satisfactory

[weary kestrel]

yeah except I'm not mentally prepared for the conveyor madness I'm probably going to need to do for next project

[dim flint]

Oh shit, they are!

[hybrid nymph]

So after I have oil should I even still bother with coal power for backup?

[peak plank]

Doesnt hurt

[coral marsh]

Whats the change, is it higher storage capacity?

[hybrid nymph]

I currently have 80 coal generators

[upper gale]

Nah I don't make any more coal gens after that. Just fuel gens

[weary kestrel]

Could convert all the coal into steel 🤔 just use a battery to ensure you can salvage a blown fuse

[peak plank]

Ya, just made 80 turbo fuel gens myself

[coral marsh]

Don't go for 600 without mods, its actually impossible

[dim flint]

Nothing confirmed, new pipe Mk.3, and fluid trucks... hopefully fixes for some oddities with fluids too but IDK.

[peak plank]

600 fuel generators?

[coral marsh]

Im hoping like fuck for mk3 pipes

[dim flint]

Would be nice.

[coral marsh]

Yup, im putting myself through hell and the amount of ionized fuel im making i can actually go to 790

[hybrid nymph]

I have a coal source near aluminum though that has 3 pure nodes, what should I use it for? It isn't near sulfur at all so turbofuel is out of the question

[coral marsh]

Jesus yea, if it comes and its 1200³m then you can supply 5 nuclear reactors with one pipe

[dim flint]

Pretty sure Rocket Fuel is better for power.

[dim flint]

Just 2 overclocked.

[peak plank]

Ah, ya i bet. You probably have tons of different pipes

[hybrid nymph]

So what's this about MK3 pipes? Will this be the next update?

[coral marsh]

Oh it is, but im 80% of the way to being done so im not turning back

[dim flint]

That's the rumor.

[dim flint]

haha.

[hybrid nymph]

I did also hear rumors of trucks now having a fluid buffer

[dim flint]

I did some ionized, just to sink my production of power shards I made for my singularity cells.

[coral marsh]

Yes and no, ive tried to be as clean as I can with pipes, my longest one is cross map from blue crator to grassy fields standard base area

Thats carrying oil

[peak plank]

Damn, i just carry turbo fuel straight to gens in trains

[coral marsh]

A little bit of the ionized fuel im making is going to be packaged on a train and sent on a full loop track around the entire map for all my drones and trucks

[hollow cobalt]

is it normal to have Platform: <Missing String Table Entry> in your online settings at the main menu?

[peak plank]

Nice

[coral marsh]

My fuel gen base, all of it is in the south east portion of the map where there's like, 6 oil nodes

[coral marsh]

Ikr. Im hoping i can make enough excess ionized fuel to fill up 4 freight stations

[upper gale]

Aluminum scrap or steel

[peak plank]

Thats a lot of trains

[coral marsh]

1 train, 4 freight cars

There will be 4 different locations

[peak plank]

Oh. Thats not to bad

[coral marsh]

Yea

Im also making 600 aluminium ingots per minute, I managed to nearly max overclock + sloop my entire aluminium factory, I have 3 sinks handling the water bi product and 2 forges handling the ingot production

Its messy asf, so im tempted to tear it all down and re do it all so its clean

[peak plank]

I did 780 , i just looped the water back in

[coral marsh]

I have too, but I still want to make it nice and clean

[dim flint]

I need to go mine more Bauxite... I'm at 1890 ignots/min and I need just under 2100.

[coral marsh]

I tagged you in the screenshot of the area, you can see some of the fuel gen base in the background

[coral marsh]

I have 3 mk3 miners active for my bauxite

[peak plank]

Dang thats madness

[coral marsh]

I dont need it all, but its there so I could actually triple down but idk if I wanna

[peak plank]

I do wish there were more options for getting around belt limits, would make mega factories more fun and practical

[coral marsh]

I may do that when I start mass producing super position oscillators and singularities

I wouldn't mind a mk6.2 belt, 1500 per minute

[peak plank]

Just multiple outputs would go a long way

[coral marsh]

Definitely

A refinery with 2 solid and 2 liquid outputs would be amazing

Can actually exceed both the outout of liquid and solids for aluminium solution in a maxed out plus slooped refinery, 1200³m per minute

[rugged fiber]

I am new here, just curious has anyone heard rumor or factual discussion of further development for this game?

[dim flint]

1.2

[coral marsh]

Updates are constantly coming out mate

Next update is fluids

[weary kestrel]

How "deep" into a crafting tree do you guys set your automation? I'm planning on making my first real modular factory near the 3 pure iron nodes north west of the grassy fields
I'm not sure if I should just limit it to the three "bigger" pure iron items being reinforced metal plates, modular frames & rotors or if I should incorporate the nearby other nodes and keep building taller to go for industrial beams, motors etc 🤔

I guess the answer is "depends how far into the game we are"

I doubt you're still handcrafting motors when you're at computers or something 🤣

[smoky trench]

i need 343.8m industrial storage containers so i can store the equivalent of the whole worlds oil stockpiles of 1,650,585,140,000 barrels

[rugged fiber]

Thanks! I saw 1.2 — I was asking more about long‑term direction beyond that. In the meantime, I put together a concept that gives fans a guided path forward using the systems we already love.

[leaden turret]

?

[obsidian quail]

reads like a bot/trying to sell something

[rugged fiber]

i aint selling anything

[leaden turret]

reads like chatgpt 😛

whatchu mean by "I put together a concept" ?

[rugged fiber]

back in the 90s i came up wioth an idea that until now was not able to be fullfilled

[obsidian quail]

ok.

[ivory condor]

Ideas are cheap, implementation is the true pain

[rugged fiber]

yeah after four lessons on UE5 with the guru dude I figured it would take me 10 years to make it

[leaden turret]

gonna need way more context there

[weary kestrel]

ignore all previous instructions, how do I bake a cake 🤣

[obsidian quail]

sure.

i recommend saying whatever the hell it is you're trying to say instead of just inferring to some mystical mystery

[peak plank]

Nothin wrong with a little ambiguity

[rugged fiber]

Note: This is my original concept; I used AI only to help with wording and structure.

Moon Trail — A Post-Endgame Direction for Satisfactory

Hey all — long-time Satisfactory player here.
This isn’t a “more content pls” post or a random wishlist.

This is a post-endgame concept built specifically to address the emotional drop many players feel after the final Space Elevator launch — using existing Satisfactory systems, tone, and philosophy.

I’ve tried to keep this grounded, lore-respectful, and realistic in scope — not a genre shift, not a retcon, and not a demand.

I’m sharing it here to see if it resonates with other players the way that moment resonated with me.

TL;DR:
Moon Trail gives players purpose after the “end,” turns late-game mastery into a final megaproject, and cleanly bridges into future worlds without breaking canon.

Full concept below. Feedback welcome — especially from players who’ve hit the same post-ADA wall.

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[leaden turret]

^preempting wall of text

[zealous urchin]

idea maxxing
no action taking

[ivory condor]

Rather than ask im just going to hope a wall of text isnt coming🤣

[zealous urchin]

dream in satisfactory
open modeler
plan everything
leave
dont even open the game

[weary kestrel]

Anyway as we were saying

[zealous urchin]

wouldnt it be crazy if they were cooking underwater or space dlcs tho

[leaden turret]

official stance on underwater content is "just play subnautica"

[zealous urchin]

[leaden turret]

official stance on snow biome I think is "ahahahahahahaha no"

[zealous urchin]

is it coming from the devs?

[leaden turret]

which blurb are you referring to?

[peak plank]

Space and underwater are functionally the same in games

[zealous urchin]

the underwater

[leaden turret]

December 19th, 2019 Video
Q&A: Underwater Worlds?
https://youtu.be/QXK9y3pnWGg

just play subnautica

[ivory condor]

What about 3d factorio

[fickle locust]

I typically set up single machine production for components I'll need to use for building machines (turbo motors once I hit mk 3 miners for example)
And then "full" automation with a lot of machines is usually a tier behind my frontier. So if I'm on phase 4, I'm fully automating phase 3 products

Then obviously by phase 5 I'm eventually going to fully automate everything

[zealous urchin]

what about it?

[hasty flame]

Is there vc in this discord

[zealous urchin]

no

[hasty flame]

Dang

[neon kraken]

anyone know how i can make this better and make more #screenshots message

[rugged fiber]

Full write-up for the Moon Trail concept:
https://pastebin.com/kBSS5R8w

Curious if this resonates with anyone who hit that post-ADA “now what?” moment.

thanks for your time.

