satisfactory

[mortal ginkgo]

bro modded so much that forgot game basics 😭😭😭

[sturdy jacinth]

...

[mortal ginkgo]

Bro is going down 😭

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

[sturdy jacinth]

have you played it? then give the solution 😭

[mortal ginkgo]

Bro is at his limit 😭

[reef basin]

maybe ask in modding server instead of in vanilla server?

[sturdy jacinth]

aye aye, wasnt aware there was one

[mortal ginkgo]

go to modding disco- oh ok you know now.

I still lowkey like it when someone casually asks something about mod here without context, bamboozling everyone and their mom 😭

[sterile blade]

Yo mama so bamboozled that...

[elder haven]

Does somebody have a good/starter friendly steel factory layout? I have reinforced iron plates, rotors and other copper things fully automatized and i want to start steel but dont know how to do that

[dense violet]

Find coal and iron 🙂 smoosh them together. Just the same as iron parts but with foundries

[zenith sage]

Huh, Assembly Director Systems were weirdly simple

Now to figure out why the hell is my plastic not getting enough oil...

[toxic lichen]

apparently i built my iron plant up to manta height ;-;

[reef basin]

better learn by doing, than by copy-pasting

[toxic lichen]

im in the process of it

a lot of trial and error
but
i didnt use your tool when doing it ;-;
so stuff is
L rn

[toxic lichen]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production may i reccomend this e'-e'

[dense violet]

make a post in #1038092680493801533 if you need help 🙂

[zenith sage]

Yeah.. this wouldn't help anyway hah

[glossy marsh]

hello

[reef basin]

why not?

[dense violet]

prob a flow issue

[zenith sage]

Yeah, flow issue, not with the amount supplied

Seems to be fixed already tho

[glossy marsh]

i am currently stuck trying to build the space elevator to continue working on my build

[zenith sage]

I'm extremely saddened by the fact we can't hitch a ride on top of drones like with the trains

[glossy marsh]

qeustion.. is it a good idea to overclock my biomass production?

[frigid juniper]

i have bean able to pertch atop a drone befor

[coral marsh]

-# she forgot the rest of the sentence

[dense violet]

you can, it's just hard

[glad hawk]

like the factory for the biomass or the biomass processors themselves?

[glossy marsh]

biomass processor

so how do i counter the fart clouds?

i wanna get a yellow slug and its attached to one of those

[acoustic bear]

gas mask, nobelisks

or run in while eating health items

or you can mark it on your map and come back later

if you don't have a great counter right now, don't worry, you'll unlock something soon

[glad hawk]

Gas mask is the best bet to get through all fart clouds

[tall lantern]

Though if you're still using biomass power you probably won't have any of that yet

[acoustic bear]

it's honestly worth waiting anyways since you should be doubling your slugs with sloops

[oblique urchin]

Do yall got the same problem with frame gen?

[acoustic bear]

frame gen 🤢

[oblique urchin]

Why is it so shit

[acoustic bear]

because you can't get something from nothing and that's what frame gen is

[glad hawk]

because AI can’t make satisfactory

[acoustic bear]

fancy interpolation

[glad hawk]

it’s like frame inflation man

it gets devalued and ugly

[acoustic bear]

don't buy everything daddy jensen is selling

[glad hawk]

Literally slop frames

[acoustic bear]

he's the leather jacketed drug pimp

[oblique urchin]

ok thanks

[acoustic bear]

satisfactory low fps usually should come from heavy CPU load anyways

[oblique urchin]

I have 70 cpu and 99 gpu Normal?

[ornate saffron]

Take this as a old person take but satisfactory at 30fps locked is fine.

[acoustic bear]

temps? that's normal but it's important if it's throttling or not

[glossy marsh]

i just realised i can run conveyors into the back of biomass burners

[acoustic bear]

it could be a 70c but throttled to 2000mhz to keep it at that temp

[oblique urchin]

not throttking and hot

[toxic lichen]

didnt you see it when you placed it? e'-e'

[glossy marsh]

no cause i only saw it from the front

i never looked behind it.

[acoustic bear]

just wait until you setup a fancy load balanced biomass burner setup and then unlock coal shortly afterwards lol

[ornate saffron]

Most call the input the front.

[glad hawk]

I fillscrenned the game and my wattage went down and cpu usage down by 2%

From like 30 percent but that’s still like

A little lower

[glossy marsh]

i call the shredder side the front but that might just be me

[glad hawk]

my gpu usage is like 55% and it still uses 200 watts

[acoustic bear]

yeah, full screen allows the GPU driver to dedicate it's full ability to the game instead of splitting it with windows window manager

[glossy marsh]

35 more rods and i can finally build the space elevator

[deep sapphire]

congrats

[glad hawk]

you will have beaten the game 😁

[ornate saffron]

Personally I call the portion with inputs front. As that is the side you use. But im a utilitarian

[acoustic bear]

I color code all my inputs green and outputs red in a similar fashion

[glad hawk]

I need to build my train to ship oil products to grassy fields

[toxic lichen]

can you fly
the mantas ;-;

[acoustic bear]

yeah. I just ran a ~1500m oil line to avoid a train setup

[glossy marsh]

i had to double overclock my iron mine....

[acoustic bear]

you can pet them

[toxic lichen]

i js did
Which gave me the idea ;-;

i was trying to get on his back

[acoustic bear]

they're like the cave angels in Deep Rock, which you can fly in that game

[glad hawk]

seems so much more inefficient than trains but alr

[acoustic bear]

I'm a sadist

[toxic lichen]

that game had
cave angels?

[acoustic bear]

yeah, most maps had a few

(huge deep rock fan also)

[toxic lichen]

never played it too much

i got the appeal
but the guy i played with made me wanna jump so i havent touched it since

[ornate saffron]

Its fun you can get a deep rock mix tape in satisfactory

[acoustic bear]

it's the best game ever with a good crew

it's what lead me to this game

same publishers and the on-site refining game mode feels so much like connecting conveyors lol

[manic pivot]

bro

my coal generator fuse keeps blowing up

[dense violet]

you're going over your power

[manic pivot]

the max consumption is 150 mw and its like only 120 mw consumption if all machines are connected

[dense violet]

disconnect your factory from your coal gen, restart

[unkempt blade]

is your power production actually steady or does it go up and down?

[manic pivot]

goes up n down about 10 mw

[manic pivot]

i connected 2 coal gen to 1 power pole so it says max consumption 150 mw

im using about 125 of it

still blowing up randomly every 5 mins or so

has lots of coal and water alwyas

[unkempt blade]

I'd disconnect any factory consuming the power and figure out what's causing an fluctuation in the coal gen. Then you can figure out what the other consumption is and if it has any lumps to smooth out too

the coal generator stuff should really only need the miner + water extractors to run

[zenith pecan]

Is the water feed consistent though, one minor plumbing error will cause chaos with power.

Another example could be a head lift booboo, again another kind of plumbing error, the numbers seem to make sense but in reality could starve the system, watch for yellow lights on the extractors.

[acoustic bear]

start at your problem and work backwards through the system to see what the hold up is

[zenith pecan]

Isolating the power station itself and ensuring it will self sustain is the approach that brings the least headaches.

[acoustic bear]

yep. I always run my power setups alone for 3-5 minutes and ensure perfect uptime

[zenith pecan]

My current power station had to be run for almost a day to ensure its resources were saturated 🤣 , kind of large scale though.

[acoustic bear]

oh yeah, I've seen some of your pictures

shit's impressive

[zenith pecan]

I'm troubleshooting a cluster refinery system I'm deploying into the spire coast atm, ultimately will be 23 platforms processing every bit of oil there.

[acoustic bear]

I have one diluted fuel setup on the spire coast making 50k MW. so the scale difference is apparent lol

[zenith pecan]

I had to return to the drawing board due to a really basic mistake.

After constructing three of the platforms 🤦‍♂️

I really could have done without stuffing it up, these things aren't the most straightforward to troubleshoot #design-and-architecture message , each one that's up has a pump missing, three unpowered pumps and missing wiring, and a disconnect inside a support column leaving most of the thing unpowered anyway.

I only found out after I connected them to the mains, so yeah, big time error.

[acoustic bear]

I have a bad habit of starting big builds and then abandoning them haphazardly

[toxic lichen]

i wonder how you managed allat im ngl

[zenith pecan]

I have taken some long breaks due to work/life balance being tilted towards work.

