satisfactory

[dense violet]

depends how you clock things - but if you flood the system and round the consumption of the 4th decimal down it'll stay flooded

[severe pewter]

Fair

Somehow all my numbers came out whole with 4 decimal places or less. Absolutely not complaining.

[summer coral]

starting to think that making a train to transport my rocket fuel from its factory to the power plant wont be a good idea :/

[severe pewter]

Why not?

[fickle locust]

Package it and you're fine

[summer coral]

cause this trains gonna need to be like 30 cars long

transporting like 9k rocket fuel a minute

[severe pewter]

More trains

[dense violet]

1.don't send gas directly into fluid cars
2. burn it on location?

[fickle locust]

Packaging it means you make 2,250 packaged RF per minute, which you can manage handily with 2 train cars

[summer coral]

was planning on packaging it yea for transport

[dense violet]

Jjust burn on location

[summer coral]

i dont think im fitting 2,266 generators in the crater

[severe pewter]

Or pipe it all the way there

[dense violet]

build up

also don't do that many generators its very sily for that reason

[summer coral]

youre right

gotta split off a couple units for personal consumption

[soft marsh]

My power plant is super messy because the way it was belt ended up not really working out for logistics so I've had to belt things all over the place. Trying to decide if I want to rebuild the messy parts, reroute things under the plant, or just leave the chaos as it is

[dense imp]

How do people organize everything? Do you make a new factory from its own source of material or do you draw from an existing one? Do you send everything to a central storage hub or leave things scattered around the map?

[severe pewter]

Are they all running max overclock?

[summer coral]

usually make everything for the factory on site

[severe pewter]

Yes

[fickle locust]

OC to 240 and you only need... Still 900
But that's better

[summer coral]

then i upload it/go there when i need large amounts of wtv

[summer coral]

right power crystals exist

[severe pewter]

And can be manufactured

[nova ridge]

is there a hotkey to make a buildling max OC ?

like to load it with battery and OC it

[summer coral]

OC one of them, copy the settings then paste it and make sure youve got enough to do that

[nova ridge]

how do i copy

[fluid crow]

or blueprint it like that

[nova ridge]

oh

[summer coral]

ctrl c or a button inside the configure thing

[nova ridge]

ctrl c and then ctvl v over

[severe pewter]

Ctrl+shift when placing the shards. Then copy-paste (middle click) the building

[nova ridge]

thx thats faster

im speeding up old builds. trying to get my nut

[dense violet]

that works 🙂 i'd focus on learnign in the tiers

[indigo dove]

Is the Satisfactory map "finished" or are there more map expansions planned in the future?

[summer coral]

just need a little under 2600 crystals lol

hm this might be a post phase 4 elevator project

[vague thorn]

how do i put fuel into my chainsaw

[severe pewter]

These are basically Runescape numbers, but if you shard one generator per 6 seconds average, 900 would take an hour and a half to edit

[severe pewter]

You need to craft the right fuel first, then it'll get used automatically. Biofuel-only I believe

[dense violet]

finished

[vague thorn]

i see, very cool :)) thanks

[severe pewter]

Bummer. Somebody at least needs to mod in the North-East out-of-bounds corner.

[vestal hollow]

!lizarddoggo

[severe pewter]

Not to mention, if a mod community wanted to add maps into the game, everything out of bounds would be a great place to start

[dense imp]

I'm getting kicked out of my hypertubes at every connection

What

[soft marsh]

Sigh. Had I known I'd have needed to split these into two entire bays, Id have built them that way from the start lol

[severe pewter]

Sounds like you did them wrong? Are the tubes not fully connected? -Like what happens when you accidentally delete a building and try to re-place it without also re-placing the belts?

[dense imp]

No they're connected and were working fine yesterday.

I just re did them and that did the trick, but you can imagine my worry when it comes to my entire hypertube system.

What kind of bug is this

[severe pewter]

Been watching Bitz run through Alchemy Factory - one feature that game has, that would be amazing in Satisfactory, is the ability to highlight an area, blueprint it from there, or Cut and Paste it. Cause sometimes I just want to shift everything to the left a bit.

[soft marsh]

That would be cool

The part that keeps this game going for me is that I keep coming up with new ways to do things so then I hyperfixate and want to do it right now which delays everything

I literally, 30 seconds ago, got a new idea of how to make this setup more "compact" and now I kinda want to tear it all down and start again

[severe pewter]

Making things compact is a slippery slope. I did that with the iron setup v2, and it's glorious. But good luck trying to chase lines or see anything inside

[soft marsh]

Oh for sure. I have certain modules that I have super clipped and compact and I treat it as a single entity. If something goes wrong I just delete the whole thing and restamp it out

What I need to do is just accept my current plant for what it is - I've rebuilt everything in this game at least six times, my power plant is easily four or five on its own.

850 hours and I still havent done Phase 4

[fluid crow]

spaghetti it up!

[severe pewter]

Next challenge, make a mega sushi factory, with everything sharing as few lines as possible

[soft marsh]

I did that for a bit on one of my rebuilds lol it was cool but it was very slow

[severe pewter]

Slow how?

[soft marsh]

Since everything is on the same belt(s) theres a lot of staggering between those items entering the belts

which means storage or other machines would take awhile to get what they needed from the belt

[severe pewter]

Sec.

[soft marsh]

I need to pick a couple places and just drone in some P4 parts and finish that phase

[soft marsh]

Im a terrible chef lol

[fluid crow]

probably have to choose the ingredients carefully

[soft marsh]

Ive also been doing a pretty large scale rebuild since I decided Im not using trains anymore

Tearing down a lot of my rails and using power lines instead

[unkempt blade]

wait wait wait... you were using the rails primarily for power and not because trains are awesome?

[severe pewter]

It takes a lot of planning and math to set one up properly
#streams-and-videos message

[fluid crow]

I have more rails for passenger travel than resources

[soft marsh]

Pretty much. I had started to use a lot of trains but after awhile I got really tired of having to figure out the infrastructure around them and making them pretty because my perfectionism hates wavy rails

Replacing all my trains with drones

I've found that for my building scale - 2 drone stations on either side is usually sufficient for my needs

[unkempt blade]

you should totally play however is fun for you but I'm judging your decisions too

[soft marsh]

Me too, bro. Me too.

I think if it was easier to build elevation changes with trains I'd probably stick with them but various attempts I've made, I'm just never been able to get rid of the waves

Also all the issues with traffic and signals is a huge annoyance

[severe pewter]

I used to be able to make giant curves, but either I forgot how, or the way I did it got patched out

[soft marsh]

I just think the drones are easier overall. Just feed it some fuel and send it away.

[fluid crow]

build it all on 2m ramps and foundations then delete most of them

[soft marsh]

Tried, still ended up with weird waves in strange places

[unborn nova]

whats the point of a priority merger? it all merges into same output so what does it do

[unkempt blade]

For just normal slopes they play nice with ramp foundations. For steeper elevations I think most people do a spiral #screenshots message

[soft marsh]

Is this one belt thats layered or multiple belts?

[summer coral]

accepts things from certain belts or certain materials first id assume

[fluid crow]

when it's more important to get rid of one belt than another

[soft marsh]

I built a couple spirals but they felt kinda weird and I was never able to come to grips with how they looked

[unborn nova]

so instead of it flipflopping it prioritizes one?

[unkempt blade]

you can see my waves at the bottom left of the screenshot because I didn't bother with ramped foundations for the incline there 😆

[unborn nova]

oh that makes sense

[dense violet]

except all the processes in the game are static - so if you don't want one running, you jsut dont have it running

[soft marsh]

I did a couple variations of the spiral - one where they were together so it was double wide and one where they each got their own - pigtails I guess - so there were two next to each other

[severe pewter]

I had several input belts, and I mathed it out so that I could add or take off the same belts along their routes, always being careful to never max the belts out. Sometimes items would jump from one belt, get used, and end up on another. The bottom is the return line.

[soft marsh]

would drive me insane lol

[unborn nova]

i see

[fluid crow]

here I'm using one to get rid of the silica byproduct from the refinery first #screenshots message

[unkempt blade]

I like how the 2 lane spirals look but in practice for me they're a pain to connect to the road I would be trying to use them with 🙁

[unborn nova]

does static just mean consistent/ no randomness

[dense violet]

and that you can build systems that you never need to set priorities - because you know exactly how much the next system needs and can set it to that

[severe pewter]

I added a priority merger to my sushi line, just before it goes to the storage bus, and I set up a storage I can dump all my crap into. It slowly feeds onto the sushi line via priority merger, where it either gets stored, or sunk

[unborn nova]

mm gotcha

[dense violet]

... feed exactly what you need onto a sushi line and it never needs to be sunk or sorted >.>

[sacred trail]

Does anyone know what these pinks lights are?

#screenshots message

It's a storm maybe?

