satisfactory

[cursive phoenix]

yes

[unique kernel]

Ok so what you need is block signals

[cursive phoenix]

ive tried to use them before but no clue how they work

[unique kernel]

1 at the entrance ends of the station and 1 path signal at the exits of the stations

[cursive phoenix]

at the main station where everything is collected?

[unique kernel]

Both stations receiving and shipping

1 block at the entrances 1 path at the exits

[cursive phoenix]

ts is so confusing why do i need a block on a train station verry far away from any other ones

[prime rampart]

so if u have 2 locomotives they dont crash

[unique kernel]

Cuz trains got IQ of a goldfish block signal makes a block that train occupies path signal acts as a "block scanner" it essentially says "is there train here? No? Then go on get! Or is there train here? Yes? Then hold yo horses!"

[prime rampart]

That made me understand block signals and path signals better then yt tutorials

[unique kernel]

If theres anything I do best its make stuff so simple to understand even i understand it

[prime rampart]

And btw if i have diluted fuel unlocked is it better to make my fuel production using diluted fuel

[cursive phoenix]

i put block signals on all the train statiosns and still no worky

it says station isnt reachable

[unique kernel]

If your making a fuel plant oh most certainly just make sure you got the HOR alt tho to really maximize your oil and you get some residual plastic and rubber too

[unique kernel]

Hmm try deleting 1 train and see what happens

[prime rampart]

I really do not need plastic /rubber

Whats the HOR alt

rn i have the one from crude oil

3 for 1 i think

the normal one

[unique kernel]

Heavy Oil Residue turns oil right into HOR with a little bit of polyres as byproduct

[cursive phoenix]

Wdym? Like just deleting the train itself and rebuildinh it?

[unique kernel]

No just delete it and see if the other moves

[prime rampart]

R u using 2 rails?

[unique kernel]

I thought he said it was a loopback system

[prime rampart]

Huh

Wait wdym

how does hor go into oil then hor again

but with byproducts

At the end

[unique kernel]

No it just turns oil into HOR

[prime rampart]

so the normal recipe for hor right

[unique kernel]

Its actually an alt

[prime rampart]

WAIT WITHOUT BYPRODUCTS U MEAN?

Oil into hor no byproducts

[cursive phoenix]

I only got one train active

[prime rampart]

R u using one rail?

[cursive phoenix]

Like 2 rails that loop

[zenith pecan]

Oil into HOR, and a small amount of polymer as byproduct (which you can sink)

[prime rampart]

Show ss

[cursive totem]

so i was playing around in the modeler to build a power plant that uses all map uranium, without any waste (so going all the way to ficsonium power) - and it says it generates around 450 GW of power. however in kibitz' playthrough they also used up all uranium, didnt even go to ficsonium and generated about 960 GW... what am i missing here?

[prime rampart]

Its the same as the normal recipe but rubber or plastic

[prime rampart]

Power shards?

[zenith pecan]

🤷‍♂️

[cursive phoenix]

#screenshots message im using the top one

[cursive totem]

that only reduces the amount of machines i need for the same output, right? shouldnt change anything

[unique kernel]

No no its the alt called Heavy Oil Residue it turns 30 oil into i think 60 HOR and 20 polyres

[prime rampart]

No power shards as in the nuclear power plant

[cursive totem]

ooooh

[prime rampart]

Yea

[cursive totem]

wait no that alos just reduces the amount of power plants needed

[prime rampart]

FINALLY SO MUCH HOR PRODUCTION

[cursive totem]

it doesnt change the overall gross production

[prime rampart]

No

[cursive totem]

yes. it just divides the amount of machines by the % overclock

[prime rampart]

I forgot how much 300% produces

[unique kernel]

Just looked its 30 oil to 40HOR and 20 polyres

[cursive totem]

you can either have 2.5 machines at 0% or 1 machine at 250% - the outpot is the same for both

[prime rampart]

Yea wait give me a second

Ur kinda correct here

[prime rampart]

Yum

[cursive phoenix]

#screenshots message

[zenith pecan]

My power station processes so much Oil>HOR>Rocket fuel its a bit mental.

[prime rampart]

Yea atp idrk check if the rails r all comnected

[cursive phoenix]

i did xd

[prime rampart]

Hor to rocket ?

[prime rampart]

uhhhhh do u have block signals?

Qnd how many locomotives r u using

[unique kernel]

Did you try deleting the second train?

[zenith pecan]

Pretty much, HOR to Dilute fuel, dilute fuel to rocket via blender floors, shown in this place #satisfactory-experimental message

[cursive phoenix]

there was no second train

just one

[prime rampart]

Yea I’ll never build this

[unique kernel]

Hmm? Thought you said there was a second train on the li- hol up where's that 3rd rail headed?

[zenith pecan]

It does produce plenty of power though.

[prime rampart]

How much gw?

[zenith pecan]

1.1Tw

[prime rampart]

One rocket fuel production

[prime rampart]

OH GOD

how much does one fuel production generate

Using rocket fuel

[cursive phoenix]

the bottom one? diff rail

[zenith pecan]

That place did result in me building a whole new tunnel network to bring crap in from half the map, yet again 🤣

[autumn lantern]

guys do you know how to load and unload things to the train? i dont get it

[zenith pecan]

Just means when I get back to playing, I just need to build more, but at least one doesn't need 47gb of ram anymore 😄

I just needed a time out because I've been very busy of late.

[unique kernel]

Are they connected? Is the loop connected to that one?

[cursive phoenix]

no

[unique kernel]

If they overlap you need to make a crossing junction

[split cosmos]

is it me or the jetpack suck? (i just unlocked it) i feel like parachute is way better, considering also the bug where it can climb

[peak wasp]

Do you guys consider it cheating to pre construct all the stuff I need for a phase ahead of time

Like this planner tool I use gives me a heads up on what I'll need for a phase so I can start building what I can ahead of time

[split cosmos]

?

i dont have that

[cursive phoenix]

they dont dw

[split cosmos]

gotcha

[cunning siren]

There are also some "tricks" to min maxing with jetpack:

• 1. Pulsing the thrust = longer duration = longer jumps = higher climbs
• 2. Learning to silde jump + jetpack + pulse thrust = MUCH longer jumps (1000+ M is possible with LBF)

The trick is to cancel the "falling" momentum without creating more altitude

Once there is a "falling inertia" built it takes more fuel to stop it

Reminds me of that Flappy Bird game 😆

[unique kernel]

Can confirm once I unlocked the ability to make biofuel and coated canisters i automated biofuel for not just the jetpack no no ive got 10 fully OC biomass gens plus the 2 on the hub also fully OC acting as backup power to bring the grid back up when it fails

[lucid flicker]

does anyone wanna see my coal setup

[unique kernel]

Biofuel is GOAT when your grid fails you have a backup and since its more power dense a small storage bin full of biofuel can last for a very long while mind you ive got 1 bin per 5 gens so yea iirc each one is 10pm so 50pm yep its gunna last awhile

[lucid flicker]

??

i just finished my coal gen setup

[prime rampart]

YES ME

[prime rampart]

Show

[lucid flicker]

dm?

[prime rampart]

Ok ig

[prime jasper]

Does anyone have the problem where the game completely crash when you try to clear a blueprint from a blueprint designer? It just crash ecery time...

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[split cosmos]

thanks

[fierce glen]

il ltry farcry primal guys

[short pollen]

11 hours in and I can already see myself needing to tear everything down at some point to make it all neat and clean. The conveyer belts are already a bit of a mess. So I named my save What's OSHA?

[reef basin]

there's imo never a reason to tear things down

[cunning siren]

I seem to enjoy the "game loop" 🤷 I'll be on playthrough 8 soon

Dang

Das a lot

[heavy pine]

Did a little bit of pixel art, relatively small project as a proof of concept. It's more trouble than it's worth to produce pixel art this way though, so I don't think I'll do it more.
#screenshots message
#screenshots message

[shy mulch]

At 11 hours you've barely started. No reason to start thinking too far ahead at this stage

Over what period of time

[short pollen]

ah good to know then thanks =)

[heavy pine]

🎶 Come with me, and we'll be in a world of OSHA violations. 🎶

[shy mulch]

I don't know when that was. What year?

