satisfactory

[steel kelp]

Oh thats good to know ig i wont save them

[zenith pecan]

Presents are the resource the ficsmas automations need, when you have progressed, you can build gift trees that automate gift production, eliminating the need to go collecting.

[white dawn]

Yeah, definitely save 'em; you need a bunch hand-collected to kickstart things

[solar oar]

it didnt give me it

[steel kelp]

Ah oki ig i will save them

[white dawn]

But I'd say don't spend a ton of time collecting them unless you're intrinsically enjoying that experience. :)

[steel kelp]

Ive just made enough to get the next mam upgrade when it unlocks

[solar oar]

the ficsmas tree just doesnt appear

plz help

[zenith pecan]

I don't have an explanation if the start data isn't in day 1 of the advent calendar 🙁 , I started another game just to confirm 😢

[solar oar]

i got the cartridge but the tree doesnt exist

[zenith pecan]

In the mam?

[solar oar]

yeah

[small pilot]

Anyone know how to switch ammo type on PS5?

[zenith pecan]

Nuts, that should have ulnocked at the bottom of the mam categories, it did on the two saves I tested.

[solar oar]

maybe its because i have a drive to claim at the start

let me try

[white dawn]

Hold down on D-pad, I think

[zenith pecan]

It should have given you the full ficsmas intro from ADA after you opened the calendar at the hub.

[solar oar]

nope it doesnt exist

[small pilot]

Amazing never would have guessed

[solar oar]

it does

do i need every single tree or something

[zenith pecan]

Shouldn't do, lemme check with my old blueprint maker save.

Ficsmas uses only basic resources at its height, copper and iron.

[solar oar]

oh my lord

[white dawn]

Yeah, the most advanced building you need is an Assembler; they wanted to make sure it was pretty accessible

[solar oar]

im waiting the whole intro and everything through now

[white dawn]

One day I hope we'll be able to make Nog in a Blender. :D

[solar oar]

no where

do i need to enter the cartridge somewhere

[white dawn]

Should be a MAM tree which accepts it

[solar oar]

its just hard drives, alien megafauna, alien technology, caterium, nutrients, power slugs, quartz, sulphur and fungus like growth

nothing else

[white dawn]

You've got the calendar in the HUB and gifts are falling from the sky, right?

[solar oar]

yeah

[zenith pecan]

Yeah the calendar is where the cartridge was collected.

[white dawn]

Yeah, dunno. I suppose could try a quit+reload if you haven't already, but it does sound like a strange problem

[zenith pecan]

It doesn't help that my games are old, not recent so I can't see if there is a bug.

[solar oar]

ill figure something out

[white dawn]

Could be worth posting to the Questions site, I suppose

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[white dawn]

I suppose one other question: singleplayer? Or are you doing multiplayer / dedicated server?

(I'm not aware of anything in specific which could cause problems w/ multiplayer setups, but you never know...)

[solar oar]

my game is up to date everything seems perfect

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man i came home ready to get on ficsmas for nothing

[pliant smelt]

Ooh I didn't realise it snows too

[zenith pecan]

Shame the snow doesn't settle, but nice touch.

[zenith pecan]

Sorry I couldn't effectively help 🙁

[solar oar]

no worries

[pliant smelt]

Seems like something just isn't triggering the fiscmas tree to appear, maybe delete it and place it again??

[solar oar]

i dont even have the tree

[sonic verge]

is there going to be downloadable blueprints on console someday?

[pliant smelt]

The MAM I mean

[split trench]

Could you share your save file to me ?

[pliant smelt]

If you've got everything else then it's a problem with the MAM itself it seems. Maybe deleting it and placing it back down will fix it?

[solar oar]

already tried that and it doesnt work

[white dawn]

A wild Guru appears!

[zenith pecan]

Yeah just DM the save file to Guru as he's requested, erk, you're not on console right?

[split trench]

oh yeah, forgot we released the game on console. Need to remember to ask that next time.

[bitter pine]

#screenshots message what is this?

how to get benefit from that

[zenith pecan]

Those are the seasonal resource you use to make ficsmas items with.

[white dawn]

Part of the FICSMAS event! See: #announcements message

Note that the event starts off a bit slowly; at first there's not going to be much you can do with 'em. :)

[bitter pine]

ok

[zenith pecan]

It only just occured to me tbh, I have no idea how console saves are handled and if they can be uploaded vis in game bug report or something.

[split trench]

as of now nope. Hopefully we can get that happening in future. One can only hope 😄

[zenith pecan]

Should be reasonably workable since console saves shouldn't be hitting the absurd sizes of some of the more, challenging pc ones and zero mods to boot 🙂

Not I said "should" I honestly don't know the bones of the thing.

[solar oar]

#screenshots why is comments spelled with one m 😭

[white dawn]

Need a separate Questions site for the Questions site

Maybe it's the new cOal!

[zenith pecan]

Probably why they aren't found, because it's looking for comments.

[zenith pecan]

Oh man I can't believe I still remember cOal 🤣

[pliant smelt]

Uh... it snows inside my buildings

That's it games ruined

[zenith pecan]

It used to rain in my tunnel network, deep underground and below multiple concrete layers back when the game still used UE4, nice to see we still get indoor weather.

[pliant smelt]

I cant hide from it, at first it was festive and now I don't like it 😅

[mighty zinc]

Uuuuuuuhm... I'm having problems with ficsmas. The advent calendar has already been "opened" like all of the days from 1 to 25

[zenith pecan]

Is it an old save, it's like that on my main save because I did it last year.

[mighty zinc]

It's a 1.1 save but several months before.

and I am playing it through steam if that makes any difference

[zenith pecan]

Shouldn't be, apart from the event being done last year, I have no idea why the advent calendar would be completed.

[mighty zinc]

want me to record a video?

[split trench]

Have you played last year ficsmas on that save?

[zenith pecan]

Says 1.1 save though, weren't that released this year? , Mine started in 1.0

[split trench]

also to the person who was having issue with ficsmas research tree not showing up on the MAM, cannot help if I do not have the save file (video/screenshot also helps a bit).

[zenith pecan]

Ahh yeah that would be @solar oar Oh man that name is impossible for me to type, I only have latin and cyrillic, I have no clue how that's done haha.

[solar oar]

lol

how do i like ss it

what do i ss

[zenith pecan]

I'm presuming the mam tree, the data cartridge and anything remotely connected to ficsmas, or ideally get your save file to Guru.

[rapid scroll]

What do i do with the gifts

[zenith pecan]

Initially, you'll be manually feeding gifts into constructors to start ficsmas production and work up.

[pliant smelt]

Once you've used the calendar in your hub the MAM will have the event and you use em to make event items

[rapid scroll]

Ohhh alr alr thank you

[solar oar]

#screenshots yeah there

no tree nothing

[mighty zinc]

Couldn't post the vid in the channel so I have to share it via youtube link.

[pliant smelt]

How would you automate turning the presents Into items if you need to manually collect presents?

[solar oar]

i did claim the cartridge

[zenith pecan]

Later on you can build gift trees, they have a conveyor output that makes gifts for you, those allow automation.

[pliant smelt]

Aah ok

[somber monolith]

For ficsmas do I have to play every day or can I login on the 26th and get everything?

[zenith pecan]

Just turn the game on and claim all previous days, this isn't fomo live service, this is a proper game 🙂

[somber monolith]

So I can play on 26th and get everything?

[zenith pecan]

Yeah, no need for "daily logins".

[somber monolith]

Nice

[solar oar]

ill try reinstalling the game

[zenith pecan]

Are you on console?

[solar oar]

pc

[zenith pecan]

DM me your game save please, I'll have a look before you nuke your install.

[mighty zinc]

I've posted the link to the streams and videos Taro

[solar oar]

i uhh kinda uninstalled already

[zenith pecan]

D'oh! 🙁

[mighty zinc]

Hold it!

check to see if the disable seasonal events box is unchecked

[solar oar]

it was unchecked

there was snow, gifts and the calendar was there

[zenith pecan]

My games advent calendar is like what was shown in your video (i completed it last year though)

[abstract heron]

i am also having the problem and yes i played it in 1.0

[zenith pecan]

I'll be back in about 15-20ish, if I don't sort these errands out I never will 🤣

[abstract heron]

to what errands

[unkempt blade]

He needs to go automate a few factory cart routes. Normal adulting errands stuff

[abstract heron]

i call it he needs too wander

[zenith pecan]

picking up painting & decorating supplies from the nearby hardware shop and paying a couple of bills then collecting some milk, simple life stuff 😛 , I've only been going out the front door for the past three hours, back soonish.

[wary island]

Hey guys. I have a problem tooo. I can't collect the calendar. Do you have any idea for why??

[abstract heron]

Guru was in here asking us

have u done it in 1.0 world aka last year

[wary island]

yes.

[unkempt blade]

Are you sure you're feeling the ficsmas spirit? You need to really believe or ADAclaus won't bring you the calendar

[abstract heron]

i also have mine i can't do mine

but i think guru is aware

i tried non 1.0 world and it worked fine

[hardy moat]

is it possible to have block/path signals in a blueprint that will automatically work when placeD?

[wary island]

The point is that I open the Advent calendar but no matter how much I click on the first one, it doesn't open.

