satisfactory

[mystic crag]

Yeah, I also think I might need 2 trains instead of 1

Since I'm transporting it like 5 km

[cyan leaf]

Nahh just make it long

[mystic crag]

From thr furthest left to furtherest righr bauxite

[mystic crag]

Already have 4 cargo containers

[cyan leaf]

Just add moreeee

Also what biome u doing it on?

[mystic crag]

Wdym what biome

Its every bauxite on the map

All of it

[feral jay]

Grasslands? Rocky Desert? Norther Forest? etc

[feral jay]

ohhhh you're moving ALL the bauxite on the map to a central location?

[mystic crag]

Yeah

[feral jay]

That's... ambitious

[cyan leaf]

Ohhh

[mystic crag]

So from Red Jungle to Swamp, all of those Bauxite

[cyan leaf]

Yeah that bitch is needing more then 2 trains then lol

[feral jay]

You gonna need ten trains probably for that

[cyan leaf]

Ughh I wanna travel to the other starting points to make mega factories but idk any good travelling methods 😭

[feral jay]

I'm thinking... I'm thinking... I think, maybe, I could do it with five trains

[mystic crag]

4 stops, each stop has one cargo container, so my train has 4

Stop one has 2 pure 1 normal, stop two has 2 pure 2 normal 1 impure, stop three has 2 impure 1 normal 1 pure, stop four has 2 impure 2 normal 1 pure. The fifth stop is so that I can drop them all off in the ocean, cause it needs a lot of fucking water

1 train, 4 cargo containers, each stop only fills one cargo container for that stop

[cyan leaf]

Wait why not make ur thing at the ocean so u dont have to make so many stpps?

[mystic crag]

Fifth stop is the ocean

[feral jay]

@mystic crag is there a question, or are you just talking/bragging about the project in general (nothing wrong with bragging about a project like that)

[mystic crag]

The stops are so the cargo containers can be filled, so 5 stations

[feral jay]

I brag about my insane power grid, to be fiar

[mystic crag]

No I am trying to finish it, I already got the train finally

I dont have enough power to finish it either way, only 4,800 MW😭

[feral jay]

I'm gonna hit my limit with this battery plant I'm building

[mystic crag]

I'm using geysers for power at the moment

[feral jay]

I'll build a 300/min battery plant I said, it would be fun, I said...

[mystic crag]

Just for the train system

Build it twin

[feral jay]

However, my drones will be powered forever

[mystic crag]

Take 30 hours to build it

It took me 6 or 7 to make that long train, surprisingly

[feral jay]

Oh, so the bauxite buildout is mostly for the purpose of building out a good train system, but a train system with a purpose

Yeah I get that

[mystic crag]

The freaking spiders are scaring the crap out of me

[feral jay]

Homing ammo, spray&pray and learn how to feather the spacebar to avoid the jumps

[cyan leaf]

Hmm how many nodes is enough for iron ingots stuff?

[feral jay]

All of them (stupid answer)

For just construction materials, two or three is more than you'll likely need

[cyan leaf]

Im only asking as I wanna do what they are doing but not as extreme (like just using a single starting point area worth of iron nodes]

[cyan leaf]

No I wanna do mega factory scale cause I never done one before and it looks cool asf

[feral jay]

I'd love to do a megafactory, my GPU can't handle it

[forest nova]

I've kinda given up on the idea of building train tracks from all nodes back to my main base so im building little mini iron factories everywhere i need a different resource. just depends how you play probably

[feral jay]

THere's some awesome blueprints out there for "basic construction stuff", so like a few plates/rods/concrete and stuff, I use some that I made myself here and there

Plop down a blueprint and I have all the plates and concrete I need for a while

[cyan leaf]

Lol can relate but its annoying asf to collect em 😭

[forest nova]

yeah im still on first playthrough tho so havent been using blueprints

[mystic crag]

What tiers you gotta do rn?

[forest nova]

true enough

[feral jay]

They change everything

[mystic crag]

Blueprints are the most useful thing,

[forest nova]

3+

[feral jay]

Especially now that they autoconnect

[cyan leaf]

I feel like bp are good for repeating stuff other then that not so much

[feral jay]

Yes, that's their entire purpose, to take some of the mundane monotony out of the game

[cyan leaf]

😭 issue is everything i make are 1 off so I have no need of it

[feral jay]

Things start to change when you get to the point of placing a hundred constructors down, they make that a lot faster

[cyan leaf]

Fair but I like to manually do stuff so ik where somerhing messed up

[feral jay]

#screenshots message those ten constructors are a blueprint with about half of the work of hooking them up already done

The other great thing about blueprints is that I know those contructors are hooked up right, because I've used that blueprint before, found a booboo, and gone back and fixed it

lol it's like writing repeatable code

Oh damn this plan produces 990/min copper wire and that's more than a Mk.5 belt

poop

[mystic crag]

Not perfectly split💔

I make mine so that they all split perfectly

[feral jay]

Lies, all my work is perfect. I am the very measure of perfection. The very model of a modern major general.

[mystic crag]

Edited😭

Bro is not perfection

[feral jay]

If it wasn't perfect before I built it, it is after, because all my work is perfect, by definition.

[feral jay]

I blame that on the wine.

[mystic crag]

Yeah I don't drink

[feral jay]

That's awesome

[mystic crag]

So 2 trains for mk2 and 4 trains for mk3

No overclock or else I need more cargo containers

[cyan leaf]

How long to get from lets say rocky desert to the desert starting are?

[feral jay]

By which method of transportation?

[cyan leaf]

By jetpack and striders (the leg equipment)

[feral jay]

You can do that in a minute or two with the right sprint+slide+jump+feather the jetpack

[cyan leaf]

Thay seems so short of a distance to clear 😭 I feel like im being baited

[feral jay]

You might need to land and relaunch once or twice, but with the jetpack, it would be pretty quick

You could also just build a very, very high ladder, and use a parachute

[cyan leaf]

But aren't the starting points really far from each other tho?

[feral jay]

The world is big, but once you know a few transportation tricks, it gets much smaller

[cyan leaf]

Okay from rocky desert which direction is desert? Up down or right?

[feral jay]

Looking at a map where north is up? The dune desert is on the right, with the northern forest in between them

[nova ridge]

wow teleport requires singularity]

[coral marsh]

Looking for 1 specific alt recipe is harder than it sounds lol

9 hard drives so far and I havent gotten it

[coral marsh]

Yup, though they arent hard to make

[feral jay]

No, that's just the RNG gods being angry with you

[nova ridge]

need to automate it tho hm

i guess yeah almost have it

[coral marsh]

If you're into using mods there is one that makes 24 per minute, bolted singularity cells, handy

I believe the mod is called "tier 9 alternates"

[nova ridge]

oh i need it for alient power matrix anyways

[coral marsh]

Yup

[nova ridge]

how many alient power augmenters do u run 1? 2? its quite expensive on the sumersloop

[coral marsh]

The vanilla ways to make them are by using ficsonium which requires, plutonium waste, which requires uranium waste

[coral marsh]

Before I deleted 170 hours on my main save to restart from phase 4, I ran 5 with alien power matrices

Gabe me a 180% boost in power

But you only need like 1-3, 4-7 if you want to use all your sloops

[nova ridge]

sorry whats the numbers mean?

