satisfactory

[feral vector]

everything after the splitter is mk4, before the splitter is mk5

[unkempt blade]

yeah I'd expect that to split evenly then

[lost cloak]

for a manifold or just a splitter?

[feral vector]

all the scrap from the refineries is on one 720 belt, into one splitter that splits into two manifolds of 4 foundries each

I think maybe I just took way more aluminum off of one set of foundries when they got backed up?

[lost cloak]

then each will get 360 scrap

people are too ocd about belts, i dont get it

like, if the foundires add up to 720 items, and the 720 belt isnt stuttering, then its good. No need to dig further

[feral vector]

yeah I was just confused cause one manifold system was working fine and actually had maxed out all the machines and the other system was starving at the end

[lost cloak]

my first reaction would be to just look at the 720 belt. If it moved smoothly, then i'd carry on

[feral vector]

I know they take a while to spin up but one of them was saturated so I thought maybe I fucked something up lol

I think it was just me removing / adding scrap by hand cause there were issues earlier

honestly manifolds still hurt my brain lol, I don't get how they balance out over time, in my head you'd need surplus input to get the first machine to overflow onto the next ones 😅

[spring ruin]

anyone know why my trains cant leave my block that i have setup at the station

[fringe shadow]

#screenshots i found a bug where u can be INSIDE a mountain or smthing

[lost cloak]

well its simple

lets do simple numbers, 400 in, each building use 50

at first, you have 200 200 split, so first building gets too many. Then it fills up, and only takes 50, so split becomes 350 50
then, you have 175 175 split, so first building gets too many. Then it fills up, and only takes 50, so split becomes 300 50
then, you have 150 150 split, so first building gets too many. Then it fills up, and only takes 50, so split becomes 250 50
then, you have 100 100 split, so each of the last two buildings get exactly what they need

[feral vector]

hmm ok seems reasonable lol

[gloomy tusk]

thats been doable for a long time XD

[spring ruin]

do you need path signals to get a train out of a block made of block signals>

[wise junco]

no

[feral vector]

you can run trains on only blocks

[spring ruin]

how od you get a train to leave a block? mine keeps getting stuck

[fierce granite]

have you signaled your entire tracks, or just the station?

[wise junco]

is there an error message on the block signals?

all else fails, open up a question in #1038092680493801533 with pictures of your track and a detailed description and we will all pile in

[next ivy]

is it set to automatic

[spring ruin]

just the station

[next ivy]

otherwise its not gonna do jack on its own

do you have a second station for it to go to

or is it currently not even at the first station

[fierce granite]

if there is another train on the tracks, then it wont leave the station since there is another train on the tracks, you need to split up your entire tracks into blocks

[spring ruin]

no error. i do notice that the block of the station is highlighted red while the rest of the track is orange. idk if thats important

[unkempt blade]

they just alternate colors to show you where each block is

[next ivy]

orange triangles ?

if you mean the block colors, they dont mean jack

[fierce granite]

another train is on the main tracks, so the signal is showing red, so it wont enter until that other train leaves that block on the tracks

signal the main tracks with block signals every so often, i usually do largest train length + a few car lengths, i have seen suggestions for 100-200m or so as well. once you have done that, if it still doesn't move, then create a post in #1038092680493801533 with some pictures

[fringe shadow]

what is the conveyor entrance for on the alien power augmentor?

[next ivy]

doesnt it tell you ? in the description somewhere ?

[fringe shadow]

nope

[gloomy tusk]

something in tier 9

[fringe shadow]

ah okay

can u type it in #story-spoilers or private message?

[gloomy tusk]

i can type it here

[fringe shadow]

sure

[gloomy tusk]

i just forgot the name

[fringe shadow]

oh lol u can build more than 1

[gloomy tusk]

||Alien power matrices||

[fringe shadow]

oh thats cool

[gloomy tusk]

you can build a Lot more then one

but they use a rare resource

so its debatable if you should make any or how many

[next ivy]

i usually stick to 1-2 early on

[fringe shadow]

i think im gonna use like 8 max

[next ivy]

they can power whole noob bases

[fringe shadow]

ye

[fluid sapphire]

It's 8 sushi fed lines, except it goes one step further, train imports circuit boards, but there are too many. So the loop takes in some circuit boards, and then sends the left overs for another round. If there is room on the belt, it takes in more. The sinks are are just there at the end of the line because you cant start up a system like that without them, plus, they would help prevent lock-up if there was an error of some kind. But it works great

https://youtu.be/pV6b72xF8pc

I was surprised that this would actually work

Normally my builds are pretty boring, this is the most interesting contraption on my map probably

[feral vector]

jeez I just looked at the screenshot, that's crazy

[fluid sapphire]

Hehhee

It looks more complicated than it is

[static gyro]

on satisfactory calculator inside the interactive map, how can i show my whole map from my save file?

[feral vector]

drag your save file to the little rectangle in the top right

[next ivy]

it shows you in the mam

[feral vector]

or maybe you already know that? not sure what you mean by whole map

[topaz shale]

I wish I was better at making my builds look cooler but eh, at least I'm using signs and billboards for lights now. That's a step up.

[static gyro]

i mean as in to get rid of all the black blocks everywhere on the website

[static gyro]

nevermind i got it!

[feral vector]

what was wrong? I don't see any black blocks on mine hmm

[topaz shale]

Probably talking about the fog of war

[static gyro]

next to the box where you drag and drop your map you need to press map options, scroll down to map visibility, and press "reveal all map"

[feral vector]

I don't even see a map options at all

I'd probably rather have it hide stuff I haven't explored, would help me know where to go

[grim carbon]

i know the catwalk and the industrial walkways don't need support, but, purely from a design point of view, what do people typically use for support?

[feral vector]

ah I'm dumb I just had to upload my save again

I have 35km worth of belts already that's pretty ridiculous

[mental torrent]

anyone know if you can turn off the bright ass conveyer lights somehow? like the second you go 100m away they shine so bright its annoying

[wise junco]

no idea if it would help, but maybe mess with the light quality setting and view distance setting?

[topaz shale]

That and maybe global ilum, if you have it. Might make the lights less intense.

Time to wait for my modular engines to be finished constructing. Just handfed the amount of parts needed into a container, slooped and overclocked the manufacturer. Still gotta wait a while.

[fluid sapphire]

The smaller beam variants, horizontally below them

[grim carbon]

i've used some H-beams and painted them black

[fluid sapphire]

Yeah those look nice

[grim carbon]

i'm not creative at all

just looking for ideas

[primal path]

Warning, there is a player called NOBODY who sabotages satisfactory server

[fluid sapphire]

What

[primal path]

He goes in servers in deletes stuff

[fluid sapphire]

Screenshots channel is full of crazy creative people, steal ideas and make those ideas your bitch

[wise junco]

nothing wrong with robbing a little inspo from others

[fluid sapphire]

Can't even get into people's games unless they specifically allow it lol

Besides, auto-save exists

[grim carbon]

well, it's not exactly hacking into the pentagon or fort knox!

[primal path]

He joined the discord server and I don’t who he is

[fluid sapphire]

Don't look at my stuff though, everything I build looks the same

[fluid sapphire]

I do, he's nobody

[wise junco]

my "throw this up" infrastructure all looks the same tbh

[fluid sapphire]

I have a specific MO for decorating

[primal path]

That’s not helpful

[fluid sapphire]

It's very barebones

[grim carbon]

i don't understand some of the numbers on the modeler

[fluid sapphire]

What numbers

[grim carbon]

they don't match

[wise junco]

so is mine, unless i actually want to make something pop

very cookie cutter

[fluid sapphire]

Haven't used modeler, if you're talking about satisfactory modeler, I hear it's very manual labor intensive though, don't know how much math it actually does for you

[grim carbon]

i need 2,000 computers for the supercomputer, and another 2,000 for the adaptive control unit

[fluid sapphire]

2000? Per... Minute?

