satisfactory

[ashen spruce]

You didn't connect it to a power grid.

[dense cave]

apparently plenty of ppl get that as well

[dense cave]

in that case lemme check

[ashen spruce]

Anyone rq?

[unkempt blade]

We'd probably need to see what's happening off the right side of your screenshot. I'd assume it's some weird pattern over there

[smoky forge]

i said make a poll

then ill help

[ashen spruce]

Nuh uh.

[smoky forge]

well then

[dense cave]

ok i did

[unkempt blade]

if you hold the signal and hover over the track you should see color coding for different blocks which might also help you figure out what's looping back on itself

[dense cave]

smth else then

[ashen spruce]

Check Screenshots again

[livid kernel]

are you overdrawing?

[ashen spruce]

You did connect it, but you don't have enough power production to sustain your factory.

[livid kernel]

try turning off some machines and then flipping the breaker

[smoky forge]

you can not place signals on split paths

it will loop into itselfe

[ashen spruce]

RIP then

[dense cave]

soooo 2 miner+ 2 constructor +2 smelter might be abit too much for them then?

[smoky forge]

literaly 1 meter more away and itll be fine 😭

[livid kernel]

is it only 1 burner? and one of the ones on the hub?

if so, yes

[ashen spruce]

See, it wasn't that hard without the poll, eh?
But thank you.

[ashen spruce]

It just auto snaps so I have to put it like 1/4th of the track in and that just looks UGLY.

[dense cave]

2, both from hub

[livid kernel]

are they connected together?

[smoky forge]

says the one who....then dont make a train station there like that

[ashen spruce]

It looks cool though!

[livid kernel]

put a pole right in front of them, attach both to that pole, then run a wire from that pole to your factory

[dense cave]

yeah, i think its an issue of lack of power

[smoky forge]

i always do it like that #screenshots

[livid kernel]

what you said should be 26 MW, both of those burners can provide 40, as long as they both have the fuel

[hollow hazel]

A track can't be shorter than 1½ foundations. Where it snaps, start inching your way back until it unsnaps, and place.

[ashen spruce]

Looks good.

[ashen spruce]

Wut.

You can't nudge Train Signals.

[smoky forge]

he means the track

not the sign

[hollow hazel]

Don't use H / nudge. Just pull back with your build gun.

[ashen spruce]

Oh, yeah, I did that.

#screenshots It looks like this now

[smoky forge]

problem solved

[hollow hazel]

Yep. Just let it snap, then pulling... pulling... pulling.... Unsnapped? Place!

[smoky forge]

and also did you get into path signals already?

[ashen spruce]

I know, Path Signals at the Entrance and Blocks at the End.

[smoky forge]

a bit more than that

[ashen spruce]

But it says conflicting entry type signals, although all Entrances are Path Signals.

[smoky forge]

u dont have to use them just on junctions

[ashen spruce]

Go on.

[smoky forge]

bugged train tracks. rebuild all of em in the junction

[smoky forge]

a path signal is basicaly a block signal jsut with some more functions

first it checks also the next sign (most of the time a block) if it is occupied or not

if it is then the path also will say no going through

[ashen spruce]

From what I've read in the description, it looks for a path through that block instead of just blocking the entire block.

[smoky forge]

both

its rather simple but also not

[ashen spruce]

Yea, it blocks the block, but if it has a path through without the trains crossing it says "Pass on."

So I understood it atleast.

[smoky forge]

it can block blocks or paths before a train has ever entered it

so that other trains dont enter it at the same time

[ashen spruce]

So it is like a Smart Splitter but also not at the same time.

[smoky forge]

somewhat like that

[willow glen]

just to be clear, path signals

1. make sure there is a clear path through to the next signal
2. check the train’s next block to make sure its unoccupied.
   If both are true, train goes thru.

[smoky forge]

like the train gives the signal his path and the signal gives the information back if that path is possible or not

if not then it will just stay as blocked

thats why it shows "waiting for path reservation"

[ashen spruce]

I get it now.

[smoky forge]

and beyond that singnal

[ashen spruce]

Thanks.

[smoky forge]

so the block after the path one and the block one

[willow glen]

only automated trains can trigger path signals, and they can’t be already parked at it, but that only happens if you’re manually driving (for testing)

[smoky forge]

yep

you cant manualy give the path sign your path

only the game itselfe can

so an automated train

[lavish lance]

i didnt realize crashsite dismantling would be that big of a change.
started a new save, and didnt have to hand craft a single reinforced plate.
what i got from the sites lastedall the way till i could automate them

[smoky forge]

lmao yeah right, in early game you actualy want to dismantle them lol

[lavish lance]

later on its still nice to track if you have been at that one already

[willow glen]

ya if you go hard on HDD hunting early on, you can progress a lot faster now.

I always dismantle them now, before I was marking them with unconnected power poles which was ugly but noticeable at least

[wraith sentinel]

so the game has actually been released?

[willow glen]

yup been out for a while now, already on 1.1 too

phase 5 got added and I’d suggest starting over for the new voice lines, or at least start in tier 1

[ashen spruce]

#screenshots again train problem yippee

[versed plinth]

are you asking for help or just kinda posting

I do that sometimes tbh

[ashen spruce]

Help

I don't get it.

[versed plinth]

can you post a picture of your junction

[livid kernel]

This is the only reason i do it lmao

[lavish lance]

early on its still very nice

[livid kernel]

I didn't figure out I could until I already didn't care

I put a bio burner close to a drop pod and noticed it got selected as well when i held ctrl to get all the burners lol

[ashen spruce]

I can't.

[versed plinth]

away from pc?

[ashen spruce]

I left the game because I need to go.

[ashen spruce]

It's your average T-Junction

[versed plinth]

ah ok. so what could be happening is that the block isnt being sectioned properly. I would check you have a few block sections here and there.

[ashen spruce]

I have Block Signals every 20-ish Foundation long track.

If that's what you meant.

[versed plinth]

hmm

OH, it could be that one signal is on the wrong side of the track.

[ashen spruce]

Not sure.

I checked every junction like 5 times.

But I'll check tomorrow.

[dense cave]

if i dismantle the hub, does the upgrade remain

[livid kernel]

yes

[dense cave]

cool

[livid kernel]

you can even move the space elevator and not lose progress

[mortal ginkgo]

would be so heck to lose all progress kek

[versed plinth]

how does one do priority pipes

my aluminum keeps backing up

[livid kernel]

imagine getting to like tier 5 and wanting to move the elevator, then finding out you're back in tier 1 lmao

[versed plinth]

Tier 9 all the way back to tier 0

[livid kernel]

true, I was figuring you'd move it by 5 though. I think if you're already in tier 9, the elevator has a permanent-ish location already

[versed plinth]

is there a way to make hypertube cannons smaller aside from loops

[hollow hazel]

One with just two entrances?

[hollow hazel]

Try this one out for size: #screenshots message

[smoky forge]

there isnt any way

only with mods

[hollow hazel]

I could've sworn there was some kind of priority system. I saw a picture at some point. Like the.... bottom takes priority over the top, which takes priority over the straight.....? 🤔

[naive palm]

it's a PITA but you can use packaging/unpackaging to prioritize fluids.

[smoky forge]

there is only calculating so that it doesnt overfill, not stopping one flow so tha thter other can

[ruby mountain]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/images/3/39/Pipeline_Manual.pdf
page 16

[naive palm]

this is phenomenal, ty for sharing

[ruby mountain]

its in the pinned messages

[naive palm]

using gravity to prioritize. Like most plumbing it is genius in its simplicity.

[ruby mountain]

on #math-and-meta

[smoky forge]

dam, didnt know that existed

[naive palm]

I said I hate screws in satisfactory. screwdat is the one exception now.

[ruby mountain]

:p , thank mcgalleon, hes the one that made that awesome guide

[ashen spruce]

If it's like vertical

[lost wagon]

I wish there was an upgrade to sink items in the inventory, like the upload one, if I dismantle all my railroad to remake it differently, that will be a massive amount of dismantle crate around

[wicked nacelle]

i just wish there were a hotkey to trash an inventory item so you didn't have to constantly drag them to your trash

[hollow hazel]

Unfortunately you either go to a container connected to a sink and dump every so often, or you control-drag your junk to the trash every so often.

[keen hawk]

Why is thinking about playing satisfactory so much more fun than actually playing

[south sinew]

because you don't have to deal with actually creating whatever you're imagining

[unkempt blade]

blueprints + making stuff look nice are what changed it from a "see number go up" game to one I was little more involved with after planning happened

or just vanity projects like my map-wide skyroad/train setup that aren't really necessary but I like to build

[smoky forge]

ive just realies there is another trick

mlg- clutching

[hollow hazel]

This can happen with things outside of the game. Imagining something vs actually bringing it to life...

