satisfactory

[toxic lichen]

cheaper
and 3.75/min

pretty smexy

[hidden pebble]

@swift turret how do you suggest i set a autoconnection blueprint for them? I tagged you in screenshots

[swift turret]

then dont set it up like that

make your extractors in their own area and setup a pipeline support blueprint that you can auto connect and move to the plants

[rich torrent]

A horrid little popup "You have been playing forever go away"
ok ok fine...

[fluid crow]

turn that off in settings

[rich torrent]

No i need it TwT

[toxic lichen]

warframe has a similar thing

it stopped showing up for me 500ish hours ago

[hidden pebble]

Vitamin D deficiency

[cursive crane]

!wikisearch hard+drives

[raven axle]

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/index.php?search=hard+drives

[fiery pewter]

Anno 1800 one day warned me I had been playing for 52 hours in one session

[rich torrent]

your gona die

[fiery pewter]

It still counted the hours during standby

[rich torrent]

seek help

[fiery pewter]

Naw

I need the dedication

For factory game

[frosty mirage]

Good morning pioneers, my pc will finally get fixed today, so tomorrow i can try out the game on pc and switch from console to spice things up

[kind rose]

#announcements message
the lizard doggo on lizard doggo is perfect

[toxic lichen]

why is the compacted steel ingot recipe so slow ;-;

10/min

whats the point ;-;

[swift turret]

some recipes are just bad

[frosty mirage]

I like coke steel ingot, i used it in my computer factory for the extra petroleum to get 100/m steel pipes and 62.5/m steel beams

[toxic lichen]

hmmmmmmmm
js saw turbo heavy fuel alt
is good?

uses heavy residue
seems like a good way to deal with the byproduct

[jaunty vault]

How do the signals work?

[toxic lichen]

signals
like train signals?

[jaunty jewel]

lmao what

[jaunty jewel]

diluted fuel -> reg turbofuel is just better afaik

just requires more steps

[fiery pewter]

I need to continue with this game sometime

[winged herald]

do it rn

[fiery pewter]

I'm in a car

And I'm going to a place where my pc isn't

[winged herald]

remote play is a thing these days, no execuses lol

[fiery pewter]

And where my pc is, the power is disconnected

[fiery pewter]

How 😭

[winged herald]

you gotta unlock coal power plants

[fiery pewter]

Bruh I know that

[winged herald]

you have the game on steam?

steam has its own app called steam link or something

[fiery pewter]

I always lack the motivation to finish my first fuel power plant

Oil*

[stone horizon]

im working on mine rn, its a pain

[fiery pewter]

I have 5 saves all at the same point

My problem is that I always try to make a oil plant I can impossibly start with my smoll 1200 MW coal plant

[barren kettle]

any yall on xbox by chance?

[fiery pewter]

Huh

What do I do then

[fiery pewter]

Naw

[winged herald]

i think you have to set it up on your pc first

but once its setup you can download the steam link app on your phone and as long as your pc is on you can start your games

[fiery pewter]

Bruh

[fiery pewter]

Satisfactory on mobile?

[winged herald]

note that the connection will have some input latency and isnt the best experience yet

but if you really wanna play on the go you can

[fiery pewter]

It is

[fiery pewter]

My phone will explode man

It already gets hot with a 20 minute vid

[winged herald]

no lol it uses your pc for the most part, its just streaming the display to your phone, and then streaming the inputs from your phone to the pc. you need like a bluetooth controller also i think

[stone horizon]

playing co-op my buddy manages resources and i manage power. its a constant battle of we need more resources vs we need more power lmao

[fiery pewter]

Lol I have the same mechanic, kinda

My friend is of the temporary setups and I'm for the long-term setups

He's no number cruncher lmao

[fiery pewter]

Wait its your first day here?

[stone horizon]

yeah i decided to not take outside info for the game to avoid spoilers so i just barely joined

[fiery pewter]

Ah

[stone horizon]

i joined like an hour or 2 ago

[fiery pewter]

I made a grave mistake once

I was watching a random satisfactory info vid, and the guy randomly showed the final space elevator launch

[fiery pewter]

What are your numbers?

[stone horizon]

my power grid is a flat line for production, his consumption for his factories is far from it lmao, everythings all backed up

[stone horizon]

as far as how much power im making? 11.5gw/h

[fiery pewter]

11.5 GW?!?

What you doin with 11500 MW 💀

Without a fuel plant, if I understand correctly

[winged herald]

dang, you can power half of new york

[stone horizon]

1 fuel plant, 3 coal plants, biofuel as a kickstarter and 100gw/h battery storage (i went excessive)

[fiery pewter]

excessive
My current save only has a 1 GW biomass plant

That runs at 700 because my biomass is being bottlenecked

I need a mk4 belt

[stone horizon]

i stopped biomass as soon as i could, kept it for emergencies but its only 180mw/h i think

[fiery pewter]

I'm going to combine my plant with the first battery bank

As a sort of backup generator

[winged herald]

i took my biomass all the way to like 400 just because i didnt feel like walking all the way to coal yet lmao

[stone horizon]

my battery bank is huge

[winged herald]

i got my coal plant up now, but i kept biomass up till phase two

[swift turret]

Been working on fixing my rocket fuel plant for the last 6 hours im ready for bed

[winged herald]

ficsit allows for one 15 minute break a day

[fiery pewter]

Ficsit allows 2 minute of rest per half an hour

[fiery pewter]

Oh wait with that logic

[stone horizon]

thats not bad

[civic merlin]

Hmm, apparently the Wet Concrete alternative recipe becomes available in tier 4, despite the fact that you are unable to construct a facility that would utilize that recipe.

[swift turret]

Idk what past me was thinking with this. the math was all sorts of messed up. I had 900 water going into a 600 pipe

[fiery pewter]

That's 1,04×10^-2 minutes per hour

[fiery pewter]

Damn

[winged herald]

dont math at me

you're assuming im smart and thats rude

[fiery pewter]

Damn

Im sorr

Im planner :3

[winged herald]

i have my splitters so close to my smelters i cant even see if the belts are correctly going in lmaoo

[fiery pewter]

I do meth math

[winged herald]

im just snapping belts in without even being able to see if they are actually in

[fiery pewter]

Oooh I do that too sometimes

I am also thinking if I can keep my power consumption line flat in the loop and hexagon phase using batteries

[winged herald]

consumption line could also fluctuate due to machine use. like if you have a steal beam factory thats not getting enough resources and its machines are turning off and on

fckkk i really need to pay more attention. i just placed 25 splitters, when i was supposed to place mergers

i wish in the next update they would make it so you could easily swap out things like merges or splitters like you can with belts

[fiery pewter]

That's why always turn the entire plant on at once, and avoid manifolds as much as possible

[civic merlin]

Hold Ctrl while placing the merger over the splitter.

It will replace the item if it only has one input and one output (in line)

[winged herald]

why? control is just snap mode

yeah just tried it, with no inputs or outputs, doesnt do anything

control just snaps them in the same line

[toxic lichen]

try it when its connected in line with a conveyor e'-e'

1 in the back 1 out the front

[winged herald]

oh wtf. when did they add that

i want my time back

[toxic lichen]

magik

[winged herald]

ficsit owes me about 10 hours worth of time deleting splitters / mergers to replace them

[jaunty jewel]

why would you ever need to swap the two?

[toxic lichen]

so apparently
im not allowed to scan hdds now ;-;

i have all the possible alts unlocked for right now
or at least theyre all like
there
in limbo

[fiery pewter]

In case of misplace

[civic merlin]

It's far too easy to accidentally place one when you meant the other

[winged herald]

because i dont need to split my output from my smelters i need to merge them

[toxic lichen]

made a bp with smart splitters once ;-;
never again

[fiery pewter]

Nah man, we just need the splurger from the modeler lmao

[stone horizon]

I was wrong about my battery, rn it’s making 11.5gw @fiery pewter I’ll put a photo in #design-and-architecture rn it’s 6 stories filled with 20 batteries each eventually it’ll be 1km tall, rn it’s at 800m but still being built/fleshed out

[winged herald]

for this #screenshots message

[fiery pewter]

Dawg

What the actual [insert]

[toxic lichen]

of the alts i can see rn

heavy turbo fuel and diluted fuel packages seem like the most useful

[jaunty jewel]

what about it

[winged herald]

i had placed all of those as splitters at first, they needed to be mergers

[jaunty jewel]

ive never placed the wrong one(s) so i dont get it

[winged herald]

good for you? i do all the time, and other people said they do also

[jaunty jewel]

interesting

[fiery pewter]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[jaunty jewel]

diluted packagaed fuel is one of my top 3 recipes

[jaunty jewel]

uh

[toxic lichen]

i just look at the arrows to make sure im using the right ones tbh

[jaunty jewel]

idk i guess preplanning what i want things to do before i throw it all down

[fiery pewter]

I do that

Most of the time

[jaunty jewel]

like planning where i want inputs and outputs for a whole system not just an individual machine

[toxic lichen]

huh
30 heavy residue / min can support 3 fuel gens
hmmmmmm

[winged herald]

that might work for some people, like my factories entire layout is preplanned, all inputs and outputs, but that doesnt mean i wasnt looking at a youtube video of cute dogs and didnt notice i had splitters instead of mergers

[jaunty jewel]

i dont have a second monitor so i suppose that doesnt happen to me

[winged herald]

second monitors are fun. i have 3 total

[jaunty jewel]

if im playing satisfactory it generally has my undivided attention

[jaunty jewel]

i have a dpare monitor just no room

[winged herald]

i have my whole living room to put monitors in if i wanted to lol. my wife doesnt care

[toxic lichen]

share?

