satisfactory

[shut fractal]

u can just do it right or use less coal generators its less pain for u it doesnt have to be 100% efficent bro

[sick lynx]

stop spoiling yourself, just keep plinking away at the tech tree

MAM

[fierce glen]

bro there are over 10 water extractors

[quaint scarab]

I hope somebody gets your 🎶 message in a bottle🎶

[sick lynx]

ten is too much for early game

three will fill a Mk1 pipe (they make 360 and the pipe holds 300, you can underclock them)

[sullen gull]

Firstly, you only need three for 8 generators. (Unless overclocking). Second, check headlift

[fierce glen]

im making a big coal power factory

[shut fractal]

what tier stage are u?

[fierce glen]

4

[sick lynx]

how many generators?

[fierce glen]

8 but im going for 20

[sullen gull]

Third, take a look at the "common" setups on the wiki:

!wikisearch cg

[raven axle]

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

[quaint scarab]

I'm on my first playthrough, and I wish I knew not to go too big with coal. lol

[real shale]

AH

[shut fractal]

yeah bro make sure you are not doing anything weird with ur pipes

[fierce glen]

ah

[real shale]

That scared me

[shut fractal]

is ur coal good tho?

[fierce glen]

is too many junction points bad

[fierce glen]

yeah i got 4 coal nodes

[unique kernel]

Finally a fellow old timer with a good sence for music

[sick lynx]

I still need to figure out how pipes work in this game, running two parallel pipes for double flow did not work as expected, but maybe user error

[frail sleet]

yeah, generally junctions interacting with the water pressure systems cause most flow issues. Sometimes they work perfectly, but in many conditions they do not

[fierce glen]

🙏

[quaint scarab]

Hey now, don't be policing what other people listen to 😂

[unique kernel]

So overflow bad?

[shut fractal]

I used to grind satisfactory but I just don't have enough time nowadays

I wish I had more times but it flies so quick I can't get nothing done

[frail sleet]

Generally, all of the inputs/outputs of a junction being on the same vertical height and all of the outputs recieving an equal amount of fluid works well. If you want to send 40 fluid one way and 260 another way, that doesn't work perfectly. You need to leave flow rate headroom in the pipes for sloshing if you do that.

[unique kernel]

Im not but bon Jovi always be good times

[sick lynx]

WHOOAAAAA WE'RE HALF WAY THEEERRE

[unique kernel]

I tend to just plumb it and hope for best

[unique kernel]

LIVIN ON A PRYA

[sick lynx]

Roooxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight...

[sullen gull]

Living in a prius?

[unique kernel]

Put on the red light!

[sick lynx]

I like the part where he sits on a piano and laughs in the beginning

studio blooper that they kept

[quaint scarab]

Yeah, but the police wrote that song and it was sung by Sting lol

That was my joke lol

[sick lynx]

I rewatched Water World last month, what a ride

[strong crater]

hi i need help

into getting started

[unique kernel]

Nah I just "cant get no traction oooh just spinnin wheels!"

[quaint scarab]

That movie had such a cool concept with such a terrible execution. Like my satisfactory playthrough, haha

[sick lynx]

Feel free to ask here, and search/post in #1038092680493801533

[sullen gull]

I hope I was suposse to "hear" Can't get no .. .. Satisfaction.. 😏

[unique kernel]

We all do man dont worry we all crazy here

[sick lynx]

The ending is so funny

[sullen gull]

Crazy? I was Crazy once ...

[unique kernel]

Eh doesn't really work unlike "dashing thru the snow in a rusty Chevrolet down the road i go sliding all the way"

[sullen gull]

Isn't that the Diarrhea song? 😏

[unique kernel]

No no its "jingle bells" but with different lyrics

"I need new piston rings I need some new snow tires my car is held together by a piece of chicken wire"

Really? Noone remembers "rusty Chevrolet"?

[junior plinth]

i was locked in a room...

[unique kernel]

"Oh rust and smoke the heaters broke the door just blew away I light a match to see the dash and then I start to pray-aye"

[sick lynx]

When you're drivin' in a Chevy and your pants are feelin' heavy...

[sullen gull]

A rubber room..

[surreal meteor]

For trains, do you have one item type per freight container?

[unique kernel]

Im locked in a room its got 4 doors a radio and it rolls on roads

[hard ivy]

I have 1 item per entire train/station

[junior plinth]

a rubber room with rats...

[sick lynx]

probably a good idea, just like we do IRL

[sullen gull]

You "can" do multiple items, but it can get hairy unless you load blance really well .

[surreal meteor]

I tried that for rubber and plastic and it worked terribly.

[sullen gull]

And rats make me crazy!

[surreal meteor]

So I just shipped crude oil and processed it at my factory

[sullen gull]

Theoretically, it "can" be done. But like I said, one would most likely need to load balance really well. Else you'll end up getting more of one item usually. The "sorting" part after should be "easy" though imo. I think for ease, most just use 1 item per car/station. Unless they're crazy like @sterile blade 😏

[unique kernel]

Im highly tempted to make DT fuel rods for a fusion reactor but I have a feeling it'll end poorly very poorly

[unique kernel]

Ide do 1 item per car say for a oil processing plant heres a outbound train (Fuel, plastic, rubber, locomotive)

[crisp jetty]

Should I prioritize smart plate production or reinforced plate/rotor production

[sullen gull]

The latter imo

[unique kernel]

They say that "tank cars are useless" I say "then use more!"

[unique kernel]

Depends got plastic? If so then get the alt "plastic smart plating"

[crisp jetty]

No I just unlocked smart plating

[lone marten]

Sloop an assembler

And then use that for project parts

[cunning flicker]

quick question, i have a steel foundry output of 675 per mk5 line, and need to distribute it into 840 for steel beams and 510 for steel pipes. I was thinking of splitting the steel beam manifold into 420 x2 and 510, and then load balancing it into those 3 manifolds. Im working out the load balancer and it does not look fun to build vertically. Is there a better way to distribute without worrying about belt constraints?

im hoping to produce 210 steel beams, 100 steel pipes, and 40 encased industrial pipes

[crisp jetty]

Sloop?

[cunning flicker]

somersloop

[unique kernel]

Ide just overflow the machines and add belt "injectors" that put more into the system further down the line

[cunning flicker]

one of the alien parts

[cunning flicker]

oh like an injection manifold?

[unique kernel]

Precisely

[cunning flicker]

ok sounds good

ill try and make the belts not spaget

[lone marten]

Research the thing in the MAM that lets you add a somersloop to double output, and then you have your project part line

You need circuit boards for that, but you can find those in the world around hard drives

You can also double power shards with them which is pretty nice

(and quadruple alien dna for sinking)

[unique kernel]

If you stack em you can make em merge in in stages say you got 3 belts the first 1 goes in directly the 2nd one follows on top the 3rd then merges in while the bottom one merges in later down the line

[cunning flicker]

oh so have 2 layers, and basically carry the remainder to the next line?"

[unique kernel]

Basically what I mean is to stack the intake lines then run them in

[cunning flicker]

ohh

[lone marten]

I think you want a manifold taking one of the lines, and then once the second line fits in (because the individual machines mooch off some input) you want to merge in the second line

[lethal scroll]

help, idk how, but im stuck on the back of my tractor and i cant get off

how tf do I get off

[unique kernel]

Dismantle it

[lethal scroll]

I cant

[unique kernel]

Oh like dismount?

[lethal scroll]

I cant open the dismantle menu

yes, I'm on the back of the tractor. theres no fuel in it, so it wont move

[unique kernel]

E

[lethal scroll]

doesnt work

idk why. I did rebind some keys

[unique kernel]

Or was it Q

[lethal scroll]

but exit vehicle is still E

[unique kernel]

Just spam every button till you hop off I guess

[lone marten]

Save and reload, check if there aren't any conflicting keybinds, load an earlier save

[lethal scroll]

yeah

i couldnt even load into my save again

[lone marten]

🤨

[lethal scroll]

session host... something

[lone marten]

If the save's corrupted, go to #1038092680493801533 ,make a topic and paste the entire crashlog in there

[unique kernel]

You playing multiplayer?

