satisfactory

[meager fern]

"There are a total of 113 alternate recipes available. 108 are acquired via Hard Drive scanning, while five are acquired from MAM research trees." according to the wiki that was linked

[midnight ocean]

could give them to me i can always use more

[white dawn]

If you mean that you want the count of recipes available at a certain point in the game, no, I'm not aware of a place that's totalled up those numbers. The recipe pool expands as you gain access to new resources/machines, so it's kind of constantly expanding as you unlock things

And folks can unlock stuff in different orders

So having a mid-game total-available count would be difficult

[meager fern]

oh i missed the stage caveat

[white dawn]

I generally recommend just keeping up with the drive acquisition. Make sure you're exploring as you unlock stuff. :)

Once you get a "no more recipes to scan" notice you know you're keeping up with things. And that way you're also finding yourself more spheres + sloops + DNA, to boot!

I admit I often found it hard to stay motivated to go drive-seeking pre-1.0; even with the allure of alt recipes I'd often rather just be factory-building

Spheres+Sloops make exploration that much more attractive, though

[meager fern]

personally i got 60 recipes in my count. but i just used ctrl+f and typed "tier 1" etc and cycled through them

but that doesnt include the mam alt recipes, so 65 could be right

[leaden turret]

hard drive fort

[white dawn]

I stand corrected!

[meager fern]

ill probably just flush them

or put them in a tractor and drive it off the edge of the world

[feral geyser]

or just leave them in your depot or Hub chest 🤷‍♂️

[real shale]

Aw, the hub is no longer in party mode

[prime rampart]

i just made a bvig ahh screw facvtory

[prime rampart]

THANK U MY POWER AINT WIGGLY NOMORE

[meager fern]

why would you leave useless things in a chest. better to flush them

[real shale]

Screws mentioned, I'm scared

[feral geyser]

the nearest plumber is light-years away

[meager fern]

like those weird mercer spheres and somersloops. instant flush. totally useless to me

[feral geyser]

hell yeah bruv, and you got plastic and rubber storing?

[prime rampart]

uh i just got on ill do it rn

Wait uhhh u said something abt a manifold

[feral geyser]

yes

manifold the 5 rubber machine and the 5 plastic machines into one belt each

you're only gonna be making 100/100

[prime rampart]

how though

i have like this weird shape of how i transfer it

[feral geyser]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Manifold

basically, a line of mergers feeding into each other, and a main output belt out the end

[midnight ocean]

manifolds my precious

[real shale]

🍣

[prime rampart]

yea ik what manifolds are but i have conv lefts going uppp then ykyk downnn

[feral geyser]

delete em all

are your pipes on ground level?

[prime rampart]

yes thats why

[feral geyser]

snap a lift onto the output of each refinery, have them all face out and at the same height

then snap mergers onto the top of them, all pointing down a line

[prime rampart]

thats what i did

OH ok

[feral geyser]

then connect with the fastest belt you have

[meager fern]

#screenshots message this is roughly the same type of belting i use for all things

[feral geyser]

just like that, except with mergers, cuz his is an input manifold

[meager fern]

im glad they made splitters/mergers snapping onto lifts so much better. they used to be kind of a pain but now they just work

[feral geyser]

yeah, it is quite simple now

[meager fern]

it would let me snap it onto the lift, but it wouldnt actually output/input

[prime rampart]

wait could u see this

[feral geyser]

yeah, have them all face forward out of the machine, that way you can use the sides of the merger to make a line

[prime rampart]

ok

[feral geyser]

like this one

also, for future builds, i like to elevate pipes, cuz then fluid flow down into machines easier, and then i have the floor for belts or floor holes to underneath

you could point them all in toward the middle machine

then have it come out the center of the manifold

lots of different ways to do it

[midnight ocean]

i have seen someone make a water tower that pumps the water so its above all the machines and then bring it straight down so the fluids always have enough headlift

and it looks pretty cool

[feral geyser]

it is an exploit, but it is also cool

[silk ocean]

How is that an exploit?

[meager fern]

exploiting? in my factory? banned

[midnight ocean]

i wouldnt say its an exploit since it still requires pumps

[feral geyser]

you can get effectively whatever headlift you want without pumps

[feral geyser]

only to start

[silk ocean]

But if you pump it up then surely it's fair game

[midnight ocean]

oh so does it begin to syphon after?

[feral geyser]

you pump it up once, then you can dismantle the supply lines and all the pumps and still get it

[feral geyser]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Head_lift#Exploits

[silk ocean]

Syphons are a real thing after all xD

[feral geyser]

it's not technically a siphon either

[meager fern]

its witchcraft. heretics!

[white dawn]

Yeah, you can construct "water towers" in exploity ways which remove the need for pumps

You can also do it in more "legit" ways which feel less like cheating the system. :)

[feral geyser]

i started researching this a lot more since Aeryn schooled me the other day

[midnight ocean]

oh i didnt realise that i just saw them use the water tower to produce headlift in a more legit way that looks nice

[silk ocean]

It's almost pointless either way, it's not like pumps are hard to install nor do they consume much power xD

[feral geyser]

exactly

[meager fern]

there is a finite amount of power in the world. if you want to effectively use 100% of the materials in the game, you need all the power you can get

probably

[feral geyser]

eh, hardly a concern

99% of players will never reach that power cap

[midnight ocean]

yeah i cant imagine many people would exploit for 4MW except maybe some min/maxxers

[silk ocean]

If you want to be as efficient as possible you have to exploit as much as possible? XD

[feral geyser]

sounds like capitalism

[silk ocean]

The FICSIT way

[feral geyser]

we're not doing this for money....

...we're doing it for a SHITLOAD OF MONEY

[silk ocean]

And to launch some world destroyer

[feral geyser]

(no one appreciates my movie references 😢 )

[prime rampart]

NOW i eat breakfast

[prime rampart]

nyazul check screenshots

[meager fern]

i dont watch movies

[silk ocean]

Which movie is that? Doesn't ring a bell

[feral geyser]

SPACEBALLS

[meager fern]

never watched it

[silk ocean]

Oh, yeah

Old skool

[prime rampart]

how amny storage acontainers should i have nyazsul

[white dawn]

I appreciate your movie reference, I was just AFK. :)

[prime rampart]

i do

[feral geyser]

looks nice, those up-and-down belts are a bit wonky, but neat lol. one container for each should be fine for now

if you have the big ones, use those

[prime rampart]

ok

[meager fern]

oh my eyes 💀 spare them from that cruel sight

[manic topaz]

which one is more important
900/min plastic factory
or
sleep

[feral geyser]

what is sleep

[meager fern]

double it and give it to the next person

[manic topaz]

1800/min plastic factory
or
16 hours of sleep

[meager fern]

my body wont do more than like 10 hours before i just wake up

[feral geyser]

you have the rest of your life to sleep

[midnight ocean]

the first one

[prime rampart]

twins

[manic topaz]

i've never tested

[midnight ocean]

once managed to do around 26 hours
did wake up at one point to drink and then when straight back to sleep

[meager fern]

that doesnt really count then since you woke up at one point

[feral geyser]

the last time i slept like that was when i had surgery

[manic topaz]

how long did you go without sleep after that

[prime rampart]

it doesnt matter if u sleep alot u could sleep the same night

[meager fern]

the last time i got more than 10 hours of sleep, i had stayed up for 72 hours drinking monsters, rockstar, nos, and other brands of energy drinks to stay awake playing games

[midnight ocean]

i went to sleep pretty easily the next night it was just the fact that i hadnt had much sleep for the 2 weeks before hand
and the undiagnosed hypersomnia

[manic topaz]

that's lovely

[manic topaz]

the majority of the bean counters in my brain say sleep

[feral geyser]

yeah, good idea

[meager fern]

if you sleep now, you can make the 900/min plastic factory in the time that you would've slept if you did it now

or something like that, i can never actually use that logic to make myself sleep

[prime rampart]

how many screws per min do i need for phase3

[manic topaz]

