satisfactory

[pure condor]

when I got to oil this game got so much more fun thats crazy I was getting super bored and its like so awesome now

[normal orbit]

kinda sounds like you set too high expectations :p

[real shale]

mmm 417.857 steel beams a minute sounds like a good figure

[dense violet]

a respectable number

pillar of the community

[real shale]

up from 225 just by adding one pipe of water

[jagged nymph]

not 256.9234?

[real shale]

no because thats wasteful

[pure condor]

not using blueprints for everything too made it a lot more enjoyable

[jagged nymph]

what??

i would not play this game without blueprints

[pure condor]

I know right

[jagged nymph]

how is getting carpal tunnel clicking belts between spplitters for huors and hours fun

[pure condor]

I still use them sometimes but its way more fun when I do it myself imo

[jagged nymph]

the fun part is the planning

[normal orbit]

i find decorating more fun :p

[pure condor]

I also enjoy planning

[normal orbit]

planning is w/e just take stuff make into other stuff

makign it look cool is where its at for me :p

[pure condor]

I got my friend to get satisfactory and I started a new save with him but hes really bad at it

[jagged nymph]

we all start somewhere

[real shale]

for me it is squeezing out as much resources as possible out of nodes

even if the number is a beautiful decimal value

[sudden flint]

I had to explain a basic rat-tail factory to my brother. It's fine, that's just how it goes sometimes

[pure condor]

yeah he wasnt that bad and he wasnt bored I think because we played for like 3 hours

[real shale]

#screenshots message perfect

[pure condor]

he was just a lil confused with everything

[jagged nymph]

EWWWWWW

[real shale]

wtf do you mean eww

[pure condor]

its 139.285 the ideal amount

[jagged nymph]

that number...

[wise junco]

Best ratio. Now clip it

[cyan leaf]

Not trusting google but are the alts fir modular frames worth hunting for.

[jagged nymph]

if you think they are

every single alt in the game is personal preference

[wise junco]

All alts are worth it in some regard

[jagged nymph]

none of them are objectively better than others, they all have their use cases

[dense violet]

depends what you're after

some replace coal with oil, you can use oil products (rubber) to replace and extend other resources
some other alts reduce the cost overall

[real shale]

yeah, alts always trade off some quantity for another, either simpler design for lower throughput, higher throughput for more complexity etc etc

[dense violet]

for example you can reduce the base cost of HMFs by -75% (iron) -50% (coal limestone) pretty easily

[jagged nymph]

or sometimes its simply different materials, not neccesarily more or less of anything

[cyan leaf]

Ohh im talking about base frames not heavy 😭

[jagged nymph]

same thing applies

[dense violet]

oh well similar thing then for any item really.

sometimes the recipes can be more convenient.

for example I often like Steeled Frame early on , I use steel pipes for a lot of thigns and it simplifies things

with Stitched Plate + iron wire

[wise junco]

Iron pipe and iron wire are two personal favorites

[dense violet]

later on I usually do Steel Screw, Bolted Plate + Bolted Frame

[cyan leaf]

Yee cause I was on the fence on hunting for that one but idk if its good for the ling run

[wise junco]

They all have their place

[dense violet]

always good in the long run, all the recipes have their uses.
Except Iron Pipe.

[wise junco]

😭

[jagged nymph]

no iron pipe has a use

what if youre using every bit of coal on the map for power

[humble osprey]

I'm reading the wiki and apparently you can't sink alien protein
Why???

[real shale]

they should buff all screw recipes to give much higher throughput to spite all the anti screw pioneers

[dense violet]

It's just such a waste of iron when you find Coal+iron everywhere xD

[jagged nymph]

cause you turn it into dna capsules to sink it

[wise junco]

It's nice when you just need a little pipe

[humble osprey]

Okay but the wiki says it physically wont let you sink the protien

[dense violet]

coal is everywhere! xD

[humble osprey]

Just cuz something is inefficient doesn't mean the game should physically stop you from doing that :(

[jagged nymph]

i know, thats because you have to turn it into dna capsules first

[wise junco]

I mean I'm not going to lie - iron pipe is stupidly resource inefficient

But it's so convenient when I'm lazy

[humble osprey]

Well okay...

[humble osprey]

Moving on, I'm still trying to understand how AWESOME sinks work

[jagged nymph]

imeanlowkeyyoucouldjustbringinacoalbelt

[jagged nymph]

item goes in, make point, give ticket

[humble osprey]

It feels very weird. Arekke all the sinks in my world linked up?

[jagged nymph]

yes

[humble osprey]

Why is it that when I go to a new area to make a factory, and sink some concrete, I immediately get 20 tickets

[jagged nymph]

?

[humble osprey]

Is that intended. It's very confusing

[jagged nymph]

why do you sink concrete when you go to a new factory

[humble osprey]

It feels like the sinks are linked up based up region or something

[jagged nymph]

no

[dense violet]

they are all linked up...

[jagged nymph]

its worldwide

[humble osprey]

Every sink in a certain region seems to be linked.

[jagged nymph]

they are all linked up

[dense violet]

all sinks. everywhere

[humble osprey]

I'm not on my pc rn but I will show what I mean later

[jagged nymph]

item goes in, makes point, when get enough point you get ticket

[dense violet]

you don't need to be on your pc. all the sinks are linked

[jagged nymph]

use ticket in shop

not a hard concept to understand

[humble osprey]

No see that doesn't make any sense cuz the sink at my starter area says I can redeem 8 tickets while a different one in my magnetic field generator area says I can redeem like 50

[jagged nymph]

that shouldnt happen

[humble osprey]

Is this a glitch???

[jagged nymph]

seems like it

[humble osprey]

I'll show you guys when I'm on pc

[dense violet]

you probably didn't look at them for a while

[hollow vector]

is there a color picker in satisfactory? i forgot the hex of what some of my belts are

[wise junco]

They're definitely all supposed to be linked

[jagged nymph]

no but you have the swatch saved

[humble osprey]

And I can redeem them individually too

[hollow vector]

its a custom swatch

[jagged nymph]

oh

[hollow vector]

am i fucked

[humble osprey]

Like I can go and redeem them for total of 58, for example

[wise junco]

You might be screwed

[jagged nymph]

generally you dont want to do a custom swatch unless you have a good reason

[jagged nymph]

yeah that shouldnt happen, do you have any mods?

[humble osprey]

I have one that makes trains 5 times faster

That's it

[jagged nymph]

mod name?

[humble osprey]

Let me remember

It was called speedy trains redux I think

I don't think that is the issue tho ngl

[jagged nymph]

and youre sure you have nothing else installed

[humble osprey]

Nope

[real shale]

i should really use foundries more often

[jagged nymph]

do you not?

[real shale]

no

[jagged nymph]

how... how do you make steel then?

[real shale]

more often

[jagged nymph]

steel is like the main thing you make there

[real shale]

yes but there are sooooo many alternative recipes that use it

[humble osprey]

To be fair, with the amount of alts, you can completely skip steel

[jagged nymph]

perhaples

\

[humble osprey]

Guys I need like 5000 nuclear pasta to finish the game right? I have them all in a container. Is it okay to start sinking everything now?

[jagged nymph]

?

[humble osprey]

I put a bunch of nuclear pasta in some containers for future use. I am going to start sinking any new pasta that the factory makes

[real shale]

huh

[jagged nymph]

you need a total of 1100 nuclear pasta for the requirements + a little more for singularity cells for the ballistic warp drives but you also need singularity cells for ficsonium fuel rods and portals

[real shale]

you cant avoid steel beams without steel

or well

technically theres aluminium beams but why

[jagged nymph]

if you have aluminum surplus

[humble osprey]

Fuel rods? I don't use nuclear

Why the skull emoji

[jagged nymph]

then 5000 is enough to finish off the space elevator

assuming you wont do nuclear or portals

[humble osprey]

Maybe I'll do portals? Do they need a constant supply of pasta or something?

I haven't reached portals yet

[jagged nymph]

constant supply of singularity cells, which use nuclear pasta to make

each pair of portals needs i think 2 singularity cells per minute, and one pasta makes 10 cells, so its 0.2 pasta/minute per pair of portals

[humble osprey]

Wtfff

[jagged nymph]

what

[humble osprey]

That's very expensive

[jagged nymph]

not really

[tame violet]

its not if you have nuclear power to produce things with !

