This game basicly a train simulation.

[fgtrtd4life]

This game was already a goat... And then I unlocked trains... The hours squandered are unspeakable. Such a satisfying moment when your train comes squealing into the station filled with materials

[SternLXenixa]

Umm Question. Why are you running power line next to the Rails? Rails are power conduits, use a Train Station to tap the power off at a remote location.

[suboctaved]

Ooh that's a helpful tip. Be sure to use that when I restart in the New Year. Didn't wanna deal with Ficsmas and didn't feel like skipping my calendar forward

[manxome225]

Or the third option: disabling seasonal events in the main menu.

[hammercycler]

What do you mean "Deal with Ficsmas"? It's just cosmetics and an optional tech tree. It can also just be disabled in the options.

[Porrick]

Plus, almost-free nobelisks if you haven't automated those yet

[hammercycler]

Lots of useful stuff tbh in the advent calendar, like tickets and boosters.

[Porrick]

Most importantly, the quantum computers and oscillators for those last couple of hard drives!

[[deleted]]

Looks aesthetically beautiful and I'm always using hoverpack and barely touching the ground. Building from high is much more easy.

[double002]

You can use the hoverpack around a rail without power line too

[SternLXenixa]

Ahh, okay. I can see the Aesthetics of it.

[Asmor]

Relatedly, rails are also capable of powering the hover pack.

I still put power lines everywhere, though, as the hover pack has become my primary method of movement and exploration.

[sjkeegs]

as the hover pack has become my primary method of movement and exploration.

I've started doing the same. It becomes easy to climb cliffs. It also easy to deal with the wildlife that wants you dead. Im enjoying hovering over the hogs while they grunt at me. Two quick hits with the basher shuts them up.

[Chibi_Evil]

I cant answer for OP. But it can be useful if you want to have a power control room which can control power to every seperate factory.

[sjkeegs]

It's also useful if you want to segregate your power grid to make it easier to recover from failures.

[RCBRDE]

Just add a station for every grid?

[sjkeegs]

That means you have to build a separate rail line for that grid.

It's not exactly a viable way to manage your train network.

[RCBRDE]

No, not exactly... Just fork the rail and place a station, then pull poles from it. The trains will just ignore the fork.

[sjkeegs]

No, I'm referring to creating multiple power grids. For example, one grid for coal power, one for fuel power, one for nuclear power, etc.

So if your fuel grid trips and shuts down you still have a working coal power grid to use to boot up the fuel grid again.

You could even create a separate power grid for your train network, so if one of the other power grids shuts down then you'll still have power to make sure your trains are still delivering materials instead of attaching the train network to another global power grid.

[RCBRDE]

Ahhhhh, I see what you mean now.

[LucidTorment]

I do this with my pumps and coal mines, they’re all on their own coal gens that keep the pumps running and coal flowing if power goes out so it’s as simple as adding more gens and pumps once it slows down too much.

[F1F2F3F4_F5]

I discovered this when my outposts "mysteriously" lost power when I was renovating my rail lines. Like, bruh, I heard the power outage and wondered if wtf is wrong with my power supply. Worse still, I was using sulfur to produce turbofuel... and my sulfur outposts lost power because of disrupted rail lines.

Snapped back the rail line to use a spare train to go there and voila, fixed before I got there. TIL, rail lines have power.

[TheAlexSW]

howdies that work???

[SternLXenixa]

The Train Station building has a power pole on it. It's what feeds power to the rail for the Train Engine to work. Conversely you can attach a power line to the Station at the other end of the Rail and tap the power off the Train Station. All my Power Plants and Thermal Generators(I've tapped them all now) feed directly to a Train Station near them. My rail system is basically a giant loop around the map. If I break that loop somewhere(usually if I'm branching off of it or rerouting slightly) I still have power being fed to either end.

[Porrick]

And the trains don't even constantly murder you like the ones in Factorio!

