satisfactory

[versed mesa]

Yes it is easy but ive tried making multiple productions to make same thing and the ingots are the issue lol

I would if you want the best

At my starting location they all are mixed because at start I did not know there was different quality Nodes lol

But when I build in new place I'd look for the best

Wish I could respond to peoples screenshots with send reply in there

[clever stone]

How do you guys cope with trying to connect factories that have misaligned foundations

[true mulch]

You can copy the message link and ping them here

[true mulch]

Build on the world grid to prevent that in the first place 😛

[versed mesa]

Or ok thanks

[clever stone]

The what huh what

[versed mesa]

Flying factory build tomorrow lol

[shy mulch]

Hold ctrl when placing foundations

[clever stone]

Good to know for when I do more factories up north

[versed mesa]

What does that do ?

[tropic furnace]

Snaps them to the world grid

[shrewd gyro]

Ive finally beat my last record and gotten steel up woohoo

[shy mulch]

Does exactly what he just asked about 😝

[shrewd gyro]

(its literally 1 steel beam and 2 steel pipe constructors but its done)

[versed mesa]

Hmm I think i know but I play with Xbox controller lol

[shrewd gyro]

there is plans for 4 steel beam and 10 steel pipes

[shy mulch]

That'll do. Now get that elevator upgraded and get into the next phase!

[tropic furnace]

Go to settings and look at controls

[shrewd gyro]

waiting on enough pipes to do sommersloop reserch to dupe power shards to upgrade miners

[versed mesa]

Am not playing right mow and also the text is there has been blurred and small very hard to see sometime if am lucky when I next look i shows abit clear but still small

[tropic furnace]

Glasses+GOOGLE

[versed mesa]

Nah i already wear glasses and they are newly ones lol

[shrewd gyro]

Im going to get 4 and 10 by upgrading miner and belts before completling phase 2, also need ti upgrade power plant from 900mw to 2700 Mw

AHHHHHHHH I need circuit boards

[wicked marlin]

The Hyper Tube system should have an upgrade that lets you use it for logistics transport.
after unlocking liquid packaging you get another hub milestone that adds the Hyper Tube Logistics unit.
it has entrance and exit points for the HT network built in, along with two inputs and outputs for belts.
one input and output point for the belts is marked for empty packages only. the machine can also store and use packages that it empties if the output belt isnt built.
the machine accepts 1 item input, when it has a full stack it packages it and sends it down the HT line to a pre-selected packager set by the player.
if this isnt making sense I can draw up a diagram.

[shrewd gyro]

hate radioactive hogs

[wicked marlin]

TLDR I want hyper tubes to be used to their full potential. currently they exist only to break physics.

[white dawn]

I know you had the "world grid" recommended to you; personally I don't like that. I'd much prefer to build "with" the local geography. I find strict N/S/E/W-oriented stuff to be kind of boring.

Fortunately there's a lot of ways to disconnect disparate grids, if you want to do so. A search for "satisfactory merge grid" should bring up a bunch; here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX_2i8T3Dbw

Allowing your factories and such to be at angles can also make for more interesting-looking factories in general. I'll often use differently-oriented grids in different "wings" of factories just for aesthetics

There's various foundation materials which make z-fighting relatively invisible (can also use micro-nudging via mods to basically eliminate z-fighting entirely, though I've never done that personally)

[shy mulch]

Or just use trains

[wicked marlin]

Or JuSt UsE TrAiNs
ok then why even have trackors, or trucks, or dune buggies, or drones, or the DD.
more freedom redditor brain.

yeesh sorry for lashing out but thats the worst possible response.

[reef basin]

you have tons of ways to transport stuff
hypertubes are for personal transport

[white dawn]

I mean, I think it was (presumably somewhat jokingly) brought up because rail can already be built in a hypertubeish fashion. A few blueprints and you could have some hypertube-lookin' trains all over the place!

[wicked marlin]

why not more penumetic tubes exist irl, theres a good basis for this.
i imagine it fills the same role as drone, but ealier and requires more setup.

[white dawn]

Tractors, trucks, explorers, and drones aren't as easily analagous. :D

[reef basin]

eh, given it would just be more expensive belt, I don't think it will have a reasonable place

[wicked marlin]

true but i've only starte using the tube recently and I love the concept.

[white dawn]

I'd be surprised if CSS wants to shake up material transport or pioneer transport at this stage of the game, but we'll see what future updates hold, of course. :)

[wicked marlin]

it uses copper sheets and steel tubes my guy. but ok

[reef basin]

well I mean that it will use power, cost to build is usually pointless to look at, I'm talking about cost to maintain

[white dawn]

Could program a mod which makes conveyor belts look like hypertubes

[wicked marlin]

probably 4mw, same as the constructor

[white dawn]

(actually, could also swap actual hypertubes for something belt-lookin. No more zooming around facefirst! Crossed-leg travel ftw!)

[reef basin]

still 4MW more than belts, hence "expensive"

[wicked marlin]

only the packager uses the power, not the whole tube. one packager can take multiple inputs, just filter when belting stuff out, and it'd be more efficient, since tubes can be vertical and it moves a whole stack.
for example, screws have a stack limit of 500. a t1 belt moves at 60 items/min. so thats more then five minutes. the HTL unit would just send the whole stack at once- and at the same speed as the player in the HT.

[wicked marlin]

oh i forgot to add originally, the HT tubes should be able to have entrances added onto them at any poin to function as accelerator rings.
we already make them ourselves so its not game breaking, and it'd make this method more viable.

[white dawn]

I mean, in the end, if you do want the devs to see your suggestion, the place for it is the Questions site. They read everything on there, other folks can upvote it, and it's the best avenue you have for getting feature requests like that in the game

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[wicked marlin]

thanks

[white dawn]

As I say, I'd personally be shocked if CSS feel like messing with the current balance of logistics + transport options, but you never know. A far more likely way to get something like that in the game would be mods, though. Might be time to pick up some programming skills. :)

[polar leaf]

is steam down?

now its back

weird

[reef basin]

as every tuesday night, routine maintenance means it may be down for some time

[leaden turret]

only if not plugging them in closes them 😛

so you get stuck in tube 😛

@white dawn powered hypertube junction, toggles which is open based on whether power is supplied.

[wicked marlin]

its like saying "why have lizard dog we have factories" its cause its fun.

[simple mango]

am I hallucinating? is there no such thing as a "blank" train car?

[leaden turret]

last I checked if you plant a car down but never load it, it doesn't become a freight/liquid freight car

[simple mango]

Well I'm starting to dedicate trains to demand-side stations, so I thought I'd just have blank cars that are never loaded with product they don't need, but I guess they'll all just pick up extras. :I

and here I went all the way back to the HUB to check that I didn't forget to unlock extra cars. [I also thought that fluid cars were specifically built]

[unkempt blade]

You're right to be skeptical of trains when the answer is quite likely to be factory carts instead of or in addition to trains

[shy fog]

so close and yet so far from phase 5 completion... finally doing the work

[wicked marlin]

factory carts are the choice of true masochists gamers

[spark sky]

Hm, I wish we had a sort of walkway the width of a belt that we could route like belts but that we could walk on. I'm currently considering building a sort of path over my belts and parts of my machines out of signs.

[unkempt blade]

why use one vehicle when a dozen vehicles is better more vehicles

[shy fog]

... why not just walk on belts?

[wicked marlin]

why not have more options and more fun?

[cunning siren]

ADA finally got you with one of her puppies and kittens propagandas to complete phase 5? 😆

[wicked marlin]

if we go down the spillery slope of "a better option already exists" we end up with paperclip maker instead of satsifactory.

[shy fog]

na, allergic to animal dander...

it's a fun thing to learn about as a kid, "I went and hugged the giant puppy and now my eyes can't open"

granted the sheepdog did not understand what was going on either

[spark sky]

Because I don't want a moving sidewalk, I want something I can stand on to turn machines on and off, yet access areas where I have to go between machines to get to them.

[leaden turret]

they made a goat simulator before they made satisfactory, it wouldn't be surprising if they made a paperclip simulator.

[shy fog]

the hoverpack is an awesome method to do that

[spark sky]

I don't have that, I'm looking for an early game solution.

[unkempt blade]

a lizard doggos allergy-safe since they're scaley not furry?

[leaden turret]

plush is furry

[spark sky]

Something that's built into my construct, not built into me.

[wicked marlin]

That already exists. Look it up its a text game.
Its also technically the most optimized “this is a better gameplay mechanic” game ever

[unkempt blade]

That's just a funny looking doggo then! They ruined the lizard part

[wicked marlin]

Lizards shed dander bro

[shy fog]

hmm... early game... like... catwalks?

[unkempt blade]

they do? that's crazy!

[cunning siren]

I had Clippy attempt to steal some of my microscopic 800 x 600 resolution CRT monitor and 16 megabytes (Not gigabytes) of RAM "back in the day" NOPE!

[shy fog]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Walkways that

[cunning siren]

Worst paper clip evah

[unkempt blade]

clippy was way better than copilot though

[cunning siren]

Similar in how they are unwanted resource eaters

[spark sky]

Catwalks are too wide. Consider two biomass burners or two constructors side-by-side, you have to jump to get over part of one to get through. Catwalks would clip into both machines.