[jagged nymph]

even if you only do 1 pasta/minute, thats 5 pairs of portals

which should be enough if you have 5 main areas

even if you just do like 5 nuclear pasta thats 25 pairs of portals which is way more than enough for most people

[humble osprey]

I'm pretty sure I'm doing 5 per min rn

[real shale]

#screenshots message my 8 foundry blueprint is complete

[jagged nymph]

lemme pull up mine rq

[cyan leaf]

😭 wtf u guys make such cool and effeicnet builds

[jagged nymph]

#screenshots message

heres some of my blueprints i use

[feral vector]

lol right, when I see how people do stuff I wanna look up how to do good builds but then I'm not learning anything myself

I made a pretty good smart sorting setup but even that I'm sure people could make way cleaner

[cyan leaf]

Fair but how can you learn without any inspiration 🤔

[jagged nymph]

everyone started out in that position, as you play through a couple playthroughs youll eventually learn it

[hollow vector]

mayhaps

[real shale]

Step 1 - play the game
Step 2- learn overtime
step 3 - ????
step 4 - profit

[feral vector]

I think once you understand how manifolds work you can just try random stuff, I did a lot of dumb shit that didn't work today but I'm learning the game better

[humble osprey]

All my Factories ugly. They're all concrete foundations with machines on top. Nothing else.

[feral vector]

and I copied a layout for a coal plant cause I really didn't want to learn the fluid stuff by trial and error

[humble osprey]

I need inspiration

[ornate saffron]

Step 1 - play the game
Step 2- learn overtime
step 3 - ????
step 4 - profit ||Ficsit Abandonment||

[jagged nymph]

my factory is just manifolds, as kibitz would say, out the hwha-zoo

[feral vector]

yeah if I try to make my factory look like experienced players I'm kinda skipping the problem solving part of the game

first playthrough should be kinda messy lol

[fierce sigil]

I'm thinking of making a centralized depot for some basic resources (like coal). The idea is that I can have trains moving resorces from nodes to the depot, and separate trains moving resources from the depot to individual factories. Thoughts?

[hollow vector]

GS98

[jagged nymph]

oh you should see my first... 3 playthroughs

[feral vector]

I just gotta figure out what I'm gonna do for storage, I legit just have random containers everywhere and they fill up and stop production

[hollow vector]

i may replace it for a unicomp minim someday

[feral vector]

and I don't have any sinks lmao I spent all my morning playtime figuring out how to use two blueprints for a modular block of 8 storage containers and then a set of smart splitters and mergers to flow extras into a sink and then had to stop playing

[hollow vector]

my factory still looks like the person making had a stroke

[minor vale]

I am in love with the new vehicle system in the experimental branch.
Loaded into a save of mine turning on creative mode and rebuilt my tractor network.
Seeing how well it works now, I wish we had this years ago.

[feral vector]

I might just run a line of storage on one side of the factory and run straight belts to each of them from the production instead of using my fancy smart sorter thingy

[jagged nymph]

my biggest issue with my first playthroughs was that i just... didnt really automate anything unless i had to, i would legit afk craft for like an hour making computers or whatever. Even if you just make a little bit of everything, thats way better than making none

and usually, once you get started, its much easier than you thought itd be

[feral vector]

just having the splitters spaced out and a few sinks along that side seems easier I'm sick of messing with storage lol I wanna automate

[wise junco]

A350 is so right, honestly

[feral vector]

yeah I'm probably gonna automate everything before I move on even if it's just a shitty temporary factory with one assembler

[cyan leaf]

😭 oh god all ik abijt liquids are that the pipes can support up to 2 and a bit (2 4m foundations and 1 2m one) before needing a pump lol

[reef basin]

yeah no reason to mix items just to sort them again

[real shale]

well did you? did you have a stroke?

[minor vale]

absolutely worth it honestly.
Letting a machine slow run in the background while you do other random stuff can often get you going well off on future construction projects.
As long as you have enough sorage for whatever item its making.

[feral vector]

I mean either way I was gonna run a belt for each output into a storage container, with a smart splitter on the way

[jagged nymph]

yeah, when i unlock a new part, i just go ahead and automate it, even if its jsut a bit. Instead of looking at the phases as the main goal, i look at automating parts as a main goal, and only after ive automated everything there is to autopmate in the current phase will i move on to the next one

i tried star rupture and i did not like it

[feral vector]

yeah I try to have stuff going all the time but I'm using storage containers to feed most of my assemblers

[hollow vector]

oo maybe ill get it

[honest nimbus]

guys just a dumb question.. The water runs out? Like, a lake, small, does the water will end?

[feral vector]

I had so much extra materials from early automation stuff I just used it for the next stuff

[minor vale]

which is fine.
You don't have to min max every thing.

unless it's a power setup, minmax your electricity. always.

[hollow vector]

it looks like satisfactory just more futuristic

[jagged nymph]

there are no limited resources in the game

(other than stuff you have to hand pickup like hadr drives or slugs)

[feral vector]

yeah the one thing I looked up and copied directly was the standard 3 water/8 coal power setup

[ornate saffron]

With exception of collectibles and alien artifacts.

[hollow vector]

i could give my save to you if you wanted lol

[reef basin]

those also aren't limited

[honest nimbus]

thats good, i didnt know, im new at the game

[reef basin]

just sloops and spheres are

[jagged nymph]

well yeah you can use doggos

for slugs

[feral vector]

I would have made my life difficult if I tried to just send water from 3 extractors randomly into pipes for 8 extractors lol... idk if it would have worked with a water tower on one end or what but I definitely wouldn't have known to make a loop or to inject water at certain points

[minor vale]

I always go way over the top on my power setups.
this is what my last coal power plant looked like.
#screenshots message

[feral jay]

You can also manufacture shards, which obviates the need for slugs, and you can buy hard drives with tickets

[jagged nymph]

but slugs are still limited other than doggos

[reef basin]

yeah don't do water towers

[feral vector]

jesus christ lmao

[jagged nymph]

i didnt know you can buy drives with tickets

i never buy parts with tickets

[reef basin]

not if doggos can bring them 🙂

[feral vector]

errr maybe I should move my coal generators out of the lake

[feral jay]

I rush a few milestones with things I bought with tickets sometimes

[cyan leaf]

Is 45 coal gens eith the miners at base clocking alot?

[feral vector]

it seemed really easy to just have everything in one spot but I don't have a ton of room

[jagged nymph]

thats completely subjective

[cyan leaf]

Insert Father i must be vertical meme

[minor vale]

don't worry it gets worse
I made this a couple years ago.
And it's still on my world to this day.
#design-and-architecture message

[humble osprey]

Valid

[jagged nymph]

45 is a pretty normal number of coal gens, thats about what i usually do

[ornate saffron]

If that is the play style you want you can always go up.

Space is the resources we have the most of, then water

[humble osprey]

Could u technically set up one sink and wait enough time to buy your way to victory?

Pay to win 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[feral jay]

Well, yes, but slugs being limited is not a limiting factor in any way other than... you can't have infinite slugs. They serve no purpose other than becoming shards.

[ornate saffron]

Ive never done more then 32 :/ not sure what that says about me lol

[feral vector]

I think I have enough room to be fine with the way I'm doing it until I figure out oil power

[jagged nymph]

thats not the point though, i never said its a limiting factor, just that it is limited. Because someone asked if water is limited, so i was saying the only limited resources are stuff you have to manually collect

[feral vector]

pretty sure I can fit 40 coal gens without having to figure out how to make pipes work over a longer distance

[reef basin]

How would you "buy" that?

[jagged nymph]

but tickets arent how you beat the game?

[humble osprey]

Like, buy all the parts for project assembly

[jagged nymph]

cant do that

[feral vector]

I have to go walk the dog but all I want to do is fix my storage and belts and sink situation why is this game so addictive

[reef basin]

Not all items are possible to buy

[ornate saffron]

trade in dog for cat. Cat likes wqarm laps and pc;s

[wise junco]

this one gets it

the FOMO of min/maxing will cause decision paralysis

[jagged nymph]

mine just likes food

[feral vector]

lol yeah I'm trying to be chill

[minor vale]

unless it's a powersetup.

min maxing your power setup is always valid because I never awnt to hear that broken cuircuit noise ever again.