[grim carbon]

yet the input column on the left says i only need 2000

[fluid sapphire]

What

[grim carbon]

yes

[warm finch]

satisfactory tools is far better

[grim carbon]

in my books, 2,000 plus 2000 equals 4,000

[uncut quail]

how many superordinateur do you want to produce to need 2k computers Oo

[fluid sapphire]

You sure? 2000 computer per minute is ludicrous

[knotty bear]

I finally got production over max consumption

[grim carbon]

i agree

[fluid sapphire]

You need thousands of machines to produce those

[grim carbon]

watch out people, this guy's a cop!

i know i do

[fluid sapphire]

Have you finished the game already or what

Is this some kind of vanity project

[grim carbon]

@uncut quail aren't you a cop from the year 1996?

no, i'm on phase 4

[storm zephyr]

im addicted to slooping

[uncut quail]

no , you read it wrong 🙂

[fluid sapphire]

Demolition man?

[uncut quail]

117 is for masterchief

its only js for demolition man

[fluid sapphire]

I haven't thought about that movie in a long time lmao

[uncut quail]

you defintely dont need 2k computer for supercomputer and 2k for adaptative unit then x)

[fluid sapphire]

So... Is this a vanity post-endgame project or what

[grim carbon]

i'm working on the assembly director system

[fluid sapphire]

Friendly tip, don't target that number

[grim carbon]

ok

[storm zephyr]

are there any alts for the phase 3 parts

[fluid sapphire]

It's gonna be very unwieldy with the tools you have currently

[uncut quail]

i had a prod of 5/min(without boosting through sloop ) of them and im still under 500computer per min

so , dont get what tells you to get 2k+2k

[storm zephyr]

i wish the mam would go fasterrrrrrrr

[fluid sapphire]

Ya'll crazy, I make 30 computers and 3.75 supercomputers (for now)

Easily enough to beat the game

[grim carbon]

i'm at a whopping 3 computers per minute

[uncut quail]

i mean, i had 30Gw free to use at phase 4

[fluid sapphire]

I will make more post endgame

[grim carbon]

it's going to take me forever to get to phase 5 at the rate i'm currently going!

[uncut quail]

well when you start phase 4 , ye dont need more than 3-5 computer per min , even more if you can use sloop to boost output for free

[wise junco]

i feel the same wa y

[fluid sapphire]

Well, phase 4 is the longest phase

If you do solid homework in phase 4, phase 5 is easy

[grim carbon]

it is? oh

[uncut quail]

yep it is

[storm zephyr]

man i wish it was easier to set up trains...

making railways across the whole map is torment

[uncut quail]

phase 5 use the more energy , but its fast to setup everything you unlock in tier 9

if you had a solid prod for phase 4

[wise junco]

yup

[grim carbon]

you should see my base of operations

it's all over the place

[wise junco]

thats always my struggle too. using them? easy. setting up the global rail system? ughghghhg

[uncut quail]

i never used any vehicle or train xD i only use conveyor then drone kek

railways are too much a bother

[grim carbon]

how did you that with your username?

[storm zephyr]

special character

█

[grim carbon]

a white block?

[fluid sapphire]

What, trains are great. Sure it's some work to lay down rail, but it pays big dividends

[grim carbon]

i didn't know you could even do that

[fluid sapphire]

Use some kind of rail pillar blueprints

Auto-connect makes it so easy

[wise junco]

oh sure, it's easy... i just get bored doing it

[uncut quail]

not for me

[grim carbon]

i need to learn blueprint auto connect

what is the lst meadow? a shooting game?

[fluid sapphire]

About 25 hours to build all the rail here, but that's only because of my idiotically meticulous everything-on-the-grid approach, it could have been much quicker #screenshots message

[grim carbon]

dayum!!!

[fluid sapphire]

It's as hard or as easy as you make it for yourself

Laying down kilometers of straight rail is pretty easy though

It gets more complicated when you're trying to work around existing infra and follow terrain somewhat

But even then, depends on how stringent you are with your own requirements

You can make it easy

[wise junco]

BPs make quick work of it. i just get bored after a km or so, so i just expand out when i need to

[fluid sapphire]

I only build rail when and where I need it

[wise junco]

i have most of the map railed up except grassy fields

[storm zephyr]

how many somersloops can i get

[grim carbon]

i think there are about 298 all over the map

something like that

[hard ivy]

That's mercer spheres

±1

[grim carbon]

oh

[fluid sapphire]

106?

[hard ivy]

106 somersloops

[grim carbon]

that's not many at all!

[wise junco]

nope. gotta be careful

[hard ivy]

Well, other than the 3 you spend on research, you can reclaim the other ones that you use

[grim carbon]

if you want to mod your game up, there are mods that can give you recipes for both somersloops and mercer spheres

[fluid sapphire]

You don't need many

[grim carbon]

the calculator on satisfactory tools freezes up every time i click on it

it makes no sense to me at all

on the overview tab, it puts up resources you don't even need

i ain't using that thing!

[topaz shale]

Big reason why I much prefer satisfactory modeler. Can do so much more with it than you can with the other calculator tools. I usually calculate the amounts of what I'm making from either the amount of resources going in or if I want to make at the rate that one machine can make at a time. Never just a flat part/min rate on its own.

[grim carbon]

i don't need items per minute anyway

for me, hooking up just 3 manufacturers was a headache!

with only 3 parts going in per

[topaz shale]

Satisfactory Modeler is also on steam for free. Freaking love that program.

[grim carbon]

i like the modeler cos you can add or take boxes away when you pass that point, you can't do that with those web based calculators

they post on Reddit, for instance, saying i'm new to the game, and i'm already on phase 4

i am in absolutely no rush to finish the game, like i've seen some want to do

[wise junco]

i'm never in a hurry in the game tbh... the game is a feel good game for me and helps me relax. why rush it?

[grim carbon]

exactly

where are you in the game?

i'm on phase 4

[knotty bear]

Anyway to make a pipe better than mk2?

[wise junco]

phase 4 also. only have NP automated so far, but not far behind on the rest

[wise junco]

no

[vapid jasper]

how many coal gens can 1 waterpump power?

[wise junco]

1 water extractor could power 2.7 goal generators at base clock

[vapid jasper]

darn

cant squeeze 3 gens out of 1?

[wise junco]

either have to overclock the extractor or underclock the gen

[vapid jasper]

i dont think ive progressed far enough for that. thank you

[wise junco]

no problem

[grim carbon]

what does NP stand for?

[wise junco]

nuclear pasta

[vapid jasper]

do 4 impure nodes do the same as 2 normal?

[normal orbit]

yes

[storm zephyr]

can i chainsaw the huge trees in the middle area of the map

[vapid jasper]

are reinforced iron plates used entire game? is it worth having their own factory? not just making them from plates and rods storage?