[lethal scroll]

works after restarting the game

[lone marten]

Ah, well then

[lethal scroll]

oh and I can get off now

I mean, I did have the game open for over 35 hours lmao

[lone marten]

That'll do it

Computers are weird

[crisp jetty]

This game is great for me cuz I smoke too much weed and it forces me to actually use my brain

[dry gorge]

the only thing im thinking about is the factory HELP

[lethal scroll]

aaand my grids are connected

hell yeah

now to set up steel production

im stuck again

[fierce glen]

!wikishearch sg

[lethal scroll]

I managed to get off of it earlier

[fierce glen]

this is racist

[carmine aspen]

Ill have to remake the second part of my aluminum production

[lethal scroll]

loaded into save, got off tractor. fueled it. got back on tractor, drove it across my highway. now im at the other end. and I can't get off again

[unique kernel]

Check your keybinds your probably got 2 keys overlapping

[lethal scroll]

the only keys I changed were that I switched F and E, but not for vehicles

they should be the same

[unique kernel]

Thats why what does F do?

[lethal scroll]

wym?

[unique kernel]

What did you change

[lethal scroll]

I put E functionality on F, and vice versa. But only for player

I left vehicles alone

[unique kernel]

Thats why

[lethal scroll]

but exit vehicle is still on E

and I could get off earlier

[unique kernel]

If you dont do it for both it'll lock you in

[lethal scroll]

welp I switched dock and exit vehicle

[unique kernel]

Game probably didn't catch that change untill you remounted

Try resetting your keybinds and see if that fixes it

[plain osprey]

#screenshots message
@crisp jetty
Use satisfactory modeler on steam

[lethal scroll]

well, it seems to work now, exit vehicle with F

strange that it just... didnt want to let me leave

now I need to find a sulfur node rip

need sulfur so I can craft nobelisk so I can blow up a rock so I can get to an iron vein so I can get steel

I just wanna get steel but now i gotta do this whole ah sulfur sidequest

[unique kernel]

Wait till caterium i had to blow mine open before I could use it but I found some laying around a crash site so all I needed was a boom igniter

[lethal scroll]

wait with what? steel? I need it to continue

[unique kernel]

Crash sites got loads of goodies to plunder you can find some really late game stuff if you know where to look

[lethal scroll]

I want to unlock elevators

[sullen gull]

As well as the Doggo Nest cave 🙂

[lethal scroll]

and thus I wanna finish tier 4

[unique kernel]

Shhh

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/what-gif-14634295

[unique kernel]

I was le shocked when I realized it was right next to my oil plant

[lethal scroll]

bruh you gotta be kidding me

[unique kernel]

Let's just say that now ive never gotta worry bout progression early game

[lethal scroll]

I need steel to unlock nobelisk 💀

[unique kernel]

Want me to let you in on a little secret

[lone marten]

There are more iron patches in the world!

[sullen gull]

A few... 😏

[lone marten]

At least 1

[unique kernel]

Eh not exactly where I was heading but technically yes

[lethal scroll]

yes I know, but I have my coal mine set up, and I dont wanna make a 5 mile long belt to import iron when there is one RIGHT THERE

[rigid mist]

Might redownload the game

[lone marten]

There's a problem with that line of thinking though

There's a rock on it

[lethal scroll]

yes, hence why im going to the trouble of researching explosives

[lone marten]

I'm not sure where you've started

[unique kernel]

There's a cave with steel pipes

[lethal scroll]

forest, third spawn

[unique kernel]

As well as a bunch of mid game stuff

[lethal scroll]

I will be able to get steel

[lone marten]

Then move to the Rocky Desert, there's a really nice steel spot right on the border

[unique kernel]

Yepper

[lethal scroll]

I just need to haul over a bunch of iron ore to my coal plant, until I get enough steel for enough pipes to research and craft nobelisk

[unique kernel]

Its a long trek from the forest tho

[lethal scroll]

it's just a pain

[lapis knot]

Quick question are the trucks and auto drive for them just ultra scuffed? Or is my game flat out having a stroke? 😄

[lone marten]

It's one biome over if they're talking about the northern forest start

[unique kernel]

Yes

[lone marten]

Yes

[hard ivy]

no, that's normal kekw

[lapis knot]

Ah ok good to know 😄

(I don't use trucks often but thought they would look cool delivering stuff to other factories with the truck stations)

[lone marten]

I want to use trucks but only on roads tbh

[lapis knot]

The respawning is peak imo or they would just be stuck all over the place

Yeah mine are on roads

[lethal scroll]

#screenshots message here is where I started and the coal setup I got

[sullen gull]

It's really also about the route you recorded If they are respawning a lot, it's most likely due to constantly getting stuck on something if natural terrain is used. Saw the road comment after..

[lone marten]

Oh yeah just swooce over to the Rocky Desert and build a small steel plant there, dump everything in dimensional depots at the end

[lethal scroll]

I dont have dim depots yet

[lone marten]

Get those researched, they're so insanely nice to have

[lethal scroll]

I just collected a bunch of sulfur, gonna drive back to my coal plant

[lone marten]

Unless you're doing a challenge run, in that case o7, you're tougher than me

[lethal scroll]

I cannot, because I need, take a guess, ... steel

[lapis knot]

They're mostly fine, it's just around the roads in the factory area they occasionally respawn but overall its like once every so often, so happy I got 3 of them working 😄

[lone marten]

Oh right, for the sam boxes

Eh, just scavenge it

[sullen gull]

Have you rode in the truck while its in auto? Can still do that right? lol, it's been a minute 😏

[lethal scroll]

thank fck I have bladerunners tho lol

else this would take 5y

[lapis knot]

Yeah you can! I was doing that to supervise them while I watched them take the route xd

[lethal scroll]

oh my... I may have prepared a little TOO much sulfur lmao... I have enough to craft over 1k black powder lmao

[sullen gull]

You said you're going to want Noblisks...

[lone marten]

You can bhop in satisfactory

[lethal scroll]

oh I do

oh steel ingots here they come

beauties

[sullen gull]

You'll need the sulfur later, so never too much. Also, the black powder is needed for the noblisks

[lethal scroll]

I'm aware, I'm just not sure I need a literal TON of it lol

might as well craft it while my ingots are in the oven

[shut fractal]

bro my factory is the whole map my game cant even run anymore

[cunning siren]

With this Modeler tool the math is "done for me" AND I may do a 9.41 BWD because of that 🤔

[shut fractal]

I just keep getting crashing errors

i need a nasa pc

[sullen gull]

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

[lethal scroll]

my dumbass forgot that I can still put lil portable miners on the iron vein even with the rock there

[cunning siren]

With all the steps layed out it does not even look that hard at all

[silver mountain]

could anyone provide me insight on why my aluminum plant is backing up with water when I even tried making my input of water less than what is needed, yes I accounted for the water being run back into the system by the second set of refineries, are there alternative recipies that could also make it a more simple process?

[reef basin]

separate fresh and recycled water. Never will have issues 🙂

[silver mountain]

then what does one do with recycled water

[reef basin]

reuse it in the process?

[silver mountain]

i done diddly darn dang did that

[reef basin]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/558721941410807812/1397218790122590208/image.png?ex=68e51ee6&is=68e3cd66&hm=1619260f193454d81e8864a45c295b5c724ef212d840b2d43021f615251919bd&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=685&height=968

[silver mountain]

wait a minute

[reef basin]

but you merge fresh and recycled water

[silver mountain]

i get waht you mean yes

[reef basin]

the thing I said doesn't do that

[silver mountain]

thank you greeny, i wil foreever be in your debt

[cunning siren]

I will need to collect more sloopage though 🤔 good thing I like adventure time with secret hidden / guarded treasure

[lethal scroll]

oh my lord I forgot you can craft steel ingots directly from inventory

[unique kernel]

Yep just make sure you pack some cluster bombs explosive rebar and homing ammo

[unique kernel]

Wait wa?

[cunning siren]

I don't use bombs or homing ammo are those any good?

[lethal scroll]

i mean, with a crafting bench, of course, but no need for a forge

[cunning siren]

I like the turbo ammos cuz I mean... it's got turbo in the name SO it's gotz to be good then right?

