satisfactory

[minor rock]

already done , others ?

i think looting deconstruction crates from far away is worthwhile

worldedit 😩

[halcyon raft]

they need add wals who can keep radioctivitie

[reef basin]

that's not how radiation in this game works

[sweet light]

Lead walls

[fathom shuttle]

10 months until gta 5

[cursive crane]

why not mounts to gobble up the radiation 🙂

[smoky forge]

why not hazmat suit

[cursive crane]

now we cooking

get these ideas to mikael before he goes on vacation, quick!

[smoky forge]

[swift kernel]

What if instead of taking radioactive damage, we just transformed into She-Hulk instead?

[smoky forge]

i would go exploring the map without any equipment such as gas masks and hazmat suit

i would then place myselfe next to a dozen mobs next to gas pillars and uranuim ores

[half scaffold]

Would be nice to be able to easily move something. I'm constantly misplacing my stuff, like one or two off, but I don't realize it until I see if an elevator works or something, so nudge doesn't help me then. I have to tear it all down and redo it. It would be AWESOME if you could go into Build mode, highlight an existing structure and THEN nudge it.

I have a small aluminum factory going, and it's almost self contained (no need for a water extractor). I'm generating too much water, about 80/min too much. What can I do to burn that off? I have decent access to Coal, Sulphur, Copper Ingots, Iron Ingots, and of course Bauxite, Scraps and Aluminum Ingots

[reef basin]

recycle it back into the system?

[half scaffold]

I am already doing that. Making the aluminum fluid takes 200, but making the scraps generates 240. I pump the 240 back into the system, but ai end up with a surplus

[frozen cloud]

coal gen

[half scaffold]

Right now in putting into a big storage tank to buy time.

[reef basin]

are you using sloops for that?

[half scaffold]

@frozen cloud Nice, I hadn't even considered power!

[half scaffold]

Yes, slopping the scraps. I think Im using alt recipes for the fluid and scraps both

No silica

[reef basin]

then just remove sloops from machine(s) so that it equalises

[fathom shuttle]

The sloops double the waste water too

[dense violet]

Yeah slooping scrap is one of the sillier things I see when people then complain about it

[green fiber]

dump it into coal generators.
(whoops, ZyRaNex already said that.)

[hard ivy]

I still don't get why anyone would do that

Just sloop the FMFs or whatever else you're making

[green fiber]

its funny to have excess water

[sly bloom]

Do yall ever use pulse nobelisks for mobility?

[plain lynx]

as a tf2 player whos mained demo for years, yes

its in my nature

[delicate isle]

Hey, i just found out this game and notices similarities with Factorio. Question is, is the logic the same with pollution and creatures attacking your base ? I love that adrenaline to protect factory and defend it

[fathom shuttle]

Will turn paradise island into my nuclear power station

[fathom shuttle]

No tower defense in this game

[leaden turret]

the only thing you have to worry about is the ai of the getting stuck somewhere you have no idea how it could've gotten there.

[half scaffold]

Trust me, there is the addrenaline rush when you stumble across a lair of creature and they start running you down

[subtle path]

Guys Is there a way to distrubute a spesific amount of items from a storage? like 1 conveyor transfers 60, is there a way to seperate it to like 12 one side, 20 other side and 25 other side?

[fathom shuttle]

It’s easier to group the machines to meet your demands

So group the machines for 25 belt, 12 belt, and 20 belt

Unless you really want to load balance it

Or you can just manifold it

[subtle path]

I need to balance it as I am making 2 resources, 60 iron rods per min and 60 iron plates per min, using those 2 I plan to make 3 reinforced plates, 2 rotor and 2 modular frame

and each one of those require a spesific amount needed otherwise 1 factory will be empty while other's full and may break the balance

is there like something to send a spesific % of items like a valve?

or a smart conveyor to edit how many of what item passes

[reef basin]

the game is VERY different from Factorio in terms of gameplay

[reef basin]

manifold will resolve that

[reef basin]

no (and you shouldn't use valves either)

[subtle path]

wheres that? I am on t3

[reef basin]

manifold is just line of splitters

--S--S--S--S--S
  |  |  |  |  |

[subtle path]

oh

[subtle path]

how much a splitter transfers? in % wise

33% each hole?

[reef basin]

it does round robin, skipping full/unconnected entrances

[subtle path]

if all 3 were being used lets say

hmm

[reef basin]

manifold can handle any number of machines, any clock speeds, whatever. As long as the belt can fit enough items to feed all the machines, they will work at 100% eventually

[subtle path]

is there a calculator for it? I am using satisfactory calculateor and it says how many of items I need to do what but i have no idea how would I put it to use using splitters

[iron patio]

ive seen tips saying you should try to max out a conveyor for a factory output which i dont really get, how am i supposed to max a mark4 with computers 😭

[reef basin]

you don't really need any calculator. Just build the amount of machines you need, and run a line of splitters in front of them

(and as a sidenote, satisfactory calculator has pretty rubbish calculator, the map is great though)

[subtle path]

satisfactory calculator is bad? any better one?

[reef basin]

early game it's fine-ish, but later there are setups it straight up can't show, and does some suboptimal choices

while being a bit biased, I'd recommend https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/ (which I made, hence the bias)

there's also Satisfactory Modeller on Steam, which is more like a logistical planner than a calculator. There are also others, but these are the most used

[subtle path]

also I still have no idea lmao I gotta feed 36.5 iron rods to a constructor for screws and then 10 iron rods for assembler and 12 iron rods for modular frame

lmao

[subtle path]

hmmm

[reef basin]

you can change clock speed on machines to change how much they use/make, so in your case you can clock machines to make 36.5 rods exactly
(underclocking is unlocked via MAM, which is most useful building in the game, and underclocking itself is most useful logistical tool in the game 😉 )

[subtle path]

oh damn thats smart

if I do that connecting won't be that worked on right? I can just get like 2-3 splitters and just connect them randomly enough to get items and it'd work right?

or I still gotta do the mainfold thing

[reef basin]

you can connect things practically in any way you want

[subtle path]

also this website is really great but its 1.0 can it work on 1.1 or it needs to be updated

[reef basin]

manifold is simple, but you can do whatever

[subtle path]

OH LMAO

[reef basin]

there's no recipe change betwee 1.0 and 1.1

[subtle path]

I mean I prob won't need it if I underclock the machines right?

[subtle path]

great, thanks

[reef basin]

personally I'd just build manifold and leave it be, it would work just fine

[subtle path]

i see got it

thanks

[frozen ingot]

The Manifold Principle

[viral gorge]

Why did the sound of Xeno-Basher's impact change from an electrical discharge to a sort of snotty sound?

[wide willow]

being one of the two people that's reasonable organized in a game of 4 people got me tweaking

[viral gorge]

I'll go make a mod to bring back the old sound

[subtle path]

Bro

I was happy with me 300 mw coal power but no, 1 big factory later and its at 250mw used, got 50 remaining bruh. tch

gotta go and build a 2nd one somewhere else or new power

[plucky plank]

for the drop pods i need power for is there a way to remotely do it or do i need to connect it from a direct power source

[stuck dagger]

Direct power source, but you can set up a bunch of biofuel reactors and hook those up

[plucky plank]

dont i need power to getting the biofuel gens running in the first place

[stuck dagger]

No

Just stick the leaves/wood in them

[viral gorge]

just build biogenerators next to the capsules

[stuck dagger]

There's a drop pod that needs 300 MW and I built 10 biofuel gens for that, it's no biggie

[plucky plank]

im confused i just put in biofuel to the generator and it doesnt work

wait

[stuck dagger]

It doesn't burn if there's nothing to power

[plucky plank]

ohhhh

so i gotta connect it to the pod then chuck in the fue

[stuck dagger]

kinda?

You should feed and connect all the biofuel gens before linking it to the drop pod

[plucky plank]

yeah

thanks for the help

[open pollen]

This is why I can’t play games like satisfactory with many (or sometimes any) people. The unorganization would drive me insane

[fathom shuttle]

Is there a guide to set up tons of water extractors?

[timid rune]

Radio Connection Unit isn't that much better huh

[calm turret]

spam

[timid rune]

overclock to 250% and spam basically

[calm turret]

due to it being only placable on the 2d plane of water, you cant really stack them

(sadge)

[viral gorge]

I would show you what a real coal power plant looks like, but this channel doesn't allow screenshots

[timid rune]

I am at 250GW usage atm \o/

[viral gorge]

I use 780 and make 2400 even though I haven't even studied steel

[timid rune]

I am having slight issues with water usage on my nuclear plants (probably because of the immense amount of lag) but eh

[hard ivy]

I think you missed the 3 orders of magnitude hidden in the G

[viral gorge]

what?

[hard ivy]

1000 MW = 1 GW

[timid rune]

A fully overclocked manufacturer uses 184.7MW so yeah 😛

[calm turret]

bruh

i just made some power, only to use it up immediatly

the pain

[timid rune]

a slooped manufacturer at 250% is even better

[viral gorge]

real

[hard ivy]

even better with an encoder

[timid rune]

oh yeah slooped encoder is no joke lol

7GW ish?

