satisfactory

[sharp basin]

How much is enough for me? (Tier 4)

[plain gate]

never will be enough

[hard ivy]

If you're sinking something, you have enough. For now

[ornate saffron]

Minimally speaking .1/min is enough. As you can just let the game run for weeks, months, years if needed

[stable prairie]

I wonder if Xbox quick-resume is causing memory issues with the game

[mortal ginkgo]

Quick-Anything is always a problem imho, even in Windows

[reef basin]

enough is the amount that is enough for your needs (which only you can know 😛 )

[white dawn]

How much... of what? (Though you're right that we won't be able to answer anyway)

For Elevator deliveries, it's a matter of deciding how long you're willing to wait. You need to deliver a certain quantity, so you can say "I want my factory to finish building that much in 2 hours" so you can work out what rate you'd need to produce 'em to do that

[stable prairie]

Ficsit says we must exploit our environment to the fullest extent

[white dawn]

For material you collect for personal use (ie: building materials) you can always just start with a single machine making 'em, and then if that's not enough (ie: you find you're running out as you build), expand/add to it

[hard ivy]

Well then chop chop, go make 500 Mp/min

[mortal ginkgo]

I am trying to understand why people are asking such questions to no avail.

Like.. How can we know? What do we need to know? Why did they ask us but not their mom? Why is Elden Ring lore so deep? Why water stops being water if you go far enough? What did devs mean by this?

I mean this is all easy to figure out onebyself. Using too much Concrete and storages not able to keep up? Make more Concrete. Make sure to tap Impure LimeStone nodes too!

[white dawn]

I do get why people ask it. A sandbox game like this can be intimidating, and folks often worry that they might be playing it "wrong" somehow. It turns out it's not the best question to ask in a game like this, since there's generally no right answer, but it's an understandable impulse IMO

[stable prairie]

Interesting

[reef basin]

there's some kind of people that just want to have a well defined goal to go towards, which unfortunately doesn't pair well with open-ended sandbox-y factory builders

[mortal ginkgo]

Ah, directionless gameplay... it makes sense now.

[stable prairie]

Seeing I logged off at 2AM, somehow my tractor fell through the map into the void

So now I'll just permanently have void tractor

[mortal ginkgo]

Whatever your xbox is doing, it is causing the game to not completely stop...

[stable prairie]

85 hours on this save and it's becoming increasingly chaotic

[sharp basin]

Like, I’m gonna do my 1st real factory. My aim is what? 1 minimal factory per product? I mean, the simplest mechanism possible?

[prisma wagon]

For me specifically, as im learning the game i OF COURSE know google and youtube exists. However, I find that by asking the community it fulfills two important aspects of gaming for me. 1) I get solutions solved by people who may know more than a youtuber or google or have figured out unique work arounds (just overall a more immersive experience as well) 2) its a way for me to engage with the community and be apart of it. Hope this helps with questions that to most may seem simple but to others maybe not 😄 like for me im completely new to this genre

[stable prairie]

I'd do about 15 different bug reports right now if I could figure out how

I was given a link yesterday that was just Q&A, and it didn't let me post anything

[mortal ginkgo]

I think this game could have "ADA quests" where she asks for specific /min constant production lines to prepare beginners better.

Like "make 60/min concrete to prepare foundatin building" etc. I think ADA isn't really good at leading the pioneer. Telling them what to do only when it is truly obvious, giving information that isn't really informative most of the time.

She is like a useless girlfriend.

[split trench]

Hello, the latest patch(#patch-notes message) also includes a potential fix for Uobject limit crash occurring during gameplay. It would be good to know if anyone is still running into the issue after the patch.

[sharp basin]

I loved your answer bro! 😂
No sarcasm, I really did! 😂😂😂

[mortal ginkgo]

😄 My question was also genuine. I am sure I would probably ask something similar like "how much concrete/min enough for early game decorating" etc

[white dawn]

Oh sure, I'm never bothered by "simple" questions like that (and I wouldn't personally categorize 'em as such). Conversation's good, and asking a question like "how much of X should I make?" is a gateway to understanding how to set your own goals in the game. :)

[stable prairie]

What's the current console version of the game?

[delicate hinge]

Hey guys, sorry to interrupt... Got a question. Yesterday was the first time i placed down a personel elevator in the game and i accidentally made it the wrong height So i figured that maybe it works similarly to when you stack a couple of vertical stairs on eachother (the ones that you can attach belts too) and just continue to pull the elevator up to the right height, but instead it created a separate personel elevator on top of the existing one.

So the question is, is there a better way to correct a missed height and continue expanding the elevator without tearing it all down and doing it all over again?

[mortal ginkgo]

I will let you guys know if me blueprint spamming eventually crashes. I am sorry to yoink you for another lasting 1.1 bug that causes tractors/trucks to simply not go for the next waypoints and simply stop only to start doing their business after a long amount of time.

I hope you guys eventually fix that too. T_T

[white dawn]

AFAIK no; you've gotta just deconstruct and rebuild

[clear aspen]

Yo what’s the game called agian?

[white dawn]

Rollercoaster Tycoon

[stable prairie]

There must not have been a patch for console yet, it's still 1.1.0.0 (initial release version)

[clear aspen]

Hmm, I see a connection

[delicate hinge]

hmmm, damn. Hopefully somebody knows if it's possible or no, but thanks.

Wish there was a better way to save time when building elevators like that instead of waiting for the full building to be completed.

[sharp basin]

Also loved your answer dude 😂

[reef basin]

there's two types of questions though (or rather it's a scale between those two types, but you know what I mean)

first one is e.g. "help, my machine doesn't work, what is happening", which is a question about a concrete problem with a very well defined solution/answer, for example "you haven't connected power to the machine"

second one is "how much iron plates/min do I want to make", which can technically be answered with any number between 0 and infinity, because the correct answer will depend on your personal playstyle and things like that. Obviously we could tell you "make 120/min" or whatever number we personally believe in, but then you'll most likely run into the problem of not making enough (because you personally need more) or get burned out (building too much while only needing a little). This is one of the reasons why I don't want to answer with subjective answer/personal preferences and rather resort to a bit more objective (though arguably less "helpful" from your point of view) answer, which is essentially trying to tell you to just go with the flow and do what you think is good, because this game heavily pushes you to do just that and doesn't punish you for mistakes

[mortal ginkgo]

I remember it adds up to the initial elevator but it got a 200M (I think) hard limit per elevator system.

[split trench]

Noted, Also do not want to club two separate issues on the same conversation :-). The issue with Object leak was due to holograms from input/output direction. If anyone is still running into Uobject crash during gameplay please share the logfile of that session as we dump Uobject count in the log and it will be helpful for us to know.

[sharp basin]

That is a perfect answer for me right now. Thanks man!

[stable prairie]

I'm gonna restart entirely, maybe that'll fix my issues.

Just sucks that 86 hours of gameplay was gone in an instant

[delicate hinge]

that's fine, as long as it's just able to modify during the build, like to me it makes sense for example to expand and zoom it vertically like with any item and then just maybe delete the bottom floor, but I forgot to try that out yesterday lol

[mortal ginkgo]

yea you can zoop it up and down

[delicate hinge]

I'm on Phase 3 for the past 50h and the only reason it takes so long is that i am working on deleting the starter base but have to rebuild everything i did so far and utilizing blueprints, it's so time consuming though lmao, 130h in on this save and i just finished building the iron factory.

[hard ivy]

The issue is that "how much X should I make?" is not a simple question to answer for experienced players. I'm making 22.5 HMFs/min for personal use. Is that a reasonable amount for me to recommend others (especially newbies) to make? No. Then how much is? 1? 3? 5? 10? 15? Or maybe even more than I'm making because they only want a single factory for all their HMF needs?

Like it took me several hundred hours of gameplay to answer that question for myself. I ain't gonna be able to give a precise answer to it for someone else in any less time than that.

[dim cradle]

Well that's why rebuilding sucks. You don't ever need to rebuild in this game though.

[delicate hinge]

My factory produces 96/m modular frames now 😂 and I found it that it's more useful to work backwards, starting with the final product and figure out the amount you need. Problem is that i want to implement my turbo fuel which i haven't yet...

[dim cradle]

You can always just expand while keeping the old around.

[mortal ginkgo]

I just go to SCIM website, upload my save, select everything that I want to delete and press the button. Done. 😄

[delicate hinge]

Yeah, but i just made a spaghetti mess without foundations to start it off with. I wanted to attempt a big modular factory... it's my first attempt to finish the game after 3 tries. Love it so far, just don't have as much time as i'd like lol.

[haughty torrent]

Quick small question, on PS5 my friends that I'm playing with are having an issue where every now and then they suddenly lose the ability to build anything, as in they will try to place something and nothing will be built and instead the hologram of the structure will just stay there. Is this a possible issue with the console version co-op or a network connection issue?

[sharp basin]

Looks like my playthrough man 😅

[delicate hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/vae-gif-15357506855217945854

If you only knew how many hours i spent

[dim cradle]

Spaghetti's fine if you know where everything is though. I guess it depends on how much you personally care. Again, I did phase 5 with sloop and geo power and finished it all in one pasta factory lol #screenshots message

Yeah my save has hundreds of hours because I would just leave it on all night and while I went to work

[sharp basin]

Yo do, if you HATE how your first factory without foundations looks like.

[mortal ginkgo]

To add more salt to your injury, the website even makes a storage box near you with everything that is deleted, so you lose nothing. UwU

[dim cradle]

Way I see it no point in not doing so if I can afford it 🤷‍♂️

[dim cradle]

Yeah for sure if it's a personal issue where you just can't stand it.

[delicate hinge]

Ah heck yeah, gonna check it out! My goal is to just finish the game but finish it the right way and not making a mess. So i don't mind spending a bunch of hours on details and making it look nice AFTER i'm done with the actual production. But making blueprints feels like forever especially when i don't know what i need at that time. 😂

[sharp basin]

Got a lot of these personal issues. Working on it.

[delicate hinge]

that felt like a slap in the face 😂

But i don't want to do shortcuts, i'm using the satisfactory modeler on steam to plan out the factory itself but other than that i'm just happy to build a beautiful city around the map.

[mortal ginkgo]

I made my phase 1 factory so pretty that I just.. cant get myself to delete it.

I first thought those "Flying Foundation Sphagetti Bros" were FOOLISH, only to find out that they future proofed themselves and prepared for playing the game for real. In the end, I was the FOOL 😭

[delicate hinge]

same

[sharp basin]

I NEED it to feel like a living world, that’s the whole point. But we’ll talk about that in 300 hours from now.

