satisfactory

[prime rampart]

Hi i have 0PROBLEMS WITH TRAIN rn

NYAZULLL MY FUEL FRIEND

[feral geyser]

Heyo

[cunning siren]

I have done ~7 play throughs and have yet to use mods and one day I may 🤔 🤷

[feral geyser]

Some are okay, a lot can be very cheaty

[cunning siren]

The bigger blueprint one seems nice

[feral geyser]

But again, it's non-comp, so what does "cheaty" even mean?

I just don't use the ones that feel cheaty to me.

[prime rampart]

Mods r like personal likings

[feral geyser]

And if others do, okay, whatever.

[civic reef]

tfw you notice that there's a mercer sphere in the bg while taking a picture

[prime rampart]

This game isnt even competitive

[feral geyser]

To wast's point, I would be less impressed with someone's factory if they just cheated 500 somersloops into one manufacturer.

But does that make it invalid? 🤷‍♂️ I'm just a guy

[nocturne orbit]

6 peope ho put must have not even watched #satisfactory-memes message

[feral geyser]

"It's right behind me, isn't it?" -_-

[honest oxide]

Hey guys, I have a question. I have some pipe manifolds and I read I should loop the system, I’ve done do, but is it a problem if the loop goes above the manifold? Because if I got it right it won’t go in the loop as long as the pipes below are full. Am I mistaken?

[civic reef]

#screenshots message LITERALLY

[civic reef]

mind posting a screenie of what you're trying to do for a visualizer?

[honest oxide]

I’m not home ;-; I am in a waiting room and the question randomly came to mind LOL sorry

[civic reef]

no worries! what's the pipe manifold for?

[honest oxide]

This is what’s addiction looks like, this game is the most addicting thing I’ve ever played

[civic reef]

NAH it's such a peak game it's not addiction is progress

[honest oxide]

Blender with water and heavy oil for diluted fuel

[civic reef]

you shouldnt need to loop that. My advice for doing blender startups is to underclock them to the lower percent possible, then let the HOR and the water fill up the blender

[honest oxide]

Wait I found an image I sent to a friend yesterday

[civic reef]

if, at all possible, make your oil setup be 1 HOR to 1 blender

[honest oxide]

#screenshots message

It’s from far but hopefully you can see the blenders

#screenshots message

[feral geyser]

The loopback can go above the manifold, but feed the whole loop from that higher segment of pipe.

[honest oxide]

Or else I’ll have that problem I mentioned right?

[feral geyser]

Is it working okay right now?

[honest oxide]

Still all off

Need to place the 96 fuel gens ;-;

[civic reef]

In my experience I've never looped my pipes

[feral geyser]

Is that with them overclocked?

[honest oxide]

Nope

But each blender produces 100 of fuel per minute

[civic reef]

I wish the round concrete beams could be painted

[feral geyser]

You can do only 39 if you have about 120 power shards to spare lol

[honest oxide]

Running on 2 pure nodes and 2 normal ones

[cunning siren]

I had 29 bio burners going before I switched to geothermal this run 😆 absurd

[honest oxide]

I don’t, I’m lazy as hell and I only collected around 90

[feral geyser]

Gotta sloop them slugs

[civic reef]

It took me around hour 50 to place down my first coal gennie. I was running off 30 bio burners and a APA

[honest oxide]

I’ll just wait for synthetic one

[civic reef]

Uhhh, about that

[feral geyser]

Well, I have a BP for three fuel gens if you want

Make your placements easier.

Pipes and power poles included

[civic reef]

oh i gotta ask, anyone know of a mod that adds this funtionality?

[feral geyser]

I do not

[real wolf]

my new fuel power plant needs 25 GW and i make 6GW atm

[feral geyser]

Why so much???

[civic reef]

batteries. lots of batteries. or have it start up in stages

[real wolf]

cause it makes 6400 m3 of fuel.

[bronze atlas]

maybe that one that lets you place decals would get that effect, but i suspect it would be way slower since it would be a layered texture instead of just tinting the original.

[civic reef]

@feral geyser gotta ask, what's the F.E.E.T. stand for?

[real wolf]

well 1125 m3 of turbofuel and 5275 m3 of fuel

i need POWERRRR

[feral geyser]

Forward Exploration and Examination Team 🫡 scouting new locations, finding items of interest, your personal F.E.E.T. on the ground

[civic reef]

that is actually really clever! i like that

[feral geyser]

I do also like feet

[real wolf]

tf

[civic reef]

no comment

[vivid hearth]

hi everyone. i want to buy the game. if i dont buy soundtrack, the game wont have any background music ?

[real wolf]

need to package 6400 water per min

[feral geyser]

It will

[civic reef]

you'll have bg music, buying the soundtrack is like... having a copy for yourself

[feral geyser]

The soundtrack is a separate package so you can listen to just the music

[bronze atlas]

soundtracks are for listening to music outside of the game, usually on your phone or something

[feral geyser]

But all the music is available on youtube

[cunning siren]

I hear doggo but I don't see doggo 😢, can they get inside geography?

[civic reef]

yep.... doggo might be lost

[vivid hearth]

o. so the contents in soundtrack dlc is included in the base game as long as i am playing i can listen to them. right ?

[fiery pewter]

Satisfactory is one of those good games that stops the sound when you leave the tab

[feral geyser]

Wait, are you doing it by packaged diluted fuel??

[civic reef]

honestly, crazy to admit in a public discord but like... eh, you are much bolder than i am

[fiery pewter]

Alot of good games don't have that

[feral geyser]

None of you know me in real life, what do i have to lose?

[fiery pewter]

Yeag

[fiery pewter]

Rainbolt approaches

[feral geyser]

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

[civic reef]

fair point (i am 50m from your location and rapidly approaching)

[feral geyser]

Barefoot, I hope

[fiery pewter]

"The missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't"

[real wolf]

Yes. 3200 m3 of HOR -> 6400 m3 of fuel

[fiery pewter]

Ficsit missile when

[feral geyser]

Oh noo....

[real wolf]

900 sulfur, 900 coal and 2400 m3 of oil

[feral geyser]

Oh, my poor friend...

At that rate, just get some nitrogen and just do nitro rocket fuel

[real wolf]

im at phase 3

[civic reef]

the humble explosive rebar

[fiery pewter]

True

[feral geyser]

Ugh, no blenders yet...

That's rough

At least you can recycle the packages

[real wolf]

and i wanna automate all items i can for this phase before moving on but like 124 GW of power should be good :>

[feral geyser]

Nuke nobs

[real wolf]

it should be good for the rest of the game

[civic reef]

i have been sleeping on shatter rebar for a millenium

[real wolf]

clueless

[feral geyser]

I only make rebar for the friends that don't like rifles.

[fiery pewter]

Nuke nobs<cluster nobs<knobs

[cursive crane]

stunbar best bar

[feral geyser]

I use mostly clusters and gases, and turbo ammo (homing in spider caves)

[fiery pewter]

I only use the gas nob in enclosed spaces

[feral geyser]

But making a nuke nob factory was so fun

[fiery pewter]

True

[feral geyser]

Gases are good for disabling Hatchers

[fiery pewter]

Using the Spicy stuff to make Spicy kaboom

[feral geyser]

Throw one in the middle of a clump and the wasps die instantly

Then you just walk up and hit them

[fiery pewter]

Nuclear Generators should explode like a large nuke nob when not given water for a while

[feral geyser]

Then use their flesh to make biomass for your next batch of gases

[fiery pewter]

The humble crouch

[forest karma]

the nuke is kind of underwealming tbh :(

[feral geyser]

I ain't got time for crouch walking

[feral geyser]

Bro how

[fiery pewter]

And, imo, the explosion looks too smooth

[feral geyser]

The mushroom cloud texture is a bit off, you right

[ivory condor]

needs more power, bigger, faster, stronger

[feral geyser]

Isn't that a Daft Punk song?

[fiery pewter]

Birb?

[fiery pewter]

Yeag

[ivory condor]

maybe

[forest karma]

i tossed one once into the red bamboo forest and it destroyed exactly as much as the shroom size. yes it is stronger than the cluster, but crafting times and such make the cluster more.. effective in fauna removal

[feral geyser]

Yeah, I could see that, i guess. They really shine when you stick em to a nuclear hog's forehead

[fiery pewter]

Spice+spice=rads

[vivid hearth]

guys do you think i buy the game now or wait until an off-session ?

[ivory condor]

naaa daft punk-harder, faster, stronger

[feral geyser]

I'd say buy it on sale, but even if you didn't, it would still be worth it.

[ivory condor]

sorry i had to, and i regret nothing

[civic reef]

im having WAYYYY too much fun with photo mode

i never knew that pioneers could be so stylish

[vivid hearth]

have any guess when will be the next sale ?

[feral geyser]

Naw that's a Kanye song 😏 😭 💀

[ivory condor]

wait what👀

[feral geyser]

Maybe Thanksgiving/Christmas? 🤷‍♂️

[vivid hearth]

so about 2months at least right ?

