satisfactory

[reef basin]

in any *factory game

[bold valley]

So bascially, find a good spot ( I think most go for desert) and put down a factory on a node and if it needs something specific more away, trainstation and transport.

[worn oar]

Tools like satisfactory modeler can do the complex part of the math for you

If you don't want to do it yourself

[white dawn]

Heh, plenty of ways to play, of course. And sure, yeah, the problems with centralization often only start becoming apparent as the number of products starts increasing. It's one reason why so many players fall into the centralization "trap" (as I call it -- IMO, of course). In the early days centralization seems like the logical choice, and it's not too bad. Once players start getting into P2+P3 and beyond, though, it can become a nightmare. :D

[normal trench]

I don’t think grassy fields has a lot of stuff though so I think this could help

[primal obsidian]

what if I wanna

might try it I get to use train

[white dawn]

Looks like on my last playthrough I ended up with 8 factories in Grass Fields. :D

[normal trench]

Without?

[white dawn]

Heh, obvs "but I want to" is the ultimate trump card. :D

[normal trench]

Im confused

[primal obsidian]

yeah

[normal trench]

What do you mean without eight factories

[primal obsidian]

I do that sorta already

[normal trench]

Why did you say eight specifically

[white dawn]

oh, lol, typo. I'd meant "with"

[primal obsidian]

I bring all my resources to one place vefore building the facotry

[normal trench]

Nice

[white dawn]

Sorry!

[normal trench]

Your okay

[white dawn]

Yeah, pretty nonsensical statement if the word was "without." :D

[primal obsidian]

like I know I couuulldddd make the silica roght there but instead im gonna transport it across the map to my facotry and do that

[white dawn]

But anyway, yeah, if you are gonna centralize to any degree, then doing it in smaller chunks would certainly help

[primal obsidian]

I couullld refine all the resources into ingots at the node but then I won’t have a sea of refineries at my facotry

and where’s the fun in that

[white dawn]

And even with my usual Independency approach I'll often have factories right next to each other, or even technically in the same building (like on separate floors or whatever)

My early-game "basic iron" factory tends to have like 5-6 outputs, for instance. Easy enough to double up on nodes when your factories only output to your own storage

[earnest condor]

@steel kelp had to make food. But yeah, the 100x has me going from never automating Project Parts ever for 8 years to now when I am Phase 2 and I'm almost done with 60 Plating, 90 Framework, and 40 Autowire production 👀

[worn oar]

960 copper, 4,815 iron, 2,340 coal in phase 2 if you don't use sloops. 😬

[earnest condor]

MOAR iron because I am using Iron Pipe for the Stators.

Less Copper because Fused Wire.

Possibly less coal because Molded Beam. Idk. I didn't do a total tracker thing.

[worn oar]

Actually less iron. 4,395 iron, 2,880 limestone, 256 copper, 192 caterium, 1,440 coal.

[earnest condor]

Nice.

[worn oar]

Just thinking about that before sliding the lever to unlock phase 3 makes me feel nauseous. I think I've earned a microbreak

[earnest condor]

And welcome back.

[worn oar]

😭

[earnest condor]

Just need to do the power wiring and Automated Wiring will be the last thing brought online!

[sick falcon]

@nocturne orbit whats in the pins

[earnest condor]

Wiring easy now with daisy-chaining though..

Whole factory = 1 cable... 🙄

[primal obsidian]

wait WHAT

when did they add this

[earnest condor]

1.2

[primal obsidian]

yo

[earnest condor]

It's horrible. But it is what it is.

[primal obsidian]

I might have to start a new play through

[earnest condor]

It's a MAM unlock that is gated behind Mk3 Power Pole just fyi.

[white dawn]

(1.2/Exp-specific talk should really go in #satisfactory-experimental instead of here, btw)

Anyone wanting daisy-chaining on public can get it trivially with blueprints, though

[next ivy]

finally a reason to unlock mk3 poles

[white dawn]

1. Put machine in blueprinter. 2. Use beams or whatever to "embed" a wall socket into a machine. 3. Delete the beams. 4. Hook machine to socket. 5. Save blueprint. 6. Profit!

I've been daisy-chaining machines for years now, without mods. :)

[next ivy]

im betting daisy chaining will persist through imported blueprints tho
even tho its not unlocked yet, just like everything else

[white dawn]

The new v1.2 addition is a convenience, nothing more. :)

[worn oar]

But it looks better which is the more important benefit

[white dawn]

For some machines I actually prefer my own homebuilt daisy-chain connections, aesthetically

[steel kelp]

Yeh it looks like a way more interesting approach ngl

[earnest condor]

When daylight returns I have a screenshot reply to this 😄

[bold valley]

Please tell me we need a shitload of steel pipes later down the lane? currently in T2 Skyhook its clogging my whole steel production because I dont need much of it

[earnest condor]

This game has Skyhooks? 👀

[bold valley]

Sorry, EVE habit. Sky elevator

[earnest condor]

So close...

Space* 😛

[sick falcon]

when does scannable hard drives unlock

[earnest condor]

Like Object Scanner to find drop pods or just scanning HDDs for alts?

[leaden turret]

sky hook is baloon thingy, yes?

[sick falcon]

object

[earnest condor]

MAM - Quartz Tree - Very Bottom iirc.

[white dawn]

The game does have an "sink" you can unlock to ensure that production lines never clog, btw

[earnest condor]

How many Pipes you need is largely dependent on recipe choices tbh.

So you can elect into a more Pipe-centric production if you're already making a bunch.

[white dawn]

And in general my recommendation is to only build what you need right now. Overbuilding is rarely worth it. One other difference between this and Factorio is the alt recipes -- there's a lot of ways to make a single product, and it's more fun to be able to experiment with more of those as you go, in different situations. Centralizing a ton of production for one resource robs you of that fun. :)

(Not to mention the fact that if you centralize a bunch of production in one spot then you've introduced all the added complexity of getting those parts from A->B, whereas if you'd built 'em onsite (or at least right inline with the new production line) that complication goes away)

[woven zealot]

My girlfriend told me that in my sleep, I reacted to her coughing by saying “we have steam games on sale so good, they’ll make you cough your head off” when she asked what kind, I replied “really hard ones”

[bold valley]

The Sink I have unlocked, I pump the pipes now into them till my production has leveld out. I run 3 steel pipe productions, 2 are not powered down.
Again, factorio habit, since you always need more. Especially steel. So I thought 3 steel pipe and 3 steel beam productions would work. But now my truck station is completely full with pipes. So into the sink it goes.

[white dawn]

Yeah, you'll generally always need more here, too. It just tends to be a lot simpler overall to build more when you need it, instead of overbuilding earlier on. :D

[woven zealot]

Nobody gives a fuck about my fucking chungus life

[worn oar]

Nobody gives a fuck about my fucking chungus life

[mortal ginkgo]

I am gone for a while and this place is going Linkin' Park

[unique hazel]

i was locked out my computer from a bit locker and i fully wiped my pc is it possible to get my world save back ?

please i am gonna go crazy

[mortal ginkgo]

Were you saving your game in Steam Cloud?

[unique hazel]

how do i check it becuyase when i logged on it alst it says that there was an issue with the cloud save

and that some of the data that was saved wasnt saved n it set me back like 5 min of only walsking

currently on the gasme and doesnt say contunie

[mortal ginkgo]

It wont say "continue" until it syncs properly with Steam Cloud.

[unique hazel]

how do i sync it

[mortal ginkgo]

stay calm and check what the error saying etc

[unique hazel]

wdym the error

it says i ahve 25gb installed ijn the local drive

is that jsut the game?

[mortal ginkgo]

"there was an issue with the cloud save"

Check why

[unique hazel]

no this was before the reset

verifing the integraty of my files worked

i am no longer crying but dancing

[sudden current]

The dimension data for the buildings is different on official wiki than on Satisfactory Calculator. Does anybody know which data is more accurate?

[ornate saffron]

Wiki.gg is accurate

!wikisearch dimensional depot

[raven axle]

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

[sudden current]

I don't think it is actually. It says the Smelter is 5x10 but I'm pretty sure it's 6x9

I don't mean the dimensional depot. I mean the length/width data of the buildings.

But others seem accurate so idk.

[ornate saffron]

You mean the model sizes or there hitboxes?

[zenith pecan]

I'm so going to add more depots once I have ammo uploaded, iron plates still overrun even with my dedicated factory.

[sudden current]

I don't know. I guess maybe different sources are considering different things.

[ornate saffron]

There is three models for every machine in the game and the hitboxes are in flux as they are always optimizing. The three models are high detail low detail and low poly depending on how far you are from them. The wiki is largely community written by nerds who take pride in there work. If there is inconsistencies it is likely due to it not being updated since a change.

