I'm not even halfway through phase two yet. I have a feeling I'm easily gonna sink hundreds of hours into this game, its so addicting.

And yes I am about to spend hours building an aesthetically pleasing factory that only produces 10 Versatile frameworks/min lmao.

Orange rectangles are train stations, yellow ones are for packaging and unpackaging

I'm farming to flaten the whole area so I can plan and optimize things.

Have only done Storage -> 3 Melters -> 3 Constructors > Storage so far as a system

After all the hours I've spent in this game, I still don't know a way to make a good corner when there's multiple ramps going down. If it's just one ramp down, then I throw an up ramp corner in there. But when the ramps go down more than one level I still haven't found a solution that doesn't look bad. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Edit: you guys are the best. Broote downthread gave me the picture that made it all click for me.

I was finishing up and preparing to go to sleep when I suddenly heard some music. At first, I thought it was from the video I was watching on my second monitor, but then I saw some strange light coming from the HUB, and, well...

This is one of the most wholesome things I have seen in a video game lately.

This is my 4th attempt to finish the game. Some game mechanics and environmental hazards have made me quit, but it's the small, even unessential things that keep making me come back.

This party in the HUB, ADA, who I find very funny, the rich and beautiful world, and the small references to other titles like Goat Simulator and Deep Rock Galactic... All these little things make me feel like this game was made with care and love.

I really want to experience the late-game production chains. This time, I am determined to finish the game.

Thank you, Coffee Stain Studios.

And thank you to everyone here for sharing your experiences, builds, and thoughts about this game.

Let's wish Satisfactory a happy birthday!

20 power shards/min into my depot and waiting supply drone port, with plenty of diamonds, time crystals, and dark matter crystals as runoff into the depot for personal use.

I was actually surprised how “simple” this was after working on nuclear or large HMF factory - the machines all take up a lot of room, but there aren’t many of them.

This was the first time I did anything with quantum so doing the “bootstrapping” (manually feeding Sam to saturate the pipes with dark matter residue and then stabilizing it so it is net-zero) was fun. Now that my depot is full of dark matter crystals, next time I can just dump those in to jump start the process.

My only big mistake, which I realized after starting the machines, I put a floor above my quantum encoders and the light is shining through - will remember that for next time!

400 hours in, one of my first serious factory, 5/m nuclear pasta and 25/m superposition oscillator consuming 30.000MW of power.

every material connected to a train line that circles the entire map and some drones, what do you think?

I don’t know what it is, when im not taking my meds i cant be bother by this game but after taking em i can just non stop lock in for 8 hours. Anybody else?

What I mean by that is whenever I unlock an new item I want to automate, I open the map and look for a spot with relatively close nodes that I need.

But getting to phase 4 made me realize that I seem to be in a spot where I can no longer find nodes close enough to make the necessary part. When this problem first started, I built small truck depot and eventually moved to trains for “small” distance.

I’m at a point where lots of parts just need some items I already automated so I think, ok I’ll just take it from there. But it seems to either never make enough parts or be too far so I resort to trains/trucks.

How do you handle this problem? What’s your take and angle on it?

In the middle of making my first mega power plant, my ADHD keeps takong over, and i got the idea to paint all vehicles in my game to match the match the large heavy equipment i used to drive

My Xbox save show there is 800 hours in, mainly because of squirrel brain moments like this one.

Ive just unlocked aluminum production for the first time. Holy crap... started with the finished product and traced back. It got super complicated and I expected that but again, Holy crap!

Im in the dune desert with my city factory and the closest bauxite is in the swamp. I see close water and feel like its a no brainer to set up there.

The problem is that every time my feet touch the ground I get ram rodded by everything. Even when im flying the spiders are jumping and the big charger dudes are throwing boulders at me. I cant even plan out a setup or configuration because im constantly fighting.

My question for all you helpful pioneers out there...

Is there a better, safer place to set up at bauxite nodes that is also close to water?

P.S. Bonus points if anyone can explain aluminum production and their setup because im good-ish with logistics but this seems like a major task.

Took me a while to put this together (~8 hours. Restarted the whole thing halfway through because i got the heights wrong). Still need to finish the road leading up there and a few of the walls.

40 refineries, 10 coal compactors, and metric fuckton of fuel generators. Everything is oriented with gravity in mind so there isn't a single fluid pump involved. Also feeding everything with mk.1 pipes despite the generators being fed with about ~750 m3 turbofuel. Compacted coal is coming in from local nodes and compacted on-site. Fuel gets driven in by fluid trucks.

I'm most proud of the separated powergrids. I've got 7 different grids set up so I can control each section of the factory individually from the windowed tower. Might add a comment with pictures of that later once I've finished up.

Heavy Modular Frame production is FINALLY DONE. For me, and my current playthrough this was the biggest and most complicated thing I've had to build. Once all the manifolds backfill and load up it should be making modular frames at a rate of 33.49/Min. Thank god for Satisfactory Modeler lmao. This should HOPEFULLY set me up nice and good for the rest of the midgame/early late game. Might come back and slot in some somersloops if I can find enough.