definitely ^_^ I've been playing since Update 5 was on the cusp of general build and trying to find sweetspots in each spawn location. I might make a second floor balcony for more Concrete and some Copper Sheet production and go from there
I would love you to review my stater setup. One point though. It would be better to do these setups from ground, when jetpacks/hoverpacks are not unlocked
for sure! I'm new to the game and just found it on steam, started playing and after I got to coal power the struggle was real! trying not to die while getting to the resources is one thing, getting the resources back is another...
@@driesclairhout3196 Should be in the Rocky Desert starting location, near the west coast of the biome are plenty of normal nodes for the basic resources.
I always start thinking "i'll build something nice this time" and I always just randomly place everything in whatever orientation - no floor, walls, etc - and have 785 conveyor belts clipping one another, with just a vague memory of what's produced where to help me survive.
@@grantl3425 no matter what when watching these guides i always build 5-10 bigger on each side because if for whatever reason i dont get the spacing right atleast i dont have to stop what im doing to lay floors.
Honestly there needs to be more guides for smaller factory tutorials in this game. I think most people that go into this after watching videos is to make a mega base at the start. This is a perfect way of starting out. yes over time your total factory space did grow but following it and noticing the changes worked out well especially in the grassy plain start.
@@Mode-Selektor No joke. My first base is definitely terrible. Been trying to fix it, now seeing these videos i feel as if i started on the wrong foot.
I mean part of the fun of this game is leaning and growing I think you should follow any build your first time and have lots of spaghetti it’s so satisfying the second time around when you do better
I've been playing mega factory style for a couple of years (with the help of product transporters) and am transitioning to multiple smaller factories. Thanks so much for the tutorial. My factory is looking much nicer than anything I've done before!
What I've found helps is to future proof things by putting way more foundation space between setups than you think you'll need. And tap resources like a mad man. When I first started it took me and my friend hours to get up a few lvls. Now I can pump out more resources than I need for a while within an hour of starting over. Really excited to see what Xclipse recommends.
@@BananaNationTV you should try to advance in the game and not focus so much on making it perfect from the start. There is so much more in the game that you are missing out on
You have no idea how long it took me to find a video like this. Every Google result was someone's mega factory setup or tier 6+ advice and optimal setups. Meanwhile I've been struggling to keep up with my power and reinforcer plate consumption while I try to figure out more optimal builds. Thank you, so much
@@stefvanbussel2487 How? There are literally hundreds of videos on people's megabuilds, tier 457 milestones and "Super clean builds" and virtually no starter videos. Having played a while and confident in my abilties boy am I glad too because if I were looking for starting vids I'd just give up.
I just discovered this game earlier this week, so this tutorial came just in time. Felt very overwhelmed at first, but this guide was amazing and now, because of you, I feel like I'm getting the hang of things and this starter factory was an awesome foundation for understanding basic production functionality! Thank you!
@@DimeszTV lol yeah I've reached that point now. I've hit tier 6 and had several factories dotted over the map and now I hate my setups that I've done w/o tutorials and HEAVILY considering a restart 😑
Neat and tidy start! You can just place the smart splitters on the conveyors, no need to remove and put them back. (Also true for regular splitters/mergers)
If you sre still handcrafting or mining items a helpfull tip when manual mining open your inventory and let loose your mouse button mining will continue , when manualy crafting press space bar and click the sort button in the inventory window again the crafting will continue without having to keep pressing the button.
I think a misconception a lot of people go through in starting this game out is the ability to build like this with such ease. This is a fantastic starting video for people but I am afraid of people getting used to the concept of "flying indefinitely" to build, which they can't unlock until the Jetpack if you can even compare it with how unsteady it is. I know there are mods out there but I think most people going into this game will go in without mods or knowing there are mods. I know it doesn't make for an interesting video, but building without mods would be neat to dissect and look at.
No longer an issue since the Just Fly mod is now built into the game. See the Advanced Game Settings. I always disliked the Jetpack and have never used it. As for people not knowing about mods. Even a year ago I would say Most people knew about mods, but are under the Misconception that mods are Cheating or Evil.
@@jamiec8096 I personally just prefer games as they're intended without mods. If the devs want to add a feature in they saw from mods into the base of the game, then that's perfect for me lol.
Really great tutorial...I've been building this factory while playing/pausing your video, and I've learned so much about this game. I'm building all of this above my original starting base because of limited real estate. I've found an area with 3 pure iron nodes, 1 pure copper node and 1 pure limestone node, all within 150 meters of one another, but it's kind of hemmed in by stone cliffs. This was a perfect excuse to build a big platform above, and slowly deconstruct my original machines as I completed the various lines from your build. I'm just about to add the overflow pieces, but I'm already anxious to dive into the next video. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain and describe in such detail how to ramp up manufacturing of the basic components.
