Vertical Manifold Tutorial - Short on Space? Squeeze Several Smelters Into Some Small Spaces
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2022
- A how-to guide for a 2 column vertical manifold design that helps you squeeze a bunch of simple machines in to maximize your space in the game Satisfactory. Great design for beginners trying to get organized and efficient.
This tutorial shows a step-by-step build of a 2 column, 6 smelter manifold design which overflows vertically that can help you squeeze more into your Satisfactory factory space. You only need foundations, splitters, mergers, and conveyor lifts for this efficient design and it will work with any single input machine like constructors or smelters.
It also includes a hot tip on to position yourself for a vertical build even if you are a beginner without the hover pack or the jet pack.
This video was supposed to end with a full build of my 16 smelter vertical manifold for my 7.5 per minute fused modular frames factory, but I forgot to hit the record button before building it. sad trombone
However, it does finish with a look at the full 16 smelter build when completed and I think it looks quite Satisfactory.
This build takes place on a 2x3 grid and includes 16 smelters. It inputs 480 iron ore per minute and outputs 480 iron ingots per minute. This product volume is obviously too much in the early game due to lack of belt speed, but the design can be scaled back easily even to a single column 2 smelter manifold if you only have Mk I belts as a true beginner.
Drop me a comment below if you have some ideas on how to improve this design, have any questions on what I have done, or have any ideas for future videos. I would love to hear from and will respond quickly.
I will be doing some more Satisfactory tutorials so make sure to subscribe to see what is coming next! I will be doing a series on good ways to feed each type of machine and a guide and walkthrough of my recycled rubber/plastic loop factory.
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this is a cool ass design. deffinetly gonna build something like this for copper/iron factorys.. all of them... pluss easy to understand. good job
Thanks Happy. You are a cool ass guy for leaving such a nice comment 🥶🥶🥶
just realized your channel was so young i was wondering why you didnt have more viewers great content keep up the good work cant wait to see more
That is about as good a comment as you could hope for as a new TH-camr. Thanks so much and I do have more coming soon
Amazing work again thanks for the video!
Glad that enjoyed this one too!
Stackable Conveyor Supports also have a ladder and take up less horizontal space! That's another way to get a ladder slammed down wherever you need one.
Definitely! I used storage containers here since you get them in tier 0, plus they give you an area to stand to build from.
Everybody kinda forgets (including me) about the lookout tower, which would be pretty good for this sort of building as well
Your content is worth so many more subscribers. Keep it up!
Thanks Vincent! Feedback like that will keep me going.
I have to rebuild my factory soon and now i have a new idea. :D
Thanks for the inspiration. ♥
Awesome! Glad I could help. It’s awesome to get such good feedback as a new TH-camr. Thanks so much.
Awesome tip! I will definitely use this for my factory. A super way to make column-factories for all the starter parts 😀
Glad you found it useful. I started doing this to change it up after noticing all my building were pretty long and flat. Why not turn a few on their side?
Nice idea! Your idea inspired me to do this for some assemblers and manufacturers and works out well! Love to see how you do it though. Keep ‘em coming.
Awesome! Working with those machines are the subjects of my next video, although I won’t be doing vertical stacks for those. Subscribe if you haven’t already to catch them when they come out. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the guide, very much appreciate the upload
You are very welcome! Hit subscribe if you haven’t already to get more like this. I have a few more on the way.
Thanks for watching!
nice and simple. I like it!
Thanks! Consider subscribing if you haven’t already…I have more stuff in the hopper
Loved the video and attention to detail! Refreshing to see more people making Satisfactory videos! Also, you get my like and sub! :)
Thanks for the encouraging words and the sub! I am going to keep making them, so be on the lookout
When the guy know the future and he did a new blueprint update 7 tutorial. Awesome!!
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I should go put a bet down or something now that I know what is going to happen 3 months in the future. Sadly my recent assembler stacked manifold is about half a foundation too big
I'm 130 hours in and never thought to stack splitters lol. i usually just stick a sacrificial foundation on the side then I'm not stuck to 10m floors. but it really doesn't matter lol. i love your designs pal
It took a bit to figure that out as well…glad you have it in your toolbox now. Glad you like it and give me a cheeky subscribe if you haven’t yet.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the idea!
