satisfactory

[nova oriole]

Does anyone know where you can find "micelium"?
(I'm taking a wild guess at the English name)

It's the only research tree I haven't progressed in because I can't find this damn item

[runic patio]

any one in au want to play?

[white dawn]

The most guaranteed place to find it is inside caves, on cave floors - note that you can chainsaw up a bunch at once

[north summit]

Building Train Networks is so hard sometimes from how wonk the train tracks go

like especially going up stuff

[white dawn]

There are a lot of other foliage-type things on the overworld which also provide mycelium; if you run around chainsawing random things you'll likely find some (and yeah, you were close with the name. :)

[white dawn]

#1201555265942724758

[north summit]

but its nice when they are done

[nova oriole]

That's wonderful advice thanks mate

[north summit]

Cactuses

in the rocky desert are really good for Mycelium

or the mushroom forest to the south of the map

Ocean Place

[nova oriole]

Yeah unfortunately I'm a bit far away, I'm literally in the most southwest part of the map at the moment, I'm planning to move as soon as I reach Phase 2

[gilded steeple]

I'm setting up my logistics for a fairly large factory for steel at least in the early game. Suppose I need to split a 240 iron ore miner between 60 iron ore and 170 iron ore, is it right that I should limit the belt of the 60 iron ore one with mk1 belt? That will work right?

[white dawn]

There's a few caves along the cliffs to the south, fwiw. Do some investigation around the big arch

(I don't remember 100% if there is mycelium in there, but I assume there is)

[plain gate]

it doesn't matter at all how you limit it

[white dawn]

Or head a bit east; I think a lot of that foliage over there will give you mycelium -- would be a bit closer than Rocky Desert

[plain gate]

you always limit with machines not belts

[nova oriole]

@white dawn thanks again mate, it's been giving me a headache

[livid geyser]

Felt that. Especially with paleberries, as started in rocky desert. Thankfully, finished that research tree at last

[gilded steeple]

Ah now that I think about it, yea that will work regardless.

[north summit]

Chat should I do a mega train base

where i just build one massive train track across the map

and add all my far away logistics to one rail network

Then Sushibelt everything into all my various areas

[crisp atlas]

ive basically jst succumbed besides ive got satisfactory to pass the time now

[white dawn]

As with practically everything else in the game, "should" is a question only you can answer. :)

Having one unified rail network is generally a good idea, once you understand signalling and such

Personally I'd recommend not trying to centralize your resource distribution, though; I suspect you'll find it's a lot harder than you think it is

But, as always: you do you. :)

[north summit]

Signallying similar to Factorio correct?

Just rail blocks where only one train can enter said block

[white dawn]

Definitely not. Ignore everything you know about Factorio

One of the main causes of frustration that we see is folks coming in from Factorio and hoping that things like trains work the same way; they do not

One major difference is that Satisfactory trains do not route around congestion; it's shortest-path only

It is in general impossible to make "waiting" lanes and such 'cause all trains will just pick the same path through and have to wait for each other that way

[north summit]

Interesting

[white dawn]

If you're not already familiar with working with Satisfactory trains especially, I'd very much recommend not trying to centralize resource distribution the way you're considering. I'd predict it'd end up a nightmare. :)

(It can be done, of course, but ehh)

[north summit]

My PC starves for the Megabase

[white dawn]

Since you've got the Factorio mindset, btw, one other thing to keep in mind: A lot of stuff that makes sense in Factorio makes sense because you've got variable-production nodes which run out, so your resource flow is often in a state of flux and you've gotta build factories with that in mind

Satisfactory, on the other hand, has infinite nodes which generate at a 100% reliable rate. It is nearly always the easiest thing to just take material direct from where it's mined to where it's needed rather than doing fancy centralization things

There's basically no variability you need to account for; you always know exactly how much material's gonna be on any given belt

Heh, Satisfactory doesn't fare well with megabases in general. But, as I say: feel free to go for it anyway. Many have! Not impossible, for sure, but you're playing the game on Hard Mode if you try. :)

[rigid vessel]

Eeeeh sometimes you (i) can lose track of whats going through load balancers after the fact

[white dawn]

Some folks like load balancers, for sure, but personally I literally never use 'em. Why bother? You know what's on a belt, so use what's on the belt. :)

(Now, of course, is the time for load balancer enthusiasts to pipe up. )

[rigid vessel]

Yeah but sometimes you have a number from a drill that splits 4 ways but a splitter only goes 3 😭

Thats quite litterally the only reason why I use them

[white dawn]

Can just split it naievely; they'll auto-balance

[rigid vessel]

And they are still a pain

[white dawn]

The stuff that needs less will "back up" and the stuff that needs more will start getting what it needs

[rigid vessel]

But efficiency

[white dawn]

(In practice, when I do that, I use Smart Splitters with Overflow so that the "original" factories don't starve while the new ones fill up)

[white dawn]

Efficiency will be at 100% once it's balanced. Same thing that makes manifolds work well. :)

[north summit]

so far I have Oil, Caterium, Aluminum, SAM, and Uranium set up to this rail network

[rigid vessel]

See thats my issue i dont have smart splitters yet

[north summit]

or ready to be set up in the case of Uranium

I want to add Quartz and Sulfur too if I can find any nearby nodes

[white dawn]

Can unlock those very early btw; just gotta find some Caterium and start on your MAM research. :)

[rigid vessel]

Yeah I havent been big on the mam research as of recently
I need to finish setting up my steel factory but I keep procrastinating 💔

[white dawn]

Heh, honestly MAM research is one of the most important things in the game. Nothing that you need to finish the game, but it's like you're playing a different game once you've unlocked a bunch of stuff

I'll frequently check the MAM for anything I've got available for research and prioritize getting that done (though yeah, I get it -- the factory must grow. :)

[rigid vessel]

see my biggest issue is i've watched like 4 different kibitz playthroughs before i even touched the game so i have at least a basic understanding of how the game works
my friend however (who i started the world with) has no clue at all and went in blind with me
so when i asked him to make a storage room/wall at our temporary base, he stacked bins 5 tall and like 10 wide and then made the worst spaget of belts behind it

and now im scared to enter the game cause i feel like imma need to fix it but at the same time i needa finish the steel factory for mk3 belts

[north summit]

I thought caterium was needed

for space elevator

like through oil foundry and stuff

[hard ivy]

It is. You'll unlock it through milestones when you need it. You can just do it earlier via the MAM and therefore reap the benefits earlier too

[north summit]

ahhh fair

Correct me if im wrong but imo hard drives best thing in the game to go for asap

alt recipes are very nice especially cast screws and stuff

[fluid sapphire]

screw hater gang unite

[north summit]

plus wrecks can be dismantled now which wasnt the case when i last played

[hard ivy]

Maybe not literally "asap" but after setting up coal power at the latest

[fluid sapphire]

NO more screws, enough is enough

[north summit]

unless im trippin

[hard ivy]

Yhey can be dismantled for resources

[mortal ginkgo]

screw hate is overrated

are good bros, they never let you down

[fluid sapphire]

screws are overrated

[north summit]

coal posting

[rigid vessel]

Screws are needed

[hard ivy]

You wouldn't like my mod then

[mortal ginkgo]

steel screws be your friend bro

[hard ivy]

Not after steel

[fluid sapphire]

i dont need them, they are an unnecessary extra step that dont play well with manifolds. and i like my manifolds so no thanks

[mortal ginkgo]

bro blz

[north summit]

SAM also really good early too

[rigid vessel]

Reinforced plates need em tho
Which you need for modular frames
Which are needed for heavy modular frames correct? Im not sure im not that far in

[north summit]

get the depo up asap

[mortal ginkgo]

SAM screws when

[fluid sapphire]

you can do stitched plates

[north summit]

real

[hard ivy]

Alts and you can get rid of them entirely.

And do yourself a favour and don't use screws for HMFs

[rigid vessel]

I dont have that alt yet

[north summit]

SAM Screws alt recipe

big

[mortal ginkgo]

why u no haz it bro. You get it so quick at phase 1 😛

[fluid sapphire]

for early game it doesnt matter honestly

[shell lava]

Finally done setting up the coal factory! (first time btw)

[north summit]

The Screws sing now, consume

[rigid vessel]

Im nowhere near that point yet
Im yet to finish phase 2 cause ive been procrastinating steel production

[north summit]

Tips and tricks

when slide jumping you can boost yourself to max speed by blowing your legs off with an obelisk

much more efficient momentum

start blowing legs off today

something something soldier tf2

[rigid vessel]

insert bucket meme

[mortal ginkgo]

I still have yet to find a reason for Aluminum Rod alt recipe to exist.
Everyone talks about getting rid of screws but it is so easy to get rid of Iron Rods from recipes.

So I wonder, what is the use for Aluminum Rod...?

[granite wharf]

I found a floating slug

[north summit]

SAM Screws

[silk ocean]

Something the slug was originally on got blown up?

