satisfactory

[coral marsh]

Some have even done it on only biomass

[fickle oriole]

WOW

[coral marsh]

Yea

[fickle oriole]

related question - how do you keep it fresh/interesting after the first time?

[coral marsh]

I can only assume packaged biofuel was used by the time they where at end game

[ornate saffron]

gCome end game you generally choose Rocket fuel (Nitro Rocket fuel is great) or nuclear

[coral marsh]

Im using nitro rocket fuel

Because I love blenders and their recipes

Genuinely the more blenders and particle accelerators I can use, the happier I am/the more fun I will have

[ornate saffron]

16 refineries, 32 benders giving almost 500gw of power

so sexy

[coral marsh]

That'd be gorgeous

Im going for 16 blenders and im not sure how many refineries but it'll likely be 16 as well for 360Gw

Itll satiate my wanting to build over 1k fuel gens

Because if I can I wanna try and build 350 nuclear reactors

[open canyon]

Is it okay to build a factory off a cliff?

[coral marsh]

Brother

I build them floating in the sky

[ornate saffron]

as long as it is what yuou desire

[coral marsh]

100% go for it

[oak nymph]

Bruh why

[coral marsh]

Because en mass projects

[open canyon]

Thanks, was wondering if it'd even let me

[oak nymph]

It's cool most of my factory are over cliff or water

[coral marsh]

Itll be 105 more than the apparent hard limit because of uranium waste

[ornate saffron]

can i DM you?

[coral marsh]

Go for it

[ornate saffron]

request sent^_^

[rain hollow]

I've constructed a massive ramp to get my lizard doggo back to my hub

The image is in design and architecture

[heavy fern]

Hi guys, I need help with doing my steel factory how will i design it

Any recommended designs ?

[clear mesa]

What do you need help with exactly

If you find iron near coal it'l be less logistic work, that's about it

[heavy fern]

layout

[heavy fern]

They're not close to each other but i can manage that

[clear mesa]

Errr why do you need a layout though, you just route 1:1 Iron and Coal to a foundry.

Without overclocking/underclocking it takes 45/min.

Generally speaking youll want somewhere around 2 foundry's worth so you can automate 1 constructor's worth of steel pipes and beams

In terms of layout if you build with manifolds in mind the "layout" never really changes

If you haven't looked into manifolds then I'd suggest looking into those, they'll solve a lot of potential layout questions you may have

[twin parcel]

hmm its to find a 3 to 3 balancers blueprints

[pliant peak]

anyone want to play satisfactory with me i need help building shit

im in early mid game

[twin parcel]

nope i solo leveling

[clear mesa]

youll probably be able to find people in #1201555265942724758 easier

plenty of new players there

[rain hollow]

Got my lizard doggo back to the hub

[crude canyon]

do you guys care about factory layouts?

[ornate saffron]

I do.

[crude canyon]

what does factory layout mean to you?

Like, I'm always trying to make it so the storage is centralized so it's easier to get all the items you want, instead of jumping around throughout the factory

[ornate saffron]

the 6 hours of spreadsheeting i do before hand figuring out how many machines i need and how im going to place each. This allows me to layout walkways floors nad such

[placid stirrup]

I usually have the final product going to a convenient accessible location, that seldomly means the center of the factory

[rain hollow]

Not losing my mind because of a disorganized factory

[placid stirrup]

And I use SFTools both for the production line as well as pre organizing my machine clusters and how things flow

[rain hollow]

Because I HATE seeing a factory that's really unorganized

It just annoys the hell out of me

[placid stirrup]

Sometimes I have factories that are totally enclosed though that I know I'll never go back into as long as they're running properly

[gloomy tusk]

#screenshots message

[rain hollow]

You're a horrible person

You disorganized FUCK!

[gloomy tusk]

it was my first factory 🥺

[rain hollow]

Never mind

That is the ONLY... Exception

[gloomy tusk]

i actually use foundations this time

[rain hollow]

Good

[gloomy tusk]

now it doesnt look like someone wet shit where the factory is

[rain hollow]

It's gonna probably be a nightmare for me to set back up everything since I moved my factory

[glad hawk]

I killed 4 lizard dogs so far

[gloomy tusk]

your a horrible person

[glad hawk]

The game gets mad at me

[gloomy tusk]

they did nothing wrong

[rain hollow]

You... MONSTER

[glad hawk]

They annoy me due they are like pests they run up to me and stare at me with their ugly ALIEN face

[hollow hazel]

That's Speciest!

[gloomy tusk]

fr

[gloomy tusk]

what phase are you in

i never really move factorys i just improve them

[sick falcon]

is quartz purification a good recipe

[pastel surge]

Why does the desert not have oil, when irl desert have oil

[ornate saffron]

i just leave them and build more elsewhere

[hollow hazel]

You are thinking too Earthican. This is a whole other planet with a whole other set of ecological rules.

[gloomy tusk]

its not a recreation of earth its an alien planet how do we know if its a desert

[pastel surge]

Ik

[placid stirrup]

It's almost like we're on a different planet or something

[pastel surge]

But I wouldve assumed conditions are similar

[gloomy tusk]

one sec i gotta feed my lizard doggo

and my bean

[hollow hazel]

Then where are the humanoids with their odd facial bumps? 🤔

[ornate saffron]

likely cuase it gots a billion other nodes. But the spire coast is just to the west

[pastel surge]

One sec I gotta rebuild my whole factory

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh and then transport it

[gloomy tusk]

guys did you know i actually made satisfactory

[pastel surge]

And then run out of power again

[gloomy tusk]

this is very factual

[pastel surge]

Proof?

[gloomy tusk]

it was on my alt trust

[pastel surge]

@hollow hazel I dont have trains im in phase 3 lol

[gloomy tusk]

your IN phase 3?

[ornate saffron]

trains are phase 3 lol

[gloomy tusk]

you unlock trains by then

[gloomy tusk]

new phase?

[ornate saffron]

The next phase

[gloomy tusk]

7.5 million nuclear pasta

[ornate saffron]

in my butthole

[pastel surge]

I mean

Phase 2, mb

[ornate saffron]

why you rebuilding? just build more else where. Its more efficient. unless rebuilding gives you joy. then ignore

[rain hollow]

Finished phase 3 a few days ago and I just unlocked nuclear power a day or two ago

My factory was pretty big but I still chose to move so I could expand more easily

[ornate saffron]

ive been on phase 3 for weeks. I just dont have the drive atm

[rain hollow]

How many hard drives are there?

[cedar vault]

anyone wanna play a game?
-# this could either be satisfactory or something else

[ornate saffron]

nore then enough for all research and recipes

[sick falcon]

which modular frame recipe do you guys like for large scale production

[rain hollow]

Actually better question, how many more hard drives are there than alternative recipes

[sick falcon]

118

[ornate saffron]

whichever fits the resources you have access too

[gloomy tusk]

im making nuclear power

[rain hollow]

The one with steel tubes

[gloomy tusk]

#off-topic-general

[ornate saffron]

i think there is 3 extra in the game after all research and recipes

[clever sandal]

yo i accidentally pressed f11 and now my screen is windowed, how do i fix it

[rain hollow]

I'm rescanned one and got an option for a pioneer upgrade

[cedar vault]

for some stupid reason my kayout doesnt show me that channel thx!

