satisfactory

[hard ivy]

You bought concrete???

[shrewd hatch]

yea I always do

[unkempt blade]

tickets become increasingly expensive to earn so you normally don't want to spend it on the material items unless you're speedrunning or something

[shrewd hatch]

im taking it nice and slow

no speedrunning or anything

[unkempt blade]

you may want to save your coupons for unlocking other stuff in the shop then and just scale up your concrete production

[shrewd hatch]

my golden nut is collecting dust next to the space elevator

or do you guys mean another golden nut

[unkempt blade]

yeah I think the high end stuff to speed up late game research is at least more defensible than concrete is

[shrewd hatch]

yea but guys I produce concrete at the other side of the map

[hollow shore]

How can i make the biomass burner automatic? Like what is the base to “extract” biomass

[shrewd hatch]

it takes like 10 minutes to go back over there and another 10 to come back

[hollow shore]

With the individual one

[unkempt blade]

I honestly can't tell if we're getting trolled with this one

[shrewd hatch]

you can make it semi automatic, fill a container up with biomass

connect it to the biomass burner and it will feed it

make it more automatic by feeding a constructor leaves, it makes the biomass for you and delivers it to the biomass burner

[hollow shore]

I know but you cant extract biomass or something? I see it has like a band imput si i guess you can connect it to something

[zealous urchin]

ragebait training

[shrewd hatch]

You can make biomass from mycelium too

[shrewd hatch]

I literally announce that im buying concrete every 2nd day here

[unkempt blade]

there's not a fully-auto way to collect the stuff to turn into biomass

[shrewd hatch]

its the usual now

[hollow shore]

Ok thats all thanks

I didnt know it, so you cant automate a biomass burner

[zealous urchin]

bro dont, there is like 50k limestone on map, even with basic recipe u can make it into 15k per minute

[unkempt blade]

yeah once you have leaves or animal parts of whatever in your inventory you could automate the rest of the process but not getting those initial things

[hollow shore]

And what can i do with the Gifts?

I dont see them useful

[shrewd hatch]

gifts I throw in the trash

[hollow shore]

Ok

[shrewd hatch]

idk what to use them for

[hollow shore]

What do i need to destroy rocks and clear a path? Is it possible?

[shrewd hatch]

bomb

it is possible

I buy cluster nobelisk from the shop, its awesome

guys can I just screenshare me buying concrete

bc I just bought more concrete

and I want you guys to witness

[unkempt blade]

I don't think you need an audience. Hope you get the attention you deserve

[shrewd hatch]

I have the golden nut achievement

December 22

yea im on the same save buying concrete with my tickets

what

i dont reveal my secrets

[peak temple]

Whats the difference between placing a conveyer pole and then coveyers and placing conveyers and just making it taller?

[shrewd hatch]

you found out easily

[digital holly]

Does the Ficsmass calendar only go to 25 this year? i can't find number 26.. Other years it got to 31 i meant?

Hmmm okay, then i am wrong thinking it , No, european XMAS has december 25 and 26 as official Christmas days . on 24 evening, the birth of our savior Jesus is celebrated

[unkempt blade]

This is a ficsmas calendar though. That other stuff isn't canon for ficsmas

[zealous urchin]

sweden is crazy place

[unkempt blade]

I thought Snutt said that the ficsmas grendel comes and eats all the naughty pioneers on Dec 25th so I just always assumed that was how Sweden worked

yeah that's just good game design since at least half the player base would be eaten before the end

[shrewd hatch]

my game crashed right as the game was about to autosave

[unkempt blade]

only if they can break their way into my indestructible factory cart

the last time I remember getting any significant amount of crashes was like U8 maybe

Yeah but peak ficsit engineering went into the cart. It's not surprising they can't be destroyed

it's not really much of a combat game so I get pacifist mode but at the same time combat is pretty laughably easy to win or avoid once you've got blade runners and some sort of back slot item

if people are actually dying frequently I have to think it's mostly because they try to rambo their way through a fight they should have taken a little slower

[hollow shore]

How can i make a tool to destroy rocks or obstacles like that?

[unkempt blade]

unlock stuff in the sulfur tree in the MAM

[hollow shore]

Whats the sulfur tree? I dont see it in the mam

[unkempt blade]

You may need to find sulfur then. If you're early game maybe don't worry about blowing up rocks quite yet

[rigid vessel]

Does satisfactory have crossplatform play?

[unkempt blade]

I use the basher for like 90% of stuff 😆

if it's a bunch of bees or something and I don't want to take damage I'll clear the hives with something ranged but that's the main exception

but the boombox shreds bees once you get that

[teal geyser]

I've become an excellent shot with the rebar gun

[unkempt blade]

but the main thing that trivializes most combat is that I always wind up with like multiple stacks of nuts and berries in no time and I can just top off HP if I take a bad hit

[limpid orchid]

I just wanted to build lights and i firstly put them over the Train track and after i put them on there were so LAGGY. Is this normal?

I normally play with 200 Frames. It dropped to 60

[teal geyser]

Who is Ray and why is he tracing you?

[limpid orchid]

Everything on Ultra and Cinematic.

Global Illumation is off

Ik that.

Still kinda Drops

There is no Raytracing in game

its okay, i just dont use lights. Its alright im so far in the game that i just wanted to have it bc i was bored

I had a 3050 if that counts?

But yeah, i can be very lucky.

Oh, yeah after i got the 3050 i really got into Hardware after and now got a 4070 Super as an upgrade luke 2 Years ago

So 2024

Not 23

[teal geyser]

2024 will soon be 2 years ago. Times flies by fast

[limpid orchid]

Yeah, In my Head 2023 Sounds old but on 2024 it sounds like Future to me.

And all 2010-20is just my Childhood so.

[teal geyser]

I felt so warm and fuzzy when the game automatically benchmarked itself to ultra settings when I built my new PC after my motherboard fried itself

[gritty ridge]

why does my hypertubge does some insane ass bending and not just like do what it needs to do

[teal geyser]

LOL

I didn't. I turned my PC off one night on a weekend, went to turn it back on in the morning, and it didn't want to boot. Best guess after a bunch of troubleshooting is that the PCIe slots (like all of them) decided to commit die. I only use 1 GPU as well

[teal geyser]

When you are building it?

[gritty ridge]

rn

[teal geyser]

Have you tried different build modes?

[gritty ridge]

idek how to do that

nvm

i got it thajnks

[teal geyser]

Press R on PC

[limpid orchid]

I think its funny when i go into the Hypertube. Bc You get so fast and i got so sharp curves you would just instantly die when you go in it in IRL

[teal geyser]

The G force alone would churn your insides to mush

[gritty ridge]

you know any good designs the i found on yt is shit

[teal geyser]

For a hypertube?

[gritty ridge]

yes

hypertube cannon

[limpid orchid]

I put my Hypertube maschine into a Case so i do see it everywhere. Just a little Exit and Entry is in the wall.

[teal geyser]

There should still be cannons on YT, but I personally have not built a cannon since before 1.0. They still work though I thought

I know how to use a hypertube branch to make a loop that speeds you up and then you spam E to go down the branch a bit slower than a cannon but it works just as good. I'll get you a screenshot.

Make sure to save before you start building in case you get stuck in it somehow

[distant pulsar]

Hello everyone merry continued christmas

[limpid orchid]

Belts are sooo beautiful when place correctly

[limpid orchid]

What did you do to me?

[teal geyser]

#screenshots message

[distant pulsar]

?

[limpid orchid]

I blocked you on DC but dont know why

[teal geyser]

Another mutual server maybe?

[limpid orchid]

Oh, you typed be randomly to join my Game. I prob wasnt in a good mood that time

Sryyyy, i unblocked

[distant pulsar]

all good

[gritty ridge]

so i got it to work but its not launching me high

[teal geyser]

Why not? Not angled up? Are you letting yourself loop around until you are going super fast?

[gritty ridge]

yea

[teal geyser]

Might need to build a proper cannon then

[gritty ridge]

yeah im doing that rn

[lilac bear]

Try an oldfashioned cannon before the looping to get an idea of how it works.

