satisfactory

[peak wasp]

I kinda wish we could pick any biome to start in like crater lake

[shy mulch]

No, height limit is 2km

[peak wasp]

I should make a base there

[shy mulch]

Why

[hard ivy]

that's where you should put nuclear waste storage, not a base

[peak wasp]

Shenanigans and self suffering

[white dawn]

On the contrary -- the Satisfactory map is an utter delight and could only really have been done hand-crafted as it is

[leaden dome]

Randomized maps in satisfactory would be a nightmare

[white dawn]

Obviously it's still possible for procedural generation to create great-looking worlds too, but the handcrafted nature of Satisfactory's map is, IMO, one of its biggest strengths

[white dawn]

I mean, honestly, if CSS had decided from the start to spend like eight years working on procedural map generation instead of eight years handcrafting a map, then it could certainly have ended up quite good in its own right

But I'm glad they went with the handcrafted route. :D

If you want procedural maps there's millions of other games out there. Let me have my nice things!

[limpid cairn]

sf is more than 8 years old???

[limpid cairn]

Factorio

[atomic notch]

We been factorying for a while now lol

[hard ivy]

it's been out for 6, so I imagine being in dev 2 years prior to that is totally expected

[rich parrot]

Your character has feet, so... you can spawn anywhere and then start your base where ever you want 😛

[atomic notch]

I started in the jungle cliff area on the west of the map once

[limpid cairn]

6 years already

[atomic notch]

But runnin out without legs or a jetpack is aids

[white dawn]

Heh, only have to make the journey once, though! And it's not like Crater Lake (for instance) is that far from Rocky Desert (or even Grass Fields)

Could turn on AGS and just fly over there, if you like. :D

[atomic notch]

No map unless youre one of those hacks with scim

[azure scarab]

how many Modular Engines would you recommend i make to start with?

[hard ivy]

whatever 1 fully overclocked and slooped machine makes

[atomic notch]

10000

[azure scarab]

fair enough... Was looking at satisfactory tools who gave me a blueprint for 10 per min ad was just wondering if that was enough.

[hard ivy]

I wouldn't automate project parts at all. just handfeed a single machine making them and you're done until the next phase

[peak wasp]

So a good question for you guys

[limpid cairn]

I placed down like 4 manufactors and that was it lol

[peak wasp]

Is it possible to truck all the fuel I'd need to a power plant?

[hard ivy]

possible? sure. a good idea? absolutely not

[azure scarab]

why, isnt the whole point of the game to automate? or is it cuz ill need to tear it down when i get to the next phase?

[atomic notch]

P3? Yeah i prolly just stuck some storages on a manufacturer

[limpid cairn]

You need the part later for thermal propulsion rockets

[peak wasp]

Would trains be a better idea?

[limpid cairn]

ah wait thermal propulsion rockets don’t craft into anything

[foggy tiger]

someone help me ??

[atomic notch]

Id build the power plant next to your fuel output

[hard ivy]

the space elevator parts are only needed for the space elevator and nothing else. I don't see a point in making any more of them than I absolutely need to. for every single one of them, I just set up one machine to make them, fully sloops and overclock it, then handfeeed it the required materials. when the phase is done, I tear everything down, including the elevator

[peak wasp]

Yeah but that's no fun xD

[azure scarab]

why tear the elevator down tho? and do you only begin to automate once your at the last phase?

[peak wasp]

if I am not constantly suffering what's the point?

[atomic notch]

Youll want to automate nuclear pasta in p4 tho

[peak wasp]

Plus I am trying to challenge myself by trucking or training as much as possible

[limpid cairn]

You always automate you just don’t automate the useless elevator parts

[atomic notch]

Do it then

[tacit trellis]

Also yeah is it me or are the elevator parts kinda useless outside of building the elevator

[azure scarab]

so like, automate the parts for something like the Modular Engine, but dont autoamte the Modular Engine?

[true mulch]

#1038092680493801533

[limpid cairn]

Yup

[foggy tiger]

i do genius

[tacit trellis]

Just cold drop the question and hope someone responds lmao

[true mulch]

I guess I won't waste my time with that tone 🤷

[hard ivy]

I don't need the elevator just standing there being useless for 50h, and idk if I'll be building the temp factory for the next phase in the same spot

and I automate everything except the space elevator parts as I unlock it. because it's used for building. space elevator parts aren't, so I don't bother automating them. a temp factory takes max 30 min to build, 30 min to handfeed the right amount, and at worst a few hours to make all the parts. that's faster than I could automate even one of the SE parts, not to mention that it'd likely be even slower than the one max OC machine

[atomic notch]

Lol hes got one open

[azure scarab]

i done the basic stuff like uninstall and reinstall and verify files?

[foggy tiger]

i do

[azure scarab]

does it crash on startup or just random?

[atomic notch]

If you still got the crash report id send the whole thing in ur post

[foggy tiger]

??

[azure scarab]

but when your at the last phase or done with it, what do you do then, just start over?

[zenith pecan]

The screencap doesn't have enough of the crash info in it to help with troubleshooting.

[hard ivy]

I usually build a huge nuclear plant

[foggy tiger]

too bad it crashes every time

[vale grotto]

What do you power with it if not elevator parts?

[azure scarab]

something like the nuc;ear tornado?

[hard ivy]

itself lol. other than that, not much. there really isn't that many resources left on the map after doing a huge nuke plant. I mean there's plenty left by normal standards, but not enough to build anything large enough to dwarf the nuke plant. especially after 1.0. besides, I'm usually burned out after a 300h project

[zenith pecan]

Thats got me imagining a mix of nuclear generators and the LGIO beltnado.

[peak wasp]

Here's a interesting question

How many unpackagers can a single mk1 pipe handle

[limpid cairn]

1 packager at 125% clock speed

[hard ivy]

it's neither interesting, nor difficult, or answerable without specifying the fluid

[peak wasp]

Crude oil

[limpid cairn]

Why would you package crude oil

[hard ivy]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/codex/items/crude-oil

[vale grotto]

5 unpackagers

[peak wasp]

To have it brought to a processing plant

But once I have a train I'll just use that

[limpid cairn]

Why not process it directly at the oil node?

[rigid fractal]

Do any of you get lag late game or stutter/freeze up? Im working on the last tier and have a couple thousand buildings throughout the map and getting frame drop/stutter every once in a while

[peak wasp]

I am doing a challenge run where everything is carted away from its node to be processed elsewhere

[vale grotto]

Because sometimes it can be fun to move things around unnecessarily to give yourself a challenge!

[peak wasp]

Yo they get me

[vale grotto]

My latest power plant is built on the oil nodes in the desert, with water being trained in from the northern coast, where water is picked up directly next to other oil nodes

It's so absolutely unneeded!!

[peak wasp]

I mean why do things the easy way when you can do things the harder way

[vale grotto]

Exactly!!!!

[peak wasp]

That said the harder way is easier in my opinion

[inner echo]

Probably saving the game. That and all the increased maths going on. But late game...auto save definitely causes stuts. (It used to be so so so much worse)

[tacit trellis]

Set up the global train network!

[peak wasp]

Because I find carting stuff away to a dedicated facility instead trying to fit everything around the node to be much easier

[tacit trellis]

Free public transport for all pioneers! (within the hours of 4:55 and 4:59)

[flat heron]

Try and see if it's in the same area. Lighting can interact with things in bad ways which cause frame loss.

[peak wasp]

I also have another terrible idea

Instead of using power lines what if I use rails to power facilities

[flat heron]

I have a building that if I place it in a certain spot the fps drops to 15

I think the refined power mod adds a tap for the track so you can pull power without a station

[tacit trellis]

Does that even work?

[flat heron]

Tracks carry power from station to station so you could run power without the power towers or a long string of poles

[tacit trellis]

Wait so you can connect an outlet to the train station?

[flat heron]

I assume they are talking about power from factory to factory, not avoiding poles entirety.

[peak wasp]

Indeed yes

[tacit trellis]

Yeah lmao

[peak wasp]

No ugly string of power lines for this girl

[tacit trellis]

I mean I wouldn't hire you to wire my house but that's neat

💀 gonna have a train line in the back yard if someone hired you as a sparky

[peak wasp]

But I'm thomas I am very handy

[tacit trellis]

Nah bro I need Bob

[peak wasp]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ADsEuqWoRn0?si=iDwSRWjjxb6ND4-x

[tacit trellis]

💀 I thought you were making a Thomas the tank engine joke

[peak wasp]

nope

[rigid fractal]

Its all over the map for me. Mostly building in 3 areas but all do the same thing

[peak wasp]

fuck me...I try and find a a freaking quartz node and instead find a sam node

[rigid fractal]

Ah maybe thats it then. I dont have auto save notifications on so thats definitely it. Thanks

[atomic notch]

You can extend the interval

I put mine to 30

[twilit tinsel]

I lowk got homework but satisfactory is more important right now

[valid sigil]

I’ve played ~30 hours in the last 2 weeks, I have a full time job + college

But I’ve just unlocked TRAINS so there’s another 30

[shy mulch]

I know that feeling. I have a full time job, a child, and I'm putting 20+ hours a week into this bloody thing

[valid sigil]

A factory is like a child, really. Constantly growing and on your mind 24/7

[shy mulch]

I think I need a holiday

[valid sigil]

More time for satisfactory I hope

[shy mulch]

Time away from my desk would be a good thing

[valid sigil]

I don’t quite understand what that means anymore

Away… from the factory?

Best part is my full time job is in a factory lmao

[tacit trellis]

Same lmao

Work at the factory during the day and build the factory during the night

[next sequoia]

I always be automating them lol that's how i have industrial storages of all the late game stuff I rarely use lol

[midnight ocean]

how quickly can industrial storage containers output items?

