satisfactory

[dense violet]

you don't always need to but it's commonly used

so things to do if you can't show your stuff

1. remove all buffers
2. raise the manifolds so the inputs are at least level with the machine inputs
3. loop your manifold like the image
4. pre flood the system

these are generic steps to simplifying and stabalising pipe systems

can't point out any specific issues, but doing those steps should straighten out the system

[foggy heart]

looping the manifold seems to have worked. what a god tier tip

[wicked nacelle]

Know all 4 things he said. Sometimes you need different/all of them. And for instance your pipes may have flooded while you looped the manifold too

[dense violet]

keep an eye on everything. Once you find and fix one problem in a system you might find others, it can hide them

[undone yarrow]

Pipes are evil. Sometimes they play nice, sometimes they just... give you the finger

[dense violet]

treat them nicely and they work

[undone yarrow]

I try to ;n;

freakin tsunderes

[dense violet]

You can get bottom feeding, 600 flow pipes working fine if you're careful 😛 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/558721941410807812/1297706600949088306/my_cop_sheets.png?ex=68744473&is=6872f2f3&hm=7c3bcdf412b99a30b69450fe46bd0a308a8c58564e819446fd64c93d21cdff5a&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

if you're wanting to plan out a pipe system feel free to ping me. Can give you some pointers

[leaden ether]

Heh yeah I feed all my source pipes (oil/water/nitrogen) from below and usually with 30-100+ meters of rise! As long as you use pumps and they are reasonably balanced when they get to their destination machines, they work fine.

[undone yarrow]

Tsun Der e

(it is in fact almost certainly a skill issue)

[dense violet]

oil and water are more stable than secondary fluids and gas doesn't care about gravity

[wicked nacelle]

Nitrogen doesn’t need pumps 😛

[dense violet]

but I'd also be dubious just because ime people are really bad at noticing stutters.

[wicked nacelle]

Didn’t realize rocket fuel was a gas until much later and after I had a lot of pumps 😕

[leaden ether]

Yeah -.-

[undone yarrow]

Thats why it uses the aluminum tanks

[wicked nacelle]

that makes a LOT of sense.

[eager fractal]

hii guys

can someone help me on my gameplay?

or just to talk if u want

[wicked nacelle]

sure, DM me I guess

guess not

[tranquil hemlock]

Good thing copper is a common resource. Going to have to cover this node next to my central storage location so that I can fit the rail line

[fathom shuttle]

#screenshots only computers and RCUs are left now

And high speed connectors too

Also one problem I have with the high speed connectors is that the silica I’m bringing in is 800/min but my belt speed is 780/min so I’m 20/min short

Guess I need to remember to upgrade to Mk6 later because I’m not redoing the quartz stuff lol

[wicked nacelle]

why use the alt then?

base recipe usees more cat but that's it. same circuit board and cable is super cheap

[fathom shuttle]

I think I did the math already and it ended up being that I’ll be going over my Caterium ingot budget

So I just avoided it

But this won’t be an issue since some of the high speed connectors are for my depot

[dreamy wren]

What are the ore spawn tiers in Satisfactory?

[wicked nacelle]

don't forget you cna throw some copper at it to stretch your cat ingots for wire

[wicked nacelle]

impure is .5, normal is 1.0, pure is 2.0

[dreamy wren]

thx!

[fathom shuttle]

The spaghetti in my build is already pretty bad lol

I don’t want to throw more belts in there

[wicked nacelle]

I find copper to be useless except for powdering so I try to use it wherever I can to stretch the good stuff

[fathom shuttle]

Already dealing with like 16 with this build and having to thread the needle with all of them

[reef wasp]

Do most players rebuild their base completely or just move on to a new spot on the map when they progress?

[wicked nacelle]

you always hate the base you have no matter how many times you're rebuilt it. don't rebuild it, just move on

next time you play through build a better first base... but you'll hate that one too

[fathom shuttle]

It depends, once you get into phase 4 and start building permanent infrastructure like trains it kind of decides where your base is

[reef wasp]

So you mean your answer is you move on.

[wicked nacelle]

yes. the stuff you have now that's ugly still works and it makes parts for you to build your next factory 🙂

[fathom shuttle]

The game forces you to move on so yes just do it

[reef wasp]

I love it. That's exactly what I do. I just didn't know if I was the only one...

[wicked nacelle]

what I don't get is when people make fancy bases that are only sized for like.. a mk2 miner and mk4 belts. what a waste of time. I fyou're going to make fancy stuff wait until you get mk3 and mk5 at least

[white dawn]

Who cares what belts are in use, so long as they're sufficient for the factory needs?

[abstract heron]

they look cool like in kibs world

[white dawn]

Sometimes folks want to make nice-looking factories regardless of where they are in the game

[abstract heron]

i am planning stuff after my thing gets fixed

[fathom shuttle]

Well if you’re gonna put in that much effort into the building then why not make it more productive lol

[white dawn]

Define "more productive," though

I mean, sure, if your factory is producing 20/min or somthing, you could instead have made a factory producting 25/min

But where does that chain of reasoning end?

[fathom shuttle]

Good thing there is a unit for that in game, items/min

[white dawn]

Are you only allowed to make your factories look nice when you're literally maxing out the game's resources for what the factory's making?

A fancy factory is its own reward (so long as you're one to enjoy making fancy factories, anyway)

[fathom shuttle]

We are talking about someone who is using for example, a mk2 miner with a mk3 belt instead of a mk3 miner with a mk5 or 6 belt that would 3x his factory’s output for no extra work

[white dawn]

But who cares? If you don't need 3x the factory's output, what's the point?

[fathom shuttle]

Not what item/min you should aim for

[white dawn]

Anyway, whatever. If you can't understand why someone wants to make a nice factory even if it doesn't meet your arbitrary production standards, then shrug

[timid rune]

aight I think I can do 1500 DMC/min \o/

just that I am definitely going have to mix alt receipes

[dense violet]

it's pretty common to rebuild after you've set up coal power however. pre automated power things tend to be a total wreck

[timid rune]

I do rebuild mine after I reach mk3 miners + mk6 belts

[fathom shuttle]

Why? Lol

I’m down to like 120 powershards bruh

[reef wasp]

Appreciate the input.

[foggy heart]

anyone got any tips or tricks for placing conveyor wall holes on a wall at the edge in the blueprint designer?

[tranquil hemlock]

Leave that spot without a wall, placing the wall afterwards when you actually use the blueprint, or use the walls with pre-built conveyor holes

Same with the wall power outlets. If you want the double sided one at the edge of the BP, gotta do it after placing BP

[foggy heart]

Yeah thats what im doing, was hoping someone had a trick

[timid rune]

trying to do 30 warp drive/min

[peak wasp]

thoughts on my brand new abomination?

#screenshots message

[foggy heart]

didnt know small nudge was a thing!

but no that doesnt work

[fathom shuttle]

Slooped? I’m doing slooped 30/min

[foggy heart]

lmao

[dense violet]

it's very easy..

[fathom shuttle]

But I don’t think you’ll need to make that many since a lot of processes in the game are DMR positive

[fathom shuttle]

Yea just rush to tier 9 and do a quick set up for powershards

[dense violet]

althought slooping shards and bio mass is very different from slooping production lines

I'd be surprised if you couldn't half nudge

[tranquil hemlock]

The wall hole has sort of framing around it, which overlaps with the edge of the blueprint designer, blocking it. Don't think there's any way around that, unfortunately

[dense violet]

other than not putting it on the edge?

[tranquil hemlock]

I suppose you could do it that way, but then you have to bring wall in XD Would defeat the point of compact blueprints, in my opinion, as it would take up unnecessary space\

[dense violet]

I'm not a huge fan of cookie cutter bps that are just repeated cubes of stuff 😛

[fathom shuttle]

I think my powershards should be enough to finish this project

[tranquil hemlock]

Just gotta be difficult, huh? 😂

[fathom shuttle]

I’ll need to on a big hunt to do the refineries for the copper ingot and the nuclear power plant

384 for the copper refineries and at least 700 for the nuclear power plant

Super fun

Oh I’ll also need 200 for the turbo motor factory too

So much stuff to do yet so little time

[tranquil hemlock]

Be me, procrastinating setting up computers because I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. Decides to set up crystal oscillators instead. Opens up a new tab in Satisfactory Tools, takes one look, and it's just like "Oh no"

[wicked nacelle]

that's actually kinda cool

you can't have any filters?

it takes mycellia to research synthetic, right?

or like.. can you find it at a crash site?

no the "extreme version"

no I mean if you're note ever allowed to chop down mushmush

okay, that's sane 🙂

yeah that's a fun idea. I like it

I never get the bolt gun but if I were playing those rules I 100% would

chainsaw wood is pretty time efficient per solid biomass

I mean I guess depending on where you start -- desert I can see that

play where you have to take the first option (not one of the two) on every hard drive you research 🙂

oh wait, that's just all the betas 🙂 (right?)