[unkempt blade]

just tried my calendar in 1.0 save and the first slot opened

[zenith pecan]

The reports have been either the calenedar fully lit up (old save) or the mam tree not unlocking.

[heavy pine]

The temptation to jump into the game and get started on FICSMAS is strong, but I'm on the clock and shouldn't be gaming while I'm supposed to be working. Not that that's stopped me before, but so far it hasn't been a slow enough day to be distracted by games.

[zenith pecan]

Right, I'm really going out the door 🤣

[hardy moat]

are you sure youre clicking on 1 and not 10

[abstract heron]

go wander

[unkempt blade]

I guess I must just be built different [with more ficsmas spirit than the rest of you]

[wary island]

Yes #screenshots message

[unkempt blade]

you should wait a week and then "catch bird flu" and that'll carry you all the way through the week of xmas

[hardy moat]

rip - must be on santas naughty list

[unkempt blade]

they probably did something monstrous like bash a doggo

[abstract heron]

Mine is also locked

BUT i have done it last year

[hardy moat]

or not make a big enough power plant

[heavy pine]

I don't think there's a way to reset FICSMAS MAM progression, and I don't know how the advent calendar would behave on a save that was active last year.

[abstract heron]

i think they are now aware of ficmas problem i think

[hardy moat]

wait

it only goes blue like that when youve already collected it

[abstract heron]

Mine is also contected and i have tested in a other world and it went threw

[unkempt blade]

you might be able to toggle it in SCIM but I'm not sure if anything would have changed since last ficsmas as far as that goes

[wary island]

I think 157,000MW is enough.🤣

[abstract heron]

i have over 9million MW

[unkempt blade]

believe it or not naughty list

[wary island]

i think so too

[hardy moat]

nah you need 1,000,000MW minimum

[heavy pine]

Straight to jail naughty list.

[wary island]

i know. i didn't reached the phase 4 jet

[compact flicker]

Terrawatt?

Yeah terrawatt
I might try actually getting one

[steel kelp]

#screenshots message

157gw is not enough

[heavy pine]

I want some sort of Back to the Future easter egg when you reach 1.21 gigawatts of power.

[hard ivy]

Yeah, my planned 10 TW power plant is gonna consume a tenth of its output 😂

[sturdy mural]

wait so
does FICSMAS come with an update or anything? or is it just tied active/inactive to a calendar

[proper olive]

WOOOO ITS FICSMAS!

[abstract heron]

Check the calender at hub area to WATCH A MOVIE!

on explaining the event and ada doing it

[sturdy mural]

because i might have wasted so much time waiting for the ficsmas update to pop up on steam

[sturdy mural]

i know what to do in ficsmas, i was confused about how it starts

[abstract heron]

at the hub area see the calender

and watch the MOVIE

but i can't do it its locked cause i did it last year 🙁

[hard ivy]

They might've snuck it in with one of the recent updates lol.

it's not like there was much to update vs last year

[heavy pine]

The only thing that changed for FICSMAS 2025 is the advent calendar.

[heavy pine]

Time to start a new save file.

[abstract heron]

told guru idk if he can ask devs to fix it

[mighty zinc]

I went to a friend's old save that we haven't played in a while and SURPRISE SURPRISE the event worked

[hard ivy]

If the date on your computer says "December 1st (or 2nd)", yes

[mighty zinc]

Well? Until it's patched, I guess I'll have to skip ficsmas

[sturdy mural]

guys where's the ficsmas calendar D:

[abstract heron]

in hub area

[sturdy mural]

wdym in hub area

[abstract heron]

cause its the devs who wanted it there

but mine is LOCKED 🙁

[sturdy mural]

OH
its next to the terminal

[zealous valley]

If I do ficsmas this year does that mean I cant do it again next year?

[sturdy mural]

i got mine covered up

[sturdy mural]

wdym locked?

[abstract heron]

idk and i think guru is aware

[white dawn]

I think that they usually set up the event so that you can go through the unlock progression again, but it seems this year it was set up a bit differently; folks who did it last year might still have everything unlocked

[abstract heron]

Mine is locked

[white dawn]

I suspect that for future years they'll probably make sure to make it so that you can go through the whole thing again

@wary island (re: #screenshots message ) -- Should spoilerize that, if you're going to post it (image is the FICSMAS calendar with all days highlighted)

[sturdy mural]

should the days be not highlighted?

[heavy juniper]

Is it possible to turn off the snow particles

[white dawn]

It's meant to be a bit of a hunt to find the numbers; they're generally hidden around the image

[white dawn]

Not without disabling the event entirely, AFAIK

[reef basin]

given that it's not update based, but trime based... 😛

[unkempt blade]

This is more of a ficstivus household. We celebrate with the aluminum pole and feats of logistical strength

[sturdy mural]

so... if my calendar is all highlighted and clicking on the 1 does not work, am i done for?

[sturdy mural]

i forgot how it was last year 😭

[white dawn]

I've heard there might be some weirdness at the moment with running on saves which already went through FICSMAS last year; not sure tbh

[reef basin]

it was like that every year

[sturdy mural]

hopefully its just a glitch

[steel kelp]

Loool yeh shits crazy

[unkempt blade]

What kind of non-addicted degenerate has a save last a full year? You're supposed to binge-play satisfactory until the object count crashes your game

[abstract heron]

are u saying about me?

[unkempt blade]

Maybe. Do you need to claim to have bird flu so you can take a few weeks off to catch up? 😆

if you need help crashing your game with object count may I suggest spamming some sort of really silly blueprint?

[sturdy mural]

just placed my first foundations

for the Jolly factory 🎄

[abstract heron]

the uboject stuff but i pressed tab to many times and then me crash

[lost oasis]

does anyone know why i cant hear ada talking?

[heavy pine]

I spent some time last night setting up iron and copper smelting in preparation for crafting the ornaments.

[abstract heron]

do you have the sound down?

[lost oasis]

i dont remember turning it down

i got everything on 100

[worn haven]

Can I turn Ficsmas off and then in a week or so turn it on. I want to play the event with a friend but they can not start for about a week.

[abstract heron]

options disable event

[lost oasis]

i got ton of gifts but no ides how to use them

[abstract heron]

Check the hub

and then the mam

[lost oasis]

nothing in the hub

i cant do anything in the mam too

[abstract heron]

the calender

[lost oasis]

thanks man

[heavy pine]

And I just realized I saved and exited my game out near my intended FICSMAS facility but far away from the hub so I'll have to go back to get to the calendar.

[worn haven]

Thank you for the reply. I do see the disable option just checking to see if I disable it now. will it start back up when I reenable it or does it mess it up?

[abstract heron]

i think u can turn it off after

[white dawn]

Can always pack up and relocate your HUB, of course

[heavy pine]

I'm thinking I'll do that. No need to keep it where it is.

[zenith pecan]

I'm back, just scrolling through messages I've missed.

[winged crescent]

Heya

[sturdy mural]

hello

[gentle lion]

Does the smart splitter ever just just go naaah not doing what ya want ?

I was jusg testing with blue and yellow power slug and 2 blue went in 1 yellow then the next blue just didn't go anywhere

[zenith pecan]

I've found smart splitters rather well behaved, they have seldom screwed up unless I built them far too compacted with others that has caused weird item teleportation fun.

[cunning lily]

What should I be doing with the FICSMAS event? I'm new to the game.

[gentle lion]

I'll delete it and redo it.

[leaden turret]

!wikisearch ficsmas

[raven axle]

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

[cunning lily]

Ty

[gentle lion]

The grass and wood are going where they need and end up as packaged biofuel so was just wondering

Maybe I drop soemthing in the storage and it can't go anywhere

[white dawn]

There's an advent calendar in the HUB, plus a new research tree in the MAM

At first there's not a lot to do, really, but it'll unlock more over time over the next couple weeks

[winged crescent]

Hello i have an issue:

I have 2 satis ps5 accounts, and cant rejoin the 100h Save of a friend.
Issue begann with the start of ficsmas, and theres no error or crash, just silence and a "Connection error" warning.

Help pls

[white dawn]

Also, I'd honestly recommend making sure you're at least to coal power before really starting the event

[winged crescent]

Cant joine with neithers

Help pls

[zenith pecan]

cOal 🤣

[zealous valley]

Why do presents spawn off the map?

[split trench]

Can either of you create a new session and try joining there? if no, then it could be an issue with network/eos, But if you can on a new session, then there is some issue with that specific save file (session).

[zealous valley]

It's lame

[white dawn]

It's just a random spawn location; move a bit further inland and they'll all hit ground. :)

You don't need to do a lot of hand-gathering anyway; there'll be other ways to acquire gifts eventually

[leaden turret]

||🎄||

[abstract heron]

guru will the ficmas calender be fixed if you already have done it?

[gentle lion]

I was picking up the presents and didn't rwlaized what one was....

But I now.have a detonator and charges lol

[winged crescent]

Doesnt work no

Well i can try to make one

What to do when it doesnt work at all?

[split trench]

Even on a brand new save?

[winged crescent]

Hmm, no it was an older save

One that corrupted before, but works after last fix

[split trench]

Try on a new save and let us know.

[abstract heron]

Thx for all you do guru and manging us 😛

[north parcel]

Any1 got a 4x4 balancer design i can steal?

