How to Plan Factories Like a Pro In Satisfactory U7 

Definitely done pen and paper a few times lol

Mate I had to do a whole 150 000 mw on a few pieces of paper. The power plant used 60 nuclear reactors. Later on I had to build the thing to get rid of the waste however I made a mistake and made it to consume 700 waste which ain't bad but I lost a lot of time (around 850 buildings)💀

This is how you build if you don't want to destroy nature in the forest biomes.

Also looks nicer if instead of sealing the ground everywhere

ah, a man of culture... you too, build 5 story factories?@@paradoxx_4221

Funny part is that after you unlock foundations and walls, ADA tells you to experiment with verticality when designing assembly lines; when you factor in the correlating dimensions of foundations, smelters and constructors, the matching input/output ratios between buildings in the first steps of most assembly lines, and how lifts can be connected to buildings and splitters without the use of belts, I suspect that stacking the buildings in an orientation where the output of one building connects to the input of the building directly above it via a single lift was one intended way of doing things. Now I need to test this out in detail; if this works it will save an insane amount of space if some low tier recipes feed each other without the use of a single belt or splitter.

Definitely !

I figured out how to calculate how many buildings were necessary. I used to just guess, and end up with too much or too little in and out and it just sucked. Till I started crunching the numbers myself. God it feels good to painstakingly calculate how much in I need to support 8 assemblers that need 18.75 metal plates and 33.6 copper coils a minute, and everything working without stopping.

this. playing around with the number of items to produce per minute only makes sense if you plan to produce multiple different items in your factory because otherwise you want to maximize your production in regards to the input anyways. ^^

How do I figure out the input ore amounts based on the miners I have and the ore spots purity?

Exactly my situation. Too much choice, so many hours wasted if not the final / right decision

same.

Eh, I think it's the difference between playing freestyle with Legos vs building the 2000 piece pirate ship Lego set. Both fun ways to play Lego.

🤣 sorry 😅

Perfect timing

Although I agree the build mechanics can make redesigns difficult, planning factories well is also something that comes with practice.

that's why I recommend that you start each product from scratch, that way you never plan for future, you plan only for now. Every new build makes all the resources it needs itself, so every previous factory can stay and keep producing materials for storage.

Choose a cardinal direction that you want inputs and another to put outputs on, and keep your belts feeding the factory at that respective wall as you go up. I tend to make all my feeding belts along the North wall, and outputs go out the SouthEast corner. I've also realized to never build on ground. My factory floors are now a minimum 16m above ground to allow for future basements since we can't dig underground. Train depots out the basements, drone depots on the rooftops, mini-structures built around miners to act as the stilts for the factories looks pretty cool.

@GoodISnipr S Oh wow, this is pretty helpful thank you. Currently my biggest struggle has been power as the efficiency lowers every level higher I need to pump water up. I hope unlocking trains and delivering water by train to the top will help.

​@@donaldpetersen2382 You're very welcome. Water Extractor ought be from the highest body of water you can find it from, then pipe anywhere you want. No head-lift pumps are needed unless building even higher that. Speaking of high, I wish we had an altimeter to allow for easier factory planning. _______________________________________ I found something about smart splitters. TL:DR Smart splitters do not operate properly with Mk.1 belts for certain, didn't test mk2, I went straight to mk3 with this application. The details: I wanted to setup a Manufacturer (it has 4 inputs) but I wanted to be able to dump all items into 1 container. Container 1 belted to Smart Splitter 1. Smart Splitter 1 took Item1 off the left to the Manufacturer, OverFlow out the middle to Smart Splitter 2, Item2 off the right to the Manufacturer. Smart Splitter 2 took item3 off the left to the Manufacturer, OverFlow out the middle back to Container 1, and Item4 off the right to the Manufacturer. When the manufacturer had filled up and the items backlogged to the splitters, I found the splitters themselves held items inside them (by using the deconstruct tool and seeing what resources I'd receive). So, when I had the exact amount of items in my inventory to manufacture the exact amount of items needed for the goal, I put all the items in the one container and watched. As the resources emptied, I found the manufacturer had only 1 item left to make and was short items because the smart splitters were holding up to 5 of each item itself. I upgraded the belts connected to the smart splitters and that made them empty. ___________________________________________ So far I'm about to unlock HoverPacks if I can have the game stop crashing while trying to produce aluminium (my pc is a PoS, I have to play in a 800x600 size window and still only get 9fps at the iron facility). I have unlocked trains (haven't built one yet), only producing 600MW of power using 8 coal generators and typically only use about 300MW. Highest grade items being made at the moment is Turbo Engines (at 1 per minute) and Heavy Modular Frames (at 2/min). Currently working on getting a central storage facility set up with a built in Bio-resources processor with the hub and space elevator on the roof. Tried hypertubes for the first time yesterday, very happy with them.