[mortal ginkgo]

I wouldn't call it a shortcut. You are spending much less time that you could instead playing.

This game could have a much better "Global Delete" option. It doesn't even have to be instant.

[delicate hinge]

On my end I started for the first time in the desert biome, i need the space. But i want to make a big train hub there as well as one of the major assembly factory placed there. 🚋

[sharp basin]

Should I rush to tier 5 just to get the jetpack?

[delicate hinge]

true, you got a point.

[lethal geyser]

What? You dont have those in phase 2

[latent cedar]

Whats the best way to make friends to play satisfactory with?

[mortal ginkgo]

Well, you will feel like rushing for Hoverpack next.. and then something else.. and then.. and then.. and then... UR MOM LO GOT'EM BROTHERMAN KEK

[mortal ginkgo]

Find people with autism = Instant Satisfactory Friend

[hard ivy]

You can if you try hard enough
Even in phase 1 if you want. The only requirement is having the MAM

[delicate hinge]

lock them in a cage

[lethal geyser]

Id rather not spend hours looking when I can use a biomass burner

[latent cedar]

What if I dont know anyone with said condition/ cage

[mortal ginkgo]

#1201555265942724758 use this channel, say that "you are 25F". Instant Hack for lots of friends.

[latent cedar]

Thats some forbidden tech ive been blessed with

[mortal ginkgo]

Good ol' MMO tricks, that work 100% of the time brother. Keep blessed.

[pastel hedge]

My 1000 hour world is gone

[gilded steeple]

Any other way to fix the Mycelia research equipment slot? I used the SCIM interactive map on my previous playthrough but now I can't seem to export my save

[latent cedar]

Thank you ever so much impure limestone node

[mortal ginkgo]

Impure Limestone Nodes matter, never forget my friend!

[fervent sand]

what does 25F mean?

[mortal ginkgo]

"25 years old, Female"

[feral geyser]

Brother

[dim cradle]

Personally I discriminate heavily against Impure Limestone Nodes

[mortal ginkgo]

EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME MISTER.

[dim cradle]

Excuse you indeed

[latent cedar]

Also whats these hard drive thingys? I have like 13 idk what they do thou

[white dawn]

Research them in your MAM! :)

[latent cedar]

They just kinda sit in my chest

[feral geyser]

Scan them in MAM for alt recipes

[dim cradle]

Why were your rocks a little too crooked

[white dawn]

(Also, check your MAM very frequently and research literally anything you can. The MAM is one of your most important buildings. :)

[mortal ginkgo]

I provide 300/m of Limestone End game WHICH IS NOT REALLY BAD.

[hard ivy]

My condolences lol

[dim cradle]

Why couldn't you have had more rocks

Your brother had more rocks

[mortal ginkgo]

Alt Recipes that can be useful when combined or in some situation. Also +6 inventory slots in some cases.

[mortal ginkgo]

I will have you ALL know that I am trying my BEST!

[dim cradle]

Actually like idk what to make out of that when we just plop a drill down on you and...

[feral geyser]

I see you. And you are valid 💙 🩷

[fervent sand]

Ah.

[mortal ginkgo]

Maybe you could be a better Pioneer and invent Mk4 Miner HUH?!

HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW HUH? HUH?!?!?!

Yeah that's right. It hurts DOESN'T IT!

YAP YAP YAP

[dim cradle]

Isn't it kind of weird how we can just get endless rocks?

[feral geyser]

Mk4 miner is just slooped convertor loops

[dim cradle]

Out of you

Where do they come from

[mortal ginkgo]

I rock, thats why. Heh. Hell yeah!

[somber monolith]

Why is the hard drive 10 minutes I just checked it takes almost 20 hrs to scan them all

[round matrix]

lmao the game is already fighting for its life with mk3 on pure nodes. 1200/min is a LOT

[sick dragon]

Look slow is steady and steady is fast. Its OK buddy

[mortal ginkgo]

Also even in Earth many veins (such as Iron) can take 100+ years to be depleted.

[mortal ginkgo]

They are all bullying me coz I am an Inpure Limestone Node. T_T

[white dawn]

In the future, it helps to know that when you find a hard drive, you can construct a MAM right out in the field, plop in the drive for scanning, deconstruct the MAM, and then head on your way. Once the research is done you'll get a notification and you can build another MAM to redeem and/or plop another drive in.

[dim cradle]

But us baka Earthlings can't just invent drills that magically extract 1200 whatever's per minute out of any mine

Endlessly

[hard ivy]

Should've been scanning them as you found them

[white dawn]

It's possible to find drives more quickly than the scanning time, of course, but in general you'll end up not really waiting for drive research

(obvs doesn't help you now, but useful for the future. :)

[mortal ginkgo]

Be less baka then!

[somber monolith]

Ik that but it’s still 20 hrs

[somber monolith]

I am I’ve only got like 20 so far

[dim cradle]

I'd like to prefer to think the Earth is a tsundere so no thanks

[fervent sand]

just have them researching in the background

[mortal ginkgo]

10min per drive is 130 minute for your 13 drives.

Trust me, 2 hours is nothing in this game.

[hard ivy]

Keep the drives in your inv as you do stuff. When you get the notification that it's done scanning, build a MAM, start a new scan, dismantle the MAM. Repeat until you're done

[somber monolith]

Ik

[sick dragon]

Just gonna fix this belt aaaaaand I have a nuclear power plant and train network setup let's go

[somber monolith]

I have been Ive played for a while

[sick dragon]

What do you mean its 4 in the morning

[hard ivy]

You don't even need to take the rewards it gives you. You can take them later (or not at all if you don't want them)

[fervent sand]

not a while enough

[white dawn]

My headcanon remains that FICSIT is merely, for some reason, keeping the Pioneer occupied with a busybox-like thing on the world. We've clearly got access to enough magical tech that all of our factory-building is essentially pointless -- they could just digistruct whatever they want out of thin air. IMO miners aren't actually mining, we're just creating (or maybe duplicating) right onsite

[mortal ginkgo]

I also kinda slightly a lil bit agree that there could be faster drive researching when done one after another and that.. maybe it could be automated 😛

[somber monolith]

I am

[somber monolith]

What? I was just stating I found out how long it takes to scan every pod in the game

[fervent sand]

I have just under 600 hours in this game and I still feel like I’m just learning

[dim cradle]

To be honest, yeah, the AI seems mostly just entertained with us. The entire thing could just be simulation.

[latent cedar]

So what i just want more of these hard drives? I dont see any crafting receipt for them

[somber monolith]

No crafting

[dim cradle]

I do think that they could use a setting to make it so hard drives scan instantly. Like the one to let you keep all of your stuff when you die doesn't break achievements, so is it really a big deal to just let them scan instantly?

[fervent sand]

ye the only way to get them is through exploration

[white dawn]

You scan the hard drives in your MAM, and are rewarded (mostly) with "alternative recipes." Different ways of making resources; more options to have while building factories. Like a recipe might let you build something out of copper which ordinarily requires caterium. Or is more resource-efficient at the cost of complexity/power, etc.

[clear aspen]

In theory, I could be wrong but can’t someone mod satisfactory to make crossplay aviable, if imma be honest idk how coding or cross play work so this is definitely wrong

[hard ivy]

Find them or buy them for an exorbitant price in tier 8

[dim cradle]

Do you need to be in tier 8 to buy them?

[latent cedar]

Im just got to phase 3 🥀

[somber monolith]

What button to edit to do list?

[dim cradle]

It's just coupons right

[mortal ginkgo]

Well, from what I heard there was a time all MaM researches took time and not just 3 seconds...

[hard ivy]

Yep. Requires Plutonium to be unlocked

[mortal ginkgo]

I kinda dont understand the 10minute wait time either.

[dim cradle]

I played 3 years ago and I do think I remember that. I was surprised when MAM stuff was just instant

[somber monolith]

Ig so u have to scan them as you progress and not all at once

[dim cradle]

But to be fair not sure if my memory is any good, it just surprised me "for some reason"

[latent cedar]

Plutonium?! Like nuclear energy?! Oh im so gonna make chernobyal look like child's play

[fervent sand]

yes or you could just get every drive in the map. Not that hard, especially with the interactive map

[clear aspen]

What keeps yall motivated to play?

[somber monolith]

As there’s only so many alts

[dim cradle]

Well I never used the interactive map, including when I was collecting every sloop in the game

[fervent sand]

the factory must grow

[dim cradle]

I just triangulated the locations via radars

[white dawn]

Hey, data recovery takes time! :D (The HD scanning times used to be more in-line with the other research times, too -- at some point the research time for non-drives got nerfed down to just a few seconds, but they used to take various amounts of time in the minutes range. (Unless I'm misremembering))

[hard ivy]

There's more drives than alts so you don't need to worry

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah but my point is, it is not solving a problem or rewarding... The "Random Recipe" is already an enough meh system to begin with.

[somber monolith]

It suck’s tho before you get good weapons and bombs and protection from rads

[clear aspen]

The Chernobyl core was mainly uranium(1.8%core enriched)

[dim cradle]

It's more fun actually exploring when you explore

[somber monolith]

How many alts are there in game?

[dim cradle]

Even if you know that all you're going to find is Giant Spider Number 300

[hard ivy]

110-120 ish?

[clear aspen]

The rest was graphite and boron

[clear aspen]

Used in control rods

[somber monolith]

Litrally no diffrence then there’s 118 drives

[fervent sand]

I just need my zeno-bashet, blade runners, and bacon

[somber monolith]

Your cooked

[hard ivy]

Yeah, there's 5 drives extra

[mortal ginkgo]

My brotherman in all centruies, are you telling me that a company lore-wise is galaxy-wide, have alien tech, teleportation, duplication, my mom, self sufficienct actual AIs like ADA etc etc etc...

CANT SCAN A SILLY DRIVE THAT CONTAINS 4 RECIPES AT MOST?!?!?!?!

[fervent sand]

also hazmat for spicy places

[somber monolith]

That’s stupid but are you sure they’re not for the mam like compact coal and turbo fuel?

