Snow Cone Capone posted:

I think it's been mentioned that lights eat up way more system resources than they're worth? Something like that.

Pigbuster posted:

Trainyards at night are one of the most beautiful things in the world to me.

Der Kyhe posted:

Right now its a feature to come; the current design indicates that the lights also act as extensions to the electric grid.

PHOOsun posted:

Early access is...early

Just to throw my two cents in on the blueprints or not debate; have a pic


https://imgur.com/VmtJXjK

That's a crude oil into fuel plant. 19 refineries, 3 water pumps and a sink for by products on a 10 X 16 platform. It pumps out a full pipe of 300 per minute fuel.

It only takes one normal oil node with a normal pump to supply it, not a pure node and not an overclocked pump. It took me an entire evening play session to make just this, I had my fun doing it, having a real (for a videogame) result to a few hours of concentration and effort is rewarding. But there is a lot of nodes in this area, many of them pure (pure means double output) and I really dont want to build this again, put down all the splitters and mergers and redo all the pipes and joins and reset all the machine recipes. At this stage the challenge I expect from this kind of game is in connecting functional modules together, that I have designed, in efficient ways.

Just let me define a box with X, Y and Z size and make a ghost copy of its contents and blueprint it, that I can just spray components at until it all becomes a real in game object.

Not to diss this fabulous time waster, but this is just factorio in 3D and it needs blueprints.

Snow Cone Capone posted:

This seems unhealthy

DarthRoblox posted:

The area actions mod basically does what you're asking for, albeit it in a somewhat janky way. It'd be great to see a cleaner version of blueprints in vanilla, but if you don't want to lovingly handcraft hundreds of coal burners and pipes then it can be a lifesaver.

DelphiAegis posted:

I spent my entire sunday morning and part of an afternoon making this Turbofuel factory. This is running in (near) perfect ratios off a single 300 m3/s oil field. My small experimental plastic/rubber/fuel/packaged fuel factory (before I unlocked all the alt recipes this requires) is in the background. I still need to import about 630/min of compacted coal, that will eventually come in via train... somewhere. There's a sink on the one side of the Heavy Oil Residue refineries to sink the Polymer resin to keep it all running.



The nice part is once I generate enough plastic containers, it will self-sustain. I built in the ability to add more by throwing them into an industrial container along the lines between the unpackaged fuel and Packaged water lines (Can't see them in the screenshot). I could have technically saved a whole water pump since there's 7 on each side and you need 1 pump for 2 packaged water, but I was lazy and didn't build high enough to miss the arch which is between the fuel and turbofuel production parts, and had laid enough that I didn't want to restart the whole process, since without the arch in the way I simply would have made one set of 3 lines of refineries at 14 long instead of six total lines of 7.

The fuel generation portion makes three full 300m3/s lines, each one of which feeds a full 14 Turbo Fuel refineries. Each set of 14 gives enough to power 58 fuel generators at full tilt, for a whopping ~175 fuel generators to (eventually) be powered off this monstrosity.

I hadn't calculated that last part until just now so I'm sure I made a mistake somewhere, but what the gently caress? That's insane. Is that 26,250 MW? Did I gently caress up my math?

DelphiAegis posted:

This production facility is finally complete. I had to have a train bring in the compacted coal from offsite.



Just under 28 GW total production all on turbofuel. I have 3 sets of 8 coal generators providing my initial power.

I thought the 3 lines of 14 refineries to make the turbofuel was silly, the 3 rowsets of 50 fuel generators to use all that fuel (even if my factory doesn't even use 1/10th of the power) was ridiculous.

PHOOsun posted:

Early access is...early

Just to throw my two cents in on the blueprints or not debate; have a pic


https://imgur.com/VmtJXjK

That's a crude oil into fuel plant. 19 refineries, 3 water pumps and a sink for by products on a 10 X 16 platform. It pumps out a full pipe of 300 per minute fuel.

It only takes one normal oil node with a normal pump to supply it, not a pure node and not an overclocked pump. It took me an entire evening play session to make just this, I had my fun doing it, having a real (for a videogame) result to a few hours of concentration and effort is rewarding. But there is a lot of nodes in this area, many of them pure (pure means double output) and I really dont want to build this again, put down all the splitters and mergers and redo all the pipes and joins and reset all the machine recipes. At this stage the challenge I expect from this kind of game is in connecting functional modules together, that I have designed, in efficient ways.