the end result is that all just put mini modular assemblies/refineries/etc in array and then connect them underground. its very space efficient

So then, don't watch videos like this one, simple. Problem solved. Just one more thing, if you were going to become an architect, or engineer, irl, wouldn't you have some sort of schooling or training? If you are going to do something that is pretty involved, don't you seek some sort of training, schooling, advice, or even simply google it first? Having said that, the most important thing to take away here is this...lighten up. It is just a video game, after all, and supposed to be fun. How people enjoy it is up to them.

very good questions

It's an alternate recipe it just registers as a base recipe pretty sure it's a bug

Join my stream and you'll see all the building is done without flying, jetpack or hoverpack. Difference is it makes a boring video looking at walls.

waste/byproducts is the next difficulty spike that comes with "unlocking" the ability to utilize oil. with constructors you have to learn the fundamentals of an autmoated production line. with assemblers you have to learn the production and combination of different products (and the logistics that comes with this). so i actually don't think that any of those two are properly fitted to already introduce byproducts.

called packutils

@@boricle4509 Pak Utility Mod Obviously it's immediately easier with this Thanks

For the tutorial im using the mod, but normally I'd recommend using trains to connect distant factories together

​@@TotalXclipse Thank you for all your tutorials for all types of games

i always clog up my cargo because it obviously still produces while i don't use the item but that also means that there is no input drawn and with that potential input for other factories is wasted. and then when i need the items in question it's gone in a matter of seconds but production on it self is so slow that i have to wait an eternity. this game is about efficency but i tend to somehow always manage the opposide...lol

@@Buttersaemmel Well, you can always just feed the overflow into a sink. Not so wasteful anymore

@@AvarageYakuzaEnjoyer ye that's what i'm doing lately. still bothers me a bit ^^

I for one welcome our new silicon-crafted overlords!

Click R whilst building to change the build mode - if you're still struggling and want more tips, here's a video on 100 Tips in 10 minutes - I cover it there.

Rhode pro I believe off the top of my head

THANK YOU SO MUCH@@TotalXclipse

ah it apears its quite expensive

Prior to that I used a blue yeti which was more reasonably priced@@user-jb7xs3ck1q

Over head cables? The cables are just the normal ones in game, but if you're wondering about the connections, those are in the awesome shop.

@@TotalXclipse thank you man so much couldn't live without you :))

This is what I wanted to know.

I don't know why, but it does it with a lot of recipes

The robot arms are offset from each other. They will not collide.

@@MCHamii nope, just booted up satisfactory and tested it and they collide through each other

@@belgrifex then we must play unsatisfactory 😄

🤣😂

you can just switch to the resources tap and enter the amount of resources you want to input into your factory per minute. then set beams to maximize.

What website?

@antoninrobinet9309 you didn't watch the video did you?

The storage blueprint MK1 is on the calculator site, same with some refinery blueprints, but the vast majority are on Patreon

PAK utility Mod :)

What's the issue?