satisfactory

[azure linden]

why did you write it so cursedly

[noble stratus]

😅 i play like Space Engineers, Satisfactory, ECO, Astroneer, Subnautica, No Man's Sky, Valheim...

[peak wasp]

4:30am Sydney

[azure linden]

@noble stratus i paid ~300PLN (~70EUR) for that Dell workstation, but lately it just stopped cutting it

i'm doing some CAD and CAM for my projects+school and my old pc said no likey likey 😅

[noble stratus]

satisfactory on max settings at 60 FPS takes like 1/4 of my CPU and half my GPU

[azure linden]

wait let me open up satis and go to the swamp lol

i'll check with RTSS

[peak wasp]

I'm glad I did a new pc build this year, plays everything fine

[noble stratus]

does anyone know a fix to Discord always freezing up in frame until you put it off and back in fullscreen

[azure linden]

i've had the same bug for what, a year now? xD

afaik there isn't a fix for it

the app is just buggy

[noble stratus]

i first thought it was because of frame gen

and it happens like every 30 seconds too

[azure linden]

#screenshots message @noble stratus

120 to 30fps

[noble stratus]

#screenshots message @azure linden what the hell did you do? too many manifolds?

[azure linden]

nah, the foliage does this xD

[noble stratus]

i only have lag when im placing pipe support with pipe so far. especially near or in the blueprint designer

[azure linden]

damn

[noble stratus]

wheres the sawmp? wi need to test

damn i cant type today

[azure linden]

i'm at T8, just finished alu production, next are computers but my gpu says otherwise lmao

[azure linden]

right middle border of map

[noble stratus]

im tier 6, just placed my first manufacturer

ever

[azure linden]

well then

[noble stratus]

i have SF since 2020 xD

[azure linden]

do a search for my messages, put in the screenshot channel, and you'll see what i'm doing

[azure linden]

i have it since apr 2019

[azure linden]

btw sorry if i say nonsense but english isn't my first language

[noble stratus]

i just followed SF since 2019 through LGIO and ImKbitz from time to time

[noble stratus]

mine neither

[azure linden]

i might say some grammar bullshit from time to time lmao

[noble stratus]

It's Discord, not an essay : )

[azure linden]

.

[unkempt blade]

don't worry, that's very american of you

[noble topaz]

its only getting worse

[noble stratus]

Even ADA was a little american when i unlocked trains

[noble topaz]

#screenshots message

[white dawn]

We've often been told that internet chatting systems are a different form of communication than formal academic literature, but what this hundred-post Discord essay posits is: perhaps they are the same? In these posts I will seek to establish...

[hard ivy]

it looks like you cranked some value too high in an AI image generator

[azure linden]

@violet wave yes, it is lol

[violet wave]

haha

[azure linden]

#screenshots message polish language bomb right here xD

[glad drum]

katerytowey komputer!

[placid stirrup]

stinkin' clankers

[noble stratus]

ach du grüne neune. (literal translation) oh you green nines

[azure linden]

Caterium Computer, Caterium is kateryt in polish (or katerytowy, katerytowego, katerytowym, katerytowych, katerytu.......)

[noble topaz]

i kinda wanna learn polish, mainly cuz of its history
but its one of the hardest languages you can learn if you learned english first

[unkempt blade]

We'll peer review with emoji for you. means the segment is well written and scientifically sound and means we think you're insane and/or there are grammatical issues

[azure linden]

oh, a neighbour lol

[noble stratus]

lol

it's been 2 days and i still dont have my turbo fuel plant online in the slightest

design takes so much time

[unkempt blade]

This explanation of process is getting way more attention than my actual thesis did. Those profs were lazy as shit with feedback

[hard ivy]

allegedly, it's not that bad. the brazillian girl that took a japanese class with me said she learned polish in 4 years

[dry crag]

2 days? youre rushing, you need to get distracted finding hard drives and taming dogs for 2 weeks before doing turbo fuel everyone knows that

[azure linden]

bruh

[noble stratus]

i already did the hard drives thing. let me count my alterante recipes i havent taken yet

[azure linden]

it's bad, trust me

i guess it's on par with mandarin, maybe even a bit higher lol

[hard ivy]

imma be honest, I feel like japanese is way worse than polish

[violet wave]

what about dutch

dutch sounds silly to me, a native english speaker

very funny language

[noble stratus]

12 hard drives not taken, 1 in storage for rocket fuel later and 1 used in research. 4 or more locations with hard drives still in there already identified and visited, including a ray of happiness emitting hog.

[hard ivy]

3 different scripts for 1 language? who came up with that?

[violet wave]

hiragana:
katakana:
kanji:

[noble stratus]

kanji, katakana and hiragana

right?

(:
edit: dang it zed, i just saw you were faster

[noble stratus]

nice Hellsing profile picture btw

[hard ivy]

thx
I should rewatch it sometime soon

[noble stratus]

which

there's two

(Disclaimer, this is all totally satisfactory related! Yes!)

[hard ivy]

I've got ultimate already downloaded so probably that one

[noble stratus]

i watched the other i think

anyhow, getting distracted from my plant building process

why arent there any VC btw i nthe SF Dc?

[rocky reef]

so, what was the announcment at gamescon?

[hard ivy]

because VCs are kinda difficult to moderate

[hard ivy]

the console release date

[rocky reef]

and when is it?

[hard ivy]

Nov 4th

[rocky reef]

thank you very much

[violet wave]

yw

[azure linden]

I just realised that when i used polish you didnt say to check the rules lmao

[noble stratus]

my connection just went totally dead for no reason, wth

[noble stratus]

makes sense

[cinder jay]

hello

[past robin]

why does my game only have half foundations

[cinder jay]

wdym

[past robin]

there is no regular sized square foundations, only the rectangle half ones

[cinder jay]

are you in the right spot?

[past robin]

i'm in the foundations menu

[cinder jay]

weird

[river oriole]

did you reaserch them in the hub?

[hard ivy]

did you collapse the regular foundations category?

[river oriole]

thats where they are

[past robin]

you'd think after 200 hours id realize this 🫠, thank you lmao

[river oriole]

[thorny crest]

Evening ! Is it possible to use the connected rail to connect some light using it, I can't figure how to do that ?

[heavy pine]

If I understand what you're asking, you can't connect power cables directly to the rails. You'd have to add a station then connect to the connection point there.

[cinder jay]

yall ever js find a factoy that you never finished?

[heavy pine]

Sort of? I ran out of steel beams and went over to my factory to see what was happening and then remembered that I had cut the supply lines in order to upgrade steel production and never finished that project.

Had a thought yesterday as I was upgrading Mk.4 belts to Mk.5 and filling my inventory with encased beams. I should set up bits of my production line to allow for injection of leftover parts like that. But on second thought, that might mess up the balance.

[thorny crest]

Yeah, that's what I wanted, a way to use the connectivity to make an entry point from it for a light, thanks.

[hard ivy]

just sink them. nodes in this game don't run out. there's no reason to conserve building materials

[dry crag]

300 hours in the other day and I found an old box around a few mk1 miners just making rotors and almost threw up.

[shy mulch]

im approaching 1200 hours and went to check on a power plant the other day and found 2 of the walls were half done, i must have just got bored and done something else and never went back

[dry crag]

Was just building a platform to cover the desert and found it wedged between a few rocks, must’ve made it maybe 250 hours ago to fill out some kind of production then just abandoned it

[proud bough]

Haven't played satisfactory myself but I've watched plenty of lets plays of it and want to get into it sooo bad

[shy mulch]

FICSIT does not approve of your procrastination. Get to work pioneer

[proud bough]

Yes sir

-# as soon as I get the money

[dry crag]

The first couple hours can be a bit of a slog but if you stick with it it’s such a chill game to just sit there watching your train throwing concrete all over the map

[proud bough]

The first lesson I learned was watching imkibitz play the 1.0 update

[dry crag]

Plus you can build a human railgun. What’s not to love

[proud bough]

Always save your slugs till you have the production output multiplier

[dry crag]

Cowardice. Slugs are a myth. Just build more factory

[proud bough]

Also learned that round about particle accelerators are kind of a bad idea

You can get stuck very easily

[dry crag]

God yeah I’d never trust myself with an infinite acceleration loop railgun. I’d rather just have one in a 30m long line I can hop in and launch

[cinder jay]

whats a round about partical accelerator?

[proud bough]

When you use the hyper tube branches the make the accelerator of you hyper tube cannon

[heavy pine]

A hypertube cannon that loops around and around until you hit the button to switch off into a branch and get launched.