[unique kernel]

My motto: factory must grow every biome must become one with the factory

[unique kernel]

1953

[cunning siren]

The Umpua Loompas don't have a union 🤷

[unique kernel]

I see someone's seen cinamasins

[cunning siren]

We are them in this analogy

[unique kernel]

Oompa loompa dopidy deep

[heavy pine]

Didn't get it from Cinemasins, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was there too.

There's an idea for a mod; Oompa Loompas come out and sing about how you screwed up each time you die.

[short pollen]

i loved the line about how FICSIT is like "if you have amnesia don't worry those were memories that would just distracted you"

[unique kernel]

Just remember the Pioneer graduated from the permetus school of crashing into things

[unique kernel]

Pov: you forgot what your job is

Then what do we just roam around like hmm why am I here what is this place what's a ficit?

[sweet tusk]

Something I didn't see mentioned in the console Q&A is whether or not console will be in the same state as PC when it releases? Does anyone know anything about that?

[unique kernel]

A better question would be is it coming to switch one or is it a switch 2 exclusive (asking for a friend since imma get a steam deck)

[unique kernel]

Also where Q&A at?

[autumn lantern]

my miner mines 600 coal a minute but my fastest belt can only move 480 coal a minute is there a way to get all of the 600? i tried to use a splitter but it didnt work

[reef basin]

well you are still limited by the belt between miner and splitter

a way to get all is to get faster belt

[autumn lantern]

ok

[reef basin]

can't

[limpid cairn]

why not?

[reef basin]

why yes

[dense violet]

I dunno, ive only played like 50hrs since 1.0 😛

[prime rampart]

dms plssss

[reef basin]

I've only played 50hrs since 2019 😛

[reef basin]

why are you asking random people to do dms? 🤔

[prime rampart]

Not random trust

[reef basin]

if not random then go to DMs directly and don't ask here

[prime rampart]

We had a big past abt trains dw

[prime rampart]

Ok

[unique kernel]

Anyone know about a console Q&A? I cant find it

[tiny dirge]

I need this game to come out on xbox already, i need to have a decent factory game so i can have something to do when i cant sleep. My desk is too far but i can play the xbox super comfy for hours... gimme the xbox version even faster. November is too far away.

[unique kernel]

Does your chair recline? Mine reclines and has a footrest basically a lay-z-boy on a wheel stand

[prime rampart]

Ur life will be taken away for eternity

[tiny dirge]

Nah the pc is set up at a desk, it gets uncomfortable after a few hours of just sitting there.

[tiny dirge]

Thats the goal, the factory must GROW

[prime rampart]

Imagine playing while on bed

[unique kernel]

Me who has no life: free time all the time

[prime rampart]

i wish i could play on bed

Sleep/eat/satisfsctory

[tiny dirge]

Thats where my xbox is set up lol. I got a lazy book reading backrest and i just chill in bed and zone out for hours... so nice

[prime rampart]

?

[tiny dirge]

Im so hype to never move on my day offs ever again 🤣

[prime rampart]

Damn that must feel like heaven

[prime rampart]

LMAO SAME

[unique kernel]

I can cast my pc to a smart tv in my room and play with a controller so theres that

[prime rampart]

Very innovative

Nah it will be fun

i might biy a tv just to play satisfactory

[unique kernel]

Only problem wifi sucks so basically a LGIO video everytime I play so I dont at least not that often

[prime rampart]

New wifi anything for satisfactory

[tiny dirge]

I got ADHD and satisfactory is basically addictive to me. I can and have spent 8 hours in a single day just building and optimizing everything to extreme proportions. Its so much dopamine seeing everything balanced

[prime rampart]

Ficist always be reminding me to take rest

I literally multitask study and play

Like solve math problems in game and rl

Balanced life😭 🙏

True

[burnt ferry]

#screenshots message the end is nigh!! of course i have to make the most annoying mats for the final stuff 😂

[crimson lantern]

Dumb question, is there any news on a console release? I want to play it, looks awesome

[prime rampart]

these r the math problems that occur in game

[burnt ferry]

1+1 = 10

[tiny dirge]

Idk why i love the game so much i sucked at advanced math. But the math in the game comes so easy to me ive basically memorized all the default balances up through tier 5 xD

[burnt ferry]

you know it must end on 0 because 1+1 is 2*1 so an even number for sure

[prime rampart]

The game has simple math

But not when it comes to fluid

U gotta relearn fluid mechanics

[burnt ferry]

the average player most probably has no clue about irl fluid dynamics (apart from water going down and not up) ==> no need to relearn. just learn a simplified model once

[crimson lantern]

Console release?

[prime rampart]

Very true

[burnt ferry]

that doesnt change numbers being even or odd

i was talking abnout 1+1 being an even numbewr... you might have understood something else

[prime rampart]

Tmr

[burnt ferry]

in ue5 even numbers are even and odd numbers are odd just like in real life

which is binary 10.. the 0 indicating it being an odd number]

[crimson lantern]

Sarcasm?

[prime rampart]

Ofc

[prime rampart]

Check #announcements

[crimson lantern]

Figured

[burnt ferry]

its wrong by the way.. both in computer math as well as in irl math

[crimson lantern]

Gotcha, November 4th

I always forget announcements are a thing

[prime rampart]

We all do

[burnt ferry]

at least everybody understands sarcasm

[prime rampart]

R u saying not everyone understands math?

[burnt ferry]

rethink my statement

[crimson lantern]

I like trains and machines, not good at math

[prime rampart]

Cant

[crimson lantern]

Oh also i like spiders

[burnt ferry]

exactly

[prime rampart]

My brain cannot brain at this time

[unique kernel]

Ive heard that theres a Q&A but I cant find it and the folks here seem to not even acknowledge it at all so I dunno mate

[burnt ferry]

'the folks' are superior gamers (Aka pc gamers)

[unique kernel]

I mcfound it

[crimson lantern]

I'm way too poor for a pc

-# banned

[burnt ferry]

find someone who builds a pc for jyou instead of buying the latest LTT recommends

[crimson lantern]

LLT?

[burnt ferry]

linus tech tipps...

the y9utube videos from the guys who can build their own pcs and use their knowledge to tell followers to buyreadymade ones

[crimson lantern]

I have the spider flavoured autism, everything else... not so much

Never heard of it

[burnt ferry]

great game

[cunning siren]

Woh, checking out the Modeler planner app, seems very handy

[burnt ferry]

very storyheavy but its awesome.. one of the little gamese that actually imposes complicated and relevant questions on the player

[crimson lantern]

Horror game?

[burnt ferry]

yes but its more philosophical imo

[crimson lantern]

Found it, looks pretty good

[burnt ferry]

the horror is in my opinion not the main aspect and its relaxingly free of jumpscares

like theres maybe two or three and thats it

the most important questions: who are you, why and do you want to keep being

damn i want to replay it now 😂

i dont know why that game came up after you talked about spiders tbh

[crimson lantern]

Is satisfactory a purely online game? I prefer to play alone

[burnt ferry]

=has nothing to do with spiders at all

in fact.. there are none anymore

[crimson lantern]

It's on my list now

[unique kernel]

I just recently built mine (December) but since i bought the game back before 1.0 (back before realizing my former pc was so old it didn't have DX12 or 10 or whatever it needed cuz it was THAT old) and so yea guess you could say i was technically around since EA but since my pc couldn't run it till I built my current rig i technically speaking didn't play untill I think I first played the game about 3 weeks before 1.0 hit experimental at which point I dabbled with elevators till I got bored and switched back then I discovered mods and now imma farming/nuclear physicist who specializes in fusion reactors

[crimson lantern]

Spiders have fangs

[burnt ferry]

is thre 'stingers' in soma? i dont get it (also its been a while since i played it)

[crimson lantern]

I have never been kissed by one of my Tarantulas

[burnt ferry]

no thats knowledge

as some peope think spiders sting

which they dont

[unique kernel]

Oh god not the hairy ones where's the raid randome cans crashing noises

[crimson lantern]

I have a Curly Hair tarantula, she's a cutie

[burnt ferry]

its a bit funny that in english vogelspinne is tarantula, when in fact tarantulas are a completely different kind of spiders

[crimson lantern]

Tarantula is such a cool word

Taran-tula

[unique kernel]

Till it gets ya mate then its just another day in Australia MAW: down unda intro

[burnt ferry]

i had a zebra (smithi) when i ws younger

[crimson lantern]

Mexican Red Leg that one

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys. Please tell me mk3 belt is 280/min.

...

Blz.