[storm zephyr]

yes make a factory for them

[normal orbit]

titan forest? no

[vapid jasper]

i have them being made very ineffeciently rn and i need a ton so i was gonna use 4 nearby impure nodes on just them

[normal orbit]

all materials used in building anything will be something you use thruout the game

[vapid jasper]

ive never found any pure iron nodes

[fluid sapphire]

My building supply makes I think... 25 per minute? You don't need anywhere near that many just for building though, if you have enough containers hooked up even like 5 is probably enough long term

[vapid jasper]

i make 5 per minute

[fluid sapphire]

Once you start steel production you will need them less

[vapid jasper]

probably slower then that cause its always idle waiting for screws cause they move really slow

[normal orbit]

theres some pure iron nodes to the west of grassy fields, up towards golden coast

[fluid sapphire]

Upgrade those belts then

[vapid jasper]

i dont now where that is

[vapid jasper]

im just gonna make 4 impure iron nodes for reinforced plates only

and i have i think its 3 normal iron nodes producing rods plates and screws pretty good

[normal orbit]

grassy fields is where you started. cause if you picked the other biomes, you'd have pure nodes around you :p

[vapid jasper]

yeah seems ive made the wrong choice but i dont particularly want to start from scratch again

i only have like 15 hours played

[normal orbit]

its not a wrong choice

[vapid jasper]

its a bad one though LOL

[normal orbit]

its just a diffrent choice

[vapid jasper]

i dont have good nodes near me and i need to stretch power like 800m if i want coal on this factory instead of biofuel

every other iron node i see is impure

i got lucky starting on the 3 nearest normal iron nodes lol

[next ivy]

i think at the start i have 3 normal nodes to make the 3 basic components

[normal orbit]

800m isnt much :p dont be afraid to move

[vapid jasper]

is 3 normal nodes too many for plates rods and screws?

[next ivy]

it will get you to mk2 miners

[vapid jasper]

i mean the containers are filled and i just let them sit overfilled as it slowly feeds to other stuff

[next ivy]

at that point use a splitter

[normal orbit]

big part of the game is exploration

[vapid jasper]

well if i dont need 3 normal nodes producing just rods plates and screws im gonna just rebuild the whole factory again for a 4th time lol

[normal orbit]

so hike up the coveralls and go on an adventure :p

[next ivy]

just build a new factory

there are so many new ore patches

youre not stuck with 3

[vapid jasper]

is there a way i can get to a new area whilst keeping all my current materials?

cause if every node near me is only impure id rather move, i havent seen another normal iron beisdes the 3 ive been using since my first factory

[next ivy]

just take a few trips, or use a car (car is stupid)

you can scan for materials

[vapid jasper]

would it be worth moving this factory? it seems every nearby node is impure anyway. i just chose this starting spot cause when i created it it was the first land and it said recommended for new players

[next ivy]

dont move anything

just make a new factory

leave the old one running

[vapid jasper]

leaving it here does me no good, its still powered on biofuel or biomass thats only crafted when i fill a container with leaves or wood

[storm zephyr]

if you're still like tier 1-2 then feel free to make a new save

[vapid jasper]

also seems i have it built poorly if i dont need 3 nodes on just plates, rods and screws

[storm zephyr]

i think northern forest is the best starting spot cause you have basically everything you need nearby

[next ivy]

then move it

good luck at the next spot, that will also have 3 normal iron nodes

[vapid jasper]

i have 2/4 done on t3 and nothing on t4

[fluid sapphire]

Don't start over, learn your lessons and keep building

[winged root]

40 smelters for a measly 50 encased beams a minute, upsetting

[fluid sapphire]

Measly? Tf you cooking

[vapid jasper]

is it worth running power 600ish meters so this stuff can be coal powered or should i just keep it as biomass/biofuel and make my next factories be coal.

[next ivy]

yes

[winged root]

I’m trying out the iron recipe which is 100 iron to 25 pipes and then pipes + concrete into encased beams

[next ivy]

your whole power grid is likely completly connected

[fluid sapphire]

Just run cables my guy

[vapid jasper]

i have 8 total burners and then i use the 2 burners on my hub too

[fluid sapphire]

You will learn that 600m is nothing

[next ivy]

ok and ?

you can never automate bio matter

[fluid sapphire]

I have factories longer than 600m

[vapid jasper]

600 meters isnt far i just dont want a long black line running the entire distance lol

i only have the mk1 poles sadly

[storm zephyr]

can i have like 50 trains on the same route

[next ivy]

why even ask us

[fluid sapphire]

All poles give the same distance

[next ivy]

-# well, power towers dont

[storm zephyr]

power towers are better

[winged root]

Just wait till you get the towers and get to connecting

[next ivy]

you get coal before the towers tho i think

[vapid jasper]

i do

[storm zephyr]

ziplining across power towers is lowkey the best way of short-medium range transport

[vapid jasper]

i have coal running its just not ran over to my factories, just ran so its powering itself

im gonna go calculate my power usage to see how many coal gens i need running over here

[next ivy]

so you set up coal...

[winged root]

Nah canon go brrrrrt

[next ivy]

just for it to do absolutely nothing

[storm zephyr]

cannon for long range

[fluid sapphire]

I know but he can't build those yet

[vapid jasper]

i set up 2 coal gens and then got hungry and distracted so i just got back on to continue but basically yes my coal is doing nothing lol

[storm zephyr]

i made an 8gw coal plant and then i unlocked fuel generators and it outperforms my coal brutally 😭

[vapid jasper]

is it bad my burner cap is 20mw but my max consume is 34mw

[storm zephyr]

yes

[winged root]

Anyone didn’t set up their first coal setup in the sink hole?

[vapid jasper]

i dont even know why its that high, the highest its using is 19

[storm zephyr]

what sink hole

[winged root]

The one surrounded by 4 normal coal nodes and wedged between the beginner starting area and red forest

[storm zephyr]

i set up my 2nd coal thing there

my first was the 3 pure 1 normal area to the east of red forest and near northern

between swamp and titan forest and red forest

[next ivy]

i mean, if you start anywhere else, probably yes

[vapid jasper]

i use 214mw total

[hallow crow]

#screenshots message what are these?

[next ivy]

refineries ?

[normal orbit]

Looks like a tower of refineries

[next ivy]

also youre not providing any info on where its from

[hallow crow]

wait are those the oil things?

sorry, forgot. its from kibitz

[vapid jasper]

if i click remove all on a death crate where does it go

[normal orbit]

Refineries can process oil and other things

[real salmon]

your inventory

[vapid jasper]

it did not

[real salmon]

ok

just load a slightly earlier auto save

[vapid jasper]

it removed the crate and i dont have the items

[normal orbit]

Remove all deletes the items

[vapid jasper]

i didnt mean to click it lol

darn

[next ivy]

reload

[winged root]

Can you delete sloops and mercer’s by accident

Or does the game not let you

[next ivy]

you can

[vapid jasper]

yeah i did, i always accidentally almost hit it but i did that time lmfao

[storm zephyr]

how do i load a train

[fluid sapphire]

Make it dock at a station so it's lined up with freight platforms?

[storm zephyr]

does the freight platform gotta be infront or behind

[fringe shadow]

Should i upgrade ||+1 stack|| or|| upload speed|| first?

[fluid sapphire]

What

[storm zephyr]

does the freight platform go in front of the station or before it

[fluid sapphire]

Station in front, locomotive stops at the station, freight platforms after station, cars after locomotive

Station is always the first piece

The round end is the exit to a station, the flat end is the entrance

[storm zephyr]

i dont understand

is this screenshot backwards? like i have the train station facing the right way but do i swap the freight platform and train station around #screenshots message

[normal orbit]

Big arrow on station shows direction

Yes backwards

[fluid sapphire]

#screenshots message

[normal orbit]

Station needs to mimic train

[storm zephyr]

that makes more sense

and will trains automatically load/unload at the right stations?

[fringe shadow]

?

[fluid sapphire]

You have to give them schedules

[grim carbon]

i just posted a pic

please give me critic of it

[fluid sapphire]

And the platforms must be set to load or unload

[grim carbon]

#design-and-architecture message

i'm feeding my manufacturers by industrial storage

[storm zephyr]

i should use smart splitters while unloading trains right

[dense violet]

only if you have more than 1 item type on a platform?

[floral sparrow]

Which conveyer style is your favourite? Default, straight, or curved?

[mortal ginkgo]

Straight for factory, curvy for miners

[storm zephyr]

i have rubber and plastic coming out

[rugged steppe]

I am having an issue on EXP. When I attempt to add a server under server manager nothing happens. does anyone know how to fix this?