[winged herald]

the monitors or my wife? 🤣

[toxic lichen]

yes

[winged herald]

i got her a 75in 4k tv to play silly fortnite on so she doesnt bother my pc setup lol

[toxic lichen]

get her to play minecraft atm ;-;

[winged herald]

i tried, she finds it boring

[toxic lichen]

have you suggested
all the mons then

its atm but with pokemon

[winged herald]

yeah she watched me play it, with all the mods, and other packs, she just wont get into minecraft

[jaunty jewel]

unfortunate

[frosty mirage]

Damn my construction materials factory is getting out of hands in terms of how much space it takes up lol

Not sure if I should dump 35 constructors in a row or split these into 2 rows

That would mean having 3 rows of constructors for 1 product, idk if my ocd mind can take this

[stone horizon]

@frosty mirage 5 rows of 7

Be a gangster make (semi) cube

[frosty mirage]

Maybe, i'll check if that doesn't complicate my logistics

[hidden pebble]

I generally listen to music while playing satisfactory

[stone horizon]

What are you constructing? @frosty mirage

[jaunty jewel]

oh yeah obviously but that only takes my attention if i start singing to myself

generally i can listen to music without it being a distraction to me at all

[hidden pebble]

What kinda songs you listen to that you sing

Shower singer detected

[jaunty jewel]

arctic monkeys songs mostly if i know the lyrics

[jaunty jewel]

nooo

[jaunty jewel]

that or i hum melodies of instrumental metal

[cold sierra]

Does radar towers showing ressources inside caves ?

So, its range is a 2 km wide cylinder with unlimited range up and down ?

[jaunty jewel]

afaik yeah

[cold sierra]

Seems like it changed in the past.

[jaunty jewel]

couldnt tell you ive never used them

[floral trellis]

the radius depends on the altitude you constructed it at

[jaunty jewel]

wiki says otherwise

[tall lantern]

used to depend*

[winged herald]

how big of a silica factory do you guys make for glass walls?

[tall lantern]

the change was all the way back in 0.6 apparently, thought it was more recent tbh

[toxic lichen]

so how does one
recycle packages
cleanly?

[tall lantern]

whatever the crappy node I decide to tap produces. I just plant some basic quartz and silica production out somewhere

[frosty mirage]

#screenshots message

[reef basin]

In which case?

[toxic lichen]

diluted packaged fuel

[tall lantern]

depends what it's for. In some cases you can do a very tight loop, a nice repeatable module

yeah that's one of those cases

since the numbers all match up you can just have a tiny module of, what, 2 packagers and a refinery?

then repeat it as needed

[toxic lichen]

since im gonna need packages to make it

then the packages are gonna be empty when i load it into the fuel gen via another packager

yada yada

[jaunty jewel]

package water > refinery > unpackage fuel > loop canisters from packagers

[tall lantern]

then you send the packages back to the start

[floral trellis]

oh, as in the empty cans back into the process? could just use a storage box in between with some extra stacks. or use a priority merger to accept the returning cans first

[tall lantern]

you don't need to introduce any new canisters over time

[toxic lichen]

hmmmmm

wait its simple ;-;

2 water packaged
makes 2 fuel canisters
thats ez pz

[tall lantern]

so just start it with enough to keep it rolling (and you can put that in the blueprint, even)

[jaunty jewel]

i personally loop the canisters over the top of the refineries since they fit nicely

[floral trellis]

i just use the blender version (which is slightly later, ill admit)

[jaunty jewel]

yeah when i have blenders i use blenders

[toxic lichen]

dont have blender yet
but ill look out for it

[jaunty jewel]

but relying on reisdual fuel does NOT work with my playstyle

[toxic lichen]

just need the adaptive units
so i can go into phase 4

hand feeding machines rn for the bits to get out of 3
cause im too lazy to build a new factory rn

[jaunty jewel]

i hate adaptive control unirs

[floral trellis]

dont feed the machine, feed a box before the machine, so you can stuff all the stacks you need at once

[toxic lichen]

same same ;-;

[floral trellis]

one requires you to go back 15 times, while the other lets you hunt for sloops, or maim some slugs or something

[toxic lichen]

same
same
;-;

[jaunty jewel]

imo hardest itemnto automaye relative to stage in the game

[floral trellis]

computers and circuits are the same factory at least. HMF should have a factory somewhere, just drag em over. and i guess the automated wiring is annoying

[reef basin]

1:1:1 loop

[jaunty jewel]

because i am STUBBORN i do it all in one place

so instead of being a normal person i make hmf computers and acu all in one place

because of this i also tend to make phase 4 stuff in that same place since it typically uses those parts as intermediates

[winged herald]

wait chat, i can place a splitter onto a conveyer and it will continue to move up but also split outwards?

like if i put this here i can make a line out and also up? #screenshots message

[jaunty jewel]

yes it will keep going up

[winged herald]

thats fire. W game

Did yall know you can slide through railings

like through the poles, not the holes, 100% a bug

is there a bug report channel? i dont see it

[jaunty jewel]

huh

[winged herald]

#streams-and-videos message straight through the rail poles like they dont even exist

[jaunty jewel]

interesting

[winged herald]

and its only the industrial railing. the modern railing does not do it

[dense violet]

#faq

[winged herald]

how do post on that website... i dont actually see a post button. Theres a login button but no register button either... im so confused

[dense violet]

Should look s be a login somewhere

[winged herald]

theres a login but no registration button anywhere... how do i register

oh nvm my window was cutting it off for some reason

where can i see what version im on

[jaunty jewel]

game version?

[winged herald]

yeah, the bug report is asking for a specific build version

[jaunty jewel]

id imagine youre on the latest version so just find out what that js

[winged herald]

well where can i view that at

theres options for build 1.1:460533 or 1.1:463028

ah its 463028

[toxic lichen]

huh

[toxic lichen]

why number so big

oh
i thought that was a ratio ;-;

[floral trellis]

number of screws for a hyperdrive. or something

[sick olive]

If there aren't at least 2 available alternate recipes available from the current prerequisites, MAM will refuse to scan it and print "no rewards currently available".

• the wiki
  How do I unlock the last recepie then?

[scenic mirage]

the hard drive picks 2 random recipes from your available pool of alternate recipes. if you get to just 1 recipe, itll show just the one recipe. if you dont have any more recipes available, then it says no rewards available

[neon roost]

No 🙁 the train is just behind a cliff, just 1 cm outside lol ^^

[reef basin]

afaik that's not the case, but can't confirm

[ionic tundra]

So I'm fairly new to this and have just found the online map
how do I find where I am on it. I spawned in the Grassy Fields and moved like 400m

[reef basin]

afaik you can upload your save to see. Though the map is full of spoilers so be careful with it

[sick olive]

If you can scan for iron(not sure if that‘s unlocked from the getgo), you can match the iron pattern on the map with the online map

[scenic mirage]

#screenshots message
what are these lines on my map? im placing radar towers and keep seeing them

[ionic tundra]

I know a lot of them tbh
not the ore behind it, cheers mate

[ionic tundra]

Yeah that's what I tried doing but I'm just bad lmfao

[dense violet]

compare it to the ingame one. But be warned the online map is a 100% exploration spoiler, and the map is cool to explore

[ionic tundra]

there's an in game one?

[scenic mirage]

yeah press M

you need to unlock it in the HUB

[ionic tundra]

ahh that's it
alrighty then cheers guys, I'll unlock that next

[sick olive]

It shows the scanned ores on it(even with purity)

[ionic tundra]

oh hell yeah

does anyone know if I can place blueprints at this stage?
I kinda want to build a starter factory, so have all inputs coming in from one side but without making anything a mess

[reef basin]

you can place blueprints if you have blueprint designer unlocked afaik

[ionic tundra]

ahh yikes, so survival building it is

[reef basin]

though blueprints are not required for anything, and you can build not-messy factories without them

[ionic tundra]

Yeah it just seems easier to build it in creative, then place it down
but it should be fun making it haha

[zenith pecan]

Some of my largest constructs were done without blueprints.

[ionic tundra]

oh fr?
not gonna lie building structures seems really intense from what I've seen

[scenic mirage]

can you tilt conveyor supports? i swear there was a way to do it before

[zenith pecan]

Yeah, hell, here's an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rLV_YcVt8s , built slightly before blueprints were even released, for large structures though I often design on the fly, relying on zoop and muscle memory, the bones of the places can be up in under half an hour.

Wiring & piping then closing up and finalising the thing is the slow part.

