How to build an EFFICIENT Satisfactory Coal Generator Setup! (Satisfactory Update 7)
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- How to build an EFFICIENT Satisfactory Coal Generator Setup!
Satisfactory Update 7 Coal Power Guide!
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In this Satisfactory Beginners Guide, I'm covering how to build an efficient Coal Generator Setup. I'll go over some tips and tricks and what to do if you have access to overclocking.
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I really struggled with saying "Cubic Meters per Minute" a ton for some reason 😂. What guide do you want to see next?
I would love to see a efficient Nuclear setup.
Nuclear setup next
Efficient munitions factory
"meters cubed per minute" can be a helpful alternative
Kiloliter
Not a single word wasted. All the info you need, in the right order, no fluff. Perfect
Just use the right amount of coal.
There we go, I did it even better and I didn't have to watch the video.
Setting up that first coal generator plant is the best. Freedom from no longer feeding Biomass Burners! Thanks for the video!
Always helps to pay attention to the numbers. I'm working on my first playthrough of the game and I swear I have destroyed just as much as I have built. You build it... your proud of the accomplishments.. then you realize just how jank it is... well.. take it all down and start again! 😅 I try to use water buffers over using pumps. I haven't put it to the test with water.. but it works good for other fluids
Yea this is a numbers game. Once you figure that out you usually do good. Buffers would help especially when you run out of power to get it started again. :)
@@spectrumdad_ based off the tests that I've done.. the buffers will push water up hill. It's just the fluid in the buffer must be able to raise higher then the level your pushing the fluid. And a valve and the end of the pipe to ensure fluid doesn't push back down jaming up my machines. been using this method to hide my pipes under my builds. Now.. I'm obviously no pro and there could definitely be something else going on that's making this work for me.
This is the best feeling in the world! Finally deleting all these machines I have making solid biofuel and putting that chainsaw away! Freedom! I’m just gonna sit here and watch these coal generators for a minute and bask in the beauty of not having to do anything to keep it running.
This is so real
Just got into Satisfactory and unlocked coal as a power source and was confused on how to get it to work, this guide helped alot thanks so much! :)
I really enjoy your build videos, very clear, straight forward and easy to follow. Thank you
Simple, to the point, and efficient. Great guide. Hope to see more.
Simple and Straight to the Point, that's how I like my Guides. Thank You.
If anyone is seeing their power not stable, add 1 more water extractor. There 2 m3 now so you'll need an extra to account for what's missing, hope this helps
Works for me
Thank you!!!
Whats up with the water pressure, i had some sudden water issues out of nowhere today while playing... It messed me up for a good hour, i guess flushing helps getting pressure back?
The proper fix is to follow the step where he said to let the pipes fill up before starting the generators
If the pipes aren't totally full the fluid sloshes around, which can lead to dry patches and starve the generators...
If you let the pipe fully full first sloshing isn't possible.
Full pipes are happy pipes!
Also some Biggs around trying to push the extract max through a pipe can result in a similar issue, it's best not to use a pipe more than 90-95%% of its rated capacity unless it's a very simple pipe network with only 1 main fluid source
@@rileyboomer8627ayo
Insomnia has brought me here earlier than expected 😁 this video will be super helpful for new players to get automated power going super easy. My favorite part is that you explained why you want to prime up both input lines before firing up the system! Best advice ever! I am always telling friends that one!
Thanks! Glad you liked it! Yea that‘S important. A lot of people have issues with that.
Clear, concise and to the point. Love it!
Thank you SO much for providing builds that don't use overclocking. I struggle with the MAM (scared to explore :-) ) and lots of teachers only mention very efficient, over-clocked builds. Your style also makes the most sense to me. It's like we prioritize the same things in this game. As a newbie, thank you!!
Great guide! I'm back for a refresher after a year. I couldn't remember the specifics of this setup, but i'm good to go as you explain all that is needed very well, thanks! :)
Thank you for the clear and concise tutorial. This really helped!
Hey, thanks for the help man. Feels so good not having to rely on biomass anymore now that everything is connected to this.
You make the best Satisfactory guides man, keep it up!
Always feed fluids from above the entry point to the build . Angle the joint up 45*, to prevent flow back, or pump into a fluid buffer, again above the entry point.
thanks for the guide! took me like 3 hours to build this, I am very new to satisfactory ^^ now I only need to drag the power to my base that is not very close. Also was funny when I realized that I have to power coal miner first as well as water extractor before you can start coal gens. Had to run back to base for some wires ^^
So incredibly helpful and no nonsense. Thank you!
Very nice and simple layout.
The video is very good too.
Great job.
Some build guides on later building materials would be awesome! The OCD in me won't let me rest on set ups. Your build guides help me get under control. 🤣🤣
This is a great short video. I am working on this now. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the help! Didnt know that connecting the pumps would increase flow.
Nice video men clear and concise, keep it up!! since spain
Very helpful, informative, and best of all, SHORT! THANKS
Great video dude, I've used your set up twice so far, I want to expand the power station to use more then 8 coal plants but I'm not too sure about the water flow to generator ratio so I dont want to make something inefficient. Thanks for this video!.
The setup I have currently is 16 generators, and 8 water extractors. I underclocked each water extractor so that each one gathers 90 water per minute, which then splits between two generators each.
Super helpful, thanks!
Perfect guide!😀
Great video!! It’s really helpful!! 😊
Thanks! glad you found it useful!
WAIT YOU CAN COMBINE THE ENERGY FROM ALL THE COAL GENERATORS INTO ONE POWER LINE??!!! My life is now changed forever.
Also, to those saying “I don’t have enough coal. I just can’t fill the generators fast enough.” If it’s within your patience, go find 2 other coal nodes. Split the coal manifold into 3 sections (1 section of conveyers going into 2 generators, then 2 sections of conveyers going into 3 generators each) this will supply you with enough coal to prevent the generators from ever running out of coal.
Similarly, are you struggling to get ores through the manifolds of any of his other tutorials? Simply split the manifold into 2 parts, 1 miner per part.
Hope this helped!
One of the few who mentions the benefit (in MW) of underclocking the water pumps to 90 instead of 120. Thumbs up!.
Thanks! I know people like that efficiency sometimes :)
great beginner setup! personally my first coal plant i stumbled into compacted coal and never looked back. I dont believe i have ever used normal coal.
Thanks! I usually rush coal too quick to get compacted, but that definitely works!
Best design I have seen for efficiency
good video, very coherent
Thank you!
Really helpful video!
Thanks :)
Nice Video, now I need a steel factory video :D
In the works :)
Super video and huge help. How are you up in the air like that building?
Thanks for this layout, just the episode I needed, I'm on my coal generator setup now and my belts are mk3 and pipes are mk 2 , got 8 coal generators and 4 water extractors, the only problem I have is the fuse keeps cutting out , might have to follow your setup and let everything fill up 1st, that's the only thing I forgot to do
Yea usually letting it fill helps. If you are at mk3 you might be able to double the generators too.
@@spectrumdad_ okay thanks 😊
i struggled with power and coal and pipes for water for so long! I followed your video and ended up going back to my coal generators, redoing everything and now I've got a steady 2400 MW of power :D I am so freaking happy thank you so much. Your video helped me simply everything so freaking up I appreciate it a ton! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Oh that's a manifold? Neat.
Also, theres a way to prevent backflow by putting an inverted 'u' on the pipelines
Can you do a tutorial (besides the quick short video) of how you did the compact 16 factory?
Mouse Scroll to Turn Pipes!! Awesome! (Only 2nd day playing)
I’m having a hard time keeping the coal going to the farther generators. I’m getting steady coal production but they keep running out.
I am relatively new to Satisfactory and have found your videos very helpful!! Keep up the great work!! I do have one question in regards to beacons … they don’t seem to work like they use to….now When you plant one down it doesn’t show up on the ground so you can name it anymore more …..it does recognize it in the compass at the top of the screen though ….. just wondering if there is a new way you are suppose to use them that I am not aware of??
beacons just add a marker in your map, you need to unlock the map though, from there you can edit/colour/delete etc
satisfying
Fucking love the OCD in these.
Im watching before i get into coal so i have a slight idea of where im heading. Need to go find water furst, then decide where to build it, then i will follow this video again
Was not able place that segment of belt if it is not snaped to the lift. Only way to make it snap to place the spliter first.
that helped a lot but i dont know how to transfer that energy to my base and what if my biogenerators run out of stuff will the whole thing shut down?
Goos guide., I'd like to see one for Nuclear power.
Thanks! It’s planned!
is the miner mk1 or mk2, and the belts trougth miner and generators are mk1? so mk2 also for the distribution?
How come for me one of the water extractors is barley taking any water up which causes some of the generators to be not filled with water
You should do a video on aluminum.
worked great but the coal machines at the end started losing Coal faster than they were getting them. my belts are mk2 connecting each other but my main one to my coal deposit is a mk1 so i assume it’s that?
How do I use the power the coal generators produce?
mt generators are running out of coal. it seems as though they are burning faster than the mk2 conveyors are able to load them in if that makes any sense... any tips?
how are you powering the water pumps
Anyone who might need this like I did.
Pipes (mk1) have a 300m^3 of water flow, and a coal generator takes 45m^3 of flow. This means that you can only support like 6 generators for optimal power efficiency.
I've rebuilt my power supply twice, when all I needed to do was fix my piping lol.
Exactly what I needed, and saved me a search on the wiki, thanks. I thought that 8 generators was a little much for Mk 1 pipes, even if you can use 3 water extractors to supply water for 8 coal generators, the pipes themselves max out at 60m^3 less than that.
@@ronjohnson2760 Hence why you need the 3rd pipe if going for 8 generators with 3 pumps. That extra pipe carries the remaining 60m^3 that you need
The reason this works is how water flowing works in pipes. Everytime water hits a junction, it splits evenly across the pipes. So because the water extractors are inserting at different places in the main pipe, and there are machines taking the water in between, it works for all 8 with the 3 extractors because there is not 1 pipe in there that NEEDS to go over 300 due to the proper water displacement mechanic. I'll have to do a video on this.
What type of power source are you using to power up the cold generator and the extractors
@@djhitman6661 probably biofuel. Cheap and ez to get a temp setup going for
Equal split coal insures that every generator has fuel in case of a restart.
i set mine up the same as the video but my last 3 coal generators never have enough coal. I have even added an extra coal miner to have more coal but it doesnt seem to help
I have a habit of keeping biofuel burners near the water extractors to act as a just in case so I can refill my pipes after doing a reconfiguration
Good reason to have switches between workzones when running a central power grid, cut off certain areas to jump start in phases, like if you accidentally overfill your nuclear waste production and all the reactors shut down, then you can at least isolate the reactors so you can restart them easily, granted, youll have to shut down consumption on the rest of the grid, which I suppose it wouldnt hurt to actually create a central hub for power control and distribution. Putting a battery bank to assist.
I’m having issues keeping my generators fueled with coal using this setup. I have two normal coal nodes filling up both sides of this setup using tier 2 conveyor belts, and it still doesn’t keep the 4th generator on each side fueled so the power fluctuates. Does this setup need tier 2+ miners and pure nodes to work?
I really hope the pipe placement wont get the whole thing messed up, its kinda jank, but its been working so far, Thanks!
As long as the extractor junctions are every 2 coal generators like I show you should be good!
I think you overcomplicating water tubes. You can simply place 2 water ext from on side of generators and 3rd from the other side. Then connect them with one pipe, water will distribute as intended.
But its nice to see that this game provide many solutions
Yea there is many different ways to do that layout!
Ok, I am asking the satisfactory community. I have watched this video from beginning to end, then end to beginning. I have filled the pipes with water first and then coal to the max, before connecting it all together. It works excellent in the beginning. But a couple minutes later I then get the Fluctuating power. I am lost the only way I have found to fix the issue is to overclock the water system. Any pointers?
at 3:35 what is that first power line connected to??
Hey there. How did you manage to put items down in your bar? I can't get it to work in my game. Awesome video. Will be trying that later today.
You just hover over the buildable in the build menu and hit the let’s say 1 button to put it in the first slot.
@@spectrumdad_ Awesome thank you.
is it worth to overclock the miners so I could feed more coal generators?
Is Make 3 of everything okay instead of 2? Thanks !
thank you :)
You’re welcome 😉
@@spectrumdad_ since youre here can you please tell me if its a good idea to expand the coal generators to 16 instead of 8? or is it better to just overclock? i dont have much use of power shards rn
@@Crying-Lightning it’s better to expand. You’ll use those shards later on for better things.
@@spectrumdad_ ok thanks a ton!
Great video man! Just one question, after you produce some power, can you hook up the pumps (maybe even the miners) to the coal generators so it is fully automated?
Yep you can
@@spectrumdad_ awesome thank you, keep up your work!
The coal in the last two generators won’t stay stocked, I followed the part on letting it fill up but it just won’t stay.
Question if your base is away from the water setup how would I hook it up to my base
I wouldn’t really pipe water back. I would build a remote factory where the water is and do what you need there. Then you can either belt or truck/train the final product to base. If it’s for coal power the. Even better, you don’t need to bring it back to base.
The small lake in 6.14 is the one not so far near one of the spawn points? i do know it. It's very nice to know you can use this to give water to a coal power plant. Thank you so much.
Yes it’s the one closest for the Grassy Hills spawn. You can setup maybe 2 setups worth with that water which should be good till you get to fuel. If you need more water there is more but a bit further.
@@spectrumdad_ I can consider getting another setup of coal, there's a pure node still not so far away from the Grassy Hills. Thank you very much
@@spectrumdad_ we ended up firing 3 full setups in the pond close to the grassy spawn and have a full 24 generators pumping 1800 watts forever there. Thanks for the tutorial
Please make for nuclear power plant video
i do everything exactly as in the video and somehow my last few coal generators still have the problem that they don't get enough coal at some point. . .
Tysm i know how to build a good starter factory but not power "plant" so i just had this massive factory ( idk like atleast 50 constructers in total ) run by biomass burners 🤣 such a pain
yikes lol, yep learning how to get coal running good is a mandatory learning step you need :)
@@spectrumdad_ yep and now thanks to this i got a great start
Still gonna have to get better things tho
The more you play the harder it gets
Untill you have everything
Then its easier
@@spectrumdad_ hey again
what did you use to power the actual system?
Ahh no wait sorry i just have to power the water extractors for a moment and they could power themselves
Well not very well but it works
I was so confused as to why I only got 450 MW, until I realised I hadn't connected all of them to the powerline
This guide was really hepfull, but a few minutes after I was done connecting everything, my< water extractors (starting from the entry side of the coal) had a lot of difficutly pumping all the water towards the coal generators, so much that they are about 5 cubic meters away from running out. I also placed them like you said to, each one of them in the middle of 2 generators. What should I do?
So it might take a while to settle but it’s also normal to have your extractors show almost no water because they are pushing water at an 100% efficiency flow. Are you coal generators fully running? Ultimately that’s what matters. Or are they turning on and off?
@@spectrumdad_ I ran it for like 10-30 minutes and indeed the generators were still good. I was just a bit worried, but thanks. Love your videos keep it up!
Thanks for great tutorial. I am having an issue though. I've setup Mark II belts, Mark II lifts, and spliters as you've suggested, but the coal is barely making it down to the last 4 coal generators. I can see the first few generators are getting enough coal, but after generator 4, you can see less and less coal making its way down the belts. Am I doing something wrong, or has something changed between updates 7 and 8?
That's the reason why he explained it in the video why pre-fill the belts and pipes... Around 04:00
@@Bartekwis I did that too... but I've just figured out what the problem was, I was only using a single Mk1 miner, so wasn't producing enough coal. Now used a merger with two Mk1 miners (until I get access to Mk2 miner) and all looking good
Hey so I have two miners hooked up to this and the last six generators are using coal faster then they are getting it, not sure what to do
Are the 2 miners at least normal purity and merged using a mk2 belt? Make sure to run a mk2 belt down between all the splitters too just to be safe.
How do you manage to keep the 7th and 9th coal generators running ? they use 15 coal a minute, but with this setup, it seems like they only receive about 3 or 4
15x8 is 120. It’ll look like it’s not getting enough but it does. What you want to make sure you do first however, Is turn off all the coal generators (or at least the last 4) and let everything fill. It helps to manually fill the coal generators with coal too but once everything is saturated you’ll notice that it runs smooth, receiving one coal as it uses one.
How do you have enough Power to power all of them?
is it more efficient to have more facilities that are underclocked than to just run things at 100%
What are you powering the water pumps with while they are on the 1st fill?
Some biomass burners. Just plug them into your original grid or just put up a few biomass burners near your water pumps temporarily
@@spectrumdad_ I posted this comment and shortly figured it out afterwards, but thanks anyways.
something that should be added is that the last couple coal plants wont work with mk 1 belts so you goota use mk 2 belts throughout
Hey i’ve used mk2 belts all through and watched this video like 10 times but the belt splitter is currently slowing down my build cause it just doesn’t go through fast enough even after i’ve backed it up first do you have any clue why?
@@nathanhands8321 I think the only way that would be happening is if there was just a mk 1 belt you missed maybe? Maybe the miner belt is still mk 1 as well. I’m definitely not a pro at this game so if this doesn’t work you might wanna ask the subreddit
one of my water extractors doesnt pump out water at all. it just fills up then it sits there wile the other two do the work, my power is unstable and only one or two generators is actually filled at all. What do I even do
rebuild the atatched pipes, its a bit buggy and dosent always register all connections
I keep running into the issue where, after a while, i have coal generators not getting coal fast enough
You have no idea how strangely difficult it’s been to find someone who tells you exactly how much coal per minute the coal generator takes. I built this three mines three generators complex over several hours (pipes are a nightmare) only to find that 15/m is the number meaning 1 pure vein is enough for 8 generators. Back to the drawing board.
Only thing that seems wrong is the 5x12 fitting 8 generators, mine fits 10
i'm not sure if i'm just plain stupid, but how do you get the energy from the coal generator to all my other machines? Because you can only add one power cable to the generator, but that cable gives power from the biomass burner, so where does my power go created by the coal generator?
You connect a cable from the generator to a pole, and from that pole you can connect to many other poles/machines to make a power network.
I do got a question,
I did everything how you did it. 1 miner MK1 on a pure coal node. I let everything fill. However the issue is that some coal burners dont get enough coal. I coppied everything you did.
Do you know what the issue is by any chance?
I did not overclock anything.
Make sure it’s a mk2 belt between the miner and all the splitters ( doesn’t have to be all of them but it’s easier to check that way) but I would also turn off all the coal generators and let the lines fill up. Also it helps to try to fill up 100 coal manually in the generators to get it to saturate manually, but it will eventually do that anyways (except the last 2, those will never reach max)
@@spectrumdad_ that is what i did indeed, on everything i’ve been putting mk2 belts all over my factory. The last 2 just seem to go down steadily even when i did what you just mentioned. I even let the conveyer belt full up together with miner and burner and they still go down slowly.
For this to work, do i need miner mk 2? Cuz mk1 doest mine at the required speed, causing gaps between ores, which will then affect the electric produced
No mk1 works but you need 120 ore. So you need to either have a pure node, or merge 2 normal nodes, or merge 4 impure nodes.
@@spectrumdad_ alright i see thx
Didn’t think to just do a simple line splitting it up along the way… I tried to evenly divide up the production of the miners with splitters beforehand to have a steady line of 15 for each power plant… I’m fairly certain there is footage of apes doing problem solving where they look less dumb then me trying to figure out that formula… I wish I had a camera on me then for comparison.
Not even that bad with math, just for some reason doing basic division in that game on that day was frying my brain.
Hahaha it's all good. If it ends up working then that's fine too :)
The first two or three of my generators are working but the last got almost no coal. The splitters divide all the coal by half for every generator it goes through so I don't see how that would give all of them enough? I might of course be missing something so I would really appreciate an answer. Thanks.
Yes at first it’ll be like that until the first one fills up, then it’ll overflow down the line and it won’t be a 50/50 split anymore. As each machine fills up it goes further and further down the line. This is how a manifold works in the game. It just takes time to fully get there. You can help it move along by manually filling up all the generators with coal or turning them off until they fill the lines and machines, then turn them on 1 at a time.
@@spectrumdad_ Thanks! I actually realized you said this in the video before you responded and then it worked. I thought it sounded dumb at first but I was very wrong 😅. So thanks the design is great!
Im a bit confused on the amount of coal you use. I set up a mk 1 miner which only produces 60/min not 120/min yet ive never run into any problems with the set up. Should I switch to a mk 2 miner?
You’re using the miner on a Normal coal source. To get 120/min from it with a Mk 1 it needs to be a pure source. If you can’t feed from an additional source I would speedrun to mk2 miner. Small chance you’re getting confused by the description. It says it extracts 60/min off a Normal source. For pure that is doubled to 120.
my generators don't seem to fill with water
How are you powering the initial power lines for the water ?
I put down a few biomass burners and just grab some leaves around and slap them in there. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy or big, since it’s temporary. Or you can run a line from your existing base to this setup.
Thank you
I need something similur, but for fuel generator