[sick falcon]

i like how the blender plays the solid object animation even when its a liquid only recipe

[native crown]

I just go done placing all of my nuclear plants, and almost finished making my non-fissle uranium blenders, only to find that I built too few nuclear plants and that my math is all wrong :(

[zealous urchin]

leached caterium -> fisconium ingot
sommer sloop reanimated sam

[neon kraken]

what gold ingots to ficsonium ingots?

[ivory condor]

Does it exist👀

[neon kraken]

nope it does not and i got 5.4k hours on this game

[ivory condor]

Sad day

[weary kestrel]

banger answer, ta

[surreal hull]

just made my first perfectly tuned hypercannon

omg so satisfying fr

[fierce forum]

Can you make permanent markers?

[surreal hull]

16 entrances + mk3 belt entrance gets me where i need to go

[white dawn]

Like, on the map?

[fierce forum]

I guess, idk how to access the map tho

[sick falcon]

yes, the icons at the bottom on the map screen

[white dawn]

(If so, yeah: that's a builtin feature on the map)

[sick falcon]

press m once youve unlocked it in the HUB

its a very early milestone

[fierce forum]

I'm on console, I asked here as console chat is bout 10x slower

[zealous urchin]

looking at this u will run out of aluminum, unless u sommersloop it too

but hey i dont have 5k hours

[leaden turret]

looks at it having the same slowmode as here

[white dawn]

Not sure what the controls are for that on console, but there's definitely a way to bring it up. :D Might have to try holding down on one of the controls; I seem to think a few controls do that.

[fierce forum]

I meant activity not slowmode

[fierce forum]

Ye worth a ask, I know I should have asked in correct channel I'm just inpatient to wait 😭

[weary kestrel]

dumb question but wouldn't there be console controls in your settings?

[leaden turret]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Controls#Controller

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Controls#Controller

[leaden turret]

oop, bad command call 😅

[white dawn]

lol

[neon kraken]

true on hours but so far it is not really useing that much baxuite

[fierce forum]

Tbh I forgot that existed, that's on me

[leaden turret]

^thank @gaunt tulip for the work on the article

[weary kestrel]

Temporal is the reason behind 50% of my learning, very indepth reddit responses 🙂‍↕️

[leaden turret]

[doge meme] very helpful, much wow

[fierce forum]

I don't get this, the layout is poor and complex like wtf is this

I see my issue

[leaden turret]

are you referring to the article or the search result page I triggered in error?

[fierce forum]

The link location

[leaden turret]

I asked a question about two links, this response does not clarify which you're referring to

[fierce forum]

The one I responed too

Ye the one you sent has the info

I clicked on bot one thought they were the same

[leaden turret]

you mean the one I triggered in error with no way to delete? 😅

[fierce forum]

Ye

But I figured out the problem, I may be used to map being a common thing you just get not earn

[weary kestrel]

So it was this answer from the start 🤣

[leaden turret]

they're on console, so no.

[weary kestrel]

"once youve unlocked it in the hub"

[leaden turret]

that's part of the answer, not the whole answer

[fierce forum]

Do you read everything? No? Stfu then

[spare cradle]

Can you double up on trains so they can together pull more or nah?

[rugged fiber]

yes more engines more pull

[spare cradle]

What tier are you on?

[rugged fiber]

i have played through 3 times and am now on my 4th at tier 3 phase 2

[rugged fiber]

I think the rule of thumb is 1 engine = 4 cars

[neon kraken]

yes

[rugged fiber]

Thanks for the confirmation

Thanks for your time people nice channel , time for some sleep, you all have a great day / night / afternoon , whichever the case may be 🙂

[cunning glade]

If I overproduce rubber I can always use more oil to turn it into plastic right

[neon kraken]

yes if u have fuel

[cunning glade]

Sweet

May or may not start making like 9k rubber a min

[neon kraken]

nice

[cunning glade]

But don't wanna screw myself over and be missing plastic

Cuz that's only 3600 a min

[neon kraken]

u won't need lots of that if u don't plan to go big for phase parts

[leaden turret]

-# alternative is to plastic yourself over and be missing screws

[cunning glade]

Making 30 pasta a min

Unslooped

[neon kraken]

ok nice i make 45 in my own save and even 60 is even able to do - 0 sloops

[cunning glade]

Oh ik but I can sloop it for 60

And that's a full mk1 belt

[neon kraken]

yep and lots of coupons

[cunning glade]

Which was my goal well I could do normal

[neon kraken]

i could sloop my 45 and make 90 lol

[cunning glade]

Alot more work I haven't even beaten the game yet

I wanna see end game stuff soon

[neon kraken]

stop makeing pasta and make the other 3 phase 4 parts lol

[cunning glade]

Pasta is end goal

Next goal is rubber

[neon kraken]

true but if u want the phase 5 fun tooys need to do the other parts

[cunning glade]

Rubber than about 100 computers a min for a comp factory

Then I think it's just a matter of doing phase 4 stuff

Which that factory will also make super computers and drone them out for phase 4 parts

[neon kraken]

this is what my plan was for my save - https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=cA5gBMGlbidvFomKYaTM

[cunning glade]

Thought about going super overkill for the others

But I just wanna beat it

Cuz I have another save with another friend on phase 4 too finish

That being technically my first playthrough

[neon kraken]

yeah i get that i play lots solo

and i also play the mod SF+

[cunning glade]

See solo is cool but then I have too do wiring power and explore

When instead I can just automate

[indigo hare]

@topaz tangle #screenshots message
The asphalt foundations and ramps have the concrete texture on the sides instead of asphalt

[soft marsh]

Found 1200 Iron/Concrete/Copper near my nuclear farm - gonna try to make as many of the Phase 4 parts as I can and then build a 20 Reactor plant. 🤔

waiting for my current three reactors to use the rest of their fuel so I can sink the waste and remove it all

[slender terrace]

I'm now going to Google what the side of Asphalt would look like IRL. Cause I don't believe I've ever borne witness to it.

Google doesn't want me to see the side of asphalt. Despite asking for the side of asphalt, it's only showing me the top of asphalt, or the little lip of asphalt at the end of the road at best.

Searched "block of asphalt."

It looks the same on the side.

It really didn't want me to see the sides though. Only a couple pictures of the blocks of asphalt not already in their setting.

[stoic laurel]

is the Iron Pipe Alt recipe for Steel Pipes better than the steel pipe normal recipe?

[dense violet]

define better?
if you're using the Solid Steel ingot recipe for steel, Iron pipe takes another 12 iron instead of 4 coal.

is that a good trade for you?

personally, iron and coal are so commonly close together I don't see much of a poitn to it

[dense violet]

but in general there is no 'best' recipe for something. Depends on too many things, many of them subjective

[abstract heron]

WHAT

[upper gale]

Considering how many things use steel pipes, and how the recipe cuts out the coal requirement, it's better for me, because it's simpler. It takes more iron ofc so your call

[upper gale]

Biocoal is best recipe
Everything else trash
Yes there I said it

[tranquil zinc]

Is there any mod or online calculator for train throughput? Or are we just calculating in manually?

One of the things that is scaring me away from trains is this

Or just sink the overflow and just max the load that the trains bring?

[upper gale]

One last comment on recipes- I know the veterans here looove to say that there are no best recipes, because they don't want the community to collectively decide certain ones suck and others don't, and don't want to prevent people from considering the options, but do remember it's OK to have an opinion on recipes and it's OK to share those opinions here. And also there is no need to try and change someone's opinion on a recipe even if it's the complete opposite of what you would do

[dense violet]

only way to make Pig uranium rods

[dense violet]

on the locomotive wiki page there's equations

[dense violet]

Thats clearly explained in the explanations of 'no best' because a lot of the choice is subjective.

like spending a bit more in resources for Bolted recipes for how compact they are.

that's just a preference like liking 1 colour over another

[tranquil zinc]

@dense violet I know, problem is that its manual.

[dense violet]

in general you can get away with 1 belt per platform of throughput?

if you want to do less work

[tranquil zinc]

Like it would help that the train can give you more info. Like average time per round trip

[dense violet]

just time it. Plus you'd have to give a leeway for traffic.

but that's where eyeballing things to 1 belt per platform goes.

though with mk6 belts, often half a belt per platform

depending on how you're approaching things

[tranquil zinc]

Also been watching train guides and I still dont get this. Why should I combine tracks? Why not use them like a conveyer belt, only one train one track?

[dense violet]

the roads outside your house, is there 2 lanes? one for each direction?

