satisfactory

[willow pond]

i'm just glad the game's in a place where cross-update saves seem to not be at risk for completely breaking, so now we can set up more longer-term team-built saves

[swift turret]

no slurs

[zealous urchin]

it is, next save ill do all progresion unlocked already

[brittle torrent]

i started 1 year ago with this world im currently in i played for 2 months did a break a couple months, then continued, then took a break again 6 months and now im still playing on this world

only 250h in 1 year

start of phase 5

[warm finch]

quick question for those experienced with nitro rocket fuel alt recipe, what do you do with compacted coal byproduct? Sink it? use it to make turbo fuel for more fuel gens? or???

[wicked nacelle]

That’s why I always use base recipes and everything works out great.

[zealous urchin]

usualy i did normal rocket fuel

but if u do nitro u probably wanna sink it

[wicked nacelle]

After diluted fuel I only use base recipes

Yeah make black powder for weapons with it and sink overflow

[warm finch]

great idea! that frees up coal for other stuff

[wicked nacelle]

Weapons factory fits in with fuel
Components very well

[zealous urchin]

weapons of mass coal liberation

[warm finch]

mass weaponization of liberated coal

[fiery gull]

Guys I just found a mercer core

[warm finch]

oh boy.. good luck with that

[fiery gull]

Took me 10 mins to climb this damn mountain

Idek what on earth this thing is

[warm finch]

build the MAM and do research you'll find out

[quasi warren]

HAHAHAH. i just read ada's transcripts on the wiki and i am DYING

[warm finch]

you can read them in game

[quasi warren]

i mean like all of them

even hidden ones

[willow pond]

that stuff added in for 1.0 definitely made the game feel more complete

[warm finch]

ah

[quasi warren]

ones i wouldnt have gotten originally

A computer was flushed
ADA: Did you just invent machine discrimination?

[warm finch]

have you seen the aussie subtitles of ADA?

[feral jay]

God dammit I need to kill ANOTHER bean

This is the most murderous playthourgh I've ever done

[quasi warren]

I HAVNT

i didnt even know that exists!!

[white dawn]

the factory inspection board is gonna start getting suspicious

[quasi warren]

A coupon was flushed
ADA: I wish this was the first time this has happened, but unfortunately stupidity is hereditary.

[warm finch]

https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/553550313533997057/1464474114290090074

Me either until an aussie player dropped in and commented about it. posted some screenshots for us

[quasi warren]

CCS made funny voice lines omfg

[strong fiber]

I been decorating for 2 hours

Im cooked bro

and i only got the lobby done😭

[warm finch]

that's all?

[strong fiber]

And it looks ahh compared to the amount of time i put into it

[feral jay]

What is this "decorating" you speak of?

[strong fiber]

Making my building look nice

And organized

[feral jay]

What is this "look nice" you speak of?

Big concrete boxes are the only way to go

[strong fiber]

It looks visually appealing

[feral jay]

(I'm being facetious)

[strong fiber]

What is this “Big concrete box” you speak of

[coral marsh]

My guess is, its a box, filled with, concrete

[fiery gull]

GUYS WAIT WTF JUST HAPPENED

[strong fiber]

Interesting

[warm finch]

no no, it's a big box MADE of concrete, then FILLED with concrete.

[fiery gull]

I unlocked the scanner thing for the mercer sphere and was listening to the little thing that explains about the thing when the msg itself got...hacked? I think...?

[warm finch]

part of the storyline. keep playing

[feral jay]

Commandeered would be a better term

But yes, it's a part of the storyline

[coral marsh]

ah yes, my problem was thinking 🤣

[fiery gull]

Alright I shall keep playing 🙂

-# Thx for not spoiling the storyline lol

[strong fiber]

She tell you that you need that you need that you need that

that’s basically it

👍

[warm finch]

that's.... technically incorrect. She tells you to be more efficent, to do it for the puppies and kittens, to not waste.

[strong fiber]

bruh u no fun

[warm finch]

I'm also being facetious lol

[strong fiber]

😔

Ion even know what that word means bruh

[feral jay]

Speaking with jovial jest

[strong fiber]

Gulp

I wish xbox clips wouldn’t break after i take more than 1 picture

But i show on my phone ig

#screenshots message Lobby to my nuclear plant (kinda)

Still gotta make two more floors

[feral jay]

That's awesome

But wow, that compass would be a lot more useful if you cleaned it up

[strong fiber]

its not useful

because i never look up there

Also how does one clean up their compass

[feral jay]

I use it from time to time to find things I've stamped on the map

If you open the map, every category has a little compass and a GPS icon. The compass icon toggles the compass display, and the GPS icon toggles the map display

(at least on PC)

[strong fiber]

Cleaned it up for u

I kept trains drones and my markers and the hub and space elevator ofc

Got rid of stations as i wont need to see them ever probably

[feral jay]

You are now more effecient, and FICSIT®™ thanks you

[strong fiber]

ok

imma get back to building

And putting off everything else thats more important

[fluid crow]

and rewards you by allowing you to continue to exist

[feral jay]

I just got drone fuel up and running, so now I get to deploy drones

[rocky moon]

I just had a nap. I didn't take the nap, the nap took me. I WAS KIDNAPPED

[coral marsh]

Are you a kid though? Or are you an adult, cause if adult, then you where adultnapped

[strong fiber]

adult napped bro like what are we doing

we cooked

[coral marsh]

Lol

[strong fiber]

Im standing still waiting for this power room to decorate itself

[coral marsh]

Aura farm it

[fiery gull]

Hey guys am back

[strong fiber]

That dont work on everything

Mostly guys (some women)

[coral marsh]

Oh shit, nice

[fiery gull]

-# Tf is this

[coral marsh]

Idk, im having fun though

[strong fiber]

I was NOT saying im gay btw

[leaden matrix]

Uh huh?

[coral marsh]

-# darn

[fiery gull]

Is your profile a guy pissing?

[fiery gull]

Ayo 🥜

[tranquil zinc]

when you go overboard with the shapes and diagonals #screenshots message

[coral marsh]

Thats me, fucker, im in a maid outfit

[strong fiber]

type

[fiery gull]

Stfu fucker don't call me a fucker when you're a fucker yourself

🙂

[strong fiber]

be nice

[coral marsh]

Its sarcasm

[strong fiber]

please😔

[coral marsh]

Even i can see that

[fiery gull]

Your profile name 🤣

[fiery gull]

Yours or mine or both?

[coral marsh]

Yes

[strong fiber]

no

[fiery gull]

Yesn't

[feral jay]

I just passed 20GW consumption

Almost hit a million awesome points/min

[fervent dust]

hey friends, what difference does it make if i connect either A or B first on the priority power switch?

[feral jay]

Doesn't make any difference

[strong fiber]

One goes in one goes out

Thats what matters

[fervent dust]

which one goes where though?

[strong fiber]

doesn’t matter

[feral jay]

The only difference is which side is A and which side is B

But, it doesn't matter which order you hook it up in, the same sides are always A and B

[fervent dust]

so like, it doesn't actually matter if, say, i have a factory connected to A and the rest of the power grid connected to B, because it's no different than if it were the other way around?

[strong fiber]

No

It doesn’t matter

[fervent dust]

sorry if i'm being dense 😭

i'm just trouble shooting why i have no power, so i figured i should go the extra mile and organise my power consumption

thank you so much for answering

[pastel dawn]

The switch shuts off power to everything on B. So it very much matters.

Power coming in goes to A. This should be your MAIN/INCOMING power grid.

Power for your LOCAL power grid should be on your B side.

Then you should set a rich name for the priority group.

Then the HIGHEST NUMBERS will be shut off FIRST.

So put your miners/extractors first, then your refineries and smelters, then your production lines.

Pro tip - setup small battery grids that are connected to your LOCAL (B side) grid and when power is shutoff to the priority group, you will still have power going to that grid to keep things going. This is mostly redundant but makes me feel all warm and fuzzy in the event of large power spikes due to quantum tech.

[fervent dust]

HUHH???

[feral jay]

No

The switch simply interrupts a circuit

What's on what side makes zero difference

The switch itself isn't keeping track of what's on each side, they're just turned off in sequence according to priority

[pastel dawn]

It will still work but why set yourself up for failure on large scale power grids

The issue hes having right now would be much simpler to manage with a system

[feral jay]

You are wrong. It makes absolutely no difference what's hooked up to what side.

(OCD tendencies of some players aside, that is)

[warm finch]

normal rocket fuel means you gotta make turbo fuel. I want to skip that step lol

[pastel dawn]

Send an electrician up a weall

[stuck matrix]

Quick question but yknow those little "Max consumption stats" that are on power gens? Do they ever go up if you leave your machinery alone or do you specifically have to fuck with something to get it to increase?

[pastel dawn]

I'm telling you if you follow that system you're preem

Don't listen to the spaghetti lovers

[sullen gull]

Only downside (imo) is the cost of 2x the sulfur

[feral jay]

Nope, max consumption is just that, the absolute max you can possibly consume — with the exception of the hoverpack, which isn't accounted for with regards to max consumption

[stuck matrix]

I see i see... alr ty striek!

