satisfactory

[whole drum]

It's just a baseless accusation

[ocean frost]

Not everyone plays factorio

[pine patrol]

its using splitters and max conveyor outputs to balance inputs/outputs

[quick hound]

the hell is factorio?

[ornate meteor]

is there like a T junction for pipes? going 4ways every time kinda hurting my eyes

[pine patrol]

that word is forbidden here

[hard ivy]

nope :)
https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Balancer

[ornate saffron]

I have not -played FActoriop

[whole drum]

And the person he's trying to attack this way has played it and does know

[ocean frost]

The daddy of factory games

[quick hound]

I blame kyo for this

[frail sleet]

You can make packaged setup more efficient by unloading the packaged oil and then loading empty packages on the same train. That way 100% of your train trips are using full trains instead of 50% (packaged) and your train holds twice as much oil as a fluid train.

Packages are also a one-time, automateable cost - you don't need to continually input them, so if you automate production then they're essentially free forever. Even if you want to use the node later that you're automating from, your old packages don't disappear - you just stop getting more.

That being said, most of the time you can just use more train carts and not care.

Personally i avoid fluid carts because the loading/unloading is a bit complex. You can set up a few blueprints for doing it and make them known-good, but i never bothered.

[summer swift]

Oh neat, apparently ive just been using manifolds this entire time
didnt know that it had a name

[old bramble]

😂 My Lizard Dog NASA brought me a Nuke Dynamite 😂

[whole drum]

There are several videos that demonstrate the difference as well

[pine patrol]

whats the difference i just read it and cant tell a difference or contradiction between my statement and load/belt balencers

[hard ivy]

It doesn't use belt speed limits

[pine patrol]

it... it can

[hard ivy]

It can't

[pine patrol]

they provide the same exact purpose

[hard ivy]

If you're intentionally bottlenecking it, it's no longer a balancer

You're supposed to get equal outputs regardless of input

If you're bottlenecked, eventually that breaks down

[pine patrol]

i just realized i was a retard

😔

[dense violet]

most people end up doing manifolds w/o realising it 🙂

[whole drum]

It's just really easy for most things you need in the game

[pine patrol]

they look better more compact

[whole drum]

The main thing I ever use balancers for is dividing up the feeds from higher tier miners to go to different smelter arrays

[ornate saffron]

I played to much whiole super tired last night.... I gottta fix all my mistakes now lol

[pine patrol]

epic

[surreal meteor]

Let me try that.

[ocean frost]

I normally have a separate smelting array for each miner

[median rain]

Exactly, it uses less space and if you just plug it in before finishing the whole factory, by the time you’re done, it’s probably done evening the conveyers out

[pine patrol]

there are a good lot of uses for load balencers

most of the ones i can think of are with mass amounts of items to transport

like kibitz's aluminum line

[hard ivy]

The main use for balancers is loading/unloading trains

I used to use them a lot in factories too, but mixers took their job recently

[gentle lion]

Can you make a junction on hypertube that is both an entrance and exit?

[silk ocean]

Did someone ping me xD

[hard ivy]

You can check your notification history to find out

Unless you have those off

[silk ocean]

Remind me how, I tried the search, "from: .." etc

[ornate saffron]

the put down the three way junction the just put a entrance at the part you want. Mond you without having a 5 or 6 meter entrance tube you are not giving yourself much time to select a path

[silk ocean]

I take answers from KYO xD

And others ofc

[hard ivy]

No, it's like in the general discord UI. On mobile, it's bottom middle when you open the sidebar with servers etc

[pine patrol]

search for @every1 and @her3 and @silk ocean

[silk ocean]

I am a peasant on Windows xD

[fluid sapphire]

its "mentions"

[hard ivy]

Pretty sure @ everyone and @ here are not allowed

(I am not testing my luck XD)

[pine patrol]

i would rather be safe than muted

[hard ivy]

I am basing it solely on the fact that I've never seen anyone use either of these

[pine patrol]

._.

[hard ivy]

And if they were allowed, some idiot would've atted everyone to get help with their pipes already

[fluid sapphire]

probably just get filtered out

[silk ocean]

None works but I don't search for the past xD

[ornate saffron]

coal seems to be the hot subject since consol release lol

[hard ivy]

There should be a notification bell somewhere on the discord UI. That shows you your notification history

[silk ocean]

I can paste you my UI, not sure where

[hard ivy]

I just turned off my PC, I'm not turning it back on to check XD

[hard ivy]

#off-topic-media ? Idk

[fluid sapphire]

top right, left of the question mark, there is inbox

[whole drum]

Exactly. This is why most servers disallow it from people who aren't moderators or above.

[fluid sapphire]

it has a mentions section

[whole drum]

On PC, there's an inbox in the corner that looks like you're aiming down the sights of a red dot from COD. That's where mentions typically are.

[wind marsh]

what do i need to fight the big spiders or biggest hogs? every time i see one i start running as fast as i can lol

[silk ocean]

I help a lot in #dedicated-servers help is my thing there

[whole drum]

Either more firepower or more intelligence xD

[wicked nacelle]

Ranged stuff.

And a jet pack or hover pack helps a lot

[surreal meteor]

Build some lookout towers to get really high up and use a rebar gun.

If you get high enough they don't even notice you, even when you start shooting.

[whole drum]

There are honestly so many ways to deal with them

Hogs like to charge you and fly off cliffs, for example

You can also use the blueprint designer to make a cope cage

[surreal meteor]

I had a dream where I was looking at SCIM and thinking about building a nuclear power plant in the Rocky Desert because there was a caterium vein there. When I checked the location after waking up, IT WAS ACTUALLY PERFECT FOR NUCLEAR POWER. In the dream, I then saw a notification on my phone about an airdrop, went outside, and saw a cylinder thing with a parachute attached to it. I took it in, and then got scared because I thought it might be a bomb. After that, I was thinking about buying NVIDIA stock because they would go up and I would get rich in a few months.

The location I was thinking about: -1300, -1800

[whole drum]

I wouldn't be worried about bombs. Either it's not a bomb, and the fear is unwarranted--or it is a bomb, and you won't know until it's too late anyway. 😄

[dense violet]

jet pack helps. A blueprint of a small fortress too

[real vapor]

Am I weird for completely dismantling my whole factory every time I get a new tier

[ornate saffron]

I wouldnt go as far as wierd. But I imagine that is not the norma ^_^

I personally leave the old ones up and just make new factories

[wicked nacelle]

You could make a blueprint of a fortress that had a little chest with a rifle and ammo in it

And then just upload it after you’re done

[real vapor]

You could

[whole drum]

You can use equipment workbenches as shields are easy for you to shoot out and hard for enemies to move through

[wicked nacelle]

But honestly the enemies aren’t hard once you can fly and shoot

Though maybe harder on console/controller

[azure reef]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1441581242083577986/image.png?ex=692250a7&is=6920ff27&hm=8d4970232604baa52f35d497f2cbddde736c610f211146978908e1989a4c6864& i have no idea where to put the path signals, i cant understand them for the life of me, i just need the two locomotives to not collide

[wicked nacelle]

That screenshot needs 0 path signals. Just use block signals.

[azure reef]

sorry, i meant block signals

[ocean frost]

I normally draw a circle around the Intersection and place a block signal where the circle hits the track.

You replace the entrance with path signals if you move to level 2

[wicked nacelle]

You only use path signals if you have a complex junction where two trains can sometimes use it at the same time but sometimes can’t

[lofty forge]

thanks to making the shorter path, the normal path. you do not need complex signaling just block signals at the start and end of each station and it should be good

[wicked nacelle]

Wrong @ but yeah that would work. Though more signals would make it smoother

[lofty forge]

oh whoops

[azure reef]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1441582116302491730/image.png?ex=69225177&is=6920fff7&hm=5e1d4cad9048fb952f10816bf84f71f8c3f96dc88b28e73392be13f6fdde3b6b& like this?

[wicked nacelle]

Looks like you have one way rail so you don’t want two signals at each spot just one. That defines which way the trains go

Whichever way the trains approach the front of the signal is the direction they have to go to pass through it

[lofty forge]

you can give the trains a direction by placing a single signal. at the moment it seems more confusing for no reason

the "denied/cross out" sign is the direction trains cannot go in. it turns off when you place 2 signal at the same spot

[north summit]

YARG I BE SEARCHIN THE SEVEN SEAS (Massage 4) IN SEARCH OF BURIED TREASURE (Hard Drives)

[ocean frost]

Kinda, you place a block at the start of the start of the intersection but also at the end

[wicked nacelle]

Alts are good. Alts are fun. A good nice alt ne’er hurt no one.

