satisfactory

[lavish flame]

awesome shop

[spare prism]

yea im in it but i dont see it

[ornate saffron]

diffrent fouindation materials and types are found in the AWesomneshop

[lavish flame]

you don't have all of them unlocked from the start

[keen flame]

don‘t call me that if you‘re not my close friend pls

[lavish flame]

oh alright, my bad!

[spare prism]

what do i need to unlock then

[keen flame]

i‘ll call everyone bro but the converse is not appropriate

bc it feels like purposely misgendering me

lmao

[lavish flame]

oh i didn't know that i'm sorry

[spare prism]

bro are you fr rn

[keen flame]

np

[lavish flame]

does sis work?

[keen flame]

yea

[lavish flame]

alright 🙏

[lavish flame]

idk exactly, i know you unlock a new one when you unlock plastic

[spare prism]

#screenshots message

[keen flame]

yeah its just like concrete and concrete + plastic and something else

[spare prism]

i want asphalt

[ornate saffron]

its in customizer

[keen flame]

it might be in customizer

[spare prism]

I found it yay

[lavish flame]

it is in customiser, sorry i assumed you already got there

[keen flame]

i am about 30 coupons away from having purchased everything on the awesome shop other than the statues and repurchasable things, are you proud of my progress

that is if i dont unlock new things ofc

[ornate saffron]

Fuck ya

[lavish flame]

"i'm going to sleep" proceeds not to go to sleep

[lavish flame]

very proud

[keen flame]

you‘ll get used to it if you stick around

[ornate saffron]

i do the same

[lavish flame]

i mean, i'm the same so i can't complain much

we are all just the same creatures

[real shale]

THE MOOOONN

[keen flame]

the nerdmojer

[ornate saffron]

Moon, the NErd and the DOOOOOOOOOOM

[supple canopy]

do you live in a world where you don't have to make diamonds or smth?

you get them back iirc

[restive sandal]

I just realized now that all 4 maps are the same map, just in different spawns.

[carmine peak]

where is this spider mother

[keen flame]

HAHA i remember thinking there were 4 maps too

when i first started

[keen flame]

usbeefalo

[restive sandal]

Yeah, I did some exploring and realized that the map borders kept expanding in some places as I traveled

And then next thing I know, I'm in a completely different biome

[ornate saffron]

ya map is biggggg

[restive sandal]

I hope they add a snow biome

[fluid sapphire]

uhh i think the map is done :p

[restive sandal]

I figured since there's no room for continuation but

It's just a dream of mine

[fluid sapphire]

pretend its snow when we finally get rain

[restive sandal]

Rain?! Never

[ornate saffron]

wrai is live on experimental we actually had it in EA too

[fluid sapphire]

ya\ll pray for me that this isnt all a big mistake haha

#screenshots message

[unborn moss]

I think if there would ever be DLC for the game, it would be in the form of a new Biome showing up on the map.

[keen flame]

that sounds really cool actually

petition for snow biome in 1.3

[restive sandal]

I'm in

[ornate saffron]

2.0

paid new map

[lavish flame]

that sounds peak

[restive sandal]

If they're not gonna add a map expansion I'd atleast like for snow to be a seasonal thing

[white dawn]

Just to set expectations: map expansions are basically not going to happen outside of very major stuff like hypothetical new DLC or "Satisfactory 2" or whatever (neither of which have been even hinted at yet)

[lavish flame]

add this guy to the dev team

[white dawn]

They've thought about snow as an environmental effect but the work required to make it look decent while retaining performance (at least if done the way they'd want to do it) has been too high to justify. Though on that front, who knows what the future may bring

[restive sandal]

If they're getting rain to work at the moment I don't think snow will be much harder

[fluid sapphire]

didnt they think the same about the weather system we are getting?

[white dawn]

Not exactly; the implementation they had just got broken by an Unreal Engine update and they hadn't had the resources to spare to get something new in until this release

[lavish flame]

who pinged me and deleted it 😭

[white dawn]

Me and the URL-filter bot, respectively. :D Apparently jobs.coffeestain.com isn't in the allowed-URL list. Sorry!

[lavish flame]

lmfaooo, no worries i was just confused

[white dawn]

Anyway, there's job openings for a programmer, in re: "add this guy to the dev team"

So if someone's very passionate about trying to implement snow, there you go. :)

[fluid sapphire]

if they want a basic React app, i am their guy

[white dawn]

As for community manager comments re: snow, in the past: https://archive.satisfactory.video/topics/environment/biomes/unplanned-biomes/snow/

[fluid sapphire]

i bet i could make some snow with css

[real shale]

Snow????

I'd love snow

[sharp viper]

Why do my left and right arrow keys sometimes bug out and make nudge pushing things up and right or down and left at the same time

Super annoying

[inner ruin]

arent u just pressing 2 buttons at once

[sharp viper]

No

[supple canopy]

long time ago they said they wouldn't add a snow biome, nor a cave or underwater biome. If there ever was a DLC I hope they expand either the huge canyon east of the dune desert #screenshots message or the big waterfalls in the south

[lavish flame]

Honestly, am i the only one who wishes for more decoration blocks? Such as plants and like furniture maybe

[real shale]

No it's a legitimate thing

[inner ruin]

grandaddy purple? schedule i?

[real shale]

No plants

[restive sandal]

But caves already exist...

[supple canopy]

more deco yes but plants and stuff isn't the vibe imo

[ornate saffron]

sometimes the nudging is iun relation to another object. for me this happens often with over lapping foundations with diffrent angles. the nudge will follow a foundation on a odd angle

[real shale]

I am of Mikaels stance, no greenery or anything, we must destroy nature

[lavish flame]

Well i was just saying the first thing that came to mind and i saw our living room plant 😭

[supple canopy]

yes but cave biome no

[restive sandal]

A gerbil would be a better programmer than me

[real shale]

Can you imagine a complete subterranean map, just all underground?

[lavish flame]

You can be mr idea guy or smth, the man in the chair

[fluid sapphire]

i sure can, just not in satisfactory

[restive sandal]

Yeah, but what HAVEN'T they thought of

[real shale]

Oops no water

[lavish flame]

Snow or somethin

[restive sandal]

100 Stingers in one biome

[supple canopy]

that'll be the red bamboo field

[real shale]

That's a funny way to spell the swamp

[supple canopy]

btw wasn't there an alpha stinger in the swamp that was HUMONGOUS? Like twice bigger than normal

[lavish flame]

Add radioactive beans

[cold berry]

Need me more decor

But other than that I'm enjoying the game at like 200 hours so it's got me lol

[lavish flame]

I adore this game

If satisfactory has 0 fans, i am no longer on this earth

[inner ruin]

I GOT TRAINS CHOOOOOOO CHOOOOOO

[fluid sapphire]

embrace the train #screenshots message

[lavish flame]

Is it bad that i have like 400 hours total on the game but i’ve never gotten to tier 7 and above because i keep restarting my saves before in get there…

[fluid sapphire]

why do you keep restarting

[lavish flame]

I don’t know, strange impulses

[plucky bone]

Can you add a pipe support to an existing pipe? Or is it better to cut and replace the pipe?

[clever pier]

i think we should have more decore items to build cozy rest places for the pioneer. placeable plants, chairs, beds, posters, umbrellas, food and drink items etc

[wraith widget]

you can mass delete with save editor btw, no need to restart

your poor harddrives

[fluid sapphire]

hell yeah thats what i did

built a massive power bank and warehouse and started over

[lavish flame]

Oh i know dw, i don’t keep around the old saves 😭

[wraith widget]

nobody cares but i actually wish there were less alt recipes, they sometimes hurt my optimization brain

i love some of them, the quickwire/copper wire ones that use both mats for both is my fav

[lavish flame]

Honestly i can understand the feeling, i wish there was only 1 alternate recipe per item if that makes sense

[inner ruin]

what does the train need to give it electric?

[next ivy]

station i guess ?

[inner ruin]

ugh it wants plastic

[fluid sapphire]

Rail carries power, build a station and plug it in

[open cape]

what goes in the alien power augmenter port

[inner ruin]

hopefully one day i get better at this game (i wont)

[real shale]

Alien power matrices

You get them at phase 5

[inner ruin]

oh yeah btw if ur traveling down a tube and a friend is going the other way down the tube, what will happen to you both

[restive sandal]

Quick question , does water negate fall damage like Minecraft?

