20 Satisfactory Tips for Beginners and Veterans | Tips and Tricks for the Satisfactory Steam Release

[@MaxTheCatfish]

0:12 Did...did I say 100 hours? 😂 Oh honey...i.imgur.com/pnPEEGb.png

[@patrykziarko6218]

13 DAYS?

[@patrykziarko6218]

As long as your having fun

[@styledarc19]

13 DAYS? those are rookie numbers, 29d baby

[@VincentEllisD]

haha i've got 630 hours in my current save file, 2,700 hours total. keep playing you'll get there. but i warn you this game is addictive haha.

[@justforlaughso_0580]

patryk ziarko aka 312 hours

[@alanwatts8239]

Me at midnight: damn, i gotta work tomorrow, let's go to sleep My brain: *T H E F A C T O R Y H A S T O G R O W*

[@DarrenWinsett]

Thats me at 11, 12, 2, 3 and either 4 or 5 is when I quit lol

[@Phoenix7351]

So true.

[@adalerk]

Great tips there, also here are some from me. 1) Overclocking is a thing, however at the early game try to downclock stuff. It has exponential power decrease, and will be way easier to increase production later. 2 smelters at 50% use less power then one smelter. You have a pure node and only 60/min belt? Set 8 smelters to produce 7.5 ingots each (25%). That will not only make them use almost no power, but when you get 120/min belt you can set them to 50%, and with 270/min belt to 100%. 2) Use "N". It lets you find a recipe to build an item, same as it gives you access to unlocked alternative recipes you have! No need to build machines to check them any more. "N" also works as calculator. Type: 240/8+15 and no more Alt-Tabbing =) 3) You can jump out of car just before it lands to avoid getting damage... Saved me soooo many times. (it works with factory carts too. So you can use those for "leap of faith")

[@raptorpeep2622]

i never thought of preplanning this hard and i absolutely know what im gonna do my next playthough

[@ravusesports9541]

@@raptorpeep2622 It's actually not that effective anymore.

[@Tornado5786]

@@ravusesports9541 What is?

[@AdamWhitmore]

What he says here is completely correct, overclocking your machines is a convenient shortcut/cheat to boost production temporarily but any situation you're tempted to overclock will almost invariably be better long term to just build more production machines and tune them with underclocking. The energy consumption is overall lower and your factory gets that much cooler looking with multiple machines running for less total power than 1 super charged machine. Always build at least 50% more than you think you need on paper and just run them slower

[@larvitza]

I like to use that first tip to cheat concrete production because I'm too lazy to load balance to 45 limestone/min xd

[@NidasRichmount]

My best tip I didn't see in this one is putting just one "bar" of conveyor belt out of your storages, that way the material inside will roll out and you can see what it contains!

[@maximed_3414]

Thanks for that

[@antiqwizmaincube1112]

Brilliant! :) They should make a craftable sign, what you can place on those containers.

[@samuraidriver4x4]

Hit F and hover over it to quickly check the contents also works great if there are multiple different items inside

[@jazzyzjas9701]

Update 5: Just place a screen on it and choose the icon

[@solinus83]

I will put labels everywhere, once I have time for this:D

[@JeremyRichard82]

I've got over 500 hours into this game and I had no idea you could put miners on foundations. Great find. You get a Like Sir.

[@Eiskalt123]

Wow xD 😂😂

[@MrLinusK]

Sucks to be u i guess😄

[@JeremyRichard82]

Might be now. Wasn't when I first started playing.

[@shawnhill2267]

I've been playing since before this video and just now watched it for fun and didn't know that. So when he says tips for noobs and veterans, well he isn't lying.

[@PsiPepe]

As a brand new player with only 10 or so hours, thank you so much for not spoiling later technologies and giving amazing advice!

[@raven-gx5db]

2 years later hows ur factory going

[@PsiPepe]

Gonna be honest, i got distracted by hollow knight and totally forgot about it. But it WAS looking good for a week there.

[@BaronVonBumpkin]

32 hours in and I didn't even know there was a bloody map!

[@MattLathrum]

LOL I'm 50 hours in and only knew there was a map because I spotted it in the keyboard bindings. I haven't researched quartz because I was waiting to find a vein.

[@alex-agix]

What's the key for PC?

[@saraths96]

@@alex-agix Z

[@retrorecharge86]

I do know thanks

[@KneelB4Bacon]

@@alex-agix It's 'Z' but the key won't work until you've researched Quartz to level 7 in the M.A.M.

[@cyborn6025]

One very good tip for energy: While you're on your way getting to coal generators: Finish the "Alien Organs" research in the M.A.M. But prioritize the "organic properties" path. With this, you can make 200 Biomass out of 1 Alien Organ. I wish I knew this earlier, but yeah, for everyone who's struggling with finding plants and falling trees (especially in the desert area), this is a must do before having access to coal generators.

