satisfactory

[ornate saffron]

my loops are hidous dude

[scarlet rose]

now the important question is, do you use blueprints for machines?

[bitter crow]

im gonna put abit of the oil thru plubber, but the rest im just gonna turn into fuel

[ornate saffron]

sometimes. It depends.

if i have to lay 40 refineries no.

400 yes

[scarlet rose]

okay that's fair, because, and this is just my opinion, blueprints make the game so boring

[normal orbit]

#screenshots message maybe a little

[scarlet rose]

HOLY SHIT

[scarlet rose]

i think there is a machine there somewhere, i can't prove it though

[ornate saffron]

#screenshots message

[scarlet rose]

but no jokes aside, i have no clue what im looking at here Sapphic

[ornate saffron]

its a Neko Borg Cube

[scarlet rose]

that's just frankensteins monster right there

[bitter crow]

why doesnt my nudge line up with anything??

[normal orbit]

i have one question... why

[bitter crow]

like pipes doesnt want to go straight

[scarlet rose]

what possesses a man to create such a thing

[scarlet rose]

oh you mean they're slightly bent out of shape?

[ornate saffron]

holding CTRL while nudging will give you half nudges

[bitter crow]

hmm

[scarlet rose]

RIGHT?

ITS PURE SOCIOPATHY

[normal orbit]

i can see people having fluid issues if they making those things

[ornate saffron]

As previously stated im a pyscho

[ornate saffron]

I wana fill my loop from above. lol

[gloomy tusk]

what the hell is that

[normal orbit]

why...

that looks like a slosh machine 9000

[gloomy tusk]

are there any mods that remove the build limit?

[bitter crow]

i figured it out, the oil extractor itself is slightly incorrect

[grim carbon]

i'm playing around with the satisfactory modeler

[ornate saffron]

I test out diffrent things every time i build so far this was my favorite

#design-and-architecture message

[grim carbon]

taking a look at phase 4

it's insane!

[normal orbit]

just edit the engine.ini file

add:

[/Script/Engine.GarbageCollectionSettings]
gc.MaxObjectsInEditor=100000000
gc.MaxObjectsInGame=100000000

[stone quiver]

4 I think is the big leap... mostly if you didn't automate 3. And... 2.

[ornate saffron]

its a bit much for me. I just need the math then i use my brain to figure out placement

[ornate saffron]

i always do. but thats me

[gloomy tusk]

im on mac so i cant 💔

[normal orbit]

you cant edit files on a mac?

[grim carbon]

how far have you got in the game?

[gloomy tusk]

you cant normally play it on mac

[ornate saffron]

this is my tenth world. 7 clears

[stone quiver]

I did some semi auto then realized the goal isn't finishing a phase, that's the easy part

[gloomy tusk]

i am NOT automating nuclear pasta it sucks

[stone quiver]

My buddy is 1 copper powder and then 30 accelerators away from 30/min no sloop

I have to ramp up our power like 150000MW+ before he turns it on lol

[normal orbit]

you turned your buddy into copper powder? thats rough. rip

[grim carbon]

i'm currently finishing phase 3 with the adaptive unit thingys

[ornate saffron]

the most i ever did was 10/min of all phase 5 partts

[grim carbon]

i'm eager to see what's next

[stone quiver]

He's got 14 of 15 setups droned up and mined.

[ornate saffron]

phase four is the hardest. You gotta figure logistics and some comp[lex parts. But its good

[stone quiver]

We about to turn the desert into stargate

[grim carbon]

that's what i see through the modeler

[ornate saffron]

how else would you snort your buddyt

[grim carbon]

how about some sauce on the nuclear pasta?

[ornate saffron]

A nice Bolognese

[grim carbon]

creamy and rich

[ornate saffron]

like you soon will be. Rich in Bauxite

[normal orbit]

i do like the lil blurb on the wiki that one nuclear pasta is like 1300 tonnes :p

[bitter crow]

omg should i make fuel and THEN make the poly into plubber??

[grim carbon]

i have of that already

[ornate saffron]

compressed matter does this

[grim carbon]

just by exploring

[ornate saffron]

thats what i do for the initial setup

[normal orbit]

and that the actual pasta in the middle is only like 0.28mm wide rest is shielding :p

[ornate saffron]

yup its essentially a contained micro Black hole.

[leaden turret]

romulan v8

[normal orbit]

more like a neutron star

strange degenerate matter, which is typically found in the cores of neutron stars

[leaden turret]

[insert joke about nuclear pasta being made of fanfic]

[ornate saffron]

i dont have this info floting in my brain lol so according to QuoraNeutron stars are made of neutronium which is neutrons packed shoulder to shoulder by intense gravity and has a density in the neighborhood of 10^17 Kg/m^3 which is about 122 thousand metric tonnes per cubic millimeter. Compare this to a cubic millimeter of lead which weighs less than 25 milligrams.

[ornate saffron]

so pretty much

[bitter crow]

wait trucks arent that bad???

[ornate saffron]

it is user preference really

I cant use them. By that i mean when i do i have to have a friend come over and record the routes

[grim carbon]

just make sure you have smooth surfaces between pickup and drop off

[limpid iron]

I use trains because building rail networks is fun

[mystic oriole]

Trains are awesome.

[bitter crow]

trains seems easier to upscale

maybe ill use both

[ornate saffron]

#off-topic-media message

[ornate saffron]

they are easier once you get the hang of signals

in my humble opinion

[limpid iron]

yeah signals were a struggle to learn at first

[bitter crow]

omg there is gonna be so many crashes

[limpid iron]

now I understand them

[bitter crow]

oh my god why cant we jsut hire humans

[green fiber]

you are the human hire

[mystic oriole]

Signals are fairly easy to get, there's more complex things in the game to grasp.

[bitter crow]

sigh this is gonna take a while

[green fiber]

pipes

[normal orbit]

if you take the time to build a train highway around the map, its super easy to just tee off of it and build factories whereever and the logistics is already there

which is also fairly easy to do if you make some blueprints

[mystic oriole]

Oh yeah, so much easier.

just have to watch power consumption.

[normal orbit]

if a train would break your powergrid, you should prob fix that first :p

[spare prism]

Nu uh

[mystic oriole]

That's not why. If you're using the train's rail system to get around you need to watch your power use for a factory elsewhere on the map. In short it's not the trains, it's the factory.

[normal orbit]

what? that goes for anything, a train doesnt increase a factorys power draw

[ornate saffron]

ratge my insanity

#screenshots message

[tame jacinth]

Don't trains use like 50mw

[normal orbit]

it varies on load and incline, they can top out around 120mw

[green fiber]

eh could be worse.
Saner than manifolding 600/min straight up

[normal orbit]

but flat surface and 4 cars per engine, its like 25mw

[ornate saffron]

naw thats insane. it pushes 300/min

[mystic oriole]

oh, right... words of wisdom from my latest insanity of skipping coal and and oil, and going to nuclear. Power issues.

[green fiber]

@cyan lion check your save file / session name for forbidden special characters or spaces (especially at the beginning of the session name).
save files / sessions are not allowed to have those in their names, if they do blueprints cant save

[normal orbit]

trains can actually make power if you have a very steep decline, but then they have to get back up there so its a net negative anyway

[limber moss]

Looking for a place near the purple crater to make a turbofuel factory and power plant, could I make a platform over the void that begins after the crater-lake-waterfall? Or will the map border limit me too early?

[ornate saffron]

purple crater?

[mystic oriole]

That depends, how much clipping can you handle?

[limber moss]

The one with giant mushrooms, south east

[limber moss]

Not much to be fair haha

[ornate saffron]

blue crater then ^_^ there is coal in the crater itself

[normal orbit]

its called blue crater lake, not purple :p

[limber moss]

Oh, good to know

[mystic oriole]

There are some blueprints that can help stack gens which can help with space issues.

[ornate saffron]

the blue crater has everything near to go from fuel to Trubo fuel to Rocket fuel

[limber moss]

Noted

[limber moss]

Nice to hear!

[normal orbit]

theres like 3300 sulfur/min and two nitrogen nodes in spitting distance

[limber moss]

Yeah, I really want to utilise the proximity of sulfur and oil

[normal orbit]

which is enough for about 4800 rocketfuel/min

[limber moss]

Will I need these 3 sulfur nodes later in the game, or can I use it all now?

[ornate saffron]

up to you. Sulfer is 100% optional

[normal orbit]

sulfur isnt used in any mandatory components

[bitter crow]

30/minute for cables and wires is sufficient, right?

[normal orbit]

used for nuclear power, weapons and some alt recipes

[ornate saffron]

Personal notes.

i usualy skip turbo and hold out for nitro rocket fuel

[mystic oriole]

It's best uses are for power.

