satisfactory

[upper sorrel]

Wish I could show you my save from the early access days when I had satisfactory

[storm hull]

sadly i wasn't interested in tech at that time well i was i just didn't have the money

[ornate saffron]

You may need to wait a week or so and be active in the discord.

[upper sorrel]

Aww man

I know this isn’t the place to ask this but does anyone here have techtonica?

That’s another really really good game

[ornate saffron]

My guess june.... thats the midsummer holiday. Big deal for the swedes

[ornate saffron]

I do not. But solid discussion for #off-topic-general

[storm hull]

oh. thats sad then quite along time thank you either way!

[ornate saffron]

There maybe a sale before then. There is some websites that track game sales. Maybe you can infer a date with that information

[storm hull]

it says march 19th

[ornate saffron]

That all being said it is worth the full price

[storm hull]

yea i know i know its just asdly its very expensive even on sale its quite expensive for me

[zenith pecan]

The thousands of hours I've dropped into this game have been well worth it.

[crystal cedar]

Can confirm

[ornate saffron]

I understand

[upper sorrel]

Agreed that it is worth the price

[acoustic bear]

if a game isn't worth buying at full price, it's not worth buying at all IMO

[ornate saffron]

Games are getting expensive. Most mainstream AAA games cost around $100 CAD.

For the amount of playtime and enjoyment I got from my $50 purchase of satisfactory i am happy

[acoustic bear]

you either put 100s of hours into the game and it's "worth it" or you buy it and it sits in your library gathering dust. no inbetween

[storm hull]

i know it seems like a cool game and i know i'd enjoy it

[upper sorrel]

You paid 50 for satisfactory?

[ornate saffron]

Less I think. It was whe. Update 7 came out

[upper sorrel]

Ahhh I paid like 20 for my copy

[ornate saffron]

#screenshots message

[upper sorrel]

Yea I just looked

[storm hull]

here its 105

[acoustic bear]

I think I paid $39.99

[upper sorrel]

Holy crap 105 for a game yea no

[hollow hemlock]

could be a billion, depends on what the currency is

[upper sorrel]

This is true

[storm hull]

AED

[unkempt blade]

the trick is to use unrolled pennies to buy steam gift cards

[upper sorrel]

Lmfao

[ornate saffron]

What country?

[storm hull]

United Arab emirates UAE

quite alot here imo

[ornate saffron]

Gotcha

[storm hull]

its a good game tho hopefully on sale soon

[pliant prawn]

Fuel Transplant SUCCESS! No fuses died this day lol

[void cliff]

I bought extra copies of satisfactory for the whole family! 6 copies in all.

[storm hull]

That's peak

[upper sorrel]

Comin in clutch with 6 copies for the whole fam is wild

But worth it

[ornate saffron]

Ive bought it thrice so far

[acoustic bear]

I bought DRG for like 10 people and satisfactory for 3 so far. it's worth it to get friends to play with you

[void cliff]

my youngest one has played with me a few times, but I look at it as an investment for the future when they finally broaden their horizons 😄

[dreamy nest]

I need to re buy on steam and I'm waiting for a sale lol

[acoustic bear]

DRG would go on sale for $8 often

[upper sorrel]

That’s the way to look at it

[whole robin]

Is there a specific channel for talking about the merch for the game or are we allowed to talk about it here

[ornate saffron]

As fair as I know its fine here.

As its general discussion

[pliant prawn]

ugh...I keep forgetting fracking wells purity makes different numbers than equivalent nodes. hmmmm grumblegrumblegrumble

[hidden pebble]

!wikisearch nuclear power plant

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=nuclear+power+plant

[ornate saffron]

Under pressure, pushing down me. Pushing down you

[hidden pebble]

Did nuclear power plant get any power production update?

[ornate saffron]

I dont think so

[upper sorrel]

lol

[pliant prawn]

that was cold bro lmao. why ya gotta do me like that

[hidden pebble]

I didn't know it produces so much power.

Imagine a ficsonium waste you could cheaply reprocess into something beneficial.😔

[storm hull]

DRG?

[ornate saffron]

Ill be Bowie you can be freddie

[acoustic bear]

Rock and Stone! (deep rock galactic)

[hollow hemlock]

such as bigger nuclear weapons 🥳

[acoustic bear]

Deep Rock Galactic is easily one of the best games to play with friends ever

[ornate saffron]

Doggo breeding machines

[upper sorrel]

Chippin around, kick my brains ‘round the floor these are the days it never rains, but it pours

[hidden pebble]

Animal cruelty 🤣

[ornate saffron]

Some ppl pay for that service irl.

[acoustic bear]

another coffee stain published game so I think DRG talk is probably tolerated lol. BUY IT

[upper sorrel]

DRG?

[toxic lichen]

they made deep rock?

[acoustic bear]

coffee stain publishes it

they have different devs

[toxic lichen]

deep rock galactic

[acoustic bear]

Drunk Mining Space Dwarves. It's excellent

[upper sorrel]

Lmfao

[toxic lichen]

sums up the whole game pretty well

[ornate saffron]

Yup. There is a solo survival deep rock game too.

[upper sorrel]

Damn

[acoustic bear]

they're doing a roguelike too that's due out eventually

[upper sorrel]

I just tried to boot up my very first save file from when I bought satisfactory and it’s so broken nothing works and everything is floating or missing

[storm hull]

oh okay thanks

[acoustic bear]

The on-site refining mission type on DRG feels very much like connecting up the conveyors on Satisfactory

[ornate saffron]

Same. My fuel facility is under water as the raised the water level at somepoint

[acoustic bear]

hahaha

[upper sorrel]

I don’t think that’s good for your fuel supply

[ornate saffron]

Its nice you can find the DRG ost in satisfactory

[acoustic bear]

I wish Satisfactory had deformable terrain like DRG

[upper sorrel]

Techtonica does the deformable terrain

[acoustic bear]

Got that Red faction feel

[upper sorrel]

Red faction is the shit man haven’t played that in awhile

[acoustic bear]

I know right? that whole franchise is underrated

[upper sorrel]

Agreed

[ornate saffron]

The coolest build I've seen was fuel generators sunk under the water level then the very top sticking out and decorated like a buoy

[acoustic bear]

Rocket duels in red faction with the ability to blast away where your opponent was hiding

[pliant prawn]

I remember the red faction wars. Charging across a land bridge when some jack wagon blows four charges and the whole things falls out from under you

[upper sorrel]

I guess that might outta work

[acoustic bear]

deformable terrain is so overlooked these days

[upper sorrel]

Those were the days boys

Personally I dug tunnels behind the enemy and popped up behind them

It was always so funny

[acoustic bear]

and this was back on PS2 with like 700mhz CPUs or whatever. why can't we have nice things now?

[pliant prawn]

I remember digging a hole and just waiting for some one to run by the opening lol. Until I'd get found and then I was stuck haha

[acoustic bear]

red faction was doing deformable terrain at a large scale way back

[upper sorrel]

I played it on pc I always had a blast

[upper sorrel]

Yup

[hidden pebble]

I'm aware.

On a side note, My uranium rod production is finally online!😃

[ornate saffron]

Time to fuel them drones

[upper sorrel]

Nice I’m looking for people to play satisfactory with

[crystal cedar]

What is drg again?

[hidden pebble]

I'm making batteries for my drones already

[ornate saffron]

Deep rock galactic.

[crystal cedar]

O

[ornate saffron]

Another game from the same publisher. You can find the cassette for its soundtrack in satisfactory

[quasi warren]

It'll take a while for me to set up plutonium

[crystal cedar]

Ohh. I js looked up drg. And again u r owned by an organisation

Css really has a theme going on here

[ornate saffron]

But unlimited beer

[quasi warren]

Maybe its a cry for help from the devs?

[hidden pebble]

I am a bitter fool for starting to make the plutonium factory before the uranium factory.

[acoustic bear]

The lore of DRG and Satisfactory are pretty similar and I could easily see them existing in the same universe

[quasi warren]

I have all the numbers set up, it'll just take a while to belt everything and make the plutonium rods

Considering that I'll sink them first, then when I wana deal with plutonium, or i need that extra power. Ill belt em to the power plants

[stone quiver]

Am I supposed to stumble upon a bunch of mixtapes somehow? I've explored a ton and found 0

[glacial drum]

there is atleast one on the ground in a spot but there’s also buyable ones in the awesome shop

[quasi warren]

Theres also one on a mountain in the dune desert

[sinful roost]

I hit aluminum and I've been chugging along without guides so far but omg this is a headache lol

[glacial drum]

Belting up this 1560 sulfur shouldn’t be too much of a headache. I think I’ll redesign my long distance belt blueprint first, though.