[ornate saffron]

most windows prgrams allow alt+f11 to fullscreen

[rain hollow]

I don't know whether or not to get it incase I then won't be able to have enough hard drives for all the alternative recipes

[ornate saffron]

ther is more harddrives in the game then you need

[rain hollow]

Alright, I chose the inventory slots

[tame bobcat]

reading this as im deconstructing my steel factory to reconstruct it in my megafactory

[pastel surge]

Rebuilding for better efficiency

Its not even on platforms

[ornate saffron]

so much work for little gain in my opion thats all. But i support whatever makes you happy ^_^

[rain hollow]

Wait how did my lizard doggo just bring me SAM ore? I don't even think there's a node around where I am

[ornate saffron]

they do that

[tame bobcat]

i think they can pick up any random item

[sick falcon]

it gives you random items

it doesnt actually go and get them

[tame bobcat]

i’ve had some give me turbo motors before

[sick falcon]

same

[rain hollow]

Oh

[sick falcon]

smart dog

[ornate saffron]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Lizard_Doggo

complete list of items here

[tame bobcat]

looks cool! (but yeah barely any gain 😭) tbf i am expanding it as well with new recipes

[rain hollow]

I just hit the jackpot and got the iron pipes alternate recipe

[zealous urchin]

for 4 minutes and 11 seconds

Fe pipe is basicaly immortal

[rain hollow]

Is there an iron only alternate recipe for steel beams?

Dang

[ornate saffron]

there is a iron ingot + coal recipe thats good

[zealous urchin]

u dont need steel beams except some elevator parts

[rain hollow]

Already have that one

[zealous urchin]

except that u dont need steel beam at all

[ornate saffron]

conveyors

[real shale]

Freight cars

[pastel surge]

2% chance

[ornate saffron]

versatile framework

[real shale]

Power towers

[ornate saffron]

blueprinter

[zealous urchin]

look how many ppl rush to prove someone wrong vs when some1 asks for help

[real shale]

There's a LOT you need steel beams for actually

[rain hollow]

Also isn't that steel Ingot recipe?

[zealous urchin]

gottem

[ornate saffron]

ya i should have specifiieed

[real shale]

Someone did ask for help and they got the answer, not only that, there is #1038092680493801533 for that specifically

[rain hollow]

It is a pretty good recipe for steel ingots

[pastel surge]

Can I dm you rq to show you my factory

[ornate saffron]

no i cant view 3d images currently. Nor can io play the game.

[pastel surge]

Huh

[ornate saffron]

i got eye surgery two days ago

[pastel surge]

So how do you see discord

Im confused

[ornate saffron]

its a focus issue. i can read plan text in spurts

[pastel surge]

Oh, but you dont have depth perception or smth?

[sick falcon]

i need 3940 screws a minute for this fucking factory i hate heavy frames 😭

[zealous urchin]

missed the point but its fine

[ornate saffron]

its complicated. in short it is a major strain to put things into focus. the more complex the thing is the harder it is

[pastel surge]

I see, I hope it gets better soon

[ornate saffron]

it will ^_^

[sick falcon]

hjow does that work

[ornate saffron]

so when ppl focus on things its not a conscious choice. ATM i have to choose to focus. and it is difficult

[real shale]

Me sweating everytime I delete a power tower while reconfiguring my electricity network incase I delete the wrong tower

[void cliff]

Aluminum beams alt -> steel screws alt is perfection 🫶

[stray cave]

Sorry i closed my ticket quickly mods but thanks for taking action on the report.

[fading whale]

Two days after surgery, anything will suck 😑
But don't worry. It'll get better. Our brains are really good at adapting to senses changing.

[sick falcon]

i didnt know aluminum beams were that cheap, you just saved me such a huge headache

[rain hollow]

I think I may have just gotten the best turbofuel alternative recipe

[ornate saffron]

at that point its a throughput issue keep in mind belt speeds and such I like to have my constructor for screws feed directly into the manufacturer or assembler

[sick falcon]

unfortunately im a sucker for big conveyor lines full of items

[void cliff]

Same! Aluminum is more complex to use than steel. Could use the molded beams recipe instead. Setting up a huge steel factory is way easier than aluminum, imo

[gloomy tusk]

what is the point where i should not use conveyer belts then use trains

like 1000m?

[sick falcon]

i already have a 1200 aluminum ingot factory running, thats not an issue for me

[fickle locust]

I will find excuses to do it over even shorter distances but certainly long range travel of 1,000m+ feels like a good point to do trains

[sick falcon]

when ur transporting multiple high throughput items is when you use trains

[fluid crow]

1 train instead of like 8 belts coming in can be nice even if it's not far

[late chasm]

I just got the game!!!

Well, 2 ish days ago

[ornate saffron]

-congrats, you have lost access to family and friends. The factory must grow

[late chasm]

Lol

[ornate saffron]

seriously though get some water and stretch

[late chasm]

I'm on ps5 and I'm loving it

[late chasm]

NooooOOOOOoooOo...

:)

Anyone else play on ps5?

[ornate saffron]

likely in the #satisfactory-consoles section if you want console players specificly

[tame bobcat]

i’ve almost finished phase 3 stuff and i’ve heard a lot of people dont like aluminium production is it seriously as bad as people say

[ornate saffron]

no.... just the first time is bad.

[fluid crow]

not really, specially since you get to make some good stuff

[sick falcon]

its your introduction to cyclical byproducts

[ornate saffron]

just dont mix fresh and byproduct water. it is where most headaches come from

[sick falcon]

which is kind of weird

[leaden matrix]

Yeah, but I fucking hate steel because it needs coal😭

Aluminum is more complicated but it feels like it requires less :>

[sick falcon]

ur not gonna believe this

[leaden matrix]

Shhhh its different

[sick falcon]

aluminum needs water, quartz, coal, and bauxitr

[fluid crow]

about the time you have better power sources than coal you can use it for something else (steel)

[sick falcon]

^

there’s a really nice lake in northern forest with 4 pure coal nodes

very good for steel

[leaden matrix]

I know

But I still hate steel :>

[tame bobcat]

YIKES

[leaden matrix]

And they're always like 2 feet away🥹

Oh how I love aluminum

[tame bobcat]

i see, is it easier to like package the water and sink it (same with the the silica i think?)

[late chasm]

Will anyone mind helping me rq

[sick falcon]

and 30 miles from anything else useful

[fluid crow]

the silica is pretty easy to use a smart merger

[sick falcon]

no, what you want to do is use the byproduct water in another refinery to produce more alumina

[tame bobcat]

explain pls

[sick falcon]

i cut out the silica entirely with alt recipes

much easier

[leaden matrix]

Yup ^^
Its a sad reality but one im okay with

[leaden matrix]

I sink the excess silica and burn the excess water with coal gens

[sick falcon]

that’s rly inefficient

[tame bobcat]

is it worth grinding hard drives to do that

[sick falcon]

yes

absolutely

[tame bobcat]

i havent even been to the dune desert in my save so i can find hella hard drives there probably lol

[fluid crow]

the silica just get's priority on the line with a smart merger so the machines don't backup

#screenshots message

[leaden matrix]

Its as efficient as I need it to be at the moment ^^

[unborn nova]

that white looks really nice

[sick falcon]

it’s more infrastructure for less output but you do you ig

[late chasm]

So i am quite new, and I would like to talk with someone who would be willing to guide/help me until I am less confused and I know what I'm doing

[dire salmon]

i feel like that now that you can customize your suit they should make it in multiplayer your icon on the compass is the same as your primary colour

[sick falcon]

just build what the game tells to you

it’s not rocket science (yet)

[late chasm]

Huh.

WILL I USE ROCKETS

[sick falcon]

no but you’ll be building them

[fluid crow]

you will build them, it's like using them in a way

using them to save puppies and kittens

[real shale]

uh

i have found a bugged spitter

#screenshots message

[gloomy tusk]

quartz?

[fickle locust]

For silica

[drowsy kelp]

That happens a ton, it’ll snap back if you either touch it or make the spitter ragdoll

[sick falcon]

worlds worst hangnail

[gloomy tusk]

you get the silica from the refinerys

[fluid crow]

some but not all probably

[gloomy tusk]

yes all

wait nevermind

😭

[real shale]

deforesting in this game is a very oddly relaxing way to kill time

[gloomy tusk]

very relaxing way to kill my fps

[sick falcon]

just wait till you see irl deforestation

it’s my favorite way to relax

[real shale]

eh, the only place ive had particularly noticeable frame drops is deforesting the entirety of the bamboo fields

[gloomy tusk]

my fps dies from walking arounf

[real shale]

but that's because theres a lot of bamboo there

so blowing it up has a lot of particles lol

[tame bobcat]

i see alr alr ty

[sick falcon]

i wish you could use drones for deforestation

load one up with nobs and send it over an area

[zenith pecan]

Flying lawn mowers etc!