Just let me define a box with X, Y and Z size and make a ghost copy of its contents and blueprint it, that I can just spray components at until it all becomes a real in game object.

Not to diss this fabulous time waster, but this is just factorio in 3D and it needs blueprints.

PHOOsun posted:

DelphiAegis posted:

Now that i look at this again, I am going to delete the short set of 12 and add another 4 sets of 2 to the end of the lines which have 50 to get me up to a proper number of 58 which i calculated earlier.

Then I can feel comfortable building more centralized factory components. The interactive map breaks down my power usage like this:
Maximum available power: 27,920MW
Power currently generated: 1,963MW
Power used at maximum production 7,639MW

Only 20GW spare capacity? Pfft!

LLSix posted:

Does anyone actually use the pure iron and pure copper alternate recipes? The ones that add water to the ore to basically double the ingot production?

They seem like they'd be a pain to setup.

Alkydere posted:

Yes and...not really? Insert Tab Fu/Cu/Au/Si into Slot A, and Tab H₂O into Slot B.

LLSix posted:

Mostly I was thinking about the difficulty of finding a suitable source of water near enough flat land. I guess I could ship all my ore out to the ocean and then ship the ingots back. I expect needing 23 Refineries per miner to add up to a lot of space quickly.

LLSix posted:

No. Well, they'll snap side-by-side, which makes increasing the width of a ramp relatively easy, but doesn't help climb in the first place. You have two options.

1) Buy the double ramps from the awesome shop. These do snap to each other.

2) Do what Ben Nerevarine said. Lay down a ramp, then lay down a flat foundation attached to the top. Lay down the next ramp on the flat piece. Going up is much, much easier than building a ramp going down.

Uh, a third option is to build a ladder using the lookout tower or the stackable conveyor platforms that have ladders on the side.

Han Nehi posted:

Yeah that video title/thumbnail is some serious clickbait bullshit.

Sweeper posted:

If you’ve watched any of his videos it isn’t, the rocket launcher in the mod used to look substantially worse

Klyith posted:

Klyith posted:

Bought this game during the steam summer sale, at first just to play multiplayer with a friend who has been playing for a while. I didn't think I'd get quite so into the game as I am, factorio for example isn't to my taste. I liked space engineers but mostly build spaceships in creative.

Turns out the game has *just* enough potential for creative aesthetics to keep my interest. Before getting the game I'd mostly seen pictures of flat factories-on-endless-concrete, which is deff my friend's style of build and one of the things that makes me uninterested in stuff like Factorio. Basically if there's no area to make things artistic I have fun planning but then the building part is just tedious. Now that I've got walls and stuff it's a ton of fun for me to try to build a factory that fits into a building.

So here's my first nice complex that's not just machines on foundations:



Produces heavy modular frames and crystal oscillators at full rate, and some versatile framework with the excess. I need to go back and add windows, we didn't have those unlocked when I started. And I ran out of paint. Where should I go to harvest lots of flowers?

(It's a fuckin mess on the inside, conveyors squiggling around wherever they have space, because for some reason trying to fit everything into as compact a space possible turns me on. I'd show screenshots, but in the upper building there's nowhere to stand where you can get a good perspective on the spaghetti.)

Oxyclean posted:

Holy poo poo that's really cool. I doubt I'd have the patience to pull that off because while I like to make stuff compact, I really try to make "organized" so it ends up taking up a ton of space.

is that rightmost conveyor lift functional, or just aesthetic? It contributes and odd amount to giving the building the right vibe?

Nevets posted:

Fyi the walkway pieces fit ontop of the open truss foundation pieces well, you can cover up the quarters that you arent using for lifts. Plus the fencing pieces make it look almost OSHA compliant.

K8.0 posted:

Is there a good way to look at stuff you might want to build? Like in Factorio, I can go through my crafting options and see everything I might want to consider automating, but in Satisfactory since I don't have everything drilled into my head it's really hard at any given point for me to think of what I might want to build infrastructure for.

K8.0 posted:

Is there a good way to look at stuff you might want to build? Like in Factorio, I can go through my crafting options and see everything I might want to consider automating, but in Satisfactory since I don't have everything drilled into my head it's really hard at any given point for me to think of what I might want to build infrastructure for.

DelphiAegis posted:

It does bear repeating, if you hit n, a small search box comes up where you can see any recipes (including alt recipes!) and add them to your to do list (similar to the workbench).. BUT it ALSO functions as a rudementary calculator for adding, dividing, multiplying and such. Even repescts parenthesis.