[ornate saffron]

If you really want them the locations are always the same. Google will tell you.

[keen vault]

i lwk wish there was smart pipe junction (am i cooked?)

[stone quiver]

Achievement says find on

[ornate saffron]

Smart pipe junction..... well you can kinda make one

[keen vault]

i js wanna make my pipes power the end generator 😭

[stone quiver]

That's against the point of discovering them. But for a common achievement that has a high rate of completion, I'm surprised they are few and far between

[ornate saffron]

Page 16 of the plumbing manual is Variable priority junctions. Handy thing

[reef basin]

smart in what way?

[ornate saffron]

I found then all organicly with no issues.

[reef basin]

pipes are bidirectional anyway, so you can't really do "merge" or "split"

[keen vault]

control how much water goes in which direction

[knotty bear]

Y'all how did I decide to join barely before 2026 news.

[reef basin]

why do you need to do that? 🤔

[keen vault]

my end generators wont consistenly power

[reef basin]

loop the pipe, underclock gens to fill the whole system up

[keen vault]

wdym by loop the pipe

[reef basin]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/558721941410807812/1399363719460556861/image.png?ex=698dc385&is=698c7205&hm=872f5240fca2c2023917b813f98f4d4d320aeddb06a3592871ec1b68b4899e2e&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=385&height=300

[keen vault]

i see it

[green fiber]

Connect first junction to last junction

[glacial drum]

I got it for the first one i bought

i guess the game only considers it entering your inventory

[stone quiver]

Oh ok I didn't buy any yet bc I thought you had to find the first one

[glacial drum]

I can make 161,995 MW if i use all the sulfur I can get from these two nodes

[stone quiver]

If your end generators won't fill, you need to saturate your system before turning them on.

[glacial drum]

I just gotta look at reducing the amount of NG my FMF uses

[stone quiver]

Full metal fumoffu? What is FMF lol

[glacial drum]

Fused Modular Frames

[hidden pebble]

I believe you are better off spending nitrogen for your frames

[glacial drum]

If I have to move the factory elsewhere it won’t be the worst

[rich torrent]

I downloaded a blueprint from the calculator website and i placed it wrong but when i deleted it it gave me resources I 100% know I didnt put in cuz I havent even made them yet. Had to reset to a save i made hours ago cuz this feels like cheating. How can i avoid this in the future?

[hidden pebble]

Well putting the blueprint also requires resources?

[glacial drum]

Afaik you can’t use a blueprint if you don’t have the materials in your inventory or depot. Maybe you got them from crash sites?

[stone quiver]

You could have just sunk the items

[upper sorrel]

That sucks

[stone quiver]

No you can preload a blueprint with rss

[glacial drum]

You can also delete items from your inventory

[stone quiver]

Or just delete yeah

[glacial drum]

If I need the gas for my RF plant then the frames shall be abolished!

[rich torrent]

It also gave me a bunch of sloops and IDK how many I had before

[glacial drum]

Those you cannot delete.

Not sure you can really avoid it.. maybe you can keep an area for storing “illegal” items?

[acoustic bear]

there is a dupe bug in the blueprinter

you can load a blueprint with items not in your inventory and it'll make them appear

[hidden pebble]

Only applies for vehicles

[rich torrent]

Im on tier 8 and when and when i built the thing then dismanteld it it gave me 30 Ficsite Trigon

[acoustic bear]

did you build it or load it in the blueprinter?

[glacial drum]

Maybe you can build smth somewhere you don’t go and just store it there.

[rich torrent]

I built it

[glacial drum]

If it happens again, that is.

[acoustic bear]

hmm

[rich torrent]

I got lazy and wanted a power plant TwT
im sorry

[glacial drum]

You could also load it and then remove the items from it then save it and reload a save from before you first loaded it

the print should be the same just without the items

[acoustic bear]

I've used the "drive through an automated gate" one a few times lol

[rich torrent]

whats the blueprinter?

[hidden pebble]

To duplicate items i believe?

[stone quiver]

A silly thing

[glacial drum]

the big cube thing you make blueprints in

[rich torrent]

I will be honst I never looked at its name lol

[stone quiver]

I've yet to find a reason to blueprint but I'm too lazy to make a modular "all-in-one" design for a given part

[rich torrent]

I have some that I have made like my storage mall

[acoustic bear]

Make a big blueprint of each set of machines. A blueprint of 8+ constructors, 8+ smelters, 4+ assemblers and then you can make larger amounts of stuff by just pasting the blocks in

[hidden pebble]

Try making one. It will change your life when you see you can multiply production just by putting more of them brainlessly. Why do arithmetic repeatedly when you can do it once?

[stone quiver]

Because I haven't once repeated a modular unit

So it hasn't been applicable

[acoustic bear]

you start using the clock function to speed them up and down as needed to get your desired output

[glacial drum]

This guy makes fuel generators by hand

[stone quiver]

I mean laying down 24 fuel gens takes 30s

[glacial drum]

Gotta increase my power storage blueprint next time i play

[kind spade]

What gives the highest poiunts for the awesome sink

[acoustic bear]

and then piping them and then powering them etc

[hidden pebble]

Just having one manufacturer blueprint with proper belting saves you a lot of time, especially with auto connect.

[glacial drum]

My newest factory is gonna take over 200 fully overclocked

[rich torrent]

Speaking of storage
I have been working on a item mall in a server with my buddy but IDK how many storage containers i need to hold a full inventory of everyting

[hidden pebble]

Fuel generators are like bacteria. They thrive in numbers.

[ornate saffron]

Rocket fuel burns at 10min if you clock your generators to 240% works out nicely as one pure oil node provides 2400 rocket fuel with some alts

[glacial drum]

I’m making 2700 RF

[stone quiver]

Fuel gens are 20x20m. I can only NOW modular print them with blueprint 3 but it still doesn't have enough space for my desired "corridor" between the rows

[hidden pebble]

Depends on how massive factories you build. Generally, 2 industrial containers is more than enough for frequently used parts.

[ornate saffron]

So 270 generators. Easy peasy

[stone quiver]

I prefer G--10m---G which doesn't fit in 48x48. It's a 50 wide plan

[rich torrent]

Oh yeah no i meant like. one for screws one for motors one for rotos
Idk how many in that type of direction

[hidden pebble]

Not really easy. Tedium is often hard.😔

[stone quiver]

So I guess I can do two gens next to each other and hope it pipes properly and print that?

[hidden pebble]

Yeah, you want a dedicated storage for every product right?

[glacial drum]

Could make both sides separate prints. Blueprints exist to make stuff less tedious. You don’t have to use em it’s just a nice thing to have

[rich torrent]

yeah
Me and my friend have a goal of 100% filling the dimensional depo
SO we wana fill up the mall to

[hidden pebble]

And what exactly is your query?

[stone quiver]

Yeah it's just chain printing one with snap, running one central pipe, junctions and 3 power lines hasn't taken me more than 5-10 minutes. And I'm limited by the speed the dimensional portal can eat rubber mostly

So even printing them, I still just sit and wait for rubber unless I brought 10k with me

[hidden pebble]

Make 2 depots eating rubber then

[stone quiver]

I could try it, I haven't fiddled with blueprints because I read they don't snap connections which is all the tedium . I could be incorrect

[rich torrent]

how many types of storable items are there I guess
Im looking on the wiki but im not sure what one is accurate
is Satisfactory.wiki.gg good?
If it is il just find a page with all the crafting materials and count thoes up

[glacial drum]

To use auto connect you need a belt/pipe coming out of the end of the blueprint. Otherwise it doesn’t work

[ornate saffron]

That is the only good one

[glacial drum]

So even a meter long pipe and removing its support

[stone quiver]

But do blueprints maintain connections inside their print?

[rich torrent]

tyvm
Off to count and start farming AI limiters lol

[glacial drum]

Power connections?

[stone quiver]

All connections

[glacial drum]

Afaik yes

[stone quiver]

Huh I guess the notes I read made them seem much more useless

[ornate saffron]

As for what you use as a player..

You dont need phase parts other then ||nuclear pasta|| screws are only used in the mam and awesome shop

[kind spade]

Hello guys. What is the highest Point item for the awesome sink.

[true mulch]

!wikisearch awesome sink

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=awesome+sink

[hidden pebble]

Just use the in game codex. Use signs to make a list. After you automated and filled it, modify the sign to mark it done.