[@andybrown4284]

I tend to save the organs for making healing items and convert the carapaces into biomass

[@hans-peteruetlisberger1092]

Same I would use the alien organs for medical inhalers

[@ADMNtek]

i keep one stack of organs in my box the rest i turn into biomass.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Same here. I have a short production line to turn organic stuff into Solid Biofuel. Storage Container --> Manufacturer (convert wood, leaves, alien stuff) to Biomass --> Storage Container --> Manufacturer (convert Biomass to Solid Biofuel) --> Storage Container. That way, I can dump a bunch of stuff in the first storage container and get the Solid Biofuel later. The second storage container is for researching stuff that needs Biomass. Unlocking the Chainsaw is a big help.

[@bobafettjr85]

@@KneelB4Bacon that's what I do. Although I was a little irritated when I needed biomass for fabric but it had all been converted to solid biofuel already. Oh well, I learned the hard way.

[@GoldenNorway1]

One important thing to mention with Satisfactory, is that new players should not be afraid to try different setups and styles of building machinery. This game is very beginner-friendly (as well as veteran-friendly), and you can't really do anything "wrong"... build a mess or build with style, the factory will still produce. Every recipe is intutive and easy to remember, and nothing is too complicated to make the game annoying. The player choose the difficulty. You can calculate every little production line with perfection if you want, or you can just create a huge spaghetti-mess... that's up to you, and the game lets you do it. That is why it's so addictive and fun. The feeling of freedom and satisfaction from your own creations, truly gets to you in this game. This is a perfect recipe for a good game. The player's learning curve comes from their own faults and successes. - It's not the game that limits the player.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

That's the strength of user-driven narrative instead of a forced, artificial, myopic designer-driven narrative. :-) i.e. Sandbox game. YOU decide at the pace you wish to proceed at. It is empowering the user to experiment: build, observe, optimize, and repeat. Technically, _Satisfactory_ isn't even a game -- since there is no hard win or hard loses -- but damn, who knew "just playing" was so damn addicting!

[@ZoSuryanto]

This game stated that it's still in early access. But everytime i played and watched this kind of tip video, i'm so amazed of how polished and how detail it is. Im still on 13hours and cant stop playing it damn

[@hakont.4960]

This early access game has more content and runs better than many fully released AAA games that cost twice as much. I barely buy AAA games anymore because there are so many awesome "indie games" like this one. Another example of a great "indie game" is Subnautica, that game is truly an adventure.

[@MyNameIsGeronimo]

Håkon T. I love early access and indie games. I been playing BeamNG/automation, besiege, stormworks, satisfactory.

[@danbance5799]

I've been exceedingly impressed with how well placing buildings and conveyor belts "just works." I normally avoid early access and wait for full versions of things.

[@hakont.4960]

@@danbance5799 I agree, the user interface is quite intuitive and smooth.

[@Atlessa]

@@hakont.4960 I think the term AA ('double-A') has been used for developers/games like this.

[@kasuha]

My tips: - When you go exploring, build a hypertube and power poles on your way. Yes you'll have to return to your base for materials every now and then but it'll only take a little time - and it'll only take a little time to get back where you died. - You forgot that pressing Ctrl also builds additional buildings aligned with the initial building, so you can build a whole aligned row of constructors or refineries with just ctrl + clicking. Although for refineries I found that there might be some issues on certain tight pipe connections. - Stacking mergers/splitters up from foundation level is in my opinion much more powerful approach to getting nicely aligned belt systems. Build a stack, then dismantle any that you don't need. - Crouch sliding not only allows you to jump higher, it also allows you to run faster. Or rather, the jump is faster than running speed. Especially when using blade runners. Just chain your jumps and make sure you don't bump into anything. - There's a control "Hold to run" that, if you switch it off, changes the Run key (shift) to toggle.

[@raz1572]

I had to come back to this to thank you. The crouch sliding movement improves the gameplay so much; best tip by far!

[@PyroYeet]

Lmao who has the time and rescources to build a 3km hyperloop just for exploration, I am not carrying 3000 copper sheets and steel pipes around

[@Adeon55]

I really need that run toggle, my hand gets sore after hours of holding shift down lol

[@sharpfang]

One more point not in the video: Building the splitter/merger on the belt is cool and all, but it DOES NOT LINK it. You have to dismantle the belt and link the two new segments.

[@chie261]

My tip: When building large amounts of items at the Craft Bench, hover your mouse over the button and hit space. It'll automatically start hammering away without having to hold down your mouse. To swap items quickly, just select a different item without having hit space again.

[@abebuckingham8198]

Wait, you can build stuff by holding down the mouse?

[@trefe_563]

@@abebuckingham8198 Yes you can, but it isn't automatic, so you can't walk away from your computer and do something else, especially when you're building something that takes long to craft.