[coral marsh]

A single APA will boost your power by 10%, give it APM and it'll jump to 30% each

If you have say 5 of the matrix machines down thats a 50% boost in power output.
Supply them with the right item and that 50% jumps to 180%

[nova ridge]

how many supersloop in map

[coral marsh]

Like, 1-200

[nova ridge]

oh ok

ive only found 15 or so

[coral marsh]

Yea there's plenty but each machine requires 10

[simple stream]

can someone join my world and help me with my block signals

[coral marsh]

#1201555265942724758

[coral marsh]

Dont worry about until you know you can set everything up efficiently without using sloops in machines

[nova ridge]

well im already finshed with the game other than deciding what my endgame is

[coral marsh]

Stick with power shards and try for efficiency, if you need the extra power, thats when you place down the alien power augmenter

[nova ridge]

just trying to get all the upgrades

im at 71gw but someone said need 120gw for best efficiency with the alient

[coral marsh]

Yup

That sounds right

I FINALLY GOT IT

I got the alt recipe I needed

[nova ridge]

nice

[fluid crow]

I been finding lots of sloops out here building railways

[feral jay]

I have every recipe available except sloppy alumina and electrode scrap because I just picked those two out

Four or five drives in a box by the MAM waiting to be researched because I was out of recipes to roll

[coral marsh]

Im gonna be making so manu supercomputers now lol

[nova ridge]

need an alternate copper ingot hm

[feral jay]

I'm a huge fan of pure copper

[nova ridge]

i guess havent found yet

[coral marsh]

Pure copper is the best one

[feral jay]

Almost 3x the copper, you just need water

[nova ridge]

would b enice

[coral marsh]

Guess its time for you to go hard drive exploring

[feral jay]

It does limit where you can use it, because you need water

It forces you to centralize copper ingot production

[nova ridge]

yeah i could. i found a nearby copper node for now for copper powder

[cyan leaf]

Ughh your to setup all nodes for transport fff

[nova ridge]

can you waste a harddrive if you dont use up your reward?

[feral jay]

If you don't pick out a reward, it'll just sit there in the "hard drive library" for later use

You can use it at any time later

[nova ridge]

maybe its just me but i felt like once or twice i did a harddrive and i got no reards

but i had 10-12 unchosen rewards.

[feral jay]

It can happen if there's no recipes available to unlock, but I think you get the drive back in that case

Never happened to me, the last drive I researched only gave me one option instead of two, but that's as close I've got

[nova ridge]

i see

well i wont worry about it for now

[feral jay]

Actually, I can check for you, I just gotta run back to base

WOuld take 20 or 30 minutes

I'm curious too

[fluid crow]

I been pretty exploration heavy idk if I ever get done scanning the drives

[slender quest]

You can do it quite freely, actually.
Find a drive
Make sure the enemies are not around
Build MAM
Start drive scanning
Dismantle MAM, the scanning of drive will continue while you do other things. No need to wait until the scan is finished.

[feral jay]

No, the question was, what if you scan a drive, and all the recipes are already unlocked?

[slender quest]

It will be returned to you, with the message of "no rewards available".

[feral jay]

Pretty sure it's something like that yeah

LMFAO my wife just walked past the office, I had the game on one screen, a planner on another, and a spreadsheet on another. "Holy shit I married a nerd"...

[coral marsh]

🤣🤣

W wife

[fiery gull]

Damn that is such a W wife lol

[fluid crow]

fr acting surprised

[feral jay]

Okay I had to look up "W wife", and I'm not that old lol

[fiery gull]

I completed Tier 0 of the HUB 🎉

[feral jay]

yes, my wife is awesome

something something nothing can ever compare to knowing that you will never face anything alone...

My nerdy videogames being a notable exception, she doesn't get it

Hey yanno what's missing from the game? A YELP! when I shoot a doggo in the butt to get it move out of the way

[coral marsh]

🤣🤣

[nova ridge]

what are your post game goals?

[coral marsh]

Also, Blueprint making is a lot more fun than I thought, im making every blueprint needed for the OC supercomputer Alt recipe. Going smoothly and nicely

[feral jay]

Exploit massage to the point that I suppress all creature spawns

[nova ridge]

lol

[feral jay]

Wait 'till you start hooking up those blueprints. It's almost...poetic, seeing plans like that come to fruition

[nova ridge]

i guess it'd be nice to blurpint to make things look pretier

[feral jay]

Well until you find the bugs in your blueprints

[nova ridge]

can your blueprints connect to each other easily?

[coral marsh]

Oh im aware, I just gotta pick a place to place them all

[feral jay]

yes

[coral marsh]

There is "auto connect (blueprints)"

On pc press and hold or press it till it shows up

[feral jay]

Well not easily, blueprint autoconnect is NOT explained well, but when you get it, holy shit

[nova ridge]

omg that feeling when you randomly have radio control unit droned up nearby already lol

[fluid crow]

I only have 34 hard drives I'll be caught up in no time

[nova ridge]

just need 340 min

[feral jay]

Hey protip: conveyor poles can stack on top of hypertube or pipe poles

Or vice versa, they can all stack on each other, all the poles

[coral marsh]

Yea but the stackable conveyor poles are wide enough to fit a pipe through them so you dont need to constantly stack them on top of each other

[rugged fiber]

you can stack ceiling conveyor poles also FYI 🙂

[feral jay]

wait wut

Ohh the ones that look like stackable poles, but on the ceiling

shit I've never used that feature

[fluid crow]

is a U shaped bracket

[coral marsh]

First time I ever use the quartz purification alt recipe

[feral jay]

I use ceiling poles all the time, but never stacked them

[fiery gull]

Whazgoinonhere

[feral jay]

My wife is awesome and I'm bragging about that

[fiery gull]

Epicent

[feral jay]

In other news, I'm putting the finishing touches on a 300/min battery plant

[fiery gull]

whazablurprint? (my brain is no bc of satisfactory override)

[feral jay]

You're fired.

[fluid crow]

is liquid bio good for anything besides jetpack? the stuffs really starting to pile up

[fiery gull]

How can I be friered?

[feral jay]

Not much, I stockpile it as a bcakup to my backup of backups for emergency power generation

[fiery gull]

My stroke had a stroke reading that

[feral jay]

But for the jetpack, it can't be beat imo

[fluid crow]

guess I don't need to sloop it anymore

[feral jay]

Oh no, sloop it. StocIf for no other reason than just in case

Slooping biofiel at every step nets you like 8x the fuel

But don't take it from me, I stockpiled ten million ficsmas gifts

[fluid crow]

it does give you a lot 😵‍💫

[slender quest]

Don't sloop it, wildlife must be hunted regularly!

[feral jay]

And it always is, but I still want more biofuel

[fluid crow]

I send them to the shreder I want them tickets

[short fiber]

Going into phase three should there be any materials that I should be mass producing? Like encased steel

[feral jay]

I leave little stockpiles around the map to power hypertube junctions... just in case

Because hoofing it back by foot after a power failure really sucks

I also keep all my hypertubes on their own circuit, so I can do that

[nova ridge]

wow need so much copper powder

[slender quest]

Steel pipes, plastic, rubber. Depends on your production.
If you use certain alt recipes - petroleum coke (works for fighting myproduct buildup as well).
For railway building better have steel beams.

[feral jay]

Copper powder is the evil that trumps quickwire, and quickwire is the evil that trumps screws

[nova ridge]

i stopped making trains after i got drones. now i'd rather use mk6 than trains lol

[tranquil saffron]

factories in usa could use as much as 50,000 tons of copper next year ... lets go 🥵

[fluid crow]

is that a lot?

[tranquil saffron]

it seems like a lot 😂

[sterile blade]

That's almost as much as a Pure node

[feral jay]

The joke I think is that copper prices have fluctuated wildly over the decades

It's... interesting, that I know that the price of copper tends to track the price of RAM

But it makes sense

[tranquil saffron]

copper prices are pretty boring, just a slow steady climb

databases, AI, cars all that stuff

[sterile blade]

Keep the sad reality facts to #off-topic-general, we're here to be Satisfactoried

[feral jay]

All my fault

[sterile blade]

To the shame plaza with you!
The doggos shall decide your fate

[feral jay]

I'm building out a huge battery plant and then I realized "aw fuck I haven't belted in the aluminium yet", so I went off an adventure to do that, and then got distracted with random conversations here

[cyan leaf]

Is contacted steel ingots good?

