satisfactory

[rustic pier]

ugh i must have them going somewhere else

[visual harness]

Btw, is it a bold request to be able to fuel drones with liquids directly, or to be able to get back the empty packages? Or would that be a logistical nightmare for people

[rustic pier]

found ti lol

[hard ivy]

You can put them onto the same wagons. Then you need double the stations, but not double the cars

[spark sky]

Just take the screenshot in the game, Alt-TAB: to Discord in #screenshots or #1038092680493801533 (if that's where you're wanting to put them) , right-click and paste and the screenshot will show there, switch back to your game and take another screenshot if you want, do the same thing, then when you've got your screenshots in Discord, type the text description.

[green fiber]

same request was made for trucks and so far no answer to that.

[rustic pier]

#screenshots message got it lol

[green fiber]

drones used to only take batteries after all

[rustic pier]

ive taken them already but i have to dip for work xD didnt want to use my phone

[reef basin]

which costs way more power and reduces throughput of that train 🤷

[nova shale]

how to start object scanner

[reef basin]

equip it in hand afaik

[green fiber]

hold in hand, select thing to scan for by left clicking

[hard ivy]

And can have more than double the throughput than a fluid train of equal length

[nova shale]

I do have it in my hand but it show only the "no signal" pattern, right-click does nothing

[green fiber]

then theres nothing near you perhaps

it has a limited range

[hard ivy]

That means the item you're scanning for is nowhere near you

[nova shale]

ok - i did fly over a copper node but it did not show

[green fiber]

it doesnt search for ores

[hard ivy]

The object scanner isn't for nodes

[reef basin]

object scanner doesn't do ores

[green fiber]

the ore scanner is on the V button

hold V - select ore - release V

[nova shale]

oh! - v-button - didnt get that - THANKS

[hard ivy]

Or tap V and it scans for the same ore you previously scanned for

[coarse path]

bro why cant i say anything on screnshots

[reef basin]

because that channel isn't for talking

[coarse path]

wanna compliment a guys build but it keeps getting deleted

[hard ivy]

Because it's for screenshots

[coarse path]

awh

[green fiber]

just add a heart to their post or something

or ping them in here

[reef basin]

(another reason why I suggested opening a #1038092680493801533 thread for your case, you can't type in screenshots)

[coarse path]

yknow what

im gonna push the big red button ffor hypertubes

and making the coal generator right now

[green fiber]

get hyped for Hypertubes

[coarse path]

also i pt 80 smart plates in my ticket boot...

[green fiber]

your steel production better not be weak

[coarse path]

its good enough

its good enough and i made it pretty💅

should i send ss?

nvm my thing is in the way ill do it later

[green fiber]

you can if you want, in #screenshots obviously

[coarse path]

ill do that rq

when its daytime

[rustic pier]

I think so far my fav machine is the matter collider

[spark sky]

You can copy the message link (in #screenshots ), make your comment here and paste the link in your comment here.

[coarse path]

how?

[spark sky]

Right-click on the message, copy message link.

[reef basin]

or forward it

[spark sky]

I've never tried that, isn't that for sending it to an individual?

[reef basin]

that's sending it anywhere else

[reef basin]

like this

[spark sky]

Oh, okay.

(No, silly brain wondered what it would look like if it was backwarded.)

You know, that should be a thing, it just reverses the text/photo.

[versed mesa]

I think am going to take a break from the game

Bye for now

Am finding it difficult slightly specially with what to build for factories so I think a break is needed for now

Ive also found out through the night that Nukeclear Gebs need a shit ton of water to run them lol

[reef basin]

well not that much, afaik you can just do 5 extractors to 2 plants

[versed mesa]

I guess thats enought for if you over clock them

[reef basin]

that's at 100% clock

[versed mesa]

Damn what about 250%

[pearl summit]

Hello i started satisfactory nit that long ago
(First time reached phase 3 on space elevator)
And now my factory/-ies? Look like a mess 😅
So tell me guy was yiur first factories a mess?
(Also since i avoid spoilers and see this game as a puzzle i do not look for tutorials yet :3)

[reef basin]

the same?

[carmine aspen]

you know it

[versed mesa]

My starter factory is a huge mess lol

The next factory you improve

[pearl summit]

I now have like 4 dif sections of it and ya nth rly connected to each other yet

[hard ivy]

Isn't that old info now?

[pearl summit]

Also i think i discovered a weird glitch: i have made lil factory which turns power slugs into power shards, using smart splitters
And it works but constructors dont spit out shards and i cant even take em out

I tried demolishing constructor but still didint got a shard

[reef basin]

ah right, so 2 to 1

[versed mesa]

Wish there was plan challenge step in game for helping with building like on where to go and what to build

[reef basin]

you want the game to tell you what you should do?

[versed mesa]

No

[pearl summit]

Isnt whole point of game is... Figuring what to build where?

[versed mesa]

Just more if a progress in helping you get along with building idk

[pearl summit]

Idk i just spawn foundations everywhere
That helps

[versed mesa]

Theres not much can be built when it comes to Nukeclear gens I think

Ive got high functioning Autism and recovering from mental health and Anxiety and am going through stuff with the game witch niw i feel i need a break

My head is blown and unsure lol

[pearl summit]

I mean when u feel like u need a break
Just take a break
No one is holding u down hostige to play the game
I also have moments where i feel like i meed break (biggest one was getting manufacturer)
But ya just take thar break

[versed mesa]

Am holding my self down hostage to play lmfao

[pearl summit]

😅

Ya it happens with this game
I remember first day i played it i was like :0 melting like this for like 7 hours

[versed mesa]

What you mean by melting lol

[pearl summit]

Methaphorically
Melting to the chair
Couse i played game to long

[versed mesa]

Same time goes by so quick

[pearl summit]

Ya :3

[versed mesa]

Lol

[pearl summit]

I unlocked trains already in the game
But havent builded any yet
Prob will have ti for faster transport

Couse im basically will habe to transport plastic across entire world
To manufacturer
For space elevator

And rubber to

[rustic kayak]

Will there be a launch trailer when its come out on ps5 en xbox?

[pearl summit]

I dont know

[lament niche]

halp
#design-and-architecture message

[cunning siren]

X is not a thing use *

[white dawn]

No need to cross-post across channels

[pearl summit]

Am i missing them, or does this server diesnt have any roles?

[silk ocean]

#rules

[pearl summit]

Rules ya
Im talking abt roles

[silk ocean]

Oh roles sorry, not sure, don't think so

[pearl summit]

Ok

[weak shoal]

there are 3 roles :comunity manager, admin and coffeestainer

[pearl summit]

👍

[weak shoal]

i see only those

[pearl summit]

Thanks

[silk ocean]

none for us at least I assumed you meant

What benefit are roles anyway (for us)

[pearl summit]

Newermind
I think im gonna go eat ficsit protein bar (lunch)
And go back to work (play satisfactory)

[silk ocean]

Don't forget your company allocated cup of coffee xD

[coral bough]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/805845468575170570/903671638908895322/lizarddoggomybeloved.gif

[pearl summit]

Oh ya what does lizard doggos do?

I remembered i tamed one
But he got hited by self driving weehickle... And... Died
Before i found out

[coral bough]

Brings ya nuclear waste

[reef basin]

it does

[reef basin]

there's like 50+ roles lol

[lament niche]

to be fair I thought I had posted it in #screenshots

[lament niche]

lizard doggos bad

[coral bough]

Nah they bring me purple power slugs

[pearl summit]

Im gonna tame one again
For it to die... Again

[cunning siren]

You can build an enclosure for them so that does not happen 🤷

[pearl summit]

And waste precious resourses? /j
Honestly thats good idea

[cunning siren]

Keeping them all in one area is easier to farm the phat lootz

Check em every 8min 33sec

[pearl summit]

I jist fcn ran for 5 mins to death crate
Just to get mah stuff
And die right afterr 😭

[plush pumice]

yall ever get burnout from Satisfactory? if so, how do yall deal with it to continue the grind and give the efficiency Ficsit demands?

[cunning siren]

You can set the "keep all your stuff" setting in game options 🤷

[cunning siren]

Recognizing that nothing lasts forever is a good first step

[pearl summit]

Whait u can?

:0

[thorny prawn]

I recently bought this game, about 2 weeks ago and i love it! i have 65 hours in one world and this is genuinely and amazing game. It has made me want to continue my game development learning efforts. (i can't believe it's made in unreal engine!)

I mean i had read the reviews and heard it was addictive, but not THIS addictive

[pearl summit]

Oh bou
U are in for a treat

[unkempt blade]

Games should be fun. If they're not fun then take a break and play something else or go for a walk or something!

