Satisfactory

sakkath said:

Is it possible to treat all the waste and feed it into a sink? I've never used nuclear power because I hate the idea of making something that can't just run forever. I haven't looked at what was added in the more recent nuclear updates.

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Yes. You can process the Uranium waste into Plutonium Fuel Rods, which you can sink. It takes a lot of energy though, so you can burn the Plutonium rods to recoup that and then some, but then you get untreatable Plutonium waste instead, which is 20x more radioactive than Uranium waste, but builds up at like 1/20th the rate.

The power gain is pretty significant though. My setup there is 72 Nuclear plants on Uranium with full recycling, and the Plutonium rods I'm throwing away could provide for 44 additional Nuclear plants which each produce only 1/min Plutonium waste, and would take over 9 hours to fill a single large storage container. But I also want it to just run forever, and 72 Nuclear plants is already such massive overkill that there's no point in going further.

It lives! And once again this angle does a terrible job showing specific progress, its just a big blob of machines partially blocked by railway. I can't be too mad at it though, not only did that ramp connect into a group of machines that was overbuilt by 1 purely for symmetry, it also missed the light stick on the other machine by inches. If the rail had perfectly connected too without having to make a little jog left, I probably woulda came.



You can also see in the background the other two ridiculous things I spent too much time messing around with.

This thing which is just to hold two drone ports and some buffer storage.


And my uranium mine.

Power problems solved, everything is running fine, its all perfect!


...for like 20 minutes. My power plants start flickering off and the uranium cells start backing up. Turns out, like most of my builds, I fucked up something and didn't notice until way too late. I did some rough initial math a while ago to figure out that 600 uranium => 72 power plants, and that I had enough resources around to do it. But, at when I transferred that all to a new sheet to crunch all the numbers of machines and whatnot, I put down 20 instead of 24 machines making the uranium fuel rods.

The rest of the factory is using the correct numbers, but actually making the fuel rods and the associated supply is only running at 5/6th capacity. Luckily I made a backup save and have extra iron to use, so I should be able to fix it. Unfortunately it means I need to redo the entire end of the line, where all the excess iron/copper/caterium turns into wire/quickwire. Which is what I just finished making and took pictures of. It shouldn't take too long, but it will require a hefty amount of swearing.

Warcraft peon voice: Job's done!

This is the main reason I made it all flat, I wanted a nice picture of the whole thing. I should've been using this as a progress shot, but I wanted to be kinda surprised by it when it was all finished. I wanted to find a place up here where I could watch it all work, but sadly when I get far enough away to get it all in, it stops drawing machines/items (look at the top-right areas). Still good enough to be my new wallpaper for a while. I was gonna try to label it all, but probably not gonna happen, unless someone is really interested.

And now that I have infinite power...probably play something else for a while. I might try to mess with a camera mod to make a flythrough video, but probably gonna be a while before I start another build.

Using the concrete foundations is absolutely key; shit gets super wonky if you aren't utilizing the snap stuff, especially in larger builds.

Wish I had saved screencaps of it but I started basically just building sky platforms for everything after a point in my last playthrough. Not having to give a shit about what the terrain was like in an area is so key hah.

that's beautiful, very impressive.

i'm at the stage where i need to start nuke power. been putting it off. tried a few mods. Smart! was game changing, really simplified the most tedious part of the game. shame it doesn't work on pipes and only belts. Just got one that turns off fog, nice to be up high and see everything you've built around the map. before i started nuke stuff, i wanted to get all the recipes. so i would hoverpack around, leaving a trail of power lines and poles. kept making wandering circles around the map and stopped finding more crash sites. one thing that annoyed me was travel once you need to get around the whole map. i was always confused why you couldn't use skates and jet/hover pack at same time. then i saw a video of a guy th at had something called "exo suit". guess that mod is old, but found power-suit. close to game breaking. you have to do a ton of farming, unlocking, etc. but it combines gas/rad suits, skates, jet/hover pack. just a nice QoL thing that helped me explore faster/easier. was still missing a few recipes so got a 4th mod that puts a beacon on unopened crash sites, i had about 12 left.

plan to setup nuke power on the west coast, drones bringing in most of the materials. trains are just frustrating to me for some reason and didn't really improve things over long belts. not too worried about the most efficient world, so OK w/ supplying batteries to drones for the rest of the game if it works. guess if i run out of sulfur for nuke power i'll have to reconsider.

one thing that alumimum taught me is that i don't like the mechanic of some things having waste component that you need to route back into a supplie line. i found pure concrete saves the headache of balancing either side of recipes that also produce water. will probably need to figure out valves for nuke power though.

You can google plenty of layout ideas but in general people run belts through splitters perpendicular to the factory inputs, and belt through mergers perpendicular to the outputs. This allows easy scaling of factories up to the limit of your belts.
Going vertical is definitely ideal.

starting out, w/ each new thing you want/need to build, just start w/ a new flat area. eventually you'll find that just building a floor a few feet above your current stuff is easiest.

after you get a few tiers into the game and start having splitters and mergers all over, embrace manifolds over perfect splitting. i would line up buildings so sources could split 1 to 3. but as you progress, things just don't math that way efficiently. by having a line of splitters and buildings, the supplies eventually fill up and it's even. i wish i embraced that sooner.

do your best not to use the crafting bench to build anything. anything you need, you'll need more of eventually so just automate everything. encased steal beams are built in an Assembler. if it's not there, then you need to unlock it in the MAM, in the sulfur tree. no idea why it's that way. there's some things in the MAM that just seem out of place. #beta

This is astonishing ::

I mostly just use stackable conveyors to bring things back to base. If you're moving things extremely far then trains are an option. I never found trucks to be functionally useful but they are a bit of fun.