[unborn nova]

i think maybe ill play around with them a little to see how theyre useful

[severe pewter]

Because the belts are shared, they have to always be running 100%, because a single stopped item will eventually back-up everything else

[dense violet]

yes and once a sushi line is balanced it never neese any interference

including needing a priority merger at the end

[severe pewter]

The merger doesn't hurt the sushi line, it just lets me add my inventory to the empty spaces in the belt, for storage (or sinking if the storage is full)

[dense violet]

so over flow to storage and over flow that to a sink

[unborn nova]

wait i think i get it

[dense violet]

if you ever get extra items moving off a sushi line you need those to move forward no matter what.

zero point on a pmerg there

everything can be done with a smart splitter

[peak wasp]

is there food in this game

[dense violet]

yes

[peak wasp]

sounds yum

[fluid crow]

another thing a priority merger is good for is supplementing some parts to a line from a container

[dense violet]

so that the system eventually starves when the container runs out?

[fluid crow]

yea or when you don't need to over produce that item anymore

[dense violet]

why would you build a starving system?

[summer coral]

smart splitter from the original line sending overflow into the secondary line where you need more parts

[dense violet]

if you need a buffered stock of items to run a system at 100% , only for it to run at like 80% after the buffer is done... just build it for the 80% and wait a bit instead of having that dead space and wasted time

[fluid crow]

it's a game you're pretty much wasting time no matter what

[severe pewter]

#screenshots message

I'm recycling the space on the back end of the final belt.

The purpose is essentially the equivalent of taking the uniform off after work, or the backpack after school

[dense violet]

and that's the last line of defence in every pmerg argument - 'i can waste time if I want' not 'this is an actual practical thing to do'

[severe pewter]

My time in this chatroom today has come full circle

[dense violet]

the argument was 'are pmergs useful' not 'I can waste time with them'

[fluid crow]

it's a sandbox game peoples, scenario, goals, or personal preference might be different

[severe pewter]

Aye

Also, what's the question mark for?

[unkempt blade]

I didn't leave it but I'll just say the analogy didn't help me understand your reasoning 🤣

[unborn nova]

how should i go about smelting 1200copper/min?

do i just make a really big brick of smelters

[unkempt blade]

figure out what recipe you want to use for it and build a huge row of the building they use

[unborn nova]

alr ye just checking i wasnt missing something

[severe pewter]

Oh. I got tired of having to manually put all the resources that collect in the inventory over time away into chests.

The small setup with the pmerg, while a bit slow, handles all that for me.

[unborn nova]

im gonna figure out my copper situation so the nuclear pastas dont take 4 years to make 1k

[unkempt blade]

If you've got a lot of extra power and power shards you might think about overclocking them

[unborn nova]

yea i def got the power

ima see how much that would use

[fluid crow]

make sure to sloop that thing 😼

[unborn nova]

oh that would only be 48 power shards

ye im def slooping all 16 smelters

would be silly if i didnt

[severe pewter]

Slooping the Christmas stuff btw

[unborn nova]

synthetic power shards are the best thing ever

[severe pewter]

My body could use a couple

[unborn nova]

ye

its called meth works like a charm

[quasi warren]

PFFT-

i was thinking speed

[severe pewter]

Mary Jane kinda works like super caffeine

[fluid crow]

don't lick the slugs!

[quasi warren]

i want something to keep me up, but my adhd likes to use caffeine as nap juice

[severe pewter]

Yo, fun fact: if you can find the trigger (it's a psychological one), there is a switch, to let you pick between caffeine making you sleepy and waking you up

[unborn nova]

real

[quasi warren]

HOW.

WHAT IS THIS SORCERY

[fluid crow]

people don't think caffeine addiction is that bad but damn I got a problem

[unborn nova]

dawg copper powder is crazy

wdym it takes 2 constructors to make 1500copper a min disapeer

[fluid crow]

fr

I had 1 accelerator slooped and running and was still done with that way before I got the other stuff done, or even setup

[severe pewter]

At the time years ago it started with a thought: "why is drinking caffeine killing my energy levels? It never used to do this to me."

Then I realized it was an effect tied to a bit of depression at the time and being worn out. The effect was instant. Like a placebo effect, or maybe a reverse placebo effect.

~A lot of things work that way though

[quasi warren]

my ADHD is hired wired into me T-T natural stimulant. stimulant + stimulant = they cancel eachother out

[severe pewter]

Do they cancel each other out, or is the stimulation too much for you to handle (but still there)?

[quasi warren]

i dont know T-T i just know, that when i drink coffee. i can EASILY fall asleep. its why i need SOMETHING to keep me up while i factory

[severe pewter]

If caffeine energy is a 5 year old hopped up on caffeine, and you don't match their energy level, what sort of effect does the kid have on you?

[fluid crow]

is this a test?

[severe pewter]

No

[gloomy tusk]

Are any of the satisfactory ost playable on piano drums or guitar

[fluid crow]

it sounds like a test

[severe pewter]

You could probably transcribe them

[peak wasp]

my base lowk messy

[fluid crow]

organization is tough

[severe pewter]

Agreed

[peak wasp]

does this game have pollute

[severe pewter]

Nope

[peak wasp]

everytime i go to my ore nodes to get wires materials stuff its like a workout

do yall move ur containers near ur base

[severe pewter]

If you're T1~T3, everything is going to be a workout for a while

[gloomy tusk]

Radio control units fucking suck

[fluid crow]

you probably want to move stuff on belts or vehicles

[peak wasp]

ooh yeah this game got trains

[severe pewter]

Once upon a time, I used to either run on belts everywhere, or else take a vehicle

[fluid crow]

of you haven't unlocked miner yet it's like one of the first things

[gloomy tusk]

Is 3000 nitrogen gas p/m enough

What do you even use it for

[peak wasp]

ok im finally done with my machine madness

now ima upgrade my hub

"fuse blown"oh balls what did i do wrong

[gloomy tusk]

Pray for your factory

[severe pewter]

We must construct additional pylons

[peak wasp]

oh its out of fuel

nothing wrong

at what phase i get automate power tho

[gloomy tusk]

How far through the game are you

It’s like phase 2

[peak wasp]

first run

built plate rod machine

[gloomy tusk]

Contgrata

[peak wasp]

concrete wires

[gloomy tusk]

Also happy early birthday

[peak wasp]

etc basically all materials i have rn i have built automate them all

[peak wasp]

oh tysm

[fluid crow]

tier 3

[severe pewter]

Probably the steam generators. A friend and myself started a new world though, and managed early semi-automated power by dumping wood and leaves into two separate containers (no smart splitters yet), and feeding them through processors (with storage for buffer and to be able to pull from) to 3 max-overclocked bio burners. Works pretty well. 1000 wood is enough fuel for an hour or so

[peak wasp]

smart splitters?

[gloomy tusk]

Mam

Mam research

[severe pewter]

Wait for the MAM first, she's gonna be your best friend for a while

[gloomy tusk]

GUYS

WHAT DO I USE NITROGEN GAS FOR

[peak wasp]

does machines have gender now

[severe pewter]

Laughing gas? Or maybe Nos?

[gloomy tusk]

aside from fmf

[fluid crow]

RF?

[gloomy tusk]

What’s that

[fluid crow]

rocket fuel

[pastel surge]

So can you only load as many cars on a train as there is freight stations?

[gloomy tusk]

You can use it for rocket fuel?

[unborn moss]

You need nitrogen for quite a few late game items

[severe pewter]

I was thinking Radio Frequency. Like an RF tag.

[peak wasp]

collect it from air:smart:

[severe pewter]

Some people do

[gloomy tusk]

I just hit 20 industrial storage containers of supercomputers 🥳

[zealous urchin]

when vip junctions work and u enter the realm of 2.4k crystal and 4.4k silica

[severe pewter]

I haven't quite started dealing with it yet, but I helped someone with balancing out their Nuclear production. It gets used for some of the processes there, at least

[fluid crow]

for the nitric acid

[zealous urchin]

[pastel surge]

?

[plush raft]

quick question what should be the base like of production i should make for items like should i make 10 50 100 per minute?

[tranquil saffron]

i mean i guess you can place more but they won't be loaded

[fluid crow]

depends what you're trying to achieve or over achieve

[severe pewter]

Lol. If you want my personal opinion, if I were starting a new world, my first goal would be to make at least 2000 screws (up to 3000)/min, I forget how many rods, 400~500? You'll want 30~60/min left over for personal use; and I think 270 iron sheets/min. Copper comes into play a bit later, but is similarly needed

[pastel surge]

I mean can it load all the cars with 1 freight station?

Or do I need mroe

[fluid crow]

it only loads the 1 car that lines up

[peak wasp]

yo if i get convey mk2 do all my convey mk1 transform into mk2 cause i dont wanna replace them all vro

[severe pewter]

You'd have to change the belts by hand. I still use Mk.1 belts

[peak wasp]

plu

[fluid crow]

you have to replace them and can still build the lower one as you want

[peak wasp]

so ima jst keep mk1

what does mk stand for tho

[valid timber]

mark

just means an iteration of something.