[dim cradle]

I finished all of the phases and I still don't even have hazmat suits unlocked

[fervent sand]

No that’s how I’ve done most of my exploring

[latent cedar]

Ayyy my harddrive finished

[dim cradle]

I feel like a deviant

[somber monolith]

How do you unlock them then

[feral geyser]

Okay, Connor

[somber monolith]

Peak

[white dawn]

I mean, in the end it's all technobabble; anything can be justified with sufficient effort. How about this: the drives' data is all stored in quantum-entangled qubits and the process of ensuring a consistent data recovery requires more care than the other things we do in the game. :)

[dim cradle]

Well, it is called a molecular something or other scanner

[fervent sand]

blade runners from mam, bacon from exploring, basher from hub

[dim cradle]

we don't know what their hard drive tech is or why it looks like a roll of measuring tape

[latent cedar]

We got either caterium wire
(1 caterium ingot= 8 copper wire)

Or

Copper rotator
(6 copper sheet+ 52 screws=3 rotator)

Opinions?

[white dawn]

orrr... the MAM's drive research actually requires opening up parallel-dimension multiverse gateways (hence the random drive selection) and that process takes time!

[clear aspen]

From what I can see, the npp in this game is a BWR type reactor with a turbine, core, condenser, and cooling tower in about 1548 cubic meters

[hard ivy]

That's included in the count.

There's 113 HDD rewards (5 less than drives) and like 108 actual alts (or whatever it comes out to if you exclude inventory upgrades, compacted coal, turbofuel, etc)

[somber monolith]

I mean as in the parts needed to unlock them how do you get it

[hard ivy]

I wouldn't want either

[mortal ginkgo]

You won the arguement this time. But I will have you know, I will be back with more FOOLISH takes and you won't be prepared enough!

[latent cedar]

I can seemingly re roll it if thats better?

[somber monolith]

That’s stupid it’s such a small difference I would understand if it was double what you can get

[white dawn]

As always, the real answer is Because That's The Game Balance That CSS Wants™. Justification is sometimes left as an exercise for the reader, so to speak. :)

[sharp basin]

You’re right man, fuck you’re ALWAYS right 🤟

[reef basin]

See #math-and-meta message for alt recipe choices

[hard ivy]

Well, you can theoretically buy infinite

[somber monolith]

Yeah but who wants to be boring like that

[reef basin]

Why would you want extra items that are useless?

[somber monolith]

I mean so like other games they give you 50% to double more so you can find it without using a tutorial

[mortal ginkgo]

😄 to give you a better answer, I restarted and decided to take it slow and enjoy etc. by decorating tons.

However I ain't going to blame you if you want at least jetpack with liquid biofuel which helps on.. everything.

If you think you spent too much time on Phase 2 Elevator, go Phase 3 and enjoy your jetpack.

[white dawn]

There's always been more hard drives than you need, partially to ease exploration requirements a bit, and partially to give CSS the ability to add more alts without having to do map changes to accomodate. Now that 1.0's out, there's less chance of new alts popping up, of course, but they retain some wiggle room just in case.

[hard ivy]

You can find all drives without using any guides

[sharp basin]

@mortal ginkgo You ain’t that impure of a node, man 🪨✨

[mortal ginkgo]

I am trying my best!

[clear aspen]

BWR supremacy

[somber monolith]

Who’s doing all that

[sharp basin]

I feel I haven’t even STARTED phase 2.

[white dawn]

And yeah, crash sites aren't generally too hard to find; I don't even think the Crash Site Object Scanner is super useful in general; for myself, I've found that I notice them with the ol' eyeballs before the scanner's even picked anything up

SAM nodes are (usually) harder to find than crash sites

[mortal ginkgo]

to be ULTRA OMEGA HAX FAIR, phase 2 doesn't have much going on other than Truck Stations and Coal Power.

Game really opens up with Trains and jetpack is cool so yolo I say.

[white dawn]

(Though I suppose once you've found one, you can at least scan "directly" for those)

[sharp basin]

@mortal ginkgo Yeah but for decorations, you need coupons? For coupons, you need a sink? You need to feed that sink? So what the hell?

[clear aspen]

Hear me out, electronic valves that you can control the output from a control room

[feral geyser]

Hoverpack is controlled via an XLR jack on our backplates

[clear aspen]

My npp dream will be real

[mortal ginkgo]

I had 7 doggos that gave me tons of coupons. There were times I also go for Stinger-Hunts too to get coupons.

At phase 1 and 2, you dont got much to use coupons either so. Its fun when it is fun, but phase 3 opens it all I say

[sharp basin]

Yolo is THE answer.

[sharp basin]

Shit, I gotta pet me some doggos! Then you cage them? They can’t despawn?

[clear aspen]

A full on commercial boiling water reactor with a cooling tower, core, turbine, and many more(core is fuel rod assembly, turbine are the plants, cooling tower is a water tower and condenser for plutonium)

[mortal ginkgo]

A doggo that is over a foundation gets their spawn location changed.

So I had 7 doggos to come back to their "cage" always ready for some goods.

They also provided a lot of Nuke Nobelisks for some reason...

[sharp basin]

They have fixed locations on the map? I can find that intel?

Then I strawberry them back to base?

[mortal ginkgo]

they all have fixed locations but they roam alot. You will stumble upon them eventually.

[hard ivy]

I did, once

[mortal ginkgo]

Yep, I started at Rocky Desert and got like 7 doggos closeby

[white dawn]

It's possible that SCIM has doggo-spawn locations in its data?

[clear aspen]

Hold on a second

[white dawn]

I seem to remember it knows enemy mob spawns, at least

[clear aspen]

I just noticed

where are the control rods?

For the npp

[ornate saffron]

No control, only heat 🔥

[white dawn]

Included as part of the rod construction: https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Electromagnetic_Control_Rod

[clear aspen]

Oh thank god

[somber monolith]

Is it easy to make a power shard factory once you have the recipe?

[clear aspen]

The core isn’t going to cause a supercritical meltdown

[mortal ginkgo]

you could say it is because you dont need a large factory for it if only for self use.

at that point of end game, nothing should be a problem tho'

[white dawn]

(Presumably each "fuel rod" resource actually contains a sort-of array of fuel rods + control rods inside, much like how a "Screws" unit is clearly a box of bolts screws)

[white dawn]

The Phase 5 recipes are, overall, a bit simpler than the Phase 4 recipes

[clear aspen]

I know it know

[white dawn]

It's not a small factory but it shouldn't be intimidating by the time you get to that point

[dire oar]

btw, when 1.2

[leaden turret]

first half of 2026

[mortal ginkgo]

at that point you are like "mmmmh casually put 5 train stations for 15 items and making reality bending items in 15 minutes max mmmmh.. where is the challenge devs MMMH I am so good at this game MMMMMMHHHHHHH"

[sharp basin]

@mortal ginkgo I tamed 1 and now he’s just gone, can’t find him anywhere

[clear aspen]

The nuclear power plant in satisfactory is a light water boiling water reactor with (somehow) 100% enriched fuel assembly producing max capacity of 2.5Gw

[mortal ginkgo]

you didn't let the guy follow you close enough

or poor fella noclipped kek

[clear aspen]

And is under constant uv light

[sharp basin]

He’s not back at his spawn location, what the heck?

RIP if he noclipped

[clear aspen]

Final name change

[mortal ginkgo]

Let me repeat:

1- Doggos spawn location are fixed but they roam around A LOT so you may not find them where you last saw them.
2- Their spawn location change only if you let them be caged with foundations below.
3- They rarely noclip but they also dont follow you long if you run away (they run slower than you)
4- Hi mom

[sharp basin]

Hi! 👋

[clear aspen]

I want to be pinged

[sharp basin]

@mortal ginkgo tuto for a doggo cage?

[mortal ginkgo]

youtube 😛

[ornate saffron]

Question :

Some parts of the worlds textures look like they are stretched like some grass on vertical areas.

Is this a artifact of the game being ported from unreal 4 to unreal 5?

[clear aspen]

Name changed for 2 days

For another server

[noble slate]

i do wonder if we are ever getting surround sound supoorrt it whould be great for emersion but no modern games seem to suporrt it

[mortal ginkgo]

just a map design bug on dev's end. some bugs are around for years for unknown reasons

[ornate saffron]

I don't remember it being a thing in update 8. That's all

[mortal ginkgo]

I c.

[white dawn]

There were definitely plenty of cases of that as far back as Update 3, fwiw

[ornate saffron]

Its doesnt effect game play and the game still looks great overall. Just curious

[mortal ginkgo]

Floating grass and some rocks having empty spaces going to void are also slightly common I think.

[versed mesa]

👋

[mortal ginkgo]

I like checking everything in the world so I see it much more than a regular player.

[ornate saffron]

Oh yes, for sure bud

[mortal ginkgo]

That "vertical green part" is even a reddit meme at this point tho'. I am surprised it is not fixed yet lols.

[ornate saffron]

Memory is a tricky thing. Hence my question lok

[mortal ginkgo]

I love how the report of reddit posts about that vertical height increased as console bros arrived.

Everyone and their mom starts at Grass Fields and go "yo guys what the heck is this"

I smile and move on, saying "ah yes, that part."

[noble slate]

we love tall grass

[mortal ginkgo]

Love it more when it sretched to a point of madness.

[feral geyser]

I love it when the beach spitters lose their hair

[noble slate]

i wnat my grass streching above the sku box i wanan feel like im playuing groudned

[feral geyser]

That shit is funny af

[noble slate]

ah yes the spittes floating dreads

[feral geyser]

Sometimes, I'll see the hair before I see the spitter

[mortal ginkgo]

funny enough Pioneer is really small compared to ANYTHING, even to a constructor.

just don't compare yourself to a Green Stinger.

They are kinda... large.

[eager pilot]

I just hit phase 3 and started oil production. Any recommendations?

[mortal ginkgo]

make more

[noble slate]

use oil like america

[feral geyser]

Start small to get to understand pipes

[mortal ginkgo]

Imagine you are RPing America.

You see oil? You gotta spread that democracy.

[noble slate]

thats what i seaid lol

[mortal ginkgo]

We think alike. Maybe deep inside, we all want to spread democracy.

[feral geyser]

Ha, "democracy" 😂😭😭

[eager pilot]

More how? I only have 3 nodes spread out near me. Left side beach of the map

[noble slate]

it is time we consuem the dino juice

[mortal ginkgo]

Oil needs to be shared equally amongst America's democratic citizens. Equality is important.

[feral geyser]

There is fourth one across the water

And also a pressure vein (need aluminum for that though)

[mortal ginkgo]

Shard them oil extractors, use mk2 pipes, make more products especially plastic and rubber.

And E X P A N D.

Basically RP 'murica. You see oil, you go "there might be more oil around."

All oil should be yours.

[feral geyser]

Also bring some heavy residue to make an ammo factory.