[feral vector]

I really have to do something about my factory being littered with overflowing containers though even if I don't go back and optimize my random bullshit automtions

[feral vector]

any time I get anywhere close to max consumption I go make 8 more coal gens lol. and I still have my 15 biofuel gens with a container full of fuel for backup

[cyan leaf]

Just sink em

[feral vector]

I still haven't even overclocked anything yet lol I gotta make at least one awesome production chain today

[jagged nymph]

sometimes the game jumpscares me and says one of the power grids died even though its fine... gives me a heart attack everytime

(probably hard drive sites)

[feral vector]

yeah I just spent a ton of time this morning trying to figure out the logistics of this

[cyan leaf]

Lol fair

[feral vector]

and I still don't know how I'm going to do it lmao

I set up fancy blueprints to input 8 lines of stuff into one storage for each, with smart splitters to send overflow to the sink, I should probably use those cause it's modular but it would also be way easier to just make a line of containers and keep the splitting further apart

[jagged nymph]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/869790788530352188/1424138156743327895/svkhlfaah0pc1.gif

[feral vector]

worry about a good factory when I get mk4 stuff hmmm

[jagged nymph]

wait til mk6 before automating iron plates for peak efficiency (as the milestone name would suggest)

[minor vale]

#screenshots message
few years ago I built this on one of my saves.
it's a compact coal burning power plant. (there's also a quickwire factory beside but that's not relevant)
it contains 126 coal gens (unless I misscounted.) for about 9.4GW of power.
It relies on 3 tractors continously supplying it with 2 different sulphur sources in the desert, as well as a bit of supllimentery coal delivery from a fourth tractor.

[cyan leaf]

Don't need to make it fancy just have either belts feeding i to like a few containers to sink or have vehicle send em

[minor vale]

i've never needed the sulphur or coal for any thing else so I'vej ust left it run.
been looking at it again recently because it was a great way to test out the new vehicle route system. which is amazing.

[feral vector]

yeah my factory is just such a mess it's a hassle to set up lol

so many containers everywhere

[minor vale]

I have a personal system I use to help keep things organized.

[feral vector]

gotta figure out how to get belts to the back side, I'm too impatient to make a logistics floor for this shitty newb base

[wise junco]

yer gonna burn yourself out on that base rebuild 👀

[jagged nymph]

just send all your belts to space and do your logistics there so you never have to see it
-# /j

[minor vale]

don't make a logistics floor

use a logistics channel
(or a main bus/bus system as normal people might call it)

It is especially helpful early on.
#design-and-architecture message
example of my way of doing it.

[minor vale]

#design-and-architecture message
setup basic buildings to define factory spaces for production lines.
Doesn't have to look good.
Just defines a space. and if you need more space
You add floors and build up.

[feral vector]

ok cool I'll look at this after I walk the dog

[humble osprey]

What?? How do you minmax a power setup. What is being "min" Here exactly???

[minor vale]

Minimum ammount of times i have to hear my power go out

[feral vector]

yeah I might need a second floor my first floor is such a mess

[humble osprey]

That's fair I guess

[feral vector]

this will be tricky with me mashing everything so close together but I can probably make some lanes

especially with steel stuff, I got that awesome alt recipe so I don't mind redoing some foundrys with blueprints

anyway dog walk I'm gonna yap until it's dark out thanks for the input

[minor vale]

it's less a matter of floors and more a matter of managing space.

you want to setup a production line to build let's say reinforced iron plates.

put fences or wahtever down on a 3 by 3 or however big grid of foundations you want. start placing buildings. And then if you need more space, add the next floor. Visual decorative support columns not needed.
keeps the belt and spagetti of that line contained within a specific area
ANd then you have designated spot somewhere on the side of the area for resources to go in and out of.
bonus points if you research quartz and put signs down to mark inputs and outputs.

[wise junco]

i'm a big fan of putting signs for bigger builds. get a section done, slap a sign down on where that belt is supposed to go, zoom over somewhere else

[humble osprey]

Would have been funny if mixing sulphur with water just detonated your machines

[feral vector]

Yeah but I have no idea how much space I need lol. And my beginner factory is all smashed together already 😂

[minor vale]

Here's the secret.
You will never quite know how much space you need.
Tou might get a feel for it in time but not really.
So, just add another floor

[feral vector]

I think I gotta wrap my head around tidy builds on a single floor before I try to stack stuff?

[wise junco]

trying to fit 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag is never fun and will never work the way you want

[feral vector]

Yeah my next factory is gonna leave lots of space between stuff lol

I think my factory is honestly not that bad for a first playthrough. It's just annoying now that I'm trying to figure out storage belt nonsense

[minor vale]

It's more a matter of the constraints you give yourself to work in are meant to help you keep track of where stuff is going and reduce the sprawl

[real shale]

ironic, ran out of steel beams while building the steal beam factory

[cold pulsar]

whats the blue crater lake coords

[wise junco]

make moar steel beam

follow me 4 moar life advice

[cold pulsar]

im so lost

[minor vale]

yknow what I think I should try to make a guide to helping people organize their early factories better.

[wise junco]

i'd chip in on it!

[feral vector]

Sounds great, I made such a mess of mine lol

I think I'd rather fuck it up than follow a detailed guide though. Some guidelines would be nice tho?

[minor vale]

it happens lol
going to be honest it took me till my third save (I quit like, 2 times not wanting to destroy and rebuild every thing) before I started to get the hang of a personal organization system I liked.

[feral vector]

Someone told me earlier if it's shitty and it works just keep it and make new stuff no need to destroy, I like that mindset

[wise junco]

yes, that's golden advice

[feral vector]

I might as well have stuff going into a sink and near unlimited resources to work with while I fuck around on a better version of my factory

[humble osprey]

Never give yourself enough space and always expand horizontally with the default foundation when needed

[real shale]

i have my reservations about it

[wise junco]

you would NEVER rebuild an entire region

[feral vector]

I could just redo it on a foundation above or something lol. I might actually do that, automate one of everything with and set up overflow sinks properly

I mean my main factory is basically everything I've done in my whole playthrough, redoing it would kinda suck

[wise junco]

the nice thing is, depending on your belt speed, if you have everything in one area, you could get away with one sink 👀

[feral vector]

I think I have two limestone nodes making concrete and one copper node making random shit that I always forget about... And my coal plant but everything else is all in one big sprawled factory

[feral vector]

I might try one sink per eight storage containers

[real shale]

Almost done with the 417.856/min steel beam factory

[wise junco]

wow, low. i would've made at least 417.857/min

[real shale]

jokes on you i knew you'd say that

look at my screenshot in DMs again

[wise junco]

omg

you played the long game on that one... well played

[real shale]

im in your head

[wise junco]

that's a scary place tbh

[real shale]

meh ive seen scarier

[hearty flame]

dam

[cold pulsar]

you guys know that satisfactory calculator where you paste prints?

how do i download it after i pasted it?

[stone vapor]

Hi! I say the Satisfactory VR mod is absolutely worth it! But I'm biased - I'm the mod author. 😆
It does require a pretty powerful PC for a good experience though as Satisfactory isn't optimised for VR.

[river oxide]

could anyone help me please

im trying to run my first reinforced iron plate

[rain wedge]

roughly when will 1.2 release

[viscid flower]

hi guys, newb here 42 hrs in. Just restarted in the new experimental patch. Just wondering whats the advantage of the new pipe T junction instead of the normal pipe junction?

[minor vale]

it looks nicer when you only need one connection :)

[feral jay]

That's a very... vague question

[rain wedge]

cleaner i believe

[river oxide]

brother hop on a call ill share screen i just need to know how to connect these machines

[feral jay]

Internet's not good enough for that here, try sharing some screenshots in #screenshots or I can get some shots of how I've got some assemblers hooked up

[minor vale]

there are a lot of things in satisfactory that exist strictly because they look nice.

[minor vale]

not soon enough

[little timber]

Guys, dont ever forget to build a sink incase of overflow

My powerplant is ded

[wise junco]

ruh roh raggy

[minor vale]

yea speaking of overflow I am Never recycling water in an aluminum setup again.
sick of the water clogs.
i'm just going to sink it into concrete.

[fading geyser]

the experimental beta is good i just lag like 30 mins and then do a restart

[dense violet]

thats why you keep seperate refineries using waste and fresh water. It's the same as making wet concrete but simpler with less resources

[minor vale]

I'll consider it
next time around.
When I make a new save for 1.2 and get back to aluminum.

[wise junco]

I do like wet concrete though. Never hurts to have it pouring into another DD

[real shale]

AHHHHH sorry, concrete scares me, I have so many factories for it now

[little timber]

Funny think i looked at the little resin factories and was like "i need a splitter for overflow" and forgot

[glacial totem]

just bought the game, can't even launch in 1.1 and it's crashing in experimental. Common?

[minor vale]

experimental is even less stable than 1.1 so idk what you're expecting there.

[glacial totem]

just trying anything really. Flicking back to 1.1 now

[minor vale]

Crashing could be related to GPU/driver stuff.
what GPU are you using.