[normal orbit]

i like using it for aluminium, cause when i get there i'm so sick of building refineries, i go with the blender alt :p

[limber moss]

Noted, noted

[mystic oriole]

blenders are more fun, got a couple blueprints to help with that one.

[grim carbon]

this sounds like a noob question

how do i use the power tower to span distances?

[limber moss]

This is basically my first playthrough (that I started 2 years ago in EA and then left until last week pretty much), so I don't know if I'm good enough to go straight to rocket haha

[oak nymph]

Quick question should I bring fluid up or fluid down if I have the choice

[mystic oriole]

same way you use normal power poles.

[mystic oriole]

always let gravity do your work for you.

[tall lantern]

if liquid, down requires 0 pumps, up requires >0 pumps

[ornate saffron]

using your power tool targeting the top of the tower while let you place another tower at great distance.

targeting the lower portion uses the built in power outlet

[limber moss]

Click on the top of the tower itself to create a holo of it rather than another short-distance power pole

[oak nymph]

Yeah

[normal orbit]

refinery fatigue tends to hit hard in phase 4. cause you use em for ingots, concrete, plastic, rubber, copper sheets, quartz.

[limber moss]

Speeeaking of quartz:

[grim carbon]

ok

[normal orbit]

so like any alt which uses something else. yes please and thank you

[ornate saffron]

personally i try not to move fluids. But when given the choice down. But pumps work welll

[oak nymph]

I don't have the choice

[tall lantern]

then why are you asking which you should do

[grim carbon]

there are 7 connections on the power tower?

[oak nymph]

I could A: bring water up or B bring my heavy oil residue down to the water

[normal orbit]

if you can do down, thats easier since gravity just does work for you

but you can just use pumps to move it up, so ho hum

[ornate saffron]

three for other power towers (this includes itself)

and the outlet on the lower portion has 4 like a mk one wall outlet

[grim carbon]

hmmm

[crude holly]

For early on how would you recommend getting bulk tickets? I used random items that my doggos produced but it got to a point that it wasn't sustainable.

[limber moss]

Noticed there are a lot of nodes north-west of the crater, should I use them all for a high production crystal oscillator plant or would it be better to save some of the better nodes for the future?

[ornate saffron]

uranium node directly into a awesome sink

[dense violet]

whatever you happen to need - the milestones are basically a tutorial

[limber moss]

They are a WHAT? Sounds a bit scary haha

[normal orbit]

sink high value items from crash sites, like turbo motors, fused frames, super computers etc. give you a nice boost early one. after that just overflow all production into a sink

[crude holly]

Wait really its that easy?

[ornate saffron]

sam fluxuaters are good too

[ornate saffron]

its not amazing but you wont be using uranbium for a long time so put it to work

[dense violet]

so the phases and tiers are not a challenge - you could build the dirtiest sloppiest factories with zero thought and press forward, finish phase 5, and stop playing

but imo this game is more like minecraft and the phases are the ender dragon. Are you done with mine craft when you kill the dragon?

the milestones are basically a really good tutorial giving you, step by step, new processes to learn and decide how to build things

[limber moss]

True, now that I think about it. Some people have thousands of hours in this game after all, somehow

[ornate saffron]

ive put 3000 hours into minecraft and never seen the dragon.

its a good analogy

[dense violet]

If all you care about is finishing the phases? doesn't matter what you build on those nodes

[ornate saffron]

hey now.... dont talk about me like that

[dense violet]

and if you're going to play a more sand box game after the phases? doesn't matter what you build on top of them - just tear it down if you get a better idea

[ornate saffron]

SAM Fluctuator gives 1,968 a unit and just needs steel pipes and wire

[limber moss]

By somehow I meant that I'm impressed haha

[dense violet]

imo I'd finish all the tiers this run, get a solid grasp on the basics, then start a fresh map and start thinking about how you like to plan and build thigns out

I think I restarted at tiers 3 5 and 7 , and have done a couple more runs of the tiers after

Completely changed how I approach things probably a couple times now

[limber moss]

I was considering starting a fresh new save and abandoning this one, but I don't want to get burnt out quickly from all the cool technology and machines being "far away". So I've decided to finish this one first

[cunning glade]

Diluted fuel in blenders isn't any better than in refinery's is it

[normal orbit]

it just skips packaging step

[cunning glade]

Fuck

[dense violet]

burn out is a serious consideration. Restarting fresh in the middle of a run isn't for everyone. Worked for me and others, but you have to figure out if it'd be a good step for you 🙂

[ornate saffron]

diluted fuel save space and a little power compared to Packaged diluted fuel

[normal orbit]

which is worth it alone :p

[cunning glade]

Well it's not worth rebuilding imo

[dense violet]

maybe if you finish al lthe tiers a restart wouldn't feel unpleasant for you?

[limber moss]

True

[dense violet]

because you 'accomplished' it?

[cunning glade]

Shit keeps not working tho it's annoying

[limber moss]

Yeah, that's a good plan

[dense violet]

glad I could help 🙂

[limber moss]

And I'd like to say thank you :3

[normal orbit]

figure out why it doesnt work, then fix it. usually how satisfactory goes :p

[limber moss]

Alrighty, now - how much worse is turbo fuel when compared to rocket one?

[normal orbit]

slightly less than half the power

[dense violet]

turbo fuel and rocket fuel are totally skipable
you can easily finish phase 5 on diluted fuel

[normal orbit]

7.5/min vs 3.147 or w/e rocket fuel is at

[grim carbon]

is it true you can even use the higher wires between tower to zipline?

[normal orbit]

yes

and you dont need to jump around the poles

[ornate saffron]

yes power tower ziplining is my main mode of transport

[grim carbon]

you jst go through them?

[normal orbit]

yes

[ornate saffron]

yes

[grim carbon]

cool

sounds awesome and totally fun

[normal orbit]

you can just right click the zip tool and go afk while you move

[ornate saffron]

they are spased well so you really go under them

[grim carbon]

no way!@

ok

i can't wait to get them unlocked

[ornate saffron]

way, zipling conserves momentum too. so if you get a run slide start you go zoom zoom. you can jump drop kick back on if you are skilled and gain more speed troo

[grim carbon]

otherwise it's just one zoom

not zoom zoom

[limber moss]

True, but a turbo setup requires less space and less oil...doesn't it?

[ornate saffron]

#off-topic-media message

[grim carbon]

i lika do zoom zoom

[ornate saffron]

when i did my no coal generator run i used power towers to zipline to every geothermal node

[grim carbon]

there's geothermal nodes too?

[ornate saffron]

sorry didnt mean to drop a spoiler

[stone quiver]

So nothing past coal?

[grim carbon]

it's ok

[stone quiver]

Grass and water run?

[ornate saffron]

i only did Bio and geo until Nitro rocket fuel lol

[grim carbon]

i don't mind spoilers so much

[normal orbit]

havnt done turbo fuel in forever, but iirc 100 fuel becomes like 83 turbo fuel with 60 something coal+sulfur. with rocket fuel 100 fuel becomes 150 rocketfuel with 100 sulfur, 50 coal and 75 nitrogen gas. So turbo fuel is around 2766mw/100 fuel and rocket fuel is 9000mw/100 fuel at cost of more sulfur, little less coal and some nitrogen

[ornate saffron]

I can dm you the details of Nitro rocket fuel if you like

[normal orbit]

and its 1 blender vs like... 4.5? refineries for turbo fuel

[limber moss]

Thank you very much, that clears things up. I'll go Turbo this (first) run, so I can move on from coal, tear down the coal setup and place a big plastic/rubber setup there instead

[reef basin]

"less space" is debatable

you still need same fuel gen spam

[dense violet]

ish? basically every time you process fuel you add other resources to it - you're effectively just turning those resources into more oil
since you can always just make more diluted fuel

[normal orbit]

rocket fuel powers more fuel gens, so its more power but also more space

[spare prism]

[limber moss]

No worries, I'll go turbo this first run ^^

[dense violet]

honestly I'd just go nuclear at that point.

instead of 500 generators for decent power, you have 50

[limber moss]

Ah true, more machines after all. Silly me

[dense violet]

rocket fuel is an option if you don't mind about endless fields of generators and plumbing

[inland fulcrum]

Just unlocked tier 5 & 6. How easy is it to kinda get by quickly and rush phase 4? I'm considering to take it slow now and start properly doing trains and blueprints and stuff but may wait till phase 4?

[unkempt blade]

And they're all massive! Just think of the huge buildings!