[subtle path]

:> I can also build a big but I'll need to get water like 500-700m away and get another coal deposit 800m away then I may be able to make about 20-30 but I doubt its even worth it, I'Ll just get to t4 maybe theres a new power idk

[timid rune]

At this point I am only trying for 100M awesome points / min

[hard ivy]

8 GW peak, 4 GW avg. and 27 GW peak if 250% OC too

[timid rune]

ouch!

[viral gorge]

I have 4 coal mines and a lake with water within a radius of 100-200 meters

[timid rune]

idk if I can make 40 warp drives /min though

[subtle path]

god dang that's lucky

I had a pond lmao and the new one I found is a bigger pond

not a lake yet

[timid rune]

time to toss up whether to go for radio connection unit vs vanilla recipe

[hard ivy]

I always do default

one of the alts was trash iirc, but I don't remember which

[timid rune]

the difference in aluminum consumption seems... rather neligible

radio control unit is really meh as well

[hard ivy]

yeah, pretty sure it was connection that was terrible. lowest bauxite consumption, sure, but extremely expensive otherwise

and requires twice as many machines as the other 2

[naive pendant]

I’m remembering RCUs being similar on Al usage. Was more what intermediate items you wanted to use and some swapping of like oil, quartz, etc. Felt very personal preference.

Phase 4 post Al smelting feels very unconstrained. Ton of different ways to do it.

[timid rune]

yeah once you get there you have a lot of freedom other than being constrainted by Bauxite and SAM

and to a certain degree copper if you are min-maxing a bit

[naive pendant]

Mhm. I built at a more modest item/minute scale so never ran into map wide item limits.

[timid rune]

I am trying for 100M awesome points/min so just stuffing around

[naive pendant]

RCUs I did crystal oscillator factory + RCU in one area using default RCU with the quartz computer (no oil) alts. Worked pretty well. Just shipped in quartz, Al ingots.

[timid rune]

I have a plant doing 115 computers/min so I can kinda get away with stuff

[plucky plank]

yo guuys is 360 aluminum casing per minute acceptable for my first aluminum factory

also 60 alclad sheets a minute for conveyer building

[timid rune]

that's pretty good

[naive pendant]

Automated infinite power + infinite time produces infinite work. So any item/s rate is good.

[timid rune]

yeah

[hard ivy]

I'd probably want more for belts

[plucky plank]

i play this game alot so the passive income of the sheets is enough for me

also it goes into dimensional depot

[naive pendant]

Yea, can always add more ICUs and afk a bit for mall items.

[plucky plank]

icu?

[fathom shuttle]

Get 120

With all mk5 belts blueprints tend to use 300 or so sheets each

[hasty cradle]

Is there a recipe to make petroleum coke straight from crude/make heavy oil residu straight from crude?

[dusty horizon]

petroleum coke is only made in one recipe

heavy oil residue can be made straight from crude oil, with polymer resin as a byproduct

[hasty cradle]

But it there a more efficient recipe?

Like making only residue from crude without a byproduct?

[dusty horizon]

no

[sharp sentinel]

Despite my massive increase in drone use, I still turned Rocky Desert into a nest of conveyors. It makes me happy.

[wispy crystal]

are there no clean pipelines for mark 2 pipes?

[sharp sentinel]

In the FiSCIT shop.

[wispy crystal]

ah

[fathom shuttle]

The most efficient one is to turn crude into HOR then into coke

It’s pretty good, 300 oil to 1200 coke

[plucky plank]

time to pull out the sommersloops

[hard ivy]

why would you sloop something so cheap?

[leaden ruin]

I’m struggling with nitrogen gas flow. I’ve got 12 blenders taking 150 each and a 9-train platform delivering the 1800/min. so the ratio works perfectly for 3 cars per 4 blenders, but the flow rate I guess being at the 600/m cap causes backflow problems, or gas filling vertically? Should I split it to 12 cars or split the lines down to 1.5 cars per 2 blenders? I tried looping the pipes and adding/removing buffers, pumps, etc. or put the train platform at a lower elevation so it empties?

[peak umbra]

should i build my big factory at ground level or higher up in the air?

[fathom shuttle]

Higher than the tallest hill

[peak umbra]

ok. will height limit be an issue?

[fathom shuttle]

Are the freight stations and buffers full?

[fathom shuttle]

No

[leaden ruin]

Yes. I let them fill up before turning things on. Should I reset and flush it, then let it refill and try again? It felt like the buffers made it worse

[fathom shuttle]

You should post in questions and help, post pics of your nitrogen fields, blenders, stations etc

[haughty flax]

I just unlocked oil tier. Is it common strat for people to make malls, finished automation line for each product and i can just grab it?

[leaden ruin]

ack, will do.

[fathom shuttle]

Use the dimensional depot

You can still do a mall if you want, but its largely pointless now

[haughty flax]

What is that?

[hard ivy]

check out the MAM

[raw dragon]

You have to research to unlock those in the MAM but once you do they are game changers

[subtle nexus]

Satisfactory console edition

[fathom shuttle]

It’s in the alien technology tree

[spiral stratus]

Not yet available I believe

[subtle nexus]

I know it

[placid stirrup]

I do wish a central storage space was more useful for other things because they just look and feel so cool

[subtle nexus]

But I feel it in my heart of hearts

[peak umbra]

Hey bookie can you check #1038092680493801533? I couldnt post here

[rancid hearth]

I somehow managed to mute ADA, anyone know how to re-enable the voice-over ?

[covert talon]

https://gyazo.com/4e3fdee2f45b774ef34166a72f291c1e
can i get more inventory slots than this?

[hard ivy]

yes

up to 78 iirc

[covert talon]

just in mam?

[hard ivy]

mam and some milestones too I think

and hard drives

[unkempt blade]

Ok I have a new ranking list for everyone to review. Today we're doing types of conveyors. From order of most to least best...

• mk5
• mk6
• mk1
• mk3
• mk2
• mk4

[hollow shuttle]

anyone wanna call and play

[hard ivy]

1. mk6
2. mk5
3. mk4
4. mk3
5. mk2
6. mk1

[willow glen]

Mk 3 above mk1 for me because I always over make steel, otherwise total agree

[open pollen]

#1201555265942724758

[open pollen]

Yeah I agree with Lumi, mark 1 needs to be lower

[unkempt blade]

I'm glad you two understand the spirit of conveyor bestness. I may disagree with you but we're all great people with great opinions

[open pollen]

Why do you think mk 1 is third best btw? I’m curious

[unkempt blade]

I need the rain to start outside so I can go take a factory break but the weather channel is lying to me

[shy mulch]

Why does the weather dictate what you do

[unkempt blade]

I use it a lot between my manifold and the structures it's connected to so it gets spot 3 instead of 4

[wise junco]

HOWDY YALL

[unkempt blade]

mk2 and mk4 are clearly worst because the recipes are most obnoxious when you want tons of those conveyors when you unlock them

[unkempt blade]

my dog likes the rain - summer is nasty here for him

[hard ivy]

nah, I always use the fastest belt available

they're all cheap

[wise junco]

I use the belts that are justified by the outputs/throughputs

[willow dawn]

Hi all, are there command codes for getting more mercer speres? I don't feel like (and honestly don't have the time) to run around looking for them and I need a lot more of them

[open pollen]

True, but like mk.4 sucks resource wise to mass make imo. I still use them, I just don’t rank them higher than 3

[unkempt blade]

yeah sometimes you want a mk4 segment to get more resources out of a miner or something but it's not one I'd use for the full manifold just because it's highest tier at that point in the game

[hard ivy]

use AGS or a save editor

[unkempt blade]

aluminum on the other hand... once that's running I can basically do as many mk5s as I can imagine

[open pollen]

Honestly once I got tier 5 I’ve been using it for almost everything 😆

[willow dawn]

Hmmm I've never done that before

Is there no other way?

[frail sleet]

those ways are both pretty trivial

[white dawn]

The two ways given, one of which is available via the actual game menus, aren't enough?

[willow dawn]

AGS apparently affects things like achievements and the other one seems a bit scary considering I have never messed with a savefile before

[white dawn]

Correct, enabling AGS on a save will disable achievements for the save (not, like, retroactively, but from that point forward). There's no other ill effects

Save editing via SCIM (https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map) is quite safe; it's extremely frequently used, and I've never heard of it bricking a save. Obviously it's a good idea to make backups regardless, of course. :)

[lost wagon]

Look at all these people using different belts in a factory instead of the fastest available everywhere

[white dawn]

In defense of sphere acquisition, though: there's a lot of great reasons to go exploring anyway. Spheres, Sloops, Alien DNA, and Hard Drives (alt recipes). All of that can be acquired via AGS or SCIM too, of course, but it's a very enjoyable secondary game loop, IMO.

[lost wagon]

Ain't nobody have time for that

[willow dawn]

Considering this is my first playthrough since achievements were in the game I would still like to get them even if I am not willing to invest hours in searching for 25 minimum more mercer speres

[white dawn]

I agree that collecting enough spheres to fully build out a good Depot system does take a fair bit of effort, but the knock-on effects of exploration are pretty big

[willow dawn]

Thanks I will look into that then, those this affect achievements too?

