(I do not consider it being a low effort post because this was neither set up, nor easy to film due to lack knowledge)

Looking for tips on transporting large quantities of water 24+ pipelines and well organised ways to branch each pipeline off. photos would be appreciated but not neccessary

Unfortunately don't have a SS rn but about halfway through playing yesterday, saved the game, logged off for an hour, game back and loaded in, but the loading FICSIT banner was stuck on my screen. Managed so save again just in case (might have been what screwed me here but idk) and loaded back in.

Banner was gone but all my map symbols have a yellow hue to them now? Happens in a friends world too when I joined, so not just my save.

I'm on steam if that matters. Looked it up and saw people had the same problem a while ago but no real fix

After almost 2400 hours I thought I understood fluid mechanics. I guess that's my first mistake.

So, for my Aluminium setup I'm using the Water I get from the Aluminium Scrap to produce the Alumina Solution, and getting the Rest from a Resource Well nearby (picked a bad spot and can't easily get lots of water inbound). I know using the byproduct Water can lead to pipes filling up so I added buffers and underclocked the Resource Well by about 1/min, thinking that meant I'd be using more than I was producing, but no matter what I try, my pipes fill up and my production stops. If I just void the Water from the Scrap, I'd have to bring in more which would kinda ruin the aesthetic of my build, so I really wanna avoid that.

Does anybody know if a setup like this is even possible? I don't mind if my production rates fluctuate slightly as long as I can leave it and not think about it anymore. Thanks very much in advance!

Hey, I added a blueprint of batteries to my world (64 batteries) and my game is stuck at 7fps regardless of whether I am looking at the batteries or not.

Tried all the tricks online, the Z buffer setting, waiting for the batteries to fill, restarting the game countless times.

I messed with a bunch of settings, from trying experimental Vulkan to testing under Linux vs Windows. In all cases the game was pretty much stuck at 7fps.

I have an AMD 9070xt. I've reverted to a previous save and will not use batteries in my playthrough.

Has anyone else experienced this?

straight mode is such a wacky thing

I made it to phase 4 in 48 hours. I've just hit 72 hours, and still haven't made a single phase 4 component. Also, wtf is up with trains? Why are they so difficult?

Edit: I didn't handcraft previous components, I'm not an idiot

Mine would be on using trains. I just don't use them. They seem overwhelming and give me anxiety. Ive tried watching guides and that didnt help. I spend most of my time now in creative mode learning to design blueprints better and trying to figure out my building "esthetic" style. But i know i have to use trains eventually.....i just keep putting it off

Just passed the meager 27 hour mark...... definitely enjoying the game but wow did I struggle with fluid setup for my charcoal power plant setup. Thought I had everything good, turned it all on and the water was not flowing. Racked my brain went over everything step by step, pipe by pipe. Finally I decided to remove holding tanks I had on the upper pipes and it all started moving!

I guess holding tanks should be on level ground with the water pumps??

What a headache though!! Producing 35% more power then currently needed, which means time for expansion....spaghetti madness here I come.

I have been enjoying building factories all along. But recently I started to use AI to give me a rough idea to plan or optimize something.

Eventually I built this tool which can read your saved game and you can interact with the agent to plan or optimize anything. I don't want to take the fun part away using AI, but it generally helps me optimizing existing factories or gives me tips based on the recipe unlocks.

It also had a world renderer which you can use to inspect the factory setup in your saves. It supports both 2d and 3d modes.

Currently it only detects something as a factory or a platform when you have built on top of a foundation.

I have recently unlocked Crude Oil and tested everything that unlocks with and before that. And only vanilla version is supported right now.

And you can use your Claude/Codex(ChatGPT) accounts to run the AI agent.

Here is the tool - https://github.com/tyagivivek8/satisfactory-helper

Thanks to the existing SatisfactoryMCP repo, it pretty much had most of the things covered already.

Please drop your feedbacks and/or any requests, I would be happy to work on it. Contributions are also welcome!

Edit - Added a screenshot

30 hours in, I've rebuilt my original factories to maximise output with mk 2 miners, not a single ingot wasted in production of reinforced iron plates, rotors, iron plates, iron rods, wire, cables and copper sheets. Industrial storages are filled to the brim and now those factories exist to just pump into the sink.

