satisfactory

[glad quest]

I love do that

[gentle lion]

I gotta see how to use blueprints on console.

More power?

[steel kelp]

Yes

[steel kelp]

Its very simple. To access them you just open up the build menu and they are a tab on the top

And to build them you ofc just use the bp designer

[obsidian marten]

true, my entyre base is in this 4 constructor towers #screenshots message

[gentle lion]

Well f me it's right there lol

[obsidian marten]

btw, what do you think about my blueprint?

[fervent sand]

...I'm going to need to build 3544 (fully overclocked) fuel gens in my world

[obsidian marten]

oh god

[mortal ginkgo]

But.. why?

[gentle lion]

Oh I have enough power to fire all the buildings when I'm done. Consume 680mw max is 1647 prd is 3000

[obsidian marten]

nice

2nd phase you say?

[fervent sand]

I mean

technically not

but I wanted excess power

so I'm going to get 2000000MW of excess power

[obsidian marten]

but nuclear....

[fervent sand]

is expensive

[steel kelp]

This is cool, check the one i tagged you in

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean to not judge but understand, wouldn't at that point its better to go nuclear since you need oil for diamons?

[steel kelp]

No its not

[fervent sand]

but I am going to be building some nuclear

[unkempt blade]

those will go really nice with 4000 biomass burners so I think it's a solid idea

[steel kelp]

You can have more than enough power w just uranium, and processing into plutonium rods is easy

[fervent sand]

when you're on the scale of the entire map it is

[steel kelp]

How much power do you need

[unkempt blade]

more

[dapper marten]

Why the awesome calculator doesn't work with nuclear craftings?

[obsidian marten]

3544 fuel generators and around 10k powershards is not expensive?

[mortal ginkgo]

heck mate you gave me a jumpscare with that statement

[fervent sand]

2519875.599 MW, though the factory takes 519875.599 MW

[steel kelp]

I have 1.7tw i get it, i was just curious

[unkempt blade]

always more!

[steel kelp]

Oh yea thats pretty expensive w nuclear lol

[unkempt blade]

space capitalism demands infinite growth!

[steel kelp]

I did 900gw of uranium fuel rods and it wasnt too bad tho

[fervent sand]

They're not draining more resources, and I have excess oil

[obsidian marten]

@steel kelp #screenshots message this is nice, are any of them overclocked?

[steel kelp]

All of them are max overclock yea

[fervent sand]

though I am going to be building 120 nuclear power plants

[obsidian marten]

but you did not unlock powershards craft?

[fervent sand]

wait that's not overclocked

[steel kelp]

I have them automated yea

[steel kelp]

I have 144 max overclocked

[obsidian marten]

oh, ok

[steel kelp]

If i were to do ficsonium id make like 1.4tw alone

But even thats not enough for you lol

[fervent sand]

so I'll only be building 48 max overclocked

[obsidian marten]

I have 8 200% overclocked... and still, I somehow completed the game

[random stream]

yo i have a question. Can you play with console Player with Pc players ?

[steel kelp]

Yes i was beinf super excessive. I built my nuclear after i finished the game as well

[fervent sand]

no

[steel kelp]

But it was so much fun to do

[random stream]

ok 🙁

[obsidian marten]

I am scared to think about like 100k nitrogen gas per minute

[steel kelp]

It wasnt that much

It was like 2400 or smth

[shy mulch]

which fuel are you burning in them?

[fervent sand]

rocket

[shy mulch]

there's enough nitrogen and sulfur for that?

[fervent sand]

well

no

but converters

[obsidian marten]

fr? not that much. And how many uranium mines?

[shy mulch]

That's quite the minmax attitude 😄

[fervent sand]

in fact, I'll be burning more

[steel kelp]

1200, but i slooped the production of encased cells and fuel rods

[shy mulch]

I have 6000/min rocket fuel, and that was plenty enough of a project for me

[steel kelp]

Its just a bit boring to make imo, it becomes a game of placing fuel gens rather than actual logistical challenging

I have 200gw of rocket fuel and it was a chore to do it all

[obsidian marten]

me too, to be fair. how many sloops do you use?

[shy mulch]

yeah. I made a basic blueprint with 2 gens and all the pipes/junctions and power poles which took a lot of the pain out of it, when raw dogging it placing the pipes took 3x as long as placing the gens themselves

[steel kelp]

Idk however much to feed the 30 blenders

I duplicated them

[obsidian marten]

120

that is more that on the map

[fervent sand]

I'm not slooping any power 😜

[obsidian marten]

i think there are like 112?

[fervent sand]

103 if you fully unlock the MAM

105 if you don't research augmenters

[proud briar]

is 20gw excess enough for stage 5? i havent done it in a while and the power requirements were absolutely, completely nuts last i remembered

[shy mulch]

I need to figure out where my sloops are
There's 106 available (I collected them all)
I have 50 used as APAs
20 in my BWD production
So there's 36 unaccounted for, in machines somewhere, long forgotten

[obsidian marten]

yes.

[shy mulch]

depends what scale you want to build on
you can do it on a lot less than that, or a lot more than that
more power = faster finish
adjust to suit your level of patience

[obsidian marten]

I have 40 MW and did not have to wait at all

[obsidian marten]

good luck...

[deft saffron]

im assuming this would use alternative recipe for uranium, my setup uses 40 reactors and each blender requires 100 uranium/min

[safe goblet]

Good evening everyone

[compact flicker]

Gm

[fervent sand]

I'm using 907 uranium

[meager kiln]

holy crap phase 4 is a step up. i get modular factories now. no idea how the hell id fit all of this in my tower design

[glad quest]

wait till u get to heavy modular frames

or fused modular frames

[primal obsidian]

cant wait to get singularity cells so I can make ficsonium fuel rods

[nocturne ermine]

Really love this game

But 2 days in a row i am not able to join my friends game now…

This already happend 1 or 2 weeks ago 😩

[meager kiln]

heavy is done, but havent even looked at fused. i just looked at the supply chain for magnetic field generator, and see 2.5 vers frameworks per . thinking my factory did 1/min and was already the biggest thing ive done so far

thinking its time to get into a rail network and start making some smaller factories to crank out intermediates. and explore the map. im still in my starting area

[vivid thorn]

I have a Ficsmas data cartridge, i can't seem to use Is. is it possible that its from last year? (picture in screenshots)

[white dawn]

There are cartridges for specific days. The item is, I believe, the same between years, but the cart has to match the specific unlock

[vivid thorn]

maybe i had 2 day 1

[marble gulch]

Does the tree grow stuff?

[vivid thorn]

so i had one from last year and one from now

[white dawn]

The big tree is essentially just a decoration piece, and will acquire more and more decoration as you work through the MAM research

(There are other trees which are yet to be unlocked which might have some other properties, though. :)

[vivid thorn]

so what do i do with the extra day one cartridge?

[white dawn]

They've got no purpose outside of unlocking MAM research. Keep it as a memento? Flush it down the HUB toilet? Not sure if they're sinkable or not

[glad quest]

yeah u need LOADS

[feral tendon]

Spoiler Question: ||Is there a way to get more Mercer Spheres so I'll be able to make more Dimensional Depots or is there a better way to funnel items from my factories into my pocket dimension?||

[hard ivy]

there's more than enough

[marble gulch]

Alr ty

[feral tendon]

Including all the research?

[hard ivy]

200 left after research

[feral tendon]

Lovely, thank you for the reply 🙂

[earnest bluff]

is grass fields good? i was about the make a coal gen but theres only 2 coal veins and other ones are very far away

[hard ivy]

I mean I think grasslands are the worst or the 2nd worst starting location but all of them are perfectly usable

[versed cosmos]

grass fields is a noob trap. if youre new start in rocky desert

[white dawn]

The good coal-power spots are a little ways away from grass fields, so you'd expect to have a bit of a hike to get to those

[marble gulch]

I made mine over a lake, has 3 or 4 id say

[white dawn]

But I actually think that grass fields is a great starting spot

[marble gulch]

It's right beside grass fields

[earnest bluff]

like i was playing desert wanted to play on another location

[white dawn]

In the early game you can't really make great use of nodes anyway, so grass fields is practically ideal for early-game building

Then when you're ready to start expanding out, you've got all these areas with nice pristine "better" nodes which are totally unsullied

[earnest bluff]

checked from satisfactory map and theres only 2 coal veins

[versed cosmos]

go north

there's a cliff and a lake at the bottom

coal near there

[white dawn]

The major hole in my "grass fields is great for early game" argument is that you would technically need more miners than if you were starting somewhere with higher-purity nodes, which pushes your biomass-collection a bit harder

[earnest bluff]

trees giving 8 wood biomass is a real pain

[white dawn]

I wouldn't go so far as to call grass fields a noob trap, though. I hadn't actually started there for quite awhile until my 1.0 save, and I actually really liked it as a start spot when I went back to it

[earnest bluff]

hm kay gota check

[white dawn]

(Plus, it's got the advantage of encouraging players to expand a little more thoroughly once you're through the very early game!)

[earnest bluff]

desert was very easy theres water next to coal veins bla bla but this area is weird

[mortal ginkgo]

I wanted to explore a cave once. 6 large stingers disagreed with me.

[versed cosmos]

i play on passive only because of stingers

[marble gulch]

I'm doing acid (I think) unlock next

[marble gulch]

Only if the stinking things were passive mode

[mortal ginkgo]

I don't blame you.

But I like the thrill.

Without them, game is a bit too easy on exploring side.

[zealous valley]

Are there any recommended qol mods

[limpid inlet]

Bro I hate the big stingers

I'd rather fight those 3 alpha alpha hogs with the radioactive one with rebar gun 20 times than fight the big stingers once

[zealous valley]

Alpha or gas?

[fallow magnet]

hey I have a question I just started playing again (got to like tier 3 a year and a half ago), and I have 1 of 3 tier 1 things (the logistics one with splitters, mergers, and that up down thing) and 1 tier 2 thing (the chainsaw one)

I know that my current factory is a bit of a mess to say the least (but it works for now), so I’m wondering if I should redo it once I have foundations and the tier 2 one with assemblers unlocked, or if I should hold off for a bit longer.

[white dawn]

That's one of those questions without any well-defined answers. If there's something you don't like about the game, you can search for a mod which might change that for you. Or if you just want to browse what's available, head to ficsit.app and look around. Sorting by "downloads" would show you mods which are particularly popular, etc.

If it's your first playthrough I'd actually recommend not using mods. How would you even know what you want changed if you're not familiar with the game?