[gloomy tusk]

lets game it out reference?

[unkempt blade]

what's that?

[zenith pecan]

Lets game it out is the whole reason I started satisfactory.

[gloomy tusk]

leave

[gloomy tusk]

i watched him when he played satisfactory and then just recently was finally able to play

[unkempt blade]

new guy coming in hot

[zenith pecan]

I started playing on the day of the steam launch.

[gloomy tusk]

do you know who lets game it out it

*is

[unkempt blade]

nope I don't watch games

[gloomy tusk]

hey there its josh 🥹

[proud yarrow]

hello, someone want play new save?

[tall lantern]

#1201555265942724758

[fluid crow]

are these superposition oscillator supposed to look like this?
keep thinking I got artifacts flying across the screen or something lol

[tall lantern]

yes

[floral trellis]

evening pioneers!
got a question, i upgraded a turbofuel plant to rocket fuel, which should be commendable.

however, my trains do not seem to take containers with the rocket fuel (fluid freight platfrom, set to load.)

[sick falcon]

omg sjihttam stellaris

[floral trellis]

hello you

[glad hawk]

Eu5 and ck3 and vic3 are better than stellaris 😁

I built an elevator

[floral trellis]

okay primitive, whatever you say primitive.

[sick falcon]

i’m not sure why it’s not working, but as a general rule you want to package gases before sending them on trains

gases don’t work well with buffers and trains

[floral trellis]

yeah, turned out i was a melon with that train. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/558721941410807812/1467271017964507469/image.png?ex=697fc61f&is=697e749f&hm=f7eef1b0dc0166ee33ef47ba386b0b8c0d6a6d4d214cf973f2563c5d64fcb294&

[sick falcon]

that would do it

[glad hawk]

Primitive colonialism is better

And marriage politics

[floral trellis]

because it was a pretty complex train, i setup filters for the stops.

logically after 500 hours of this train operating i forgor

[glad hawk]

Marriage politics satisfactory

I have to optimize my smart plating factory and my reinforced frame thingy one

[sick falcon]

discovered train filters yesterday, lwk changed my world

[floral trellis]

now, to untangle my old spaghetti near the power plant. fun.

[void cliff]

I love to at least remove quartz from aluminum production

[sick falcon]

same

sloppy alumina and pure aluminum my beloved

[clever sandal]

@coral marsh i actually made a lizard doggo pet, instead of shooting it with a rebar

[unkempt blade]

Agreed. You need all that sweet quartz for making signs everywhere

[clever sandal]

you need quartz to recreate times square not waste it on some aluminium

[unkempt blade]

exactly!

[clever sandal]

anyway guys

[unkempt blade]

yeah we should really be talking about important stuff like factory carts

[sick falcon]

i need the quartz to supply my taiwanese semiconductor factories

[clever sandal]

today i started playing satisfactory since 12.10 and now its 23.51 (i did some breaks dw), i finished with phase 2 and now i am working on oil🇺🇸🦅

its just plain work and yet i am addicted to it

[ornate saffron]

more like 🇻🇪

[tranquil saffron]

it shore is. y'all amaze me playing so long without cheats

[sick falcon]

no definitely like 🇺🇸 , we’re invading a planet and taking all the oil

[ornate saffron]

1000 hours strong no cheats no mods

[ornate saffron]

cant argue threre

[clever sandal]

Using cheats is cheating

[sick falcon]

true…

[unkempt blade]

That's a lot of gamerizing! What's your delta on factory cart usage today?

[tranquil saffron]

wrong. took gold in middle east, don't need oil we have literally warehouses full of it

[clever sandal]

Over 12 minutes

[ornate saffron]

i got one riding a loop of Sushi belts

[unkempt blade]

having boundaries/limits makes you do things more creatively with the remaining options 🙂

[sick falcon]

yea it’s moreso to stop them from developing the oil outside of the control of the dollar

and isolate cuba

[tranquil saffron]

lol nah its moreso to stop a drug lord dictator shipping weapons of mass destruction

[floral trellis]

look, im colonising this world like the good ol VOC, ripping out everything for profit.

https://tenor.com/view/gekoloniseerd-nederland-voc-verenigde-oostindische-compagnie-kolonisatie-gif-13241230

[sick falcon]

you might be irreparably propagandized but that’s not satisfactory related so wtv

[tranquil saffron]

i was waiting for that projecting 😉

well done

South America makes coke? No...

[unkempt blade]

@ornate saffron that's a great skate park, they just need a few jump pads in there and it'd be perfect

[fickle locust]

My demand for plastic is utterly insane

I've had to revisit my recycled factory to add even more plastic because the AI Limiters and Batteries are eating all of it

[sick falcon]

how much do you use

[fickle locust]

I'm not sure where it's all going. I'm making 2,400 plastic per minute, half of which feeds the recycled rubber, and then there's 160 from residual, so 1,360 net output. Which was not sufficient

So now I've tapped the last bit of oil left in this spot to add an additional 1,000 plastic per minute

[sick falcon]

jesus

[floral trellis]

i reserved 2400 plastic and 2400 rubber for my current project too

and 24000 iron. but thats a different story

[simple stream]

is there a 1.1 satisfactory tools i jus noticed mine was 1.0 and it messed everything up

[fickle locust]

What's the iron for? I need that much copper for pasta but not that much iron

[sick falcon]

alloy or pure

[floral trellis]

ingots.

[ornate saffron]

its current you need not worry

[sick falcon]

no like did u make them with the alloy or pure recipe

[simple stream]

well something isnt adding up

[floral trellis]

i took a shortcut, and just smeltered them. i didnt want to add a gazillion refineries beyond the ones i already have there

[sick falcon]

24000 iron ingots with base recipe is insanity how many smelters is that 😭

[ornate saffron]

the creator and currator of tools is part of this discord. I assure you he is on that lol

[floral trellis]

#screenshots message

[fickle locust]

How do I still need to make more AI Limiters

I think I'm overproducing electromagnetic rods, I'm not even sure what I'm using them for

I need 177 AI Limiters and that is altogether too many

[ornate saffron]

phase four parts and Rods are the biggest uses

[fickle locust]

144 Rods per minute and I think I'm using 30 total. What even is this, why did I do this to myself

[sick falcon]

oh my god

😭

[nova ridge]

does it bother you gyyts that when you reach over max limit of belt distance it doesnt just let you place the max distance and you have to cancel and start over again?

[ornate saffron]

you plan on a nuclear power grid?

[sleek creek]

Anyone know why I would not be able to force windowed mode in graphics settings? No matter what options I pick, it stays in borderless windowed.

[nova ridge]

strange ive only 100% played windowed

[sleek creek]

Trying to move the game to another monitor but it stays borderless no matter which option I pick.

[floral trellis]

i could only fit about half the smelters in that image

[fickle locust]

Maybe, I think I initially thought I was going to do electric motors or turbo motors or something and then didn't end up doing it

[nova ridge]

screenshot your settings

[ornate saffron]

you should plan a nuclear setup. You are half way anyways lol

[fickle locust]

That'll probably be the thing after I finish the elevator parts

[nova ridge]

any thoughts on this problem i have?

[indigo kiln]

How do people make bigger blueprints and vanilla, without file editing

[nova ridge]

modular?

[fluid crow]

FullscreenMode=0
LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=1
PreferredFullscreenMode=0

but if you're trying to force a lower resolution it may go to windowed mode

that is my settings for fullscreen

[indigo kiln]

I can see how that would work for some things but I'm trying to do a train station and I can't even fit two stations side by side

[ornate saffron]

i just back it up a little and place more

[sleek creek]

I am just going to tab out. Was going to play Warzone while my resources build up. Just started a new game and have nothing currently. 🙂

[ornate saffron]

you should explore, kill mobs find alien tech and harddrives

[sleek creek]

Ya, I want to at least get ladders and some resources 1st.