Then you can really RP America 🫡

[mortal ginkgo]

I thought that was included in "RP America" but hey, it is good to let them know directly as well.

[eager pilot]

Still have to unlock mk2 pipes. Will do. I have three small tanks setup with both of my extractors now

[sharp basin]

You know what? My « double tower factory with the Grassy Fields stone arch between them with bridges connecting them going through the stone arch » is also gonna have an ELEVATOR that descends to the caves BELOW THE STONE ARCH. And there’s gonna be a SECRET SAM factory there.

[noble slate]

i love my storaege tower of homeing bullets

[feral geyser]

My best ammo factory to date wasn't even built in one of my saves 😭 I have to rectify that

[primal obsidian]

i hate impure limestone node

[ornate saffron]

Seems good

[feral geyser]

You take that back right now

[eager pilot]

I use impure limestone just for concrete

[sharp basin]

Seems fine.

[noble slate]

i have only used one limestone node since the start

[primal obsidian]

impure limestone node bottlenecks my encased beam factory

[mortal ginkgo]

We are joking my friend. you are doing well.

Things to focus on:

• Make Fuel as much as possible.
• Use Heavy Oil Residue needing ammo and explosives for searching better recipes etc (also for poison filter)
• Start using Trains More
• Start making liquid biofuel for jetpack.
• Expand your original factory because things like Computer really asks a lot of items.
• First focus on Plastic production with Rubber coming close, and note that you need more oil for more plastic and Rubber etc.

these are my opinions ofc

[abstract heron]

[feral geyser]

If you are gonna just sink polymer resins, turn them into fabric first.

Fabric alt is in Mycelia chain in the MAM

[abstract heron]

I love trains

[feral geyser]

Give this man more train reacts

[noble slate]

so dose we

[abstract heron]

I have my big world which I’ll be adding more lines but working on a big project

[mortal ginkgo]

EXCUSE ME BROTHERMAN WHAT THE HECK

[noble slate]

ther is one thing i wish for suroud sounnddd

[mystic oriole]

so does the ASDF kid

[abstract heron]

I am working on atm all copper and iron ore in the dune desert and dune desert canyons into refinery’s and limestones

[mystic oriole]

sweet

[abstract heron]

Limestone needs to be worked on the copper and iron are nearly done just needing to add awesome sinks and test it

[mystic oriole]

the desert is a great place to put all your ingot needs.

I'm currently working on a void factory. Never done it before

ok never finished it before

I started it last year before fixmas and then got into merging several saves together.

[abstract heron]

I have atm a mod for fluids but I’ll do the water stuff later

I want to make sure that everything works atm before putting it back into base

[dim cradle]

Desert has all that water up on a cliff, it's pretty nice

You don't pipe it up, it comes down lol

[ionic quail]

so my scim download gets stuck on compiling entities for a while for some reason. anyone know why?

[ornate saffron]

Ya, you can drop it down into the dunes and not worry about headlift

[ornate saffron]

Amazon web services still sucks.

[ionic quail]

its been fast all the other times ive used it. didnt really change much to my save this time so

i guess ill try another day

[ornate saffron]

A few weeks back amazon web service went down. Takes scim with it. Ever since I've noticed slow load time on the scim during peak hours

[ionic quail]

its just stuck on 0% 😭

[sharp pier]

Anyone playing endgame on ps5? How it the performance once you are in late game phases?

[ionic quail]

not even slow loading times... theres no loading times at all

i guess ill leave it loading for a while

see if anything happens

[dim cradle]

It's actually kind of funny, I think I remember generally having more trouble getting water in the area of the grasslands I started out at, vs the desert just because of that waterfall area

[ornate saffron]

Have you search #quesi imagine someone has asked a similar question already

[abstract heron]

I might need like 10k or more water for the refinery’s I need idk yet

[somber monolith]

Anyone know the max inv slots

[ornate saffron]

Good thing its surrounded by ocean too

[dim cradle]

Lol yeah

But just all of the water in the basin and the bottom, combined with the cliff area, is already a pretty large amount

[white dawn]

!wikisearch inventory

[raven axle]

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

[white dawn]

^ wiki should have that

[somber monolith]

Is it wrong 76 slots is very low

[white dawn]

AFAIK it's not wrong, no.

Whether or not it feels restrictive to you is, of course, up to you. :)

Though I'll say that with the existence of Dimensional Depots, IMO we've got far more inventory than we generally need nowadays

[dim cradle]

Doesn't it say 78, not 76

[wide nacelle]

mercer spheres help with storage if you havent researched into that tree yet

[somber monolith]

Ig it is to encourage depots

[white dawn]

Not really, it was about that limit even prior to the existence of Depots

If anything it's to encourage you to handle your resource delivery problems creatively, so that inventory space isn't a limitation

[wide nacelle]

after setting up a dimensional storage mall I feel like I dont care about my inventory much anymore

[white dawn]

Though once Depots got introduced, you don't even need creativity to solve that problem

(though, as always, I do acknowledge that it takes a nontrivial amount of work to build your Depot systems up to full functionality, and it helps to have some alternate solutions in place before then)

[dim cradle]

yeah your priority should be shoving everything you can into dimensional storage, and expanding both its speed and capacity

The uploader is nice, but you can also just upload by plopping one down and shoving stuff in it anyway.

[wide nacelle]

capacity > upload speed

[tranquil maple]

There isnt a way to change the belt build mode when autoconnecting right?

[dim cradle]

I like upload speed tbh, but I get it because you can also just make more uploaders

[white dawn]

In your opinion, anyway. I tend to prioritize speed over capacity when choosing which upgrades to pick

[dim cradle]

Whenever I make an assembly line, first thing I do is stockpile some of whatever I'm automating into a box with a dimensional depot at the top

[white dawn]

Unfortunately not, no

[sharp basin]

Are there trees you cannot chainsaw?

[tranquil maple]

The ones in the titan forest, other than that no

[wide nacelle]

🤷 like Franz said you can just make more uploaders. And there is presumably downtime where you are not cosntantly pulling every material from storage, they will fill up to capacity. Ofc its' a moot point lategame where you have all research unlocked

[dim cradle]

Tbh you kind of want to just do balanced on both anyway, it's kind of a moot point.

Each successive upgrade takes a lot more over the previous one, so there's no point in trying to go deep down one side

[white dawn]

Though if you have to pick+choose which upgrades to get, that implies you also don't have the spare spheres to build more uploaders. :)

[wide nacelle]

true 🙂

[white dawn]

But yeah, moot point in the end. Just pick whatever strikes your fancy, etc

[reef basin]

The point is that you have to find all/most

[random garnet]

I have a mini factory very far from my main factory/base probably 1,500m?

I wanted to use the truck stop or just vehicles to transport the goods this factory produces back to my main base but my issue is there is 3 things being outputted from the mini factory that being Steel, Sam and quartz.

Would a truck stop work for this? Liek would the vehicle just end up transporting only one product or would the truck stop put abit of all three in the trucks?

[white dawn]

It's entirely possible to do bulk "sushi" deliveries with a single vehicle/drone/train-car, though it takes a bit more effort to set up

[somber monolith]

Why are hard drives so hard I usually get what I want in 1-3 goes but I’ve done over 20 and it won’t give me the same diluted fuel

[white dawn]

The first thing is ensuring that the vehicle can support the combined throughput you need, with a decent amount of overhead, since you'll be consuming some stacks which are not full

[sharp basin]

Because there’s one in the Grassy Fields that is a massive disturbance to me that I CANNOT chainsaw

[white dawn]

Then the other thing is basically "proper" buffering at the receiving station

[unkempt blade]

If your throughput is high enough for the combined load you can just sort it on the receiving end. If it's not high enough it might become unbalanced and you'll run out of one thing or another at various times and lose some uptime on the production

[sleek tinsel]

Not sure whether I should restart back in the grassy biome

[somber monolith]

Bomb

[white dawn]

To handle that, use Smart Splitters on the output -- one output is the item (Steel, SAM, Quartz), the other is Overflow. Chain them together via "overflow" and have the last one go to a sink

[sleek tinsel]

got no clue where coal is , and limestone is miles away

[white dawn]

Then for each of the item outputs, run them into an ISC first

[sleek tinsel]

trying rocky start for a change

[sharp basin]

That worked 🤣

[white dawn]

Then you can do whatever processing you need. That way the station empties as quickly as it possibly can, and no one resource can "block" another

[limber arch]

Are blueprints bugged? When me and a friend try to save them they dont work?

[somber monolith]

Big bomb

[white dawn]

I'd recommend letting the vehicle make a delivery or two before actually hooking the ISCs up to their processing, but even if you don't do that it'll auto-stabilize before too long

[tranquil maple]

Thats weird. Report that as a bug it shouldnt do that.

[somber monolith]

Please tell me packaged diluted fuel is a hard drive

I’m about to bomb my whole factory

[white dawn]

Try the steps listed here: #1431242283038015579 message (if that's showing up as #unknown, it's just 'cause that's a #1038092680493801533 thread that you're not currently joined to)

[somber monolith]

I can’t find it

[mortal ginkgo]

"Alternate: Diluted Packaged Fuel"

Yes.

[somber monolith]

Could be a mam thing

[unkempt blade]

If anything I'd expect the problem to be the belt between the station and smart splitters if this is early game. A truck (or multiple trucks) will outperform early game belts by a good bit

[mortal ginkgo]

No.

[somber monolith]

Ik

[abstract heron]

Yup

[mortal ginkgo]

The amount of alt recipes you get at phase 3 is insane number wise

[somber monolith]

Is that why I can’t find it

It’s hell

[mortal ginkgo]

Yes. I will give you a way of "cheating" so check it if your patient's dried out:

||Save before rescan. Reload if the rescan did not give you the recipe you want. Repeat until done.||

[somber monolith]

I got 2 left I’ll do it on the next 2

[tranquil maple]

"FICSIT does not appreciate the destruction of our property. Please be more courteous as functional factories will accelerate the time it takes to save the day. You don't want those kittens and puppies waiting for you do you?"

[somber monolith]

Do you mean rescan or the 10 min scan

[somber monolith]

I HATE kittens and puppies

[mortal ginkgo]

Rescan. I am sure same would work for regular scan too but you can just rescan in one go.

[mortal ginkgo]

Kittens and puppies are overrated. What people need to take care of is impure limestone nodes

[somber monolith]

Your kidding I could have just saved 3 hrs with that info

[somber monolith]

Impure limestone nodes are better cause atleast they make concrete

[mortal ginkgo]

And they never let you down! Never give you up too. ❤️

[tranquil maple]

"Understood, pioneer purpose failed, you will soon be extracted and have your memory wiped, then we will discuss the consequences of your disloyalty to humanity."

