satisfactory

[slate lava]

teams exel and whatnot

[limpid cairn]

There’s also a lot of hidden cmd shortcuts for windows apps

[slate lava]

didnt use cmd since my minecraft days lmapo

[rigid mist]

90% of train stuff in this game consists of placing and replacing rails and signals

[limpid cairn]

How it’s such a useful tool

[slate lava]

ah welll to put down a late shutdown maybe

[limpid cairn]

isn’t it only since 1.1?

[rigid mist]

idk

[slate lava]

iam a windows plebian

only know enough for my games

[manic topaz]

its not linux

windows is awesome enough to the point where the average user shouldn't have to go into the command prompt at all

[limpid cairn]

Indeed, you’re not allowed to delete / open files in system32 even with sudo😔

[manic topaz]

sudo in windows

[limpid cairn]

You can use sudo in windows

There’s an option somewhere in the settings

[manic topaz]

with WSL maybe

i get 110fps at my base now
same computer

upscaling & frame gen truly is magical

[limpid cairn]

I get 30, what are you doing different ?

[rigid mist]

linux mention?

[manic topaz]

most of my settings are on low
with the exception of texture quality and LOD quality
those are high

[limpid cairn]

Yes

[manic topaz]

asdo
administrator do

im curious
are there any modern operating systems that don't run on unix or some form of DOS

[manic topaz]

pretend i sent this when we were talking about sudo in windows

[slate lava]

i feel so much younger all of a sudden

[manic topaz]

good

i was not conceived at that time

[slate lava]

iam about to do some stupid

[limpid cairn]

It’s funny that I can feed a particle accelerator with the DMR byproduct I get from crafting stuff without having loss lol

[lethal veldt]

bro i just started factorio this game is so much more confusing then satisfactory

[limpid cairn]

Like I don’t even need DMR extra I can just use the byproduct for that

[limpid cairn]

It’s just 2d which makes it more confusing

[lethal veldt]

yeah i have all of the tier one stuff automatied but no more space so idk what to do

and i cant refund it either 😭

[limpid cairn]

Do you mean ingame space or space on your ssd/hdd?

[lethal veldt]

ingame space, i dont wanna clear out trees and i dont have flamethrowers yet

and i dont know any of the ratios and stuff for 100% automation

[manic topaz]

thats all factorio is
automating tier 1 at 100% efficiency

the other tiers are a fallacy

[mighty path]

if i make a server with IP and i share with other people, will they be able to see where i live?

[surreal meteor]

Is turning HOR into petroleum coke and sinking it a good idea, or should I turn it into fuel?

[manic topaz]

not your address
but they will be able to see the city

[mighty path]

thanks 🙏

[lethal veldt]

sinking it probably depend on how far ur coal plants are

and its very inefficent

[surreal meteor]

So fuel?

Cause I don't want to build another massive coal plant ever again

[lethal veldt]

if you have normal coal no, if there is no coal nearby then yes

[limpid cairn]

Burn the fuel since it gives like 5x more energy

[surreal meteor]

That sounds decent

[lethal veldt]

wait i thought it was worse then normal

[limpid cairn]

I meant fuel fuel not petroleum coke btw

Like turn the HOR into fuel

[lethal veldt]

oooooooh

[surreal meteor]

WAIT FUEL GENS DONT NEED WATER

[lethal veldt]

yeah turn it into fuel

LOL

[surreal meteor]

Definitely

[lethal veldt]

ive forgot all satisfactory knowledge already from playing like 4 hours of factorio

[limpid cairn]

4 hours….

[lethal veldt]

wait how have a put 10

i thought it was only like 4

[surreal meteor]

What phase can 2250 MW get me to?

[lethal veldt]

minimuim is like 5-6k

i would build like 6.5 tho for extra

[limpid cairn]

Phase 3 and start of phase 4

Phase 4 just need… too much power

[surreal meteor]

So I'm good on power for a pretty long time

[limpid cairn]

Depends how you use it

You can end up using all of it in mid phase 3

[surreal meteor]

I'm only using 1GW for phase 2

[limpid cairn]

Oh wait oil power isn’t in phase 3?

[surreal meteor]

I just started phase 3

[tired axle]

is anyone good with reading crash reports

[surreal meteor]

And want to build an oil processing line

[limpid cairn]

#1038092680493801533

[limpid cairn]

If you lack power there’s an alt recipe that allows you to process 3 oil into 4 HOR!

[slate lava]

@limpid cairn going by your name i guess you know a thing or two about them oil plants,i got a beaty for you in #screenshots

no coal nearby and iam too lazy to look for another source

[limpid cairn]

First of all, don’t store the heavy oil residue in buffers, try to process it into something else like fuel (if you have fuel gens) or petroleum coke to sink it(unless you have another use of it)

[slate lava]

ye i need plastic to unlock the fuel gen

too lazy to figure it out now before i can automate the energy part

[limpid cairn]

so you basically need energy for the plant to make plastic for now?

[slate lava]

yes

and coal is bit too far

good ol bia mass burners it is

[limpid cairn]

If you can / want you can overclock them

To save space and headaches figuring out what biomass burner isn’t working

[slate lava]

180 mw should be plenty for now

[limpid cairn]

It should be enough to keep the plant going for enough plastic to burn fuel

[slate lava]

honestly didnt even expect any tips

just thought i made some atrocity

is there like a collection of setups or something online?

[steady glade]

scim

[slate lava]

satisfactory tools?

na i mean t more like a whole factory setup for the oil part

i might be too dumb to make one myself lol

atleast half clean one

[steady glade]

they have a blueprint section, many of them were made on modded saves with bigger designers

[slate lava]

unless i can use them with the smallest blueprint thingy they might aswell be non existend atm

[steady glade]

you can use bigger blueprints without the accompanying designer, you just wont be able to modify the blueprint

you'll need to make changes to all placed instances

[slate lava]

oh

[zenith pecan]

Also one thing if you do use a colossal print, their resources used are equally as colossal, possibly more than you can hold due to the modded nature etc.

[slate lava]

i just need a oil setup so that i dont fumble in some random shit

[steady glade]

for the most part there are schemas and explanations on all possible oil setups online

if i had any tip to give you:

[zenith pecan]

Oil should be alright to just stumble around with, it's when you get into some of the later game items things start getting tricky and have them crash out, stalling the whole thing instead of just not being efficient.

[steady glade]

1. get mk.2 pipes
2. get a load of hard drives

[rustic pier]

anybody got a trick to get power to the harddrive pods that are a bit high? lol or do you just carry stuff to plant a buncha biofuel burners to do it

[slate lava]

that backpack aint there for air

[zenith pecan]

Got a hover pack? just walk power cables all over the shop and lazilly float to them.

[steady glade]

i have a blueprint for biomass burners

[tacit trellis]

I'm at oil rn what do you do with the like oil nodes that are covered in rocks n shit

[feral geyser]

I have a blueprint with 6 burners, leaves are easy enough to get for the few seconds you need to power it, and you can shard it up to 450 MW if needed

[rustic pier]

Lol i meant high as in high wattage

[tacit trellis]

I tried but I dint break it

[rustic pier]

good idea.. i think i will go make one now lol

[steady glade]

skill issue, aim better

[zenith pecan]

You sorta do this #screenshots message

[slate lava]

bigger boom?

[zenith pecan]

Point is, those walked power cables, just plug in, you loot, disconnect then float off elsewhere.

[tacit trellis]

Well

[slate lava]

do i want rubber or plastic first

or just use 1 pure per and be done with it

[zenith pecan]

For the starting basics, task one refinery per and build from that, your eventual balance will be determined by later recipes that you elect to use so a direct answer can't really be stated.

[steady glade]

consider using a power storage, power it for a minute with a few burners, then disconnect, power the pod and extract hard drive

[rustic pier]

need a portable genny xD

[zenith pecan]

Burners cannot charge power stores.

[tacit trellis]

Wait really

[steady glade]

huh... i feel like i did something like that but i may have connected the pod right away

it was on a pod with || a nuke hog and spitters || in the easter part

[zenith pecan]

Aye, bioburners and power stores work basically the same way, if there is a power deficit, they discharge into the grid, otherwise they don't act at all, and the power stores take on a charge.

