling system : copper, oil, water, gas| Radio control unit, quartz, iron| Motor : coal, and if you're using insulated crystal osciliator you would also eed caterium

[wicked nacelle]

has anyone figured out when/why rail signals sometimes don't break the color of a rail section?

[sharp sentinel]

Why is my nitrogen bit being pinged for this....

[wicked nacelle]

I'd love to not have to check every intersection afterwards to see where it's broken even though I did it "right"

[viral tendon]

So like only uranium sam, limestone and sulfiur are missing, caterium sometimes

[sharp sentinel]

I have so many power poles on this factory so far I can actually just hoverpack around. It's so nice.

[wicked nacelle]

powered rail powers hoverypack, too. so yet another reason to have lots of trains everywhere

[fathom shuttle]

Seems random

You’ll need to connect it to a different rail

[viral tendon]

Trains are awesome

[wicked nacelle]

I agree... feels like z-fighting for rails or something if the signal is on which side of a rail split/merge

[hard ivy]

In previous versions, it was because of bad rail placement timing. You had to wait until the previous rail's building animation finished to absolutely make sure they didn't glitch. (Not that it would always glitch if you didn't. Either the timing window was much smaller than "the entire building animation", or it didn't always happen)

But in 1.1, I've seen people have this issue way more often than before, so either it's a new bug, or the old one got worse

[sharp sentinel]

I only have two trains. They go in loops and just stop at random stations to unload specific stuff. Nothing fancy, and more than I've ever done before. My last save had one train, and it was a mess.

[vestal mica]

how do you make them stop at random stations? that sounds fun

[wicked nacelle]

okay, that's interesting. that actually sort of makes sense from an implementation perspective.

[smoky forge]

yeah i am there right now

i need to add a better railway system urgently

[wicked nacelle]

if you build your rail correctly, you don't have to think about how many trains you have, you just make stations and then when you need stuff you can just make a train that does it and it will "just work" (except when it doesn't)

[smoky forge]

yeah thats the problem

i have a one way track to all of my current stations

[wicked nacelle]

and when you expand to a new area, all you have to do is build a little bit of new rail off your existing rail and it's all magically connected

[smoky forge]

just one train with 2 locomotives

[wicked nacelle]

one way track very quickly becomes WAY more complicated than 2 tracks. With 2 tracks there is a set of rules you can learn that works for any setup. They're not super easy to learn, but you can learn them. With one way tracks there's no end to how complicated they can be to get right for more than one train

[smoky forge]

exactly

i think imma make teain highway

to everywhere

[sharp sentinel]

Solution to the problem from earlier: There's two limestone nodes where I am, one normal and one pure. I'll use them both so I don't need to worry about wet concrete. MWAHAHAHA!

[smoky forge]

but first i gotta finish my litle check list, make a big new central base and a factory for every item there is

[ripe basin]

Except screws?

[smoky forge]

no all

[ripe basin]

Why would you need screws

[smoky forge]

like every single one individualy

[smoky forge]

why would i not wana have them

im not saying for them to be used in diffrent recepies

[hard ivy]

They're only used to build the awesome shop

[smoky forge]

im gona use a whole lot of alternate recepies for the production of more complex parts

[atomic notch]

40,000 screws per minute

[ripe basin]

Just why

[hard ivy]

You can make like 5M

[smoky forge]

lol

[atomic notch]

Cuz im not afraid of a lil screw

[smoky forge]

my new goal

max out screw production

[atomic notch]

Leached iron-solid steel-steel screws

[hard ivy]

It only costs literally every resource on the map except nitrogen and uranium

[atomic notch]

Aluminum rod - screws

[hot nacelle]

Im so excited to see the ending of the game, this is my second world further then my main world and jts more progress and i found out about the alien stuff, any tips for progression for tier 5 and 6

[hard ivy]

Aluminium beam -> steel screws

[atomic notch]

Forgor about aluminum beams

[hard ivy]

I only remember about them because I was meming about aluminium-only rotors

[atomic notch]

Lol

Steel rod -screws

[hard ivy]

That's what Tools does by default

[atomic notch]

Sushi steel rods and aluminum rods

[hard ivy]

Imagine if they were actually different items

[atomic notch]

Yeah

[keen hawk]

i spent 3 hours setting up for rocketfuel

[atomic notch]

Aluminum screws

[hard ivy]

Someone needs to gregify satisfactory

[atomic notch]

3 types of screws

[keen hawk]

now i realise i need nuclear unlocked before i get nitric acid

kill me now

[fathom shuttle]

Instead of placing 16 manufacturers I’ll place 8 and overclock them

If anyone needs a genius for hire lmk im available

[atomic notch]

Yeah come finish my world so i can play foundry full time

[wicked nacelle]

anyone fought with the game thinking there's a train on an empty track? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1390082609349918911/image.png?ex=6866f6d0&is=6865a550&hm=ab4b1f2c4bd0cfa4ee28a2b78c9c308cfe0ee515391ce9dbc1b0dcab4fa2d6d0& -- I haven't reloaded the game yet (reload didn't fix it)

yep, tried to drive a train through it and there's an invisible "train" on my track - I run into it. Player doesn't collide with it but train does

[atomic notch]

Weird

Did you try validating game files?