[unique kernel]

Cluster bombs are bombs attached to bombs so you get boom with a side of boom with extra boom as well homing ammo autolocks onto target

[unique kernel]

It basically turns into machine gun

Only untill ammo depleted

[cunning siren]

I like the homing cept less dmg than normal ammo and not much bigger clip, re-load fest 🤷

I guess if my aim is shit though 🤔

[unique kernel]

But it autolocks

[cunning siren]

The hitboxes in this game are funky, maybe that will fix

[unique kernel]

Exactly why I prefer it i couldn't hit the broadside of a barn at 10 feet away

Aim of stormtrooper I have

[cunning siren]

Even with "good" aim the game may be "jank" as far as "it's hit registering" code goes 🤷 work with what we got

[unique kernel]

Hints the explosive rebar

Cant dodge the boom sticks

[cunning siren]

Yea I like the boom boom sticks for micro spiderbros 🤔 does not seem nearly as effective for the big stuff though

[unique kernel]

Or rather boom on a stick

[unique kernel]

The little guys are 1 shot with normal rebar at that point its for mass booming

[cunning siren]

Big stuff also moves around A LOT so...

[unique kernel]

At that point cluster boom

[cunning siren]

I'm guessing the nuke is better than cluster? 😆

[unique kernel]

If homing doesn't work switch to explosive sticks if that dont work cluster boom

[unique kernel]

Technically yes but why would you take nuclear option when you can use that precious uranium for power?

[cunning siren]

I usually sit at max range with turbo ammo and do ~5 shot bursts 🤷 sometimes I build a panic room if it gets spicy

[bleak estuary]

anyone thought about making the biggest factory in the world? I'm thinking about starting a community project to create biggest factory in gaming

[spark sky]

Okay, I see this video says that I should put 1000 in the color somewhere to make white and -1000 to make black that will color concrete pillars. Which number do I put those in?

[unique kernel]

A panic room? Why panic just "going out in a blaze of glory!"

[cunning siren]

True.dat

[unique kernel]

For asguard!

Meet my friends dis and troy

Aaaaaah

"Perhaps today is a good day to die!"

Just remember beheadings are on wendsdays

[cunning siren]

@crisp jetty Saw your screenshot 😆 I'm not "smart" enough for this game either. The "good news" is there are tools that do the math for us. I've been using a Steam downloadable tool called Modeler recently and... Dayum, it's pretty fancy how one can "break everything down" into a "single view" like it seems you may have been attempting on the whiteboard. One can even add sloopage and shards! Hellll yea! It's go time!

[lethal scroll]

I have enough black powder to blow this entire planet to dust

the rock has been defeated

[spark sky]

Why can't we color the round concrete beam?

[cunning siren]

Some stuff be like that

[spark sky]

Well, some stuff needs to not be like that 🙂

Some stuff is way too big to use for what I want, but can be colored, while other stuff that is small enough for me to use can't.

I guess concrete walls can't be colored, either.

[lethal scroll]

okay it seems they added godzilla into the game, what the fuck

[grave ocean]

WHAT

[lethal scroll]

radioactive boar that shoots nukes at you

[rigid mist]

Redownloaded the game

[placid stirrup]

Mr. Snuggles?

[lethal scroll]

damn

it didnt even touch me this time

[shy mulch]

he just wants to play fetch, throw nukes back at him, he loves it and so will you

[cunning siren]

I like to fly around and bring all the stingers and everything else in the area together for a battle royal and sit back and have some coffee while I watch 😆

[lethal scroll]

LMAO I got the achievement for going over 140 km/h by accidentally blowing myself up and flying into the air

[tacit parcel]

hello guys 1.1.1.3 dedicated server file ?

[reef basin]

what do you mean by that question?

[tacit parcel]

I have version 1.1.1.3, and I want a home-made dedicated server that runs from home, but steamcmd downloads the latest version... which is no good for me because that's 1.1.1.4.

[reef basin]

update your SF then?

[tacit parcel]

But that's exactly what I don't want!!!

[leaden turret]

but why tho

[tacit parcel]

Well, why? Because this version is good for me! AND I'm looking for those files!

[leaden turret]

either:

• you deliberately downgrade some stuff, which means you know how to downgrade other stuff
• you pirating

because if it's something else I'm immensely confused.

[tacit parcel]

There is no pirating here.

[leaden turret]

so whut then

[reef basin]

then there should be no reason to not update to latest version

[placid stirrup]

there is no war in Ba Sing Se

[cunning glade]

I think I'm just gonna make a new power plant tbh

When's the next time I need oil

I mean with how much u can make from just 600

Redoing the power plant is tempting

There really isn't much oil left

[bleak estuary]

bro trying to pirate and host pirated dedicated server

honestly, if you did a bit diggin online, you'd be able to do so

but no one here will tell you how.

so no point in asking @tacit parcel

[tacit parcel]

WHAT KIND OF PIRACY?

BRuuuh hell nah

[reef basin]

you still didn't give us any good reason for not updating to latest SF version

[leaden turret]

dedicated server is free, doesn't really have the concept of pirating

[hard ivy]

It comes free with the game. But prolly not if you pirated it

[bleak estuary]

yes, but steamcmd only installs newest version, which with pirated game won't work because it's x versions behind

[leaden turret]

steamcmd lets you download any version

[bleak estuary]

not by default, yes. but he doesn't know that

[leaden turret]

☝️

[bleak estuary]

hence why i said if he did a bit of digging online, he'd know

[cunning glade]

Chat phase 4 when might i need oil

[bleak estuary]

not updating game is something that i don't understand as well

[cunning glade]

If I already have a rubber and plastic plant will I be okay

[reef basin]

when you use items that need oil

[leaden turret]

I mean the only legit reason I can think of is if there's some catastrophic crash happening on the latest client, and rather than asking for help solving that they skip straight to downgrading stuff- buuuuut if one knows how to downgrade the client, one knows how to downgrade the server.

[cunning glade]

Yeah well the issue is if I use this next spot for power I'm left with very few nodes of oil

[lethal scroll]

I did it I killed the radioactive hog lets gooo

[bleak estuary]

didn't mean to cause an argument tho, no hard feeligns Marv

[sick lynx]

lol I just realised the Somersloop is a "Cool S"

[lethal scroll]

it only took trapping it between walls then nuking the shit out of it\

[reef basin]

there are other power alternatives than oil-based ones

[cunning glade]

I making some 900 rubber a min and 1200/m plastic I think

[tacit parcel]

Well, that's exactly the thing, I don't know the server...

[reef basin]

that's only like 750 oil

[cunning glade]

Not there yet I don't think

[reef basin]

world has over 10k oil

[cunning glade]

I used vanilla recipes

[cunning siren]

Bruh, you used all the oil nodes on the entire map? 🤔 woh...

[quiet owl]

Does anyone know how when your making a big factory how to hide the power lines well??

[hard ivy]

There's 12k oil on the map. I've never used more than half of it, and I've built a max nuke plant on multiple saves

[reef basin]

well there's your problem 🙂

[cunning glade]

No no

[leaden turret]

how did you get the info you needed to downgrade the client?

[cunning glade]

I'm def getting left with less tho and I'm worried

[hard ivy]

That's nearly 80% of the oil wasted lol

[cunning glade]

Fair enough

[sick lynx]

looking at the merch, love that the larger 15oz mug is called "Overclocked"

[cunning glade]

Didn't know stock were so ass

[quiet owl]

Oh, is there a way to make it less visable??

[tacit parcel]

Google, Reddit, GitHub

[reef basin]

given that latest version of SF is just a few bugfixes, I see no reason to not update to it

[sick lynx]

You can make thin "corridors" just for the wiring, like put the poles in a line and hide them with a wall

[leaden turret]

use same sources for dedi server then 😛

[cunning glade]

So basically don't make rubber or plastic until I have the alts if I do another playthrough

[cunning siren]

Can put em in the floor with a "clipped" painted beam and some of those double sided wall mount power deals. With the beam they'll even work as "floor mounts" too

[reef basin]

nah, you should be fine even then

[cunning glade]

Ig we will see

[quiet owl]

ohhh cool

[hard ivy]

Like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/s/tYeZ7tJfLO

[sick lynx]

master of puppets

[hard ivy]

Don't make a lot of rubber or plastic (or fuel). My personal use plastic/rubber uses defaults, but it makes <300 of each

[cunning glade]

Well I was told I'd need a lot so I made a good amount but fair

[reef basin]

don't make things in advance

you never know how much of which you need until you make the plan

[cunning glade]

Yeah but it's fun

[hard ivy]

Yeah, I make new plubber when I need it, exactly as much as I need

[reef basin]

it's not fun to waste time onto something you may not even use

[cunning siren]

I make a pair of massive box systems to dump rubber and plast into 😆 ultra lazy mode

[cunning glade]

Well I think I'll be fine tbh

Forget that normal nodes aren't too horrible

[reef basin]

all nodes are fine

[cunning glade]

I do wonder if I'm going a bit overkill with power but ig we will see

Probs not but it's gonna take a min

[cunning siren]

How much you makin'?