[bronze atlas]

Go trick or treating on halloween then sell your candy to raise money for the game.

[feral geyser]

Can't say for sure. Add it to your wishlist and you'll get email notifications if it goes on sale

[vivid hearth]

i must sell all my cs2 items to buy the game 😄

[vivid hearth]

i did it too 😄

[forest karma]

just tell the parents that you have found a full time factory job and you need a little advance to sign up 😏

[vivid hearth]

they dont think so 😄

[real wolf]

#screenshots message

[civic reef]

what in the world am i looking at

(my dumbass accidentally typed that in screenshots lmao)

[real wolf]

i need to transport 6400 packaged water so im doing so it fills every conveyor

[feral geyser]

Belt compressor

Nice

[real wolf]

i blew my fuse already once :>

[civic reef]

meanwhile im just dumping screesnhots bc photomode my goat

also the cat ear helmet is such a peak addition

[feral geyser]

#screenshots message
YASSSS QUEEN

[civic reef]

I am Kasane Pioneer

[real wolf]

MY FUSEEEE

my fuel plant needs alot of batteries..

im gonna make like 10 gw back up for now

[cunning siren]

It's kind of fun turtling phase 1 and 2 without jetpack, forces ya to use ladders and ziplines

[fiery pewter]

Duh

I meant your user

[ivory condor]

oh, yeah🤔

[feral geyser]

Ziplines would be way better early game if we had power poles that didn't get in the way

[cunning siren]

If you set it up right they wont be with power towers

[feral geyser]

That's a fair point.

[cunning siren]

With infinite nudge it's even better with power tower placement

Game is kind of rigged to not let you build towers from low to high AND with nudge you can evade that mechanic

[feral geyser]

They're just so bulky for tight builds.

I also like hiding power lines, so often, there's not a lot to zipline on except for big stretches between factories anyway, so I guess, yeah.

[real wolf]

the map is massive why make small builds

harvest.. harvest

[cunning siren]

You can delete them when ever you want 🤷, I often use them for like 5min then delete

All creatures are "defeated" by the proper distance from them, even with rebar gun. Power towers can do that

I combined a panic room + HT cannon with a elevated power tower, super handy

Hardened Lookout Tower kind of thing 🤔 #screenshots message

[peak wasp]

morniiing!!

is normal produce a really low amount of HMF ? now i produce 5.6/m

[cunning siren]

With sloopage you can make 10 BWD with 2.06 /m 🤷 so yea, that's fine unless you have some massive Blender and or Nuclear Power Plant builds that requires them

[sleek sierra]

please add a „male“ option to the character.

[dense violet]

besides, the player character is a robot

[peak wasp]

oky thanks

[feral geyser]

They certainly are not

[civic reef]

Imma be so real you genuinely see your player model maybe 3% of the time

[feral geyser]

ADA makes repeated reference to our biological and human nature, we are definitively not robots

[civic reef]

for me its 10% of the time since photo mode

[feral geyser]

I live for it

[sterile blade]

Fleshy robot who hasn't realized they're a robot...

[feral geyser]

Nah

Thoroughbred 100% human, baby

[shy mulch]

Should be able to build duplicates of the pioneer like Harlan did on P3X-989

I'd get them to stand posing with all my golden nut trophies

[old pasture]

So I have an idea for a new playthrough but I wanna ask
Has anyone ever just used all resource nodes on the map to maximize production

I feel like that would be

A painful but fun challenge

[shy karma]

It woud be fun there is somebody that has 900 plus hours so maybe he

[old pasture]

I’m building a huge aluminum factory that has 213 refineries in it and I keep running out of motors

I’m losing my mind so Imma get some rest not like I’m getting paid to save the day

[near frost]

dude finnialy my first big project done

i am now full satisfactory

[old pasture]

What was your first big project :3

[near frost]

Rocket fuel

[old pasture]

OOH

I’m doing rocket fuel next

I can’t wait actually

[near frost]

like the moment i saw that last pipe fill up was sooooooooooo satisfactory

[old pasture]

Yooo title card

Apparently 1800 crude oil can make a LOT of Rocket Fuel

[near frost]

600 can make 4 pipes

my next power plant will be rocket fuel but using 2400 oil

[old pasture]

1800 crude oil can make quite literally 1800 rocket fuel
1:1 ratio

Or somethin Idk if I did ratio right 😓

[near frost]

dude the other recipe is wayy better

#math-and-meta

look there

[cunning siren]

Yea, Nitro Rocket Fuel recipe eats more Sulfur AND it also simplifies the build big time. Makes it much simpler to make it modular and upgradeable, build power as you need it kind of thing

As long as you don't have any "massive plans" for Sulfur, party on

[unkempt blade]

as a representative for every new player with big plans and a 6y/o gaming laptop I want you to know that I'll be using every single bit of that sulfur for my ultra mega factory that uses all the resources on the map so I need the most efficient recipes only

[shy mulch]

If you automate like 5/min then feed them into an industrial storage, and have the industrial storage output feeding into dimensional depot, then go do something else for a while to allow the storage to fill up, then you'll never run out again

[shy mulch]

I'm making 6000 rocket fuel from 1500 oil

[sleek sierra]

the 3% destroy my gameplay

[unkempt blade]

why though?

[scenic mirage]

is it possible to rename swatches

[unkempt blade]

not that I'm aware of at least

[limpid cairn]

Good luck placing down a gazillion fuel gens

[old pasture]

I have 10/min being produced tho

[old pasture]

I already have to do that for my heavy oil residue byproduct in my aluminum factory lol

[limpid cairn]

You can burn HOR?

[old pasture]

No but I’m turning into fuel

[limpid cairn]

Ah

[old pasture]

Might as well make extra power with the biproduct right?

[limpid cairn]

Why not into petroleum coke?

and use it for alumina

[old pasture]

I didn’t know that was a thing and I already have all the trains set up any slight change in my current layout and I spend 3 hours or more changing my train

Which the train took me an entire weekend to build

Also extra power isn’t bad

[limpid cairn]

average satisfactory experience:

[old pasture]

I just wanna beat the game on this playthrough at this point and then tear it all down and rebuild

[sleek sierra]

This was more satire, but I just wanna have a male body. Doesnt fit to me that you only can have a female body. Not because of moral reasons or smth. Just want a male body

[cunning siren]

Ooof, I wish there was a volume slider for build gun 😭

Game be like, BOOOOOM I built something! You hear that! 😆

[cunning siren]

TIL: "Blueprint" auto-connect mode auto snaps the blueprint to the proper height of the previous <3. This saves me some nudges, thanks Devs

[gaunt sapphire]

game loses 100 fps when I switch blueprint mode to autoconnect. 30 seconds later the game crashes with objects overflow error:

Fatal error: [File:D:\BuildAgent\work\SR11_BT\UE4\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectArray.cpp] [Line: 534] 
Maximum number of UObjects (2162688) exceeded when trying to add 1 object(s), make sure you update MaxObjectsInGame/MaxObjectsInEditor/MaxObjectsInProgram in project settings.

Are there known fixes? Should I just stop using autoconnect until fixed is released?

There are several similar crashes reported on q&a site. but that crashes relate to very different circumstances

[ivory condor]

that doesn't look good, the game is running out of ubojects and crashing, looks like a memory leak

yeah fatal errors are usually pretty bad, i wonder how common this memory leak is

[native epoch]

quick question, is there a jump pad that can launch upwards?

[gaunt sapphire]

it doesn't look like a standard memory leak because it returns to normal state out of autoconnect mode

[ivory condor]

interesting

[cunning siren]

Try using a ramp + jump pad + angle adjust when you build 🧠

You'll eventually get hypertubes so... 🤷 untill then buy the ladder at the awesome shop? Giggaladders + parachute is a good phase 1 & 2 strat

[mossy moon]

scroll after clicking once and then click after scrolling to build it

[limpid cairn]

open a thread in #1038092680493801533 for those questions

[lament niche]

good morning europeans, just a reminder: your mothers are murlocs and your fathers smell of pokeberries

good morning Americans, Seize the Day!

[frail sleet]

That actually could be the bug that i experienced before with runaway uobject creation.

I don't use autoconnect with belts any more, maybe specific to that?

[gaunt sapphire]

In my case it is autoconnect for rails and/or hypertubes

[stable locust]

Exciting news. I finally hit phase 3 after 300 hours of combined time. My world is 76 hours!

[frail sleet]

It actually might just be everything because now that i think about it, i raised the uobject cap to crazy high value because i was getting that crash every half hour.

[native epoch]

im dumb, ty

[true mulch]

btw, if you want to get rid of the double click for stuff like conveyor poles, lifts or jump pads, there is a setting to change it to holding down the mouse instead

[versed mesa]

Hello all good day

[near frost]

How do u find satisfactory "fun"?

