satisfactory

[sullen gull]

Sadly.... pssssfhhh

[whole drum]

Are you sure? You should see the prompt show up at the bottom left corner of the screen.

[inland fossil]

mhhh nope, ill try switching to english keyboard tho

[whole drum]

It's actually getting a bit too long. If I let it go another couple months, I'll be like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons and have to put it up in a pony tail.

[inland fossil]

yep works

english keyboard works

[sullen gull]

Pssh, it'd be a very sad day if I had enough hair for a pony tail... my "yamika spot" kinda rinse it lol

[compact flicker]

Hello Pioneers 👋

[strong fiber]

How tf is it snowing indoors

[leaden turret]

I had a job at a place with a warehouse that it snowed indoors because the previous tenants sold dog food, requiring the warehouse to have a giant air vent that we'd never have turned on because the current tenant (who I worked for) didn't sell any perishables, meaning when it snowed with any appreciable amount of sideways wind, it snowed indoors.

tl:dr; is realistic, trust me

[compact flicker]

Snow? At this time of year? In this part of the map? Localised entirely within your factory?

[limpid inlet]

What are the alpha alpha hogs?

[compact flicker]

The radioacrive ones?

[leaden turret]

?

[limpid inlet]

The ones that throw rocks

[leaden turret]

cliff hogs

[limpid inlet]

That can also have radioactive variants

Oh

[compact flicker]

Terrible is what they are

They're why I'm playong with the retaliate setting on

[limpid inlet]

I got aired out by one after accidentally falling off of the rainforest biome area

[leaden turret]

⬛⬛💨🪨 ⬛ 🏃‍♀️‍➡️

[compact flicker]

Is there no way to get rid of the smaller variant of the floating bulb things in the purple forest?

[whole drum]

If nobelisks can't do it, nothing can

[compact flicker]

:c

[ocean frost]

Mods or submitting a support ticket

[compact flicker]

Sadly no mods for us console users

[ocean frost]

Put in a support ticket then you won't get it if you didn't ask for it

[wicked nacelle]

did you chainsaw?

[strong fiber]

a bean looked at me funny so i blew him up

[wicked nacelle]

sometimes it's weird what can do what

[compact flicker]

Neither chainsaw nor nobelisk work on em

[edgy hedge]

How do you bring up the Notes/ToDo List if you have just notes?

[wicked nacelle]

pc or console?

[edgy hedge]

PC

[strong fiber]

Nuke nobelisk

[wicked nacelle]

with pc basically any window makes the right edge dark -- click in the dark spot

like hit tab, hover the right side of the screen see it turn dark then click

q also does it

[compact flicker]

Tried on a AGS save

They're invincible lol

[edgy hedge]

Nah. It's not doing it. If I have a To Do list with parts needed it works. But I just have a note to myself

[wicked nacelle]

also be carefulk to click outside of the text after you type it to save it. It's really easy to "cancel" and have it not save your changes

[edgy hedge]

I just added a part needed and deleted the note that way

[wicked nacelle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1449194935034183740/image.png?ex=693e0375&is=693cb1f5&hm=d0f87a52c1853376947a737634bcf149ea229752c4ddcfdb17881c1582363bed& weird. works for me. Does the edge of the screen fade darker when you hover it?

you should get a vertical bar of "darker" along the right side when you hover

[whole drum]

Man, why does one of the worst MMOs have one of the best intro cinematics?

[edgy hedge]

Oh, I got it. Thanks. Must have been because I was in a shaded area - by that I mean I couldn't see the greyed area...it's quite subtle

[wicked nacelle]

who cares, that's what youtube is for. also which mmo?

[whole drum]

FF14 -- the original intro, not expansions

[wicked nacelle]

don't lot sof people like that game?

[whole drum]

Lots of people like slot machines at casinos too--doesn't mean they aren't shit.

[leaden turret]

don't be saying that when Mikael is awake 😛

[whole drum]

It had potential, but they designed it all away. Now it's very bland.

[sour ledge]

had an idea for a power windmill/helix... thing, that i thought would be fairly simple to implement w/ mods. But in order to build it, i'm having to manually hook up pipes and power cables for 360 generators instead of a blueprint. I'm about 120-150 generators in and i already regret this idea with my whole friggin' heart

finish a floor, slap down another blueprint of 30 generators.... question life. not even halfway... next time i decide to do a large scale without blueprints im just going to chew glass instead

[hybrid nymph]

Hello my fellow Ficit pioneers. What's going on in This neck of the woods today?

I'm going to be hopping on in about 2 hours to finish my oil plant, more specifically my plastic and rubber production

[limpid hazel]

this guy can blueprint 30 generators and he's still mad

back in my day we had to place them all by hand and walk uphill both ways for the pleasure of it

[sour ledge]

#screenshots message

Look man... with alla this the piping is just tedious as crap even if the actual floor itself is an instant slap. i only even went in on the plan because i knew i could BP the floor, but didn't realize the mod i was using (quick blueprint) wouldn't be able to do the pipes....

by the time i realized I'd spent enough time on it that i felt committed and here we friggin' are

im over halfway now though, yippeeeee......

im sticking to blueprintable squares from now on tho this has definitely gotten the whole "Let's try being fancy" idea out of my system

[solid grail]

Dang, that's a lot. Why can't it do pipes?

[dense violet]

rocket fuel?

yeah don't put down 2000 generators

[limpid hazel]

why isn't some of the piping part of the blueprint

[sour ledge]

Yeeeeep. 3600 of it, 30 generators at 240% a floor. 12 floors.

[dense violet]

very easy to avoid

like the most avoidable of life errors to avoid

[sour ledge]

🤷 technical limitation with the mod. it lets you make instant blueprints via dismantle which with a dismantle limit remover you can hypothetically make any size blueprint... but it can't do belts/pipes/wires. so i made my windmill 'blades' and got that squared away but the rest i gotta suffer.

[sour ledge]

the really sad thing is the stupid factory itself wasn't even gonna be rocket fuel. it was originally just gonna be 2400 diluted fuel but after i got that laid out i was like "Hey I have more extra space than I thought, let's upgrade this to rocket fuel!" and the whole thing has gotten way out of hand and taken days.

[limpid hazel]

what is this mod even doing that you can't do normally

like i would have made the column a blueprint and rotate it and made the wings out of smaller blueprints

[solid grail]

Make any shape ig

[limpid hazel]

or just used a mod that gives you the larger bp designer

[dense violet]

rip

[limpid hazel]

arbitrarily large bp designers are available

[sour ledge]

#screenshots message

^This.

and honestly, yeah, next time i'll look for a blueprint designer thats big enough.... but it'd have to be hundreds of foundations

[limpid hazel]

if you have to do pipes manually i just don't see how it's actually faster than using smaller blueprints you connect together

[sour ledge]

im not sure it is anymore either tbqh

[limpid hazel]

👁️ 👄 👁️

[sour ledge]

on the other hand i'd probably be driving myself insane with tedium spacing out the stupid diagnols correctly with regular size blueprints. next time ima find a blueprinter that's continent sized or something

thank god rocket fuel is a gas, at least. if i had to start dealing with splashback and pumps i'd just start the whole game over

[compact flicker]

finally got around to automating nobelisk

[limpid hazel]

either way, it's too late, you have to finish it. no going back.

[wicked nacelle]

gas still sloshes I think -- you just don't need pumps

[sour ledge]

.... well then here's hoping everything is fine after i turn this whole thing on or i will just crash out

[solid grail]

Lets hope... although it's rare to work first try.

[limpid hazel]

it just takes forever to saturate a system to the point it reliably does 600/m with gas

it's not impossible, you just have to wait

[sour ledge]

that it does. i've actually only got 300 going in each pipe though - im using the mk2's anyway specifically so i can sloop the blenders temporarily and get it filled in this lifetime

im a big fan of temporary slooping to get manifolds filled out

and pipes saturated, i guess

[limpid hazel]

I can't wait to ship 10,200 dark matter back and forth in my final factory

[solid grail]

😅 Man, I just unlocked tractors. How late game is that?