[@fangobrrr9615]

@@trefe_563 you can if you hold space and click in an empty space, and it will basically hold down the button as long as you want

[@meinctutweh4103]

@@trefe_563 let’s make stuff more crazy. If you press space once it keeps crafting until you can’t no more

[@Terazashim]

I'm almost 500 hours in, and I only knew about half of these (that ctrl/shift click item swapping is something I've wished for multiple times, and had no idea it was already implemented). A couple more worth mentioning: 1) When you're placing some things (I've used it with belts, foundations, and walls), you can hold down E to bring up a little selection wheel that lets you easily swap to other things in the same category. 2) You can work on multiple milestones at the same time - switch between them as you add the items, and then once you've added everything you want, you can hit the big red button for each of them without having to wait for the countdown between each one.

[@autotechmaster85]

I didn’t know about multiple milestone at once! After 60 hours I though I had a good handle on things! 😂

[@Lemonssssss]

80 hours into the game and i had no idea you could slide.

[@michellebarrett5514]

aye

[@Destroyer243]

I found it by accident, but I didn't know about jump height or sliding under conveyors. I also found the assigning of inventory hotkeys, but not scrolling through them.

[@uncommonsense7821]

I tried because I played Apex lol

[@anothrnoml]

@@uncommonsense7821 lgio and apex for me

[@smithpoq]

You poor soul.

[@numoutheimpfox]

Your voice is amazing. You speak very clearly, your voice is soft and you don't sound like a typical ultra-caffeinated hyper KZbinr. Keep it up!

[@Lobisomen79]

Best tip for me was the overclocking. Never ocurred to me i could set it to a precise value.

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

and you can also underclock it. to perfectly manage your resources.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

You can also recover power shards from your machines if you un-clock the machine first, then pull out the shards before you deconstruct it.

[@Lorem_Ipsum_69]

@@KneelB4Bacon If you deconstruct a building that has a shard in it you will get it back no matter what.

[@AdamWhitmore]

One thing I figured out last night was even though sometimes you cannot get a precise output per minute you want because its not an integer value, if you do the math usually you can via a combination of 2 or more machines get them to combine to exactly what you want. Example, you want 3 machines to output 15 ppm but the output is rounded to 4.95 or 5.1 (not 5 exactly) but 4.95 + 4.95 + 5.1 = 15.0 so you can get it perfect.

[@WolfRose11]

For 4:18 placing foundations quickly, they now have a build mode called "Zoop" where you can place 10 in a row at a time in a line. Click once at the start and aim where you want to end. This works with ramps as well too.

[@jaracz007]

I think that wasnt in the game yet (the video is 3 years old).

[@smittysparrow1634]

I just started this game with neutral expectations and I got really hyped pretty fast. My whole weekend was just gone. And this video is so damn helpful. Ty a lot.

[@TheWoodFairyAus]

Also to add to the tip about keeping jet pack and blades in storage. Also keep spare weapon as well

[@styledarc19]

and fuel

[@Triggernlfrl]

And some spider poison....

[@nix6940]

So helpful, holy crap. Middle click, hotbar, splitters on existing belts, miners on foundations, conveyor pole ladders, MASS DELETE! You changed they way I was playing the game.

[@jivahiva2110]

You were right, "something for everybody, even veterans" I'm over 500 hours and still taught me a couple things. Never thought to use conveyor poles for a ladder, Double ramps are fine but early on having to lay a flat foundation then a single ramp is a pain. Good vid man. Game on!

[@terminatorhellspawn]

Sigh.. when you're like 19 hours+ in and realize now due to this video that you can have conveyor poles at a height! I had so many just stuck on the ground when I could have had them up in the air wow. cheers.

[@schradeya]

Most of the time when I watch a [XX tips for XX game] video, I end up rolling my eyes at the list of obvious things that are right there in the UI. NOT THIS TIME, OH NO! I've got almost 400 hours and (embarrassingly) I didn't know a LOT of these! The c-slide, entering the exact number of items per min into the overclock UI... You've just made this game a lot more fun for me! Thanks for a great vid.

[@MaxTheCatfish]

Thank you! I'm so glad to hear it!

[@schradeya]

@@MaxTheCatfish pssshhh I'm not the only one so *don't thank me, THANK YOU*! Over 300 comments, and all the ones I've seen say the same; they learned at least one new game changing thing here. I seriously haven't seen a tips vid this ACTUALLY informative and new... uhhh... /yet/, I guess. Read the rest of the comments! They're all saying, holy shit I didn't know [this or that]! I watch almost nothing but games vids on YT - and have for 10+ years - and this is one of the most helpful ones ever. Again, thank YOU.

[@JefErickson]

Well I'm 3 minutes into this vid and I've already learned more than I did in 11 hours playing this game, so thanks for adding to my efficiency, Catfish!

[@TotalXclipse]

Awesome video! Some great tips! I look forward to seeing more videos!

[@MaxTheCatfish]

Thanks man! Same goes to you!