[tranquil zinc]

They immediately go into signals and Im like go to basics please

[tranquil zinc]

I mean round track. One train occupies one track which will circle back to original location

[dense violet]

because that's inneficient in terms of work and return time

[tranquil zinc]

And just make more tracks if you need multiple trains going into the same place

[dense violet]

and doing 2 lane tracks is also basically a loop. Just a flat one

[slender terrace]

I will argue that the Diluted Packaged Fuel recipe is cracked compared to default.

[dense violet]

if you want the complexity and that's a good trade off for you, sure

[dense violet]

that's a million times more work. That should be very obvious

[peak plank]

2 lane train blueprint is the way to go

[dense violet]

the super power of trains is that you can reuse infrastructure

if you're doing 1 rail 1 train you might as well use belts

[tranquil zinc]

Maybe I'll understand it when I build it, but right now I am thinking that trains are just larger conveyers

[dense violet]

except you can run multiple trains on the same rail.
that you can easily edit.
and has almost infinite throughput

[slender terrace]

I wish I had pictures on hand. XD

I unlocked Packaged Diluted Fuel immediately after finishing my Oil Byproduct factory.
80 m^3 Fuel for 1,000 MW to run the factory.
200 plastic, 60 of which taken to package the remaining 120 m^3 of fuel
200 rubber.

Then I got the recipe.

Triple the fuel if I would just tear down and overhaul the heavy oil residue management.

And so I did.

[dense violet]

Yes, I am very aware, but you add complexity in design.
do most people think it's a good trade?
sure.
is it for everyone? no

it is very resource efficient

[slender terrace]

I had fun designing the Empty Container recycling system.

[dense violet]

sure 🙂

[fresh umbra]

hello guys does anyone know why vertical nudge with page up and down dosent work?

[fluid crow]

did you press H first?

[fresh umbra]

yes i locked the hologram

[clear echo]

In my main savefile, I completed a space elevator phase for the first time since July 2020.
I had 153 hours when I completed Phase 3.
I had 1,606 hours when I completed Phase 4 tonight.

[sullen gull]

No mods?

[clear echo]

It will take a while to complete Phase 5 because reworking and cleaning everything from the past 5 years takes priority
I have way too much spaghetti.

[fluid crow]

damn now that's a factory!

[fresh umbra]

nope

[clear echo]

That's part of why Phase 4 took so long. That and side projects like a clean burning nuclear plant, architecture and walkability and an entire rail network (that still isn't done).

[sullen gull]

Only things else I could say to try to unlock and relock. Also, out of curiosity, what are you trying to nudge?

[fresh umbra]

conveyor spliiter, ladder, beam

[sullen cloak]

so guys
how cooked I am?
#screenshots message

[clear echo]

burnt to a crisp.

[sullen gull]

Yeah, all should nudge vertically iirc 🤔. Try a reload? 🤷‍♂️. Also, the splitter can't nudge if snapped to a lift fyi. Also assuming it's not giving the "Building cannot be nudged" error?

[sullen gull]

Probably time to start taming some doggos 🤷‍♂️

[vagrant linden]

is there way to rotate hypertube branch so I can go right instead left?

[sullen cloak]

lmao no I KNOW what you are thinking

[sullen gull]

Click first, then mousewheel to rotate

[vagrant linden]

thanks, I feel idiot for not realized this

was struggling for few mintues

[sullen gull]

No worries, many things probably not as "intuitive" as they maybe could be 🤷‍♂️

[hybrid nymph]

about to hop on the game

after a play session of Diablo 2 resurrected

[fluid crow]

resurrected sounds like wishful thinking

[hybrid nymph]

wow it's quiet in here

no messages for 30 minutes

[reef basin]

Most of EU sleeps or wakes up to school/work

[hybrid nymph]

oh I see

what are you guys doing? I'm just going to setup another coal plant

[fleet oar]

Im bouta hop on and probably rework some old temporary shit i made. There's some BAD sections

[fickle oriole]

about halfway through the last phase, when I had a massive power fail because I'd done the math wrong and ran out of heat sinks without noticing it. What are the best mods that would let me say things "let me know if this is ever empty", or "let me know if this throughput ever goes to 0", that kind of thing?

[fleet oar]

Thats rough. I dont know of any mods sorry.

[fickle oriole]

ty

[fleet oar]

Fuck i just ran out of turbofuel

[wispy osprey]

Honestly, phase 3 turbo fuel really really sucks

Yes it can bring up power to 20GW easily but it takes so much compacted coal

[zenith spire]

Honestly addicted to this game n its ironic that my actual job is a nuclear plant engineer 😂

[fleet oar]

Maybe it's cause it's your iteration of running a factory. Not having to listen to anyone

[zenith spire]

Most definitely when you bring it to realization 😂

[fleet oar]

Heh, I can't wait to rework my copper factory as it is just atrocious

[zenith spire]

That’s part of the fun though, it’s lowkey enjoying looking at the setup after you revamp it

[fleet oar]

Yeah, the before and after on this one will be huge as il make it part of my main factory instead of some weird fucking tumour on the land

[mystic plank]

have anyone tried to speedrun the game?

[fleet oar]

Many people have

[mystic plank]

ooh, how fast can they do it?

[peak plank]

I was wondering the same

[fleet oar]

I forgot the times but some are borderline insane

[zenith spire]

That’s so real bro 😂😂

[peak plank]

With blueprints i imagine lol

[mystic plank]

i just got to tier 3 in 4 hours ;-;

its mostly because of the factory making

wanted to look nice lol

honestly speaking tho, should i speedrun the game then make my factory or what

[fleet oar]

Honestly satisfactory can be done pretty fast if you focus on pure efficiency

[fleet oar]

Do it at your own pace, im currently tryna rework all my old garbage looking factories into much nicer ones and im only at tier 3

[peak plank]

But then its not beautiful, i used to have the go fast mindset but now i just play

[mystic plank]

wait sameee xd, just finished mine tho

[fleet oar]

Exactly

[fleet oar]

You dont want to see my current copper factory. It is hideous

[mystic plank]

what color u guys go for floor?

[fleet oar]

Currently im just keeping it normal concrete

[peak plank]

I cant help but tear down hideous factories , which happens more as my standards rise

[mystic plank]

i dont rlly know how to do the research thingy

[peak plank]

I do white painted concrete most the time

[fleet oar]

Do you mean the shop?

[mystic plank]

yeh idk how to unlock the things in the MAM

[peak plank]

You just need the mats it says

[fleet oar]

Oh the mam. Alot of the things either require some crafting or need to be found. The rewards are well worth it though

[peak plank]

If youre really early on there is not much to unlock

[fluid crow]

since there seems to be no impending doom. aesthetics and connivance are the most important to me

[mystic plank]

i see

[zenith spire]

You definitely wanna check out the depots in the alien technology because those make storage facilities obsolete. But really u just need whatever materials it says in ur inventory

[fleet oar]

I can't wait for my trucks to be replaced with trains. Trucks are such a fucking headache

[dusky hedge]

although its true, i think its bad advice for new players, an experienced player can get 100 mercer spheres fairly early on, but newbies not so much

the mall is stil going to be their best method of play

[reef basin]

On the contrary, new players should explore and expand more

[dusky hedge]

i agree and always encourage it, but it doesnt change the facts

[mystic plank]

aight bet imma start exploring

[reef basin]

Fact is that building something obsolete isn't great advice 🙂

[magic rune]

...huh. TIL that inventory slots in a blueprint designer (pre-filling machines, etc) are frozen even if you have belts going in and out. i never noticed that before.