[kind hatch]

where can i bug report

[bold valley]

One last question before I leave you fellas alone for a a while. If I build a modular factory on the ore deposit or close by, I assume going up is better then moving in a 2D space, isn't it? Saves space and is easier to follow (first floor basic, second more advanced, third floor final product etc.)

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

You can send Questions, Feedback, Suggestions, and Bug Reports
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com
<3 @ornate saffron

[kind hatch]

ty

[ornate saffron]

Both are fine. Space is your greatest resource

[zenith pecan]

Space, I used a lot of that when processing uranium ore 🤣

[bold valley]

Could you drop the radioactive waste down into the end of the map if you find one deposit close enough?

[ornate saffron]

Yup, apparently things do not despawn when you do this. So if you do this often with things like trucks full of uranium it can cause performance issues

[unkempt blade]

this is why you should use factory carts, smaller inventory = less lag or something

[latent prawn]

personal preference, really... building horizontally tends to be easier to plan & layout

[unkempt blade]

I wouldn't worry too much about space. It's a pretty big map

[restive umbra]

I love building factories ❤️❤️

What if wasps could build a nest in your factory. That would suck

[white dawn]

For while during Update 8 Experimental (I think) there was a bug where hatchers would always respawn no matter what you did, even if their nests were in your factories. :)

[earnest condor]

Unless everyone gets their "farmville" update, then you would want the wasps.

[static turtle]

it sucks i think my coal mine is not reachable by ground

[earnest condor]

?

All nodes are in the ground, so how not reachable?

[restive umbra]

Only reachable by sea or air

[leaden turret]

pay to win facebook edition of satisfactory?

[leaden turret]

grass fields south coal node

[mortal ginkgo]

My brother lowkey gave away the fact that he hates humanity so much.

[restive umbra]

What if all buildables emitted a steady stream of wasps

[mortal ginkgo]

My brother hates all existence

[earnest condor]

Wasps are nature's pesticide. They eat everything you don't want on your crops.

Hornets are the evil 🤬ers.

[whole ermine]

After finishing my first factory in my megabase, im starting to realise its not so mega

[mortal ginkgo]

You need to make a more megaish base

[reef basin]

well, "megabase" doesn't really mean big, it means "all production in one place" 🙂

[jagged smelt]

Just slap a "Starter Base" sticker on it and make a bigger one.

[leaden turret]

-# satisfunktory; slap a starter bass

[karmic veldt]

I tried to soomersloop powerslugs, I had a purple a yellow and two blue, I did the purple first and learned that soomersloop apparently doesn't work for the first item you put in...

[mortal ginkgo]

big RIP, needs a restart, reset Windows, get a new home

there is no other way of recovering from such a loss

[karmic veldt]

Yeah i'm writting a letter for my family to find, i'm going to take a fresh start in Bangladesh

[latent prawn]

too much 504

[leaden turret]

bad gateway?

[hollow mountain]

where do you guys build your t9 item? like diamond and stuff

[white dawn]

Near nodes that are useful for it. :)

There's a lot of ways to make Diamonds

[normal trench]

In my nightmares

[hollow mountain]

there a place with a lot of coal but there's no space

[normal trench]

Then ship it to somewhere with space

Public transit

Or turn them into diamonds there and ship those

[white dawn]

I find it hard to believe that you've exhausted all spots on the map which have a lot of coal. Though even if you have, my initial statement stands: there's a lot of ways to make Diamonds.

Coal is not necessarily required

[normal trench]

Btw, at what point should you start to truly expand

[hard wolf]

build up

[hollow mountain]

require either coal or oil

[normal trench]

Im going to do it next phase and create a train line hitting all of the major spots in the grassy fields and connect that up to my building i have right now

It’s going to be a big project but I think I can do it

[white dawn]

Sure, so again: I do not believe that you've used up literally every spot on the map with "a lot" of either of those. :)

[hollow mountain]

i did not 😢

[white dawn]

So you've got a lot of spots to build in, then! Go follow that resource scanner. :)

[normal trench]

One pure node is 30GW too, so oil is not something you have to use for power only

[white dawn]

(I'm not trying to be coy with locations or whatever; for my own T9 parts I had factories all over the map. There's not one best spot for stuff in the game. There's just spots which happen to have what you need)

[normal trench]

Hey how do you like a image from another channel btw

I need to show smth

#screenshots

[unkempt blade]

the only exception being the giant hole over the void in the middle of the map which we all know is objectively the best place for a factory

[normal trench]

I can do that, how do you get it to go to a specific post

[white dawn]

When you mouseover the post, there's three dots in the upper right of the post; click that, choose "Copy Message Link" -- then paste that somewhere

[white dawn]

Heh, I, uh, may have built some factories in there in my day, yes. :P

On my last playthrough that's where I stuck my central storage, actually

[normal trench]

#screenshots message

Basically those groupings you see will have stations

I’ll actually do smth one sec

There, those are the groupings im planning on doing

[hard wolf]

@hollow mountain I really like pink diamonds but I got to the point where quartz was kind of a bottleneck (specifically for trying to build a no waste 2100 ore/m nuclear plant, depot mall, packaged ionized fuel factory, and make a bunch of BWD's), cloudy diamonds is nice but not as coal efficient, there's lots of oil on the map which makes oil/petrol diamonds kind of nice (oil/coke is 500/600 to 100 diamonds respectively, but if you also need plastic you can make use of the polymer resin byproduct of HOR from the petrol line), and turbo diamonds is kind of between pink and cloudy in coal efficiency but you (if you have to feed the resin to residual rubber to recycled plastic and will have a bit of resin overflow. it might be best to mix and match, but you've got options and should be able to find something that fits your needs without too much trouble

[white dawn]

I never did end up using Cloudy on my last playthrough

Every time I tried to fit it in somewhere there just wasn't enough limestone locally

[hollow mountain]

oh yeah i forgot about limestone there's a lot of it

[white dawn]

I actually love Turbo Diamonds; out of all the recipes it's my favorite. Definitely the most upfront "complexity" cost of all of 'em, though -- was kind of difficult to fit it in. :D

[hard wolf]

I started working in turbo diamonds over cloudy. theoretically it's nice, but I'd rather minimize coal usage. I'm really liking oil/petrol diamonds on paper, though, and am sure I could spare enough crude

[white dawn]

I think I used more Pink than anything else

Yeah, the map's oil reserves really make it lucrative

The Diamonds recipes are one of my favorite things about the v1.0 additions; IMO those recipes are really nicely balanced

[latent prawn]

2 sulfur -> 12 limestone

iirc, that's the cheapest conversion

[white dawn]

I was avoiding conversions at the time, though definitely a good idea.

At the end of the playthrough (after my Ficsonium buildout) I still had about 40% of the map's SAM left (without any RSAM slooping or similar shenanigans), so I'd've had the overhead for some conversions for sure. :P

[normal trench]

Holy, steel screws are incredible actually lol

[unkempt blade]

they're even better if you use aluminum beams with them!

[normal trench]

You just move around the steel beams and turn them into screws where you need them

[normal trench]

Aluminum?

[unkempt blade]

ya

[normal trench]

How do you get that

[mint cradle]

Ap test tmmrw kinda nervous

[mint cradle]

Phase 4

[unkempt blade]

hard drives

[normal trench]

Oh ok

Long way off from that

Im in phase two

Oh thats funny, my entire factory is alternates except for concrete production, no quick wire stators, and no iron pipes

I mean motors and steel beams dont have an alternate i can get right now

[unkempt blade]

it's 2026 just cheat with AI

[sick falcon]

there’s no way the elevated one got its own emote

[next ivy]

👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨

do not question the emoji

[sweet light]

Right...

[leaden turret]

#satisfactory-memes message

May 7th, 2026
Q&A: Is Jason proud of his contributions to the current state of the memes channel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKryiLLTHPA&t=41

No.

No, not at all.

[lapis knot]

[flat mantle]

??????

[native tapir]

Bro is a meme. He's doing great

[lapis knot]

What are all you pioneers up to this fine evening

[earnest condor]

Finished setting up Automated Wiring so now am going to log and take a nap while I think about next build 😄

[jagged swan]

planning a new big project cause I teared down the whole factory again as a new recipe got unlocked

[earnest condor]

40/min go brrrr

But it's Phase 2 so I need 10k 😄

[hard wolf]

imo: plan in modeler, find the recipes you like most, go find them, then build

[earnest condor]

Plan in Tools 😉

[jagged swan]

I used diuted fuel, now I got mixers

[hard wolf]

packaged diluted?