0

[feral geyser]

don't do it like that

[white dawn]

Depends how many recipes you're using which require screws, and how heavily you're using those recipes

[meager fern]

between 0 and all of them

[feral geyser]

make screws at the machine that will be using them

[meager fern]

make screws in 1 dedicated factory, and have 1 billion belt lines because why did you do that

[manic topaz]

i stopped handcrafting at like phase 2 and never needed screws

[feral geyser]

you don't need screws for anything except the AWESOME shop and a few pieces of equipment

[prime rampart]

oh hell god

[manic topaz]

find harddrives
many many harddrives
Cast Screws

[feral geyser]

i didn't wanna break your heart, but yeah

[prime rampart]

i have steel screws

[meager fern]

#screenshots message my screw production before my first reinforced iron plates factory i made 4 years ago

[manic topaz]

cast screws better

[feral geyser]

oh bro, you are set then

[manic topaz]

Actually they aren't but you don't need coal

[feral geyser]

super technically, you don't need coal for steel screws either/

[prime rampart]

ok

[manic topaz]

aluminum beam

[feral geyser]

and if you use the Electrode Scrap recipe, no coal needed

but then that makes a whole other mess

[meager fern]

and if you dont use screws, no coal or steel or screws needed

[manic topaz]

you have a point

stitched iron plates and stuff i guess

[meager fern]

but ask yourself, are you feeling like balancing out the alt recipes punk?

[unkempt blade]

why wouldn't you want to use screws though? they're all the best recipes

[prime rampart]

is my 1modularframe per min good

[meager fern]

no

[feral geyser]

that's a bit slow, but it'll do for now

[manic topaz]

you need more

[feral geyser]

try to do 10-20

[manic topaz]

i had like 10/min at tier 3

[meager fern]

i have 13/min on my janky setup

and 2k saved up

[midnight ocean]

the new factory im building will produce 4/min but thats without any boosts

[manic topaz]

i forgot how good slooping was

[meager fern]

instead of getting some sloop, maybe you should get some sleep

[feral geyser]

i make, i think 90-100/min? going into heavies, then fused, then everything else from there

[manic topaz]

oh right i forgot about that

[feral geyser]

all out of aluminum (except the iron plates)

[manic topaz]

curse you satisfactory discord server for being so enticing

[feral geyser]

cuz for some reason, you CANNOT get rid of iron for plates

[meager fern]

im watching kibitz playthrough of satisfactory 1.0 and it makes it look like hell. why does he need so many machines and tens of thousands of copper powder

i kind of skipped between tier 1 and nuclear pasta

[feral geyser]

well yeah, Nuclear Pasta is why

[white dawn]

'cause pasta eats copper for breakfast, is why. :)

[feral geyser]

it needs a ton of copper

[dense violet]

different build and play styles. I wouldn't really take kibitz as a role model for building though

[unkempt blade]

you must appease the space elevator with copper sacrifices

[manic topaz]

i mean technically
converter with limestone

[meager fern]

but he's got the fancy little setups that look good and make my brain juices work

[feral geyser]

yeah... but... let's be real

you are right though

[manic topaz]

but if you want to get rid of limestone
converter with sulfur
but if you want to get rid of sulfur
converter with coal
but if you want to get rid of coal
converter with iron ore
hey wait a minute

[meager fern]

man im really glad i'll never need more than 120 limestone/minute

definetly

[feral geyser]

oh you will

[meager fern]

not if i stop playing right now i wont

[feral geyser]

i mean...

[real shale]

Me running out of concrete because my depot cannot physically keep up

[earnest oak]

i think i doing something wrong is that how big 20 modular frames should be someoone check screenshots

[feral geyser]

triple depots

[manic topaz]

now i wonder what an infinite loop of limestone into iron into sulfur into limestone looks like

[real shale]

sorry did I say depot singular

[meager fern]

i meant that looks fairly right to me

[real shale]

I meant depot plural

[earnest oak]

all that to make 1/4 parts for 4 heavy mod frames a min 😢

[feral geyser]

this is why i like Bolted Frames

[midnight ocean]

bolted frames use more raw iron for me though

[real shale]

Heavy encased frames my beloved

[meager fern]

i think that what everyone should do is make their factories out of nothing but iron. iron wire, iron for steel parts, all iron

[feral geyser]

it definitely does, but 10 assemblers becomes 4

[earnest oak]

crap ton of screws imo

[meager fern]

that sounds like a good idea to me

[manic topaz]

that could be cool

[midnight ocean]

if i have anything its space

[unkempt blade]

iron is by far the most plentiful resource in the game so you don't really need to be 100% resource efficient with it

[feral geyser]

iron has never been a limiting factor in anything i have built, it's always something else

[meager fern]

for some reason i feel like you cant make steel beams or copper sheets out of iron

[feral geyser]

that's cuz you can't

[meager fern]

i cant make copper sheets out of iron? how rude

[feral geyser]

i know, right?

[manic topaz]

i'm going to stop praising converters and go to sleep

[dense violet]

only half iron

[real shale]

Somehow you can make wire out of iron though.....don't know how that works but...it does

[dense violet]

you can make wire out of most metals

[meager fern]

can you make efficiently conductive wire out of most metals? conductivity is kind of the key

[real shale]

Iron wire is not ideal for most applications is what I'm saying

[dense violet]

most metals are conductive

magic nanite scifi tech 😛

[real shale]

NOOOO MY REALISM

[leaden turret]

insert joke about conductor's baton and magician's wand here

[meager fern]

iron wire is more for like...construction or something. you need copper or gold or whatever that quickwire caterium stuff is

[leaden turret]

builds floating platform

[meager fern]

alien gold?

[real shale]

Aaaaaaaaa

[manic topaz]

mercury wire

[meager fern]

satisfactory needs to add foundation collapsing if there isnt support every x meters, and base defense

and hunger

[stone python]

no thanks

[feral geyser]

no, no, and no

[meager fern]

okay then ill settle for a battle royale game mode

[real shale]

I love how there's a research node called "structural analysis" in the MAM as if that is ever matters in this game when people have FLOATING platforms

[silk ocean]

no no no no no no.....YES

[feral geyser]

if you wanna play a TD game, play Sanctum

[unkempt blade]

maybe thirst too so we actually have something to do with packaged water and a stamina bar that depletes as you build

[feral geyser]

and if you want hunger, play Minecraft

[manic topaz]

"Update 1.3: Added foundation collapsing"
the 1800 foundations collapsing into 17 pieces of debris each:

[silk ocean]

Killing animals is bad enough, screw hunger

[meager fern]

yes! yes! yes! oh my god 🤦‍♂️

[stone python]

killing animals is great

[real shale]

Maybe it should add more realistic power mechanics...Wait no.... resist.

[meager fern]

true

[unkempt blade]

sounds like an infinite resource hack and I'm there for it

[feral geyser]

ha, "resist" 😏

[manic topaz]

if they added hunger then they should make it so you can only get food from lizard doggos

[feral geyser]

they should not (and have already said they will not) add hunger

[meager fern]

they should make it so there is more realistic machine assembly, so you have to assemble and wire up every machine

[real shale]

I would love to have a power system that relies on maintaining an actual frequency :) if fuses blown stresses people out there, imagine that being a thing lmao

[unkempt blade]

yeah but what if we ask a 71st time?

[stone python]

would drive too many people away

[meager fern]

"Jace & Snutt have stated that base defense would be added, usually in reference to Sanctum."

[real shale]

I know I'm joking

[manic topaz]

don't take away my ability to run 13 GW through one little wire

[real shale]

LOL

[leaden turret]

I don't know, Florence & the Machine did good for Final Fantasy's soundtrack, might be good for Satisfactory's soundtrack

[stone python]

only 13 GW?

chump change

my entire world relies on a single wire transmitting 800 GW

[real shale]

Never mind the fact that the entire power system runs off generators yet is......single phase....