And yeah, those are hard to control. You get going so fast you can't hit the button to exit the loop until you're going mach eleventy bajillion

[proud bough]

Exactly but you can hit a point where your going so fast the game doesn't register that you want to take the exit branch

[dry crag]

If you link a hypertube entrance just next to an exit it bumps your acceleration slightly so you build a loop with 1 of those bumps in and a branch part way along so you can loop over and over until you’re going fast enough then just toggle the branch and launch out

[true mulch]

Please don't call hypertube cyclotrons "roundabout particle accelerators" because both roundabouts and particle accelerators already exist in the game and mean something completely different

[heavy pine]

And then you are yote into the stratosphere and hit the death ceiling

[cinder jay]

oh

[proud bough]

😈 you can't stop me

[hard ivy]

@ Moderator

[dry crag]

Don’t you know who you’re talking to? That’s the rat rapper from barnyard, you can’t talk like that

[true mulch]

Put some respect on my name

[heavy pine]

("Yote" being a past-tense form of "yeet")

[true mulch]

You can build one of those without a HT branch

[heavy pine]

Can lizzard doggos and other wildlife go through hypertubes?

[true mulch]

Nothing but players can use hypertubes and (spoiler) ||portals||

Same applies to driving vehicles although wildlife can ride on top

[heavy pine]

I'm no monster, was just thinking of ways to have doggos in a pen where I can still get to them to see what loot they've got give them pets.

Hypertubes in and out would do the trick.

[hard ivy]

... ladder

[proud bough]

I watch one give my friend non fissle uranium once

It was funnier than heck

[heavy pine]

I'm thinking a fully enclosed pen with a ceiling.

[proud bough]

His response was "maybe I shouldn't be keeping you near my nuclear power plant"

[heavy pine]

Also thinking of something similar for when I go out hunting for alien protein to turn into DNA canisters. I play with passive mobs (because I don't want to die to them) and when I smack one with my beatin' stick they run away. So I made a blueprint of a glass cage to build around them before I make my move.

Throw out a pokeball Build the cage, smack mob like a piñata, dismantle cage.

[thorny crest]

Arrives also when you have to make a run cause your out of comps to finish it 😅

[heavy pine]

As for recycling my old stuff, maybe what I should do instead is add a second storage container to the storage blueprint that merges with the belt of stuff coming from production.

[shy mulch]

that doesn't happen to me any more thankfully

[nimble delta]

i normally quiet trying to figure out and just thinking about fuel power gen and computers. Thats normally too much for me to handle. I done those two AND heavy modular casing and holy that latter got out of hand

[shy mulch]

Just break it down and focus on one part at a time

[nimble delta]

even so the space and logistics is a little too much for my brain, planning so the belts can reach and such

is a bit a lot for me

[shy mulch]

belts don't have a length limit

[nimble delta]

yeah they dont but nor do i want it looking like something taken out of lets game it out LOL

[rigid glen]

Just saw the new trailer, thank goodness there is finally an answer to the console question lol

[shy mulch]

then use other transportation methods, like trucks or trains or drones

[cinder jay]

anyone got some motivational words for me im tryna make a adaptive control unit factory

[nimble delta]

and thats more to learn thus confusing my brain more haha. I really do appriciate you trying but! Also havent unlocked drones meaning thats not a solution to the ones i quit over same with trains. Trucks could be valid but. I opted for an item teleport mod to help my brain a lil

[shy mulch]

FICSIT does not approve of your procrastination. Get back to work or your position as "Living Pioneer" will be terminated

Remind me to take November off from this Discord server haha

[rigid glen]

I'm just logging on, ADA won't be pleased at your lack of speed 😛

[fleet star]

just do a temp build with storages filled to make the exact amount of ACUs that you need

[placid stirrup]

improvise. adapt. overcome.

[azure ermine]

I discovered Build Mode: Blueprint (Auto-Connect) and my dimensional depots are weeping

[cinder jay]

helpful

[azure ermine]

apparently 4 uploaders of Concrete and 3 of Iron Plates are not enough

plopping down 5x5 foundations every couple seconds chews through it

[heavy pine]

om nom nom delicious resources

[azure ermine]

I'm close to having paved over the entire southern Void

[heavy pine]

I've been running into that as I place my enormous road network. Blueprints with two 4x4 layers of foundations just devour concrete.

I was surprised to learn that 1m, 2m, and 4m foundations all use the same amount of resources.

[azure ermine]

yeah, I have used 1m foundations since noticing that

[proud bough]

But the pipes

Connecting mass quantities of pipes

So much easier

[azure ermine]

apparently 1m foundations are supposed to be bad because the center of them vertically don't match the vertical grid but...will face that down the line

[heavy pine]

Auto-connecting belts in blueprints is handy if you don't have to upgrade the belts later. So I may need to go through my library and make copies of each blueprint that use different levels of belts. Like manifolds with a Mk.3 inbound spine and Mk.2 outbound spine.

[azure ermine]

so far I'm just doing foundations on blueprints but eventually will worry about more. I could picture 5x5 layers of batteries to stack up like pancakes

[heavy pine]

I've got blueprints that have two constructors with a splitter in the middle and mergers on the ends. I count how many constructors I need for a build, divide by two, place the blueprint that many times, and then hook up all the belts.

[azure ermine]

I'm still in my "in Minecraft, always dig out a massive cube shaped cavern" mindset

[heavy pine]

I used to do that back in my Minecraft days. "That mountain displeases me. hours of digging later Ahh, a flat plane."

[azure ermine]

hehe

[heavy pine]

Or when I got one of the automation type mods for Minecraft and could build miners of any size. 64x64 open pit mine, blocks automatically sorted into chests.

[proud bough]

I once spawned in a tundra on the side of a gravel mountain

[azure ermine]

gravel is the worst

[pallid tide]

Noted, just because water is the texture at the edge of the map does NOT mean it is water that you can use. Cool cool.

[proud bough]

The call of the void is strong today

[azure ermine]

yeah the hurty boundary doesn't care what it bisects

[heavy pine]

Had that happen yesterday while I was looking for a good spot to set up aluminum refining. SCIM showed a large lake, but it's a shallow puddle.

[pallid tide]

More like yay now I can completely redo my diluted fuel plant

[proud bough]

I know a spot but it's probably better for nuclear power

[azure ermine]

if you set that interactive map to the default colors like the ingame map, you can distinguish between light blue and dark blue colored water areas. Light blue is too shallow

[proud bough]

It's like this sandstone area and has a massive usable lake

[azure ermine]

light blue is just wet land

there's a tiny teardrop shaped pond in the grassy start area, you can just barely fit 6 water extractors into it, which is where I set up my first coal power

[proud bough]

I still love the fact that arachnophobia mode just covers the spiders with cat pics

[heavy pine]

I'm using that little pond for pure copper, iron, and caterium and wet concrete.

I need to get back to my "upgrade the starter base" project at some point.

[azure ermine]

I am carebear so set the creatures to passive so I could just play building game.

[heavy pine]

I've turned on god mode and flight for this game, semi-pretending to be Rogue.

[lusty gulch]

is there a suggestions page

[azure ermine]

I was surprised to see that the passive creatures would still attack each other. I found a place where hogs and spiders were fiercely battling

[proud bough]

My favorite thing to do in any game where that can happen

Just watch the NPCs beat each other up

[azure ermine]

animal protein got me to where I was able to use coal. I rather like the look of the plants and trees

animals respawn, trees don't

don't tell FICSIT I said that, I would get sacked

[sick dragon]

i have decided to use trucks to gather copper in the desert. am i gonna regret it? prolly. but rule of cool

[heavy pine]

It's not copper, it's Spice!

[sick dragon]

i have 600 rocket fuel to use so

[azure ermine]

wonder if there are mods to make plants and trees respawn. I mean what's the point of alternate recipes like Biocoal or Chacoal. No one is going to power much of anything using biomass, since it can't be automated

[heavy pine]

I noticed that SCIM has a tool to respawn plants, but that requires uploading your save, making the change, then reimporting your save.

[azure ermine]

I love how that Alternate Recipe Ranking gives those a zero

I think you mentioned earlier laying foundations on the interactive map and downloading it in your save. I don't know how, probably there's a guide

I see where you can unlock recipes and such

respawning foliage would be nice

[heavy pine]

The only tweaking I've done with the map is to bring my lizzard doggo out from underneath the map and back to the surface so I could build a new pen for him.

[azure ermine]

now that sounds like Minecraft, where your fenced in sheep would end up in some cave

well back to paving. In the end, this is a way to avoid setting up fuel production from oil. I can put that off for a while still, I'm on vacation

I've found enough hard drives to get Heavy Oil Residue and Diluted Packaged Fuel, which the wiki say work good together for that

those 3 pure oil nodes by the crater lake are lovely. And it has a geothermal in the middle of the lake. Seems a good place

[gilded idol]

I finally bought a pc to taste the sweet nectar of satisfactory once more

[proud bough]

Yes cause those recipes essentially let you turn water into fuel

[unkempt blade]

water is basically a stand in for "additional power cost" with recipes like that

[loud lantern]

does anyone have that image that shows how ur supposed to connect the water pumps to the coal gens?

[proud bough]

Power lines?

Or the water input

[loud lantern]

no i mean the orientation of the water pipes

[fossil ice]

Official Satisfactory Wiki

This is the totally awesome community driven wiki for Satisfactory!! Come on in and check it out!
<3 @fluid sapphire

[proud bough]

Round pipe goes into round hole

[young copper]

Can someone pixel art an Lizzard Dogo?

