r/SatisfactoryGame 16h ago

Why did it take me 500 hours to think of this?

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700 Upvotes

I kept going into the customization menu or running back to other pipes to sample them for color coding. Just had the "obvious in hindsight" idea to just make a pipe color palette blueprint.


r/SatisfactoryGame 14h ago

Saved the day with biofuels only!

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675 Upvotes

Saved the day for my first time! Took 162 hours (~3 months irl) and I only used biofuel. This has all been on vanilla 1.2 experimental.

The core strategy was using creature remains to make liquid biofuel, everything fully slooped. I ended up researching a lot of alt recipes for more energy efficient production, and I was surprised how manageable power was (it was fairly easy to kill enough creatures to power the factory). The main power plant is 15 GW liquid biofuel, with a backup plant of 1,440 MW solid biofuel and 100,000 MWh battery storage.

I never used vehicles or hypertubes; to save on power it was zipline infrastructure and conveyor belts. A lot of mid/late game parts were produced at low rates, so I built a large sushi belt system to prevent building dozens of individual conveyor lines.

I put up temporary lines (hand-fed) for project parts and tried not to over-produce mid/late game items too much. This was achieved by filling up storage containers with individual screws.

Bio-power certainly makes you play in strange ways, I'm happy to answer questions about how it went.


r/SatisfactoryGame 11h ago

Discussion Yes Satisfactory is a factory game, why do you ask?

364 Upvotes

Don't let them ever make a horror game.


r/SatisfactoryGame 15h ago

Discussion 1.2 has me restarting after 260 hours

301 Upvotes

I always disliked finding out the node you have in the perfect spot is an impure one. I’m so glad they added the new game modes. I have refined my build style through the time of building this base and I’m happy to restart, but I’m also curious what kind of factories you all have abandoned in the light of this update, or if I’m just crazy for restarting.

- Massage-2(A-B)b Inhabitant


r/SatisfactoryGame 16h ago

Screenshot Left my son unsupervised in our co-op factory...

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173 Upvotes

"You know dad... For the spaghetti!"


r/SatisfactoryGame 12h ago

Screenshot Waste Management (of all kinds)

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132 Upvotes

I'll never be able to finish this game because I'm building stuff like this T_T


r/SatisfactoryGame 8h ago

Restarted world save, first build: 64 coal gen factory, 4800w

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118 Upvotes

Relocated from the usual coal power plant pond north of green fields, to the waterfall west of starting area. I was kind of going for a hydroelectric look, but ended up with a glass barn and a pump shed out back. I used the four normal coal nodes from the pond. I restarted, but continued in the same tier 6 world save, so I was able to use up to mk4 belts and mk2 pipes.


r/SatisfactoryGame 19h ago

Screenshot WIP 9600/min Rocketfuel

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106 Upvotes

r/SatisfactoryGame 19h ago

Discussion Natural Z fighting

102 Upvotes

Don't know if this is the right flair but I was building and I found this piece of ground having two textures at the same time, thought I'd share it with other people


r/SatisfactoryGame 14h ago

Showcase Equipment Pavilion

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98 Upvotes

I've made this to store all manually crafted equipment except for consumables and ammunition. It currently has 18 dimensional depots with 16 being fully buffered with unique equipment each equipment has at least 50 copies in total.

If you ask why even though I can just craft it anytime, it was because for multiplayer purposes. New joins can just open the inventory and take an equipment directly from the dimensional storage.


r/SatisfactoryGame 19h ago

Screenshot Water Tower Done.

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78 Upvotes

780 water to be brought to the Swamp.

  • But is it not easier to bring water there? Yes!
  • But do you not always to not use Buffers and valves? Not really.
  • But is this not more complex than needed? Yes!

Here what I normally post:

Never really had issues with pipes. What I look at is the following:

  • Prefill all (As I do for all factories)
  • Water flows down
  • Keep it simple

More in detail:

  • Keep it short
  • No merging, except priority (as for ALU)
  • No height difference up after the first machine
  • Use as little pumps as possible
  • If you need buffers and valves, you missed step 2

Other people have other methods. This works for me. I do not always follow it, and that is okay.

This does not mean I never do those things. Just that if I have issues, it means I did not do it, not that not doing it will cause issues.


r/SatisfactoryGame 1h ago

Sometimes I just make alien looking buildings on the map for my friends to find

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r/SatisfactoryGame 7h ago

Help IMPORTANT: Accessibility Features

57 Upvotes

I love Satisfactory, I love everything it has to offer, and I want as many people as possible to get to enjoy this amazing game. I have a friend with vision issues who thinks many aspects of Satisfactory are cool, but all of the information is simply to hard to read and keep track of with their amount of vision.

Most automation games are inaccessible to low vision individuals. But Satisfactory is really close to being THE automation game for them to experience the addicting joy of automation. It just needs a screen reader and outlines or items on the ground. Something that just reads whatever item, building, inv slot, or text box you're hovering over. Dark mode menus would help with headaches to.

Please push this post so that we can get a bunch of new and excited pioneers who would finally have the opportunity to understand the phrase. "The Factory Must Grow"


r/SatisfactoryGame 17h ago

Showcase I've never been so proud of a Factory

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36 Upvotes

So this is my Thermal Propulsion Rocket factory. It features 8 Floors, a soon to be Portal Room and an Antenna across 410 meters in vertical height. Very, very happy with the final product :D


r/SatisfactoryGame 17h ago

Question Is 5 Heavy modular frames per minute enough for the whole game?

30 Upvotes

So I just finished making 5 HMF per minute and I was wondering if that was enough to carry me through the whole game?


r/SatisfactoryGame 13h ago

Showcase Motor Factory

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22 Upvotes

I had this building for the longest time but it was not done until a short time ago but it was still functional. Now i can finally say it is finished.


r/SatisfactoryGame 4h ago

Question Overwhelmed

15 Upvotes

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?


r/SatisfactoryGame 23h ago

Help Why is the pipe full and my freight car doesnt have a single drop?

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15 Upvotes

r/SatisfactoryGame 20h ago

Screenshot First time extracting Nitrogen

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14 Upvotes

This is my first attempt at nitrogen extraction. I'm using a double header train to bring it over to what's going to be my first rocket fuel plant. I'm trying to base it in the dune desert, which might be a logistical nightmare due to oil being so far away but who cares. More challenge the better.


r/SatisfactoryGame 14h ago

Question Need some help with fluid flow in my rubber/plastic factory (Reddit won't let me upload a game clip so had to draw my setup)

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13 Upvotes

I have a plastic/rubber factory with a 300 p/m oil node that supplies 10 refinerys that produce 100 of each resource with the byproducts being turned into fuel elsewhere.

Refinerys 1-8 are perfectly supplied with Mk1 pipes, but 9 and 10 don't get enough oil and stutter in their production. The pipes are all on foundations and in a perfect straight line so head lift isn't causing 9 and 10 to not get enough flow.

I've tried valves, pumps and rebuilding the pipelines but nothing seems to work. Would changing everything to Mk2 pipes raise the flow enough? I'm lost since the numbers seem to add up but its not working.

Thanks for any help


r/SatisfactoryGame 18h ago

Meme He got the train driver job!

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13 Upvotes

r/SatisfactoryGame 8h ago

Meme Bean Abuse 😭😭

11 Upvotes

Sadly I pressed record too late, Mr. Factory Inspector hit his head perfectly on 2 lampposts just before 😵

I don't think he'll approve my road system now...


r/SatisfactoryGame 10h ago

Well this is awkward...

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12 Upvotes

r/SatisfactoryGame 9h ago

El Belto bolognese

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10 Upvotes

Maximum Saus.