satisfactory

[reef basin]

yeah, that's usually the best for at least first playthrough

[unkempt blade]

some monsters even occasionally will answer sarcastically when people ask these kinds of questions

[odd ibex]

ok good

[wise dune]

Yo

[odd ibex]

ok ty

[wise dune]

Guys I just downloaded satisfactory and it says I have been playing for 6 hours like wth

[odd ibex]

oh ok cool ty

[fading whale]

Time flies when you're having fun.

[wise dune]

Yet I still dont have good power

[odd ibex]

I wanna see how wast coast looks but I cant find it

oh ok

[unkempt blade]

are you the best pioneer yet?

[fading whale]

Blue Crater is fun 😄
Have a big setup there.

[wise dune]

No

[fading whale]

True

ADA can lick my Christmas ornaments.
"I know for a fact it didn't deserve that" after killing a bean bag.
It was in the way of building. It did not move when I hit it. It just respawns and gets stuck inside my factory 😡
I can assure you it was deserved!

[mossy helm]

trying to use trucks and building organic roads instead of rushing trains & building sky bridges made me mod these things out of the game

I would blow all of them up, go back to recording a path and there would be 3 more by the time i came back

[unkempt blade]

why would I turn off seasonal events? it's always ficsmas in my heart

[fading whale]

There's a mod for that.
Not a permanent Ficmas event, but always having it in your heart.

[dense violet]

build rail close to ground, no need for sky bridges, just a bit of planning https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/932761153703149659/1432566231445274767/image.png?ex=69646545&is=696313c5&hm=5e29dbcf4455da23826bc75f878c4dcf1aaaab8150453fac116e73a2545fe16e&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[unkempt blade]

I wish I could bring back the anniversary music and pinatas too

[mossy helm]

I meant truck roads that follow the natural terrain

[dense violet]

a bit more difficult since you need at least 3 foudations wide road for that, but you could stack them like my rail and only have them 1.5 foundations wide !

[fading whale]

Just like Slurms MacKenzie.
If you know you know.

[covert quarry]

find a location near water (not rivers) so u can build power plants

[odd ibex]

ok ty

[covert quarry]

i mean its smart no?

how do yall find hard drives for alternate recipes

[fading whale]

But with power towers, it's easier to to long distance power lines.

[dense violet]

most of them are easy to spot, especially when you've gotten the basic exploration gear
blade runners, jet pack, parachute, zip line ect

just look for wreckage

the drop pod will be nearby.

[fading whale]

Cool is a subjective matter. But less ugly at least:
#design-and-architecture message

[covert quarry]

oh im still at phase 1... ty

[dense violet]

yeah exploration for the most part is hard and quite dangerous without the basic gear, but quite easy when you got it xD

if you manage with just the parachute, zipline and blade runners ( medical inhalers ) you could do exploration a bit earlier? jet packs are critical, just veyr useful

[covert quarry]

bet thx

[fading whale]

A good place to visit early game 🙂
#screenshots message

See I didn't want to spoil the surprise 😉
Just point and suggest.

[unkempt blade]

and anything those can't handle you can just minecraft to it with some foundations/ramps

[fading whale]

I still find ladders and random foundations I don't remember putting there. Likely didn't clean up because I was being chased by somthing.

Cobalt?

[sterile blade]

Is there some known issue with not being able to climb ladders?

I'll have to make sure it's not just modded flight messing with it even when off

[fading whale]

@tough sun What are you asking? #screenshots message

[unkempt blade]

I think he's using too much power on stuff that isn't related to using factory carts which is probably the issue

what's stopping you?

you should build 8 but underclock them all to 90%

[nocturne mauve]

Does anyone know where to report bugs, found a pretty annoying one rn

[fading whale]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/

Only official way to do it.

[nocturne mauve]

fahh

[eager harbor]

Yo pickle do u know the guy called My name Jakes

[covert quarry]

are rigor motors important later on in the game?

[fading whale]

Rigor mortis is something to avoid.
Motors are used all over the place.

Remember, all alternate recipes can be unlocked. So even if you don't pick it, you will be able to later.

[oak nymph]

I need a design cause I got to place down 177 fuel gen

[fading whale]

You have MK2 unlocked?

[rain dune]

I finally got to coal power.

[rain dune]

The coal mine is 1 km away from factory

[vital grove]

GIVE US BLADE RUNNERS MK11

[fading whale]

Or let us put rocket fuel in them.

[oak nymph]

? Mk2 pipe yes I do

[fading whale]

MK2 blueprint 🙂

[oak nymph]

Yeah I do

[wispy osprey]

I named an architectural blueprint "John wall" because it's my first primary wall design

[oak nymph]

I wonder is there a way to connect pipe automatically on blueprint to the next blueprint?

[fading whale]

Then you can easily fit 2 fuel gens and piping in one BP that can auto connect.

[wispy osprey]

Yes, blueprint: autoconnect

[oak nymph]

I can fit 4

[fading whale]

As long as your blueprint has an open pipe end. NOT a pipe connector, junctio, wall hole or whater. An open end.

[oak nymph]

I tried but it doesn't seem to work it just connect the sides

[wispy osprey]

It generally isn't recommend to VIP fill fuel gens

[oak nymph]

Oh thats why

[oak nymph]

Why?

[wispy osprey]

Unless you're pumping correctly

[rain dune]

I am getting a truck soon

[wispy osprey]

The bottom one will always take priority over the top 2 because of gravity

[oak nymph]

Yeah it doesn't work

[wispy osprey]

VIP is more useful in overflow management

Try to always keep fuel generators on the ground, even though they take up so much space

If you want to do multi-floor design, your output of fuel to burn also needs to be at that level

[unkempt blade]

...or just use pumps?

[zenith lotus]

whats one unbiased tip or fact about satisfactory, something that I do or dont want to do in this game?

[wispy osprey]

But it doesn't work like that because of gravity and bottom priority. Pumps don't introduce pressure, they add head lift

[unkempt blade]

factory carts are the best vehicle

[zenith lotus]

i know this

[covert quarry]

what do SAM nodes do?

[unkempt blade]

if it has enough headlift to make it to the floor you're building the gens on then it works

[wispy osprey]

So in a vertical design of fuel gens, bottom doesn't take enough priority to be an issue?

[fading whale]

Provide SAM ore. Heavily used in late game. But needed in small amounts in early game.

[oak nymph]

I already build blender pilled up and blender so I don't think it's going to be a problem for me

[unkempt blade]

a pipe manifold is going to do pipe manifold stuff

[green fiber]

If you make a fuel gen tower, feed it top to bottom

Bottom to top DOES have issues

[wispy osprey]

That's what I was thinking because of gravity

[green fiber]

Its only a minor issue. It can reach full flow fine

But it has minor fluctuations

[unkempt blade]

I think you're conflating two things, The comment I responded to is saying to not even use fuel gens on an upper floor

[eager harbor]

I wanna kick butts

Pls

Jk

[wispy osprey]

Output pump a riser above top floor and let it fall is my first idea

As long as i don't mess up my manifolds

For some reason direction of welds while working with vertical junctions doesn't work as intended

[fading whale]

And I'm all out of bubblegum.

[green fiber]

The weld direction is dependant on the pipe orientation that you snap the junction to

On vertical pipes you will always get the same weld direction

And on horizontal pipes its also always the same.

But both are different from each other

[wispy osprey]

I study them often, and still know just as much as anyone else

[near siren]

why is the heavy modular frame not in the smart splitter?

the next version of a smart splitter?

[wispy osprey]

I thought i knew how to pipe but inputs being an average plus a mixture of other things threw me off

I need to follow one by the time I reach aluminum

[eager harbor]

What does vanilla game mean

[wispy osprey]

The game without mods

[dim flint]

One day I hope to master the VIP junction.

The thing that confuses me, that the guide doesn't directly explain, is why there are pumps on both inputs. I assume this is because they both need equal headlift on the input, but then I also assume that in some cases you cannot use them if you know the bottom pipe has lower or equal headlift? Or maybe I'm completely missing something.

[green fiber]

It puts both inputs on equal footing and keeps the pipes up to them full

The head lift is not really needed.

[dim flint]

What do you mean by equal footing if not headlift?

[green fiber]

But the reason why it doesnt use valves is because valves simply act different to pumps

[green fiber]

Head lift only one reason but not the main one. Pipe fullness and backflow prevention as well as active pushing from the pump are beneficial here

[dim flint]

I see

I was told that valves and pumps aren't sufficient to prevent back-flow, but I guess limiting it reduces its impact?

[somber drift]

When can you start using powershards?

[green fiber]

When you unlock overclocking

[somber drift]

Is that part of the milestones?