Someone asked me this question today and tbh I didn't know how to answer

[versed mesa]

Lol

[versed mesa]

Well fir 1 building can be fun

[near frost]

I said something like that and he said building ain't new

[versed mesa]

Lol

[near frost]

I am now questioning my 200h on the game

[versed mesa]

@near frost Just say its relaxing witch make it fun

[mortal ginkgo]

WOAH CRAZY WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED

[near frost]

That is true but for him not a good enough argument

[cunning siren]

One does not need to be able to articulate why enjoyment happens for it to be true

[versed mesa]

@near frost well screw him maybe its just not for him

[near frost]

Annoyingly the game he plays is steal a brainrot 😭 💀 🗿

[near frost]

Ya that is what I told myself

[near frost]

Very deep words

And I get bullied cuz I play the game 7h a day

But the most important thing that i am having fun

[versed mesa]

Tell him to go back to playing Dora the Explorer he mite find that funner lmfao

Been wondering what I can build fir my first Uranium Factory i have not thought of anything yet lol

[formal mauve]

Is there any alternative craft with coal? one that can be automatized without a coal source (and not wood > coal because I've seen that)

[versed mesa]

Idk

[true mulch]

not sure what you're asking for?

like a way to get coal without coal...?

[formal mauve]

alternative crafts that end up making coal

yes exactly

[true mulch]

you can do that in tier 9

[formal mauve]

tier 9? damn

[true mulch]

don't just ask about a part of your problem, why do you want to get rid of coal?

[formal mauve]

no it's not that, but it's so I can make coal without having to make 10km of conveyors

[night lotus]

choo choo

[formal mauve]

or just make more overall

[leaden turret]

🏭🌲🌲🌲🌲🏭

[formal mauve]

ah yes

[true mulch]

build factories near resources they use

[night lotus]

you could use coke with an alt coke recipe

[primal flax]

tell me is this a good idea, having dedicated trains for each main resource, (iron ore train, copper ore train, oil train etc) and having them deliver to all different factories spread accross the map

[formal mauve]

that's what i do but I don't want to make 10 different places to make electricity

so i just bring coal all in one place but it takes a lot of time

[true mulch]

well, building in 10 different places would solve your problem

[minor glade]

Annoyingly long track and super hard to sync up the loading and unloading platform placement unless you use sushi belt which requires bazillion smart splitter and sinks.

[primal flax]

i see 🤔

[shrewd palm]

that is not a good idea

[copper crescent]

quick question
is there a way to make a conveyor belt blueprint wich for example is a 3x3 grid of stackable conveyor poles, and then drag out from them as if it was a conveyorbelt connecting all 9 to another set of 9?

or would i have to go and manualy connect all of them one by one?

[shrewd palm]

if you're going to go the route of having really big forges to do all of that, leave room for lots of train stations and then make trains going to each factory

or, better yet, whenever you build a big factory just train over a few resource nodes and either refine everything at the factory or on site at the nodes

[shrewd palm]

just make a belt highway (length doesnt really matter) and then you can autoconnect them together

[cunning siren]

I've built sooooo many ladders this run 😆

[copper crescent]

wdym?

how do u set up the bp for them?

[shrewd palm]

#design-and-architecture message something like this

[copper crescent]

thats exactly what im trying to setup
didnt realise u can auto connect them
guessing you'd need a belt as in and output?

[shrewd palm]

ive made conveyor pole/belt highway blueprints up to 4x4 and it helps a lot for when you need to transport lots of resources and dont want to use trains

[minor glade]

Trains are just annoying in general. After my first 1.0 run I just make enough to fill the rates needed and use magic machine mod to cheat spawn that amount, cutting all the train stuff.

[primal flax]

i really cant see a great use of trains for me but i really want to use them

[shrewd palm]

you just need something a belt can connect to (some kind of pole, splitters/mergers dont work)

same thing goes for pipes

[minor glade]

I swear I’m not trying to be edgy I am just too stupid for trains

[shrewd palm]

once you get them figured out trains are peak

[minor glade]

I don’t, that’s the point lmao

2 hours trying to get a block signal to work, never again

[shrewd palm]

did you at least figure out how they work

[minor glade]

Also I am incapable of making or understanding interchanges

No because I am THAT stupid

[shrewd palm]

ok so

[minor glade]

I wish I could though feels like I missed out a lot

[scenic mirage]

how do you rotate a blueprint only partially

normally you just press control right but its just doing full rotations

[shrewd palm]

signals break the track up into blocks that only one train can occupy at a time. block signals do exactly that but path signals are a little more complicated
path signals do the same thing, except they can allow more than one train to pass through a block so long as they dont run into each other (their paths dont intersect), and should really only be used at the entrance to every intersection (put blocks at all the exits)
when you're building a rail network that will have multiple trains on it, you'll want to place block signals every now and then along the track so that you can have more than one train on each segment (probably every 15+ foundations or something, big enough to fit large trains inside of the block)

for throughput and stuff like that, you want to have low throughput per car but not too low that your trains end up being ridiculously long (i like to do 300/min for trains with longer loops and 600 for shorter ones but they can be split up however you want).
to make the throughput cleaner (fill/empty stations faster) put an industrial storage container next to each loading/unloading platform and connect both of its connections to both of the inputs/outputs for the platform with your fastest belts

the throughput number displayed in the platforms will take a couple trains to stabilize, but afterwards its pretty accurate. and if after a few trains its lower what you want it to be just add trains until the number gets high enough

[severe sun]

how do i copy my save file into the interactive map?

[fluid sapphire]

I think there's a box to drop it into on the top right

[severe sun]

yeah, but where is the file itself located on my computer?

[fluid sapphire]

Appdata/local/factorygame

[severe sun]

thanks

[reef basin]

#faq

[scenic mirage]

#design-and-architecture message
why is it doing this 😭

[clever field]

is there a way to see your current altitude?

[shrewd palm]

no but you dont really need to

are you getting that highest peak achievement?

[clever field]

no. I'm looking for a mercer sphere

[shrewd palm]

ahh

[lament niche]

feedback please
#design-and-architecture message

[shrewd palm]

(going by altitudes given by scim) things above 100 meters will usually be on cliffs or the handful of really elevated biomes, negative altitude will almost certainly be in caves, and anything in between will just be the usual height veriation in the terrain

[clever field]

I put up a post in the questions and help section

[shrewd palm]

the world if i didnt have to wait for my concrete container to refill every 10 minutes

[clever field]

are jetpack hogs still out there?

[feral geyser]

I've never seen one, but I've heard of them

[lucid flicker]

hi

[candid torrent]

i’ve only ever seen a rocket hog once in update 6

i’m still traumatized by it

[unkempt blade]

I agree, they should make them way more common because they're fun

[clever field]

I have killed one, and was killed by more than one.

[cunning siren]

Doin' a no SCIM's run AND... DO want radar 😆

Kind of fun not knowing where everything is all the time 🤔

[shy fog]

I'm starting anew... today's plan is to get all the hard drives I can before anything else

should be sufficiently weird

[candid torrent]

you’re never going to get cast screws i’m so sorry

[sick falcon]

who keeps stuffing power slugs inside boulders :(

[shy fog]

better question: how did you find the power slug inside the boulder 🙂

[cunning siren]

Some items under "boulders" can be gotten without explosives 😆 can crouch down and yoink them out

[rigid glen]

How do any of us find slugs.....with faith 😛

[shy fog]

lots of faith 🧨

[candid torrent]

who put that mercer sphere there

[reef basin]

Eh, not that I'd want them anyway

[lament niche]

hannah

[shy zenith]

where can I share screen shot for quick question?

[lament niche]

nowhere except DMs

[reef basin]

#1038092680493801533

[unkempt blade]

#1038092680493801533 is usually pretty quick

[candid torrent]

greeny i know you only ever use aluminum beams -> steel screws and you’re correct for that

[unkempt blade]

jinx!

[shy zenith]

thanks

[reef basin]

.. what?

[unkempt blade]

that's just a great production chain, he's super smart to only ever use it

[feral geyser]

Does he use it though?

[unkempt blade]

he didn't deny it so it's now a widely understood fact

[mortal ginkgo]

I am yet to find someone using aluminum rods lol

Like the recipe would be removed and noone would find it out.

[unkempt blade]

aluminum rods into vanilla screws would be pretty peak though

[feral geyser]

Lmao, interestingly, this was the last discussion I found with greeny talking about aluminum screw recipes

[unkempt blade]

great minds think alike I guess!

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean thats just "against the system alpha male energy" thing

but I guess it would make regular Modular Frame recipe... interesting?

I guess?????

Like I dont think I have ever seen someone mention the recipe ANYWHERE. Including reddit and I am roaming around for like a year.

[feral geyser]

You still gotta use RIPs for MFs though, which means you can never entirely rid iron from it.