[leaden turret]

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don't skip context 😛

[meager fern]

i dont skip context, i just dont add the parts i dont like

trust me its a very honest and well thought out way of looking at information. if you dont like something, dont acknowledge it

[feral geyser]

i will definitely play Sanctum 2 with somebody, if anyone wants to

[real shale]

Or the fact you can run a power pole from a transmission tower without a transformer.....

Space magic ooooo

[unkempt blade]

I'm still holding my breath for them to add golf though

[meager fern]

how would autobots or decepticons help with power transmission?

[real shale]

The dimpled utility orbs....

[stone python]

id sink another 1000 hours into thw golfing if they ever added it

[real shale]

How many coupons is that worth

[silk ocean]

Even worse XD

[feral geyser]

imagine you hit a ball to edge of the green and hog comes outta nowhere 😭

[real shale]

You could hit the ball into a hypertube

[stone python]

not just any hog, an alpha roided out nuke hog

[silk ocean]

Meh xD It's a factory builder lol... I don't "mind" it but it's an inconvenience imo

[real shale]

HOLE IN ONE from across the map

[manic topaz]

3 coupons apparently

[meager fern]

you would have to sink 1 somersloop, 1 mercer sphere, and 1 nuclear pasta to unlock it

[feral geyser]

bruh 😭

[silk ocean]

Next thing you're gonna say after hunger is sleep

[feral geyser]

2 unsinkables

[silk ocean]

and thirst

[stone python]

dont forget maintaining body temp

[real shale]

what about exercise

[silk ocean]

and mental wellbeing

stress levels

[real shale]

Therapy sessions

[meager fern]

then i guess you wont be able to unlock it, unlike some of us. we have the power of will to sink what the game tells you not to. we arent sheep who just follow game rules

[feral geyser]

breaking free from your programming like in Detroit

[silk ocean]

FICSIT wouldn't want a pioneer to be wasting all day searching for food from lizard doggos, hunting down fresh water, fixing their stamina and sorting out their stress levels, it's a waste of a pioneer's resources. They would drop in a nutrient pack so the pioneer can be exploited to the maximum building machines

[feral geyser]

she wouldn't even let you talk to the staff doctors after exposure to alien artifacts, you think they're gonna pay for therapy?

[real shale]

"for food from lizard doggos" are you suggesting they are food or they are giving us the food???

[feral geyser]

if i'm ever forced to kill a doggo, i will have some choice words for the devs

[silk ocean]

It was suggested just above that the food has to come from lizard doggos xD

[meager fern]

satisfactory 1.2 Update Notes. Hunger Bar Added. Lizard Doggo Remains Added. Lizard Doggo Protein Added. Nutrient Paste from Alien Protein Added

[real shale]

I do want the coffee helmet that was in the console reveal trailer though

[midnight ocean]

i hate the whale things

[meager fern]

well maybe be a better person

[real shale]

The whale tick penguin things?

[meager fern]

the Space Giraffe Tick Penguin Things are beautfiul

[midnight ocean]

the big ones that are always in the way

[meager fern]

and should be respected

[zenith fractal]

they're factory inspectors

it's their job

[real shale]

Not very good ones if they haven't written me up for my countless violations of the factory code of best practices

[meager fern]

or you can throw 100 nobeliks on them

that also works

that reminds me, i need to setup my nobelisk farctory to begin my arms trade

i need at least 20 nobelisks a minute, and several hundred rebar

[silk ocean]

20/min is easy peasy

[meager fern]

thankfully with iron pipes i wont even need to divert my steel production

so i might go even further beyond super saiyan so i can produce all of the varities of nobelisk and rebar

[silk ocean]

Make 20 Nuke Nobelisks per minute

[nocturne orbit]

I need a bit of help with placing vertical splitters #off-topic-media message

[silk ocean]

Hard to tell from that SS exactly what's going on

[nocturne orbit]

it for some reason doesn't allign vertically

[silk ocean]

Hold CTRL ?

[nocturne orbit]

funny but if I copy lift that's already built I cannot start building it from BPs floor - it's red

but if I start a fresh one i need to nudge it horizontally for half a tile

and then it also will allign vertically

it's a weird BP

[silk ocean]

World Grid related perhaps, sometimes it can be a bit tricky like that

[nocturne orbit]

0 effect

so same problem when I begin lift from a splitter that's been placed down - it doesn't allign vertically

[silk ocean]

ultimately they are probably not snapped to the world grid somewhere, that's my only guess

[regal geode]

How you get jetpack?

[silk ocean]

Tier 5

[regal geode]

Ok

Im new i started yesterday

[silk ocean]

Welcome Pioneer 🙂

[regal geode]

:.)

[stone python]

condolences

[silk ocean]

Your spare time has now evaporated XD

[regal geode]

?

[silk ocean]

It shall all be consumed by factory building

[regal geode]

I have made a wire line, iron mine, iron plates and something more

[feral geyser]

keep up with that concrete too

[regal geode]

I did onelf that to

[teal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[feral geyser]

you'll need a lot more than one 😭

[regal geode]

I know

I took me an hour to get the space elevator

This is also the first game i played on my computer

[feral geyser]

an hour seems about usual

what did you play on before pc?

[prime rampart]

43.7hours and now starting to finish phase3 😭

does this game get any eaiser?

[feral geyser]

yes and no

[prime rampart]

did i take too long for phase 3

[feral geyser]

it gets easier in that, you know how to do things more, but it's more and more stuff as you go

[prime rampart]

alot of stuff

[feral geyser]

naw, that seems reasonable

[prime rampart]

ok good

[feral geyser]

there is no "standard" pace

[prime rampart]

after this playthrough ill speedrun the game

[feral geyser]

if you're having fun, you're doing it right

[prime rampart]

ALOT OF FUN

[nocturne orbit]

this will be my last evry blueprint to feature vertical splitter

so inconsistent to build...

and somehow it replaced single list with a weird nested series of individual lifts with old-fashing connectors....

[prime rampart]

from playing fps gamesx to satisfactory best way to transition

[midnight ocean]

is there any console commands to change time of day?

im setting up my lights and dont want to have to wait for night

[feral geyser]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Debug_console#List_of_commands

[midnight ocean]

i checked on there but didnt see any so i wanted to check if anyone knew one

[feral geyser]

there is not. Sky UI mod lets you do it though

[sterile blade]

Why look at me? I haven't done anything suspicious!
I don't do stuff like finding out first hand that Programmable Splitters have a limit on the number of filters they can handle, like... That'd be real crazy, imagine actually having a use-case for something that absurd... 🙄

I think that a good question is about to come in chat. Just a feeling

[real shale]

There should be a sale soon on steam

[feral geyser]

• Please don't beg for keys/free copies of the game.

[leaden turret]

<@&387163995947270144> person has been enquiring about getting free copies of Satisfactory since July 2024

[nocturne orbit]

oh I actually forgot there's vertical nudge now

[feral geyser]

turns out Sushi was right, there was a good question about to be asked lmao

[silk ocean]

It's not like the game is even that expensive, sensible price

[leaden turret]

if that wasn't a mod that deleted the message, mods can still see deleted messages

[nocturne orbit]

nice, I broke BPD

[leaden turret]

banana protective device?

[nocturne orbit]

after placing blueprint inside of it, it told me there's no cost, and dismounting in BP mode left some stuff that wasn't part of BP

[sterile blade]

"goodquestion" user stopped tipying about as soon as I sent my message 😭

[nocturne orbit]

that's an unsual way to say cone dome

[real shale]

Isn't a banana protective device not just the banana skin

[feral geyser]

that happened to me one time too

[feral geyser]

if you're talking about the fruit

[leaden turret]

it's a banana-shaped plastic box

[sterile blade]

The good taste is also part of it. It's the part that makes people go "no, don't just cut this tree down, it makes good stuff!"
There's like 69 papers on this

[teal geyser]

People are e-begging for the game in here? Gross

[obsidian hinge]

WHAT IS WITH THIS HIDEOUS SEAM IN THE MIDDLE OF ASPHALT TEXTURES oh my god the longer I endure this thing the more I hate hate hate it.