[near mural]

any news or date for when experimental is coming to main branch? have been busy and havnt kept up with satisfactory recently

[hushed frigate]

Curve for anything off foundations, straight for everything on foundations

[dense violet]

then you need from the platform

2 belts to one ISC
1 belt out to a smart splitter to sort plastic and rubber and have an over flow exit to a sink

[storm zephyr]

ISC?

[dense violet]

#announcements

[dense violet]

double storage container

[storm zephyr]

trains are actually kinda cool ngl

i can see many uses for these

[winged root]

Can someone elaborate on 1 thing about fluids, if you have a pump on 1 side of a system but a fluid enters to a machine via pipes from 2 different directions can the pump push fluid into pipes of the second side requiring a second pump to prevent that?

[dense violet]

show an example of what you're trying to do in #math-and-meta or a post in #1038092680493801533

layout and height changes are important

[grim carbon]

is it possible to capture a creature?

[dense violet]

ish.
they despawn when you go away

[floral sparrow]

Except tamed doggos

[grim carbon]

don't you mean respawn?

[dense violet]

hostile creatures despawn when you go too far away

they'll respawn somewhere around the spawn point if you come back, but probably not in whatever container you built

[grim carbon]

i've build a catwalk around part of my base and i was just wondering if i could something up there just to walk around

if i could put something***

but i guess not

[dense violet]

for you to walk around? sure

[grim carbon]

nah, for them to walk around

just for the sake of it

[storm zephyr]

when do i unlock rocket fuel and stuff

[slender thistle]

hi guys ! new here, trying to find a way t owrite a ticket about the very annoying Ammo change cycle, still beeing binded on the 'hold R' key (i use QWER for movement)
do i HAVE to create an account on the questions website ?

[grim carbon]

that's in the MAM

[dense violet]

!wikisearch

[raven axle]

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

[wise junco]

⭕

[dense violet]

the wiki is your friend
praise the wiki, love the wiki

[grim carbon]

all hail the wiki!

we're not worthy of the great and almighty wiki!

[fringe shadow]

Should i upgrade +1 stack or upload speed first in mam?

[cold berry]

copper line (screenshots thread), caterium line done for computer factory that has taken me a week lol. Just need crystals, reinforced plates and plastic. Only Reinforced plates require a new factory (don't wanna dip into my old shit, but I have free lines open for crystals and plastic)

[dense violet]

whichever you want. there's spheres everywhere so yo ucan do both easily

[mortal ginkgo]

Speed can be increased with further Depots added for same item. However stacks can't be increased that way.

Are you really into decorating and going far away lands? Stacking can be good.
Are you not decorating? Speed can be cool.

Just go farm spheres. There are enough for everything and much more.

[tall plover]

i always underestimte how huge fuel generator setups get

[fringe shadow]

ik but what should i prefer

[fringe shadow]

ty

[tall plover]

jesus

just wanted to do a little bit of energy production today, 16 hours later im done with the fuel part

[dense violet]

I can't tell you how you like to play the game or what your play style is

[sick oak]

Probably stupid but how do i build walls on a corner?

[dense violet]

that's like me telling you what your favourite colour is

[dense violet]

... you build it on 2 sides of the foundation?

[ornate saffron]

Yes

[tall plover]

can you tell me what my favourite color is

[dense violet]

cobalt blue

[tall plover]

close, its purple

[ornate saffron]

Corple

[dense violet]

I'm sorry, you're wrong about that. It's definitely cobalt blue

[storm zephyr]

should i build a giant trainyard in the sky near my space elevator

[wise junco]

I second cobalt blue

[tall plover]

let me check with my superiors again

[dense violet]

no, sky infrastructure is a loss condition

get a mod to flatten the map if you want a 2d game

[tall plover]

youre gonna be afraid of my first playthrough

[dense violet]

I'm not afraid of people who lose the game 😛

[wise junco]

the closest i've ever come to skybasing is my current railway over the swamp is pretty high... didn't feel like dropping it down and in then up and back out

[ornate saffron]

There's a train in da sky where Lazarus keeps his crew

[tall plover]

i got a mod to remove the map entirly, what now

[storm zephyr]

if no for building then why building shaped

[dense violet]

live in the void, obvs

[tall plover]

i am currently doing so

[dense violet]

?

[tall plover]

platform expansion program is fun

[ornate saffron]

How's your long weekend

[dense violet]

muchly the same 🙂 I work from home so home still xD

yours is chill I hope?

[ornate saffron]

Ya, i live alone so I cook a 15lb ham and now I have food for over a week

I feel fat

[dense violet]

least you have ham?

[ornate saffron]

Absolutely. My secluded life is by choice lol.

[wise junco]

S A M E

[next ivy]

mine is out of fear

[ornate saffron]

Fear of your b o

I kid 😛

[next ivy]

||boo||

what is b o

[vapid jasper]

body odor if i were to guess

unless the 4 messages i read i got the wrong context lol

[ornate saffron]

You are correct

[next ivy]

how is that an abbreviation 😭

[wise junco]

it's a pretty common one

[vapid jasper]

in america its common at least

[timber bolt]

correct

question since I'm out of the loop, what is the date of release for 1.2?

[wise junco]

once it's out of experimental

[timber bolt]

is there a predicted date for that?

[vapid jasper]

what does 1.2 bring

[wise junco]

#patch-notes message

[wise junco]

just whenever they work the bugs out, so no

[dense violet]

there never is, and it's always a few months
it's been... a week?

[vapid jasper]

ah fixes for things ive never used yet lol

[timber bolt]

only a week? feels like it's been ages since it was announced

[sick oak]

It keeps saying the wall on the other side is in the way

My factory just has 1 wall and a roof its all good lol

[wise junco]

if it's giving you the "overlapping another object" notification, you can still place

[dense violet]

show what you're doing in #design-and-architecture

[sick oak]

Youre a genius

[dense violet]

if yellow? build. if red? you'll need to do something else

[sick oak]

Lmao

[wise junco]

idk about genius

i can breathe on my own sometimes though without choking on my spit

[sick oak]

Dw you are

[sick oak]

I will later tbh i want criticism, im discording on my phone rn tho

My goal today is just to go vertical and i feel ive done it

Just put a roof over the miner, put the smelter and constructor on the roof pretty basic stuff, looks so much neater though

[wise junco]

most of the time it's pretty impressive what some small changes can do

[clever pier]

good morning pioneers. FICSIT hopes you have a productive day !

[storm zephyr]

"good morning" and its 7:30 pm

timezones dont exist btw

[clever pier]

timezones exist

7:30 AM here

[wise junco]

inb4 schrodinger's timezones

[strong fiber]

lazarusthegreat67

[clever pier]

I live in the future

[dense violet]

you live in the past
it's 10:38

[strong fiber]

Oops

[timber bolt]

I don't see anything other than 7:38 so
schrodingers timezones

[strong fiber]

8:38 for me

[clever pier]

new zealand?

[dense violet]

Aus

[ornate saffron]

Same east represent

[strong fiber]

When is kbm support coming to console port

[leaden turret]

<t:1775349568:t> for everyone

[strong fiber]

been waiting

[leaden turret]

1.2

[ornate saffron]

Rumor is 1.2.

[strong fiber]

yippe

im praying 🤞

[leaden turret]

[bruce willis voice] yippie-kbm-automator

[timber bolt]

I refuse to believe that timezones exist. they're a conspiracy made by the squirrels and birds

[strong fiber]

Also when can we expect 1.2 on main branch?