[wicked nacelle]

there was some other rail that was kind of close (out of frame slightly) and it must have been bugging on that. I moved that and now it works

[sharp sentinel]

Tomorrow, as a treat for myself, and because my power consumption is actually 3/4ths of the way to my power production I'm going to make a maximum effort coal generator setup at Crater Lake. I love messing with coal generators. It's such a simplistic process and can be done so tidily.

[silver arch]

ive been planning to do the same thing (even though im 300 hours into this save) but i might have to use that space for phase 5 production 😦

[sharp sentinel]

Most of my production is going on in Grass Fields and that side of the map. I'm doing almost entirely power production stuff out in Rocky Fields, Crater Lake, Beach Islands.

I love having power.

[wicked nacelle]

Whatever makes you happy, but coal is pretty easy to run out of once you realize how many diamonds this game wants in end game (meaning post-missions)

[sharp sentinel]

I have the entire north side of the map untapped. 🙂

[wicked nacelle]

there are only a couple resources I'm out of and coal is one of them.

[sharp sentinel]

Plenty of places for plenty of things, and plenty of time to have plenty of fun.

[silver arch]

this game is just chaos lategame im freehanding everything 😭

actually i cant say "freehanding" when i have a comprehensive map of my entire world including every small building on the map in satisfactory modeler

[wicked nacelle]

no actually I'm a dumbass... there was a COMPLETELY derailed train that was like... 30m down below halfway underwater that I didn't see -- and it was because of some other rail that was too close

usually they just show up as crumpled bits on the rail for me.. but this one must have gotten smacked hard

[viral tendon]

Particle enrichement low key done, nw i'm going to sleep and tomorrow morning i'm making nuclear power

Gn chat

[wicked nacelle]

how do you do it low key? I feel like people just say that randomly nowadays.

like "to be honest"

[viral tendon]

To be hones low key ngl imo it's just my opinion but imho i think i guess yep

Alr i'm going to sleep

[mild finch]

by having a ton of issues plaging your plant that are gonna haunt you for days?

(turbofuel is fun :3)

[fathom shuttle]

Im finally done 😭 💀

#screenshots

Gave myself plenty of room but still ended up with the spaghetti in the beginning smh

Ahh it feels so good to be done with this

[hearty hollow]

yo guys why do i see noone automating powershards

its super easy

[fathom shuttle]

Because it’s in tier 9

[hearty hollow]

i mean yeah but i dont think even think kibitz has done it

[pastel carbon]

I'm guessing what you really mean to say is: Why are there not many youtubers who have posted videos of automating power shards?

[honest void]

Hello, what's the exact page to plan factories again please?

[kind rose]

you guys plan your factories?

[honest void]

Yes

I do handwritten schematics too

[feral jay]

The popular two I can think of are https://satisfactory-calculator.com and https://satisfactorytools.com

[hard ivy]

SCIM's production planner is terrible. Tools is straight up better

[fathom shuttle]

Satisfactory tools and satisfactory logistics

[honest void]

I was looking for the second one thank you

[feral jay]

Tools has no map tho

[fathom shuttle]

Both are very good, I personally prefer logistics

[feral jay]

dammit getting them confused lol

[fathom shuttle]

But I think you should be doing most of the math in your head because it’s faster

[feral jay]

Or a spreadsheet because it's nerdier

[hard ivy]

You know you are allowed to use 2 different sites, right?

[kind rose]

because the cruel monsters would rather trample simple slimes

[willow glen]

up to a point; when it’s all multiples of 5 that’s not so bad, but 57.5 is hard to head math

[fathom shuttle]

Did you guys not take algebra/ arithmetic in school lol

I’m pretty sure you need that skill for most standardized test too

[ripe basin]

!wikisearch ai expansion server

[fossil ice]

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

[willow glen]

bruh what

didn’t expect personal attacks in the satisfactory server

[fathom shuttle]

That was a personal attack? Crazy lol

[hard ivy]

Replace your spaces with +

Otherwise it searches just the first word

[hard ivy]

I'd like to see you optimise Ficsonium for lowest resource usage in your head

[pulsar pelican]

goodgod you cant move a truck waypoint a little to the left but instead have to redo an entire path?

trucks colided and cant go around eachother

[hard ivy]

And that's just one of the reasons why I never use trucks

[pulsar pelican]

one of the many, im sure

[ripe basin]

Okay

[fathom shuttle]

Erm obviously you would use the uranium recipe with sulfur instead sulfuric acid then mix the nuclear waste with uranium to make plutonium pallets then mix them with PCC to make plutonium fuel rods then turn the plutonium waste into idk🤓

[pulsar pelican]

do the devs think this is a game for savages and barbarians?.... ok, ill.... redo it!