[real shale]

FICSIT has to make money to strand their pioneers on alien planets somehow

[sterile blade]

Often enough to have #rules specifically against it

[leaden turret]

are you saying your ASSphalt has a crack in it?

[real shale]

I mean, I'd take the seam over no z-fighting

[obsidian hinge]

How does the seam fix that, it's just an ugly texture tile

[feral geyser]

ass fault is a synonym for butt crack

[obsidian hinge]

asphalt barely had problems with z-fighting in the past anyway since the texture was pretty uniform

[real shale]

that's what I mean

[teal geyser]

Nice

[real shale]

It doesn't z-fight, it'd take it over the seam

[leaden turret]

#off-topic-media message

[steel dome]

am i being really smart or stupid here, if you can use the nuclear waste to make plutonium fuelrods and they can be used as fuel for veichles why dont you use the waste to make fuel for a drone that goes back and forth in between places to burn the fuel till gone

[nocturne orbit]

is there a way to remove empty space below blueprint?
placing it down inside BPD and nudging verticaly makes BPD ignore everything isnde that BP even without overlaping

[real shale]

Because the plutonium fuel rods are insanely efficient

[feral geyser]

none that i know of, but if you find it out, lemme know

[real shale]

It takes a LOT to burn one of those things with a drone

[nocturne orbit]

and production building behave liek they are outside of BPD - with red indicator, not blacked out

[steel dome]

yeah but if you have multiple drones

[real shale]

You will need a lot of drones

[obsidian hinge]

Has that seam "always" been on asphalt? I have no idea if I had been using some mod that removed it but I just checked on Satisfactory Q&A and someone posted a picture of the seam from U7 3 years ago.

Either way, the seam is new to me since I took a break from U8 until now

[steel dome]

if you have a lot of drones most of them wont be going because you ned to provide them with fuel and the plutoniom fuel rods take a while to make so when one is done one is burned if you time it right

[real shale]

Isn't it like 0.06 of a fuel rod per 5 minute trip?

[sterile blade]

You can further expand on the smart by testing which (of any) of those nuclear items you can throw in the sink... The results might surprise you 😉

[steel dome]

YOU CAN PUT FUEL RODS ON THE SINK????

[silk ocean]

In the toilet

[steel dome]

oh

[sterile blade]

I'm not gonna spoil the fun of research for you, I shall just give a hint :P

[steel dome]

is it the toilet....

[sterile blade]

That's a different topic. Feel free to test both xD

[steel dome]

ok ill come back

[real shale]

Oh god I wouldn't want to be that plumber being called in for a plutonium clog LOL

[silk ocean]

You can reprocess the uranium waste and sink it, but if you burn the plutonium you're stuck with the waste, unless you reprocess it again into Ficsonium

[real shale]

Problem is you can't burn ficsonium with drones

[sterile blade]

Don't offer to clean up somewhere where the Russians attempt an assassination on someone

[real shale]

:(

[feral geyser]

based on a true story

[prime rampart]

is it that hard to manage nuclear waste?

[steel dome]

i just got back happy off my head

[real shale]

Just get a doggo, load it up and kill it

[steel dome]

i didnt know there was another solution then fisconium that isnt dog slaughter

[sterile blade]

It's mainly taxing on one's mentality.
After all, building a lot of storages isn't really "hard", just tedious 😆

[silk ocean]

If you want an infinite solution with zero human intervention, just go as far as Uranium, reprocess it and sink it. or go all the way to Ficsonium

[silk ocean]

Just tap some off for the drones if you really want to run them on nuclear

Better solution to drones ---> trains 😛

[full perch]

Thinking of moving my stuff throughout scim,but what is Z in coordinate and how much I should put it as my item is below the map after moving it

[real shale]

Unless you are in the red bamboo fields

[silk ocean]

red bamboo fields was one of the easiest places I built rail

[real shale]

I would rather build drones than have to ramp my way all the way up there

[silk ocean]

Assuming you build elevated railways, just a case of blowing up a few things

[sterile blade]

Nono, here's how you actually do it:

• Check exactly how much PFR/min you make
• Check exactly how much PFR/min one drone takes
• Build exactly as many drones as needed, with routes long enough to perfectly consume all the PFR you're making
• Make sure each drone port has drones with routes that are all the exact same lengths (thus all ports require the same amount of PFR/min)
• Load-balance the PFR between all drone ports
• Enjoy a radiation-free Plutonium-droning experience

Ez-pz~

[silk ocean]

EASY™

[prime rampart]

what r deducated servers?

[real shale]

PFR/min for one drone across the map is 0.06 a trip for 5 minutes so about 0.01 PFR/min per drone

[sterile blade]

Base everything off the X-coordinate of some known object (eg: foundation your HUB is on)

[real shale]

100 minutes to burn 1 PFR a drone

[silk ocean]

They last insanely long yea

[real shale]

Gonna have to make a drone swarm

[silk ocean]

A server that multiple players can connect to at any time, always running, and can be set to run the factory 24/7 even if nobody connected

[prime rampart]

wow

[full perch]

I get the x and y coordinate,but I don't know how to deal with elevation? Etc the elevation is 100m,so how much should I put as the z number?

[feral geyser]

Basically game sessions that run continuously on a dedicated system. Players can leave and join at will with out a "host player" being online.

Oop, I was too slow

[sterile blade]

Educated servers are servers that have been educated to run the game.
Ie: a server you can connect to to play the game, that runs the game 24/7

[prime rampart]

dedicated* lmao

[feral geyser]

Deciduous servers

[real shale]

We don't talk about uneducated servers, rumours have it there's that much spaghetti you couldn't even load in anyway

[prime rampart]

does anyone use geysers?

[feral geyser]

All my homies love geysers

[real shale]

FREE ENERGY Achem I mean uh, yeah

[sterile blade]

Check the elevation of something you know (eg: foundations of your HUB or whatever you like to use a s a reference point), then move things based on that.
Eg: putting an item 20m above a certain foundation, so it will be visible above the ground in game

[prime rampart]

how do u like get them

[real shale]

Geothermal generator research in the mam

[feral geyser]

Caterium chain

[real shale]

It's.....caterium(?) research

[prime rampart]

no uh

ok its geothermal

[sterile blade]

Some murmurs say that such places don't even have any sushi

[prime rampart]

OH IT PRODUCES ENERGY

[real shale]

.........heretics, burn the place down.

[real shale]

Yep, but it does fluctuate though so keep that in mind

[feral geyser]

Yeah, and it's free, but it produces a sine wave, so sometimes high, sometimes low

[sterile blade]

Because gold chains are for earthling losers

[feral geyser]

Fuck, i'm so slow

[real shale]

SINE WAVE!!!!

As a power engineer the sine wave gives me bad thoughts

[prime rampart]

i see

im in my test world Lol

[real shale]

You can control the fluctuations with a couple methods though, but you can never truly obtain a stable maximum power from them, only their average

[sterile blade]

Flat-is-justice!

[prime rampart]

how

[real shale]

Battery storage or timing a pair with their fluctuations so they cancel out

[prime rampart]

ooo

[real shale]

Means you are guaranteed the average at least if you get a bit too close to your capacity for comfort

Not that you should ever get that close anyway

[feral geyser]

The more you add, the flatter it gets

[real shale]

Wellllll

[feral geyser]

The chance they all end up in-phase is vanishingly small

[real shale]

I must have horrible timing then

[feral geyser]

I don't think the cycle is dependent on when you build them, is it?

[real shale]

It is

[feral geyser]

Hmmm

[real shale]

That's why you can cancel the fluctuations out with a pair of them

If you time it right

[feral geyser]

I guess i never noticed that.

[real shale]

I figured theyd all be on a universal clock, but they aren't

[feral geyser]

I thought they were each on their own clock, cuz they erupt even when you don't have a gen built on them

But does this mean we could force a grid to have high amplitude spikes by making them in-phase?

