satisfactory

[cinder shuttle]

or nah

[tiny rivet]

#1201555265942724758

[cinder shuttle]

thx

[runic sage]

how do i factor in the loading an unloading time when placing trains on a track with 2 stations? i mean because the freight platforms cant recieve or output items when loading/unloading a train, and i dont want it to affect my production rate

[sullen gull]

Use an Industrial storage container as a buffer for the freight stations for starters. That way production doesn't stutter during loading and unloading.

[runic sage]

even if i do that, it will still stall the output duration..

i mean like it will take longer for the freight platform to empty/fill up

[sullen gull]

The container will still get fed/unloaded. Once the train has made a round trip, it should tell in the freight stations what the throughput is.

[runic sage]

well i guess ill just use less than i make and that way it will be enough

or just let the trains bring a few rounds worth of produce so ill have enough for it

[sullen gull]

Iirc, someone was saying the max was like 800 something

[hard ivy]

That's not how this works XD. You never need to make more than you're using, and there's never a benefit for making more (other than faster manifold fill times and being able to leech off the excess)

Trains do not delete items, they only have a cap on transfer rate. Like belts

[runic sage]

ok so imagine this

[novel heath]

if im making aluminum with base recipes how do i make it so that byproducts from allumina solution is prioritized over others?

[runic sage]

a freight platform recieves 1200 items per minute

[hard ivy]

And the solution is the same. If one belt isn't enough, add more. If one platform isn't enough, add more (or more trains)

[runic sage]

and a train that docks there takes 20 seconds

in those 20 seconds the freight platform couldve gotten 400 items

but it didnt, and if i put those items in a container, they wont go to the freight platform because the belt already moves 1200 items.

im dumb.. i just realized i can use both inputs 😭

[hard ivy]

That's why you use an ISC, which has 2 outputs, so it'll transfer 2400

[runic sage]

and outputs

[hard ivy]

That's why you need a buffer with 2 belts. The platform accepts 0 items/min for 27 seconds when a train docks and up to 2400/min when a train isn't docking. The average is somewhere between 0 and 2400. But it'll only be below 1200 if there's a train docking every 27 seconds or less, which just doesn't happen unless you have a ton of trains all docking to the same station. So 1 belt is basically guaranteed. You can get more than 1, but how much exactly depends on the belt and item stack size. And you can also never get exactly 2

[tiny rivet]

i just got into tier 9 whats the first thing i should automate?

[hard ivy]

Trigons and time crystals

[tiny rivet]

alright

also how good is ionized fuel for the jetpack?

rn im using rocket fuel

[dense violet]

!wikisearch Jet_pack

[raven axle]

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

[dense violet]

the wiki is useful for this sort of thing

[tiny rivet]

i did not know you can just do a command for that

[sharp basin]

https://youtu.be/FAwx2Gl2qxA?si=SacEnvVIJYbX8MpC

So 1.2 is REALLY gonna make trucks traffic better! I didn’t know it was OFFICIAL!

I just hope it means curved roads

[dense violet]

well it's more to just point out to people to use the wiki. You shouldn't spam it in chat to look things up.

wiki has it's own search bar

[sullen gull]

#satisfactory message

[hard ivy]

Slightly less speed, much longer time

[runic sage]

done automating 20 nuclear pasta per minute

will kibiz be proud of me?

[hoary galleon]

But you only need 1000 of them.

[dense violet]

good points

[runic sage]

also need for singularity cells for warp drives, ficsonium fuel rods and teleport satalytes

maybe more but those are what i know of

[south sinew]

It only says they're looking into it, not that they have even decided they will do anything

[hoary galleon]

I have not unlocked those things yet

[runic sage]

i assume you're at phase 5 rn?

[hoary galleon]

Yes.

But still have not unlocked quantum thingie milestone.

[runic sage]

ficsonium fuel rods are made of plutonium waste, warp drives are the thing you need 200 of and singularity cells are "fuel" for satellytes, i didnt use them yet but thats just what i know

[hoary galleon]

Satellites?

[runic sage]

they're one of the tier rewards, you place a main portal and satellites portals and you can tp between them using singularity cells

[hoary galleon]

Oh. Cool.

I probably won't use ficsonium. I have yet to build an NPP

I did in beta

[runic sage]

when i started phase 5 i built a big npp (rn 39 fully overclocked all using just uranium rods) then i automated plutotnium to sink them, no use for them rn i have enough energy

[hoary galleon]

It's interesting at tier 5, not everything high tier is made in a manufacturer.

[hoary galleon]

I'm just running rocket fuel. But some of the new equipment with sloops will need more power.

[runic sage]

rn i built 10 particle accelerators all 200% oc and somerslooped and i just realized ineed more energy 😭😭

[ornate saffron]

More!

[light shell]

does anybody knows why coal generators dont go above 10m3 of water, even tho the limit is apparently 50m3, and the water pipes are all full ?

[south sinew]

you're probably consuming it as fast as you're using it

as long as the coal gens are putting out max power you're doing fine

[ocean frost]

i think thats just the buffer in the tank?

[light shell]

If that was true, wouldnt it charge to 50m3 if the generator isnt running ? I litteraly just put the water pump to see if the water flow would work

just put biomass generator for the pump

so there is basically no water "used" per say, it just doesnt max out the coal generators in water, which I find weird. I tried giving the coal gen some coal, but it didnt change a thing while running

[ocean frost]

normally its because people are trying to push more water than a pipe can handle

[light shell]

its just 3 pumps with Mk1 pipes. If im maxing out all pipes of 300m3, I think I should at least be able to max out 1 coal gen of 50m3 xD

[ornate saffron]

You can down clock your generators for a bit if you want them to fill completely

But as Gill said if they are not flickering on and off your good

[sullen gull]

Pumps ONLY affect height (headlift). If the extractors are on the same level (or <8m below) as the coal gens, don't need pumps.

[sullen gull]

Unless by pumps, you meant extractors 😏

[light shell]

Ah yes, the extractors. they called pumps for me

mb then, language barrier issue

[sullen gull]

Erm, what are the Pumps in game called for you?

[ocean frost]

Head (lift)

[fierce holly]

Hi

[sullen gull]

Lol, can't tell if you're being serious 🤣

[light shell]

extractors called "water pumps", and pumps are actually called "pipe pumps"

[sullen gull]

Ahh ok. What language if I may ask?

[light shell]

but we basically call pumps "accelerators"

[light shell]

You may not. To this day, its not safe to say online.

😂

[sullen gull]

Uhhh ... oki doki

[ocean frost]

Russian

[light shell]

No, worse

[ocean frost]

Chinese

[light shell]

WORSE

[ocean frost]

Hebrew

[light shell]

WORSE

[sullen gull]

Not sure that is not safe to say online

[ocean frost]

American

[light shell]

Wowowow, lets calm down

a bit below. And im actually surprised nobody has it yet.

[sullen gull]

Eh, I wasn't that invested to play guessing games 😏

[ocean frost]

German

[near thicket]

Can you not set a freight station to load AND unload

That's annoying

[fierce holly]

I just got the game a few days ago, and it is already my third favourite game

[light shell]

Goddamit have people already forgotten our country 🫠

[ocean frost]

trains also don't have pathfinding they have set routs

[ocean frost]

hong kong

[light shell]

here i'll help you ; thats how everyone see us even tho its completly wrong : 🏳️

[near thicket]

Oh you're canadian

[light shell]

goddamit

[sullen gull]

🤷 Burma?

[light shell]

at the very difference we dont commit mass genocides and war crimes on a daily basis, yes

[ocean frost]

that French Canadian type?

[fierce holly]

I hate screws

[ocean frost]

Did they screw you over in a past life

[sullen gull]

They must be always loose 🤷‍♂️ 😏

[fierce holly]

I ate one after it was being mean to me. I had to go to the doctor

[light shell]

So, EXTRACTORS naturally go around 8m in height before needing a pump still ?

[sullen gull]

All machines provide 10m headlift, Starting from the connection point

I say 8m to keep it within that.

[light shell]

alrighty, thx

[ornate saffron]

What are the fist two?

[fierce holly]

Dead Space and Alien: Isolation

[night garnet]

So I am not gonna put this in looking cuz I don't have it set up, but would anyone be interested in a brand new Dedicated Server starting from the start?

No new people joining in the middle, and no people leaving right at the start

[ornate saffron]

I imagine ther is lots of interest #1201555265942724758 is a great place to start

[night garnet]

As I said, it's not setup ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[night garnet]

If you like those, you might like "The Callisto Protocol", it's very dead space like, I actually prefer it to Dead Space..

[fierce holly]

It's alright.

[ornate saffron]

I love both of those.