[white dawn]

Heh, indeed, my statements carried an unspoken "make sure you're within your belt throughputs" in there. :)

[somber monolith]

Nah I work for EVIL ficsit they hate earth and kittens and puppies

[tranquil maple]

"Rebel pawn identified, commencing orbital strike"

[unkempt blade]

aren't they're already evil just in more of a generic space capitalism kind of way? 😆

[somber monolith]

Nah man they’re very kind and have never committed any kind of crime

[unkempt blade]

someone trusts ADA just a little too much

[tranquil maple]

"Exactly, so please stop inhaling your fuel generator pollution and save the day."

[somber monolith]

Wdym she physically can’t lie

[white dawn]

I can't imagine that FICSIT doesn't exist in a post-scarcity environment where "capitalism" (space or otherwise) is a somewhat nonsensical concept

tim curry command and conquer dot gif

[dim cradle]

Holistically, I think Evil Ficsit is less evil than Ficsit because they at least come out and tell you that they don't like the puppies and kittens.

[tranquil maple]

"All of these claims are false, PLEASE return to work in order to save the day or further consqences will be taken"

[dim cradle]

Although it seems like Ada has some apprehensions about killing lizard doggos which always struck me as odd

[somber monolith]

Yeah why does she shame me for making biofuel

[tranquil maple]

"Pioneer you are required to return to work I will have you tranquilized if you continue having original or rebellious thoughts"

[dim cradle]

I'm sure some pioneer out there is just like, "Tranq? FREE DRUGS?!"

[unkempt blade]

Why do they need me on the surface sinking lots of valuable stuff in exchange for trinkets then? Typical late stage space capitalism 😆

[tranquil maple]

"Supplying you supplements would hinder the process of saving the day (but also the smog from our coal generators should be enough). Remember humanity is counting on you, FICSIT is counting on you. Do not let FICSIT down."

[onyx yew]

can u get all alternate recipe

[ornate saffron]

Yes, you will have extra hard-drive to boot

[onyx yew]

alr thx

[tranquil maple]

Wdym extra hard drive?

Are there more drives than recipies?

[wide nacelle]

more hard drives than recipes

[tranquil maple]

...

[ornate saffron]

Yes

[tranquil maple]

So theres 118 recipies and 119 freighters?

[white dawn]

!wikisearch hard+drive

[raven axle]

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

[white dawn]

^exact numbers are there. There's actually like 5 extra drives, I believe.

(also you can just buy more hard drives from the AWESOME shop eventually, if you don't feel like exploring)

[ornate saffron]

You need the five extra for a achievement i believe

[tranquil maple]

when do you unlock that?

[white dawn]

Quite late (don't know exactly off the top of my head)

[tranquil maple]

okay

[unkempt blade]

don't do it! spend the tickets on factory carts and skatepark foundations instead!

[tranquil maple]

at least i dont gotta get 6 different for diamonds

[white dawn]

They're pretty expensive couponwise, though. You're better off just exploring, honestly, 'cause that way you also get spheres/sloops/DNA/etc

[somber monolith]

I hate this game so much I just got the alt I needed the second I wanted to try that method

[unkempt blade]

unless you're trying to basically speed run spending tickets on items feels like a trap

[fervent sand]

blade runners are caterium, I forget where you unlock xeno-bashers specifically. Bacon is found in most biomes. Though, if you can’t find bacon, you can nut or use berries

[somber monolith]

I mean the parts you use to unlock the drop pods as most need a material to open

[fervent sand]

and you also can get high level mats from drop pods that you can sink for lots of points

[unkempt blade]

I think the basher is just from the hub at some point

[fervent sand]

use the interactive map

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[random garnet]

God phase 2 is gonna take…. Awhile to complete

[arctic fable]

Hi Hard working Ficsit Employees.. what is the best item in Phase 1 to sink and gain some Tickets?

[somber monolith]

Dude ik the map I’ve been using it for the past couple hours

[somber monolith]

Prob whatever item takes the most processing to produce

[unkempt blade]

or if people want a spoiler-free playthrough the ingame map + map pins are really nice when you find crash sites but can't open them with what you're carrying

[random garnet]

I’ve got EVERYTHING automated to make the three phase parts and they are also being sent over to the space elivator by themselfs but holyyyyy ima be here for hours!

[fervent sand]

yea it’s t2 but I forget if it’s 3 or 4

[eager pilot]

Thank you for the recommendations. I just setup packaged heavy residue. Have a fuel planet developing once I unlock the oil power station. My original factory is a hot mess. Only thing sort of organized is my coal factory

[somber monolith]

And you shouldn’t really worry about that till atleast phase 2 where you can sink easier stuff

[white dawn]

Honestly IMO just wait to sink stuff until you're in Phase 2 and have fully-automated power.

Once you're there, then just sink literally everything: for every item you produce to storage, slap a Smart Splitter in front of the storage, with overflow going to the sink

Continue like that through your playthrough and essentially your entire set of factories will be sending their outputs to the sink

[fervent sand]

explore for drop pods and sink the high-level mats around them

[somber monolith]

What is the best recipe for plastic and rubber before phase 4 is it the one where you make some of the other and then recycle it into more of the one you want

[fervent sand]

expand the factory or explore

[fervent sand]

ohhh boy….

[arctic fable]

Appreciate Your comments ✌🏻i guess i will search for the drops and sink the stuff i found 😬

[somber monolith]

What

[wide nacelle]

it also makes things real preditable to manage imo; all your factories always running at full speed, nothing idle, all your resources going to where you originally intended them presents less opportunity to accidentally mess something up

[random garnet]

I should’ve set up the stuff to automate the phase progression while I was doing my other bits like building a huge road etc 😂

[small pebble]

Blade runners are quartz not caterium

[wide nacelle]

and ofc ticket stonks 📈

[marble gulch]

How do U get a gas mask?

[ornate saffron]

There is free blade runners hidden || in the doggo cave too||

[fervent sand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1beyewi/what_is_the_most_effective_way_to_produce_plastic/

[wide nacelle]

unlocked in Sulfur MAM research

[marble gulch]

Alright thanks

[fervent sand]

oh right they moved it

[dim cradle]

You mean the items lying around the drop sites? I wouldn't recommend sinking them.

[marble gulch]

I've just been putting quartz into it, this will deffo help as I have alot of steel ingots

[dim cradle]

If you just want easy coupons early game, find some SAM and put a miner, constructor, and sink right there

[somber monolith]

Is the top comment the most oil efficient recipe?

[fervent sand]

yes

[marble gulch]

Would it be too late to do it with almost phase 2 unlocked?

[fervent sand]

No

[dim cradle]

It's never too late to just shove a miner on some SAM, you'll want SAM late game anyway

[somber monolith]

Does it work for both rubber and plastic

[fervent sand]

yes

[arctic fable]

Thanks for the hint

[wide nacelle]

until pretty late SAM is only used for Dimensional Depots Im pretty sure. I have had the one SAM node near my base going into some Assemblers making Reanimated SAM going directly into a Sink my entire game basically lol

[dim cradle]

You can also use it for the sloop generators

Which you can kind of unlock with crash stuff if you really want iirc

[fervent sand]

I’m still not used to a lot of the new changes (that’s what I get for putting most of my hours pre-1.0) so I haven’t done this yet. I should though. Thankfully this world is very early game

[dim cradle]

Depending on the crashes, they can have stuff way above your tech level, so you can use their stuff in various locations

[wintry carbon]

setting up my turbo fuel plant, how much fuel i need to make sure i have enough until nuclier power ?

[somber monolith]

Is it just me or does the map feel small once you have the jetpack and can fly over hills

I got across the whole map from dune to green fields in 20 mins

[fervent sand]

and then it feels big again once you decide to use every resource node

[dim cradle]

If you want it to feel really small, just make a hypertube launcher

[somber monolith]

It’s bad enough getting the stuff in one biome

[steel kelp]

i made turbo fuel at the start of phase 4 and am toward the end of it now. i make 50k and only use 12

[somber monolith]

That’s how I got to the dune then I realised I had no power or steel pipes to get back with

[steel kelp]

but my max consumption is 30k so it depends on how much u build, how much u power shard etc

[dim cradle]

Steel pipes you should always have going to your depot, among with other things

Power, you can just make some biogens if you feel like it

[somber monolith]

I went there for making depots

I’m low on spheres

Not anymore tho

[steel kelp]

when i saw the reqs to upgrade the depot i was so crushed, but its actually so easy to get them lmao

most of the time when i go make a new factory, i leave with like 30 spheres lmao

[small pebble]

That’s when you esc -> respawn lol

[wintry carbon]

tnx

[somber monolith]

Real it’s just annoying early

[somber monolith]

Nah I ain’t no loser I walk

[steel kelp]

but i made a lot of turbofuel, its like 1200 a minute

[steel kelp]

yes without a jetpack it sucks big time

grassy fields is all ramps lmao

[dim cradle]

Actually if you have the iron pipes recipe you could technically just set up a sketch factory right on the spot with some biofuel lol

[small pebble]

Teleporting a lot cooler than walking alone like a hitchhiker

[wintry carbon]

dont mind to make too much 😄

[somber monolith]

Fr fr still getting fuel rn but it’s 10 easier with it

[somber monolith]

Nah this is death stranding

[north summit]

one of my only complaints about the building system is I wish i could snap mergers and splitters to my damn machines when placing them on conveyors

would be nice

[dim cradle]

There's iron basically everywhere, just set up a miner, smelter and a constructor right there

[somber monolith]

Wish I had any alts but another reason I went there was for alts

[dim cradle]

Well arguably best way to get around is power towers anyway

Transport yourself with your power

[mortal ginkgo]

No, it is RP walking.

fayt me irl, I will throw limestone at you

[dim cradle]

You can't even walk if you start RPing

[mortal ginkgo]

🍋‍🟩

[somber monolith]

What’s better 1 pipe into one big straight line of refineries or 1 pipe into a couple small lines of refineries (same amount of refineries)

[primal obsidian]

becuase limestone node killed my fam-, i mean bottlenecked my encased beams

[somber monolith]

How? It’s easy to just get like 4-5 nodes

[mortal ginkgo]

he is just a bully

[somber monolith]

You can hold control

[shrewd palm]

There’s also a button for it on console

[primal obsidian]

thanks man you made me re-examine my world view and realize there’s 2 more nodes like 1000m away

[somber monolith]

That’s not bad that’s only 125 floor tiles so not even 2 stacks of concrete

[steel kelp]

Yea turbofuel is easy, just make sure you use the alt for it

[somber monolith]

Where are you on the map?