If you enjoy doing it then... it does not really matter IMO

DO it

[stray flax]

i iwsh they can add weather in satisfactory

[cunning glade]

I'm gonna be making 4266.66 fuel a min

That's uses 1600 oil

[cunning siren]

Boooosh! 😆 that's a lot of fuel gens

[cunning glade]

Well I need power

[reef basin]

nuclear

[cunning glade]

Don't have yet

[leaden turret]

UE5 broke rain

[cunning glade]

My grids wack asf

[cunning siren]

When you say "fuel" do you mean rocket fuel?

[cunning glade]

Don't think I have it idk

[cunning siren]

OH

[reef basin]

you said you're in phase 4

[cunning glade]

Yes

[reef basin]

nuclear is in phase 4

[cunning glade]

Just got my aluminum plant done I need power badly

I doubt I have the stuff too get it

[cunning siren]

What kind of fuel are you planning to make?

[reef basin]

doesn't really need anything advanced from phase 4

[cunning glade]

Id either have too handcraft 50 supercomputers or sloop and make some via handfeeding

[cunning glade]

Just regular cuz I think that's what I have unlocked idk

I need too log on and check what I have for alts ig

[cunning siren]

I would unlock, rocket fuel and use that as its goated AF for unlimited powaz

[tacit parcel]

DONE

update !

[cunning glade]

But rn planning cuz my power backup dropped too 36% from 100% somehow

[cunning glade]

I see only downside is sulfur and coal

Frick that's gonna make it more annoying

[cunning siren]

Don't want to spoil it but there are places on the map where all those things in "one spot"

[cunning glade]

Blue Crater has already been used

Idk if that's wym but Ik that's a spot

Tempting too re do

[leaden turret]

🎶 Blue Crater Cult: Don't Fear The Stinger 🎶

[cunning siren]

Yea, thats the "best" one but there are others

[cunning glade]

Ye it's currently making me 31gw

But using 5x600 pipes I think

[cunning siren]

Dang, is that with basic AF "fuel"

[cunning glade]

Yep

[cunning siren]

Woh

[cunning glade]

I'm learning not too do big projects without alts

Which unfortunately I wasn't the explorer

[cunning siren]

Yea, knowing the options is a good plan

[cunning glade]

I actually hate tools over interactive map it's so annoying it using converters

[reef basin]

it's one checkbox to disable

[cunning glade]

That and on mobile it sucks

[reef basin]

at least it can deal with byproducts and loops, unlike scim 😛

[cunning glade]

Always get trapped in the hell that is the visuals of the buildings

I'm seeing potential downsides of turbofuel

One being my entire grid dies before I get it going

And idk what too even do after that

Okay I only need 1k sulfur

[hard ivy]

The downside is that it sucks

If you're upgrading fuel, go all the way to rocket

[cunning glade]

I was just told it was good😭

I ain't there yet

I don't have gas

[hard ivy]

Pretty sure you were told to use rocket, not turbo but I didn't read that carefully

[cunning siren]

"Most folk" use the ez-mode: Heavy Oil Residue + Diluted Fuel + Nitro Rocket Fuel combo. It's not the most efficient with sulfur BUT it's super easy to setup and get going

[cunning glade]

Ah it was rocket

Well I don't even have rocket

I just wanna get aluminum going man

[cunning siren]

Yea, unlocking the alts from the MAM is a step in a more manageable direction IMO

[cunning glade]

I need more hard drives

[hard ivy]

I'll not even be doing rocket this playthrough. Regular fuel is perfectly fine. 20 GW from 600 oil is plenty

[cunning glade]

Frick

I already have like 70

[hard ivy]

Unless you have all hard drives, you always need more hard drives

[cunning glade]

No but not that long ago I had all the alts I could have unlocked

[cunning siren]

not much you can do about that now

[cunning glade]

Well id have 4266.66 fuel a min iirc

[cunning siren]

Cept get some hard drives

[rigid mist]

the northern forest is so pretty tho

[cunning glade]

Tempted with that I need power soon

Already over max production by 10gw some how

And batteries are at 36%

[cunning siren]

If you've "never" done the Heavy Oil Residue + Diluted Fuel + Nitro Rocket Fuel combo you'll 💩 your 👖 with how effective it is

[cunning glade]

This is my first playthrough

So ofc I haven't done it

[cunning siren]

OK...

[cunning glade]

I should've payed more attention too my grid

[cunning siren]

🤷 coulda shulda woulda ain't gonna get those hard drives

[cunning glade]

I already have 5 or so on me

[cunning siren]

Oh, well there you go spend a few to unlock rocket fuel

[cunning glade]

Just gonna smoke here in a sec so I can think

[cunning siren]

Then the Nitro alt can be got

[cunning glade]

What's the alt recipes like

What does it use

[cunning siren]

Oil Water Sulfur Coal and Nitro is all that is needed

[cunning glade]

I don't have nitro

[cunning siren]

I would spend some coupons to unlock that

[cunning glade]

I need rcu and that's my next plan

Coupons unlock gas what

[cunning siren]

Buy parts you need to unlock nitro

[cunning glade]

Fair

Although looking at the recipe I'd rather not

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=suF64ZdxiH2cp39aZQLi

Wack ASF I worry it won't be setup fast enough

I think tools is fucking with me

[hard ivy]

why do you always choose such inconvenient output rates lol

[cunning glade]

That's just from what I was gonna do for turbofuel

Cuz it used up my 1600 oil

Didn't change the number

[cunning siren]

I got you: https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=R676KEkd3sjsPr3aCLiV

[cunning glade]

Too busy wonder wtf is going on in the Damm tree

Now that looks doable

[silent grail]

do floor holes actually allow conveyor lifts to move stuff through it or what

[cunning glade]

How much power would this give me

I need at minimum 10gw

Realistically I need 30-40gw

[hard ivy]

I'd do this
https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=MDuUYlabKwKTqCRHgV64

[hard ivy]

multiply the RF/min value by 60. that's how many MW you'll get

[cunning siren]

45,000 for 750 rocket fuel

[cunning glade]

Hmm tempting

[real shale]

Power......

[cunning glade]

I didn't wanna start a massive power project

[real shale]

That's a goodquestion

[real shale]

Too bad, you will now start one

[cunning glade]

Maybe

[hard ivy]

with RF, the only difficult part is building the gens

[real shale]

And as punishment you will design a fully fledged substation too

[cunning siren]

Bruh, you can OC the blenders and refineries and get it down to 7 machines 😆 does not get much simpler than that

[cunning glade]

I'm tempted too build my rcu place first

Knowing me I'm gonna get stuck for an hour planning the layout cuz my brain sucks at that

[rigid mist]

i shall make big doof tower
and then have really decorated and undense builids so that it all actually gets used

[real shale]

Getting stuck for an hour means you are doing it right

At least you aren't just winging it

[cunning glade]

Fair enough

My ADHD just makes my brain freeze and I hate it

Okay maybe this won't be too bad

[real shale]

I really wish I had more flexible of how I could connect power towers

My substation design is going to look weird because I can't connect the power tower lines to anything other than another power tower

[cunning glade]

Ah neat so this is gonna be a pain in the ass cuz there's no more good spots with oil next too gas

[cunning glade]

Is gas a pain in the ass too pipe around

[rigid mist]

the problem with really tall towers is how do you get things large distances upwards
and trains are a whole other ordeal

[cunning siren]

Not at all

[rigid mist]

train double helix?