[dense violet]

not really - you're in the tutorial friendo, just learn the basics of building

you need that to build quarter decent blueprints

[ionic tundra]

jesus christ

[ionic tundra]

finished the tutorial, I'm on T2

[dense violet]

tier 9 is when the tutorial finishes

[zenith pecan]

Definitely, one error with a blueprint results in mass replicating such an error and a horrific time spent troubleshooting.

[ionic tundra]

wtf

[dense violet]

the phases basically just teach you how to build and the basics of the game
after you complete that you've got everything unlocked and can plan and build your own projects

the milestones are basically just guideposts to ber able to build all the parts and processes you'll have

you don't even have automated power at tier 2

[ionic tundra]

oh jesus christ
alrighty it seems I have a lot to do lmfao

good news though
just researched a ton in the MAM

[dense violet]

just learn.
make mistakes, learn from them, when you build a factory and you realise you could have done 10 things better? you're on the right track

[dense violet]

the mam is very important

keep researching it 🙂

[scenic mirage]

i neglected the MAM for too long in my last save

[ionic tundra]

tyvm for the advice guys
cant wait to break my mind

[scenic mirage]

thats the pioneer spirit!

[zenith pecan]

The builds do get larger, this one is my current project #design-and-architecture message , not much needed to do before I turn the place back on.

[crude canyon]

First time I played I thought "I'm not going to pick up these caterium and quartz veins, I can't do anything with them right now I'll just try later when I unlock them"

I wasn't familiar with how the mam unlocks worked

[scenic mirage]

i mean you do unlock caterium and stuff late in the HUB

[ornate saffron]

this is normal

[scenic mirage]

or space elevator idk, but itd be really hard

[crude canyon]

Yeah in tier 3 or 4

Meanwhile you can get Smart splitters in tier 1 if you know what you're doing

[scenic mirage]

🔥 love hard drive crash sites

[zenith pecan]

I definitely appreciated the change made to allow for the wreck to be salvaged, my old method was stick a lookout tower and a concrete box near it to mark it looted.

[ornate saffron]

i remember covering a crash in foundations and making the smoke look like a vent to hide it

[ionic tundra]

I went exploring
found a lot of random crap I picked up, quarts, caterium, sulfur, and a lot of goodies

I'm about to finish part assembly, I think once I have I'm going to spend some time and build a really nice looking factory for just about everything
have a compact iron, copper and concrete setup
then do rotors somewhere as well
try stack instead of expanding outwards

[scenic mirage]

i wish the fan actually filtered smoke

like from refineries and stuff

[zenith pecan]

I had all sorts of ways of dealing with them, mostly to just mark them as done, or hiding them within the footing of a large structure, it alwasys felt off.

[zenith pecan]

Or at least moved the smoke to the other side of the fan and emitted in the fans direction, it would make my smelter towers look way ominous 🙂

[floral trellis]

my old method was putting a sticker on the map where it sits

[tall lantern]

usually best to learn yourself

if you learn from someone else you only learn that person's methods at best (and more likely learn nothing because they just carry you through)

[floral trellis]

items go in the blue square, come out the orange square. liquids go in the blue circle, come out the orange circle 👍

[ionic tundra]

exactly this
I've played 50 hours with someone and learnt nothing as you can see

[floral trellis]

hell, i did SP, and i learned my own methods were shit

[scenic mirage]

SP?

[floral trellis]

singleplayer

[ionic tundra]

Should I research the Rebar Gun or the inventory space?

[tall lantern]

my general suggestion on the learning front is

• pay attention to what the game's teaching you
• try things out yourself
• if you get stuck on something specific, ask a specific question on that after giving it a proper try yourself. Don't just throw your hands up after 5 minutes
• learning to troubleshoot is handy, going through a production line to work out which part's backing up or being underfed

[floral trellis]

both are very nice

[scenic mirage]

from a hard drive?

[reef basin]

why not both? or why not the one you want and not the one that random people told you to do? 🙂

[ionic tundra]

MAM

[ionic tundra]

that's a good point

[elfin smelt]

research everything

[floral trellis]

gun is for combat, inventory is for building. which do you intend to do first

[elfin smelt]

even if it something doesn't look useful, it will unlock many usefull things down the tree

[waxen locust]

I really hope they fix the blueprint designer icon bug that has been a thing since the blueprint designer.

If you look up foundations.
There's no concrete 1M.
and the plastic 2M has the SAME icon as the plastic 4M so it's the exact same.
There's a 2nd Foundation 2M that uses the correct icon for the plastic foundation

[elfin smelt]

everything is cheap to research anyways

[ionic tundra]

Right now building so I'll go with inventory space for now
then go for the gun

[floral trellis]

still havent used an programmable splitter yet

[zenith pecan]

I've used a grand total of six of those in my entire time playing, they can be immensely useful for specific hyper mixed and low throughput systems

[scenic mirage]

ah so the MAM/hard drives is basically a giant pool of alternate recipes. when you scan a hard drive, it picks 2 random recipes from that, and then once you have those "researched" you can leave it in your hard drive library and it wont show up in another hard drive. you can scan all the hard drives you find, and then you can select what recipe you need when you get to it

[ionic tundra]

Oh perfect
I have heard about the hard drives, wanting to use Caterium wire is a good one right?

[floral trellis]

generally, a smart splitter with overflow/any and an item works perfectly, but i can imagine theres situations where they are useful

[reef basin]

all the recipes are "good" in one definition of that word or another

basically "if you like it, go for it"

[floral trellis]

there is also more hard drives than alts in game 🙂

[scenic mirage]

theyre mostly situational, some are better for others in certain situations. theres a few recipes that are really good like cast screws, iron pipes, etc. ofc everyone likes different recipes so my "good" might not be "good" to someone else 🙂

[glacial drum]

Biocoal:

Ok i messed up the edit too

[ornate saffron]

I find its best to look at all recipes as tools. Not go nor bad. Just what you like and what fits the situation.

You have a nail. Will you us a hammer or a screwdriver. Both will do the job. You need to choose which best fits the situation

Sometimes its a cross head screw. Will you use a Philips N2 or N3

[floral trellis]

fission mailed, well get em next time

[tough breach]

hello, is blueprints not saving for me and not appearing for the host a known issue in 1.0?

[reef basin]

also good

[glacial drum]

I’m not really sure it’s good for any scale

[reef basin]

it is good for cases where you don't have coal on location for given factory

[floral trellis]

[barbarian][STR] I USE THE HAMMER

[glacial drum]

You’d have to come back constantly to feed it. I’m not sure that’s a good trade off in any case vs making it closer to a coal node or dragging one by train

[ornate saffron]

I often use it. Specifically I dont automate blackpowder. Ill just set up biocoal next to sulfer and make as meeded

[reef basin]

which is fine for things like ammo factory

[glacial drum]

Ah. I guess there are people who don’t automate arms.

[reef basin]

you come there, pick up ammo, drop off crap you have in inventory, crap gets converted to ammo for next visit

[glacial drum]

I just have my nukes automated and never get biomatter in my inventory anymore (besides animal)

[floral trellis]

its functional i guess, but i like having my dim depots being able to just toss me a stack or two

never did bother with nukes, i got precision ammo and regular nobs

[reef basin]

my point isn't that "all recipes are good for everyone", but "every recipe has a use, whether you personally find that useful is on you, but if you don't like it and don't have use for it, that doesn't make the recipe useless for everyone else"

[glacial drum]

Nukes are almost too much for a lot of cases. However I use em anyways because it’s a lot quicker for me to slap down 5 of them vs 25 clusters

[glacial drum]

Yea I just didn’t see a use for biocoal till y’all said smth. That’s on me. Watch out though I’ll find a new recipe to test you on soon enough.

[floral trellis]

a clip of precision ammo makes a problem goes away. for plant clearing, i use normals too, as i kinda like plants and dont wanna flatten too much

[reef basin]

don't worry, all the recipes have some use 😉

[floral trellis]

agreed, but for my runs, interacting with machines beyond setting up is heresy

[reef basin]

not even dropping off stuff to containers?

[glacial drum]

Good news bears my FMF factory doesn’t take too much NG so my RF factory can use up the rest with no worries

[floral trellis]

ill only do that for the animal parts and slugs

[glacial drum]

Later I’ll setup more inputs. I haven’t had the patience to work on it all at once but I do what I can here and there.

[floral trellis]

also got a box for spare stuffs i dont want, this gets sinked

[glacial drum]

I’ve belted over all the inputs and reconnected them to the old factory for fuel while I hookup the new ones.

(All but NG and HOR)

I need to make a bit of a larger factory for the HOR and I need to decide how I want my pipes to look.

[reef basin]

fair, I'd have a box of "drop off anything here" that gets sorted and processed (and possibly sinked)

[floral trellis]

yep i got taht

[glacial drum]

I need to drag 3 separate pipes (all from the same area) to one area for a factory. But I’m not sure how to.

Obviously I could spaghetti them. But I’d like them to look nice.

[reef basin]

build factory near the source instead

[glacial drum]

It’s already close to it

It’s a RF factory on the west coast

It’s not too long a drag it’s just mostly vertical

Plus it’s NG so no headlift.

I thought of a 3 pipe support wide blueprint with auto connect but I’m not sure how that would look going vertical

Well if I atleast try the worst that happens is I fail.