[fathom shuttle]

You know trains exist right

[pulsar pelican]

ill make a gaint circle instead of a roa

not yet they dont

[fathom shuttle]

I’m proud to say that I’ve never touched a truck before

[pulsar pelican]

they're so cute dthough and bring some life to the thing

[fathom shuttle]

(Use belt highways)

[pulsar pelican]

yeah those are quick as heck

ill suffer thorugh the truck issue, and make a giant circle for them to go around instead of using a path

until devs learn how cars work

[fathom shuttle]

488k/min from sinking HMF very nice

[hard ivy]

Especially with auto-connect

[pulsar pelican]

do you guys recommend tubes?

[hard ivy]

I only used them once, when I first unlocked them. Just like turbofuel

[limpid niche]

when sitting afk and bunch of different png of mosquitoes with sfx flew across the screen. anybody else seen that?

[fathom shuttle]

Hypertube cannons?

[hard ivy]

Using hypertubes as intended is kina meh. But with cannons/boosters they're amazing

[feral jay]

No. I hereby decree that anyone using more than one assistant site, pre playthrough, is cheating, and a disgrace to the community.

I have spoken.

[fathom shuttle]

Yes definitely, they’re your main transport method until portals

[hard ivy]

Sure. Then I'll use 1 site and 1 local program

[fathom shuttle]

Even portals are pretty bad since they need singularity cells

[pulsar pelican]

whats wrong with being a disgrace?

[hard ivy]

They are faster than launchers...

[feral jay]

Hrm, excellent point...

[fathom shuttle]

Yea but finding spare nuclear pasta to make singularity cells with is pretty difficult

[pulsar pelican]

as soon as i entered one of the sugar cubes, the otherones went ahead on its route like nothing happened. oh coffee stain studios, will you ever learn

[fathom shuttle]

Anyway, I need to start work on my oil byproducts factory tomorrow

[hot nacelle]

Anyone know a good tip for transporting oil from the otherside of the map to the otherside of the map, usually i use “sky highways” but my factory doesnt give out enough concrete for that yet lol

Without trains

[hard ivy]

Oil byproducts? It's been a while since I had one of those

[pulsar pelican]

can trucks go thorugh portals?

or is it just personal teleportation like the tubes

[hard ivy]

I don't think they'll fit. But a factory cart might lol.

I haven't seen anyone try tho

[hot nacelle]

*THERE ARE PORTALS!?*😭 thats cool..

[pulsar pelican]

OMG CAN YOU USE carts to transport materials? ahahahahahaha

[hard ivy]

1 stack at a time, but yes. And for free (they don't need fuel)

[pulsar pelican]

thats the funniest thing. Im going to try that

[prisma forge]

What does "Freight wagon is fully loaded/unloaded" do?

[fathom shuttle]

Uh I meant plastic and rubber, I’ll turn 1200 into lots of rubber and plastic

I think they’re called oil byproducts tho

[atomic notch]

Exactly what it say

[fathom shuttle]

It waits until the train is fully loaded until it takes off

[prisma forge]

what does "fully loaded" exactly mean? I set up a train to test that and it just loaded and took off normally. It wasn't even full.

[fathom shuttle]

You need to change the wait setting too

Change it from or to and so the train doesn’t take off immediately

[atomic notch]

And not or

[fathom shuttle]

Or to and

That’s what I said lol

[atomic notch]

Yeah

Im just saying the same thing

[strange hedge]

should I be creating a new factory for each item or branch off existing lines

[atomic notch]

Idc

Do whatever you want man

[fathom shuttle]

It depends on the item and what you want

[strange hedge]

idk if i need it in the future + im worried about power

[fathom shuttle]

What is the item

[strange hedge]

i currently have 2 stell factories like 4km apart

i need wiring and frameikng

for space t2

steel*

i for some time had a sevre shortage in iron rods becasue i linked them to a rotor factory

[late heart]

Somebody bumped me while I was going to load my file and now it's not displaying any saves, what happened and how do I undo it?

[fathom shuttle]

Make more dude

If you’re still in early game I’d start a new factory tbh

[strange hedge]

im working on space elavator 2

is that very early?

[hot nacelle]

Space elevator 2?
Is a new space elevator later in game or?