[limpid orchid]

I really like the Voice Lines from Ada. Its funny but when i pick up Mercers Phares i get Scared

[gritty ridge]

the video imm watching requires me to nudge but ion know how to even get that setting to pull up

im now stuck in my hyperloop

with no way to get out

does anyone know anyway to solve that

[teal geyser]

I did tell you to save before you started building it, no? Thats on you. I love it when people don't listen

[gritty ridge]

i got out

[digital holly]

As i read this good you don't know how to activate the Nudge function ? Select a buildable and aim where you want it, then press H and now you can nudge with the arrow keys and pageup/pagedown keys, when position is good, then click the mouse and your buildable is there

[limpid orchid]

I just found out why there is a Search bar in the Map

[digital holly]

With holding control you can Nudge smaller steps

[limpid orchid]

Ive got a Feeling that the game is almost over for me

Ive done almost everything in the Mam

There is only the Nuke and Synthetic Power Slugs i really cant do

[unkempt blade]

it's a sandbox game so usually you unlock stuff and then you start making your own goals or you quit

[limpid orchid]

I just unlocked Phase 3. Nvm.

Yeah

[peak cosmos]

I have 630 hours and one 530 hour save

[peak cosmos]

And damn is it messy

[autumn wing]

Does anyone know how to trigger the "efficiency first" trophy on console? I have done all milestones but didt get it.

[unkempt blade]

dragging a foundation all the way across the map was truly grid classic 😆

[spark cobalt]

Hello Everyone
I have a question in my youtube playthrough, I start with build a big railyard with trainstations. It is possible to have two freight platforms unloading or loading, one train with 4 freight cars.

[glad current]

Is there a way to remove tooltip delay ?

[unkempt blade]

not that I'm aware of

[glad current]

Its soooooo anoying
i want it to be instant

yes that

[spark cobalt]

I think you dont understand me. What I want is I have 1 trainstation with 2 freigh platforms and I want unload 1 train with 4 freight cars. Is that possible

[glad current]

any1 know a mod that changes it ?

[raven axle]

Official Modding Discord

Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @unborn gyro

[scenic mirage]

if i have a pump and the headlift thing says 46.4m would yall place an extra one?

like will it cause issues pushing it so close to 50m?

[unkempt blade]

should be able to just try it and see if stuff fills up 🤷

[gritty ridge]

why is my hyperttube all of a sudden not let me change direction

[scenic mirage]

thank god for satisfactory modeler

gives exact percentages to always have perfect throughput

[eager palm]

Which one are you using?

Tools?

[scenic mirage]

its a steamapp, https://store.steampowered.com/app/3187030/Satisfactory_Modeler/

ye all the resources are goated

[gritty zealot]

hello fellow pioneers, i want to start keeping track of my factories, including the name and production rate, etc
is there a common place to do this? or should i use something like spreadsheets?

[gritty ridge]

spreadsheet and signs

you can get signs in the AWESOME shop

[scenic mirage]

^ great way of doing it, or that steamapp i have linked. you can make outposts with your factories

[eager palm]

I like to make unorganised spreadsheets and then forget how to read them

[spark cobalt]

@unborn gyro I had drop a screenshot in #screenshots about the train what i want

[scenic mirage]

2 plus 2 is 4 minus 1 thats 3, quick maths

[lilac bear]

Wait till you hear about phase 4.

[latent meadow]

the question is do i add a area in my base for the smelting of ores or just smelt at the ore area itself

choices choices

[scenic mirage]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency

[latent meadow]

true

that not a bad idea tbh

my first go around of the game i spent about 300 or 400 hours on just getting to the end of the game

[zealous urchin]

may i introduce you to potato settings

[latent meadow]

this go around i want to aculty build and make a base that looks super neat

[latent meadow]

recently i felt that way too man

my pc was running good now it seem to be feeling like it working on it last chip

true

the graphics have become so amazing since beta

the whole game feels so polished ❤️

[zealous urchin]

when in ur native language polish means lick it

[latent meadow]

lol

i remember that

[lilac bear]

Polish is a language by itself, that must get complicated

[lilac bear]

Lots of performance upgrades over the years.

[latent meadow]

so true

the dev team worked really hard on fixing it up and giving us a great product

[zealous urchin]

when u get on fbi watch list after googling nail polish remover

[latent meadow]

😮

[scenic mirage]

fbi watch list and cia list of potential hiring candidates

[zealous urchin]

what a twist

do i wanna know what that implies?

[latent meadow]

i have to say the barrier trick for walls

is so amazing

[zealous urchin]

tricknology

[latent meadow]

well ada did say expoit

[zealous urchin]

Maxeekology

[latent meadow]

lol

[scenic mirage]

cia is known for "saving" democracy by assasinating people of interest in dangerous politcal parties, allegedly 🙊 🤐

ok naw wtf i sent that and my tv show started buffering??

[zealous urchin]

liberating from bad influence

[scenic mirage]

you right my bad

[zealous urchin]

hmmm strange, my movie site starting buffering too....

[proper hound]

Will not work, factory logistics (machines, belts) are cpu limited. Ask Blandrew.

[onyx ginkgo]

hey, i tried to use the Ultrawide Screen Satisfactory thing by RoseTheFlower but it doesn't work :/
can anyone help me ?

idk if it's a mod ^^'

[raven axle]

Official Modding Discord

Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @unborn gyro

[scenic mirage]

do you have a link to it? whered you get it?

[onyx ginkgo]

i have a link for it but i can't send it, the server moderation system blocks the message

[scenic mirage]

is it from ficsit.app

[onyx ginkgo]

no, Github

i sended it in DM

[white dawn]

If you're using anything that you downloaded from anywhere except Steam or EGS, it's a mod. The modding discord is the best place to ask for help with those. :)

[onyx ginkgo]

aaah oki

[white dawn]

(Mod talk's allowed in here, too, but debugging and problemsolving should be in the modding discord. :)

[onyx ginkgo]

ah i see, thank you ^^

[modest creek]

For relatively basic parts, is it worth building factories for them in large quantities and then sending them from there, if necessary, to factories for more advanced parts, or is it simply better to create the quantity I need in each factory? I found myself increasing and rebuilding factories every time i need just a little bit more from a part

[scenic mirage]

yeah idk ab that, random dll that isnt open source?

[onyx ginkgo]

check for yourself, i sended you the link in dm

[scenic mirage]

yes i see it, its a .dll and .asi file

[onyx ginkgo]

i just want the hand fov not that close to the camera :_(

that's where i found it https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1450570188373102622

[scenic mirage]

i would ask in the mod server or that channel you have, idk im sorry

[onyx ginkgo]

that's what i did ^^

[white dawn]

IMO it's nearly always easier to just build more right inside the new factory

Plus then you get more opportunities to use different alt recipes for stuff as the situation warrants

Getting stuck in a "rebuilding" loop can be pretty exhausting. (Though I know some folks enjoy doing it)

(See also: https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency)

[queen slate]

I just finished phase 2 what should I prioritize like I don’t think I should prioritize the jet pack for a while

Yh

I built a hypertubelauncher to a crude oil vein

But idk if I should make plastic or what tbh

[scenic mirage]

power?

[queen slate]

I thought I needed plastic or smth before I get the fuel powered generators

[open swallow]

Rubber, actually

[scenic mirage]

then work on that

[queen slate]

Ah ty

[scenic mirage]

plastic/rubber plant

[queen slate]

Ok ty

[scenic mirage]

[] 145.5 electromagnetic control rod
[] 145.5 rotor
[] 43.65 crystal oscillator
[] 19.4 pressure conversion cubes

can i transport all this in one train freight car?

per minute*

[teal geyser]

Why only 1 freight car? Why not build 1 car for each of those parts?

[scenic mirage]

🤷‍♂️ im just wondering if its possible

[hot burrow]

i love that 1 refinery that makes 18.75 turbo fuel can only support 1.9 250% fuel generators

(its litteraly .01 over what i can produce)

[fluid stag]

whats a good resource to sink early on?

[soft marsh]

Made a small nuclear setup last night just so I can say I did it. Was kinda underwhelming lol Gonna finish it and make it pretty but I think my main power is gonna be Rocket Fuel

[soft marsh]

Anything extra.

For me, I have resources that go to other machines and the extras from those go into a storage connected to a Dimensional Depot. When the storage gets full, I split it off so that those extras get sunk. This way the system is always running and the power draw should, in theory, stay constant.

[fluid stag]

oh okay

i was just going to pick a random resource and build a mini factory around the sink

[hot burrow]

anything

[soft marsh]

Eventually you'll have sinks everywhere

[fluid stag]

ahh

[soft marsh]

when water becomes a produced byproduct, a lot of people will make wet concrete or some recipe that uses water and sink it

[fluid stag]

maybe i should start working on rebuilding my factories 😭

[golden nexus]

smart plate

another is rotor, stator or motor... as well as pet coke

[eager palm]

I remember people used to rave about sinking AI limiters early

Still the case?