[warm finch]

yeah that is a downside.... ouch

[south inlet]

I saw somewhere that you can paste blueprints that automatically connect conveyors lines. Can someone tell me how to do that?

[warm finch]

hmmm, making nitro rocket fuel gives you MORE compacted coal, which you could loop back into turbo fuel production reducing the amount of sulfur needed tehre

[stuck matrix]

Also one more question but does a train or some sort of automatic car thing become available later on to transport resources from far off bases in the game or do i just have to build massive conveyor belts to do that instead?

[sullen gull]

I mean, at the end of the day, if you don't care about bringing the sulfur in, it "can" be better in terms of less machines.

[warm finch]

keep progressing and you'll unlock more options for logistics

[peak wasp]

Trying to make a train station idk how they work at all tho

[feral jay]

If you hold R (or whatever the equivalent is on console) when placing a blueprint, you can change to auto-connect mode. Loose ends of conveyors and pipes will try to auto-connect in that mode.

It takes a while to figure it out

[stuck matrix]

Thats not helpful i already figured that out but alr

[sullen gull]

The answer is yes

[warm finch]

I'm trying to not spoiler the game

[stuck matrix]

Okay thank you tinker

Youre cool :3

[sullen gull]

Not really. Just figure if one came here, they're not "super" concerned about spoilers. 🤷‍♂️

[feral jay]

THis game doesn't have that much story, so spoilers arent a really big deal imo, but I still try to avoid them

[crisp solar]

hay I had a question about paint
if i paint something with a custom color can I make a new version of paint or the number of slots I have set in stone?

[sullen gull]

I only do in the way of stuff like the "ending" and anything related to the actual "story line". Production wise, meh

[south inlet]

Thank you :)

[stuck matrix]

Anyways uh one more thing before i go but i named my save file "Manifest destiny but woke" because i thought itd be funny

Idk why i just wanted to share that

[warm finch]

I've seen too many people burn out in short order because they ask questions that gives them spoilers and then they lose interest in the "grind" because they got hung up on said spoilers and lost ability to enjoy the progression

[pastel dawn]

I was pissed I watch the final sequence on YT before completing it

[sullen gull]

The number of "swatches" are set. And if you use one one things, and change it later, it changes retroactivly. Using the custom swatch will not change things that swatch is used on. I recommend utilizing the Color Presets.

[sullen gull]

Tbf, many see it as a 'grind' period by thinking they need to make enough to get 1000 of an item in 5 minutes 😛

[pastel dawn]

Sat gods can we get a wallpaper of the ship entering hyperspace when the portal looks a bit like the teleporter portals with the blue/red hue.

[crisp solar]

can modding add more and is there down sides to that?

[warm finch]

yeah not wrong. thats why I've seen a fair bit tryto handcraft their way into phase 4 and when they see what's required for phase 5 they quit

[sullen gull]

You can add more through mods on PC

[pastel dawn]

I think they need more fun and chill stuff like being able to place any item on the ground without having to drop it like coffee cup

[sullen gull]

Not sure to what you're referring 😏

[pastel dawn]

Being able to shoot signs and they break momentarily or something

[sullen gull]

Look up "6 things never coming to Satisfactory" 🙂

[pastel dawn]

That was about violent weaponization

[feral jay]

I want to use the toilet, and have the toilet produce usable biomatter in small quantities

[sullen gull]

Lmao, I thought of that as well 🤣

[pastel dawn]

Being able to setup a shooting range seems chill lol

[feral jay]

They're really missing a great joke with the toilet now that it flushes

[pastel dawn]

I feel like being able to set any item down on the ground should be an option

So when I drop a coffee cup or whatever its not tiny

Would make storage displays more fun

[sullen gull]

Ohhhhh, something as simple as things being able to be shot off of a conveyor would work 🤔

[pastel dawn]

Oh yeeting items would be fun hahah

[warm finch]

make a suggestion

[sullen gull]

Well, I shouldn't say "simple" as I don't know...

[feral jay]

The numbers are in, my battery plant is pulling 4,180 MW

[sullen gull]

I was just still thinking about a "shooting range"

[pastel dawn]

I don't think that ones as easy and feels like minecrafty like when yeet items into hoppers

[pastel dawn]

Yeah having signs turn off or emissions of signs go to OFF when shot

Seems like easy thing that could be a lot of fun

But I guess nuking a bunch of signs could cause lag

[sullen gull]

Though, with current mechanics, outside of the single spawn point, making 'fun' pvp 'maps' would be doable I think.

[fervent dust]

OH I THINK I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT! thanks again

[pastel dawn]

PVP is definitely anti-chill though lol

[sullen gull]

I mean, tbf, it's a bit more akin to going and playing "paint-ball" 😛

[fervent dust]

@pastel dawn can you dm me?

or can i dm you

[cyan leaf]

Ughh I hate how coal spawns are all in the moutainss

[fervent dust]

it's where the dinos died

[cyan leaf]

Wouldn't the deserts be also cause of oil?

[feral jay]

They don't spawn, per se. Every game you play, every coal node will be in the exact same spot

Also, wait until you start looking for SAM

[cyan leaf]

Ik they are all set but like I just hate how they are all on the bottom of the map 😭 like the worse terrain ever

[feral jay]

Well it is part of the game's challenge, getting the resources from stupid locations to places you can actually use it, I think they did a good job with that

[cyan leaf]

True true especially with how fricken annoying it is with the animals

[willow pond]

stupid question time: if you tame a doggo, and let it follow you across the map, will it despawn on logout and pop back to its spawn?

[feral jay]

They stay where they are when you quit the game

[pastel dawn]

I'm only half online right now but I added you bro I can diagram it out for you just let me know your issue

[feral jay]

You can build doggo ranches and keep them contained for free stuff

[willow pond]

good to know 🙂 thanks

i had hoped it'd be that way

[feral jay]

I have a bunch of Mk.3 miners that I've built from the stuff my doggos bring me

I haven't automated those materials yet

[willow pond]

my main issue will probably be getting them to one spot without them walking off ramps and dying

[feral jay]

Yeah, luring them back to a central location is a neat challenge in and of itself

[rain hollow]

With how easy it was to setup turbo fuel i'm surprised I hadn't done it sooner

[feral jay]

I've got a fuel upgrade coming up, I recently unlocked diluted fuel

And I'm coming up against my power limits

[rain hollow]

Once I get the well pressurizer or whatever it's called i'll be able to expand my power by a lot

[swift turret]

Tryna get motivation to do the bare minimum machines is draining

Been working on this basic factory for like 5 hours now

[feral jay]

I just finished a battery plant that took a week IRL

[swift turret]

By basic i mean it handles basic iron and copper

About 240 ore each + dealing with updating infrastructure to handle it

[willow pond]

imagine if they did to conveyor belts what they did with colliding trains

everything gets chucked off when the wrong part goes to a combiner

[swift turret]

Colliding ore?

Yeah and you gotta pick it up 1 by 1

[willow pond]

🤣

ok ngl that'd be a hilariously cruel april fools' thing

[feral jay]

Dammit, I didn't DD batteries

[cyan leaf]

Is geo gens worth doing?

[swift turret]

They're good for starting power

In areas yoy may not have brought power with you

[feral jay]

Yes and no, I use them, but I run a dedicated worldwide circuit, they get used for emergency backups and to charge power storages

There's enough of them that they do make a difference

[swift turret]

They're the bio mass of the advanced satisfactory world

[feral jay]

Once you've got the build materials automated, it's free power

NUKE HOG! KILL! KILL! KILL!!!

IZ DEAD NOW

[feral jay]

Just launched my first drone this save

[cyan leaf]

Lol i haven't even got drines

[willow pond]

ok, new dumb question: is there a way to crank some of the rendering above SF's standard maximums, with a mod maybe?

[feral jay]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Debug_console

short answer: yes

[willow pond]

will that disable steam achievements?

[feral jay]

No

[sullen gull]

You can look at Taj's graphical overhaul. And also search "satisfactory lumen reddit" and find a few posts about different engine.ini settings that claim to "help"

[willow pond]

now that i've recently moved to a "lemme see what this thing can do" pc, i wanna see what it can do

[sullen gull]

Heh, I found that point with a project I really wanted to try. Atm, I either have to severely down size it, or possibly figure out another way. 🤷‍♂️

[pastel dawn]

Large scale blueprints with lots of small parts (like a transformer that uses 3400 steel). Build in a foggy area like in the big hole near middle of map.

Good luck

[willow pond]

got everything cranked to max & it's still only sucking up 10gb vram

[pastel dawn]

More build use coated concrete

[willow pond]

🤣

is there a way to go above the object limit?

[pastel dawn]

Every time I read that my brain error loops and starts over reading it again

[sullen gull]

Yes. can manipulate the setting in engine ini.