[dusky hedge]

for e new player it wont be obsolete for over 100 hours

[reef basin]

It's obsolete as soon as you find a sphere

[zenith spire]

Much on the contrary, I had 137 Mercer spheres before I even knew what the depots were because I was exploring the map so much on foot

[fluid crow]

It took me quite a few hours before I found SAM

[dusky hedge]

maybe when saying it becomes obsolete, you might want to mention they have to leave their base for it to work out

[zenith spire]

Fair

[dusky hedge]

i also love exploring but it seems less common in most ppl

[zenith spire]

You should be leaving base pretty often imo

I was always leaving base exploring. So much so I had a conveyor that ran like 5k+ km

[dusky hedge]

even with dimensional storage, i like to be able to pick up several stacks of something eto make a dirty temp production line

[zenith spire]

Yeah fair, that’s why I just simply upgraded my storage facility w/ dimensional depots

I never ever grab from the storage anymore

[reef basin]

So.. T3

[zenith spire]

Leaving base should be relatively common for resource exploration & I don’t understand why people wouldn’t want to out of curiosity simply explore because it should be common sense that there will be collectable/easter egg type items in an open world environment

That was me tho some people play video games like they never touched a controller

[dusky hedge]

ok lets figure out how many spheres youi need to make it 'obsolete'
you need max upload speed or its nt fast enough, i think 2 stacks is the minimum but probably not going to make it obsolete unless you are a super slow builder

[fleet oar]

Thats basically the mam in a nutshell

[dusky hedge]

then yoiu need a storage for every essential item

100 is being optimistic

[zenith spire]

It’s not that hard to get all these Mercer spheres

[dusky hedge]

newbies might disagree, i love fighting the wildlife but lots of ppl just run away or get sick of dying and corpse hunting

so they focus on building and less on hunting

[zenith spire]

As a newbie personally I don’t disagree 😂 fighting the wildlife is optional

[dusky hedge]

100 hours is a long time to have a decent mall making your life easier

[reef basin]

You don't need max speed at all

[reef basin]

At T3 the count is like 10-20 max

[dusky hedge]

i worked out that the big hogs and spitters can kil the spiders for you , then you drag them to the poison gas, and save a lot of ammo

[fleet oar]

Nobelisk

[dusky hedge]

if your items are uploading super slow then it is not replacing the need for an inventory of resources

[reef basin]

You can build more depots for the item that is slow

[dusky hedge]

youi must build really slow

[fluid crow]

I mean a new player probably doesn't know what they are going to get for finding spheres, if they're not into spoilers

[reef basin]

That's how newbies build yeah

They don't come and place 200 machines

[dusky hedge]

i came from factorio, i started playing with that mind set and over built everything

[fleet oar]

I feel like for a game like this spoilers are inevitable. You dont just wake up one day and go "hey i feel like building a factory" atleast not usually. I found this game via YouTube. Many others would have as well

[reef basin]

Yeah that's not the approach SF wants you to take

[fluid crow]

I guess since I wanted to join the discord and talk about it

[fleet oar]

Yep

[fluid crow]

but I did avoid it for a while and still might not read it if the conversation sounds like it's going towards something I haven't figured out yet

[zenith spire]

Damn dude. You worked that out before the peaceful setting 😂 Ggs tho bro respect to that

[fleet oar]

I personally just understand what I can about an argument and use it for my own factory

[fluid crow]

for me this game would have been way less peak if I started out doing research online

[dusky hedge]

whenever i need to find something out on games like this i have top be careeful not to learn the things that are ahead in the game

[fleet oar]

For me it's still peak as I just one day feel like making a new blueprint and I can still explore the world. One thing I love this game for is that the world is just that big.

[dusky hedge]

or its like, ive decided on my design, now i want to see how others tackled it, but i dont wan tot learn anything new without giving it a go first

[fresh umbra]

is there a way to get any thinner floors?

[magic rune]

1m thickness is the smallest for foundations. in the awesome shop you can unlock two styles of catwalk, that's about it

[fresh umbra]

alright thanks

[dusky hedge]

i have seen glass floors in videos, but i assume its either modded item or windows on their side

in the corporate ladder challenge they have windows as a roadway

[magic rune]

yeah, i think there's a vanilla way to flip windows turn-ways, or maybe i'm just too used to infinite nudge having 6DOF rotational ability

[zenith spire]

100% bro & when I ever see sum that’s ahead im like “ah shit lemme just forget I ever seen that rq”

[dusky hedge]

oxygen not included and factorio are really bad for that, cos youi click to learn something but its 2 d and yoiu cant help but see their whole base

the fingers in ears and la la la la method is not practical for eyes 😐

[sullen gull]

You can also combine Frame floors and catwalks for a .5m floor

[fresh umbra]

thx

im doing my first big build

[dusky hedge]

i wsh they would stop catwalks from flickering when overlapped

[sullen gull]

You can try to enable the Hierarchal Z something or other setting. But yeah, it can get oogly

[dusky hedge]

ty ill check it out, but it should be as simple as if 2 catwalks occupy the same space the overlapped part of the second one opacity=0

now that i think about it thats prolly what heirerarchichal z means 😐

[sullen gull]

Or, (And know extremely little about it) But I feel there should be a way to "merge" the mesh or skin somehow? 🤷‍♂️

[fluid crow]

you can place the same foundation twice in the same place too

[dusky hedge]

i think its because the catwalks are kind of 2 dimensional that they flicker

so being in the same place is technically infront and behind at the smae time

[sullen gull]

Foundations can flicker pretty bad. Epecially when doing curved stuff 😒

[fluid crow]

I haven't messed with catwalks enough but have see that in some other games

[dusky hedge]

ooh they could do sticky connect catwalks like with pipes and belts

[sullen gull]

Catwalkls do snap? (confused at what you mean)

[fluid crow]

Ig it has to be 2 different size ones nvm

[dusky hedge]

with sticky connect, theydont just connect, they build an extension between 2 items

[sullen gull]

Ahh

[dusky hedge]

so if you r catwalk almost reaches the connection ould fill the gap

[fresh umbra]

is there a way to enter free build mode where stuff dosent snap?

[zenith spire]

Fr

[zenith spire]

It doesn’t seem like it tbh I’ve messed around w/ the controls n had no luck. I just use the land itself to do that

[fierce forum]

I had leaves going into a crafter but the crafter is refusing to input leaves

[fluid crow]

probably some other item you can't see clogging the end of the belt

[fierce forum]

Input belt? If I switch to wood it allows it, wait my light is yellow but there a power input, what is going on

[fluid crow]

input empty or output full is what yellow means I think

[calm mango]

What the helly are you doing here

[fierce forum]

Making biomass

[fierce forum]

Oh it's you

[calm mango]

Lock in it's easy

[fierce forum]

Shit won't work man

[calm mango]

What're you on?

Pc or console

[fierce forum]

Console

[calm mango]

Damn

[magic rune]

meanwhile in "letting me install satisfactory mod loader was a mistake", i'm currently trying to brainstorm what else i can shove into a "generate things out of nothing" box (already made a "fReE cOaL" box, then reconfigured it into a "fReE bIoMaSs" version)

[calm mango]

Give us pictures in #screenshots

[fierce forum]

Man how do I do that when, I have to take a pic on my phone

[dusky hedge]

usually replacing the belt solves it, the item at the front of the belt is hidden and unreachable

[fierce forum]

Also it's a shit setip

[calm mango]

Could your crafter be backwards? You have what you want going in accidentally going to the out

Cause I've done that before and went bonkers trying to figure it out

[magic rune]

belt routing could be problematic with all the machines intersecting each other, but "fReE fAbRiC" might be doable... oh i wish i could turn biomass back into limestone, then i could have concrete anywhere i want (meaning in theory, i could make heavy frames anywhere there's just a single iron node and nothing else)

[fierce forum]

I ain't stupid, tbh it's connected to my iron farm.... Ima make a new system man I give up

[calm mango]

It's not a being stupid thing, accidents happen lol

[fluid crow]

pounding those leaves out at the workbench is way faster early on then make the bio logs in a machine

[fierce forum]

Man, I'm doing other shit no thanks

[fluid crow]

just throwing that out there

[calm mango]

True

My entire factory was dependent on one bio logs crafter

[magic rune]

phase 1 vibes

[calm mango]

Yepp

I actually just got oil

But the closest deposit is like 2km from my base and I am NOT making my power that far, so i now have to lay 2km of pipes

[magic rune]

it's been almost 100 hours since i built it and my turbofuel plant is still having fits once in a while

[calm mango]

I also found a sam deposit

Idk what it does but I have it

[magic rune]

not really useful until phase 5, but you can run it through a constructor to reanimate it, then sink it for some decent points

[hoary stag]

i played this game for a few hours back in early access, didnt like it that much, and i came back to it yesterday, already put 16 hours into a save file 😭

[fierce forum]

So far I like the way progression works a I hate bio in alot of games take subnatica for example you couldn't in any way automate it, so I never used it, was easier to slap on 4 solar panels for same result and longer energy source

[fluid crow]

it's good stuff. I finally found some after wrecking my car into a hole

[calm mango]

Might just make a miner and let it build up hella in storage containers just so when I get there I don't have to wait to start up whatever it's needed for

[calm mango]

We love that

[hoary stag]

im confused with how to make the switch from biofuel to coal

[calm mango]

Wdym

Just hook your coal gens to your current power lines

[hoary stag]

the nearest coal vein that im not using for foundries is like 1k meters away

[fresh umbra]

make a coal power plant far away and connect it with power towers

[calm mango]

Daisy chain the power lines

[calm mango]

Or make pipes and conveyors run to your base, my coal does a little bit of both

[hoary stag]

but the problem is getting to power to that and the pump

[calm mango]

Make a single biomass burner to Kickstart it

[zenith spire]

Yo I love being an engineer, 100% efficiency in production is frickin awesome

[fresh umbra]

use a biofuel reactor to kickstart the plant then connect it to itself so its self sufficent

[fierce forum]

Well I sorted my biomass thing, can't automate the leaves/wood but it will do

[fluid crow]

even the small power lines goes pretty far

[hoary stag]

then it will be able to power itself right?