[proud bough]

How it comes out depends on where it is

[fluid sapphire]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Coal-Powered_Generator#/media/File:Coal_Generator_Schematic.png

[loud lantern]

Tyvm guys

[rustic blade]

Hey friends, can anyone tell me what is the intended way to deal with byproduct sulfuric acid when making encased uranium cells? I'm aware of fluid priority junctions to prioritize the recycled liquid over newly made liquid, but what are the intended options here? packaging and sinking feels bad, as does crafting anything else with the byproduct just to get rid of it. Curious if im missing something.

[proud bough]

Don't you need it somewhere else in your factory

[rustic blade]

i am halfway through phase 5 and never used sulfuric before this nuclear plant

[proud bough]

I swear sulfuric acid was part of the nuclear process somewhere along the line

[rustic blade]

yes im making ingredients for fuel rods right now

thats the scenario in question

theres an alternate without the byproduct but im curious what the intended way to deal with byproduct is

[heavy pine]

Loop the acid around and put it back into your production

[rustic blade]

yeah but then it will back up of course unless i turn off 25% of the initial machines making it from scratch

without a priority junction to make sure it doesnt back up

[proud bough]

I feel like there was a way to get rid of excess

[rustic blade]

and that's basically a bug

[heavy pine]

That's what I do with the water for bauxite processing. Only have enough extractors to make up the diference.

[rustic blade]

so you don't produce all that is needed for a cold start?

[regal lantern]

Either reuse it somewhere else or package it and sink it

I do the latter

[proud bough]

Oh use the excess to make leached ingots

[rustic blade]

Yeah I figured that was it, wasting plastic just to delete byproduct kinda feels bad tho

so was hoping for something better

[proud bough]

It takes sulfuric acid and a ore then just use it or sink the ingots

Had to look up recipes that used sulfuric acid

[rustic blade]

oh i dont think ive rolled that alt recipe yet

that sounds pretty good

[regal lantern]

You could have a reduced amount of production of acid and loop the waste back into the machines, I found this too impractical though so I just made more sulphuric for my setup and decided to sink the waste to save it any hassle

[fluid sapphire]

leached ingots?

[peak wasp]

hi

[proud bough]

It's an alt recipe that uses sulfuric acid and an ore to produce ingots of the metal

[rigid glen]

high yield, 9 ore for 22 ingots

they're handy recipes

[heavy pine]

Sinking resources isn't a waste, it gives you coupons that you can use to unlock other stuff or buy stuff if you've run out of unlocks.

[proud bough]

I prefer the pure ingot recipe

[rustic blade]

that's at least something useful rather than just deleting it to delete it. nice, time to farm more hard drives, ty!

eh, idc about coupons at all really

im just tryna build lol

[shy mulch]

there comes a point where sinking basic things doesn't really make any difference though

[fluid sapphire]

need enough coupons to get enough golden nuts to fill all your hand slots

anything below that is rookie numbers

[shy mulch]

I'd need to sink over 3 million plastic to get 1 coupon

[rustic blade]

is that a bot react lol

[shy mulch]

yes whenever you say the word coupon

[proud bough]

-# coupon

[fluid sapphire]

thats only 1000 plastic per minute for 50 hours

[shy mulch]

I feel like that plastic could go to better use

[proud bough]

Turbo fuel

[fluid sapphire]

yes, like making something that rewards more coupons

[lucid flower]

coupon

[shy mulch]

exactly

[lucid flower]

:0

[austere abyss]

Yo, why can't I play this game offline?

[proud bough]

Need the turbo rifle ammo

And lots of it

[rustic blade]

any thoughts on why priority mergers are something the devs chose to avoid? i dont feel like its overly broken. coming from factorio where it's so easy with splitters for solids, or pumps/tanks for liquids, it was jarring to find myself in this situation

[lucid flower]

do i get an extra coupon in game every time i say it in here? (please be true)

i need those as well.. :3

[regal lantern]

What do you mean by chose to avoid?

They exist as a thing and are usable

[shy mulch]

try to avoid comparing this and factorio, it leads you down a path that doesn't necessarily make sense

[rustic blade]

i dont compare them usually. just a feature i expected to find

[proud bough]

So glad they added vertical splitters/mergers

[rustic blade]

not for liquids though right?

[regal lantern]

No, liquids function differently

[rustic blade]

right, thats my question. why did they avoid making priority merging for liquids if they were going to create byproduct liquids in recipes

[regal lantern]

To steal from someone else here, "Pipes aren't belts"

There's no mergers or splitters for liquids at all, adds some challenge I guess

[rustic blade]

well splitters are basically just junctions, and then let the consumers handle how much to consume on either side of the split

[regal lantern]

Just build more pipes and separate things as a solution I guess

[slate python]

Is there a faster way to get dimensional depots than getting the Mercer spheres (I already have them unlocked)

[rustic blade]

but i mean specifically for byproduct water in aluminum, and sulfuric in uranium cells, there is a very enticing option to just feed it back to the input, which doesn't work unless you scale down your initial production of those liquids below what is needed for a cold start, leaving room for the recycled amount. basically requires manual intervention unless you exploit the VIP junction thing

[glad drum]

Why does my belt build mode change when I die? 🙁 my curved monstrosity is slightly delayed!

[wise zinc]

When it comes to fluid pipes, I am struggling to udnerstand head lift. I have a straight horizontal pipe with a pump at one end. And each pipe segment that leads into a wall support has less and less water in it. I thought head lift allowed liquids to go up. Is this not entirely the case and if so how much head lift is lost each full length pipe segment?

[regal lantern]

You could always send the waste to feed another set of machines entirely rather than trying to recycle it into the set. Should keep things more consistent

[slate python]

What

[azure ermine]

I mean Advanced Game Mode and give yourself a stack of mercer spheres if you want

[glad drum]

I build belts ONLY in Curve mode - but when I die, it goes back to default

[slate python]

No

[slate python]

Oh ya idk

[proud bough]

You have to use pumps on the vertical there should be an indicator when you place them how far up they go

[rustic blade]

yeah my initial question above was basically just asking what are the best options for that, since for sulfuric specifically, all i have unlocked are options that i would just sink immediately.

[azure ermine]

short of that you have to go get them in the landscape

[wise zinc]

Exactly. The indicator is ending along the horizontal though.

[proud bough]

Head lift is the force required to move the water up

[shy mulch]

there is

[proud bough]

Place them on the vertical section

That's how they work

[wise zinc]

Did that. Again. The marker is ending along the horizontal.

[proud bough]

Can you show how the pipes go

And where you have pumps

Cause Im not getting the picture

[wise zinc]

Just a minute and I will post in #screenshots

[azure ermine]

I will be sad if my curved belts go back to default when I die. They are curving so gracefully through my spaghetti starter area.

[green fiber]

does it actually stop on the horizontal and stays visible or does it vanish
because the ring itself only travels 100 m - head lift itself goes on a lot further tho

[proud bough]

K

[green fiber]

and the head lift loss per horizontal distance is 0

[proud bough]

LGITO would be so proud

[green fiber]

you dont lose any

[wise zinc]

Oh, that's probably it. if it's a long pipe then how can I tell how far up it should be going?

[green fiber]

you use another pump. before the vertical

[fluid sapphire]

mk1 pumps provide 20m headlift, you can measure this with foundations too

[proud bough]

The distance the ring travels down the horizontal is the distance the head lift goes up

[green fiber]

horizontal is not the same as vertical - what you said doesnt make sense

[wise zinc]

Okay that solves it for me, thanks.

[green fiber]

the ring always travels 100m in total as long as it doesnt reach the height limit of the pump - no matter which pump type you use.

[proud bough]

Shrug

[green fiber]

mk 1 pump on a flat horizontal pipe? ring travels 100m
same for mk 2

[proud bough]

Idk I only use them on the vertical when I need to use em

[green fiber]

well now you know better

[noble topaz]

500 cigarettes GB of data usage from geforce now

[proud bough]

Also ehrie if you need to do this with multiple pipes you should use the water tower effect

[visual cosmos]

huh my train station are having weird textures

[gilded idol]

It's been 4 years since I've played has much changed?

[green fiber]

much

[gilded idol]

How much we talkin

[proud bough]

Alot

[green fiber]

dawg its been 4 years

[fluid sapphire]

its like a completely different game now

[gilded idol]

Oh dam

[proud bough]

You can actually complete it now

[visual cosmos]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1408199683884585067

[proud bough]

There is an endgame

[warped marsh]

literally everything

[gilded idol]

Can I still play after endgame?

[visual cosmos]

idk why but texture is swapping somehow

[proud bough]

Idk

[green fiber]

yah

[noble topaz]

i love Z fighting

[green fiber]

you can keep playing until you turn into dust

[visual cosmos]

theres no fighting here though

[plush dawn]

you have discovered zfighting!

