THIS Should Be Your First OIL POWER PLANT! - Let's Play Satisfactory Update 8! 

First and, likely, only membership on RU-vid, and will be worth every penny! Never been able to get into games like this in my own time but being able to watch someone like Darren who both knows and loves this genre of game makes them accessible to people like me who have neither the time nor the patience to invest into them. Much love, dude

I just started harvesting those oil nodes in the Northern forest with a plan to make a power plant so these build videos are gonna help me so much

Its so nice to se how youve grown, not only as a player, but also as a content creator. The cuts, the cadance and the structure of your vids! Great frikkin job man! Oh and i love that you keep reminding us of those "small" things like 1meter foundations, how to snap blueprints and all the other tips. Been watching since your brutalist starter factory in series one and... Damn bro... Im genuinly impressed!

Wow Darren !! Such a good episode !! Since ep1 of serie 1, rythm is better, cuts, time lapses, a bit of tease for ep 2 on this oil factory. Eveything is well explained. 1h10’ is perfect timing. Cant wait to fire this place up and watch you do the cosmetic on the live stream. Keep doing your amazing work. You are clearly in the footsteps of what Kibitz used to do, even better sometimes. Love it.

I think I have watched almost this whole series this week, along with several of the streams. It made me get back into the game too. When I was playing path of exile I really didn't want to ridgedly follow a build guide, I was like "that changes it from playing a game to assembling IKEA furniture". I have gotten farther than I ever have before but most of my factories are built straight ahead and only have 2 or 3 final product machines. I think after I plan out a "proper" factory and feel like it's really in my brain I'll be revisiting a lot of these videos though and fixing all my half made IKEA furniture lol.

It's mesmerising watching Darren play. Being an old git myself, he does everything twice as fast as I do, including talk and maths lol

You could get way more out of the Oil when you used the heavy oil residue and packaged Diluted Fuel Alternate recipes. It is pretty easy to set up and you get way more fuel than with the standard Fuel recipe.

Best Saturday with this episode. The best satisfactory content as always

Finally, a new episode of my favorite youtube serie.

Hi Darren! I learned of you from your Anno 1800 series which i loved and binged all the way. Your videos made me start playing Satisfactory and Cities Skylines too, trying to build along a bit and figure things out along the way, the blueprints and plans and maps you make and share are super helpful! Though i put the copper caterium factory off for later, that seemed a little above me right now, i've been loving your videos always, keep up the good stuff!

If there's one thing this game has taught me about Fuel, it's ABD, Always Be Diluting. Imagine my absolute shock when Darren did not dilute the fuel! If you need me, I'll be on my fainting couch!

Love the vids, that being said when you flipped the belts for the residual plastics, the plastic refineries were the ones going the wrong way...at least on the BP I downloaded...

Thanks so much for this series, I was really overwhelmed when I first started playing this, I'm completely new to the genre, so building along to start with really helped to ground me in how things worked and what was possible, now I'm much more confident creating my own builds, although still find certain new builds you do like this one incredibly helpful as I navigate how to progress the game, I love seeing all of them and the creativity of course, it's a great series overall :)

Once again great video! This is where I decided to build my first turbo fuel power plant and I’m so glad I did. My facility churns out about 50,000MW! Why didn’t I do turbo fuel earlier! Thanks again for all your fantastic content. You are currently my favorite you tuber!

I really like this series. It keeps me excited to play Satisfactory myself and to try to plan and make better factories. Now that I can also make blueprints myself I find that it is not as easy, to me at least, to make blue prints and to use them. Could you please make a video with all your tips&trics to create and use blueprint designs? I want to create them myself instead of using the blueprints of someone else. Thanks in advance!

Excellent content as always Darren! I can only hope to catch up - still doing copper logistics 😂

Great Video! You inspired me to rebuild mine turbo fuel factory

Hi Darren, i am a big fan and player of Satisfactory. Your series are super fun to watch just keep doing what you do. For the life of me, how do you quick select a blueprint (pipette). I think I've seen you do this a couple of times throughout this let's play. Thanks for the entrainment!