[real shale]

I think that's just for aesthetics reasons but I could be wrong

Even the wiki refers to canceling them out by building them at specific intervals too

[real shale]

Probably lmao

[feral geyser]

That's disgusting, imma try it

[real shale]

Let me see how much of a difference you could end up getting

[feral geyser]

Not now though

[nocturne orbit]

conveyor lifts broke my blueprint
after disasembling in BP mode they leave weird conveyor lifts that I didn't build

[real shale]

Bare minimum is 3550 MW

Maximum is 10650

Means a maximum fluctuation of 7100 MW

For all 31 geysers on the map

[prime rampart]

how am i supposed to make 50nuclear pasta wtffffff its so hard

[sterile blade]

Handcrafting can help

[cunning glade]

chat need help

took alot of screenshots but there in .exr format

why and how fix

[sterile blade]

How about googling "what is exr format and how to convert"? ^^

This is the first time I hear of an issue like this, though, so I'd be inclined to think that if something is wrong, it's likely due to your software rather than the game itself

[cunning glade]

well i figured i could do that but how fix it doing that

the only thing i changed was exposure

and it hasnt done this before

god damm 100mb a screenshot

[cunning glade]

ah its cuz hdr

its an hdr format ig

[edgy hedge]

My Toggle HUD key is not working. Anyone any idea as to why? I've rebound it and still can't toggle the HUD

Okay, it works in photo mode

[timber plover]

i didnt play this game for a bit, been playing again and just used a nobelisk

jeeezzz that explosion almost scared me xd

[versed mesa]

👋

[midnight ocean]

is it possible to have a customisation applied when i place something down?

[sterile blade]

Eyedrop the building from something that has that customization already applied

(You can prevent eye-dropping from copying settings/colors in the game settings)

[midnight ocean]

ah thanks

[cursive phoenix]

Is there a limited amount of portable storages you can place?

[shy mulch]

Just make 1 particle accelerator that makes 0.5 per minute and wait 100 minutes

[shy mulch]

Lots of new animation updates came with 1.1

[shy mulch]

Like the personal storage boxes? Limited only by map volume and unreal engine object limit, so effectively no limit anyone is going to actually get near

[regal geode]

First space elevator phase done:D

[shy mulch]

Well done pioneer. Your performance is rated adequate. Now proceed to phase 2, and think about saving the puppies and kittens

[regal geode]

Okay!

[harsh valley]

I'm about to give the space elevator the 50 smart plating

Will i unlock coal power plants after that?

[reef basin]

play and see

[steel dome]

what do geyzers do

[harsh valley]

If no I'm going to build more biomass burners

I have 3+ 2

[cursive phoenix]

No, the alien tech one

[steel dome]

dimensional depots

[harsh valley]

And I'm gonna build 3 more if I don't get access yet

[cursive phoenix]

can trains go through wallls?

[shy mulch]

it's really best gameplay experience to just try it and learn as you go, it all becomes clear

[harsh valley]

Okie

[shy mulch]

they are limited by mercer spheres, there are approx 300 on the map and you need about 100 for research

[harsh valley]

8 more smart platings and i can finish the first phase

Also

[steel dome]

what do geyzers do

[shy mulch]

trains in my experience are happy to clip through anything

[shy mulch]

they are a power source, later in the game, you'll get there

[reef basin]

they do not repeat questions

[steel dome]

is it in caterium research

[cursive phoenix]

cus im facing a wall thats a little too high

[shy mulch]

I've calculated that a constructor at 1% clock speed should use 0.00908 MW, does the game round that up or does it actually use that exact amount of power?

[outer hatch]

I vaguely remember reading that there is a lower boundary to energy consumption.

[silk ocean]

Are you doing the 1000 constructor project at max efficiency xD

Need 10 constructors? Build 1000 @1% clockspeed xD

[shy mulch]

Hmmmm ok, for my calculation I'm gonna run on assumption that they will use 0.1 MW as that is what it shows in the game, even though that's more than 10x what it should actually use. Maybe I shouldn't clock them as low as 1%, just clock them down until they actually are using 0.1

[outer hatch]

The only way to check if it's the real value would be to underclock a generator, and then link underclock machines until the fuse goes.

[shy mulch]

Yeah might just do that 😄 ty

[outer hatch]

SCIENCE!

[shy mulch]

I've done some calculations (on paper, no less!)
My goal will be to stockpile alien remains, at full speed my system will burn through 48 alien remains per hour, I don't want to have to be constantly hunting them so I'll build up a good stock that will last a while before I turn anything on
My system will also use 20 somersloops, so I'll need to hunt for those first too
Net power generated (after subtracting power used in processing the remains) will be 2198 MW
That will be in the form of LBF, and I'll underclock the generators so they are always generating a bit less than I am using, so there is no waste and the actual usage will be less than 48/min
At the same time, I'll have a regular leaves/wood/mycelia processing system that will run as fast as it can, with an array of 10 biomass burners
Overflow SBF will be fed into a storage system with refineries that can be turned on and further process it into LBF if the alien remains system runs low on stock
Might consider slooping that part too, if I can be bothered to hunt out more sloops

[silk ocean]

I'm sure I have forgotten how to write

[shy mulch]

This will be a good opportunity for me to learn about using priority power switches, as I never used them in my main save

Quite excited about this ridiculous build, wonder if I'll have the patience to make it look nice though ......

[silk ocean]

Main difficulty retrofitting priority power switches is just down to factory design. If it's organised from the ground up I imagine not so bad

I dread the thought of having to reorganise the maze of power cables

Went down the alternative route to prio switches - powergen has guaranteed resources, lots of on-grid energy storage, large off-grid emergency battery restart building

If the factory ever trips and the energy restart is depleted then I may as well just take a giant laser and rocket and cut this entire section of land out and launch it into space and forget there ever was a factory because I ain't restarting it XD

[cunning glade]

Man I wish my brain didn't like overthink things

I wanna make factory but I need too make foundation and plan how exactly I wanna make it but my brain just says no

[silk ocean]

I usually lay foundations and then start in one corner and go from there xD

[cunning glade]

Yeah just not sure how I wanna do it I think I'm gonna train everything in from the bottom

[silk ocean]

I tend to start with a row of stations if importing yeah

[cunning glade]

Prolly what I'll do first then connect it all

What's the benefits if I use 8 cars over 4 or would it be better too use just 4

Cuz I'll be moving quite a bit of ore a min

[silk ocean]

Just a balance between the route length, the amount of station downtime there is (when unloading), the volume you need flowing and being able to extract more than that from the station while it's up and buffering it, etc. The more trains the more downtime

[fresh wing]

can a truck stop at multiple stations? it's been a hot minute since I've played this game so I've forgotten everything

[fresh iron]

yes

[fresh wing]

lovely, thnaks

[dim shell]

can someone help me out?

im a beginner im playing the game. How do i get a "constructor" and where do i find coal ores?

[fresh wing]

what tier are you at

you should be able to craft a constructor with Q under the production tab

[cunning glade]

Well I need 5 full belts of 780 of bauxite

[silk ocean]

5 x 780 ?

[cunning glade]

Ye

[silk ocean]

Could start with a train 5 long?

[cunning glade]

I like the look of 8 carts tbh

[silk ocean]

See if it can bring in enough to keep the station/buffers full

[cunning glade]

I see

[silk ocean]

The trains carry a lot

If it can get back and forth before the buffers deplete you should be good, can always add a 2nd train

or I guess do 1 x 10long train and double-up?