[green fiber]

or until your pc explodes

[visual cosmos]

only one thing is placed

[gilded idol]

Good good such is what I intend to do 🤣

[proud bough]

That's the term for what's happening

[noble topaz]

2 textures are fighting on the z axis

[visual cosmos]

ik what zfighting is but its not the case here afaik

[gilded idol]

I will die before they take my factory

[visual cosmos]

[fluid sapphire]

all the milestones are just a really long tutorial hehehe, the true game begins after you have everything and can do anything you want

[wicked nacelle]

That’s what I said in subnautica. I’m like wait. I don’t want to go back to my old life

[noble topaz]

#screenshots message
this is z fighting

[gilded idol]

@wicked nacelle dude I wish I could play subnautica for the first time again

Markiplier got me into it

[visual cosmos]

yeah i'm aware, but only one thing is placed in my case
there isnt multiple train stations stacked or anything

[ivory condor]

There are no bugs

[visual cosmos]

i didnt say bug

[wicked nacelle]

The newish big rooms are super fun if it’s been a long time since you played

[gilded idol]

I think I remember em

[plush dawn]

just practice forgetting then you can play for the first time again

[gilded idol]

Ay yeah my bad lemme just give myself dementia real quick

[proud bough]

https://www.satisfactorygame.com/#updates

Link to game's update log

Btw we're in full release now too

[toxic spruce]

Was anything said about the console versions price guys?

[wicked nacelle]

You already did that like 3m ago

[proud bough]

Idk I'm just waiting for it to come out

[white dawn]

I don't think so; I'd expect more details in the video next Friday

[toxic spruce]

Damn im exited.

Nov. 2 not that long actually. Whats the price on pc again?

[fluid sapphire]

39€ in EU on steam

[toxic spruce]

Not bad for a game like this

[white dawn]

Yeah, it's honestly kind of a steal

[toxic spruce]

Yep. Especially with the price increases on everything

[white dawn]

They've continued to participate in the usual sales after the 1.0 release, too

[toxic spruce]

Even the ps5 is getting more expensive

How often and how big are the sales usually?

[frail sleet]

Yes, an encased uranium cell system needs 80% fresh acid and the remaining 20% of its own byproduct. It has a startup lag unless you add an additional function to manage that, but it's brief and not a big deal.

[frail sleet]

Only in the US due to their new taxes on tech

[white dawn]

https://steamdb.info/app/526870/ <- can see historical graphs here

[leaden turret]

jinx

[toxic spruce]

thx

[visual cosmos]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1408201867581722726
other than the weird extra track that appeared during the building animation there isnt anything that would look like zfighting

its not happening to my train tracks, just the train stations parts

[white dawn]

Yeah, I've noticed that too

[visual cosmos]

tried reloading save already

[visual cosmos]

:v

is it just a random bug happening in 1.1?

[white dawn]

It was happening at least as early as 1.0

[visual cosmos]

huh

didnt see it in my previous saves

[white dawn]

I never did get around to reporting it, though I'd be surprised if it wasn't mentioned on the QA site somewhere

[visual cosmos]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/66f97bfd772a987f4a8d8ed2
yea

[rustic blade]

the reason i didnt like this is that you cant cold start it all together that way without manual intervention, since you need the waste from all machines to make up the difference. cant only feed 80% of machines with fresh sulfuric and expect it all to go

[visual cosmos]

post from a year ago, though there's a comment from 4 days ago mentionning it's still a thing lol

[frail sleet]

It won't immediately be at full production no, but you can easily fix that with e.g. a buffer or an unpackager which doesn't require you to be there when it's turned on.

You mainly need to design such that the system hits full production before a precharged supply of acid runs out, but that's not very difficult, it will hit full production instantly so you only need to add enough acid to cover a couple of cycles and then it's fully self sustaining. A pump after the byproduct output may make it easier to design, too (otherwise you can end up with annoyances like 10m headlift not being enough for the byproduct acid to leave the machines into the top of the buffer, depending on how you place and integrate it..)

Even the pipes themselves can probably act as a sufficient buffer, if you connect the fresh acid to all refineries and then cut it off from the waste ones so that the pipes are half full.

[slate python]

Is there a faster way to get dimensional depots than getting the Mercer spheres (I already have them unlocked)

Not by cheating

[heavy pine]

Depots require mercer spheres, no other way to build them.

[slate python]

But is there a faster way to get Mercer spheres

[slate python]

😁

[white dawn]

Not without methods which many would consider "cheating." :)

Technically Advanced Game Settings is right there in the game menus, and doesn't use the word "Cheat" in the menu. :)

Enabling Advanced Game Settings will disable achievements though

[slate python]

Oh my goodness

[heavy pine]

Get the handheld scanner and start exploring, or go find a map on the interwebs that shows their locations.

[visual cosmos]

travel around and get em all
use the best fuel n jetpack you have, and use the satisfactory-calculator map to easily find them

[visual cosmos]

uploading your save can also show you which ones you already got which makes life easier

[silk rose]

somebody finish 'the factory must grow' on wplace in skovde on top of satisfactory logo

[white dawn]

Yeah, it does help to Git Gud™ at exploration. Blade Runners, Parachute, and (if you're already to that stage, or get lucky) a Jetpack can help with exploration quite a bit. Mercer spheres aren't too hard to find

[slate python]

How do I upload my save

[visual cosmos]

find save file and drop it in the top right corner

[white dawn]

Once you're used to the map and zipping around, you can get collecting with reasonable quickness. Though to be fair you'll also probably want to stop for sloops, hard drives, and DNA.

[slate python]

Ok

[tender rampart]

hello guys

[slate python]

GUYS WHATS A FICSIT TRYGON

I AM SCARED

[visual cosmos]

phase 5 stuff

[slate python]

Oh ok

Whew

[tender rampart]

I have 25 hours at game and I need someone to play with me cuz its kinda boring to play alone who can play with me ?

[slate python]

Casually 40 hours in the past day and a half

[sterile blade]

Someone in #1201555265942724758 might be up for it

[tender rampart]

oh sorry Im new

[sterile blade]

Hi, new, I'm sorry

[slate python]

Oh gosh not clippy

[limpid cairn]

I wonder if it’s possible to make a plugin that shows everything around you on the map + adds a mini map

[slate python]

Oooooh

[sterile blade]

There do be a lot of mods for Satisfactory, so that's not unlikely

[noble topaz]

parachute?

oh Mycelia research
havent went though that

[azure ermine]

chop those shrooms!

[noble topaz]

where are they anyway
plus i bet ive been using on them

[azure ermine]

yeah blowing them up doesn't give you materials

[sterile blade]

Just joy

[azure ermine]

shrooms mostly in caves unless you are in the marshy areas in which case most of the stuff is fungus

[white dawn]

The Parachute is A+ for sure; a lot of folks kind of sleep on it, but it's excellent. There's a nonobvious feature where if you fly it into a slight incline you'll just kind of slide off of it and gain more height, in addition to being just great to begin with

[azure ermine]

chainsaw works on the mushrooms too large to simply pick with your hands

yes parachute plus jumping you can ascend ledges even if it looks like you won't make it

[sterile blade]

[Pioneer running up a slope while activating the jetpack].GIF

[azure ermine]

one thing about parachutes it took me a while to find out through videos, if you are high up and it's taking forever to drift down, you can hit C (crouch) and drop, then space to parachute again closer to the landing level

[noble topaz]

whos bored in their game, cuz i got a evil idea

[azure ermine]

Evil ideas are not authorized by FICSIT.

[noble topaz]

(maybe make a save) then turn off the worlds power, and try to get it back online
could be a test to see if you, or anything you made could help you get it online

will i need any versatile framework after phase 3?

[slate python]

#satisfactory

[visual cosmos]

i just realized the place where i put my hub when i started this save is more or less the edge of limestone valley

the valley right next to me has a metric ton of limestone nodes

[slate python]

#satisfactory #screenshots message

[noble topaz]

git gud

even i know how to get them and im on phase 3
just go explore

[visual cosmos]

there's 298 mercer spheres spread across the map

97 are used to unlock/upgrade dimensional depot

the remaining is free to use

[visual cosmos]

2.5k is the amount of versatile framework you need for phase 4 by the way

i think could be wrong

[white dawn]

Space Elevator parts are used to produce later Space Elevator parts, so you'll need some. As Le troller mentioned, technically there's just a specific amount that you need to produce

[visual cosmos]

didnt do the maths
but google says so

[visual cosmos]

also need some for phase 5 apparently

[white dawn]

Yeah, Nuclear Pasta specifically has some non-Elevator uses

[visual cosmos]

I was wondering whether it was a good idea to make a copper factory in the valley or whether i would block out some nodes but there's only limestones there ._.

also its funny the radar tower doesnt seem to indicate if 3 nodes of the same type are really close by

I have 3 iron nodes next to me and used 2, but it only shows one as used on the map

(and the other 2 dont show up)

[white dawn]

There's far more resources on the map than most folks are likely to ever fully exhaust. Don't stress too much about using up nodes; there's always more out there

[visual cosmos]

gave me a good excuse to place a radar tower

[slate python]

What is the fastest way to get 46 Mercer spheres

I am on teir 4

Working on getting to t 5-6

[noble topaz]

build a hypertube slingshot into a random area you havent been to yet

[tame comet]

Fastest? Use the online map to see where they are.
Kind of kills the feeling of exploration tho, if that matters to you.