[glacial totem]

4070Ti

I'll make sure I'm updated to the latest driver

[wise junco]

Crashing in my experience very not common

[minor vale]

it's very common if you have an older GPU.
Fixable but common.

[glacial totem]

Older 😭

[feral jay]

Wheeeeee ziplining, I don't zipline very often

[feral vector]

The zip line is awesome

I gotta try hyperloops I think I can unlock those

[wise junco]

Ziplining is underrated

[feral vector]

I think I need a parachute first 😂

[feral jay]

I build rather elaborate tube networks that mostly eliminate the usefulness of ziplining, but it comes in hand once in a blue moon

[minor vale]

ziplines plus power towers = instant access to distant cliffs.

[feral vector]

Yeah ziplines have been my main way of getting places faster. I just unlocked the power towers too that would probably make it way better

[feral jay]

LOL I also build crazy elaborate power poles and attach a wire to them jusst for ziplining

[honest summit]

what is waiting for path reservation mean?

[feral jay]

Probably that you haven't closed the block, so the train is waiting for a path reservation becuase it is actually occupying the block it's trying to reserve

It generally means that a train is currently on the path it wants to reserve so if it's just sitting there, it's probably blocking itself

[white dawn]

That's actually the status you expect to see most of the time on a Path signal. It means that no train is yet approaching the intersection, and thus no train is trying to reserve a path

[feral jay]

ohhhh

[white dawn]

Nah, "waiting for path reservation" is the usual "things are good" status on Path Signals. :)

[feral jay]

yes that too

[white dawn]

🚆 🥳

[honest summit]

but it says signal error and every other signal is good

[feral jay]

In my head it was the train complaining about that

[elder oracle]

Man I can’t wait for 1.2 to officially drop

[feral jay]

Sometimes you just gotta delete and reconnect tracks until it works, the subsystem that builds routes and paths is... buggy, to say the least

[glacial totem]

Still crashing on latest driver

WTF man

[honest summit]

amyway 1 of u can join the vc and take a look at my screenshare i have no idea why its not working

[minor vale]

unfortunately I don't know what could be causing your crashes.
Checking drivers and stuff is a good start but i can't offer any more help.
Probably worth making a thread about it with full details and any screenshots you can provide over in #1038092680493801533

If you had an old GPU there's a workaround because there's issues with old GPUs but you'rs is very new so that's not it at all lmao.

[dense violet]

make a post in #1038092680493801533 with overhead images.

[wise junco]

How many times have you typed this over the years?

[feral jay]

Surely an AI bot that would respond to such questions with "Make a post in #1038092680493801533" would be good. I would welcome that new AI overlord.

[glacial totem]

I know there's probably a better place for tech help, I just wondered how stable this game was in general. Thanks guys

[cold berry]

Just got to dimensional depots and I feel a fool

[honest summit]

alr i made a post

[wise junco]

FWIW, I rarely see those sorts of issues. I hope someone can help you!

[minor vale]

instability is typically a first install thing at worst.
once you figure out whatever unique issue is plaging you, you'll probably never crash again.

[glacial totem]

I got a few quick fixes off a reddit thread.

I've dismantled the drop pod like 5 times now lol

not giving up

[wise junco]

Trust. The game is so worth it

[glacial totem]

I do trust

[faint locust]

On expiremental how do I daisy chain? It keeps telling me no empty connections

[wise junco]

You must first research in the MAM

[elder oracle]

Corrupt ADA is real guys

[west pilot]

is 1.2 still in experimental? or is it live?

[elder oracle]

Experimental

They will say smth when it’s live

[minor vale]

Yknow with the new vehicle pathing system
we need an option, either for the vehicle or truck station, to pause the vehicel at a station, until it's either fully loaded or unloaded.

would be very helpful with my one route that has 2 differen't pickup points and 1 dropoff. of which the dropoff needs Continously fed in a consistent manner.

[hollow vector]

whats the easiest way to dispose of 480water per minute

[minor vale]

wet concrete

[hollow vector]

limestone would be a problem

[sick falcon]

what are you getting the water from

[minor vale]

limestone is rather plentiful unless you're using like
A signfigant portion of your world's limestone.

if you legit can't just sink it into concrete, then any of the alt ingot recipies that go through a refinery and use water works..
Or if really nothing else just package it and sink it in cans.

[sick falcon]

or just feed it back into whatever production its a byproduct of

[hollow vector]

just realized theres a bunch of limestone nearby

ill use it
thanks!

[wise junco]

Put it on a train and drive that train into the ocean

[hollow vector]

its going back home from where it came from

[dense violet]

WAY too many

[warm finch]

Not THAT many. There was a time when threads within a channel didn't exist. General chat was a mix of QA, off topic, sat discussion, help, etc.

[willow pond]

does the nuke also pop the "regular terrain" destructible rocks?

[proud cave]

Just got bombed by a hog with a jetpack. I guess that's a thing...

[feral jay]

That's Johnny

[proud cave]

Wh-?

[wise junco]

Consider yourself lucky. Ive never encountered him in 700 hrs

[proud cave]

Oh, is he a random chance spawn?

[feral jay]

Something like 1/1000, yes

[proud cave]

I assumed it was just in that spot

Huh. Interesting

He's definitely very... Coffeestain

[white dawn]

Yeah, 1 in 1000 at "alpha hog" spawnpoints

[willow pond]

i think my doggos are teaming up to troll me. they all just gave me wiring

[minor vale]

I'm messing around more and more with the new vehicle system

And the fact I got 10+ running around routes that interscet with one another.

And there for Sure needs to be some options to keep vehicles waiting at stations till they can get fully filled or emptied.

[dense violet]

still way too many 😛

[warm finch]

Did you check the truck station settings?

[minor cedar]

yo ok so why do 5 computers per min take 80k mw of power

[minor vale]

the settings within the truck station are the same as ever
load and unload
Change station name

...whatever replace differing fuel button does/means.

[minor cedar]

like genuinely wut?

[dense violet]

I don't know what planner you're using, but don't https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=L4wE7Yf6g75AvGK4qKSA

about 500mw with base recipes according to tools

[minor cedar]

im using the satisfactory calculator

[dense violet]

yeah... scim calc is not amazing. But you likely did something weird

[minor cedar]

#screenshots message

[dense violet]

cause it shouldn't be doing that

[minor cedar]

is satisfactory tools better?

[warm finch]

Was worth a shot to ask. I haven't seen 1.2

[dense violet]

I find the user interface is MUCH better ,with better options

[minor cedar]

idk i was skeptical of it cuz it only supported 1.0 didnt see 1.1 support

[dense violet]

and yeah that 80GW is real wird

[dense violet]

the recipes havent changed 🙂

[minor cedar]

oh

[dense violet]

since 1.0 anyway

[minor vale]

well I mean the vehicle tools are great.
Coming from some one who was happy to ahve 10 tractors running around my world in 1.1.
I just feel that if we're getting this big an overhaul, it'd help if we had those options.

so that multiple trucks/tractors running the same route could contribute to a more consistent or higher level of throughput, that would otherwise be limited by distance, and otherwise currently only fixed by hvaing more truck stations at each end. which could be made uneccecary.

[minor cedar]

i may have screwed myself over

[dense violet]

how so?

[minor cedar]

i need the cast screws alt recipe but cannot get them since i m in phase 3 now

so its onna take forever

[dense violet]

sure you can

[minor vale]

that's not how that works.

[dense violet]

also you can use steel screw

[minor cedar]

no like its gonna take forever

[dense violet]

very compact

[minor cedar]

dont have that either

[dense violet]

go hard drive hunting 🙂

[minor cedar]

although i heard thats the best one for screws

[minor cedar]

thats not the problem the problem is that each one takes a full 10 minutes

may aswell build the computer factory while its at it

[plucky bone]

I would imagine if I did an oops and drove off the map that tractor is a goner? It's on the map but I ain't getting down there anytime soon.

[minor vale]

it helps if you stop selecting alts and hold onto your scanned recipies.
since you can hold down 2 at a time that the next disk(s) cannot re roll.

[cold berry]

Dimensional depots do not make it so that I don't need a central storage depot, but my god, they do kinda really help me not want to die before I get it. I hunted Mercer spheres until I decided cheating that one item was more fun for me ;^)

[minor cedar]

yeah im doing that too

[cold berry]

I'm not cheating anything else in. But God I'm glad I did this one

I'll do another run where I don't after for the challenge and intended balance though

[feral vector]

Sinks are just limited by input belts?

