satisfactory

[versed cosmos]

you can also place it against a wall and then nudge it around

[keen light]

Should I just make a water tower if I'm going to stack refineries vertically? Currently using a pump at each level to raise the fluid to the next set.

[oblique pagoda]

yo people is there a way to see total power used on satisfactory modeler?

[versed cosmos]

Raise the water up all the way once, then send it down to the refineries

Essentially a water tower lol

[keen light]

I always have trouble with fluids, so anything that prevents problems down the line

[versed cosmos]

Yeah it's going to be a lot easier to take the water all the way to the top first, then feed it downwards

[keen light]

Alright sounds fine

[upper saddle]

fair point. I considered it but the area im building in has 6 pure iron nodes and is already a cluster fuck that building a robust refinery on top of it all would be most trouble than it's worth.

[whole drum]

You can do this, but people think they should top it with a buffer--you shouldn't. Just make a loop that goes to the top and back down, using water pumps, then connect the refineries to the loop as needed after it's full.

[upper saddle]

one of my self imposed rules for this playthrough has been not immediately rushing to west sea for flat land. The addional challenge of building elegant factories with inconsistent terrain has been fun.

[plucky chasm]

im doing that unintentionally lol

[keen light]

Yea I know I don't need a buffer, just kind of stuck in my head I guess. It's not like I'm going to build a fancy tower for this. It's just pipes and pumps going up.

[exotic spindle]

who know what price satis will have on the winter sale?

[whole drum]

I think people mostly do this because real water towers also have some storage capacity, but in game they cause more problems than they solve.

[versed cosmos]

Tbh I don't think the buffer takes anything away and it looks nice

[upper saddle]

#screenshots message

[reef basin]

clip the pipe through it then. same looks, no issues

[whole drum]

The buffer requires extra headlift and then you have to ensure it's always full or it messes with the flow rate of the pipes

If they aren't full, they cause massive sloshing

And the flow rate is influenced by the ratio of how full they are(n't)

[versed cosmos]

Oh I didn't know that

[reef basin]

yeah buffers are practically never a good option (apart from buffering train stations)

[whole drum]

The only real legitimate use for them is to stage liquids for transportation (by trains for now, trucks in the next update)

[plucky chasm]

guys does the game still add content in itsu pdates or what have they become?

[versed cosmos]

we still get content

like gilga just said we're getting fluid trucks next update

[real shale]

traffic lights

oh wow, thanks discord for doing the thing where you arent at the bottom of chat

[whole drum]

I love when it does this

[cunning lily]

No way to know for sure. Steamdb often keeps price history, a third party web app, and its a way to gauge trends, but its not a guarantee.

[exotic spindle]

ok, ty

[reef basin]

nobody except maybe devs and they won't announce it for obvious reasons
(it's also possible it won't be on sale)

[keen light]

I don't think we'll see anything big like new ores or tiers, but there are new things. Like in 1.1 they added priority mergers and some other odds and ends

depends on what you consider content

[plucky chasm]

thats not enough

[reef basin]

I mean they said that the game is practically feature complete

[leaden turret]

equal to or less than it's current price

[keen light]

well that's probably all we'll get, game is released and it's not live service

[reef basin]

so we won't be getting big new features

[leaden turret]

spline foundations

[plucky chasm]

sad

why no logic gates

[leaden turret]

there's a mod for that

[keen light]

logic gates is possible

[leaden turret]

you sure about that? 😛

December 9th, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: What's the Satisfactory 5-year plan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGX4HqoypQg

[keen light]

I'm not sure actually, more machines and stuff would be sweet, but I don't expect it for a finished game.

[leaden turret]

there's a difference between "released" and "finished"

[keen light]

mikael has a deep voice, sexy 😄

[whole drum]

If I had to put money on it, it'll probably get the Grim Dawn treatment--game is "finished" from the standpoint of being a complete, released product, but they will probably continue to do small updates here and there between occasional larger (paid) expansions several years apart.

[leaden turret]

May 14th, 2024
Q&A: Mikel body pillow, when? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpDK-CNq8yo

[leaden turret]

minimum viable product vs. "we have no more ideas that are financially viable to develop"

"Satisfactory could've hit 1.0 without trains"

discuss

[keen light]

Hmm so they are thinking about expansions or similar

[whole drum]

I don't really consider it either of those

[whole drum]

This is speculation on my part. I don't know what they are thinking.

[keen light]

I mean he pretty much said it

He didn't promise anything, but said they were looking at options

[whole drum]

I'm just looking at it from the perspective of non-Live Service that they may want to continue development for, but whose staff still need to eat

[keen light]

I hope they are working on a sequel, dlc would be fine too

[leaden turret]

live service is the same as putting the true ending in paid DLC

[whole drum]

I would like them to expand into more water-based stuff for potential expansion content. Building stuff under lakes or in the sea.

[plucky chasm]

the real questions is when factorio is getting an update

[leaden turret]

"just play subnautica" is the official stance, last I checked

[whole drum]

This makes no sense

[plucky chasm]

nahh

[reef basin]

factorio devs are going to work on other projects and only do bugfixes

[whole drum]

I get that, but that game has a different vibe entirely

[leaden turret]

in terms of story content, not having the ending be in the initial release

[whole drum]

Oh ok

[leaden turret]

satisfactory: = spoopy
subnautica: 🐙 = your spoopy is wet

[whole drum]

Wasn't sure what you meant by it, because Live Service means something in particular and SF doesn't really do that

[keen light]

pumping up and connecting pipes to go down seems to be working. Time to put it to the test and sink some output.

[leaden turret]

content is ongoing vs. all the content there at release

[spare bolt]

help

I can't launch Satisfactory

every time I try it says I'm missing SML

whatever that is

[leaden turret]

you uninstalled your mods incorrectly

[wind siren]

hrm, so i have this blueprint i got off the scim site whenever i got to place it its just a shadow and not really there?

[spare bolt]

I uninstalled my game and reinstalled it on a different drive

[keen light]

Did you get both files?

[whole drum]

Yeah, Grim Dawn and Diablo 2 were definitely not "Live Service," but each content step was "complete" at release. This is why a paid expansion is still fine without falling under that umbrella.

[silk ocean]

Quick google suggests it's still trying to load SML from somewhere

[leaden turret]

were they "true ending in the dlc" tho?

[silk ocean]

Possibly your appdata structure

[wind siren]

never needed them before? just the one

[whole drum]

Depends what you mean by "true ending."

[leaden turret]

"cliffhanger unless you give us money"

[wind siren]

where does the cfg file go then? same folder?

[keen light]

same folder

[wind siren]

hmm, same issue as before except the bluprint icon is diff 🙂

[hard vale]

Why are pipelines so weird?

[leaden turret]

insufficient feedback on the internal fluid simulation

[wind siren]

oh this is weird

[hard vale]

Like I have a pipeline with 600 crude oil, hooked up to 20 Refineries that each take 30/min. Why are some not filling up and others are over-filled all the time?

[wind siren]

i went under the foundation i placed it on and its loading/building in

[hard vale]

is there any way to fix this

[keen light]

you might need to restart the game after getting new blueprints

[whole drum]

Yeah, gonna have to reject this premise, actually. That's not what "Live Service" means at all. It's a particular business model and one that isn't tied to how an ending is handled--many don't even have (or plan to have) any real endings.

[leaden turret]

well of course not.

I was explaining "true ending in the dlc"

[whole drum]

Still has nothing to do with Live Service, though

[leaden turret]

never said it did

[whole drum]

Then what is this about?

[leaden turret]

that is about me multi-tasking and not paying full attention to my own argument

the same in terms of "not a finished product"

different business models tho

[whole drum]

Ah, fair enough

You meant it as an analogy

I thought you were meaning it definitionally

[leaden turret]

so Satis 1.0 is a released product, rather than being released in an incomplete state with paid DLC or a live service model releasing the already-planned content for it to be a full release

hence my suggestion that Satis could've done a 1.0 release without trains

[whole drum]

Right

[leaden turret]

buuuut it's not a finished game

[whole drum]

In the sense that it can be seen as a complete released product, it is

In the sense that they can always add more, it isn't

[leaden turret]

released = you're not missing out on anything should any further development plans be cancelled

live service / true-ending-in-the-dlc get cancelled? you're s.o.l. in knowing how the story ends

see also why early access release model gets flak when studios never do a full release

[whole drum]

I think when it comes to SF, I have an inverted view on it

The story was more of an afterthought, so if they ever finish it, I'll see that as "bonus"

[leaden turret]

ehhh.... not an afterthought if they spent years on it

[whole drum]

It was never the main focus of the game

[leaden turret]

not the same as being an afterthought

[whole drum]

If you played the game with no sound and ADA off, it changes nothing about the gameplay.