[timber bolt]

someone said that there's no guarenteed time

[strong fiber]

ok

[reef basin]

when it's ready

[strong fiber]

probably because they dont know how many bugs there is

And how many might pop up

[sick oak]

Same time zone gang

[spare prism]

hi

[timber bolt]

I honestly prefer this because the devs care enough about their game to wait until they know it'll work and not break anything for the players.
W devs, even if there's no guaranteed time.

[strong fiber]

Im fine with that im just hoping this bug im experiencing on console is fixed with 1.2

[ornate saffron]

Hi

[timber bolt]

what bug is it?

[timber bolt]

Hi

[wise junco]

hi

[strong fiber]

Every other time my game saves my game crashes

It’s only happening once my worlds get bigger

[minor cedar]

guys what does the coffee mug do?

[timber bolt]

I'm on PC so this is most likely not the issue, but check your storage and RAM allocation, it may have something to do with that.

there could also be conflicting files with another downloaded game

[strong fiber]

Functionally nothing but it gives you style points

[ornate saffron]

Gets other things outnof your pov.

We used it while taking screen shots pre photomode

[timber bolt]

functionally it makes you a total badass*

[strong fiber]

I have tried every possible solution but its all in vain

[minor cedar]

ah gimme some of dat then

[ornate saffron]

Your hitting the unreal engine object limit it sounds like

[spare prism]

what you up too

[strong fiber]

My worlds aren’t even that big imo

[timber bolt]

are you able to see something like task manager on PC on your console? If you are it could be something running in the background

[strong fiber]

Ive played with people that have way bigger worlds and i run completely fine

[timber bolt]

this could also most definitely be it

[ornate saffron]

The console is half of pc. And the series s crashed before it

[stable cloak]

dwa a dAW

[ornate saffron]

Food coma.

[stable cloak]

w w awd a d
Awd

ww s

[wise junco]

i see someone is also trying to play and alt tab too much

[spare prism]

lol

[timber bolt]

if you do microdetails then that would definitely harm it. I don't think it's possible on console, but there's a way to edit your object limit on PC

[strong fiber]

I made a new world and it stopped so definitely something todo with the world

[timber bolt]

probably most definitely a very likely possibility of it maybe being the object limit

[strong fiber]

I really like decorating my builds and i really dont want to build big boxes

It makes my world feel more lively

[timber bolt]

in that case it's almost 100% the OL

[strong fiber]

😔

[wise junco]

i think someone would really have to be cranking it out to be at the OL on console already unless it's been out far longer than i thought

[strong fiber]

I was just building nuclear on that world too

[ornate saffron]

Regardless console will ne getting lots of bug fixes come 1.2. They would like to push bug fixes more often but Sony and microslop want "meaningful" patches

[timber bolt]

@strong fiber how long have you had the world?

[strong fiber]

im not sure but its going on 5–9 months

[wise junco]

well, shit, maybe

[strong fiber]

I have 650 hours on it

[wise junco]

console apparently has been out a lot longer than i thought lol

[strong fiber]

Nvm

[timber bolt]

I think it's the object limit. try allocating more RAM and seeing if you can somehow change the OL, there may be something about how to do that on YT

[strong fiber]

3 months

[timber bolt]

that's if it's even possible

[strong fiber]

It feels alot longer

[timber bolt]

nvm

well I have no idea what it is so I'm gonna duck out of the convo now

[strong fiber]

If that world is still unusable when 1.2 drops imma have to kill it

[grim carbon]

i hope we'll be able to move 1.1 worlds over to the new 1.2 update when it finally comes out

[wise junco]

i don't see why not

[ornate saffron]

Yes. This is normal

[dense violet]

it happens automatically when you update

[grim carbon]

i sure hope so

[ornate saffron]

I can load up my early access worlds if I want

[grim carbon]

is there any indication when the new 1.2 update is coming out?

[wise junco]

no

[ornate saffron]

When it's ready. Ots really big with many bugs. My money is pn August or September

[floral sparrow]

If I'm about to enter tier 5/6 and have 33 turbo motors from lizard doggos, should I just sink them now or is it worth saving them? First run. I know they sell for a lot but I don't know how hard they are to make

[wise junco]

they take a decent investment to make

[dense violet]

save them

just feed overflow items into sink

[grim carbon]

it might be worth saving them now for later, perhaps in an industrial storage

[leaden turret]

that's after summer vacation.

my bet is before summer vacation, with 1.3 teases starting before they pop off

[floral sparrow]

Currently I sink 67.5 reanimated SAM per minute since I'm not doing anything else with SAM yet

[cold berry]

Will there be any more big features at 1.2 launch?

Or are they all in the experimental

In my next run, I am making a central storage facility that is also in a kind circle around the space elevator, with 3 outputs to use the elevator points on the other side, and it'll be a general sink factory when I'm done

That's the plan

[grim carbon]

sounds like a good plan

i love when a good plan comes together

[ornate saffron]

All the 1.2 features are in experimental

[high roost]

Is it possible to fit a T-Junction into a mk3 BP designer? I'm having trouble- either the signals don't recognize the junctions or the rails are too short/turn too sharply to fit in a snappable way

[lost cloak]

So, anyone know what determins the "rotation" of a pipe? In 3D the term is called "roll". As in, which direction the local "up" is on the pipe

cause when you put junctions on it, you cant finecontrol the rotation of it. And often it does not line up with the platforms around it

is it snapping to the "Global" grid??

[next ivy]

likely too big of a gap between the rails then ?

[lost cloak]

after some testing, i think it is lined up with the global grid... So, blueprint designers has to be placed along the global grid for pipes to snap correctly

[ornate saffron]

The infinity nudge mod gives you great control. Other then that 🤷

[lost cloak]

im not using mods

[ornate saffron]

Im not saying you do. Im letting you know that is a way for you to gain greater control of that is something you seek.

I personally do not have issues making blueprints or placing junctions

[high roost]

tried with one foundation gap and one foundation + 1

[trim osprey]

Man, it's very easy to get overwhelmed. I just finished researching nuclear power, something I don't exactly need in this moment, and now I want to do better mining rigs. But I need to do fused modular frames. And that needs a while BUNCHA stuff, of which I still need to mess with (my bauxite is very limited; I'm getting it via a single drone to and from the place)

[dense violet]

just build the rails up to the T junction and manually connect them in a few seconds

you're better off doing custom junctions because they'll fit better for your situation anyway

and it's very fast

[lost cloak]

try it, see if you can do it with the mod.

Have a foundation, that you know is lined up with the world grid.

Place another foundation on top, offset it by 2 fine rotations, by holding CTRL
Place a Pipe Floor Hole on that foundation
Place and nudge another Pipe Floor Hole such that it is lined up with the floor hole you just placed. You want the 2nd hole to be above the first one. About 6-10 meters above
Connect the two Pipe Holes with a Pipe
Then place a regular Pipeline Junction on the newly placed Pipe.
Then see if you can make it line up perfectly, with the foundation you placed, that had the 2 rotations offset

[high roost]

So, is it not possible?

[dense violet]

I mean you could do a roundabout in a mk3, that's technically a t junction. Or any junction really

[lost cloak]

if i put one pump going into a tank, will the pressure continue out the other side?

[cold berry]

Science needs to know

[inland thicket]

how do i set up a train to go back and forth across a rail instead of a loop?

[high roost]

double-headed train?

[inland thicket]

i was just testing that

[vapid jasper]

if i connect multiple coal gens to 1 mk1 pole does that mean 2 gens 1 pole = 150mw?

[grim carbon]

make your train as long as you like, start with just 1 or 2 cars and have an engine on both ends, that way it'll go back and forth

[dense violet]

poles don't have a power limit

[grim carbon]

just connections limit

[knotty bear]

Turbofuel or normal fuel for jetpack?