[granite wharf]

Nope

Never been to this area before

[silk ocean]

Guess it happens xD

[north summit]

Too much power

[mortal ginkgo]

Surely there is a lore reason for such shenanigan

[north summit]

The Slug Levitates

Super Slugin 3

[granite wharf]

Tbh idk what colour this slug even is

[north summit]

it feels sureal building my train over where my og factory used to be when Satisfactory first dropped

[white dawn]

Heh, I agree that one's awfully niche. But if you've already got the aluminum and don't feel like dragging some iron over, it could be what you need in some cases, I suppose. :D

[mortal ginkgo]

Yeah mate but nobody in their right mind would use them to make Rotors with default recipe and Modular Frame got its own alt recipe that is fine for late game..

I mean, it is really a hard reach to use precious Aluminum Ingot for Rods at that point 😄

The ratio is ridiculous but still kek

[feral geyser]

Aluminum rebar factory

[mortal ginkgo]

ok now you go jail

[fluid sapphire]

i could never in my life sacrifice precious aluminum to make some puny rods 😤

[clear aspen]

Hello chat

[feral geyser]

How burly are the men there?

[north summit]

Biofuel Power is best power

[mortal ginkgo]

They are all tomboys.

[mortal ginkgo]

ok, you go next

[placid comet]

Ok so I finally have a decent fuel plant going but now that I've had time to familiarize myself with my new toys, I see a number of options available. For now I have them making fuel for power and send the biproduct with water to make plastic and rubber, however I also noticed you can use heavy residue as well. I imagine both approaches are good based on what you're prioritizing or whatever is available. But what I can't seem to grasp is petroleum coke. Is that even worth making?

[feral geyser]

Can I get a transfer? I want the bikers

[north summit]

I have more Biofuel Power than Coal

I am on stage 6

[mortal ginkgo]

shtap

[north summit]

its peak

[hard ivy]

Y

[mortal ginkgo]

SHTAP!

[low tartan]

how tall do you make each story in a multi-story factory?

[mortal ginkgo]

yes

[silk ocean]

n levels high

[mortal ginkgo]

each floor will have a story to tell

[north summit]

The love of the game

I will convert the wildlife into power

[mortal ginkgo]

funny enough a simple basic run can give truly ridiculous amount of biofuel when all steps are well slooped and powdered up.

[low tartan]

i mean, is there an optimum height for each story that makes it easier to fit things? 4m? 6m?

[mortal ginkgo]

phase 1/2 I think 10m is fine if you dont want anything to touch ceiling

[silk ocean]

Blenders prob the highest unless you're planning on particle accelerators

[mortal ginkgo]

phase 3 needs more considering refineries are rather tall and CHUNGUS

Manufacturers are more chungus but still. Refineries are pain.

Nobody likes them. Refineries suck.

[silk ocean]

Yeah, Refineries xD

[low tartan]

10m, makes sense, thanks!

[silk ocean]

More taller

[north summit]

If i could convert oil residue into biofuel id be very happy

[mortal ginkgo]

thats not very bio of you

[silk ocean]

Kinda feels wrong putting refineries in buildings xD

[mortal ginkgo]

aren't they buildings of their own...?

[north summit]

Ah-Ah-Ah- technically Oil and Coal are both Organic because they come from dead animals that have sat underground for millions of years

[silk ocean]

Yea exactly

It's like a building in a building

[mortal ginkgo]

deepest lore

could we say the same for Coal Gens?

[silk ocean]

xD
Plus.... pollution

[north summit]

We need more Pollution

[silk ocean]

Coal too yea

[north summit]

Pollution is signs of hard work

FICSIT approved

[silk ocean]

Need an extractor system in 1.2 xD

[mortal ginkgo]

if we are not getting mk3 pipes in 1.2 I so gonna riot.

Like, that Fluid Truck Station stuff would make ultra zero sense otherwise.

nobody gonna use that just to save space for 2 PIPES

[silk ocean]

1200 flow rate, maybe they should be larger diameter and we get adapters too xD

[north summit]

Pollution mutations for animals

[mortal ginkgo]

belts are not going larger so why should they kekeke

[north summit]

Please give me spitters with spider legs

So they scurry around and shoot fireballs everywhere

[white dawn]

Hm? Not following what you mean here

Fluid Trucks seemed to me to just be an alternate way of transporting fluids (available a bit before fluid freight cars on trains)

I think Trucks unlock prior to Packaging, too, yeah?

[mortal ginkgo]

truck station got 2 inputs, so 2 x mk2 pipes can only fit in.

nobody aint gonna make a truck route with chungus stations just to not make long 2 mk2 pipes.

at that point they could just package them up and send instead

[white dawn]

If you were looking to transport fluid a long way, and didn't have Trains, a Fluid Truck might seem like a good idea.

(Whether it's a good idea to be transporting those fluids so early in the game is another question, but c'est la vie. :D)

[white dawn]

Eh, could say the same about Fluid Freight Stations for trains

[fluid sapphire]

do drones fly up first, and then out? or do they leave/approach ports diagonally?

[white dawn]

Someone might not want to set up a packaging loop

[white dawn]

Yes, up then out. Though their paths aren't necessarily easy to predict prior to just watching them go; best to set up a route and then build architecture around the port, if you're hoping to avoid clipping

[fluid sapphire]

how high up?'

[mortal ginkgo]

you can still have more tanks for train as much as you need.

Fluid Freights need buff, doesn't mean we need to have kek worthy truck stations pretending to be useful.

I 95% bet we are getting mk3 pipes at least

[white dawn]

I'm personally inclined to believe 95% that we're not getting mk3 pipes. But time will tell!

[fluid sapphire]

trouble is, i am trying to retrofit ports to existing architecture with minimal work

[north summit]

We should get mk4 pipes

[white dawn]

And sure, Fluid Trucks are likely to be niche, but IMO that niche is nonzero

(I also disagree about fluid freight needing a buff)

[clear aspen]

How’s everybody’s day?

[white dawn]

Likely to depend on the route and placement, honestly. As I say, I'd recommend setting it up and seeing

[fluid sapphire]

well, sure, but there's gotta be some ballpark without testing every port, what about an example like this, where the drone should fly to and from N/NW?

#screenshots message

[zenith pecan]

I finally looked at my sink, I have 3118 coupons in there 🤣

And my coffee is cold, bah!

[silk ocean]

Yea mine is cold too... microwave to the rescue

[zenith pecan]

Oh yes, 50 seconds and good as new.

[silk ocean]

Exactly xD

[zenith pecan]

I've been meaning to replace my old skeleton factory with a moden steel products plant and still I procrastinate.

[north summit]

Annoying loud ass bird versus 500 nuclear obelisks

[blissful agate]

Professor canceled a 9AM exam at 7:20 this morning in response to an email I sent

[north summit]

[hard ivy]

You just made me realise that adding fluid trucks/tractors is gonna make the early game much worse for some people

Imagine the newbies transporting water to their coal plant with a fluid tractor and having to deal with vehicle issues on top of pipe issues.

Unless they only add a fluid truck and not a fluid tractor. Would be weird but they didn't announce tractors so ig it's possible

[white dawn]

Heh, yeah. Suppose we'll see!

[quick hound]

Trains are weird and make me want to cry

but I do love the horns 🚂

[somber monolith]

Anyone know how I could make this better it looks a bit boring #screenshots message

[cosmic meteor]

Does anyone have a good video on explaining beginner train railways and how to do turns with blueprints and go up and down . Having a hard time with trains in general don't have one set up yet and trying to get turns is difficult

[placid comet]

Yea see, I saw this issue coming a mile away. So I just build on site and send the result instead. For example if it's a power plant, better to string cables across the map than belts or pipes

[jovial karma]

do u have to be good at math to play this game in the lategame? I've seen some builds that looks pretty advanced so im curious

[quick hound]

You don’t have to be good at anything, per se. You can brute force it if you want.

It’s kind of what I’m doing..

[placid comet]

Have faith in yourself. I'm trash at advanced math but I'm chugging along. The game is even kind enough to do some calculations for you

[jovial karma]

Yeah bcs i love this game so far but when it gets more advanced i feel like it could get annoying if 90% of the process is maths and planning, with much less decorating and exploring new ways to build

[quick hound]

It hurts my brain..

[placid comet]

Not sure if this was answered but what is the point of petroleum coke? The game refers to it as a weaker coal alternative. Is that simply all it is?

[fluid sapphire]

you can use to get rid of HOR in a situation where you dont want it, its also used in a bunch of alts

[north summit]

League of Legends

[little shale]

Once I kill an alien and power a building with a biomass burner on the spot, and then remove the buildings, Do the aliens respawn?

[quick hound]

What is HOR?

[fluid sapphire]

heavy oil residue

[quick hound]

Ah.

[quick hound]

Yummy. 😋

[fluid sapphire]

mhmm

[jovial karma]

I guess i can also use online planers or the modeler on steam

[quick hound]

I am so mad that I cannot drink the oil. SMH. 2/10 game

[placid comet]

I see. Yea that's gonna be interesting. Oil brings a lot of resources but also a lot of spaghetti

[north summit]

We must drink oil

[north summit]

I recommend investing in verticality for conveyor belts

[quick hound]

Yes. I was honestly mad when I learned you can’t force a pipe to spill oil or fuel with a valve. I wanted an oil shower

[north summit]

elevators very useful for importing and exporting refinery materials

[quick hound]

if I can’t drink turbo fuel like coffee then I don’t want to play this game! HHMPH!