[slate python]

I mean traveling

[slate python]

How do you do that

[tame comet]

Personally I like to just fuel up the jetpack and go off in a random direction with the object scanner out 😛

[slate python]

Oh

Not there yet

[noble topaz]

start building a hypertube and finish it as close as possible, then add a entrance to one side

#screenshots message

[slate python]

Won’t that launch that like no where

[noble topaz]

build a bunch of them close to each other

and have a hypertube pointed in a direction, angled up slighly

[tame comet]

And make sure you have the parachute equipped.

[noble topaz]

never used it

i always use the jetpack with me trying to go backwards

[reef dock]

is there a website tool that helps with splitting and merging, for perfect in and outputs?

[true mulch]

https://icemoonmagic.github.io/Satisfactory-Splitter-Calculator/

[visual cosmos]

though in general its easier to use manifolds than load balancing

[reef dock]

manifolds = boring and lazy
load balancing = perfection

[river carbon]

why doesnt satisfactory use any of my pc? ive got a 4070ti and 5900x and theyre both running at roughly 40%. ingame fps 60 nearly locked and 20fps when opening build menu.

[tame comet]

What are your settings? Got Max FPS or Vsync on?

[reef basin]

manifolds are perfect though

[reef dock]

nuh uh... In this generation? everyone deserves equality.

[river carbon]

graphics settings do nearly nothing to fps ive got fps limit off and vsync off

[tame comet]

That's definitely not the way the game normally works. I got a 4070ti as well, and easily run it at 120 FPS butter smooth. With the quality at Ultra it easily uses >90% of my GPU power.

[reef basin]

manifolds give everyone what they deserve 😛

[river carbon]

yeah I had good performance before 1.1. also my friend on a x7700xt is having same issues

[plush dawn]

manifolds are perfectly fine if your input can sustain all of the machines it is outputing to

[reef basin]

well that condition isn't specific to manifolds 😉

[river carbon]

dx12 dx11 or vulcan?

[reef dock]

this first one get more than they deserve and the last one gets too little

[plush dawn]

graphics drivers updated?

[reef basin]

no, they get full and then take what they need

[tame comet]

Dx12. Neither of the other two are great in general. Vulkan used to be pretty good back in 1.0 tho.

[slate python]

How many should I make of those

[gritty zealot]

10 of them send you over half of the map

[reef dock]

in the end the first one did more than the last one

[plush dawn]

guys small question is this game available for macos?

[reef basin]

not if you prefill

[reef basin]

not officially, may be possible to run anyway, but idk

[reef dock]

i dont do hand labour

[visual cosmos]

it can run but not officially yeah
you can find it done on reddit

[dense violet]

manifolds take time to spin up to 100%

[wicked nacelle]

No

[dense violet]

but they do get fed equally

[wicked nacelle]

Steam always tells you what platforms

[reef basin]

you can have it blueprinted and then it's not hand labour

[tame comet]

I wonder if you can get Proton to work on MacOS 🤔

[plush dawn]

this is the most graphically intensive game i own and i just wanted to test an old mac's performance

[reef dock]

still had to do hand labour the first time

[tame comet]

Hold up. The radiation inventory bug is still in the game?

[trim vine]

Honestly your name answers that question

[gritty zealot]

hi, can i ask what this bug is?

ill be working with radioactive materials soon

[slate python]

Nice

[dense violet]

don't 'sort' your inventory

with rad materials in it

[trim vine]

you mine urnaium on the ground, and delete the ore from the inventory, but you still suffer from radiation as if its in the inventory

[tame comet]

Yea. Sometimes when you put radioactive stuff in your inventory and then remove it... the game doesn't keep up and still keeps hitting you with radiation ☢️ (Solutino is to save, go to main menu and reload the save.)

[dense violet]

specifically this happens when you sort it

[tame comet]

I can't not sort it. It's like a fidget toy. I hit the button every time I open the window xD

[dense violet]

don't carry rad materials then 😛

[wicked nacelle]

You can’t break uranium rocks without carrying it

[tame comet]

I'm in the middle of decommissioning and rebuilding my whole Nuclear Power setup

[dense violet]

guess_you'll_die_then.meme

[trim vine]

this didnt open for me when I clicked it, can you send it again?

😛

[azure ermine]

I think it was suggestive rather than an attempted link

and I am Captain Obvious' alt account

(that was a lie)

[cobalt plinth]

How many foundation langths can the power tower go? It doesn't seem like I can get the tower as a ghost to see

oh nm i am a dumb dumb

[azure ermine]

if you use the lightining bolt connection on the top top connections it will give you the ghost of another tower

the connection near the bottom only gives a conventional power pole

[cobalt plinth]

indeed i got it hehe

[azure ermine]

I am fond of the zipline on those as long as it doesn't smack you into a tree or rock formation

since wires can clip through but you can't

and at the end it kind of unceremoniously flings you off

also isn't fond of more than about a 45 degree turn? Haven't trial and errored that

[warm phoenix]

Is it impossible to have a belt/pipeline that satisfy me?

No matter how i try i get depressed over how messy the line is and want to start from scratch

[trim vine]

no, it had the .meme file name

[trim vine]

do you use BP's?

[dense violet]

build on foundations

[warm phoenix]

Should i?

[trim vine]

Do you want consistently straight lines with little hassle?

[dense violet]

it really depends what kind of piping your'e doing where BPs will be useful

[azure ermine]

if you use R to chose Straight mode it will help keep your belts relatively orderly if it's super important on a mechanical or personal level

[warm phoenix]

Im using it but as i expand my base the line gets moe and more messy

Also struggling to find a good height to start building foundation without having ground bump or hollow bottom

[azure ermine]

belts don't care as long as you don't violate physics too bad

[dense violet]

that's all part of the planning process

1. sort out your overall goal and plan with recipes
2. figure out the buildings and sections you need
3. pick a location
4. pick a spot, build the foundations - see if you'll get it flat in that spot
5. plan out the sections and the space where pipes will go between

[warm phoenix]

Im currently at like tier 5 or 6 base but im very tempted to wipe it all

[dense violet]

belts don't care at all

[trim vine]

do you build everything, even belt highways, on foundations?

[warm phoenix]

Not the highways

[trim vine]

there's your problem

[warm phoenix]

Also im unable to plan for future

[dense violet]

RIP

[trim vine]

No, you dont want to

[azure ermine]

pick the highest local point and make a completely flat rectangle on top of that and there's your level orderly surface especially if you start with snapped to grid

[trim vine]

this is called bricking a zone

[azure ermine]

it doesn't matter if the foundations don't follow the slopes and bumps of the land

the land is not on FICSIT's payroll

[warm phoenix]

Currently struggling to come up with way to connect oil and coal field for better fuel generation

Also still don't have the smart splitter or item sorter (this probably is the biggest ouch)

[trim vine]

trains

[warm phoenix]

Should i foundation the rails too?

[tame comet]

Yes. They are a pain otherwise.

[trim vine]

thats a personal choice, I make Pylons

[trim vine]

you only need super straight lines for junctions

[tame comet]

My sanity demands straight lines 😛

[trim vine]

factories and logistics demand straight lines, rails run free, but logical

[warm phoenix]

I did it freestyle and used the big bone as connection point to connect starter base with oil zone

And yes the train partly has a light water dip every time it traverse

[trim vine]

sounds like you are just in a world of spaghetti

[azure ermine]

smart splitter is in caterium research tree

you don't need oil unlock to get it

[warm phoenix]

also
Whenever you lay down foundation do you start with flat spot or highest point of the ground bump

[azure ermine]

don't forget the MAM research trees in pursuit of tier unlocks

[trim vine]

for factory floors, the highest

[tame comet]

I always make sure the base foundation clears any terrain.

[azure ermine]

some MAM research I've made with just stuff that was lying around at crash sites

[warm phoenix]

I think im at point where it needs four-material assembler item
or undecoded HDD for research

[trim vine]

Manufacturer

[warm phoenix]

I wish i could build my base anew with all my resource and progress intact

[trim vine]

you can, tear it down

[azure ermine]

put all the resources in big stacks of containers and build it all over again

[plush dawn]

satisfactory calculator might have a tool for that

[naive scroll]

how do i start my coal generators? i did the waters and everything but idk how to start it up

[warm phoenix]

Did you flipped the switch?

[naive scroll]

which? where?

[azure ermine]

I think I needed 120mw from 3 biomass burners to get the 8 coal generators fired up

[tame comet]

Make sure they are connected to a power line. Otherwise they don't do anything.

[azure ermine]

once they are going it powers itself

[naive scroll]

huu ok i did put biomasses and i have 12 coal factories right now but idk how to start it up at all like do i do water first?

[warm phoenix]

Connect to same powerline

[azure ermine]

yes the coal power generators need the water and coal to do anything

[tame comet]

Give it water and coal, connected it to a power line, and it will just run.