[tranquil saffron]

Tonight, I learned what true "satisfaction" is after getting my trains to load and unload their freight properly in a loop. Good lord. Looking forward to the next challenges...

[ocean frost]

In your case you also should be placing the signal on one side of the track because you only want trains to go one way

[lofty forge]

^yup. more simpler/digestible version of what i said

[lofty forge]

not really. you just want to block out the stations right? if you do it like this stations and the track will be on the same "block". aka train will think there is a train on the road despite it only being on the station and therefore, stop.

[azure reef]

okay i was just really confused and had no idea how they even worked, i think i've got it?

[wicked nacelle]

Yeah you want block signals at the start of the station and end of station. Right on the start and end

You don’t want the docking train to stop a train from going by the bypass

[azure reef]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1441584826267472104/image.png?ex=692253fd&is=6921027d&hm=8c3db052c462d44eda99b916fb01065e4f46c802d3b056d5af9081c604f5cf07&

[neon hollow]

I’ve stressed myself out with my factories to the point I lost motivation to play and I’m mad at myself

[wicked nacelle]

Yes that’s better. Probably time to make a help thread about this though

[median geyser]

Maaaan I fucked up 😂 I turned down the option to make heavy residue directly from crude oil, thinking "man, who would want the burn off byproduct of fuel production".... its me... I want the burnoff byproduct 😂

[lofty forge]

yeah that looks better

[wicked nacelle]

Diluted fuel wants it

[median geyser]

I turned it down, then my next 2 hdds were diluted and heavy turbo b2b

Im so mad, I had a near perfect fuel setup in 3 hdds but didnt know how it worked at the time and screwed myself 😂

[silk ocean]

I'm just going to say is this channel is for PC. If someone says a non-PC bind then tough. Go the console chan, or learn PC. Seems fair?

[frail sleet]

also keeping buffers empty of radioactive materials, and reducing startup time

if you mix or manifold rods into 256 uranium NPP's then the startup time is measured in days, and it has a huge radiation field. If you balance, there is zero radiation because the rod is consumed and the building inventory is empty for its whole burn - and startup time is 5 minutes.

[silk ocean]

Far too much going on - "press R". sorry, this is a PC game

This is a PC game

[clever lagoon]

is petroleum coke used in t he endgame

[frail sleet]

yes

[silk ocean]

Console? be fortunate. This is a PC game

[ocean frost]

It can be, a small or large part of the end game depending on how you play.

It is very useful for aluminum imo

But not required

[lofty forge]

i dont know are you going to use alt recipes?

circuit board and aluminium scrap has good recipes for it

and turbo blend fuel

[stable prairie]

Do trains need to be on circuits, or is point A to B fine?

[dense violet]

it can be very useful sure.

[hard ivy]

1. the startup time is 4 hours regardless of the number of gens because you're a smart person and don't fill them when the water is on. Under 2 hours, if they're at 250%

2. the radiation field extends literally ~5 foundations outside of the gen's bounding box. Also, hazmat suit makes it basically irrelevant

[lofty forge]

point a to point b is fine. dont know if you need a locomotive on both sides tho.

[dense violet]

A to B is generally easier to set up and manage

[ocean frost]

It's also super easy to make so you can always scale up later

[dense violet]

you can always go far fancier but that's up to you - Almost everything in this game can be made very simple or insanely complicated

[stable prairie]

It's telling me that stations are unreachable despite them all going in the same direction

I have buffer stops at the end of the rails

[dense violet]

you probalby have a station facing the wrong way

or both stations

probably the most common rookie train mistake

[stable prairie]

Can train stations only face the wrong way on end point rail systems?

[ocean frost]

there really should be better UI for stations

[dense violet]

not sure what you mean, a train station needs to face the way the train is coming in

[ocean frost]

You can have it on the wrong side left or right or facing the wrong direction inwards

[stable prairie]

So the arrow faces towards the first station?

[lofty forge]

no. in more complex railroutes it will try to find a pathway that end up in the right direction. if there is none it will still say "station unreachable" on looped railways as well

[ocean frost]

Away

Is it a push pull ?

[green fiber]

the arrow should face in the direction the arriving locomotive faces

[stable prairie]

I've got one locomotive, maybe that's my issue

[ocean frost]

Is your rial a big circle?

[wind marsh]

is turbo fuel worth using for power? just finished a factory for the last 2 parts of phase 3 and max is about 4k over production, should i use turbo fuel or just make a giant regular fuel power plant?

[stable prairie]

End to end, not a loop

[green fiber]

up to you - some ditch it for just diluted fuel or go for rocket fuel

[lofty forge]

probably the train needs to arrive to the opposite of the way station is facing. aka direction of the arrow when placing a station down

[ocean frost]

You need a locomotive on each side

[lofty forge]

if its a single rail where the train backs up/reverses then you need 2 locomotives one on each end facing opposite directions

[stable prairie]

That's my issue then

[lofty forge]

<---->

[stable prairie]

Working on it

[lofty forge]

(//// <----- always

[stable prairie]

It's working so far, gotta wait to see if it'll load cargo

Sucks you can't place locomotives in opposite directions like you do IRL

---------<>

Interesting, I lost a locomotive somehow

[ocean frost]

You can

[quick hound]

@north cloud (don’t smite me) but am I allowed to put an ad out? I was gonna offer a PlayStation gift card for someone to help me make a super great factory. Just didn’t want to break any rules

[stable prairie]

Turns out you only need one?

[whole drum]

A lot of people here dislike T-Fuel, but I honestly think it's fine. You can use any fuel, tbh. It mostly depends on what recipe you want to use and how much effort you want to put into it.

[charred sandal]

There any rsignificant eason not to just maximize my nuclear power output from the start and use both alts for uranium?

[ocean frost]

Dealing with the waste

[charred sandal]

I mean using the alts as opposed to the basic recipe.

If I just wanted less waste id just make less of them

[stable prairie]

Train doesn't stop to load for some reason

It just travels at max speed

[rapid scroll]

Is the game worth it to get on xbox currently?

[stable prairie]

I personally have experienced over 2 dozen bugs, but it's playable most of the time

I've only lost one 85 hour save

[rapid scroll]

I was just about to ask if the bugs are major like a game not saving

[quick hound]

I’ll wait a couple hours, and if I get no answer I’ll assume I can do it

[rapid scroll]

Imma think of getting it then thanks

[stable prairie]

Save files can corrupt like belts getting all items removed on loading and all player upgrades getting spontaneously reset

[ocean frost]

I personally wouldn't be able to play with the QOL features mods have. So it would be a no for me

[stable prairie]

I've had all factory recipes reset too, causing me to have to spend hours setting everything back up and making no progress

[zealous valley]

Is there a way to separate recipes on the to do list so that all the components show what recipes they are for?

Instead of just grouping them together

[stable prairie]

Quick fix for end point train systems: just put a loop at each end of the track so the train can turn around, essentially creating a loop

[lofty forge]

but then its not a point end to end system anymore

[stable prairie]

It wasn't working as an end point for me

Might be cause I just derailed on the extra locomotive I had

[lofty forge]

wait how can it not stop to load? isnt that end of the track ?

[torn nest]

hey could someone help me try and plan out my factory?

[stable prairie]

It treats it like it's unreachable

[lofty forge]

if your train is like this then you need

-------()

locomotives always have to end up at right under the station

[stable prairie]

That's strange

[lofty forge]

or at least there has to be at least 1

i always did loops so far dont know if something lik

-----(-------

would work for

-----<----><--

traveling > direction (this direction

[whole drum]

I think technically it could fall under the advertising/spam category, but I think it also depends on how/where/frequency that you post it. If it's just a one and done thing, I don't think it's going to bother people much--but I can't promise nobody takes issue and reports either.

[stable prairie]

Maybe I'm getting lost in translation here. What's the difference between > and (?

[whole drum]

It also depends on how the mods feel about it, ofc

[lofty forge]

locomotive

wait

locomotive

)

station

[stable prairie]

I think I might understand now

[lofty forge]

i though it would fit because the stations have rounded corners

[stable prairie]

So, how many cars can be loaded at stations? Do I need a whole additional freight station per car?

[whole drum]

@quick hound
Now that I think about it more, I would just ask a mod directly before doing it.

[placid comet]

Thats how I'm doing it. Point A and B with loops reconnecting the main track. I mainly just use it for transport since there's nothing I feel is worth shipping over between locations

At least what I have available

[quick hound]

I pinged two separate mods and no answer.