[toxic lichen]

fair enough e'-e'

[zenith pecan]

Building, rushing to get the thing online, still suffering illness so not bringing my A game and trying to complete a multi structure biome processing project that will produce multiple thousands of rubber & plastic when I really should be taking bed rest but cannot sleep.

[toxic lichen]

rest is inefficient
it is not the ficsit way

[zenith pecan]

Hence the project halting mistakes.

[toxic lichen]

hmmmm

[glossy marsh]

i have to rebuild EVERYTHING. now that i put down the space elevator

mainly for organisation

[acoustic bear]

you'll have that

I've rebuilt 3x completely and started several more rebuilds I didn't finish

especially when you start using refineries instead of smelters

[glossy marsh]

my screw production is working well... time to work on the metal plates

[acoustic bear]

ahh screws

you'll wanna look for hard drives just to remove as many screws as possible lol

[glossy marsh]

what do you mean?

[acoustic bear]

you can find hard drives in the map that contain alternate recipes for building things

[glossy marsh]

oh

[acoustic bear]

as the game progresses, you'll want to find hard drives that allow you to build things without screws

[ornate saffron]

to be clear you CAN remove all screws if you wish. it is not strictly needed. it is one of many decisions you can make. I peersonal have no issues with screws.

[acoustic bear]

yep. one way to do it, not the only way to do it

that could be this games motto

it can be as effiecient or not as you please

make a whole factory using factory carts instead of conveyors

[zenith sage]

It was such a nice excursion... 2 hours of peace and hog slaughter... why did I get mobbed by 5 green cats all of a sudden

[hidden pebble]

Probably just the wind

[acoustic bear]

I imagine myself as the anti-lorax

bombing all the trees and shooting all the wildlife

[hidden pebble]

Satisfactory tools failed to give me any production plan for plastic production for 300 oil...how strange

[acoustic bear]

paving everything over in concrete

[ornate saffron]

gotta spread democracy and get that O1L

[acoustic bear]

one of my first mercer sphere projects was a multi-uploader concrete plant so I can spew concrete and never run out

[ornate saffron]

#screenshots message

worked for me here is the result for ya

[hidden pebble]

Surprising. Turn on all alts and set it to maximise.

[ornate saffron]

most ppl have issues with screws as they try to move large quantities at once and are limited by belt speed. you can solve this issue by moving ingots instead of screws then making the screws where you need them then direct feeding the screw constructor into the machine that needs the screws

[ornate saffron]

#screenshots message

[dense violet]

you must have had something checked off?

[swift turret]

Those numbers are horrifying

[hidden pebble]

A pioneer doesn't complain.

[swift turret]

Having to move 466 in 1 direction then move back 233 back

[ornate saffron]

i did what was requested as @hidden pebble browser was not cooperating

[swift turret]

I hate that

[swift turret]

I do complain

Gets me out of work a lot

[ornate saffron]

mama didnt raise quitter so ill do it. but imma bitch the whole time

[hidden pebble]

So you are the category of people ADA tells me to be wary of

[swift turret]

I dont see ada doing my work

Then she can :shut:

[glossy marsh]

so i was out exploring and started hearing music all of the sudden.. what does that mean?

[swift turret]

Boss battle

[hidden pebble]

It means you finally turned your volume up

[glossy marsh]

i didnt... it sound like the music that plays in the hub

[hidden pebble]

The hub has its own music?

😂
I fr didn't know

[glossy marsh]

i dont know how to explain it...

[acoustic bear]

Is there a cassette nearby maybe?

[glossy marsh]

there was the normal music i was hearing and then it changed.

[hidden pebble]

Now i need to awaken my inner engineer to try and fit a 100 oil to plastic in a 6x6 blueprint designer

[ornate saffron]

you go gurl

[glossy marsh]

i dont know if crashed hubs have there own music to identify them.. i might be going crazy

[hidden pebble]

The gas clouds finally got to you

[glossy marsh]

maybe

[swift turret]

Turn off your volume and pretend you heard nothing

[hidden pebble]

Better solution is listening to tier 1 on the boombox

[glossy marsh]

ey i found a hard drive

[ornate saffron]

you can place mam anywhere start the research then disassemble the mam while it works its magic

this helps with the ten minute timer as you hunt for more

[glossy marsh]

i cant.. i dont have enough wires...

[ornate saffron]

that is unfortunate

[glossy marsh]

i just looked behind me...

MY SPACE ELEVATOR IS RIGHT THERE......

infront of me *:|

[elfin smelt]

you might get a few wires if you disassemble the crash remains

[ornate saffron]

it is so large it is always RIGHT THERE lol

[glossy marsh]

can you tame lizard doggos?

[elfin smelt]

yes

[glossy marsh]

how?

[ornate saffron]

crouch and sneak up carefule not scare them then place a berry at there cute paws

theyll eat it allowing you pet them. they will bring you gifts like a cat bringing you a dead bird

[zenith sage]

They can also kill you with uranium cuteness

[regal helm]

All these gorgeous factories and mine look like Amazon boxes

[ornate saffron]

some would say that is amazing, many just have floating platforms

[quasi warren]

I have floating Amazon boxes LOL

[swift turret]

Some would say that is amazing. Many just have spaghetti

[dense violet]

just takes practice and planning 🙂

[ornate saffron]

my eyes have been subjected to the most deranged and unhinged builds.

[swift turret]

I wish I still had my first ever save

[zenith sage]

I have all my machines encased in dozens of thousands of concrete pillars, not sure what's better

[swift turret]

I manually pulled an oil pipe from the coast line to the grass field because I thought it had to be near the hub

[ornate saffron]

it does not lol

a lesson well learned

[swift turret]

I also didnt understand fluid byproducts and kept manually flushing it

[unkempt blade]

I do understand fluid byproducts and I still do that with my first oil setup

[hidden pebble]

It's damn hard to make the blueprint

[unkempt blade]

There's a good argument that it's there to teach you how to deal with those byproducts but I just want enough plastic/rubber to unlock the next research and set up the long term answer

[acoustic bear]

I have vast flat seas of concrete dotted with 5x5 towers connected with spaghetti

looks so brutalist

[unkempt blade]

good wholesome pastamaxing!

[acoustic bear]

I have 5x5 blueprints of assemblers, constructors etc and just stack or paste as needed

[ornate saffron]

🍝

[acoustic bear]

looks like crap but it's effective

and it's all in the sky

lol

[ornate saffron]

this is the way

[unkempt blade]

Hey whatever makes you happy! The game should be fun for you

[regal helm]

I'm a new player in early game and I just have orange boxes with doors everywhere

Or platforms with no walls

[acoustic bear]

I love the verticality of this game

having miners/refineries at sea level and then lift the ingots up to about ~200m where the real factory is on a platform

that way you can be above all the trees and terrain and enemies

[regal helm]

So like a tree house factory

[acoustic bear]

pretty much. and then everything can be on one single plane

even the mountains don't get in the way

I've slowly been blotting out the sun lol

[regal helm]

That's really cool. You could run the power underneath and never see a power cable

[acoustic bear]

yep. I recently started doing that

and I just run hypertubes up the various support legs I make near miners or other resources for easy traversal upwards

I've been experimenting with connecting the hypertubes as well underneath the factory but I've only done it with 3 "stations"

[ornate saffron]

i run a metal beam under the machines then attatch wall power nodes to the beam then daisy chain it all up connecting machiens as well

[acoustic bear]

makes it easy to run even a 1000-2000m conveyor when everything is flat on one plane

[acoustic bear]

that's slick

my friend showed me how to use the metal beams to attach 4 wall power nodes around a large power tower with platform so you can have a bunch more connection points

and then I also slid a battery under each one so every power tower I place also expands my battery grid

the blueprints go so crazy in this game

I'm sure I'm only scratching the surface

[ornate saffron]

many tricks you fill your bag with them and pick favorites

for refinerys i like clipping a metal beam through them then place power nodes daisy chaining them then deleting the beam as shown here

#screenshots message

makes it look like the machines are daisy chained

[acoustic bear]

that looks super slick

I was doing some clipping of the wires and just hiding them inside the machines and running the power through the floor

[ornate saffron]

ya ive done that too. ive changed it up as at some point i decided cable managment looks better then no cables

personal preference

[acoustic bear]

I can agree though

it does look better and I like that it's easier to change if you need to

[unkempt blade]

I do a similar thing with some beams added in #screenshots message

the whole spiderweb of cables everywhere when I use poles makes me crazy

[ornate saffron]

ive changed up how i do manifolds over the last 400 hours or so. I do mini manifold clusters instead of huge ones. For example i have a Blueprint for nitro rocket fuel. One blueprint takes 75 oil, 100coal, 150 nitrogen, 200 sulfur, and 200 water turning it into 300 rocket fuel. this allows me to scale at my leisure trouble shooting as i go. as the first cluster can be on feeding fuel generators while i build the next. Ive used this approach more and more finding its less stressful as things wind up as i work allowing me to move forward with confidence and peace of mind

[ornate saffron]

ya i do that often too.