[azure ermine]

they will sputter a bit as the coal loads in and if the water wavers

[naive scroll]

yeah the water isnt working right ill just put 10 biomass and hope it will work

also idk how to underclock to 75 percent of water flow

[warm phoenix]

Is water flowing correctly or strong enough

[naive scroll]

no idea

i did a huge build,.. so i am hoping it does

[azure ermine]

3 water to 8 coal generators

[naive scroll]

yeah thats what i did

i did 6 x 12 water flows

[azure ermine]

I have 6 water and 16 coal and it works fine but the water needs to build up in them and they all need enough coal

[tame comet]

Yea. When dealing with liquids, it's always best to let the pumps fill the pipes before durning the machines on.

[naive scroll]

ok

ill try water first

[azure ermine]

set the coal generators on standby until the coal loads in and the water levels top off

[dense violet]

you should really do the maths on what you need, 6 extractors is overkill for 12 gens

[azure ermine]

6 is enough for 16

3 per 8

[naive scroll]

i did 32 coal factories total to future proof

and i have done that math its just for starting it up

[azure ermine]

yeah they need that jump start from biomass before they start producing

[warm phoenix]

I think if i ever share my bases everyone in this server will die of cringe

[azure ermine]

even to get the water pumping

[azure ermine]

but spaghetti is delicious 🙂

[brave horizon]

Chat

[azure ermine]

let's just say I spent all day paving over the southern Void just to avoid setting up oil to fuel burning power

[trim vine]

start a thread in #1038092680493801533 and send screenshots mate

[warm phoenix]

Messy production lines, wild train pathing, ground leaking, the whole nine yards

[brave horizon]

Hear me out

what if instead of giving us useful stuff related to alien tech in end game why not add it to the mam this way ppl will use it more commonly vs completing the game and leaving until they get a vibe again

[naive scroll]

yeah i put 10 biomass now the waters pumping if i get more trouble ill show

just wish i knew how to underclock but dk

[tame comet]

You got to unlock that in the MAM, using power slugs.

[naive scroll]

ohhh ok

[brave horizon]

There’s ppl who enjoy the game and then there are spaghetti ppl

[azure ermine]

I SAW a video of the game being completed, with Mousie and Connor. it was roll credits. I dunno if you actually can keep playing after "finishing."

[warm phoenix]

Underclock?
Can't you just lower the output value?

[brave horizon]

You can keep playing it’s just pointless

[ivory condor]

🍝

[tame comet]

That is underclocking 😛 It's not unlocked by default.

[brave horizon]

Other than creating a city of lizard dogos it’s pointless

[warm phoenix]

Ohh
I forgor 💀

[gritty zealot]

but then again, isn't it all pointless in the first place?

[brave horizon]

Like my first world is just a city of lizard doggos

Literally

[brave horizon]

Should give us more misc objectives which in return give us rewards

[tame comet]

Once you finish the main game, if you want to keep playing you got to make your own goals.
Like right now I'm playing as a veteran pioneer sent here to harness all the power possible from the world and connect it to the space elevator.

[brave horizon]

Like trading basically

[dense violet]

it's a sand box game. the point is creating whatever project you want

[azure ermine]

I don't see the point of underclocking except to perfectly balance your machines so they NEVER go idle. I mean...let em. An idle machine consumes almost no power and uses no materials

[tame comet]

A lot of people like to aim for perfect power stability. I don't see the point myself, but I know some who will spend hours rebuilding just to get that xD

[warm phoenix]

Honesly i'd buy HDD for 50~200 ticket

[brave horizon]

Yeah but an idle machine means an idle belt which will clog the line

[azure ermine]

if you provide materials to a row of machines with a manifold and the last machine on the end is turning on and off, it doesn't bother me

[brave horizon]

Isn’t there a mod for that?

[ivory condor]

Just ignore the lights constantly flickering on the machines

[azure ermine]

smart splitter set to overflow to an AWESOME sink

[warm phoenix]

Havent touched modding that much
only thing i did is uevr optimizer or whatever its called

[brave horizon]

Boring

[azure ermine]

no clog 🙂

[brave horizon]

I’m not a fan of mods tbh

Not that many add on mods

[ivory condor]

Use proprietary merger and reuse all of the materials, thats more fun

[brave horizon]

Just quality of life mods

[warm phoenix]

Tbh this game is good as is

[brave horizon]

Efficiency is key

[ivory condor]

Those mergers add interesting gameplay mechanics especially for reusing materials

[brave horizon]

It is I just wish there was more

[plush dawn]

do i need a dedicated server if i want to do multiplayer

[brave horizon]

No

[azure ermine]

the main mod I want is something to put my coordinates on the screen without having to have debugmode on the screen

[wicked nacelle]

Over production and underconsumption is the easiest way to play the game. Also it lets you catch up for free when things inevitably go wrong

[ivory condor]

Exactly, why I really love those mergers

[plush dawn]

do you recommend one?

[ivory condor]

Priority merger really opens up mechanics

[brave horizon]

I love seeing everything going to plan and everything moving fluently

[tame comet]

I like sowing chaos and seeing if anything useful comes out of it

[warm phoenix]

Dedicated server is prb better if theres many time your friend want to play but you arent available

[brave horizon]

Depends on your network if multiplayer is usually laggy I’d suggest hosting a server through low.ms but if your speeds are good just start your game up and just inv a friend

[plush dawn]

i have a spare computer that im looking for an excuse to turn into a server

[azure ermine]

if everything was moving fluently we would understand the alien intelligence better with all the windows and threads and songs and temples

[reef basin]

machine partially idling consumes more power on average than underclocked machine

[plush dawn]

ethernet speeds are great but wifi speeds are horrible

[brave horizon]

Low.ms is not the only server provider

[warm phoenix]

Hardest part is finding friend that play satisfactory and willing to multiplayer

[ivory condor]

Before 1.1 though I had to send excess to sinks, because no priority mergers

[atomic notch]

Yo

[brave horizon]

It’s a struggle

Game is so demotivating sometimes

[ivory condor]

Im 100%, solo

[plush dawn]

i also ask because i dont have the best computer and it runs on the edge of playable, 50-60 fps, so if i can offload processing onto a second computer that might help

[brave horizon]

Check #screenshots

My latest project

[ivory condor]

Thanks for sharing your nightmare

[warm phoenix]

Bro 60fps is completely fine experience
Try 30 or god forbid 15

[brave horizon]

Bro

[plush dawn]

i do understand, im just worrying that it goes down if i build more factory

[brave horizon]

It’s costed me over 50k iron already

[plush dawn]

hehe #screenshots message

[brave horizon]

[azure ermine]

#screenshots message

[ivory condor]

I looked at the wrong screenshot my bad

[plush dawn]

very clean spaghet

[brave horizon]

lol watcha think of my latest project

[winter island]

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[ivory condor]

Why lol

[brave horizon]

lol

[ivory condor]

Look bot let's not do this tonight

[quiet gust]

Bro got silenced

[plush dawn]

who pinged me in #screenshots and got their message removed

[brave horizon]

[ivory condor]

Interesting

[azure ermine]

oh that was me, I just didn't know how it worked

[plush dawn]

what is this

[azure ermine]

I was going to suggest you could use the elevation filter to view a slice through such a building perhaps

[plush dawn]

i dont need to see anything in there, i just thought the map view was funny

[azure ermine]

kewl

now the moderators are probably cross with me for trying to reply on a screenshot

ah well

[quiet gust]

Nah it's just auto removed if there is not attached image in that channel

[supple crag]

egads i just sat on a testicle. I hate that

[azure ermine]

ouchie, I felt that way over here

[quiet gust]

Install the interchangeable parts mod

[lost wagon]

don't think I will ever use truck and just keep with tractors, holy shit the driving of this thing is annoying

[supple crag]

trucks are good man

they haul more

[azure ermine]

set them to noclip

[gritty zealot]

can't beat the sugar cube

[supple crag]

no need to noclip if you just pave the whole map

[azure ermine]

I don't have to drive a belt, just sayin

[supple crag]

I hate belts

[heavy pine]

But can you take a belt off a sweet jump?

[supple crag]

although, the blueprints connect belts last I saw. Haven't played in a while. That probably makes it a little better

I tink it's been nearly a year

[azure ermine]

apparently people tried to fix nuclear waste by taking sweet jumps with truckfuls of the stuff but I saw a dev short saying that the radiation was still tracked by the game in the void and would eventually destroy a save that way

[ivory condor]

Thats the bot being funny

[plush dawn]

amazing

[lost wagon]

tractors are cool, trucks are annoying

[azure ermine]

if a blueprint has a wire going off the bottom will the wire hook up if you stack it? considering a blueprint of stacks of battery grids

I would think you probably would need to manually hook up the layers after placing it

[naive scroll]

3 coal nodes to powerup the damn coal factory damn

[spark sky]

Hm, I've been watching some videos on power generation and distribution. Interesting stuff. Now I think I'll be spending some time in creative mode with my blueprint designers trying to develop some blueprints to support some of the designs in these videos. They may not look exactly like the ones in the videos, and may have my own artistic flair, but already I've figured out some things on my own (like stacked coal power plants - yeah, you can't do that in even the largest blueprint designer, but you can lay out the floors with markers for where the power plants go).