[fluid sapphire]

Dead Space is some of the best horror media ever made

[ornate saffron]

I didn't vibe with that. But there is a official audio prequel series on YouTube that is great

[ornate saffron]

Up there with event horizon

[night garnet]

Interesting, I am a horror enthusiast lol

Devour, Demonologist, and if you include R.E.P.O

Phasmophobia doesn't do it for me, that game has never made me be like "Ahhh I'm terrified"

[ornate saffron]

I still have PT installed on my Playstation lol

[fierce holly]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is also pretty good

[night garnet]

I tried an Amensia game yesterday, WW1 themed in a bunker

Felt too much like a Labrynth game, I like to know where I'm going

The map was more scary than the creature

[fluid sapphire]

some games just do mood so well, i would chuck Call of Pripyat there as well

[barren arch]

why the fuck you would put a uranium node on the tallest peak of the game 😭

[night garnet]

What? This was so random xD

[barren arch]

AND ITS IMPURE

[ornate saffron]

The game gives you a hologram to let you know where your headlift sits. You can snap to it. But sometimes after placing at the recommend spot it doesnt work. So I always place before the hologram. Unfortunately pumps don't stack. So each time you place one it resets the head lift

[fierce holly]

I recently completed phase 3. I'm gonna finish it with my brother, then do a solo one.

[ornate saffron]

So you can make a cool sprial conveyor around the mountain

[night garnet]

Can press H to keep the hologram in place so you can move around it, and use arrow keys to push it

[barren arch]

#screenshots

[ornate saffron]

I suffer from sleep paralysis. You get used to it. By used to it I mean its still terrifying

[fluid sapphire]

why not

[wispy charm]

Yo so im planning a nuclear power plant but I really don't know what the smartest way to locate it is. Do I use trains to transport uranium ore to a location with lots of water and do all the manufacturing there or is that going to create a radioactive wasteland along the entire train line?

[supple rain]

I've decided to start a new save and play simply this time, since I didn't finish my last save

[supple rain]

I originally planned to have trains or droned take uranium to a manufacturing location, and then another train to take the fuel rods and waste back and forth from the actual nuclear plants (which would be off of a coast somewhere)

[primal obsidian]

the way I’m planning to do it is to have drones transport fuel rods to the ocean and then drones to transport out the nuclear waste

it depends on your personal preference and how much of everything your making

[north summit]

Big floating platform

[primal obsidian]

automating iodine filters helped me so much for nuclear

[north summit]

The fish request uranium fuel rods

[supple rain]

The fish need to mutate
how else do you think evolution happened?

[north summit]

The fish need nuclear power

[primal obsidian]

the fish need to learn how to stand on land that’s why I’m gonna drain the ocean with 96 water extractors

[north summit]

FISHCIT

Fish pioneers confirmed

[fluid sapphire]

drones

[reef basin]

radioactivity doesn't "stay"

but yeah I'd recommend building near (or even on top of) water

[wispy charm]

so I'm all good to put a train full of uranium going across the map?

[reef basin]

well the train will have radioactive "zone" around it, but radioactivity is not a big deal usually

[gilded steeple]

What's the most reliable way to fix backflow issues at the end of pipes? Is it just looping it?

[reef basin]

yeah

[frail sleet]

most reliable way is just let it happen and have flow rate headroom so it doesn't matter

[lavish dagger]

why is satisfactory plus so hard and requires ton of effort ı tought it added new ıtems not a whole ass chemistry type of thing

[fluid sapphire]

you dont read mod descriptions before you add them?

[hearty kiln]

just unlocked fluids and i have no idea on whare to start

[fluid sapphire]

coal power

[hearty kiln]

no

[gilded steeple]

Flowrate headroom? Like 580m3 instead of maxing it to 600?

[frail sleet]

More like 400 if you can

[lusty knot]

helo

[frail sleet]

i've only ever seen 400 fail when manifolding a huge chain of outputs that are each outputting a little bit - it can develop fluid islands which block machine exits and don't flow out quickly. In those cases you probably need an exit pipe every 16 machines or something.

[gilded steeple]

Interesting, I might do that next time

Right now looping the ends of my 10 refineries and 10 fuel gens seem to did the trick. But I'll definitely do that next time

[frail sleet]

loop is basically just splitting the 600/600 pipe into 2x 300/600 before connecting it, so it's the same principle. The pic that people often share though is using a vertical junction, and those have some big bugs, so i don't like to use em

simple pipes don't need flow rate headroom, complex bits do (particularly junction splits/merges where multiple inputs or multiple outputs are not consistently equal, like in manifolds)

[fluid sapphire]

fluids and pipes, starting with water is literally unlocked with coal power 🤷

[hearty kiln]

i already have coal power i dont know how to start with the fluids

[gilded steeple]

Yea I just expanded my power so I've just done a manifold for oil. Don't need to worry about that for now but will definitely keep that in mind

[fiery pewter]

Imma work on my factory instead of learning for my upcoming tests

[fluid sapphire]

water is a fluid, if you have coal power, you have already worked with fluids?

[hearty kiln]

oil

[fluid sapphire]

pipe manifold go brr into refineries

[hearty kiln]

i dont know how to start my oil base

[fiery pewter]

Your status is...concerning

[hearty kiln]

wdym?

[fiery pewter]

Converge raw resourcs into 1 area

[fiery pewter]

"User is wanted in 27 countries. Please report any activity."

[hearty kiln]

fr? never know

[fiery pewter]

I call cap

[tall rune]

We need diodes

[dapper marten]

It's just me or the nitro rocket fuel is better than the standard recipe, but the awesome calculator site prefers the standard one

[tall rune]

Specifically for charging batteries without a whole second power grid.
Cause I like not having to have a backup set of biomass burners and having grid tie in's and stuff, but having to wait for a set of batteries for blackstarting the grid to charge initially then disconnecting them is a whole thing. Like I guess I could use a priority power switch to charge them and have batteries set lowest but a proper one way diode would be better

[hasty cairn]

I prefer to turn my biomass (or wood) into coal and just feed that into coal gens

I just need the appropriate alternate recipe from hard drives

[ornate saffron]

Nitro rocket fuel is great. To good really.

[fluid sapphire]

its a bit less resource-efficient, but the trade-off in added simplicity is great

[dapper marten]

The only problem is just one, nitro uses coal, the standard one uses coal coke during the production process, so when I tried maximizing it the amount of refineries and everything plunged down

I mean, I can only make 2400 coal per min here in the lake

[fluid sapphire]

1600 coal for 4800 rocket fuel, nitro recipe

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=5kycgX0o79SdOOqK7juZ

[hasty cairn]

Pretty sure you can also purchase aluminum parts from the AWESOME shop, using points from recycling other parts. So, there is that. Once you have run out of blueprints to get, of course

[cunning lily]

Halfway through the phases doesnt mean halfway through the game in playtime, right?

[hasty cairn]

But it does seem to me like aluminum is rather important for late game manufacture, though, so I would go with at least two nodes

Because I need somewhere to put all the accumulated smart plating & automated wiring I don't use anymore

It might as well go towards complex parts that help me make oil infrastructure

[dapper marten]

But too much sulfur too

[fluid sapphire]

still 7600 left on the map after this, what are you planning that that isnt enough

[lost oasis]

Hey guys idk how to get aluminium and im just stuck cant do any progress without it how to get it?

[south sinew]

I usually do 2 pure

[dapper marten]

Uhhh
3 sulfur nodes
1 for each purity(mk3 miners 250% overclock)
4 normal coal nodes
2550 oil extraction

[lost oasis]

is it really the only way how to get it?

i did like 4today and wait 10min for random shii i wont use

No shot dude

Well that will take another 10years

[south sinew]

no

you get everything you need to make aluminum as part of tier 7 at the start

[fluid sapphire]

what are you getting at?

[ornate saffron]

600 oil 1200 nitrogen 1600 sulfer and 800 coal Gives you enough rocket fuel to give you 140gw of power'

[south sinew]

the default recipes aren't the best but you don't need the alt recipes to make it and progress

[lost oasis]

ohh yeahh ur right.. Thanks dude

[fluid sapphire]

in blue crater, in 1km radius, you have everything you need to make 4800

[ornate saffron]

Then you can take the compacted coal by product and run it through coal generators or make 1600 steel ingots a minutw

[dapper marten]

How 🙏 😭

[ornate saffron]

I can send you my bps. It one bp stamped 8 times

[fluid sapphire]

just bring in the nitrogen and sulfur from a bit to the west, everything else is literally right around the pond

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1409153966645969046

[ornate saffron]

Yup

[coarse path]

guys how hard is phase 5 compaired to phase 4?

[atomic forge]

uuuh guys, y'all got any tips for where i should start my save? x_x i tried the forest one but the hills kill me

[covert vault]

what happened to patch notes channel?