[golden nexus]

Another is get the sloop, kills things and then double the dead animals for dna points

Cause you get to double the double of the double

[queen slate]

I wouldn’t be too worried about rebuilding because once you unlock the next logistics you might need to rebuild factories again for efficiency yk

[eager palm]

Can you elaborate a little? My brain smol

[golden nexus]

The sloop can be used to double output of machine.. not double speed, its actually just doubled

[fluid stag]

yeah, i was going to wait until i upgraded my power and then just rebuild when i can scale up but i wanna start getting some tickets rolling in so i can actually get some stuff that would make building easier

[eager palm]

Seems I need to read up on it. I’ve been sleeping on sloops

[fluid stag]

my base is just a mess of random production lines 😭 plus i wanted to start combining some of my production lines together bc i got like 3 different factories for things i could easily combine into one building

[golden nexus]

do sam / alien tech tree in mam

[hot burrow]

I just put overflow to sink

Like plastic resin in my turbo plant

Ill use it eventualy... probably

[queen slate]

Don’t worry man mine in exactly like yours

[eager palm]

I nominate plastic resin for most sinked item 2025

[queen slate]

Thank god conveyers can clip through things

[hot burrow]

Why is ur pfp ai

It has that distinctive yellow tint

[queen slate]

Why not

[hot burrow]

Ai bad

[eager palm]

It’s a bit to see if my friends would notice

[hot burrow]

Did they

[queen slate]

Most of the time

[fluid stag]

maybe my bro has a piss color house

[queen slate]

Fr

[hot burrow]

Jaundice

[queen slate]

Old camera or smth

[eager palm]

It took weeks

[lilac bear]

That's suspicious

[hard ivy]

Mexico filter

[scenic mirage]

exactly

[river latch]

Hello i am first time satisfactory player wich world would you recommand ?

[hard ivy]

There's only one world

[river latch]

oh so i just decide the start area

[queen slate]

Yes

[hard ivy]

Yes, you can go to every area on the list, regardless of the one you choose to start in

[queen slate]

I would recommend all but the third imo

[eager palm]

All starting points are the same world, just different coordinates. I recommend the far left choice for first time factory builders, maybe the second option if this isn’t your first factory game.

[river latch]

Thank you guys

[queen slate]

Np gl and have fun

[eager palm]

Don’t be afraid to ask all the questions! We love sharing knowledge here.

[river latch]

i have seen you can have nuclear power plants bam i was hooked

[lilac bear]

It was Let's Game It Out that lured me in.

[queen slate]

We do? I mean ye we do

[hot burrow]

Isn't uranium not radioactive or like very minimally radioactiv

[lilac bear]

If this is your first time playing, you have 2 priorities. Get coal and get the Xenobasher. Once you got those, your life will be easier.

[queen slate]

Also check out the advent calendar

[queen slate]

I didn’t know that

[lilac bear]

Free coupons and hard drives in the advent calendar.

[hot burrow]

Its only reactibe because fission

But the decay is very minimal i believe

[queen slate]

Oh when using it to make power

[hot burrow]

Thats fission

[queen slate]

Yh

[hot burrow]

Fission id breaking atoms with neutrons

[hard ivy]

It's mildly radioactive

[hot burrow]

Ye

[queen slate]

I didn’t know about that thanks

[lilac bear]

That's why you get the hazmat suit and iodine filters before making a nuclear plant.

[teal geyser]

Mildly lol

I love the fireworks that we got on the 25th

[queen slate]

In game or irl

[hard ivy]

I mean uranium ore itself is very mildly radioactive. In game and irl

It's the fuel rods that are radioactive af

[teal geyser]

Probably both

[queen slate]

Probably I haven’t gotten that far

[teal geyser]

I've never built a nuclear reactor in my garage before either

[scenic mirage]

its a lot of fun i highly recommend it

[queen slate]

Rly? Thought it was just me

[lilac bear]

Definitely ingame, I don't know what kind of precautions they use now irl but the hazmat suit was standard

[soft marsh]

RIP Megabase plans #screenshots message Did all this in the ravine and will likely not use it. Learned my computer does not like mega bases lol

[teal geyser]

Why a mega base?

[queen slate]

Haven’t gotten that far lol

[soft marsh]

Less mega base and more just "I build and bring everything to this spot"

[queen slate]

Have you tried optimizing your pc for performance

In in game settings

[soft marsh]

Yeah my CPU is a bottleneck. I can run on Ultra just fine with my usual gameplay but once I start doing the mega and everything gets bundled together my CPU does not like it.

My CPU and Mobo are from like 2016 lol

[teal geyser]

Probably just a new PC

[soft marsh]

My GPU, RAM, and the rest of it is all relatively new

[hot burrow]

guys

[queen slate]

No

I mean ya

[lilac bear]

Rebuild mine early this year for Roadcraft. Satisfactory looks better now too 🙂

[hot burrow]

why is the turbofuel consume rate for the fuel factory stupid

[soft marsh]

Also doesn't help my megabase when I forget about the mega base and then start bulding just outside it instead of inside it lol

[hard ivy]

It's normal?

Wait till you hear what's the consumption rate of RF 💀

[teal geyser]

Fuel Factory = Fuel generator?

[hot burrow]

generator whatever

[teal geyser]

There is a difference

[hot burrow]

its some stupid decimal

and i used the alt turbo fuel for the refiner

[teal geyser]

Anyways, you can overclock or underclock it to give you a prettier number

[hot burrow]

and at 250% it ussed 9.38

[hot burrow]

and i can support 1.99 generators with 1 refinery

because the refinery makes 18.75

[hard ivy]

That's probably a bad choice

[hot burrow]

but 2 gens consume 18.76

[worn token]

Hello I'm new to the game

[teal geyser]

Might not be either of the preset ones like 100%, 150%, 200%, 250%

[queen slate]

Hello welcome

[hard ivy]

? 1 gen consumes 7.5

[hot burrow]

is he stupid

[teal geyser]

The math isn't mathing

[hot burrow]

are you both stupid

[green fiber]

one turbofuel gen at 250% uses 18.75/min

[hard ivy]

No, you probably are

[hot burrow]

"AND AT 250% it USSES 9.38"

SO 2 OF EM USES 18.76

[green fiber]

that isnt right

[hot burrow]

and 1 refinery of mine makes 18.75 at 100%

[hard ivy]

That's incorrect

[hot burrow]

??

[hard ivy]

7.5 * 2.5 = 18.75

[hot burrow]

where are you getting 7.5 and 2.5

[green fiber]

7.5/min is what a fuel gen uses at 100% clock speed (turbofuel)

2.5 is the same as saying 250%

[worn token]

This game is confusing but really addicting

[hot burrow]

wait

oh itsa the mod i have

my bad gang

[queen slate]

Fr and satisfying (pun intended)

[golden nexus]

press big red button more 🙂

[green fiber]

yeah that changes stuff a lot dude

[queen slate]

All good dw about it

[soft marsh]

I just discovered Im still making project parts 😭

[lilac bear]

Free coupons.

[hard ivy]

Even then, it's probably 9.375, not 9.38

[golden nexus]

sink them? they get best rates typically

[hot burrow]

it consumes 3.75 at 100%

[soft marsh]

I mean, I guess

[hard ivy]

Then multiply 3.75 by 2.5 and you get 9.375

Game shows numbers rounded

[hot burrow]

hmm

[teal geyser]

MODS?!

[hot burrow]

:3

[raven axle]

Official Modding Discord

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[hot burrow]

the belll tolls

[fluid stag]

alright, im gonna have to rebuild my factory anyways if i wanna hit 4 smart plate/min

im gonna have to go searching for those 120/min nodes and try to over clock them

[scenic mirage]

you dont have to rebuild 😉

just build more

[pulsar glade]

How do I switch the ammo in my rifle

[fluid stag]

nah the way i have my factory laid out rn it would be so much easier to rebuild this thing 😭

[hard ivy]

Hold the reload button

[pulsar glade]

Ain’t working like it’s stuck on the normal ammo when im tryna use the black smmo

[hard ivy]

Holding the button should bring a selection wheel

[mystic plank]

yo is there a way to destroy rocks?