[severe pewter]

mark 1, mark 2 (same as v1, v2)

[tranquil saffron]

[fluid crow]

it's just a marketing thing

[peak wasp]

holy ultrakill ref

[severe pewter]

Never played

[tranquil saffron]

where is the ingots emoji 😭

[peak wasp]

i jst realized i havent built reinforced auto so ima build one

[severe pewter]

-I need the help of a math/programming buff here:

I have two outputs, and I can easily set up priority splitters for each, so that the overflow gets sent to a sink, but I don't really want to do that. Is it possible to make an XOR setup, so that the whole thing runs until both sides are full?

[fluid crow]

you mean a logic system to stop it or something?

[severe pewter]

Aye.

[unkempt blade]

if I'm understanding you I'd do a smart/programmable splitter with 2 directions for the item you want to XOR and the remaining direction as overflow

[fluid crow]

seems like in this game it stops if it's full or sink

[unkempt blade]

If one side fills up everything would go to the other side. If both sides fill up it would all go to the sink

[fluid crow]

since resources don't run out anything that's extra and not being stored might as well go to the sink for the most part

[peak wasp]

is building foundations on sky a good idea cause my base is on a mountain

[versed mesa]

Hi all

How many of you have made 2nd save to retry again from your first save to think you got better understanding into doing better the 2nd time

[severe pewter]

Which is the best I can currently come up with. I don't want this setup always on, it's manufacturing personal-use items, so it should only be on as needed.

[versed mesa]

The reason I ask this i am thinking I should do this even though ive not completed phase 5 yet

[plush raft]

Oh just got the ping so I’m about to go to phase 4 I want to know what’s like a base line I should go for because I feel like I’m under producing for my future self

[fluid crow]

is up to you what architecture you find suitable

[severe pewter]

I've torn entire sections down and rebuilt, if that's what you mean

[peak wasp]

i sent 2 image in media

[unkempt blade]

I'd probably just not use a sink rule in that case and have it fill the depot and/or additional storage as desired then it'll shut off when full

[peak wasp]

nvm thats the off topic one

wait is there satisfactory media

[severe pewter]

Until you start using the alts to replace the screws, you are going to need an insane number of screws.

[plush raft]

I mean like anything I’m already using the cast screws

[peak wasp]

wait do u still need ore nodes

on like late game or sum

[severe pewter]

It's making turbo fuel, and fabric -> gas masks. It currently shuts off when the fuel is full, but that will eventually starve the rest

[summer coral]

youre not able to make railway intersections in a blueprint designer of any size are you?

[unkempt blade]

this is packaged turbofuel?

[severe pewter]

Yes, but belts can push over 1000/min by that point

[versed mesa]

Yes kind if I recently try to turn back but mainly to redownload mod and see if everything is good but it seams over whelming was not sure what todo even though that i need to do stuff better but what I did manage tido is all on my first time run and the getting to phase five I think it got to powerful for me

[peak wasp]

my foundations on sky is probably okay for ore nodes i think?

[versed mesa]

Like i think I can make awesome builds but when am stuck with is knowing what factory to have and what to automate i really would like to try Automating i just not so where to start with it all

[severe pewter]

Yes
#screenshots message

[versed mesa]

If you understand what I mean

[severe pewter]

If something is too much, then you are looking at too much at once. Even the mouth will break food down enough to process

[unkempt blade]

I'd make a raised section of pipe after the packagers (so the packagers get priority) and then feed that pipe to fuel generators. The generators will only get fuel with the packagers are full but it'll keep fuel running so cloth doesn't starve

[versed mesa]

The game is cool am just trying figure out todo better and enjoy tge game even more

[severe pewter]

You can literally belt things from one end of the map to the other, if that is your playstyle

[peak wasp]

alr

[versed mesa]

Yes thats 100% right am still unwell with my Anxiety and mental health shit so it dont help at all

[unkempt blade]

if you're not worried about a lumpy power graph you can connect those generators to your power network and if you don't want to see the lumps just give them their own little disconnected network which will still consume the fuel but not make the graph bumpy

[versed mesa]

And and 2017 I was diagnosed with high functioning Autism

[severe pewter]

Pick something to focus on, and start there.

[tranquil saffron]

hekk it, play in creative and build 5 things at once

[severe pewter]

Once you have that figured out, move to the next piece. The current world teaches EVERYTHING NOW AND AS FAST AS POSSIBLE, but that is not the right way to do anything.

Take your time, you won't get fired for being slow.

[tranquil saffron]

it is if i want to build a lot 😂

[severe pewter]

Oh, also: it's okay to suck at something, and it's okay for something to be hard or frustrating. If everything is always easy, then the amount of things a person can learn will always be few.

[tranquil saffron]

it's not okay. get good. devote your life to it

[severe pewter]

Blueprints ftw then. But I've been building everything by hand.

[versed mesa]

Yeah i think I understand but how do I figure it out to know what making what and in serton locations and then Automating things like my mind feel it knows little and it dont and very slightly ive been getting very small ideas in my head with the game but ive not acted on them because of Unsureness

[severe pewter]

Start with the end product. What are you trying to make, and how much?

[unkempt blade]

Just treat them like experiments. Give it a try and don't overthink it and then you can keep it or discard it or modify the experiment depending on what you like

[severe pewter]

Some people don't think like artists~

[unkempt blade]

There's no way to lose the game. There's no way to put yourself in a spot where something is unfixable, etc.

[tranquil saffron]

ur right most ppl here are hopeless grinders playing without cheats, opportunity wasted

[versed mesa]

Tbh ive not idea on how much i just want to make some cool builds and get stuff produced at this point id like to finish phase five but theres so m7ch I believe that I need todo for this and mist of my factories that I have running are not in the full correct stage or organisation or something idk man lol

[versed mesa]

Right ill keep this is mind thanks mate

[tranquil saffron]

its the OCD, it drives us all

[versed mesa]

Yeah i do have some sort of ocd

[severe pewter]

Well, unless you are able to do things and change things on the fly, if you want to know what you're going to need to build, you should probably decide on what to build first.

[unkempt blade]

At work the phrase I use is "have a bias towards action" when I'm throwing my team members in the metaphorical pool 😆

there's usually a lot of solutions that will work and it's usually better to run with what you think is best than it is to overanalyze it and delay starting

[severe pewter]

I think my sushi factory took 9 months of planning and building across a 3 year period because of that

[fluid crow]

I finally decided it wasn't going to be organized this time around and just hooked the belts up somehow.

[unkempt blade]

Yeah totally, I'd probably lump that in with "vanity projects" which is totally ok for people to choose to do but isn't necessary as far as game progression is concerned. Same for a lot of the artsier builds

[severe pewter]

When I'm feeling lazy, I go full-clip with everything

[versed mesa]

Right well there was project i was starting i made a build but decide i want copies of it so extra 3 more maybe install out in the swamp land but then I came to hault because I was unsure what was going tobe done in them fully my main forcus i did want is to produce almost all that I am producing from my starting location to in swamp land but my thought's i guess just knocked me if cause and asking my self what am I doing is it the right way or not

[summer coral]

do railway blocks take into account sections where two railways cross but dont connect?

perfect, ty

[peak wasp]

all my fuel are blown

[versed mesa]

Lol

[peak wasp]

machines i meant

[versed mesa]

Hope yous understand where am coming from

[peak wasp]

i gotta get the auto power asap

[unkempt blade]

if they cross you probably want to do path->block and not block->block

[fluid crow]

having the beginning organized granted me so slack in the end

[summer coral]

forgot theres two types lol

using it as a transition blue print going into a railway circle

[severe pewter]

There is no 'right way' in a sandbox. The closest you're gonna get is by going for the achievements.
But with this game? Just do it, and if you need to tear it down later, then you need to tear it down later. But as of right now, you have nothing at all~

[versed mesa]

Let me ask how much of the first stage starting location did you automate send stuff to another factory from there ?

[severe pewter]

Manually feeding everything becomes tiresome quickly

[peak wasp]

and why does big trees equal materials as small trees🤔

[peak wasp]

kinda

[severe pewter]

Why does a cactus count as a mushroom?

[versed mesa]

Yeah your right I think my starting location is so big I need to bring it all down and maybe try rethink things

[peak wasp]

sounds poetic

[fluid crow]

I pretty much went with send stuff to my starting location but I don't think you have to do it like that

[versed mesa]

Thanks for your support chat guys I am going back to watching The Wrecking Crew while am drinking white wine lol

[versed mesa]

Right like there many if ways you can do it but its knowing how many train stations to set up in one location and then drones and trucks ect

This is the stimulated bits also

[glad hawk]

Wait the game uses 200 less watts vs when I have it borderless

Yo wait this is revolutionary

[peak wasp]

1300 solid biofuel

[glad hawk]

My gpu power usage is cut by 50% by fullscreening this

[fluid crow]

it doesn't have to be real elite to finish the game, more just personal goals or preferences

[peak wasp]

this should be enough dawg

[versed mesa]

Your right

[glad hawk]

Absolutely revolutionary day for the unemployed

[severe pewter]

Real quick, if you want it - it takes 5 min to set up - two containers (color them so they don't get mixed up): one for wood, one for leaves. Each feeds a constructor, converting things into biomass. That merges into a container, which feeds another constructor, turning things into biofuel. That feeds a final container, which then splits between the burners.

