40+ Satisfactory Tips and Tricks You NEED TO KNOW! [Satisfactory Update 8]

40+ Satisfactory Tips and Tricks You NEED TO KNOW! [Satisfactory Update 8]
Satisfactory Update 8 Gameplay Tips
In this Satisfactory Guide, I'm covering 40+ Satisfactory tips and tricks. I cover all sorts of tips useful for beginners to advanced players that will hopefully increase your build efficiency and overall game knowledge.
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[@spectrumdad_]

How many did you know? Let me know what tips you have for the community I didn't mention!

[@jaredbradley4153]

I think #39 was the only new one for me. Great quick tip video. Good to show to new players

[@veys4958]

Smooth curves are missing. How can i build clean railroads? Some important informations are missing. It is a good video anyway. Thx.

[@veys4958]

And i think beams are more important for our building designs. How can i use efficiently a beam when i build?

[@brianericksen9388]

This video is amazing and I just learned like 10 new things. Thank you friend!

[@radar4763]

You can switch to auto-pickup grass and wood in the same manner as Minecraft does. Wait for the DIalog to hold "e" to appear when you hoover over grass or wood. Now press and hold "e" and now while still holding "e" press "Tab". While in the "Tab"-menu (other menues i did not try), release "e" inside the menu". Leave the menu and you just have to hover over grass or wood to pick the up. Probably to the time you open the next menu.

[@TheKrazyKrow]

Every new player coming to the game should see this video!

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@Pocketnaut]

Was huge for me ngl

[@gamingfish7026]

Yes im here

[@ScavengerFX]

Thanks, I'm seeing it now.

[@Bronyte]

For real! This tutorial showed tricks to solve pains I didn't even know I had... lol

[@AcidNeku]

Daaang, I have nearly 400 hours in this game and I didn't expect to learn so much new stuff. I didn't know about the power poles, how to copy recipes with a short cut, the conveyor lift height, swapping wall types (always deleted my walls when I wanted to replace them with windows lol), and mass dismantle for a specific type (I had heard about that one before but never found out how to do it). Thank you!

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you got lots of value in the video!

[@darrellkluth6984]

One that no one ever mentions is being able to snap splitters and mergers directly to the ends of elevators.

[@spectrumdad_]

Yep that’s a good one too!

[@saintness]

The adding a power pole to an existing power line was my favorite new tip! Thanks man, great vid.

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks, glad you got something out of it!

[@JustNilt]

Nice collection of tips. I "knew" all of them but in all fairness I only learned about adding a new pole to power lines and colorizing supporting the multi select toggle one in the last couple days on other folks' videos. I like how you just got right to it, told us the things, and didn't waste any time. That earned you a sub. :)

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed the video! :)

[@mattkrom4162]

I have played this game dozens of hours and I was not even aware of some tips. Thank you so much!

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you found it useful! Thanks for watching!

[@devcor]

Unironically, the most important tip here is the bonus one: just play the game without worrying too much about optimization (even if you're OCD). Try and enjoy it as much as you can, there are no second first times.

[@greaseDonkey]

There are so many great tips in there! The one for picking leave is so life-changing! Also, the tip to add a key-bind to delete one type is gonna be so useful, I've deleted some stuff so far away sometimes without even noticing it... and yeah clipping is UNACCEPTABLE!

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@andreaszetterstrom7418]

What I do is bind that function to the same key as the delete key. That way it's always active when I delete. It does mean that I can't delete different kinds of items at once, but I hardly ever want to do that anyway.

[@spectrumdad_]

@@andreaszetterstrom7418 interesting tip. I’ll have to try that!

[@karlhungus545]

I've played this game basically since it came out and I learned SEVERAL things here that I didn't know, and it makes the game a lot more enjoyable. Thanks! Great to-the-point video.