[white dawn]

Plust that way you'll have more opportunities to see cool sites to build more factories, etc. :)

[white dawn]

SCIM does not affect achievements, no

[willow dawn]

I don't mind a bit of it but to get to where I want my first factory to be it would require way too much time which I just don't have

[willow dawn]

Ok, thank you 🙂

[shy mulch]

25 mercer spheres really won't take long to find

[lost wagon]

Or just use the mod that let you craft balls, if you want a less but still cheating way

[willow dawn]

Lol that depends on what you consider not long

[open pollen]

To be fair the conversation started by talking about ranking the different conveyor belts

Also I honestly always run out of encased beams around the time I unlock them so I mix and match with mk 3 for a while

[willow dawn]

I just spend an hour and found 3

[shy mulch]

Couple of hours maybe, if you don't know where they are

[willow dawn]

Perhaps later in the game when I am faster

[white dawn]

I'd argue that Satisfactory in general is not a great choice of game for someone's who's very time-constrained, but there's nothing wrong with skipping bits of the game you don't care about, of course. :)

[open pollen]

Did you use your scanner? Also tbh it is easier to grab them once you get a jet pack

[willow dawn]

I did, and no jetpack yet

[shy mulch]

Whatever the fastest belt you have available, automate the materials needed to build them faster than you can use them up, and feed them into depot. Then never need to think about it

[willow dawn]

Just got the gasmask which was preventing me from getting some others and there seems to be one nearby for which I think I need to blow something up but I didn't get there yet either

[shy mulch]

Use nobelisks for blowing things up

[white dawn]

Find some sulfur and start researching it in the MAM. :) 💥

[willow dawn]

Honestly the running back and forth in this game is my least favourite part so I am trying to limit that with the use of the dimensional storage things

[open pollen]

That’s what I do eventually. I just have a gripe with mk 4 in particular cause when I unlock them I don’t have that set up yet

[lost wagon]

Blade runner cuts the running in half

[open pollen]

Have you done any quartz research yet? Bladerunner helps a bunch as well as bunny hopping or slide jumping

[lost wagon]

If you want to be a rabbit you can traverse faster than a stupid car lmao

[willow dawn]

Just got those 🙂

[white dawn]

Even without the Depot, there's always been solutions to not having to run back+forth, btw. Can set up building-material logistics ahead of time, prior to building the remote sites, to get stuff delivered to your building site (via vehicles, trains, what-have-you. I realize you may not have unlocked trains yet).

[willow dawn]

My hand is hurting from the bunny hops

[lost wagon]

Ada watching me bunny hopping at the speed of a train

[white dawn]

Depots are definitely the go-to solution nowadays, but even then, as you've noticed, it does take a nontrivial amount of time+effort to upgrade + build out your Depots to fully usability

[gloomy heart]

bunny hopping is so insane

[shy mulch]

You'll already have steel beams automated, feed them towards a good source of concrete, job done

[willow dawn]

indeed no trains yet

[gloomy heart]

it has no limit to speed

[willow dawn]

It's just annoying with slopes when you suddenly stop

[white dawn]

Still, Tractor is unlocked quite early and works great as a solution to the material-delivery problem

[dusty horizon]

is there a mod for building stability or something? I would like to build aesthetically, but also realistically

[white dawn]

The key is realizing that "how do I get building materials to my site?" is just an indirect problem that can be solved, instead of an annoyance. Most folks just see "I need to automate Resource X" as a task and then anything that gets in the way of that as an annoyance, when really it's two tasks: 1) Get material to the site, 2) Automate the resource

But yeah, Depots kind of short-circuit the first bit once you've got things built out sufficiently

[willow dawn]

tbh not really a fan of those, they seem super slow and require a lot of fuel

[leaden turret]

don't need a mod, just need your sense of "yikes"

[shy mulch]

What does 'building stability' mean

[leaden turret]

"shit gonna collapse if you do it wrong"

[white dawn]

Vehicles can support any throughput of material delivery you want. IMO fuel consumption isn't bad at all, though of course opinions can differ. It's nice that you can just use a handy coal node if there's nothing else near by

[dusty horizon]

well, obviously xd

[white dawn]

But anyway, not trying to discourage you from SCIMming your way to more spheres, of course, just pointing out that even in the absence of Depots, it's possible to build remotely without having to run back+forth between storage and the site

[willow dawn]

all my coal is being used for power and steal

[shy mulch]

Find more coal

[willow dawn]

The truth is that these were not options when I first played the game, the mercer speres just gave a line of "this will be important in the future" and now I am completely spoiled 😛

[white dawn]

Heh, well to be fair, coal as vehicle fuel is most convenient when there's already some free coal near where your routes need to be. :)

[rare torrent]

what is the secret behind the rail signals why do they constantly want to be placed precisely the exact way i DONT want them to be

[white dawn]

IMO vehicles really come into their own once you've got Packaged Fuel available; a little bit of that goes a long way

[shy mulch]

You can change them now since 1.1

[abstract heron]

the price on kick starter is it correct?

[white dawn]

IME you can generally just spin up a single reasonably-modest packaged-fuel-for-vehicles factory once and that'll tend to be good enough for the rest of the game

[abstract heron]

128,167k i am guessing?

[rare torrent]

yeah great how? because its CONSTANTLY facing the exact opposite direction i want it to be

[leaden turret]

kickstarter shows the pledge in poutine pounds but also shows you the currency your profile is configured to

[abstract heron]

so over $120,000

thats massive to buy

[rare torrent]

can i place two path signals in a row???

[hard ivy]

yes

[rare torrent]

nice thanks

[leaden turret]

are you looking at the total pledged?

[rare torrent]

and how do i turn the signal to face the opposite direction??

[abstract heron]

i ermm might be @leaden turret no coffee yet

[hard ivy]

mouse wheel or point your mouse at the opposite side of the join between rails

[white dawn]

As SignpostMarv said, you're looking at the total amount pledged so far, from all 500+ backers. Click on "rewards" and scroll down; those are the prices for the actual rewards in the kickstarter

(There's also somewhere in Kickstarter settings to show the amounts in your local currency; when I visit the page I get it in USD instead of CAD, etc. Though maybe that's only if you have a Kickstarter account)

[rare torrent]

yeah that aint toding anything

[abstract heron]

i am HOPING this goes on the lizarddoggo and we can get it after everything is done

[leaden turret]

Pledge amount: Poutine Pounds
About [local currency]

[white dawn]

(Actually the "campaign" link and scrolling on the sidebar looks like it might be more usable than the "Rewards" tab; that one's a bit messy IMO)

[white dawn]

Mine shows in local currency; I have to mouseover to see the poutine pounds values Er, wait, it does on some pages but not others. Weird.

[willow glen]

Sometimes I have to hop onto the other side of the rail, or worst case just build it a little further back. I get frustrated at how intersection signals snap all the time… because they don’t work right at the snapped location unless you build it twice or build it further back.

why does building it twice (build, deconstruct, build again) work when building it once didn’t? Idk

coffee stain stuff I assume

[leaden turret]

I got the keyboard addon because I was forever having to switch the KVM to pause the music on the personal machine in the then switch back to the work machine

[abstract heron]

i got the ficist keyboard addon thing i found its really good to do when i eat

[frail sleet]

keyboard addon? what does it do

[abstract heron]

lights up and has the keys of f q h and space

[leaden turret]

add-on pledge, not a main pledge

[abstract heron]

i find it really handy

[leaden turret]

it's a 4-key usb keyboard

[abstract heron]

on lizarddoggo.com for the one i goot

[white dawn]

Heh, I ended up writing a TUI to control my home media player so I could SSH into it from my work machine and control it that way. :D (https://github.com/apocalyptech/pympristui)

[leaden turret]

oh it's on the main store?

[abstract heron]

going to dm u it ONE MOMENT

[leaden turret]

(I don't see it on the page)

[abstract heron]

dm u it marv

or not https://lizarddoggo.com/products/ficsit-mini-programmable-keyboard @frail sleet

thats what i have

[leaden turret]

oh shit it's rgb? XD

[abstract heron]

idk

mine is not in atm and 2 i need coffee

[leaden turret]

that'll be handy for when I cba to turn the light on

[abstract heron]

if it was NOT 31C or 32C today i coulld play

[frail sleet]

Ooo

[abstract heron]

i also got bean 2 coffee cups a lizard doggo and purple power slug from there

[frail sleet]

it looks kinda like a worse version of the wooting uwu but it's also half the price so all good

[abstract heron]

i love the space bar when i eat

for stuff like subs buns with stuff

like stuff with my hands and there messy so ya

[dreamy bane]

guys help me out here pls

so im building a train station for the first time but it says station is unreachable

[frail sleet]

you put the front on backwards

[dreamy bane]

im building a bi directional train

[hard ivy]

it's facing backwards probably

[frail sleet]

at one or both ends

goes like this

(==========)

not )========(

[abstract heron]

it has one sec if i put it in @frail sleet

[dreamy bane]

the station backwards?

