Break Free of the Spaghetti! - Satisfactory Manufacturer Design & Logistics Tutorial 

Thanks Helo! That is a big shout and is really motivating me to keep it up.

Seriously!

For sure! Definitely helps you keep your factory from getting too tall if you are trying to keep it a little more compact

Yeah i know... SCALTI will forever be a legend but this..

Yeah, saved me half the space I'd usually built my logi floor

It also works for assemblers, obviously only using one 3m high layer instead of two.

Thanks dude! I am glad that you are into it. I will try my best to live up to the standards in future builds, but no promises! Thanks for watching

Hell yeah Kenny. Glad you are finding it useful

Hell yeah. That is the pro move

Make it at least two walls high. This is the way.

Thanks Anthony! Believe it or not, this isn’t my first save 😜 no shame in starting over once you figure it out

Seriously. I actually have to redo a lot of stuff that I am building for videos…I find that I concentrate on not talking like a moron and end up building like a moron. My early buildings are exactly what you describe. Pretty organized factory floors but almost no decoration. Nothing wrong with that at all! If you haven’t already, think about a subscription. I am close to getting monetized and just need a few more subscribers

Glad you liked it! The key is finding at least one design for each machine that works for you. Once you have it down, you can repeat it pretty easily and make your life easier.

It could have been you making a video! Thanks Verbis!

@@DrLootCrate haha never my self confidence too low to make videos with voice haha. Keep up the good work man

It definitely saves a ton of space...the coal generator is a great spot for a belt floor. I would probably still run my pipes on generator level...I have found that feeding anything fluids from below can get a little wonky. Timewise, the key for me is to find some patterns for each kind of machine that work for looks and aren't too fiddly. That way I know what to do each time I have to build a given set of machines.

@@DrLootCrate yeh for sure, i always run fluids from at least level height, never below. i like to put in a small fluid buffer before feeding anything. it helps to avoid the sloshing that often occurs. ha i like to make a huge to-do list and just go at it. then encase it in glass and concrete😂

@@mowvu5380 that sounds like a great plan!

I don’t know about genius but it definitely makes it easier

I personally like to use the easy cheat mod to give me as much as I need. Besides that once you unlock coal and automate power production you can just leave your computer on overnight

That's my favorite way of connecting power. On the other hand, watching him use the regular power pole in this way, maybe it helps find the thing later on. I had good results adding a second floor to my starter factory; simply use the first floor ceiling as a power bus and pass everything upstairs.

Works like a charm. All of this organization is just self imposed.

Thanks Roberto! Unless they drastically change manufacturers this one should stand the test of time

Thanks Nick. I am liking that aspect as well. I think my next video will be on aluminum, the next step. It definitely went a lot slower when I decided to film myself talking while I do it!

Hell yeah Spacey! ✅✅✅✅

No worries dude. It definitely took me a lot of hours to be organized enough to be able it. Even then ugly factories work as well as beautiful factories 😜

Thanks dude. Maybe my vids will help you get there

Thanks crafty! It is a nice clean look. I have started using the very trick that you mentioned with the wall outlet since this video in a lot of my builds

Awesome dude. Glad you liked it. I am started to get ramped up with update 8 again right now.

Haha for sure!! Definitely a different approach. It looks kinda fun to build like that to be honest. My very first factory wasn’t that much different than that…I think we were all there at some point

No problem 👍 Thanks for watching!

Thanks TEKO. Copy away! Definitely more vids on the way.

Thanks Joe. I think you are pretty coolio

Thanks! I am glad that you enjoyed it. I try my best. The concrete and glass style started largely from not wanting to carry iron plates around. Work smarter, not harder. Haha

Thanks Friend! Nothing wrong with a little hidden spaghetti but this definitely an easy way to keep it organized in a smaller area

Awesome comment and I agree to an extent. My first save was ridiculous spaghetti and I figured out how to be organized towards the end. I thought that I would start again with this knowledge and it was really helpful. So for this save I was generally organized with each build (no clipping and all manifold on foundations), but really didn’t take any time attempting to make it look good until my adaptive control unit factory (which looks horrible haha). Two slight points of contention: I haven’t torn anything down…I just move on to more nodes. There are so many out there. I will be redoing a bit of my starting area because I am building phase 4 parts there and want it to look decent. I have said “I’ll make it nice later” several times and I have not yet done it. Once I move on to a new project, I really struggle to find the motivation to go back. You might be able to glimpse my half decorated RCU factory in the distance in some of my videos…