[unkempt blade]

that also works well with different sized resource nodes in different locations

[acoustic bear]

I need to do that.

[obsidian umbra]

yo can someone help me plan a smartplating factory

[ornate saffron]

have you worked out the math? Satisfactory tools can help ^_^

[unkempt blade]

If you think you're going to play the game beyond just finishing the story (or just want it for progression) I'd definitely recommend spending some time getting comfortable with blueprinting

It'll feel a little slower right at the start but once you figure out some build patterns you like it saves sooo much time

[ornate saffron]

for example #screenshots message

[acoustic bear]

I've done blueprinting just more in a "lego" style where each print is one type of building

[lilac bear]

For a temporary setup, it works. Heck, if you only need a few products you can just dump it in a lot of big buffers.

[acoustic bear]

like I have a constructor layer and an assembler layer and a manufacturer layer etc

[lilac bear]

Long term, not a great approach.

[acoustic bear]

and I just paste them together and configure as needed

[unkempt blade]

yeah right at that first unlock I'll build like 3 small buffers and just let it pile up while I get plastic for the fuel generation tech + some more items for building it out

[acoustic bear]

but I like the idea of having a pre-configured, preset print that can scale all on it's own

[hidden pebble]

I failed to make the blueprint without clipping😔
Anyone else is welcome to try.
60 oil to 180 rubber or plastic.

[obsidian umbra]

thanks bro❤️

[ornate saffron]

#math-and-meta message after the intial two floors at the bottom all the other floors are one blueprint of two constructors flanking a aseembler. the tower makers 10 rotors, 10 stators and 10 motors a minute going into my cloud storage.

[ornate saffron]

its a great tool. i personally use it to check my math as im using the game as a excuse to improve my spreadsheet skills. But I would straight use it for all my builds if that was not the case

you can export your build and import it to save it with your notes too

[ornate saffron]

@acoustic bear similar to your approach but verticle. as you have sooooo much sky space as you know

[acoustic bear]

that looks similar to my stuff

[manic pivot]

coal generators are a fucking nightmare to troubleshoot

[acoustic bear]

I don't wanna be like "just wait" but the skills you develop troubleshooting those coal gens will really come in handy with fuel etc

[versed cosmos]

coal generators can put up with a lot more weird pipe fuckery than anything else lol

what's the problem with your coal generators?

[coral marsh]

Anyone else just, sitting happily with 10 thousand cubic meters of nitric acid?.

[manic pivot]

i have 5 coal gens and 2 of them are connected to a water extractor and the other 3 are connected to another

[versed cosmos]

Okay so

1 coal generator needs 45 water/min and a water extractor makes 120 water/min

[fading crow]

hellooo

[versed cosmos]

so your 3 coal generators on 1 extractor aren't getting enough water

[coral marsh]

3 makes 360, far more than enough for 5 coal gens

[versed cosmos]

8 coal generators to 3 extractors

[acoustic bear]

lvl 1 pipes probably

[lilac bear]

!wikisearch cg

[raven axle]

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

[coral marsh]

Thats a hinderence then if true

[versed cosmos]

everyone will tell you to do 8 coal generators because the numbers work out really well

its scalable and that's the real advantage

[coral marsh]

Mk2 pipes arent too far away from mk1 pipes thougu

[acoustic bear]

it would explain the splitting of the gens

[lilac bear]

That's why you feed from both ends, or halfway, or... If you only feed from one end you'll only push 300 through yea.

[coral marsh]

Yea

[manic pivot]

I haven't used the other 2 and it was filled without being used but when I used it turns out the pipe wasn't good while it was being used it needed more pumps now I have to put down a shit ton of biomass burners to make the pumps and water extractors work untill the coal gen I used to connect to the extractor and pumps works again

and put down more pumps

[versed cosmos]

you probably dont need pumps

pumps only push water up. they dont increase flow rate

[manic pivot]

the 3 coal gens used to work fine

[versed cosmos]

they would work without the pump

[acoustic bear]

and you really don't need to be pumping water super far unless you chose a dumb spot tbh

[versed cosmos]

move coal to the water. dont move water to the coal

[acoustic bear]

exactly

[manic pivot]

I made from the place next to the coal node that has a giant rock on it

2 coal nodes, one has a giant rock on it and the other is free

both of them super close to each other

I have the free one

[ornate saffron]

nope, ive only ever made what i need which so far has been little

[coral marsh]

Modded ingot recipes are a god send

[acoustic bear]

making ingots in the refineries is where it's at

fuck smelters

[coral marsh]

Making so much copper per cycle and per minute, and so little nitric acid per minute. But even though I dont make much, I have enough to not have to make too much more for my nuclear base

[coral marsh]

I use blenders (again, modded recipe)

[reef basin]

Making ingots in foundries is where it's at
Fuck refineries

[acoustic bear]

oh duh modded not alternate

[ornate saffron]

honestly I do two water extractors to four coal generators. yes this takes uop more space but i often dont have space issues that early. i clock the water generators to the needs of the four generators. this follows my personal rules of fluids

Keep it simple
fill machine inputs from above
prey to the machine god

[ornate saffron]

ive done the fields of refineries. they hurt my soul

[versed cosmos]

4 extractors at 75% is a lot easier for new players than 3 at 100% because of the mk1 pipe limitation

[coral marsh]

Leached ingot recipes, makes nitric acid as a by product and ofc uses, nitrogen gas in a blender

[reef basin]

At 100% is much better to understand pipe limitations

[versed cosmos]

oh yeah agreed

[ornate saffron]

coal trouble shooting is a new players right of passage, it is frutrating but it is a core lesson to build a knowledge base on

[silent copper]

I hate phase 5

[slender wadi]

Do we know if there is a dev stream today?

[golden nexus]

they do not, they make sulfuric acid

[coral marsh]

Another mod then

I use 2 ingot mods

I forget what they're called and its super late here plus I finished work an hour ago

[golden nexus]

which removes limits ont he game cause you no longer need nitrogen for nitric acid

[coral marsh]

I have no idea

[ornate saffron]

in theory but I have yet to so a confermqation though

[manic pivot]

bro this game is starting to be fucking annoying I have a headache already

[golden nexus]

in base game there only is 1 way to make nitric acid and its with nitrogen + water

[coral marsh]

Its too late for me to think about it, im tired as shit so can we drop it please? (Sorry im grouchy)

[ornate saffron]

mod or alternate recipe... im gettign confuseed

[manic pivot]

I'm actually getting mad

[acoustic bear]

just take a break then and come back to it

[coral marsh]

Mod, it adds in alt recipes

[ornate saffron]

oh gotcha

[slender wadi]

I feel this! and i havent even played in 3 months lol

[golden nexus]

There is single way in base game ot make nitric acid. So its modded....

[acoustic bear]

it's complex and gets wider fast. but if you break it down into smaller chunks using the to-do list and some of the other planning tools you can conquer it bit by bit

and if you're really stuck I can join your game and take a look if you're on steam/epic

[ornate saffron]

sulfer is completely optional other then black powder and nitro rocket fuel i havent used much of it in 1000 hours of gameplay

[golden nexus]

Its also used for other things like nuclear

sulfer tends to be connected to power generation mostly

[acoustic bear]

compacted coal

[golden nexus]

Which is typically involved in power generation

[acoustic bear]

yep

[golden nexus]

you can make steel from it, but its not great

[acoustic bear]

yep. especially since sulphur is one of the rarer resources

[regal helm]

Wait you can reduce the production?

[versed cosmos]

yeah

overclocking in the mam

power slugs tab

[regal helm]

I knew it went up but didn't think it could go less than 100. Thank you!!

[versed cosmos]

yeah

v useful for getting nicer numbers too

[regal helm]

Yeah the extractor to coal plant ratio is odd

[golden nexus]

It means you can do 3:8 or 1:2 ratios if you like

[quasi warren]

3:8 is what I always use. Easier for me tbh

[golden nexus]

btw 1 water extracotr is the width of 2 coal gens 😉

[lilac bear]

Unlocking overclocking allows you to underclock as well.

