100% EFFICIENT 20 Reinforced Iron Plates / Minute Factory! [SATISFACTORY GUIDE]

This is my guide to building a clean and modular factory that produces 20 reinforced iron plates per minute.
Input Requirements:
240 Iron Ore
Power Requirements:
At least 116 MW
What you'll need:
2x MK1(@100%) using pure nodes
8x Smelter
16x Constructor
4x Assembler
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[@FreeRadicalX]

This guy is the Bob Ross of Satisfactory tutorials.

[@sirrocky6]

We'll just place a happy little assembler right over here.

[@johnhellberg321]

THIS IS ACCTUALLY TRUE ITS INSANE

[@Nipseyy]

it's guides like these that remind me how terrible I am at this game hahaha

[@pogtuber5146]

Nah, you can functionally build something identical, even if it's not at perfect 90 degree angles and encased in walls. Just look at your input and output requirements and build what you need to fulfill them for maximum efficiency.

[@ExceedProduction]

Bro it doesn't matter. Ficsit just cares what comes out at the end. So build your beautiful spaghetti!

[@mechwarrior13]

Haha this is a common sentiment for this game, no matter how ugly but build we must!

[@Scouten819]

right im a fuckin barbarian with shit everywhere

[@gamingnomad132]

I can try and do the builds like them or as close as I can but it always ends up being a total failure as far as I'm concerned but I like the game and I seem to always come back and try again!

[@jvdybsjnsjh]

I was truly shocked when you said this was your first tutorial video. You explained everything perfectly, I like listening to your voice and the symmetry in your builds is just... *chefs kiss* Keep it up! ❤️👍🏻

[@allan-glasier]

Same, seems like you've been putting these out for years! Can't believe this was the first one. Subscribed and can't wait to check out the rest of your content! Thank you so much, super helpful!

[@vsoundelend]

Mate, you're asking US for a feedback? That's hilarious. This is one of the finest channels on youtube, you should be giving feedback to youtube how to improve youtube. Subbed after watching first 2 minutes of this video.

[@Scalti]

Appreciate that lol! Making content is still ‘new’ to me so there’s always a chance someone has a way to help me improve.

[@dukenukon6397]

@@Scalti I agree, subbed immediately. I'm new (just bought it when it went on sale) and have learned quite a few interesting techniques from your vids. Very to the point and informative.

[@corysparks3449]

Resources: Spliters: 19 Smelters: 8 Mk. 2 Lifts: 25 Mergers: 20 Constructors: 16 Assemblers: 4

[@Garbobus]

God teir person

[@Bobdo.b]

All buildings broken down into parts enjoy {please note that more reinforced plates may be needed since I used only 2 plates (the minimum) for the mk. 2 lifts} Cable 98 Plates 98 Rods 80 Reinforced plates 104 Wire 192 Rotor 16

[@theswarmstorm]

@@Bobdo.b not counting the walls and foundation?

[@Uyer200]

Thanks for not editing out the small mistakes you make every now and then. For those of us not used to building at this scale, the project looks pretty intimidating, and seeing that the builder is human, too, can be very reassuring. Looking forward to more from you!

[@hachiman6132]

so true

[@ph11p3540]

Keep your format just the way it is. You are extremely easy to follow and you leave enough generous breaks in between sentences for me to freeze the game while I copy your build.

[@vitor0tritto]

Great design dude. Think it's the cleanest one I've seen for this. Already subscribed

[@Kanepong]

What i love about this tutorial is not only the building but also the math to make it efficient

[@bumbro07]

For anyone trying this out, it IS actually necessary to placing the machines atop the sandwich layer before placing the beltwork below in the sandwich layer. I didn't use fly, so I tried to finish the sandwich layer before placing the machines and I spent an hour trying to figure out why the game would not place the machines down. There's no clearance issue that shows or anything. The game just will not place the machines down if the sandwich layer has mergers and splitter underneath where you're trying to place the machines.