[jagged swan]

yeah

[hard wolf]

it's so much nicer xwx

[jagged swan]

I think I can get this to be a bit smaller with mixers: #design-and-architecture message

[earnest condor]

Main way to get things smaller is with power shards.

[jagged swan]

everything is sharded to max

on these screenshots

[earnest condor]

As it should be 💛

[lapis knot]

#screenshots message

Do I kill them or let them live?

They're on my roof and I don't like it

[hard wolf]

let them live or you're a monster :(

[lapis knot]

Alright

[hard wolf]

you could also just give them a bap so they run away, which is still deporable, but if they bother you that much :/

[lapis knot]

I don't think they can drop off the side of a roof though

[hard wolf]

temporary ramp?

[lapis knot]

I'll try that xd

[hard wolf]

the zapper should be enough

I don't like this suggestion, and I worry that it might hurt them, but pulse nobelisks?

[latent prawn]

bean on a tin roof

[hard wolf]

they're adorable and improve the vibe

[lapis knot]

I got them off with a ramp :p

[hard wolf]

^-^

[tired tusk]

How do I get my signs, when used as lights, to actually light up my machines?

[hard wolf]

signs seem to cast light better with global illumination enabled in settings. otherwise they don't do a whole lot

[tired tusk]

GI is on and set to high. Anytime I walk in to my factories they're pitch black. The signs reflect off of the coated concrete but nothing for the machines

[latent prawn]

i think there's a distance limit where past that the rendering of it turns off. I believe there's a console command to twiddle that distance

[tired tusk]

Thank you. I'll look into that to see if that helps

[lapis knot]

Hot news, they somehow got back on the roof again

I think they're respawning up there lmao

[normal trench]

So I just learned my mom went to high school with mark rober, apparently he was a senior while she was a freshman

So thats fun

[lapis knot]

Did he perform science experiments on her?

[normal trench]

lol not that I know of

[lapis knot]

Joking aside thats cool though xd

[normal trench]

Yeah, I have his prom photo now

I’ll have to take a photo of it

[lapis knot]

lmao you should dm him it and be like "Is this you?"

[normal trench]

That would be hilarious actually

Im making a bus to bring over like five inputs

It’s going pretty well

[lapis knot]

Nice xd

[cloud bramble]

Hey guys, does anyone want to make a new satisfacory save with me? im on steam, dm me if ur interested

[normal trench]

I got it made just got to hook inputs up

[normal trench]

Totally would but console

[cloud bramble]

awh man no worries

Im procrastinating on making oil fuel power cus coal aint gonna cut it anymore

I already got rubber, plastic and packaged fuel but I dont have enough power for a new computer factory

so I need more power from oil😭

[limpid inlet]

I hate the rainforest start

actual misery and despair start

[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

[dense violet]

best bet.

[cloud bramble]

ohh my bad

[subtle grove]

MFW the pump system can't move fluid vertically

https://tenor.com/bsirV.gif

[dense violet]

post some images in #math-and-meta or #1038092680493801533 with some clear overhead images of what you're trying to do if you're having issues. It's probably a very simple issue

[mortal coyote]

Is there a way to rotate foundations vertically in vanilla? I tried snapping to a rotate beam but foundations still remain flat

[dense violet]

foundations stay flat. Use thick pillars or slanted walls

[mortal coyote]

I am basically trying to do like a canopy / overhand effect, pillars are too thick for that

[dense violet]

slanted walls/roof pieces
or beams

[mortal coyote]

Yeah unfortunately walls are 4m, too long. I wish there was a half version of everything

[dense violet]

ok rows of beams

[rigid mist]

#screenshots message where should i put my rocket fuel generators

[quick hound]

get rotated idiot :>

[quick hound]

underground

[rigid mist]

no

[quick hound]

Okay then let’s say.. 50 walls high

In the sky

[rigid mist]

it is 720 metres tall

[quick hound]

Triple that

[dense violet]

in hell

[rigid mist]

i'll have two towers
now i have an idea how to decorate it actually

[robust wigeon]

please tell me your idea is not a plane

[quick hound]

WE HAD THE SAME IDEA HAHAHAHA

[dense violet]

yes, one of the big reasons to not do giant fuel power. They are giant and ugly

[rigid mist]

it involves identical towers

[quick hound]

Like me

[dense violet]

I have no information on that so I can neither confirm nor deny

[rigid mist]

it's only 655 generators

[dense violet]

yes, giant and ugly, thank you for agreeing with me

I'd rather just have 65 nuclear gens

[quick hound]

You need to quintuple that. Then it’ll be pretty.

[rigid mist]

it's 16 reactors per floor

also it's just so i can have enough power for my nuclear build

[quick hound]

MORE!

MORE POWERRRRR!!

[robust wigeon]

DMs

[indigo tapir]

Hey! Hello! im relative new to the game, im already doing like full fuel energy, and i already make a basic train, i have a question HOW i move resources around like just with the train or trowing big lines of convertor belts?

[quick hound]

MORE POLLUTION!!

[rigid mist]

(it'll take 105 gw)

[robust wigeon]

Oh yeah that’s more manageable, this one was 1080 iirc #screenshots message

[rigid mist]

nice
i'm trying to make mine look pretty

[quick hound]

Double it

[quick hound]

Too bad. Make more.

[robust wigeon]

I already did 😭

[quick hound]

DOUBLE IT AGAIN!

[robust wigeon]

Six times

[quick hound]

DOUBLE THAT!

MORE POLLUTION!

[robust wigeon]

😭

[quick hound]

MOREEEEEE

[robust wigeon]

I maxed out the whole nitrogen node for it

1800 nitrogen gas per minute

[dense violet]

you could start nuclear on coal power pretty easily. Just have some power storage

[robust wigeon]

All for rocket fuel

[quick hound]

THEN BRING MORE NITROGEN!

[quick hound]

NOW IONIZE IT!

[rigid mist]

did you read further down
it's 102 rods/min
105 gw

also it's a creative world so i have no power

[dense violet]

power storage

[robust wigeon]

I mean if you wanna join the server I did it on I can invite you

[dense violet]

1 geyser

[quick hound]

I’m on console haha

[rigid mist]

#screenshots message what do you think that is

[dense violet]

very easy
even with you creating extra problems for yourself slooping a bunch of crap, it's very doable

if that's power storage then your claims of doing RF to start nuclear are false

[quick hound]

Double and give it to the next person

[rigid mist]

ok now you're getting annoying

[quick hound]

I like circles. It makes the ores dizzy before they go to get pulverized and melted down.

[dense violet]

points out inconsistencies in what people are saying 'why are you so annoying!?!'

[rigid mist]

huh

[dense violet]

make more sense and people will point out issues less frequently

[quick hound]

Why do you like circles?

[dense violet]

gravity

[quick hound]

Elaborate, please.

[dense violet]

just gravity 🙂

[rigid mist]

i also just felt like it cause it would look cool

[restive umbra]

I also like circles

RF power 🤤

[rigid mist]

you are tau, the circumfrence of the unit circle

[quick hound]

Duodechedron superior

[restive umbra]

disdyakistricontahedron >

[quick hound]

I would love to build centrifuges

[earnest condor]

Blenders?

[weak pulsar]

I'm building my world with individual factories, but it's getting really complicated, and I'm starting to think about building a mega-factory. What do you recommend? Should I build it as a scalable system?

[quick hound]

No, a centrifuge to stuff lizard doggos in

[quick hound]

Yes. Bigger is better. (That’s what she said)

[indigo orchid]

im having some trouble setting up my first steel factory, im not havign any trouble with logistics but this is the first time in the game for me that resources are super far apart, should i just belt a line of iron and coal to a central area from far away? sounds kinda tedious to belt far away to a central point

[quick hound]

Embed fail!

[indigo orchid]

no embed

[earnest condor]

I'd settle for them dropping Lizard Remains so I can get my DNA points.

[earnest condor]

What starting biome are you in?

[indigo orchid]

top left, that little crevice with a ton of pure copper/iron/stone nodes and other side is easy setup for coal/steam

I dont have any coal close left tho

[earnest condor]

Ok. Let me give you the options:

• Grassy Fields
• Rocky Desert
• Northern Forest
• Dune Desert

What starting biome are you in?

[indigo orchid]

im not in a starting biome in desert canyons lol

[earnest condor]

So you dropped in and walked for a good 5 minutes just to get out of the biome on purpose?

[indigo orchid]

yeah pretty much

did lizard doggo cave strat

[earnest condor]

Which one did you start in?

[indigo orchid]

grassy fields

I just like exploring lol

[earnest condor]

I have no idea what this means.

Do you have a map screenshot you can put in #screenshots?