[pastel dawn]

Maybe there is a goal left for me yet

[willow pond]

lol

[cyan leaf]

What shoukd I even do with droned?

[sullen gull]

check the top left corner of any of my latest clips and you'd see 😛

[sullen gull]

Drones are very good for delivering fuel to other drones, also for packaged nitrogen. The've been also use to deliver uranium. Many uses. So long as you don't need more than 9 stacks per delivery. (Can't say per minute as the math varies)

[sullen gull]

This is what finally killed it: #screenshots message

Or, trying to connect up to it that is.

[pastel dawn]

FICSIT approved engineering

[soft marsh]

As of right now I have 400 hours of backup power

[leaden matrix]

I have 5 minutes and a dream😭

[soft marsh]

lmao this setup is because my 5 minutes ran out and my dream died

Im not even done building this backup system either. I still have like 8 more slots to fill

[sick falcon]

diluted fuel gotta be the best alternate in the game

[short fiber]

So right now I'm in phase three and I'm struggling on where I should put certain factories. I haven't even started my oil processing thing yet because I can't decide. I sorta want to delete the world and start anew. Shoudl I do that?

[soft marsh]

Nah just rebuild where you see fit

I've rebuilt this world like 12 times, and I'm currently doing one rn

imo starting over just sucks and makes the grind feel worse

[sick falcon]

tearing down and rebuilding is a huge part of the game

[soft marsh]

I just finished tearing down and rebuilding my entire power plant lol

[sick falcon]

wheres your hub located?

[short fiber]

Green fields, near the waterfall

[void cliff]

Phase 3 doesn’t take much to get through - I usually just set up a single oil node making plastic and rubber and heavy turbofuel and don’t really expand the power much until phase 4/nitro rocket fuel

[short fiber]

Is there any suggestions on where is should place my hub around. Maybe I should just start there

[void cliff]

Keep your hub in your pocket. No reason to have it built in a static place

[soft marsh]

but that's where my sunshine goes 🙁

[void cliff]

If you are new to the game you really should go out exploring. It’s one of the best and most underrated parts of the game, imo. There’s tons of places you can put a base. Tractors work great even in phase 3, but if you unlocked trains you can simply use them instead of tractors, no need to make a crazy rail system to move stuff around. You’ll generally want to use trains to move plastic and rubber to your steel factory in phase 3. I really like the silica circuit board alternate for computers, too

[short fiber]

I think i know what i want to do. Tell me if this sounds dumb. I demolish everything, store it, and take it all over to this nice like I found with a bunch of oil nodes and learn how to make oil there. Then Ill just go from there

[drowsy kelp]

Also keep in mind radiation, poison gas, and enemies cannot hurt you while you’re piloting a vehicle

[soft marsh]

You're gonna end up building all over the map, so I'd just take some stuff to make some miners and whatnot and head that way

[drowsy kelp]

With enough patience and fuel you can kill almost anything by ramming it to do damage (the thing must ragdoll to actually take damage, if it doesn’t ragdoll you didn’t do any damage)

[cyan leaf]

Whats good system to bring resources between floors?

(Like stories floors not just floor)

[drowsy kelp]

Conveyor lift floor holes and conveyor lifts?

You can chain floor holes if they’re lined up

[void cliff]

No point in demoing stuff, just make more stuff. Bring materials with you to go make oil. You can even just make a list of what you want to make via the build tag menu

[dusky hedge]

i think your main base/hub should be somewhere that has room to build temporary stuff and i think asthetics are important if you spend a lot of time there. my main base,(hub , mall and elevator) is in the northern forest looks good feels good but most of my buldings and my biggest factories will be elsewhere connected by rail

[short fiber]

Is there any sorta central place you can point me to for soemthing like that

[dusky hedge]

not central, but with everything you need in short range
the northern forest has a small lake with 6 pure iron nodes its pretty easy to find
not a lot of flat ground so you need to be able to build upwards in buildings or on a raised platform

i think coal is a 2 minute run and oil is about 4 min

[sick falcon]

northern forest my goat

[stray sandal]

My friends did a milestone while I was offline and now my achievement is 40/42 milestones. Do I have to replay the game all over again to get this achievement?

[short fiber]

I sorta deleted my save file. Anyway since I sorta have to start anew which starting area is best for rapid expansion

[compact flicker]

The factory calls, but I am burnt out on SatisFactory 3:

[compact flicker]

Dunes

(Imo)

[cyan leaf]

I need an opinon should I put a steel production next to my large scale steel ingot maker or make up 2 separate things?

[dusky hedge]

if you can fight the low level wildlife well enough the northern forest lake is great

[rose reef]

Other than the questions and help postings, is there any way that we can contact support for issues we're having?

[glossy hazel]

i am returning to satisfactory after taking a few months hitaus before the 1.0 update dropped, cant wait to explore all the new tech and gear

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[hardy wigeon]

are you starting a new 1.0 save?

[leaden turret]

cough 1.1 cough

[glossy hazel]

yes i am, i am planning on playing through the new stuff

[hardy wigeon]

it will always be 1.0 in my heart

thats what i just did. i started over a few weeks back. just got to oil power

[glossy hazel]

nice, usually when i focus on playing when my mind lets me, i can get to oil within 4-6 hours of playing

[hardy wigeon]

damn go you lol

[glossy hazel]

i play tons of games, from space engineers, modded minecraft, and open TTD. so a bunch of different games that can be factorized

and i saw someone was looking for help in the LFG section, tomorrow if they still need help i shall try to help them out

[hardy wigeon]

always questions for a pro to answer 😄

[glossy hazel]

i aint a pro, i just know how to untangle a mess lol

[swift turret]

also just handcrafting all the space elevator parts helps

[glossy hazel]

yep

thats how i get through faster lol, manual and auto crafting

[hardy wigeon]

eww

no speed running for me then lol

[swift turret]

I like to setup infrastructure because if I dont do it early I wont do it later

[glossy hazel]

thats only when i am locked in

[small niche]

hello

[glossy hazel]

hi

[swift turret]

i've rushed 2 worlds and spent over 50 hours playing catchup just to abandon them

[hardy wigeon]

get bored?

[small niche]

sad

[swift turret]

it just felt like an impossible task to catchup

building every type of factory all the way to phase 4

[hardy wigeon]

maybe don't rush? really build as you go?

[small niche]

im at 150 hours and still going. not doing any work on the space elevator atm...

[swift turret]

im aware

[soft marsh]

Im around 800 hours, and I think the last time I did anything related to the elevator was round hours 500-600.

[swift turret]

I have around 1300

fun fun

[soft marsh]

My battery backup system is finally complete!

[hardy wigeon]

111 for me

[soft marsh]

So much copper and modular frames

[hardy wigeon]

but ive left the game running to pile shit up overnight or while im at work a LOT lol

[glossy hazel]

LOL, SAME HERE

[small niche]

cool... im working on a mega project. moving all the oil to one place to just destroy it...

[hardy wigeon]

eco terrorist

[small niche]

ye... my bad

[hardy wigeon]

i currently have 4 oil generators going yay

[swift turret]

oil gens?

[hardy wigeon]

whatever the oil power things are called

[swift turret]

extractors?

[hardy wigeon]

fuel powered generator

[swift turret]

oh fuel gens

[small niche]

i have.... not really sure, but after thease 3 i will have 8,000m^3/m of oil

[leaden matrix]

WHO on coffee stain studios decided that uranium nodes should have NO IRON NEAR THEM AT ALL

If I have to make another train im going to fucking cry😭

[swift turret]

we have classified this as a skill issue

you're gonna need trains for everything so idk what you expected

[hardy wigeon]

also

YAY TRAINS

[cyan leaf]

Let's gooo someone got trains have fun doing tracks 😭

[hardy wigeon]

im going vehicle heavy this save. i already have a truck where i always would have had a long belt

im actually probably starting a train tomorrow

[cyan leaf]

Nahh start it now so half the headache is gone lol

[leaden matrix]

Ik, but I just spent the last hour making more train tracks for copper sheets and its very mildly annoying </3

[small niche]

i have more than 50KM of track, and when im done i will have more than 500KM, maybe more...

[hardy wigeon]

ive only ever had 2 trains 🙁

tomorrow will be a copy of my only big one

im building in the same places

[small niche]

most of my tracks have no trains, probably because i have no main station yet, but i got 5 running atm.

[hardy wigeon]

I doubt ill ever get into switches and stuff

just wee long train track look at the cargo go

[leaden matrix]

You wont untill you will ToT

[hardy wigeon]

lol i might someday who knows

[glad carbon]

Nothing better than getting off on a bed of 31,314 sommersloops

[swift turret]

What

[leaden matrix]

What

[cyan leaf]

Imaging using bp lol be a man and manually do it

[hardy wigeon]

I've never played with the blueprint thing actually

I thought about it for basic things like my screw setup but I just never get into it

[leaden matrix]

Blue prints are the only thing making laying tracks livable😭

[hardy wigeon]

I don't even know how that would work

[leaden matrix]

I use a concrete pillar stack with a track ontop and then use the autoconnect mode :>

Pretty convient for what it is

[hardy wigeon]

Hrm

I might try playing around with that eventually. When I finally learn how that blueprint gun works

[cyan leaf]

Ewww bp user ewww

[quasi warren]

i started using BPs. im not going back

it saves so much time

[swift turret]

wdym ew

your name and your words are not matching

[cyan leaf]

Mwahahahahaha learning to use bp is to much effort lol 🤣😭

[swift turret]

so you'd rather build it by hand? Which is more effort?