[open cape]

you sure im at p6 and i cant find them

[real shale]

That's tier 6 not phase 5

[open cape]

oh mb

what does it do when i put them in

[real shale]

Increases the power boost to 30%

[white dawn]

Take a leap and find out! Fall damage is capped at 99; so long as you're at full health, even if you miss, you won't die. :)

[restive sandal]

Surprisingly it worked and I lived

[inner ruin]

can i go too fast and the train fall off the track?

[jagged nymph]

no, only if you derail cause the track is missingh

[inner ruin]

haha damn

i hope stuff like trees can get knocked down cause of it

[wild hollow]

Anyone know why my prebuilt elevators with splitters that are attached to a roof floor hole do not connect to the elevators on the top side? Every time I have to build the ones on top first, then replace the ones on the bottom to make it connect. This is a problem since I'm using logistics floors with floor holes in the ceiling, and I want to be able to do the elevators on that floor before adding the floor above it. Seems like this isn't possible?

[supple canopy]

AND YOU'RE WEARING THE BLADERUNNERS. DON'T FORGET THE BLADE RUNNERS

[supple canopy]

I've found you have do build both sides of the lift from the floor hole BEFORE snapping a splerger to it for it to work properly

[alpine sigil]

Two things.

1. What has your experience been with satisfactory on crossover (besides reinstalling).

2. You know you can buy crossover for like 70% off on cyber monday and then have that version for life?

[wild hollow]

Oh, okay, thanks. So basically, on my logistics floor blueprint, I have to go above and pre-add the elevators? Will that make it connect to the machines that are lined up with them if I add the machines after?

[supple canopy]

no, you have to build the machines first for a lift to snap. But if lift output isn't too close to machine input, you can connect lift to machine with a belt no problem

[gloomy tusk]

1. VERY poor its overpriced and doesnt support a lot of windows apps and just uses a different program (WINE) and is then sold at an insane price
2. I dont want to buy it its not worth it

[alpine sigil]

if you get it on cyber mondays, $18 a year is NOT an insane price. BUT, how does it run through crossover?

[gloomy tusk]

not great

[wild hollow]

Yeah that's what I was trying to avoid, since that means I have to redo all my blueprints xD

Thanks tho

Another question, is it possible to underclock to 71.16666667%, or is that too precise?

[white dawn]

Codeweavers (who make Crossover) are the primary corporate sponsor of Wine, btw, and have been for years. Wine is the foundation of all Windows-gaming-on-Linux. You're using Wine when you run any Windows app on Linux. Valve's version is branded "Proton," but it's the same stuff in the backend

[gloomy tusk]

You said the version for life though and that one costs 500 usd which is just not a reasonable price in my opinion

[gloomy tusk]

yeah but wine is free right? i just dont understand why crossover is so expensive when it uses wine

i may be wrong in saying wine is free

[alpine sigil]

You pay once, and you get to keep the version forever.

The "lifetime subscription" you refer to is to keep getting updates, which aren't necessary.

[alpine sigil]

It's free but no longer worked on.

[white dawn]

Crossover is Codeweavers' commercial product which, yes, is based on Wine. Like many companies supporting opensource software, they have a model where the software remains opensource but they have a paid version with support and potentially extra custom bits on top (like I assume Crossover still has GUI prefix management and such)

There's nothing sinister about Codewavers selling a commercial product; it's how they stay in business

Wine (and Valve's Proton) would be in a far weaker state without the literal decades of development that Codeweavers have put into the codebase

[gloomy tusk]

not saying its sinister just saying its a big price for that app in my opinion

[gloomy tusk]

so the 80 usd one is the lifetime but no updates one?

[white dawn]

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that Proton would not have been possible without Codeweavers' longterm (and continued) development

[alpine sigil]

again, $18 on cyber monday. You keep it forever, but you dont get the most recent updates

[white dawn]

The main thing you get by buying Crossover is commercial support for a specific suite of apps which they spend time QAing and supporting. AFAIK it's more geared towards businesses and the like, but I admit it's been a long time since I've looked too closely. :)

[gloomy tusk]

im just going to buy a pc anyway so i might not buy it

[white dawn]

Long before Proton and the near-ubiquity of Windows-games-on-Linux I was happily paying money for Crossover versions; for many apps+games it was your best shot at compatibility and a good experience

[gloomy tusk]

thank you both for the information though

[white dawn]

Anyway, yes, wine is free, as is Proton. :D For a Linux gamer who mostly just wants to play games, I agree that Crossover may not be worth your dollars given the (equally impressive) work that Valve continues to do to support it

[alpine sigil]

Is proton on mac as well?

[white dawn]

If you're one to enjoy supporting developers doing Good Work™ (and have a use case for the specific advantages the Crossover offers) then it may be worth it, though. :)

[gloomy tusk]

the reason i do not want to run linux is because of games like skate

[white dawn]

Nope

[gloomy tusk]

they cant run on linux

games like fortnite, skate, SL arise and other games that use easy anticheat dont run through proton or crossover

[alpine sigil]

yeah but most of my games i play can

[alpine sigil]

sad.

[gloomy tusk]

what do you play

You use crossover?

[alpine sigil]

im probably going to

[gloomy tusk]

I like my mac and it has been good for all the things i use it for it just isnt a verg good gaming mac

2020 M1 macbook air

[alpine sigil]

I cant send a screenshot, mind if i dm you?

Ill just send highlights:

Elden Ring
Deadlock
Elden Scrolls
Astroneer
Fallout 4
Helldivers 2
Marvel Rivals (possibly)
Megabonk
Phasma
Power Wash Sim
REPO
Satisfactory
TF2
Warframe

all of them have 4+ scores on crossover, and i have around 38 mac native games

butttt im a big satisfactory fan, so thats kinda pushing my decision to bite the bullet and buy it (and then i can play all the other titles)

[clever pier]

is this to run satisfactory on a mac?

[jagged nymph]

macbooks such so so much ass

theres literally nothing good about them

[clever pier]

you can install wine using homebrew command line for free, you don't need to use crossover

[clever pier]

battery life

[gloomy tusk]

yes ther is

[jagged nymph]

who cares about battery life when you cant do anything with it?

buy a different laptop for half the price and a battery bank

bam there you go, good battery life and a good laptop

instead of an expensive, bad laptop with good battery life

honestly the only good apple product is airpods

[clever pier]

macs are very good for video editing and as a web server development platform. I wouldn't recommend them for gaming

[gloomy tusk]

for what reason do you think apple is a bad laptop?

[primal crypt]

90 percent of the appeal of those has been art and audio software.

[gloomy tusk]

they arent the best laptops but they arent bad

[jagged nymph]

ive had one before, and it was so terrible

[gloomy tusk]

what were you trying to use it for

[clever pier]

and yes I got satisfactory to run ok using the trial version of crossover on my m1 macbook pro

[gloomy tusk]

i beat the game on my macbook air m1

[supple canopy]

precision only goes to the 4th decimal. However you can get this number by doing calculations in the UI, never got any issue like this

[primal crypt]

set the amount of output manually

[supple canopy]

yea. But either way it's the same result, the only thing that the game takes into account is % to calculate cycle time

[jagged nymph]

set the output number if its a better number

[primal crypt]

it might not be the same. but you should know how much you want to prduce.

[jagged nymph]

or if you type 427/6 it will be much much more precise than just typing in 71.6666

[supple canopy]

it is

[gloomy tusk]

what did you find bad about them

[drowsy kelp]

The one i’m using now runs satisfactory miles better through two different layers of translation (satisfactory-> crossover -> rosetta 2 -> M4) than my old laptop

It’s done pretty much everything i’ve asked it to

[jagged nymph]

just in general, for anything other than like video editing its jsut way worse than a windows/linux laptop.

slower, harder to get things working

[clever pier]

let it go, its off topic

[real shale]

Okay let's not say windows is better here

[primal crypt]

like i said its all about the software you know that by asking any mac owner what thier doing .

