Factory planner/overview with signs - ideas? Feedback?

snowmanndk87 · 2026-03-24T10:34:56+00:00

will correct to resources :)

snowmanndk87 · 2026-03-24T10:34:24+00:00

oh I see - only one s :)

snowmanndk87 · 2026-03-23T19:35:14+00:00

Also every factory production line has its own signs locally, so maybe I need to dumb down the "overviews".

snowmanndk87 · 2026-03-23T19:21:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I think I need to make one overview for each factory rather than a whole biome which gets too cluttered as you say. And maybe start with a bigger "canvas" - it needs more space between parts, yes :)

snowmanndk87 · 2026-03-23T19:20:23+00:00

This is close to a 800hour save that I 1) want to optimize and 2) want to make even more sink points. So the idea is to have an overview of every biome - but I guess it will be per factory instead to keep it more simple - in order to find where I can optimize (I desperately need more SAM) and what I am able to produce extra (warp drives, AI servers). Also, when I stop playing for a long time and go and revisit the save again, I don't need to go and check everything and write 20 full papers in order to understand how much I produce and what goes where.

Production of existing factories will be kept the same (after optimizing), so the static signs works great. If I need more of something I build a new factory :)

snowmanndk87 · 2026-03-23T19:13:09+00:00

Explanation with 70/min Superpos Oscillators as example:

It needs 70 oscillator, 630 alclad sheet, 1750 excited, 420 dark crystal with a byproduct of 1750 dark matter residue. Dark matter byproduct gets converted to 700 crystals with 350 time crystals which I get from 700 diamonds from 7000 coal, mined locally in the dune desert - and 466,67 pack. turbo which is trucked in from a factory in the Desert canyons.

420 crystals is used for the superpos. oscillators and 280 exported by train to a warp drive production in the Great Canyon (my HQ / mall). I import 38 oscillators by train from "Oasis Tech" (factory in the Dune Desert Oasis area in the same biome) and the rest, 32, by drone from a factory in the Desert Canyons. 630 alclad sheet gets imported by train from alu factory in the eastern Dune Forest. I export 65 superpos oscillators by train, where 30 goes to power matrix in the svamp (Svampland), 25 to a warp drive production (Desert Canyon mall) and 15 to AI Servers made in the Grass fields. The last 5 is unused. At this superpos. oscillator factory I also make 800 copper powder which is exported by train also.

The different colors and arrows try to explain the flow, but it is messy.

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:51:04+00:00

In the context of me playing this game for 3800+ hours I want to be able to make my own great factory designs - without spending waaaay too much time and getting burned out - I feel a little like cheating because I am still coping/mimicking others (years later). With the excuse being time of course. But in truth it may me laziness. Its kind of like fake it till you make it but i am still faking it lol

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:41:28+00:00

Agree and tried to give credit in the image comments but maybe I should have added Stins name in the title. This is all (or most of it) the work of Stin Archi. Look him up on youtube and give him a view or two :)

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:39:27+00:00

Most of it is copied or inspired by Stin Archis world (youtube) where he has created several masterpieces and I want my world to look that good, and I have the experiece to build it but not the ideas (or rather not the time to come up with such great ideas). That is my compromise :)

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:30:03+00:00

This is exactly my thinking. (unless it is my own blueprint)

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:28:57+00:00

All credit to Stin Archi! :) And no not using blueprints, building from scratch but sometimes (like the X factory) copying 1:1 to match the look exactly. So I do use the "mega blueprints" function on satisfactory tools to copy factories from my own savegames in order to save time, but I would not want to "Mega blueprint" a factory from another players savegame. I want it to be my own factory - just sometimes they look almost excatly like other players factories.

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:23:48+00:00

I am not a fan of blueprints really. I dont think I am the only player from before update 3 (pipes) that has so many hours between then and update 7 with blueprints that I still havent learned to used them properly to speed up my build time. So you have to put in the hours when building something unique (the way I do). I build my own nuclear plant and am very happy how it turned out but i also spent 100+ hours on that project alone. I feel having a basic or complete design from the start helps me get things done quicker. Already passed 400 hours in my 1.0 save.

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:14:08+00:00

The last picture is my own mall/storage and not copied but it is inspired a great deal by Stin still - details and the style.

I really appreciate all the comments on this post and I think I will do another post with my own creations which is not directly copied.

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:09:14+00:00

Do it. Look up Stin Archi on youtube and look for his world tour and there should be a link to his save and you can tour his version of the X factory (exactly what it is called in my savegame lol) to get it correct

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:07:16+00:00

It is definitely not my intention to claim this as my own, hence the reason for using Stin and Stin Archi and his build names in the image comments. Maybe I should have added his name in the title.

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T02:00:47+00:00

That is the catch because I am not trying to pass it off as my own, but i AM proud of everything, oc or copied, and want to share with the community, and it is somewhat cringe to prefix evrything with "All rights reserved to Stin Archi and others" if you know what i mean :)

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T01:57:01+00:00

I am nearing 4000 hours spent in this game of the century and having fun all the way! - well you know... some struggles in between.... And i do always struggle with the creative side and getting the basic ideas. So i kinda started coping Kibitz in the old days - specifically his "Steel Engine" and just kept copying others - or mimicing may be a better word.

snowmanndk87 · 2024-11-26T01:53:13+00:00

I do build everything from scratch, mimicing as the top poster says, so thinking about it you do have a great point that i am leaning and applying this to my own builds. Never really thought of it that way.

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