[unkempt blade]

what kind of factory should I work on until my pumpkin bread is done baking?

[shy fog]

wait... so you're looking for something that fits between things that aren't supposed to be walked between?

[cunning siren]

My thoughts are very cloudy, lets talk after you share that pumpkin bread? 😆

[shy fog]

for that I usually just make an overwalk with foundations straight thru the object in question...

[spark sky]

I'm looking for a way to make compact builds navigable.

[unkempt blade]

it takes like an hour and I also want it right now so I need to distact myself until then

[spark sky]

Without a lot of clipping stuff.

[shy fog]

compact builds are never navigable...

if you're looking for something much sillier like... exterior controls? use the switches

[spark sky]

Anyway, let me work with my signs and see if I can make something that looks reasonable, then I'll get back to you all with some screenshots.

[unkempt blade]

just need to equip your hoverpack and thread the needle aisle you left open

[cunning siren]

Do whatever you can enjoy now 🤷

[shy fog]

that doesn't work when you have 30 buildings stack in eachother

[spark sky]

Again, I don't have the hoverpack, yet.

[unkempt blade]

have you considered taking your life into your hands and using a jetpack instead?

[shy fog]

speaking of which I'm gonna be dooming my fps once I start using blueprints of shenanigans on a non-run for stupid things

[spark sky]

I can fly around in creative, but I'm looking for a reasonable way to navigate a compact, early-game design when I can't fly.

[unkempt blade]

just flutter the gas exactly right so you don't get stuck

[near sedge]

how do yall make your factories look so pretty man, i always end up with a big mess of spaghetti and i dont know what goes where

[shy fog]

Jon, the biggest problem is that you think you have to make it pretty. the first time is to learn how to make it work at all

[cunning siren]

Practice

Looooots of practice

[shy fog]

I have 10k hours, I could make a beautiful factory, I don't because I don't want it to be pretty. I want it to work

[near sedge]

i made like a little tower for my automated wiring and honestly im pretty proud of the throughput etc, but it sure aint pretty

[unkempt blade]

I just try to make the rows neat and then I wrap them in a lot of colorful stuff like #screenshots message

[shy fog]

just remember, you could always do worse... like Josh

and his nuclear tornado

[spark sky]

You know, someone asked a similar question of a corporate CEO: "How do you get into a job like that?" Answer 1: "Don't make mistakes." Question 2: "How do you keep from making mistakes?" Answer 2: "Make lots of mistakes."

[near sedge]

thats the inspiration

[shy fog]

trust me, you have seen Josh's nuclear tornado

[near sedge]

woah thats quite cool

[near sedge]

fair enough

this is like my second run, first one i abandoned like before finishing phase 1

[shy fog]

heh... second run... he's just a baby people

[cunning siren]

Oooof

[shy fog]

remember the golden rule at all times. HAVE FUN

[unkempt blade]

It's mostly just practice + figuring out what style you like. You're probably comparing yourself against people who have spent like hundreds or thousands of hours building stuff

[shy fog]

got questions, quierys, posers? beat this chat up for info... or use the wikis

[near sedge]

i am having quite fun, altough it is worrying that my computer is heating up when im still pretty early on in the game

[unkempt blade]

that's just your hardware complimenting your build, totally normal

[shy fog]

this is not a low end game... but you can adjust settings a bit...

if you need potato mode it's probably best to not go with agro mobs...

[cunning siren]

I have to "tweak things" every time i start! It's nutty AND as long as I can get some solid 60 FPS I'm ok with the extra steps

[unkempt blade]

Mine defaulted to uncapped framerate and just setting that to what my monitor can actually run made a huge difference

[near sedge]

oh wait that probably has alot to do with it

heres the factory so far
#screenshots message

[cunning siren]

I get ~43 FPS on game launch at the first menus. I have to re-set the, "Screen Percentage: 50" setting as the game changes it to 75 on every start. That change alone gets me to ~56 FPS THEN I toggle fullscreen modes and hit apply AND BAMN! 60 FPS

[shy fog]

hmm... still in tiny factory mode...

we very much know how it feels when you think you built something huge and impressive. but remember everything is about "can I stand near it when it's running or will it blow up my gpu?"

[near sedge]

it looks so much smaller when you look at it from the sky

[cunning siren]

Mah GPU hates the Blue Crater area after I built the rocket fuel 🤷 other than that game runs ok

[polar leaf]

A lot of YouTube videos and hours.

It is trial and error tbf

The first save that I liked I made with already 500 hours in

[polar leaf]

How much power did you make?

I built 240gw in there my fps drops to 1/3 if I look at it

[cunning siren]

~67.5 GW with 6 blenders and 4 refineries 😆 so silly how easy it is

[polar leaf]

No way

I used what? Over 140 refineries and like... 60-80 blenders?

[cunning siren]

I only drop frames when I "look" in certain directions in Blue Crater, my GPU usage tanks so it's likely some kind of game bug

[polar leaf]

Not including the 360 oc gens

[cunning siren]

Yea, if you OC a Nitro Rocket Fuel alt build, it's very small and very simple BUT it also eats a lot of sulfur

[zenith pecan]

Sulphur is also less of a constraint post 1.0 thanks to the mk6 belts, you can pull 1200 out of a pure node instead of a max of 780 of early access, so I guess that balances some.

Looking back to early access, I was able to build an oversized turbofuel plant, use all the uranium for nuclear power, make a shed load of batteries and still have ammunition.

[white dawn]

I think they added some more sulfur nodes, too

Or at least one

[unkempt blade]

I know there are production paths that would contradict this but sulfur is also mostly just fuel, nuclear stuff, or batteries with how I play

[white dawn]

But yeah, even with sulfur you've really got to work to actually exhaust the map

[zenith pecan]

Even without new nodes, it is still an extra 420 sulphur per pure 🙂

My old save still had 37 sulphur left over 🤣

[cunning siren]

Is there any reason to have a "permanent" synth power shard build? 🤔 Seems like once I have a box or two of those... why more? 🤷

[zenith pecan]

Ionised fuel if you want to make that, or make alien poer matrix to buff the power augmentor.

[cunning siren]

Ok, I can see that

I make ionized fuel for jetpack AND I think a few boxes of power shards is more than enough for that

[shy fog]

better question: once you have it set up and it fills a box why stop having it?

[unkempt blade]

Because I need those items for sweet sweet coupons! I have an addiction to golden statues and I'll thank you to respect that

[simple mango]

Is there way to see the visualization for Head Lift other than when holding a hologram of a Pipeline Pump?

[dense violet]

measure the height increase with walls

[simple mango]

I am about 200m up so far

[dense violet]

yup walls. One of the reasons to avoid sky infrastructure

[unkempt blade]

but how will people know how awesome I am if I'm not in the penthouse factory?

[dense violet]

because of that 😛

[unkempt blade]

that seems like something a person who couldn't afford true verticality would say

to the moon! pumps be damned

[dense violet]

'afford' 😛

[unkempt blade]

power has an opportunity cost!

[dense violet]

not really. You can't reallistically use all the resources on the map anyway. Inclusive of resources that make power

[unkempt blade]

an excellent reason to spend it all on pump infrastructure

[dense violet]

then you're losing out on the opportunity cost of makign infinite roller coasters

[jolly kindle]

Anyone know where the music on the Songs of Conquest tape come from? Id like to add them to a spotify playlist.

[unkempt blade]

I'm more of a "diving from my penthouse into a tiny pile of jello" type of thrillseeker so that's ok with me

[cunning siren]

I like pumps, they solve things 🤷 and besides there is a good Belgian song that gets stuck in my head when I think of pumps

[peak wasp]

I just rerolled cast screws... I hit alt-f4 so fast.

[unkempt blade]

that's crazy talk, cast screws is a great recipe

[peak wasp]

That's why I forced a crash.

[cunning siren]

Time to play the... "WHERES mah Sloops!" game again 😆

[vale grotto]

Okay so am I doing my math wrong or is rocket fuel just absurdly busted?
By my calculations, one OC'd and 'd blender can make 36GW of nitro rocket fuel

[cunning siren]

YEEEES!

[umbral thorn]

shout out to satisfactory being my favorite automation game of all time

[cunning siren]

Don't sloop power if you can avoid it though

[umbral thorn]

I just discovered what those pesky mercer spheres can do! (I haven't played since before 1.0)
This game is awesome!

[cunning siren]

Even OC is a waste on production but essental on gens

I OC on my production because yes... sometimes I am just that lazy 😆

[plain gate]

slooping uranium rods sounds like a pretty good idea to me...

