Thank you to Prosperous Universe for sponsoring this video, check out the game for yourself here: prosperousuniverse.com/?WhatDarrenPlays& The Blueprints, Logistcs map, Power map and more will be available Dec 26th around 5PM UK time.
I personally would keep Copper Refineries, Keterium Refineries and Sheet Factory on one side. And Light Switches, Pumps and Sinks on another side. Especially as both Pumps and Sings go down. And it would simply look way batter having them aligned.
"I said it wasnt gonna be that complicated, I straight up lied." This line got me lmao, love this series and this build is everything i was hoping for and more. Awesome video
I'm an electrician. What you've done with your "cable runners" would be very similar to a bus duct if the metal beams themselves were the conductors rather than the wires. Each continuous cable going back to each disconnect (switch) represents a circuit. The room with all the switches is pretty analogous to a switchgear.
Hey Darren, I thought I'd share a way to use power outlets vertically. You can use a beam horizontal across the floor, rotate it, and attach a wall outlet on either side, from there you just connect the outlets to each other, and delete the beam if you want.
Keep it up Darren, your attention to detail is phenomenal. FYI - The giant billboards work as an amazing replacement for those old vanilla lights with the 'fog rays'. The light bounces and does all the good stuff. I dont use vanilla lights ever anymore. Cheers & Happy Holidays!
I love the way you found simple, blueprintable power management options, and the belt cutoff is a really nice touch. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into these builds.
This is the GOAT series of Satisfactory! For ppl keep asking "lock hologram", I think it is becoz you didn't mark this as Episode X, so there are new people hopping in every episode without context.
Wow, causually just dropping that it's a 7+ hour recording session! Makes me both happier at how slowly I'm progressing through the game and daunting at how I'm gonna struggle when I'm only committing a few hours a week to playing🫨 Loving the series though, so helpful and insightful as well as being enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work
New player here who is building along with you on the series, this is one of the most impressive series I’ve seen for teaching players. Yes the coal plant really challenged me as I had never even build a single factory before let alone that big thing but I felt very accomplished and still do when I fix something that messes up with it. I haven’t got to building the copper plant but I can’t wait, it’s gonna teach me so much stuff and take me 100 hours game lol but I’ve been loving it. And hopefully when 1.0 rolls around I’ll maybe start a new world and try my best to do things based on my own design to see what I’ve learned. Loving this though.
Man, BEST SATISFACTORY VIDEOS ON YT!!!! Your channel is so, so good..... Totally Outstanding! I cannot wait to see what and how you handle an oil base and Oil power. THANK YOU for all these!
absolutely love the series, never played satisfactory but watching you plan, build and troubleshoot the different factories gets my engineer brain waaaay excited
Darren, this is masterful / glorious / unhinged / wildly dedicated / extremely impressive. Thank you!! Hope you had a nice holiday time, and travel was gentle to you.
The amount of effort is crazy. I'm a big fan of doing power management, so this episode was extra interesting. On the mining enclosures, I actually think this one looks better than the closed ones you made, something about having minimum infrastructure on remote locations appeal more to me.
20:24 "Split Happens" ... I just found that really funny lol. Great video btw! I'm considering doing some vids on Satisfactory myself... I agree, lumen does look really good, except for the shadows...they're just too dark I think.
Hey Darren! Regarding why your trucks are stopping at the Coal truck station, it’s because of the way recording the routes works. Basically, when you record Truck paths, you don’t actually have to stop and press the unload/load key, you only have to go through the « bounding » box of the truck station, and it will automatically create a « Stop node » for the truck. This is why they are stopping at the Coal (refuel) Truck Station. To prevent them from stopping, all you have to do is hop on all of your trucks, show the paths, physically walk to the yellow stop sign under the truck station, interact with it, and delete it. They should still get refuelled, but they won’t stop.
Yeah I was actually experimenting with this, and once I noticed the node I removed it…. However it seems the trucks try to avoid the bounding box of the station, trying to go around or glitching through it, so I think I’ll probably just feed the coal over to the other stations, or, just let them stop on their way in as they seem to form a queue anyways which is fine, i was more worried they’d collide at the entrance or block it.
