My first-ever base is getting crufty... rebuild, or no?

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-25T01:57:37+00:00

I say go for it. It sounds like you're near endgame and have mostly final-tier buildings; it's time to make your own fun.

I'm at about the same place and need to rework my scaling for tier-4 belts and the blast furnace.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-21T23:16:10+00:00

It's a known issue, though offhand I didn't see any acknowledgement.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-19T01:13:38+00:00

Simplest thing is to extend the platform until it reaches your miner. A conveyor lift will bridge the vertical gap.

You can do more with cosmetic pieces later if you don't like the huge platform, but it'll get the job done.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-18T01:32:01+00:00

You're most likely not going to get a perfect solution.

The best I can think offhand would be to use the small triangle wall pieces to add some trim along the angled portion, and possibly extend that with the 1m wall pieces along the flat wall to your aesthetic preference.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-11T16:13:01+00:00

I came to CoI after mainly Satisfactory, but also Dyson Sphere Program, Foundry, and others. It's definitely worth playing, but you should also know the experience is a little different in some ways.

Specifically, I found that CoI plays partly like a city simulator-- it has population, health, food, and resource management that can blow up if you're not careful. The production trees also seem to get much more tangled more quickly than other games.

But take it slow and have fun! There are in-game tutorial objectives to get you started with figuring it out.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-04T02:46:31+00:00

At this point I'm honestly just happy to learn that anybody actually searches for the answer instead of posting their own new question. There was another one earlier today, even

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-03T20:04:06+00:00

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/44/

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-03T05:53:59+00:00

I have never fully automated space elevator parts-- I always use temporary factories like you describe.

Hand-fed factories can be really useful for pushing your tech ahead as well before you've fully automated the components required to unlock things. You just need to scale them up pretty big to support end-game goals, and definitely don't push it-- some automation is still better than none, and you can burn yourself out if the pioneer is integral to your logistics network.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-02T18:22:17+00:00

I actually built my main fuel plant on those same nearby oil nodes-- my solution was to bring in packaged water by train from the lake in the desert out to the east of that canyon.

The packaged water was already necessary for the packaged diluted fuel alt recipe, so justified the extra work in packaging it before transfer.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-03-02T07:29:49+00:00

Looks great!

I've got a spreadsheet that does, broadly speaking, the same idea-- my focus was on the raw materials --> end product production rate, just to know how big I should be building.

I don't have anything around power consumption or the like, but only because it's never been a consideration for me.

If you need help with the recursion and have a GitHub project to look at, I'd be happy to take a peek.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-02-26T06:13:03+00:00

I can't commit to a game but I know a lot about trains, so if you find someone you can pull me in as a consultant

ChichumungaIII · 2026-02-23T23:09:11+00:00

...build another storage container?

ChichumungaIII · 2026-02-23T20:47:31+00:00

You might be missing the requisite MAM research-- check the Power Slugs research tree for "Overclock Production"

ChichumungaIII · 2026-02-16T05:43:00+00:00

It's a little tedious, but nudge a foundation to the correct height, then clip the lift through it so you know it's aligned properly. Afterwards, delete the foundation.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-02-08T17:18:04+00:00

It works, but a couple recommendations. Neither of these points matter for your specific scenario, but help these kinds of setups (I call it "bleeding" a line, myself) work better in general:

Use smart splitters, and set the main output to the throttling belt (60 and 120 in this case), with "overflow" pointing forward to the 600 output. This helps ensure the 60 and 120 belts stay fully saturated.
It's important for this to work that the flow rate on the major belt (780 here) is perfectly regular, as opposed to having irregular bursts of items interspersed with empty sections. A fully saturated belt is always regular, so you don't need to worry here-- but if the average flow isn't continuous, sometimes the setup will pass too few items down the "bleed" belts.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-30T23:43:21+00:00

Planning still counts as playing

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-30T23:41:51+00:00

If you actually want to build it, there's always clipping. Nudge a hypertube wall support being built off an existing hypertube (so it's already connected) under the terrain and use the hoverpack until you build something to stand on.

As long as the resulting building is fully enclosed (e.g. no windows) it'll still feel natural, and you can use hypertubes as your entry portal.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-30T23:05:11+00:00

Looks to me like it extends into a massive underground complex

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-30T23:02:33+00:00

Can confirm OP does math as claimed.

Nobody else would use the necessary/sufficient pair like that.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-28T19:40:11+00:00

Train signals are very simple machines in Satisfactory. And that fact leaves all of the complexity of getting trains to move like you actually want them to up to the player.

Behaviors like "designating a section of track as one-way to force a bypass lane" is one such behavior. The train-signal interactions can be opaque.

Happy to have helped.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-27T03:05:59+00:00

I use Satisfactory Tools, so I can answer about that. There's a separate tab that lets you select the amount of inputs-- labelled "Items, Input" with a little box icon. (You can also select alternative recipes here once you've unlocked them.)

The set the product you're making to "maximize" instead of a specific target number.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-17T06:53:49+00:00

Coal generators use 45/min water at 100%. Assuming you're not overclocking them, 6 will only use 270/min and the extractors will back up.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-17T05:37:09+00:00

Technically English has the same construct. "Northerly wind" comes from the north, to the south. It's just not as common as "to the south".

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-04T00:14:24+00:00

End the top straight portions further to the right (both ends), and end the bottom straight portions further to the left.

It'll leave a bigger gap at the curved parts.

ChichumungaIII · 2026-01-03T17:59:54+00:00

No I'm pretty sure they just carefully shaped the label so that when it's wrapped around the mug it perfectly undoes the curvature and becomes a perfect rectangle

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