[hushed inlet]

Good morning l

[boreal musk]

2400/min

that if you consider using the top output if you have more than 2 stacks

[solid flax]

How do I add more Custom Swatches?

[midnight ocean]

ah thanks i had though that was the bottle neck in my coal production

turned out it was that there was a singular mk2 conveyor

[atomic notch]

I worked for a farm processing fruit when i was younger. I kinda wish i applied for an operator position those were some cool machines

[hushed inlet]

Hello guys

[tacit trellis]

💀 I'm workin in the poo factory tho lmao

[solid flax]

You do important work, sir.

Everyone appreciates you.

[tacit trellis]

It's kinda shitty tho

[midnight ocean]

hello

[hushed inlet]

My coal generators are grabage the water never comes dispite

5 water extractors

[reef basin]

having more water extractors than you need does not help

[atomic notch]

Waste processing food processing. Two sides of the same coin

[reef basin]

you need to make sure you have fast enough pipes, and enough headlift

[atomic notch]

Were the real machine

Sry off topic

[tacit trellis]

The human is just the factory in the middle lmao

[atomic notch]

Btw from my work experience you prolly shouldnt eat smuckers raspberry jam. Ur not getting the end product😕

[tacit trellis]

From my work experience don't drink the brown water

[versed mesa]

Am so happy ive been working on my train lines and now am loading my train #screenshots message

Hiw do I get the machine to put the cargo on train because I want to drive it my self there while am still laying down tracks to destination A ?

[severe prawn]

I'm still in like tier 1 but, does satisfactory have an alt view like factorio? Playing with my partner and it can get a little confusing when we can't talk

[boreal musk]

no

[tacit trellis]

Idk what alt mode is but you can use detached camera with photo mode to do stuff

[atomic notch]

Detached camera mode is so cool

[cursive phoenix]

At 10:00 something went wrong with my belts, im glad to inform everyone its now 2 am😭😂 time flies

[tacit trellis]

It's literally just a camera drone lmao

[atomic notch]

I wish it was a flight mode on ags so i could build stuff in it

It reminds me of buildin stuff on the halo forge worlds

[lyric prawn]

how do you unlock the 3 alternate recipes instead of the 2 in the mam

[crisp edge]

Did I read correctly somewhere, is the HOR alt recipe combined with diluted fuel more efficient than just converting crude to fuel?

[feral geyser]

It is. 3 to 8

As opposed to 6 to 4

So quadruple the amount.

Plus fewer byproduct resins

[feral geyser]

Have you ever seen the Recycled Plubber production system?

[compact herald]

what are some common errors that occur with liquids? im just making a new pipeline for water wrt to coal power, and at some point my water stops flowing in the pipes despite me placing more pumps. are there some shapes of pipeline or something that cannot be pumped into? i made the pipeline quite lazily, so some of the shape might be a little bit bad

ok nvm LOL, i just replaced the pump and everything is fine, maybe i placed it the wrong way or something, that might make sense

[rigid mist]

only need to build 27+96 more manufacturers and my nuclear factory is done

[lime ermine]

Mostly just weird pipe physics, they take a whole to get used to

[feral geyser]

There are a lot of possible problems, we'd have to see the line to know.

[compact herald]

is there any documentation about this? i dont really understand fluid dynamics yet

[atomic notch]

I mean you can read the numbers yourself but yeah its better

[clever merlin]

i think i got the chat box stuck in the middle of my scren i not sure how to get ride of it

[atomic notch]

Sry i was scrolled way up that might be late

[lime ermine]

Total xlipse has a good guide on YouTube I remember being helpful

[rigid mist]

the 96 are easy i already have a blueprint

[feral geyser]

I could never fit more than 8 in a mk 3, how big is your BP?

[rigid mist]

4

[feral geyser]

Yeah, cuz 8 is crowded and stacked.

Its really ugly

[tacit trellis]

Never really had that much issue with pipes just need to prime the line before hooking it up

[feral geyser]

Do you manifold from below or from above?

[atomic notch]

Manifold wherever i want dawg

[rigid mist]

huh
my game crashed twice in 10 mins

[tacit trellis]

Above

[rigid mist]

music stopped about a minute before this time

[feral geyser]

Oh, I was asking @rigid mist with regard to the manufacturers.

[rigid mist]

above

[feral geyser]

But yes, for pipes always from above

[lime ermine]

I like my manufacturers manifold below

[rigid mist]

now i gotta build that belt line for the third time

[feral geyser]

For blenders, I do solids from below and fluids from above.

[lime ermine]

Yeah same

[feral geyser]

Manufacturers, always from above, so I can see them all

[lime ermine]

And refineries

[lime ermine]

I like it below so I can see the animation

[crisp edge]

I don't think so?

[atomic notch]

I dont really think it matters if you feed from below i have a lot of stuff runnin fine with it

[rigid mist]

if i overclock the manufacturers to 175% i only need 48

[feral geyser]

Take a pure crude vein (600/min), turn it into all HOR. Blend that with water for fuel, refine the polymer resins into rubber. Then, let it go back and forth turning into Recycled plastic, then rubber, then plastic, until you use up all the fuel capacity. If it's tuned just right, you get 900/min each of plastic and rubber

[crisp edge]

That's incredible

[feral geyser]

No byproducts and no excess fuel, just shitloads of plastic and rubber

[atomic notch]

Its fun to build lol

Thats what i usually do with my first fuel plant

So all the stuff is built i just gotta delete the gens

All u gotta build is the recycle loop

[versed mesa]

I figured it out how to load the train with cargo quite simple when you see how to

[atomic notch]

Yeah

[feral geyser]

I'm a big supporter of blender recipe chains.

Nitric Acid, Nitro rocket Fuel, Instant Scrap, Distilled Silica... you name it, i love it

[frozen shoal]

is 100K MW of power overkill?

[feral geyser]

No

Make more

[frozen shoal]

ok time to build more

[versed mesa]

Lol

[frozen shoal]

only using 3 nuclear generators

[versed mesa]

Currently filling up this train with plastic and rubber

[frozen shoal]

I am not a fan of the train system.

I'm using drones

[versed mesa]

Its cool

[frozen shoal]

it's cool, but laying track on non flat ground is a nightmare.

[versed mesa]

Use foundation

[heavy pine]

Do drones fuel up at their destination port or just their home port? E.G. if I have a drone in Port Alpha and I'm sending it to Port Beta to get stuff, does it only need to get fuel at Port Alpha or should I have fuel ready at Port Beta as well?

[zenith pecan]

My approach is build a raised causeway, even if it is only a few feet above the highest point, that way the thing remains level.

[frozen shoal]

still a nightmare to do, because of that right there. gotta lay foundation down to make a path then go back and lay the track. easier to use drones.

[frozen shoal]

yeah I need to probably give it more time, but with use of the drones I haven't messed with it much. I want to make a roller coaster with it haha.

[shy mulch]

Do both 😎

[versed mesa]

Use blueprint designer

[zenith fractal]

trains are so cool

[shy mulch]

Logged off for tonight. My main save has 989 hours on it. I wanna try get my megafactory finished before I hit 1k. 11 hours to do it! Functionally anyway, a lot still to do around the design

[zenith fractal]

i do not mind setting them up at all

[zenith pecan]

The foundation method works well but if you want a level bridge, build a line and raise up until the highest spot, and backtrack at that new level, it will result in an elevated rail station but you can always have train stations on a rooftop etc, there's always solutions to problems just through positioning.

[atomic notch]

trains arent that hard youre probably just making it hard on yourself

[zenith pecan]

This is ancient now #design-and-architecture message , but it is a level rail coming to a rooftop station at my old bauxite refinery.

[shy mulch]

Most things in this game can be described as follows

• Seems very complicated if you've never done it before
• Very easy once you've done it a few times

So my advice for everyone who asks about stuff like drones and trains is just jump in and give it a try then come back here if you can't get it to work

[atomic notch]

even then they werent hard when i first did it its just two stations and a train

[shy mulch]

So many people watch a YouTube video or read some reddit post and think there's gonna be some mega complicated thing to worry about, and get themselves all worked up trying to understand everything. If people just skip all that and just try it, most people figure it out quickly enough

[frozen shoal]

I'm finding end game a struggle to stay focus. they need to add something to do withthe nuclear waste that's generated. im dr awing a blank though on how to setup my main big factory just to automate some stuff. takes so many machines. need to start using the blueprint to setup mini-factories for the end game stuff.

[atomic notch]

you can sink pl,utonium rods or burn ficsonium

[vale grotto]

Drones can get fuel from any port they land at, home port or destination port

[frozen shoal]

but you cannot sink Uranium waste.

[wicked marlin]

the dismantle filter should also have a negative filter mode, so I can remove my entire factory without messing up the foundation

[atomic notch]

you can turn uranium waste into pllutonium rods

[frozen shoal]

multi drones and drop off/pick up from the same port t oo which is super nice.

[heavy pine]

You have to convert the Uranium Waste into Plutonium Fuel Rods, which you can then sink. It's a pain, but it's doable.

[atomic notch]

thats the nuclear process

[shy mulch]

What's the issue you're having with nuclear waste? Either make plutonium rods and sink them, or use in drones/trucks, or make into ficsonium

[lavish mulch]

Is there a way to prevent the dimensional depot from clogging up if I hook it up to my storage house overflow?

[atomic notch]

uranium plutonium, ficsonium optional

[azure scarab]

for the dimentinal depot, should i upgrade the stack increase or upload speed?

[frozen shoal]

hhmm mighty need t o look more into that then, cause I haven't seen use for it

[shy mulch]

Use 1 depot per item type

[lavish mulch]

Thats got to be expensive

[shy mulch]

No, there's nearly 300 mercer spheres available

[heavy pine]

It gets expensive yeah, but there are plenty of Mercer Spheres around the map.