[unkempt blade]

if that doesn't work try just listening to the entire Chipmunks Christmas album and your door will definitely unlock then

[split trench]

Given that you are not crashing and having a graceful conntection disconnection.
Please ask the host /Owner of the save to go and kill all the client pawns and move the HUB to a region where there is almost no factory building. So the clients get new pawn and are being spawned with less loaded area. My hunch is something to do with replication bandwitdh reaching its limit ? But this is just a hunch, I have no clue as i cannot see logs on console.

[cunning lily]

At petrofuel now 👌

[gentle lion]

I was going to setup my fuel factory today but got sidetracked.

[fervent dragon]

so i waited it out but it still wont turn on, does anyone know how to fix this?

[summer swift]

i started this save on Nov 19, and i already got 102 hours

[cunning lily]

Mood 🥳

[fervent dragon]

does ficsmas not start yet?

[cunning lily]

It was live on my server already a few hours ago.

[fervent dragon]

so i cant even enable it lol

[heavy pine]

FICSMAS is live. If you're on a dedicated server it may need to be restarted.

[abstract heron]

have u played iit already

[fervent dragon]

iv done both, changed the environment on admin panel to "DISABLESEASONALEVENTS:false" and in game server managment settings to toggle disable seasonal events to off (meaning it should happened

idk what in the hell im missing lol

[cunning lily]

And you've restarted the server once those changes were made (and saved)?

[winged crescent]

So: didnt work, neither in new blank saves.

Neither from his or my side

It just loads, but doesnt join

[fervent dragon]

so iv both restarted it via admin panel, that resulted in in game server manager settings not saving, and tried waiting out the server managers restart time and still nothing

[winged crescent]

It doesnt even connect thats the thing

I suspect Epic, as tgey had an error just recently

[split trench]

okay umm that is a relief , at least the 100hr save file is safe

[fervent dragon]

would it be worth a shot trying to enable it via calc?

[winged crescent]

Yeah, but do you have any idea what else it could be?
Ik that Eos is often buggy, and Epic seems to have had massive error reports yesterday again.

Many others have similar issues

[winter fable]

This situation is very epic, absolute cinema

[spice patio]

Epic Online Services often has localized outtages that aren't mentioned in the status page, from few hours to a day.
So my standard response is to see again tomorrow and only look into it more if the issue still persists.

For any EOS related issues.

[split trench]

most likely EOS but I am not sure why EOS would specifically affect consoles and not affect PCs but hard to say.

[winter fable]

Do console and pc have the same online infrastructure? Since there isnt crossplay between consoles and pc

[pure pasture]

is ficsmas actually out yet?

oh nvm i found it

[fervent dragon]

how in the world do you enable it lol

[white dawn]

It should be enabled by default (though if you keep your game running for long periods of time, you'll need to reload the game if it's been running since before midnight)

[fervent dragon]

i explained it pretty well over in #dedicated-servers

[white dawn]

If you've disabled "seasonal events" in the past, you might need to tweak that back, too

[fervent dragon]

no kidding

who knew....

[white dawn]

Oh, didn't realize it was a dedicated server thing; that could act differently

Though I do wonder if the server needs a bounce after the day's rolled over

[zealous valley]

Do presents despawn and is there a limit to how many can be on the map at once?

[white dawn]

Yes, they despawn; the engine will keep a certain amount "dropped" at any time

Moving away from them will cause the ones out of range to despawn, leaving room for more to drop

[zealous valley]

Thanks

[white dawn]

Note that manually collecting gifts will not be the only way to get them. At the moment that's the only way, but I wouldn't spend a long time collecting them unless you'r enjoying that activity for its own sake. :)

[zealous valley]

I'm up to 1200 lol

[flint grail]

I opted out of Ficmas temporarily to avoid any spoilers as me and my friend are playing tomorrow, and ADA just thanked me, lmao

[hardy moat]

dont think it was meant to made this way but ive just been building blueprints for the longest and theyre all spawning around me and i just collect em every now n again

[white dawn]

Yeah, the gifts spawn in a circle centered around yourself; when you collect one the game will spawn another (maybe not immediately but yeah)

[hardy moat]

yea feels cheaty lol

[white dawn]

Eh, you get ways to fully automate gift production before too long; having a bunch available to manually collect isn't really a big deal

[sour ledge]

I've never played this game during ficsmas before, and oh my god i love how much ada hates it

[white dawn]

The event's not really meant to stress you out or be "hard" or whatever. :)

[sour ledge]

im always sad when i run out of ada voice lines 'cause i love the snark as i go along, a fresh batch is great

[winged crescent]

Ok. So should i just try again later?

[split trench]

yeah probably give a try tomorrow.

[winged crescent]

Yet i rather suspect Epic, they had many issues recently

Ok

Thx for the help man

[split trench]

The patch on console was out sometime mid of last week, if the issue started happening since yesterday/today and happens on new save as well , I would suspect something with EOS for now.

[abstract heron]

i am sad that i can't do ficmas again 🙁 but i already complete it

[ivory condor]

its so strange the calendar wont reset for you

[abstract heron]

ik

[ivory condor]

strange indeed

[abstract heron]

ik its old but i wanna a 20 or 30 of a reward then be done with it

[spice patio]

Seems to be game side bug in implementation, do remember that the opening needs to be saved in the save in some way.
And this year CSS didn't remember to switch the IDs for the doors.

So I would expect a patch in few days.

[abstract heron]

Me to

they also said same old ficmas but with ofc patches and fixes

[mellow spruce]

For what is the conveyor input from alien power thing because ot wont take mercer oder somersloops

[ivory condor]

right probably a patch to fix the calendar issues would be needed for existing saves

[abstract heron]

maxtrix

[delicate sluice]

Same issue with the calendar happened last year. Took them a couple days to fix it with a patch.

[hardy moat]

cos its christmas

[spice patio]

Shouldn't be, and weren't before.
So if there are, that is new bug.

[white dawn]

Did you disable the event from the main menu, btw?

If you just disabled it while ingame, that wouldn't've taken full effect. Needs a reload

[spice patio]

Didn't show the box at all before, if you were in save.

[white dawn]

Oh oh, right

Heh, well, as I said in the other channel: guess there's not much to do but enjoy the extra precipitation, then. :)

[delicate sluice]

Did you reload the game after disabling?

[white dawn]

The foliage could probably use the water anyway; it hasn't rained on MASSAGE 2(a-b)B in quite awhile!

[hardy moat]

im guessing theyre just testing out the weather features that have been rumoured

[white dawn]

A wonder all the water sources haven't dried up

[spice patio]

Not happening on PC with it disabled.

Try if restarting the game fully after setting it disabled works.
If not, report on QA site.

[crisp mortar]

Is the pure aluminum ingot the better recipe?

[hardy moat]

wheres the QA site?

[delicate sluice]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com

[white dawn]

There's not really such a thing as "better" or "worse" with recipes in general. Pure Aluminum Ingot is simpler (ie: you don't need silica), but it's got less bauxite efficiency

[spice patio]

It is easier recipe.

[white dawn]

So it all depends on what exactly you value more

[spice patio]

But with less yield.

[zenith pecan]

Pure aluminium is really good for simplifying production, its trade off is lower output.

[crisp mortar]

Yeah I'm seeing that, but since i parked my base near the north west region of the map, I don't really wanna make a long ass belt from nearest quartz deposit to the beach where I have a pure node

[white dawn]

There certainly could be a "best" solution for any one particular situation, like that. If you constrain your problem space sufficiently, an answer can certainly arise. :)

I was more saying that overall it's generally impossible to say if one recipe is "better" than another

[hardy moat]

drones

[crisp mortar]

Debating using drones in the near future once I get the turbo fuel sorted

[white dawn]

Basically just use whatever recipes happen to be most convenient for your factory's current requirements, etc

[split trench]

dont have the issue on my home PS5. But it seems like that option to disable seasonal event is shown while you are in a session on console.

[white dawn]

Can always just make use of a different recipe chain for your next aluminum factory, of course. I actually quite like mixing up those chains; on my 1.0 save I was producing aluminum via four different chains, by the end

[zenith pecan]

Long ass belts can be a logistics challenge and a build in themselves, here's all the worlds bauxite being belted to one spot #screenshots message

[spice patio]

So might need to go into Main Menu, then re-enable, and then re-disable for it to take.

[split trench]

no clue, i just disabled while being in a session, restarting the session removed the falling snowflake for me on my PS5.

[spice patio]

If he/she didn't follow the instructions and tried to do it in save.

[abstract heron]

Guru?

[spice patio]

Ok, so QA person knows how to do QA testing 😆

[abstract heron]

Do u know why the ficmas calender is locked and have it from last year?

[hardy moat]

@rigid quiver ^

[spice patio]

Someone forgot to change the door IDs or like.

[delicate sluice]

On a save that you previously played FICSMAS? Bug.

[abstract heron]

Yes

[split trench]

Yes a boo boo from our side.

[abstract heron]

i just want to know if its fixed in a up coming patch guru

[delicate sluice]

Happened last year too. Took a couple/few days to patch.

[abstract heron]

also thanks for what all you do guru

[spice patio]

So patch tomorrow for PC ?D
Fortunately Console doesn't need one right now, as no-one should have the old IDs in a save.

