satisfactory

[leaden turret]

what flavour fruit is boombox, and where are you getting the sugar required to make jams?

[safe adder]

Nuclear bombs, maybe...

[unkempt blade]

I don't think I get this joke but mine is raspberry

oh I see, now I get it

[leaden turret]

boombox jams 🍞🫙

[safe adder]

Haha funny

[unkempt blade]

I must need more coffee to get breakfast jokes

[leaden turret]

I believe the correct answer to the question of "what flavour fruit is boombox" the answer is "beets"

[prime crane]

bacon flavour. bacon sugar. bacon jam🔥

[safe adder]

Coffee is for the weak

[fresh finch]

any1 wanna see my tubo fuel power plant:)

[safe adder]

Beets ain't fruit 🤓

[wheat yew]

they can be if you try hard enough 🤓

[unkempt blade]

Rocket fuel goes in my ingame mug but alas my IRL organs can't handle that much power

[leaden turret]

are you saying boomboxes don't have flavourful beets?

[safe adder]

I don't want beets to be fruit

[safe adder]

I am saying boomboxes cannot have beets if the boombox is fruit flavoured

So the boombox must be vegetable flavoured

[wheat yew]

well I do so I'm veto'ing your veto

[leaden turret]

if boombox is in vegitative state, must be low-fi beets to relax to

[safe adder]

Sure, I can live with that

If lizzard doggo's were pokemon what would be their signature move?

[unkempt blade]

I desperately need something like a snare drum or slide whistle emoji but I'll have to settle for jacefaces I guess

[leaden turret]

🥁💿

[leaden turret]

nightmare fuel: ||harden||

[safe adder]

Would you put lizzard doggo at the same level as bidoof or magikarp?

Magikarp being utterly pointless and bidoof being the most powerful pokemon ever to exist

[leaden turret]

🤔

swap pokemon rusty bidoof for lizard doggo

[fierce glen]

Am I the only one keeping a fruit in my arm slot so I hold it when I build or explore and stuff cause it makes everything feel cooler

[zinc topaz]

how mutch turbofuel do i need per minute to satisfy 30000mv on fuel gens?

[fierce glen]

Get a pen and a paper and calculate

[zinc topaz]

k

[fierce glen]

[unkempt blade]

which fruit feels the coolest for exploration and building?

[fierce glen]

The pink berry

Makes dune desert feel alive

[unkempt blade]

I basically just swing the basher nonstop when I'm exploring but I may have to try your fruit strategy for building

[safe adder]

Beets

[unkempt blade]

my brain has been poisoned by tv because it immediately goes "Beets Bears Battlestar Galacticarts"

[safe adder]

I think beets should be made illegal

Because no one actually thinks beets taste nice

[unkempt blade]

Yeah they should only be turned into inhalers the way Ficsit intended

[prime crane]

are beets the one in the shell

i bet they taste bitter ash

[safe adder]

Beets are real world vegetables 🥀

[prime crane]

bruh

[safe adder]

About right yeah

[prime crane]

i deadass thought it was the a fruit from the game with the name from the vegetable😭

beetroot the only word i knew💔

[unkempt blade]

yeah you're thinking beryl nuts probably 😄

[prime crane]

oh yeah

man my brain is fried

[safe adder]

Beryl nuts probably taste like nuts

[marble crow]

I just fell from my tower, and landed without parachute

I'm still invincible after rejoining the game

Wth

[solemn relic]

how can i check why my train station is unreachable

[unkempt blade]

make sure the station is facing the right way + trace the path and check the signals along the way

[surreal meteor]

To me, they kind of taste like pickles but a lot more fruity

[safe adder]

Impossible becus beets are no fruit 😡

[unkempt blade]

they look like pistachios but the color is cursed so I assume they'd taste great but melt my insides

[cunning glade]

Man pure copper is good

Since i need alot of copper and iron going forward how worth is making a big factory with them

As with pure for both I can make quite a lot

[solemn relic]

ive checked all these things but my train still wont run, any idea why?

[real shale]

Beets by Dre

[leaden turret]

and grapefruit is no grape

[unkempt blade]

Sorry that's all I'd normally check for that issue. At that point I'd normally just rebuild sections of track until it works if I didn't find issues

if you post to #1038092680493801533 you could add screenshots and describe what you want your setup to do and someone might be able to help

[prime crane]

do you have a train at both ends of your train?

[solemn relic]

yes i do

[marble crow]

I'm digging fricking uranium manually with no protection

[prime crane]

ah.. i had this issue too. make sure your train stations are both facing outside. like the curved part at the top to be outside

[safe adder]

And strawberry is no berry or a straw

The world is full of lies

[mossy moon]

what about lizzard doggos

[leaden turret]

if you can make smoothies from them, is possibly a fruit

[mossy moon]

fascinating

[marble crow]

Oh my god, i died finally! (I think i tripped over)

[leaden turret]

Rabbit à l'orange

[safe adder]

Vegetables can be in smoothies aswell but that doesn't make them a fruit

[leaden turret]

🍅

[marble crow]

I'm taking damage! Finally

[eternal swallow]

the colision box for the power towers is asymetrical 😭

[safe adder]

Tomato is a fruit 😭

[leaden turret]

Boom box jam is tomato flavour

[unkempt blade]

perfect for a smoothie before I go play with trains!

[safe adder]

Have y'all never learned your fruits and vegetables

[unkempt blade]

of course I have, I name all my tamed lizard doggos after them

[broken cosmos]

for some reason even not in an inventory or anything my mouse can escape the screen and it's making the game kind of unplayable, online there doesn't really seem to be any resolution other than "the game doesn't have a mouse lock setting", has anyone else experienced this/is there anything i can do

[real shale]

Is mayonnaise an instrument...

[shy mulch]

I think there's 'full screen' and 'full screen window' as separate modes. Try messing with that

[broken cosmos]

already have, neither works

[shy mulch]

I'm not sure, but I am certain that whiskey is a taco

[foggy olive]

Hey, im just now getting into trains and for some reason they wont load the product. It is powered and set to load

[uncut river]

They should make an achievement for masochists that requires them to finish the game without ever blowing a fuse.

[silver mountain]

youd have to connect hardrives to ur main powergrid, that would be horrible

[uncut river]

thats the point

[silver mountain]

yes

[uncut river]

👍

[hard ivy]

you could just use an APA

[silver mountain]

this is what i do, but when you destroy it doesnt it break the mini power grid you made

ill go test it

[prime jasper]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I just unlocked Ionized fuel and it looks like it is only meant for jetpack.

It is probably awesome to fly around with so much power strapped to your back. But for raw energy productions it looks worse than rocket fuel.

Like when I compare how much energy goes into power shard crafting compared to how much more a Ionized fuel give compared to a rocket fuel... Rocket fuel looks like the winner to feed fuel generator.

Or maybe there is some alternate recipe or something that can change that?

I haven't considered the dark ion fuel since I haven't unlocked it but it could be a game changer.

[limpid cairn]

It’s indeed worse than rocket fuel and only good for drones etc

[hard ivy]

nope, ionized is dogshit for generators

unless you're trying to sink power shards I guess

[thin plover]

Hello everyone, im new to satsfactory and was wondering if anyone could kinda teach me a bit

[silver mountain]

i tested it, deleting the apa does not crash a grid once you remove the harddrivwe

[silk ocean]

Welcome, What do you want to know more xD

[thin plover]

how to balance and set up my factories for maximum crafting

[silver mountain]

MANIOFOLDS"

hold on

[thin plover]

yeah but i dont know how to make manifolds, i somewhat know how to load balamce

[silver mountain]

ill show u

[silk ocean]

If you're dealing with manifolds and you need help. I think you are doing OK

[thin plover]

its just weird with the math balancing

it gets confusing

[silk ocean]

I think you are doing fine

[thin plover]

with two or three smelters or crafters coming of as node its easy but then i over clock and it gets weird

[rigid glen]

I just built a small fuel depot for a specific reason and now I'm immediately making it a small turbofuel factory sigh welcome to Satisfactory

[thin plover]

@silver mountain are those smelters?