[ornate saffron]

The power requirement are large

[ornate saffron]

Many like the dunes

[coarse path]

im not gonna get nuke generator tho

shit

[atomic forge]

LISAL AL GHAIB (sorry)

[ornate saffron]

#patch-notes

[coarse path]

@ornate saffron goated profile banner

[ornate saffron]

THE SPICE MUST FLOW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

[ornate saffron]

Lol ya, its a emotional trap

[covert vault]

that was fucking weird, Discord just wasn't showing it till I clicked your link >_<

[pulsar bobcat]

my train is ignorin my selection in unload and load 😭 😭 😭 what do i do

[south sinew]

Discord started hiding channels by defualt a few updates ago, but there's a "browse channels" button you can use now to search for them

[fluid sapphire]

if you lay good groundwork in phase 4, its a piece of cake

[covert vault]

yeah I checked it, it wasn't even showing there, it was F'ing weird.

it just disappeared entirely.

[coarse path]

but whats the difference in difficulty

because im already doing such hard work on phase 4 rn

[ornate saffron]

Oddly enough we were just talking about nitro rocket fuel. Its really good too

[coarse path]

õnly have normal fuel on my generators😭

[ornate saffron]

It mostly adds on the complexity of the previous phase. For example there is another cube

[coarse path]

but hey my moduel framess are done forr my rockets

check screenshots frfr

[ornate saffron]

Start hunting for hard drives. To make a real good easy nitro rocket fuel setup you need heavy oil residue, diluted fuel and nitro rocket fuel

Yes but it is expensive

I honestly just use rocket fuel for my jetpack.

[pulsar bobcat]

pls help its ignoring filters for some reason

[ornate saffron]

Please make a thread in #1038092680493801533 this is a poor forum to help as there is other conversations happening

[fluid sapphire]

im not sure how to quantify it, basically if you set up production for phase 4 parts, and have production set up for most other products such that you have some to spare, its simply a matter of filling some gaps

[pulsar bobcat]

ik i thought it was a small issue so decided against making a whole thread but ig thats my best option

[fluid sapphire]

idk what you mean by difficulty, its not that different to what you usually build, if anything, you need to build less

[dapper marten]

Best I can do with local resources is 3150

[ornate saffron]

Not sure. The beefalo heard is large, we got

Bumble Beefalo
Big beefalo woman
Beefalo au Jus
Zyklon Beefalo
OD beefalo

[fluid sapphire]

yeah i mean if you are not willing to bring in stuff thats nearby then thats the cap

i just like the nice round numbers so i did

[dapper marten]

Is that enough or I'm too low?

[fluid sapphire]

no, its a lot of power

for a normal person well above what you need to beat the game

its just fun to have a ton of power is all

[dapper marten]

Right now I'm into phase 4(or 5? Idk I must get into the quantum weird stuff) and I'm just using 11.5Mw

[ornate saffron]

I did ten parts a minute for all the phase 5 parts and I didn't need anymore then one full pure oil node of nitro rocket fuel

[fluid sapphire]

i am closing in on finishing phase 4 and using 50GW

but i overbuild most things

[dapper marten]

I mean, I must do 1000 pasta and the others

[fluid sapphire]

1000 pasta, at 1 per minute, slooped to 2, only takes 8 hours

[dapper marten]

I still haven't done anything nuclear related💀 🙏

[ornate saffron]

Over 6 playthroughs I havent either. Next playthrough imma force it

[whole fable]

I'm looking to make a turbo fuel build on the oil on the far side of the desert. Is it really feasible to get the water for diluted fuel there without crazy pipe running shenanigans?

[ornate saffron]

Rocky desert?

[whole fable]

Yeah, the 4 oil nodes just east of the entrance to the forest

[ornate saffron]

Ooh I know the ones. The river is right near it shouldn't be a issue

I'd bring the oil down hil to the water. Less headlift headaches

@whole fable

[whole fable]

Hmm good plan

[dapper marten]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=CC8w0jLGUbDihAaYFLsw
Why isn't it using more resources even if they're available?

[ornate saffron]

I mean thats what I did. I started this time in the northern forest

[open parcel]

hi

[abstract heron]

i don't make nukes stuff i make nuclear power plant 😛

[dapper marten]

What

[ornate saffron]

Greeny is a member here. If you look at the bottom of the tools website. Youll see its the same guy.

[shell lava]

Does anybody know when FICSMAS is coming?

[ornate saffron]

Next week

[dapper marten]

Ok?

[shell lava]

W 🔥

[ornate saffron]

Pc or console?

[dapper marten]

Console

Btw nevermind, the problem is sulfur, it's already capped lol

[ornate saffron]

Can I dm you?

[dapper marten]

Ok

[open parcel]

my brain is cooked

[abstract heron]

Can't wait for FICMAS on Monday

[open parcel]

mate

amn trying to do the base things

and my brainis already kaboom

maybe having math and then satisfactory is not a good idea

my head was already hurting

[tall rune]

I'm trying to make custom power poles for zipline purposes, whats the deal with autoconnect?

[tall rune]

Yeah but you have to get water in

[unkempt blade]

if you want to you can get even more in the spirit with the only ficsit approved holiday album the Chipmunks Christmas

[abstract heron]

its probbaly going to be saame but with bug fixes due to consolez

[abstract heron]

I am already on my holiday list

[unkempt blade]

oh in that case you can find some more bangers for your normal rotation

[fluid sapphire]

no auto connect for power cables

[unkempt blade]

there was a mod at some point I used to toggle it on during the summer - totally worth it if you run out of time

[tall rune]

rip

[fluid sapphire]

just connect manually, doesnt take that long

[near thicket]

What's the best way to load and unload a freight at the same location? Back to back stations?

[hard ivy]

Yeah, one station after another

[near thicket]

Am I also correct that upon first unlocking trains everyone else immediately drives them off a cliff to make sure that they can

[leaden turret]

...no...

[hard ivy]

I don't remember if I did that, because the first time I used trains was before they could even collide. So maybe?

[near thicket]

You gotta make sure though

[leaden turret]

back in my day trains went uphill both ways, stayed on tracks, and didn't collide with each other

🧓

I mean also back in my day, tractors would fall off sky bridges all the time and get stuck 😛

[hard ivy]

Not just get stuck but also just fall off into the void never to be seen again

[leaden turret]

pre autopilot change: vehicles would run out of fuel because they'd deviate off course, autopilot back to where they were and have no fuel left
post autopilot change: vehicles calculate how much fuel they need to get to the next stop before they start and keep going regardless

[mystic oriole]

You can fix that with fuel delivery by factory carts.

[charred sandal]

Hmm. I was going to have 3 sets of 40 refineries making recycled plastic, and then 3 sets of 40 making rubber beside that.

Think its better to just have sets of 20 plastic + 20 rubber on top of eachothter looping ?

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> re: Mikael's tongue emote and Jason getting the job of figuring out how to add emojis unaided, just noticed we don't have a :sf_drone: emote- seems like that would be a safe practice run? 😛

[ornate saffron]

@mystic urchin its for a phase 5 item that boosts its bonis power to 30%

[mystic urchin]

What item would that be

[hard ivy]

Possibly even less than 20. It's best if you can fit all rubber, including residual, on the same belt so you can use prio splitters to send only overflow to output (same with plastic, but there's no residual so 20 fits fine)

[cunning lily]

What is Ficsmas?

[mystic urchin]

Fixit Xmas event

[hard ivy]

Alien power matrix

[mystic urchin]

I see

[ornate saffron]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Alien_Power_Matrix

[ornate saffron]

Ty the name was eluding me

[mystic urchin]

Well I am nowhere near that yet since I still haven't finished phase 3 after 280 hours

[hard ivy]

Plus they're not worth using unless you have at least like 100-200 GW of raw power production

[clear echo]

I'm finally closing in on finishing phase 4 after 1600 hours

I finished phase 3 over 1200 hours ago

This is also in my save that I've run since June 2020

[mystic urchin]

I could be already done with phase 3 but I am instead making my early game factories prettier

[mystic urchin]

Your safe didn't get ruined by 1.0?

[clear echo]

Same with me except I'm rebuilding everything from the early game for more capacity while also building a new massive rail network

[clear echo]

Nah update 6 screwed me over more than 1.0 did.

[mighty bobcat]

Is there plans to add more stuff to the game?

[clear echo]

That was because I had a fuel plant in the Spire Coast that I decided to move to the crater lakes piece by piece

[mystic urchin]

Since nodes got moved or changed their purity a lot of my factories stopped working so I just started a new save

[mighty bobcat]

Specifically building stuff

[clear echo]

Oh the only one that I was affected by there was the caterium nodes at the east end of the canyonlands, but I moved that factory to the western desert cliffs, not too far away.

Because I did that move before 1.0 dropped, it didn't interrupt anything

[mystic urchin]

You don't mind missing out on the story?

[leaden turret]

what sort of building stuff?

• production build_ings_ ?
• decorative pieces for aesthetics?
• small scale decor like furniture/potted plants?

[charred sandal]

welp. the groups of 20 already happened lol

[mighty bobcat]

Decore stuff

[clear echo]

I mean I can start a new save that's a mishmash of everyone's blueprints and AGS
Started that a few years before 1.0, never actually did more with the idea.

[clear echo]

Dude I would love arched walls

[mighty bobcat]

Like different kinds of walls and stuff to make having really big factories nice to work with

[leaden turret]

they haven't ruled it out but no specifics mentioned either.