[split trench]

folks here are aware, whenever someone finds the time to fix it, and Uzu get's the time to push out the patch you will have the fix.

[abstract heron]

Okay Thx now ill just forget its broken and do it again later will we have to do the progresss again if we already did it

[split trench]

and ty for bringing up the issue on QA site, it was super helpful as always.

[abstract heron]

Ofc No worries and always happy to help with making the game better

[hardy moat]

is there any specifics for QA reporting or will a screenshot do?

[abstract heron]

on here or in QA site

[hardy moat]

site

[delicate sluice]

The better you describe the issue, the easier it is to fix.

[abstract heron]

yup

[hardy moat]

100% but a rubbish report is better than no report - in some circumstances anyways

[abstract heron]

Whats the bug or whats the thing

[hardy moat]

When creating blueprints it only saved half the blueprint

[split trench]

Yes, If we any additional info, we will reach out to you on the site.

[abstract heron]

also i up my uobject limlt for now guru 🙂

[zenith pecan]

I permanently up my object limit due to my build habits.

[abstract heron]

I was afarid me going to have problems mine atm iss 100million i think

Whats yours at taro

[white dawn]

"GAEM NOT WORK PLZ FIX"

[zenith pecan]

About 1000000000

[abstract heron]

as i say even its a tiny bug make a post on it that will do it

[abstract heron]

billion or million?

[crisp mortar]

Man a wave a relief came over me when I disconnected my coal generators from the grid and saw my oil generators were still keeping my grid afloat, now I can use that coal for other things

[zenith pecan]

Billion, If I hit that my pc will already be molten.

[hardy moat]

💀💀💀

[split trench]

ty for the help, I think we are good with Uobject crash for the future coming months 😄 .

[abstract heron]

Okay i won't bother u for that uboject stuff guru

but other stuff ill surely bother u like when i really break the game

[hardy moat]

Love how it changed from "for now" to a "coming months" 😭

[stray field]

How to unlock the holiday event thing in the mam?

[hardy moat]

Find a present

[abstract heron]

Fyi spartn is the end of the year so maybe few other patches before devs i assume go on vacation for Christmas

[hardy moat]

And open the calender

[split trench]

well even if there is a repro , not gonna ask anyone to jump on it and fix immediately :-D, the previous one had an implication on console memory usage during gameplay so there was big win to have it fixed.

[stray field]

I have

[hollow onyx]

whenever i manually place a blueprint into the designer it recognizes it but if i manually place it and nudge it vertically it doesnt see anything

[hardy moat]

No ik, I didn't mean it in a bad way just the expectation for it to break

[stray field]

It says to unlock this research tree but how?
I have over 500 presents

[hardy moat]

You need to open the calender also

[heavy pine]

Poked my head in during my lunch break, got the first bits of the research tree done. Festive!

[stray field]

How

[brazen coral]

Is there anything that mass produces the healing items later on or is there nothing for that besides the equipment station

[white dawn]

It's on the wall of your HUB, near the craft bench (not in the main living area). Can just go up and interact with it

[stray field]

K ty

[white dawn]

Unfortunately no; Inhalers can only be hand-crafted

I hope someday we'll get recipes which can be put on machines for those. :P

(Though honestly I've found that it's generally pretty easy to get by just by munching berries, but I understand the desire for automation. :)

[willow lotus]

Anyone able to help me with an issue I've got going on?

Trying to get fuel to my gens from a diluted packaged fuel set up but it's not keeping up for some reason and I cant figure out why

[white dawn]

For problems with pipes, it's nearly always necessary to have screenshots of your piping setup. Start a #1038092680493801533 thread; can attach them in there (and also your question'll be far less likely to get buried)

[willow lotus]

Sounds good thanks

[brazen coral]

Is it better to directly pump fuel into the fuel generators or is it more useful to make it turbo fuel? Like does it power more generators that way?

[white dawn]

Turbofuel would power more generators, yes

As for whether it's worth it to do so, that's a personal question. :D Personally I wouldn't do Turbofuel for power unless I was in a spot that happened to have all three of oil+coal+sulfur handy right nearby

(And there's only a couple spots on the map for which that's true)

[brazen coral]

Okay cool

[white dawn]

The usual recommendation is to grab the Heavy Oil Residue alt recipe, and combine it with Diluted Packaged Fuel (or just Diluted Fuel if you're later in the game) instead

[zenith pecan]

Further progress to rocket fuel, that has the advantage of being a gas, so no head lift shenanigans.

[white dawn]

You get a lot more fuel for your oil that way

[brazen coral]

Yeah I know there's a couple spots to actually get oil but I'm not to the part yet where I can extract them from the geysers

Just the little puddles

[leaden turret]

April 29th, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: Automating Inhaler production, when?
https://youtu.be/bTv4d3rpidI

if you automate production of them, you basically just become an invincible tank

[white dawn]

(You could of course then do Turbofuel on top of that diluted setup, but you're kind of digging your own grave with Endless Arrays Of Fuel Gens at that point. :)

[brazen coral]

I mean right now I have it set up with four refineries keeping the one pure pump busy and then for refineries to make turbo

[white dawn]

Heh, I'm honestly not sure I buy that logic, but c'est la vie. :D It's not a huge concern of mine anyway; I just want more factory to build. :)

[brazen coral]

Which power is up to 10 generators at the moment

[pine patrol]

How do i unlock the ficsmas holiday event tree i have gifts idk what to do with them

[leaden turret]

me neither

[leaden turret]

!wikisearch ficsmas

[raven axle]

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

[brazen coral]

After that, I use the plastic byproduct to produce a variety of plastic/ rubber/ polyester fabric

[pine patrol]

i shouldve guessed that had a wikipahe anyways thank you

[white dawn]

Investigate the advent calendar in your HUB (by the crafting table) and the new MAM research tree. :)

More will unlock over time; the MAM tree eventually needs items which you'll only get in future days in the calendar

[quick phoenix]

Hello, forgive my intrusion, I'm looking for Satisfactory PS5 players and this server was my only reach to make contacts with humans

[leaden turret]

#1201555265942724758

[hexed veldt]

I just unlocked the Manufacturer and ive kinda of hit a roadblock. I feel like my best option is to basically wipe out my lines and just start fresh. Is that normal or am I overthinking it?

[hardy moat]

Hey ada

[hardy moat]

Nah its common

[heavy pine]

You get back all the materials used to craft all the machines, so don't let the fear of waste hold you back. FICSIT does not waste, after all.

[pine patrol]

the wiki has not helped anything 😭

the calender wants a number

[heavy pine]

But it can certainly be a daunting task to tear something down and rebuild it.

[hexed veldt]

ya I feel like all myshit is spaghetti already and adding in manufacturer will just creat pure chaos.

[leaden turret]

so... find it

[heavy pine]

It's an advent calendar, click the number for today's date and see what's behind it.

[hexed veldt]

very true, guess I know what im doing the rest of my afternoon lol

[pine patrol]

What poster is it even talking about

[delicate sluice]

In the HUB, next to the terminal where you progress through the milestones and tiers.

[pine patrol]

that wants a number

[delicate sluice]

Find the #1. Click on the #1.

[heavy pine]

What is today's date? Find that number and click it.

Note; you're not looking for 10, 11, 12, etc. You're looking for a 1 all by itself.

[leaden turret]

I mean there's literally a thing on the calendar for getting hints

[pine patrol]

THAT ALSO WANTS A FUCKING NUMBER

[delicate sluice]

Type in 1. Click Get Hint.

[leaden turret]

...

do you not know how advent calendars work?

[heavy pine]

Enhance your calm, John Spartan. That's there if you're having trouble finding the number. It's like a Where's Waldo/Wally/whatever-his-name-is, you're looking for the hidden numbers in the picture.

[gentle lion]

I stared at that thing for a good few minutes looking for 1 lol

[quick barn]

Who's got that FICSMAS A.D.A. logo?

[spice patio]

Well, that was fast for the calendar patch for old saves...

[leaden turret]

-# advent directory assiatant

[pine patrol]

i didnt realize it just wanted a 1 i thought it wanted a full on code or something

[lethal raptor]

[delicate sluice]

Today's code is 1. Tomorrow's is 2. The following day is 3. Continue through 25.

[pine patrol]

and this freaked me out the first time i read it my first name is john

[wise terrace]

Is anyone having issues with playing with friends rn? Im having connection errors saying host pc null and some other stuff that only started now with ficmas

[spice patio]

And you can open any door for past day, if not already opened.
So if you open none, you can open all during 25th.

[heavy pine]

Heh, the curse of a common name.

[white dawn]

(Note that you don't, like, have to play the game every day to get those unlocks. You can always open all advent calendar days up to the current day)

bah, ninja'd

[spice patio]

That is cheat to auto-open the door, instead of trying to find it in the pic, and clicking on it to open.

[delicate sluice]

Since they did the same thing last year, they already knew the fix. Just had to apply and publish.

[delicate sluice]

Could be unrelated to FICSMAS. Epic is/was having issues.

[hexed veldt]

Hey sorry, one more question. If I rebuild now will I want to do it again on the next phase? Would you consider rebuilding standard gameplay I guess?

[wise terrace]

since when exactly? today?

[delicate sluice]

Last night, I believe. But my last night might be different than your last night.