[hard ivy]

or )=======). that's also wrong

[leaden turret]

====)(====

[abstract heron]

q and f and h and keys

[willow glen]

be unique and put the locomotives on the inside

[abstract heron]

howdy @unborn gyro alien

[dreamy bane]

is there a order to the stations and freight platforms? like the station first then the platforms?

[hard ivy]

station first, platforms behind it

[dreamy bane]

it wont work the other way around then? thats how i built it

[abstract heron]

want 31C or 32C high today and for me to hot to play

[hard ivy]

the train won't drive in automatic unless it has a locomotive in front I don't think

[willow glen]

It can but now your cars will be in front of your locomotive. It’s a weird look but it’ll work

[willow glen]

does it not? I swear I got one working then deleted it because I didn’t like it

[abstract heron]

i still have ficmas every day mod on

[willow glen]

can you time travel for Ficsmas? (Change computer time)

[abstract heron]

mods or that

after changing it might go do something back it might be a day or 2 behind but idk

[foggy heart]

Hey guys, should I go with fine concrete or bolted frames? I'm at the stage of the game where I'm building my first coal power plant, and I havent built a modular frame factory yet. i already have cast screws, and am producing 40 concrete pm. Any tips would be usefull

[abstract heron]

i play with QOL mods a bit 🙂 for 1.0

[hard ivy]

frankly, I wouldn't take either

[willow glen]

I like steeled frame better but that does add an extra resource into the mix so your call

And wet concrete, same reasoning

[normal vault]

does anyone else have trouble choosing what path to take when Ziplining? I swear I heard you press the direction you want to go while zipping but it never works for me

[hard ivy]

unless you use iron pipe, then it doesn't. and it's actually better than bolted

[willow glen]

ya some of the combo deals get wild

interesting, I haven’t had a case where sinking water was needed but I’ll keep it in mind

ya tbh it’s mostly about convenience (there’s a lot but it’s not everywhere)

you don’t recycle it? I always build aluminum on two floors so the byproduct flows down

and idk if I was that desperate, quartz is worth a lot to sink, and already gotta import it

ya the two-floor trick is the best I came up with, obviously there’s the pipe circuits too; I did end up needing the VIP junction for rocket fuel (turbofuel priority), but that’s because I put the recycled turbofuel on the bottom floor instead of the top. Lack of foresight there

[oak hinge]

Got a recipe choice for the ages: Biocoal or charcoal?

[hard ivy]

i've never had issues getting 600 water per min in alu setups

[hard ivy]

leave the drive to rot in the drive library

[oak hinge]

That's exactly what i'm doing xD

I do need to get another phase done before i can unlock more alternate recipes tho

The only alternate recipe i have available that isnt biocoal or charcoal is automated miner

Which is also pretty pointless

[wise junco]

sometimes I just like to stare at my factory and wonder what to do

[hard ivy]

automated miner is goated tho

[oak hinge]

I dont need it for now

[undone lichen]

Is there any in-game command to give you items? I have a satisfactory equivalent of a minecraft creative mode world where i test things out

[oak hinge]

I made like 50 automated miners at one point and just havent worried about it

[hard ivy]

ags

[oak hinge]

If you have mods installed, there's a cheat menu you can use

[hard ivy]

!wikisearch ags

[fossil ice]

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

[crimson hearth]

I had problem with the aluminium, I tried to reuse the water after the proces back in the system again, but no matter what i do it just fills the pipes fully, even tough i count everything correctly, so i just ended up routing the water to a concrete setup. Then there were no problem anymore (the water extractor were set to the right amount i needed after counting in the water from the proccesing.

[undone lichen]

I already turned everything on

[hard ivy]

mine do the same thing tho
so idk how that's supposed to be the issue

[hard ivy]

there's a button to give yourself stuff in the ags menu

[undone lichen]

Aight thx mate

[shy fog]

hmm... this gives me a question I really wish to consider

can I realistically make a blueprint that lets me make a bunch of roads?

[craggy steeple]

equipment changes at random it seems can anyone help? I scroll to say my chain saw and then try to use it and it will switch to something else. Any known fixes for this?

[minor rock]

is it always switch to the same equipment ?

[lapis lagoon]

Maybe your scroll sensitivity is to high

So it skips one

[dusty horizon]

which is required more in the endgame, aluminium sheets or casings?

[minor rock]

ehh, i feel like i go through a lot of casings

sheets never seem like a prob

[hard ivy]

casings. but since you're asking this question, you probably shouldn't take the answer into account

[leaden turret]

usually it's a case of having alt-tabbed so the game thinks you still have the alt key held

[rancid hearth]

Anyone ever managed to mute ADA ? I got the messages pop ups, but voice does not play. I don't know how I disabled it, and I find nothing matching in options

[dusty horizon]

I'm just trying to design one aluminium processing plant and would like to know how to balance between casings/sheets

[craggy steeple]

best I can say is I scroll up or down and when i try to use the item in hand it switch to the next one in like regardless of scroll direction

[minor rock]

your performance has been so poor you are abandoned

[craggy steeple]

I'm looking into sensitivities

[hard ivy]

like I said. this is not a useful question to ask. if you don't know the answer, you shouldn't plan for the future, and build for what you need right now. and if you do, you wouldn't ask

[lean creek]

I loaded into my friends server and I don’t have any of my stuff, jet pack, zip line, etc. any idea why that would happen?

The only thing I have is the stuff that was backed up uploading into the dimensional depot

[hard ivy]

player inventory are save specific

[lean creek]

So why would my inventory be wiped when I logged off for the night?

[hard ivy]

ah, that's what you meant. in that case, there should be an offline player where you logged off

kill the player, and the items should be in it

[lean creek]

Okay I’ll try that

[hard ivy]

dunno why it'd happen tho

it ususally happens if you log into a singleplayer world while offline and then come back online (or the other way around idk)

[covert talon]

for my train system should i just make the train fly over the hills or should i make it go on them

[hard ivy]

it wasn't that long ago bro

[lean creek]

I’m looking around but don’t see it, do you think it despawned when my friend logged off for the night?

[median shell]

@peak wasp love love love this shot! Very nice use of photo mode #screenshots message

[hard ivy]

i've seen a body despawn after a long time, but it turned into a death crate (as if it was killed), not disappeared entirely. but if you're on a dedicated server, idk

[peak wasp]

ty

[jaunty forum]

omg i want it all so bad but i dont have that much money 😭 😭 😭

[hard ivy]

it's on sale right now. it's not getting any cheaper anytime soon

[wanton fox]

What is the correct way for the train dock, one carrier for 2 items or for just one?

[north violet]

I need inspo on buildings to build and styles. I’m not an architect and not great at designing stuff

[covert talon]

Does a train need a loop or can it just go back and forth on one track

[ripe basin]

If you have 2 locomotives it can

[hard ivy]

you need a locomotive at both ends of a train, and then it'll be able to drive in both directions

[covert talon]

That seems significantly easier than building a loop

Thank you

[hard ivy]

for one train, yes. for more than one train, bi-di is a nightmare

[ripe basin]

I have 2 trains that are technically on one track, but not quite

I have a train station in the middle of that track where the trains meet

[wanton fox]

whow i can make 2 train share one train station? with signals or there is another way?

[hard ivy]

signalling bi-di is a terrible idea in general. more complex, and terrible throughput. but as long as you don't need signals, bi-di is fine

[wanton fox]

last question i have a factory with 12 items to send to de Central Store, i can split it into 2 trains or one train with 12 cargos? what is more effecient?

[hard ivy]

most efficient would be to have separate trains and stations for each item

[ripe basin]

At that moment I would have sent a screenshot, but I'm not at home

[wanton fox]

ty

[hard ivy]

but the question is whether you need the most efficient solution

I think you meant 1 way

[ripe basin]

Did I mention how I love trains?

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys. I have put my first 5 refineries ever. And I already hate them kek.

[fathom shuttle]

This fixed the issue tysm
@lament niche there is a fix

[wanton fox]

the thing is im trying to move the items from the main factory facility who can craft 12 type of items, the the new Central Storage, so the question is about of desing

i would do a question post in the help section later

[lament niche]

who dare randomly pingeth me

[hard ivy]

you can't run multiple trains on a 2 way track

[fathom shuttle]

I think you can if you make overtaking zones or something

[willow dawn]

How do you kill the stinky plants lol They don't seem to care about anything I do

[fathom shuttle]

Bomb them

[lament niche]

those don't exist in satisfactory

[hard ivy]

the bypass has to be 1-way. so it's no longer 2-way

[willow dawn]

bomb.... hmmm don't think I have those yet

[lament niche]

bombs

[hard ivy]

no, watching other people play SF is painful

[fathom shuttle]

You’d die if you saw my gameplay

[spiral stratus]

Early game (just unlocked coal power)
Should I invest into it or will there be a more powerful energy supply not that long after this?

[fathom shuttle]

Do 2 GW of it

[spiral stratus]

GW?