[cunning glade]

Ight

[silk ocean]

No right or wrong in Satisfactory 🙂

[cunning glade]

Fair enough

[silk ocean]

Each car carries 3200, so if you're burning 780 that would last just over 4 minutes, if the train can fill up and get back in that time

If I got my math right

[cunning glade]

Wouldn't matter

I have mod for faster trains cuz why not

[silk ocean]

If you're using 780 belts you'll probably want to double extract from each station and buffer it, so that you can ride the unloading process without interruption and then "catch up" when the train leaves

[cunning glade]

Not much faster I don't think but I felt like they were too slow

[cunning glade]

This is my plan

[silk ocean]

Trains are pretty fast stock, they don't hang around

[cunning glade]

I found a save with a similar factory and am taking inspiration from it

[cunning glade]

I just meant there top speed

Words are hard ig

[dim shell]

ah thanks

im at HOM4 rn, trying to get HOM5 for first drill

[silk ocean]

I already find them scary fast around corners at stock speeds XD

[fresh wing]

HOM4?

[dim shell]

what do i do rn one i get hom5? i wanna get some automations but idk how and what and where

[dim shell]

yeah the house or whatever is it called

[fresh wing]

uh the hub?

[dim shell]

i think?

[fresh wing]

does it have a space ship on the side

[dim shell]

what?

whats that supposed to mean

i need help. What do i do once i get hub5

[silk ocean]

Just keep following the instructions and progression

One step at a time, etc

Pick an item to work towards in the HAB and so forth

You're Tier 0, HUB Upgrade 5 right?

[dim shell]

yes

wait no

im at t0 h4 rn but im asking for h5 cuz i see its a big upgrade

[silk ocean]

Yea, well tackle Upgrade 4 first, you'll need those items anyway

[dim shell]

wdym upgrade 4?

[silk ocean]

In the HUB - You select your tier 0 and then you can see the milestones

[dim shell]

also the workshop like when i upgrade alot of the items then it becomes like yellow-orangeish. Can this thing overheat?

[fresh wing]

it cannot

[dim shell]

oh so its just here to scare me

[fresh wing]

YES

[silk ocean]

Just effect 🙂

[fresh wing]

if you look at the console behind that workshop, that's where you select "milestones" that's your progression

[dim shell]

this game is so fun yet so confusing...

[fresh wing]

if you select a milestone it tells you the amount of items needed to complete that milestone

[silk ocean]

It will all make sense in no time

[dim shell]

how does automation even work? do i make a long line of 300m conveyor belt from an ore place to my house?

[cunning glade]

God I can't wait too playthrough this game again but with a newbie

[south sinew]

yes

[dim shell]

like the closest copper ore is 300m away

[fresh wing]

do you have biomass burners yet?

[cunning glade]

Bring it too a place with foundation where it makes stuff

[dim shell]

burnerS? plurar? wdym by that..

[south sinew]

if you are starting out, then start out at a place with good iron, and automate iron plates first

[cunning glade]

Oh my sweet summer child

[dim shell]

i made my house next to the iron ores

[south sinew]

then a 300m 60/m belt is no problem

[fresh wing]

oh...

[dim shell]

thank god i got iron next to my house

[cunning glade]

Just keep playing

[fresh wing]

you'll get it soon

[dim shell]

am i doing good tho rn?

[shy mulch]

the tutorial really guides you through it very well, just be careful to read everything it tells you

[dim shell]

gosh i HATE making cement

[prime rampart]

how many freight can i have with one station?

[dim shell]

yippe i can get HUB5

[shy mulch]

put a miner on a limestone node, and place a constructor near it, and connect them with a conveyor belt, make sure both are powered and you're good to go

[cunning glade]

Auto mate this the second u can

[dim shell]

what does a constructor even do

[prime rampart]

oh god

[shy mulch]

constructs things?

[dim shell]

i thought i first automate iron plates no?

[shy mulch]

place it and you will see, the game explains all this as you go

[prime rampart]

I THOUGHT U AINT HELPING QNYONE QGQIN AFTER MYT TRQIN PORBVLEM

check screenshots though

[dim shell]

i need 10 more fucking cement really?

thank god i can craft it

[prime rampart]

10??

[shy mulch]

automate it with a constructor

[dim shell]

i placed it down why is it so huge

[prime rampart]

see screenshots

[dim shell]

is there any other way to power my machines other than the biomass thing?

[silk ocean]

Constructors are smol

Teeny

[dim shell]

im talking abt the drill

[shy mulch]

make more biomass burners

[brittle widget]

Hi All, I have a problem (Blueprints) but dont really know the best place to post it. The questions and help section has something that might be the same issue but the person posted it 5 separate times with no screen shots so I am afraid if I post it there I will get in trouble or it will get ignored 😅 Is there anywhere else to ask for quick opinions on what could be causing the issue?

[prime rampart]

u get coal power after dw

[dim shell]

dude theres only 1 bviomass burner

[shy mulch]

build more...

[prime rampart]

build

[prime rampart]

stop ghosting me>:

[dim shell]

ay my iron drill is working

whats a blown fuse

[silk ocean]

Initially, until you get more advanced power, you'll be doing a lot of biomass runs to keep those burners stocked

[limpid cairn]

When you consume too much energy and your fuse melts

[dim shell]

guys i got a question after the drill do i place a constructor or a furnace?

[prime rampart]

smelter

[dim shell]

i have connected them

[slender quest]

You'll likely post pictures, so either post your question here, screenshot in #screenshots and wait, or make a post in #1038092680493801533.

[dim shell]

how much leaves am i gonna need...

[silk ocean]

Depends how quickly you progress, quite a lot

[dim shell]

i got a question why my drill isnt giving the ores to the furnace

[silk ocean]

Connect it with a conveor belt

[cunning glade]

Yes

[prime rampart]

connect them with convy

[dim shell]

like when i was placing the furnace to the drill i made sure the input and output "holes" are next to each other and there was even an arrow

[slender quest]

Also power everything.

[cunning glade]

When u are running around u should be holding e too get leaves and wood

[dim shell]

yeah ik

[brittle widget]

Thanks, If here is fine I will start here and move on to the other two if no luck.

[dim shell]

how do i connect

the conveyor belt and the furnace

[brittle widget]

#screenshots message

So I have built multiple blueprints to form an item and personal elevator to make vertical transport of items look cool but no matter what I do, it has a gap. I have tried with auto connect on and off and I have tried default mode and blueprint but all have the gap, it is smaller on default though. The gap is too small for nudging to work as it causes clipping instead. Has anyone experianced this or know what might be causing it? 🙁

[silk ocean]

Maybe watch a satisfactory starting tutorial video on YT

[dim shell]

or maybe i can get an answer 😭

[silk ocean]

Take the belt in hand, click the output of the miner, route it to the smelter's input

[dim shell]

ah thanks

[silk ocean]

You can route it how you like, e.g. can clickclick to create intermediate posts

[slender quest]

So, those are walls on foundation, right?

[silk ocean]

Click once and then you can raise/lower it, click again to drop it down

[dim shell]

so i got an automatic farm of iron ingots. What do i do now?

[prime rampart]

see the objective

[dim shell]

"Finish upgrading HUB 6"

[brittle widget]

The blueprints were made without foundations, snapping purely to the blueprint designer (all three levels (Bottom, middle and top), the bottom is now placed on foundations though

[dim shell]

i think ill try to automatize cement

[silk ocean]

Best to get in the habit of automating everything

[dim shell]

so i got 140 copper ingots like 140 iron ingots and about 42 cement

does placing conveyor belts require iron wires or iron plates?

[harsh valley]

How much water does one coal plant consume

[silk ocean]

45

[dim shell]

oh yeah it requires both

[harsh valley]

45m³/m?

[slender quest]

Hmm, never seen that before.
What's your original plan? Put the bottom, then middle a few times, then top?

[harsh valley]

And one pump produces 400m³/min?

[slender quest]

Pump makes like 120 with no overclocking. 3 pumps are good for 8 coal plants, check the Wiki for setup.

[dim shell]

is the thing to make cement called "calcium"? since i play in another language

[slender quest]

In the game? Limestone.

[brittle widget]

Depending on the height yeah. I actually made a smaller design on the mk 2 blueprint maker and decided to make a new one to fit the personal elevator into it and when I was testing now I noticed the gap. Here is a screen shot when I use normal mode, the gap is smaller but still there and easily spotable when multiple are placed and seen from a slight distance: #screenshots message

I can send screen shots of the designs in the blueprint designer if it helps?