[silk ocean]

or put factory carts into cannons and fire them off-world xD

[plush pumice]

well i think the burnout's coming from the monumental tasks for the base i have in my latest save
(unlock drones, build the drone port bay, build the storage floor, build a train station floor, connect the drone port bay and train stations to storage)
not to mention i have to make it all look good

[white dawn]

Decoration takes a lot more effort than folks might realize at first, for sure

[mortal ginkgo]

it takes me like 2 full days to decorate a silly coal gen setup

[white dawn]

On my 1.0 playthrough I eventually decided to just ignore aesthetics 'cause it felt like I was never gonna finish the playthrough otherwise. :P

[silk ocean]

Foundations is as far as I go for aesthetics

[unkempt blade]

yeah the logistics stuff I feel like I know exactly what I'm trying to do so there's pretty identifiable progress but some decoration stuff takes me a lot more trying/failing cycles to get it how I want it to look

[pearl summit]

My aestetics would match smth Lets gane it out created (prob not as bad but on similar road)

Especially when im working with new thing for me
Than SPAGHETTI TIME

[unkempt blade]

I think the big thing with the "monumental tasks" part though is just figuring out how you want to break a big project down into steps/smaller projects

[pearl summit]

Ya 😄
I also get distracted to much
So while i should be doing space elevetor task rn i would rather make factory for circut boards :D.

[charred sandal]

Whats the button you press to see train blocks

[pearl summit]

With TRAINS

[silk ocean]

Just select signals

[pearl summit]

Im making train station situation for first time in this game rn

And geez dies it take alot of space

[charred sandal]

When I hold a signal it shows my side by side tracks as red lined, does that mean theyre the same block/too close?

I have them 1 foundation apart..

[silk ocean]

1 foundation apart is way too close for signals

[charred sandal]

The tracks

[silk ocean]

That's fine for tracks

[charred sandal]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1430694812830535912

I posted a pic here on my question thread.

[silk ocean]

That's more than enough yep

[cunning siren]

TIL: One can use AMD FSR upscaling method and frame generation, it works on any GPU, it's actually built into Unreal Engine itself 🤔

[silk ocean]

You can have 2 foundations and each track in the middle of each respective foundation and that is fine too

[cunning siren]

TSR upscaling method seems to look much better though

[brisk stream]

I don’t use any trains, only conveyer belts

[cunning siren]

Trains can be handy, many things in this game are optional

[shy mulch]

Real pros hand feed everything. Belts just make you lazy

[azure reef]

anybody know good output numbers for a rotor stator and motor factory? i have mk2 miners and mk3 belts, but everything i try just gives me weird ass numbers

[shy mulch]

Just have 1 machine making motors at whatever rate that makes them, and over/under clock the machines making rotors and stators to suit

[unkempt blade]

the next time AWS takes out all my network enabled factories I'll be prepared with a crafting bench

[shy mulch]

"You're so poor you were still able to get into your fridge when AWS was down"

[alpine anchor]

didnt feel like making a ticket for this since its such a small question, im in the super early game of my first playthrough, is it worth making a giant storage facitlity for all early game items ( steel production, all the T1 parts, and quartz related stuff) or not really

[unkempt blade]

have you unlocked the dimensional depot yet?

a central mall is a fun project but I think most people are getting by with the depot now

[cunning siren]

My fridge can run Doom but can't keep my milk cold 🤔

[white dawn]

GPU heatsink inside the fridge itself? :D

[frail sleet]

I would say for p1+p2, maybe p3, yeah. Then you should really farm a lot of mercer spheres and hard drives and retrofit it with dimensional depots + put those on new stuff.

[alpine anchor]

ive never heard of it

I asusme its in one of the MAM trees then?

[shy mulch]

If you aren't smashing the MAM, you should be. It will change your life.

[frail sleet]

for mercer spheres, yeah. If you don't have a ton of mercer spheres and hard drives for alternate recipies, the start of P3 when you can get a jetpack with liquid biofuel (and a rifle) is excellent time to do it

[shy mulch]

It should be your primary focus, especially for a new player

[alpine anchor]

good to know then, when i play later today im finishing my steel factory and then i was going to redo my starter factory

thank you

[cunning siren]

"Smashing the MAM" 😆

[random berry]

hi. i just unlocked frame floors. How do I fill it with glass?

is it glass roof material which is in the awesome shop?

[violet needle]

damn

phase 5 finished

its been a ride on this save

just over 200h clocked in

[frail sleet]

yeah i think so

glass foundation is a seperate part

[violet needle]

1240 coupons, and 10 p5 parts / min (5 pasta)

[feral geyser]

The glass frame foundation are in the structural frame set under Architecture is the shop

Also yes, glass roof material is in the Customizer section

[fallen ravine]

-I see a random power line- : Ohh maybe its a leftover cable from something else, let me delete it...... I turned off my whole oil pumping system, turbo fuel factory crashes, proceed to panic.

[violet needle]

#screenshots

[thorny prawn]

does anybody else here like to just inspect this game for every piece of genius game design? it is a masterpiece, from the textures, to the atmosphere, to the optimization, to the just pure gameplay loop, and all the detail, both literal and in the way the game hooks you and keeps you in. i could spend hours just geeking out over the design.

[versed mesa]

😂

[sick falcon]

is it possible to make the encased heavy frame recipe neat with clocking or do i just bite the bullet that im going to have some backup

[versed mesa]

What you mean neat with clocking lol

I know of Encase Heavy frame lol

[sick falcon]

like its 7.5 frame, 9.375 encased beam, 33.75 steel pipe, and 20.625 concrete a minute to make, its hard to exactly feed that much into the manufacturer

[versed mesa]

And why is it hard lol

[cunning siren]

If you want exact numbers use one of the many planning / caculator tools?

[sick falcon]

there are planning tools?

[cunning siren]

I sometimes use https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0 and https://satisfactorymodeler.itch.io/satisfactorymodeler

[sick falcon]

whats the difference

[rustic pier]

We need a controller for programmable switches.. like have them direct connected to the console so you can adjust the settings.. >.>

[shrewd palm]

they both sort of give you instructions for factories

tools give you the instructions straight up like lego, modeler lets you make your own

[reef basin]

first one is actual calculator, modeller is more like logistical planner (but tbh planning things ingame is imo better)

[sick falcon]

is 150 circuit boards a minute a good amount for a computer factory

[placid stirrup]

If it makes the amount of computers you want then it's a good amount

[drowsy condor]

🤣 I've spent a lot of time just following power lines to see if they're actually important or not.

[reef basin]

figure out how many computers you need and that will give you the amount of circuit boards needed

[cunning siren]

TIL: Spitter shots can trigger

[halcyon kite]

Some day they will let us pet the Shoopuff looking bugs in the mycelium forest near Green Fields...

[zenith pecan]

Yeah, that stings, got bombed a few times by spitters shooting stuff that explodes before it gets where I'm throwing it.

[sick falcon]

figured that out the hard way when i stuck one to a spitters face at point blank and it blew us both up

[zenith pecan]

Crazy part is nukes blow in game when shot, but shoot a real nuke, and it's just wrecked 🤣 , ficsit nukes are dangerous!

[spark sky]

Hm, where do Singularity Cells come from?

[reef basin]

check in codex to see

[spark sky]

I tried.

[reef basin]

and?

[spark sky]

Nothing is listed, I must have to unlock something.

[reef basin]

probably singularity cells

[spark sky]

I was looking into what I needed to research yet in the MAM, and that was something I needed in order to do the last research node in Alien Technology, but don't know where they come from. So, I guess check other research nodes...

[granite ether]

why cant i see my factories on the map?

#screenshots message
like here

[reef basin]

because game doesn't show factories on the map

[granite ether]

where did he get the map from then

[reef basin]

third party tool

[granite ether]

which one

[lavish lance]

satisfactory calculator

[coral dock]

anyone wanna start a new world together 18+

[lavish lance]

i love how it would kill you to give a usefull response for once

[hard ivy]

tier 9

[spark sky]

Ouch! Okay, that's a long way off.

[reef basin]

#1201555265942724758

[reef basin]

I love how people don't read #welcome and expect us to tell them what's in there

[lavish lance]

yes, but then just ignore them.
if you are taking the time to spell out your useless response, you could instead just provide the answer

[spark sky]

Well, we have the same problem at work. Every once in a while, someone will suggest that we need to put up a sign for something. My reply, "They don't read the signs we have now, what's another sign going to do?"