I do have very tenuous theory about potted plants because their 3d artist job ad specifically enquires about vegetation asset creation experience.

[hard ivy]

I think you can prio merge the residual after splitting off the overflow from recycled but I've never tested that

[abstract heron]

i see the new calender for ficmas already

[clear echo]

It feels criminal that quarter pipe foundations are the only arches we have in the game
Like what if I don't want thickness in my walls?

[mystic urchin]

Yeah base game decoration is limiting

I use a few mods but it still isn't perfect

[clear echo]

I built a tree out of painted beams and concrete foundations a whole ago.
Could even remove the foundations that served as leaves to make it look like the tree was dead from all the coal plants

[leaden turret]

https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=architecture OR (furniture AND interior)

[clear echo]

Only like 12m tall too, so it didn't cost a lot.

[mystic urchin]

I wish I was half as good as that

[sonic verge]

not having a good time with the truck transport

Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness by Green Carnation

[mystic urchin]

Anything currently playing in my playlist

I don't pick music based on the game I play

[whole drum]

Tool--listen to Tool

[umbral sleet]

does anyone else just get to phase 3 and give up? usually i get to there, am overwhelmed and just... stop

[sonic verge]

that band is dead to me sadly. they ripped off a Rush song. I cant unhear it now. my fav band for more than 15 years at one point

[leaden turret]

have patience 🙂

[mystic urchin]

Patience is irrelevant when I can't even think of that as an idea, let alone figure out how to build it

[leaden turret]

that's what #design-and-architecture is for

[mystic urchin]

Doesn't really help

[leaden turret]

is where you go to ask how to figure out how to build crazy shit like that

[mystic urchin]

Doesn't help because I cannot even think of that stuff to begin with

[leaden turret]

there's a few highlights that rebuilt some library that's notable for it's architecture, as well as the general trend of "here's real-world building x built in Satisfactory".

find something you like the look of architecturally speaking and break it down into chunks of "I know how to build that, but not that" and ask for specific help on the chunks you don't know how to replicate

[mystic urchin]

I already look at real buildings for a lot of my builds
But it's still hard to find what I am looking for because I don't know what to google to look it up

[leaden turret]

to look what up?

[unkempt blade]

You need to seek out inspiration from classical sources, start with a good artistic foundation you can build on #screenshots message

[mystic urchin]

Exactly

[leaden turret]

oh, vocabulary issue, lacking correct terms for google-fu?

[mystic urchin]

I can't look it up if I don't know what I want to look up

My imagination is at negative

Most of my buildings are literally just fancy boxes

[unkempt blade]

you look up "the coolest looking buildings" and then you go to those results and you pay attention to the language they use and then you use that language to refine your searches

[leaden turret]

brutalism 😛

[sudden valley]

Ive done 20 hard drives just to get Quickwire Stator 😭

[leaden turret]

see also #design-and-architecture nerds, "I wanna google for things related to [x] but I dunno the terms" with links to stuff you've posted in #off-topic-media

[sonic verge]

cant figure out the truck transport. its not unloading (i have the drop off station on unload and its powered)

[hard ivy]

why would you want that XD

[sudden valley]

Less steel since theres not alot near me

[unkempt blade]

because it's a fantastic recipe much like cast screws

[hard ivy]

there's iron basically everywhere

[sudden valley]

Yes i know not alot of coal near me

Well near my factory location

[hard ivy]

iron pipe and you don't need coal

[mystic urchin]

I wish it was that simple

[sudden valley]

Im making alot of Stators so that isnt that viable

[hard ivy]

and iron wire and you don't need anything besides iron

[leaden turret]

"i need halp, brain no worky, what word make good search result"

[unkempt blade]

it is that simple, it just takes a little time and effort 😆

[sudden valley]

My factory is near Northern coast And im already using all the coal for power and steel

[mystic urchin]

Not for me, because as I said, I have no creativity or imagination

It takes me hours to think of a design for a building

[unkempt blade]

How do you think people get good at that? It doesn't just appear from nowhere

[mystic urchin]

Because they don't have autistic brains that don't get stuck at simple thoughts

That's how

[hard ivy]

How many are you making??? 1 costs less that 10 iron ore

[leaden turret]

you think people that play satisfactory and do crazy stuff don't have autism ? 😛

[unkempt blade]

practice is still the solution even if you're wired in a way that may need a little more patience 🙂

[leaden turret]

don't need creativity to replicate something that already exists

[mystic urchin]

I wish people would just accept that not everyone can do this no matter how much "practice"

[sudden valley]

80 or sth

[leaden turret]

not talking about practice, talking about knowing places to ask for halp

[whole drum]

My thought exactly rofl

[mystic urchin]

Last time I asked for help I got zero replies

So that's fun

[unkempt blade]

It's more that they definitely can't if they don't put in the effort. Maybe you'll still not be perfect later but you won't know without trying 🤷

[leaden turret]

sometimes people are asleep/distracted

[whole drum]

"Whether you believe that you can or you cannot, either way, you're correct."

[fading whale]

What's the best way to share a gameclip here? About 85mb.

[hard ivy]

you can make 100+ from 2 mk4 belts of iron

[leaden turret]

youtube then #streams-and-videos

[hard ivy]

youtube

[sudden valley]

Im in Phase 2

[leaden turret]

nerdiest but not the best option is ffmpeg to squish video

[hard ivy]

tf do you need 80 stators for in phase 2

[unkempt blade]

I'm going to go with "break it up into a series of 2mb GIFs" just to be different

[leaden turret]

please don't accuse me of wanting to be something I don't

[sudden valley]

Wiring and motors for phase 3

Automated wiring *

[unkempt blade]

you might want to catch up on the conversation you're diving into the middle of

[languid moat]

Hey guys i think there is a minor glitch in the game although i feel like its intended where do i go for glitches?

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[leaden turret]

I am at a loss as to wtf you're talking about

[mystic urchin]

I am not even new that's the damn problem
I have 760h in the game

[whole fable]

Manifold lovers: is there a limit to how many splitters you can do in a row before it just takes too long to balance?

[abstract heron]

Ooo glitches

[languid moat]

Guys do you ever notice if you slide then immidiately jump the speed of your character gets a +1?

[abstract heron]

Hello Marv

[mystic urchin]

Yes, that's a common way to go faster

[leaden turret]

now do that on a mk.3 belt or above 😛

[whole drum]

Your patience is the limit

[languid moat]

I wana say that it is refrenced from ULTRAKILL

:))))

Imagine the game had dashes

[unkempt blade]

especially getting later into the game I just pull stuff from the depot or turn the previous step on while I'm building the next step and use those to load up the machines early in the manifold

[steel kelp]

Nitric and sulfuric acid are both liquids right

[primal obsidian]

yeah

[steel kelp]

Since finding out rocket fuel is a gas i lack confidence in determining lol

Oki thought so ty

[primal obsidian]

WHAT

[steel kelp]

i know

[whole drum]

So is ionized gas

[primal obsidian]

i need to check this

[unkempt blade]

yeah I remember learning that on accident in 1.0 when I was expecting to need a pump and didn't

[primal obsidian]

yup codex says high impuilse compressed gas

[steel kelp]

It blew my mind, i was using pumps instinctively lmao

[lusty knot]

THY END IS NOW

PREPARE THYSELF

[steel kelp]

I’m so excited to place 288 water gens and 144 nuclear power plants

[sonic verge]

13:00 to like 25:00 is the best

[fading whale]

So how sharp turns can your trains do?
#streams-and-videos message

[sonic verge]

ive spent 8 hours on 1 transport route and can't figure it out. its a shame because I was really starting to like this game.

[winter fable]

They won awards with that ost

Lorien cooked🔥

[crisp lava]

is there gonna be a winter sale for satistfactory? i wanna get it after my exams

[halcyon locust]

If they don’t perform Lumiere during the game awards I’m gonna have a fit

[winter fable]

Scroll the e33 discord

[winter fable]

Atleast they gonna givie a concert

But em, this is satisfactory channel

[glad quest]

asne

same

[cyan leaf]

Holy crap stage 5 and 6 is such a headachhee

[tiny rivet]

tier?

[green fiber]

LaZy discovered the Goop™

[tiny rivet]

phase 5 is pain

[green fiber]

I think they mean Tier 5 aka Oil

[feral veldt]

Why is it stressful to play this gameeee

[cyan leaf]

Oh yeah meant tier lol

[primal obsidian]

the enemise?

[green fiber]

are you stressing yourself by any chance?

[tiny rivet]

wait what, i got inside the converter???

collision issues lol

[cunning lily]

Planning a big build can be kind of overwhelming... and its also enjoyable. But pacing your demands of yourself and breaking things down are so important.