[vapid jasper]

wait so i can just daisy chain pole after pole so i only need to run 1 pole from my gens to my factories? instead of each gen = 1 pole ran?

[dense violet]

up to you, they burn dif

[trim osprey]

Is this a channel where I can ask simpler questions, or do I need to ask all of them in a forum?

[vapid jasper]

wow if only i knew that after i just ran these first 2 poles 600m

[vapid jasper]

ive started asking here cause i opened like 10 forums and i feel like it got excessive but if im not supposed to i can stop

[grim carbon]

there's a questions and help in this discord

[sturdy pivot]

is there a way to do conveyor lifts so they stretch infinitely

[dense violet]

you can ask here.

[lost cloak]

you can ask here

[trim osprey]

That's what I'm talking about. That's forums.

[dense violet]

floor holes

[lost cloak]

now is there elevator holes? i need that

[grim carbon]

if you ask a question there, you'll get notified when you're on here, and it'll keep you in the know as you talk it out after that

[sturdy pivot]

without it looking ugly?

[dense violet]

if it's a quick question here is fine, there's also the wiki for just info

[lost cloak]

they look fine

[grim carbon]

i love floor holes and conveyor holes

[dense violet]

If you're just having lifts stretch off to infinity all on their lonesome it's already ugly. Floor holes aint gonna make it worse

[trim osprey]

Thank y'all! I wanted to ask if it's a good idea to try and make blueprints of every material on their own, so that I could use them in bigger things. Like how I want to automate fused modular frames, but I don't think the rest of my factory is super good for that kind of thing

[wise junco]

are power shards a PITA to make once you can make them?

my shards-from-slugs supply is... struggling

[lost cloak]

there is alternatively the S strategy

where you just connect lifts in a chain in the shape of a tall S

[dense violet]

eh, if you want, but I think most people get bogged down making too many BPs instead of playing the game
the milestones are there to learn.
maybe just make some basic blueprints of each machine you can change the recipes of as needed

[sturdy pivot]

idk it looks pretty ugly #screenshots message

[dense violet]

you can have smaller holes using thinner floors, like 1m or frame floors
and it gives you a chance to build greebling around the pillar

[lost cloak]

do some architecture on the wall, and make it fit with the architecture

[sturdy pivot]

ahh, rip. i thought there was a glitch with floor holes that you could make them stretch infinitely on reddit a few months back but couldn't dig it up

[dense violet]

there might be? the joy of glitches though is when they break with updates and patches and factories die. I thrive on tears.

[sturdy pivot]

that's why i haven't done mods yet. but first time doing experimental because of the game modes and vehicle updates

[lost cloak]

i found a typo on the wiki, it states that when the small fluid buffer is full, it has a head lift of 8m. It is far higher than that

[vapid jasper]

how do i get whatever explosive i need to break the grey rock ontop of nodes

[dense violet]

MAM

[vapid jasper]

what in the mam do i need

[dense violet]

sulfur

[lost cloak]

boom booms

[verbal mantle]

Sulfur

[trim osprey]

Omg you're right I totally forgot about alternate recipes... Bps would SUCK. I think what I'm going to do is just build the final machine, then work backwards

[dense violet]

well, if you like smooth functioning factories its simpler to plan from the end output , this is a good planner for it https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production

but yo ucan build it however you like as long as you plan out the sections in advance

[trim osprey]

Yeah I think I have a sour view of the tool. Last time I used it was trying to automate everything needed for stage 1 + every material I'd unlocked up to that point. There were a lot of decimals and it was frankly kinda a mess

Maybe now that I just have ONE item in mind, it'd do me better

[dense violet]

well it'll automate everything you tell it to automate
you probably want to make smaller plans if there was too much in 1
and decimals are in your imagination. Change the unit of time you're measuring in and the ygo away

clocking your machines makes any number trivial

[trim osprey]

I just had it in items per minute 😔

[dense violet]

ok but why are decimals bad there ?

[trim osprey]

It didn't really have clocking as an option in the thing so I was sitting there like "my brother how do I have 11.667 smelters 💔" so I kept rounding up

[dense violet]

that is the clocking

11.667 smelters is just 1166.7% clocking

[trim osprey]

Yeah, but last time I used it the website didn't have clocking built into it. And even then it didn't cross my mind that I could just... Clock them myself

[dense violet]

it's always had the clocking built into it

[trim osprey]

Wait, I thought the max was 250

[dense violet]

... it is. It just has to add up to 1166.7%

pinging you in other channel

[trim osprey]

Ah. Sorry, I can't connect dots very well xd

Tyty

[floral sparrow]

What happens if I scan more hard drives than I have alternate recipes available for where I'm at in the game?

[dense violet]

well you'll also get the +inventory results
but it spits the hard drives back out after

[unborn moss]

If there are no alt recipes available, the game won't let you scan a hard drive.

[floral sparrow]

Got it. I'm at the stage where I see biocoal as an option almost every time so I reckon it's close...

[knotty bear]

Alright latest save is 189h 44m and 15s and I have finally automated turbofuel and black powder, and I am ready to get the stuff for the modular engine and finish phase 3!

[viscid ruin]

Yo.

[wise junco]

yo

[stuck bough]

guys why cant i see claimed nodes in scim?

[vapid jasper]

if i have screws being fed into an assembler from a storage container on mk2 belts and they arent filling the assembler fast enough so its always running what should i do

[stoic nebula]

question

[dense violet]

what's the problem?

[vapid jasper]

i meant are not filling it fast enough

[dense violet]

how many screws pm does your machine need?

[stoic nebula]

why are the drone port imputs and outputs higher than every single god dang machine in the entire fricking game?????

[vapid jasper]

it says 100 per minute

and the screws are coming from a splitter from a container

but the splitter only goes 1 other spot

[dense violet]

well either you have a bit of mk1 belt somewhere, or your container doesn't have enough screws

[vapid jasper]

the container has like 2k and i was checking the belts they all seemed to be mk2

[dense violet]

how many screws pm does the other end need?

[vapid jasper]

60

but thats being fed on mk1 belts

[dense violet]

100+60 is 160
mk2 can only move 120

[vapid jasper]

oh nvm theyre both being fed on mk2 belts

so id have to cut off one of the connections?

[dense violet]

still , 1 belt can only move 120

[dense violet]

or change the clocking

[vapid jasper]

my assemblers dont show clocking so i dont think i have that unlocked

[dense violet]

unlock all the MAM stuff asap, super useful

[lost cloak]

i really wish we had more types of ammo

[wise junco]

what kind of ammo would you suggest?

[lost cloak]

well what do we have, we have the rambo weapon with stormtrooper accuracy that takes ages to wind up. It just feels bad to use, even tapping with it. It has less damage than the regular ammo

we have the homing ammo which i guess has a purpose, ive not found much use for it. maybe for people with poor aim

we have the rebar gun, which get outdated immediately when you unlock the rifle

so for me, the only ammo im left with is actually the orange, vanilla ammo

Some upgraded version of the vanilla ammo, that just has an extended mag. Cause 15 bullets feel really bad

and for the rebar gun, they can add improved rebars, so it becomes a bolt action weapon viable for late game. Like a sniper or hunting rifle

[iron fiber]

whenever you run over one of those tick hell-damned things are they meant to get bigger?

[dense violet]

hot takes? shocking

[iron fiber]

i believe so

[dense violet]

not from you 😛

[iron fiber]

it is like moldy looking(?)

[lost cloak]

homing does no damage

it does not tho

[iron fiber]

i dropped an entire car on it and it just got larger why does it even exist and why is it so hard to kill it

[lost cloak]

turbo does less damage than vanilla, and requires ramp time
and homing does WAY less damage, with only 20 bullets

[dense violet]

because it's big?
it doesn't attack you

[iron fiber]

it looks ugly

[dense violet]

ok

[iron fiber]

really i just do not enjoy its aesthetic in my area

[lost cloak]

how is it even skill issue when im using the hardest ammo to use

[iron fiber]

thats true sometimes

will shooting steve in the head do more damage?