[lavish lance]

you are going out of your way to be useless

[reef basin]

not as much as this conversation

[granite ether]

dang my map looks cursed

[nova shale]

where are the save files to use with satisfactory calculator

[reef basin]

#faq

[hard ivy]

it literally tells you

[lavish lance]

ur the type of person that sees a question on Stackoverflow and edits the question instead of answering it

same energy

i cant help but bring it up because every time see you "answering" its just 2 sentences of nothing

[reef basin]

if you have problem with me, block me and stop pinging me, thanks

[lavish lance]

no i just feel sorry for the people you respond to

[reef basin]

second part of my message still applies then

[spark sky]

@lavish lance Perhaps you should try answereing the same question 5,000 times when someone already answered it. And, I'm sorry, I probably am guilty of asking questions that I should look up, too.

[lavish lance]

if you dont like pings, disable them or block me :D

[reef basin]

oh I already did

[lavish lance]

the correct play then is to not respond at all.
but already taking the time to write up a nothingburger is way worse

[unkempt blade]

I heard that building a skate park for factory carts can really mellow you out when you're acting tilted

[lavish lance]

i get tilted seing greenys responses every time i hop on this server. Its not intentional.

[spark sky]

Well, I don't have the responsibility of responding, some people do.

[warped yacht]

you aren't sneaky, Big Factory Cart, we see you

[unkempt blade]

you caught me, I'm just here to get engagement for our new mk2 factory cart launch

[reef basin]

and yet you're here, not having blocked me, and responding to them 🤷

[warped yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-and-take-my-money-money-futurama-gif-6882124657810317443

[kind oriole]

Hey

[spark sky]

There's a new factory cart?

[lavish lance]

discords block feature is close to useless. it is what it is

[kind oriole]

How do I get mercer spheres fast

[lavish lance]

run around with a scanner

[kind oriole]

Thats what I do

[lavish lance]

and jetpack, without is slow

[reef basin]

it does the job 🤷

but I guess you want to stay tilted, not my problem. Continue with what you're doing

[spark sky]

@reef basin I appreciate you, even if no one else does.

[kind oriole]

I use jetpack blade runners and object scanner and it takes 10 minutes for one

[unkempt blade]

We've DOUBLED the amount of inventory space on the mk1 cart so now you'll be able to move a serious amount of stuff

[reef basin]

oh I don't need appreciation, but thanks 🙂 I'm just humored by a few individuals on this server who set up on a war path against me 🤷

[kind oriole]

How do I maximize efficiency for my steel pipes

[spark sky]

Mind you, I still don't know who here is with Coffee Stain and who is just a wonderful volunteer moderator or fount of wisdom.

[reef basin]

anybody who's not orange or purple is volunteer (I'm not even a moderator)

[reef basin]

build machines so that they run at 100% efficiency

[unkempt blade]

Oh, in that case I'm not a CS employee and I'm just a shill for all things factory cart

[elfin stream]

guys, i need help to find mercer sphere at 38,448 / 40,905 / 181
already 2hours of looking for that cave

[spark sky]

Alright. I'm just here to have fun, and my current fun seems to be building new biomass generator towers.

With vertical load balancers at their core.

[unkempt blade]

That sounds amazing. I love insane amounts of biomass power nearly as much as I love factory carts

[spark sky]

Well, these aren't insane, but perhaps they can be chained together sometime in the future.

[cunning siren]

Homing ammo is pretty lazy, it's starting to grow on me

[spark sky]

I wanted to use a honeycomb layout (from the air), but that doesn't seem real possible.

I can't get a hexagonal tile for the floor that tiles nicely.

[cunning siren]

I did 37 biomass burners this run, that was kind of nutty

fun though

[coarse path]

guys

[spark sky]

My towers have 18, but they sit on top of their fuel production. So far I haven't made any satelite towers. My first biofuel power plant had 9 biomass burners, so I'm improving.

[coarse path]

after 4 and a half hours later i build the best coal generator, completed my factory and im finishing another one right now

as you guys sugested the factory for my space elevator stuff i need

[spark sky]

I'm learning a lot of tricks in the construction. I had to come up with my own blueprints for the vertical load balancers.

[spark sky]

So, what does your coal generator look like? I have 4 stacked in a blueprint (well, you have to add the upper 2 after setting down the blueprint) that can be tiled. Hm, I need to make a blueprint for the water.

[coarse path]

idk what all those words about upper 2 mean but ill make some right now in screenshots

[spark sky]

I stack 4 coal generators in a 6x2 foundation space. The upper two generators can't be placed in the blueprint because they are too tall for the Mk3 blueprint designer, but I put in markers to show where they go after you place the blueprint. You just have to place the two generators and connect them to the conveyors, pipes and electricity.

[coarse path]

i dont have the blueprints yet

first the space station tier 2 then ill waste modulair frames on the blueprint

[spark sky]

I started a creative world to play with design in.

[coarse path]

ohh sounds nice

[spark sky]

You can use the blueprints (just have to copy them from one save directory to the other) even though you can't make them.

[coarse path]

are you down to join and help me for 30 minutes or smthg

[spark sky]

You just have to have the materials.

[coarse path]

cuz i still need 1000 of the stuping things

next to the smart plates

[spark sky]

1000 of what?

[coarse path]

ill make ss

like its so time consuming i wanna continue so bad bro

so bored

[spice spindle]

Beyond phase 2, do we need smart plating or automated wiring for anything?

[feral geyser]

Yes

[spice spindle]

Okay got it

wanted to make sure sine i made an excess 💀

[feral geyser]

Yeah they go into Modular Engines, which go into Thermal Propulsion Rockets, which go into Ballistic Warp Drives

[zenith pecan]

I really should remake the spaced elevator plan and get that built, every time I do that part of the game, it has been a semi auto spaghetti factory built on the sand, feels like cheating.

[coarse path]

@spark sky what is that tank and how do you make the pipe splitser the other way around

[spark sky]

This is what I meant about the blueprint and having to place the upper two generators. #screenshots message

[coarse path]

yeah i saw that

[spark sky]

The tank is a fluid buffer, and you make the pipes by experimenting till you get it right. Sometimes you have to put in temporary stuff to connect to in order to build stuff, then delete the temporary stuff after you get what you want, where you want.

[coarse path]

bro thats a life saver

gotta use it

[abstract heron]

Time to think how to get 1567 or more or less Referinys in

[zenith pecan]

Eww, clocks and sloops to cull the refineries please, those are bulky as hell.

[spark sky]

"Old Doc. Sloopy, he's lost his mind again. Old Doc Sloopy, he's ... The whole world's a siting on a lizard doggo's nose!"

Nobody got that reference? Has no one here seen "Horton Hears a Who?"

[kind oriole]

I love homing ammo

[spark sky]

Hm, made me think of "humming ammo," it makes a humming sound that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at once, then it strikes.

[leaden turret]

bomb that hums "flight of the valkyries" before kerploding

[spark sky]

Hm, so the humming ammo is humming "Flight of the Bumble Bee," but the sound gets louder and softer and echoes so you don't know where it's coming from or how close it is till it hits?

[leaden turret]

crab hatchers humming flight of the bumble bee (since people keep incorrectly calling it a bee, let's make the problem worse)

[spark sky]

I understand they are crabs, it just doesn't make sense that crabs can fly.

[leaden turret]

same way crabs swim

[spark sky]

Well, ever seen a blue crab? They actually have flipper-like back legs, so yes, they can swim.

[leaden turret]

now I'm wondering what the difference between hovering and swimming is

[wheat musk]

Guys it’s almost nov 4th I’ll be able to play satisfactory for my first time😭😭 I’m counting down the days

Does anyone know if it will be crossplay?

[leaden turret]

between consoles: yes
between consoles and pc: not at launch

[wheat musk]

Dang itttt which means I won’t be able to find people to play with for a wile😭

Still extremely excited

[placid stirrup]

Imo solo play is ideal for the first playthrough, even if you don't get all the way through the game.

[wheat musk]

Yeah that’s what I planned regardless but still would be enjoyable to have separate saves with freinds

[placid stirrup]

Coerce your friends into playing, that's how I did it

[abstract heron]

its like if i do it tthe game might go brrrr

[zenith pecan]

Wouldn't be the first time I've made go brrrr

[abstract heron]

is it worth having like 65k or how many items i make turning DD ore into refeinrys

[rugged stratus]

could someone rate my coal power plant in #design-and-architecture ?