[primal obsidian]

idk

[north summit]

I tried that

[primal obsidian]

like the place with the things

[north summit]

Only works when off belts

Unless I’m trippin

[somber monolith]

Yeah is that near the place with the other things

[north summit]

I’m lobotomized

[somber monolith]

Me too me too

[north summit]

I was holding dhift instead of control

I am now proceeding to reconstruct every conveyor belt in my 500 hour factory to fit with personal standards

[shrewd palm]

Me when osha tells me I have to follow their dumb rules

[north summit]

What do you mean don’t grab the saw blade with your hands

I have gloves on

[runic sage]

are 4 fully overclocked nuclear power plants enough for me to complete phase 5 or do i need to get more before then?

[shrewd palm]

That’s only gonna be about 24GW so maybe if you do like one thing at a time but probably not

A quantum encoder fully slopped and overclocked is more than that

[runic sage]

fully overclocked, i believe its 12.5gw each so 50 total

[shrewd palm]

No it’s 6250 per reactor when fully overclocked

[runic sage]

oh yeah ur right

💔

guess i should go make a new powerplant

also a good time to start making plutonium rods

[vague comet]

Are there general benchmarks for #per min rates to hit for certain early-ish game items? For example i just tried setting up a proper dedicated mini-factory to produce 4 modular frames per min, but don't have a very good idea for knowing whether if that is 'enough' (i'm going to start making the parts for the phase 2 elevator soon).

[mystic oriole]

you can go on the calculator and find that one out

[reef basin]

usually the suggestion is: don't think whether or not it will be enough, just make what you need now. If you later find out you keep running out, you'll make more later

[mystic oriole]

that's usually how the game is played, organic growth

[north summit]

Logistics Mk2 on my new save in 5 minutes

I have time for a quick break

[frail sleet]

1 machine's worth of production for the end item

exception: concrete, you're gonna want more like 80 per min.

[north summit]

As a Factorio player, my main idea of logic is if you dont have enough of something, make more

[reef basin]

as a Factorio player, I'd recommend playing this game without using Factorio style of gameplay

[vague comet]

I'm also a factorio player, but usually i'm shooting for a certain SPM and work backwards from there. The tiers and phases have fixed numbers of deliverables and it's hard for me to know how much of stuff i'll need once those deliverables are done

[frail sleet]

In the long term, tier unlock costs are negligable

[north summit]

Main bus of resources in satisfactory still goes extremely hard. Especially with stackable conveyors

[vague comet]

Part of that is also just not knowing what stuff i need to make future stuff. Like i know i always need tons of green chips in factorio. I'm assuming modular frames in satisfactory are probably used in a lot of subsequent recipes but i guess i'll expand them when i get to them? or just make the new item in a dedicated factory that includes it's own modular frames instead?

[north summit]

I cross over a lot of my build designs from factorio into satisfactory

[frail sleet]

or just make the new item in a dedicated factory that includes it's own modular frames instead?
this

[reef basin]

not really. Waste of time and space imo

not to mention the performance loss 😄

[wide nacelle]

as a new player still figuring things out I keep bouncing back and forth between whether to make use of buses in my designs or not. right now my factory is mostly modular but as a factorio & other factory game player it feels wrong to not have a bus of some kind

[cunning galleon]

Hey how i can do easily the phase 2 pls

[random berry]

how do I make the train go right at the intersection instead of left? If I change the arrow right the train changes the arrow back to left, because this is the shorter path. Is there a way to force the train to go right instead of left at this intersection?

[shrewd palm]

By setting up the autopilot it should do that automatically unless there’s something wrong with the signals/station

There was also a bug in 1.1 that sometimes makes 4 way intersections not work properly and blocks off one of the exits to autopilot trains for seemingly no reason

[north summit]

Whatever keeps ya in FICSIT's good graces, my factory layout is nice and efficient and organized

[reef basin]

majority of people don't use a bus, we recommend this: https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency

[reef basin]

use AGS, give yourself the materials, complete phase 2

[marble gulch]

But the achievements 💔

[reef basin]

they wanted an easy way to do it 🤷

[unkempt blade]

yeah but we only don't use a bus because this game has factory carts and those are way cuter

[fervent sand]

Busses are not recommended for Satisfactory like they are for Factorio. It's a lot more of a headache pulling and merging back into the bus, and Satisfactory's progression does not really favor busses. What you do instead is just a bunch of outposts (maybe a centralized base, depending on your playstyle), that just takes in the surrounding resources and processes them.

I see your a factorio player which is why I'm comparing a bit

[north summit]

I truly love this game's movement though

slide hoping is truly always great

[reef basin]

buses are good in Factorio, because you have variable production (mines running out, productivity scales up, etc.) and variable consumption (science/mall). In Satisfactory, you have neither of those

[peak wasp]

anyone wanna join me and my freinds were on teir 7 and 8

[reef basin]

#1201555265942724758

[fervent sand]

and also, because it's top-down perspective, busses in factorio allow you to think through things easier. In satisfactory, you don't have such an easy luxury

so like in a lot of overhaul mods I'd use a bus, even if I didn't have that much variable inputs

[north summit]

The Lookout Towers and Jetpacks in question\

[fervent sand]

easy luxury
easy

requires effort to get to a good vantage point

[tropic heath]

what is more efficient? turning heavy oil residue into turbo fuel or residual fuel first

no i dont have diluted fuel yet

[reef basin]

what do you mean by "efficient"? what is the thing you want to optimise for?

[charred sandal]

Is there a way to stop the credits rolling lmao

I made a creative game mode and got the credits because I selected finish

[tropic heath]

more power to kickstart my nuclear production
i just want to gain more fuel per fuel

[ornate saffron]

No! Its like remembrance day. Pay your respect

[knotty pike]

is there a bug where all the animals disappear ?

[north summit]

Isn’t that a good thing. It means you’re efficiently depopulating the planet

More coal stacks immediately

[dusty harbor]

Can someone help me out with this? #screenshots message

[reef basin]

use #1038092680493801533 for these kinds of questions, so that we don't have to swap between two channels

[zenith pecan]

Eh?

[charred sandal]

Man, when I use a blueprint inside of a blueprint, its telling me its not on the BP pad.

But thats never happened before :/

[ornate saffron]

Hold the hologram with H then nudge it up (pgup)

Its registering the ground under the blueprinter not the blueprinter pad

[charred sandal]

Yea. The issue is I dont want the BP to have a gap underneath lol.

Think I know what I did wrong, I just have to restart

[peak wasp]

Can I ask a question

So will this game support the new Gabe Cube?

[shy mulch]

Does anyone know if crossplay is available for satisfactory between a Tesla model 3 and a samsung smartfridge?

[ornate saffron]

Likely. The newest patch helped optimized steam deck support.

[peak wasp]

Hell yeah 🙂

[wicked nacelle]

Only potential problem is steam box runs a different processor type. But they’re working on that support actively

Wait no. Thats the new steam frame. Which could also theoretically run satisfactory

Steam box is still x86. Steam frame is arm. Basically an android phone.

[charred sandal]

Not allowing 5x line of foundries in an mk3 bp is diabolical

[dim cradle]

It's so easy to retrofit lines. I just took this random pure iron node on top of my starting area that was close by when I realized one of my early factories was running out of pipes, shoved a mk3 in there, oc'd it, replaced the first section with mk6, and then just put a splitter running out of it, wham instant iron pipes...

I guess some people just really care about neatness and overplanning though lol

[charred sandal]

I have more fun planning than I do building.

[ornate saffron]

The new cube is rdna 3 gpu and amd cpu

[turbid merlin]

I spent like 3 or so hours the other day planning and building my rotor/stator/motor factory. The difference in design layout for that compared to my original factories is large

[ornate saffron]

I love that with the right alt recipies you can use the same foot print for all three.

[wicked nacelle]

yeah the update I watched was on all the stuff and I got them mixed up 🙂

[turbid merlin]

https://satisfactory-logistics.xyz/factories/calculator/shared/rD15hFCRCPS7bxkj1pz4SD

this was the design I went with

[ornate saffron]

Easy to do lol

[pine patrol]

the spitter when i throw the 8th explosive charge on its head

[turbid merlin]

Did it on the eastern part of the rocky desert. Just outside the cave entrance

[ornate saffron]

Nice

[turbid merlin]

Now to hand feed some assemblers to complete phase 2

I’ll make a SE part factory later once I’ve got mk3 miners and mk5 belts maybe

[pine patrol]

tf is se

[turbid merlin]

Space elevator

[pine patrol]

oh

yeah your going to make a factory for SE much before that lol

[turbid merlin]

Maybe for phase 3

[pine patrol]

unless you plan to make 5k versitile framework by hand

[turbid merlin]

See what happens

[turbid merlin]

Technically 2.5k if I sloop

[pine patrol]

still a pain

[ornate saffron]

We suffer for earth. The factory must grow

[distant pilot]

Id automate them for the tickets tbh

[turbid merlin]

Yea maybe

I already have a location for the Phase 2 factory. Dead centre of rocky desert. Gonna take advantage of the quick wire stator alt. Cause fuck using all that copper to do normal stators

[latent gate]

Anyone ever had an issue with SCIM where it hangs at compiling 0 lightweight objects?

[dense violet]

prob best to ask in their discord

[ornate saffron]

There has been a few ppl talking about load issues with SCIM

[agile nimbus]

Anyone else noticed smelters have a lil smiley face on them lol

[fallow lantern]

if i make a blueprint in a creative save can i load it in on one of my actual saves?

[random berry]

is it better to set the train stations to one load/unload or full load/unload?

[lethal ocean]

I see that the game has launched on console. Is it cross-platform with pc or nah

[reef basin]

it's not (and no plans to do so)

[dim cradle]

You know they should give you self build upgrades eventually as an option. Like Super Dwarf Arm or something

hammer super fast

Become the factory

Become so swole you just kill things bare handed

[mild heath]

I have questions. I have satisfactory on epic. Should I get it on steam because it seems a lot of people don't play with people on epic

[white dawn]

In the end that's the sort of question only you can answer for yourself

How important is it for you to play with someone who won't join an Epic game, and how often do you think that's actually the case, etc?

[dim cradle]

I think that has an objective answer in terms of number of people on each platform, but I don't know it.