[cyan leaf]

Yesss cause I do not plan to far ahead in case I wanna change something everything I make our one off so I never seen a use

[swift turret]

okay but if you wanna build 100 constructors for a big project?

You're just gonna do that all by hand?

[cyan leaf]

Yeep legit been doing it yesterday and today 😭 i dont regret it as improvise to much

[swift turret]

well thats stupid

[cyan leaf]

Ehh idc really i just like doing it manually

[swift turret]

no u dont lol

you admitted you just havent learned blueprints

so you cant say you like doing it 1 way without ecery trying any other

[cyan leaf]

Ughhh fineee im researching it now also to do a plutonium reactor loop do I need to keep some recators using uranium?

[drowsy kelp]

Don’t you get plutonium by processing uranium waste

[cyan leaf]

😭 thats basically why im asking if u keep some uranium reactors running to make it and whats the difference between mk1 and 2 bp?

[drowsy kelp]

Between what?

[cyan leaf]

The bp maker

[swift turret]

size

[cyan leaf]

Oh lol

[swift turret]

im just now realizing my turbo factory plan is not possible

it requires 2700 crude oil but I cannot get that much so I guess i'll just die powerless

[drowsy kelp]

1 is 4x4 foundations and 2 is 5x5 foundations

[swift turret]

they need to add a MK2 oil extractor man

[zealous urchin]

yea im well aware hence i said sink Ccoal to not increase effort

[swift turret]

Sigh I guess I'll settle for 40k MW

[drowsy kelp]

It would either need 2 fluid outputs or mk3 pipes

[cyan leaf]

Mk 2 oil extractor fill like just be like the excavators just increase how kuch it makes

[swift turret]

sounds fun

[drowsy kelp]

Mk3 pipes sounds like a headache

[swift turret]

I just dont wanna do that plan to turn water into packaged water unpackage it then send it back to be packaged

that sounds like worse of a headache

[drowsy kelp]

“Sigh i guess” you could power 33 deloreans with that much juice

[swift turret]

yeah but I wanted 50k

That would last me until rocket fuel

I remember now its diluted packaged fuel

over 1800 packaged water being packaged and unpackaged. An aboslute murder

[frosty mirage]

Good morningggg time to finish logistics for the motor factory

[cyan leaf]

Noicee

[dark tusk]

has anyone else realized that if you buy turbo motors for 8 coupons from the awesome shop and sink it after if you haven't done alot of sinking then you get way more than 8 coupon ticket things?

[swift turret]

the points increase the more you sink

evenutally it'll cost way more than buying from the parts

[dark tusk]

yes that's the thing, eventually

[fading whale]

Are we same time zone?
Currently in the process of waking up myself 😂

[dark tusk]

free coupons until it's too many points needed

[swift turret]

not free if you're buying the parts

[fading whale]

Next thing you'll ask five of us to start investing in turbo motors and you'll only take 20%. Then that handful asks more five each to do the same.
No pyramid schemes here, bub! 😠

[sterile blade]

Buying parts to get coupons is one of the worst ways to get coupons especially in the long run as you increase your base coupon cost for pretty much no reason at all

[lapis shadow]

This is like self imposed inflation for no reason haha. Not a great idea if you ask me

[lunar python]

on

[fading whale]

Yes, it auto emojies certain words 🙂

[lunar python]

didnt ask

but yeah that's funny

[swift turret]

its a pretty basic script to make

[lunar python]

literally no one asked

[swift turret]

but im gonna tell you anyways

[lunar python]

LALALALA

[swift turret]

so shut up and listen

[lunar python]

closing my ears right now

[fading whale]

That's basically how this place works.

Information isn't voluntary. It's mandatory.
Helpful or not.

[lapis shadow]

didnt ask bud

[reef basin]

not sure what the convo is about, but "didn't ask" is a weird thing to say in a public forum. Everybody is entitled to share their own opinion, whether asked or not

[lunar python]

this is the only server where i've actually blocked people

[swift turret]

didnt ask

[lapis shadow]

didnt ask for this yammering

It's just for the love of the game, no hate haha

[reef basin]

also feels like it's getting a bit out of hand, a friendly reminder to check #rules and be nicer to each other

[swift turret]

I cant read

therefore rules dont apply to me

[lapis shadow]

I don't think anyone here feels like we were being mean but I think we'd all be fine to apologize if the offended party felt appropriate

if we wanna get HR here

[lunar python]

i think greeny just came in here to mediate non conflict

[fading whale]

Now you're starting to remind of that short where some dude at a bbq has had enough with some kid. Slaps it. And then just starts slapping everyone.

[reef basin]

I mean "didn't ask" is kinda aggressive for no reason

but that's just my 2 cents

[swift turret]

pennies arent produced anymore

so 2 cents is like a billion doll hairs

[lapis shadow]

This is true but in this context with multiple people saying it I thought it wass fairly light hearted, but that's MY 2 cents so idk 🤷‍♂️

[fading whale]

@greeny We all good 🙂
Many things can sound rude out of context. No worries.

[reef basin]

feels werid that multiple people being aggressive for no reason makes it be less aggressive for you

[lunar python]

[fading whale]

So anyways. 😃
Anyone had major factory related breakdowns worth talking about?

[lunar python]

im back after a bit over a month but everything's fine. even automated some batteries for my turbomotor wip

[lapis shadow]

I think it's great that you're trying to keep this place nice and friendly but I also think that unprompted rudeness is kinda a popular form of comedy on the internet but maybe that's my own delusion

[reef basin]

sure, but that would be in #off-topic-general

[lunar python]

he needs more mouse bites

[lapis shadow]

True but you could also say the comments that lead to the rudeness in question were equally off topic because they were concerning a Discord bot #off-topic-general

One was just less volatile than the other haha

[reef basin]

I could 🤷 people abuse #satisfactory for so many things 🤷

[sterile blade]

I think you might be making a mountain out of a mouse here...

[lunar python]

i agree

[lapis shadow]

To me, any conversation is a conversation worth having so I'll be overly invested in silliness

often

[lapis shadow]

You birthed this mouse and I'm the only one with the heart to amount it into a mountain

[fading whale]

As history has shown.
Often.

[lapis shadow]

Hey watch your mouth

[sterile blade]

Sushi is bestest and that is not an subjective statement

||This is a completely serious statement, not meant to just test your resolve in some way...||

[lunar python]

I despise greeny, so i like that you're defending the sillyness of the convo

[reef basin]

??

[sterile blade]

Why do I keep tipying the opposite of what I want, today 🤦‍♂️

[sterile blade]

Keep your personal drama to yourself or the mods please~

[lapis shadow]

Greeny you gonna tolerate that?

[reef basin]

I don't even know who they are, but I have no reason to engage

[lapis shadow]

Exhibit A of unprompted rudeness lol

[lunar python]

fellas

[lapis shadow]

I'm jjust joshinggggggggg

[lunar python]

is it rude to declare you arent fond of a fellow user

[sterile blade]

I'm here to read about #satisfactory, not the relationship between people (ie: their drama). #rules can give some clarity about that too

[reef basin]

Be kind and respectful to others.
#rules

[lapis shadow]

Lowkey without context kinda. Cause then that adds plausibility that they're generally predisposed to being unliked

Just my humble take on it though^

[frosty mirage]

I fkd up my motor factory... didnt notice it needs 500 screws/m and i only have 480 belts, any way i can solve this? I was thinking about splitting it in a 480 belt and a 60 belt but how do I merge this back when going to assemblers? Do i carry the 20 screws on a 60 belt directly to the last assembler and put a merger instead of a splitter there?

[zealous urchin]

oh what a guy, lets tell him something that will ruin his life:

sushi belts are indeed the bestest! in fact you should only make them since any other is boring and not optimal 😃

[mortal stone]

Kekw spent 4 hours just designing and decorating 3 rooms of 12 smelters

[sterile blade]

I didn't know we had a Nobel-prize-winner in our midst!

[zealous urchin]

im gonna get to those awards in red orange suit, green hair and with joker face paint

[fading whale]

Doc has some great videos on youtube on making "compressors". That concept could be your friend here.
Basically you use smartsplitters with overflow and mergers.

[mortal stone]

Actually can just merge the remaining input into a later part of the manifold belt

[lapis shadow]

Sometimes I forgot this is a text box and not a live convo so I'm sorry if I spurred any real drama. I promise this was all meant to be light hearted 🙏

[frosty mirage]

So this can actually work?

[fading whale]

To shorten the belts, you could merger the 20 back in already after the first assembler.