[white dawn]

It's extremely common for folks to want to rebuild early-game stuff, and even folks like myself who generally recommend "don't bother ever rebuilding" will end up doing it sometimes. :)

My usual advice is to just leave it and try to make your next factories meet your own new standards. :)

(And yeah, building on foundations is usually Step 1 of better-organized factories. :)

If you do decide to rebuild things anyway, my usual recommendation for that is to at least wait until you're on the next tier of power (which can be fully-automated)

[fallow magnet]

And I was also wondering, what is the best way to keep things neat and decently organized? I’m realy trying to avoid spaghetti conveyers like the first time I played the game (it was so bad not let’s game it out bad but still very bad lol). And my current factory is lowkey at that point where I can easily see it getting super messy.

Like should I move all my resources to the main factory hub area in those storage thingies evenly and build everything there, or should I build the stuff near the miners and if I need something that needs mats that are made with both copper and iron stuff then I bring it over to main factory hub where my iron miners are?

And one last ring question, I was running my conveyer over another one using those up down thingies and the one it was going over was not very long and had a constructor and storage thingy close on each side, and when I ran the conveyer over it was yellow and said overlapping (even when it really didnt seem like it should be or at least looked to be clear for the most part). Is that a problem or is it fine to just build it anyways? Cause I tried to build it anyways and it seemed to work but idk if there’s some debuff for that

[white dawn]

The main thing I'd recommend watching out for is not getting stuck in endless rebuild cycles. You're constantly gonna be having ideas for how to make factories "better" or more clean, but you can really get stuck into a time sink if you're constantly rebuilding your past factories. A lot of effort just to get yourself up to the same level of production you had before. It's a potential recipe for burnout. So just watch for that! It's unlikely to burn you out too bad to rebuild some early-game stuff once, though. :)

[white dawn]

Heh, my usual advice there is to take a look at a build strategy called "Independency": https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency

In a nutshell: each factory only ever outputs to your own personal storage. So like you automate 8/min Rotors, that goes to your own storage (for Build-gun use), and then that factory is done. You never touch it again. Later on, when some other factory needs more rotors, you just make more rotors right inside that new factory.

[fallow magnet]

And thank you man I really appreciate it. And yea I’m definitely wanting to rebuild it but I don’t know if I should keep it or move cause there’s tons of pure ores near me and the only easily accessible limestone in reasonable distance is 100 meters to the left too. Should I like build up a bunch of materials then get rid of everything but the miners and build foundations? Or is there better areas to go near that rocky desert spawn (if that’s not the right name I mean the second map)

[white dawn]

Each factory becomes its own smaller isolated thing, building from ore -> final product (which, again, is only destined for your own personal use)

You might double up on a resource node, of course. That 8/min rotor factory might have left a bunch of Iron in a node which some other factory could use

And the individual "factories" might even end up being literally right next to each other, or different floors on the same building

[fallow magnet]

What do you mean next tier of power? Like tier 3? Or you mean something other than biomass?I have solid fuel if you mean that

[white dawn]

But it's got several benefits, one of which being that each factory's scope is much smaller, so it's easier to keep things looking neat. Another is that even if one factory turns into a mess of spaghetti, your very next factory gets to start totally from scratch. So you can practice getting better at it without getting shackled to your past "mistakes"

[white dawn]

Yeah, in Tier 3 you get a new power solution which is fully automatable. No more manually collecting leaves/wood/remains to stay powered.

[fallow magnet]

Yea true that’s what I’m worried about hahaha like I know I 100% need a rebuild cause this shit is a total mess but like I don’t wanna do it too early and then end up having something super important unlocked an hour or two later and have to run it back again loool

[white dawn]

Just remember that rebuilding is a choice. You can always just leave that stuff exactly how it is, forever.

It's still producing stuff, so you can still make use of it. Can just build a new factory next, instead. :)

[leaden turret]

if in doubt, alt-f4

[zealous valley]

Do mods disable achievements?

[fallow magnet]

Okay so if I understand it correctly, so let’s say I need like screws, I would make a screw factory making solely screws or maybe rods too depending on how much it takes to make, and then instead of then sending those screws down a conveyer belt to my main factory to then make smart plates or whatever it is since I don’t make steel/iron plates at that screw factory, I would just dump the rods and screws into a storage and then either I make a factory WITHOUT a miner and put in steel plates and screws to a storage thingy and that’s the start of the material processing, or maybe instead make a steel plate factory and then have a storage container I put screws into and feed them into an assembler with the steel plates which come from the miner?

[white dawn]

Nope, only Advanced Game Settings

[spice patio]

No. Only using Advanced Game Settings does.

[tall lantern]

not quite

it's more like

• You need rods. SO you make a factory that makes rods. Takes in ore, outputs rods into storage.
• You then need* screws. So you make another factory that takes in ore, makes rods internally to make the screws, then outputs screws into storage.
• You then need reinforced plates. So you make another factory that takes in ore, makes iron plates, rods, screws, and finally the reinforced plates, then outputs those into storage.
  etc

[fallow magnet]

Okay thank you man!!! Sorry for so many questions ahaha you were a huge help from the start so I wanted to ask ya all the stuff I was wondering, I really really appreciate you taking the time to answer each one!! :D even before you answer that last one I just posted I’m already a lot more clear on what i need to do going forward!! :D

[tall lantern]

(the * on the screws is because you don't need a (long-lived) factory for those since they're only used by one thing in the build gun that doesn't need to be built in bulk, but it's an example)

[fallow magnet]

Oh ok so I should not do the screw factory then I should just make a reinforced plate factory with my 2 pure iron nodes next to eachother that makes rods screws steel plates reinforced plates reinforced plates and have enough to make the reinforced plates and have whatever go into storage and be its own thing?

[fallow magnet]

Wait what’s the build gun? Is that something I get later?

[leaden turret]

it's the thing wot stuff shoots out from when you build

[zealous valley]

The build gun is the tool you use to build stuff

It's what you start the game wit;h

[leaden turret]

or $75 on the licensed merch store

[primal obsidian]

superposition oscillators

[zealous valley]

I wish there was a way to get rid of the big rocks

[hallow crow]

is there anything new about this ficsmas?

well, do they ever change the progression tree in the MAM?

[versed cosmos]

no i think they explicitly said its the same

[hallow crow]

damn thats sad

[hard ivy]

the calendar is different

[hallow crow]

ye well i think that always changes

[white dawn]

Heh, had to run AFK there. Basically what Meindratheal said, though. You'll end up making the same stuff in a bunch of different factories (if you decide to go for Independency, anyway), but it only ever gets outputted once

So you may have literally dozens of factories each making their own rotors internally, by the time you get to endgame

[white dawn]

Cheers! Hopefully it helps instead of being too confusing. It's a lot to take in, and I tend to type a lot. :P

Can also check that wiki page on Independency; it probably describes it better than I am

(One more and I'll shut up) And of course even if you generally decide to follow that strategy, it's not like you're tied to it forever. I'm a huge fan of it personally but even I don't follow it religiously all the time

[olive condor]

Hello Pioneers, I'm building some nuclear kettles right now. The first few are filled up with fuel rods, but not water is attached to any of them yet. So far so good, but 4 of the plants emit steam as if they are working right now, is this a known bug or something?

It's not game breaking of course, but i got a little confused there for a moment. 😄

[limpid inlet]

You won't necessarily need a factory for all of those

[white dawn]

Yeah, it's known about in the community at least. I assume there's a post about it at the Questions site, too, which you could upvote if you like. Or if it's not there, you could submit it if you're feling ambitious. :) (The Questions site is what the devs use to collate bug reports and such)

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[compact flicker]

Wish we could blow up temporary resource rocks >:

Theres a sloop in a uranium rock 😭

[white dawn]

yeah, those are a bit difficult to tank. Just mark on your map and then come back later once you've got the rad suit + iodine filters, IMO

You might be able to play some silly games with the extended reach you get via parachute, though. If you're determined, try hovering above it and see if you can get the interact notification to pop up. :)

[compact flicker]

Ooh maybe

I was just gonna tank the rads with the inhalers from todays callander lol

[zenith pecan]

I've done that, twice, wasteful tbh but still got rid of unwanted radiation sources.

[white dawn]

Yeah, it's just rough because of how much uranium you have to get from it

Feels like you're healing half the time

[compact flicker]

Yeah

Anyone know how much is in one rock off the top of their head?

[white dawn]

Make sure you've got a handy storage container nearby to emergency-dump 'em into. :P

[fallow urchin]

hey, what does everyone think of this? #design-and-architecture message

[hard ivy]

doesn't radiation cap out at 45? that'd require healing every 2 seconds. doesn't sound practical

mine once, heal, trash, heal, mine again?

or do you not bother trashing and just heal once per mine?

[zenith pecan]

Definitely not practical, the sheer number of inhalers I burned just clearing radioactive crap was not cool, I mined, healed, mined, healed, trashed at the end.

[compact flicker]

Yay I broke it

7 inhalers for 1 sloop

I'd take that trade again

[tepid sapphire]

Hoe do I get the three branches

[wicked nacelle]

put presents in a constructor with the branch recipe

[tepid sapphire]

Cheers

[wicked nacelle]

i'm not in game but you should be able to hit "n" and type "branch" and see how to build it like everything else -- on console... whatever the codex button is I don't know

[tepid sapphire]

Yeah I found it

Thanks man

[wicked nacelle]

no problem 🙂

[primal obsidian]

120 GW are missing im guessing it has something to do with nuclear power not working

ughh now i have to wait for the manifold to fill again cause the train got stuck

BROOO

HOW THE HELL DID PLASTIC AND AI LIMITERS GET INTO MY STATION

[wicked nacelle]

it's not a bad habit to put smart splitters to block wrong types from getting in -- because the downstream effects can be REALLY annoying once it goes out for distribution

[primal obsidian]

im so confused

[wicked nacelle]

I only usually remember to do this after a debacle though

[primal obsidian]

theres one train that comes into this station set to only unload the resources i need and it doesent even stop at a station that makes plastic

[leaden turret]

unless you're on console

ffs, dead scrolling again

[leaden turret]

^was replying to this

[primal obsidian]

cant wait to replace a bunch of belts

what and sulfur ended up on my caterium line

[wicked nacelle]

did you somehow puta bunch of stuff from inventory into a buffer container or something? so weird

[primal obsidian]

i guess ill just empty out the system of the sulfur and plastic and ai limiters

i mean good thing i wasnt using all of the power from nuclear and can still run the grid without it

what the hell theres more sulfur in here somehow

the train that goes into this station only delivers copper maybe a train has the wrong timetable

sulfur train stops at a different station has to be belt issue i guess i can just use a smart splitter on all my lines

[feral tendon]

When using the chainsaw is the AoE centered around the object you're cutting or the PC?