[indigo orchid]

Free blade runners and xeno basher in a cave at the left of the map

[indigo orchid]

#screenshots message

thats where im situated

[unkempt blade]

Those are a trap. They try to borgify you in your sleep

[indigo orchid]

True

[indigo orchid]

I need help setting up a steel factory for the first time lol

[unkempt blade]

you'll do great, we all believe in you

[indigo orchid]

true

[restive umbra]

Make it first, then make it good

Make as many mistakes as quickly as you can

[unkempt blade]

start with the factory carts and work outward

[indigo orchid]

very helpful discord i see

[earnest condor]

You have one of the best steel locations right there.

[indigo orchid]

lol

Im using it as my main setup tho

I guess i could just scrap it all and make it a steel factory

[earnest condor]

You're using 1 pure iron by 4 coals as your main not-steel setup?

Genuinely asking, not judging.

[indigo orchid]

Oh that down there

[earnest condor]

Yes.

[manic frost]

Any reason my pipes won’t load (showing the liquid in it) just like a buffering thingy

[earnest condor]

Iron node + copper node = Iron Alloy Ingot -> Solid Steel Ingot = craploads.
Excess coal nodes for power.

[placid stirrup]

There are few situations where I would tear down a factory to make a different one

[indigo orchid]

Im not right there im in the middle with the stone and copper and stuff, but yes it looks very easy but the terrain there makes it difficult i just asked a simple question

[earnest condor]

Terrain making it difficult to build the location or something else?

[indigo orchid]

yes very

[placid stirrup]

And 80% of those situations would be because I think it's an eyesore

[indigo orchid]

i just asked should i belt in coal and iron from far away

seems tedious

[unkempt blade]

build a ramp

[earnest condor]

Start at the level of the raised copper node and just make the platform out from there.
Build steel on-site. No need to belt anything far.

[indigo orchid]

i think ill just try this honestly even tho the height differences of the nodes suck

whatever

ty

[placid stirrup]

You can make a silo or some other kind of tower to hide the logistics in

[manic frost]

So if putting crude oil in refinery making plastic with by product of oil residue why is my output pipes saying crude oil 😭 the by product in staying in the refinery

[placid stirrup]

Wat

[manic frost]

Let me send clip

[placid stirrup]

Oh, got it. Because you've connected crude oil to your HOR output manifold somewhere.

[latent prawn]

when a pipe first has a liquid input into it, it becomes exclusive to that liquid. I'd guess you had that pipe connected to the crude pipe for a brief moment. just flush the pipe and see what happens

[spare coral]

hi someone wants to play?

[sick falcon]

isnt there a way to get a jetpack early

[spare coral]

nop

[manic frost]

Got it, I changed the production line before I started all the refineries so I had oil in my pipes that were supposed to be HOR

[spare coral]

want to play?

[sick falcon]

#1201555265942724758

[indigo orchid]

Actually helpful, ty i was struggling with figuring out what to do on how to move items together

[thick cave]

e

[hollow turret]

yes but rare to get

[earnest condor]

Run into Johnny.

Who had a 1/1000 spawn chance per Alpha. So yeah, rare.

[surreal flame]

every time I place a blueprint down where I want it.. I see all the materials just flying off randomly to what appears to be the center of the map.. and I dont have it placed where I wanted it, and all materials are gone from my inventory. any ideas what is causing this ?

[earnest condor]

Are you on Exp?

[surreal flame]

no

[earnest condor]

Mods?

[surreal flame]

no mods :(

[earnest condor]

Multiplayer?

[surreal flame]

yes

[earnest condor]

Bingo.

[surreal flame]

yea kinda sounds like you just randomly pulled that out of the hat. LOL

blueprints just dont work in multiplayer ?

[earnest condor]

Randomly?
Good sir! I protest thine accusation.

Most issues can be attributed to one of the 2 M's.
I just asked Exp first because that would be a new one for the current testing cycle.

[surreal flame]

I see

[earnest condor]

And I would not say they just flatout don't work.
Just have more options where they can behave screwy in MP.

[surreal flame]

no youtube videos at all mentioned blueprints not working in multi.. and I've even seen some with it working

[earnest condor]

May need to log out/back in to see if fix?

Trusting YT for this game is a... choice 🤔

[surreal flame]

ok...

[glacial totem]

I need to run 90 screws to one manufacturer and 120 to another, should I have them on separate belts or if I merge then split will each manufacturer only take what they need and there won't be a supply issue?

[earnest condor]

Merge and single splitter.

Can make it stabilize faster with a smart splitter if you have those unlocked.

[glacial totem]

I have smart splitters

how do you do that I've only used them for overflow to awesome sinks

[sick falcon]

i thought he was a fixed spawn somewhere

[earnest condor]

Set the side going to the 90 to "Screws" and the other side to "Overflow".
It will fill the 90 side pretty fast and then the rest automatically shifts.

Faster stabilizing than if you just even split and wait for 90 to fill.

[glacial totem]

cool I'll do that

[earnest condor]

Nope. He has a 1/1000 chance every time the game spawns an alpha.
And alphas that get spawned don't "despawn" when you move away so the only way to really try to get him is by killing every alpha hog on the map every couple in-game days.

[latent prawn]

thought that bug was fixed, but what's happening is your bp is manifesting in a blueprint machine you have somewhere

[glacial totem]

thanks

[earnest condor]

I use smarts and poggers more than I use regular splitters 😄

So much so that I don't even have regular splitter bound to my hotbar anymore 😂

[lusty turret]

Question...im building my first rail network, i have a nice pillar blueprint that is 3 foundations wide, im using double tracks so each track is centered on a foundation with an empty between. My question is what do i do at the end of the line? Do i just put a gigantic loop at the end? How do i handle this?

[earnest condor]

Describe what you mean by "end of the line"?

[placid stirrup]

Sometimes I get lazy with it just because the map is so big and diverse. Lifts everywhere

[latent prawn]

when you eventually loop around, you won't have loose ends. until then, the bufferstop 🙂

[lusty turret]

So im building East to west line that spans the entire map, and then i was going to put t intersections off of it to run to different factories, but like do i need to put a turn around at the end of the main line? I dont want to use dual headed trains

i guess its really not neccesary as long as my trains can always turn both left and right when they re enter the main line

[earnest condor]

Is this rail strictly going E->W or do you eventually see it circling the map?

[latent prawn]

yeah, a turn-around at each end is the way

[earnest condor]

Building you something real quick.

[latent prawn]

typically, you'll end up having those at pretty much every station

[lapis knot]

Duel headed trains arn't too bad though xd

[earnest condor]

I can has built thing depending on your answer @lusty turret

[lusty turret]

Okay, my other question is when i split off the main line, i want to maintain dual tracks right? Lets say im splitting off the main line to a factory, i run two lines in off the main line with a t-junction, one station one one side for load, one on the other for unload?

[lusty turret]

I was picturing it just as East to West main artery with branches splitting off

[lapis knot]

Use quad tracks around the map

It's easier later for loads in general so you'll have 2 going either way

[earnest condor]

For now, yes. I'm asking if you have any plan ever to make it loop the full map if you get that far into building stuff out?

[sick falcon]

lwk faster to just progress to the jetpack normally 😭

[earnest condor]

Usually, yes. 😄

[lusty turret]

Im not sure tbh, that was my initial plan, but then i read that its sortof a waste to do a full loop around the whole map

like originally i was just going to make a huge rail line around the entire map following the coast

[earnest condor]

It's not a waste if you're actually doing things all around the map. 🤷‍♂️

[lapis knot]

A full loop isn't a waste, depends on how much you're planning to expand though, even then you could do a full loop around the edge of a biome just makes the flow better with trains

[earnest condor]

The only time map-wide loops are wasteful is when you build them prior to having any factories in mind.
Logistics should evolve to your needs, not force you to build in certain spots "because already has train there."

Which is why the design I put in #screenshots works "for now" while also leaving it open to expansion quite easily.

[worn oar]

Make a map-wide rollercoaster :D

[lusty turret]

thats perfect, ty

[latent prawn]

typically what i do, since i know generally where the rails are going to end up is expand my rail to get to the next stuff i need to transport when i need it - defers a lot of the building until later

[earnest condor]

@lapis knot Turbo Ammo go brrrrr.

[abstract heron]

yay

19,602 hrs on record

[worn oar]

o.O

[abstract heron]

eww 27C weather eww

[lapis knot]

You need to craft more cooling systems for that weather

[abstract heron]

meaning at 27C i can't play i don't think IRL to hot

[severe tendon]

Is anyone who is experienced willing to help me set up a turbofuel power tomorrow?