[silver mountain]

yes but it can be done with any machine

[rigid urchin]

Heyo! Tune into the stream to watch me and my buddy finished phase 3 for the first time!
|| Building the new and insane new MEGA factory||
https://www.twitch.tv/wheelrimow

[thin plover]

ahh okay

i also dont know how the assemblers should be structured

[silver mountain]

and then you can do mergers in the same way to collect all the output

[silver mountain]

ill shwo you

[thin plover]

because my reinforced iron plates are really slow to craft

@silver mountain that makes a ton more sense, Thank you

[silver mountain]

np

my pleasure

[reef basin]

manifold:

--S--S--S--S
  |  |  |  |

easy

[reef basin]

#streams-and-videos

[halcyon locust]

sooooo... anyone know why tier 2 on the milestones is just kinda... blinking at me? its just fading in and out for some reason as if there's something i havent done, even though i completed it

[thin plover]

that makes sense now

[fierce glen]

Funny how there is always stuff to do in this game even if the goal is to automate everything

[fresh finch]

@burnt cliff where did u make your power plant?

[marble crow]

I turned on Snake Eater, when i was trying to get What a Thrill achievement, and i got it almost by the end of the song!

[lucid flicker]

im currently working on a huge coal plant, got 24 coal gens rn (1800) for early game

[modest solstice]

Someone should make a Titanfall 2-style wallrunning mod

[lucid flicker]

the water extractors will be a pain to say the least

[modest solstice]

i recommend dividing them up

also slugs are great

[modest solstice]

If you overclock to 225% you get 270/m, match that with mk.3 belts at 270/m you get 18 generators fed by 1 belt and 3 pipes

So you can make groups of 6 generators

made a diagram then forogt i cant paste lmao

[modest solstice]

#screenshots message

[lucid flicker]

hmm

interesting, but i don't have much power shards so unfortunately that won't work

im using 24 coal generators, 3 overclocked coal miners, and 9 water extractors

im building at the lake

[modest solstice]

They're not hard to find especially with hypertube cannons, remember you can ||2x the output with sloops||

(v minor story spoiler)

[lucid flicker]

look in #screenshots for where im building it, but that was a pic of my old setup, i have a new one

[modest solstice]

Snaketree forest (northwest of Green Fields) or Crater Lake (east of Rocky Desert?)

ah, snaketree

[lucid flicker]

snaketree forest northwest

yup its pretty good for earlygame coal setup

[modest solstice]

(i imagine you're pretty new?)

[lucid flicker]

not really

[burnt cliff]

tis almost time to set my coal plant to the backburner and pretty much just use it to maintain the bigger plants
#screenshots message

[lucid flicker]

its just a restart i got to tier 5 in my last run

[modest solstice]

Awh hell yeah

[lucid flicker]

but i restarted since the world was full of mods and well im not trying to do a big modplay

[modest solstice]

I keep meaning to get in a run with someone online but I never seem to get past phase 2

[lucid flicker]

do you got a server

and if so, wanna play together i also been looking for someone to play with

[modest solstice]

dedicated? nah, but i might be able to try...? just got bell internet and not sure if it's cgnat yet

[burnt cliff]

honestly, im doing a run right now with @hard rune and were just about to automate Modular Engines and ACU's and break into phase 4

[modest solstice]

i have a project i'm kinda locked in atm though

non-gaming related

[modest solstice]

what time zone you in?

[lucid flicker]

how are you doing a run with other ppl

and uh central time

US

[modest solstice]

(Non-dedicated servers exist but it requires one person to have their client open)

[modest solstice]

So uh 1:30 rn?

[lucid flicker]

oh

correct

[modest solstice]

Alright coolio i'm in EST (2:30)

Might be cool to start up a save actually

I should probably finish locking in this weekend though xD need to log 5 hours before the end of the weekend

[lucid flicker]

uh so you can explain a bit more on how to do a run with another player without a dedicated server

[chilly tide]

where would I share game suggestions?

[lucid flicker]

ub #open-a-ticket

in*, you can contact a moderator to suggest im guessing

[reef basin]

no, don't do either of those

[lucid flicker]

oh

[chilly tide]

what should i do then?

[reef basin]

#open-a-ticket is for discord-related tickets
moderators are there to moderate discord

[lucid flicker]

Oh my apologies

[reef basin]

QA site is for bugs and suggestions

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

You can send Questions, Feedback, Suggestions, and Bug Reports
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com
<3 @reef basin

[chilly tide]

Thanks

[reef basin]

(it's also in #welcome , which I assume you read 😛 )

[chilly tide]

ummm yea

[modest solstice]

Uh it just goes through Steam/Epic

[terse kindle]

theres no downside to overclocking generators right?

since they dont eat power

[modest solstice]

Not really, but I don't recommend overclocking the generators themselves

[meager cypress]

when are they gonna add gay build mode smh

[modest solstice]

Doesn't save much and power shards are still kinda rare

its called curve

no straight lines

[terse kindle]

I slooped all my slugs into cells and have over 3000

[shy hawk]

hi

looking for work

[silver mountain]

Will adding multiple locomotives to a train with one freight car make a speedy train?

[lucid flicker]

guys, when i try to build pipes next to eachother, it snaps to the other pipe, how do i fix this?

[silver mountain]

build the other pipe out past and keep going, or place the pipe support before placing the pipe

[hard ivy]

trains are capped at 120 km/h regardless (unless going down a slope ofc)

[silver mountain]

but more locomotives means more acceleration which means more consistent 120kph?

[lucid flicker]

guys, im using 9 water extractors for 24 coal generators, but im struggling with the water distribution, bc i only have mk1 pipe, which can contain 300m squared of water, so the water pipes are uneven, i want to distribute the 9 water extractors (1080 water) evenly between 4 pipes, does anyone know how i can do this

[reef basin]

build in modules of 3 extractors to 8 gens

don't try to connect it together, there's no reason to do so

[silver mountain]

manifold the pipes and the plug in your next waterpipe whenever you dont have enough also works

[reef basin]

generally you want pipes to be as simple as possible and not connect them all to a single big setup

[wise junco]

I'm having some decision paralysis

I just need someone to tell me it's okay to stitch together a factory that I won't ever rebuild to get through Phase 3

and that there's so many resources on the map I'd never need to rebuild

[shy mulch]

Almost everything you build in phase 3 will likely be mostly irrelevant by the time you're doing phase 5, unless you're going mega scale

[modest solstice]

Like I said, 1 225% extractor to 6 gens

[lucid flicker]

can't overclock

• don't got mk2 pipes

[modest solstice]

That's 270/m

no need for mk.2

[lucid flicker]

hmm

[modest solstice]

I promise this is the easiest way to do it, the time getting shards is worth it

Remember you can sloop dupe them

[shy mulch]

There is plenty resource nodes, you can abandon your phase 3 stuff and build different stuff for phase 4 and phase 5. The scale you're building at right now will barely make a dent in late game stuff

[lucid flicker]

kk

do you got tips for finding them

[wise junco]

thank you, I knew the things and also needed someone to kiss me on the forehead and tell me it's okay

[modest solstice]

do you have hypertubes unlocked?