[delicate sluice]

Rebuilding is not abnormal. Some people rebuild a lot, others don't rebuild at all just build in different places.

[narrow canyon]

too much to hope that frozen drones was fixed by now :/ came back for ficsmas and still a problem.

[wise terrace]

hmm ok thanks ill keep an eye out for it then. Epic status is not showing it as down or with issues.

[zenith pecan]

Nice "o Please note that FICSMAS Gifts will stop falling from the sky after building 10 FICSMAS Gift Trees, this is intended and not a bug" this bit I do like 🙂

[steel kelp]

Do you know what causes them to freeze?

[white dawn]

I believe they're still working on that one

[white dawn]

As OmegaSevenX said, some people definitely rebuild a lot. Personally I'm on Team Never Rebuild™; once I'm done with a factory then it's done and I'm off to The Next Thing. Certainly go ahead and do it if you want, but beware the burnout effect. It can be a bit demoralizing to have to spend so much effort just to get your factory back to the same level of production you started with

[ivory condor]

The new patch is already out to fix it, devs work fast

[abstract heron]

day 1 i find i aam not going to open due to i already have it

[abstract heron]

the have

[ivory condor]

check patch-notes, it just dropped to fix this bug

[abstract heron]

I saaw already and download it

i just won't do number 1 due to i have the mam tree already done

[delicate sluice]

You'll just get the day 1 data cartridge again. Useless if the MAM is complete.

[narrow canyon]

Unknown. Reloading gets them moving again. The challenge is knowing when one freezes so you can jolt it.

[leaden turret]

does it count as never rebuild if one restarts? 😛

[steel kelp]

Pain in the arse

[delicate sluice]

Yes. No. Definitely maybe.

[white dawn]

hmmm, you raise a good point!

[heavy pine]

Ironman Satisfactory. If you place a belt wrong, no dismantling and fixing it. Live with your mistakes or start the game over.

Tweaking stuff is only allowed in the confines of the blueprint designer.

[open swallow]

i wish emoji from other servers were allowed here... I have a disapproval face ideal for that

[heavy pine]

I am completely unserious here, but it could be an interesting challenge for people who enjoy torturing themselves.

[open swallow]

can't even embed an image, geez

[delicate sluice]

Jace did it back in the day. It was painful to watch.

[hard ivy]

imagine how painful it was to play

[white dawn]

Years ago the then-community-manager Jace was streaming a "no dismantle" run and it became something of a meme when he attempted to hook up a Limestone miner to a very-closely-placed smelter. :P

(hah, beaten to the punch)

(A trivial amount of searching didn't yield a clip, though semi-relatedly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNfx8qo0sM)

[sour ledge]

being new to ficmas: i assume i'm just kinda stuck progressing the mame tree until i get another drive thingy from the advent calendar?

[delicate sluice]

Correct.

[sour ledge]

sidequest: backburnered. Back to expanding power which I need to do... even more desperately, now...

literal giant gift boxes with huge pillars of sparkly gold glitter tickles my brain so i went straight to ficmas when i saw one...

its like the slug glow! its one thing if you don't see it, but if you see it you gotta go get it.

gotta.

[wicked nacelle]

the game intentionally makes the ficsmas progression very very slow

[sour ledge]

i assume for people who just start later in the month can speedrun it tho, yeah? since they can just open all the days at once

[white dawn]

(Technically you could do the same by tweaking the date on your PC, fwiw. :)

[wicked nacelle]

yeah if you just wait til it's over you can just do the whole thing in a couple hours. Checking in once a week or so is a good pace IMO -- you get enough that it's interesting but still space it out a bit

[sour ledge]

oh, noted. well... i'll keep that in mind if i find myself wanting to finish up and play another game. just unlock all the stuff so i can at least finish the event

i just started this one recently tho so i guess its good timing since it'll keep me busy for a month easy

[unkempt blade]

Only ficsmas and factory carts until January or ADAclaus will bring you coal!

[abstract heron]

Thx for the patch 🙂

[heavy pine]

Cool, I need more to make steel.

[unkempt blade]

it's a ficsmas miracle!

[heavy pine]

Come to think of it, I should probably set up a whole bunch of factory carts driving in circles around the giant FICSMAS tree. Once I decide where it's going to be.

[abstract heron]

i think this number might be to big 1000000000

should i put it down to 100million for uobject limlt

[glass pagoda]

Yo I need to start automating industrial parts

[unkempt blade]

that's a great way to earn your way onto the nice list!

[abstract heron]

@zenith pecan

[sour ledge]

i think the only way to get on ada's nice list is to turn off the event 😂

[delicate sluice]

Could probably not go way over the top @abstract heron . Mine's at 5 million, haven't exceeded it yet.

[glass pagoda]

I cant wait to get the candy cane

[sour ledge]

when i researched it ada said the beat stick was perfect for whoever hard coded the event in

[glass pagoda]

Even though im jewjsb

[open swallow]

do you celebrate hjnnkh?

[heavy pine]

Ain't gotta be Christian to enjoy a peppermint treat.

[open swallow]

ain't gotta be Christian to celebrate the general Western festive season

[zenith pecan]

I just put it stupidly high, I'd rather my pc itself be the limit, not some arbitrary number.

[abstract heron]

so should i put it down a bit or keep it at 100million i do also build big

[zenith pecan]

Just leave as is, you're not hurting anything tbh.

[abstract heron]

ya i have it now set to 100billion thats plenty

[unkempt blade]

when UE5 catches on fire you can turn it down some

[fallow urchin]

Game just told me to take a "break"? That's a funny way of saying caffeine injection...

[winter fable]

Game wanted you to break down old factories and make even bigger and better ones

[mortal ginkgo]

Is there a better way to take a break other than making the factory more efficient?

I don't think so my dear brotherman

[open swallow]

WHAT IF I decided to go into your factory, and remove one single belt that brings everything to a standstill

and let you look for that one belt

that'd be a break

[fallow urchin]

Straight up "am I right lads, or am I right lads?" Moment.

[cedar spruce]

No please no 😭

that’s torture

[mortal ginkgo]

Being an impure limestone node, I am always right 100% of the time. 🙂‍↕️

[fallow urchin]

I'd force you to restart your save.

[open swallow]

say, for instance, the fuel line for your tractor station that brings coal to your main base

you won't find out for hours

[cedar spruce]

right easy to find and useless

[fallow urchin]

Correction: Force restart your life

[winter fable]

The ficit way

[fluid sapphire]

in a well organized factory that's super easy to track down

[open swallow]

agreed, but we're not talking well-organized factories 😛

[cedar spruce]

we are talking about the abomination of factories that work on hopes and prayers

[fallow urchin]

Hopes, prayers, and a dash of Somersloop.

[cedar spruce]

ah sombersloop, the rock which is never enough and the spiders near it gatekeeping it

I hate spiders

jumps yeets kills and make me do 10 rounds of respawn

[fallow urchin]

Well, I'm sure we can sort that problem out!
Nuke Nobelisk equipped
With reasonable force...

[cedar spruce]

LMAO

[fallow urchin]

When in doubt, Nuke it out

[cedar spruce]

my head just did the kaboom noise inside for the additional effects 😭

[misty marsh]

My friend and I bought the game, and want to play together, but everytime we join eachother we get “network issues” anyone now a fix PLEASE?? On ps5 btw

[open swallow]

my head just did the KABOOM clip from Zelda: Wind Waker

[fallow urchin]

beep
BOOM.

[cunning lily]

Do I have to open the advent calendar every day, or can I bank a few days to open all at once?

[open swallow]

you can bank a few

[cedar spruce]

have you tried connecting through ip

[open swallow]

console

[pseudo garnet]

is there a way to build train freight stations in the BP designer? they don't seem to connect no matter how I place them

[open swallow]

Please head over to #1038092680493801533 and make a new thread

[fallow urchin]

#satisfactory-memes message

[cedar spruce]

Loved it

make it with the tag line “when in doubt nuke it out”

[zenith pecan]

Works for clearing too #screenshots message

[fallow urchin]

#satisfactory-memes message

[fallow urchin]

I refuse to believe any amount of lying down and staying calm can save anyone from that X3

[cedar spruce]

Peak annihilation beep beep kaboom

[hardy moat]

Has anyone automated nuclear obelisks yet?

[cedar spruce]

and the music synced

[fallow urchin]

Thanks for the idea!

[hardy moat]

Nuke the entire swap with a single button press 🙂

[fallow urchin]

That which exists without my knowledge...

[zenith pecan]

Working on biome clearance using nuclear fire.

[fallow urchin]

...exists without my permission

[cedar spruce]

if you guys do that tag me in here

can’t miss out on peak content

[zenith pecan]

It wasn't the first time I spammed nukes to clean up some space #screenshots message

[hardy moat]

I've got some spare uranium I'm sinking, gonna do it

[dawn path]

i can't believe i have to live with the fact we'll never get a snowy biome 😔

[hardy moat]

They'll probs add a new map eventually for DLC

[fallow urchin]

Yeah, that snow globe is like a bucket of salt in the wound.

[dawn path]

i know 😭

[cedar spruce]

area for destruction 5%, nukes used 100%

[fallow urchin]

ADA: Correction: 500%

[dawn path]

snowy area would be sick for certain builds

[glass pagoda]

How so I get presents

[zenith pecan]

I did go a little overboard, I could have used just a couple of regular bombs but setting off 40-100 nukes, hell yeah!

