Satisfactory

[Rahnak]

Do you play/survive against the wildlife like in Factorio or can you ignore/disable it?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The hostile wildlife is more like Far Cry 3/4/Primal in that regard than Factorio. They'll guard their turf but once they're dead, they don't respawn.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

*gigity* next update soon™

We initially planned to release Update #3 in December, 2019. But it has since been pushed back to end of January/beginning of February 2020. More info can be found in this video.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Update 3 officially announced:

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TL;DW: pipes! Water, crude oil, heavy oil residue, fuel, turbofuel, liquid biofuel, alumina solution, and sulfuric acid.

 

[candle_86]

I've been tempted after watching Josh with let's play it out break the game

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Update 3 is officially out.

 

[Vayra86]

When I'm ready for my next learning curve-style game I'm def playing this... already got it on EGS... Nice to see its still being fleshed out. Gives me a reason to wait... lots of stuff yet to play.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Reminds me of Subnautica but on land.

 

[milewski1015]

There's a decent chunk of minecraft mods that have something similar to this going on - I haven't played MC in years, but this gives me the same vibe as the one I got messing around with automation, computers, industrialization, etc. in different mods

 

[Rahnak]

So now that update 3 came out I decided to buy it. I'll be trying it out tomorrow. I'm equal parts excited and terrified this is going to consume all my free time.

 

[oobymach]

Decided to try it via a leaked copy, liked it so much I bought it so I could get all the updates. Just built my 3rd nuclear reactor, about 65 hours in.

 

[moproblems99]

When I'm ready for my next learning curve-style game I'm def playing this... already got it on EGS... Nice to see its still being fleshed out. Gives me a reason to wait... lots of stuff yet to play.

It is multiplayer too so can build Rube Goldberg machines together! Personally, I think it is more fun to build them stupidly complicated. I haven't fired this up in about a year. Sounds about time.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Just built my 3rd nuclear reactor.

Wow, that's pretty quick. I was over 100 hours in and didn't manage to build any uranium infrastructure yet.

 

[Rahnak]

My save is about 20 hours, I think. I keep rebuilding my base so I haven't even set up any automated assemblers, let alone steel production.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I've about 150 hours into a new world on Update 3.0. Here's a distant, overhead shot of the refinery:

Working on aluminum production now...

Oh, changing Network Quality setting to "Ultra" helped a lot in multiplayer. It was about 400 kbps upload per player at Ultra.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

That's what the monorails are for. The one rail you see there carries rubber (hundreds per minute) and plastic (400 per minute) out for now . Monorails automatically substitute for a power line too.

Here was the basic plan before I set up the monrails (one is north-south, the other is east-west):

All of that is done now by the way. Most of the beacons are factories of various types.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I built close by there too. Do you know how hard it is to move production from one base to another? PITA!

thats next after the new base is completed, there is 7+ floors to configure still.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Here's my supercomputer (1.9 per minute) factory. Train brings in plastic, copper sheets, and quickwire while it exports circuit boards and computers. First floor is just circuit boards. Second floor is just computers (2 x Manufacturer). Third floor has High Speed Connectors (2 x Manufacturer), AI Limiter (1 x Assembler), and Supercomputer (1 x Manufacturer). The conveyor on the far right is plastic (comes from train, goes to roof, splits, some goes to computers and some goes to super computer).

If you squint real hard, you can see a smattering of production buildings in the far distance. They do mostly iron, concrete, and biomass production. Haven't bothered to mop that up because that's literally where I started. That train is moving at roughly 120 kph. It usually hits 135ish by the time it gets past that station. It's on the way to the oil refinery in the last pic.


Edit: Anyone starting out, I recommend researching Quartz ASAP at the M.A.M. That tree unlocks both the map and the Explorer (buggy vehicle).


Edit: Here's the exchange cluster. It's named as such because it's where the two monorails exchange goods.

Fun fact: we literally built the Heavy Modular Frame factory under the Modular Frame factory. The heights worked out very well.

The quickwire facility I'm standing on to take the picture produces something like 800 quickwire per minute. You can see the stacked mk4 conveyors on the right bringing it to the train station to bring it to the supercomputer factory (needs over 500).

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I tried using the explorer, it was like trying to drive on ice.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

It takes some getting used to but it's great (fast, can climb, and attempts to right itself automatically).


Spent a day redoing the oil refinery. Gone are the coal generators and inefficient petroleum coke and replaced by fuel generators (30 oil refineries diluting heavy oil into 28 fuel generators). The only bad thing about it is that at low power consumption, it eats through plastic (up to 300 of 400 produced) to get rid of the heavy oil.

Got aluminum sheet production up. Not much to see there because it's all spread out. The train in that picture above is literally carrying bauxite down the mountain.

Added trash and solid biofuel cars to two out of three trains. Trash ends up at a processing facility that converts slugs into power cells, flowers into paint, mycelia into fabric, and compostables into solid biofuel which goes back on the trains to fuel vehicles. Everything else gets stored for later pick up.

Then I looked into doing nuclear...

...how about no? Especially when you weigh in the fact that the oil refinery power is more efficient at high load, more power is a bad thing. I'd maybe consider setting it up if nuclear waste had a use.

I kind of ran out of stuff to do until the next update.

 

[Rahnak]

@FordGT90Concept have you done all the space station/research stuff? Looking forward to return after I finish AC:Origins.

I loaded ImKibitz's save last weekend because I wanted to see how he handles bringing the raw stuff into his mega base but that thing is impossible to run on my machine. Constant stuttering. And the autosave freezes the game for a couple of seconds. They really need to work on performance optimizations too.

Have you noticed worse performance on your save?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Everything at Space Elevator, Hub, and M.A.M. are researched.

Autosave always causes a freeze. It's annoying but losing stuff is worse.

There's times where performance seems to dip pretty bad but it's playable overall.

 

[Rahnak]

So I'm back to Satisfactory. I had to double my coal power to get me by until fuel generators, build some rudimentary plastic/rubber/circuit board factory away from my base. Researched everything from tiers 5 and 6. Aaaand I realized I can split up my manufactoring into several bases in a way that pleases me. More complex items all require more than one main resource and I'd rather have a single spaghetti factory than multiple.
So I'm rebuilding my main base. This time I'll make it 30x30. First floor will be trains, second will be line management (organizing inputs/merging/splitting), third storage, fourth smelting, fifth and up manufacturing. I hope it works.

I started the base floor close by the main factory. It's taking a ton a concrete. 5.400‬ every floor, not to mention walls, hahaha.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I don't know why but I always fall into the pattern of lots of little specialized buildings over a massive factory. Looks like you're in a desert though with little in the way of flat land...I could see that as a major motivational factor. I don't think I've ever actually been there in the world.

 

[Rahnak]

I don't know why but I always fall into the pattern of lots of little specialized buildings over a massive factory. Looks like you're in a desert though with little in the way of flat land...I could see that as a major motivational factor. I don't think I've ever actually been there in the world.

It could be because of the terrain type. From the screenshots above, some of your factories are close to each other whi honey facilitates the belting in between. And it looks like you’re using trains for the ones that are further away.
In the desert I’m at, while the area is pretty unobstructed from big rocks, it’s all sand dunes, which makes belting really ugly unless you use foundations. I have the example of the Caterium line on the right, which I hate.
So I would have to build platforms for both bringing items in and out, which would be annoying. I’ll still have a few smaller factories out In the world, because no way I’m pipping oil or water all the way to the base. At the most I’ll use fluid trains after the train update hits the main build of the game. But it’s possible I’ll just make plastic and rubber off base and bring it in.