[scenic mirage]

[green fiber]

💣

[scenic mirage]

how do you calculate round trip duration w trains? is it just from the moment it stops docking to the moment it starts docking?

[green fiber]

you take the entire travel time plus docking time for each station

[fluid stag]

is there an easier way to find the pure nodes or do i just have to kinda look around

[hard ivy]

Measure it with a stopwatch

[hard ivy]

Why do you even need a pure node? Just use 2 normals instead

[fluid stag]

less miners to build

[scenic mirage]

from what point tho

[fluid stag]

im trying to do 4 smart plates/min and i was just gonna look for a couple pure nodes and overclock them

[hard ivy]

It's less effort to just build more miners than spend a bunch of time looking for pure nodes and belting them from farther away

[hard ivy]

Doesn't matter. You need to measure the entire loop regardless. Pick a point where you start measuring and stop the timer when you pass it again (after the train went through its entire timetable)

[scenic mirage]

ight so station a to station b to station a?

[hard ivy]

I usually use the departure honk of a specific station

Make sure you do include the time it takes to that station too

Honk to honk does include that

But departure to arrival doesn't

It needs to be departure to departure or arrival to arrival

Or choose any random point on the track if that's more convenient

[scenic mirage]

depart to depart prob easiest tbh

[lilac bear]

Miners are cheap

At least the mk 1 and 2 are. The 3rd hurt a bit but that's because I didn't have my things in order when I started using them.

And yes, I did that wrong last save just the same.

[scenic mirage]

for the 3rd i just bought the stuff in awesome shop

until i got it automated

[modest creek]

can i add mods to a save a already started? also can i only use modes in 1 save and not the others?

[placid stirrup]

Me when I'm an 1880s aristocrat

[hard ivy]

You can enable and disable mods as you wish.

Mods are either on for all saves or off for all saves. So if you want to only use them on one save, you'll have to restart the game and toggle the mods when changing saves

[modest creek]

I have a save where i play with a friend, im just afraid that if i use mods again he wont be able to join the save even if i restart and toggle them off. i think it happend to me one

and im not talking about mods that add new parts, only quality of life kind of mods

[hard ivy]

If you load a save with mods, and then save it, that new save is now marked as "modded" even after you disable them. I think you can overwrite it while they're off and it'll no longer be marked as modded but idk

In case you do it accidentally, you can turn off the modded status using a save editor

[modest creek]

can i just find the save in my files and send it to him so he can put it in his files and host the save himself?

so i can freely use mods on my game

[hard ivy]

Yeah, but you'll still have to turn them off to join him. The mods of the guests have to match the host's

But if he hosts it, there's no chance of you accidentally loading in with mods

[modest creek]

Thats great

Thank you

[sullen gull]

You can with SCIM.

Also, the mod manager make it rather easy to turn mods on and off for this purpose. Also easy to setup different profiles if you want to use different mods in different saves. Just have to remember to switch off or switch profiles when switching saves.

[modest creek]

where can i see all the mods i have inside satisfactory mod manager? i cant find it in the app

[sterile blade]

Filter them by "installed"

[modest creek]

thanks

[lilac bear]

😕

[white dawn]

🗜️ 🍍 🍕 🗜️

[soft marsh]

idky but im in a rebuild mood

[surreal ingot]

I just started getting back into satisfactory and my first hard drive i researched got me cast screws

[soft marsh]

At this rate I'll never finish lmao

[white dawn]

Yeah, that's one problem with the "rebuilding" mindset. :) So much work just to get you back to the same level of productivity you already had

[tardy fjord]

Read this as "GREG" whoch is mildly worrying

[white dawn]

So long as you're having a good time, of course, that's fine! But it's easy to get burnt out on that kind of thing. :)

[soft marsh]

100%.

I tried to do the mega base thing but between my PC and losing track of stuff, I'm about to go back to just doing my modular outposts. Especially now that I have a ringtrack around the map.

[lilac bear]

FICSIT doesn't waste

[latent meadow]

time to start planing out storage uggg

lol

[white dawn]

I enjoy building out storage systems, so I continue to do so, though note that especially ever since 1.0 you can mostly do without, given sufficient investment in Dimensional Depots

[latent meadow]

it not that i dont enjoy it

[white dawn]

Collecting all the spheres takes a nontrivial amount of work, and I do think that there's a decent niche for at least a modest storage solution up until the midgame or so

[latent meadow]

because i do i just hate that i feel like i alway pin myself up in a corner and i cant figure out how to get items in and out easy sometimes

[white dawn]

But I did find on my 1.0 playthrough that once I'd hit midgame or so I was literally never actually taking things physically out of my storage

[latent meadow]

yea i dont know why but i changed a lot in game play of games espicaly building ones

where i like to take a more open base area type building

where i dont really enclose the base it just open sky type deal

dont get me wrong there some beatiful just open base desisn but i was going this round for more enclosed and i very bad at not caculating space very well lol

why i said sometimes i feel like i pin myself in a corner and then only way to fix it feels like redisgning the whole base agin lol

[lilac bear]

Absolutely.

Feel free to upload a few screenshots 🙂

Good storage solutions are always a joy to look at

[latent meadow]

my last base had a beatiful one i loved

[formal spindle]

hello guys, i have a question about satisfactory tools.

i wanna make reinforced platers, it says it needs 1.2x constructors one at 100% and one at 20%, i know i can underclock but how do half the items at that exact rate?

[lilac bear]

It's easier to split and put both at 60%.

[white dawn]

Keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to split them 100% / 20%. Could also split both at 60% (ninja'd!)

Or any other split which happens to add up to 120%

[candid plover]

Crossplay it’s not working on consoles

[white dawn]

(Could even overclock a single one to 120%)

[lilac bear]

AFAIK there is no crossplay enabled

[white dawn]

But anyway, to get the items in at the correct rate, you can just use a normal splitter and it'll "even out" automatically

[soft marsh]

#screenshots message I've started using sushi belts out of laziness

[white dawn]

The side which is getting "too much" will eventually back up -- the internal buffer will fill up, and then the items will start backing up onto the feeder belt

[formal spindle]

i see

[white dawn]

Once that belt gets backed up all the way to the splitter, the side that was getting "too little" will start getting exactly what it needs

[formal spindle]

thanks a lot

[white dawn]

This is the same logic which makes "manifold" hookups work

[candid plover]

There’s supposedly crossplay between Xbox and ps5 but it’s not working

[white dawn]

(A Manifold looking like: ```
[S]: Splitter | [M]: Merger | [B]: Building

          [M] ---> [M] ---> [M] ---> [M] ---> [Output]
           ^        ^        ^        ^
           |        |        |        |
          [B]      [B]      [B]      [B]
           ^        ^        ^        ^
           |        |        |        |

[Source] ---> [S] ---> [S] ---> [S] ---> [S]

At the start, the first machine in the manifold is getting way too much, and the ones at the end not nearly enough, but once you wait for the buffers to fill up and the belts to back up, then everything just evens out over time

[lilac bear]

If you put a storage container before the split and let it fill up a bit first, you'll saturate your manifold quite quickly.

[white dawn]

Only if you don't count the time spent filling up the storage container. :) (And only if you're feeding at less than your belt rate heading in to the container)

(I'd advise against putting storage containers inline with your production lines, fwiw)

[lilac bear]

I have so many storage containers in my production lines. It's great when doing rework.

[white dawn]

A better solution is to just never rework. :)

Storage Containers don't provide any benefit to "working" production lines, and at worst can mask potential problems

If i've got an under-delivered resource somewhere, I'd rather know about it right away rather than having a container "hiding" a shortfall

I agree that you could use them to "flood" a system more quickly than a manifold might, though IMO you'd be better off just pre-filling the manifolds if you want that

[lilac bear]

Nah, my lines are always saturated by design. The storage containers are from the time the dimensional depot didn't exist. I had to to be able to grab a stack or two of a resource from somewhere and I usually stole it from the factory line.

[white dawn]

Still doesn't make inline storage containers good advice for newbies, though. :)

[lilac bear]

You can absolutely do without.

Did any of that answer your question though @formal spindle 🤣

[zealous urchin]

Maxeekology

Bali warp drive maxing no
lizars doggo turbo pressure motor farm yes

nucular waste
dont sink
flush

what other wisdom may u drop today

qre u copper rotor or steel rotor

[white dawn]

Depends: do you want to make rotors out of copper or steel?