[ashen needle]

Guysss I got to phase 3!!!

[slate lava]

wait wtf

[ashen needle]

This is my first playthrough btw

[steady glade]

neat, welcome to the early game

[slate lava]

a pure oil gives 240/ min , but the blueprint wants 270
as in i need a second source?

[zenith pecan]

Enjoy it, explore, fuck up, build wild shit and above all as stated, Enjoy it, you only get your first play once 🙂

[ashen needle]

So what do I do for first

I kind of want trains

[steady glade]

a pipe can hold at least 300

[feral geyser]

OC

[slate lava]

ye but my refinry wont give that much

[tacit trellis]

Overclock to 270ig

[steady glade]

||get a jetpack||

[slate lava]

or are we talking overcloacking and stuff

[feral geyser]

You should always overclock extractors/miners

[ashen needle]

Uhh why does petroleum power let you scan for caterium

[feral geyser]

Nodes are limited, maximize local production.

[tacit trellis]

Lmao I waked outside saw a pipe that wasn't quite neat and tried to go dismantle mode irl lmao

[steady glade]

well buddy, told you its the end of the tutorial, welcome to early game

[slate lava]

i guess the bp file goes somewhere where the save file is?

[steady glade]

you should have had caterium unlocked before but if you didnt, you get a final push

[ashen needle]

I already have caterium unlocked as a scannable resource

[steady glade]

yup

[steady glade]

ye but some people just dont go exploring/researching, so they need a reminder that future recipes will force them to

[ashen needle]

But after getting this what do I get next

[slate lava]

just throw it intpo the save game folder?

[zenith pecan]

One plus about the completely free form building is you can build bridges etc as you navigate the world which lay the framework for future building.

[steady glade]

there is a blueprint folder

[steady glade]

||liquid biofuel, easier to set up and burns longer than regular fuel||

[tacit trellis]

I'm a lazy ass mf and just fortnite my way around when I need it lmao

[zenith pecan]

Some folks consider me a lunatic builder 😄 , some of my constructs have crashed computers in the past.

[tacit trellis]

Bro I took my headphones off once and I wondered why tf do I still hear satisfactory noises

Like nah bro that shit was my 3060 struggling to keep up

[ashen needle]

Does that need the machine that scans things (idk how to put the spoiler thingy on text in mobile so I'm gonna just use vague descriptions)

[steady glade]

check task manager, is it bad?

[tacit trellis]

Not yet

[ashen needle]

I'm just hand crafting stuff rn cause I'm lazy and I want that thing you told me to get

[zenith pecan]

Here's an example, my backup power station in my old save, it's well, modest 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rLV_YcVt8s

[steady glade]

use || , 2nd symbols page i think

[ashen needle]

I tried that

Didn't work but ||test||

[steady glade]

start and end

[ashen needle]

Oh

[steady glade]

see

[ashen needle]

Discord doesn't show it is active on mobile I guess

It does on PC though

[tacit trellis]

you can also just highlight it on desktop if youre on desktop

[ashen needle]

My 1060 will NOT let discord and satisfactory be used at the same time

Usually

[tacit trellis]

#screenshots message yeah like what do i do with this?

[steady glade]

||and no, you just need fluid packaging, one of the milestones, though you should also get pipes mk.2 after||

[steady glade]

that's for next phase

[tacit trellis]

oh

[vagrant oar]

why is my game forcing me to use DX11?

I've switched it to vulkan, reloaded the game and now it's locked to DX11

[ashen needle]

Yeah I'm running this game on a GTX 1650 guys am I cooked

[steady glade]

you cited like 3 gpus

[vagrant oar]

1650 is perfect for all low settings, just imo the game looks fugly

[ashen needle]

I checked and it's a 1650

[vagrant oar]

4gb of vRAM is the minimum this game demands, but forget about anything past all low

(former 1650 player ^^)

[ashen needle]

I plan to get a new laptop with a 3060 (I think?) eventually

This laptop is like 5 years old so I need an upgrade

Should I still be hand crafting

[vagrant oar]

update: the game apparently thought I was running it with -dx11??

[ashen needle]

I kinda want ||trains|| first before automating everything

[vagrant oar]

I just put in -vulkan launch options and it's fine now

[ashen needle]

I've automated everything up to ||modular frames||

[vagrant oar]

non-story content isn't a spoiler

[ashen needle]

Oh

[steady glade]

you problably want some plastic and rubber befire getting into trainbs

[ashen needle]

Ok well does the jetpack work with coal

[vagrant oar]

it "works" (barely, but it does burn)

[tacit trellis]

Mf go hand craft yourself a new PC

[ashen needle]

Does the jetpack hover or does it just fly

[steady glade]

you're better off with solid biofuel

it flies

[ashen needle]

I wanted to leave biofuel in phase one😭

[tacit trellis]

also do you have head loss through horizontal pipework or is it just vertical

[steady glade]

i just meant that its better than coal for the jetpack

[steady glade]

just vertical

[ashen needle]

Well I have a lot of coal so

[tacit trellis]

Just unplug all your biofuel generators and plug it into a shipping container

[steady glade]

oh no, keep them running, modify them a bit to ake them viable for the jetpack

[vagrant oar]

note that it's headlift

[ashen needle]

This jetpack kind of sucks

I mean I don't need ladders anymore I guess

[tacit trellis]

Idk man I had to calc pipe pressure losses when i was in uni lmao

[vagrant oar]

we usually still use pumps on horizontal pipes though, because our pipes just behave better with them on

[vagrant oar]

it gets better with packaged fuel

[ashen needle]

I mean even without the whole fuel thing

[steady glade]

its more meant for quick ascent than for hovering, ||there is also a hoverpack later, but its really not better||

[tacit trellis]

I mean just tap to hover idk

[vagrant oar]

hoverpack is more geared towards building, jetpack is more geared towards running about

[ashen needle]

I mean if you run out of fuel midair you're just cooked

[vagrant oar]

personally, hoverpack irritates me

[tacit trellis]

Just tap hover

[steady glade]

cant hover while in a machine's ui

[tacit trellis]

its not great for building but like idk haven't yall played pharah

[steady glade]

and hoverpack has a 60m range

[vagrant oar]

it's 60m? noted

[ashen needle]

Well anyway I'm gonna get fuel

[steady glade]

never touched ow

[tacit trellis]

you get mad distance by just sprint sliding into jetpack hovering

[steady glade]

ye its really nice for exploring or high speed movement

[ashen needle]

Wow that's a lot of rewards

[tacit trellis]

Also like i just have a leaves to biofuel into a container kinda setup so i have some spare biofuel for whatever

[ashen needle]

So should I just get an absurd amount of iron production?

[vagrant oar]

if you think you have enough iron, you don't have enough iron imo

[steady glade]

starting on phase 4 you should

[ashen needle]

I'm gonna automate motors then

[steady glade]

then again, im not sure what you call absurd

[ashen needle]

Later actually cause I'm bored

[ashen needle]

Like harvest every iron and coal node on the map

And make it steel

[slate lava]

iama be real the bp did not make it simpler

[steady glade]

probably just about fine, more useful for endgame

[steady glade]

skill issue

oil setup is gonna need like 100-200 refineries

[zenith pecan]

Basic oil setup being 200 refineries #design-and-architecture message , one that uses residual into recych will be more.

[steady glade]

start simple, just a few machines so you can divide the amount of time it takes to place a lot, (i.e refinery x2,3)

oh and have a simple blueprint for a splitter/merger 6m off the ground

[tepid stratus]

<@&387163995947270144> Someone should really check out the QA site. It has been inundated with ads for drugs. I don't know how else to get someone's eyes on this.

[steady glade]

you can often summon jason here by speaking of memory/gpu issues

though it works better during mid day (europe)

[tepid stratus]

yeah, time of day is the issue

[craggy python]

where can i report a bug on the game?