[leaden turret]

🦵🦵🦵
🦵🦓🦵
🦵🦵🦵

[mortal ginkgo]

BLZ SAY IT TO ME.

[unique kernel]

270

[burnt ferry]

the hairyones are typically not dangeroues... only some hairless kinds have identified to be dangerous

[crimson lantern]

I have 12, never been bitten, if i do get bitten it'll be my own fault

[mortal ginkgo]

... RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

ty

[unique kernel]

Karen in the wild

[burnt ferry]

mk6 is 1200/min

[crimson lantern]

No tarantula will kill a human if you aren't allergic.

[burnt ferry]

you can... in fact youre looking at it every day

dont remember the decision midgame?

[crimson lantern]

Posted some of my Tarantulas in #off-topic-media

[unique kernel]

Imo a good spider is one thats under a boot thats why im never heading to Australia cuz imma see the biggest spider my eyes have ever had the unfortunate opportunity to see and the locals would say "oi mate thats nothin wait till ya see the huntsman it'll really send ya to the docta"

[burnt ferry]

i had that one https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/456109329456562187/1424509575209554072/20250914_113408.jpg?ex=68e4356c&is=68e2e3ec&hm=c19a305b38a9a87053d681e22b36d96e74d55101020eb584a6938174447d9d06&

[leaden turret]

did you spoiler tag it for arachnophobia mode?

[crimson lantern]

Didn't think to, normally don't have to,

[burnt ferry]

big spider is probably not poisonous.. they kill their prey by force

[crimson lantern]

Will sort it out

[burnt ferry]

like pythons

[crimson lantern]

Venomous*

[burnt ferry]

giftig!

[crimson lantern]

Brachypelma hamorii

[leaden turret]

we implemented arachnophobia mode on the wiki so it doesn't embed the stingers in discord unexpectedly

[burnt ferry]

? no t hats not the one

[crimson lantern]

Thats what its called

[unique kernel]

And you think that helps? Makes me wanna arm the get the flamethrower

[crimson lantern]

I'm confused

Just deleted it

[burnt ferry]

yes i believe you just sayhing i had aq different one.. just checked wiki and it actually says that the hamori has been misidentified as a smithi... so its not just me 😂

[unique kernel]

Be my luck the dagum thing would be like: "oi bruv you call that hot? the aussi sun makes that feel like a candle wick"

[burnt ferry]

if you live in the usa, there is a much greater danger and either the person next to you or you helped it into power

[crimson lantern]

Hamorii and Smithi are different species but in same genus, they are found literally on opposite sides of a river in Mexico

[leaden turret]

• game has spider-like things
• company has archnophobic devs
• game has arachnophobia mode to turn ||🕷️|| into
• wiki does the same

[crimson lantern]

Ah

[burnt ferry]

yes thats what i understood from the wiki saying the hamori has been MISidentified 😂

[leaden turret]

hence:
🏃‍♀️

[crimson lantern]

I deleted it

[crimson lantern]

Aye

[leaden turret]

also spooders are #off-topic-general unless you're theorising as to what species of spooder would be best suited to which biome 😛

[crimson lantern]

Anyhoodle, I'm off, game isn't available for console yet

[unkempt blade]

Spiders are way scarier on this dark discord background. I could barely see that one!

[leaden turret]

-# ||🕷️||

[stable lintel]

guys quick question

[burnt ferry]

@crimson lantern those guys are talking about the 4 legged alien insects in the game and arachnp0hobia while you post actual pictures of your babies 😂 hilarious

[leaden turret]

42

[stable lintel]

nah

[burnt ferry]

spiders have 8legs!

if it has 6 legs its not a spider but an insect

[leaden turret]

🪓

[crimson lantern]

If they have 4 anything less than 8 legs, they aren't Arachnids.

[burnt ferry]

spiders are NOT insects

[crimson lantern]

For record, scorpions have 8 legs

[stable lintel]

first should be freight platform or train station

[unkempt blade]

what if they used to have eight legs but a bird ate some of them?

[stable lintel]

in a push pull cycle

[crimson lantern]

Anyway bye

[reef basin]

you can play as you want

[burnt ferry]

i know.. i had this discussion with some poeple already 😂

[leaden turret]

satisfactory is alien fallout; = radscoprion

[shy fog]

and... milipedes enter the room, for half an hour

[unique kernel]

Nope there the spawn of cihtulu

[unique kernel]

And I will have 500 legs and I will have 500 more

[leaden turret]

pointing out spiders aren't insects is like pointing out a tomato is a fruit.

if you really don't like tomatoes it doesn't matter if tomato is a fruit or not 😛

[burnt ferry]

aits certainlky not a scorpion... for a scorpion its missing clamps as well

i just notice.. the stinger dont have stings, dont they?

they9only h ave pointy feet

[crimson lantern]

Milipede don't have a thousand legs like people think, Milipeded have 2 sets of legs per segment and centipedes have 1 set of legs per segment, thats how you can tell the difference.

[unique kernel]

Im odd about em dont like ketchup but will devour a bowl of chili in a heartbeat

[crimson lantern]

I'm trying to leave but getting distracted with my love of insects

[burnt ferry]

human centipedes have 4 legs per segment

[leaden turret]

devour bowl of chill, chilli devour bowel

[unkempt blade]

final and definitive proof that the metric system is a liar

[shy fog]

nobody denies you're all looking at legs now

[burnt ferry]

feet

not legs

[unique kernel]

Its a worm with more legs than every table and chair in the house they live in its like nature said: "here's 8 for spiders none for snakes 6 for ants and 500 for millapedes"

[real shale]

Voltage

[burnt ferry]

with their new president 'two fingers' could become beneficial for the receiver

[real shale]

Current

[crimson lantern]

Ima go to #off-topic-general to chat about spiders

[real shale]

Frequency

[unique kernel]

Is that where everyone says "what's a kilometer?"

[unique kernel]

Shocking

[real shale]

Power

[unique kernel]

Electric

We done started a shockingly static conversation

[lucid flicker]

hi

[unique kernel]

Hi

Anyways uh what's up with nuclear

[placid stirrup]

Spicy rocks are simultaneously helpful and harmful

[crimson lantern]

Do you guys not allow outside emojis?

[leaden turret]

is not a mod

[placid stirrup]

Me with my vindaloo last night

[unique kernel]

Ok now I want chili for dinner but I dont feel like cooking uuge

[unique kernel]

Only harmful if your Russian and dont know how to use it right

[burnt ferry]

YOU need to have nitro in order to use emojis outside their origin servers

i think a nitro powered server can gift that ability for its members, but im not sure

[crimson lantern]

Ur shiny tho

[crimson lantern]

I have nitro but not working skill so figured I'd ask

[burnt ferry]

hm... idk then. i might in fact remember it wrongly from me as a server owner having this issue,i.e. actually the server needs to have nitro to allow it...

[crimson lantern]

Guess it doesn't matter really

[burnt ferry]

i have mad sick emojis though 👹

[crimson lantern]

"Japanese Ogre"

It's an Oni 😭

[peak wasp]

up to 13k MW

[prime jasper]

It is crazy how red lights inside the factory just make it looks so good even iven if it's not in the color palette you had in mind.

However I will probably have to split inside light and outside light with different control panels because it looks less good on the outside for the color palettes I use at least.

[peak wasp]

15k mw

lol I am still making my power setup

it uses 28 sloops

[cunning glade]

I need too figure out lighting options what are they cuz I see people use other stuff than the normal light I think

That's one thing I need too add to my to do list

Lights decorations and shells

Plus hub rework

[peak wasp]

wow this power booster is really cool

it produces like 500mw on its own plus bonuses

[prime jasper]

Shells? Like sea shells?

[cunning glade]

Like the exterior too the factorys

Currently they're mostly floors with machines

Shells best way too describe it for me

[cedar obsidian]

i can't start a new game nor load a saved one
it's always crash out with Fatal Error - something about Decompressing Shaders
any1 know how to fix that or what i should do?
(no mods, pure reinstalled vanilla 1.1)

[prime jasper]

Oh okay. I think shells are not that hard to make once you look at some inspirationnal material and realise what you can do.

The hardest part immo is to make clean logistic, power supply and walkway to make the inside as pleasant as the outside.

But taking care of a good outside is really the easiest and first step towards pleasant factories.

