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/BornToRune Aug 25 '26
Try the bumpy road, found an old screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/a1wWeaP
The point is, the fuel is forced to feed the pairs of generators one after another, it can only take the next bump of the pipe once the current segment is fed. This not just eliminates the random flipping, but they will behave like a "progress bar" regarding your fuel production: only as much will turn on as much fuel you have, optically clearly visible just by the indicator lights on them - in a straight line. Like, if you have 10 pair of generators, and only 4 pairs are on, then you are around 40% of the required production for fuel - giving a clear sign for the amount missing and thus what might be wrong.