[sterile blade]

I think I'm doing the opposite, as I get stuck here anytime I think about maybe opening the game... Instead I end up "backseat gaming" a bit and that's all 😅

[feral jay]

See... drones. Drones are the next hump I need to get over, and I like batteries for fuel, so I"m building a huge battery plant

[cyan leaf]

Quite literally everything with electricity 😭

[sterile blade]

"Good" is subjective. Since I don't know you and your subjective preferences, I can only say that it has its pros and cons like any other recipe ^^

[feral jay]

This plant gonna be 330/min, which is twice as much as I've ever needed before, I just wanted to go REALLY big this time

[tranquil saffron]

the only sad reality here is how many of y'all are toiling grinding 6 dollar a pound virtual copper, while i give myself anything with cheats and build factory paradises

[feral jay]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=d30LUkVsiuF3M82uK96v

[feral jay]

That's why creative mode exists

[tranquil saffron]

to make me a chosen, an elite

i do like being able to learn all kinds of manufacturing and power production at a much faster rate

[feral jay]

Do not quote the old tales to me. I was there when they were first told

[tranquil saffron]

when i see y'all showing your massive factories, with a hoverpack, and not flying ... i gasp, and i cringe a little too

[sterile blade]

When I see your lack of sushi, I shudder and smh my helmet

[feral jay]

When I see a chainsaw... it begs; It begs to exploit - to consume

[tranquil saffron]

you know what i want? i want a gun that shoots the different colored plasma from those alien dog things ... the animations on that are so cool

[fluid crow]

you have to admire a chainsaw that runs on trees

[feral jay]

Yep the only chainsaw in any game I've ever played that can't run on... fuel

[sterile blade]

Tbf, it takes "less" than fuel
Biomass is just very, very, very fresh Crude Oil (which is what we make Fuel with)...

[tranquil saffron]

for some reason i don't think we will be powering massive factories and powertools with leaves... i think we will probably use stuff like fusion

i want to see someone make an entirely biofuel powered factory

[fluid crow]

I think burning algae or something or heat from chemical reactions is possible

[sterile blade]

Crude oil is to biomass what soy sauce is to soy

[feral jay]

I've done that for shits and giggles

Just powered a whole array of accelerators off a biofuel plant, because why the hell else am I storing all this biofuel, if not to have fun?

[tranquil saffron]

i mean to be sad reality, if you had a space elevator, solar power would be a minor trifle, and would give you 24/7 power

[leaden turret]

-# rubber is tofu

[feral jay]

Well

[tranquil saffron]

i think solar panels would be a sweet addition to this game

[feral jay]

Solar power would break the game, but hear me out

[tranquil saffron]

not really, you wouldn't even be getting 24/7 power generation

[leaden turret]

photovoltaic solar = free energy = antithetical to design goals
molten solar = not so free energy cos water / salt

[feral jay]

Imagine if we could have solar, but only if we sent up a reflector first, and that reflector needed resources

[nova orbit]

A space elevator's destination would have to be in geosychronous orbit, meaning Earth would block it from the sun for some period of time every day.

[leaden turret]

"but panels could get dusty and you'd have to clean them" you might say...

factory maintenance is antithetical to design goals

[tranquil saffron]

ya thats why u have solar satellies 😂

[feral jay]

It could provide a way to power remote locations, but not for free

[tranquil saffron]

and well, like permanent structures and things

[feral jay]

But really I think it;d be too much, the game is great without solar/wind/hydroelectric

[leaden turret]

hydro electric power has limited places one could build turbines

[cyan leaf]

Is roughly over 3000 iron good for steel production?

[tranquil saffron]

wind power 😂 maybe on an alien planet with more wind 😭

[feral jay]

Yes and geothermal serves the exact same purpose

[leaden turret]

yeah, except geothermal is relatively weedy

[cyan leaf]

But hydro is more easy to setup and run compared to thermal

[leaden turret]

dams be huge: https://communityhighlights.satisfactory.video/meta-search/?q=dam

[feral jay]

This game should not have any kind of resource free power, and I'll die on that hill.

[fluid crow]

hydro power does seem like a missed opportunity in the game

[feral jay]

Even geothermal, I could live without it

[cyan leaf]

Fax we are aunties choice sla..employees we dont like that renewable stuff to expensive

[leaden turret]

looks at building added in 1.0

[fluid crow]

I guess encouraging people to make 1,000,000 pipes for power is a bad idea

[leaden turret]

-# deliberately misread as butt hydro

[feral jay]

ehhh, the augmenter? that's a boost it's not resource free. I don't use the augmenters mush, but I do use them

[leaden turret]

build it, get 500mw free capacity

[feral jay]

Hey look now folks — to produce anything in this game, you must consume something first, with the exception of raw ore. I like that design decision.

Also, #unpolularopinion but the game's music sucks ass

[leaden turret]

u wot mate

[feral jay]

Even with all the tapes

[leaden turret]

[insert disparaging comment about celine dione and rush]

[feral jay]

I see what you did there

[fluid crow]

the minuscule amount of power is worth it just to feel like you're getting one over on the system 😼

jk I haven't bothered yet but ig they would start to add up

[cyan leaf]

Looolll butt

[feral jay]

Oh look, two more beans that just refuse to move

breaks out the turbo ammo

[fluid crow]

better fumigate

[sterile blade]

JuSt DoN't BuIlD iT tHeN

[fluid crow]

that one had a family

[feral jay]

ADA has stopped chiding me, I've killed too many now

[reef basin]

DM is fine, or SFTools discord

[feral jay]

lol I'd probably have joined that server, but you've done such a fine job that Ihaven't had any problem complicated enough to need to ask a question there

[tranquil saffron]

ADA gives major GLaDOS vibes with the condescending tone 😂

[eager oar]

Woohoo 🥳 I finally got to Phase 4

First time ever getting this far 🙂

[feral jay]

I love that this game has a Big Red Button

[ashen belfry]

It's kinda nice to have in the beginning.
Just so you can start your power again in case it goes down. But after some time it just gets useless

[feral jay]

Well not if you run your poer grid like I do, I have worldwide geothermal grid, it does nothing but just basically idle and charge storages, unless I need it to kickstart/bootstrap something

(/bragging)

[tranquil saffron]

so if i wanted to play my game with someone, i'm assuming i should use the "Steam" session type instead of IP?

[feral jay]

If you're looking to just join a gane like online chess, I would assume so

[toxic lichen]

so like

say my copper node is 200m away
do i just
have a long ass conveyor or is there a more
clean method than spaghetti

[limpid cairn]

Ragebait

[tranquil saffron]

just to have someone visit my world

[limpid cairn]

Conveyor is the only option

[feral jay]

Build your conveyor belts like you expect more will come

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

that sounds ominous

[limpid cairn]

Also 200m isn’t a lot

[feral jay]

fair

[limpid cairn]

I have a conveyor belt going across the map for uranium

[tranquil saffron]

the music is good, there just isn't enough of it before it starts looping

[feral jay]

200m is nothing

[toxic lichen]

theres a bit of verticality
So building it is gonna be a small pain e'-e'

lowk havent figured out how to adjust the conveyor pole heights

[feral jay]

More I think that Coffee Stain just really needs to hire a good composer or two

[valid timber]

hypertubs are so finicky with blueprints!

may just do it manually.

[fluid crow]

I think all the tapes are pretty great

I probably have more to discover

[feral jay]

Blueprints are life. If you don't use blueprints like I do, you're playing the game wrong, and you're fired.

[leaden turret]

they did

[leaden turret]

-# reads typo and imagines a 4-dimensional bathtub

[feral jay]

Well, I don't like the music in this game, it gets very old, very fast.