[edgy hedge]

I think they forgot to add the water at the Geothermal field SW of the sandy desert. I can hear the sound of wading through water, but there's no water visible

[leaden turret]

wet boots

[sour ledge]

10,200 dark matter is uh, post-game secret 'tier 10'. You never need anywhere near that kind of number, it's purely a "How many can I make consuming the whole map" kind of megafactory lol

[limpid hazel]

⏫

[solid grail]

Lmao

[limpid hazel]

120/120/60 (more when I see how many sloops I have left over) for phase 5 elevator parts

[compact flicker]

I think programable splitters would get more use if one of the options was "intake"

[edgy hedge]

It's like that scene from Backwards from Red Dwarf. Lister goes in the water and comes out dry (hmm, that might be a spoiler for someone)

[limpid hazel]

it will be over 280 million sink points per minute

[fallow magnet]

Making my first truck route to bring modular frames to my smaller steel factory and decided to make an actual decent looking road and it’s going pretty good so far :D there’s a bit of jank on corners and diagonal WAS jank but I figured out a way to make it super clean and once I finish ima add some details like pillars for the overhead freeway part and hopefully and off ramp to my other factory

[limpid hazel]

imagine if they made road pieces that they would just automatically follow without manually planning a route

[leaden turret]

• show is pants
• several decades old, spoilers are fine

[solid grail]

What would you need it for?

[leaden turret]

see yesterday's ramble on that topic: #satisfactory message

[limpid hazel]

belt compressor with fewer steps

[sour ledge]

... did you just accidentally describe trains, or were you poking fun at hinting to the glory of trains.

[limpid hazel]

👼

[compact flicker]

I have a very niche situation in which I have 1 sink for 2 production lines and i built kinda cramped to merging normally is gonna look ugly

I mean its insanely niche, but programable splitters are already very situational :p

[sour ledge]

i feel your pain so much for the "built kinda cramped" - i always leave a bit of space, but sometimes i only found out how tight I planned it when im more'n halfway built, and well.... if the choice is starting over or squeezing, let there be squeeze

[compact flicker]

Sushi belts and lack of room for overflow protection that I should've built before it became a probelm dont mix :p

[sour ledge]

#screenshots message

It's... not technically spaghetti - everything follows the cardinal directions and you can trace every pipe back to its source and purpose reliably to troubleshoot. But.... it's cramped enough I have to make an argument that it's not technically spaghetti 'o.o

[compact flicker]

Not even holding the coffee cup smh my head

[limpid hazel]

why are the pipes all the same color 🦬

[compact flicker]

Not the worst piping I've ever seen tho

[limpid hazel]

that makes it ghetti to me

discernment

[sour ledge]

the only coloring my pipes need is bluuuuuue. the little pump thing coloring the liquid is enough

[stray wagon]

Should I unlock particle enrichment before making my nuclear power plant

[limpid hazel]

unless you plan on storing a lot of uranium waste

[sour ledge]

y'know i dont think i actually have the coffee cup on this save lol

[stray wagon]

How would I get rid of it easily

[limpid hazel]

you don't get rid of it, you store it in a box, or turn it into plutonium rods and sink them (or use them, and store that waste (or sink them until later))

[stray wagon]

Can I delete the waste like any other item or do I have to actually process it and get rid of it

[limpid hazel]

No

[stray wagon]

Cause I need the power so I can turn off my fuel generators so I can make more plastic and make a bunch of computers using the alt recipe using rubber and fuel for 120 plastics a minute

[limpid hazel]

you have to put it in a box or process it into plutonium rods

the rate at which uranium waste is produced makes it logistically difficult to store in a box compared to sinking plutonium rods

i mean, you can bulid an arbitrarily large amount of boxes, i guess, if you really want to, but it will take time

[stray wagon]

Ahh so I just need to thug it out until I can make plutonium rods

Got it

[limpid hazel]

totally an option, I'm skipping refining plutonium waste myself because I need the sam ore and built a massive vault

[sour ledge]

Upside this power tower has gotten tall enough to give me the best view of my overall infrastructure i've had yet. teeny tiny little trains going through their fancy glass tunnels....

#screenshots message

[glossy flare]

anyone have a modular frame factory setup in satisfactory modeler i could use?

pref around 20/min

[sullen gull]

Depends on what alts you have/want. Shards? no shard?

[glossy flare]

no shards for now and no alts

[merry granite]

can i disable nighttime? i cant see sh

[limpid hazel]

#screenshots message this has enough storage for like 1200 gameplay hours of 244 uranium waste per minute

[glossy flare]

just getting to this stage

[sullen gull]

Only with a mod afaik.

[limpid hazel]

flashlight

[merry granite]

yeah i use the flashlight

[native tapir]

Nighttime is good for pictures and that's it

Oh actually

It's also good for not being able to see shit

[merry granite]

ive wanted thunderstorms and rain for a while but now im eating my words because i want to be able to see

[limpid hazel]

build a concrete slab over the entire world and add lights to it tbh

no night, no mods

[sour ledge]

isn't rain coming in 1.2? so you're gonna be not just eating your words, but drinking them!

[native tapir]

If I could still load that save I posted the other day I could do this. Alas, boxing in the entire world and adding a ceiling wasn't good for performance

[sullen gull]

So, there it is with no alts, no shards.

[glossy flare]

is there a channel for satisfactory modeler stuff?

[glossy flare]

uh what

[dense violet]

it has it's own discord

[chilly tide]

can you send a invit to that?

[dense violet]

just google it

[solid grail]

[solid grail]

Maybe use a storage container, and right before that, use a smart splitter, and set it to overflow.

[hybrid nymph]

Question? So is it good to keep coal generators up and running if you have excess coal for emergency purposes?

[chilly tide]

yes more power is better just in genral?

[hybrid nymph]

I currently have 32 coal generators generating 2400 MW of power back at my base

Okay 👍

Even though I also have 10 fully overclocked fuel generators

[chilly tide]

and I have 144 nuclear power plants making 900,000 mw more is always better in my opinion

[hybrid nymph]

Awesome 😎👍

That's a lot

I am still in tier 6 right now

[chilly tide]

yea I put to much time into this project

[hybrid nymph]

I almost have tier 7 & 8 unlocked

[hearty plank]

@grand dome @hexed hazel - you were right for the first, any guesses for the others

[chilly tide]

thats great

[hybrid nymph]

Probably 1-2 more play sessions and I will be on tier 7 and 8

[hearty plank]

ur not addicted enough to do 10 hours in a sitting, smh

[hybrid nymph]

I already have the versatile frameworks, I have half of the modular engines, and still need to work on the adaptive control units

[chilly tide]

you only do 10 hours a sitting? I thought 18 was the norm

[grand dome]

have no idea honestly

[hybrid nymph]

I just checked the wiki, I have all the materials to produce the adaptive control units and modular engines

[lunar python]

Lucky you

[stray inlet]

do you guys build seperate iitems for each node or from 1 node try to make as many different items as possible?

[dense violet]

going up the tiers do whatever you like. It's basically a tutorial for you to learn

[fallen pivot]

I decide based on vibe. 😀

[compact flicker]

Elevators are so cool

[strong fiber]

so i watched a video about fuel and i think im gonna get to turbo fuel to get me to nuclear power

[ebon cave]

With the dimensional depot does it like store it in there then you can like take it out somewhere else? So if steel is far can I put one and then put another at my base and have it go into foundry’s?

[fallen pivot]

ANyway there are times when one needs a variety of products but sometimes there are also time for a dedicated production line towards one type of product. So you can make both types.

[fallen pivot]

Depot can only upload, download is manual.

[sullen gull]

When you research the manual uploader, you can access just the same as your inventory from anywhere on the map

[strong fiber]

It will upload it into your inventory then you can take it out whenever you want but then you have to wait for more resources to upload

You also need manual download mam research

[sullen gull]

Not necessarily, When you build things, it can take from the DD instead of or if an item is not in your inventory.

[ebon cave]

Uhhhhh okay

Sorry, I’m still new.

So if I get a manual uploader, then it can come out like a storage crate?

[sullen gull]

We all were at one point 🙂

[strong fiber]

Would turbofuel be good until nuclear power??

[fallen pivot]

Sorry I think something that downloads the item and place it on a conveyor.

[hybrid nymph]

What tier are you on?

[sullen gull]

Sure. Or rocket fuel.

[fallen pivot]

It is good for every phase.

[lunar python]

Im on the last space elevator phase

[hybrid nymph]

Oh nice 👍🙂

[strong fiber]

With the right alternate recipes 1 mk1 pipe of oil can create 72000 MW

[lunar python]

No space parts automated yet

[strong fiber]

But you need over 250 fuel gens

[compact flicker]

The placable depot can only upload

Its essentially another inventory

[strong fiber]

so no thank u and im not overclocking 250 fuel gens

[compact flicker]

You can craft and build using materials that are uploaded

[sullen gull]

A mk2 pipe on a pure node can make roughly 130GW of rocket fuel 😏

[strong fiber]

With over 500 fuel generators

[ebon cave]

Oh

[hybrid nymph]

I use compacted coal to create turbofuel

[sullen gull]

Eh, that's where exploring and slooping slugs comes in handy 🙂

[hybrid nymph]

That's how I power my fuel generetors

[strong fiber]

You gonna have to build a whole enclosure to put the generators in

[compact flicker]

The manual uploader research just lets you upload items without having to place a depot

[fallen pivot]

But then I cant fill the oceans with generators.