[green fiber]

No

[somber drift]

oh no im just stupid

[green fiber]

Do MAM research

[somber drift]

Yea

[green fiber]

Valves and pumps prevent it always and theres only negative impacts in cases where the pump or valve output pipe is completely full and flow stops

When people say "they dont prevent it" they specifically mean that case

Where the output fills and thus the input backs up

[dim flint]

Right

No backflow through the pump or valve.

[green fiber]

The input backing up means you can get a pressure wave backwards and, if its a mk 2 at 600... you know the drill

[spiral summit]

how do i use that autoconnect stuff where it links my streetlights in a blueprint?

[green fiber]

Doesnt work for that

Autoconnect doesnt connect cables

[dim flint]

I tried to make a VIP junction before I read your guide once and I assumed the non-straight path would have lower priority, since it is less direct flow, kinda like how it would work a bit more in real life. so I connected the extra production in the bottom, and of course it didn't work.

[green fiber]

The VIP works due to a junction bug

[spiral summit]

aww is it only for pipes and coneyors 💔

[dim flint]

I heard a rumor that 1.2 was fixing fluid stuff. But it'll be interesting to see if they actually do that and if they break a lot of stuff in the process.

[dim flint]

Yea, auto-connect power lines would be amazing.

[green fiber]

On vertically aligned junctions, the bottom connector does an incorrect height calculation causing it to be considered higher or whatever.

I forgot the details but the height differencr causes a pressure difference and thus gives the top connector less input priority

[worn crown]

In all fairness fluid mechanics are one of the most complex things, like, ever, so I can't blame them for messing up when trying to be realistic

[buoyant sandal]

anyone else actually prefer to work with fluids opposed to solids or am i just insane?

[dim flint]

Yea, I'm not exactly complaining about this, but it can be confusing figuring out how it works in the game.

[green fiber]

Well....

I dont mind either

Both are fun

[dim flint]

I like the design and feel of fluids, but I don't like getting weird behavior that I can't rationalize easily.

[unkempt blade]

how fluids work in a pipe isn't the issue, the issue is I can't transport them using factory carts unless I package them

[buoyant sandal]

im actually procrastinating on automating super computers rn lol

[dim flint]

.<

[worn crown]

I feel this too much, I just built right on top the water

[worn crown]

Factory carts ? I'm not familiar with that form of transport

[worthy grotto]

does having massive base and everything together cause MASSIVE stutters in this game?

[green fiber]

Yes

Spread out

[worthy grotto]

too late im afraid

[unkempt blade]

they're the oompa loompa of vehicles, you should go unlock them in the awesome shop

[dim flint]

my issues are usually not splitting my 600 pipes evenly, or trying to handle byproduct water incorrectly.

[somber drift]

Is there any way to move power poles?

[buoyant sandal]

they should add mk 3 pipes

[worn crown]

I mean, depends on how big it is, because more objects for your computer to load

[dim flint]

I believe they have one stack capacity.

[worn crown]

Could this be the peak of efficiency ?

[worn crown]

Oh wait I believe I've seen them, the small little cute carts

[dim flint]

Honestly, I don't even care about this. I'd rather they just make pipes less jenky at max throughout.

[green fiber]

I think aluminum water is a thing that will never be "solved" as its not a pipe mechanic bug.

Its really just a skill issue when designing the piping.

But i will admit that some of the issues with pipes can make it a lot harder to work with

[worthy grotto]

i can send screenshot and full base is roughly 4-5 times bigger cause cant fit everything in one shot

[buoyant sandal]

yea

[worn crown]

I have made it pretty far in this game, and I have never even needed to go beyond Mk.1 Pipes

[worn crown]

Then, assuming you have an average computer, yeah it'd struggle

[green fiber]

Mk 3 pipes not possible cause the code can barely even handle mk 2

Devs were clear on that

[worthy grotto]

building massive fuel generator grid with mk2 pipes are struggle

[buoyant sandal]

i have like 300+ fuel generators, especially with rocket fuel, i need to transport more/min to allow more generators to get fuel

[unkempt blade]

that sucks, maybe they should just let us overclock mk2 pipes then so we don't break UE5

[dim flint]

I mean, it's not a bug that you need to figure out a way to implement some kind of VIP (or use separate byproduct consumers). It is somewhat of a problem that the way you do this is not obvious and dependent on strange behaviors of the game.

[green fiber]

Like that would ever magically work

[haughty chasm]

I’m glad I already had multiple buildings before realizing mega bases were a thing.
I will never do that now, thank god

[worn crown]

I think it's abrasive to the game's philosophy, at no point does the game demand you to have extended knowledge but it always rewards it, yet it seems that this does

[dim flint]

I'm surprised the rate really matters... are they really up against arithmetic limits in any of their calculations?

[worn crown]

I see what you mean

[buoyant sandal]

alright chat,
should i finally automate supercomputers, redesign my coal power plant, or put a roof on my fuel power plant?

[green fiber]

Something about floating point errors

[dim flint]

Interesting.

[unkempt blade]

roof!

[buoyant sandal]

ight

[worn crown]

Coal power mentioned

I love coal power

[green fiber]

And also, in the current pipe code, Mk 3 would have the same issues as mk 2 but roughly... 50% worse? 100% worse?

Hard to say, it scales fast with higher flow

[dim flint]

600 is a pretty small number. I wouldn't have thought 1200 or 780 or something would significantly change the accumulation of errors from floating point math.

[buoyant sandal]

alright
roof--> coal--> supercompters

[dim flint]

That's true.

[unkempt blade]

yeah I'm just anti-redesign not anti-coal

[green fiber]

Remember that the mk 2 issue is due to flow rate speed

It scales quadratically

[unkempt blade]

we need to leave our old factories there so we can see how much we learned while playing that save

[dim flint]

I could see them not wanting to expose a problem in even more dramatic fashion.

[green fiber]

Unless the change the pipe code, mk 3 is literally impossible to run stable

[dim flint]

2026, year of the pipe fixes! Let's dream.

[unkempt blade]

like this boring square one? #screenshots message

[finite mirage]

hey quick question, new player here (well kinda), done through tier 1,2 in 4 hours, how long do i have to go?

also the project assembly phase 1 parts, would i need them again? i currently have a smart plating and rotor farm so i can reliably produce that part but do i need a dedicated production line for that thing specifically or is it unnecessary after i unlock phase 1

[dim flint]

All the assembly parts will be used throughout the space elevator project.

[finite mirage]

so do i need a dedicated production line?

[dim flint]

That's up to you how you wish to design everything.

[worn crown]

It's the same as if someone playing minecraft asked the question :p as much as you like

[dim flint]

Technically nothing in the game demands a dedicated production line. Though I often isolate power production a bit.

[oak nymph]

You have Loong to go buddy

[worn crown]

My motor production was down, because my rotor production was insufficient, so I had to overclock so I needed more screws so I had to build a new production line for screws, this feels like I'm actually working

[finite mirage]

is it normal to have a 300w power consumption before unlocking coal power

the power thing is a total chore, i feel like the game gets more relaxing once power is replenishable

currently on a time trial for everything

[oak nymph]

I HATE water as byproduct

[cunning glade]

Why?

Often u can use it too feed itself once u start it

[covert quarry]

is there any way to get rid of those structures that release a yellow gas that damages you

[cunning glade]

Bombs

[nocturne warren]

mix it with some limestone and you have concrete

limestone is basically everywhere

or just reuse it in machines that require it in previous steps

[cunning glade]

Water as a bi product is by far the best cuz of how versatile it is

[worthy grotto]

what even gives water as byprodcut

[nocturne warren]

aluminum

[worthy grotto]

forgor

[cunning glade]

Aluminum for one

[worthy grotto]

i think i use that for more aluminum or sum like that

[nocturne warren]

but at the same time it requires water

[cunning glade]

Prolly some other things too but idk rn

[nocturne warren]

so i just reuse it

[worthy grotto]

like a cycle

havent played since summer i dont even remember my base

[cunning glade]

Almost done with my 6k rubber and 3k plastic plant

[worthy grotto]

you mean in a min?

[nocturne warren]

whats oil consumption on that

[cunning glade]

Yes it makes that a min

[nocturne warren]

like 1200?

[worthy grotto]

damn

[cunning glade]

3150 oil a min

[dim flint]

Yea I completely agree and rushed for coal basically as fast as I could so I could relax and enjoy myself.

[nocturne warren]

oh that makes more sense

[cunning glade]

It's in the not bad swamp

Idk what that place is called ig it's more tropical

[nocturne warren]

why so much rubber though?

[cunning glade]

Yes

Coupons don't wanna have too make more later

I like using all the resources in a given area tbh

Also gonna be making 30 pasta a min

Not slooped

But I'm gonna sloop it for a full mk1 belt

[nocturne warren]

you will have to get like all the copper for that

[cunning glade]

Only 15k a min

[nocturne warren]

thats like 40% of all copper

[oak nymph]

Yeah but you need water pump to kick start it and then you gotta go back to remove one water pump or else it get block and I always forget to adjust the pump

[nocturne warren]

you can use valves

[worthy grotto]

only

[oak nymph]

I've heard valve is Satan

[nocturne warren]

they only let water flow in one direction

[tight ingot]

could anyone tell me if a pre-incstalled version from AnkerGames is legal?