[shrewd palm]

when in doubt verify files and/or update graphics drivers. if those dont work then i will not be able to help further

[thick oak]

I always end up with pretty factories that get sealed off because you can't move around in them at all lol.

[cunning glade]

This is part of shells for me

Lighting and catwalks in my factorys

Cuz all the machines look pretty clean I think

I try too avoid clipping but some light clipping is fine

[prime jasper]

Yeah. It used to be the same but I think I did my first walkable and nice looking factory from the inside. Well there is still a bit of messy wiring here and there but it is on the right path.

But it is kinda very long to learn so if you care about building aesthetic it definitely makes you build less factories in the same amount of time.😖

[unkempt blade]

oh shells like my colorful tower BP to build stuff inside? #screenshots message

[prime jasper]

If only your PFP could vomit rainbows it would be perfect.👌

[cunning glade]

Not quite but kinda lol but like walls basically and decoration

[unkempt blade]

have you already seen this megafactory I did? #screenshots message or this one #screenshots message

[cunning glade]

Ugh I'm so hyped too go home from work

I have so many plans and ideas what I'll actually get too who knows

[prime jasper]

What's cool with walls is that once you made one you like in a blueprint you can reuse him everywhere.

But inside planning of the factories remains always hard for me. A blueprint that fitted a crafter won't fit a manufacturer, a refinery or worse, a particle accelerator.

[fleet rampart]

huh

[cunning glade]

Ah blueprints

The things I will never get around too making

[prime jasper]

It is so absurd I love it.😭

[fleet rampart]

why is the server so dead for 25k members

[cunning glade]

Its later at night🤷

People often are actually playing the game

This game is good and addictive unlike other games

[prime jasper]

You should definitely give them a try. Especially if you want to work with interesting designs.

[unkempt blade]

Yeah I like building ridiculous colorful stuff. I'm not very good at the industrial look

[cunning glade]

So people play it instead of spending time in discord unless they can't play it

Imo

[frail sleet]

it has active conversation 24/7

[cunning glade]

See I'm not very creative on the spot for blueprints I feel like I'd spend too much attempting too make them so my brain goes why waste time making them when I can just build the factory I need

Idk if creative it the right word but my brain would prolly just blank

I see things I make in the world I wanna copy but I can't just place a bp designer on it

Like in Factorio which I hate tbh

[fleet rampart]

how much nuclear pasta do u guys recommend automating a minute

[prime jasper]

Yeah you have to anticipate that. When you are building something you don't have yet you have to first place the designer, build it there and then paste it outside.

Once you started the other way around there is no way of comming back unfortunately.

[frail sleet]

enough to supply 1100 to spelevator

[fleet rampart]

rn i have 2

[frail sleet]

if you are fine waiting 9 hours that's fine, if not then not

[unkempt blade]

I feel like the limited space forces me to be more creative. I'll have some production chain in mind and then I have to figure out how to squeeze portions into the cube so it looks good and can be combined into a fully scaled factory (and then I vomit color everywhere to decorate it)

[prime jasper]

It depends of fast you are going towards your goal of elevator. I think have 1 per minute rn and it got me through to the last phase pretty quick.

Now I need a thousand. I will have to wait some time but considering how much work there is automating everything else I don't think I will have to upgrade lol.

[fleet rampart]

im still on phase 4 so i assume they will fill up while i do the last parts

[prime jasper]

I think my playtime before automating everything and supplying everything else must amount to dozen of hours so I will have all the nuclear pasta I need then.

[frail sleet]

i would say "just build more later, it's not so bad" but it kinda is lol

yeah 9hrs isn't a lot of time in the scope of the game, as long as you're storing them.

[prime jasper]

Yeah exactly

[unkempt blade]

Yeah especially if you're planning to continue a save past where progression stops. Can always just go work on a project while elevator parts chug along

Can just go play with trains or whatever instead of worrying too much about scaling elevator stuff 😄

[prime jasper]

Yeah, there is plenty of other stuff to do (like collecting mercer sphere, hard drives and summers loops around the map.).

[cunning glade]

On the subject of pasta how much does one manufacturer make?

1?

[fleet rampart]

0

[fleet rampart]

you need particle accelerators for nuclear pasta and they produce 0.5 a minute

[cunning glade]

I don't wanna check wiki cuz I don't wanna know what they need

Okay I see

[fleet rampart]

ngl im still on turbo fuel power ;-;

[cunning glade]

Yeah may redo my power factory soon

Currently it does 31gw

But I'm using like 2600 oil or something

With blenders and alts now I can make it better

[unkempt blade]

just doing vanilla fuel recipes or is a lot of that plastic/rubber/etc?

[cunning glade]

Vanilla fuel

The resin gets train too my plastic factory

[unkempt blade]

You'll get a nice big boost from alts then. Even then it might be a good idea to just build it somewhere else though

[round parcel]

man i love this game so much

[cunning glade]

Shit if I do the alts do they still make resin as a biproduct

[fleet rampart]

gonna transfer from turbo fuel (35k) to rocket fuel (~85k) soon

[round parcel]

banger from sweden'

[unkempt blade]

you're always going to want more power and even less-optimal recipes are still producing power 😄

[silk temple]

I thought it'd be straight forwards to recycle waste and then 8 hours went by and now I have a waste disposal megabase and 60GW of power

[cunning glade]

Backup grid will hold well I re do it

Its over at blue Crater

So not really many better places for a fuel plant tbh

[silk temple]

technically if you got creative you could put it in a few places but I find having all those resources there along side it you can use em to convert the waste into plutonium

[unkempt blade]

yeah you're kind of down in a corner away from some of the other really good oil spots but there should be at least a second patch down near you I think

[cunning glade]

Using like 15gw I think I have a little over 1000 batterys how long would those hold cuz that's how long id have too upgrade it

I still have a lot of space

[silk temple]

quite a bit

[cunning glade]

And id rather make the current one better

[unkempt blade]

if you inspect your power poles it should tell you how long it'll last (but you'd have to kind of guess at current estimate minus whatever not running your current power grid uses)

[cunning glade]

As nuclear will be soon

[silk temple]

I usually focus on building like 4x more power than I'll need because I always end up using it

[hard ivy]

6-7h

[cunning glade]

Plenty of time

[silk temple]

I think I have 10 batteries built 😄

[cunning glade]

Zoopable battery's

How I built so many or if u mean cuz less useful

Id rather have it then not with all my power needing power too make it

[hard ivy]

I have 0

[unkempt blade]

I have a power storage BP I use. I mostly play MP and it's nice to have some protection from friends making mistakes with power stuff haha

[silk temple]

I think it's fine to have batteries but it kinda goes against the principle of the game

storing resources is the opposite of using resources

[unkempt blade]

Yeah just depends how experienced you are I think. When I was getting started I'd accidentally shut down the grid semi-regularly

[silk temple]

I see the value in using them to bridge gaps during power upgrades though

[frail sleet]

You also need them to bridge gaps on variable power usage machines

[silk temple]

exactly, there's no shame in using them until you have a feeling for power generation

You dont need em, they can be nice

[frail sleet]

Like, even if you set everything up perfectly, a setup with power storage will allow a world to run with less power generation than a setup without them

and they don't cost any ongoing resources at all, it's a one time cost, so you don't lose anything either. Whereas if you build more power, that costs more resources constantly.

[silk temple]

rocket fuel is so hillariously broken mid game that you can have enough power to last until nuclear

[unkempt blade]

It's nice with geo power to smooth out available power instead of just using the low point of the wave

[silk temple]

time is money, friend

[frail sleet]

takes more time to build more power than it does to make and drop power storage bp's

[cunning glade]

When is rocket fuel

[silk temple]

time and resources building batteries can be spent building more power and progress instead

[hard ivy]

T8

[frail sleet]

p4, same as uranium power

[cunning glade]

I see

[cunning glade]

Time wise it took about 5mins

Less maybe a min

[silk temple]

that's not true in the sense of production though

your machines need the time to make all the resources to do that

[unkempt blade]

I think you may be able to unlock it in the MAM before T7 but you'd need to wait until then for blenders to actually make it

[frail sleet]

they have plenty of time to build excess between p1 and p3-4

[silk temple]

1000 batteries is 10K frames, and like millions of wire, 343K encased beams

[frail sleet]

you don't need 1000 power storage. 10-100 is the magnitude that you need to smooth out variable power.