[ornate saffron]

Likely ficsonium fuel rods

[hidden pebble]

Ballistic warp drives

!wikisearch singularity cell

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=singularity+cell

[true mulch]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Category:Building_materials
yes, wiki.gg is the official, maintained wiki

[kind spade]

Thank you

[hidden pebble]

! wikisearch nuclear pasta

!wikisearch nuclear pasta

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=nuclear+pasta

[sinful roost]

Hey these are the things I'm supposed to make

[hidden pebble]

@kind spade converting nuclear pasta to singularity cells gives you almost double the points so you can make them. If you have made pasta, it is relatively easy to make them by spamming iron and concrete.

[rich torrent]

The codex doesn't have stuff.I have to unlock yet

[stone quiver]

Any phase 5 part dumping into a sink will get you 100-1000s coupons in a day or three

[kind spade]

Yeah Im done with the game jsut want the golden nut for the achievement once

[rich torrent]

Screws are used in a lot more than that

[stone quiver]

The question is how many statues you want

[kind spade]

Took me 120hrs with some afking but hey

[quasi warren]

If you dont use alternate recipes

[kind spade]

Just one my facotry is a mess. I want to replay

[stone quiver]

120hr WITH afk is very fast.

[quasi warren]

I never use screws now. I always grab recipes that completely remove screws

[stone quiver]

Though slooping and semi auto manufacturing cuts out 75%+ of the time as opposed to trying to automate parts

[hidden pebble]

If you don't have stuff unlock, you can't possibly automate them now so leave them for later?

[stone quiver]

Screws have uses. I use steel -> screws for reinforced plates and rods/phase 4 parts

[rich torrent]

Oh yeah, but I'd like to leave space for them.I was planning on setting everything up alphabetically

[quasi warren]

I usually do stitched iron plates :P

[rich torrent]

I'll be a 100% honest.I have , like none of those unlocked

[hidden pebble]

If you're that particular, the wiki is your best friend.

[rich torrent]

Tyvm 😊 🙏

[ornate saffron]

Not for pioneer use. Its mostly direct feed from a contructor to another machine

[acoustic bear]

I skip screws as much as possible

[stone quiver]

I need 3x the footprint for those. Since it's 5/min vs 15

[rich torrent]

Ohhhh i understand now.

[ornate saffron]

So you dont need to store any for personal use. Unless you plan on mass manual crafting

[quasi warren]

Didn't know that actually

[stone quiver]

A lot of hated recipes exist for higher throughput in a given footprint

But many people adopt the view of space is near limitless, just build up, and so sprawl factories out as there's no true detriment

[quasi warren]

So should I stick with reinforced plates or stitched :P

[stone quiver]

Depends how big you like your factories. 3 assembler doing default recipe is , by the numbers, more efficient

[rich torrent]

Well, we just wanna kind of for like a completionist thing i guess we wanna fill up crate if every item we can crate

[quasi warren]

I like smaller sizes, but i hate screws-

[stone quiver]

You will not hit the cap on some slugs and sloops

Screws main issue of throughput is mostly solved by mk5 and by mk6 you are more than fine unless trying to merge 2-3 machines

[quasi warren]

Ah

[stone quiver]

But it suffers early due to conveyer speeds

[quasi warren]

Which probably explains why I dispise screws

[stone quiver]

I find I just choose the recipe for the situation instead of always fully planning out things

I didn't think even mk6 would face throughput issues but I'm facing it with quick wire now where even 1300+ isn't pushing fast enough . Too late to modify my build in a clean way so added some spaghetti

[crude holly]

What should my aim be for each resource. 5-10 a minute?

Plates, rotors, frames, motors?

[stone quiver]

There's no hard #. Automate at least 1... scale up if needed. Those are early enough parts that you're only doing smelter -> constructor -> assembler -> assembler , so it's not too hard to manage

[rough linden]

Yo so I saw some 3d models for some machines and because I hate money and free time I decided to make an entire factory in game and then scale it down compared to the models so yeah I'll probably be posting updates on this but it'll probably take a year or 2 at least so yeah

[worldly badger]

Guys is it worth to może from rocket fuel to plutonium rods for drones?

[tall lantern]

are you running out of rocket fuel?

[worldly badger]

Not now but just starting this, also are they produce waste?

[stone quiver]

It's moreso if you want them slightly faster and a different color

If you're already at plutonium , you've basically done all the work, your choice to either sink, use, or slap into drones with a fuel depot at your reactor facility . I'm not sure if filling drone ports and conveyers everywhere with plutonium is worth it (depending on your drone setup)

[ornate saffron]

If you are having no fuel issues continue using rocket fuel.

[narrow aurora]

Yeah I almost exclusively use rocket fuel for drones once it's available, except for the ones that are homed out of my uranium facilities. I don't care about a few passing rads as the thing is racing around.

[ornate saffron]

At that point you likely have the ability to automate iodine filters. You just have to remember to refresh your stack everyone in a while

Passing drone is a good reminder lol

[narrow aurora]

Yup, it's a non-issue except for my uranium facility itself, and I like basing that deep underground in the cave with the node. You probably know the one.

[humble osprey]

make a hard mode where trains detonate on impact

[frail kestrel]

hallo

[sweet arch]

as a new player, the pipes in this game is so goofy, geez. theres no t- pipe? only x. and not to mention the snapping?? bro what is going on, i had to watch a whole ahh guide just to even find out how to snap my pipes where i want them to be

[reef basin]

Mk3 belt can already do practically all screw recipes

[acoustic bear]

just use the X and don't use one of the legs

[tall lantern]

you're allowed to say "ass"

[acoustic bear]

but the pipes can be goofy af

[sweet arch]

cant be too sure in this day and age

[frail kestrel]

i just got my first water extractor up so i cant help you sorry

[little goblet]

I need to check my spreadsheets, but it should be around 6.000/min

[unborn moss]

An x pipe with only 3 connected IS a t pipe.

[unkempt blade]

what was confusing about the snapping?

[sweet arch]

just the fact that you cant place a vertical junction unless you snap it to a existing pipe, and if you want to snap it to a pipe and not eyeball it you need something to anchor it, like another junciton, and then you need to offset it by 1 nudge to make it actually line up. thats just what i saw on youtube so idk of there is a better way

[teal cliff]

You can also place a wall and place the vertical junction against that

[unkempt blade]

Ahh interesting. You see a lot of pipe/liquid complaints on this server but I don't think I've seen that one before 😆

[teal cliff]

Floor holes are also a thing but I've always had issues with those

[sweet arch]

i had some issues with the wall holes too but i always managed to straighten it out somehow

[true lake]

Using a wall is a great way of doing it.....but even better if you use blueprints and save it set at a specific distance from and height from your desired inputs. I use infrequently used beam types a lot in my blueprints, so I can place the desired portion quickly and then just filter-delete the beam. Like using breakaway supports in 3d printing.

[hidden pebble]

I said "fuck this shit" and mada e train line clipping through terrain.. now i have a cool underground metro rail.

[ornate saffron]

I was talking about t
Something like this the other day. I had a hill in the middle of my base (bottom) floor so I surrounded it with walls and foundations then placed conveyor wall holes on each side clipping a belt straight through the hill hidden behind the walls. Giving the illusion more is happening there

[jaunty vault]

Hey guys do you have to unpackage fuel to use it?

[ornate saffron]

In a fuel generator yes. In a vehicle or jet pack no

[stone quiver]

I keep mine in a brown paper bag . Keeps the ideas flowing

[jaunty vault]

Is there a turbo fuel recipe i can unlock that uses packaged fuel? The diluted recipe has me stocked up

[quasi warren]

You have to unpack and then turn that into turbo

[jaunty vault]

Got it

[quasi warren]

It can actually be a closed loop system

How much you need to get the system running? Supply it with the initial amount

[jaunty vault]

So, does making it into diluted packaged fuel then unpacking it give more fuel than just using it straight up?

[quasi warren]

Create the loop. And its an early game diluted fuel setup

[quasi warren]

Yeah.

[jaunty vault]

Hell yea

[quasi warren]

If you have the blender unlocked. You can skip packaging entirely

Thats what i do

[ornate saffron]

Yes, there is a recipe later that skips the packaging but you can't use it until late game as you dont have the machines

[jaunty vault]

Sadly i dont

[quasi warren]

Then that closed loop system for turbofuel can work

[jaunty vault]

Do some people skip turbo fuel?

Or is it the best in the game

[ornate saffron]

I always skip it.