[granite ether]

is there a good website where i can plan my builds (not satisafctory calculator one)

[leaden turret]

http://sheets.google.com/

[granite ether]

bruh

[abstract heron]

marv

[leaden turret]

if it would be fun for you if you did so then yes

[torpid cloak]

Satisfactory Tools or Satisfactory Modeler (steam)

[abstract heron]

is there enough space in thee DD

to have rough guess 1560 or 1570 refeinrys

[torpid cloak]

u can make stacked refs in calculator to save some space

[abstract heron]

but that will look not so good i say

[leaden turret]

haven't used the dune desert 🤷‍♂️

[abstract heron]

I have

[torpid cloak]

you can make some design for them i think

[abstract heron]

Trying it all by hand no BP or something i think

[reef basin]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/

[abstract heron]

hey greeny

[abstract heron]

I am thinking how high for floors i have them at 6high atm idk if i need them at 8 high for each floor

[placid stirrup]

Has anyone made a tutorial or tips and tricks guide for tools ever?
@greeny.dev

[cunning siren]

TIL: With crash sites If you grab the unlock handle on the very end you can slam it down in one quick move

[exotic ravine]

what is the power meta rn fuel or nukes

[flat rain]

nitro fuel

[reef basin]

either

[exotic ravine]

ima trust the guy with a rank

[hard ivy]

nitro rocket fuel is easier but more expensive and less interesting

[summer willow]

the grind is real!

[surreal stirrup]

Why does the server restart message appear a second time during a single-player game?

[hard ivy]

the game restarts every 24h regardless of game mode

[surreal stirrup]

Okey

[reef basin]

because singleplayer mode is a lie
you're really playing multiplayer with you being the only player on there 🙂

[surreal stirrup]

Why are the holes of the dividers and connectors so brightly colored behind the glass? Is there a way to fix this?

[versed mesa]

👋

[surreal stirrup]

👋

[surreal meteor]

I just thought of locking splitters, mergers, and zoop mode behind microtransactions.

And limit the number of machines to 5 per type

[spark sky]

I'm no expert, but in that first picture, I think you're limiting the ammount of water those two extractors can pump due to the limit of 300lpm of the pipes. Perhaps someone with more experience can help.

[mystic oriole]

hello satan

don't vote for a lesser evil, make conveyor belts cost power too.

[spark sky]

While you're at it, make flood lights use 5kW each.

Street lights 1kW.

So far I have not seen a wattage for lights.

[spark sky]

Wait, if they take power, they could carry power like rails, we wouldn't need wires.

[abstract heron]

if i add nearly 1570 refeinrys will the game become laggy?

[mystic oriole]

no certainly not that helpful.
Add a wattage raiting for power lines.

[spark sky]

Well, with that you need transformers to reduce losses and actual high-tension lines (with the associated electrocution possibility) for long-distance power transmission.

Might as well throw in 3-phase power, too, requiring 3 wires to carry power from a power plant to a transformer or substation.

[surreal meteor]

The devil has spoken to me again. He said: "Lock constructing alien technology buildings behind microtransactions, but don't lock the research."

[stoic spear]

i fininshed phase 3

[shy zenith]

pipes can always go down and back to same height no penalty, right?

[coral bough]

Pipe is pipe, pipe confuses me

[reef basin]

yeah

[coral bough]

Whats the best place to spawn for fast progression to get trains asap

[reef basin]

eh, all of them are pretty fine

[coral bough]

That did not help

[reef basin]

pick a place you like

[coral bough]

😐

[reef basin]

it's more about knowing what to do than to have resources nearby

[coral bough]

But more recourses the faster I can build shit

[reef basin]

it's all the same map tho, you're not getting "more resources"

[unkempt blade]

the entire map has resources and trains aren't something that needs anything particularly uncommon

[coral bough]

But I wanna get them asap and idk the best spawn point to do that

[dim cradle]

Does anyone else's game just end up with skybridges all over the place? I haven't played in about 3 years and I'm finding myself doing the same thing we did in our other game, just solo. Ramps and floors everywhere, going to slugs and then directly to resource nodes. Eventually I guess the entire sky is just going to be ramps. And then I'm sitting here making mk1 conveyors to a quartz that's like 2-3km away lol

[reef basin]

"best" place would be different for each player

[unkempt blade]

yeah I understood your questions, we're telling you they're all viable and it's more about how you play

[coral bough]

Sky bridges are fun

[dim cradle]

It just feels so cheap throwing bombs on enemies from above

[coral bough]

Okay new question then

Which spawn point has the most coal

[unkempt blade]

you could check on SCIM 🙂

[coral bough]

My phone can't handle that

[reef basin]

(also, answer depends on where you define edge of spawn point)

[coral bough]

Suicide trains

[dim cradle]

I started in the desert this time. I kind of don't feel like it's been that different from the other starts, just feels like my iron is further apart so I need longer paths but there's more iron in general. Lots of pure iron, too.

[reef basin]

just fyi, if it wasn't clear - pick any place you like. The time you spend here optimising for "best" place, you could've spent building factories in first place that comes to mind and already be ahead in time against "best" place

[granite ether]

did coal generators have more smoke in like 2023-2024?

[dim cradle]

The coal was an absolute pain to get to and I needed a massive sky bridge to get to the sulfur so I could get my explosives going

[unkempt blade]

I'm a big fan of skyroads and then I build factories beneat the road as "supports" for it

[coral bough]

You really haven't helped with my simple questions at all

[dim cradle]

Yeah mine are unsupported lol, feels kind of silly but they let this work in vanilla

[unkempt blade]

yeah if you want to channel minecraft plenty of people do it with foundations to get a big flat area for factories too 🤷

[dim cradle]

The only question, like... have they made it easier to place grids of flooring since I last played? It sucks to make a whole factory floor just doing 10 squares at a time. Last time we needed a mod for that

[reef basin]

well you're asking what is basically a subjective question impossible to answer

it's like asking "what's the best place to live"

[coral bough]

Its not impossible it has 4 answers its really simple

[unkempt blade]

There's zooping and there's the blueprinter which would let you make a 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 foundation print to use to speed things up

[coral bough]

So simple that I could probably ask an ape and they'd answer instantly

[reef basin]

it has more than 4 answers, because you can walk anywhere on the map

and even if you limited it just to spawn point, you'd have to define what recipes you're using, what's the production goal, what are your preferences in used resources, what do you optimise factories for, etc etc etc.

[unkempt blade]

oh well in that case the best one is the grasslands

[coral bough]

I legit said spawn point, so no it doesn't have more than 4 answers

[reef basin]

read rest of the message

[dim cradle]

Oh if there's a 5x5 that's probably not too bad then. I guess I just need to unlock blueprints.

[coral bough]

I asked to get trains the fasted and which has the most coal

[reef basin]

would you rather get a subjective answer that will most likely not be tailored to your specific case because of the above mentioned differences, or an answer that is actually correct, even though it doesn't help you as much as you hoped?

[coral bough]

Amd you said it was impossible to answer

[unkempt blade]

just go do grasslands, you could have been halfway to unlocking trains by now

[coral bough]

Grasslands it is

[simple mango]

Alright, re-braining for compensating for variable power, since it's been a while.

If a geothermal plant produces 100-300MW the average is 200MW and 100MW of storage should even that out if need be. Yes?

[reef basin]

and I asked how do you define the size of spawn point (not to mention there's multiple spawn points in each locations), and what is the production goal, etc. "unlocking trains" could be anything

[dim cradle]

#screenshots message I put a pic of what I meant into the screenshot chat though. The sulfur is kind of silly to get to in this desert spawn.

Dunno why it takes that many ramps and it's at the edge of the map

[reef basin]

see, that's the "subjective answer that will most likely not be tailored to your specific case" 🙂

[dim cradle]

I wish I chose the beach now, the desert is just the same color all the time, kind of dreary

[reef basin]

well... storage isn't measured in MW 🙂

[unkempt blade]

he wanted the ape answer quickly so I provided one

[reef basin]

I know 🙂 I'm just not sure if they understand that you basically picked a random answer 🙂

[dim cradle]

grasslands looks nice, too

aesthetically

[abstract heron]

Just thinking how to fit nicely 1560 refeinrys or 1570 refeinrys in for all ores

[spiral summit]

does someone have a website for unicode art that i can use on signs

for like numbers and symbols

[simple mango]

mhmm, and if you were to know what I mean, which I know that you do?

[reef basin]

I'd not build power storages at all 🤷

[simple mango]

No. Anyone else?

[reef basin]

yes, I wouldn't

[simple mango]

thanks for playing, but I saw what you originally wrote.

[unkempt blade]

If you open the power storage it'll tell you what the max charge rate is. You want that to be the average of your geothermal power if you just want to level out available power

[reef basin]

and?

[simple mango]

Tyty. Yeah I just want to smooth out the curve, but I keep feeling like I'm missing something.