[cunning siren]

We can sloop when we want to

We can leave your friends behind

'Cause your friends don't sloop
And if they don't sloop
Well they're no friends of mine

[cunning glade]

Man big projects are fun but I suck at starting them

Like I'm what I need too do just it feels like so much that my brain freezes

I blame my ADHD but it's really annoying

[cunning siren]

C H U N K! Yea... that's right, break up what ever is wanted to be done into tiny bits and write that in the to do list in game so it's ALWAYS relentlessly staring at you! AND do one thing at a time

Also, the HUB has unlimited refills on coffee so 🤷 ☕

The toilet is an unlimited void and the coffee is also unlimited 🤔 possibly related? 😆

[cunning glade]

Yeah I just need too like actually start on it

Looking at a friend's save who has a decent sized rocket fuel plant

Then gonna smoke and music and hopefully start

[cunning siren]

Make the first item on the to do list: "Start to do list"

[cunning glade]

I already have stuff on it tbh I don't think I need too I just need too place down the 80 refineries I need and find a decent layout that I like a long with one that works for pipe and go from there

Low-key kinda upset we don't get cats in game

Like we have doggos and the cat mode for spiders but actual pet cats should've been added

[polar leaf]

Blueprints make your life a thousand times easier. Use them

Specially when it comes to blenders

Some of them needed like 4 inputs and 2 outputs and you had to place 40 of those

Life saver when I built my rocket fuel plant

[cunning siren]

In some situations yea blender blue prints are nice, in others I find myself spending more time "pruning" it cuz the recipe does not use all the pipes or inputs ect... 😆 the trade offs 🤷

[polar leaf]

I somehow managed to fit 4 blenders in a MK2 blueprint

[cunning siren]

TIL: Stacking Encoders vertically boosts the aura effect 🤔

[polar leaf]

And all of them had 4 inputs and 2 outputs

That was some wild stuff

I don't know how it works at 100% but it does

[cunning glade]

See

[cunning glade]

I think about making them then never do

[hard mantle]

im gonna berunning essentially a "creative mode" world at the same time as my normal one and i need to ask waht is the most efficent power system

[white dawn]

AGS lets you enable a "no power required" checkbox, btw

[hard mantle]

yeah i know that the creative part of it is really just gonna be flight godmode and no building cost

[viscid bobcat]

insulated cable or pure caterium ingot?

[white dawn]

Flip a coin!

[dense violet]

define what you mean by 'most efficient'?
I'm almost certain multiple people have told you on a number of times there's no single path or optimal way to do a thing unless you make very specific requirements

[white dawn]

In terms of net power from the system it's probably Rocket Fuel or Uranium

[viscid bobcat]

the coin exploded

[dense violet]

neither then

[hard mantle]

that was my bad cause i genuinely dont know what i meant by that question

[dense violet]

usually the problem when you don't understand your question 🙂

imo uranium is the most fun. It's not very complex but more so than rocket fuel, plus you don't need to build huge fields of ugly gens. 1 nuclear gen is worth 10 fuel

[white dawn]

Less obliquely: alt recipes are generally just to give you options while building. In the absence of personal preference there's often not a lot to say that you'd prefer one over the other

[hard mantle]

uranium sounds very fun...

[dense violet]

uranium also doesn't really have a use other than power

[white dawn]

In that case, you're either increasing cable yield by adding oil, or increasing Caterium yield by adding water and power

[gentle flicker]

@analog robin i love the hallway in your screenshot do you have a blue print for it?!

[white dawn]

There are more drives on the map than you can use, so you'll get all recipes eventually (so long as you keep at it)

So don't worry too much about what to pick, IMO. I always say just pick a random one and then go find more drives. :)

[analog robin]

I do, i just made it

still working on it

[gentle flicker]

are you willing to share once its all done?! 👀 im not sure how i would use it but i think it looks great 😄

[white dawn]

(others will recommend leaving them unchosen in your HD library until you do have an opinion on them, but IMO that just leads to a lot of recipes you'll never even try, 'cause they won't be available while factory-building)

[analog robin]

of course!

[crisp jetty]

does anyone know why my base could be blowing a fuse, i only have biofuel so far, im not past the power limit, and i have plenty of biofuel. my only other guess is my biofuel factory isn't producing fast enough?

[dense violet]

if your fuse blows it's because you're going over your capacity, or connecting it to another , already blown, circuit

probably running out of fuel in some bio burner

[polar leaf]

I do the same thing

in the creative one I use mods to make my life easier

and then replicate what I do there in my main world

[hard mantle]

yknow whagt i decided im turning no power on what should i automate for fun since i dont need anything

[cunning siren]

Turbo Diamonds is a strange alt, it "saves coal and power" AND can not be overclocked so the default recipe grants more diamonds for less machines at the cost of more power and coal 🤔

I guess if one is "maxing out" the coal it's worth it

Like they want as much diamonds per coal as possible

[idle harbor]

anyone playin

[hard mantle]

dude the uranium beeping sucks

its so loud

[crisp jetty]

i cant understand why my biofuel generators are running out of fuel when theyre only consuming 36 solid biofuel per minute but im producing 60 per minute

[idle harbor]

do most people play experimental?

[hard mantle]

wdym experimental

like advanced settings?

[idle harbor]

wdym wdim

[hard mantle]

wdym wdym wdym

[idle harbor]

there's not experimental and there's experimental

[crisp jetty]

holy shit bro i spent 20 minutes figuring out why my damn biofuel isnt working and its cuz i had leaves connecting to wood biofuel 🤦‍♂️

[clever merlin]

they need to fix chargers this is such bs when they do a back to back to back instantly and can instant kill you

[hard mantle]

are they running out of fuel or getting their fuses blown because theres a certain limit on how much stuff you can have connecting to it since theres like the max consume thing or sumn meaning its using up too much power too fast

[idle harbor]

can i play toooo

[crisp jetty]

i had a box full of leaves on a conveyer to a wood biofuel constructor, vice versa

[idle harbor]

bruh just build a platform and kill them from it if you cant figure out the mechanics lol

[reef wasp]

I should start a brand new game of Satisfactory.

[hard mantle]

ah to fix this problem you should probably turn it into biofuel first because no matter what you made it with it can stack

like if you made biofuel with leaves it can stack on biofuel made from wood

biofuel is biofuel

[polar leaf]

#screenshots message this is the bp I told you about, but it was WIP

[hard mantle]

i was gonna ask you this but like, mods?? how

[polar leaf]

what do you mean how?

[hard mantle]

how do i get them

[polar leaf]

#screenshots message this is the final version, changed colours and added input and output. works just fine

the turbofuel is overflowing because I'm not using all the 4k rocket fueo /min yet

but all the gens are working full time

[hard mantle]

hey unnormal since im doing some creative stuff right now what should i automate for fun?

[polar leaf]

6 pipes carrying 600 rocket fuel /min 24/7 #screenshots message

[polar leaf]

probably a lot of concrete

[hard mantle]

then i got to find a lot of limestone right next to eachother

[polar leaf]

what tier are u at

[hard mantle]

ngl i turned on unlock everything in advanced settings..

[polar leaf]

damn

[hard mantle]

so you should totally give me a random item to automate

lemme just open the codex and scroll till i see something cool

oops nevermind

thats to search stuff up

nevermind again i just clicked on somthing and now i can see every itme

[simple mango]

wah my uranium factory is taller than personnel elevators are willing to go T_T

[noble sand]

[hard mantle]

give me some uranium for real

im hungry

[simple mango]

[drops a stack of uranium in your inventory]

[hard mantle]

i forgot to put a hazmat suit on first

you guys know how you can press 1 2 3 or 4 to use those shortcut things well the little wheel says 9 how do i get it back to 1

[shy fog]

hold control to switch bars?

[cunning siren]

I'm new to recycled plast and rubber and attempting to map it out with Modeler AND I'm not sure if this program does loops 🤷 is the basic idea you feed each build with it's own stuff? Like you DO get high on your own supply 😆

[shy fog]

or is it alt... one of the two, I never use more than the first

[frail sleet]

It does, but it's very specific with how they have to be built

[cunning siren]

Any hints?

I'm guessing it's one of those "gotta' prime" the system for it to get going

And be sure to sink overflow

[shy fog]

are you recycling from fuel into the other?

[spark sky]

Okay, I have the new power plant design working now, just a few visual edits inside to do. #screenshots message

[shy fog]

You are probably looking for the reddit post SatisfactoryGame/comments/gc4u5s/plasticrubber_loop/

[cunning glade]

Poly resin is only really used for fabric right?

Ig besides plastic and rubber which I currently don't need more of

[shy fog]

you'll almost always need more plastic

hence why Speck is making a loop

[cunning glade]

For now tho I don't

And if I do I can just use the alts I have and make a shit ton

Since I'm using a few full 600 pipes per

And there made with defaults

[cunning siren]

TIL: Liquid junctions snap vertically to foundations How many hours have I played this game to not know this? 😆

[crisp jetty]

im trying to figure out how to maximize the number of coal generators i can use with 3 pure coal deposits, is there a calculator or something of the sorts i can use to figure this out

[cunning siren]

Oh yea. There are loads of planning tools

I'm using one called Satisfactory Modeler, can download it on steam

[crisp jetty]

i guess what im trying to ask tho is, whats the most efficient splitter path? if that makes sense

[cunning siren]

Whelp, thats a complex question cuz belt tech miner tech ect...

The Modeler program lets you set all that stuff and "figures" it out for you

[crisp jetty]

yeah im tryna figure it out on that rn

[shy fog]

what you have unlocked determines what you can produce which also determines what you can make

you got layers of question there

and that's not including overclocking/underclocking

this will at least give you a clue on output of the node https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Miner

[crisp jetty]

i cant find a normal splitter on the modeler just weird variations

or unless a priority splitter is a normal splitter

wait nvm

[gentle flicker]

im trying to build with no belt clipping at all but can we all agree belt cliping is ok SOMETIMES in like logistic spesific areas?