Ah, my guy, I know *exactly* which spot you're talking about. It's a wonderful spot, if a little on the cramped side. I started building my megafactory there, though I started it around the time Update 3 came out. I was super utilitarian at the time, so even though I took huge amounts of lateral and vertical space I ended up building these massive, hyper-cramped, difficult to navigate buildings. I'm thinking I want to tear it all down and start over, making something truly worthwhile with the space. Anyway, props to you have having a good eye for real estate lol
I think the biggest tip in the video was unspoken. Lay out your factory from an elevated position. It was so much easier to see where things needed to go from above.
8:05 you could have said that its possible to add more portabel miners to a node to speed up the process. Also helps alot to run there and grab 2k ore instead of 100 at a time
This. And those portable miners are mid term investments anyway, cause they'll be used up for the automated miners later, so it doesn't hurt to make 10 too much at the beginning.
@@Navajonkee And you only want the ores to handcraft the stuff for MAM research in the beginning before power is automated :D Too bad biofuel generators cant be feed with belts
I'm enjoying this game but feel overwhelmed, I enjoyed your video and it really helped me dive into the game more. Looking forward to your next installment in this series ! :)
It is very overwhelming for a while. Figure out the basic math, spend a lot of time in trial and error and you'll figure it out. The next video is where im struggling, getting efficient production of higher tier items in preparation for the next level after that. Sigh
The real suffering comes with plastic. You unlock a whole new type of material: fluids, they are different in every way and the logistics of transporting them are also different. The plastic factory was a nightmare for me in my first playthrough.
I think this video really shows the importance of aesthetic building design. At first, it didn't really look like something above my building level, then you added the entirely non functional shell and POW it looks like a slick factory.
Wonderful starting layout! I just picked up Satisfactory and am starting again after making a terrible mess of choosing my starting location and building my first factory. I'm going to be using this as the basis for my factory. I'm going to swap around the sections though because of where my resource nodes are. It'll be biomass, copper, concrete, then iron for me.
Great guide but there is a COLOSSAL playtime gap between the conveyer belt mk2 upgrade and smart splitters. I'm talking a good ten hours. For you to research smart splitters, you need gold. To be able to mine gold, you need to blow up the boulder on top of gold ore deposits. That requires explosives which requires sulfur which requires mining sulfur as well as sulfur research and getting a ton of other collectibles / research up. Since I'm a newb maybe I'm missing something but I feel like you could have mentioned that or idk. Nonetheless its still an amazing guide. Thank you!.
'm not sure - it really depends on your pace. For example the first space elevator speed time is less than half an hour. I normally take 4 hours to do the first space elevator phase but at the same time, the caterium doesn't necessarily need to have a boulder removed, most of them don't have boulders and even those that do can be manually mined if thats what you want to do, by placing a portable miner on the node the boulders on. Again though, there is no rush, take it at your leisure 🙂
@@TotalXclipse Ahh I didn't know that not all caterium have a boulder on top. I went to 2 different spots and assumed it was every single caterium deposit. Will try to find a new spot. Thanks.
This is the best starter tutorial I have seen thus far! Thank you soooo much! Can't wait for the next ones! I started playing on Update 5. You would rage if you saw my world. Spaghetti does not even come close to the atrocity that that it is hehe. My second playthrough will start after I finish the last Space Elevator requirement. I am working on that now. Thank you so very much!
How is this the best, he just put stuff down. No explanation on how to lay multiple tiles for the grid, no explanation on how to FLY?!!! What? I cannot fly. And what is creative mode? From what I've played the game is pretty restrictive and building seems horrible. With all the building type games out there, how can this seem like a 1995 game.
We need this video yes, but break it down into maybe 100 simpler videos for the non-advanced super lightspeed users. Us regular folk need basic english to figure things out
Thanks for the guide, but should carbon generators have an underclock or something like that? Mine turn off every 2 minutes because the carbon is not enough to generate energy
Sounds like my journey with factorio, another awesome game of the same genre, if you don’t know it don’t be put off by it’s art style, the game is a beast of a factory builder.
@@BananaNationTV no I completely understand what you’re saying and I’m kind of the same, it took me a few attempts to get into factorio but once it got its hooks into me it was very hard to put down. I can also recommend Riftbreaker, a slightly different take on a base building game and it’s “pretty” as well. 👍
Nice factory. Simple, efficient and manageable for the eyes. The only thing i would have changed though is to only use 1 Sink and handcraft a couple of RIPs for a MK2 belt, as it is the most energy expensive building at this state.