[remote kraken]

Is it just me or do y’all use biomass burners for jumpstarting your coal power plants before hooking it up to your main power grid

[versed cosmos]

how else are you gonna turn it on

[ornate saffron]

ya but all those late game power options are optional. fun though

[regal helm]

I set up a biomass power plant before coal and then connect it to coal. Eventually the biomass just runs out and I remove it

[versed cosmos]

lemme just build a nuclear plant so i can turn my coal plant on

[slender wadi]

i always jump start it and get it running on its own before hooking it up to main grid

[ornate saffron]

i just plug it right into my main netwrok. That comes with confidencethough

[lilac bear]

Back when they didn't need water, you'd just throw the coal in by hand. But you can't scoop up water with your hands.

But you can connect straight to the power grid if you want.

Then they're powered by the biomass burners on your hub probably, or whatever else you got going.

Extra biomass burners are fairly cheap though.

[remote kraken]

Sulfur, Sam, or caterium which should I automate first?

[acoustic bear]

cat or sam

[versed cosmos]

caterium is the only one you can rn

need steel for sam

[acoustic bear]

cat/quickwire will be the most useful

[remote kraken]

Which I have?

[acoustic bear]

you can handcraft the small amount of SAM you'll need

or hand feed

[versed cosmos]

oh and manufacturers for sam fluctuators

[golden nexus]

nope this is not how it works

[remote kraken]

I shouldn’t prioritize certain things over others?

[acoustic bear]

setup caterium into quickwire and get ai limiters

[versed cosmos]

caterium is the most immediately useful to you

the caterium research tree is so op

[golden nexus]

Yeah, Build to what you need.. and yeah do a constrcutor of quickwire

thats what early game automation of caterium is "make a box of it"

[hidden pebble]

Be careful. Quickwire is like the screws of electronics and no alt usually replaces it, just reduces the quantity.

[remote kraken]

Gotcha

[golden nexus]

so you don't know what your doing with quickwire until you need to use it....

[lilac bear]

Caterium will get you power poles mk 2, you'll want that for any serious factories.

[acoustic bear]

^

[lilac bear]

Miner, smelter, constructor and an industrial storage box full of cat wire. Don't overthink it.

[acoustic bear]

ai limiters get you priority splitters

[golden nexus]

Heres an example of scaling quickwire i use to remove the belt limits #screenshots message

[remote kraken]

I saw that in the mam how exactly are they better?

[hidden pebble]

The only thing you're needing caterium initially is depoting quickwire. When you need to actually seriously produce Electronics, you'll find that caterium is running out too soon.

The game gives you a pretty open hint by placing caterium and copper nodes in pairs...

[lilac bear]

I used a different caterium node for my ai limiters, but you do you.

[lilac bear]

7 connections instead of 4 per pole.

And slightly higher.

[remote kraken]

Oh I need those

[acoustic bear]

yep

priorities splitters are super handy too

you can setup overflow and condensors

[golden nexus]

smart splitter you mean

[acoustic bear]

yes

[golden nexus]

though tyou meant priority merger being useful for a minute 😛

[acoustic bear]

that's what I was confusing it with hahaha

both are useful but the splitter more so

[remote kraken]

It kinda is

[golden nexus]

people struggle to find a use for the priority merger lol

[acoustic bear]

I've only found a handful of legit uses

but smart splitters are EVERYWHERE

[golden nexus]

i found 1 in Tier 9 everything else had a better alternative work around

[hidden pebble]

Do tell when it's applicable

[remote kraken]

What about putting down a second pole right next to the first one?

[golden nexus]

Dark matter + power shards and being lazy

[hidden pebble]

Sushi belts?

[lilac bear]

That works, but if all poles need to connect to the next and the previous pole you'll only get 2 useful connections out of each pole.

Which means a lot of poles.

[acoustic bear]

I used them with smart splitters to sort things early on but it was janky af

[toxic lichen]

is there some way to mass deconstruct more than 50 things ;-;

[lilac bear]

Sure, you can play the whole game only using mk 1 poles.

[golden nexus]

When you make power shards, you get excess dark matter in a loop back from the output back to the input and you need to make it priority or it locks up

[unkempt blade]

they're overrated, stick to hibachi belts

[acoustic bear]

map editor

[hidden pebble]

What's wrong with more poles?

[toxic lichen]

what dat

[golden nexus]

make it as a blueprint before you build it 😉

[acoustic bear]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[lilac bear]

Costs more cables, becomes a mess easily.

[acoustic bear]

load your save in it

then you can delete or change anything you want

[toxic lichen]

but would i get the stuff back

[acoustic bear]

no I guess not

[round matrix]

we don't have an ETA for 1.2 do we?

[acoustic bear]

but you could just add whatever you want into your save

[lilac bear]

Only if you start editing inventory as well.

[toxic lichen]

then ill do it by hand

[acoustic bear]

(this borders on cheating)

[hidden pebble]

Solid feedback loops🤷‍♂️
But i could just ensure my supply + byproduct = requirment
I guess that's what you meant by being lazy, not bothering with the arithmetic

[golden nexus]

I was kinda expecting some kinda announcment / update in january

[leaden turret]

some time between between now and july

[toxic lichen]

what would 1.2 bring e'-e'

[round matrix]

yea i was hoping for some news on it around now

[golden nexus]

Yup, There isn't many solid feedback loops, compacted coal is one, another is dark matter with specific recipies

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> you doing a surprise content drop today, by any chance?

[toxic lichen]

is there patch notes somewhere

[round matrix]

gotcha, thanks

[leaden turret]

!wikisearch Future content

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=Future+content

[toxic lichen]

well well well

[unkempt blade]

all I know is it's going to make liquids even more perfect than they already are

[golden nexus]

Its gotta be more than fluid trucks

[ornate saffron]

whats your goal. Build what you need in respect to your over all goals. If you are trying to move along to the next phase automate what you need to reach that.

SAM is great for tickets and cloud storage.

Caterium i tend to make ingots at source then move the ingots to where i need the wire as caterium wire to ingot ratio is like screws

Sulfer is completely optional mostly used to player equipment and late game power generation

[unkempt blade]

I hope it's fluid carts too

[golden nexus]

i want different gamemode 😛

[lilac bear]

Sure? Supercraft thinks October was announced.

[hidden pebble]

Liquids now obey bernoulli, torricelli and pascal

[unkempt blade]

truly the greatest system

[golden nexus]

Just add sublimation while we are at it

[lilac bear]

That stops at 1.1

[leaden turret]

checks calendar

dunno who supercraft is, but you might wanna ask them what kind of calendar puts October in the first half of 2026

[leaden turret]

no it doesn't

🤔 did someone just post a clips archive link and get it deleted by the bot?

[hidden pebble]

Sublimation is for solids. But i guess you can implement rocket/ion fuel as a mix of vapour (gas) and liquid

[clever sandal]

"FICSIT property is not permitted to leave FICSIT property. Return FICSIT property to FICSIT property immidiately."

[golden nexus]

Yes, I am aware of what it is

[lilac bear]

Unless the date is hidden in one of those youtube videos, I hope not.

[clever sandal]

out of bounds text real funny ngl

[leaden turret]

I'm looking at the section labeled "version 1.2" right now

[hidden pebble]

I mean to add sublimation css needs to add iodine or camphor. What use do we have for that? New recipe for iodine filters?

[lilac bear]

YouTube - November 11th, 2025 Livestream - State of Dev: 1.2 due in first half of 2026

I'm from the era where people wrote things down instead of hiding everything in YouTube.

[golden nexus]

Stationeers is the game for solid/liquid/gas stuff, it does condensaiton / evaporation / sublimation / de-sublimation and heat energy transfer while condensing / evaporating for building giant HVAC systems 😛

[lilac bear]

I'd tell you, but I can't link them and you know that 🙂

[leaden turret]

#off-topic-media

[lilac bear]

Was removed there.

[leaden turret]

didn't you just copy someting from where we wrote stuff down?

[lilac bear]

First thing I did was follow that post from top to bottom till where you get post 1.0. Which goes to https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Future_content/Archive_Post_1.0

Which stops at 1.1 and is hopelessly out of date.

[leaden turret]

future content > version 1.2

right at the top of the page

[abstract heron]

marv is @void gorge running late for stream?

[lilac bear]

Yes, and then where it shows first half of 2026, the reference goes to Youtube.

Anyway, I'm not here to debate semantics.

Nobody is helped by that.