[stone quiver]

Most people skip it

Lots of inputs, power requirements of tier 6/7 aren't there. Rocket fuel OP and alt recipe makes it insanely easy to set up

[ornate saffron]

Don't get me wrong you can draw a straight line from oil to fuel to turbo to rocket. But I like to skip the turbo step

[jaunty vault]

Good to know

I was kinda assuming that

Anyone remember building their modular engine factories? Any advice is welcome

Damn. 1 per minute 🫩

[stone quiver]

It's just motors and rotors plate and rubber? Just assemble it up into a manufacturing

[ornate saffron]

Its not hard to make more smart plating. But if your facility that makes smart plating isn't far factory carts can transport it using truck stations and do not need to be fueled

[stone quiver]

The amount per minute doesn't mean anything once you automate. You can also sloop it to cheese it and double output

Can you sloop it in phase 3? I forget

[jaunty vault]

Yep

Learned that the first sloop doesnt always count tho. Wasted some purple slugs that way

I just never know a good location to build these things

[ornate saffron]

yes they can be unloicked phase 1

[stone quiver]

Ok I didn't know how far down the research tree it was

[thorny saddle]

What happens when I complete the space elevator, explore everything in MAM, and complete all levels in HUB?

[jaunty vault]

You can finally play the game

[thorny saddle]

Will there be more tasks?

[ornate saffron]

Like most sand box games after you see the credits roll and get all achievements its up to your to set goals.

My current goals. Start fresh.

No floating platforms. Clean and decorate before moving on.

Go nuclear (seven clears and I've never powered a nuclear generator)

[stone quiver]

So you have to unlock cosmetic support beams before you can build?

What constitutes a floating platform to you? Foundations snapped to the world grid?

[ornate saffron]

I said no floating platforms

I absolutely have a wall less floor over the grass planes

But yes I rush the awesome shop

[stone quiver]

Oh ok, I didn't know if you had some requirements for placing your ground floor

Since even foundations float to some extent because the ground isn't really flat anywhere

Go nuke is a big goal for me

I'm gonna try the central lake

[ornate saffron]

On pc you can hold ctrl to snap platforms to the world grid. This also sinks them slightly below the ground. About 1m sticking above while using 2m foundation. I use 4m so I get over most the uneven spots

At that stage I use foundations as pillars

[stone quiver]

Have you done a trucks only run?

[ornate saffron]

No but my last run one of the goals was to only have one train hub per biome. No other stops. So I used vehicles to transport everything the that hub.

[bitter crow]

whats a sustainable way to use longer conveyorbelts? im concerned i will clutter the world with conveyors and hinder future train tracks and such

[acoustic bear]

lift everything about 100m up into the air

it's easy to zoop out long concrete paths for your conveyors

that's what I do. You have almost 2000m above you that you can use

so going up 100m or 200m is nothing

[bitter crow]

oh yeah that makes sense

thanks!

[ornate saffron]

i use conveyor poles i made on the Blueprinter. using autoconnect makes spamming them quick

#design-and-architecture message

[bitter crow]

oh yeah thanks for reminding me to unlock blueprints

ill use this info, thanks!

[west jackal]

Is there a way to move my game to steam? I bought the game in 2019 before it was on steam 🥺

[bitter crow]

there defo is some way, altough im unsure how

illl look into it

[west jackal]

I was hoping to find my receipt in email to prove it but I cant find the receipt... sad

[west jackal]

Its not that big of a deal if you dont know.. I have epic I just hate the launcher and only use it for this lol

(And the occasional free game they give)

[acoustic bear]

you can add non-steam games to steam and launch them through steam

[west jackal]

Does it require the epic launcher to be open?

[acoustic bear]

no

[west jackal]

Oh that's perfect! Thank you!

[acoustic bear]

it'll launch epic launcher if need be

[acoustic bear]

it's under the games heading in steam library up at the top

[ornate saffron]

Whenever I play a game on epic and the controller support is dog shit. I run the game through steams add game option. Allowing me to use steams controller support

[acoustic bear]

steam really is such a godsend

[bitter crow]

was looking for the save files

[ornate saffron]

I fear the day gab dies

[west jackal]

What is gab? Is that the ceo of steam?

But I agree; steam is amazing compared to the other launchers

[bitter crow]

did you know you can change every single picture during the startup

i can have luigi staring me down when i start the game

i love pcs

[ornate saffron]

Ceo and sole owner. There is no board or stocks.

As a result he runs it the way he wants. If it ever becomes a publicly traded company it legally has to try to make as much money as possible. This always leads to companies treating users like garbage

As the share holders is the only thing that matters.

[west jackal]

Oh wow. That makes sense!

Thank you for the help 😀

On a side note; do you guys use logistics or just long (ugly) conveyors and pipes? My last playthrough I had a couple km in mk2 pipes for my .. power plants

I shudder from that power plant because I was using dpf and was turning something like 2400 crude/min into dpf

[acoustic bear]

I used conveyors and pipes almost exclusively till drones

[west jackal]

Do drones do non packaged liquids?

[acoustic bear]

no

[ornate saffron]

Pipes and conveyors are logistics

But yes I use mixed logistics.

Currently i have 6 factory carts going and a train line.

Im a little into phase 3

[acoustic bear]

I've been on Phase 4 for about 100 hours and not even made a single part yet

[gilded cloak]

is bolted frame alternate recipe good or should i use the normal one?

[acoustic bear]

I like the ones that remove the screws

I can't remember the names

[west jackal]

I didnt know factory carts moved items! I have thousands of hours and thought those were just a goof

[acoustic bear]

lol yeah. it's a meme at this point

[ornate saffron]

Alternates are there to fit tour needs. You use the one that best fits your situation

[west jackal]

It depends on your resource allocation, all alts are "good" if used right

[acoustic bear]

make a factory cart factory

[west jackal]

Well... almost all*

[west jackal]

Lol im going to have to because I just like making big ramps for them haha

I made a skate park once

[acoustic bear]

haha, I love big hypertube cannons and I cannot lie

[ornate saffron]

They dont use fuel and work with truck stations.
Only one slot but thats fine for dense items

I am moving smart plates from one factory to another for modular engines

[west jackal]

Hahaha do they need flat roads?

[acoustic bear]

no

I think they can do a 4m ramp

[west jackal]

Thats always the first blueprint I make. Cannons, accelerators, and y junctions

[ornate saffron]

You could make a series of jump pads if you like. As long as it consistently gets to where you need it to go

[west jackal]

The carts can use jump pads...?

[sterile blade]

The fact that factory carts are phisically unable to load sushi makes me angy

[ornate saffron]

Yes sir

[west jackal]

Those are another item I never used, I think I made a jelly landing thing when i first started

[sterile blade]

Anything with phisics can 😉

[west jackal]

Train...???!?!?!?!

Ive got some experimenting to do..

[ornate saffron]

Imagine this. You are at a bottom of a cliff and you need to get up. Place a series of jump pads that aim at a wall you hit it and fall on the next jump pad.

[acoustic bear]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PjuYWPWpd0E

[sterile blade]

Trains don't really have "phisics"

They're a bit weird in this regard, dunno how they really place tbh
(But no, they can't use jumpads)

Challenge: test wether a train derailing over a jumpad can make use of it

[ornate saffron]

Trains will go right through cliffs if you clip the track through.

Then you can design a cool looking entrance and exit making a "tunnel"

You can't do landscaping but you can make the illusion of it

[west jackal]

I knew they used to, wasn't sure if they still could

And yeah I wish they would add landscaping options

[acoustic bear]

full terrain destruction and deformation!

[west jackal]

Although I fear UE could not handle it

[ornate saffron]

Place billboard signs set to matte finish and no text or picture making a black void hiding the cliff face.

[acoustic bear]

like Deep Rock or Red Faction!

[ornate saffron]

Someone should make a red feaction factory Sim though. Play as the evil corporation.

The closet thing we got was a nod in saints row 2 and 3

[acoustic bear]

the crossovers are so appparent

evil corporations running mining operations on distant planets

[ornate saffron]

To be clear I dont want any of this touching satisfactory.

But red faction factory game where you can destroy the landscape and put down rebellion from the workers would go hard.

[acoustic bear]

oh sure

[ornate saffron]

Make hard choices like frost punk

[acoustic bear]

Games are best when they're focused and polished. Not when they include everything under the sun

[hidden pebble]

Can ≈ 100 nuclear gens be placed in the huge water area bordering the swamp?