[pulsar egret]

for merger manifolds, do i increase the conveyor power after each merger or do i use the same conveyor for the whole line

[dense violet]

Just use your fastest belt. Much easier

[dense violet]

Same for the inputs

[lament niche]

fun

[foggy heart]

At what phase do you guys usually build a train network? I'm ready go from 3 to 4 and dont need it yet. Am i doing something wrong?

[tranquil hemlock]

I'm doing the initial stages now that I have half of my central storage done, and using it as an excuse to procrastinate setting up a computer factory

[small escarp]

My CPU heats up to around 80-85 with a fairly small factory. Is there a setting I can change to lower this?

[tranquil hemlock]

But I'm doing a design that is somewhat simple enough to expand when I need to

[white dawn]

Well yeah, for sure. :D My point was just that saying that a factory's not worth decorating unless you're, I dunno, literally maxing out the local nodes or whatever, is kind of a wild stance.

[small escarp]

I don't need to upgrade honestly

PC build is pretty decent

I'm usually <80 with other factory games. DSP and Factorio

So there's no optimization setting? Like tickrate etc

[viral gorge]

the math of this game and my perfectionism are incompatible

I want to create an ideal production facility where not a single unnecessary part is produced and nothing is idle, and at the same time it must produce sufficiently complex parts

[viral gorge]

and so it seems to me that I have reached the ideal, dozens of numbers have come together, and then it happens that the required amount of steel does not correspond to the production speed of the drilling rig, and on principle I do not intend to slow it down

I could beat this game in 20 hours if I didn't care about perfect production. I'd just connect all the available ore veins, make as many ingots as I could, and then make as many parts as I could. But no, I've been trying to figure out how to mine exactly 500 ore per minute without slowing down the drill for 10 hours now

Anyway, I'm special, so I always increase the speed scale of the drills as much as the inserted accelerators allow, so having MK 2 drills, the amount of ore mined will always be a multiple of 30, and 500 is not a multiple of 30

[shy mulch]

20 hours is an extremely ambitious time to complete

[boreal musk]

i tried it before and it took me around 50hrs to beat the game, 10hrs ish for phase 4 and 5hrs for phase 5

its a spaghetti nightmare

[viral gorge]

I only need to make 490 steel pipes per minute from enough steel and iron to make the total yield from that ore a multiple of 30, and even with all the alt recipes available at my stage I still wouldn't be able to achieve the ideal proportions

[boreal musk]

isnt the record for speedrun rn like under 10hrs?

[tranquil hemlock]

Anyone know off the top of their head what the height limit of a large blueprint designer is?

[shy mulch]

It'll tell you on the wiki

[flint grail]

How do I take screenshots without the UI in the way?

[tranquil hemlock]

If you're on PC, press P for photo mode

[flint grail]

Mk

[viral gorge]

sure

terraria

[sweet wing]

Did ya'll know the delete session button in the main menu is in the same spot as the delete save button in-game? I sure didn't! :D sobbing

I was only thirty hours in but man that sucks

[fathom shuttle]

Lmao no way bro deleted a 30 hour save

[fathom shuttle]

Do you have no backups at all? Check steam cloud

[timid rune]

no sloop (well.... I might not sloop the manufacturers)

[fathom shuttle]

Very impressive, I’m doing 15 and the scale is killing me lol

[timid rune]

the only thing I am gonna sloop atm is reawakened SAM LOL

[fathom shuttle]

It’s still good to sloop the BWD

[timid rune]

Yeah

[fathom shuttle]

That’s an easy 180m/min points lol

You can get all statutes in like 8 hours with that

[timid rune]

so far I am slooping reawakened SAM and converters for ficsite ingot

[shy mulch]

Sloops are limited. Best to use them only an end products if you want to max out

[lament niche]

oh boy, we got a minmaxer

[silk ocean]

My world is running out of sloops and I needz moar xD

[fathom shuttle]

I recently got the achievement for 150 Mercer spheres

[shy mulch]

haha I'm definitely no minmaxer. I just think it's an obvious efficiency boost to use sloops only on end products, why multiply a small part of your production when you can multiply all of it

[fathom shuttle]

Only 3.6% players got it

[silk ocean]

I got that yesterday, I noticed the low percentage too

[shy mulch]

well done 🙂

[silk ocean]

Ta 🙂

Considering how incredibly useful the Alien Tech tree is, surprised more don't have it

[shy mulch]

plus there's 298 mercers across the world it's literally only half of them, so shouldn't be too hard in theory

I've collected 206/298 on my main save according to SCIM

[silk ocean]

150 is quite a hunt but yea it's very doable

[fathom shuttle]

70 hard drives collected

[silk ocean]

Nice!

[fathom shuttle]

I have 2 hidden achievements left

I think one is for the cyber wagon or something, idk the other

[shy mulch]

you can see what they are on steam if you want spoilers

[silk ocean]

Just had a hard drive with +6 player slots, couldn't resist that

🙂

[left arrow]

I'm still not even halfway through the game, so far I only use sloops for DNA and elevator parts ^^

[shy mulch]

the other use is alien power augmenters, do you have that unlocked?

sorry my bad shouldn't be giving spoilers here

[fathom shuttle]

Finally made a half decent manufacturer blueprint #screenshots message

[silk ocean]

Yea I've built 2 Augmenters

[left arrow]

I don't have one up at the moment, but yeah, I pretty much have all MAM research I can get.

[shy mulch]

Ah nice one, yeah if you have spare sloops then they are a cool investment

[reef basin]

Big portion of that is people who played pre-achievements

[silk ocean]

Very true, me included, until this 1.1 playthru

[shy mulch]

I have completed the megakiloachievements 😄

[fathom shuttle]

Time to build the other half of the factory

[silk ocean]

Last time I did a full build was Update 7

[lament niche]

Smelters: exist

refineries: exist

[shy mulch]

Anyone here try to collect everything? I have an urge to try and collect all the bacon agoric, currently at 864/1615

[fathom shuttle]

That’s such a useless thing why would collect that 💀 😭 😭

[left arrow]

Lol, I almost never have any bacon, eat it too often.

[fathom shuttle]

Unless you’re getting into spider nests constantly with no heals

[shy mulch]

it's nothing to do with it being useful, I just have a drive to collect things

I am producing 45 synthetic power shards per minute but still collect slugs

[left arrow]

lol

well, there's a limited number of those x)

Unrelated but I have a somewhat cursed belt setup I feel the need to share.

[shy mulch]

Blue slugs 345/596
Yellow slugs 264/389
Purple slugs 181/257
Still got plenty to collect! I shall continue!

[left arrow]

#screenshots message

I call it: "what if I want to see the belts, but not the splitters and mergers"

[shy mulch]

That's certainly one way to do it 🙂

[left arrow]

it's very silly and I probably will not do that ever again, but I made myself laugh.

If anything, that factory design finally gave me a nice use for the curved corner foundation.

[shy mulch]

always nice to try something different

[left arrow]

...I am now producing 1800 iron ingots and 150 concrete, yay.

[shy mulch]

One thing I've noticed is no matter how big or crazy I build something, when I show it off there's always someone who's done 10x as much haha

[left arrow]

Haha, fair.

I don't know why I keep doing this, but I unlock things too fast and then spend forever catching up before I can produce the elevator parts.

[shy mulch]

there's no right or wrong way to do it

[left arrow]

Yeah, but now I find the idea of having to make a single factory 20 times bigger than I'm used to daunting.

Because I have Mk4 belts and Northern Forest has just so many resources

Placing those 60 iron smelters was an ordeal x)

[shy mulch]

oh it gets worse 😄

[left arrow]

I don't doubt it, some day I might feel the need to rebuild all of it with refineries x)

[fathom shuttle]

Make a blueprint for 6,12,24,36 smelters

You’ll need them later

[left arrow]

I made an almost auto-tileable blueprint with 1 smelter instead. Still need to work out some kinks to avoid it connecting to more belts than I want.

But if I can fix it, I'll have a manifold built in one double-click per machine.

For now I just don't travel enough to bother making full factories in blueprints. Too many pure nodes in the forest means I will never be reusing a blueprint anyways.