[lucid flicker]

not yet

since i was using biomass which only made 240 mw

[modest solstice]

alr, then you can just jump around

[lucid flicker]

but i ran out of power

kk

do you know where theres a lot of them, like a specific place

[modest solstice]

uh

can't post images sec

[shy mulch]

If you want spoilers just look them up on SCIM

[modest solstice]

That too

Don't forget the object scanner exists

the range is surprisingly good

[lucid flicker]

ok ty guys

gonna start looking

[modest solstice]

Honestly you can get tons if you just run around enough

Don't forget your ladders and your concrete

[lucid flicker]

the thing im nervous about is weapons

best i curently got is xeno basher and rebar gun

[modest solstice]

the basher is plenty

There's not really any stingers up there

[lucid flicker]

yeah but i struggled with a alpha hog

[modest solstice]

Just jump away from 'em lmao

Get a parachute if you don't have it

[outer musk]

Where are crashlogs located (game keeps crashing and wanna send log for help)

[modest solstice]

You can just hover and your range will be extended, you can pick em up and scoot out of there before they attack you

[lucid flicker]

got no jetpack- but ill try running

[modest solstice]

Also remember you can turn keep inventory on without AGS now

[lucid flicker]

kk

[modest solstice]

Parachutes are REALLY good

Also you can do the wall climb thing with them

[lucid flicker]

i dont got mycelia yet

[modest solstice]

Super easy to get it

There's this one clump of them ||in the north end of the northern forest on that ridge||

||Right near a somersloop on the cliff edge, it's got like 300 if you use the chainsaw 3 times||

[reef basin]

it's perfectly fine to play the whole game without ever rebuilding a factory

[modest solstice]

and you don't have to remove old ones

you can just cut em off

[reef basin]

or keep them

[wise junco]

I made the mistake of trying to rush though, not fully automate in previous playthroughs. Now I'm being overly meticulous and it's hindering progress

[reef basin]

no reason to rush either. If you need something, automate it, unless you know you'll never need it again

handcrafting is practically waste of time

[wise junco]

I agree. I also have been playing a lot more with blueprints this playthrough. I slept hard on them before

[outer musk]

I was building my main facrory through blurpeints but my game started crashing while building it :/

I also slept on them tho. super helpfull

[wise junco]

for real... like I'm able to set up factories that would take hours in like 15 minutes, and still be incredibly organized and MORE consistent

[mortal ginkgo]

nothing technically can be hindered since there is no time limit and resources are unlimited.

just enjoy it in your own speed really

[outer musk]

oon another note does anyone know how to locate crash logs?

[mortal ginkgo]

it is important to properly automate stuff as they are demanded more and more in later stages

[wise junco]

that's what I'm trying to do. I've been sitting here like "am I going to make enough modular engines?" and it's like shut up.. I can make more later

JBTDF...just build the damn factory

[reef basin]

yeah, only automate what you need now, ignore future

[mortal ginkgo]

You can make more later. Just make a bit that you need.

Dont worry about the future where there is no harm about.

[wise junco]

sad part is you guys are giving me the same exact advice I've given others... just hard to see it in the thick of things lol

[mortal ginkgo]

you can go through the whole game with 4 modular frame assemblers, 4 rotor assemblers etc like easily

[clever cloak]

hello we are 3 person 2 of us playing from steam and one of us playing from epic which session type should we choose

[echo mulch]

Has anyone had/experience a bug where you can't select/join a dedicated server when using a controller to play the game??

[silk rose]

#satisfactory-memes message
can somebody explain please the heck is that

[lucid flicker]

i dont even know whats going on

[amber heath]

Are all the node puritys the same for each node in every world? Like if i have a pure coal node 800m from spawn, will every world have that?

[wise junco]

correct

[true mulch]

Yes, there's one handmade world

[amber heath]

Okay cool

Thank you

[outer hatch]

Yes :
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67ed9af96b7c573196362e97
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67f6c6f26b7c57319636596c
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/6822e4766b7c57319637a43e

[outer hatch]

I would explain, but I'm at a loss for words.

[silver mountain]

whenever im jetpacking and it autosaves i get launched into the air

[steady cedar]

The game freezes slightly so probably why

[silver mountain]

makes sense

not the worst problem to have

[cunning glade]

Chat late game is making a factory for ingots bad

Cuz like with pure recipes u get alot for just some water and ore

[silver mountain]

if its a big enough factory I think its fine

[cunning glade]

And in the future I don't really wanna deal with water in every factory

[hard ivy]

you can use leached instead lol

[reef basin]

No reason to have ingots as a final product tbh

[silver mountain]

these guys r smarter than me, listen to them

[cunning glade]

Why?

[hard ivy]

because it's a terrible idea

[cunning glade]

But leached seems worse pure isn't that bad

Only 3k ore makes almost 6k ingots

Plus the idea of an ingot factory sounds fun

[limpid cairn]

leached is better than pure

[hard ivy]

if you don't want to deal with water, the only other options you have are alloy, basic and tempered

[hard ivy]

depends

[limpid cairn]

its literally better, theres no depends

it has higher output thats all that matters

[hard ivy]

I literally never care about output per machine

why would I when I can just build more if it's slow

[limpid cairn]

it has higher output per ore iirc

[hard ivy]

one leached recipe does, the other doesn't, third I don't remember. so also depends

[cunning glade]

I don't mind water at all

But the pure from my understanding is better in every way cuz iron plus copper for iron is dumb

When I want copper and iron

[limpid cairn]

leached :
catherium = 0.667 per ore
copper = 2.44 pre ore
iron = 2 per ore

pure:
catherium = 0.5
copper = 2.5
iron = 1.85

[cunning glade]

Oh leached is sulfur

Even more so kinda dislike then

I was thinking of alloy

[limpid cairn]

@hard ivy fck your right it really depends kind of?

[lone vortex]

Hello guys, i have a little problem and i hope someone could help me becouse i'm stuck.
I have an iron miner mk 2 what generates 600 iron i smelt it and i want / have to split it to 360-120-120 how can i do it?

[cunning glade]

2 MK2 belts and a mark 4?

[lone vortex]

yes

[cunning glade]

Mark 4 moves more but eventually it will work

[reef basin]

One splitter

[lone vortex]

how? (sorry i'm kinda a new player)

i dont know how to place the splitters and mergers together to make the spilt. 600=360 120 120

[cunning glade]

Legit one splitter on ur main line

On each side use a MK2 belts

[lone vortex]

ohh

[cunning glade]

Ur main belt would then be 360

[lucid flicker]

hi

[lone vortex]

i wanted to overcomplicated

Thank you so much!

[reef basin]

The splitter will self-balance

[cunning glade]

So it seems pure and leached are good

Leached would be tempting for copper

[reef basin]

If a machine needs 120/min, it will only accept 120/min when full

[cunning glade]

But for iron I wanna do pure tbh

Really don't wanna have too deal with Sulfur on a super large scale

Idk maybe it's not too bad

But tools recommends pure

Okay I legit can't get it too use leached

I have too disable every other ingot recipe

[rare thunder]

i feel like my game looks off

[cunning glade]

It only saves 200 ore

For 600 sulfur

[zenith fractal]

I find leached to not be very useful when you have access to pure recipes

[hard ivy]

leached caterium is not terrible because it actually saves a not insignificant amount of caterium, but the other 2 are completely useless imo

[cunning glade]

I agree

[gaunt pasture]

who wanna play a new world with me

[cunning glade]

It wanted be too use converters before using leached

[white dawn]

Yeah, most of the Leached recipes are awfully niche.

[cunning glade]

I don't even have converters

[white dawn]

Like if you really do need that bit of extra production and would have to otherwise cart in extra ore from elsewhere, and you happen to have some sulfur free, and you don't want to use that sulfur for something else, they could be handy

[cunning glade]

Check DMS but also #1201555265942724758

[white dawn]

It's hard to think of many situations where Leached Iron in particular would be too desireable, though

Even "omg max X!!" megaproject stuff typically never actually exhausts the map's iron

[analog venture]

How good are water geysters for making something like pure ingots? Are the ratios worth it to try or better to just use water pumps?

[white dawn]

I mean, any water source works

[analog venture]

I've never used the water geysers

[zenith fractal]

I don't really mind geysers

[white dawn]

They're no better or worse than water extractors (well, per-per-minute power cost, they're more expensive. So I suppose that they're technically worse from that angle)

[zenith fractal]

just more energy to extract the water

[white dawn]

Yeah

[zenith fractal]

but still a water source

[white dawn]

Water's water, in the end. If whatever your water source is can support the extraction rate you need, it doesn't matter where it comes from

And by the time you get to resource well pressurizers, hopefully you're at a stage where you can just Not Worry About Power Ever Again. :)

So the power difference should ideally be a nonissue

(Granted, possibly you're looking to use resource wells in your late-game power setups, but still. Once that's running you probably won't care)

[severe sun]

can the space elevator still be moved after placing it down?

