100% EFFICIENT Coal Power Plant Build Guide incl. Multiple Designs - Satisfactory 1.0

We are setting up a coal generator setup producing 300-4800 MW of power for Satisfactory's mid game. These designs fit a variety of requirements and build styles. Let me know what you think! Be Efficient!
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[@mickthegeek875]

The 8:3 ratio of Coal Generators and Water Extractors never set right with me. Seeing the 2:1 ratio just looks cleaner and makes so much more sense. Gonna use this design from now on, thank you😊

[@You_Ate_My_Soap]

Wot

[@RenardThatch]

I just pipe line my water in from extractors in the lake at the top of the waterfall, no tower or lift pumps needed.

[@LalleMangaming]

Same here, i always use 1 water extractor for 4 coal generators with one water extractor overclocked to 180 water per min. little bit more power usage but heck of a lot simpler.

[@rousrouslan4023]

You're wasting power

[@LalleMangaming]

@@rousrouslan4023 just a little compared to making more extractor and the trouble

[@mightygingercles6481]

It was mentioned in a reply to another comment, but I also wanted to chime in regarding the water tower head lift "trick". It's intended game design and mimics how municipalities pressurize the water for us to use at home. If you've ever driven through a rural community and see huge water towers nearby, it's those towers that are pressurizing the system for the area. Cities do it too, but the towers are typically on top of tall building so you see them less often as a driver/pedestrian.

[@mysticalmaid]

Depends where you are in the world. In the U.K. they aren't used as much, and many have been torn down and never rebuilt, replaced by pumps.

[@SliceOfLife93]

Made a 4050MW coal power plant yesterday. Took about idk.. 7-8 hours ish. Everything 100% efficient and all pipes/belts & machines perfectly straight. So satisfying 👌

[@CBMX_GAMING]

I just got to the stage where I want to get coal going, perfect timing! I'll try one of these out tonight

[@CoolCat-cz6jn]

6:00 I believe the starting point for the initial 10m head lift for the water extractors is at the center of its output pipe, rather than the bottom of the extractor, which is why your set up works.

[@piotrstrzelecki4763]

Everything works fine if you place fresh pipes. Ten after reload you will see how badly you messed up things. This is a very old bug.

[@marcbennett9232]

nice! that first plant is exactly where I built my first coal plant! although my first coal plant was designed around compacted coal and mk3 belts with 36 generators lol. cant wait to see the rest of the plant designs

[@marcbennett9232]

loved the builds. my design used the generators elevated and rotated like the 3rd one, with the water extractors on the bottom and enclosed like the second one. I do a bit of over clocking on the water extractors, just to keep the number of them down a bit.

[@UntoppableToppHat]

Wait you used compacted coal for your first power plant set up!?

[@marcbennett9232]

@@UntoppableToppHat yeah. Why not?

[@UntoppableToppHat]

@@marcbennett9232 if I'm understanding it correctly, you managed to get all the way to automating compacted coal on biomass burners?

[@marcbennett9232]

@@UntoppableToppHat no no. I don't think you can put compacted coal in biomass burners. I put the compacted coal into coal generators.

[@ImNexusss]

You are the GOAT of satisfactory. W guides. Keep the vids coming gamer!!

[@RectalPower]

I love the way you make your guides! Very easy to follow for beginners like me!

[@sneezyfido]

For the compulsive balancers among us: That first raised setup simply begs to have you feed a 2 generator tile from 1 splitter located between the elevators. The depth of the subfloor easily allows to split an input three times for a neat 1 normal node with mk2 feeding 8 generators. With some concession to how the belts look in the subfloor that can be expanded another layer to feed 16 generators from 1 input of 240 coal. I love this tileable setup!

[@matthewlaffey8360]

You are a god, these videos are exactly what I needed to get me excited for 1.0. Shockingly under appreciated right now in terms of subscribers, but keep doing what you're doing and one day you'll be the go-to name in these kinds of Let's Plays.

[@sneezyfido]

Mine is 4 rows of 8 coal generators at probaby just that lake. Each row gets water from 2 pumps on one end, supplemented by a 3rd from the other end. Actually the extra pumps are a pair that feeds into two rows of generators together. Coal comesthrough a straight manifold line coming in from one end. The splitters are on foundation and the pipe lays on the splitters. For visual reasons I kept it all on one floor. The rows of generators are facing two paths that are 2 foundations wide. Yesterday I unlocked glass roofs and my silica supply. Today I'm going to put a glass roof just over the manifold lines and pipes so you can walk there and watch the movement under your feet. I love glass roofs over manifolds and busses!