[leaden turret]

so you made a comment that the article stopped at 1.1, when referencing a different article, making your claim wrong.

then you made a dig about writing things down, when you copied the quote from the wiki so people didn't have to go to the youtube video, because the video is being used as a reference to back up the quoted claim.

can't debate semantics when you keep losing.

[lilac bear]

I'd consider that an unfriendly comment, but that doesn't help anyone either. I just said I had different information and clearly my information was out-of-date or flat out wrong. That's it.

But I've heard enough, I wish you all the best.

[leaden turret]

yay blocklists

[acoustic bear]

is it really a win/lose situation though?

[leaden turret]

more lose/lose, getting into an argument on the internet has that effect on both sides.

[acoustic bear]

is it really an argument?

I thought we were just in here chatting

[leaden turret]

philosophical context used here

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> y'all still streaming today?

[abstract heron]

marv i think mikael said 2 weeks thats time i asked him

[abstract heron]

its NEXT week

[abstract heron]

<@&370483737957236737> is there a stream this week or is there a video this week?

[leaden turret]

google says it's almost 5pm in sweden, gonna guess no stream today

[real shale]

Isn't the streams on Fridays usually?

[abstract heron]

Tuesdays i think

[real shale]

you've heard of fluid trucks, now get ready for fluid drones /jk

[acoustic bear]

fluid carts ofc

[keen vault]

fluid pack for back

[acoustic bear]

what is the proper use for fluid buffers? I wanna know if I'm using them properly

I've been placing them at the end of my fluid lines on an elevated platform

[versed cosmos]

dont use them

ive heard that reduces sloshing but im not sure if that's true

[acoustic bear]

same

[versed cosmos]

i've never had problems with pipes. just keep them simple

[acoustic bear]

I don't seem to have many issues either

[leaden turret]

• to look pretty
• as temporary storage while you're getting your byproduct handling set up

[acoustic bear]

I just prefill my pipes and they seem to work fine

[versed cosmos]

yeah that's the solution to any fluid issues

full pipes are happy pipes

[placid stirrup]

For transporting fluids, before and after freight stations.
For fluid towers, if you know what you're doing

[versed cosmos]

for fluid towers you dont need a buffer

[acoustic bear]

I haven't needed a tower yet. I just bring my resources to the sea more or less

[hollow hemlock]

there's also the most important use of all - if they look cool

[abstract heron]

ya going to guess no stream 🙁

maybe video on Friday

[placid stirrup]

You don't, no, but it's part of the aesthetic

[weary condor]

I wouldn’t be objected tbh🤷

[placid stirrup]

When you have to transport 50+ pipes vertically, water towers become a bit more attractive

[languid moat]

when next update.

guys can someone tell me

[versed cosmos]

some time before june

[placid stirrup]

Soon™

[languid moat]

how can one stay entertained enough to play the game

[hollow hemlock]

turn the boombox on and pick your favorite tape for it

[placid stirrup]

First time here?

[abstract heron]

Watch movies watch shows or do modded playthrough or something or do a changelle

[languid moat]

no, i had a save that was in phase 6 i think but uh it got deleted and i am just not motivated enough to do all that again (not gona elaborate on how it got deleted)

[hollow hemlock]

so don't

[placid stirrup]

Bro got some extra secret DLC

[versed cosmos]

phase 6?????

[abstract heron]

Thats late late game

[placid stirrup]

Probably means tier 6

[versed cosmos]

that's retired game

[languid moat]

I DONT REMEBER HOW LONG THE PHASES WERE

BECUASE ITS BEEN 3 MONTHS

[abstract heron]

There are tier 9 now

[languid moat]

i think there were 8 phases? that you could unlock i was in the pases where you unlock bauxite extraction

[placid stirrup]

Phases - Space Elevator payloads
Tiers - groups of milestones

[languid moat]

oh it was teirs ma bad

[placid stirrup]

Tier 6 is getting along in mid game, but you could get back there pretty quickly. You also learn a ton on subsequent playthroughs, if that was your first

[languid moat]

alr i will

k- do somthing to thy.

i am so bored

[placid stirrup]

Adjusting play style based on what you learned the first time around is a really fun exercise

[languid moat]

it is, untill its no longer fun and just a drag

[hollow hemlock]

you could always play something else

[remote kraken]

Are we a lady in satisfactory? I genuinely can’t tell

[placid stirrup]

Sometimes you burn out, but personally I still find joy in coming back to keep working on the project

[languid moat]

imagine playing roblox and gta and genshin every day becuase thats the only games that your tin can of a pc can run

[placid stirrup]

Apparently it was confirmed the pioneer is female. I thought they were intentionally ambiguous

[languid moat]

i found some.. "materials" on the pioneer of this game.

i was suprised ppl were doing that

we stray away from morality each second ._.

[remote kraken]

…

[remote kraken]

The more you know

[real shale]

Can you imagine Ada trying to explain the technology for this

"don't bother, don't bother, don't bother"

[sacred trail]

Is there some caves under the desert dunes? I can't find an item that the scanner is pointing out

[surreal hatch]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map#3;48106;-410|gameLayer|;caves

[placid stirrup]

Looking for the impure SAM node?

But also yes, SCIM has the answers

[sacred trail]

Nope, the Somesloop

[placid stirrup]

There are several caves in dune desert

[sacred trail]

Do you guys fully explore the map and get every box, sloop and sphere?

[hollow hemlock]

and slug, those guys need to be exterminated

[glacial drum]

I don’t actively hunt for slugs but I’ll grab any I see or hear

[sacred trail]

I was getting all the slugs, but then I made the energy stuff automated.

[versed cosmos]

spire coast is so pretty i feel bad stealing all the slugs

[glacial drum]

Yea I stretched my resources very thin when I spammed down radio towers but I found them to be pretty nice for a first playthrough when I want to avoid using the interactive map

[hollow hemlock]

it's not stealing, it's properly dealing with all that excessive nature

[glacial drum]

I’ve not ran into any shortage of shards and I’ve made plenty

[acoustic bear]

you should be slooping your shards anyways

[glacial drum]

Though I am definitely not overclocking a full factory so that saves stuff

[acoustic bear]

purple slugs = 10 shards

[glacial drum]

Yea def sloop them

[versed cosmos]

there's so many i don't sloop them lol

[acoustic bear]

it's a finite resource for a long time

[glacial drum]

Eh even if temporary you should be slooping them

[acoustic bear]

it's free real estate

[versed cosmos]

i got a few hundred and i can get like 1000 more if i craft all my slugs

[glacial drum]

I don’t keep sloops in the machines but every 5-15 hours I’ll return to my main base and just sloop up 3 quick constructors and drop all my slugs in a box with a programmed splitter

easy few hundred shards at least

[noble shard]

Can you play cross platform on ps5 and pc???

[acoustic bear]

I think so

[noble shard]

I can't get it to work

[glacial drum]

You can only get like

2,764 shards according to the wiki with all being slooped

Def a good idea to sloopem till you automate them

[acoustic bear]

nvm, I'm wrong, google says no

[noble shard]

Dam

[acoustic bear]

you can crossplay xbox/ps5 but not PC

[glacial drum]

Sigh I need to finish my aluminum factory and begin automating TM and Cooling systems today

[noble shard]

Wish you could

[acoustic bear]

I've just been running around making a ton of ingots and haven't really done anything with it yet overall

[versed cosmos]

i just finished my aluminium factory and now i gotta work on powering it

[acoustic bear]

I got like 3 different sites setup making iron, copper and concrete at an industrial scale and need to actually make products with it now

[fading crow]

hi

[glacial drum]

I’ve realized my biggest slog of the game has been finding aluminum nearby the right ores for any factory so I ran out to some nodes in the swamp and i’m gonna produce 500 smth casing and 60 sheets a minute

[versed cosmos]

building power on-site cause aluminium is in the swamp while the rest of my stuff is in the rocky desert

[glacial drum]

Just gonna ship that crap out where needed.

[acoustic bear]

power towers?

you can run power across the map in a few minutes

and then you can zip around

[glacial drum]

Hoping it doesn’t take me 5 days to finish a factory now since I won’t be all bored and frustrated figuring it out

[versed cosmos]

i could but ive already built most of it

[fading crow]

i wouldnt say minutes to be honest 😭

the map is pretty big

[glacial drum]

If anything you can power stuff through trains

[versed cosmos]

also i like to put my power towers on foundations

[glacial drum]

Afaik? right?