...but once I make trains I'm sure I'll change my tune

[willow dawn]

Trains are the best

[lament niche]

try 89 refineries

[willow dawn]

And a headache to get the curves right, but still very satisfying

[left arrow]

I was talking about using them for Pure Iron, but I would probably not have enough water near my factory for that

I'm taking a break from designing blueprints anyways, already am playing Blue Prince enough 😛

alright, I'm making bad jokes, it,s probably time I get to bed

good talk, and good luck with your builds y'all

[foggy heart]

Whats a decent amount of circuit boards to be producing at like the end of phase 3? i can make 90pm with the silicon recipe but I'm not sure if that will be wasting 2 normal copper nodes or not, also not sure how needed circuit boards are in the future

great, thanks

[jaunty jewel]

hello my friend

you are indeed

sometimes it is

i saw many many cats on my walk today

one stared directly into my soul

[fathom shuttle]

RCUs done let’s goo

Only HSC and computers left

If I’m crazy I’d finish FMF and PCC in the same day since all the infrastructure is set up and all I need to do I connect the pipes

Oh wow

2.6m/min points from sinking the RCUs

It’s 2m but yea crazy

Brooo I’m out of powershards for real now

[pulsar abyss]

when will satisfactory come to xbox im dying to play it

[fathom shuttle]

Tomorrow, where do you live?

[pulsar abyss]

tomorrow it releases?? im in texas

[fathom shuttle]

Oh it got banned there

[pulsar abyss]

bruh why

[fathom shuttle]

Idk trump didn’t like the game

[pulsar abyss]

ok bro ur js capping

[fathom shuttle]

I can’t neither confirm nor deny sir

[pulsar abyss]

i looked it up

anyone actually know when satisfactory comes to xbox

[fathom shuttle]

They said it’s soon, it will release alongside the ps5 release

So maybe next update if you’re lucky

[green fiber]

we dont have a release date

[timid rune]

I only have 56.25 RCUs/m atm

too lazy to build more LMAO

[fathom shuttle]

Exact same number lol, for 29 PCC and depot

They’re a pain in the ass to set up

[timid rune]

exactly how many you can make from 1200 aluminum ingot/min

[green fiber]

depends on the recipe choice

[timid rune]

yeah true

[green fiber]

you would have to calculate all options for all 3 alts including their demand for casings or heat sinks

radio control unit with alclad casing would only be 45/min from 1200/min aluminum

[fathom shuttle]

My recycling plant broke

[green fiber]

Radio Connection unit could make 150/min with the heat exchanger alt

[fathom shuttle]

Just needed to set up some sinks to fix the overflow problems

I’d be so mad if it was something fundamentally wrong my my design

I’d legit quit the game ngl

[timid rune]

now I am questioning myself do I want 198 crystal oscillator/min hah

[fathom shuttle]

The high speed connector one?

Yea too much for me

[green fiber]

yep

other than that, just from RCU recipes, you dont have much to choose from anymore

[fathom shuttle]

It’s the most efficient aluminum wise but I think you need 2 HSC for every RCU

[green fiber]

1200/min aluminum either gives you 45/min, 56.25/min or 150/min

[fathom shuttle]

I went for radio control system since I didn’t want to build a billion computers

[green fiber]

you used alclad casing, didnt you?

or maybe just default casing

[timid rune]

yeah I use alclad casing

[modest mirage]

Now I’m a pretty clueless person as is, but I have played 25 hours in this game and all I’ve learned is that the hypertubes are dangerously addicting to ride in. There’s still so much confusion though. Mainlyyyyyyy how the hell do people manage power?? I will spend all this time collecting leaves, crafting them into biomass, putting them in the constructor, making biofuel, replenishing all my machines but that process alone leaves with with like no time to: make new machines/factories, explore, fix stuff. Idk I could be missing something but this game feels like a make fuel nonstop type of game more than anything else.

[green fiber]

yeah, theres not much more to get out of that recipe combo

[green fiber]

You still use biomass burners?

[fathom shuttle]

Default casing

[green fiber]

People manage their power by progressing PAST that stage and unlocking coal generators

[fathom shuttle]

Too lazy to bring copper over and manage all the assemblers

All for 9% more aluminum efficiency

[fathom shuttle]

You need coal and oil power

[modest mirage]

I’m working on coal generators now but I’m on the first planet and the only decent amount of coal near water is like all the way out in the sticks and even then, the lifts for the water pipes need power so do I use biomass burners for the lifts or can I connect them to the same coal generator?

[fathom shuttle]

Use the biomass burners for now

Once the coal generators get going you can safely delete them

[green fiber]

you use biomass to kickstart the power stuff, yes.
but the question is: do you bring the water to the coal, or the coal to the water?

long distance pipes are very inefficient.

[modest mirage]

Well the spot I found has like 6 coal deposits and a huge lake and there no coal and water near each other anywhere else on the map so far. The problem is, yes that site would be very far from all my current factories

[green fiber]

that is normal. you are expected to make outposts

It will be far away so you have to solve that problem somehow

[fathom shuttle]

You can connect your factory to the a power station far away

[timid rune]

hah I just need 40% of the map's copper to make 130 singularity cell + 30 wrap drive/min

[modest mirage]

But just so I’m clear, eventually, there will be a fully automated source of power or I will always have to manually restock something….somewhere….

[fathom shuttle]

So you’re ok, build the coal generators and you can kind of forget about them

[fathom shuttle]

Nah it’s fully automated

[green fiber]

coal IS the fully automated power source

once kickstarted it can sustain itself

it can power the pumps and miners.
just connected them to the same power grid with power poles

the biomass burners only serve to start it all up initially.
after that, once the generators start running, they take over

[modest mirage]

Ok awesome. I just need to stop messing around in the hypertubes and put in the work. I’m pretty sure I was locked in for 30 minutes going back n forth in my first tube

Anyways thank you both!

[green fiber]

yeah hypertubes are hella expensive for having NO automated power going yet

No time to play around if you have to feed biomass burners every 5 minutes

[modest mirage]

Everyone has the same resource deposit locations or is it randomly set at every new game?

[green fiber]

its all the same

its all one giant map btw, not 4 planets

[modest mirage]

Ahhh

Just different locations?

[green fiber]

yep

everyone went through similar things as you.
imma assume you are in grass fields?

grassy hills all around, big cliffs, a giant sinkhole up north?

[modest mirage]

Yeah how’d you get my location?! 🫣

[green fiber]

its easy to guess based on what you said

grass hills has only 2 coal nodes near it and only small ponds

the next, ideal location is a giant lake up northwest with coal nearby

[modest mirage]

Yeah lol I should probably just eventually get around to watching a YouTube beginner guide or something too.

[green fiber]

so i know that location because i also built coal power there

[modest mirage]

Yeah that’s where I just built my coal generator but I didn’t pipe it back to grass field yet

[green fiber]

i started up initially by just belting coal from the 2 coal nodes on the cliffs of grass fields up to the mini ponds

6 extractors fit in there so i built 16 coal gens directly on top of one of the small ponds in grass fields

[modest mirage]

See I’m using those to make steel

[green fiber]

see, i do too, but only one of the 2 nodes

the other one was reserved for power

once i got that giant lake going, i could switch over

[modest mirage]

Hmm you used one node with just one coal generator or multiple?

[green fiber]

one can sustain a few

especially with mk 2 miners and power shards

they are pure nodes after all

[modest mirage]

Good to know. Thanks again!

[green fiber]

so a mk 2 miner makes 240/min i think

thats enough for exactly 16 generators

[fathom shuttle]

Ok it’s time to savanage powershards from my fuel generators lol

[boreal musk]

you should be able to place 3 extractors on the small pond, enough for 8 coal gens

[green fiber]

i managed to squeeze in 6

[boreal musk]

thats hella tight

[green fiber]

CTRL snapping is hella strong

water extractors are a lot more lenient if snapped next to each other

[ruby steppe]

somehow i managed to highlight a train with red overlay and i dont know how to turn it off D:

[boreal musk]

hover your build gun to it

while in dismantle mode

[ruby steppe]

thanks

now i have to catch it half a map away D:

so.... im doing cooling system factory and i have two choices .... transport nitrogen gas and water or heatsinks and rubber... distance... middle red forest and on the right outskirts of it

[boreal musk]

transporting solid is far easier than fluid

[ruby steppe]

is it better to pack unpack liquids and transport them or to transport other resources?

[ruby steppe]

thinking the same cus then i would need two wagons just for packaging stuff

[timid rune]

I love the cooling system alt now

more motors (they are free) but with less nitrogen hah

[boreal musk]

just transport the heat sink and rubber id say

[ruby steppe]

cuz i made around 450heatsinks/min and i kinda want to use all of them for cooling systems XD but will settle what ever 3000nitrogen gives me

hm.... alternate cooling uses motors -,.- but it uses less nitrogen .-.

[timid rune]

motors are fairly straightforward to setup though

[ruby steppe]

which recipe do you use for them?

[timid rune]

if you want to use iron only

[ruby steppe]

stators and rotors...