(Alt recipes are just there to give you options while building. It's true that some are more "general purpose" than some others, which are more specialist, but they're all at least situationally useful)

The best solution is to get both! Go find more drives. :)

[zealous urchin]

oh sure, i was just asking Maxeek that if he was a rotor which one would he be

[white dawn]

It's true that we share a number of opinions, and tend to be more or less in alignment about alt recipes

[lilac bear]

Go find as many drives as you need to unlock all the recipes.

There's inventory upgrades hidden among them.

[zealous urchin]

I think im gonna do compact steel just for fun

amd compact coal gens

ay do

[candid plover]

Me and my buddy bought each one a copy of satisfactory on Xbox and ps5 just for the crossplay to not work. So we can’t play together we tried everything

[rugged shard]

Is there like some guide or something on YouTube that shows how to make kinda big coal power plant?

[lilac bear]

I rarely use alternate recipes.

[lilac bear]

Probably, what problem are you having? Coal is nicely dividable for power plants.

[raven axle]

Official Satisfactory Wiki

This is the totally awesome community driven wiki for Satisfactory!! Come on in and check it out!
<3 @gritty ridge

[gritty ridge]

Someone do the wiki search idk how to use it

[rugged shard]

I never build a coal power plant so everything just confusing

[hard ivy]

My condolences

[lilac bear]

If you've never build one, you should start with 2-4 generators to get the hang of them.

If you're in the grassy starting area, there's a great coal location to your northwest.

At the lake.

[rugged shard]

Everyone saying strictly make 8 gens whit 3 water extractors

Why exactly like this

[lilac bear]

That is the easiest approach, clusters of 8.

[lilac bear]

Because of how much water extractors put out and how much coal generators require.

It divides into easy numbers when you have 8 generators.

[gritty ridge]

!wikisearch CG

[raven axle]

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

[white dawn]

That's not the only way to do it, btw. It's a very commonly-suggested ratio, yeah, but you don't have to do it like that

[rugged shard]

So like, let's say 6 gens whit 3 water extracors work?

[white dawn]

For example some folks prefer piping simplicity and don't mind using more space for water extractors -- if you downclock a water extractor to 75% it'll provide exactly as much water as 2 coal gens need

[lilac bear]

You can absolutely do it differently, but if you've never done coal generators before I'd definitely recommend sticking to rows of 8 to start.

[green fiber]

sure. you just make too much water

[lilac bear]

Sure.

[green fiber]

you can even do 2 extractors per 1 generators but thats a HUGE waste

[lilac bear]

You can see in your power usage when the water extractors go idle.

Because you probably won't have a very large factory yet if you're just starting out with coal.

[rugged shard]

Ok but what to do if I want more power/generators? More than 8?

[green fiber]

you do multiples of the 3 to 8

[drowsy kelp]

I’m looking at a faraway place with the detached photo mode camera and i see a small section of poison gas that’s moving around but it’s not a big cloud, just a collection of the particles, what is that (i really don’t wanna get close enough to look with my own eyes)

[lilac bear]

New row.

[rugged shard]

Hmmm, kinda get it now

[lilac bear]

#screenshots message

[rugged shard]

Where are water extracors?

[lilac bear]

Up the waterfall, I didn't want to use pumps 😆

You can see a cluster of pipes in the top of the picture.

That section of generators absolutely started with the water extractors in the local lake though.

[queen slate]

Does anyone have any tips for oil i amn’t sure on what i should focus on making with it i just unlocked it

[real shale]

fuel

[green fiber]

make plastic and rubber

thats about all you need initially

[queen slate]

What should I do with the residue?

[green fiber]

and deal with the heavy oil residue by making coke.
can use that for power in coal gens or just trash it

[rugged shard]

Ohh okay, so like, idk how to explain but, how to set up pipes that fills everything normally? Or can like 1 pipe be delayed to fill generator and other faster? Or it doesn't matter

[green fiber]

thats a weird question

[drowsy kelp]

Like how do you get every generator water at the same time?

[queen slate]

Rly I thought you use the residue for fuel

[green fiber]

do you even have a use for fuel?

[rugged shard]

Smth like that, yea

[drowsy kelp]

If input is greater than demand it’ll figure itself out sooner or later

[queen slate]

I have a jet pack ig

[green fiber]

yeah but thats miniscule

[lilac bear]

Use junctions. #screenshots message

[green fiber]

and its not continuous

[queen slate]

True

[green fiber]

coke can be trashed or made into power and that IS continuous

[real shale]

wait what, i can put wall outlets on foundations but not double wall outlets?

[queen slate]

I shouldn’t make the residual rubber and plastic right?

[drowsy kelp]

Correct

[green fiber]

foundation too thick for the double connector

[real shale]

fair

[drowsy kelp]

To get power through i like to have wall connector on the bottom and normal power pole on the exact same spot on the top

The pole hides the wire

[green fiber]

thats more inefficient

if you dont have a (continuous) use for fuel its a waste to make fuel directly from oil just to turn resin into plastic or rubber

plus it needs water

[hard ivy]

Just use http://satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production and put in what you want to make

[queen slate]

So doesn’t use residual?

[queen slate]

Ok ty

[green fiber]

Use the recipe that turns oil directly to rubber and plastic.

[queen slate]

Ok ty

Sry I’m not very smart

[formal spindle]

is there like a standard on how many reinforced plate do we need in the early game (as in a minumum) or should i build how many i want

1. i want some for pesronal use
   2.a few extras so i can start the first phase of the elavator

[drowsy kelp]

How much do you want to build

There is no real standard because everyone plays differently

[formal spindle]

i dont have any means of transport in other areas except walking so i guess something relative compact but doesnt take too much time to produce lots when you need em

[rugged shard]

Also, where is the best place to build that big coal power plant

[green fiber]

varies on where you are / where you started

[rugged shard]

I keep seeing alot people build in this one particular erea but idk where it is

[rugged shard]

I am in like biome whit purple mushrooms or something

Near that

Big mushrooms

Tree like

Purple color alot

[drowsy kelp]

What color is the ground?

[rugged shard]

Mines green but near me is that biome

Little pond

Whit Rock in the pond

[rugged shard]

I'm in maze canyons I think

[hot mango]

im so stuffed with roast dinner, i ate hours ago and im still full but happy 😺

we had xmas dinner today

[clear tartan]

am i safe to approach this

like

theres a ruin of something but its got hostile creatures

[versed cosmos]

crash site?

[clear tartan]

#screenshots

[versed cosmos]

yup that's a crash site

maybe don't fight that big guy yet

but crash sites are v valuable

[clear tartan]

what about the other thing

[versed cosmos]

the hatchers

they explode with flies when u get close

[clear tartan]

how do i deal with that

[versed cosmos]

hit it

[clear tartan]

wont the flies get me?

[versed cosmos]

yea but u can hit them back

[clear tartan]

whats the requirement for the basher

[versed cosmos]

don't worry about it rn

focus on building factory

[clear tartan]

also i dont really know the way back to my base

[cunning glade]

Does anyone know the ratio of phase 4 parts like how many of each u need for the next tier of it

[white dawn]

!wikisearch space elevator

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=space+elevator

[white dawn]

^ the wiki does. :)

[hot mango]

the big box looking crate has a hard drive in it which you can scan, you may have to repair the crate first

[cunning glade]

Yeah but then that spoils what I need

[latent meadow]

was it inteded mecahics for the door to be activated by doggos or is that a bug

[cunning glade]

Ill just make a good amount

[white dawn]

I mean, you asked a question which can only be answered by spoiling things. :)

[cunning glade]

Cuz like phase 1 doing 10 smart plating a min was really nice made phase 2 fast

That's fair

[clear tartan]

anything else i can get from the wreck?

[versed cosmos]

bunch of stuff around it and you can dismantle it for some early game parts

[cunning glade]

Ai servers take 4 mag gens a min?