[outer scarab]

discord has changed a bit, how do I read the comments directed to me with the red number from that channel?

[cunning glade]

I think light clipping is fine and I also let belts go thru each other sometimes🤷 but play how u want

[outer scarab]

if you need to do something and it's a mess, consider putting it all on a single 4m high floor and then blocking it off

[white dawn]

If you're on the web/desktop client: Search, type: mentions: Talo -- as you type "mentions" it'll pop up an autocomplete thing which'll put the word "mentions" in a little box, and then give you a dropdown autocomplete for your name as well

If you're on a mobile client, I think you have to click a "filters" button and then choose "mentions" from there. (On the web/desktop client you can just type, though)

[gentle flicker]

this is how i mean here, not sure how else to build a system like this with out the clipping

#screenshots message

[outer scarab]

you are trying to do too many things at once. You need to split off the belt first before you cross

[gentle flicker]

im trying to build a primary bus of 24 belts for my iron ingots that if not being used will be sinked

[outer scarab]

Honestly in a casual play, I always clip belts, but if you want to see my bus I have a solution

[cunning glade]

Build a lift and run it a little bit above

[white dawn]

Oh, and if whatever mentioned you got deleted (like it was a spambot or something, or just someone who got kickbanned), you'll still have the red-number notification but searching will yield nothing. A bit annoying, that one -- I wish the client would at least tell you that whatever caused the notification got deleted

[outer scarab]

here ill post my iron bus in design

give me a min

posted

I removed the glass so you could see it better

[gentle flicker]

ahh i see i see

thats a nice way to do it

i may use that in the future

[crisp jetty]

do pipe junctions just act like a merger/splitter if you treat it like one

[gentle flicker]

they just allow what is in the pipe to flow in any direction must use pipes or gravity to direct it 😄

[crisp jetty]

so how would you split the flow of water that you have

if you can

[gentle flicker]

you can not evenly split per say but if you split your line and the outputs are equal to half the input it will even out 😄

pipes are a very very complex and confusing part of the game

[crisp jetty]

ts got me scratching my head n shit

[gentle flicker]

i have like nearly 2k hours and still struggle with it

[gentle flicker]

maybe send a screenshot and i can help 😄

[crisp jetty]

gotchu one sec

[hard mantle]

@crisp jetty werent you literally just talking about biomass and now you're on coal? 😭

[crisp jetty]

well thats the problem

im trying to set up my coal, easier said than done

but i unlocked the milestone

[hard mantle]

damn but you were trying to get biomass working firt so could have time to get coal going

is that why you were talking about biomass?

[crisp jetty]

yeah got biomass set up after a silly mistake

automated*

[hard mantle]

see heres a tip, maybe just make biomass with the leaves instead of just yknow using leaves

[crisp jetty]

what

[gentle flicker]

bruh dont be a jerk

hes asking for help

[hard mantle]

sorry that was not meant to be that rude

i was genuinely trying to say make the leaves and wood into biomass so you wouldnt have that problem

im sorry

[crisp jetty]

ohh no ur good no offense taken, i was just confused

[gentle flicker]

@crisp jetty that not a great photo or a great set up but i sent that photo for you to look at

[crisp jetty]

thank u bro, ik its not great im hella new and hella confused lol

[outer scarab]

You can have valves and a priority system but it's best to just have the exact amount that you need flowing or more

[gentle flicker]

each gen takes 45 water each pipe can hold 300 so just divide 300/45 and thats how many gens you cna use per pipe 😄

[crisp jetty]

do either of u know if theres a better way i could set up the splitters connected to the coal

[vestal hill]

What’s your current setup

[crisp jetty]

its on the screenshots channel

[vestal hill]

You should use a manifold

[versed mesa]

Fingers crossed second time lucky on powering up the particle accelerator and ive got much more power for it let have I get the rest of the pasta needed almost there lol

Are no particle shows like max it go to 11k lol

Its going to blow up

Lmfao

[reef wasp]

Big fan of manifolds.

[versed mesa]

I can't look omg

Is say max consumption 32.9k MW

Lmfao

[crisp jetty]

what's manifold

[versed mesa]

Its basically a more tidy way lol

Abd help with things to work correctly each time lol

[vestal hill]

Are you on the game atm?

[versed mesa]

Yeah

[vestal hill]

Could you send one of your manifolds in screenshots or something?

[versed mesa]

Hearing the sound from the particle accelerator care case everything may go capute I think we good thought

[versed mesa]

Tbh I am new to hearing Manifold also be i have made some first time blueprint recently if thats what you mean

Just type it on YouTube

Satisfactory manifolds

Nice ive upload all 100 pasta just need 500 of this one item

[vestal hill]

#off-topic-media message

[versed mesa]

And phase 4 is done

[shrewd palm]

a load balancer is splitting up a belt into multiple so that each machine gets the exact amount it needs, however these start to get very annoying and tricky to deal with when you start getting weird numbers like decimals or things that end in 5s. this is where manifolds become more useful

a manifold is putting a splitter in front of a machine and connecting them with a belt, then throwing a new belt on to another part of the splitter and sending it to the next machine/splitter combo. this makes it so that over time each machine in the manifold gets the exact amount of resources it needs, however manifolds often take a while to fill up.

overall its going to be a lot easier to just manifold all your machines, although load/belt balancers can be useful when you want to make all your belts of one item be the same amount

also i guess its good to point out that these work for pipes too although they can sort of end up blending into the same thing depending on how you build it

[outer scarab]

for coal i just use splitters in front of the gens

[vestal hill]

Yeah I just have a manifold for coal

It’s incredibly stable

[outer scarab]

its also easily upgradable b/c you get mk3 and mk4 belts right after

[vestal hill]

Yepp

[civic reef]

about how many coal gens should i get for early game? im thinking 36 because i have 2 pures close by

[shrewd palm]

thats good for a while, each one makes 75MW i think

where are you gonna be building?

[crisp jetty]

how does running a pipe uphill affect it

[civic reef]

near that SAM node in the middle of the lake, gonna be belting the SAM and a pure coal back to my base

[shrewd palm]

the one in the crater plateau?

[shrewd palm]

it wont so long as you have enough headlift to get whatever fluid you're using up the hill

[crisp jetty]

what is headlift?

[shrewd palm]

how far the fluid in a pipe can travel upwards

[civic reef]

yes! that's the one, right in crater lake

[crisp jetty]

how much headlift would i have to have for a perfectly vertical pipe

[shrewd palm]

all machines that produce liquids have a base 10m headlift, with pumps you can increase that indefinitely

[civic reef]

the length of the pipe is what matters

if you want to go up 25m, you'll need 25m of headlift. that's what pumps are for

as a rule of thumb i'd make the headlift over what you need just to prevent any sloshing

[shrewd palm]

also if you lock a pump on to a pipe by pressing H you can see a little ring that goes in the direction of the pump and that can tell you how much headlift you're making

[shrewd palm]

nice, are you using the other pure node there for steel?

[civic reef]

precisely

that and whatever other nonsense i need like black powder

[shrewd palm]

im using that spot for some of my phase 5 stuff

[crisp jetty]

are there ladders you can unlock?

[shrewd palm]

despite using all 3600 coal and the couple thousand oil nearby i still need 8000 more coal and almost 13000 limestone

[civic reef]

lmao

[shrewd palm]

yes, there should be some in the AWESOME shop

you also unlock a jetpack and eventually hoverpack in the later tiers

[civic reef]

for me i did one in like, i think it's called maze canyon where there's 3p and 1n

it's funny. when i first started my friend did the majority of power stuff so i could have fun with other logistical nonsense

[shrewd palm]

ive thought about building there but ive always thought of that area as more of a main base location because of the terrain and i already have all that set up in the grassy fields

[civic reef]

im set up near that giant canyon that runs through half of the map

[outer scarab]

you should build coal on water and then belt the coal to the gens

[civic reef]

oh i am

[outer scarab]

as long as you arent going up more than 10m water wont need pumps

[civic reef]

crater lake is right next to where im building

[outer scarab]

I usually just run one pipe in front of the gens with the pumps on the other side, I dont bother with the math

[civic reef]

i know how to do fluid logistics... remnds me of when i built my first computer plant at the very end of the canyon where it goes into like,a savannah like area?

[shrewd palm]

mk6 pipes my beloved (those things never work istg)

[civic reef]

37.5 comps per minute. Used the excess HOR to make diluted fuel and power some fuel gennies

[civic reef]

h u h?

[shrewd palm]

if you dont build things properly mk6 pipes are prone to problems

[civic reef]

oh right, there's a pipe mod that adds those

[shrewd palm]

unless you're looping manifolds and all that fun stuff it can be tricky to run them at 600/min if they're not coming directly from harvesters

sorry i am very tired, i mean mk2 pipes

[civic reef]

OH

That makes much more sense. Yeah mk2s are finnicky

[outer scarab]

i just use mk1 pipes and connect them like -+-+-+-+-

[shrewd palm]

i should probably be using mk1s more often

[civic reef]

i used mk2 pipes without incident on my first playthrough

[shrewd palm]

they look better than mk2s with the clean finish anyways

[civic reef]

well, i had one incident

[shrewd palm]

ive only had 2 major ones with them so far i think

the first one was with my nuclear plant and i forgot to place a pump somewhere and that left me very confused for like half a day

[civic reef]

yeah.... my nuclear plant was the incident.