[timid rune]

iron wire + iron pipe + steel rotor alts + vanilla stator

[ruby steppe]

i went with with electric motors uses a bit less stators but uses ai limitters

kinda depends on how many i need ,-,

[timid rune]

I go for Pure Iron + Solid Steel + Steel Rod + Iron Wire Alts + vanilla receipes

[ruby steppe]

with rotors i do copper sheets

[timid rune]

I need copper for other stuff Hah

[ruby steppe]

same but im already making like 1500 of them 😄

[timid rune]

since my nuclear power setup uses around 4-5k copper ore/min

actually scratch that...

[ruby steppe]

well i do play moded so power isnt an issue

[timid rune]

9k copper ore/min lmao

I am also modded but alas

I am happy that my warp drive factory plan only uses 14.5k copper ore/min

[ruby steppe]

im only using like half of a map right now so ye... 😄

[boreal musk]

i dont mind doing motor for less nitrogen as iron is far more abundant

[warm phoenix]

i wish coal and sulfur nodes werent so far apart

[ruby steppe]

ye thinking the same now

[fathom shuttle]

Only 5 powershards left even after I stole some from the fuel generators

I’m gonna need to gather a lot of them

[ruby steppe]

welp back to growing my baby

[willow dawn]

Doggos! 😛

[fathom shuttle]

But the good news is that everything is finally done

[boreal musk]

ficsonium?

[fathom shuttle]

Tomorrow I’ll come back and do the FMF, PCC and super computers

And finally call this project done

[timid rune]

#screenshots message

[fathom shuttle]

I’ll move on to turbo motors and nuclear pasta once I gather all the shards I need

[timid rune]

the simplest motor setup

[ruby steppe]

dont forget to use sommersloops on constructos while crafting them

[boreal musk]

i remember theres an alt for motor that use less rotor/stator but use crystal oscillator

[timid rune]

yeppers

[boreal musk]

its quite nice for a quick and small turbo motor factory

[fathom shuttle]

But man this thing is gonna take a long time to get going

My recycled plant backed up earlier and I need to wait for that to fully come on online again

Then this one needs some time to pick up

[fathom shuttle]

I’m planning to use that recipe for my big factory lol

Just 20/min oscillators to reduce my coal and iron needs by half, it’s pretty nice

[boreal musk]

id recommend insulated oscillator alt for it

it use less quartz but use rubber tho

[timid rune]

@fathom shuttle how many motors are you aiming for?

[boreal musk]

i might do 150/min motors with that alt later

[fathom shuttle]

20/min turbo motors

[timid rune]

not bad!

[fathom shuttle]

Idk if I’ll use my PCC for it tho

[austere pendant]

i have found mercer ball under earth, there is no entrance to cave or smth how am i supposted to get it?

[fluid sapphire]

there is an entrance, just elsewhere

[frail sleet]

I think i got 7 on there, but it's an awkward number 😛

1k hours ago tho so i dont remember the exact number, just deleting and replacing a ton of times to try to squeeze it

[cunning fern]

Will a doggo disappear from a green area if i pick up the leaves and trees? I've just begun a new game and don't yet have any foundations to keep him in.

[steady glade]

it'll walk, might be tough to find him again if you go way away

did you tame him?

[austere pendant]

hmmm, i looked really far away from signal and found nothing

[cunning fern]

Not yet, if I tame hinm he willl follow me. Not good in my starting situation. I will tame him, when I've learned the foundations.

[steady glade]

then dont worry about him, im sure you'll find another one in due time, an

[real wolf]

[warm phoenix]

how to efficiently connect coal and sulfur nodes

also the ground fights me when i try to make foundation

[fluid sapphire]

lol what

this is a factory building game

if you are here for lore idk what to tell you

lol i just looked it up, these games look nothing alike?

Poe's law

[prime jasper]

What would be the best way to feed 3 conveyor belt that sends 120/min into 8 advanced smelters?

I could easily do that if I had conveyor MK3 with capacity superior to 120/min but I am stuck with MK2 conveyor for now so I am not Shure what would be the smart way to go around this.

[tranquil sentinel]

regarding the alt recipes that we can unlock:

Ive been hoarding harddrives and scanned them untill it says that I can't scan anymore, but There's still quite a few of the alt recipes that's not available form any of them.

Does that mean that I can't get access to those, in my world, or can I eventually unlokc eveyr alt recipe?

[fluid sapphire]

whats the throughput you are trying to send to the smelters? im not sure i follow

[chrome glen]

Quick question, planning to use dark matter traps to make self sustaining (after a kickstart) dark matter crystals for their own production lines... this however raises an issue, how do i prioritise dark matter into traps before letting leftover flow into crystalization? I understand its a gas, so i can't really try to abuse headlift to make sure it goes into traps first

Basically, how can i prioritse gas flow?

[prime jasper]

I am trying to send a total of 360 iron ore per minute into 8 smelters that consume 45 per minute, which total to 360.

This 360 input is split into 3x120 conveyor because I don't have unlocked higher tiers at the moment

I wish I could just turn those 3 stream of 120 into 2 streams of 230 and split everything by two until I get streams of 45 but I don't have the technological capacity right now.

Or I can do the factory in a non efficient way for now and come back to it once I get the MK3 conveyor belt.

[hard ivy]

3:4 balancer 🙂

[dense violet]

clock the machines being fed by each belt to use 120

[dense violet]

you don't, you have a system that runs on fresh residue, and a second system that runs on waste

like alumina waste water

[fluid sapphire]

this is the easiest solution

dont combine belts at all, just have one block of machines for every belt that uses exactly how much is on the belt

[dense violet]

clocking is your most powerful logistic tool you have for the whole game. It will save you hours of pain and mess

[prime jasper]

So, the idear would be to use clocking in order to make each smelter use 60 iron ore, this way I only have to split each of my 120 input into a 2x60?

That's sounds like a great idear! 👌

[dense violet]

or under clock and have 3x using 40 each

saves on shards

[fluid sapphire]

Underclocking saves power, but uses more space. Overclocking saves space but uses more power, and shards

[dense violet]

my main suggestion though would be to consider the next step of processing, and group up these machines in such a way that they easily feed the next manifold groups

that's part of clocking's power - setting things up like that in advance

[prime jasper]

The factory is a steel factory, and I planned to add steel beam and steel pipes in the next manifold.

So 60 sounds great because I can get 1 still beam crafter per smelter and 2 steel pipe crafter per smelter with this setting.🤔

[boreal musk]

you mean foundry?

[prime jasper]

Yeah probably

[dense violet]

if it sounds good to you it's good 🙂 there's basically infinite ways to do things like this

[boreal musk]

60 works, altho i just go for 40 since i prefer to save some power in early game

[willow oar]

is it normal i can't connect a splitter / merger directly to an assembler entrance ? I though I saw that on a video, but nothing go inside when I do it

same when trying to put a splitter at the exit of a storage, nothing goes out

[sage flame]

i saved the day!

122 hours

[smoky forge]

you need to connect the 2 with a very small belt

[hard ivy]

You can't. At least not without a mod. All connections have to be made with a belt

[willow oar]

can't put a belt except if I put the splitter clearly far ahead

I wanted to try doing a blueprint with multiple assemblers, but it takes way too much space 😦

[silk ocean]

Does anyone know why the Turbofuel is flashing with an exclamation mark in the drone port? It seems to work fine

[smoky forge]

then try nudgin it a litle bit away with H

[late tartan]

Is there auto belt connect to adjacent blueprints now? Its been awhile since ive played

[boreal musk]

yes

[late tartan]

Nice. So many neat features added since i last played

[south sinew]

you generallly have to tweak the prints to get it to work reliably, but yeah

[spiral summit]

can i force rock debris to despawn via like the console

i cant drive through it all and im at like 20fps 💔

[green fiber]

just give it some time, it'll despawn soon enough

[dense violet]

put them side by side

then make another bp that has the other side

[twilit elk]

are there a limited number of Mercer Sphere? I'm worried to use too much on Depots

[smoky forge]

like 150

not sure tbh

or no its an additional like 60 ontop of all the research needed ones

[twilit elk]

Oh I can also deconstruct the depot and get it back XD, never mind

[smoky forge]

yeah also that ....

[fluid sapphire]

#screenshots message

lol @smoky forge whats the problem xd

[smoky forge]

very space inefficient

you can place splitters and mergers ontop of conveyor lifts

[fluid sapphire]

im not a big fan of super compact designs tbh

i like seeing the items go brr

[smoky forge]

you will be

[fluid sapphire]

ehhhh, thats not gonna happen

[smoky forge]

try placing 400 constructers or any other machine

[fluid sapphire]

why would i ever do that

[smoky forge]

without a good blueprint

[smoky forge]

big factory

[fluid sapphire]

this is a design for normal people, OK?

xd

[smoky forge]

lol alr alr

XD

[fluid sapphire]

i actually like that things end up massive because of the extra space

[vast raptor]

how do i fix waterfalls not rendering

for some reason i cant see them

[smoky forge]

bigger render distance?