I’d also like a blueprint for pipes that sit on smth so they don’t just sit on soil but I’ve failed to make a good looking one so far.

[floral trellis]

make a specific blueprint for going vertical, such that it can attach to walls or cliffs

[glacial drum]

I’ll have to consult the architecture channel for some ideas it seems.

I’d like to make a vertical print but just straight walls would look.. Out of place

[unkempt blade]

probably just depends how wavy you're ok with it being on the way down

[glacial drum]

Preferably I’d like all the pipes to be right next to eachother. If one waves I’d like all 3 to conform to it. As long as that happens it should look good

[unkempt blade]

if you want it straight you could just do a temp wall for helping place the BP then remove them and add more supports to reach the cliff wall where needed

[glacial drum]

One thing I’m not good at is architecture.. But I’ll have to try since I’m no longer letting myself spaghetti

[scenic mirage]

how do yall keep track of colors and swatches and stuff

[glacial drum]

I’ve got a 3 wide conveyer print I thought I maybe could convert to pipes. However it almost looks too large for just 3 pipes.

[floral trellis]

i used a pillar design that had all three on top of one another, then a altered version attaching to walls without ground support. pipes with curve mode to autoattach

[glacial drum]

I save what I use as preset colors so if I have to use a custom swatch to permanently keep smth as it is I just have the colors saved.

[unkempt blade]

What does "keep track of" mean here? I typically set them then don't ever change them. It's just "the green swatch" or whatever from there on

[glacial drum]

But usually I try to make swatches that would work for more than one factory so I can conserve the limited amount

[scenic mirage]

ig idk i never made things look consistent and it rlly just got weird

[unkempt blade]

I've been doing rainbow colors + white/black/gray/brown

[glacial drum]

Whatever you do don’t keep all the damn factories bright orange

If your favorite color is orange, no it isn’t. not here.

[floral trellis]

i got a couple i use pretty often, most basic materials have one. and if i need something else, ill use the custom one.

personal goal of mine, setup a system for swatches in my next save

[scenic mirage]

my favorite color is orange tho 🙁 but yeah the ficsit orange is ugly

[floral trellis]

deep red and dark gray is my default one

[unkempt blade]

like this used stuff from my standard color set + pink and emoji-yellow #screenshots message

[glacial drum]

Yea def try to refrain from editing anything but the single custom one you get. (once you’ve changed them already, that is.)

It’ll change anything using that swatch.

That’s how my iron factory turned red #screenshots message

[floral trellis]

what im thinking for next run, make a note where swatches are used for, because im certain i got some i dont use

but since i dont have a clue where.... i dont dare change any anymore

[unkempt blade]

could put a sign inside the factory with all the color codes on it 😆

[floral trellis]

i was thinking a side note, or a .txt, but signs work

[scenic mirage]

i tried doing a spreadsheet w everything but it just got too much

[ionic tundra]

hehe, got Quartz, Caterium and Sulfur on my scanner
finally
this is going better than I imagined

[floral trellis]

useful that. those are rare to find

[ionic tundra]

Oh yeah fr, Might go mine a bunch, see what I can research now

[floral trellis]

later on, radar towers will help you permanently show ore nodes

[glacial drum]

Def do. And try to scan when you get out from those too to see what else is nearby

I remember back when I didn’t want to setup quartz so I’d have a bunch of time spent just mining 3k of it every so often

[ionic tundra]

Is quartz not a permanent ore node?
I know Caterium is

[reef basin]

it is

[glacial drum]

Every ore has a permanent version.

[floral trellis]

dont sleep on radars. having a couple dotted across the map helps planning factorys

[ionic tundra]

ahh perfect

[floral trellis]

they are usually in caves or hard to reach places

[ornate saffron]

If you stated in the Grasslands the closest quartz node is ||in the purple forest||

[ionic tundra]

there's like 5 nodes here

[scenic mirage]

gl going there tho 😭

[floral trellis]

quartz likes to group together

[ionic tundra]

Found a node, guarded haha

[floral trellis]

apply violence until symptoms ease

[hidden pebble]

Guys I decided to take a break from nuclear

[floral trellis]

sloop hunts are a form of progression 🥹

[hidden pebble]

No i decided I'll play SF+

💀

[mortal ginkgo]

Ah yes, the mod that has so many byproducts that some of it is delivered to you irl by mail.

[hidden pebble]

Guys there's too many screws

Even constructors need screws

[scenic mirage]

it gets better 🙂

[floral trellis]

is that the mod that has you turn copper into molten copper liquid first?

[scenic mirage]

oh naw wtf

[ornate saffron]

Screws are a logistics problem to solve

[scenic mirage]

do not be afraid of screws. they can detect fear

[hidden pebble]

That's factorio

[hidden pebble]

I'm not afraid pf screws. One constructor is already producing them. But... They have steel bolts. Big brother of screws.

[ornate saffron]

Remember screws being constructed need to be directly fed into the machine that uses it

[ornate saffron]

No its the mod that turns screws in to cubes that you fill with screws

[ionic tundra]

I died, went back for my stuff
died again
went back and survived so yippee

[bitter crow]

how many rip per minute do oyu think would be sufficient stage 2-3?

[dense violet]

10? they build up in storage pretty fast as you go and do stuff

[bitter crow]

ill aim for ten then, thanks

[ornate saffron]

Rip?

Reconstruct in peace?

[warped pike]

Yo.

[ornate saffron]

Ho

[ornate saffron]

A vast ye matey. Swab da deck. Ada comes for inspection

[warped pike]

Yeah i havent played the game yet.

[zenith pecan]

Planning the pipe works for the resin refinery is proving to be a challenge.

[warped pike]

Im making a server for my first run. So i can have a bunch of people with me.

[ornate saffron]

Ah #1201555265942724758 your best bet. A lot of us are solo players though

[warped pike]

Yeah.

Thx.

[tall lantern]

obligatory "you'll learn better solo"

[unkempt blade]

ehh, depends who you play with

if everyone is playing at a similar pace friends can help you get better

[warped pike]

Ill take that into mind but i have more fun playing with people.

[ornate saffron]

I dont know about that.

Coop play can help with the development of social skills. Communication and such.

[unkempt blade]

if one guy is no-lifing it and everyone else logs in once a week...

[warped pike]

I just hope people will show up.

Think ima start it in 1-2 hours

[ornate saffron]

I gotta work for another 7 hours. Then I got a be a adult.

[unkempt blade]

I did a lot of work last night so I'm going to go wander around the woods when it warms up a bit instead today

[ornate saffron]

That would be nice.

We are covered by 5mm of ice. It warmed up Wednesday then rained then went back down to -20

Looks pretty but walking around is death

[unkempt blade]

yeah we got 2 straight weekends of ice and snow here that didn't immediately melt which is unusual so my dog has been going crazy

the state park near us has been like half 3" deep mud and half refrozen snow for a bit haha

[ornate saffron]

We got buried leading up to Christmas then the 26 and 27th it rained clearing it all then we got destroyed again. The snow piles at my work are three stories high.

I pass a parking garage and part of it is buried

[ornate saffron]

#off-topic-media message

[unkempt blade]

yeah people wouldn't know what do if that happened here 😆

[ornate saffron]

#off-topic-media message

[unkempt blade]

it's very much a "grocery store empties out when they predict 2" of snow" kind of climate

[ornate saffron]

This was a week or two ago. Its much higher now.

[ornate saffron]

Gotcha

[ornate saffron]

I have been hitting up the pool weekly though. Helps keep me active and social

[floral trellis]

reconstruct in parts

[wispy osprey]

Anything interesting in the version they're letting us test?

Also I'm just gonna assume that we're getting 1.2 in late summer or fall

[finite sorrel]

are we going to build a spaceship to travel to another planette someday?

[old bramble]

So happy that I finally got my Rubber/Plastic situated.

[mild quarry]

So does eny one know how to fix fuel being stuck inside a blender and not going to the pipes?

[fossil plume]

Soon it will be a year since introduction of vertical splitters in experimental. These are still not fixed, right? Most notably offsets.

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/68487f476b7c573196383613
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/68487f1d6b7c573196383611
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/68487ef36b7c57319638360d
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/68487ed66b7c573196383608

[ionic tundra]

got the MAM setup, I'm thinking of doing like a industrial estate. So have several factories dotted about on one massive foundation with the Space Elevator in the middle, I can have power off to one side for now, then the starter factory, RIP, Motors, Modular Frames. All just these compact factories right next to each other
what do y'all think

[knotty wasp]

How to use Turbo Rifle Ammo?

[elfin smelt]

do you have regular ammo in your inventory?

