20 + Cleaner Factory Designs Tips | Satisfactory Update 5

20 + Cleaner Factory Designs Tips | Satisfactory Update 5
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Welcome back to another Update 5 Satisfactory Guide, on cleaner factory design tips.
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About: Satisfactory
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Pioneering for FICSIT Incorporated means charting and exploiting an alien planet, battling alien lifeforms, creating multi-story factories, entering conveyor belt heaven, automating vehicles, and researching new technologies.
This Factorio like game has heavy automation, with automated mining, crafting, and you can even automate movement!
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[@TotalXclipse]

So which was your favourite tip and do you have any of your own suggestions?

[@TheStuntViking]

Using beams to focus lights to specific areas, was my favorite.

[@Shywer]

How are glass Windows/floors performing in multiplayer FPS wise atm?

[@silent_bones]

Instead of normal,flat,or slanted roofs using catwalks rails and walkways are a great alternative while using beams or the triangular side wall pieces to cover up the rails of them all :D

[@Yamaazaka]

I'm the type of person to turn the music up when driving gets stressful but I play satisfactory with no music from the game or other sources either. And also the ambience turned off. Just the sound of the machines 💚

[@Gamering8482]

My favorite tip was the one where you could put cables and pipes inside of walls

[@Ilandria.]

I still wish there was an alternate build mode for conveyors that would only use 90 degree bends, and as few as possible; similar to the "horizonal to vertical" mode that pipes have.

[@g-urts5518]

Omg this is an amazing idea. I really hope the development team sees the comment and adds it in the next update.

[@BigKevSexyMan]

"Give yourself more space than you need" is hands down the best tip. Compact design is good on the small scale, but you instantly run into problems when you try to scale that up.

[@Sanquinity]

I tend to run into problems the moment I try to start scaling things up after the steel tier. Like "10 by 16 foundations, should be enough!" Nope...not when I want 500/min nails, 300 iron plates, 300 iron rods, 200 wire, 200 cable, and a good 80~100 steel plates/pipes to be produced... (basically the start of a "starter hub factory" from which I could get resources, to use for building other factories/mining buildings across the map.) Even 3 floors on that 10x16 platform wasn't enough when I wanted to also add all the parts I could make with assemblers. And that attempted build was still pretty small compared to what people build in the late game. :P So saying "Give yourself more space than you need" is an understatement. Take a space you think you need. Then double that. And add a second floor. THEN you might come close to the space you need for good organized design that doesn't feel cramped. :P

[@christopherjones7191]

I find I like compact designs with the blueprints, and then use those like larger machines and space those out.

[@asraiel]

Here an additional tip: By Placeing foundations about 2 meters under the water surface (so that your char starts to swim) adds a Raster to the waterpump placement it may also work with frames the Cement and Asphalt Foundations adds a nice touch to the sea or ocean floor

[@michelleshull9475]

I really enjoy your videos! My spouse and I are on our first map/build and I've learned a bunch (shout out to the 90 degree angle tricks and using signs as mood lighting in particular) from your vids. My factories are still kind of sad looking, but they get better each time I learn something new from you.

[@TotalXclipse]

I love that you play together, me and my partner have played a few times together, but she's still in the introduction phase to gaming 😊 Your factories will get there, there's no rush 😊

[@charfreak]

One thing that I’ve recently discovered that I haven’t seen anyone mention yet is that you can stack splitters/mergers on top of each other and use conveyer lifts to condense load balancing belt designs. The whole tree will easily fit on a single foundation and you could use conveyer walls to ‘black box’ the system if you don’t like how it looks.

[@permagadget]

I absolutely LOVE the looks of your factories! I'm still struggling with functional to be honest, your video was inspiring though, it all looked so modern and clean, and very pleasing to behold just the order of things. Thank you for the tips that you gave and i'll keep sharp watch here on for the rest of your vids

[@Sanquinity]

Biggest tip I can give after several failed attempts of building a "starter hub factory" that would make all parts up to motors (not rotors): Build BIG. No not as big as you're imagining, even BIGGER. Going from rotors, reinforced plates, and steel pipes/plates to stators, rotors, frames, and industrial beams is a HUGE jump in both resources and needed space.