[hard ivy]

Power storage only gives you as much power as the difference between your average and maximum consumption. It's really not a lot

Less than that, really, because you generally want a safety margin

[unkempt blade]

oh nvm, you need aluminum tanks for the MAM

[silk temple]

no but building batteries early does cut into your frames and beams which are extrememly valuable to progress

[frail sleet]

you don't need them early or in any significant number. Putting down e.g. 1 per geo generator is fine

[silk temple]

im not saying there's anything wrong with having the insurance but it does impede progress

[cunning glade]

What

[silk temple]

That's the material cost

[cunning siren]

I'm not sure how many players speed run this game

[cunning glade]

Nowhere close

[silk temple]

well look at the completion rate of the game itself

[cunning glade]

5 x 1000 doesn't equal 343k

[frail sleet]

building 10-20% more power so that your minimum power is sufficient rather than your average power also impedes progress, but even more so.

Building enough power storage to run on average rather than minimum power is the lowest time and effort solution

either way it's not huge effort, but storage to buffer the difference between min and avg is not at all bad

[unkempt blade]

the only speedrun format that matters is the race to 10k automated factory carts

[cunning glade]

It didn't take long too get the mats

[silk temple]

power is the resource to do things in this game

[cunning glade]

Took 100k wire but wire is easy

[silk temple]

scaling power early and fast translates into the most progress, fastest

[cunning glade]

Thats what I did

The second I got oil and fuel gens I made a 31gw plant

[silk temple]

that's generally the best idea

[cunning glade]

Haven't had too worry about power in forever

And even when I do I have like 7 hours too fix it

[silk temple]

then you can rock up resource nodes and just utilize 100% of them and move on

oil power is basically free, it is way too strong

[hard ivy]

20 GW from 600 oil and some water is pretty OP. Especially at T5

[unkempt blade]

It's kind of back and forth. You need power to scale manufacturing and you need manufacturing to build out power (and progress tech). If you've scaled power to the moon but 80% of it is sitting there untouched it's not helping anything yet

[zenith pecan]

Most of my power is unused, I've been too busy to build for it.

[spark sky]

I know, I don't really need this power plant, but, the idea was just swimming in my head, so I thought, "Why not? Someone will like it." It's not finished, still a work in progress. #screenshots message

[cunning siren]

I don't play this game in the "More Faster" speed run way 🤷 I focus on enjoying what I am doing, I guess both can be true though

[silk temple]

oil is so strong though they you can just do what KYO said and never have to worry about it again until like T8

[silk temple]

Yeah I don't want to be on the side of saying dont play like that

but I will argue it isn't that valuable to do it

stored resources are resources that are not being used

[spark sky]

I'm not really that interested in finishing the game any time soon, there is just so much fun to be had just exploring and building stuff.

[silk temple]

if you need to do that to avoid power shutdowns then the later half of the game is probably going to be a nightmare because there is simply not enough power generation

98% of the players do not finish this game

[cunning siren]

"Value" is subjective to what one enjoys 🤷 if one wants to be super lazy with power generation and does not "sink everything" power storage can be very valuable. There is no "one way" to enjoy something

[silk temple]

or is it 95% based on steam achievements

[silk temple]

But value in a factory building genre is kinda measurable.

[spark sky]

I'm doing it more as a sort of role-playing, "I'm improving this stuff," way of playing.

[shrewd gyro]

how long do dropped items last?

as in inv---> drop item

[silk temple]

I'm not saying to play like that or dont I'm saying it's not only not optimal but counter-productive (in the literal sense)

[spark sky]

That's a good question. I've seen animal parts on the ground days after I killed them.

[silk temple]

they last forever afaik

[spark sky]

Not sure about dropped items.

[cunning siren]

So it sounds like you are saying because you can measure something there is only "one way" to objectively enjoy it? 🤔 I disagree

[silk temple]

I never talked about enjoyment, you are talking about that

[shrewd gyro]

Ive dropped a single item on top of the storage container so I know which on is leave and which one is wood

[silk temple]

I'm saying it's counter-productive to saving the day™

If more pioneers focused on producing rather than storing then we would save more of the puppies and/or kittens.

[spark sky]

Well, I have a regular guest at work that plays Factorio a lot. I suggested that he try Satisfactory. Last time I saw him, he couldn't stop talking about Satisfactory.

[spare portal]

I literally just got satisfactory and I can already feel my life slipping away from me

[silk temple]

see you in 200 hours

[spare portal]

feels like when I first found rimworld during the summer and proceeded to spend pretty much all summer inside torturing my colonists

[shrewd gyro]

got just under 100 hours I I still haven't got to steel... tend to build a coal power plant then restart for some reason

[spark sky]

Well, I played a little Cyberpunk 2077 a few days ago, I didn't think I did that much and wasted most of the day on just a couple of missions and picking up junk I found. I'd rather waste the day designing stuff in Satisfactory.

[silk temple]

Next time you get the urge to restart you could always just walk over to one of the other starting zones

[spare portal]

when the fuck do you unlock coal? Mf im still working with biofuel generators 😭

[deft wagon]

Youve never gotten to steel in 100 hours? Jesus

[deft wagon]

Pretty early on in the game, phase 2 i think

[spark sky]

Unlock coal? Just find it.

[unkempt blade]

if my joy from factory carts is limitless can it really be measured?

[cunning glade]

Rude

[shrewd gyro]

you need to put smart plating in the orbital elevator

[silk temple]

Soon. To make biofuel last painful you can throw your leaves into one container, wood in the other then use machines to automate it

[deft wagon]

Well yeah but you need the milestone to use jt

[silk temple]

ironically factory carts aren't that stupid to ferry around parts bstween the factory 😛

[spark sky]

For power, perhaps, but not to make steel.

[cunning siren]

Ok, so it sounds like you play the game for reasons other than enjoyment?

[deft wagon]

😭 You can play the game any way you want, im 60 or so hours in and im almost finished with phase 3

[spark sky]

At least, I don't think so.

[deft wagon]

You need the foundry which you get phase 3

[spare portal]

Well I'm evil, so I've fully automated all the first level stuff (plates, rods etc) so now all I do is commit mass deforestation while I wait for enough parts to complete the next milestone

[deft wagon]

Or two?

[unkempt blade]

Yeah they're actually really good if you've got foundations for them. The load/unload time is very short because it's a small inventory so it all kind of evens out with largers vehicles

[spare portal]

god I love the chainsaw, you know thats the first thing I unlocked after completing the tutorial

[spark sky]

Huh? I'm working on Phase 2 and I have the foundry.

[silk temple]

This might shock you but making an optimal factory in a factory building simulator is fun for people 😛

[spare portal]

pretty sure people who like this game just have stupid levels of ocd

[cunning siren]

Ahh, so it sounds like sarcasm is being used to indicated that you do play this game for enjoyment

[deft wagon]

I swear you get the milestone in phase 2

[cunning glade]

This game makes me think I do

[spare portal]

I kid you not I spent 20 minutes trying to line up conveyer belts properly

[silk temple]

I'm a developer so there's some aspects that cross into it

[spark sky]

Yeah, well, I have it, and I thought I had done Phase 2, but the upper right of my screen says "Phase 2" and gives the requirements.

[silk temple]

I'm not bringing an argument of enjoyment. You can attack my argument that storing resources isn't optimal without trying to paint me as someone that is saying you can't have fun if you play x,y,z way

[deft wagon]

Might be miss-remembering the progression then

[silk temple]

Most people give up this game before they complete it. I was giving an inight into some game theory on ways you can play to make beating it more likely

[unkempt blade]

some people just want to see line go up and some people want to minecraft pretty stuff and lots of imbetweeners 😄

[cunning glade]

Ofc it's optimal

[cunning siren]

I'm trying to understand what you are saying, not have an argument of any sort

[cunning glade]

Having a storage container of every item used for building is extremely helpful

[spare portal]

I'm playing purely coz of the trains

[cunning glade]

Good luck getting them first

[silk temple]

I'm not saying people need to play perfectly. I love seeing spaghetti mess and I love making it. I was merely saying my opinion based on my experience of the game that cap's are a waste of time

[spark sky]

Anyway, not sure about making things optimal, I'm trying to make things that work okay and look interesting. I see all those fancy builds and think, "Man, I wish I could do that." Then I find out that some of them are using mods. I'm trying to see what I can do in vanilla.