[true mulch]

I recommend reading https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency because it happens to cover your exact case lol

[strange hedge]

ah no i meant space elevator 2nd phase

[strange hedge]

nice 👍 tysm for the help

community of a highly technical factory building game sure does have some resources lol

[fathom shuttle]

If you find yourself short on resources then it means it’s time to expand

[hot nacelle]

Ah, thx

Also odd question but
There are 6 slots on the space elevator, are there more then 6 materials total for it, if that makes sense

Im planning on making automatic machines for it to always put materials into the elevator

[true mulch]

there are no more than 4 different kinds of items per phase

[hot nacelle]

Ah, so can i just get conveyors all from the machines straight into the space elevator and i wont need to swap it around bc there are items i have automated or added yet

[sour ledge]

... i suppose if you had a central storage, you could setup a kind of sushi and just change the programming on the splitters each phase...

[true mulch]

I never actually use the belt inputs past the first phase because factories producing those parts aren't near the elevator

you can just feed it manually

[sour ledge]

but that's an incredibly convoluted mess and frankly unhelpful. just feed it manually once you have the parts lol

[true mulch]

there are 12 unique parts if you're wondering

[sour ledge]

slap a few storages next to it, belt those to the inputs, and dump the parts for your current phase into the storage

if you want an eternal-production-eater you want a sink, not the elevator

[leaden ether]

By far, the most outstanding feature of the refinery, one that almost no other (Or possibly none) share, is that it's electrical attachment point is in line with the snapping grid!!

[hot nacelle]

I think im far far behind 😭there are programmers for splitters…

[true mulch]

programmable splitters are hardly programmable and hardly useful

[hot nacelle]

How does it work

Like to program it

[true mulch]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Programmable_Splitter

all you can do is set multiple part filters per output

the Smart Splitter can do that too, but only 1 filter per output

you seldom need to sort a belt with multiple different parts on one output

the Smart Splitter is used way more

[sour ledge]

yeah, i've seen people get weird with programmable splitters and sushi belts but it honestly felt like they were trying to find a scenario where the programmable splitter was necessary, rather than using it to solve a problem...

[hot nacelle]

Ah, i thought i was going to have to figure out some way to make it do it without a program splitter …

[true mulch]

sushi belts are coool, but smarts still suffice to build those

[winter ruin]

Anyone know how I can balance 4 pipes to move the same ammount of nitrogen per min? I currently have 3 600/min and 1 300/min

[sour ledge]

yeah my modular rail setup makes sushi belts hard to use sometimes, too - since i want imported lines to back up, with the sink at the production end...

[true mulch]

well, you really can't, just connect the pipes without causing throughput limits and it'll balance itself out

[sour ledge]

spitballing but: throwing valves on them all and bottlenecking it to 400 per each would prolly do the job, but im not sure that'd be worthwhile vs what ondar said

as a rule i find that if i end up using valves, i have overcomplicated my pipes...

[true mulch]

valves don't work as you think, they cause flow to be reduced proportionally

they often end up doing more harm than good

[winter ruin]

I almost never use valves unless im trying to have a way to stop fluid/gas flow

[sour ledge]

yeah them doing more harm then good has been my entire valve experience lol

[grizzled lotus]

What ist he Build Efficiency Stat that you unlock in phase 1? It's unlocked along with the merger and splitter

[winter ruin]

I need 2,500 nitrogen/min and having all my pipes to same would make things much easier

[true mulch]

interact with a factory building, there'll be an icon showing percentual uptime

[winter ruin]

You want that number to always be at 100%

[sour ledge]

when you look at a machine it'll show you it's uptime percentage, that's what the game considers "build efficiency"

[true mulch]

really the simplest solution is to build a sort of double-sided haircomb and letting the gas flow where it wants

[hot nacelle]

Chat quick question
Is it worth removing the spaghetti at the main factorys location and putting it into the tower

[winter ruin]

Don't vertical pipe junctions have priorities? if so I might be able to use that in some way to do it

[sour ledge]

typically trying to rebuild a factory is a huge waste of time unless you're super every node already. Just build a new, better one

let the old one do whatever it was doin'

[true mulch]

they do, although I have no idea how they work with gases
how would it help you in this case though?

[winter ruin]

I could have any overflow go into the low priority side of the junction to fill up the other pipes and hope it wont cause issues

Maybe not

Im not really sure but I will figure something out

Im making a 300GW rocket fuel setup so my brain is just fried from all the math and logitsics

[hot nacelle]

Fair, i got lots of time to spare lol, mostly its just became to hard to navigate around now bc of it

[true mulch]

that's huuuuge. keep it up

[sour ledge]

yeah i mean i say that, but ill admit to scrapping old power plants sometimes if they're on premium nodes. If I'm at nuclear power i'd rather have that 2400 coal back, rather'n leave it on its old "480/m" coal generator setup for power that amounts to a rounding error...

so a LITTLE hypocrisy here, as a treat...

[true mulch]

that's actually the one valid reason to tear down a power plant

don't need the resource -> leave it be, power is power
need the resource and it's dated -> tear it down

[covert talon]

any tips for early game AWESOME maxing?