[ornate saffron]

no

[glacial drum]

Train rails carry power

[versed cosmos]

and the terrain between rocky desert and swamp is not good lol

yeah trains carry power

[fading crow]

yea but you cant just extract their power into a power line

[acoustic bear]

put tower down in distance, zipline to it. dismantle, put down foundation/tower and repower it, then repeat with putting down another tower in the distance

[glacial drum]

Damn you can’t? It makes sense but damn that isn’t handy

[acoustic bear]

as a process, it takes like 60 seconds per

[ornate saffron]

but you can use the trains satation to do so

[acoustic bear]

or blueprint a tower on a foundation

[versed cosmos]

im already committed to building my own power in the swamp. ive built most of it

[glacial drum]

Well damn I need to test this i’m getting different answers

[fading crow]

yea but you have to power both train stations independently

[acoustic bear]

you can connect them later anyways

[median bough]

question is it better to tear everything down or start over the itch is telling me to start over

[versed cosmos]

yeah

[glacial drum]

Could be a good idea to connect them eventually but to each their own. It’s your world don’t let others drag ya down

[acoustic bear]

power tower + zipline was one of my main early modes of exploration tbh

[versed cosmos]

yeah theyll be connected i just need ideas for builds in between rocky desert and swamp lol

[glacial drum]

Personally I gotta decide one more thing before todays building and that’s how many cooling devices to make

[versed cosmos]

maybe ill do something in the dune desert

[glacial drum]

I’m not using them in my turbo motors yet atleast so I don’t know that i’ll need too many

Besides the elevator and some miscellaneous things

[acoustic bear]

as soon as I had dimensional depots, I was off zapping power towers into the distance and ziplining along them to see what was out there. built a really nice power network pretty early and now I'm never far from power

[glacial drum]

Just recently built a 70 or so smth power setup with rocket fuel

[acoustic bear]

great way to climb mountains too

[glacial drum]

Hella nice

[acoustic bear]

just zap up a power line and zip up the cliff before jetpacks

[glacial drum]

And it makes just enough excess to fill a few bottles of fuel a minute

[ornate saffron]

honestly even with jet packs together is a banging combo

[glacial drum]

Haven’t had ANY issues yet with sloshing so far. Most successful plant i’ve made

[acoustic bear]

it is. zipline is super handy

[wintry carbon]

i got 10 pure iron nodes and 2 pure copper i want to make all screw, plates, pipes rods and wire out off iron. Also make steel stuff out of it. what alt recepy i should use ?

iron alloy or pure iron ?

[acoustic bear]

it's usually easiest to skip screws as much as possible and build around that

[versed cosmos]

cast screw, iron wire and stitched plate are the early game ones i can think of

[ornate saffron]

what are the screws for?

[versed cosmos]

pure ingot is good but the ratio sucks lol

[south sinew]

pure iron is more effort to set up but better in the long term as you don't consume any other resources except water which is basically free

[wintry carbon]

i dont mind the screwa

[weary condor]

Forget early game I plan to be using those for the last SE parts

[wintry carbon]

iron alloy then ?

[ornate saffron]

i ask what the screws are for as i tend to leave the ingots as ingots until i need the screws then i craft the screws where they are needed and direct feed them into the machine that needs them. this prevents bottle necks

[versed cosmos]

i would suggest pure if you dont mind the extra work that goes into it

[acoustic bear]

I've been setting up big pure ingot farms lately

I've got several sites producing pure ingots sitting around waiting to be purposed

[versed cosmos]

water is practically infinite. other resources like limestone, copper and sulfur for the other ingot alts arent

[acoustic bear]

^

[glacial drum]

Hmm

[wintry carbon]

i am just building a giant melter fabric in the desert and a tower complex making all out of iron to then be send by train to were i need it

[glacial drum]

Yall think using the sheets or casing is better for heat sinks

[versed cosmos]

heat exchanger

use rubber

[glacial drum]

Completely forgot about the damn things and now I gotta factor them into my aluminum factory

[acoustic bear]

bring everything to the water side. make refineries for ingots there and then distribute the ingots elsewhere for processing

[glacial drum]

Think I’ll fly some casings out to another area bcs there’s no damn oil out here

Or fly rubber in.

That or I could just make another factory for purely heat sinks

[versed cosmos]

heat exchanger pairs really well with electrode scrap

thats why im using it. your situation sounds different

[wintry carbon]

still not sure to go with or without water for iron ingots

[versed cosmos]

use the water

[wintry carbon]

wont mind to build a water packing facility

[glacial drum]

Well how far is water from you

[versed cosmos]

easier to transport your iron to the coast

[wintry carbon]

i like trains, so that doesnt matter

[ornate saffron]

just to save you some headaches any part that gives you a great output of parts then input of materials you should craft where needed so wires, screws, rods, and cat wire for example you should just move as ingots and craft in the factory they are needed in

[crystal cedar]

can i smhow get stable 30fps on a 14yo laptop(i5 6200u,8gb,940mx)
im getting 25 at 768x1366(@90%)

[glacial drum]

How many cooling devices to make a minute..

[acoustic bear]

idk, that 6500u only has 2 cores

[crystal cedar]

yea..

*6200

[wintry carbon]

i quess i go with water then, thougt it gives me 10 less iron ingot/min

[acoustic bear]

you'd pretty much have to disable everything on the system in the background and use the lowest settings but it might be possible

[fickle locust]

That's old enough that it's just going to be a struggle

[crystal cedar]

early game btw(3h save)

[glacial drum]

Ah I found some crude oil nearby

[acoustic bear]

I don't want to say no because the steam deck can run it

[glacial drum]

Guess it is possible to get rubber easily

[crystal cedar]

hmm

[ornate saffron]

maybe with FSR on performance.... but i dont think so 720p maybe

[acoustic bear]

but you're definitely going to have to use the lowest settings

[crystal cedar]

im getting 25 at lowest w all bg apps closed

[versed cosmos]

where are you building your alu?

[crystal cedar]

even used rammap

[acoustic bear]

honestly if it's steady, that's probably playable

[crystal cedar]

barely.. it drops to 15 when exploring tho

[ornate saffron]

not real helpful but a steam deck is sub $500 Canadian and it runs it

[acoustic bear]

and as you build more, it's going to get harder

[crystal cedar]

i hv no choice(main psu fried)

[glacial drum]

Ah dammit

[fickle locust]

I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of 15 year old laptop parts but I think you're right about on the line of falling below the minimum requirements for the game

[glacial drum]

I spent half an hour on logistics just to find out I can use 100 more bauxite than I thought I could

[twin parcel]

do satisfactory calculator calculate stuff properly or it has errors?

[leaden turret]

calculators calculate as correctly as the person using them

[versed cosmos]

satisfactory calculator can make mistakes

most prefer satisfactory tools

[twin parcel]

how?

[crystal cedar]

wait actualy?

satis calc works fine for me

[versed cosmos]

im not sure how exactly but ive heard with some complex builds it can be wrong

[crystal cedar]

tier7,8 complex?

[twin parcel]

what about alternate recipes?

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> with clankers hogging computer parts, will the dev team be putting any focus on lowering the minimum requirements for the game?

[versed cosmos]

also tools feels a lot better to use and look at lol

[versed cosmos]

think so

[versed cosmos]

calculator does support alt recipes

[twin parcel]

josh is doing a great job on that .

[feral jay]

heh memory optimization would be great

[leaden turret]

optimising for current specs is one thing, setting aside resources to reduce specs is another

[crystal cedar]

the min req are not that bad(considering its a ue5 game)

[acoustic bear]

steam decks and handhelds have really been bringing min specs down

plus the focus on frame gen + upscaling

you can game quite well on 15W these days

[leaden turret]

capitalism + clankers be "forcing" nvidia to re-release a 5 year old card

[acoustic bear]

you don't need a big 400W nuclear reactor desktop

[crystal cedar]

solving the ai ram/gpu shortage by using.. more ai

[fickle locust]

The minimum requirements are an ok PC from 2013, there's a pretty small population that is trying to run this game on hardware older than that

[leaden turret]

@open bone FICSIT Nuclear Power Plant water-cooled gaming PC case merch, maybe?