[azure ermine]

it's amazing how much time I'm spending idling in this channel rather than building anything in the game

[naive scroll]

why build? just dream

[covert sphinx]

bro gets it

[spark sky]

You don't know how much time I spend in multiplayer games just wandering around in circles while chatting with other players.

[azure ermine]

Single player Satisfactory needs a global chat channel 🙂

[covert sphinx]

that would be sick ngl

[spark sky]

In the game?

That would be great.

[azure ermine]

mirror this discord chat ingame, yes

[naive scroll]

yeah would be cool

[covert sphinx]

i wonder how long that would take to code lul

[azure ermine]

I might do more than watch discord

[spark sky]

Well, the next best thing is to just join an audio channel in here and chat together while playing (you can even stream while you do it).

[naive scroll]

i would hate audio channel

[azure ermine]

at least people seem to be in a good mood at the moment. Couple nights ago it was like the parking lot behind a Waffle House in here

[spark sky]

Hm, I wonder...

[naive scroll]

all discords ive been on the audio channel is just absolutely bad because of how hard it is to mod

at least on text people are held accountable

ugh now i have a coal belt issue ....

[azure ermine]

they have a cream for that sold over the counter 🙂

[naive scroll]

i put 3 coal nodes for 12 coal factories

[spark sky]

Well, you can make your own server and invite those you want to chat with to your server channel (or, set up a private group, starting from a PM channel, then go to voice in there).

[naive scroll]

but i did a manifold and the last coal factories are not getting any coal

[ivory condor]

Nope wires do not connect automatically

So between blueprints you have to connect wires manually

[trim vine]

Can you make a post in #1038092680493801533 so you can show us screenshots and maths?

[naive scroll]

ok sure

[azure ermine]

thank you!

[trim vine]

tag me

[reef dock]

Damn I need 6x50/minute to go to 5x60/minute and I can’t figure it out

[azure ermine]

I would just have one main wall electrical connector on each blueprint instance and then wire them together vertically after placing. Only have to do it once

[glass pawn]

split one of the 50/min and merge those into each of the last 50/min

[azure ermine]

wonder how many batteries I can cram into 5x5x5 cube...

[heavy pine]

Made easier by the fact that if you're merging onto a Mk1 belt you can't go over 60/min so you don't even have to worry about perfectly balancing the one belt you're splitting into five.

[ivory condor]

Maybe someone could make a mod, auto connecting power poles would be pretty cool

Also auto connecting batteries sounds interesting to, probably possible to make a mod to do it

[azure ermine]

I mean it's tempting to have a connector on one edge that would be shared but it would just have two connectors clipping, they wouldn't be connected beyond overlapping visually

still, if it meant making a sky high stack of battery arrays, having to run a wire hooking them up would need to be done once and you're done

[shrewd palm]

has anyone else been having issues with straight belts not being straight after 1.1

especially after you turn a corner with them

[sick dragon]

bit of a bug but you can usually see the belt is tilted at the end. you can solve it by going default and moving it so its straight on the foundation again or placing the belt straight till the point it starts tilting left or right

[azure ermine]

they will try to be straight to the extent they are trying to reach where you indicate

[shrewd palm]

yeah i was just wondering if other people were having this problem

most of the time its fine but ig its a little annoying having to fly back over to the start of the belt to build it in default every now and then

[azure ermine]

"straight" as in "first star on the left and straight on till morning"

I could vamp on other references to "straight" but then this would be twitter

and it's not

thankfully

what is it with any given plant or bit of landscape giving off puffs of dust. Is it just to make the world seem more natural, or to remind you there is air that moves?

do we even breathe on MASSAGE-A(B) or whatever it's called

[heavy pine]

I'm sure we do. Otherwise the toxic gas clouds wouldn't affect us.

[azure ermine]

good point

[reef dock]

What happens when you research a new recipe while having all of the current and lower tiers already in the library?

[heavy pine]

You mean a hard drive? It won't let you use a hard drive if there are no more alt recipes to discover at your tech level.

[azure ermine]

it will refuse to scan the hard drive if there are not at least two possible recipes

I know that one since I looked it up in the wiki

[reef dock]

xD it looks like we had the same question

[azure ermine]

so some day, some cold august day, you will have to choose between Charcoal and Biocoal, even if you've been rescanning to avoid them. The two rated least desireable alternate recipes in the game

[peak wasp]

I'm focusing on base building in this new phase, and rail to power plants and far away nodes

[dense violet]

git gud. Make uranium rods from pigs

[azure ermine]

NUUUUUUUU

[dense violet]

then don't be gud

[plush dawn]

not if they come in a drive together, then you can just leave it in the mam

[ivory condor]

No they will stay in the mam where it belongs

[azure ermine]

I am content with non-perfection and am not prepared to transcend. I rather enjoy the way my imperfections itch and what it's like to scratch at them THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Q.

most annoying character ever written in the Star Trekverse

in the distant past there was a show named Dallas and a character named JR played by Larry Hagman who to all reports was an absolute delight but you instinctively wanted to dislike him because the character was so dreadful

[heavy pine]

I named my dog after him. It was fun to take him to the vet or groomer.

"What's your dog's name?"
"Q."
"And how is that spelled?"
"Q."

[azure ermine]

I sort of think if I met the person who played Q I would similarly tense up no matter how polite he was

John de Lancie, says wiki

[dense violet]

you wouldn't have a problem, apparently he's a massive prick

[azure ermine]

interesing in the wiki, played a god but was a secular humanist activist

[heavy pine]

I shudder to think how much concrete I've sunk into my roads so far. #screenshots message

[noble topaz]

why are the aliens and ADA flirting with each other?

[azure ermine]

ADA and the alien are massive flirts

I ship them

[noble topaz]

unironically rule 34 of the internet

...im scared, hold on

[glad drum]

#screenshots message
Happy to say I've finally got the coal all going into generators! Now for the water...

[heavy pine]

Is that like rule 34?

[azure ermine]

I have not looked for it but Rule 32 brooks no exceptions

[noble topaz]

i now wish i didnt have looked it up

[azure ermine]

wait, yes rule 34

[noble topaz]

its more animal on human tho 😭

[azure ermine]

isn't rule 32 about rule 34

[heavy pine]

Ok, I was thinking 32 might be related, something like "any two characters in a given fictional work will be shipped by someone"

[azure ermine]

hmm

[noble topaz]

prob exists somewhere

[glad drum]

I love the 90 degree turns

[azure ermine]

they have been strangely quiet the last few mercer spheres and somersloops I've gathered. Maybe I broke the script as well as steam achievments with advanced game settings

[heavy pine]

Leaning into lore spoilers here, but I think ||they stop talking to you once they figure out how to communicate with each other directly|| after you've gathered enough sloops and spheres.

[reef dock]

if I would use a prime splitter array from 1 to 5, and it has 100/min on a 120/min belt, would the 6th splitter branch that loops back overflow the belt?

[heavy pine]

I think you'd be okay, but just barely. Might be worth setting up a test bed with flow meters to be sure.

Though getting the incoming 100/min might be difficult. You'd have to hook it up to something that's producing at that rate.

[azure ermine]

to be fair and too literal you can't overflow a belt but it would be funny if ore and stuff would spill out and despawn after a bit

[heavy pine]

Picturing the old "I Love Lucy" where she's working at a candy factory.

[azure ermine]

LOL age check

[heavy pine]

I'll be 50 next year; I didn't catch those shows on first airing. 😄

[azure ermine]

I instantley saw it in my hEAD

63

err 62

but who's counting at this point

I could put a conveyor throughput on my head

count the years after at least a minurw

minute

[reef dock]

the cast screws produce 50/min. The problem I’m facing is that I have 6x50/min and it needs to go to 5x60/min

[heavy pine]

Oh, you don't even need to worry much about balancing that. Since you can't go more than 60/min, just split one lane and merge it with the others five times.

[brave horizon]

WTF AM I READING

[azure ermine]

you can specifically under or overclocking by typing not just a percent, but also the desired numerical output

[noble topaz]

It's worse when you see it
😭

[azure ermine]

ADA and Alien clop fiction

[heavy pine]

So to start, you've got 6 belts with 50. Split belt 6 and merge it with belt 1. Now you've got 60 on belt 1 and 40 on belt 6. Repeat with belts 2 through 5.

[brave horizon]

Bro I need an actually 2-3 player group fr now

[azure ermine]

ADA stepped through the window and is at the temple making music

[brave horizon]

Like it’s fun with others but when you got like 10ppl it’s just not fun

[heavy pine]

You could use a prime balancer to split belt 6 into five equal lines and then merge those with the others, but that would only really be necessary if you were putting them onto more than a Mk.1 belt.