[fathom shuttle]

And yes youll get more powerful sources

[hard ivy]

there are 2 different generators and like 10 different fuels available later

[fathom shuttle]

2000 MW

[spiral stratus]

Oh, ok

[hard ivy]

1000 MW = 1 GW
and later 1000 GW = 1 TW

[fathom shuttle]

remembered that Ineed to automate consumables

[spiral stratus]

Dear god

[hard ivy]

don't worry, most people don't reach 1 TW

BTU/h?

[true mulch]

Huh? Horsepower

[hard ivy]

it's even more cursed than I thought 🤣

one Btu equals about 1,055 J (varying within the range of 1,054–1,060 J depending on the specific definition of Btu; see below).

[true mulch]

You made me look it up

Not sure if it's US Customary

But I found out that "horsepower-hour" exists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower-hour?wprov=sfla1

[hard ivy]

the devs lol

at least in US english

[lost wagon]

lizard doggo powered energy when

put it to walk in a belt

[unkempt blade]

aww I liked the spicy surprises now and then 😦

[wanton portal]

Hey quick question what version of FSR does satisfactory use?

[rare torrent]

which spliter can act as an overflow the smart one or the programable one??

[wanton portal]

lmao, I just want to know if the game will look like dogwater if I use FSR since FSR 1 and 2 look really bad

No way there are a lot of UE4 games that have FSR3

[leaden ether]

UE5.3 I believe

[wanton portal]

Minimum maybe FSR2

[hard ivy]

all splitters can

[leaden ether]

I downloaded a mod to making curved zoops and it uses the caps lock key so no I am going to be in caps lock hell -.-

[spice patio]

FSR 3.x, either 3.0 or 3.1, in self-compiled version, not the 3.1+ with AMD supplied binary.

On UE 5.3.1

[wanton portal]

Niceeeee

[leaden ether]

It would be awesome if we got an upgrade to UE5.6 for some free FPS gains but that's probably not likely.

[wanton portal]

Btw I have this weird issue where on the AMD RX 580 when I want to use vulkan it just forces itself to "forced directx11", this gpu can run both dx12 and vulkan fine, shown by forcing the game to use them in flags

I wonder what is causing the game to think that the gpu is too old

[hard ivy]

eventually we will

[wanton portal]

Soon™

[leaden ether]

Oh nice!

[hard ivy]

yeah, they said that they'll need to do a UE update to add weather back in.

and they also said they want to add weather

so we can conclude they want to do an UE update

[leaden ether]

Well it's just that they made some significant engine performance tuning in 5.6 specifically that would be nice to have for those without 4090 cards :)

[versed mirage]

should i use fused quickwire or regular quickwire

[hard ivy]

depends

[versed mirage]

most of my stuff is in grasslands so theres like 0 caterium

[green fiber]

Grasslands has the most caterium nearby

[versed mirage]

seriously

[green fiber]

Just head west towards the ocean

[hard ivy]

fused uses copper instead of caterium

[versed mirage]

well should i automate quickwire and aI limiters first or should i go automate smart plating and redo my reinforced iron plates

[versed mirage]

yeah i know

[green fiber]

Do you think caterium stuff will benefit you

Or do you rather just wanna get to the next phase

[leaden ether]

There is a pure cat node on a little sky island just at the south edge of the graslands.

[versed mirage]

i mean i want smart splitters for my smart plating factory so that it isnt a migraine to build

[steel delta]

My friend has Satisfactory on Steam and I have it on Epic Games. We want to play on her world, but when she selects "epic" for the session type, there's no prompt or something like that to have her log into epic games.
Is this something she has to do manually? She already linked her Steam account to her epic games account, but it still says "Log in to epic online services required for this session type"

[versed mirage]

im at that right now getting the upgrade tree

should i just use this

[wanton portal]

A year ago the game worked fine on vulkan, now half the terrain isn't showing up 😐

[leaden ether]

Yeah I built a litle cat factory there and eventually used it for my quickwire DD for my entire first playthrough. (Also beldet it across the gap for another factory which I now forget what it was for)

[versed mirage]

very convenient crash site that gave me the copper sheets i needed for the research

[hard ivy]

then use DX12

[versed mirage]

dont have to walk back to my base just to get it wahoo

[wanton portal]

It seems its trying to cull LOD's that don't need to be culled since putting the graphics settings on a higher level almost fixes it

[wanton portal]

Fineee

[lost wagon]

any game supporting DLSS2 or 3, supports 4

you just change the DLL

[unkempt blade]

yeah but vulkan tastes good AND it's good for you

[wanton portal]

It was? I never had any rendering issues during the UE4 days, I actually have a lot more now

[unkempt blade]

I got a 7900xtx to take my terraria experience to the next level but it handles satisfactory ok too I guess

[hasty cradle]

Is turbofuel worth it

For power generation

[jaunty jewel]

i would say it is

[unkempt blade]

yes because rocket fuel is next

[jaunty jewel]

if you need more power in phase 3 then yes

[distant hill]

Turbo fuel is fine but rocket fuel is better

[hard ivy]

it's more oil efficient than regular fuel. otherwise it's as good or worse as fuel. unless you need the oil efficiency, it's easier to just do fuel

[green fiber]

Nowadays its more so "no"
stick with diluted fuel if you want "easy"
Turbo only saves oil in exchange for coal and sulfur

[unkempt blade]

I usually wind up spamming diluted fuel though instead the way god and nature intended

[hasty cradle]

I am using normal fuel rn but power keeps shutting off

[spark ruin]

3.1.0

[spark ruin]

either way vulkan isnt better in this game than DX12

[spark ruin]

guess baldur already answered

[wanton portal]

Yea but I have to set a flag to use DX12 on a DX12 (Ultimate since ik DX12 versions can be an issue) compatible card

[white dawn]

Sometimes settings from other graphics modes end up hanging around in your user's Engine.ini, which can cause that, btw.

[distant hill]

Anyone ever found a way to do more compacted setups... 🤔 I don't know how else to describe it, but I always see it as 'I must inevitably string something past half the factory to combine it with something else'... even if you try to 'mainline' a stack of belts you always seem to end up with something that has to be strong across machines...

[white dawn]

There's a post somewhere on here detailing exactly what to remove, but you can also just delete your Engine.ini and it should reinitialize with the correct stuff, to get rid of the "forced whatever" notice

[wanton portal]

But everytime I change my settings it tries to use dx11 giving me a dx11 warning

its just a game restart away from changing my settings

[white dawn]

Yeah, it's 'cause of stuff that the game leaves in Engine.ini.

[wanton portal]

I will try deleting it in a sec

[white dawn]

Removing that file is the easiest way to get rid of it

[spark ruin]

i think i remember baldur saying somewhere that the settings migh tbug out and show DX 11 even if its actually using vulkan

could use RTSS to check/validate

[wanton portal]

I can say that its using DX11 by the fact that its not glitching out, anyways I have given up on vulkan, let me delete engine.ini

[spark ruin]

well im cooked

[spice patio]

Renderer isn't selected in that file AFAIK.
Use -dx12 launch argument to force DX12, apply ingame, then remove the launch argument.

[wanton portal]

I have been using launch options but I have been told constantly that engine.ini holds the mode even though I don't see it, but I still tried it

[rare torrent]

i grid just collapsed and i am having a hard time jump starting it again

[spark ruin]

BTW @wanton portal if you are gonna use FSR then i recomend adding these 2 lines into your Engine.ini file
[/Script/FFXFSR3Settings.FFXFSR3Settings]
r.FidelityFX.FSR3.UseSSRExperimentalDenoiser=true ;(default: False) fixes ScreenSpace reflections when using FSR as AA/upscaling
a longer explenation on this is available here: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/680d04ad6b7c57319636af55

[wanton portal]

Thank you

[spice patio]

Depends on game.
In Satisfactorys case, (almost) everything you can set in ingame Options is stored in GameUserSettings.ini.

[wanton portal]

I will play on linux when the games that I need to run work

[spark ruin]

engine.INI can sometimes have a line that sets RHI (particularly when you select Vulkan)

[rare torrent]

ive tried to disconect it from the main base but it seems like i cant find cable conecting it to main base is there a method or something to do that??

[wanton portal]

Hm?

[rare torrent]

ok im out of ideas. does train rails or hyper tubes transfer electricity or something because i cant find ANYTHING connecting my electricity grid together yet it still is somehow connected

[wanton portal]

SteamOS is just arch linux but for the steam deck, its very limiting in what apps you can install due to it being immutable

So in a day to day workload it is absolutely useless

[covert talon]

does turbofuel make the jetpack faster

[wanton portal]

Arch just shouldn't be made for normies

[wanton portal]

My favorite stable distro is Fedora

The KDE version apparently has an issue where if you update from the GUI the desktop gets broken and it gives you on screen instructions on how to fix it? let me pull up whats it says since I cant post a photo here

We are going to need some experts to dechiper this

Go on #screenshots to see the error I am talking about

oh wait mb

#off-topic-media

[stray thicket]

Wait since when do constructors take reinforced plates

[jaunty jewel]

always

[stray thicket]

Huh don't remember that

Also is it me or is iron more red?

Like the node

[viral tendon]

#screenshots message That took some concrete and silica

[leaden ether]

#screenshots message And I thought my roof was big...