[hot mango]

there can be items scattered around the are on the ground

you turn the creatures to non aggressive in the setting fyi

[cunning glade]

Surly going for 10 nuclear pasta a min won't be that bad

I mean it's main thing is copper or something idk never made it

[hot mango]

i am making 2.5 pm

[hot mango]

yes you need 200 copper powder per cube

[cunning glade]

5k copper a min

That seems doable

[hot mango]

and on full monty it takes 20, 146.5 mw to make just 2.5 pm

[versed cosmos]

if u get all the copper on the map u can get maybe 1 cube/min

[hot mango]

i am already making 2.5 and not got anywhere near all the copper

[cunning glade]

No way it's true

[white dawn]

Max nuclear pasta without with resource conversion is just over 134/min

[versed cosmos]

its not true bruh im being silly lol

[white dawn]

Oh oops, that's with resource conversion, sorry

Helps if I actually check the right boxes. :D

Just over 76/min without resource conversion. :)

[cunning glade]

Wait what tool can u do that with

[white dawn]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=Fg6RwTxmLLh6d9jHfDj6

[cunning glade]

Plus there's 36k copper on the map I'm only using 5k

[white dawn]

(once that's loaded you can switch over to the Pasta tab to show the without-resource-conversion version. Had disabled SAM on the "Items/Input" tab)

[cunning glade]

I see

[white dawn]

Now granted, one thing a solve like that doesn't take into consideration is the resources you'd need to spend to power those buildings. It could be that the power-generation resource requirements could cut into the theoretical max by some

[cunning glade]

I think I'll do 10 a min

And sloop it

Okay glad I did this I now know how too calculate how many too make of phase 4 parts

I'm thinking I make giant copper factory that trains the copper for nuclear power

[fast ruin]

Someone could give me a tip or link a video/tutorial on how to do proper curves with train tracks? or just with train tracks setup in general?

[versed cosmos]

Train tracks always form a curve anyway so I'm not sure what you're asking?

[green fiber]

the angle of the next segment depends on what came before

[cunning glade]

Make an L that's 3 foundations each way so ig not an L

[green fiber]

if you didnt curve it and went straight, then it will still be straight if you keep going straight

[cunning glade]

I think he means a perfect curve too the right or left

[versed cosmos]

vertically challenged L

[cunning glade]

Like with a conveyer

[fast ruin]

in a blueprint with foundation

so it looked clean

i was able to do the curve with foundation but when trying to use it i get trouble with not clean anough curve and rail connection to short to link

[soft marsh]

Trying to get my mini nuclear setup working and keep finding more things I need to cart in

[fast ruin]

#screenshots message

[jagged nymph]

thats so real

[fast ruin]

for ex i made it like that, but i can't connect the rails

[white dawn]

Might be a better question for #design-and-architecture 'cause images and videos and such can be inlined there, btw. I know one video which gets passed around is this one, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9V0fQPq3Xo

[fast ruin]

ok ty

[soft marsh]

Im so glad I'm not making a full nuke setup lol

[white dawn]

I'm a fan of doing sub-factories for the non-radioactive bits which then send those parts over to the radioactive-processing site

[soft marsh]

I thought about it but I don't have much intention of doing a full nuke setup, just want a couple reactors to say I did it and move on. I'm building in the swamp so pretty much everything I need is here except Sulfur, Nitric Acid, and Quartz.

[white dawn]

Yeah, swamp's a good place for a not-too-huge nuclear site

(I mean, it's fine for large nuclear sites too; would just have to be carting things in anyway for that, so location doesn't matter as much. :)

[soft marsh]

If it was going to be my primary setup, I'd definitely do it the way you suggested since it would be easiest lol

[placid stirrup]

Thematically, it's uncontested

[placid comet]

I haven't unlocked it yet, but I'm guessing rocket fuel can't be used in generators since its a gas?

[soft marsh]

It can, its the main competitor for Nukes

Lots of people use Rocket Fuel instead because its easier and less work.

[placid stirrup]

Simpler yes, arguably not much less work though

[placid comet]

So I assume ion fuel isn't worth the extra step then

[placid stirrup]

Diminishing returns for sure, use in the jetpack is a big argument for it though

[placid comet]

Better than batteries?

[placid stirrup]

Batteries in the jetpack? 🤔

[white dawn]

Yeah, for power-generation purposes, Ionized Fuel just isn't good. You're basically always better off just burning the Rocket Fuel. Ionized is a great Jetpack fuel, though, and presumably a good vehicle fuel. (And it's also a way to sink Power Shards, if you automate power shards and don't want that line to ever stop)

[queen slate]

What’s a good way to generate power I feel coal isn’t amazing anymore and I just unlocked oil should I try make a factory with that or go into geothermal energy production

[real shale]

i love exploiting this planet for everything it has

[white dawn]

Yes, Fuel Power is the next tier after coal, and is much easier to scale out

[queen slate]

Fr

[white dawn]

Each phase's power alternatives are a lot more effective than the previous phases'

[reef basin]

well, if you mean "effective" as "gen makes more power at 100% clock speed"

[white dawn]

Geothermal's all right but its average power is just like 7GW. Not bad as a coal supplement, really, but unlikely to make much of a dent compared to Fuel buildouts

[queen slate]

K ty

[white dawn]

Heh, catchin' me out on not qualifying my own statements! 🥳 🍻

[queen slate]

Are trains worth investing in?

[white dawn]

But I'd also meant in terms of player-time/effort/enjoyment-spent-per-GW. :D Which is admittedly a very fuzzy metric and others may disagree.

[reef basin]

"worth" is always subjective to the individual

[soft marsh]

I hate trains

[white dawn]

IMO all the logistics options ((belts), vehicles, trains, drones) are well worth investing in

[reef basin]

basically this game gives you tools and it's up to you to play with them and decide if you want or not want them in your builds

[white dawn]

Trains have the fantastic advantage of becoming more and more useful the more you build them out. Your one section of rail which was originally a simple A->B transport can end up carrying a staggering amount of throughput as more and more traffic lands on the rail network

[chilly spear]

i have a giant platform for building (as you can see in #screenshots) what now?

[white dawn]

And it also makes for a delightful (IMO) Pioneer transport system. :)

[queen slate]

Cool thanks

[white dawn]

(And if you're looking for high-throughput transfers in particular, trains excel at that more than the other options)

[queen slate]

For now I’ll stick to hypertube cannons because they fun and efficient

[reef basin]

and cheaty

[chilly spear]

just make Arcelor Mittal vro ✌️

[queen slate]

Exactly

[white dawn]

Yeah, lots of folks like cannons for transit. I'm actually not really a fan myself, though I've used them a nonzero number of times. :)

I much prefer just hopping on a train and watching the scenery as I metaphorically page through the newspaper. :D

[queen slate]

And drink coffee

[chilly spear]

yes

[placid stirrup]

You can get there by train, you can get there by plane 😉

[white dawn]

And you can get there by a pneumatic tube which won't give you traumatic head injuries, we promise!

[queen slate]

Just finished my plastic and rubber factory 80 per minute 😄

Won’t fix my inv always being full tho 😔

[placid stirrup]

Sounds like it's time for sphere hunting 👀

[native tapir]

Orb*

[soft marsh]

Sphere would be correct as they're called Mercer Spheres

[placid stirrup]

Neither is incorrect

[native tapir]

Purple circles, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[pulsar glade]

Why isn’t my train working it keeps saying station unreachable

[native tapir]

Track is disconnected somewhere or your station is backwards.

[placid stirrup]

Fix the orientation

[formal spindle]

how do you place an awesome sink at the end of the factory when the storage is full? is there a way to implement that

[versed cosmos]

smart splitter

[formal spindle]

and if u dont have it?

[versed cosmos]

set the output that goes to your storage as the item going to storage and the output going to the sink as overflow

its not hard to get

find caterium

[lavish magnet]

does anyone know how id move a large section of a build down a few foundations?

[native tapir]

@formal spindle just do it with a normal splitter for now.

If the storage is full the splitter will send overflow down the unsaturated belt

[native tapir]

On PC, use scim. On console, rebuild.

And next time, use blueprints for everything that has any chance of maybe possibly moving.

[lavish magnet]

it is about half of a train station

[chilly spear]

should I build a modular engine factory skyscraper?

[stark lily]

rookie numbers

[hot mango]

my doggos just gave me free stuff 😺

[versed cosmos]

uranium ore

[queen slate]

Fr

[chilly spear]

how do i make an rgb effect with label signs?

[hollow terrace]

What do blueprints do? Does it just allow you to build everything before actually spending materials?

[versed cosmos]

Lets you prebuild stuff

And then place it down in one click

[chilly spear]

it makes a copy of the build so you dont have to spend time making it manually, still uses materials

[versed cosmos]

Some people build whole factories in the blueprint designer to place down whenever they need whatever component that factory produces

[hollow terrace]

Makes sense, I feel like it would be smart to create some schematics but usually I don’t have much flat/ open space near resource nodes

[lilac heath]

I usually have manifold parts in blueprints

so instead of placing lik 12 smelters and then connecting them and everything i just place a blueprint

[versed cosmos]

yeah

like u can get 4-6 in the mk1 blueprint depending on how u like to space them

[lilac heath]

in the mk1 i have 4, on both sides

and i place that one multiple times depending on how much capacity i need

[jagged nymph]

So uh are the satis factoring?

