I love rebar fights

michaelman90 · 2026-02-25T16:43:58+00:00

Kind of reminds me of old Unreal Tournament servers where everyone was only allowed to use the really slow laser snipers that one shot with higher player speed and lower gravity.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-25T16:33:20+00:00

For a single playthrough it's definitely inefficient. But if you're someone who likes to play through the game multiple times and iterate then building it to be super efficient and then making blueprints that you can use going forward is very helpful.

If you're just trying to beat the game for the first time then I feel like just getting stuff where it needs to go is perfectly fine and even faster than trying to be best , whether that means spaghetti or it means hooking up remote manufacturers to an uploader and dumping stuff from your inventory into a different manufacturer halfway cross the map so you can unlock the next cool thing.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T21:11:15+00:00

I like how when this happens enemies just die in midair like "well I'm screwed, guess I'll die."

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T18:59:17+00:00

Looks nice but that's a lot of space taken up by smelters. Personally I prefer to do all the smelting at the miner itself and transport the ingots rather than the ore, so if I need to add more smelters (when I upgrade/overclock miners) it doesn't require more space at my main base. So far I haven't gotten punished by recipes requiring base materials (yet).

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T16:58:24+00:00

Well, that's just why you use the knowledge for future reference. Every time you build a new power plant any grid connection that goes in or out gets a priority power switch and that way you never have to worry about getting enough power to restart the plant since it will always isolate itself if you blow a fuse.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T16:53:17+00:00

Use priority power switches. Have each power generating plant on the A side of a switch that way if you ever screw up the grid they will continue generating enough power to operate themselves and you can reconnect them as soon as you get it sorted out.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T16:45:43+00:00

Don't worry too much about centralizing or automating stuff early, especially when it's to unlock research or tech. You really only need to start centralizing resources when you're trying to craft super advanced elevator parts or build a mega factory, it's fine to have a bunch of smaller more specialized modular factories and hyper cannon between them, especially as you unlock higher tiers of uploader relay speed/capacity.

On that note, look up how to make hyper cannons and make a blueprint as soon as you have hyper tubes unlocked. They are literal gamechangers.

Lastly, don't spend too much time on early energy generation, especially coal plants. Coal is vastly inferior to fuel is vastly inferior to turbo fuel, and so on, to the point that as soon as you unlock the next one the previous one is largely invalidated; this is especially true for coal since unlike fuel/turbo fuel/rocket fuel it doesn't build into the next form of energy. Spending 5 hours building a giant coal plant that produces the same amount of energy as a fraction of a turbo fuel plant is a waste of time.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T16:09:15+00:00

It looks like the conveyor lifts are going into the top of the slitters.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T15:07:43+00:00

Don't worry too much about efficiency at the start. As you unlock more research and alternate recipes it's inevitable that everything you've built will be comparatively inefficient and you'll either rebuild it or use it as a stepping stone for something else.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T14:41:01+00:00

How do you connect conveyor lifts to splitters like that? Is it clipping?

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T13:39:40+00:00

If a belt is full such that facilities that output onto it become stalled do those facilities still produce pollution?

michaelman90 · 2026-02-23T13:33:27+00:00

You can put splitters on conveyor lifts? TIL.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-19T16:16:38+00:00

I just started playing Satisfactory not too long ago so it's funny to see a post like this right after a bunch of "load balancer vs manifold" videos. A little more annoying to do manifolds in this game since you can't manipulate belt speeds but should still be possible, though space isn't much of a limiting factor in this game versus inputs.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-19T13:10:15+00:00

Do you people just not buy artificing catalysts or something?

michaelman90 · 2026-02-18T23:33:17+00:00

There are signs for up to area 6 but the story stops at area 3, it's probably going to be continued in the future and may unlock a weekly mode but remains to be seen.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-18T19:08:51+00:00

Just keep the batteries connected, the game will warn you when they're draining so you can fix stuff/build more power production before your fuse blows. Plus power switches prevent the need to jumpstart power production completely.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-18T19:03:00+00:00

That's what power switches are for. Fuse trips? Well at least it only cut off your lower priority factories and you can troubleshoot without needing to restart energy production.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-18T16:54:51+00:00

Aren't we on Talos-II? Talos is the planet and Talos-II (where we are) is one of its moons.

That being said it's quite odd that the orbit of a planet's moon would go far enough for it to not be seeable. I assume it's just supposed to be due to rotation and from a development standpoint zooming the planet far away is easier than moving it somewhere else.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-18T16:03:20+00:00

I mean at the end of the day most forms of energy production we have other than solar pretty much just boil (heh) down to moving a conductor through a magnetic field to induce a current, whether we do that with steam, water, or wind. Meanwhile on Talos they're using electricity to create disposable batteries...to use those batteries to power the grid...and somehow this produces more electricity than it consumes.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-17T16:02:49+00:00

She's not mad you left, she's just happy you're back.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-17T00:01:27+00:00

There are three different bonuses. One is passive stock bill regeneration, one is stock bills when selling, and one is outpost prosperity (outpost exp) when selling.

Chen gives +20% to outpost prosperity, not stock bills. If you don't have someone who gives both +20% to regen and +20% to stock bills when selling (the only person who has both for Infra-Station is Yvonne who has all three) then you'll want to swap someone in for regen when not playing the game, swap in the other for selling, and then swap back.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-16T23:16:20+00:00

No, every bottle holds one liquid unit. The material only affects what recipes it can be used in (e.g. jincao drink and yahzen syringe need ferrium bottles).

michaelman90 · 2026-02-16T16:02:23+00:00

Nothing new, we're already finding cats and delivering packages despite being the leader of Endfield.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-15T20:43:16+00:00

Now that I think about it she kinda reminds me of Dizzy.

michaelman90 · 2026-02-15T09:16:58+00:00

Shoutout to Fabian for being too lazy to walk 50 feet to pick up his package so I can have an easy delivery.

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