[drowsy kelp]

Was the one you used intel or apple silicon

[jagged nymph]

linux is better

[clever pier]

but if you want help installing wine via homebrew to run satisfactory on mac I can help

[gloomy tusk]

it runs all browsers fine and every app fine? and it has really fast boot times

[jagged nymph]

apple silicon

[jagged nymph]

not in my experience

[drowsy kelp]

What was your measure of “fast”

[clever pier]

--> off topic

[real shale]

I think we go to #off-topic-tech

[jagged nymph]

it just felt sluggish

[gloomy tusk]

you might have just been using it for different things because mine does all the stuff i want it to do and more only real downside is the storage

[clever pier]

i need to optimise my screw production

[primal crypt]

liniux has the worst software and i can run all linix software in windows. without needing to fight with a pakgadge manager just to preserse harddisk space on terabyte drives.

[drowsy kelp]

I harvested the terabyte i threw into the old laptop a year ago and used a thing from ugreen to get space over USB

Without selling 3 kidneys

[clever pier]

every game I've wanted to play works on bazzite linux. I ditched windows 10 a year ago. satisfctory runs great

[gloomy tusk]

you cant run any games that use easy anti cheat

[primal crypt]

gaming in Linux has got allot better thanks to steam.

[clever pier]

flatpacks solves the software dependency issues

[jagged nymph]

then linux isnt for you, if you dont want to mess with the command line or a package manager linux isnt for you. If you do know how to do that its so much better, but windows is meant for anyone to be able to use it, even if its worse overall

[clever pier]

some anti cheat stuff works on linux and some doesn't

[jagged nymph]

everything i play works on linux

[jagged nymph]

especially satisfactory

[clever pier]

i never had to touch the command line to get bazzite working

[gloomy tusk]

keyword "I"

[primal crypt]

I would only run linux if i wasnt spending my time designing facotories.

[jagged nymph]

yes, keyword i, thats why i use linux, because everything i play runs on linux

[gloomy tusk]

which is good for you im just saying it wont do what I want it to do

[clever pier]

wrong... some games using EAC can run on linux see the website "areweanticheatyet.com"

[jagged nymph]

i never said it did?

[real shale]

You know what, I'm playing satisfactory on TempleOS

[gloomy tusk]

no but you said its the best overall

[gloomy tusk]

play on thinkpad

[clever pier]

satisfactory on ipad pro? maybe one day

[jagged nymph]

because it is, not being able to play some games is a downside, having one downside doesnt mean its instantly worse than all the other options

[real shale]

If someone can play doom on a pregnancy test anything is possible

[primal crypt]

it works. personally i think someone should have been able to do a better job of makeing OS then microsoft and micrsoft should have been able to make a better search engine then google by now.

[jagged nymph]

if "best overall" mean "theres literally no reason to use anything else" then the other options wouldnt be used

[real shale]

Or even a receipt printer, playing doom on a receipt printer was definitely something lmao

[gloomy tusk]

what makes linux better in your opinion?

[jagged nymph]

mainly just more control over everything

[sharp viper]

Is there a way to build conveyors on grasslands and make them look good?

[wild hollow]

Ah cool, so I can divide it directly by the number of machines I am using. I only do constructors in sets of 4, that's why I'm asking xD

[jagged nymph]

yea

[wild hollow]

Nice

[jagged nymph]

foundations

[sharp viper]

Tried that but it looks ugly with only one conveyor

[primal crypt]

trucks

[sharp viper]

Needs 3 - 5

[jagged nymph]

half foundation

[clever pier]

i use support poles to raise them up high enough to walk under neath them. also looks better

[wild hollow]

I've found that the best way to make conveyors over any surface look good is to build conveyor tunnels. But that may be a little bit too much work before blueprint designer.

[clever pier]

build them high enough for a tractor to drive under

[sharp viper]

I actually tried something like that

A conveyor tower thing

[clever pier]

yeah but now since the experimental upgrade I use trucks instead of long conveyors

[wild hollow]

I've used trucks a bit in phase 2 now, but the fuel requirements are really starting to build up.

[jagged nymph]

i use trains cause train supremacy

[sharp viper]

@clever pier #design-and-architecture

[bitter dust]

this game is so fantastic

[clever pier]

remember they can use almost anything as fuel, even just plain coal

[jagged nymph]

ik,r?

[wild hollow]

Agreed

[sharp viper]

Too large

I like small factories

[wild hollow]

Yeah that's what I'm using, it's like 20/min for one of my routes.

[jagged nymph]

skill issue

if your train station isnt bigger than your factory you arent doing it right

[wild hollow]

Let's game it out: Bet.

[sharp viper]

https://tenor.com/view/milk-gif-25642847

[real shale]

Since trying experimental I've been making a lot more use of trucks and I am in love with them

[supple canopy]

this is not true though. No matter how you put it, the precision will always be the 4th decimal of the clock percentage. But it's precise enough not to cause issues

[primal crypt]

As a last resort you can make curve foundations in vanilla. with rail splines by putting pillars under the splines at regular intervals using the noitches in the spline. the resulting foundation have enogh overall that one can even widen the curve.

[jagged nymph]

or the c atwalk trick

[primal crypt]

sence your curve follwed the rail and belts on them will be curved perfectly and look good

[wild hollow]

I see, thanks. I guess I have to accept a little bit of machine stalling since I'm forcing myself to use an even number of machines.

[primal crypt]

can make the same curve as the catwalk trick with curve mod.

rail splines give you more flexibilty.

[supple canopy]

don't worry I do the same and I never noticed machine stalling. when doing that it's a good idea to prefill the last machines on the manifold just to be sure

[wild hollow]

I connect the lower floors to power and let it fill up completely before the next floor is done anyway.

[primal crypt]

posting eg in screen shoots the busses are rail spline the big roundabout curve mod or cat walk trick.

[jagged nymph]

lowk we need a vanilla curve build mode, i dont see why they dont add it

[primal crypt]

for sure thier would be no down side havein it vannila

[wild hollow]

What was vanilla curve build mode?

[jagged nymph]

it would let you build curves without doing wierd tricks

which im very surprised is not already a thing

it cant be hard to implement and everyone would love it

if someone didnt like it they could just choose not to use it

doesnt hurt anyone, only helps

[supple canopy]

yea they'd just have to add a build mode like straight and curve that just changes the rotation point

[jagged nymph]

yea

i mean modders have done it

[supple canopy]

but it'd get confusing for a new player as to why it'd be categorized the same as vertical and zoop but idk

[jagged nymph]

i dont think so

its just another build mode

and if they find it confusing they can just not use it

[primal crypt]

this is the best explanation of cat walk trick i could find. this guy is a great teacher also learn the spline technique here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8_41RkLKgY&t=345s

[supple canopy]

that's not how you game design haha

[jagged nymph]

in this case yes it is

i mean i dont see whats confusing about a curved build mode

you place the foundation, and it zoops out in a curve

and if someone for some reason is confused by that they can just use the other modes

"ah man i hate this game so much what tf does curve mean"

[knotty bear]

means curve

[jagged nymph]

really???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[knotty bear]

no it means 180 degree line

[jagged nymph]

REALLY???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[restive snow]

any line is a curve if you approximate wrong enough

[jagged nymph]

true.......

[knotty bear]

any line isn't a line if you line?

[jagged nymph]

anything is a line in 1 dimension

[primal crypt]

its possibly the most natural thing to do ever to zoop curves. Thiers still time you want to make manual curves understanding cat walk trick lets you make large pie sections that you can build machines inside. perfect cicrles are not optimal build areas.

[knotty bear]

my ti83+ graphs curved lines

[jagged nymph]

my desmos graphs pretty much anything

[clever pier]

just use mods if you want to easily build curves

[jagged nymph]

yeah, it just seems like something that would be in vanilla

and try telling that to console players

[restive snow]

curves are easy though.

[clever pier]

doesn't the way you build curves at the moment use lots of extra pieces?