[lilac heath]

My factory is very satisfying

[spare cradle]

Bonjour

[jagged nymph]

ive yet to make a satisfying factory in 300 hours of gameplay

[spare cradle]

It do be factory.

[leaden turret]

looks at 4k+ hours without having finished the game

[first time? meme template]

[jagged nymph]

hehe

[spare cradle]

-# I just got 7 hours over the last two days, but I do say I like factory management games.

[placid comet]

Oh nice. I found the alt recipe that turns compact coal and heavy residue into turbo, and it makes even more fuel than the regular recipe. I can skip a step and expand

[jagged nymph]

theres just something so satisfactory about finishing a factory and seeing materials movin around n stuff

[versed cosmos]

turbo heavy fuel is slept on tbh

with how big refineries are cutting out a whole step is awesome

[sleek fulcrum]

300h?!?!? im currently sitting at 630h and still havent finished the game completely and currently have 300h in one of my saves and the best factory ive built is a fancy cube that tries to be a rectangle

[spare cradle]

And even the process of making the factory itself is satisfying.

[jagged nymph]

yeah i havnt finished the game yet either lol

[spare cradle]

... And so is deforestation

[placid comet]

For real? I did the math and refining oil into fuel then turbo just isn't worth the space and power consumption by comparison

[jagged nymph]

the last phase is just.... it sure is something

[versed cosmos]

i think because people like turbo blend fuel more

[sleek fulcrum]

I am a perfectionist overbuilder that gives up midway and starts over like 10 times

[versed cosmos]

or nitro rocket fuel to skip turbo entirely

[jagged nymph]

i for some reason had the great idea to make a 20/m smart plating factory (dont ask me why i have no clue) and it was before i even made any steel shit

[lilac heath]

i like your funny words magic man

[spare cradle]

theres... steel?

[placid comet]

Ah if there's another skipped step, I can see the argument. I guess I'll hold off for now before altering my plant too much. My power is fine for now and I'd like it to stay that way

[jagged nymph]

yeah?😭

[lilac heath]

Steel my beloved ❤️

[lilac heath]

if it works it works

[spare cradle]

What tier is it?

[jagged nymph]

3/4

[sleek fulcrum]

For real sometimes thinking too ahead especially when you have played before

[spare cradle]

Fun, almost to 3.

[jagged nymph]

yeah i tend to make something way too big, waste a bunch of time on it, and end up tearing it down shortly after

and i cant make anything that looks good lol

[jagged nymph]

this applies to any game

[jagged nymph]

steel is pretty easy dw, its just coal and iron makes steel. The only issue is the default recipe is 45 coal/m + 45 iron/m = 45 steel/m so the numbers are not very friendly

[spare cradle]

I got to agree, though I may also just leave something... much inefficient because of another project

[undone citrus]

How long have you owned the game? Cause I also just hit 300 hours

[spare cradle]

HURK.

[jagged nymph]

i originally got it probably 2 years ago but i havnt played very consistently every few months i get a satisfactory phase and play for a little bit

[spare cradle]

I thought the reinforced plate was bad

[jagged nymph]

the reinforced plate is not bad bro 😭

[reef basin]

no recipe is "bad"

[undone citrus]

Ah lol. I've owned the game for 22 days

[jagged nymph]

wait till you see later recipes

[sleek fulcrum]

I feel you like when i watch lets plays or just look through other peoples saves i tend to get ideas and when i start building in my world in the middle of a build i remember something that would be amazing to implement only small problem the project is almost finished and have no room to build it sooo.... lets spend a good 7-10h redoing everything just to do it all over again (to some degree)

[undone citrus]

This game has confirmed I have autism. I haven't been tested but I don't need one anymore 😭

[spare cradle]

True.

[jagged nymph]

yeahh

[undone citrus]

I have so many hours but feel like I know nothing, but that's probably cause I mostly build. That where the hours came from

[merry current]

So I am killing time while factories churn things out, and was trying to attach signs to inputs and outputs for everything so I can understand what is going on when something eventually needs to be tweaked. Is there any reason we can't attach the smallest signs/labels to inputs and outputs on only some machines?

[undone citrus]

I haven't passed phase 3 cause I'm playing Minecraft in satisfactory building bases lol

[spare cradle]

Try putting the sign on or beside the machine?

[merry current]

possibly, but I want to be pedantic and label each input/output

[spare cradle]

Maybe try the .5 sign and try to coordinate through symbols if space is the matter matters

[sleek fulcrum]

I feel i should try to complete the game and then focus on building for looks but often tends to shift the other way around

[undone citrus]

I build just to build and then put factories inside them after

I always build first, sometimes with planning usually not

[spare cradle]

I am trying my best to start buildings that I can easily expand upwards

Though I may need to reconsider the design with the containers... beh.

[real shale]

more planetary exploitation!

is another one else coming across issues with destructible boulders just.....not destroying?

[leaden turret]

if they're not destroying, how do you know they're destructible?

[real shale]

they are cracked

[leaden turret]

multiplayer/server?

[real shale]

single

[mystic urchin]

I saw someone had multiple tabs of the Production planner on the Satisfactory Calculator website
Does anyone know how to do that? I can't find any kind of option to make more tabs

[leaden turret]

is it like the thing I had in crater lakes where I put a nuke nobelisk on one boulder, expecting it to asplode the nearby boulders, but it only damaged the boulder it was attached to?

[reef basin]

SCIM doesn't allow that. Some other planners do (and SCIM isn't a very good planner either tbh)

[mystic urchin]

What's SCIM

[real shale]

something like that yeah, i think even in some instances the one i attached it too didnt even blow up

[leaden turret]

I would think if I'm not allowed to express my opinion of you and yours, you shouldn't be able to express your opinion of SCIM 😛

[reef basin]

SCIM is the "Satisfactory calculator" you were talking about

[junior laurel]

Openly hostle

[worn lagoon]

I need advice on base design, I'm on Phase three and have set up a big block factory where I run lower tier resources up the floors to make higher and higher tier resources on each floor, but it's resulted in a complete mess of belts and it's impeding my progress. I'm either thinking of just setting up a train network and splitting everything into smaller factories that just make a few resources and put them on a train network but redoing my whole base design is daunting, or trying to stick with this idea of floors and manage the belts differently. I'm also unsure where to build the train network if I do build it, maybe in the skybox?

[reef basin]

I personally suggest https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Independency for factory design

For train network, I'd build in on the ground, and expand it naturally rather than building it in advance

[lyric oar]

Hi, im really considering getting the game but a few questions. firstly is there a tutorial? and also how much content and replayability is there

[reef basin]

The whole game basically acts as tutorial

[chilly spear]

skyscraper done (now for the factory part 😭)

[leaden turret]

• there's an "onboarding" process
• about 100 hours worth for the average player
• I have 4k+ hours & haven't finished yet, but it depends on your play style

[worn lagoon]

what are the alternatives to this strategy

it's honestly an attractive idea and I might go for it

[late pumice]

Woah

I’ve been playing satisfactory for 110 hours straight

It gets to you

[formal spindle]

i started playing today at 15:35 its 1:00 in the morning rn

[spare cradle]

Could I ask what your play style is, if that is possible and ok.

[ocean frost]

No tutorial,

If you like factory builders and design games it might be for you

[leaden turret]

• no chainsaw biomass
• limited application of foreknowledge (not making a beeline for stuff when I know where it is, waiting until I see it "naturally")
• building up a list of refinements to my strategy that can't be integrated into the current playthrough & restarting when there's enough to be worth starting over

[kindred crater]

In my experience hence far- theres on on boarding process that acts as a tutorial- I wouldn't really say theres much replayability since youre kinda supposed to dump massive amounts of time and effort into a single for few saves

[spare cradle]

Seeing forests disappear is too fun to not have the chainsaw

[chilly spear]

@dry rivet your factory is sick as hell

[leaden turret]

you might say that, but...

[spare cradle]

Lmao

I wish I could use the chainsaw on them monsters. Would be so... So nice.

[leaden turret]

would damage the meats, and FICSIT does not waste

[spare cradle]

And I am guessing the explosives don't damage the creatures as well as it would probably eviscerate the meat.