[@spliffyrodgers4266]

I think this is one of the only tip video Ive seen that isnt talking over the same 5 things repeatedly to stretch to ad time and tells you things that are actually useful rather than things you learn in the tutorial or figure out in the first 10 minutes or so

[@jbug5j]

I just discovered your channel and it is exactly what I have been wanting for forever! I love playing but i get caught up on making everything look nice and neat. Your efficiency tutorials are saved and I cant wait to follow them! Thank you so so much!!!

[@sekara9866]

In addition to your tip about putting splitters and mergers on existing belts - if you hold ctrl it will snap to the nearby building.

[@Tristavius]

Very nice guide. A tonne of stuff there that a newer/intermediate player would find very useful. I'm 1300+ hours in and amazingly there was two I didn't know... including #1 the world grid!!! The second being able to set default colours of different objects by right clicking.

[@spectrumdad_]

Nice, glad I was able to help out even after that many hours!

[@Coeurebene1]

I'm so glad I watched this before starting my factory, thanks a lot.

[@mysterymayhem7020]

omg thank you so much. i finally decided to give it a try after it sitting in my library for more than a year and now im hooked. the tips were just what i needed

[@harrylui9801]

Great video! Can't wait for the next episode.

[@Viktorovich178]

The copy-paste recipe tip and the power pole tip are pure gold! Thanks!

[@GaMeOvErRules]

Holy shit these are gold. So many things I can't stand about the game (I'm new player) and there are shortcuts. Damn thanks for this!

[@spectrumdad_]

You’re welcome! Don’t give up. This is a great game and it’ll be worth the time investment!

[@GaMeOvErRules]

@@spectrumdad_ i am enjoying it so far. Nice and chill to play. I have all basic automation for the very basic stuff. Now need to think of expanding and making automation for the next level. I'm having issues seeing the bigger picture and seeing how to tie it all together. But taking it step by step.

[@Sophie-oj5cs]

So many great ideas! And great explanation of thought behind the build

[@danielwhalley8528]

that really helped me. 300 hours in and the amount of small things that it gonna save me time is amazing, i didnt even know you could build multiple foundations at once without the use of mods :) thank you! great vid :)

[@thom7946]

Very nice tips collection! I didn't know #09 copy recipes without opening machine menu. quite helpful. thanks;)

[@spectrumdad_]

Thank you for the kind words! Glad there was a new tip for you! :)

[@AnchorJG]

I needed this video about 200 hours of gameplay ago, it is SO HELPFUL

[@danteresendiz515]

Great explanation. Thanks mate

[@zimeon]

Addition to tip25, hold ctrl+shift and move an item to the recycle bin. It will delete all other items of the same type as well. Good for clearing out a storage container if you don't want the items.

[@spectrumdad_]

I did not know that one actually! Nice that’ll definitely help!

[@Arterexius]

Why not just sink all the unwanted items?

[@zimeon]

@@Arterexius takes time, and sinking early game items isn’t worth it. Faster to just delete them 😊

[@Arterexius]

@@zimeon why wouldn't it be worth it? Every point counts and the faster you get to sinking, the faster you can rack up points, plus you can just hook up the container to a sink and go about doing something else. It sure is faster to just delete them, but its also less efficient usage of resources

[@YanniCooper]

@@Arterexius one reason to not sink would be low power, but tbh even then I'd just spaghetti to a temp storage and then sink later when I had enough power. Some early points to one of the sets of catwalks and a few wall/foundation options can be a real QoL improvement of the early game.

[@Vemfanerdu]

To create those 90 degree angles with conveyorbelts or pipes.. Simply use the scroll after you've placed the first conveyor attachment point! :) Great video, got 500+ hours and still learned a few things!

[@eita3141]

The key bind one to dismantle items of 1 type 😳. Mind blown

[@spectrumdad_]

Definitely a good one :)

[@sinn6719]

holy thanks a lot I'm basically new to this game so I can easily add them into my routine

[@Francisco-yy8wi]

Love your videos. Absolutely amazing!

[@YanniCooper]

#7 was new to me nice!

[@SkankHunt8008]

Extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@livingmedia9830]

Good tips, subscribed and liked =) Thank you.