[true mulch]

SAM, quartz (silica), caterium/AI limiters
and overflow anything you're not using, although this could be a strain on your power grid

[winter ruin]

Do valves prevent backflow?

[true mulch]

they do

[winter ruin]

Ok that makes things alot easier

[covert talon]

do i need a special miner for caterium?

[winter ruin]

Any miner will work, higher tiers will increase how much you will get

[covert talon]

https://gyazo.com/9fc74be8959e1f4b295b5f4737a0c374

how do i get rid of the rock on top of the node?

[open pollen]

Nobelisk

[winter ruin]

Use a nobelisk which can be researched in the sulfer tree of the mam

[covert talon]

is that explosives

[winter ruin]

Yes

[covert talon]

thanks

not there yet just tryinjg to farm awesome tiockets

[open pollen]

Doing the MAM research is always super worthwhile tbh

[winter ruin]

I wouldn't directly try to farm awsome tickets, just route any overflow from your factorys and you will collect them naturally

unless your trying to get hard drives maybe

[covert talon]

i just started phase 2 should i be mining sulfur and coal already?

[open pollen]

Coal will be useful for steel and power which is in Phase 2 I believe. Sulfur is for MAM at this point in the game. Finding Quartz, Mercer Spheres, SAM, and Somersloops are important for unlocking certain research trees as well

[winter ruin]

You need sulfur and steel to make the mentioned nobelisks btw

[open pollen]

But really you’re still early on so don’t sweat things too much and there is no need to rush stuff unless wanted

But MAM research is like just as important as phases/tiers honestly when it comes to progression and cool stuff

[covert talon]

right now my main goal is to set up water power is that smart?

[open pollen]

Water power? Do you mean coal power?

[covert talon]

yeah coal power

like set up a coal thing in the water somewhere

and since i have coal power im going to start making bigger factories

[open pollen]

Coal power is great. It will stop your need to deal with biomass for power at this stage and allow you to automate much more

[covert talon]

it can be done in any water source right?

[open pollen]

Yep. As long as the pump/extractor thing (I can’t remember the name sorry) can be placed

Water extractor that’s the thing (I had to look it up lol)

[covert talon]

is 4 of them a good start

with 8 coal generators

[open pollen]

Typically 3 per 8 coal gens works. You just have to distribute the water extractors along the pipeline

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Coal_Generator_Schematic.png

Like in the image I just sent are examples. Basically since over 300m of water can’t go through a pipe you have to separate where the water enters in from through the pipe

[covert talon]

cool thanks

i think im going to do it here

https://gyazo.com/bfc8c8b93cfe9ecc08f273092d1e435d

[fossil ice]

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<3 @boreal musk

[open pollen]

I did mine there as well honestly. It’s a good and popular coal power plant spot I think

[boreal musk]

oh wait wrong command

[boreal musk]

!wikisearch cg

[fossil ice]

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

[honest void]

Hey, I have 3 conveyor belts MK2 giving 120 steel ingots each, that I have to separate between 11 constructors (9X 100%, 1X84.6151%, 1X30.769%)
How can I do that? I'm kinda lost

[boreal musk]

manifold

[open pollen]

Manifold

[hushed pendant]

try a manifold

[open pollen]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Manifold

[late heart]

Figured it out

[honest void]

Thanks!!

[open pollen]

I’ve never done a balancer set up at all since I started playing and been fine. Manifolds are my dearest friends

[honest void]

The problem with a manifold is that I don't have better conveyor belt than MK2, I don't think I'm able to make one

[atomic notch]

You can manifold anything

[open pollen]

You can you just have the filled belts provide the machines they can fill, and then the excess of the lines goes to the last machines. Geeze I am explaining this horribly

[wicked moss]

Any of you know if there's a way I can clip blueprint designers?

Like to make one big modular designer?

[atomic notch]

No

Its already too big imo

[wicked moss]

Damn. No like glitches or anything I can use?

I wanna use it to make mega factories

[atomic notch]

Ok

[hard sluice]

Is there a dedicated channel to ask question about satisfactory calculator ?

[atomic notch]

Most peeps go to math and meta

[open pollen]

Also, why are their 2 machines underclocked in this idea? How much steel is needed per constructor?

[hard sluice]

ok thx

[honest void]

I'm using a factory planner, I got the infos from it

[atomic notch]

Lol

Great planner you got there

[honest void]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[flint spade]

how do i tame the lizard dog

[honest void]

Anyway I found an alternative

[open pollen]

Are you making like 2 separate recipes or something?

[honest void]

Walk up to it slowly, drop a paleberry, pet

[flint spade]

ty

[honest void]

I was yes

But I had a better idea

[open pollen]

Ahhh that makes sense

[open pollen]

What is it? Also, if you tell me how many machines are making what recipes I could explain the manifold with the three full belts better if you still want to try that method

[atomic notch]

Injection manifold

[honest void]

It's very kind of you but don't worry, I dropped the alternate recipe which made the whole factory a lot easier to make. Thanks

[atomic notch]

Uhh idk

[sacred zealot]

Do enemies heal in this game? Or is all damage permanent?