[fallow urchin]

Nuclear power plant in Lapland X3

[dawn path]

i'll gladly sacrifice my left leg just to buy a potential DLC lmao

[hardy moat]

Imagine your fictsmas plant in a snow biome

[glass pagoda]

How do I get presents

[zenith pecan]

I wouldn't, I prefer my body remain 100% intact 😛

[fallow urchin]

There is a DLC folder in the game files...

[dawn path]

gigantic oil rig in the frozen wastes
just as Odin intended

[open swallow]

my team lead at work did that... says he wouldn't do it again

[hardy moat]

Honestly same, has no one modded in a new map?

[dawn path]

my mind can only be 100% intact with the existence of a satisfactory DLC

[fallow urchin]

Only one I know of is that Skyblock thing

[dawn path]

it'd be a lotttt of work

[cedar spruce]

there’s always less nukes for whatever reason

[cedar spruce]

oh shut up Ada after humiliating me you do this too

[hardy moat]

I mean yeah, but even games like dayz got modded maps eventually

[zenith pecan]

I'll rebuild my nuke factory when I decide on my approach to nuclear power to consume all uranium.

[cedar spruce]

Ficit never paid me enough for all of this

[zenith pecan]

I'm almost out of nukes with no way to replace them right now.

[hardy moat]

You're getting paid?

[dawn path]

Ficsit's payin you? 😞

[fallow urchin]

Wait, FIXSIT pays you??? THEY PAY PPL??? SINCE WHEN???

[hardy moat]

I thought we were doing this for puppies and kittens????

[open swallow]

currency has no value out on the field, thus they're holding onto our payment until we get home

supposedly, if it's still there

[fallow urchin]

HE GETS PAID, AND ALL I GET ARE USELESS FUCKING PAPER TICKETS????

[hardy moat]

I'm sending nukes up the space elevator

[open swallow]

oi, they're not useless. I can trade them for the cyber truck and golden nut

[fallow urchin]

Project: End The World

[hardy moat]

Nuke everything

[winter fable]

Nuke the planet

[cedar spruce]

yeah they gave me some coupons which they never fail to take away who talked about a real salary

[fallow urchin]

Nuke FIXSIT

[dawn path]

they can try ficsing that

[winter fable]

We are NOT nuking our company and bosses

[dawn path]

yes WE (me AND you) are nuking our company and bosses

[south wyvern]

can i not progress in ficmas tree until day 4?

[open swallow]

bosses? ficsit is probably an AI-run corporation

heck it's probably just ADA

[fallow urchin]

Correction: you aren't nuking our company and boss. We are

[winter fable]

Count me in then

[dawn path]

ficsit probably doesnt even exist the player's just delusional

[heavy pine]

Correct, FICSMAS progression is gated by the advent calendar.

[south wyvern]

boring

[cedar spruce]

They’ll crash the goddamn space thing we’re building

[open swallow]

It's the Bacon Agaric. Sends her on a loop.

[fallow urchin]

Exactly, all that work for shit

[heavy pine]

You can wait a few days and do a whole bunch at once, up to and including the current date.

[cedar spruce]

mind controlled by ada and the blood thirsty singularity alien

[fallow urchin]

I would like to found: FUKKIT.
The objective? Destroy FIXSIT.

[cedar spruce]

I’m in hell yeah

[sour ledge]

y'know, one thing that never stops being satisfying is after building a new power plant and watching that power line flatten out after everything stabilizes/fills up....

[dawn path]

well hey there johnyy silverhand

was that a FUKKIT invite link 😭

[fallow urchin]

I just realized I can't send that here, hold on...

[dawn path]

pass me that in dms lmao

[winter fable]

A what?

[dawn path]

the most exciting feeling is hearing the sounds of your reactors slowly getting louder and louder as you run along and keep up with the production line, making sure everything's working normally

shit's stressful, especially after having spent weeks on one project lmao

[flint grail]

"No major changes"

1.7 GB update

[wicked nacelle]

file size doesn't reflect change amount

[fallow urchin]

protogen sniff noises
Yep, I thought much. Smells like lies

[winter fable]

I smell oil…

[exotic pilot]

I’m so lucky that the first time I decided to play satisfactory in like a month was yesterday

[fallow urchin]

Lies and oil have a similar smell

[flint grail]

I also like how the game crashed when trying to load in with no error box, just to update. Also crashed my Discord, forcing a restart as Discord no longer wants to open

[wicked nacelle]

sounds like a problem with your computer not the game

[fallow urchin]

Update 1.1.x, the Discord Destroyer update

[flint grail]

It's Windows, so the blame goes to Microsoft

[fallow urchin]

They're called Microsoft, obviously their tech and name is a representation of their Shareholders.

[fading whale]

So do we talk FICMAS here or in #story-spoilers ? 😄

[wicked nacelle]

I think it's fine to talk about the status up to this point here

and the wiki has all the spoiler info

!wikisearch ficsmas

[raven axle]

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

[reef basin]

ficsmas is not really a story, though I'd spoiler things that are obtained later for new people

[fading whale]

Just looking at decorations in the HUB. Some funs stuff there.

[unkempt blade]

and all the doggos in doggoville liked ficsmas a lot but... ||the giant radioactive cat monster who lived just north of doggoville did not||

[fading whale]

ADA is as supportive as always 😄

[marble gulch]

Where do you get the tree branches?

[compact flicker]

How do yall deal with weird ratios? Say you need a 4:3 split for whatever reason

[hard ivy]

1 splitter

[fading whale]

Crying and caffeine.

[compact flicker]

Presents go into constructor

[marble gulch]

Ty

[unkempt blade]

each branch is never going to use more than the sum of the stuff consuming it so you just limit it by only building X consumers or over/underclocking to hit that number

[compact flicker]

Load balancers are pretty tho >:

[unkempt blade]

🤷 just telling you how I'd do it. Google can tell you how to get fancy with fraction splitters though

[glass pagoda]

Mary fixmas

[unkempt blade]

happy hollandaise!

[wicked nacelle]

if you're feeding it 7, one side will eat the 4 and the other side must get 3. You don't have to do anything other than build a normal manifold for that to happen

[heavy pine]

Assuming the belts are balanced but not yet full, I'd just split one of them into three and merge it into the others.

[hard ivy]

neither of the common meanings of "4:3" would be a load balancer tho

[heavy pine]

Or if what you mean is to split one belt into 3/7 and 4/7 of a belt... I'd set it up like a one-to-seven balancer and then merge three and four lanes.

[dawn path]

hell yes
i catch myself load balancing stuff just for the sake of aesthetic - although i don't usually go past 1:8

[compact flicker]

Yeah that
I figured it out, I was just wondering how yall would've handled it

[unkempt blade]

cartifold into manifolds consuming 3/7 and 4/7 for each station

[heavy pine]

Though a one-to-seven balancer wouldn't work if the input belt is fully saturated.

[near thicket]

Just realized each building with settings has it's own copy/paste storage. So I can copy the settings of a constructor, and three different types of signs, and just hit paste on all four when I put a blueprint down and it'll know what goes where\

[fading whale]

Same goes for the different sizes of signs 🙂

[hard ivy]

it will if you build it properly

[heavy pine]

Well, not the simple "one to eight split and feed one of those back into the input" style.

[hard ivy]

you build a 2:8 and loop one back

[reef basin]

clock so that it's 4:4

[hard ivy]

or a 2:9 and loop 2, that may or may not be more compact

[heavy pine]

I was thinking split it in two, then build two 1:8's with one output from each fed back in, and then take the remaining seven outputs from each and merge them back together.

[hard ivy]

that's way overcomplicating it XD

[heavy pine]

Probably takes up far too much space as well.

[hard ivy]

way more than a single splitter, yeah

[heavy pine]

I prefer to properly balance everything, but I'm not above using manifolds when things get too large or complex.

Like I think balancing nuclear fuel rods for reactors is important enough to make a hellaciously complex balancer.

[cunning lily]

Does packaged biofuel return an empty tank when its used up, or does the tank get used up in the process as well?

[lunar python]

Gets used

[fading whale]

They should've attached a sleigh after the flying mantas.

[heavy pine]

I'd also prefer to balance coal and biofuel for that sort of power generation.

[reef basin]

I wouldn't really balance anything tbh, most things can be clocked to do direct input or manifolds reasonably, and not even nuclear is a problem, since I'm not building it anywhere near where I'm normally staying at

[hard ivy]

nah, fill them when the water supply is off and all of them fill in less than 5 hours, regardless of the number of reactors

unless it's plutonium, then it'll be close to 10

[steel kelp]

@hard ivy do you have any video recommendations for learning about balancers? 280 hours and im yet to really use or delve into them

[heavy pine]

My concern is not having a ton of radioactive nastiness hanging out on the belts.

[steel kelp]

Like i dont get when people say things like 4:4

[reef basin]

and even if supply is on - chances are that you're not requiring the full power output immediately anyway, so it doesn't matter that it boots slowly while you're working on next projects

[reef basin]

4:4 is 1:1, so no balancer necessary 😛

[sour ledge]

yeah i did a couple factories where i balanced stuff, but have converted entirely to team manifold. Just throw some sloops at it at the start to get the manifolds stuffed

[buoyant veldt]

Can I disable the airdropped gifts without disabling Ficsmas as a whole? They're really causing performance issues and I think I've got enough gifts for now.