[hard ivy]

or maybe actually fix the issue?

[primal obsidian]

ill jsut look through all the trains and see if one of them is stopping at the wrong station

[fallow magnet]

No worries man same here I had to go afk there too for a sec and about to drive home as well, (40 minute drive ughhh). And I’m a longer message guy myself too so no worries. xD

And okay cool so is doing it independently a lot more understandable for a newer player too? Cause yea I’m not gonna lie it’s been a bit confusing remembering what everything does especially since there’s no organization currently and no foundations makes it even harder to understand what’s going on ahaha. Im gonna try out this independent thing for sure. Might still do the main factory” thing where I produce screws rods steel plates and potentially also reinforced plates in the one factory since I have 2 pure iron nodes literally like 40 meters apart and the rest of the iron is quite far, but definitely doing that with my copper and limestone stuff !!

Also when it comes to something like reinforced plates, would I have the factory process start with storage containers that input premade screws and steel plates, or would I make the screws and steel plates there and use all of it to make steel plates instead of saving any

[fallow magnet]

By the way I just read it back again and I think I get it now, would I be correct in what I said in the last paragraph of my message I just sent before this when it comes to a reinforced plate factory?

[primal obsidian]

ahh i see someone made a train that stops at all stations so it jsut started unloading whatever it picked up from the other stations and loading it here

i mean the opposite

[fallow magnet]

Also is there a way to make it so you can choose if storage containers are outputting stuff, like a standby switch or something like that

[white dawn]

For a true "Independency" setup, each factory goes all the way from ore -> product

[fallow magnet]

There’s nuclear power?!?! Bruhh I’m excited for this game

[white dawn]

So you wouldn't be taking other products from elsewhere as part of the factory

(For later-game factories I do often have sort of "sub-factories" which are geographically distributed. But for now, if you're gonna try it, just go ore->product for each factory)

[fallow magnet]

Oh okay sweet! Thank you!

To make reinforced plates would it be enough to just do it with one pure iron ore node? Or do you need 2?

[tacit trellis]

Reinforced plates is plates:rods at a 3:1 ratio distribution of your iron

[white dawn]

It helps to get used to working backwards through the math. Decide how much you want to make (ie: how quickly you want your personal storage to fill up). So like maybe you'll be happy with 10/min RIP for now. You'd take a look at the recipe, which'll tell you that you need x/min of one thing and y/min of another

Work your way back until you get to the ores -- that'll tell you how much you need

Then it's just a matter of finding that much ore (might be fed from a pure, normal, or impure, or even a combination of some of them)

There are solvers/calculcators out there which will do all that for you, but it's good to know how to do it yourself. :)

[fallow magnet]

Is there a site or calculator which tells you how much constructors /smelters take in and put out per min?

[tacit trellis]

Also hand feed smart plating

[white dawn]

Yes, though again: it's well worth knowing how to do it yourself

[hard ivy]

like a dozen of them

[wicked nacelle]

it's in the game if you just pull up the recipe it's right there

[white dawn]

I wouldn't actually recommend jumping right to a solver until you're used to figuring it out by hand

[unkempt blade]

I'm team "start from how much ore I have to use and just sink all the extras until I need them for something"

[fallow magnet]

Okay cool, yea I wanna do it myself but more like a reference guide for example like how much iron ingots a constructor can take in per min and how much iron plates it can put out per min

[tacit trellis]

You can make a smelter/constructor on the ground and select recipie to check rates then dismantle it

[wicked nacelle]

or pull up the codex - it's in there

[tacit trellis]

Are rates in there?

[wicked nacelle]

yes - you have to click to expand it

[tacit trellis]

Istg it was only ratio is there a hidden thing for rates?

[wicked nacelle]

no click on it and it expands and you can even set OC rate

[tacit trellis]

Bruh

[wicked nacelle]

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[fallow magnet]

Oh cool thanks guys that sweet !

[hard ivy]

though it annoys me you can't set machine count

[tacit trellis]

Was it always there or was it added?

[wicked nacelle]

been there a while at least -- but it's not a good UI -- there's no indication that it's there

[tacit trellis]

Must've been added since I last played copium

[fallow magnet]

That’s sick man thank you!

[wicked nacelle]

yeah I'm sure that's it. 😄

[hard ivy]

definitely not any time recently LOL

[fallow magnet]

What do you mean machine count? Just wondering

[wicked nacelle]

and if you want more detailed production chain stuff then the websites are useful

[tacit trellis]

Or use the ingame notes or a notepad

[gentle lion]

Is the alternate diluted Packaged fuel from hard drives?

[wicked nacelle]

yes only compacted coal and the fuel types are "alt" recipes not from the MAM hdd research

[gentle lion]

Aghhhhhh

[cunning lily]

How tall do you guys normally build your logistics sub-floors? 4m? 8m? More?

[gentle lion]

The I've wasted hours of setup today u.til I find that recipe

[unkempt blade]

I don't like subfloors. Seeing stuff move around is part of the fun of a factory game

[fallow magnet]

What website is good?

[wicked nacelle]

most people like https://www.satisfactorytools.com/

[cunning lily]

I want one in this case, but I can appreciate your sentiment. Thank you.

[tacit trellis]

Logistics floor is overrated do logistic rooves/s

[hard ivy]

it shows you the rate for one machine at a set clock speed, but it would be nice if it was possible to put in the number of machines too. it'd only multiply the rates by the machine count, but it would be convenient to have that done automaticall and not have to do that yourself (or use an external calculator)

[gentle lion]

Off to hard drive hunt I guess

[unkempt blade]

I do pretty shells at least around most of my builds and subfloors make the space between floors look kind of chunky so at most it would be the shortest I can get away with

[wicked nacelle]

If you have blenders, diluted fuel is exactly the same oil:fuel ratio - so either recipe is just as good as the other

[cunning lily]

In this case, managing refinery input/output between belts and pipes is a cluster, so thinking 3D can tidy things up for me.

[fallow magnet]

Oh yea is it just me or did satisfactory get like an overhaul on steam deck or something at some point? Cause I feel like I remember a while back when I played it in between the first time I played and now that it felt really weird on steam deck and not really intuitive.

Like maybe I’m just a lot more used to steam deck as a controller now, but idk I swear it feels sooo much nicer now than it did before

[gentle lion]

I don't yet

[fallow magnet]

Ohh Oka I see what you mean. What website do you use to calculate by the way?

[fallow magnet]

Oh oki thank you man!

[hard ivy]

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

[unkempt blade]

along those lines I always wanted to be able to use the codex + the search you open with "N" at the same time so I could do math in the search field

[tacit trellis]

Would still recommend doing it by hand for the early stages coz the maths is still relatively easy

[gentle lion]

@wicked nacelle

I was doing HOR with packaged water , to packaged fuel, into fuel.and empties ...and I,can't proceed without that recipe

I can't create the recipe 😂

[wicked nacelle]

you on console or pc?

[gentle lion]

Console

[wicked nacelle]

can you save scum rerolls on console? on pc if you research and odn't get it but don't pick -- save -- reroll the results. If you don't like the reroll just reload and your next reroll is randomized again from the previous one. anyhow, depends how you want to play, but that can save a lot of time when looking for a specific recipe.

[gentle lion]

Not sure 8ll have to see I would guess it's possible

[wicked nacelle]

If you don't/cant do that, the next best thing is reroll and then if you don't get it don't pick either one so it locks out two recipes that you don't want. That way you're locking out double the recipes for your next research

[gentle lion]

Oh just leave it there without picking?

[wicked nacelle]

yes if you have the recipe in your library list it won't be randomly selected on the next research.

[gentle lion]

Ok cool thanks. I'll do that after I make dinner lol

[winged crescent]

Heya

My ps5 connect issue is EOS related.

EOS has issues since December first.

Can anyone from the staff sortoff contact them? Im not alone with the issue. (That you cant play EOS multiplayer at all, neither Rocketleauge, Satisfactory or others).

[white dawn]

CSS has been working with Epic on the issue, fwiw

[tacit trellis]

Can't remember specifics rn but pretty sure you can make 2 reinforced plate fully fed from 1 pure node with no excess

[white dawn]

Still best to just work your way through the chain (whether backwards or forwards) to get the exact numbers, instead of trying to remember specific ratios like that

Even if you have one which does work out "perfectly," it'll get thrown out of whack the instant your chosen recipes change, etc

And what you get from a "pure node" changes depending on what your miner tier is, how you clock the miner, what your max belt speed is, etc

It's far more general-purpose to just start from the product ("I want to make 10/min RIPs"), work your way back to the ores, using whatever recipes you want to use ("to do so, I need x/min Iron Ore"), and then you can just go figure out where to get x/min Iron Ore from

Maybe it'll be a Pure node, maybe it'll be three Impures, etc

[tacit trellis]

At their current stage of process with recipes

Wait is pure only 150%?

[white dawn]

I start picking up alt recipes pretty much right away, and even first-time players might have done so as well

[white dawn]

No, I'm saying that depending on what your production target is, maybe you don't need the full output of a Pure node to do it

And again, how much you can get out of the node depends on a lot of factors too

Someone with mk2 belts can get more out of a pure node than someone with just mk1

And you'll need to know how to work with the numbers anyway as you progress in the game, so better to get into the habit early, IMO. :)

[wicked nacelle]

pure node is nothing magic. 2 normals is the same rate. And while it can be useful to plan around a pure node's worth of ore, you don't need a pure node to get that much

[white dawn]

Saying "you need one Pure node with mk1 miners and mk2 belts, using all vanilla recipes, to fully supply two vanilla-recipe RIP assemblers" is advice that'll only work for that one extraordinarily specific case, whereas working through the numbers will serve you throughout the whole game. (I didn't actually check that that statement in quotes is actually true; just using it as an example. :)

[wicked nacelle]

just look and find what nodes you have around you

[shrewd shore]

does auto-connect work with pipes? cant seem to get autoconnect to work on fuel gens

[fallow urchin]

Hey there it's josh #design-and-architecture message

[wicked nacelle]

sure does -- not sure if you need little stubs sticking out or not though. The only thing it doesn't do is power.. because taht would be a horrible mess

[shrewd shore]

huhhh maybe ill give it a shot thank you

[wicked nacelle]

like try not ending it on a pipe support -- have a little bit of pipe sticking out (not sure if necessary but if nothign else works...)