[@spectrumdad_]

Thank you for the support :)

[@Ashtarte3D]

I've played so much of this game and I still didn't know two of these. In particular I didn't know you could specify the color swatches to designated items. :O

[@francemiron91]

So many great tips! Very helpful! Video well done ! 😊

[@spectrumdad_]

Thank you very much! Glad you found it useful!

[@Joe_V95]

damn, you posted this a year ago, yet there was still plenty of stuff I didn't know. thanks for the video and your time bro!!

[@AtTheEnd1000]

The "enjoy the game trick" gets me every time. I'm o Tier 2 and get lost in all the floor builds and math! Then I just get tired!

[@Koh-Wei-Jian]

7, good tips. 30 and 33 too, they are mostly cosmetic

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you liked the tips! 33 is definitely a great one. It helped me avoid headaches.

[@dylanpritchard5659]

I've never known that the space kept auto crafting, my finger is forever grateful to this knowledge

[@200bees]

Omg I wish I knew about the world grid before I started this game 🤦🏻 I was literally thinking while I was playing “man I wish I could have all these line up better” when i was building parts of my factories that were a little further away. Also the Zoop one is super useful too! Thank you for this video

[@MrXingor]

Before I just watched this video my friends and I on our server would always face a cardinal direction and then line it up from there. It wasn't perfect but pretty close. haha

[@creativecurbing]

I've been playing for 6 months and never knew half of this stuff. Thanks!

[@robbiesmith79]

I've been playing since update 3 and you taught me some new things. Exactly why I clicked your video. Thanks SpectrumDad

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you found it useful! ^^

[@sekara9866]

The press and hold E to gather thing is pretty new - I had to set up a macro key for that previously.

[@spectrumdad_]

I’ve seen lots of people mention that before. I wasn’t smart enough to do that and just endured the pain! :)

[@sekara9866]

@@spectrumdad_ I feel it. It didn't seem a big enough problem to learn macros until I got a mechanical, and very noisy, keyboard.

[@TrabberShir]

I need a cheat sheet for the inventory controls. Hold right click is one I somehow had not figured out yet.

[@spectrumdad_]

Im embarrassed to say I learned that one fairly recently also lol.

[@TraumaQueen65]

Thank you

[@NotEli43]

The only clipping i do is pipes into concrete. I always have a tunnel on the inside for maintenance when I open the wall back up. You can make things look so cool

[@PazziperilCinema]

This video is GOLD!!!!! Thank you so so much!!! 🤗

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks 😊 glad you liked it!

[@tekoplays]

Subed. Great video, learned allot even after 300+ hours. Thank you!

[@spectrumdad_]

Thankk a bunch. Means a lot :)

[@whydontugoaway]

i just got this game and now i feel better about my spaghetti factory :)

[@mastertv2158]

This is a very useful video, great job👍

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful! :P

[@vincewilson1]

You know you've been playing satisfactory for several years when a youtube video tells you 40 plus tips and you realize you already know 95% of them! It's perfect for newbies.

[@kotemote3802]

Bonus tip is very good

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks :P

[@philipmrch8326]

Some of these I found out myself. The world grid and leaves gathering for example.

[@Arch_Twisted]

I play alot of Warframe. Seeing the Slide-jump feature in this game is great.

[@typhonplume9374]

You can also turn the belt (if it's on the ground to face the object it's going to for a 90 degree turn. If you don't want to do the step method.

[@spectrumdad_]

Good point, thanks!

[@hawkedarkblade5027]

You get a like just for the deconstruction tool hover over the container to tell you what's inside! That was the only one I didn't know.

[@shadowotter3116]

I seriously wish I knew about using the space bar to autocraft earlier in my playthrough.

[@fngrusty42]

thanks

[@IRDazza]

I HATE the slide jumping and people that use it in Videos. Besides that, good video!

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Someone on the Satisfactory forums told me, to Press E and open inventory, let go of E and close inventory and it 'sticks" the E key so you don't have to hold it down anymore

[@Drunk_n_Sailr]

Great tips! As an expansion on the road barrier snapping: you can not only replace walls with other walls (such as a wall with a window), but also a road barrier with a wall. Also, didn't they patch .21 (conveyor lifts)? Or does it still work if you use snapping?