[knotty wasp]

nope

[reef basin]

that heavily depends on how many do you personally need 🙂

[knotty wasp]

posted a screenshot in #screenshots

[elfin smelt]

try to hold R to change the preffered ammo type

[knotty wasp]

that work, thanks

[reef basin]

next time #1038092680493801533 is the channel in which to ask questions with images

[elfin smelt]

I hope they make truck lines be able to work without fuel in 1.2, maybe with electricity. I like truck lines, but is such a bother to need to bring some sort of fuel for it to keep it running

[reef basin]

it makes sense for them to use fuel tho

otherwise it would be too OP, you don't need any infrastructure apart from two stations

trains can use electricity because they require infra

that's the cost of convenience

[elfin smelt]

I'm not saying fuel shouldn't be an option, it's just that aside from space, trains routes are much easier to build

[leaden turret]

that's what trains are for

[reef basin]

trucks don't need any routes, that's much easier than trains

you just drive on natural roads

[elfin smelt]

but you still need some sort of fuel source nearby the truck stations or bring it from somewhere else with another truck or train

[reef basin]

well yeah that's the cost of not having to build infrastructure for road

(and drones are also an option)

[elfin smelt]

my point is that they get really outshined by trains even for short distances, I personally think it's easier to make a push-pull setup than to make a truck line if there aren't any fuel sources nearby, because it would require making two routes, one for the item in question and another for the fuel

[reef basin]

eh, I wouldn't say they get oushined by trains, since they are way easier to set up (and most places have a random coal node nearby to supply fuel, or you move things to place where there's some fuel)

[elfin smelt]

that what I use them for, unfortunately some very remote places don't have that coal node nearby

[steel igloo]

I just run belts for everything everywhere no matter how far, including fluids, because nothing is as reliable as belts

[reef basin]

the thing is that you can have fuel on just one side, so it doesn't need to be in the remote location where you pick from, but could be in the other location where you drop things to

[timid burrow]

does someone wanna play a server that has alredy some hours i am kinda new but i just whant someone to play with

[reef basin]

#1201555265942724758

though I'd recommend first playthrough to be singleplayer

[steel igloo]

ok I lied I use drones for nitrogen quite often but that's only because drones can't get stuck and nitrogen packs 4:1 so drones can transfer a lot

[elfin smelt]

That's a fair point, and I indeed do make use of this, but the idea I have is trucks having a small battery so they are able compete against a kilometer long conveyor line that some people do while still making fuel powered setups available for longer trips

I mean truck stations do use power so it's not like they are free

[steel igloo]

coal isn't exactly scarce and you can just run them off nearby coal seams

[floral trellis]

hold button, pew becomes pew pew, becomes pew pew pew pew

[unkempt blade]

lots of shooting just not hitting much 🤣

[jaunty jewel]

if you aim you hit things

[unkempt blade]

if you say so, sport

[astral valley]

whats the best map to start on

[zenith pecan]

That offset has been a substantial headache with my miner setups, my work around is, tricky but works: #design-and-architecture message , #design-and-architecture message

[reef basin]

There's only one map

[astral valley]

mb i meant area

[reef basin]

All are fine

"Best" is subjective

[versed mesa]

👋

[ornate saffron]

Setting up some early trucks powered by coal is very nice. The drive well on dirt.

Im used to rushing through the game . 7 clears over 800 hours. My current save is 200 hours deep and only just starting phase3.

Having those early trucks has been great.

Also im moving my smart plating via factory cart as they dont need fuel

[ornate saffron]

Someone this morning was looking for some ppl. Check #1201555265942724758

[near heart]

"Oh boy me and my dev team spent so long creating this factory game for everyone to enjoy!

Josh from "Lets Game It Out":

[ornate saffron]

Arg back to work.

[knotty bear]

Why are the spiders on crack.

[ornate saffron]

The same reason cocaine bear exists

[hidden pebble]

Guys i need rotors to make mk2 belts😔

[near heart]

what.

you need rotors for Mk2 belts??

[hidden pebble]

Yeah

[rich torrent]

If i can make Ficsonium Fuel Rod should i try to use them?

[hidden pebble]

If you're prepared to spend the sam, go ahead

[glacial drum]

Perhaps today is finally the day I make my RF plant work

Then again.. I could manually feed the manus for the BWD and AI expansion systems

I think I shall decide after lunch!

[rich torrent]

I think nuke power is to complicated for me
Im not smart enough for this

[hidden pebble]

Use satisfactory tools

[sweet arch]

what happens if my tractors crash?

[floral trellis]

this is why i rely on the self aiming ammo, precision i think it was?

[unkempt blade]

turbo is ok if you just flutter on the trigger but holding it down just feels like it sees a different hitbox than I see 😆

[peak wasp]

I kinda wish there was a way to show the pollution in game. I get that it kinda goes against the "No factory management or permanent changes to the world" philosophy that the game has

But I do wish it were possible to make a factory that doesn't look like it interacts with its surroundings so well. I mean, my factories always kinda look like they don't cause ecological devastation to the planet

[unkempt blade]

It's soft sci fi. Why would there be pollution?

[ebon marten]

It's an alien planet. Who's to say that the plants need the pollution that our factories produce

[ornate saffron]

There is pollution ada tell you not to worry about it

[ornate saffron]

More important. Who cares. Only the pioneer lives there. Everything is a resource to exploit

Including the pioneer

[unkempt blade]

Oh does she? I guess pollution is canon then 🙁

I was all ready to do a sci fi handwave for it

[hidden pebble]

Still couldn't finish phase 1. This mod is crazy

Didn't even start phase 1. Didn't even build a space elevator. This is gonna be tough.

[quasi warren]

Which mod.

Satisfactory +?

[brittle seal]

hey guys i have a question about pipes, so i have this mid-long pipe connecting my fuel unpackagers to my fuel gens, but the power output is not consistent.

problem:
turns out the fuel from the last in row packagers does not get drained fast enough? it just runs full sometimes (like once every 3 minutes or so) which leads to the fluctuation in power

does someone know how to fix this?

[fading crow]

hellooo

[green fiber]

depends on what the flow rate should be / how many machines you have and how you pipe the fuel into the fuel gens (pipe arrangement, feeding from above / below, etc)

[reef basin]

loop the pipe

[brittle seal]

it is looped and am feeding from above

[green fiber]

need more info then.
make a #1038092680493801533 thread with images

[brittle seal]

aig

[quasi warren]

Loop the pipe?? How does that help

[reef basin]

flow at the end of manifold is often problematic due to being at the end of manifold
looping makes it so that there's no "end" of the main manifold pipe

[quasi warren]

Just one continuous pipe?

[reef basin]

----+--------------+
    |              |
    +--+--+--+--+--+
    |  |  |  |  |  |

[ornate saffron]

Do you type this every time or copy and paste from a notepad?

[reef basin]

I typed it

[quasi warren]

So if I have fuel gens on both sides. Do I make it looped at the top?

[reef basin]

that's view from side, it's vertical loop. if you have gens on both sides, you still loop it the same way

(if it's output manifold, you loop at the bottom, so that gravity helps)

[quasi warren]

Ohhhh ok

[wet glacier]

what is the new gamemode?

[nova arch]

seems like the flow is getting into confusion. Have you tried using Valve? Valve usually fixes my problems like yours

[quasi warren]

Like if I have 32 turbofuel refineries. Making 600 turbofuel, do I loop it at the bottom to help move it?

Or do I keep it flat

[ornate saffron]

No guarantee there will be one. But ppl hope it will be randomized nodes

[green fiber]

flat is preferred.
below means you should add a pump

[brittle seal]

got a question about ts, if i split the pipe into several smaller pipes to distribute to each row itself, do i have to loop just to the last junction of the last row or to every last junction of each row? check #off-topic-media for pic

[quasi warren]

But when I put it in the gens. Do the vertical loop system right?

So all gens fill up properly

[green fiber]

you only have to loop pipes at or close to max flow.
Below 600/min loops are no longer needed as much

[brittle seal]

i have exactly 600/min as flowrate

[green fiber]

cant picture what you mean

[unkempt blade]

Those ficsmas factory entries are all pretty great. Just further proof we need ficsmas enabled all year

[ornate saffron]

Ive seen more conversations from the dev team about golf then any other mode. Which may just be trolling.

[wet glacier]

xd

[green fiber]

then you should try to split that perfectly in half first and then feed it to your machines.

[brittle seal]

doing everything but fixing fluids 🥀

[wet glacier]

so real

[quasi warren]

Like, if I pipe it to 32 gens. 16 on each side, taking 600 turbofuel a min. Do I do the manifold loop system shown above to help fill all gens?

[brittle seal]

🥺 🙏

[unkempt blade]

It's been a meme since mid-EA. I think they're just keeping the joke alive

[green fiber]

if the 32 in total take 600 you can split the pipe in half, feed each half through a row of gens and thats that.

you either do a loop or you do a perfect split

[brittle seal]

would this even help tho? if the pipes are full already each junction should already split perfectly, just taking what is needed over there yk

[ornate saffron]

Im aware. Just filling in the person who asked lol

[green fiber]

perfect split means perfect 50/50 (or perfect third)

if you got 600/min going into a junction and theres a machine chugging a pathetic 15/min on one end and a row of other machines on the other end, thats not a perfect split

[quasi warren]

Ah ok. So thats based on preference. Good to know

[brittle seal]

well the main pipe has 6 pipes going off it, each connected to 5 fuel gens

[green fiber]

so its a tree structure then

[brittle seal]

yea

[green fiber]

need more info then.
text insufficient
make a #1038092680493801533 post

[brittle seal]

check #screenshots

sent the pipe in there

[ornate saffron]

I tend to loop my fuel sources into smaller pipe lines rather then one long manifold that'll need to split anyways.