[dense violet]

theres core groups of people who get off on pasting the same building 2000 of the same giant building over and over and it's baffling

[limber moss]

I love the idea of nuclear, but certainly not the idea of the horrific processing of uranium waste into plutonium waste and so on

[ornate saffron]

blue crater has in and around it enough resources to easily supply 480 fuel generators clocked at 240% lol

using nitro rocket fuel thatt is

[reef basin]

you don't need to do that, plutonium is not required

[unkempt blade]

the plutonium parts is actually the easier chunk of it

[limber moss]

Big numbers haha

[ornate saffron]

seeing credits using only fuel is very doable

[dense violet]

also drones make plutonium very very easy

[normal orbit]

#math-and-meta message 840 fuel gens in there making 504gw :p

[limber moss]

Wait, there's an easier way to getting rid of uranium waste?

[unkempt blade]

So do trains. You just load all that waste into a bunch of trains and have them drive around the map 24x7

[reef basin]

you can store it

[dense violet]

just store it somewhere. It's very easy to blueprint a 5,000hr storage system in a corner of the map

[ornate saffron]

you can give it to doggos and kill them. Or flush it down the toilet one unit at a time

[dense violet]

more ifnrastructure

[unkempt blade]

I do trains even without nuclear so it's the same for me!

[limber moss]

Won't the radiation area get huge over some time?

[ornate saffron]

it caps around the size of a biome and has a cap for rads/min rate

[limber moss]

Oooh, it has a cap? That's nice to know

[normal orbit]

refining the waste into plutonium isnt very hard and you can sink that if you dont wanna go the full route. can still make like 600gw from uranium alone

going full route you can make around 1.5tw from nuclear

[limber moss]

Oh right, it was the Ficsonium that was the hardest and most annoying?

[unkempt blade]

That's not nearly enough. I need way more for all the lights I use

[dense violet]

ficsonium is a punishment for people who decided to burn plutonium rods and then bitched about permanent waste

[normal orbit]

the lights which use 0 mw ? :p (signs baby)

[dense violet]

it should honestly have been more punishing

[normal orbit]

its not hard, just need a shitload of nuclear pasta and sam :p

[unkempt blade]

They're up to 6mw each! It adds up!

[royal mortar]

is there a way to configure conditions for drones?

[dense violet]

they go A to B , what did you want to change?

[normal orbit]

you can tell em to wait for a full load, but thats about it

[royal mortar]

well, let them wait until the cargo is full, for example

[dense violet]

nope, but they'll stay at the drop off point until their cargo is empty. So if you flood the drop off point you will effectively get that

[royal mortar]

literally the first thing i wanted to setup

[royal mortar]

huh, what?

[normal orbit]

yeah i just use billboards for cealing light, no power and they cover a larger area than normal lights and dont give those ugly line lights

[dense violet]

`if the place they are delivering to is full
the drone can't drop off all it's cargo
so it'll wait until it's empty

then fly back
by which point the pick up point should probalby be full

[limber moss]

Lmao, I'm starting to love this game more and more

[unkempt blade]

I like sign-lights also but they don't give the classy light cone like #screenshots message

[inland fulcrum]

Why is the blue hole considered so good? I see spots where there's almost as much crude oil so only that cant be it, right?

[dense violet]

seriously though, they introduced P rods because people weren't interacting with the nuclear system as much because a lot of people don't like the idea of permanent waste
but then it's TOTALLY optional to burn the p rods
but of course some people couldn't stop themselves and then bitched about permanent plutonium waste

I greatly dislike those people

[stone quiver]

Snowpiercer satisfactory

[royal mortar]

hmm, sounds wrong though ... but thanks for the info

[normal orbit]

coal sulfur and nitrogen

[dense violet]

how does it sound wrong?

[stone quiver]

I haven't done nuclear because I am lazy. It doesn't seem hard just I'm lazy

[dense violet]

basically the same amount of work split into smaller processes

[limber moss]

Fair, tbh

[unkempt blade]

it has a lot of friendly cats is the main appeal

[zenith pecan]

I generally stop at uranium and sink the plutonium rods, plenty enough power when scaled up.

[unkempt blade]

but line must go up... but only in a consequence-free way

We hate tradeoffs around here! Only upside allowed!

[zenith pecan]

The trade off is I don't get the power from the plutonium 🤷‍♂️

[unkempt blade]

that's why you have to sink it to make the line go up!

[wary falcon]

im told to plan ahead and stuff so im trying. i wanna make an aluminum factory since i just got max belt speed. is 4800 a lot... i almost feel like its not that much and maybe i should go for more

and yes im sure its hard for you to answer but how abt i ask this, whats a good way to plan ahead when making factories such as alumimun. its so hard to gauge what ill want to do and need for the future

[ornate saffron]

But you can power a truck for 166 minutes with a single plutorod

[dense violet]

that's why the only allowable alt is Solid Steel ingot

[unkempt blade]

But then I need to be protected from my own actions... no not like ficsonium. I need it to make the line go up better

[dense violet]

who ever told you that hates you

[wary falcon]

the game told me that 😭

[unkempt blade]

Just do vibe automating. It's way more fun

[oak nymph]

Could train transport 3600ore/min

[dense violet]

it's fine to plan a whole factory - but trying to future proof will waste your time

[wary falcon]

what that mean

[dense violet]

just make stuff

[wary falcon]

just make stuff...

[unkempt blade]

don't think just build

[wary falcon]

what do i do if in the future i realize i need 2000 more ingots tho 😭

[normal orbit]

yes easily

[dense violet]

make another factory then

[wary falcon]

mostly cuz i hate aluminum

[dense violet]

same amount of work

[wary falcon]

alright then ty guys ill not worry about it

[unkempt blade]

sounds like a future-you problem so what's the issue?

[dense violet]

if you kept your waste and fresh pipes split you wouldn't

[wary falcon]

i do!!!! lol

[oak nymph]

Even if the trajet is long cause it gotta pick up stuff at multiple locations?

[wary falcon]

damn cobalt u got a good memory lol

[ornate saffron]

Future you is a jerk anyways. Leave your issues to him

[normal orbit]

you can just add more trains to reach the thruput you need if its a long distance, as well as split ore into multiple cars, like instead of 1200 in one car, do 600 in two

[oak nymph]

I'm not sure to understand I haven't got around with train at all I just used drone

[normal orbit]

provided you build directional tracks (one in each direction) you can more or less put hundreds of trains on there if signaled properly

and if you want more thru put, can do what i did and make a pair of it

[oak nymph]

Couldn't I just make a big loop

[normal orbit]

#design-and-architecture message

it becomes a big loop

[royal mortar]

for starters, drones are a very expensive way for transportation, and i can't even actively control when they are supposed to start?

[normal orbit]

if you do that

[oak nymph]

Drone are chill

[normal orbit]

all they need is fuel, not that expensive

the better the fuel the less they use and the faster they are

[dense violet]

once yo uhave fuel automated they are basically free - don't cost much.

you can control when they start by turning on the machine when it's full?

[dense violet]

treat drone ports like teleporters . They just teleport stuff

[oak nymph]

@normal orbit can you come in #math-and-meta please I will send something

[normal orbit]

also why do you need to control when they start? they just move items from a to b

[unkempt blade]

they're more expensive to run than other vehicles but using a reasonable amount of them shouldn't be a huge issue by the time you unlock them

[royal mortar]

hmm, i think i pass on drones, thanks for the input though

[west jackal]

I heard fluids are changing in 1.2, do you think itll make 600/m pipes work better?

[dense violet]

I mean up to you - they are basically zero infrastructure teleporters. Can handle any throughput. Just add more drones

[unkempt blade]

factory carts are better anyway

[keen vault]

mini race car

is better than drones?

[unkempt blade]

way better, drones are for lazy nerds while factory carts are for real pioneers of character

[keen vault]

personally i prefer hypertube cannons and lizard doggos

as demonstrated by lets game it out: they can fit so much nuclear waste

[unkempt blade]

those move you they don't do logistics for you 🙂

[spare prism]

Oh Boi I got oil production now

[unkempt blade]

what's lets game it out?

[mystic crag]

Why does my compact stuff no longer work?

[last warren]

can somebody please look in #screenshots

[keen vault]

lucky boy, he is the absolute menace to pioneering, a criminal against design

also he invented the hypertube cannon

[last warren]

what should i choose

[unkempt blade]

that's impossible because I invented the HT cannon

[ornate saffron]

Choose the one you want.

All hardeive options are good

[dreamy belfry]

Will Plaform: <MISSING STRING TABLE ENTRY> stop the join server list from populating? (never tried joining an online game before, just linked steam/epic accounts)

[keen vault]

when did u invent it?

[green fiber]

1866

[zenith pecan]

Choose what you want, there are more drives than alts.

[unkempt blade]

1985 in my grandpa's garage

[keen vault]

o dam, so u are the true inventor

[unkempt blade]

I got 3 concussions that year but I managed to perfect its design anyway and launched myself clear across the lake

[keen vault]

might aswell go to space

[ornate saffron]

Can confirm.