[leaden turret]

only if you don't go anywhere

[fluid crow]

I'm jamming out to some sanctum rn

[feral jay]

Sanctum 2 is my favorite

[fluid crow]

also think it crazy they have a huntdown tape lol

Is one of the best imitations of a classic arcade game

[feral jay]

<--- grew up with Mario 3

[ashen belfry]

I had a few thousand storages and loads of fluid buffers with generators behind it ready to use in case I need it.
But you need the storages themselves to make geothermal useful and you could do that just by disconnecting the storages if they are full

[valid timber]

truth super nova

[valid timber]

I do want to use them because i will not be manually setting up a hypertube network to my steel pipe factory but im trying to figure out how to make it as time saving as possible

[vocal sparrow]

Is this game worth buying?

[valid timber]

and spacing saving... and as not against the laws of physics

[valid timber]

Heavily depends on what you enjoy! But youre asking in the games server so youre going to get a lot of 'yes'

[ashen belfry]

Honest answer
If you want to have time for other things, no.
Game addicting as fuck

[feral jay]

You're in a Discord with a few playera with a few thousand hours

[native tapir]

Unbiased answer?

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

[cyan leaf]

Ughh pls kill me i hate setting up these conversations 😤

[vocal sparrow]

I like Destruction, blood, suffering, pain, doom.

[valid timber]

You can do that

[vocal sparrow]

Chaos.

[toxic lichen]

indeed you can

[valid timber]

if you automate bombs

[vocal sparrow]

Ok

[toxic lichen]

have you seen Lets Game It Out's videos on satisfactory?

[valid timber]

dont utter his name i fear my game will lag

[toxic lichen]

</3

[feral jay]

There are horrifyingly realistic spiders, but.. they're not the point of the game

[native tapir]

Sweet. I didn't know you had a discord. I'll be right over

[valid timber]

arachnophobia mode makes the spiders worse.

[toxic lichen]

i went into a cave
ive never run so fast in my life ;-;

[vocal sparrow]

Ok

[valid timber]

wow my spelling today!

[feral jay]

Nor did I, do you have an invite?

[valid timber]

Does anyone have a simple hypertube.. pole design thing I can try replicate

doesn't need to carry power or belts or anything but itd be nice if it auto connected

[native tapir]

It's on the website. And when I clicked join I found out I am already a member but never accepted the rules lmao

[toxic lichen]

does uhm
the game have some sort of
resource hub type thing
or do i need tto run around grabbing all the bits and bobs i need

[fluid crow]

that all sounds like factory stuff

[feral jay]

Dear Doug: thank you, I have received the invite on the website you referenced. Thank you.

-- @feral jay

[gloomy tusk]

i have woken

[toxic lichen]

do you speak for the trees?

[feral jay]

I haven't slept.

[gloomy tusk]

hey a new person that knows me

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

[ashen belfry]

Yeah kinda.
It's a cloud system where you can depot stuff and take from
You can deposit automatically, but not withdraw automatically

[toxic lichen]

hmmmm
better than nothing

[gloomy tusk]

you might want to look into this thing called a bed

if you want to maximise efficency you must sleep

[feral jay]

Oh, I sleep

[toxic lichen]

assume the game really opens up once i make the space elevator

1500 copper wire tho ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

nah its actually not important

[feral jay]

Oh, mny sweet summer child...

[gloomy tusk]

you have played most of the game already

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

[fluid crow]

that's right many more exciting tasks await!

[toxic lichen]

oh lord

and im still complaining about a 200m conveyor belt ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

is that supposed to be big?

[toxic lichen]

also
i can automate the crafting of bio fuel
but what about like
getting itt on mass to power my stuff

using my grabby hands takes a second
crafting takes a while

[fluid crow]

as a pioneer you're going to have to transport resources much further than that

[toxic lichen]

i know about the chainsaw e'-e'
but that isnt
automated e'-e'

[feral jay]

Crafting is bad. Automate everything

[gloomy tusk]

No

DO NOT use biofuel

it stinks

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

[gloomy tusk]

what does this mean

[toxic lichen]

oh right
living up to the name

[toxic lichen]

is crab e'-'e

[gloomy tusk]

no im playing satisfactory there is no way to help the environment and play this game

[toxic lichen]

im js a baby ;-;
i need my bio fuel

[feral jay]

Hey I found out tonight what a W wife is, apparently I have one

[gloomy tusk]

use coal

[gloomy tusk]

you got kids?

[toxic lichen]

where e'-e'
havent unlocked nodes if they exist

[gloomy tusk]

oh

tier 3 i think

im on tier 8 right now

[fluid crow]

you have to build a space elevator

[gloomy tusk]

no you dont

its not important trust

[gloomy tusk]

what did she do

[feral jay]

trust

[gloomy tusk]

[toxic lichen]

man
i gotta build this fuck ass 200m conveyor then ;-;

aint no way im making 750 copper ingots by hand

[gloomy tusk]

oh young one

i wish i could go back to being this naive

[cyan leaf]

Lol try organising 9 nodes into one spot before making a train line then come back 😭

[toxic lichen]

i do love automating tho

its always worth it in the end

[feral jay]

She walked by the office when I had three screens with the game and a planner and a spreadsheet all open, and commented "Holy fuck, I married a hot nerd"

[gloomy tusk]

i just automated super computers 5/min

[toxic lichen]

is your wife willing to share e'-e'

[gloomy tusk]

thats a nice wife you got there

[cyan leaf]

Rookie numbers ss

[gloomy tusk]

you want to see it?

[feral jay]

Just don't tell her that, it'll get to her head

[gloomy tusk]

i fucking HATE trains so i have a 2000m conveyer belt bringing me more caterium

[toxic lichen]

just make a conveyor belt tornado ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

oh let me just message her with the contact info i got from my brain

[feral jay]

Trains are life man. Running train tracks is... cathartic

[toxic lichen]

also
Do we get bigger storage unit thingys ;-;
2400 in 1 feels
small ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

im not lgio

[toxic lichen]

you can be tho

[gloomy tusk]

@feral jay are we seeing this

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

[gloomy tusk]

dimensional depots are your greatest friends

[toxic lichen]

hmmmmmmmmmm

hold on
lemme
build this stupid conveyor belt rq

[gloomy tusk]

research them in the mam this instant

[feral jay]

It's a fair question

But no, we don't

[gloomy tusk]

YES YOU DO

[toxic lichen]

also
ive collected 3
blue slug boys
what do ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

omg son use the mam

[cyan leaf]

Lol ngl everything can be better then my 10per min one l

[toxic lichen]

i dont have it yet ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

isn't it a base item?

[feral jay]

You eat them

[gloomy tusk]

no i thought you turned them into uranium supe mercer sloops

[toxic lichen]

tier 2 unlock
which needs
copper ;-;

i need to stop procrastinating this shit

[cyan leaf]

Ohh tier 2 is such a pain😭

[feral jay]

2?

Oh wow

[toxic lichen]

tier 1, my mistake

can i mass upgrade conveyors to tier 2
or manually replace them

thinking i may as well run tier 2s

[cyan leaf]

Dude im om phase 4

[feral jay]

Huge thing they haven't added yet, there is no mass conveyor upgrade

[toxic lichen]

;-;

im gonna stab someone

seems a little silly that rods craft slower than plates

[feral jay]

bans @toxic lichen for promoting violence

[toxic lichen]

sigh

[feral jay]

(joke)

[toxic lichen]

conveyor made ;-;

[gloomy tusk]

how much

[toxic lichen]

oh right, i need to power this stuff as well

[toxic lichen]

its like 150 ingots, 300 wires

[gloomy tusk]

is that a challenge?

like im not trying to sound mean i just would like to know

[toxic lichen]

btw
whats with those big stinky looking
things around the map

[gloomy tusk]

fart rocks or beans

[toxic lichen]

without a smelter set up
mildly tedious

[gloomy tusk]

do they damage you

[toxic lichen]

looks like
rocks

[toxic lichen]

yur

[gloomy tusk]

they are fart rocks

[toxic lichen]

they seem to have
despawned tho

[gloomy tusk]

they suck you should blow them up

[gloomy tusk]

now im very confused

they dont just despawn

[toxic lichen]

wait no, wrong place

[fluid crow]

stink flowers

[toxic lichen]

lemme find them again

[gloomy tusk]

they are worse

because they arent obvious

[toxic lichen]

found em

[fluid crow]

once you have gas masks they help kill your enemies (except spiders)

[toxic lichen]

images allowed here?
or needs to go in the ss channel

[gloomy tusk]

screenshots

those are fart rocks

[toxic lichen]

ah i see

[gloomy tusk]

they stink (quite literally)

[toxic lichen]

thinking i should invest in a chainsaw right about now

i need some thneeds

[gloomy tusk]

no

[toxic lichen]

</3

running around is generally "safe" yes?