[oak nymph]

I don't think the police is going to come at your door

[tight ingot]

not worried about police, but breaking the rules

in other words, is that stuff pirated?

[cunning glade]

There's like 39k copper a min

[cunning glade]

They don't actually

[unkempt blade]

I mean just a casual google of it only shows results that make it seem like a pirate site...

[cunning glade]

Well just don't forget

[nocturne warren]

Yeah?

[nocturne warren]

they do

[tight ingot]

I'm not sure myself. one could understand "pre-installed" games being "portable", I don't think there's anything wrong with portability in games. but I've never heard of this term before.

[cunning glade]

They don't

It may seem like that

Idk the logic or whatever but people that are actually smart about the game and know why will back me up

But I have been told that is infact a lie

[unkempt blade]

If you're not sure I suspect you're not actually reading their site or the google results related to it 😆

and just to caution you this server has rules against talking about piracy

[nocturne warren]

I dmed you an explanation on backflow in valves i found on satisfactory wiki

[tight ingot]

reading anyone's own site does not teach me if it's pirated or not.
I could be telling someone I'm the president, that doesn't mean it's true

and google doesn't tell me directly either

[worthy grotto]

what if it is

why is it a problem for you

[tight ingot]

I didn't come here because I didn't read, mind you. I came here because reading wasn't enough for me
if nobody here knows specifically if this is a known site for pirated software, then I'm going to assume it's not

it matters because it's against the rules of this server if it is pirated. obviously...

[unkempt blade]

It's a site that provides "free" games without giving you a license. This guy is either in denial or seriously can't pick up on the pile of clues there

[worthy grotto]

i get that much

hes playing satisfactory from there or what

[tight ingot]

listen. I've never heard of "pre-installed" before, so I don't know what it is. it sounds like portable to me, like you can carry it on a flashdrive and run it directly from there (although I seriously doubt this game effectly can run on USB)
so based on that knowledge alone, I cannot tell what this website offers

[worn crown]

On the website, it mentions they've had legal issues with the game distribution

[unkempt blade]

<@&387163995947270144> we've got a brand new user here who's being pretty insistent on talking about a site to pirate the game on

[worthy grotto]

omg bro

[worn crown]

In fact, the site themselves openly say, "AnkerGames operates in a gray area when it comes to legality"

[unkempt blade]

yeah he clearly asked this question in bad faith or didn't read their site at all

[tight ingot]

I've not seen that mentioned yet. but ok, then that's enough proof

[south lion]

You can't have a game run on a usb without a license if it's released on steam and such

[worn crown]

If you would like I can DM you where I found the source

[tight ingot]

assume good faith bro. I literally asked before advertise

[tight ingot]

don't bother, I believe you

[unkempt blade]

That's why I told you how to figure it out for yourself then you kept going. Going to mute you now

[worn crown]

If price is an issue, I'm aware many key sites offer cheaper prices, which aren't illegal to purchase

[craggy vector]

Yep buddy you’re def going in the blocked folder! Dattebayo!

[tight ingot]

I'm leaving now. bye

[craggy vector]

what in the reddit breakup is this😭

[steady dagger]

is there a mod where theres no power limit

[worn crown]

I recall the 2020 discord era when I read this

[craggy vector]

wdym power limit like where you don’t have enough power or it just caps the power at some point

[steady dagger]

like where ur fuse just busts cus the power is too much

[worthy grotto]

why the fuck would you want that

[worn crown]

There are mods which let you create infinite power ? If that's what you mean

[steady dagger]

or is there a mod that increases it

[leaden turret]

there's an AGS setting for that

[steady dagger]

oh

[steady dagger]

is there a mod to increase it

like the limit

[worn crown]

I also think it would be easier to just create a load of a coal powered gens

[south lion]

Can't you just do that in creative mode?

[steady dagger]

i made 1

[leaden turret]

u wot

[worn crown]

Then make, more

[steady dagger]

😔

#screenshots

[south lion]

U gotta make power to make machines man

Whole point of the game

[leaden turret]

you don't need mods to make more power, you just make more power.

[worn crown]

Son

[steady dagger]

oh wait wrong screenshot

[worn crown]

You could make 2 coal powered gens and be almost double your max consumption

[steady dagger]

max constipation

[south lion]

That's not what he said..

[steady dagger]

#screenshots

theres like no space 😔

[worthy grotto]

dont make em like that bro

[worn crown]

Son

[steady dagger]

why

[worn crown]

As they say on the Tok, "I'm Crine"

[south lion]

Make space😭

[worn crown]

Don't feel disheartened I don't mean to be rude or mean

[steady dagger]

on the tok 🥀 im crine 😭 you dont know em like that 😭 son 😭

[worthy grotto]

because

[nocturne warren]

build vertically

[worn crown]

😭 nephew 😭 second cousin twice removed 😭

[worthy grotto]

make like 8 together

[steady dagger]

😭 folk 😭

[worthy grotto]

i forgot what they are called

[steady dagger]

8 coal?

[worthy grotto]

8 coal gen

[steady dagger]

yo what the fuck

[worthy grotto]

that aint shit tbh

[steady dagger]

theres NO space for that

[worthy grotto]

MAKE SOME SPACE THEN

[south lion]

Then make the space vro

[nocturne warren]

you can move the constructors and assemblers on higher floors

and build coal generators on lower

[tame bobcat]

#screenshots message anyone got ideas on how i can make this look more refined 😭

[worn crown]

Son has a whole planet to himself and talks about "no space"

[nocturne warren]

expand the foundation and maximize your space

[steady dagger]

ts my first playthrough

[leaden turret]

https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q="coal plant"

[nocturne warren]

I understand

but you could fit 3 coal generators there instead of one

[leaden turret]

the map is approximately half the size of the island of manhattan.

[steady dagger]

why do i need 3

[nocturne warren]

without even moving anything

[nocturne warren]

Because you dont have enough power?

[steady dagger]

cant i use 2

[worn crown]

Yes

[south lion]

You can

[nocturne warren]

You can use 0

[steady dagger]

how

[nocturne warren]

and handcraft resources

[worthy grotto]

make 8 bro trust me

[worn crown]

But you will need to always add more, so just make a ton at once

[steady dagger]

fuck no 🥀

[nocturne warren]

what do you mean bro

[worthy grotto]

its ez bro

[south lion]

Ur gonna need it later either way but ight

[worthy grotto]

because i think from pure coal node with mk1 miners u get 120 coal a min and thats enough for 8 (I THINK)

[nocturne warren]

You need power for the machines to run you need the machines running to progress further and develop new ways of making power so you can have more machines

[worthy grotto]

thats why you gotta make 8

[worn crown]

This game rewards experimentation and ingenuity, just because something seems complicated/difficult shouldn't offset you

[worthy grotto]

if i made 120 youcan make 8

[steady dagger]

but when did u make 120

[worthy grotto]

summer

[nocturne warren]

why not just fuel generators?

[worthy grotto]

i have

[steady dagger]

when can i make power plant

[south lion]

Anytime

[worthy grotto]

i generate around 67000mw

[nocturne warren]

just form the coal or total?

[worn crown]

I thought it was 6

[worthy grotto]

both

[worn crown]

I may be wrong

[steady dagger]

btw does it matter if i unlock everything with cheats or should i wait until different playthrough so i understand it

[nocturne warren]

120 / 15 is 8

[steady dagger]

also can i connect coal gens to make more power or no

[worthy grotto]

broski it aint that hard

[south lion]

Do it normally on your first playthrough

[nocturne warren]

each generator consumes 15 coal per minute and 45 water per minute

[south lion]

Yes

[steady dagger]

i meant for fun

[worthy grotto]

lowk if you strugglin this hard now you better refund the game

[steady dagger]

ok

[steady dagger]

racism

[nocturne warren]

🥀

[south lion]

No it's just kinda the truth💔

[leaden turret]

you can connect multiple generators to one power grid, yes

[eager harbor]

Guys I got a saved world file how do I use it

[worthy grotto]

im willing to join your world and make it for you

[steady dagger]

no

[worthy grotto]

ill be your labour slave

[steady dagger]

what if u grief fr fr

[south lion]

[worthy grotto]

why would i

[steady dagger]

uh

because u are a person

[steady dagger]

and people grief frfr

[south lion]

What could he grief in 5 minutes

[worthy grotto]

your world wont be only thing molested if i go that path but i wont

[steady dagger]

he could click f

[worthy grotto]

i cant even take your items to my world if i wanted to

it dont work like that

[steady dagger]

yeah but u can still like destroy my shit fr

people just do that fr

[worthy grotto]

then build your own damn coal gens

8

[white dawn]

I know we're all on the edge of our seats on this romcom, but if y'all want to keep discussing whether or not to join a multiplayer session, take it to #1201555265942724758 or DMs. :)

[steady dagger]

i never asked u to make them 😔 🙏

[nocturne warren]

you know you can load an older save

[steady dagger]

oh yeah i can

[sterile blade]

Well, paying respect is a well established gaming practice...