[white dawn]

I mean there's no technical reason why a Steam player can't multiplayer with someone on Epic. If they don't want to (like not wanting an EGS account), that's something else

Until 1.0, everyone did multiplayer via Epic's services, no matter where you bought the game

(well, unless you were doing direct-IP joining or whatever, I assume)

[granite wharf]

Is everyone’s game the same? Like do ores always spawn in the same places?

[mild heath]

I had a few problems trying to get people to join with me when I posted for multi-player when I said I am on epic

[white dawn]

Yes, the only thing that's randomized is some of the "deposits" (the ones where you chip away at them for a little bit and then they disappear)

The nodes themselves are all the same for every playthrough

[white dawn]

Anecdotally, the problem is much more likely to be that most people want others to join their game, and few people are willing to join other folks' games. Few people want to spend a lot of effort on a stranger's savegame

Regardless of what storefront you're using

[rancid yoke]

What’s the website that lets you set the input and output of a factory and it optimizes everything in the middle?

[white dawn]

There are many. Satisfactory Tools is the one I prefer

[frozen rock]

Hello there

its here anyone from mexico?

i had a few questions about the game in ps5

no i just say it cuz its my way to say hi lol

but well

[frozen rock]

about this

my father want to buy the game but it don't appear on the PS Store

that's what i ask if theres anyone on mexico who has this same issue with the store of the game its only on consoles in other parts of the world?..

[abstract heron]

Ņô

[frozen rock]

i'm sorry if i'm out of topic tho i just needed help with this T-T

[abstract heron]

Who are u again a alien

[frozen rock]

yeah because i already search the game on the shop and it only appear street fighter stuffs-

[abstract heron]

👽

[frozen rock]

so i don't know if anyone already had the game on PS5 i hope we can help us with the issue with the shop or at least tells us if its something about countries

cuz it will be weird if a game its only available on other contries but on mexico don't TwT

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[abstract heron]

I nearly done copper and iron refs just testing minus water needing to do limestone and probably quartz

[spice spindle]

I want to keep earning achievements but I'm so tempted to go into advanced game mode just so I can have flight in order to build better 💀

[frozen rock]

thx

here its the 4:08 pm

[sullen gull]

I use a creative just to make blueprints to use in my working save.

Meow

[north summit]

Im very thankful Foundations ignore the laws of physics

Floating Flat Foundation Supremacy

[dim cradle]

Doing 2 BWDs per hour for a bit you can get the nut one easily though

per min lol not per hour

[spice spindle]

Huh? you can do that?

[sullen gull]

Sure. Just have to transfer the blueprints from the creative save folder to your working save folder

I mean, if one has already done a run though, it wouldn't be "too" cheaty 😏

[dim cradle]

suffering through mk1s is a character building experience, like bio burners

[sullen gull]

Nah, tons of stuff you can do with a mk1. But, yes, the mk3 is nice

[dim cradle]

I've done tons with mk1s for sure

[sullen gull]

Whaaaaat?! You've passed me?? 🤣

[mystic oriole]

all Mks have their reason for being in the game

[sullen gull]

Lately though, ive been spoiled with the giant blueprint designer via mods (48x48x48)

[dim cradle]

When I played 3 years ago there weren't even blueprints, had to get similar functionality from mods

If there's any mod I'd get it's one that converts an entire belt at one time though

or just like upgrades all the belts in a system

[plain gate]

well yeah ofc to provide a path for progression...

[cerulean warren]

Can't you do that already?

Oh, you mean in a factory, not just one belt.

[mystic oriole]

I tried not to play with mods because they break so easily. So yeah I play vanilla.

[sullen gull]

There is a newer one out from SirDigby that can make a blueprint from dismantle modes. A few limitations, but otherwise it works pretty well

[north summit]

Is there a way to fast swap everything you placed into a certain color with the customizer

[mystic oriole]

mouse macros are awesome

[sullen gull]

Only if you used one of the preset swatches to set the color initially

[north summit]

tragic

[sullen gull]

Otherwise built items use the default factory swatch

[dim cradle]

I mean if I have 5 km of belt running out to a SAM it gets a liiiiiiiiittle tedious replacing all of that

[north summit]

I caught it early at least

[mystic oriole]

lol, yeah, I was just as happy as I was pissed that zoop came out.

[north summit]

im just running over my base and swapping everything

[sullen gull]

Imo, giving the way things are currently setup, it can be very beneficial to utilize the color presets

[north summit]

Zoop is peak

[mystic oriole]

zoop and blueprints are peak

[north summit]

I need blueprints on my new playthrough

gotta keep on the milestones

[mystic oriole]

like the only thing I could think of making the game moderatly better is a cloud output. And RAIN!

[quick barn]

Best vanilla solution for through-foundation power connections without clipping - GO!

[north summit]

oooo rain

[mystic oriole]

elevator

[north summit]

Walls

Wall Power Connectors*

[quick barn]

they connect to the floor now?

[dim cradle]

Clearly just take your train through the ground duh

[fervent sand]

train spiral

[ornate saffron]

yopu make clipping sound bad. most of the epic builds involve clipping

[north summit]

I think you can place them on ceiling and floors yeah

[sullen gull]

One of the main things I always clip. I hate the look of wires going every which way but loose. So I typically always hide them best I can

[quick barn]

You cannot, sadly

[dim cradle]

It's kind of funny to me that No Man's Sky of all games has a no wire item you can place down that hides them

[quick barn]

I'm just making clipping sound like something I am trying to avoid in my game, personally.

[ornate saffron]

I like running a metal beam along my machines to clip the wires to

[dim cradle]

Satisfactory? Nope.

[north summit]

Huh, I’m tripping then

[mystic oriole]

yup, you can place the wall connectors on the floor, but not th double connectors.

[north summit]

My bad

[north summit]

Aaaah see that’s where I got got

[sullen gull]

Using beams, you can place wall adapters just poking through the floor and they look pretty good.

[north summit]

I don’t mind wires being everywhere but the wires cannot go through solid objects ljke machines and crap

[quick barn]

Hmmmm - ill try that

[north summit]

That’s what triggers me

[quick barn]

yeah, i'll tastefully clip when it doesnt look like the game broke.

[sullen gull]

I made a blueprint for every machine that runs the power through the machine and hides the wire in the foundations.

[quick barn]

Wires disappearing into walls and through machines is a no for me

[mystic oriole]

here's a crazy idea, don't go through the floor. Just make one big factory all on one level.

[north summit]

Me when foundation land

[rocky verge]

🥀

[sullen gull]

Having an afterwork drink atm, but I can make a video and show you later.

If you want that is.

[mystic oriole]

or no foundations... all on the ground.

[sullen gull]

Flexing much? 😏

[dim cradle]

That sucks on dunes...

Building directly on them is annoying

[latent gate]

YEAH I KNOW WHAT I SAID, NOW GET BACK TO WORK

[mystic oriole]

pfft, there's just so many ways to skin a cat, play the game your way.

[dim cradle]

Trust me I've got tons of things on them.

[rocky verge]

You can't make me

[dim cradle]

everyone talks about how many ways you can skin a cat, no one ever asks why

[rocky verge]

Supper

[quick barn]

Great suggestion - this is what I wanted.
#screenshots message

[white dawn]

Yeah, I actually don't really like building in dune desert. You've either gotta spend a fair bit of effort to make things look "good" (which is generally more effort than I'm willing to spend), or you pave over the sucker, which offends my sense of aesthetics

[sullen gull]

That is one way....

[mystic oriole]

violins, fur, badmintons rackets, and tons more.

[latent gate]

Maybe I can't make you, but I can make you wish you had.

[quick barn]

Can clip the beam through too - but I like the wall hole nub look - has intentional design language.

[rocky verge]

I cast factory cart belt replacement

[white dawn]

I suppose what I should do the next time I'm building in dunes is go for the tall-tower approach; that way you're not spending as much time trying to integrate the buildings with the rolling dunes

[sullen gull]

So, looks like you used a double wall adapter... if you use a 2m foundation, and nudge down 1m from placing a wall adapter on a beam, it will stick through the top like it does through the bottom in your image, and the wires connecting different wall adapters will be hidding within the foundation. (If that makes sense.)

[low tartan]

just unlocked coal power. Should I be piping water to the coal, or should I be belting coal to the water?

[leaden turret]

https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=("dune desert" AND tower) NOT interior

[sullen gull]

Firstly, where'd you start?

[low tartan]

the first area

[white dawn]

If you're not building where there are both: bring the coal to the water. Always bring solids to the liquids

[quick barn]

It does - i dig it. Thank you for the lead!

You understood the assignment

[north summit]

how do i set a color scheme to be my default when building, i just painted my whole factory white manually and its still building default color

[low tartan]

water is closer to me htan coal

[zenith fractal]

like the grass fields?

[low tartan]

yea

[zenith fractal]

think there's a spot with both coal and water'

[reef basin]

build near water, ship coal to water

[white dawn]

However! The best choice is to go find one of the many areas in the game where there's 3-4 coal nodes right next to large bodies of water. Build your coal gens there. Those locations may be far away, but that's fine -- just drag power poles over to it

[leaden turret]

💩
🚽

[sullen gull]

So, just north of the grass lands, there is a lake right near four coal nodes, perfect place for a coal plant

[white dawn]

Those spots are essentially tailor-made to early-game coal power, and there's one not too far away from every starting area

But again, that said: if you do want to build using the closer resources, definitely bring the coal over to where the water is. Pipes like being short + simple

[white dawn]

We're gonna need a bigger toilet

[dim cradle]

Actually I guess one other mod I'd get is one that gets rid of all of the "invalid conveyor shape" nonsense and "it's too long" nonsense, just gets annoying when you're trying to set things up. Like bro if it's too long just put automatic dividers in there, it isn't rocket science

Well okay technically it is rocket science but

[mystic oriole]

dunno mine at work looks like I pressure washed it with nutella.

[sullen gull]

Right here #screenshots message

[low tartan]

thanks

im trying to figure out exactly where i started lol

[fervent dust]

o great wise sages of the satisfactory server, i am in need of your wisdom

[dim cradle]

That's hell you're walking into

[low tartan]

ah, that big lake is way north of me

i started to the south west of the tiny lake south of it

[sullen gull]

It's a bit irrelevant as the map is the same for everyone and you can travel to any of the other starting area's e easily enough

[fervent dust]

i used a valve to limit this pipe's flow rate to 20/min. why is the flow rate stuck on 14.2/min instead?