[vast raptor]

its at very far

[smoky forge]

in general good graphic settings? not sure tbh

[vast raptor]

i fixed it lol

it was dlss

set it to quality from balanced

[hidden grail]

türk var mı

[viral tendon]

Js looked at warp drive recipe, i want to kill myself

[smoky forge]

warp drive... i dont got a picture in my head rn what is that again

[viral tendon]

Its 3 pm but that thing is definelty for the next day

[viral tendon]

So it uses themal propulsuon rocket, superposition oscillators and singularity cell

Thermal propulsion rockets uses tubo motor cooling system fused frames and modular engine

[smoky forge]

ooooh that thing... yeah u only need it like once so its alr

[viral tendon]

And cell uses nuclear pasta

[viral tendon]

I will leave that for tommorow

[smoky forge]

nuclear pasta easiest one

[viral tendon]

I already did about 100k MW power plant today

[smoky forge]

dont rush the game!

[viral tendon]

Dark matter cryslal is easie

[willow dawn]

Ok, time to test drive my newest (second) trainline

[viral tendon]

I have 500 hour play time and i still didn't compelte the game don't worrry

[smoky forge]

same, mine is like nearly 400 now

[kind basalt]

Do drones fly between drone ports even when empty? It seems that way and they only waste my fuel.

[viral tendon]

That's a great question

[fluid sapphire]

i have 600 hours and the most advanced thing i have built is HMF xd

[viral tendon]

#screenshots message Look at this

Also i automated power shards and holy shit that was the best decision of my life

Before that i wasn't using a lot of them

But now even with 5 per minute i use them on everything just to save up some space

[foggy heart]

whats the best way to get an exact amount off a line? like I have a line of 120 but I only wanna take 6/min off to go somewhere else

[fluid sapphire]

just feed more, it should balance out?

[viral tendon]

Programable splitter and overflow

[dawn sun]

If it's possible, saturate the 'somewhere else' line so that it can physically only take 6/min off the main line with a normal splitter

[steady hemlock]

can i ask for help here?

[viral tendon]

Time to log off satisfactory for the first time in 40 hours

[mortal ginkgo]

yes but #1038092680493801533 can be better

[dawn sun]

It's generally better to ask for help in the channel relevant to your question, because people with more expertise lurk in those respective channels, but yeah you can ask

That works too

[viral tendon]

Ficsit allows 15 minutes rest per day

So in 15 minutes will hop on again

499h 59sm 34s

Yikes

400 hours since june 11

I'm not proud of myself

[silk ocean]

851 hours total, 153 past 2 weeks xD

[viral tendon]

221 hours past 2 weeks

[fluid sapphire]

impressive, only about 240 myself in the same time

[silk ocean]

Full time job XD

[viral tendon]

I'm not proud of myself not gonna lie

[silk ocean]

Could be worse xD

[viral tendon]

A week has 336 hours

[silk ocean]

Could be 320 hours 😄

[viral tendon]

So i've played more than half a 2 weeks in 2 wees

[silk ocean]

Some of my hours are just the game sitting on the main menu, suspended

[viral tendon]

I may have 8 hours doing nothing because i had to sleep

[frozen cloud]

thats 2 weeks

[viral tendon]

Yeah i messed up

[silk ocean]

My local server is set to run 24/7 even if nobody is logged in xD

[viral tendon]

9.2 days in 2 weeks

That's absolutely disguisting

[silk ocean]

Beats RL xD

[viral tendon]

I love ths game so much

I genuinely have no idea how did i acompliash that

[silk ocean]

Skill 😄

[willow dawn]

Can you turn on selfdriving and hop in the train?

I want to see if it performs as expected

[silk ocean]

Yah

[willow dawn]

great

hmmmmm it's saying the stop is unreachable 😦 why I can totally reach it and all the blocks are correct

[silk ocean]

Is the station the correct way around? Quite easy to mistake the direction

[viral tendon]

Make sure the train station is facing the buffer

[willow dawn]

It is

[willow dawn]

I will try from further away

[silk ocean]

All of the signals correct direction and none are flashing yellow?

[viral tendon]

Never saw a point to use like signals and things

[silk ocean]

If it's just one train, one track, yea prob not needed

[viral tendon]

I use trains as a way to get around places

[willow dawn]

all are fine

[silk ocean]

They can sometimes do this and it's either station wrong way around, a signal that's blocking or the wrong way around, or sometimes just some track join that isn't quite snapped

Is it a pair of tracks or just one?

[viral tendon]

Can you teleport from satelite portal to main one?

Also we need 0.0001% chance to fucking explode while telerpoting

Cuz ficsit doesn't condone use this technology and to use on your own risk

[willow dawn]

I don't know what it was but I did some of the rrack and put the statio back down and it is working !

[viral tendon]

Also by the point you unlock portals 1000 w is not massive power draws like they say

[willow dawn]

YAY

[viral tendon]

Nice

[silk ocean]

Great Success

[willow dawn]

The second track was so much harder than the first, not only was it twice as far with lots of natural barriers in the way... I did make the main station a bit complex

[silk ocean]

Trains and rails do take a bit of getting used to yeah

[drifting briar]

I tried the game for a few minutes on modded VR... if the attempt I just had wasn't a laggy mess because the default airlink is bad, it might have been fun... still enjoyed seeing stuff at real size + had time to go through my hypertubes once to check my coal powerplant... that is NOT a good idea in VR

I'd say I'm rather tolerant to moving stuff for my eyes whilst not moving, but that was instant nausea

[teal peak]

Do you have any tips to make it easier when using nuclear power?

[drifting briar]

funnily enough, I am EXTREMELY sensitive to moving inner ear while not moving for my eyes

go figure

[reef basin]

What's the "hard" part of nuclear? 🤔

[mortal ginkgo]

easiest nuclear power is making Plutonium rods and sink them instead of using them, or else you will always have nuclear waste

[drifting briar]

"plotinum"?

[mortal ginkgo]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Plutonium_Fuel_Rod

[drifting briar]

yeah?

[mortal ginkgo]

English got goofed

[drifting briar]

looks like it

😔

[teal peak]

When I release nuclear power, I feel like there are a thousand things to do and I wanted a tip, if it's worth doing it modularly by item or focusing on 'just doing it without calculating efficiency'

[south lion]

can u keep spiders from spawning on their spawn points?

[drifting briar]

you can start by just having it running to a stable degree by underclocking some stuff

that'd be a way to make all the maths easier

[teal peak]

I usually have 10k MW before I get to nuclear power

[reef basin]

Well it's always good to plan it, but how you're gonna build is is just up to you

[drifting briar]

I haven't played in a while

[reef basin]

*GW 🙂

[drifting briar]

10 000 guild wars?

that's a lot

[teal peak]

How many hours is your biggest save guys?

[drifting briar]

considering I have around 106 hours total, I would say less than that

[sweet light]

2502h

[reef basin]

First big decision is porbably what tier of nuclear you want 😉

• burn URods, store UWaste
• burn URods, process UWaste, sink PRods
• burn URods, process UWaste, burn PRods, store PWaste
• burn URods, process UWaste, burn PRods, process PWaste, burn FRods

[open tree]

Is radiation a sphere or a cylinder? I havent experimented much with it

[reef basin]

It's neither

Radiation is infinite and you only take damage when it goes above certain intensity

And intensity falls of with distance

[drifting briar]

so a fading sphere

[open tree]

ok, cool. but that intensity is based on distance from source right?

[reef basin]

From single source yeah, but there's many sources all over the map

[teal peak]

and the quantity

[open tree]

is it 2D (cylinder X/Y decay) or 3D (X/Y/Z decay)?

[teal peak]

3d

[drifting briar]

if there's no radiation warning, there's no radiation, so may as well say a sphere of a few meters

even if it's technically infinite

[reef basin]

But fun things happen when two sources are close to each other, then it's not two spheres

[teal peak]

3d and i guess starts with in 20m +/-

[open tree]

turns into a venn diagram of spheres?

[teal peak]

more items, more intensity

[reef basin]

Eh that depends on intensity and amount of items

[reef basin]

No, it reaches places where no single source would (since it's sum of both intensities)

[open tree]

interesting.

[drifting briar]

the guy is just trying to get a rough estimate for how things work and you're almost throwing quantum physics around 😦

[open tree]

so have a full row of filters for my hazmat suit when building nuke plants.

[teal peak]

Does the nuclear reactor emit radiation while it is processing?

[drifting briar]

just play with godmode on, there, no radiation anymore :)))

[reef basin]

Yeah, filters are relatively easy to make

[shy mulch]

Also after the source goes away the area stays irradiated for a while and that tails off in time, so technically it's a 4d supersphere 😁

[reef basin]

I'd rather answer correctly than "lie" to them

[reef basin]

No, area is never radioactive

[shy mulch]

Quantum physics is fun

[open tree]

are walls of walls able to "block"/ "shield" radiation?

