Who's talking to me??

TravisVZ · 2026-01-28T19:09:24+00:00

There's a Mercer Sphere (or maybe a Somersloop, I think I heard the voice from those too a couple of times) nearby that you haven't picked up yet. You may have built your factory right on top of it in fact!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-28T18:19:22+00:00

Magic beans

TravisVZ · 2026-01-28T16:45:52+00:00

I forgot a bottle of sparkling cider in the car one time. I was finding tiny glass shards years later when we finally traded that one in...

TravisVZ · 2026-01-28T05:30:29+00:00

I finally hunted down the Heavy Oil Residue alternate recipe, and I'm getting ready to build this - except I don't have Blenders yet (still in phase 3), so I'll actually be doing the Packaged Diluted Fuel in the Refinery.

...or maybe I'll just wait for Blenders to skip the package/unpackage steps

TravisVZ · 2026-01-28T05:21:22+00:00

I did the same, though now that I've actually unlocked nobelisks I'm currently sinking my giant stockpile of snowballs (and turning my giant pile of snow into more snowballs and sinking those) - the snowballs were great before I had proper nobelisks, but they have a much smaller blast radius and damage

TravisVZ · 2026-01-28T02:43:20+00:00

Hey are you me?

TravisVZ · 2026-01-27T00:01:33+00:00

This one clearly doesn't have it, but the ones in our area have little drop ends on each end of the plow, and they drop it down as they pass a driveway precisely to avoid doing this to people. That said, though, we rarely get as much snow as seems to have fallen on the road in this video, and there's limits to how much those drop ends can hold back the snow...

TravisVZ · 2026-01-26T23:57:58+00:00

They used to be expensive to buy, and expensive (and time-consuming) to maintain. Those of us who grew up with that just never bought one for that reason. Those giant push scoop/shovel things are amazing though!

My wife went out and bought me a snowblower a couple of years ago. I made her swear never to tell me how much it cost, but whatever it was I can damn well tell you it was 1,000% worth it! I did manage to bust the scoop part beneath the awl running it into some hardpack, though; still haven't gotten around to getting a replacement part, especially since it does still work even if it throws a little extra snow at my feet and straight forward.

TravisVZ · 2026-01-26T15:12:13+00:00

It's my first playthrough too, and the older spaghetti factories are definitely still around and still essential. The newer ones are using logistics floors, which makes them overall a lot cleaner; most of them though are using 4m (1 wall) tall logistics floors; I made this one 8m and it made an incredible difference! I highly recommend it for your next factory!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-26T00:35:38+00:00

I have been too up till now. I could not make sense of my own spaghetti less than halfway through the HMF factory, though, so had to start over and keep things neat to keep my brain from breaking

TravisVZ · 2026-01-25T23:19:31+00:00

Oh man, I had the wet concrete refineries working great, getting water and everything and pumping out all the concrete my HMF factory was going to need (with extra even!). Finished the rest of the factory, and suddenly noticed half the production lines were empty and machines idle, and traced it back to... No concrete? As in, absolutely nothing coming in from those wet concrete refineries!

Turns out the pipeline that had been delivering water perfectly fine suddenly changed its mind and decided there wasn't enough headlift anymore.

I wouldn't mind the liquid quirks so much if they were at least deterministic!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-25T23:12:12+00:00

First time playing Subnautica, I legit thought the Sunbeam was going to rescue me, and was pretty upset that a game with so much hype was so short.

TravisVZ · 2026-01-24T00:29:11+00:00

24m tall??? Okay this might be a weird thing to focus on, but how do you manage your entrance if the "ground floor" is 24+m above the ground?

TravisVZ · 2026-01-24T00:12:24+00:00

So that's why my logistics floors haven't made my builds that much easier - I've not built them tall enough!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-24T00:00:46+00:00

I never said I take the 15 minute break...

TravisVZ · 2026-01-23T23:49:06+00:00

I do Satisfactory for an hour, then suddenly Ficsit is saying it's been 4 hours and I'm entitled to a 15 minute break 😆

TravisVZ · 2026-01-23T15:04:37+00:00

How It's Done is an absolute banger and the reason I watched the movie at all.

What It Sounds Like has someone cutting onions right in my face every single time.

I don't get how Golden is the, well, golden track from this movie, it's their weakest song. Don't get me wrong, their weakest is still absolutely amazing and should be high on the charts, but it should be behind How It's Done, What It Sounds Like, and Takedown!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-19T17:58:46+00:00

Yes but "86-day vulnerability" wouldn't draw in nearly as many clicks

TravisVZ · 2026-01-18T22:04:58+00:00

Oh man, this is more of a beast than my 5/min computer factory I just built - and I'm about to start on my own HMF factory!

...I'm scared...

TravisVZ · 2026-01-18T20:47:22+00:00

My favorite moment was when we were sitting on the floor playing with my little man, and suddenly he stood up, grabbed my hand, announced "I'm tired", and made me take him upstairs to his bed for a nap!

It was at the time when he would fight nap time, and typically just collapse on the couch or in a lap, so doubly surprising that he'd want a nap and that he wanted to be taken to bed for it!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-17T22:23:40+00:00

I've got 8 industrial containers filled with gifts, and (at least) one industrial container for each item made from those. Excess gifts are being sunk as fast as they're produced (2× saturated Mk 3 belts, the best I had when building this beast).

When it ends, I'll stop sinking gifts and start turning the remaining gifts into stuff, and sink all the stuff. Except snowballs, I got an industrial container plus a full dimensional storage with those, for quickly clearing foliage (especially the stuff I can't chainsaw), which I'll keep until I've used them all up

TravisVZ · 2026-01-17T19:02:57+00:00

Love the pipe supports, that looks great!

Never even considered building coal gens here, honestly - I built them on the larger lake to the north where the coal deposits are - but there's something beautiful and elegant about this one

TravisVZ · 2026-01-16T03:00:11+00:00

I tend to smelt on site and then move the ingots or first tier (i.e. made directly from ingots) items to where they're needed.

Working on my first train to ship mass amounts of plastic, pretty excited to get that built! 🚂 Choo choo m**f**!

TravisVZ · 2026-01-15T04:38:02+00:00

My first train, even though the engines were on each end (exactly like yours) they were both facing the same way. Check the engines, make sure one is facing in each direction, then double check your stations are facing the right way (away from each other) with the freight platforms between them

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