[frozen shoal]

I did both. and then use tab. you can upload to the depo while doing another stuff and you can stack up 5 different items.

[frozen shoal]

y ou cannot sink Uranium Waste.

[lavish mulch]

Alright, thanks!

[atomic notch]

i just stick a depot on everything

[frozen shoal]

you cannot sink anything that gives off radiation

[shy mulch]

I didn't say you could?

[atomic notch]

fine youre right ok lol

idc anyway

[outer hatch]

Fuel Rods emit radiation, but are sinkable.

[feral geyser]

Don't know if your question got answered, but they will fill up anywhere if it has the same fuel type.

[frozen shoal]

yeah that's all I have been able to sink that gives off radiation.

[atomic notch]

🫠

[spark plover]

does anyone know how much this game will be on consoles

[atomic notch]

no

[heavy pine]

I'm guessing same as it is on PC, but it's not been announced.

[atomic notch]

i didnt even know it was comin out on console

[frozen shoal]

I live by the rule, If I have to question the price of something then that means I cannot afford it, witht hat said. $25 whould be my guess.

[spark plover]

where are you lol. yes it's coming out November the 4th

[spark plover]

ok

[atomic notch]

i dont read much into that stuff i just play games

[spark plover]

same but i had a friend who knew it was coming out just didn't know what price it would be at so i was asking if someone knew

[spark sky]

You know what would be nice? If you could paint beams and walls with diagonal black and yellow stripes (caution tape style).

Or, at least apply the diagonal black stripes to a wall or beam (and the other color could just be whatever you choose).

Dashed lines might be nice, too.

[feral geyser]

Are you not able to apply patterns to them?

[spark sky]

To foundations, yes, to walls and beams, it doesn't look like it.

[feral geyser]

Daaaamn. Beams, I understand, but walls?

You right though, we need more safety markings.

[tacit trellis]

Damn bro we need the caution tape beams

[spark sky]

Well, the short walls.

[tacit trellis]

When caution tape mod lmao

[feral geyser]

Lol honestly, I'd love some more customizations. I really want lawn foundations.

[spark sky]

Hm, I wonder, I'm going to have to look into signs.

[feral geyser]

I know that won't happen though

[spark sky]

BRB, time to walk the dog.

[restive river]

caution wet cones?

[tacit trellis]

When witches hats

[spark plover]

@atomic notch well hope you and everyone is having a good day or night

[spark sky]

Somewhere I'm going to put a sign up that says, "Caution: Don't read this sign."

[rigid mist]

well my nuclear factory is making fuel rods now

just gotta wait for the manifold to work properly

what now

[boreal musk]

wait until nuclear meltdown

[rigid mist]

lol

[spark sky]

My current project (and it's predecessor) #screenshots message #screenshots message

[coral sundial]

I need to make a big steel foundry

[limpid cairn]

Big advice / spoiler:
||go hard drive hunting for solid steel ingot and molded pipe / beam alt recipes||

[coral sundial]

oke i will

[midnight ocean]

is power storage worth using?

[hard ivy]

I don't bother

[zenith pecan]

Power stores can eat power spikes from variable structures like particle accelerators, but tbh, you're better off building a bigger power station instead.

Less effort for one, the certainty of having a higher max power definitely beats trying to work out peak power and building to allow for it (only to then extend the factory and have to repeat 🤣 )

I did build a support tower that has 7776 power stores in it, but its really just a folly, it serves no real practical use.

Almost as useful as this #satisfactory-experimental message 🤣

[cunning siren]

If you happen to make an absurd amount of power (And this is very possible) it's not needed. If not however, a pile of batteries can make a grid that would "crash" into one that will not 🤷. It also can "buy some time" for newer players as a sort of "forgiveness buffer" in relation to not being aware of the current state of the power grid. This can give a newer player some time to resolve the issue without stoping parts of prodcution to do so

[midnight ocean]

ah cheers i wont bother then

[cunning siren]

I use them big time in phase 5 as the big machines power demands flucuate AND I enjoy being lazy about power generation 😆

[sullen gull]

Is this too "absurd"? 😏 #screenshots message

[midnight ocean]

im still completing phase 2

[cunning siren]

Even then have a handfull can come in handy

[cunning siren]

If it "floats your boat" it's all good my friend

[frozen shoal]

Plutonium fuel rods takes way too much to create

[cunning siren]

It is the "end game fuel" as far as efficiency is concerned AND it allows one path to close the waste loop 🤷 some would say very very worth it. In comparison to power generation with rocket fuel perhaps more difficult for the same result

[sullen gull]

AND, you can sink plutonium rods or use them for drone fuel too 🙂

[zenith pecan]

I did kinda go ever so slightly overboard with rocket fuel.

[rigid mist]

well huh
i've turned 2100 uranium into 2520 waste

[frozen shoal]

not difficult just tedious af. bunch of mini-factories x4 but it does make sense lol

[rigid mist]

ficsonium?

[sullen gull]

Not worth it to many to do minimal returns I guess.

[cunning siren]

If efficiency is not the goal then party on!

[rigid mist]

imma do it anyways cause why not

[sullen gull]

Going to try it with this giant monstrosity though 🤣

[rigid mist]

just finished uranium though so i got a ways to go

[sullen gull]

Now.. let's see ..... 20,240 qw/min .... 🤣

[hard ivy]

Sounds about right for a nuke plant

[sullen gull]

Current target: #screenshots message

[hard ivy]

1.8 TW pre-APA? Slooping rods? Or RF?

[sullen gull]

Ion 🤣

[hard ivy]

Burning shards for DMR?

[sullen gull]

And, because I can, some puny unf from coal gens using the compacted coal waste instead of feeding it back 🤣

[sullen gull]

..

[hard ivy]

Just checked, my planned nuke plant uses 38k lmao
That's gonna be one hell of a balancer

[sullen gull]

Haven't determined yet. Just know the total qty I need atm is all. Kind of working backwards 🙂 with limits of 2k uranium and 2850 oil

[zenith pecan]

I sent all the compact coal output from mine to a nearby foundry to make steel.

[sullen gull]

Nah, fak that balancing shite lol.. Except for the rod ends.

[sullen gull]

Also, not really targeting "efficiency"... More just going for a 'specific' Idea/look.

[hard ivy]

No, I mean a belt balancer for the quickwire. It's at least 33 input belts, and idk how many output belts (probably more)

Sounds fun

[zenith pecan]

Tbh, I wasn't either, I had no real use for the compact coal so I made one, then I badly miscalculated its results, 4800 steel ingots, I didn't account for using that much.

[hard ivy]

Hmm might even end up being 33:33. That's not that bad

[sullen gull]

I'll just "block" it out. I guess, in some way/shape or form, it will end up being a large balancer. But, probably end up doing the same I did with baux... long single manifold with mergers every so many "blocks"

[midnight ocean]

what are balancers?

[sullen gull]

Everything ends up getting what it needs, so long as 'total supply' (I.e., six mk6 belts of baux) isn't exceeded, or even not met, it should just all churn away.

[hard ivy]

I still haven't decided whether I'll be doing actual balancers or those faux balancers I came up with recently. Both work essentially the same, so the main difference is design difficulty and size

[sullen gull]

Essentially using different speed belts and splitters in effort to get specific amounts to specific places.

How not, no?

[hard ivy]

A splitter merger contraption that connects every input to every output at full belt's speed and equal priority

Useful for getting around belt speed limits and loading/unloading trains

[sullen gull]

I see... and then what would you call what I decribed?

[hard ivy]

A rate splitter probably

Maybe a ratio splitter if all belts are the same

[sullen gull]

fair.

[sullen gull]

But yeah, I don't bother with that. I just usually inject the belts (if I have space btween the machines. Otherwise I have also done it "vertically" with stacking splitters/mergers, etc.

[midnight ocean]

so really late game stuff then

[hard ivy]

I use them even before having coal unlocked lol

[sullen gull]

No, you can make a balancer as soon as you have splitters and mergers.

[midnight ocean]

oh ive never had an issue with belt speed that i havent fixed by upgrading my belts

[sullen gull]

Think of how a splitter takes a single input and splits it thre ways.... Well, a 'balancer' would say take 3 belts of 1200/min item, and equalize it between say 3, 5, 10 machines. etc. (I think 🤣 )

@hard ivy obviously lurvs them more though 🤣

[hard ivy]

I've had too many mishaps with injection to keep using it

With a balancer, I just need to make sure none of the input and output belts exceed max speed

With injection, you have to make sure that whatever you're merging + the overflow doesn't exceed belt speed. Which is more boring math I have to do

And I prefer to do more interesting math instead. Like designing a balancer. Though at this point I've basically got them solved

[smoky nimbus]

cough
help me #math-and-meta message

[hard ivy]

Those would be 1:n balancers. I don't do those often. For feeding machines, I've got manifolds that work just fine. Feeding the manifolds that's the issue once I have 4+ of them

[midnight ocean]

what do geysers do btw?

[smoky nimbus]

place geothermal gen on them, free power

[coral sundial]

I’m bored of satisfying now

[midnight ocean]

do you know what phase those are at?

[smoky nimbus]

caterium research tree in the MAM

I think you need manu to make them though

[midnight ocean]

oh is it the experimental power part?

[sullen gull]

I don't see the math as that "hard" ... I have x mount of machines that need x amount of item, provide x mount to manifold in total. And, I usually add an overflow at the end to return. BUT, for different things, I am usually sending different amounts to the other side of the facility or something. So, yeah, end of the day, some "balancing" going on at some point.

[barren dove]

I can't stand the sound of those geo's anymore. Been building around them to long.