[dim cradle]

I think it said that the charge rate is limited but the discharge rate is unlimited, I think when in doubt you probably just make more of them like you do in Factorio

[unkempt blade]

I think you'll still see the curve but you'll have that average amount of power available to keep it from blowing the circuit breaker

instead of it blowing when the wave dips

[dim cradle]

Like if you get a blown breaker, just make more

[reef basin]

yeah the curve will be there no matter what

[dim cradle]

In Factorio for full solar you needed a pretty absurd amount of batteries but that's an extreme example because the production goes to flat zero when it's night

[unkempt blade]

yeah for my answer why I'm looking at max charge rate is because if you have unlimited discharge the rate doesn't matter but it operating at a rate that will cause it to empty before it can recharge will be bad

[dim cradle]

I feel like the simpler answer is to just build more, never hurts to have more battery XD

[reef basin]

*power storage

[unkempt blade]

I'm primarily a multiplayer player and I'm a huge believer in power storage to friend-proof factories especially when they're newer players

[dim cradle]

Okay I thought that getting these artifact things scanned into the science station would let me scan for them

but I'm not seeing the option... is that just worded badly?

these weren't around last time we played

[unkempt blade]

are you using the object scanner handheld?

[dim cradle]

Oh I guess that's the use for that thing lol

[unkempt blade]

yeah it should be an option in there, you don't ping them the way you would a resource node

[dim cradle]

gotcha

I can't believe they just let me have explosives this early in the game though, barely took anything..

Just 2km of mk1 track

I mean is it me or does TNT just solve all problems in the game

[crimson lantern]

Does anyone know how much the game is going to cost on PS5? Preferably in pounds.

[spice spindle]

is there a way to display measurements when building stuff? I saw it in a video but I can't find the option 💀

[stoic spear]

are trains better than drones

[dense violet]

Depends how you like to do things and what situation you’re in

If you’re looking to just do things ‘meta’ in this game I have bad news for you

[stoic spear]

...

[primal flax]

do trains not work on 4m ramps?

[dim cradle]

Lol they work fine on ramps, pretty fun to set up

look pretty neat, I remember really liking them in our other save

[stoic spear]

i just finished phase 3

[dense violet]

There is no ‘meta’ , essentially

[shy fog]

downhill trains work any any ramp... not exactly true of uphill

[dense violet]

2m is about as steep as you get

[dim cradle]

Really, could have sworn that we made our train go up 4m ramps in that save

Must have been misremembering

[dense violet]

You can get it slightly steeper by alternating ramps , like 2m 2m 4m I think? But really not worth it. Just plan your trains better

[dim cradle]

Might be too lazy, I usually just make a conveyor belt across the map...

Can you upgrade the entire line with one click or do you have to go section by section

[stoic spear]

can you make turbo fruel in the western islands

[charred sandal]

The crude oil geyser with the ~6 nodes around it....

I need the pressurizer to use any of the nodes? is that correctr?

[fierce zenith]

What are the giant creatures walking around called?

[stoic spear]

space Giraffe-tick-penguin-whale thing

[limber cove]

Beans

they're beans

[fierce zenith]

Any reason they constantly get themselves stuck in the middle of my build? like... they aren't there then I turn around and there is one stuck and can't move unless I demolish something and then hit it

[limber cove]

Because they're a bit silly

[stoic spear]

lol

[limber cove]

housing your factories will help with preventing them getting stuck

[fierce zenith]

I played years ago but didn't get far in. I've recently started again from scratch and so my builds are a bit ugly... lol

[limber cove]

fair

[dim cradle]

Anyone know? About conveyors I mean

[feral geyser]

section by section

[fierce zenith]

I was just wondering if it was a glitch cause when I started this world there was one stuck in the side of a mountain.... I guess that should've been a sign lol

[limber cove]

You can of course, not cover your builds and enjoy the occasional trampoline turning up

maybe kill the bean if it is really in the way

[coral bough]

Each section

[fierce zenith]

I did accidentally discover that achievement lol

[dim cradle]

Speaking of killing, can you finally kill that giant flying thing

[fierce zenith]

is that possible?

[limber cove]

yes, but lots of health

and it also means you've killed a bean

[dim cradle]

Lots of health to what, the "bean" or the giant flying thing

[fierce zenith]

so does that do something bad later on?

[coral bough]

Nukes

[dim cradle]

Oh wiki says the giant manta doesn't take damage

Didn't used to be able to ride on it though so that's interesting

[fierce zenith]

wait... did anyone else spend a very long time holding space for crafting? I just realized it's a toggle.... 🤦‍♂️

[dim cradle]

I don't think it used to be a toggle so I looked that up too

it's nice that they added it

[fierce zenith]

I've been laying my mouse upside down on my space bar..... lmao

[dim cradle]

I literally refused to make any large factory until I had coal so I could afk with it going lol

so I built a lot by hand, including the entire space elevator

[fierce zenith]

yeah i'm working to get coal. sick of biomass lol

[dim cradle]

It used to be even worse, now on controller you can just hold a toggle and it auto picks up

and on mouse and keyboard it just picks up while you hold

I was legit joking to my friend that I feel like a freaking farmer because all I do is go around picking up bushes and cutting trees back then

[fierce zenith]

I played about 300+ hours back when it first came out. lol

[dim cradle]

We did something close to that, I think I had around 200

I know we had nuclear power plants and were at the phase when they wanted us to do plutonium or something

The entire planet was just sky bridges

Idk is it me or does this zip line thing kind of suck?

I never used it back then either...

Wtf is with these quartz crystal recipe ratios... 37.5 per minute, 22.5 per minute...

I guess that's 75+45=120, so they want you to have 2 of each?

[abstract heron]

Working on the places for Refeinrys

[shrewd hatch]

guys how do these path signals work

and the block signals

because they just keep saying signal loops into itself

[dense violet]

a better question would be: why are you ignoring clocking your machines as needed?

[dim cradle]

not really worth it I think, I only still use mk1 track everywhere so the I can just split these two normals into 4 machines and it's 100% usage anyway

since I think mk1 is like 120? Or is it 60 nvm

Lol yeah it's 60 derp

[dense violet]

clocking your machines how you need them is always worth it. Clocking is hte single most powerful logistical tool you have and makes 'ratios' completely meaningless

[dim cradle]

well I also don't have that many slugs yet anyways unless you mean underclocking

[dense violet]

you can under clock for free

[dim cradle]

does underclocking need them?

gotcha

[dense violet]

so you can often just have every machine at 100% and then under clock 1 machine on the line to have constant, non stuttering production

essentially don't even look at 'ratios' as a thing, just the overall part consumption to production to evaluate if it's a good trade

[dim cradle]

Could just leeroy it and let the law of the jungle handle it too lul

[dense violet]

you could, you sound like you're very early on and you don't have to have everything running at 100%

[dim cradle]

I'm at phase 2. I have some purple slugs but I do try to make the ratios line up without any clocking

Which most of the time they kind of do if you math it out

[dense violet]

very early on

[dense violet]

that's not going to be something you can maintain

[dim cradle]

Mmm... I don't remember how the later recipes go. I know fluids can be kind of annoying, especially the plastics though idr why

[dense violet]

decimals. That's how they go

fluids are as hard as you make them. If you have some basic knowledge they are very very easy

[dim cradle]

I think I mostly made things work without clocking even in our late game save last time I played though. There tended to seem like there was an intended ratio to things

Might be misremembering tho again

[dense violet]

there's a few things that line up w/o much fuss, but most don't. You'd have to really work at it. And if that's what interests you? sure go for it. But it'd be a weird thing work your entire world system around unless you were really into it

[dim cradle]

I dunno I might just be a little OCD, I just do it because I can

[dense violet]

last person I spoke to that was like that overflowed extra items to a sink every step to manage it

which just seemed dumb imo

[dim cradle]

well that's just waste

I mean when you're end game just throw everything into the sink but otherwise you're just wasting it

I think Plutonium gave us a lot of points or something tho lol

I'm kind of ok with it not being perfect I just think about it a little and if it doesn't come to me I just yolo it

like the quartz I did that in my head in a min or two so no big deal anyway

But underclocking is a good idea, thanks

My biggest failing is I thought these normal tracks could actually handle the output of a mk1 miner on a pure source

I forget they only do 60 not 120 X_X

[dense violet]

for most of your game you'll be limited by your belt speed for miners

[dim cradle]

Later on aren't there extremely easy to make aluminum belts?

Maybe I shouldn't even bother to upgrade until getting those...

[dense violet]

pure nodes with mk3 are still limited by mk5 belts

[dim cradle]

I routed so many mining sources to the main base already

[dim cradle]

Kind of weird too innit? Would be nice if you could just put a splitter right at the exit

[dawn helm]

Ehy is there someone that wants to help a newbie out?

[dense violet]

mk6 belts can move them

[candid torrent]

mk6 belts are crazy

[dense violet]

whats your question?

[candid torrent]

watching full mk6 belts is mesmerizing

[dim cradle]

Oh that must be a new belt type.