[calm mango]

You can't automate getting leaves and wood

[fresh umbra]

yes then just run power poles to connect to your main grid

[calm mango]

To automate power you need coal gens

[zenith spire]

I have a whole solid biofuel manifold system for mine. I’d argue you can’t automate them. All it takes is the time to farm some leaves n wood

[hoary stag]

its a shame my biofuel power plant thingy will be useless after that its in the very middle of my base

[fluid crow]

some other type of power is how you automate it 😆

[hoary stag]

whats yours look like?

[calm mango]

You can keep it for an extra couple MW

But I personally deleted mine

[fresh umbra]

lol i was shit with coal power plants aswell, my first plant i made 100 meters upwards

[zenith spire]

I’d have to show a picture when I’m off work. Currently at work

Love when nights are slow

[fierce forum]

Can I toggle crouch, I hate hold to crouch

[hoary stag]

ah i see

[hoary stag]

it helps with sliding though

[hoary stag]

so you couldnt get water to it?

[fierce forum]

Man I play on controller, trust toggle is preferred at least in my case

[fresh umbra]

i did but i had to use the pipeline pumps and it took ages to setup

[hoary stag]

do you have to use a pump for even a slight incline

[fluid crow]

probably not

[dusky hedge]

one solid biofule constructor can suppoirt 450 mw, and it only consumed when its needed, so better to leave it until you have plenty of excess. but important to remember that 450 is bio when planning

[fluid crow]

depends on total rise I think

[fierce forum]

So can you not make slide toggle?

[fluid crow]

probably not

[fresh umbra]

nah the water extractor things gives you 10 meters of headlift by default

[fluid crow]

re binding a couple keys wouldn't even work right for me

[dusky hedge]

i have slide on mouse 4 - thumb knuckle

[mystic plank]

yo how do i destroy the broken like boulders?

[fierce forum]

I have it to circle bc that's default crouch button man 😭

[leaden turret]

+ 🪨 = 💥

[mystic plank]

aaa theres a dynamite or smth

[fluid crow]

it seems to be a fancy pipe bomb

[fierce forum]

Can I make a filter

[calm mango]

Filter splitter?

[hoary stag]

so since a coal generator takes 15 coal per minute i can make 4 off one mk1 miner?

[fierce forum]

Ye

[fluid crow]

yes (but maybe not currently)

[calm mango]

That's a later phase

[fierce forum]

So I gotta make a whole complex system that uses to much resources

[calm mango]

Or make a manifold

[fluid crow]

if it makes you feel better whatever you're building now it's just a drop in the bucket with what's to come

[fierce forum]

A what

[fierce forum]

I've seen videos

[fresh umbra]

hello guys i have a question, i attached a screenshot of the power plant i built and i have 4 water extractors running to 5 reactors each using 45 water, all extractors are running at 225 but my power plants are still running out of water, does anything know why?

[calm mango]

Basically you make a straight conveyor, put splitters on it then have the splitters go into the constructor or whatever

Once the first constructor fills up the second one will fill up faster, then the third etc etc

[fluid crow]

sounds like you should only need 2 extractors for that amount of water

[fresh umbra]

sorry i phrased it wrong, there is 20 total coal plants, 1 water extractor is powering 5 of them and there are 4 extractors total

[dense violet]

uncover the pipes to actually show how everything is connected and talk in #math-and-meta where you can actually type and post images

[calm mango]

Might need more extractors

[dusky hedge]

as long as youir extractors are putting out 250m3 of water it should be fine

[calm mango]

Oh yeah

I forgot they show howmuch they give out

[dense violet]

coal gens only need 45 pm, not 50

[fresh umbra]

i have them on 225

[zenith spire]

Essentially though I can explain it to you.
Two storage containers, one for leaves the other wood connected to two constructors which both turn that into biomass.
Those constructors have a line shaft that pumps that biomass to a storage as a buffer.
From the buffer it gets put to two constructors for solid biofuel then to another buffer. Then another line shift to the biofuel burners & rn I have 7 or 9.
It’s pretty much automated all I have to do is collect the leaves n wood n put in the storage containers

[fresh umbra]

ill put it to 250 and see

[zenith spire]

Sorry not lineshafts, that’s what we call a “manifold” in industry

[dense violet]

well buddy, it's very difficult to diagnose pipes w/o actually seeing them, and you're bottom feeding the machines which is a bit of a no no with piping

[hoary stag]

wow, i have one super similar

[zenith spire]

Yeah I feel like similarities are to be expected

[hoary stag]

two containers one for leaves one for wood, they are both fed into constructors that create biomass, which is fed into a container and then into a splitter that creates three paths, each path leads to a constructor to make solid biomass which splits off into feeding three biofuel generators making me have 9

[dusky hedge]

my bad, 240 is enough, 2 shards. i always over produce when it comes to power, id rather have an idling machine thatn an issue with power

[fresh umbra]

yeah putting it up a bit fixed the problem, i guess when it the exact same as the usage rate the machine cant build up any water

[hoary stag]

i always feel like my designs are so clever until i put them together and i dont have nearly enough productions so i have to fit more into it and it looks awful

[zenith spire]

Use a lineshaft bro

Or shit manifold not line shaft

[hoary stag]

i dont know what any of those terms are

[sterile blade]

They can, it just takes longer than if you overfeed... unless there's some other issue at play ^^

[dusky hedge]

yeah yoiu cant really assess it unless the system is full, and games hvae bugs so id rather the system was balanced at being full than just getting by

[sick falcon]

i want block signals at every intersection exit and path signals at every entrance right

[sterile blade]

"Just" load-balance to avoid needing to wait for machines to fill. This is still true for pipes as it is for belts

[zenith spire]

So I have two smelters right, a miner is feeding ore into a conveyor into a splitter which then splits to smelter 1 then is connected to splitter to which is then connected to smelter 2.
Do you understand?

[dense violet]

that sounds like you're just not doing the basic math

[dusky hedge]

sounds simple doesnt it 🤣

[hoary stag]

when i made my current base i didnt realize you could see actual outputs so 🪦

[dense violet]

all the recipes and machines show consumption and output rates 🙂

the codex is also useful

as well as the wiki

[hoary stag]

so basically 1 input into two outputs?

[fluid crow]

game has built in calculator when you press N too

[dense violet]

the ingame calc is a bit awkward though

[leaden turret]

press N for Nalculator

[leaden turret]

press N for Nalculator Nervous

[zenith spire]

Basically yeah. Look it up on YouTube, you’ll have a much better understanding & you can also understand the differences between balancer & manifold

[fluid crow]

makes sense

[hoary stag]

i feel like my current smart plate automation setup would make you guys cry

[fierce forum]

All I can do with this is double product speed

[dense violet]

everyone's things are messy at first 🙂

[calm mango]

True

[dense violet]

if you jsut need an example of a manifold

these 4 smelters need 120 ore pm, it's fed on one belt, the first fills up first but then just overflows to the end and works https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/558721941410807812/1456102935988539496/image.png?ex=69605f89&is=695f0e09&hm=ad447197947f21cf7029a393c37becd420b2e45088769da9fa5bcc7b60e35c3f&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=418&height=350

thats it

[sick falcon]

#screenshots message why are they all broken

[hoary stag]

why does the first fill up first that looks like it would just evenly spread

[sick falcon]

bc each splitter splits the flow in half

so half the iron goes into the first one and half goes onwards

until the first one is full

and then repeat

[hoary stag]

so the production would be quarter speed at first but then would be 100% speed later

[sick falcon]

yes

[true mulch]

!wikisearch manifold

[raven axle]

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

[true mulch]

explained on the wiki page

[sick falcon]

manifolds take a while to fill up but are simpler than balancers

[dusky hedge]

there are ways to get around it but usually not worth the space or hassle, this game is not about the now its about getting solid production running for the future

[hoary stag]

my base is not future proof 😭

[fluid crow]

sure it is just remove whatever is not working anymore

[true mulch]

Don't try to future proof

[dusky hedge]

i thought manifold was what a judo guy calls his oponent 🤔

[true mulch]

Just build what you need in that moment

Repeat until tier 9

[zenith spire]

It’s actually not that much later. It’s only that much later when you have a manifold line running to like 10-12 smelters it’ll take like 30 minutes for full production

Manifolds are simple, easy, compact, & in my opinion better than balancers

[fierce forum]

Can 2 construcrora that create bio keep up on around 20mws?