[fluid crow]

I'm not sure why that's my settings for full screen but seems to work

[sleek creek]

I even rebooted and it won't go into windowed. There are several threads on the issue but they are old.

[fluid crow]

oh you want windowed?

[ornate saffron]

you have rfoundation ramps

[sleek creek]

Yes, but ladders to the sky are better. 🙂

[ornate saffron]

i think you get them in phgase 2 through the awesome shop

[sleek creek]

Ya, but I am still building up resources. Don't have a lot to dump into the shop yet.

[hazy topaz]

Do i need to automate iron rod production or are they only used for screws

[fluid crow]

making it windowed and different sizes works good on linux 🤷

[indigo kiln]

You need to automate everything

It gets to a point where handcrafting is annoying and unreasonable

[ornate saffron]

they are used forever

[floral trellis]

i hate inhalers because they are the only thing i have to handcraft. which is annoying and unreasonable

[sick falcon]

so real

[fluid crow]

eat mushrooms until they gone 😼

[floral trellis]

ever since dimensional depots, ive even had a automated miner line. so i can just deploy mk3 miners from my storage

[nova ridge]

Is there a way to see satisfactory stats? like how much of everything im producing

[sick falcon]

i can’t bear wasting a hard drive on miners

so manually crafting it is for me

[floral trellis]

mk1 eyeball i guess. or maybe upload your save to scim?

[ornate saffron]

@ember meteor Thats what we like. Now scale it up to a TW

[floral trellis]

working on it!

[indigo kiln]

I'm in a constant stage of not making enough oil product to make more oil product

[ember meteor]

Particle accelerators, geothermal generators, etc. are the biggest obstacle to something like that

It would be a semi-linear curve if you wouldn't add geothermal generators

[formal thicket]

Do blueprints not save between worlds?

[quasi warren]

Not unless you mod the game

[feral jay]

No

You need to copy them manually, it's stupid annoying

[fluid crow]

I don't have geothermal hooked up to the grid just for the fact that I can't look at the graph to make sure all the production is 100%

[formal thicket]

Well that sucks

Whats with these guys "selling" blueprints then? If they dont save between worlds how does that even work

[fluid crow]

you manually copy the files

[formal thicket]

So its like save editing?

[sick falcon]

kind of yea

[formal thicket]

Thats a real bummer. I was getting really into the whole 4x4 factory thing trying to fit everything within a small space but the fact it doesn't save between worlds is pretty disappointing

[sick falcon]

downloading someone else’s blueprint is cheating anyways imo

[floral rivet]

lizard doggo

[floral trellis]

you wouldnt download a car....

[formal thicket]

What about copying your own blueprint files you made yourself:

[wooden jewel]

anyone have an automated wire factory layout i could use?

[fluid crow]

you just copy the blueprint files to a different save in the SaveGames folder

[sick falcon]

nah that’s chill bc you made it yourself

[white dawn]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=Yua6aZXPPMcCu4JLJZw9 <- here's one with all Vanilla recipes. Head to the Recipes tab for the solver to consider other ones

[fluid crow]

%LocalAppData%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\blueprints

[ornate saffron]

i would

[wooden jewel]

thanks you the man

[white dawn]

Really it's sftools which is the man, so long as virtual webservices can be considered as such. :)

[wooden jewel]

well you made me learn about so your still the man

[sleek creek]

How far in do you unlock the ability to teleport items to and from your inventory?

[floral trellis]

100% would if i could

[fluid crow]

depends when you find ||SAM||

[floral trellis]

study the spheres

[ornate saffron]

real early with exploring. Once you get teh mam its under the alien tab

[floral trellis]

youll need steel to get the products tho

[sleek creek]

That's what I was looking for. I have found and researched Mercer and SAM.

Need to get coal power online 1st I guess then steel.

[floral trellis]

yeah, its behind sam fluctuators

oh, and if you can scavenge 17 computers from sites, you can get the inventory uploading too

[mental carbon]

Is it better to make a blueprint that compacts as many machines as I can into the grid, or separate my factories into “like” buildings or the making of a component? Or is it just a matter of preference on space usage. I’m never going to go in this corner, like ever, as it’s my (soon to be )main power plant which will increase my current power production by 10x

Making a turbo fuel factory for 200 gens, and trying to determine if I try to compact the refinery / compacted coal assembler / packagers etc. all into 1 grid and copy paste a LOT, or group all the assemblers together, group all the refineries together (separated by recipe) etc.?

[sleek creek]

Ya, I need to spend the day exploring. I hate having to find all the HDs and items. Such a long process.

[unkempt blade]

It's just preference. But especially if you go ultra-compact test it before you spam a bunch out there because it'll be awful to troubleshoot

[sleek creek]

Trying to at least unlock the legs so I can move faster 1st though.

[floral trellis]

i mean, theres a literal menu toggle for enableing all your alternates

[sleek creek]

Said I hated it, not that I wanted to cheat.

[fluid crow]

may want extra room in the refinery area in case you want to upgrade to RF

[ornate saffron]

they are advanced options not cheats lol. But whatever works for you

[ornate saffron]

on teh west coast there is a doggo cave with free blade runners

[hot knoll]

hey! i can't seem to recycle alien protein for dna tickets? the items don't enter the recycler

[grim carbon]

i'd like to know something about the in-game map

[white dawn]

Have to further process them into DNA in a Constructor. :)

[grim carbon]

if i drive around, it doesn't show up that i've been there, but if i walk it does

do i have that right?

[white dawn]

You do, yes; I hope they eventually fix that up 'cause it's a bit annoying (especially if you're in an Explorer! c'mon, it's right in the vehicle name!)

[grim carbon]

exactly!

[floral trellis]

process the protein

[white dawn]

Another thing I think would be great is if you could upgrade your Explorer to have a built-in radar tower of sorts. Really let the vehicle live up to its name

But that's in the realm of feature requests instead of bug reports. :)

[floral trellis]

so i cant just... kill an entire powergrid if it has generators right? i could really do with a way to turn off 200 gens to fill their pipes rn

[grim carbon]

is there somewhere i can make suggestions for the game?

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

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

[white dawn]

^ that site! Can also find + upvote existing ones

[sick falcon]

put enough machines down to short the grid

[floral trellis]

ill settle for a build in object scanner really.

[sick falcon]

or manually pause each generator

[grim carbon]

also the feedback thing in the main menu

[floral trellis]

hm, 72k to short. hmm

[sick falcon]

the power switches in the caterium tree might also help im not sure

never used them

[floral trellis]

they cut a connection

they do not kill a grid

[white dawn]

Yeah, it'd be nice if you could set the standby switch on groups of constructors

[sick falcon]

i guess just max overclock and sloop a few particle accelerators

[white dawn]

Though remember that technically you could just set a smaller subset of them to standby, and that'd cause a surplus of fuel which would get all the buffers full a bit more quickly

[sick falcon]

that’ll crash your grid pretty fast

[floral trellis]

i should be able to short 72k. lemme see if i got the items to run an encoder at 250 oversloop

[white dawn]

(Also remember that blueprints remember machine settings, so you could have gens set to standby in your blueprints to start that way. Though that would inevitably mean having to go back to undo the standby eventually)

[sleek creek]

Are Pale Berries just super rare?

[floral trellis]

depends on the biome really

[white dawn]

Slightly more rare than nuts, more common than bacon agaric

[ornate saffron]

where you looking>?

[sleek creek]

I am in the Rocky Dessert. I just restarted last night. Need one more for the MAM.

[ornate saffron]

rare there

[sleek creek]

Ya, I have the map thanks. Those are just possible spawns though right?

[ornate saffron]

no they are static

unless you chainsaw the plant

[white dawn]

(Or run over it with a vehicle!)