[green fiber]

wheres the beginning (input) side of that pipe network

need an image of that

[brittle seal]

sent

[green fiber]

Got it

1. you are not doing perfect splits here
2. bottom feeding

[void cliff]

I think it would be nice if it unlocks permanently after phase 5. It’s kind of a distraction before then and ADA is right!

[unkempt blade]

We can't trust ADA's judgement by phase 5. She's too thirsty for the ancient alien ghost voice to make good decisions about holidays by then

[brittle seal]

but im elevating the fluids over the machines first so im not really bottom feeding right

[green fiber]

your main pipe is below and splitting upwards

thats bottom feeding

[brittle seal]

ah

[green fiber]

just cause you put the machine pipes on top doesnt make it NOT bottom feeding

[brittle seal]

aig hold up lemme cook

[green fiber]

your main pipe is below and splits upward.
no matter what, thats bottom feeding

And the other thing
Whenever you branch off into a group of 5 generators, you only take away like 100/min fuel from the main pipe
the rest of the flow goes onward
that isnt a perfect split.
perfect split would be 300 / 300

100 / 500 isnt a perfect split and it WILL result in backflow

which is what causes the flow interrupt

[brittle seal]

if i do all splits above the machine its not bottom feeding right

[quasi warren]

Fair enough

[green fiber]

ye

[brittle seal]

cant wait to rebuild this pipe for the 10th time 🔥
1s

[green fiber]

it also wouldnt be bottom feeding if you split off to the side of each junction and add a pump and THEN go up

what matters here is backpressure and head lift

[quasi warren]

Backpressure??

[nova arch]

Before changing anything i recommend just trying some valves at beginning of 6 lines

[green fiber]

bottom feeding sucks because you always have a collumn of fluid sitting at the junction pushing back into it

[quasi warren]

Thats a thing.

[green fiber]

fluid gets pushed down by gravity

pump tries to fight gravity

[brittle seal]

why can we build skybridges and machines in the air but fluids have gravity mechanics bro 🥀 💔

[green fiber]

if you split fluid at a junction and the pipe coming out of the junction goes up, you now enter the battle of "gravity vs pump"

[quasi warren]

Because fluids are hell

[unkempt blade]

calling pioneers bottom feeders isn't very nice

[glacial drum]

Repiped my NG neatly and now I have 1800 ready to use

One last thing to repipe before demolition. Need more HOR

[green fiber]

It wouldnt be as annoying if the devs adjusted that one sort of broken piece of code that adds free energy to fast flowing pipes

[brittle seal]

aig so if i place a pump after every junction and before the pipe goes up its fixed right?

[strange hedge]

how much steel should i branch off until i need to make a seperate factory? i currently have 120 steel per min but now i need to make space elavator 2 parts which needs more complex components

[green fiber]

that way it should act like a "top feeding" manifold.
you will know if the pipes no longer stay 100% full after the junction split.

that means its working

after the first split, the main pipe should only be 83%-ish full

[brittle seal]

do i still need the loop method if i already use the pump method?

[green fiber]

further: use mk 1 pipes for the sidelines going into the generators

[green fiber]

you can add a loop anyway

just connect the first junction all the way to the last of the bottom feeding pipe

[brittle seal]

to the end of every branch or only of the last branch?

[green fiber]

only to the main pipe below the foundations

[brittle seal]

ohh

aig twin ill build this real quick, will report back in a few mins

[nova arch]

One should never underestimate the power VALVE

[green fiber]

the pipes into the fuel gens carry 100/min so they are below the threshold for needing a loop

yes you probably could apply a valve here but like.... this does the trick too

and the valve has its own intricacies

[brittle seal]

the branches as mk1 pipes?

[green fiber]

ye

[brittle seal]

aig

[green fiber]

they dont need 600/min

so using mk 1 is better

[solid lotus]

Fluid mechanics are by far the worst thing in satisfactory imo😭

[brittle seal]

deffo top 3 worst mechanics oat

[solid lotus]

Frfr

My coal plant that im barely using anymore is running on little to nothing bc I still havent figured out how to use pumps well

[green fiber]

you put your first pipeline pump as low as possible because they dont have suction
its best to just go as low as possible and then you read their head lift meter to check if they are exceeding their limit

they gotta be in reach to push the water up

[blissful pasture]

Hey yall! Dang I was in the wrong satisfactory discord for over a year like 'this place is dead'

[nova arch]

After about 7 restarts with 200h+ I finally finished phase 3 and wtf is that phase 4 materials

[green fiber]

the funny blue glowy ball in the cube?

[nova arch]

yeah just building the layout in the satisfactory modeler hurts my brain

[true mulch]

There's another?

[green fiber]

probably inofficial

[brittle seal]

@green fiber do i still need the pump in the loop before it goes back in? since i already have pumps after every junction i dont need it right

[green fiber]

ideally not

[brittle seal]

aig

[green fiber]

but when in doubt just slap one down

[blissful pasture]

yeah called satisfactory labs or something, super quiet in there

[solid lotus]

There's more after phase 3? I havent even started phase 3 yet😨

[winged herald]

wait till you get to phase 5

[tall schooner]

How are you supposed to get rid of the bulb trees or whatever they are that don't go away when you blow them up?

[winged herald]

chainsaw?

[tall schooner]

Doesn't highlight when looking at it with the chainsaw.

[winged herald]

can you show a #screenshots of what tree you are talking about

[tall schooner]

Obnoxious as hell to have these things getting in the way when building.

[spare cradle]

I got now gathered all the mats I need for this project factory + another thing

72 refineries feel a ton less now when I have motors automated (in a way that can jam sadly)

[unkempt blade]

why not pick a different spot if you don't enjoy building around them?

[winged herald]

is that the mycelia tree? if so they should be removable with the chainsaw

[blissful pasture]

You build a concrete tower around them becuase you cannot remove them as of yet

[tall schooner]

Because they're all over the place on the path I was trying to run my rail along. That's basically saying "Why not just build in another biome?"

[spare cradle]

Build higher than them. Then you dont need to worry about them <3

[tall schooner]

I'm trying to avoid the "railway 50 feet above ground" look.

[unkempt blade]

yeah sort of 🙂

[spare cradle]

Use towers

[winged herald]

this is eventually inevitable

some of the terrain you just have to go really high to get over

[unkempt blade]

like I don't like the dunes in the northeast corner so I just don't build much there 🤷‍♂️

[spare cradle]

Otherwise, deal with the bulbs

[blissful pasture]

You could always slalom them in honor of the winter olympics

[solid lotus]

Speaking of trains. Is it bad to make floating rails? Im about to start making railways and like the idea of them floating. But idk if thats a smart idea😭

[tall schooner]

I am doing that a bit, but trying to turn too much will slow down the train an annoying amount.

[winged herald]

no, tbf nobody will really see it besides you, unless you share screenshots or are playing on a server

do it however you want

[tall schooner]

Nothing mechanically wrong with it. That's what I've started doing now.

[spare cradle]

If it mechanically functions, then don;t worry about it

[solid lotus]

Okay I was making sure there wasnt any mechanical issues with it floating

[blissful pasture]

Phase through them and then hide the clipping with a concrete tunnel

[unkempt blade]

you don't need our permission to build however is fun for you

[spare cradle]

if you want it to look aesthetically pleasing, like Mr. Bulbhater over there, then don't.

[solid lotus]

I want my factories to be pleasing but I dont really care about the trains. Do trains drain a lot of power also? I havent built them yet but I hear they are very power hungry

[blissful pasture]

And then make it look like a watch tower or something so it's not just random tunnels for no reason

[solid lotus]

[brittle seal]

@green fiber it appears to be working bro 🥹 ✌️

thanks for ur help

[green fiber]

huzzah

[glacial drum]

I have finally gotten all my new inputs ready for my 2700 RF factory

now to wait another day before making it..

[dreamy nest]

why wait?

[glacial drum]

Usually it takes me a day to want to do anything tbh

[dreamy nest]

ah

and here im like, i havent logged out in a week and before i do anything irl i must build another row of constructors in my new megafactory

[gaunt tree]

can someone explain how to set up path signals and block signals on my trainlines ive watched videos and i still dont understand why my signals wont work

if possible i can steam on discord and you can diagnose what im doing wrong

[fading whale]

Short version. A block signal prevents a train from entering the next piece of track (the next block).

Path signals is for when a track has multiple paths and it "reserves" route across the tracks crossing each other, so another train won't occupy the same pieces of track.

Makes sense?

[frosty mirage]

I usually go exploring when i get tired of building my main project or i do some designing on smth else, but im on my 1st playthrough at T6 (only phase 3 objective left to do)

[gaunt tree]

yeah i get that but do i need to place a block signal first or after the path signal cause i keep getting caution signs on my path signal

[fading whale]

Rule of thumb. Single track = block signals.
When something intersects, you put Path signal on each track going into that intersection, and a block signal on each track going out of that intersection.

[wary sonnet]

Couldn't have said it any better

Chat how do I become less scared of fauna and actually explore

[fading whale]

@gaunt tree It sometimes help to place the signals right before or right after two tracks connect.