[steady glade]

next to the ads for drugs

[craggy python]

nah to much work, even tho is a game-breaking glitch i dont really want to waste my time reporting for nothing, if atleast i could report from the server

[steady glade]

again, works better during midday

and you shouldn't expect to get a response from the dev by posting here

[shrewd palm]

i think the devs are already aware of all the bugs created in 1.1 (4 way train intersections not working, train signals not working sometimes, straight belts not being straight) and also the hoverpack bug

[steady glade]

there are like one or 2 that appear at times, the rest i pretty much never see

[shrewd palm]

but other than those the forum for the game i think is the place

[craggy python]

i just lost all my itens because of this bug

[sterile needle]

Hey guys i may have done somthing i shouldnt have

[shrewd palm]

should just be able to get almost everything back

if artifacts/slugs/hard drives were lost i think you can just spawn them all back in with SCIM or if you dont mind using cheats you can give them back

[craggy python]

like the itens that cant be crafted and lets say i got all that exists in the map and i just lost them

[steady glade]

10 hail mary's and 30 cane strokes

[sterile needle]

following image explains

[craggy python]

i probably would stop having fun playing the game if i cheated and my friend too, but idc anymore at that point

[steady glade]

r-click, copy message link helps out a lot in those cases

[shrewd palm]

cheating is only cheating if you're doing it to get an advantage over others or give yourself an unfair advantage

in the case of BS like this its more than fine i think

[craggy python]

ik but this still fells like cheating

[steady glade]

wait till you splat before respawning

[sterile needle]

its in the screanshots thing

[steady glade]

if you dont, then rip

[sterile needle]

i went so far all i see is blue

not even the RMB to respawn

Its just blue

[steady glade]

if it makes you feel better, the game save has a value saying whether it was "modified"

[steady glade]

did you fall yet?

[sterile needle]

so remember when i said everthing was blue?

its all now gray

[steady glade]

hope you didnt have a lot in your inventory, i feel like you're under the map

[sterile needle]

I think im well into the void

[sterile needle]

"keep everything"

[steady glade]

neat

[sterile needle]

ima aim the canon up more instaid of a little up

[steady glade]

consider removing like 5 entrances

it doesnt take a ton of them to cross the map

[sterile needle]

no its a circle with a split

im tryna go stupid far and fast

[steady glade]

then dont do more than 4 loops i guess

[sterile needle]

no the objective is see how fast i can go then use that to travle down a tube ay high speed and then the tube ends where i want to be

containd speed

[sterile needle]

the screen shot is my player

[versed mesa]

Hello all good morning

Had very long sleep was really needed lol

[sterile needle]

so uh you might want to see what i have done

[versed mesa]

What you mean ?

[sterile needle]

Check the screanshots tab

[versed mesa]

Or ok will do now friend

@sterile needle wtf happened?

[sterile needle]

hypertube particle accelerator is what happened

[versed mesa]

I see lol

Ive not messed with it yet

[sterile needle]

its just a circle with a split also im still going farther away as we speak

[versed mesa]

@sterile needle how far you made it go ?

[sterile needle]

idk how to messure

[versed mesa]

Also is it using electric towers to run?

[sterile needle]

wdym electric towers to run?

[covert sphinx]

me and my friend made a cannon that sent us far past the space elevator in under a second 🙏

[versed mesa]

The hugs towers there one with ladder and no ladder

[sterile needle]

oh no not yet

[versed mesa]

For real lmfao

@sterile needle so how you powering the tubes ?

[sterile needle]

screan shot for how far i have gone in the screan shot tab

[covert sphinx]

ok it was more like 5 seconds but in the moment it felt like under a second lol
but still it was really fast and when we collided with the ground (which took around 15 minutes) we went THROUGH the ground

[covert sphinx]

YOUR SO FAR UP LOL

[sterile needle]

lol

still going farther

[covert sphinx]

how many entrances did it take

[sterile needle]

its 4 in a circle with a split

[covert sphinx]

OHHHH ONE OF THOSE

[sterile needle]

my player is a good 100meters ish from the camra lol

[covert sphinx]

XD

[sterile needle]

if you want you can come try it out

[covert sphinx]

I beat the game so now I can just mess around, I should totally get around to doing that XD

[covert sphinx]

I’m good, I’m about to sleep, thanks for asking though :D

[sterile needle]

i should sleep but thats boring

[covert sphinx]

why sleep
the factory must grow
but then again…
I’m a massive nerd and nerds like me need sleep

3:

[sterile needle]

😄

wait

D:

there

[covert sphinx]

and my mother would kill me if I stayed up past 1 am

[sterile needle]

D:

my mother doesnt know

[covert sphinx]

my mother tracks my every move………..

[sterile needle]

plus its anly 11pm right now

[covert sphinx]

same here for me lol

[sterile needle]

SAME TIME ZONE

[covert sphinx]

:o

peak

[sterile needle]

peak

[arctic timber]

Тотя. ❤️

[covert sphinx]

well I should probably get to sleeping now
Gn char

[sterile needle]

You Mean chat?

[sterile needle]

i have only now started going down

[versed mesa]

Lol

[sterile needle]

if you wanted you could join the save and join the fun lol

[sterile needle]

the whole map is the size of the curser

[compact herald]

hey i just wanted to ask a question about belts, since i've noticed something a bit strange with "lagging" belts

[sterile needle]

Lagging belts?

[compact herald]

i have 2 sets of three smeltersproducing iron ingots at 30 ingots a minute, these are taken out of the machine by mk1 belts, merged and taken out by a mk 3 belt for each group of 3. these two belts are then merged again with another mk3 belt as output

i have noticed that two merging mk3 belts are not moving smoothly, and there is no backlog on the other side of the splitter, indeed some constructors are not being filled up maximally yet

[dense violet]

rebuild everything with max speed belts, you likely have a lower mk belt clogging up the works

[compact herald]

given that there should only be a total of 180 items per minute on the "outgoing" mk3 belt, i find it confusing why the merging mk3 belts do not move smoothly

[dense violet]

unless it's only been running a couple minutes?

[compact herald]

it has been running for about 5 minutes, all the smelters are at full efficiency

[dense violet]

then it just hasn't spun up yet

if there was a flow issue your smelters would be clogged

[compact herald]

i dont quite understand

spun up? doesnt that have to do with production output? if my belts are already moving slowly, doesnt that mean there is a problem with utilising my output?

[shy fog]

wee... matter conversion unlocked... time to figure out what to do...

[compact herald]

maybe this image might help? idk lol

[sterile needle]

anyone know if theres a cap on hypertube speed?

[compact herald]

ah i cant post images

but yeah, its just confusing to me that a setup not capable of producing more than 180/min can seemingly be clogged up, even though the merged output belts are all mk3 (270/min throughput)

do mergers introduce innefficiency?

[dense violet]

again, if your smelters aren't backing up your system isn't clogged

either you need to wait until the system fully spins up, or you've mathed wrong

or you're mistaken about the smelters not getting clogged I guess

[compact herald]

perhaps im wrong about the latter

thanks ill give it another look

[dense violet]

if it does start clogging up, most likely culprit is a lower mk belt hidden somewhere. Most often happens because you place spliters/mergers directly on top of belts

just rebuild all the belts and splitters with the highest mk belt from the get go to avoid mistakes

[sterile needle]

Anyone have an answer if theres a hypertube cap or not?

[slate lava]

well i just checked the time, someone is suposed to wake up in an hourr or so ...

[sterile needle]

fir speed

[boreal musk]

no

[shy fog]

speed does have a technical cap

once you cross light you kinda die before the game can figure out where you're supposed to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSTnv6gdN0 this is kinda better at describing them

[plain gate]

train teleportation 😛 >>

[boreal musk]

teleportation?

[cunning jacinth]

Hey Where can i go to make a party type of factory thing ??

[barren dove]

Ibiza

[crisp edge]

question for the collective: I've got an assembly line producing a bunch of basic iron parts. I want to run all of these into storage containers and have a single overflow line where any excess on any of the 5 belts running into a storage container goes into a single awesome sink. I was about to set up a smart splitter on each belt to just shift the overflow to the right until the last belt where it could go into the sink, but then i realized that if i did that, i couldn't have an input from the bottom, since the smart splitter would have its input on the left. how the heck do i do a single overflow lane spanning multiple belts?