[@kryshadaki4445]

Good video, i have a tip that some people know that you can put splitters or mergers directly on conveyer lifts and making sure the input or output is correct on the lift you are using.

[@Lare-cp7wu]

Great video I am using some of these already but I will try out more like the logistics base above or below. The circle glass ceiling at 6:19 is so amazing too keep up the great content

[@SlayTheSins]

Supporting other creators with your music is such a nice thing, great job!

[@kaydancorman2158]

just downloaded this game, i’ve been wanting to pick it up for a while. glad you make videos on this man

[@SyntheticFuture]

I always build my factories way too small :x I kinda wish there was a "half size" foundation option because working on a tight scale you often run into foundations being way too large.

[@ricobarth]

Catwalks crossings are quarter foundations.

[@SyntheticFuture]

@@ricobarth they don't look nice mixed with foundations when used as a roof though. I guess with the new roof you could make an overhanging roof, but that only works well if you have a single story building.

[@Rubberduckerino]

You can use catwalks to snap a foundation to the side then build off of that to intersect them with the existing foundation of your factory

[@disconap.d5214]

Best option would be to snap a floor to a beam connector or something and just clip one foundation into the other for 1/2sizs foundation

[@helios6379]

I believe you're enjoying Update 6!

[@BattlewarPenguin]

I really like how well you design your factories! It's innovative and well thought throughout, good work!

[@NymtheRobot1984]

Great video! Thank you for all the great tips! My favorite was the directing light by placing pillars :)

[@raxtor1841]

Thanks Total, helps a lot!

[@MHMichaelHooper]

Just downloaded your music on spotify. Thank you for sharing your work for free!

[@peterrabinowitz1723]

So I know you are into design and architecture, and you should make the videos you want, but what I’m looking for is help/suggestions on logistics. Once I hit a certain point in game, I don’t know how to scale without it becoming a mess. I’ve watched your logistics vids already. If you could make one focusing on inter-factory logistics, or point me to someone else’s vid… I know how to use vehicles, but things like an efficient truck depot design or one item per train car vs each item on it’s own train, etc. Thanks. 😊

[@nuknuk128]

This is exactly why i clicked on the vid, i struggle with the more advanced things that need 2+ items to make and thought he was gonna go over how to do those cleanly.

[@Sanquinity]

Yea this is also my major stumbling block. Every time I get to stators, motors, frames, and industrial beams and try to scale things up a little I always seem to underestimate how much space and resources I need, resulting in a mess of a factory. At this point I tend to just...start a new game because disassembling the entire factory and having to deal with all the leftover resources is a huge annoyance to me. Far more than starting over and taking a good 20~30 hours to get to the same point again. It's still frustrating though... Also trucks are a pain imo. They leave this "invisible barrier" behind them so no other truck can drive there for quite a while. So you basically have to have each truck on a path that doesn't cross with others at all or there will be issues.

[@LightWarriorK]

Logistic floors at 8m! Perfect answer to my question in the previous vid. Thanks!

[@TotalXclipse]

Glad you found it useful! - as long as it's at least 8m you should be good!

[@springheeledjack81]

Came here for satisfactory design inspiration. Stayed for an episode of Grand Designs. Well done Sir 👏

[@MrBwian]

Cavity walls! 😲 why/how have I missed that! Power rooms with individual switches and a master switch 👍🏻 Angled barriers and snapping walls for different shapes 😁 Yet another class video from Mr Xclipse 👍🏻

[@danp6918]

Thanks Total!, I'm Totally gunna be using your music when I start streaming again! =))

[@MeisaCarrotFarm]

This is very beautiful and informative. Thank you!

[@benwhite24]

LOVE the Music! Nice!

[@teamcookie3293]

You are a Livesaver for my Factorys, thank you

[@uitvindertje]

6:46 WHAT DA FISH DOIN

[@pyrolucky5741]

Great video! Ill try to implement this in a base im trying to make at top left of the map. Heard some goods are there.

[@replays_gaming4200]

I used your starter factory video to help me with the layout of my factory floor, I love the bits i can see in this video, would you be up for sharing the save of this one so we can explore it first person like with the starter factory? I'd love to actually see how the whole thing works on the ground

[@TotalXclipse]

I will be eventually, just trying to get Nuclear done and then clean up everything

[@DOCTORLOL]

Thank you

[@CherryHillMath]

I'm still in the "How to I move all of this stuff around" phase and I'm definitely going to give the underground feeding tip a try!