[smoky nimbus]

#screenshots message

[smoky nimbus]

I LOVE them

[sullen gull]

It can get old quick lol.

[real shale]

I like the noises of the geothermal power plants

Very robust and industrial sounding

[midnight ocean]

ah ok cool

[sullen gull]

If not aware, you can turn down individual machine sounds under audio settings

[twilit tinsel]

I finished my global train network I think :3

[real shale]

Fuel generators however.......are LOUD

[smoky nimbus]

you need manufacturer for high speed connector which I believe is phase 3

[real shale]

especially when you have several dozen in a cluster

[smoky nimbus]

hence why I built my power plant and weapons facility at blue crater then never touched it again

[barren dove]

I do like to incorporate them in a build design when possible. But only turn them on when i'm done working hours next to them 😆

[smoky nimbus]

150 fuel gens hurts my ears

[real shale]

It definitely gives off the correct ambience lol

[twilit tinsel]

Wait w pfp dude

[sullen gull]

Oh, try working with 400 of them 🤣

[barren dove]

After 2200 hours i've learned something new hahahaha ffs

[cunning siren]

There are volume sliders specific to various machines y'all <---

Even the crafting bench has one 😆

[real shale]

Wait 400????

[sullen gull]

Or, 12 stacked 3 floors high, with the floors made from frame floors... Running the whole time I was decorating ... ugh ... never again lol

[smoky nimbus]

starting my main aluminum plant #screenshots message

[sullen gull]

That was my first 1.0 save, but, honestly that is nothing compared to some other builds lol

Of others, not mine.

[sullen gull]

I don't know why, but I am a bit stoked and want to try and catch when I 'ding' 4200 (4103 atm) 🤣

[barren dove]

Nice!

I do have to admit there must be 200 or 300 idle hours in there for me tho.

[sullen gull]

Or the couple nights where I passed out with it still running 😏

[twilit tinsel]

I barely have any like afk hours

[sullen gull]

So, not "totally accurate"

[midnight ocean]

i always leave my game running whilst i make food or go for a shower just to let some stockpiles build up

[hard ivy]

When following an insane plan from Tools, I like building all machines making one item in one spot. Because that's what Tools does.

But I can't be bothered to remember how much of any particular item needs to go where. Or how much I actually have on any particular belt. If I've built as many machines as Tools told me to, I know I have enough in total.

So I just balance the belts, and bam, item distribution is done correctly. I don't need to know or care how many items any particular belt is carrying. The items just get to where they're needed. Eventually

[real shale]

I do the same just in case something happens to break there and then

[cunning siren]

I have yet to do a lizard doggo imprisonment run yet, maybe this next one 🤔

[real shale]

Me when my trains somehow find the one configuration that causes a massive gridlock every time

[twilit tinsel]

Yeah I'll keep my game running when I get food but that's about it

[cunning siren]

YES! Boxes within boxes of things! 😆 "This is the way"

[barren dove]

Same for me. Not letting it run hours on end on purpose eighter. But when afk for a little house chore i dont bother to close down.

[sullen gull]

This is the literal EXACT reason I prefer modeler over tools (Not trying to prompt a debate, just stating is all). It allows me to just setup and 'containerize', and I always know exactly what goes where (most times 🤣 ).. plus, I always try to build very symmetrical and always use "clean" logi floors. Makes routing so much simpler.

Doh, stoopid screwball.. prompting that repeat typing I guess 🤣

[midnight ocean]

what are modeler and tools?

[hard ivy]

And balancers are the exact reason why I don't need Modeler. I developed this building style before it (or anything like it) existed (at least as far as I knew). I couldn't split machines into multiple groups without doing the math myself, so I started building in a way that doesn't require doing that. And now I have no reason to change it, because it works perfectly fine

[hard ivy]

Calculators/planners for this game

[midnight ocean]

i should probably try them out at some point then

[cunning siren]

OMG, the rate for "gifting" for doggos is pretty fast! 🤔 I had no idea

[sullen gull]

Yeah yeah, no worries mate, sorry if it seemed like an attempt at convincing. Not an attempt I assure. I have been build a lot of factorys like this: #screenshots message lately. Granted, the majority of the items are just between the couple floors. But I will have a small section on the "bridge" to that spire making packages TF, and stuff like that.

[cunning siren]

8.33 minutes usually, dang

[sullen gull]

For me to try and be like "ok, this one needs 337.2 , etc. The only thing I "round" is machine count. Then just spread the clock evenly amongst and manifold away. 😏

So far, has worked everytime, all the time 🤷‍♂️

Though, by that I mean, probably a 98.9% average.. Usually only the center or outer machines (depending on how I belt in and such) are at 97% at the lowest.

[midnight ocean]

i wish there were smaller lights

[sullen gull]

I mean, there are mods that help, but yeah, in vanilla would be nice.

[midnight ocean]

i want lighting in my storage room but i dont have enough space for any of them

[sullen gull]

Though signs can be used as "lighting", it would be nice for some small actuall "light" lights lol

[sullen gull]

Use signs

[midnight ocean]

they output light?

[hard ivy]

Dw dw didn't even take it as an attempt to convince me lol

I'm just saying Tools gives me almost all the information I need to build a factory.

The only thing I'm missing is the information how many machines I can fit on one belt without overloading it (and therefore how many rows and columns of machines I need)

But even then, that is something I can calculate with the in-game calculator, so I can basically say that Tools is the only external aid I need to plan a factory 🙃

[hard ivy]

With lumen on, they do. Without, I'm not sure

[sullen gull]

#design-and-architecture message

[sullen gull]

The do, ish, not as "good" as with lumen though.

And takes some "tweaks" if you are trying to hide then for "accent" lighting. Somthing about the view angle I guess.

But, if you just place a few on the ceiling, color of your choice, they should add light when you are "in" the area.

[wanton wagon]

Any good tips / advice for someone who wants to make a beautiful factory... but feels like theyre wasting time by not progressing / building production chains?

[atomic notch]

i just turned my gamma up a bit for better lighting

[sullen gull]

There is no rush, outside of what ada says. Check #screenshots for some inspiration, and check out #design-and-architecture for all sorts of tips and tricks that people have posted.

[cunning siren]

I am as lazy as possible out of spite to ADA 😆

[atomic notch]

same dude like 300 hours havent finished elevator stuff yet

[midnight ocean]

thats great thanks

[cunning siren]

Thats right! Suck on that AI "The man" 😆

[sullen gull]

I figured I could tell ya how to just make a light, or give the 'master class' 🤣 . Figured it had been posted in #design-and-architecture before, so just used the search "in: #design-and-architecture has: video signs" 😏

[atomic notch]

you just need a plan

[twilit tinsel]

I think i need to turn my iron ingots into like plates screws and rods before shipping them its like too little stacks

[midnight ocean]

yeah ive used it to update my warehouse signs a bit too so they look a bit nicer than just the name of the item

[tacit trellis]

Don't turn them into screws before shipping because it takes up more space

[wanton wagon]

Ugh, but every time I look at how many floating rails and factories I have sitting on the map my plan is 'run away and work somewhere else' 😄

[tacit trellis]

Fr

[atomic notch]

well ur the one who put em there

[tacit trellis]

You can use the global grid by using control snapping over like regular terrain or smth I'm pretty sure

[cunning siren]

If you can enjoy what you are doing now, you do not need to regret it later or have a fear of missing out on something. Enjoy now = winning

[tacit trellis]

Yeah do what you find fun

[fervent garden]

Satisfactory is coming to console so soon?

[atomic notch]

ig

[sullen gull]

Nov 4

[atomic notch]

all the guys who stuck with console and didnt "upgrade" to pc are winning now that all the good games are indie games

[twilit tinsel]

wait should i move all of like all of the worlds bauxite to like a part of the world border and make it into aluminum

[fervent garden]

I'm so excited. Ima be dreaming about a faster way to make glass.

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/umm-ok-um-okay-hmm-wait-gif-15827095

[modern jungle]

why are there 8 random pools of blood here??

[cunning siren]

NO REASON!

NOthing to see here... move along

[sullen gull]

Less worrying about life.... not efficient.. must save the kittens.

[cunning siren]

Dang, doggo farm pays out big time! I had no idea, this will save me some coupons when I upgrade stuff at the HUB 🤔

This will also be nice for faster MAM upgrades

And resource based hard drive unlocks

And all I have to do is sell my soul to the gamba lizzards? SOLD! 😆

[fervent garden]

Can I get any tips for when I start in less than 2 months (hopefully)

Hey maybe it'll be on GamePass since satisfactory makes so much money

[zenith pecan]

Personally, I'd say try to avoid spoilers, your first playthrough won't happen again, discover, explore this wonderful world that was handcrafted for us to exploit, build, expand, screw stuff up and have a laugh, try to find your way rather than follow others, to me, this game has given me several thousand hours.

[strange vigil]

Just play the game is my only tip, don't look at building tutorials, just play it brother

[fervent garden]

So just go haywire

[sullen gull]

Nooo no no, you must first watch Josh's videos, then 3 30 minute video on how to make roads, trains, and the Bestest nuke plant!

😏

[modern jungle]

What happened 😭 😭

[strange vigil]

Absolutely send it! The messier the better, the cleaner the better, the more you want to expand and build the better

[fervent garden]

I watched let's game it out a while back.

[sullen gull]

Lol, idk where you're at 🤷‍♂️

[zenith pecan]

The very videos that got me started with this game 😄

[fervent garden]

Ima make it unnecessarily long for glass to transfer.

[strange vigil]

Don't even wait 2 months to get it, just do it now

[sullen gull]

Oh, well, psssfh, you're golden! 😏

[boreal musk]

apparently if you just click windows key twice, it will skip the intro each time you enter the game, no mod needed

[fervent garden]

I'm stuck on console

I have no PC..