[teal geyser]

I had one line coming into my storage room with multiple items on it, usually only like 1 production buildings worth of a single part mixed together with other parts, if that makes sense. I then placed a line of smart splitters, and then had containers on the right side of the splitters and mergers to the left. The right side would be a specific part, the center would be “any undefined” and the left would be overflow. Tie all the overflows together for the AWESOME sink

I’m tired as heck writing this as well

[vague dune]

Doesn't overflow also include parts that wouldnt go to the specific path? (ex) 1 belt with Iron Rods, Screws and Plates, 1st smart splitter is Overflow ^ and Iron rods > therefore all screws and plates go forward and all iron rods go right until the rods are full and then go straight.

Or am I just being dumb and not understanding the situation properly :/

[boreal musk]

overflow belt only allow resources when other prioritized belts are full

[glad drum]

#screenshots message --- Finally making 4 computers/min! 🙂

[rigid glen]

Why do you have to do that to the belts, it feels evil lol

[peak wasp]

That hurts my eyes. and I thought my 5 computers per minute wasn't even

I need more hard drives alternate recipes make this game so much easier

[rigid glen]

Honestly, I do think it's weirdly beautiful, but what a PITA to build lol

[glad drum]

It's sexy 😉

[glad drum]

It's hugely annoying tbh

Like, way more difficult than just building neat

[rigid glen]

Delusional, but you do you boo

[crisp edge]

what you're describing sounds like a sushi belt, but at mk5 belts i'm not sure i want to put 5 different products on a belt and chance backing up

[crisp edge]

what you're describing also sounds like a sushi belt where you split off items one by one as you hit each storage container. i was trying to do the opposite. 5 separate belts where only the overflow from each moves off to a dedicated overflow belt

[glad drum]

Maybe not sexy but it's been funny to see it evolve into a giant ball of yarn. I think my next playthrough I'll do something similar with curved belts but only building flat with no overlap

[rigid glen]

I'll freely admit you do it very well

[glad drum]

I'm just doing 4 so I can make 2 adaptive control units per minute... I'll make more later on but for now I'm just trying to push forward the phase

[bronze atlas]

I did mine as a sushi belt that goes straight into the sink, with splitters that remove designated storage objects as it passes. Any overflow and anything that doesnt have a storage container assigned just goes directly into the sink. Never backs up that way.

are you using your BELTS as the storage? because it sounds like its the same idea as a sushi belt dumping into containers except it uses belts instead.

what i would do for your method i think would be a bunch of overflow splitters on the main lines then a perpendicular overflow line that is above it that all the overflow is directed to, then have that overflow line just sushi to the sink.

If you're only ever going to have one sink in that area you will have to have a sushi belt for at least a tiny bit as the last step in the delivery to the sink.

[hollow halo]

Uhh… anyone good at making storages? Or explaining how to make them?

My brain is numb tbh

[peak wasp]

I was gonna do 6 hmf per minute with the alternate recipes available to make it easier. then gonna do 1 fused frame and 2 acs per minute as well if I can later.

[upper gale]

Well you only need three things. Storage box, depot, smart splitter

[alpine crow]

I didn’t realize it won’t let me talk in the screenshots, but I was gonna say that’s a nice steel production you got, and at least it ain’t spaghetti either😂

[next sage]

I'm having trouble finding anything definite on this. In a modded version, I have a gas (not liquid) produced at a low rate with a bunch of consumers that are expecting it at a higher rate. I'm going to go back and fix later, but I'm trying to establish and output priority and can't seem to figure out how to do this. Is that even possible? All I'm finding is input priority

[alpine crow]

With the SC I sent in the SC channel. By the end of it. I’ll be making 50 computers along with 27 or 23 Super Computers I believe. I forget the exact math I did. All I need to prepare for it is a little over 5K Quick Wire for it + another 1000+ Cable… can’t wait

[peak wasp]

Thanks, I could probably get almost 10 heavy frames per minute out of it, might try it but may be too much

[hollow halo]

No way it’s THAT simple…

[alpine crow]

I’d say you could try and go for it, but as I’m sure you’re aware they could lead to a 10 hour rabbit hole if you want to go back😂

[dense violet]

You cannot priorities gasses

The way systems are designed on this game is constant production, so just clock your producers to make what the systems need

[dense violet]

what exactly are you trying to do btw? Cause often you'll find a better way than what you're actually asking to do

[fierce flicker]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1418839967810981909/image.png?ex=68cf9531&is=68ce43b1&hm=82e75957cb0aaa71b706573e5d7d57c3c5de62e47c3b91a890c0051ba08cec9d& how do i turn of the gas?

[dense violet]

gas mask like a normal person, bombs like a weirdo

[fierce flicker]

so not for me yet got it

[stone python]

[dense violet]

you can unlock bombs nad masks very early. MAM I believe

or just run in with a medical inhaler and get the hard drive

[fierce flicker]

so i should make it

[dense violet]

if you have a med inhaler it's not hard?

hell if you're at full health yo ucan probalby dive in and get it

[stone python]

we are here to exploit be efficient, so bombing the entire planet to level all trees seems efficient

[fierce flicker]

nope

[next sage]

I'm playing SF+. I need to make some magnitar stuff for MK 2 power turbines and don't have a robust hydrogen set up. Several of the buildings produce flue gas as a waste product. Filtering this gives hydrogen and sulfur that I'm using in other locations to save on power (with dreadfully slow productions rates, but fast enough for setting up a single set of turbines in a reasonable amount of time to get some breathing room in terms of power) while still getting the resources I need. I have a sink for hydrogen set up as a generator that just burns it, producing only water that I feed back into other parts of the system. I wanted to preferentially send the hydrogen to not the sink unless absolutely necessary

[next sage]

Sometimes I just take a bunch of berries and go for it

[dense violet]

it still sounds like it'd be a static hydrogen production?

[next sage]

Not really, it's somewhat intermittent because the flue gas is coming form buildings that run intermittently, so the hydrogen production is mostly intermittent

[dense violet]

why are the flue gas building intermitent?

[next sage]

Most of it is actually coming from steel stuff I think

Yeah, it is

[fierce flicker]

i need to rebuild my factory...

[rigid glen]

Welcome to Satisfactory

[fierce flicker]

well its the 3 time

[dense violet]

ok sure but afaik SF+ stuff is still constant production lines

[dense violet]

in any case your best bet probably to make a section that produces gas for your production line that the production line can consume everything at highest expected output

and have seperate line that direct feeds to sink I guess?

[next sage]

I'm currently at the point of keeping as few things running as possible by simply not sinking the extra stuff whenever possible

Stuff goes on and off all the time because this is a starter base before I make the big, crazy factories. Stuff only gets sunk when there's a lot of byproducts and there isn't an immediate use for all of each in appropriate ratios

[civic ferry]

Question which fuel type is best/most efficient for drones?

[reef basin]

that depends how you define "best" or "efficient"

[dense violet]

define best and or efficient ?

For example, my 'best' in this instance is Plutonium rods. It's the fastest speed for drones and it's garbage that will just get thrown away in the end

so effectively uses zero resources

[civic ferry]

what the answer to both

even if different

[vale grotto]

Well what do you mean by best? Least resources used? Highest speed? Highest fuel value per stack?
How do you define efficient? Least power used to produce fuel? Least resources used? Easiest logistics?

[reef basin]

answer is "depends how you define best or efficient"

because those two words can (and do) have basically any definition

[dense violet]

you can just use basic fuel if you want? that will get you across the whole map pretty easily

[reef basin]

if you ask more specific question (e.g. "what's the least oil-requiring fuel"), we may be able to help you more

[dense violet]

if you want least effort to bang? probably just diluted fuel recipe chain

[dense violet]

we're not trying to be difficult here, this game has too many paths and variables that people might want for there to ever really be a single best way to do anything

you have to describe what is 'best' to you. Like greeny's examples

[civic ferry]

mmmm

[reef basin]

this ^ and also we try to not just give you "our personal favorite" and present it as "best" or "efficient" (like some people here do), because that's basically misleading you. And we already have enough people here who have been in this position and were given an opinion which they assumed was a fact (see e.g. all the "never use screws" people)

[civic ferry]

how good is rocket fuel?

[reef basin]

as good as anything else

[civic ferry]

can a stack opf fuel get a drone pretty afar?