[atomic notch]

Good question

They dont heal during combat but when they despawn and respawn it resets it

[sacred zealot]

Crap

I've got this giant spider guy camping my body and I can't kill him so I just lost half an inventory of stuff and can't continue my quartz supply line

[atomic notch]

Death loops suck. Good luck man

[sacred zealot]

Do they have set areas? Like can I draw him away from my body, die, and he stays away?

[atomic notch]

I think they respawn back at the starting location

[sacred zealot]

That sucks. Time to see if I can get my loot and run far enough that he spawns away from my new body

[vale cliff]

💀

Try using the gun

With scatter rebar

Its good

[atomic notch]

Oh yeah whats ur weaponry currently

[sacred zealot]

I was making the supply line for quartz to make shatter rebar 🤣

I made it back to my body and the dude had dipped. I guess he just wanted to up his KD and go before I could get wise

[sacred zealot]

normal rebar gun

[vale cliff]

💀

[vale cliff]

Dam whats ur favourite

[sacred zealot]

Is it like a shotgun or HollowPoints?

[atomic notch]

Shotgun

[vale cliff]

Yes shotty

[sacred zealot]

peak

[atomic notch]

Stun is funny

[vale cliff]

The funny cluster nob is busted tho

If you get it under the modle it instakills 90% of shit

Everything except big fly nests and huge hogs

[sacred zealot]

I'm gonna have to make a box of guns and recruit a bunch of people to come on for a spider hunt for payback. Kill it's entire family

[atomic notch]

U can sneak up to nests

[vale cliff]

Ye kaboom

[atomic notch]

Im down

We goin huntin bois

[sacred zealot]

When do I get M67 frag grenade

[vale cliff]

Sulfur

Skill tree

Right after smokless powder

[sacred zealot]

oooo

[atomic notch]

Explosive rebar is good too

[sacred zealot]

Sulfur is in spider zone too

[vale cliff]

Less damage than frag tho XD

[atomic notch]

Yeah

[vale cliff]

i have both automated

I never make nukes

They anoying

[atomic notch]

I dont have any automated i got my shit on passive

[vale cliff]

I am just better and i solo them

I cast bash

Also there is a cave with 7 spiders in a small area

They just kept coming

I threw 8 cluster nobs

[atomic notch]

I kinda just been leavin animals alone this save

[vale cliff]

Also cluster nob stack thrown on ground plus explosive rebar is such a fun combo

[sacred zealot]

I need to get the upgrade for extra hand slots so I can just scroll through guns instead of reloading, just a one man firing line

[vale cliff]

Damn

[atomic notch]

Except if theyre in the way

Then i gently move them with like a nuke or smth

[vale cliff]

Have yall tried jetpack plus cluster nob (bomber plane)

[sacred zealot]

real. I need to get me a train and do a loop and just have a mobile gun platform. When do I unlock WW2 armored trains?

[vale cliff]

Thats only factorio

[versed mirage]

does anyone have tips for making the conveyors after a miner even i just cant get it right

[atomic notch]

Honestly now that i think about ive barely touched the sulfur tree. Im like halfway through p4 only got nobelisks

[vale cliff]

Put it close and hide it

[vale cliff]

Bro i rushed all the tech trees

Im only on stage 3

[atomic notch]

I rushed alien tech

[timber shoal]

what does the Alien Power Augmenter do?

[versed mirage]

like a conveyor pole?

[vale cliff]

Ye

[vale cliff]

10% power boost

[atomic notch]

500mw plus 10% gen boost

[vale cliff]

Plus 500 mw

[jaunty jewel]

costs 10 somersloops to place though

[vale cliff]

So 550

[timber shoal]

I'm wasting(?) 10 for that?

[vale cliff]

It’s worth it

[jaunty jewel]

still very important to note

[atomic notch]

My boost covers consumption rn

[vale cliff]

Bro im making 16000 power so i get 1600 free

Its better than the multiplier

[timber shoal]

thats 900 less than a nuclear reactor

[atomic notch]

Its subjective

[vale cliff]

Im not finished placing down 45 fuel gens

And you can boost it to 30%

by using the boost thingy

I will have a 300% bonus by the end of this

[versed mirage]

do i need to swap power shards every now and then for overclocking or do i never have to

[vale cliff]

Nope

Just get more snails

[versed mirage]

is there a percentage on how much extra power it uses

[vale cliff]

Yes

[atomic notch]

Its not linear

[vale cliff]

I know

There are over 100 somesloops in the game

So 10 10% bonuses

100%

[jaunty jewel]

yeah have fun with that

[atomic notch]

Wow 100/10 is 10???