Cant wait for the next episode for the fluid dynamics explanation. I have no clue how they work, I built the coal power plant 1:1 and for some reason water just doesnt fill the machines. Ive tried filling them first just to have everything break lol. (Also replaced all the pipes by hand)

These videos are so good my friend is new to the game and this is great for us to play along to

18:42 the way he just doged the "bullets" 😂😂😂

Wow great job Darren! Setting up a first fuel power plant has always been the most annoying logistical part of the game for me 😅

31:04 cant you just press ctrl or alt or something to replace the merger inplace?

41:48 Loch Ness Monster of Satisfactory!?! 43:20 Is that a Bean Egg? Is that where Beans come from?

You TEASE ! Cant wait for next one !

Great series. Honestly the best, most concise, easy to follow how-to for ANY game I've ever played. One question: I don't seem to have the option to build mark two pipes with no indicator. What have I done wrong? Pressing R doesn't give me the option either. I can build mark 1's with no indicator no problem. Just no option comes up for Mark 2 no indicator....Odd.

I had all these plans planned for the weekend... guess I"ll be playing satisfactory instead :D

Hi Derren I was wondering what mods you use for satisfactory and where do you get them from.

Just spent all day today building a diluted packaged fuel power plant. It's well worth it to use the heavy oil residue and diluted packaged fuel alternate recipes. One pure oil node overclocked to 600m³/min will yield 1600m³/min of fuel. This nets about 15,000MW.

I wish we had terraforming (even if it was limited in some fashion) I want to have nice landscaped lawns around my factories and basements etc.

Just doing my largest oil power plant myself, decided against turbo due to logistics for compacted coal but using alt recipes can get 20000mw from just one pure node at 600 crude oil pm. Will definitely put your method to use though as do want to stockpile some turbo fuel anyway. Enjoying the videos and hopefully get to see nuclear 🤞

I am looking forward for the next episode

good video!!, i have a cuestion, how many hours that file have?

dear darren thasnk you so much for your helpfull content . i will try to build this in somewhat the same fashion . the info you add in your videos is very easy to understand and really helpfull i cannot wait to catch your next upload greetings from the netherlands

cant wait to see the power plant

Hello Darren..love the series. I posted a comment way back on the coal power plant upgrade video. I am stuck and was wondering if you could help...here is what I wrote...i have been following along step by step with you. I got a little lost when you first set up the big coal plant, but thankfully and mercifully you released your save which i promptly downloaded and started using from that point on. Now I am at the 1st expansion of the power plant and i followed you with the powering up of the number of water extractors, I upgraded the 4 miners to Mk2 and over clocked to 200% giving 240 coal per minute. I upgraded all the belts to Mk3 up to the first set of splitter where they change to Mk2 belts and then to Mk1 belts leading to the lifts taking the coal to generator. All of the generators are under clocked to 88.888% Some of the generators all the way to the left of where the belts come in are starved for coal. The first three all work at 100% and have 100 coal in them..the others actually get to 0 coal and go offline until 1 coal comes into it..I have tried force feeding 100 coal into the generators that are missing it and for a while I get a straight line and 4800mw production, but soon after the coal dissipates again from certain generators. For example the far back generator are all working at 100%. Any idea what could be wrong? Appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks

That's exactly where I built turbo fuel plants in two separate saves. The proximity of oil, coal, and sulfur seems intentionally designed for it. Water too, if you want to upgrade to diluted fuel later on.

Same place as I built my first turbofuelplant!

@Darren I placed down all the fuel refinery blueprints and checked the recipe.. They're all set to Fabric. I had to double check I put the Refinery (1) Fuel blueprint down, and I did.

Awesome video, the only comment I would make is that if you wanted to save on resources, you can actually decrease the potency of the output conveyors on the fuel refineries based on which direction they're going. E.g., if they're flowing left to right, then the left-most only needs a mk1 between its splitter and the next (with the output being 30p/m) as does the second, and then after that you need 2x mk2 belts, then 2x mk 3 belts, etc. It's very picky, and may not be worth the effort to be fair at this stage in the game

I use the heavy oil residue recipe and turn the heavy oil into diluted packaged fuel then unpack then make a small bit of rubber and plastic with the polymer resin you get so much more fuel that way then combine with compacted coal I forget the exact numbers but from 300 oil I get like 800 turbo fuel or something

I started playing satisfactory recently and i cant see the reason to not centralize every resource by dragging long pipelines and conveyor belts to my main location. Can someone explain why building connected factories in different locations is any good?