[strong fiber]

If u gather all the slugs on the map assuming you slooped it you can create 5318 power shards

[hybrid nymph]

From my experience it really isn't worth overclocking coal generators

It uses tons of water and coal

[compact flicker]

I would like to disagree

[strong fiber]

You would need to use over 1500 power shards on fuel generators

[sullen gull]

I mean, what ever's clever for you. Personally I like the world, and DEFINTELY like making the least amount of machines for the same output possible

[hybrid nymph]

The only it does is waste power shards and save space

[stone python]

it.....uses the same as if you doubled the gens

[strong fiber]

For 1 mk2 pipe of oil

thats wild gang

[lunar python]

I once processed and slooped all my slugs, i thought after over 7 stacks of power shards i would have at least half of the slugs in the map, i was do wrong

[hybrid nymph]

True that, but they're cheap to make, so just build like 30 of them

[sullen gull]

Again, they come rather quick with about 30 minutes of slug hunting and slooping shard production

[compact flicker]

Power shards are not hard to come by

[stone python]

there are over 5000 of them you can craft from slugs alone

[strong fiber]

only 30 minutes for u it took me an hour to get 200 shards

[hybrid nymph]

Especially if you double them using sometsloops

[strong fiber]

And i slooped them

[limpid hazel]

you can press shift to sprint

[stone python]

that is with slooping

[sullen gull]

And, actually no. You would only need 642 shards

[strong fiber]

In my opinion i honestly would rather have an ocean of power gens

[strong fiber]

how

[sullen gull]

#screenshots message

[fallen pivot]

I just made an array of 200 generators grouped into 4 each, spaced equally. Beauty.🥰

[sullen gull]

214 gens @ 249.2212 clock rate, three shards each, 214*3=642

[strong fiber]

ok

[stone python]

257 purple
389 yello
596 blue

1280 shards from purples
776 shards from yellow
594 from blue

Total unslooped = 2650
Total slooped = 5300

[sullen gull]

That's usually what I do. Though I build the same setup posted and use the excess for drone fuel

[strong fiber]

5318 is what i got

[hybrid nymph]

Yes it is

[sullen gull]

some go towards research

[hybrid nymph]

I currently have 400 power shards

[strong fiber]

oh yeah y gotta research sole stuff

[hybrid nymph]

This is my fourth playthrough of the game

I never finished part tier 8 yet, And I'm actually going to do it this time

[stone python]

i only replied to you with that because i said there were over 5000, and you said imagine if you slooped....to which i said that is with slooped. See why i went where i did?

[sullen gull]

Lol, I've got about 4700 hours in a little over a year 😭

[stone python]

do it, it is fun

[hybrid nymph]

My first playthrough was with my first world back in 2023 in early access

[strong fiber]

Do i need to store circuit boards or are they just used to make things

[hybrid nymph]

My second world was with my buddy Wesley. We only made it to tier 5

My third playthrough was with my buddy Priscilla. We made it to tier 7

And this is my fourth playthrough and we're a tier six right now

[strong fiber]

Im on my first play through im at tier six too

[sullen gull]

You can open the codex (O on the PC) and search circuit boards. It shows you everything it's used for. If there is a ?, that means you haven't unlocked something,.

[strong fiber]

Im still learning some things

[sullen gull]

Either through an alt or a tier.

[hybrid nymph]

Awesome, I have 487 hours in satisfactory, it is my favorite game on steam

[compact flicker]

I should build one of those giant duracell batteries

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/doja-cat-star-wars-gif-25078126

[strong fiber]

Would i need to stash them?

[limpid hazel]

you do not need to store circuit boards, they are only used for milestones and making other items

[compact flicker]

When'd you get the game?

[strong fiber]

kk thx

so for my caterium factory im making crystal computers ai limiters and high speed connecters

What alternate recipes should i get i already got caterium circuit boards

[limpid hazel]

all of them

[sullen gull]

I mean, the act of storing items can be different for different people. What "I" typically do, for every item, is pump then into a smart splitter with one set to overflow to sink and one set to any, that goes into a industrial storage container with a DD on top and a mk3 lift connected from the top output to the dd

[silk ocean]

Caty Computers

[limpid hazel]

just get all of them, idk why people ask this

[sullen gull]

Then, that container fills up dd, then ISC, then to the sink. When I am ready to use it, I just use the bottom output of the ISC and make sure I don't go over total amount being produced.

[compact flicker]

What are we thinkin? Should 1 TWH be enough?

[limpid hazel]

Bruh how long do you plan to let your power plant fail for

[compact flicker]

I never plan for that to happen

And it never does

[sullen gull]

Why would it fail? 😛

[limpid hazel]

then why would you need 1twh

[silk ocean]

As long as it has guaranteed resources, theoretically never

[compact flicker]

Cuz

[stone python]

because why not

[sullen gull]

1TW is "easy"... with some work.

[sullen gull]

Have you made it to phase 5 and oc'd/slooped any late game machines? 😏

[limpid hazel]

i have 1.2twh of nuclear power

[sullen gull]

Lol, smart ass 😛

[silk ocean]

OC/Slooped particle accelerator spikes around 22GW

[limpid hazel]

I made 100mwh of batteries to make the nuclear pasta for phase 4 while still on normal fuel

speedrun

[sullen gull]

I still haven't ever seen the 'need' for power storage other than 'novelty' 🤷‍♂️

[merry granite]

Do path/block signals not work if the two way rail is too close together? got a post in #1038092680493801533 but i have an incling that might be the issue

theres a reddit post that says that is the case

[silk ocean]

Laterally too close? Yea they can't be ontop of eachother in that regard

[merry granite]

nah they arent ontop of eachother

[silk ocean]

Normally you want two way rail to be at least 1 foundation apart

e.g. 2 foundations, 1 rail on the center of each

Don't really want to get any closer than that but that spacing is also perfect

[merry granite]

i have them closer than that because a video showed me a rail blueprint that im using that is closer than that

ill continue my stuff in #1038092680493801533 though

[silk ocean]

I personally wouldn't go any closer

And honestly no reason to do so

[merry granite]

I dont disagree with you

however ive built an entire rail system with them closer than that

lol

[silk ocean]

Uh oh xD

[meager kiln]

Spent most of the day setting up a 75/min steel beam/pipe/concrete beam, and then a 120/min aluminum products factory . And connecting it all with rails . No way that's enough long term but woo ! Productivity

[neat sequoia]

Should I bother with making a 40 gw turbofuel factory right now? or wait until rocket/nuclear to really scale up my power production?

I just entered phase 7, havent started aluminum production?

My factories are running at about 4gw consumption and I have 10 gw production at the moment.

also, is 10 hmf/min a reasonable amount to get by with or should I increase that production?

Thanks! ❤️

[compact flicker]

Didn't occur to me how big this would be

[neat sequoia]

Sorry I just realized I posted in the wrong channel.

[compact flicker]

1 million wire 😭 😭

[proud hill]

if a splitter in a manifold starts splitting less than 15/min to a coal gen that burns 15 coal/min will it still eventually fill up?

[compact flicker]

Wouldn't it run out?

[sly heart]

Do the Ficsmas items/skins stick around when the event ends or does it steal the ability to make them from you

This is the first one I'm actually doing lol

[limpid inlet]

Yes but it balances out

Using a manifold for a coal setup sounds awful but I suppose it works

[compact flicker]

I think there has been a misunderstanding somewhere

[proud hill]

i think so, but do the gens before it fill up? if they fill up then eventually the splitters go back to 60? idk if thats how it works

[limpid inlet]

They are saying that the end area of the manifold gets less than 15/m, so it won't produce

[compact flicker]

If you supply the amount you need, a manifold will eventually fill every machine with enough to rjn

[polar walrus]

anyone know how to work consle to consle crossplay?

[limpid inlet]

But it evens out if your actual production matches

[hard mantle]

dude how do i get rid of these gas pillars

[limpid inlet]

Explosive Rebar

[dense violet]

bombs. Or wear a gas mask

[hard mantle]

so i cant yet.

[dense violet]

maybe #satisfactory-consoles

[hexed phoenix]

Its a bit of a tricky question i think.. But if we take it at face value, assuming splitter input gets 15/min then output 1 and 2 will divide that into 7.5/min each..