[crystal cedar]

ooh

[feral jay]

I'm currently using about 8 gigs of system RAM for Satisfactory, that's a wee bit out of the range that a lot of laptops are being sold with right now... but it would be really hard to get the game to run well on 4

[acoustic bear]

only $1500 with trump tariffs

[crystal cedar]

not really used to 30fps but doable

[leaden turret]

Heroic Replicas ships from Canada & Ireland

[twin parcel]

unless ur name is josh

[acoustic bear]

that's what the lower modern consoles tend to have too

[leaden turret]

josh is amateur compared to @grave burrow

[crystal cedar]

especialy late game(upd 8 took me 12ish)

[feral jay]

they ship from Canada now? I've never bought from them before because the shipping costs were nuts

[leaden turret]

checks label

imported by:
heroic replicas ltd
[address]
ON, CANADA

merch is canadian

[feral jay]

Yeah looks like the shipping cost is half what it was last time I checked, nice

[nova ridge]

I started playing arknights endfield because its gacha + factory. and its sort of funny how it has an actual decent tutorial on how to use the factory including fluid tutorials. It's def not anything crazy but i think its great for the casual player.

[leaden turret]

as a canadian / ficsit drone employee, is it your civic duty to buy canadian-produced merch? 😛

[crystal cedar]

FLUID TUTORIALS

[acoustic bear]

there are tons of goods satisfactory tutorials on youtube

[feral jay]

No, it's my civic duty to not buy American produced merch, but that's not a safe topic here

[acoustic bear]

that doc guy made my satisfactory play 10x better in like 5 shorts

[versed cosmos]

doc gives such good advice

[acoustic bear]

https://www.youtube.com/@Gaming_with_Doc

look at his shorts. they're all highly concentrated satisfactory knowledge

[leaden turret]

I'm sure doc would prefer you looking at his 👁️ and not his 🩳

[nova ridge]

yeah but these are integrated into the game and give rewards. just short. how to connect fluids. how to make x item. its super casual but could cater towards those newbie factory players

[feral jay]

I actually went down a Satisfactory youtube rabbit hole the other day because I was dugging some pipe issues, there's some really good stuff out there

I do wish there were more high quality plain old articles or blog posts or at least that they were easier to find, I can read faster than youtubers can talk

[crystal cedar]

yt tutorials are different

[scenic mirage]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/images/Pipeline_Manual.pdf?2090cd

[leaden turret]

youtube premium lets you play back at 4x speed

[nova ridge]

i think the blueprint copy past/disassmble -> blue print disasmpble -> can copy blueprint from it is the best thing i learned recently

[crystal cedar]

wa?

[nova ridge]

i really wish the minimap showed my trains at least

[feral jay]

lol I've read that cover to cover a hundred times, it didn't cover my specific problem

[crystal cedar]

explain pwz

[nova ridge]

you can place blueprints. you can also press R and dissamble whole blueprints

[crystal cedar]

OHH

[acoustic bear]

can't you toggle that?

[nova ridge]

and when youre dissambling instead you can middle click and copy blueprint

[crystal cedar]

yea blueprint dissasemble mode lets u copy the whole blueprint

[crystal cedar]

sample blueprint

[scenic mirage]

what was it

[feral jay]

tldr it was sloshing inside a 600/min pipe system that I solved with unpowered pumps and I'm not yet 100% sure I've solved it

[crystal cedar]

dont unpowerred pumps act as closed valves?

[feral jay]

Yes and they also reset headlift. I'm not sure why unpowered pumps solved it but valves didn't, I'm still going down that rabbithole

[nova ridge]

Also blueprint belts/piepes can connect to each other

so you can make them modular. helped when i put down 252 plants

[feral jay]

No wait, sorry, an unpowered pump still allows fluid to pass. They act as open valves.

[scenic mirage]

💀 wtf send pics

[nova ridge]

now that im at 250gw its prob a godo time time to power up my alienn power plant with the consumable tright?

i have 2 of those alient powerplants

[feral jay]

THe other problem is that it's a large pipe system and it takes a good hour for everything to settle after every change I make to it

[nova ridge]

also this top down view that you can do in endfield is great. it sort of makes it go from satisfactory/dyson perspective to factorio perspective

would be hard to implent in satisfactory given multiple layers and allowing clipping

the clipping in satisfactory is insane

[feral jay]

Oh wow I like this suggestion https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67f3f0476b7c5731963650ab

upvotes

[crystal cedar]

o

[nova ridge]

endgame satisfactory should let you find resources easier

[versed cosmos]

you get a tool for that at the start of the game when ada tells you to scan for iron

[nova ridge]

BUT im a sucker for qol

[versed cosmos]

what would you even imagine

[glad hawk]

the scanner is a qol addition btw

w/ radar towers

[versed cosmos]

imagine no resource scanner

[fickle locust]

Ooh I like that
It's annoying that radar towers just show you a thing is in the circle but nothing beyond

[versed cosmos]

ada "you need to find iron"
pioneer "how i do that"
ada "idfk man just walk around"

[leaden turret]

satismorrowind

[nova ridge]

a hover/jetpack would be qol too

powered by ficsonium.

cost being that you'll take radiation damage

[quasi warren]

Wasn't the hoverpack released in update 4?

[versed cosmos]

zipline too

maybe something that goes on ur legs to make u run faster

[leaden turret]

!wikisearch Hover Pack

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=Hover+Pack

[leaden turret]

yup

[nova ridge]

yes but you hav eto switch between the two.

[versed cosmos]

u guys had alumilum back in update 4?

[nova ridge]

one for the wilds. the other for factory buildling. and you cant switch them witha hotkey cuz theres a bug

[glad hawk]

how can you wear both at the same time though

[leaden turret]

update 1

[nova ridge]

a hybrid.

[glad hawk]

I know you can’t but how would you

[versed cosmos]

wow

[nova ridge]

could have it so if you shift jump or something or press c it'll stay still

[crystal cedar]

dlc:ADA has amnesia

[leaden turret]

hover pack / jet pack combo would come with risk of self-ignition

[nova ridge]

i think hover oculd be 50-100% faster and ionzied hwile it lasts forever is a bit slow

[leaden turret]

new holophone, who dis?

[nova ridge]

could be a post elevator build

but mods exist

[crystal cedar]

pioneer

[glad hawk]

ADA is a piece of SHIT

[crystal cedar]

heyy

[versed cosmos]

HEY im her favourite pioneer

[crystal cedar]

IM pioneer of the year no thank u

[versed cosmos]

is that an earth year or a MASSAGE-2(A-B)b year

[crystal cedar]

she didnt even tell me the "most pioneers wouldve unlocked coal power smth smth" to me

[versed cosmos]

WOAH

guys this guy got coal fast enough for ada to not be disappointed in him

[crystal cedar]

mercury year(88days)

[crystal cedar]

EMPLOYEE OF TE YEARR for a reason

[versed cosmos]

well im pioneer of the year by a prixma centauri b year (11 days)

[crystal cedar]

:0

[drowsy ledge]

which casette tapes are worth buying

[fluid crow]

all

[crystal cedar]

i play with sound muted.

[drowsy ledge]

asylum worthy behaviour

[crystal cedar]

I HAVE A REASON. its for efficiency(saving as much cpu power as i can)

2 core doesnt really handle anything well

[scenic mirage]

asylum worthy behavior would be no tv show or youtube playing

[crystal cedar]

ykw ima do it.
ima install satis on the school smart board(11th gen i7)

[scenic mirage]

💀 you realize theyll be able to see it right

[nova ridge]

contemplating automating Alien Power Matrix. just need to make 13k power from it to makae it worth it

[crystal cedar]

not if i run it during pe

so me and my homes can pla ona 4k touch screen w igpu@2fps

[scenic mirage]

brother 😭 get your physical activity for the day

dont skip PE

[crystal cedar]

anything to save humanity

[crystal cedar]

il compensate by.. jogging later

[scenic mirage]

or you could just pay attention in school (all your subjects) and save the video games for your downtime

and do your homework first

[crystal cedar]

i dont need to. cbse curriculum is ez af

[crystal cedar]

meh

[scenic mirage]

????

[crystal cedar]

?

[scenic mirage]

trust me bro you dont wanna get in the habit of skipping stuff just for video games

even if its easy or boring

[crystal cedar]

way too late my guy.

i skip sleep for vidgames atp

i shud stop

[scenic mirage]

is that something youre proud of?

[acoustic bear]

yes

[scenic mirage]

interesting. what do you plan on doing in the future when you dont have the habits you need to stick to stuff you dont wanna do

[steady cedar]

cry

[acoustic bear]

I'm at a point in life where doing what I want is the priority

[ornate saffron]

i made a 2tw power grid because i wanted to. i have never needed more then 500gw on any save

[acoustic bear]

Why? just cause

[nova ridge]

gwhat did u use turbo?

[ornate saffron]

yes sir

[ornate saffron]

nitro rocket fuel mostly

[nova ridge]

i mean rocket

how much can you get from uranium?