Hum, that’s weird. Could it be because removing the stop node now creates a slightly different path and the interpolation between the previous and next node makes it a bigger turn? To be honest I’m just speculating at this point. Trucks seem to work best when we are not looking at them unfortunately. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Hi Darren I don't know if it has been mentioned or if you know, but there is a way to take care of the outlet from the floor to a ceiling to not be a power pole like you are talking about around minute 39 of this video. If you use pillars and stack two on top if each other. So you can see one and one under that then delete the top one you can attach an outlet to the top of the pillar that will be flush with the floor after deleting the top one. 39:12. Then you delete the pillar, and and can put an outlet on the bottom of the foundation directly below then string them together 😊. Hope this helps. Excellent work otherwise
Seriously impressive that you (mostly) pre-planned all of this! The build is turning out really really nice, can't wait to see it after a cosmetic pass. Merry Christmas and happy new year Darren, and thanks for this mega-episode to end off the year!
I know I am late to the party for update 8, i haven't played since update 5 so I am excited to get back to it. Thank you so much for all your hard work not just with the video but also all the effort that went into organizing all of the blueprints ect for us to download! Well done sir!
Hey Bud, I have a potato PC that in NO WAY OR FORM will be able to play this game. I love following what you do and your effort is noticed. Seriously well done on the planning and execution.
You can manage the power lines a lot easier with priority power switches. Just run a main power line through the factory. Then put a priority power switch at each branch to the refinery block. The "A" circuit goes back to the main power line and the "B" circuit to the refinery block. You can then manage the priority power switches from any other priority power switch and turn off the switches remotely. It will allow you to eliminate all those power lines and blueprints for lines.
Priority power switches are like having a remote control anywhere you can tab into mains power you can build an additional switch and turn any other switch on and off. I think this would make it easy to do things like turn off belt locks while standing at the fluid buffers watching for the machines to fill up
If you use a beam to cross the gap of the foundation, you can attach a wall outlet to that, makes it look like a floor connection, instead of having the cables going through the floor
I tried building a warehouse with a row of truck stations, I had a similar issue where tractors driving past a truck station would automatically load/unload. I got annoyed with that (and their incessant getting stuck / physics glitching) and deleted the whole thing lol (using trains now instead... love that they have an actual rail forcing them to behave) edit: by the way, thanks for this holiday-time episode! you're amazing, and all your hard work is very appreciated! hope 2024 is a great year for you
I can’t afford to upgrade or fix my pc of 10 years and it offically broke down and died recently, satisfactory was my comfort game and being able to experience it again has been wonderful, thank you😊
Good to see you tackle the lighting. I'm in my first playthough, not following you but picking inspiration in your builds. For now there's only one type of ceiling light and it sucks, and the popular mod that adds more lights doesn't work with Lumen. I went with the metal beam across the ceiling and display attached to it, no power and no extra nasty wires on top of it. And a plus that the metal beam painted as deep black looks like conduit, makes the ceiling more busy.
Loving the build, yes the colours should represent the usage. I think you should start running global illumination now, looks good! Also it shouldn’t be B for basement but G or GF for ground floor or GL ground level.
Hey Darren, you figured out the wire clipping thru floor problem, you just only used it on the ceiling lol use the beams to place wall outlets on floor, thats what i be doing lol
So, the truck thing: if you drive even close to another station, you need to go back and delete that node before you save the route or it tries to pick up or drop off at every opportunity, not just the ones you planned. Super annoying and means you have to drive every route twice (especially if you're trying to do nice one way systems for your vehicles) because those nodes don't show up until you've completed the path. That said, I am in awe of the scope and planning of your builds. My current strategy is "as small as I can get away with" and "we'll finish the aesthetics later". Happy Christmas!
To address the fluid buffers at the bottom of the build that don't fill until the top ones are full; this I think is because buffers fill according to head lift, so if there isn't head lift, the buffer will fill and its providing head lift will increase and cap at its max when its full. If there is head lift, the buffer will not fill until there is no more room in the rest of the system after it.