[@coreywilson3996]

Been sitting here for like 20 mins hittin this Caterium ore with my hand hurting..... heard the auto mining tip and love u so very much

[@hzunasdfgbciw]

Nice 1. It took me far more than 100 hours to find these little helpers. I wanted to recommend the hypertube railgun as #21, but you had this in your outro. Use a jetpack for better results. But what´s most important: #22: Buy the double ramps from your first coupons. #23: Get a rifle. #24: Get alternate recipes from hard drives. #25: If you have questions, join the satisfactory discord. It´s such a nice and helpful community.

[@THBbon]

I'm two days into this game and I'm hooked! Thanks for the tips. Im saving to watch later and share with my friends who have yet to play.

[@takingthescenicroute1610]

9:28 and if the miner is in the boonies the AWESOME sink keeps it running and then just have a minimum of 5 foundations at the site of the miner (see the tip about being able to place foundations under the miner) to keep any hostile mobs killed near the site from respawning (spawn is only suspended if the mob was killed at least once, at least one building is powered and running, and in proximity to 5 or more other buildings [that don't need to be powered thus includes foundations, but not power poles]). This setup may be revised in Update 3 to pass through a smart splitter with the lane going to the AWESOME sink set as overflow and the others set to pass normally (maybe to a storage or later the factory when those resources are needed). The sink will then only take the resources not being used.

[@tricknologist2066]

Great info and excellent presentation. I especially like you tip at 1:08 for splitting your hot-bar to use 1,2,3,4,alt-1,alt-2,alt-3,alt-4,alt-5. Very clever.

[@kermitized4691]

I’ve only got a few dozen hours in this game, but this is one of the most useful tips video I’ve seen. Normally these types of videos are too advanced and don’t cover simple yet extremely useful tricks.

[@rellikpd]

I just started semi-recently.. and found the "replace belts/power poles" one on my own and man it was game changing.. I looked back, mentally, at all the times I'd manually rebuilt a long conveyor line and shook my fist at the Sky Supervisor

[@michaelbailey9643]

Yeah - I didn't know about this. Huge time saver.

[@Sonstwer]

My top tip that I've never seen anyone mention is that if you have a long belt and want to cut it in half you can place a split or merge node and afterwards you can remove the part of the belt that goes in or out. In that way you don't have to re-do the whole belt when it's just a bit too long

[@Sanquinity]

So many useful tips for me here. Sliding under conveyors, setting overclock to a production target, multi disassemble, that there even is a map, tab to auto mine, pressing ctrl to move all from a specific item to another container...

[@ionstar4377]

You can also delete the conveyer poles after setting up the belts, to save resources and space underneath. What I also like to do is put a high foundation and put the splitters / merges on top and then delete the foundation so you always have a nice path to walk in your base. With the splitters floating over your head and blocking no space.

[@kennethknight9617]

Lol i started running over creatures as soon as I got the tractor. Great to see I wasn't being cheeky 😜

[@hakont.4960]

It's soo satisfyin to squish the big animals with the tractor. They're not quite as tough after they've been squished by a big tractor.

[@linlin86717455]

You're a life saver, literally. I have only 50 hours on this game, a lot of these tips can save me huge amount of time.

[@wadcav6739]

Just got the game today and really appreciate this video, also I enjoyed reading your steam review :)

[@MaxTheCatfish]

Hey thanks so much! And thanks for checking out the channel! 😀

[@Imedge6]

I just bought the game 2 days ago (and haven't slept yet) most of them if not all of those tips were usefull. OMG thank you !

[@alexflores9278]

Man, I super appreciate this video. Just got the game and put 5 hours into it yesterday. I'm excited to jump back in later with all this new knowledge.

[@commandogaming2274]

to build on tip number eight: if you're not that good at quickly reaching coal power, something i did recently was just getting solid biofuel as fast as possible. not only is it the most efficient form of biofuel, the chainsaw takes up very little of it when cutting up trees, allowing for tons of biofuel to be created very easily.

[@Samual091]

I just discovered that when you open up your inventory, put the mouse cursor on the 'inventory' side, not 'character' side, and use any of the number key on your keyboard (1, 2, 3, etc) corresponding to the item order, starting from left, placed in the 'Equipement Shortcuts:' area to wear/equip the corresponding equipement right away, without having to double-click or drag and drop.

[@raptorpeep2622]

WAIT GEAR LIKE THAT GETS TO USE THE HOTBAR TOO WHAT THE FUCK THATS SOME GOOD NEWS

[@colinschreier2938]

Bro your tip on auto resetting the conveyor belts just saved me at least two hours of redoing all of my mark 1s to mark 4s. I luv u bro

[@gowenrv3762]

I subscribed to you, because you do not act like a 3 year old, and you can hold a calm camera without jumping all over the place, and know how to speak clearly. You do a great job.

[@MaxTheCatfish]

Thank you!

[@goblin_attourney]

Great vid, the tips that were news to me: Precision values on overclock, using ladders for climbing mountains, MMB for copying (yay!), multiple shortcut rows. Useful QoL stuff, thanks!