[sour ledge]

or be very patient i guess

[zenith pecan]

When I last did it, I managed a 1 to 100 balancer to handle fuel, made my reactor hall completely radiation free.

[reef basin]

you can disable whole ficsmas

[steel kelp]

Lol i just see random numbers separated by a colon and get confused

[steel kelp]

Build 10 of the big trees

[buoyant veldt]

So I assume that's a no.

[reef basin]

usually denotes [input belts]:[output belts]

[heavy pine]

They should stop dropping once they get to a certain number in the area, though I don't know what that number is off the top of my head.

[reef basin]

they get disabled automatically once you progress through ficsmas

not sure when's the unlock for ||gift trees|| though

[steel kelp]

In the patch notes today they said once you place 10 trees they stop coming

[fading whale]

Correct. Youy shouldn't get spammed though. It'll only drop 5 (I think) gifts in an area and not anymore till you have picked them uip.

[buoyant veldt]

Oh,but in order to do that I have to wait for day 4, right?

[steel kelp]

I figured but i tried building a few more complex ones and failed miserably

[buoyant veldt]

Either my factory counts as multiple areas or it is definitely more than 5.

[hard ivy]

no, I don't have any videos I would recommend, and in fact, I would probable advise against watching any of them. this community likes doing balancers... incorrectly.

I've been thinking about writing a proper wiki page about them (the current one is... lacking), so wait for that I guess XD

or slide into my DMs, though I would prefer to answer specific questions rather than "explain balancers"

[fading whale]

Haven't done FICMAS for the previous two years. So I bet a few details have changed.

[primal obsidian]

do i need more reanimated SAM or fluctuators? Im just entering tier 9

[steel kelp]

Lmao i literally dont even know where to start, or how to use them. Ill think of some questions and will ask eventually, ty. Was more just looking for some starting points

[steel kelp]

You will need a lot of both

[fallow urchin]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1445169844134871041

[primal obsidian]

ok ill make a lot of both

[devout badger]

Hi there,today when i launched my save,i saw snow and falling presents,then i went into the HUB,found number 1 in the Calendar,picked the gitft,but then when i went into the MAM, i have no FISCMAS research tree aviable.
Can anyone help with that ?

[steel kelp]

I mean make what you need, dont just make loads randomly

[hard ivy]

well, they're most useful for loading/unloading trains. for everything else they're more of "I feel like using one for this" rather than "it's best if I use one here"

[livid geyser]

Huh. Ficsmas ir whatever it is, it’s blanked out on my research table. Do I need to do anything to unlock it?

[fading whale]

Try reloading the game.

[primal obsidian]

ohhh yeah ig i should automate cooling system first so i can actually unlock something

[devout badger]

Already tried a few times

[livid geyser]

Same

[heavy pine]

Go to the advent calendar to get the first item you'll need for the FICSMAS research tree.

[livid geyser]

Where’s the advent calendar then?

[devout badger]

You have it atleast,i litteraly dont have it anywhere,you just need to complete 1 day of advent calendar,next tu hub computer

[fading whale]

HUB (outside) across from your workbench

[livid geyser]

Ah, I’m a big distance away from HUB. Fair enough

[sacred trail]

Is the event online? Got an update, got some presents, but cannot research it for some reason

[livid geyser]

Look above you.

[limpid inlet]

YOu need a hard drive looking thing

It's like a black box with a cd

[sacred trail]

Above me? There's nothing unusual in the sky

[heavy pine]

meaning scroll up in the Discord chat

[sacred trail]

Oh ok

[devout badger]

SAME

[devout badger]

can u dm ?

[sacred trail]

Sure

[devout badger]

you need to add me

[primal obsidian]

playing on a server thats in tier 9 and then going back to my singleplayer world and i cant believe i thought its really hard to automate steel encased beams

[wicked nacelle]

Mk2 and mk4 belts suck

[cinder jay]

is the christmas event live?

[wicked nacelle]

If your computer says it’s December then yes

[primal obsidian]

i literally used mk.2 belts like 5 times before rushing mk.3

[small pilot]

Is it just me or is the combination of caterium computer and caterium circuit board insanely good? What's the catch?

[hardy moat]

#screenshots message
anyone got a fix for this?

[cinder jay]

bet

[glass pagoda]

Invalid placement

[hardy moat]

i mean i get that but its barely turning

[glass pagoda]

Barley turn it back

[hardy moat]

im OCD

[wicked nacelle]

Make them all a bit longer to straighten out?

[hardy moat]

i just done it the opposite way and it worked

[primal obsidian]

are hypertubes good for their intended purpose

[compact flicker]

They aight

[primal obsidian]

oh wait yeah i cna build a cannon with a hypertube on the end and fly across the map without needing jetpack to land

[cinder jay]

how do i do it?

[wicked nacelle]

If you have a road/rail blueprint that you spam and it has hypertubes in it so you get them for free then great. But I’d never build it out on its own

[spare apex]

Regarding FICSMAS, how permanent/impermanent are these special items?

[wicked nacelle]

Go to your hub and look at the calendar right by the main u lock computer

[wicked nacelle]

They disappear when it’s over

Like a mod that you stopped loading

[spare apex]

Okay good, I want to enjoy them so I'm putting them right by my HUB 🙂

But I don't want to permanently cede that space to decor

[limpid inlet]

Booooooooooo!

[wicked nacelle]

Note that the mode unlocks some each day and it starts out REALLY slow. So you won’t be able to do much for a while

[wicked nacelle]

If you’re on pc there’s a mod that leaves it on

[hardy moat]

check the time on your PC/Console

[cinder jay]

wwhat do i do with the numbers?

[wicked nacelle]

You click the one for the current date. So today you click the “1”

If you can’t find it there’s a thing at the bottom to show you

If you want spoilers and see the unlock schedule:

!wikisearch ficsmas

[raven axle]

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

[abstract heron]

@white dawn i might just do the rewards of having the ones i want and not collect them on days ii already had

[meager kiln]

Am I good to make milestone 3 all at 1 machine ? Same for milestone 4 ?

Haven't gotten to 4 yet. Wasn't sure what scale I should look at

[cinder jay]

how do i get the tree branches

[white dawn]

I usually just decide how quickly I want to complete the delivery and solve from there. (My own target tends to be 2 Hours)

[meager kiln]

Oh wow I was at like 10 hours lol. Okay I'll look at it that way for milestone 4

[white dawn]

It's a recipe in the Constructor, once you have it unlocked via the MAM. Remember you can look up any resource in the codex, at least on PC (o to open the Codex directly, or n for a search bar)

[cinder jay]

oh ok

[white dawn]

Of course, if you're okay with 10 hours then that's totally fine. :D

At some point the amount of work required to make a bigger factory will exceed the time savings, if you're one to think of it that way

[cinder jay]

how much room does it take up

[raw sapphire]

Does anyone have any tips for building vertically?

[green fiber]

what exactly?

like, whats the problem you are facing

[raw sapphire]

I want to rebuild my factory for a cleaner look and more efficiency

I don’t know where to start or power connecting would look like or how to access the upper floors

[white dawn]

Tree branches? Depends how much you want to make. :)

[cinder jay]

i like do stuff overkill so

[green fiber]

theres a bunch of stuff in the awesome shop that can help.
like ladders and wall power connectors.
And also catwalks and stairs

[pseudo garnet]

ok, am I being stupid or can you not actually progress in FICSMAS until the 4th?

[hard ivy]

that's how ficsmas works

[green fiber]

Its a "daily progression" kinda thing - to progress all thats needed is to wait for the next day so you can unlock another calendar slot

[lilac heath]

I finally got ||production multipliers||, oh my god they're so good

just doubles power shards

[hardy moat]

im excited for your journey

[shadow isle]

do ficsmas trees and such keep working even after the event?
and can i copy paste them after the event too

[lilac heath]

it's been a great journey so far :)

been really enjoying the game

and so happy i finally have a laptop capable of playing it

i wanted to play the beta a while ago, but my laptop couldn't handle it :(

[coral glacier]

That's when you go to the game files, and remove things that aren't interactable

[white dawn]

No, once the event ends, both ||gift trees|| and machines with FICSMAS recipes stop working (until next year's event)

And you won't be able to construct new FICSMAS buildables

[shadow isle]

aw that sucks

[white dawn]

(Items will continue to work, like ||snowballs, fireworks, candy cane basher, etc||)

[white dawn]

Eh, makes the event more special. :) And I think there's a mod which lets you enable FICSMAS whenever you like (if you're on PC)

[latent meadow]

lol omg this event so fun ❤️

i love how christmas drops end up int he water lol

[gentle lion]

Few more MAM done. Se can't be done becaue k, ant make the stuff yet lol

And I also ran out of shrooms

I also found that other oil node on the west coast area so 2 pure 2 normal about to be pumping out fuel.and byproducts soon

[proud briar]

how the hell do you actually chose what side to place the rail signals on? the game loads and decides "yep you can only place them going x direction" and the "left side/right side" building mode is fucking useless, is there any way to actually place your signals the place and direction you want them? Very very disappointed with the "train signal" update, seems like they ruined it and took the ability to actually rotate your signals.