[viral tendon]

Welp no

It was completely unneccesesary but i did it

[covert talon]

how many train modules can i have before it slows down?

[viral tendon]

I think a lot

[covert talon]

and it is one per freight module?

[viral tendon]

Where

[covert talon]

awesome im riding a train

huge moment

[white dawn]

Technically it'll accelerate a bit more slowly with every single car you put on

What your engine-to-car limit is depends a lot on how much you have to pull the trains up; on a perfectly flat train network you can add a lot, though it'll accelerate slower and slower

And keep in mind that cars with material in them weigh more than empty ones

The best thing to do, IMO, is to just set up your route and see if a single engine does the trick. If not, add another. That does require leaving some potential room to expand at your stations, of course.

[viral tendon]

Screws suck don't they

Screws are bad

[white dawn]

Obligatory "screws are fine, just don't centralize production"

Screws only get a bad rap because people try to send hundreds/min from a central production area using slow belts. Which, yeah, that's gonna suck.

Instead, just Don't Do That™, and you'll find they're not problematic at all

[hard ivy]

nah, they're bad because recipes that use them are almost all just bad

[white dawn]

I used the vanilla screw recipe in one of my bigger HMF factories on my 1.0 save. :D

[covert talon]

thanks

[white dawn]

Oh, actually it was probably Cast, I lie

Still

[covert talon]

using one train worsk right now
does the train wait until the freight car is full to go back?

[hard ivy]

depends on the settings

[white dawn]

Loading behavior is determined by the freight platforms; you can configure a platform to only let the train leave when the car is full

[covert talon]

https://gyazo.com/a000265e56007915d5ffdce057be6dd4
where do i do it?

[hard ivy]

in the timetable

[white dawn]

Oh oh, right, it's timetable, not station

(I rarely end up using those settings so my intuition is sometimes wrong about 'em. :D)

[covert talon]

now "next stop is unreachable" not sure why

[hard ivy]

station backwards

[covert talon]

thank u

i am using 2 cars though too

[ripe basin]

Hello there

[fathom shuttle]

I mean if you enjoy dealing with multiple belts of screws then yea

[white dawn]

Just a li'l screw constructor directly in front of each machine what needs screws. ezpz. :)

[hard ivy]

for no benefit at that

[white dawn]

Not everything needs to be a manifold (or even a balancer!), etc.

[covert talon]

Is the docking process meant to be insanely slow

It just keeps honking and moving randomly

[hard ivy]

it always takes 27s

well, the loading animation

[covert talon]

Mine has taken longer it’s just honking and doing nothing

[fathom shuttle]

Something’s wrong with the timetable then

[hard ivy]

it honks when departing

[fathom shuttle]

the throughput calculator on the wiki is per car, right?

[covert talon]

yep thanks

[hard ivy]

idk read the wiki

but probably

the throughput is fully linear with number of cars, so it makes sense to do it per car

[fathom shuttle]

It doesn’t state it explicitly so idk tbh

[trail lily]

i had a quick question- is there anything you can actually do with the Hub once you get off biomass power? Other than doing the research objectives i mean

you can craft there but I can just build a crafting bench

[fathom shuttle]

If I wanted to do my medium size HMF factory with the default recipe it would cost 10k iron and 4k coal, and the screws would be 10k/min

[hard ivy]

there's a player customizer inside, and the packer game

[trail lily]

didn't know about that lol

[unkempt blade]

you can respawn there, mess with the toilet, use the customizer, play the game inside the other room

[hard ivy]

default HMF is absolutely trash

[fathom shuttle]

With the way I did it it’s 2400 iron and 1750 coal

[viral tendon]

Sweet

Production of plutnoium pellets to sink them is done

[hard ivy]

you can't sink pellets

[viral tendon]

Yikes

[fathom shuttle]

If you have PCC you can easily convert them into rods

[viral tendon]

What is pcc again

[fathom shuttle]

1:1 cubes to rods

[fathom shuttle]

Pressure conversion cubes

[viral tendon]

I mean i have the recipe unlocked

What do i do with them

[fathom shuttle]

If you have spare production I’d do it since it’s a pretty easy set up

[viral tendon]

Just fuckass fused frames and rcus

Pretty easy huh

Can i sink encased plutnoium cell

[hard ivy]

no

only rods

[viral tendon]

This game just keeps fucking me

[trail lily]

also, do i need the other varieties of nobelisk for things? I'll get to it eventually but the "base' nobelisk breaks the rocks, do the others do more?

[hard ivy]

they do different things

[viral tendon]

So you're telling me you can't get rid of the waste or what

[unkempt blade]

I basically used the fancy nobelisks to see what they did and then never touched them again 😆

[white dawn]

You can sink Plutonium Rods

[viral tendon]

Alat just to sink them...

[white dawn]

Or, if you process all the way to Ficsonium, that produces no waste

[viral tendon]

Fuck this game

[white dawn]

Sinking Pu Rods or going all the way to Ficsonium are your two "clean" nuclear options

[unkempt blade]

just build a ton of storage way in the corner of the map and set up a disposal conveyor going there 😄

[viral tendon]

Can i jsut rest for a second

[white dawn]

Yeah, how dare the game have production chains!

[viral tendon]

I have it, it takes 22 days to fill it with 120 waste/m

[unkempt blade]

not unless ADA says so 😦

[viral tendon]

Real days btw

[white dawn]

Sure, either in game or out. Can always touch grass, etc. If you're not having fun with the game it might be time for a break

Everyone burns out sometimes, even with things you enjoy

[viral tendon]

The problem is i am having fun

Do plutonium rods produce nuclear waste

Like basic nuclear waste

[unkempt blade]

yes, plutonium waste

[hard ivy]

if burned, yes

[viral tendon]

Yikes

Yo

I might just power my whole shit up with plutonium rods

They produce 1/m 😭

[hard ivy]

* min

[viral tendon]

I have 79 industrial containers per blueprint

[hard ivy]

m is a meter

[viral tendon]

I think you could understand me in that context

[hard ivy]

that doesn't change the fact that m is a meter and minute is min

[viral tendon]

Didn't see a point of correcting me

What produce 1 of something per meter

[fathom shuttle]

Where is the teacher who always taunted us about units when I need him?

[viral tendon]

Not everyone here lives in US btw

There are different education systems all over the world yk

[fathom shuttle]

You need to live in the us for a teacher to correctly teach you how to use units?

[unkempt blade]

hanging out with the ones that told me I wouldn't have a calculator with me at all times

[viral tendon]

There are different countries, languages etc.

Some school don't focus on it that much and some do

[fathom shuttle]

Then it’s a bad school lol

[viral tendon]

I don't remember us behing taught that

It's not that deep trust me

[unkempt blade]

just remember there are 63360 inches in a mile and the rest will come naturally

[fathom shuttle]

Lol, I remember thinking they were right when I sat down for the standardized exams I took

[untold moat]

I may be broke, however, credit is a wonderful tool. <adds expensive merch to cart>

[fathom shuttle]

I had to memorize the square of all numbers all the way to 20

[viral tendon]

Mk 3 miners are so peak

[timber shoal]

what happens if I have a drone shipping stuff to 2 different ports? how do the ports get prioritized?

[hard ivy]

you can't

[naive pendant]

you can

[shy mulch]

Having a hard time deciding...
Is it worth the extra effort to pull more resources in from all over the place to make more alien power matrix, and use sloops to build more alien power augmenters, or at what point is it worth it to sloop the matrix production?
Got 3 augmenters and trying to get my head around production of matrices, tempting to get some more sloops to make that task easier, but then I get thinking that it might be more efficient to use those sloops I find to make more augmenters...
My brain is going into an infinite loop that isn't resolving itself

[naive pendant]

@timber shoal There isn’t a priority system with drones. Standard way to do things is to guarantee production > consumption so both get what they need.

[unkempt blade]

How much extra power do you have? That probably guides the route to take

[shy mulch]

"priority" would make no sense, drones only go to one port

[naive pendant]

“one to many” systems exist for drones.

[green fiber]

many to one, not one to many

[naive pendant]

One port to many port describes the item flow. Seems fine.

[shy mulch]

it's not so much about power efficiency, I've got way more power than I need, it's about the effort required to make 15 alien power matrix per minute

[fathom shuttle]

How much power are you making l

[green fiber]

if you mean beltwork, yes
But drones cannot fly from one location to many others.
Its the other way around. Many other ports can target one

[unkempt blade]

If you don't have much extra power slooping might knock you offline. If you have tons of extra power I'd sloop them at least until you need it for something else (like more power)

[shy mulch]

there's zero chance of me running out of power, this is not a question of power, it's a question of effort

[naive pendant]

We’re talking about the same drone thing. It’ll have to be described either way. There isn’t an official grand council of nomenclature in the community. I’ll call it either way.

[shy mulch]

approaching 1TW

[mortal ginkgo]

guys;

I got 9 Fuel Powdered Generators working.

And the power I am making makes me look at my coal generators with disgust

Is this an evil arc?

[shy mulch]

it's a big difference eh!

what kind of fuel are you feeding them?