[cunning siren]

0 head lift with gas so you can run a gas pipe across the map

[cunning glade]

Okay perfect

[cunning siren]

I got a 2.5 km nitro pipe going to my base right now 😆

[cunning glade]

I think I may make 10 rcu a min rq

Nope cuz I need my aluminum plant running first

And I'm not turning that on till I'm okay with power

Is the geo thermal gens the ones in the cat tree very bottom right

Ight gonna place some well looking for drives

[cunning siren]

7 GW of nodes for that around the map, that's a good plan

[cunning glade]

Ye I wanna add that rq

Cuz that puts me at 40gw max production and 41 or 42gw max consumption

Okay I think I have a game plan ty chat

[silver mountain]

your welcome

[frail sleet]

vertical conveyor lifts or gas pipes perform excellently. You can even make vertical conveyors 1km high with one object

Liquid has pumps so you probably shouldn't put stuff 500m above the water for fun (although you can, mid-lategame)

[rigid mist]

yeah
and drone ports too i realize

[cunning siren]

Is it just me or... with the Encased Industrial Pipe and Iron Pipe alts traditional steel build is "obsolete" essentially 😆 What even uses steel beams? 🤔

[frail sleet]

gotta love a good drone airfield on the side/top of a tower

[frail sleet]

something does

[rigid mist]

me with my 36 foundation wide 1200 meter tall tower where i'll put everything (but not dense as to not lag)

[cunning siren]

Not much it seems

[frail sleet]

plutonium fuel rod, that's it 😄

[rigid mist]

-# it may or may not be inspired by phineas and ferb

[cunning siren]

WTF, this game is nutty with how alts can shift everything

[rigid mist]

mhm

[silent grail]

i cant get a conveyor lift to connect from my miner to a floor hole above

[sturdy spear]

had anyone experiencing many crashes lately?

[frail sleet]

The placement must be exact, and the first belt/lift coming out of a miner won't be. Take a belt out of the miner, line it up with the world grid, then attach lift to that.

[frail sleet]

has been rock solid for me and i think pretty much everyone, might be an issue on your system

[silent grail]

wish i asked 30 mins ago now 😔

[frail sleet]

You can make a vertical zoop of foundations, however tall you want, then delete them all except the top and one near the bottom.

Those 2 foundations will then be perfectly aligned so a floor hole e.g. in the middle of the bottom one will also be lined up to the middle of the top one, and it can build a lift of any height. Start lift building at one end, drag it all of the way to the other end, and when you mouse over the recieving floor hole it will snap to it and connect.

You can also stick a lift out of the bottom of that hole, and belt into it.

[rigid mist]

why is tier 1 so short damn

[cunning glade]

Hey chat

The 2 secret achievements are they hard too get

[frail sleet]

no

[cunning glade]

I don't wanna know them

[frail sleet]

i don't remember what they are

so they can't have been 😄

[cunning glade]

I don't wanna know anyway

Just wanna get them

Wanna 100% it

[twin ingot]

going back to Old Satisfactory... wow i never noticed how bleh the graphics was

[rigid mist]

doggo gave me 12 free fmf and now i have 44 coupons at under 2 hours of playtime

[cunning siren]

That's a good plan for easy mode coupons 😆 0 power cost too

[polar leaf]

Coupons

[rigid mist]

coupon?

[polar leaf]

Coupons!

[cunning siren]

I found that one can "nudge faster" by hitting the direction keys vs. holding it down so I made a macro to do just that 😆 My nudge is SOOOO fast now! Bow down pesants and witness my nudge powers!

[polar leaf]

You have to hold?

Idk haven't opened the game in 2 months burn out is real

I always just pressed H and used the arrow keys to nudge yeah that's prob the best

[cunning siren]

Yes holding the nudge key direction will slooooowly "auto nudge"

AND spamming the nudge key = faster

AND having a macro do that for me = faster than I can do it

[polar leaf]

Holding the nudge key is pain

I never did that 😭

Macro might be overkill, but ig you have to take advantage of infinite nudge of 1.0, don't you?

[cunning siren]

But but but, DO want to nudge a lot so 🤷

[polar leaf]

I saw someone nudge the space elevator infinitely down to a point the high up loading platform was at surface level

Never underestimate the power of macros

[cunning siren]

Well, now I gotta try that cept I will not know how to undo it 🤔

Save scum time

[polar leaf]

Make a quickaave before trying

[real shale]

Someone say power???

[polar leaf]

Can relate

[polar leaf]

Grrrrr rocket fuel goes brrrr

[cunning siren]

Powah

[real shale]

Name me one power station irl that runs on rocket fuel

[polar leaf]

That's not the point

[real shale]

That's what I thought! Rocket fuel doesn't go brrr

[polar leaf]

Name one power plant station irl that uses ficsonium

That's what I thought

[real shale]

cern probably

Or maybe that one nuclear fusion power plant

[polar leaf]

When are they adding prawn suits

Why no Subnautica colab

Underwater factories goes brrr

[real shale]

NOOOOOO

[polar leaf]

Satisfactory below zero when?

[real shale]

it's bad enough we have stingers I don't need goddamn reaper leviathans too

Fuck that

[polar leaf]

Nah, gargantuan leviathan ☠️☠️

[cunning siren]

Under water stuff is scary to me, deep stuff OMG like... oooof

[real shale]

If only I could post the satisfactory 1000 yard stare image

[cunning siren]

Played Subnautic below zero last year, good stuff

[polar leaf]

Didn't finish it yet, just the first one

Heard about the polemic regarding the new one. Wild stuff

[cunning siren]

Spoilers ||Layed the smack down on those leviathans too||

[polar leaf]

Jokes aside prawn suit wouldnt be bad: makes you have more hp and nullify fall dmg

[real shale]

Man if only I saved the clip of me encountering 5 big stingers at the end of a cave while I was holding my xeno zapper, that would have been the perfect 1000 yard stare meme

[polar leaf]

Not as scary one you reach late game

[real shale]

Oh no they are just as scary

I don't think any stage of the game would make them less terrifying for me

[polar leaf]

I went to the swamp after reaching phase 4 and I just outran everything and used cage blueprints so I could get the mercer spheres and somersloops

[real shale]

It's when they walk up to you so quickly is when it's scary

Or when you turn around to one leaping right at you

[polar leaf]

I skyrocket 100 meters up and cage it I'm a blueprint

Honestly when you quicksave every 5 minutes you're not as scared

[real shale]

I want a mod that makes their footsteps silent

[polar leaf]

Tough

[real shale]

It's not dying that scares me it's their very sudden presence

[polar leaf]

I've played too many scary games to be scared

God I miss lethal company

[cunning glade]

Just turn off there sounds?

[polar leaf]

🥺

[polar leaf]

Oh yeah that too I don't play with sound I blast Spotify

[real shale]

Can you turn off the footsteps exclusively though

[cunning glade]

No creature sounds

[real shale]

Eh

[cunning glade]

But they all sound annoying anyway

[real shale]

After playing alien isolation I am scared of spider like creatures that scatter about very quickly on the floor

[polar leaf]

Do NOT watch the new Alien series

[real shale]

I've already watched it

[polar leaf]

😭

[cunning glade]

It was so good

[polar leaf]

Embed fail

[sterile oracle]

wack

[polar leaf]

Eep

[cunning siren]

Ahhh, time to complete run #7 phase 4 AAHHHH BOOoooosh

[polar leaf]

After some time I gave up on making new runs

[sterile oracle]

I really enjoyed ||you lost THE GAME.||

[polar leaf]

I refuse

If I come back I'll return to the same save

[cunning siren]

It's all i do apparently 😆 I like the game objectives

New fresh starts ❤️

New starting zone

[polar leaf]

After about 500 hours in I found my way to make things pretty but efficient that's about when I made this current save

[cunning glade]

Quick question nuclear makes a bi product yes is it in anyway used for pasta

[polar leaf]

Now about 700 hours in I'll just keep this save

[dense violet]

no

[polar leaf]

It looks good, a lot of plans and extra productions energy

[cunning glade]

Okay

[dense violet]

you can check the wiki what you can do with the waste

[cunning siren]

It can be used in the HUB's toilet 😆

[cunning glade]

I don't wanna know yet

Was just curious if it could be used too make pasta

[polar leaf]

You don't need uranium or anything radioactive to make pasta I reckon

[dense violet]

nuclear pasta is just called that because the concept of it is that the matter is so compressed that nuclei form a sort of pasta shape