[lost wagon]

If I try to make things look nicer, that's when I will give up playing, because it will never end up looking nicer

[smoky forge]

u place a blueprint of a single bio burner with fuel inside connected to a power pole

[lost wagon]

It's like minecraft, there is a reason my base are just chests scattered across the ground

[keen hawk]

I know how i want my stuff to look, but bringing it across the map without drones is draining my soul

[mortal ginkgo]

go with a train that contains the stuff you need to make stuff

[unkempt blade]

I'm not saying don't play Satis but kind of where it's better than most other factory games are the design elements and exploration. If you want purely logistics puzzles there are LOTS of options out there

beating the game in the most utilitarian way possiuble is a valid play choice though if that's what's fun 😆

[lean ferry]

guys- I wana do nuke nobelisk but I dont wana do nuclear power rn

should I do it now? or not

[rigid glen]

No need to, you can do nukes from hand mining

[smoky forge]

try trains

[lean ferry]

I wana automate it tho I like bombs

[rigid glen]

Or setup a miner into a storage bin

[smoky forge]

its somewhat easy

[unkempt blade]

you can do them without nuclear power but you'd still need encased uranium cells

[lean ferry]

thats the point idk if it is worth doing it now or waiting till i do nuclear power

[lost wagon]

My making it looking nicer limit ends when the next step is making an actual factory building, I don't have enough creativity to make a cool looking building that still house the factory inside, at most it will be a square box

[rigid glen]

I just remembered I bumped up against this decision too, and I only made a handful of nukes before it was too tiresome

Soerry

[warped cypress]

whats a good way to bring items up to my sky train?

[reef basin]

elevator

[south sinew]

belts

[warped cypress]

i put a ss in the ss chat

look

[reef basin]

#1038092680493801533 or #design-and-architecture would be better choice for the screenshot and question

[warped cypress]

o alr

[lean ferry]

should I make nuke nobelisk? or stick with cluster

[hybrid sierra]

#screenshots check out the screenshot in the channel and lmk what you guys think

[lime ermine]

Nuke is just fun, do it

[rigid glen]

The only issue is crafting time and materials, nukesa re fun, but complicated, compared to all other nobes

[marble torrent]

How do I go about fixing the train tracks in #screenshots ?

[fluid bluff]

afaik you can't get a junction straight off a station platform. you need to put down one track piece connecting to the station, and then create a junction off that piece.

oh wait, that's not a station platform at the top, my bad

you may just need to delete and rebuild a piece, looks like you somehow placed it in a way that it didn't actually connect to make a junction

[marble torrent]

I just want it to hit two different locations before making its way back to the main factory

Ok hold on, let do some rebuilding

[reef basin]

#screenshots isn't for troubleshooting, use #1038092680493801533 😛

[rigid glen]

I agree that's the intent, but people use screenies for basic questions all the time

[marble torrent]

My bad

[rigid glen]

if it's too complex, then we shove them into the questions box 🙂

head first

[solid crypt]

is anyone else having problems with the game crashing every few hours?

[fluid bluff]

trains will pick whatever the shortest path is to the next stop on the route

if the train is not picking the route you want it to when it reaches a junction, that route must not be the shortest path to where it's going

[smoky forge]

must be your pc

[marble torrent]

Makes sense, honestly I would've deserved it. I should know better, I used to moderate a server

[marble torrent]

I had that happen twice in two days. I thought it couldve been one of my mods

[solid crypt]

my PC has run way harder games then satisfactory

[smoky forge]

doesnt mean it cant be the issue

[cedar portal]

WHat games? Satisfactory is both graphic and CPU intensive.

[smoky forge]

my pc could run satisfactory with like 600 fps and no lag whasoever

but because i bout my cpu of amazon it shits itselfe every few times i try to join a game

and crashed

[cedar portal]

I used to before my factory got so big cries

[marble torrent]

All solved. It was a signaling issue. Although the signals I've noticed like to change themselfs

[smoky forge]

they change with other signals being removed/added

[solid crypt]

assassins creed, palworld, ark. you get the point

[smoky forge]

or fixed in this case

[lean ferry]

help pls theres uranium near my bauxite factory but I cant find it apparently its rlly low I cant find a cave entrance

[cedar portal]

I'd say Satisfactory is vastly more CPU intensive than any of those games. Maybe PalWorld could come close but the factory sim running under the graphics of all those buildings is a huge load.

[marble torrent]

If I put a path signal or a block signal down it states it loops itself.

[smoky forge]

yeah u gotta check the rails realy good

[lean ferry]

so can I get help tryna find uranium node pls

[smoky forge]

actualy can u make a #1038092680493801533 i dont wna do alla this here again

[red sun]

satis is generally cpu-bound

[smoky forge]

u can scan one

[lean ferry]

thats the thing

[marble torrent]

Alright I'll put one up

[smoky forge]

ah, thats why my broken cpu doesnt like this game to much

[lean ferry]

I scanned it and apparently its rlly low and under a lake, and I cant get to it theres no cave openings

[smoky forge]

there are several other nodes around the map

im sure you are nto limited tho this specifc node

[lean ferry]

they are very very far

[smoky forge]

the map is very smal

explore the map fully first

[cedar portal]

I have this issue too. I think it's a bug in 1.1 as it's being reported by a lot of people. Seems to be caused by building interesctions in the 'wrong' order.

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/6872e6076b7c57319639cc95

[potent leaf]

map doesnt feel smal

[smoky forge]

compared to other games its so fucking tiny

[potent leaf]

but i have a question that i havent had much help with, i researched a hard drive and was wondering if i should go with stitched iron plate or staemed copper sheat. or rescan

[smoky forge]

and once you know how big it is and were around the corners of the map you will agree

[red sun]

it's not a huge huge huge map but it's not tiny

[potent leaf]

its like a 10 minute walk if not more to the other side. its one of the bigger maps ive seen

[smoky forge]

if you dont need neither then just keep it in your library, so that you wont get those recepies in the next hard drive

[red sun]

like it's not exactly easy to run out of space

[smoky forge]

10 minutes is realy not much

[rigid glen]

I need over 500 coupons for the last achievement, and I have no end game parts automated. Anyone know which part is best for cheap vs points?

[cedar portal]

Ten minutes a LONG time. Sit still and don't do anything for ten minutes to try it out. 😄

[red sun]

considering pretty much every square metre and tiny minutia of the map was hand-crafted, i'd say it's quite big. at least in terms of quality

[smoky forge]

#screenshots ive walked around the map so much i know most spots for mercers spheres, sloops and hard drives

[potent leaf]

yea 10 minutes its a very long time

[red sun]

it's more than big enough, at least for me and 99% of people

[potent leaf]

will i need them later? I already have a screw alternate recipe thats prety dope

[smoky forge]

50% you mean

[red sun]

i stand by 99%

[bronze atlas]

Anyone know if this game has the ability to link signs to display variable data based on the machines you connect it to? Like for example if i wanted a sign to display the item inside a storage container and the total count stored?

[smoky forge]

mods

[ruby mountain]

If I just say coupons, is that app gonna react, oh it does okay then

[red sun]

not many people run out of space; it's a factory building game before an exploration game, after all

[lean ferry]

found uranium lets goo

[cedar portal]

I've probably heard 99 people talking about how amazingly huge the map is for every 1 saying it's tiny.

[smoky forge]

did you set it up already?

[bronze atlas]

okay thanks

[smoky forge]

do you know minecraft?

[marble torrent]

Sorry took longer than I expected but yes

[smoky forge]

gud

[lean ferry]

how many encased beams should I make

[potent leaf]

I dont think satisfactory should be compared to minecraft

[red sun]

yeah the devs aren't keen on adding too much wiring and logic, the game is complex enough

[potent leaf]

all of them

[red sun]

absolutely not. minecraft is procedurally generated and is essentially infinitely terraformable. that's not the kind of game that satisfactory is trying to be

[cedar portal]

Yes, I'm aware of how big the Minecraft map is. Doesn't mean Satissfactory is too small for the game it is trying to be. You couldn't possibly fill the current map with factories before your computer melted down.

[red sun]

the terrain is part of the challenge, kind of defeats the point if you could just explore infinitely until you find somewhere better

[solid crypt]

My CPU should be able to take it, escpecially since there arent any issues with running any of the other games, and still being able to do other stuff in the background

[bronze atlas]

oops wrong reply sorry

[cedar portal]

Lol we both used the same expression that the game is not trying to bee that 😄

[smoky forge]

yeah ik ik, the fact that the whole map can be made a factory makes it look big and laggy

but purely the map and for exploring purposes i find it rather smal

[cedar portal]

Making the map bigger wouldn't reduce the lag, just make it worse.

[bronze atlas]

fill a storage - they are the mat for mk 4 belts.

[red sun]

the map is more than big enough, but it's a mixture of it not being the kind of game to have a gigantic map and other games frankly spoiling us in terms of map size

especially considering the fact that the map was pretty much entirely made by just one person

[lean ferry]

no wait wrong word sosrry how many encased uranium cells

[potent leaf]

to be fair the point of the game isnt for exploreablity and more making satisfactories

[rigid glen]

lol

[potent leaf]

wasnt the map also hand drawn?