Thank you, this is a great starting point. After mucking about for a few hours to unlock tiers and gather resources, I re-designed my starter base inspired by this video.
I love ur vids, but there is one thing' that I would like to have: It would make me very happy, if you say, how many materials I need, or you say, how many constructurs/Merger and so on I need, that I can give it into my ToDo list and it woudn't take so long, to get all the materials. If you would tell me, how many I need of these, it would make me very happy
this is extremely useful, my first factories were spaghetti centered around my hub. They also sucked at being efficient. this makes everything so much easier and so easy to see.
i have redesigned my starter base like 5 times already by myself just by discovering small things on my own, no wonder people need to put thousands of hours into one save file if they want to have Giga factories
If the Alt. Cast Screw is unlocked, you can rework your Screws/Rods lines to snug an assembler for rotors (the screw/rods mergers are directly feeding smart splitters priorizing the Assembler, storage unit is filled from Assembler Overflow); once the Alt. stiched Iron plates is unlocked, you can do the same between Steel plates and wires and voilà :)
I could have, although I wouldn't say it's necessary to the factory - though it is nice. I don't think this build is on the world grid, but I could be mistaken :D
I have played for 909 hours & yet I have trouble when I am building the last items, I never even got nuclear. I like your builds, I do not mind you flying but using items that have not been researched spoils the tutorial. Please just use it as if it was a first start.
not gonna lie, the first 2 tiers feel very slow. I'll often get toa point where I'm just AFKing, waiting for my stuff to finish making what I need so I can advance the space elevator.
I don't like if you place one constructor next to another, because the moving parts of them will clip. I leave a gap of at least two units between them. The game is different if you don't play in creative mode and if you don't cheat.
Nice tutorial however the power requirement for running all that is insane and that's what killed all the fun for me. I quickly tried to push through Coal power but seeing how much material was needed just to build a coal plant I gave up. Game is fun, but the power grind is just too much for me.
Thanks! I've picked this up 2 days ago and I have like mini factories all over the place. The gold-like stuff is somewhere in the woods, crystals on a cliff and copper as well and I made seperate little factories with their own bioburner. Running around etc. But I would still need seperate bioburners for mining then right? Or do you hook them up to this factory?
excellent video! i just started playing and this helped alot. Quick question though. everything seems to work fine but for somereason the smart splitter for the cables isnt overflowing up to the conveyor lift. i checked all the directions of the mergers up top, the splitter and the lift everything seeems fine and the obvious thing to check is that the storage is full, and it is. but for some reason the cables are not going up. every other lift is working with the splitter. what did i do wrong?
probably too late to help but you probably have either you're splitter or elevator input outputs the wrong way around so the goods simply aren't moving. I did this in the early days and took me ages to find out what I had done wrong
I wanna know how are you playing in builder mode or whatever it's called? I noticed some of materials missing and you were still able to make smelter and constructors...
How can I fly or use this top-down view? It is so hard to build these big machines in a good layout when standing right in front of them. I just can't seem to keep to overview of the layout.
Got so many questions, How do you copy these placed parts that you are re-using elsewhere, How did you raised the conveyor belts.. I am trying to keep an eye out for hotkeys and so on but it seems like hidden?
No they don't and yes they are 😉 You need AI limiters which can even be handcrafted and easily researched as long as you have caterium. You're thinking of programmable splitters.
You can get smart splitters almost immediately, all you need is to research caterium in the MAM and have access to copper sheet. Even then, you can use the starter factory without smart splitters, you'd just be storing half the amount...
Loving the vids on this man gives me an idea on how to go about setting up a factory but was wondering if I were to upload your save game how would you go about doing that anyway??
Honestly, until I send off my first payload in the space elevator, I don't bother building anything nice. It feels great setting up a proper factory when I have tons of resources so I can place all the buildings and flooring I need at the same time, and just work on the factory when I have more free time. That's why my first build is put down as fast as possible in any possible direction without worrying about clipping. Once I build the factory later and have it ready, I just quickly replace the miner and build it on top of 4m high foundations, get an elevator straight into the miner and route it right onto the factory. THEN I can take my time removing the mess without sacrificing too much efficiency.
@@TotalXclipse So, the iron production, is that all coming from one pure node that is then split into 2 lines? One feeds one set of smelters and the other feeds the other set of smelters? I am getting ready to do the second stage of the basic factory setup, your second video, and i was looking at how the lines were setup, but you never actually showed the line setup in this video.