[strange vigil]

That's okay! You're going to love it, don't spoil it for yourself by watching videos

[fervent garden]

Ima make a train that is just for going 200 inches

[sullen gull]

Big spender here...

[strange vigil]

Heck yeah! Station is probably longer than 200 inches but send it!

[fervent garden]

I'll make a station 200 inches from the other one

[zenith pecan]

Inches heh, I used google earth to measure the distance between where I live and my aunt in Canada, turns out that's 215,000,000 inches away 🤣

[cunning siren]

I don't see a lot of Doggos in the advanced start area 🤔

[strange vigil]

Yeah but make sure you send the train on a 50km rail loop only to end up 200 inches from the start

[fervent garden]

Oh yeah. Ofc.

Make a few jumps and all (if possible)

[strange vigil]

You can make jumps for sure, they might not land it tho

[strange vigil]

South south west, there is a lot, probably the most prime area for them

[cunning siren]

Ok, that's the noob area, maybe that's intentional as a sort of noob bonus thing and not such a thing in the forest

[boreal musk]

not really, you can find a lot of doggos in titan forest and doggo cave

[fervent garden]

We all get our own worlds right

[sullen gull]

Same world, but yes, all to yourself.

[fervent garden]

Good cause I plan on crashing my Xbox a hundred times.

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/doja-cat-star-wars-gif-25078126

[strange vigil]

if you don't. I'll be upset

[fervent garden]

I'll show videos.

Ima make a vlog.

A satisfactory OF if you will.

[sour vessel]

$100/mo ez

(per sub)

[fervent garden]

Lol. Yes.

[cunning siren]

At least this job comes with unlimited coffee at the HUB 🤷

[peak wasp]

☕ ☕ ☕

[sullen gull]

Not so snazzy to all. Some want tea! 😏

[cunning siren]

^ This guy wants a matcha late with cinnamon, coffee ain't gonna do it

[fervent garden]

Who here would watch a satisfactory OF

[sullen gull]

French with 4 shots caramel tyvm 🤣

[cunning siren]

Is there a trick to getting doggo to follow after tame?

[sullen gull]

I couldn't say. I stopped taming because I felt they were neglected in the pen all by them selves 😏

[cunning siren]

I plan on haveing slug buddies for them to play with too

[sullen gull]

I've seen videos where they get them to follow you onto a train car, the transport them to wherever lol

Afaik, they get stuck on things easily. Especially those damn nut trees lol

[cunning siren]

Yea, looks like you gotta walk them without blade runners

Good thing is they will follow you over foundations

[sullen gull]

Makes sense.

[cunning siren]

Seems like a bit of work, kind of fun

[feral geyser]

I think you should be able to zoop the ceiling conveyor mounts. They are stackable after all, just like the upright ones.

[cunning siren]

A few weeks back I learned they could stack! I was blown away 😆

I ❤️ the zoopable conveyor mounts, so handy

Pipe ones zoop too

[feral geyser]

Yeah, and I love how they interchangeably stack too, and hypertubes as well

But there is no equivalent stackable ceiling pipeline mount

[sullen gull]

I just build quick "stacks' in the blue print designer for ceiling mounts and pipe bundle arrangements. . Autoconnect is nice if you don't have to worry about upgrading belts later too.

But yes, I agree, would be nice if they zooped lol

[cunning siren]

OH so it sounds like you work around the problem of no celing mounts for pipes with blueprints?

[feral geyser]

You could do that, but ugh

[cunning siren]

I guess since now we got up and down nudge that helps

#screenshots message This foundation set loops after 7 iterations! How nice

[teal geyser]

I'm learning this now?!

[teal geyser]

Like, zooping vertically?

[vital burrow]

Any one else having issues with the cyber truck not working right?

[sullen gull]

What do you mean?

[cursive crane]

It only turns one direction by design iirc

Thats the joke

[vital burrow]

I got the cyber wagon from the ficsit shop and it only turns one way and I'm clipped threw the bottom

[cursive crane]

/wikisearch cyber+wagon

[boreal musk]

by game logic, if cybertruck isnt working that means you can turn both left snd right

[cursive crane]

!wikisearch cyber+wagon

[swift dragon]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=cyber+wagon

[heavy pine]

It's so much easier to set up a new production spot when you've got what you need waiting in drone ports across the map.

[cursive crane]

By design. Read wiki

[vital burrow]

Ok thanks for the information

[heavy pine]

Much like the real-world cybertruck, the cyber wagon is a joke. Only the one in-game is actually supposed to be funny.

[vital burrow]

Ok thought it was me I only found it by mistake any way lol

[sullen gull]

Didn't notice the with square wheels that something may be amiss? 😏

[sullen gull]

Like this: #design-and-architecture message

[vital burrow]

Well yea but thought ok might be funny driving on square wheels lol

[sullen gull]

@cunning siren same with pipes, but I am nudging wall mounts into place to make a "bundle"

[cunning siren]

Is it "just me" or is there way to "perfectly time" a slide jump chain that seems to accelerate the speed of the last one? Time to science this!

[peak wasp]

can I ask about alt recipes here?

[cunning siren]

Sadge it requires a perfectly flat surface though

[peak wasp]

whats your opinion of heavy turbo fuel?

[cunning siren]

When Heavy Turbo Fuel is Most Useful:

• When you have abundant sulfur but want to maximize oil efficiency
• When you want to process Heavy Oil Residue directly without converting it to regular fuel first
• As part of complex fuel chains where you're optimizing multiple byproducts

The choice between Heavy Turbo Fuel and Turbo Blend Fuel typically depends on whether sulfur or oil is your limiting resource

[peak wasp]

I am unsure on that there...right now I am in blue crater so not sure what will my limiting factor will be

[sullen gull]

Perfect spot

[cunning siren]

only two impure sulfur nodes there oof

[peak wasp]

I am also using another alt recipe

which is producing heavy oil

[sullen gull]

No, there is a pure, normal, and impure. Plus coal right there. Get the HOR alt, and with that, it's a pretty "simple" build. Lots of plumbing, but blueprints can be your friend.

[peak wasp]

heavy oil residue as a alt recipe

[cunning siren]

OH I keep mistaking that place for Crater Lake

[peak wasp]

HOR alt?

[sullen gull]

It's also easy enough to "upgrade" to Rocket fuel later on

[sullen gull]

This

HOR=Heavy oil residue, RIP=reinforced Iron Plates, and there are more heh

[peak wasp]

I have heavy oil residue

and am using it

also fuck yeah I got iron wire

and the recipe for iron pipes earlier today

got 10 more hard drives to work thru I went out of my way to track down hard drives for upgrades

[vestal hill]

Love iron wire

[peak wasp]

I mean who needs copper for anything more then merging it together to make more iron

[cunning siren]

Copper sheets, thats about it

And powder

[wispy sandal]

I got the alt recipe for Screws the casted one? Is it worth having my original setup now? or just cut out iron rods altogether

[peak wasp]

so I am curious if I am low on power and want more iron would it be worth it to do any of those alloy recipes

[vestal hill]

Alloy recipes are great for maximizing output from only a few veins

[shy mulch]

There are uses. Especially endgame

[peak wasp]

I figure since I am only importing iron ore right now I should be trying to get the most out of my iron empire

the big thing I am worried about is trying to get water from the bottom of the lake to my base

[vestal hill]

What tier are you at?

[peak wasp]

because the water is in the crater at the bottom and I am at the top

I am working on phase 3 so I am on phase 2

I can't wait until I get trains because then I can do fluid cars

[vestal hill]

Okay neat

[vestal hill]

So your main is in the plains then yeah?

[peak wasp]

nope I am on the void space on the way to the plains

[peak wasp]

#screenshots message

[vestal hill]

Well close enough

So what water source are you using?

[peak wasp]

honestly none at the moment

[vestal hill]

I assume you’re gonna try take from the ocean?

[peak wasp]

I have a couple of coal plants in the lake itself but otherwise I do not have a water hookup to my base

[vestal hill]

Oh that one deep lake?

[peak wasp]

wait there's a ocean on the bottom right of the map?

[peak wasp]

yeah blue crater

[vestal hill]

I mean my map knowledge is simply based off of what I’ve seen in game (only plains and the surrounding area so far) and I remember there was that ocean to the right of the void (looking from plains) so 🤷‍♂️

[cunning siren]

TIL pressing the space bar in the builder and blueprint menu activates the search features but does not for inventory depot search? Wuuut?

[cunning glade]

Yk the 7ft tall spiders really kill the vibe when ur bhop exploring and listening too music

[dense violet]

Why rebuild something if it’s already doing the job?

[dense violet]

If you’re low on power, the solution is make more power

[cunning glade]

If ur low on power u cant expand

Which is not good

[wispy sandal]

Well its just removing a step, instead of using additional constructors
Current
Iron Bars > Iron Rods > Screws
new method
Iron Bars > Screws

it also outputs the exact same amount so it SHOULD be okay

[cunning glade]

Yes but it works so why change it

[wispy sandal]

Saving power

Plus space optimisation is always nice

[cunning glade]

Are u making 200000 screws a min?

