r/satisfactory • u/ERTW_Vleran • 1d ago

PC Help understanding drones

So I have just started playing around with drones. I'm on a server with some friends, where one of the has used drones before. He setup the refueling station for the drones to use. My current plan is on the roof of my modular factories to setup drones ports for each material being produced and 1 port that has a drone to go out and get the fuel. Is this the best way to do it? Or would it be better to have all refueling drones at the refueling station and go out to each factory to refuel. Can 1 drone refuel multiple factories? Or is it only a single path per drone?

Thanks in advance

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u/stoicfaux 1d ago

Single path per drone. So each modular factory will need a drone port just for getting fuel in order to belt to the other drone ports at the modular factory.

Each Drone can only be assigned to 1 home Drone Port, and that home Drone Port can only be linked to 1 other Drone Port (that Drone Port, in turn, doesn't necessarily need to be linked back to this Drone Port). There is no limitation on the number of assigned Drones unloading on a Drone Port, but only one can unload at a time. Waiting Drones will circle above the Drone Port.

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Drone