I was living at the bottom of the lake. I was up early cleaning the lake floor

[charred spire]

HOLY NO WAY there are portals in the game ???

[ornate saffron]

Yes sir

[unkempt blade]

Yeah but they're a lie. You can't drive factory carts through them

[stone quiver]

For visit each biome achievement do I have to make 4 games? I've explored the whole map but it won't trigger

[zenith pecan]

Be prepared to make a whole lot of sing cells for the potrals

[keen vault]

1.2 is doing miracle work

[stone quiver]

That's why you automate a massive pasta

So you can have 20 portals

[unkempt blade]

I don't power my portals. I just put an HT entrance just behind it. It's better that way

[zenith pecan]

I'm rebuilding my sing cell plant directly below my old hupertube hub in preparation for a full refit into a portal hub.

[white dawn]

No, should be able to do it all on a single save

[zenith pecan]

I restarted the manufacturer from stores and have 2 industrial cans full of sing cells, I just want the system working without the jank.

[mint cobalt]

Uhhh every time I try and use a blooprint my game crashes how do I fix that???

[reef basin]

is that a downloaded blueprint?

[mint cobalt]

No it’s any blooprint

I place it and I crash

Or sometimes when I click on the blooprint to place

[crude holly]

Will the ratios for this just sort themselves out of I make the entire thing with manifolds? #screenshots message

[night birch]

i can't seem to figure out why my water pumps are not filling my pump - could anyone please help?

[stone quiver]

My plan is a clock of doors at the HUB. You go in and visit all the factories

[zenith pecan]

Five minutes to midnight leads to the nuke nobelisk factory ?

[stone quiver]

One door leads to the triple nuke charger crash site

We shuffle the doors daily.

[bitter crow]

should i have one major place where i make plubber, and then distribute said plubber using trains?

or is that gonna be a hell

[unkempt blade]

I like trains

[bitter crow]

do i have the right thinking?

[unkempt blade]

it's not very independency but that's ok

just need to keep in mind how much your consumers need

[bitter crow]

can i limit how much a train drops off?

[normal orbit]

Not really

There's a janky way

Prefill a car with some nonsense then edit timetable to only load and unload the item you want. Then depending how many stacks of nonsense there is you have a limit. I don't see why you would wanna do that tho. Just limit how much you put into the supply station.

Like put 100/min in. You won't have more than 100/min out at the other end

You can have less, but not more

[empty spoke]

guys, its the first time im actually considering going for a megafactory, i have quite a strong pc so i think i can handle it, but i dont just wanna spam constructors everywhere etc, i actually still wanna keep it in a city build style, is that realistic? are trains transfer amount actually that calculateable that i can really say okay im getting like 4k iron per minute?

[bitter crow]

oh i see

[bitter crow]

idk

maybe

[versed cosmos]

yes, unless that train has to stop like it would at intersections as part of a rail network

then travel time is going to be variable

easy solution is to deliver more than you need

[empty spoke]

anything else i have to consider before actually going for a megafactory?

[normal orbit]

You won't get a reading until you build it and run it.

[versed cosmos]

how you define a megafactory

is smelting before loading onto the train allowed?

does power also need to be part of the megafactory?

[empty spoke]

well i can make exceptions

[versed cosmos]

yeah

its just how you define it

some people say absolutely everything, including power, must be part of one building

and then others say you can smelt first

[empty spoke]

yeah id say pretty much everything that needs more crafting than 1 step is getting done in my base

everythign else like power, smelting can happen outside of base if really needed to

thats how id do it

i wouldnt smelt too much, since foundries exist

[upbeat estuary]

Hi! I want to play with my friend we're both playing on console (PS5) however when trying to join my friends I received this error message "can't connect backend sessions" is there any troubleshooting steps for this?

[keen vault]

uh guys how much nuclear power plants is too much?

[real shale]

Not enough

[versed cosmos]

nuclear is completely optional

you can complete the game on rocket fuel

[bitter crow]

can i treat train stations as manifold lanes?

[clear mesa]

rocket fuel is completely optional you can complete the game on coal

[bitter crow]

itd make my life a whole lot of easier

[versed cosmos]

thats a lot of coal plants lol

[clear mesa]

:p

wait until you see the people who've completed this game on biofuel

[bitter crow]

thats called machocism (sorry for bad england)

[clear mesa]

masochism but yes

i got what you meant anyways

[bitter crow]

yeah.. isnt macho a behaviour in groups?

[clear mesa]

and i agree...i dont think i could ever do that to myself

[bitter crow]

i would uninstall the game before phase 3

[clear mesa]

macho is like being super masculine i think idk?

[bitter crow]

yeah something like that

[clear mesa]

first thing i do is rush to phase 2 so i can eliminate biofuel lol

so i cant blame u

[bitter crow]

im trying fuel gens now and omg its a dream

1.25 gw already omg

[clear mesa]

oh yeah fuel is a nice upgrade

it can be used up until the end if youd like to ignore nuclear completely

[bitter crow]

hmm im thinking of doing so

[stone quiver]

Restart the host. Relog epic account. Check that all multiplayer settings are correctly marked by the host, they often reset. Ensure they are not out of the game.

[clear mesa]

It's fine to do so although uranium has no other reason to exist other than to provide power (unless you convert it)

[bitter crow]

ah i see

yeah might make one plant or so

just for fun

[clear mesa]

You have more crude oil than you would ever need anyways honestly so both methods work fine

But I'd get a mix of the two personally even if just for fun

[zenith pecan]

You can use a small amount for things that go bang.

[clear mesa]

Oh yeah the nukes

[bitter crow]

okay, what happens if i treat trains and train stations like manifold lanes, where the first one gets 50% and so on, would it work?

[jagged nymph]

my friend has never heard of "the game" yknow the one that you arent supposed to remember and doesnt believe it exists, someone verify they know what it is

[bitter crow]

DUDE!

[stone quiver]

You can't make us lose by mentioning it

[bitter crow]

Unccol man

[stone quiver]

That's cheating

[forest tangle]

Need some help with pipes... my flow rate is bouncing all over the place

[river kelp]

how good are trains? i am building a huge train terminal and my math is: per train cart i can transport 480 items per minute. i have 10 stations with 3 carts each so per station 1440 items

[oak nymph]

How do I put 5 train on one track? How do I manage them to not collide into each other

[unborn moss]

Gotta keep em separated with signals.

[oak nymph]

How

[unborn moss]

Place signals on the track...

[tall lantern]

hopefully it's not literally one track all the way, bidirectional track signalling is pain

[oak nymph]

It's a loop

[oak nymph]

How do they work I just place more train then 5 signal and boom it magically work?

[unborn moss]

With block signals, only 1 train can be in a block at a time.

[oak nymph]

It's really that easy

?

[oak nymph]

Where do I place the signals at?

[outer bear]

Are space elevator assembly parts used for anything else other than upgrading the elevator?

[oak nymph]

More later it is used for more space elevator part

[versed cosmos]

theyre used in later space elevator parts

[outer bear]

Ok so I should keep the factory’s set up for them

[versed cosmos]

youll need a few thousand smart plates across the game but the space elevator only takes like 1000 of them

[oak nymph]

Yeah

[outer bear]

Alright thanks

[unborn moss]

They snap to the track, can be a problem if signals are too close to each other, but otherwise can do be far apart if you want.