[ornate saffron]

ive seen a 5tw nuclear build

what the max is ....🤷

[nova ridge]

i havent made ficsonium yet

im just using the 1 uranium node for now. it feels slow

[ornate saffron]

most ppl dont do it. they stop at plutonium and sink the pluto rods

[nova ridge]

U cant do that can u

[ornate saffron]

you can sink rods but no other part of the nuclear chain, so uranium rods then pluto rods then ficsit rods

[nova ridge]

ah

[ornate saffron]

you either burn the rod and plan to manage the waste or make the next rod

[nova ridge]

im sure thats fine too ficsonium is annoying it hink i might ship out the plutnium waste to make it

my dark matter stuff is far away from it

[ornate saffron]

most ppl feel the effort to gains of ficsit rods is not worth it. you make out with slightly more power then used but not by much.

That being said see my above post about doing what you want

[nova ridge]

is there achievement for making 1

[ornate saffron]

i dont think so. Ive never made a ficsit rod and i have all achievment

[grave burrow]

Didnt know a 400gw power plant was considered large. 😂 Wonder what they would think of the 3.2TW nuclear setup I have been planning for the better part of the last year (Still working on the details but it will be roughly 1006 reactors and put out between 2.8TW and 3.2TW)

[sterile blade]

It can feel like an achievement

[hidden pebble]

Surprising how you could need 500 gw

[ornate saffron]

partical accelorators need something like 26gw

[hidden pebble]

I mean would you sloop and full clock your colliders?

[ornate saffron]

sloop uses more power making it 50 something gw

[nova ridge]

Large for their stage

im really annoyed with belt/pipe management and blueprint sizes ugh

[ornate saffron]

e=mc2 the opposite is true mc2=e.

sloops turn power into parts

[nova ridge]

but then i woudl prob just copy paste entire factories. but that should be allowed

i made a space elvator

[ornate saffron]

everything is allowed if you let yourself do it. i play by self imposed rules

[quiet aurora]

does anyone know why there are so many lighting artefacts on a lot of the buildables like foundations and walls

and if there is a fix for it

[ornate saffron]

are you using frame generation like dlss of FSR

[nova ridge]

is there a mod for that

[weary condor]

How do I turn polymer resin into fuel?

[weary condor]

Like the solid waste

[ornate saffron]

for what specificly? Rules?

[grave burrow]

Its not so much of needing that level of power, its all about overhead. You wont have to worry about any overclocks or any factories you could ever build. Its peace-of-mind. But I have several factories that need between 500GW and 1TW. I am currently making 2.6TW with just rocket fuel because I know the projects I will be building are insanely power hungry and will need 2-5TW total.

[nova ridge]

i think my finish condition for this run is get all alt recipes + golden nut

mod to copy whole factories

[quiet aurora]

no that is off, its like shadows in places they shouldnt be

[ornate saffron]

if you are pc then you can use the SCIM to copy and paste

[iron flower]

i just hit steel and need new coal/iron nodes and they're far away. do i track it all across the map?

[ornate saffron]

you could also uses SCIM to put 1000000 tickets in your inventory and go buy that nut. The only things stopping you is your choice

[iron flower]

with a giant conveyer? what do people usually do at this point?

the nearest new coal is 1km away and i don't want to rework my existing factory

[grave burrow]

My rule of thumb is if its within 2km, belt. Over 2km, train.

[ornate saffron]

I build my factory where the resources are. then if i dont have trains ill belt the parts or use trucks to move the parts to where they are needed

[quasi warren]

That is... one of the best rules I need to use

[iron flower]

man. building a 1km conveyer sounds hilarious

[nova ridge]

Oh interesting

[iron flower]

feels so odd in 3d cause in DSP i wouldn't have a second thought belting across the planet

[nova ridge]

may be nice to save time . im more intersted in logistics than actual buildilng the same thing by hand 100 times

[abstract heron]

oo its a BLAndrew575

[ornate saffron]

keep in mid its a lot easy to move 40/min encased industrial steel beams then the literlay thousands of ore that goes into making them

[ornate saffron]

its your game boo. your choices. as long as you are having fun

[nova ridge]

has anyone made a factory where all ores/materiasl and brough to 1 location in the entire map for processing

[grave burrow]

Yeah it can be tough early on as resources may be quite limited at that stage, but belts are continuous and easy to setup. My longest belt was just over 6km because my train network was heavily overloaded at the time XD

[abstract heron]

Kibs did that

[abstract heron]

Hi andrew

[iron flower]

true. i'll find a midpoint between coal/iron and make the steel products there

[nova ridge]

there s youtube of it?

[quasi warren]

I need to make a belt highway blueprint

[abstract heron]

back in u3 in 2020

[nova ridge]

Thats find of fun to think about

[grave burrow]

Harvesting all the resources on the map is one thing, but youll easily hit the entity cap trying to process it all. Easy enough to alter the engine file if youre on PC, but it will kill the performance well before everything is 100%. I have attempted it 3 times in the past myself.

[ornate saffron]

the entity cap is a suggestion it can be overcome. i have done so

[abstract heron]

i doo a thing called biome factorys

[hidden pebble]

Given the ratios, it will be difficult to utilise everything from every node efficiently

[grave burrow]

oh trust me, there are few who know it more than I XD I just set the new highest entity record a month ago at just over 96 million UObjects for a 29 million item a minute factory XD

I will say though, never did I think I would have to increase my entity cap from 100 million to 500 million for a project and dang we were close to that 100 million XD

[ornate saffron]

i think 52gb of ram has been my highest usage. i dont know about actually objects

[grave burrow]

Yeah I have built my PC strictly for maxing out what Satisfactory can do. With that recent project, I maxed my 128gb of ram while using an additional 800gb of SSD to fill in for the ram limit.

[hidden pebble]

How much ram are you packing in your grid

[ornate saffron]

My desktop has 128gb. highly unneeded.

[hidden pebble]

Rich guy

[grave burrow]

Hope you got that 128gb ram before the price hike. Im sure glad I did 😂 Though I use every bit of it regularly and my CPU/motherboard can do 192gb, but at 2000hz so would be severely speed limiting. And that would make for a terrible time editing videos XD

[nova ridge]

i see

[hidden pebble]

The world is getting dystopian day by day

[nova ridge]

i got a 9800x3d which enhanced my performance from a 10700k. im excitied to try a factorio run too. i was always hitting ups issues at endgame factory

[ornate saffron]

Ddr4 3200 when ram was cheap. Got it for less then $200 Canadian.

[nova ridge]

not bad.

is it 64x2 or 32x4?

[grave burrow]

oh nice! And the ddr4 ram will/can last forever. I think I paid around $350 (US) for my 128gb DDR5 last spring and recently looked up the same kit. Its now $1400... insane...

[quasi warren]

Yall over here with all that while im stuck here with 32gb of ddr5

[nova ridge]

strange to think ram of all things would be expensive

it was the dirt cheap part of a build. where you could cut corners

[feral jay]

yep me too and now I'm kicking myself for not doubling it when it was cheap

[ornate saffron]

64x2 amd prefers it

[nova ridge]

thats great

[quasi warren]

I have 2 sticks of 16gb T-T

[nova ridge]

32 is all most people need. can factory games even use more than that

[ornate saffron]

More then enough for most rhings

[grave burrow]

32gb is plenty for most gaming applications. I edit 4k videos and push Satisfactory to the limits is why I needed that much. It REALLY makes a difference for 4k editing.

[quasi warren]

Well if I also wana create content, editing, streaming, recording, playing games, etc

[magic knoll]

I got 4 sticks

[quasi warren]

Which i do

[nova ridge]

true

[magic knoll]

I was like "ram is cheap whatever" and bought 64gb

[nova ridge]

still 32 is plenty for most. maybe 64

[ornate saffron]

This has moved into #off-topic-tech we can continue there

[magic knoll]

Then it happened.

[sick falcon]

i set up a big train hub and factory in an area assuming fused frames and turbo motors would take the same amount of space to produce

[quasi warren]

Yea

[ornate saffron]

How did that go

[grave burrow]

I started creating content from a laptop with 16gb of ram, i7 and a 1060gpu. We all start somewhere 🙂

[sick falcon]

why are turbomotors so damn expensive

[grave burrow]

But as for harvesting all the resources, its not impossible, but be prepared to play at a lower than 30fps range. Copper alone needs a few thousand refineries to process into pure ingots in one step. Unless you overclock of course.