[smoky forge]

yeah

[solid crypt]

SMALL!?!?!? i dont wanna spend 3000 hours on one save file, just to explore the map

[cedar portal]

Now, my one complaint about the map is for how HUGE it is, there isn't a lot of flat ground to build on. I struggle hard fitting a train station in most places, and god help me if I need several to bring in a bunch of materials.

[red sun]

hand-made, yeah

[smoky forge]

3*

[potent leaf]

based off that alone the map is wondourous and is one of the best maps ive seen in most games

[lean ferry]

how many uranium fuel rods should I make a min? im planning 2 for now*

[smoky forge]

a station?! make a fricking foundation lmao

[solid crypt]

build the flat ground with platforms 👍

[smoky forge]

u dont want to produce something minor so ig any ammount will be enough

[red sun]

i suppose that's part of the challenge of the game; realistically an alien planet isn't guaranteed tons of flat land. it's designed to challenge you into building vertically/with and around the terrain as you progress

[radiant swallow]

i noticed that caterium is only used for quickwire and normal wires, does that mean it's a viable stratagy to just ship around caterium ingots to factories i require after turning pure caterium nodes into ingots?

[cedar portal]

Yeah, I can do that and I do but it always looks ugly with a huge platform that often has to be redicliously high to cover all the terrin variations, especially on large slopes.

[radiant swallow]

*via drones

[lean ferry]

idk

[rigid glen]

Moving ingots to another area for a build is common practice

[bronze atlas]

Well you could decorate the sides of your foundations to make it less ugly i suppose

[rigid glen]

don't usually move raw ore or finished parts

[smoky forge]

its up to you but beware, once you activate the production, everything becomes radioactive and u cant even go near your machines

[radiant swallow]

so i discovered the optimal way to move around component on my own, neat

[cedar portal]

I try and make the foundations look nice but I just think the map is so dang pretty I hate having to blot out big chunks of it 🙂

[bronze atlas]

That i understand yeah. Maybe try using more verticality instead of horizontal factories, build skyscrapers?

[lean ferry]

I can just make alotta filters

sloop manufacturer, I have synthetic fabiric

ykw ima just do 4 fuel rods- thats 50gw power\

[smoky forge]

then u dont have to worry about that

[red sun]

that's what i do; turn spaghetti into lasagne

[rigid glen]

It's only optimal if it fits your playstyle, but ya, good on you

[smoky forge]

oh so you do want to make fuel? i thought u were the one wanting to make nobelisks

[lean ferry]

both

[smoky forge]

[lean ferry]

OH WAIT MY SPACE ELE IS DONE I CAN GET TIER 9

im gonna postpone this to another time

[smoky forge]

gl, this one is the most complicated one

[ivory inlet]

Guys I am going to LOSE MY MIND building my first train setup. I have 2 train stations which I am attempting to connect to a singular track, when I connect them, the rails assume that the train will be traveling TOWARDS the exit of the train stations and it wont let me place blocks facing the correct way. I have no clue what I am doing wrong, do I need to build the other train stations first before I start putting down the rails? can I post a screenshot here so you guys can see what the hell I'm talking about?

[smoky forge]

ada doesnt even bother to explain it to you lmao 🤣

[radiant swallow]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EE5bSI-vT1g

me every time ADA speaks to me

[open pollen]

maybe go to #1038092680493801533 and post with a bunch of screenshots so it’ll be easier for people to assist

[red sun]

check the orientation of your stations maybe? the side with the rounded roof is the front of the station, where the train is exiting

there should be an arrow above the rail in the building hologram

[ivory inlet]

I did this which why I am so confused

[red sun]

hmmm yeah maybe ask in #1038092680493801533 with some screenies

[smoky forge]

i actualy like ada saying stuff, i dont rly know why

[ivory inlet]

forgot that channel existed oops will do that now

[red sun]

9 times out of 10 it's a very silly mistake

[radiant swallow]

i am not allwoed to use funny font

[wicked nacelle]

can you change what settings a graphics preset sets? I tend to turn down graphics when I let it run in the background to decrease heat but when I turn it back to ultra it doesn't have the settings I want - they're too low.

[sick dragon]

No. That's why they are presets. They aren't determined by user preference but other guidelines like what would be good on a low end system etc

[wicked nacelle]

yes, and can you change them? are they in a config file somewhere?

[sick dragon]

Doubt it. You are better off adjusting your preferences manually after. I'm sure it's in a file somewhere but the chances it'll be editable I have no idea

[lament niche]

...this is why god gave you foundations

[rigid glen]

Sprawling islands of floating foundations 🙂

My usual playthrough ends with Grassy being completely covered by a singular floor 🙂

[lament niche]

you stay in grassy?

[dense turtle]

can a trail derail at harsh terrain and idk some strong turns?

[sick dragon]

Connect the foundations to the ground lol

[rigid glen]

I've only played to end game once as a chronic restarter

I like grassy 🙂

[sick dragon]

It will only derail if it collides with another train

[dense turtle]

aight good thanks

[rigid glen]

but if I do another full run I'll setup my main area somewhere e4lse

I like the thought of a base just off to the side of the crater biome

[potent leaf]

i like starting in the like

not the desert biome but one of the sandy biomes cuz its flat and almost all the nodes right nearby are normal

coal is a bit of an issue tho becuase the closest nodes are like 1000km away and impure

[rigid glen]

I think after all this time I've discovered I'm not a desert fan lol

[potent leaf]

i dont like the desert with all the sandy hills

[lament niche]

so you don't like brownies?

[potent leaf]

it seems terrible

[lament niche]

nice ninja edit @taal

[rigid glen]

Not sure to what you are referring 😛

points to my ninja edit

[potent leaf]

i like starting in the rocky desert

oh...

cough

[lament niche]

We know what you deleted Joe

[rigid glen]

lol

right now I'm, just wandering around routing whatever I can into sinks, I need 500+ for the last achievement

[potent leaf]

alternative recpies tho, ive got an option between two. Stitched Iron Plate orsteamed copper sheets. or i can rescan the hard drive.. I dont think the steamed copper sheet is any good but is the stitched iron plate good?

[lament niche]

you can save the hd and just not pick

[dense turtle]

wait so how do exatly train rails cary power

[rigid glen]

Leave it as is and scan more drives, that way the odds of a good one increase

[dense turtle]

my train station aint got power

[lament niche]

same way they do irl

[dense turtle]

nah i mean my previous station is connected to power and the next one i have rails connected to isnt

[lament niche]

they aren't properly connected then

[potent leaf]

so they are terrible options and i should save them for later got it

[dense turtle]

oh yeah lmao look #screenshots message

[true swan]

is stitched plate the one that uses wire? that pairs well with iron wire but i probably wouldn't use a more rare resourec on plates

[lament niche]

called it

[potent leaf]

is copper rare? i have so much

[lament niche]

no

copper is both abundant and the least useful metal ore in the game

[potent leaf]

thats what i thought, ive got so much atm. im only using one copper node (normal) and making way more then enough of coper wiring, cables and copper plating and i havent even optimized it

[red sun]

@opaque rivet #fan-art message
this looks cool. might want to use Open Sans though :D

[lament niche]

sans

[red sun]

ha har hahah rhar

[lament niche]

your mother is a murloc and your father smells of too many old comics

sans is an objectively bad style of fonts

[red sun]

sans-serif is like practically every font these days

[lament niche]

bro typed this using helvetica

[potent leaf]

I like papyrus or wtv its called :D

its very nice to look at imo

[red sun]

they should make papyrus sans

[dense turtle]

yall really calling out all undertale bosses

[potent leaf]

I hate undertale.

/hj

[red sun]

i have no opinions on undertale, never played it

[lament niche]

Word was a better text document editor when Times New Roman was default

[red sun]

i know megalovania and that's about it

[potent leaf]

(ive only played genocide and have fought undyne 80 times and have taken an extended hiatus from the game)

[dense turtle]

took me 4 tries lmao

but sans like 30 probably

[lament niche]

anyways #off-topic-general

[red sun]

indeed

[potent leaf]

allthough undertale has some banger music. I for one get some very strong nostalgic feelings from nvm (continued in off topic genreal)

[lament niche]

anyways you should have the choice to use steel pipes to build pipes

[potent leaf]

i dont yet

i havent even unlocked steal produciton

[lament niche]

nobody does

[potent leaf]

oh 💀

[lament niche]

who are you stealing production from??

[vestal mica]

very efficient

[jade frigate]

Are Power Slugs only used for creating Power Shards, or will they have any other use later in the game? Can I safely convert all of them into shards without worrying?

[south sinew]

the only reason to delay turning them into shards is because you want to do so slooped and you don't have sloops yet

if you have sloops then just shard em all

[vestal mica]

slooping and sharding. kids, we setup a sloop and shard in the back yard.

sure it ruins the grass, but it's like double the fun!

[dense turtle]

i got such a great idea for my train station names

i will make up epic creative names

like john iron

or adam motors

ik so epic right

[inner echo]

I've had zero problems with byproduct recycling in aluminum forever...I understand it and my method works. But frigging Batteries? Nope. Can't do it. Just nope.