[wispy osprey]

This is an unfortunate thing but I'm quite burned out on satisfactory still.

My current main flaw is logistic planning and management, which is a pretty big flaw for mega factories.

I really did try to keep up with everything but massive item distribution gets out of hand very quickly.

Every individual item has at least 2-3 recipes tied to it

[white dawn]

Megafactories are a super common cause of burnout

It really is playing the game on "hard mode" where a lot of the "hard" really means "tedious." :D

(IMO, of course!)

[wispy osprey]

It's just keeping track of everything you make all at once while remaining efficient enough, bringing everything to you is easy in comparison

[fluid crow]

I thought mega factory was good for a first play through since I didn't know what I would need in one place for later recipes

[wispy osprey]

The more materials you bring to yourself the bigger and harder it is to keep track of

[white dawn]

Yeah, it's a real common impulse for new players, probably because it's actually pretty easy to do it in the early game

So you just stick with it and keep growing the complexity until you're neck deep in the problems you created for yourself. :)

[void mason]

There is any news on the 1.2?

[wispy osprey]

Modular design is actually good for this game, you can use skills useful from Factorio or other logistics games

[white dawn]

Nope, not for some time. Still "first half of this year," no new features and such have been leaked

[fluid crow]

I kept it organized for a while then went to spaghetti on the roof in the last phases, worked out

[white dawn]

(For a value of "leak" which includes "intentionally put out there by CSS")

[real shale]

honestly, im weird that way, i kinda like the issues that come later on when dealing with brownfield factories, they say the game wasnt ever going to get stuff like machines requiring maintenance but honestly, theres enough of it as is in this game.

Looking at you, my few fuel gens who have started deciding to freak out

[void mason]

Being a new player so with little time behind me I have another question, every time they release a new patch there are big changes?

[real shale]

pretty much all we know about 1.2 so far is fluid trucks as an addition and fixes to fluids

with the quotation of sorta to fluid fixes

[ornate saffron]

we dont know. there has only been one real update since the game came out in full release

[wispy osprey]

#screenshots message

This is how neck deep I buried myself until I found it too hard to keep track of stuff

[sleek creek]

1.2 is this year?

[real shale]

yeah

[white dawn]

There's usually one or two "big" patches in a year. In Early Access it was always "Update X"; after 1.0 it's been v1.1, and then later v1.2

Inbetween those bigger patches they have plenty of smaller bugfix + minor improvement patches though

[wispy osprey]

Supposed to be in Q1, which means never

[white dawn]

So some patches are quite minor in terms of game impact

[ornate saffron]

i keep track of things in a spreadsheet. how much is being produced, where its going, how much is being used

[white dawn]

The "big" ones tend to involve quite a bit, though.

[white dawn]

Q1 First half of the year (so Q1+Q2) :)

[wispy osprey]

Yea but distribution quickly turned it's ugly head

[real shale]

i am genuinely intrigued if theyll buff fluid freight car capacities

[wispy osprey]

Packing and unpacking was intentionally designed like that

[real shale]

because from the video i seen from TotalEclipse it seemed like there was something regarding trains there when he asked

[ornate saffron]

i doubt it. I think its a nice balance. Ya the fluid care holds less buit you dont have to play with containers

[wispy osprey]

Really taking their time with a patch this small

[real shale]

the thing is, packaging can be so much higher in throughput, so it'd be nice to have a balance between whether you want to add an extra layer of complexity or directly feeding it in

[wispy osprey]

I don't mean to be like that i just want 1.2 already

[white dawn]

What makes you think it's gonna be a small patch?

[void mason]

Thanks for the answer @real shale @ornate saffron @white dawn

[real shale]

theres no way to know how small or big it is at the moment since not a lot is known about it

[fluid crow]

why doesn't particle accelerator have a status light 🤯

[wispy osprey]

I saw in a video that they'll "fix" fluid difficulty but man...

[ornate saffron]

"kinda:

[white dawn]

Still unknown if that was just a troll and what they really meant was that it was just the Fluid Trucks. :)

It's possible that the troll was actually that they want us to think it's only Fluid Trucks but they really have done some fluid overhauls

Time will tell! Difficult to know for certain with these capricious devs. :)

[real shale]

admittedly there are instances where fluids can be very weird, like i've had feedback loops clog up with more fluid being consumed than produced by a large margain.... it baffles me sometimes

[grim carbon]

is it possible to explore the whole map using a vehicle?

[dense violet]

you mean putting waste water into fresh?

[ornate saffron]

pretty much. there is a full cravases you need to slide dash into

[real shale]

yeah

[dense violet]

that's totally normal and reasonable. Fluids are bidirectional and not belts

you got fluids bouncing off each other

[wispy osprey]

Fluids should be a difficulty setting in itself. Continuous flow, no sloshing, easier vertical transport, continuous input rather than an average

[fluid crow]

if you count jetpack

[zenith pecan]

Those sorts of fluid woes are avoided by having a set of machines take up only wastewater, the system is slower to start up etc but it avoids the weird clogs.

[grim carbon]

well, i haven't unlocked that yet, but i meant by tractor or the explorer

[wispy osprey]

Basically, I want fluids to be as easy as factorio

[fluid crow]

tbf factorio doesn't have altitude it's 2d

[dense violet]

like so https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1347741162018046083/1347747308623892551/image.png?ex=697f593e&is=697e07be&hm=f796cf191ec6a77c7a5091d9a6ffd670139e40359a1ff75df64b91301de9fa90&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

this system is impossible to lock out and works with waste gasses and other systems later

[wispy osprey]

I dunno what fluids are like in shapez 2

But that game isn't on console so I can't do anything about it

I would play that game in a heartbeat

[real shale]

hmmm, i guess i need to add a second refinery then because the current setup for my batteries is 1 refinery to 4 blenders for batteries but i have to feed the wastewater back into the fresh water refinery, i see, i'll make note of that when i fix that

[fluid crow]

I miss the trains 😂

[wispy osprey]

I really really like the prospect of an endless endgame loop that shapes 1-2 has. I just want the second game

[dense violet]

with clocking you can manage pretty compact systems. that example image I shared could process 1200 bauxite pm with 2 more machines

[real shale]

i see, thanks, that's actually pretty valuable information and actually might save me a massive headache fixing the battery factory i've got

[dense violet]

no sweat! this system also works later on with other waste products and waste gasses , which you really want to keep split

[sick falcon]

i wish you could diagonally zoop foundations to make a rectangle

[dense violet]

I take it you don't mean spinning a foudnation 45 degree to everything else and zooping?

[void cliff]

Would be cool if they made priority fluid mergers 🙂

[golden nexus]

there is

[fickle locust]

Yeah but that would put this server out of business

[sick falcon]

no, like dragging a zoop out in two directions at the same time to make a rectangle of foundations

[dense violet]

yeah there's mods for that if you really want. Never really felt the need

I'm not into making giant ass platforms though all in a square

[sleek creek]

Infinate Zoop does that.

You still have to go through a tech tree to unlock each limit on the zoop though.

[fluid crow]

need zoop²

[nova ridge]

building 252 fuel generators is quite the task.

wish it was easier to blueprint lay it down

[sleek creek]

I don't like playing Satisfactory without Infinate Zoop and Infinate Nudge.

[nova ridge]

inf zoop would be nice

[fluid crow]

maybe even ³

[nova ridge]

does infinite zoop work on non foundations too

[sleek creek]

https://ficsit.app/mod/InfiniteZoop

[zenith pecan]

Here's me playing unmodded and building biome swallowing facilities.

[real shale]

i mean you can make that using a VIP junction

[nova ridge]

im unmodded atm. compelted game 180 hrs with a friend

just trying to get enough energy so i can start working on golden nut

[zenith pecan]

Build a bigger power station, way bigger 😛

Loads of energy then.

