I had played the game about two years ago and made it to phase 3. Then I felt overwhelmed by what I’d built so far and what was required next, so I stopped playing.

Two weeks ago I started a new save file and have been having a lot of fun with it again so far. I’m currently in phase 2. But when I think about the more advanced parts that lie ahead, I’m afraid I’ll lose motivation again soon and quit.

What held me back back then, and the fear I’m already feeling again, is that the factories I’ve built so far for basic parts aren’t enough to produce the advanced materials. I’m really unsure how to handle the following situation, for example:

I’ll need to make modular engines soon. To do that, I’ll need motors, among other things, and those, in turn, require rotors. I’ve already built a factory that produces only rotors. This factory itself produces all the needed parts itself and does not get it from other factories.

Should I route the output from my rotors factory to the motors factory, and then route that output to the modular engines factory? But that would mean I wouldn’t have any rotors left to use for research, for example.

Or should I build a large factory where it produces its own rotors, motors, and then modular engines? But that would require so many iron resources that I’d need conveyor belts running from several mines in different parts of the map into my factory, and that doesn’t feel right either.

What’s the best way to approach this?

What’s your strategy for advanced parts that require basic parts, but without having all the basic parts go exclusively toward producing the advanced ones?

So I’ve just started a new playthrough but with Satisfactory+ installed.
And hallelujah, what a nice, fresh, frustrating breath of air that is.

It’s so interesting how the mod has rearranged almost everything.

Any tips from experienced SF+ players for me?

Hello,

Is there a website or other online resources where i can see let’s say an example for a very efficient farm for tier 1?
So I can be sure I don’t miss stuff along the way and my bottlenecks will bite me in the a** later down the road?
Appreciate any pointers or help.
Happy building!

Thought I would have a cleaner post to showcase my findings. My other post was the ramblings of a mad man. Instead of connecting horizontal welded junctions in series for free headlift, I opted for the water tower approach. It is able to run all three of my extractors at 100% uptime.

Vertical / Horizontal Junction Mechanics

https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1mwji7e/beware_of_the_vertical_junctions/

Pipe Manual

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/satisfactory_gamepedia_en/images/3/39/Pipeline_Manual.pdf/

PSA for Junction Bug (Build Junctions first, then connect them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSlYLebSAE&t=1296s

Link to my info dump post

https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1xbq7wa/prevalve_water_tower_setup/

Ok, I’m really hoping somebody can help me here. I’m working on Nuclear Pasta and as you know. I need all of the copper, ever.

I have my factory built and I was thinking I had the pure copper ingot recipe so I built everything around that.

Turns out I don’t have the alternate recipe. It’s not available in my refinery and in the codex it’s greyed out.

Here’s the weird part. I have all available recipes in my hard drive library. I can’t scan anymore hard drives and I can rescan any options.

I even tried selecting a couple recipes that I knew I’m going to use later anyways and when I rescanned a hard drive it just came up with the ones I didn’t select.

It’s going to be really painful to make enough copper ingots without the pure recipe but I’m stuck.

SOLVED: it was in my library but the search function wasn’t working right

Hey there! So recently I picked up this game, thought one, and did a Dune Desert start. Now I am not a professional by any means, and I've been having a lot of fun with this game, but I've come to a decision I dont have enough knowledge to make, so I thought I'd ask around.

Currently I completed Tiers 1, 2, 3 and 4, and started to build factories to produce all 3 special parts needed for the Space Elevator for unlocking tiers 5 and 6. But in the process of doing all this, I realised I may need to find myself a new home area, but I dont know where, if to really do it now or later, and what to do with resources.

Right now I have a factory consuming 730mw out of a 1200mw power network, and miners on pretty much every iron, limestone, and coal node of the Dune Desert area, so its getting kinda ridiculous hauling everything from all around the Dune Desert in a 2.5km distance with mk2 conveyor belts, into a random Hub area, cause the terrain is bad, and what I'm thinking is I maybe should find myself a different area, build a huge logistics center, and transport the resources there from all around the world. But I dont know if this is a good idea to do at this point of the game, or should I wait with this?

I have never gotten this far into this game before, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Probably asked a few times already. Any good calculators or apps for satisfactory for Android? I find the calculators not really working great on my phone.

Just started phase 4 and I’m getting overwhelmed with how to scale up. I have two factories in the desert. Making at everything in phase 3.

The scale and resources needed for phase 4 is wild but man I’m lost on how to properly scale. I built a 71x71 factory with 7x7 squares to make stuff but I don’t know how to get the proper resources without spaghetti belts everywhere. I do have a main highway running across the desert spawn to the oil but that’s it.

For intrabiome I’ve been using trucks but each node only supplies maybe half of what I need for a phase 4 recipe. If I link multiple miners together to a truck station then I just end up with the spaghetti I’m trying to avoid. Trains seem like an option but building a line with 5 or 6 stations for each item seems like a lot. I’m limited by tier 5 belts anyway.

Any suggestions on how to scale properly?

Now, this is probably in the same post category as, "My conveyor pole is moving!", but I just glanced at a bunch of sinks to check they're successfully powered on and... no glowstick feather in its hat!

I know it isnt a factory, but neither is a Radar Mast!

As someone who never overhauled satisfactory (played with light mods like infinite nudge, and dynamic train pathing, and some other QoL mods and parts (stacked wall supports) I thought id try Satisfactory Plus. and my god is it fun.

I plan once I actually have good upgrades and resources (the Hoverpack which you get much earlier in this mod) I plan to scrap everything and build actually decorated factories rather than floating platforms. I just wanted to get a factory that made and uploaded every resource of early game and sink excess so I have resources to actually build what I want to build.