You could put a smart splitter up, tell coal to go to output 1, and then exceed to output 2 if you want to prioritize it.

[dense violet]

as long as

1. you have at least enough parts per min on the belt
2. a fast enough belt speed

yes a manifold will run at 100%

after it spins up ofc

[sly heart]

as a serial manifold user, this is true

[cunning glade]

Can I just ignore electrode circuit board

I like hate it

[hexed phoenix]

“serial manifold user” .. I like that term :D

[silk ocean]

Serial usage of a serial construction by nature

[gritty sleet]

Huh I just noticed the particle accelerator doesn't have the status light stick. Is that the only machine without one?

[limpid hazel]

No. You have to use it.

[cunning glade]

Wtf I can tap now

[limpid hazel]

It has one

[cunning glade]

But ion wanna

[limpid hazel]

They made it for YOU to use it.

[gritty sleet]

Where?

[cunning glade]

Nuh uh

[limpid hazel]

the rings will light up when it's working

[gritty sleet]

Ok but that's not the red/yellow/green status light stick.

[round crown]

@dense violet does satisfactory tools only go backwards? Because since I don't know exactly how much plastic and rubber I want to make i was just gonna maximize and use all the oil in that spot. But I'd probably have to do that math in my head right?

[primal obsidian]

no there is a maximize setting if thats what you are asking? takes all the inputs and mazimizes the outputs

[round crown]

What do you mean?

If i put in a total input?

[primal obsidian]

on satisfactory tools right

[round crown]

Ye

[distant badge]

There is a tab where you can specify inputs of a given resource

You can add an input of plastic/rubber

or oil or whatnot

[round crown]

I don't KNOW the number of plastic I want to make but I do knkw the amount of oil I have access to

[primal obsidian]

just enter however much oil you have there and then make rubber and plastic the outputs and set both to mazimize

[round crown]

Oh

[primal obsidian]

beneath production tab

left hand side of the screen

[round crown]

Thank you!!!!!!

[distant badge]

It's at the left, under "Items, Input"

[round crown]

What greeny do to you

[dense violet]

set the input limits to what you want to use, then hit maximise

so in your example yeah, input limits, maximise on both plastic and rubber. Though in general I wouldn't use multiple maximises, can do weird things

[round crown]

Noted needed to know that because I know how much oil i have but not the plastic and rubber I want. So fiqured it be better to just use all the oil and make as much as possible.

Also we may have run into a small problem for this power plant......the place I currently want the power is the place where power is also being made.....but I'd probably have to destroy these fuel gens so I can actually desgin this,which means no power to resources being made.....so my options are either move or build around

Cuz otherwise I'll run out of resources

Oopsie

Theres so much to dooooooo

[bitter lodge]

vertical is an option

[round crown]

Well, its supposed to be vertical with 100 on each floor

[fallow magnet]

Idk if it’s an option but I use biofuel generators up to 10 if needed to jumpstart coal factories, idk if it’ll work with oil cause it may require way more power

[bitter lodge]

100 of what?

[fallow magnet]

Is it possible to rotate patterns 45 degrees like how you can rotate foundations 45 degrees even we connected to world grid tiles?

[round crown]

100 fuel gens but regardless the layout i want would require them to be broken.

There IS always the option I make a genuine oil rig and mobe the structure wayyyyy out but still in the general area. But that route might be too......pretty for my skillset. Im not very good at making things look good

Thats also gonna take me 100 hours alone

Because making things look good takes FOREVER

[round crown]

Junpstarting isn't the problem its having enough power to make the resources needed for the absurd ammount of fuel gens in the first place

Which WOULD be fine if j kept power running

But I can't keep power run ing if I want this layout

[fallow magnet]

Ohhh I see damn maybe you can like add more as you go? Like plan ahead what you want and start with 5-10 gens and get them working add 5-10 more etc

[fallow magnet]

Ohhh

[round crown]

Yea its a layout problem not a power problem

I didn't think about turbo fuel

[fallow magnet]

Maybe you could make a temp factory nearby? That’ll power yours high you can just connect with a random wire until the actual one is finished? I’m a bit new tho so I might still confuse

[round crown]

So I didn't think about the 67 damm blenders I would need for my fuel

[fallow magnet]

Oof yea lul

[round crown]

This....actually isn't a bad idea

In fact that might actually work

[fallow magnet]

Yipppeee glad I could help, could use same resources or transport some over even if it’s ugly ass conveyer spaghetti as long as it’s easy to remove once the real ones done who cares right haha

[fallow magnet]

I’d love to see it as ya build it !

[round crown]

Well all o really need is oil

[dense violet]

Pick another oil spot
There’s lots and power is easy to import

[round crown]

I might pick another spot,make power there,then go back to the old spot and make the actual rig

[dense violet]

If you like. Treat it like a tutorial and learn 🙂

[round crown]

Great idea!!! Ur so smart

@dense violet could i like,make a questions and help thread for this project for updates/probably future help. Instead of pinging you every damm time to be like LOOK!!!

[steep tendon]

Hi, do refineries provide headlift on output fluids ?

[solid grail]

Yes

[steep tendon]

thanks !

[solid grail]

10m i think

[solid grail]

Np 🙂

[strong fiber]

How much fuel does a fully overclocked generator burn

It wont tell me

[fresh blaze]

Hello guys, do you know of any mod that allow to zoop signs?

[primal obsidian]

overclock it and see

[solid grail]

[stone python]

2.5 times the amount it burns at 100%

burn rate is linear

[dense violet]

Sure

[lunar python]

6... 7?

[round crown]

This is going to be the end of me

I can't escape it!!!!

[lunar python]

Need me a satisfactory modeler app for when im not on pc

[bitter lodge]

pen and paper.

[lunar python]

I prefer to reserve those for uni

[zealous urchin]

is Maxeek an aluminum overlord finaly?

[lunar python]

The swofty sink:

What is diddy blud talking about ?

[zealous urchin]

there is lore

deep lore

especialy kittens

and puppies

all for the future of kittens

🐱 🫡

roleplay? i thought that was skooma...

[magic nest]

for those who come after

[buoyant kettle]

would you guys recommend building a dedicated factory/supply chain for adaptive control units or just something temporary to get past phase 3 of the SE?

as well, are they important later in the game?

[zealous urchin]

i remember what i was doing as 3yo

🗿

[buoyant kettle]

nah, on pc

[zealous urchin]

imo boxfeeding better for elevator parts

[buoyant kettle]

gotchu

[zealous urchin]

automating space parts is unironicaly not easy

boxfeeding solves all the issues with them

[sour ledge]

you will need more adaptive control units to make future parts, and since the whole game is building factories to make parts i usually do make factories for them...

But you honestly can just manual feed for elevator progression just fine.

[zealous urchin]

its faster, funnier and u can measure how much of what u need

Santa is strongest wizard

[primal ice]

im in phase 4 and adaptive control units are needed to build one of the elevator items , u dont NEED it rn but wont hurt to have i guess

[abstract heron]

17,941 hrs on record TOTAL do i need to touch grass?

[buoyant kettle]

ig i will automate them...

🙄

[zealous urchin]

feeling salty

lets leave it at that

[merry granite]

how do you guys handle raw resources between different factories? do you share resources that are in high demand between multiple factories or do you extract more from one spot and add more freight stations?

[zealous urchin]

i dont ship raw ore

[steady monolith]

Are there any fixes for vertical splitters breaking blueprints?

[open swallow]

@unborn gyro are you okay? You sound like you're having a stroke

[merry granite]

yeah who are you responding to

[zealous urchin]

there will be no such measures releasing you from ur saving kittens and puppies contract

question: puppies or lizard doggos?

[strong fiber]

I added 6500 Mw to my power production

[compact flicker]

I need to get one

How big is it?

wot

I see

I assume you're talking about the 16" one

3ft :3

I think I'll do fine with just one lol

lol

Man power storage are quite a laggy building

My frames die when I get close to em :p

[cunning lily]

Is Satisfactory cross platform? If I play PC and I have a friend on PS, can he join my server?

kk

[hard stump]

Man not being able to build a elavatot to the sky limit broke my heart 💔😭

[mortal ginkgo]

there is a mod that gets rid of the elevator limit

[hard stump]

Yeah but I’m on console sadly.
Just broke my dream of having one to build limit and I have a addiction to elevators in games idk why

[stray inlet]

anybody got any good game recommendations to play with a friend ?

[compact flicker]

SatisFactory

[silk ocean]

What type of game

There's not much.. ontopic going on right now xD

[stray inlet]

anything

[silk ocean]

Core Keeper ?