[green fiber]

hypertubes can put you inside the converter too, very fun

[feral veldt]

prolly.... Its just the chain of thinking about make new items > improve what you have > tear everything down and make it pretty > why is the power failing > why don't you build on foundations? and the list goes onnnnnn

[cyan leaf]

And finding the time to make it 😭

[tiny rivet]

no i mean, i just walked in

[green fiber]

quirky

[tiny rivet]

cant send pics here of where you can guh

[hard ivy]

you can walk into the manufacturer too

[green fiber]

Improving and tearing down are things i never do because it feels like wasted time and effort.
i only ever improve stuff a little bit if i left it "unfinished" to begin with
Else i just make new stuff

[tiny rivet]

i just say to myself, if it works dont touch it

[green fiber]

fair approach

[primal obsidian]

nvm it was just one

[feral veldt]

So you just keep building?

[green fiber]

Yes

I dont tear down old stuff i decorate it and abandon it

[tiny rivet]

mk6 belts are fast holy

[zenith pecan]

I do tear down old stuff as it is typically superseded as I progress, it cuts down on objects since I'm always way over the object limit.

[green fiber]

the old stuff is usually so tiny in comparison to the newer bigger projects that it rarely matters

[zenith pecan]

My old ironworks is literally in the way and at the wrong height compared to my current plans.

My current plan is to feed the new steel output and the mines from the old ironworks into something more current and get a decent, rather than basic rotor/stator/motors and on upwards,

[tiny rivet]

im in big trouble...

im irriadiated, 7 ion infused filters left, and i cant find the source in my inventory

[zenith pecan]

save into a new slot, exit and reload, that's the radiation bug, unless there is a deposit nearby,

[hard ivy]

save and reload

[tiny rivet]

no deposit nearby

[zenith pecan]

Save & reload as we mentioned then, you're getting irradiated by a glitch.

[cyan leaf]

Why is oil stuff so confusing like wtfff

[green fiber]

dont make it more complicated that it really is

start with plastic and rubber directly from oil

and then process the purple stuff into coke and trash that

the main thing about refineries: you MUST deal with both outputs

if one of them clogs the entire refinery stops producing

[zenith pecan]

Purple + dilute fuel is cool when you can.

My first oil was fuel and sink resin.

[cyan leaf]

What should i focus on when setting up oil stuff?

[tiny rivet]

plastic/rubber if you just got oil

[steel kelp]

Try and get the alt recipes that come with oil, they are super useful

[fluid sapphire]

once you have rubber production, you can start thinking about fuel and generators

[cyan leaf]

Fff im at the point where a lot of em need power to open

[fluid sapphire]

power augmenter go brr

[tiny rivet]

i suggest making a good turbofuel power plant, you can easily make like 55gw

[cyan leaf]

Wait i was talking about the drive thingies lol

[zenith pecan]

Just use dilute fuel, then move onto rocket fuel.

[steel kelp]

Just run around w some biofuel and make a bunch of burners

You can even shard them if you dont wanna place that many

[fluid sapphire]

use the APA, thats the easiest way to open the pods

[steel kelp]

How did i never think of this wtf

Does it make power by itself?

[cyan leaf]

Whays apa?

[tiny rivet]

550

[tiny rivet]

Alien Power Augmenter

[cyan leaf]

How u get that?

[steel kelp]

The amount of biomass burners i placed lmao

[steel kelp]

Research somersloops in the alien tech tree

[tiny rivet]

500 base power and a 10% boost to that 500 so 550

[tiny rivet]

u also need 10 somersloops to build one

[cyan leaf]

Oh shii that's annoying 😭

[fluid sapphire]

once you have the jetpack its really not that hard to find 10

if you are out there looking for drives you find 10 by accident

[tiny rivet]

am i able to tell the building materials to build one?

cuz idk if that counts as spoilers, diffrent game servers diffrent rules

[south sinew]

no problem

[tiny rivet]

total build cost for 1 is 10 somersloops, 50 SAM fluctuators, 100 cable, 50 Encased Industrial Beam, 25 motors and 10 computers, quite expensive in the early game

[cyan leaf]

Yeah I haven't even started tier 5 and 6(cause that crap needs a lot of time i don't have 😭)

[gentle lion]

I just unlocked 5 and 6 working on jetpack , I unlocked the oil stuff first

[steel kelp]

Just use biomass burners you dont need to use the power augumenter

[cyan leaf]

Im doing the same but god dam motors are aidss

[gentle lion]

I setup a motor line and they are slow to make 😂

About as slow as rotors

[steel kelp]

Just have them feed into a storage container before your depot, then you will never run out

[gentle lion]

I had a full container of rotors before I started and the machine was also full

[steel kelp]

Then you need to make more rotors

[gentle lion]

I setup rods sheets and screws on a seperate level I.guess I'll use that area for more rotors

[tiny rivet]

time for me to start building neural-quantum processor.. yayyyyyy

[steel kelp]

They were pretty easy for me, i did like 25/m without much drama

[gentle lion]

I'm working on quartz and sulfur and caterium in the mam

[steel kelp]

All the tier 9 parts other than singularity cells were pretty chill

[steel kelp]

Just try and research everything possible

[tiny rivet]

how many supercomputers per min are you making?!??!

[gentle lion]

I'm trying I.get sidetracked easily lol

[steel kelp]

I dont wanna talk about it

[steel kelp]

Supercomputers almost made me quit the game i hated my life making that factory

[gentle lion]

I made 3 industrial containers filling them with quartz crystals, silica , and whatever Sam makes.

All 3 are full which should help research

[steel kelp]

Not much benefit in this imo outside of research

Do you not have dimensional depots?

[fluid sapphire]

ya'll out here building everything from scratch?

[gentle lion]

Just unlocked it

[tiny rivet]

what should i make with the dark matter residue? just make dark matter crystals?

[gentle lion]

I don't have many somerloops , I need to find more

[steel kelp]

For the quantum processors i ship in my supercomputers, but for my supercomputers and parts of that complexity i usually make them from scratch in a sep factory

[steel kelp]

Crystals and sink those if you dont need to use them

You get it from harvesting the weird looking trees and honeycomb things

Its annoying to get

[tiny rivet]

i needa make supoerposition oscillator

[fluid sapphire]

for me i did this for tier 7-8 parts

ship in all precursors, i expect this to be enough to finish phase 5, i can always make more later, but this approach makes everything just so much easier

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=Ojlae7rCAnkDKmSPQeZI

[steel kelp]

I ended up making a factory at phase 5 for every project part in the game which made life easy

Not for project parts, its just used for the stuff you get from the mam

[south sinew]

You can't automate mycelia production so it's only used for a few equipment pieces

[charred sandal]

Does headlift transfer from highs to lows?

Like, If I have a pipe going 50m down, will it go 20-40 feet up?

[fluid sapphire]

thats also my plan, for phase 4 i will toss stuff into a container still, but for phase 5, i will build automation, but it'll be a piece of cake once the gaps are filled, missing precursors and all that

[tiny rivet]

if it goes 50 meters down it goes 50 meters up

[steel kelp]

Yea i hand fed phases 3 & 4 lol

[plain gate]

yea

[charred sandal]

sweet

[steel kelp]

Think he means project parts

[fluid sapphire]

motors are not so bad

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=nGgyBnsIeR3tMkGAsGMF

wdym

[steel kelp]

Yeh you should be doing it, but unless you have been building logistics to connect the satellite factories or you have been making a mega factory from the start its annoying to connect everything

[tiny rivet]

500 biochemical sculptors.. halfway there

[fluid sapphire]

i was talking about the classic way to produce elevator parts

[tiny rivet]

no actually i got 750, i have 250 in my dimensional depot so im 75% done

[brazen coral]

I'd actually be doing some form of a sushi belt only for storage and any overflow either goes into the sink or keeps cycling through

[steel kelp]

Lol theyre pretty good, but i imagine its a nightmare to make them scalable which is why i built mine at the start of phase 5

[leaden turret]

that's an auto-sorting warehouse thingy

[primal obsidian]

removed a signal and the train station was reachable again hopefully this doesent cause collisions

[brazen coral]

Well a mall at this point but combining it with dimensional storage when I can

Learning better layouts for a lot of stuff as I go now

Combining mostly everything except the ☢️ stuff but is that available in phase 4 or 5?

[steel kelp]

Plastic and rubber

[gentle lion]

I use alternate steel pipe that uses iron since I have more iron

[steel kelp]

But it also depends on what you’re producing outside your mega factory

[hearty saffron]

Is it possible to save-edit out all the foliage? My laptop suffers whenever I look up, and I don't wanna spend hours chainsawing it all away

[steel kelp]

If you’re not making anything, you need to sit down and plan all the numbers to figure out what you need

For mine, i only needed iron, copper, coal, limestone, aluminium, plastic and rubber

[cunning lily]

How do I let go of my parachute?