[north summit]

With minimal amounts of spaghetti

[fervent sand]

you have a helmet on though

and who knows, the coffee might actually be oil

[quick hound]

It doesn’t stop us from drinking coffee, or eating pale berries and such.

[quick hound]

it’s water with food colouring cause ADA doesn’t like our happiness

[somber monolith]

How do I make 90 degree turn with trains it looks so stupid when I try

[quick hound]

I somehow managed to make a literal 180 degree turn. It’s pretty funny

[somber monolith]

How the turn radius is so wide

[cosmic meteor]

Same question a for9ed

[quick hound]

I have no idea. I was building tracks and boom.

I’ll send a video when I get home in a couple hours

[little shale]

Once I kill an alien and power a building with a biomass burner on the spot, and then remove the buildings, Do the aliens respawn?

[quick hound]

#1038092680493801533

[fervent sand]

eventually yes

[somber monolith]

Was it you who built the straight line tracks for your trains?

[quick hound]

why does liquid biofuel exists? It SUCKS

[fluid sapphire]

yeah

[somber monolith]

How did you do the turns I’m trying to do smth similar and I can’t get a turning radius small enough to look good

[quick hound]

I’m so tempted to ping a dev to ask them if they can add drinking oil, fuel and turbo fuel to the game haha.

[ornate saffron]

I use it for my drones real early as I don't like wasting all the biomass I farmed early. But I feel you on this

[fluid sapphire]

i use a triangle shaped blueprint to help line stuff up, sometimes i have to move 1 foundation's worth distance this way or that

#screenshots message

[ornate saffron]

What's in mug isn't coffee... I assume its rocket fuel

[quick hound]

why can I imagine that liquid biofuel tastes like eating tree bark

[fluid sapphire]

like its usually a 5x5 curve, sometimes 5x4

[ornate saffron]

I assumed it was moonshine

[quick hound]

I assume it’s water with food colouring as ADA doesn’t like us being happy and doesn’t want the expense of coffee

[dawn fractal]

Hiik

[somber monolith]

Thx

[quick hound]

We must protest for the ability to drink every liquid in the game! I WANNA DRINK OIL! FUEL! TURBOFUEL! WATER! and liquid biofuel!!

[zenith pecan]

Coffee fine, unless they add vodka.

[quick hound]

I imagine the fuel tastes like orange soda

and turbo fuel tastes like Mountain Dew code red

[ornate saffron]

Where does Baja blast fit in

[quick hound]

🤷‍♂️

[placid stirrup]

That's the coolant for the particle accelerators

Regular Mt Dew is LBF

[runic sage]

is there a way to modify the maximum transfer rate of a conveyor belt?

[quick hound]

THAT MAKES SENSE! FICSIT IS SPONSORED BY MOUNTAIN DEW CONFIRMED!!!

[placid stirrup]

Unlock higher tier belts

[runic sage]

i mean more like limit the transfer rate like you can do with valves.. i dont wanna do the math or wait for it to balance because its overflowing

[ornate saffron]

Ah gotcha. I made a time crystal factory in a cave and accenditely made a scene from a horror film. The only light sources being the partacal accelerators and the converters.

Spiders running around just in the corner of you pov

[runic sage]

then whats the coolate for the quantum encoder?

[quick hound]

I personally don’t have arachnophobia but I put on meows cause I think it’s funny

[ornate saffron]

You can upgrade them to the next tier by selecting the desired tier and then look at the belt you wish to change. There is 6 speeds total

[ornate saffron]

I do meows cause cats

[placid stirrup]

If you're overproducing, putting a "limiter" on the belts will just cause them to back up at that point instead. Sinking overflow is the standard strategy for this

[quick hound]

I want to have a cage full of like a hundred lizard Doggos whom I can jump in and be licked and give treatos!

[sonic wigeon]

I ply on console cn i connect with pc ppl

[runic sage]

well i want to use modular frames for multiple things so i want to limit each conveyor line after a splitter for the amount each thing requires

[native tapir]

Unfortunately not

[sonic wigeon]

Oof

[fluid sapphire]

the consuming machines will provide the bottleneck

[quick hound]

Maybe in the future, but currently, no..

[keen solar]

I have set up 2 drone ports 1 in base and 1 in resource node. Now I have have 1 drone on each port. I am tranporting fuel from home port as outgoing and in the resource node port I just connect the output and the fuel input port. Now my question is will the drones stop transporting if the fuel storage fill's up?

[native tapir]

You will have to connect in real life unfortunately. It can be rewarding but it's much harder to make factories this way.

[placid stirrup]

If you're splitting off into manifolds they will automatically balance at the split

[jovial karma]

How does the build gun blueprints upgrade work? can i just build a small factory somewhere then copy it around if i have the materials? or is there any other step?

[reef basin]

not planned

[quick hound]

NOOOOOOO 😭

#1038092680493801533

[reef basin]

QA site

or here, if you want to ask pple, not devs

[native tapir]

I just DM greeny

[quick hound]

What does lead pioneer mean?

[reef basin]

that I'm made of lead

[native tapir]

Jokes aside there are some phenomenal tutorials on YouTube

[placid stirrup]

It builds the building blocks used to create a factory. You will get the ability to create and set a blueprint for a small factory or build later on

[jovial karma]

what do u mean by building blocks

[placid stirrup]

The questions you have are probably already in there, it would probably be quicker to find those and read through

[native tapir]

Not a spoilable game, in my opinion 😁

[placid stirrup]

Machines, logistics pieces, architecture, etc.

[reef basin]

best advice I can give you is to play the game on your own, not ask about everything and instead experiment in the game. If you get stuck on some issue and have tried everything you could think of, then go ahead and ask, but the game is best learned by playing on your own and learning the mechanics by using them

[quick hound]

You have been fish reacted

[runic sage]

true but in small numbers it will take time to overflow

[fluid sapphire]

whats the hurry, go do something else

[runic sage]

balance equally but not to my needs.. if i need one side to get 50 per minute and the other to get 5 it will take time to balance

[reef basin]

go do something else in the meantime

[fluid sapphire]

feed any to the group that requires the smaller amount, overflow to the larger group

[placid stirrup]

You can certainly create a balancer that produces the outputs you're looking for, though the time it takes to create that is likely higher than the manifolds doing it for you

[fluid sapphire]

what i was gonna say

[runic sage]

true but in things like uranium fuel rods it will take pretty long to fill out 40 plants..

[exotic garnet]

hi me back

again

[hard ivy]

quite short if you fill them while they don't have water

and it's constant wrt the number of plants

[placid stirrup]

In the example of multiple belts to a different number of multiple belts, you can make an "autobalancer" which splits and merges each belt to the others.

[shy mulch]

Imo the game is best played by downloading someone else's save file, taking some screenshots of their work and telling everyone how amazing your build is. Still more effort than some people here are going to 😂

[shy mulch]

Produce enough to fill all the plants before turning any of them on 🤷

[mortal ginkgo]

isnt fuel rod stack size 50?

I am sure it is rather fast to fill them up nicely

[mystic oriole]

I try not to stack radioactive items as it increases radioactivity zones.

[mortal ginkgo]

My brother you will be near Nuclear REACTORS.

They meant to be radioactive. Naturally.

[mystic oriole]

of course, and they can stack all they want there. But I'm not storing them to find out their stack size.

[zenith pecan]

They don't have to be though #satisfactory-experimental message

[mortal ginkgo]

they will be stacked where you make them.....

Also one can easily check it in interwebs lol.

[mortal ginkgo]

My dear brother wat the heck is that battle music behind

[abstract heron]

i am going to build so many nuclear stuff its going to be funny how much power ill get

[shy mulch]

The other way to find the stack size is to read the wiki, or put one in DD and you'll be able to figure it out easily by checking the max available and divide by 5 stacks

[zenith pecan]

Captured because I had random youtubes in the background, I actually have 0 clue what it was.

[mystic oriole]

True, but I'd rather not.
It usually takes me about a month of free time to set up a nuclear power plant. Because I don't like being around the radiation. Even if I have protection.

then again my latest idea was to...
|| Set up a cheety blueprint with a truck full of ficsonium fuel rods, and unload it at a truck station to provide power. That way I have a semi-automated power plant again||

[mortal ginkgo]

nope

[zenith pecan]

For the reactors, I just load balanced them, in my old save, 100 reactors, never more than 200 fuel rods on the map at any time, result, radiation free nuclear.