[drifting briar]

go solve that hazy area between quantum and macro, you will have so much fun

[teal peak]

it would need to be a lead wall

[reef basin]

There's a few bugs with radiation staying in some cases (afaik one is sorting inventory while having radioactive item), but there's no "permanent" radiation

[reef basin]

No

[shy mulch]

OK I concede that point, but the effect appears that way, because the point radiation source remains for some time after the actual cause of the radiation is gone, such as a nuke nobelisk

[reef basin]

That one idk about, but I was mostly talking about item sources anyway

[shy mulch]

Fair enough

[open tree]

concrete works in real life relatively well. as does water

[teal peak]

Do you know how to make those blueprints with the buildings one inside the other (ultracompact)?

[open tree]

i havent done anything compact yet, no.

[teal peak]

they are insane

[drifting briar]

for 99.9% 10 cm of lead, 70cm of concrete and 150cm of water

for uh... gamma

[open tree]

Skin for beta, paper for alpha.

[dense lodge]

guys how many mercer spheres are there in total?

[drifting briar]

4

[dense lodge]

what

[teal peak]

298 merce spheres and 106 somersloop

[willow dawn]

I can't select one of my stations for the timetable... anybody had this before?

[teal peak]

118 hard drive

[willow dawn]

Another train is already going to it so I know it should be reachable

Nevermind, guess I needed to stop the selfdriving first

[silk ocean]

Yea have to turn off self driving first

[teal peak]

Which biome do you think is best to start with?

[smoky forge]

grasslands because easy acces to every ore

desert is for mass production

[shy mulch]

For a first playthrough, I'd always say grassy fields. Experienced players seem to prefer desert

[willow glen]

totally personal choice but i like rocky desert best.
if its your first run i suggest the grassy fields tho, it progresses nicely outward. the rest of the starts assume youve played a bit at least.

i always pick dune desert tho, because its wide open. its not easy.. oil in particular always very difficult there, and oil is early.

[teal peak]

I cant find a better place than Northern forest, almost every ore is pure there

[shy mulch]

Huge amounts of coal though, so you can do big coal plant up there to see you through until nuclear, and just skip fuel

[foggy heart]

is the insulated crystal oscillator recipe worth it? Looks like it just takes way more complicated resources

[teal peak]

easy to "sky building" because there is a insane cliff

[bitter agate]

I know there's a pure cliff near there, was a perfect spot and then they killed the quartz nodes there

[willow glen]

for northern forest, cant maximize pure nodes until really late in the game, and by that point i never want to touch my hub. also norther forest is awful to build around early on, gotta build so high before you get jetpacks. but its very rich and the most central start, if you have a master plan you might prefer there.

[smoky forge]

skipping fuel? you normaly skip nuclear

[shy mulch]

That's the recipe I use for mine, but mainly because I had a ton of spare polymer residue, so turning it into rubber for this recipe seemed like a good use

[shy mulch]

Just throwing ideas out there for someone starting in dune desert, I'm a fuel enjoyed myself

[smoky forge]

lol alr

[foggy heart]

wait you use oil to make fuel? why not just make rubber or plastic and use the heavy oil for fuel ?

or am i missing something

[hard ivy]

Because that's horribly inefficient

[shy mulch]

Not sure what you mean

[teal peak]

i never liked my saves on dune desert because i feel I'm always far from everything

400m away and when you arrive it's a impure node -_-

[willow glen]

alt:
uses 42% as much quartz
uses 17% as much copper
uses 2.5 caterium per and
uses 3.5 oil per

vs
more quartz
more copper
30 iron ore each
(but no drip of caterium or oil needed)

[foggy heart]

How? The ratio for heavy oil residue is the same as oil to fuel, plus you're getting "free" plastic or rubber? Not trying to argue just trying to understand

[willow glen]

added complexity, vastly reduced cost. choice is yours

[shy mulch]

Exactly which recipes are you comparing? They don't look like the same ratio to me, so I'm assuming we are looking at different things

[hard ivy]

Heavy Oil Residue, Diluted Fuel, Residual Rubber, Recycled Plastic, and Recycled Rubber are by far the most efficient recipes for oil products

Of course, you don't use the last 3 if you're only making Fuel

[grizzled lotus]

where do I put block signals

[foggy heart]

The recipe for Fuel uses 60 oil/min and gives 40 fuel/m plus 30 polymer resin. The recipe for residual fuel takes 60 heavy oil and gives 40 fuel with no byproducts

[shy mulch]

Im not using either of those recipes. I'm using heavy oil residue

[foggy heart]

I dont think we're understanding eachother. Im talking about heavy oil residue as well

[shy mulch]

The recipe takes 30 oil and turns it into 40 heavy oil residue and 20 polymer resin

[willow glen]

anywhere you expect there to be more than 1 train going down the same track (usually, thats everything except the station entrances)
spacing should be longer than your longest train, but not too much longer. and its no big deal if they overlap (trains will occupy two blocks, and still run).
since i build my rails near the max length, i use the snapping points for convenience.

[foggy heart]

Is that an alt recipe?

[green fiber]

yep

[shy mulch]

Yes, the alt recipe is called heavy oil residue

[foggy heart]

ah

awkward

[grizzled lotus]

I thought I would just put it at stations so trains don't try to enter at the same time

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[dreamy nova]

Whats up

[grizzled lotus]

#satisfactory message

#satisfactory message

[willow glen]

they're blowing up questions too #1393947111711576074 message

[grizzled lotus]

I only put one signal at my main train station, but then none of the trains entered the station

[shy mulch]

Kinda seems like someone's discord account has been compromised

[willow glen]

signals are directional as well, you probably put it facing outwards and created a "no entry" signal. try adding a second signal directly on the other side of the track, that will make it a bi-directional track.
it'll deadlock, but you can add more signals from there to fix it.

[green fiber]

just one signal?
and only there?

[grizzled lotus]

oh, I need to put two, ri ght?

[green fiber]

you need tons

like.... the entire rail system. in regular intervals

[grizzled lotus]

I mean, I need two for one block, that's what I thought

[green fiber]

two make a block between each other, yeah.

a station should have an entrance and exit signal ideally

[grizzled lotus]

if my trains can access one station, but otherways the railways are exclusive to a specific train, I only need to put two at the station

[willow glen]

having a hard time visualizing that, do you have a screenshot so i can give more pointed advice?

[silk ocean]

Are Mercers needed for anything else apart from the tech tree and dimensional depots?

[shy mulch]

No

[willow glen]

a typical configuation is to have one mainline (that either branches or is circular), along with stations branching off of that; so all rail except stations is shared.

[silk ocean]

Thanks

[grizzled lotus]

sure, just give me a bit

[lost wagon]

satisfactory logistics is kinda weird with planing oil stuff

[maiden hare]

got a question regarding these 4 quartz node

-1264, -1382 there are 4 nodes around here by i can seems to see it are those inside a cave?

[lost wagon]

tools aparently does the same thing, it keeps having fuel leftover

[willow glen]

I don’t have map open but if that’s where I think it is, yes. And the entrances aren’t close by either. I have to map look on SCIM to find them.

[maiden hare]

oh so it is inside cave

[maiden hare]

thanks

[lost wagon]

if the north of the rocky desert, yea, inside the cave

[dusk plank]

Does anyone know if you can still upload project parts to the space elevator, after beating the game?

[willow glen]

I don’t think it accepts them, but at that point the project is done. Sink them for some mega points

I keep forgetting about golden nut, I have a save with a few but I wanna do it again and properly enshrine it this time instead of just slapping it on a foundation next to the HUB

[dusk plank]

I'm planning on starting a new save fully dedicated to project assembly, like all production lines go towards project assembly. Not just binning things into machines like I did last time lol, and I could always use some extra points for a certain food-based statue

[past kayak]

Will satisfactory be on sale on automation fest?

[lost wagon]

it was on sale until 2 days ago, so maybe, maybe not

[silk ocean]

Is there any way to avoid so much tearing with frame generation turned on?

Steam FPS overlay does say it's targetting the monitor refresh but there is loads of tearing still (many games seem to have this)

[sleek skiff]

are there any maintained mods that are working for 1.1 that are similar to the now broken powersuit mod by Rob?

[shrewd hatch]

Guys I found a way to go superspeed in the game

Who wants the method

[solemn crystal]

lemme guess
slide cancelling?

[shrewd hatch]

okay you caught me

[willow dawn]

This is very widely known 😛

[shrewd hatch]

why does satisfactory multiplayer lag so much?

Played multiplayer with a friend 2 years ago and it was a slideshow

[solemn crystal]

"2 years ago" is the issue

satisfactory multiplayer is peak now

[shrewd hatch]

yea but then my friend refunded the game

and now the game is like 40 bucks

[dusk rivet]

I swear these elephant giraffe penguin tick things are specially designed to get in my way.