[lean ferry]

guys should I use some bauxite to make ficsite ingots?

or iron? or caterium

[inner echo]

I've only ever used aluminum

Only meaning...I probably shouldn't be answering.

[south sinew]

use whatever you have excess of

I personally would expect iron or caterium is more likely

aluminium has a lot of uses in the endgame and I found myself quite short on it after doing Tier 8

[dense turtle]

dang first time hearing ficsit ingot and i had no idea theres aluminum

[inner echo]

Yeah...I've got my only ore to ingot aluminum blueprint 'machine' in a box(except water ext of course). Plop it down, plug it all in and 540 ingots come out.

It's my only 'complete' blueprint due to that whole thing I mentioned at 20 after the hour.

[smoky forge]

i never crafted a single battery lmao

[fluid sapphire]

Theres basically almost no reason to make batteries at this point

[ashen spruce]

Good Night Pioneers!
-# Feel free to apply for your own PERSONAL "Save The Pioneer" Pal, equipped with Nuclear Nobelisks. 100% OFF for the next 5.000.000.000 Years!

[lean ferry]

ill do iron then

I might do pure iron icl

[south sinew]

I assume you're using Battery rather than Classic Battery?

[smoky forge]

leached one is my favourite

[lean ferry]

nvm there is no pure iron

[smoky forge]

input 1, output 2

[south sinew]

seems like Classic Battery is way easier

[smoky forge]

so great

[lean ferry]

I cant do leached because all my sulfur is probably gonna e reserved to nuclear

[ashen spruce]

What?

[smoky forge]

fair

[lean ferry]

as in like mam I thought i had pure iron in mam

[ashen spruce]

When did they remove it?

[ashen spruce]

Ohhh

[lean ferry]

all these alt recipes are terrible bro

cooling device dont need, heavy flexible I alr got encased

[inner echo]

Yeah. Just battery. And I am the same about sulfur...I wish there was more. And I dissed the leeched recipes until I finally used one and then the bottom fell out of my world.

[smoky forge]

converter go brrrrrrr

[woven tree]

Is there a mod on Satisfactory that adds more poses for photo mode?

[inner echo]

Well...it's not really that I wish there was more...I wish the leeched processes became available sooner in gameplay.

[inner echo]

I don't know of one...but I would ask the modding comms https://discord.gg/UveMVnbg

[silk rose]

Nah converter go
Sht hts zzzwwww

Does it convert ingots btw?

Can i expand my steel factory later

[fathom shuttle]

You can turn ore into other ores with Sam

[smoky forge]

only ores

[silk rose]

How do i make ficsite

[fathom shuttle]

So you can double the amount of uranium you have this way

[fathom shuttle]

Ingot + Sam

[true mulch]

!wikisearch ficsite+ingot

[fossil ice]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=ficsite+ingot

[silk rose]

Damn why no steel recipe

[fathom shuttle]

Why would you waste SAM on steel?

[silk rose]

I mean ficsite from steel

[fathom shuttle]

Oh

Well you can just use iron then

[fathom shuttle]

Why is this message abnormally big for me

Oh it’s fine now. Discord UI is unmatched

[versed plinth]

Is 10 turbo motors/min a reasonable goal

[smoky forge]

bigger

[silk rose]

Make 20

[versed plinth]

Bet

[silk rose]

10 is like full oc manufacturer

Slooped

[versed plinth]

I've heard 15/min is a huge project so like

[fathom shuttle]

Probably too many unless you want to make a lot of BWD

[versed plinth]

BWD?

[fathom shuttle]

Ballistic warp drives

You need thermal propulsion rockets for this which use turbomotors

[silk rose]

There you meed modular engine, motor, and something right?

[stray loom]

Turbo motors only get used for thermal propulsion rockets and constructing some high tier buildings

[austere lichen]

Double it and give it to the next person

[fathom shuttle]

Bro I’m out of SAM fluctuators

[atomic notch]

Rip

[stray loom]

Sloop the constructors making it

[silk rose]

Jarvis im out of sloops

[stray loom]

Or manufacturers as it were. Thinking reanimated SAM for some reason 😄

[silk rose]

Two sloops would be x1.5?

[fathom shuttle]

Yea, with 2.5x power consumption

[silk rose]

Do i need to change my pfp i made before photo mode update?

[glass seal]

How can i install a mod for satisfactory if i have it on steam

[silk rose]

SML

[glass seal]

whats that?

[silk rose]

Satisfactory mod loader

Navigate to modding server

[versed plinth]

Bro all these end game materials have like 5 other end game materials feeding into them

😭 idek where to start

[elfin trellis]

i feel like satisfactory needs to be played modless, last time i used some mods it made me quit the game cuz meh

[versed plinth]

Ig just using the satisfactory modeler is a good point.

[versed plinth]

I don't use content mods just qol / cosmetic mods, like a sped up hoverpack

[south sinew]

depends a lot on the mod

[smoky forge]

yes and no, i would feel somewhat bored with no mods , but also yes at the start of playing satisfactory it would be way to overwhelming

alone the game overwhelms 80% of gamers worldwide

i got a friend who says he hates to organise stuff and gets an anurism if he needs to do so

[inner echo]

It used to be I HAD to have a mod to do vertical nudging. Now I find that I really really desire the ones related to the addition of curved/splined belts/pipes. In particular being able to make much much longer splines.

[livid kernel]

I had a pretty indepth decent sized factory built on satisfactory calculator with all the ratios and everything I needed, Windows updated overnight and I lost the tab forever 😭

[versed plinth]

Try satisfactory modeler on steam. Its incredible. It takes all the resources inputs you give it and maximizes it to produce as many of x item as you want

[tacit magnet]

Where are Blueprint directory settings stored?

[dense bone]

how many somersloop can be found in the map?

[tacit magnet]

106

[south elm]

Technical question, I want to build a PC specifically to run satisfactory on highest settings, is steam requirements good benchmark or should I aim for something else? I'd want a bare minimum that manages this specific game, i don't have that much money

[fathom shuttle]

What’s your budget

[elfin trellis]

i can tell that 3070ti Strix and i7 10700k with 32GB RAM makes the game in 1440p 100-140fps

im not sure about if u have a giga-factory.. but if ur not a geek with the desire to make a trillion items per minute - its good

just for reference

[wicked nacelle]

the game bogs down on cpu as you approach using all the resources in the game -- even with distributed factories. it still has to simulate everything all the time. I have a 9800x3d and when I open one of my smaller worlds it amazes me the performance I get

[south elm]

Idk It's hard to tell since 800$ buys me much better PC here than it does in the states

[wicked nacelle]

The nice thing is that performance degrades slowly as you build so you never really notice the difference until you open another world 🙂

[south elm]

Im having serious performance issues on mid settings with frame drops whenever I fight an enemy and it's all good on lowest settings but this game can look good and it pains me how ugly I kinda have to play it

[elfin trellis]

whats ur GPU CPU RAM

[south elm]

Gforce 1660 intel icore 9th gen and 16gb

I should mention it's a laptop and it has some years

[elfin trellis]

ah well if its 4year+ laptop it might be the thing why it stutters

if ur budget is around 800 bucks im sure u can make a PC for high settings satisfactory
especially if we're talking about 1080p gaming

3070ti is basically the "low-end"for 1440p gaming if im correct

[south elm]

That's nice to hear I don't care either for resolution over 1080 or fps over 60

I just want a steady 60 on highest

[livid kernel]

Is the elevator actually handy? Like, it's cool, but I feel like I'd forget to use it since I'm so used to just using the jetpack. Trying to decide whether to spend my tickets on it, or something else rn

[south sinew]

elevator is pretty good yes

the fact that it can transfer power as well is very useful

and it has a better range than jetpack as well as floor labelling

[spiral summit]

there is nothing in this game more infuriating than truck stations

[elfin trellis]

ask chatGPT as well he'll def help with that too

[wicked nacelle]

fortunately there's no good reason to use them other than masochism

[livid kernel]

that I didn't know. I might use it just for that even if I forget to use it the actual way lol.

[fluid sapphire]

Note the difference between high settings and ultra is quite minimal, and if you're on a performance budget its mostly not worth it

[spiral summit]

aesthetics count as masochism ig

[fluid sapphire]

For me, I have 12600k and 3060ti, I get mostly60fps but it gets worse when I do stuff that the engine isn't built to handle really (like tons and tons of machines, lots of glass and signs)

A mix of high-ultra, 1080p with DLSS balanced preset, scaled up from 70%

I think it looks pretty good xd, at least by my standards

[south elm]

Are there some any noteworthy performance mods for satisfactory?

[fluid sapphire]

Probably not anything that keeps the game looking good

[south elm]

Oh right, makes sense

[stiff ibex]

wow an early game transportation method that requires power AND fuel 😍

[fluid sapphire]

I literally upgraded my own pc to get better satisfactory performance xd

[stiff ibex]

im thinking about doing this too

[south elm]

I wouldn't mind being able to turn off animation of building stuff, placing huge blueprints is like playing Russian rullete with crashes..