[runic sage]

40x50 is a lot tho

[clear aspen]

How’s everything doing rn

[mortal ginkgo]

Cutting trees work but best biomass comes from alien bois. each corpse equals to 100 biomass so

[hard ivy]

if you fill the reactors while they're off, it'll take the same amount of time, regardless of the number of rectors. only their clock speed

[shy mulch]

You will not run out of biomass

[mortal ginkgo]

yup

anything that you can turn into protein, works

keep in mind, you shouldn't stay in phase 1 for too long. make those 50 smart silly plates, get to phase 2, get to coal to enjoy purely automated power

there is a resaon 99% of the newcomers in reddit posting coal pictures

[shy mulch]

Heathen. Biomass 4eva

[mortal ginkgo]

Brotherman I am no heaten. I spent like 230 gameplay hours because I wanted to decorate my factory in phase1.

I went so many hunting trips that you would be proud. 😄

Stingers fear me now.

"Oh no.. That mad pioneer who is busy decorating stuff is came to hunt us! EVERYONE! RUN!"

I am not stuck with them in this planet. They are stuck with ME.

[shy mulch]

We're gonna have a race to see who's slowest? I've got a save with over 200 hours on it that hasn't even built the space elevator yet. Technically still phase 0

[mortal ginkgo]

I literally over exposed myself to stingers that I don't fear them anymore.

[somber monolith]

Is it meant to be this expensive? #screenshots message

[mortal ginkgo]

with recycled rubber alt recipe combined, you get truly large amount of items back

[hard ivy]

it's part of the cheapest chain for plastic and rubber lol

[somber monolith]

Yeah but 6000 fuel for 12 plastic seems a little over priced

[shy mulch]

Look at the 'per minute'

[hard ivy]

that's in liters. it's 6 m3
don't ask me why

[mortal ginkgo]

6000 fuel and 12 plastic...?

[shy mulch]

He is misunderstanding the units

[mortal ginkgo]

brotherman of the century what are you drinking

[mortal ginkgo]

oh... he is a brotherman indeed

[somber monolith]

It says it takes 6000 fuel and 6 rubber to make 12 plastic?

[shy mulch]

It's 6 fuel not 6000

[mortal ginkgo]

6,000 because why not, lets confuse everyone 😛

always check "per min" I say

[shy mulch]

What locale is your game set to? Looks like it says 6,000 meaning 6 and no decimal parts

[mortal ginkgo]

6,000 and 6.000 can be always so confusing regardless

[somber monolith]

Locale?

[mortal ginkgo]

some languages use that as 6 thousand, what you have

[shy mulch]

It's just different ways of writing. Some places say 6.000 some would say 6,000

[somber monolith]

It’s English?

[shy mulch]

There is no need for the 000 anyway if there's no decimal, it's just 6

[mortal ginkgo]

Brother we are only asking.. 😛

Anyways. It is 6.

It is as low as impure limestone node.

(But trying its best)

[somber monolith]

Ik I was just asking if my thing was bugged or smth

[zenith pecan]

Heh, I misread the meaning of the above as letters in languages and almost went off on a tangent.

[mortal ginkgo]

no its the devs being silly

[hard ivy]

liquid volumes in the codex and some other places are in liters instead of cubic meters, as they should be. it takes 6000 liters of fuel, which is 6 m3. everywhere else the volumes are simply in m3

[somber monolith]

What’s a trains max speed and can it reach it on flat ground?

Or only downhills cause I assume gravity affects them

[silk ocean]

About 120

Yeah I've seen well over 200 on a long downhill

Like a very long downhill xD

[hard ivy]

people have gotten to 700, maybe even 900 on very long downhills

but yeah, ~120 on flat rails

[somber monolith]

What’s the best direction for trains to travel on a 2 way track left hand drive or right hand?

[hard ivy]

doesn't matter

[ornate saffron]

Which ever is easiest for you to remember

[hard ivy]

but most people assume RHD by default so doing that will save you from having to specify that your system is LHD when you inevitably need help

[somber monolith]

Should I be getting more than a 33% drop in frames from low to ultra?

[mortal ginkgo]

yes

[somber monolith]

It’s around 150 on low and 100 on ultra

Fps

[reef basin]

*RHT/LHD 🙂

[somber monolith]

? What’s RHT

[reef basin]

right hand traffic

[somber monolith]

So why diffrent for left hand

[reef basin]

aka vehicles running on right side of road

right hand driving = driver on right side of the vehicle = left hand traffic

[somber monolith]

Are you the greeny who made satisfactory tools

[mortal ginkgo]

Mr @reef basin, we don't have Priority Merger in Satisfactory Tools still 🙁

[reef basin]

we don't need it in SF either

[mortal ginkgo]

...

That's an interesting way to look at things I suppose.

[somber monolith]

What is the point of the priority merger

[mortal ginkgo]

Merges things with priority.

[somber monolith]

But why do you need that

[mortal ginkgo]

Allows you to use byproducts with priority by letting it enter to a belt first, always.

[somber monolith]

Good point

[somber monolith]

I’ll need to rember that for later

[mortal ginkgo]

niche use yet I can clearly see myself using it. I wouldn't say "it is not needed" as above statement tho'

[jovial karma]

I have 8 coal generators each one needs 15coal per min and i have exactly how much i need, but bcs i use manifold its not evenly split between them, how can i fix this?

[mortal ginkgo]

let them fill up first, toggle them off

toggle them on later on

[hard ivy]

wait 30 minutes

[reef basin]

Separate fresh and byproduct belt

[ornate saffron]

Depends on your system. I have a really good system but I play locked 30 fps because I don't care. Its not a competitive shooter and my hydro bill is less this way

[jovial karma]

i posted in screenshot of how it looks

that should work right?

[reef basin]

Better to use #1038092680493801533 for this

[somber monolith]

30 fps??? That’s crazy low

[jovial karma]

Okay

[somber monolith]

Anyone’s else’s pc get turned into a heater by this game

[ornate saffron]

Its fine. Its the frame rate changes and dips that destroy your experience

[ornate saffron]

If I leave it uncapped fir sure bit as I said I just leave it capped

[hard ivy]

it uses 90+% of the GPU so that's obviously what's gonna happen. same with most other modern games

[mortal ginkgo]

if what I am seeming is 120coal/min it should.

you just need to wait for everyone get nicely filled up since its a manifold setup

[somber monolith]

It’s only hitting 80

[ornate saffron]

You can plop a portable miner on the coal nodes and manually shove coal into the machines to skip the wind up process

[ornate saffron]

Lock it to what ever your lowest frame is and you won't experience drops

[hard ivy]

if you're mining at least 120 coal/min and the belts are at least mk2, yes

[somber monolith]

I mean gpu usage it’s 88%

And I got another monitor up running satisfactory tools and modeler

Shouldn’t it be 100% I thought gpus used 100% to get most frames

[silk ocean]

CPU-bound perhaps

[ornate saffron]

Liekly

[somber monolith]

CPU is only 20-30%

[silk ocean]

or you are targeting an FPS (vsync, frame target) that isn't working the card to full, which is fine if that is the case

[somber monolith]

I have it set to unlocked

[silk ocean]

CPU of 20-30% overall is meaningless if you are bound on one core

[somber monolith]

What does that mean?

[silk ocean]

Switch task manager to per-core view and check if one core is pegged

[hard ivy]

this game doesn't really use 100% of anything

[somber monolith]

How do I do that

[silk ocean]

Just right click on the chart

[somber monolith]

Are the cpu charts each one core

[silk ocean]

Change graph to -> Logical processors

[somber monolith]

Yeah it’s all basically even a couple are almost empty

[crimson raven]

I need advice. I am in stage five and I want to build a hub, my question is that for example I set up rotor production and then I will set up motor production, should I produce rotors again where I do motor production or should there be 2 production areas connected to each other? whic way better ?

[jovial karma]

The individual one, you don't want factories to depend on other ones.

[somber monolith]

I think just make a factory to produce one thing and make everything there instead of taking off other factory’s

[hard ivy]

ok wth is going on? Task manager reports 75% GPU usage, while nvidia overlay reports 98%

[silk ocean]

I'd probably trust the overlay more xD

[somber monolith]

Maybe it goes up while your using nvidia?

[fluid sapphire]

people will tell you to make separate production lines, but either one is fine.. provided that you plan for it. the core concept of independency is that you dont daisy chain your lines willy-nilly (i have a motor factory that overproduces rotors, so in effect produces both rotors and motors)

[silk ocean]

MSI Afterburner shows about 98% util, task manager is about 10-15% lower

[placid comet]

Manifolds can be a bit tricky to get right. It helps if you fill them ahead of time by hand or as Limestone said let the belt overflow. All they need is one coal to function. As long as the belts can supply enough to keep it fed than good enough

[fluid sapphire]

there are times when something like this works great

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=pcKZOkH0RxgU7h270A4U

i think motors are a good example for this

[silk ocean]

I basically don't look at Task Manager for anything xD

[placid comet]

I get advised to build upwards a lot but what is the reason?

[silk ocean]

Personal preference?

Just build how you enjoy

[quick hound]

Does anyone else find it difficult to read the power graph? It needs a dark mode

[silk ocean]

Even the Awesome Shop has a darkmode xD

[ivory condor]

difficult to read the power graph, no not really, its plenty clear enough imo

[silk ocean]

More love for the power graph

[placid comet]

It's not so much about preference. If there's an argument to be made for any method I'm all ears

[somber monolith]

Is it ever worth buying resources from the awesome shop?