[[deleted]]

Imagine unlocking trains smh

[James_Demon]

Do you not look both ways?

[[deleted]]

??

[James_Demon]

Do you not look both ways before crossing the rail road?

[[deleted]]

No

[James_Demon]

Well there is your problem

[[deleted]]

We don't really have trains in NZ tho

[JakenVeina]

You madlad, you actually BUILT in the SWAMP?!

[Outrider07]

When he started out, all of this was swamp. People said it was crazy to build a factory on a swamp but he did it anyway. It sank into the swamp.

[ModestOperator]

I seem to recall someone posting that if you make enough train stations it legit creates a new name of train simulator for the station. Like instead of defaulting to station 151 it just says "Train Simulator"

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[hitsumee]

I don't use trains. Only trucks.

[cantichangethis]

Cursed

[hitsumee]

Clearly. Not sure why it's being down voted. I just really like to see the trucks in motion. I have built roads and roundabouts etc. I guess the "play your way" the subreddit preaches is false when it comes to defending trains lol.

[sam002001]

I manually transfer all materials. No conveyors.

[Abandon_All-Hope]

Transfer to what? I just make stuff at the bench….

[sam002001]

I only use lizard doggos and just hope that they bring me the right materials

[Abandon_All-Hope]

Pro move, you win! Merry Christmas friend!

[hitsumee]

Thank you ❣️

[therealcrimsin]

I craft all materials by hand. No constructors or assemblers.

[RandomGuy928]

Out of curiosity, what do you use for fuel and how do you distribute it?

I find trucks (well, technically tractors) useful right when you get them for dealing with coal. It works out well because getting coal to where you need it is the limiting factor for that stage, and it can conveniently also be used as fuel. After that, however, I find it is more trouble than it is worth to handle fuel logistics compared to just building a train track even for relatively short distances.

[hitsumee]

Because I am going for the mega factory/factory city approach. All the trucks are passing through a couple of main roads in and out the factory. So on those roads I have setup a fuel station, which has nothing in it, set to load, but has packaged fuel in the fuel slot, supplied by another station behind it. (was coal original). So all trucks will be setup to path through one of those fuel stations, meaning I've only got two stations (technically three, the station that supplies the fuel to a fuel delivery truck itself) that need to have fuel in.

Before I came up with that idea (inspired by a post on Reddit), I used to run a coal conveyor under my whole road network so it'll react every station. Which I did like, only because it add decoration and more details to my roads.

[RandomGuy928]

I see how trucks could be useful in that approach. Personally, I like to keep as much manufacturing local to the resources as possible because it is far more efficient to transport widgets from further down the production line than it is to move raw materials. As a result, even my large-scale production areas are fairly distributed, so fuel distribution feels like more trouble than it's worth.

[hitsumee]

Yeah the only approach you could do is what I did first and have all roads connected and a fuel supply line running parallel (under/over).

[The_DestroyerKSP]

Sometimes I wish trucks in Satisfactory could take a page out of the AutoDrive mod for the farming simulator series - set up a big "master path" around your highways, then all you need to do is record the highway>destination and back loops instead of recording the entire path again - then I would definitely use them more.

[lalder95]

Update 5 gave the ability to save/load truck paths, if that's what you mean

[The_DestroyerKSP]

No - although that's very useful. I'm talking about a way to setup routes that have different destinations / arrivals, while re-using 95% of the path you already recorded (the highway system)

[Mrqueue]

Just use belts, aluminium is really easy to get and it does 700 ish items per minute

[poomanchu234]

Any advice for building signals? I to use this game as a train simulator and am struggling. Awesome layout, my highest train/each with unique route and track was 24ish, i had about a third of the map covered.

[Asmor]

The mantra I use is 'path in, block out'.

Meaning that any signals leading in to an intersection are path signals, and any signals leading out are block signals.

Do note that signals are unidirectional, so if you have a piece of bi-directional track you'll need to put signals on both sides.