It's still semi-manual, but it's enough to hold for a little while. The bio stuff can also be swapped out with coal I believe

[severe pewter]

That makes no sense

[versed mesa]

@fluid crow hopefully one day ill crack with it all lol

[severe pewter]

Is your computer trying to render the Desktop in 4 Dimensions?

[glad hawk]

i guess so

[peak wasp]

i mean i got fuel but i gotta feed the machines fuel

[glad hawk]

my gpu was doing

250-360 watts down to

[fluid crow]

same

[glad hawk]

160 watts

[versed mesa]

Lmao

[severe pewter]

I wonder what my Watt usage is?...

[versed mesa]

Glad to hear am nit the only one

[peak wasp]

i never even care about the watt status

is it important

[severe pewter]

Chainsaw in area mode is great. Unless you're in the north-eastern desert

[glad hawk]

you do if it makes electricity bills go up for the person whopays them

[severe pewter]

If you pay for the electricity, yes

[peak wasp]

nah im grass fuel

grass field

[summer coral]

this is frustrating, cant get the path signals to block the right direction 😭

[peak wasp]

i pay fuel

[summer coral]

without them being on the end that is and i cant do that with the designer :/

[severe pewter]

I think it depends on which side of the track it's on

[severe pewter]

Talking irl, not ig

[fluid crow]

in the winter it helps keep the area of the house I'm in comfortable 😂

[summer coral]

yea, theres a build mode to put it on the right side but its still blocking the wrong direction which is my issue

[versed mesa]

@severe pewter @fluid crow I think my starting location ive git so many products being made there so maybe that one of hard stimulating points

[severe pewter]

Is there a hot key for flipping something?

[summer coral]

its blocking the south way when i need it to block north no matter which side its on

[fluid crow]

you could always start a new area or something

ship what you want

[severe pewter]

Choosing what to focus on, and staying focused on just that helps

[versed mesa]

Yeah i believe another new area is needed

Specially all lands is big in size and has much more deposits

[fluid crow]

nothing stopping you from building a whole new factory if that's what you want

[versed mesa]

Am trying to think on what to say lol

@fluid crow hiw much are you creating in 1 factory

[night sail]

I have finally organised my plate,rod,screw,r plates , rotors factory now will go towards wire and such

[silent aurora]

We definitely need alterate fuels for the chainsaw

[fluid crow]

I did most of my stuff in one factory. I prepossessed what I could like ingots and stuff. I got rid of my coal plant at my main factory so I could use the coal and space for other stuff

[versed mesa]

Ive got idea what I mite need todo but I ain't sure if its the correct way after all but it is just a game after all to have fun atleast try to lol

[wicked jackal]

without making help request is it normal for foundation parts to not fully align at the top and bottom?

[fluid crow]

I wasn't going for like real high output my first time around

[versed mesa]

But hiw bigh is the factory and do you have ut cut into sections ?

[severe pewter]

If the terrain is in the way, yes. Holding CTRL helps a tiny bit with some alignments, but sometimes you've gotta press H, and manually nudge it in

[wicked jackal]

its about 10cm out, its weird

snapped to each other

[fluid crow]

it's pretty much a huge thing with 3 tall floors. the top floor was originally a roof and storage but then that was where the magic happened the last 2 phases

[versed mesa]

Nah is same with me lije my main and starting location is grassland is so much and different items being produced there i think I need to make different factories for it all like separate it all

[wicked jackal]

its as if the quater pipes are snapped to lower segment

[fluid crow]

needed something tall for particle accelerators and stuff

[versed mesa]

Yeah and nuclear gens

[severe pewter]

I've been procrastinating the heck out of the aluminum since I unlocked it. Wouldn't mind some nuclear power though

[fluid crow]

that is the next thing I have to do 🤯

[versed mesa]

Or boy lol

[fluid crow]

did you at least get enough for the hovepack 🖤

[versed mesa]

Aluminium os something then you got to maje batteries not that something because the liquid dont runt fully smoothly as you would like lol

[severe pewter]

Yeah, I recently got enough by scavenging hard drives

[wicked jackal]

il just make a bug report

[fluid crow]

Nice!

[versed mesa]

Your going to love it lmfao

[severe pewter]

Super nice too, can't believe I put it off for so long. Half-way to automating the ionized filters now too

[peak wasp]

logistic mk2 we go

[versed mesa]

God dam

[peak wasp]

im done with tier 2 lets go

[severe pewter]

Things start heating up with T4

[versed mesa]

Give me 5 years 😂

[peak wasp]

like melted iron or sum

[versed mesa]

Yeah he's right T4 gets harder

[fluid crow]

I just added more rocket fuel to get me through building one hopefully

[peak wasp]

i still dont know what are those pods returning thing do

[severe pewter]

I'd been semi-manual with turbo fuel for so long, and having it full auto now is just

[versed mesa]

The reason it gets hard is seeton product need seeton stuff that maybe your producing else where so then you need to work on what todo how they going to get those materials

[peak wasp]

eeee wait im gonna get space elevator

[versed mesa]

Lol

[severe pewter]

That is why

[peak wasp]

why what

what why

[twin parcel]

eh just use tractors and transport coal \

[versed mesa]

Have a goid morning all

[peak wasp]

i jst ended tier 2 not that advanced yet

[severe pewter]

Why things start heating up

[versed mesa]

Thanks for the chat

[peak wasp]

so u can melt iron

[severe pewter]

Aye - tchüss~

[severe pewter]

Yeah u right

[versed mesa]

Heading back to watching this new film

[sterile blade]

How do you make ingots? Do you like, press the metal into ingot shape while getting rid of impurities with your bare hands? 💪

[peak wasp]

how do u build things in 2 seconds in satisfactory

[versed mesa]

😂

[sterile blade]

BuildGun power

[peak wasp]

because factory taste better than ingot

yo what do i do now

[versed mesa]

Everyone should chill out and drink some white wine with me 😋 😂

[peak wasp]

the pod countdown is over and it havent opened for me a new tier

[fluid crow]

precisely 😼

[summer coral]

gotta manually select a tier

[peak wasp]

help dawg

[severe pewter]

(the only current problem with today's build is that I have to manually feed the coal and steel sheets)

[peak wasp]

me stuck

[severe pewter]

Hello stuck

-try deleting it and re-placing it

[fluid crow]

you have to do the space elevator

[versed mesa]

For like producing steel beams or so

[severe pewter]

No, for producing the gas masks

[peak wasp]

i need 50 smart plating

which isnt it rewarded from pod

[versed mesa]

Lol

[peak wasp]

oh god

[severe pewter]

It's not a huge deal, because the smart splitters let the byproduct overflow to the sink, but it is slightly annoying

[peak wasp]

why cant it be craften vro

[summer coral]

gotta build it using an assembler

project parts are too complex for us :(

[severe pewter]

Lmao

[fluid crow]

they don't call it a smart plate for nothing

[peak wasp]

cyberbully

[severe pewter]

What do you think this is, a f2p game?

[versed mesa]

Tbh I like setting everything up and seeing it up and running

[peak wasp]

smart

[severe pewter]

Same. That's what makes the sushi factory so satisfying.

[peak wasp]

i like complex

i prob gonna try factorio after i played all satisfactory map

[versed mesa]

Yous seen the Gif of the down syndrome lad git hus eyes ficsated on the light well thats me 😂

[severe pewter]

Hang on, I have an old picture for you

[versed mesa]

Lmao

Damn I want to eat some Sushi

[fluid crow]

great game

[peak wasp]

atleast i can put my rotor directly on it and shi

[sterile blade]

[sterile blade]

Here we don't eat sushi, we just watch it pass on the belt in awe!

[versed mesa]

😂

[peak wasp]

im bouta discover what space elevator gonna do

moment of truth

[versed mesa]

Damn the space elevator 😂

[peak wasp]

5 smart plating yet

this taking forever to craft

[versed mesa]

More machines

[pastel surge]

Fr

[peak wasp]

2 PER MINUTE

[pastel surge]

And for phase 2 you need 2000 of it

So get to making it

[silent aurora]

In later phases smart plates are materials to make other elevator parts as well

[sterile blade]

Good thing it's automated, so you don't have to stand there looking at it for it to work 😉
I always suggest taking the chance to do some exploration, while spelevator parts are loading (or you're waiting for some production anyway)

[peak wasp]

i got nothing to explore

tiers already done

fuel a ton

[sterile blade]

How many Sloops and Hard Drives do you have? ^^

[peak wasp]

what sloop

and whats hard drive

[sterile blade]

"Exploration done" huh...?