[@KingOfShadeEmpire]

We got the exact same new info. Very helpful!

[@videonmode8649]

While I didn't learn anything new, I think that your presentation was very well done and highly informative

[@cat_hq_1452]

Tip: Control + Clicking on a stack of power shards instantly applies them instead of having to drag them or Shift + Clicking 3 times.

[@Cloud7050]

13:15 when the ground is uneven, or when going down ramps, sliding can easily bug out and hurl you off the map instantly (insane speed), so just be careful.

[@tomvanfrausum3521]

You can build mutiple items (especially foundations/walls) to a maximum of ten in a row by using the builder option wheel ! (instead doing it 1 by 1 facing the edge)

[@ctx4241]

This guy should have waaay more subs than other two, the tips have actually some value here ! GJ

[@zavhaidoc]

Wow, so many good tips it was hilarious. I guess my favorite one was the ctrl+click to transfer stacks between storage.. I was just shift-clicking. Thank you. big like.

[@KissGeri97]

literally the most useful tutorial/tips video about satisfactory basics. Learned a bunch of new information :D thank you

[@XaxxTv]

I watch you and i play quite a bit.... and I still learned from this vid, thanks friend

[@MaxTheCatfish]

Dude, thanks so much! I figure a lot of our Twitch viewers will know most of these, but glad to have surprised you with something! ;)

[@DiegoSenge]

What an amazing tip video for once. Normally I only see stuff I already know. Barely knew any of these.

[@TabularConferta]

Wow genuinely a useful video. Thank you so much for making this. GOD DAMN IT the control key when building!!!

[@switchfox1977]

I’ve played 300+ hours and I learned quite a bit from your video. Thanks!

[@HallyVee]

Missed literally the most important tip for new players, press space on the hammer at the crafting bench to toggle crafting on and off. No more tendonitis.

[@adambroom224]

How is it that I did not know this! Best tip ever!

[@HallyVee]

@@adambroom224 put a hundred and fifty hours in before learning that... /facepalm

[@MEngelberts]

Ive been playing since release on epic and this video crushed my soul. I dont know how much time I must've wasted not knowing a some of these things 😅

[@buzbom1]

Older gamer here, I feel your pain. I just started last night and I'm standing around for hours with my zeno up my butt not knowing what I'm supposed to do next. Just surviving the first Ram Hog trying to get my first few crumbs of iron, had me dizzy and respawning 3 times. 2 hours in I find out(thanks to the interweb) that some plants heal. These games and their lack of tutorials these days, have no real care for the casual player. Sigh....I think the main thing these Ytuber Satisfactory folks should tell you is you need to just move through as many upgrades with as little building as possible. Build up the tech and supplies. Then sandbox with all of your goodies and see how to connect and build. Otherwise you'll be rebuilding your setup over and over again and again...Running here n there, dieing a couple more times just to set up your first conveyor. Which didn't do me any good btw. This game can sometimes be called SATIS-FRUSTRATING. Almost an oxymoron. Example: One Ytuber (self proclaimed expert) said you can use the portable miner or setup a few smelters. He even shows us he's placing smelters on top of the ore deposits. So I did that, after running around getting enough materials to make 3 smelters. They just sat there. WELL OF COURSE......he should of showed us that at upgrade 4 you get Miner MK1, not smelters. Space Engineers isn't any better with their little to no teachings. OIY!!!

[@mystereee1479]

Lol this is why I looked for tips videos now before I got too deep. Thankfully I’ll be avoiding your pain.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Great tip about the conveyor belts. I've also noticed that the conveyor belt will highlight if you already have a higher-level belt selected from your inventory. You can just point-and-paste right over it.

[@georgiynikitenko7600]

wow, half of those tips are new to me, and i've watched already a lot of tips. THANKS!

[@ofcatarina]

there are a lot of tips vids for this game. I watched them all before this one. I'm 2 minutes in... This is best one. Actually helpful. Ty

[@longviolinfilms]

Great vid. Knew most of the stuff, but the few things I didn't are definitely gonna be helpful. Totally worth the watch and awesomely quick and concise editing. Cheers

[@54m0h7]

Nice tips! One of the most annoying things to get aligned properly is piping tees. A good way I figured out is to put a temporary pipe holder down 1 snap away from the center of the tee and build a pipe off of it. Then delete the holder and attach the tee to the end of the pipe.

[@StonedFireHead]

Absolutely awesome video!!! Played like only 50 hours so far but received so many greats tips, thx a lot!

[@danbance5799]

CTRL-Left Click transfers all items of a given type. THANK YOU!

[@realNAKAMI]

can you do a video on basic factory design-decisions? like what stuff to build on one level and when to expand vertically etc...

[@XxTaiMTxX]

Not sure you'll find this helpful, but here's what I've been doing (I'm on my first run). *Refining of materials is done exactly at the site they are gathered. Ore is turned into ingots right as they're mined. Ingots are then belted into a "central factory location". *The "Central Factory Location" uses a "Main BUS" design where like materials are gathered together and put into storage bins. This is done on the "ground floor" of the factory. If you aren't sure what a "Main BUS" is... look it up in relation to "Factorio". I like doing it because it's easier for the next step. *My second floor up takes those materials and uses "constructors" on them. If I can change 1 item into another 1 item, it is done on this floor. Each item is again gathered into "storage bins" for saving (and in case I need to manually construct something like buildings). The "Main BUS" design on this floor before the storage containers now emphasizes "materials I will combine on the next floor". *I transport materials up to the third floor where I now combine two materials to make 1 item. My factory, at this point, looks like an "inverted pyramid" with the third floor being the largest to accommodate all the new lines of items I'm constructing. My Space Elevator is also on this floor and "walled in". There is a specific "wing" of this factory floor that is dedicated 100% to building Elevator Components and I dedicate minimal resources to this task (since it will take me longer to get through each Tier than it would to gather the resources even at very long wait times). Once items are constructed (other than Space Elevator parts), I put them into Storage Containers as well and construct the next leg of the "Main BUS". This stage isn't done yet, but will be the same as the last, where I put items "near" each other that will be combined into the big 4-item units. I am also constructing the next level of this factory to make room for the massive machines and amount of belting I will need to do. *Each "Floor" is roughly 3 "walls" high. About 24 meters or so. I typically use ramps to get between them, but use the belt lifts between floors. Most factory machines will fit inside this 24 meter room height, though it would be nice if you could stack 3 regular storage containers on top of each other (I just use the Industrial ones now). *Coal powered structures are jammed side-by-side near a water source where coal is belted into them. I have a very compact design on the "second floor" for these. Jam 3 power shards into any water pump you have so that you can fill 6 coal power plants all at once with enough water (they drink water MUCH FASTER than they eat coal. You need max water output to generate as much power as possible). Take any remaining power shards and jam them into your coal plants to maximize output. You are going to want it for the amount of machines you'll be powering in order to make everything. I also walled these into an area so they don't "overlap" anything in my factory. They're going to cut into future "floors", but placing them on Foundations means they'll at least all be "level". *Generally speaking, you want to "get off the ground" as quickly as possible. The ground makes your factory a mess and you want it as organized as possible for traversal as well as efficiency. As soon as I could, I built in a canyon and put most of my factory in the air over it, by putting it on Foundations. The only stuff that exists "off foundations" now is just my Miners/smelters/refiners that aren't anywhere near the main factory. *As you build vertically, you're going to just want to use ramps. You'll need two sets. The largest ones for you, so you travel up a floor as quickly as possible. The very short ramps, you'll want for driving vehicles (vehicles do better when the slopes aren't so steep). Try to avoid the stairwells options as they're a pain and take far longer to build and traverse than a simple ramp. *If you've built up off the ground a bit pretty early (and you SHOULD!), build foundations out to whatever it is you're hunting for in terms of ore. There's a couple reasons for this. The first is that it allows you to avoid any and all combat and terrain as you find the resource. The second is that it's much easier to maximize power pole distance and connections on flat Foundations than trying to weave it amongst all the stupid trees and hills and cliffs. You can also pull the resource back on this foundation far up in the air and integrate it much easier into your factory when you're done. I'm using my "third floor" for these "sky bridges", but you may want to go up as high as 5 floors (at least if you're using my height as the example) just so you'll be able to clear pretty much any vertical terrain obstacle. It will be, however, difficult to "get down" from up there down to the resource node once you're there... But, that's a good problem to have, and one solved by just playing with foundations and ramps. It's also easier to be up high so you can shoot the critters guarding the nodes where you're coming down at. *Try not to pipe liquids up floors if possible. Having to slap pumps onto the pipe that eat power and require a power pole connection just to get liquid up a floor is kind of a waste. It's far often better, if you really have to get liquid up several hundred meters in the air.... to just package it into a container that can be jammed onto a belt and transported to the location before "unpacking" it right outside of what you need. You might need tech for that, though. Use pumps if you don't have tech... or locate what you need next to where you are gathering the liquid to avoid pumping the liquid all over the place. *Unlock wall mounted conveyers as quickly as possible. These keep your walk areas clean and allows you to "build in the air" much easier.

[@THBbon]

@@XxTaiMTxX sick guide

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Shawn Ramsey The _exception_ for ore being turned into ingots is _Steel Ingots_ which needs (Raw) Iron Ore + (Raw) Coal. Also try to unlock the _Solid Steel Ignot (alt.)_ recipe which saves on coal use and _doesn't_ need raw iron -- it uses Iron Ingots instead. (Might to re-roll hard drive scans, via reloading, if you want to speed up unlocking this though.) (Steel marks the transition from early game to mid game.)

[@cmdrmasterslay7884]

will not read all comments, but you didnt talk about upgrading a part (i.e. : replace mark1 by mark2 belt as an exemple) without needed to remove the part. Would have knew this one sooner! Nice quality video. Thx for your work.