[reef basin]

stack of any fuel will get your drones multiple times across the map and back

[civic ferry]

oh..........I have not really used the drones yet

been using trainsbut now Im trying to get the really remote resources now ad was looking at drones to gill that need

[reef basin]

it's basically a decision of what you want to produce for drones and how fast that makes the drones (the more advanced fuel, the more speed the drone has, wiki has some info on it)

[prime rampart]

GUYS I GOT COAL AND ITS SO GOOD

[reef basin]

oh you sweet summer child

[prime rampart]

I have. Question. For like something what if my node is pretty far do i like place conveyers?

[reef basin]

or build near that node

[prime rampart]

uh but my water factory

[civic ferry]

well I want to upghrade my power currently have a diluted fuek power plabt burning 800 fuel for 20 GW. to fully convert all 800 into rocket fuel would reguie 960 plants. is that a normal thing to do or should I user like half that for the drones

i mean I can feasibly go to any scale

but idk if i want to do that many fuel gens lol

I was thinking doing enough rocket to get 100GW which is 400 fuel gens

and then using the rest for the drones

[feral geyser]

You could do 384 at 250% OC

But that's a ton of shards

[civic ferry]

I guess Im just having the omg there are too many options stage now

[feral geyser]

Felt

[wicked nacelle]

Oops it’s more than that 🙂 but still shards are free.

[dense violet]

drones are super useful for that sort of thing 🙂 and regular fuel will do the job too.

In general I'd probably just look at whatever next big power plant you make and make some extra fuel dedicated to drones maybe? for simplicity?

I avoid rocket fuel because I think it's dumb.

[dense violet]

instead of converting it why not build an entirely new power station and use your old fuel for drones?

you can run a lot of drones on that

[civic ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-i-see-think-thinking-pondering-gif-4994872

I did not think of that

[dense violet]

and I do have a bias for nuclear power. It's far less dumb imo.

And instead of 1000 fuel generators, you can build 100 nuclear.

for the same power

[civic ferry]

That way I can still do the 100 GW of rocket fuel and have 800 fuelpm for drones

that works well

[civic ferry]

I wanted to do both

[austere berry]

Guys is there a way to see if something is using summer without going through everything i know the indicator light on top but when its idle because i feel like im missing some, is there a way to find it on the interactive map? https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[dense violet]

you really only need 1 or the other.

[dense violet]

summer?

[civic ferry]

itss more of just wanting too

[austere berry]

sorry auto correct

[dense violet]

fair 🙂 I'd just avoid having huge fields of fuel gens

[civic ferry]

I was going to skyscraper it lol

[dense violet]

... what is it supposed to be? xD

slugs?

[civic ferry]

somnersloop?

[austere berry]

yeah

[prime rampart]

guys

[dense violet]

ah right. There's a glowing purple aura around the machine

the indicator light is slugs

[civic ferry]

look for the pink gas coming from the machinme

[austere berry]

what about when idle?

[prime rampart]

how do i give trucks paths?

[dense violet]

huh not sure. teh sloop should show up for dismantle mode though? so you don't need to open each one

you could sprint past your machines in dismantle mode and look for a sloop showing up

[austere berry]

thats actually fair ty

honestly ty

[prime rampart]

GUYSS

[austere berry]

i never used truck paths tbh but i know u can ride it then a keybind pops up saying record a path then u drive the path u want while recording then u can save it then the truck should follow the path

even put a truck stop at either end for transporting items and refuelling

[prime rampart]

tyy

[austere berry]

sorry if im not much help

[dense violet]

no stress 🙂 that's probably the easiest way to find it

[austere berry]

*truck station

each truck station has a crane and 2 inputs 1 for fuel and one for anything else and 1 output

sorry 3 inputs and 2 out

1 input for fuel 2 for anything

[shy mulch]

I use trains a lot (good for quick expandability) and drones (good for low volume long distance), but I've yet to find a case where trucks have an advantage over belts.

[civic ferry]

I dont use trucks

My local biome is just massive beltways

[austere berry]

another noob question but is alien power Augmenter worth the hassle?

[civic ferry]

or whatever ytou call the stacks of belts

[shy mulch]

Absolutely is worthwhile

[austere berry]

oh nice ty ill go find few more Somer

[undone kestrel]

Trucks are generally more useful than trains up to just over a km

[versed mesa]

Am needing to get a load of rubber produced to help with finishing phase 3 off

So am thinking I am going to place down coal generator at my oil factory and use this bit of coke I have in storage unit to help with giving off the power

[austere berry]

im almost done with phase 3 just need control units

[versed mesa]

So far 137 of those black engines have been produced and sent into elevator waiting on more to arrive everything else is gucci just need more rubber

[versed mesa]

You also great

[austere berry]

i got a messy set up atm but it works

[versed mesa]

I normally pack up my truck for a trip across the land stuff thats needed for building if I need to do any that is

[versed mesa]

Thats fine you can get it all setup and later work on it more to make it look better

[austere berry]

got a train brining me crude oil then that oil gets made into rubber and plastic then the bi product is made into fule then any extra just gets made into vouchers

[versed mesa]

But still try to make it clean as possible then easier for your self to function in your factories

[shy mulch]

At low distances like that, why not just use a belt though?

[austere berry]

can i dm u?

[versed mesa]

Damn we doing its totally different for one ive not got train set up get so my oil is at second location and where thats my oil factory

[versed mesa]

Yes sure

The only other transport ive got is zipline from A to B and back again for bringing rubber over as quickly as possible

[shy mulch]

Try to avoid manually moving materials. Stick them on a conveyor belt

[versed mesa]

At location A everything is automated more or less on conveyor belts

Iirs just my rubber I can produce at Location B

Witch is oil factory

But just need to bring aload if rubber to A location after ive manage to get more produced am about to head there soon just packing my bags to move lol

@shy mulch tbh I could do with building train and tracks from my starting location to oil factory will help with huge cargo moving

[harsh valley]

Hello

[versed mesa]

But am good ive got this just getting things done in stages my A location is producing alot more ive just not long started for off for caterium production so I can have more of the yellow smarter wire created

As yous know there always none stop something that needs set up and all take time

[harsh valley]

Does anyone know a good website to plan your factory layout and energy consumption?

[versed mesa]

Noo

Plan it your self in your head with small steps

[shy mulch]

If you just make a belt once then you never need to think about it

[versed mesa]

But have you seen how far it is from A to B and back again going there is like 2000

[harsh valley]

Not with a mega factory consuming more terawatts than money in my wallet

[versed mesa]

Lol

Ok going to get back on with work see yous soon

[undone kestrel]

If it’s a high volume of resources belts can be annoying to setup but yeah, trucks can be irrelevant if you don’t mind building belts up to the range that a train becomes viable

[brave thorn]

How do you get 3 alternate recipes instead of 2? Per hard drive

[spice patio]

It used to be pick one from three.
But was changed to pick one from two, with one reroll for another two.

[small notch]

Hi

[limpid cairn]

Good gambling addition

[woeful gale]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/1418889702521573426 can anyone help me with these pipe problem ?

[fierce flicker]

what does dmo do?

[spice patio]

dmo?

[cunning siren]

So I hear "Fortnight tactics" of building defensive structures are popular strategies when "combat happens", if any of y'all "do this" can you share screenshots or videos of what your blueprints look like?

[leaden turret]

base defense isn't a thing in satisfactory

[dense violet]

Www.satisfactorytools.com

My fav easily

[spice patio]

Means plopping down a BP when encountering enemies in the wild.

[shy mulch]

That's still perfectly beltable 😎

[dull flare]

wdym more or less?? just make belts for moving stuff

[dull flare]

or he could even use a train

[shy mulch]

I have a glass cube 3 foundations in each direction, with the middle ceiling tile nudged up a bit to create a gap
I place this around green spiders then stand on top and drop nobelisks in the gap

[limpid cairn]

geez i didnt know mk6 belts burn your eyes when you color them white

#screenshots message

[shy mulch]

For a 1km each way journey I think train is overkill

[small notch]

this big plastic plant im making should i make some rubber too idk how important it is

[cursive phoenix]

I was trying
To get a slug yesterday eveninh and i kept getting killed by some radioactive bull and i eventually just rage quit😭

Skill issue tbh

[small notch]

nuclear hog

[cursive phoenix]

Yes

[small notch]

very annoying

[cursive phoenix]

Agreed

Allat for a purple slug

[small notch]

10 powershards is 10 powershards 🤷

if you sloop that is

[cursive phoenix]

Fair tho, got about 25rn and
Im at stage 4

Is thta good?