[mortal stone]

As long as the math is right and you're using up enough screws before you merge

[frosty mirage]

Oh because that already splits, right?

[reef basin]

no offense taken, but it's better to not do things like this in here 🙂

[fading whale]

As soon as you have spent 20/m from the main belt, you have room to merge the extra.

[mortal stone]

Tho iirc you can skip screws altogether

[frosty mirage]

So i can just merge back in 2nd assembler i assume as 500 will split in 1st one

[sterile blade]

I think you were pretty great with everyone overall

[lapis shadow]

didnt ask

[reef basin]

aaaand back to not being great

[sterile blade]

Don't risk it now...

[mortal stone]

Steel rotor is great

Mostly cause you can cheat it with iron pipes

And skip steel altogether

[reef basin]

ah yeah the 10000 iron for one rotor way

[sterile blade]

The 0 coal for one rotor way...

[reef basin]

I personally hate that recipe, it's super expensive. And "skipping steel" is imo overrated

like, you're gonna have to do steel one way or another anyway

[mortal stone]

Tbf it makes inputting much easier

[reef basin]

input is iron and coal 🤷

or if you do copper rotor, copper iron and coal

[mortal stone]

Yea but with iron pipes it's just iron

[reef basin]

coal is everywhere

[sterile blade]

BTW, we're speaking stators, not rotors, right?

[frosty mirage]

Not for a beginner

[reef basin]

I don't think that experience level changes how map is structured

[fading whale]

I don't remember the recipe. But provided the first assembler is using 40/s, then you have a 480 belt and a second belt with 20. After the first assembler the 480 belt is then transporting 440/s leaving enough capacity to merge in the extra 20. Make sense?

[reef basin]

separate belts 🙂

[frosty mirage]

1st is using much more, so the logic still stands?

Wait lemme check smth

[sterile blade]

It changes how easy it is (and/or how difficult it's perceived) to access distant resources

[reef basin]

you pick a place that has those resources 😉

[mortal stone]

Meh, spending hours making a belt highway is great

[sterile blade]

With the right experience every choice is a breeze

[frosty mirage]

All assemblers are at 100%, so the first one will eat up 100 screws

[fading whale]

As long as it is taking more than 20. If less, you just move the merger one assemlber further down the line.
And when you unlock priority mergers, you can even put that on the first assembler, prioritize the small belt.

[fading whale]

Then the above will certainly work.
After the first assembler, big belt is carrying 380. Merge 20 to that, and it's up to 400.

[frosty mirage]

Yeah alright. For now i only got smart splitter but will work towards priority ones too

[sterile blade]

How the hell is our wiki the last in Google results...?
I hadn't even heard of "gamecore wiki" before today and yet it's already above wiki.gg in search results 🤦‍♂️
@true mulch

Needing to nearly get to the second page of results to find our wiki's results is quite depressing ngl 😭

[lunar python]

which one's that

[reef basin]

what was the query?

[lunar python]

its at the top of my search

even just searching "satisfactory" its the first wiki to appear

[true mulch]

mine shows wiki.gg first

so does DDG which is unbiased

so does Bing which I never use

the gamecore wiki is an awful scrape of fandom lmao

it seems to be scraped from Fandom -> AI translated to Russian -> AI translated back to English

[sterile blade]

... And yet ranks higher than wiki.gg when searching "stator satisfactory"

[sterile blade]

To me (duckduckgo) Fandom is the 1st, Gamecore the 5th, Wiki.gg the 10th...

[sterile blade]

Sorry, what are you asking about?

[sterile blade]

"Stator Satisfactory"

[lunar python]

second result

[sterile blade]

?

[lunar python]

it doesnt show up at all on bing tho

[reef basin]

I don't see gamecore in first 5 pages, even russian fandom wiki is there, but not gamecore

[lunar python]

i see gamecore using bing

[sterile blade]

BTW, the 10th result is the one right above the "see more results" button... 😅

[lunar python]

we should kill fandom.com i think

[stone python]

using bing

well, there is your problem

[lunar python]

Yeah, who actually uses bing?

[fading whale]

People looking for Google or Chrome.

[spark escarp]

Its my first time actually doing a train track so this might be a stupid question, but if I have 1 line and I want to drive 2 trains on it, could I just make another railway out of the 1st one with like a small area to hold if theres a oncoming train?

[fluid crow]

I have noticed the official wiki being pretty low in the results on google too

[stone python]

if you want two trains to use the same line, youll need to do a double track line

[spark escarp]

Ah fair enough, i accidentaly build only 1 foundatin and not 2 for more space for the next track, now i have to spamm foundations for 4k meters again 😭

[stone python]

bluuuuuuuuuuuuue prints baaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbyyyyyyyyyy

[fading whale]

Multiple trains going in same direction, yes.
Them going opposite on single track, no.
You will spend more time troubleshooting and being frustrated than the time needed for a second track.
Two single-direction tracks are optimal.

[spark escarp]

well i have a 1x5 foundations yes

[spark escarp]

Ah okayy

[lunar python]

Just use blocks and multiple stations of course

[spark escarp]

I also hate building railways up or down its so "hard"

[stone python]

up is hard, down is soft

[spark escarp]

yeah but then theres always this little bump when placing a new rail

[lunar python]

Righty tighty, lefty loosy ahh

[spark escarp]

fr 😭

[fluid crow]

make it at the angle of 2m ramp

[lunar python]

I think you can avoid that by starting and ending the line already on the slope

[spark escarp]

what do you guys think #screenshots

[fading whale]

Blueprints is your friend.
Going up, you stick with 1 or 2 m angled foundations.
Raising the track off of the ground (even by a little) can help even out a lot of the bumps (matter of cosmetic preference).

[spark escarp]

let me try

oh yeah 2m down foundations are perfect

thanks man

[cyan leaf]

Holy crap i finished making my large steel production and bps are meh asf

[spark escarp]

I always used 4m 😭

[fading whale]

For many trains, yes 🙂
For the main track you only need three foundations wide. One track centered on foundatin. One foundation in the middle for spacing. Then you will always have enought space between tracks for turns.

[fluid crow]

I build it on ramps and foundations then delete most of them and make columns where they look good

[spark escarp]

I'll just stick with this for now, thats the only blueprint i got

[cyan leaf]

It'll fit at most like 5 trains withiut any overlapping

[spark escarp]

my only problem is I probably dont have enough concret for 4000 meters of 5x5 foundations 🤣

[fading whale]

Have you unlocked dimensional depot?
use that. And have a dedicated concrete factory just to fill that (factory -> industrial container -> dim.depot)
And also fill up your personal inventory before going on a building spree. Then you can usually manage pretty well.

[spark escarp]

Yeahh I have that already.. I put just 1 pure limestone mk3 miner just for concret to let me buid 🤣

[fading whale]

Remember you can use multiple uploaders for the same resource. So you can multiply the upload speed.
I can refill my 2500 concrete in the dim depot in less than two mins.

[spark escarp]

Oh wow... Right now I have like about 4 storages full of concret

Even with mk6 😎

[silent pagoda]

can anybody help me debug this issue with my train, it just stops here, the issue is new, it worked before and i haven't changed anything since
#screenshots message

reducing the weight of the train fixed the issue... now i'm truly perplexed

[pastel dawn]

Do you have a section of rail that is higher than 2deg ramp in the next section?

[silent pagoda]

i will double check now, but the section is only downward and it has no trouble getting up an identical incline upward

[pastel dawn]

Feel like you have more blockers than necessary but don't see why it would cause issue. Possible that section has a small unseen bump

Dismantling and reconnecting rails might be a good step

[silent pagoda]

the rails are definitely connected but i'll try it in case it's a bug
and yes i added an extra blocker for debugging but it didnt change anything

[pastel dawn]

If there is an incline right before that stopper and part of the train is on hill when it stops and it loses momentum that could be why. It looks like one side of the rail is inclined right as its going outside the image but hard to tell from screenshot.

[silent pagoda]

that incline is definitely not the problem, that whole area of track is just temporary, as part of debugging again

#screenshots message

[pastel dawn]

Yeah the tail end of your train is on a hill isnt it?

So your train is starting from a stopped position and has a lot of cars for one engine

From an incline

[silent pagoda]

momentum is not the issue, ai causes it to brake to a halt, under manual control it has no difficulty whatsoever

also at that point in the track it has had a while to build considerable speed

[pastel dawn]

Does the train just say "cant reach next destination" or ?