[@chrisarets2231]

Just started with the game yesterday but these are great tips!! Thank you for making this vid :)

[@theunk0wndead663]

1. Using the hotbar was already essential to me, though I still sometimes forget about the additional ones. 2. Knew upgrading already. 3. I actually didn't know about the tilting of pipes, that would have been useful in some scenarios instead of having to build wall attachments for that. What is missing is the mention of stacking Splitters and Mergers, that can be really useful to save horizontal space. By that I also mean that you could stack them and lead one into one above, creating more exits or merging more, though you need to be aware of how the throughput is distributed. 4. Didn't know about the radial menu for pipes. 5. Regarding the foundations, I did find it irritating to have open spaces because of miners and never realized that you could build them on top of foundations. 6. Didn't know about the automatic manual mining, though instead I usually just make several portable miners which are also faster in a greater number. Those are also good to have after a miner is already placed to have some spare to use in manual crafting if you need it or temporarily overcome the limited output. 7. Regarding the ladders, I have no idea why I haven't come up with that yet. I already use them in the factory, whether they are useful (especially with pipes since they are on the ground) or just could be. Since I already take resources for walkways and foundations this would make it much easier to traverse vertical distances opposed to using walkways which are better for horizontal or diagonal distances. 8. Knew the importance of coal generators already. It really takes the load off of having to farm biomass to be able to automate things, which overall still isn't a true automation. 9. Players who explore and check the research should know this already. Regarding overclocking miners, that is only true to some extent since maxing it doesn't give any benefits if the belt mark isn't good enough to support the output (though this already gets mentioned in the video). 10. Bless you for that finding, it sure was a hassle to fine tune the clockspeed and the output by using the slider. 11. A given if you know you could die and don't want to traverse longer distances (especially heights) by foot. 12. It took me some time to figure out the multidelete by myself while playing. 13. Is shown as a tooltip together with other keybinds so I already knew copy+paste. 14. An alternative to using excess production for the sink, so it just depends whether you can afford to sink them or not. 15. Inventory tricks are almost a given if you compare it with other games which also have it. 16. Knew this already, though I sometimes forget to utilize it. 17. If you advance through the tiers then at some point it will be necessary to acquire those resources anyway, but I agree that it is good to explore much earlier since you can already utilize them with research before that, some of which can be really important to make things easier (especially in terms of exploration and combat). 18. Sometimes forget about the sliding, though I also like to build ladders. But I didn't know about the increased jump height. 19. Well, I just fight them, if anything I just try later with better equipment xD 20. For those who like spoilers I guess. Or for its other uses. Extra: You are already showing it, but for those who want some fun, making hypertube cannons can save quite some time to traverse long distances. Though you have to be careful to not overshoot (for instance, starting in the north of the Dune Desert you can reach out of bounds beyond the Grass Fields), but that issue can be overcome if you just use parachutes, which in my opinion are better since you can also aim for a specific location more accurately while high in the air. To be precise, this is actually what made parachutes useful to me (besides landing safely). A tip for building these cannons, you don't need extreme heights to reach extreme distances, you can reach higher speeds if you place several hypertubes behind each other, going from one entrance to one exit into the next entrance, with the last exit being tilted up to shoot into the air.

[@Nimoot]

.... So he says he's got 20 tips I might not know ... I didn't know about 15 of'em ... And yet I saw a "40+ Tips!" vid... and didn't know 1 of'em ... Fabulous job.

[@GOLDENGAZZA]

Great, concise and comprehensive video 👍🏻

[@MartinLawrence70]

Wish I watched this 1,100 hours ago. :) Learned 11 new things - my fav not needing to hold down E when mining. Thank you!

[@italixgaming915]

Tip 7 bis: use industrial storages instead. Faster, safer (especially if you find an hostile guy on top). Very important extra tip: if you want to unlock technologies faster, search crash sites because there are often advanced materials to loot that you can't even produce like computers, heavy modular frames and so on.

[@BioSoldier53]

Excellent video. Very concise with great examples shown and super useful tips. Thanks!

[@cee_ves]

The devs actually thought of everything I found 10 things that I never even knew I wanted on here

[@Higher_Entity]

Nice video, another tip is you can delete conveyer belt pole from under the belts after you've placed them and the conveyer doesn't get deleted

[@namingsway]

This has to be the best satisfactoy video i've seen yet . But you forgot if you grind up a ticket in the grinder and it unlocks something new in the store (Cyber wagon)

[@jamiemarchant2177]

This is great, I knew a few of these through trial and error but definitely a lot of helpful tips here! Thanks.

[@Maladjester]

Best tips: MMB for copy paste, multiple shortcut bars, N for calculation. I had made a spreadsheet full of all the values and conversion rates because I didn't know about N. I also thought the shortcut wheel was some kind of meter, on "1" because I hadn't achieved some required goal. My tip: *Leave Extra Room.* I did a spaghetti bowl and hated it. Tore it apart, rebuilt....and it's still too close together. I'd say plan to have double or triple the machines you are installing at the moment. When your extraction speed doubles, you have double the ingots, it's nice to have leftover space to double your constructors.