[stable prairie]

I go through so much coal that it warrants a train

[whole drum]

Just wait

[quick hound]

I’ll make a ticket

[lofty forge]

there isnt really a limit, you need a new locomotive every 3 freight cars if you want to maintain speed tho.yes a car needs a platform right on top of it if you want to load/unload

[stable prairie]

Ouch, so a 50 car realistic train is definitely a no go

[green fiber]

that depends on the slope of the rails

50 cars is perfectly doable.... if you got 100% flat rails

[lofty forge]

important point

[dense violet]

totally doable. Just have more engines or flat rails

[stable prairie]

Now if the train could use one freight station and load each car individually by moving up, then it would work

[quick hound]

I made a ticket :)

[livid geyser]

Should I just start building train station and learn as I go?

[lofty forge]

maximum slope for rails need a new loco every 2 cars

[dense violet]

that would be ... the worst thing for throughput. You don't want that

[stable prairie]

But that would take 50 freight stations seeing only one car can be loaded per station

[placid comet]

It'd be more practical to set up multiple trains. Besides, Do you really need 50 freight cars

[dense violet]

why can only 1 car be loaded per station? have 50 platforms

[tranquil saffron]

Excuse me sir do u have a PhD in Satisfactory train mathetmatics?

[green fiber]

eh, you'd be closer to 3, the max slope doesnt even allow rails to be built on it

and if you never fill those cars up 100% you can also get away with more
but for the extreme case - yes 2 or 3 waggons per loc

[sharp basin]

@whole drum So, my 1st factory is going well. Producing every low tier product that I’ll need through the game. Not counting anything steel related (that will be for my 2nd factory), I have a production of:

• concrete
• quartz cristal
• iron rod
• iron plate
• reinforced iron plate
• wire
• copper sheet
• silica
• cable

Not missing anything? Fuck screws, they’re useless. Every item like modular frame is steel related so don’t care for now. Unless you have an idea? I could use one more floor (6x20 foundations).

[stable prairie]

Maybe that's something else I'm doing wrong, I have mark 2 miners feeding a freight station and it only fills one car before calling it quits

[lofty forge]

max slope that rails can be built at, which is a 4 meter and 2 meter ramp for length of 2 foundations

[green fiber]

for those the ratio is still 1:3* roughly

[livid geyser]

I should design this factory. This sounds fun

[tranquil saffron]

screws are useless? thats new to me. not used in high tier stuff?

[stable prairie]

I'm going through an insane amount of screws rn

[ornate saffron]

Screws are not useless. But not wanting to use them is like a millianal not liking nickleback

[sharp basin]

May be in high tier stuff, but for now, they’re just elements of chains, don’t need to stock them.

[quick hound]

One day I plan to make a train that goes to over a hundred platforms with a hundred freight cars transporting literally every building material to a storage system

[stable prairie]

I had an industrial storage filled with just screws and I keep draining it empty

[livid geyser]

Been there

[placid comet]

For real screw screws I was so happy when I found the steel beam alt recipe for screws. No more waiting around

[stable prairie]

That's my dream, but it'll be insanely difficult seeing it's 1 freight station per car

[quick hound]

Looks like your “screwed” I’ll see myself out

[sharp basin]

So I’m not forgetting anything?

[ornate saffron]

I make sure I build enough screws for the factory and deliver them immediately as needed. None sitting in storage.

[lofty forge]

most people from what i have seen jsut uses "stitched iron plate", "steeled frame" and "heavy encased frame" which takes out screws completely

[ornate saffron]

Looks right to me

[dense violet]

You really need to go by return time to calculate throughput - also making a train that stops by a TON of stations is a massive amount of effort. Not worth it imo

[wicked nacelle]

I don't. I have no issues with using screws

[whole drum]

You could add Caterium/Quickwire here if you wanted to, but it's not strictly necessary at this stage.

[wicked nacelle]

don't ship quickwire. ship ingots

it's like shipping screws

[sharp basin]

Perfect. Not far from finishing it. Then I’ll go east, you know, the lake at the Blue Crater. Plenty of coal and iron for my steel factory. 🏭

[ornate saffron]

Did you start in the grass plains?

[livid geyser]

Sounds like rocky desert

[sharp basin]

I thought about it, but it only leads to AI Limiters for now so….

[stable prairie]

Rn I have the train gathering coal, then oil products. I might expand to metals and minerals later on once I add smaller trains/more stations

[placid comet]

Is new stuff still being added? I'm only now questioning why there's no priority splitter for machines that use more or less of something

[whole drum]

It's also used for mk2 power poles, so hooking some up to a DD is pretty convenient

[wicked nacelle]

every splitter is a priority splitter. when the thing fills up it prioritizes other ports

[stable prairie]

I get around that issue using smart splitters

[somber monolith]

I’ve got a old factory in the green feilds but it’s not very good anymore would it be better to ship the raw ore to my new base and destroy that factory or ship the products to my new factory

[wicked nacelle]

for sure but you can do that anywhere you make quickwire where you need it for something else, too

[stable prairie]

Leave the old factory as an abandoned relic to keep life in the world

[sharp basin]

Yep! My 1st factory is built around the big stone arch, so I have the Manta visiting my HUB and it’s really cool, she passes just above my glass roof.

[whole drum]

Absolutely. I don't think it's too important to add to his base factory.

[somber monolith]

I likely will it’s not blocking anything important

[ornate saffron]

There is a pure coal node near there

[quick hound]

You can pet her :>

[stable prairie]

I built my base out in the north woods and I'm working south for somersloops

[somber monolith]

South of that arch isn’t it?

[ornate saffron]

Are you the person that wanted to build with the arch in mind?

[stable prairie]

I think everyone does that their first playthrough, I know I did

[ornate saffron]

Not far ya,

[somber monolith]

I think only 40 or so floor tiles

[sharp basin]

Yep

[ornate saffron]

Up on a cliff like structure ya. I havent played in that area since update 7

[somber monolith]

You haven’t been to green feilds once in that long?

[whole drum]

Not missing much. It's the poorest biome.

[somber monolith]

It’s not that bad

[ornate saffron]

I haven't built there no. Just passed through for sloops, sphere and to set up rail

[whole drum]

I don't mean "bad." I mean like economically poor. It has the fewest resources.

[sharp basin]

@ornate saffron @quick hound ping you in #design-and-architecture

[somber monolith]

Fr? It seems quite rich to me

[torn nest]

if i have mrk 2 belts how many mk1 smalters can I build like can i build only 4 without having my conveyers backed up or can I build 8 and combine 2 pure nodes

[ornate saffron]

I like the area. I just wanted to do every start location and do some none standard start locations

[whole drum]

I've done this too. Grass is the only start I dislike.

I'll give it this though: It has some of the easiest access to SAM, behind Northern Forest.

[ornate saffron]

And under the arch

Amd a great coal generator area

[whole drum]

No, I mean that Grass is the 2nd easiest. N Forest is 1st.

For SAM access

[ornate saffron]

Gotcha. I did Nforest this time. It has everyrhig

[dense violet]

calculate by parts per min, not machine

figure out how much ore you're mining, how much ore each smelter wants

[whole drum]

It's probably the best start for people who know what to do

[ornate saffron]

Ive also done a start in the purple biome north of the blue crater and spire coast start. So far North forest has been my favorite

[whole drum]

Spire coast is crazy good, but my god... so, many, hatchers.

[ornate saffron]

Easy biomass and DNA capsules

[sharp basin]

Yeah, could be quickwire, you’re right, I have that caterium node just near my factory

[wicked nacelle]

the belt efficiency of quick wire is brutally bad though. just store and ship the ingots and make quickwire on demand

[ornate saffron]

You could do modular frames too, if you were so inclined

[quick hound]

Everyone, bully this man for giving the sky manta the name George.

[ornate saffron]

Naw, bullying is mean

[whole drum]

Agree. Just use some of it to match the upload speed of your DD and keep the rest on standby until needed.

[quick hound]

nuh uh

[quick hound]

I’m throwing you into my particle accelerator face first.

[whole drum]

Why does nobody call him Psycho Mantis as we should?

Who do you think ADA answers to anyway?

[quick hound]

Jesus?

[ornate saffron]

If I did that, I'd have to plug my controller in the player 2 slot

[whole drum]

Or bypass it entirely with M/KB

[quick hound]

if you plug a controller into the wall you can control your wifi manually :>

[ornate saffron]

I actually use ethernet over powerlines lol

[quick hound]

ew

CHAT LAUGH AT THEM!

har har har har har har hahahahahahah har

[ornate saffron]

I still get over 500mb/second for my NAS. Which is good enough for me

[quick hound]

NAS?

[ornate saffron]

Network attached storage.