[unkempt blade]

eww gross, I just like rolling dice to pick recipes 😄

[tough narwhal]

so im trying to get back into the game and how much should i be optimizing my factory at the start?
because making screws without anything getting backed up is going to be... eugh

[feral geyser]

Not at all

[unkempt blade]

the good news is you really only need screws for a couple things (equipment, awesome shop) that aren't just turning it into the next tier of production thing

[feral geyser]

Just get shit crafting and optimize in tier 4 or so

[unkempt blade]

so you can build in certain ways where you're not sending screws onto some huge single manifold

[tough narwhal]

well im gonna be tearing down my entire factory then lmfao

[unkempt blade]

There's really only so much "optimizing" you can do early game. Unlocking research and alt recipes will help with that as you progress

[empty hill]

there are so many excellent QoL options midway thru the game
It'll be a pain to go back to earlygame without the jetpack, dimensional depots, blade runners etc.

Purple boxes go everywhere

[candid torrent]

i feel like blade runners are my immediate go to

but yeah it’s going to be a major pain to not have a colossal network of dimensional depots

[empty hill]

i ran around looking for quartz for the first couple hours just to get those

[unkempt blade]

I would kill for a hoverpack hog. I don't care about getting the jetpack early but I feel naked trying to build anything fancy without hover

[candid torrent]

i always try to blitz to coal power and blade runners

even tho semi auto biofuel is pretty easy

[feral geyser]

I want some blade runners irl

[empty hill]

slide jumping over the dunes is so satisfying
I think i'll always choose the 'hard' desert spawn from now on

[tough narwhal]

time to back up some conveyer belts then

[empty hill]

is there no hover option in later game? Seems like a good later tier unlock

[tough narwhal]

i really am just nervous about tearing down the whole factory i did that last playthrough and it was a bit of a nightmare

[unkempt blade]

you can get the hoverpack right after aluminum (tier 7) but I would love to have it for oil at least

[empty hill]

ah yeah
Bigger blueprints are unusually late too, I'd put a few things sooner

Future gameplay will be trying to optimize as much as I can to get thru tiers 0-4 as fast as possible

[candid torrent]

hoverpack is honestly when my factories stop sucking

that thing is a godsend

[shy mulch]

Why tear down anything? You're not going to run out of nodes. Just abandon what you've built, leave it there unpowered, and go build new stuff somewhere else. I'd you find you need some materials your new place isn't set up for yet, just reconnect the power to your old area for a while and let it make you some stock

[tough narwhal]

i mean my problem is the rebuilding

[empty hill]

i've required more and more planning ahead to avoid the temptation to rebuild, doing things on the online calculator & sometimes figuring out the layout with marked foundations

[shy mulch]

You'll drive yourself to insanity if you try to plan the entire game out in 1 go. Just plan each phase on its own and be prepared to rebuild a lot of your stuff each phase, so much easier that way

[tough narwhal]

alright then

i'll just build a mildly optimized thingamajig for now i suppose

is there a freecam option?

[violet needle]

#screenshots wdyt?

[cunning siren]

Learning to use the ladders when no hoverpack / jetpack is rough, been doing that this playthrough by not focusing on Space Elevator parts much, 30 hours in this save still on phase 2 😆. Have a lot of stuff setup though

[shy mulch]

Yes

[shy mulch]

Taking your time gives you a better appreciation of the game. Don't rush, enjoy the journey 😎

[cunning siren]

Yea, part of me knows once the objectives are done, so am I 😆 Perhaps why I go slow

[clever stone]

Small poll because I’m curious. How many of you play with hostile creature settings at retaliatory/docile

[clever stone]

I personally like to play with hostile settings on but switch to retaliatory if I died in an incredibly inconvenient spot and then switch back

[feral geyser]

Hostile always

[clever stone]

I was like that too until I expanded into the swamp for the first time

[thin holly]

Hello Satisfactory players, when is the game's release date on Xbox Series X ?

[clever stone]

Then I got my ass handed to me in an ambush several times in a row and decided to just make the crate acquisition easier

[clever stone]

Yes

[thin holly]

release date ??

[reef basin]

19th March, 2019

[thin holly]

And xbox series x

[cunning siren]

Make this and learn the ways of the Zipline... creature issue resolved 🤷 Even with just a rebar gun the proper distance and cover helps big time #screenshots message

[sullen gull]

#announcements message

[sullen gull]

I play on retaliate. But it seems to have been broken since 1.0

[clever stone]

My Strat for the edge of my swamp factory is has been rifle, clusterlisk, and hoverpack

[cunning siren]

OH, you got all the gear, with hover pack should be ez

[clever stone]

Almost all the gear lol

I still need to research the rest of the ammo variants

[cunning siren]

Turbo ammo is handy

[clever stone]

But clusterlisk has been my main ever since I got it automated

[cunning siren]

Noice

Explosive Rebar is pretty handy

[clever stone]

I’m chill with dealing with a lot of enemies normally I just hate the irradiated hogs

[sullen gull]

Best "gardening" tool in the game 😏

[clever stone]

Who taught them how to be snipers

[shy mulch]

Always hostile!

[cunning siren]

Having something that blocks line of sight projectiles is key while reloading or dodging shots. Don't be on the ground is basically the best strat mostly 🤷 take the high ground and use cover

Or make high ground / cover with build gun

[shy mulch]

I'm unsure if I'm just getting better at it, or if enemies have actually got easier

[clever stone]

Yeah hoverpack has come in handy for that but really cliff hog ai has been my one major complaint

They feel like, too accurate

More accurate than a spitter who you’d think would be the king of accuracy

[cunning siren]

I notice If you crouch and are behind cover the hog rock AOE will knockback AND do 0 damage 🤷

[shy mulch]

I easily defeat anything and rarely even get hit, except the big green spiders, those still eat me occasionally

[clever stone]

The green spiders are horrible until you bait them into drowning

[shy mulch]

Not so easy in a cave though

[clever stone]

True true

[cunning siren]

Defensive "bunker" blueprints help, does not guarantee you will survive though

[cunning siren]

Whip out a few walls, all the sudden they aren't so scary even in caves 😆

[tough narwhal]

i am doing a lot of manal crafting
yayyyyy

[cunning siren]

Walls with doors even better

[shy mulch]

I have a blueprint for that, but sometimes I feel brave 😂

[next sequoia]

How do I rename my drone

[cunning siren]

I feel cheesy using them but sometimes like in caves... come on bruh 😆

[clever stone]

At the drone port I think? That’s how I’ve been naming them

Naming and giving them color schemes that are unique

[next sequoia]

I can change the port name but I don't see a place to change the drone name

I've done it before all my others are named but idr how

[plucky flower]

Just tripled my power look #screenshots

Crazy work

[candid torrent]

my trains get pun names and my drones get just gibberish

[next sequoia]

I still can't find it

I've watched two YouTube tutorials

[candid torrent]

go fetch more sulfur, mingus

[rose saffron]

bruh

I was out exploring, had to step away from the computer so I saved the game, knowing that it doesn't pause it

went back to my computer and I saw I was being attacked, so I loaded the save...

and it spawns me back at my factory

is there no way to pause the game at all?

[peak wasp]

Okay wow. I thought to myself, i got all the good FUEL alt. Recipes. Let me build my endgame Power Plant

I realized i get 2700 Crude oil..
Could get 600.000+ MW

But i would need smth like 7000+ Sulfur and 5000+ Coal , 5000+ Nitrogen Gas, 7000+ Water.....

Isnt it easier to go Nuclear at this point? 🥲

[hard ivy]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=0fCNm1ujACxoUh2fbLfJ
^ a nuclear setup that produces 630 GW waste-free (if the plutonium rods are sunk)

whether you consider that easier or not is up to you

[plucky flower]

Why pause, just build up with a lookout tower or just two foundations and no hatchers around and your fine

Let the factory grow

[rose saffron]

because it's useful

"do this other thing" isn't a valid response for a quality of life improvement

[mortal ginkgo]

Please only read if you have time:

"Snutt Said in a different Video, that the Console Pause (which is there for dedicated servers) will pause all background Processes.... a true pause would not do this, some of the process would continue to run... Apparently to make this happen would take a code rework.... They probably just afraid, if they do try it will break something." - From Steam.

"You can pause if you type "pause" in the console (grave accent key). - From Reddit (might have issues)

As a very smol game dev, my understanding is that it isn't easy to pause a game that uses multithreading + multiplayer at the same time. Note that what you are playing a single player game but the code running hehind is still multiplayer oriented.

[rose saffron]

damn

[mortal ginkgo]

Here is an ultra silly suggestion for your troubles: make a BP that covers you completely with foundation. Nothing will see and reach you. 😄

Some people "abuse" this method to kill very innocent green stingers

[plucky flower]

Yeah because growing the factory is way easier

[rose saffron]

finally got home

I need a jetpack

[versed mesa]

Ive started my Uranium Factory build is it what am after idk just testing the build to see if i like it should be done hopefully in the coming days theres no rush with it am taking my time need it to look nice as possible

[candid torrent]

finally got jetpack i need a home

[coral bough]

Pausing is not useful at all in this game

[coral bough]

The factory is home

[sullen gull]

"Innocent"!? 🤣 "Your friends aren't my friends!" 🤣 🤣

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean they are just hanging around.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/553550313533997057/1415387693499683007/image.png?ex=68f51f02&is=68f3cd82&hm=175070ede0e85898435cec1bb6087927f94835953d3161f761f1ceebc195a064&

See how cute he is.