It feels like I see them stumbling over my factories more than I see them in the wild.

[shrewd hatch]

just kill them

[dusk rivet]

40 jabs later and then having to wait for their corpse to despawn

[solemn crystal]

i found an effective way

[shrewd hatch]

Is it possible to kill em with a chainsaw

[solemn crystal]

throw a few nuclear nobelisk
should work

[shrewd hatch]

I wanna use a chainsaw on these monsters

[solemn crystal]

bro you're not jason

[shrewd hatch]

these are hostile mobs were talking bout

hostile or invasive

[solemn crystal]

well you cant chainsaw them anyway

right..?

[shrewd hatch]

damnnn

2 years ago I tried and it didnt work then

[willow dawn]

Pretty sure we are the hostile invasive ones here

[shrewd hatch]

maybe a new update came since then

[dusk rivet]

Chainsaws are for murdering flora, not fauna

[shrewd hatch]

No no its our planet now

[willow dawn]

It doesn't

[mortal ginkgo]

BACK IN MAH DAYS

[shrewd hatch]

Back where I played satisfactory in those old days I used to get like 50 fps max

[willow dawn]

And still here before us

[shrewd hatch]

yea but precious materials

[solemn crystal]

time to program chainsaw to be able to delete mobs

:>

[shrewd hatch]

Maybe Satisfactory should add mod support

or did they already?

[solemn crystal]

think they did

[dusk rivet]

If they didn’t want to be exploited they shouldn’t have been made of stuff

[shrewd hatch]

how do I add mods

[dusk rivet]

There’s a server that handles that kinda stuff

[hard ivy]

ficsit.app and satisfactory mod manager

[shrewd hatch]

yooo these are sick mods

[dusk rivet]

Nope, can’t plug server invites

[hard ivy]

The modding server invite is in #welcome

[dusk rivet]

Offtopic, speaking of your username, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully trust manifold setup.

[mortal ginkgo]

curious, what you can not trust about manifold?

[dusk rivet]

Something in my brain doesn’t click with it working properly

[hard ivy]

I don't balance machines, I balance manifolds if there's more than one

[dusk rivet]

Chimerism

[shrewd hatch]

This mod manager thingy is crazy

[mortal ginkgo]

belt with 60/min speed.
2 machines total asking for 40/min items.
20/min will eventually and flawlessly go through

[shrewd hatch]

this is next level high tech

[unkempt blade]

if the math is correct for a manifold you really just need to let it saturate and it's problem free after that

[shrewd hatch]

guys should I get an e scooter or a 5080

wait I should go to off topic

[unkempt blade]

factory carts are better than both options

[hard ivy]

Which is why balancing machines is pointless. A manifold can deal with supplying them just fine.

But a manifold can handle up to 1 belt of items. So whenever I need more than 1 belt, I do multiple manifolds and then balance them together. Problem solved

[stray thicket]

#screenshots message How do I stop revamping my factory building and start progressing lol 😭

[unkempt blade]

if it works it's good enough, make the next factory/expansion a little better using what you learned on the earlier ones

I understand the urge to fix messes or whatever but a running factory > a paused factory while you rebuild

[stray thicket]

No yo don't get it, it has to be pretty for me to continue. I have to get rid of ugly yellow box

[unkempt blade]

Also - wait for the hoverpack before you stress over design too much. It makes that sort of thing sooooo much easier

[stray thicket]

isn't that tier 4 or smth?

[unkempt blade]

tier 7

[stray thicket]

yeah no can't live with ugly yellow box for that long

[hard ivy]

The jetpack is in tier 5, and with the right fuel, it gives you most of the functionality of the hoverpack

[unkempt blade]

Just gotta accept slightly slower progression then. Thankfully this game isn't a race 😄

[hard ivy]

Then don't make any box at all 🙃

[stray thicket]

14hrs and coal still going strong

[late void]

Don’t try to win the battle against perfection you’ll never win

[stray thicket]

took so long to get my 2100mw production running

[stray thicket]

Embrace spaghet?

[late void]

Make a logistic floor below where you’re working and do all the spaghetti inside that

[leaden ether]

The danger of obsessing over absolute perfection is so very strong with this game. At some level it becomes absolutely necessary to lets things go. I feel myself running into that threshold a lot and having to force myself to back off.

[late void]

Agreed i’ve put nearly 600hr into my current save just for like T8 because i want everything to look “good”

[willow dawn]

Is there a way to underclock fuel genarators? Prob not right...

[late void]

Yes like anything else you just have to have it unlocked( as in unlocked period it’s not a addon)

[reef basin]

Same as other machies

[willow dawn]

Fuel power generators??>

[reef basin]

Yes

[willow dawn]

ooooh wait, I see it now

[peak wasp]

So I am curious

[silk ocean]

It's a Tier 5 item

[willow dawn]

It's in MW though.... now I need to calculate how much fuel is one MW lol

[peak wasp]

If a machine is 95% efficient and has all the supplies it needs to run...does that mean I can decrease the percentage of the machine by 5%

[reef basin]

Fuel is in MJ, not MW

[peak wasp]

Because it's making 5% too much and is being backed up 5% of the time

[willow dawn]

Not according to the machine

[reef basin]

Wdym?

[willow dawn]

If you look at the fuel powered gen it states MW not MJ

[reef basin]

Yeah, but that's power produced per gen

[willow dawn]

Yes?

Thats what I was talking about, I don't know what you were lol

[late void]

Look at the top left where it’s empty slot and hover over the little icon near it and it’ll tell you burn rate for fuel

[reef basin]

What fuel you put into it doesn't matter, one gen still makes 250 MW

[hard ivy]

Generator output is in MW, fuel energy content is in MJ

MW = MJ/s

[peak wasp]

It just means it will run longer with that fuel

[willow dawn]

I bypassed this entire issue by using percentages 🙂

[late void]

Higher fuels are more efficient yes

[frigid nexus]

||hey i just unlocked phase 4 drone stuff and im feeling so overwhelmed, any tips?||

[reef basin]

Focus on one task

[frigid nexus]

okay i will, also is nuclear pasta hard because everyone complains about it

[late void]

Break it into small segments if you need one thing focus on that and just do it slowly or take a break for a few hours and come back with a fresh mind

[frigid nexus]

aye okay, thank you dude, ive put abt 70 hours into this save over the last 2 weeks, such a good game

[reef basin]

Nothing in this game is particularly hard

[frigid nexus]

lmao this part is, although its probaly because its my first ime tbf

[late void]

it’s always hard the first time ask anyone what the first play though always look like

[solemn crystal]

guys how do i type

[frozen cloud]

its the first time raw resources becomes the challenge together with complexity
its not that bad though

[late void]

??? what

[solemn crystal]

how do i type

[shy mulch]

most people use a keyboard

[late void]

You talk to it

[solemn crystal]

ah gotcha

[frigid nexus]

i see, ill just take my time tbh, i loved making my screw factory, only 960 screws/60s but its enough for what im doing rn, i might take every task like that and make a massive building for it tbh

[solemn crystal]

intense squealing sounds

[shy mulch]

Just going to put it out there that I really like powerpoint

[solemn crystal]

i heard people prefer google slides 🤮

[hard ivy]

Ew

No

[reef basin]

That's like a completely different thing tho?

[shy mulch]

Apples and oranges. Very little overlap between google sheets and powerpoint. I use both, completely different tasks

[lost wagon]

so truck stations can only get 4 stacks of an item per minute from your truck, doesn't matter if the truck has 20 stacks in the inventory, right? Or at least the station is saying something about 4 stacks max

[shy mulch]

I like coca cola, but I heard some people like bicycles... ?

[hard ivy]

I think they meant google slides

[stiff wolf]

Hello guys, so i completed the game a few minutes ago, now my question is, what will come now

[vagrant oar]

google offers something nothing else does, liveshare :p
I don't like big corpo as much as the other guy, but until another app offers me liveshare so I can work with friends in realtime, I'll happily stick to my google products :p

[leaden turret]

take what you've learned and try it over again

[solemn crystal]

k

[vagrant oar]

ah, we're talking slides, welp :p

[stiff wolf]

but will there be an update to expand the game again?

[stray thicket]

Did you properly complete it or jank your way there?

[leaden turret]

eventually maybe

[stiff wolf]

properly everything

[leaden turret]

but also mods

[vagrant oar]

do it even more proper this time :p

use different alts, self-imposed challenges, etc.

[stray thicket]

Try some mods and another starting location

There are some cool mods now

[shy mulch]

is there a way to turn off the day/night cycle without mods?