[@jedmanivx]

Does it even need to be a sandwich layer at all? Why not just make it standing height?

[@bumbro07]

@@jedmanivx What do you mean? The sandwich layer is 2 meters and 2 meters is standing height.

[@jedmanivx]

@@bumbro07 sorry am new to this game, got confused by camera angles lol.

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@bumbro07 yeah I don't think so

[@bumbro07]

@@romainsavioz5466 If it isn't now, it was at the time I made the comment.

[@scottlittle6876]

This tutorial was amazing, don’t even ask for feedback because it is perfect my man, keep killing it.

[@dallan2758]

Never seen or played this game ever in my life, but end up watching it anyway because it looked interesting, you did a great job to hook the viewers in haha

[@nickjohnson9640]

Excellent video. All of the little tips and tricks about sandwich layers, belt work, placement tips, the rules of thumb for the floors above smelters versus constructors... all of this is more pertinent and valuable than building X input to 100% IMO. Great work and thank you.

[@bakerfftoo2912]

Wait what 6k sub with this quality content? Never subbed so fast in my life and can't wait to see more of your guides man!

[@hugohenri9128]

3 months later: 15.9K subs and climbing! Let's gooooo!

[@bakerfftoo2912]

@@hugohenri9128 lesssgoooooooooo

[@knommonk5]

Would love to see more like this, great content

[@Scalti]

knommonk5 There is definitely more in the pipeline (heh) that’ll be coming soon-ish. For some sneak peeks on what that’ll be, I post glamour shots and teaser videos of the builds to my Instagram beforehand.

[@SpaceartNZ]

Absolutely fantastic. Watched it and had to reproduce. Please make more for the other components. Very nice techniques.

[@Scalti]

This means so much to me! Thank you so much for taking the time to check this video out and building it too. I 100% will be working on creating guides for additional components. My next two guides will focus on 20 rotors per minute and basic iron/copper tier 1 materials.

[@davidroberts6909]

Super tutorial. Great flow. I really appreciate how you show the sandwich layers and mention the clearance issues and how to handle them. Wonderfully done.

[@mikelaker72]

Great videos, relaxed style, not over the top and easy to understand. Nice work! Copied your rotor factory because I wanted something up and running quick, solidified so much knowledge so quickly. Keep it up dude.

[@lily_astral]

Wow! Would never guess it was your first tutorial, you did a stellar job of presentation. Your build strategy is also very clean and precise. I've never seen the sandwich floors design and oh jeeze, it's a game changer. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@lily_astral]

I really want to see how you handle the new fluids changes

[@theparodymonster1]

i just spent what feels like 6 hours building this, rewinding the video, running back and forth to get materials and cursing my inability to fly! Currently i am totally burned out but after a good sleep i look forward to connecting this to my newly built bus system!

[@Scalti]

I certainly hope it didn’t take that long lol. Now I’m debating on if I should do future builds without flying to be of greater benefit to non modded players. There are definitely some effective scaffolding type methods. - at the end of the day I’m excited you’re excited. It’s why I’m making these guides.

[@theparodymonster1]

@@Scalti nono the flying is fine and yes, it did take me a good 3 hours atleast id guess with all the running back and forth haha i did finnish it and now that i watch it work it seems that 2 of the assemblers have to wait for plates while the other 2 assemblers have to wait for screws. Im running 120 iron ore per minute into it and the floors are as follows 1: everything is melted into ingots and move on to the next floor 2: There are 4 constructors making rods and 6 constructors making plates 3: 6 constructors making screws 4: The 4 assemblers making reinforced plates Its still spitting out reinforced plates but i have no idea if its 20/min (since im bad at math haha). Does this happen in your build as well or did i do something wrong at some point?

[@Scalti]

Kristoffer Wallenberg you need a total of 240 iron ore going into the factory.

[@janlehmann2003]

I've started Satisfactory a few days ago. You are helping a lot right now! Thanks

[@psyknerver]

Omg,, meltdown,, mixed up a bit.. 6 constructors doing rods, and 2 contructors doing plates.. what a mess i did. But realy good guide. 2 thumbs up from me.