[sullen gull]

#screenshots message Not cute.... 😏

[worthy glen]

How do i efficiently automate phase 2?

[reef basin]

wdym "efficiently"?

everyone uses the word in any context, so it basically has no meaning lol

[azure reef]

i've dropped satisfactory twice and i'm thinking of starting a new save file. both times i've chose the grass area (the default location), where would you guys recommend to start

[limber plaza]

i always start in northern forest

[hard ivy]

imo rocky desert is the best overall

[azure reef]

i might do rocky desert, is there plenty coal nearby

the nearby ocean seems nice

[vague timber]

anyone got an idea how could i fix flickering fog at night time issue without dissabling fog entirely?

[echo spoke]

whats a good way to look at my super huge build from a sky view (no mountains nearby and lookout tower isnt tall enough

[hard ivy]

ladder

[azure reef]

is it top left of the map?

[hard ivy]

or radar tower

[empty hill]

Dune Desert my beloved

[azure reef]

early game looks hell

especially for power

[echo spoke]

yea i just did this thanks

[empty hill]

early can be a bit of a slog but having all the open dune area to slide around w/ plenty of resources on makes up for that with convenience I think

[unkempt blade]

efficient = maximize the number of factory carts without any idling other than loading/unloading

[worthy magnet]

could someone help me on the dedicated server i cant join i get connection to host was lost my friends can play just fine i cant i edited the config to not timeout for 300 sec and my network to ultra cant fix it any ideas ping me if so

[spiral summit]

train station clearances are ridiculous

its hitbox is the entire thing like bro let me build inside it 💔

[unkempt blade]

you'll probably have better luck in #dedicated-servers

[cyan valve]

is there a way to turn off all generators with just one switch? Im so tired turning them on/off when something goes wrong.

[hard ivy]

Then don't?

[reef basin]

why would you need to switch them off?

[cyan valve]

due to my bad math on compacted coals 🥲

I wanted to prefill all my generators thus turning them off

[reef basin]

turned off gens don't fill iirc

[cyan valve]

ohh they received fuels on standby mode. and prefill all pipes

I guess I take it as a no

[elder apex]

with SCIM you can turn on/off selected machines all at once, and you can easily filter to get just the generators.

[white dawn]

Gens are the one exception; they'll take material on standby

[next umbra]

You can prefill by not having them connected to any power consumers. Set them up as you normally would but the very last powerline that runs to your machines and what not just disconnect it. No need to shut them all off manually. No power consumed, no coal consumed.

[reef basin]

that's not how gens work

[true mulch]

Generators don't care about the consumed power, only whether they have a power line connection

You can even connect two together

[next umbra]

Im just telling the dude how I do it and it works. Idc

[worthy glen]

Just get past phase 2 faster

[reef basin]

gens will always consume fuel, as long as they are connected to anything. You're telling them wrong things

[reef basin]

I wouldn't really recommend speeding through phases. Automate things you need, progression comes naturally

[worthy glen]

Iv been here for 3 days

I can't really get much done with what I have

[reef basin]

build more factories if you want faster production

[worthy glen]

I have

[reef basin]

the game isn't meant to be beaten in a day or two. It takes hundreds of hours, especially if you care about visual side of your factories

so "slow" progress is very much normal

[shrewd hatch]

why no solar panels

[true mulch]

No challenge

Building spam is not a challenge

[shrewd hatch]

but I thought efficiency is priorrity

I have to run around collecting leaves

[true mulch]

All current sources of power need some input limited by the world

[shrewd hatch]

the world provides sunlight

[true mulch]

The early game is purposely tedious to show the value of automation

Don't ask for stuff before reaching tier 6

[shrewd hatch]

I played until phase 3 before

[true mulch]

Ah

[shrewd hatch]

I restarted bc my friend got it

[true mulch]

Still, my point about solar panels stands

[shrewd hatch]

ok

[reef basin]

because free unlimited infinite power is not a good game design

[rose saffron]

I have blade runner legs, a parachute, and a gas mask now

I have essentially gotten out of the tutorial

I can finally move around

[azure reef]

i forgot how addicting the game was

just played for like 2 hours and it felt like 30 mins

[shrewd hatch]

can I dig the ground

[zenith pecan]

No, the terrain is immutable, you can bomb the "cracked" rocks which will be cleared, and you can clip through the ground into the void to build there, but legit terraforming is not a thing.

[rose saffron]

I wonder if they'll ever try making a new map

but given the size of this one, probably unlikely

[feral geyser]

it would be sick

we can see other land masses off in the distance

[granite ether]

should i build stuff everywhere on the map or stick to a single spot and build everything around it?

[rose saffron]

probably stick to one spot until you get trains

then build wherever is conveinent

[feral geyser]

travel can be kinda tricky early game

[dense violet]

up to you. Both have pros and cons

[granite ether]

im asking cuz i need to build coal generators but i dont have enough water around (im in desert) and i wonder if i should just build it all on the edge of the map where a lot of water is

[dense violet]

find a spot with coal next to water, build power there

[granite ether]

there isnt

[dense violet]

you should probably always build power away from your main factories

[dense violet]

every start zone has at least one spot with coal next to water 🙂

[granite ether]

k, thanks

[dense violet]

are you in rocky or dune?

[granite ether]

there is, but its not enough

[granite ether]

im in oasis on the top-right if im not mistaking, im not in game rn

[dense violet]

pinged in screen shots. You have lots

[raw dust]

hiii

how the hell do i even play this game 😭

[dense violet]

work through the tiers and learn 🙂 It's basically a long tutorial

[raw dust]

yah i dont know how though, i never played games before so its my 2nd game too ever played

i dont evne know how to properly use the keyboard :/

[granite ether]

u can see keybinds in settings

[raw dust]

ill try find 🥲

[dense violet]

@granite ether being over there is fine? you're forced to spread out and thats like.. 800m away, which is nothing

[granite ether]

im not exatly on the edge of the arrow, i have a screenshot of the view above my "base", will u understand where i am if u see it?

[dense violet]

keyboard settings can help yeah 🙂 if you're not used to moving in 3d spaces it takes a bit of practice

but reading what machines do , what recipes do, opening them up, gives you lots of info

at the beginning, before you unlock coal power it's a real tutorial. It's going ot be messy 🙂

[dense violet]

Oh I get it , but you have lots of coal and water nearby is my point

[granite ether]

i guess we just misunderstood eachother cuz when i said "its not enough" i meant the one nearest to my base

[dense violet]

ah yeah that happens.

[granite ether]

btw where did u get the screenshot from?

[dense violet]

but at least now you know where you ahve 2 great power spots 🙂

over clock those miners and burn it all. Tons of power. enough to get to like tier 7

[dense violet]

it's from an online map. I only did a small snippet as the whole thing is a massive exploration spoiler

and, imo, the exploration and discovering things inthe game is great

[shrewd hatch]

where do I use the tapes

[dense violet]

if I could forget the map and redo it I would

[shrewd hatch]

is there a boombox

[dense violet]

boom box in the shop 🙂

[granite ether]

dang im the opposite

[dense violet]

up to you , it's a very easy google away

[granite ether]

thanks

[dense violet]

but crawling through the foliage and caves and poking your nose in things, seeing the cool vistas and rock formations w/o it being spoiled? pretty great. Try getting your exploration gear first and give it a go

zip line, blade runners, jet pack, a gun and some medical inhalers and you'd be set.

maybe a parachute

[gentle sigil]

Ur game inspired me to release an album. hopefully this is ok to share here. https://open.spotify.com/album/17bJuM44OkG6EB34QFv27A?si=rvZTXzHJQW6llcLG-dDEGQ

[peak wasp]

One 600 oil node can be turned into what 100 gws of power with rf right?

I once turned a pure oil node into 44 gws of power with alts and then when I got rf on a new save got up to 140 gws before my world started lagging

Can a steam deck run satisfactory chat? Anyone try it before?