[wispy sandal]

No? I just started lmao

power is really limited resource to me rn

[cunning glade]

Then ur saving not really that much amount and not really

Well if u don't have bio mass burners ig

[wispy sandal]

space is nice

[cunning glade]

Build bigger than u need

Always

[wispy sandal]

I'm planning on rebuilding once i get to stage 3

[cunning glade]

Build bigger u think u have enough space u don't

[wispy sandal]

Until then, its all temp anyways ive been told

[cunning glade]

Everything is temporary until it's not

[dense violet]

Sure but why the effort? It’s basically no power saved and power is super easy to make

[cunning glade]

I make the starting factory automate up too smart plating get coal then explore after that's setup

[cunning glade]

Time is more important than anything else

[wispy sandal]

I've got a decent ish smart plating setup going for me

[cunning glade]

Yeah def not worth the time I start with 10 a min

[wispy sandal]

like decent is being nice

[dense violet]

And space is infinite
It sounds like youre still going up the milestones too. Don’t burn yourself out on needlessly rebuilding

[wispy sandal]

figured good practice but fairs

[cunning glade]

Verticality is goated

I don't use it enough

Mainly cuz I'm using alot of refineries rn

[wispy sandal]

Yeah I might need to stray away from this sky platform I've made and start actually building up

[cunning glade]

And they don't looke that good stacked 2 high

[wispy sandal]

Also; is a bus system bad or no

[cunning glade]

Sky platform good build down connect it too the ground and then build up

[cunning glade]

No no 🙂‍↔️

If u mean main bus

[wispy sandal]

So DONT do factorio style schenanigans?

[cunning glade]

Factorio style def not

[wispy sandal]

I c

[cunning glade]

It works in there

Because the belts move 15 items a second

This mk1 does 60 a min

[wispy sandal]

So hypothetically, if i got REALLY fast conveyors

[cunning glade]

And ore is infinite

[cunning glade]

Just not worth any of the trouble

[wispy sandal]

ah wait i'd be limited by the ore output anyway

[cunning glade]

Yes

[wispy sandal]

i see the issue

[cunning glade]

Ore is infinite

But at pre determined numbers

A min

[wispy sandal]

I can only output 120P/M per miner anyway

[cunning glade]

Mk3 oc is like 1600/m

[wispy sandal]

even the nthats barely fast enoguh for a bus

[cunning glade]

Yep it's all about making the most per node

[wispy sandal]

okay; so my entire factory plan has gone bye bye

[cunning glade]

Lol

[wispy sandal]

the great wall of conveyors is no more

[cunning glade]

I have a 120 vein so when I got splitters I have it feeding my 4 constructers for rods and plates

2 for each

[cunning glade]

U can do a bus ig with bio mass burners

[dense violet]

It’s generally more awkward and more work for no real benefit

[wispy sandal]

I figured verticality would make it easier but fairs

Btw is there a way to attach a splitter to a lift?

or a merger

[dense violet]

The throughput of converyors vs the amount you need for production is bad for busses bevause you’ll often need multiple belts of the same resource for even a modest production line

[dense violet]

I think I’ve heard of it being possible? But no idea how. Generally easier to place the splitter first

[cunning glade]

Yeah when u can transport 15 items a second it's becomes much more viable

Not saying it becomes viable just the way the belts work

Which I like the different belts

[wispy sandal]

Okay; just wasnt sure if there was some awesome shop item I've somehow missed

[tacit trellis]

Yes just put it on

Well you need to put it mid lift or like put it onto an empty outlet/inlet

[cunning glade]

It's wonky but it's possible

I'm gonna do a dab and then start making 16 hmf a min

[dense violet]

@wispy sandal you totally CAN do a bus, but you only do it bevause you think it’s fun , not bevause it’s practical

For the most part throw away whatever you did in factorio. It was based on variable resource and production with very high belt throughputs

SF has static resource extraction and item production, with low belt speeds

[cunning glade]

Both very different and I love it

There both refreshing too play cuz there different

[dense violet]

Oh and there’s no single optimal path to item production in SF

[cunning glade]

Well yeah there is explore, automate, exploit

[dense violet]

I mean going from raw resource to finished product

[cunning glade]

Yeah ik

Okay Im gonna boot the game back up

But is there a mod that truly disables autosave

Do I have too beg the devs personally for it too actually turn off

Like I turn autosave off I restart it still happens

I turn it too 2 hours it still happens every 5 mins

I think I'd be okay with 30 mins tbh but every 5 is so annoying

Can I edit it thru the files

I bet I could it's prolly where I added hdr

[swift turret]

Are you supposed to put path singal on the entrances or exits?

I keep getting rhem switched around and can never remember

[cunning glade]

From what I understand path then block

I'm no expert tho

[wispy sandal]

Well if a bus isn't actually worth doing; I may as well keep as is

[cunning glade]

Okay so u can't edit the autosave time thru the .ini

Unless it's in a weird place

[swift turret]

I thought it was path signals on entrances and block on exits or vise versa. I watched a video on it but honestly just blew over my head

[haughty haven]

From what I know, yeah, a basic rule I follow is paths on entrances, blocks on exits

[swift turret]

I see

I'll try some stuff out

[cunning glade]

Psst slight issue I wanna use satisfactory calculator but I just got a shit ton of alt recipes and it doesn't account for those is there an easy way too make it auto do it since I can import my game

Yk

NVM I'm fucking dumb

I do need 2400 screws apparently

[swift turret]

Just don't use screws

[cunning glade]

What's wrong with screws

[haughty haven]

Pretty sure you can select alt recipes in the calculator

[versed mesa]

Does anyone know where screenshots are saved from in game please?

[cunning glade]

Hit tab

Open the folder

It's in the photo mode menu

[swift turret]

They're difficult to manage

And unnecessary amount of work to setup

[cunning glade]

It also dropped me 40 buildings tho

Only need 190 now

[versed mesa]

But ive close the gane down now

[swift turret]

Buildings don't matter as much with blueprints

It's the amount of belts to manage

[cunning glade]

I should use those

[swift turret]

You're not using them?

[cunning glade]

I haven't made any know idk how tbh

I mean ik how

But like I don't think I'd make good ones

[versed mesa]

I press Tab at desktop nothing happens

[swift turret]

You don't have to make anyrhing extraordinary just make like 3 constructors with premade belts

As well as other machibes

[solar hamlet]

I'm kinda ashamed of myself... I've started this play through with the idea that I will do proper architecture... I'm about to build steel factory... And I still don't have a single building 😅

[swift turret]

Saves you a ton of time

[cunning glade]

Only 1200 screws I can split that into 3 belts quite easily

[swift turret]

That sounds unnecessary when I'm sure there's alt recipes to use no screws so you don't have to manage 3 bekts

[cunning glade]

I mean it's 47 constructers

3 belts won't be that annoying too do

[swift turret]

Are you still early in the game or farther in?

[solar hamlet]

Just reached steel. So very early game

[swift turret]

You can do whatever you want I just gave my thoughts

[swift turret]

Don't stress about it too much

[cunning siren]

What's the default key to use a hypertube junction thingy?

[cunning glade]

Fair

[swift turret]

I don't start building anything until at least jetpack

That's when it's a lot easier to manage larger scale architecture

[cunning glade]

The screws also dropped the amount of resources I need by alot

[haughty haven]

C? I think? A prompt should show up not long before you reach it showing the button

[solar hamlet]

I'm debating whether to hunt down encased pipe alt recipe... And just skip making steel altogether for it 😅

[swift turret]

Iron pipe is the best alt

[solar hamlet]

And just use steel to make beams and nothing else

[swift turret]

Encased pipe is also more recommended

Use pipes for machines and use beams for belts

[solar hamlet]

Or use steel for pipes and beams as it's better ratio and make encased pipes production somewhere else

While skipping steel.

[swift turret]

If you don't wanna use steel get iron pipe and encased pipes

You only need iron and concrete

[solar hamlet]

I have iron pipes already. And why I'm mildly interested in the encased pipes recipes. So I can split my factory and make many more beams and pipes in one. And make some encased beams with only iron and concrete some place else where it won't use up stuff 😄

[wispy sandal]

Coal is 600m from my base, would it be worth setting up a power plant there, and then pathing the power back to my base?

[solar hamlet]

But I'm down to last 6 hard drives so who knows if the research gods will be willing to give it to me 😄

[swift turret]

If you're still early in the game you likely will

[cunning siren]

E key is the hyper tube junction switch 🤷

[solar hamlet]

Basically always. No point in moving stuff if you don't have to until you get trains.

[wispy sandal]

Okay sick

[zenith fractal]

ye

[swift turret]

Regardless you get every Aly recipe in the game. There's enough hard drives for it

[zenith fractal]

my power plants are never intentionally close to any factories really

[solar hamlet]

I known. Just am at the point where I'm about to build the steel factory and the recipe didn't come in yet. So potentially waiting around for an hour before I can finish it 😄

[solar hamlet]

I had some close by on purpose. They made nice skyline when looking from the factory 😄

[wispy sandal]

is it worth investing a lot into this coal setup?

or no

[solar hamlet]

You need quite a few of them to keep you chugging along until fuel power

[swift turret]

I usually do 32 gens early game

Lasts me until fuel

[solar hamlet]

It depends how megalomaniacal you are... Some of my pre-fuel factories just consumed one 8gen array on their own

In my previous play through

[bronze oriole]

Same I usually rush through phase 1-2 and unlock fuel generators with loot from drop ships the second I reach phase 3

[solar hamlet]

I ended up supplementing my grid by researching geothermal generators and running all over the map 😄

And connecting every single one

[bronze oriole]

Well to be fair I used 4 pure iron and 1 pure copper/limestone to make all parts for space elevator and it is pretty cramped

Just modular factory atop another modular factory making space elevator parts

[wispy sandal]

Similar question, if My coal is far away, would it just be worth making my basic steel production line over there? or should I bus over a few lines of coal

[versed mesa]

#screenshots message been Busy from A to B setiing up train tracks and stations ect

[wispy sandal]

cause I'm already making a power plant near the coal so i figured it might be worth just setting up my steel production there also?

[solar hamlet]

I usually do my power and steel separate locations. As you want to use up a lot of coal for steel.