Nothing too fancy?! Really? So much afford for the first setup which will be rebuild as soon as better marks are available... Wow... Looks beautiful - I must admit.
I actually do have another question. How do you figure out how big of a foundation you need? You mentioned 16x10 but I was wondering how you arrived at those dimensions.
Very nice, very clear steps and instructions, not to mention the accent and timbre of the voice really excel this video. I just had to listen at 1.25 speed though. 😆
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So are you thinking about downloading the save and showing me what you can do with the starter factory?
definitely ^_^ I've been playing since Update 5 was on the cusp of general build and trying to find sweetspots in each spawn location. I might make a second floor balcony for more Concrete and some Copper Sheet production and go from there
I would love you to review my stater setup.
One point though. It would be better to do these setups from ground, when jetpacks/hoverpacks are not unlocked
for sure! I'm new to the game and just found it on steam, started playing and after I got to coal power the struggle was real! trying not to die while getting to the resources is one thing, getting the resources back is another...
Hey, Where is this location located? I've been looking for a place where the 3 resources are nicely together and normal. Great video
@@driesclairhout3196 Should be in the Rocky Desert starting location, near the west coast of the biome are plenty of normal nodes for the basic resources.
"Nothing fancy" he says.
I always start thinking "i'll build something nice this time" and I always just randomly place everything in whatever orientation - no floor, walls, etc - and have 785 conveyor belts clipping one another, with just a vague memory of what's produced where to help me survive.
My exact experience.
@@ryanmcdonald7992 I'm trying to actually build all nice and clean this time, let's see how far I get lol
xd i'm exactly the same
And then i have to demolish and rebuild seven times every time i advance…
@@farfa2937 how’s it all going?
1:42
"We're gonna build this 16 wide by 10 deep"
*proceeds to build 17x10*
lmao i was thinking the same thing
and then gets even bigger by the latter parts when adding the biomass burners and then the awesome sinks at either end lol
I wish I'd read the comments first lol. I thought I was going crazy when I got to the biomass part and I was a row short.
@@grantl3425 no matter what when watching these guides i always build 5-10 bigger on each side because if for whatever reason i dont get the spacing right atleast i dont have to stop what im doing to lay floors.
Honestly there needs to be more guides for smaller factory tutorials in this game. I think most people that go into this after watching videos is to make a mega base at the start. This is a perfect way of starting out. yes over time your total factory space did grow but following it and noticing the changes worked out well especially in the grassy plain start.
Agreed. The issue with building big, is that unless you really know what you're doing you are ALWAYS going to mess it up somewhere.
@@Mode-Selektor No joke. My first base is definitely terrible. Been trying to fix it, now seeing these videos i feel as if i started on the wrong foot.
Some line prefabs would be nice to learn.
I mean part of the fun of this game is leaning and growing I think you should follow any build your first time and have lots of spaghetti it’s so satisfying the second time around when you do better
I've been playing mega factory style for a couple of years (with the help of product transporters) and am transitioning to multiple smaller factories. Thanks so much for the tutorial. My factory is looking much nicer than anything I've done before!
looking forward to it, restarted so many times.never been past lvl 4 so any help is appreciated.
What I've found helps is to future proof things by putting way more foundation space between setups than you think you'll need. And tap resources like a mad man. When I first started it took me and my friend hours to get up a few lvls. Now I can pump out more resources than I need for a while within an hour of starting over. Really excited to see what Xclipse recommends.
Use an auto-typer to press the “E” key every second. This reduces index-finger fatigue when you are picking up leaves.
I’ve barely made it to oil processing and have nearly 1000 hours in game. Keep trying to make things pretty from the beginning
I always stall once I get to oil and plastic production. It just becomes too much to handle.
@@BananaNationTV you should try to advance in the game and not focus so much on making it perfect from the start. There is so much more in the game that you are missing out on
You have no idea how long it took me to find a video like this. Every Google result was someone's mega factory setup or tier 6+ advice and optimal setups. Meanwhile I've been struggling to keep up with my power and reinforcer plate consumption while I try to figure out more optimal builds.
Thank you, so much
For me it's the opposite, I can only find the starter factories. Even tho I want the Tier 6+ factories.
@@stefvanbussel2487 How? There are literally hundreds of videos on people's megabuilds, tier 457 milestones and "Super clean builds" and virtually no starter videos. Having played a while and confident in my abilties boy am I glad too because if I were looking for starting vids I'd just give up.
I just discovered this game earlier this week, so this tutorial came just in time. Felt very overwhelmed at first, but this guide was amazing and now, because of you, I feel like I'm getting the hang of things and this starter factory was an awesome foundation for understanding basic production functionality! Thank you!
Get ready to start over 1000 times I made it to the last tiers and started over cuz I got annoyed lmao
@@DimeszTV lol yeah I've reached that point now. I've hit tier 6 and had several factories dotted over the map and now I hate my setups that I've done w/o tutorials and HEAVILY considering a restart 😑
Neat and tidy start!
You can just place the smart splitters on the conveyors, no need to remove and put them back.
(Also true for regular splitters/mergers)
Good to know. It gets annoying putting them in and deleting stuff.
If you sre still handcrafting or mining items a helpfull tip when manual mining open your inventory and let loose your mouse button mining will continue , when manualy crafting press space bar and click the sort button in the inventory window again the crafting will continue without having to keep pressing the button.
I think a misconception a lot of people go through in starting this game out is the ability to build like this with such ease. This is a fantastic starting video for people but I am afraid of people getting used to the concept of "flying indefinitely" to build, which they can't unlock until the Jetpack if you can even compare it with how unsteady it is. I know there are mods out there but I think most people going into this game will go in without mods or knowing there are mods. I know it doesn't make for an interesting video, but building without mods would be neat to dissect and look at.
Yeah, the lookout tower helps tho
No longer an issue since the Just Fly mod is now built into the game. See the Advanced Game Settings. I always disliked the Jetpack and have never used it. As for people not knowing about mods. Even a year ago I would say Most people knew about mods, but are under the Misconception that mods are Cheating or Evil.
@@jamiec8096
I personally just prefer games as they're intended without mods. If the devs want to add a feature in they saw from mods into the base of the game, then that's perfect for me lol.
Really great tutorial...I've been building this factory while playing/pausing your video, and I've learned so much about this game. I'm building all of this above my original starting base because of limited real estate. I've found an area with 3 pure iron nodes, 1 pure copper node and 1 pure limestone node, all within 150 meters of one another, but it's kind of hemmed in by stone cliffs. This was a perfect excuse to build a big platform above, and slowly deconstruct my original machines as I completed the various lines from your build. I'm just about to add the overflow pieces, but I'm already anxious to dive into the next video.
Thanks so much for taking the time to explain and describe in such detail how to ramp up manufacturing of the basic components.
Ah, my guy, I know *exactly* which spot you're talking about. It's a wonderful spot, if a little on the cramped side. I started building my megafactory there, though I started it around the time Update 3 came out. I was super utilitarian at the time, so even though I took huge amounts of lateral and vertical space I ended up building these massive, hyper-cramped, difficult to navigate buildings. I'm thinking I want to tear it all down and start over, making something truly worthwhile with the space.
Anyway, props to you have having a good eye for real estate lol
Are you guys talking about western slopes? I started mega factory there too.
12:11 for a good overview :thumbsup:
Thanks, 24 minuts compressed into 1 frame. like we want.
I think the biggest tip in the video was unspoken. Lay out your factory from an elevated position. It was so much easier to see where things needed to go from above.
Thank you. There is one thing that I didn't like and that was all the cuts because they kinda confused me but apart from that, Great video. 👍
so what's the exact ratio of underclock to get full eficiency on the concrete constructor ??
nvm I found it it's 10 production of concrete per min ;)
Nice video overall. But not removing plants and trees poking through the foundations really Bugs me. Like at around the 6 minute point.
8:05 you could have said that its possible to add more portabel miners to a node to speed up the process. Also helps alot to run there and grab 2k ore instead of 100 at a time
This. And those portable miners are mid term investments anyway, cause they'll be used up for the automated miners later, so it doesn't hurt to make 10 too much at the beginning.
@@Navajonkee And you only want the ores to handcraft the stuff for MAM research in the beginning before power is automated :D Too bad biofuel generators cant be feed with belts
@@liiiinder If it becomes a hassle to refill them with solid biofuel, then you've far overstayed their welcome anyway. :D
so clean neat and beginner-friendly, I like it. is there a follow up for the starter steel setup?
Thanks mate, I'm doing a full rebuild of my factory based on your video.
Takes me hours, but funnier than just download a save...
23:16 TotalXclipse "It's certainly nothing too fancy..."
Me: *who still builds windowless giantcubes and calls them factories* "IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!!!!"
Awesome content!!
I think you did the grid with 17x10 instead of 16x10 😬!!
Thank you for everithing!
I'm enjoying this game but feel overwhelmed, I enjoyed your video and it really helped me dive into the game more. Looking forward to your next installment in this series ! :)
It is very overwhelming for a while. Figure out the basic math, spend a lot of time in trial and error and you'll figure it out.
The next video is where im struggling, getting efficient production of higher tier items in preparation for the next level after that.
Sigh
The real suffering comes with plastic. You unlock a whole new type of material: fluids, they are different in every way and the logistics of transporting them are also different. The plastic factory was a nightmare for me in my first playthrough.
@24:15 There is my name! Great video Total!
I think this video really shows the importance of aesthetic building design. At first, it didn't really look like something above my building level, then you added the entirely non functional shell and POW it looks like a slick factory.
Wonderful starting layout! I just picked up Satisfactory and am starting again after making a terrible mess of choosing my starting location and building my first factory. I'm going to be using this as the basis for my factory. I'm going to swap around the sections though because of where my resource nodes are. It'll be biomass, copper, concrete, then iron for me.
important tipp: BUILD FROM A LOOKOUT TOWER ITS SO GOOD
"It's certainly nothing too fancy" meanwhile in my world of no foundations, walls, organization and spaghetti
It must be so much easier to build while flying
I'm curious your reason for always using the vertical lifts instead of having the belts ramp up or down
Cleaner. Ramped belts look messy and silly, and they always get in the way
Great guide but there is a COLOSSAL playtime gap between the conveyer belt mk2 upgrade and smart splitters. I'm talking a good ten hours. For you to research smart splitters, you need gold. To be able to mine gold, you need to blow up the boulder on top of gold ore deposits. That requires explosives which requires sulfur which requires mining sulfur as well as sulfur research and getting a ton of other collectibles / research up. Since I'm a newb maybe I'm missing something but I feel like you could have mentioned that or idk. Nonetheless its still an amazing guide. Thank you!.
'm not sure - it really depends on your pace. For example the first space elevator speed time is less than half an hour. I normally take 4 hours to do the first space elevator phase but at the same time, the caterium doesn't necessarily need to have a boulder removed, most of them don't have boulders and even those that do can be manually mined if thats what you want to do, by placing a portable miner on the node the boulders on. Again though, there is no rush, take it at your leisure 🙂
@@TotalXclipse Ahh I didn't know that not all caterium have a boulder on top. I went to 2 different spots and assumed it was every single caterium deposit. Will try to find a new spot. Thanks.
This is the best starter tutorial I have seen thus far! Thank you soooo much! Can't wait for the next ones! I started playing on Update 5. You would rage if you saw my world. Spaghetti does not even come close to the atrocity that that it is hehe. My second playthrough will start after I finish the last Space Elevator requirement. I am working on that now. Thank you so very much!
How is this the best, he just put stuff down. No explanation on how to lay multiple tiles for the grid, no explanation on how to FLY?!!! What? I cannot fly. And what is creative mode? From what I've played the game is pretty restrictive and building seems horrible. With all the building type games out there, how can this seem like a 1995 game.
We need this video yes, but break it down into maybe 100 simpler videos for the non-advanced super lightspeed users. Us regular folk need basic english to figure things out
Dang, I missed out on using Smart Splitters to sink excess resources. Instead I made Container-topia! Lol
Wonderful. Packed up my base, moved to the complete opposite side of the map, then used this as a quickstart for my new base development. Very cool.
How do you pack it all up? I have so many resources it would take dozens of trips...
@@MrDmitriRavenoff I used a tractor. Took a while but I was able to cram most of the important stuff in and drive for like an hour lol.
Thanks for the guide, but should carbon generators have an underclock or something like that? Mine turn off every 2 minutes because the carbon is not enough to generate energy
You can also burn flower petals in your biomass burners. They stack to 500 and burn at 18 per min. Which is the same as wood haha.
way more effective to turn it into solid biomass
@@TwistingGamesThat would be awesome! Although I don't think there is a recipie that turns flower petals into biomass.
Watching this helps me realize how well ive built my starter base after many, many hours of trial and error and about 3 or 4 restarts lol
Sounds like my journey with factorio, another awesome game of the same genre, if you don’t know it don’t be put off by it’s art style, the game is a beast of a factory builder.
@@Manic.miner2077 true but the art style is so much of this game for me, it’s sooooo pretty
@@BananaNationTV no I completely understand what you’re saying and I’m kind of the same, it took me a few attempts to get into factorio but once it got its hooks into me it was very hard to put down.
I can also recommend Riftbreaker, a slightly different take on a base building game and it’s “pretty” as well. 👍
Nice factory. Simple, efficient and manageable for the eyes. The only thing i would have changed though is to only use 1 Sink and handcraft a couple of RIPs for a MK2 belt, as it is the most energy expensive building at this state.
This vid was exacly what i needed for some clear overview of wat i wanted to do with my beginning base! Thanks a lot!
You would need 8 Bio generators if you tried to run 3 Awesome sinks at once on a starter factory 😅
Thank you, this is a great starting point. After mucking about for a few hours to unlock tiers and gather resources, I re-designed my starter base inspired by this video.
I love ur vids, but there is one thing' that I would like to have: It would make me very happy, if you say, how many materials I need, or you say, how many constructurs/Merger and so on I need, that I can give it into my ToDo list and it woudn't take so long, to get all the materials. If you would tell me, how many I need of these, it would make me very happy
Can someone try to explain where in the rocky desert he is building this? I can’t seem to find the spot.
this is extremely useful, my first factories were spaghetti centered around my hub. They also sucked at being efficient. this makes everything so much easier and so easy to see.
i have redesigned my starter base like 5 times already by myself just by discovering small things on my own, no wonder people need to put thousands of hours into one save file if they want to have Giga factories
Bruh Same!!
My adhd denies me the patient's let alone organisation to perform such a lovely looking factory. Spaghetti junctions all the way baby 🤣🤣
18:19 that video never showed up in the top right...what was it?
If the Alt. Cast Screw is unlocked, you can rework your Screws/Rods lines to snug an assembler for rotors (the screw/rods mergers are directly feeding smart splitters priorizing the Assembler, storage unit is filled from Assembler Overflow); once the Alt. stiched Iron plates is unlocked, you can do the same between Steel plates and wires and voilà :)
Nice Video! But you all always miss telling people how to lay the FIRST foundation, holding strg to place it on the world grid!
I could have, although I wouldn't say it's necessary to the factory - though it is nice. I don't think this build is on the world grid, but I could be mistaken :D
@@TotalXclipse it’s slightly off angle. Like less than 4 scrolls on free placement. Very close but no, not on the world grid
Started in the Northern Forest, having trouble finding a flat spot as big as this one...
Doesn't necessarily need to be flat, as you can build above the terrain, just be careful not to fall!
Going to watch this and do a 'build-along' now :D
how would you create a more advanced factory that uses those parts? would you create a new building? or extend? or build up?
I have played for 909 hours & yet I have trouble when I am building the last items, I never even got nuclear. I like your builds, I do not mind you flying but using items that have not been researched spoils the tutorial. Please just use it as if it was a first start.
This video is just perfect
not gonna lie, the first 2 tiers feel very slow. I'll often get toa point where I'm just AFKing, waiting for my stuff to finish making what I need so I can advance the space elevator.
Anyone able to tell me why I have 5 coal plants that can't seem to produce enough power to run with nothing hooked up other than tf water extractor.
Where is this Location? Which starter area?
Thanks for this, I was having issues with efficiency, and this answered most of those questions! Keep up the great work!
What is that overhead view when building? That’s what annoys me now is not being able to see what I am doing. Is it a mod or setting I missed?
Is it just me or is that a 17 x 10 not a 16 x 10 as stated ? Also love your vids and your work thanks
I don't like if you place one constructor next to another, because the moving parts of them will clip. I leave a gap of at least two units between them. The game is different if you don't play in creative mode and if you don't cheat.
This is 10x17 not 10x16 as stated, got really confused then went back and counted
could you please explain to me how the overflow works? I always thought a normal splitter sends items 50/50? or is that a smart splitter?
You've probably already figured it out, but just in case....he unlocked smart splitters and used that for the overflow.
I’m building this with under clocking unlocked what should I under clock my concrete line at
Nice tutorial however the power requirement for running all that is insane and that's what killed all the fun for me. I quickly tried to push through Coal power but seeing how much material was needed just to build a coal plant I gave up. Game is fun, but the power grind is just too much for me.
mods is your best friend
Thanks! I've picked this up 2 days ago and I have like mini factories all over the place. The gold-like stuff is somewhere in the woods, crystals on a cliff and copper as well and I made seperate little factories with their own bioburner. Running around etc. But I would still need seperate bioburners for mining then right? Or do you hook them up to this factory?
When you unlock coal, I would recommend connecting them all to one network for now 🙂
what if you're using pure nodes? isnt this ratio off?