Seems pretty afterthought to me

[leaden turret]

optional

not being a core part of the gameplay experience is not the same as being an afterthought

[whole drum]

The core gameplay is complete, though, and that's what actually matters

[leaden turret]

-# insert joke about QC being an afterthought at bethesda here

[wind siren]

the dimensional depot has totally changed the game for me :/

[whole drum]

Yeah, it does

[wind siren]

i went out last night to find a hdd recipe and spent 8 hours just circling the map on my hoverpack and netting the map in power lines

[leaden turret]

afterthought would be more.... awkwardly shoehorned in, conflicts with gameplay etc. etc.

[whole drum]

It can also be just tacked on--and that's the vibe it gives

[wind siren]

not sure how some of these blueprints have water extractors in them high up out of the possiblity of water and yet still function

[whole drum]

Wym?

[wind siren]

there's no water and they be extracting water?

[whole drum]

What blueprints?

[wind siren]

just about all of the ones i have found so far

[whole drum]

You mean recipes?

[wind siren]

try this one https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/blueprints/index/details/id/9685/name/Phase+3+EncasedBeam+18.936+mk4+4x3

no, actual builds

thgis one has one upside down and another sideways

[whole drum]

I'm going to guess that the water is a byproduct of a recipe or you are intended to hook up external water to it

[wind siren]

pure iron ingot and wet concrete in this blueprint so no water byproduct

[quaint ibex]

guys i was tring to make turbo fuel but im having issues

[whole drum]

Yeah, that only makes sense if you attach external water--so he probably just deleted the connecting pipes for the purposes of the screenshot

[quaint ibex]

i connected fuel inputs to refinieries and filled them with compacted coal beforehand

but they dont take fuel for some reason?

i was relying on fuel enerygy before this and connected my all my fuel production to turbo fuel production and then turbo fuel to generators

[whole drum]

You have the right recipe selected?

[quaint ibex]

but it didnt work out and now im out of power

yes ev erything is selected

[whole drum]

Well, if you don't have power, they won't draw from the pipes

[quaint ibex]

i had power but i run out of it and they didnt pull fuel from pipelines while everything was working

because they didnt pull im out of power right now

[whole drum]

Then y ou have a pipe issue, or the refiners making the fuel have an issue

[quaint ibex]

pipes have fuel

refineries dont pull from pipes i tried reconnecting but doesnt work

[whole drum]

They have power lines connected?

[quaint ibex]

yes

[whole drum]

You should make a thread in #1038092680493801533 with screenshots

[quaint ibex]

bro its so cringe do i have to make new coal power plant just to make them work now?

[whole drum]

Unless you can get some of the old fuel gets to work

Set up a burner array to kick start a couple of them

[quaint ibex]

i have no fuel in the generators

[wind siren]

the extractors are producing water though without being in water and there's no external feed to provide water

[quaint ibex]

i guess i isolate my fuel power plant and use biofuel to start 😭😭😭

[whole drum]

That would only work with mods unless there's other important info you (or the author) have left out

[wind siren]

i just placed the blueprint 😄

only mod i have is the larger blueprint size extension

[whole drum]

With the default blueprint designer in game, you can't even place water extractors in it

Even if you put the design frame in the water

I have tested this

[wind siren]

i wonder if the author built the blueprint with mods and they saved with the blueprint?

[whole drum]

I would assume so, because extractors only check to be placed in the water, but I don't think their ability to draw water actually depends on that--because why would they be if placement prohibits invalid configurations?

[wind siren]

hmm, so all they need is a mod to allow the extractor to be placed in with the print and they just work?

[whole drum]

That's how it seems

I would assume this is specifically why they can't be placed in the bp designer

[wind siren]

also seems the bp placement doesnt know/check if items are available via dimensional depot

[real shale]

black start time baby gotta love it

[leaden turret]

scenegraph shenanigans about bp designer not having a water tank 😛

[dusk kelp]

Hello

[real shale]

hello

[dusk kelp]

Anyone going through the fixsmas calendar

[real shale]

yeah, i got ....uh what did i get today actually

a harddrive i think

[dusk kelp]

I haven’t started because of high school exams

[dusk kelp]

Nice

[real shale]

the event goes on until Jan 18th? iirc

so you got plenty of time

[dusk kelp]

Nice

Do any of the quantum machines do anything

[real shale]

quantum machines?

[dusk kelp]

Quantum encoder

Stuff like that

[real shale]

uh, for the event, not that i know of, seems ficsmas is catered to beginner level to make it accessible to all

[dusk kelp]

Makes sense

[real shale]

most you need are assemblers

[dusk kelp]

Makes sense. They want everyone to enjoy the experience

What are you working on in your world right now

[sand skiff]

Hi, is there a mod that disables "too steep" feature?

[real shale]

RCU automation.... because i've been just fixing everything in my world rather than actually progressing lmao

[dusk kelp]

Yes there is

[sand skiff]

How is that mod called ? Thank you in advance.

[real shale]

i've been sitting on the same milestone for months on end, i like that the game is very....self-paced albeit at the kittens and puppies expense

[dusk kelp]

Right now I am working on a nuclear power plant

[dusk kelp]

Not sure what it’s called but let me check

Btw are you talking about the warnings when you start up the game

[sand skiff]

No i want to build very steep conveyor belts

[leaden turret]

looks at conveyor lifts

[plucky chasm]

LOL

[sand skiff]

i can't fit in that one

[dusk kelp]

?

[dusk kelp]

I like that about it to

[leaden turret]

⬛⬛
⬛⬛
⬛⬛
⬛⬛
🏃‍♀️‍➡️

[real shale]

horizontal lifts when

[dusk kelp]

Yea

[plucky chasm]

lift belts when

[leaden turret]

🔄🖥️

[sand skiff]

I thank everyone for the alternatives, but i just want steep conveyor belts

[magic rune]

why do truck stations sometimes just... ignore me pressing F to tell the station to load/unload? truck cargo bay is fully empty...

[dusk kelp]

Me when I use 100% of my brain power on something other that a factory

[real shale]

they are....buggy at times, you gotta go back in and out a few times

[leaden turret]

0.1.5

[plucky chasm]

you need to not be moving at all i had the some problem

[dusk kelp]

I don’t use trucks

I’m to dumb to understand them

[plucky chasm]

theyre just 2 clicks and a ride

-.-

[real shale]

i really wish traffic lights were a thing for truck networks, but i can see why that might be a bit... hard to implement

[plucky chasm]

tetotetotetotetotetotetoteto

[dusk kelp]

Yea

[real shale]

not having the things deadlock for that 1% scenario where they cross paths on a 2 way lane would be nice

[sand skiff]

I thought i'd check in on the Discord server if anyone knows such mod, because people here are bound to be more knowledgeable than any in other place

[magic rune]

oddly in autopilot mode, they begin the unloading (both stack removal and the animation) several seconds before the truck physically stops... it's only during manual piloting that it's having issues

[plucky chasm]

yes yes

[leaden turret]

stoplight = force deadlock state

[plucky chasm]

is a 1km long conveyor belt cool tho?

[dusk kelp]

I hate fluids

[leaden turret]

that's a bit short

[real shale]

Soon they will be fixed

[plucky chasm]

serious?