Where did you start? Because you will usually have few spots that are great for power and few that are much better for steel. (Having concrete option nearby etc.)

[gusty cradle]

is it normal that i can hear the pioneer elevator buttons no matter how far away i am (multiplayer)

[versed mesa]

Its tired me out almost setting up aload of tracks lol

[wispy sandal]

northern forest

[solar hamlet]

If you can find a pure coal node, with pure iron node and limestone nearby. (And get solid steel alt recipe) You can make a lot of steel with those.

Build the factory with T1 miner and T2 belts let it run for a bit. Then upgrade to T2 miner and T3 belts for full 240 production.

[wispy sandal]

I'm currently at a cliffside with 3 pure iron, limestone and copper; But I dont think it is enough for me do everything centralised

[solar hamlet]

Between rocky desert and the forest there is bunch of coal... I build my first ever steel there... Just had to boost the miner to 200% on coal as there is no pure nearby 😄

You don't really want to centralise anyhow.

[wispy sandal]

Yeah im figuring that out now

[solar hamlet]

Try finding Sam and unlocking dimensional depos and you can start making outposts without it slowing you down

I'm making a bunch of my stuff half the desert away in the early game because I've found enough pipes to unlock decent depos early 😄

[swift turret]

I just ended up placing them everywhere and it worked

#screenshots message

[dense violet]

not really sorry.

I'd recommend sfTools though

also, imo, Ifind it much easier to make a plan starting with base recipes, and then swap out 1 recipe at a time to see the effect on the raw resource needs

[reef basin]

Nothing, some people just build them in a weird way and then complain how bad screws are

[reef basin]

Not really true, they are super easy

[swift turret]

No they're messy and unnecessary. I've already made the mistake of making a heavy modular frame factory using screws

Hated it

[cunning siren]

New hypertube branch loop + 4 biofuel gens = 1,000+ km/h to anywhere from anywhere 🤔 seems good

[reef basin]

You build then 1:1 in front of the machines that need them

[dense violet]

especially easy with steel screws

[swift turret]

They're not 1 to 1

[reef basin]

They are if you clock them

(Or 1:2 or 2:1 or whatever works for given case)

[gusty temple]

Yeah screw management defines factories a lot more than any other solid item, but they're less of a pain to work with than like, fluids imo

With raw ores ig but that only defines where the factory starts x)

[cunning siren]

The Heavy Encased Frames alt saves a lot of screwing around if you know what I mean 😆

[nova cedar]

Anyone else having issues where their dismantle crates arent being made and are instead sending all the "extras" to the nearest crate that already exists?

[outer hatch]

That's not a bug, that's a feature? (I'm 99% sure)

[frail sleet]

screws exist to teach people that overmerging is bad 😄

[cunning siren]

Options > Gameplay > Merge Dismantle Crates

[gusty temple]

Though the feeling when you unlock a new conveyor belt and get to remove an annoying screw belt is fun

[cunning glade]

thats the plan

and i dont mind it tbh

nope thats the old one

[frail sleet]

it's easier to just never build annoying screw belts. If a recipe requires 100 screws per min and you have a 120 belt, you just put a few constructors to put ~100 screws on a belt and plug that into the Assembler.

It works for any recipe, just might need an underclock (or idling) on a few of the more obscene ones which consume more than 1 belt of screws with 1 machine

No other machines have to be involved, and involving them causes great pain

[gusty temple]

Yeah ik dw

[cunning glade]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/planners/production/index/json/{"Desc_ModularFrameHeavy_C"%3A"16.85"%2C"altRecipes"%3A["Recipe_Alternate_ModularFrameHeavy_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_BoltedFrame_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_ReinforcedIronPlate_1_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_Screw_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_Computer_1_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_CoatedCable_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_Quickwire_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_SteelPipe_Molded_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_IngotSteel_1_C"%2C"Recipe_Alternate_WetConcrete_C"%2C"Recipe_ResidualFuel_C"%2C"Recipe_ResidualPlastic_C"%2C"Recipe_ResidualRubber_C"]}

[gusty temple]

Mostly talking about cases where it takes 2 belts for 3 machines and it's convenient to replace it with 1 belt for 3 machines

[cunning glade]

thats the right one

[frail sleet]

i still think you don't get it in that case, cause it's easier for those 3 machines just to have their own screw production each

[cunning glade]

plus yeah next teir i can make it better and expand whenever needed

[gusty temple]

Takes more room in a lot of cases, and a lot of my factory get tinkered with a lot and I'd rather not fully move everything x)

[frail sleet]

can be a little more yeah but it's not much (mainly because if you needed 2.2 constructors of screws, you have to build a whole 3 and can't easily average it out)

and there's plenty of room overall. Easier to use it than to build as compact as possible; better for your CPU too

[reef basin]

I wouldn't recommend that planner for anything complex

it can't deal with byproducts, loops, or multiple recipes per item

[cunning glade]

fair it seems too work for this tho but ill take recs

[reef basin]

it does work, but the more complex the produdction line is, the more chance there is it will give you some inefficient/weird production line

[nova cedar]

DUDE THANK YOUUUUUUU this was so annoying

[cunning glade]

What do u rec then cuz there's like a million

I like that I can import the alt recipes that I have

[cunning siren]

There is also an option to pick where you put the crates too called: Dismantle Crate Placment in that same area

[reef basin]

the problem is that when you import the recipes, it force-uses them. So you may get weird production lines using recipes you didn't even want to use.

[nova cedar]

I saw that too and changed it to on site instead of at player. many thanks

[versed mesa]

Do yous think the game will get that next update?

[cunning glade]

i see

[reef basin]

what next update are we talking about?

[cunning glade]

so i should figure out which ones i actually wanna use

recipe wise then import them

[reef basin]

either that, or you can use some calculator that optimises your production and you put in recipes that you are willing to use (or after the calculator comes with a result that you don't like, you disable the recipe(s) that you don't want to see)

[versed mesa]

I always wonder when ive not owned the game long to wanting to witness my first update

[reef basin]

there will be console release "soon" if that counts as update

[versed mesa]

No an actual content update

[reef basin]

then we don't know

[cunning siren]

If one is luck enough to yoink Stitched Iron Plate and Heavy Encased Frame those remove a lot of screws 🤔 I like Copper Rotor though so that is what eats what I made for the other two mostly

[versed mesa]

@reef basin when us it releasing on consoles again ?

@cunning siren hello mate how are you ?

[cunning siren]

I'm doin'... you?

[versed mesa]

Huh you good

@cunning siren you playing the game right now ?

👌

[cunning siren]

Made a hypertube cannon blueprint that feeds 4 biofuel gens. It's a loop design, can go 1000+ km/h. That's kind of handy

[reef basin]

it's in #announcements somewhere

[fickle oriole]

sorry if this is the wrong place for this Q - just coming back to Satisfactory after a long break. Tractors used to be buggy in that they would sometimes "forget" their next stop (IIRC this happened on save/reload only?) and sit there until re-driven a bit manually. Is that bug still there?

[leaden turret]

is that before or after autopilot was fixed?

[fickle oriole]

it was when it was on autopilot. It would be trundling along and then just stop. IIRC when you looked on the map it would 'think' it was at (0,0) or some such. Getting in the thing and driving it manually and then going back to auto fixed it, once you figured out what was going on.

I don't know when autopilot was fixed, the behavior i'm describing is from last October (when I stopped playing before)

[leaden turret]

that's after autopilot was fixed, so 🤷‍♂️

[fickle oriole]

ok, ty for the response.

[stoic hearth]

so... this might be a mod or something I've missed, but I can't find answers anywhere, but my smelters seem to be 5m wide, not 6 as stated in the wiki?

8 of them next to each other take up 5 foundations, not 6...

[leaden turret]

the wiki says they're 5m wide.

some ad-laden trash fire says they're 6m wide.

[stoic hearth]

Oh, there's a better wiki?

Oh wow, that's not confusing at all

[leaden turret]

no, there's only one wiki and one ad-laden trash fire.

!wikisearch Smelter

[swift dragon]

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

[stoic hearth]

thank you!

[cunning glade]

Is it worth if I need some odd 1900 iron a min making a separate building for that plus steel that then pipes into a factory making everything

[gusty temple]

Marv isn't being super clear so to be clear : the "contemporary" wiki is the .wiki.gg one
Fandom wikis unfortunately have to deal with fandom (the company), which makes them worst everytime they figure out a way to monetize them
The .wiki.gg ones tend to have less ads (and notably are owned by the wiki.gg and its licensors)

[plain oriole]

Hello guys, I can’t access the quartz on the top left of the map, it’s like it’s underground and I see no caves entry

[leaden turret]

I thought I was quite clear in referring to fandom as an ad-laden trash fire, was I not?

[gusty temple]

It's still a wiki, and trying to say "there's only one wiki" when someone mentions it is gonna lead to confusion eventually ^^

[leaden turret]

"there's only one wiki and one ad laden trash fire" in the context of wiki.gg and fandom makes it pretty clear which is the wiki and which is the ad-laden trashfire, when the clarifying factor was the ad-laden trashfire has old data on it saying the Smelter is 1m wider than it currently is.

[gusty temple]

👍

[leaden turret]

or, to paraphrase Tom Baker.

That might be a wiki, but satisfactory.wiki.gg is the wiki, the definite article you might say.

[cursive crane]

It has become pretty universally known across all games that fandom is a corporate greed riddled dumpster fire for a multitude of reasons [google is your best friend.]

For one they refuse to take down old/deprecated wikis/information even when it has been clearly established the editors move on elsewhere.

[gusty temple]

Yep

[leaden turret]

^in case you're not familiar with the quote: #off-topic-media message

[gusty temple]

I'm not saying it doesn't suck ^^

[leaden turret]

in our particular case, they refused to handle the process correctly and had the trash-fire lying about being the official wiki for well over year after the move.

