How to Deal with Byproducts in Satisfactory 

These 2 alternates are exactly what I use in all my aluminum factories. In my opinion, its the only way to go. The default recipes for aluminum are crap.

If you need more aluminum then sloopy with normal isnt bad. If you have crystal handly.

Thanks! This video may be based on personal experience 😂

for me it was the damn excess liquids I'd end up with cuz u cant just awesome sink them in a pinch like u can w polymer resin

Can’t you get 1 Oil -> 3 Plastic/Rubber using Diluted fuel and recycled Plastic/Rubber

@@fishtail2616 I don't know, but probably. But that method sounds more complicated and harder to balance, making Polymer is only 1 extra step.

@@fishtail2616 Yep, those are by far the best two recipes. And they're super easy to balance, You just have the output of the rubber/plastic smartsplit into the plastic/rubber with the rest overflowing to your storage.

I generally agree. Most of my systems that use this work with no issue because I've clocked things properly, but none of us should trust liquids in this game.

There's a fan created pipe manual. In it there's a diagram for a pumping station that has priority feeds. Works perfectly, highly recommend.

@@anthonybasile6079 I have that pipe manual, it is outstanding. Anyone who is ready to level-up their fluids game, that is the first thing you should review.

Nah, just make sure your byproduct pipeline is prioritized by making the refill pipeline line have a height bump higher than the byproduct pipeline right before the byproduct pipeline connection, thus the byproduct line isn't backed up. Channel Moo has a good video on how to do this, which I've used successfully. Look for the 'Satisfactory - Tips & Tricks for Recycling Water with Aluminum and other Late Game Recipes' video.

It's the only to automate Fabric production which needed for Gas Filters and subsequently Iodine infused filters which combined with the Hazmat suit, it prevents taking damage from radiation.

⁠@@rannorganaPlastic/Rubber recycling loop?

was this before pumps or something? Maybe they fixed the problem since then but I've had no issues with liquid physics beyond use error like forgetting to power a pump

@@natmarelnam4871 in my experience it definitely has issues in the current game version (and yes, i've studied the community-made pipe manual front-to-back many times, and the only thing I haven't done in the game is the very last space elevator phase, am about halfway through that). It can just be really finicky when it comes to things like recycling water as a byproduct back into a factory's water system Also I feel like laying the pipe itself is particularly prone to issues, as it seems like pipes have a tendency to ghost-connect to different pipe nodes if your mouse cursor gets anywhere near them while placing a pipe (like say you're trying to connect a pipe between two junctions that are placed in front of refineries, if the cursor gets near the refinery's input it can sometimes actually connect to that, even though the pipe structure visually connects to the junction). I'm definitely in agreement that they're the bane of my existence. I'm at the point where I try to use as little liquid as I can in a build now

I'm not sure what you mean. You cannot sink nuclear waste, you can only turn it into Plutonium Fuel Rods, which you can then sink or burn for more power.

@@SatisfactoryNews yeah, that's what I meant. You can get rid of nuclear waste by making Plutonium fuel rods and sinking those. It is possible I misunderstood that part of the video.

If I could mod (or commission one) I would have it so that reprocessing nuclear "waste" would give depleted uranium, small amounts of fissile uranium, plutonium for fuel, some new ingredient for an alternative recipe for power shards, and leave behind a smaller amount of waste that has to be stored away. IRL burying waste from the "once through" process is like dumping the recyclying in the trash. You get so many cool isotopes back that are useful for industry, medicine, Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (Nuclear batteries, they are a real thing) and more. Only a small fraction is actually both waste and dangerous. Blend that into concrete and pump it underground. NFP. Also, having uranium deposits in the ground be radioactive is pretty silly IMHO. If that were the case, you could just mine the fissile uranium and manufacture fuel rods directly.

Those two recipes are game changers, they remove so much of the complexity of dealing with aluminum

I'm pretty sure I mentioned the water, it's just pretty simple because you can easily loop it back into the system.

@@SatisfactoryNewsOh hell nah. That's not simple at all. I had only problems with that. In the end I finally found two solutions. 1. Wet concrete and a sink. 2. A mod that adds a fluid sink. No tickets but the fluid is gone.

​@@ArlosPAyes it is, use valves

Never did trust that with my fuel plant. Not saying you're not correct, but that's something that can't back up. So I sink all waste fluids.

Very true! It took me a long time to work through all the nuclear waste I built up before building a plutonium setup. It was pretty stressful.

Hind sight is a bitch, I'm waiting till 1.0 to do a 2nd playthrough, the 1st one has been a disaster. Lessons learned though!

@@JoshDRivia4 Like Granddad used to say, "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." He also said "We all have days where you wish you had three legs, so you could walk with two and kick yourself with the third one."

@@ostlandr You're Grandad was a wise man.

Well, considering that even scientists cling to the throughly debunked Linear No Threshold model of radiation hazard like it was Holy Writ instead of a broken model. . . The most virulent, idealogical, radical anti-nuclear group on the planet bills itself as "The Union of Concerned Scientists." Oak Ridge National Laboratories invented, built and successfully tested an explosion proof, meltdown proof, ultra compact nuclear reactor in 1970. Literally walk-away safe. But, nobody cares.

If you watched any Kyle Hill videos then you will know nuclear power is one of the cleanest power sources

@@mattplays3824 read again

The waste in game is straight out of the reactor core complete with other isotopes and elements. Like Plutonium. It is more akin to used fuel rods straight out of the core and before processing. Once these useful radioactive materials are extracted then it is the safer nuclear waste you are thinking of. The closest in game equivilent would be the non fissile Uranium. Which is still radioactive but can be stored or used easily.

They should add thorium lol

That's one way to interpret it. While I mention that sinking solid materials is always an option, you can also have a more efficient game by repurposing these byproducts and building them into another material. This video is mainly to show players that they have more options than simply sinking items.

Yeah, if you can't recycle it into another system, wet concrete is probably the easiest way to get rid of water.

I dump the used water back into the main supply...

@@JamesB84 I've had machines back up from the pumps adding too much water in. Or an even a 1:1 precharged pipe can have issues. There's some way (that I read, never tested) to force pipes to use one incoming line 1st. But it's so much easier to slap down a concrete and sink it. Limestone is everywhere and free tickets and zero risk of a backup.

To process it into Plutonium Fuel Rods? It takes a lot of different types of ingredients, including nitrogen, sulfur, aluminum, steel, concrete, and Milestone Tier 8 because you need the Particle Accelerator.

Basically its so complex that you need to unlock everything in the game to be able to do it. And use materials from every type of plant there is

@@SatisfactoryNews i will 100% do this and not send it to 500+ storage containers

I built like 50 Containers at the end of the map behind my half a dozend reactors (most running at 200%)... The setup is running over 100 hours now and is maybe at 50% fill. Even at a small Spot of the map you could build storage for thousands of hours of massive nuclear power plants i guess. Absolutly no point to take care of the waste imho

Yeah, that is correct. You can sink just about any solid item. However, doing that with every byproduct is not very efficient. Some players don't care. Some players care a lot. It all depends on your playstyle. This video is focused on how to use byproducts in efficient ways and to not waste anything.

That is one option, yes, but often there is a way to make use of your byproducts :)

Definitely the best way to have a waste-free world!