Yeah so its not supposed to stop at all I get it

[silent pagoda]

i've noticed it brakes until it passed the exit blocker, if it passes that it continues as expected
no, something about waiting too long at a signal

[pastel dawn]

So you have zero momentum

And the engine has to pull from zero

Manual driving working doesnt mean it will work on auto

[silent pagoda]

i realise that, my point is that it has the force

[pastel dawn]

But you have 8 cars on one engine

[silent pagoda]

and as i said it's not starting from zero here, it starts from zero way back and has plenty of time to gain speed

[pastel dawn]

"no, something about waiting too long at a signal"

If its waiting at a signal its starting from zero

[silent pagoda]

the signal shouldnt block it in the first place

that's the issue, it's the only train on the line at the moment

[pastel dawn]

Oh well what does the signal say

When you click on it

[silent pagoda]

the exit blocker?

or the entry path

[pastel dawn]

Whichever signal is blocking the train

[silent pagoda]

well it stops before the exit blocker, which remains green the whole time

it has entered the junction but refuses to exit

[pastel dawn]

If you have another blocker on the path that the train isnt clearing that could be issue

Your screenshot appears to show a second blocker behind the first that is stopping forward movement

The blocking signal considers the entire trains position not just the engine

[reef basin]

use #1038092680493801533 for questions like these. Switching between two channels is annoying

[silent pagoda]

alright my bad

[void mason]

A question for the recipe for diluted fuel in the blender should I look it up even if I already have it in the refinery version?

[silent pagoda]

the refinery version produces packaged fuel right? liquid fuel is more useful for other uses so yes but only if you want to use it

[reef basin]

they are practically the same, so it's not really a big deal if you have the packaged version

[silent pagoda]

you can't lock yourself out of any recipes so just pick what you need/want now

[reef basin]

well you can unpackage the fuel 🙂

[silent pagoda]

well yeah but that's extra machines and extra effort and managing containers, not to mention the blender version is faster (iirc)

[void mason]

I would like to streamline the packaging area by replacing it with blenders

[silent pagoda]

if thats what you want to do definitely get the recipe

[void mason]

And I would also like to do the turbo system so it's just for a management matter

[reef basin]

I mean the production is pretty streamlined even with the packaged version, especially if you do the 1:1:1 setups

[fading whale]

If it's the Diluted Packaged fuel, they are both 1:2 HOF to Fuel. And same amount of water. So it comes down to wanting packages or not.

[reef basin]

at that point you have a blueprint for reifnery and two packagers that just acts like a blender

[void mason]

The problem is that to balance the canis I put up to the vomit, in the new plant I would just like to simplify my life

[reef basin]

hence why you don't do that and do what I said above, a small 1:1:1 loop with a few canisters in it

(obviously you can get the other recipe as well, but at this point I'm trying to show you that there are ways to work with the packaged version so that it isn't pain 😉 )

[unkempt blade]

and if you want bonus style points you can use a factory cart route instead of a conveyor where it loops back the canisters

[silent pagoda]

ugh, but muh throughput

[unkempt blade]

they'll outperform a mk6 conveyor

[silent pagoda]

really? huh, still doesn't seem space efficeint but the more you know

[unkempt blade]

that part is correct, it's not space efficient compared to conveyors

[silent pagoda]

style points 😎

[unkempt blade]

yeah!

[scenic mirage]

i forget but alt recipes are only in machines right? cant do them on the crafting bench?

[silent pagoda]

yes

[scenic mirage]

ty 🙏

[visual elm]

leaving my 2 concrete running at producing 20 a min while I go out, probably at least 3h, so when I get back I should have like 7200 concrete to start my skyway blessed

before anyone says it I know skyways are not efficient uses of resources, but I have a counterpoint: they're cool

in fact they're so cool a small part of me is tempted to waste ALL MY RESOURCES and build my entire factory floating above the world

[peak wasp]

have they not fixed the radiation bug where you're at 100% radiation until you die, even if you remove the radioactive items from your inventory? I guess not.

[fading whale]

If I remember correctly, you can save game and the reload after which there is not more radiation.

[peak wasp]

Frustrating.

[fading whale]

Agreed. But at least you won't have to wait for certain death 🙂

[peak wasp]

I don't have filters automated yet so I killed myself to save them XD

[fading whale]

Well there's your business justification for getting that set up.. "I die"

[peak wasp]

I have soooooo many open projects rn

[fluid crow]

safety first

[fading whale]

Are we working for the same mega corp?

[scenic mirage]

before anyone says anything, its your save, its your game, play it the way you want 😄

[fluid crow]

I'm forming a union

[fading whale]

What if I told you the wrecks you see around the map are form everyone else who tried that?

[peak wasp]

im 1,143 hours into this save and don't have filters automated. Safety is definitely NOT first lol

[fading whale]

"Safety eventually".

[scenic mirage]

whenever i run out of filters i just throw down some manufacturers and sloop a depot full

[void cliff]

For filters I feel like a single container will last the whole game, same with cloth and miners

[fading whale]

What Muzzy just wrote. I fill a large container and let that refill my depot. Lasts a looong time.

[peak wasp]

I don't play smart

I play hard

as in, the hard way lol

[void cliff]

I made a steel mill doing like 1500 steel per min mostly sitting idle and I ran out of miners and just made a huge container of miners, attached it to the DD, then basically never makes miners again, haha

Ended up just using most of the iron bars for ficsit ingots

[fading whale]

Yeah. I do the same with most "limited use" items. One slooped run to fill a container or two. then just forget about it.

[zealous urchin]

nothing like doing 120 mod frames /m

[peak wasp]

I'm going to be making an absolute buttload of super computers one day

but I'm working on other things

[scenic mirage]

when i was building my nuclear plant i had to do that a few times w iodine filters

[visual elm]

that's definitely what I'm doing

can hyper tubes go straight up?

they can right, just slow?

[fading whale]

Yup. And true. Just slow.

[visual elm]

also can you hang conveyor roof mounts on the underside of inverted slopes?

[fading whale]

But you can put in accelerators. Just like a cannon. Then you go up fast 🙂

[scenic mirage]

was LGIO the person who discovered hypertube cannons

[visual elm]

cos I'm thinking one massive tube/corridor of all my resources in a given area going to a central factory in the sky would be sick

[fading whale]

Also yes. But aligning them is fidigity.
I put a flat foundation up. Use that for the mount, and then nudge it over to the slope.

Other options are beams or columns with wall mounts on. Lots of different cosmetic options.

[scenic mirage]

fml... steeled frame and steel screws in the same hard drive

[oak nymph]

I got a question should I build a big uranium set all in one place where I get 7.2uranium fuel rode and then in the set up it takes the 360 uranium waste for it to work?

[humble osprey]

how many batteries do yall use

[fading whale]

You WILL be able to unlock them all. There are more drives than recipes 🙂

[oak nymph]

Or 2 seperate set up one making uranium fuel rode and another processing the waste

[reef basin]

usually depends on how many vehicles do I have running around

[scenic mirage]

well yeah but i started a new save, phase 2 rn and tryna setup some factories

[oak nymph]

200/min

[humble osprey]

i meant storage cells

the giant buildings that store charge

[reef basin]

ah, the things that aren't called batteries? 😄

zero

[humble osprey]

power storage

[reef basin]

yeah, zero of those

[scenic mirage]

theyre honestly stupid expensive

[humble osprey]

i try to have atleast 100 in any playthru

[scenic mirage]

why

[humble osprey]

they make me feel good

[tall lantern]

Might build some as insurance, but ideally they never kick in

[reef basin]

I see no point in spending time in temporary power solution instead of permanent power solution

[scenic mirage]

i mean tbf it saved my ass a few times w nuclear

[humble osprey]

theyre my only lifeline when i need to troubleshoot the petrol plants

[scenic mirage]

the waste backed up so i had to shut it down and then power went over limit

[humble osprey]

or upgrading from fuel to turbofuel

[reef basin]

well, you can also just do priority power switches 🙂 at which point it's much better failsafe

[humble osprey]

those too!

[peak wasp]

batteries look cool

[reef basin]

batteries or power storages?

[peak wasp]

power storage. I call them batteries for some reason

[humble osprey]

i know i could set up biomass burners to kickstart things but i prefer relying on power cells

[peak wasp]

I also call concrete sand bags, sigh

[clear mesa]

prob cus they look like a giant battery :p

[reef basin]

yeah it's a problem sometimes, since there are also "batteries" as item

[humble osprey]

ideally i need my power storages to sustain me for 10 hours

thats enough time i need

[peak wasp]

I grew up with them fat 12V duracell batteries in my flashlights (torches for the rest of the world)

[reef basin]

with priority power switches you need 0 power storages 😛

[humble osprey]

i dont understand??

[fluid crow]

power storage could = a bunch of packaged fuel of some kind

[humble osprey]

when i unplug everything, how are the refilneries gonna keep running without any power

also if i have a charged power storage in a blueprint, will it stay charged when i build the blueprint

this is vital information

[reef basin]

priority power switches will have only some machines connected, so that first only your fuel gen production would run, until gens fill up, at which point rest of factory can be enabled

[reef basin]

no

[humble osprey]

aw mannn

[peak wasp]

I think it's nice that you can play however you want, even if it's inot the ideal way

[humble osprey]

r u sre

[reef basin]

would just mean you can get infnite free power

[humble osprey]

i think i should test it

[fluid crow]

it does seem like power storage doesn't actually use power to charge

[reef basin]

given that BPs just "build" the machine, and power storages are built empty, I don't see why they should be built full in your case

[peak wasp]

how did you get it to charge in the designer?