[glossy venture]

Is there a way to like.. I guess force place a water extractor somewhere, even if its "resource is not deep enough?"
I know previously you could build one in a blueprint, and place it wherever yo uwanted. But is there any secret tech to place them better in 1.1?

[ebon star]

Is it not possible to complete ficsmas on a save that I already completed it on last year? I was hoping to make a new tree this year with the next stuff I unlocked over the year.

[gentle lion]

I keep.grabbing presents but haven't done anyhting yet

[proud briar]

wow they just totally broke singals lol, great "update" to train signals guys!

[wicked nacelle]

No

[wicked nacelle]

Huh?

[proud briar]

you cant acually place them on either side. the game random decides where you can place them and absolutely refuses to place them in the correct way or give you a chance to rate them.

the "left side right side" build mode is a goddamn joke, just makes it go on the other side and not let you actually rotate the singal

[wicked nacelle]

There are trivial workarounds for all the signal build bugs. None of them are “totally broken”

For what you’re talking about just place on on the other side then use that spot to put it where you want and delete the first one.

[proud briar]

the fact you need workarounds for something they just "fixed and updated" is the problem you complete moron

[gentle lion]

Can mergers and splitters be snapped onto conveyor lift outputs?

[wicked nacelle]

Not without a mod

[glossy venture]

Someone seems a little pouty lol

[gentle lion]

Damn that ruined my plans lol

But they can be stacked on each other?

[fluid sapphire]

you can nudge them to be very close, so they are virtually together

very small gap

[wicked nacelle]

You said “totally broke” not “needs workarounds”. I was just clarifying that you can build anything you want you just need some workarounds.

Adding features often introduces bugs. I’m glad they are introducing features despite small inconveniences

[fluid sapphire]

the L/R build mode was literally added just for the visual

[proud briar]

i just wish they let you go back to the old mode in any way, it just totally took away the ability to rotate singals in any way

[whole drum]

What's fappening, boiz?

[white dawn]

No need to call someone a moron; let's keep things civil, eh?

[gentle lion]

It's fine , I assume if I stack 3 or 4 the delete the others they will still magically float like all my factories woth out feet lol

[wicked nacelle]

They made a lot of changes to rail in 1.1. And I’m overall happier with rail now vs 1.0

[fluid sapphire]

or you could just vertically nudge 2 times, thats the distance between them if you place them on top of one another

[cinder jay]

whats the spawning distance for the pressents?

[white dawn]

I don't know the exact range but it's pretty close to you

[gentle lion]

I'll see how easy that is on console

[white dawn]

And if you get too far away they'll despawn (which makes "room" for more to spawn)

[cinder jay]

oh ok bc imma make a huge platform then js stand and wait for then to spawn

[whole drum]

Yeah, so you can sit in the Hub and stare at pinups of Chell while drinking coffee, and ADA cries about the holiday event and insists you get back to work--then go round up the presents and stuff them in a production line

[white dawn]

Honestly I wouldn't recommend putting too much effort into manual collection. You do need a bunch to kickstart the process, but there are "better" ways to get them later on

Note that there's a certain amount which are allowed to be active at any point (like, single-digit numbers, I think).

If you just stand still somewhere, after a minute or so there'll be all the presents there'll ever be, until you go pick some up to make room

[cinder jay]

oh so eventually they will become automated?

[next drum]

if you're too impatient like me, use satisfactory calculator to edit your save and give you ficsmas day 4 data cartridge 😛

[white dawn]

(And when you do, the spawning radius is gonna follow you, so on a hypothetical platform you'd end up with some spawning off the platform anyway)

[white dawn]

Yep

[gentle lion]

I found that bauxite on top of that rock on the west...then I fell ,yes I had both a jetpack and parachute and somehow didn't activate either

I did get some achievement

[whole drum]

Mid-flight narcolepsy not reecommended

[sullen gull]

Probably the "sliver of life" one

[white dawn]

ie: the express elevator to the ground!

It's fine, bones heal. :D

[gentle lion]

Yep at least I stuck a few lifts to it so I can reach to bring it all the way down lol

But didn't put power up there ...damn

Just jump and place foundations back up lol

[sullen gull]

FYI, you can make "infinte" lifts.. so you don't have to daisy chain: #screenshots message

[cinder jay]

whats the point of the tree?

sorry for so many questions this is my first year doing this event

[white dawn]

Heh, all good

If you mean the big ol' tree, it's honestly just decoration. As you progress through the MAM tree, it will acquire more and more decoration

[gentle lion]

Huh well well

[white dawn]

Just something festive to have about the factory, is all. :)

[cinder jay]

ohhh ok thank you

[sullen gull]

Yes, I know, you said this before. But that is only if you are trying to split off between floors. Otherwise, it's way more work and not needed if you are just going from top to bottom.

[whole drum]

Yeah, the infinite lift thing is honestly too much work, lol

[wicked nacelle]

I don’t know what I thought I saw.

[sullen gull]

There are other/quicker ways you can align the floor holes. But, will always look WAY better than daisy chained lifts imo.

[wicked nacelle]

Maybe TIL not FYI

[whole drum]

Daisy chained is faster and I don't care that much about how it looks when it's just dropping down a cliff and not part of my main factory aesthetic

[white dawn]

I haven't used the infinite-lift hack in quite awhile; back when I did use it last, it would actually often not fully render the items on the lift

Which I personally found more distracting than just having daisy-chained ones

That may very well have improved renderwise since then, though. It's been awhile

[sullen gull]

The only issue I've ever had is the lift not rendering completely end to end. Usually, building it the opposite direction fixes it though.

[meager kiln]

meh lol i just peaked phase 4. at my current rate of versatile framework... 37 hours lmao . okay after i complete phase 3 its time to do some scaling

[gentle lion]

I only wish made things nice and clean 😂 😂

[sullen gull]

This will always look better than daisychained imo: #screenshots message

[whole drum]

I'm not disputing the aesthetic appeal

I just don't find it worth the effort outside of my bases

[sullen gull]

I geniuenly don't find them to be that much work at all. But then again, I do it consistenly, so perhaps I am just used to it.

[reef basin]

The event gradually reveals all its answers, so don't ask here and just play the game 🙂

[sullen gull]

Also, that video I made was just because someone said it couldn't be done 😛

[ornate cairn]

What time is reset to click second calendar door?

[white dawn]

Midnight on your local PC's time

Remember that not every calendar day provides new stuff to unlock at the MAM, of course -- if you've completed everything in the MAM already, it'll be another few days before you can get further

[ornate cairn]

Its past midnight (automated time), i just could reopen the 1st door, the second i cant tho. Cookie?*

[warm bison]

How do I use the gifts ?

[whole drum]

Visit the calendar

In your Hub

[wicked nacelle]

ficsit unlocks very slowly. you frequently have things that you can't really do yet

[whole drum]

Yeah, it very much has this energy of "Oh, this is new and exciting," only for 15 minutes you realize you're time-gated out of it and it will last weeks, so you're tempted to just disable instead.

[spark sky]

The smaller Ficsmas Tree that produces Ficsmas Gifts, should that work now, or not until we unlock it?

(I have one on display from last year.)

[spark sky]

So, the recipes we had last year will take all month to unlock, again?

[warm bison]

Bro the calendar is useless

It’s only numbers

[spark sky]

It's an Advent Calendar. Like any Advent Calendar, you open one number each day until Christmas/Ficsmas.

[leaden turret]

unlike a real advent calendar, you are physically incapable of opening doors for which corresponding dates that have not yet arrived.

[warm bison]

Yeah but what about the present

The gift

[spark sky]

They are dropping from the sky.

[warm bison]

I knew that

[spark sky]

The one from the calendar may be an unlock of something you can make with the gifts.

Like red ornaments.

[leaden turret]

!wikisearch ficsmas

[raven axle]

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

[spark sky]

At any rate, you want to open each number as the days progress, then go build the new thing.

(Unfortunately, I'm currently waiting for Steam to get through "allocating space" and actually update the game.)

[glass pagoda]

Not at any rate

[leaden turret]

ah, we haven't had an idiot spammer in a while. dunno why people think it's appropriate to invite to random discords in public channels.

[glass pagoda]

Hey im not a spammer 🙁

[spark sky]

"At any rate,..." is an old saying that is kind of like saying "Regardless..."

[glass pagoda]

I see

[leaden turret]

be more yorkshire.

any road

[spark sky]

I'm from the USA, midwest, I don't know how to speak "Yorkshire."

[glass pagoda]

Can't wait for ficukkah

[leaden turret]

say that out-loud and that'll be why it isn't happening

[glass pagoda]

They hate my people 🥀

[leaden turret]

bostonian but british working class? 🤷‍♂️

[zealous valley]

What is the sink value for a present?

[cyan leaf]

Ughhh cheese

[glass pagoda]

I've been reading ur name as sigma post marv for the past month

[leaden turret]

• on-topic: requesting cheese nobelisks because lizard doggo milk is highly combustible
• off-topic: poking fun at the US for not having any cheese of it's own

[dire tapir]

whats the rule for block and path signals on a 2 track set up