[peak wasp]

im good with waiting

[silent aurora]

You can go look for whats called a hard drive. Hard drives are researchable material that offers you alternative crafting recipes.
One of the hard drive recipes gives you a smart plate recipe that 2x speeds of crafting them

[peak wasp]

whats the recipe

[sterile blade]

Don't bother, it'd be useless to you now anyway

[peak wasp]

it aint in my codex

[sterile blade]

That's why you have to unlock it (ie: explore)

[peak wasp]

and whats a sloop

[silent aurora]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Hard_Drive

[sterile blade]

Somersloops are items that can be found around the map. Useful for research~

[silent aurora]

Sloops are rare alien thingies that are used for upgrading machinery

[fluid crow]

makes machines produce *2 with the same input

[summer coral]

there a way i can make a conveyor elevator go as far as i want?

[severe pewter]

Me too

#screenshots message

[peak wasp]

Bro

[fluid crow]

idk but you can connect them together

[severe pewter]

And find some slugs, mercer spheres, somersloops, and hard drives

[summer coral]

ik, just looks so ugly :(

[fluid crow]

probably a mod

[silent aurora]

Uh

[indigo dove]

How many of y'all play with enemies set to retaliate? I have default settings currently, but dealing with enemies while exploring honestly just feels more annoying than anything.

[silent aurora]

I think conveyor elevator holes (they connect to foundations) allow you to connect elevators much higher than normal

[fluid crow]

I like fighting them but to each their own

[sterile blade]

Next challenge: make an ultra sushi factory, force-feeding sushi to machines using only one input slot for each

[silent aurora]

Rebar gun solves alot of problems.

[unborn nova]

is rebar better than the rifle?

[summer coral]

i shall see how far it goes

[sterile blade]

Like how to build foundations at weird angles...

[summer coral]

hopefully far enough

[fluid crow]

I did like how it felt a bit like a survival game

[sterile blade]

Arguably, it can be

[unborn nova]

dont the explosive rebar do alot of dmg

like 50 or smth

[severe pewter]

1 screw per minute, here I come!

[sterile blade]

I dunno, I use them to replace nobelisks rather than the damage, ngl xD

[silent aurora]

Nope and yes.

Rebars are more versatile as you can use explody rebars to nuke rocks, and other specialty bars. But the rebar gun does not have an equivalent to the rifle's homing bullet so crabs are unanimously a pain

[unborn nova]

homing bullet?

[summer coral]

THEY DO :D

[unborn nova]

dawg what i needa get that

[severe pewter]

Explosive rebar is great. The rest is meh, but it is a ranged weapon

[summer coral]

150 aluminum ingots worth of elevator

[sterile blade]

Huh?

[fluid crow]

the turbo ammo pretty good once you get used to it

[indigo dove]

I mean the normal ones are fine to deal with but like the giant radioactive fucker and the giant spiders that chase you and tank like a bajillion rebars just make parts of the map fucking terrifying to go into

[unborn nova]

is homing ammo an alt recipe?

[silent aurora]

The rifle comes with base ammo. Turbo ammo which is ultra rapid fire with a short rampup like a minigun and the smart ammo which fires slow moving bullets that track targets within a crosshair

[sterile blade]

Stun + is my go-to. Max DPS with the least retaliation

[severe pewter]

Well, if everything's gonna fit on one belt, I can't be sending a lot of anything

[silent aurora]

Idk about it being an alt. It definitely uses caterium research

[unborn nova]

oh its in therer

[fluid crow]

they become less of a pain as you make more science to deal with them

[unborn nova]

i was looking in sulfur

[silent aurora]

Radioactive hog and giant spider problems can be solved with EXPLODING rebar my beloved

[sterile blade]

Everything for one machine 😉
Ie: using one input slot per machine; how the products are merged (or not) is completely up to choice

[fluid crow]

at this point I've got power poles in a lot of bad areas so I can hover pack and farm them

[short fiber]

#screenshots message somber egg

[unborn nova]

ye same kinda i just hover with the jetpack and spray them with turbo

once that shi heats up its like inf dps

[sterile blade]

A silly example @severe pewter : #screenshots message

[drowsy rock]

whats the best spot for a coal power spot

[fluid crow]

same I do this most places but some places I even got power just for hp 😂

[severe pewter]

Anywhere there is coal and water. Sulfur too if you want to get fancy

[unborn nova]

ye i wish i had power everywhere, so many situations where i just wanna be still instead of bouncing up and down with the rocketfuel

[silent aurora]

And close to water for the coal powerplant

[summer coral]

as far away from the coal or water as possible

very far up in the sky too

[drowsy rock]

😭

[severe pewter]

The way you're talking, I think I may have already done something like that

[fluid crow]

like some of the messed up spider caves and stuff with lots of vertical

[unborn nova]

ya or when im tryna make something in a remote area

[indigo dove]

I'm nowhere close to having a jetpack

[sterile blade]

Just drag around power towers whenever you go to new places ^^
If you take the habit, you barely even notice~

[unborn nova]

ya prob a good idea

[sterile blade]

Do share! :D

[unborn nova]

do hp reach further to the power towers than the normal poles? or is the same range

[sterile blade]

Same range

[fluid crow]

the power towers and zip lines was an early form of defense some of the vehicles are a good escape plan

just got to avoid stuff till your ready to fight it

[severe pewter]

I spent a day running high ljnes across the rest of the map so I could set Radio Towers in a hexagonal grid. I may not have power everywhere, but the framework is there now

[silent aurora]

You build your coal plant directly on top of oil actually. So you can fuel your coal plants with the leftover heavy oil residue to petcoke recipe. I believe you will need to use the alt recipe polymer resin to use the heavy oil residue. On top of which you will need to ship your water in via trucks filled with empty canisters. Use the polymer resin to make more canisters with spare water by shipping the resin to a lake. Making canisters there and shipping water from the lake back to the polymer oil plant.

Sink the excess canisters. They are onetime use items after all

[drowsy rock]

im on tier 3 bro..

[silent aurora]

Oh. Then my joke missed the mark

Aaah i forgor oil is tier 4 lol

[fluid crow]

you need water and coal, probably easier to bring the coal to the water

[versed cosmos]

where is your starting location? there's a few spots near the starting locations that are meant for you to build coal power there

[glad hawk]

duuude

im in a deficit of steel beams by 50% still

[drowsy rock]

like the bottom of the map in the grass area

[versed cosmos]

grass fields

[drowsy rock]

yea

[versed cosmos]

head north up the hill

[silent aurora]

Yikes. Running out of steel is always a doozy

[glad hawk]

versatile frameworks are evil bro

[unborn nova]

look at #screenshots

[glad hawk]

they want ALL of my steel

[unborn nova]

that spot i found was great for like everything

[glad hawk]

I doubled the efficiency of my steel and it barely did a thing

[drowsy rock]

yeah thats where im at but i dont like the terrain difference

[unborn nova]

ah

i covered up all the water to make it all flat

[glad hawk]

For every 12.5 frameworks it wants 75 steel btw

[unborn nova]

if you wanted u could probably fill the whole thing in

[glad hawk]

per minute

[drowsy rock]

oo good idea

[versed cosmos]

for your initial versatile frameworks, you can just set up an assembler and containers and handfeed it

[unborn nova]

leme show u rq

check ss again

[glad hawk]

yes thats what im doing

and it just wants steel man

[old bramble]

How do y’all go about moving fluids that exceed the capacity of the pipes? Like say I need to produce 800 fuel. How would I go about moving that fuel when pipes only move max 600 meters cubed.

[versed cosmos]

just let it run and fill up the containers

[glad hawk]

because I have a shipping route for my steel

[versed cosmos]

2 pipes of 400

[drowsy rock]

yeah thats what im doing rn

[silent aurora]

I build more pipes and keep them full

[sterile blade]

Or just more than one pipe

[glad hawk]

I put like 500 beams, walk away for a couploe seconds, and boom the steel is gone

[unborn nova]

but if u wanted more space which might be nice u could bring it up a few more levels and cover everything

[versed cosmos]

yea just work on other stuff while youre waiting on those containers to fill

go on a hard drive hunt

[unborn nova]

that would prob like 4x the space

[severe pewter]

Some pictures of the factory
#screenshots message

And if you want it, the notes for some of the earlier groundwork + final tally
#screenshots message

[drowsy rock]

yeah i might just make the first floor like a large power factory then cover it up once i know it works well

[unborn nova]

ye

[unborn nova]

ye u should lowk try to fly through phase 3 cause i found oil power to be alot better

coal def worked for phase 3 but oil so much easier

[drowsy rock]

i know but i need the power to start getting good factorys up

plus if it works well it can be used as back up power incase oil doesnt work at first

[unborn nova]

ya it could be good to jumpstart oil

[severe pewter]

"easier"

Depends on how you set it up. Coal is just plug n' play, unless you use compacted coal. But oil will give a lot more power

[sterile blade]

I saw them!
Nice to see some sushi in the wild for a change 😁
It also reminds me of my complaints over lack of "automatic" signs (eg: no way to set a sign to "display the output or sum of outputs of this/these machine(s)", making it extremely tedious to change numbers along a production chain whose values you wrote on signs like you did...)