[quick hound]

No.

[ivory condor]

though i would be in favor of a darkmode for the power graph, it should be a easy qol addition to

[somber monolith]

Good I need my coupons

[silk ocean]

Probably not unless desperate

[quick hound]

I steal your coupons >:)

[silk ocean]

Maybe hard drives

[ivory condor]

General resources, no coupons only get more expensive the more coupons you get

[placid comet]

I mean if you need something small but don't have a set up for it, it doesn't hurt. Coupons aren't hard to get back

[quick hound]

YOU CAN BUY HARDDRICES FROM IT?!

[silk ocean]

I bought 10 hard drives hehe @fluid sapphire

[somber monolith]

Could it be good for making mk5 belts before you have a aluminium factory as you can get more resources from the node and don’t have to upgrade till mk 6?

[ivory condor]

you really outside of items you cant get anywhere else besides the awesome shop, shouldnt buy the items you can make yourself

[somber monolith]

Then you have a fully working mk5 factory before you should have it

[hard ivy]

way too expensive for that to be worth it

I only buy stuff for early unlocks of some things

[silk ocean]

I... don't think so but I'm not near a shop right now, need to plop one and see

If you have loads of spare tokens, I guess you could

[placid comet]

Oh for belts? Hell nah. Once I unlock a new tier, I set up a dimensional storage for everything I'll need to build shit I'll need a lot of. Power lines, belts, ladders, etc

[somber monolith]

I mean just a couple cause I could buy the upgrade then use one mk5 belt from a node to go into 2 mk4 belts and make the same

Then just upgrade it later

[hard ivy]

you can just use all mk4 belts and upgrade them later

[quick hound]

I feel like the dimensional
Storage is a bit.. too slow for my tastes, Atleast early on.

[little shale]

What's the point of slugs? Just power shards and MAM unlocks?

[somber monolith]

Then you only get 480 instead of 600 from a pure

[ivory condor]

you can always use mods, attach a splitter to the miner, get double mk4 belts out of it

[placid comet]

It is but you can access it anywhere you go. Just let it fill up and you'll have more than you'll need in one sitting

[fluid sapphire]

fr, tier 7-8 stuff is easier to produce in greater numbers once you already have the stuff unlocked, i did this too

[hard ivy]

temporarily

[ivory condor]

actually it would be triple mk4 belts, as the splitter has 3 sides you can output

[quick hound]

It’s just a hassle to get all of the Mercer spheres and the SAM stuff for it, especially when you do not have any manufacturers yet

[ivory condor]

its a shame miners dont go beyond 1200/min, otherwise i would attach a splitter to it and draw as much resources as 3 mk6 belts can hold

[placid comet]

You only need one sphere to make a storage and sam isn't necessarily hard to get. It's a pain to reach but with enough determination you just need to set up a miner, a path back to base and you'll never be wanting for sam again

You'll find yourself feeling like stuff is a real drag to do but once you bite the bullet and get it over with, it opens up so many doors

[quick hound]

I have one, it’s just crafting the thing by hand is driving me into a state where I want to rip the heads off of lizard doggos in anger

[placid comet]

Oh that... Yea no idea why we have to hand craft the fluctuators

[quick hound]

Can you not use a manufacturer?

Cause if that’s the case that’ll be the next thing I unlock before I lose my mind

[hard ivy]

you can

[quick hound]

thank god.

[unkempt blade]

also you put them on a conveyor and build a slug carousel around your hub for style points

[quick hound]

Is it true you have a factory cart supply line?

[unkempt blade]

No that's false. I have many factory cart supply lines

[quick hound]

how does that work?!

and it sounds super slow, painfully slow in fact

[unkempt blade]

they work with tractors/trucks do with a truck station

[analog timber]

Probably pretty well considering they don't need fuel

[unkempt blade]

#screenshots message

[hard ivy]

it is

[unkempt blade]

Kyo is such a hater 😆

[quick hound]

It’s not loading 😭

[analog timber]

Honestly I don't even use vehicles for item transport, I just wait until trains, but if I were to do so, I would also use factory carts.

[steel kelp]

Why do my signs suck when i use them for lighting

[analog timber]

16.2k items / min

[steel kelp]

The colour selector is such clickbait

[unkempt blade]

why it works so well besides not needing fuel is that load/unload time is based on the size of the vehicle's inventory so while carts have a small inventory the load speed makes up for it

[analog timber]

Personally the primary use case I have for truck stations is hooking them up to priority power switches and attaching belts to both the input and output, and using them as remote belt toggles.

Very large and awkwardly shaped belt toggles

[quick hound]

How many factory carts are you using??

[unkempt blade]

depends on the route distance, quite a few overall #screenshots message

[scenic mirage]

why so long? are you counting handling nuclear waste, converting to plutonium, or just making the power

[quick hound]

be honest, how much time have you wasted setting up those supply lines? I can’t drive a cart without wanting to gouge my eye out

[unkempt blade]

wasted? none because I'm enjoying myself

[sharp basin]

@hard ivy @scenic mirage So I really wanted a floor by floor factory, with 1st floor only smelters, 2nd floor only constructors, then 3rd floor assemblers, etc… and it’s just PAIN. I should do 1 chain of machines for 1 product per floor right? And 2 products per floor if I can? (My floors are 20x6 foundations). I really tried to get something organized, it was HORRIBLE. I think I lost 10-15 hours, I want to start the whole factory all over again.

[quick hound]

If you could guess, how many factory carts are you currently using?

[unkempt blade]

400~ on my 1.1 save

also trains and trucks because I like those too 😄

[quick hound]

YOU SPENT OVER 4000 COUPONS ON THAT?!

[unkempt blade]

you buy the recipe then you make the carts

[scenic mirage]

do it by final product. like have an area for heavy modular frames, another for encased industrial beams, etc

[quick hound]

Right, I forgot..

[steel kelp]

I thought this was a joke when i first saw it lol

I didn’t think to take your name seriously

[mystic oriole]

playing time. I'm a casual player. I get like an hour here and there. Maybe 20 min in the morning

[unkempt blade]

you have to embody the gimmick if you want to achieve internet greatness

[quick hound]

Are you planning to make a factory entirely run by Factory carts?

[unkempt blade]

probably not "entirely" but I do use them quite a bit when conveyors would otherwise do the job just fine

[analog timber]

Hold on, truck stations un/load 2 stacks per second, starting when the vehicle enters the hitbox right? If a factory cart only has one slot, does it just unload in half a second? Do the carts even need to stop?

[fluid sapphire]

i think its more difficult to try to jam stuff into a predetermined amount of space, easier to expand a floor as needed, 20x6 is also very small

[scenic mirage]

ah makes sense, i feel like im an inefficient builder so 20 minutes would only make me get resources transported to the factory

[unkempt blade]

once you're out of range vehicles kind of just simulate their actions so it's more math than animation at that point

[mystic oriole]

That really depends on how you use your time. If you spend 20 min on a blueprint or just one line but you're really happy with it. Or even 20min on exploring and collecting. It's still just fun game time. Another thing I love about this game!

[jovial karma]

Are there any downsides to plugging all coal generators into 1 place then wiring that all around your factory?

[scenic mirage]

ye its still fun but i just take forever to build conveyor busses and stuff

[sharp basin]

So 1 area for everything? Even 1 area for simple products like iron rods? And you finish the chain with countainers?

[fluid sapphire]

20 minutes? thats impressive, it takes me 2 hours to do that in a way where i am happy enough not to delete it for the 10th time

[scenic mirage]

stuff like iron rods you can have slightly overclocked and just store in a container somewhere

[unkempt blade]

I'd just build whatever crazy stuff you have fun with. This game is definitely not a race

[mystic oriole]

sometimes I get a lot of time on rare weekends like I'll sit and play for 16 hrs. And get a ton of stuff done.

[scenic mirage]

facts 😎 306 hours and im close to starting nuclear

[shy mulch]

As opposed to what? Having everything connected together seems like the obvious way to me

[hard ivy]

there's no reason not to do that

[sharp basin]

I know but that’s how my 1st factory is gonna be. I have 12 floors (2 buildings), so 6+6 floors. The best would be one chain/product and each and every chain ends up with countainers so I can pile up on every item right?

[jovial karma]

Thanks

[unkempt blade]

The general worst case for a single huge power grid is that if you overconsume power you have to restart everything at once and sometimes things like water extractors can be a pain

which can be avoided if you're careful or build a lot of power storage, etc.

[shy mulch]

Solution to that is have a huge amount of power storages so if you ever do over-consume you have plenty notice to do something about it

[steel kelp]

The worst part about any build lmao

[sharp basin]

You mean like small factories connected to one node near the large factory that makes « hard to produce » stuff?