I'd use conveyor lifts on the in/outputs and directly attach the splitters/mergers to them to spare me stacking them.
Will probably do that with assemblers and just make ever input lift a click higher than the other.
That definitely works too. That is one of the fun parts about this game…there are a ton of different ways to do everything. My designs aren’t “correct” but hopefully they are useful.
Thanks for watching
I do a similar build however use a single column if splitters/mergers and have the side ports for the smelters and the front/back for the level transversal and just rotate 180 for the import/export port. I also use the stackable conveyor poles for support till I get the columns and just change out.
Super cool idea! I wish I would have thought of that…I am definitely going to try that out myself
I like to alternate 4m and 1m walls, and have the foundations aligned with the 1m walls.
Since this won't work with splitter stacks you can just put a temporary foundation underneath each splitter.
That is definitely a good approach. This style of build is now best done as a blueprint!
instead of putting spitter stacks, you can just place a floor then delete the floor and have them float then set up ur belts.
Great idea non the less. deff going to be using this in my compact factory.
never really thought of stacking smelters. always had them on the first floor that go into a stacked compact factory.
What I do for my builds is actually put a little 3m beam stick out of the front of the platform as a perch for the splitter.
I wanted to give an option for a fully supported/non-coating build for those that care about that…I really don’t care too much personally.
Thanks for watching!
@@DrLootCrate makes sense. Thanks for the options
Nice idea, you've given me some inspiration for my next build. However, why use 2 towers of splitters and mergers while you can have just 1 in the middle? For the raw materials, have the entrance to the outside, split off to both smelters, then on the inside, go up with 1 lift and have the input there on the inside. Split off again to both smelters on that 2nd level and have another lift on the outside going to the 3rd floor and so on. Same for the exit. At the bottom, you have 3 mergers while 1 should suffice. Only keep the merger in the middle, send the output from both smelters to that merger and have the lift come down to the 3rd input on the outside.
Glad you liked it. I wanted to not use anything from the awesome shop and if I am understanding you correctly the “inside” lifts would need lift floor holes.
But if you check out my latest video that has a similar design but with assemblers, I did it pretty similarly to how you describe. Great minds think alike!
I so much prefer your presentation style over TotalXclipse! Thank you for your videos! Please keep doing more!
This was a really nice thing to say, especially about one of my first videos. Thanks! I will get back to making more soon. Just needed a bit of a break
@@DrLootCrate Yeah, I get that we need breaks so that's cool! I'm glad my comment encouraged you! I want you to know that your channel is very much valued and much appreciated! I hope you get at least that much from my feedback! I look forward to viewing much more of your content!
instead off beams you could now also use half floors/foundations 1meter by 5 or 4 i believe the floors square size whas 8m-X8m-x1mthick or it is 10m-x10m-x1m.
since those are new in the game.
half flooring under each side off the splitters/mergers
That is a great call! I was trying to not use anything from the awesome shop in this video (plus it was made in Update 5). But I will definitely try that in an upcoming build
I wish the splitters/mergers had the same accordion connections that the elevators have.
That would be awesome…would definitely save me some missed clicks and time
Love the build but please but I cannot stand that you delete and paint everything individually :D
Haha. I have accidentally deleted things so many times…so I only mass delete when I am tearing something big down. I didn’t even know you could mass paint! If you see me do it in the next video, I will give you a shout out
You also don't need to use storage containers as a ladder. To be a bit more cleaner with your improvised ladders, you can also use conveyer poles.
I actually think it is easier to use storage containers because you get a platform to stand on with it. Plus, you wouldn’t necessarily have stackable conveyor poles unlocked yet if building this.