I've built a coal power plant, I've built a steel plant that makes beams and steel pipes, same thing, just pumping into the sink.

This is where I've gotten overwhelmed, producing parts that require parts from those factories. Am I supposed to try and transport those finished goods into new factories? Do I build new factories for the new parts (like enclosed industrial beams) that manufacture those original parts all over again? Do I send all earlier tier parts into a localised storage and pull from that to supply the new factories?

I have a loading station with 3 freight platforms full of silica .My receiving station has 2 empty platforms, and a freight platform.

How can I get a train to ignore the first two loading platforms, since there's nothing to unload them to.

The reason I want to do this is because the first two platforms are already oversubscribed. I don't want anything else loading from them.

I finished Phase 5 with my 4th attempt and alot of hours. So wanted to showcase a bit my World, and yes its mainly 2D Build but i kinda like it :D. Next Step is to go Nuclear and make my factories look more like factories instead of platforms.

I am still a begginer kinda still space phase 3 , i really want to know how does big / mega factories look like ? Are it like far away from each other small factories each built for crafting specific items and all the output from thee small factories gets transported ( via train or whatver ) to a big storage system? Or one big factory and the raw materials gets transported to the big factory and the storage is there too , am really excited to do these big factories the idea seems so interesting to me , Sry for bad eng !(

How do you put this thing on the floor? It just sort of floats in mid-air, LOL.

Edit: Worked it out. You have to crouch.

People only post pictures of their super big awesome well organized factories, and I don't blame them for flexing, but its depressing to compare them with what I've done! This scene is from a section I'm working up the courage to re-build, but until then, I would appreciate it if you could share pics of any deep dark secret spaghetti factories your using. Thanks!

This is an old save file from early access or a little later, which works with the new version. (I walked around the map and everything was active, except that the monsters I killed were restored, but I'll kill them again. I like it. I got to the point of building plastic things.)

I forgot everything.

I'd like to ask:

1) What do you recommend I do first?

Where should I start over? Which menu should I look at?

2) There are mods that summarize how much electricity I produce or how many batteries I have, and something similar for all the factories, which I obviously put in a very haphazard way.

3) Less importantly, how do you manage to keep up with the little man with the cup in his hand, who almost flies (if I saw correctly).

Thanks in advance to anyone who will have the patience to answer me.

As the pictures show, I have a wall pipe connector, the one pipe has liquid, the second pipe gets ZERO LIQUID! Please tell me it's a known issue with a known fix. It's off the ground but I have a pump with enough headlift.

I don't recall ever seeing this rainbow before. I'm in the desert, mass harvesting all the nodes, when suddenly a rainbow appears. Love it.

Hi to all you experienced pioneers. I have 80 hours in my first playthrough by now and I had much fun, but I'm not sure, how to move on. I'm in the third phase of the space elevator and I'm finished with Versatile Framework. But I'm lost with planning the production of the Adaptive Control Unit.

Until now, I always planned exactly for my needs. For example, I'v build a factory for Enforced Iron Plates, thats self reliant. Iron Ore goes in in the one side and plates come out on the other. The same goes for Versatile Framework, Motors or Encased Industrial Beams. The products needed for these are produced in the same factory in exactly the right amount for the desired output. I'm unsure, if I should build new factories in the same way for Adaptive Control Units or dedicated smaller factories for steel (pipes, beams and encased), electronics etc to funnel these products to the more advanced factories. These smaller factories could be planned to overproduce, so I get also a stockpile of these products and don't use them all.

I think the second option is better scalable, but I'm afraid, I have to tear down large parts of my world and redo everything. Kind of overwhelming right now. Any advice on how to approach this?

So I've noticed that, even if the production rates match exactly, machines still overproduce. I'll give an example of what I mean.

Assume no overclocking.

One smelter takes in 30 iron ore, produces 30 iron ingots per minute. A constructor takes those 30 ingots and produces 20 plates.

Yet it seems the constructir will inevitably fill up with ingots, despite this one to one production speed.

So my question is this: are the machine production rates not 100% accurate?