NAE

Im down to figure it out myself and have already written down what I think I need but we all know how that goes lol so if someone is willing to help me find how im inevitably messing something up. Let me know.

Again. NAE, so tomorrow sometime

[flat wedge]

Yo I can help tmrw after like 4:30

[severe tendon]

Thanks man. Ill dm you

[flat wedge]

Alr

[latent prawn]

the default tf recipe is just fuel and compacted coal, pretty easy. heavy tf is even simpler. blended tf is a little more involved.

[proud tinsel]

Yooooo my first pure node was coal lol luckkyyy

Ans was also my first coal node

[serene jolt]

Uhh… random nodes? Or unfortunate factory placement?

[oblique cape]

I don't remember there being anything under the manufacturer

[earnest condor]

Under? 👀

[oblique cape]

Yeah, theres something sticking out of the bottom of it

[lapis knot]

Oh node!

[oblique cape]

put a pic of it in the screenshot channel

[earnest condor]

👀

[latent prawn]

its the platter that stuff is assembled upon in its machine animation. kinda clips through a foundation when in a resting state

[oblique cape]

ah, id just never seen that before

[quick hound]

I am currently throwing nobelisks onto the space bug tick thing giraffe. I’ve thrown over 400 now

There is a nuke bomb in its skull

I KILLED IT?

Well I’ll leave a crator on the planet with bombs.

[hard wolf]

blocked

[quick hound]

LMAO

[static turtle]

i found some coal finaally on the ground

[quick hound]

Okay. I’ve throw 800 nobelisks onto the space the ground, 200 nukes and 300 pulse ones

And it crashed my game

Today I learned that it takes 287 nobelisks to kill a lizard doggo without blowing it up.

On my serious save I finished a factory that produces 280 singularity cells every minute! And that’s when I decided to perform some.. totally legal tests involving bombs.

[outer scarab]

Anyone know if you can run additional mods and then join a server that isnt running those mods? I feel like some one came in and made like 100 Hard Drives

[hasty frigate]

afaik the joining players need to have the exact same version and mods as the host / server. So no. They could have used a dupe glitch to create the hdds tho

[dreamy pier]

what does temp mean when hovering over an ore node on the map?

i looked it up and didnt see anything

[cursive topaz]

could just mean one of those temporary ore deposets on top of the node

other than that i am not sure

[dreamy pier]

thanks

[sterile blade]

Make a note of it, possibly on the QA site...
That's not supposed to happen ^^

[cursive topaz]

see im dumb

[sterile blade]

Small ore clumps should show the same "press E to interact" text as normal nodes, but the "temp" text refers to some old bug iirc (something about having a prompt to collect things that can't be collected anymore...)

[spice patio]

Cluster of nodes.

[spice patio]

When close, you see individual nodes with purities shown properly.
When far, you see node cluster symbol with that "Temp" (Temporary, since forever) purity.
And as additional bug, at intermediate range you see both...

[spice patio]

Been like that since the node scanning and map were changed.
CSS hasn't bothered to think a proper string for node purity of node cluster listing.
Just put in there a Temp(orary string) when they made the change and never fixed it to something proper like "Cluster".

So since Update 6 in summer 2022.

[abstract heron]

i am thinking how do i play the game in summer when its already so hot

[spice patio]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/66ea84a5772a987f4a8b90df

[hard wolf]

hook dryer tubes up to the output fans of your computer (though the plastic bendy straw esque tubes are probably better since you don't wanna risk shorting anything out), and output that through the nearest window

[abstract heron]

i am thinking going to do just having fans

[hard wolf]

at least look out for small window/floor AC units on sale in the meantime. they help a lot xwx

[sterile blade]

<@&370483737957236737> wave of spam on the QA site (search for "Telegram")

[quick hound]

Eat ice

[quick hound]

Leo! You’re just a small cat! Nyehehehehehehehe

[abstract heron]

its going to go heat mode IRL soonish i hae monday as my temp 27C thats way to hot to play unles si cool it down

[raven axle]

Satisfactory Questions

You can send Questions, Feedback, Suggestions, and Bug Reports
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com
<3 @abstract heron

[quick hound]

Place dry ice on the top of your case

[proud tinsel]

Guys to replace a wire with pole

It keeps saying invalid aim

But i see people of videos do it

[hard wolf]

are you aiming the pole at the wire?

[abstract heron]

Thats why i have to do a summer of not playing as much only 5 min during the day and on cool Mornings

[proud tinsel]

Ye

What should i do

OMG IT FEELS SOOO GUD. It took me like 5 hours to finish my 600w coal power factory cuz as iam soooo fkn dump i deleted my exsiting bio power factory thinking i had enough...

guess whaT?

I DIDN'T...

Now i got a perfect power factory so who cares lols i only use 300 i got 600 hehe

[quick hound]

How it chews 5 gum feel

How chew gum 5 it feels

Chew how feels 5 it gum

Gum chew feels it 5 how

[abstract heron]

And it’s also like I want to play the game but I don’t want my irl space to become like a oven during playing satisfactory and for sleeping

[cursive crane]

As someone who lives in a small apartment with a crappy ac unit

Frame limit way down, resolution as low as bearable

[leaden turret]

I used to live in a place where I had to tape a face towel over the window so there'd be airflow for the hot air to escape but moths wouldn't be able to fly in

[lean saddle]

btw anybody know why there isn't a blueprints channel?

[normal orbit]

cuz sharing blueprints is against the rules

[true mulch]

It would be an unfilterable mess

External sites do a much better job at presentation and filtering

Still, I think using external blueprints kinda defeats the point of the game

[lean saddle]

was it really that much of a problem?

[lean saddle]

was just curious that's all

[normal orbit]

it would become an attack vector for hackers. so yes, no sharing.

[spare barn]

are the conveyor throughput monitors useless af or do they balance out in 3 business days?

it's been 30 minutes the number stil changes like crazy

[lean saddle]

attack vector? isn't it just json or something?

[true mulch]

Imo the filtering is just as much of an issue as potential security issues

[normal orbit]

they only show an average over 1 minute

[true mulch]

It's possible that a maliciously crafted save file or blueprint will cause buffer overflow or something similar and execute code inside the rest of the file

The loading system isn't designed to be secure, it's designed to pretty much only load what the game expects

[lean saddle]

i can understand save files could but blueprints?

[true mulch]

Same principle

[lean saddle]

ah they are binary files yeah makes sense

i expected they where json files that just saves the structure along with data like recipe and coordinates
turns out i was wrong

[native tapir]

They also seem to accumulate a lot of junk data over time.

Case in point, you can optimize a big save by megaprinting all of your structures into a clean save via SCIM. It'll run ten times smoother

[mortal coyote]

Is there a way to set a train / truck to only unload specific type of item?

[leaden turret]

only fill it with one type of item

[copper laurel]

I just wanted to answer a question in Screenshots and my message got deleted twice in a row could there be a bot that scans for potential swear words in multiple languages and it thought I did something like that

[leaden turret]

can't post text-only messages in #screenshots

[copper laurel]

Ah thanks

[tall lantern]

and this is why that channel is bad for asking questions

[leaden turret]

@sick crane there is no snail because escargone they be slugs. probably in a cave.

also #1038092680493801533

[sick crane]

Oh slug

okay

[torpid estuary]

so, I finished the game without using a single train and all I get left is the two train achievements. Where do you guys propose I open my 5km railroad?

[cursive crane]

Bottom left to top right?

Or just find a place you need to move a ton of resources

Tbh you dont even need a long one, could get it just by placing and removing the same segment

[dense violet]

make your own projects and use rail for them. the milestones are basicall ya tutorial

[jaunty jewel]

5km isnt as far as you thibk

[unkempt blade]

A double spiral in the hole over the void in the middle of the map. Station at the top and bottom of "not quite the death box" and a loop route between them

[torpid estuary]

oh that's a good idea

[heady arrow]

I got that achievement accidentally just by running double track from west coast to grass fields, it's true it's really not that far

[quiet mortar]

Satisfactory

[unkempt blade]

yeah most of the achievements are just participation trophies you'll get while finishing the game but that's a good level for a sandbox-y game

[restive meteor]

I am having a lot of problems setting my tractor route so that I can have the tractor on autopilot. I ahve seen reference to being able to drive and record the route - at the moment I am having to walk it and lay it from the Q menu. However I cannot find how I am able to record the route. All the videos I have seen are a couple of years old. Does this still exist as an option?