That didn't used to exist lol

[dense violet]

newer than mk5 😛

[candid torrent]

yeah they're new

[stray creek]

tier 6

9 not 6

[candid torrent]

1200/min

[dim cradle]

At least that's something to look forward to after restarting, new tier huh

[candid torrent]

t9 is very fun

[dense violet]

the alien stuff is... fine? a few new machines is the most of it

[dim cradle]

I remember one cool thing we did was this power armor mod that let you do some really crazy stuff when it was fully upgraded, though it was expensive to make

Would be nice if they had something like that in canon

[dawn helm]

Just unlocked water pipes, for some reason they are weird with conjunctions pipes or whatever is called. I've been trying to make a coal Gen system but doesn't get enough water everywhere in the same way my friend told me to make more water extractors but didn't change much, water output for coal is still low on the edges

[dense violet]

show an overhead image of what you're doing in #math-and-meta

[dim cradle]

Maybe your plants are higher than your pumps?

[dense violet]

build a scout tower or use photomode

[dim cradle]

Default pumps can only do like 10 meters I think

[dawn helm]

Fuc I'm on phone 😔

[dim cradle]

If that's the issue, tho idk

[shy fog]

specifically the detached camera...

[dense violet]

well as franz mentioned

might be headlift

but most people have an issue with going over the pipe flow limit

[candid torrent]

if ur using mk1 pipes u might be trying to move too much water

[dawn helm]

Can I dm u

[dense violet]

those are the 2 most common newbie issues

[dense violet]

sure?

[candid torrent]

u most likely just need to switch to some kind of injection system instead of just a straight manifold

[dawn helm]

I didn't have much to build vertically on so Idk

[dim cradle]

Oh yeah I think mk1 pipes can only move the output from like 2 pumps, and 1/4th of a third one?

[shy fog]

does the bot still summon the coal generator?

[dense violet]

top down layout image thumbnail of the link? should

[shy fog]

what's the call command again?

[dense violet]

! wikisearch

w/o the space

[dim cradle]

I might have a problem, I love blowing things up...

[candid torrent]

make a bomb factory

[shy fog]

!wikisearch coal generator

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=coal+generator

[dim cradle]

I did

[candid torrent]

make another

[dim cradle]

I will

[candid torrent]

you need more bombs

[dim cradle]

You're right I need more bombs

Bombs just seem to do everything in this why do I need a weapon

[shy fog]

Primarily because throwing bombs takes time

[candid torrent]

make nukes

[shy fog]

where as going full American it's just faster to switch guns

[dim cradle]

But you can throw a bomb in something's mouth as it charges you

and relive Zelda

[dense violet]

look at these layouts #satisfactory message

doing 3:8 set upts for beginners if very simple

uses exactly 120 coal pm, 3 extractors

from your drawings and explainations you might be going over your headlift limit

[dim cradle]

Don't be like me and forget that each mk1 track can only do 60 btw

[shy fog]

be like me instead and forget you have mk2 unlocked by the time you have coal generators

[dim cradle]

lol I might just skip mk2

Go for mk3 or something

[shy fog]

I usually just run at the speed of the miner

[dim cradle]

There's just so much iron in the desert... I feel like I might could just skip it, idr what mk3 needed tho

[shy fog]

no real point in using T6 belts to output from something that doesn't give you 60

[dim cradle]

Oh yeah it's just steel beams... hmm... if I could get oil power or something by then I could def just skip mk2s

I wonder if you could just go most of the game with mk1s lol

Question, I'm noticing some of these research branches require hard drives to do

is it worth saving hard drives for those or just grab alt recipes?

my friend did most of the research last time

[dense violet]

there's enough hdds for everything

[dim cradle]

Yeah I think I'll just do mk3s, mk2 belts look like they'll be obsolete too fast

[zenith pecan]

I still have some mk2 belts in my factories, though I use belts with speeds matching required throughput for the looking cool aspect.

[dim cradle]

Well like I'm playing solo and I have some lines like for quartz that run 2-3km

I'm not going to replace that just for it to barely even keep up with a mk1 miner on a pure

mk3 looks disproportionately high compared to every other tier, too

[zenith pecan]

Here's an example of where I do use slow belts #design-and-architecture message , and I have had belts running the length of the map.

[wise junco]

SO

through building my Big Train Network™, I realized I was woefully unprepared for piece of the puzzle

how does everyone handle trains needing to change direction? e.g., are you building roundabouts at every intersection? are you having over/underpasses every so often allowing trains to reverse course?

[shy fog]

see gaming with doc on youtube

[flat rain]

roundabounts are nice. you can also do 180 degree turns
my trains all are on the same system with a "main line" so they can go anywhere in any direction

[shy fog]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S6S7VMCM4bg

[stone python]

syou can do a branch that goes under then rejoins the other direction

i like roundabouts

[shy fog]

you spin trains right round baby right round try not to crash into your own train now

and I.... enjoy laying lots of tracks.... and I.... have a massive map railway a massive map railway... (i'm stopping now before I finish it)

[flat rain]

here is a simple example for a train leaving a station, it can leave and go either way #design-and-architecture message

[wise junco]

this is genius and I'm going to work on incorporating that design. I don't know why I didn't think of that. It solves the whole problem

thank you!!!!

[flat rain]

no problem

[rotund pier]

where can i find turbo motors laying around the map

[shrewd palm]

i dont think anyone really knows but if i had to guess they'd be around endgame crash sites

like titan forest and oasis

[dim cradle]

What constitutes an endgame area

[shy fog]

endgame is when you're fully ready for mass production

it is possible to finish phase 5 without being endgame

(yes, I am an idiot who did that)

[shrewd palm]

i guess somewhere thats pretty dangerous and/or requires things like the jetpack to access ?

or just the swamp

swamp sucks

[dim cradle]

Like I built a skybridge all the way over that sulfur and then just walled out the enemy that was there so I could build a miner... I think I walked by a source of what looked like that alien metal on the way there, and some new green looking mob that I don't think was in the game before

Wonder if I can even mine this alien stuff with a mk1 miner

[shrewd palm]

yes

[dim cradle]

Lol might as well stockpile it for now then

[shy fog]

if it's a node you can collect it

[shrewd palm]

if you turn it into reanimated sam thats a pretty good way to get coupons early on

[wise junco]

fun fact - i have my train stations in the same exact spacing as you showed. i'm able to retrofit with zero complications. you're a wizard

[dim cradle]

I think I have about a thousand bombs so I could probably take them out

I just love how you don't need any gas mask or anything if you just blow them up anyway

[simple mango]

Is there not a place in SCIM where I can view the list of locked/unlocked alt recipes from my save?

[shy fog]

no, but it's not hard to look at the lists

like iron ingots have 5 ways to be made

[simple mango]

I'd like to have an idea where I am on unlocking previous/current tier recipes before I add another batch into the mix

[abstract heron]

i started on the GRAND projects for the refeinrys

[shy fog]

!wikisearch hard drive

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=hard+drive

[shy fog]

the library exists there...

but what you have unlocked is only really searchable ingame

[simple mango]

is there a monthly ranking on who in the SF discord is the most dismissive? because JFC...

just be like "no, there is not" rather than hammering on how stupid you think the question is

[trim sable]

I find it hard to know what I'm doing in this game and I've somehow completed phase 2 and part 5. HOW!? and what do I do now?, I've been exploring a bit

[shrewd palm]

the next phase and the tiers within it shall be your guide

should you ever get bored along the way the map is large and full of things to grab

[trim sable]

Ah

[simple mango]

map is indeed large

[trim sable]

But then I get over whelmed

[shy fog]

when in doubt, just do the absolute minimum... unlock your rocket launch stuff

[shrewd palm]

just take things slowly

[abstract heron]

@shrewd palm

[shrewd palm]

i dont remember exactly how the progression is in early game but going one tier at a time should be slow enough to not get overwhelmed

like unlocking the tier, doing everything that comes with it, and then moving on to the next

[shy fog]

Phase 2 is basically "automate your power generator!"

[trim sable]

It's mostly about making the logistics of bringing resources to factories and finding the resources I need

[shy fog]

do a happy dance, then do more

[trim sable]

I'm on phase 3 now

Completed 2

[shrewd palm]

ahh

that is understandably overwhelming

[dim cradle]

phase 1 is about making you realize just how much you hate having to forage for plants, and to make you hate plants enough that you blow up every single tree you come across just because it exists

[trim sable]

I dissagree

[shy fog]

phase 3 is time for oil

[turbid merlin]

Or kill ever creature in a 100km radius for their parts

[trim sable]

I did those plants but I need to make the resources to continue

[shrewd palm]

if you dont mind a bit of guidance/spoilers the blue crater lake (east of grassy fields), and gold coast (south of rocky desert) in that order are the best places for early game oil i think

[trim sable]

The oil power

[dim cradle]

the creatures in this game are hateable enough to where they make me want to kill them like rhinos in Far Cry did

they all die even if they aren't in the way

[flat rain]

nice glad it worked out for you!