[fluid grove]

so I just got this game and was curious on if anyone has any advice, im at hub upgrade 3 and have yet to connect my power source to the smelter (due to lack of knowledge)

[shrewd palm]

power lines

and power poles i guess but also power lines

[candid torrent]

pew pow

[dense violet]

depends on your chain and what your final output is

but people keep forgetting that the more fuel steps you do adding other resources, effectively just turns other resources to more oil

[candid torrent]

144,000

600 oil into 800 hor to 1600 fuel to 2400 rocket

[rose saffron]

should I take all the slugs I've collected and turn them into power shards?

or do they have other uses too

[candid torrent]

just shards :3

[shy fog]

slug track races

[candid torrent]

oh i forgot about that mb

pit them in races against other slugs and win space narcotics

[dense violet]

if you have researched slooping in the MAM you can double your slugs too

it's a useful trick early on

[candid torrent]

gang how are we feeling about using somersloops and converter recipes to make scarce materials common

[dense violet]

realistically? it's almost always easier to just import the material from somewhere else than to get teh SAM and do all the conversion

unless you're doing silly things you won't run out of resources

and there's so many alt recipes that you still have options

[candid torrent]

theres a pure node of EXACTLY what i was looking for when i asked that question right by the factory i needed it at

could have been avoided by pressing v

[dense violet]

yup

but yeah in general SAM is almost always more awkward to get than whatever it is you need

[candid torrent]

yeah sam is not convenient

[dense violet]

and you pretty much have to try to pick all the right recipes to run out of certain types of resources

[candid torrent]

this factory is relatively close to an impure node but i'd need a lot more than 300/min for bulk converting

that 300/min will be perfect for some fluctuators though muahaha

but now it is time to crank out as many ai limiters as i can with 1200 copper ore

[dense violet]

get a bit of plastic and use the alt to extend it

[candid torrent]

true

[dense violet]

and mix copper + iron + caterium for more Quick wire

[candid torrent]

omg i forgot about those recipes

[dense violet]

iron + copper > copper alloy
copper alloy + tempered caterium (you're already bringing in oil) > fused quick wire

= ass tons of limiters

[candid torrent]

caterium converts to nitrogen 1:1 thats wild

[dense violet]

that's a terrible trade xD

in general I would say

[candid torrent]

i would only trade my -- -- for some excited photonic matter

[fluid grove]

okay so i set up a miner mk 1 and i have a power pole going to it but it isnt running, am i missing something

[rose saffron]

man, what's the purpose of building multiple MAMs if you can only research one thing at a time globally

[dense violet]

you can plop them down as yo uexplore and research as you go

[candid torrent]

to research anywhere u want

this factory has so many new components hacked onto it that the poor thing has a geological history

look at the side view and theres 4 different tiers of conveyors

[coarse pebble]

Is there a channel for like short clips

Cause I see a video channel but that seems to primarily be populated with like youtube videos

[dense violet]

streams and videos?

I'm sure you can drop vid files into it

[spark sky]

Yay! Another friend joined me in Satisfactory! (I bought it for him months ago, he installed it tonight.)

[leaden turret]

[one of us dot gif]

[spark sky]

I invited him here, as well.

[dense violet]

critical mistake

[rose saffron]

so how does the resource scanning work?

it seems to go pretty far, but not have a 100% chance of scanning something in range

ah

wiki says it shows the nearest three groups of nodes

that's why it doesn't scan everything

[candid torrent]

aye aye

[candid torrent]

don’t join the server when i’m here i’m not funny

[dense violet]

the biggest negative to joining yeah 😛

[candid torrent]

i’m here to be the worst comedian on massage 2-ab

[rose saffron]

why are we here to massage two abs

[stone fulcrum]

dose anyone know how to ban someone from a satisfactory server

[dense violet]

change the password I believe

otherwise I'd type the search into google/reddit

if you want a fast answer

[stone fulcrum]

ok thx

[dense violet]

but I've never heard of proper server commands being discussed before

[rigid glen]

I think that's the only answer currently, cng to private and or set password or change existing password

[leaden turret]

one would expect anyone awake in #dedicated-servers would know

[cunning glade]

How many super computers a min for personal use is good

[rigid glen]

I think I had one machine making them, fully OC and with sloop, I made 1 container's worth and that lasted me to the end

[dense violet]

the main problem of anyone being awake in that channel. It was pretty dead when the server was more busy.

[rigid glen]

If you're doing a permanent facility, I'd start with 2 non- overclocked assemblers and work backwards from that

[cunning glade]

Assemblers?

[rigid glen]

and if possible, leave room to double (which gives many options with OC)

sorry, manufacturers

[shrewd hatch]

is it normal to get 60% gpu utilization

[urban cape]

Hey yall. I'm so tired of trying to create a railway curve blueprint. Every time I try to plop one down the first curve goes nicely but after that it just doesnt want to turn the blueprint the correct way for me to be able to connect it

[rigid glen]

Only one reason I avoid trains 🙂

[dense violet]

have you tried different build modes?

[primal flax]

Hi have a question about trains let's say I'm loading 1200/min aluminium casing and moving it across the map how do I decide how many train cars I need to load?

[hard junco]

hey i wanted to ask a question here but couldnt share a screenshot here so i did that in questions and help

[rose saffron]

how fast will it take the train to get to it's destination

[plain gate]

4 cars

[rose saffron]

I'd say each minute of travel time add another 1200 items of storage capacity, with a base amount of 2 for buffer

so 2400 + (1200 x M)

[rigid glen]

If you make the exact number of items you need, then it will feed the machines properly BUT two things must be true 1) The output items have somewhere to go and don't back up in the machine and 2) all belts and input spaces of the constructors are full.

If 1 or 2 stops being true, the math breaks and your output goes down

[hard junco]

i need 75 iron rods in total in all those machines and i am making 75 iron rods so i think the math is correct, and yes the output is going to other machines they wont get stuck, i didnt get the second point what do you mean?

[rigid glen]

I just mean that until the belts to each machine fill up, then the production can be stilted and not flow without stopping, so I'll either feed a higher amount or hand feed the machine full stacks to make it go quicker

in your example, I migh feed 80 or 85 rods into the system until it all fills up, then pull it back to 75

[hard junco]

ahhh yea i get that, this happens because of the manifold system right?

[rigid glen]

but one it's all full, it uses the correct amount so inputs can equal outputs

[hard junco]

the far away machines will take time to get full so i either fill them myself or wait a long time for them to get full

[rigid glen]

or justs et it up and go do something else, it's not like you'll run out of projects

[hard junco]

yep work never ends lol thank you for ur asnwer i can build now in confidence

[winged axle]

anyone tryna hop with me into my world and help set some factories up more pioneers must mean more eficiency right

[leaden turret]

!lfg

hrm. does that command not work any more or did I forget it? 🤔

#1201555265942724758

[rose saffron]

I really don't know what I should be aiming for in parts per minute for the space elevator

there's definitely enough iron around to ramp up production, but I don't know how much I can do

the far southwest corner of the map seems like an unfinished area

no enemies, no resource nodes, no foods

[leaden turret]

they didn't have time to finish it for 1.0, they were going to remove it but the community convinced them to keep it

[rose saffron]

ok game thanks for the out of bounds jumpscare

[spark sky]

Perhaps this is a silly question, but, do lights and street lights contribute to the power usage in the game (that is, if you put out 1000 floodlights, will this be reflected in the power usage graph)?

[rose saffron]

do they have to be wired

[spark sky]

Yes.

And there are switches specifically for them.

[rose saffron]

it should tell you how much power they draw

[spark sky]

(That is not the case for signs, though.)

[sleek peak]

question ive just made stun rebar ammo but my Rebar gun wont load them even though it should?

[north orbit]

Hello

[dense violet]

hold R to change ammor type

[ashen stream]

From what I understand, nuclear power goes like uranium -> waste -> plutonium -> waste but what comes after ?

[sleek peak]

I tried that

[dense violet]

it should come up with a radial menu, does it?

[dense violet]

nothing if you want? you can turn it to ficsonium
but I wouldn't even burn the plutonium personally

[ashen stream]

How do you get rid of uranium waste ?

[feral geyser]

You process it into plutonium rods, then you process plutonium waste into ficsonium rods.

[dense violet]

Store it, which is easy and you can blueprint a large scale storage bunker in minutes

Or plutonium rods. If you don’t use the plutonium rods on reactors you don’t get waste

[bold heron]

is it possible to create a zoo ? or will creatures despawn if i get to far away/reload ?

[sterile blade]

They will despawn, but (iirc) they spawn in quite precise areas, so if you "come back" they might just be in the very same enclosure...

[bold heron]

sad

[sterile blade]

In other words: yes, you probably can

[cunning siren]

You store it in massive container systems of shame in the furthest corner of the map... 4 eavha! 😆 Or untill you get bored of the playthrough and move on to something else as that will most likely happen 🤷

[peak wasp]

Satisfactory Spain Community??

[reef basin]

probably exists

[peak wasp]

i search it and i don't found any results

sorry for my english, it is a bit bad

[hollow mason]

can you destroy these #screenshots

[dense violet]

Throw a bomb to find out

[outer scarab]

Hello people

[outer scarab]

critters dont spawn near buildings

[outer scarab]

you can actually spend the waste to make power

[digital holly]

I started a game in the deset biome (the second) almost no coal at all there?