[@swayz87]

Bro HAS to be an architect, city planner AND a rocket scientist IRL

[@Quackz86]

what you didn't read the post about the how Satisfactory is the new Engineering school for people now.. :D I learn to code playing this , Fortress Craft Evolved, and Factorio.

[@shawnp6653]

Good info and helpful tips Dekoba - thanks for sharing!

[@TheMad18dog]

amazing, will use it, specially love the truck delivery

[@deno-qk3xs]

Can we get a tutorial for that last design? I'm loving the way it functions and looks. Just want to replicate it 1:1 without the guess work and more like a Lego set or a Bob Ross guide.

[@Dekoba]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/apPRXmBjqJmGr6M This is the LP episode in which I build it, its not exactly a tutorial but its a place to start

[@Rocksteady72a]

Alternatively, you can have one overclocked water, and one regular water, feeding into 7 generators. Just one coal line will give you 700mw out of that

[@snafubar447]

Important note for the 8:3 ratio. With Mk1 pipes, the maximum flow rate is 150 l/m, so you have to make your water piping a closed circuit to "force" water to feed to the generators from two directions. (Just "feed" the water piping back to the extractors)

[@piotrstrzelecki4763]

Mk1 pipes max flow rate is 300l/m provided that pipes are full of liquid. This is a bit opposite to conveyor belts. Best thing is first flood pipes with liquid to full and then start generators. I always wait for filling to top and then connect cable from generator to power pole.

[@goodrhythms5320]

Calling water towers an exploit is a wild statement :D

[@erikeggenbakstad]

More of an 'fix' for a system not fixed yet ;)

[@ultimate9056]

Gotta go tell the world to start pulling down their water towers everywhere for the crime of abusing gravity and conservation of energy

[@Dekoba]

Gravity and the laws of physics ruin all my fun.

[@qtgiebel]

I believe the headlift accounts for the height of the machine so it lifts to 10 meters above the top of the turbine on the water extractor.

[@Inacurate]

How much coal is that last example using per minute? Looks amazing, I wish I had the patience to build buildings like that.

[@adjoran4789]

While I love the look of the piped-under setup (much cleaner), on my new 1.0 run I had the inputs all coming from above and I had 0 issues with supply issues (which popped up at times when supplied from below). Not as clean, but more reliable.

[@Juggernaut0522]

Maybe I've got something wrong here, but isn't there a flaw in the 8 generator design when you hook all 4 water extractors together on a single line? Mk. 1 pipes have a max capacity of 300 m3 of fluid, but having either 4 extractors at 75% or 3 at 100% gives you a total of 360 m3 (which the pipes can't fully handle). Wouldn't that result in sporadic shutdowns and inconsistent power production when the generators burn through their water and go idle? That set up works later on after acquiring Mk. 2 pipes, but that isn't an option for those transitioning into coal power. You should have to keep with 4 water extractors and break them into 2 identical systems, as you demonstrated with your 4-gen set up.

[@Bricejacob]

Love seeing multiple approaches / layouts. I am curious how you balanced & verified the truck throughput to make sure you never had an outage in the truck fed plant.

[@Dekoba]

I overproduced. The coal plants required 720 coal, and the trucks required another ~40, so I had my miners overclocked to produce 800/min (there are 4 nodes in that jungle, I had miners on all 4 feeding into the truck stations. After a few days, the plants, truck stations, and tractors were all at max and just topped off as they went around. There were other issues with vehicles, but so far those seem to be fixed in 1.0, so heres to hoping. Also, its crazy that I casually measure my satisfactory playtime in days.

[@mochiboot6502]

sick video, very clever and informative, instantly subbed

[@IHateGenericCereal]

Will that enclosed 4 generator building fit in any of the blueprint makers? I really love that design, and just casually plopping one down whenever I find a suitable spot sounds nice.

Why cant I build something like this? My man you good

[@aki9529]

big turbo fuel layout would be amazing

[@Dekoba]

Will do! Im planning to do all of the power plants eventually.

[@aki9529]

@@Dekoba 😃😃

[@michaelvoight7748]

Turbofuel pfft it's all about that ionized fuel nowadays

[@ColdnE30]

Hey you sound a bit hectic and not as cool and chill as I'm used to. Are you alright Deko? Love your videos man, keep it up Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭🤝🏻🇺🇲

[@matthewlaffey8360]

I wouldn't mind if you went a bit slower either, D. I'll be slowing down the video speed anyway as I play along so not a big issue, but if you're worried we'll tune out if the videos are too long you needn't be, could listen to your voice and watch you build for hours at a slower pace.

[@LordHonkInc]

I'm new to the game, so pardon the noob question: Does the water pipe maxing out at 300m³ produce any problems in the first linear setup once it's expanded, i.e. should I keep each group of 4 coal plants and 2 water pumps on a separate pipe network to the next?

[@Dekoba]

Nope, as long as there is enough throughput locally, connecting different clusters together won't hurt. Just avoid any bottlenecks and you should be fine. Hope this helps

[@OminousSoul]

Didn't see any mention of Compacted Coal. Is it not recommended or just not mentioned. As I was thinking of using it at the Northern Forest and Rocky Desert Boarder for my Coal plant while leaving the other three Coals open for Steel and other shit

[@MichaelPohoreski]

10:42 compacted coal (briefly) mentioned There are a few things to note: 1. Compact coal IS good. 2. What makes compacted coal good is that it has a burn time of 8.4 seconds compared to 4 seconds of regular coal. 3. BUT by the time you get to compacted coal (need a hard drive to research) you will already be past needing to use it for fuel in a Coal Generator. 4. It would be better served making Turbofuel IMHO.

[@RedPill3301]

I use a 3:1 ratio. Underclock the coal generators to 88.888% it consumes 40 units of water.

[@thevilyn2075]

the water tower bit confuses me, if all your water pipes go into one, and most of them looked to be mark 1 pipes, then how are they powering all the gens at once

[@archerkid02]

For pressure, the way water towers work in real life is that you actively pump water up into them, and then the weight of the water so high above the pipes passively pressurizes the entire system below them. That's how you can have water pressure even when the power goes out, until the water tower empties. You don't actually need a bunch of pumps everywhere, and you don't need as many pumps as you would if you tried to just use pumps directly, because most of the water never has to go up into the water tower. Well, it's simplified for the game of course, but that's the general idea. You do in game though want to spread out your water extractors. The one extractor to two generators pattern in the video makes that easy to organize, but you could do other options, like using 3 extractors to 8 generators. You'd just have to make sure that they're attached to the pipe so that you don't have stubs where you need more than 300m3 to go through the same pipe. So for example if you have them spaced like one of these examples, it would work, because you never have over 300 water needing to move through the same connection. G > W > G > G < G < W > G > G < G < W >G G < G < G < G < W < W > W > G > G > G > G This wouldn't work: W > W > W > G > G > G > G > G > G - G - G

[@TheDerpingSuccess]

Also each vertical pipe is still limited by I think 300 ml/s so it can only do up to that however there are multiple of these vertical pipes providing water to the generators

[@brentchance1589]

Yeah, I'm still confused by this. The pipes support 300 units of water. The extractors are each providing 90 units if they're on 75% power. So after 3.33 extractors, the pipes should be saturated up to the tower and then the tower itself can only release 300 units. That should only be enough for 6.67 generators at 100% power.

[@shubhamvidhate9991]

great video

[@Stefanom1]

Hi man! Im trying to setup the second variant of the coal design (the one that has 32 generators) and was wondering if when doing the single pipe system, do you need to redo the single pipe when taking water upwards to the generators? As in, i make one singular pipe from the water pumps, and then take them upwards to the generators, and when im up there, do i need to make that one large pipe again or just connect them directly into each gen? thanks :)

[@Dekoba]

I make a central pipeline on the lower level that connects all the extractors, then a central pipeline above that feeds all the generators, then run a connection between them for each pair of water extractors. Ill see if I can get some better screenshots for ya.

[@Dekoba]

www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1fkueb5/pipe_network_for_coal_power_plant/

[@Stefanom1]

@@Dekoba TYSM!!! Having an amazing day man :) will try it out and let you know if i run into any major issues

[@Stefanom1]

so i tried it out and im still having issues with water not flowing well to the top generators, ive built the water tower as you showed and its looking fine, i dont know if they fixed the water tower thing in the last hours or if im messing something up elsewhere

[@Dekoba]

@Stefanom1 of you'd like I can try joining your world and take a look.

[@radlad3966]

I'm running the 8:3 ratio, but for some reason the coal only reaches the first 3 coal generators the other 5 just run out of coal really fast and keep starting and stopping

[@startide]

manifolds usually require to fill everything up to prevent this. Same with liquids. Just fill all the pipes with thne generator turned off, then start them one by one starting with the last in the chain. That should help. Assuming you have enough coal that is.

[@radlad3966]

@@startide I turned every coal generator off, then let everything fill up to 100, after that I turned on from last to the first, aka the last gen that receives the coal, still didn't fix it. A thing I did to fix was to split the main coal belt into belts which then in that case each belt would feed 4 coal generators

[@TheBlasterGuy]

So my mk 1 miners only do 30 coal a minute which would only be good for 2 generators how did you get one mk1 mine to power all 4 efficiently

[@Dekoba]

Its based on the purity of the node. Your miner is on an impure node, which generates 30 coal. A normal node would make 60, and a pure node would make 120.

[@TheBlasterGuy]

@@Dekoba thank you 🙏 definitely a lot to this game, appreciate the response.

[@zano9590]

i wish you made this into a blueprint man

[@Dekoba]

I can make megaprints if you'd like. I have one for the big vehicle based one and can make the others.

[@Dekoba]

drive.google.com/file/d/1pp2uJrJBQYN3sbPb_sEov3VpXBpsNh9y/view?usp=drive_link

[@zano9590]

@@Dekoba i would love to get a blueprints for the big one

[@Dekoba]

@@zano9590 posted right before you commented this, in this comment thread. It is a megaprint so it uses the satisfactory caluclator save editor - i have heard theres deep magic for making blueprints properly that are bigger than the game allows, but I don't know it.

[@zano9590]

@@Dekoba yeah i didnt see the comment sry but i will ask around how to get it to work tho

[@cyrus1469]

Is smart mod working in 1.0 because it looks like your using it

[@Dekoba]

I am not

[@cyrus1469]

@@Dekoba how are you laying out foundations in mass then

[@Dekoba]

I Zoop out 10 at a time. Press r to change build mode.

[@cyrus1469]

@@Dekoba thanx wasn't aware of that

[@SpicyCham]

Time to copy-paste all the things I saw on the video

[@starchman8758]

im so cooked dude my coal nodes are like 1km away from my base 😭

[@Dekoba]

Lol better get to making more belts. Or just build your power plant at the coal and run power lines. Power doesn't care how far it has to go

[@starchman8758]

@@Dekoba yea ima make a big belt line and build the station near my base, think itll be easier to have quicker access to the station than the miners. great design btw its working a treat

[@hexerin]

@@Dekoba Plus, you unlock super aesthetically pleasing high voltage towers later so those long distance lines look better. The cable length/distance between towers is massively longer with those.

[@FranWest.]

If you go to the "oasis" area, up a big hill, there is a beautiful coal spot that has coal and water (also sam ore). Build there, then just run power lines to your factory. Then use hypertubes to travel back n forth.

[@starchman8758]

@@FranWest. good idea just need to get steel going first to get hypertubes

[@Aitch-102]

I love how all these tutorials skip over being able to hover.

[@Dekoba]

Its in the advanced game settings menu, it is considered a cheat and disables acheivements and such. Later in the game youll unlock the hoverpack which will grant the ability to hover as long as you are within 25m of a power producing structure, but I belive that is in tier 7.

[@adamzver5003]

what about the fact that mk1 pipes can only hold 300l

[@Dekoba]

there are multiple pipelines being run in parallel, no bottleneck so no issue

[@kiwidude68]

@@Dekoba i am just as confused as some others here and not seen a clear answer in the comments. Your water tower only shows a single pipe up. Yet you have way more power plants than a single pipe should theoretically support. Are there more water towers not shown or something?

[@Dekoba]

@kiwidude68 I'm working on a fluids video that explains it fully. There are multiple pipes to move water, they just run in parallel. The water tower design just pressurized the system.

[@googlegamer4047]

Spending a bunch of time making coal factories look fancy seems like a waste of time. It's all going to be torn down later to use that coal for something else.

[@FranWest.]

It doesn't have to be. There are more than enough coal nodes in satisfactory that you can use them for what you want while still keeping your coal power factory for back up/ emergencies.

[@googlegamer4047]

@@FranWest. All you need to do is keep a power augmenter and batteries behind a priority switch. If you have a power emergency, you flip it on and you're good to go while you increase your power production. That coal is going to be used to make diamonds later.

[@Dekoba]

@@googlegamer4047 Play how you like!

[@erikeggenbakstad]

Heck, why even play, right?