[shy fog]

sometimes the game derails into "murderhobo" and that's ok also

[shrewd palm]

blue crater has a ton of oil as well as a decent amount of iron and copper to get you going with things like computers and motors and stuff, as well as a bunch of coal nodes to set up coal gens for even more power

[shy fog]

the only wrong way to play is to not enjoy it

[trim sable]

I have gone to golden coast and have... done my math... and built a power plant with 3 overclocked fuel generators from one oil node

[shrewd palm]

nice

did you start in the grassy fields or somewhere else?

[trim sable]

Grassy fields

[trim sable]

I hate hatchers!

[shrewd palm]

you should definitely run off to the east a little ways to find the blue crater lake

[dense violet]

just crouch getting near them

[shrewd palm]

fun fact!
if you crouchwalk up to them they wont attack! even if you start whacking them!

[dim cradle]

I mostly hate spitters, can go through walls and have a knockback

[flat rain]

??? does that make them not spawn??!?!?!?!?!?

[trim sable]

WHAT!? REALLY!?

[dense violet]

not open

[shy fog]

... pretty sure that was fixed in 1.0...

[flat rain]

yeee thats what i meant by spawn, but holy crap i didnt know that lol. ty

[shrewd palm]

and you can also crouch while in the air and it gives the same stealth buff for some reason

[trim sable]

Hmm

[shrewd palm]

really useful if you just want to run around with a jetpack or something

[trim sable]

I do know how to crouch jump really well

[dim cradle]

Hmm... kind of meh about choosing the desert as my start tho

So drab...

[flat rain]

imo the only start place that sucks in grassy fields lol. so many impure nodes

[shrewd palm]

yes but who needs anything more than an impure for basic resources

[trim sable]

Lol

[shrewd palm]

and it also saves you from having to use a bunch of awful nodes for later builds

[dim cradle]

I will say that this place has a LOT of pure iron

[flat rain]

i just avoid that place altogether and ive beat the game lol

[shrewd palm]

i put my nuclear plant there and it kinds of sucks because i blocked off like half the nodes in the biome

more knowledge for this run tho ig

[dim cradle]

I think when my friend and I played about 3 years ago our nuclear plant was in some valley in the grasslands area

felt like some kind of nuclear mountain hideout lol

[trim sable]

Does anyone here play Rain World btw? I've been trying to build a HUGE factory that looks like the GIGANTIC iterator towers

[cunning glade]

For supercomputers and fmf how many is good for personal use?

[odd remnant]

Why is the lights so terrible?

It's crazy how low lighting it gives out

[sullen gull]

Probably the cave node behind the waterfall at the edge of the titan forest, start of the swamp.

[shrewd palm]

honestly probably somewhere around like 2-5 is good enough

[odd remnant]

Is there a way to fix it?

[shrewd palm]

it'll take a while for your storages to fill but once they are you dont really run out

fmfs and supercomputers arent really things you use a whole lot of

[cunning glade]

Prolly do 5 for both so I can sink the overflow

[shrewd palm]

turning on global illumination/lumen should fix it

[dim cradle]

Yeah I think so, I do think I remember us having to set up belts coming out of a cave mouth to get it, it was a pain.

[cunning glade]

Plus can sloop too double that for even more points

[shrewd palm]

also imo billboards are better lights than the ceiling lights

[odd remnant]

Hmm never though of that, going to do that to see what happens

[sullen gull]

Ahh, well I guess there are a couple in "caves" ..

[shrewd palm]

the smaller signes can work but they just dont give off enough light

[cunning glade]

I think the lights aren't that bad tbh but I play on ultra settings

[odd remnant]

I don't have the billboard lights

[dim cradle]

It seems like they removed some nodes too, I loaded the save just to look at it and there was a good caternium node near the beach where we had miners and smelters down that was just making nothing because the node was gone

[odd remnant]

When do you unlock them

[sullen gull]

Basically as they said, with a single industrial storage container+dd and you'll never run out.

[shrewd palm]

they removed/changed a bunch of nodes to rebalance the map in 1.0

[odd remnant]

I don't see that yet

[shrewd palm]

overall i think theres more but as you seem to have discovered theres a pretty good chance they messed up some pre 1.0 factories

[shrewd palm]

they're unlocked in the awesome shop

[odd remnant]

Ohh 😔

[shrewd palm]

you can make them whatever colour you want

and you can also change how bright they are with the illumination settings

[odd remnant]

Okay will check that out

[sullen gull]

Only down side is that the take Crystal Oscillators ... which some don't like making it seems lol

[shrewd palm]

its only on a scale of 0-3 but that should be mroe than enough

[shrewd palm]

honestly i feel like they're one of the first things most people run in to that are "annoying"

like they're not at all hard to but make i guess they just feel too complicated for what they do?

[sullen gull]

You can type greater numbers in the colour settings to achieve varied results as well I believe.

[shrewd palm]

yes

can also do that with concrete to get solid colours i think

i was messing around with it but could only get it to work with certain colours

[dim cradle]

I think mainly back in the day I remember setting up a whole line for them or a few of them and it was necessary for a few things, but not many things...

Which I think is the part that was kind of eh to me

[shrewd palm]

they're used mostly in alts and maybe some phase 4/5 recipes

and have a minor role in building (just billboards afaik)

[sullen gull]

Yeah, one one of the first manufacture recipes with low output for the input.

[sullen gull]

Heavy use in nuke plants.

Depending on how far ones goes with it of course.

[shrewd palm]

yes

mine was like 50.4/min or something

i think with the alt uranium fuel rods its 1:1 oscillators to rods

[sullen gull]

Lol, I think my current idea needs like 120? 😏

[shrewd palm]

are you the guy thats making the 10TW power plant or is that someone else

or are you just going for max uranium or something

[sullen gull]

No, just a giant RF (maybe ioniozed, just because) mixed with nuke. 84 fuel gens and 22 nuke plants per arm, 8 arms.

[shrewd palm]

ahh

gl!

[versed mesa]

👋

[cunning glade]

I made a like 360gw rocket fuel plant recently

30gw wasn't enough

[sullen gull]

#screenshots message

[dim cradle]

Wish I could even see what purity that alien stuff node is but there's a bunch of uranium near it lol

I remember you used to pick it up and it just had no use

[cunning glade]

Mine it

[sullen gull]

Trying to justify using 32 sloops for power shard production and then for alien matrix production 😏

[dim cradle]

I'm mining it but it's on a mk1 belt so...

I have no idea...

[shrewd palm]

thats gonna look sick once its done

[sullen gull]

Oh, nm, if I did that, I couldn't even build enough augmenters ... moot point

[versed mesa]

@sullen gull how many fuel gens you adding to that?

[sullen gull]

#satisfactory message

[versed mesa]

Damn 84 what all the way round

[sullen gull]

That's per arm heh. Erm, 678 in total if I recall?

[versed mesa]

Wtf

[sullen gull]

672*

Which works out perfect to 7k RF

[versed mesa]

Thats some fuel needed to be made

@sullen gull how many refiners?

@sullen gull thats some calculation great job

@sullen gull what would you make for your nukeclear gens ?

[sullen gull]

In total for the whole thing, not sure yet. Just for fuel, something like 44 refineries for HOR>TF and 22/23 blenders for RF.. Numbers are jumbled atm because i was drinking and playing around with going it Ionized 😏

[versed mesa]

Lmfao

[sullen gull]

It was something like 1.5TW unboosted or something I think.

[versed mesa]

Alot of power

[sullen gull]

I'm just merely building it for the design idea and not really careing on final output lol. Just trying to see what I can fit. Probably also going to burn the compacted coal in coal *gens too, for funsies 🤣

[versed mesa]

Lmfao

[shrewd palm]

because the 1.5TW of raw power clearly wont be enough

[versed mesa]

@sullen gull what would you maje your Nukeclear power factory look like ?

[sullen gull]

Haha, well, before I realize that I need to tailor my power shared production, I was looking at about 6.7~6.9TW boosted, with 9 augmenters 🤣

[shrewd palm]

good lord

you're gonna be making power matrixes to get that much right

[versed mesa]

Lol

[sullen gull]

Yeah, hence the powershard prodction 🙂

[shrewd palm]

i think if i didnt get burnt out of my main save i would have gotten something like 1.2TW with nuclear + augmenters

the plan was to make 630GW from nuclear and then give that a boost with like 3 power augmenters for a total of 90%

and i got done with the nuclear and augmenters before realizing the save was cooked and starting fresh

[versed mesa]

Am having a break from the game its kind of hard because I get things popping up with the game and hopefully there will be a day ill get an idea on what todo and build ect lol

Its been roughly 24s since I was last playing

[sullen gull]

Current design I am working with for Power shard plant: #screenshots message

[shrewd palm]

smallest modded blueprinter

looks almost like a tesla tower or something

[sullen gull]

Largest actually 😏

[versed mesa]

Looks great mate am jealous

[sullen gull]

Eh, wouldn't be, I'm not doing anything special, outside of a couple of mods 🤷‍♂️

[versed mesa]

Its still good ive got mids also installed got alot actually like over 60 intotal lol

I need them for variety

[sullen gull]

Lol, I had to count, I have a whopping 9 🤣

[versed mesa]

Lol

Still good number

1 mod adds extra mods

@sullen gull you using 48x48 printer ?