[jagged nymph]

but you shouldnt have to do wierd tricks to build them

[clever pier]

they might want to discourage that for performance reasons

[restive snow]

not in my designs

[clever pier]

i would love it if they added curved foundations in 15 degree increments, that would simplify things a lot

[restive snow]

also yeah I agree here but I mean I'm not really sure what can be done about that. the tricks work for a reason

[dense violet]

only if you wanted thigns in 15 degree increments. Which is pretty restrictive

[primal crypt]

its hard to esitmate curvature in advance i would never be able to make my arch and suspension bridged unmoded.

[clever pier]

sure but you can't expect them to add hundreds of curve angles

15 degree increments would be better than what we have now

[jagged nymph]

they could add a curve build mode similar the one from "curve builder" mod

[dense violet]

exactly, thats why you have your methods for creating custom curves

[restive snow]

unironically, use train tracks as a guide. I'm not even kidding it helps me so much

[dense violet]

eh, you'd just end up seeing a ton of stuff that all looks the same rather than buildings made to order

[clever pier]

honestly they could just take the interface for train tracks and let you place a half width or full width foundation that follows the curve you draw

[primal crypt]

im always useing tracks now for outdoor busses.

it looks so clean in the end

my roads and bridges curve mod.

and trains.

[sharp rune]

Hey does anyone know where I might be able to find my save file on Linux? My distro is CachyOS if that matters

[restive snow]

hang on I got this gimme a sec

[quartz orbit]

I was driving my little truck just now and flat foundation and then boom i got launched across the map.

then game crashed as i was screenshotting

[restive snow]

/path-to-your-steam-library/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/526870/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/local/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/

[sharp rune]

Thanks. Now I Just gotta figure out where the hell steam is installed lol

[cold berry]

I got my more advanced iron basics factory done ayyyy.

Boring but necessary.

[sharp rune]

Found it. STarting to figure out my way around this OS

[sharp rune]

Tysm for your help

[restive snow]

np. good luck with cachy

[cold berry]

Going to revamp my copper line next.

[sharp rune]

Its been treating me pretty well so far. I assume you use Linux as well?

[restive snow]

yeah. I'm also on an arch-based distro (artix, because i don't like systemd)

[clever pier]

i'm on bazzite and it runs satisfactory great

[restive snow]

satisfactory runs excellently on both arch systems I've run it on (better than windows did, as a matter of fact)

barring one small issue I can't seem to figure out where running the game for more than 24 hours causes a crash

[clever pier]

dedicated server?

should probably restart it every 24 hours anyway

[restive snow]

no I just leave my factories runnign while I'm doing stuff and forget about it when I go to bed

I actually could set up a dedicated server though

[clever pier]

doesn't the game restart itself anyway? it does for me "the server is shutting down"

[restive snow]

I actually didn't know that was a thing until last week, when it told me it'd restart, and it didn't do anything once the time was up, and just kept running likek normal

[clever pier]

huh.. I manually save and quit to desktop when I get that message anyway

just makes me feel better

[restive snow]

one time i got "you have been playing for 26 hours, take a break" on screenshare and my friend started yelling at me to get off satisfactory it was pretty funny

[restive snow]

but I've only ever gotten this one once

and it was, curiously, in a singleplayer session

[clever pier]

yes the game still has a "server" even in single player mode

[restive snow]

oh like how minecraft does it

[clever pier]

and same with ark

[minor cedar]

does satisfactory tools not have a power planner?

[sharp rune]

I've run into an issue where I'm making things too far away from each other to be feasible to automate them. I might need to redesign my facotries so I Can make the thigns I Need in one area. Hmmmm

[rigid glen]

Really long belts work great

[knotty bear]

I pressed take all on a death crate and now its gone and I don't have my power slugs or hard drive or mercer sphere was carrying

[sharp rune]

Yeah I know but I really don't wanna do that lol

[knotty bear]

dawg legit 8 slugs gone at the least and a hard drive

where did they go.

[rigid glen]

Hah, welcome to Satisfactory, that decision is game engine

[rigid glen]

You can reload the game before you open and take the items out manually if you want

[knotty bear]

I'm curious where they actually went though.

[rigid glen]

If you had room, thwere is no reason for the items to disappear

[knotty bear]

Didn't

I had a whole 300 fuel tanks in my inventory

The death crate was completely full as I was holding materials for a project.

[pallid gazelle]

how do i make diagonal pillars?

[sharp rune]

This isn't even the first time I've redesigned my factory. I did it earlier upong unlocking foundations but I'm probably gonna have to do it again

[rigid glen]

You have diagonal Metal Beam or Painted Beams, it's a build mode. I think pillars are only vertical or horizontal

[sharp rune]

I just need to figure out where all the resources I'm gonna need are and what the best way to go about doing it is

[clever pier]

radar towers

I usually end up relocating the hub as soon as I unlock radar towers and can find better locations

i said radar not ada

[sharp rune]

Scunthorpe problem strikes again

LMAO

[clever pier]

imagine if you actually lived in that town

[sharp rune]

It legitimately was an issue

That was kinda funny lmao. I just proved that Dyno is suffering from it

[clever pier]

they voted to rename it , to Vaginathorpe

[sharp rune]

-# Aw man I can't use external emotes

Funny how it became a known issue all the way back in 1996 and it still hasn't been solved to this day

[clever pier]

its solved in some cases just not by dyno

like its easy to make an exception list for specific place names in a profanity filter

[cold berry]

So my oil plants shut down sometimes. What's up with that?

Like, I only realize because my drive stops getting plastic and rubber

[spare garnet]

just catching up on the 1.2 news. Kinda surprised it took them this long to add actual tanker trucks

[drowsy kelp]

do all the numbers line up? is anything not running at 100%? have you checked for stray mk1 pipes on a mk2 pipeline? etc etc

[fickle locust]

If it completely shuts down, there's probably an issue of byproducts backing up that cause production to stop

[ebon hill]

does anyone know what ports i have to open to host a satisfactory server on the experimental branch google is telling 7777 udp and tcp but other sites are telling me complety other ones

[proper cradle]

found a bug in experimental, dont know if its in base also. If you attach a spliter/merger before you attach the other lift end to a floor lift hole, it will bug out the lift and disconnect it from the lift hole.

[feral vector]

I unlocked the rifle and now I feel like a bully

[coral marsh]

how do you make signs light up like neon?

[clever pier]

edit the sign settings

of them is a glow setting for the bg color

[coral marsh]

thanks

[empty spoke]

can i use a truck to fill up all truck stations with batteries?

[clever pier]

you can but why fuel them with batteries?

thats a lot of extra work over most fuel types

[coral marsh]

packaged turbofuel is better than batteries and far less of a resource hog too

[clever pier]

or go for packaged rocket fuel

[coral marsh]

yes

[clever pier]

theres really no reason to make batteries now that drones can use any fuel

and the drones absolutely scream with rocket fuel, ridiculously fast

[coral marsh]

batteries are a cool idea, but there are far better fuel types available

[coral marsh]

ever seen one on plutonium? they're insanely fast, amx speed 360Kph

[ornate saffron]

Have you tried #dedicated-servers

[clever pier]

imo when they changed drones to allow different fuels they should have buffed batteries to still have a reason to use them

[coral marsh]

yes

[ebon hill]

it would prob help to read all the chats huh

[normal orbit]

That number ain't right

[coral marsh]

it's what i saw on a wiki

100 meters per second which is exactly 360Kph

[normal orbit]

Wiki says 100? Used to be 45m/s

[clever pier]

yeah I put a plutonium rod into a drone once just for laughs

but rocket fuel is almost as fast

i with the trucks would also get faster with better speed

maybe just a 50% speed bump

[sick falcon]

batteries are so useless now 😔

[hard quail]

Help

m trying to make blueprints in 1.2 but they arent saving on my end. They do however save on the hosts end (my friend) yet, when he places them down they don't load properly and are invisible. How would we go about fixing this issue?