[unkempt blade]

yeah in theory I understand power storage isn't really necessary but as a mostly-MP player it really friendproofs things to build them

[steel kelp]

Its probably easier to just think of it as smaller factories within your big one which produce complex parts

Lots of planning to make exactly how many iron rods or smth you need and then transport them over

[north summit]

Power Storage is always a nice just in case for when you do large expansions and realize oh shit i need more grid

[eager pilot]

I can’t figure out why half my fuel generators keep turning off and on

[north summit]

need more fuel

[steel kelp]

They’re not getting enough fuel to meet their consumption

[fluid sapphire]

Ya it's pretty common to have containers at the end of a production line, and a splitter with overflow to a sink right before the containers

[steel kelp]

This eats up so much power tho

[unkempt blade]

if you've got a big long row of them loop the end of the pipe back to the start and then turn some off until the pipe fills all the way up and you should be good

[steel kelp]

And then you dont know what you’re making too much of, so you cant steal it for smth else lol

[north summit]

once this damn train line is done its gonna be so nice for resource transportation, i can bring so much crap back to my main factory

but im just so lazy and the train line is so big

im like 67% done

maybe

[steel kelp]

Blueprint auto connect let me do a whole ring around the map in 1 hour

[north summit]

shit i should get Mk2 BP real quick

[steel kelp]

The auto connect does decent enough curves for me to not bother w the fuss of doing it manually lol

[steel kelp]

Yes

[unkempt blade]

it does earlier-game but sinks are pretty trivial amounts of power by like mid phase-2

[steel kelp]

No i meant to have your machines running constantly

[north summit]

Five Hundred Sinks

[unkempt blade]

and sinking overflow keeps the power line nice and level so you can predict how much power you need

[steel kelp]

Not the sink lol

[north summit]

I sinked the sink, let that sink in

[steel kelp]

Im pretty deep into phase 5 and havent ran out of power once

Cuz my consumption is very predictable unless all my old factories suddenly turn on

[sharp basin]

OK, so small factories for basic products like at the first floors, then the more I go up, the more complex factories I build. But 1 factory per product. I mean, that’s OBVIOUS. Don’t know why I wanted to try something else.

[north summit]

clearly you need more bio fuel

[feral geyser]

Five hundred cigarettes

[shy mulch]

Put conveyor monitors on the belts leading into the sinks
Or... Don't have a sink at all. When the container and DD is full, it'll just stop production of that part, which is fine

[unkempt blade]

the general satisfactory wisdom is you want all factories running 24x7 and if you need more power then build more power

[steel kelp]

My main factory will be running 24/7 but i never bothered for my outpost ones

[north summit]

If you need more power become Vergil Devil May Cry 5

[steel kelp]

Like once a big storage is full and linked to my depot im good

And i have 150gw and use 20 lol

I cant wait to make nuclear power its gonna be so fun

[shy mulch]

I have 1100GW and use roughly between 300 and 400, it varies a lot depending on what's running, my stuff is pretty inefficient

[steel kelp]

This is what i do for factories/mining outposts which get transported via train tbf

[steel kelp]

Yea i imagine once i start building a lot of particle accelerators and encoders my power will jump substantially

[shy mulch]

It does love to jump!

[steel kelp]

I would still just make everything from scratch for each complex part, unless its like fused modular frames where id have 2 sep factories for the components

[eager pilot]

I’ve turned them off and let them fill up twice. I have both of extractors that are at 120, I have 5 refinery’s, that equals out to 200 then I have 10 generators that work on 20 per minute so I’m confused why half don’t work

[north summit]

thats what im getting rolling here

[steel kelp]

I had a heart attack the first time i used them the other day lol

[north summit]

various jumpstart mining outposts map wide that transport basic resources into the main base

like tier ones

[steel kelp]

Check screenshots in a sec

[north summit]

like quickwire/caterium ingots or SAM stuff

I have to finish my damn rails tho

[sharp basin]

Yep. I’ll start from scratch for everything. And make exceptions if it’s obvious.

[unkempt blade]

I'd definitely try the looping it part if you haven't. It sounds like your math checks out

[north summit]

im fat and old and dont like focusing on one thing

burn out easy

not FICSIT efficient, the puppies will die

[steel kelp]

Check #screenshots thats the output of my train system so far

[unkempt blade]

if there's a byproduct for the fuel any chance you're not getting rid of it fast enough?

[north summit]

thats wild, i need more train

[steel kelp]

Its a 4 level 4 lane bus and then 5 extra lines

[eager pilot]

I will try that out thanks. Turbo fuel is next. Working on getting a train to carry compacted coal and then take plastic/rubber to another base.

There is a byproduct and that could be

[steel kelp]

Sink your byproducts

And then you can use a smart splitter to transport them however you want

[north summit]

you cant just sink most byproduct can you?

[sharp basin]

I should REALLY research for alien countainers right?

[steel kelp]

If its not a fluid you can

[north summit]

I know nuclear you cant

[zenith fractal]

they are very useful

[hard ivy]

you can sink most items

[unkempt blade]

most solids you could

[steel kelp]

Oh yea and this

[zenith fractal]

biologicals can't be sinked unless processed into capsules

[eager pilot]

I will, I was sinking the filled fuel containers but I will sink the by products since I have an abundance of rubber and plastic for now

[north summit]

Right just nuclear byproduct you cant (although it would be funny to sink nuclear radiation everywhere and have everything that walks towards the sink get radiation poisoning)

[unkempt blade]

he's also on oil so odds are it's just polymer resin which you could definitely sink or use for something else

[north summit]

Cant you just turn Polymer into more material

Residual

[hard ivy]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/AWESOME_Sink#Points_generated_per_item

the unsinkable items list is very short

[steel kelp]

Useful for fabric ig

[unkempt blade]

The important thing for troubleshooting his question is that the byproduct gets cleared out in some way. So if he choose to use it for another product then you just need to make sure it uses all of the resin and that whatever it gets used for can't get clogged similarly

[eager pilot]

By product was the issue, I had one rubber and plastic going but it wasn’t producing fast enough. I’ll revisit it later

[jade tangle]

hi guys, which channel should I use for questions like "help my factory is slow, here's the screenshot, how fix"?

[leaden turret]

#1038092680493801533

[scenic mirage]

is 20 uranium fuel rods/minute overkill?

[hard ivy]

no, it's not enough kekw

[scenic mirage]

idek what to shoot for w nuclear

[zenith fractal]

nothing in this game is truly overkill, also no 20 is decent but not close to too much.

[zenith fractal]

eh just try and meet your energy demand by seeing what your future projects call for

[ivory condor]

No you need much more

[north summit]

Overkill is not a word in your trusty FICSIT brand Dictionary

[mystic oriole]

I usually try to use whatever node I have access to

[hard ivy]

you have access to all of them

[fickle oriole]

hi folks, dumb question re path/block signals - i'm having a hard time getting them to reliably snap to the correct side of the rail, even using the "right hand/left hand" restriction. The signal will kinda wobble around, seeming to always pick the wrong side. Does it help to be pointing at the track from a particular angle or something? Or wait until the rails directionality is fixed as part of a larger network?

[scenic mirage]

it snaps to segments

[hard ivy]

place a signal however it wants to be placed, place another one correctly at the newly created split, remove the incorrect one

[fickle oriole]

so do you point to the segment endpoints, or the middles?

and i'm usually doing this when there is no split, just as part of the forwards compatability building process.

[mystic oriole]

of course

[sturdy mural]

i just got the 100 drive achievement 🔥

[scenic mirage]

W

[sturdy mural]

how do you get the... "Efficiency first"? one

[hard ivy]

... unlock all milestones?

[sturdy mural]

and that is?

do all the MAM unlocks + tier unlocks?

[hard ivy]

from the HUB

[sturdy mural]

i have everything in tiers 0 to 9

[hard ivy]

skipped or completed onboarding?

[sturdy mural]

also thats like 37/46? i think

[hard ivy]

1. the achievement requires 42
2. that's how many there are in tiers 1-9

so idk

but not the first time I heard about people having issues with it

i got it without doing anything special so no clue

[sturdy mural]

#screenshots message

[teal cobalt]

When is a sale expected?

[hard ivy]

and this is a singleplayer save?

[leaden turret]

xmas, probably

[hard ivy]

steam winter sale, whenver that is

[sturdy mural]

yes

i did everything myself

[hard ivy]

never seen someone missing 3 for that achievement. 1? multiple times. 2? once I think. but 3?

[sturdy mural]

you think that 1.1 could influence it?

waut

probably internet issue bruh

[deft wagon]

18th dec apparently

[ornate saffron]

I had to redo the on-boarding process to get this

[scenic mirage]

might be cooked... made plans for nuclear and ill be making 1800 nuclear waste/min and cant currently process that

[ivory condor]

I'm sorry for your lose

[blissful agate]

The industrial cratefield of doom beckons

[ivory condor]

Assuming you haven't started the nuclear plant, your not cooked...not yet anyways

[quick hound]

Here’s what you should do, go somewhere you know that you’ll never enter again and fill it with industrial storage boxes.

The irradiated field of DOOM

[little shale]

I’m enjoying the exploration in this game, but if I go back to my hub, how do I return to the previous area? Hypertube set up is tedious

[hard ivy]

whyever not

[ornate saffron]

Plutonium refinement is unlocked at the same time as nuclear no?