[@XMCRacing]

250 hours in and did not know about Ctrl click for inventory movement and delete.. omg thank you.

[@sneakyspy103]

Your review on steam brought me here and inspired me to get the game, I had been on the fence about it but you convinced me to get it.

[@borissixthousand9522]

might be of note that splitters can be lined up with conveyer lifts a bit easier by making one extra splitter/merger for spacing, so if you want the lift to move up one notch you will need a 3 stack of splitters, for 2 notches you need a 5 stack, etc, afterward you can delete the middle ones to reclaim resources

[@michaelbauers8800]

Note that you have to have all the goods needed to build when you upgrade. It doesn't "borrow" from the existing object. But when the build is complete, you get the goods back for the original item. Normally not a problem, but it means you have to carry around all the portable miners you need, and they don't stack.

[@Jackie89000]

I love the middle mouse button functionality to copy whatever buildable I'm looking at that I bound it to an easier to use side button of my mouse. I honestly use that button and E to get to any buildable I usually need rather than use my hotkeys. Makes it easier to build whole moving, also.

[@xKatjaxPurrsx]

Manual crafting tip: Click on the craft button. Unplug the mouse while holding the button down. Crafting continues. :)

[@dangerously72]

Great tips video. I'm still hoping for random-generated worlds/maps now. Would make each new playthrough even more unique/fresh.

[@natpat6394]

Man this video is so great. It is going to make my life so much easier. Thank you man. You definitely deserve a sub.

[@sharpfang]

A tip that would allow the streamer at the end survive: Fall damage can at most take 95 out of your 100 health points. Meaning - heal up fully if you're going to work with heights, you'll survive the fall.

[@oliviaolivia2362]

Depending on that height

[@sharpfang]

@@oliviaolivia2362 No, the very point is not depending - damage scales with height up to certain point, then stops. You take the same 95 points whether you fall 200 meters or a kilometer.

[@oliviaolivia2362]

Every time I fall from very high cliff( fully healed), I promptly die. 100%.

[@RDM1776]

I’m just starting out, really appreciate your video, what about power management? Tracking power poles was never something I worried about in factorio

[@sapient1926]

The multi-delete tip is going to help me insurmountably. Before I was deleting foundation one by one when I wanted to take down a mile high tower. The amount of time I have wasted -_-

[@johnniesalomon1942]

Clickbait means nothing when it cheers you up like this. Best captain image possible, yes, pet doggs and thank you dear sir :)

[@projectsanctuary7944]

Early game, if the resource node is far - like, a coal ore node - place a biofuel generator next to it, and downclock the generator so it generates barely enough electricity for the miner, no more. It now stays fueled for years.

[@Lenixionthegreat]

Omg last night i was trying to figure out how to add things to your hotbar! I tried dragging, double clicking .... right click holding CTRL and click...... and all this time it was as simple as this? 🙈 the video could of ended right then and there and I would of been satisfied as heck but theres even more! Thanks so much for tge upload i subbed so hard.

[@georgefan2977]

This is very helpful! Didn’t know about the snap to guideline thing. I learnt how to align building the hard way😅

[@mystereee1479]

Lol yeah I’ve just been shifting back and forth looking for that blue line to show up

[@Tiniuc]

I have a tip for you: when running conveyor belts over distances, use the support beams (coupon shop) placed vertically and the wall conveyor mount (coupon shop) placed one snap apart from each other. You can fit the belts closer together, scale it to whatever height you need, hang it from ceilings if you need to, angle it if you need to, etc., and it all looks clean, AND power poles fit snugly ontop of the beam. The only downside is this is for belts only, as there is no real way to easily snap pipes to the beams.

[@Flashpg]

Not having to delete your conveyor belts to upgrade them was helpful. I've only been playing 3 days and haven't upgraded them cuz I couldn't be bothered to rebuild the whole lot lol.

[@kalledyretDK]

this also works with miners, pipes and what else can be upgraded :)

[@bullzdawguk]

Tip 21: If you have mixed storage and need to look inside them quicker, press the F key to delete. When you mouse over the storage container, it will show you what's inside. Comes in handy with stacked containers.

[@Gorkilein]

By far the best video on Tips so far.

[@Tenhys]

4:09 Tips #5.1 : Don't forget to make surface to walk onto as you build your construction project, less you'll discover that the option "flying" is not available to the player but the "falling hard" one certainly is.

[@Ange1ofD4rkness]

Building an extractor on top of foundation ... This is a life saver! (now I just need to figure out fluids). BTW was playing with my friend and first time we got hyper tubes, he builds a cannon, then shoots himself into the ceiling of the skybox, and next attempt the wall. The latter he took a parachute, never got to use it