[@TotalXclipse]

Well good job next week's video is covering that 😉

[@mattstacey6058]

Same. Keeping track of materials as I start to move up in tiers, I start to get overwhelmed planning the logistics of how to get items to their destinations

[@BoredInNW6]

6:30 "you can walk outside your front door". I'm sorry, what? I'm far too busy playing Satisfactory!

[@shawno8253]

For the second of the first two tips you can just rotate the conveyer belt to 90 and then align it with whatever you are trying to connect it to.

[@bundas2011]

Amazing creativity....

[@dg6246]

Your voice is soothing. That's why I'm here.

[@skillfulfighter23]

I learned that light in satisfactory acts as a particle and only as a particle since you conducted the double slit experiment with the beams and the lights

[@polydynamix7521]

central storage management is the biggest pain in the ass of all obstacles in the game, at least for me. Using smart splitters but then one of the storage units gets full and halts the line... so I remade the whole thing giving each component it's own conveyor. It was a LOT of conveyors, but it works perfectly now. Of course I am pretty sure a chunk of my hard work is going to go to waste when they update the spire coast. I've had days to come to terms with that and I still haven't.

[@LiLBitsDK]

but you can overflow stuff and sink it?

[@grisgris733]

Can you make a video on belting/balancing loading train stations?

[@321LITTLEFISHY]

I was curious as to how you "float" around when showcasing the factory? I was assuming it was the jetpack, but it hasn't worked nearly as well as you showcase. As always, thank you so much for the great tips!

[@thejedimaster32]

Later in the game there's the hover-pack which is far more stable than the jetpack when it comes to building and hovering. That said, I think Xclipse probably uses Ficsit Cam mod or similar to get those cinematic camera movements.

[@321LITTLEFISHY]

@@thejedimaster32 Thanks for the help!

[@TotalXclipse]

I use Pak to fly when doing videos, unfortunately hoverpack isn't as smooth

[@scrails9073]

Should i try to make these mega bases even tho i dont have the time? Also a question.. when i wanna build this is it just continuing my last save a start fresh?

[@EccentricWarmonger]

Does the tip on wall/barriers still work in release 8? I am having issues with it.

[@AustralianGrizzly]

One thing I got frustrated with is certain natural points do not line up with your ability to place foundations. I struggled to try and line up a rockarch with a foundation so that it was a straight line under it between the two end pillars of the arch. In the end I found a thirdparty map site which allowed you to edit the savefile to nudge the angles the foundation was passing across to line up with the arches. If this is actually possible to do in game, I would be so happy to learn how, but damn it I couldn't figure out any other way myself...

[@TotalXclipse]

You can use micro manage or even in vanilla you can place a barrier down then build snap a foundation against it

[@AustralianGrizzly]

@@TotalXclipse For reference, its the arch that is located in the south east corner of Grassy Fields, -51,900/29800 cords. The arch that hangs over the open space down there was being annoying and no matter what I tried, the angle was never gonna give me what I needed. Satifactory-Calculator ended up letting me touchtap the angle enough to make them line up though...

[@0reo2]

Satisfactory is a game that still makes you feel like an absolute beginner after 100 hours of playing

[@TotalXclipse]

I still feel like a beginner after 5,000 hours, that's the beauty of it

[@JohnSmith-fv7gi]

What stage of the game do you get to before beginning work on your mega factory? Get up to coal and trains?

[@TotalXclipse]

Normally trains and aluminium belts

[@clxudzYT]

Take your time with these videos! It could easily be a 20-min video and be even better than this one! :)

[@TotalXclipse]

I could but then no one would watch the whole video. if viewership starts hitting 60-70% of a full video I'll start extending them.

[@Commander_Sonak]

@@TotalXclipse How is 20 minutes too long? You would have to have the attention span of a child.

[@clxudzYT]

@@TotalXclipse I think I'm not in the position to tell you anything KZbin-wise. I can only say that I would really love to see some longer videos! Thanks!