[gloomy tusk]

#screenshots message

[feral jay]

This is the only channel where images aren't allowed.

[gloomy tusk]

3 floored supercomputer factory i just finished @toxic lichen

[toxic lichen]

lemme see

[toxic lichen]

i have no idea
what any of that is

also the MAM stuff i research
would i only need 1 of each or is there like
a quantity req

[gloomy tusk]

you need multiple for different things

[toxic lichen]

3 slugs not enough?

[gloomy tusk]

would you like me to launch satisfactory and show you some cool stuff

[gloomy tusk]

yes to unlock powershards not at all for future factory management

HARD DRIVES

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'

[gloomy tusk]

They are so useful

[toxic lichen]

the, thingy i just posted in ss?

[gloomy tusk]

you unlock alternate recipes for items

[gloomy tusk]

open the box

[toxic lichen]

hold on, i saw a slug

[rugged jasper]

Good morning 🥱 ☕

[gloomy tusk]

goodnight

[toxic lichen]

Free resources?? for the taking?

dont mind if i do

[gloomy tusk]

GET THE HARD DRIVE

[toxic lichen]

i need to power the mf man

[gloomy tusk]

also could you send an ss of where your base is

i can give you some tips

[toxic lichen]

DOG

[gloomy tusk]

kill it

[toxic lichen]

mercer sphere

[gloomy tusk]

im joking

[toxic lichen]

hmmmmmmm

[gloomy tusk]

mercer SPHERE IS SO GOOD

[toxic lichen]

idk what half this shit is but im taking it home

[gloomy tusk]

one sec

im in a match

ok

here is my ranking of usefulness

[toxic lichen]

killed a spitter thing

[rugged jasper]

It's very useful for later in-game 👍

[toxic lichen]

i love bbeing a noob once more
its refreshing

[gloomy tusk]

1. Sommersloop
2. Mercer sphere
3. Hard drives
4. power slugs
   (my own ranking other peoples may differ and even your own)

[gloomy tusk]

i wish i could go back to that simplicity

[sterile blade]

Envies in silence...

[gloomy tusk]

now im dealing with nuclear pasta

[gloomy tusk]

name change?

[toxic lichen]

why does solid bio fuel take so long to craft
this is silly

[gloomy tusk]

coal power

[toxic lichen]

shhhh

[gloomy tusk]

hey guess what

this game is about factorys

[toxic lichen]

ik ik

also
is there power storage
or js
keep shit running 24/7 to power everything

[gloomy tusk]

wym power will power even if there is nothing to power

[cyan leaf]

Boyss i need ur opinon should I do stories or just make my platform wider?

[gloomy tusk]

but there is power storage

[toxic lichen]

like
Say i run out of fuel

got some sort of
battery running stuff when its offline

[gloomy tusk]

stories

wider platform leads to lack of space whereas building up is fine

[toxic lichen]

is there a heightt limit?

[fluid crow]

I like my factories wide

[toxic lichen]

moto moto?

[gloomy tusk]

yes

but its like very high up

i just realised this guy doesn't know about hypertubes

anyway imma go

[toxic lichen]

i do e'-e'

lgio silly stuff

[gloomy tusk]

i have a hypertube cannon faster then his

it is the fastest possible hypertube cannon you can make

[sterile blade]

One's Discord "nickname" can be freely set in any server allowing it ^^
(The actual username stays the same ofc)

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message
I need help please in the customizer. 🙏

[sterile blade]

Isn't the red just the "secondary color" of the swatch?

[toxic lichen]

wait
can you only have 1 miner per node?
seems a bit
little

[fluid crow]

you need a bigger miner

[sterile blade]

One automated miner. Portable ones can be placed freely

[toxic lichen]

yes thems

the portables a just throw around and forget

[sterile blade]

Eh, I'd say the automated one is "throw down and forget", the portable ones need to be emptied by hand 😅

[toxic lichen]

what i mean is

i didnt automate copper
So i just threw like 10 portables down
so at least i know
i have copper somewhere (if i remember where i put em)

im big brain

[sterile blade]

They can give you ore much faster than automated miners, for sure (early on)
Just need to manage them

[toxic lichen]

btw
are there bigger smelters
30/min is
slow

[sterile blade]

No, miners are the only production machines with multiple versions (MK1, MK2...)

But exploration can help unlock more "powerful" ways to make the same things 😉

[toxic lichen]

hmmmmmmmmmmm

also how far can a power pole connect from?

dont wanna make a bajillion rn

[sterile blade]

Just stretch a power line from one, it turns red when you're too far (or lacking building materials; the on-screen tips will say what the issue is)

[toxic lichen]

i see

copper
automated

yipee

[rugged jasper]

I tried everything, but it changes all the pipe to the 1st color chosen in the customizer, I can't figure out how to split the colors on the pipes.

[finite mirage]

just unlocked oil processing but dk what to do

[rugged jasper]

but if copy with MMB the pipe will be white the red pumping thing, so it's all good now, I just have to get used to it works like that rn 😄

[toxic lichen]

man do i love watching this stuff come to life

[clear mesa]

Find oil nodes :p

[finite mirage]

did but what do i even make?

[clear mesa]

Check out what options you have with your new building (refinery)

[sterile blade]

Mhhh, that sounds unreliable...
I hope it'll still be there once you reload the savefile 🤞

[rugged jasper]

omg. let me try to relog rn before I spend 10 hours doing this 🙈

[finite mirage]

no i get that, what do i need more of? whats the first setup to do with oil

[clear mesa]

plastic and rubber production

[finite mirage]

at what ratio? or same?

[clear mesa]

errr it depends on what you want

but id make them in similar ratios for now and then just change it up if you need more of the other

[rugged jasper]

maybe it was just a bug... it is all gone now 😭

I wish I knew how to make it work, as I really liked it

[toxic lichen]

area mode on the chainsaw, doesnt seem to do much

[clear mesa]

the area of effect is'nt that big but it's helpful for clearing small debris around larger ones

[toxic lichen]

i see

[clear mesa]

gets rid of all the shrubbery next to a tree you cut down for example

also helpful for the mushrooms in caves

[cyan leaf]

How does the path signal work.

[cunning glade]

My power plant goes at least 618m up in the sky

But my ele doesn't take me from the bottom so I wonder how tall it is from ground level

Also this elevator takes a second holy

It's almost done too

[tranquil saffron]

holy crap thats a high elevator

[cunning glade]

I just have too let the turbofuel back up

[quasi warren]

Yummy. 120 plastic a min

[spark escarp]

So little 🙂

[cunning glade]

Me who's making like 6.6k a min I think

[cyan leaf]

Which radio control unit alt recipe is better?

[cunning glade]

#screenshots message this whole leg is an ele

[quasi warren]

Yeah I know-

[spark escarp]

Im joking with ya its a lot, right 👀

[quasi warren]

...I just started tiers 5 and 6 in my new save- so-

[sterile blade]

Sorry :
Well, good thing you didn't spend a whole day chasing it 😅

[rugged jasper]

hehe SO true !! 😄
but I will just make them all white, and that's fine, the pipe supporters can be red tho 🥹

[quasi warren]

... I forgot i can finally use the jetpack. YIPEE

[toxic lichen]

i can smell the space elevator now

[glad dome]

Hi everyone. I haven't played the game since 2024 and I want to start again. I want to improve my gaming experience with some mods, but I don't quite remember what was missing in the original version of the game (in terms of quality of life). Are there any mod packs I can use?