[crude holly]

How many of you guys just doing a general poll actually put effort into making aesthetically pleasing factories instead of just CUBE or giant flat slab

[acoustic bear]

I slab it up in the sky. my shit is ugly af

[hidden pebble]

Where winds meet includes a lot and is still fun

[ornate saffron]

Likely. I havent don't the math though

[tall lantern]

token effort but I suck at design so they still look pretty box-y

[acoustic bear]

even the boxy concrete heavy designs look cool when you have a large number and they're in a cool spot

[hidden pebble]

You can make a cube look much better slapping some windows around

[acoustic bear]

brutalist architecture can be really cool

get like 3-4 levels of cube factory going on top of each other and it gets really chongqing like really fast

[tall lantern]

my bigger ones just look like a haphazard mishmash half the time
#screenshots message
#screenshots message

[ornate saffron]

ultimate burtalist

#off-topic-media message

[ornate saffron]

looks better then my first playthrough

[acoustic bear]

and you can just do this and cap everything over like a warehouse

that's sweet and probably didn't take a ton of effort

[tall lantern]

I should hope so, this was one of my late-game 1.0 setups lol

[crude holly]

Yeah I’m just trying to make my stuff look nice when I really start pushing out stuff.

Only have a smart plate which isn’t fancy. I want to make a nice lookin coal plant. Thinking about over clocking 16 generators

[acoustic bear]

IMO I get it built first and then pretty it up later if at all

[crude holly]

But not sure if that’s worth doing

Is over locking coal generators worth it?

[acoustic bear]

just get the coal working and move to fuel asap

[tall lantern]

I'd just build more

[acoustic bear]

fuel is much more of a longterm solution

[tall lantern]

coal gens aren't in massive quantity, and dealing with the piping could be a hassle

[acoustic bear]

you can finish the game on fuel power if you want to

so focus on fuel and make that pretty

that's my opinion

I spent a bunch of time on a big coal power setup that was immediately obsolete a few hours later

and my automated biofuel was already pretty good

[crude holly]

I also feel dumb because I’m using a pure iron node for my smart plating and it’s only a mk1 using like 110 ore or something

[acoustic bear]

you can upgrade in plaace

[crude holly]

Like should I manifold it and put the miner to max and just cycle the ore out into another production line?

[acoustic bear]

I'd just upgrade the miner and split off another production line

or move to another area completely

[regal geode]

Hello

[acoustic bear]

my initial base was mostly just designed to feed my dimensional depots while I planned my mega factory lol

[crude holly]

Well I’m not worried about moving just feel bad for wasting a pure node

But I also was told you have way more nodes then you’ll need

[acoustic bear]

with iron yeah

sulpher? maybe maybe not

[crude holly]

So a wasted pure node isn’t really a big deal

[acoustic bear]

nope

especially not iron

[crude holly]

I plan to use the other two nodes nearby to make rotors,plates, matrix, and motors if I can set it up right.

[upper sorrel]

I’m looking for people who wanna start a new world and make a mega efficient factory

[tall lantern]

#1201555265942724758

[upper sorrel]

Yea I can’t post anything there

[acoustic bear]

I have a bad habit of just belting all the ingots to a central point and not having a plan for them

[upper sorrel]

Sometimes my problem too

[tall lantern]

easily solved by just not making stuff til you need them

[reef basin]

By the same definition you are wasting all the other nodes that you haven't tapped yet

[crude holly]

True!

[reef basin]

Why not?

[crude holly]

I’m just trying to be efficient but at the same time I always compare myself to others instead of just enjoying the average. Not like I need hyper optimized super giant production lines

But sometimes it feels like it I’m not I’m plying the game wrong :/

[reef basin]

I'd underclock the miner, you can always build something else from rest of the ores later

[atomic forge]

yoo, is there a way to create a creative map mode to test out some designs and then load up my main save? =d

[reef basin]

There's no wrong way to play the game

[ornate saffron]

Nothing is stopping you for coming back late game upgrading the miner to mk3 fully overclocked and shunting the excess ore to a new facility

[reef basin]

!wikisearch ags

[raven axle]

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

[tall lantern]

"wasting" most of a pure iron node is losing a bit over 1% of the total iron ore on the map. Not a limit you need to worry about

~nobody uses all the nodes of the common stuff

[upper sorrel]

I just joined the server last night

[reef basin]

Does it say that? 🤔

[ornate saffron]

It just won't let you post in certain places until you are here for a bit. I had the same experience back in the fall

Took about a week

[tall lantern]

if that's the case, then just gonna have to join someone else's game instead then

(or wait it out)

[crude holly]

Yeah that’s also very true. I’m just trying to figure out how I want to design my “mega factory” I want to build it near the giant western waterfalls

[upper sorrel]

That’s a good spot to build

[tall lantern]

obligatory "megafactories are a pain" warning

[ornate saffron]

Mega factories are something many people think "i wana do that, it cool" this includes me.

I did it. Suffered through it and ill never do it again. But it is not drugs. Suffering through it won't ruin your life.

If thats what you wana do..

Do it

[crude holly]

Yeah very true. Make I’ll just make a central storage center and then make modular factories

[upper sorrel]

Yes they can be my first save I had everything all connected and running efficiently then real life happened and then the game updated to 1.7 when I joined back and it was all gone or floating and running into nothing

[crude holly]

Make a major storage hub and output center in the middle with modular factories around

[ornate saffron]

I backwards engineered a mall storage i saw in a totalxplise video. I liked it.

Useless with cloud storage. But I don't regret it.

[crude holly]

So I was wondering you can put stuff into the depots can you take stuff out?

[quasi warren]

Yea

[crude holly]

I assume no because drones and trains

[quasi warren]

Either with build system. Or from grabbing it in ur inventory

If you mean the DD.

I automated nobalisks and I put them into the DD. so I can always have atleast 1 bomb wherever I go

[upper sorrel]

That’s a bonus

[quasi warren]

I did the same with portable miners

Sure I dont need a lot, but its automated

[rich torrent]

For turbo fuel do i want Turbofuel or Heavy Turbofuel

[quasi warren]

I had heavy turbofuel marked in a calculator, and it went with normal turbofuel. I can send ss in #math-and-meta

[rich torrent]

yes plz

[crude holly]

Yea but like you can’t pull items out using belts for wireless storage right?

[quasi warren]

Nope

Just ur inventory and build gun system

[stone quiver]

I don't understand the reason people gravitate to Central storage warehouse

[ornate saffron]

Its a vibe. You dont need to understand it.

[stone quiver]

It's a megafactory warehouse. Essentially

[ornate saffron]

My central storage was a huge train hub and awesome sink warehouse with a mall ontop

[stone quiver]

Is there some easy way to get stuff from your factory remotely?

Err your storage

[ornate saffron]

In what sense?

Personal use you can use cloud storage

[stone quiver]

Right, but people build the warehouse either as a megafactory inventory or... how else am I in crater lake and I want 1000 rubber from my warehouse, were you calling for items somehow

[ornate saffron]

My mall had two industrial storage of each item and a cloud depot.

This came in handy when I needed 4freight cars of steel beams for a bridge

[stone quiver]

Cloud depot? Like dimensional?

[ornate saffron]

Yes sir. The name eluded me

[stone quiver]

So is there some solution to using like one dimensional storage and 100+ industrial crates that know when to fill it ?

Or you mean you just walked to the storage and grabbed the material

[ornate saffron]

For low use items I fill a industrial storage and output that to a dimensional depot

For items in high need like concrete ill fill multiple industrial storage then feed several dimensional depots for faster upload speed

[crude holly]

Oh true why make a central storage when you can just keep it in your damn pocket

[ornate saffron]

Sometimes if I need 3000 plus steel beams ill og to the mall and empty my entire mall of them and fill a train and take it to the build area

[crude holly]

I didn’t even think about that. Just grab as you need for building and if you need stuff moved train/drone

I was going to try trucks but ngl they seem so ass

[quasi warren]

I like em. Funny as hell.

[crude holly]

Maybe for a short little factory with multiple buildings moving around

[quasi warren]

Ill never use em for complete logistics. But funny as hell

[crude holly]

But for what I was thinking cross map seems horribly ineffective

[stone quiver]

I just full time portal the main building blocks. The tier 7/8/9 items I manually upload

[crude holly]

I really want to use trucks in one build just not sure what or how I can

Maybe at my fuel industry I’ll make a small oil rig and move rubber/plastic around with trucks

[stone quiver]

Use trucks to move tier 1-3 ingredients from the miner to your factory

[quasi warren]

Cross map is best for trains imo

[ornate saffron]

this bridge needed 10 000 steel beams. i was not going to wait for my dimentional depots to fill so i loaded up a train this emptied all the indutrial storage so it can refill as i worked #design-and-architecture message

so having a mass storage system that feeds dimentional depots and overflows into awesome sinks can have advantages.

uses vary user to user. I didnt need to make a stupid huge bridge. I wanted to

floating rails didnt hurt no one

[meager basin]

is there any way to make those filthy lizards go extinct?

everytime i build they stand in my way

[reef basin]

whichever you prefer

[ornate saffron]

the beans?

tall bloated beasts you can use a jump pads

[tall lantern]

there's enough spheres to build DDs for everything you'll ever need

[ornate saffron]

[meager basin]

those too, but mainly those dog things

[ornate saffron]

the little red guys?