[steel kelp]

And then other parts like supercomputers or crystal oscillators i droned in

[fluid sapphire]

did you look at the link? this uses iron only, optimized for round numbers and simplicity

[steel kelp]

Depends how much you wanna scale, your production of later phase parts will be determined by phase 2 parts which are largely iron, copper and concrete

[gentle lion]

It took me to where I had to choose motors ..let me clikc it again

[gentle lion]

Yeah it didn't load anything for motors

[fluid sapphire]

strange, opens fine for me, here's an image then
#screenshots message

[gentle lion]

Oof I need better everything and that alt recipe lol

[tiny rivet]

do i export super computers with train or drones (across world) for Neural Quantum processors

[steel kelp]

Yeah you just gotta do the math unfortunately lol

[steel kelp]

Imo its easier to do that if you already have them being produced in a decent quantity

[whole drum]

They are generally produced in low enough quantities that drones are easier

[gentle lion]

I feel like I don't know how to play when I see everyone's screenshots

[steel kelp]

If you aim for like 5-10 per minute of each phase 5 part, you can work back from there

But it depends what your goals are, some people wanna make loads of phase 5 parts, some people wanna do other things

[fluid sapphire]

dont worry about it, i also feel that way, and so do many others

[gentle lion]

I need to find more sloops I only have a few like 4 or 5 lol

[steel kelp]

Yeah thats kinda the aim of the whole game lol, my question was how much per minute you want to produce for certain items

[reef basin]

don't plan for future, build what you need now, future stuff will be built in the future

[autumn totem]

I'm gonna build the best lizard doggo "humane storage facility" FICSIT has ever seen!

[steel kelp]

Theyre building a megafactory so i think planing for the future is v appropriate lol

[rain torrent]

How do I report game breaking glitch

[steel kelp]

In that case you need to transport every node on the map to your base lol

[rain torrent]

Guys it’s really bad I can’t figure out how to report a big problem

[steel kelp]

If you want to make the most of any item possible, then yeah

[steel kelp]

Whats the issue? You just report it on the satisfactory qa website

[rain torrent]

It’s a dupe and it duplicates everything in the dimension depo a lot

I did it on accident

[terse bone]

what was the update today?

[rain torrent]

Several times

[whole drum]

2 impures = 1 normal, 2 normal = 1 pure, so gathering the "bad" nodes and combining them yields effectively extra good nodes.

[gentle lion]

Yeah I just get sidetracked lol

Those water nodes I find around do you put extractors on them?

[primal obsidian]

yeah like that one place with 6 impure nodes thats equivalent to 1 pure and 1 normal

[primal obsidian]

future upgrade you can place pressurizers on them

[gentle lion]

Ah OK

[primal obsidian]

forget which tier though

[gentle lion]

I did mark the nitrogen on the map.i found

[reef basin]

it's generally not possible unless you plan your whole save from start to finish

there's no "bad" nodes tbh

[steel kelp]

Think they just mean impure

[reef basin]

well if you don't know how much you need, you should plan how much you're gonna produce so that you know how much you'll need 😉

(and then build near nodes you need, no reason to take it to some central base)

[cunning lily]

Youre spending power you could otherwise free up then 🙏

[brazen coral]

Right now I have the alternate recipe for solid steel available so I'm making that and that creates most of my screws rods pipes and a lot of things

[fiery pewter]

Chat my 1350 MW biomass plant is nearing completion

[fiery pewter]

What do you need screws for?

In that stage

[hard stump]

Is there such thing as 2 pure iron nodes right next to each other?

[fiery pewter]

Yes

[brazen coral]

I can't remember... Rotors, I think I don't have the steel rotors yet

But still trying to get more hard drives to find it

[fluid sapphire]

in northern forest there is a spot with 6

[fiery pewter]

for the people looking for nodes:
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map#3;49935;12817|gameLayer|

use SCIM

[primal obsidian]

i never ever thought of making a biomass factory i just handcrafted them and rushed coal

[fiery pewter]

lol

I wanna automate smart plating in phase 1

[brazen coral]

Also, I think I need them for frames as well

[fiery pewter]

and since my starter base is in this location

I have the iron for it

[fading whale]

To the west of the Grass Fields starter area (close to the big waterfall) tehre are 3 pure close to each other.

[tall lantern]

as with most alt choices, depends heavily on what resources you want to use (what's nearby, what you have to spare, that sorta thing)

[hard stump]

I’ll have to look or see if I can find coordinate the interactive map doesent work for me but think it’s cuz of the font size of my phone

[hazy sable]

try out https://satisfactory.th.gl/

[fiery pewter]

yeah cannot normally chat in #screenshots

[steel kelp]

In the south west by the gold coast there are like 3 i think

[reef basin]

website craps itself with adblocker enabled... instantly leaving it 😄

[hard ivy]

what even is this and why is it on the whitelist

[steel kelp]

Check your dm

[charred sandal]

Is there any way to combine a material + color on some sort of preset that allows you to apply both at the same time...?

[fading whale]

You can set an overall default color for different types of items (and it's easy to change). And you can add colors and materials to your hotbar.

[charred sandal]

omg

i didnt even notice that drop down menu

2nd question.

Are there any smaller light fixtures?

I have ceiling, flood, street

I dont see any others anywhere 🙁

[brazen coral]

There technically are smaller light structures without needing power, you take signs and make them completely white, there is a preset color called concrete while turning up the brightness on them to the desired level.

[fluid sapphire]

there are no alts for that

[fading whale]

Not as such. Butif you enable global illumination, you can use signs (with colored backgrounds) as a short distance light source.

[charred sandal]

Thats unfortunate. I just want light fixtures that look like light fixtures lol

[fluid sapphire]

there is one for casings but as usual, very situation dependent. personally i dont use casing almost anywhere at all with the alts that i use overall

only a small supply into a depot

[open swallow]

Ventilation fan, cyber truck, and The Nut

[fluid sapphire]

its usually easier to start planning from an end goal

[brazen coral]

What phase are you supposed to get uranium and such, all the radioactive tier stuff

[leaden turret]

@void gorge
@obsidian zodiac
[insert hannah here]

[hard ivy]

4

[brazen coral]

Okay so I'm almost there

Just need to finish making all the motors frames and control units

[fluid sapphire]

late phase 4

[ornate saffron]

Leave me out of this

[fluid sapphire]

as long as you can navigate it yourself, all good

[fading whale]

If you need resources, no point in only using pure. You can just as easy take a handful of normal/low and merge their output.

[fluid sapphire]

i mean in terms of the whats and wheres, the layout

[fading whale]

Ore is ore and Ficsit is not picky 😄

[mortal ginkgo]

We should not be picky indeed. We should even tap on impure limestone nodes. Yes.

#ad

5/min limestone

[glass pagoda]

You can become pure but you must go on a journey

[mortal ginkgo]

Soon my friend, very soon.

[brazen coral]

I also wanted to ask what about time diamonds/crystals when are those available?

[fluid sapphire]

early phase 5

[glass pagoda]

You must first become a "normal node"

But I think you are normal

[brazen coral]

Okay, so I technically can't finish the slug research until then, darn XD

[mortal ginkgo]

Not yet.

[brazen coral]

Do they appear in drop locations where hard drives are?

[glass pagoda]

Have any of you gotten the peak gameplay achievement it's fun

[mortal ginkgo]

nope, they are really important stuff especially for last stages.

Dont let it bother you

[brazen coral]

Okay no problem, I really in no rush. I still got to get the rest of my factory set up cuz I needed it redesigned for aesthetics. I hate having spaghetti right now xD

Only just now getting into double manifolds

[glass pagoda]

Yeah after you first organize your factory you just stop organizing while building for a bit and then start organizing again

[ornate saffron]

I am. Stooge but I have no clue why you mentioned stooges

[brazen coral]

I really had no way of getting a fixed setup to replicate mostly cuz I didn't know how layout works

But now I have access to blueprint. Mark II

[glass pagoda]

As head of lizard doggo police i sent a lizard dogo nuke to ur home.. I mean a cute doggo try petting it

Don't mind the beeping

[fluid sapphire]

design reusable modules, either blocks of machines or micro-setups for particular products, layout concerns become a thing of the past, its much easier to shuffle things around if you can place and delete stuff in bulk

[glass pagoda]

Don't worry while you were looking at that doggo another doggo destroyed ur power system and made all belts mk1

[brazen coral]

As for foundries, I use repeatable 2 foundry layouts with concrete pillars going over them for wall outlets

[glass pagoda]

That's what you think

[brazen coral]

Smelters I had 4 per blueprint, thinking of combining that on the Mark II

And then constructors I already had eight of combined on the Mark II

All of them with wrap around mergers and splitters for the intakes and finished product

Still trying to work in a dimensional Depot warehouse type building into that for quick access to certain parts and so on but eventually I might not need that depending on how quickly I get stuff automated. But I still like to keep an inventory in the depot.

[whole drum]

As I usually just hand build everything, I use manifolds extremely often for their ease, simplicity, and reliability. However, if I was going to use blueprints often, I would be more prone to use balancers as the plug-and-play nature of bps means having everything just start and work right away would be preferred.

[gentle lion]

Did all the mam I could smart splitter and priority merger unlocked

[whole drum]

Almost

[white dawn]

I have dedicated factories for every resource that's used by the build gun, plus generally all packaged fuels and ammos and such, sure.