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks and good point about the road barrier! For the conveyor lifts, 3 days ago it was still working for me.

[@Drunk_n_Sailr]

@@spectrumdad_ I've just tested it and I can comfirm that it has not been patched

[@satibel]

hold control to snap buildings too.

[@spectrumdad_]

Yep, I do mention that in the video #17! :)

[@MathiasBronnes]

There is a tip that id like to have that ive never seen..when you make production lines, say in the start you make rotors and reinforced plates, how do you know how much to make?

[@spectrumdad_]

I usually try to do a round number like 10 per min each if isn’t directly needed for another recipe.

[@MathiasBronnes]

@@spectrumdad_ thanks. I am directly copying your production lines in the ongoing series. Ive played since the game came out but always got stuck due to a lack of not knowing how much to produce of everything

[@spectrumdad_]

@@MathiasBronnes another tip I usually do is figure out a belt worth. So let’s say the reinforced iron plate take about a 120 belt of iron ore to produce 10/min. The modular frame takes a 240 mk3 belt. Just reverse engineer from there. You can also go to satisfactory-calculator.com and go to the production planner. :)

[@PZMaTTy]

1:26 I Learned that by accident trying to bunnyhop lol

[@Ellemshaye]

I have over 1k hours in and I didn’t know some of these. #1 video pick for amount of information contained per second.

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! Glad you still found some use in it after 1k hours!

[@maniacmatt7340]

Upgrading stuff in a system is great. I tried to place a merger in an active line and it didn't feed through, wondrr what I did wrong

[@Riftrender]

World grid was what i needed.

[@NullifidianYT]

Thanks.

[@spectrumdad_]

:)

[@arjanhoogervorst7330]

Thank you it realy helped

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you found these helpful!

[@arjanhoogervorst7330]

Im subbed

[@spectrumdad_]

@@arjanhoogervorst7330 thanks :) I appreciate it :)

[@xD1904]

A friend and me started the game two weeks ago. I know the first day. We played it straight for 6 hours. My girlfriend came to me and said: "you should drink Something"😂 Completly addicted. Our first thought after this session was: why did it take so long to find this game for us :D And yeah, my friend saw your Video, told me about some new tips he got from your video and it helped a lot. Thanks! :)

[@erronblack1044]

Its usefull

[@griffinhatchling]

Okay I learned a few little things, you get a like for it.

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you found it useful ;)

[@Insulino36]

The spacebar one for manual crafting is something I always wished and never knew, I was wondering if I should use an autoclicker

[@linzenmeyer]

Adding mergers and splitters to an existing belt is hit miss....mostly hit, but I still have problems with some of them not working right

[@MrJinxmaster1]

I'm in very deep on a new factory, learning about the global grid is sending my ocd into a tailspin

[@spectrumdad_]

:S yea that’s one I wished I learned about before I started playing this game lol

[@jordank1813]

I've been playing for awhile. I didn't know crash sites existed

[@piggfeathers]

the very first tip utterly devastated me i have thousands if hours in this game im so heart broken this wasnt this first thing i knew 😢

[@mastergamerjmo]

My factory inspiration comes from let’s game it out

[@roguemajin46290]

u can slide up hill on the 1 metter ramps 😅

[@petunia7338]

hello so i found your channel , i don't know if you mention an auto run/drive feature , found it by mistake ... so while i was running (holding down W) i opened the codex (O) then released all keys , then closed the codex window , i was running , just use the mouse to move to direction ..... run up to vehicle press E to enter = auto drive just need to steer it A,D,

[@lutramage6252]

Great additional tip, thanks for sharing.