Crazy math dude

[vale cliff]

Im going insane 😁

[atomic notch]

Im gonna go insane if i get pinged one more time

[vale cliff]

I just switched from factorio back to satisfactory

[late heart]

Like this?

[jaunty jewel]

ping

[covert talon]

why do u care

[vale cliff]

Mah bran

[atomic notch]

U dont need to

[vale cliff]

Like this?

[late heart]

I didn't need to, but I wanted to

[atomic notch]

U can turn pinging off

[jaunty jewel]

50 alien power matrix pm uses 900 time crystals pm

or if using default diamonds recipe, 36000 coal/min

and it uses a LOT of power too

and 60% of the worlds sam (at least)

is it really worth

i mean if you wanna do it for fun go ahead, just a very large project imo

[jaunty jewel]

especially when you can be using those resources for other projects (and may need to)

[vale cliff]

Bro im making 1200 plastic because i wanted to use only one recipe and couldn’t accept making only 18.25 computers per minute

[jaunty jewel]

1200 plastic is not considered a lot

[vale cliff]

I only need 640

Im going to sink the rest

[vale cliff]

I know

I could be making 2400

[jaunty jewel]

good for you i suppose

[feral jay]

Got my motors and stators automated

[vale cliff]

Real nice

[feral jay]

So simple now, still just starting phase 3

[leaden ether]

I made enough power matrix in my last save for 2 power augmenters. Needed 600 diamonds/min. I used the pink Diamond recipe which drastically lowers the coal usage, though it did require like 2400.min quartz crystals.

[vale cliff]

I baseicly skipped phase 1 and 2 so i got to do that

[vale cliff]

💀💀💀

[spiral dew]

i beat the game!

now what?

[jaunty jewel]

consume.

[leaden ether]

You basically finished the tutorial, now you can really play the game!

[spiral dew]

its kind of amazing how little you can build and still beat it

never really scaled anything past 1 mk5 belt

[jaunty jewel]

screws? quickwire perhaps?

[spiral dew]

for sure, I kinda meant more from the main bus/spine. compacted coal, copper powder for sure

aluminium is a good one to overproduce

[jaunty jewel]

forgot about copper powder

[atomic notch]

[spiral dew]

off to dyson sphere program i think. but had a blast with 1.1

the trick is to rotate between factorio, satisfactory and dsp

[late heart]

Still trying to get to one hard drive before I get to the next level so I can get those stitched iron plates

[sacred zealot]

I've spent an hour making a supply line for shatter rebar and I forgot to do the most important part. Reasearch the shatter rebar. 🤦‍♂️

[late heart]

Oof

[feral jay]

I've designed entire factories based on alt recipes I hadn't unlocked

I'll admit to cheating that in once or twice

[sacred zealot]

As soon as my assembler was about to pop out my first piece of shatter rebar, my power grid died. This game is actually just putting me through the blender

[feral jay]

Charge up some power storages and keep them nearby for such an occasion

Disconnect them from the grid once they're full and they're handy when you fuck up like that

[sacred zealot]

I don't think I have those unlocked

[feral jay]

oh

They are most useful

I use bioburners for that too, gives me a reason to stockpile stupid amounts of biofuel

[sacred zealot]

First order of business is switching to coal power for sure, gathering biomass is moderately annoying, although the chainsaw is fun

Then I have to figure out water though, maybe biomass is my end goal

[feral jay]

Read through the pipeline manual, it's a few years old now but still largely accurate https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Pipelines#See_also

er, Plumbing Manual

[dense violet]

!wikisearch CG

[fossil ice]

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

[dense violet]

this is the beginner friendly coal layout - don't need the pipe manual for it and honestly most of the pipe manual covers things you don't need at all. Just interesting mechanisms that are possible but not always guaranteed

[feral jay]

Agreed, the manual gets pretty... advanced for people just starting

[bright magnet]

i have been trying to make water extractors snap to foundation and im almost having an aneurism ... should i put under foundantions or have to precisely place them

[dense violet]

not even advanced , just ... things that don't always work in a situation that can be done more reliably in different ways. It's good documentation of pipes though

[dense violet]

have you held CTRL while building the extractor on the foundation that is under water?

[bright magnet]

i tried without foundations but cant place because always says 'resource not deep enough'

[versed mirage]

are you able to build the space elevator on foundations or does it have to be grounded

[leaden ether]

Then the water is too shallow to use an extracter there...

[feral jay]

I assume you can build it on the ground, but it's really tough to find ground flat enough

[atomic notch]

😶

[bright magnet]

i can put them but it doesnt snap

[leaden ether]

No they never snap. If I want them nice and neat I make like a boat dock for them with individual "slip"s for each one, then hand place them, it's easy to align them all that way

[feral jay]

Nice, tamed my second doggo, and my first just brought me a few turbomotors

That'll help with some unlocks

[versed mirage]

what should i prioritize researching

[feral jay]

Research all the things

Depends on what point you're at

[versed mirage]

im like tier 4 i think and i havent been doing much i got overclocking and ditched it

[undone yarrow]

In the MAM? Everything you can.