[@GothicG]

No need for feedback my man, watching this was therapeutic :)

[@kilad9381]

Great job with this tutorial. One of the best presentations I’ve seen.

[@jglennify]

Love the vertical build. Please do more! All the other builds are sprawling.

[@bogelins]

this put a big grin on my face ! message delivered clear as day. SLICK and CLEAN design . soothing voice sounding like a pilot welcoming passenger for a 8 hours , first class flight.

[@Shirrak3]

Your guides are just the best. i've seen a lot of them on your chanel and apart that they helped me to learn a few things about the game they helped me love this game. When i started out i hated it and regreted the decision of buying it because i did not knew how to build an efficient factory. i am gonna recomend your guides to everyone i know and start play Satisfactory.

[@yaris5150]

I hope your channel grows - you're a very creative mind and your tutorials are top notch. Thanks for the video!

[@Scalti]

Thanks! The channel is doing amazing so far. I only started uploading at the beginning of June. Really overjoyed that my guides are well liked. :]

[@battyplays404]

Another very nice video! I was confused with the splitters until the peanut in my skull realized this build takes 2 miners without access to MK2 miners and Mk3 belts. Even with overclocking, the MK2 belts limit me. Future renovations incoming! Thanks for another pretty non-sketti factory!

[@raiyan3348]

High quality AND easy to understand guides? instant sub

[@J_PIK]

New player here. I just builds this one and the basic iron components (screws, plates, bars), all going to a main bus line. Next on my list is the modular frames and then onto the steel pipes/slabs. Thanks for all the help.

[@AbbyFA]

Love it. I would alter it to add support for the floating foundations tho but other than that sweet work!

[@Scalti]

Definitely doable especially if you use the support columns or expand the design by a couple foundations to enable that.

[@local9]

Just came across your channel, honestly, beautiful stuff and really puts my factory to shame... time for a redesign me thinks. Also love that you've kept in mistakes and added bloopers to the newer videos, it shows that we're not all perfect and the mistakes make the video more comfortable as nearly every player does the same.

[@Seedzification]

really nice job, 3 years later and still relevant and beautiful

[@DaveGambl3]

Mr Scalti sir, These videos are absolutely incredible! Thank you very much for all the time and effort you've put into these amazing creations! Only download satisfactory about 4 days ago and have already clocked over 26 hours game play. Haha so glad I found your channel to help guide me in a more 'satisfactory' direction.

[@seveylive]

I usually don't comment but gotta say thanks so much for this, I've been getting into the game and having trouble organizing. This is super helpful in multiple ways man, thanks

[@Scalti]

Glad to hear! Main reason I started making these videos. Hope the others are as helpful.

[@Askalor]

Avery calm and efficent delivery of a Tutorial. it also shows you did your math before and its also is interesting to see how you sovled the logistics issue inside very efficient (i suck at logistics). Keep making more Tutorials like this and i am sure everyone will be happy. (one thing though... please mention that you haven't researched any hard drives for it it makes it a bit more understandable since the first thing i usually do is try to research the receipt to turn screws from iron ingot.)

[@Pangamma]

I like how athletically pleasing everything is. I usually try to make my builds as compact and vertically tileable as possible so that I can just scale vertically as faster belts are unlocked. But this looks so much nicer.

[@Drangir]

It will really help me raising my factory to the next level. I'm far over the reinforced iron plates, but techniques to use with assemblers are universal pretty much until the endgame!

[@AdmiralMaur]

"And place them all on the same side" Oh god, I nearly fainted

[@SwooceMaster]

God, it looks so clean, my guy, I love it! Tells me I got lots to learn considering I'm only at Tier 6 and I've rebuilt my factory 5 different times now, lmoa

[@qu1t88]

Not even playing this game and probably never will but this tutorial was amazing! The Bob Ross of Satisfactory!

