Just unlocked plastic and rubber (I have like 300 hours in the game and this is my 4th playthrough) and I don’t know if I should target dropsites with plastic so I can get to fuel generators, or just setup the plastic and rubber now, and make petroleum coke from the HOR, and either sink it or burn it in coal generators for an extra ~500 MW. Or look for plastic in dropsites and get that fuel power milestone and then use the HOR for diluted fuel and get way more power?

What’s your take on early plastic and rubber? What’s your strategy to get started?

Hey! Four of us, eight months in, deep into a late Tier 8 factory. I’d been hosting off my gaming PC the whole time, which was fine right up until my buddy in another timezone wanted to play while I was asleep. PC off, world gone… So last week I finally bit the bullet and moved us toserverspace, picked Amsterdam since two of us are in Europe. 8GB RAM, deploys fast, billing is per 10 minutes which is convenient when you’re spinning instances up and down while testing. Hetznerwould’ve been cheaper for the same specs but I’d already used SS for other stuff and didn’t want to deal with a new setup. Comes out to around $18/month, which four people splitting barely notice. Mostly painless, but…

First, the RAM numbers everyone quotes are nonsense. “12 GB minimum, 16 recommended” - ours idles around 7-8, then jumped past 9 the second we dropped a second nuclear plant and expanded the drone ports. It scales with how messy your factory is, not how many people are on. If you’re mid-Tier 5, 8 GB is fine for now, just don’t be surprised when it creeps up. Second thing that got me: single-thread CPU speed matters way more than core count, the sim barely uses extra cores. Picked the wrong plan first and paid for it.

And the one that cost me 40 minutes of swearing, after Update 1.1 you need TCP 8888 open too, not just 7777. Nobody mentions it. Also set systemd to Restart=always or it won’t come back after a crash, and back up your saves before every patch. We lost SIX HOURS to a corrupted one, so now it’s hourly rsync… So, guys, anyone running a game on a VPS, what specs are you actually seeing?

By playing it in my head, it's visualizing different layouts and ideas and ratios of units per minute. Basically playing the game in my head and then coming home and recreating my mental save. Please tell me I'm not the only one. Since I already know everything about my own factory inside and out, it's really easy to tune out of reality and start tinkering with it. I'm still in the early game so hopefully this will fade as I lose interest eventually. Eventually.

The current map has many biomes and with the addition of random nodes you essentially can have a different play through every time if you want it. Do you guys think they will ever add another planet map? If they did add a new planet, what are some things that they could change that would make it any different from a different biome or a different node set up?

Anyone else get to phase 3 and restart? I started a world with random nodes (its my 1st playthrough) ive tried to make roads and trains to bring my factories together and its just too many little factories in too many locations. Starting again because I think a normal node world would be easier or am I wrong?

Yup 92H in game and I’m on phase … 3!!

That’s right phase 3. Only 1/3 part completed.

I guess I’m having fun and I’m currently 20h into a full base remake but should it really take this long?

Am I doing something wrong?

I seen people complete the game in 100h and at my pace I feel like everyone will be playing Satisfactory 2 before I finish my save 😭

Edit: I see everyone got triggered. So let me clear it up. I don’t care how long it takes to complete the game. I’ll probably have 100s of hours playing.

Yet there’s a progression implemented and was seeking if the way I’m doing it is wrong as sometimes it feels like I’m working my ass off for hours and get 0 progression.

So I’m not complaining that the game is taking too long to complete, I’m gauging out if I’m doing fine or I’m using half a brain cell and really falling behind.

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Hello again Pioneers! Hot off the heels of Update 5, the "Overclocked" update I'm bringing you Update 6: The "Groundwork" update.

!!BREAKING CHANGE!!: Raw Resources are no longer assumed in the planner

Before update 6, Raw Resources e.g. Iron Ore, Limestone, Water etc were all "assumed". You were not prompted nor asked to provide mining sites for them, it was left up to you.

This created an entire layer of logistics that was invisible. At the beginning of the planner's development, I felt it was "unnecessary complexity". Paradoxically, it generated more complexity than it saved, so now it is required. I've also got a lot of feedback that it really should be this way, and it now is.

The Raw Resource Wizard

I have created a wizard in order to help you transition your factories to the new format. It will help you create mining factories and set up imports / exports and get the ball rolling. I can't sadly do every little bit for you (e.g. I don't know what miners you have where), but provides a start for you.

Factory Groups

Grouping factories is now possible! Creating groups enables you to see all products created within that group, any issues affecting that group are surfaced via the new Factory Status Chips feature, and you are able to keep your planner nice and clean by hiding groups of factories.

A great suggestion to start is using Mining factories as your first group, then split it by phase!

Factory Status Chips

Factory status chips expose problems with your factory elegantly and clearly, so you can see problems as they arise. The planner also supports and detects more "problems" within the plan, e.g. byproduct based blockages, no demand for parts (produced but not used anywhere, export or internally), and a variety of others.

Factory Icons

Every factory can now have an icon! Wherever a factory is mentioned / linked in the plan, the factory name and it's icon will be clearly displayed. You are able to choose from a wide variety of icons, and some emoji based ones, about 350 in total.

QoL and a whole crapton of fixes

I won't bore you with the details but safe to say the planner has become even more accurate and reliable. A ton of rounding errors were fixed, and various bugs reported to us has been squished.

A lot of nice quality of life stuff has been added as well!

All the juicy details can be found on the tool's Change Log - https://satisfactory-factories.app/changelog.

Stay efficient Pioneers!

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Hey everayone

I'm still pretty new to Satisfactory and this is my second world. Compared to my first one, I actually managed to get quite a bit further this time and I'm slowly starting to understand how things work.

Unfortunately, I've now reached the point where my oil/fuel setup is giving me a lot of trouble. Especially the pipelines. I already watched Tutorials and even read the cool "script" one of the Satisfactory YT Guys created that explains a whole lot about Pipelines and how they work, with that i tried to fix the problems but somehow made it worse i believe...

I understand the basic idea behind everything, but somehow my fluids never seem to behave the way I expect them to. My fuel production keeps stopping or not running properly, and at this point I'm pretty sure there are some things in my setup that I simply don't understand yet.

So I'm basically looking for someone a bit more experienced who would be willing to have a look at my world with me.

If anyone would like to hop into the save sometime, take a look at what I've built and maybe explain what I'm doing wrong, I'd really appreciate it. I'm not looking for someone to build it for me, I'd actually like to understand what I'm doing wrong so I can do it properly myself.

If anyone's up for helping a beginner out, just let me know. :)

Thank you for reading! Appreciate any kind of help! <3