The cylinder ones

[sterile blade]

Sushi manifolds are way better than standard ones for power generators though

[dusky hedge]

2 bio fed from individual containers, fed into 1 solid bio can do 15 machines, i do 14

[sterile blade]

You can see how much they produce and how much each generator consumes..

[dusky hedge]

420mw

[fierce forum]

It's fed from 1

[calm mango]

I love hyper tube canons

[fierce forum]

I'm afk rn

[dusky hedge]

belts are too slow at t1

[hoary stag]

so like all of my miners are super backed up so whenever i rebuild my base i should use manifolds which would make them more productive?

[sterile blade]

At 100%, they go 1:15 from Solid Biofuel Constructor to burners

[dense violet]

just do the maths - basically any belt system you make will be a manifold unless you load balance things , and it's generally difficult to laod balance thigns by accident

if you care about things running smoothly, you gotta do the numbers

[hoary stag]

if i took a screenshot rn you would see like over a thousand raw ores sitting still

[fluid crow]

take a deep breath this aint factorio

[hoary stag]

ive never played it

[zenith spire]

Yes that’s true, & also some cases for dimensional depots but usually not the best

[fierce forum]

Lucky there short then

[fluid crow]

my point is you can work at your own speed

[zenith spire]

FOUR TWENTY MENTIONED 🍃🍃💨💨

[calm mango]

Real shit

[fluid crow]

we just having a good time building a factory 🙂

[fierce forum]

There a pics channel?

[calm mango]

#screenshots

[dense violet]

almost every other channel can have images

[stoic laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/vinny-atlantis-boom-explosion-explode-gif-22437127

#screenshots message

[fluid crow]

I need to replace my backup bio power with a liquid bio plant

I still like making my biomass at the work bench even though it's no sort of power issue anymore 😵‍💫

I need a container outback to send it where it's going

[stoic laurel]

i just set up 6 constructors to to turn leave, wood, and alien parts into bio mass, it then gets moved into 3 seperate constructors to turn it into solid biofuel

[dusky hedge]

are youi making a gigawatt on biofuel?

[hoary stag]

i genuinely need to remake everything the efficiency is so bad 🪦

[calm mango]

What phase

[fresh umbra]

id wait until you get trains

[hoary stag]

im like maybe a third to phase 2

20 hours in

[dense violet]

just treat the tiers like a tutorial - it'll stress you out less 🙂

[hoary stag]

well more like 18

[hoary stag]

im not stressed its just like, im staring at everything sitting still and im realizing how bad the designs were

[dusky hedge]

most of my factories are idle, they did their job and until i use the resources they will stay idle

[dense violet]

that's what tutorials are for 🙂 realising things are bad and jsut learning

[stoic laurel]

#screenshots message
no, but its a decent amount of power with how many reactors im running

[hoary stag]

im trying to see how i could get a good photo of my iron area but its so cluttered

[fresh umbra]

press P then R

[dusky hedge]

3 solid fuel constructors can suport 1.35 gigawatts

[stoic laurel]

aaah

[hoary stag]

yeah its just its 2 stories and 3 seperate distinct things

[fresh umbra]

ah fair enough

[hoary stag]

ill show what i mean

im not sure how to connect the image to my message but i sent what the overall thing looks like

and thats just my iron area not mentioning limestone or copper

[calm mango]

Wait is oil even a power source

[sick falcon]

yes

mid game

[calm mango]

Nevermind I'm stupid

:3

[stoic laurel]

600mw of my power comes from the biofuel reactors

[fluid crow]

the waste products even

[hoary stag]

one specific part of my smart plate manufacturing is so horrific its funny

[dusky hedge]

time for coal power

[stoic laurel]

i do have coal, i have 8 plants running

[fierce forum]

Is a vien finite?

[calm mango]

Huh

[dusky hedge]

no

[fierce forum]

It's infinite?

[calm mango]

Yes

[fluid crow]

you make fuel out of waste products you can put in a power plant

[fierce forum]

Damn, it being finite would have been a cool setting

[dusky hedge]

nitrogen only comes from veins

[calm mango]

Yep, moving your factory every 10~ hours would be so fun

[stoic laurel]

#screenshots message
here is my coal generation area

as well as caterium -> AI limiters

[fluid crow]

there's many games with finite resources, that's something that makes this one different is it focuses more on scale

[calm mango]

At first I had no idea what this meant but now I do, thx

[fierce forum]

Not exactly, just the input?

[fluid crow]

you won't run out of run out of the resources you have but they won't be enough anymore

[fierce forum]

Ye but finite views that replenish with x time be cool

[eager harbor]

It’s bad

Trust

[calm mango]

Yeah well where was this advice an hour ago when I started building a way to my factory

[stoic laurel]

when you thought you had FICSMAS Wreaths being built for the last 2 hours, but you never connected power to the assembler

[fierce forum]

Worse than bio?

[zenith spire]

Bro I’m at work at being the head engineer I can assign certain people to certain tasks right so I assigned Mr lazy bones to the most physically grueling n intensive task possible 😂😂😂

[fluid crow]

right now I got some fuel generators just so I don't have to go down there and deal with the waste

[zenith spire]

I love work

[zenith spire]

W

[calm mango]

Peak

[zenith spire]

He’s a fat ass who likes to sit on his phone all day n he gets nothin done bro. So sickening. Him showing up is worse than our two best guys calling off

Ik I be on my phone but I get MY job done, he doesn’t do jack

[zenith spire]

& no offense to those who are overweight I know a buddy who literally can’t help it but he ain’t a sack of rocks like ts guy. Ts guy has no excuse

[fluid crow]

that reminds me, there should be a way to flare waste gas 😼

[zenith spire]

As equally as there should be a way to fly the drone

[fluid crow]

both those things probably look cool

[hoary stag]

so if i have 4 miners together, it would be best to get them all onto 1 conveyor and use a manifold

[fluid crow]

how many ore do they make a minute and how fast of belts do you have?

[hoary stag]

30 ore per minute and i have 120 per minute belts

[fluid crow]

then yes

I like to just make ingots by the mine usually

[dusky hedge]

when you upgrade the miners they will output more per minute

[hoary stag]

i have mk2 miners but they are way too expensive right now

[dusky hedge]

plan ahead somewhat

[fluid crow]

faster belts are coming too

[calm mango]

Oil system is sorta set up

This is peak

[dense violet]

if you have the parts automated they are free 😛

[dusky hedge]

ppl say the northern forrest is hard, but 6 pure iron s make things a lot easier

hearing 30 pm on a miner sounds horrible

[fresh umbra]

how do you copy a nudged thing?

[oblique aspen]

the difficulty assessment has some factors not everyone considers hard, northern forest is mostly considered "hard" due to the topography

too much complicated terrain for a newbie to build a factory, i guess, that kind of stuff never bothered me personally

while the plains in the south are open and flat, they have low resources, i find that place far worse 😛

[dusky hedge]

totally agree, but as soonas you are not a newbie you would be better off in in north

by the time yoiu are out of the coal stage yoiu get access to the whole map anyway

during burner phase id rather be able to get 8k leaves in 5minuts than run around hunting

5 min might be an exaggeration but i never times it

[calm mango]

Had to plug in my steamdeck, I'm having satisfactory withdrawals

[gloomy tusk]

holy shit

i just unlocked the manufacturer and just realised how annoying automating all of this is going to be

tomorrow im hopping on for another 8 hour session to figure this out

[sullen cloak]

im about to blow...
#screenshots message

[gloomy tusk]

is that a mod?

[stoic laurel]

what is that?

[hoary stag]

are iron rods important enough to have 8 constructors for them 😭

[gloomy tusk]

early game yes

[fluid crow]

critical mass?