[frosty mirage]

Passive creatures

[wary sonnet]

There's an option for that??

[fading whale]

When you've had enough of getting high blood pressure, got tired of kittens, and don't like getting yeeted of the map. That's when you switch the creatures to passive. Then they only attack when you attack them first. (or not at all)

[wary sonnet]

This is life changing

[fading whale]

It's in the menu somewhere. It is NOT part of advanced game settings.

Might be from the main menu.

[wary sonnet]

Okay okay
I'm about to get into phase 5 and I have NOT explored even 20% of the world

I'm too much of a scaredy cat

[fading whale]

It was precisely when I went hard on exploring that I turned them "off" 😄

[wary sonnet]

Yeahhhh, I need sloops and spheres BADLY

[gaunt tree]

@fading whale thanks that worked i understand how it works now

[mortal ginkgo]

overexposure yourself. get lots of health items too.

at first I was like you, than my fear transormed to a desire to see large stingers so much that I started to see small ones as large too

[fading whale]

When troubleshooting, it can help to put a temporary signal before or after the one flashing yellow. If you put it after, and it fixes it, the next sign will usuallly flash. And that's an indicator that there is a problem further down the track (could be far). Like an intersection you forgot about. Or a signal facing the wrong way. Do that to pinpoint the direction you need to troubleshoot.

[wary sonnet]

I fear that is not the healthiest approach

[mortal ginkgo]

You would be surprised.

[fading whale]

It's not about being scared really.
I want to chill, explore, and build shit.
If I want to shoot anything, I'll launch a shooter game.

[stone quiver]

That and the swamp are my jam. Maybe because I only ever started in the desert

[primal obsidian]

hm

i should start a new run

but early game is very tedious and annoying

[mortal ginkgo]

dune desert is like.. a dune desert. wherever you look at, it is desert

[stone quiver]

It has two oasis

And the rock cliffs to the south and east

Why start a new run? Just find a new area of map and have fun making something

Or go for cosmetic end game

[primal obsidian]

good idea

[rough linden]

Bro I have nearly 600 hours and just now learned that you can disassemble drop pod recks

[stone quiver]

Don't worry about "is this fully auto to phase 5". Just say , I'm gonna make a three-story motor factory or this is my computer depot, figure out logistics on the end

[mortal ginkgo]

another idea is load your save in SCIM and delete everything that you want it to exist

[fading whale]

If it helps, it wasn't added till 1.1

[rough linden]

Thank god cuz I played most of the game before 1.0

[fading whale]

😄

[rough linden]

As in I played most of the hours before 1.0

[fading whale]

Yeah. So it's not you 😉
Remember to get it all though. I think it's 5 or 6 part you can disassemble at each wreck.
And you can't do anything till you have taken out the drive.

[primal obsidian]

ugh

my save file isnt getting loaded into scim ive been waiting like 5 minutes

[fading whale]

Happens sometimes. Reload page. Try again.

And make sure page has fully loaded before you try uploading.

[stone quiver]

You can delete everything but the container before extracting HD

[fading whale]

It's only the container? Alright. Hadn't tried 🙂

[spiral summit]

can you pass through terrain using hypertubes?

if so that would make my underground buildings come true

i neeed to try that out

[dreamy nest]

could prolly test it pretty easy near a cave or something

[elfin smelt]

thres a glitch to go underground using hypertubes that I saw posted a few days ago

@spiral summit

[primal obsidian]

what do these red spots on SCIM mean

oh nvm its radiation

that explains why it was huge near my plutonium and ficsonium plant

[quasi warren]

Oh red is radiation? Noted

[rugged tiger]

anyone wants to play satisfactory

[stark pewter]

Yo noah i would bro im down

[ornate saffron]

check #1201555265942724758 lots of ppl have askeed today

[frosty mirage]

There is also an option to keep everything in inventory if you die without having to go after the death crate if you die

[quasi warren]

Mhm

Some like doing that. Others like dropping all equipment when they die. Do I know why? No. But you can do it

[frosty mirage]

Yeah, to each their own i guess

[hardy fossil]

i only now realized the cameras in the hub follow you

its so silly

[leaden turret]

ceiling ada is watching you automate

[hardy fossil]

sign... 🤔

[leaden turret]

[frosty mirage]

There's a very strict "no self pleasure" policy at FICSIT and it must be enforced properly

[stone quiver]

Means I have to come prepared 💪 . The jungle does not freely give up its prizes . Factory builder or not

[leaden turret]

<@&370483737957236737> is this why there's no door on the toilet?

[hardy fossil]

but building a factory is a pleasure

[unkempt blade]

the lizard doggo couldn't use the toilet if there was a door

[leaden turret]

reminder, they haven't confirmed whether the lizard doggo has a butthole or cloaca, so we don't know if it uses the toilet.

[hardy fossil]

on the cam topic, when designing your pioneer is says "cam 03" but i can only find 2 cameras

wheres the last?

[frosty mirage]

I dont think there is anything specifically about rubbing against factories...

[quasi warren]

Maybe on our character itself?

Considering they watch everything we do

[leaden turret]

[heady venture]

Just joined the server to be met by this message, great

[unkempt blade]

I'm pretty sure it could use the toilet in either case. Just not if there's a door

[hardy fossil]

didnt know this server had such cool emojis

[leaden turret]

[hardy fossil]

i should check them out more

[leaden turret]

[unkempt blade]

Inquiring minds must know about lizard doggos!

[leaden turret]

running joke: https://archive.satisfactory.video/topics/environment/creatures/lizard-doggo/biology/

(no, that's not just me asking those questions)

[hardy fossil]

suuure..

[heady venture]

Oh my gord bruh

[frosty mirage]

As far as I know, we cut them off from food if there is any pleasuring among the doggos

[frosty mirage]

Please refrain from any self pleasuring activities, CCTV will pick you up even in the HUB!

[leaden turret]

and people think I'm weird

[ornate saffron]

you are. You just dont goon

[nocturne mica]

Hey everyone, I’d like to start using production chains in my game, but I’m not really sure how to do it yet.
I usually just build one main warehouse with all the materials, but I’d like to set up separate factories instead.
Is there any tutorial or guide you’d recommend?

[leaden turret]

[insert nike slogan here]

[spiral summit]

is infinite nudge mp friendly

[dire trail]

what would you guys say the best starting spot is?

[ornate saffron]

totalXclips on you tube as a beginners guided playthrough

[unkempt blade]

Whichever one makes you happiest. They're all fine starts

[void cliff]

If I start a new experimental save, is there any way to transfer it to stable once 1.2 goes live?

[jaunty vault]

How do i get the signal to stop looping in on itself? I have no clue how these things work

[ornate saffron]

make a post in #1038092680493801533 and ill come along and give you tyhe lo down

[jaunty vault]

Is there a way to make them only work on 1 rail?

[reef basin]

yes, but you should never put any signals on bidirectional part of a rail

[reef basin]

signal divides rails into sections (blocks). Each block can only have one train in it. If you place a signal so that the block on one side is the same as the one on other side (e.g. they are connected elsewhere), it'll loop into itself

[jaunty vault]

I think the issue is that my rails are too close together so i fucking quit

20 thousand miles of useless rails now

[reef basin]

rails need at least "1 foundation" disatance

if you put two foundations next to each other and run rails through the center of each foundation, those will be far enough from themselves

[jaunty vault]

Thats how mine are and theyre too close

When u do that they arent 1 foundation apart

[quasi warren]

I can conf this though

I did the two foundation track. Put the two tracks in the middle of the foundation, added signals. Worked just fine

[reef basin]

post image in #1038092680493801533 then

[jaunty vault]

The track takes up like 80% of the surface on the foundation how would there be 1 foundations distance with only 2 down

[wanton cloud]

either rocky desert or dunes

[unkempt blade]

factory carts don't have this problem

[neon forge]

do people actually use the factory cart?

[unkempt blade]

yeah they're objectively the best vehicle

[neon forge]

you sure you're not paid by FICSIT to say that? :lul:

[unkempt blade]

why would I need money to hype the best vehicle in the game?

[drowsy kelp]

Ficsit owns you, why would they pay you anything

[neon forge]

maybe i should use the fact i'm most likely forced to restart to learn how to make factories that look like factories and not just heaps of stuff with spaghetti belts

ADA prolly seen my stuff and added "absolute terrorist" to my file

[bitter crow]

how can i extract 120 out of 270?

[reef basin]

one splitter

[bitter crow]

let it self balance?

[narrow canyon]

Or.. don't do 270 at all, do 120 and 150

[neon forge]

tmw idk what to do so i'm just hypertube cannoning back and forth across the map

[unkempt blade]

factory cart skatepark

[reef basin]

either that or make them separately from start

[warm finch]

Utilize manifold designs. They will balance themselves out

[neon forge]

i should work on phase 4 but my base is such a mess that returning to it after a year is like being thrown in the backrooms LOL

[bitter crow]

oh yeah i dont have to divide them! i can js keep them on one manifold

[bitter crow]

lmao

[native tapir]

Sure

[leaden turret]

if you split a mk.3 belt into a mk.2 belt and a mk.3 belt, it's gonna try and shove 135 into a mk.2, fail, and overflow that extra 15 onto the mk.3

[bitter crow]

Signpostmarv, youre brilliant

thank you everyone for the tips

[native tapir]

You didn't even attend the premiere factory cart community event

I can't trust you on carts

[neon forge]

if i restart, should i just start in the desert this time over picking the easiest start area?