I did not realize you could use the nobelisk to clear regular rocks! When v1.0 comes out, I'm going to be SO on top of my game. btw- if you aren't new to the game, would there be a better place to land other than that first area? On one hand, it is the place I'm most familiar with, but on the other hand, materials at the other locations are supposed to be better...
(unsure if this was realized recently or not) the pit stop for fuel does work, you have to have the station set to load but not have anything in it. you could delete the stop on the truck path, but then the truck wont get the fuel, it has to dock for that
My biggest takeaway from this as a intermediate player, is that I'm grossly underutilizing awesome sinks. The whole "throw all the ore into the sink when 'off'" is genius.
Hi Darren i love your videos. I just build the first 32 coal generators of the coal power plant but the pipes that go through the ceiling into the generators keeps on breaking. If it’s running after some time there won’t go any water through those parts anymore. But when I replace one of them the three generators in that line will go back on. Do you know how to fix that?
Hey Darren, Hope all is well. I'm a recent addition to the Satisfactory Universe and been playing about 4-5 weeks now. I was watching another one of your videos here from the past and remembered I wanted to ask you about the Blueprints [because you bang out lots of them and that's cool] to see what can be done when making "bigger pieces" and placements after the fact. Let me explain: I've made custom sections of Highway sections of road for an Elevated "freeway system" I'm making in preparation for getting trucks and begin making factory locations with truck support. Now my question: Is there a way to "adjust or nudge" huge pieces up or down [not back and forth but literal up and down] because I cannot for the life of me find a specific place out in mid air close or away that'll allow me to LINK my blueprint piece to the existing highway and save myself literal days of time on the build. Any suggestions? - Nyl of ShadowForged.
Thank you to Prosperous Universe for sponsoring this video, check out the game for yourself here: prosperousuniverse.com/?WhatDarrenPlays&
The Blueprints, Logistcs map, Power map and more will be available Dec 26th around 5PM UK time.
I personally would keep Copper Refineries, Keterium Refineries and Sheet Factory on one side.
And Light Switches, Pumps and Sinks on another side.
Especially as both Pumps and Sings go down. And it would simply look way batter having them aligned.
"I said it wasnt gonna be that complicated, I straight up lied." This line got me lmao, love this series and this build is everything i was hoping for and more. Awesome video
I'm an electrician. What you've done with your "cable runners" would be very similar to a bus duct if the metal beams themselves were the conductors rather than the wires. Each continuous cable going back to each disconnect (switch) represents a circuit. The room with all the switches is pretty analogous to a switchgear.
I have no idea how you kept all of this in order as well as you did. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
Thank you!
Hey Darren, I thought I'd share a way to use power outlets vertically. You can use a beam horizontal across the floor, rotate it, and attach a wall outlet on either side, from there you just connect the outlets to each other, and delete the beam if you want.
Legend status for posting this
Need a visual
Keep it up Darren, your attention to detail is phenomenal. FYI - The giant billboards work as an amazing replacement for those old vanilla lights with the 'fog rays'. The light bounces and does all the good stuff. I dont use vanilla lights ever anymore. Cheers & Happy Holidays!
This is.. insane. Props for your dedication, loving the series. Inspired me to reopen satisfactory myself the other day.
The zoom at 1:54:24 creating tension for the viewer was well made :P Good job on the vid.
Haha that emoji you’ve used is perfect
I love the way you found simple, blueprintable power management options, and the belt cutoff is a really nice touch. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into these builds.
Love the series. Thanks for all the hard work for our entertainment. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thank you! sorry I took so long to reply, just going over comments I missed and noticed I never said anything back. Thank you!
This is why you're my absolute favorite person. A Christmas video! And a like and comment for the engagement.
This is the GOAT series of Satisfactory! For ppl keep asking "lock hologram", I think it is becoz you didn't mark this as Episode X, so there are new people hopping in every episode without context.