[stiff ibex]

dont really wanna drop 1200 on a 5080 though

[fluid sapphire]

I had i5-8500 and RX580, the jump is huge

[stiff ibex]

what you got now?

[fluid sapphire]

I think that's mostly a problem borne from recent updates, it's very unstable now

[stiff ibex]

i had a rx 580 before, but upgraded to a 3070 ti

the jump in performance was insane

[fluid sapphire]

i5-12600kf, 3060ti gaming trio z, 2x16gb 6000MT cl30 memory

[south elm]

I hope coffee stains will continue supporting this game man

[stiff ibex]

of course they will, its an extremely popular game

[south elm]

Yeah but do they make money on it

[fluid sapphire]

I'm sure they will get right back to cookin when they get back from vacation

[south elm]

I mean that is an actual question I have no clue if they do

[inner echo]

It's just being in blueprint dismantle mode when everything is a blueprint (I blueprint foundations) that really gets my game a crashin'.

[fluid sapphire]

It's very clear the amount of passion that goes into this game

[fluid sapphire]

I would bet, yeah, it's a very popular game and the console release will be soon (TM)

[south elm]

Oh yeah that could make them money

[stiff ibex]

undoubtedly

[south elm]

I just hope for DLCs I would buy like the Sims amount of DLCs for this game

[mortal dirge]

I think they'll do DLC at some point

[south elm]

Yeah this game is very easily expendable

[tacit magnet]

why?

[last tartan]

#screenshots message i am ASTONISHED

[south elm]

Sandboxes rule when it comes to adding new stuff to the game

[mortal dirge]

Having a moon or another planet that you can travel back and forth from would be incredible

[south sinew]

satisfactory space age

[inner echo]

(I would say the truck stations loading and unloading if they can even smell a vehicle nearby)

[frail chasm]

Hi folks. Just getting started with trains. I'm running 3x Mk5 belts (780p/m) from crater lakes coal to a station below it in rockier desert. The train runs from here to beach islands to make rocket fuel. My question is do run each belt into three different freight platforms or 2 into 1 and the remaining belt into a second. Can't get me head around how to figure out transfer rates etc

[south elm]

Yeah planet travel would be cool but I honestly would prefer boats and other islands

[mortal dirge]

Boats would be so cool

Imagine a giant barge of resources

[spiral summit]

trucks have the urge to unload/load onto literally any station on their path

[south elm]

But I think they said that they refuse to add anything water related since they didn't want to turn the game into subnautica

[south sinew]

the train stops can transfer a little less than two belts each, so best to split one belt and do 1.5 for two platforms

[mortal dirge]

I hope they go back and flesh out phase 5 and the ending a bit. I'm not there yet, but I hear it's sorta abrupt.

[inner echo]

One hint is to measure it in stacks rather than individual units.

[south sinew]

the ocean in SF isn't deep enough for that

[spiral summit]

so despite editing the path they will still use the station and this is about the 10th time rubber has clogged my steel foundries so i deleted that truck entirely

[south elm]

Unfortunate, imagine some kind of oil nodes that can only spawn at the bottom of the sea and building a proper oil rig

Soooooo cool

[spiral summit]

i have 0 space for another truck station so i have to improvise

as in, i need an entirely different section for 1 truck station

stupid ass game

[frail chasm]

Is that for any speed belt? Will be upgrading them to Mk6 when unlock

[south sinew]

yes, regardless of belt speed

[tacit magnet]

true, but knowing this issue, when I have an array of stations, they are spaced such that there is never an issue.

Yes, it takes space, which is kind of annoying. As do trains.

[wicked nacelle]

Every "get a to unlock b, get b to unlock c....." game has an abrupt ending. The story is tacked on to a factory building game and doesn't really matter

[inner echo]

How many stacks are transferred in a round trip. Set up your stations and sink everything on the receiving end at maximum.

[gritty spire]

are remote factories better than running everything back to your main factory? this game has grown boring due to the sheer distance i have to go to get what i need

[spiral summit]

trains take up way more space which is exactly why im trying to not use them here 💔

[wicked nacelle]

distance isn't really an obstacle in this game, they give you all the tools you need to handle it. My factory spans the whole island and it doesn't take me more than 30s to get anywhere (and I don't use the dumb end-game portals - they're actually worse)

[wicked nacelle]

trains stack vertically much easier than trucks

train stations are great options for going vertical with

[fluid sapphire]

Half the game is setting up logistics

[frail chasm]

I prefer "areas" of smaller factories rather than main base and hypertube cannon between areas

[spiral summit]

anything can stack vertically if you can do it right

[south elm]

It's an open question, building a mega factory that does everything is generally more overwhelming and with dimensional depot quite useless but there is fun to be had building an absolute monster of a building. I personally prefer to set up many, many factories all over the world with specific purpose and connecting them all with trains. Depends on your playstyle really

[spiral summit]

remote factories give you more space to expand

i learnt this the hard way

[frail chasm]

I've played both and spread out factories is a lot more engaging than main base and bus in

[spiral summit]

im working on making a road connection to everywhere so remote factories become a lot easier

[gritty spire]

i mean my base in the grasslands at the bottom of the map, i feel like i need to make a factory on the west shores for oil products. i hate my spawn base, tried wiping everything and got really bored to make everything again

[south sinew]

I made my base in the southwest shore and it went pretty good

[frail chasm]

On that note, I do wish they made the teleporter available a little earlier than the last level

[south elm]

Also give asphalt roads 3 foundation in width to travel around in Explorer a shot, not the most efficient way to travel but very satisfying and you can also use them for trucks

[south elm]

I disagree, teleporting around should be the absolute last tier of progression imo. I'd like a driveable flying vehicle in tier 7-8 the fact that drones were materials only was such a letdown for me

[wicked nacelle]

that's why we always recommend people don't tear down their bases. why throw away that time? It's still doing whatever you built it for

[wicked nacelle]

they're not materials only if you're brave

[frail chasm]

Well, I will always respect someone's right to be utterly wrong

[wicked nacelle]

the last tier of the game should have been "click on the map to teleport there" instead of the worthless portal system

[south elm]

Why portal system is worthless, I never made it to tier 9

[zenith kestrel]

Would there happen to be a mod for reliving the ficsmas's

[wicked nacelle]

because you can only go between portals and you have to pay to keep them open. it can be useful if you're working on a specific spot but for travel between a lot of spots you still need hypertube cannons and so since you have to have cannons regardless you don't need portals

[frail chasm]

Maybe having a portal earlier would have made that easier?

[south elm]

I never had an issue traveling long distances pulse nobelisks and turbofuel is enough to cut whole map in matter of minutes

[wicked nacelle]

If it were you could go directly between any two portals that could have been useful. but it's not

[shell plinth]

You could have your local date and time to ficsmas, however you wont be able to bring it to your current time as the save files are sorted by date not playtime, this might be fixed sinced 1.1 though

[frail chasm]

Oh. I thought you could zip between them. Need to watch a vid again

[south elm]

Also, the issue for me is that I just can't be bothered even considering producing project parts for last phases

[spare crow]

any else experienced the unable to connect to servers thing even though steam is online? firewall is off and everything, no idea why, it just gets stuck "re-authenticating" and then gives up, and even though all my saved games came in from steam cloud (they're in the right folder) the game doesn't see that they exist....

[south elm]

I saw one guy on YouTube clearing down literally all of grass fields to make like 15 nuclear pasta a minute

Yeah. No thanks

[frail chasm]

Yep I'm not gonna bother with nuclear. Just rocket fuel

[zenith kestrel]

As you said this i remembered the mod manager and modding scene is robust here so i just googled and there is in fact a mod for Ficsmas Everyday

[spiral summit]

sometimes i think these trucks intentionally mock me

[south elm]

Same. I mean if atleast uranium nodes weren't in such ridiculous places on the map then maybe. We have what, middle of a cave, literally highest peak in the game and some random ones I can't remember

[spiral summit]

i told my truck to not unload on this specific station right,

you know what it does?

[shell plinth]

lol

[south elm]

Not even a single pure uranium node I'll never forget them for that

[gritty spire]

how tedious is nuclear?

[wicked nacelle]

why do you have to do anything crazy to make 15 pasta/m? I make 25 and it's 20 particle accelerators

[spiral summit]

it then deletes the node where its supposed to load and begins loading at the one i told it not to

[dusky iris]

Hey, I’m having issues trying to get my friend to join my game, any suggestions?

[shell plinth]

i tried, i failed, i tried again, got mocked by ada

[south elm]

Maybe they changed it but doesn't it require like half of the copper nodes on the map

[wicked nacelle]

you could tell us what the issues are

[wicked nacelle]

one pure copper makes 500 powder/m. so it can run 2

[dusky iris]

It says “Lost connection to host”

[wicked nacelle]

so 10 pure coppers? Hardly half the copper

[dusky iris]

I’m going through a list of “fixes” but nothing is working

[wicked nacelle]

and copper really isn't useful for much in the game with the alts that let you use iron instead

[sturdy pivot]

which recipes do i need to shoot for in phase 4 besides sloppy alum and pure aluminum ingot?