[magic rune]

i've done cross map belts before, i'm trying NOT to this time, hence the trucks

[plucky chasm]

ahhhhhh

[dusk kelp]

I just had to learn actual fluid mechanics to make something work

[real shale]

im really looking forward to fluid trucks in the next update

[leaden turret]

SCIM says one of my saves has ~9km of belt

[plucky chasm]

coul anyone explain how this works with no water?
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/blueprints/index/details/id/11015/name/Coal+Power+Plant

[plucky chasm]

dayum bro wth

[dusk kelp]

Btw who here is an organized player

[plucky chasm]

i wan thinking of just doing a long 1km foundations road thats 3 or 4 foundations wide then making traffic on it

[plucky chasm]

me i have personal storages

[dusk kelp]

I like to have neat factories

[leaden turret]

https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=viaduct+AND+roads

[real shale]

i like to have completely unfinished but efficient factories lol

[plucky chasm]

i sincerely apologize for touching this game

[real shale]

ignore the fact none of them have proper ceilings..... theres been a construction worker shortage lately....

[leaden turret]

everybody starts with spaghett

[plucky chasm]

im too lazy to get steel so i spent 70 AWESOME tickets buying em

[real shale]

NOOOOOO

[dusk kelp]

Noooooooooooo

[plucky chasm]

and finishes with lazagna

[dusk kelp]

It’s so inefficient

[magic rune]

sweet beans in a basket

[leaden turret]

nu, some people finish with spaghett

[real shale]

thats 70 tickets you could have spent towards the golden nut

[leaden turret]

see https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=spaghett vs https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=lasagn

[plucky chasm]

its okay i have 2 nuts already

[dusk kelp]

How

How much do you sink

[leaden turret]

[archer voice] phrasing

[real shale]

okay thats 70 tickets you could have spent towards a THIRD golden nut

[plucky chasm]

GOSH-

[plucky chasm]

no i meant an other kind of nut

[dusk kelp]

Anyone want to play In a new world with me

[real shale]

i'm hungry.... Grill me a cheese.....

[plucky chasm]

will america conquer the planet instead if i produce inefficient oil refineries?

(out of pure anger and capitalism)

[real shale]

so...many train lines..... im going insane

[magic rune]

...is me putting foundations in front of my truck stops, 1m below the level of the stop, what might be causing problems?

[whole drum]

They know how to use the resources better than you do, so... maybe

[leaden arch]

Is that when you mentally unlock verticality

[real shale]

what's verticality

[whole drum]

You'll know it when you get there

[real shale]

W I D E factory

[leaden arch]

Eldritch horror beyond your comprehension. A factory that is impossibly wide. Whatever room you're in, the factory is wider than that. Imagine the widest room you can imagine. This factory is wider than that. Its other proportions remain the same. Its name is Wide Factory.

[peak wasp]

Hi guys i just bought satisfactory, its like my first ever game to play in my life, is this good worth game will satisfy my needs as a hard working network engineer student?

[whole drum]

If you already have full-time responsibilities, it may not be wise to start playing this

[leaden arch]

Play Factorio instead

[peak wasp]

i got like 20 hours free time across my whole week

[real shale]

Took em from one deep end to an even deeper end

[whole drum]

I actually find SF easier to sink into than Factorio

[peak wasp]

i must see this factorio too is it on steam?

[whole drum]

Ya

[peak wasp]

ah i dont like 2d

[whole drum]

Yeah, Sf is much prettier

[peak wasp]

i seen the game on youtube

[rocky scarab]

steam says 153hrs in the past 2 weeks...
i may have a problem

[real shale]

nah its only a problem when you are spending more hours than are actually in 2 weeks

[rocky scarab]

why can't i sloop my time

[peak wasp]

2 weeks? jeez bro you unemployed?

[rocky scarab]

in between projects, so yesn't

[quaint ibex]

guys do i lose items per min carry potential if i use trains?

[white dawn]

A train route will have a maximum throughput for a single car, based on the round-trip time of the train and the stack size of the item

But if you're successfully putting (say) 400/min into a train car, you'll get 400/min out on the far side

[reef basin]

no

[white dawn]

Maximum total throughput for a single car/platform is less than 2x your max belt speed, since the station stops transferring while the train is docking

But if you find that your route exceeds the throughput capacity of a single car, remember you can always just add another and split between 'em

[peak wasp]

hm, tbh this game might suit me then. I need some mental time so this game might be my go to

mental health is so important these days

[rocky scarab]

i mean it will stop you from thinking about anything else if you properly dive in

you decide if that's healthy

[real shale]

your cognitive patterns will be rewritten with the optimal math behind 100% efficient factories

[peak wasp]

i got a routine

[whole drum]

For now*

[peak wasp]

👀

[stoic steeple]

I will tell you that what they both said about it becoming the only thing you think about is absolutely true

[peak wasp]

i dont think it will tbh no way

what could go wrong as soon as i click play for first tme ever

[real shale]

just make sure you have a notepad or something to take notes when you play

[rocky scarab]

clarkson 'how hard can it be?' moment

[peak wasp]

whys that, is there like planning and such?

[whole drum]

So, mostly people are just meme'ing... but there is real potential for it to be addictive, depending on your personality type

[rocky scarab]

yeah on a serious note i can't recommend it enough

[peak wasp]

im in the main menu and i think im going to marry my pc soon thinking about it

[real shale]

Yes, unless you are insane and want spaghetti, then no planning just slap something together and make it work

[stoic steeple]

I seriously do think about this game all the time

[rocky scarab]

(same but i like it)

[peak wasp]

do i do tutorial or do i be stupid and go for skip

oh ye where do i start

i like the desert

[stoic steeple]

Do the tutorial

[white dawn]

If you skip and then ask questions in here which are answered in the tutorial, you'll be getting silently judged, fwiw. :D

[stoic steeple]

Any starting zone will work. It's all on the same map

[whole drum]

Do it. It's nice.

[peak wasp]

oh i thought its 4 worlds

[real shale]

a lot of people start in grassy fields but each of the starting locations have their ups and downs that become known as some point

[leaden arch]

I haven't set up any production in like 30 game hours, I'm just trying to route every resource on the map to my future mega factory

[real shale]

eventually the ups and downs dont matter as you expand anyway

[peak wasp]

alr, wheres the best spot then to start

wheres the most fun

[white dawn]

The descriptions given on the selection screen are accurate

[peak wasp]

Most challenging lets say

[white dawn]

Pick whatever you want; in the end it doesn't matter

And I'll additionally add that you're going to have a hard time with this game if you can't make that kind of decision on your own. :)

There are vanishingly few "right" answers for things in this game. At its core it's a sandbox game. Do what you want to, and have fun!

[peak wasp]

i lowkey wanna pick all 4 zones, i hate deciding my fate in a split

[white dawn]

I mean, it's not your fate, though?

[rocky scarab]

grassy fields is great for learning to build, northern forest has lots of height variation so it can be painful early game, deserts have LOADS of stuff so you won't have to expand until oil

[real shale]

Grassy fields is always fun for the T3 realisation of "oh, oh no i need to travel THAT far"

[white dawn]

Pick one, build a factory. Walk to another place and build your next factory there.

[real shale]

yeah LMAO

[white dawn]

The game will be frequently encouraging you to expand across the map anyway

[peak wasp]

ill bury the whole map under my 1 big concreete floor

[whole drum]

I hate Grasslands and don't recommend it to ANYONE--newb or not

[real shale]

me hitting the scan for oil and getting increasingly more worried as it takes longer and longer to find oil

[white dawn]

If you like. Sounds boring to me, but you do you. :)

[whole drum]

It's still very doable tho

[rocky scarab]

the swamp must always be paved

[stoic steeple]

You can always move to a different starting area. I did that. I started in grass fields and I moved to dune desert

[peak wasp]

grasslands, why is it shit?

[real shale]

oil

[white dawn]

Contrariwise, I'm quite fond of grasslands, and think it's a great start for both newbies and older players alike

[whole drum]

Resources are too mild for my tastes

[white dawn]

It's not. Some people just have Opinions.

[peak wasp]

at this rate i wanna pick the moon

[real shale]

oil is 1km away from grasslands spawn so it forces you to build infrastructure, which is what i kinda like about the grasslands tbh

[peak wasp]

wheres the map for moon

[white dawn]

Which will be another frequent occurance when you ask "what should I do" type questions in the server

[stoic steeple]

Grass Fields is pretty but it is fairly sparse in resources

[white dawn]

You're gonna get twelve conflicting opinions within the space of a few minutes

So, again: just do whatever you want. It's fine. If you don't like your starting spot, just pick up some resources and go elsewhere.