Why Blueprints no worky

[normal orbit]

space at start or end of the session name

or invalid symbols/characters

[hard quail]

its just named 1.2 Expieremental

[feral vector]

this game legit has some top tier exploration

feel like I'm playing skyrim or something

I forgot I have a factory to deal with lol

I should have automated more before I explored but I really want to unlock the sloop 2x production thing

[clever pier]

the exploration is one of my favorite parts of the game

I wish other factory games had this

[feral vector]

I feel like it will eventually become a chore because there's no proc gen but that's why it's so good in the first place

[clever pier]

there is random ores in 1.2

[feral vector]

like if I gotta collect all these sloops and hard drives every playthrough zzzz

[clever pier]

random crash site locations might be possible to add in future

[feral vector]

yeah but hard drives and sloops and spheres and stuff you kinda nerf yourself if you don't get them, once you know the map seems like a bother

but this first playthrough whoo boy it's cool lol

[clever pier]

you can play a custom game with all alts already unlocked at start ?

[feral vector]

hmm fair enough

[feral vector]

seems like a nice addition to make multiple playthroughs more varied

[primal crypt]

yes im over searching for drives. it adds nothing

[feral vector]

palworld had random seeds for pal spawn locations that was pretty sweet

[feral vector]

yeah for me I've never explored the map before so looking for them is awesome but if I was on playthrough 2/3/4 I'd be like zzzz just give me all the drives

[clever pier]

right I'm playing random ores random purity right now in experimental. definitely makes it more interesting

[normal orbit]

who was the wiki guy? gotta change back that info on the drones

[white dawn]

It's a public wiki; just hit "Edit" and have at it

[normal orbit]

its not, need to sign up for it

[white dawn]

Sure, so... you can do that. :)

Anyone can register

Ondar is often the point of contact for wiki issues, fwiw. But there's really nothing stopping you from just editing stuff

[normal orbit]

ah i can see who did it

[feral vector]

argh I thought production amplifier required 12 sloops for some reason I gotta stop playing when I'm tired

welp time to crush some slugs

[leaden turret]

I was a Pioneer like you, until I took a Stinger to the knee

[normal orbit]

congratulations on your pioneer marriage then :p

[karmic crow]

Why are the turbo fuel ratios so weird

[normal orbit]

to make you think

[karmic crow]

I have an oil extractor overclocked at 300m^3 a minute feeding into 5 refiners making fuel to later turn into turbo fuel and I can’t get it to balance

I have a literal notebook next to me when I play because I have to figure out ratios all the time

I should really go to bed

But the factory must grow

[chrome bear]

for my factories should i have 1 factory dedicated to each material and create new ones as I grow, like currently 1 drill is feeding into 1 factory that is making, plates, screws, rods, reinforced plates and rotors. should I instead dedicate the factory to 1 of these and then create new separate ones for the others and link them all into 1 hub and travel in-between with hypertubes

[clever pier]

its generally considered a bad idea to try and make all of one part in one place

i tend to make parts where I need them in a chain

so I dont for example attempt to make modular frames in only one place and distribute to where needed

instead I make modular frames in lots of places where they are needed

[chrome bear]

bring where they're needed to them?

[clever pier]

right and bring ingots where they are needed with trains or trucks

rather than shipping partial products

but really its up to you

if it works then it works

[timid rune]

hmm now the real pain starts: setting up 276 singularity cell/min

and finding another 1200 dark matter crystals/min from the map

[lean fossil]

I actually need the 1.2 path system holy shit

[stray herald]

Real

Do we have an ETA on 1.2?

[lean fossil]

so for now I have to record the truck path myself 😭

[crude canyon]

Ok guys I got a bad idea

No sink playthrough

[timid rune]

didn't realise dark matter trap exists (oops!)

time to add another layer of converters!

[real shale]

You...... You don't want any of the awesome shop stuff?

[sterile blade]

[real shale]

No sink is a massive QOL nerf

[timid rune]

cool now I don't need SAM ore for superposition oscillators

[reef basin]

Eh not that much. Nuclear gives way more

[timid rune]

small scale nuclear isn't quite worth the effort though

[mortal ginkgo]

BIG DAWG IS UNHINGED ZOMG

[sterile blade]

Debatable ... In small scales, it takes so few items that one can do it with just "spare parts" (ie: using mainly existing productions), making the logsitc more work than the actual production

[coral marsh]

me?

[normal orbit]

no

[bitter silo]

literally just woke up, time to get ready for my "shift" with ficsit

[lean fossil]

My truck IS faster when im not near it

[lean fossil]

I guess trucks really ARE autistic

[sly heart]

I hope at some point they update the statues to be placed facing you, instead of rotated 90 degrees to the left

[mortal ginkgo]

No, their pathing just ignores many obstacles when you are not around.

[lean fossil]

so they just teleport.

Cause I've given them a path of LEAST RESISTANCE

A high ass sky road

[mortal ginkgo]

yesn't

[tender knoll]

guys how do yall split the uranium fuel rods for ur power plant cuz whats happening w me is that my first power plant got like 50 rods and the other 9 powerplants none or like 1

and idk what the problem is cuz everything else runs well

i just dont know how to split fuel rods properly

[broken valve]

I have finally made a huge train depot for unloading small trains into one larger train to simplify things, but now i doubt it is even useful 😭💀

[mortal ginkgo]

let all nuclear plants be saturated first.

[tender knoll]

but how

[mortal ginkgo]

once all got 50 inside it will be fine

dont make them work / dont rely on their power yet / manual filling up etc

[tender knoll]

but they dont get 50 fuel rods

cuz

everytime it js goes into the first one

[mortal ginkgo]

thats how manifolds work, nuclear plant will get more than they can use, and then rest will follow

[normal orbit]

if you have 10 reactors, thats 2 rods/min total. it'll take some time to fill 50 into each one

[crude canyon]

Yeah what are you gonna do with the polymer now

[mortal ginkgo]

DEAR LORD HAVE MERCY PRO IS ULTRA UNHINGED 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[tender knoll]

but it js splits to the first one and ONLY that nothing else works and idk what the best splitting method is

[crude canyon]

And don't get me started on nuclear, you gotta go full chain

[mortal ginkgo]

my brother you are using manifold, rules apply to ALL machines.

[tender knoll]

(idk what manifold means)

[mortal ginkgo]

first one gets it all because first splitter gets priority

[mortal ginkgo]

it means machines will always get more than they can use, and eventually cant get anymore

[tender knoll]

anyway to fix that?

[mortal ginkgo]

thats why your one nuclear plant has 50, other one has 9. Soon that 9 will have 50 too.

[mortal ginkgo]

"dont make them work / dont rely on their power yet / manual filling up etc"

[normal orbit]

if this is the case you're only making 0.2 rods/min

[tender knoll]

so what youre saying is that i should afk for multiple hours waiting for them to fill up? (idk if this sounded rude it wasnt meant to be)

[mortal ginkgo]

its not rude to discuss stuff lol, if you dont want to wait, there are ways to load balance but thats even more painful

[normal orbit]

yes. 10 inventories a 50 each = 500 to fill. at 2/min that will take 250 min = 4 hours and 10 mins

[mortal ginkgo]

^ basically

[normal orbit]

actually be longer, cause each reactor eating 0.2/min

[tender knoll]

so i should only run the plutonium stuff and the fuel rod factory?

[mortal ginkgo]

a Nuclear Plant will still ask for 50 to be inside as thats a stack. It can take a really long while to fill up.

[tender knoll]

😔

[mortal ginkgo]

bro is now sad 😔

but yes, it do be like that sometimes

[tender knoll]

but wait doesnt that cancel it out? cuz if all of em are eating 2/min and i produce the same wont it like

[normal orbit]

its especially bad for low production things

[tender knoll]

(i have little to no experience in the game i havent automated a single stuff only thing i did was js do the mam and get sam at like early phase 2 only thing i have automated is the nuclear power as my first project)

(and also get like 50 hard drives)

[mortal ginkgo]

I mean.. you are playing a bit odd.,

are you on Sandbox by any chance?

[tender knoll]

idk my friend made this world and i joined in and now nobody plays except me and he transitioned the server to me

[tender knoll]

am i 😔

[mortal ginkgo]

eh.. I suggest starting the game from scratch. Nuclear Power isn't something one should focus on at first 😛

[normal orbit]

at 2/min, first nuke gen fills at 1/min (50/50 split) until its full inside. then 0.2/min will be diverted to that one, 2nd gen then gets 0.9/min (half 0f 1.8) until thats full, then 3rd gets 0.8/min (half 0f 1.6/min) and so on

[tender knoll]

i mean i know a lot about automating stuff but my friend hated my spaghetti building style so he js decimated all my builds

but now i can spaghetti as much as i want hehehe

[tender knoll]

i mean everything worked until i started building somerslooped factories on it when it has been built like an hour ago

and now it dont work 😔

[mortal ginkgo]

Again, Nuclear Power is something that has a byproduct. It shouldnt be handled by inexperienced folk.