[nova ridge]

yeah hence the 252 fuel generators im adding on.

thats another 157.5gw + 10% from alien power

[zenith pecan]

Go full rocket fuel madness for this much #design-and-architecture message

[ornate saffron]

it can be. Are you overclocking them?

[nova ridge]

ya

had to make several trips to get enough supplie sfor this. the dimensional storage wasnt refilling fast enough

[fluid crow]

my sloop hunting has got quite slow 🤯

[nova ridge]

is it possible to make a modular blueprints where pipes and belts automaticcally connect to each other if you build them in sequence

[fluid crow]

yea just use auto connect when placing

[nova ridge]

whats auto connect

oh built mode

how do you use it

[fluid crow]

one of the options with ⁨R⁩ or whatever

while building from a blueprint

[nova ridge]

does it also work in connecting poles or nah

[fluid crow]

I think it "can" work for pretty much anything

[real shale]

it doesnt work for power poles, thats the one thing it doesnt autoconnect

[nova ridge]

got it to work. not bad. i dont even need to build the belt or pole to the edge of the blueprint

that feeling when i accidentally misalign a blueprint because your hovercraft was slightly in motion and spent a minute deconstructing

[fluid crow]

you can disassemble a whole blueprint with ⁨R⁩ also

or lock the bp first

[nova ridge]

whatt

i only get default and auto connect with r

[fluid crow]

while in disassembly mode

[nova ridge]

holy shet

[real shale]

you can also copy a blueprint in the disassembly mode using blueprint disassembly with middle mouse

[fluid crow]

but if you lock the hologram before placing it you can move it around then reliably place it there

[sick falcon]

is there any number of train cars where the train starts to struggle to pull them

[fluid crow]

I think more than 4 per locomotive

[dense violet]

each one will slow it down with weight

past 4 if you're going up 2m ramps, you'll need more locos

[nova ridge]

woow

bette rthan i thought

[jolly sierra]

One miscellaneous satisfactory question, quality or performance

Don't hit max frames on max graphics in satisfactory, should I sacrifice it for more frames

[nova ridge]

perfomance end game

[dense violet]

I got a new computer a couple years ago specifically to make it pretty - up to you really.

It's a very pretty game

but if you build up your save quite a bit and your comp isn't top notch you may have to bring it down a few notches

[jolly sierra]

I have a $550 pc I don't think it's very notch, forget top

[dense violet]

you'll have to crank it down then sorry :\ it's a performance hog

[jolly sierra]

Oof

Still early game so

PA LVL 2

[dense violet]

the more objects you have in the game the more of a toll it'll take.

Other things impact it a lot too - lots of sky platforms seem to take a toll, avoid signs and lights.

There's a few performance improvments coming in 1.2 though

[jolly sierra]

I don't have signs unlocked at PA lvl 2 lol

[dense violet]

oh sure , but something to keep in mind

they are cool for designs and aesthetics but if you're worried about performance I just wouldn't use them

[primal flax]

why does my train slow down loads when entering a roundabout or junction there are no other trains nearby and the junctions are clear

[dense violet]

are you using path signals? I've heard they slow down on intersections?
I don't use them myself though

[sick falcon]

does nuclear pasta really need as much copper as people say

[fickle locust]

Yes

[unborn nova]

yes

absolutely dawg

[dense violet]

look at the wiki and see 😛

[fickle locust]

For 1 pasta you need 200 powder per minute
A full pure copper node with alloy recipe gets you 2,400 ingots
That gets you 400 powder, enough for 2 pasta per minute

[sick falcon]

nah i dont wanna spoil ill just be unpleasantly surprised when i eventually unlock particle enrichment

[fickle locust]

If you're trying to make, say, 22.5 pasta per minute like a crazy person
You end up needing to strip mine a huge part of the map

[unborn nova]

how do you transport 2400?

does it just get throttled at 1200?

[dense violet]

multiple belts

[fickle locust]

You don't, process it near the nodes. Then transport the powder

It goes straight from blocks of foundries to blocks of constructors

[unborn nova]

gotcha

[fickle locust]

I actually need to sit down and figure out how many nodes I'll need for this
I started connecting to make sure my systems are right, but I'm way short on powder right now

[dense violet]

drone it to you - simple enough

[fickle locust]

Oh the issue isn't transporting, that's what I was testing and it works fine
It's how many nodes I need to tap to make all the powder

[jolly sierra]

After all this time... Finally... I have them all.
#screenshots

[fickle locust]

I'm able to constantly run 8 accelerators at 200%... But I need 24

[fickle locust]

West Virginia is proud of you

[jolly sierra]

BRUH

What happens if I disassemble the space elevator

[dense violet]

nothing

[fluid crow]

you have to build a new one

[dense violet]

other than it being disasembled

[jolly sierra]

Will I lose Project assembly

[wary falcon]

im stuck at bp designer mark 1 and i cant find the next one where is it?

[dense violet]

in a few tiers?

[jolly sierra]

K good

The animation for remaking the space elevator after disassembling is sick

[peak wasp]

theres a different animation?

lemme try

[jolly sierra]

Assuming you already have at least one phase of project assembly done

[peak wasp]

ok i havent

[jolly sierra]

Not gonna work then

[jolly sierra]

It only works if you see what I have in #screenshots

[peak wasp]

o

[jolly sierra]

Or better

[slate mountain]

win+shift+s bro

[jolly sierra]

Ik but using my phone rn to talk

[peak wasp]

does ur pc not got dc

[jolly sierra]

Don't wanna use disc on my pc rn

[peak wasp]

a

[jolly sierra]

Only have one monitor

Just more hassle lol

[peak wasp]

is there anyway to increase crafting speed or sum

rotor taking forever to craft

[jolly sierra]

Overclock

[peak wasp]

what phase

[jolly sierra]

None required, put a power slug in the mam

[fluid crow]

more machines and resources

[peak wasp]

1?

[jolly sierra]

This is assuming you already have it automated

[peak wasp]

how do u got power shard

get i meant

[jolly sierra]

Look for blue things

[golden nexus]

slugs

[peak wasp]

oh i can craft

alr

[jolly sierra]

Those are slugs

If you want to overclock you'll need it automatic

You'll also need some really good iron rod production, also automated

[fluid crow]

sloop slugs

[peak wasp]

ehhh

[vague thorn]

what tear can i start scanning for coal?

tier***

[peak wasp]

i need automatic power which is phase 2 aint it

[golden nexus]

yup

[jolly sierra]

Are you new like me

[golden nexus]

just automate biomass as much as possible

[peak wasp]

yes

how do u auto biomass?????

[jolly sierra]

You'll eventually get fully auto power

(Coal)

[vague thorn]

what tier can i start scanning for coal?

[golden nexus]

you cannot automate the collection but you can make the wood/leaves -> biomass -> solidbiofuel -> biomass burners parts

obviously you use hte chainsaw for collection of leaves/wood

[jolly sierra]

You need to get PA Lvl 1 for scannable coal, which looks like the thing I put in #screenshots

You also get the power and stuff unlocked at LVL 1

[limpid cairn]

Every tier

[jolly sierra]

I'm on LVL 1 myself so don't ask about anything beyond that

[peak wasp]

okok so basically ima get the obstacle clearing upgrade basically

[golden nexus]

yup

[peak wasp]

why did i use basically twice

[jolly sierra]

Once you're lvl 1 get the thing ready at the HUB and you'll be good to see start automatic power

[peak wasp]

oh thrice now

[golden nexus]

you can rush coal but you need solid rotor/rplate setups to be able to build coal

[dense violet]

try to use phase and tiers - it'll be more clear what you mean

[jolly sierra]

Coal is fully automatic so you don't have to do it yourself

[jolly sierra]

Ok

[peak wasp]

i need a whole ton of iron

[jolly sierra]

PA Phase 1 is when you get the coal power, tier 3 in hub

[dense violet]

good things it's everywhere

[jolly sierra]

Automate it

[golden nexus]

you just need to use it correctly

[peak wasp]

i already built an automate iron

bad thing theres no automate power so i gotta collect leaves manually

[vague thorn]

is every map procedurally generated? this is my first save

[dense violet]

it's one static map

[jolly sierra]

Yeah you'll need phase one for auto power

[peak wasp]

one?