[reef dock]

I was thinking of this xD

Combining them for 3x100 and splitting them all into 6, leading the 6th back before splitting and merging the other 5 with the other 2x5 (like a1 with b1 etc

[brave horizon]

Like flying through mam research in an hr and phase 3 in a day is just annoying

[brave horizon]

It’s cheap in resources that way

[azure ermine]

seriously you can type in the over/underclocking part how many per minute you want to produce

[brave horizon]

Like early game I’ll have a 120 node and go mk2 -> split -> 2 mk1’s

Saves a ton of resources

Well not a ton but you get my point

[azure ermine]

gotta be real, I spent way too long trying to figure out the problem with my steel line only to discover among all the Mk 4 belts, one tiny connection that was still Mk 1. Recommend replacing all belts with the fastest you can make, to save this kind of frustration later

even if you don't need to

by the time you can make belts with encased steel beams, make them all

[sterile blade]

What about some underclock, not requiring any shards?
Eg: 40x3 = 120; 120 = 60x2

[reef dock]

Nah I’m using exactly 16 furnaces to produce everything as efficiently as possible xD

[sterile blade]

(Or remembering that this is possible and avoiding placing splitters/mergers close to the end of existing belt segments 😉)

[sterile blade]

You mean constructors?

[rigid mist]

where does the pioneer get the wood for the bundle of wires

[reef dock]

smelter*

[azure ermine]

YES. OMG the miscreant was so tight between 2 things i could barely see it

[reef dock]

Does it work to purposefully overflow one belt from 100 to 120 which makes the other belt have 80, making it a lot easier to get them to 30

[sterile blade]

"Overflow from 100 to 120" doesn't quite make sense to me 😅

[azure ermine]

smart splitters set to overflow in one direction could be used deliberately I guess

[sterile blade]

I just mentioned one way to clock the Screws constructors to make your numbers easier. It doesn't affect how many ingots (or Smelters) you use downstream ^^

[reef dock]

I need 6x50/min —> 5x60/min (and I can’t and wont change the starting 50/min because it ruins my whole idea of the factory)

[sterile blade]

Yeah, but that's to overflow from a bigger to multiple smaller numbers. Like 100 to 60+40. But how do you overflow 100 to 120?

[azure ermine]

use a manifold. You are making 6x50 or 300, then feet the 5 that each need 60 with a manifold line of splitters that way they each take as much as the need. As long as your belt can carry 300

[sterile blade]

What's the max belt aviable?

[azure ermine]

mk 4 conveyors can carry up to 480

[somber monolith]

Any clue how to fix conveyor ghosting effect? Motion blur is off and everything is at ultra or high

[heavy pine]

I think this guy is just starting out, only has Mk.2 bets at best.

[sterile blade]

DLSS adds "ghosting" to almost anything that moves

[somber monolith]

Any way to fix it? Dlss only thing keeping my pc from running like a potato

[sterile blade]

Disable DLSS 🤷‍♂️
You can turn down other graphics you don't care as much to compensate

[azure ermine]

if it's just visual but everything is working...don't look at it 🙂

[reef dock]

Okay let me make it more clear…

I have 6x50/min which needs to be 5x60/min.

No over or under clocking, no manifold.

My highest is Mk.2 belts.

My idea was merging B with A, making A 60/min, and B 40/min. Which makes me be able to split much easier.
Is this idea possible?

[somber monolith]

I wouldn’t but my base is kinda centre around the idea of seeing the belts with lots of glass and frames

[sterile blade]

What are the "A" and "B" you're mentioning?

[reef dock]

Am I talking to a child rn?

[lost wagon]

why sometimes the conveyor lift between 2 floor roles have a gap

[somber monolith]

Visual bug I think

[reef dock]

The A and B are abbreviations of the 6x50/min (there are also C, D, E and F but they are not mentioned)

[sterile blade]

The lifts have 2m increments iirc. If the floors have a height difference of (eg) 9 meters, they're gonna be off by 1m
(Also there di be some visual bugs sometimes; rebuilding might help)

[somber monolith]

How can I fix the bug where placing a splitter on a conveyor lift flips the lift part in a random orientation

[reef dock]

Choose one of the following,
A or B

People awnsering questions on discord: I’ll choose C or maybe even D if I feel like it

[sterile blade]

If you merge up to 100, you can smart split 60/min off easily; repeat that two more times and you're left with (60x3) and (40x3) = (60x2)

[azure ermine]

I think the problem is when you said way back "can't and won't." you could fix it by underclocking so your desired number of inputs in the next step are what is output in the previous step. But you won't. Feed your 5 machines that want 60, with 10 machines set to make 30, merged in pairs. Fixed. Reject this solution "if you feel like it" just recognize, there's a solution and you just aren't using it.

[reef dock]

I don’t have smart splitters

[limpid cairn]

get them

[sterile blade]

"Just ask for help"
People on Discord
"I'm gonna mock the help"
Not a great look, but you do you...

[limpid cairn]

theyre in the catherium tree

in the mam

[azure ermine]

no smart splitters or mergers required

[somber monolith]

Do a splitter like 1 into 2 splitters into 4 splitters

[reef dock]

So is it possible to split 50/min into to two, one of them merges into another belt with 50, will this make the out of the two belts 60 and 40?

[azure ermine]

if you've ruled out underclocking then you're ruling out a solution that doesn't require some weird splitter dance

do as you like

[sterile blade]

50/2 is 25. 25s together don't make 60s or 40s unless other beltwork or backing up is involved

[somber monolith]

I don’t think so I think your only option is smart splitters so if u don’t feel like getting caterium go get crash sites they usually have the stuff u need to unlock and build it and you get hard drives

[sterile blade]

People rule out "easy solutions" all the time. That's how you get some very interesting results (and yes, this can end up in just stubbornly convoluted solutions, but I reckon that's for the user to judge and recognize 🤷‍♂️)

[reef dock]

two belts of 50, one of them splits into two. So we now have 3 belts, one with 50 and two with 25. one of the 25 merges with the 50, this will make it 60 (because Mk.1). The other belt will get the 15 back so now we have 1x60 and 1x40.

Am I missing something or will this work to get 1x60 and 1x40

[dense violet]

wait, you're going to ignore clocking to help manage your logistics?
the single most powerful logisitcs tool in the game?

[plush dawn]

convoluted is fun, i like designing complicated solutions that could be solved simpler or lazier if it looks cool when working

[sterile blade]

The "50"s would back up

[reef dock]

Ah thanks, now that wasn’t so hard was it

[azure ermine]

what

[reef dock]

I didnt think of that

[sterile blade]

The less the attitude, the easier it is to explain things in an understandable way

[reef dock]

This is just trying to talk to autistic todlers xD

[sterile blade]

It certainly can be fun. But sometimes there's cases where the user underestimates the amount of convolution needed to achieve what they think is a simple result 😆

[reef dock]

there’s something called stubbornness

[azure ermine]

what isn't hard is persevering the caterium research and unlocking smart splitters or maybe getting paat mk 2 belts before mocking people who are spending their evening offering you help

[sterile blade]

Be sure to go over the #rules before inadvertly attempting a ban speedrun

[dense violet]

just block them, not worth the seconds of your life reading their msgs

[reef dock]

I’m sorry for my actions and I take back everything I said especially to you @sterile blade

[plush dawn]

I tried to make an auto alloyer in a create mod pack in minecraft, it took multiple days and there's still bugs and I could have easily used another player's design, but there's something satisfactory about designing my own thing and watching it work, especially something as complicated as that.

[reef dock]

this ^

[somber monolith]

Do you guys have any ideas for a 5 wide empty wall going up my skyscraper I can’t think of anything to put on the blank wall

[sterile blade]

Appreciated
Sorry it took so long to get to your answer, but it was hard to understand all the constrictions you put on the problem (eg: no underclock, no smart split etc)

[limpid cairn]

pipes

[dense violet]

if you change it to foundations you can add depth to it? lots of examples in the #design-and-architecture

[reef dock]

Else it would be the same as looking at the sudoku solution before starting it

[somber monolith]

The big pipes don’t fit on the wall unless there’s other pipes

[somber monolith]

I’ll have a look thanks

[plush dawn]

yeah also if it breaks i actually know how it works (given i haven forgotten lol) i can troubleshoot easier

[reef dock]

learning is fun even from mistakes

[dense violet]

example of what you can do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NA31vrki0

putting walls at angles can help too 🙂

[somber monolith]

The whole vid or do you mean a specific time?

[reef dock]

Also just a reminder that silksong will release in 2 weeks, even if you already knew it

[somber monolith]

Thanks

[sterile blade]

I use one input per machine just to make things more challenging... I know some things about making needlessly convoluted things xD
It's important not to overshoot, or the fun might turn into just headaches and, eventually, frustration (ofc, all based on one's own preferences)

[dense violet]

the start of the vid gives an example of foundations as walls yeah. the other parts of the video are great too though

[dense violet]

and he's got a lot of good design tips for general building

[somber monolith]

Will give it a watch though thanks man

[plush dawn]

its hard not to overplan

[dense violet]

depth to walls and rooves are the first 2 secionts 🙂

[devout current]

So now that I beat the game, what do I do lol

[dense violet]

it's a sandbox, create your own goals with however you want to achieve them?

[devout current]

Ah okay

[azure ermine]

would anyone use uranium or plutonium fuel rods in drones if it made the depot and the drone emit radiation?

I suppose if you were never going to approach the drones

[plush dawn]

i would use some oil based fuel

[dense violet]

A lot of people do that

[peak wasp]

What's the craziest thing they've done at Satisfactory?