[worn oar]

Make a rollercoaster in the spire coast

[worn oar]

It exists in 1.1 but not in 1.2

[versed mesa]

Id love to beable to build roller coaster lol

Specially part of a factory

[torpid estuary]

I wish I could place tracks upside down

and sideways

[young hound]

is using drones to transport drone fuels ideal

[torpid estuary]

I think everyone does that

[normal orbit]

think most of us make a fuel distribution hub for drones

[fiery root]

I wish i could make a use outta them xenos on our planet

[sterile blade]

Read a channel's description before posting in it 😉

[restive umbra]

nobody reads anything

not pins, not rules, not announcements and certainly not channel descriptions

sometimes not even literally the previous message

[restive umbra]

depends on your ideals

[earnest condor]

I mean, why read when there are really only 4 words that matter?

||The factory must grow.||

[restive umbra]

good heavens look at the time!

It's time to expand the factory

[sick falcon]

100% unless you're bringing all your drones to one spot

[fiery root]

ADA would be proud of you

[restive umbra]

Satisfactory Cookbook that's just an MRE catalog

[worn oar]

The factory must shrink to meet the demands of the increasingly efficient factory.

[quick verge]

Yo everyone

Have you ever managed to crash your computer by doing something extreme in Satisfactory? I'll start. You know that swamp area with the fog and the spiders… lots of spiders and this was when I didn't know there was a way to change the creatures' behavior, so they were still aggressive… I started flying and planting 500 nukes… yeah… my computer didn't appreciate it, but screw those damn spiders.

[fiery root]

The planet must grow so the rising demands of the factory can be matched

[worn oar]

The only way I've made the game crash is through modding.

Or updating my GPU drivers and forgetting to reboot

[quick verge]

Yea I forget this some time too

[worn oar]

The devs should add a lamborghini huracan to the game to help us get around quicker. Thoughts?

[restive umbra]

We should be able to ride in the particle accelerators

[twin parcel]

#screenshots message

had to build a grave

[twin parcel]

offroading sucks , explorer handling still sucks

[ornate saffron]

I plan to run a train line through them

[mortal ginkgo]

Guys. My 8 doggos aint giving much slugs lately. They be slacking on slug department.

What is the solution for such peculiar situation?

[ornate saffron]

Maybe they eating them

[mortal ginkgo]

But I properly and protectively caged them inside a building, even gave them green light.

Are you saying they might be doing a MAJOR BETRAYAL?!

[sweet light]

• C O N S U M E - S L U G S -

[latent prawn]

give them more berries

[mortal ginkgo]

Here is a previous explanation I made long ago, named "Berry Incident". Please read whenever you want:

"Lizard Doggos even when tamed, can go after Berries on the ground and nom nom them. It is just a cute thing that provides nothing but providing happiness for their silliness.

Here is an interesting story though: I have 7 lizard doggos caged fully and I had Berries as decoration fairly far away from them, on a table with various other consumables.

I went away for a while and later on I saw the berries were actually gone. I thought for some reason berries dropped on ground or something but no, other items were there.

So I tested something: Put a berry REALLY height up with no way of reaching for Doggos. And guess what happened; after I went far away and come back, berries were GONE!

Conclusion: When building items are not visible or present in game, Doggos defy Z movement or any collision. So when nothing is rendered, their "nomnom" logic still works regardless of any collision or Z Axis."

So they OWE me berries.

[latent prawn]

they want more and decided to go on strike without telling you

[ornate saffron]

Caged with yummy sluggo

[mortal ginkgo]

After ALL the things I didnt do for them? Wow.

[mortal ginkgo]

Gosh darn.

[elder reef]

Is there any way to smart split items coming out of containers

i wanna use trucks but i cannot drop more then 1 type of mat off per location?

[earnest condor]

With a smart splitter?

You can drop as many items types as you want at 1 location.

[elder reef]

hmmm

clogs

[earnest condor]

Smart splitter?

MAM -> Caterium tree.

[elder reef]

also when i trying to fuel my truck it just fills the station with whatever item it has or loads with coal

[earnest condor]

🤔

[worn oar]

There is a separate fuel port

[elder reef]

i might just be stupid

just gonna spaghetti my whole world

my brain is melting

[worn oar]

Yes. The spaghetti must flow.

Oh, you think the spaghetti is your ally, but you merely adopted that pasta. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light of a well-planned factory until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but blinding! The spaghetti betrays you, because it belongs to me. I will show you where I have made my noodles, whilst preparing to bring elevator parts. Then, I will break you. Your precious factory, gratefully spaghettified.

[patent olive]

where can I see my unlocked alternate recipes?

[earnest condor]

Codex.

[patent olive]

I mean, is there a place I can see a list of unlocked recipes, not see them sorted by product in the product's codex

[earnest condor]

Satisfactory Map website.

If you upload your save file.

[twin parcel]

what is the height of mk3 bp ? six 4m foundations?

[frozen ingot]

12 i think

oh, yeah

no, it's 12 isn't it?

6x6x8m floorprint

[earnest condor]

48m

[twin parcel]

12 foundations of 4m ?

[earnest condor]

mk1 is 32x32x32
mk2 is 40x40x40
mk3 is 48x48x48

[earnest condor]

However you want to split 48m is correct and up to you.

[brisk bone]

When is 1.2 dropping fully ?

[white dawn]

No date has been announced yet

[reef basin]

when it's ready

[twin parcel]

im planning to fit 8 overclocked refineries and 1 overclocked constructor for copper powder ,

[brisk bone]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-ishowspeed-speed-stream-ishowspeed-stream-speed-nod-gif-1082323842437565509

[abstract heron]

it like i wanna play might not have to in summer

[twin parcel]

me looking at exp 1.2 bugs , it will take a while . trucks behaves weirdly , the truck's hitbox does not sync with the truck's excact location, so u end up hit an invisilbe wall which is the truck hitbox and u can somehow acces the trucks inventory eventhough the truck is at somewhere else .

and if u press e and acces inventory , u end up teleported to the trucks current location and the hitbox finally sync , lol .

does this bug affect the trucks function ? no , but its annoying if ur driving an explorer on a highway and u end up hitting invisible walls(trucks's hitbox)

[earnest condor]

Weird, I have never heard any of these nor experienced them and I am an extensive truck user 👀

[fiery root]

Fellas, ever tried taking a longer micro break from the factory than allowed?

[mortal ginkgo]

in 2 hours

[elder reef]

i have a few things to ask. first i fell in the water and when i try and jump out the stupid build tools pops up and stutters my game. 2nd HOW DO I MAKE CONVEYER LIFTS ALL THE SAME LENGTH

im losing my mind

[abstract heron]

i lvoe this game but having IRL heat and feeling like a oven uh no

[abstract heron]

the devs not said anything yet so i think its waiting game still

[mortal ginkgo]

no it is in exactly 2 hours you can trust me

[abstract heron]

also 🙁

[white dawn]

v1.2 is not releasing today

[abstract heron]

The devs would have said something

[earnest condor]

2. By building their attachment points first then building the lifts?

[abstract heron]

its like 1.2 When its ready it will come

[mortal ginkgo]

No. In EXACTLY 2 hours. No more, no less.

[abstract heron]

huh

you are joking the Mikael or jason would said something

[mortal ginkgo]

GOD FOR SAKEN LANDS OF ALL CENTURIES OF COURSE I AM JOKING

Gosh DARN brotherman

[fiery root]

Why do we have to make such horrible pipe and conveyor lines for coal generators?
Why not just put the inputs at other places

[mortal ginkgo]

huh..?

you can send them from above, from below, anyway you like

[unkempt blade]

don't worry fluids in 1.2 are going to be even more perfect than they already are

[latent prawn]

if only coal and nuclear generators had a built in fluid truck port, right?

...actually kind of a cool idea for a mod

[unkempt blade]

yeah that would be amazing... or cart port even

fluid carts when?!?!

[latent prawn]

after you sink your golden cart

[unkempt blade]

it just have me a stupid cyberwagon when I did that 🙁

[latent prawn]

does that unlock the toaster too?

[unkempt blade]

it's more of a dumpster with oversized wheels instead of casters

[latent prawn]

i miss the old wagon

[unkempt blade]

I agree, the radio flyer was peak wagon

[latent prawn]

wasn't that a sled? nah that was flexible flyer

same era

anyway, sleds. that convinces me that game needs ice biome

[deft bay]

Hi here, do you know if it's possible to change the color of the light on building (when lacking power, recipe or resources) ? Because I have some difficulties to see the difference between yellow and green.

[ornate saffron]

I do too

[twin parcel]

anyone knows the formula to calculate drone throughput?