[whole drum]

I don't overly centralize tho

[white dawn]

I don't generally have dedicated lines for resources which are only ever intermediate products, like stators, circuit boards, etc

And yeah, I also don't centralize; I've usually got factories all over the map

[whole drum]

Yeah, we don't rely on a "main base" concept so much

[hard ivy]

the depot is my main base

[white dawn]

The real main base was the friends we made along the way

[whole drum]

The real main base is my munitions depot

[hard ivy]

... dimensional depot?

[whole drum]

It has two meanings

• in SF it usually means the Dimensional Depot
• in regular English it's generally a storage/logistics facility

In a loose sense, you might say that, but usually a depot is for some express purpose; fuel, ammunition, freight, etc.

If you are using a central base to make everything, the SF community usually calls that a "megabase" or "megafactory."

[peak wasp]

is there anyway someone could help me. im trying to make phase 3 factory and i rlly need help

[whole drum]

Help with what?

[sonic verge]

what do I do with petroleum coke? its not feeding into the coal generators or assembler

[sullen gull]

Aluminum for me.

[peak wasp]

cause ive used satisfactory modeler and im having 18 smelter which is going into constructors, and they need like 250 in 1, 200 in 1 and yeah

[white dawn]

What do you mean by "not feeding into the coal generators" btw? Is the internel buffer on the coal gen already full? Did the coal gen already have regular coal in it? Does the coal gen have water?

When you first unlock oil processing, the usual things to do with coke are to either sink it or use it for some coal gen power

There's a lot of other alt recipes out there which can give you more varied options though

re: assembler in particular -- remember that Petroleom Coke is not a direct substitute for regular Coal in production machines. They're two different resources; you can't just send coke into a recipe which wants coal

(Coal generators are a bit different; they'll accept any of their valid resources, which include both coal and coke. But the internal coalgen buffer will only hold a single type of resource at a time)

[whole drum]

Which is why I never use it, lol

Don't see a ton of value in wasting good oil on not-coal

[peak wasp]

@whole drum im tryring to make a split system that gets 1 belt into 250, 1 belt into 200, and more

[hard ivy]

It's good for aluminium. But that's all I use coke for

[white dawn]

Well, for early (vanilla-recipe) oil setups, it might just be a byproduct you've gotta deal with. Shoving it into some coal gens is a kind of fun way to make your early oil processing net-power-positive

[whole drum]

I already told you

[white dawn]

(I mean really the byproduct that's more problematic is HOR, but at the beginning most folks'll just be converting that to coke to deal with)

[whole drum]

Fuel

[white dawn]

You don't unlock Fuel Gens (or packaging) at the same time as basic oil

(Those are admittedly not far away unlockwise, but still. When a user's spinning up their very first oil-processing plant, fuel might not be a great choice)

[whole drum]

I usually aim for fuel to be the purpose of my first oil set up. I just get some bonus rubber/plastic along the way

[sullen gull]

Fyi, instead of "dasiy chaining" lifts like you have, you can make "infinite" lifts of any height by using floor holes like so: #screenshots message (skip to around the 3 minute mark)

[whole drum]

Wrong reply. The spam is strong with this one

[cyan cloak]

Can sum1 help me

[sullen gull]

dude...

[whole drum]

You just think you do

[sullen gull]

You can post a thread in #1038092680493801533 . Be sure to give info and screenshots help

Yep

I mean, not sure what you mean by "safe"... but otherwise works fine.

No mods needed, that is a vanilla "feature"

Wasn't a mod. You can do that in the normal game.

You can purchase Converyor Floor Holes from the Awesome shop... .

And, so long as they are in line (hence why I used a temp stack of foundations) you can make a lift any length desired.

No need to redo, can just remember for next time 🙂

[hard stump]

Still learning I’m sorry. The wireless storage. (sorry can’t think of the word but I know it starts with a D) anyway I know there’s a lot to learn with it upload rate amount that can be inside etc but does it have a max distance?

[small yew]

Once in a while (maybe every three to four hours) the game completely stops for 20 to 30 seconds and then resumes as usual. May this be due to some garbage collection? (On Linux & Steam here)

[sullen gull]

no max distance. 240/min max upload.

[hard stump]

Ok cool it can be anywhere in the world that’s awesome.
Yeah looking at it seems like even fully upgraded was kinda sorta slow for late game. But again no mad distance and can even go direct from inventory

[fluid sapphire]

thats why you use multiple uploaders for stuff you need lots of

[sullen gull]

Also be sure to check the box that says "Take from Inventory before Depot". And like @fluid sapphire said, you can have multiple DD's uploading one item (I.E. Concrete) and they "stack"

[hard stump]

I’m still really early game and so much my brain can’t even handle lol. Stuck into my friend gets on to set up plastics automated.
Only thing in my world that’s somewhat neat is my dumb screw factory I wanted to build

[whole drum]

Foundation, belts, wires, mostly

[fluid sapphire]

and copper sheets

[fluid sapphire]

you shall grow

[small yew]

No, not after 24 hours, but after like three or four hozrs.

[hard stump]

Yes

[small yew]

Seems to be totally different issue. I play standalone. Thx anyway.

[tiny rivet]

im at the edge of completing my first playthrough, just need the ballistic warp drives

[sullen gull]

The "server" is just local. It's a a way the game forces a "garbage" cleanup.

[small yew]

Yes, this is exactly why I am asking. 32 MB RAM and 12 GB VRAM here. Just wanted to know if this may be due to Garbage Collection. No prob here at all, just wondering. Again, Linux & Steam & Proton may be differnt from native Windows.

[north parcel]

Chat do fluids work good enough for me to transport turbo fuel by train to a different place to be put in generators?

[tiny rivet]

32mb ram aint alot

[primal obsidian]

you better have meant 32 GB cause theres no way you can play satisfactory on that

[tiny rivet]

i have 32gb ddr5 6000

[small yew]

I know. But who says so??

[tiny rivet]

MB=Megabyte

[primal obsidian]

i have the same

only 8gb vram though

[tiny rivet]

everyone says 32MB ram isnt alot

[small yew]

Great. But this doesnt answer my question.

[tiny rivet]

you can ask anyone in the world, everyone will say 32MB isnt alot

[north parcel]

Lmk

[small yew]

Once in a while (maybe every three to four hours) the game completely stops for 20 to 30 seconds and then resumes as usual. May this be due to some garbage collection? (On Linux & Steam here)

Just a bunch of wanna-be geeks here. I'm out. Behave well, guys. 😉

[charred sandal]

Is there some bug with connecting pipes to floor holes, versus connecting them from floor holes?

I keep randomly being unable to connect a pipe from a floorhole that I already attached a pipe to on the other side. And I can only fix it by deleting the pipe and starting from the floor hole on both sides

what

Pipes dont have directions. idk what ur talking about at all

[sullen gull]

Fluids move in both directions ...

Umm... yes, it is...

Though I am aware you are referring to the "BUILD MODE"

Umm, no, you can have multiple "outputs"... it's called a manifold.

And, you can even have multiple inputs to one manidold..

[steel kelp]

Why would you do this

[primal obsidian]

fluids go either way btw

[sullen gull]

The only things that control the "direction" of fluids are pumps, valves, and gravity.

[north parcel]

I ran out of space at the place im making turbofuel

[steel kelp]

Go vertical?

[primal obsidian]

vertical

[reef basin]

and for pumps and valves, they only control from one end to another, not in whole pipe

[sullen gull]

Verticle

[charred sandal]

You did not run out of space. I promise.

[north parcel]

Cant cause the big mushrooms in the biome

[sullen gull]

Nobelisk! 🙂

[steel kelp]

Go above them lmao

[primal obsidian]

uhh just go even higher

[north parcel]

Wait the huge one can be bombed?

[sullen gull]

Most of the large mushrooms can be blown up

[primal obsidian]

height limit is WELL above any terrain im pretty sure

[hard ivy]

About 1.5 km above

[charred sandal]

how do you rotate pumps

like in a pipe

[sullen gull]

Mouse wheel after first click

[hard ivy]

Same as everything else

[north parcel]

Yeah but i want it to look good, it would look weird and its anoyibg with pipes

[primal obsidian]

same way you rotate anything with scroll wheel after clicking

[charred sandal]

derp

[primal obsidian]

hide them

but i mean it is up to you if you want you can package your turbofuel and place the gens somewhere else its just not very optimal

[steel kelp]

• A huge pain in the arse for no reason imo

[primal obsidian]

if you really care about aesthetics that much then you could do it

[charred sandal]

nah just put it straight into a train

[north parcel]

The mushroom is like 30 big foundations over my factory highest point, honestly no clue how to make it that huge and look good

[charred sandal]

make 10 train stations

[steel kelp]

Do not do that

[charred sandal]

Ignore the haters

[north parcel]

I care more about looks then effiency rn

[primal obsidian]

imo you should always package fuels if transporting them

[reef basin]

imo not

[steel kelp]

Try and blow up the trees before you do the train idea

[sullen gull]

Porque no los dos?