[spare portal]

I literally just started so I dont doubt it will take awhile, right now my goal is literally any source of power that doesnt require me to commit mass deforestation

[silk temple]

Variable power comes in way too late and fuel is too OP

okay not OP but it's very good

[unkempt blade]

rocket fuel made nuclear power feel a lot more optional than during EA

[silk temple]

Nuclear is actually amazing

[spark sky]

I even made a thing that uses some belts and splitters and an industrial storage unit to make a display of items I've found (you just put one of each item in and they keep going around the various belts and elevators).

[unkempt blade]

it's great, but it's a much larger logistics puzzle than oil-based power is

[silk temple]

since they added a way to deal with waste it should be considered

[spark sky]

I'm sure ADA would not approve.

[silk temple]

it's a good idea to split up large puzzles into small pieces.
Put a plant down it needs rods, it produces waste.
Rods in -> Waste out

[leaden turret]

🧩

[silk temple]

Most logistic puzzles in this game are similar. I need some stuff, it needs to be here and it's going there.

[shy mulch]

Hello. What's today's argument 😎

[spark sky]

Here again, that video I watched on blueprints said to place a bunch of blueprint designers next to each other so you can lay out the modules of your design (if it's bigger than one designer) and have the places where they join next to each other.

[unkempt blade]

We're trying to decide the best color(s) to paint a train based on the number of freight cars it uses

[silk temple]

painting trains and their stations is a good new player tip

[cunning glade]

Coal after u get the first 50 smart plating

[leaden turret]

red wunz go fasta

[cunning glade]

Purple cuz it's the best color

[unkempt blade]

I say rainbow if there are 4 or more cars but I'm a purist like that

[spark sky]

Um, do you know resistor color codes?

[leaden turret]

Prince said Purple Rain not Purple Train 🕺

[cunning glade]

Purples just the best

[shell saddle]

Hello

[unkempt blade]

I do! I have degrees in EE actually but I still use the color chart 😆

[silk temple]

my eyes are too shit I use the mutimeter for them

[shrewd gyro]

making factory elevated, is 3 foundation between each pillar enough, too little or too much?

[unkempt blade]

relatable

[spark sky]

I'm just an electronics technician by training and a HAM by hobby. I also used to work at RadioShack.

[silk temple]

I love ham

[cunning glade]

How much storage is too much storage

[silk temple]

depends on what

[cunning glade]

Aluminum ingots casings and sheets

I'm making 780 of ingots and 1560 of casing sheets prolly 780

[silk temple]

casings you'll use a lot more of them and quickly than plates

[spark sky]

Speaking of ham, (not radio)... The teacher was grading papers and called Johny up to her desk, then said, "No, little Johny, Hamlet is not a story about what happened to Piglet at Christmas."

[silk temple]

bahaha

[cunning glade]

Prolly do 5 for each

[leaden turret]

something is rotten in the state of denmark
danish bacon

[cunning glade]

Want a decent sized storage area for train buffer plus too take up space

[silk temple]

the factory that would use all that would be MASSIVE

I have two machines making casings storing them in just the train storage for a 60GW factory

[cunning glade]

We will see if I need more hopefully not

[silk temple]

what are you planning to make?

[cunning glade]

Just needed aluminum 🤷

Got it unlocked wanted a factory for it

[silk temple]

well can check that one off then

[cunning glade]

Lol I figured

And was hoping it gives me 5 belts of 780 ingots

[silk temple]

this goes back to what I was saying before

say you make a factory that uses 6 containers of alu casings right?

[cunning glade]

Am following

I don't remember exactly what u were talking about before

[sick falcon]

how do i find sam

[silk temple]

at the beginning there is some value in it because it's there to be used but when you run out you might be making only 500/m and need 10,000/m

[cunning glade]

Exploring

[unkempt blade]

I support doing an overkill aluminum factory just for the sink points alone

[cunning glade]

It was also fun

[unkempt blade]

that's an even better reason

[cunning glade]

Seems like one of the last fun things I do

[cunning glade]

When should one use a roundabout

[leaden turret]

when one is british

[cunning glade]

That's so real

[unkempt blade]

for trains? I'd say maybe on low traffic networks

they're pretty easy to jam on higher traffic setups

[cunning glade]

I see cuz both trains leaving with the aluminum and coming in with the ore would be going into the same 2 tracks and I don't wanna cause traffic issues

[oblique kite]

shoot man its been so long since ive played im trying to figure out what my half finished factory is supposedto make

[cunning glade]

I'm thinking I should split it from somewhere else but don't wanna

So idk yet

[unkempt blade]

I think a lot of times intersections with overlapping tracks are going to be just fine as long as you use paths correctly

I make really overengineered intersections because I think they're fun and I played too much Skylines #screenshots message

[cunning glade]

I wouldn't say it's an intersection

[sick falcon]

what does purity temp mean

[cunning glade]

I'll take a quick photo when home in 10 and send it in screenshots wanna make sure I don't cause any bottlenecks

[cunning glade]

Its when alot of nodes are close too each other

Normally pure and normal I think

[unkempt blade]

it means it's a little rock that you bonk with a chisel and not an infinite node

[cunning glade]

That's not what I was told or figured out

[sick falcon]

i know its not that

[cunning glade]

Cuz the caterium with 2 pure nodes and and another near swamp does it

[oblique kite]

any ideas what this is making lol #screenshots message
Its labelled bauxite center

[unkempt blade]

Does it have a rock in the middle of those nodes though? Because I think you'd see it then

[oblique kite]

refinery makes alumina and silica alumina gets turned into scrap

scrap makes crazy amount of ingots

silica gets trashed

id imagine its one of these things #screenshots message

360 aluminum produced per minute

[proven zephyr]

how can i change the max player count on my dedicated server

[cunning siren]

Hoverpack withdrawals are real 😆

[cunning glade]

Mods are one

Well I assume atleast there's mods too up the player limit

[oblique kite]

It just became to complicated that it was frustrating lol

But man I love the game and now my friends got it

But I’m going crazy figuring out what all this did

[dense violet]

you can also just google which file to edit instead of having to go through hte hasle of a mod

[oblique kite]

And ik I’m gonna realize in a week after I use it for smthn else or change it and crash out

[unkempt blade]

check out https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Multiplayer#Sessions_with_more_than_4_players

[cunning glade]

That would work too

[dense violet]

a poorly made bauxite refinery factory

[cunning glade]

How does one add words too the to do list

[oblique kite]

What do you use bauxite for

[dense violet]

aluminium

[oblique kite]

It’s making 360 iron ingots per minute

[dense violet]

lots of stuff in the later half of the game

[cunning glade]

I crashed again

Uhhh hmmm that's not normal

[oblique kite]

How’s it poorly maxe

[dense violet]

well the ingots don't have any where to go, but it looks like they piped in the waste water directly into the system. That's going to lock up if you breathe on it wrong

[oblique kite]

It’s halfway built

[dense violet]

I mean sure? but the main problem is the water

[oblique kite]

Ah yeah it does lock up

I’m just trying to figure out what the end goal was I left this world so long ago

So I know how to continue

[dense violet]

you need quite a few aluminium ingots in the later end of production

[cunning glade]

#screenshots i posted it

i feel like if i add another line in it should be fine

[cunning glade]

Also?

[simple mango]

If there are any FICSIT-Certified Plumbers that can weigh in on #1424548616546025573 message I'd be most appreciative.

[sick falcon]

what happens if i send different liquids into the same fluid buffer

[simple mango]

nothing good

[real shale]

Nothing because you can't

The game doesn't let you

[simple mango]

There's always a "why are you doing that?" but the end result is an inevitable "do not do that."

[cunning glade]

I figured out the to do list

U hover mouse on the right side of the screen

Kinda wack

[simple mango]

Blender plumbing make brain hurty

[cunning glade]

Why?

Quite easy u run one pipe one like level up from normal

[simple mango]

the number of inputs, plus uranium rods have byproduct to recycyle

[cunning glade]

And then the other build 2 foundations up and build a line going across the connect down

How I do it was quite easy tbh

[dense violet]

just have some machines run on fresh product, and some run solely on waste. Easy peasy

[leaden turret]

no put head inside pipe, problem solved

[cunning glade]

Could someone who knows trains tell me if my idea from #screenshots will work

Cuz my main thing is there gonna be going different ways idk if that will cause issues

[simple mango]

huffing acid fumes sounds counterproductive, but who am I to argue?