[stiff wolf]

yeah but i wanted to play without mods so i just stare at me screen and hope that they make a new update i palyed this game for about 4 years since it released and tried every starting location but i alwys only competed phase 4 never 5 its just insane that i played about 1000hrs and now this game ist jsut over nothing left

[stray thicket]

Just install a cheat mod, turn off day/night cycle and then uninstall the mod

[shy mulch]

I don't want to touch mods at all

[stray thicket]

I believe at least with easycheat, it keeps the settings even when you delete it

[stray thicket]

Why not? They don't bite

[shy mulch]

Preference

[stray thicket]

Elaborate

[stiff wolf]

relatable

[shy mulch]

I choose not to use them because I don't want to. There is no deeper reason or meaning. I just don't want to

[stray thicket]

Well you can't ask for more content if you're not open to the ways of getting it. There are likely no significant updates content wise coming any time soon if at all

[shy mulch]

I'm not asking for more content

[stray thicket]

Wasn't tagging you

[shy mulch]

I just asked if a setting exists. It doesn't. Fine, I accept that.

Oh

[steady glade]

is what you want a command?

[stray thicket]

I think you can do it with console commands too

[shy mulch]

I have no idea, I'm asking if anything exists. It seems that it doesn't.

[stiff wolf]

Yeah but i jsut wanted some stuff that contributes to the stroy of the game and i believed i could fly away woith the ship atleast

[shy mulch]

If a console command exists that does it, can anyone tell me what it is?

[stray thicket]

https ://satisfactory .fandom. com/wiki/Console

Remove the spaces yourself. Idk if there is a new page on the migrated wiki

[shy mulch]

Ewww fandom. But ok 😛

[green fiber]

do not link the fandom wiki

[leaden turret]

alt-f4

[green fiber]

we have a proper wiki

!wikisearch console

[fossil ice]

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

[leaden turret]

please remove the link to the trash fire

[shy mulch]

It's daytime again, I'm happy now. Will go back to moaning in approx 45 mins

[stray thicket]

what did fandom do again apart from acting a bit like a dick?

[leaden turret]

• break stuff
• inject ads all over the place
• lie about being the official wiki
• refuse to delete the wiki at css' request
• just generally be a bunch of ad-farming capitalist dickbags

[stray thicket]

I mean it's a website, not sure how it would stay online if it couldn't make profit

all the others are shitty though

[green fiber]

wiki.gg also has ads. But they get their revenue from game sales too

[leaden turret]

wiki.gg manage it fine

[green fiber]

so the ads there are much less prominent

[stray thicket]

Different revenue models, but having ads isn't the end of the world. Youtube has plenty of them. So has Spotify

[dusk rivet]

Wish they’d implement a “sit” command for tamed Lizard Doggos so I didn’t have to build a little kennel to prevent them from wandering off when I’m not around.

[leaden turret]

fandom is the equivalent of a 10 minute video with 10 1-minute non-skippable ads

[green fiber]

ads werent the only issue anyway

[stray thicket]

Sounds like youtube lmfao

[leaden turret]

[stray thicket]

yeah no the other points where worse

Kinda annoying that it's still the first search result in a browser too

[shy mulch]

surely CSS could report them to google? at least get them bumped down the search rankings

[leaden turret]

well it was only recently that someone managed to get a fresh support staffer to slip up and finish the job they started by stopping the wiki from lying about being official

[leaden turret]

can't do shit

[reef basin]

no matter what it do, it's not the currently official site and is no longer kept up to date by most people (some people do still update it, but we have no guarantee it has correct information)

so I'd suggest linking the more up-to-date wiki 🙂

[reef basin]

that's not really how google works 😄

[shy mulch]

google can remove pages if they want to

[green fiber]

cant just ask for something to be bumped down just cause it annoys you

[stray thicket]

They can but not because a community doesn't like a website lol

[green fiber]

fandom technically are just being a wiki now

[reef basin]

they can, but there's no reason to do so in case of fandom

[shy mulch]

because it annoys you of course not, but claiming to be official wiki when its not endorsed by css is a good reason

[green fiber]

so theres no reason to punish them from that perspective

[green fiber]

they arent anymore

they got that official tag removed, but some pages still have that stored due to cache

[reef basin]

even if they did, that's hardly a reason to remove it. So many things on the internet have "official" in the title without being official

[shy mulch]

fair enough

[willow dawn]

Ok, I am going to do what apparently nobody here does and import plastic to make computers with. clostest copper near my oil was 1km away and not excatly a straight line

[hard ivy]

I have done that before

[green fiber]

you can do either one

import plastic or import copper

[willow dawn]

Ooh pew! when I asked a few days ago in chat if anybody ever brought halfway finished products to be made into something else in another factory everybody said no

[frozen cloud]

pipes for days!

[willow dawn]

I was already bringing the plastic I made to my main base, now I just vastly increased the ammount I am making and shipping

[reef basin]

I mean asking a few people that are currently active in a chat is hardly a complete image 😄

though personally I'd build everything near nodes it needs

[willow dawn]

Well you will happy to know, you are not allone in that 😛

[hard ivy]

I built a dedicated plastic/rubber satellite for my Computer factory. It just happened to be about a kilometre away from the main factory site.

But I'd never build a plastic factory to be used by multiple different factories

[willow dawn]

No I build a new factory for it next to my other one and used the existing infra to train it to my main

[frozen cloud]

my first oil pipeline was 1.4km
#screenshots message

[hard ivy]

not this shit again

<@&387163995947270144>

[hard ivy]

thank you

[dusk rivet]

😔

[willow dawn]

What was that? Dangerous links?

[dusk rivet]

Mr Beast scams

[hard ivy]

some crypto scam

[willow dawn]

Whats that?

ugh

[dusk rivet]

Famous youtube announcing he’s giving away a bajillion dollars! Sign up now!

[willow dawn]

Ahhh right, I always wonder who falls for that kind of thing but somebody must or they would have stopped this bs already

[dreamy nova]

Please move on now

[stiff wolf]

What is the msot effiecnt late game way to farm fiscit coupons

[hard ivy]

ballistic warp drives

[frozen cloud]

ballistic warp drives

[fathom shuttle]

BWD yield 3m each

[dusk rivet]

What they said (I’ve never made it past oil production)

[leaden ether]

Course you'll likely only be making one a minute. Maybe 2 if you are ambitious :D

[fathom shuttle]

I’m very close to finish phase 4

All that’s left is turbmotors, as for the nuclear pasta a pure node should give me enough copper powder to make like 0.5/min

[undone yarrow]

Ballistic Warp Drives and then AI Expansion Servers are the highest points per sloop

[violet fiber]

Hey, about to start my first aluminum factory. I want to make enough to not have to upgrade until I have mk5 belts, and mk3 miners.

My goal was to make 400 of sheets and 400 of casings.

Is this enough to get me through for a while? Or should I up those numbers?

[fathom shuttle]

100/min is enough

[hard ivy]

even 120/min will be enough for that

[trim vine]

Anyone off hand know the math on which diamond recipe is best?

at the moment debating between Pet Cok and straight oil

[hard ivy]

calcs always choose turbo diamonds
oil is good too
coke is trash

[violet fiber]

Oh, okay so I already gathered everything for 400/min, so I’ll just continue on with it

[prime jasper]

I wish to move some ressource between factories using the truck station. Do I need to put a fuel input to each of my truck station or of there is just one station loaded it is enough?

[trim vine]

Should have mentioned that I do not want to make turbo fuel

[elder apex]

what criteria for best? least resources? least machines? least power?

[undone yarrow]

Straight Oil is better than Coke

[trim vine]

efficiency in terms of best ratios of input to output that does not use turbofuel

[elder apex]

plus do you value each resource the same? is 1 coal = to 1 oil for you?

[dusk rivet]

Blown fuse 😔

[hard ivy]

you can use satisfactory optimizer to set your own priorities for optimization 😛

[leaden ether]

THe thing about diamonds is, it's whatever resources you have left when you get to the point of needing to make them. For me Pink Diamonds was the best choice. I think that's why there are like 6 dioamond recipies. At the point you need to be making 600 of them a minute, your choice of a massive influx of materials may be limited by past resource usage choices.

[elder apex]

my preference would be oil -> pink -> cloudy -> default and skip turbofuel because i'm using all my sulfur elsewhere

[hard ivy]

skill issue 🙃

[lucid pagoda]

imo, its always easier to have a big factory producing rubber and plastic, and another for aluminum ingots, then just train those around to other factories

[undone yarrow]

At least for the Oil duo: Oil Diamonds use 5 Oil per Diamond, dont need to be processed and have a higher per minute than Petroleum's 6 Oil per Diamond and 2 additional refinery steps

[leaden ether]

That's my goal this save. The entire oil islands oil reserve went into nothing but rubber and plastic. (Well with a teeny bit of fabric on the side)

[fathom shuttle]

Pink diamonds and use any left over oil in the map for oil based diamonds