[cunning siren]

DO want HUB input mod for auto usage of the OP toilet

[dense violet]

only works if you're sitting on it and does 1 flush pm

[cunning siren]

Booooo

[dense violet]

shitty mechanics for shitty ideas. Pun intended

[crisp jetty]

How tall should I make factory walls in case the upgrades get bigger

[polar leaf]

Yes

[white dawn]

Nuclear Pasta's named after an actual real-life (theoretical) thing, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta -- as others have mentioned, the "nuclear" in the name doesn't actually have anything to do with radioactivity or nuclear power or whatever

[cunning siren]

ADA so funny wants you to do all this work won't tell you why... ||evah||

[polar leaf]

Is it the thing from that cool neutronium bomb video in YouTube

Woooo

[cunning siren]

I forget what we get for phase 5 completion? A new coffee cup? 😆 maybe I'll skip it

[polar leaf]

Achievement

[zenith fractal]

satisfaction knowing you saved the puppies and kittens of earth

[cunning siren]

I'm all for doing something to get something AND enjoying myself while I do it

[cunning siren]

That is tempting, yet I have yet to see how this does that

[white dawn]

I'm unfamiliar with that YouTube video. :)

[polar leaf]

Lot of neutrons small space go kaboom as it decays

[wise junco]

Has anyone ever had a train that won't go to its destination? I have a rogue train that's just wandering aimlessly... I can manually drive it to the correct station, yet on self-drive it refuses to go there

[zenith pecan]

Is one of the stations in backwards?

[wise junco]

Honestly, solid question - I just closed out of the game, butttttt - if it WAS, can you still manually dock?

[real shale]

What's YouTube

[zenith pecan]

I never tried, but it will absolutely make auto routes not work.

[wise junco]

I bet you that's the issue. I was so busy checking rails to see if something got misaligned that I didn't even think

eff it, I was going to bed but I'm going to boot back up and look because it'll drive me nuts

good thought @zenith pecan but unfortunately not it. I'll have to investigate more tomorrow

[zenith pecan]

Alright 🙂

[light sorrel]

yo, i never had the patience to finish the game, alone that is, anyone want to play?

[polar leaf]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1201555265942724758

[versed mesa]

The sound of the particle accelerator is crazy lol

I am guessing it can be used for powering your factory right ?

The MW rises and I thought all my energy was about to blow lmfao

First time using it and setting one up

[frail sleet]

For nuclear yes. Mainly it eats a lot of power 😄

[versed mesa]

Are crap i wonder how my coal gens are handling it lol

Almost close to sending phase 4

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys I am a bit sad.

So there is a Bean that spawns literally on top of my factory. I got no roof so it roams around like it owns the heckin' place.

My first plan was to push it away. I did. All is cool and dandy. But when I came back to the zone, the mfer was right there! So I have to keep pushing it to work properly.

I crai.

[versed mesa]

It wants a friend lmfao

[mortal ginkgo]

There is like already TWO of them roaming on the ground floor, I think he can get his arse down to meet'em permanently!

[versed mesa]

Lmfao well maybe they came to mate or if not to party

[cursive vessel]

Anyone ever float the idea of zombie mode by the devs?

[polar leaf]

is there a mod to make beans disappear

[versed mesa]

That be mad to see atkeast millions of them lol

[mortal ginkgo]

Devs are completely against anything regarding battle such as survival or defense elements.

This is not negotiable and there are good alternatives regardless.

[mortal ginkgo]

yes

[dense violet]

passive mode is as close as you get. Look at your settings to see whta options yo uhave

[shrewd gyro]

it was 11pm, I just finished one thing, and now its almost 4am

[polar leaf]

nah, make belts need power

jokes aside I think I'd be duable if we didn't have to connect each one individually

just slightly more power req

[zenith fractal]

what if

every recipe, including alts, uses screws?

[plain gate]

what about the recipe for screws

[dense violet]

needs screws

[zenith fractal]

what came first? the screw or the screw recipe?

[plain gate]

what came first, the screw or the screw

LMAO thinking the same thing

[dense violet]

gotta find screws at crash sites

[zenith fractal]

great minds think alike

[dense violet]

pardon me while I go drink myself to death 😛

[polar leaf]

life objective is no screws run

[dense violet]

can't build the awesomeshop then

[shrewd gyro]

and chaninsaw

[dense violet]

you can easily get through the game w/o it

[polar leaf]

no screws automated

[cunning siren]

7 playthroughs and I've never done any plast / rubber build from the basic AF starter one 😆

Are there any tricks to it?

[dense violet]

just like any other production really

[shrewd gyro]

to be fair, the one thing was a 36 coal power plant, only got 12 and still need 4 more water extracter

[shrewd gyro]

same, but Im closer to 30 playthroughs and I dont make it past steel

[cunning siren]

Dayum 30, impressive

[dense violet]

if everything is clocked at 100% you only need 12 extractors

[shrewd gyro]

to be fair I think my longest play-through lasted 12 hours

[zenith fractal]

you really seem to enjoy the biofuel stage

[plain gate]

build units of 600 oil and copy paste over the map, you will want to kill yourself making recycling loops en masse

[cunning siren]

This sounds like you megabuild? 🤔

[shrewd gyro]

the moment I go to sleep my factory is a complete disaster and i am completely lost on what mine is doing/what plans I had. And no, adding notes and the to-do list dosnt seem to help

[plain gate]

it's just convenient that way

[cunning siren]

I'm familiar with the aluminum loop thing so probably similar?

[plain gate]

it's just a LOT of refineries and blenders and a lot of footprint

it gets repetitive very fast

[shrewd gyro]

got 14(need 18) at 75%, just to keep the pipes simple, 3 extractors to 6 plants in one pipe, no balancing between pipes needed

[dense violet]

eh, no need to balance, just have a 2nd input pipe

[polar leaf]

blueprints go brrrrrr

[plain gate]

megaprints go BRRRRR

-# e

[cunning siren]

OH megaprints, I have yet to use something like that

[polar leaf]

honestly I prefer big blueprints

I install those mods of 20x20x20 blueprints and go to a creative world

I design something I want, remove the mod and come back to my vanilla world with the file

🔥

[cunning siren]

I have yet to mess with any of that stuff

[cunning glade]

How can a pipe be full but not have any flow rate if stuff is missing water down the line

[shrewd gyro]

pipes leaking 🙂

jokes aside might fill up over time, if they are level at least. check them agin in 5-10 min or otherwise just add a pump

[cunning glade]

Ive been adding pumps

The pipe won't stay at 600 flow rate but only 200 is being used

[shrewd gyro]

honsetly though I can barly get pipes working myself

ah, are you extracting 600 worth of liquid?

[cunning glade]

Yeah except there only at 27%

[shrewd gyro]

is the pipe just after them full?

[real shale]

Is the pipe currently in use?

[shrewd gyro]

I honestly dont really know how to pipe stuff properly but my advice is to follow the pipes checking each section is full until you find where its not, then check if is is filling up

if theres nothing in it despite the one before it being full, delete the pipe and replace it

[real shale]

To quote from the FICSIT plumbing manual linked in #math-and-meta

"full pipes are happy pipes"

If you ensure the pipes are full before you use them, you should have any wonky weird behaviour

That guide also has a couple troubleshooting tips too

[shrewd gyro]

watching the console announcement Q&A thing, and just looking at the density of the factory shown is giving me anxiety lol

[real shale]

A lot of issues with fluid flow in the game can be boiled down to people not letting the pipes fill up with fluid before they get used.

Pipes can only utilise their maximum flow rate if they are full, if they aren't, they don't flow properly and this can cause....odd behaviour that'll become clearer when you deal with the same issue on fuel gens and stuff

[limpid cairn]

A lot of issues come from not reading the plumber manual !!!