That's not the kind of "challenge" I was referring to though 😅 (all your machines are fed with manifolds it seems)

[severe pewter]

What do you mean then?

[sterile blade]

You know what a "manifold" is?

[unborn nova]

ye i guess everything depends on everything

nothing is truly easier

[severe pewter]

Aye

[fluid crow]

oil can be pretty plug and play and gives much more power each

[drowsy rock]

should i set up the water pumps in the furthest back or in like the middle part

[unborn nova]

of the lake?

[drowsy rock]

yea

[unborn nova]

yea if i had the whole lake filled in id probably tuck the coal near the back and just transport the coal from the nodes

[sterile blade]

The challenge I mentioned (aka: single-input challenge) forces you to not use manifolds to feed machines as it allows you to use just one input slot for each machine (eg: manufacturer, Assembler or Foundry being fed via one input instead of two or four). The "challenge" lies in the lack of overflow control, meaning that any issue in production or design can lead to the system stalling completely until manually fixed.
Ie: no "overflow splitters" anywhere

[summer coral]

took me 6 hours to get my fuel plant working, 2 hours for coal, wdym easier 😭

[versed cosmos]

fuel is bigger but easier

you dont run into the 300/min limit of mk1 pipes nearly as much

[unborn nova]

ye i think that was the opposite for me

[versed cosmos]

what the fuck this guy has no name

[severe pewter]

Oooooo, I see. That would be a pain. You'd have to pre-balance loads, and would need a way to force certain items to enter belts at specific timings so things don't jam up. On top of that, you'd probably need to make the machines out-perform the belts so no machine queues ever end up filling

[unborn nova]

pretty tuff ikr

[summer coral]

only reason im using fuel is cause it makes 15000 mw Vs 2000 mw

[unborn nova]

ye i dont think coal is very good past when u first use it

unless im mistaken

[sterile blade]

You might be overcomplicating a few details but overall yes xD
Eg: getting the items in the right amounts and timings can be as simple as merging the output of machines properly clocked ^^

[summer coral]

compacted coal is pretty good but i didnt have that at the time

[unborn nova]

ya

im running nuclear rn it makes silly power but the waste is pmo

[summer coral]

also makes for an easier transition to a turbo fuel plant

not starting nuclear till i can fully process the waste

[unborn nova]

i fully deleted my fuel plant way too early before i had the stuff for nuclear and spent like 10 hours building it

it was pretty tuff

[severe pewter]

Stuff isn't always that easy, plus, if the belt is going to end up maxed, then things need to be pre-ratioed at lower amounts. There is a bit of a cheeky way around some of it by, for example, setting the sushi belt at mk2, and then setting a piece of the input to mk1, which still allows the split to sample at mk2 speed, but caps the pull rate at mk.1 but that also requires striping the belts

[summer coral]

oh dear, im going to run out of aluminum well before the plants done

[unborn nova]

i start running out of super computers yo

[glad hawk]

calculus cant even save my factory bruh

[unborn nova]

that shi sucked i was manually crafting them in a lone manufacturer powered by like a single fuel gen

[severe pewter]

I only get 10/min, but I managed that with a single manufacturer.

Edit: sry, that's regular computers, supers are I think 1.875/min. But there's so much in storage it doesn't matter.

[unborn nova]

ye my setup is kinda cooked rn

its boof asl and its getting super throttled like everywhere

[sterile blade]

It can be always that easy, if you set things up accordingly
You can clock machines to not encounter throughput issues and avoid having to deal with any "belt calculus" so to speak, if you like (this is what I tend to do as I like to keep logistics on the light side), or go the completely opposite way and create balancers that can output a stable pattern of items even if the inputs are unstable...
How complex it gets depends a great deal on how one approaches the design phase
Note: there's no recipe requiring more than one input belt of items (total) at 100%

[glad hawk]

@severe pewter it cant

I gotta invent my own math to save it

[severe pewter]

Another issue I ran into with nearly maxing sushi belts is that they tend to slosh when full, and need enough space to allow for slosh without it reaching the crafters

[sterile blade]

This is the first time I hearread anyone use "slosh" referring to belts rather than pipes 😆
What do you mean?

[severe pewter]

I had triple-checked the numbers, and even though everything was good, my belts kept backing up at first. Woth careful observation, I noticed that there would be tiny pauses, which would travel backwards along the items like a shockwave, and eventually things would move again, but if there wasn't a hole to make up for it, it would cause a small setback on the belt. But visually watching the effect, it was like watching the queue slosh

I realized later that it was because items were being added and pulled unevenly

Easiest way I know around that one btw is to make the belt long enough to fully compensate for the amount of slosh

[fluid crow]

have a one way sushi belt to the trash

aim to use everything on it if not...

could make a pass by storage first 🤷

[severe pewter]

Too messy. Even with all the space I gave it, the 2nd floor still ended up a bit cramped. There are 5 or 6 belts feeding everything, stuff gets pulled, used, combined, and dumped back onto one of three belts. There was a primary belt I marked, and that's also the return belt. One of the hardest decisions was figuring out *where to place each machine so the items would have to do as little back-and-forth as possible, and save on belt clutter

Storage is at the very end, and I added a pmerger from a storage, to the belt to dump personal items

[fluid crow]

I will probably try to build a smart sushi factory next 😆

[severe pewter]

The sushi stuff was honestly a ton of fun. But took so much math

I started using signs too, because I kept losing track, and got tired of counting things six times

[mystic crag]

I tried Doug's method to rotate foundations and it never worked tried for a whole hour💔

[severe pewter]

Eh?

Rotatta: Dogue, in 3 turns (minor)

Changing his name doesn't tell me what it is

Also, now I got that song stuck in my head

[short fiber]

Are beans attracted to construction?

[severe pewter]

Beans?

[short fiber]

Everytime I start building something they start wondering in. Mr bean

[fluid crow]

you built your factory where its home was

[short fiber]

No way that mf had I home a mile in the sky. He just likes messing with me

[severe pewter]

I do feel like those giant marshmallows spawning in is the Devs trolling

[fluid crow]

they have a large range

yea they are totally just there asking for it

they even got a face only a mother could love

[severe pewter]

A couple times I've had to smack them because they got themselves stuck in places they shouldn't have been able to reach in the first place

[fluid crow]

#screenshots message

plan A boombox plan B nobelisks

I mean I almost feel sorry for the thing but I'm trying to run a factory here

[severe pewter]

Does the boombox scare them off?

[fluid crow]

oh yea he loves that turbo bass 😼

[gray mauve]

hello im new here 🙂

Sorry for my broken speaking english, but i have some question im new to satisfactory and it is my first fatory game, but i love it

[fluid crow]

they probably trolling with that too 🤣

[sterile blade]

Ask him about it. He's in the server ^^

[fluid crow]

if you don't want to shoot it or something can scare with load music

[gray mauve]

You need iron bars and screws. How could I build it so that I get a surplus? Because unfortunately, with the way I've built it at the moment, there's nothing left over., sorry i need to use a translator i'm speaking german

[fluid crow]

need more it sounds like. build more or overclock if you can

[sterile blade]

Oh, I call those "temporary back-ups" ^^
Generally speaking they shouldn't matter though: so long as the total throughput is below the belt's throughput, you should always expect to be able to pull from the belt as much as you've pushed onto it. Even if some machines do end up having their output back up for a moment because their production cycles aligned, any backing-up of items should be temporary and offset in a few seconds.
Only if the belt can't carry all the items can the backing-up keep progressing; in that case, you should eventually find some machines turning on/off as their outputs are full or are lacking input items

This should be especially obvious with recipes that output items in "bulk", like Pure Iron, Steel Screws or Biomass from Proteins...

[gray mauve]

i can overclocck but i not have the items for it

[sterile blade]

Then you can only build more machines ^^

[fluid crow]

you will need a lot of machines you have to keep building more and discovering more resources

[gray mauve]

I come from the game StarRupture and have discovered that I really like factory building games like this one, but now to my question: in the game, there are warehouses that I always placed between the machines. Can you build something like that in this game so that things end up in the warehouse and the machine behind the warehouse produces enough surplus?

For example, I currently only have impure occurrences. Would a miner be able to fill several containers?

[fluid crow]

you unlock a smart splitter that can put overflow in a container

[gray mauve]

Yes, but can a miner fill two containers?

