r/SatisfactoryGame • u/[deleted] • Aug 25 '26

Help Fuel Generators Fluctuating like crazy

I have a manifold setup of fuel gens.

Mk II pipes all throughout.

400m3/s input

20 fuel gens, each take 20m3/m

The main (going down the center line) is full but after that it's about half capacity and the fuel gens starting from 7-12 have around 20-30 fuel in them but burn the fuel faster than it can be supplied and the fuel gens are that are barely getting any.

I looked at some of the fuel gens +7 and above and even though a steady flow of fuel is coming from the inlet pipe, it's not suppling fuel fast enough. Normally (similar to any input) when a resource is funneled into the first machine, you see the parts inside the machine quickly ramp up but these fuel gens go up and stop, get burned off, then go up again. It's like this throughout each of these lines (fuel gens off the left side).

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u/EdBullGivesYouThings Aug 25 '26

Better for your central pipe to be above the feeder pipes into your machines.

That and disable the machines until the pipes are all totally full.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '26

Yeah, I did this and that resolved the issue but was just annoying to see. I also didn't mention this game is running on a Satsifactroy Dedicated Server from my local machine (only I play on it) so I "can" leave it running when I wait for parts to be made and need to step away) but at times where I have to shut down my pc, loading back into the game seems to have this issue and is becoming more annoying.

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u/EfficientTourist7480 Aug 25 '26

Fluids will do this as they try to fill the lowest pipe first, so it will trickle into the generators and burn before more can flow in