[unkempt blade]

which one is the easiest one?

[neon forge]

isn't the green hills one the default start zone?

[bitter crow]

id recommend starting in the rocky desert, its honestly lovely here

[neon forge]

f it lemme go restart a new game

100 hours down the drain ain't that bad when i already burned 1000 in GTNH LOL

[solid dove]

Game still doesn't support mixed input, which is a massive letdown for a device like that Steam Deck. It means we can't use gamepad + trackpad as mouse. Is there any possibility this could be fixed in the future?

[pine elk]

With 1.2

Maybe

[warm finch]

Desert dunes is definitely not an easier start than grass plains. I can't comment about rocky desert as I haven't experienced starting there yet

[unkempt blade]

yeah that's one of many things that makes it so unplayable on the Switch too 🙁

[lost oak]

Will one freight platform feed multiple freight cars?

[unkempt blade]

not for the same train

[lost oak]

Does it matter where the other freight stations are? Like, do they need to be inline with the cars?

[unkempt blade]

the car that parks in that station segment is what gets the stuff from it

[lost oak]

Thank you. I'm building a coal line for my steel factory and wanted to make sure.

[neon forge]

i'm on rocky desert and already running into an issue

the iron and copper veins are on top of a big ass cliff and i haven't unlocked foundations yet lul

[unkempt blade]

you should probably keep looking around

[neon forge]

did find the way up yeah

[unkempt blade]

I'm curious where you actually are because there's all the basics near the landing spot without any significant cliff

[lost oak]

Is it better to have multiple trains with one freight car each or just one with all of the freight cars?

[wary sonnet]

Depends on how long the train is, the longer the more you wanna split it up
But generally one with all the freight cars is much more light on power and traffic

[lost oak]

It's 3 Freight Car long

[wary sonnet]

Yeah no just build one

[lost oak]

One for each node, basically

[versed mesa]

👋

[unkempt blade]

If it's just the two stations then it doesn't matter much except really long trains will be more annoying to build stations for. If it's multiple stations in the route I'd probably just break each section up into its own smaller train otherwise the long total route time will impact throughput because of all the stops

[lost oak]

It's just two stations. One for the coal nodes and one for the steel factory.

I need an output of 829 Coal/min. I'm hoping the train can handle that

[unkempt blade]

I don't have anything to point at factually for this but just intuitively there shouldn't be much if any power difference. Power cost is going to be tied to 1) number of locomotives while the train is running 2) number of stations during loading/unloading

[dense violet]

dedicate 1 belt per platform - if that doesn't give you enough , have a second train do the trip

[lost oak]

That's what I'm doing. Three Freight Cars. Three Nodes. Three belts.

[unkempt blade]

if you want to get mathy with it you might be interested in https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Train_throughput but it sounds like you should be be fine to me unless you have a really long route time

[fickle locust]

What's your best belt, and do you have industrial storage depots?

[lost oak]

I don't mind if the miners clog up. As long as the trains can deliver enough or more on time.

[lost oak]

MK.4 and I do, yes.

[fickle locust]

You can get 829 in that case but you'll need to use both input slots (on the one side) and output slots (on the other) to manage it

[lost oak]

So, split each belt?

[unkempt blade]

it sounds like it'll be split across 3 freight platforms already so that may not even be necessary

[lost oak]

It is. Each miner is feeding its own platform

[fickle locust]

Are all 3 cars for coal? I thought it was one coal, one iron, one copper

[unkempt blade]

ahh maybe I missed that

[lost oak]

All for coal. I'm bringing to the northwest area covered in pure limestone and with 4 pure iron ore nodes right next to each other

[fickle locust]

Oh ok, you're totally chill in that case. I personally would do this with 2 platforms, 1 node goes fully into each and the 3rd is split 50/50, but I say this only to note there are other layouts possible. Definitely not saying my version is "better" (just fits in better for me)

[ember escarp]

Does anyone know where the cave entrance is for the impure Sam ore in the dune desert? It has 3 overlapping caves and I cannot seem to find the entrance.

[lost oak]

Might do just to make the train shorter and to be able to remove one platform. Wouldn't take much rebuilding.

Thank you for all the help. 🙏

[wide rampart]

Can the tractor haul anything?

Or just the player and the storage container within itself

[unkempt blade]

anything solid 🙂

[leaden turret]

-# it can haul ass

[wide rampart]

I mean is there a trailer or anything like that

[leaden turret]

nope

you can reuse an autopilot route with another vehicle of the same type

[wide rampart]

Okay

I am moving from Northern Forest to Dune Desert :)
Was hoping that moving everything wouldnt take more than 1 trip

[leaden turret]

trains

[wide rampart]

I am not that far yet :(

I went to the Dunes to have more centralized access to various resources

[ornate saffron]

you also could just... leave the stuff there and build more in the dunes

[unkempt blade]

That's what I used to do for big projects pre-depot. Saved me a lot of concrete runs 😆

[wide rampart]

I dont have the resources to leave it there atm

[leaden turret]

concrete not for eatin, no wonder you get concrete runs

[wide rampart]

My power grid was running at a defecit and I felt I should take the oppurtunity to just move base.

[ornate saffron]

thats how you get blood in the toilet

[frosty mirage]

I hope you're not insinuating that i am weird 😭

[stone quiver]

I'm building in the northern ocean and there's... not much here, but it looks nice

Gonna have helipads for my drones to haul in all my unpleasantries

[ornate saffron]

You are, But that makes it worth while talking to you

[glacial drum]

do yall think if i change my ps5 date and time to christmas ill get ficsmas back

Damn I forgot I was mid rebuild on my RF plant so it wouldn’t matter anyway

[ornate saffron]

pretty sure youd have to disconnect the internet too

[jolly sierra]

Y'all like my train depot?
#screenshots

[ornate saffron]

@tame bobcat Steve is just curious. He approves of your pad

[glacial drum]

#screenshots message Gettin some work done..

[opal rune]

hey does anyone know a good server host for satisfactory that can handle big factory's without shuddering and crashing?

[unkempt blade]

I don't have any suggestions (I self-host) but I'll just say the dedicated server runs pretty well without a whole lot of system resources reserved for it

this guy was on here yesterday looking for guinea pigs though #1471806073886474250 message

[rich torrent]

That lake in the Southeast bottom corner of the map, is kinda really OP

[lost oak]

The one with everything you need for rocket fuel in one place?

[tame bobcat]

i hope he likes it!!

[rich torrent]

The one with everything you need for everything I literally beat the game and never left that crater

[glacial drum]

Guess who setup half their RF plant just to realize they never made a pipe for their NG input in their blueprint

[lost oak]

I don't like how the area looks too much. I prefer greener foresty places. But I am planning to make my Rocket Fuel plant there when I have the ability to do so.

[rich torrent]

Forgive my ignorance genuinely , but what do you do after you complete the main story

[gloomy tusk]

Improve

[rich torrent]

It's physically hard to walk through the nightmare of spaghetti that I have built.I think I just gotta go scorched earth

[gloomy tusk]

Rebuild better

Or start over

[glacial drum]

Okay guess who should be able to fix the blueprint without altering the entire factory

[gloomy tusk]

Me

[rich torrent]

Perhaps, but I did just play it for like 60 hours in a row.I think i'm gonna take a break

[frosty mirage]

I do enjoy being a weirdo so nothin wrong here

[strong fiber]

Y

[lost oak]

Is Steel Cast Plate better or Coated Iron Plate?

[glacial drum]

Solid steel and steel cast plate make a rlly nice combo

[lost oak]

Steel Cast it is. Thank you.

[valid patrol]

was it true there was a date for update announcement (not the update itself) around the end of feb

[winter salmon]

Does anyone else have problems pipeline junction

[sturdy pivot]

is there a non-mod way to get rid of the space giraffe tick w/e besides killing? keep spawning in my factories

[drowsy kelp]

Blast em with your weapon of choice

Why not killing

[sturdy pivot]

i don't mind killing them, i'm just on a new save and whacking them takes forever especially when they run away. was hoping for a console command to just zap or something

[drowsy kelp]

There isn’t

[sturdy pivot]

rip. thanks anyways

[tranquil zinc]

anyone know what is causing this "aurora" lighting effects that is making my game feel cloudy? #screenshots message

[rugged ore]

is there a way to watch picture in picture without randomly clicking on the video

[winter salmon]

the reason i ask is because anything i put through a junction just disappears out of no where

[frail sleet]

It looks like artifacts from the lumen global illumination - that system is not very good, i recommend playing without it

[soft marsh]

Working on a dedicated HMF factory, after however many hundreds of hours I have and I cant decide how I want to build it

[dim lagoon]

where are the save games on windowds?

[frail sleet]

C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames

[tranquil zinc]

oh, its too dark though when its off

[dim lagoon]

there is nothing