But thought id share my scrappy put together starter factory, producing every component you unlock up to Brass (Steel is next), So Iron, Tin, Copper, Zinc, Magnesium (granules only), Sand, Glass etc. (Small Caterium plant over by the far away Aurovite (caterium) node, making heatsinks and plates and quickwire, also uploading.

Factory is running optimally utilizing: 6 Siterite(Iron/Tin), 3 Callanite (Copper/Magnesium), 3 Larrusite (Limestone/Zinc/Sand), 1 Aurovite (Caterium/Copper)

Being powered by a temporary setup of Algal Power producing 5000MW of power to hopefully last me until coal power

PS: The modeller tool for Satisfactory Plus is my new Favourite modeller. Allowing you to set rates, mark off buildings as built making them green, and linking done machines with green lines. I love it, and it works for Vanilla satisfactory, so its my new fav modeller

Fun mod highly recommend. Cant wait to try and build a massive Factory with details and decorations and rooms.

To explain, I need an input of 1950 caeterion ore/min and I'll be collecting it by train from two miners (2400/min).

These are two different stations.

I'm asking if I need one or two railcars station. I would book the number of trains I need so I'm not worrying about travel time

Here's my calculation:

Unloading time and therefore stop of the flow of materials through the conveyors: 27s (0.45min)

Input : 2400/min

Need : 1920/min

100 caeterion ore by stack and 32 stack so 3200/train

Since these are two different stations, they only need to prepare half a railcar.

Time required to prepare and load a full railcar: 3200/2400 = 1.5 min

Half railcar : 45s

So every 72 seconds, I need a train to enter the station

1.67 minutes to get 3200 caeterions out at 1920/min

So for me, it seems doable

What do you think? I'm not at all sure about it 😭

Sorry if my English is bad, I'm a French gamer 😅

Edit : To bring everyone more lore, I'm actually working in the dune desert and I want to bring together the 2 pure caeterium ore with the normal one in the South West of the dune desert. I need to do that because I need 1260 ingots from that and I'll use about 900 petrol coal and 2520 caeterium ore to make it. The normal one is bringing 600 ore, so I will need 1920 caeterium ore from the two closest node, the two pure nod in the north and east d'une desert I making a train that will get the two, but I'm pretty sure that only one platform will be enough. I'm not totally sure of my calculation indeed 😅

I have several old saves with awesome blueprints still on them as i can see the game recognizes them as blueprints in the dismantle mode. But ive deleted the game since then so my actual blueprint folder is gone. Is there any way i can pull those blueprints from my old saves? Also i tried copying while in blueprint dismantle mode and also doesnt work.

2 photos included.

I've heard they're rolling out the old Satisfactory Tools version 1.0 in a month so I need to learn how to use the new one.

I'm not enjoying the one so far. The boxes are missing the number of machines needed and the lines are missing how many parts per minute are being used. I'm clicking around messing with settings and then just get frustrated and go back to the old tools.

I've seen screen shots of others figuring it out. Playseeeee Hallllp.

This is the first playthrough where I’m seriously using trains, so I figured, how likely really are my two trains to collide?

Turns out, very likely… about 30 seconds after starting my second train and turning my back 🤣

no its not my gpu since this only happens in my most recent save only at this area. kind of weird

So I've been playing this game with my wife for awhile and while she's been making machinery, I've been collecting dogs. (Turns out they drop a massive amount of good loot that we shouldn't have access to as well.)

Anyways, these are my 3 main pens. We're about to get to trains so I am hoping to set up some proper homes for them soon.

Obiously, I'm producing the first steel items for the BP designer's sake, but the shown buildings produce all first iron items and the smart platings. This took me 50 hours, i will never save the day I guess..

Just saw this one in our public kitchen and i had to take it 😅

After 806.5 hours of my first play through, I have saved the day. I left a trail of spaghetti and inefficient machines in my wake. Truly a great gaming experience. I’m looking forward to the next game where I can use all the lessons I learned the first time. Courage, Pioneers!

I get that the quantum computer was (IMO thankfully) removed, but why change the model back when you've already made a whole new one? Sure, it's just a simple cosmetic change, but what's the reasoning behind it? Maybe I'm just biased, considering I've grown fond of it over the course of the years when it was in use, yet I feel like it fits better, being just a larger version of the normal computer, while the current model looks different altogether, ergo - a quantum computer. And this is by no means a complaint, just a short rant about how the game changed since Early Access. I know full well i can just install a mod to get the other model back.

Phase 5 begun!!

There's much more from other biomes, oil, etc., but this is most of the grasslands portion of my build, all exporting to the central facility in the back - Phases 1-3 locally, 4 at the main base, and I'm just starting Phase 5 - but all future facilities will be independent, but this will get me 1100 nuclear pasta, next up nuclear (just after I finish a detailed power/control/sink audit)

On this third or fourth run, ( almost 1000h since release but yet to save the day ^^ )

Decided to give some dedication to the lord of Frames.

I've seen so many nice things here but for once i feel a bit satisfied from my current works, still a bit messy as it is as usual 😄
( Ho yes i'm proud of my giant fundry chimneys so i've put them a bit too much probably ^^ )

As holidays coming, i'll have to let the city on her own for a while.

Probably more to do.

Or pause it to work on next tier and get back with more ideas and some mk6 belts

I have an existing train route from a station behind the red arrow back and forth with one along the green arrow. I have been trying to add the station in the photo for hours and cant get it to work. No matter what I do when adding the new station to the schedule it results in a signaling error when it comes to go to the new station. I've torn down and rebuilt all signals, the entire intersection and nothing is working. The entire red area should be a path with path signals on all entrances and blocks on the exit. Any help?