[@Raven16171]

Wish I knew about the world grid.... I wonder how long it'd take to destroy everything and rebuild 🤔🤔🤔

[@Manking1337]

The Zoop building mode blew my mind. Placed like a million foundations click by click :(

[@spectrumdad_]

Yea until they implemented that, I remember building on top of the void and placement soooo many foundations by hand. Brutal lol

[@xo2ulips]

wow, i knew almost none of these. thanks

[@meyatetana2973]

But my name is Meya Clippington! Clipping is a family business!

[@TheBigcowie]

Hahaha OMFG the spacebar crafting… bro i stacked a deck of cards on my mouse 😂

[@spectrumdad_]

Haha 😂. I did that too for a long time. It is a relatively new feature, like a year old.

[@TheBigcowie]

@@spectrumdad_ ☕️🤌

[@reffrim]

How to place mergers and splitters directly on the belts? I tried it, but splitters/mergers don't seem to work at all and items on the belts just keep going through it.

[@meyatetana2973]

Wait how do you de3al with nuclear waste? I can't use it in anything so I just been dumping trains into the abyss but it's expensive to keep wasting a train and a cart

[@robot_spider]

I've got about 400 hours in the game. More than a couple of these were new to me :/ I'm bad at things.

[@spectrumdad_]

There’s a lot they don’t mention to you or at least make it obvious. But I’m glad the video helped you out!

[@robot_spider]

@@spectrumdad_ I've been playing since really early. So I tend to get to a certain point, then put it down for a couple of months. Then when I go back, I don't always read the patch notes. I'm on my 3rd complete restart. Still find the game so satisfying.

[@jamespruitt4756]

all this stuff just shows how bad i am at this game >.< i only knew about...a dozen or so of these...the rest just blew my mind 🤯

[@spectrumdad_]

After years I just found out about a couple of these last month. This great game always seems to teach you something new. Glad it helped you out!

[@jackknife4547]

How do you replace an existing item with a new item and not dismantle it completely? I've been searching for hours on how to do this and I don't quite understand the controls yet

[@dxm6580]

no 1 start in 2 years... may be easyer than trying to ad water o ur base... i cry now....

[@spectrumdad_]

:)

[@sandskull90]

Yeah so I unlocked the shop and sink a whiiiiiiiile ago but never actually used them thinking I'd rather develop first. What a mistake lol

[@MrDeothor]

God damn this game has so many cool QoLs hidden everywhere. I only knew of few of them.

[@thevilyn2075]

Wait ive always held the spacebar down when crafting i only had to click it once?

[@spectrumdad_]

Think that’s a fairly new change. But yea just tap once and it’ll go by itself!

[@JustNilt]

@@spectrumdad_ It's been around since at least U4 but yeah, it's a great one. I think you have to be hovering in the clickable area for it to work too but that might just be my brain telling me things it wants to be true.

[@spectrumdad_]

@@JustNiltah ok yea I know it’s been here at least U5 I couldn’t remember before that or not.

[@roax206]

You can put at least 100 portable miners on each deposit (10x10) and mine over 8000 ore per minute at the start of the game rather than the measly 60 from a mk1 miner.

[@spectrumdad_]

Now that’s a tip right there ;)

[@roax206]

@SpectrumDad was going to put this comment on an April fools video because you end up spending the entire time emptying miners.

[@lfla0179]

I knew some 35 of these hehe...

[@spectrumdad_]

:)

[@DomplaZ1]

watch lets game it out, hes defnitaly the best satisfactory player

[@spectrumdad_]

😂

[@fibbsless603]

bro omg i acualy came up with slide jump too and i even called it the same thing

[@fibbsless603]

i use it all the time not even kidding

[@spectrumdad_]

Yea I feel like this game is the slide jumping simulator

[@fibbsless603]

@@spectrumdad_ yea

[@fibbsless603]

@@spectrumdad_ it works way better with blade runners too

[@panicwolf8586]

My factory is already too far gone to be fixed, it isn't on the world grid, and it is already 3 stories high, and it'd impractical to deconstruct and reconstruct it.

[@user-qx8bd5tb4g]

MY BRAIN EXPLODES FROM THIS VIDEO

[@luangu]

Tip 26: 😳