You may know a lot but not enough experience.

[tender knoll]

but the byproduct is sinked and i watched it like my newborn baby as the first plutonium fuel rod got sinked

[mortal ginkgo]

well then, all you need to do is wait for a long while.

[tender knoll]

so i diconnect my whole world from power except my plutonium and nuclear fuel rod factory and js wait right?

[mortal ginkgo]

you dont need to power it off, you just dont rely on nuclear power for a while

[tender knoll]

easier to cut everything off

one click

(im js lazy)

oh and now that were talking byproducts

how do i get rid of water cuz i js put down like 15 fluid tanks

or fluid buffer or what they called

[wind ore]

do we drive on the left or right side on this planet

[mortal ginkgo]

middle

[wind ore]

the true neutral way

[lavish dagger]

well its not a suggested thing but you can pack the waters and send them to sink but you'r gonna need a plastic canister factory or steel canister factory

[keen vault]

what should i do to escape phase 4? (i js got aluminium)

[tender knoll]

update on the nuclear stuff

it dont work

i disconnected the entire world except the thing i need

and it dont work

[crude canyon]

There's no escaping it, you only do it when you master the whole game

[keen vault]

so in other words im cooked

[rough shore]

pretty sure its supposed to be up and down not left and right

[tender knoll]

im so mad and sad at the same time

and confused

and everything at the same time

[sterile blade]

If you're looking for in-depth help, you can make a post in #1038092680493801533

[dense violet]

just keep unlocking milestones

[stuck bough]

is there a way to contribute to translate stuff?

[sterile blade]

Yep. @ a mod about it

[sterile blade]

FYI: All translations are community-made ^^

[keen flame]

hello chat

[keen flame]

i would also be happy to contribute but i doubt there‘s anything missing in my language’s localization lol

[oblique aspen]

the major languages also get professional translation when they add new stuff, afaik

[zenith pecan]

Given my experience learning a second language, professional translators are appreciated.

[keen flame]

ah ok

[real shale]

the....

[rough shore]

do they have english translators

[keen flame]

yup

[real shale]

MOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN

[keen flame]

uk and australia

[keen flame]

hii

[zenith pecan]

The touch that English Uk is there is a cool one tbh.

[oblique aspen]

now i want ada with an aussie accent

[sterile blade]

Like... English UK and English US?

[zenith pecan]

I'd turn that on for a change 🙂

[keen flame]

they should add a joke one like the minecraft pirate language

tho i don‘t know what languages there are

right now

[sterile blade]

Iirc, you should be able to see the level of completion of each language in the settings (by percentage); I can't recall wether you need to check some box to have that info visible...

[keen flame]

huh

i’m on stable just saying

but i haven‘t even seen where the change language option is XD

[sterile blade]

Eg: open the language selection, each language should have a (X%) next to it

[sterile blade]

Settings, probably under gameplay... I don't recall the entire menu all that well 😅

[tender knoll]

update

after help from a goated person

plant is up and running

[keen flame]

@real shale hi

[real shale]

hi

[keen flame]

hello

[real shale]

hello

[keen flame]

how are you

[real shale]

dead

[keen flame]

why

[real shale]

dead

[keen flame]

um ok

is there anything i can do

[real shale]

no i am just dead

[keen flame]

okay well, it's there, and not complete. how do i volunteer to finish it

[keen flame]

yes, as well as canada

[keen flame]

i see you have the role for italian. how did you apply?

or whatever the proper word is

[placid totem]

we up satisfying the factory 🤪

[sterile blade]

@ a mod

[keen flame]

mkmk

@north cloud hi i would like to contribute to translations

[sterile blade]

You might wanna check the list of languages aviable a bit more 😉

[keen flame]

uh what am i supposed to see?

[sterile blade]

More interesting languages, like ||pirate|| or ||Shakespearean||

[keen flame]

huh?? where?

[sterile blade]

In the language selection menu, with all the other languages (unless I'm missremembering or they moved them)

[clever pier]

is it normal that geyser power all goes up and down in sync? I swear it used to be that different geysers had a different cycle so they'd smooth each other out?

but now I got four geysers connected and they all seem to go up and down together?

[muted pine]

what we need for fluids: a nice flow measurement device, like there exists for belts too 🙂

[dense violet]

click on the pipe

also it's not really useful unless you're running max flow on a pipe

[muted pine]

yes I know I can read it, but I want it to be a nice v isual from the outside

[sterile blade]

Iirc, their initial production cycle depends on when you place the building rather than the node itself
Dunno if they can get "out of sync" from their initial state as time goes on, though...

[dense violet]

"also it's not really useful unless you're running max flow on a pipe"

[muted pine]

everyone is running max flow no? who wouldnt 🤣 at least at oil

[dense violet]

because many steps aren't conveniently at max?
and if you're running a max flow pipe you will really quickly know you aren't getting max flow because of stuttering machines

[surreal breach]

yall, what do i do if im stuck under the ground

[muted pine]

yes true for smaller segments you wouldnt need it. but its the same with belts too. you dont put a measurement device in front of a single constructor

[clever pier]

so if I delete the building and add it again will the cycle change?

[dense violet]

respawn? load autosave?

[muted pine]

you use them to watch over big productions, and for huge amounts you do max out pipes

[unique siren]

do we have an idea of how long 1.2 will be in experimental?

[surreal breach]

kk ty

[dense violet]

again, you would immediately know you aren't arent running max flow because your machines are stuttering

[muted pine]

well the game works without it, I do know that, thanks man 😄

[sterile blade]

I'd be happy if they just made the "rings" on pipes a bit better somehow... Flow is rarely a stable number anyway, so I don't see a need to have a number displayed over a pipe (without having to interact with it)

[dense violet]

I mean, essentially a meter would be useless on any pipe not running max flow because pipes rely on average flow
and you will immediately know if a pipe isn't at max flow because machines are stuttering

so what would be the point?

[sterile blade]

Just estimates, they haven't given any ETA yet.
I'm guessing 1~2 months

I reckon they would want to get it done before summer vacations hit, at least

[unique siren]

yeah makes sense

seems that its time to back up those saves

[sterile blade]

Always a good idea 👍

[clever pier]

from playing experimental I really haven't found any issues yet

it feels like its ready to be released

[lean fossil]

if i make 40 a minute with 20 assemblers

how about if I have 6 assemblers

[dense violet]

whats 40 / 20?

[gleaming wasp]

am i missing something or is liquid biofuel just straight buns?

[dense violet]

buns?

[lean fossil]

uh

I think 2 idk

[dense violet]

so now you know you make 2 per assembler
what is 6 x 2?

you could also have figured it out because the assembler would say it makes 2 pm

[odd vessel]

i rolled the hard drive 100+ times now
I CANT GET THIS DAMN RECIPE TO SHOW
I meet the requirements
it wont show

[inner sky]

if you start a game on the new experimental version will you be able to play it on the official update version of the game?

[dense violet]

keep collecting hard drives and stop save scumming

get more recipes that way

[sinful hemlock]

someone wanna creaty an new server?

[dense violet]

!lfg

[raven axle]

Hello there totally awesome user! You can checkout https://discordapp.com/channels/370472939054956546/1201555265942724758 and check the pins on how to find folks to play with. <3

[pearl owl]

on the satisfactory calculator how do I set the miners to mk1

[sinful hemlock]

thanks

[dense violet]

no idea, prob a tab somewhere, you can ask in the SCIM discord?
personally I just use tools. Better UI

[gleaming wasp]

it means bad

[dense violet]

depends what you're using it for.
you don't want to burn it for automated power

[keen vault]

should i make megafactory for phase 4?