[silver mountain]

delete it place it again

[white dawn]

Yep; both your HUB and the elevator can be dismantled + rebuilt without losing any progress

[severe sun]

thanks

[white dawn]

(And MAMs, though that might be more obvious since you can make a bunch of them)

[silver mountain]

is all movement in the physics engine frame based but because some types of movement dont have a cap hypertube canons allow you to travel at insane speeds?

[cunning glade]

I had too disable every option possible for it too use leached iron in tools lmao

[cursive phoenix]

I reached phase 4 a little ago. I feel so overwhelmed, especially with nuclear power n stuff

[silver mountain]

yes

and aluminum, and all the everything and stuff and yes

if you need help with anything lmk

[cunning glade]

How so?

Take it one step at a time

Don't think about things that u aren't currently doing

And if u need too plan for something to do list

[silver mountain]

w

[cunning glade]

Aluminum wasn't that hard tbh

So idk how the rest will go but I'm definitely not overwhelmed even tho I think super far ahead and tend too overwhelm myself

[silver mountain]

phase 4 is where shit really steps up tho

[cursive phoenix]

Im planning on building a huuuge aluminum factory. I have put up all the trains i need rn. Idk how to calculate how many wagons i need tho

[silver mountain]

goes from combining stuff to combining everything youve done ever

[cunning glade]

I did 2 engines 8 cars

With 2 industrial storage containers

[cursive phoenix]

How much bauxite did u use

[zenith fractal]

phase 4 is the biggest jump in difficulty in the game

[cunning glade]

As buffer and 3900 a min

2600 coal

[cursive phoenix]

Yeah had that feeling

[cunning glade]

1300 or 1500 Sulfur

[cursive phoenix]

I think ill make a diff track for coal

[cursive phoenix]

What do u use sulfur for?

[zenith fractal]

instant ssccrap

[cunning glade]

Yes one train station per resource

I used instant scrap

[cursive phoenix]

I got the sloppy alumina and the pure aluminum ingot

[cunning glade]

Tier list wise it's bad but I liked it

I do instant into pure

[zenith fractal]

personally i did that too for simplicity

but yeah, one factory at a time.

[cunning glade]

I did 9 stations in total

Wait no 8

Idk tbh

[cursive phoenix]

😫

[cunning glade]

I'll post the layout in #screenshots

For the machines even tho diff recipes

But I did 4 for bauxite 1 for coal and sulfur I think I'm not home so I can't verify

So maybe less I'd have too check tbh

HDR kinda fucks the screenshot

[zenith fractal]

I advise to not look at the phase 4 requirements for a while

just look at the next more complicated product

and automate it

repeat this until you can start looking at the phase 4 requirements

[cunning glade]

Yeah like I said one step at a time

Aluminum is my first goal then fixing all of my factorys cuz I have mk3 miners and mk5 belts

[jovial rock]

silly question .. if you die while laying nobelisks to clear a biome, is there a way to clear them or do you just have to live with them floating everywhere for the rest of the game ...

[cursive phoenix]

As usual

[cursive phoenix]

#streams-and-videos message

[cunning glade]

Wym

Just blow them up?

[jovial rock]

the ones I layed before death are just floating everywhere

[cunning glade]

I've blown them up after death

[cursive phoenix]

What are those top right, never seen those machines

[cunning glade]

I love this

[cunning glade]

Blenders

[cursive phoenix]

Me too

[cursive phoenix]

What sre u using them for

[cunning glade]

That's me after getting phase 4 and seeing I know non of the parts

[cursive phoenix]

Dont u only need coal n bauxite? With alternate recipes

[cunning glade]

Too make the instant scrap

[limpid cairn]

🤮

[cursive phoenix]

Real

[cunning glade]

Coal bauxite sulfuric acid and water

[cunning glade]

Why? Like I said tier wise it's bad but I liked it

Used less resources and was easy

[cursive phoenix]

Aint it
Refinery>bauxit + water = sloppy aluminum and water
Refinery > sloppy aluminum + coal = scraps
Smelter> pure aluminum ingots?

[cunning glade]

This is instant scrap

[cursive phoenix]

oh

[cunning glade]

Then u make it into pure ingots

[zenith fractal]

goodquestion is using the instant scrap recipe which you can get after you unlock blenders

[cunning glade]

Yeah ig blenders u have too get first

[cursive phoenix]

Is it worth it?

[cunning glade]

I like it

[zenith fractal]

personally

no, adds complexity

[cunning glade]

But on the tier list it's bad apparently

[cursive phoenix]

😆 its an endless cycle, i want more powers but i need blender too make more fuel so i cant make more power now because otherwise i need to rebuilf it

[zenith fractal]

also I do not like using any sulfur or quartz due to them being somewhat scarce

[cunning glade]

Not really I mean maybe but I used like a lot less bauxite and stuff

[cursive phoenix]

Thats why i grined for sloppy aluminum and pure aluminum ingot

[cunning glade]

And sulfur isn't that scares I only used 2 sulfur nodes for it

In total I'm only using 10 or 11 nodes

[cursive phoenix]

I wanna keep my sulfur for turbo fuel
When i get blenders

[cunning glade]

There's plenty of sulfur

[zenith fractal]

or later rocketfuel

[cunning glade]

Plus late game u get converters

[cursive phoenix]

Dunno when u get that

[zenith fractal]

blenders and the MAM

[cunning glade]

There's 10k sulfur on the map

[cursive phoenix]

Ive seen it dont u need like something late game ish

[cunning glade]

I'm only using ⅒ of what's on the map for 3900 ingots a min

[zenith fractal]

you just need fuel, sulfur, coal, and nitrogen gas for it. al things you can get in phase 4.

[cursive phoenix]

What do u guys recommend, bring all fuel to one place or make smaller fuel factories

[cursive phoenix]

Dont have the pressurizer yet but soon.

[zenith fractal]

I always make power generators where everything is

to make it

so I have a bunch spread out

[cursive phoenix]

Bannana man does indeed have a plan

I never realized how mich power trains take up if u have allot of freight cars😭

In total max 10k mwh

[cunning glade]

Power hasn't been an issue for me

After I got oil unlocked I made a 31gw factory

And have been fine since

Gonna do geothermal gens and then nuclear

[silver mountain]

no

[cunning glade]

Should be fine for power tbh

[limpid cairn]

thats barely enough to run a fully slopped particle accelerator at 250%, good job!

[silver mountain]

geothermal sucks

[cunning glade]

One machine can use 31gw?

[silver mountain]

26000

[cunning glade]

Geo thermal is free power

[cursive phoenix]

How much mw is that?... cus im makinh 30k mw rn💔

[cunning glade]

IDC if it sucks

[silver mountain]

yes but it generates no power

[cursive phoenix]

Real

[zenith fractal]

geothermal is only for padding your energy supply. you can place it on a thing and it's free. every little bit helps

[cursive phoenix]

For me its like 2-4k so i mean its aight

[silver mountain]

dman i thought it was less

it is alright

[cursive phoenix]

Ive placed a few around the map yeah one pure node can go from 200-600mw

[silver mountain]

oh i thought u meant 2-4k per

[cursive phoenix]

Noooo

I got two of those alien power augmenters. + 6000mw for free🤩

[silver mountain]

those r good

[cursive phoenix]

Fr huge

[silver mountain]

i am capable of making ten lol

i dont need them

[cursive phoenix]

Why not

[silver mountain]

42000 from turbo fuel, nuclear soon hopefully

[cursive phoenix]

42000mw?

Thats not allot is it?

[silver mountain]

its enough

[cursive phoenix]

Aight guess im close enough

[silver mountain]

my max consumption is 30k rn

[cursive phoenix]

Damn

[silver mountain]

but im only using 11k

[cursive phoenix]

Max power cons is like 25k but im using 9k lol

All of those old factories i dont use anymore😄

I got 110hrs at the start of phase 4 lol

In 2-3 weeks

Im so confused

[lucid flicker]

ok guys, coal setup is finished

i just manifolded lol cuz im not load balancing pipes

to my surprise it is actually working

[cunning glade]

I mean a free 4-6gw isn't gonna hurt

[cursive phoenix]

😂😂

[cursive phoenix]

How much mw

[lucid flicker]

im still hooking the cables up

but im bouta see

[unkempt blade]

I feel seen and I also love insta scrap!