[wicked nacelle]

There are 30 pure coppers worth of nodes

[wicked nacelle]

sloppy is VERY optional.

it's like 8% more aluminum than base recipe

[frail chasm]

Yeah. nuc power is unbalanced imo. Maybe they've put it in for future updates that require a shed ton of power or something 🤷

[south elm]

Deluded fuel in blenders and turbofuel in blender recepie

[wicked nacelle]

it's unbalanced while you still have plenty of all resources still unused on the map, that's for sure. rocket fuel is way better if you're just trying to complete the story

[wicked nacelle]

it's diluted. you're deluded 😛

[south elm]

Woopsie daise im not apologizing ÷ure right

[dusky iris]

My friend is having issues connecting to my server. It keeps saying that he’s lost connection to the host. I have literally tried everything. Does it matter that we’re in different countries?

I’m using steam to invite him

[zenith kestrel]

OMG Modded FICSMAS IN JULY LMAO

[sturdy pivot]

#dedicated-servers

[south elm]

2500mw is very underwhelming considering its just 10 fuel generators

[frail chasm]

Can your friend use a hyper tube cannon and get closer to your computer?

[south elm]

I was sure nuclear powerplants makes like ATLEAST 5k on basic production 2.5k is a joke man sorry not sorry not worth the hussle

[frail chasm]

Or a portal...

[wicked nacelle]

it shouldn't.

[shell plinth]

normally no, how old is the save? has this happened before, are you the one hosting?

[dusky iris]

Brand new save. I’ve never had issues connecting to other friends and I am the host. My friend hosted it before and I was having the same issues

[shell plinth]

its prob one of you guys, internet priority etc, try joining someone else to determin if its your router or your friends, im sure its the high ping timing you or your friend out

alr back to building my train station and bridge

[wicked nacelle]

maybe try linking your epic account and starting an epic session and have your friend do the same and give him the epic://23948729347293487 thingy

@dusky iris ^^^^

make sure to set it up as a "public game" or whatever -- it's not actually public you still hvae to have the long epic number to join

[shell plinth]

hold on why is my train outlined red?

[wicked nacelle]

cuz it's on fiyaaaaaaaa

[astral knot]

Chat am i supposed to have one water extractor for every coal generator i have

[shell plinth]

lol but no they only been sitting there for at least 3 hours

[burnt ferry]

depends on overclocking

[warped cypress]

Whats the best fuel to use for power?

[astral knot]

Im overclocking all my coal generators to the max

[wicked nacelle]

uranium nuclear and/or rocket fuel

[burnt ferry]

you can overclocl water extractors up to 300 m3/min generation and the coal generator go up to 113m3/min consumption

[shell plinth]

the kind thats cheep and easy to exploit in the massed

[burnt ferry]

mycelia

[warped cypress]

Alr

Ty

[astral knot]

How many max overclocked coal generators can a water extractor handle?

[burnt ferry]

?

[wicked nacelle]

you should learn how to do the simple math yourself

[sturdy pivot]

why don't you do the math yourself

[burnt ferry]

just look at the numbers.. like i said it depends on the overclocking (also that of the water extractors

[astral knot]

Oh wait theres math?

[burnt ferry]

an overclocked water extractor can serve more than one coal generator.. however its power consumption will be higher than the plus water... in fact it would be best to have two water extractors or even three per coal generator as underclocking likewise reduces power more than linear.. but of course three extractors per genreator is kinda cumbersome. so .... it depends

[pure condor]

whats the hotkey to switch to a second hotbar

[burnt ferry]

alt mousewheel

[pure condor]

thanks

[astral knot]

I had 7 coal generators and water extractors and i wanted to try to have one water extractor provide for 3 coal generators because i was running out of space

I probably need to redo the whole thing ngl

[burnt ferry]

the power consumption of overclocked machinery is greater than what you gain on material

like overclocking the exractor to 250% will make it produce 250% of water but consume MORE than 250% of power.. hence your total power will be lower

[wicked nacelle]

but generators are 100% efficiency at all overclock settings

[astral knot]

Oh yeah i was only overclocking my coal generators

[wicked nacelle]

so if you have shards, there's no downside to overclocking them

[burnt ferry]

its about water extractors

[sturdy pivot]

3 water extractors per 8 100% coal generators

[stiff ibex]

still works well if you have a portal hub

[burnt ferry]

i have 1 per 1 fully overclocked

[stiff ibex]

like a main portal area that has multiple other portals to different bases around the map

though it is quite expensive

[astral knot]

Oh damn so i was literally doing the right thing before

[wicked nacelle]

yep. It's one of those things where you can do anything you want but you can't do ALL the things you want.

[burnt ferry]

but your plan was to have 1 water extractor per 3 generators... , which require you to overclock the extractors if you have overclocked them generators

[sturdy pivot]

you don't need to do 1 per one

[wicked nacelle]

that's a fine approach but depending on where you are you may run out of deep water surface area

[sturdy pivot]

250% coal generator uses 113 water/min

[burnt ferry]

yes its. best to not overclock the machinery that generates stuff that power generators consume.. because your balance will be lower

[stiff ibex]

im still relying on my spaghetti base from when i beat the game 500 hours ago literally only just to power my portal hub lol

[astral knot]

I have like a really big lake next to 3 pure coal ore nodes

[wicked nacelle]

But you save time and can build more other things.

[burnt ferry]

bruh.... p[lease join in the discussion from the beginning.. i'm not the one wondering how to set this up

[burnt ferry]

just saying you have to be aware of... youre right, can still overclock if it makes sense

[burnt ferry]

my 16 fully overclocked coal generators are running smoothly like apussy cat

[wicked nacelle]

water extractor power consumption is negligible at any overclock settings

[sturdy pivot]

you specifically replied to me so i was replying to you... i was here from the beginning of the conversation

[burnt ferry]

guys... the piont is.. overclockiing increases power consumptino more than linear..

this is the important thing here

[atomic notch]

4-1.5 is the best coal setup imo

[burnt ferry]

and as far as i understood the info helped @astral knot

[wicked nacelle]

it's 50 vs 67.2 MW for 2.5@100% vs 1@250% water extractor

[astral knot]

Oh i just realized why i consume so much power, i overclock literally every constructor and assembler

[wicked nacelle]

it's not really that much of a penalty as I just showed

[burnt ferry]

ye... thats what im saying.. i wasnt aware when i was a n00b either

[stiff ibex]

even early game its fine to overclock water extractors, unless youre really strapped for power

[wicked nacelle]

I'm usually more strapped for ... whatever they build from (rotors) than I am power 🙂

[astral knot]

Despite all my overclocking i am still always out of cement

[burnt ferry]

wet concrete

[stiff ibex]

truth nuke

[wicked nacelle]

wet concrete is a very good alt recipe 🙂 -- both for making more cement as well as getting rid of water if you haven't figured out how to recycle it

[last tartan]

#screenshots message do you guys like my itty bitty fuel factory

[stiff ibex]

whenever i unlocked a new phase i would always start with the new power gen available so i wouldnt have to worry for the rest of the phase

[astral knot]

I killed my biomass burners

[wicked nacelle]

h8 it

[last tartan]

you know what

i say, we need photo permissions in satisfactory channel

[wicked nacelle]

there's no reason to do that -- they're a great power backup since they only burn biomass as they are needed

[burnt ferry]

funny how they talked about overclocking constructors and assemblers and you saying, yea i already showed its not that much! (which was when you talked about water extractors)

[stiff ibex]

they work like capacitors

[wicked nacelle]

I'm glad it's not. Otherwise it would just be photo spam all the time. It's trivial to post in another channel but just enough friction to stop people from spamming it

[stiff ibex]

though basically meaningless later on

[burnt ferry]

just separate the circuit.. such that the batteries charge

[astral knot]

Excited to see what power generation stuff i get after phase 2

[last tartan]

o i l

[wicked nacelle]

new clear

[stiff ibex]

nuclear

[wicked nacelle]

nu-cyu-ler

[last tartan]

AMERICUH

[burnt ferry]

geysirs

not much but without input

[stiff ibex]

biomass burner only challenge

[astral knot]

Im sure my 2000 encased steel beam will be actually useful

[burnt ferry]

lul

they will be gone fast thats certain 😂

[last tartan]

RUAHHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

I SMELL OIL

[wicked nacelle]

mk4 belts are nasty like that

[fathom shuttle]

I just realized that having tons of power is kind of pointless
The max you’ll ever need is 500GW
And the most power intensive things you do in the game are ones that make power like ficsonium and APM

[stiff ibex]

its just as arbitrary as anything else

[astral knot]

I wanted to ditch my biomass burners because my friend said wood is not renewable

[stiff ibex]

youll never need 500 gw either tbh unless youre like 1000 hours in

[boreal steppe]

Wait for SS power..

