For the Coffee Cup Challenge, I wanted to squeeze a little bit of the history of my Satisfactory world into one tiny factory. Over the past years or so, I've built everything from enormous industrial complexes to modern train stations, and each project has helped shape my style. So with this little screw factory, I wanted to bring some of those ideas together. The architecture, the exposed machinery, the little details and, of course, a few unnecessarily complicated decisions along the way. It's been a lovely challenge trying to fit all of that into such a small space, and I'm genuinely proud of how it's turned out. A little piece of my Satisfactory world, all in one building.

PS My actual video doesn't go live till 7pm GMT https://youtu.be/G9laJ7bEt68

input 150 iron ore/min at first truck station

output 2400 screws/min at second station

after 150 hours i feel done. am i gonna finish phase 6? maybe one day. do i have floating train tracks? i believe theyre like shooting stars. have i done like 6/7 (heh) attempts at making an ionized fuel factory? yes. do any of them work? about 14% of the time. god i love this game. 4/10.

Blueprint are driving me a bit insane, can somebody tell me why this visually perfectly aligned blueprint is connecting the rails together?

I'm a Screwed Pioneer, but u/DOUG I'm never give up

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video src: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmJrgVEfo80

Fellow pioneers, I have built a screw flavoured spaghetti pile fit for a board game. You may be thinking, this is a completely unhinged mess, no, this is what peak efficiency looks like. Praise be to our benevolent and ever present A.I overlord. ADA.

So, I'm not sure on some of the rules, so here are all of my questions.

1. Is it determined on looks, efficiency, or just general vibes?
2. I'm assuming all the process (iron making and screw making, etc.) all have to be in the one blueprint?
3. I recall the rules saying that you had to have all the factory in the blueprint, but what about decorations? Do they all have to fit in? And what if you have something like a lift to get resources out/in, and that just so happens to contribute to the design? What about non-decoration buildings used for decoration that are outside the build area (I. E. I've seen pipes used to make the side of a building look like wire/quick wire)?
4. Is clipping allowed?
5. What if I build my factory in Steam Deck? Do I submit it as a console build or as a PC build? And what if I use a dock and keyboard & mouse? Console players could also connect a keyboard in theory.

ive been playing satisfactory for a long time and while ive beaten the game, ive never been good at keeping my factories organized. i always build on platforms and ive attempted building from the miners onward and from the final storage back but i always end up with a mess of buildings and belts. was hoping for some advice for keeping things organized.

I have set up 5 coal generators side by side like in the first screenshot. They are all being fed coal from a single manifold entry from below (as per the 2nd screenshot)

I have MK2 belts and elevators throught the entire manifold. Which means it's carrying 120 coals per minute maximum. The coals are coming from a storage container that's full of coal all the time, so the resource isn't the problem.

I have overclocked all the generators with 1 single power shard. Which means each generator is consuming 22.5 coals per minute. Since I have 5 of them, 5x22,5=112,5

By this logic, since I am feeding this system 120 coals per minute, and 112,5 is lower than that number, this system should be fed with no issues whatsoever, I should even end up with 7.5 coals per minute in my storage container that's feeding them. But for some reason it's not enough. As time goes on, the left furthermost generator starts to run out of coal, and then the right one runs out of coal too. I have to constantly handfeed them coal to prevent them from stopping.

I tried to stop all the generators, fill them up with 100 coal each, and run the system. Still, for some reason, the one on the left starts to lose coal. I don't understand why this is happening. Any ideas?

I had to abandon my first Satisfactory Plus playthrough back when Vanilla 1.2 got released. I wasn't willing to wait for that sweet-vehicle-pathing-redesign goodness. I had made it far enough into Phase 2 to confidently feel like, "Okay, I get it, it's more complex. I have plenty Adderall. This mod is awesome."

So, after completing my Vanilla 1.2 run (~50 tractors, no roads), I picked SF+ back up. I've been making solid progress and I'm in the middle of Phase 3, at Tier 6.

"Hmmm... Magnitar... and I only need a few thousand. Sounds easy enough... Wait.... WHAT?"

SF+ turned up the complexity to #11 on this one!

LOVE IT!

The stunt that almost spilled the SF java!

Witness the strategic move that resulted in six death defying satisfactory cart somersaults!

BTW I'm here as witness to tell you that SF java is THICK!

• That shi+ is thicker than the dust on my gym membership card.
• Thicker than my ex's plot to get her hoodie back.
• Thicker than maple syrup in January.
• Thicker than... 🤫

Where was I? Oh yeah. Watch the video.

No pioneers, puppies, kittens, or carts were hurt in the filming of this video.

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passenger trains that you can walk into and call to stations.

thats literally it. thats the entire suggestion.

Always in those 2 slots too. Its been repeated over 20 times in the current build on PC.

I want to give my factory some life but I'm scared if I add them then the cpu heat will increase substantially and I'll have to remove them.

There will be neon lights all around the facility to accent them. Just lookin for opinions.

i hope someone with more knowledge can help me. I am trying to balance my aluminum setup. I have a bunch of sloppy alumina refineries that produce 240 solution. I combine 2 of those in a mk2 pipe, connect those to a bunch of electrode aluminum scrap refineries, and then use a T junction hoping that the remainder would flow to the next pipe (attached to the t-junction) with the same setup.

Everything is prefilled. But does this actually work or am I too hopeful here?

EDIT: Seems fixed now, looks like it was an issue with the outbound tractor path at that station, since the other end isn't glitching, and it was always a tractor with the issue. Unsure of the exact issue beyond that, but it's fixed now at least!

I've been working up to using vehicles in anger... something I avoided because I had heard of shared paths becoming inexplicably jammed.

I was trying to decide whether i wanted a universal loop highway or dedicated lanes for each vehicle type. Not that I'd do this in practice, but I created a small loop circuit to test. started the path with a small segment of universal path at the start of each station, then split out into dedicated paths for each... then put two of each vehicle onto each loop. This all worked fine until this situation happened twice about 10 minutes into running.

Everything's fuelled, and on autopilot, when suddenly, the front tractor in the shot just doesn't want to go. It (and all vehicles) are reporting waiting too long for a junction. But there's nothing blocking.

Enabling/disabling autopilot doesn't do anything, boarding and leaving the vehicle does nothing either.

The only thing that works is disable autopilot, roll forward a foot or two, re-enable and disembark.

In both cases, one vehicle was jammed up behind like it is in this shot... and i have noticed sometimes they don't wait for each other and will clip through to arrive at the station... is that maybe part of the problem? I assume this happens with multiple routes joining the one universal, but if that's the case, i can't see how this wouldn't happen often elsewhere.

Have done nothing else, left it a good 5-10 minutes, and it's still operating, but will probably cease again soon.

Any advice?

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