[nocturne warren]

game autosaves every 5 minutes

he wont be able to cause any real damage

[steady dagger]

@worthy grotto wanna help me

my best friend

[worthy grotto]

My brother in christ

sure im tired of my shit anyways

drop steam id

[steady dagger]

its singleplayer tho

add

[worthy grotto]

bro add me as friend on steam so i can join your world

[steady dagger]

ok add on discord

[white dawn]

(Please for the love of $whatever take this to DMs or #1201555265942724758)

[sterile blade]

Meaning one just has a 15 minutes window to spot anything before old autosaves are erased (together with any actual progress one might have made from their prior save)

[south lion]

I should lowkey play satisfactory again right chat

[unkempt blade]

you ever see someone and just know with 100% certainty that they listen to youtube videos with max volume from their phone speaker in crowded public places?

[sterile blade]

How dare you besmirch the sacred name of $whatever?!

[strong fiber]

Brooo

Why do i need so much quick wire

[zenith sage]

Just found out after dozens of hours 1 annoying valve completely broke my turbo fuel plant... how the hell

[strong fiber]

I need liek 8000/min for first production steps

[hazy void]

would it be easier to reuse water from making NFU in the acids or more nuclear plants

[strong fiber]

Why u use valve

[strong fiber]

put it back into the acid

[unkempt blade]

that's quite the stun rebar factory

[hazy void]

are you sure, i feel like it would be easier to have 1 hnuclear plant runing off the water from that bc fluids are weird

[zenith sage]

No clue tbh... I'm sending like 10m3 of hom to a nearby ammo factory and thought I'd just limit what's being sent

[strong fiber]

The machines can balance themselves out once the pipe is full

[strong fiber]

no its a nuclear plant

[unkempt blade]

that set of recipes doesn't make very good ammo 🙁

[strong fiber]

It makes radioactive area

[zenith sage]

What's even the point (use case) of valves? 🤔

[unkempt blade]

to eventually deliver half life 3

[strong fiber]

Nuke nobelisk

[tired cypress]

FYI you can change the save interval

[zenith sage]

Huh, maybe it wasn't just the valve, but also blueprint pipe auto connecting in a messed up way...

[crimson elbow]

will the game have new maps in the future?

perhaps new planets even?

[white dawn]

That's a good question. :D CSS obviously thought it was a good idea at the time, but they really just don't add much of anything to the system besides complication and nonobvious behaviors. :)

[white dawn]

Very unlikely, see: https://archive.satisfactory.video/topics/environment/world-map/ -- Though they have yet to announce any plans related to hypothetical DLCs or hypothetical "Satisfactory 2.0" type things, so it's possible we may eventually get more. I wouldn't expect that anytime remotely soon, though

[covert quarry]

is there any way to remove stones and other structures like those mushrooms?

[white dawn]

Explosives (research sulfur in the MAM) and chainsaw are the only way to destroy map elements in the game. If neither of those can get rid of what you're trying to remove, then no. :)

There is a mod out there which will let you get rid of arbitrary level geometry, though that can sometimes leave holes in the ground

[covert quarry]

thx : )

[white dawn]

For stones in particular: any of the ones with a "cracked" pattern (you'll learn to recognize them) can be exploded for sure. For non-cracked stones, you can usually blow up a lot of the smaller ones, though once they start getting to Pioneer size or bigger they're often permanent

[eager harbor]

When u use advanced settings it shows pencil sign on save?

[dim flint]

Well well well, look who's drone got stranded at it's destination port.

I think I was still wrong about it being because of different fuel types, but it's funny how I was blasted for being wrong about that by this one guy last night and he didn't actually know how it works either.

Seems like if you have a single fuel supplied drone pair, the non-supplied destination port will have a drone return home without enough fuel to come back. This is because it's "round trip" is based out of the port without fuel, so it will block.

One solution is to just never run out of fuel I suppose. But I'm curious if the belt speeds are fast enough if I can carry fuel in the source drone and still return with my items reliably.

[eager harbor]

When u use advanced settings it shows pencil sign on save?

[dim flint]

?

[dim flint]

I don't think I have any advanced settings changed.

[rich flint]

what is better? everything working 100% like the moment it uses the ore it gets another or having more ore than it needs

[pine bluff]

when you like a smooth and clean power graph than eyerthing working at 100% if you dont care about that you can just let it overflow

[dim flint]

Depends on what you mean by "better", but 100% efficiency uses exactly as much as it's given.

If you want to avoid things backing up, you can always add awesome sinks (except with a few items like nuclear and power shards).

Anyone else notice that the drone fuel consumption numbers seem wrong?

[white dawn]

Indeed!

[dim flint]

OK I'm not just crazy.

[white dawn]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/6780c209c10ae65555c7a5ad + https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/6780c4b2c10ae65555c7a5af are the two main bugs that I'm aware of related to 'em

Exacerbated slightly by https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/6780c6efc10ae65555c7a5b2 when you're trying to get a handle on it

In short, though: once a drone has finished a couple of round trips, the numbers on the port that you should be able to trust is the round-trip time, and the fuel-per-trip (though fuel-per-trip is likely to be rounded enough that imprecisions can be annoying). But that's at least enough to let you compute the proper fuel-per-min value for the route

Alternatively, once the drone has completed a couple of round-trips, if you save the game and load into SCIM, SCIM's drone-port display does the fuel-per-min calculation properly (and shows a much less-rounded value for fuel-per-trip)

[dim flint]

Yea this explains it.

[white dawn]

The reason why you've gotta wait for the drone to finish a couple of round trips first is that second bug; when the game saves, the "time I've been flying" value for the drone is saved way too high. So the first time the drone finishes its route after loading the save, the round-trip time goes too high and all the numbers are off.

So you need one complete round-trip while the game's running to clear out that bad data

[dim flint]

I noticed some rounding weirdness yesterday when I was testing a few things, but I'm not too concerned about that I don't think.

My bigger issue is just making sure I never run out of fuel, because then one of my drones will get stuck and need manual fuel loading.

Which shouldn't happen in the final build, but would be nice to have a way around without building a dedicated fuel port.

[white dawn]

Very anecdotally (and obviously this depends on the distance of your routes in question), I've found that both Batteries and Packaged Rocket Fuel end up consuming about 2.5/min per drone, for a route that's actively going back and forth all the time.

[dim flint]

I was just looking at the numbers to get a sense of the timing and they seemed wrong.

[white dawn]

Rocket Fuel's supposed to last a bit longer, but I think on my save where I was collecting numbers my average drone distances must've worked out such that the difference got swallowed up by that. :D

[dim flint]

I have two ports at the moment here and they both claim to be using 32 turbofuel per round trip, despite having different round trip times.

[white dawn]

Anyway, if you budget 3/min usage for constantly-active drones (for batteries or RF, at least) I expect you'd be fine

[dim flint]

Well once this system is up and running, they will be on plutonium.

The issue is just with startup and trying to avoid having to manually feed the drones, but I cannot think of a good way around this without adding a fuel port for each node.

[reef basin]

if you're making more than you need, eventually something somewhere will get backed up and things won't work at 100% efficiency.

Whether that bothers you or not is up to you, some people hate that, some don't care

[vague plume]

Guys

Is there ay way to make like... On way glass?

One-Way*

[naive trellis]

Since Satisfactory released for consoles, can I use an gamepad on pc satisfactory?

[limpid cairn]

Couldn’t you always use a gamepad on pc because of steam deck?

[wispy osprey]

Why isn't one of my freight cars docking???????????

Honestly I might quit playing this

Freight cars have rendering issues for some dumbass reason

[limpid cairn]

Do you mean trains ?

Check if the station is on load instead of unload

[wispy osprey]

The freight car itself didn't render

I dismantled the car and got the inventory inside of it but it wasn't visible

[tame bobcat]

whats the burn rate of turbofuel per min in 1 fuel gen? anyone know?

actually wait forgot i can just search this up lol

[dim flint]

I guess one solution to my drone problem might just be to leave the fuel port drone without fuel, stock up the destination once, but it can never complete a land because the source cannot take off, and wait until I have my nuclear production done and it's self-sufficient.

[ornate saffron]

it tells you in the fuel gen

[heavy pine]

Got my IRL Christmas stuff put away. Still have to put away FICSMAS stuff.