It's on discount atm as well

[stray inlet]

that funny i was just looking at that with my mate

might have to getr it

[silk ocean]

It's very good

Hatred approved

[narrow canyon]

From M to Z.

[mortal ginkgo]

Cast Screws is a good recipe btw. Just sayin'.

[hard stump]

Reason 1 I wanted to
Reason 2 I wanted the achievement
Reason 2 I wanted to

[hard stump]

Got that yesterday have a mega factory project ima do with them excited but haven’t gotten to start that

[narrow canyon]

All recipes are good.

[mortal ginkgo]

if you gonna do a mega factory, go with steel screws.

[mortal ginkgo]

BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW you didn't need to make me laugh that hard in the middle of morning yoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[compact flicker]

I forget its morning in some places

[silk ocean]

Brotherman please xD

[mortal ginkgo]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRotherman

[silk ocean]

It's very morning here

[mortal ginkgo]

He literally nuked me out with that "all recipes are good".

Ye brow let me see your mega factory using Copper Rotors or Aliminum Rods recipe.

I was NOT prepared for this like DAMN BROTHER

[narrow canyon]

A new candidate for the block list 🙂

[mortal ginkgo]

You could say Half Life 3 is coming out tomorrow and I would be less shocked lol

.... He really gonna block for that?

[silk ocean]

HL3 CONFIRMED

[mortal ginkgo]

Sorry not happening bro.

[silk ocean]

Sadly probably not

[hard stump]

It’s more or less I’m using just the recipe I’m more worried about more parts then the quantity of each particular part

[mortal ginkgo]

I got a smol shiver of hope for the Valve Cube release moment tho'.

[silk ocean]

They should just outsource HL3 to a good studio

[mortal ginkgo]

Name the good studio.

[silk ocean]

nixxes

[mortal ginkgo]

Then I will laugh more than that guy who had to announce blocking someone after an obvious joke.

[mortal ginkgo]

ok, good one.

[silk ocean]

Nixxes are kinda more a PC master ports studio

[mortal ginkgo]

Their latest game is Marvel's Avengers.

I mean, I could say a lot of stuff but I think I would be autobanned.

[stone python]

huh, never thought id tab into satisfactory chad and see#off-topic-general chatting happening

[silk ocean]

They don't really develop games as far as I'm aware, they are PC port specialists

[mortal ginkgo]

You must be new here.

[stone python]

my messge was dripping with sarcasm lmao, im not new

[mortal ginkgo]

So they are a tax evasion company 😛

[silk ocean]

Err xD

[mortal ginkgo]

Brother someone above just blocked me for my obviously sarcastic joke. This planet is full of... eh.. such people. So apologises if I can't see the sarcasm anymore.

Back in my days, it was always sarcasm and ur mom jokes. Now everyone is... eh.. you get it.

[silk ocean]

Syntax Error

[mortal ginkgo]

Zatie I got a problem. I want to expand factory but I want to work on some gamedev stuff too.

What do 🙁

[silk ocean]

Gamedev if in the mood, because that mood maybe only comes rarely XD

[mortal ginkgo]

it comes too rarely.. however we do have hope!

I am at Refinery-spam time of phase in Satisfactory so I got a reason not to play.

I am very sorry but refineries are the weakest point of this game 😛

[silk ocean]

I've built a lot of them xD

[mortal ginkgo]

I value your dedication and patient, I really do.

[silk ocean]

At least most of them are basically copy and paste

[mortal ginkgo]

Ya, what made me lose my desire to play is getting some good looking refinery BP going...

[compact flicker]

Apparently getting hit with a nobelisk does damage

Not the explosion, just getting one thrown at u

[silk ocean]

Never killed a bean or doggo

[compact flicker]

Dw this was found out via hatchery

[compact flicker]

Never killed a doggo, bean extinction enthusiast

[silk ocean]

I've had to wand the occasional bean just to get it moving

[compact flicker]

They keep coming back

[silk ocean]

Outrageous xD

Didn't know there's more than one

[zealous urchin]

[silk ocean]

There is a bean that keeps coming back and getting onto one of my rails

Tempted to nuke it from orbit

Call in NOMAD to get rid of the bean

[mortal ginkgo]

spawn points do be like that sometimes, cant prevent it unfortunately.

beans are cool but eh... I dunno... they are like... just annoyance at some point

[silk ocean]

I should probably raise that section or put walls around it

[mortal ginkgo]

thing with them is, if the spawn point cant spawn the bean, it just checks for further up location.

so you can wall it up I think

but then it will spawn above regardless, if it couldnt spawn below

[compact flicker]

Rocket fuel is just nitric acid and turbofuel right?

[silk ocean]

Yea I could give it a whack and then wait for it to settle and wall it

[mortal ginkgo]

base recipe is yes

[compact flicker]

Tryna plan ahead for my crater power plant

[mortal ginkgo]

thats the problem. they despawn when you go far enough and respawn at where you whacked'em before

[silk ocean]

Urgh xD

Wat

Not sure if someone can own a word xD

[remote pasture]

Are all 4 starting location a part of the samr map or is it 4 different maps?

[mortal ginkgo]

same map

[zealous hawk]

Good morning from The Netherlands

Sorry if I interrupt haha. Just got into this Discord and wanted to say hi

[earnest oak]

what does it mea this droppod has not yet been spawned in game?>

[sterile blade]

The chat has fallen silent for like 3 seconds because of this horrible "interruption"!
||A good morning to you too 👋||

[zealous hawk]

When I killed the lizarddoggo... and I panicked asking if I killed my only friend... Someone said that there might be more lizarddoggo but he'll tell all the other lizarddoggo about what I did 🥲

[broken quarry]

this is my first time playing satisfactory after few years, anyone have tips to stay organized?

[silk ocean]

Foundations

[broken quarry]

those are so expensive 😭 anything else, what do I need more of early game?

[silk ocean]

Tiers 1-3 is a starter fac, tear it down once past that and rebuild on foundations

[compact flicker]

Wire and cable, automate em and keep em automated

[broken quarry]

noted

[compact flicker]

Was diluted packaged fuel the really good alt?

[zealous hawk]

Right now since I also just started playing. Watching other people's build and feeling like I could do that someday... feels so faraway 😂

[broken quarry]

I had like 24 hours on my last run

its scary just thinking about it, everything disorganized.

[mortal ginkgo]

It always feels like that but one thing you should know that, it takes a LOT of time to design stuff. It took me 2 days~ of testing to see what works and if I like what I did etc

[earnest oak]

what does it mea this droppod has not yet been spawned in game?

[zealous hawk]

That is a really good reminder. Since it looks so easy when watching others, you forget how much time and effort it actually takes. And also the reason why I am here. I want to learn and be actually good at it someday 😇

[mortal ginkgo]

Correct. #design-and-architecture message

This design of mine almost made me hate refineries because it took so long to decide what I like or not.

My point is, you can check what others do and see what you like. Most confuses this with copying while it is actually getting inspiration.

There are good tutorials about designs etc in youtube, feel free to check'em!

[sterile blade]

#1038092680493801533
Possibly add a picture of what you're referring to

[earnest oak]

posted

[zealous hawk]

Woaahhh, love it! I agree copying can be great to learn or to take inspiration.

[sterile blade]

Adding onto that, it's worth keeping that in mind even when going through #screenshots
Like... some people post their "ugly" pictures too, but it'd be unfair to yourself thinking that the beautiful builds posted in it are just "average thing built in a Sunday evening"
(hell, some might post pictures with thousands of hours of work behind without even adding one written line of context )

[zealous hawk]

I'll definitely keep that in mind! And I am committed too playing a lot with it too since I am already hooked. And I also recording my progress so that I can look back at it all. Someday ill be able to post screenshots too!

[minor birch]

Yo folks I haven't played this game for 6 months is there any new stuff?

[quaint ibex]

guys i want to mine sam but there is a huge spider on top it

i built the miner and tried to make foundations of top it to get close enough to put stuff into it to overclock but i died

how to get close enough to miner and not die?

[silk ocean]

Nuke the spiders

Nobelisk / shoot them

[compact flicker]

Bring some berries with you, they don't have a toooonnnn of health

[quaint ibex]

im still at the phase 4

[compact flicker]

Like 80% sure they're in phase 1

[dense violet]

kill the spider

[silk ocean]

I forget which phase

[dense violet]

you can get bombs very early

and guns also

[silk ocean]

It's MAM research isn't it?

[whole drum]

Basically as soon as you can set up oil

Pretty sure that's beginning of Phase 3

[dense violet]

pretty sure you get bombs with steel tier 3

coal sulfur steel pipes

[whole drum]

Oh, the basic ones. You're right.