[stoic steeple]

It is sufficient to start however

[whole drum]

Spoiler, but this is the reason:
||https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1450096118175105054||

[peak wasp]

you know what, lets do a quick poll, tell me all of you guys which zone to pick and the most answers i pick that. i cant decide for myself

[white dawn]

How about not?

Seriously. If you can't make this decision, you're going to have a real hard time with this game

[real shale]

wait what....nobellisks can drop from the sky?

[stoic steeple]

Dune desert

[peak wasp]

i need decision regardless

[real shale]

OH MY GOD

[whole drum]

I don't want to tell you what to pick. I'll only say that you might enjoy NOT picking Grasslands 😄

[white dawn]

Just roll a D4. If you don't have one, you can find many die-rollers online

[peak wasp]

Going once, going twice! dune desert?

[white dawn]

By the same token, they might not enjoy any of the other spots

[real shale]

i cannot belive i fell for that....

[white dawn]

Grass Fields is great as a start.

[rocky scarab]

dewit

[white dawn]

If you don't like it, fine, but there's no reason to try and convince a new player who's never even opened the game that it's somehow bad

[peak wasp]

alright im starting on desert (technically its mars)

[leaden arch]

Wait til this man has to choose balancers or manifolds

[rocky scarab]

it's massage 22 a/b

[stoic steeple]

Grass Fields
Rocky Desert
Northern Forest
Dune Desert

[whole drum]

One is Mars, one is Mercury

[peak wasp]

thank you all for this amazing time of making me suffer in dune, i hope to come back here to beg for questions (hopefully not)

[whole drum]

That's what #1038092680493801533 is for

[peak wasp]

and yeah i guess i get started

[peak wasp]

exactly you straight on point!

[stoic steeple]

There actually is quite a bit of biomass in Dune desert if you go to the right place

[peak wasp]

dont even know what that is what ill try

[real shale]

okay, fair play coffee stain, you actually got me good with that "totally normal ficsmas gift"

[stoic steeple]

Leaves and wood for early fuel

[real shale]

not an expected result

[peak wasp]

ah

[stoic steeple]

Usually when someone says something is "totally normal," it's not lol

[peak wasp]

why is this ai thing talking to me

[whole drum]

You mean NPC?

[peak wasp]

its making my ears bleed

[peak wasp]

idk

[real shale]

i didnt think it would BLOW UP lmao, i just thought it was an odd pick up

[whole drum]

Oh, wait. You mean ADA

She's basically like Cortana

[peak wasp]

oh hell no, not the microsoft shit

[stoic steeple]

I bet you were blown away

[real shale]

It actually scared me

[peak wasp]

if i can change it to the voice of that hot ai thats in gta online mansion, please tell me right away

👀

[whole drum]

Don't know which one you're talking about. I don't play bad games.

[peak wasp]

oh you good boy?

[stoic steeple]

Same

[peak wasp]

yall give me some tips early on

[whole drum]

Don't die

[peak wasp]

i dont even know how to die

[whole drum]

You're doing well so far then

[peak wasp]

your speaking like that ai ada thing in game

[lone marten]

Build a factory

[rocky scarab]

i liked ada until she said i had 'a glaring inefficiency i hadn't fixed' in a late tier

friendship with ada ❌ mercer sphere is my new bestie

[peak wasp]

you wanna build that for me? ill design the architecture behind it

im glad there isnt any scorpians in this bloody desert, its pitch black

[green gale]

Just wanna say in my hundreds of hours of playing, I have finally started making Adaptive Control Units

[peak wasp]

skull him up

[whole drum]

Maybe you just can't see them. Did you know they glow under a black light?

[reef basin]

experiment on your own, don't watch videos or guides 🙂

[peak wasp]

[plucky chasm]

also always kill the beans

youll get praised

[green gale]

that Kibbles guy made me think my factories were inferior. but now i know theyre mine and theyre great!

[golden nexus]

did it makes stuff?

[green gale]

yes

[real shale]

welp, at least i got 20 nobelisks for my miniature heart attack

[golden nexus]

then its fine

[buoyant pivot]

you can use the beans as trampolines after they day

die`

[plucky chasm]

yes

i kill em with nobelisks

[undone citrus]

I awaken

At 3:21 pm

[stoic steeple]

Good morning

[undone citrus]

The more I play satisfactory the more time I lose to play satisfactory. I must wake up earlier

[stoic steeple]

It's a vicious cycle

[zealous valley]

I built an aluminum plant that worked for like 10 minutes before stopping.

[shy mulch]

Kibitz?

[zealous valley]

I can't see the reason why though

[slender quest]

Before death as well, just gotta climb them first.

[shy mulch]

Loads of potential reasons, but most likely one is liquid output is full and isn't being used

[zealous valley]

Where are steam screenshots saved?

[white dawn]

ooooooOOooh, kickstarter rewards from the last Heroic Replica thing showed up!

[reef basin]

#faq

[zealous valley]

Nevermind I posted in #screenshots

[rocky scarab]

like they said, output clogged

likely the next one in the chain is full of water on output - that's what tends to stall an alu setup

[hot quail]

Can I make my train station unload only plastic from one entrance and PCBs from the other?

[white dawn]

The locomotive will "dock" at the forward "station" bit, and then each loading platform/car can be configured to load/unload (with other optional settings as well)

[zealous valley]

The alumina is being sent to another refinery to turn into aluminum scrap but it is also sitting idle

[undone citrus]

His latest fuel plant inspired my oil plant

[white dawn]

If you want to have two cars deliver to two stations, just make sure you've got two freight platforms set to unload

[zealous valley]

I rerouted the output water back into the system

[drowsy kelp]

Are you sure it isn’t clogged, is switched on, etc

[rocky scarab]

add in a few fluid buffers and check that you're producing the net from water extractors, not the initial needed amount

[south idol]

it's got too much alumina solution in it, another batch would overfill

saw your screenshot

[drowsy kelp]

It’s clogged…

[hot quail]

This much I know, I have one docking station set up and I'd like the one station to unload only plastic from one hole and PCBs from the second one, since that'd be more effective than just putting both of theese through smart distributor that'll "melt" through one stack of Plastic and then go to another one

[rocky scarab]

smart spillter is the only solution, just make sure you have the fastest belts possible and unload from both outputs at once

personally i only mix cargo if it's in very small amounts, like final factory outputs

[undone citrus]

If smart splitter was a 20 year old woman id marry her

[rocky scarab]

damn high standards much

[undone citrus]

Lmao

[strong fiber]

I just got mk5 belts unlocked

[undone citrus]

I still have to build my inventory sorter

[zealous valley]

Two refineries make 240 m of alumina solution which is the amount needed to make aluminum scrap. How is it clogging the refinery?

[short root]

Byproduct? Ah no, I saw your screenshots now: The Aluminium Scrap is not used. This clogs back everything.

[rocky scarab]

the output is full on the screenshot you shared, it needs 12m3 of space to produce the next batch

[undone citrus]

Im definitely not a pro so take this with a grain of salt but I just slightly, like decimals, overclock the machine to use more. But I'm new lmao

[rocky scarab]

that's a fine fix to get it restarted, but ideally you want it running at 100% and not switching off and on

[undone citrus]

My oil biproducts are just being packaged, the packager isn't running at 100% but it doesn't need too, it's the excess

[short root]

In the endgame, you have such fluctuating power though, that you will not have 100 % power efficiency, and machines turninf on and off won't matter anymore.

[rocky scarab]

i know it hurts

[short root]

I am fine with it 😂 ups and downs

[rocky scarab]

but also if your stuff is switching on and off, the output is fluctuating and it will mess up everything down the chain as well

[unkempt blade]

you do?

[short root]

Ever built a quantum encoder?

[undone citrus]

I don't stop working on my power until it's 100%

But that's easy for now

[unkempt blade]

just needs some power storage 😄

[short root]

Doesn't change the fluctuation tho 😅

[rocky scarab]

i long for the days of max and current consumption being the same, flat line

[undone citrus]

Oh yeah

I forgot I had those unlocked I should make them

[white dawn]

Woo, resale value of Pioneer+Doggo figurines: tanked. 🥳

[undone citrus]

My grid is susceptible to death

[undone citrus]

I read your name and my brain always says apothecary diaries

[unkempt blade]

buy buy! sell sell! 🤑

[rocky scarab]

rear palace themed factory when

[undone citrus]

Yo wait

That would be a sick main project

I could potentially try that

[rocky scarab]

i mean the layout is all square, it wouldn't be awful to figure out.. i can think of a few ways to do an asian style roof too...