[versed mirage]

i have steel concrete all the basic materials and coal automated

[versed mirage]

i know but what should i get first

[sacred zealot]

How versatile are the truck stations? Can I build production in one area then use auto trucks to move the stuff into a storage building?

[leaden ether]

Do a little of everything, unlock them as you go. That said I pushed hard on the dimensional depot tree :D

[feral jay]

At that point I generally automate quickwire, then motors&stators

[versed mirage]

quickwire?

[feral jay]

You'll find it under the caterium research tree in the MAM

[undone yarrow]

I'd probably say Caterium first for Smart Splitters.

Sulfur's big on is nobelisks to access all resource nodes

[feral jay]

But, you'll need to hand mine some caterium first

[leaden ether]

Sure. THey just move things frm one location to another, what happens at either end is entirely up to you

[undone yarrow]

and all the hard drives you can get your hands on

[bright magnet]

other players: taming lizard doggos for resources
me: full on psycopath holding obelisks near lizzard doggos and staring at them for a few seconds

[undone yarrow]

Oh right, steel also means you can get the Dimensional Depot up and running

(SAM tree)

[versed mirage]

oh yeah do you guys have any tips for like not overflowing on resources should i just build more containers attached to it because its annoying going back and forth to prevent it from overflowing

[undone yarrow]

Smart Splitter in caterium tree+awesome sink

[versed mirage]

what am i able to get from the awesome sink that helps

i have like 10 vouchers stored up

[undone yarrow]

Ladder is the most exploration useful

I prefer concrete foundations beacuse one resource and not having that little trim around the edge as occasional buildings get placed on it and now converyer lifts dont line up

Ramps are nice if you choose to use vehicles instead of making your PC process belts everywhere

the various alternative connections for conveyers, pipes and wires can also be useful for organization purposes

finally you can just buy resources if you dont care about cosmetics or getting the achievements tied to certain awesome shop items

[feral jay]

LOL new ADA voice line when you kill your first bean

[versed mirage]

is there anyway to like completely automate organization as in youll never run out of space

[undone yarrow]

...?

[versed mirage]

or do you have to run around alot lategame making sure you dont run out of space

[feral jay]

You will never run out of space

[versed mirage]

alright

[undone yarrow]

You just throw excess into the awesome sink while having a container connected to a dimensional depot

[versed mirage]

thats a p good idea

[undone yarrow]

the logistical point of the awesome sink is so you can have factories always running.

A convivence for most factories unless you really dont like seeing numbers other than 100% uptime.

A requirement for Crude Oil products in tier 5 and onwards as factories with multiple outputs will shut down if either output backs up

[versed mirage]

how does dimensional depot work

[undone yarrow]

Item goes in, it gets stuffed in a second inventory who can hold between 1 to 5 stacks at a time. Items get added at a rate between 30..? and 240 items per minute based on much you've researched the MAM

you automatically pull from the depot when constructing (a toggle for if it goes depot first or inventory first)

or crafting

1 and 5 stacks of every single item in the game*

Quartz tree: Get the blade runners ASAP they are so nice

[late heart]

Has anybody found a beautiful way to do continuous injector manifolds within a factory?

And dejectors as well

Something tileable as well

[dense violet]

is it deep enough w/o the foundation?
show an image of how deep you've put the foundation

[dense violet]

basically any way you build regular manifolds, as injector manifolds are just manifolds that are linked up for no real reason

[late heart]

Yeah the issue is fitting the injection in with the factory while keeping it expandable

Also I wouldn't say for no reason. I'm currently running an iron infection manifold due to belt speed limits

The issue is it's got a limit before I'd have to tear down part of the factory to make more room

I'm also running a screw dejector manifold currently due to belt speeds

[dense violet]

injection manifolds don't increase belt speeds in any way that having a second manifold next to the first wouldn't do

in fact you generally are building a lot more belt along side the initial manifold creating more logistics

[dense violet]

build screws right before they get consumed

no begging on server, sorry

[late heart]

Correct, except that they take less space than building a second manifold

[feral jay]

Don't amalgamate screws onto a single belt for later redistribution, build them right in front of the machines that need them

That makes a big difference with screws

[dense violet]

no? you have to run extra belt along the first manifold to get to the second manifold and then you have all the machine space added to that. Whereast if you start teh 2nd manifold right next to the first, you are skipping out that much more belt

[late heart]

Instead I'm injecting right into the manifold

[dense violet]

clock the first manifold to need exactly what's on the first belt. Have second manifold next to it. Saves space.
assuming same origin

[late heart]

I really ought to take a picture of my factory tomorrow

[late heart]

Except that the second manifold itself takes space