[golden nexus]

heres a hint for some simple early game automatic biomass #screenshots message

[jolly sierra]

Hub tier 3

[peak wasp]

my whole world fulfill when i get automate power

i never even use constructor

is it even good

[jolly sierra]

YES

It's REQUIRED for full auto

[peak wasp]

did that gotta be caplock

uhh

[jolly sierra]

I accidentally pressed twice lol

[peak wasp]

what should i use it for

[jolly sierra]

Anything and everything

Personal recommendation for early game is iron plates and rods

[peak wasp]

is assembler basically a better version of it or is both of them completely different

[golden nexus]

make one, look at reicpie list

[jolly sierra]

Completely different

[peak wasp]

ohhh

its used for rods and plates?

[golden nexus]

different

[peak wasp]

NO NO

[golden nexus]

100's of things

[peak wasp]

IVE BEEN CRAFTING RODS AND PLATES MANUALLY

[golden nexus]

in an automation game? :S

[fluid crow]

one makes stuff out of 1 part the other 2 parts

[royal gazelle]

#screenshots message
More important question: how much water are you putting through each pipe?

[peak wasp]

do i build 2 machines for it or jst use a splitter

[dense violet]

either works

[golden nexus]

Ok, Lets get you some perspectiv.e This setup completes Tier 2 and enters Phase 2 😉 #screenshots message

[jolly sierra]

Here's the most important thing you can possibly know about Satisfactory: EVERYTHING can be automated

[dense violet]

except bio mass

[peak wasp]

can i automatically turn sun to moon every 1 second

[fluid crow]

inhalers

[jolly sierra]

You know what I mean

[dense violet]

oh and gas nobelisks, those can't be automated

[royal gazelle]

With mods, yes

[jolly sierra]

You know what I mean

[peak wasp]

why is the splitter massive

[dense violet]

well there's a number of things that can't 😛

[jolly sierra]

It's very useful

[peak wasp]

yeah but its massive

[vague thorn]

so theres player made schematics of the most optimal output systems?

[jolly sierra]

I can't wait till we get vertical splitters

[dense violet]

nope - it's not a solved game. There's more than 100 alternative recipes to itesm so no optimal path to anything

[dense violet]

honestly that's the bset part of the game

[royal gazelle]

Satisfactory isn't "solved" like that, because the end goal is dependent on how much of the endgame resources you want to be making

[wary falcon]

hi, why is it that my pipe directly infront of my pump only shoots out 597 per min, why is it not 600 like the machine is set to?

[royal gazelle]

Sloshing

[jolly sierra]

If I go upgrade to awesome sink (haven't done so yet) can I do a global repaint without going to everything manually

[wary falcon]

but i even set up a pump right on it, sending it to a water tower to prevent sloshing

[royal gazelle]

You should account for about a 2% loss. There's nothing we can do about it. Physics sucks.

[wary falcon]

bruhhhh

[fluid crow]

you probably aren't going to get the full 600 through a single pipe

[peak wasp]

yo whats lookout tower used for

[dense violet]

this is not in fact true - you can get 600 flow in pipes

[wary falcon]

whaa

[royal gazelle]

How

[fluid crow]

looking, out

[wary falcon]

well i mean i can send an SS of my setup, ill tag u cobalt

[dense violet]

provide some overhead images of your set up in a #1038092680493801533 and I'll give everyone a short pipe tutorial

[jolly sierra]

Gimme gimme

Pipe tutorial

[fluid crow]

you get 600 through a single pipe?

I usually just settle for like 595 to not have problems

[hazy topaz]

How do I get a single splitter to divide 60 ore into 37.5 and 22.5 per minute??

[dense violet]

you wait for it to self balance

or make 2 sets of machines
1 that makes 37 , 1 that makes 22

[peak wasp]

ok im done with constructor

uhh

1 more question

is convey lift needed

[dense violet]

lifts are very useful

[peak wasp]

how do u use it

[crude canyon]

Hey @dense violet
Would you recommend centralising wire?

[peak wasp]

what for

[dense violet]

depends just like belts but up and down

[peak wasp]

ohhh

[dense violet]

no it's a high volume item like screws. Make them where they are needed 🙂

[peak wasp]

i can transport my ore nodes under there up to my hub now

[crude canyon]

And if I want to make fused wire?

[peak wasp]

how do u build on hub tho cuz if i jst build it jst gets under my hub

[dense violet]

still the same really. Ingots are more compressed

[crude canyon]

Fair... Just sushi the ingots

[dense violet]

totally an option

[peak wasp]

how cause i wanna build my storage on the hub

[dense violet]

make a floor above it?

[grim carbon]

i've just unlocked the jetpack, have solid biomass for the fuel, but when i try to fly, i go up for just a few seconds. what gives?

[fluid crow]

better fuel = better jetpack

[grim carbon]

in other words, i can't fly without solid biomass

with***

[fluid crow]

liquid bio probably what you want until rocket

hover pack you can stay in the air indefinitely but it needs 100MW

[shrewd hatch]

I could have pirated satisfactory but I didnt

[fluid crow]

good job?

[shrewd hatch]

I feel bad about the 15 bucks I wasted on this game 2 years ago

could I still play multiplayer pirated

like you can host your own server or something I think

[indigo kiln]

#screenshots message

Just realized that train is holding the computers I need to fix the trains.....

[peak wasp]

yo how do u

delete a line from the power pole

[indigo kiln]

F

[peak wasp]

ohh

[nova ridge]

is there an easy way to use pipeline supports upside down?

like under a foundation instead

[wintry cedar]

I believe there is a ceiling support for it through the awesome shop but I could be wrong on that

[dense violet]

just point the support to ceiling

[fluid crow]

wall support works on ceiling too I think

[nova ridge]

oh yeah it does

oh well already built it above for now. doesnt seem to stack either

[fluid crow]

you need the parts from the ticket shop

[oak nymph]

What is a correct amount of time crystal/min I looked up 100/min and it took like 4000coal

[fluid crow]

correct amount for what?

[indigo kiln]

I just found my first green ouchy rock

I ran away 🙁

Is there a easy way to get hard drives I'm trying to find one more so I can get turbo fuel

[unkempt blade]

yeah quartz is the worst

you were right to run away

[fluid crow]

you must turn it's remains into byproducts

[indigo kiln]

I don't even have a way to pick it up lmao

[fluid crow]

oh I thought you meant a spider I get it now

[indigo kiln]

I'm phase three running off a coal power cuz I kept getting distracted by trains and I'm skipping fuel power going straight to turbo fuel

[indigo kiln]

My first spider was in the plains Sam pit beat that man's ass

[unkempt blade]

The object scanner can help a little but usually what's best for me is just to get up somewhere high every now and then and look around. Build a ramp or use the jetpack or whatever works for the area I'm in

[indigo kiln]

My factory scanner doesn't scan for hard drives

[unkempt blade]

if you find one that you can't open I'll leave myself a map pin with a note about what item it needed

[indigo kiln]

I have yet to find one that has a requirement that wasn't easy

Oh shit I just found one

Five copper sheets

[unkempt blade]

I'm pretty sure it works for crash sites. You're using the object scanner (item) and not the resource scanner (not an item)?