[sturdy mural]

you didnt start it yet
just finish waste processing

[blissful agate]

Even at max radiation I think you only need like 5 filters a minute so it's really not the end of the world with the dimensional depot

[sturdy mural]

nuclear is like 2nd unlock in the tier and waste is 5th

[ivory condor]

yes it is, so technically they arent cooked, as long as the 1800/min waste isnt being made atm

[ornate saffron]

I mean they are both tier 8

[scenic mirage]

I mean yeah technically. I just dont have time to plan that rn

[sturdy mural]

exactyl

[ivory condor]

but even in that worst case they could spam ISCs and save the waste for moment and rush to plutonium recycling online

[quick hound]

Why can’t I just eat a gram of uranium and become immortal

[ivory condor]

but ideally you should plan all of it before turning nuclear online, especially if your already looking at 1800/min

[ornate saffron]

Storage spam then prioritize plutonium rods. You ain't cooked. You got this

[sturdy mural]

guys
guys

i just killed a hatchling

by throwing a nobelisk at it

[quick hound]

Nice

[ivory condor]

I have bad news, those respawn unless you build in the same area

[sturdy mural]

everything does bruh

• you need power

[ivory condor]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-more-power-power-power-up-spongebob-squarepants-gif-22777710

[ornate saffron]

Say awwwwww mf

[somber monolith]

When does ficsmas start

[quick hound]

December

[sturdy mural]

?

[somber monolith]

December 1st?

[quick hound]

I’d surmise.

[sturdy mural]

dec1 - jan18

[somber monolith]

What’s the highest phase I need to be in to complete it?

[quick hound]

JUST KIDDING! YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR!

[ornate saffron]

In the of the movie Leviathan. The main character lights a stick of dynamite and throws it into the creatures mouth and yells " Say awe mother fucker"

Im not allowed to gif here

[somber monolith]

:(.

[jaunty slate]

Is there a bug with no new Ada/Alien Dialog? I started a new game. I got the first messages when picking up a Mercer Sphere and SommerSloop but none since.

[frail sleet]

180 uranium rods?

[ornate saffron]

Ther is a command and a option to turn them off

[hard ivy]

if you have foundries, you can complete it

[sturdy mural]

ooo

[hard ivy]

36. it's 50 wate per rod

[jaunty slate]

I'd like them on, the problem is they are gone.

[sturdy mural]

how much did you pick? its not every single time

[jaunty slate]

"Disable Narrative Messages" in options is turned off.

[frail sleet]

Ah I am derping. That's not so bad

[scenic mirage]

I'm not gonna go straight for 36/min I think, that seems a bit much. But then ofc, maybe I should 👀

[somber monolith]

How much uranium is there on the whole map

[jaunty slate]

I have 9 Spheres and 1 sloop

[quick hound]

Atleast 2.

[hard ivy]

2100

[quick hound]

wait so there aren’t like mining nodes?

It’s a finite resource??

[frail sleet]

2100/min from nodes

[somber monolith]

There is that’s the max you can make per min

[hard ivy]

2100/min from all nodes total

[quick hound]

how does one get rid of nuclear waste?

[somber monolith]

Plutonium

[hard ivy]

processing, toilet or doggo genocide

[quick hound]

elaborate.

[quick hound]

how does one process it?

[sturdy mural]

turn into plutonium

[quick hound]

and do you unlock the ability to when you unlock nuclear power?

[quick hound]

how do you do that?

[hard ivy]

uranium waste -> non-fissile uranium -> (plutonium pellets) -> plutonium cells -> plutonium rods

[sturdy mural]

same tier, but a few milestones

[somber monolith]

I hate the best plutonium recipe to make the most

[ornate saffron]

You process it into plutonium rods. Then you sink those or make more energy fron them. If you make more energy you need to make ficsonium rods which is a complex. Most ppl don't like ficsonium rods production.

[quick hound]

damn it

I’m stuck on phase 3 or 4 icr, cause idk how to make a good factory to produce everything I need to go into the next phase.. all my factories are horribly inefficient

I wish someone could help me build it but it’s hard to find ps5 players

[jaunty slate]

I picked up the sceond sloop, now it's working

[hard ivy]

plutonium is late tier 8

[quick hound]

I want to drown myself aaaaa

[sturdy mural]

plan stuf

[quick hound]

I SUCK AT THAT

[hard ivy]

use a tool

[sturdy mural]

take it slow/use a tool

[ornate saffron]

Just build a new factory for each of the new parts. You need to complete the phase. Are you familiar with satisfactory tools?

[quick hound]

No?

[ornate saffron]

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

[quick hound]

what is it?

[ornate saffron]

Go to calculator and choose what you want to make. Let's say modular engines. Then select the amount per minute yoy want

[quick hound]

Oh

[ornate saffron]

It will make a detailed chart of what you need

[quick hound]

I’ll check it out later

[ornate saffron]

In the other tabs you can tell it what materials you have and you can input your alt recipies

[quiet dagger]

wrong channel for this but no one responded in console chat, but is anyone having any issues with multiplayer? whenever my friend joins me I instantly crash

[quiet dagger]

on console

[fluid sapphire]

i just assembled 2 production lines, one to make precursors for phase 5 elevator parts, and one to make the parts themselves at a rate of 1 per minute per part, its hilarious how little general production is actually needed to set up production lines for this

[sturdy mural]

yeah multi on console seems to be broken

[quiet dagger]

thanks

[glass pagoda]

Is using the hard drive that turns production of steal beems from 4 to 42 per min. Is my save doomed

Because the other option was biocoal

Ewww bio coal

[fluid sapphire]

there are enough hard drives scattered around to unlock every alternate recipe in the game, and some to spare

[hard ivy]

you don't need to take either fyi

[glass pagoda]

I see

[sturdy mural]

there are like 260 drives???
i just got the achievement for getting 100 and im like 3 drives with all the recipes being chosen at least once
so you can no problem get all the alts and then some more
technically you can get infinite drives if you focus on coupons

[glass pagoda]

Every single one?

[fluid sapphire]

and then some

[sturdy mural]

yes every single alt

[glass pagoda]

Yay so I dont have to worry about losing other alts

[sturdy mural]

yep you dont have to

also if you dont want to pick a recipe, don't.
it will remove the 2 choices from the choice pool for the next drives

[glass pagoda]

So then I won't be able to get them anymore

?

[sturdy mural]

like if you get the biocoal recipe in the drive
and hold onto the drive (without picking either the biocoal or the other option)

you will not be able to get it again in the next drives

until you "release" it

[fluid sapphire]

basically the same options cant be on multiple drives sitting in your library

[glass pagoda]

Wdym

So cuz i did not pick bio coal i will never be able to see it again?

[sturdy mural]

you will

[glass pagoda]

Alr

[sturdy mural]

but if you were to not use the drive with biocoal in it, it will not drop again

[ivory condor]

why not utilize the biocoal its a great recipe right guys

[glass pagoda]

No papa

[sturdy mural]

until you unlock the 2nd recipe in the drive because then the biocoal gets thrown back into the pool

[glass pagoda]

So once I pick a recipe it won't be reused

Like refound

[sturdy mural]

if you pick the recipe, it gets unlocked - that one is gone, not reappearing ever

[glass pagoda]

Yay

[sturdy mural]

but the other recipe that you did NOT choose goes back to the loop

[glass pagoda]

Ty

[ivory condor]

well my advise is if you get biocoal and the other recipe you dont want either, keep it in the queue, neither can be picked next time, good way not to see either bad recipe again, assuming you dont want the other one in the future either

but the bad thing about doing that is you put the biocoal back into the queue so it can show up again, so....

Maybe its best just to pick biocoal so you never have to see it again, assuming the other recipe option is equally as bad somehow

[glass pagoda]

Eh there are enough drives to unlock everything so its all good

[sturdy mural]

in short:
lets say you have a drive with Biocoal and Steel Rotors

• you dont do anything - you can't roll Biocoal or Steel Rotors untill you either:
• pick Biocoal - you can't roll Biocoal ever again because you unlocked it, can roll Rotors now
• pick Rotors - you can't roll Rotors ever again because they're unlocked, you can roll Biocoal now

[ivory condor]

So picking biocoal recipe it is

[glass pagoda]

Papa stop

[sturdy mural]

Papa keep it up

[ivory condor]

Because as you say there are enough hard drives anyways and its best to just get through the pain and be done with it

[glass pagoda]

Okay papa

[ivory condor]

Well think about it, if you dont get rid of it, it can show up next time....

[sturdy mural]

best is to hold the hard drives unlocked, imprison the recipe until the end of time

also is it me or you can't unlock drives if there's only 1 recipe possible anymore

[glass pagoda]

Okay papa I will terminate anything i don't like

[sturdy mural]

i swear previously you could and the 2nd card would just be empty

[ivory condor]

typically I hold the biocoal recipe if the other recipe I dont want also, so I dont have to see either one nexxt time

[fluid sapphire]

you can, still

[sturdy mural]

you can?? it does not let me

[ivory condor]

and then once im done doing all recipe unlocks I want, i go through what is essentially my garbage list of recipes stuck in the mam and get rid of them at the end

thats typically how i handle recipe unlocks with mam now, because you can remove recipes you dont want via not picking either

[fluid sapphire]

i have a drive sitting in there with 1 recipe

#screenshots message

[mortal ginkgo]

hard choice, wow

this game got truly hard times to consider

[sturdy mural]

huh..