[cunning glade]

Or if I should just have both come in from the same spot and leave thru either the same or different

[proven zephyr]

did this and it still shows 0/4 in the manager thing on satisfactory

[simple mango]

link to your post, not the channel

[proven zephyr]

after i changed it to 6

[cunning glade]

Fair I just posted it or I would

[dense violet]

you want to make all junctions perfectly flat

[cunning glade]

But noted for next time

[cunning glade]

Why?

This is news

[dense violet]

it does weird thigns to collisions and signaling

[cunning glade]

I see

So far it works just fine

[unique kernel]

heyo so uh i have a tiny tiny issue my train signals arnt signaling

[dense violet]

a super common problem people have with signals and collisions often boil down to 'make that junction flat'

[cunning glade]

But I believe adding more may cause issues

I don't think I've had train issues wanna avoid them

[dense violet]

I mean it's up to you. Just a warning about things that cause problems. Can non flat junctions work? ofc. Do you want to deal with the pain of rebuilding/designing when it doesn't'? only you can answer that

[cunning glade]

I think I'll make this the entrance

Fair for now it's an easy entrance too fix if needed

One of those ain't broken don't fix it situations tbh

[unique kernel]

for 1 reason or another it wont let me place the signals on the opposite side of the tracks it lets me do the right side no problem but on certain sections it wants to place on the left side (trying to make em both outbound instead of a out and in) and i for the life of me cant figure out how to ficit

[cunning glade]

Now why do my train tracks decide when I'm placing them on a flat ground too tilt down into the foundation

[unkempt blade]

Sorry I probably can't help much beyond pointing you at the instructions. Did you restart the server after changing its config?

[proven zephyr]

yes and other people cant join because "encryptiontoken missing" or smth along those lines

[dense violet]

have you tried rebuilding that section of rail?

maybe save and reload.

[unkempt blade]

hrmm I'd maybe try the experts in #dedicated-servers

[cunning glade]

Smart man could u screenshots again

I posted another odd thing I don't understand but just pisses me off

[dense violet]

that is weird. is that happening on all foundations or just that?

[unique kernel]

unless your a city planner in my area theres quite a few areas that need traffic lights but instead they put in round abouts in areas where theres no issues like at all and to make matters worse in my area people cant drive in a straight line let alone around a circle

[silk temple]

I wish there was a UI for pulling sloops out of machines that I forgot I put them in. We need a sloop station or something

[cunning glade]

So fucking real

[dense violet]

roudabouts are pretty great tbh. Great for road traffic flow.

[cunning glade]

They just decide roundabouts fix everything and then 90% of people don't know how too fucking use them

I had a cunt sit in the roundabout and let people jn

Oh

[silk temple]

round abouts are best in areas where there are no issues because isn't the decision made before it becomes one?

[leaden turret]

#rules

[cunning glade]

Yeah didn't know

[silk temple]

I mean they do work when people proiperly yield

[dense violet]

WOW that's new. Little bot is being a c*nt

[unique kernel]

see "people cant drive in a straight line" for more info as to why there a issue

[crisp jetty]

Yo so when do I get a dope ass space rifle

[cunning glade]

Anyways cobalt why do my train tracks build slanted up or down

[silk temple]

I mean driving in a straight line would be an issue for a ROUND about

[cunning glade]

Or someone

[dense violet]

did you try other foundations? pointing it at a dif spot? rebuilding that foundation?

[leaden turret]

I mean most people driving on a roundabout are in a car, not a straight line

[dense violet]

saving and reloading?

[unique kernel]

people cant do that either they just wip around the circle like its a minor curve in the road

[cunning glade]

I can do it if I put it right next too the current one

[silk temple]

why would you wanna stop at a red light vs just keep driving?

[dense violet]

did you try a different foundation xD rebuilding that one?

[cunning glade]

I've been on for 20mins and was having this issue last night

Rebuilding yes

[dense violet]

maybe rebuild it as a regular foundation instead of an inverted ramp

[cunning glade]

And for every foundation I add it does it there

[unique kernel]

cuz at a red light people gotta stop at a circle half the time you gotta wait for someone to let you out dispite there being a yeild sign\

[cunning glade]

Yes that helped

Didn't know inverted ramps did that

[silk temple]

let you out to where?

[dense violet]

games gonna game I guess

[cunning glade]

Annoying asf

[dense violet]

they shouldn't xD

[silk temple]

oh you mean people who stop for the roundabout entrance

that's just a skill issue

[unique kernel]

yea but no dice still tries to have me place it the other way

[cunning glade]

What's the whole deal with signals being too close

Like how close can they be

[dense violet]

save and reload?

[cunning glade]

On separate tracks ig

[hard mantle]

so uh when im like just starting this game although ive seen stuff on it should i like try and keep my factories organized or make like just rods and plates and stuff and then organize it later once i have like foundations?

[exotic prism]

@alpine anchor compact coal is a recipe unlocked through the mam, its more efficent coal

[silk temple]

I would say most of the fun is in making the mistakes

[cunning glade]

I craft enough stuff too make foundations first

[silk temple]

try your best to complete the game and then look for strategies online for your second playthrough

[cunning glade]

But that's me I don't build without foundations

[hard mantle]

so just try and get stuff running first and then optimize it later?

[alpine anchor]

do you know what tree so I can get it next time I play?

[silk temple]

Honestly this is one of the best mindsets to have

[hard mantle]

complete it??? i thought i was just supposed to be building factories???

[exotic prism]

sulfur

[silk temple]

it has a story, goals and an ending!

[dense violet]

!wikisearch compacted_coal

[raven axle]

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

[dense violet]

the wiki is your friend

[cunning glade]

Okay chat ty for the help

[alpine anchor]

thank you!

[cunning glade]

I'm gonna add my to do list do a dab and music and factory building time

I most definitely will be back

[silk temple]

I feel like Satisfactory some how does exploration better than a lot of open world RPGs too

[dense violet]

fair cop

[silk temple]

Sometimes I wonder off then hours goes by

[cunning glade]

So real

Exploration in this game is amazing

[silk temple]

then it's like.. oh yeah im building a factory

[cunning glade]

And the one thing I dislike about factorio

[unique kernel]

one of the side entrances of the roundabout theres 1 right by me thats got the main road going down hill then you have a drive thru historic park (think battlefield) and they recently added some townhomes with an entrance that connects opposite to the battlefield and its yeild signs on all 4 ways of the circle but those on the main road coming down hill just wip right around the circle barely even slowing down so yea what fun that did

[cunning glade]

How u just sit and build pretty much

Don't really need too explore

[silk temple]

OMG I DID IT

[hard mantle]

so ive played this like a little before but i didnt like the first world option aka the plains or whatever its called cause like the landscape was weird so would it be like fine if i used the dunes since they seem like really flat which is like a goal i want

to have like mega factories spreading across a ton of stuff

[silk temple]

I'll post in #screenshots

[cunning glade]

I recommend northern forest best start imo

[silk temple]

Finally can 100% this game 😄

[cunning glade]

Use the dunes late game when u have the stuff too use all the stuff there

[silk temple]

Northern forest is very good

[hard mantle]

idkk those seem similar to the plains but even worse

[cunning glade]

Not even close

[silk temple]

forest is very central

[cunning glade]

Not only that but if u find a crash site free like 80 reinforced iron plates

Which allows u too make a good amount of constructers

[hard mantle]

would i be able to like modify the terrain later or break down some trees to make flat areas for a mega thing?

[shell saddle]

Currently my only experience with the game is Let’s Game it Out, so I have no clue what anyone’s saying

[cunning glade]

Trees yes

Terrain no

[hard mantle]

so would i just need to put foundations down varying in height to make it even

[cunning glade]

But just build up floating some and connect it too the ground later with pillars more floors etc

That's what I do

Cuz I dislike floating factorys but building ground level sucks

[hard mantle]

northen forest it is

[unique kernel]

and to make it worse its uphill from a light so during rushhour it backs up past the circle so if you wanna go that way good luck getting out thru the sides and in case that wasint bad enough they built the townhomes too close to the road and recently someone ran off the road speeding thru the circle and right into the gas meter for a row of the townhouses didnt hurt nothing but they had to shut off the gas which those folks used for everything from heating to cooking

[cunning glade]

Have fun man it's a great spot imo

[hard mantle]

yeah i want my stuff to be semirealistic (besides from what it seems like infinite sources of resources) so not just floating

[cunning glade]

I agree I go too the cliff with the limestone and iron build floating over the canyon and then connect it later when viable

[spark sky]

Hm, 868.1 hours. Nope, I don't like this game, not at all.