[cunning siren]

Yea, just letting players know ALL the options 😆

[cunning siren]

Once you are able to scan for coal that can help you find it 🤷

[digital holly]

I already scanned and found some only 3 nodes, Far away

[dense violet]

Go east to the coast or north , edges

[cunning siren]

3 PURE nodes, the most coal of any start in the game 🤷

[dense violet]

#screenshots message

[cunning siren]

There is no start where the coal is "close" 🤷

[digital holly]

I am fairly close the the edge of the first biome, my previous game was there, my idea was like harves some coal there or make a second base there and couple them with trucks or something

Gonna need coal for steel

[dense violet]

Rocky or dune desert?

[cunning siren]

It's rocky

[dense violet]

Right just go east near the water or on the cliff , it’s not far

[digital holly]

Rocky deserty

[dense violet]

Abd I think they added some nodes north east corner too

North west sorry

[frail sleet]

rocky desert coal locations #math-and-meta message

[dense violet]

It’s pretty close to anywhere in RD tbh

[digital holly]

Hehe, the map aeryn posted, my startling loication is in the left low corner

[cunning siren]

Build some ramps and belt that coal down or belt the iron up or maybe a bit of both and meet in the middle. Get creative with it

[digital holly]

So all coal is far away

[short hamlet]

how the hell did i first find out yesterday that those starting points u can choose from are just different starting areas and not different maps 😭

[dense violet]

I say this in the kindest and gentlest way possible, but if all that is ‘far away’ for you you might reconsider this game being for you.

Unless you’re just talking shit

[frail sleet]

Big map 😄

[dense violet]

You’re not the first and won’t be the last

[frail sleet]

Big map. With tools available ingame (some which you can already access, like blade runners and zipwire) it's not that far, and you will shift perspective over time 😄

[digital holly]

I did a game in the first biome, there was coal a little easier, i gonna figure out what will be the best approach here

[short hamlet]

back then wqhen i played i thought i had come pretty far and now i start to notice how early in game i only was haha

[spark sky]

That coal in the first biome in the south is nice for early steel production. If you built near the 3 normal iron deposits at the base of the cliff, north of the green gas, going north from that area you will find 4 normal coal nodes north of a big lake, a great place for a coal power plant, once you can build one. If you go West, almost as far as you can go, a little north, then keep going west and north along the coast, you end up in the second biome (the rocky desert), keep going north along the edge of the water there and you will run into more coal. Yes, it's a bit of a journey, but there are a lot of things you can do close to the coal deposits, so pick what you want to do. Coal near water is great for coal power plants. Coal near iron is great for steel production.

Also, if you want to stop the creatures from spawning near a resource node, place a miner on the node. You don't have to connect it to power or anything, just it's presence will be enough to stop the spawning. Of course, if you need the parts from them, don't do that.

[plucky flower]

I was so angry at myself, I am mining 480 coal a minute for my coal gens and there was a mk2 belt still beneath from my old one, I wondered and wondered why my power didnt wanna go up

[spark sky]

Heh. I've unlocked Mk3 belts and, for now, decided to only use Mk3 belts in fuel production/transport, for now.

[plucky flower]

Ive place my Mk4 everywhere

[spark sky]

BTW, if you want geothermal early, collect lizzard doggos and get the stuff they find. You can get a lot of stuff you can't make, and can use the stuff for research in the MAM.

[shy mulch]

The 4 coal nodes beside the lake to the north of grassy fields, most people use those for coal power, very good in early game. But in my biomass only playthrough they've proven really nice for steel 😎

[spark sky]

In that biomass only playthrough, do you run out of biomass?

Or are you using mainly alien protien (in fully-slooped machines)?

I haven't played around with priority mergers/splitters, but was thinking that, like train signals, it would be nice to have a means of turning a belt from a splitter on/off to feed different things at different times.

[scenic mirage]

what phase are you on

[plucky flower]

Why, just why would you do a biomass only playtrough

[spark sky]

People challenge themselves in many ways. One guy on YouTube set the challenge of making everything by hand, and what he couldn't make by hand he hand-fed the machines that made them, and removed the results by hand.

I could see someone trying to do a playthrough where they never killed an animal. Not sure that's possible.

[mortal ginkgo]

Funny enough Biomass only isn't actually hard now considering 1.0 added inputs to Bio Burners

with sloops, you can get ridiculous amount of biomass too

[spark sky]

Yes, but, with the exception of the animals, the other sources of biomass don't respawn, right? I mean, cut down a tree or gather leaves, and they're gone, right?

[mortal ginkgo]

Doing a simgle run where there are many stingers can give you tons of biomass. You hardly need to cut trees

[hard ivy]

Hardcore biomass only: you start with the converter and biocoal unlocked, every resource except SAM has to come from biomass

[plucky flower]

Oh god

[hard ivy]

Maybe even add a biomass->SAM recipe, it's strange alien matter after all

[spark sky]

Okay, I get that, but when you are at a stage where you would have had nuclear power, just how many biomass power plants are we talking about?

[mortal ginkgo]

you can powershard the burners. 75MW each means its like 15 of them for one nuclear plant

not bad to be fair

[hard ivy]

You can also shard the nuclear reactor so that's not really an argument

It's 250 bio burners to 3 reactors

[spark sky]

Okay, I've got blueprints for biomass power plants with 18 biomass burners sitting on top of biomass production. Not sure why, but I'm currently designing my 6th or 7th.

[mortal ginkgo]

go go lil bro

[plucky flower]

Have fun bro

I hope what your on doesnt come close to me

Lol

[spark sky]

Well, I'm trying to balance compactness with ease of access to the burners (for maintenance, shutdown/restart/sharding without having to jump or climb over stuff).

While at the same time, learning ways to make them look interesting.

[shy mulch]

Almost finished phase 3

[scenic mirage]

damn how tf lmao

[shy mulch]

There's a lot more biomass in the world than you realise

[hard ivy]

There's infinite as long as you don't cover up all creature spawn points

[plucky flower]

Thats crazy work

[spark sky]

Okay, but how much time are you spending feeding the biomass fuel production by hand?

Those critters won't kill themselves, and they won't fill the constructors themselves.

[hard ivy]

With sloops, 1 creature remains can become 400 GJ

[spark sky]

Yeah, I know, I've got that going.

[shy mulch]

Not as much time as you'd think. I sloop every step of power production
I need 22.5 alien remains per hour to keep 80 biomass burners running at full efficiency

[spark sky]

Wait, 400 GJ?

[hard ivy]

At 20 GW, that's 3 remains/min

And you can finish the game on 20 GW

[shy mulch]

I think those numbers are right from memory, I've not played in about 2 weeks, been busy at work

[spark sky]

Well, to get that many remains that fast you must be doing nothing but hunting.

[shy mulch]

Nah, you can collect remains quite efficiently. And I collect leaves/wood/mycelia at the same time. I've ended up with quite a substantial stock

[spark sky]

Just some of my designs: #screenshots message

I'm considering combining 3 towers of burners into one power plant, not duplicating the fuel production.

The current tower (on the left) has 18 biomass burners.

[mortal ginkgo]

just go coal 😛

[spark sky]

#screenshots message

But, for some reason, I have a fascination with biomass burners and vertical load balancers.

[shy mulch]

My biomass save looks so ugly atm though I think I'm gonna have to unlock some stuff in the shop

[spark sky]

That does help.

[tawny oyster]

Hello, I'm looking for someone to play satis. Anyone want to come?

[frail sleet]

since the input is belted it's really easy to mass deploy bioburners

9gw of them fit on one mk.6 belt (non overclocked)

so you can make a blueprint with 15-30 of them, place it 10-20 times with autoconnect, and boom 9gw from 1 belt input

[shy mulch]

Wrong channel

[tawny oyster]

Which channel should I watch?

[frail sleet]

#1201555265942724758

[tawny oyster]

th

[cunning siren]

80 Woh, I did not consider using remains 🤔

I'm about to finish phase 3 too with 37 burners and some geos 😆

35 hours OMG... this jetpack is gonna feel so damn good

Maybe I'll do a no jetpack hoverpack run sometime 🤔

[mortal ginkgo]

Why don't you make a "no parachute run" ?

Be an alpha male. Fight against the system.

[tall lantern]

so a default run

[cunning siren]

Ooof, that would be rough. Catwalk stairs are pretty nice though

[mortal ginkgo]

Thought so. Not 100% male enough. heh.

[cunning siren]

The practice is good though, not having the "perfect" perspective while building stuff forces one to learn other ways

[mortal ginkgo]

Do it like pre 1.0 release, make it a one time use item

cmon, do it, CMON!

[cunning siren]

Maybe

[shy mulch]

I've never used a parachute in any of my playthroughs

[leaden turret]

irregular reminder Pioneer is female

[mortal ginkgo]

oh no, I summoned certain type of person 😭

Auto Reminder: I am talking about themselves, not the 3D model they are operating.