[toxic lichen]

do i just plop it anywhere
or

[dreamy python]

can someone help me with prioritizing pipes in aluminum factory?

[raven axle]

Official Modding Discord

Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @leaden turret

[leaden turret]

in case nobody has suggestions

[glad dome]

Thanks

[frosty mirage]

I cant unhide my markers on the map..

Any suggestions?

#screenshots this is how it appears, am i doing smth wrong?

Filter if irrelevant it seems

My markers still hidden

I cant even create new markers.. whats going on? 😭

[toxic lichen]

wdym im saving the world ;-;

i js wanna make a silly factory

[frosty mirage]

Nevermind, I restarted and it seems to be workin now

[spark escarp]

Anyoen using Satisfactory Modeler?

[rugged jasper]

I do, but I find it easier to just plan ahead in-game tho ^^

[spark escarp]

Well not really 🤣 , Do you know if theres a way if I can just tell it a number on how much I have of that ressource?

Cause rn I'd have to manually import every machine I build to make that ressource, you know?

[rugged jasper]

i'm sorry, I do not.
But I am sure shortly someone in here can help you out. 🙌

[spark escarp]

I might've just found it out, hold on now 🤣

[sterile blade]

Quite a few ^^
#math-and-meta works best for those discussions as it allows you to share images

[cunning glade]

135h in and already 116mw max consumption

[spark escarp]

Alrighty 😉

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message
Is it possible ?

[cunning glade]

Blueprints?

Might be in shorter segments

[rugged jasper]

but do they connect to each other ?

[cunning glade]

If u use auto connect mode yes

[clear mesa]

^

[rugged jasper]

blueprints is 5 foundations, manually 7 foundations, but I would make it shorter next time with blueprints it they do auto connect to each other 🥹

[rugged jasper]

omg I have to do that next time..

[clear mesa]

Yeah you made your life a lot harder :p

[rugged jasper]

I swear I have spend 10 hours from last night doing this

and not continue this morning 😄

[rugged jasper]

a lot harder 😄

[clear mesa]

Yeah... unfortunately auto connect literally allows you to place dozens of pipes at a time if that's what you wanted 😭

[cunning glade]

Okay once I connect the nitric acid i shall start making power

[clear mesa]

Same thing for belt busses if you ever need those

(And rails for when you make trains)

[cunning glade]

This isn't factorio buses ewww

[clear mesa]

Some people prefer them over trains idk

[rugged jasper]

omg I didn't know that.
I really have to start play smarter, not harder 😄

[clear mesa]

Yeah the blueprint is your best friend in this game

[cunning glade]

Do wish it worked like factorio blueprint maker tho

[frosty mirage]

Man motor factories do get complicated 🙁

[cunning glade]

Nah

Turbo motors tho

[clear mesa]

Nah

Nuclear pasta tho

[cunning glade]

I'm aiming for 30 a min not slooped

[frosty mirage]

Yea yea, you guys are on another lvl

[clear mesa]

Enjoy your sanity whilst it lasts

[valid timber]

Could using smart splitters on a manifold in order to force the first machine to fill before an resource moves forward be quicker for saturating? or should you stick to just usual manifold methods

[cunning glade]

Slooped too 60 ofc for full mk1 belt

[clear mesa]

We're being ironic dw

[frosty mirage]

Any reason to produce stators? Besides for motors? Or should I just produce motors exclusively?

[cunning glade]

I'm not

[cunning glade]

Just motors are needed tbh

I can't remember if stators are used for anything tbh

[valid timber]

i was told to put a small amount aside which is what ill do

what i really cant decide is whether i should finish up phase 2 before doing a motor factory or do it before

[frosty mirage]

They are needed in automated wiring afaik but yea, not a reason to produce it tbh

[cunning glade]

God I fucking hate when pipes just decide there's no longer a liquid in them

[valid timber]

honestly i might just be looking for a reason to stall automating space elevator parts

[clear mesa]

There's no reason to make stators in excess like you would for motors

Stators only use is to make something else, not used in any building material costs

[valid timber]

maybe ill just set up a smart splitter to prune stators after motors back up

[frosty mirage]

Whats the max overclock on a miner?

Mk2

300%?

[cunning glade]

It's always 250%?

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message will remember that next time. 💀

[valid timber]

goes to 300/min i think

but its 250% overclocked

[frosty mirage]

So a pure node with 250% mk2 would generate 600?

[cunning glade]

Chat how does one setup a fuel supply network for drones

[clear mesa]

haha....ah i know that pain all too well

Enjoy the rest of your saturday

lmfao

[rugged jasper]

LMAOOOO

[cunning glade]

Like I have spare rocket fuel I'm gonna package for fuel do I send one drone off too somewhere too fill them all up or do I have multiple drones at the fuel plant

[rugged jasper]

😄

[valid timber]

if someone who knows could answer this before I make a blueprint using smart splitters over normal ones thatd be great :P

#satisfactory message

[frosty mirage]

Right? Is my math mathing mathematically?

[toxic lichen]

would it be easier to js, make a new base elsewhere with foundations, or try to revamp my current set up ;-;

[green fiber]

whatever the base extraction rate at 100% is

just x 2.5

if its 240 it turns into 600

[frosty mirage]

Yea, pure is 240

Aight thanks

[rugged jasper]

wait o.o

[cunning glade]

Rocket fuel looks kinda cool in pipes

[valid timber]

are you early on with constructors and stuff on the ground?

[toxic lichen]

yur

[clear mesa]

pretty sure it'd be the same

[valid timber]

I personally do when im just starting out because having buildings on the ground makes me irrationally upset, but if you can live with it shrug (im fairly sure most do rebuild onto foundations)

[toxic lichen]

but taking it apart seems
not viable unless i make some containers
then make it

[cunning glade]

Okay I think I will be making a good amount of power

[clear mesa]

if anything it'd be worse cause it'll take longer for more than 1-2 machines to fire off

[toxic lichen]

which is why moving seems
better

[valid timber]

gotcha

[cunning glade]

I'll report back when it chills out

[rugged jasper]

can you place a Miner, and snap a splitter to it ? so you can fully overclock it and take two belts from it ? 😱

[clear mesa]

without mods, no

[rugged jasper]

time to install mods

[clear mesa]

there's a snap on mod especially for that reason though

[cunning glade]

Mods are so peak for this game I mean u can even play it in vr

That'll be my next playthrough

[rugged jasper]

must be a crazy game experience !

[cunning glade]

So keep in mind a refinery in game is what like 8 4m walls right

[rugged jasper]

what is that called, if you don't mind spoiling it for me, so I can install it later 🥹

[quasi warren]

Its actually called snap on

[cunning glade]

Doesn't feel very big but VR the scale really gets amplified

[quasi warren]

I use it all the time.

[clear mesa]

SnapOn

[rugged jasper]

Thank you so much !

[valid timber]

i think id lose my mind trying to troubleshoot a compact factory in vr haha

[quasi warren]

I have vr. How do I do thiss,

[clear mesa]

any time

[rugged jasper]

I need to find it right now

[valid timber]

you certainly couldnt use hypertube cannons without getting sick

[rugged jasper]

oh, you should see my system 😄

[cunning glade]

Can we send discord links in here probably not right?

[rugged jasper]

I use the cannons to each factory 😄 ❤️

[frosty mirage]

162 buildings for 27/m motors 😭😭😭

[clear mesa]

efficiency!!!

[jovial grail]

hello

[valid timber]

wowzers

[clear mesa]

I believe only the wiki ones are whitelisted

[valid timber]

im doing 20 motors a min im not sure why youd torture yourself like that

how bad are the ratios for setting up a system like that @frosty mirage

[cunning glade]

Sent u a discord

In it should be a group for satisfactory that will have a guide

[frosty mirage]

Yea i might lower my torture tbh

[rugged jasper]

idk how many I make.. let me go and check ^^ I think it is a lot

[frosty mirage]

In terms of nodes?