[normal orbit]

Why bother. Just build the ports

The game will tell you

[ornate saffron]

From far east side of the swamp to the big hole in the plains and back is 7units of rocket fuel if that helps

(This is from memory. I can check after work)

[twin parcel]

well the drone supposed to supply 600 uranium /min , it says 5.14 mins

not sure how to calculate from there

[normal orbit]

Set it up. You'll get an actual number

[ornate saffron]

Pre fill a buffer on both ends and see if it empties quicker then you fill it.

[normal orbit]

Drone ports give you items/min as well as stacks/min

And fuel use

[toxic lichen]

do blueprints carry over to other saves?

i cant remember

[normal orbit]

No, but you can just copy files between saves

[viral tendon]

Uhh why isn't my train docking

[normal orbit]

Looking like the platforms are empty so no reason to dock. Nothing to load or unload

[latent prawn]

you can't really push that much ore through a drone

they cap out at 200-300/min

[white dawn]

(You can always add more drone ports, though, of course. And you can maximize throughput between a drone port pair by having a drone assigned on both ends and have them criss-cross each other)

[honest hawk]

Hi erm i currently make 333 turbo fuel per min for power should i use those 333 turbo fuel for rocket fuel or just make a new rocket fuel farm

[white dawn]

(just make sure you're buffering the output properly so that a drone doesn't get stuck making its delivery)

[latent prawn]

yeah, you can double up on the drones going between two ports which gives you more, but realistically 200/min for any 100-stack item is likely what you'll see from each drone

[earnest condor]

This game has farming 👀

[latent prawn]

where i've been able to achieve 300/min is when i've been fetching the uranium in rocky desert off the spire and shipping it to a port at the base

their vertical speed is faster and it's kind of cheating 🙂

[normal orbit]

the landing/take off sequence is usually vast majority of the flight time :p

[latent prawn]

not if you use them right. they excel as transport when the trip distance is larger

[normal orbit]

the drone also kinda trains itself on that, so after 10 trips or so, it often gets a bit faster

[latent prawn]

moreso, they are able to tune their trips better based on running averages. kind of similar to how tcp flow control auto-tunes its speed

[normal orbit]

seems to only be the landing/take off

not actual flight time

was testing it when i thought wiki speed was wrong, and in the middle of me timing it, it was just landing like 10 seconds quicker

[latent prawn]

i haven't scienced it in great detail, but i kinda know what they're doing already

in RL i've debugged a lot of realworld networking weirdness and it actually is pretty similar

packetized delivery and feedback

[chrome whale]

Why does the game crash if you turn off the monitor? I haven't seen that by any game in the last 10 years

[merry rapids]

Why turn off the screen while game is on?🤣

[true mulch]

probably a GPU driver issue, make a #1038092680493801533 post with the crash reporter log and your PC specs

[chrome whale]

Cause you're having a break, doing something else and intend to continue after that?

[merry rapids]

Alright. True

[earnest condor]

Monitors turn off?

[normal orbit]

If you push power button :)

[sick falcon]

is thyere any way to get a world file if im not the owner

[leaden turret]

ask the owner

[unkempt blade]

all I know is those sleds were much safer to ride down a hill than the wagons were

[granite quarry]

Wow, i finished the game with spaghetti

[latent prawn]

when i was younger, we had a 1/4 mile sloped slate walkway that often iced up after being cleared and used to take runs down it after the snowfalls. many people got hurt, lol

[granite quarry]

I’m surprised only 5.8% achieved finish game in steam

[latent prawn]

big game, not many people have the mindset for it all. DSP is even worse, having something like less than 50% getting to red science

[white dawn]

The "real" number's potentially higher than that, since the game spent like 5-6 years in EA with no achievements. You'd probably want to use the most-unlocked achievement as your base for how many people have played since v1.0, and compare based on that

[latent prawn]

red science in that game is kind of like phase 2 for this one

[granite quarry]

I was about to give up in phase 4 after see how complex to make 1 Super Computer

[white dawn]

Though yeah, not everyone's gonna have the patience/drive to get all the way through the game

It can be a lot, especially if the game ends up not being For You, so to speak

[granite quarry]

I just bought this game 2 weeks ago, i was really lost in first 2 hours, but after i got to do the water, i’m really locked in

[worn oar]

Why surprised? The game can take hundreds of hours to complete the first time, since you don't know what you are doing. And you have to actually enjoy the building process for it not to become tedious in or before phase 4. And not everyone likes exploration.

I have 587 hours and have not made it past phase 3 without cheating or using mods that make the game easier.

[granite quarry]

My only “ wanna alt f4 “ is everytime i died, the dropped so far away or under somewhere im lazy want to go back there :)))

[sterile blade]

I think the kind of game impacts also in another way: it's not the kind of game that is easy to judge in just a couple hours, so I reckon quite a few people miss the refund window

[normal orbit]

Could just turn off death crates then :p

[granite quarry]

And those green spider …

[granite quarry]

Wait, we can do that ?

[normal orbit]

Yes

[granite quarry]

I don’t see it in advance setting server

[normal orbit]

Never looked in settings? :p

[granite quarry]

Only to low down everything but music :)))

[normal orbit]

It's not an advanced setting

It's under gameplay

[granite quarry]

So it in setting ?

Gonna restart my game, gonna looking to it, that will be a great game changing for me

I still wonder how everyone can build the platform so high

Does it need the beam support to hold platform ?

[normal orbit]

No

[granite quarry]

So i can just vertical build 1 wall to very high and put platform on it right ?

[normal orbit]

you can build floating platforms if you like

[granite quarry]

Cool cool

I was think if i can do that, i will just gather all mine to 1 platform

And make product chain, will be look better than spaghetti

Ty ty, gonna make new server and try out

[twin parcel]

yes im the 8% who finished phase 4 , on my way to phase 5. i can why its hard to complete the game

[granite quarry]

Phase 5 i found pretty easy

Can just build those quantum in dune desert, it have 2 caterium mine and a ton of coal to make diamond here

[twin parcel]

yeah my goal is getting the golden nut , so im taking my time .

[twin parcel]

eh i used oil diamonds

[granite quarry]

Ohhh, there oil next to the dune too

And under it i think, with 4 SAM node around it

I only have to swap parachute to jet pack a lot to travel

I build my 30 Nuclear in the west sea :)))

Dimension depot and drone work so good in this game

[lime yacht]

Me: I need to lay more foundations surrounding the map lol

[rich harbor]

Rq question like i never seen that item in my life idk what it is can someone help me out check out screenshots

[rich harbor]

Wrong screenshot mb (fixed)

[lime yacht]

I live in a void of foundations

[leaden turret]

-# you're describing a basement

[lime yacht]

there is no light in this void no exit

[leaden turret]

-# you're describing a basement with the lights off and door closed

[worn oar]

Be the ceiling light you wish to see in the world

[leaden turret]

-# ceiling light is watching you illuminate

[lime yacht]

lol but for real I am just laying foundations at work as a time waster

[gusty epoch]

I bet this has been asked a billion times: Is there ever going to be a new map? 😛

I know its handcraftet and a lot of work. But id pay for it for sure

[worn oar]

I doubt it considering this one apparently took 7 years

[leaden turret]

February 17th, 2026
Q&A: How are the discussions about a new Map?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIZ1lNhW0Fw&t=71

No new map in the foreseeable future.

I mean, we know you want it, and honestly, even we guys would happily want it.

Making a quality map, as you can imagine, is a Herculean task, and if the time is ready for that sometime,

then...

Yeah, yeah.

[gusty epoch]

That was not only the map though

Ha! Yes I can imagine you guys combing every fern leaf so it looks perfect

[chilly nova]

we need a better way to transport lizzard doggos

[lime yacht]

Lizzard Doggo sleigh

Leash them up and let them pull you around, the more doggos the faster you go

[whole robin]

Should 240 aluminum sheets uploaded per minute enough to get me to the next phase?

[rigid wedge]

Flip a coin

[whole robin]

Why?