[lost cloak]

homing does almost half the damage of regular ammo

[dense violet]

unlikely, just poke them and they run away

[iron fiber]

are they usually like really large?

[dense violet]

they are big yes

it's almost like there's different tools for different situations

[lost cloak]

but it is less damage than regular ammo, with barely any extra ammo

its MUCH less damage per magazine than regular ammo

[iron fiber]

the ones in my save dont look like the screenshots tho i cant really explain it (see #screenshots message)

[wise junco]

yeah... they're big lol

[lost cloak]

only, orange ammo is best for all situations. Cause for big mobs, its better to use clusters

[dense violet]

take pictures of the ones in your save

[iron fiber]

i did, they were in the screenshot

i can take more tho

[dense violet]

that's hwo they look normally yes

[iron fiber]

like normally theyre the size of a watch tower???

[wise junco]

yes

[iron fiber]

thats terrifying

[dense violet]

why? they don't attack

[iron fiber]

is there a way tod isable them

[dense violet]

get a mod

[iron fiber]

i have an irrational fear of ticks i cannot explain

[wheat knoll]

can i join someone world ?

[dense violet]

they are penguin elephant things

[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

[lost cloak]

if they gave red ammo same damage as standard ammo, i'd get along with it.
Or if they made homing ammo 35 bullets per mag, i'd get along with it

[iron fiber]

i am on ps5

unfortunate

[dense violet]

you'll want arachnaphobia mode on prob

[cold berry]

Why yes, I will be upgrading my heavy modular frame/modular frame factory. The moment that I get steel screws and steel rods unlocked lol

[dense violet]

stinger be fired?

oh right right I get it now

well stingers are great, gotta go somewhere else when you peak

Soma?

oh I think I remember something similar, psycho horror game?

ah yeah, got it in my library

[cold berry]

Screws are easy

[dense violet]

you haven't tried hard enough

'tier lists are actually good yo'

another game?

ah yeah, got it on my wish list

looks like it could be interesting?

aren't they actually completely different branches of the company?

[iron fiber]

yall think its wise to make my factory cart get/retrieve my coal? id have multiple of them running + they dont need power!

i am trying to be conservative w my power

wdym

yeah?

elaborate

im intrigued i would like to unlock said things

i want to optimize my factory and it not be just another time of god knows how many

yeah

i cannot explain the joy i have for playing this game

[dense violet]

I mean everthing in the shop is useful

[iron fiber]

i do not think the polygonal car is useful

it goes only 20kmph

doesnt the pioneer run faster???

[dense violet]

its useful as a joke

anything that makes fun of musk is great

[iron fiber]

god no

i read up on it on the wiki because my friend said something about a cybertruck

i hate those ugly things i see them every day because i live near DC 💔

it truly makes a good day an okay day

it is a big metal coffin???

why does it even look like that

couldnt they have made it even more appealing then the actual cybertruck

i cant dog on the cyberwagon because it doesnt randomly explode

(yet)

maybe int he next april fools

why

it looks appealing from what ive seen

YOU CAN TAME THEM?????????????

how

i will do this asap

[karmic hearth]

is it only me or is the train horn sometime doing like, whistle noise, but like, rarely

[iron fiber]

will they get attacked alongside me

i dont wont them to be harmed one bit

can i just like make them sit

[floral sparrow]

I wish there was a bit more cosmetic furniture and whatnot to make a little house with. Not that it's the focus of the game

Maybe an office

Wait, you can zoop foundations on multiple axes at once? Saw it in a Xaos video

I'll check him out

How is it done?

[astral plover]

I wonder which resource is more valuable to set rich in 1.2

[feral vector]

I have tamed doggos all over the place I can never find them lol

[floral sparrow]

Is there a key I need to hold or something?

[astral plover]

indeed

[next ivy]

to zoop in planes apparently

well you answered in the affirmative tho

[floral sparrow]

I saw you tell me I can...

[next ivy]

yes you can zoop

but not on multiple axis

[feral vector]

you need mods to zoop in two planes not just in a straight line

[floral sparrow]

I interpreted this as, "you can, but you can only place up to ten at once total"

[next ivy]

is what that meant

[feral vector]

best you can do with no mods is just fill a blueprint with foundations

[floral sparrow]

I know what zooping is. That is not my question

[floral sparrow]

Thanks

[next ivy]

do ramps technically zoop in 2 axis 🤔

if only blueprint zooping was a thing 😔

[sick oak]

I cant figure out how to male encased steel beams

[next ivy]

i heard hormones are great for that

[sick oak]

I have concrete and steel beams going into an assembler but encased beams isnt an option

[knotty bear]

While I am inside whenever the time of day changes the lights change when it makes no logical sense for it to do so, how do I fix this?

[next ivy]

do you have them researched

also you dont need the materials going into something before you set the recipe

[sick oak]

How do i do that lol

[next ivy]

by progressing the phases / tiers

like youve done the whole time up to now

[feral vector]

I think the advanced steel something milestone?

[sick oak]

Yeah ive progressed thats how i jnow what they even are

Ive just got the steel milestone

[feral vector]

there's a second steel milestone iirc

[sick oak]

Now im trying to do expanded power

[next ivy]

was encased beams included in that one ?

[sick oak]

Ohhh ok

[feral vector]

you can see in the milestones what they unlock

[sick oak]

Ill see

[next ivy]

maxeek wtf is your fixation

[sick oak]

Yep i selected the wrong ones to do next

That would have taken me so long to figure out thanks

[feral vector]

you can change which one you have selected. i think?

[sick oak]

I should be back to this one in like 10 mins

[next ivy]

yes you can

[sick oak]

Yeah ive changed it now

[next ivy]

without losing materials even

well the last 2 pings were fairly random, one was probably trying to be a joke

[knotty bear]

Why is Lumen Bright running better than Lumen Moody Dark

Like a solid 10-20FPS more depending on room.

[sick oak]

Im encasing now yaay

Seeing as yous are so helpful i might as well also ask wtf im supposed to do with the tractor

Might youtube that one

[feral vector]

trucks are good if you want a resource that's far away and don't want to run a super long belt. espeically if it's more than one miner worth of stuff

[burnt prawn]

Does the direction you build a track influence which direction signals want to point?

I'm having trouble getting them to attach pointing in the intended direction of travel

[weak bloom]

what do you MEAN I need TEN THOUSAND IRON PLATES for mk6 belts?!? oh my god lmao

[sick oak]

This is what i was hoping for

My steel factory is a decent distance from my hub

Rn i just run there a lot

[feral vector]

just sloop and overclock some constructors, you don't already have a full storage container?

[weak bloom]

I probably do somewhere

was just a very amusing number to see lmao

[feral vector]

that's probably only half though lol that's rough

I guess now that I know I'll get another container full

spoilers! 😛

[feral vector]

hmm steel shouldn't be too far away? you start in the grassy area?