[lucid flicker]

ight so its making 1040 mw, and its with 24 coal gens, 100% load i belive

[peak wasp]

so question

[lucid flicker]

no more biomass 🎊

[peak wasp]

is being a basic bitch acceptable here?

[cunning glade]

Wym

[lucid flicker]

excuse me...

[cunning glade]

Real

[peak wasp]

because those basic iron ingot recipes are great...call me a basic bitch because I love em

[cunning glade]

Congrats now go explore for 2 hours🔫

[lucid flicker]

bet

well uh ig ill start making a modular frame setup then steel

[cunning glade]

Get all of the drives and stuff u can

[lucid flicker]

oh yeah also that

[cunning glade]

No if u have coal and smart plating go explore

[peak wasp]

25 iron ore a minute and 40 stone a minute

[lucid flicker]

got no smart plating

i did manual crafting before lol for phase 1

[cunning glade]

Even still id explore

[lucid flicker]

💩 ok

[cunning glade]

That's what I mean

[peak wasp]

that said maybe I should skip straight to the refinery iron recipes?

[lucid flicker]

kk ty

[cunning glade]

Ur past phase 1

Get all of the hard drives u can

Very helpful

[unkempt blade]

sorry it's fall now so we only allow pumpkin spice ingots until ficsmas starts

[cunning glade]

Especially before frames and steal

[lucid flicker]

do you know why the capacity of my power is fluctuating

[peak wasp]

well fuck

[lucid flicker]

between 1,965 to 2,040

[cunning glade]

Machines turn on and off

[lucid flicker]

no not consumption, power

like uh capacity

[cunning glade]

Biomass

[lucid flicker]

evaluate?

[cunning glade]

If u have some left that's my guess could be the burners in the hub

[lucid flicker]

this is only coal

[hard ivy]

gens turning on and off or trains regen braking

[cunning glade]

They're fine for rn

[lucid flicker]

not fuel generators or anything

[lucid flicker]

oh ok

[cunning glade]

They just got coal unlocked

[lucid flicker]

lol

[cunning glade]

U don't need alot too start

[peak wasp]

so if I have both recipes what should I be using?

[lucid flicker]

kk got it

thanks so much

[peak wasp]

the water based refinery recipes or the basic recipes that use stone?

[cunning glade]

I've told them explore for the next 2 hours so

Ik that's why I told them too explore lol

[lucid flicker]

so far i been playing 15 hours

💩 idk whhy im so late

[peak wasp]

and would the alloy recipes net me more resources then doing the ores seperately?

[cunning glade]

Everyone plays at there own pace don't rush have fun

[lucid flicker]

true

[cunning glade]

Rushing is how u get ugly factorys

[lucid flicker]

kk

[cunning glade]

U can't?

[lucid flicker]

i wanna fix my pipes bc their ugly but my whole grid will shut down

[unkempt blade]

I really like the pure (refinery) ones once I have some extra power to work with

[cunning glade]

Bring stuff for foundations and storage containers if ur going exploring

Also focus quartz

[lucid flicker]

for hardedrives?

if they need power

[peak wasp]

I have no factory at the moment

[cunning glade]

Get those blade runners

[peak wasp]

I am trying to figure out logistics

[unkempt blade]

the answer to all logistical problems is factory carts so save your tickets for the awesome shop

[peak wasp]

This sounds like some kind of joke

[unkempt blade]

I would never joke about something as amazing as factory carts

did you know factory carts are faster than sprinting with blade runners?

[peak wasp]

Basically I am trying to make my belt systems work

The problem with belts is the item speed

[neon summit]

Its so annoying how many coal nodes are in the desert compared to how much water is there.

[peak wasp]

Because yeah I can process all these ores...but fuck if I can get all these ingots onto belts afterwards

[unkempt blade]

manually the way nature intended for us to feed truck stations

[cunning siren]

No water in a desert you say? 😆 Intresting

[peak wasp]

Like seriously getting the right amount of ingots to the right location's is fucking dumb

[unkempt blade]

sure it did, they evolved from tractors

[peak wasp]

I mean dumb as in stupidly hard to get right

[neon summit]

Yes I know but the dunes were calling

[versed mesa]

Hello all

[peak wasp]

Because say I wanna make a factory that puts out nothing but motors or steel bars

[versed mesa]

Earlier I had gotten alternative turbo fuel

[lucid flicker]

water towers W for coal setup

[unkempt blade]

what part are you having trouble with?

[peak wasp]

Basically when I create ingots I have a level 4 belt going in...but I have more ingots going out

I only have the mk4 belts right now...how the frick does that work

[unkempt blade]

ahh, yeah you'd just need to math it out and split it into multiple output belts

[jovial rock]

anyway to get rid of these floaters?

[cunning glade]

Don't really ever see a need for them and I dislike them cuz they're an exploit

[peak wasp]

And it's not like the foundry has multiple outputs either

[lucid flicker]

they are?

[cunning glade]

Technically yeah

[lucid flicker]

Well i don't really think so because they bring water up right?

[jovial rock]

sorry pic wont post. I gpt nobelisks floating everywhere that will not blow up

[lucid flicker]

But then the water flows down fast, like irl physics

[peak wasp]

So you have level 4 inputs going in but more coming out

[cunning glade]

Some people see them as it and others don't personally I do

[cunning siren]

Both the coal and the water are on the outer edges of the start location in that area. Besides the north center coal nodes they are very close to each other as most all coal nodes are very close to water

[lucid flicker]

oh well i respect your opinion

[cunning glade]

Ye no hate for using them I just don't see the point

[neon summit]

I am aware, just finding it annoying the biome with LEAST water has the MOST coal

[peak wasp]

So what would be the point of that? I'd get just the same amount ores and probably for the higher power cost

[cunning glade]

I mean balance wise makes sense

[peak wasp]

These alt recipes seem very useless because your belts limit you so much

[versed mesa]

Alternative turbo fuel need compacted coal and heavy oil Resin

[silver mountain]

i think its fine considering coal power is not used for very long so you dont need too much of it

[lucid flicker]

btw do you know how to curve foundations

[unkempt blade]

don't underclock, just send half (or however many) on output belt A and the rest on output belt B and use them for different stuff

[peak wasp]

So I'm curious of another idea I had though

[versed mesa]

I do now just about lol

[peak wasp]

Would smart splitters work for balancing belts

[cunning glade]

What's the max ore a min a miner can produce

[versed mesa]

Yes

[cunning glade]

Mk3 like 250% overclock

[hard ivy]

Belts are rarely the issue

[hard ivy]

1200

[peak wasp]

Like once a belt has too much resources on it you can use the overflow feature to dump iron onto a less occupied belt

[unkempt blade]

why not? does he have more than double the input quantity coming out?

[neon summit]

Currently working on a «starter» base to postpone the grind that is phase 2 completion, and I kinda scaled everything to the max so I can produce as much as possible… now I’m running dangerously close to my max power

[silver mountain]

if you havent already overclock your coal nodes, i started my current playthrough in the dessert and made a fairly large starter base, alongside steel production and coal got me through that

[peak wasp]

Basically I am trying to use foundries to get more resources out of my current iron supply

[unkempt blade]

you do the math and attach that many outputs to a belt... then you send the rest on another belt

you don't put all the outputs attached to an overloaded belt

... but there are multiple foundries?