[leaden turret]

concussive force tenderises the meats

[spare cradle]

[leaden turret]

also, I asked, the radioactive hog meats do not come pre-cooked

[soft marsh]

#screenshots message I need to move all of this into the empty space and idk if I want to lol

[cunning glade]

Are circuit boards something u should automate like too a storage container

Just high speed connectors right

[sullen gull]

If on PC, you "could" try to use SCIM... but would be a bit tricky.

[cunning glade]

Actually I think it would be super easy

Only hard part is placing it down well

[sullen gull]

I would tend to agree, but only because I have experience with it.

[cunning glade]

Fair

Cutting it out is easy

[soft marsh]

Oh yeah it wouldn't work at all. I need to rebuild it entirely

[sullen gull]

Even then it's not hard. Just use foundation "markers"

[cunning glade]

True

[sharp perch]

how does one keep one's first base (phase 1) from becoming a sprawling mess that takes ages to traverse/find anything in? 🤔

[sullen gull]

Oh. Well, in that case, just start building 😛

[cunning glade]

Anyways circuit boards worth an automation

[cunning glade]

Build in levels

First level makes all the basic parts then second does 10 plating a min

Then I route that upstairs too make phase 2 stuff with steel stuff next too it

Or steel factory separate depending on spawn

[sharp perch]

i ...suppose an attempt was made at this 🤣 i put a screenshot in #screenshots

[cunning glade]

Tinker I mean for like dd

[rancid hearth]

Got some nice en clean "Coveyor lift towers" ?

[sullen gull]

Guess not. They aren't used for the build gun 🤷‍♂️

[soft marsh]

Yeah I just need to start building and move it into the ravine

[cunning glade]

What I figured

Figured if I need them steal them from computer factory

[sullen gull]

You'll need them for a few items

[soft marsh]

Need to drain the old factory of resources first tho, that's gonna take awhile

[sullen gull]

Why rebuild though?

[soft marsh]

Because I wanted my base inside the ravine and its not lol

[sullen gull]

Hmmm... "base" .... 😏

[rain wasp]

Can someone please explain to me something I feel retarded,...
I have one iron drill 30/min to furnace iron ore 30/min into 2 steel pipes 15/min x2 = everything is balanced. Yet the iron ingots are clogged up and theres too many of them for the iron pipes

its a perfect ratio yet its not

[grizzled lotus]

I'm working on my railway, and what I'm going for is having a train for each complex part. For example, for adaptive control units I have one train that picks up automated wiring, heavy modular frame, circuit board and computers, and transfers them to a location where they are assembled into ACU. I was surprised to find out not everyone does it this way.

So what do most people do?

[soft marsh]

I avoided this way for a long time because I hate trains, which is why I did like a huge mega base where I just brought everything to one locaiton since it reduced the overall amount of trains I needed. I recently gave up avoiding trains so Im debating moving to this style but if I did that I'd need a complete rework

[grizzled lotus]

you mean reworking railways? it's not as bad. but if you mean reworking the base, yeah, it'll be a lot of work. but I find mega factories to be more of a headache

[grizzled lotus]

can you check your machines again and make sure?

[rain wasp]

i checked

[grizzled lotus]

post a picture of the 3 machines in #screenshots

the input/output screen

[peak plank]

The tiny amount of iron needed for Nitric Acid is giving me conniptions

[spare cradle]

I wish I had a tablet which showed the graph that clicking on a power pole would provide.

[tall lantern]

would need a way to pick which power grid to look at

[sullen gull]

You could probably do something like that with the Ficsit-Networks mod.

Would need to know/learn Lua though 😛

[pastel hedge]

Why is it every single time I try to join someone on console it says I can’t join even though I have it so I’m logged into epic

[spare cradle]

I'll probably look into it after I've played for a bit longer to the point I would need something like what I said.

[peak plank]

I would feel 5 times as important with a tablet of any kind. Dont even think of giving me a clipboard

[spare cradle]

The vanilla cup makes me feel the same tbh

[rain wasp]

what do i loose if i die, and what do i do if im stuck and cant get back to the base

[leaden turret]

• depends on gameplay settings
• respawn in the main menu

[rain wasp]

whats the default setting to drop death?

[leaden turret]

I think it's keep equipment only?

[rain wasp]

huh, okey

because like... i need water

i look down and its like 100000m drop

down a cliff, im assuming theres water down there.

if i could vertically pipe it up, but first i gotta get down there

[soft marsh]

reworking the bases

Ive since built a ring around the track that I can use to more easily route trains but with how things are right now its not getting much use

[dense violet]

that sounds like a pit to the endless void

[rain wasp]

theres an endless void??...

is this not just an island surrounded by water

[dense violet]

oh it is, but there's also, endless void in places

[grizzled lotus]

trying to automate circuit boards and computers for other stuff is making me have really negative thoughts. dear god

[shy mulch]

Where exactly are you or the map? If there's water down a cliff you should be able to see it. If we know where you are, we can advise

[dense violet]

just use caterium and oil https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=aow3WwNaetn7Bt64VJyA

[rain wasp]

id post a screenshot but perms gay asf

[leaden turret]

you wanna try that again without the casual homophobia?

[shy mulch]

There's #1038092680493801533 for questionsnd #screenshots for showing off or quick comment, but due to your comments I'm no longer willing to help

[grizzled lotus]

is the caterium circuit board alt recipe objectively better than the default one?

[tall lantern]

no alt recipe is objectively better
(even solid steel and cast screws)

as you can guess from the name, it uses caterium in place of copper. Is that better? Depends what resources you want to use

[grizzled lotus]

yeah I was just asking why that recipe in particular

[tall lantern]

It certainly gets you more per plastic

[grizzled lotus]

honestly I wish I didn't pass up on the coke one

[tall lantern]

think Cobalt's aim there was just to minimise how many different resources you'd need

since that's one measure of "complexity"

[wicked nacelle]

that's not what "objectively" means, btw -- you were looking for maybe "purely better"

[eager palm]

You mean to tell me cast screws isn’t objectively better than default?

[pulsar glade]

Is it worth it to make a big alliumin factor like 500 per min

[soft marsh]

My advice is to make what you need and expand as you need it

[pulsar glade]

How much would I need

[eager palm]

Depends on current goals.

[soft marsh]

idk depends on what you have that needs aluminum

[pulsar glade]

Is alliumin used a lot like I made my steel factor too small and I had to expand it 4 times and I just wanna know how much I need of alliumin so I don’t have to expand

[soft marsh]

Level 5 belts and whatnot use aluminium

[eager palm]

Aluminium is quite useful for belts.

[soft marsh]

My first aluminum factory was connected directly to some storage and depots solely for belts

[pulsar glade]

So is 500 per min good or should I down size

[eager palm]

I would make the cleanest amount you can from close nodes, and smart sink beyond a large container.

But the sheets are what you’ll want to stockpile, not ingots

[pulsar glade]

I see what ur saying but I’m current having the coal and the water I needed for it delivered by train since there wasn’t any near by

And the sorce I decided to use is closed to my main base ( still pretty far )

[gloomy tusk]

yo

i just got satisfactory and just unlocked coal is it the best fuel source in game (im playing satisfactory with no knowledge of the game at all) and just wanted to check

i have a pretty cool house i made

[dense violet]

to make it only caterium and oil 🙂

[dense violet]

the electrode CB recipe is pretty niche - it chews through oil

[gloomy tusk]

@dense violet

is it good and if not what should i try to use

[dense violet]

if you just unlocked coal power, it's the best automated power source you have right now then

it's also the only automated power source you have 😛

[gloomy tusk]

i have biofuel

[dense violet]

that's not automated

[gloomy tusk]

but i put it in the machine and it runs?

[dense violet]

will it run forever once you set it up without you doing anything?

[gloomy tusk]

if i put enough in

[dense violet]

"without you doing anything?"
you cannot start it with infinite fuel

[gloomy tusk]

oh

i got the space elevator

[dense violet]

if you put a miner on a coal node, and burn it, it'll jsut run forever

[gloomy tusk]

it took me like 2 hours to figure out how to make smart plate

[dense violet]

everyoen learns 🙂

you'll get there

[gloomy tusk]

i want to automate every thing

thats my goal

[dense violet]

then get some coal power going 🙂

!wikisearch cg

[raven axle]

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

[dense violet]

find 3-4 coal nodes next to water. Easy

[ancient plinth]

does blueprint auto connect connects power too?