[shrewd palm]

and the other is with my plastic/rubber factory running at like 90% because i cant get the HOR pipes to run at 600/min for the life of me

[civic reef]

i thought i had quadruple checked every single pipe and it was all good to go...

then the rads spiked immensely and the power grid fell by 75%

[shrewd palm]

i am very glad that the majority of problems with my nuclear plant were ones that could be solved by connecting a manifold properly or forgetting to put fuel in a drone

[civic reef]

hah no mine was a complete disaster

[shrewd palm]

backing up on waste my beloved 💯

[versed mesa]

Where can I find ladders and catwalks i cant find them anfmd ive bought them

[cunning siren]

It seems I have an aversion to using drones? 🤔 Strange this is

They so handy, yet I try to avoid using

[shrewd palm]

should be somewhere in the AWESOME shop

probably in an architecture tab or something

[versed mesa]

I dont have this tab i was looking

[shrewd palm]

oh wait i cant read

have you got an architecture tab when you press Q to open the building menu

[versed mesa]

No

[shrewd palm]

and you're sure you bought them right

[versed mesa]

Yeah

[shrewd palm]

uh

im sorry but im not really sure whats happening then

[versed mesa]

Idk what to do to maje them show

[shrewd palm]

it is almost 1 am and i spent 3 hours in the gym today i am very tired

[versed mesa]

Lol

Ive spent over 24 hours awake its now 5.40am lol

[civic reef]

both of you need to sleep my gods above and below

[versed mesa]

Mods should not remove them right

[shrewd palm]

no

[versed mesa]

Thats weird

Even though ive unlocked unlocked them I bet it wants me to still but but it shows that ive gotten them but no where to be seen

Thus really needs reporting since ive already bought them but are not showing

I remember i did once see them but now now like even concrete pillars they not tobe seen also and many other things

When next on ill have try turn off mids and see if they show after I do that

[cunning siren]

OH, the mk6 lifts are THICC 🤔 seems to clip in spots where mk5 did not

[limpid cairn]

Keep going !!!

Ficsit needs you

[versed mesa]

Lmfao

@cunning siren do you know the reason why items ive purchased are no where tobe seen in build list?

[cunning siren]

Like from the awesome shop?

[versed mesa]

@limpid cairn well am still awake but in my bed lol

[cursive crane]

What did you purchase?

[limpid cairn]

Start the steamdeck!!!

[versed mesa]

Yeah when I first bought them I had seen them let's say pillars I had seen them but they no longer to be seen and other stuff like ladders and catwalks and more not there

[cunning siren]

Type ladder in search

[versed mesa]

I dont own only Rog Ally

[limpid cairn]

Can it launch steam & satisfactory?

[versed mesa]

Well am not currently playing i need sleep lol

[versed mesa]

You got to launch steam to launch satisfactory

[limpid cairn]

That’s why there is an &

[versed mesa]

Yeah lmfao

@limpid cairn its windows Rog Ally the first version

@cunning siren yeah is weird am thinking about turning mods off to see if they show again

Was only recently i did see them

Its really odd to not be there many of things

@limpid cairn what do you play on ?

[limpid cairn]

Pc

[versed mesa]

Ah so basically the same

[limpid cairn]

tbh I think majority here plays on pcs

[versed mesa]

Yeah they do lol

@limpid cairn I play with Xbox controller

[real shale]

What's a pc

[shrewd palm]

Personal chair or something? I think?

[real shale]

Oh, I do play on my own chair, fair

[outer scarab]

I play this on my smart fridge

[real shale]

No you don't

[limpid cairn]

Private circuit

[real shale]

CIRCUIT???? POWER???

You've awakened the sleeper agent

[outer scarab]

Those darn Russians

[light junco]

This server has a channel for suggestions?

[peak wasp]

Roses are Red, We all love oil, Destroy the trees and pollute the soil

[shy mulch]

Roses are red, violets are red, my eyes are red, everything's red, oh my god I've been stabbed someone call 911

[cunning siren]

Can toilet flush power shards? 🤔

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[hard ivy]

^ @light junco

[cunning siren]

It's strange when a game gives one the ability to make unlimited amounts and no way to delete them 🤔

I guess you can make fuel

[hard ivy]

Pretty sure it can flush absolutely anything

1 at a time tho

[outer scarab]

I think there is 1 thing it cant but i forget what it was

i think it was nuclear waste or something

[cunning siren]

Nope, that flushes

I think even sloops flush

[light junco]

Honestly cant find how to post something there xD

[hard ivy]

You need to create an account

[light junco]

ah so the in game account and the site arent linked?

[primal mist]

These stingers are gonna give me ptsd istg

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> imagine Cats (the musical) is arachnophobia mode on, now imagine ||arachnophobia mode off||

[grim ermine]

I went to the swamp for the first time and got chased by 5 green spiders 😭

[light junco]

made an account on the suggestion link but Im not getting a verification mail, tried 2 mails. Does it usually take a lot of time to get one? XD

[primal mist]

oof

I remember the first time i went to the swamp, i hadn't even seen any spiders. I see the warning on the screen that enemy has spotted you or whatever it says, and i can't see anything. And then a huge ass spider just jumps onto me from orbit

[leaden turret]

🏃‍♀️

[primal mist]

I still haven't gone back to the swamp after that

[grim ermine]

Why are the spiders so big

[primal mist]

I feel like it would be scarier having a big ass cat png chasing you tbh

[leaden turret]

they evolved on a planet without newspapers

[grim ermine]

True

[primal mist]

Scientifically peer reviewed studies have confirmed this

[light junco]

I was hunting for biggest spiders yesterday. Gave me a heart attack a few times but once I calmed down I went back for more. I felt that they had to be exterminated and someone had to do it

[primal mist]

You're a hero

May history remember you

[grim ermine]

Im waiting till I get nuke nobelisks

I hope they arent nuke proof

[light junco]

lol, fav spider hunting spot is lush green forest next to the pink forest

[primal mist]

lol

i downloaded this megaprint for a railroad system so i don't have to build it myself

[light junco]

I think they should make a spider that is a bit bigger and faster... more aggressive basically

that way getting rid of it feels nicer

[primal mist]

We're all entitled to our opinions

[primal mist]

even if they're wrong

[light junco]

Nu-uh!

[primal mist]

i already shit my pants everytime i see them

I wish there was farming so i could automate healing items

[light junco]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/gr5vf3/the_mother_of_all_spiders_has_been_found/

[grim ermine]

Ive thought about doing this but I doubt id ever use something of such a large scale

[light junco]

I found a music tape called Conquest in game yesterday. are there more like this?

[real shale]

There's 2 iirc

[light junco]

I found the one near the northern forest but where can I find the other

[primal mist]

It's really nice, however adding stations to it is gonna be a challenge, making it look as good as the ones that already exist

[grim ermine]

That is beautiful

[real shale]

A DRG one is on the map somewhere near the "coal lake" near grassy fields

[light junco]

coal lake?

[real shale]

Yeah the lake up north where there's 4 coal nodes

[primal mist]

This calls for an intercontinental ballistic missile

[real shale]

I call it that because it's the perfect coal power plant set up

[light junco]

Ill check it out

[real shale]

I know exactly where it is but id rather have you go on an adventure :3

It is somewhere there though

[light junco]

My coal powerplants produce 6000 Kw using 3 nodes and for the most part regular coals. I could prolly place even more with dense coal

[cosmic adder]

what tier do i unlock editable splitters?

[weary thistle]

You mean smart splitters? programmable splitters? not sure what you're asking for

[cosmic adder]

one that can split stuff by what they are

[weary thistle]

smart splitters - look in the caterium tree

[hard ivy]

That's in the MAM, not a tier

[cosmic adder]

ohh, damn it, stil lot to unlock there

[weary thistle]

it's pretty easy to get once you are mining caterium and copper (that's all that's needed)

[cosmic adder]

well, im at tier 5 only, just got there

[weary thistle]

can do it at 1 🙂

well, if you like hand crafting - you can do it when you get the ma

[cosmic adder]

i cant scan it, so finding would be hard

[weary thistle]

ah, and depends on where you started - it's easy to find in the deserts - and look for the rock spire things you can mine everywhere

[cosmic adder]

im in fields

[cunning siren]

Bout to do the last part of mah first "sink grind attempt" a 27,245,092 point /min 9.41 BWD build, feels exciting 🤯

[weary thistle]

there is one to the south of the map (but it's under rocks) - you can still put portable miners tho

[cosmic adder]

hmm

ill see

[weary thistle]

if you feel 'cheaty' (not sure if it is or not) - https://satisfactory-calculator.com

you can show where veins are - even load your game to see what has been explored

[cosmic adder]

im hand doing yep

[hushed canopy]

i ran out of milk, i do not have enough for a cup of coffee, and i need to expand the factory more. damn it

[cosmic adder]

i was focusing on main missions that i havent done anything besides it lol. GOtta get some stuff (stuff i saw on YT)

[hushed canopy]

anyone in for a quick looksie with some tips on how to improve my factory?