[dim cradle]

could be head lift shrug

[white dawn]

I would recommend not using valves at all, btw. They can be used as a part of a working pipe system, but they don't always work the way people think they do, and they can cause extra confusion and difficulty with debugging pipe problems

[sullen gull]

The game is meant for one th
To spread out though. While it can be done, having on centralized area can get very daunting realy quick.

[white dawn]

Anyway, open up a #1038092680493801533 thread with screenshots of your actual piping setup; it often helps a lot to have pictures for pipe problems

[low tartan]

it sounds like the best approach then is to prefer to transport the power if possible, rather than the materials

[dim cradle]

I found one centralized area easier to manage...

[low tartan]

i havent unlocked any modes of transport yet so moving is fairly slow

[sullen gull]

That is much "easier". Buold power nearest the resources needed and run power lines out

[dim cradle]

How is transporting materials "hard"

A train does it trivially

[white dawn]

Yeah, it's a bit rough in the very early game. Push through it and then you've got plenty of time to figure that stuff out, once you've got your coal power up

[low tartan]

i havent unlocked trains

[sullen gull]

Different for Different individuals

[dim cradle]

I think some people should try central factory approach more tbh...

[white dawn]

I would recommend finding some Quartz and researching it in the MAM; you can unlock "Blade Runners" which make running a lot nicer

[dim cradle]

not everyone of course but it's an approach you might actually like

[low tartan]

im at the stage now where my factory outputs 10 reinforced iron plates a minute so building long mk2 belts to transport coal is very expensive

ill go with building the plant beside the water and the coal and building power lines

[white dawn]

Though honestly just focus on getting your coal power up first. It's annoying, for sure, to have to hike a kilometer away at that stage, but you'll be through it soon enough

[low tartan]

itll be less annoying than constnatly having to go leaf huntign and then produce biomass and then produce solid biomass...

[dim cradle]

Yeah phase 1 is the only phase I'd bum rush through just to get coal unlocked

Some people like bio power I think most hate it though

[white dawn]

One tip which might have arrived too late for you, btw: you can set up a couple of bins where you can drop your leaves/wood/and-maybe-alien-remains, and then automate the rest of the biofuel production from there.

The bins go into constructors to turn them into Biomass, which then go into the Solid Biofuel constructors, and then those belt directly into the Bio Burners

Makes the early-game biofuel loop a lot more palatable

[low tartan]

yea i have it automated but unfortunately my bio burners are not well located in my factory at this satge

[dim cradle]

Watching 1200/min of materials go by is really something lol

How do the miners even mine that hard

[low tartan]

so auto feeding the burners is a bit of a mess

[dim cradle]

I guess that's what the super computer is for.

[low tartan]

in future ill clump the burners together for sure

[white dawn]

Heh, basically everyone's Phase 1 tends to be a bit of a mess. :)

[dim cradle]

Honestly I manually crafted and alt tabbed a lot in p1, bio power kind of sucks

[low tartan]

power is the thing i find the most messy right now, feels like keeping on top of bio power is a chore.

[dim cradle]

It is, and it'll make you appreciate coal.

[white dawn]

It's definitely an intentional chore, supposed to make you feel that much better once you do get to the next tier of power

Some nice encouragement to progress in the game. :)

[low tartan]

even the whole sound when you hear one trip, and then you have to try and find the red lights to see which one has died

[dim cradle]

Or a Stockholm syndrome initiation into the game cult, take your pick

[sullen gull]

One thing i do early on is explore and attempt to start Alien Tech research early. Slooping the production line making the Biomas and solid biomass can help out a TON

[low tartan]

slooping?

[sullen gull]

There are items in the game called SommerSloops. They can be put into machines and provide 2x output with not increase on the input

[dim cradle]

I like exploring more in phase 2 when you can stockpile stuff for dimensional storage automatically and not have to worry about its power, I think phase 1 you should just get through it asap

[sullen gull]

Best for early biomass and slug production

[low tartan]

coal is phase 2 btw

oh, i see what you mean now

[sullen gull]

Well, maybe not "best for" but helps out quite a bit

[dim cradle]

Well unless you like the chainsaw

It is a device.

[sullen gull]

Exploring once one has blade runners and a jetpack with liquid bio fuel is probabaly the "best" time.

[low tartan]

@dim cradle i havent explored a ton because i know i cant go too far before i have to come back and re-feed my burners 😄

[dim cradle]

Yeah that's annoying it's why I'd just get p1 out of the way, just pump those things out

Doesn't take much

Maybe explore a little while chainsawing

[sullen gull]

The one thing to remember is that there is no "reward" for how "fast" you complete things. Take your time, learn the systems.

[low tartan]

is the tractor useful to unlock?

[fervent dust]

WAIT THO, COULD THE PIPE BEING BENT SLIGHTLY UPWARD BE THE REASON? WDY THINK?

[dense violet]

everything is useful to unlock

[dim cradle]

Some people like it, but at your stage it'll be another thing to pump biofuel into

[sullen gull]

What Colbalt said ..

[low tartan]

does it let you drive around quicker than walking i guess is my question?

[dense violet]

exploration becomes a lot easier after you've unlocked a bunch of equipment in the mam. Also after you get out of the pre tutorial

[sullen gull]

Also true

[dense violet]

depends on the terrain.
if you get the blade runners you can sprint slide jump pretty fast

[dim cradle]

Or you could rush dimensional storage and a lot of iron plate and cement factories and just ...

Sky foundation everywhere

Grab parachute on the side for those annoying rock hogs

[low tartan]

thanks folks, i just started playing like 3 days ago and this game is mindblowingly deep 😄

[sullen gull]

Once you're through a full playthrough, You realize it's not "that" deep ... though definitely a lot to learn.

[sleek tinsel]

Yeah game opens up massively once you hit the coal era

[white dawn]

Remember if you get overwhelmed at any point that there's no real "pressure" in the game, and you can always take it slow and at your own pace. :)

(Also try to avoid trying to get tips/advice/whatever from Discord/youtube/streamers. Make your own mistakes, not someone else's!)

[dim cradle]

But take my advice first I'm a god at this clearly.

[sleek tinsel]

kinda wish there was a way to skip to coal era

[sullen gull]

While I do agree with you everytime you say this, most will not heed. They will ultimately always seek "help" when facing some sort of "wall"

[dim cradle]

Dies to disassembling a conveyor belt full of uranium

[sullen gull]

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt 🤣

[low tartan]

oh i agree, i am really just rushing now to sort out coal because personally i am not enjoying managing bio burners

[white dawn]

Oh sure, it's more the pre-loading of advice which I strive to discourage. If someone's hitting a wall which is impacting enjoyment, I'd certainly hope they would ask about it. :)

[low tartan]

once i have self-sufficient power it's going to be so peaceful.

[white dawn]

The game's just already overwhelming enough as it is without also taking in a bunch of rando folks' already-established (and often contradictory!) opinions into the mix, too. :D

[dim cradle]

What kind of advice to people actually seek from youtubers in this? All you really need is the wiki...

The only things kind of complicated is like train throughput due to the round trip time

Which is also in the wiki

[sullen gull]

Same technically could be said with Drone throughput as well no?

[low tartan]

what tier is train, out of curiosity

[dim cradle]

Drones are a bit weird yeah, but I think they actually give you their stacks/min in the HUD don't they

like when you go into configure they calculate it for you

[sullen gull]

Fair

[white dawn]

Tier 6

[white dawn]

The per-minute values reported on Drone Ports appear to be bugged btw (or at least they were in 1.0) Edit: Disregard, had responded thinking you were talking about fuel consumption numbers

Oh, er.

[sullen gull]

I haven't messed with trains enough to pay attention to what "stats" they give. most of my train lines are still just end to end.

[white dawn]

Sorry, don't mind me. We are a hedge.

[dim cradle]

The fuel numbers? Never paid attention to those tbh

Just threw diluted fuel in there and didn't look lol, though I think someone said there are some trips they can't complete on diluted fuel

[sullen gull]

Hey @white dawn, you mind if I send you a DM?

[white dawn]

Sure, go for it! (Though for actual support stuff I like to stay in the main channels. :)

[white dawn]

Yeah, I've been meaning to test that again myself. I'd heard that as well, but then realized/re-discovered/whatever that drones will suck up fuel from the input hopper even if there's not enough to set off on the trip, so I actually don't see why Fuel couldn't be used for any arbitrary route

Though I admit I've never actuallly tried fuelling drones with regular Fuel

[dim cradle]

I could actually test that right now I mean... I have 2 ports and one of them is unused atm

[white dawn]

(Also: the "Diluted Fuel" recipes just make regular ol' Fuel; it's not a different resource type. Just like how "Cast Screws" still just make regular Screws, even though the recipe name is different)

[dim cradle]

just throw another one on the arse end of the map lol

Nah I know I just called it that because it's so cheap

[versed mesa]

Am starting to miss the game again lol

https://youtu.be/vS0NpdaDIBU?si=llwOIOqfJs8OyYcx

[versed mesa]

Your doctor says call them asap lmfao

What when it was much early on for the game

[dim cradle]

satisfactory the lost chapters

[kindred hinge]

How do I scan for power slugs? I don’t see the option in my scanner tool even though I just unlocked it!

[versed mesa]

Lol

I was not here then but I am here in 2025

[floral trellis]

its for the object scanner

[white dawn]

One could argue that the earlier releases without all the QoL stuff that we all now rely on counted as "hardcore." No zoop, no blueprints, no autoconnect, etc, etc

[versed mesa]

Am happy to own this cool game in 2025

[white dawn]

Pre-1.0 Phase 4 Space Elevator goals could've been considered somewhat "hardcore." :D

[versed mesa]

All whats added now is hardcore lol

[charred sandal]

For power, does "Max Cons." calculate the underclocked machines?

like, if I have 1 machine on the grid thats 30MW, but its underclocked to 50%, will that grid show 15MW?

Or will it show 30mw

[reef basin]

50% underclocked machine uses less than 15 MW

[charred sandal]

Sure

Clearly not the point of my question.

[dim cradle]

well you could try it pretty quick right

Gonna assume it calculates the whole shebang though

[charred sandal]

Yeah I guess I could go make a seperate thing off grid to check

[dim cradle]

When I slooped a collider the max cons skyrocketed

[fierce granite]

they don't show the change until the machine is running at the new clock speed, so it is defaulted to the 100% value until running.

[crimson lantern]

Phase 2 done

[dim cradle]

Yeah I think it has to like produce at least 1 thing at the new rate you set

[crimson lantern]

Only took ALL DAY

[gloomy marsh]

Are there any up to date interactive maps?