[small notch]

i have 80 saved up rn

Literally onnly just went out and got some

[cunning siren]

I had not considered a "cage" idea. I was more thinking like a "fortress of invulnerability" to enter that one could shoot out of without getting hurt idea 🤷

[cursive phoenix]

Gah dayum

[small notch]

i plan on making power shard factory once i unlock artificial

[shy mulch]

Only real use for them is for miners at that stage. By the time you scale up to really need lots ||you will be able to automate them||

[cursive phoenix]

Daaaaaamn sick

[shy mulch]

Was trying to avoid open spoilers hah, but someone else already said it so yeah, it's endgame though

[cursive phoenix]

Oh yeah mb sorry

[shy mulch]

You can put two bars | | without the space in between

||

Before and after the text to put it in spoiler tag

So it shows up hidden ||like this||

[leaden turret]

||made you look||

[shy mulch]

||no you didn't||

[leaden turret]

-# ||made you look closely||

[limpid cairn]

how do you know what he said when you didnt look...

[shy mulch]

||what who said||

[limpid cairn]

signpost

[shy mulch]

||I don't know||

[leaden turret]

see also ||⬛||

[brave thorn]

I remember back in 1.0 i used to reload a save if the alternative recipe didn't suit me, is it patched or am I just unlucky to get the same thing multiple times?

[leaden turret]

easier to cheat than use save scumming

[brave thorn]

Meh, I'm a Skyrim player, it runs in my blood

Reloading a save>commands

[outer hatch]

If you want to demonstrate syntax, you can escape special characters with \ :

\||This is a demonstration||

will look like this:

||This is a demonstration||

[leaden turret]

||this is not a pipe ||

[shy mulch]

Handy, didn't consider escape characters. Never looked into much discord syntax

[versed mesa]

@shy mulch am producing rubber again now

[limpid cairn]

there are 5 uranium nodes on the map right?

[shy mulch]

Correct. 2 normal and 3 impure

[limpid cairn]

3 of them are close to my uranium collecting point

🙏

[harsh valley]

When j start a new save, should I hurry to get the first space elevator levels asap or calmly develop my stuff first

[limpid cairn]

depends, if you dont like biomass power rush to coal power (which is in phase 2 i believe)

[dull flare]

maybe

[simple solstice]

Heyo, do we know how to mute the anniversary music that plays in the hub?

[limpid cairn]

#announcements message

[frail sleet]

I was too lazy to make bp's so i literally just threw up foundation walls/towers with zoop

[cunning siren]

Ok noice, so like walls and lookout towers 🤔

[harsh valley]

I don't really mind biomass

Just asking if there's a benefit to rushing

Also is there by any chance a limit on how far power csn travel trough poles?

[green fiber]

No distance limit

[cursive phoenix]

Guys i just unlocked steel, should i automate every steel part? I guess

[cunning siren]

Rushing? Like speedruning? Not sure what you mean

[harsh valley]

Something like that

[cunning siren]

I can not think of one

[dull flare]

yes

get coal asap

[harsh valley]

Okie

[boreal musk]

as far as im aware, the more biomass you collect, the more times it took to load your save bcs the game will also try to calculate the missing objects

[harsh valley]

Also asking the same question as the guy before me

Should i automate every recipe at the start of the game?

[dull flare]

ye

[green fiber]

Automate the stuff you have before you unlock new stuff

[harsh valley]

Okie

[green fiber]

else you'll be underprepared and overwhelmed

[dull flare]

ye

[cunning siren]

I would say it's up to you 🤷 if you want to idle game at the craft bench vs use factories. That is an option for a while until recipes happen that can not be crafted at the bench

[harsh valley]

What tier do i unlock crafters again?

[dull flare]

is slopping the t7/8 project parts worth it?

[dull flare]

what crafters?

[green fiber]

Its worth it if you wanna save time

[harsh valley]

Idk what it's called

[dull flare]

like constructors and assemblers?

[harsh valley]

Assembers

[dull flare]

they should all be t1/2 no?

[green fiber]

Tier 1 or 2

[cunning siren]

I sloop everything I can. If it's "expensive" sloop the shizat out of it is my moto

[dull flare]

ye i’m wondering if it’s more worth it to build APAs or sloop project parts

[green fiber]

APAs are worth more the more power you have

If you dont already make a lot APAs arent that great

[dull flare]

only 42GW

well 42020MW with 1 APA down

[green fiber]

One APAis only 10% extra power

[dull flare]

might just destroy it and sloop control units and modular engines

for sinks

and like idk mega print a rocket fuel power plant or smth

[limpid cairn]

how are you making 42GW without rocket fuel

[green fiber]

normal fuel probably

[dull flare]

140 fuel gens

[green fiber]

classic

[simple solstice]

What's the shortcut to create perfect conveyor corners?

[cunning siren]

OH the alien power thing is what you are talking about, yea I never build that 😆 unless I want to troll somebody online to "embrace the sloops love"

[dull flare]

100 with normal and 40 with turbo

[cursive phoenix]

Real

[dull flare]

or smth like that

[cursive phoenix]

How many coal generators should i make?

[dull flare]

enough

[cursive phoenix]

idk whats enoigh tbh, i got like 20 now

[dull flare]

as many as u can ideally

[cursive phoenix]

Aight i got 3 coal nodes close to eachother so i can make 900 coal a minute technically, but i have mk3 (270 items a min) so i could make over 50 coal gens

[dull flare]

ye so just do that

[cunning siren]

I guess if somebody has a megafactory and has like terawatts of power then the alien augmenter may be "worth it" IDK I don't play that way

[cursive phoenix]

Aight i will

[dull flare]

personally i’d build enough for steel production and some more so u can start oil stuff

i think i also used 3 nodes on this playthrough

[teal geyser]

Yea that might work better but then the overflow belt would still be a sushi belt

[cursive phoenix]

Is it just me or are mk3 belts easier to make then mk2

[dull flare]

that’s steel beams right?

[cursive phoenix]

Yes

[dull flare]

if so then yeah early game reinforced plates suck ass

[small notch]

is there any vanilla way to make a glass roof

[cunning siren]

MK2 belts suuuuuck IMO, sooo expensive

[cursive phoenix]

I feel like steal is easier to get then reinforcrd plates

[dull flare]

yeah

[cursive phoenix]

Yeah bro i had to afk for a whole night to have enough to supply my needs

[dull flare]

steal beams u can get a tone of easily

[cursive phoenix]

Yeah

Its rll fast, one night afk and 3 of those steel 'makers' and i had like 3 storage units full

[dull flare]

what are priority mergers even used for

[cursive phoenix]

No clue what they even are

[dull flare]

i used it exactly once

[dull flare]

u can set each input to low normal or high priority

[cursive phoenix]

Im so glad i dont have to use biomass anymore man this is sooooo much better

[dull flare]

exactly

[small notch]

biomass poopy

[cursive phoenix]

Fr

[dull flare]

although lbf is nice

[cunning siren]

I use MK2 belts for manifolds and for miners to output into a splitter for the 2x MK1 that feed stuff 🤷 can save on belts

[dull flare]

^

[small notch]

yh ig i only use it for jetpack

the factory is nearly finished

[dull flare]

[small notch]

well the building anyways

[cursive phoenix]

I js use mk3 for everything since i have soo much steel

[small notch]

no machines yet

[cunning siren]

YES once MK3 is a thing then MK3 everything

[small notch]

i heavily overestimated how much to make i have 90 beams a min js doing nothing

[cursive phoenix]

I have nearly 4 storage containers of everything atm since i afk'd for a while so i think i have enough to finally start building a big factory after im done building my coal gens

[cursive phoenix]

Yep me too

[small notch]

i just sink overflow

[dull flare]

sink them

[small notch]

good points

[cursive phoenix]

Sink?