[mortal ginkgo]

"I don't want to play with you anymore" face is all I have right now.

[mortal ginkgo]

the first fuel my friend, I am like at beginning lol

[shy mulch]

aha, long way to go, enjoy the journey!

[mortal ginkgo]

and I for some reason managed to understand using valves lol

I am sending 20/min to make rocket fuel for my jetpack and 180 of regular fuel is burnt

[plain lynx]

i'm about to unlock fuel power, i just spent the last like 10 hours re building my storage room lol

it wasn't very wise to disassemble my old one BEFORE working on the new one lol

so it's taken me a while

[shy mulch]

if you can turn it all into rocket fuel, it'll make life even better, rocket fuel burns a lot slower than regular fuel so you will find the same production can feed a lot more generators

[hard ivy]

bro that's 3 tiers later than he is

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah I know my mate, thing is I cant send sulfur and coal to where they are properly right now so I am burning fuel as it is 😄

[shy mulch]

he just said he's using rocket fuel for his jetpack

[mortal ginkgo]

but yeah, rocketfuel is a big nono for me, I could maybe make turbofuel but even thats far

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah but its like 1 refinery barely making for me lols

[fathom shuttle]

Train only hits 80 km/h uphill bruh

[shy mulch]

choo choo

[mortal ginkgo]

we are heading there brother

I just need to clear the grin off my face from the power I am making

[open pollen]

I found the blue crater in the south east to be a great place for rocket fuel power plant tbh

[mortal ginkgo]

I am at northwest brother, that place is so far away from me, I mean, literally the farthest 😄

last time I wanted to go to a cute journey, I stumbled upon a red forest. Thought it was cute. Thought it was nice. Thought it was safe.

Lets just say, it was a humbling experience.

With my trusty rebar gun with the basic ammo.

[shy mulch]

red forest is not a place for the unprepared 😄

[open pollen]

Good point
Frankly after building my rocket fuel plant I haven’t even gone back there once so just keep that in mind for future power plants lmao

[mortal ginkgo]

You should have seen my face when I wanted to mine to get rid of an uranium rock, forgetting that what we mine gets into our inventory and I was like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

and I had 1 large and 2 medium stingers after me lols

[shy mulch]

you can just delete it when it's in your inventory at least

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah, lets just say it was an, experience.

[open pollen]

I hate those 2 stingers so much, they are so relentless

[shy mulch]

try the swamp 😄

[open pollen]

Even them being cat images doesn’t save me from the shock of them jumping in my face from ages away

[mortal ginkgo]

I watched a video about swamp once and I am NOT going there before devs implement a dodge feature.

👍

[open pollen]

I have not touched the eastern side of the map like at all at this point. I fear when I eventually must search through the swamp for goodies

[devout needle]

any tips for flattening the power production line? is it only dependant on the generators themselves or is the pull from machines also a factor?

[shy mulch]

biomass burners will produce exactly what's needed, no more. anything else produces regardless of usage

what are you trying to flatten, and why

[devout needle]

im at coal / fuel

[noble topaz]

Should I do mathing or should I let all my factories not work 24/7 perfectly

[viral tendon]

The most useless feature gotta be biomass burner overclock

[devout needle]

im just trying to flatten the max power production line, it just seems like a fun project

[viral tendon]

I producce 50k mw and only use 16k, the max cons is 32k 😭

[shy mulch]

max power is just whatever is connected, that should be flat unless you've got stuff you're disconnecting from time to time, or if you have variable production stuff like geothermal

[hard ivy]

useful for opening drop pods

[noble topaz]

I've used that, mainly during my transition from biomass to coal

[viral tendon]

Unlocking overclock before coal is crazy work

[hard ivy]

using wrong units yet again lol

[viral tendon]

The game literaly says 50000 mw

[wise junco]

honestly, whatever makes you happy

I didn't do truly "efficient" factories for a very long time and did just fine

[hard ivy]

it says 50000 MW, not mw

[viral tendon]

It's just capital letters

[naive pendant]

@devout needle The graph has multiple lines. Getting a fully flat max production is pretty easy. A flat consumption line is impossible at a certain point.

[hard ivy]

and a k MW is not a thing

[devout needle]

yeah i mean actual production, i dont have any variable atm, just two coal and one oil

[shy mulch]

the game says everything in MW, it's just less to think about if you ignore the units, nobody cares, it's just 50k power, it's not real watts

[viral tendon]

Whatever

[shy mulch]

everyone here knows 1 MW is 1 million W, and 1000 MW is 1 GW etc etc., but the game calls everything MW, just use that, it's less to think about

[viral tendon]

I will still use it regardless because i will forget it in 1 hour

[shy mulch]

it could call it funkywatts if it wanted, it's not real life, it's just a number

[open pollen]

If your coal/oil gens are running correctly then the max production should not be changing

Unless geothermal

[devout needle]

okay, thats good to know, i thought i balanced everything but i guess not

[naive pendant]

@devout needle If your max production is variable it means your power production structures aren’t running continually ala they’re having issues with ratios, etc.

[devout needle]

probably water issue somewhere

[hard ivy]

balanced just means equal, not necessarily running at 100%
it can be balanced at 75 and it'll fluctuate

[open pollen]

Just go back to your power area and search for those good old yellow lights and begin troubleshooting!

[devout needle]

yippee! cant wait

[viral tendon]

Gotta correct EVERYONE 💔

[naive pendant]

Yea I guess a variable max power usually requires both not optimal ratios and not drawing max power at all times. Or something like that. Just improper ratios and max draw will just be flat line below desired.

[devout needle]

the fact that pipes only carry 300m3 of water is the bane of my existence for early game coal gen atm

or mid game i guess

[viral tendon]

Welp, progress facter and get mk 2 pipes

[hard ivy]

just use more than 1 pipe

[open pollen]

They probably meant balancing out how much water vs coal was getting to the gens or something

[devout needle]

^ yes

[devout needle]

im aware and am doing that, its just a bit more to wrap my brain around compared to items, especially optimizing

especially with things like sloshing that im still not fully sure what it means

[mortal ginkgo]

what I did was this: 16 coal gen setup with 5 water extractors, 1 water extractor connected to both pipes going to the setup

[hard ivy]

pipes can move fluid in both directions, so it's a bit easier to manage multiple

[open pollen]

Look on the gg wiki at the coal power plant page. At the bottom is an image giving a good example of how to do pipes to help with the limit

[viral tendon]

Coal power gen can't be that deep 💔

[devout needle]

alright?

[mortal ginkgo]

cool story bro

[open pollen]

There we go found the link

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Coal-Powered_Generator

[devout needle]

yeah ill have a closer look at it , i used it but kinda slapped it down

[viral tendon]

Never told you a story

[mortal ginkgo]

ignore the annoying lad, it is all about balancing and game teaches you about pipes without giving information about pipes lol

[devout needle]

its probably the merging of pipes that screwed up the balance

[mortal ginkgo]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Coal-Powered_Generator this indeed got a great link on how to do pipin'

[viral tendon]

So mad at me gotta harrass me EVERYTIME you appear in chat

[devout needle]

i didnt have a multiple of 8 coal generators i think so i didnt follow it to a T

but ill look into this thanks!

[viral tendon]

Such a bad ragebait

[mortal ginkgo]

You are the only annoying person around, but I don't target you. You are not that special.

[devout needle]

going to take a break from progression to optimize everything to make sure all is green just because i can

[viral tendon]

"I don't target you" procceeds to tell everyone that i'm "annyoing"

[covert talon]

are smart splitters bugged

[viral tendon]

Then gave the same explanation i gave

Just pack it up

[open pollen]

Why do you think they are bugged?

[viral tendon]

I thought it was over but no

[mortal ginkgo]

too much off topic, keep the chat off from personal issues please.

[viral tendon]

You gotta tell every person on this server

[covert talon]

cause im dumb

[viral tendon]

"ignore the annoying lad"

Keep it off from personal issues btw

[open pollen]

That doesn’t really give much details 😆

[viral tendon]

Before that argument you never said that btw

[mortal ginkgo]

You were annoying the person who had clearly issues with coal gens, saying "its not that deep bro". I mean, you were annoying. What you said was annoying. It is not that deep, ironically.

Now stop going off topic.

[covert talon]

sorry lol
i fixed it i was just being stupid

[viral tendon]

Yeah i said coal gen cannot be this deep

[hard ivy]

both of you are annoying tbh

[mortal ginkgo]

That was an annoying commenct. Accept it and move on.

[viral tendon]

Everytime i see you in chat and i say something or you say something

Always gotta tell everyone about me

[unkempt blade]

I have personal issues with how late in the game portals get unlocked. That should be like a tier 6 thing

[viral tendon]

Move on from that argument

[fathom shuttle]

I set my splitter setting to the opposite side and one of my aluminum lines went down lol

[viral tendon]

But keep the same recipe

So it's not too op

[mortal ginkgo]

I would say portals are truly meant for late game enjoyers?

[unkempt blade]

nope, oil powered so it's organic

[open pollen]

What are portals even used for mainly? I’m not there yet so have 0 idea

[mortal ginkgo]

Lore-wise it makes sense for something to appear late game I guess.