[cunning siren]

#screenshots message <--- OOOOoH yeah! It's golden nut time Soon ™

[simple mango]

Maximum radiation distance is 80m no matter what, right?

[hard ivy]

No lmao

[simple mango]

Followup, then: There is an edge to the map, yes? At some point I'll stop being able to zoop and I can build the radioactive waste dump?

[hard ivy]

Idk if there's a limit to where you can build. The edge of a map kills you, not prevents you from building

[simple mango]

That is good to know.

Well, I've built out far enough that I can barely even see the nuke plant through the haze, so... "good enough"?

[hard ivy]

Also, the killzone up in the air is 1.5-2km up. You'd need millions or waste barrels for radiation to even get close to that

[simple mango]

Yeah every industrial storage gets me about 30 hours of a single uranium plant running, but who knows how long it's going to take to to get to plutonium. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cunning siren]

🤔 So... stock up on inhalers and try to reach infinity and beyond?!?!?

[simple mango]

Well I also want to build this inside a blueprinter... <_<;

[hard ivy]

There's an instakill zone that you can't outheal

[zenith pecan]

It turns to an insta-kill line after a certain point.

I tested it after trying to get the map to reveal heh.

[hard ivy]

Yeah, I just checked and for radiation to reach 2km away, you'd need millions of containers full of waste

[ashen belfry]

The zone is damn high and depending where you are pretty far away from the shore. So you can easily build a lot of storage there. Enough to last you a lifetime of playing

[cunning siren]

Millions of containers? So one can store waste to the point where it blocks out the sun and it's all good in the hood on the surface?

[south sinew]

yes

[simple mango]

I have documented my crimes: #screenshots message

[clear birch]

Hey guys I have a general question thats probably asked a lot in here: How do you build your factories? E.g. I want to automate motor production, do you build one factory for rotors, one factory for strators and one factory for motors or do you build one factory for motors alone where you also build rotors and strators?

[cunning siren]

I made one of those pre 1.0 and the game "hated it", when attempting to place it, total freak out

[dense violet]

either way works.
depends on where you're at, what recipes you have and what you personally find convenient 🙂

[simple mango]

freak out how? the game or you because you hated it so much?

[dense violet]

for example there's a rotor recipe that uses teh same materials as the stators, makes it very easy to combine in that case.
or you just make the stators and rotors next to each other in their own section and then combine then

[cunning siren]

The game like, went all glitchy and would not let me place it

[simple mango]

big emphasis on the "what you personally find convenient"

[clear birch]

Im currently doing the latter on phase 3 but I find it kind of inconvenient to always extent the already built factories to get a new part out of it in the end. I thought maybe building factories for every existing component so that I can just add to the factories without changing the overall end product they are producing

[simple mango]

I mean ultimately there are three kinds of things you're going to be making:

1. Project Parts.
2. Parts to build buildings.
3. Fuel.

[dense violet]

thats certainly fine 🙂 I personally just cram everything together as needed and let parts overflow to feed sections. It's messier but gets the job of going up the tech tiers faster

though you probalby learn less about how to manage factories that way

[simple mango]

1. Project Parts from Phase N are going to be part of th recipe for Phase N+1, so build those factories to be extensible.
2. Parts parts you don't necessarily need to make at a fast rate, you just need a large enough buffer to cover a building spree.
3. Fuel is just going to be "build to suit", though I suppose Oil and Nuclear need consideration for extension later.

[dense violet]

so as you're new I'd probably say make new factories 🙂

learn a lot

[simple mango]

yeah, you're not going to run out of space

shit I just sent all my nuclear fuel out to the dump instead of into the machine and I don't know wtf happened there but it's going to be a massive pain to bring it back. T_T

I might just pocket it a try to outrun death

[clear birch]

Alright thanks guys

[true mulch]

Load autosave

[simple mango]

how radioactive could 163 Uranium Fuel Rods possibly be in my pocket?

[reef basin]

tbh I wouldn't "extend" project part factories, I'd just build new ones

[hard ivy]

I wouldn't even build project part factories

[reef basin]

a lot

[hard ivy]

Max, probably

[simple mango]

lol 7 radiation filters to get them back to a place I can dump them back into the feed

[hard ivy]

3 uranium rods in your inventory max out the meter lol

[simple mango]

maybe I'm just happy to see you? :3c

[cunning siren]

Time to descend into learning the black magic of plast and rubber recycling 🤔

[simple mango]

I am now allowed to sleep. #screenshots message

[simple mango]

Why build 5 different copies of the same factory?

[reef basin]

because it's not the same factory?

[hard ivy]

It's really simple if you do it right and quite difficult if you don't

[reef basin]

it may use different resources and/or different recipes, since it will need to produce different product, it'll probably need a better place where we have the resources for the product, it may need to be produced in a different amount, ...

like sure, if for some reason the current production suffices, go ahead and reuse it. But whether that will be possible or not depends on your plans for next phase, which you usually don't know while building the previous phase, hence why I recommend not locking into "I need to reuse this" mode and instead think about how would you make the production at this time

[simple mango]

I thought I got banned for heresy, but it was just my Internet going out. :I

[vestal hill]

can road barriers be rotated onto a ramp?

[simple mango]

Not uphill

Anyhow, the way I see it you just bolt a storage container onto project part N and it'll be overfilled before N+1 and the previous efficiency is immaterial. You're only ever going to need bursts of project parts.

[vestal hill]

dammit

guess I'm stuck using industrial rails then

[grim ermine]

How many uranium ore per minute is there in the entire world?

[hard ivy]

2100

[azure urchin]

2100 /min

[cunning siren]

Ok, i think i got it 🤔 🤷

[frail sleet]

since there's little uranium per minute available, it actually makes sense to convert other stuff to uranium for some optimal builds (let alone for flavor)

as that can double the amount of available uranium or more

for most scales though, 2100 uranium is more than plenty. With the easiest wasteless recipies that's still around 300 GW net, so you don't really benefit from having more uranium unless you want more than 300 GW.

[unkempt blade]

those would be good builds for the "make a radioactive zone the size of the entire map" challenge

[grim ermine]

If you converted 1 uranium per minute into plutonium then ficsonium. How much power would you make per uranium ore

[reef basin]

pre-plutonium this required the game to run for over two years nonstop with most optimal placement of everything just to produce the waste

I assume with plutonium waste and conversion the numbers will be different 🤔

(source: my math, so take it with grain of salt - https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/m96kuy/how_to_irradiate_the_whole_world/ )

[rigid mist]

Yk the Montreal metro stations look really cool on the inside I wonder if I can do that for my trains
And then have the trains running below the map so I can have a true metro system

[hard ivy]

Depends on the recipes

[grim ermine]

Thats true. Kinda forgot alt recipes existed for a second

[lone marten]

Should be possible

[hard ivy]

Max is 29.1(6) GW/(uranium/min) I think

Or 1.75 TJ/uranium

[grim ermine]

How do you get below the map

[rigid mist]

Hybertupes

[lone marten]

Now the question of today is, do I want to progress or do I want to start thinking out how I'm gonna develop Paradise Island...

[limpid cairn]

2 teleporters

[grim ermine]

I feel there are easier ways

[limpid cairn]

there are indeed easier ways but teleporters are the best way if you dont want to take hypertubes etc always

[abstract heron]

quick question does anyone keep getting the intro while booting the main game on default version?

[wintry carbon]

i pretty new to the game and did a setup for basic materials doin a double manifald for all products. should i put an injection after x machines, if so how many? i got lvl 3 belts. do i use lvl 3 belts for output too?

[plain osprey]

can u sent a picture of the factory from above in #screenshots (you can press P to enter photo mode and then R to free cam)

[wintry carbon]

sended dm.

[unkempt blade]

very cool! I imagine slooping and SAM stuff could speed it up a little bit too but it's interesting that it takes/took that long

[cosmic adder]

I deleted everything, rebuilt teady factory..and it doesnt make enough stuff..

[lethal scroll]

hey yall, what are some of the best awesome sink dump materials? as in, the most ticket gain compared to electricity/resource cost

I am on tier 4 right now. The best I can think of as a dump material is caterium wire

[cosmic adder]

I dumped motors, discs, rotors, not to bad of points

[lethal scroll]

I don't have steel automated yet, so I am still in need of those

[cosmic adder]

Rotor

[lethal scroll]

wait wtf, xeno-basher is worth 17800k

[cosmic adder]

Why would you dump...it

[unkempt blade]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/AWESOME_Sink#Farming_points has some notes for you. I mostly just do spaceship parts when they're not needed + overflow all my factories once the depot is full

[lethal scroll]

3k worth of wire
2k worth of modular frames
100 worth of iron rod
4k worth of xeno-zapper

points if all components dumped into sink: +-9k
points for xeno-basher: 17.8k

that's almost an 8k profit

am I onto something here?

[cosmic adder]

You onto going to make another

[lethal scroll]

wym?