[warm finch]

Correct

[feral vector]

I saw a dev comment in a video that driving vehicles off the map uses to cause performance issues cause they persisted down there, so they had to add a check to "kill" them like they do for the player

[feral vector]

Ty

[dense violet]

research while yo usearch 🙂 you can plop a mam down every time you find one

and do a different project while scanning

[minor cedar]

yeah im currently working on my computer factory while it scans

[plucky bone]

I saw that too, hence why I asked. 99.9% sure it's in the void I never hit anything going down saying "O no".

[feral vector]

weird, maybe a bug?

[plucky bone]

Could be, one day when bored I will go have a look see down there.

[dense violet]

and you can always build it as if you had those recipes already 🙂

[minor cedar]

i dont need the screws recipe in the computer factory as it doesnt take any iron

i m planning for the heavy modular frames factory

so im tryna get it before i get to build that one

[real salmon]

rocket fuel is such a pain man building the generators takes forever

[swift turret]

rocket fuel is easy, the generators needed to set them up is a pain

[real salmon]

yes i did say that

[swift turret]

I had to setup 400 even at x2 overclocking 🙃

[real salmon]

i believe at 2x overclock im setting up 288

[swift turret]

so you're doing around 60k power?

[dense violet]

definitely consider some of the other alt recipes . You can cut the resource cost by more than half pretty easily

[real salmon]

144k

[swift turret]

that seems high for the number of gens

[real salmon]

not rlly

[swift turret]

I did 400 for like 150k

[real salmon]

each overclock gen gives 500mw

and im setting up 288

[dense violet]

no screws needed, a lot less material https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=Lj1lP0kQhlqRuxrci0oV

[swift turret]

yeah I guess that makes sense

[feral vector]

I should probably overclock stuff I kinda forgot about that lol

[swift turret]

I guess I did 200k without realizing

[dense violet]

compare with https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=J4nG9SAveOhaaWEklCCQ

[real salmon]

🤷‍♂️ more power the better

[swift turret]

I dont do the math anymore I Just rely on the caluclators

[real salmon]

but i might go insane waiting for storage to refill

maybe just this once ill go back and stock on mats

[swift turret]

explore

maybe you'll meet your girlfriend in the mouth of a spider

[real salmon]

ive already explored the map

im making rocket fuel kind of late

[swift turret]

you never explored everything until every slug, mercer sphere, hard drive, and animal is wiped off the map

the factory must grow

[minor cedar]

uhh both links lead to the same computer factory i m making 5/min

and there no alt recipes in it

[real salmon]

ur right

but it's 11pm on a school night so its better putting off till the weekend

[swift turret]

fair school is important

[real salmon]

ill place 36 and get the rest done saturday

🥀

[minor cedar]

well i just got steel screws www

[dense violet]

it adds the plans at the end

the 2nd link has no alts , but if you clicked the first one first it should be to the left

[swift turret]

are you blueprinting, should be able to do 100 pretty quickly

[dense violet]

and you can always just type in '5' into the output

[floral sparrow]

Are fluids split evenly at every pipeline junction like with splitters?

[dense violet]

yessss but you want to flood your system anyway so it doesn't make a real difference

liquids also flow backwards if the space behind them is less empty so it's definitely not a bel;t

[minor vale]

yes but actually no

Firstly it depends on the direction of travel
Fluids in the game like to follow gravity

So if it's a flat X on the ground like a regular splitter it will do exactly that.

if it's a vertical pipe, and the liquids are going downwards and you split off to the side
it will not go out that side (or at least not go out very much) Until the bottom fills up.

Inversely if youre pushign liquids up and you have a pipe split to the side, it has to fill first and backup before you can go any higher vertically.

[minor vale]

Basically though don't trust liquids to ever flow through splits evenly until all the pipes are full. and you did your input output math right. Like you should gennerally do with belts.

[real salmon]

the materials

yeah i am just the mats take awhile

[swift turret]

double up the depots

[floral sparrow]

Darn, that's a lot more to keep in mind compared to splitters lol. Sounds interesting though

[minor vale]

It's just because of how liquids as a whole work.
They aren't like belts. Theyre not forced to travel any direction.
Where as belts constantly go and move items in the desired one

They just generally flow from outputs and full pipes to empty pipes and inputs with a bias for following gravity.
You can visualize it like high pressure to low if that helps.
And the whole system just flows best if it's all full. (High pressure)

[feral vector]

if I just snap a splitter to the input of a container does it work? I'm pretty sure I had some issues when I tried this before but I might have just done something wrong

[dense violet]

some basic rules to help create reliable pipe systems #math-and-meta message

[feral vector]

ok it does not work lol nvm

[quartz wyvern]

Pardon my ignorance in this but in order to produce 120/min concrete, how much i can get from a single pure limestone node?

[sturdy pivot]

pure is x2 of your miner tooltip output

[quartz wyvern]

i see, i have unlocked mk2 miners drills, would that count for such a task? had to remove the previous factory as it was inefficient and I am aiming 100% efficiency

[sturdy pivot]

yes, purity affects all miners regardless of mk. if mk2 miner default is 120, pure is 240 output

[dense violet]

you could just add a splitter to a miner's output to feed antoher factory.

that would make it 100% efficient w/o rebuilding everything

[quartz wyvern]

I will, i am following a tutorial from Scalti on YouTube on his factory builds, and coincidentally, the concrete one may suit my needs

[dense violet]

I would really avoid following tutorials - they generally don't explain things well, you wont understand things nearly as much if you had planned it yourself and they often focus on doing things only a single way when there's lots

1000x as much anything talking about fluids. So muhc bad info

[quartz wyvern]

I just wish i could know more creators who are in the higher tiers too who make these handy dandy guides as i have been on a long hiatus honestly

[feral vector]

ok another newb question, I seem to be able to snap mergers to the output of a conveyor lift, does that actually work?

[dense violet]

really really avoid those too because there's basically infinite ways to make things because of all the alt recipes

[dense violet]

and it's very simple to make your own systems - use a planner like so https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=heucco35V0m65eKIv0GI

[red dew]

I had no idea turbo fuel was so good

I’ve been barely scraping by around 1500 MW

I have around 6000 total now

[sturdy pivot]

for a concrete-only factory, you can also hunt down some power slugs for research and underclock the factory so that you reach 100% efficiency with lower power usage. just about every large factory you'll build in the future you'll have to alter production output to match multiple inputs

[dense violet]

it's a choice - there are simpler options that also get you tons of power.
Oil to HOR to Diluted fuel for example

[red dew]

Ye

[quartz wyvern]

and speaking of alt recipes, which ones are the best so they dont use too much resources?

kinda curious about them

[dense violet]

there are no 'bests'
there's generalist recipes and specialist recipes

And most really rely on what other recipes you combo them with

[red dew]

I saw the rocket fuel thing but idk where to get the canisters for them I’m assuming it’s a little later on

[dense violet]

you can compare recipes on the wiki here https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/

but anyone selling you a tier list misses out on like 90% of what makes a recipe good

[red dew]

I got happy when I got the iron to steel pipe

[sturdy pivot]

i'd say all alt recipes are useful depending on what you're trying to make where

[red dew]

It’s a little slow with 20 ingots to 5 pipes but it beats having to use a foundry and coal and stuff

[dense violet]

iron and coal are very often close to each other shrug
most common combo. Plus you'll almost certainly need steel for hte next things too

[red dew]

True but I already got a mass steel producing plant so I’m doing fine

[quartz wyvern]

well i say this because its been a while since i played this game, kinda forgot since there's been changes on how the game overall behaves from what i can recall

[red dew]

It just made things more convenient

[dense violet]

a few of the recipes have changed but the overall concept of their use hasn't 🙂
generalist recipes tend to be lower tier items, ingots, first processes like wires/cables
specialist tend to be recipes on higher tier items, they depends much more on the previous recipes for their 'value'

[cloud halo]

its so satisfying to destroy the gas pillars

its generally just so great destroying nuisances

[leaden turret]

[insert redacted comment/joke here]

[cloud halo]

i really gotta automate nobelisks so I can just refuel them whenever and destroy any flower/gas pillar that tries to annoy me

[leaden turret]

reminder that ficsmas comes with explosive snowballs

[cloud halo]

wait i am automating turbofuel I CAN automate nobelisks yo

[quartz wyvern]

Well, at least i have managed somehow to make a fully functional steel factory

and an extra coal plant power generator, still a lot of work to be done just yet 🏗️

[cloud halo]

i did that at my last base but I did a foolish mistake of completely taking it down when I decided to switch my main base to desert

imo homing is too expensive to mass produce

shit where did I leave my motor production
oh right

wha

I feel like im back into business after automating iron and copper

[late shuttle]

Is there a Lfg section

Thx

Ok

Ok thx

Yes

Cause

Idk honestly

I’m tryna figure out how to build the dam hub

Nvm figured it out

Yea I might

Closest iron is 235 that good?