[elder apex]

mods are your friend, there is one mod that gives them to you immediately and uses iron rods for fuel instead of singularity cells

[faint iris]

I'm on a server and my mk.3 lifts are moving the speed of the mk.1 lifts

[viral tendon]

Portals might be a lil too op for tier 6

[unkempt blade]

they consume tons of resources and by then you already have hypertubes going everywhere

[hard ivy]

teleportation, what else?

[viral tendon]

Who even uses basic hypertubes

I mean atleast when you unlock portals you'd prolly use cannos

[mortal ginkgo]

Literally to teleport you from one location to next by consuming a very late game item constantly to operate.

[viral tendon]

Or trains atleast

[unkempt blade]

I do but I use a booster like every 30m so it fliiiiiies

[viral tendon]

Cecil telerpotation

[open pollen]

Can they teleport items/things on belts as well?

[mortal ginkgo]

nope, only you

[open pollen]

Damn that sucks

[viral tendon]

10 million dollars for 1 teleportation

[viral tendon]

Don't you got like full inventory of stuff

[mortal ginkgo]

eh, by that point of late game, you probably got an entire train system going around doing its thing.

[open pollen]

I don’t know what you mean

[viral tendon]

I mean like get thing you need with you

[open pollen]

Yeah but it would’ve been cool 😆

[viral tendon]

True tho

[mortal ginkgo]

That I agree my friend 😄

[viral tendon]

But i think it would need more resources per item

[open pollen]

Yeah cause of dimensional depot. I meant more transporting items to factories via portal

[viral tendon]

I think it would use so much resources

[unkempt blade]

conveyor portals or vehicle portals would be significantly more useful than the current ones

[open pollen]

Well idk what the portal costs for teleportation currently so I have no frame of reference anyways 😆

[viral tendon]

Agreed

[mortal ginkgo]

Train Portals

[open pollen]

Also I don’t care about cost or efficiency, I care about coolness factor of course

[wicked nacelle]

is there any such thing as a priority splitter setup for gases?

I want to split a nitrogen source for packaging but keep my bottles separate between the two sides. Want to make sure one side doesn't steal empty bottles from the other side so I can't mix that.

[viral tendon]

What's up with junction

[hard ivy]

package it, smart splitter, unpackage

[elder apex]

and clock the machines properly to get the rate you want

[wicked nacelle]

yeah, doesn't work because one side isn't guaranteed to return the bottles it gets

I guess I could put an intermediary packager/unpackager that is a closed system

[naive pendant]

What makes bottle return not guaranteed?

[wicked nacelle]

some recipes eat bottles. But also, the destination for one side receives nitrogen from other sources so empties may be diverted to another source

I could make a pair of stations for each source but that woul dbe painful as that station and general area is quite built around

[elder apex]

don't let the bottles mix from the sources before unpacking them then. Unpack first, then mix the nitrogen via pipes

[wicked nacelle]

I don't have a known rate. I just let it "manifold" balance itself out

train only picks up whatever it has room for

but I get what you guys are saying. makes sense. the intermediary package/unpackage seems to be the best option

[naive pendant]

All the nitrogen gas stuff I did had the nitrogen bottles never deleted, consumed.

So the bottles did a loop and you just need enough bottles and it works.

[wicked nacelle]

there's a handy fused frame alt that eats them I think

cooling system? I don't remember

[hard ivy]

if you have enough tanks in the loop, it won't be an issue

[hard ivy]

turbo motor. and it's not particularly good

[wicked nacelle]

ahh yes. Well, it was good where I wanted it 🙂

[naive pendant]

I’m saying it seems like consuming bottles can easily break certain bottle setups. I’d keep bottles that are being consumed completely separate.

[hard ivy]

but even if you use it, make the needed tanks next to the motor production and deliver gaseous nitrogen

[wicked nacelle]

I do have a constructor or two that attempt to match the consumption rate to send back. but I assume I mess up stuff like that so like to have resilient systems. anyhow, the solution of a smart splitter of packaged gas is exactly what I want. thanks orgo 🙂

oops, KY

also, right now my priority side is much less than half the supply, so it "just works" without doing anything, but I was wondering how I would fix it if it didn't

[prime wadi]

is there a mod or setting that allows me to have no night time? On bigger builds its just annoying, lol

[hard ivy]

SkyUI

(mod)

[ivory condor]

Yes for both questions

Even ported my bp mod to work with 1.1

[wicked nacelle]

what would that be, pray tell?

[lean creek]

can someone help me in #screenshots

[ivory condor]

For what the mod i work on the blueprint mod, factory skyline

But that might not be what your looking for, if you want a bigger blueprint designer but it is a blueprint mod

[mortal ginkgo]

some people reported a bug of persistent radiation and they said reloading the game fixes it

[wicked nacelle]

sometimes picking up something radioactive and then putting it back down can help.

[mortal ginkgo]

@lean creek check above too

[lean creek]

I restarted and its better, I actually put the item down then picked it back up and it made me more radioactive than before

[native crown]

What do I do with the 6 extra hard drives?

[ivory condor]

That's a old bug that funny enough was never fixed

[foggy heart]

Hey guys, at what point should I consider building a central storage building? I'm at tier 3, just finished building my first coal power plant but havent unlocked steel production yet (Still neeed to build a modular frame factory)

Basically I'm asking if I should consider building the central storage now., how scaleable it is, etc. My logic behind it is that all my other storages are full and I want to start sinking overflows

Any tips?

[wicked nacelle]

make a library

you can buy them in vanilla now, right? or do I still have a mod installed for that? 100 coupons

so you can have as many as you want

[mortal ginkgo]

think its a mod

oh? interesting

[wicked nacelle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Hard_Drive

I think it used to be.

[mortal ginkgo]

no no I was wrong

[hard ivy]

Can be purchased in unlimited quantities at AWESOME Shop for 100 FICSIT Coupons each after completing Milestone 8-5 Particle Enrichment.

[reef basin]

yeah you can buy them in vanilla

[viral tendon]

Hard drive for 100 coupons is crazy work

[ivory condor]

With remote storage you basically dont really need central storage

[wicked nacelle]

sure, it's meant to be a tradeoff in early and mid game. late late game it's like... 2 hours of sitting there

[viral tendon]

Particle enrichment is not early game

[mortal ginkgo]

early game 100 cupons is madness I think, even at mid game

so you cant really farm cupons until the enrichment I think

[viral tendon]

It's like late mid game

[foggy heart]

Yeah but I'm only at tier 3. When Do i unlock the dimensional depot?

[viral tendon]

It's in mam isn't it

[ivory condor]

Have you collected any spheres yet, you need to scan in mam

[foggy heart]

Mercer spheres? Yeah got a few. WIll check mam now

[ivory condor]

Yeah have fun scanning those

[wicked nacelle]

but you need some mid-game items in order to use them to build stuff, too, though. Also I think you need 1 dimensional depot before the inventory option shows up for you

[foggy heart]

What mid game items? Just so i know how far away I am

[ivory condor]

Sam fluctuator, modular frames, wire and spheres

[onyx owl]

satisfactory

[ivory condor]

Honestly they are pretty cheap, you do have to collect spheres to build them though, you can't make them

I do like the game has more rewards for exploration, also sloops are good to collect to

[fathom shuttle]

Can I destroy the giant trees

[ivory condor]

Titan trees?

[fathom shuttle]

Yea

[ivory condor]

I wish...

[wicked nacelle]

I think you need a couple handful of computers for the research... you can find them by crashed freighters if you look hard enough...

[ivory condor]

Even now you can't destroy them, not even with nukes

[fathom shuttle]

Really? I really need the space for the 100+ refineries I need to put down lol

[wicked nacelle]

something I want to rush needs computers to research and always frustrates me

[hard oasis]

im cooked

[fathom shuttle]

Buy from the shop

[ivory condor]

Enjoy suffering

[wicked nacelle]

can you buy before you unlock making them?

[fathom shuttle]

Oh nah

What tier are you in rn?

They’re pretty common in crash sites tho

[plush trellis]

is refineries in blueprints reliably crashing the game a known issue?

[ivory condor]

I haven't played 1.1 much so idk

[plush trellis]

well, i say reliably, in reality it doesnt happen every single time but it will happen within a few attempts

[ivory condor]

Hmmm that doesnt sound fun

[wicked nacelle]

No. I slap down a blueprint of 4 refineries for pure-ingot recipes like crazy

just did one for fun right now - no crash

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys. I demand all your sulfur.

This IS a threat.

Hand over all your sulfur deposits. Mines are all in God forsaken places.

[wicked nacelle]

a nice QoL change would be to have pumps default to pumping up all the time -- especially if it's on a vertical pipe.

[mortal ginkgo]

[viral tendon]

Just made my way to some desert

[wicked nacelle]

go south, there's a nice pool area to play around in

[viral tendon]

It's like red

[wicked nacelle]

you'll find a bunch of friends there to play with you at the pool

[viral tendon]

Fuck oil i have to transport heat sink across 3k meters