Lol

@sullen gull are you in creative mode?

[sullen gull]

For "prototyping" yeah.

[versed mesa]

Whats that

[sullen gull]

Having the ability to play around with different ideas with out any consequence to my main save. 🤷‍♂️

[versed mesa]

Hiw do you activate this ?

[sullen gull]

Create a new game/save and activate Advanced Game Settings at the bottom of the screen

[versed mesa]

Yeah i did try create new one but my controller will not navigate over to create a new game

[sullen gull]

Strange.

[versed mesa]

Yeah it is

The biomes on that page are faded

[sullen gull]

I've never used the controller outside of a bit of time on my steamdeck.

[sullen gull]

You have to hover over them lol

[versed mesa]

Controller is the goat much easier to use than keyboard

[versed mesa]

I can't even do this with my controller for some reason unknown

[sullen gull]

Heh, yeeeeeah, I would think that would not be a "winning" argument. Suffice to day, different strokes for different folks.

[versed mesa]

Exactly

@sullen gull like I did buy keyboard with touch pad but it feels weird to try play with keyboard so I say screw ill stick with my controller its only because there UI controller issue at the moment while mods is installed

[sullen gull]

Oooff.. Touch pad 😏

[versed mesa]

Tabs disappear

[versed mesa]

Yeah keyboard is nice

Its has back lit colours

I choosed Red back lit

[sullen gull]

Could've went "Ficsit Orange" 😏

[versed mesa]

Lol

@sullen gull Red is my favourite colour mainly

[shrewd palm]

red makes things go faster

so i guess that means you can type faster?

[versed mesa]

Go faster huh

No

Its just colour selection behind the keyboard buttons

I paid around 30 pounds off Amazon

[versed mesa]

Would not want it to go to fast lol

[small pebble]

Is there a way to mass change colors of everything without going machine by machine lol

[shrewd palm]

sort of

[sullen gull]

Only if you use one of the swatches.

[small pebble]

Oof

[shrewd palm]

if you have a swatch applied to a bunch of stuff, you can change that swatch and that change will apply to all things with that swatch

[shy fog]

don't forget the stripe. Red and stripe makes things go faster

[shrewd palm]

right

how could i forget

[shy fog]

Must have forgotten to open the windows on the space ship

[sullen gull]

I thought it was a black stripe and red flames?

[shy fog]

red things go faster, things with stripe go faster

[shrewd palm]

if you want whatever you're doing to be best it has to be green

[sullen gull]

Just paint everything with the Caterium swatch and be done with it 🤣

[shrewd palm]

maybe if you want it to explode bigger?

that might be a bit of stretch

[versed mesa]

Catch yous later am off back to sleep

[shrewd palm]

gn

[versed mesa]

3.32am here

Keep enjoying the game on my behalf while I am taking a time out

[leaden turret]

scim maybe?

[leaden turret]

red wunz go fasta

[shrewd palm]

He gets it

[charred sentinel]

Are there any cool tricks for building things underwater? I'm running a train line a ways up the west coast, and I want to use a stack of Big Frame Pillars as "pylons" to support the track beds. The only thing I can think of is make a blueprint and then nudge into place, but I wanted to check to see if there are other options/ideas.

[sullen gull]

Ladder(s)

You can climb down into the water on a ladder, and then build from the ladder.

[atomic olive]

argh, I thought I understood fluids. So it is often said that you should input into your machines from above, which makes sense. However what is far less talked about is how you handle your outputs. I've got diluted fuel blenders feeding into refineries for recycled rubber/plastic. Three blenders outputting 300 fuel into 10 refineries taking 300 fuel. The blenders will occasionally back up their output stalling production, meanwhile the refineries at the end of the manifold are starved. The nuance I'm suspicious of is that I have my output from the blenders going up slightly, so that the fuel can flow down into the refineries. (Screenshot in screenshots...)

[wicked nacelle]

Anything that ragdolls you into the water makes you walk underwater. Or is that not what you meant

[wicked nacelle]

My best solution is to do packaged diluted fuel and then it seems to be perfect every time. But lots of full belts kills your CPU 😕

[sullen gull]

Add a loop back. Or feed from the fuel into the R/P refineries from boths ends(and the middle, depending how many, basically distubute the flow)

Straight manifolds are not good for pipes, Should always try to get the fluid in a "loop"

[atomic olive]

I'll try adding a loop and seeing if it makes a difference.

[charred sentinel]

Next question - is there a way to get my UObject count in an un-modded game? I saw a mod called "UObject Counter", but I'd rather not mod my game if I can avoid it.

[leaden turret]

option 1:
-# 🪜 🌊
-# 🪜 🟦
-# 🪜 🟦
-# 🪜 🟦
-# 🪜 🟦
-# 🪜 🏃‍♀️

option 2:
-# 💨⬛🏃‍♀️
-# 🟩🌊🌊🌊
-# 🟫🟦🟦🟦
-# 🟫🟦🟦🟦
-# 🟫🟦🟦🟦
-# 🟫🟦🟦🟦

[charred sentinel]

Can't build when I'm rag-dolled, so that's not really a solution for me 🙂

[thorny glen]

can i load and unload from one train station reliably?

like the same platform doing in and out of two different items?s

[leaden turret]

I think the idea would be to ragdoll through the buoyant portion of the water and land upon the sea bed under the buoyant volume

[hallow solstice]

is the website down?

[leaden turret]

which website

there's many websites 😛

[hallow solstice]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com - thought it was the websites discord server here xD

[leaden turret]

anthor has their own discord server

[hallow solstice]

oh, thanks

[leaden turret]

I mean normally I would say "it's linked on scim's home page" buuuuut if the site is down, kinda can't do that 😅

[dense violet]

I have heard it was down yesterday, yes

[dense violet]

I believe platforms can only be set to load OR unload. But you can have multiple platforms per station

[leaden turret]

when they were up, they were up
and when they were down, they were down
The Grand Old Duke of SCIM

[thorny glen]

im just currently debating if running a train with 3 tanks is better than running 2 trains right now

[abstract heron]

Slowly working on the refeinrys

[leaden turret]

ah balls. community highlights archiver been blocked by reddit ¬_¬

[dense violet]

depends onthe set up honestly. Having fewer trains stopping at a station is generally easier

but really depends on exactly what you're doing

[rotund pier]

They should add furnitures to the game 🗣️

[leaden turret]

agree, but if you get creative you don't need to wait https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=furniture

[wary vessel]

guys i just upgraded my computer

im now on an oled

great googly moogly this game is so beautiful on an oled

[dim cradle]

Wait so you can't put bombs in dimensional storage for unlimited ammo?

Lame...

[hard ivy]

... you can?

[dim cradle]

I mean it's not reloading from it...

[hard ivy]

just take out a stack every now and then

[dim cradle]

I see so you just have to take it out manually?

I guess that's not horrible 🤔

[icy crest]

About that Biofuel generator automation post in #satisfactory-memes - even with belt input, isn't biofuel still only semi-automatable?
Cuz you don't have a non-manual supply of biofuel

[dim cradle]

This is weird, I have a case of disappearing crash site now...

I can see it from a distance but I get close and it's gone

[hard ivy]

Yeah, you have to gather either creature remains, leaves, wood or mycelia manually

[dim cradle]

Is that just a thing that happens?

Should I restart the game?

[hard ivy]

Blame LOD

[shy zenith]

how do I use signals for a 2 way 1 track?

[hard ivy]

The best idea would be to not do that

[shy zenith]

I want to

[white dawn]

It can be done for the single case of exactly two trains on the track; I'm not sure if it can be extended further

Something like: ```
B B
| |
/-----------
--------< >-------
-----------/
| |
B B

Those are the only four signals which can exist on the system

[shy zenith]

its a branch off a two way highway meant for one train........

[hard ivy]

Then good luck, because signalling bi-directional tracks correctly and efficiently requires decent knowledge of how signals work exactly. Unlike with duplex, there isn't really a set of rules you can follow and end up with a well-signalled system

[white dawn]

So the two trains will synchronize on that middle "passing lane" thing

[shy zenith]

I already figured it out, was easy