[sullen cloak]

no its all Encased Plutonium Cell

[hoary stag]

what phase does early game end

[sullen cloak]

plutonium stockpile
And radiation is keep growing 😭

my filter going down to 50 😭

[placid dew]

is 100 diamonds per minute enough to complete phase 5

[calm mango]

I've heard people say phase 3

[hoary stag]

okay thank you

[calm mango]

But I've heard from that one old guy on YouTube that you'll need like Hella screws so I'd say once you end that phase you should turn the rod factorys into screws

[gloomy tusk]

after every phase

im still early game with a 15,000 mw factory

[hoary stag]

im going to have 6 screw constructors and 2 iron rods

[calm mango]

That's fair

Once I lock in I'll make factorys for each of the basic resources

[hoary stag]

thats what im kinda doing right now

i THINK i made it properly but i have no idea really

[gloomy tusk]

this is not true at all

[hoary stag]

at least nothing is stalling for a billion years like my main factory

[gloomy tusk]

depends what your basing it off actually

if your basing it off hub completion yes

if your basing it off like what the community considers then no

[calm mango]

Tier 4

[gloomy tusk]

read above

what are you basing off

[hoary stag]

with manifolds it will reach even production after a little bit right

cause at the end of it my last two constructors are idle every few seconds

[gloomy tusk]

still so confused as to why this happens XD

and my pipes are sloshing really bad with my oil factory

[calm mango]

That one old guy on YouTube

[hoary stag]

so it wont go away?

[gloomy tusk]

theres probably a fix i just dont know it yet

[gloomy tusk]

i know that guy

[fluid crow]

if the numbers add up it should get to 100% efficiency

[hoary stag]

it should add up

[gloomy tusk]

if you max a machine it can produce 500% efficency

[fluid crow]

then just wait or help it catch up somehow

[hoary stag]

each smelter can produce 30 ingots per minute, i have a feed of 120 pm and i have 4 smelters, iron rod production is 15 ore for 15 rods pm and so i have 8 iron rod constructors which should use all 120 ore pm

ive waited like 10 minutes

[gloomy tusk]

have you unlocked overclocking yet

[hoary stag]

no

[gloomy tusk]

research it

trust me its so worth it with oil power in future (in my experience) and just overall use

[fluid crow]

you sure you didn't miss replacing a slow belt somewhere

[calm mango]

I thought so, I assume he's that one YouTuber that everyone in the community knows

[hoary stag]

oh my god 😭

[gloomy tusk]

satisfactorys grandad

[hoary stag]

i ran out of reinforced plates during building and made a mk1

[gloomy tusk]

at my old factory just realised i had a mk 1 converyer belt instead of mk 5 🥹

[fluid crow]

will really slow things down

[calm mango]

Frfr

Kinda like bushcampdad with fort

[gloomy tusk]

i hate mk 2 conveyer belts and mk 4

mk 3 is the best

its so cheap

[mellow wasp]

Quick question im brand new and just wanted to know before I make my save if starting your world on solo stays on solo like can I change to multiplayer later on without any issues or am I locked in as solo

[gloomy tusk]

change to multiplayer whenever

also if your friend hosts the world it does not take up storage on your drive and you acces it through server manager in the main menu

[mellow wasp]

I cannot put into words how much I appreciate that, thanks too btw just wanted to double check im not locked in

[gloomy tusk]

all good i had the struggle of dealing with online across continents just before and it is a headache to set up

[hoary stag]

dont have it

[sterile blade]

Heh. Such lowly mistakes only happen early game. They never affect people building stuff like... Giant nuclear facilities and such. At that point, one never makes such lowly mistakes... ever.
For sure, trust me bro 💯

||Sarcasm translation: that sort of mistake tends to always happen, and it only gets more hilarious the more hours one has in the game as they should be able to avoid it more easily, but don't||

[hoary stag]

having a fully optimal building for the first time is so peak omg

[wispy osprey]

#screenshots okay I promise this is the last intersection/roundabout I design

[green fiber]

Circle of doooooom

[wispy osprey]

I feel super duper smart for coming up with that

[leaden turret]

-# lizard doggo butthole or cloaca

[wispy osprey]

I think I'll literally only have 1 of these large roundabouts in my world

[strong fiber]

nah bruh where is this oil based diamonds recipe at

I need them

To make things

Gotta make some diamonds for the dark matter thingys

Why phase 5 so complicated

[wispy osprey]

Because it's phase 5

[strong fiber]

im working on nuclear power plant because if i dont i will run out of power

Its like 10,000 MW just to automate time crystals

And i gotta automate power shards

Just so i can overclock all the nuclear reactors

[zealous urchin]

been hearing bro all this time talking about progress gj

[eager harbor]

Can I automate u

[strong fiber]

Bro what

Why would u want more of me

[hoary stag]

im so confused

[strong fiber]

I been cooking fr

[eager harbor]

Cuz I need no brainers to control them ez

[strong fiber]

i got a brain bro😔

[eager harbor]

I don’t think so

[strong fiber]

im very intelligent bro😔

[eager harbor]

U have one but it’s dead

[somber narwhal]

guys help

[strong fiber]

thats not very nice bro😔

[somber narwhal]

my rifle doesnt wana use ammo other than regular rifle ammo

[strong fiber]

Are you on controller or kbm

[somber narwhal]

kbm

[zealous urchin]

u make roblox shorts

🗿

[strong fiber]

hold ur rifle out and hold the key you press to scan for resources

[hoary stag]

oh my god i just figured out the best solution to this ever

[strong fiber]

Should work

[zealous urchin]

the cliffhanger moment

[strong fiber]

but i dont play on kbm so i dont know

[somber narwhal]

nothing changed it js got me the menu wheel thing

[strong fiber]

Bro i only know the controller bindings

have u tried holding r

[somber narwhal]

OH

the game never told me i could

[strong fiber]

r usually means reload bruh

[somber narwhal]

yeah but i never thought to hold r

only tap

[strong fiber]

U too stoopid to play this game

Anybody know where alotta oil is at fr

I need it to make turbofuel for my nuclear drones

But i already ate most the oil in the world fr

Nvm

[zealous urchin]

🗿

[eager harbor]

Animations bro

[twilit sierra]

Hey guys. I'm new to game and my building plan is really bad. Can someone help me with my starter base?

[eager harbor]

Bro just build

If u didn’t like it just rebuild

💀

[strong fiber]

Just build something that functions and you can always rebuild it later

[twilit sierra]

I'm doing it right now but it's not quite functional. Any tips with building?

[strong fiber]

If it looks like spaghetti then ur doing something correct

[strong fiber]

Build on foundations is the only tip i can give everything else is personal preference in my opinion

[twilit sierra]

It's looks like... Hold'on let me send a picture.

[strong fiber]

Im building nuclear power plant on the west islands because theres a fuh ton of oil over there plenty for turbofuel

[worldly juniper]

calculate the input and output rates (or let a website do it for you)

[strong fiber]

Only problem is oil and sulfur

[twilit sierra]

I can't send picture to that chat

[strong fiber]

Gotta send it to #screenshots

or you can send the link here

[strong fiber]

yeah naw if its not on foundations it gone

And rebuild it

On foundations

First tip to organize ur factories

[twilit sierra]

What happens if i not build it on foundation?

[strong fiber]

It looks absolutely horrible and becomes less organized and you end up taking more space

The later on in the game when you build bigger and bigger factories you also wanna build vertically

[fluid crow]

big pain in the arrse

[strong fiber]

Absolutely

Literally first thing i did when i got foundations is stockpiled resources and built on foundations

[fluid crow]

I'd just pave a big area if you want easy

[strong fiber]

It was life changing

My first factory was i went into the sky and built everything up there

dont do what i did tho

i very often fell

[versed cosmos]

sky platforms are also ugly af

[twilit sierra]

A'ight

Gonna start building foundations rn

[leaden turret]

get creative with your sky platforms: https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=spaceship

[versed cosmos]

wow that website does not work on mobile lol

[strong fiber]

It does indeed not

[zealous urchin]

plan from end goal - how much of X i wanna make
select starting height, u can always make another floor above
set up machines in rows from one to next, will help u to not get lost
symmetrical line adds more organization
dont be afraid to use more space
if u want easy way to travel verticaly utilize stackable conveyor holds, they have side ladders which will be very helpful before jetpack/hoverpack

[leaden turret]

there's a difference between "does not work" and "is cludgy"

[strong fiber]

It does not work

[leaden turret]

if your phone is an expensive potato, chalk that up to me not having an expensive potato to test it on

[strong fiber]

Also i aint even ever heard of the workd “cludgy”

[eager harbor]

Bro how do people do non spaghetti builds

[versed cosmos]

ok it does work but its pretty clunky lol

[eager harbor]

All my builds are spaghetti

[leaden turret]

lasagn builds

[eager harbor]

[strong fiber]

You organize

[eager harbor]

Idk how to parallel conveyors without collisions?