[oak nymph]

It seems to easy but ok

[cunning glade]

okay ik big factorys are laggy but it wasnt this bad last time i was playing

my friend is too wack

[hybrid nymph]

So I just installed the digital storage mod, which is the equivalent of the applied energistics ME system from Minecraft, and it seems pretty broken

I mean sure it requires space elevator parts to create the drives and stuff but still it's a very powerful mod

I'm not sure if I want to keep using it. I might just put a few mods on that upgrade the dimensional depots instead

The dimensional depots just need a few more adjustments with a few small mods to be as good as the ME system. I got two dimensional Depot mods: delete empty dimensional Depot stacks, and dimensional Depot upgrades. Dimensional Depot upgrades make it so the dimensional depots upload items twice as fast and you can have up to 10 stacks of items and the depots instead of just four

And the other dimensional Depot mod that deletes unused stacks, pretty self-explanatory. It just makes it so once a dimensional Depot stack is empty It's automatically deleted

[hybrid nymph]

Big factories are honestly not that bad, I have my entire factory in one building on my save "Pig Benis" and with a Ryzen 7 5800X 32 GB of RAM, and an RTX 2070 super I am still getting around 100 FPS at maximum settings at 1440p

As long as you have at least a GTX 1070 graphics card, And at least a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16GB of RAM And you're running the game at 1080p, you should be just fine

[ornate saffron]

Walls help

[fresh river]

should i make my oil refining at the deposit or at my base? (my base is 2 kilometers away from the deposit)

[ornate saffron]

Node. Its easier to move parts rather then liquids

[fresh river]

alr thanks

[limpid iron]

2km of pipelines isnt unrealistic though 😉

[ornate saffron]

Also dont move more parts then you need to. You can just build more factories elsewhere. The map is huge

[floral bronze]

is it normal for my super computer factory to have, well. more factories ( a lot more )

[reef basin]

you shouldn't have just one base

[ornate saffron]

Mmmm chorizo

[fresh river]

alr

i just started phase 2 and i just moved from factorio so im used to having 1 base

[ornate saffron]

In this game you'll wana spread out like the plague

[fresh river]

oh ok

[limpid iron]

in satisfactory you kinda just build where the nodes are and transport the output to other factories

[reef basin]

forget everything you know from factorio

[fresh river]

how can i forget 1k hours

[reef basin]

you build where nodes are and don't transport anything

[limpid iron]

except killing megafauna

[fresh river]

of knowledge

[floral bronze]

just blink

[fresh river]

oh ok

[reef basin]

I mean it as "don't reuse the build styles, approach it as a new game"

[fresh river]

ah ok

[hybrid nymph]

Nah, don't bother, just refine all of your oil at your refinery and then if you really need to ship anything back to the base such as plastic and rubber, just use a train

[fresh river]

alr thanks

[limpid iron]

i don't think you can go without transporting anything, synthetics aren't that close to where you usually need them

[reef basin]

you build where they are

[floral bronze]

the components in phase 4 are making me lose it b

[hybrid nymph]

Why do you think I've never made it to Tier 9? Because I didn't want to deal with the pain in the ass of having to craft nuclear pasta

[floral bronze]

I dont even know what that is

this is my first play through

[hybrid nymph]

I might get a mod that adds in more tiers

[limpid iron]

wtv !

[hybrid nymph]

Nuclear pasta is a substance that is naturally found within the crust of neutron stars and it happens to be one of the required materials for phase four for the space elevator, and it is extremely difficult to make

[limpid iron]

but like how do you make circuit boards then without transporting oil or iron products anywhere

[floral bronze]

im going left to right. im trying to make assembly director system

[reef basin]

you make them at oil

[limpid iron]

how does the iron get to the oil if there isnt any directly nearby

gotta transport it

[reef basin]

well I was talking about transporting products, not raw resources

[hybrid nymph]

I would recommend trying to get hard drives so that you can get the alternate recipe for the caterium circuit board, it's much more useful

[limpid iron]

just to be clear, by transport I'm including conveyor belts between factories

[limpid iron]

well yeah

[hybrid nymph]

Because with a criterium circuit board you can make 27 of them from each assembler if you fully overclock it

[limpid iron]

when I said "transport the outputs" I meant the output of the factory e.g. steel beams

[reef basin]

yeah and I wouldn't do that

[limpid iron]

im just not understanding how you create something where the resources are far apart without transporting 🤷

teleporting the resources are you?

[reef basin]

you transport raw resources to the factory (if they are not onsite)

[limpid iron]

right

[hybrid nymph]

And this is why I use trains 🚂

[floral bronze]

I mean, making a few looooooooooooooong conveyors is a lot easier to set up

[hybrid nymph]

I'm sure that Aquila with his modding genius has invented a item that is the equivalent of an ender chest and an ender tank for this game That teleports items and fluids

[cunning glade]

well me on a 7900xtx 12700k 4k and my friend 1080p with 4060 13400 are getting really bad like freezes im getting like 24fps drops too

[hybrid nymph]

I don't typically like running conveyor belts further then about 200 m

[cunning glade]

its near my 3k plastic a min factory

[hybrid nymph]

Call me lazy, but I like using trains to transport stuff. F*** drones!

[cunning glade]

drones are cool too

[peak wasp]

I mean there's ur problem 3k plastic per minute also how did you get that much?

[cunning glade]

trains are kinda stupid for low amounts of items a min like hmf

[hybrid nymph]

I don't like having to go through crafting batteries or fuel rods and I don't like that the inventory on a drone is so small, and I don't like having to program the drones

[peak wasp]

and where did u process all your oil

[hybrid nymph]

I mean yeah that's true

If you're only transporting maybe 10 stacks of items at a time you can use drones for that, but if you're transporting say like 50 stacks at a time then use a train

The train is the fastest land vehicle in the game

[cunning glade]

rocketfuel is easy and u make a shit ton give 400 of it too drones and u can setup alot

[hybrid nymph]

The only thing faster than a train is a drone

[peak wasp]

So trains are faster than 1200 per minute belts?

[hybrid nymph]

Yes they are

[reef basin]

speed is irrelevant, throughput is what you care about

[peak wasp]

I have no idea how to use them still I need an entire new world

[cunning glade]

fair my 6400 rubber and 3k plastic a min factory isnt this bad tho

[hybrid nymph]

A train has 40 stacks that it can carry per car. And you can have up to four cars per locomotive, which is usually how big I make my trains

Which means that you can transport up to 160 stacks of items from each train That is unless you want to make the train longer and add more locomotives

[peak wasp]

Can steam cloud transfer worlds from 1 system to another? I have a 4060 laptop now and don't want to spend 60 hrs to get to tier 7 again

[hybrid nymph]

You can go into the satisfactory game files and just copy the save file. That's what I did to transfer it to my other computer

And unlike Minecraft, the satisfactory game file is only like 5 megabytes

I have no idea how programming works, but I really like that the safe file is so small

Instead of the safe file taking up like 20 GB

[peak wasp]

Really I thought it'd be huge that's good to know

[hybrid nymph]

I'm a socialist

[past dune]

my save file is up to 35 megs now.

doing a full vanilla power setup.

im at 3.33 million MW for now, i just posted some pics in #screenshots

[peak wasp]

chat what's the best recipe for motors rotors stators and turbo motors

[jolly sierra]

I thought my dedicated server wouldn't do much in 5 days but boy was I wrong lol

[peak wasp]

This game gets way too complex late stage for me 😭

[hybrid nymph]

Yeah the turbo electric motor is great

I love alt recipes

[peak wasp]

Should I make blueprints for everything to make it easier

[jolly sierra]

Yes

[hybrid nymph]

Sure if you want. I've never actually used blueprints before because I prefer doing everything manually

To me that's just part of the fun of the game

[peak wasp]

What's the best way to do inputs for manufactures though 500 hrs i still can't get it

[hybrid nymph]

I always use conveyor floor lifts

[peak wasp]

That's what I usually do as well

[jolly sierra]

View satisfactory tools for most efficient method :]

Any way to turn off discord correcting : ) to 🙂

[floral bronze]

does one freight platform fill up the entire train?

[unborn moss]

Some of the later game parts with small input numbers, you can just sushi belt them with smart splitters.

Only the single car that's stopped there

[floral bronze]

ok good

[mortal ginkgo]

He already answered the question. You didn't need to ask it.

"I like cake." "Do you?" "..?"

[oak nymph]

My problem now with all my train and signal is that the train are always stopped

[glacial drum]

I believe inside of “text and images” in the discord settings (only on desktop)

[mortal ginkgo]

🙂

[abstract heron]

Yup and big on memory

[floral bronze]

is there a limit on freight wagons?

[mortal ginkgo]

[Insert Political Joke with emphasis to Oil because why not]

[oak nymph]

Why are my pipe not loading

I mean the flow rate and all

[mortal ginkgo]

Headlift

[oak nymph]

It's gas

[mortal ginkgo]

if you are going vertical, you need to take care of that

oh..... well...

maybe it looks like connected but actually not. rebuilding works

[oak nymph]

I build a heck lot of pipe at once could it be it?

Nevermind it was just a bug

[spice sandal]

hey, im looking for someone to play with me and stick around untill the end. im already on stage 5. im just making my mega factories and wouldnt want to do it alone

[abstract heron]

I just did alumin ALL with OUT OC anything

[spice sandal]

more fun to do it with someone

[floral bronze]

wouldnt it just lead to disagreements?

[spice sandal]

and 2 people working on something is better than 1 person

[hybrid nymph]

Absolutely That is very true

My girlfriend painted my factory pink

[fleet flower]

Hello everyone. Just started playing about a week or so ago. Valentines gift from my wife. I think i made a mistake in my starting location. Green fields. Having a hard time finding certain things to open up more of the M.A.M and also coal and water access. I have found one coal node nearish to where I'm built so I'm making steel finally but I'm on the verge of hitting a wall.

TLDR; finding water access and coal in green fields is proving hard. I guess this is probably just the norm?