[cunning glade]

One of my fav starting spots if not my fav

Dune doesn't appeal too me

[dense violet]

build multiple floors - infinite space

[cunning glade]

And plus save it for late game builds

Where I not only want the space but the resources

[hard mantle]

holy crap this place is beautiful

[cunning glade]

Yes it is

[hard mantle]

and i laned in like the most open place ever

[cunning glade]

Its a fantastic spot I'm telling u now you'll see

[hard mantle]

and an immediate power slug that i cant use yet

[cunning glade]

Idk which is the actual best

But prolly either Northern or desert is my guess

[polar leaf]

No matter when I check on this server, there is a set of people that I always see

[cunning glade]

That's how it is in most discord servers

[hard mantle]

from videos ive seen people choose the desert the most

[polar leaf]

goodanswer

[cunning glade]

True

[polar leaf]

I like rocky desert

[hard mantle]

probably cause most game communites have a set of extremely devoted fans who dont like obsess over the game but can tell you almost everything about it

[cunning glade]

Rocky is also solid

[silent grail]

When do you get overclocking? I did phase 1 and I have a power shard but the space in the miner is still locked

[cunning glade]

Mam

[polar leaf]

rocky is flat, near oil and a lot of pure resources like iron limestone and coal

[cunning glade]

Research my guy or girl

[silent grail]

thanks

[polar leaf]

I think there isn't a thing that you can't find near rocky desert

even late game

it's all close

[cunning glade]

Truth that's where my aluminum factory is

Make 3900 ingots a min:)

[polar leaf]

just slightly south theres bauxite oil and caterium

[spark sky]

Well, I like starting in the southwest, the grasslands? I get iron, copper, limestone, a pure coal node near a caterium node, and if I go down the cave with the giant spider, SAM.

[polar leaf]

north there is nitrogen and uranium

[cunning glade]

Shhh

[spark sky]

Lots of loose wood to pick up, too.

[cunning glade]

Actually I should go smoke

How long ago did I say I was leaving

[polar leaf]

Idk

[cunning glade]

Not that long ago only 12 mins

That's not bad my ADHD will take over and I'll keep talking for like an hour in discord when I wanna game

[spark sky]

Shoot, I was going to say, "Sometime last week."

[cunning glade]

Real

How it feels when I wanna smoke and instead talk In discord for an hour or 2 instead

I found new music today too this smoke is gonna be great

[hard mantle]

dude i just found another power slug

[cunning glade]

I love when artists have 2000 or more unrealsed songs that get leaked all the time

So much music too find

[hard mantle]

i swear im not even looking for these i was just looking for a good place to put the hub

[cunning glade]

Downsides it's less available cuz platforms like too remove it mad annoying

[polar leaf]

store them to use when u can do somersloop trick to double power shards

I feel like I need to automate them but I'm nowhere near phase 5

[cunning glade]

Nah use them

[polar leaf]

I did

[cunning glade]

There's so many on the map

[polar leaf]

I used like 2k powers shards

I cleared a whole biome

Like over 100 puple ones

[hard mantle]

i feel like on thing thats gonne be the hardest for me to do is power

[polar leaf]

a lot of yellow and blue too

[hard mantle]

ive never been good at power management in games like this

[cunning glade]

Drop down the canyon and over the river there is coal

Useful soonish for power

But otherwise always collect leaves

[cunning glade]

Just watch the grid use a lot of power storage

[nocturne condor]

Attention all Ficsit Employees:

Earth is in great danger, and it needs your help to wipe all the Information redacted and save the planet!

But to do This, They need lots of resources, planet exploitation and Ficsit brand products!

To help it, all it needs is your credit card number, the three digits on the back, and the expiration month and year.

But, you gotta be quick so that the people of Earth can buy Ficsit products and save the puppies and kittens on earth!

[polar leaf]

no not again!

[cunning glade]

I hate everything

Why the fuck does tab close the Damm fucking to do list

Instead of make an indent or whatever like every other normal fucking typing program like😭

Too sober for this bs man

[cunning siren]

There is a "free power option" If you prefer to explore, all the geothermals on the map provide ~7100 MW. The unlock is at the bottom of the Caterium tree in the MAM and "early" High-Speed Connectors can be bought at the AWESOME Shop and or looted from lizard doggos. 🤷 it's good to have options

[cunning glade]

Suggestion instead of when u accidentally close the too do list it deleting anything u write and instead autosaves it like??

[nocturne condor]

build so many you forget. run out of power? build more so you forget again and rinse and repeat

[unique kernel]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1424561494502146089
heres the start of my Oil Fields Power Plant and plastic rubber mill with a tad bit of aluminum processing

[unique kernel]

me: shards shards all day long

[cunning glade]

As I don't wanna spoil anything u get ways too basically get free power granted ur making power already

Id say power is relatively easy main thing is don't let ur max consumption go over ur max production

And connect all all grids

Which I need too figure out my power

Apparently I can use 40gw

[real shale]

POWER?

[rose saffron]

this is quite different from Factorio

[cunning glade]

But only make 31 and only use 15gw

[shy mulch]

Just make way more power than you think you need, like 5x, then forget about it

[cunning glade]

I don't understand how I'm using 15gw but can use 41gw

[rose saffron]

I'm in the early phase with biomass burners, finally got the chainsaw unlocked

[hard mantle]

the thing is i dont know what i need

[shy mulch]

Some machines are inactive

[real shale]

You have 41 GW capacity and 15 GW consumption

[hard mantle]

im just putting miners down and making stuff like rods and plates

[cunning glade]

Also how do I know if my battery is charging

[hard mantle]

and wires

[cunning glade]

I get this but my world isn't that big

[real shale]

Well not exactly, they are still active, the only that does that is biomass burners

[unique kernel]

welp im officially embracing my inner homer simson cuz i just unlocked nuclear baby woohoo wheres some donuts?

[cunning glade]

I don't get what's using so much

[polar leaf]

a singleee machine can use allat tbf ( I know that isn't the case but still )

[cunning glade]

Is there a way u can see what's consuming the most power with interactive map

[real shale]

What stage are you at

[cunning glade]

4

Well doing it

[shy mulch]

Were not talking about power generation, he said power usage

[cunning glade]

Is blue good or bad for batteries

Or power storage

[real shale]

Blue is good

If you look at any power pole you should see a battery symbol with an arrow

[cunning glade]

Cuz ig it drained it's at 36% was at 100

[real shale]

Click the arrow and it'll show you if it's charging or not

[cunning glade]

I need too figure out power maybe

Last I knew it was 100

And max was 21gw

I've doubled it and idk how

[real shale]

Fuel generators can do a lot

[unique kernel]

blue is good orange is not good

[real shale]

I have a stack of 24 that gives me 15 GW alone fully overclocked

As for how you are draining your batteries with so much surplus I don't know how

Something makes me question whether or not the grid with the batteries might be islanded

[cunning glade]

I see it'll take 22hours too charge my power storage

20-22

[polar leaf]

amateur

[cunning glade]

I wish I could see what machines are using the most amount of power

[polar leaf]

I have stack that generates 36gw

[real shale]

You know I could quadruple that if I wanted to right

[polar leaf]

You know when I said a stack I meant a single stack

total is 200GW

[real shale]

Yeah

[polar leaf]

over 200 fully overclocked

[real shale]

I could have a 60GW stack

Albeit I would drain half the world's supply of somersloops to do so

But it's DOABLE

[polar leaf]

😭

[unique kernel]

i dunno bout yall but im playing a very dangerus game rn max consumption over 21GW current production 7GW im doomed if i just slammed everything on rn

[real shale]

Best part is that I was too lazy to run turbo fuel

That's a 60GW stack of just fuel, not even turbo or anything higher

[polar leaf]

I have like 50gw max consuption

with 3 augmentors I have like 300gw ?

powaahhhhhhhhh

[real shale]

You are going to go into a black start

I can just sense it

I hope you have a bunch of priority power switches about

[polar leaf]

rocket fuel is a game changer

[unique kernel]

thats why i got biomass as a jumpstarter

[polar leaf]

1800 crude oil turns into 240gw