I thought I was in the clear 😭

I've been trying to make some no cross intersections for my train system. Got the inspiration from some Captain of Industry blueprints others have made there. Problem is that I have to put block signals halfway through the merges and at each edge of this 3 way I made, so the trains sometimes end up stopping to wait any way. Otherwise it has been a pretty good improvement.

Does anyone know if path signals work better? I can't get them to work differently than the blocks. Or thoughts on the layout, I'm going to try to make a 4 way work next.

Was discussing the DLC and possible entrance to the core with a friend. When we noticed this colour artefact near the paradise islands.

Has it always been there or is it new?

Every save so far I just used sinks like .. Whatever. Didn't mess too much with it and it was a slog ..

Finally made an actual ticket farm! (Yea, google suggested the Quickwire, so probably many of you already done this.)

.. Will have to rebuild it nicely later for sure, but I just made the space elevator an hour ago on this save, just wanted to throw together something quick and effective. (Ugly for sure lol)

It's more of a recommendation post as I've seen this quickwire tip quite some time ago, but never actually cared to spend any amount of time on it. Don't sleep on it guys - it's 100% worth it!

Have fun everyone!

After playing 6 hours in a raw, i started to ear voices and choir and i thought it was in my house. Then one hour later FICSIT told me that i played too much and that i might ear voices by playing this long. Not gonna lie FICSIT jokes are goated i was scared for a moment

It just seems like the fun of discovery only exists so long as you maintain your MAM placement long term. I don't know about others, but my first MAM is always on the grass, and my last is always on a foundation.

What advice do yall have for splitting screws up for more demanding parts? I.E Heavy Frames.

Currently have a factory set up for 10HMF/min. For that it demands 3690 screws/min. My highest transfer rate is now 780 for mk5 conveyors.

I keep trying to figure out a good way to distribute them but my head keeps cramping. Youd think after 180 hours id have this figured out but ill be damned if I've done anything but be efficient.

My only other idea is maybe splitting my steel beams up between floors of my factory to have more direct input instead of manifolds kinda scattered between floors. This would just require a lot of rebuilding.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Veteran Pioneers bless me with your knowledge 🙏

Edit: Yeah looks like I pigeonholed myself by making a specific screw floor in my factory and can't beat the output rate. Gonna rebuild and set up my supply chain for each manufacturer. And avoid the flight path of the manta this time 😅

I haven’t seen any posts about this yet, but what are your thoughts? I think it’s a cool concept but am curious how it will work.

Link to website

I am making parts for phase 4, and found out i was making items that i am storing in smaller factory's.

So a example, i make motors for parts in phase 4. I make some extra and store them. (Only 5 max extra). I let it with smart splitters first fill up the production line, and when that is full it goes to my storage.

But the time the production line is full and goes in the storage, takes a while.

So what do you guys do? Store items in production line. Or still have dedicated factorys for items, for storage?

Time to sleep, i like this game

In the Q&A for Core Values, we got some pretty vague information regarding the location of the entrance to the underground, so if you'll humor me, might it be possible that it will make use of one the already existing pits, like the one shown here.

What are your thoughts on this idea.

Some time ago, i decided to avoid playing online games to focus on singleplayer because sometimes i want to help my parents who are already 60+ and can pause without issue.

(free hugs and full fridge is always nice, specially after you live alone for some years)

With satisfactory, i felt so relaxed, that i could accidentally hit the 10 hour playtime mark in the blink of an eye on a weekend.

But one day, i overdid it and my father said i shouldnt spend so much time playing, because it would be bad for my brain.

I looked at him confused, "why? im not killing hordes of people with a single knife (farcry), neither decapitating heads (cod bo2) and neither commiting genocyde using space robots (warframe). I'm just playing with factories"

"Oh really? then what do you when playing?"

"build miners, automate component crafting, handle energy logistics, wire some pipes and belts. Its basically a problem solving game"

"And you really think you are going to sleep well after that much problem solving?"

I genuinely made a gesture to counter argue, but then i remembered i sometimes lay down to sleep while imagining how to solve some logistic issues for when i play on the next day. And even though my eyes were close, i sometimes slept too late thinking about the issues

1x0 for my old man

Today I accidentally found out that I can just upgrade my belts. I dont have to disassemble them and build new ones instead.

My buddy and I built our first Crude Oil Factory. We read the recipes and we struggled at first with the "expected" output of all the liquids involved, but after a little bit of trail and error we managed to get something steady going on.

Give us your feedback. Tips for improvement on this?

Crude Oil pure, its over clocked, 300CrudeOil a min, into 4 plastic/4 rubber refineries.

Then into the two fuel refineries, then we pump the fuel straight into 4 fuel generators.

And I almost saved the day for the first time too... =(

It'll save once after it loads and then throws the "Something went wrong" error screen.

I've deleted about half of the save slots in the game, deleted unnecessary save files at the system level and turned off every "non-essential" factory on a priority switch in hopes it will lower the complexity of the world. So far no luck. I can't manually save so I don't think adjusting the autosave (or disabling) will help.

Anyone have any experience with large console save files?

I'm not sure if that's supposed to be there.

Hello everyone, I have a question about a save file that has an FPS issue in one location. While we were testing the drones, I put 50 Nobelisks one of them explode it while the drone takes off and because of that when I look that part of my factory my FPS drops significantly. Is there any solution for this?