Wow, causually just dropping that it's a 7+ hour recording session! Makes me both happier at how slowly I'm progressing through the game and daunting at how I'm gonna struggle when I'm only committing a few hours a week to playing🫨
Loving the series though, so helpful and insightful as well as being enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work
New player here who is building along with you on the series, this is one of the most impressive series I’ve seen for teaching players. Yes the coal plant really challenged me as I had never even build a single factory before let alone that big thing but I felt very accomplished and still do when I fix something that messes up with it. I haven’t got to building the copper plant but I can’t wait, it’s gonna teach me so much stuff and take me 100 hours game lol but I’ve been loving it. And hopefully when 1.0 rolls around I’ll maybe start a new world and try my best to do things based on my own design to see what I’ve learned. Loving this though.
started waching when the video was out.
just finished it.
respect for taking the time to make it
One of the most satisfying build videos, from any game, that I have ever seen. You are amazing. And thank you for providing all your stuff too.
Man, BEST SATISFACTORY VIDEOS ON YT!!!! Your channel is so, so good..... Totally Outstanding! I cannot wait to see what and how you handle an oil base and Oil power. THANK YOU for all these!
absolutely love the series, never played satisfactory but watching you plan, build and troubleshoot the different factories gets my engineer brain waaaay excited
Darren, this is masterful / glorious / unhinged / wildly dedicated / extremely impressive. Thank you!! Hope you had a nice holiday time, and travel was gentle to you.
My holiday begins tomorrow! Back then on the 31st! And thank you :)
The amount of effort is crazy. I'm a big fan of doing power management, so this episode was extra interesting. On the mining enclosures, I actually think this one looks better than the closed ones you made, something about having minimum infrastructure on remote locations appeal more to me.
I'm so glad you pointed out that hidden pump hole. I completely forgot about it too.
I've done vertical power shafts in my "underground" facility. Makes planing even more challenging :)
I've never been so happy to be behind on the series. I need a good binge of this content. Thanks for the great uploads!
20:24 "Split Happens" ... I just found that really funny lol. Great video btw! I'm considering doing some vids on Satisfactory myself... I agree, lumen does look really good, except for the shadows...they're just too dark I think.
18:25 LOL, love your honesty!
Those staircase signs are amazing! Awesome job! Everything is looking fantastic!
Love the idea of the ventilation floor that also allows you to hide the cables really well, the build is awesome I must say
The logistics is my absolute favorite part I love watching the various parts moving along the belts
Hey Darren! Regarding why your trucks are stopping at the Coal truck station, it’s because of the way recording the routes works.
Basically, when you record Truck paths, you don’t actually have to stop and press the unload/load key, you only have to go through the « bounding » box of the truck station, and it will automatically create a « Stop node » for the truck. This is why they are stopping at the Coal (refuel) Truck Station.
To prevent them from stopping, all you have to do is hop on all of your trucks, show the paths, physically walk to the yellow stop sign under the truck station, interact with it, and delete it. They should still get refuelled, but they won’t stop.
Yeah I was actually experimenting with this, and once I noticed the node I removed it…. However it seems the trucks try to avoid the bounding box of the station, trying to go around or glitching through it, so I think I’ll probably just feed the coal over to the other stations, or, just let them stop on their way in as they seem to form a queue anyways which is fine, i was more worried they’d collide at the entrance or block it.
Hum, that’s weird. Could it be because removing the stop node now creates a slightly different path and the interpolation between the previous and next node makes it a bigger turn?
To be honest I’m just speculating at this point. Trucks seem to work best when we are not looking at them unfortunately.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
1:54:50 The pipe has no decimals, but the valve has one decimal. At .4 and down you round down, at .5 and up you round up (Basic math)
Hey Darren, I think that the trucks automatically create nodes when you pass under a station you may have to go back into the routes and delete them
Love the build 😊 keep it up, watched all the way through 🙌 Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Darren! Love your stuff!
Sick final display there. Beautiful work.