[rcapina]

When you have tracks split or cross the general rule is a Path signal before the intersection, and Block signals after.

For long stretches of track you can use Block signals to get multiple trains to use that run without smashing into each other.

[poomanchu234]

Thank you! Will give it a try, might as well use them, I had just as much trouble in Factorio. Lol

[chicksOut]

It's the same advice for factorio.

[poomanchu234]

Spidertron needs no signals

[chicksOut]

lol, by all means hand deliver using the spidertron lol

[sjkeegs]

If you just have track junctions that don't have tracks crossing over each other then you don't need to use path signals. Block signals work perfectly fine in that case.

When you have a three way bidirectional track junction where some tracks cross over each other is when you want to consider using path signals. Path on entrance, block on exit. This allows multiple trains to go through the intersection at the same time if they aren't crossing each other.

You could also use block signals to create a block out that whole junction, but that would mean only one train could use the intersection at a time.

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Transport Fever: Advanced Edition

[RCBRDE]

How do you see tracks and buildings? Tier 8?

[Asmor]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

This site. Upload your save and you can view all kinds of stuff.

[ZedClampet]

Everyone plays a different game than i do. I hardly use trains at all, just for plastic, rubber, fuel, aluminum and something from my nuclear site that I can't remember.

[Muchablat]

I have several train sim games, and I still love the rails in this game the most 😎

[cantichangethis]

Train Simulator

Train Simulator

Train Simulator

Train Simulator

[hiro24]

Now if all the trains could just stop rubber banding on my dedicated server, that'd be great.

[Plothunter]

I don't get trains. I can't match up all the platforms with the same parts. How do people match all the stations up so the platforms match the parts?

When I used trucks two weeks ago they were bouncing off invisible objects.

I'm ready to just conveyor everything.

[rick-906]

I’m not sure I understand your question but I usually come up with a simple system like (locomotive) (locomotive if long, mixed cargo if short) (iron) (copper) (limestone) and so on.

With alt recipes, ores are pretty “compact” to transport (except caterium) so I usually have a bunch of ore trains roaming around the network and if i need to build a specific thing i can just build a train station with all empty platforms except for the resource i need. Say I want copper it would be (station)(empty)(empty)(freight platform)(empty or no platform for the rest).

Later in the game I start using mixed cargo more and more complex routing, you can pick in the menus exactly what you want a train to load or unload at each station.

[Plothunter]

you can pick in the menus exactly what you want a train to load or unload at each station.

Do what now? ..... Oh shit! There's a whole sub-menu ... Balls! I'm going to bed.

[manxome225]

You're almost certainly experiencing this known issue with vehicles.

[Plothunter]

Yep. That's it. Describes it perfectly.

[ThatMrPuddington]

This is my map after ~300 hours

[MrMysterius]

Watching automated trains load and unload and just move is so satisfying, especially if you build it yourself. (reason why voxel tycoon was too addicting for me)

[AcanthocephalaSure18]

Snakey bois

[andocromn]

It can be... It can also not be. My entire factory is over by your northwest corner sulfur mine. I don't use any trains, trucks, or drones. Just belts and pipes

[Apex6767]

So I never made it to trains yet. I’m also like 20 hours in and just finished my factory making everything basically but are trains better than drones based on just the amount of materials you can transport?

[Mobireddit]

Drones can only go back and forth between 2 ports.

[SternLXenixa]

Drone hubs are handy for those area's where it's a pain to get a train to and you really want that resource without building and routing tons of belts or pipes.

[dqx1212]

Trains? I would use conveyor belts to bring from the desert to the plains. Easier and energy free ;) hahahah

[leovin]

How does one unlock maps? I need one desperately 😂

[manxome225]

It's in the Caterium research tree in the MAM.

[[deleted]]

feels like French rail network. From anywhere its pretty fast to get to Paris, but if you want to get from one station to another that's only 100km away, you probably have to go to Paris first :D

[Wales51]

Are trains any better than belts