[@Miss_Trillium]

Me, a new player looking for tips and tricks: oh huh, cool video Me, a few minutes later: holy crap 😳

[@wambman]

First tip: you can just rotate your conveyor pole with scroll wheel. No need to place down two poles first

[@TotalXclipse]

Absolutely, but the intention was to show the amount of space required for it as a demonstation

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

how did you manage to get the front of your factory to glow? 2:28

[@actuallyasriel]

5:35 Wait, what was that?? How did you do that??

[@WolfRose11]

I wish more time had been taken on the barriers trick, I got lost on how the barriers disappeared as you placed walls. Did you angle the barriers and then use a hotkey to get to the wall you wanted to build?

[@TotalXclipse]

Nope, just place down a barrier. Then open up what ever wall you want - I just copied it using the middle mouse button and then hd cntl whilst pointing at the barrier, it will replace the barrier with a wall

[@peterrabinowitz1723]

More generally, you can sometimes hold Ctrl to replace one thing with another. For example, you can replace a regular wall with a window. Just select a window, mouse over a wall, and hold Ctrl while clicking left mouse button. The wall will be replaced by the window. In the above video he replaced the barrier with a wall, taking advantage of the increased snap options the barrier gives you.

[@marcgw496]

This game doesn’t incentivize you to make your builds cleaner early on. Then you realize how much it bugs you to have everything scattered everywhere. To be fair a lot of things you need to make tidier builds are locked in the awesome shop anyway until you really get the sinks going.

[@dacercline8628]

How dare you disrespect vanilla ice cream like that??!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@MrDobilina]

wait what, trains? When did they show up!

[@djfishnz]

Playing for years, still learning fundamentals am i.

[@fuzybear15]

For 8m floor levels, would that be 4 wall panels stacked vertically?

[@TotalXclipse]

Nope, thats two large wall panels 😊 it's also the minimum I'd recommend

[@peterrabinowitz1723]

I use 4m for single input machines (smelters, constructors) but yeah 8m for everything else.

[@alexbleks]

Where did you build this factory? Dune desert?

[@TotalXclipse]

Crater lakes above the rocky desert

[@wisky8693]

Do you use any mods? if so what do you use?

[@TotalXclipse]

I don't use any mods for the gameplay, just for recording which is PaK for flying, perma day for day time and ficsit cam

[@wisky8693]

@@TotalXclipse oh cool, thank you so much!

[@victorshane4134]

The Problem with Deisgning is that my GTX 1080 cant handle it. Even lights causing problems

[@varidian694]

Stacked circular bus system.

[@Recon777x]

What is "soft clearance" ?

[@TotalXclipse]

It allows you to clip items into other items that also have soft clipping

[@chocolad4221]

I thought i was here to play an engineer but instead i became an architect 🤡

[@wolverine1981pl]

how you getting so shiny floor in factories

[@TotalXclipse]

They're in the awesome shop

[@greeny-dev]

One small note about feeding below: don't do that with liquids. Liquid physics work much better if you're feeding from above. Also please don't use the word "bus" to describe long stacked belts, that's not what it means :) "bus" is when you split/merge from those stacked belts to your production line. Long stacked belts are just long stacked belts and not a bus :)

[@TotalXclipse]

I think you're wrong about the bus - A bus transports items from one factory to another, a manifold is what splits Items between the factory production line. - I got confused with that early on, and subsequently received a lot of flak for it, easy mistake to make though. You're absolutely right about not feeding liquids from below unless you have a buffer holding the liquid above the line prior.

[@greeny-dev]

@@TotalXclipse manifold is a line of splitters on a belt bus is a stack of belts from which items are split to machines (either single buildings or manifolds of buildings) and product of those machines are merged back onto bus stack of belts going from A to B is just long stack of belts, not a bus.

[@WolfRose11]

@@greeny-dev The only definition I can find is more pertaining to electronic circuits is "A parallel circuit that connects the major components of a computer, allowing the transfer of electric impulses from one connected component to any other." In this case it is a set of parallel belts stacked vertically and/or horizontally from one point in the world to any other would therefore be a bus, no matter the distance from the origin or destination points. Therefore, @TotalXclipse is correct on the definition.

[@nostrum6410]

firs step is get a 6950 xt

[@mattdeady6448]

at 0:30, you don't need that second support.