[@lymertyr2250]

Usually i don't watch guide and especially don't comment, but that preview just buy me. Very clean and nice looking, i most likely will use that sandwich-stuctures in my own factory. ;)

[@st0mbi]

the tutorials are great, I like the designs, but the production of the videos, this is phenomenal. great work, instant sub

[@leuit4957]

You can use this vertical strategy for any factory and it looks incredible. Thanks for sharing!

[@Scalti]

Yup. It’s my staple and I’m glad many others have adopted it into their own methodology.

[@carace777]

You make some really well made guides! Every idea is explained at a good pace with enough detail which makes it very easy to follow. The factory itself is great too.

[@TACWithGames]

For anyone building the sandwich layer and can’t get the walls to place right, the only workaround is to place the floor one 8x1 foundation lower than it should be and then place the wall. After that you can return the foundation to normal levels

[@MrBdericks]

I have been scratching my head trying to figure this out. Like "it works in his video, what am I doing wrong?"

[@TACWithGames]

MrBdericks Yeah it only works for certain parts

[@NorseMoose]

Thanks for the Guide. I moved from my starting base in the grasslands to the Desert and made a 50x50 Square grid and have made three of your factories so far. Love how clean my new base looks so far.

[@jeremylawrence4708]

Sir Scalti pls continue making guides, there is much changes and your guides was the most easy to follow. We need mega warehouse for everything pls :)

[@starmada105]

Thank you so much! I love this game, but I’m bad at it, and worse, cannot stand “spaghetti”, so I spend way too much time designing systems like these to use every resource I send in to build what I take out. I was struggling with how to build a reinforced plate system done in my latest play through, so this helps so much, 10/10, subbed immediately.

[@clem5269]

Hey Scalti, thanks for the help getting me through the early game so easily ! I didn't know about input and output rates of smelters and constructors and you did the work for all of us and that's amazing ^^. However, I think it'd be a little less time consuming if you painted your buildings a specific color to tell new players which recipe to put in X constructor or X smelter and a specific color to tell X material to go there, etc...

[@LColUK]

This was excellent! My reinforced plate factory looks like someone poured conveyor belts into a scrapyard, quite apart from all the bottlenecks I have. I'd also never thought of doing sandwich layers to hide the beltwork. This exact factory is getting built later tonight, and then I'm going to apply the sandwich idea to my coal powerplant too. I look forward to watching the rest of your videos. Thanks again.

[@Scalti]

Check out the coal generator video I have up if you need further inspiration. There is a very valuable trick for water mechanics in it.

[@brookswift]

seems like some clipping changes in update 5 break some fundamentals of your build... You can no longer fit two smelters + two mergers on 3 concrete blocks. the < s >||< s > pattern takes an extra space now.

[@tylerG312]

video is 23 minutes but took me two hours to make lol. This video was insanely helpful and got me back into satisfactory :) keep it up

[@MacReflections]

This is perfect! I've been watching vids for the past two days trying to find something exactly like what you did! I love it!!!!

[@legostarwarsgonkdroid1892]

Great video I’m new to the game and struggle at building vertically and some of the things you do in the video I will definitely be incorporating into my future builds, along with this factory itself lol.

[@Imrightyourwrongable]

I finally found someone who EXPLAINS when they do a tutorial, God bless you man

[@clickthecreeper9463]

the "sandwhich layer" is a really good idea, im gonna use that

[@apurvatrivedi5102]

Finally after grinding "KZbin" For so long found this video as I am noob to thing game, it's just amazing

[@abfab065]

great work!! Your videos are the first that I am able to follow along with an get great results especially since I am still in the early game..(12th time I started over!!) Can't wait for the next one to come out...Thank you very much!!!