[dim shell]

ah but if i say calcium are you guys gonna know what i mean?

[silk ocean]

If you interact with the Coal Generator it tells you bottom left (as do most/all machines)

[slender quest]

No, standard term here is Limestone.

[dim shell]

dang so i cant say calcium? 😔

[silk ocean]

It's Limestone not Calcium xD

[dim shell]

ill try to stick to limestone

im doing a cement farm rn

[silk ocean]

Might technically contain calcium carbonate as one of its constituents but not pure calcium as far as I'm aware, that's a different thing xD

[dim shell]

i made a looong conveyor belt from the nearest limestone to my constructor inbase

[slender quest]

Maybe switch to zooping stuff, and make a bug report on the site. Though maybe there's someone experienced enough with building that can help you later of you make a post in #1038092680493801533 , not sure.

[dim shell]

ohhh biomass burner is HUB6

gotcha ill go get it rn

anything to automatize the fucking cement

also when will i unlock coal power plants? i want my factory fully automatic

[rustic hare]

next phase

[dim shell]

and whens a "next phase"?

[slender quest]

After space elevator + loading something in it.

[dim shell]

wtf is a space elevator

[rustic hare]

complete space elevator project assembly

[dim shell]

tbh i dont see why people are annoyed by the concept of biomass burners they arent that bad

[prime rampart]

guys i found this blueprint that lets me place crudeoil anywhere

does any1 use this?

[rustic hare]

the thing that has an animation you cannot miss, and it allows you to advance phases

[silk ocean]

It's the delivery mechanism to complete the main phases of the time, sends the manufactured components up to orbit

[dim shell]

anyways i got hub6

THERES NO WAY THAT ENTIRE PART WAS A TUTORIAL

[slender quest]

Kinda long yea

[silk ocean]

Tier 0,1,2 are kinda the learning/tutorial tiers

[rustic hare]

until you have to fuel a 50GW network, yeah.. it's only suitable short term and in small scales

[dim shell]

i think that ill try to unlcok the terrain research or whatever it is in english

i REALLY need the map unlocked tbf

[slender quest]

Field research, yes, it's great?

[brittle widget]

Thanks, I have posted in Questions and help and I will open a ticket to be safe 🫡

[dim shell]

another type of biofuel in level 2? interesting

i brb

[slender quest]

Yeah, solid biofuel is basically the best biofuel for a long while.

[dim shell]

also do leaves and wood regrow?

[silk ocean]

Nop

[dim shell]

whats a beryl peanut or whatever tf is it

[rustic hare]

food, to heal (edible ofc)

[dim shell]

and an "blue electric slug"??

[silk ocean]

They grow around the place and can be picked, and those do regrow

As long as you don't destroy them entirely

[rustic hare]

unlock the MAM, research it there

[dim shell]

i brb

[harsh valley]

I'm not playing rn

Im doing the math

[slender quest]

Yeah, you can put some items in the MAM that you unlock in Field Research, after that you'll know more stuff.

[harsh valley]

What to bring

[neat owl]

Hey guys, what should I go into first in tier 4?

(In the hub.)

[shy mulch]

I typically either do all the milestones in order, or if I'm trying to go quickly I will focus first on ones that unlock space elevator parts

[neat owl]

Ok.

[dim shell]

im back

i got a question. Do i input leaves like normally into the biomass burners, or do i turn them into biomass (leaves) and use the biomass instead?

[slender quest]

Biomass is more efficient, and solid biofuel (unlocked later) is even better.

[dim shell]

yes

is there a more effective way to distripute energy other than making a burner for each machine?

[shy mulch]

power poles

[silk ocean]

Yes use cables and power poles

[shy mulch]

it's important to read the menus and look at what each thing does

[dim shell]

how do i use it tho? do i put all biofuel burners to 1 power pole and 1 power pole to all machines?

[dense violet]

many power poles

often 1 power pole per machine

[dim shell]

whats the point of power poles then if i can directly power a machine with a burner?

[dense violet]

because a burner can power more than one machine

[hard ivy]

because a single machine doesn't take all 30 MW a burner can generate?

[dense violet]

look at the numbers

[slender quest]

Then you'll have to run around later, putting fuel in each machine.

[dim shell]

im like so confused rn

[dense violet]

ok a bio burner makes 30mw max, that means you can have like 6 smelters right? why make a bio burner for each when you can just put power poles in front?

[heavy anvil]

hook every burner onto 1 interconnected network, that way they burn as needed more efficiently

[dim shell]

does that mean i can use 1 biofuel for 6 machines?

[heavy anvil]

depends on power draw but yes

[dense violet]

"because a burner can power more than one machine"

[heavy anvil]

an assembler pulls 15 mw so only 2 of them

satisfactory is a math game

[dim shell]

how do i disconnect a wire from a biofuel burner?

[heavy anvil]

decontrust the wire with F

[slender quest]

F to dismantle.

[dim shell]

ah thanks

couldnt i technically connect all burners into 1 pole tho?

and the pole to every single machine?

[slender quest]

Connection limit of 4.

[heavy anvil]

yes

[dense violet]

no, look at the power pole when you connect things

[shy mulch]

There is icons in the bottom corner of your screen that tell you what keys to press

[dense violet]

it'll tell you how many slots you have

you really need to pay attention to objects and what they do more

[dim shell]

does the pole have a connection limit of 4? that means i can only use 2 burners and power 2 machines?

[heavy anvil]

no because they network

[dense violet]

connect a power pole to another power pole. You get more connections

[hard ivy]

you can connect a pole to a pole

[dim shell]

so i can do 3 burners to 1 pole and the 4th connection to another pole?

[heavy anvil]

yes

[dim shell]

now THAT makes sense

[pearl flare]

when I remove some blueprints from the blueprints menu, they dont always get deleted without quitting to menu first, is this normal?

[dim shell]

does the poles have a connection range limit?

[dense violet]

yes

[heavy anvil]

yes its about 300 yards ish

[dense violet]

and before you ask, some distance. Play with it

[hard ivy]

100m

[dense violet]

it's sa lot less than 300m

might be 80?

[dim shell]

as i said earlier this game is so fun yet so confusing

[heavy anvil]

idk i suck at distances i feel like its longer than a football field

[slender quest]

At this point, I measure the distance in cable units required to connect power poles.

[dense violet]

80m is 10 foundations

[dim shell]

wait how do i use a biofuel burner? since its different than those attached to home?

[dense violet]

same

[dim shell]

it has a weird input tho

[dense violet]

a conveyor belt, you can use that too.

[heavy anvil]

a tool like https://satisfactory-logistics.xyz/factories can help you plan out how many of each machine/power/resource you will need in order to fully automate a product

[dense violet]

please just play around with things. You're in the pre tutorial. You'll figure it out much faster than asking a ton of questions because it'll take yo ua couple seconds of poking

[unkempt blade]

You may just want to find some youtube guides or something. A lot of your questions are explained in-game

[dim shell]

oh okay thanks

[dense violet]

just play with things, read tool tips and descriptions, look at your menus and build menus. Everything you need is there

[dim shell]

will do :)

OH MY GOD ITS ALL WORKING

[slender quest]

Enjoy

[dim shell]

i just have to add some containers and im good asf

[heavy anvil]

wait till you discover the joys of fluid mechanics

[dim shell]

i have to delete my constructor sincei placed it in like the worst place possible

now i just need a fully automatic copper

#screenshots message guys

[silk ocean]

You're getting the hang, keep at it

Gets more fun imo once you get past the biomass burner phase of the game

[neat owl]

Why are people on at this time?

Is it because it's sunday?