But the poles do also make good ladders for sure
I’m following you starter series and finding it a bit problematic negotiating the factory. I really like this modular design. I’m going to try and do this for each product output, if possible, as I think being able to walk around without jumping so much would be a better experience. I’m sure they’ll be a downside but I love what you did here. I’ll ofc have to learn about the speed of the conveyer belts and how they impact the output and demand you can place on them but, that’s the fun, right? :)
Do you have the blade runners yet that let you run faster and jump higher? If not, start researching in the MAM. It doesn’t take much to unlock them if I recall.
Figuring it out is very large part of the fun!
@@DrLootCrate aye, I’ve unlocked them. They are handy but sometimes the big jump gets me into trouble! 😂
I’m now on stage 5/6 and am struggling to understand the oil refinery. I make about 100 plastic which is fine but, I can’t claim the heavy oil or the fuel. I have space in my inventory but when I try and retrieve it, there is a Red Cross in my inventory. It was late last night (0200hrs) so I made 6x 100 stacks of plastic by dismantling the plant and rebuilding it again…. I know this is wrong but I was hoping the fuel/oil would be placed as a result of the dismantling of the plant…. Nope. There’s clearly something I’m missing and I’ll try and sort that today. I created 600 plastic for the red button and incase I need anything else. I think I really need quartz most to unlock at the research bench too. I was running around for hours last night and managed to acquire 93 of the 100 I need.
@@Broadside388 oil is the first time you have byproducts that you have to deal with and that can be very confusing.
At your stage in the game, I recommend piping the heavy oil residue into a few more refineries and make petroleum coke. You can use that in a few coal generators for power or put it in the awesome sink for some points.
@@DrLootCrate aye, I had been tinkering around with fuel etc too. I’ve deleted my save and started a fresh since the 6th update. About to set off for coal in the morning when I get up so, it’ll probably be the weekend I get to farming oil again… can’t wait. :)
Thanks for all the help. :)
You could just use one stack of splitters on between the two smelters and have the lateral outputs feed them and the frontal output will overflow onto an elevator that goes into the next splitter and so on. It's kind of a hybrid manifold/load balancer setup but it saves materials so🤷
Hey I like that idea a lot! So a stack of splitters however high on each level to fit a lift - bottom is elevator in and top is facing the other way for an elevator up. Not a bad shout at all.
thanks for the tips, btw I wonder why your HP bar always stays at 3 bars 😄
Haha! I filmed that video in update 5 and your health only regened to 3 bars. No need to waste that inhaler until the bad guys come to get you
Small tip: you can select up to 50 items to delete by holding ctrl
I just don’t like to do that sometimes because I have been burned a few times accidentally deleting something and breaking a factory for a while.
Thanks for the tip and thanks for watching.
how do you invert the ramp pieces?? I can't find that in my keybindings
The inverted ramps are available in the Awesome Shop. No secret buttons needed!
Would be interested to see how you do manufacturers!
It’s on the way! Manufacturers are a serious pain. My plan is to show 2 or 3 different ways do both manufacturers and assemblers in my next two videos
@@DrLootCrate Nice, looking forward to it!
"This is for the start" uses mark 5 belts.
I had a chart right at the start telling you how many machines you could use for each belt type and mentioned that you could use any type of belt in the video.
It’s about the design not the belt.
Thanks for watching!
Hmm, wouldn't it be easier with a center single stack of splitters. No reason to make 2 columns.
Yeah kinda. I didn’t want to use anything from the awesome shop and without floor holes the one stack actually takes up a lot more room - an additional depth of the 2nd lift at a minimum. Plus I kinda like the snake like path.
If you see my recent assembler vertical manifold video, I use center stack with a floor hole to a design similar to what you described
Thanks for watching and commenting
@@DrLootCrate makes sense. indeed you would need space to put the center elevators or clip them through the floor/building. That would change the esthetics.
Cant stand that you stacked them, i personally would have built a pair of platforms put the splitters in place then removed the platforms.
A lot less things to build and delete and much faster imo
I hear you dude. I wanted give an option of having the design be fully supported. I normally just stick a little beam out of the front of the foundation, but wanted to keep it to stuff from tier 1.
Thanks for watching!