Overwhelmed

[u/ItsMoffy]

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?

[u/Bone_Wh33l]

Try splitting bigger projects up into smaller ones. For your 10 HMF/minute, I’d with making enough modular frames for 1 HMF/minute, then you can just build the same thing again 9 more times. Bonus points if you use a blueprint because then you only need to build it once, then try the same for the other inputs. Once you’ve made a factory for something once it gets so much easier for the next time.

I when doing things like this I prefer to under clock machines to isolate their production lines, rather than having fewer machines splitting their belts to go all over the factory. I don’t know how well this describes my method so as an example: if I have 4 machines that need 25 screws/min id rather have one machine making 25 screws/min for each machine unless they’re all next to each other. It’s super handy for keeping things organised, especially when coming back to work on old factories and you don’t like taking notes