[stone moth]

#screenshots message Can someone explain to me how i got stuck in the foundation

[dim flint]

I cannot wait for it to stop raining gifts.

[heavy pine]

Just keep a few gift generating trees in an out-of-the-way spot. Or turn off seasonal events.

[dim flint]

I assume it'll be over soon.

[heavy pine]

I think Jan 18 is the last day.

[covert quarry]

is it hard to unlock power slug recipe?

[covert quarry]

what do they even do they seem so useless

[dim flint]

There's a whole holiday production line.

They sorta kick start it IIRC, but I didn't do it this year.

[hollow sonnet]

Its very late game

[dim flint]

You mean power shard recipe? Or the ability to use power slugs?

Slugs themselves are part of the Power Slugs MAM tree.

Also, pro tip. Always convert slugs to shards with a somerslooped constructor.

[stone moth]

When do you unlock that

is it using hardrives

also has anyone ever covered the entire map in foundation before

[dim flint]

Nope, hard drives are just for alternate recipes.

[white dawn]

Whenever you find sloops in the wild and research them. :)

[dim flint]

Somersloops are just something you find on the map. Not sure when you unlock the ability to scan for them with the object scanner though.

[stone moth]

I have like 200 sloops, i just need to get to unlocking sam

[stone moth]

when you first research that

[stone moth]

I meant like the ability to make them in a constructor

[dim flint]

Yea, all this stuff is just part of various MAM trees. Just read though those.

[white dawn]

Oh, you don't

Spheres and sloops are a limited resource

[dim flint]

Oh, you cannot make sloops in constructors. But you should be putting sloops into the Slug->Power Shard machines.

Same with converting remains->protein.

[stone moth]

i mean the power shards in a contructor

when do you unlock that

[dim flint]

MAM tree for power slugs.

[stone moth]

is it the last branch

[white dawn]

(in general: check your MAM frequently, and research anything you can)

[dim flint]

No, it's the first one.

Turning a power slug into a power shard is the whole point.

[stone moth]

Sure enough, i have it

[dim flint]

OK, so you can do that in the constructors too

[stone moth]

for a while i didnt even after unlocking the power shards

[dim flint]

and if you do, then you can somersloop them and double your output.

[stone moth]

pro tip, always use foundations to build your factories. i had a worl where i didnt and it very quickly turned into a lgio factory

[humble osprey]

any good streamers who have played satisfactory?

[stone moth]

Lets game it out

If you're looking for laughs, if your looking for actually good quality streams then idk

[zenith shard]

finally at 18p/min!!! wooooo

[dim flint]

I think ImKibitz streams, he's great.

I mostly just watch his YT videos though, so maybe he doesn't. Not actually sure.

[zenith shard]

hmm I disagree with that though, sometimes it works out without foundations

[stone moth]

#screenshots message I can tell you that it does not

This screenshot isnt even the worst of it

[zenith shard]

omg xd

similar enough to mine ahahahah

[stone moth]

#screenshots message this is better

[zenith shard]

WAIT WHAT

you can put miners on top of foundations???

[stone moth]

Yes

[stiff cape]

Can anyone help a semi new player fix the mess I made?

[stone moth]

Its very handy

[dim flint]

what kinda mess are we talking about here?

[dim flint]

they won't necessarily line up with it though.

[wispy osprey]

I need a break for awhile

I've been playing this every day for a decent chunk of time

[stiff cape]

Half my belts are mark 1 and half are mark 2 and 3

[strong fiber]

You need circui

[dim flint]

That's fine.

[strong fiber]

Thats light

[wispy osprey]

I think I've played this for about 60 hours this past week alone

[stone moth]

Thats okay, as long as they are as optimized as possible

[wispy osprey]

Wrong reply, thank you discord

[stone moth]

i used mark one the most for transporting things that are less than 60 per minute

[spare pier]

A casual player I see

[hollow sluice]

currently building my turbofuel plant with the diluted fuel recipe, (which should produce 46 gigawatts once its finished)
how much power do i need to start moving to nuclear?
Do i need to use rocket fuel or can i just instantly move to nuclear?

[wispy osprey]

My biofuel factory that I made in phase 1 is still preserved like a museum

[wispy osprey]

I work an actual job 50 hours a week, it's fair that pushing this many hours in a game has made me tired

[dim flint]

I'm up to 840 hours played.

I will say that a decent chunk of that is AFK though.

[spare pier]

I figured, I just find it funny that the standard for satisfactory is way higher

[wispy osprey]

My "playtime" says 573 hours but I think about 300 of those were idle

[distant pulsar]

you can play the whole game without ever using nuclear

its mostly a fun challenge

[dim flint]

Nuclear is fun though!

[wispy osprey]

It's good to give yourself an endgame goal

[stiff cape]

I feel as if my problem is in the production area

[hollow sluice]

i figured lol, but i do find having to build tons of fuel generators a bit tedious

and im only on turbofuel still haha

[dim flint]

I cannot wait to see like 500GW added to my grid.

[hollow sluice]

the whole setup for that diluted fuel recipe -> turbofuel took me a whole day to setup, cant imagine the time it'll take for ionized fuel setups

[covert quarry]

dont tractors refuel automatically? first it did now it doesnt...

[spare pier]

Back when I was trying to figure out if biofuel was renewable, I stumbled across a potential "biofuel only" run

[dim flint]

ionized isn't really the best for power.

[hollow sluice]

how come

[dim flint]

I just use it to sink power shards from my power shard and singularity factory.

[dim flint]

I forget the exact math, but you use a lot of power making the inputs.

[hollow sluice]

i have 0 knowledge abt stuff post-nuclear, still on pre-nuclear phase

[hollow sluice]

i see

[spare pier]

me still trying to figure out wtf SAM is

[dim flint]

Same with ficsonium as I understand it. It's better to use SAM to convert more uranium.

[hollow sluice]

SAM makes the game 80% more enjoyable

cant even imagine phase 3 onwards without it

[dim flint]

Funny, I hardly use SAM at all still.

[glass pagoda]

Hello

[hollow sluice]

well, i only totally use SAM for dimensional depots, and thats mainly what im referring to aswell haha

cant imagine the game w/o dim depots

[dim flint]

Oh those are the best thing in the game.

[distant pulsar]

blueprints can solve a lot of this

[spare cradle]

Should I go for making my turbogen, or do I (make enough ammo) and explore?

[spare pier]

I'm at the point where I'm wondering if I should look of a guide for SAM nodes but at the same time I don't wanna take the cowards approach and use the wiki for everything

[covert quarry]

i find a lot of them in caves

[hollow sluice]

explore first and get the diluted fuel recipe, then start making turbogen. Thats what i should have done, but instead im wasting 2 days trying to rebuild everything

[spare pier]

Ok well that begs the question: how does one reliably locate caves?

[dim flint]

I cheat on this one.

[covert quarry]

its not hard except for the ones that have hidden entrances

[glass pagoda]

Looking for breakable rocks around walls or use the map like @dim flint some cave entrances have top down entrance though

[dim flint]

For a while early game I did all the cave diving the regular way. It was fun and made the game feel full of excitement. But now that I've played long enough, sometimes I just want to know how to get into the damn cave already.

[tame bobcat]

i dont have the turbofuel actually built i wanted to plan beforehand

[hollow sluice]

those caves made me realize that i have arachnophobia all this time lol

[tame bobcat]

wiki said 7.5 / min so im gonna use that

[dim flint]

Dude I love the big spiders. Properlly good fun alien killing.

[spare pier]

I've been skipping around on blade runners for hours and I only find like 4 tiny caves with like, a single sphere thing

[dim flint]

The rest of the aliens are too easy.

[hollow sluice]

idk man, it makes me anxious seeing them pounce on u like that

[dim flint]

Except when you afk and don't realize something is throwing rocks at you.

[hollow sluice]

and it doesnt help that there are radioactive variants

[dim flint]

same

First big spider killed the shit out of me before I had a rocket pack.

[hollow sluice]

i turned on cat mode and it only eases the anxiety ever so slightly

[dim flint]

I wish the homing ammo was a lot better though.

[pale crow]

I find the cat mode even more terrifying 😭

[near siren]

how can i paint all the floor tiles in the concrete paint type as i tried it in the swtch but it comes up metallic still

[hollow sluice]

for me it helps a little, the crawling animation of the original creeps me out a lot

[dim flint]

color and material are different.

[near siren]

ahhh

[spare pier]

I find that once you acquire blade runners and healing stuff, pretty much anything is easy enough to kill

Then again I still haven't gone too far out

[dim flint]

Rebar gun just doesn't cut it imo.

[near siren]

makes sense now, is there a way to paint them the concrete material?

[spare pier]

I have killed the giga spider tho

[dim flint]

wdym "the" giga spider? Is there a boss?