[shrewd shore]

seems to have done the trick- thank you!

[heavy pine]

Got a blueprint ready to turn into a basic FICSMAS production box. It'll make the parts needed to start building the gift-generating trees, once I can set the red and blue ornament recipes. And I've made it look like a giant green and red gift box.

[wicked nacelle]

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057 post it 🙂

[pine adder]

Does anyone know how to use the ||snowballs|| from todays calender thing?

[abstract heron]

in contructor u can make something and then throw it

[dense violet]

throw them

[abstract heron]

hiya cobalt

[heavy pine]

#screenshots message Done.

[pine adder]

you can't equip them to your hands

[austere dune]

Are the items in the calendar random? Ive got 2 playthrus going and got power cores in one, not snowballs?

[pine adder]

I just checked the constructer and didn't see anything new

[abstract heron]

It will probbaly come at a later date

[pine adder]

oh

[abstract heron]

I feel when i did it last year always slow in the first half then second half it flys

[compact flicker]

Oh boy time to blend some slugs

[heavy pine]

I didn't get ||snowballs|| in my advent calendar today, I got ||medicinal inhalers||. But to ||throw the snowballs|| you'll need a nobelisk detonator.

[austere dune]

ahh so it is random, fun!

[compact flicker]

Got the same thing as u today

[heavy pine]

I don't know why FICSIT seems to think I needed them, it's been 351 days since my last incident.

[compact flicker]

I rarely get above 2 lol

But I play with keep inventory on :3

[heavy pine]

Granted, I am playing with cheats advanced settings enabled.

[limpid inlet]

I've made infinitely worse lmao

[austere dune]

I got ||20 power shards on one playthru, 1 nuke nobelisk on the other||

[compact flicker]

I wanna automate fluctuators but I dont got manufacturers yet -w-

[mortal ginkgo]

you really dont need alot to justify that until late game. Just make some with hands 🙂‍↕️

[compact flicker]

Hand crafting 1k for the depot doesn't sound fun 😭

[mortal ginkgo]

why would you need 1000 of them..?

[compact flicker]

Depot upgrades

[mortal ginkgo]

oh my dear Lord, you don't need all the upgrades at first 😄

[compact flicker]

I knowwwww but I want them

[mortal ginkgo]

Did you collect all the spheres needed for all the upgrades?

[compact flicker]

Not yet

Still need to go get like.. 90 more lol

[mortal ginkgo]

Well.. umm.. have fun I guess xP

[compact flicker]

Ty :p

[mortal ginkgo]

btw next phase is where manufacturers are. Maybe, just MAYBE you can resist and wait until then?

[compact flicker]

Oh I've finished phase 5 before, I'm just on a new save

[cyan valve]

is there a way to mute the geiger counter sound? its become annoying to me

[compact flicker]

Maybe effects volume? I swear there used to be a specific volume slider for every sound effect in the game

[wicked nacelle]

I’ll don’t think so

[cyan valve]

yeah theres still but I dont see specific for the geiger

will try effects then

[compact flicker]

Lemme test to see if "effects" affects it rq

[wicked nacelle]

Are you on pc? Maybe look for a mod if so

[cyan valve]

Im still on my first playthrough and refusing to use mods

[compact flicker]

@cyan valve the geiger counter does fall under effects

[cyan valve]

I just tried but everything became silent now hahah

I'll keep this for a while

[compact flicker]

I didnt think to see if it affected anything else lol

Mb

[pseudo pendant]

is there anything in the game I'm not seeing that allows two straight belts to pass through each other?

like keeping the same flow that they're going without having to raise/lower one

[dense violet]

you can clip them however you like with no issues

[pseudo pendant]

I try to avoid clipping as much as I can, was just hoping for some merger shaped building for pass through or something like that but I'll just make do

I forget clipping like that is a thing sometimes tbh

[compact flicker]

Are my machine interfaces lying? I have all machines involved at 100% uptime making the exact amount of parts I need, but all of the internal buffers are very slowly filling. All outputs are always open as well.

[wicked nacelle]

You could just put one over the clipping spot and it would look like what you want

[wicked nacelle]

Internal buffers don’t fill if input matches needs.

[compact flicker]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[wicked nacelle]

If you’re taking 1 out for every 1 you put in then you never make progress. In a manifold before all machines are running you oversupply but once the last machine comes on you’re matching so buffers don’t fill on the last two machines ever

[compact flicker]

My rotors and stators are both 10/min and my motors need 10/min of both.

Im also using load balancers

[wicked nacelle]

Yes so you wouldn’t expect any of the buffers to ever fill

[compact flicker]

I wouldn't, which is why I'm confused as to why they are 😭

[wicked nacelle]

Oh I misunderstood your complaint about it being slow to fill

[dusky basin]

Can anyone help me, im pretty new to this game and im on phase 2 so im not sure how to get coal, iron, and copper to one factory all the nodes are so far away. Do i just have to make conveyor belts all over the place

[spark sky]

So, I opened 2 today and double-clicked on it, I did not get a cartridge today (though I got one yesterday). I know I've already done all the research, but, I thought I'd just collect the cartridges this season and put them in a container.

[wicked nacelle]

There are different vehicles that unlock as you play the game. But your current definition of “far away” probably isn’t really all that far and yes just drag a belt or two

[dusky basin]

ive unlocked a tractor would that help at all

[compact flicker]

I got 10 inhalers today instead of a cartridge

[wicked nacelle]

Yes you can use that with a truck station on each end — especially useful to move coal because the coal can also be the trucks fuel

Be warned vehicles in this game are powerful if done right but really annoying to do right

[bitter dirge]

can trucks go over cliffs and stuff?

[wicked nacelle]

Later you get trains and drones which are way better.

[wicked nacelle]

While you’re driving absolutely. In auto drive they can but they’d warp back to the path

[dusky basin]

okay thank you

[bitter dirge]

oo

[bitter dirge]

but can the path be over a cliff ?

[mortal ginkgo]

YESSS I GOT WET CONCRETE RECIPE!

Finally, my pioneer will find out that putting concrete on water makes it wet! YAY!

[compact flicker]

Even though tractors would be the "intended" way to move resources from "long" distances at your stage, conveyors would work better and more consistently than the vehicles.

As Xaxxon said, trains and drones are much better than vehicles.

[wicked nacelle]

So it’s really up to you if you want to fight with vehicles. If you choose to just drag belts until you get better options that’s perfectly reasonable

[spark sky]

Do you have the Ficsmas research all done from last year, or is this a new playthrough?

[wicked nacelle]

No because you have to complete the path as a loop and if it falls into the abyss you can’t complete it

[compact flicker]

This is my first Ficmas

[wicked nacelle]

I got a hard drive

[limpid inlet]

Bro why does my first hard drive on this playthrough gotta suck such ass

I had to fight an alpha orange spitter and two hatchers for fine concrete 💀

[dusky basin]

okay im just gonna try using the belts and later find an alternative way like trains and drones

[compact flicker]

Keep it in the MAM so you never get those recipes in another drive

[spark sky]

Hm, then I don't know what I got as I had some stuff in inventory. It didn't look like anything interesting, if I did get something.

[wicked nacelle]

Getting a “bad hard drive” can be great because it locks out two crap recipes from your next one. Yeah just don’t select either option

[limpid inlet]

I see

[wicked nacelle]

It showed you in the calendar animation. Not that that helps now

[spark sky]

I thought it gave me 2 things, but when I looked in inventory, I didn't see anything that looked new.

Tomorrow I'll empty my inventory before opening the next number.

[wicked nacelle]

Do you still have a save from before? Open it again 🙂 even if you don’t keep that reload around you could just try it

[spark sky]

Possibly.

[wicked nacelle]

In general not selecting recipes until you’re going to use them is a good approach unless you know you got a research with two recipes you love. But if it’s just two that are okay and maybe you’d use one later — just sit on it for now

[spark sky]

I can't check right now, Fallout 76 is updating.

[tall robin]

Do we retain the ability to craft trees after event is over, or can we keep our trees?

[wicked nacelle]

No and no

For pc there is a mod that keeps the event on all year but that’s the only way right now

[spark sky]

Um, you can keep the trees you build during the event, you just can't disassemble them after the event and move them. so put them where you want to keep them. I have a whole Ficsmas display from last year.

[wicked nacelle]

Really? Huh. Did i tear mine down?? I’m so confused

Sorry if I lied to a bunch of people

[gilded pawn]

best location to start?

[wicked nacelle]

First playthrough?

[gilded pawn]

No but im restarting with a friend and wanna know the best loco *(he is a new)

[unkempt blade]

they're all awesome, you should pick at random

[wicked nacelle]

For advanced player desert is awesome. For a balanced start the west coast spot is really good with nearby oil and aluminum

[gilded pawn]

Nah they all have there positives and negatives and i want to know the best area

[unkempt blade]

There isn't a best one it's a preference thing. You'll expand out of your little area pretty quickly anyway

[wicked nacelle]

The west coast has everything you need nearby. It’s the best in terms of being able to do everything nearby-ish

But desert is the most fun for me

[gilded pawn]

i see

well looking at the best nodes desert has quite a few

[open swallow]

I had the most fun in the desert

[wicked nacelle]

Desert doesn’t have any convenient aluminum.

[gilded pawn]

Kinda does

[severe cliff]

how do i get rid of heavy oil residue i dont have packagers or fuel power yet

[open swallow]

But by the time you get to aluminum, you have trains

[unkempt blade]

it'd be pretty quick to make some temp saves with AGS turned on and just fly around near the starting areas to see what you/the friend like

[wicked nacelle]

Turn it into coke/resin and sink it

[open swallow]

Save that thought... It's actually your best source for fuel

[gilded pawn]

On the left side of the map u can get a decent amount u just need to travel a bit but by the time u get it u will have trains

[severe cliff]

so get the rubber i need and wait til i get fuel gens?

[wicked nacelle]

If your argument is “trains exist” then all starting spots are the same because trains exist

[open swallow]

It makes starting much easier to have large, mostly open expanses to build factories

[wicked nacelle]

You’ll actually need some alts to really use that for fuel properly. Until you get the alts just the default fuel recipe is just fine.