Deffo move them domes back a bit, like centreline on the first refinery pipe output

how did you get the trucks on a timer?

it looks good, but not turning oil into heavy oil residue to then convert it to fuel... you esentially would double your fuel amount...

Question. I understand the current unlock limitations: But for future proofing context. Why chose this method of Oil >- Fuel >- Comp Coal/Sulfur in assemblers >- Turbo Fuel. Isnt Oil>- HOR>- Fuel>- Pcoke>- Sulfur>- Blenders = Turbo Fuel more efficient? (space/production/power draw wise)

Hey Darren, amazing build! I'm curious, when you put down the turbofuel refineries, why don't two rows share the same junctions & splitters (where the four rows do not face the same directions, but there are two groups, each with two rows facing each other). Just aesthetic preference?

I have owned the game for years now, and I am always intimidated to play. It feels so complicated

Do you use any mods? If so which ones. This really made me wanna get back into the game, and i think mods would help alot

I need this episode so much. I hate power...

41:48 "did you see it?"

Looks like ya only bridged the input sides between the compacted coal blueprints. The outputs don't appear bridged, at least on one of the rows of 6. May want to check the power lines as well. :) Great looking build though, and relatively easy to understand.

I have set up huge turbo fuel stations to power 450 fuel generators. And I have set up huge dilluted fuel stations to power 400 fuel generators. I just dont think its worth it to produce turbo fuel for anything other than the jet pack and the turbo ammo.

Vegetation does grow back. But it takes something live 200-400 in game hours. Eventually, you will have to come back to destroy the same trees. I've got trees growing through the first roads already

Thank you.

why didnt you u make 270 Oil into 15000MW with Oil->Heavy Oil->packedfuel->fuel->turbo fuel. Thats so damn good kk minus the production costs

I'm getting ~20,000 MW from 600 OIL with diluted fuel and heavy oil residue recipes

I recently started playing the game, I already get scared by seeing your videos, seeing the scale of this game and then today you say "for very advanced players they'll do crazy......., but we're not there yet" 😂 I'm scared beyond belief.

44:47 Bro you forgot to connect the output pipe and belt of the oil refinery that you disconnected for the research.

The blender based recipe can go up to 50,000 Mw

Turbo fuel is such a waste as opposed to dilute fuel, i need my sulfur for other things.

I’m new to satisfactory and I have no clue how he gets these equations

What do you think about RU-vid satisfactory last video? There's a lot of thing that wouldn't came to 1.0 and some endgame recipe changes, and biomass burner stollen from mod community

Whats not good about using a 1M foundation?

hey darren, My game crashes every time it saves. i know it is because i have a lot of stuff in my wolrd, but i have a good pc(i9 13th gen, 4070 Super, 32Gb RAM). Are there any mods or fixes u use? thanks

What do you have against blenders and diluted fuel? It only took me 2hrs of retries to get the alternative recipe... (I'm now waiting for one last alt recipe for my closed loop nuclear power... Only about an hr and a half of restarting... Instant plutonium cell... cause I do like instant Quaker Oats...) Curious to see if I missed* anything so I'm gonna watch your videos and thanks for sharing Blueprints without the ransoming of your viewers. I've learned a lot from inspecting your stuff, after the confusion wore off each time... The first step to understanding is being confused... Lucky, I learned that early in my STEM life... Now as an older man, I use games like these to keep my mental faculties challenged... But I've noticed I'm still losing my marbles, even as I consistently pick them up if I notice a few fall out my ears. __________________________________________________ * Holy crap, I learned alot of stuff I didn't know I didn't know (but I know Idk a lot), from MK3 power poles I forgot about, to being able to place explosives on the trees without going down to the ground to chainsaw them to death... Thumbs up on the video!

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is this game ever going to be a full game instead of a early access game I've seen post from 4 years ago so this game should have been a full game by now

First 😂 Thank you again for all your efforts Darren!

I like this videos game

You can do the math in the control panel of the machine?! 🫨🫨🫨

I gotta watch this at like 0.75 to be able to follow what you are saying lol.

oh Darren, where is your total war?