[indigo kiln]

I am using yep I'm using the same thing that has gotten me all of my dimensional depots lol

[fluid crow]

I forget what unlocks hard drive scanning

"Radio Signal Scanning in the Quartz research tree"

[unkempt blade]

Ahhh I forgot it had MAM research associated with it. Good call

interesting, that's a lot deeper in the tree than I would have expected too

[fluid crow]

it's kind of a blur but does seem like it was a while before I unlocked it

[unkempt blade]

I definitely don't think I remember all the spots but I've done the hunt enough times that I know where a lot of the spots are generally

I use the scanner a lot more in other modes

[indigo kiln]

Is explosive rebar ammo the last rebar

I've been putting off making a sulfur factory for so long because I keep on new shit for it lol

[fluid crow]

if you got shatter and shock

[indigo kiln]

I have the ability to get shatter and I use shock

If I'm understanding correctly, shatter is essentially a shotgun right

[fluid crow]

pretty much yea lots of damage at close range

more like a sawed off

[indigo kiln]

Ah

I think I'd prefer the explosive then

||Definitely not because I still haven't gotten a quartz node running||

[fluid crow]

the shatter worth trying imo

of course all the re bar becomes pretty much for sport it seems

[indigo kiln]

The rifle?

[fluid crow]

pretty much

[indigo kiln]

It seems like the moment you set up infrastructure you unlock something new that makes said infrastructure entirely pointless

[fluid crow]

explosive re bar is pretty devastating (to the enemy)if you don't kill yourself

[indigo kiln]

Lol

Does it also clear fart rocks

Also does anyone else use trains as a way to get around I'm making all my stations have a dedicated player spot

[sleek creek]

How do you lure a doggo? I have paleberry in my hand but it's ignoring me.

[indigo kiln]

You have to drop it on the floor

[fluid crow]

it explodes everything like nobs

[indigo kiln]

Nice

I guess I should finish fixing my power first though

[fluid crow]

they are pretty good

[dire salmon]

i wanna eat a somersloop.. forbidded raspberry slushy..

[fluid crow]

what could go wrong

consume

[indigo kiln]

Looks like my first fuel power plant is going to be 28 refineries, 23 turbo fuel generators oh boi

[granite glen]

yo anyone wants to play im new?

new world

[dense violet]

!lfg

[raven axle]

Hello there totally awesome user! You can checkout https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/1201555265942724758 and check the pins on how to find folks to play with. <3

[fluid crow]

I think I'm going to call it at 100 fuel generators and start working on nukes

[silver seal]

When using priority power switches, are the graphs supposed to show the consumption/production? I am trying to rewire my grid to use priority switches. As far as I can tell, the first one I'm setting up is getting all its power through the switch, but its showing the same graph for both grid a and b.

[fluid crow]

will only show them as separate when it's off

[indigo kiln]

How does one load balance pipes

[dense violet]

You dont

[indigo kiln]

Mmmmmmm

Manifold it then?

[dense violet]

there are technically ways to load balance fuels but it's extreme in how you need to load things out

[indigo kiln]

So if I have two pure one normal oil how do I feed the 10 refiners without fucking myself

Split each into four?

[dense violet]

manifold

have 2 manifolds

[indigo kiln]

Okay do Mark II pipes behave the same way as Mark 1

I'm only asking cuz pipes are weird

[silver seal]

They should, only difference is the max flow rate

[dense violet]

high flow pipes have more back flow you need to manage

[oak nymph]

It's crazy how many mechanics I ain't using that the game offer me

[indigo kiln]

Right

[dense violet]

just depends what yo uwant to do in the game

[oak nymph]

I never used train fluid buffer the electricity battery the mk3 pole the object scanner the radio tower all of the aesthetics stuff

[indigo kiln]

Batteries are useful

How the fuck do you not use the object scanner

[oak nymph]

How is it useful

If you've got eyes and ears

[dense violet]

flue buffers are very niche

pretty much just for trains

[dense violet]

power storage is good to kick start big projects

[oak nymph]

If you need them to kick start a factory when it will be out of power the factory will shut down?

[dense violet]

kick start a fuel station for example

or restart a power system that's shut down

[oak nymph]

Oh yeah

I wonder how do you pronounce "niche" do you say the "e" like eh or pronounce it like nish

[stoic nebula]

someone wanna talk about satisfactory with me? im suuper bored

[fluid crow]

with most accents the first one

[stoic nebula]

i say neesh, like that

[fluid crow]

^ actually

[oak nymph]

I mean in English accent cause I know English like to pronounce some letters that aren't pronounce in other languages

[fluid crow]

it's like nēsh

[indigo kiln]

#screenshots message

Is this good enough The red is my normal node The oranges are my pure (I ran out of shit to make the last refiners)

[oak nymph]

What are you talking about?

[indigo kiln]

Last time I thought I understood pipes everything broke repeatedly I'm trying to figure out this is going to continue to break or not

I need this plant to be stable it's going to be my main power plant

Someone else was saying manifolds but I don't understand how a manifolds work in a pipe

[dense violet]

pretty much the same way as regular manifolds

[dense violet]

make a post in #1038092680493801533 with what you're doing, with lots of overhead images

[indigo kiln]

I will once I get Mark 2 pipes

[dense violet]

If you stick to 300 flow pipes you'll have a lot more leeway in how you lay things out btw, if you want to mess with pipes less

all it really means is smaller sections within the same factory

[oak nymph]

I absolutely can't help you with that I literally need to flush a pipe system every so often at my aluminium factory so it doesn't get clogged I did the math 3 times everything should work but it's still getting clogged

[indigo kiln]

😭

[dense violet]

I'm 1000% certain I've mentioned to you to keep your fresh and waste waters split

it's very easy to avoid this issue

[indigo kiln]

Wastewater to sink

[dense violet]

just keep the fresh and waste machines split - you don't need a sink. It's so so simple

[indigo kiln]

Lol

[oak nymph]

Wdym fresh and waster water split im sending water back into the the refinery

[dense violet]

you're connecting waste water to the system right?

[severe pewter]

Found a good use for a priority merger

-but I am an edge case user

[fluid crow]

they do have some pretty good uses

[severe pewter]

Last time I was in here, everybody was complaining about them

[fluid crow]

I like them

[fickle locust]

When he says waste water he means water coming out of the refinery that's producing the aluminum product

[severe pewter]

I feel like water is the least/most wastable resource in this game, but please explain

[oak nymph]

Yeah getting back into a loop

[dense violet]

yeah don't do that

[dense violet]

blue is fresh water, red is waste https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1347741162018046083/1347747308623892551/image.png?ex=698001fe&is=697eb07e&hm=7b2fc130e6eb387c9459f7276f32a415a9e6113df41fef6a0265110c98f5f889&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[summer coral]

b-but efficiency..

[dense violet]

bottom refineries solution
top scrap

[severe pewter]

-water can be priority merged too btw, but it does cost a bit of overhead

[dense violet]

look at the image

[zealous urchin]

can u give me and image of vip junction?

[dense violet]

no, because they are an unreliable exploit

you can look them up in the pipe manual though if you really want

[zealous urchin]

bruh

[dense violet]

the image shows all the waste water being used

[summer coral]

makes sense actually

[dense violet]

I literally don't have an image of a VIP handy xD

[summer coral]

thought it was just being sunk

[dense violet]

nope, just needs a bit of clocking 🙂

[oak nymph]

I actually could

[dense violet]

clocking will solve basically all your non insane logistics issues before they happen

[zealous urchin]

alright, found it in the manual

[wary falcon]

guys i wanna do a gradient style for my roof, how do i do that with swatchs. unless the only way is to just layer colours

[dense violet]

I do not recommend them - they sometimes just don't work even if you replicate them perfectly

also as they are an exploit, any changes of pipe mechanics (1.2) could murder them all

[soft marsh]

Are memory leaks a thing in this game? For the last like four hours the game has been open - zero problems. Now suddenly a bunch of problems with the flow of nitrogen gas

[severe pewter]

I built a small rig for fully autonomous turbo fuel, but since it uses overflow from elsewhere, all the clocks have to be set to weird numbers. Letting things turn on and off, instead of being in a steady-on state, tends to cause some small x/min losses, and with fragile systems, can cause cascading failure

[indigo kiln]

I think I figured it out lol

[sacred trail]

What happens if I swin to the edge of the map?

[indigo kiln]

Death

Just like falling into an endless pit