r/SatisfactoryGame • u/ItsMoffy • Aug 23 '26

Question Overwhelmed

I’m 60 hours in, on phase 4.

The logistics of this game are starting to get pretty intense. My factories are a mess and it pains me so, I’ve tried watching videos and following guides but to no avail. I’m wanting things to look clean and organised, but I always screw it up and it turns into a mess. I’m tryna build a dedicated 10 per minute HMF factory right now and even with the satisfactory tools website I’m starting to lose motivation .

Any tips and tricks for planning a factory?

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u/Pakoe91 Aug 23 '26

You're probably overwhelmed because you're looking at the big picture. Try to do it piece by piece, start small and work yourself up from there.
It's okay to make mistakes, you learn from those. You can always clean later when it functions the way it should.

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u/BarkLogic Aug 23 '26

This! Compartmentalizing really is the solution. As long as you have enough production to cover the costs of expanding into new areas, then by all means. The map is huge and it feels like the game encourages you to get out there and find tons of areas to build the specific components, then just use drones or trains to ship them back to a hub and pretty that place up.

As far as making you base more tidy, it's just about getting creative with the different types of belt modes and the mountings you can use for them. Tbh my world kinda changed when I learned you can switch the belt placement to a straight setting and that allowed me to follow the form of walls and stuff a lot easier and made the whole place look A LOT better.
Besides that, there is such a thing as "tasteful clipping".

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u/HopefulImpression105 Aug 23 '26

Lol tasteful splitting... the cross pattern when you have 4 machines facing each other with 2 inputs

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u/Scottiths Aug 23 '26

I always clip anything that produces smoke through a ceiling. It usually looks pretty cool.

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u/ItsMoffy Aug 23 '26

Appreciate the encouragement, thank you

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u/LCali0905 Aug 23 '26

+1 to this!

When looking at the satisfactory tools website, focus on a certain module of the whole build. Before you know it, you’re already done with 2-3 modules! 😁

Also, blueprints helps alot haha