The better stuff comes with Smokeless (oil)

[harsh crystal]

can someone help me automate phase 3. my power grid keeps blowing (coal power)

[whole drum]

Phase 3 or Tier 3?

[dense violet]

make more power

[harsh crystal]

phase

[harsh crystal]

like more coal power?

[whole drum]

Phase 3 you want oil

[silk ocean]

Build more powerplants

[whole drum]

Make some fuel gens

[dense violet]

any power time yo uwant.

I get to phase 4 with 64 coal gens

it's convenient and fast

[harsh crystal]

then do i just hook it up to the main grid?

or do i make a new grid

[sterile blade]

BTW, there's a handy mod to record timelapses...
I definetly recommend playing vanilla first, but when it comes to content-making, that one can make a lot of difference...

[whole drum]

Dealer's choice, but most people keep one large grid

[harsh crystal]

well cant the grid only hold a certain amount of power

[compact flicker]

I wish there were reasons to seperate grids >:

[whole drum]

It holds as much as you can make

[sterile blade]

Keeping the "good" one flat and stable and perfect and

[compact flicker]

Linearly scales with how much power you're making

[dense violet]

up to you but its usually people just do 1 grid

[whole drum]

If you can make 400 nuclear plants, the grid can have it

[harsh crystal]

linearly?

[harsh crystal]

alright

[formal minnow]

do i need a mk2 designer to make spirals for traind

[compact flicker]

The only limiting factor is how much power you're making.

[harsh crystal]

alright

[hexed phoenix]

I think the only reason would be to separate Coal generator, Fuel generator ect. and all the machines required to produce the fuel - so in case of too much power consumption, you're not having issue with restarting the generators which can be a problem :)

[compact flicker]

Yeah there is that

Wish there was more tho :p

I should build a 10GW biofuel plant that I only use when cold starting a power plant

[hexed phoenix]

Although I'm not doing it either - because usually its just a matter of destroying a power line - and the system is separated, and once stable I reconnect it

[compact flicker]

I say that like this is a possibility

[sterile blade]

To anyone who likes to nerd over machines' efficiency, it can be quite convenient to have all machines not needing variable power on the same grid (thus making at least 2 different grids). Being able to check the efficiency of the whole factory (or at least a decent chunk of it) from just any powerpole anywhere on the map can be quite handy ^^

[mortal ginkgo]

you can charge power storages up (a good chonk of it) and release it off from the grid for that

[compact flicker]

#screenshots message

[mortal ginkgo]

C H O N K Y

[compact flicker]

When I finish it, it'll be 1Twh

[mortal ginkgo]

True Madness. This person wants to have enough power storage until Satisfactory 2 - Revenge of the Spheres is released.

[formal minnow]

what would someone need TERAWATT-HOURS of energy for???

[compact flicker]

Potential power hiccups

[formal minnow]

what kinda madness do you make where terawatt hours of energy hiccups occur regularly

[compact flicker]

Uh

w<

[hexed phoenix]

Never know when that Mk. 1 miner needs overclocking.. Just to be sure you know

[compact flicker]

Thats a million wires and 100k modular frames worth btw

Bruh I spent 20 mins trying to figure out why my manifold wasn't working

I had like .5m of mk3 belt

Instead of mk4

-w-

[hexed phoenix]

Might as well tear it all down and redo it :D

[compact flicker]

Nuooo

Elevator music boombox tape when?

[leaden turret]

June 10th, 2025
Q&A: Will the Elevator songs be on the Soundtrack?

I don't know yet

[compact flicker]

oh

[leaden turret]

might be worth asking if it could be squeezed into 1.2?

[compact flicker]

Mayhapsies :3

[leaden turret]

question is does it come in the awesome shop, or does it spawn at random in an elevator if you haven't already unlocked it....

[compact flicker]

I think having a tape sitting in the elevator when placed would be neat

[leaden turret]

one assumes that awesome shop would be less effort and thus more likely to be squeezeinnable

[compact flicker]

Probably

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> chance of lizard doggo bringing you "low-fi beats to pet doggo to" mix tape?

is just the "stream starting soon" track

[reef basin]

Priority power switch

[compact flicker]

I wanna build a big battery 🥺

[leaden turret]

https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=weatherwax AND "power storage bank"

[compact flicker]

A lil confused

[leaden turret]

someone built some big batteries

[compact flicker]

Just a big ol list when I click on it /shrig

[leaden turret]

on mobile ?

[compact flicker]

Ye

[leaden turret]

scroll down plz 😅

gonna be doing redesigns over the break between streams for xmas / new year

oh, hang on- I forgot; there's the "toggle options" button 😅

I should probably at least default that to off....

[compact flicker]

Ah I see

Im gonna do smth like that

Does this game only load visual effects when clearly visible? If I wall off a performance heavy visual zone will it help framerate at all?

[leaden turret]

"it depends"

GPU instancing implementation means if some of the stuff inside the box has also been built outside the box, it'll be rendered inside the box

because sometimes it's more peformant to render stuff you can't see than to check if you can't see it

[compact flicker]

So if the only instance(s) of something are concealed it might help if I understand right

My frames are really not a fan of that lil wind animation that plays on charging power storage units lol

[leaden turret]

yeah like if have an open-plan oil packager right next to a boxed fuel plant, the packagers inside the box might still get rendered but the refineries probably won't

[compact flicker]

Okie cool

Ty

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> double-checking that I'm remembering this blurb correctly

[brazen cove]

how much oil generators will be enough when i get to lvl 3 of space elevator?

[compact flicker]

Phase 3 you can get by with 16 or so if you're not building large infrastructure, but 4 and 5 are really power intensive

[brazen cove]

okay so it's not like with coal generators where people are building 30 or 50 generators? thanks god

[echo thorn]

Does anyone know if they are going to fix the personal elevator bugging for multiplayer?

[brazen cove]

it's a bug so i assume they will do it, maybe in the next patch

[compact flicker]

About that...

I mean.. 30-50 isn't accurate for some oil power

Just not in the way you're hoping

[brazen cove]

it's not going to be enough supplies for them?

[compact flicker]

There are several types of fuel that the fuel powered generators can take

The best ones can need several hundred generators to use :p

[brazen cove]

so i need to make ton of fuel producing factories to fuel my oil gens ? or what

[compact flicker]

For starters no

In the future, probably

Just build to your needs :3

[brazen cove]

yea exactly i have to stop dreaming about the life i will get when i get to lvl3 elevator, first i need to make a factory for each material required for the lvl3 elevator...

[novel fog]

Is there a way to automate fabric?

[leaden turret]

!wikisearch Polymer+Resin

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=Polymer+Resin

[leaden turret]

^with that

[summer quarry]

petition to add some kind of cats or something to satisfactory

[covert imp]

im producing 240 coal/min which i use to power my 16 coal power plants but somehow 2 of them are slowly burning trough it and eventually running out of coal. could this be a logistics issue? those 2 are all the way down a splitter chain

[hexed phoenix]

Arachnophobia mode? :D

[silk ocean]

Getting enough water?

[covert imp]

yhea, they are all full of water

[compact flicker]

Possible mk1 belt somewhere?

[summer quarry]

i mean something like the doggos but cats but yes

[whole drum]

The last 2 in the line should feed at the rate they burn if you set it up in a manifold

[covert imp]

nope, checked for that

[whole drum]

They don't fill up

[hexed phoenix]

Pretty sure if u toggle arachnophobia mode - all spiders turns into kittens :D

[covert imp]

yhea, the issue is they dont, they burn slightly faster

[silk ocean]

The earlier ones in the manifold will tend to fill their buffers first

[whole drum]

There could be a desync in the feed timing, though. Hand feed them like 10 and see

[compact flicker]

Overclocked?

[covert imp]

yhea, all of them filled up exept the 2 last ones

[covert imp]

nope, only thing i overclocked is the miner to provide enough coal

[whole drum]

Or if you wanted to be on the real safe side, hand feed each of the last 2 30 each (2 feed cycles)

[covert imp]

tried that, they are burning trough that

[whole drum]

Sounds like you miscounted your gens then

You might have 1 too many

[silk ocean]

No flow pauses out of the miners and definitely producing 240/min?

[summer quarry]

i know but like cats you can tame like the doggos

[brazen cove]

try underclocking them idk

[silk ocean]

No hidden old Mk belts in splitters?