Or should I go closer

I hate ada

I’ve done it before then gave up

Grass

[feral vector]

there's a spot with 3x normal iron nodes that's pretty sick for a starting location, copper and limestone nearby too

[late shuttle]

Where?

Yea

How do I check map?

[feral vector]

it's like -525, 2300 for coordinates

oh yeah lmao you don't have a map at the start

[late shuttle]

Oh ok

[feral vector]

there is a big rock that has green gas coming off of it, go north from there

[late shuttle]

Ok thx

[feral vector]

it's in the middle of a huge field. the scanner should ping 3 iron nodes near each other

I mean if you scan right when you drop in that's the base that you'll probably end up at 😛

[late shuttle]

Bro how tf do I use the equipment shortcuts

How is this stopping me

Oh yea this spot

This was my first spot

I like a challenge tho

[cloud halo]

i got the pipe dream achievement

[late shuttle]

Is there a way to quickly get my zapper out

Yay

[cloud halo]

TURBOFUEL!!!

[late shuttle]

I put all four portables on one iron

I won’t

I’m playing solo now

[cloud halo]

i got turbofuel!! yay!!

[late shuttle]

Wasn’t me

Ok

Should I make a production line for smth

[feral vector]

I wish I liked knowing nothing lol

[dense violet]

in general you want to automate all non space parts, yes

[late shuttle]

Non space?

[dense violet]

space parts are the parts going into the space elevator

[late shuttle]

Oh

I haven’t even made it

[dense violet]

sure, just pointing out you should automate everything except maybe those

[late shuttle]

Except nails?

[dense violet]

screws - you'll probably need screws for some parts

[late shuttle]

K

[dense violet]

you'll have to automate them

[late shuttle]

Oh ok

Why shouldn’t I do screws

[dense violet]

... you should? if you need them?

[late shuttle]

Oh ok

[plucky bone]

I'd find an iron node and copper node and hand mine some to start, Then collect some leaves and wood for power in the HUB then do some crafting to familiarize yourself with the recipes you need and so on. Took me a while to get a hang for this.

[late shuttle]

OMG

[hexed phoenix]

Screw screws.. I ship my parts with Gorilla Glue..

[dense violet]

ok elon

to be fair, gorilla glue was probably higher quality than what he used on his cars

[late shuttle]

Ok I made a production line

Now how do I power it…..

[tacit parcel]

Who wants to know how to go to space

[late shuttle]

Biomass?

Levels and shit?

Leaves*

[dense violet]

look at your build menu , there's a power section

[dense violet]

turn leavse and wood into Bio mass
then when you can, turn biomass into Solid biomass

[late shuttle]

Yea but idk how to use the biomass burner

Ok

[dense violet]

connect power lines to things, it tells you what it needs

[normal orbit]

Craft leaves, wood, animals and fungi into biomass

[regal tiger]

do conveyer floor holes still allow you to bypass the height limit? I have a floor hole, and the lift still seems to be stuck at 48 plates high...

[normal orbit]

Yes

What

[hexed phoenix]

Nothing a little glue and duct tape cant fix - Elon Musk

[late shuttle]

Yay it works

[tacit parcel]

place a bunch of pulse noblisks at your feet, then save and exit the game when you get back in they will all go off at once and you'll fly to the top of the sky box

[late shuttle]

Ooooh a cave

HOLY SHIT

[hexed phoenix]

Back when Oil extractor was with Belt output.. Those were the times

[normal orbit]

When coffee stain said they would never add fluids :p

[late shuttle]

There was spiders and now I gotta change pants

[minor cedar]

i was about to ask a question but there is a new player here and im afraid to spoil

[late shuttle]

IDC

I’m just here to industrialize

I SEE A SHINY THING

[minor cedar]

go to it

[late shuttle]

Blue power slug

Coooooooooooooool

Btw @minor cedar u can ask I don’t care

I don’t care about spoilers

[minor cedar]

nah its fine i can look it up

[late shuttle]

Ok

[feral vector]

lol don't spoil me too badly 😛

[late shuttle]

Hmmm concrete

Awww it’s impure

[minor cedar]

do u mean limestone

[dense violet]

nothing wrong with that

[late shuttle]

Yea but I need concrete

[minor cedar]

craft some

[late shuttle]

Is it hard to tho

[dense violet]

stick limestone in a constructor
done

[normal orbit]

@mortal ginkgo some slander here :p

[random haven]

Any tips for keeping organized? lmao.

[late shuttle]

What does impure even do

[random haven]

Lower yield.

Impure I think is the lowest yield while pure is the highest.

[late shuttle]

Oh that don’t matter does it

[random haven]

It does IE you can have more smelters attached to one single ore vein.

[normal orbit]

not really, just changes how many machines you can feed from it

[random haven]

IE i think a normal vein can do 2 smelters? Might be mitaken.

[minor cedar]

yeah if its an mk1 miner

[cedar iris]

mk 1 miner not overclocked or underclocked

[random haven]

Only reference for me since I still have yet to reach mk 2 lol

[cedar iris]

you get that at advanced steel

[random haven]

Ye im on basic rn t.t

[cedar iris]

what update one?

[random haven]

Surprise pickachu face.

[candid prism]

Why cant assembler's make portable miners?

[cedar iris]

alternate recipe

[dense violet]

love them prod values xD

[minor cedar]

Uh guys which recipe do i use the heavy encased modular frame or hor

[cedar iris]

it's possible to get an alternate recipe to automate portable miners at steel production

[minor cedar]

i got a choice from the hd

[dense violet]

which recipe will you use first?

[cedar iris]

yes

[candid prism]

really? i didnt know that was possible

[cedar iris]

heavy encased modular frame for any day of the year

[minor cedar]

i actually dont know maybe the heavy encased modular frames tho

[late shuttle]

Ima go explore

[minor cedar]

but hor is gonna make power production so much easier

[cloud halo]

we now producing nobelisks AND rifle ammo

[late shuttle]

@cedar iris why the trans flag

[dense violet]

so which first? you can always get the other later

[minor cedar]

oh u can get the other later?

alright encased heavy modular frames it is then

[dense violet]

you're never locked out of recipes

[supple canopy]

lol watching the vid, I started playing on update 3 but I remember watching videos of people making conveyor belt spirals to circumvent the lack of conveyor lifts, I didn't realize then it already was a feature

[random haven]

Im pulling a blank where do I build the first truck at lol

[late shuttle]

I fell off the map😭😭😭

[random haven]

RIP

[cloud halo]

oh I thought that turbo fuel would make me have triple flight time not triple flight strength

[cloud halo]

smh...

[supple canopy]

turbofuel has terrible flight time

jetpack is either liquid biofuel or ionized rocket fuel and nothing else

[random haven]

Yay coal power up t.t no more biomass gen

[cloud halo]

I just unlocked turbofuel

[feral vector]

so much better lol

[random haven]

No more having 50,000 biomass generators randomly strewn about lol

[drowsy grove]

never have i played a game for so long ( (74 hours)approximately 3 continuous days, and i got it 2 weeks ago) and still been so clueless

[feral vector]

kinda gotta embrace being confused heh

[random haven]

nevermind, need to add more generators lol 4 is insufficent

[drowsy grove]

just finished my 1st nuclear reactor fully knowing the stuff used to make the stuff powering it iarent sustainable btw

[cloud halo]

rigor motor or fused wire?

[drowsy grove]

until i finish the next phase maybe it'll get easier then (as i said the last phases)

[feral vector]

lol I'm at like 40 hours and haven't even got oil up and running yet

[drowsy grove]

huh?