[@TotalXclipse]

I do for the purpose of showing the positioning for others 😉

[@mattdeady6448]

@@TotalXclipse that's fair for illustration, just wanted you to be aware in case you were wasting a bunch of energy :)

[@danp6918]

I agree, just mousewheeling is the way to go! but that's just my personal OCD kicking in lol! =))

[@TotalXclipse]

@@mattdeady6448 Don't worry I know, it's just for players who aren't as experienced :)

[@peterrabinowitz1723]

Dan, I think finding the intersection then moving two back to be faster than mousewheeling. The curve will be created for you.

[@trader-no4jy]

I'm 16 hours into the game and this gives me brain freeze lol, worse than factorio because it has 1 whole dimension additional from it

[@nerdyneo21]

What do you mean by “use buses rather than spaghetti”? Buses aren’t a vehicle in the game…

[@TotalXclipse]

Conveyor bus. Similar to a memory bus on a chip. Not to be confused with a vehicular bus.

[@nerdyneo21]

@@TotalXclipse Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks. I’m pretty new to the game but I’m hooked on it and your videos have been incredibly helpful 👍🏻

[@TotalXclipse]

@@nerdyneo21 glad to help

[@goodisnipr]

The people re-creating the world in Minecraft actually came across a stumbling block. Seems some architects are pissed off that their work is being re-created and they aren't getting the recognition/royalties for it. I don't know what's come of the lawsuit, but last I saw it was heading to courts.

[@Johnsonisflying]

I believe in You Jésus-Christ

[@perzeuss1]

Please give my your save this game🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 im buying this save

[@TotalXclipse]

The save will be made available when I'm happy with it - not before hand I'm afraid. Hoping to be done in a month or two

[@perzeuss1]

@@TotalXclipse I don't have much time to play. If you built this without a cheat, it had to be very demanding, I'll give you 10 dollars for that save now, I don't mind that it's not done yet, I would build this with my time maybe in 10 years

[@TotalXclipse]

@@perzeuss1 I don't want money for the save, it's going to be a gift to the community, but I want it to be finished there are so many parts that I'm not happy with. Once I've done Nuclear recycling, I'll be cleaning up the factory, then it'll be released to everyone.

[@perzeuss1]

@@TotalXclipse do you have a save from another series satisfactory? How many hours have you done this?

[@TaylorShawn]

You said multiple times you're trying to keep the video short and sweet, but you definitely spent a good 2 minutes between explaining you're trying to keep it short, and pumping your Spotify. Anything to get that 8:00 minimum to add midroll ads amirite

[@TotalXclipse]

Unfortunately not at all on this one, it just so happened to hit 8 minutes. I wanted to push Spotify as a test to see how much a larger push would affect it. As for mentioning keeping the video shorter it's more a reference to shorter tips rather than explicitly going into each one, and if you look at earlier videos you'll notice recently there have been shorter videos which I could have pushed to 8 minutes but chose not to...

[@TaylorShawn]

@@TotalXclipse well, from a tuber perspective you should always push that extra bit if you're close to 8 anyways. How did the Spotify push go? Notice a bump? For the record I'm completely fine with your vids. Watched 20 or so already and tuned into the stream a couple times. This games a nightmare without you lol

[@TotalXclipse]

Shouldn't push for 8 minutes if it means drawing out the video, KZbin's really pushing engagement currently so the more you can push that time up, the more KZbin will recommend the video. Spotify has jumped up by 4x the numbers since publishing, but it's still to early to say whether it's long term or short term growth, but I'm happy overall. Glad you're enjoying the content!

[@TaylorShawn]

@@TotalXclipse yeah, engagement has always been high on the algo list. But the difference between 7:30 and 8:01 could be $20 rpm easy. Pack it with midroll every time, it never hurts engagement based on the extensive research we've done.

[@khiyaable]

I wish you'd go back to the way you use to make videos. With some humor and excitement

[@TotalXclipse]

I'm not sure whether excitement or humour is suitable for guides, if it's a lets play then by all means

[@markayim]

I'm sick of clearing trees with every update. once again do a good job. Fix FPS in Update 6. I see 10 FPS on GTX 960 2 GB graphics card. Let this be the last. If this update is not optimized I will delete the game. We don't need landscaping. We can't play the game yet, not everyone's graphics card is good... Do you know what 10 FPS means even at the lowest? FPS FPS FPS, fix it now... Update 6, get FPS working this time...