[fluid sapphire]

i actually have a second one with just 1 recipe

[sturdy mural]

maybe cuz you did not do phase 4 and still have things to unlock

[fluid sapphire]

that was the last one i believe

[mystic oriole]

at least you have the option to re-roll

[fluid sapphire]

the pool is bigger now, i have picked some things since then

[fluid sapphire]

dont really need to, i have all the recipes i wanted to finish phase 4

a plan is in motion

[ornate saffron]

this happens when there is only one possible recipe in the pool

[leaden matrix]

What do you guys use as supports for your rails? ;-;

[fluid sapphire]

these uglies ehheheh #screenshots message

[sturdy mural]

doesnt let me tho

[leaden matrix]

Thats, ALOT of effort for a railway😭

[fluid sapphire]

this is a blueprint, so not at all

[leaden matrix]

Ah, I lowkey forgot those exist ;-;

[hard ivy]

air

[fluid sapphire]

pink lines with green dots, all over the map, most of this took around 2 days, cant imagine how long it would take without blueprints, but i am also a maniac that puts everything on the world grid

#screenshots message

[ornate saffron]

depnds on the style im going for. I pay attention to the architecture of the world around me in real life and transfer the ideas i like into the game
or I pull insperation from steam punk and /science fiction

[dawn path]

what is the earliest you can automate rocket fuel again? phase 3 or 4?

[hard ivy]

Tier 8

[dawn path]

gotcha

i assume turbofuel becomes a thing in phase 3 then?

[hard ivy]

tier 5

[gilded pawn]

t8 just left me on tier 8 😭 bro ghosted me

[dawn path]

🫰

what
wrong emoji

[placid stirrup]

No, no. That was the right emoji

[sturdy mural]

⬅️

[hard ivy]

the name is so long discord just shows ... lmao

[sturdy mural]

THIS is the right emoji

[dawn path]

no that's the left emoji

[ornate saffron]

need blenders for turbo and well pressurizer for rocket

[sturdy mural]

you aint right buddy

[dawn path]

ahh okay

[hard ivy]

you don't need blenders for turbo

[ornate saffron]

I stand corrected lol

[dawn path]

youre right im left

[sturdy mural]

yeh

[gilded pawn]

guys lowkey how does one continue a solo world 😔

[sturdy mural]

wdym

[fluid sapphire]

press Continue on the main menu screen

[ornate saffron]

I just realized ive only made blended turbo fuel lol.

[sturdy mural]

im middle

[placid stirrup]

Perseverance, grit, chutzpah, and a whole lot of moxie

[sturdy mural]

autism works too

[hard ivy]

and adhd

[ornate saffron]

Autsim is if Sturburn, Moxie and Grit fused

[gilded pawn]

i got 2 t8 with a friend but his ahh crashed out because i had fun 💀 and blocked me 130 hours into the world🥀 (started 8 days ago)

[gilded pawn]

good idea

[sturdy mural]

you played more than 12h for 8 days what

16 hours

[gilded pawn]

yeah

[sturdy mural]

unless you afked

[ornate saffron]

I did that for vacation this year lol

[gilded pawn]

few nights

[dawn path]

been my saving grace these 900 hours

[sturdy mural]

dude i see your tag
my man

[gilded pawn]

but i got to t8 in about a week

personally i think that's not that bad

[ornate saffron]

As long as it doesn effect you mental, Physical and Social health its fine

[sturdy mural]

me who has played on my world for over a month now and still did not finish the game:

[dawn path]

satisfactory and social in the same sentence?

[sturdy mural]

the only socializing i do is here mid-calc session

[gilded pawn]

What effected me mentally was the fact his ahh blocked me because i made a train and not automate mk5 belts 💀

[dawn path]

my guy
i have like 400h on this save, been going on and off for over a year now
i havent done a single milestone in phase 5

[gilded pawn]

im at uh power plants rn and idk if i should just finish the game on my own or start again and look for a group of people

[sturdy mural]

you just like me fr

i started playing during last ficsmas
350h
on and off
i am barely after finishing all milestones

[dawn path]

part of why im doing a new save is because literally ALL my builds are... unfinished 💔
and it's way too much work to go around tweaking every little mediocre build back in my 300h days, considering my skills have grown quite a bit since then

[sturdy mural]

why not play yourself

[sturdy mural]

why start over
just tear stuff down and rebuild

[fluid sapphire]

heh, 1 year, 1100 hours, still havent finished phase 4

[sturdy mural]

you'll have the upgrades already

[gilded pawn]

Because playing with people is more fun 🔥

[outer girder]

bruuuuuuh wym hand equipment slot research is still bugged

[dawn path]

again that's alot of work, when i could just start fresh
if anything that's what i need rn 🙃

[gilded pawn]

😭

[sturdy mural]

dang, my internet is so bad i have to play with myself

wait

[gilded pawn]

ahhh that's tough man

[sturdy mural]

wait no.

[celest umbra]

HOW IS SATISFACTORY SO ADDICTIVE

[sturdy mural]

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

[gilded pawn]

why is the grass green ah question BECAUSE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[celest umbra]

BRO I SPENT ALMOST 2H ON MY FACTORY TRYING TO AUTOMATE BEFORE PHASE 2

[ornate saffron]

its a hard one but being non toxic and being in this discord being proactively social is helping ^-^

[celest umbra]

HELP BRO I DONT HAVE ENOUGH ELECTRICITY BRUH

[sturdy mural]

BUILD MOREE

[gilded pawn]

2h? boy you got a long way ahead of u lol

[celest umbra]

My party has like 12h

[ornate saffron]

wheat is golden/ yellow. its also grass and delish

[celest umbra]

I spent 2h today

[gilded pawn]

Yk ama just play it while watching sum

[celest umbra]

8 coal generator, 3 water pump, 1 normal coal node

[sturdy mural]

satisfactory players the type of mf to invent time dilation machine to play for 30h a day

[sturdy mural]

make it 32 gens

[celest umbra]

frrr im in love of that game

[celest umbra]

Bruh

[ornate saffron]

think my first coal gen setup was 24 coal plants

[celest umbra]

With How many coal node ?

[fluid sapphire]

i made it to oil with 16

[dawn path]

i already did this

im 2 steps ahead

[ornate saffron]

The numbers were diffrent then so the answer doesnt help lol

[gilded pawn]

i spent a few hours making a nice big battery it can hold about 20GW if u wanna use some :)

[celest umbra]

Dang

[ornate saffron]

im in my first post 1.0 playthrough right now. I skipped Coal this time

[sturdy mural]

i did with 8 gens lol

[celest umbra]

Ohhh, ur talking about inverter ?

Is it worth it ?

[sturdy mural]

a battery

[gilded pawn]

inverter?

[ornate saffron]

!wikisearch cg

[raven axle]

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

[gilded pawn]

u mean the power storage?

[celest umbra]

Yeah that

[sturdy mural]

!wikisearch battery

[raven axle]

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

[celest umbra]

It’s called inverter in french so im lost

[sturdy mural]

not this one, machine

[celest umbra]

Noooo

!wikisearch inverter

[raven axle]

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

[celest umbra]

Bruh.

[gilded pawn]

well you need quite a few but a 20GW battery can keep a 10GW factory running for about 2 IRL hours so its good if u get power cuts

[ornate saffron]

yes a inverter lol (im canadian)

[sturdy mural]

!wikisearch accumulator

[raven axle]

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

[sturdy mural]

nvm

[celest umbra]

Yes the accumulator

[sturdy mural]

big barrel :3

[gilded pawn]

but depending on ur power intake it does take quite a while to fill them all up (minimum being 1 hour, maxium ive seen is 337 hours 😭 )

[celest umbra]

The large battery that stores the electricity that is not used?

[sturdy mural]

yes

[celest umbra]

My brother Said it was worth it

[gilded pawn]

can the large battery give the hovercraft more like power?

so u dont gotta be close to a power pole

[sturdy mural]

i guess kinda?

[ember path]

as a back up yes

[sturdy mural]

not like that im pretty sure

[fluid sapphire]

!wikisearch power+storage

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=power+storage

[sturdy mural]

but if you have an unstable power consumption/production then it helps it a bit

[fierce matrix]

hey guys how do i import someone elses bp to my world

[ornate saffron]

I think i say this everytime people brings up power storage... But i use the Power Priority switches to segment my power into diffrent levels of priority this way Core infrastructure doesnt turn off. By making your power plants the highest priority. This wayyou never have to black start them, This allows you to upgrade you power in peace when needed

[gilded pawn]

eh i got power storages

[sturdy mural]

how i feel after spending 5h building a power storage just for it to die within 4 minutes of my powerplant failing: