Greetings Pioneer. First: Thank you so much for lowering the Outromusic-Volume. Your Build-Tip: Thanks for the great Showcase of the Heightsystem. You deliver great work, as always. Big Fan. :)
I loved this design when I discovered it -- especially the physics governing pumping water to a certain height more easily. I immediately set about to duplicate this design for my own game. It took me a week -- scores of hours to follow the example and figure out the tricks to sandwich payers and the rest. But I learned so much by doing that. Then an update (or errant mod) crashed my 500-hour game (I had completed everything including gathering all necessary resources to switch on nuclear power tier 8). Since no one has been able to help me salvage that game, I began again with all I had learned in the first one. Things went much more smoothly, especially with underground conveyors and Just Fly! I came to the point I needed much more power (without fuel as yet) and so I set about to use your system. But this time, rather than building the generators high above the water, I built them at water level and dispensed with the (very neat) balancing tower. In four hours I had 34 coal generators powered up with generous coal and water supplies. Your designs are beautiful, but I could never figure out how to move from beautiful factories producing some screws, plates, and rods, to utility factories pumping out high volume steady flows of basic materials required by stators, rotors, smart plating, motors, etc. You did show me the value of building factories upward, which was a great assist. I enjoy your soft-spoken, clear, and artistic videos, and I am looking forward to seeing the acres and acres of design required to produce 2500 versatile frames or 1000 modular engines. My present approach is to build these processes in (temporary) connected steps, since in my first game I wasted hours building a stand alone sequence for creating versatile frames, only to discover once you shoot the required number into space, you never need them again. (Unless the designers add these advanced elements as building blocks in future updates).
I’ve watched this video about 5 times now and I gain new knowledge each time! I also would love to see a steel factory guide. Keep up the beautiful aesthetics and simple tutorials. You have a talent for teaching complex things in a straight forward way. Kudos.
You are a savior for my analysis paralysis, i just reference your style when I try to build new stuff now haha. The sandwich layers might be the best thing since sliced bread!
Yeah, I used to get discouraged with builds trying to figure out how to make the belting look nice. It never even occurred to me to hide it in between floors and let it be an ugly mess in there.
Been playing pretty sporadically since Update 2 and now I'm drawn back to the game again. Must say these are the best guides I've found on youtube and I've seen a few of those. Keep it up!
I'm going back and watching all of your videos Scalti. They are great builds and very clean/efficient. Sometimes a mind boggle but that's my lack of understanding and not your presentation. Super calm and easy to watch, the number 1 content creator for Satisfactory builds.
I was looking on how many six water extractors can run 16 coal gens and found your channel doing just that. You earned a subscriber from me. Thanks so much.
Amazing ! I appreciate the aesthetic pride evident in your work ! My favourite aspect however is your in depth explanations about the engineering aspects- the design philosophy, the input/output maths &functionality explanation. They go hand-in-hand towards an effective instructional video. Keep up the great work !
Loving this content, this game become way more fun when I saw you can make things both efficient and beautiful. Do steel next, I'm on this tier and want to see what you come up with!
Was getting worried..glad to see you are back at it again..love the pipes idea..can't wait for more..my base is starting to look like all your videos strung together..😃
Haha. Took a week off because the new mic and mixer were coming in, then I had to spend a week trying to get it working and then another week when I needed to replace the cooler on my CPU.
I'm able to place a water extractor with 1m foundation blocks all around it, and then build a platform up and over the extractor, with two coal plants, and then another layer overtop that and using the soft overlay/overlap feature to stack two more coal plants within the smoke stacks of the layer below it. The end result is a 1:4 ratio of extractor to coal plant, with all four coal plants directly on top of the water extractor. It does require each building to contain a single fluid tank, and several pumps. But its super-compact and stays 100% filled on water, all from a single extractor. This seems to prove that at least some of the calculations in this ~2yr old video are a bit off on the current update. But still another really amazing video from Scalti. I've already used these videos to reproduce stator and reinforced plates factories... both of which look fantastic. I love the general design methodology, which once you "get it" becomes a lot easier to arbitrarily create other factories.
Would keep an eye on that. The recipe hasn’t changed. One extractor provides 120 water and one generator consumes 45 so you have a 60 water per minute difference on this system. The golden ratio for water and coal is 3:8
Your guides, presentation, building style and visual presentation (B-roll, whose numbers next to conveyors on one of your other videos) elevate you far above the "big" satisfactory youtubers. I just hope more people will find out about you, you deserve the recognition.
A water tower! Brilliant idea, admittedly you needed to load test your set up to ensure it actually works. I'm stealing the water tower idea though, being able to concentrate the pumps to one building is a fantastic design feature.
I used your Idea in my factory..... on a bigger scale for late early game and i love it I am going to use your fluid buffer idea to use less resources. Thank you for this video and the build idea it looks great in my game. Also I love your building ideas so I started using them.
Another Epic vid as ususal. Would love see a build along one fore this as well. I think a basic one showing how to build 8 coal generators would be handy.
I couldn't get mine to work properly after building almost the exact same thing, and watched your video multiple times over to see what i was doing wrong. I think it had to do with the layout under the water tower, cause shortly after that it's working just fine.
Going to have a go at building this soon, my current setup is a quarter the size. I know this is an older video now but the only thing I would love to have seen is the pipes inside the water tower. I haven't got a lot of experience with the pipes yet.
I really would love to see this guide as a build guide, somehow I still dont understand the water physics and the piping etc sorry mate, but none the less great content, love your channel buddy!
Thank you for such a great quality video. One wish: explain what the thing at the top of the water tower was, as a new player i was a little confused. Otherwise, EVERYTHING about this video was great!
It's just a fluid buffer. It stores liquid to help maintain consistent flow should whatever it feeds into require more than what can be provided from the source.
@@Scalti The shoe fits man, you are well within your rights to don the title! As long as we don't start calling Bob Ross the Scalti of painting, I think your modesty is intact :)
Love your channel and you gave me pretty cool ideas for my game in your videos. So please you or anyone that is watching, I am not criticizing Scalti the way he builds. His channel has great info and cool tips on Satisfactory. I know I am a bit late to the "party" on this video but you are using way to much stuff. I build my power plants in groups of 8 too, but using 3 water generators with no pumps, no buffers, etc. The only thing you cannot do is to increase the height of the coal generators too much. In preference building all at the water level. The way I do it, I do not need to overclock or underclock the generators and 3 water generators can fill the mk1 tubes. For reference: PP -> Coal Power Plant WE -> Water Extractor So for 8 PP's: So build 3 PP's. Align 1 WE to the 2nd one. Build 2 more PP's to create space. Build another group of 3 PP's and build a WE on the middle of the that last group of 3, Align with the middle PP like you did in the first 3. Then put a WE in the middle of the other 2 WE. So you now have something like this: PP PP PP PP PP PP PP PP WE WE WE The first WE feeds the firsts 3 PP's on the group. The 2nd WE feeds the 4th & 5th PP's the last WE feeds the last 3 PP's. So each WE pulls out 120m3. 3 PP's consume 45m3 of water at 100% using full power that gives 135m3. So, not enough. The WE's of each side besides feeding the 3 PP's in front also feed the middle WE. The overflow of the middle WE feeds the WE's at the sides since it is only feeding 2 PP's. This way you can maintain this running forever at 100% with no water loss. As for the coal, well, do the math but that is pretty easy to feed. Personally I like to use mk1 and mk2 belts to feed the coal to the PP's providing that I get a pure node. But by the time I do this, I already consolidated a lot of resources since at this time, usually we need even more coal because of steel. So to resume: -|- Pipe and "water junction" PP PP PP PP PP PP PP PP |----------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------|---------| WE |----|----| WE WE Here is the simple math: 3 Water extractors 360m3 of water; 1 PP 45 m3 of water consumption * 8 = 360m3 As long your factory does not surpass the power of all the generators, this will never break. What might happen if it breaks is if you screw your math with the coal, but that is another topic and easy to fix for everyone. The cool thing is that we can play around this with more stuff if we want to spend the materials. But I found this was the best setup to end power dependence in a early stage. I end up copying this even when reaching oil, I left those keep running. Thanks for the video & keep it up. 😉
It would be helpful to see you build this system. Your videos are awesome, but this is the only one that is prebuilt. where as I learn alot from you by seeing how you actully do the build.
Just found your channel today. I love the videos! Great design and explanations! Please keep them coming... My factory looks way more pro already 👍How about some great main bus and train videos?
Man, I'm loving your chan. I'm super confused about what is going on in that tower though. I kinda wish you had removed the panels to show what's inside. I'm sure it will make sense after I've played the game a lil more.
@@Scalti Man, you rock. I absolutely love your style of videos. My wife doesn't even play games and she's sat and watched every video with me. It's really nice to have a "Non-JackSepticEye-style" creator to turn to. Calm, cool and to the point.
I had no idea fluids were so complicated, I'm pretty slow and start over a lot, so I've only gotten up to starting to set up coal power. Anyway, your buildings all look so nice, great design in both form and function. Also, to wrap up in a more concise way, you just need to work out some ending catch phrase; Like, "Until next time, stay efficient and keep building!", or something like that. ;)
I have a question about the fluid limits on the pipes. The 3 water extractor transport 360 m³/minute water in the pipelines, you have 6 installed and they are all connected right? How this works with the 600 m³/minute limit on the pipelines? Edit: Btw, great guides on your channel. Loving your work.
The limit is 1,200 because there are 4 pipes. The max flow is 720. Each set of 3 extractors has 2 pipes so each set receives max flow of 600 when only 360 is needed. Hope this helps clear things up!
Freeform stuff is the way to go in the end. A "build along" type video for a computer factroy would be 2 hours long lol But great video again. I'm currently in the process of piping 50ish pipes to the mega base and will use a water tower design for sure now.
It's useful you can also do the same for fuel, so rather than packaging all your fuel to take to the top of a factory, you can use headlift to take one line to the top then connect it to the bottom - My only concern is this will be fixed at a later date, because though headlift works like this, currently you can add other extractors at the bottom of the circuit to pump more water, which actually goes against real life head lift mechanics but we'll see... until then I shall use it :D
@@TotalXclipse yeah I can foresee a 'count of pumps/pipelength' fix occuring some point. Though there will always be a way around the mechanics. I remember them saying the same about clipping functionality and such... But we will see :)
Nice layout very appealing to the eye its like you've been doing this forever errr lol 😆 but in any case good video dude keep it up and you can scale up pretty nice if other nodes are near that's also a plus :-D
I like this building layout, but I'm struggling with setting up the piping of the water towers ( can't figure how to go from 2 lines to four lines pipes without 4 water buffers.
You only need a single pipe with pumps going up to a single fluid buffer. Then on the output from the buffer you use a pipe splitter that turns the single output from the buffer into 3. Then one of those 3 pipes rejoins the ‘key pipe’ and those 4 pipes can be routed and elevated up to your coal generators. Revisit 6:23 for visual reference. Apologies for not making this as clear as I should have.
Hey, great video! I have a question though: if pipes can only do 300/min, and you only have 1 main pipe going up to the storage, isn't that limiting the amount? Is it possible to get a download of your world here since I've never seen a "water tower" method anywhere else
Nope! The water going to the extractors does not need to go up through that single ‘key pipe’. You just use that pipe route to tell the rest of the joined network that ‘water can get this high’ and it will do so without the use of pumps.
Very good looking and clever built! I've spent quite a time in order to do something similar with the pipes and while I managed, the only thing that I still struggle is showing the water indicator on the small pipes going out of the tower. Any tips how can I have it there or else they don't make any sense like this.
And the moment I posted it I think I realised what happened - my cuts are too small. Now the distance between the wall holes is bigger and everything is as it should be! :) Leaving this in case someone else has the same issue.
I did 2 mk 1 miners on 2 normal coal nodes for 120 coal/m but it seems like my coal cant keep up with the coal generator demand. My water demands are able to keep up just fine but the coal cant seem to do the same. Anybody else have this problem? Any ideas on how to fix it? Still rocking mk1 conveyers on most of the line, maybe if i make the whole line mk2 it'll help? Edit: figured out it was in the build itself, wasn't properly distributing the coal to the generators
Hi! New to the game but I like it so far. Your setup looks great, but I just got the the level of coal, so I'm a little confused by whats happening in your water tower. It would help to see the tower without the skin, or a how to vid on the whole setup for newbies.
Awesome video. The explanation on the piping for the actual build is a bit confusing for me. I understand the height parts in the mini lesson at the beginning, but since you didn't show the piping really in that buffer tower and how it all got split up inside that tower it's a bit confusing to understand how you're actually merging all of the pipes together there. Would have been nice when showing a build like this even if not step by step to have all the components visible so the viewers can really see it. Or maybe leave a link for a save file so we can see it ourselves if you don't want to go into that kind of details.
Dear Scalti, I noticed that your pipes enter your sandwich layer through floor pipe holes. I don't seem to be able to do this - is this done via a mod and if so, which one?
@@problemchild959 Thats funny that you respond with this after a content patch was applied to the game. I can assure you that before the content patch, those didn't exist.
@@Jila_Tana ok well just seemed like 6 months ago wasn't long. as a developer (not games) I know that even simple stuff can take a very long time so it just seemed an odd comment.
I'm having problems, in the sandwitch layer, where the pipe wall connections are too close to the pipe splitter (giving me an error and not allowing me to place). How would I go about fixing this problem? It's only happening for a couple of them too, like maybe 40% of them.
Hey! I'm a new sub. I was watching TotalXClipse's live stream, and he mentioned you were a content creator worth subbing to. He's hoping you'll tell him how to highlight the conveyors like you do in your guides :) (in your Tier 1 Iron and Copper Components video from July)
amazing video but I would love to see a build for build for this design or since it's been a year if theres a better design do a build for build for that for me I have a huge lake and trying to build this becasue I like how it is though I had it slightly off since theres no way to get precise measurements.
Hi Scalti, this is a great tutorial! Is it possible that you have the narration volume up a bit for the future? It will be greatly appreaciated! Keep up the good work!
Definitely. With each video I learn how to make them better. I think you’ll find my more recent videos have better balancing and my voice is more clear.
Congrats on the fantastic channel mate! One question about the pipe/watertower mechanics though. During your demonstration, the pumpless pipe going up to the watertank on the water extrator side shows opposite flow during your demonstration. Can you confirm that this flow reverses once the system fills up?
Can confirm. This setup works as shown. I recently uploaded a video on the water tower function in more detail and revisit the water tower in this build showing the inner workings. Would suggest giving that a watch as well if you haven’t already.
Excellent build yet again, well done. My gameworld is now looking good with your designs :-) In theory you would need no height pumps if you had a water tower at a high water source (e.g. above a waterfall) and then piped it to this build? but I love the water tower idea
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Greetings Pioneer.
First: Thank you so much for lowering the Outromusic-Volume.
Your Build-Tip: Thanks for the great Showcase of the Heightsystem.
You deliver great work, as always.
Big Fan. :)
German, by chance?
OK. I'm rebuilding everything after finding your channel.
i did just that lol
@@Chappers.Gaming same ...
Yeah exactly what im doing right now! Love how clean everything is! From your build to your vids! Keep em coming pls! Big fan!
Same...it's honestly kinda frustrating when you realize how trash your builds are when you look at one's that run so well 🤣
@@ClimberD-tn3xl ikr.. spaghetti everywhere..
It's been 3 years, but it's still the best guide video!
This is the best quality Chanel I have ever seen this early on! Keep it up I'm really enjoying the content!
Thank you so much!
Chanel No. 5 xd
I loved this design when I discovered it -- especially the physics governing pumping water to a certain height more easily. I immediately set about to duplicate this design for my own game. It took me a week -- scores of hours to follow the example and figure out the tricks to sandwich payers and the rest. But I learned so much by doing that. Then an update (or errant mod) crashed my 500-hour game (I had completed everything including gathering all necessary resources to switch on nuclear power tier 8).
Since no one has been able to help me salvage that game, I began again with all I had learned in the first one. Things went much more smoothly, especially with underground conveyors and Just Fly!
I came to the point I needed much more power (without fuel as yet) and so I set about to use your system. But this time, rather than building the generators high above the water, I built them at water level and dispensed with the (very neat) balancing tower.
In four hours I had 34 coal generators powered up with generous coal and water supplies.
Your designs are beautiful, but I could never figure out how to move from beautiful factories producing some screws, plates, and rods, to utility factories pumping out high volume steady flows of basic materials required by stators, rotors, smart plating, motors, etc.
You did show me the value of building factories upward, which was a great assist.
I enjoy your soft-spoken, clear, and artistic videos, and I am looking forward to seeing the acres and acres of design required to produce 2500 versatile frames or 1000 modular engines. My present approach is to build these processes in (temporary) connected steps, since in my first game I wasted hours building a stand alone sequence for creating versatile frames, only to discover once you shoot the required number into space, you never need them again. (Unless the designers add these advanced elements as building blocks in future updates).
I’ve watched this video about 5 times now and I gain new knowledge each time! I also would love to see a steel factory guide. Keep up the beautiful aesthetics and simple tutorials. You have a talent for teaching complex things in a straight forward way. Kudos.
You are a savior for my analysis paralysis, i just reference your style when I try to build new stuff now haha. The sandwich layers might be the best thing since sliced bread!
Yeah, I used to get discouraged with builds trying to figure out how to make the belting look nice. It never even occurred to me to hide it in between floors and let it be an ugly mess in there.
Been playing pretty sporadically since Update 2 and now I'm drawn back to the game again. Must say these are the best guides I've found on youtube and I've seen a few of those. Keep it up!
Appreciate that. It means a lot!
I know this isn't new anymore, but WOW man, your builds are GORGEOUS!! Great job.
His builds suck. What are you talking about?
@@justin9744 Y u mad about a fun little game bro?
I'm going back and watching all of your videos Scalti. They are great builds and very clean/efficient. Sometimes a mind boggle but that's my lack of understanding and not your presentation. Super calm and easy to watch, the number 1 content creator for Satisfactory builds.
I was looking on how many six water extractors can run 16 coal gens and found your channel doing just that. You earned a subscriber from me. Thanks so much.
Scatli, My man. You're killing it, love the videos and I am always excited to see what you produce.
I have a new factory in the design stage for some steel items. Stay tuned
Amazing ! I appreciate the aesthetic pride evident in your work ! My favourite aspect however is your in depth explanations about the engineering aspects- the design philosophy, the input/output maths &functionality explanation.
They go hand-in-hand towards an effective instructional video. Keep up the great work !
I'm formally dubbing your building stye Scalti style. Especially when I start getting into making guides myself.
Excellent tip on the water mechanics! I've never seen this before.
Can't you just use one pump and then split the pipe after the pump?
@@garyhamilton2104 You need a specific amount of water, the pump can't provide enough water alone.
Loving this content, this game become way more fun when I saw you can make things both efficient and beautiful. Do steel next, I'm on this tier and want to see what you come up with!
I love your soothing and calm voice and way of explaining. Your videos are a pleasure and the explanations are on point! Thank you!
After pouring through tons of ideas for a coal plant this is still one of my favorites!
The new one (Ep4) I think you’re going to like as well.
its so sad your not doing a guide on this build... Its so pretty - love your videos man :)
yeah i would love to see a guide of this being done
Next you should do a steel factory. Loving the builds keep up the great work.
Fantastic video. I've watched all your Satisfactory videos more than once. Straight to the point and easy to digest.
Wish I could leave a new like every time I re-watch one of your videos.
God damn your builds are so neat! I love the way everything is tucked away. Wo der what your main factory looks like.
Really appreciate this vid, and your other videos - clear, to the point, and always nice, clean builds that inspire!
Cheers!
Was getting worried..glad to see you are back at it again..love the pipes idea..can't wait for more..my base is starting to look like all your videos strung together..😃
Haha. Took a week off because the new mic and mixer were coming in, then I had to spend a week trying to get it working and then another week when I needed to replace the cooler on my CPU.
I'm able to place a water extractor with 1m foundation blocks all around it, and then build a platform up and over the extractor, with two coal plants, and then another layer overtop that and using the soft overlay/overlap feature to stack two more coal plants within the smoke stacks of the layer below it. The end result is a 1:4 ratio of extractor to coal plant, with all four coal plants directly on top of the water extractor. It does require each building to contain a single fluid tank, and several pumps. But its super-compact and stays 100% filled on water, all from a single extractor.
This seems to prove that at least some of the calculations in this ~2yr old video are a bit off on the current update. But still another really amazing video from Scalti. I've already used these videos to reproduce stator and reinforced plates factories... both of which look fantastic. I love the general design methodology, which once you "get it" becomes a lot easier to arbitrarily create other factories.
Would keep an eye on that. The recipe hasn’t changed. One extractor provides 120 water and one generator consumes 45 so you have a 60 water per minute difference on this system. The golden ratio for water and coal is 3:8
Your guides, presentation, building style and visual presentation (B-roll, whose numbers next to conveyors on one of your other videos) elevate you far above the "big" satisfactory youtubers. I just hope more people will find out about you, you deserve the recognition.
A water tower! Brilliant idea, admittedly you needed to load test your set up to ensure it actually works. I'm stealing the water tower idea though, being able to concentrate the pumps to one building is a fantastic design feature.
the water tower kinda blew my mind! thanks
Another awesome build, and not over complicated and to the point build, I like it!
Thank you for the excellent water level explanation. I was aware of it but not the details.
Another nice guide sir. Don't stress about free form and rambling. You are doing a great job. Love the style and editing. More content, please! >8)
Man I'm your No.1 fan from now on.
Love all your videos thus far, really looking forward to the higher Tier factory designs you come up with!
Best satisfactory channel bro
Good job Scalti ! Love your content.
Love the clean covered setup
I used your Idea in my factory..... on a bigger scale for late early game and i love it I am going to use your fluid buffer idea to use less resources. Thank you for this video and the build idea it looks great in my game. Also I love your building ideas so I started using them.
Coal is probably my favorite power source in the game, completely self sufficient, no waste generated, cheap to make late game, it’s perfect
Another really nice build! Keep it up
Me: happy I built an automated 600MW spaghetti power “factory”
This guy:
Another Epic vid as ususal. Would love see a build along one fore this as well. I think a basic one showing how to build 8 coal generators would be handy.
A primer / pressure pump, awesome idea. So far Ive only built low with water and not dived into elevating it yet
I couldn't get mine to work properly after building almost the exact same thing, and watched your video multiple times over to see what i was doing wrong. I think it had to do with the layout under the water tower, cause shortly after that it's working just fine.
Love your vids man, I'm learning so many new techniques!
Awesome content mate. Appreciate all the info you're pumping out. 😉
Did not know about the water trick with the buffers. Very clever creating artificial pressure to elevate the water.
Buffers aren’t needed. Just easier to show fluid levels.
Nice explanation. Allowed me to make 1200 MW in a rather small water location that fit only 6 water extractors.
Tanks, I'll use this to rebuild my coal power plant
Great vid, would love to know how you split the pipes into the rising tower first though, having a heck of a time fitting it
Going to have a go at building this soon, my current setup is a quarter the size. I know this is an older video now but the only thing I would love to have seen is the pipes inside the water tower. I haven't got a lot of experience with the pipes yet.
Check my 2nd to last video covering fluid mechanics. It’s in there as well as a more in-depth water tower demonstration.
@@Scalti That's great. Thank you.
I really would love to see this guide as a build guide, somehow I still dont understand the water physics and the piping etc sorry mate, but none the less great content, love your channel buddy!
I’ll see about putting together a ‘fluids guide’ in the near future.
i like that first row of coal plants, its waiting to be expanded!
Love your stuff man, you're doing great! :D
Hello Scalti,
thanks for your videos. I wanted to ask if you could do your Coal Generator building again with the new things?
Thank you for such a great quality video. One wish: explain what the thing at the top of the water tower was, as a new player i was a little confused. Otherwise, EVERYTHING about this video was great!
It's just a fluid buffer. It stores liquid to help maintain consistent flow should whatever it feeds into require more than what can be provided from the source.
He is the Bob Ross of satisfactory
That is far too great a compliment to compare me to someone of such significant cultural importance.
@@Scalti The shoe fits man, you are well within your rights to don the title!
As long as we don't start calling Bob Ross the Scalti of painting, I think your modesty is intact :)
Love your channel and you gave me pretty cool ideas for my game in your videos.
So please you or anyone that is watching, I am not criticizing Scalti the way he builds.
His channel has great info and cool tips on Satisfactory.
I know I am a bit late to the "party" on this video but you are using way to much stuff.
I build my power plants in groups of 8 too, but using 3 water generators with no pumps, no buffers, etc. The only thing you cannot do is to increase the height of the coal generators too much. In preference building all at the water level. The way I do it, I do not need to overclock or underclock the generators and 3 water generators can fill the mk1 tubes.
For reference:
PP -> Coal Power Plant
WE -> Water Extractor
So for 8 PP's:
So build 3 PP's. Align 1 WE to the 2nd one. Build 2 more PP's to create space. Build another group of 3 PP's and build a WE on the middle of the that last group of 3, Align with the middle PP like you did in the first 3. Then put a WE in the middle of the other 2 WE.
So you now have something like this:
PP PP PP PP PP PP PP PP
WE WE WE
The first WE feeds the firsts 3 PP's on the group. The 2nd WE feeds the 4th & 5th PP's the last WE feeds the last 3 PP's.
So each WE pulls out 120m3. 3 PP's consume 45m3 of water at 100% using full power that gives 135m3. So, not enough.
The WE's of each side besides feeding the 3 PP's in front also feed the middle WE. The overflow of the middle WE feeds the WE's at the sides since it is only feeding 2 PP's.
This way you can maintain this running forever at 100% with no water loss.
As for the coal, well, do the math but that is pretty easy to feed. Personally I like to use mk1 and mk2 belts to feed the coal to the PP's providing that I get a pure node. But by the time I do this, I already consolidated a lot of resources since at this time, usually we need even more coal because of steel.
So to resume:
-|- Pipe and "water junction"
PP PP PP PP PP PP PP PP
|----------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
WE |----|----| WE
WE
Here is the simple math:
3 Water extractors 360m3 of water;
1 PP 45 m3 of water consumption * 8 = 360m3
As long your factory does not surpass the power of all the generators, this will never break. What might happen if it breaks is if you screw your math with the coal, but that is another topic and easy to fix for everyone.
The cool thing is that we can play around this with more stuff if we want to spend the materials. But I found this was the best setup to end power dependence in a early stage. I end up copying this even when reaching oil, I left those keep running.
Thanks for the video & keep it up.
😉
Could you please do a step by step build guide for this system? I'd love to rebuild it in my world :D
What a great idea, keep trying to copy it but get lost lol
It would be helpful to see you build this system.
Your videos are awesome, but this is the only one that is prebuilt. where as I learn alot from you by seeing how you actully do the build.
Nice tutorial. I like your ideas a lot ;)
You must be a generator because this video has me electrified!
Good work! Looks so clean
Just found your channel today. I love the videos! Great design and explanations! Please keep them coming... My factory looks way more pro already 👍How about some great main bus and train videos?
Bruh. You make this look so easy. My factory is shit.
Man, I'm loving your chan. I'm super confused about what is going on in that tower though. I kinda wish you had removed the panels to show what's inside. I'm sure it will make sense after I've played the game a lil more.
Will be working on a dedicated water tower video soon.
@@Scalti Man, you rock. I absolutely love your style of videos. My wife doesn't even play games and she's sat and watched every video with me. It's really nice to have a "Non-JackSepticEye-style" creator to turn to. Calm, cool and to the point.
@@Scalti Also... where do you get those white wall pieces. Is that from the "Already Painted" mod?
Color gun. Changing the upper left swatch affects all default color structures and future built ones.
Nice! Liked before I even watched it. Thanks for the video!
really great. love the looks. keep it up....
I had no idea fluids were so complicated, I'm pretty slow and start over a lot, so I've only gotten up to starting to set up coal power.
Anyway, your buildings all look so nice, great design in both form and function.
Also, to wrap up in a more concise way, you just need to work out some ending catch phrase; Like, "Until next time, stay efficient and keep building!", or something like that. ;)
Appreciate the feedback. I’ll take the ‘catch phrase’ into consideration. Maybe “Keep calm and build on” lol. We’ll see.
Rlly good stuff mate!
I really thought ARSM (or whatever it called) didn't exist... Then I discovered your Channel
Kepp up this Phenomenal Qualität 😍💪
Ohhh ffs, you are using one pump.. where as I had 48 of those in my complex.
You are awesome.
Please please please do a Steel video! This was greatly helpful, I didn't know a 240 could power 16 COAL GENERATORS!
I have a question about the fluid limits on the pipes. The 3 water extractor transport 360 m³/minute water in the pipelines, you have 6 installed and they are all connected right? How this works with the 600 m³/minute limit on the pipelines?
Edit: Btw, great guides on your channel. Loving your work.
The limit is 1,200 because there are 4 pipes. The max flow is 720. Each set of 3 extractors has 2 pipes so each set receives max flow of 600 when only 360 is needed.
Hope this helps clear things up!
@@Scalti Ohhh, okey, thanks for the quick answer
Freeform stuff is the way to go in the end. A "build along" type video for a computer factroy would be 2 hours long lol
But great video again. I'm currently in the process of piping 50ish pipes to the mega base and will use a water tower design for sure now.
i would love to see how you did piping in the water tower.
I love your videos. It would be great if you could share DropBox folders of the world so we could see how they work first hand!
All in due time. I have plans for something like this.
Always beautiful videos, thumbnails but dayumn that headlift thing has me thinking
It's useful you can also do the same for fuel, so rather than packaging all your fuel to take to the top of a factory, you can use headlift to take one line to the top then connect it to the bottom - My only concern is this will be fixed at a later date, because though headlift works like this, currently you can add other extractors at the bottom of the circuit to pump more water, which actually goes against real life head lift mechanics but we'll see... until then I shall use it :D
@@TotalXclipse yeah I can foresee a 'count of pumps/pipelength' fix occuring some point. Though there will always be a way around the mechanics. I remember them saying the same about clipping functionality and such... But we will see :)
Nice layout very appealing to the eye its like you've been doing this forever errr lol 😆 but in any case good video dude keep it up and you can scale up pretty nice if other nodes are near that's also a plus :-D
Defo watching all these! Fyi your playlists has some alpha gaming videos in there lol
Lol wut? I’ll take a look.
I like this building layout, but I'm struggling with setting up the piping of the water towers ( can't figure how to go from 2 lines to four lines pipes without 4 water buffers.
You only need a single pipe with pumps going up to a single fluid buffer. Then on the output from the buffer you use a pipe splitter that turns the single output from the buffer into 3. Then one of those 3 pipes rejoins the ‘key pipe’ and those 4 pipes can be routed and elevated up to your coal generators. Revisit 6:23 for visual reference.
Apologies for not making this as clear as I should have.
Hey, great video! I have a question though: if pipes can only do 300/min, and you only have 1 main pipe going up to the storage, isn't that limiting the amount? Is it possible to get a download of your world here since I've never seen a "water tower" method anywhere else
Nope! The water going to the extractors does not need to go up through that single ‘key pipe’. You just use that pipe route to tell the rest of the joined network that ‘water can get this high’ and it will do so without the use of pumps.
I just moved my coal generators from your exact location in hopes of a better node area, I'm gonna move back lol
would like to get a look inside the water tower to see how you used all 4 pipes coming from the 6 water extractors
Check out my Twitter and I’ll have it there by Monday.
Very good looking and clever built! I've spent quite a time in order to do something similar with the pipes and while I managed, the only thing that I still struggle is showing the water indicator on the small pipes going out of the tower. Any tips how can I have it there or else they don't make any sense like this.
And the moment I posted it I think I realised what happened - my cuts are too small. Now the distance between the wall holes is bigger and everything is as it should be! :) Leaving this in case someone else has the same issue.
Awesome video. I gotta ask; what font do you use for your video cover art? Super clean look!
Whats your alternate recipes you prize over the rest.... ? So wondering alternate recipe tier list?
Hi there, How did you place the pipes in the first pump column with the fluid buffer?
Check out my fluid mechanics video. I cover this in that video along with a more detailed explanation of the water tower mechanic.
@@Scalti thanks I found it, great help
I did 2 mk 1 miners on 2 normal coal nodes for 120 coal/m but it seems like my coal cant keep up with the coal generator demand. My water demands are able to keep up just fine but the coal cant seem to do the same. Anybody else have this problem? Any ideas on how to fix it?
Still rocking mk1 conveyers on most of the line, maybe if i make the whole line mk2 it'll help?
Edit: figured out it was in the build itself, wasn't properly distributing the coal to the generators
Hi! New to the game but I like it so far. Your setup looks great, but I just got the the level of coal, so I'm a little confused by whats happening in your water tower. It would help to see the tower without the skin, or a how to vid on the whole setup for newbies.
Awesome video. The explanation on the piping for the actual build is a bit confusing for me. I understand the height parts in the mini lesson at the beginning, but since you didn't show the piping really in that buffer tower and how it all got split up inside that tower it's a bit confusing to understand how you're actually merging all of the pipes together there. Would have been nice when showing a build like this even if not step by step to have all the components visible so the viewers can really see it. Or maybe leave a link for a save file so we can see it ourselves if you don't want to go into that kind of details.
Check out one of my recent videos ‘fluid mechanics’ and it shows the inner workings and explains the water tower concept in more detail.
@@Scalti Awesome, just watched the whole thing and it's perfect! Thank you! Great videos I really like your presentation style. Keep it up.
Dear Scalti, I noticed that your pipes enter your sandwich layer through floor pipe holes. I don't seem to be able to do this - is this done via a mod and if so, which one?
No mod. put the floor first and then pull a pipe through. There are no 'floor pipe holes' in the game.
@@Jila_Tana thats funny I bought them in the awesome shop and use them all the time. what you mean there is none in the game ?
you can buy floor holes from the awesome shop with tickets from sending excess resources to the sink.
@@problemchild959 Thats funny that you respond with this after a content patch was applied to the game. I can assure you that before the content patch, those didn't exist.
@@Jila_Tana ok well just seemed like 6 months ago wasn't long. as a developer (not games) I know that even simple stuff can take a very long time so it just seemed an odd comment.
I'm having problems, in the sandwitch layer, where the pipe wall connections are too close to the pipe splitter (giving me an error and not allowing me to place). How would I go about fixing this problem? It's only happening for a couple of them too, like maybe 40% of them.
Having this problem too right now
Great job with this!♥ i have a question, for the coal did u use Conveyor Belt mk2 or mk1?
Mk2
Hey! I'm a new sub. I was watching TotalXClipse's live stream, and he mentioned you were a content creator worth subbing to. He's hoping you'll tell him how to highlight the conveyors like you do in your guides :) (in your Tier 1 Iron and Copper Components video from July)
amazing video but I would love to see a build for build for this design or since it's been a year if theres a better design do a build for build for that for me I have a huge lake and trying to build this becasue I like how it is though I had it slightly off since theres no way to get precise measurements.
Hi Scalti, this is a great tutorial! Is it possible that you have the narration volume up a bit for the future? It will be greatly appreaciated! Keep up the good work!
Definitely. With each video I learn how to make them better. I think you’ll find my more recent videos have better balancing and my voice is more clear.
@@Scalti I did! Just watched a bunch of new stuff as I progressed along. Keep it up Scalti!
Can you make new guide for this setup?
Congrats on the fantastic channel mate!
One question about the pipe/watertower mechanics though. During your demonstration, the pumpless pipe going up to the watertank on the water extrator side shows opposite flow during your demonstration. Can you confirm that this flow reverses once the system fills up?
Can confirm. This setup works as shown. I recently uploaded a video on the water tower function in more detail and revisit the water tower in this build showing the inner workings. Would suggest giving that a watch as well if you haven’t already.
Excellent build yet again, well done. My gameworld is now looking good with your designs :-)
In theory you would need no height pumps if you had a water tower at a high water source (e.g. above a waterfall) and then piped it to this build? but I love the water tower idea
You are correct!
Glad you’re liking the content.
@@Scalti I am also enjoying building the infrastructure at the nodes rather than conveyors all the way back to a megabase...seems more realistic