[dull flare]

awesome sink

[small notch]

awesome sink

[cursive phoenix]

Fr

[small notch]

for coupons

[dull flare]

eats stuff and gives u tickets to spend in the awesome shop

[cursive phoenix]

Any important thing u can buy w m

[dull flare]

mostly decorational stuff

like walls and foundations

[cursive phoenix]

Hmmm

[small notch]

helpful if you dont wanna handcraft rescources u just unlocked aswell

[dull flare]

but also stuff like wall mounted electrical poles

[dull flare]

ye that

[small notch]

i did that a lot

[cunning siren]

Just wait, once you get to Tier 4 you'll change your tune

[dull flare]

i just set up slooped manufacturers lol

[cursive phoenix]

Its annoying that i have to remake allot of mini factories for certain items in certain places, because i dont have enough to use for both

[dull flare]

why

[cunning siren]

Encased Industrial Beam eats beams for breakfast

[dull flare]

ah that

[small notch]

use pipes

[cursive phoenix]

What are those used for?

[dull flare]

if u get that alt then sure

[dull flare]

mk4 belts

[cursive phoenix]

Ahhh

[cunning siren]

Lots of stuff

[cursive phoenix]

Thanks fluffy creature

[dull flare]

i love mk4 belts

[cursive phoenix]

This game is gonna lead to me becomming jobless i think

[small notch]

refineries and mark 2 miners too use them

and oil extractor

[cursive phoenix]

Dunno what refineries are used for but ill find out

[cunning siren]

Heavy Modular Frames and power storage also uses em

[shy mulch]

Might as well leave it there, send them to sink for now, you'll need them eventually

[dull flare]

fluid + item input and output

[small notch]

also

wall mounted floodlights too

[dull flare]

generally all oil stuff and some OP alts

[small notch]

most important

[cursive phoenix]

Ahhh

[dull flare]

only got like 30 drives to scan :D

[cursive phoenix]

It feels a little overwhelming, so much stuff

[cursive phoenix]

I dont even have one

[small notch]

#screenshots

its nearly done

[dull flare]

i’m only missing one bcs don’t have a superposition oscylator

[cunning siren]

Iron Pipe + Encased Industrial Pipe 🤔 good call

[cursive phoenix]

U got any advice how to build them? I wanna build one soon

[small notch]

that was my first big building i just kinda winged it tbh

trial and error of whta looked good

[dull flare]

lf logistics floor

[cursive phoenix]

Any ideas on how big it should be?

[dense violet]

what are you tryign to build?

[small notch]

im gonna add more space onto it for the logistics stuff bcz i need to shove a train station in there too

[cursive phoenix]

Im not quite sure, i wanna automate most stuff i have right now thats used in bigger recipes. Although im on tier 4 rn

[small notch]

the one im making is for plastic

how useful is rubber later on

[dense violet]

ah, I'd just keep building, smash new parts together from the things you've already automated

treat the milestones and tiers as a really good tutorial 😉

[dull flare]

heavy flexible frames

or smth like that

[small notch]

should i set rubber up or just all plastics

[dull flare]

just make what u need

i only have like 40 each going into storages for personal use even though i got 23 refineries making plastic

[solemn relic]

is there a way to paint all of my things at once?

[prime rampart]

could 1 water extractor fuel water into 4coal generators?

[dense violet]

alter teh swatch you used

[small notch]

if its overclocked

[dull flare]

if u overclock it

[prime rampart]

i have 2 rn

[dense violet]

build what you need for now

[small notch]

3 water gens feed 8 coal gens

[prime rampart]

should i just overclock one?

[dense violet]

!wikisearch cg

[swift dragon]

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

[dull flare]

no don’t waste power shards

[prime rampart]

ok

[cursive phoenix]

Will do

[dense violet]

there's some very good diagrams in that link I generated for you

[dense violet]

imo, after youre done with the tiers and have access to all the tools? the game then becomes a sand box and you can more thoroughly plan your world 🙂

[prime rampart]

ty

[cunning siren]

The "hover & shoot" strategy does not seem to work well with spitters and spiderbros 🤔 Maybe hog only strat?

[dense violet]

you ahve to alter yoru trajectory, they'll fire where you will be

so as soon as they fire, move

[cursive phoenix]

Thats actually kinda a good idea

[small notch]

might have to destroy part of this factory the refineries clip with the lights and i cant place them doen properly

[cursive phoenix]

When do u unlock the jetpack

[dense violet]

yup! that's how I feel. Just learn. Make mistakes. Don't sweat if things aren't super perfect

[small notch]

eh fuck the factory ig ive never been good at building, a floating platform is better anyways

[deep mortar]

i just finished phase 4 of the space elevator 🙂‍↕️

[cunning siren]

This sounds like it will work well with hoverpack and no so much with liquid biofuel

[cursive phoenix]

I have allot of different nodes where i started where i alr automate stuff at 120 iron a minute but i can overclock so i can make it 300 now. I have allot of storage containers full with stuff that i need to move if i wanna rebuild stuff.
How do i easily move them?

[dense violet]

you make short hops flying past and landing and changing direction

[upper gale]

Break the ceiling and then place it as high as it needs to be

[dense violet]

Attack on Titan style

[cunning siren]

Ahhh ok so like jousting

[upper gale]

Actually you can reserve that building for something else

Refineries are really tall

[cursive phoenix]

This is tempting
For me too man ngl

[dense violet]

sprint slide jump/glide around , firing and change directions 🙂

[unkempt blade]

I mostly just use basher + jetpack for hostiles and the hop over and keep swinging approach works great for that too

[dense violet]

I find using Ranged on hogs, and melee on most spitters doing that works pretty well

the alpha spiters ... probably stick to range still

[upper gale]

It's tough to build the exterior first and then try to fit all the machines inside. I usually do it the other way around

[pliant forge]

Hello, is there a specific channel for LFG ?

[unkempt blade]

I think the bees are the most annoying ones so I actually use a little range for those

[dense violet]

#1201555265942724758

[unkempt blade]

the hitbox is just too close to where they hit you with melee

[cursive phoenix]

Good idea.

[small notch]

yh tbf not a bad idea

[unkempt blade]

this works better for me if there are blueprints involved so I already have a good idea of the total footprint

[small notch]

cba tho now imma just build aplatform i like effiency more than looks anyway lol

[clever merlin]

be nice if the map was a bit more interactive

say liike your base you could put your mose over maybe like storage bins it tell you wan thtey are

[unkempt blade]

yeah and like a fidget spinner in the corner and maybe some buttons to turn on special effects

[clever merlin]

Yea

i just dont have a well orgized signed type setup

so trying to find stuff sometimes it a bit annnoying

lol

[slate lava]

oh god i think iam at a point where i need to redoo my entire basic stuff part

[cunning siren]

Become Ninja ✅

[unkempt blade]

I know it's not exactly what you're asking for but you can do that stuff in SCIM if you update the save you have loaded there

[clever merlin]

Yea i using that

that not a bad idea

[cunning siren]

Playing the early "what box is that in" game sux before Depot uploader "fixes everything"

[clever merlin]

is the gas nobisk really any good sincde they dont feel like they work agist hostile mobs

[tacit trellis]

Bro fr if they gave us like a knife item you can twirl I would be spamming that button

[upper gale]

Signs!

Unlock them in the awesome shop

[neon summit]

so, how does one make a wall not just one big wall?

[tacit trellis]

I use the double containers where one outlet has a conveyer that comes out a little so you can see the item on the conveyer

[cunning siren]

Pre 1.0 there was no distance check on deconstruction so it would list what was in a box on mouse over... that got fixed 😭

[neon summit]

I mean how do i make bigger walls look interesting

[tacit trellis]

Paint

Windows

Idk how you make wall beams but beams

[dense violet]

use foundations
depth , don't make it a big flat wall
break up the building into different sections

there's a whole channel for that sort of thing #design-and-architecture

[neon summit]

Alright ill look in there thanks for your suggestions

[shy mulch]

I've found people to be really unhelpful on that channel

[dense violet]

it's sometimes quiet. the server has fewer people than it used to

[versed mesa]

@dense violet have you unmute me mate ?