[meager basin]

YES THAT THING

[ornate saffron]

you can murder them. buty they are viewed as a positive. you can feed them berries and put them in pens. they will bring you items as gifts

[meager basin]

i nobelisked them since like forever but they still spawn

[crude holly]

Bro I really wanna make a nice little factory town with trucks now I’ve got the vision

[unkempt blade]

they give you items if you're nice to them

[meager basin]

they doo?

so can i like farm them and get some stuff

[crude holly]

Maybe my starter factory can be that. Move around the starter items to the dimensional depot area

[quasi warren]

Ye

[meager basin]

can i lure them using those berries into some chambers then milk them dry?

[quasi warren]

I think? I tame like 10. Trap em in a 4x4 cube. And wait every few minutes, come back. I have items

[ornate saffron]

some insperation.

#design-and-architecture message

[meager basin]

something like that!

[ornate saffron]

yes

!wikisearch lizard_doggo

[raven axle]

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

[ornate saffron]

details on that on the wiki

[crude holly]

HOLY SHIT

[jolly sierra]

Wsp chat

[crude holly]

THATS INSANE

[tall lantern]

wasp chat?

[ornate saffron]

I watch factory tours lol.

[jolly sierra]

Wassup

[tall lantern]

oh you mean "sup"

[ornate saffron]

Turn on captions for details and tips

[unkempt blade]

hey buddy, we smell poop too

[crude holly]

Yeah I really don’t think I’ll ever be that talented or patient but looks nice

[ornate saffron]

We can go 90's early 2000s

Waaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzuuuuppppppp

[jolly sierra]

We've already talked about this

[unkempt blade]

my acronym makes a lot more sense though

[jolly sierra]

Mines not even a acronym. . .

We're off topic

[ornate saffron]

My name is Universal Serial Bus mixed with Beefalo

Usbeefalo

[unkempt blade]

sorry, I was just returning your greeting

[jolly sierra]

#off-topic-media

Uhh let it upload

There it uploaded

[quasi warren]

That one image in #off-topic-media hurts my eyes-

[jolly sierra]

Still we're off topic

[ornate saffron]

But..... imagine having your first kiss with a lover there

So romantic

[unkempt blade]

truly factory goals

[stone quiver]

Sure, but I also don't feel like scattering splitters everywhere to fill dimensional boxes. Some items aren't in high enough demand

[tall lantern]

don't need to do that if each factory's designed to make its own thing

[jolly sierra]

I'm getting off of this channel for now

[unkempt blade]

isn't it just like 1 splitter per item for most things and you'd be overflow-sinking them anyway so it's just the same splitter?

[tall lantern]

good ol' independency, factories not siphoning off each other means you just put the whole output into storage/depot/sink

but yeah, it's just another step before sinking

[stone quiver]

Yes, I get I can make everything sprawling and independent but I have a lot of stuff overlapping

[tall lantern]

surely those places are also sending excess to sinks though

[unkempt blade]

it's not so much "sprawling" as at a certain point you'll need to spread out anyway to get more resources

[ornate saffron]

Many ways to approach the game. Do what fits your playstyle

[unkempt blade]

yeah! and use more factory carts and colors in your builds!

[tall lantern]

• if they're not making excess, you couldn't usefully depot off 'em anyway
• if they are, they're probably going into a sink, so easy to use the same splitter or slap another one in between

[ornate saffron]

More brutalist KFCs

[tall lantern]

KFD

for when your doggos bring you nuclear waste

[ornate saffron]

From what I understand swaping the doggo gift with plutonium waste is the meta

[tall lantern]

faster than the toilet

but not automated, so it's illegal sadly

[stone quiver]

My swamp factory will make everything. It's a Shrektory.

[tall lantern]

someBODY once told me a spider's gonna troll me

[ornate saffron]

Those weren't cat sounds I heardddd

[stone quiver]

I can comfortably do like 2 phase 5s. Warps are kind heavy duty though. Need a lot

[tall lantern]

it was looking kinda dumb
in its jaws I saw a thumb
and the shape
of the teeth
there's so maaaannnnyyyyy

well, the legs start coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming

[ornate saffron]

Ahhhhhhh

(Insert wilhiem scream)

[stone quiver]

Didn't make sense not to play for fun
Your build gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do so much to see
So what's wrong with building spaghetti

[gloomy tusk]

This is the best parody I have ever heard

When release on Spotify 🤔

[glad hawk]

Bombs men

We like the bombs men we like the bombs men

[stone quiver]

Ficsit defense contractor edition. All trees lead to bombs.

Drone bombs. Depleted plutonium rounds. AI hacking drone. Suborbital missile.

[pulsar osprey]

is it possible to disable the screen blur when the to do list is focused? im trying to write down items/min for processing by having the codex open at the same time, but it blurs it and makes it very difficult to read.

I can, but it ends up hurting my eyes so id prefer not to have to

[covert quarry]

does anyone know why refineries are idle after a while? this causes my whole factories to stop and i've tried many things but cant find the solution. Could this maybe be a ratio problem?

[acoustic bear]

do you have a water problem?

either intake or exhaust water?

[reef basin]

post images of the refinery UI in #1038092680493801533

[covert quarry]

i don't use water at all, just heavy oil residue turned into fuel

[tall lantern]

are the inputs empty or the output(s) full? that'll point you in the direction you need to investigate

[acoustic bear]

you gotta run around and look for the backup

[tall lantern]

there may not be a backup, if you're not giving enough input

[covert quarry]

done, my only solutions seems to be flushing every once in a while

[tall lantern]

if stuff's full you generally want to check why they're not emptying, so going further down the chain
if stuff's empty then something earlier isn't producing enough

[covert quarry]

no, i've checked this multiple times

[tall lantern]

I mean, from that screenshot your output is very clearly full

[covert quarry]

the input is a byproduct so that shouldn't be a problem

[covert quarry]

yeah and its connected to a packager to package the fuel

[stone quiver]

Your output is max. You're saying the fuel generator is at 0?

[tall lantern]

then follow the chain, do the same checks further down

[stone quiver]

Then your packager is full.

[covert quarry]

its actually empty😭

[tall lantern]

see at which point things change. If it's full all the way, you're making more than your setup can handle. If there's a point where stuff starts to empty, then it's probably pipe limits

[stone quiver]

Your output is full = output has nowhere to go, follow the direction, see what else is full

You're saying your packager is 0 fuel and max containers?

And the output of it is also zero?

[covert quarry]

i thought that was the problem, fixed it and it turns out not to be the problem i might js rebuild everything

[stone quiver]

Your packager is at the same or lower elevation of your output?

[covert quarry]

i think so but i can't tell now, cause i flushed the byporduct so i'll have to wait before i can tell

[tall lantern]

should probably keep all this in the thread

[covert quarry]

like the height? its not too high so i wouldn't need a pipeline pump

[winged herald]

chat should i call out of work to play satisfactory all day

[covert quarry]

make a poll

[stone quiver]

You should post a picture of the packager

[winged herald]

i cant make polls lol

[covert quarry]

i'll post it in #screenshots

[tall lantern]

nah, stay in your thread

[reef basin]

no, post it in #1038092680493801533

[tall lantern]

don't start scattering this across three channels lol

[reef basin]

#screenshots is for showing off your factories, not for conversation or problem fixing

[winged herald]

3 channels for one conversation is fun though

[covert quarry]

honestly if you have plenty of time to play after work then don't, don't get addicted to gaming🙂

[hollow bay]

why do signals not wanna be placed on the correct side of the track..😭

[winged herald]

im not getting addicted. I only play video games like 20 hours a day. Still plenty of time left for other activities

[hollow bay]

only 20 hours? I would've expected better from you dr. doofenschmirtz

[amber scroll]

This game is addicting

I love it

Must build more factory

[winged herald]

gotta have time for evil planning

[ornate saffron]

there is a hot key to switch sides.

but yes they always seem to want to be on the left side of the track

[hollow bay]

are the machines calling your name yet?