[real shale]

This too

[tidal trellis]

Heyo

[dense violet]

show your pipes from above in pictures in #math-and-meta

[cunning siren]

Stuff stopped aligning to the grid and I was like losing my mind for about 20min 😆 turns out a tiny piece of landscape was poking out of the foundation and threw the blue print off gird

[cunning glade]

I figured it out for now

[hard mantle]

dude i thought i was smart until i played this game. I have absolutely no idea what im doing and like to be completely honest its not even a specific part of the game im confused with its just the game in total. ive never been good at games like this idk why i thought that would change with this one

im gonna restart again for the third time today, im not even exaggerating this is legit gonna be the third time

[cunning glade]

Okay rcu are being made and aluminum is running

[dense violet]

make specific factories every time you need a new part. It'll help things organised and focused while you learn the basics 🙂

[hard mantle]

but like with what ore nodes

they're scattered so far apart and i dont have a good form and transportation and dont think ill get one

[hard mantle]

i forgot to reply with my previous my previous messages so here it is cause im still confused

[cunning glade]

Me when my mark 5 belt will only move things at 480

There was a mk4 belt inside my smart splitter cool

[shrewd gyro]

got 200 hours and I still don't know what I'm doing. My advice is to write down what your doing, what you have and what your plans are. Also when you need to put a new part to unlock stuff, automate it. find out what it needs, and then build a new chain from ore to build that part.

[vale grotto]

Conveyor belts have no distance limit
I've seen people belt things for literal kilometers

[hard mantle]

you say chain it off of it but like theres the power problem too with biomass burners i dont think i can do all of that

[shy fog]

They do have a distance limit... that distance is how much material you have to build more

[shrewd gyro]

how many you got? 6 should be good enough to power your factory until you get coal power up and running. but a single Constructor making solid bio fuel can provide for 15 of them. if you have tier 2 belts

tier 1 belts can power half that so 7.5

one storage of wood, one of leaves each going to there own Constructor to make biomass. merge the biomass into another storage and then into another Constructor making solid bio-fuel and then just put a split er with biomass generators on each side

[hexed phoenix]

Its sort of the beauty of this game.. Each reset, usually starts with you taking knowledge from previous saves with you.

So its a process that just keeps feeding more and more knowledge..

[shrewd gyro]

you do need obstacle clearing unlocked though

[hard mantle]

i know that but it is kinda frustrating

[chrome crypt]

what splitter do i need to split 22.5 on one and 240 on another

[shrewd gyro]

the one with ai limiters

[chrome crypt]

so smart?

[hexed phoenix]

Still recall one of my first games, setting up a Reinforced Iron factory.. That was it for me in terms of complexity.. Yet still here some 5-6 years later and still starts new games from time to time - and have done Phase 5 multiple times..

[shy fog]

optionally you could just put a priority on the 22.5...

overflow will then go to the second

[chrome crypt]

that should work

[shy fog]

or if you are sinking a priority to the 240

[hexed phoenix]

Seems like a regular splitter will do it..

if you feed it 262.5 / min the 22.5 will fill up quickly, and then you’ll have the 22.5 / 240 split :)

[shy fog]

really depends entirely on what you are splitting for...

[chrome crypt]

steel farm

[shy fog]

are you feeding the 22.5 to a production chain or to power or to a sink?

[chrome crypt]

22.5 make steel pipes and 210 will go to make beams and eib

[shy fog]

then yeah, just priority the 22.5

you can technically even go with basic

[chrome crypt]

alright, thanks for the help!

[shy fog]

just basic game knowledge of splitters

[dense violet]

what part of 'make new factories for new parts' do you need clarified?

[versed mesa]

Does fuel gens run off od water ?

Or I mean can they run off of water

I randomly into an issue since giving particle accelerator some energy it blown my whole grid and I can get it back on currently but working on it

The particle is no longer connected so not sure why I can't get it to reconnect

I cmalso can't find what fuel actually fuel gens even take it know they take biofuel and heavy oil ect

[dense violet]

you often need to completely disconnect the rest of your factory from your power station to restart it

[versed mesa]

Ok thanks ill was gradually going to do that is so much connected lol

[dense violet]

one of the reasons to have 1 power line out of your power plant, that way it's easy to cut the connection

[versed mesa]

Yeah ill try work on that to build a huge power plant

[shrewd palm]

Fuel, turbo fuel, rocket fuel (best fuel for power), ionized fuel (one of the worst for power but good for jet pack/vehicles and stuff. I’d assume you can also run them off liquid biofuel but at that point it would be a glorified biomass burner

You can check the whole list on the wiki or in game by clicking on the little fuel icon in the menu for the fuel generator

[versed mesa]

Turbo fuel ive not got around in producing yet but working closer on it best I got at my oil factory is biofuel for fluid generators

[versed mesa]

Thanks i did not know that with fuel icon lol

[shrewd palm]

Drones, jet pack, and I think trucks and tractors all have a little icon like that too

[versed mesa]

Nice

[rose lintel]

So do you ever end up moving your space elevator?

[shrewd palm]

I usually end up moving mine around with every phase

Early game factories get too small

[versed mesa]

I guess particle accelerator just need there own energy to run on and is alot from what I can see if it

[shrewd palm]

Yeah they’re not exactly cheap when it comes to power

All the phase 5 buildings are like that

[rose lintel]

Just launched my first order. Deciding whether to move on to next tier or optimize my first factory or start a new o e that includes coal power and steel production

[shrewd palm]

Get coal power going asap and then get on to steel and all the new stuff

[versed mesa]

How much power is needed to run 1 particle accelerator?

[shrewd palm]

Going back to upgrade stuff with every new phase is only going to slow you down for most of the game

[shrewd palm]

I want to say 0-2000MW but I think it depends on the recipe

[versed mesa]

I think it rises to 5k lol

[shrewd palm]

You can bump that up to like 26k or something with over clocking and sloops

Outside of a building in phase 5 particle accelerators eat the most power

[versed mesa]

Yeah i can see that since it killed my grid

Lol

[shrewd palm]

Where you’re at right now is probably a good time to get a nice and cheap fuel generator setup to get enough of a boost to get nuclear/rocket fuel going if you haven’t done that already

[versed mesa]

Ive got not oil deposits near me and my 2nd factory is oil factory

[hard mantle]

where should i start like what location

[shrewd palm]

Grassy fields or rocky desert are the best if this is your first time playing

It’s up to you but the red desert is probably the worst

[hard mantle]

why would that be

like the game said its meant for advanced people but like its flat and theres a lot of room

so wouldnt that be good?

[dense violet]

less greenery I suppose? dune deserts is fine though

I don't like removing hte greenery for biofuel though. Makes it ugly

[hard mantle]

by the way

how do i automate biomass like do i need to just pick it up and put it in a storage container into the thing or is there a way to get it automatically

[dense violet]

put in container, process it

[cunning siren]

If you hold down E while walking around you'll "auto pickup" 🍃 🪵

[shrewd gyro]

#satisfactory message

[rose saffron]

Yeah no way to grow more, but the processing steps make biomass very strong for a starter factory so you don’t need to worry too much about power

[shrewd palm]

Not very much biomass, more dangerous, and I don’t think k there are very many spots good for coal power. Also a lot of the resource nodes are far apart so there will be a lot of random belts going everywhere

[shrewd gyro]

if you have a controller you can just hold X/Square for a few sec and then it will enable auto pickup permanently

[cunning siren]

Oh nice. There is a bug in the PC version that essentally allows the same ting

[shrewd gyro]

really fun when your fighting a xenos and your attack get interrupted by a leaves pickup

[cunning siren]

It's helpful for when looking where one is stepping and wishing to see though too

"That thing is in my line of site? Yoink! not anymore"

[rose lintel]

Ok I just got the ability to scan fkr power slugs. Why don’t they show up on my scanner?

[dense violet]

they should when you use the right setting, it'll direct you to hte closest one iirc

[rose lintel]

They do t even show up as a scan option

[cunning glade]

So batteries

[shrewd gyro]

you need to make a hand scanner thing, then you get to play hotter colder with it, it not on the ore scanner thing

[cunning glade]

I see there fuel for drones

[shrewd gyro]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Object_Scanner

[cunning glade]

Does that mean it's worth making a small factory and idk droneing them or training them around

[shrewd gyro]

what? bot blocked/tried to block me liking the wiki?

[cunning glade]

No clue

[dense violet]

there's the object scanner and resource scanner, you need the object scanner

[rose lintel]

And all I can find now are the blue ones

[dense violet]

that's probably what's close. Suck it up

[urban cape]

Would anyone be willing to help me reorganize my factory? I've just recently started playing the game and I don't enjoy the spaghetti lines of conveyer belts and disorganized mess I have created here. I just finished removing everything that I've built so far, so I'm just looking for someone's advice on how I should recreate it all.