[last tartan]

biomass isnt renewable like coal

[astral knot]

Yeah thats why i wanna rely entirely on coal

[burnt ferry]

you cant collect all the wood in the map really 😂 also there is far more efficient biomass sources than wood.. and like others said, youwill end up neding them eventually when you mess up your power grid

[last tartan]

i have 8 coal generators and 4 batteries, going great (do NOT somersloop assemblers)

[burnt ferry]

coal needs power to bootstrap

[fathom shuttle]

Don’t build too much coal tho

[burnt ferry]

thats one use of biomass burners.... so does oil

[wicked nacelle]

and if you accidentally overdo your power consumption, your biofuel burners would have kicked in and saved yer butt

[last tartan]

b a t t e r y

[burnt ferry]

yes

[last tartan]

gonna be dead serious satisfactory power storage is a lifesaver

[stiff ibex]

wish there was an industrial battery, spam placing blueprints full of batteries is lame

[astral knot]

I have never used the battery ever

[burnt ferry]

it is.. my max consumption is twice as much as my max production... i never run out because the batteries tank the peaks

(wouldnt work if it was permanently at max consumption obviously)

[last tartan]

get to it

[burnt ferry]

dont make sense before coal.. they dont charge on biomass burners

[wicked nacelle]

power storage is the building name

battery is an item that's essentially useless in 1.0+

[last tartan]

exactly, max consumption stays the same but whatever is on or not constantly fluctuates

[astral knot]

Only using it just now.. i have like one battery at my coal generators while i work on figuring out this water thing

[inner echo]

I have some power storage on a sulfuric acid plant with next door geothermal. For looks and I like the 'self-sustained' look.

[astral knot]

Because i dont think adding 5 more pumps will help my case

[atomic notch]

I just put batteries on geothermals thats all i use em for

[astral knot]

Oh my god theres geothermal energy?

[burnt ferry]

focus on the power source first.. like i said you need a non biomass burner powered circuit which produces more power than it consumes for them to charge.. so make them coal generators running fully first

[wicked nacelle]

it's silly. but once you get it there's no downside to taking it. but once you can get it, it's not enough to matter

[fathom shuttle]

It’s kind of useless tho

[astral knot]

I cant wait to fall in my geothermal power plant and be shattered across time and space

[fathom shuttle]

All the map’s geothermal is 7GW

[wicked nacelle]

every once in a while I'd want to go home and be somewhere with no power for hypertube cannon but I'd find a geyser and boom. funcitonal cannon

[astral knot]

Ohh is that what the geysers are for

[atomic notch]

Its not really a power plant. Theres just vents u put gens on

Yeah

[wicked nacelle]

7.1 to be obnoxious 🙂

[stuck oak]

i get that tubes are faster but i ziplines seem so much easier, anywhere i want to go is gonna have a power line going to it

[burnt ferry]

thats a great number to bootstrap a lot of power dependent power generation setups

for free

[astral knot]

Rn im about to get to phase 2, just waiting on 500 versatile metal things

[wicked nacelle]

if you couldn't just use your existing grid, then sure. but you can.

[burnt ferry]

my idea is to have all geysirs in a separate priority group, such that they will bootstrap the grid when it runs off.. i mean its not like that cant happen...

[astral knot]

I have so much excess coal. My coal generators are getting coal from 3 pure coal nodes

[burnt ferry]

aluminum

[inner echo]

geothermal is decorative mostly. And fun to use creatively when handy.

[atomic notch]

Yall use the priority switches?

[wicked nacelle]

that gets very hard as the fuel ingredients get more and more complex. trying to have a full nuclear system on its own grid is quite time consuming

[astral knot]

Gonna figure out a plan for tomorrow

[wicked nacelle]

only to toggle on/off my emergency power storage bank- since you can remote control any switch from any other switch anywhere

[burnt ferry]

i dont even see nuclear power necessary.. it is decorative in itself

[wicked nacelle]

but I never run out of power so I actually never do that.

[astral knot]

Mass dismantle everything while one battery carries the whole factory then quickly remake everything

[burnt ferry]

so. the whole discussion.. is kinda...

[wicked nacelle]

power in this game is so simplistically modeled that there's really no need to do anything other than a big braindead single power circuit for the whole map

[signal ibex]

PS5 Release date?

[wicked nacelle]

not today. probably not tomorrow. repeat

[astral knot]

I was expecting power lines to lose power the further they went

[burnt ferry]

your argument followed to the end results in 'you dont have to do anything because it makes no sense'

its a game!!!.. people play it the way they want to..

regardless of someones perception (!) of efficiency

[astral knot]

Also i lvoe the boombox

[burnt ferry]

note that im not saying that someones perception is 'right' or even relevant

[burnt ferry]

WORTHLESS

👹

[astral knot]

Awesome weapon to fight enemies at clifftops with

[wicked nacelle]

that's fine but you're just making problems for yourself to solve that don't exist. so when other people ask I just tell them not to bother. They can always decide that they think it's fun, but the correct advice is "it's a waste of time vs doing other things that progress you"

[burnt ferry]

i bought all tapes 😂

[astral knot]

I just have the goat simulator tape so i can use the turbo bass

[burnt ferry]

i enjoy playing the game not the way you want, jsut to piss you off bro 😂

thats one aspect of any game

[burnt ferry]

bah.. goat simulator.. what a useless game.. heat distributiuon is so unrealistic in it

i love there is goatsim3 already 😂

[astral knot]

Im at bed right now but i feel like one unoverclocked water extractor can support 2 250% coal generators

I just have a good feeling about it

[burnt ferry]

numbers wise no.. it would be 226 vs 120

[astral knot]

Oh dang no wonder i kept running out of water

[atomic notch]

Bruh

[astral knot]

Now just realizing it literally just has enough to support 1 250% coal generator

[burnt ferry]

16*7 is 112.. so you should be good with 15 extractors for 16 250% coal generators

but i rather round that up to 120 and make it 1:1 because its simpler.. i mean the overproduction wont be charged powerwise as the extractors just dont run when theyve produced enough

[astral knot]

Im not sure how much power pumps use but i hope they dont use much because i am gonna need a loooot of them

[burnt ferry]

so you dont loos epower by building too many extractors.. just by overclocking them

[burnt ferry]

build the generators less than 10 m above them extractors..

[wanton apex]

Does anyone else have that problem where, like, your belts are absolute spaghetti, but like clean spaghetti? It's full of right angles but they're all wrapped around each other

[burnt ferry]

we are not allowed to do that.. otherwise lets game it out will spawn in the living room

[livid kernel]

20MW at 100%

[wanton apex]

My spaghetti is clean

I'll share a screenshot in a bit

[astral knot]

Oh wow 20 is crazy

For such a small looking thing

[fluid sapphire]

If you are building only one floor, it helps to hide the inter-machine-block logistics under the floor

[mystic oriole]

spawn the Josh
spawn the Josh

[astral knot]

Whenever i cheese enemies using ramps and foundation i feel like im in fortnite

[livid kernel]

NGL that weave was clean af. Completely useless and pointless, but clean af

[astral knot]

Especially now that i have rebar gun

[burnt ferry]

@astral knot the mk2 pump consumes 8 MW

the mk1 pump consumes 4

[astral knot]

I only have mk1 pumps rn

[burnt ferry]

you really only need them if headlift is above 10 m

you can see the current headlift in the pumps configuration screen

[astral knot]

Yeah i sww that some usually go above 10

[livid kernel]

oh yeah, sorry my brain broke. I was thinking extractors lmao

[wanton apex]

okay screenshot time

[astral knot]

Though i only need one right? For each pipe?

[burnt ferry]

i usually start without pumps.... and then add them when needed only..

they can also deadlock certain setups

[zealous rain]

Mkay quick little question, do flat sections of pipe need a pump?

[livid kernel]

no tyler

only for headlift above 10m

taylor*

[gritty spire]

i heard putting a lot of hypertube entrances is better than a normal hypertube. is that true?

[zealous rain]

👍

[atomic notch]

I have like 2 pumps on my whole world lol

[burnt ferry]

yea.. it makes sense to have 'main' pipelines carry liquids across heights and not make to many go up and down.. but of course if you hneed the amount, you have no choice but to put a pump per pipe

[astral knot]

Ok so at least i know my issue isnt a pump issue but rather with my extractors

[fluid sapphire]

You can make cannons using this technique: just add an end that's pointed up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEnl62Q1sA

[gritty spire]

thanks

[burnt ferry]

just check the configuration screens.. the numbers are stated there and updated when you overclock

[zealous rain]

Im so worried about pipes being efficient thay I have pumps like everywhere dhddhdh

[burnt ferry]

producers have to finish the current production before the overclock gets calculated

[zealous rain]

I hate fluid logistics

[burnt ferry]

that could be causing parts of your issues

i solved quiet a few issues by removing unnecessary pumps already

[zealous rain]

Im not having any issues lmao

[astral knot]

Cant wait for this one battery to literally have to carry my whole factory. Bless her soul

[zealous rain]

At least… none that i know of

[livid kernel]

https://youtu.be/nTEU_insVj4 this helped me a lot

[fluid sapphire]

About 10 of these entrances should basically be enough to launch you across the map

[burnt ferry]

your worried 😂 thats an issue

[zealous rain]

I guess

[inner echo]

Pumps don't 'pump', they create a new maximum height the liquid will reach from the pumps center on the pipe.