[covert imp]

miner is set to produce 240, got an mk3 belt out of the miner, into a splitter to 2 mk2 belts for my 2 sets of 8 coal gens

those groups of 8 all use mk2

[whole drum]

Would like need to be near the end of the line somewhere if it's this, else the problem would present much earlier in the line

[covert imp]

nope no mk1 belts

[silk ocean]

More than likely yea

[silk ocean]

Shrug xD

[south sinew]

maybe a power pole issue? are your coal gens uniformly connected?

[whole drum]

Power poles are binary--either connected or not

[south sinew]

not exactly

you can certainly connect them into multiple distinct electric networks

[whole drum]

In the case of gens, they would be self-sustaining as long as they are fed

[south sinew]

I don't think this is actually something people do on purpose 99% of the time, but if you make a whoopsie it can happen

[silk ocean]

Then it just becomes one network

[covert imp]

they are. but its not the power i see dropping. i looked at the gens themselves and they seem to not get enough coal

[silk ocean]

Do you have the logistics belt flow meter?

[whole drum]

Are you using any conveyor lifts? Make sure those are Mk2/3 ?

[south sinew]

ok so I didn't scroll up all the way but did you check to see if it's just the regular manifold taking ages to fill stuff issue?

[silk ocean]

Prob not if just doing coal

[covert imp]

not yet

[covert imp]

it is mk3

tough i think saving and loading fixed it. lemme make sure but it seems to be good now

[remote orbit]

Not me thinking the programmable or smart splitters could be used to split a numerical value of items 😒

[covert imp]

yhea they are stable now. thanks for trying to help anyways

[dense violet]

you do that with machine clocking

[novel fog]

Will I need a lot of sulfur? Or will two mk2 miners be okay?

[remote orbit]

Wait, do splitters automatically split how many is needed for buildings?

[whole drum]

It depends on if the input matches the draw

But the default behavior is to split the input by the number of outputs

[remote orbit]

Wdym draw? Does that depend on conveyor belt speed or smth?

[whole drum]

What the machines you are feeding need

Iron plates would have a draw of 30 iron ingots/m, for example--per machine

[remote orbit]

Ahh, so it'll the splitter will split them depending on how much of that item is needed or?

[reef basin]

it will split equally, unless a side is blocked

[mortal ginkgo]

Splitters are unaware of other buildings. What you describe can be done by "Smart Splitters", another type you get later on.

But for now, the splitter you have will simply split unless one side is blocked.

[whole drum]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1448896409859526769
If you look at the rods/screws area, there are 2 rod machines with a merger that joins the belt, then a splitter to evenly divide them among the screw machines

[remote orbit]

I have smart splitters but I was hoping u would have a number that u would input for it to split, so like 40/0/60 or smth

[whole drum]

You can also see the manifold for the iron ore that feeds all the machines in that system

No, smart splitters let you decide what goes where--not how much.

[reef basin]

no, you can't do that with smart splitter (but is also not really needed)

[mortal ginkgo]

They are not THAT smart and devs want this to be a challenge in game so it stays as it is.

What you can do is, having "Any" inputs to machines while "Overflow" is for the next row. This way you can merge another belt to the line if you need to.

Besides you don't need it. It will eventually balance itself out.

[whole drum]

As long as there is sufficient input for the total required draw*

[remote orbit]

Man thats so annoying 😭

[whole drum]

For most things in the game, just use a manifold and you don't have to think about belt distribution that much

[remote orbit]

I'm trying to split one input of wire between 2 assemblers with different wire consumption so I was wondering if I can split them to the required inputs and then have any overflow go somewhere else

[whole drum]

It would be easier to manage the clock speed of the assemblers

But as long as the belt has enough input for both, just hook it up

[remote orbit]

Fair

Lifts r so confusing man, I hooked a lift up between a merger and a splitter but nothing is being moved, its snapped onto the output of the splitter and input of the merger but it just doesn't want to work

[whole drum]

You have belts connected too?

Actually, just as a general rule of them, I personally only snap lifts to one or the other, and have a belt in between the one I don't attach the lift to.

I don't know that you need to do this, but it works for me

[reef basin]

it will self-balance

[remote orbit]

There wasn't any arrows to suggest needing them, but I figured it out? I just got rid of the splutter and lift and replaced them and now it works for some reason

[remote orbit]

Ahh ok, thx

[formal minnow]

should i ship items up or send trains down for sky train systems
cos like, #screenshots message neither of these are particularly pretty when going all the way down to the floor

or more importantly fun to build

i do think hundreds of meters of conveyor lifts could cause a bit of lag tho

im exaggerating a little but its 130ish meters up

[hexed hazel]

Ship items up. Will be faster

[formal minnow]

id die for a cargo elevator

[hexed hazel]

Cause I’ve built sky train systems and it’s a nightmare Maneuvering them down.

[reef basin]

not building it in the sky would've solved your issue 😛

[formal minnow]

spiraling will work but its 8 years of building per station

[whole drum]

Lifts can be a little buggy sometimes, tbh

[formal minnow]

you see the thing is i hate terrain

[reef basin]

I mean you can still build on foundations

[whole drum]

Build them off the ground, but not in the sky, lol

[hexed hazel]

No but, they hate terrain

[formal minnow]

yknow what bet

[reef basin]

then they are playing the wrong game

[hexed hazel]

True Ficsit pioneer philosophy of “ew, Mother Earth”

[formal minnow]

i have to build outside my beautiful world grid to navigate the dreaded Natural Topology

[hearty plank]

i need to get up to pee inbetween yk, and then i can go back to sitting

[hidden sparrow]

and ppls complain about end game coper management...... #screenshots message

[remote orbit]

I've noticed dw 😂

[remote orbit]

That's some lets game it out management right there 🤣

[feral dragon]

Isn't it possible to get rid of plutonium wast? THe things you can convert it to can't be sinked either?

[mortal ginkgo]

final milestone that is Fisconium Fuel Rod.

gets rid of the waste but asks for your soul, sanity and my mom to produce it

[feral dragon]

But Fisconium Fuel Rod can't be sinked either?

[hidden sparrow]

they can be burned

in a nuclear powerplant

and they release no waste

[mortal ginkgo]

You burn them.

[feral dragon]

Ooooh, I see

Well, then I did a massive misstake lol

Spent the last 2 days building

But got plutonium waste thinking it was uranium waste lol

[mortal ginkgo]

sloop fisconium fuel rod production till you get rid of all your extra plut waste.

[feral dragon]

My entire build kinda relies on the fact that there is a uranium waste from somewhere
Can't put a picture here but yea, I will need to rebuild alot

[compact flicker]

Is the Aroura Borealis a ficmas thing? I don't remember seeing it at any other point

[mortal ginkgo]

yes but it also sometimes happen in non ficmas as people loved it so much that devs made it a permanent thing

[compact flicker]

So its just more common during ficmas then? Neat

Its pretty :3

[mortal ginkgo]

ikr

[hard ivy]

Uranium waste comes from uranium rods?

How do you have plutonium waste without having uranium waste?

[feral dragon]

That's the problem, I don't have uranium waste coming frome somewhere because I had calculated that the plutonium waste was uranium waste

So now I'm building 2 things, 1 processing plutonium waste and 2 create uranium waste

But I need 40 singularity cells/min to process my plutonium waste 😂

Classic satisfactory, I was to build some nuclear energy and here I am creating singularity cells

[zenith pecan]

you sure the inventory slots weren't just misplaced?

[past crown]

Afternoon pioneers

[whole drum]

I normally hand-jam my project parts, but decided to see how long I could tolerate automating them--just finished the build for Phase 2's parts at a "reasonable" rate (at least 10/m of each) and it turned out to be surprisingly big.

On a new save, that is

Got them feeding into Ind Storage boxes, then overflow into sink since PPs are worth a lot of points

The thing that actually surprised me the most was the sheer amount of copper wire to make

360/m of raw copper, all made into wire--some converted into cable

Actually, most into cable

I overdid the auto-wiring a bit--20/m. Eats cable like crazy.

400/m

Err, wait... I had more raw copper than that or it wouldn't have worked 🤷

Still, so much wire on just mk3 belts.

[mortal ginkgo]

iron wire is your friend, just as ours

though the amount of wire needed is so ridiculous that I am going for insulated cable alt recipe

[dense violet]

insulated cable

[mortal ginkgo]

especially for some cases such as phase 3 items

[whole drum]

Can you even get that in phase 2?

[mortal ginkgo]

No. Only at phase 3.

[dense violet]

it's oil.. so .. no/ but in general - it's great

[whole drum]

Was gonna say, pretty sure you need oil, ya?