My things aren’t even running, the ores are just sitting at the first splitter doing nothing, everything is running and has power
I love these guides, but how can you stand the clipping of the constructor arms
excellent video! i just started playing and this helped alot. Quick question though. everything seems to work fine but for somereason the smart splitter for the cables isnt overflowing up to the conveyor lift.
i checked all the directions of the mergers up top, the splitter and the lift everything seeems fine and the obvious thing to check is that the storage is full, and it is. but for some reason the cables are not going up. every other lift is working with the splitter. what did i do wrong?
probably too late to help but you probably have either you're splitter or elevator input outputs the wrong way around so the goods simply aren't moving. I did this in the early days and took me ages to find out what I had done wrong
I wanna know how are you playing in builder mode or whatever it's called? I noticed some of materials missing and you were still able to make smelter and constructors...
I mention in the video that I'm using Pak Utility for creative mode.
Can you make a video about how to make a factory for heavy modular frames? Preferably using trucks :) Thanks :)
What would be the correct overclocking rate for Concrete production once I unlock it?
How can I fly or use this top-down view? It is so hard to build these big machines in a good layout when standing right in front of them. I just can't seem to keep to overview of the layout.
Got so many questions, How do you copy these placed parts that you are re-using elsewhere, How did you raised the conveyor belts.. I am trying to keep an eye out for hotkeys and so on but it seems like hidden?
Can someone explain why efficiency matters in a game with no goals? The most efficient factory in the game is the one you never build.
Efficiency matters simply to itch a satisfactory itch. Play the game how you want. No pressure to do it a specific way 😊
how do you enable crative
*creative, it's a mod he already said that
I don’t understand why you have three separate conveyers to three awesome sinks.
A high quality video!
Smart Splitters need Curcit Boards , they not availbale for beginners
No they don't and yes they are 😉
You need AI limiters which can even be handcrafted and easily researched as long as you have caterium. You're thinking of programmable splitters.
You missed out one important fact, this is not a even a good starter factory because smart splitters are not available till pretty far into the game.
You can get smart splitters almost immediately, all you need is to research caterium in the MAM and have access to copper sheet. Even then, you can use the starter factory without smart splitters, you'd just be storing half the amount...
Stupid question - How is it possible that you fly? XD.
Loving the vids on this man gives me an idea on how to go about setting up a factory but was wondering if I were to upload your save game how would you go about doing that anyway??
I’m only on hub lv 3 so I have no clue what this is all about, but good vid anyway!
The video was useful UNTIL 'Smart splitter unlocked" just like that in the video OMG (that's a HUGE jump in real game)
Huge jump? You can unlock it in the mam as soon as you unlock copper sheets! 😅
I have never used the Smart Splitter. Never seen the need for it.
How do you download it? Downloaded it to my computer but how do I actually get it linked to satisfactory
Put it in your satisfactory save folder ☺️
im having a power grid failure and for the life of me cant figure it out lol
Honestly, until I send off my first payload in the space elevator, I don't bother building anything nice. It feels great setting up a proper factory when I have tons of resources so I can place all the buildings and flooring I need at the same time, and just work on the factory when I have more free time. That's why my first build is put down as fast as possible in any possible direction without worrying about clipping. Once I build the factory later and have it ready, I just quickly replace the miner and build it on top of 4m high foundations, get an elevator straight into the miner and route it right onto the factory. THEN I can take my time removing the mess without sacrificing too much efficiency.
I don't have the yet but I am byeing it soon so this will help me a lot
Where on the map is he building? I want to go this spot and build, but I want to look at my own "starter" setup, but I like his location.
Any help?
Rocky desert west coast
@@TotalXclipse So, the iron production, is that all coming from one pure node that is then split into 2 lines? One feeds one set of smelters and the other feeds the other set of smelters? I am getting ready to do the second stage of the basic factory setup, your second video, and i was looking at how the lines were setup, but you never actually showed the line setup in this video.
Does someone have the song thats playing in the background
Nothing too fancy?! Really? So much afford for the first setup which will be rebuild as soon as better marks are available... Wow... Looks beautiful - I must admit.
"nothing too fancy"
le me - building spaghetti steel factory on bare earth
Don't be me, at least do yourself a favor and ALWAYS build on foundations.
I actually do have another question. How do you figure out how big of a foundation you need? You mentioned 16x10 but I was wondering how you arrived at those dimensions.
By building a certain size, then realizing it's not big enough.
Simple as that lol
He actually went several tiles bigger from my copy and paste
Im convinced this guy loves saying "constructor"
How did you make those windows smaller on the one side? It's throwing Mr roof off
Very nice, very clear steps and instructions, not to mention the accent and timbre of the voice really excel this video. I just had to listen at 1.25 speed though. 😆
How can you fly to create de factory ?
Is it a mod ? or you have to do it with tower from the usual game ?
For the video I used Pak utility to fly a mod
How to build in creative mode or from above like that?