[@froggie8810]

Thank you for making this simple and easy to follow JUST two things for fellow watchers whom dont have the either the flying mod or stairs unlocked from the awesome shop. Take you time and pay close attention to were your belts are and if you dont have the stairs unlocked your gonna have to use ramps to build up around the different levels untill your finished. Like I said thank you for this content and I will be looking for others as well thank you

[@zeusGTR]

Scalti I love your guides and crave moar, they look sick, you're sick, this is all sick, plz make more

[@Gilmore74]

I love the style of your builds! Best I’ve seen on KZbin so far

[@JohnDoe-qc3bo]

I do find conveyor lifts to be a little bit tricky. They easily flip when you don't want them to. I am just glad it does not waste anything when I have to take the one down that was not constructed as I intended.

[@SolitaireG]

This was fantastic, cleanest build I've ever watched. I'm scared to even think about attempting it haha

[@SovereignHumanBeingX]

I'd love to see a remake of this factory with your signature multilevel storage showing the item. But man this channel is a gem! 💎🙏

[@giray899]

never stop what you are doing this is so nice and crisp and easy to copy i freaking love your designs

[@cpterik5056]

First video? That was awesome, great vid, good tips, easy to follow, well edited

[@emberdrops3892]

Brilliant tutorial! I love the layer-wise, clean show off of the Design :D

[@NETBotic]

Great video and factory 10/10. Personally I like to make them so a player can access all areas, but I can see why you did this.

[@tratzum]

I really like your build style. For me, I have the same problems as I did with factorio. I can play the game just fine but then I see a video of someone that upscales and make it look good and then I feel inadequate. LOL.

[@TrailRush74]

Just got into this game about a week ago and loving it so far. I love your videos and been using your buildings as guides for our own. :) Question please: Since you are splitting the 120s into two 60, then again into two 30s, why do we need MK2 lifts since a MK1 lift will carry up to 60?

[@H3xx99]

Very easy and scalable. I like it. Especially if you're like me and don't much care for going hard drive hunting for the alternate recipes.

[@Ferovax]

Tell you what I'd really appreciate in future tutorials. If you could paint both ends of the foundations for "front and back" to make it easier to follow. And also go through and assign all the production to make it clear what constructors should be doing. Cheers, appreciate the great content.

[@natoshipaw]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been getting frustrated trying to figure out a good system for this and it's helped so much. This was very informative and easy to follow!

[@jackduncan5611]

Yeah man this is awesome, your really easy to follow along with. Can’t believe you only have 80 subs. Top quality video my man

[@Scalti]

Appreciate that feedback! I may only have 80 subs but I’ve only been going at this semi frequently for a month now. It’s growing and and I’m excited to know that because it means I’m providing value to the audience. If you think I should have more subscribers, I won’t say no to you promoting my work. ;]

[@jangold4652]

@@Scalti 80 you mean 11k haha

[@ppunion]

First question: How does this guy only have 17.8k subs? The background music is pleasant, his voice is pleasant and his content is to the point and easy to follow. I don't understand. Second question: Could this be built without the fly mod? Third question: Do the belt layers need to be built with the roof present or could you place down roof after setting up belts?

[@Scalti]

1. The channel is less than a year old. I’m doing alright. XD 2. Yes. Check my scaffolding video. 3. Top part of the sandwich layer needs to be built. Otherwise you can’t place foundations after splitters/mergers are in place.

[@ppunion]

@@Scalti 1. Fair enough. We need to spread the word! :D 2. Awesome. Thank you. I will. 3. Okay. I had a sneaking suspicion that this was the reason. But it is nice to have the clarification. And this answer, this quickly from the content creator is another reason why you deserve your popularity and so much more. Thank you for the videos!

[@IanGem1121]

I like this tutorial. Nice and efficient layout. Subscribed.

[@TheChumbaba]

I really like most the sandwich layer, where almost all conveyors are hides. Leads to nice clean fabrication parks. Besides that, your sophisticated buildings are the best designed i‘ have seen so far on yt. Please continue, eager to see your pipe solutions :)

[@OldSpirit88]

Mate your guides have changed my life! Haha

[@Andyesque]

I know I'm late doors commenting on this, but this series of videos is great. The builds are obviously cool, but I'm learning a ton about decent workflow management and build layout for this game.