[cloud halo]

alt recipe

[feral vector]

but I afk a decent amount and spent way too much time making stupid stuff to learn how things work

[drowsy grove]

1 tip, do not at any circumstance upgrade 1 line of a belt without the rest

[drowsy grove]

i mean the stators

and encased whatever thing that's made from concrete

[feral vector]

lol I'm sure I'll make that mistake again, wasn't fun to figure out why stuff wasn't working

[drowsy grove]

you need stators n ai limiters for one of the things to manufacture w urainium and the encased stuff to make whatever fuels the reactor

[drowsy grove]

yeah im still doing it

[random haven]

I assume if my production of power is the same as consumption it means add more powerplants? lol

[cloud halo]

uhh quick question how do I get 48 mercer spheres

[random haven]

Walking. xp

[drowsy grove]

unless you want everything to explode n have to restart em w bio reactors

i say stat-ore some ppl may say state-or

[random haven]

Coal power can explode? o.o

[normal orbit]

stay-tor? maybe

[random haven]

and also it saymy cap is 148 mw so I think i should be good

[drowsy grove]

figuratively like the power for everything will stop

[feral vector]

if you flip a breaker you run into a fun problem where you need power to produce power lol

[drowsy grove]

for nuclear power tho im about to find out soon if i can turn my main base into Chernobyl

yeah but my way's easier

[late shuttle]

Maybe one day I’ll build the space elevator

[feral vector]

state - er?

[drowsy grove]

no idea what that is yet, all i know is that im supposed to go from relying on fuel for power to making god damn particle accelerators 😭

one day you're peacfully gathering bushes to power your iron miner to make screws to throwing stuff into space

nah it makes sense

[feral vector]

makes sense to me too

[normal orbit]

alwasy been taught the stator is the stationary part and rotor is the rotating part

[drowsy grove]

how do ppl make those huge super factories while im stuck building messes?

i gotta turn in circles to figure out how to get smthn from A to B

[green fiber]

Good planning and perseverance

[drowsy grove]

my 2 weaknesses

[feral vector]

people who make insane builds probably play like 10x as many hours as you 😛

[drowsy grove]

i rely on "if it works rn leave the problems to "when i wake up tmr" me"

[green fiber]

Good looking factories start with foundations and a miniscule drive to decorate at least.

You can improve frim there

[plucky bone]

I agree. Seeing some screenshots and then there's me.... I'll put a pic of my mess in a min in screenshots.

I noticed my game close randomly when paused. Anyone else have that?

[green fiber]

Closes completely ?

[plucky bone]

Yes

[green fiber]

Cant say i ever heard of that.
EXP or standard version? Also which platform

[plucky bone]

Epic. Regular game I've had since 2021ish.

[green fiber]

odd

[plucky bone]

I even have founders items I saw.

[green fiber]

If you dont get a crash report then something must be forcefully closing the game

[plucky bone]

No crash. Just closes.

I'll explore more later. Never does it while playing, just paused

[drowsy grove]

wdym

ohhhhhh,yeah but i'd rather we'd not discuss that here :P

[plucky bone]

Might sound weird but the elevator music sounds like Sonic tunes from my Sega.

[drowsy grove]

wait

i think i confused myself

what were ya talking abt exactly?

ohhhhhhhhh

i totally misunderstood that 😭

no no its not your fault i just havent slept well

i dont know much abt em....or anything at all actually

yeah although i dont have an excuse for it other than "i wanna play more"

[normal orbit]

stationary* state is something else

[drowsy grove]

supposed to be doing the former but not much of it to say the least

[clear mesa]

What

[drowsy grove]

im going into med school not much going forward considering how old the profession is

[clear mesa]

When it comes to creative work I would agree yes

[clear mesa]

Unless you're going into the research side of it

[drowsy grove]

nah imma just open a clinic in my town the same way my grandad did

[clear mesa]

Wouldn't be a bad idea

[drowsy grove]

gonna leave saving the world to someone else

[clear mesa]

I hope you get there

[clear mesa]

Not really a sole effort :p

[drowsy grove]

dentist school is amazing but the equipment is hella expensive to get n maintain

[mellow pewter]

Just woke up from a dream in which I was playing Satisfactory... too much or too little of the game?

[drowsy grove]

who knows, some ppl solely almost ruined it

[clear mesa]

Too little I think

[clear mesa]

Easier to ruin than to save I'd argue lmfao

[plucky bone]

Not enough. Play more.

[drowsy grove]

touche

[clear mesa]

Well in the EU you're most likely funded thanks to stipend so I'm assuming they're from America

[drowsy grove]

gimmie 10 years and i'll have your answer

[plucky bone]

Tis the way it seems. So little effort to destroy but it takes actual work to do something and a lot of ppl are lazy.

[clear mesa]

A lot of people are content with the way things are rather

[plucky bone]

True. Good point

[drowsy grove]

not even,still waiting for applications for most of em to open tho i have applied to 1

not scared of it as far as i can remember

i try to avoid leaking mine

[clear mesa]

As one would hope

The thing that makes me queasy is needles tbh

I never got over those completely, just makes me cringe

[drowsy grove]

same, i do get uncomfortable even if im not the one taking em

[jaunty jewel]

whats going off

[clear mesa]

You'll get over it I assume with the amount you'll inevitably administer throughout training

[drowsy grove]

uhh im sorry could you repeat that?

[clear mesa]

But I hated it during nursing

[jaunty jewel]

who is we

[drowsy grove]

and beforehand

[leaden turret]

#satisfactory message

[clear mesa]

19 reacts, this guy's famous

Sign my buildgun

[leaden turret]

I is me, not your build gun 🥁

19 reacts over 6 years is like... small beans

[clear mesa]

Booo

[drowsy grove]

im getting cvhased by spiders (ingame)

[clear mesa]

I just realised it's all the way from 2020

[leaden turret]

top 10 reasons there's no vr in satisfactory

-# ||statistically, you're probably getting chased by spiders in real life||

[drowsy grove]

nah im not that scareed

[clear mesa]

It's fine spiders irl aren't 5x our size 😞

[cloud halo]

wait computers are THAT easy to make???
copper and plastic??

[leaden turret]

australia says hi

[clear mesa]

Nobody actually lives there anyways

[drowsy grove]

funny enough having having em as cats is 10x scarier

[leaden turret]

iirc, canonically it's AR.

so it's the equivalent of a TF2 spy wearing a paper face mask with a cat on it

[drowsy grove]

what a man must go through for a purple slug

[leaden turret]

gives everyone mental image of stinger doing crab walk

[clear mesa]

Or just the pyro with his delusions

[plucky bone]

Ye. Def PTSD from the meowing. Especially the green ones. Like insta dead.

[cosmic adder]

Anyone know any creator for satisfactory who started making series on 1.2?

[lavish echo]

Quick questionia erm, Do I need circuit boards for anything really? I have a Computer factory and Just unlocked supercomputers, Should I just continue the circuit boards factoryline into high speed connectors and then just send them to super computer factory ?

[cosmic adder]

You will need for other stuff. Ypu can google for what stuff

[clear mesa]

You can make some excess I believe they're needed for MK2 power poles but with high speed connectors then you make MK3

[cloud halo]

keep facilities imo
never know when a resource might be needed

[leaden turret]

• teleporter ✅
• engineer pioneer ✅
• things that fling jarate rocks at you long distance ✅

seems legit

[lavish echo]

Thats what ive done so far, Just a factory for every component

[plucky bone]

MK 2 poles are quickwire rods and concrete

[clear mesa]

You're right

[oblique aspen]

you dont need circuit boards as a construction material, if thats your question. Mostly used for computers and high-speed connectors

[clear mesa]

I forgot what circuits are used for...was it the AI limiters then?

Haven't played this game in a hot minute 😮‍💨

[oblique aspen]

circuit boards used to be used as a construction material, but they got rid of that

i think train signals used them?

but they changed it

[clear mesa]

Hmm okay

[plucky bone]

No clue. Have empty ? still in my recipe book for em.

[cloud halo]

guys
am I able to automate inhalers at any point in the game

[clear mesa]

Nope

[cloud halo]

damn

[drowsy grove]

😭

[clear mesa]

Ye a shame but theres no automated recipe for it nor are the ingredients able to be collected automatically

For any of the 3/4 recipes

[green fiber]

Then again, how often will you be near the brink of death needing a hit of those inhaler fumes

[late shuttle]

What version we on?

[clear mesa]

True but at least from my experience I just end up eating the bacon agaric instead

[leaden turret]

-# aerosilzed spider jerky

[clear mesa]

Lasagna

[cloud halo]

alot.

[late shuttle]

When can I research

[green fiber]

Research what

[clear mesa]

Unlock the MAM

[late shuttle]

Oh ok thx

[normal orbit]

Field research milestone

[plucky bone]

OOHH fancy. I can now stick conveyors on ceilings. Nice.

[normal orbit]

walls too

[proud escarp]

are there enough hard drives to get all alternate recipes?

[green fiber]

yes

[proud escarp]

ok thank you

[normal orbit]

and some extra :p

[reef basin]

1.1

[late shuttle]

Ok thx

[plucky bone]

Do you all use "short lifts" a lot? Sure are nice once I found them by mistake. One of those WTF moments. I dunno what to call em.