[humble osprey]

so ur hypothesizing

ill test it when i can

[peak wasp]

they will be empty

[fluid crow]

how do you charge power storage in a blueprint?

[reef basin]

no, I'm like 99.999% sure, because:

• afaik you can't connect machines in a BP to external power
• somebody would've tried this before if it was possible

[fluid crow]

I guess if you put the generator in the blueprint

[reef basin]

can machine in a blueprint even work?

[peak wasp]

not that I've ever seen

[fluid crow]

it looks like a bio burner to start it does not

[humble osprey]

does someone have satisfactory open rn?

[reef basin]

well bio burners can't charge power storages

[kind spade]

Ist there a limit on how many different items I can upload to the Dimensional Depot

[fluid crow]

I was going to use it to power a packager

[humble osprey]

while we are on the topic of power, do u guys like nuclear power

[peak wasp]

yes

I think the logistics of it are super fun

[reef basin]

no

[kind spade]

Thank you

[gritty parcel]

hello i was wondering if someone could help me, im doing a playthrough with my friend and im not gonna use a guide this time. but im rather confused as to when to have multiple products in one line/node? like r inforced iron plates, rotors, etc

[reef basin]

there's no "when", the game is a sandbox and you can play it in any way you want

that being said, my recommendation is to not think about "nodes" at all. Instead, pick a product you want to make and amount you want to have. Calculate backwards to see how many raw resources it needs, then find a place that has those resources and build it there. Repeat for every product you want to make.

(and yeah, I wouldn't recommend following guides)

[gritty parcel]

thats another question i have, i know satisfactory tools is really helpful, but it asks how many i want per minute, how the hell do i know?

[peak wasp]

I only use the in game stuff and no mods. But I like figuring out all the math and locations myself I guess. Nothing wrong with using guides or mods tho

[gritty parcel]

how come

[gritty parcel]

honestly i couldnt play thhis game without a guide at first, i was so overwhelmed haha

[reef basin]

well how the hell can anyone know? what else would you be asking it?

[gritty parcel]

well i dont really know / care about its production per minute, id prefer for the resources and machines to be used efficently

[fluid crow]

adjust the number per minute until you get something that sounds achievable

[reef basin]

because the game expects you to learn stuff, and if you just copy-paste a build from a video, you haven't learnt anything and the next challenge (that expects that you already know the previous things) will also be "impossible" for you and you'll again have to resort to a guide.

The game is made in a way that you can freely experiment with things without losing materials/progress/whatever. It doesn't punish you for doing things "wrong", because there's no wrong and it leaves you free hand to do whatever you want in any way you want

[reef basin]

which is what Tools does, it shows you how many you need to have 100% efficiency

[fading whale]

No. Anything you can have in your inventory can go in dimensional depot.
But if you upload multiple items using the same uploader, if one item gets full, it will block the upload for the remaining items.

[gritty parcel]

if youre just copying and pasting without thinking about it then yeah you wont learn stuff, but i learn stuff from copying

[gritty parcel]

yeah but i have loads of constructors that are underclocked, thats not really using the machines effeciently is it

[reef basin]

there's a lot of subtle things that you don't really learn by following a thing, e.g. "why not do it this way"

[reef basin]

why not? they have 100% efficiency

[peak wasp]

having a warehouse full of 100% clocked constructors wouldn't be efficient with that logic either. You're talking about an efficient use of 3d space and not the machines production efficiency

[void cliff]

Making a HMF blueprint was so valuable to me, lol… 750 iron and 150 limestone -> 2 HMF/min and so easy to just make more of them now

[gritty parcel]

sorry i havent worded that well, with under clocking the machine it does has the 100% efficency stat, but if i have a load of constructors underclocked, its not using the most out of that machine

[reef basin]

not really, but machines are practically free, so why bother?

[zealous urchin]

u can play efficiently by time spent, effort made, resource draw, power draw, resource to product ratio
lots of different things to go by
even tho i want to understand you just saying efficiently doesnt mean much without specification

[gritty parcel]

idk it just annoys me having half the machines in this line underclocked haha, i dont mind having a few but

[peak wasp]

I clock my machines based on how many machines I want in a given factory (usually, I tend to like the number to be divisible by 2 or 3, because I'm a load-balancer type of guy)

[fading whale]

Then have fewer machines and don't underclock?

[reef basin]

I mean... that's your choice how many machines you clock

[peak wasp]

I think you're overthinking it

[humble osprey]

hello i am a car hater, i just learned tha factory carts dont use any fuel

OMG

factory carts are my new fav thing ever

[peak wasp]

I don't really even look at other peoples' builds in-depth because I don't want my save to look like anyone else's. I think the beauty of this game is seeing how everyone else's "mind" works, visualized by how their factories are built.

If everyone used the same guide, it would be boring.

You want 2000 Power Storage "batteries"? Hell yeah. Do it. lol

[fading whale]

You can even have it auto drive on a route like any other tractor or truck. Just has limited capacity 🙂

[gritty parcel]

yeah probably, perfectionism is probably kicking in

[humble osprey]

factory carts are now my new fav

[peak wasp]

this gummy is starting to kick in

[fluid crow]

factory carts are the solution

[fading whale]

Have you tried the siren? 😉

[humble osprey]

the what?

[peak wasp]

it can also.....defy physics

[fading whale]

Just get in and right click (i think)

[gritty parcel]

so baso in otherwords, just fuck it and do what you feel is right

[humble osprey]

the horn

beep beep

[fading whale]

No. Left click

[void cliff]

“Efficiency,” I.e. never having machines idling has never been a concern for me

[fading whale]

Same. It's the output that counts. Nothing else 😄

[timid sedge]

Hello guys, i need help, is there any way to create some kind of stackers for trains, like in factorio?

[fading whale]

Never played Facto. Explain ?

[timid sedge]

Like a bunch of empty railways before the station, on which trains can wait until their station is free, and not stop all the network

[strong fiber]

you probably can

[fading whale]

Not as such. But if you plave the station to the side of the main track, any train parked there wont block others from going by.

[peak wasp]

just got mk4 conveyors how many hours do i have left in the game

[timid sedge]

I tried, but there are just to many trains going to my factory, that there are simply npt enouth space

[timid sedge]

Depends only on you)

[fading whale]

As many as you want to use. 🙂

[fluid crow]

400

[peak wasp]

fair

[strong fiber]

Depends on how you want to play the game

We can’t give estimates based on other people

[dim mist]

as many as you want

[strong fiber]

Me personally im at 160 hours and im in the final phases of the game

[fading whale]

I would say more than a few. But less than the rest of your life. Though that IS an option too.

[strong fiber]

10000 hour save

[dim mist]

hehe

[strong fiber]

over a year

Just barely over a year tho

8760 hours is a year

525,600 minutes

31,536,000 seconds

[dim mist]

so, how do you handle raw material offloading (ingots), and some best practices to do things cleanly, i just rebuilt this room to a clean slate, need to handle 780 iron, 300 copper, 120 caterium, want to route my iron over to steel production from here, or maybe directly to steel production instead of usin the hub?

the idea is this room should be a place for the train to unload, i guess i have to decide what passes through, and then what needs to go elsewhere

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553550313533997057/1464997505769934912/image.png?ex=697780bf&is=69762f3f&hm=832202fc22c6695868b6f0b35dcdc13eb5eba0be83577dc753bf9145a6872fe2&

[peak wasp]

it took me 160 hours to get there 😭. long game

[dim mist]

oh also biofuel rides my train line so i guess ill have to account for room for that as well :\

my world is now nearing 1000 hours

[strong fiber]

41.6 days bru

[fading whale]

This build is at 560 hours. And I haven't finished Phase 4 yet.

[dim mist]

im excited to play again bcause my previous 750 hours in this game were without AI

now i have to use ai everyday at work so it kind of gives me a new edge in planning/decision making

[strong fiber]

What is you possibly using ai for in satisfactory

[dim mist]

for project planning

[fluid crow]

bros bots is scraping all things satisfactory

[strong fiber]

Dudes got the neural network integrated in his world

[mortal stone]

#screenshots message

I have created my great rainbow belt highway!

[strong fiber]

aughh

that triggers the dopamine centers in my brain

[jaunty wedge]

i am planning a 100k mw plant but i suck making building look cool in the game, if anyone is willing to help me out with this it would be much appreciated

[strong fiber]

My plant is

big flat area

[mortal stone]

I mostly spent 8 hours today just making my belt highway and 3 rooms of smelters for my factory XD

[dim mist]

#screenshots message this is 5gw

[jaunty wedge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1eygkxt/beautiful_100000_mw_waste_free_nuclear_plant_in/

This is the kinda thing i want to do but i got no idea how to make stuff like this

[stone moth]

I beat satisfactory

[toxic lichen]

does the size of the water source matter

in regards to supplying water to coal power gens

[fading whale]

No. Only the amount of extractors. The water supply is "infinite".