[ocean frost]

store it and flush it

turn it into fuel and burn it

[severe cliff]

where should i build said fuel factory i wanna go big but i live in dune desert with no trains yet

[wicked nacelle]

Desert is awful for building factories without foundation and if you have foundations then everywhere is flat

[open swallow]

"without foundation" -> "without playing the game"

[wicked nacelle]

The north coast has crazy oil. But don’t overbuild without the alts and better fuel types. Just build what you need for now

[unkempt blade]

All of the areas with oil have multiple nodes so you can go pretty big at any of them. I'd just scan for whichever is closest to you

[wicked nacelle]

And with foundation everywhere is flat

[open swallow]

but not everywhere is open

[wicked nacelle]

It is if you go high enough

[open swallow]

that's another hurdle to conquer... I'm claiming it's easier

[wicked nacelle]

And “high enough” is often not very high at all

[tacit trellis]

Foundations are literally the foundation of the game

[wicked nacelle]

I’m saying since you’re putting down foundation anyhow it doesn’t matter

But sure. Desert is a super fun start.

I just don’t think that’s why

[severe cliff]

i wonder if anyone’s beat the game without them in talking like no roads or nun

[ocean frost]

Foundations are a scam by big concrete.

[wicked nacelle]

Just lots of belts right? It wouldn’t be hard just annoying

And very spread out

[tacit trellis]

You lose verticality mostly

[unkempt blade]

this game has all sorts of degenerates doing meme runs I imagine someone has done it

[mortal ginkgo]

Dune Desert is really good for desert enjoyers. I think it is just a bit too sandy though. You look to your right there is sand, you look at left there is sand, you look down you are on sand, you look up and see my mom to your surprise.

Rocky Desert better imho.

[ocean frost]

speedrunners most likely

[glad quest]

just saw a vid and this guy when into this massive tunnel into a massive cave but he went through the waterfall near the grasslands oil feild. i dont ahve that cave is it a mod or an older version of the game?

[wicked nacelle]

But also reliable horizontability too.

[heavy pine]

That and sand is coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

[wicked nacelle]

Stuff doesn’t line up right it’s not easy to just put down 20 instances of a building quickly and then tie them to belts quickly either.

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah, most people don't realise it but pioneer runs 2% slower in that biome due to having sands in her shoes.

[limpid inlet]

Rocky Desert is the goat

[unkempt blade]

Diagonology is the only true building style. If your factory isn't on a ramp what are you even doing with your life?

[mortal ginkgo]

Yeah, it got literally everything on pure, got much coal nearby, pure quartz and SAM node, my mom, and good foliage for beginners

[mortal ginkgo]

I kinda wish we could have such rotations so I could have a ultra large spider hanging on walls while making stuff etc.

[tacit trellis]

I mean just clip everything into each other

[severe cliff]

i gotta start there my next run didn’t know your mom was involved

[mortal ginkgo]

My mom is always there brotherman.

Always supporting my impure limestone shenanigans.

But I strive to become a Normal Node one day.

[severe cliff]

you’ll be pure someday i believe in you

[wicked nacelle]

Just get a fancy mk2 hat and pretend

[mortal ginkgo]

I just got the combo of Dilluted Packaged Fuel and Heavy Oil Residue.

Do I win the game now?

I am on phase 2 but want to have some good fuel going on

[severe cliff]

what fuel should i go for?

[unkempt blade]

you need recycled rubber and plastic to complete the set

[wicked nacelle]

Yes that is good for fuel now and for feeding to things that want plain fuel later

[wicked nacelle]

I highly recommend making a blueprint for these together. You’re probably going to want a bunch of it and with a blueprint you can just stamp it out quickly. You can even put the empty containers in the blueprint. Only need like 50 or so. Probably less

[mortal ginkgo]

I think I got recycled rubber... but I am at Phase 3 very recently, not planning to yolo plastic anytime soon

[mortal ginkgo]

Cheers mate, will consider the options and ask my mom.

but yeah, got big fuel things incoming soon

and even got my wet concrete recipe

[sour ledge]

y'know, im here browsing the coupon store and cant help but wonder if anyone's ever done a homicide run. No production chains, no resource farming. just bare minimum production machines to make the project parts using materials purchased from the shop by exchanging alien dna...

[wicked nacelle]

There are a few key things missing so it’s not actually possible

[mortal ginkgo]

dont think anyone did that and yeah, some stuff are just not buyable.

[wicked nacelle]

And it wouldn’t be homocide.

[sour ledge]

aww really? prolly for the best

[wicked nacelle]

You can’t buy for example singularity cells. Or dark crystals

[sour ledge]

awww sure enough; can't even buy the right materials to make diamonds. There goes saving the day with violence

[crimson lantern]

Greeny still mad at me? I kinda dipped after I annoyed him

[wicked nacelle]

I wouldn’t worry too much about it

[mortal ginkgo]

DM him. Its easy to get him mad. He is a good lad though.

[ivory condor]

hot topic time again

[limpid inlet]

Wait why is the production of biofuel from wood so high? At the point you use biofuel you literally cannot use all of it

[crimson lantern]

Just a question, relax

[mortal ginkgo]

cast screws

[limpid inlet]

Like the throughput isnt even enough

bro fuck screws

[ivory condor]

Here we go

[crimson lantern]

Aye, might do

[limpid inlet]

they suck

[wicked nacelle]

Send iron ingots on belts and make the screws right by the machines that use them. Don’t belt screws

[limpid inlet]

No like for biofuel

in constructor you get 300/min from wood to biofuel

[ivory condor]

belting screws is literal nightmare fuel, even mk6 belts arent even close to enough to do a decent size manifold with recipes with require screws

[wicked nacelle]

You said screws unless I’m losing my mind

[limpid inlet]

I said fuck screws after the biofuel comment

[wicked nacelle]

You can always under clock it if that bugs you

[open swallow]

we need a bot to automatically respond to "screws" with some sort of meme

[limpid inlet]

I forgot about that 💀💀

[crimson lantern]

Right, I've DM'd him, hope he's good.

[mortal ginkgo]

no need. there are people who get summoned automaticaly when screws are mentioned

they are enough meme as it is

[crimson lantern]

Screws are annoying

[mortal ginkgo]

no u

[crimson lantern]

So I've been told

[wicked nacelle]

They really aren’t unless you try to make a screw factory and then belt them places

[hard ivy]

A copypasta of someone's crashout about how shit they are that takes up half the screen

[sour ledge]

screws are great. there's a mod that makes the whole game into screws going into screws going into screws going into screws forever

Screwtisfactory yo

[tacit ruin]

Anyone having mergers keep breaking on them? I have some wall mounted belts and place mergers on them. They work for a bit and then stop taking things in. Despite the outtake belt being empty.

[wicked nacelle]

You can make a blueprint that just takes iron ingots in and puts out either reinforced plate or frames. You don’t even have to think about screws after you make the blueprints

[sour ledge]

i haven't, but i've never mounted a merger on a wall mounted belt either...

[wicked nacelle]

Careful if you put a merger or splitter on a belt seam they won’t work

[hard ivy]

You still have to think about how much fucking iron that takes. Even steeled frame with iron pipe is cheaper. And more compact. And more convenient to use

[tacit ruin]

My regular mergers work just fine, just the ones that are on my wall mounted belts that cause issues.

[wicked nacelle]

I’m confused. The standard recipe for those is all iron right? I’m just saying you can fully encapsulate the screw part. Or the iron wire part for stitched frames. Nothing here changes the efficiency

[hard ivy]

The recipe choices change the efficiency?

And yeah, you can fully encapsulate the screws but just... why. Why make any screws at all. For iron-only frames, steeled frame is just straight up the best in any aspect you might care about

[tacit ruin]

Wait, so are you saying I should connect belts to mergers/splitters and not place m/s on already made belts?

[open swallow]

generally yes, for different geometry reasons

[wicked nacelle]

Just don’t put it over the break point between belt segments.

Like when you deconstruct gun point at it. The segment in orange — where it stops being orange and connects to another belt segment. Don’t put it on top of that

[wicked nacelle]

I wouldn't ever use coal or oil to save iron other than for mass producing pipes of course

[gentle lion]

@wicked nacelle literally first hard drive I found had recipe lol

[flat zinc]

guys how tf do you get a hypertube branch to face the way you want

[gentle lion]

Found about 8 or 9 today bunch if slugs and Mercer spheres

[flat zinc]

it just faces the opposite direction

[bitter dirge]

is it better to make like multiple factories like 1 for rods using its own mines one for plates.. and then another factory that uses its own mines for screws etc..
or making mega factories?

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean, both can be wrong.

YOu dont need to a factory for rods, even few constructors are more than enough. Same for plates etc if you are beginning the journey. There are much complex items that actually may need their own factories but using each one for specific item might lose effiency.

Mega Factory is a massive project so...

[unborn moss]

There's a hotkey to change which way you're going when going through the hypertubes splits.

[gentle lion]

Now I can finish my fuel generator setup ,,and figure out hwrre to put 40 fuel gens....how far does the pump thing push fluids? Is is 20m only or does it push more if you put it further down

[wicked nacelle]

at the point you're at now, the answer probably doesn't really matter. You're going to want all those things nearby. As you go later you'll find some things definitely you want to build another set of production machines locally otherwise you're going to be shipping trivial things everywhere. The much more complicated parts that take significantly complicated parts as ingredients you may find that you want to ship

[flat zinc]

thats not what i mean

i know that

[wicked nacelle]

you click once to place it the facing you want then after the first click you can rotate it around the tube in that facing

then click again with the rotation you want

[flat zinc]

no

[wicked nacelle]

mouse wheel to change direction - click - mouse wheel to change rotation click

[flat zinc]

it just places it

[wicked nacelle]

I have the alternate click setting on so maybe it's different for you

[bitter dirge]

o how many is generally good enough? because what im more worried about is last time I made like 1 area for rods and plates and then moved that to screws but my rods werent enough even with 4 constructors for rods and 2 for screws it was very slow to get access to rods and then later on to get stuff like space parts .. took forever

I think I need to build near coal and water though because im soon going to have powerstations i think

[gentle lion]

How tf do you move with the parachute

[bitter dirge]

o but wont i end up repeating myself later on eventually?

[wicked nacelle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1445560391869399171/image.png?ex=6930ca86&is=692f7906&hm=a82a8d1348b2ce095137471cd8a117a50d6d5d87defce7237f53723a03a6f432& is this waht you want?