[rigid wedge]

Answer is gonna be as accurate as anything someone is gonna tell you

[restive umbra]

Without knowing anything else about your playthrough, including the phase you're currently on: Yes, definitely

As long as you have 240 sheets uploaded per minute you should be good

[whole robin]

Glad to hear it, especially since that means that the other 240 per min being made can be used for other stuff

[robust wigeon]

hmmm

I wonder how a Satisfactory Skyblock would go

[rigid wedge]

Probably not very far since trees don’t grow back

The skyblocks I played differentiated themselves from non skyblock by letting you generate stuff out of nothing. That’s kinda how satisfactory works by default

[gusty epoch]

I played it through 3 times. Everytime I vow to leave enough - massive - space in my factory to have factory parts for nails, iron sheets and other basic stuff without crowding the factory or having to mix zones for other products. Every time i fail and have to compromise. Its like magic 😛

[rigid wedge]

Same

[gusty epoch]

its one of the best if not THE best games I ever played. I think X-Com 3 might rival it in playtime

[rigid wedge]

Been having a blast so far but gregtech stays my favorite

[gusty epoch]

Oh I need to look into that one - just googled it

[rigid wedge]

It’s a mod for minecraft but has nothing to do with minecraft anymore

[magic glade]

XD

[merry rapids]

Satisfactory is great 🥳

[magic glade]

i have a love hate relationship with GT

[rigid wedge]

Check gregtech new horizons that’s probably the best version of gregtech

[magic glade]

i prefer Monifactory

[rigid wedge]

I have a addiction burnout relationship with it

[worn oar]

https://ficsit.app/mod/SpaceBlock

[magic glade]

same T_T

soon i start playing im burnt out

[rigid wedge]

Monifactory is kinda like satisfactory

While gtnh is more like everything with magic and much harder

[magic glade]

not really...

cuz satis ur just straight into automation

GT takes a bit

[merry rapids]

Whats GT?

[normal orbit]

there is no x-com 3 :p

[magic glade]

gregtech

[rigid wedge]

In moni too. You unlock ae2 and autocrafting in mv like 10 hours in

[magic glade]

satisfactory: soon as you spawn

[merry rapids]

Okay. Never heard of it

[magic glade]

i just cant play these games myself tho i get burnt out easily

[magic glade]

trust me, do not play gregtech if you value your time

[merry rapids]

Haha

[gusty epoch]

Hahaha...but I wish there was. I meant: XCOM 2 War of the chosen

[merry rapids]

Alright

[normal orbit]

x-com 2 is one on my all tiem fave games, i have a few hours in it

[rigid wedge]

Friend if mine beat moni in 130 hours. Not much longer than ppl take to beat satisfactory

[magic glade]

ive never beaten any of them

i want to 1 day

[merry rapids]

I have just built a iron miner 🤣

[rigid wedge]

It’s about the journey not the end

[magic glade]

i quit after like...a couple hours

i easily get burn out, likeREALLY EASILY

[rigid wedge]

What’s the furthest you ever got?

[magic glade]

in Moni or satis

[rigid wedge]

Moni

[magic glade]

solo, just starting MV

satis: coal power

[rigid wedge]

Then you haven’t really played gt yet

[magic glade]

yea

[rigid wedge]

Before ae2 and with ae2 are 2 different games

[magic glade]

in multiplayer for Moni, gropup got far as starting LV

[merry rapids]

Gonna be an satis night for me!

[rigid wedge]

Check out star technology that has earlier automation and infinite resources like satisfactory from the start

[magic glade]

i get far as starting LV and give up 😅

theressoo much early game stuff i have a stroke

i am not good at commitment

when doing stuff solo

[merry rapids]

I like solo. More cozy IMO

[magic glade]

i prefer team work

[old bramble]

Question: Is using Smart Splitters in a manifold overkill? Because I was thinking about trying to use them to fill the last constructors first then as that way the constructors fill closer and closer to the manifold’s beginning. Or is that just pointless to do because of a reason I didn’t think about?

[worn oar]

That's fine, but unnecessary as they will balance out when the internal buffers fill. If you want to speed it up, just give a stack of ingredient(s) to the last machine

[old bramble]

So just prefill the machines in the manifold to skip up the set up time?

[normal orbit]

No drawback to do it that way. Would fill manifold slightly quicker than normal

[dusky agate]

how to get the ficsit coupon fast

[meager moat]

Alien DNA cubes worked wonder for me in early game

[whole robin]

Sloop ailen remains into 4x'ed dna capsules

[robust wigeon]

Neat, I’ll have to check it out sometime

[worn oar]

Feed the machine

[normal orbit]

Go for a walk and pickup materials at crash sites and sink things like fused frames, super computers etc. They give a lot early on

[robust wigeon]

Three routes:

1. Tame some lizard doggos and wait for them to give you turbo motors
2. Visit crash sites and gather advanced resources from them
3. Alien DNA capsules
4. Send raw uranium ore directly into a sink

Assuming you’re early game, like pre-coal

[robust wigeon]

Oh this too

[whole robin]

Or, depending on how far in you are, you can sink the high end components at crash sites since some of them are more than 20 k points and you can't use them until waaaay later

[robust wigeon]

yeah

[whole robin]

Super computers are at crash sites?

[robust wigeon]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them there

[normal orbit]

Some of them yes

[robust wigeon]

But turbo motors definitely are

Fused frames aren’t terrible either

[whole robin]

Ive seen computers but not super computers

[normal orbit]

There's at least one

[robust wigeon]

The crash sites closer to world spawns generally have worse stuff

[whole robin]

What do you mean "not terrible"? You literally can't do anything with them for like 2 more phases when you reach coal power

[robust wigeon]

Harder-to-reach crashes will yield better resources

[robust wigeon]

I meant for points

They give a good bit

But turbo motors are way better

Oh, one other way to get tickets fast

This is kind of a dumb way but if you need a couple quick and you haven’t gotten any yet, it can work

Unlock something in the MAM that’s somewhat complex, like ai limiters, and then get a ticket and spend it on buying a pack of that complex item, then feed those items into the sink

This does burn at least one ticket, but you get a handful more in exchange

So it’s bad long term but quick for getting a couple short term

[odd scaffold]

Question

does anyone else get the problem where when they fall too low their inventory gets wiped

[versed mesa]

👋

[mortal ginkgo]

dying due to fall damage (or the Z limit of map killing you) is a game thing.

In games, death tend to have a penality.

There is an option to keep your inventory after death

[normal trench]

My factory is one inch off the grid

Like genuinely its like a inch

It’s so small of a height difference

I don’t know how it happened

Half nudges are 3x larger of a difference

[odd scaffold]

Keep inventory is on etc

My mate went flying and that happened

He used a hypertube

Ive already had to remake his stuff like 3 times

[placid stirrup]

You might be able to fix it with sign shenanigans

[quick hound]

The void consumed him whole.

[odd scaffold]

What even with keep inventory on?

Like he got launched to space then js was falling for like a min or 2 striaght

And also at 1 point the respawn menu js dissappeares

Dissapeared

[quick hound]

The void hunters for human flesh.

[robust wigeon]

Exiting the map has really weird effects that tend to break the game

I cannot recommend doing that

Vertical launches are fine, horizontals are dangerous

[odd scaffold]

Its diagonal

[robust wigeon]

That’s no better, unfortunately

Exiting the map horizontally just the same

I’ve never heard it leading to the loss of items with keepinventory on, but still

They did turn it on for themselves? It’s a per-player option

[formal depot]

how much power does a coal generator make?

[robust wigeon]

75 iirc but I’ll go check

[formal depot]

okay

[robust wigeon]

Yeah it’s 75

Its main advantage over biomass is that it can be automated, secondary to that is its capacity to produce a good amount of power (I usually build out a 5GW grid when I unlock coal, and once it’s up and running, I immediately ditch biomass completely)

[formal depot]

well i'll just do whatever i can with the pure coal deposit i have nearby

[white dawn]

Your codex will tell you info like that, btw -- can open the codex directly with o, or get a search bar with n

[formal depot]

i did not know that

[white dawn]

The search bar is also a calculator! :)

[normal orbit]

search barr also doubles as a calculator

[white dawn]

-# jinx

[normal orbit]

and the codex also does overclocking math

[restive umbra]

if you open up the build menu and click on a building you can actually place it down in the world

[robust wigeon]

Assuming you only have t2 belts that’s 600mw

Assuming no compact coal

[normal orbit]

600*

[robust wigeon]

Guh

[formal depot]

oh wow i really didnt know that

[restive umbra]

I gotchu

[formal depot]

yeah i have only T2

[normal orbit]

and if you are able to do coal power, you definatly have t2 belts :p

[robust wigeon]

Well

Technically you don’t have to have t2 belts

But yes, you probably do

[robust wigeon]

If you get some basic steel up and running, you’ll be able to bump up to t2 miners and t3 belts which will give you 1.35GW of power

from your one pure node

[normal orbit]

or 1200mw if you can't be bothered to overclock the miner to 112.5% :p

[formal depot]

eh i'll take my time...

steel looks complicated so i'll just go easy

[robust wigeon]

👍

[formal depot]

oh right, when do i get explosives

i want bomb :D

[normal orbit]

pipebomb :3

[pine dome]

you need to reserch in mam
smokeles powda and de steel pipes i think

i just goined the server btw yay

[quiet mortar]

Maxing nuclear power is fun

[white dawn]

Find some sulfur and start researching in the MAM (as mentioned already, though they didn't hint at what to research)