[floral bronze]

im not a professional my self but as far as im aware; the starting location doesnt really affect you that much and all of those resources are accessible through the entire map

[latent prawn]

if you head a bit northeast of the central plane, through the snaky trees, you'll find a little lake with 4 coal nodes where you can easily build a nice power plant

[fleet flower]

Oh awesome. That's immensely helpful. Thank you very much

[latent prawn]

the other option is head north west to the blue crater where you have a lot of coal & water as well. both seem like a bit of a hike, but the world gets smaller as you explore

been mostly playing DSP lately, just popped in and checked the patch notes 🙂

[fleet flower]

Yeah transportation has proven a challenge. I have the zipline thing but I'm struggling with jumping around the darn power poles. Lol

[latent prawn]

well, that's a learned skill and the later unlock of the power towers helps on that, but slide jump + jetpack ftw

almost like the games have something in common :p

[fleet flower]

Still trying to open up the MAM to get the jetpack. And i cantfind the SAM ore or whatever it is anywhere yet

[latent prawn]

closest sam is hidden in a cave.

i'll not spoil any more

[fleet flower]

Ooo i didn't even know caves were a thing. Lol.

[latent prawn]

i guess that means you haven't met all the fauna 😄

[fleet flower]

I'm no stranger to game obsession. I played Ark survival evolved so much my xbox stopped calculating my playtime in hours and switched to days worth of play. Lol

[fleet flower]

Fire ball dudes, wild boar things, lizard puppies (love them) and those creepy spiders. And the walking behemoths woth micro heads but they don't do much. Lol.

Still looking for hatchers (i think thats what they're called) just to clear them out of the mam

[latent prawn]

yeah

the farming mechanism is actually one of the things i like about the game

[fleet flower]

Oh No. I'm self aware enough to avoid that. I would never leave my house. Lol. Which would be an issue since I'm a construction worker. Lol

What is DSP?

[latent prawn]

dyson sphere program

[fleet flower]

PC only?

[latent prawn]

yeah

[fleet flower]

Never heard of it

[fleet flower]

Well that would be why. Lol. My wife and i are saving money to get a family gaming PC but we wanna do it right.

She started watching Case Oh on youtube and now she wants to play waterpark simulator. Lol

[latent prawn]

anyway, was just popping in, take care all

[fleet flower]

Thx for the tips my friend

Seems like it. I've watched a few videos on toutube but most of that is more like generic tips or later game mega factory building. Stuff that I'm just not ready for yet.

Oh i gotcha.

Isn't there a saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or some such? Lol

Yeah I'm on Xbox for the time being

Eventually I'll move to PC hopefully. Probably a ways off of that though

[ornate saffron]

Also

Good artists copy. Great artists steal

[fleet flower]

I had actually heard about satisfactory in another discord for a different factory builder game (Techtonica) but it was PC only back then so when i heard Satisfactory was coming to console i was pumped. Lol

Oh I'm sure. I am a little concerned how my console will handle it when I'm further along and built all over the map and what not.

[ornate saffron]

Lol im in bed right now.

[stone python]

being in bed is not efficient. Ficsit requires you to return to work before pay is deducted

[hybrid nymph]

Hey guys

How are you doing?

[chrome zinc]

Hey

[torn lynx]

hey, i have satisfactory on a drive that loves to disconect fro mmy pc and its gettign annoying ,how do i move it to my main drive?

[jagged nymph]

do you have it on steam

[hybrid nymph]

Pretty cool, just Go on steam and select installation options and switch it to a different drive

It's pretty simple I'm sure you can figure it out

[jagged nymph]

yeah thats why i asked if they have it on steam

[torn lynx]

yesi have it in steam

[jagged nymph]

then do what comrade said

[hybrid nymph]

If you're still having trouble figuring it out, just ask Google and it'll walk you through the steps

[torn lynx]

i did and i dont get it

[hybrid nymph]

There are two ways to do it

To switch Satisfactory game files (saves) to a new drive, copy the contents of %localappdata%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames to your new location. To move the actual installation, use the Steam "Move Install Folder" feature

Then all you have to do is go on steam and tell it where you put the game save files, or you can go directly through steam and move the install folder and game files to a different drive

It's pretty simple

[sturdy pivot]

If I research 1 hard drive in phase 3 then go to phase 4, will that hard drive roll recipes from the current unlocked milestone?

[hybrid nymph]

If you reroll the stats yes it will

[sturdy pivot]

Ty

[hybrid nymph]

What you can do with the hard drives is there's a way to save scum them. All you have to do is scan the hard drive, then wait for the game to tell you it's finished, walk over to the MAM then save your game, and then look at the results of the hard drive and if you don't like them you can reroll them, and if you still don't like them you can exit out of the game and come back in and then re-roll the stats again, and you can do this as many times as you want

That's what I did to unlock all of my favorite recipes

Now this is technically a form of cheating, but it's entirely up to you if you want to do it

[torn lynx]

i am sorry but i get none of this, i tried what you said and i dotn know where stuff is, i looked at factory game, and all i can think to do is uninstall satisfactory after getitng my main saves, redownlaodi to n the proper file then add the saves back in

[tranquil zinc]

I just bought boombox tapes, but they are nowhere in my inventorty

I can't rebuy the tapes, it says already purchased

[hybrid nymph]

I mean if you really want to you can do that. All you have to do is go in the steam options on the game and click modify install, and then select a new drive

If you really think you have to reinstall the whole game that's up to you

The boombox tapes don't go in your inventory They automatically go in the boombox

You've done nothing wrong

[torn lynx]

where is modify isntall?

[tranquil zinc]

oh, did not see the menu

[torn lynx]

wait i think i got it

[hybrid nymph]

I told you you figure it out. It just took a little bit

See? You're smarter than you thought

[torn lynx]

ok i think i got it

[torn lynx]

thanks man

[wary falcon]

im building a lot of aluminum scrap and i need 200 smelters and im genuinely want to quit

[hybrid nymph]

You're welcome happy to help

Why so many smelters?

Why such much?

[wary falcon]

uhh well i dont wanna use the other option to make aluminum ingots because that would be like 300 foundries 😭

like i dont even know where to put them

[hybrid nymph]

You only need like 6 of them if they're fully overclocked

Not 300

[wary falcon]

im making 6000 ingots

[hybrid nymph]

Why such much?

[wary falcon]

idk i just got mk 6 belts and i wanted to do smth with big number

[hybrid nymph]

I only make about 500 aluminum ingots per minute and I have so much aluminum plates and aluminum casings that I have to awesome sink most of them

[wary falcon]

damn i was almost running out with like 900 per min

[hybrid nymph]

Trains + dimensional depots, problem solved

[wary falcon]

never enough!@!!

[hybrid nymph]

I just have 2 industrial storage units with dimensional depots with 120/min upload speed each and I never run out

[wary falcon]

ohhh

well no this is just for like whatever i use in the future

not for my own inventory and stuff

[hybrid nymph]

There is a dimensional depots extra mod, It allows you to go up to a speed of 2,400/min upload speed and up to 25 stacks of items

Super useful, especially when combined with the AWESOME artifacts mod and Void spheres. Void spheres allow you to craft summer slopes and Mercer spheres, and awesome artifacts allows you to buy Summer sloops and Mercer spheres from the awesome shop

20 tickets per each sloops and 12 tickets per Mercer sphere

[keen schooner]

Is RebuildFactoryLegsOneTileAroundPlayer still in the game? I tried using it, but either I've done it wrong or it's not a thing anymore

[leaden ruin]

Is there a go-to end-game factory folks build at the blue crater area? it's quite a good amount of oil, nitrogen, iron, and a some sulfur. perhaps the plastic+ruber+...+computers path? plus all the water. or are folks making rocket fuel down there

[spare prism]

Isn't satisfactory on unreal engine 5

[gloomy tusk]

I make 4200 p/m rf so I’m fine

Nothing else tho

[hybrid nymph]

Indeed

I was thinking of adding my vanilla plus modpack to my world after I finishe tier 8

[jagged nymph]

why wait till tirer 8 and not right now

[hybrid nymph]

Because I wanted to do most of the game legitimately

This is my mod pack that I created: #screenshots message

Just in case if you want the same mods that I'm using, it's very fun

[leaden ruin]

i'm making 6k in other locations and using it for power but are you using it for smth else, like drones? or also just generators

[hybrid nymph]

Hey Chaz why is your picture Smitty WerbenJaggerManJensen?

[leaden ruin]

he was #1

[hybrid nymph]

He was #1 lol 😆

It was his hat Mr Krabs, he was #1!

[leaden ruin]

hey man, that's my hat. give it back.

[hybrid nymph]

In my medical opinion, THE HEAVY IS DEAD!