I can't tell if you're serious I'm sorry

[peak wasp]

That said don't foundries give you 50 iron ingots a minute

[unkempt blade]

he said he was using mk4 belts so presumably that's some multiple number of foundries but maybe I misread

[peak wasp]

But yeah I get real intimidated with the math of trying to saturate belts

How do you saturate belts and have the overflow go to the next belts

[hard ivy]

Idk what the issue is but there's a 100% chance a balancer or a mixer can fix it lol

[unkempt blade]

balancer would totally be an option but you'd still want 2 output belts not one I think

[peak wasp]

Basically say you wanna fill a belt that's 470 items per minute

But the foundries would make either 450 or 500 items per minute... How do you deal with the extra 30 ingots

[cunning siren]

In phase 1 YES belts limit the players ability to automate in a simple way, phase 2 with Logistics Mk.3, much less so and from then on belts / lifts get SUPER powerful

[peak wasp]

Because it bugs the hell out of me I could be screwing something up and getting less resources out then I should be

[cunning siren]

Ooof

[peak wasp]

So yeah figuring out how to deal with that extra 30 ingots is a big goal for me

[zenith fractal]

eat them

[peak wasp]

Also is it a good idea to make a dedicated area to produce ingots

[frail sleet]

You're making the assumption here that you have to merge all of the inputs and outputs together, but you don't

But the foundries would make either 450 or 500 items per minute... How do you deal with the extra 30 ingots

Foundries make the amount that you tell them to

[cunning siren]

A few days ago I made a massive steel build and had no real need for it 😆 maybe I enjoyed the process while doing it and that's all that is important 🤔 🤷

[unkempt blade]

you can either underclock a foundry to make those exact numbers or you can use a splitter to send some one way and some the other way (on the one that would push you over to 500)

[peak wasp]

Yes every single ingot...directly from my trains

[cunning siren]

I gots ingots

[hard ivy]

Belt compressors are kinda dumb imo. Like when can you ever use up a full belt exactly. Just balance all the belts instead of compressing them down. If you're using the entirety of each belt, the balancer will deal with that just fine. And if you're not, it also will. Shit just works

[peak wasp]

I wanna unload my trains into a facility that processes them for my factory

But but

I like trains

[cunning siren]

<Thought police examining all thoughts now> "THESE are the BAD kind of thoughts" 😆

[peak wasp]

And did you know trains also are badass

[cunning siren]

"You MUST think however we wish you to"

[peak wasp]

Also I'm curious can I make the trains go directly through a building

[unkempt blade]

ahh you're a natural factory cart enjoyer then

[severe sun]

how do i get my object scanner to work?

[peak wasp]

After all who wants miles and miles of belts when I could have trains.

[zenith fractal]

wdym

[cunning siren]

Why not both?

[peak wasp]

Because I am doing a challenge run where I try and import every item I use in a factory by train

[unkempt blade]

don't make me go create a train network that's only like 3 train lengths long and entirely inside a factory because I will

[peak wasp]

Everything for my factory comes in by train....period

[severe sun]

so it gets signal the moment i get near an item, correct?

[hard ivy]

Lmao you reminded me of that one guy who went out of range, thought the scanner was broken, said that completely ruins the game for them, uninstalled it and gave it a negative review
They got clowned on hard

[severe sun]

alright, thanks for the info

[silver mountain]

how can i make my manufacturers look better, stacking splitters is kinda ugly

[real shale]

Put makeup on them

[silver mountain]

will do

well shit

[unkempt blade]

Maybe half above ground and half in a logistics floor or something? What part don't you like about how you're doing them now?

[hard ivy]

Splitters on the ground, clip belts

[silver mountain]

its just a bunch of splitters close together, looks too crowded form. I do have a logistics floor so this may be the way

[silver mountain]

NOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOO CLIPPING

[white dawn]

If you want to get fancy, can feed them with sushi belts

[hard ivy]

Whyever not?
Doesn't this https://imgur.com/a/1Oz2P2V look good?

[white dawn]

Gotta be sure of your resource-delivery rates (and you'll want to handle overflow Just In Case anyway), but it can work fine

[silver mountain]

im gonna throw up

[silver mountain]

wait i can do this yes

nvm no i cant, my belts cant carry infinite items and im too lasy to load balance

i think ill just hide them with walls

pretend they arent there

[cunning siren]

I do output into a box / depot on a separate floor and that box then outputs in to a bus 🤷 I guess that does not solve the inputs being still on the same floor though 🤔

[silver mountain]

WAIT

I MIGHT BE A GENIUs, let me cook

[cunning siren]

When I make a blueprint with a pattern, the patterns are yellow AND when I use the blueprint in another play through it's grey silver? WTF? 🤔

[silver mountain]

#screenshots message

[hard ivy]

That's not what you were doing before?

[outer hatch]

If you use the numbered, predefined (yet modifiable) patterns, the pattern saved on the machines/pipes/etc is not the color, but a reference to the pattern's ID. So if you modified, say, the pattern 12 in playthrough A but kept pattern 12 standard in playthrough B, when you use a blueprint that uses pattern 12 in playthrough B it will use the color of playthrough B's pattern 12.

It's only if you use the custom pattern that the color code is saved onto the object.

[silver mountain]

no i was doing first splitter as close as possible, second splitter as close as possible, etc etc so the splitters would be close then go farther back

[hybrid sierra]

day 5 of scanning the map for somersloops

[cunning siren]

Adventure time for hidden and guarded treasure is what I call that

[hybrid sierra]

radar towers are some help

if theres only one ss in the zone, you can triangulate the position using 3 radar towers

but that only works if theres on ss in the range of all 3

[cunning siren]

Challange mode: "Beat the game with only Mk.1 belts for transfer to a manifold THAT does not have any limitations" 😆

[cunning siren]

I "roll back" some research trees with SCIM save game editor to "de-clutter" the object scanner so ONLY spheres sloops and drives show up 🤷 It helps a little bit

[spark sky]

Did you see the video where the guy tried to beat the game by making everything by hand, only using machines to build stuff he couldn't by hand (and then he hand-loaded and emptied the machines)?

[cunning siren]

nope

[spark sky]

Not sure how long that would take, but it seems that it would take a very long time.

[cunning siren]

Lots of AFK crafting

[spark sky]

I did almost everything by hand up until it asked me to do Phase 2.

I had a lot of portable miners.

And collected a lot of lizzard doggos for the stuff I couldn't craft.

It's amazing how far you can get in research when you have a lot of doggos.

[simple mango]

Is there an issue with Vertical Mergers causing floor holes above them to become blocked? #screenshots message

Every time I put a merger on a downward lift the floor hole above becomes blocked.

[hard rune]

just back and forth with the save because dedicated server sucks

[shrewd palm]

not that im aware of

however i am not very aware

[simple mango]

It seems to have started working after building the bare lift all the way from the top to the bottom, and then adding the mergers. Didn't seem to like having the head end knocked off.

[leaden turret]

irregular reminder: idle crafting is paying microtransactions to your energy provider

[real shale]

Except in this context it is literally "micro" transactions

At least the energy provider doesn't make you have pay several dollars everyday to play :P

[leaden turret]

looks at standing charge on energy bill

[real shale]

Hey, whatever consumes energy outside of the game is not in the scope of concern :P

For all I know you could be running a particle accelerator in your house that spikes your energy bill 10 fold

[leaden turret]

standing charge = money paid to just get energy. if you use 0w, is still paid.

[real shale]

Surprisingly a PC to run doesn't take that much $$$ to run as people might think

[leaden turret]

correction: not several dollars each day here, but still point 😛

[real shale]

It's funny, most PCs take about as much to run money wise as a single light bulb on idle

[leaden turret]

~200w at idle would be 40p for 8 hours.

boots up satisfactory with previous save

(this is technically on-topic re: idle crafting)

[real shale]

If your PC is using 200W idle, I would start questioning things

[leaden turret]

that's household idle

I don't have smart plug on the pc, so can't breakdown device-specific usage

[real shale]

PC wise is about 40W idle

You don't need a plug for the PC, there's apps that can tell you it directly

[leaden turret]

(I have smart plug for work hardware to auto-turn it off and measure usage so I know how much it's costing me :P)

[real shale]

Gaming it might spike up to 100-200W, but I'm actually not sure if that's active usage

[leaden turret]

booting up satisfactory, we're up to 460-500w, so let's pretend 300w for previous save

[real shale]

460-500W? is this game actually that power intense?