@@DrLootCrate I'm not knocking the "make it look nice" and the tips are generally very helpful as I'm always interested in "How do I make this not look like garbage?" when I get to endgame. I just gave up on my most recent run because I was just burning SO MANY HOURS on "rebuilding it" all the time. I mean... you get a Impure Node, so 30 iron a minute. One Smelter to go with it to make 30 iron ingots a minute. Split that off into whatever you're making to keep the ratios perfect... Then, you unlock "Mark 2 Miner". Well, crap. Now I've got to tear down the first smelter and add more constructors. Or, I get Mark 3 Miners and have to do it all over again... It's even worse if you've got a Pure Node and have to start with like 4 Smelters and it scales up a ton as you go. That's to say nothing of when you unlock trucks and no longer want to "belt everything back to the main base". Or, even worse... TRAINS. If you do not have a plan for your train stations the moment you start your file, you are basically asking to rebuild the whole thing again and again. Even having to "upgrade" your belts is a fun new overhaul each time as they can carry more items. Got a Mark 3 belt, but you can't hope to fill it with the Impure nodes around? Downgrade it to Mark 2 or funnel more resources onto that single belt from across the map. I can't even imagine how my transportation network is going to look the moment I unlock the drones (which I've never used before as I'm playing on a brand new PC for this run and hadn't touched the update they were introduced before). All of this to say nothing about when/if you start over/underclocking your machines. I typically end up rebuilding my Satisfactory "main base" at least a dozen times before unlocking Tier 7 and 8, and that's just to "keep it functional". That is to say... adding new lines into old ones from further nodes, adding more machines to current lines, swapping out alternate recipes on current machines, so needing to fix lines again... You can easily see why I blew 300 hours on my first game before even getting "Assemblers" as I had to keep rebuilding my base just to keep stuff from clipping and to keep it "nice and organized". I spent like 30 hours on a freakin' "Mall" for each part in my main factory as well, and I didn't even have that many parts available to make! So, with so many hours trying to "make the factory look nice" on a playthrough, I just couldn't subject myself to that anymore. Making it "look nice" when I had nothing left to unlock seemed far more reasonable to me. Especially since I know I'm capable of sitting down just to tear my factory down and rebuild it to feed lines all back through it again. Spaghetti is the most efficient way to play Satisfactory. I don't begrudge anyone for doing it and I feel like we don't talk about how useful the Spaghetti in the game actually is, in the Satisfactory Community. But, it's also important to make things nice when you can. Making things nice is "endgame" and isn't progression at all. Making things nice is always something good to do to "burn time" while you're waiting for other things to happen. I just don't see the point in focusing so heavily on "making things look nice" so early in the game and before you get most of the important upgrades and unlocks. So, yeah. I can remember my first time at "trying to make things look nice". It was a good time, at the time. But, it made me woefully inefficient at the rest of the game. And, there's nothing to stop you from "going back later", even if you don't have the ambition to do it. It's sometimes hard to "find the ambition" to tear it down and rebuild it. But you know how you start? Just start knocking out walls. Once you get started on tearing it down, you no longer have the hesitation to do it. You then go, "I'm building this much better than I initially had it and it won't be so difficult to navigate anymore and it will DEFINITELY look far nicer". Just gotta rip that band-aid off sometimes.

@@XxTaiMTxX I’m with you, especially the part about burning time by making things nice. It is a good thing to do if you have 20-30 minutes to play. I avoid a lot of rebuilding by just moving on to a different node. I don’t ever go back and replace belts and miners unless I am on the verge of unlocking something and I plan for the upgrade (like I am currently doing with mk 3 miners). I don’t think making things nice is endgame…you can do it whenever you want, including never! But I could see many people playing this game mainly for the building design if they are really into it. That’s not me, but part of the beauty of the game is that there a lot of ways to play it!