[amber scroll]

Yet?

[hollow bay]

which key would that be?

[amber scroll]

they have been since the start

[hollow bay]

that's the best outcome then

[winged herald]

guys factories cant talk 🙄

[amber scroll]

They called to me before I even got tye game

[ornate saffron]

read your UI i cant remember, But it does wsay along the bottom of the screen

[quasi warren]

Yes please, I need to know this

[tall lantern]

mousewheel?

[hollow bay]

doesn't work

[hollow bay]

well that's only for which side the signal is supposed to be at. still pointing the same direction tho. also my apologies, didn't meantion that

[ornate saffron]

you cannot control direction. you must appease the machine spirits with the appropriate rituals

[hollow bay]

but I can't. I can't let the spirits decide. I must decide

[tall lantern]

what about just changing which side of the rail you're aiming at

it's been a looooong time since I've done trains (or anything in-game)

[hollow bay]

also does not work. what does work tho is just replacing the rail from the other direction you originally placed it

[covert quarry]

yeah but what would there be to do after completing phase 5?

[tall lantern]

start playing beyond the tutorial

it's a sandbox game, you do what you want

[hollow bay]

maybe build a huge NPP. that's what I'm doing tho I haven't completed Phase 5 yet

[amber scroll]

Im gonna build a factory to automate everything?

[tall lantern]

isn't that just the rest of the game

[amber scroll]

Also my tractor got stuck in the ground somehow

[amber scroll]

That's why its fun

[hollow bay]

tractor eepy

[amber scroll]

Ima screenshot it rq

[hollow bay]

can't send it in here tho

[amber scroll]

Well, take a picture of it

[amber scroll]

Ik

I an a Playstation player :3

[amber scroll]

I sent it in screenshots

[hollow bay]

like I said, tractor eepy

[amber scroll]

I think it wanted to be a drill, it just...spins

[indigo kiln]

Finally The confusions of making turbo fuel is over now to figure out how to put it into my 45 power generators

[tall lantern]

split into pipe groups, pipe away

[amber scroll]

Now my tractor thinks its a piece of coal

[amber scroll]

Get enough to fill each one while they are on standby, let the belts fill up too, then turn them all on, best way (my power hasn't fluctuated at all)

[indigo kiln]

With how I designed it my power is guaranteed to fluctuate every time I refuel my jetpack

[tall lantern]

that sounds like bad design

[rich torrent]

@ornate saffron #screenshots message

how did you get the pipes to connect?

[amber scroll]

Make some extra

Or minus one generator

[indigo kiln]

I am just not enough

[indigo kiln]

Butt but but then it won't be even

[amber scroll]

44 is even?

[indigo kiln]

No if you're talking about car volume

[amber scroll]

What

[indigo kiln]

You know when you change the volume in your radio in your car

[amber scroll]

Yeah?

But 44/4=11

45/3=15

[ornate saffron]

do you mean between blueprints ort in the blueprint itself?

[tall lantern]

could just underclock a tad

[ornate saffron]

i connected the kissing generators with a pipe. then placed a junction on thazt pipe. then connected the junctions

[amber scroll]

Oh yeah, or that, forgot thats a thing....can't even do it yet myself

[indigo kiln]

I have a battery buffer that should be enough to make it actually output the same constantly just generate the same

[tall lantern]

if you're doing turbofuel you definitely have the ability to unlock underclocking

[indigo kiln]

I have I just don't see the point for this

[rich torrent]

OHHHHHH tytyty

[amber scroll]

Is 12000 screws enough to last me a while?

[tall lantern]

i hope that's not per minute

[amber scroll]

Only on assembly 2 atm

[ornate saffron]

honetsly, any screw not being directly fed into a machine after being produced is a screw to many

[amber scroll]

Stored

[amber scroll]

Its excess I don't have machines for

[west jackal]

I was able to add it, but unfortunately it still requires the epic launcher, thanks for the help anyways!

[acoustic bear]

bummer, it won't auto launch?

[tall lantern]

there's only one buildable that needs screws and you'll only need to build a handful at most, so that's plenty

[amber scroll]

I am transporting 240 coal a second over from 2 pure coal nodes to 3 normal iron nodes for my steel factory, gonna use the extra for power

[tall lantern]

that's a lot of coal

[amber scroll]

Need 2 lanes of mk2 belts...

I don't have mk3

[tall lantern]

240 a second is what, ~15k a minute?

[amber scroll]

Hm

24×6 is 144

So yeah, about 14,400

Oh shoot

[tall lantern]

impressive when a pure node does 1200 at best

[stone quiver]

Underclocking serves to match inputs and outputs but usually you can go the other way, power nothing an issue

[amber scroll]

I meant uhhhh, 120/minute ,sorry!

Im used to item/s

Industrialist

Roblox factory game

[stone quiver]

Item/s, what industry you in

[hollow bay]

I've played that as well until I got satisfactory

[west jackal]

it does auto launch, i think, so in that sense it eliminates the need for the epic launcher, but i still have to have the epic launcher installed (and signed in) which is the issue. When i dont have internet access i wont be able to launch it through there, but i can launch steam games when im offline

[amber scroll]

Its sooo fun, how far you got?

[hollow bay]

right before the cpp but that was before it even got out so you can say I finished the game (got like almost 300 mil in a save)

[west jackal]

What does unlock everything in awesome shop do?

does it just unlock the blueprints/constructables

[amber scroll]

They have nuclear power now, and new research system...which suck imo but eh. I have gotten to the CPP

[stone quiver]

There's an unlock everything button? TIL

[west jackal]

I mean to ask, is the awesome shop still accessible for the items?

[unkempt blade]

it's unlocks everything in the awesomehop

[quasi warren]

THATS A THING

Bruh.

[stone quiver]

How many statues can I buy?

[mortal ginkgo]

YOU DONT SAY BROTHERMAN OF CENTURY

[stone quiver]

One nut feels lonely

[mortal ginkgo]

yes

[hollow bay]

yea I already set up the NPP with a friend ina creative world n tbh it's too much work. also the new research system sucks a lot. had like 85 mil rp or so before the update. went down to like 1 mil after

[unkempt blade]

I do say!

[unkempt blade]

yes

[west jackal]

by end game ill have plenty of tickets (sinking plut rods) but i would like to have the building stuff early on...

[amber scroll]

I had like, did a soft reset on my world (deleted everything) and built from that. I went a lot into the decorations for a more esthetically pleasing factory

[west jackal]

eh i guess ill just start sinking stuff early, just ahrd before smart splitter

[amber scroll]

Used walls from the Christmas event

[stone quiver]

I didn't realize plut rods are money makers

[amber scroll]

I accidentally ran over a lizard doggo

NOOO

[west jackal]

im starting a new world since i havent played in like 7 months xd

[mortal ginkgo]

restart game

[stone quiver]

I'm drowning AI by the dozen which so far is still making the coupon cost seem reasonable

[amber scroll]

This is why texting and driving is bad..m

[west jackal]

my gf made me name the world "MyLittlePony" because i couldnt decide on a name

[hollow bay]

I did the same tbh. best I had built was lithium battery pack which I did get a lot of despite how complicated it is

[amber scroll]

Wanna know what my world name (satisfactory) is?

[hollow bay]

yea sure

[amber scroll]

Copper-43796E

[west jackal]

huh

[amber scroll]

That is not a color hex, but it can be, but the hex at the end stands for "Cyn"

Murder drones reference

Copper-9 is an exoplanet and Cyn is a character

[stone quiver]

Lost me at naming a planet

[amber scroll]

World

Session whatever

Same difference

[hollow bay]

mine's just Playthrough Number 1😭

[amber scroll]

Go up in hex :3

[tall lantern]

should've named it after the planet you're on, MASSAGE-2(A-B)b

[amber scroll]

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

That's 0-31 technically

[hollow bay]

why's there even different color codes I don't get it

[amber scroll]

What

Wdym

[west jackal]

my original world from 2019 was "ohyeee" and ive got countless new world, neww, new, main, etc.

[hollow bay]

btw I've posted somin in #design-and-architecture that took me a few hours to get to where I am now

[hollow bay]

like there's HEX n whatever else there is I forgot their names

[hollow bay]

but like how does that take hours

[covert quarry]

at what tier do you unlock time crystals?

[hollow bay]

tier 9

[stone quiver]

I mean I can't name anything on console, I don't think

[amber scroll]

Binary, decimal? But hex is the red blue and green values, rgb, the first two digits have 256 possible values for red, third and fourth ones are also one number, 256 possible values for green, and the last two for blue.