[craggy vector]

Would you guys say that the elite gas stinger is the most dangerous enemy?

[whole drum]

Tied with rad-hog, imo

[craggy vector]

I’ve seen both of those and they are so damn scary

I think we need bigger enemies

[whole drum]

The spiders are def more scary tho

[craggy vector]

I feel like the spiders are technically more scary but nothing scares me more than a giant hog chasing me uphill

[teal crater]

But of a question about water in coal generators : is the water requirement a minimum or is it absolute?

[hard ivy]

It consumes 45/min. If you put in more, the buffer is just gonna fill and then it won't accept any more than 45/min

[quick hound]

Satisbactowy

[teal crater]

Okay I’m seeing that now

So if I overclocked 2 water extractors to 200%, they could safely produce enough water for 8 generators?

[native bloom]

That's going to get into are the pipes able to handle the flow

[quick hound]

Into are

[native bloom]

that's going to get into "Are the pipes able to handle the flow?"

better?

[quick hound]

yuh

[teal crater]

Well pipes can handle 300m of fluid right?

[wicked nacelle]

mk1 is 300 mk2 is 600

[teal crater]

Okay

[native bloom]

So, 200% 2 extractors are going to output 480m of fluid and an mk1 pipe is going to stop it at 300m

[teal crater]

Right the cap

[quick hound]

Where’s mk4pipes?

[wicked nacelle]

they're coming out in version 1.69

[teal crater]

At that point just save resources and build one extractor and overclock it to 250%

[quick hound]

where’s mk5 tractors

[wicked nacelle]

quiet duck

[teal crater]

Auto fills the pipe since it produces 300m of water

[native bloom]

Or two at 125 each, should cost less power to do that if I remember right.

[whole drum]

Unless space for extractors is really tight, just build 3 of them instead of clocking

[quick hound]

You won’t get tired of my voice will you?

[wicked nacelle]

does anyone else here quacking?

[native bloom]

I don't "hear" any quacking here

[quick hound]

You won’t get tired of my voice will you? You won’t get tired of my voice will you? You won’t get tired of my voice will you

[quick hound]

You won’t get tired of my voice will you?

[teal crater]

Well I think I need to do 2 extractors anyway since 8 generators need 360 of fluid

Wait how does that work

[wicked nacelle]

3?

[native bloom]

For that, just do a single pipe down the middle and extractors on either end

[whole drum]

Ah, the majestic space duck.

[wicked nacelle]

because no INDIVIDUAL section can carry 300 --- but after you split some off you can add mroe

[quick hound]

GILGA! Hi

[wicked nacelle]

if you think it through closely and about what amount of water goes where -- it still stays under 300 at every spot

[teal crater]

So the flow amount is greater than the amount it holds?

I’m missing something

I know it

[ocean frost]

I just bite the bullet and use 1 pump for every 2 coal gen, less stress and it's all temporary till fuel gens

[teal crater]

Well that’d be 16 water pumps then

[native bloom]

You have that backwars

it's 8 gen and 4 extractors, but if you feed both ends and overclock then you don't need to

[wicked nacelle]

so you tie two water extractors together so you're flowing 240/m out of 300/m the pipe can hold. Then you send it through a bunch of coal generators and the flow goes down 45 each time so after oen it's only 195/m. after two it's at 150/m -- NOW if you add in a third water extractor -- 150 + 120 is 270 -- still under 300

[wicked nacelle]

3 extractors, right?

[quick hound]

NO MATH

[native bloom]

He wants to overclock a single extractor to 300, so no

[lament wraith]

@hard ivy@glad quest@blissful agate

to you three that i was chatting with earlier i got it working at 95% throughput fluids are a pain

[barren glacier]

what's the appeal with trains? I see why drones are nice -- you don't need to set up any track, but with trains you do, so why use trains instead of conveyors? just curious

[wicked nacelle]

beacuse rail can carry SOOOO much more than a belt can]'

[native bloom]

I think it's a tism thing

[wicked nacelle]

the transfer rate per minute of rail is insane.

[ocean frost]

Let the man make his mistake so he can learn a lesson later

[teal crater]

So just add in the flow after it goes into the generators?

[wicked nacelle]

add in additional source water after it goes through some of the generators yes.

[lofty forge]

trains can carry soooooo much more than belts and drones can if you set them up well

[native bloom]

You want some help? I can just join in to get it moving

[wicked nacelle]

each generator your water passes through decreases the flow rate past it

[barren glacier]

so like if you wanted to transfer more than your max belt rate from point A to point B, a train might prove to be more useful?

[teal crater]

I’m on Xbox, apologies

[native bloom]

You can put 8 cars to a single train, and run multiple trains on the same track if you can handle it.

[wicked nacelle]

yes, VERY much so. You can always run more belts but that gets old real quick. Yeah you probably get ~100x more througput from rail than a belt.

[barren glacier]

oh cool, well, ill try to get some use out of them at some point

[ocean frost]

Do you think we will ever get some roles in this server

[lofty forge]

freight cars can act as portals for the belts. but with belts instead of building 10 2km long belts you just put 5 cars.

[teal crater]

I’d love roles

[whole drum]

Or choose not to, lol--I almost never use trains 😄

[native bloom]

I think that just requires epic accounts to be friends to join cross-play. Not sure but xbox and ps5 have crossplay

[teal crater]

I mean, I’m also on cloud play and my internet ain’t amazing

[frozen zealot]

Hey can anyone help me with power gen? I am producing like 8000MW (max capacity of like 5K before), but when I link the power production to the whole grid everything shuts off...

[native bloom]

All good

[teal crater]

I don’t want to subject anyone else to this

[ocean frost]

I try and avoid them too, I like to build compact and trains are massive

[whole drum]

I just generally don't see the need to transfer such large quantities of materials such long distances. I usually just build near the resources and ship finished products away.

Which drones can do more than well enough

[ocean frost]

I do it for aluminum and oil products

[wicked nacelle]

oil and aluminum aren't really available where your other resources that you may want to use.

and the sheer numbers you need of those makes drones not that useful

[whole drum]

But the products of those aren't so vast that it's necessary to use more than a single belt, usually

[dense violet]

go to #math-and-meta and post an images of your power panels

[wicked nacelle]

You're playing a different game than I am if you only have one belt of that stuff

[ocean frost]

If I could place truck nodes manually I would use them more often.

[whole drum]

The stuff that needs aluminum is usually built at the aluminum site

[ocean frost]

It's easier to process all the aluminum at one site so I bring in petro coke and all of the bauxite

[whole drum]

That's totally valid

I'm just lazy af with logistics

[quick hound]

starts snorting Pedro coke

[wicked nacelle]

"starts" my ass

[whole drum]

Usually either the inputs or outputs will have a low material/m quantity, so I just belt that side fo the factory

[ocean frost]

I find it's easier just to build a dirty rail line and fix it later

[whole drum]

Just cba with signals and stuff, lol

[lofty forge]

i only needed one belt 1 my first playthrough because i didnt care about quantity. it was just 1 manufacturer that was working and it was enough. heck i remember thinking "almost every machine uses under 270/min, why would i need mk5 belts?"

[quick hound]

Now that, would be an impossible challenge! The 1 belt challenge..

[ocean frost]

One belt sushi belt challenge

[lofty forge]

i remember very late into my playthrough, building a train between my main and oil station because 780/min finally wasnt enough anymore. and yes it was for recycled plastic and rubber

[median geyser]

Are there enough mercer spheres to make a dimensional storage depot for all major building items?

[whole drum]

This only sounds viable if you have a mod that gives extreme throughput from the start.

[whole drum]

yes

[ocean frost]

You can skip most of the early game with drops from crash sites

[whole drum]

I think starting with Smart Splitters would also probably be necessary

Sushi just doesn't function without them

[wicked nacelle]

sure it does

that's the whole point is that you get your ratios right

[whole drum]

That would be way too sensitive of a system, lol

[wicked nacelle]

I don't know what you think sushi belt means but that's what it means

were you the one that didn't know what a balancer is?