[cosmic adder]

You cant automate it

[lethal scroll]

well, I know

[unkempt blade]

anything that's handcraft-only is probably not a good scaleable idea

[lethal scroll]

but I just need something for a ton of quick, points

also I can dump the caterium wire at the same time

I like always crafting something in the bg if im not out building or exploring

[cosmic adder]

Id say, automate something, so even if ya do smth, it gets points

[unkempt blade]

You do you, I'm just explaining why it doesn't scale the way going out and automating almost anything would 🙂

[lethal scroll]

I have caterium wire fully automated rn, but nothing it goes into yet, so it seems like a prime candidate

[unkempt blade]

why not just sink the caterium wire and then go automate something else?

[cosmic adder]

Thats on ya, im still on tier 5 and trying to make my factory clean..

[lethal scroll]

thats what im gonna do yeah, sink the quickwire, then craft some manual stuff at the same time

[hard ivy]

No, that's how sink points work. The vast majority of items are worth twice as much as the ingredients they use

[lethal scroll]

just seems like a very easy way to get points (at my stage at least) for very little effort

[grim ermine]

It gets harder very quickly

[unkempt blade]

wouldn't it be almost 2 minutes of handcrafting time per basher or is my math off?

[limpid cairn]

only phase 4 is hard

[unkempt blade]

you need to make the little basher then the big basher

[cunning siren]

What is the deal with refineries and packagers? Is there some trick to getting them to work 100%?

[grim ermine]

I mean getting points gets harder exponentially

[lethal scroll]

could be, but as I craft, the factory keeps going, and I can keep handcrafting in the background. I just need to press space, then I can afk for a bitr

[limpid cairn]

oh yall are talking about points lol

[grim ermine]

Yes lol

[cosmic adder]

Huh? It is hard after too

[limpid cairn]

i just jumped into the convo i appologise

[grim ermine]

Phase 4 is the hardest

[limpid cairn]

phase 5 is significantly easier than phase 4 if you automated most parts in in phase 4

[cunning siren]

Doing a single ionized refinery to a single packager both 200 /min AND ~75% production time on the packager? 🤔 wtf?

[cosmic adder]

Idk, i did 4, now onto 5. And its not looking good

[grim ermine]

You mean tier or phase?

[cosmic adder]

I have automated, but not high quantities

[cosmic adder]

Uhh, whats the diff?

[grim ermine]

Space elevator phases are different to hub tiers

[cosmic adder]

Well, nvm then, im on third i think, and tier 5

[grim ermine]

Yeah that means your working towards finishing phase 3

Phase 4 starts at tier 7

[unkempt blade]

hrmm other than making sure they always have enough packages+liquid and that there's somewhere for the packaged item to go I don't think I ever really needed any special magic

[lethal scroll]

yooooo DNA coming in clutch rn

[cosmic adder]

I tried making my factory better, but it doesnt make stuff i need fast, so most time factories do nothing, and i just remade it..

[lethal scroll]

just put 21 canisters in, got 10 coupons from that

[cosmic adder]

Well, its still hella hard

[lethal scroll]

now I can finally get the items I was doing this all for in the first place: hypertube wall and floor holes

[dense violet]

just over flow extra of whatever you're making

[lethal scroll]

I just unlocked hypertubes and I wanted wall and floor holes so I could make a proper line between my hub and my coal plant

and once thats all done, imma go exploring for hard drives and slugs

weee

oh hypertubes, I've missed you

I've never used these new junctions before

really useful for adding little stops

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys just to confirm is there a way to reorder stuff in dimensional Depot list?

[lethal scroll]

oh, right, when do you unlock that? dimentional depot I mean

[grim ermine]

Im at a similar stage also but phase 4 is even harder

[cosmic adder]

Trough MAM

[cosmic adder]

Welp, its hard bc its slow..

[grim ermine]

Can you not just make more of everything

[dense violet]

what's slow?

[cosmic adder]

When i built it, i didnt put more faktories. Now i will have to wipe lot of stuff again, and add more..but yeah, i thought 2 factories for each stuff is enough..

[cosmic adder]

Everything, rods, screws, moters, everything

[dense violet]

... so make more

[grim ermine]

Instead of replacing everything just build more somewhere else

[dense violet]

any item is slow if you don't make much

[cosmic adder]

Easy to say, hard to do. I didnt build factory for that, factory for that. I connected everything

It would make hard to navigate where is everything

[grim ermine]

"A factory is only as good as the foundations it is constructed upon" - me

[dense violet]

just takes a little practice. Put a bit of space between each section, make multiple floors

easily doable

[cosmic adder]

Oh right.i should have not done everything on one floor

[dense violet]

it would make it a bit harder to organise yea

[grim ermine]

The first time is never gonna be perfect and to expect perfection from your first play through is silly

[cosmic adder]

That is true, but i dont wanna it to be messy. (Everything below factory is)

[grim ermine]

You just gotta build up

The blessing of satisfactory is the 3d dimension

[cosmic adder]

I mean, all stuff coming from diff places makes it messy..idk how could it be better, and cannot hide whole map

[grim ermine]

Organisation is really difficult with a million belts going around

Takes a lot of practice

[cosmic adder]

Yeah, this time, ground gonna be mess..ill try rebuilding everything with more factories on diff floors. Maybe will help more

But like, if i need rods for screws, do i take from my factory or make another for that factory..?

[grim ermine]

If you have room on the factory for screws then build it at your main factory

[cosmic adder]

Main factory? There dhould be more than one? Huh?!

[grim ermine]

Noo

[lethal scroll]

where your hub is

[grim ermine]

Just at your factory

You can have multiple if you want but not necessary

[cosmic adder]

Every factory is near hub

[lethal scroll]

I personally plan on finding every alt recipe required to just do away with screws alltogether

they are a pain in the ah because of the large quantities

[cosmic adder]

I have everything on one platform rn..

Except power

[grim ermine]

You can do it like that

But expanding specific systems is annoying

[cosmic adder]

Yeah, but as i said everything is connected, so from Iron ore to iron advanced plates (not real name but yeah) and to like motor, rotor or whatever

I should make different factories for each stuff prob, atleast on another floors. No?

[grim ermine]

I think the best way is to have different raw resources for each item. So I have iront plates being made separately from another part that may require iron plates

[cosmic adder]

Way da minute, hold up, if i undarstand correctly, ya have factory for like iron rods. And than another factory that makes iron rods to make screws? Bc you wrote so complicated

If yes, i should do that too, but i have to make like lot trips to new veins..

[plucky flower]

Dont want to interrupt at all but thats an awesome name + pfp @grim ermine

[grim ermine]

Thanks ❤️

[grim ermine]

Yes

But only build the amount that you need and no more so your not wasting resources

[cosmic adder]

How do i know amount i need?

Like when it says "uses 30/min" like rods for screws. Make exacly 30?

[grim ermine]

Yes

[cosmic adder]

Makes sense..

Thanks, i will rebuild my factory, to maximise all that. Also, how many water pumps for how many coal generators best? Like i got right now 10 extractors for 10 generators. But all water puses are connected to each other.

[grim ermine]

Well a pipe can only carry 300 water per minute

If you look inside the water extractor it says how much it makes a minute

Each coal generator uses 45 water per minute and a pipe carries 300 therfore 300÷45 = 6.6

So one full pipe only carries enough water for 6 and a bit coal generators

[hushed inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/great-day-for-a-meet-gif-6710756194354044344

Hogs be like:

[signal brook]

guys im new to satisfactory so and im only on phase 2 of the space elevator. i dunno what im building up there, would it be spoilers to know at this stage of the game? 🤨✌️

[stone python]

ye, if you want to know y ou can go ask in #story-spoilers

[signal brook]

ahh nvm then. if its like "wow omg ive been building THAT???" type spoilers, i dont wanna know until ive done it myself. thx alot tho

[stone python]

ye, then you def don't want to know.

[signal brook]

ok sick, im more excited now, thx :)

[arctic hamlet]

whats the best spot for aluminum production?

[untold halo]

I may just satisfactory instead of do any work from home today

[hard ivy]

Anywhere with bauxite, oil or coal, and optionally quartz

So basically anywhere with bauxite

[arctic hamlet]

alright, i figured i would do it in the swamp. Am i gonna use that for another production later?

[cosmic adder]

So better to have diff, understood

[cosmic adder]

Yeah, when i watch YT, i skip some parts that look like spoilers too (new too)

[signal brook]

spoilers are info hazards, i slime anyone that tells me spoilers (RIP my lil brother 💔🥀)

[cosmic adder]

Wut..

[signal brook]

had to be done
sacrifices had to be made 🥀

[cosmic adder]

...?

[signal brook]

court judge let me off scott free, "reasonable crashout" 😌

[cunning siren]

Ahhhh, feels good to max out the alien tech tree

[tawdry charm]

I need to do my homework and study for a test. But i also need to build a smart plating factory... What do i do?

[tawdry charm]

also i need more power for the factory...

[wintry carbon]

do homework, build power factory, then study and build smart plate factory 😆

[tawdry charm]

Nice plan 👍

I have 16 hours and didnt even make 1 smart plating

[wintry carbon]

i got my first 100h in 2 weeks an only got till basic stuff 😅

feeding all to get more tickets to unlock all, i want to decorate stuff.