Okay homework time, need to get 1 assignment done then I can play satisfactory

[nocturne nebula]

is there a way to dump things I find into dimensional depot and export that to a machine like with alien remains?

[jagged nymph]

nope, The only way to get stuff out of depot storage is manually grabbing it into your inventory

[nocturne nebula]

k

ooh, I can shift clck from my inventory so thats a bonus

[lucid heart]

anyone know the mob that you can install to change the time of day?

[buoyant ocean]

Hello! First time in this server. Kinda shy. TLDR: I did a power grid collapse.
I'm slowly bootstraping from coal to fuel generators. Rewiring everything basically.
How's ya'lls Friday?!

[jagged nymph]

good, except its saturday for me currently

how the power grid fix goin

ive only had one power grid collapse but luckily my fuel gens still had some fuel in them so i isolated them from the rest of the power grid and they were able to keep themselves running while i fixed the issue

[buoyant ocean]

Ugly. To be honest. I'mma have to make power lines a lot more obvious to where they go.
Prolly put in some failsafes.
My fault for over producing and attaching power to miscellaneous off shoots.

[jagged nymph]

yeah, when i had a collapse i was going insane figuring out where stuff was still connected 😭

[buoyant ocean]

I just need to get transport tubes running from my coal to fule generators. Bloody heck. These biomass Burners do nothing.

But how're ya'll doing?

[jagged nymph]

good, just setting up a little steel thing for building

it runs great

i even hosted a server on linux while playing on said server and it works great

3070

[hazy topaz]

chat am I cooked? It’s 11:40pm and I can’t sleep because i’m thinking 20 steps ahead on how i’m gonna manufacture encased industrial beams when I only (slowly) automated reinforced iron plates

[zealous storm]

Any idea how can i make 704 fuel generators look good

[hazy topaz]

Why on Gods green earth do you need 704 fuel generators

[nocturne nebula]

wow the northern forest looks very different these days, didn't even realize I was approaching it, lol

[stone quiver]

Just undid my overclocks and sloops on my AI and other high req stuff and somehow my power consumption didnt really go down... it just stabilized... tf game

[zealous storm]

because i can?

i started to make a simple setup initially but then it turned into a rocket fuel setup with 720 crude oil input soo

a couple of days later now im trying to fit 704 generators to somewhere

[jagged nymph]

tower

[zealous storm]

At first i thought the roof of the building would be enough but its not even close

[zealous storm]

im not thrilled about moving fluids upwards but that seems to be the only option

[jagged nymph]

pump

water tower

[vagrant crown]

to preface im pretty new to this game, how would one open a drop pod that needs 100mw early game if possible?

[zealous storm]

a bunch of bio fuel generators

you just need them to work briefly

[vagrant crown]

how briefly is brief

[zealous storm]

put 4 side by side connect them to power poles

[zealous storm]

like put 5-10 wood on each

literally anything that you can burn on them will get the job done

[vagrant crown]

i dunno why but the fuses keep blowing, i kept banging my head agaisnt the wall and it worked

thank you

[zealous storm]

Oh thats because you need to be able to produce enough power before connecting it to the drop pod

in this case all four generators needs to be running before connecting

[vagrant crown]

that makes sense, i honestly probably need sleep lol

[zealous storm]

or you can just let the fuse blow feed all four with fuel then open the fuse again

[zealous storm]

yeah feel you factory must grow tho

[vagrant crown]

i will feed the machine, dont worry

thank you again for your help

[nocturne nebula]

I am taking a break from my factory ... searching for mercer sphers ... and LOTs and lots of slugs

[zealous storm]

Anytime

[nocturne nebula]

25/21/13 so far

[zealous storm]

eww fluids

[nocturne nebula]

for only 7 sphers

[zealous storm]

does game have a limit for how low we can build?

maybe i can make a downward tower

gravity baby

[nocturne nebula]

speaking of gravity, you guys ever use those landing pads? lol

[frosty mirage]

Never used them in 237h of gameplay x.x

[nocturne nebula]

I did in my very first playthrough

doesn't take long to never need them again unfortunately

and they slow us down too

[frosty mirage]

I didnt explore that much in phase 1 and 2, in phase 3 i already had lots of transport methods, i love the zip+jetpack combo ngl

[hazy topaz]

Oh sorry i’m just new and was wondering why you’d need that many instead of nuclear or other sources. Some options to make it look nice is: verticality, incasing them all within a megastructure and just blueprints probably

[frosty mirage]

I think my factory is getting out of hands, im at around 250 machines 😭 but im almost done with the construction material factory, building it sure gave me some skills

Next up i'll probably build a space elevator factory and i assume i might need to expand my power soon

Im still refusing to learn trains tho lol and im about to go phase 4

[hazy topaz]

star wars, half life, fallout even, huge fictional buildings which could be good for your factory

[hybrid nymph]

I love this game, it is one of my favorite games of all time

My top 5 favorite games of all time: #1 Minecraft 1200 hours, #2 Super Smash Bros Brawl 856 hours, #3 Diablo 3 824 hours, #4 Satisfactory 600 hours, #5 No Man's Sky 309 hours

[frosty mirage]

For me this officially took the top 1 position from destiny2

[hybrid nymph]

what are your top 5 favorite games?

[frosty mirage]

Although i do crave the good old days of destiny 2 from a while back

[hybrid nymph]

This is my #1 game on Steam

My top 5 on Steam are: #1 Satisfactory, #2 No Man's Sky, #3 Payday 2, #4 Killing Floor 2, #5 Democracy 3

[wispy osprey]

I hope "random phase requirements" become a thing in game modes

[wispy osprey]

I've played a handful of games for longer than 1000 hours

One of those I used to really praise

[hybrid nymph]

You are a true fan

[wispy osprey]

Final Fantasy 14 should've stopped at endwalker

[zealous storm]

Im not sure if i'll be able to consume 704*250MW power but better safe then sorry and also fuel generators are easier to maintain and build than nuclear counterparts

[hybrid nymph]

ugh we waste so much of our lives playing video games lol

but if you ejoy it, is it really time wasted?

[wispy osprey]

I don't feel like it's a waste when what I do in life isn't anymore monotonous and mindless

[wraith widget]

its because theres no copy/paste feature, thats why this game takes fking hours

let me select things like shapez 2 and the game is finished EZ

[hybrid nymph]

Oh I'm sorry, you work in an office cublicle?

[wispy osprey]

Honestly a really hard sell for satisfactory is the point in which you literally just wait for your base part requirements to go up

[hybrid nymph]

That would be my worst nightmare, working in an office cublicle

[wispy osprey]

Though some people find watching items pass on conveyors satisfying

[wispy osprey]

I'm a quality tech in a factory

It pays the bills

[hybrid nymph]

you might lose your job because of trump if you're in America

did you hear the breaking news?

[wispy osprey]

I'm apolitical

[hybrid nymph]

With Trump'

[frosty mirage]

The real waste of time is real life jobs lol

[wraith widget]

is it normal for my factory to be needing rediculous amounts of copper wire

[hybrid nymph]

trade war all of the world's other nations are palcing a trade embargo against all american goods

[wraith widget]

i see everyone talk about getting screws out of the equation, but my issue is all wire

[hybrid nymph]

totally normal if you haven't unlocked quickwire cable recipe

my factory requires 500 wire/min

[wraith widget]

i recently set up a quickwire/copper wire farm with the alt recipes that use copper and cat for both, and i still need more copper wire lol

[hybrid nymph]

and 700 quickwire per minute

[wraith widget]

oh i have 2 belts of 1200 just to make simple stuff

[hybrid nymph]

I use quickwire top make graphics cards aka circuit boards

[wispy osprey]

Iron wire is alright, it's not like there's 100 pure nodes in the world lol

There's so much iron in satisfactory

[frosty mirage]

Im doing 1256 wire/m in my construction materials factory

[candid marsh]

Don't you have some alts for making cooper ingots or wires with iron?

[wraith widget]

i just hate how many dang constructers it uses, need a whole mile for 1k iron wire

[frosty mirage]

Only 100/m goes in storage, the rest is needed for cables and stitched iron plates

[wraith widget]

i do yeah

[hybrid nymph]

I know right?!