[leaden turret]

household energy usage was ~200w, is now 460-500w

[real shale]

I would not think that to be brutally honest

Oh I see

Yeah that seems reasonable, 300W is a bit on the higher side though, damn

[leaden turret]

so ~£1.80 per day of satisfactory idle crafting 😛

[real shale]

That's.....better than microtransactions still :D

[leaden turret]

that is still technically a microtransaction 😛

[real shale]

I'd argue it's literally a microtransaction these days

The definition has skewed a bit on what "micro' means

[leaden turret]

actual microtransaction, not bethesda/blizard-esque macrotransaction

[real shale]

Yeah lmao

[silver mountain]

how does one change what type of nobelisk they are using, i looked through keybinds and couldnt find it

nvm u have to hold r not tap it

[leaden turret]

make like a pirate and rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[silver mountain]

10 cluster nobelisks and mr bean still survives

fascinating

[cunning glade]

Why?

[silver mountain]

depends on your specs

[real shale]

Because that is about 150 more than what it should be idle

[cunning glade]

Mine uses about 120w-200w

My GPU alone uses 60w I think

[leaden turret]

we were talking idle as in "not currently gaming"

[idle yarrow]

will satisfactory be available on gamepass

[real shale]

playing a game idle is a different story

By idle I mean as in idle idle

[cunning glade]

Yeah I am talking idle

[leaden turret]

if it's not answered in the latest video on #announcements , we don't know

[cunning glade]

Gaming wise I pull about 600-700w

[real shale]

HUH

[silver mountain]

WHAT ARE YOUR SPECS

[cunning glade]

And that's stock pl if I oc I use about 900w from the wall

[real shale]

are you running a 30 series card by chance

[cunning glade]

12700k 7900xtx

[silver mountain]

more than a really big high end fridge

[idle yarrow]

alr and also in the lastest video it is said that crossplay wont be here but what if i get satisfactory on xbox ( pc ) will it work if i invite someone on xbox or smt

[silver mountain]

fair enough

[real shale]

That's a lot of power draw holy

[cunning glade]

I'll hit prolly 1.2k soon enough

[real shale]

It's still a lot idle either way

[cunning glade]

Once I'm on water my GPU alone will eat 800-1000w

Uhh iirc either and has a big with high refresh rates high idle power usage

[leaden turret]

it said crossplay between consoles and pc is a no

[cunning glade]

Or it's just cuz refresh rate is high

Idk which

[leaden dome]

did they say it won’t have crossplay on launch or it will never have crossplay?

[cunning glade]

Using 56w idle from just GPU rn tho

[silver mountain]

whats ur refresh rate and are you 1440p or 4k

[idle yarrow]

https://tenor.com/view/dexter-doakes-staring-suspicious-memes-gif-9038143639402170425

[cunning glade]

4k 165hz

[silver mountain]

explains it

[leaden turret]

it really gonna be easier for you to just watch the video 😛

[leaden turret]

do you get anywhere near 165fps in satisfactory on that rig? 😛

[real shale]

Oh that explains it a bit more actually

[shy mulch]

Don't be silly. This is the internet. You can't expect people to read/watch things

[cunning glade]

Near 190-220fps with fsr4

[real shale]

I wish I could read this

[cunning glade]

Max settings besides a few like clouds or foliage

[thin plover]

How good is iron wire?

[wise junco]

Iron wire is one of my favorite alts

[cunning glade]

Which I need too get fsr4 working again

[real shale]

Iron wire is legit still don't understand how it works realistically but its legit

[silver mountain]

ficsit doesnt waste

[leaden turret]

-# ᶜᵃⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ʳᵉᵃᵈ ᵗʰᶦˢˀ

[shy mulch]

nope

[real shale]

Can someone send me a carrier pigeon with an audio message to tell me what marv just said there, I can't read it

[silver mountain]

can you read this?

[real shale]

What?

[cunning glade]

Anyone here played Dyson sphere program

[silver mountain]

thats what he said

[real shale]

Are you telling me you are a pigeon?

[leaden turret]

🐦
💿

[real shale]

Oh, no I can't

[silver mountain]

yes

[peak wasp]

I hate some of the psychotic ideas I decide on

I think I did this wrong

#screenshots message

[silver mountain]

just move the left splitter to the left to straighten things up

and you can also move them closer

[leaden dome]

what about it do you think you did wrong?

[peak wasp]

No clue I am just used to doing it wrong the first time then having to fix it later xD

[leaden dome]

looks fine to me

[peak wasp]

Plus getting water out here is gonna be a bitch

[leaden dome]

train

Usually that goes better than just a long pipe

[peak wasp]

don't think I need a train I can probably get away with one 600m3 pipe

[peak wasp]

like pure ingots and aluminum doesn't need much water do they?

[leaden dome]

Depends on how many you’re making

I think pure copper needs 10 water per machine or something

Maybe 7.5

[forest marten]

Is it "or" or "and" used for multiple rules in programmable splitter?

[peak wasp]

20 per minute

[leaden dome]

But at the same time it uses very little copper per machine so it stacks quickly

It all depends on what output you’re trying to achieve

[dense violet]

I think you did. Looks like you're building sky infrastructure

[peak wasp]

No sky here

[leaden dome]

if it’s all one long manifold though make sure to split up the water a bit or you’ll get clogs

[peak wasp]

Just the cozy cozy abyss

[dense violet]

that's certainly floating

[peak wasp]

Never said it wasn't floating... Just said it wasn't sky

That said what I may do is put pillars down into the abyss as far as they go like the bottom of the canyon is beyond render distance

[leaden dome]

Whenever I do abyss structures I extend the supports down until the end is covered by the fog

[peak wasp]

That's my plan

[spark sky]

Heh, it's good that someone has a plan.

[peak wasp]

I'm improvising as I go

[versed mesa]

What are we upto all

[spark sky]

I've been improvising in a creative world, I know that I probably don't need a better Biomass Burner power plant design, but I can't help trying new ideas in the blueprint designers.

[peak wasp]

So do people play this game with randoms?

I was considering inviting others to play with

[versed mesa]

Hi what have you designed in the blueprint Designer?

[versed mesa]

Tbh since start ive been playing solo and me my self can't seam to tell if it is multiplayer game mainly seams solo ro me lol

Why no one not want to talk to me for

[spark sky]

Well, a doggo kennel that holds 40 doggos, 4 different versions of biomass power plant that include biomass conversion below the power plant, a coal power plant with 4 coal generators stacked, a sort of power substation (more for looks than functionality), a few power poles (one with a transformer on it, that is really a switch for one of the circuits), a tileable storage (using the chests), complete with signs, a vertical load balancer.

[versed mesa]

Very nice i need experience in blueprint designer lol

[spark sky]

I have a friend who joined me for a little bit. He hasn't played with me for a long time, but his body is sitting on a shelf drinking coffee.

[versed mesa]

I was told I really need to start using it will be a great help and tbh I dont know where to start init tbf lol

[wise junco]

What helped me with the blueprint designer is think of things you are building frequently

[versed mesa]

We always seam tobe building machine ato conveyors all the time

[peak wasp]

Same here I wish I had other homies to hang out with

[peak wasp]

Yeah solo for me LFG

[versed mesa]

Yup

[peak wasp]

Well if anyone wants to chill I can send steam

[spark sky]

I started using the 3 blueprint designers in a creative world to figure out how to do things, some that were fairly large. I figured that it would be easier to design in the bp designer, then place the bp in my game. You also can use items you may not have unlocked yet, for instance, some of the more decorative building parts from the Awesome Shop, and use the blueprint in your game, as long as you have the raw materials needed.

[versed mesa]

I prefer solo and then I dont need to wait around for others to know what we are doing i like to be chill i and chill soul lol

[spark sky]

Know this, if you have someone join your game, then they never play with you again, they will be left sitting where they were when they logged off, drinking coffee.

[versed mesa]

Thats cool

[peak wasp]

oh no I like multiplayer as a drop in and out sort of thing...if you wanted to join and build a factory with me

or cringe at my dumbass solutions

[versed mesa]

@peak wasp I'd defo be down to build a factory with someone but I'd like to know what we aiming for

[peak wasp]

I never know what I am aiming for...for that last 20 hours I've been mostly trying to setup trains and now I am working on my brand new resource processing area

[versed mesa]

Lol

[spark sky]

@versed mesa I watched a video where someone put 4 of each size of blueprint designer in a square (4 Mk 1 designers in a square, 4 Mk 2 in a square, etc.) to design larger buildings, as you can place the parts at the edges so you can see where they would join.