[whole drum]

No, that was just a baseless accusation

Dude just trying to ego max is all

[quick hound]

I shouldn’t have eaten Taco Bell holy fuck send help

[whole drum]

That's pretty much how I feel about fast food in general these days, lol

[karmic berry]

Does anybody have any megabase designs i could take inspiration from? Im building one in the desert for all my phase 4 parts, apart from one and want some ideas since ive never built a proper factory before

[dense violet]

search images in #design-and-architecture , prob best bet

[karmic berry]

Alright thanks

[unborn nova]

is there a splitter that i can open some sort of menu and type a specific percentage / amount to go out

[whole drum]

You could check out some YT videos for inspo as well

[dense violet]

use clocking and selective merging to do that

[karmic berry]

Alright

[unborn nova]

ok ill see if i can figure that out

[dense violet]

clocking in the single most powerful logistical too you have for the whole game

[karmic berry]

Im so far just thinking that i could build a large ramp up to the main base

[unborn nova]

what even is clocking

[dense violet]

clock machines to produce the right number of parts per min

you unlock that in the MAM

[median geyser]

Woops replied to the wrong msg

[unborn nova]

ohh ok ye i got that with the power cells and stuff

[karmic berry]

I saw that too buddy

[median geyser]

Ive assumed thus far that the programmable splitter would be able to do what highnu wants. If thats not what it does, how does it work?

[dense violet]

smart splitter with more options on each output

it has very niche uses

[median geyser]

ah, unlucky

[dense violet]

why? clocking does it all

[whole drum]

Smart splitter is super useful tho

[unborn nova]

whats selective merging

[dense violet]

merge only the machines that produce the right parts per min you need on the belt

[unborn nova]

mm

[dense violet]

also, if you're just feeding machines, manifolds self balance

[dense violet]

for example, this feeds those 4 machines evenly https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1407002332239237210/1407004901015294013/image.png?ex=69226e2d&is=69211cad&hm=cfccd3f2355bc30fcf613172f18a339424057227e39aafcd49c93716a049b4ec&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=418&height=350

[unborn nova]

ima make a post in questions and help

[glass pagoda]

Why is this place so foggy and blue it's not blue crater because I can't see shit

Where am i

[dense violet]

Limbo

[glass pagoda]

Im sorry?! Like the first layer of hell

[dense violet]

from the description 😛

[glass pagoda]

It's a forest in between blue crator and grass fields with fog unlike anything I've ever seen before

[median geyser]

Giant crator just north east of a weird stone arch thing?

[dense violet]

just sounds like the jungle

[median geyser]

Its the giant crater I starter next to in the plains i think

If not, then def jungle, but I think thats more north

[glass pagoda]

That's blue crater I'm talking about southwest between blue crater and plains forest

Ima try to get to it again

[median geyser]

Blue crater is much further north east than what I described

#screenshots message Here my main base is roughly where the crater I was talking about is, compared to blue crater off to the east, where my oil field is

[glass pagoda]

I'll try to get a photo

That isint blue crator

I mean the main section

The sam ore is the heart of it but correct me if I'm wrong

[median geyser]

Interesting, that's what I was told blue crater refered to, as well as saw on some maps. Totally possible I was misguided 🤷

[glass pagoda]

Are there big blue bulbs sticking out of the ground

[sweet bough]

factory

[glass pagoda]

@median geyser

[median geyser]

Im looking into location names so as to properly figure out where I am, where you are, and solve this 😂

According to the map on the wiki, my oil field is the large lake in Blue Crater, yes

[glass pagoda]

The place dosent have a name

[median geyser]

And my main base is in the south east corner of Grass Fields (start 1)

[glass pagoda]

Ima check the ma00

[median geyser]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/satisfactory_gamepedia_en/images/3/31/Biome_Map.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20221021182918 This is the map I have been using as reference. Please let me know if you use a different one

[glass pagoda]

Im thinking of crator lakes lol

It's the southern forest you should check it out. Just make sure to leave everything in a box if not on peaceful mode

[median geyser]

Ive covered most of the map, Im just not super familiar with the names. I just go places and do things

[spark shore]

yo gang, does someone want to help me out rq? me and my buddy are on the first playthru and have ZERO idea how liquids work. do they not manifold like normal materials???

[glass pagoda]

Have you been to southern forest

[glass pagoda]

They dont

[median geyser]

Yes, I had to cross it to make my oil field. I started in Grass Fields, went through southern forest, made my oil in Blue Crater, and later went west all the way around the edge of the map until I got back to Blue Crater

[median geyser]

No, they distribute evenly in the direction of flow. Your pipe junctions are not splitter machines, they are just places pipes link up

[whole drum]

Read the first few pages of this to get the basic gist. Read the rest if you want a deeper understanding. It's not necessary to do most of the advanced stuff though.
https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?title=File%3APipeline_Manual.pdf&page=1

[glass pagoda]

My base has 4 pure iron nodes , one normal catiruam or whatever it's called the thing thst makes quick wire and 1 pure coper node along with 1 pure limestone all in 200 feet of eachother besides the catiruam witch is 500 feet

[median geyser]

👏 Gz on good spawn

[dense violet]

yup

[whole drum]

Technically, they flow both ways. You create the flow direction by creating imbalance on one side. Usually this means either pushing liquids into one side or sucking it out from the other.

[dense violet]

and for possibly things right now, like mk2 pipes

[glass pagoda]

It wasn't my spawn I looked through the whole map on the wiki and found it was perfect as it is nestled in between northern forest and the desert as well as being close to golden coast and a node of Sam in 1000 feet

[median geyser]

I know, but I was trying to keep it barebones simple

[whole drum]

I get you

It can cause confusion to not at least introduce the concept

[glass pagoda]

The golden coast is so intricate

And the lore is so cool as it explains why the world is the way it is although I want no spoilers

[dense violet]

that's just the earliest thing that needs oil products I can' remember off the top of my head

I'm sure there's more

[glass pagoda]

What do you think of the red forest aka HELL

[median geyser]

I havent really properly explored any areas besides the 2 my bases are in, Ive just briefly walked through each on a big map tour around the 100h mark into my save, because I wanted to know what other regions existed. Ive been too focused on production

[glass pagoda]

You have walked through the red forest and didint die on your first time

[whole drum]

Error is the best teacher

[median geyser]

Nah, I had jetpack and inhalers

[glass pagoda]

Do not sleep on my boy gaming with doc

[whole drum]

Yeah, doesn't hurt to have some help occasionally either 🙂

[glass pagoda]

Have any of you guys been to red forest aka hell

[dense violet]

lmao, you haven't been to hte east swamp

[glass pagoda]

I have but that's double hell I'm just talking about hell

[whole drum]

My first ever game death was stumbling onto that place and seeing a rad-hog for the first time. I was still in tier 3, lol

[inner echo]

Has anyone heard CSS ever mentioning anything about the severe fps drop when dismantling in blueprint mode? https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/670425daddb9d97e071ee0b4

[glass pagoda]

My first death was petting a dogo and then a flower killed me with gas

[glass pagoda]

There's only one place in satisfactory that I find to be just sometimes awful and it's southern forest due to fog

[whole drum]

Swamp is considered the worst by a lot of players, but I honestly don't go there much except to find spheres because there aren't a lot of resources I've needed there

[glass pagoda]

Im in swamp right now but I like it visually

For the most part

[wicked nacelle]

there's bauxite in the swamp.

and oil

[inner echo]

I don't go to swamp until I can hoverpack fly...but it's my go to for doing aluminum. To the point I feel stuck with it.

[glass pagoda]

Just go to golden coast

[inner echo]

It's lovely...especially at night...and a framerate killer/decreaser.

[whole drum]

Spire coast is my fav for oil

[glass pagoda]

Go to southern forest and you can't see shit im not lying like it's not even fun sometimes

[whole drum]

I wonder if that's a setting you have, because I really don't remember having that issue

[quick hound]

CHAT! chat chat chat chat chat, chat chat chat. Chat chat, chat chat chat chat, chat chat chat, chat chat.

[glass pagoda]

No but sometimes intense waves of fog apper there

To the point where i can't see three feet in front of me

[quick hound]

Chat chat chat, chat chat chat chat, chat chat, chat chat chat. Chat chat chat.

[glass pagoda]

What

[quick hound]

Iunno, I’m bored

[glass pagoda]

Bruh

[whole drum]

Yeah, be careful with that. Spam is a no-no.

[quick hound]

I’m so tired but the factory must grow but m so tired

I wanna sleep but I wanna work on my factory but I wanna sleep but I wanna work on my factory~

[whole drum]

There's a solution here you're not seeing.

Drink some coffee out of your official FICSIT™ coffee mug and continue to produce and be efficient.

[somber monolith]

Do I need block signals leaving the block?

[median geyser]

Technically no but yes? Im pretty sure the signals in question would be both "leaving" the current block and "establishing" the next block. Its more common to say you need a block signal at the start of every block, but the start of the next block technically doubles as the end of the current one

[quick hound]

ADA restricted access to the coffee machine cause I drank enough coffee to keep an elephant awake for 5 years in a week

[whole drum]

Yeah, you should pace yourself to just 2-3 pots per day.