[stray wagon]

Why do my pipes keep overflowing and backing up I have 5 aluminum scrap machines water feeding into 3 sloppy alumina refineries which should be the exact amount I need

[hard mantle]

i got my reinforced iron plate factory working

[unkempt blade]

sounds like you might have too much for a single pipe?

[grizzled lotus]

I'm building a railroad, and there's this sign with arrows on it. Does it matter which the sign is facing?

[white dawn]

No, that's basically inconsequential

If you're manually driving a train you'll see it change as you choose which direction to go, and I believe automated trains will cause it to change as they go past. But you can basically just ignore 'em

(I say "inconsequential" -- I think they do technically control which way the train will go, even when the train is automated. It's just that the train/tracks will automatically choose the correct one as they go through, so it doesn't matter)

[unkempt blade]

inconsequentomated

[arctic shoal]

Joined mostly to say.. ahem

DEAR GOD I HATE LOAD BALANCING

[tall lantern]

then don't do it

[arctic shoal]

240 into 80 isn't too bad. But 160 into 90 and 50? That hurt

[unkempt blade]

well be at peace because it's generally not necessary 😄

[tall lantern]

either set your machines up to make the right amounts in simpler ratios, or manifold it

[arctic shoal]

i yearn for efficiency

[grizzled lotus]

I think the thing is, it's now about where the arrows pointing, it's that the sign is facing the other way, not where the train is coming from

[tall lantern]

those other options are still perfectly efficient

[grizzled lotus]

it's like driving up to a street with a stop sign, but you're seeing the back of the stop sign

[tall lantern]

eg for your 160(?), you could just make one set of machines make the 90 and one make the 50 (and the other 20 just sits around awkwardly)
or you just slap it all onto one set of belts, and they'll self-balance eventually

[arctic shoal]

True, i totally could've done a manifold. But where's the struggle in that? The raw hatred? The frustration?? That and i hate waiting 😅

[tall lantern]

you can pre-fill machines to help with that

[arctic shoal]

True, didn't think of that..

[tall lantern]

I do like me a balance if it's simple enough numerically

[white dawn]

Yeah, I suppose I went off on a bit of a tangent. No, it really doesn't matter at all. :)

[tall lantern]

but once the numbers get awkward, ehh, the other two methods (or a combination) are easier

[unkempt blade]

it's cool you're just passionate about inconsequentomating stuff

[shy mulch]

My new year resolution is to be more like a smart splitter

[arctic shoal]

Wanna see the monstrocity? (Probably not all that bad considering some of the builds i've seen, but mechanically a nightmare)

[grizzled lotus]

yes

[arctic shoal]

Lemme find a good angle rq

[tall lantern]

at least 160 into 90+50+20 isn't tooooo bad

only 4 levels of split needed

[grizzled lotus]

I've seen people make decent railway u-turns just a foundations wide, but just now I had to make a really really wide turn. is there some option involved or did I just mess up?

[tall lantern]

u-turns are always pretty chonky

[white dawn]

Smallest possible 90° turn in the vanilla game is 3 foundations; a full U-turn would have to be 6

Could be there's mods which allow for tighter turns

[arctic shoal]

Ok a little heads up, it's NOT spagetti 😭 its just 2 outputs awkwardly placed

[unkempt blade]

clearly not spaghetti, more of a farfalle

[arctic shoal]

This guy gets it

Its on #screenshots

[unkempt blade]

I think what's really holding you back though is a lack of color in your crazy contraptions

[tall lantern]

tbf I don't think I've ever intentionally painted anything aside from walls/foundations

[real shale]

I wish there was a paint all button that would paint all existing foundations and stuff a certain Swatch

[unkempt blade]

why do you hate beauty?

[tall lantern]

because I am bad at it

signs do enough of a job

[unkempt blade]

if you used any of the swatches for it and you chance the setup for that swatch it updates everything that used it

[unkempt blade]

practice makes beautiful perfection!

[tall lantern]

I do wish I was better at the whole aesthetics thing

[real shale]

Beauty in imperfection, as they say

[tall lantern]

next time I pick it up again I might try (again) to focus more on that

[grizzled lotus]

if a freight platform has both plastic and rubber, but I set the train to only load plastic, will it only load that?

[real shale]

Yes

[grizzled lotus]

interesting

[arctic shoal]

So from 160 i have it going to:

160 -> 80A+80B
80A -> 40A+40B
80B -> 40C+40D
40D -> 20A+20B
20A -> 10A+10B

10A overflow
10B+40A for 50 out

40B+40C -> 80C (there's probably an easier way but i've come too far)

80C+20B -> 100 out

[tall lantern]

this is the sort of aesthetics you get out of me on a good day
#screenshots message
#screenshots message
#screenshots message
#screenshots message

[real shale]

Have you tried experimenting with different belt upgrades?

[arctic shoal]

Ooo i like the first one

[real shale]

Like mixing a MK1 belt with a MK2 for example?

[arctic shoal]

It has a mix of t2 and 3 belts, since thats all i have 😅

Oh right t1s too

[real shale]

Yeah, there's certain use cases for downgrading belts when load balancing, makes it easier to hit certain values and ratios

[arctic shoal]

Also it is coloured. Its brown like copper -v-

[real shale]

I am cliche and make my pipes copper

Although right now I am making them the Ficsmas skin

[arctic shoal]

Ahh i'm still yet to get there

[real shale]

I'm at the point where the only items from the shop I need now are the statues and mugs

And a boombox everytime I accidentally lose mine

[tall lantern]

I'm so slow I had all of those before finishing the final phase...

[real shale]

Im on phase 4

Forever on the nuclear power milestone because I'm currently growing the factory to do everything other than supercomputers right now lol

[arctic shoal]

I'm rebuilding mine from the ground up to get me some sweet sweet oil

[real shale]

Oh yeah, throughout the game you tend to just go "I've screwed everything up" and rebuild everything lmao

[arctic shoal]

I feel that on a spitirual level

[real shale]

I am terrified of the upgrades im going to need for supercomputer automation if RCUs have taken me so long

[rocky scarab]

Get that oc supercomp alt

[real shale]

I can't, don't have heatsinks yet

Or cooling systems sorry

[grizzled lotus]

how can I adjust or edit the markers for things like docking stations? I want to shrink their radius

[real shale]

Once I have RCUs automated I'll be able to get the supercomputer alt recipe

[rocky scarab]

Yeah now I think it through it just happened to be super convenient for me, takes waaay more alu

But I still rate it, prod is good and cheap to sloop since it’s an assembler

[shrewd shell]

for some reason I decided to make my whole stator/motor factory to completion without turning it on once. Surely nothing will go wrong when i power it up!

[hard mantle]

why is my map not working? i cant even open it

[tall lantern]

have you unlocked it?

[hard mantle]

huh? you have to unlock it

i just assumed because there was the "m" in the bottom right with a map

[tall lantern]

tbh I thought that'd be disabled until you got it, I'm sure it used to be, but yes it's an early unlock

[hard mantle]

when do i unlock it?

[tall lantern]

!wikisearch map

[raven axle]

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

[arctic hound]

iirc its in the mam

[hard mantle]

oh

[arctic hound]

i may be wrong

[undone citrus]

Does anyone else strategically utilize dismantle crates for storage

[tall lantern]

it moved in 1.0

just part of a basic T1 milestone now

[arctic hound]

ah yes mein is correct @hard mantle

[hard mantle]

k ty

oh its not in the mam but its in the unlock where you get themam

[arctic hound]

yeha lol i was close but not right

[real shale]

okay it is now midnight, time to see what is behind door number 18

[tall lantern]

Back In My Day ™ you had to work for your map dammit, needed some progress and actual research or you just use SCIM

[arctic hound]

yeah'

[shrewd shell]

5 more hours for me lol

[agile mountain]

Are there any foreseeable sales for satisfactory coming?