[candid marsh]

Ohh I see

[hybrid nymph]

iron wire is very useful

so are iron screws

[normal orbit]

build up, make a stack

[frosty mirage]

42 constructors for 1250 ish wire, i say thats decent

[normal orbit]

#screenshots message like

[wraith widget]

with the copper + cat alts it seems like a ton less, but i do have unlimited iron so i guess why not

[hybrid nymph]

I use sloops in my constructors to make more wire, each slooped fully overclocked constructor makes 150 wire

[frosty mirage]

Im a bit low on sloops, i prefer using them on complex materials tho

I dont rly mind entire rows of constructors, but the logistics can get complicated with the belt capacity limitation

[wispy osprey]

The final fantasy 7 layout

Also fuck the "no chatting in screenshots channel" thing

[jagged nymph]

what recipe produces the most items per minute

[wispy osprey]

That award goes to steel screw

It's beyond overkill

Fluids if you wanna be technically correct

[jagged nymph]

260, wow

[sick socket]

does anyone know why two mk4 belts aren't merging into a mk5 belt at full throughput?

idk if this is the channel for like help so sorry if this is polluting a little

[jagged nymph]

so if you fully overclock and sloop it you wouldnt be able to support that on a mk6 belt

[normal orbit]

cuz 480+480 is more than 780

[jagged nymph]

cause 480*2 is more than 720

[wraith widget]

theres a straggler mk4 in the 5 line

[frosty mirage]

Isnt it quickwire?

[jagged nymph]

nope

[normal orbit]

processing alien protein into biomass have the highest items/min at 1500/min

[sick socket]

yeah but the output measuring tool is saying that its outputting at 480/min though

[sick socket]

fuck

[jagged nymph]

oh

yeah theres a stray mk4 in there somewhere

[normal orbit]

then you have a piece of mk4 somewhere limiting the enitre length

[sick socket]

pain

[jagged nymph]

just hold out a mk5 and run down the line, when you see a belt turn yellow yoube found it

[normal orbit]

its easier to just look at the items and see when they start to space out

[wispy osprey]

Mk3 miners with 250% produce 1200 per minute

[normal orbit]

they do not

[wispy osprey]

On a pure node

[normal orbit]

they make 1200/min

[wispy osprey]

I mix my numbers, I hate how belts work in this game for a reason

[jagged nymph]

how else would they work

oh do you mean the speeds

[wispy osprey]

Customizable throughput rate

[jagged nymph]

that makes logistics too easy though

[wispy osprey]

Depends on how realistic you want logistics to be

[jagged nymph]

well i dont think theyre supposed to be realistic

[wispy osprey]

Besides belts are technically customizable, just up to their per minute limit

[normal orbit]

they will self balance out with time, dont really need to be able to set precise numbers, just wait a hot minute

[sick socket]

do lifts count?

[jagged nymph]

yes, lifts do also have a speed

[balmy orbit]

anyone ever gotten a bug where u cant load into your world? im just stuck in the satisfactory loading screen with the ''ball'' not spinning

[jagged nymph]

no

[balmy orbit]

damn, kinda worried something is corrupt

[normal orbit]

try an older autosave

[hybrid nymph]

so real question

Do you really think we will have 1 million humans living on Mars by 2050?

[jagged nymph]

absolutely not

[hybrid nymph]

Honestly, in my personal opinion, not happening

[jagged nymph]

ill be hundreds of years before that happens if it does

[hybrid nymph]

that's 24 years away, to me, highly unlikely

I highly doubt we will even put a man on amrs before the end of our lifetimes

[jagged nymph]

probaly not

[hybrid nymph]

The US is shooting for 2035 mission to mars, I don't think its going to happen

[jagged nymph]

hell nah that aint happenin

777x might not even be out by then

at this rrate

[hybrid nymph]

For starters it would cost about $800 Billion for a trip to mars and back, and not to mention the trip would take 3 years!

[normal orbit]

they wont be coming back if they go

[balmy orbit]

a pretty big percentage of ppl under 30 dont even want kids, if im not mistaken almost worldwide birth rate is rapidly declining, so i dont think it would be impossible but it would serve no real purpouse

[wispy osprey]

This also happens when your playing via Epic servers

Stick to offline single player if you play solo

[hybrid nymph]

No they won't Mars would be a death sentence!

[balmy orbit]

it was my computer having a freak bob moment, web browser wouldnt load, it didnt give any audio or anything, restarted my computer and were all good

[wispy osprey]

I saw an article saying NASA actually wants to go to the moon again

Japan already recently went there with a probe

[hybrid nymph]

For starters not only is Elon Musk an idiot that doesn't understand: bone loss, muscle atrophy, weakening organs, and dangerously high radiation, but if a human went to mars, they could NEVER come home again

[balmy orbit]

last i saw was it was going to happen the first quarter of 2026

[hybrid nymph]

The moon is a much greater attainable goal

I can see a moon habitat with human living on the moon realistically by 2040

[wispy osprey]

We're more likely to make a Lunar colony first before stepping foot on Mars

[hybrid nymph]

absolutely

I wanted to be an astronomer

or an astronaught

when I was a kid

I wanted to go to the moon

but I realized how much math it took, and I even though I'm decent at math, I could never do it

I excell in the subjects of: English, philosophy, political science, history, and economics

NOT science!

oh and BTW I took the princeton English literacy test, and I apssed

[wispy osprey]

Have you just
Laid back, on the countryside and looked straight up at the stars

You're far away from any light pollution.

It makes you feel like you're looking down and being held up by the Earth

[hybrid nymph]

I got an 82% and I got accepted into Princeton University

to study Political Science

I'm not sure if I want to go though for my Master's in political science

that's easilly 4 more years of school

[wispy osprey]

I was ignored lol

[hybrid nymph]

I'll be in school til I'm 34

I have done that yes, in Yosemite National Park

it was beautiful

[wispy osprey]

You gotta experience that at least once

[hybrid nymph]

I have 3 times

once in Yosemite

Once in Yellowstone

and Once in Joshua Tree

[wispy osprey]

It was dark enough to see the tail of the milky way back when I stayed a weekend with my grandparents

[hybrid nymph]

oh your grandparents are still alive?

good for you, mine aren't

[wispy osprey]

Seeing that many stars in the sky is humbling

[hybrid nymph]

they're all DED

They died when I was 25

[wispy osprey]

They're not directly related to me, mom dovorced the step-dad

Same old song and dance

[hybrid nymph]

Yeah I get that

Didn't know we had so many space lovers in this chat

[wispy osprey]

Of course, we can see basically 50% of the entire atmosphere on any point of the planet. Earth is a great viewpoint without a scope

[hybrid nymph]

Satisfactory is a game about Engineering, science, exploration, and automation

[jagged nymph]

where does science come in

[hybrid nymph]

research

[normal orbit]

more like exploration, automation and logistics

[jagged nymph]

yeah

thats more accurate]

[hybrid nymph]

you're here to research things to unlock more tiers for the [project assembly

[jagged nymph]

i mean

[normal orbit]

not really, theres no research

[jagged nymph]

its not really research

youre basically just shoving stuff into a machine and unlocking new stuff

[hybrid nymph]

You play as an enginner, named Becky, who builds a factory, explores the planet, and automates machines to manufacture the space elevator parts

[normal orbit]

you're constructing project assembly, and sending up parts to do so

[jagged nymph]

where does it say our name is becky

[normal orbit]

we're not becky

shes a diffrent pioneer

[hybrid nymph]

well fine it isn't "officisl" but here is the fan theory I subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EDp2SbTko

[toxic lichen]

ficsit would see it fit to name us Pioneer#18927461874

[candid marsh]

So I finally made a new world in the dunes... fr is the best starting area

[balmy orbit]

no issues getting biomass fuel?

[toxic lichen]

theres a surprising amount of shrubbery stuffs near the dunes

[candid marsh]

not at all

[toxic lichen]

like by the oasis

[normal orbit]

considering ada has a voice line referencing becky and one named monica. we cannot be either of those two

[balmy orbit]

just realized i dont think ive ever been in the dunes

[candid marsh]

is the top east

[hybrid nymph]

Well we're just unamed woman named "Pioneer#0136738590679"

[balmy orbit]

im out exploring looking for snails n stuff rn, imma head there

[candid marsh]

there are a lot of nodes here

[toxic lichen]

a lot of pure iirc

[hybrid nymph]

I had a job once that had as much running as satisfactory does, I was probably running about 5 miles a day, and I lost 25lbs in one month

I went from 185 down to 160

Goid I wish I was still 185

I'm 225 now

but still I'm tall though, I'm 184 cm

but I weigh 102KG

[candid marsh]

Have you researched production amplifier?

[balmy orbit]

no i have not, im out exploring to find stuff i need for alien research atm, and hard drives

[candid marsh]

nice... cause that will give you a good boost of power shards

[balmy orbit]

sweet

[hybrid nymph]

I found out a way to make tons of shards

put a somersloop in a constructor and it doubles your shards

each purple powerslug gives you 20 shards

[balmy orbit]

man this world is just awesome, the attention to detail is truly fantastic

[hybrid nymph]

I made 600 shards this way

[balmy orbit]

thats insane