[@Scalti]

Great to hear! Means I’m doing my job right.

[@TheObEGamer]

Thank you so much for this guide. I'm new to the game and have been struggling with how to route belts.

[@Scalti]

Glad it helped!

[@JasperStJean]

This is like The Joy of Painting. I have no plans to build this factory in my own server, nor do I have any hope to get anywhere near this organized, but I really enjoyed watching anyway

[@bellinghamwp]

That's crazy that this was your first tutorial video. You did great!

[@Botlarrytk]

Just got the game from autum sales and I was wondering wtf are foundations for if these no need for housing and oh boy were there uses for it lol. Was getting to a point where everything was crossing each other and this type of video really gave me good ideas on how the game operates. Thanks.

[@Scalti]

That’s awesome! Glad to hear. Best tip for the game is to work everything backward. Figure out what you want to make and how much and go backward to raw materials.

[@Scott-hf2qz]

I'm 200 something hours in. This is 2 years old. Sub'd. Hope you've added many more! (I didn't look yet)

[@Kaputznefreble]

That is a very elegant solution, sir! Kudos!

[@ronpennekamp8942]

Very stylish...!!! Well done!

[@SoshJam]

This was an awesome tutorial! You could be more efficient using alternate recipes, but I guess hard drive hunting is a little advanced for the early-midgame where this would be most useful. Very well done!

[@MrWindcheater]

Nice one. Looking at this I cannot think of a better addition to the game than a copy-paste and blueprint features. I hope devs will be adding those things in eventually

[@stevemacherey]

and here we are, with those features. yeehaw

[@Blackreaper777]

This is ingenious. Nice and clean. The only thing I would change is putting screw constructors 3 on each side.

[@Scalti]

To each their own.

[@TSPxEclipse]

Don't forget guys, you can use 2 power shards in a miner harvesting from a normal node to affectively output the same amount of ore as if you had the miner on a pure node. The tradeoff is a little extra power consumption, but it's a nice thing to know if you're building your factory in an location that doesn't have a pure node in the immediate area. You can also double the size of this factory by using a mk.2 miner with 2 power shards and a mk.4 conveyor on the miner (240 items/minute baseline with 200% clock speed is 480 items/minute, which perfectly matches the transfer rate of the mk.4 belt if that's something that matters to you).

[@f_ckingfusion8928]

Yoz are clearly under top 5 of underrated creators

[@ltmarseille]

WOW I am impressed that this was your first guide its very comfortable watch and you explained it very good so it’s nice and easy to rebuilt. I am personally not a fan of the sandwich layer tech but sure it is a very easy and functional way to connect everything. In my Building, I would wider the space for the belt work in the sandwich layer upwards, so I can have a more cleaner setup. But nevertheless, a really good Guide and I’m looking forward to use it by myself

[@phyyl]

first tutorial? what? dude this is awesome. keep it up!

[@b4n4nn4]

Great job nice tutorial easy to follow and very informative, I'd like to see some early game tutorials as i'm new to this game and getting established is taking time

[@Scalti]

Completely understandable. It can definitely be a challenge. My goal is to help those starting out with relatively simple and very effective factories to carry them into the mid game. Look forward to more content in the near future.

[@r.i.pnepal8070]

Wow, hope you know how valuable and satisfying is your work, this is so usefull for new players like me who can feel kinda lost on build craft. Thanks for your vids man, you make our factory worlds greater !

[@nobu2683]

That would be a sub for me , the cleanness of this factory is mind boggling, Very well played good sir ! Keep up the good work ! Awesome !

[@gamingandlifeonwheels2104]

hey i am from germany and u speak with a clear voice and do great content. i understood all what u said. the only thing that bothers me is that each floor is hovering. ^^

[@1991dougie]

"Sandwich layer " for belts , can't believe I never thought about that !!