This was in creative.

[peak wasp]

in fact i have this belt that goes nowhere outside of my factory

[versed mesa]

You got the link please

[peak wasp]

then again is it wrong to have a belt that goes nowhere

[versed mesa]

Lmao

[peak wasp]

I mostly use it to propel myself forward towards my power base

[spark sky]

I'd have to look it up. It might take me a bit.

[peak wasp]

sliding on a fast belt going downwards makes you propel outwards quickly with a jetback

[versed mesa]

I mite beable to find it if I search it up

[versed mesa]

Yeah ive notice this it makes you a jealous jump forward like you stand on it you go back you stop then something perk you forward lol

[spiral summit]

bruh why dont i have a skins tab

its in customiser right?

[tall root]

Are we aware that straight build mode is bugged for belts?

[shrewd palm]

yes

[spiral summit]

nvm its not like ficsmas skins its in the build menu

[dense violet]

are you using to make turns or just straight belts?

[peak wasp]

So another question

[tall root]

Normally using it for turns, didn't toggle it off and found out that it's bugged for straight belts

[dense violet]

yup toggle it off

[peak wasp]

Can I make a elevator that leads to a floor that's deadly

Like build into the abyss and have a floor that kills you as you stay down there

[restive agate]

can someone explain to me how they start off early game. Is it wise to have a central storage? for me I build new factories everytime i need something new off of a new node rather then using from existing supply. Should I be doing that or should I supply factories from existing supplies

[dense violet]

no one way to do it. Central storages were pretty pointless before dimension depots so unless you find it fun? I wouldn't bother

build as you need learn as you go

the milestone are basically a very well put together tutorial

some people find it's helpfuil to start a fresh map every once in a while to really get the basic skills down

[zenith pecan]

Central storage before depots had at least a purpose, albeit a mess of logistics to do it, it made it straight forward to collect what you needed to build with, now with proper depot deployment, central storage is now just a vanity project that will take up a ton of time.

[dense violet]

eh, it doesn't take long to just grab stuff from containers in a small area. Far less time than it would planning and making said depot

[restive agate]

okay because i usually calculate and plan out a singular node for what im trying to make and any extra materials I just keep as a supply for whenever needed. Ill never build a new factory upon an existing one if that makes sense

[zenith pecan]

Remember all mine was at the time built accross a huge area 😛

[dense violet]

that's a perfectly feasible method 🙂 you'll probably find your method and approach change as you learn

[dense violet]

even then, a nice hyper tube that hits a few spots along the way will be faster.

[zenith pecan]

No thanks with my prior build, too much effort when building on a vast scale.

[restive agate]

thank yall for the advise

[zenith pecan]

That said, just build however many depots you need per item, hence my spread of outposts miles out making stuff just for depot access.

[dense violet]

no stress! one of the beautiful things about the game is there's no meta or optimal path for anything.
You'll find how you like to do things.

personally I think all the tiers and phases are a solid tutorial for what eventually becomes a creative mode situation where you've unlocked al lthe recipes nad items and you can work on your personal projects

[fickle thunder]

just a little tip for the new comers, you can make roof borders by clipping flat roofs together and making roof sides like gutters

sort of like this #screenshots message

useful if you want a clean looking factory

[spiral summit]

for christs sake why are you not allowed to place blueprints inside other blueprints

[zenith pecan]

This is another approach for a roof #design-and-architecture message

Also this with tall machines #design-and-architecture message

[fickle thunder]

woah!! i might try that out

[spark sky]

Okay, I found the actual video that I was talking about. It's by Jack Blade, but he has other videos on making blueprints. He also shares blueprints.
https://youtu.be/pnQAoFbAtGA?si=gMM6W_m8030fM9Yz

[fickle thunder]

dude tysm #screenshots message

[zenith pecan]

Happy to help 😄

[fickle thunder]

that saved my boxy build now it looks so much cleaner

thank you

[zenith pecan]

I've even had a rail station on a roof to break things up before.

[clever stone]

Man headlifting pipes can be such a mess

It is satisfying to see the buffers at the top fill up but man, so many mark 2 liquid propulsion things 😭

I can’t wait to get harness geothermal energy to offset this totally unoptimized power drain

[spark sky]

I got geothermal early by gathering lizzard doggos and getting materials I couldn't make from them, doing the research in the MAM using those materials.

[clever stone]

I mean I’ve got it, I have stations set up with them extracting power I just can’t wait to do more of it

Because I’ve learned just how useful it is for mid-game

[spark sky]

Ah. Make sure you put up power storage, as well.

I got geothermal before I got to Phase 2.

[clever stone]

Yeah I’ve got a lot of batteries if that’s a start

Ada wasn’t lying power surges are my worst nightmare

[spark sky]

Heh.

[zenith pecan]

Power stores aren't strictly necessary if you build power to scale.

[clever stone]

I’m in a weird state where I think I gotta start making new factories in secluded places away from the main base more, I already have one for steel, quartz, and oil but I should probably make extras

[spark sky]

I built my geothermal power before I built coal power. I have biofuel power as well, with the power storage built in, to buffer that geothermal.

[clever stone]

Actually wait, this is a good question. Should I consolidate all steel production into one factory

Or have multiple factories for it

I’m leaning towards the latter rn

[zenith pecan]

To be honest, the best approach is the one that lets you keep it organised in mind, both can work well.

[fickle thunder]

really happy with how my ramp windows turned out :D #screenshots message

[clever stone]

My current steel factory is hyper arse with how it’s organized so I may make use of some different nodes to maximize output. The first steel mill I have is focused on making literally everything from the steel progression unlocks so

I probably gotta make it organized this time. I did that with part of my starting spaghetti field from phase 0, I tore it down and rebuilt it for better output

[spark sky]

The biofuel won't run unless I exceed the coal and geothermal output, and I can just keep feeding it leaves, wood, etc. that I pick up along the way. Of course, I turned my critter parts into Alien Protien and dumped those into the input for the biofuel manufacture, all Somerslooped to make sure I get all the fuel I can.

[clever stone]

OH that explains why it doesn’t go down when everything else is running

That’s good to know thank you

[zenith pecan]

In the grand scheme of things, the biofuels work like worse power stores once you have your mains established 🙂

[spark sky]

I consider them emergency backup generators.

What would be nice, though, would be some kind of warning that they were needed.

That would allow me to fix whatever the reason is that they started working, before I actually blow a fuse.

[zenith pecan]

The only difference is each one will push 30mw until its fuel expires, a power store can push 100, but when your power is back under control is power stores recharge on their own, the bio burners have to be reloaded, both are quickly left behind once you have the mains at a large enough scale, I have a huge support tower full of power stores that will never see use because I generate more power in one site than many would in an entire save 🤣

[clever stone]

What’s your secret

To generating all of this power

[fickle thunder]

lots and lots of bio burners

[zenith pecan]

No secret, just build a ridiculously huge power station like this one #satisfactory-experimental message , then don't look back, this place produces 1.1Tw.

[spark sky]

Well, that's probably true, it's going to depend on how massive I build factories. I'm taking the game very slowly. I've been playing in this world since Nov. 5 of last year.

[fathom plover]

is there a way to destroy small/medium rocks

finaly have automated reinforced plates

aaaaaaaaaaand my grid shut down

[elder dragon]

Im at the stage that I feel like after I finished my base plastic and rubber that everything is wrong and I don’t have enough of anything

[fathom plover]

is there like a photo mode

[leaden turret]

yes

[fathom plover]

how

[peak wasp]

and here I am making this stupid shit

#screenshots message

[signal brook]

where are hatchers? i spent 30 mins running around up north 🥀

[leaden turret]

P

[clever stone]

I found a bunch along the west beaches

[signal brook]

ok thx twin ✌️ 😌

[fathom plover]

currently working on making a big foundation area and my concrete production is so ahh