[north parcel]

?

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/why-not-both-por-que-no-los-dos-yey-gif-15089379

[north parcel]

I havent unlocked obelisk yet😭 gues i have to go on a sidequest

[mortal ginkgo]

brother going to finish the game before nobelisks

[steel kelp]

Theyre pretty easy to get, worth trying and you will use them in the future lol

[wicked nacelle]

Im doing that run right now but intentionally. No trains no bombs no guns.

[primal obsidian]

what arent you making turbofuel

[wicked nacelle]

So frustrating when you’re out exploring and find a sloop buried in rock

[north parcel]

#screenshots thats whats in the way right now, those can be blown up?

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/intergalactic-quality-intergalactic-dennice-the-menace-yep-dennis-the-menace-yep-gif-13852416563425310673

[hoary galleon]

Explosive rebar > nobelisk

[north parcel]

I have almost 2k hours jn this game and i diddent knew😭

[hoary galleon]

Well now you do.

[north parcel]

Okay guess its time to get nobelisk then

[charred sandal]

2k hours without trying is wild

[hoary galleon]

There are people with thousands and thousands of hours in life and don't understand taxes.

[north parcel]

Idk i never even made it to nucluer in those 2 hours

[flint grail]

Question. Is 16 trains enough?

[north parcel]

I like building i guess

[wicked nacelle]

That’s half the battle

[hoary galleon]

It's 2 too many.

Delete some

[primal obsidian]

multiplayer server and yet no one will help me with nuclear except someone from a different timezone truly a sad momment

[wicked nacelle]

Everyone wants people to come to THEIR server. Including you

You’re not helping anyone else either

[hoary galleon]

There's nothing hard about nuclear that you didn't already learn in making aluminium.

[primal obsidian]

i guess i cant complain cause i helped liek 2 people

still fun though cause satisfactory

[north parcel]

I got 140 hours into this save and only today ive made my first computer😭

[primal obsidian]

1 year s=is 8000 hours im pretty sure so yeah your right

[mortal ginkgo]

My man I am at 600h now and still at phase 2 because I love decorating.

Dont be too harsh on yourself. Get Nobelisks tho' you silly beans.

[wicked nacelle]

2000 hours is full time employment for a year

[north parcel]

So real, me 2

[dense ingot]

I have a quick question about drones before I get to making them. Is there a way to set them up so they'll only unload certain items at certain drone ports.

[sullen gull]

Eeeek, guess my 4.6k hours in a little over a year is baad? 😛

[manic edge]

WHOS FEELING THANKFUL!!!!!

[mortal ginkgo]

no, they are ultra basic, they go from A to B, drop/take stuff from each port and go

[sullen gull]

No

[dense ingot]

Okay, I can work with this.

[hoary galleon]

Tbh I hand make a turbo motor every time I build a mk3 miner.

[sullen gull]

However, multiple drones can land at one port, but only one drone can be "assigned" to a port (if that makes sense)

[dense ingot]

I only intend on having one drone basically just to deliver my aluminum from point A to point B, but I was curious if it could take stuff back from point B to point A.

[sullen gull]

I mean, that you can do

[dense ingot]

But I can't set it up so that specific items get dumped at Point A and specific items get dumped at point B.

[sullen gull]

Drones can pickup and drop off at the same time. So long as their cargo isn't full.

[mortal ginkgo]

only phase 4 says the pioneer while I am here stuck at phase 2

CASUALLY finishing the game

[hoary galleon]

So does that mean If I want to fuel drones using drones I have to have a drone port for every port just moving fuel?

[sullen gull]

You can make a port at the factory to go and pickup fuel from a port near the fuel factory. And have multiple drones use the same port. But, after so many, you may have issues with throughput.

[glossy flare]

whats the website for making diagrams on what i need for things

to make factories easier

[hoary galleon]

Who hasn't finished the beta amirite

[dense violet]

just 1 port of any pair needs fuel

[glossy flare]

me

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah bro game's ez

[primal obsidian]

theres multiple

[sullen gull]

Can use satisfactory Tools or modeler on steam

[primal obsidian]

satisfactory tools is the one i use though

[glossy flare]

thats the one im looking for thank you

all!

[hoary galleon]

Yeah but it I'm.... Dammit this channel can't take diagrams... If I'm doing a bit of a star network of N drones feeding my spelevator site, I need my ionised fuel site to have N drone ports just moving fuel out to the remote factories.

[dense violet]

this is essentially teh only channel that doesn't

[tiny rivet]

whats the easiest way to get tickets?

[dense violet]

maybe try using another channe?

[sullen gull]

Can make a thread in #1038092680493801533 and post shots there. Or use #math-and-meta or #design-and-architecture

[dense violet]

sink stuff

[tiny rivet]

do i sink like DNA capsules

[dense violet]

that is stuff you can sink, yes

[tiny rivet]

is it the most efficient to getting tickets?

[dense violet]

define 'efficient'

[tiny rivet]

i need that golden nut statue

[glossy flare]

can i make the constructors and stuff spread out on the calculator instead of it just saying 8x or something

[dense violet]

just put the 8 constructors into groups as you like

[sullen gull]

This is where Modeler comes in handy. Allowing for more "manual" layouts.

[sudden flint]

hypertube cannons. How do you make sure you don't get yeeted into the next planet?

[dense violet]

follow a tutorial of a recent update cannon

[sullen gull]

Don't use as many entrances.

[tiny rivet]

10-13 is enough to launch you across the map from my testing

[sudden flint]

so what, just like, 2 entrances on the loop?

[wicked nacelle]

Don’t make circular ones.

Make them the right length for where they are on the map. With a straight one you can build it so you can enter in the middle for a lower boost too

[south sinew]

have the cannon lead into a hypertube with an exit where you want to get off

it's a little slower but much more reliable in terms of ending up at the desired destination

[hard stump]

I know this sounds so stupid just looking at vids trying to just learn. Be cool to expand the ocean and have like a full barge you can put constructors on etc

[south sinew]

there's plenty of ocean you can put foundation on top of and build on

[charred sandal]

I have 120 refineries making rec plastic and 120 making rec rubber.

If I just send 60 of each to the other side (with smart splitters for extra if there are any) and send the other 60 to a train, do you guys think that would reduce output?

Versus sending them all back and using smart splitters for all the overflow/profit

[south sinew]

you should probably send them all back

it's easier than figuring out how much of each you can afford to divert

and especially if you can handle the sending back locally so each print only outputs profit, you can put that profit wherever you want without needing to care

[primal obsidian]

almost done fuel rods then i need to do waste managment

[sullen gull]

Like this? #screenshots message 😏

[steel kelp]

Nodes in the ocean would be super cool. Designing some sort of goplat would be sm fun

[sullen gull]

Not my build btw, just a Megaprint from SCIM

[sullen gull]

Needing a submersible robot to go under the water to tap an oil well 😛

[steel kelp]

Would be so cool

[tiny rivet]

it would encourage off-shore oil platforms too

[steel kelp]

Thats what a goplat is lol

[tiny rivet]

i did infact, not know that

[steel kelp]

Just a fancy way of saying an offshore oil or gas rig

[sullen gull]

I built nuke on the ocean once: #design-and-architecture message

[sudden flint]

AH

[tiny rivet]

im not fancy, maybe thats why

[sudden flint]

*capslock. ah

[tiny rivet]

shocking right?

80 ballistic warp drives left before i complete the game...

[steel kelp]

Keep going! I finished last week and the final delivery of the parts is sm fun!

[tiny rivet]

making 4 a minute so wont take that long

the setup for it is really unorganized, belts everywehere clipping through eachother i just want it to be done yk

[steel kelp]

Do you have plans for what you’re gonna do after

Or are you done

[tiny rivet]

sleep

its 11:37pm and am tired

[wicked nacelle]

more BWDs is always fun 🙂

[steel kelp]

I put in 100 hours in the first week lol so ive taken it pretty slow

[steel kelp]

900gw of nuclear is also v fun

[tiny rivet]

thats more then a full time job

[tiny rivet]

what is bro planning to do with all that power

[steel kelp]

Ive pulled 110 billable hours in a week before but this was infinitely more fun

[tiny rivet]

im using like 90GW max

[steel kelp]

If work wasnt extremely quiet i wouldnt have done it

[steel kelp]

Yea I’m using about 130gw

Just doing it for fun lol i wanna automate everything

[tiny rivet]

you just got that extra 770GW just for fun

[steel kelp]

Never know what i might wanna build

To make that power i will need like 200gw alone lol

[tiny rivet]

how many water pipes have you built

[charred sandal]

Yeah I just started p5 a cpl weeks ago and my current plan is to max out my nuclear power before I start on anything else :3

Max nuclear power > Max resource output (Maybe) and then start automating p5

[steel kelp]

I havent finished it yet, but its 288 water gens