[fluid crow]

like this? #screenshots message

[steady cedar]

Everything has a production rate since you are starting you will have tier 1 drills, that's the best you have a for a while

Impure produce 30 items per min
Normal once 60 and pure once 120
All rates are regardless of what item you mine

[steady cedar]

If you want to make it so what you produce gets used in production further while also storing a part of it you can use splitters or combo of splitters and mergers for more complex control of splitting

[fluid crow]

or #screenshots message

with a splitter

[gray mauve]

I'm a bit overwhelmed as to how to build it because you also need the plates for reinforced iron plates, and I don't know how to build it right now.

[toxic lichen]

do i really have to pick out all the terrible alt recipes
just for the really cash money ones to come through ;-;

[fluid crow]

If there's 2 terrible ones don't pick so neither will come back

[toxic lichen]

oh ;-;

i shouldve done that

[fluid crow]

probably plenty more to come

[toxic lichen]

scanned like
15 HDDs last night
got like 2 good alts out of it

[fluid crow]

you can get the most variety scanning a bunch and not picking

[toxic lichen]

youre smarter than me

steamed copper sheets enemy no.1 rn

[fluid crow]

it is a puzzle. I would make some foundations and find ways to route the belts in an organized way

[toxic lichen]

doing that rn as well ;-;
started up an iron factory
for once
i actually built a building
now i need to figure out how im gonna organize this bs

its only making 600/min
but something is something

[fluid crow]

it's good times working on projects

[toxic lichen]

1 floor to smelt
1 floor for constructors
next is gonna be a bit of buffer storage + DDs
then assemblers on the next floor

i wouldve made it a lot bigger
if there wasnt stupid big ass rocks in my way

like
i could js
build the base floor up?

but i didnt think of that last night so im too lazy to tear it all down rn

[fluid crow]

having a few big floors was nice this time around

[toxic lichen]

its only 8x10 foundations

it feels a lot smaller than i thought it would be

[steady cedar]

If you are struggling with dividing things right now then why not just use a new node for individual stuff, you don't have to make a perfect factory right at the start

[fluid crow]

it's 30x30 ish bigger or smaller in places, with 3 levels

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'
30 sounds no
50 sounds yes

i like
things to be even or
between 5 and 10

30 no beuno

[fluid crow]

I still have lots of room to expand

in one direction it's over the abyss by one of those water falls

[toxic lichen]

ahhhhh

[fluid crow]

the other I would have to change the levels a bit but it would be huge

[toxic lichen]

i want to
at some point

just have all the worlds iron transported to 1 factory for processing ;-;

[fluid crow]

but idk I may kinda walk away from that one and work on something else now

[toxic lichen]

js wish the smelters could do more than 75/min

man do i love slooping

201.5 MW for 1 assembler is
a bit much tho

realizing now that 16 coal gens was not enough

[fluid crow]

or the manufacturers that are 700 some slooped and oc 😬

[toxic lichen]

e'-e'
100 something max sloops in the world last i checked

assemblers take 2 sloops

[fluid crow]

think most the big stuff is 4

but it is equivalent to slooping everything before it

[toxic lichen]

finally got mk4 conveyors
and now i want more

[fluid crow]

same

they getting hard to find

[toxic lichen]

there is the interactive map you can use e'-e'

so far by js running around ive gotten 20 something sloops

[fluid crow]

I'm still not doing map as a spoiler

think I'm in the 60s

been going around with the scanner a lot

[toxic lichen]

the blue crater is great for setting up oil stuff right?

[fluid crow]

oh yea tons of oil

[toxic lichen]

great
good thing i set up my coal power there

i js need to unlock
oil

[fluid crow]

I have my power plants there

like 3 pure nodes right by each other and more... the stuff for compacted coal right next to each other near by

[toxic lichen]

when i have the motivation
ill start setting that up
i just dont like messing with fluids

[lilac bear]

Not a bad haul, considering how many alt recipes there are and how many of them are not really helpful unless you got a really specific use-case in mind.

[toxic lichen]

think in total im collected 30ish

[raven lagoon]

I kind of hate the fact i have a 8 coal gen setup with 2 coal nodes that are normal and 3/8 are active due to the fact that my splitters are giving my top 2 the most

[toxic lichen]

the jetpack really made exploring 1000x easier

get some momentum
then tap the jetpack
ez pz

[fluid crow]

I just used the 2 in the cave first and made it level out the door

[toxic lichen]

what cave e'-e'
the crater has a cave?

[lilac bear]

If you put your oil factory on foundations, you can keep everything at the same level. Which makes them fairly easy to work with. Especially those on the west coast, since any water you'd want is basically within the headlift of the pumps.

[toxic lichen]

i did that with my coal in the crater yea

[fluid crow]

the blue crater? yea you can scan for the oil in there once you unlock the oil

[toxic lichen]

ahh
lemme
unlock it rq
i have all the stuff

[fluid crow]

its like just N of the lake

[lilac bear]

Not sure the two of you are talking about the same crater.

[fluid crow]

me either 😆

[toxic lichen]

it is

im js dumb at times

[fluid crow]

noice

yea great place

[toxic lichen]

i saw 3 coal nodes and thought
may as well

[fluid crow]

the stuff around there is just like made for a rocket fuel factory

[toxic lichen]

oooo

[fluid crow]

among other things but it's like setup for those specific things

[toxic lichen]

im thinking i should set up the trucks soon

[fluid crow]

I haven't used them much

[toxic lichen]

its either them or conveyors everywhere

[fluid crow]

I pretty much done train or belt. did some factory carts around the factory

and drones now

[lilac bear]

Nothing wrong with conveyors.

[fluid crow]

I tried to keep the planet nice but it's all turning into a giant factory 🤯

[toxic lichen]

its more of a
how my mood is feeling and do i really wanna place a conveyor every 24m or so

[lilac bear]

Who would've thought in a factory game

[fluid crow]

...all goes in the end

[lilac bear]

That's one of the reasons some people spend so much time making the factory look good.

[fluid crow]

I kind of like enjoying the nature until I got to chuck some pipe bombs over there to build something

[valid timber]

Whats the input on the Alien Power Augmenter for?

[reef basin]

inputting things it may need

[valid timber]

uh huh

[fluid crow]

you get something later ||Alien Power Matrix|| that ||Boosts the power more||

[frosty mirage]

Man alt recipes can be sooo good, wow

Im using 1 overclocked caterium node for my computer and high speed connector factory and I had a lot of petroleum coke produced additionally so I decided to use the coke steel ingot recipe and im about to have 9/m computer, 8/m high speed connector, 100/m steel pipe and 62.5/m steel beam

Its mostly an alt recipes factory, its so fun experimenting like this

I also have some ideas for my upcoming heavy modular frame factory with some alt recipes, i feel like i opened myself to a whole new world with alts

[reef basin]

yeah, they have so many different combinations and it's fun to explore all of them

to find the one that fits best to your given situation

[restive inlet]

anyboody wanna chill in call and help me whit some farms

[reef basin]

Satisfactory doesn't have farming 🙂

[restive inlet]

factory den xd

[reef basin]

(and I'd recommend for a first playthrough to play solo)

[frosty mirage]

Yea, its nice that it allows you to use the nodes in proximity as an alternative to long distance resource transportation

[restive inlet]

alr but i have done alot already i just dont know where or how to make a coal farm cus i spawned in the dessert cus my brain dead ah brain whanted to go in the desert insted of chekign whats the best starting location

[river pulsar]

Anyone wanna team up on ps5 sometime? Been playing the game by myself for over 200 hours, thouhht it wouls be fun to build something cool with others

[reef basin]

there's no "best" starting location and you should expand anyway, so it doesn't matter which one you pick
and idk what do you mean by "coal farm" (we still have factories, not farms 😛 but also what "coal" thing you want to do)

[reef basin]

#1201555265942724758

[river pulsar]

Thank you!!

[restive inlet]

i just call it farms insted of factory idk why

[clever sandal]

how many oil refineries should i use if one oil node generates 240 m3 per minute

[restive inlet]

but anybody wanna chill in call and help me whit a coal factory over ss

[reef basin]

depends on recipes, check the codex/machines for numbers

[restive inlet]

how do i turn of mods trying to kill me

[clever sandal]

30 per minute

[reef basin]

probably #1201555265942724758 then. However again, I'd recommend to make your own decisions 😛

[reef basin]

well, do the math then 😛

[raven axle]

Official Modding Discord

Learn all about modding and join the community here!
<3 @reef basin

[restive inlet]

the looking for group thing doesnt really work well when its that type of looking for and not just a normal channel

[clever sandal]

what was the formula i forgot

[reef basin]

there's no formula, that's basic math

[clever sandal]

240:30 yes?

[reef basin]

why doesn't?