[clear mesa]

They're nice to keep lines tidy yeah

[plucky bone]

Even so this place is getting spaghetti like. Guess that's a downside to a build a ton of parts here factory.

[late shuttle]

Anyone know a good beginners guide on yt

[dense violet]

honestly just follow the milestones and build - the tiers are effectively a long tutorial

if you have specific questions you can always ask though

[real salmon]

there are plenty of guided playthroughs, if it's too daunting alone follow those

[tall lantern]

+1 for just working it out yourself as you go and just paying attention to what the game tries to teach you. There's no real penalty to doing things inefficiently beyond just... being inefficient, and that's normal for a new player. Learning troubleshooting skills and getting an understanding of things like "oh yeah belts and pipes can only manage x per minute" is also very useful, which you might not get if you just follow someone else

[cloud halo]

i have an idea most ingenious.

what if the break notification requires you to click to confirm to close it because sometimes I just skip seeing it
and make the button have a 10 second countdown so ppl dont click it off by accident

[cold berry]

3 minutes countdown. And, and the game threatens you too

[cloud halo]

ada startup sound after every second passes

[south lion]

Guys I'm planning on starting to build my main base soon but how should I do it for it to all work out

Ik I need to make it 1000x bigger than what I need rn so I don't have to rebuild later that's for sure

[swift turret]

with conveyer belts I hope

[clear mesa]

You're bound to rebuild

You're bound to need to add more than rebuild

No point in building a main base in satisfactory

[south lion]

Stuff inside the base yes but idk about the outside

[clear mesa]

You just build where is convenient

[south lion]

Having items in 1 spot is nice

[clear mesa]

That's where trains come in handy

[cloud halo]

just make a big platform and do wtvr from there

[clear mesa]

But yeah if you're planning on having literally everything in one spot you're gonna be wasting more time than just having smaller buildings across the map

[south lion]

I've already wasted a lot of time on stuff so I don't mind it

[clear mesa]

Dimensional depots exist for building materials and everything else should be produced where it is used

[cloud halo]

cloud space mercer sphere thingies

[clear mesa]

That's about it

[south lion]

Maybe it's impractical but it's cool isn't it

[clear mesa]

Ye well then there's no real 1 way to go about it and the amount of space you'll need is completely dependent on you and what you intend to actually do

For sure there have been people who have made it work

[uneven path]

Mega-factories are cool and it's a valid way to play the game. "There's no point" is a bit of a redundant take, play the game how you want. Satellite factories are fine, mega-factories are fine.

[cloud halo]

i mean...

[clear mesa]

Waste of time is what I said but yeah, it's a sandbox

[uneven path]

.

[cloud halo]

imo youll need to waste a TON of time making it look organized

[clear mesa]

My bad oopsie

[cloud halo]

everytime you unlock smt new

[smoky flame]

Is there no point stocking up power slugs, and should you always convert them to power shards when you get them?

[uneven path]

Waste of time is also just not true. You could spend 500 hours building a bunch of satellite factories, or 500 hours building one big factory, it's the same time usage.

[uneven path]

I would stockpile them until you can sloop them, but at that point just make them into power shards

[south lion]

Yeah but also why wouldn't I wanna play the game for 1 gazillion hours

[cloud halo]

having a l*fe

[south lion]

Idk what that is

[cloud halo]

id say sloop them to double your gains

[south lion]

I only know factory

[cloud halo]

well if youre une*ployed then yeah go ahead

[south lion]

Yea exactly

[clear mesa]

I disagree with this but at this point I feel as though it's just a subjective matter on how one prefers to play the game

[uneven path]

Exactly

[cloud halo]

id love to make all my satelite factories be connected and send resources to my ""MAIN"" base but ykw

too much effort and re-adjusting already placed railroads

[reef basin]

why readjust?

[cloud halo]

#screenshots message

ill waste a lifetime readjusting

[lavish inlet]

What settings tank fps the most? I'm currently running everything at max, but my fps is starting to get lower than I'd like and my 4070 super is basically at 100% utilization. So what settings can u turn down to get some fps back?

[reef basin]

again, why? just connect them together if you want, but you don't need to change anything

[keen flame]

gm chat

[clear mesa]

Goodnight chat

[south lion]

iirc the game has dlss so use that

[lavish inlet]

I am using it and frame gen 😭 But my factory is getting big and intensive

[south lion]

oof

[normal orbit]

just turn them off one by one and see which has most impact?

[sterile blade]

To give what I hope can be a useful example ^^: I like to play with belts and pipes, but not so much much with long-range transport; so I tend to prefer taking care of all ore-transport by lazily bringing it to one place (spending as little time as possible mechanically building transport lines) and then "wasting" time on organizing everything however I wish, using my favorite things in the game (short range logistics)

[wind ore]

i just completed phase 2 and i find my starting factory rather hard to expand, should i start over with a new factory some where else?

[south lion]

yeah rebuilding the factory is a big part of the game

[real shale]

Only if you make it a big part, you can always just keep the old and build new

[normal orbit]

not really

[wind ore]

im worried because my starting area have 4 pure iron node and im afraid im gonna be wasting resources

[normal orbit]

nothing forcing you to expand on the starter factory, you can make a new factory elsewhere and connect them with trucks or trains

[real shale]

Of course nothing stopping you from rebuilding (at the cost of maybe burning yourself out from a lack of progress)

If you are like me however you get some enjoyment from rebuilding an optimising

[south lion]

then use that starting area to build a better factory if u want

[real shale]

It's all up to preference entirely, as is the case with these things in sandbox games

Albeit if it's a sandbox game, why is the entire map not covered in sand...

[clear mesa]

Im a victim of this play style myself 😞

Forced myself to learn trains just so I can attempt to tidy things up instead of just blueprinting multiple belt lines

[supple canopy]

I used to have the fear of missing out in this game, but if it's your first playthrough, you will never need the max amount availble of the map of any ressource, far from it, especially iron. Don't tear your factory down, go build somewhere else

[restive quarry]

you know you can make curves with foudnations using catwalks, is it possible to make walls curve and still look nice like the foundations?

[dense violet]

yes, build them on the curved foundations

[sterile blade]

Hopefully 1.2 will make things more fun on that front 😁

[normal orbit]

catwalks is just extra step, you can just nudge

[supple canopy]

@normal orbit is talking about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8-g2o7wFc

[normal orbit]

i am not really

#design-and-architecture message similar, but i'm not double building, just nudging

and just blueprint that into one left and one right

the wall bit is a bit more tricky, the outside curve is easy, but the inner bit will get jagged, depending on the radius you can kind of smooth it out

#math-and-meta message i had two blueprints for the inner sections, one with three walls (three foundations wide) and one with two walls centered on the same three width. then when put together it looks kinda smooth. #math-and-meta message

[late shuttle]

There any good copper spots in grass

[swift turret]

check the interactive map

[reef basin]

or just place radar tower

[normal orbit]

they not in phase 3 yet :p

[timid ledge]

hey guys

can anyone explain me something real quick i am new in the game 🙂 and struggle a bit

[oblique aspen]

best to just ask

[prime basin]

waddya need?

[timid ledge]

i use the satisfacotry tool online for building 🙂

[prime basin]

k

[timid ledge]

ah fk i cant post a picture here rip

[normal orbit]

#math-and-meta if you have calculations troubles :p

pics allowed there

[timid ledge]

nice i post it there

[late shuttle]

I’m new

[normal orbit]

if you wanna spoil yourself, theres a link to scim in #math-and-meta pinned posts. Or you can use ore scanner and explore a bit and maybe find some fun things too

[late shuttle]

Ok thx

[reef basin]

then ping scanner

[plucky bone]

Yes there is copper in grass spots. Normal node and some impure. Currently working on a new factory close to grassland starter spot (I think) That's what I picked to start at.

[late shuttle]

Oh ok do u have a pic of where

If not it ok

[cloud halo]

5 mercer spheres left until I max out my ada cloud

[plucky bone]

I am gonna throw up a pic in screenshots cuz I think I am over the top a bit.

[supple canopy]

stoked for you this is probably the best 1.0 feature

@cloud halo the dimensional depot

[ornate saffron]

Which upgrade do you have left?

[cloud halo]

oh

[cloud halo]

240 upload speed

[ornate saffron]

Pretty good. A legit strategy is to hold off on that upgrade as it costs over 20 spheres. You could just add more depots to the lines that are high use for the fraction of the cost.

(I got the upgrade early though for completion )