[cunning glade]

U install a software and a mod on the game and it works really well from what I remember

[valid timber]

yeah lol how many miners do you have down

[cunning glade]

Any ue5 game u can make VR

[valid timber]

actually wait depends what mark of miners youre on I suppose

[cunning glade]

And a lot of them have support for it

[quasi warren]

I just realized ive almost been awake for 24 hrs. The factory grind never stops

[frosty mirage]

840 iron, 240 coal, 213 copper it would be

Im on mk2 miners rn

[valid timber]

any alternates?

[frosty mirage]

Btw didnt start this

Just planning

[frosty mirage]

I could do copper rotor

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message
I make 30 motors a min ^^

[valid timber]

yeahh looks a little out of my leauge haha

[frosty mirage]

Damn crazy

[valid timber]

im trying to get tickets for a specific item in the sink right now so I can make a compact smelter and constructor setup for my space elevator plant

[toxic lichen]

is there anyway to remove the big ass rocks or

[valid timber]

taking forever im sinking like half of my factories overfill

[valid timber]

perhaps

[frosty mirage]

How many hours into the game?

[rugged jasper]

hmm im not sure..
I have been scared to ever check it 😄

220 hours on this save.
my first play through was a disaster to be honest. 🥲 🤭

[frosty mirage]

Nobelisks

[toxic lichen]

huh e'-e'

[frosty mirage]

Oh so this is 2nd one.. i just hopped on the game recently, 80 hours in

[valid timber]

obelisks my beloved

[toxic lichen]

hmmmm

[valid timber]

nobelisks .

[rugged jasper]

but actual play time may be around 100 hours, as I let the game idle when I sleep and do other stuff.

[frosty mirage]

Copper rottor alternate might actually work, im underusing my available copper

[frosty mirage]

Yea i idle a lot too while i work

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message
Will blueprint auto connect work here ?

just so I know in future what to do when I start play smarter 😄

[green fiber]

generally yes

remember that autoconnect always builds in "curve" mode and that it takes 2 clicks to place for a reason

[cunning glade]

Okay so far I'm making 600gw

[green fiber]

the first is to "link" the connections, the second is for placing. the stretch distance is much greater after linking them up

[rugged jasper]

Thanks for info !
When I finish the manual work I am doing right now, I will give the auto connect a try as I have never used it before for some reason. 🤷‍♀️

[clear mesa]

Tbh I avoided using it for a while too until I was effictively forced to when making long train routes

[rugged jasper]

I just didn't know how it worked, as I made so many mistakes with it in my first playthrough so this time I just totally ignored it.
but I do feel much more confident making stuff this time.
but I may need some help later in "how to" build the blueprints correctly, as I don't make any major mistakes again 😄

[clear mesa]

To be honest from what I've seen from your builds you're doing more than fine

You were just previously unaware of a feature that could've saved you time

The only thing you could probably "improve" in for efficiency sake is increasing verticality in your factories to make blueprints more compact

[rugged jasper]

Everything I have build so far is unique, as none of them are from blueprints. 🤭
But I will work on it as soon I finish the pipe work.
because I am going to build a massive advanced aluminum factory this time. 🔥

[green fiber]

while blueprints dont seem to autoconnect vertically,towers can still be sorta easy to connect

[frosty mirage]

Any point in having 840/m iron ingots produced if my belt capacity is 480? Or do I split production in 2 rows of smelters?

[green fiber]

you split it up

if mk 4 belts are your limit then you need to group machines in a way where you dont overload them

[frosty mirage]

Thats what i was thinking.. alright, I guess its time to dismantle 14 smelters and do a new row

[green fiber]

or just redo the belting?

unless you set it up where is a central belt feeding smelters on each side, then i guess it is kinda hard to adjust

[frosty mirage]

Im working on a modular factory, didnt yet feed the smelters from ores

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message
ALMOST there 🥹
omg.. I need a break after this hehe

[frosty mirage]

Makes more sense to have a row of smelters per item

[frosty mirage]

Which will each feed a separate rows of constructors on 2nd floor

[rugged jasper]

do you want to see how I make splitter design ? 🙂
and really easy to connect to lifters

[frosty mirage]

I dont mind, sure

[rugged jasper]

one moment 🙂 let me build it real fast

[hollow ravine]

does anybody ge tthe bug where number keys stop working?

[clear mesa]

Can't say I've experienced this sorry

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message this is my design how to make stack of splitters

[frosty mirage]

Oookay, looks neat. You stack them on lifts right?

I was using vertical builds with rows per each item, with lines of lifts on the side

[rugged jasper]

First place two small metal pillar horizontal on top of each other, press ctrl to make the 3rd go vertical in the very top, release ctrl and place the place 4th in the middle (as shown in the picture.)
2nd. Place splitter X 3 on top of each other, and delete the middle one.
3rd if you want it taller. - Do step one, delete the frame of it, but not center, just stack more pillars on top of each other, and then place more splitters on top of each other ❤️ 🙂
Super easy. 🤪

(like this) -> #screenshots message

I do it all manually, but from now on I will do it in a blueprint ofc 😄 but I have master it how to build it really fast ^^

[frosty mirage]

Oof, okay

A bit complicated, but will for sure try this sometime

Im still learning to build 🤭

[rugged jasper]

it is complicated ^^ but it just looks so good ❤️

[frosty mirage]

Indeed it does

[rugged jasper]

also what I wrote above is a mess, let me edit that 😄

[coral marsh]

Guys wheres a good area that has quartz, oil, caterium and copper near-ish by.

Im gonna have to train some of it in that much ik

(Im glad I dont need coal and iron for this)

[void cliff]

Made a HMF blueprint that just uses iron and concrete and it’s super convenient 😄 uses a lot of power shards though

[rugged jasper]

What does HMF mean ? 🤭

[spare cradle]

Could you underclock it enough to not need shards?

[spare cradle]

Heavy modular frame

Phase 3 material

[mortal stone]

I am doing literally everything but progress past t4 XD

[rugged jasper]

I need to make a new small factory of those for my advanced aluminum factory I am making atm.

[mortal stone]

Just spent 4 hours setting up a quarter map long belt highway to transport the quartz and SAM node in the top left cave XD

[rugged jasper]

I am over building everything in phase 4 to sink everything, as I want to try to make 100 million sink points a min (that's my goal) 😄

[spare cradle]

I am working on Phase 3, with that I am suffering and making a Phase 2 Turbofuel gen before I make any new factories

My only issue is connecting it all together and flipping the switch

[rugged jasper]

you can do it ^^ it just take days to do ^^

[spare cradle]

As I have a 8.6mwh battery to bootstrap to it so it can cough to life

And enough time for me to find kinks and problems

[rugged jasper]

I recommend, set yourself one goal a day to make perfect, and then move on to the next project 🙂

[mortal stone]

I'm still at phase 2 lol

[rugged jasper]

at least it works for me like that ^^

[spare cradle]

It's exactly what I do

[mortal stone]

Haven't even set up my space elevator parts factory

[spare cradle]

I haven't yet for my Phase, but that's the next thing in my chain of making

[rugged jasper]

you will get there. also the first 3 space tiers I delivered it manually ❤️
and just focused on making massive amount of everything ^^

[spare cradle]

With my optional 20/min Motor factory that consumes a GW. (Specifically made to make more Refineries)

[mortal stone]

I've been mostly setting up supply lines of nodes

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message 🥹

[spare cradle]

I focus on saving everything and eventually milling through it before producing more

[mortal stone]

Only on tier node I still need is caterium

Which is funny since it's way closer than anything else

[spare cradle]

Lol, the 2 pure nodes?

