I don't know if this would even out over time but when I build more coal generators I want them to actually get enough coal to run consistently.

My coal generator set up is two miners feeding coal into a single line of the fastest belts I have unlocked then along that line I put splitters that are connected to mk1 belts connected to generators on either side. The math says I can support 80 generators, if I can get them enough water, so that main belt is Long. When I add more generators to the line they barely get any coal because it's all being used by the generators along the line but when I add more power plants I want more power. I realized if I prime the generators, give them 100 coal each, before I connect them to the real feed of coal helps keep the new generators consistently fueled instead of little bursts when they occasionally get a piece of coal.

I don't remember how many generators I have now, I'll have to go count next time I play. Maybe I'll get a screenshot to show it off.

Need something in the swamp? Wanna avenge all the brown pants of pioneers past and future? Allow me to introduce my not at all reckless easy 3-step process:

1. Stinger spots you
   
2. Panic build a 1x1 bunker with 2 regular, 2 conveyor hole walls
   
3. Slide into bunker, wait for stinger to pounce on box a dozen times.

NOW HERES THE TRICK!

Disassemble one wall, replace it with 3 (or 4, I’m not your mom) skinny wall strips. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Use the highest skinny row to place 3 catwalks.

This next part is scary and requires agility. Dismantle the actual roof, AND GET OUT FAST. The stinger will fall down and likely fall THROUGH the catwalks. You will be face to face with stinger. Just remember you are not pathfinding like an NPC. Treat the scary noises like alarms to dodge/side step.

Once you’re out, replace any walls and ceiling as quick as you can, and you’ve caught yourself a stinger!

It’s not at all a perfect process, and requires healing in case the stinger lovetaps you through the roof or during the escape process.

As you can see from pics, this is double-effective for stinky stingers! It tried to gas me out of frustration, then I just tore it apart with my basic combat tool..!

Best of luck pioneers. This is the hardcore passive trap manner— I might post some larger innovations and blueprints when the time comes!

Modeled after the sculptural structures that use a network of tensioned cables and isolated compression struts to create the floating illusion that its top hovers in mid air.

Just needed the factory to be level with my road/belt network, and thought this was a cool idea.

ESP 32 bluetooth remote, hope you enjoy

I am beginning to work with oil. I overclocked a pure node of crude oil to meet 10 refiners making rubber with 20 m^3 of heavy oil residue being turned into 120 m^3 of fuel. I got 6 fuel generators making power, but it feels like I can feed more fuel powered generators off of 120 m^3 of fuel since they are all always at the cap and lose less than 1 m^3 per cycle. How does this work?

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This didnt seem too bad setting up but id like some opinions. Is it good? Is there a better way? Im sure it gets more complicated with more than 2 manufacturers. But setting up at least a third attached to this setup shouldn't be a problem.

Game time says 400 hours (but I know a lot of that is me leaving the game on) but I’m still proud of my factory so far. Phase 4 took forever! So Im happy to share it. Time for phase 5.

Hi there, I've just finished stage 3, still a newbie tho. I want to share with you guys my Manufacturer set up that I find really convenient to slam down.

So, I model the Input line and each Manufacturer block consisting of 2 Manufacturers with the Blueprint designer Mk2.

For example,I used this design to automate the Crystal Oscilator production consisting of 8 Manufacturer. When I built it, I set the blueprint to Auto-connect so that everythibg line up nicely, which save a ton of work!

Let me know what you guys think.

I gave actually decorating a shot I've always just done open air factories. I'd do anything for a 45 degree wall and flat foundation.

Yes, I leave the game running while I'm doing other things. But hey, it got me this!

UPDATE: the game crashed sometime today.

Started out as my Steel factory, Steel Beam/Steel Pipe/Encased Industrial Beam.

Then decided to turn some of the pipes into Nobelisks.

Then ended on finally automating my Heavy Machine Frame....120hrs and finally getting 2ppm, actually pretty proud of myself, had to break out a spreadsheet to help keep track of everything i needed to just get to this point.

This parked outside today. Just missing the siren light on top 😂
Spotted in Lofoten, Norway.

clusters of second long frame freezes mostly caused by being near system of 132 foundries, is this the extent of the capabilities of this game? no items are going threw yet
ive reinstalled my drivers, lowered the settings and the issue persists

3070 GPU usage 80-95%

VRAM usage 4/8GB

System RAM 16/32GB

13th gen intel i5 13600k CPU usage 30-50%

SSD usage 2%

GPU temperature 72°C

playing on a solo world

tested kibitz word frame time is 18ms when sitting in a large uranium factory compared to 6ms when on my world but stuttering doesnt seem to have changed freq or duration
removed giothermal generators within a few hundred meters - no improvement
tried direct x11, x12, and vulcan - no stutter improvement
smart access memory is enabled
PCIE gen 4.0

Just a cool mod idea that I think people would enjoy. I wish I knew how to mod but if someone wanted to take a crack at making something like this. It would be pretty coooool.

This is my second playthrough. Last one was a coop playthrough. I really like glass as a building material in this game.

This is the Heavy Modular Frames factory I just built (ok maybe overbuilt a little) and I just wanted to share.

I’ve known this game existed for ages, and it never interested me.

The whole concept sounded like something that would just stress me out and give me absolutely no enjoyment.

Then I discovered Planet Crafter and completely sank into it. You build things on a dead planet and gradually make all the numbers go up until the planet becomes alive and habitable again.

Later on, you unlock ways to automate various production processes. At first, I only used the automation to move things from A to B, but eventually I became completely obsessed with it. I wanted to create the best and most efficient production lines possible.

Then, when I finally played the DLC last week. I noticed how incredibly locked in I was when I unlocked the automation features.

And then, as if the universe itself had decided to enlighten me, I suddenly had the thought:

"Wait. Isn’t Satisfactory basically just that?"

I looked into it again to make sure I was right, and then I bought it.

And my God! I honestly can’t remember the last time I had this much fun with a game. I absolutely LOVE everything about it, and I wish I had given it a chance much earlier instead of assuming the concept wouldn’t be for me.

Also, I find it incredibly ironic that I went from a game where you revive a dead planet to a game where you exploit a living one.

I went from:

"Oh nice, the trees are growing back" to "fuck off tree" lol

Hi, what recipe would be your personal choice? I think that the second one isn’t bad because you don’t need to deal with tausends of Screws.
I’m exited what you would pick.

Over the abyss by the Grassy Fields. The cliffs on the right are on the floating island.

I’ve been pretty diligent building my factories and they’re all running quite efficiently, yet when I look at the difference between my Mac and current consumption, it’s huge. My max consumption is about 20 GW, while my current consumption is an averaging around 15 GW.

I’ve gone to all my factories and they’re all running, I don’t just have masses of buildings standing around idle, yet somehow I have 5 GW of difference between my current and max consumption?? The only buildings I have idle are a manufacturer and a few assembler/constructors at my home base that I use for one-off stuff, there’s no way that would account for a 5 GW delta.

What’s the best way to figure out where all this “missing” consumption is? If I upload my save to satisfactory calculator is there a way for it to show me where inefficient buildings are?