[wicked nacelle]

You'll build many buildings that build the same thing. It's not repeating yourself to build half in one place vs half in the other vs all in one place

[hard ivy]

I never said anything about using coal or oil? In fact, I specifically said "iron-only"

[echo belfry]

Guys I made 2 iron ingots clearly im the best satisfactory player of all time

[wicked nacelle]

okay I'm confused. anyhow I think that the point of me saying what I said in the first place (right or wrong) is long past 🙂

[mortal ginkgo]

check the ratios of items and see what you need for your target. keep it small and scale it slowly at start.

you can make coal gens near water and send power via poles etc back to base. its to make you leave your base and expand

[wicked nacelle]

ah okay I didn't know about steeled frame. Now I see. iron pipe to steel frame doesn't use steel

@flat zinc poke https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1445560391869399171/image.png?ex=6930ca86&is=692f7906&hm=a82a8d1348b2ce095137471cd8a117a50d6d5d87defce7237f53723a03a6f432&

[flat zinc]

its alr i give up

[bitter dirge]

but wont extremly large conveyers slow things down?

[wicked nacelle]

I've helped people with this question before and we've always managed to figure it out. can you just describe what you want to do that's different than what's in my screenshot that has one facing each way and rotated differently?

[bitter dirge]

wdym like how many of each i need and then calculate the minutes and stuff?

[wicked nacelle]

length of conveyors has nothing to do with transfer rate

[crisp mortar]

I really don't like aluminum right now...the machines keep stopping despite full of all mats they need

[flat zinc]

Sorry my GPU was in the process of crashing. I figured it out. Turns out you can't rotate it accordingly if it is not connected to the end of a hypertube, nor if you are placing it in the middle of a hypertube

[compact flicker]

I love load balancers

Manifolds are so much easier but making a 4:3 splitter almost fit into a 2x3 area feels so nice

[dense violet]

Waste water is backing up I assume?

[crisp mortar]

I have it looping back into the refiner that has the bauxite

[wicked nacelle]

yes, that does appear to be correct.

[crisp mortar]

Nvm got it working, attached it a fluid buffer, that seems to have gotten everything working again

[wicked nacelle]

oh no 🙁 You've likely just hidden the problem temporarily and maybe caused new ones 🙁

[warm bison]

Can I fly on ps5 ?

I don’t have the option

[compact flicker]

Cheats turned on?

[wicked nacelle]

You want "cheat fly" or "in game progression flying"?

[warm bison]

I guess yes

[wicked nacelle]

also for just looking around you can use photo mode, too

[crisp mortar]

I think I had too much water and it wasn't going anywhere despite feeding back into the first machine

[wicked nacelle]

those were two options

[warm bison]

Oh I mean like fly around to build more easily

[wicked nacelle]

unless you make sure the priority is it leaving the buffer vs incoming fresh eventually the buffer will fill up

[wicked nacelle]

!wikisearch hoverpack

[raven axle]

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

[wicked nacelle]

That's the way you're "supposed" to be able to fly to build stuff. If you want the "cheat" version that disables achievements it's in advanced game settings that you cna turn on.. when loading the game I think?

[wicked nacelle]

Do you have blade runners? If you don't have blade runners building is INCREDIBLY painful. But you can unlock those quickly if you know to look for them

[warm bison]

Blade runners ????

[wicked nacelle]

Have you built a MAM building yet?

[warm bison]

Yep

[wicked nacelle]

okay is there a "quartz research" tree that shows up in it?

I forget what that looks like super early game.

[warm bison]

Yeah

[wicked nacelle]

anyhow you need to find quartz out in the world. There are both full ore nodes that you can mine as well as little ones you can just pickaxe and get a smallish amount from. It's a light purple color. Go find some of that and bring it back to your MAM and reserach stuff in the quartz tree until you see blade runners. Trust me don't do anything else until you have this done 🙂

[crisp mortar]

Where did you start?

[wicked nacelle]

I think if you find... 4 or 5 little quartz nodes that's enough to build one set of blade runners but after you find one little node you can then scan for the big nodes

[compact flicker]

I can vouch for the usefulness of blade runners

[wicked nacelle]

unfortunately the big quartz nodes are usually either boulder-gated or difficulty-gated.

boulders take bombs to open which is in the sulfur tree (also very important)

difficulty is solved mostly by guns 🙂

[crisp mortar]

Or peaceful mode >_>

[wicked nacelle]

yes there's lots of ways to cheat 😛

[crisp mortar]

Not technically a cheat if it doesn't disable achievement 😅

[compact flicker]

I play with retaliate & keep inventory :3

[warm bison]

What are the blade runners ?

[compact flicker]

Movement^2

[crisp mortar]

They reduce fall damage, increase speed and jumps

[wicked nacelle]

The most important part for building factories is the jump height

You can jump on pipes/splitters AND then jump up on top of constructors

[solemn pulsar]

how long did it take yall to complete phase 2?

[compact flicker]

Thats coal and steel right? I wanna say 20 ish hrs first time, but I was going pretty quickly

[crisp mortar]

I'm struggling with phase 4, trying to focus on increase my power output

[wicked nacelle]

do you have turbo fuel unlocked? It's a 2.5x increase in power you get from oil

[compact flicker]

Whats your main power source?

[zealous valley]

I've been on phase 4 for like a month because I keep getting sidetracked 🫨

[crisp mortar]

I do, but I finally got to the point where I could disable my coal generators for my oil ones and trying figure out an efficient way to make compacted coal then move it to oil plants

[south sinew]

you should be well into using diluted fuel or rocket fuel

[open swallow]

I produce my compacted coal near the crater lakes, then train it over to the western coast to combine with oil

[wicked nacelle]

there's likely plenty of other coal you can use for your fuel plant. But alternatively you could just build up a store of coal in an industrial container and then move your supply and start turbo fuel while you burn through the storage -- each fuel burner is 3.5x coal generators so it doesn't take much to replace a lot of coal gens

[zealous valley]

There's oil in the crater lake though

[crisp mortar]

Im based at the central western beaches 😅

[open swallow]

ah yeah, there's one fissure

[plain gate]

theres 2500 oil there

which is about 100gw diluted?

[open swallow]

Valid plan, then

[zealous valley]

There's like 2 pure, 1 normal, and an impure

[plain gate]

2p2n1i

[open swallow]

3 normal, 3 pure

on that crater lake fissure

[plain gate]

ah yea

[crimson sundial]

Do there be a console command to force aurora lights from ficsmas to be active at night?

[tawdry forge]

So its obviously been suggested a billion times, but has a reason been given for not adding half walls to the game? It makes half floors really frustrating.

[zealous valley]

Can't you just stack two 1m walls?

[open swallow]

i think they mean horizontally half

[tawdry forge]

That

[wicked nacelle]

I don't think so but unless you're just making the half foundation and not another full foundation next to it you can just clip the wall into the wall beside it for a half wall

like https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1445572614784417804/image.png?ex=6930d5e8&is=692f8468&hm=9072bce0a758d956fe5451d8bade56843b9e00cf94a3cb7f7c4c312f1b20bc4f&

[tawdry forge]

... I just checked the qa site. I think that because you can clip it, there's no way to do that without it. Its been overlooked. There are no posts about half walls.

[cyan leaf]

Boys o have a problem is there any effeicent way to increase steel production without doing the nightmare of adding more foundaries?

[wicked nacelle]

if building foundaries is a "nightmare" then this isn't the game for you. But in the short term you could potentially overclock it with shards if you have those researched but you still need sufficient inputs from your belts to support it

but the game is all about building factories by placing lots and lots of buildings

[wicked nacelle]

Do you have blade runners yet?

honestly the game should have a message at around the 5 hour mark that tells you to get blade runners if you don't have them -- maybe just give them to you

[cyan leaf]

I refer to the nightmare is the input stuff as I dont wanna rework my current setup again lol

[wicked nacelle]

You should get an upgraded miner and upgraded belts as you progress through the coal phase that allow you to just get more coal from the same setup -- so all you have to do is add more foundaries -- and just upgrade your miner/belts in place

"Advanced Steel Production" in tier 4 will double your coal output. Also make sure you research power slugs in the MAM

[cyan leaf]

😭 im at the point of needing to make the ai computers and engines lol i dont need the generic tool tips lol I need some mad man layout for ideas lol

[wicked nacelle]

"how do I make more steel without doing anything" "you can't" "no that's not what I want to hear"... sorry

I guess you chose the right handle, though.

I told you what steps you can take to minimize the logitics impact of making more.

but the entire game makes it harder and harder to get resources to your factories.. so if this is "a nightmare" then the rest of the game is only going to be worse and worse

[cyan leaf]

Loll i love how u completely dont even mention "oh yeah the alt recipes" or anything like that loolz im not searching the generic answers i need the advice not Google

[wicked nacelle]

!wikisearch steel ingot

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=steel+ingot

[wicked nacelle]

but you'll almost certainly spend way more time trying to hit Solid Steel Ingot than you would just upgrading your logistics -- and you can get way more additional production from logistics upgrades than the alt

[tawdry forge]

I made a post about the half-walls. Please upvote it so the devs can see it.
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/692f898d3507f874f083d30a

[cyan leaf]

Nope im always lagging om crafting times 😭 this shit is what killing me and adding more machines feels wasteful after the phase om on

[high marlin]

I never got around to the holiday event last year but I did the calendar so I still have everything I need to max mam on day 1 lol (yes I know it is day 2 but whatever)

anyone else still have the old stuff?

[tawdry forge]

I'm sure I have an old save file from last season.

[high marlin]

I took a break from satisfactory so it is on my main save thankfully lol

[quartz loom]

I have stuff from last year as well.

[tawdry forge]

... Really? Why are the half foundations slightly taller than the regular ones?

[wicked nacelle]

if you look at different foundation combinations from different angles I think they can all have that look

[umbral rover]

jet packs make traversing and dodging attacks so much easier really a game changer\

[wicked nacelle]

it's easier until you lose track of fuel state and fall to your death 😛 I usually do most of my exploring with hoverpack -- extra benefit is that you then have power wherever you go later to build a factory or whatever

I'm doing a no-guns run right now and the hoverpack makes it trivial to lure spiders off ledges 🙂

[umbral rover]

haven't died yet i keep at least 200 turbo fuel on me at a time and am still careful when crossing giant cliffs or holes

[wicked nacelle]

double extra benefit is that you can then hypertube cannon yourself back to base because you have power, too. Though you can throw down some bioburners and do the same thing

[wicked nacelle]

I mean the current flight fuel not the fuel you can refill your flight fuel from. But yeah if you're more careful than me it can work for sure 🙂

[umbral rover]

going from fuel to turbo fuel is a huge difference

[wicked nacelle]

yeah before you get turbofuel liquid biofuel is by far the best fuel. normal fuel is basically just a way to avoid fall damage for me

liquid biofuel is better than turbo fuel in some ways still

!wikisearch jetpack

[raven axle]

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

[umbral rover]

more efficient isn't it

[wicked nacelle]

there's pros/cons vs turbofuel. it's in the wiki 🙂

[north summit]

is FICSMAS worth doing

[umbral rover]

makes sense

[umbral rover]

thats a rigged question

[open swallow]

Is Christmas worth doing? It's a holiday! Enjoy it!