[hollow sluice]

the rebar gun is so buggy lol

[dim flint]

Dude, this game absolutely needs boss fights and armors and stuff haha, honestly.

Nothing to complex, just a bit extra.

[spare pier]

Oh don't get me wrong it takes absolutely ages, but shatter rebar still works for me in the coal age or whatever you call this section that I'm in

[dim flint]

I feel like the xeno-basher might actually be higher DPS.

[paper summit]

how do i use the chainsaw 🤔

[hollow sluice]

prolly unlikely to happen. Their video on things they dont plan on adding makes that seem so

[hollow sluice]

u need biofuel in ur inventory

[paper summit]

like biomass?

[clear tartan]

so would you need roughly 15 refinerys to overclock 10 fuel gens?

[hollow sluice]

biofuel is different from biomass, but u do get the latter from the former

[spare pier]

I mean, maybe? I know that Zeno basher takes 3 hits on swine, basic rebar ammo only takes 2. Then again, the basher does hit faster, so it's a matter of keeping in range

[paper summit]

nvm i got it

[dim flint]

yea, makes sense.

[hollow sluice]

i like the pvp the way it is, but i found out how chill the game was waaaaay later than i shouldve

didnt even afk out of fear that something would happen to my factory lol

[zenith shard]

my playtime is only 20h, I feel so embarassed ;-;

[spare cradle]

Ive tried like 5 harddrives for diluted ;-;

[hollow sluice]

i dont think that the higher the playtime, the cooler u get. I think its quite the opposite lol

[hollow sluice]

u can try saving the game before u reroll a drive

[spare cradle]

I ain't save scumming 😭

[hollow sluice]

oh well, best of luck

[spare cradle]

I do need it as I may as well make the xeno-smiter and just avoid radioactive lads.

[hollow sluice]

are there reasons for not building an aluminum factory that uses the alternative recipes that remove silica entirely?

[clear tartan]

i accidentially found a uranium node

[fading whale]

It's funny when the tinglies start in your body 😄

[fading whale]

In those 20 hours you've probably accomplished more than the last 20 in-game hours I've spent "getting some pipe-work to work" 😂

[simple pebble]

Throughput. If you have limited bauxite and need more aluminum.

[zenith shard]

idk, im feeling very overwhelmed and burned out already

[ornate saffron]

It can be a lot.

[spare pier]

My solution is hyper fixating one one problem at a time. Don't get lost in figuring out how to mass produce the 10 different complex items, instead think about how to produce one of them

Heck with AWESOME sinks it actually becomes beneficial because you can have extra factories running in the background generating tickets if they happen to fulfill their quota

[dim flint]

Just don't box yourself in.

[zenith shard]

idk.... I just can't complete phase 1

[fading whale]

Best thing really is to avoid us. People who have played "more than they probably should have" 😭 . Avoid seeing screenshots.
Just play the game 🙂
Follow ADA's instructions.
Know that you WILL get to all the other stuff eventually. No need to plan for that yet.
Make dumb 💩 .
Have fun.

[magic ruin]

Hey guys it's been a while but I need a little help please

[fading whale]

If you get stuck or need help. Then you come poke the rest of us 🙂

[limpid remnant]

why am I still getting presents in my world and I can't use them for MAM?

[fading whale]

The start dropping again when you remove the trees.

Event ends on 18'th I think.

[magic ruin]

Does anyone have a design for a 3:6 load balancer? I've been struggling for days now

[limpid remnant]

well I can't use them in MAM, Satisfactory discord said it runs until 9th of January, no? they annoy me cause I can't use them :/

[unborn moss]

Why can't you use them?

[limpid remnant]

idk, the section is greyed out in MAM and I can't research anything in FICSMAS Holiday Event page

[unborn moss]

There's a christmas calendar at your base, you need to use that first.

[fading whale]

3 belts in, 6 out?

3 belts. Each go in to a splitter. Take 1 output form each splitter and merge in a merger (3 in total). Now you have balanced 3 belts.
After each of the merger, you put a splitter and take 2 outputs from each. Now each of the 3 balanced belts are split in 2. 6 in total.

[limpid remnant]

oh, didn't realise that at all cause I haven't been at my base for a loooooooong time lmao

been all around the map, doing the higher tier stuff

[fading whale]

You have one week. Get to it ! 😄

[eager harbor]

I got mega blueprints

[limpid remnant]

gonna do it :D is there a way to make FICSMAS persist?

[fading whale]

A mod probably. Not sure.

Remember. This setup is just temporary. So if you have Somersloops, use them!.

[eager harbor]

Yo man I got some op megablueprints but Idk how to connect the factories 😂

[fading whale]

You need a save editor like SCIM to import mega blueprints.

[eager harbor]

That’s not the problem I imported them but Idk how to connect the factories 😂

[fading whale]

Belts. Tracks. Trucks. Pipes. How you would connect anything in this game 🙂

[eager harbor]

Would u mind joining me

[fading whale]

Yes.
Stopped the game for today. Just chilling now 🙂

[dim spoke]

yoo ive finally got a weapon factory

100/min bullets and 10/min nobelisks and cluster nobelisks

[eager harbor]

Pls the factories are so sick

U’ll like them trust me

I’ll send u one factory of ur liking if u help

[fading whale]

I build my own 💩. But thank you.

[eager harbor]

Bro pls

MEOW

[fading whale]

Nagging will just make me leave sooner.

[zenith sage]

Can we invert the scrolling wheel controls? 🤔

[feral jay]

You can change a bunch of the behaviours individually in Settings->Controls, but not carte blanche afaik

[spare cradle]

I found some cooling systems...

[zenith sage]

I didn't see that specific one unfortunately... I don't know if I'm crazy or scrolling through hotbars in this game really is inverted compared to most others

[feral jay]

"Hotbar Swapping Scroll Direction"?

[zenith sage]

Oh, I'm blind... thanks!

[feral jay]

lol np

[tame bobcat]

@ornate saffron thanks for the screenshot

[ornate saffron]

NP, ITS HELPFUL TO KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE INFO

caps lock lol

[zenith sage]

Also.. is being unable to build splitters on lifts after locking the hologram a bug? #screenshots message

[ornate saffron]

conveyor lifts? you should need to lock the holagram of the splitter. it clips onto the lift

[paper summit]

do trees and bushes respawn after a while?

[ornate saffron]

no

[zenith sage]

When it's unlocked I can freely build it, but when I lock it it complains about needing to be built on a lift 🤔

[feral jay]

gah replied to the wrong person

[dim spoke]

is turbofuel good for a jetpack

[feral jay]

pretty good yeah

I usually just use liquid biofuel though

[tame bobcat]

i was thinking of repurposing my array of biofuel generators into liquid biofuel for a generator + jetpack fuel, worth it?

[feral jay]

I do both actually, I sloop every stage of the biofuel production chain so it's 8x the biofuel I think

Bioburners can be a great backup power source if power storages fail you

And, liquid biofuel production is relatively simple to set up and scale, whereas packaged turbofuel is usually peeling a bit off of a power plant, which is... a bit tricker to balance right

[tame bobcat]

i mean is liquid biofuel decent enough with the jetpack

[feral jay]

yes

[tame bobcat]

is it better than the solid biofuel

[feral jay]

hella better

[tame bobcat]

yea thats seems like the easier solution then trying to not mess up my turbofuel plant 😭

[spare cradle]

Oooo, I found a uranium node

Also is a good spot to look around at

[vague ruin]

hi guys im new to the game, right now i need smart plating for tier 3, is it alright to remove the smart plating assembler after i get the 50 i need so I can actually use the RIP and rotors instead of using them all just to make smart plating?

[tame bobcat]

i didnt even think about doing that lol, gonna keep that in mind 🙏

[spice spindle]

...quick question. what's the sharpest angle a train track can turn?

[sullen gull]

Do the same with Slugs, alien matter, and DNA capsules btw

[sullen gull]

Make a foundation pad and test it? 🤷‍♂️ (I'm not sure of the actual answer)

[zenith sage]

You can always set a splitter for parts you need into a storage and the storage into dimensional depo. When it fills up it'll resume the production in a normal pace while still resupplying you.

[true mulch]

You can totally do that, but every next phase needs smart plating too. Probably the best strategy is to unlock better belts and miners and use them to build a new factory with a much bigger output

[vague ruin]

yeah ill probably end up doing that since my current factoryi dont think can support much more space

[sullen gull]

The "general" consensus is to leave things you have built running and to build more/elsewhere when you need to progress.

[vague ruin]

ah okay

[feral jay]

I use 3x3 turns, I think that's the sharpest they can get

[queen slate]

#screenshots message finished my rocket fuel power factory ty @ornate saffron for help with overclocking gens

[feral jay]

3x3 turns are also nice because they line up nicely at foundation edges

[vague ruin]

is clipping okay/does it affect anything?