[restive inlet]

becus if i wanan find sombody i gota true all of those looking for stuf and after that i realise the server has 200k member and the channel stil doesnt realy have alot of people in looking for a normal channel is way better to fidn singer player people not groups that send a msg evry 3days

and am only 13 and late to puberty so most of those people will not wanna play whit me cus they already got a group of people

[reef basin]

that's the channel to do it in though. You can post your own if you don't want to go through the list (though most people don't like to play with randoms)

there are also filters and such

[restive inlet]

am only looking for 1 that just wanna chill and help me whit a factory

[reef basin]

then make the post and see if anyone replies. It's still the channel to do it in

[restive inlet]

stil its just more problematic for me cus its so many there and am one kid so they just dont wanna have me there

[fluid crow]

can press N key in game and use for basic calculator if you type numbers

[reef basin]

make your own post

[restive inlet]

oki den am most likly gona wast time and nobody actuly wanna join

[clever sandal]

there was a IN GAME CALCULATOR????????

I WAS GONNA BRING MY REAL CALC

lmao

[restive inlet]

cus that type of channel is just not good for finding singel players but alr

[reef basin]

yeah, because that's the normal thing, posting in #satisfactory won't change that people just don't like to play with randoms

[fluid crow]

when I say basic I mean basic you may still want yours

[reef basin]

it very much is exactly for those kinds of questions

[clever sandal]

its just a item search, not a calculator

[reef basin]

the fact that it's named "looking for group" doesn't mean you can't use it to look for players

[clever sandal]

you lied

[reef basin]

you can do math in it

[steady cedar]

It is a calculator

[fluid crow]

type 2+2

[restive inlet]

it wont let me make that shit

it says have to make a tag

[clever sandal]

yeah but it cant divide, at least it doesn't let

[restive inlet]

what do they meen thats why that channel shit us usless normal channel works inf times better

[reef basin]

then add a tag

[fluid crow]

it does do that ⁨/⁩is the key

[restive inlet]

wtf is a tag what type of tag hate that type of channel its useless

[clever sandal]

oh

[reef basin]

the tags that are below the message you've written

[clever sandal]

thanks for help man

[reef basin]

things like platform and such

[fading crow]

hellooo

[steady cedar]

You give the post a title and description and add a tag, select what matches yours needs from the list

[restive inlet]

it wont let me that channel is usless

[steady cedar]

The tag option is at the bottom of creating post

[restive inlet]

its so much more easy whit a normal channel

[restive inlet]

ive created the tag but stil wont let me

[reef basin]

it was much more chaotic and problematic with normal channel

[restive inlet]

tf u mean

[steady cedar]

Its difficult to tell what exactly you are having trouble with

[restive inlet]

its so easy whit normal u just send the msg

[reef basin]

we did have normal channel instead. It was horrible and useless.

[restive inlet]

il send a ss

[restive inlet]

cap

how was it bad or even worst that the looking for group shity channel rn

[reef basin]

nobody was using it and it had to be on 6h slowmode due to people spamming their own posts

[restive inlet]

ok yall are brain dead who ever made that 6 hours is way to long ever heard of 5 min or 10min

[reef basin]

because if it was 10 mins, then a person would post the same message every 10 min

[restive inlet]

6hours is usless u cant replay to sombody if u wanna say yea am down u gota dm dem people dont chek dm offtent

[restive inlet]

whats wrong whit that

[reef basin]

that's what threads are for

[steady cedar]

dude we can help you make a post there is no point complaining about not having other ways

[reef basin]

spam? everything is wrong with spam

[restive inlet]

its fine if they send it evry 10min

[restive inlet]

10min is not spam

6hours if trash

and when it wont even let me send a post in the group thing rn thats even more shity

fainely that shity thing let me post it

[reef basin]

look at this point I'm done helping you. If you're just gonna criticise everything here, then leave the server, nobody asked you to be here. We had it, we tried it, this system works much better and is easier to use. Your experience doesn't change that.

if you're gonna come to your senses and start acting normally, maybe you'll find someone to help you and maybe even play with you

have a nice one

[restive inlet]

trash ah looking for thing

[restive inlet]

dont nead help from u and why u saying heping u didnt help whit anything

[dense violet]

you literally just made a thread - what is the issue?

[restive inlet]

after 10min cus it didnt work for 10min

[dense violet]

it sounds like because you didn't add a tag?

[restive inlet]

it wudnt let me post it at first

[summer coral]

sounds like you just didnt do smth right for 10 minutes

[quasi warren]

Mhm

[restive inlet]

den why wud it let me do it after 10min i didnt change anything

[summer coral]

cause you DID change something

[dense violet]

oh you LITERALLY just joined teh sesrver

[restive inlet]

i didnt change it

[dense violet]

there's probably a down time for new arivals

[restive inlet]

yea and its already boring

[steady cedar]

I was about to say is there something stopping him cuz of that

[quasi warren]

Today. 3 hours for me. Feb 1st. Its 3 am.

So they joined within the last 3 hours

[steady cedar]

Its to prevent bots dude, just chill

[dense violet]

I'm not surprised you had to wait, it's to stop bots - it's very normal

[restive inlet]

i lie in norwey and its 12:17

[dense violet]

most servers don't give access to everything in the first few minutes

[restive inlet]

most do but oki

[reef basin]

always good when someone like that joins and tells us how the whole server is wrongly made and how they could've done it better, disregarding the fact that people in this server have done it for 6+ years and know what does and doesn't work in this community

[quasi warren]

Not most that ive seen.

[summer coral]

if it was a 10 minute timer itd be for everything iirc

not just 1 channel

[dense violet]

not necessarily

[restive inlet]

not saying its wrong its just not neaded whit a 6 hour timer or the looking for rn

[reef basin]

we don't have 6 hour timer anymore

[restive inlet]

do u whant me to send u the same msg evry 10 min and u wil see how littel it is

[reef basin]

do you want to get banned? if so, keep doing that

[restive inlet]

nice and am glad i wasnt here when it was 6 hours timer cus thats way to much

[quasi warren]

^^^^

[summer coral]

feel like discord has a spell check feature even on desktop

[quasi warren]

It does

I know it does

[restive inlet]

sure il leave u dont gota ban me this server dont know how to keep a server whit 200k member ive joined servers whit 600k and more and they know how to run stuf

[steady cedar]

You are forgetting its not just for you, the rules are for everyone, many thousands of people and there are bound to be trolls present

[summer coral]

ah so theyre just ignoring it

[peak wasp]

back

new friends hi

[summer coral]

i need to create a circuit board/computer factory soon, completley forgot trains kinda need computers to work well

[quasi warren]

... I have nothing to say to this. Ill probably make things worse

[dense violet]

do it

[quasi warren]

Aight.

[quasi warren]

You realize you treating us like this made us NOT care about what you have to say right? We tried helping you. And you didnt listen.

[summer coral]

they left anyways lol

[quasi warren]

Yea

I have a strong feeling they were under 12.

[peak wasp]

yo what happend here

[summer coral]

so glad im no longer active in servers where most users are around that age

[dense violet]

12yr old had a hissy fit over minor server rules

[summer coral]

welp, 1200 circuit boards manually crafted

[quasi warren]

Seems common nowadays

[dense violet]

just ... automate them xD

[quasi warren]

Thats...dedication

[peak wasp]

dunno what that is but congrats

[summer coral]

but im already on a roll with my aluminum factory, if i switch to computers and circuit boards ill lose all momentum

[dense violet]

you should have automated those waaayyyy before bauxite

[summer coral]

key word there, shouldve

[fluid crow]

have some containers hooked up to a sloop manufacturer for problems like this

[summer coral]

doing that now for the computers but yea i definitely shouldve just made one for the circuit boards

couldve gotten 2400 instead

[peak wasp]

yo chat is the automate power the coal gen

[zenith pecan]

Ok, not quite what I expected to see when I first restart discord, someone moaning about server rules, oh well, good morning builders, do we have any new biome swallowing constructs happening 🙂

[reef basin]

but had the strong urge to DM me "potato"
easy report to discord

[vocal wolf]

i should reinstall ss

[peak wasp]

whats ss

[zenith pecan]

I sorta did, now I need to rebuild computers because I knocked it down after storing a can full 🙂

[wispy osprey]

I'm waiting on a couple games to "probably" release in q1

Supermarket Simulator is a guilty pleasure I've wanted on ps5 ever since I saw several hours of early access gameplay but the glitchy XBOX release is holding it back.

Road kings looks nice

[peak wasp]

is convey mk2 even worth it'

1 reinforced iron plate

[wispy osprey]

It's faster than mk1, yes

You get to make reinforced plates faster

480 belts will last you quite some time

I think a lot of good endgame stuff can be done with 480 belts too

[peak wasp]

okay then

if i want automate coal gen i gotta get the coal from 400 meters away to my base💀

[wispy osprey]

Jungle crater has 4 normal nodes near a lake

[peak wasp]

whats even jungle crater

is there biomes