[tranquil maple]

Have your study set play in your headphones on tts while building the factory

Multitasking

[tawdry charm]

impossible for me

[tranquil maple]

Like u don't have headphones

[leaden minnow]

is there a mod that adds tower defense?

[pseudo perch]

trying to do 20 smart plating for phase 2 rn

[true mulch]

I don't think so but you can check the discord or website
ficsit.app

[pseudo perch]

it takes more then what my belts can handle

[true mulch]

Use 2 belts 😛

[pseudo perch]

yes

i can probs split it up

also i can all ready see the reworks im gonna have to do for the stuff i all ready built

non of it is producing rn

[real shale]

I'm at a train station right now and all I can think about is how inefficient this is.....clearly not a satisfactory player....

Everything is push pull.....
And they have too many freight wagons, they are harming their throughout....

[pseudo perch]

oh wait we got a tag here

hell yea

[real shale]

How do I tell these people they can just build their train lines up into the sky.....

[pseudo perch]

dose it look cool though

to befair im table gang

table factory gang

[vestal hill]

#screenshots message @tawdry charm wait till you meet the dimensional depot

[shrewd gyro]

I am making road blueprints, Straight, L-Turn, T-Turn, X-Turn, UP-Ramp and Down-Ramp. Have I missed anything?

[dense violet]

the milestones are your tutorial, you're just starting, so pick a goal and go 🙂

[dense violet]

by being lame and building sky infrastructure 😛

or get a mod that flattens the map I guess

[real shale]

True, I could just tell my country to download that mod

[grim ermine]

Sky infrastructure boring

[tranquil maple]

Sky infrasturcture lazy

You are required to make your life as hard as possible for no reason'

Other than it looking 0.0001% better

[forest widget]

I realize you can nudge smaller increments by holding CTRL, but is there an even smaller increment? I still can't seem to get Conveyer Lift Floor Holes to line up sometimes

[dense violet]

build walls up from the lower foundation up, then build foundations from that and they always line up

[forest widget]

Yep, I got that trick, but this one is specifically trying to align it to a train freight platform's unloading section.

[dense violet]

there are tricks involving sliding objects, possibly foundations, on pipes , beams or barriers?

other than that, mods

[grim ermine]

Move the train

[orchid pine]

The Depot is the reason i stopped using no build cost

[vestal hill]

fair

[orchid pine]

The back an forth to get items use to erk me

[true mulch]

I can't imagine how I'd play the game with no build cost

All factories I build are for building materials...and nothing else

[orchid pine]

I do use it for some of the big blue prints i have because the sheer items needed

[plucky flower]

I know the jetpack fuel changes how high you can go. But does it also change flight duration?

[spare ice]

Hey guys, new to satisfactory. I was just wondering, is there anyway to "overview/change output" without having to run to the constructor and changing ?

[carmine aspen]

no, everything is pretty much manual, except for trains(theyre smart enough to no take a turn they dont need to)

[spare ice]

I see 😉 is there anything you would recommend for new players? mods etc for qol improvements :p?

[white dawn]

No build cost but whenever you build something you manually take the would-be required build costs and manually flush 'em down the HUB toilet

peak gaming

[distant magnet]

I wanted to build a train network with two-way trains (network will still use left and right tracks, however), because my build-design isn't going to let me make loops after stations. but i don't know how this affects the amount of freight cars i can have on one train. could i still have 4 freight cars/1 forward loco/1 backward loco without running into issues?

[carmine aspen]

not really, theres a bunch of qol in the tech tree (MaM)

[true mulch]

I'd recommend the opposite, play the game in vanilla at least once

[white dawn]

I wouldn't recommend using mods until you've done a full playthrough, unless there's something really specific which is bothering you about the game which a mod would resolve

Other than that: my usual advice is: Ignore Discord, ignore youtube, ignore streamers. Just play the game at your own pace, enjoy it, and make your own mistakes instead of someone else's. :)

[spare ice]

Alright I see 😉

[orchid pine]

One thing to keep in the back of your mind is to keep power slugs till you get somersloops as they will double power shard production you get from each slug

[spare ice]

Having huge output problems where I have to craft manually to keep up 😛

I have not used any power slugs just yet 😄 Thanks for the tip

[orchid pine]

Mod wise I like Always daytime and unlimited autosaves

[dense violet]

power shards, used on anythign other than miners/extractors, only save you space. You can always build more machines

and yeah, avoid mods until you've played through the tiers vanilla at least once. there's lots in the game to manage

[spare ice]

Alrigth thank you guys for hte input :d

[grim ermine]

Satisfactory is probably one of the most QoL focused games. Literally everything is done to make your playing as enjoyable as possible

[orchid pine]

Dont worry about trying to make neat factory's first up. when you get deeper in the game you will rebuild them. The map is massive so give your self room.

Is there a list of all time played notifactions. i always miss them and i want to print a few.

[elder light]

is anybody able to play multiplayer at this moment?

[crisp jetty]

Would I just divide the output rate by how my machines need to figure out how long I can make a working manifold

[limpid cairn]

screws exist

[heavy anvil]

cast screws

[limpid cairn]

still screws.

[grim ermine]

Cast screws solve all issues

[heavy anvil]

steel screws are the most power efficient

thats what i tell myself to justify not have cast screws unlocked on most saves

[limpid cairn]

im standing with the screw hate

you guys can not convince me

[green fiber]

screws are a skill issue

[hard ivy]

They barely solve anything

[crisp jetty]

How can I calculate how long I can make a manifold before it’s too long to support my factory

[languid anvil]

is it normal for there to be power slugs under the ground lol

[sullen gull]

Nothing wrong with screws. Besides, alu beams + steel screws pwns hard

[hard ivy]

I don't have cast or steel screws unlocked on the last 3? 4? of my saves

[sullen gull]

If in a cave

[languid anvil]

ahhh makes sense

[cunning glade]

Okay

[limpid cairn]

anohther screw hater in this economy?

[cunning glade]

So if drones are close too each other use trains?

[hard ivy]

Divide belt speed by 1 machine's production/consumption, round down. That's how many machines you can connect to a single belt

[sullen gull]

For belts, just look at the machine input and calc with whatever your max belt speed. Belt manifolds can pretty much be as long as you want, so long as the supply >= demand.

[cunning glade]

Cuz I'm trying too figure out droneing out the fuel and then taking the canisters back cuz i can do that?

[crisp jetty]

Ye but can’t they be longer than that cuz of the overflow mechanic

[hard ivy]

Why even ask a question if you're just gonna go "nah" when someone answers?

How are you gonna get items to the end if the input belt is already full?

[reef basin]

And what's so bad about them?

[crisp jetty]

I wasn’t tryna undermine your answer mb

[limpid cairn]

they screw me up
(jokes a side, they clog up early game belts too much)

[polar leaf]

early game belts?

man they clog every belt

[limpid cairn]

dont you need like 3 constructors with steel screws to clog up a 1200 belt?

[polar leaf]

they're good if you use a blueprint that feeds screws directly into a machine depending on the recipe

but if you pretend on manifolding screw machines

holy moly

[limpid cairn]

im using them on manifolds

[plucky flower]

? Anyone knows this?

[hard ivy]

yes, the wiki

[plucky flower]

Allright

[deep ivy]

pretty sure it does yeah

like biofuel is bad for height but great for longevity

[mortal ginkgo]

yes, search wiki for jetpack, many different fuels got different properties

liquid biofuel is best to keep you go as it has the longest duration to stay afloat

then comes rocket fuel and ionized fuel at late game

[plucky flower]

Yeah ive looked at the table but its really weird and I dont understand it good

[polar leaf]

it isn't bad for height

[plucky flower]

Thanks this was what I searched

[polar leaf]

it's main thing is horizontal but it works vertically pretty well too if you ask me

not as good as ionized or rocket but still

[mortal ginkgo]

once you get jetpack, you understand what they mean. basically, different fuels not only let you stay longer afloat, but they can also make you go HIGH UP faster

[polar leaf]

solid biofuel is the real bad one

[plucky flower]

Im myself not the best at english. Yes im learning and when I saw the website I saw all those things with weird numbers and meaning and all and my brain shut off faster then my bioplanr

[mortal ginkgo]

for example turbofuel can get you high up REALLY fast but it got bad duration of staying afloat compared to liquid biofuel

[plucky flower]

Thank you. And you can get the fuel by using packagers for the fuel

[mortal ginkgo]

exactly

[plucky flower]

I got it now thanks

[deep ivy]

i meant relative to other fuels

[cunning glade]

So rocket fuel will produce a canister back when consumed by drones or am I mistaken

[hard ivy]

it won't

[cunning glade]

I see

Good too know

[sterile blade]

The empty packages are then dropped by drones as they are made and can kill you if they land on your head

[somber sigil]

if ithis a know issue that u cant put anything besides normal ammo in the rifle?

[heavy anvil]

the canisters are made out a special material that is then burned by the drones for a small fuel boost. ficsit does not waste

[heavy anvil]

hold R

[somber sigil]

controller?

[sterile blade]

Hold the "reload" button

[somber sigil]

doesnt work

[crisp jetty]

Are upgraded miners unlocked through milestone or molecular analysis

[true mulch]

milestones

all unlock requirements are listed on the wiki

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Miner