[weak bloom]

the trap is thinking that the endgame materials will be the bottleneck

aluminum? nah IRON is the problem

[sick oak]

My steel is on the south edge of the map and my hub is next to the purple trees

Fair enough to set up a truck route

[feral vector]

yeah try it out, I was pleasantly surprised by the truck when I unlocked it

[sick oak]

I got in it. Didnt go anywhere and carried on making other stuff

Just occured to me i would need to make a second station lol

Can you just drive it yourself

[feral vector]

yeah and you need to drive it in a loop before it will autopilot

[sick oak]

Ok cool its what i expected

[feral vector]

you can but it's worth automating

[sick oak]

Fo sho

[feral vector]

just drive from the dropoff station to the pickup station then back to the dropoff station and it will keep running that route for you

[sick oak]

Yeah i got you

I like how you have to drive it yourself

[burnt prawn]

Why does it seem so much harder to attach signals pointing in one direction than the other? It's like I have to hunt for a spot to keep things going right-hand drive

It's like, one area tries to attach in one direction, then another area tries in the other direction

[wise junco]

Are you worried about beauty or function? Functionality wise it does not matter what side of the rail those signals are on - only that actual block and path signals are facing correctly

I'm assuming you're talking about the little arrow signals. Those only matter for manual driving

[latent gate]

Aight guys

Dark-Ion Fuel vs Ionized Fuel

Thoughts on these two recipes?

I have a seed rocket fuel power plant running at 120GW

I'm planning to do nuclear as well

Already set up the base recipe

didn't wanna waste all that sulphur

I'm producing a 400 rocket-fuel overage beyond what I need for the base 120GW specifically for use by vehicles

I'm a big fan of resource efficiency.

#screenshots message

still finishing up routing before I put the building shell on

but the extra 400 rocket fuel is purely vehicle usage

excellent

you and I will probably disagree, and that's exactly what I'm here for

Dark-Ion fuel.

What're the pros and cons?

I just want to convert that extra 400 rocket fuel to ionized fuel.

[plucky bone]

"Ficsit didn't think pioneers would get this far, I'm glad we both proved them wrong" - ADA

[latent gate]

Certainly seems less complex to set up, can probably done with local SAM with very little fuss.

[feral vector]

I really gotta do some fuel stuff

if I keep putting it off I'm gonna flip a breaker, I'm at like 5k out of 7400 or something

[normal orbit]

makes a lot less ionized fuel but it a lot easier to setup

[forest hound]

yo, dunno where to ask

but is the file locations for the photos different on linux?

im struggling to find where they are and every attempt either comes up with nothing, or a "this file location doesnt exist"

[latent gate]

never mind, I see why dark ion fuel is a no-go

[forest hound]

also tried the location said in the faq and it didint work so im other putting it in wrong or its not working

the closest i can get to the one in the faw is "/Steam/steamapps/"

than i dont really have anything i can understand

oh i just saw the questions and help channel lol

[dense violet]

you could probably use the search function in qna as well, people have prob posted about it before

[forest hound]

true

[next ivy]

but the faq says nothing about steamapps or steam

unless there is another linux specific faq that i missed

[forest hound]

hence, closest i can find

okiii

found it, it was just in the bit i couldnt read because it was a lot of numbers

[forest hound]

(because i assume they arent just starting at the system user)

(because there wasnt any file where they listed when i looked)

[worn oar]

What photos? Did you already check SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/526870/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/FactoryGame/Saved/?

[forest hound]

yeaa, i just found the questions and help that someone asked a while ago

[worn oar]

This is the only game I've played that has four or five different locations it stores data on Linux. Annoying.

[forest hound]

is evil </3

welp, ima go to bed, its midnight and ive been trying to figure that out for like 40 minutes </3

[serene jolt]

where's a good spot for a motor factory?

[forest hound]

Where your heart desires

[serene jolt]

bruh

[forest hound]

Im not wrong </3

[serene jolt]

true

[empty torrent]

maybe the desert #screenshots message
but yeah its where you want to, i basicly decided because of the much flat & empty space..

[mortal ginkgo]

there are alt recipes that can allow you to make Motors out of Pure Iron or with Iron and Coal.

So maybe a spot suitable like that if you hunted for alt recipes.

[forest hound]

Guys, is it bad ive spent over 100 hours in one save file and still havent completed the tier 3 space elevator?

[serene jolt]

i got a friend who has 84 hours on the game and is in stage 5 or whatever the last one is. that's his steam time and he's played with me in a save quite a bit. he may have found a dupe glitch though

[forest hound]

Neat!

[feral vector]

are you having fun? 😛

[forest hound]

I burnt myself out!

[serene jolt]

drive a tractor with whatever you want duped into a blueprint designer with an automated gate and make sure the gate opens. then save the print and delete the tractor. whenever you load the blueprint the tractor respawns

[forest hound]

But id say so!

[serene jolt]

it's way to easy

[forest hound]

Doesnt it take the resources in the tractor to build?

[serene jolt]

nope

vehicles aren't allowed in blueprint designers so technically it doesn't exist

it's weird

you can also look up dupe glitch on youtube

[forest hound]

Eh,

[feral vector]

if you're gonna cheat might as well jsut get mods that let you do it lol

[forest hound]

I just dont wanna

Ngl, i should really finish the factory i was working

It was huge and if i could sort out the logistics it could produce 100 heavy modular frames a minutee

Sadly tho, the logistics part is gonna be hell

It needs over 10 000 screws to function

And the best belt i have avaliable i believe sre the mark 4

[serene jolt]

that's how i feel about it

[feral vector]

why on earth are you trying to make 100 HMF a minute in phase 3 lol

I had 2/min when I finished 😅

I still have 2 / min

[burnt prawn]

Ohhhhh, I see. Mouse wheel to swap signal sides is just bugged sometimes

[feral vector]

no need to rush your playthroughs, lots of people try to make everything look awesome or just build bigger factories than they need or whatever

[feral vector]

lol glad you figured it out

[forest hound]

Real

[forest hound]

Oh

Because i wanted big factory

Is why i got birnt out, because i also designed a power system that could power 64 fully over clocked fuel gens

Without using too much oil

[feral vector]

you'll need some big factories in phase 4, might want to just make a few of everything for now

[forest hound]

The problem is i just dknt have gokd enough belts

So i might need to reduce the amount of production

[feral vector]

I mean if you're having fun going overboard than do it but if you're getting burned out maybe dial it back

[forest hound]

Yeeee

[feral vector]

yeah it's way easier to make insane factories with the top end belts

[forest hound]

Ive already taken a pretty long break

[feral vector]

1200 / min is nuts

[forest hound]

Definitaly didint help i played like 100 hours within 2 months

Lol

[feral vector]

I've played even more than than in less time 😅

[forest hound]

Ye but i also dont have a lot of energyyy and i was doing pretty much all my math with a calculator in my headdd

Up till i found the moddeller

Which i think was around hour 90

And im not thr brightesttt

Anyyways ima go eeeeeep

Night!!

[feral vector]

you sound pretty smart to me if you were doing all your math without satisfactory tools or the modeler:P

cheers gnite

[plucky bone]

I mean the game even gives us a calculator. I have used the planner once and hated it. Easier to use your head and a calculator. Maybe add a pen and paper to remember all the steps. Most things can be sorted to whole numbers. Easy that way. And any extra just gets sunk.

[dense violet]

the benefit of a planner, especially this one, is that you can easily swap out recipes in and out of a chain to see the changes in a few moments without recalcing everything https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=K8dlZ0ZtgzTz3g3CxRu5

that plan literally took 30 seconds to put together

[plucky bone]

I know that. Still hate it. Too much garbage on the screen. And no choices for "Put in 600 ingots and want iron plates and here is how many can be produced" Have to add correct inputs and outputs.

[dense violet]

here https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=Ebr3EpaZ4NTXba9OCm1s literally what you asked for

ah sorry you wanted 600 ingots https://www.satisfactorytools.com/1.0/production?share=b5N5vAaoMBo9yxImB9HS

" Easier to use your head and a calculator." objectively incorrect

you can also move the boxes and see every calculation seperately

[crude kayak]

Hello

[small crypt]

Hey all, just got the game, 90 minutes in, fun so far, got a chainsaw, solid biofuel, things are really coming together, can tell space is going to be an issue lol, are giant sky platforms a viable solution?

[serene jolt]

yeah