Hi Darren I don't know if it has been mentioned or if you know, but there is a way to take care of the outlet from the floor to a ceiling to not be a power pole like you are talking about around minute 39 of this video. If you use pillars and stack two on top if each other. So you can see one and one under that then delete the top one you can attach an outlet to the top of the pillar that will be flush with the floor after deleting the top one. 39:12. Then you delete the pillar, and and can put an outlet on the bottom of the foundation directly below then string them together 😊. Hope this helps. Excellent work otherwise
Let's gooooo Christmas special 🎅
Seriously impressive that you (mostly) pre-planned all of this! The build is turning out really really nice, can't wait to see it after a cosmetic pass. Merry Christmas and happy new year Darren, and thanks for this mega-episode to end off the year!
Thank you for the great content. Really loving the series. More 2 hour episodes please ha ha
I know I am late to the party for update 8, i haven't played since update 5 so I am excited to get back to it. Thank you so much for all your hard work not just with the video but also all the effort that went into organizing all of the blueprints ect for us to download! Well done sir!
Hey Bud, I have a potato PC that in NO WAY OR FORM will be able to play this game. I love following what you do and your effort is noticed. Seriously well done on the planning and execution.
A 2 hour special couldn't have wished for a better Christmas present 🎁
Your world is lookin' fine! Thanks for such quality content 💯
Great planning mate. Very happy to see everything working smoothly.
Happy holidays
I really like you power management implementation. I'm going to use it in my factories.
24:40 “And that’s it” 😂😂😂
Loving the series!
Woahhh! Thanks darren
You can manage the power lines a lot easier with priority power switches. Just run a main power line through the factory. Then put a priority power switch at each branch to the refinery block. The "A" circuit goes back to the main power line and the "B" circuit to the refinery block.
You can then manage the priority power switches from any other priority power switch and turn off the switches remotely. It will allow you to eliminate all those power lines and blueprints for lines.
The best Christmas present I’ve received yet
It was the fastest 2 hours of my life !
Absolute perfection
Hey Darren I love your factorio playthrough!
I've been watching since your old satisfactory save. Congrats on the sponsor!
Much appreciated!
Really cool video ! Congrats on archiving this mega built !
Big applause for getting that factory run, master job.
I must admit I've been using your saves and blueprints for gaming for the last few days. Thank you very much 👍
Priority power switches are like having a remote control anywhere you can tab into mains power you can build an additional switch and turn any other switch on and off. I think this would make it easy to do things like turn off belt locks while standing at the fluid buffers watching for the machines to fill up
Magnificent! Thank you
If you use a beam to cross the gap of the foundation, you can attach a wall outlet to that, makes it look like a floor connection, instead of having the cables going through the floor
wow, what a nice surprize
Really nice with the Power Control Room :)
OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy damn, looks like the Death Star with Global Illumination! AWESOME!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! :D
Same to you! Happy New Year!
I tried building a warehouse with a row of truck stations, I had a similar issue where tractors driving past a truck station would automatically load/unload. I got annoyed with that (and their incessant getting stuck / physics glitching) and deleted the whole thing lol (using trains now instead... love that they have an actual rail forcing them to behave)
edit: by the way, thanks for this holiday-time episode! you're amazing, and all your hard work is very appreciated! hope 2024 is a great year for you
A little late, but if you turn on nodes you can delete the stop node
I can’t afford to upgrade or fix my pc of 10 years and it offically broke down and died recently, satisfactory was my comfort game and being able to experience it again has been wonderful, thank you😊
Good to see you tackle the lighting. I'm in my first playthough, not following you but picking inspiration in your builds.
For now there's only one type of ceiling light and it sucks, and the popular mod that adds more lights doesn't work with Lumen.
I went with the metal beam across the ceiling and display attached to it, no power and no extra nasty wires on top of it. And a plus that the metal beam painted as deep black looks like conduit, makes the ceiling more busy.
Everything looks great. Makes me wanna play again. ❤
Great video as always
TWO HOURS! LET'S GO!!!!!
For the algorithm! Love the content.
Loving the build, yes the colours should represent the usage. I think you should start running global illumination now, looks good! Also it shouldn’t be B for basement but G or GF for ground floor or GL ground level.
Merry Christmas Darren, love u
Thanks! Merry Christmas!