[silk ocean]

13:45... SHOCKING TIME xD

[neat owl]

It's 7:44 AM

[true mulch]

so you know how there's timezones

[neat owl]

Bruh

yes

Obviously

I was askin people in U.S time

[silk ocean]

I was up at 6am today, 07:44 doesn't seem unusual to me

[true mulch]

you asked "Why are people on at this time?", there's nothing about the US in your question

and even if, yeah

[neat owl]

SAME BUT STILL

[silk ocean]

In fact I was playing Satisfactory around 07:10

[neat owl]

6:06 for me

I was on that thing like a hyper tube from LGIO's game.

[elfin stump]

True it does before it doesn’t I always get stuck when I have to do phase 2 elevator rip

[neat owl]

YOU STARTED PHASE 2?

[elfin stump]

Only once in early access

Made it past

[neat owl]

No, I mean like, you put stuff in there.

[silk ocean]

In what way stuck?

[dense violet]

it's not even 11pm, not a weird time

[neat owl]

you said talk circles to you

[dense violet]

that's a sphere. F-

[silk ocean]

I wouldn't say any time on the 24-hour clock is a weird/strange time to play video games. I play at any hour

[limpid cairn]

We are employed

[silk ocean]

Can't sleep at 4am? Fire it up

[neat owl]

I fixed it

[dim shell]

im back. Do i make a copper farm now?

[elfin stump]

Automation of the versatile framework mainly seems to always go wrong with that large

[obtuse rock]

hello

[dense violet]

that's a dog. F--

[silk ocean]

It does start to get more involved yea

[neat owl]

Can anybody explain how to get out from under a conveyer belt mixed with ground?

I'm stuck.

[silk ocean]

Delete it?

[oak sorrel]

how did satis didnt get copyright for the cybertruck?

[neat owl]

And the respawn doesn't work

[dim shell]

no cuz what if the other conveyor belts will cry cuz this one is gone

[neat owl]

and my builder won't dismantale

[obtuse rock]

i have a question, the nitrogen gas need the pumps like liquids?

[silk rose]

no

[neat owl]

And I just fell through the floor by dismantling it.

At least the respawn works now

[silk rose]

esc -> respawn

[neat owl]

I JUST SAID IT DIDN'T WORK

[silk rose]

you said it too late

[silk ocean]

Just reconnect it afterwards

[neat owl]

THAT WAS THE SECOND THING I SAID

[silk ocean]

I was actually replying to ACookieGodFan anyways

[dense violet]

satire overides copyright

[oak sorrel]

wdym xdddd'

[silk rose]

stop raging at people who try to help you

[dim shell]

it was an obvious satire jesus christ 😭

[oak sorrel]

nah that shh got the worst graphics ive seen

[dim shell]

yes yes the game has a mechanic where conveyor belts can cry

[neat owl]

It was a joke calm down

[obtuse rock]

is anybody good at sorting out conveyors and stuff?

[dense violet]

like what stuff?

[obtuse rock]

look at #screenshots

[silk rose]

caps lock is ban'able joke

[dense violet]

delete everything, redo it. You're welcome

[neat owl]

It wasn't caps lock

[obtuse rock]

uhm

[neat owl]

i was holding down shift

[obtuse rock]

i don't think it can be done at this point

[dense violet]

it'll take longer to try to figure out what everything is doing , than just redoing it

[silk rose]

you will fix your issue yourself

[dense violet]

you haven't even built on foundations

[obtuse rock]

nope

i had some issue with foundations

[neat owl]

IT WAS A JO-

[dense violet]

that's your other problem. You're also welcome

[obtuse rock]

every time i tried to build on foundations my buildings glitched

now idk if there is still the bug

[dense violet]

never heard of the bug. That's the first thing you should figure out. WDYM by 'glitched'?

[obtuse rock]

they will just randomly disappear

but it was lot of months ago

[dense violet]

try building on foundations now

[obtuse rock]

i got back on satisfactory couple of days ago

now looks like it's ok

[silk rose]

happens rarely to me, fixes itself

[dense violet]

it's semi imposible to have anything like tidy belts w/o foundations.

[obtuse rock]

welp, it's hard now that i play alone on this world :3

[dense violet]

go around and mass dismantle 🙂 it's fast enough

[obtuse rock]

but everything will fall on the ground

[dense violet]

?

[obtuse rock]

i mean, all the items

[dense violet]

?

[obtuse rock]

will go in crates, it's going to be a very long job

[dense violet]

dismantled items go in your inventory .

[unkempt blade]

just keep some inventory space open as you dismantle...

[silk rose]

unless its full

[dense violet]

I'm sorry, are you actually wanting to fix things or just enjoying complaining?

[obtuse rock]

8 slots avaiable :3

[dense violet]

like if you just want to complain that's fine, but I don't want to spend my time trying to push you to do very small steps

ok well if you can't figure out how to empty your inventory I wish you luck

[obtuse rock]

i just asked...

[unkempt blade]

then build a storage box and dump your inventory and go back to dismantling

[obtuse rock]

no need to be so passive aggressive

[dense violet]

I'm not being passive or aggressive. I'm pointing out you're wasting my time time by going 'it'll fall on the ground because inventory full'

because I fully believe you are clever enough to figure out how to solve that issue

the solution is in the complaint. Don't have a full inventory

[obtuse rock]

sorry for wasting your precious time m'lord now if you excuse me 🙄

[dense violet]

well it's like you, someone who knows how to walk, asking me to explain how you put your next foot forward to take a step

[outer hatch]

While the way CoD said it was... questionable, the core of the opinion is still valid.
Inventory management is a core skill to this game, and is a prerequisite to doing all the rest.

[dense violet]

Assuming you know how to walk obviously. Apologies if you're in fact incapable.

[dim shell]

my satisfactory started to lag all of a sudden once i placed a single power pole. Why?

oh nvm it stopped

[unkempt blade]

yeah... there does seem to be a recent surge of people who can't or won't listen to in-game help and then come here basically asking people to play the game for them

if you can type the same question into google as you do into discord and it gives you the right answer....

[outer hatch]

True. But I prefer gentle ribbing to ... ahem, more forceful ways.

[dim shell]

why is the space elevator so expensive...

[dense violet]

some people just like to complain about a thing. Cause they're tired. Or just ugh about the concept, or just about for any reason and they sound like they are looking for help but really just want to complain.

Which is fine. But I'll help if help is needed. Not to be an ear for complaint.

[outer hatch]

I've worked tech support. I totally understand the frustration.

[silk rose]

sometimes its more interesting to discuss stuff in chat, but its never a question like how do i dismantle my factory

[dim shell]

ayy i finally did my copper farm jesus christ making a 200m conveyor belt was not fun 😭

now i have automatized iron, cement and copper.

[outer hatch]

By the same token, I do prefer to cynically manipulate people into being helped rather than butting heads. But it's a(n acquired) skill 😛

[dense violet]

eh, not nearly enough brain to do that atm

I'll tend to smarm at them until they deal with themselves

but no brain for that either

[outer hatch]

Again, understandable. In that case, disengaging is good too. (Or as the Xenoblade tutorial would put it "Running away is a valid tactic!")

[unkempt blade]

yeah I work with a lot of junior engineers and there's an understanding that you've at least glanced at the docs or used a search engine before you turn it into a Slack conversation

in the case of games - there's a wiki and most really basic questions are answered there if the ingame help isn't enough for someone

[dense violet]

which is why I wished them luck 😛

[dim shell]

Hello guys. I automatized iron, copper and cement. Do i max out all of the weird researches in level 1 then move on to level 2?

[unkempt blade]

you should do whatever makes you happy

[silk rose]

you mean unlock stuff on tier 1?

[dim shell]

i think?

[silk rose]

all the researches are for good

[dim shell]

like the thing that unlocks you the map for example

[silk rose]

useful

[dim shell]

okay i just need to make some copper wires then i can get terrrain research

[dense violet]

also build the MAM machine and research those things too. Very important

[silk rose]

yes, make beginner factory, dont forget to explore the world

[dim shell]

is the MAM machine a usage for the electric slugs?

[dense violet]

well that's where you research slugs yes

[silk rose]

you can research them in that thing

mam is cool