[rugged jasper]

I just move everything up, and overclock everything from the beginning ( miners ) so I can build out from that

[mortal stone]

Mk 4 and 5 belts are very far away and expensive iirc

[spare cradle]

I keep the miner at 100%, then build/calculate from there

[spare cradle]

Eh... If you make a factory of their materials, not so.

[mortal stone]

Just finished somersloop over locking so I have plenty of shards to overclock each miner to 240

[rugged jasper]

I overclock every miner to 250% and calculate and build from that ^^

[spare cradle]

I ain't touching slooping and you can't make me (until I have a surplus of computers)

[rugged jasper]

so each upgrade is secure

[mortal stone]

Tbf I only got it early for 2x shards

[spare cradle]

-# don't mind the 32 fuel gens full of manually got shards. I would of been 80 if I didnt

[rugged jasper]

I spend most somersloop only on final materials for space elevator ^^

and move those up to next tier

[mortal stone]

Huh the pure caterium node is almost as down south as the closer normal

And is more convenient for my belt highway

[spare cradle]

Near waterfall or the endless void?

[rugged jasper]

sometimes 2 normal is better than one pure if you plan to over build ❤️ 🙂

as your belts has a limit, so that way you can save yourself from trouble along the production because you have it all overclocked from beginning, but from lower tier nodes 🙂
if that makes any sense tho ^^

[spare cradle]

Impures... Suck if you need a high amt from them

[rugged jasper]

2 impure is a normal ^^ ❤️

[mortal stone]

#screenshots message

Tbf I just drew from the cave since it has pure quartz and SAM tgt

[spare cradle]

And 8 is

[rugged jasper]

4 normal ^^

[spare cradle]

2 pures that take 8 mk2 miners

[fiery gull]

Guya

Satisfactory ran while I slept

[clear mesa]

mk5 is actually pretty easy to make tbh

[hidden pebble]

Finally finished my 1 hmf/sec build. That was a hassle.

[clear mesa]

mk4 is a bigger annoyance

[rugged jasper]

show us in SS ^^

[hidden pebble]

Mk2 and mk4 are most annoying belts

[hidden pebble]

Screenshots?

[mortal stone]

I hated MK2 tbh

[rugged jasper]

yes 🙂

I want to see ^^

[mortal stone]

Mostly because I haven't updated my spaghetti first factory

It's currently super inefficient but I'm procrastinating on building my first neat factory over the great ravine

[clear mesa]

tbh spaghetti is fine as long as it works...

[spare cradle]

Sometimes the math works

[clear mesa]

i only really start tidying stuff up at phase 4

[hidden pebble]

I would love to, but the "plus" option is greyed out??

[rugged jasper]

it does take time ^^ also tons of planning.
but alternative recipes planning may be your way to win the game ^^

[clear mesa]

#screenshots

[mortal stone]

It's working to produce just enough random resources to finish my projects

[mortal stone]

I've run out of alt recipes for phase 2

[hidden pebble]

I'm more of a rate limited by consumption rather rate limited by transport of a person

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message post it in here 🙂

[valid timber]

Is fused quickwire a worthwhile alternate?

[spare cradle]

Then you are fine, make more of what consumes

[rugged jasper]

my main factory is just out of controle at this point

but I love the organized chaos ❤️

[mortal stone]

I think I should be fine with just expanding my current layout

[clear mesa]

all alternates have some form of a use or other

[mortal stone]

Phase 2 doesn't require too much space

[clear mesa]

If you have a large demand of quickwire then it becomes useful

[spare cradle]

Ye

[valid timber]

hmm

its between that or steel screws (or rescanning)

[rugged jasper]

@hidden pebble you have done well !!!

[valid timber]

i feel like i wont really need steel screws but im unsure

[clear mesa]

you can just keep them there and that way they dont show up again if you scan another hard drive if you have no use for either

[rugged jasper]

you can right click your post in SS and copy message to here ❤️

[valid timber]

Fair nuff

[rugged jasper]

so all can see it 🙂

[spare cradle]

I'm onto phase 3 and I'm going to target for 5/min for the engines and 1/min for the adaptive

[valid timber]

im FINALLY getting around to doing my space elevator parts

[mortal stone]

You can ignore screws altogether iirc with alt recipes

[spare cradle]

Do I need versatile frames for phase 4?...

[valid timber]

iirc, yes

going to make a coal plant to ensure my power grid stays up while im building a bigger factory and then its time to work, also will be with my first factory using blueprints

[mortal stone]

Anyone just build a crap ton of power storages just for safety

[spare cradle]

Better make something for that too...

[valid timber]

what im thinking the strat is, build a huge factory, let it stockpile enough to coast on till the end of the game and you wont have to keep those nodes filled with the plants

You can find a table of how much youll need for the entire game in space elevator parts on the wiki iirc @spare cradle

[mortal stone]

You'll have to rebuild multiple times as you unlock new and better ways of doing things

[spare cradle]

I'd rather experience the need through the game first <3

[mortal stone]

Also the numbers get quite high iirc at later phases to really hand deliver

[hidden pebble]

What do you suggest aluminium production?
Is spending the silica to get more Al ingots better?

Or, is spending the sulphur to instantly scrapify bauxite worth it?

[valid timber]

makes sense haha

[valid timber]

mm i suppose, I cant remember the figures off the top of my head sadly.

[spare cradle]

I never have hand delivered

[valid timber]

I hand delivered for finishing Phase 1

[spare cradle]

I probably... Have

[valid timber]

Simply wasnt worth the hassle to set up a factory with my limited resources at the time

[spare cradle]

I don't really remember phase 1

[hidden pebble]

I have hand delivered all the phases 💀

[valid timber]

me neither

i havent even finished phase 2 and my save file is 40 hours deep

I've just been running around doing literally anything else other than my space elevator parts

But it gets to a point where those are the ONLY things left to do... as much as I don't want to

[hidden pebble]

Definitely the recomended way to play the game

[rugged jasper]

#screenshots message
I really need to start work smarter, not harder 🤭

But I did the pain.. and it is done.
Time to make blueprints of all my compacted designs. ❤️

[clear mesa]

10 hours just to pipe oh god

at least the fun part of actually getting to design the factory is next

[mortal stone]

Hmm only 25 hours

[valid timber]

10 hours of piping I think id go crazy!

[mortal stone]

Thought I spent longer

Tbf I spent like 3 hours just getting belts and foundations out of the cave

[rugged jasper]

I just can't give up, I am VERY stubborn made. 🫣

[valid timber]

hahaha I get it

when you make up your mind on how you build it theres no other way

[rugged jasper]

even if I have to make a night without sleeping I do it and continue the next 🥹

[mortal stone]

Factory games attract very specific kinds of players

[rugged jasper]

there is only way, it is to finish it.

[valid timber]

usually the most stubborn

or super geniuses who can do math i couldnt dream of solving in 5 seconds

[rugged jasper]

[valid timber]

i swear some people who play these games must have doctorates

[hidden pebble]

If i were stubborn I would've studied harder to get better grades

[valid timber]

Stubborn in your own way I suppose

[coral marsh]

As an Aquarius, I can confirm this 🤣🤣

[dire needle]

hi, i would like to know if anyone has some good railroad bps. im currently trying to make a railroad across the map and all the bps i have tried need mods to properly align

[hidden pebble]

And then there's me who can't figure out what clock speed to put on without a calculator

[rugged jasper]

Oh I am not smart at all, I just have massive OCD that nothing must clip, and everything MUST flow correctly and be perfect.. or else hell in my mind is going loose

[hidden pebble]

What's wrong with modding?

[valid timber]

some people just prefer vanilla gameplay

[dire needle]

all the ones i have tried needs inf nudge and its a pain in the ass imo doin g that with every segment across the entire map

[valid timber]

I would probably mod but i cant be asked to be honest...

[fluid crow]

zoop foundations, make railroad, delete some foundations

[rugged jasper]

nothing, I will try it later today ❤️ 😄

[hidden pebble]

Isn't inf nudge a thing now tho even for vanilla?