[real shale]

potentially the winter one which is

literally tomorrow

[arctic hound]

i realy need to clean up my base

[agile mountain]

Good to know

[real shale]

man i would love a replica of the pioneers gloves

[agile mountain]

Alright, thank you! I just got some fun money for Christmas but didn't wanna spend most of it on one game
-# I am willing to buy it full price but I figured I'd ask first at least

Does this server have like a Christmas bot for whenever someone says Christmas?😭

[real shale]

festive

[arctic hound]

christmas?

[tall lantern]

ficsmas?

lol no

[arctic hound]

oooof

[tall lantern]

needs more coupons

[arctic hound]

yep

[peak wasp]

you should donate me some

[real shale]

Oh wow, Ada really didnt like the 2nd generation of FICSIT fun engineers huh, referring them as the "2st Generation" on the tape

[arctic hound]

anyone ever did a modulair factory?

[harsh kayak]

Y'all i need a quick reminder

What are those things when you split at every input called

[real shale]

smart splitter

[harsh kayak]

Instead of splitting everything evenly

[real shale]

or programmable splitter

[tall lantern]

manifold

[harsh kayak]

Yes yes manifold

[real shale]

oh

[harsh kayak]

Thank you

[real shale]

didnt read the evenly part afterwards lol

[tall lantern]

I've probably got spare...

[real shale]

sink them all

[undone citrus]

Give me a colour

[real shale]

Magenta

[undone citrus]

Alright

That's a funny hex code

FF00FF

[real shale]

my god this advent reward is the best yet, i love it lmao

[arctic hound]

i got a question

[real shale]

🧺

[arctic hound]

should i go for normal; screw recipie or cast screw recipie (5ingot - 20 screw)

[tall lantern]

as always, depends

if you're super early then cast screw is just a straight upgrade to the base recipe

[arctic hound]

i do have steel screw

but i dont have my modulair smelterys - yet

[tall lantern]

then the question is whether you value the coal more than iron

[peak wasp]

Where is number 14 on the ficsmas calender?

[arctic hound]

sweet hook treat

[peak wasp]

where, i cant see it

this 14 aint on the calender

[arctic hound]

candycane under mas

[wise junco]

there's a hint function built in 😉

[arctic hound]

that too

[peak wasp]

bro i found it, that is like hardest one yet took me 10mins to stare at the calender

thanks

[real shale]

wait till you get to 17

[arctic hound]

i just found that one

[peak wasp]

that one was obvious

[real shale]

i spent forever looking for it, tiniest thing ever

[peak wasp]

Ikr

[keen light]

Just a quick factory, in and out. We got blueprints now. 8 hours later...

[arctic hound]

ive been making mine like modules

[keen light]

My blueprints are probably too generic. It would be a lot fast if I could put down a blueprint, put in ores, and get computers. I don't want to get that specific though because the best recipe depends on what resources are available.

[arctic hound]

idk if im allowed to post images here but i woul;d show what i just set up

[undone citrus]

Perfect choice

[real shale]

What was it for

[undone citrus]

Building pallet

[real shale]

Oh I see

[compact flicker]

Mornin Pioneers

You being efficient?

[zealous urchin]

no

why would u assume that

[compact flicker]

Explain yourself Pioneer, don't you wanna save the puppies and kittens?

[tall lantern]

they can save themselves

[zealous urchin]

damn

ive never been cooked this much

getting immidiately back to wrok

[keen light]

I've made plenty of magic box factories in my time. I think it looks better if you just show all the machines

[feral jay]

Number 7 on the calendar was a nice trick

[real shale]

What was number 7 again

[feral jay]

||Hidden as a candy cane, very large||

[real shale]

Oh you mean like that, yeah lmao

[feral jay]

Dammit they still won't let me inspect the contents of a train station or a car docked in it while it's unloading, that's really annoying because the train system is a bit buggy

[tall lantern]

dismantle hover

[feral jay]

ohhhh damn why didn't I think of that

[tall lantern]

solution to most "how do I tell what's in/on the thing" things lol

good for stuck-looking belts too

[feral jay]

eh, still annoying, it's a much better visual indication when you can see the inventory representation, and you also can't get a throughput measurement

But yeah it works

When it's a train that spends most of its time docked, that's really when it becomes irksome

[tall lantern]

well, throughput when it's [un]loading is 0 😉 but yes, it isn't as easy to mentally do it

[feral jay]

lol

[unkempt blade]

are we talking "while it's unloading not inclusive of the moment it's unloaded"?

[stray wagon]

I have mk 2 pipes filling 3 sloppy alumina refineries from 5 aluminum scrap refineries which should power it just fine but for some reason my water is always backed up is there a reason this is happening

[faint laurel]

Is the crossplay fixed? Got a ps5 and haven’t been able to play with Xbox but everything was saying that I can but it doesn’t work. Was curious if it was a bug or if it’s fixed?

[sullen gull]

#satisfactory-consoles Also, may be worth looking up the latest dev stream.

[gritty sleet]

So nuclear power plants are WAY bigger than I expected. So much for my plan to build a bunch on top of those mountains west of the dune desert...

[sterile blade]

Has the location of screenshots changed...?
I can't find any of the screenshots I (supposedly) just took

[sullen gull]

Shoul still be in %localappdata%\factorygame\saved\screenshots\windows

There is also a button on the Tab menu in photo mode that should open the folder for you

[sterile blade]

Oh, so it has changed...
Thank you ^^

[sullen gull]

Heh, I take it you have not played since before 1.1 release?

[compact flicker]

Hello Pioneers :3

[sterile blade]

I haven't taken any screenshots xD

[sullen gull]

I wanna see! And, there betta be sum sushi! 😏

[half atlas]

FICSIT does not care about OSHA rules

[leaden turret]

#satisfactory-memes message

[zealous urchin]

♻️

[leaden turret]

@wooden owl bug reports don't belong in the meme channel

[zealous urchin]

math teacher personality

[coral marsh]

hi

[sterile blade]

Eh, I'm just messing with light settings 😅
||In a factory whose sushi has been wrecked by the nuclear changes, with the fuse blown and no hoverpack... 😭 ||

But yeah, the shots are up...loading...
24 MB takes a while for my internet...

[coral marsh]

can i share my current nuke reactor build here?

[sullen gull]

#screenshots

[leaden turret]

#screenshots , #1038092680493801533 , or #design-and-architecture depending on context of reason

[coral marsh]

thanks

[sullen gull]

Ooof, and I thought mine was bad 😛

[sterile blade]

G4 has been spotty lately, here...

[sullen gull]

@sterile blade 1.2??

[sterile blade]

There is a bit of sushi 🤏
#screenshots message

[sterile blade]

Are we still on 1.1? I lost track 😆

[compact flicker]

Yep

[sterile blade]

Easy edit :P

[sullen gull]

Got that "in" with the devs eh? 🤣

[half atlas]

Global Warming? I'm hardly warm at all

[leaden turret]

that would be EPA, not OSHA

[sterile blade]

No, I'm just that bad at remembering numbers 😅
(Though, interestingly, that savefile apparently has been used for some tests by the devs)

[half atlas]

We should use flammable refrigerants

[sterile blade]

Something about the number of unique signs was interesting...

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> since lizard doggo milk is highly combustible, is it suitable as a refrigerant?

[coral marsh]

lol

actually that'd be a fun addition to the game, adding in machine coolers so they can make more power or more items but you require a refrigerant.

[leaden turret]

cool the nuclear power tower with milk

[coral marsh]

i've used that mechanci in minecraft many times and it's so much fun, the device cools adjacent amchiens casuing them to be 20% faster, really helps with certain recipes

[placid stirrup]

Ok there Phil of the Future

[coral marsh]

the mod i used in MC uses a gel/liquid called "cryotheum" as it's refrigerant and it's actually cool af.

[leaden turret]

radioactive cheese byproduct

[placid stirrup]

I'd hope it was cool if it was used as a refrigerant

[coral marsh]

also, in using the interactive map for the game, is it supposed to take half an hour or more to load your world into it? i just wanna use it to find all the uranium nodes since 1 or 2 are like, underground and i can't find the cave entrances

[leaden turret]

is your network potato?