[dense violet]

#1201555265942724758

but also, just make an end goal, plan the number of machines, the space for it, and where belts will go

[urban cape]

Ope, thanks!

[cunning siren]

I thought 50 GW was gonna be enough this run AND then I decided to do 9.41 BWD 😆

[cosmic adder]

whats with the steam? Not opening

its down uhh

[versed mesa]

My power is back on amd is steady

[ivory fox]

mine just came good

[ember niche]

steam my king
so quick to fix the outage

[cunning glade]

I'm so dumb

I just realized there the oil nodes with the well extractors

So I'm still chilling

10 supercomputers a min alot I'm guessing

[hard ivy]

For personal use it's definitely not little

[cosmic adder]

how does FICSIT awesome sink work?

#screenshots

[cunning glade]

I see

I wanna start automating more stuff but idk how much I need so it's an issue

[hard ivy]

You dump items into it and it shreds them and it gives you tickets in exchange

[cosmic adder]

any items?

[hard ivy]

Basically, yeah. There are some exceptions, like collectibles and some radioactive items

[cosmic adder]

i see

[cunning glade]

So In this case I'm gonna need too redo my entire computer factory I see

Or there's an alt

[hard ivy]

Just make a new one, duh

[cunning glade]

Well my current one is only making let me check

[frail sleet]

it's cause it's the bad wiki, try wiki.gg

[cunning glade]

15 which I figured would be a decent amount

[hard ivy]

I'm making that many for personal use lol (probably overkill)

[remote saffron]

To anyone who will play satisfactory today, what do you plan to do?

[cunning glade]

Well I planned for this factory too produce computers for that

I see why phase 4 isn't fun

[remote saffron]

I’m gonna automate explosive rebar and supercomputers

As well as just doing some general maintenance around the place to make it look better. I have all the components just need to make some of them faster

[grim ermine]

Why?

[cunning glade]

Too make more

Tho I may wait idk

As I need cooling systems before if I wanna do it without them

[grim ermine]

I never realise how much raw resources stuff would cost going into phase 4

[cunning glade]

So next plans are a big rcu factory

And batteries I think

Along with power plant

2 I think

More powers never bad right

[grim ermine]

What are you gonn use to make power?

[cunning glade]

Rocket fuel and nuclear

Idk if rocket fuel plant is still worth but it makes 144gw I think

If I mathed right

[grim ermine]

Its definitely worth it

[cunning glade]

That should hold me till I can actually make nuclear

Cuz I'm getting the milestone rn

[grim ermine]

Im not even gonna go to nuclear not gonna lie

[cunning glade]

But idk what I need for it I will find out soon

[grim ermine]

Its too much work

[cunning glade]

I see don't tell me tho

[grim ermine]

Ill just make a massive rocket fuel plant

[shy mulch]

Do both

[dusky plume]

do it alllll

[grim ermine]

Not a bad idea

Might make a 5000GW biomass plant

[dusky plume]

ok don't do that

[shy mulch]

That's more effort than you realise. Don't ask how I know 🤣

[dusky plume]

noooo ask him how he knows

ask him how many biogens placed so far

[cunning siren]

Just gotz MK.6 belts! Come at me bruh! 😆

[shy mulch]

I'm back to none. Destroyed my biomass facility last night and I'm gonna rebuild it better and bigger

[dusky plume]

just got [redacted]

loool noooooo

[shy mulch]

Portals are disappointing. A lot of the time you can get where you're going faster with a cannon than you can with a portal. I still build a ton of them though cos they look cool

[cunning glade]

There's portals what

[dusky plume]

yeah, i know... it's just final build items at this point...

[cunning glade]

This is spoilers I shouldn't have stayed in here

[shy mulch]

Endgame things

[grim ermine]

I refuse to spend a week straight collecting biomass just for it to be burnt in 10 minutes

[dusky plume]

and it's like... I'm not sure i want to put in too much effort on a final build on this playthrough...

[shy mulch]

I collect it faster than I burn it. The trick is to refine it with sloops 😎

[cunning siren]

AND now to upgrade 42 KM of belts 😭

[hard ivy]

Nah, portals are definitely faster especially if you keep the fueled and ready, but only when going between factories. If you want to get to the middle of nowhere, a cannon will be faster

[shy mulch]

You've joined a discord for a game that's been out for a long time. You must expect spoilers tbh

[dusky plume]

sorry spoiled it

[hard ivy]

Don't worry my sing cell factory is only half refineries by footprint

[shy mulch]

Maybe it's just restricted by my computing power. Sometimes portals can be quite slow for me. I'm sat there looking at a woosh screen for like 20 seconds

[dusky plume]

honestly the tips you get from just being around people who play for hundreds or thousands of hours is the biggest spoiler in this kind of game

[grim ermine]

I know everything about the game and haven't completed phase 3

[shy mulch]

This is why I refused to watch any YouTube videos or join the discord or anything until I'd completed the space elevator. It seemed common sense to me that there would be spoilers

[grim ermine]

All the knowledge but no experience

I wish i could do it all over again and play blind throughout the game

[shy mulch]

You'll get there in time. How many hours you got ingame vs how many hours reading discord 😛

[dusky plume]

riight, i got hundreds of hours before I even bothered to join the discord

[cunning siren]

WOH pink belts look sick AF

[dusky plume]

different ways to play the game...

[cunning siren]

It's like the deep purple SAM color

[grim ermine]

Probably 500 hours doing satisfactory related stuff that isnt playing the game and 230 playing the game

[dusky plume]

is it spoilers to talk about how to make the belt glow?

[shy mulch]

Sounds about right 😂

[grim ermine]

I doubt it

[dusky plume]

everyone see the tip about putting in custom values for the color editor?

[shy mulch]

I have 1300 hours ingame and I estimate probably about the same again just talking about it and doing maths 😂

[dusky plume]

u can max the glow on the belts out to like 1000

if you do it right it'll only give you certain colors though

[grim ermine]

I enjoy doing the maths for my factories but if I make a big mistake on a big project I will cry

[shy mulch]

Big mistakes are fine. Everything can be redone.

[grim ermine]

True

[dusky plume]

I keep in mind the carpenter's rule, measure twice cut once. Check ur work every few minutes

[shy mulch]

When I plan my factories, I always plan based on every machine running at 100% clock rate. So if I get it all built and find I've miscalculated something, I can fix it by changing clock rates up or down, don't need to actually delete or build anything differently

[dusky plume]

and then the Bob Ross mentality. Architecture problems are opportunities for artistic "happy little accidents"

[grim ermine]

Ive automated 16 heavy modular frames a minute and now i need to do computers

But I dont know how many im gonna need

[shy mulch]

Sounds like that time I made a factory around a train station and kept expanding it and now 2 other stations that were built earlier are now in the factory because it expanded around them and everything ended up being linked up 😂

[dusky plume]

oh, for the math I just place a few machines, see how the numbers match up, and gues how many of each I can fit in a space... I'm not minmaxing my logistics ever lol

[hard ivy]

Same lmao

I have probably spent 100 hours planning my nuke plant and I can't even start building it yet

[dusky plume]

these make the best builds right?@

[grim ermine]

Yes

[shy mulch]

Totally 😁

[cunning siren]

ADA just told me the kittens and puppies need us to save them 😭 I know she's lying but it's STILL tempting 😻

[grim ermine]

Might use caterium circuit boards instead of normal recipe

[hard ivy]

Not knowing exactly how many machines I need would drive me insane

Not that I actually place exactly that many (usually more), but not knowing whether it's enough is a big no no

[cunning siren]

Using the silicon ones this run, handy for when plast build is low 🤔

[hard ivy]

I always use Cat CB + Cat Comp. Silicon CB seems nice too but I don't see a point in using it when I hate Crystal Comp and never use it

[ashen belfry]

My factories have always the same issue.
Cuz three times, still too short

[plain osprey]

#screenshots message
@cosmic adder
There is a conveyer input on the awesome sink
Note: the awesome sink needs power

[grim ermine]

Isn't silica a pretty scarse resource?

[dusky plume]

nope