[toxic lichen]

ah so its like a node
W

why cant i scan for water ;-;

[fading whale]

Water IS pretty easy to spot 😉
Also, your map. If it's blue. It's water. Only the most shallow water is not deep enough.

[toxic lichen]

i see
cause the only water ive seen is in the forest of death
or the ocean

both places i dont wanna go back to yet

[fading whale]

Where are you currently located and need water?

[toxic lichen]

in the middle of a big ass field

go far enough 1 way
ocean

the other way
forest of death

[strong fiber]

Me personally i use a online map

[toxic lichen]

thought the word was procedurally generated

[fading whale]

Which one is forest of death? Would help a lot if you use the normally used terms biome names 🙂

[strong fiber]

alot easier trying to spot water nearby when the whole map is explored

[fading whale]

!wikisearch world

[raven axle]

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

[strong fiber]

No its the same map every time

[toxic lichen]

idk the biome :(

everything there just wanted me dead
found mushrooms there

lots of spitters
those weird plants that spawn the flies

it was also very pinky blueish

[toxic lichen]

ah e'-e'
my mistake

[fading whale]

Check this page out.
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map
Move your mouse over the map. On the bottom right it will show you the name of the biome your mouse is over.

[toxic lichen]

lemme have a look

[fading whale]

If you se a ton of icons, just select "Unselect all layers" in the menu on the right.

[toxic lichen]

are those harddrive spots
Possible spawns
or they are there
cause i shouldve seen more by now then ;-;

[pastel surge]

Another day another issue to fix in da factory 🗣🔥

[toxic lichen]

looks like the biome was swamp

[pastel surge]

Do you guys backup your saves or is it just me

[fading whale]

Swamp is nasty 🙂
But it has water all over.

[toxic lichen]

im assuming there isnt 298 mercer spheres

[fading whale]

Hopefully not just you.
Everyone should know this mantra.
Backup Your Saves !!

[toxic lichen]

and 118 drives

[pastel surge]

Nice

[fading whale]

Those numbers are exact 🙂 For drives too.

[toxic lichen]

wtf
maybe i havent explored as far out as i first thought

[fading whale]

Some of them are quite well hidden.

[toxic lichen]

or the map is way bigger than first thought
both are possible

i js need a jetpack man ;-;

[fading whale]

Hehe... That page is a good tool. But you can just unselect all the layers on the right if you don't want spoilers and just want to see the map for orientation.

[toxic lichen]

spoilers
for locations of things to collect i dont find problematic

i wont use it to find them js yet
still like that excitement from finding a drive

[fading whale]

Or look up "World" on the wiki page. The map is there as jpg.

You can also upload your save game to this page.
Then it will show all your stuff on the map. Really good for planing when you want to go bigger.

[frosty mirage]

I finally finished my 1st motor factory 🥺🥺 #screenshots

[fading whale]

That is a proper sized factory 🙂

[ornate saffron]

Looks efficient.

Time to decorate

[frosty mirage]

Yea, had some hiccups with 500 screws/m and only 480 belt capacity but I found a workaround thanks to the community here

[frosty mirage]

Yep, made it scaleable in case I need to increase production to more than 10/m

[ornate saffron]

Screws can be a bit much to manage in bulk

[fading whale]

That's the way to go. Thinking ahead will help you tons.

[frosty mirage]

Yea, separated 20 on a belt and merged it with 2nd assembler on the 4th floor where 1st level assembly happens

[frosty mirage]

Yea, thats how I try to design my factories, thats what I did with my steel beam, steel pipe and encased industrial beam factory too

But thats a bit more messier, this one also has an underground belt logistics system so it looks more neat

[fading whale]

And if you wrap the building up, you'll basically have created a logistics floor. Very commonly used to hide all the spageth 🙂

[frosty mirage]

I do have a subfloor for that and also space below that for 1 more subfloor if things get out of control

I can say its future proofed enough

I just unlocked petroleum power, so i guess time has come to expand my oil infrastructure

For now i only have 80/m plastic and rubber production

With petroleum coke sink

[fading whale]

Yeah. Keep enough coal generators to run what you have now AND a bit more. Make sure you can run at least 10-20% of the oil/fuel production on coal as a fall-back.

[frosty mirage]

I have 300 MW difference between max consumption and production

But i think one of my coal power setups has a fluid problem, it should be 300 MW more, I need to check the issue

I guess 600 extra MW should be enough until I start the petroleum plant

[ornate saffron]

Could be..... how many coal generators are you running?

[fading whale]

And if not, just add more 😄

[oak nymph]

To transport water easily could I build a heck lot of packager plus a heck lot of empty canister then pack the water then unpack it at my nuclear power plant then send the empty canister back to make a loop?

[ornate saffron]

That is most people preferred way to transport fluids over distance

[oak nymph]

If I have 36 nuclear gen time 240water/min it's 8640water per min then divide by 60 it's 144 packager

So I would only need 144 empty canister for the loop to work? Are my math correct

[scenic mirage]

how have i never seen a jetpack hog in over 500 hours 😭

[oak nymph]

Jetpack hog wtf?

[frosty mirage]

32 right now, but the problem is somewhere on the 2nd set of 16

[frosty mirage]

Buts its strange because the setup is mirrored with the 1st set of 16

[fading whale]

I can't do the math. But keep in mind that you need a continuous supply of 8640 water. So you need to unpack that many canisters pr minute.

[scenic mirage]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Alpha_Hog

[twin aurora]

Whats the key to large factories? They look fun to build but I feel like the biggest roadblock is efficiently splitting everything, solution?

[coral marsh]

Man, setting up a single layer factory for a stack of supercomputers per minute is one of the most fun things ive done. Itll tka e few hours to wind up once its all ready to go, but my god I am loving these modded leached ingot recipes, turning nitrogen gas, sulfuric acid and any ore into a lot of ingots in a blender is very fun.

[mortal stone]

Need ideas to break the monotony of my factory

[fading whale]

@oak nymph And you need to factor in the transport time of the water too. The longer, the more canisters you need. So it's "a lot". But you only need to make them once and then loop them.

[oak nymph]

Yeah it's 144 packager and 72 unpackager

[coral marsh]

Wow

[oak nymph]

Yeah that's why I'm going to get all the belt clogged up so the loop starts itself

There is a lot of risk

[fading whale]

At both ends you put in an industrial container that is 50% full 'ish as a buffer for the canisters.

[scenic mirage]

blender diluted fuel >>

[fading whale]

Once rolling, there is no risk. Just have a f-ton of canisters ready and add more as needed 🙂

[coral marsh]

Good recipe

[oak nymph]

Oh yeah but if there is too much canister it won't work I think but I'm not sure never tried it

[coral marsh]

Are you using steel canisters, the standard plastic or the copper canisters recipe

[fading whale]

That's why you add buffer with space.

Depending on your layout, distance and so, you might want to just avoid the loop and fabricate new canisters in one and and sink them at the other.

[coral marsh]

Also add an overflow line from a smart splitter in the system

You can use the overflow option to act as a refill for the canisters, going back into the loop for transport etc and it may help keep the loop or system a little more free

[oak nymph]

I could use whatever tbh

[ornate saffron]

I had the same issues when I first built 32 generators. Took me forever but it turns out the pipes were not always connected properly. Likely a update 7 issue

[coral marsh]

Only ask cause the original recipe is plastic so refineries and oil, big machines, lots of space needed and the steel canisters uses a foundry, either works, but if you're tight on space, the steel ond may be the best option

[ornate saffron]

I ended up deleted all the pipes I placed junctions on and rebuilt it

[oak nymph]

If I sink them idk if it would take to much ressources

[frosty mirage]

I did that once and power was at 2400 MW, but now again its around 2100, will probably redo the pipes

[short mist]

Here's a dumb question but did someone here made a IKEA or McDonald's

[coral marsh]

Always setup a smart splitter set to overflow that goes to the sink. It's the best way to ensure hardly any goes to waste

[ornate saffron]

Just goth Ihop

[short mist]

Xd

[fading whale]

Not that I remember. Go for it!
"99 mill doggos served".

[void cliff]

Wish power shard production came sooner

[fading whale]

Yes and no. One thing you should do though (if not already) is to always sloop your shard production. Double the amount of shards you get pr slug.

[ornate saffron]

Im at phase 3 with 600 plus power shards using the above sloop trick

[tall lantern]

there's over 5000 shards available from slooping slugs, is that not enough?

[ornate saffron]

Its enough to shard yourself

[dawn path]

anyone know of a mod that lets you reliably build underwater?

[sudden patio]

I wish there was enough Sam to process all the uranium/plutonium waste and use it for anything else. The end game feels like a lie when basically the only resource that is limited is SAM.

[oak nymph]

How the hell do you have 600power shard I'm almost at phase 5 and I have like 150 power shard

[real shale]

Slooping them

There is a lot of power slugs on the map

[tall lantern]

^

[fluid crow]

exploration and slooping = lots

[dim mist]

the same way i have endless biofuel, sloop