Good to know

Never really messed with it

[dense violet]

reduces your wire needs to 1/4

[whole drum]

I'm generally loathe to downgrade oil, but I could see the utility in that

[dense violet]

oil products are very commonly used in alts to pad out other resources for great reduction in resource cost - it's basically what it's there for

like Plastic AI limiter? so useful

[severe badger]

I wish there was a good alt for heavy frames

[dense violet]

Heavy encased frames

part of a chain that really reduces resource cost

[severe badger]

I wish it didn’t increase the amount of regular frames it needed

[whole drum]

Huh, having these already automated gives me a nice headstart on Phase 3 PPs

[dense violet]

it reduces the cost of frames per heavy frame...

by a lot

[severe badger]

Oh I’m blind

I thought that it was for 1 frame

I should be using this

[dense violet]

it reduces the cost of beam frames and pipes by a lot and replaces screws with a bit of concrete

[severe badger]

Honestly I woulda rather kept the screws, with steel screws they are so cheap

[dense violet]

sure but you more than make up for it everywhere else

[whole drum]

It's funny to me that Cat Wire looks like a spool of fishing line

[scenic mirage]

thats like almost entirely the point of alt recipes lol

do yall transport nuclear cells and fuel rods? my factory is like 1.5-2km from where i plan on having my nuclear plants

[whole drum]

If it's that far, you should consider it

Don't be like me--belting stuff 3-4km away

[mortal ginkgo]

drones would be better no?

[whole drum]

That would be my bet

[scenic mirage]

ugh then id have to build batteries and stuff

[whole drum]

No--just use the fuel you use for your jetpack

[scenic mirage]

i dont rlly use it

mostly the hoverpack

[whole drum]

Same here, but I still make it

There is a period where I do use the jetpack

[mortal ginkgo]

they can use all other fuel types as of 1.0

but hey you do you

[dense violet]

no, many of them are just trades

[whole drum]

You can't convince me to make batteries, lol

[scenic mirage]

#screenshots message
why is there just a random flying slug lmao

[dense violet]

or simplifications

[whole drum]

Was probably on a mushroom you detonated

[mortal ginkgo]

you are asking that while having supportless foundations 😛

probably destroyed a mushroom beneath it

[scenic mirage]

i bought 100 packaged rocket fuel for it at the start of phase 4 and i have 81 left

[scenic mirage]

oh fair

i thought that the rifle would do more damage

[mortal ginkgo]

turbo rifle pretty good

I am also happy with homming one

[scenic mirage]

ya i just built a homing rifle factory

hella late in phase 5

[mortal ginkgo]

I had it at phase 3, one assembler be enough 😛

[scenic mirage]

i never wanted to bother bc id have to setup smokeless powder and thatd take oil away from my power

[whole drum]

Smokeless is worth it

Cluster Nobs are the goat

Also doesn't need much

Just 30/m into a DD is plenty

[scenic mirage]

yeah i did cluster at the same time 😭

[whole drum]

And if you have a storage buffer before the DD like you should, it will use the full DD upload speed until you chrew through too much too fast

[scenic mirage]

i only had normal nobs and made 2 industrial storages full of them

ye for everything that goes in depots, i have minimum 2 industrial storages

and minimum 2 depots

[fluid sapphire]

30, as in producing 30 per minute?

[whole drum]

Ya

[mortal ginkgo]

I dont even have a storage for homming rifle ammo and it works kek

[fluid sapphire]

plenty is an understatement, thats absolute overkill

[whole drum]

Yeah, but it's an easy number to work with

[fluid sapphire]

you could do 1% of that and be absolutely fine xd

[whole drum]

Unlikely to threaten anything critical if you tax a line you're using for something else to make a little smokeless

That depends how often you go exploring tbh

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean, ammo stores up to 500.. with 3 DD upgrade you can store 1500 + 500 (DD's own input slot).

if one needs that much rifle ammo they are definitely playing something else kek

[whole drum]

I was talking about 30 smokeless--not rifle ammo. I just DD the powder so I can make whatever I want with it and not commit to automating something I may or may not want to use.

[mortal ginkgo]

interesting...

[whole drum]

Though I would be safe automating cluster nobs every time--I always want those

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean.. you dont even need to buffer those too..

[compact flicker]

Isn't the only use for black powder/smoke powder weaponry?

[whole drum]

Yes

Just buffer the smokeless and you're set

No shot you got through a whole storage box

[fluid sapphire]

ah, wasnt clear, the sequence of messages made it look like you meant 30 cluster nobelisks per minute

[whole drum]

No

That would be gross, gross overkill lol

[fluid sapphire]

yeah thats what i was saying

[whole drum]

But 30 smokeless/m into a buffered DD gives you flexibility and infinite whatever you want

Just make sure regular nobs are auto'd tho

Having to make them sequentially is the succ

[mortal ginkgo]

why are you not automating stuff with smokeless is beyond me

[whole drum]

Because I'm cheap and don't want to use the extra resources on all the different things it takes

DD just means I make what I need when my stock runs low, and I can make rifle ammo, clusters, and exp rebar--the best weapons for most of the game

[mortal ginkgo]

yes but... I mean... but.. yeah.. like I get it but.. I mean..you know.. but..

[whole drum]

Mostly I'm just stingy with my oil.

[scenic mirage]

i mean valid i was too 😭

thats why i didnt do this until phase 5

[compact flicker]

Hopefully after my upcoming afk session, I will have a substantial amount of resources stockpiled

[whole drum]

It is one of the first things I do in Phase 3 tho

Smokeless is too useful to skip

Exp Rebar is a decent weapon, but exceptional utility

Clusters kind of the opposite

[scenic mirage]

i honestly forgot rebar was a thing 😭

[whole drum]

Only thing I've seen before nukes that can one-shot the giant hogs

[scenic mirage]

what ab gas spiders

[whole drum]

But yeah, anything I'm making out of HOR that isn't fuel, I just take a tiny bit to make powder

It's really hard for it to connect right to do that to them, but it technically can

Hogs are easy, though. Stick it on their nose, wait for them to dig for a rock, and detonate it before they throw it.

For the spiders, the idea is to try to stick it to their belly, or at least the ground directly beneath their belly.

Right on it is better

[mortal ginkgo]

stun rebar + nuclear nob

people sleeping on that 5 second stun too much imho

[whole drum]

Nuke is very late game tho

[mortal ginkgo]

stun rebar + cluster nob right beneath the gas boi

same thing more or less

[whole drum]

Yeah, but I don't need to bother trying to stun them

[mortal ginkgo]

yeah you are a gamer we get it

my advice was for lazars 😛

[whole drum]

lol

You make it sound like you have to be good to do it, lol

[mortal ginkgo]

shrug

[whole drum]

You just cheese them with terrain until you have a hover pack

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean, again, my advice wasn't for you, since you got.. different ways of playing it all

[whole drum]

You basically can't get hit with hover

[mortal ginkgo]

See? Thats what I mean.

Finding Nuclear Nob late game while saying you can use hoverpack is... well.

[whole drum]

Nukes come quite a bit later than hover

You can find the aluminum to make it before you even automate it, from crash sites

[mortal ginkgo]

Nuclear Nob isn't late game to make if you are at hoverpack stage.

Again though. Your gameplay style doesn't suit me so does not my advices 😛

[whole drum]

Nuke takes way more time/work to set up. It is quite a bit later.

[mortal ginkgo]

aight

anyway, I also not only have no "power around at the other side of the map" or not have "hoverpack". I also dont like cheesing stuff. Trying to land a stun rebar while being chased by 2 gas bois was extremely fun

[scenic mirage]

i always just threw a nob at them whenever they jumped

and when they land detonate it

[mortal ginkgo]

Thats good enough, they jump a lot

[scenic mirage]

when they jump they cant change direction or anything

[mortal ginkgo]

you can also put the nob on where you are too, since they are always precise where they jump to

[whole drum]

Jetpack is enough to evade them too. Just time their jump.

Might be harder if you're using weak fuels tho

Turbo is plenty good

Most people prefer rocket

[scenic mirage]

ooo ok i didnt know that

[scenic mirage]

i just use hoverpack and build power lines everywhere i go

😭

[mortal ginkgo]

they 100% land unless there is something on the path. cluster nob do chungus damage if they explode below the mob since all other explosions hit'em too

Packaged Biofuel my beloved, I still love'em

[novel fog]

What’s the hardest phase?🤔

[scenic mirage]

a lot of ppl say phase 4 is rlly hard

[tall lantern]

in isolation or compared with the previous?

[novel fog]

That’s the phase I’m on, very nice, I’m guessing nuclear power is going to be a pain in the neck?