@@DrLootCrate Well, what I mean by "making it look nice is endgame" is because you don't unlock most of the really nice looking stuff to work with until you're basically at that point. Even the placement of new machines and such can make things "look beautiful". I always find it "very limiting" what I've got to work with so early in the game. I prefer the look of the Mark 3 miners, for example. I prefer the look of the bigger liquid storage tanks. I prefer making my buildings look more "lived in" or even "create a tiny little city" with each new section of factory, where I've got cars and parking lots and train stations and stuff. A factory building just doesn't "look nice" to me, until I've unlocked most of the building materials and most of the new machines and structures. You have most of the "sandbox" of creation unlocked by endgame, so it's really the perfect time to begin to beautify stuff. Especially when you're looking at Phase 4 of the Space Elevator and realize you can blow a ton of hours to make those parts at 60 a minute (something I will never accomplish because that task it so daunting), or you can wait a few hundred hours for the elevator to fill and make your factory look beautiful during that time.

@@XxTaiMTxX excellent point. I am definitely of the mind to get a reasonable rate of space elevator parts and waiting. That is an excellent time to pretty up

Good timing bruv. The logistics floor is definitely my favored way of doing it.

@@DrLootCrate Finally got mine done, not quite as neat as yours but I'm happy with it. Nice design.

@@ugjhgjf mine is only this neat because I made a video about it…I was definitely less particular when I wasn’t showing the world my builds

Blueprints can set your spaghetti free. Just make something that's tight and crams as much as possible of what you need into a 4x4x4 blueprint. Then make sure to color code each of the corners so at a glance you can see it's orientation. Then you can just plop down these abominations everywhere and spaghetti them together to your heart's content without having to think. As a bonus you can put little signs on them that'll tell you the input quantity you need and the export quantity you're going to get. I embraced the spaghetti fully I have become one with it we are the spaghetti

Yeah dude. I am a real doctor (of the PhD persuasion) and used to be a college professor.

Thanks! I have actually never watched any of his videos…maybe I should

Ok after seeing the video this does somewhat ease the transportation but it still does not solve my supply rate issues when for example I only have mk2 but produce 150 screws OR (and in worst case AND) 75 iron rods which somehow have to split into 20 / 30 / 25 because there are multiple next stages for different parts or storage.... These things seem not to work using this bus system. Are there tips for how to "plan" such things without looking horrible in the end?

Yeah it almost seems impossible when you see the big clean builds when you are starting out, but it becomes a lot easier to build at scale when you have a standard design for each kind of machine. My first play through was also tasty pasta. This is my 2nd time through, so I had some good idea how to be clean from the start On coal, I prefer just bringing a power line from your base to the coal/water location, so you don’t have to bring either resource a long distance. Power poles are a lot easier. Use coal not near water for steel. And yes, you get a full refund when you dismantle. I have never moved a base…there are so many nodes around the map that I just start building somewhere else and leave the old stuff to make materials I need for the new place

@@DrLootCrate thanks for all the helpful advice. Time to put it into practice. I’m guessing the maps are limited and not procedurally generated, as I saw another RU-vidr have the same location as I.

@@Salubrious388 no problem dude! That is why I do this. Yep everybody is on the same map. I think I started where you did as well based on what you have said so far

Definitely! It works if you put the splitter first and then the lifts will attach to them but not the other way around like I did

Thanks Devin! Always good to know when people find your stuff useful. Good luck on whatever you are working on

Thank you for watching. Definitely not a requirement to look good, but it is a pretty good feeling when you get the look just right

I seem to find controls all of the time in this game that didn’t know about. Ctrl snaps a lot of stuff in place, so try it everywhere

Hopefully this will help you straighten then all out…if you want to of course.

@@DrLootCrate I do like to pull inspiration from let's game it out on occasion 😂

@@andromeda7758 I have to admit I have never watched one of his videos! heresy! I was planning on binging all of them in a row

Some people like the full build at regular speed, some don’t. Most don’t so I leave it in but sped up for people to slow down if they really want to see everything. Glad you liked the vid!

I am glad that I could finally come through for ya Jonny

@@DrLootCrate Do you have a discord server you are willing to give out. I noticed the actual Satisfactory discord has no voice channels and it's kind of frustrating.

@@jond9914 not yet, but I have been considering starting one up. Good to know that there is at least one vote in favor

This was the top floor of this building, but that is an excellent option for non-top floors.

Cheers to you Harrzack! Glad you liked it

You are welcome! Thanks for watching.

My pleasure. Good luck!

Italian food is great and you never have to stop eating it if you don’t want to

Thanks! I’m glad you like my voice…I am still trying to get used to hearing it so much and working to make sure the audio sounds good. Bad audio is the first thing that makes me turn off a video. Thanks for the sub!