Whats the difference between all theys oil deposits like normal pure and impure ?

[leaden turret]

paint 'em

[upper gale]

Same as every resource node. You get more or less per minute of that resource

Pure gets the most, there's normal, and then impure gets the least

[versed mesa]

Really do they not give out more oil or something?

[upper gale]

Yeah they do

[versed mesa]

Am on this island that has all deposits together

They connected with stones going in a line to each one

[versed mesa]

Sweet

[fringe cave]

for some reason my machines stop working when I move far away from the factory and the only way to turn them back on is to go to select recipe and choose the same recipe. What can I do about this? it's very tedious

[versed mesa]

Am thinking on making separate oil storage depot

[shy mulch]

Your outputs are probably full

[versed mesa]

And assuming is a refinery your using ?

[fringe cave]

but why are they full? I set converyors up in a way to avoid any buildup whatsoever

[shy mulch]

What machines. Is there more than 1 output?

[cunning siren]

For ideas with defensive structures I think I need to take advantage of the fact that no creatures can use ladders 🤔 😆

Zombie strats

[versed mesa]

@fringe cave send screenshot please then we will know more

[fringe cave]

I'm doing SF+ so yes, there are machines with multiple outputs

[versed mesa]

Lmao

[fringe cave]

but most things from smelters to crushers are fucked up

[leaden turret]

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[shy mulch]

What's that got to do with it? There's multiple outputs on plenty machines in vanilla. Please just answer the questions, we can't help you if you don't help us

[leaden turret]

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[cunning siren]

I like the lookout tower except spitters can shoot through the damn thing! What is up with that?

[upper gale]

Time for dropping nobelisks

[fringe cave]

no refineries no

[leaden turret]

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[versed mesa]

@fringe cave its could be down to not enought power to power everything so you need more juice

[shy mulch]

Best thing to do is let it stop working then take a screenshot of the machine detail so we can see

[leaden turret]

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[leaden turret]

don't need to use ladders if they can jump

[fringe cave]

no, theres enough power. 300MW max production vs 210MW max consumption running at all times. that was my first assumption but power grid seems fine

[cunning siren]

Yea, spiderbros tend to do that 🤔

[shy mulch]

You still haven't said which machine it is, and no screenshot. We're just guessing here. If you want accurate answers, ask accurate question

[fringe cave]

give me a sec im working on it currently

[versed mesa]

Exactly

[unkempt blade]

if there wasn't enough power it would blow the breaker on that power network and you'd have to flip the lever to start it again

[fringe cave]

no, powers fine I checked 5 times already

just give me a minute I'm slowly fixing things

[unkempt blade]

I understand, I'm just telling you what would actually happen instead of a slowdown or something

[fringe cave]

yeah ik

[versed mesa]

Its sound like he had power not problem but the juice drain quick then cut off if he was using biomass generators

[upper gale]

The machine juice
Funni term

[shy mulch]

I disagree. Doesn't seem like that at all. He said he reselected the recipe and it started working again. Power issues wouldn't be resolved by that

[versed mesa]

I mean biomass fuel

[unkempt blade]

if biomass runs out it would dip the power and blow the breaker still

[cunning siren]

Awwww! IDK there are "Star Trek" doors in this game! 😆

[versed mesa]

Well tbh its sound like issue i was having with refinerys lol

[cunning siren]

Maybe I can build a door cheese defensive structure blueprint 🤔

[shy mulch]

I don't know what issue you had. But I'm assuming it's the same issue every new player has which is not noticing there are two outputs and/or not understanding that both have to be cleared

So far he hasn't even confirmed it was a refinery though. So could be absolutely anything. We have no useful info that can help us answer properly

[versed mesa]

Exactly thats what am saying it sounds like similar issues I was having when working with refineries lol

[unkempt blade]

all we know for sure is it isn't the power network 😆

[prime rampart]

when can i have a jetpack?

[unkempt blade]

tier 5 I think

[shy mulch]

When you unlock jetpack 😂

[versed mesa]

He did responded to me saying no so idk

[fringe cave]

Looks like just a case of dumbassery, an underleveled conveyor from a smelter to a merger and no output for tin ingots. Nothing that out of pocket

[prime rampart]

i cant use hyper tubes?

[unkempt blade]

what does that have to do with when you unlock the jetpack?

[versed mesa]

When you unlock it

[upper gale]

Yup hypertubes are another thing to unlock

[prime rampart]

so i can land safely

[versed mesa]

Parachute for now

[shy mulch]

I was gonna put hypertubes down to get around my megafactory but I'm considering just putting long mk6 conveyors to nowhere that I can stand on to get around

[unkempt blade]

I had moving sidewalks like that the last time I did a mall build

[prime rampart]

ohhh

[upper gale]

Looks like you know about cannons already lol

[versed mesa]

Wtf mk6 for real we got so fast ones omg lol

[prime rampart]

yes

how do i play creative?

[shy mulch]

What?

[versed mesa]

@prime rampart if you unlocked parachute you can craft it

[versed mesa]

What am saying is I think mk4 is fast enought and did not know there was more levels till now lol

[shy mulch]

Ah. Yeah mk6 belts are good

[versed mesa]

Mind blown lol

[upper gale]

Ngl that's smart especially if they're perfectly leveled with the ground it could be cool

[dense violet]

open the advanced game settings

[prime rampart]

ok ty

[dense violet]

But I would highly recommend going through the tiers at least once before just unlocking everything

it's a well ploted out tutorial and having everythign dumped on you in one go will... make things harder on yourself

[prime rampart]

ok

tysm

[shy mulch]

Yeah I have a large area that I need to move around so it will work well I think. Might even put it a bit above the ground like 8m up or something so I can have it like a road network between buildings

[cunning siren]

Belts OP AF

[versed mesa]

Tell me about it even mk4 lol

[cunning siren]

Don't tell the trains they'll be sad 😆

[somber star]

is there a way to turn off the birthday music? its getting very annoying

[outer hatch]

There's an option to turn off Seasonal Events in the options.

[upper gale]

Options > gameplay > disable seasonal events

Remember to apply. And then you'll have to rejoin your world

[somber star]

thanks!

[shy mulch]

#patch-notes message

Why does nobody read patch notes 😭

[upper gale]

Cuz they're busy playing the game

[peak wasp]

Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that some players, when they set up mass production (for example 10x copper sheet constructors), instead of balancing the input on the conveyor (like using multiple splitters to get exactly 20 copper ingots on each conveyor going into a constructor), they use a sort of series conveyor. Basically, they run one conveyor line parallel to the constructors and then use a splitter for each constructor’s input — kind of like how it’s done with fluids.

But does this actually work? Is it less/more efficient than balancing each one individually?

Thanks

[shy mulch]

Devs go to the effort of explaining clearly how to disable seasonal events in the patch notes, yet that exact question gets asked here 50x a day

[somber star]

I only started playing again a couple days ago, sorry I didn't think to check the dev notes?

[leaden turret]

#announcements message

[dense violet]

it's called a manifold, and it's just as efficient

load balancing, feeding things manually in an even fashion doesn't provide any additional benefits other than looks

some people like the challenge

[upper gale]

A lot of players only come to the discord when they have an issue, which is fine
We're here to help them out

[peak wasp]

oh... thanks! because until now i use the manualy system with some headache XD

[dense violet]

yes that becomes very painful very quickly

[shy mulch]

Yes, absolutely I agree. But if I came here purely because of an issue, patch notes is the first thing I'd check

[upper gale]

That's gamer experience

[peak wasp]

ahahah yes, especially when start with 22.5 37.5 etc XD

[peak wasp]

thanks very much 😄

[dense violet]

all you need for a manifold to work is

a) enough parts per minute for hte system
b) a fast enough belt

[limpid cairn]

b is optional

[shy mulch]

I just see it as common sense but OK 🤷

[limpid cairn]

i have some manifolds that need 2k items per minute and its working perfectly with mk5 belts

[peak wasp]

ok for example if i need to supprot 10x22.5 copper ingot ,the main convy is a t3 convoy and every splitter use a t1 convoy,right?

[cunning siren]

Woh! If you build a ladder in a wall it's still usable!