[quick hound]

But if I don’t have 1 pot every 10 minutes then how will I get my work done?

[whole drum]

You need to produce more so you can sink more so you get more tickets to buy more coffee to produce more...

[quick hound]

I’m going to piss on ADA’s servers if they don’t give me my coffee

[thick nexus]

Hello, I'm new here. I need help trying to make this pipe merger work where 2 pipes go into 1 packager but it doesn't seem to work cuz one of the pipes backs up even if the packager has plenty space

[buoyant veldt]

Are you using a junction?

If not, use one and some valves.

[thick nexus]

yes, I tried putting a valves on each of the feeder pipes

I cant post screenshots here?

[merry granite]

Can self driving trains drive back through train stations the wrong direction so I only have to make a loop at each end of a track?

[buoyant veldt]

Is your junction vertical or horizontal? #screenshots

[quick hound]

Loop

[merry granite]

can you be more pacific

[karmic berry]

Could one of you please give me some feedback on my design in design and architecture?

[thick nexus]

It's diagonal

[median geyser]

You put the station in the loop, so it only has to pass through in 1 direction

[quick hound]

loop it

[thick nexus]

#screenshots message

[buoyant veldt]

Ah. That may be your problem. Fluids follow physics.

[quick hound]

Physics are weird

[buoyant veldt]

Problem identified.

[quick hound]

I don’t like them 👉 👈

[thick nexus]

what do you mean?

[whole drum]

Depending on the rest of that pipe network, you may not have enough headlift, but also, it's better to keep the pipe level and lift the belt over the pipe than the other way around.

[quick hound]

everything.

[merry granite]

Im probably just gonna watch a video as I dont understand, thanks though

[quick hound]

I drank your mocha. >:)

[thick nexus]

but I have to raise it for the packager that's the problem

[buoyant veldt]

The right side will push into the left side before attempting to go upwards.

[thick nexus]

dont the valves fix this?

[whole drum]

Oh, my bad. I saw that wrong lol

Could still be a headlift issue tho, if the rest of your network isn't level with it

Replace the valves with pumps

Valves suck anyway

[thick nexus]

the rest of my network the pipes are all horizontal

they just are outputs from refineries

[whole drum]

Shouldn't be a headlift issue then

[buoyant veldt]

Not the way you have it set up.

[whole drum]

Did you check all your pipes to see they are filling up?

[buoyant veldt]

Plus, what's the amount of fluids going into the pipes?

[quick hound]

I checked my pipe, and it was microscopic 😭

[thick nexus]

Actually I just took off the valves it seems to be working now

huh what are the valves for then?

[buoyant veldt]

Did you also previously prime the system?

[thick nexus]

what is that sorry?

[median geyser]

#screenshots message In this example your suggestion is the top drawing and my solution is the bottom one. The train approaches from the left. Instead of looping behind the station and trying to go back into it the wrong direction, have the train station be part of the loop. This way the train never tries to go the "wrong" direction, as I am unsure what would happen, but I doubt it would be helpful or productive.

[buoyant veldt]

Making sure the pipes are full before turning on the machine they input to.

[thick nexus]

wow really that's a thing?

[whole drum]

In theory it's to help manage flow direction.
In practice, they are liable to break pipe connections (bug), and if you are managing your throughput correctly it will not need the direction managed in this way in most cases.

[whole drum]

Usually helps

[thick nexus]

so I have to make sure the pipes are full and then that the pipes stay full by setting my output exactly the same as input?

[whole drum]

Ideally, yes

[thick nexus]

hmm I see

[quick hound]

Chat, finish the lyrics: Do you ever feel,

[merry granite]

That makes sense; My goal is to have 3 train stations and to continuously loop through all 3, but I dont want to have to build another rail line, I think either A. i have to build another rail line or B. maybe its possible to just have a split before and after each station so that the train can go the wrong direction along that line using the rail on the side of it?

[thick nexus]

I'm gonna try to flush the network and check if it bricks it

[zealous valley]

You should also prime power generators when setting them up

[whole drum]

...like you walked through a room, but it was more like the room passed around you.

[grim carbon]

i've just shared a screen shot of my new starter base, i know it looks bad and the belts are not aligned, but i'm just trying to figure things out

[quick hound]

what song is this from??

I was thinking Katy parry firework 😭

[whole drum]

"Have you ever" ~Offspring

Technically it doesn't start the way you did

But close enough

[grim carbon]

please take a look at my screenshot

[quick hound]

no

[reef basin]

valves practically never help, and almost always hurt your production. Not recommended to use them anywhere, unless you want to experiment or really really know what you're doing (they may work in some cases, but it's generally easier for newer players to just avoid them)

[median geyser]

For that, you'll want junctions. Places where rail lines meet, and you have the choice to turn off and go to a station, or continue down the main line. Ideally, this is where you'd learn about the benefits of two-way rail lines, etc etc, but that's throwing yourself neck deep into the trains system and can be a bit overwhelming at first 😂

[quick hound]

LOOK! ITS THE GREEN FROG MAN!

[grim carbon]

thanks for your support, @quick hound

[quick hound]

no problem :>

[median geyser]

To be clear, junctions are still possible with a single line

[whole drum]

You should really make a copy/paste for this, lol

[buoyant veldt]

Ideally yes but as long as your input is higher than your output it won't make a huge difference. I personally set it so that if I need 100 a minute I'll set myself to produce 101 a minute. That's also kinda just how I like to play the game.

[quick hound]

and valve the company has shit customer service

[median geyser]

As long as it is only a single train on the track, yes. If there are multiple trains at once, youll will either gridlock yourself or crash @merry granite

[merry granite]

Thanks, that makes sense to me, If i wanted more trains it would probably be better to have a two-way railway, right?

[random garnet]

Our of curiosity I’m currently at the manufacturer. Is there ANY machine after it? As in one that takes more than 4 inputs to make a single item

[reef basin]

I haven't really had any bad experiences with those

[buoyant veldt]

Better than Sony.

[median geyser]

Correct. Two ways are just generally better all around, and best to start getting into as soon as possible, because you can easily expand or tie into an existing two way line, whereas you'll need to rework a one-way line entirely to add in later progression

[whole drum]

It really depends on the issue. They are great about some things, not so with others.

[random garnet]

You know what I’ve just started thinking on this why is there no option for a train station with two tracks going differnt ways???? It would make train tracks wayyyyyyyyyy better

[whole drum]

Make a blueprint

[quick hound]

Drones will blow your mind

[whole drum]

Yeah, once I hit the tech for it, I turn into Ukraine with so many drones everywhere

[random garnet]

I know of drones but still I feel there should have been an option for trains to have two tracks in them like real stations

[somber monolith]

Is there a way to get rid of the fog on the Gold Coast

[quick hound]

I really want to drone centipede

[somber monolith]

Is there a setting

[reef basin]

build multiple tracks next to each other

[random garnet]

That’s not an answer to a train station having two tracks within it going differnt ways like a real life train platform

[reef basin]

put train station to both ends of platform

[whole drum]

Apparently there's a console command if you're on PC

[somber monolith]

What is it

[quick hound]

this is satisfactory, where things are also unsatisfactory.

[whole drum]

This is from Steam forums, so grain of salt

Use the tilda (~) key to open the control console. This will open a command line at the bottom of you screen, and a list of commands that can be entered in the lower left corner of your screen. You then type "r.fog 0" without the quotes and then hit enter.

[quick hound]

man moves with sheer speed

[somber monolith]

That worked thanks

Does it disable acheivments tho

[whole drum]

I don't know, but doubt it

[random garnet]

This makes me disappointed

[quick hound]

I NEED COFFËÉÈÊĚĘĒẼĖ

[quick hound]

GIVE ME COFFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEGEFEFEFEE

[whole drum]

It appears you may not need it...

[quick hound]

Deadass I’m about to pass out

[whole drum]

It's better to rest and go with full energy than torture yourself trying to stay awake and be inefficient

[random garnet]

I’m so confused what is the actual difference between block signals and path signals

[quick hound]

I’m so close

[median geyser]

Can I toggle a drone to only deliver items to a dock and never pick up?

How?

[quick hound]

I’m so close to finishing my nuclear power setup..

[reef basin]

block signals let a train into next block if the block is free
path signals let a train into next block if the path out of that block is free

[quick hound]

So close, I just need to stay awake

[random garnet]

I’m testing them but it jsut says the path signals don’t work

[reef basin]

make a #1038092680493801533 post with images (include segment colors)

[median geyser]

@quick hound How would I set that status on drones?

[whole drum]

Doesn't this make path signals more efficient in general?

[reef basin]

no

[whole drum]

Why?