But stay productive

[north summit]

but is christmas efficient

[umbral rover]

from a business stand point yeah

[white dawn]

FICSMAS is entirely unconnected from the main game's progression, and provides no "real" benefits other than holiday-themed decorations and such

IMO it's a very fun new production line to work with, and I've enjoyed running through the event a few times now. But if you're not feeling it, don't feel obligated

[tawdry forge]

Personally, i just like it for the cheap nobelisks. Snowballs ftw!

[north summit]

does the FICSMAS items stay after FICSMAS is over

[umbral rover]

yeah i still have gifts from last year

[north summit]

coo

i listened to ada first year and disabled the even t lmao

[spark sky]

And they take turns drinking coffee... #screenshots message

[north summit]

so this is all new to me

[wicked nacelle]

Confirmed yes. Just found which save I had done it previously and it's all still there

I lied to a lot of people because I thought I knew which save I had done it in and it wasn't in the obvious spot I would have done it if I had. sigh

[north summit]

very glad i set up a hypertub hub

behind the hub

helps getting to my branching factories easier

[limpid inlet]

depends

[white dawn]

One clarification, though: when the event is over, you won't be able to build any new FICSMAS items, even if you technically have the resources to do so. So make sure to do any of your FICSMAS decoration before January 18. :)

[raw sapphire]

is there a way to create a dedicated erver for me and my firends?

*server

[white dawn]

Yes; if you bought via Steam, it'll show up in a separate sort of "tools" section (I forget exactly where). There's a #dedicated-servers channel for getting support for that, if you end up having problems

(It's available via EGS too but I'm not sure how it shows up in there. Er, not that I remember how it shows up in Steam either, exactly. But there you go. :)

[raw sapphire]

i gotr it through steam, i have no idea what egs is

[white dawn]

Epic Games Store

[raw sapphire]

ah

[wicked nacelle]

do you want to run it on your computer or rent it from a company that sells dedicated servers? You can do either.

[white dawn]

I believe there are also third parties who you can pay to run a dedicated server for you. Can't personally vouch for any of those, but I believe they exist

heh, ninja'd

[wicked nacelle]

If you want to run it on your computer (or a friend on theirs) you're going to need to know how to do basic router configuration -- it's not trivial if you're completely computer illiterate

[gentle lion]

Ok i have 10 refineries HOR and byproduct and 14 packagers (13 at 100% 1 at 33%) packaged water , feeding 14 refinerys(13 at 100% 1 at 33%), then sending to 14 packagers to unpack fuel

This will feed 40 fuel gens( if I can figure out how to build that many)

Just make rubber and plastic with tbe byproduct ?

[raw sapphire]

if i run it on my computer i dont have to stay on the game the entire time right?

[white dawn]

Resin byproduct is pretty nice for generating some extra plastic+rubber, sure

[wicked nacelle]

the server runs in the bakcground and you have to connect to it from your game client just like anyone else would. It's not tied to the thing that makes the pretty graphics 🙂

but you can't... like turn off your computer at night or even let it go into sleep mode

[white dawn]

Correct, though keep in mind that if you're running the server and the game on the same machine, that might be "heavier" than usual, especially on the RAM side

[wicked nacelle]

technically true but I've found that it's really not a significant concern. A lot of the CPU load comes from things like the graphics drivers sending commands to the GPU -- additionally it can run on different cores than the "normal game client" so it may not even interfere much at all if you have a reasonable number of cores

[gentle lion]

I trashed my litte coke byproduct thing but sent the industrial container into the sink first got me 9 coupons

[gentle lion]

Keep a splitter on it going to a sink so it never backs up?

[wicked nacelle]

I'd say if you have a modern 8 core cpu you'd probably never notice you're running the dedicated server.

[gentle lion]

Gonna run around to all my .builds later this week and split them all off into sinks.

[white dawn]

Yepyep; personally I'd do a smart splitter; set "Overflow" to go to the sink, and leave an "Any" output un-hooked-up

[compact flicker]

Just built a factory without using any manifolds, would not reccomend.

[white dawn]

When you do want to tap into it, hook up a belt to the Any output

[gentle lion]

Makes sense

When I'm sending the packaged fuel to the packagers to unpack I just need conveyor belt right...

I feel like I'm missing something but I think I have it done correctly lol

[wicked nacelle]

yeah... between them that's it. On both "outside edges" you need both pipe and a belt

and then just belt the empties from the unpackager to the input of the refinery making the packaged fuel

[crimson sundial]

Is there commands to at least fast forward time or skip it to the next day before it shifts to turning night?

[wicked nacelle]

no. If you're on PC it seems like there are mods for that but its not a console command. Also night is the best time for slug collecting!!!

[gentle lion]

Yeah that's the last peice I need to run I think

This thing has taken like 5 hours to set up lol

[crimson sundial]

I'm just trying to set it to a night with the auroras spawned to stream it to a friend 😭

[wicked nacelle]

I mean you CAN use SCIM to set the time of a save then download the modified version and load that... but it seems like just waiting is a better choice

[crimson sundial]

Day cycles take quite a long time.

I'll look for the mod

[gentle lion]

Im just feeding empties from a container into the packagers woth a mk3 belt I have about 200 empties in each just to be sure.

So I have to run a bit from the last packager all the way back...😂

[wicked nacelle]

you're on PC right? Here's the SCIM setting, btw https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1445596352733253813/image.png?ex=6930ec04&is=692f9a84&hm=a6e2139ee98bb4723bf4616036a35e50bca56257a1c865067247a3d52a6b8e99&

[opaque lava]

does someone know how to unlock the nobelisk?

[wicked nacelle]

!wikisearch nobelisk

[raven axle]

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

[umbral rover]

sulfur tech tree in mam

[gentle lion]

Not with the peasant lisk haha

[wicked nacelle]

best spot to look up how to unlock stuff is the wiki

[flint grail]

My first game to get this: #screenshots message

[spark sky]

Oh, I did that reload and I got 200 screws from the calendar.

[wicked nacelle]

for day 2? I guess it's random? I got a HDD

[dusky spade]

HDD??

[gentle lion]

I got 50 snowballs today

[unborn nova]

is the ficsmas data carridge still in the game? i cant find what i would need for it on the recipe

also how do i unlock the reasearch tree for the ficmas

[zealous valley]

Use the advent calendar in the hub

[wicked nacelle]

only certain days have another cartridge

[spark sky]

Okay, I set up a bunch of the gift trees and three constructors making candy canes, overclocked and Somerslooped, Why does the points per minute in the Awesome Sink fluctuate (slowly) between 330 p/min and 450 p/min? I would think that it would be more consistant.

[wicked nacelle]

!wikisearch ficsmas

[raven axle]

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

[wicked nacelle]

if you want the unlock schedule it's in the wiki page

[narrow canyon]

Wait till the fluctuations are in the millions..lol

[spark sky]

I mean, if the input is consistant, I would think the output would be consistant, too.

[wicked nacelle]

if you tie it down to belts where it is forced to go at an even rate then it will likely smooth out. The exact timer for when the graph decides to snapshot probably doesn't line up with your belt production timing

if your belt rate (including any back-belting) matches production then the items will flow exactly evenly

[spark sky]

Ah, yeah, I'm using Mk 3 belts and they're faster than the production.

[wicked nacelle]

right but you can play all the belt balancer tricks to get the rate down to the production by having a splitter where one or two outputs take the output back upstream to merge back in with fresh production

you may not be able to match it perfectly without adjusting production a little if it's like... 47/m

but if it's 40/m then it's easy to get the belt rate to 40 -- 2/3 of 60

[spark sky]

Well, I'm just trying to produce them as fast as possible, those constructors only make 25/min each.

[wicked nacelle]

I get it. but if you want it flat you probably need to make sure the sink rate is even.

also it's prettier that way

in like 30m when my game loads I'll show you mine 🙂

[spark sky]

Well, I guess I don't need it flat, I was just not understanding why it was fluctuating so much, when the input looks consistant, and I'm only feeding it candy canes.

[wicked nacelle]

that does seem like a high % fluctuation

[spark sky]

I could understand if it was taking random items that have different point values.

[wicked nacelle]

@spark sky https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1445603113795850363/image.png?ex=6930f250&is=692fa0d0&hm=9cd1c798f5f76947e1ae6cfb9730dec09454aab61305bc349373d7fbcb47f0a0& 🙂

try just putting it on a belt that's slower than production to see if it evens out (even though it would be lower) -- I'm curious now

I wish containers had a fullness meter on the outside of some sort. like a bar that goes up as they fill

[tacit trellis]

Wait wtf there's Christmas production?

[wicked nacelle]

what have YOU been doing?

[tacit trellis]

I turned off events coz the birthday music in the hub like a couple months ago was driving me insane

[dense violet]

That’s not a really reliable method. But good luck

It’s generally best to just not mix the waters

[cyan spruce]

Hai, I'm new here I've put 100 hours into this game over the last 2 weeks, I think I've developed a problem haha

[wicked nacelle]

yeah -- that you're a slacker 😛

that's fewer than 10 hours a day

[cyan spruce]

I gotta pay rent lol

[spark sky]

Well, I replaced the belt feeding the candy canes to the storage that then is the input to the Awesome Sink, I ended up with 60/min going into the Awesome Sink (consistant) and 360 p/m for points, though if I switch away from the game, that goes down slightly, temporarily.

[wicked nacelle]

well, at least the first part of that makes sense 🙂 but a lot of things in the game are tied to framerate so tabbing out interupts that for example.

[spark sky]

I can understand that. Anyway, I went back to the Mk 3 belt and now I have a big spike.

What I could do is turn the Awesome Sink off and let the storage build up for a while. It should be consistant once it has a steady input.

[spiral haven]

Is there a way to make the trains path switcher automatically switch?