[timid ledge]

good luck i still struggle with power

[dense violet]

if you want and don't care that it'll be a bit of a mess

[dense violet]

power is pretty easy, what's your issue? can probably fix it 🙂

[keen vault]

i dont think my 6GW will be enough

[dense violet]

yeah, a good diluted fuel power station can be really useful at tier 7

[timid ledge]

i have 3900 mw 😄

[keen vault]

ok yh ur even more cooked than me

u should have made a simple 5gw fuel plant

[dense violet]

you probably want to hit like 30gw for tier 7 tbh

[timid ledge]

i still dont know how i get my ressources from 1 point the next point and made it automatic, trying to build a rocket fuel power factory cause i unlocked the recipe

[keen vault]

nuclear power is the only

the only that can reach those highs

[timid ledge]

idk how this fluid things working to complicated for me

[dense violet]

belts are fine. Honestly though if you're having issues just go
oil > heavy oil residue > diluted fuel.

[dense violet]

especially if you don't want to deal with infinite pipes

[timid ledge]

na belts sucks at this ways its all far away 1000m +

[dense violet]

thats why diluted fuel. You only need water and oil

[keen vault]

fair. all u need is 5 refineries making fuel and then 10 fuel gens connected. it should balance out (make multiple of these)

it will take fluid pain away

and then come back with aluminium production

[timid ledge]

hm dont understand it how to build it complicated for me

[dense violet]

https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=GcPi1kiMjx5bRnZvOzvc

[timid ledge]

😄

need to build 10km train stations before and need to understand how train stations working fuck no

[dense violet]

you can build that in one spot

[hasty mango]

maybe its stupid question but making sure, does the "drain full pipe network" drain ALL pipes connected or just until a pump/intersection comes in?

[timid ledge]

na not all ressources in 1 spot

[dense violet]

did you click the link?

[timid ledge]

yes

[dense violet]

you only need oil and water. Plenty of spots like that

[keen flame]

use it as jetpack fuel until you get a better one

don't burn it

in generators

[timid ledge]

whats with coal ? sulfur ? nitrogen gas

[dense violet]

I'm giving you an option that is much simpler and gives you lots of power

since you were going on about how you had no idea how to connect up a ton of things over long distances

[atomic venture]

guys i have a specifiic problem
im trying to make a mega smelter for my 2 pure iron veins
but my manifolds break down and are unable to sustain themselves after a while

whats the alternative? i am low on space and am unable to do an even splitter setup (splitting 20 equally)

[timid ledge]

ya but thats just fuel

[dense violet]

and it's a lot of good easy power

[dense violet]

if your manifolds run out, you're eathing mathing wrong, or you built your manifold wrong

[timid ledge]

how much power this one gives ? 🙂

[dense violet]

figure it out, 20 fuel per gen at 100% , you can always burn more oil

[real shale]

Division by 20 is hard

[supple canopy]

requirements seem bugged in 1.2 if you're on experimental

[dense violet]

how much per min are you putting on one belt? how fast is your belt?

[atomic venture]

mk 4

[timid ledge]

just 5 k thats not worth to buidl

[atomic venture]

it should be 600 per minute for 20 smelters as im using mk2

[dense violet]

you can burn more oil that plan only uses a bit

[supple canopy]

mk4 can hold 480/min

[atomic venture]

ahhhh

now that makes more sense

[dense violet]

in general jsut process each node individually

[timid ledge]

ya ofc 🙂 but i dont want to build every 2 days another power factory

[dense violet]

you are often limited by your belt speed for your mine

[atomic venture]

thats a good idea

[timid ledge]

1 big one and done

[dense violet]

... just build it hte once.
with more oil

[atomic venture]

i tried splitting the iron ore and merging using a priority merger halfway down the manifold but it didnt work

maybe because of the belt issue

[timid ledge]

yes then i need to split all of this outcome ( fuel ) into fuel generators ?

[atomic venture]

ig i coukd wait for mk5 for 3000 years

[dense violet]

you would need to do that with any fuel system

[timid ledge]

ye i know

[dense violet]

why a p merg? it would stop some of your ore

assuming the primary belt was full

[timid ledge]

for the water i need a water node or can i just to to a water place

[dense violet]

just water is the usual

you've used water extractors before right?

[hasty mango]

any way to transport water in your inventory?

like a bottle of water or sum

[real shale]

Packaging it

[atomic venture]

cause i can give more priority to the split line so that it doesnt clog

[hasty mango]

right

[atomic venture]

i saw it on that channel that does tips

[dense violet]

but you want to use it all

[supple canopy]

if you're min maxing iron ingots on two pure nodes before mk5 you can afford to let it run not at 100% and upgrade the belts later, that's what I did with my aluminum production and mk6 belts

[dense violet]

that's a bad tip

[atomic venture]

i figured

[atomic venture]

its that guy who like worked at boeing and does a ton of youtube shorts tips

[unkempt blade]

it at least sounds unnecessary if the math is right

[dense violet]

yeah I wouoldn't listen to him.

it doesn't benefit you in any way

[supple canopy]

priority mergers should only be used in setups involving recycling basically

[atomic venture]

https://youtube.com/shorts/q5a1zmS41gE?si=rXWOWMKruUE_DIyI

this guy’s

[atomic venture]

you mean sinking?

[real shale]

if he worked at Boeing, he's probably anti screws too

[remote siren]

someone got an idea why my train wont autopilot into this trainstation? #screenshots message
says signal problem.
my tracks are on way only, with roundabout where every entry got a path signal and every exit a blocksignal.
all other train stations are build the same way and work
NVM, im stupid, i placed the train station the wrong way

[dense violet]

not even then

[atomic venture]

who is pro screw??!!

[real shale]

Me

[atomic venture]

cast iron plate my beloved

[dense violet]

there's a TON of silly yt content for this game

[real shale]

I'm telling you, they should buff screw recipes to give absurd throughputs to spite anti-screw propaganda

[supple canopy]

not necessary but it's the only usecase where it's useful

[fluid sapphire]

i found use for them for a niche belt compressor

[dense violet]

you can always avoid that usecase

easily

[supple canopy]

anti-screw people are normies who haven't unlocked mk4. I find quickwire to be much more of an eyesore

[fluid sapphire]

i would argue screw lovers are the normies

[cedar vault]

bruh i am forced onto directx11 and idk how to switch it to 12 or vulcan

[atomic venture]

cast-iron revolutionized my facyory

[timid ledge]

the planner you sendet me 🙂 i try to build it, but few question before, i need a water node ? or i can just grab pure water? at the top of the planner are going out 250 polymer into storage and 500 heavy oil how i can set up specific numbers to come out there ?

[real shale]

Quickwire is fine, the true eyesore is nuclear pasta, my Mk -20 belts cant handle it

[fiery gale]

I’m so bad at this game, i think i’m gonna move to shapez 2 cause i can see all from the sky lol

[cedar vault]

can someone help me?

[atomic venture]

graphic settings

[cedar vault]

i know but it is forced, i cant change it

[dense violet]

just place water extractors on water
you can sink the polymer
clock your machines to how you need it

[dense violet]

try dx12 first

oh how, yeah just graphics

[supple canopy]

what's your GPU

[cedar vault]

no you dont get it, i cant even open the menu for the other render API options

[cedar vault]

nvidia 5060

[supple canopy]

it's just outdated already man gotta upgrade

[unkempt blade]

if you're on steam open the properties menu for the game and change your launch options

[supple canopy]

jk on steam can't you put launch options?

[cedar vault]

wdym outdated???

[supple canopy]

nah i'm kidding

[cedar vault]

lemme see

[cedar vault]

:3

[timid ledge]

thanks buddy i try it

[supple canopy]

but before that make sure your graphic drivers are up to date, if it forces it there might be reason

[unkempt blade]

should be able to do like one of -dx11 -dx12 -vulkan there

[cedar vault]

i cant find it

[fluid sapphire]

right click on the game, select properties

[unkempt blade]

right click the name in the sidebar or use the gear icon on the game's page

[cedar vault]

mhm mhm

where uh... where is launch options?
-# i am a retard

[bitter silo]

currently trying to get enough water to 7 refineries for bauxite lmao

[atomic venture]

guys

[fluid sapphire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/zjd23i/where_does_steam_store_game_launch_settings_they/

[atomic venture]

i think i forgot to overclock my miners

[cedar vault]

oh my lord i am stupid i found it

[atomic venture]

no wonder i dont have enough rates

im getting 240 ore * 2 for one of my veins

[supple canopy]

a classic. However even if you overclock all the way to 600, you'll have issues with mk4

[atomic venture]

so like im getting 240 * 3 with a 600 miner

OH WAIT im using normal nodes and combining them i forgot

so thats like

3 * 120 iron

with a 300 iron

[cedar vault]

okay cool it's back on dx12 yet i still wanna try vulcan

is the fps increase worth it to use vulcan?