[burnt ferry]

uhm.. by battery you mean an array of 4 times 16 power storages, right? 😂

[astral knot]

Getting mercer spheres solely for lore purposes

[astral knot]

One

[livid kernel]

also act as check valves. fluid can only go one way through a pump

[zealous rain]

Dimensional depots 🥰 🥰 🥰

[burnt ferry]

nah.. check mam.. alien technology.. left branch

mercers spheres are extremely important for exactly one thing

[fluid sapphire]

Both branches

[astral knot]

I do not care about dimensional depot its so slow

[grizzled lotus]

satisfactory mid-game; 25% building, 25% exploring, 50% building railways

[burnt ferry]

true but i was addressing mercer spheres.. right branch is slops

[zealous rain]

Dude the power augmenter looks and sounds so cool

[burnt ferry]

bruh.. 😂

[zealous rain]

I love it

[burnt ferry]

it is the most useful thing in the game

[zealous rain]

Dimensional depots are SO useful

[burnt ferry]

you never run out of mats when building

[zealous rain]

I have infinite bombs, right in my pocket

[astral knot]

If i run out of concrete i respawn and get more concrete

[livid kernel]

they are insanely worth it. Yes, they upload slow but the amount of time and inv space you save by having them on your build materials is amazing

[burnt ferry]

bruh.. believe me.. TRY it out

[inner echo]

I have 16 dim depot for concrete. It's plenty 'fast'

[burnt ferry]

you have no idea 😂 obviously

[fluid sapphire]

You severely underestimate just how powerful they are. Once you fully upgrade them to have 5 stacks of an item and an upload of 240 per minute, and have multiple uploaders for a single item, they are incredible

[astral knot]

I only built one because i didnt know there was uplaod and stack limits

[burnt ferry]

for example.. i dont have 16 but i have more than one because i also hneed lots of concrete for foundations

[zealous rain]

I havent worried about going back and getting mats for a WHILE thanks to them

[burnt ferry]

that is not the point.. you can upload parallel.. but what you actually do is you set your productions to put the overflow into the depot... like that it will always replenished as soon as you use it

hence mercer spheres are so simportant because you need one per depot.. and plenty for them upgrades

[livid kernel]

I'm actually torn atm, I have 5 mercer spheres and pretty much all of them (I think) around where I usually am. Not sure if I want to use them on a couple more mats now, or save untll I get 1 more and increase stack size

[burnt ferry]

this

[inner echo]

I meant for just 8...but once I got rubber concrete...I just left the traditional concrete plant in place to 'empty'.

[burnt ferry]

wet concrete

[fluid sapphire]

Just go find more

[inner echo]

Rubber concrete

[burnt ferry]

i would keep them to build uploaders....

[astral knot]

Speaking of concrete, big issue with that. I cant store concrete because i keep making stupid encased steel. I just KNOW thats gonna be useful later. Like reinforced iron plates

[livid kernel]

I always use the 2 level containers for depots. Still have a belt out at ground level, and a lift into the depot sitting on top

[burnt ferry]

thats the point.. you can separate the demands with the dimensional depot very elegantly

[burnt ferry]

default seutp

[astral knot]

I have over 2000 encased steel and i hope i use it soon

[gritty spire]

how do i point the end up

[livid kernel]

I read yours like you split directly into a depot, my bad

[burnt ferry]

dont worry about that.. you will use ALL of them for sure

[fluid sapphire]

Put a support** on a ramp

[inner echo]

And each depot keeps an additional stack...so don't necessarily think they all need to receive a full 240

[fluid sapphire]

Adjust angle to taste

[inner echo]

For 'peaking'

[astral knot]

Wow i wonder what mk4 conveyors use

[lean ferry]

guys I have 2 stacks and 120 upload speed for dd what do upgrade next

[burnt ferry]

thats separate concern. but yes i aolways split directly into depot because thats where i need them.. the production will continue to run once the depot is full which really doesnt take long at all

[inner echo]

I go tit for tat back and forth upgrading them.

[burnt ferry]

? 😂

[lean ferry]

I also have 15 mercer spheres idk whether to upgrade or to just depot stuff like cable and wire

[inner echo]

And once I start upgrading...I go a bit nuts and don't stop till done.

[livid kernel]

Wire and cable should def be depoted, like asap

[lean ferry]

I mean I have sam fluctuators automated anyways

[astral knot]

Genuinely scared i wont have enough mercer spheres for everything

[lean ferry]

I can still depot them, but do I get 240m upload speed or better stacks

[burnt ferry]

seriously bro... check them dim depots out 😂 you are missing BIG TIME

[lean ferry]

nvm

bro im too broke for 240/m 💔

[fluid sapphire]

Dimensional depot almost entirely eliminates inventory management

[lean ferry]

ill get 3 stacks, and still have like 7/8 spheres leftover

[astral knot]

Maybe i'll look into it

[burnt ferry]

stack size obviously.. upload speed can be buffed by building more uploaders

[livid kernel]

There's like 300 spheres, 201 after you unlock everything in the MAM that needs them

[lean ferry]

im gonna depot wire, cable, ive got rods plates and concrete uploaded, as well as alu sheets uploaded

[astral knot]

Once i deal with my goddamn coal plant

[lean ferry]

im gonna upload trigons and crystals next to make mk6

[burnt ferry]

i depot justg everything.. its also great for scouting as you can put away all those nasty inventory slots that are consumed by 5 item stacks

the great thing is there is no limit to the number of different mats

[livid kernel]

the "Use items from inventory first" box should be enabled by default imo

[lean ferry]

what should I depot? I need a priority list tho cuz there are some things I dont need to upload some items like turbo motors (they r used very small amounts)

[burnt ferry]

so putting max stacksize concrete there wont take space from steel beams. etc.

[burnt ferry]

all buliding mats

[lean ferry]

ive got alu sheets, concrete rods and plates, gonna get triogon and crystal when I finish automating them, gonna do cable and copper wire

[burnt ferry]

like conveyor belt mats first.. the fastest one.. thhen of course, plates, rods, frames..

[stiff ibex]

concrete, cable, wire, plates are all important ones

copper sheets also

[burnt ferry]

start with conveyor belt mats and maybe mats you can recall directly are necessary almost everywhere (like modular frames)

and whenever you encounter a mat that has no dim upload yet, you build one for that... youlll have all thats needed in no time

[lean ferry]

yea ive got alu sheets rn i wana get mk 6 when I finish automating them (im tier 9 rn) i might do copper sheet for pipe

finnaly I wont have to go back for wire and cab le

[burnt ferry]

ye copper sheet

but dont worry TOO much... do everything you can recall now.. and then add when needed

[lean ferry]

6 spheres left, what do I do now?

[burnt ferry]

keep em for uploaders

scout for more to upgrade

[lean ferry]

im gonna remove alu sheets and replace with trigons and crystal, so 5

[livid kernel]

A good way to think of it is if you need to take a bunch of stacks of things for a build you're going to do, or have to return to storage for more of a mat, you should put a depot on it

[lean ferry]

then copper sheet so 4

[burnt ferry]

ye thats what i mean.. wait for these moemnts.. dont try to recall ALL of them upfront

[lean ferry]

should I upload pipes and motors?

[burnt ferry]

is it necessary in buildings you build?

[lean ferry]

because when u build refineries they are greedy asf for motors

[burnt ferry]

alrighty then

[lean ferry]

ill wait for now

and see what I need to upload

probably gonna do pipes, motors, sheets and thats it for now

[burnt ferry]

that was a yes for motors..

[atomic notch]

I just stick depots on everything tbh. But i usually unlock them super early so its a bit easier.

[livid kernel]

also rotors, you need them a lot

[burnt ferry]

you basically need everything 😂 hence the best strategy is to build them in a lazy fashion

like only build them when you actually need that material

this will cover everything necessary very fast, without distracting too much from playing\

[willow glen]

the only things I find not worth uploading are screws and heat sinks, since buildings don’t use those (except the awesome shop).
If you’re strapped for spheres, build whatever you use the most and schedule a hunt for more

[burnt ferry]

the beauty of the depot is that this doesnt matter as the storage for those dont take storage for other things

[willow glen]

near the end of each phase there’s usually a good amount of hunting time

[livid kernel]

I went screw free, it's so much nicer now lol

[burnt ferry]

so i would definitely not approach this by asking myself what would I not upload.. .because there is no reason to not upload something

[stiff ibex]

make sure to upload alien power matrices

[burnt ferry]

by that you mean production.. which you dont feed from the depot

there is no alternate recipes for buildings.. when they need screws, they need screws

[brisk stream]

how do i store the heavy oil residue

[willow glen]

I didn’t explicitly list those but if you are that far in the game I doubt you need depot advice

[livid kernel]

I mean in general. Like, I have a box full if I ever need them, but I don't make or use them

[livid kernel]

fluids need packaged first

[atomic notch]

Fluid buffer