[cursive crane]

Knowing all this, i refuse to click on any fandom link even for games that have no other wiki. The further it sinks down my search pages the better

My Ark searches finally started showing the wiki.gg ones first and it amuses me

[gusty temple]

Eh, for a lot of smaller communities it's all that exist sadly

I prefer a truly community-owned service if at all possible, but you use what exists

[cursive crane]

I have no idea why most of them dont make the switch or keep starting on fandom

[gusty temple]

I think in a lot of cases it got started by someone who didn't know the issues, and momentum keeps people on it

[frail sleet]

yeah, top search result is incredibly difficult to depose

it hasn't fully happened on satisfactory despite everyone knowing about it for years, and every major community referring people to wiki gg instead of fandom

[gusty temple]

+fandom wasn't as bad ~10 years ago

Yeah it's got pretty great SEO behind the scenes too iirc

[cunning siren]

There are two entrances to that cave! And it's a biiiig cave so 🤷 you have been hinted

[plain oriole]

Thanks, it’s really not obvious at all lol

[cunning siren]

Actually 3 entrances now that I think of it

[leaden turret]

when I google satisfactory wiki, wiki.gg shows up first

[frail sleet]

yeah but for a lot of random searches like "satisfactory iron plates" it doesn't

[leaden turret]

it does for "satisfactory wiki iron plates" 😛

[frail sleet]

sure, point is that it's not unanimous

they get a lot of traffic from people searching stuff and the search results happen to be fandom #1, wikigg #2

i've clicked on them by accident countless times before i started adding "wiki gg" to every search

[gusty temple]

Fwiw search recommendations are personalised
Just took a screenshot (that I can't post because this discord's convenient) of it showing the fandom one first

[cursive crane]

#screenshots

[gusty temple]

It ain't an ingame screenshot

[cursive crane]

Then right click, [or press and hold, and copy link]

Its satisfactory related. Good enough

[gusty temple]

Yeah ik how to post a screenshot dw x)

[cursive crane]

Just dont you dare dirty my memes channel

[leaden turret]

I shall dirty it all I want 😛 #satisfactory-memes message

[gusty temple]

Posted it in #screenshots

[cursive crane]

Its ok marv I forgive you for all the other good youve done for us lol

[leaden turret]

just because it's obscure doesn't mean it's not a satisfactory meme

[cursive crane]

Low effort

[leaden turret]

this one involved actual image editing: #satisfactory-memes message

[solar hamlet]

That's why I always and highly recommended the browser plugin that redirects any fandom link to proper wikies 😄

[cursive crane]

Thats so much better

[cursive crane]

Didnt know thats a thing, thats hilarious

[leaden turret]

I think I saw duckduckgo allows one to permanently remove specific domains from search results? not sure my memory is correct on this one.

[solar hamlet]

Its very nice... As a useful fandom wiki is rarity

[gusty temple]

Eh, again
Some fandoms only have the fandom wiki, preventing yourself from seeing them is rather silly imo

[solar hamlet]

That's why I use the plugin. It redirects when there is alternative. And let's you through when it's the only one

[gusty temple]

Sounds convenient yeah, do you have a name for it ?

[solar hamlet]

Indie wiki buddy is one of the ones I remember but I might be using different one. It's been ages 😄

Since I added it

[cunning siren]

🤔 It's actually easier to run belts upside-down that it is on the ground because the celling mount conveyor poles create themselves automatically... maybe we've been doing it all wrong y'all 😆

[solar hamlet]

Pretty sure they did not do that when I played last time... But I might be remembering wrong

[cunning siren]

How nice would it be if the normal stackable conveyor poles did the same with dragging belts on top of each other

[broken valve]

Hello, im builidng phase 3 of the elevator, and now builing some factories for computers, AI limiters, circuits, cristal ocilators and heavy modular frames. Is 10 / min enough for all of them, or should i aim higher ? im struggling to see if i will need more or if its ok for now

[solar hamlet]

If it's for your personal use only. Anything will do really. If it's to be used later in production. Probably need to increase it to match that

[frail sleet]

It is, for building materials. If you're waiting on anything then go explore for drives/mercers/sloops or build more

[broken valve]

ok ok

i hoped it was enough for both the space parts and personal use

[frail sleet]

It is

since spelevator parts are a one-time cost, not continuous

[broken valve]

phase 3 reallllllyyyyyyy scale things up i see

[broken valve]

yes but i will still need these for the later stages i guess

like now, im using previous parts to create new parts

[frail sleet]

It's a lot easier to build with independancy, especially in the earlier stages

i.e. go from ore to end product for each end product, as much as is needed, not more

[broken valve]

i guess im doing this and later expanding it

ok thx

[cursive crane]

P4 and 5 scale up even more lol

Ill save you some trouble. One of the only elevator things going into the next phases you need to keep producing is versatile frameworks. Dont go crazy, but keep making them.

[broken valve]

ok ok

[cursive crane]

I made the mistake of thinking I would never need them again and deleted like 4 ind storages full and all their production. Was unpleasantly surprised

[frail sleet]

I personally think, after having a lot of experience, it's a lot easier to get trapped into making too much of something per minute than it is making too little.

1 production machine of the final output is generally pretty fine as a guide, and it's easier to make a bit of everything and then shore up any holes as-and-when they appear than it is to make way too much of everything and have 18 out of 20 factories wasted.

Buffers (storage containers) are essentially free and trivial to put down, drop a bunch (e.g. 4) industrial storage containers on the output of final items. On the belt before your desired number of storage containers, add a smart splitter that directs overflow to a sink.

Usually shortages are caused by lack of buffering, not lack of throughput. We don't use items at very high rates ON AVERAGE, but sometimes we want to spend a lot of them all at once; output buffers cover that gap, then they refill while you're off doing something else.

[cursive crane]

As long as you add overflows to sinks though its never a bad thing. Need so much for the N U T

[frail sleet]

Yeah, worst case there is delaying (not losing) sink points by having a larger output buffer. If you decide later that you want the points and not the items, it's very easy to dump into sinks.

[true mulch]

very very true, people tend to overbuild and get exhausted from it

the only time I ever ran out of something in storage was cables, due to handcrafting automated wiring

[shy mulch]

and concrete 😛

[true mulch]

the ballpark of 10/min really is entirely sufficient

[shy mulch]

whatever amount of concrete you think you need, double it then double it again

[true mulch]

I don't BP foundations, but this applies to a lot of people

[shy mulch]

Aha, yeah that'll help 😛

I had 1200/min concrete going into depots (5 depots) and still ran dry all the time. I now have 17 depots feeding concrete so it refills faster than I can stamp blueprints which is nice, never need to think about it again 😄

[cunning siren]

Dayum, y'all must be slappin' down the foundations

[frail sleet]

https://i.imgur.com/8owmvVu.png

think i started on this build in may

that's (with 5 concrete + 2 plastic recipe) 71 ISC's of concrete (thankfully it stacks to 500) with a peak consumption of over 15,000/min, but the average consumption on the world is only about 80/min (which is 1 wet concrete refinery). Because 99.5% of the time i'm not spamming the heck out of a concrete blueprint.

So.. buffers and upload capacity are critical, but the actual production numbers aren't nearly as large as you might imagine. Of course i wouldn't build just 1 refinery, but like 10 is very solidly in overkill territory so long as they're not idling due to their output buffers being full and of insufficient capacity.

[shy mulch]

I have a blueprint that uses 252 concrete, I can stamp it 8-10 times per minute when I'm working on expanding my base

[frail sleet]

I have one that is 6x6 foundations with 3 floors, so 108 foundations total, that's 756 material. And you can place it every couple of secs just running/flying in a line with blueprint build mode in front of you

[shy mulch]

That's pretty fast 😄 definitely need lots of depots to keep up with that

I love seeing big numbers. I try to build very big, but there's always someone who's gone to another level, and I love seeing that!

You've made me curious now, I'm loading my save in SCIM to see how many foundations I have 😛

[frail sleet]

Some of the craziest people don't even socialise much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNDbB_Nc2fg&t=172s

my world is just a square blob of stuff lol

[shy mulch]

Always find it funny when you see a post on facebook from a first-time-poster saying "hey guys im new here, this is my basic build, any tips?" and it's some absolute monster of a gigafactory that looks like it was designed by a professional architect

[true mulch]

you ever stumble upon a post from a chinese player and their factory looks genuinely looks like a CPU

most insane (and impressive) builds I've ever seen

[shy mulch]

not seen that but it sounds awesome, plenty builds of that kind in minecraft, doing it in satisfactory is amazing

[solar hamlet]

I've downloaded infinite zoop... So I'm always short on concrete no matter what

[shy mulch]

make more concrete and more depots 😄 there's always a way

[solar hamlet]

Since I can do 10x10 of foundations instead of just one line... I have so much more space to put down machines. 😄

I'm purposely avoiding upgrading the infinite zoop to keep myself in check 😄

[shy mulch]

I don't want to use mods, but I made a 6x6 foundation blueprint that I can place very fast, it's faster than I can do a 1x10 with normal zoop, so it's good enough for me

[solemn crystal]

Or you could look into the horizon and crash your PC

[solemn crystal]

The real question is who uses facebook 💔

[lavish lance]

🙏 i hope we get a GOG version of Satisfactory at some point.
i think this topic was talked about in the past, but with EA CSS didnt want to manage another platform.
I hope they will get around to it, ill even buy it a second time for DRM free

[shy mulch]

about 20% of the planet?

[solemn crystal]

What in the abbreviation

[solemn crystal]

Who uses facebook for satisfactory

[lavish lance]

what de hell