[atomic venture]

not to mention im moving the combined rates of these on a mk4 conveyor

which actually now that i think about it, it isnt an issue. im moving like

240 iron and then 420 iron

nowhere near the 480 limit

[cedar vault]

anyone?

[fringe stirrup]

biggest pain is spending 2 hours banging your head on the wall because your factory is underperforming only to realise there was a mark II belt somewhere in the line

[atomic venture]

this is my entire factory

[dense violet]

don't use vulcan sorry

[atomic venture]

im thinking of using mk2’s for my manifold to have them clog faster

[fringe stirrup]

or you middle clicked an underclocked constructor and not realising for an hour

that happened to me just now

[atomic venture]

what does this do

[fringe stirrup]

if you middle click something it keeps the setting (so it kept the underclocked setting and i didnt realise)

had my entire factory running at 50% for an hour

[fringe stirrup]

why not mk1?

[atomic venture]

i dunno

[dense violet]

why would you want to clog them?

[cedar vault]

why exactly?

[fringe stirrup]

manifolds rely on belts backing up

[dense violet]

sorry that should have been sorry, I don't use vulcan.

[dense violet]

what? no they don't

they rely on overflow

[fringe stirrup]

first constructor backs up and it overflows to the next one yeah

[dense violet]

that's over flow

not clogging

[fringe stirrup]

or it backs up and the overflow goes to the next

[cedar vault]

ohhh, well it doesnt rlly matter anymore since my pc is refusing to switch to vulcan

[dense violet]

also if you use slower belts to feed the machines it takes longer to fill the manifold

[fringe stirrup]

Yeah true, i saw some people use smart splitters with overflow selected but that seems like overkill to me personalyl

[atomic venture]

how tho

oh that makes sense

[cedar vault]

wait why cant i go to vulcan??? i put it to vulcan but now it is back at dx11

[dense violet]

because more machiens will use more parts per min

[atomic venture]

i can just underclock to 1%

while i wait

[dense violet]

just use regular belts everywhere and let it spin up.

[fringe stirrup]

or just.. put it on standby

while they fill

[dense violet]

they don't fill on standby

[atomic venture]

i tried that and i dont think they fill

[fringe stirrup]

they dont? huh i coulda sworn

[atomic venture]

1% underclock it is

[dense violet]

it'll take forever for the cycle to finish when you change it

just let the manifold fill

it's zero work and you can go do literally anything else in the mean time

[atomic venture]

1% underclock to fill the manifold

[dense violet]

100% clock will also fill the manifold

[atomic venture]

long time

[dense violet]

who cares? you'll be doing other things

and it only takes a few mins

[fluid sapphire]

with how good the game is at keeping you busy, ya'll gotta stop babysitting your manifolds, they can take care of themselves

back to work

[atomic venture]

mine cNt

lol

[smoky flame]

Is there a way to make pipeline junction snap to grid or do I have to eyeball it?

[dense violet]

place them on foundations

[smoky flame]

The one I have is vertical, and it can't snap to grid

[dense violet]

build a wall on foundation, snap to wall

[smoky flame]

Will try that

[unkempt blade]

Think it kind of just depends on your hardware. My card likes vulkan for some games more than others

[scenic mirage]

when yall are building your train blueprints do you put your signals in them? or do you place signals after its connected

[dense violet]

depends how your'e buildign yoru rail

[scenic mirage]

wdym

[fluid sapphire]

no signals on mine

would have been too short a distance

that is, if you\re doing the autoconnect pillar type setup, like i was

more than one way to skin that cat

[scenic mirage]

i was just thinking of doing them on the junction blueprints

[dense violet]

well if you jsut build train towers you place and then connect, you could prob have signals on it
but if you're building it every step as you go you probably don't want signals on that

[fluid sapphire]

i found signaling to be the quickest and easiest part of building rail

[scenic mirage]

#screenshots message
like the blueprint on the right would be the junction leaving the station and joining the network

if that makes sense

[dense violet]

there's a current bug being placed directly on rail joints, I probably wouldn't do that

[fluid sapphire]

man i really hope they squash it for 1.2, would be sad to have to deal with it for another year

[scenic mirage]

oh what

wdym? what happens

[dense violet]

they don't work and ahve to be built a bit further back

honestly signals are so fast to place just do them manually

[scenic mirage]

🤷‍♂️ fair

[fluid sapphire]

"loops into itself", it creates a 180 turn for a train

something to do with looking at the rail wrong while you are building it or whatever, its madness

[scenic mirage]

wdym? you dont want your trains to randomly just turn around on a one way rail?

[fluid sapphire]

thatd be cool and all if signals could handle it

[dense violet]

honestly building a BP for every rail joint is probably overkill, better off just doing custom joints as you need

[scenic mirage]

😭 im just procrastinating building my rail network tbh

[dense violet]

were you going to build a whole world network or something?

[scenic mirage]

why not

i beat the game but i kinda cheesed phase 5

gonna do it right this time 😎

[fluid sapphire]

makes more sense to connect factories rather than build a loop for its own sake

[real shale]

Imma firin mah lazars

[dense violet]

build a network as you build factories, don't let your rail dictacte where your factories go, dictate your rail by your factory locations

otherwise you're probably just going to waste a ton of time AND have less optimal lines

[scenic mirage]

i am pretty good at wasting time

[dense violet]

up to you

[timid rune]

back to pain

[scenic mirage]

but ya my first route rn is connecting my HMF factory to where im gonna build my thermal propulsion rocket factory

[fluid sapphire]

you and me both, if i had spent anywhere near as much time playing the game as i do on this server, maybe i would have finished phase 4 by now

[timid rune]

do love that 930 refineries barely does a dent in my power supply though \o/

compared to particle accelerators haha

[fluid sapphire]

that\d be 10% of my whole grid lmao

[frigid moat]

this game is too well optimized i turned on ultra graphics to heat up my room and the fps stayed the same AND it isnt getting much hotter

[timid rune]

if it is OC'ed it would be 15% of my grid

hmm should probably finish my plutonium processing cycle before going further

[real shale]

Welcome to non-AAA studios

[frigid moat]

yeah

[real shale]

Where love is actually put into the game

My ram usage got HALVED in 1.2 exp

[frigid moat]

i havent seen for myself

[dense violet]

yeah they were making some big belt optimizations

[real shale]

My save used to be 10 GB of ram now it's a steady 4.8

[dense violet]

you sure you weren't running SCIM at the same time? 😛

[real shale]

Nope

Satisfactory alone

[dense violet]

nice

[frigid moat]

mine is also 4.8

[surreal breach]

Yo, how do i unlock the hazmat suit upgrade? I cant make the gas filter for it

[real shale]

It's a milestone

[supple canopy]

I'm going full ficsonium specifically because I wanna be able to augment a couple of fully overclocked quantum encoder for the chad move

[surreal breach]

yeah, i meant the milestone, i cant make the gas filters to finish it

[timid rune]

yeah

[real shale]

Might be missing MAM research

[ornate saffron]

gas filters arre in the mam

[timid rune]

I am going to go full fics

[real shale]

You need quickwire to make them

[surreal breach]

ohh alr tyy

[real shale]

Oh yeah gas masks are under mycelia I forgot

[rugged jasper]

I start to miss this game.. 🥹
Its been since mid December I played last time.
Has there been any great updates since then ? ❤️

[real shale]

1.2 is currently in exp

[ornate saffron]

https://youtu.be/HdVTLGD4bbA?si=8uiIp2G2pKDFNp-E'

[real shale]

E'

[ornate saffron]

🤷 link works

[real shale]

Oh I know, just E'

[ornate saffron]

cool