[reef basin]

key difference "block is free" vs "path out of the block is free"

[whole drum]

So you use path signals for stations and block signals for junctions, or is that backward?

[reef basin]

you use block signals everywhere. Path signals are for people that want to optimise crossings for slightly more throughput

[quick hound]

my man, I can barely remember my own name right now, I’m so sleep deprived

I am not the right person to ask this

[median geyser]

🤷 You marked yes on my question, I assumed that implied you had a solution

[quick hound]

I meant it is possible.

Just don’t have an input attached to the drone port

[whole drum]

Wouldn't it be better not to use crossings?

[median geyser]

That is not the same as what I asked. Already considered and passed over that

[reef basin]

if you want more throughput, sure. But SF doesn't really reach that much throughput anyway

[somber monolith]

Do trains prevent enemy spawns?

[whole drum]

I'm usually too lazy to bother with trains, but I should probably fiddle with them a bit more--just to understand them better, if nothing else.

[quick hound]

Give me coffee please

I’m dying h3re

[buoyant veldt]

Does Paradise island have a point? Are they planning to add anything there?

[quick hound]

They’re adding depression

[somber monolith]

Wdym adding it’s already here?

[quick hound]

Sorry sorry, suicidal depression.

[somber monolith]

Been here a while aswell

[quick hound]

Okay then.. murder suicide depression

[inner echo]

Nuclear wasteland.

[quick hound]

Now that sounds like a paradise

[somber monolith]

Do lizard doggos survive radiation?

[willow hill]

i think so

but dont quote me onthat

[quick hound]

!wikisearch lizarddoggo

[raven axle]

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

[quick hound]

“I think so” - @willow hill

[remote pasture]

@silk ocean i just woke up. Let me do my morning rutine and i be on satisfactory like i promisst

[cyan imp]

Satisfactory

[quick hound]

unsatisfactory

[somber monolith]

Do they take damage? I didn’t see anything about it

[quick hound]

Presumably, yes.

[somber monolith]

Perfect

[quick hound]

???? The fuck??

[somber monolith]

What

[buoyant veldt]

Yes because one of the ways to get rid of radioactive material is to give it to a lizard doggo and put a rebar into his skull (and his inventory is deleted on death and you have become a monster.)

[violet schooner]

fix it now

[somber monolith]

Can I automate that?

[buoyant veldt]

I don't think so.

[violet schooner]

[somber monolith]

That’s my day ruined

[violet schooner]

👹 💦

[quick hound]

what the fuck???????

[whole drum]

No, if you're gonna be a monster, you do it like a man.

[violet schooner]

💦

[somber monolith]

Doggo firing squad?

[violet schooner]

🇨 🇹 🇬 🇷 🇮 🇸

[whole drum]

That sounds like it's a firing squad made of doggos

[quick hound]

nigga just refine it, leave the doggos alone

[violet schooner]

woah

[somber monolith]

Who says it isn’t

[whole drum]

I'm okay with this

[violet schooner]

🤪 🟡

d

[somber monolith]

If I block their spawns can I eradicate the lizard doggo population

[violet schooner]

idk

[quick hound]

I regret to inform you, that Ficsit HR has informed me that you are to leave the planet immediately via hyper tube cannon.

[somber monolith]

I’ll be taking the doggos with me

[violet schooner]

no not him

[whole drum]

Gonna need something to break the fall where you land, eh?

[quick hound]

All creatures, items and equipment are property of Ficsit, thus requiring you to leave them on the planet.

[whole drum]

That means he has to stay too

[somber monolith]

Does that mean I have to stay?

[quick hound]

HR said he has to leave the planet

[whole drum]

FICSIT has jurisdiction here, not HR

[quick hound]

I’m sorry, but you have been fired from Ficsit corp, therefore with no more access to clones.

[quick hound]

FICSIT’s HR department

[somber monolith]

I can’t be fired only the doggos can

Out of a cannon

[whole drum]

FICSIT doesn't have one, because they are a successful company

Brothers, grab your heavy flamers. Intruders by the name of HR are invading.

[quick hound]

ADA has informed me that he is underperforming heavily, and has been fired from his position as planet pioneer.

[somber monolith]

Ficsit is life

[whole drum]

ADA has been corrupted. Unreliable report not accepted.

[quick hound]

Missing file.404, file name Nether.EXE not found. Rebooting..

[whole drum]

Just drop a fresh clone of him planetside. The factory must grow.

[somber monolith]

How much doggo kills is to much

[whole drum]

When you run out

[quick hound]

Nether.EXE file corrupted, attempting retrieval..

[somber monolith]

That’s a lil low

[whole drum]

Look harder

[quick hound]

Nether.EXE file retrieval successful, opening file..

Nether.EXE has loaded, opening DuckHR program.

Running Diagnostics: estimated time: 1 hour.

[gritty sleet]

It'd be neat if there was a type of catwalk that had a ladder. Either as a railing gap or a hole in the center or something.

[somber monolith]

You could attach it to the end

[gritty sleet]

Yeah, it'd just have a giant hole in the railing

[somber monolith]

Not if u clip a standalone railing into the catwalk

[random garnet]

Trying to figure out how I’m going to set up my factory confuses me. Like when I get to later game stuff that need manufactures will it be best to have all the stuff the manufacturer needs made IN the same factory or should I just have a train take it to the factory

[somber monolith]

How am I supposed to build tracks over the void the supports are a little long

[somber monolith]

Make it when u need it

[whole drum]

Use proxy foundations

[somber monolith]

?

[whole drum]

Start from a wall build to the height you want facing the direction you want, then just build foundation stretching out to where you want it to go. Build your rail, then delete anything you don't want to keep.

[random garnet]

I’m so confused I out path signals at a junction like I was told to and now it’s saying signal loops into itself?

[somber monolith]

I’m talking about this idk how to build the support #screenshots message

[whole drum]

Make sure the signals are facing the right way?

[zinc ferry]

Have the supports come from the wall instead of the ground?

[somber monolith]

But idk how to make that look good and the walls just as far at some points

[zinc ferry]

Suspension Cables might work

[whole drum]

Use the upside-down ramp foundation pieces so it looks like the cliff is supporting them

[somber monolith]

I tried it looks stupid unrealistic

[little shale]

Radio towers can’t pinpoint somersloop right, can anything else?

[whole drum]

Google images of large bridges around the world, perhaps trellised bridges, and see if you see anything that makes sense.

[whole drum]

They can tell you how many are in an area, but not where

[somber monolith]

I don’t think there’s any bridges that hit a 90 degree turn over a void

[buoyant veldt]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxYOJiwtu67yAtk-Moje4JWT9Xpb_-GZf4?si=CxmBctfnzde-9vG4

This clip is all the ways to deal with radioactive material.

[merry granite]

Is there a tutorial on nice curved railways?

[whole drum]

Probably not, but you might find something close enough, or just reconsider your rail pathing

[somber monolith]

Xclipse has one I think

[quick hound]

Gilga help me please

I’m so tired

[whole drum]

So go sleep

[somber monolith]

Sleep is for the weak

[quick hound]

I AM LIKE AN HOUR AWAY FROM MY PLUTONIUM REFINEMENT IS UP

[whole drum]

Which he is

[somber monolith]

Very mean

[quick hound]

Gfys

[somber monolith]

Why r u tweakin

[quick hound]

They’re way too mean, I need coffee and they won’t give it

[somber monolith]

Mail them a pipe bomb

[quick hound]

I’ll send them an erotic toy bomb that shoots erotic toys

Like yo-yos

[somber monolith]

That might be worse

[whole drum]

I'm not being mean. ADA said coffee is only for productive pioneers.

[quick hound]

GIVE ME COFFEE NOW

[merry granite]

ty

[quick hound]

GIVE ME THAT REDBULL NOW

[thorny oyster]

whats the fluid fix theyre talking about? is it pipes mk3

[merry granite]

no its mine:)

[whole drum]

Hopefully pipes stop breaking when you attach stuff to them

[quick hound]

PLEASE I BEG

I’m about to pass out and I need to finish this plutonium refinement factory

[quick hound]

please, coffee

I’ll get on my hands and knees

[somber monolith]

Lizard doggos have coffee in them

You just have to kill them to get it

[quick hound]

COFFEEEEEE sounds of feasting on live lizard doggos from the background

you lied to me

[somber monolith]

Nah

[quick hound]

I NEED COFFEEEEEEEE

[somber monolith]

Try harder it’s in 1/10000 doggos

Once you kill enough you’ll find it

[quick hound]

NO I NEED COFFEE RIGHT NOW!!!

** COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE

acof$ssreě

need coffew3aseee

[somber monolith]

Go to ur hub

[quick hound]

ADA BANNED ME FROM THE.
COFFEE MACHINE

“1 pot every 10 minutesis far too much” she says

[somber monolith]

Use a AI limiter

[quick hound]

please coffee, I beg you

[whole drum]

But then we wouldn't hear from him

[quick hound]

please I need coffee

I feel so close to collapsing

[whole drum]

sidius-doeet.gif

[thorny oyster]

bruh, what is going on

[somber monolith]

Shhhh

[quick hound]

they won’t give me the water of the gods

[somber monolith]

Build me a nuclear plant and I’ll give you a lil

[quick hound]

dude I can barely keep my eyes open, I need coffee before I work

[random garnet]

No wonder my signals don’t work….
I’ve been bloody placing them wrong where I meant to put path signals I put blockers and where I meant to put blockers I put path signals

[thorny oyster]

whiskey ???

[somber monolith]

Pure alcohol

[quick hound]

that to, but COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[somber monolith]

You can make submarines??

[thorny oyster]

ok, how about you make coffee

[quick hound]

I drank it all

[thorny oyster]

make more

[quick hound]

from what?

[somber monolith]

All? In the world?

[quick hound]

all I had in my house

[somber monolith]

Then rob your neighbor

[thorny oyster]

order some

[somber monolith]

He’ll understand

[quick hound]

Low-key I stood up to go and take a piss and I fell over

[somber monolith]

GO

TO

BED

[quick hound]

IM

ALMOST

DONE

FUCKIM OUT OF COUPONS AND I DONT HAVE ALUMINUM

AAAAAAAHAHAHAĦ

[somber monolith]

Why u need aluminium?

For coupons

[quick hound]

I need coupons to buy aluminum cause I don’t have an aluminum farm

Factory

[somber monolith]

You have plutonium but no alluminum?

How

What sorcery is this

[whole drum]

Bro actually funded it with coupons?? rofl

[solid grail]

[quick hound]

yes

[somber monolith]

How do you even manage that

[quick hound]

pure pain

[ocean frost]

Maybe you can use the plutonium to get more coupons

[somber monolith]

It’s gotta be easier to make a factory than buy it

[quick hound]

I WOULD IF ITWAS FUNCTIONAL 😭

[whole drum]

Imagine being as dedicated (and stubborn) as this guy

[ocean frost]

They should introduce after pay into the game

[somber monolith]

I’m praying there’s a hidden issue and you have a nuclear meltdown

[ocean frost]

If you don't pay up they start dismantling your building

[quick hound]

How does that happen?

[whole drum]

And I'm supposedly the mean one 😄

[somber monolith]

Nuclear waste backup rendering your base irradiated

[somber monolith]

Yes you are

Can I eat rubber

[quick hound]

Yum

[quick hound]

You refuse to give me coffee.

“Man buys 15 thousand dollar gaming PC to play Brotato competitively” 😭

[somber monolith]

That’s more evil than mean

[quick hound]

Brotato is a simple 2d game, google it. And you’ll see why the fuck he wasted his money

[somber monolith]

Who did tho

[quick hound]

Article just says Man

Idfk

[somber monolith]

Honestly looks like it was worth it

[quick hound]

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK POWER GRID SHOT BRBWHILE I FIX

I fixed it..

found the problem, I forgot I limited a valve

kill me..

[reef basin]

ah, using valves 🤢

also somebody doesn't have power switches

[dense violet]

remove the valve

[quick hound]

To be fair, I had to as I only open it like 1m more every time

then it fixes it, the pipes are glitches so..

[dense violet]

it sounds like you have terrible piping and relying on a non fix

[reef basin]

you never have to use a valve

[quick hound]

Damn right

but if it works, it works. :>

[random garnet]

Thinking more on the logistics of it all. I’m planning to have a big storage hub to just store mass amounts of made products for when I need them for building etc.

But eventually ofcourse that hubs storage will be full 🤔 so I can always when needed set up a second train picking up from factory’s and instead of delivering to the hub I’ll make them deliver to the factory’s that need the resources

[dense violet]

it doesn't sound like it's actually working but sure

[whole drum]

But it doesn't

[reef basin]

apparently it doesn't

[quick hound]

Half of my fuel generators won’t produce power even though they have full fuel tanks and aren’t in standby mode 😭

[whole drum]

I stop using central storage once my DDs are online

[dense violet]

just sink the excess

[dense violet]

you probalby don't have them wired up

[quick hound]

They are 😭

I spent 2 hours yesterday requiring things

[dense violet]

if they have fuel, not on stand by, and have a cable connection to something, they would be running

[whole drum]

Probably mis-wired, gen to gen and not actually on the grid

[quick hound]

Rewiring*

[reef basin]

I'd never start using central storage 🤷

[whole drum]

I use it the first phase or two

[scarlet socket]

can i change the starting island that i have to Dune dessert?

[reef basin]

I don't count "container at the end of production line" as central storage

[whole drum]

Just saves excess running back and forth

[quick hound]

I’m looking at it, unwired it and patched it back into the main grid yet it won’t turn on

[whole drum]

I only do insofar as I will wire them to my hub, even if the production isn't that close

Heavily depends on start location, though. Some places are just naturally close enough as it is

[dense violet]

wdym?

[scarlet socket]

i have grass fields as my island, and i want it to change to dune dessert without making a new game, is it possible for me to be able change it to dune dessert?

[quick hound]

I deconstructed the fuel gens and rebooked them up, but even though they’re connected with fuel in the piped, it won’t fill up..

[dense violet]

it's all one map, just walk there

[reef basin]

there's only one map, all of those locations are on the same map

[gritty sleet]

The game is all one giant map

[remote crest]

Can you adjust the clock speed by typing a number or only by sliding the bar on console?

[gritty sleet]

Type a number or a percent

[dense violet]

I've heard you can't on console

[remote crest]

Thats deeply unfortunate

[quick hound]

Factual

[dense violet]

which seems like a really stupid oversight on part of the 3rd part devs

[gritty sleet]

I mean I guess to be fair, an Xbox controller or whatever doesn't have numbers on it

[scarlet socket]

ohhhh

[lucid pagoda]

OSC

[dense violet]

could open up a key pad when you click on it

[quick hound]

we have a keyboard function???

[dense violet]

awkward and slow but at least it's something

[gritty sleet]

Yeah true

[whole drum]

I used to have keyboard attachments on my controllers for Xbox 360 and PS4. Would be odd if those don't exist now.

[dense violet]

if yoiu're using a controller for this game you're already contracted for awkward and slow so might as well pile it on

[quick hound]

WHY THW FUCK WONT MY FUEL GENS FILL UP WITH FUEL. I HAVE THE FUEL. ITS CONNECTED TO THEM. TURN. RHE. FUCK, ON. THEY’RE CONNECTED TI THE GRID.

[reef basin]

why are we shouting?

[whole drum]

Redo sections of your pipe, starting with the ones closest to your gens

[quick hound]

I feel dizzy mother fucker

I need to finish this

[lucid pagoda]

add some buffers and turn off some gens so the buffers fill up

[quick hound]

I have some

[whole drum]

Buffers just complicate it

[reef basin]

don't add buffers, remove buffers

buffers are source of issues more than fixes

[quick hound]

okay, I think I fixed it

now back to work on my plutonium factory

[lucid pagoda]

oh? i dont use buffers but people hate my method of overloading the grid so that they all fill up and then turning it on

[dense violet]

buffers can totally mess with flow, just underclock a few gens to flood it

[quick hound]

It’s a midget! Run!

[whole drum]

How dare you?!

[quick hound]

midgets scare me

oh god it’s getting worse, I’m way more dizzy now

I need to finish this and sleep

[whole drum]

Bro gonna be in the ER with the doctor saying he has 3 hours to live and still won't have finished

[quick hound]

If I don’t finish it, the last 22 hours have been in vain.. I skipped school to work on this

[remote pasture]

Bruh.

[quick hound]

I need

[remote pasture]

Skip school yo play a game. Really

[quick hound]

fuck school, all I. Learn there is how to be bullied

I need to finish this

I need coffee

I’m going full gamer mode, I gotta finish

[remote pasture]

What you need is help, This isent healthy.

[reef basin]

PC gaming indeed isn't healthy

[quick hound]

I promised myself I’d finish it today I need to do it

I need a couple more tickets to buy aluminum.. come on.. sink..aWORK FASTER

I NEED MORE SHIT TO SINK

[quick hound]

I FINALLY HAVE THE ALUMINUM, IM SO CLOSE