[true mulch]

Clipping doesn't affect how factories work

[queen slate]

it doesnt do anything

[true mulch]

It just looks awful

[vague ruin]

okay thank you

[feral jay]

It won't make any difference aside from making things a bit tougher to troubleshoot if you've got conveyros and power lines clipping everywhere

[vague ruin]

since right now i have a converor belt that going through an entire storage crate and under some other thingies but if it doesnt affect anything its alright

[zenith sage]

I should rebuild my original base soon... (for the 3rd time)

[peak plank]

I spend about as much time destroying as i do building

[zenith sage]

Honestly.. when it's time to destroy a whole factory in favor of rebuilding it, I just use the save editor 😅

[vague ruin]

where would you recommend to build my next factory once i get like tier 3/tier 4? i think right now im just smack dab in the middle of the map

[sullen gull]

That is totally up to you. It's a big wide world! 😛 Figure out what you need to build, the resources needed, and find a spot with those resources near by. Once you get to coal, and given where you are, Loc -805,1509 is a great place for a coal power plant...

For now, until you get more weapons, jetpack, bladrunners, etc, I would say to stick to the grass fields. Though, as I said, the "sky is the limit" with possibilities 😏

[vague ruin]

its just right now where im at the nodes arent very convienent

so i think ill probably tyr to find somewhere with more iron copper and limestone nodes that are closer

[weary kestrel]

Or just litter your beautiful landscape with conveyors 🤣

[zenith sage]

I believe there's a nice mix of iron, copper and limestones nodes to the west, slightly above the waterfalls if you want

[sullen gull]

I like -1571,-379 for a good solid area. three pure iron, pure copper, pure caterium near, decent bit of Limestone, and also not to far up the river is a cave with Quartz and SAM

BUT, I don't just build in one area of the map myself.

And could also build a coal plant in the crater lakes area above the location I mentioned.

[scenic mirage]

can you build water extractors in a blueprint designer? is there a trick or smth

[sullen gull]

Some hax with mods iirc. But not in vanilla afaik.

[scenic mirage]

oh hell yeah time to hand place 176 water extractors 😭

[dense heron]

in the mid gameish, looking to set up an easily expandable factory. floor 1 is smelters, floor 2 is constructors (rods, plates), floor 3 is constructors (screws, cable), floor 4 is assemblers, etc. raw material coming in floor one and working up in complexity, and putting as many buildings in line as my fastest belt can accomodate

what's the best way to to handle the splitting of materials that need to be used for multiple things. such as rods on the second floor, I need some up to 3rd for screws, some to my dim depot/storage array, some up to floor 3 for assemblers, etc. i just unlocked smart splitters if that helps

[dim flint]

I honestly have not found a water extractor layout I really like.

[sullen gull]

I like using foundations and walls to "align" them.

[scenic mirage]

yeah you can just put a foundation slightly under the water

[dim flint]

Just way too many pipes to manage.

[sullen gull]

#screenshots message #screenshots message #screenshots message #design-and-architecture message PIPES = ❤️ ! 😏

[zenith sage]

I'm extremely enjoying making compact vertical blueprints #screenshots message

My concrete depo is gonna be in the drain cause of all those pillars tho

[spare cradle]

Most definitely an area I need to look through. Looks good for building too. #screenshots message

[zenith shard]

woooooooooooooo

finally got battery

[hallow flicker]

I do something similar... but this has started happening near/around my main large factory. 🙁

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/680e5dbd6b7c57319636b724
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/684b4db36b7c573196385984

I'm just dealing with the crashes... sending the error reports in to the void (it feels like the void)... and reloading and hoping CSS fixes it at some point. bleh.

As for the splitting question, you can just get more resources for separate things... try a fancy load balancing/belt balancing setup... or just split resources off of your supply line.

Moving stuff up and down next to my multi-floor factory has resulted in some lift-intensive vertical spaghetti.

[dense heron]

ah that's too bad... is this a giga factory? and yeah. I think I'm going to redo it and add a service level between each floor, and add a service room along one side of the factory to help with this

so basically, just look at how much your producing, then decide how much you can craft with that, connect to the relevant constructors/assemblers, etc. then just try your manifolds to do the job?

[hallow flicker]

I don't know if I'd say giga.... but yeah, the manifold approach is fine.

[gloomy tusk]

a full 180 degrees

[spare cradle]

Like, I see 7~ nodes of copper I think

[dense heron]

i've just been building mini f actories at my main base, ie finding a pure node, then building smeltres/constructors/assemblers from that one node, but i'd be interested in trying a more expandable approach for this one

[zenith shard]

how useful is a battery?

[hallow flicker]

Both are fun. I kindof do a mix of both... and run trains to connect stuff over the long distances.

[reef basin]

can power vehicles

[gloomy tusk]

so can fuel

[dense heron]

i just unlocked the train, working on lights, but havent even tried trucks yet. haven't wrapped my brain around it

[reef basin]

sure, but you don't need to package batteries 😉

(and they also have pretty good energy value)

[gloomy tusk]

just a question about hard drives

if you get every hard drive does that give you every alt recipe or is there more alt recipes then hard drives

[reef basin]

there's less alt recipes than hard drives

[gloomy tusk]

so what else do you use hard drives for

[reef basin]

nothing

[zenith shard]

ah no I mean the giant batteries

[reef basin]

ah, those that aren't called "batteries"? 😛

[scenic mirage]

power storage?

[zenith shard]

power storage yeah xd

[gloomy tusk]

power shards?

[reef basin]

stores power 😉 imo kinda pointless but some people use them

[zenith shard]

im spamming them rn

[zenith shard]

uhh why?

[hallow flicker]

The trains are fun. Don't be afraid to build supports for your tracks. Just trying to use the landscape is kind of a nightmare. Also, prepare your heart to learn the train signal stuff. It's a bit of a learning curve.

[zenith shard]

imagine if you have 1000 of them, its unlimited power with unlimited scaling :O

[covert quarry]

unlock alternate recipes for eapmle instead of rods for screws unlock the one that is iron ingots for screws, its ieasier and it has a 1:4 ratio which is pretty good

[gloomy tusk]

my brother touched my computer while i was gone and spent 100 of my hard earned shop tokens all on bombs

[reef basin]

why would I want temporary and limited power boost if I can just build more power and have permanent power solution

[covert quarry]

how do u get them

[reef basin]

that's still very much limited

[dense heron]

how do i unlock alternate recipes?

[zenith shard]

but like, you can't?

coals are limited, its throughput are capped

[sullen gull]

Find/scan hard drives

[scenic mirage]

its useful for starting up a new power factory cough nuclear cough

[reef basin]

you can't realistically use all the power that's possible to produce

[zenith shard]

if I can make a renewable scalable powersource like wind power or solar panels

[reef basin]

eh, I run that on previous power

[reef basin]

can't

[zenith shard]

why not? im having power problems all the time

[covert quarry]

u need to find crashed freighters they are not that hard to find. THen u need either items like rotors/modular frames or like 100MW of power it really depends in order to open up the feighter or whatever. inside of there is a hard drive which u take to MAM and 10 minutes later u unlock an alternate recipe

[reef basin]

well then build more power

power storages don't fix your power problems

[zenith shard]

if I can have like, 100 ZWh saved up, then its all good right?

[reef basin]

then that's way more effort than having proper power production for all your needs

[gloomy tusk]

i am currently sitting at a comfortable 10000 mw distance between max power consumption and capacity

[zenith shard]

what if I capped out all of my coal mines?

[reef basin]

good thing there's like 8 different power source types you can have

[zenith shard]

huh interesting

okay didn't know, im still at phase 2 xd

[gloomy tusk]

uranium, oil, coal

[zenith shard]

OIL!!! wooooo

[gloomy tusk]

theres more i think i just forgot

[zenith shard]

gotta bring some democracy to the planet 🦅

[edgy nacelle]

how many of you beat the game without nuclear?

[gloomy tusk]

better question is how many people even beat the game 🙏

[edgy nacelle]

small percentile im sure, but most of them aren't here

[true mulch]

I did beat the game before there was nuclear, if that counts

[sullen gull]

5.1%

[edgy nacelle]

i havent beaten the game yet.

[gloomy tusk]

not true sorry

[reef basin]

that's totally not true

[sullen gull]

Or, at least that many to got the achievement

[edgy nacelle]

i don't plan on it

[gloomy tusk]

not true at all

[sullen gull]

Just going off steam mate

[true mulch]

You're not counting

• people who beat the game in early access
• Epic
• PS
• Xbox

[gloomy tusk]

most people beat the game before steam achievements

[sullen gull]

Was more an attempt to be "funny" :P.... Maaaah bad 😛

[reef basin]

so, only one platform, ignoring Epic, ignoring anything pre-1.0, ignoring consoles, ignoring AGS runs, ...