[grim carbon]

I just built my first tractor

But I can’t see where to put the fuel to actually drive it

I have fuel of different types in my inventory

[vivid jackal]

can we talk about how scay the stingars are? like this one spot in the desert rlly smal cave with (what i thought) no spiders then i get jumpescared later that day b4 going to bed a moth randomly jumps out of nowhere same reaction

[crisp mortar]

Can someone tell me what im doing wrong? I'm finally producing turbo fuel but its not flowing into the tube to the generator

[umbral rover]

is it going up hill

[crisp mortar]

Flat on the foundation

[whole drum]

Are there solid byproducts in the production chain that have paused?

(Plastic/Rubber, for example)

[crisp mortar]

No? I have all the going to an awesome sink

[lunar python]

could you post a pic in #screenshots ?

[whole drum]

Technically, #1038092680493801533 is the better place to post it so people can respond to the pictures and/or have people post more images

[lunar python]

true, true, make it a question!!

[feral tendon]

Could anyone inform me on how to increase the distance on my reticle? I'm seeing someone with seemingly infinite range in a video but I'm not sure by what means they're having it

Ahh we have a questions tab

[ocean frost]

You mean to select buildings?

[wicked nacelle]

this is probably the right place for your question -- but just I don't know what you mean

https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1038092680493801533 is more for things that can't be answered in a sentence or two

[feral tendon]

I'm not sure about linking videos but I can put it in screenshots

[compact flicker]

The ratios for making iron wire with the intent of making stiched iron plate upset me

[white dawn]

Learn to embrace the oddities! With clocking, anything is possible. :D

[compact flicker]

Needing 65.278 iron a minute is a little too odd 😭

I'll figure it out eventually

[umbral rover]

under clock it

[compact flicker]

Im just gonna round some of these numbers :p

[tacit trellis]

Overclock slightly above idk?

If it's producing its good in my books

[compact flicker]

That number was the result of overclocking, I'm redoing it all rn

[median geyser]

just make 66 and have an overflow buffer on your line

[tacit trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/the-god-father-marlon-brando-vito-corleone-talk-to-me-gif-20103957

Nah make it 67

[gentle lion]

I have enough sloops now so I stick a slug into a constructor to get 2 power shards?

[ocean frost]

Sink the extra and tell yourself you will use it for something later but never do

[ocean frost]

Yes

Well depends on the slug 🤣

[median geyser]

It is very, very worth slooping those asap

[ocean frost]

The first one doesn't count unless they patched it

[median geyser]

I def get 2 from my blue slugs?

[gentle lion]

Yellow and purple give more?

[ocean frost]

2x

I remember last year or the year before the devs accident reset all of the mercer and sloop spawns by accident

Was the best Christmas ever

[gentle lion]

Any priorities for using the x2 production on specifically ? Or just as I need?

[wicked nacelle]

did CSS give any hint as to when 1.2 comes out? did they say it was next year?

[wicked nacelle]

elevator parts for sure... and then slug processing and DNA processing

[compact flicker]

Are splitters random?

[wicked nacelle]

beyond that wherever you're feeling lazy 🙂

[ocean frost]

Alien capsules are good for tickets, slugs and project Assembly parts

[tacit trellis]

Equal output

[ocean frost]

Yes and know

[tacit trellis]

It takes turns sending one out each end doesn't it?

[compact flicker]

Like a left, center, right, left, center, right type thing?

[gentle lion]

And you can x2 the remains then x2 that again for twice as many capsules

[wicked nacelle]

I dunno but it will always try to send one down a different line before it repeats a line

[ocean frost]

The output is even but you don't know where it will start or that's been my experience

[ocean frost]

4x

[compact flicker]

Good to know, just wanna make sure some of my low volume several way splitters were gonna behave correctly

[tacit trellis]

Dismantle it and remantle it to put the fear of God into it

[compact flicker]

Oh its had that done to it so many times

[gentle lion]

Is it a seperate constructor for each kind of remains? Then merge into another to make the protein

[compact flicker]

Unfornunately, yes.

[gentle lion]

Oof

Guess I'll hand feeding then I don't have that many sloop lol

[fossil geyser]

How do I unlock the Christmas research tree

[gentle lion]

Found a ton of slugs and quite a few mercers today and.about 10 hard drives

[compact flicker]

Advent callender in the HUB

[ocean frost]

It's in the hub

[tacit trellis]

Hand feeding op lmao

[ocean frost]

To the right of the console

Opposite the crafting bench

[fossil geyser]

Thank you

[ocean frost]

We should be able to sloop ourselves

[wicked nacelle]

it's called twins 🙂

[gentle lion]

I'm gonna have to stack my fuel Generators , just add a pump every 20m upwards correct? Or just every floor to make it look more even

[wicked nacelle]

use mk2s

[ocean frost]

Fluids don't like to go up

[wicked nacelle]

and then eventually rocket fuel is a gas

[compact flicker]

When placing a pump, itll play an animation showing how far itll pump, but I'd do liquid stuff horizontally

[wicked nacelle]

and there's a snap point too -- but I'd put it just below the snap point

[gentle lion]

I don't think I ahve room for 40 generators horizontally

Those things are so wide lol

[fossil geyser]

The research tree still isn't unlocked

[gentle lion]

4 rows of 10 I guess lol

[wicked nacelle]

you're probably going to want at least a couple hundred eventually... so probably start building somewhere with more space

[tacit trellis]

Slightly less I don't think it matters if you overpump

[wicked nacelle]

you can't "overpump" since each just resets the headlift -- it doesn't add

[gentle lion]

That's a lot. I'm building these on the west coast oil field

[tacit trellis]

Would be funny if we had pipe explosion mechanics lmao

[wicked nacelle]

so just build into the ocean

you should get bonus points if you catch a present before it lands

[gentle lion]

There isn't an edge of the world?

[wicked nacelle]

not before you're done making gens

[gentle lion]

Lol ok

[compact flicker]

There is, buuuut.. Good luck needing that much space

[tacit trellis]

Nah bro what do you think the earth is flat or smth?

[gentle lion]

I'll just keep going west

[wicked nacelle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1445633398587658342/image.png?ex=69310e84&is=692fbd04&hm=0f5d174fd2cc22b81b13fb527e7201ab9ccc7aa3859d4948eb95e4f67ca48c27& taht's where you are and I'm not even off the island really

[unborn nova]

this game is goated lowk

[tacit trellis]

Game is a fucking time vampire lmao

[unborn nova]

i just launched myself into the sun with a hypertube cannon and it put my death crate at the cannon instead of the sky

[gentle lion]

Ok then I.guess I'm good

[unborn nova]

i thought i just lost my inventory

[gentle lion]

Should've just overclocked the oil.node with all 3 slugs and built more machines

[feral tendon]

Are we able to save multiple custom colors in the customizer in terms of having them all shown in the little divided circle where it shows em when you open the menu

[wicked nacelle]

you can change the swatches -- not just the custom swatch. I'm actually not even sure what "custom swatch" is used for

just hover it and hit "edit"

note that it changes everything that is using that swatch when you change the color

[feral tendon]

I see, I wish they'd implement multiple custom saved in that menu

[gentle lion]

But fory first set of fuel.Generators I think I'm doing ok woth 300 /m oil into 800/m fuel

[wicked nacelle]

you can also change teh default swatch to change everything you've built without specifying a swatch

[wicked nacelle]

your power graph tells you if you're fine - and you probably are

[gentle lion]

I have less then 3 mw ans have enough cap left to turn these 50 odd machines all on lol

Elevator parts and teir 6 are next after fuel build

Petroleum Coke can make steel also ? Or is that a seperate recipe

[wicked nacelle]

!wikisearch steel ingot

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=steel+ingot

[gentle lion]

Well I guess I know what I'm looking for.Now in the hard drives 😂

I'm low on beams, pipe and encased beams

[median geyser]

Encased Pipes my beloved

[tacit trellis]

I love encased pipes

[wicked nacelle]

er'ry body does

[tacit trellis]

U can come encase my pipe

[gentle lion]

Oh I just got iron pipe alternate ...that seems..
Eaiser ?

[north summit]

welp ive don e it

[gentle lion]

Just overclock a normal or pure Iron node and go to town lol

[north summit]

officially using constuctor stacks now

lmao

[gentle lion]

Constructor stacks ?

Like literally stacked

[north summit]

ye\

[ocean frost]

Ooh fancy

[north summit]

just sent you the design

Im just trying to now work up the courage to dismantle my entire main factory and start the remodel

while i wait on my cowardice im setting up manifold blueprints for easier access

[tacit trellis]

Just leave it and make a new factory somewhere else lmao

[north summit]

true

[tacit trellis]

Running away from your problems is always the correct solution

[wicked nacelle]

your old factory is a great source of ongoing parts for your new factory

[tacit trellis]

Also means you won't randomly run out of things to make your new factory halfway through making it

[north summit]

that means I can connect the old factory and new factory through my hypertube hub too

genius

[wicked nacelle]

also you're going to end up hating your new factory too... just how the game is

[tacit trellis]

Take the train to reduce emissions lmao

[north summit]

nonsense I do not hate this factory

its just inefficient

[tacit trellis]

Forgeddaboutit

[ocean frost]

There are no right or wrong options

[wicked nacelle]

there are no right options 😛

there's lots of wrong ones 🙂

[ocean frost]

Life was just one big accident

[tacit trellis]

Just like you ❤️

[ocean frost]

Without my accident we wouldn't have you

[north summit]

yes

im going to post my factory screenshots

[wicked nacelle]

well I'm stuck in my challenge run until 1.2 comes out because part of the challenge is "no packaging anything except fuel" and now I need nitrogen -- and also "no really long belts or pipes"

I guess I could run my frames up to the nitrogen... but 😕

[median geyser]

Liquid caaaaaaars

[north summit]

Drones?

or Trains?

oh wait cant package\

[wicked nacelle]

ahh well drones would require packaging. and yes no trains

here's my note in game: No Nobelisk, no guns, no trains, no drones, no hypertube cannons, no hdd save scumming, no power storage, no packaging except for fuel

[north summit]

Fuild Freight wouldnt work?

ah

[wicked nacelle]

yeah it would but "no trains" -- I didn't say that before

it really started out as a "let's use vehicles to make sure they suck as bad as I tell everyone they do" and then I just sort of kept adding things to change my playstyle

when you find a sloop in a boulder adn you can't get it... it hurts

[north summit]

ah

the glorious pain of challenge runs in any game

tried to do a no HM run on B2W2 and had to give up multiple great TMS

but this is satisfactory so nothing on hat