[coral marsh]

nope

starlink at i max out at around half a gig per second

i also have a cat7e ethernet cable

should i reload and try again?

[soft marsh]

Anyone do “one click” buildings? Trying to decide if the headache of making a compact blueprint for them is worth it

[sullen gull]

I make "one click" machines.. kinda..Still requires nudging though.

[leaden turret]

check browser dev tools for signs of poopiness, then check in on anthor's discord (linked on the scim website) if continuin to have problems

[coral marsh]

my mate put together a coal plant blueprint, 2 in one click, really helpful but now that i have the mk2 designer i may up that to 4 plants to go alongside the fuel gen blueprint i made

[sullen gull]

Ie, with splitters/mergers, lifts, floor holes, etc, already positioned or attached.

[plain gate]

yeah definitely

i only use blueprint blocks for buildings

[versed cosmos]

just planning out aluminium do i need more casings or alclad sheets?

[coral marsh]

turns out you can get 4 fuel gens in one mk2 designer area, so that helped immensly when i palced down my remaining 100 fuel gens

[honest sleet]

I HAVE SYNTHETIC POWER SHARDS

[sullen gull]

Makes it easier to do stuff like this: #screenshots message

[placid stirrup]

Casings

[plain gate]

probably casings

[coral marsh]

YAY

[versed cosmos]

cool ty

[gentle lion]

So bauxite what am I trying to maximize, aluminum ingots , to make sheeting and casing?

[compact flicker]

Ye

[gentle lion]

That doesn't sound too difficult ...

[versed cosmos]

got any alt recipes?

[gentle lion]

I went ahead and grabbed the uhhh

Sloppy something ? And pure aluminum ingot

[versed cosmos]

yeah those are the good ones

if you've got electrode scrap too you can replace the coal with a much smaller amount of oil

[gentle lion]

I haven't set anything up yet.

[versed cosmos]

use heavy oil residue alt and turn that into petroleum coke

and the oil can help you get rid of byproduct water

[gentle lion]

Ok guess it's a good thing that bauxite is by both lol

[coral marsh]

okay yaa, i just had to reload google, my world save loaded in in less than 10 seconds

[plain gate]

theres a oil node in the red forest, will be helpful

its enough for the entire map of bauxite

[gentle lion]

I'm using the bauxite on the west coast for now

Anyone have a setup on the satisfactory tools I could look at?

[karmic tree]

it's oddly satisfying from dying by going too fast in a hypertube

[sullen gull]

Anymore I like building a massive aluminum plant on the crater lakes with electrode, sloppy and pure recipies mining all 12,300. Using a BP that make 600 per. Though it ends up being about 80 refineries, it uses about 180MW lass power than if putting everyhing at 250% 🤣

[gentle lion]

👀

Yeah I'm not quite there yet lol

[sullen gull]

Having the bauxite vien going through the "center" of the map, it's not bad to bring it all with a belt hwy or train. So need mk6 belts though for maximum effort 😛

[soft marsh]

Saw the responses - niiiice. I’ve been trying to decide on making like a single blueprint for motors, etc etc etc and just stamping them out as I need them. Rn I have a few modules like smelters all crammed into a blueprint that I can stamp out but not actual factories

[sullen gull]

#screenshots message

[plain gate]

oh that's a lot smaller than i pictured

[gentle lion]

That's some spaghetti under there lol

[sullen gull]

How dare! That aint no spahget!!!!

[leaden turret]

is clearly lasagn

[dim flint]

Iron Pipe still feels like cheating.

[gentle lion]

Lol well I mean a kind of spaghetti

[coral marsh]

Ik this isnt the chat for it but idk how to use that one, is anyone able to come help me find a a uranium node? I dont know what the process is for multiplayer in this game

[gentle lion]

I made the radiation suit mined some uranium by hand then dropped it into the dimensional Depot lol

[coral marsh]

I would do that but im already near the node and am on a mission to belt all uranium over to where ive got my nuclear plant at

Mk3 miner on all of them with max OC

[gentle lion]

I just did it for fun also it was on top of a Mercer sphere ...that's almost diabolical

[coral marsh]

Lmao

[primal obsidian]

let my sister use my computer now everything is desaturated how did she even manage this

how am i supposed to tell if my building looks good

[silk ocean]

Monitor or nvidia/amd settings?

[feral jay]

I'm trying to get my power consumption line perfectly flat, it's quite a challeng ein this game

[silk ocean]

Never gonna happen xD

I guess you haven't got into the later game stuff yet like particle accelerators

[feral jay]

Well not if everything's on one circuit, no, but I can isolate fluctuating draws on seperate grids

[silk ocean]

They have massively varying consumption, it's impossible to get it anywhere near a flat line

[feral jay]

Yeah accelerators and the like are an issue with this

Haven't got that far on this save yet

[silk ocean]

Not worth separate grids just to get a flat line xD

[feral jay]

Not for you perhaps, but I enjoy the challenge of overengineering my power gird

[silk ocean]

Overengineering is different to trying to achieve a flat consumption line 😉

[primal obsidian]

good luck man\

[feral jay]

Right now it's even just the sinks, they don't have a constant draw. They're isolated on a seperate grid, but if I shut them down to troubleshoot, my production lines back up and everything gets fucked up

[primal obsidian]

literally impossible wiht late game stuff

[feral jay]

Again, separate grids for fluctuating draws

[silk ocean]

I have OCD as much as the next guy but what you are trying to achieve is a pipe dream xD

[feral jay]

Yes it's impossible basically as soon as you use trains, let alone accelerators

[silk ocean]

Yea was going to say, even if you get close, trains will spoil it for you XD

[feral jay]

Trains have their own grid, as do drones

[silk ocean]

Strange setup xD

[feral jay]

Oh that much we agree on

I be crazy

I suppose the challenge would be better reframed as "place all fluctuating power consumers on seperate power girds"

[primal obsidian]

#screenshots message

[feral jay]

Yup separate grids for those

[primal obsidian]

whole power plants just for a single factory basically?

[feral jay]

No, multiple worldwide power grids

[primal obsidian]

ok so 1 for all the non fluctuating things and one for everything that does fluctuate

[feral jay]

#screenshots message

[zealous urchin]

zatie zatie

[feral jay]

I spend a lot of time stringing power lines

[coral marsh]

Scanning hard drives, I got the instant plutonium cells recipe, quite happy. I wasn't going to take the other recipe option lol, I dont need more coal alts

[primal obsidian]

power tower at home

[lost rapids]

Haii

[primal obsidian]

OH SHOOT I JUST LOOKED AT THE TIME ITS 11 PM I HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 6

[feral jay]

Come on man, just one more turn...

[coral marsh]

For the cyclotrons, does the power consumption increase the closer the recipe is to being finished?

[feral jay]

IIRC it peaks halfway through

[coral marsh]

Fun

I honestly, absolutely love particle accelerators, they're so cool so im very happy I can build them in this game

I almost wish they where significantly larger though and had to be built in parts so they end up having a 5 or 6km radius. (With having multiple outputs, inputs etc)

[glass pagoda]

hello

[coral marsh]

Hello

[flint grail]

Seeing everyone get so toxic on me for saying the "water tower" technique is not needed is very upsetting

[glass pagoda]

i will forever love gaming with doc even if sometimes stuff is not needed

[feral jay]

That's unusual, this game generally has a very nontoxic player base

[glass pagoda]

RAHHHH U ####### bleeeep rahhh

[sullen meadow]

has anyone had a game performance issue when the power storage charge?

[feral jay]

Actually this all came out of the challenge I set for myself this save to have every machine running at 100% all the time except for sinks and temporary project assembly

[glass pagoda]

nah but i dont use many of them so i dont know if its valid to say so myself

[flint grail]

Legit, I only use pumps, even going uphill. I pay attention to everything the pump shows me and have had no issues

[feral jay]

No, and I've built some pretty massive power storage farms

Been a good while though

[sullen meadow]

i have just a 5x5 and i cant even look in the direction of them without my frames going to ~5

[glass pagoda]

have you watched gaiming with doc?