[leaden turret]

irregular reminder: alpha male concept is proven nonsense

[mortal ginkgo]

Also lorewise ||The Object that is operating is not even a human. It is an alien-material hybrid of an entity looking like a female human||

[mortal ginkgo]

https://tenor.com/bzZmU.gif

You really need to click this.

[leaden turret]

[mortal ginkgo]

No listen, people like you need to do so.

It is not a kind request. It is a must.

Most of you folk doesn't get it and I don't need to write /j all the time because thats silly.

[leaden turret]

• Be kind and respectful to others.
#rules

[mortal ginkgo]

Making an obvious joke doesn't make it unkind and irrespectful to others. That is your assumption (especially if you dont understand it is extremely obvious).

I am telling him to not use parachute, which already makes it an obvious joke.

#satisfactory message

You can see the emoji he made, proving that he understood the joke.

[pale dew]

Is there any way to make the train reuse the track? or does it have to be a giant loop

cuz i dont see the track splitter

[brazen solar]

why coffee stain refuse to display recipe icon on machines?

[leaden turret]

⬅️⬛⬛⬛⬛➡️

[pale dew]

lol thats kinda smar

t

[pale dew]

ty ill try that

[cunning siren]

I don't use trains much yet, when I do it's double headers with single track

[versed mesa]

Am now close to producing Uranium Rods

[cunning siren]

Noice

[mortal ginkgo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGw8ngs--7o

at 13:20 time he speaks about them pretty nicely

[mortal ginkgo]

It is a good reason to use Signs on them I guess?

[versed mesa]

Just need to make concrete and send to blenders a long with Uranium and sulphic acid the acid is already to go

[cunning siren]

If you use the Dismantling tool and mouse over a factory it will list items that will give you a hint to what machine it is 🤷 it's also a good way to check for sloops and shards. Same trick works for looking into boxes from a distance

[mortal ginkgo]

Dont forget to prepare for making Plutonium Rods to sink too.

[versed mesa]

Just hope impure Uranium deposit will do for now at least for producing the Rods and power some Nukeclear gens

[mortal ginkgo]

I still think we could have build mode to show what buildings do what...

It wouldn't hurt QQ

[versed mesa]

Yeah i will do i just wanted to get some Gens up and running first

[merry lava]

Yo , is there any chance some satisfactory vets could help a new player out 😂

Been stuck with the same issue for
Hours

[cunning siren]

Who remembers when dismantling tool had unlimited range? Pepperidge farm remembers

[fluid grove]

I will be doing a whole playthrough for the first time starting today wish me luck

[plucky flower]

Whats up

[merry lava]

I’ve got 2 coal generators down by a water source not far from my main build area , with coal generators at my main base powered by the pipes coming from the water source but at the very end of the journey from water to generator the pipes just will
Not enough water to keep the generator fed

Keeps blowing the fuse the coal is running fine no problems , but the water is like 0 in the last few pipes

[plucky flower]

U do have an water extractor right?
|

[merry lava]

Yeah

And mk1 pumps

[plucky flower]

And is it powered to your network?

[merry lava]

Yeah all self sufficient

[plucky flower]

How much power is avaible there already

Because if you dont have enough power in there already you cant start up

[merry lava]

150w at the water source and 225 for my main base but it’s maxing out at 190 so I don’t think that’s the issue

[plucky flower]

Okay

Can you send a screenshot

Because what your saying there shouldnt be an issue

[versed mesa]

Recently ive been using wall outlets more and more they are good helps to not use power poles

[merry lava]

Can you join a call ? I can share my screen id appreciate it alot as it’s been doing my head in for a few hours now

[plucky flower]

Yes

[merry lava]

I’ll add ya

[versed mesa]

Hope you all are having a nice Sunday

[plucky flower]

want to do in dm?\

[versed mesa]

Later ill go on and continue more building

Once am happy with my ontop water fall factory ill share in screenshots is not alots to see yet but getting there

Did yous know there only 2 normal and 3 impure Deposits on the whole map

[hard ivy]

There used to be 3 normal 1 impure

And even earlier I think there only were 3 normals

[versed mesa]

@hard ivy am I saying it right or is it back to front its just what the Scim site showed

@hard ivy wonder why theres no Pure Deposits fir Uranium

@hard ivy dont worry am sure i defo am right but ill go look at the site again

[hard ivy]

Idk what "back to front" is even supposed to mean here

[versed mesa]

Like other way round but check this out

@hard ivy #screenshots message

I was correct on what I had seen lol

[hard ivy]

Yeah, there's 3 impure, 2 normal

2100 total

[versed mesa]

Yeah and one of those impure is right where am at in the cave through waterfall

In swamp lands

[versed mesa]

A minute with all those together?

Damn

Not alot lol

[hard ivy]

Enough for 630 GW/1.19 TW/1.47 TW (depends which rods you burn)

[cunning siren]

TIL: The progress bar on the MAM 3D model is functional! 😆 It gives progress of hard drive research

[plain marten]

how do i make a train go the path that i want

[cunning siren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGw8ngs--7o

[plain marten]

and where does it tell how to make a train go a certain path

when theres many paths it can take how do i make it go a specific path

[opaque shadow]

train paths are set automatically, I don't think there is a waypoint function

I guess you can set up a waypoint by making a station with no freight platform

but then the train will stop at that station too

if other paths have higher weight (longer paths, the train have to pass through stations, etc) then the train will take the least weighted path

[pale dew]

How do i get 2 of the carts to load

cuz only 1 loaded

out of 3

[opaque shadow]

1. check the setting of the platforms
2. check if the platforms are receiving materials

[pale dew]

do i need a few loading docks at a station or what

[opaque shadow]

oh yeah, if you want to load 3 cars then you need 3 freight platforms

[pale dew]

goddamn

unload too?

[opaque shadow]

yes

[pale dew]

ig ill be running one cart

[opaque shadow]

OR: there is a cursed solution using multiple stations stacked in front of the freight platform lol

[pale dew]

lol

[hard ivy]

That'll be 8 foundations long too so no point imo

[opaque shadow]

indeed

well you can choose what car to unload in that case

[azure reef]

do you guys have any tips on how to keep everything together and organised? i often find myself running from place to place collecting stuff from factories

[hard ivy]

Dimensional Depot

[azure reef]

i've never tried trains or anything

[potent glen]

My turbofuel powerplants flow rate sucks and I cant fix it :((

I hate fluid logistics

[mortal ginkgo]

My best advice would be that, if you can feed 50 fuel gens with your mk2 pipe, simply fuel 49

[cunning siren]

Here ya go! https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/images/Pipeline_Manual.pdf

[spark sky]

How current is that? @cunning siren

[opaque shadow]

I also went through all five stages of grief just by trying to debug my petrochem plant

[spark sky]

Heh. I just redid the conveyor setup for my coal power plant blueprint, replacing the old set of lifts with a vertical load balancer. Getting the top to work right was a bit tricky.

[fierce glen]

so the game takes at least 500 hours to 'finish"

[spark sky]

That depends on how you play the game. I have 926 hours in the game and I'm at Phase 2.

[fierce glen]

i really wonder waht youve been doing since i got at phase 2 in less than 100 hour

[spark sky]

Well, during Ficsmas last year I spent a lot of time just making Ficsmas stuff and collecting Ficsmas gifts. Lately, in my creative save, I've been working on different designs for biomass and coal power plants, plus other blueprints.

Plus, I've been exploring

I'm not in any big hurry to "finish" the game.

Sometimes I build stuff, then decide I can make it look better, or make it work better or make it more compact. So, I replace stuff and see if I like it, then probably replace it again.

I can't afford to build and experiment with stuff in real life, so games like this allow me to play around with what's possible (within the game universe).

[unkempt blade]

There's actually 6 stages. Did you do the one where you take a break for a while and build a factory cart skatepark?

[unkempt blade]

my most recent completion (1.0) was like 120hr

[spark sky]

I saw one of those on YouTube (skate park), it looked like fun.

[near frost]

is there a mod that lets me select an area and then makes it a blueprint cuz i cant recreat the thing again

[spark sky]

You could probably do something for bladerunner parkour, too.

[unkempt blade]

ya I'm sure someone could make something cool for that but the entire world is my parkour when it's hard drive and sloop time 😆

[spark sky]

Yeah, I guess so.

I'm keeping my parachute handy for that.

[unkempt blade]

You just have to roll when you hit the ground! Ignore the fact that you're falling off some enormous mesa or whatever 😆

[spark sky]

I've surprised myself by how far I can fly with the parachute, if I jump off of something high enough and then pick my path right.

[unkempt blade]

I like parachuting up the curve of the arches too

[spark sky]

I haven't tried that, it might be a bit of a challenge, but might get me up to some of those slugs I see up there.

[unkempt blade]

It's surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it. The parachute goes up all sorts of slopes

[spark sky]

Yeah, and sometimes it doesn't, but if you're pointed at cliffs off the edge where you fall into the abyss, you can sometimes fly along the cliffs for an hour trying to find someplace to go up.