Been enjoying watching through all of the design decisions and whatnot. I'm curious how you have blueprints that are larger than 4x4
I dont have any blueprints larger than 4x4. They’re all available for download, no mods or tricks or cheats, they all fit within the designer.
@@WhatDarrenPlays I guess some of them being narrow makes them look larger than 4x4 lol, perspective eh? XD
amazing work
Hey Darren, you figured out the wire clipping thru floor problem, you just only used it on the ceiling lol use the beams to place wall outlets on floor, thats what i be doing lol
I love his narration 😂. Its like listening to a a building contractor reading his fanfic at me 🤣
You kidding me? I love logistics and conveyor belts!
So, the truck thing: if you drive even close to another station, you need to go back and delete that node before you save the route or it tries to pick up or drop off at every opportunity, not just the ones you planned. Super annoying and means you have to drive every route twice (especially if you're trying to do nice one way systems for your vehicles) because those nodes don't show up until you've completed the path.
That said, I am in awe of the scope and planning of your builds. My current strategy is "as small as I can get away with" and "we'll finish the aesthetics later". Happy Christmas!
To address the fluid buffers at the bottom of the build that don't fill until the top ones are full; this I think is because buffers fill according to head lift, so if there isn't head lift, the buffer will fill and its providing head lift will increase and cap at its max when its full. If there is head lift, the buffer will not fill until there is no more room in the rest of the system after it.
I did not realize you could use the nobelisk to clear regular rocks! When v1.0 comes out, I'm going to be SO on top of my game. btw- if you aren't new to the game, would there be a better place to land other than that first area? On one hand, it is the place I'm most familiar with, but on the other hand, materials at the other locations are supposed to be better...
(unsure if this was realized recently or not) the pit stop for fuel does work, you have to have the station set to load but not have anything in it. you could delete the stop on the truck path, but then the truck wont get the fuel, it has to dock for that
Man, those are the neatest power cables I have ever seen.
I like it when things are darker, I used to work in datacenters as a security guard and I like the massive dark building vibe.
My biggest takeaway from this as a intermediate player, is that I'm grossly underutilizing awesome sinks. The whole "throw all the ore into the sink when 'off'" is genius.
This guy is a beast
Thx a lot!
I havent finished all the videos yet, but I would be interested in a cosmetic focused video !
Hi Darren i love your videos. I just build the first 32 coal generators of the coal power plant but the pipes that go through the ceiling into the generators keeps on breaking. If it’s running after some time there won’t go any water through those parts anymore. But when I replace one of them the three generators in that line will go back on. Do you know how to fix that?
I’ve never felt more betrayed when you hyped up the animation and then walked away XD
It's bigger than expected because its a grower, not a show-er, Darren.
Hey Darren, Hope all is well. I'm a recent addition to the Satisfactory Universe and been playing about 4-5 weeks now. I was watching another one of your videos here from the past and remembered I wanted to ask you about the Blueprints [because you bang out lots of them and that's cool] to see what can be done when making "bigger pieces" and placements after the fact. Let me explain: I've made custom sections of Highway sections of road for an Elevated "freeway system" I'm making in preparation for getting trucks and begin making factory locations with truck support. Now my question: Is there a way to "adjust or nudge" huge pieces up or down [not back and forth but literal up and down] because I cannot for the life of me find a specific place out in mid air close or away that'll allow me to LINK my blueprint piece to the existing highway and save myself literal days of time on the build. Any suggestions? - Nyl of ShadowForged.
Darren: "It's actually relatively simple."
My brain: 🤯
2:50 me every project, ANY game.
This series slowly reminds me of Wall-e. All these factories, empty roads for a single person and their trucks.
Thank you for making my OCD happy! 😂❤
Hey Darren are you going to fix the belts that you place fast when building the truck stations?
I Think the Copper-Caterium factory could as well make oil with all the space. to get the oil to the build you might put the pipes under the road.
sub is confirmed.. this elevator is looking crazy with global illumination.. 🤯
Can't believe you blue balled me on seeing that hot glowing rod enter the hole
I;m playing the game while watching videos. Note to pioneers. The toxic spiders love to play dead.