You audio is prima.. u should keep the colour scheme..looks a bit alien and very cool. First thing this morning after nightshift i logged on and tried to make my own signature colour.. work in progress haha

@@tracktaylor2783 I tried to match the color of the cool blue trees in the rocky desert. I think I got pretty close.

Well now you have! You have to be careful that they are hooked up correctly, especially at ground level. Sometimes it just looks like they are snapped on and you only find out when you flip everything on

@@DrLootCrate On the ground snapping works pretty much every time. It does not work if I place it on a belt. Actually today I noticed that it works most of the time so perhaps it was temporary issue and I gave up trying. Or it was fixed by one of later updates.

Of course! Not sure I agree that they are better this application. I was trying to completely hide the power plus double outlets don’t work on floors. I guess I could have put some 1m walls underneath but then it would have been a little hard to walk around. Definitely works for a lot of other things though!

@@DrLootCrate I diddnt know they don't work on floors thats on me but is single walloutputs work under the floor then you can actually conect the cable from the machine to it and let it go trough the floor. Or you can als put a single walloutput on top of the floor and conect both of them trough the floor. A powerpole takes more space to.

Nope! They came out a bit after I made this video

You can use a sushi belt, but belt throughput is limited. If you want to string a some manufacturers in a row and the recipes calls for screws, that might take up the whole belt. This is more expandable, and also this would work for people that haven’t unlocked or have the materials for smart splitters. Also you need that exhaust valve off of each spot in the chain into a awesome sink because eventually the sushi belt will back up at some spot. I don’t like messing with them really

Exactly why I make these videos....hopefully it saves you a bit of time next time. Thanks for watching and consider subscribing if you haven't already for some more potentially useful things!

Haha. You don’t have to do that. Just push it once and it will go until you push it again!

I hope this is the specs of your new one not your existing 15 fps machine. Turn down the graphics quality for now bud. 15 is brutal, but that new should be sick

@@DrLootCrate my existing machine is a Asus vivobook

@@DrLootCrate those specs above are on my new pc

I wish I would have found this video when I was first learning how to setup my manufacturers in my base lol. I just winged the whole base in my head and I love how everything is at 100% uptime.

Nah. Those will almost always back up and the overflow solution is annoying to set up for multiple manufacturers

Nah. You do you. Mostly because it is ugly. But, when building at scale for something large, it is much easier to keep track and route things if it is organized. But mostly it is just personal preference

Will do, but it is going to take me a few days to get back to my computer

@@DrLootCrate thanks.

@@DrLootCrate im very interested too, please tell

A long time dude. I can check when I get home later

I haven’t touched anything but turn ads on. Sorry you thought there were too many and thanks for watching

Bummer! I am a Steam man myself and haven’t had any problems. Maybe wait for a sale?

It is possible but not very practical. Sushi belts in practice backed up and grind to a halt. You can get around that by putting in overflow splitters but then it becomes more complicated than non-sushi belts

@@DrLootCrate Well yeah, but simplicity isn't the goal, space efficiency is, right?

I don’t think it is more space efficient either as you would have to add an awesome sink to stop everything from clogging up over time and that is huge. Plus the smart splitters and mergers to do the overflow into one

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Not quite sure what you mean here. Is it good that I fast forwarded or did you not like it?

​@@DrLootCrate I'm noob.I use backward to know how to build,I like step by step teach. （& sorry about I'm poor english）

@@leotsui3737 no problem on the English. That is why I asked! I see how it would be better to watch at full speed as a noob. I was just trying to keep the vid moving. I hope it still helped

@@DrLootCrate Thank you for your reply. I gave like & subscribe .

Being rude is not an effective persuasive technique. This makes me want to fast forward more. I am mostly bored by click by click builds, so I wanted to the how without the need of showing every click. Sorry that you didn’t like it and thanks for watching!

@@DrLootCrate yes it's boring but what's the point of a tutorial? to teach u something, right? i am literally watching another tutorial that goes slowly and teaches the same thing as you did and it's a shame, because the info you wanted to convey IS GOOD AND VALUABLE, but the delivery method (for a fairly inexperienced player such as myself) is lacking and unfortunately i couldn't use that. it gave me a rought ideea? yep, was i rude? also yes, but hopefully i was effective :p