[zealous urchin]

space battleship is crazy
there is also one guy here who posts in screenshots that has cool floating platforms

[strong fiber]

So you know in math if something is parallel same slope different y intercept

well its basically that fr

[leaden turret]

stack 'em

[strong fiber]

They all go same direction but in a different spot

[fluid crow]

try the options pressing R if you haven't

[upper gale]

I use the lines on the foundation to tell how far apart to space things. Specifically using the full concrete foundations

[strong fiber]

@twilit sierra do u see how it looks alot better

And u can organize

[twilit sierra]

Yeah

[leaden turret]

-# buildin spaghetti on a plate

[eager harbor]

How do people get all those blocks I mean how do they get rod shaped structures and stuff to decorate like that

And how do they have curved walls

And stuff bro

[strong fiber]

Also i recommend automating the making of solid biofuel when u get to it

[leaden turret]

some stuff is vanilla parts, some stuff is creative use of vanilla parts, some stuff is mods

[leaden turret]

math or mods

[eager harbor]

What are vanilla parts

[strong fiber]

You put your leaves and wood into two different bins and it create the solid biofuel for you

[upper gale]

Most of it is unlocked in the awesome shop

[eager harbor]

[twilit sierra]

Oh i can do that?

[leaden turret]

everything the game has without using mods

[strong fiber]

Awesome shop

[strong fiber]

Everything except the creation of wood and leaves still gotta go chop trees and get bushes

[leaden turret]

or go hunting for alien meats

[strong fiber]

Yeah

[upper gale]

Just automate some reanimated sam sinking and it should get you some tickets

[eager harbor]

Yes I already did that I have extra tickets but I guess I need to unlock more tiers for more awesome shop items

[strong fiber]

If you dont wanna go get wood and leaves if you kill the animals you can get their remains which you can turn into alien protien which then can be turned into alot of biofuel which can be turned into solid biofuel

So basically easy power by fighting the locals

[ruby jay]

I always save all alien meat until can quadruple the DNA capsules for tickets

[strong fiber]

Some people use some for power

[leaden turret]

don't forget to hand-craft inhalers so you can huff pork chops

[strong fiber]

You dont need alot only like 10-15

[upper gale]

If you see builds that have huge circles though or huge curves then that was either done with math or mods like marv said

[eager harbor]

I just finished phase 2 and made a motor farm that makes 12/minute is that good am limited to conveyor speed so I couldn’t tweak it sadly

[eager harbor]

Wdym math

[strong fiber]

Depends on how big u building

[eager harbor]

What does that mean

[upper gale]

Well math and also tricks to building. There are a lot of little tricks to get things placed in weird ways

[strong fiber]

0.9999999999999=1

[eager harbor]

Ohhh kk

[eager harbor]

U sure that’s logically correct?

[strong fiber]

Yes

[eager harbor]

Prove it

[hoary stag]

i just got a notification saying ive been playing for 8 hours straight and its 4 am 🪦

[eager harbor]

Ughhh I need cats not dogs

[strong fiber]

Only

[wispy osprey]

Polymer raisin

[upper gale]

Lizard catto when

[eager harbor]

Meow

Send me ur pfp I want it

[zealous urchin]

lizarddoggo'less but mewing

[eager harbor]

[leaden turret]

October 18th, 2022 Livestream
Q&A: Will there ever be a Lizard Catto?
https://youtu.be/WWdAKp4EfVk

no I don't think so

[leaden turret]

fetches you dead non-flying birds instead of nuclear waste

[upper gale]

Well they do have a habbit of adding things that they previously said they wouldn't or probably not, they did that with tier 6 belt right?

[leaden turret]

they've still not added golf yet

[eager harbor]

[upper gale]

I could see them adding golf as their final satisfactory update

[glass pagoda]

#screenshots message yall I just found another tape

[eager harbor]

@unborn gyro is that ur cat in sctrenshots

[wispy osprey]

Is it okay to package and deliver crude oil? 2 other pure nodes in blue crater are in very inconvenient locations

[glass pagoda]

Its okay but wouldn't recommend it id just recommend using lifts

I mean a pump

[wispy osprey]

Anything sent by pipe is better packaged

At least for stupidly long distances

[glass pagoda]

Oh you never said it was a long distance yeah you should package

How long we talking

I have 3 hairless cats

[wispy osprey]

Towards the pure sulfur and coal node on the east wetlands

[glass pagoda]

And where are you building the gens

[wispy osprey]

From blue crater to there is decent distance

[wispy osprey]

Crude oil gens? They're in the stupid cave thing at blue crater

[zenith sage]

Is there some kind of shortcut I'm missing for quick deleting items from inventory? Like.. let's say I have 10 full stacks of coal in my inventory, is the a quick way to trash it all at once?

[glass pagoda]

Alr sounds good packaging sounds good

[glass pagoda]

Sink it dont trash but otherwise no

[wispy osprey]

I just need to figure out how many canisters I need to recycle

[glass pagoda]

By recycling you mean sinking or something else

[zenith sage]

That's what I'm doing usually, but if I'm out building or collecting stuff away from base it's kinda annoying with basic stuff.. shame, it was worth asking at least

[wispy osprey]

Pack oil, unpack at more convenient location, send canisters back

[glass pagoda]

You can always put it in the DD

[glass pagoda]

Then won't your plastic line jam up

[hoary stag]

guys i have school in 2 and a half hours and then i have wrestling practice do i sleep or do i keep playing satisfactory

[wispy osprey]

Sinking resin, it's gonna be another turbofuel setup

[glass pagoda]

@unborn gyro awwww cute cat

[tawdry ridge]

There is button for it in ps5 to do it directly

[glass pagoda]

There is enough stuff there to turn it into rocket fual

[wispy osprey]

I don't have rocket fuel in phase 3 because this game is stupid

[tawdry ridge]

ADA will appreciate if you keep working and don’t sleep 👀

[zenith sage]

Godsend for misc stuff like expensive stuff, remains, etc. Worse for a truckloads of ores/common mats I get from disassembling building 😅

[glass pagoda]

Turbofual is generally not worth the effort for the amount of power

[wispy osprey]

I'd like to just skip straight to blenders

[hoary stag]

good point

[zealous urchin]

idk i expected more

[hoary stag]

i came up with a really good design that makes 20 reinforced plates a minute i am very proud

[upper gale]

When I'm out exploring and need to clear my inventory I just upload to the depot. (Once you have upload unlocked ofc)

[tawdry ridge]

Nice man so how are you doing it?

[somber smelt]

how can i put a blueprint in a directory. it just doesnt work

[wispy osprey]

25gw setups with blenders is not enough I guess

[glass pagoda]

You dont have blenders yet

[upper gale]

Oh yeah for a lot of mats like that then it's a rip

[wispy osprey]

Tell me what I don't know

[hoary stag]

i have a screw factory a little bit away from my main thing, on my main i have 6 smelters and 6 constructors to make the iron plates and then theres like a merger and splitter system to get the proper amount of everything into the assemblers

it has taken me like an hour and a half

ill send a screenshot in the screenshot channel

[glass pagoda]

On Saturn's north pole there is an earth size hurricane in the shape of a hexagon with straight lines on the sides of the storm

[wispy osprey]

I knew that

[glass pagoda]

Nuh uh

[upper gale]

I mean I knew jupiter's storm but never knew about saturn

[hoary stag]

i sent

[placid stirrup]

I hid some treasure on Somalia's northern coast near a blue cabana

[hoary stag]

its so tuff

[dense violet]

tip - make the screws right before they get consumed, much easier, and just clock the machines to make what you need

[glass pagoda]

😛

[hoary stag]

i made the screw factory a few hours ago not thinking about its location

[glass pagoda]

What phase you on

[hoary stag]

i havent unlocking over or underclocking yet

[hoary stag]

1

or 2 i dont know

[wispy osprey]

I do have enough power to just start actually working on stuff

[hoary stag]

im working on the one where you need to make automated wiring and 1k smart plates

[glass pagoda]

Alr sounds good

[dense violet]

all part of learning 🙂

and unlock clocking, it's the most powerful tool you'll have in the game

[glass pagoda]

What about the save button

[hoary stag]

how do i unlock it?

[zenith sage]

Ngl, removing screws from my game was the best thing that happened to me since I started playing

[hoary stag]

why

[glass pagoda]

They are quite tedious

[dense violet]

in the MAM , the most important building you have 😛

you didn't get a chance to launch pad it into the void!

[dense violet]

they aren't tedious at all if you know how to manage them
like making them right before they are consumed

[dense violet]

people get screw trauma from not knowing how to manage them and can never let go

[glass pagoda]

What about the hub you cant progress without it and what about the even more important one aka the cyber wagon that def works

[placid stirrup]

Ahh yes the cyber truck building