[sullen meadow]

and everything is on low

[flint grail]

I have a feeling it’s from the playerbase that has been here for a while

[silk ocean]

Hello wizard cat

[glass pagoda]

might be ur graphics card'

[flint grail]

Only clips. His oil to fuel production clip I use cause that’s easy for me to remember and understand

[glass pagoda]

i feel its from the new players who think they know everything but they are rare

[sullen meadow]

2060ti, but this is the first time i’ve hd a problem with it

granted i only had about 15 storages last time

[glass pagoda]

hes cool he plays with his son

[flint grail]

Also could be how long the PC/game has been running

[glass pagoda]

satisfactory is quite draining after you have been runing it for a bit

[sullen meadow]

only 8 hours so far today

[flint grail]

As well as for how long your PC has been running

[sullen meadow]

i had a server auto close cause i had it on 24h with no performance issue

[flint grail]

I usually have to restart my PC every 3 days to keep the game playable

[glass pagoda]

welp that would explain it

[feral jay]

It happens sometimes with the fluid dynamics, I remember getting into an argument with someone the other day about whether or not pumps/valves prevent backflow and people just refused to believe it (they don't).

So perhaps your water tower topic sparked something similar

[sullen meadow]

its not the fact that i have the batteries there, its that my performance (when looking in the direction) gets worse as they charge more

[glass pagoda]

yeah i keep it on low settings besides textures how about you

[flint grail]

I can do high to ultra on most

[glass pagoda]

brochocho what are you runing on

[flint grail]

Maybe

[flint grail]

Ryzen and a 6600 XT with 16 GB of RAM

[feral jay]

Or my "I want a flat power draw graph" challenge. People jump to "that's impossible", which is generally true, but I'm doing it in a rather extreme way

[sullen meadow]

whats your fps???

[flint grail]

Idr the specific CPU, but it’s in my message history

[flint grail]

60+ outside my warehouse

[glass pagoda]

im on a dell gaming laptop and if i turn the lighting graphics to medium i get flashbanged

[flint grail]

Lol

[sullen meadow]

i have an i7 3770 with 32g ram and a 2060 ti, i get ~120 frames on med-high

[glass pagoda]

my screen just turms bright

i have an i7 too

[flint grail]

Ryzen 5 5600X @sullen meadow @glass pagoda

[glass pagoda]

brochocho thats wild

also i have the new alexa ai here and it gets everything wrong. what should i ask it about satisfactory

it said coin tree forest is made of metal

[feral jay]

Ask it about the snow biome

[flint grail]

Tell it ADA is better

[feral jay]

Or even better, ask when golf is scheduled to be added to the game

[glass pagoda]

we have to ask about whats in the game

[flint grail]

-# I hate how AI is burning this economy to the ground

[glass pagoda]

same

[lost drum]

I've lost my wiki role since i've left here and rejoined. how can I get the role again?

[flint grail]

#open-a-ticket

[feral jay]

There's a wiki role?

I do correct spelling and grammar sometimes

[glass pagoda]

apparently "sorry there is no song called ada"

[flint grail]

I wanna have a word with the person who said “AI is the future”

[glass pagoda]

i just wanna talk to him

[flint grail]

Alexa is the dumbest one of the three

[flint grail]

quietly loads shotgun in the background

[glass pagoda]

its in early accses and is dumb'

it keeps talking about the coins on the coin trees in satisfactory

what should i ask next

[feral jay]

Ask it to write a poem about how you can redeem the coins from the coin trees in the awesome shop

[glass pagoda]

okay

[flint grail]

I said before that we were warned that robots would take over…

-# But I don’t think they meant like this

[glass pagoda]

"im sorry but i dont see any coin trees in the game or awsome shop. would you like me to explain how the awsome shop works?

[feral jay]

aww

Hey wiat, there are coin trees, there's a whole forest of them

[glass pagoda]

nah its called thatcuz of the coin shaped pond with the tree in the middle surounded by enemys

[feral jay]

My favorite way to show the limitations of AI are to ask it for a picture of a full glass of wine, or a clock that shows any time other than 1:50

ChatGPT at least can't do either of those

[glass pagoda]

jsut ask alexa anything and it will explode

[feral jay]

ooh they fixed the clock trick

[silk ocean]

Midjourney

[glass pagoda]

bro snowballs are so good cuz they destroy stuff like nobilisks but they are super duper cheap

[silk ocean]

What did you want to imagine, I'll generate it for you and post in off topic xD

Then you can see AI in action 😄

Full glass of wine on a wooden table in a restaurant, something like that?

[zealous urchin]

zatie bout to flex his chat gpt subscription ahhhh

[silk ocean]

Midjourney xD

[zealous urchin]

like

i see ppl here maxing their graph setting just to show a screenshot of a factory they made and even isntalling graph mods for it

get it, this is the palce to do it

but AI subscription flex?

cmoooon

[silk ocean]

I paid for a year a while ago, it expires soon, only the basic plan

[zealous urchin]

and then we learn twas grok and not chat gpt

[silk ocean]

MJ is MJ, not related to any of that stuff that I'm aware of

[feral jay]

Well I appreciated the attempt, it's a hilarious test for AIs

[silk ocean]

Mission to create more nuclear waste today XD

Bubble needs to pop XD

[feral jay]

Plus I'm flexing my supidly overengineered pwoer grids

So fair is fair

[limpid cairn]

@silk oceanoff topic but do you know the california gurls lyrics without needing to look them up?

[silk ocean]

Well that image generation isn't exactly me flexing xD More like demonstrating how useless I am at writing imagines

[zealous urchin]

nucular waste is cool and all but fixonium is 🗿

[silk ocean]

Never even heard of it, what is it? xD

[limpid cairn]

dm

[zealous urchin]

how can you not know california girls

[reef crown]

i got a problem when streaming satisfactory on discord it keeps saying stream paused even im on the game tab, anyone got solution?

[silk ocean]

I know the tune listening to it, definitely not the lyrics

[zealous urchin]

they are unforgetable tho

[silk ocean]

Who knows the lyrics to this off the bat lol

[zealous urchin]

im not to self glaze, im humble

[silk ocean]

If you're a Katy Perry fanboy I suppose

[zealous urchin]

its just a cool song

[frail sleet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjp65x1WIlU

[real shale]

wake up
Think about factory
Factory must grow....

[earnest oak]

What is the actual point of trains. I'm phase 5 hasn't used a single train cause I just feel like drones are superior and if it's closer I can just belt the items together

[lime kraken]

can i adjust text sice on displays?

[silk ocean]

Wat is this sorcery and line of thinking xD

[real shale]

I am in shock that you haven't used trains yet

[silk ocean]

Trains are the best method, drones sux xD

[earnest oak]

Like drones never get clogged get from point A to B and my factory is good like I just don't know

[silk ocean]

Neither do trains if you build a proper global network

[real shale]

Problem with drones is they have lower throughout than trains though

Since they can store less

[earnest oak]

Just make 2 drone ports

[silk ocean]

Drones are very low volume, faff around far too much docking and loading/unloading, and you have the problem of getting fuel to them

[real shale]

Still less than trains

[earnest oak]

I've just never had an issue where my drone is not able to supply enough

[real shale]

Drones are great for complex item transportation don't get me wrong, but when it comes to mass transporting an item, trains are superior

To quote the meme "This bad boy, can fit so many freight cars"

[earnest oak]

For copper I just belt it because it's never so far away

[silk ocean]

Ultimately do whatever you prefer, no right or wrong. Trains are arguably by far the most superior transportation solution

[real shale]

Lmao thats severe "You are entitled to your opinion, just it's the wrong opinion" vibes

[zealous urchin]

this no trains technique is lowkey cursed energy sorcery yea

[earnest oak]

LMAO

[silk ocean]

Not really, just stating a fact, doesn't mean you have to do it XD

[zealous urchin]

zatie being a little yapper

[silk ocean]

You don't have to use the best solution xD

[zealous urchin]

im gonna stop i swear

[silk ocean]

Same when it comes to alt recipes

Do whatever you enjoy the most

[ocean frost]

you are all wrong, the Factory Cart is the best it used zero fuel and can do anywhere and is basically free

[earnest oak]

Real

[zealous urchin]

NOT WRONG

[real shale]

I prefer manual transportation, working a 9-5 as a truck driver