That's that like, 16.777M number, 256³ different colors that can be displayed

Hex also represents characters (letters, numbers, symbols)

[hollow bay]

isn’t binary primarily used for computers n things like that?

[west jackal]

sure i guess

but binary is just a numeric system, someone decided on base 10 for standard maathematics, but you can theoretically use any base for a number system, they all function the same. Binary is base 2, octal is base 8, hex is base 16

[winged herald]

welp time to tear down all these ugly scattered factories and start my mega factory

[west jackal]

based

[hollow bay]

that’s what I wanted to do until I decided to build a NPP

[amber scroll]

You don't even have to use just numbers, as hex shows, E-A=4

Teehee

EA SPORTS

[hollow bay]

my brain has now given up

[amber scroll]

Meh

Well, E=14, A=10

[hollow bay]

my brain has not given up

[winged herald]

all my smal factories are right in the middle of all my pure nodes where i wanna build my mega factory. so it has to be done 😭

[amber scroll]

I wish I could use external emojis...

[hollow bay]

what has to be done has to be done. but remember, those machines will now haunt you

they are like perry now

[winged herald]

the inefficiency is haunting me

[west jackal]

bruh why did bladerunners switch off caterium

[hollow bay]

it always will

[west jackal]

is there a way to get them before quartz refinement?

[winged herald]

you can find a pair in the world somewhere

idr where

[west jackal]

whaaa

[hollow bay]

they‘re in a cave along the east coast. just go on the satisfactory map n enable caves. should be a pretty big cave somewhat in the open under some high cliff

[west jackal]

is it like a drop pod?

[hollow bay]

noo

wait give me a second

[winged herald]

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

[amber scroll]

Are we ever able to use external emojis?

Or not at all?

[inland fulcrum]

Since I need to manually find a slug for each power shard, I assume it's best to only overclock the actually important factories? Or do you mainly use it to balance production by a few percent or smth?

[acoustic bear]

sloop your slugs

double them

[inland fulcrum]

sloop?

[tall lantern]

there are ~5000 shards worth of slugs on the map (or half as much if you don't sloop them)

[hollow bay]

I‘ve DM‘d you the location

[tame bobcat]

early game somersloop em

[acoustic bear]

yeah, use a constructor with a sloop to convert the slug to a shard so you get double the output, don't use the bench

[stone quiver]

If you find sloops

[tall lantern]

overclocking also costs more power though, so it's not just free space savings to overclock

[stone quiver]

But power shards are of minimal importance early on, to be honest

[tall lantern]

one machine at 200% costs more power to run than two at 100%

[stone quiver]

Just build another constructor. Huzzah.

[acoustic bear]

which is why it's best to just hold on to them and sloop them when you can

[stone quiver]

Sure, slooping everything cuts requirements in half/double reward

But idk, I don't like it other than to dump in a sink. Since points are the most arbitrary of all goals in game

[tall lantern]

as for actual uses, my suggestion'd be to, by default, probably not overclock factories unless you just don't want to build as much stuff (which does become more of an issue later).
you could overclock things like your coal miners for more power, if you wanted to

personally I generally prefer to just Build More rather than overclock, but (when your power grid's more sturdy), overclocking miners is good because it just gets you more stuff

[stone quiver]

Overclock the T9 buildings, blow out your grid.

[tall lantern]

useful for power production

[tall lantern]

lol I did OC a bunch of my P5 stuff

[stone quiver]

I went from 14k power draw to 60k with just 3 quants

[tall lantern]

but I had like 630GW of power and it wasn't gonna break that

[stone quiver]

Yeah I don't like building power up all at once

Very mind numbing and unrewarding

Unless I had a cool design. But everyone makes rocket fuel fields forever

[tall lantern]

mine was more of a tower

#screenshots message

[winged herald]

can i move my space elevator without having to restart the current phase? like will i get back the items sitting in it?

[west jackal]

when do you unlock the map? it wont let me press m to open it

[tall lantern]

you can freely move it, yes, no loss

[tall lantern]

one of the early milestones IIRC

[winged herald]

like stage 2 of the base thing i think? pretty early

[west jackal]

it doesnt show it in any of the tier 1/2 objectives

[winged herald]

hub upgrade i mean* not pgase

field research of tier 1

[west jackal]

oh

im blind, i apreciate it

[amber scroll]

Should I split my two mk2 belts into 4 mk1 as I am broke on Reinforced plates

[tall lantern]

can do

[west jackal]

do you know what tier you unlock slooping

[tall lantern]

like 1, 2

[amber scroll]

Im like, halfway to my goal and I have used 900 of these plates....

[tall lantern]

it's MAM research

[west jackal]

shoot rlly

[tall lantern]

a lot of good stuff in the MAM, good idea to keep an eye on what you can unlock

[west jackal]

slooping still relatively new to me

i havent perused the mam since b4 1.0 i think

atleast not in depth

[tall lantern]

then there'll be a new tree to peruse

[winged herald]

i love the forrest start. i got like 7 pure iron nodes for my mega factory

whats that like 840 iron per minute without any overclocking

[amber scroll]

I read your messages in the voice

[winged herald]

good good 😈 lol

[amber scroll]

With mk1 miners I think? I dunno how much better mk2 and higher are

[winged herald]

oh miners nvm

[tall lantern]

each purity bump and each miner tier double the output

[amber scroll]

Alr

[stone quiver]

I only snort the purest time crystals

[amber scroll]

Im only on mk1 miners

[winged herald]

with mk2 miners i think it would be 1680 iron / min

[amber scroll]

I am at 961 smart plating...

Finally

[stone quiver]

Just keep building it, you will need a lot

[winged herald]

almost there

oop i found another pure node not far. so 8 pure nodes i think?

[amber scroll]

I need to do MAM research, I haven't even placed it down...

[stone quiver]

The issue with elevator parts is they're mostly just for the elevator and eat up your early production, but making supply chains for them isn't a bad idea

[amber scroll]

Is it bad to automate everything as I go along? I have 12 things automated atm, I think 3 more (steel) I need to automate. I mean like, literally everything I can

[west jackal]

youll likely remake them, but its great to do

[stone quiver]

It's good

[winged herald]

no, you usually need it anyway

[west jackal]

youll probably upgrade the factories (completely remake) when you get better toys

[tall lantern]

automating anything used by the player (build gun, your choice of ammo for weapons if needed) is a great idea

[amber scroll]

I have remade my factory 3 different times

[stone quiver]

I never remade just moved on

[tall lantern]

I wouldn't spend too much time (or any, ideally) rebuilding old but working factories

[versed mirage]

Hi, I'm trying to play with my friend, he is on steam and i'm on epic. I try to join via session ID but I always get E011 Could Not Resolver Online session. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[tall lantern]

expanding, sure, you can upgrade a miner then split half off to where it was going before and the other half to some new factory. But not rebuilding

[west jackal]

what is build gun

[tall lantern]

the thing you build with

[west jackal]

you cant craft that tho... being sarcastic?

ammo is good to automate...?

[tall lantern]

eh?

if you're using it

[west jackal]

wait

is build gun not the thing you press q for ?

[stone quiver]

He means any materials that you frequently use that are consumed by building with the gun are good ones to autotomy

[west jackal]

did they add something new?

[acoustic bear]

I just hand feed ammo machines tbh. don't have it fully automated

don't use ammo enough to dedicate a whole node to it etc

[tall lantern]

can always just make less

[stone quiver]

May I introduce you to the poison jungle. Aka the safari zone

[tall lantern]

yes, and building stuff uses resources

this is why you don't need a stockpile of screws for example, there's precisely one buildable that uses them and it's not something you need to build in bulk

[acoustic bear]

I mean, I use ammo, it's just easy to hand feed a machine that uploads into a depot and only have to set it up once

[west jackal]

huh

i always stockpile screws?

[acoustic bear]

I have turbo fuel, casings and smokeless powder all in the depots anyways so it's easy to just pull it out and put it into a manufacturer by hand

[west jackal]

i go through crates of them at a time when i need to make mf early on

[reef basin]

what for?

[tall lantern]

sounds like you should be automating those MFs

[west jackal]

handcrafting hundreds of MF

[reef basin]

why not automate tho?

[west jackal]

before i can afford to automate them 🤷

gotta rush to coal power

[winged herald]

i stockpile everything

[tall lantern]

they're automatable on biomass power

[reef basin]

if you can affort hundreds of MFs, you can afford automation