[gloomy tusk]

if you beat the game on console then you are a true pioneer

its so much harder on controller

[fluid crow]

steam is the platform that gives numbers so...

[true mulch]

Don't all the platforms?

[edgy nacelle]

i had the game in 2018, but i was so dense i gave up when the belts didn't merge without mergers, didn't even begin to figure the game out until 1.0 :S

[true mulch]

Doesn't solve that you can't know how many people beat it in EA

[fluid crow]

do they?

[sullen gull]

Was there actually an "end" in EA?

[gloomy tusk]

my brother has a ps5 and im 90% they dont

[reef basin]

and afaik it may not give you the achievement if you continued EA save, or at least some of them, not sure if the "beat the game" one is part of that

[true mulch]

Epic does, not sure if consoles do
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/achievements/satisfactory

[true mulch]

Not proper, but you "beat" the game as any other sandbox

[edgy nacelle]

game was always building to whatever you're building towards

[clear tartan]

@golden nexus did you say make steel rotors?

[golden nexus]

Steel rotors are good to go with motors yes

[clear tartan]

for the modular engine?

[golden nexus]

Cause the stator / rotor go together for the motor

and the stator/rotor are made from exact same inputs pipe/wire

[clear tartan]

mmm ok

[spare cradle]

With an alt recipe

[golden nexus]

it also depends how you do the smart plate as well. btw a max stator/rotor build makes more rotors than stator btw... wire hitting the belt limit first

[clear tartan]

oh

[eager harbor]

My interactive map is dying when loading my save is there a way to make it lag less

[golden nexus]

stator is 15/pipe 40/wire and rotor is 10/pipe, 30/wire. So if your on m4 belts. You get 60/stator 80/rotor. So you get 30/motor or so. So you don't even need to build it close to the maximum

[eager harbor]

Hi mistralol is there a way to make interactive map not crash on my world

[whole drum]

Finally going to start automating project parts on this save.
https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1460014134484795735

[eager harbor]

Is there a way to make interactive map not crash

[whole drum]

What does that have to do with what I posted?

[wide karma]

Does anyoen wanna add me on steam to either watch me play or play satisfactory with me?

[whole drum]

Try #1201555265942724758

[eager harbor]

It is not possible to mega print 500000 structures ye?

[zenith shard]

WHATZ

I thought the blueprint printer is max 32x32x32

[void cliff]

fluid platforms only hold 2400 m3? that seems so low, lol... my tiny rocket fuel plant needs 600 m3/min nitrogen gas!

[eager harbor]

Not mega printing lol

[sullen gull]

That's only 150 tanks/min. Can easily drone that imo

[eager harbor]

Yo tinker why does interactive map crash on 500000 part megaprint

It’s not logical

Unless the servers of it suck

[whole drum]

You mean buffers?

[void cliff]

the train platforms and large buffers both hold 2400

[sullen gull]

Train Fluid Platform

[whole drum]

If you need to move more with less effort, package it, transport it, then unpackage it.

[sullen gull]

Anyhow, with nitrogen, You're doing yourself a bit of a diservice not packaging it imo.

It compresses 4x

[true mulch]

All rendering is client side

[eager harbor]

How much is max copying

[true mulch]

How'd I know

[eager harbor]

Bro it’s crashing so much

[green fiber]

buffers cant be used to keep gas flow rate up at 600/min consistently - the fluid dynmics work differently for gas and buffers dont work well with it

[strange marsh]

Question. I was killed by an enemy and it launched my body into the void, my inventory is gone with no death bag, my equipment is gone, and all of my dimensional storage is gone which had several sommersloops and mercer spheres. Am I screwed or is there any way I can fix this?

[green fiber]

load an autosave?

[eager harbor]

What

[whole drum]

It should have put a storage crate at the top of the cliff near where you died

[green fiber]

that was for Eros

[eager harbor]

Load old save

Save before all that happened

[true mulch]

How would dying clear the dimensional depot? That's not tied to a player

Loading an autosave is your solution anyway

[whole drum]

This is why I enable "Keep Everything," btw. There's no positive gameplay element to losing gear in a game where the exploration/combat is so undercooked.

[sullen gull]

And Retalitate for that matter 🤷‍♂️

[whole drum]

I don't mind them being hostile, tbh, but I understand if people rather have them passive.

[strange marsh]

I didn't think about that, you might have just saved me 6 hours straight of exploration and my entire production line since starting the game because I put everything that would fit in my dimensional storage

[strange marsh]

It's my first time ever playing the game, I was going to check out the advanced settings but it said it would disable achievements and make the story unbalanced so I just didn't want to touch it yet

[whole drum]

It's not an advanced setting. Just open your menu and go Options -> Gameplay

[zenith sage]

I disagree on the exploration part tbh, it's pretty neat imo (combat is a pain, here I agree)

[strange marsh]

I don't know, I've never lost my equipment either and I've died plenty of times but everything from my weapons to my gas mask and blade runners

[sullen gull]

Otherwise, if on PC, you can also use https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map to move the container somewhere near you if you don't want to roll back on a save 🤷‍♂️

[whole drum]

The combat is exceedingly basic, and doesn't even have the decency to let me build the weapon I actually want--a flamethrower that gains more range/dps with higher quality fuels.

[whole ermine]

Do the ficsmas skins stay across saves?

[sullen gull]

I feel like "Keep Equipment" is default? (Can't recall)

[true mulch]

Nothing persists between saves

[strange marsh]

Honestly thank you all for the advice, I was stressing out for a minute

[sullen gull]

What you've built will stay. It will just stop producing

[golden nexus]

Death crate is default, you have to turn keep on

[whole drum]

I think so, but you want Keep Everything so you can't lose spheres/sloops/drives, etc

[true mulch]

I also recommend just making new saves as you go instead of overwriting. If you just save without a name, it puts a timestamp

[sullen gull]

Yeah/no, that part I am aware and also do.

[fluid rapids]

whats it mean when you download a blueprint and it only loads a few pieces and the rest are just invisable, or not even there.

[eager harbor]

BRO INTERACTIVE MAP CRASHED FOR THE 100TH TIME THIS SUCKS

[whole drum]

This is almost required for Bethesda games as overwriting saves eventually corrupts them. Most other games aren't like that, in my experience.

[sullen gull]

There is only Keep Nothing, Keep Equipment, and Keep everything.. .I believe the Keep Quipment is the default setting.

[whole drum]

Then don't use it

[sullen gull]

Or go to their Discord and ask for help? 🤷‍♂️

[whole drum]

Don't know why it would be crashing though. It works fine for me on my PC and on my phone.

[fluid rapids]

i downloaded 20 bluepritns and only 2 fully load 🙁

[whole drum]

Maybe you're missing parts that belong in them?

[true mulch]

I've never played any Bethesda games, but I have a few friends who are big Skyrim/Fallout fans and hearing bits of information like this will never not be funny

[fluid rapids]

nope i have em all

[zenith sage]

Version mismatch? 🤔

[fluid rapids]

could be

i need to update

[true mulch]

How are you playing an outdated version

Both Epic and Steam force an update

[sullen gull]

With the blueprints, what files do you have? the .sbp and the sbpfg? Also, did you put them in the correct folder and reload the game?

[sullen gull]

Arrrre Matey! 😏

[fluid rapids]

i lost my steam pass word 🙁

it wont update unless i use the steam account i got it on

[whole drum]

Definitely sounds legit 😏

[scenic mirage]

steam support is very helpful

[fluid rapids]

this is a whole other issue im dealing with now. 🙁 thanks for the help.

[sullen gull]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-fascinating-interesting-fake-sure-gif-7626995

[fluid rapids]

ill try to fix this 😉

i might have to call steam directly 🙁 pain in the ubtt

[scenic mirage]

goddamn nuclear plants are so massive

[hollow bay]

why does my truck not move

[scenic mirage]

does it have fuel

[sullen gull]

Is the auto drive on?

[zenith sage]

Architecture (or just pillars) don't make the blueprint maker angry when leaving borders..? 🤔
#screenshots message

[hollow bay]

yea it is

[hollow bay]

it does

[sullen gull]

Are you in it?

[hollow bay]

currently yea but I wasn't a few seconds ago

[sullen gull]

If so, hop out. If you've recorded a route and are on autodrive.

[hollow bay]

I did just hop out again n set everything

[sullen gull]

If there is a route recorded, there is fuel in the vheicle, autodrive is on, and you are not in the vheicle, afaik it "should" take off. But, it can also be block if there is a vehicle in it's path maybe? Also could try a reload 🤷‍♂️

Also, be sure the pause at the station isn't set to a really long time? 🤷‍♂️

[hollow bay]

everything's like that n I deleted the other 2

[hollow bay]

60 seconds is fine right?

[fluid rapids]

man i love these nukes

[hollow bay]

just tried reloading still doesn't work