7 EFFICIENT Steel Factory Layouts You NEED! | Satisfactory Update 7 (Beginner Guide)

7 EFFICIENT Steel Factory Layouts You NEED! | Satisfactory Update 7 (Beginner Guide)
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In this Satisfactory Guide for beginners, I'm covering 7 perfect layouts that every Satisfactory Player needs to know before starting their Steel Factory.
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00:00 Introduction
00:08 Layout #1 - Basic Steel Recipes
03:46 Layout #2 - 270 Steel Ingots
07:30 Layout #3 - Solid Steel Ingot
11:48 Layout #4 - 40 Pipes & 30 Beams
13:43 Layout #5 - 120 Steel Pipes
14:10 Layout #6 - 45 Steel Beams
14:43 Layout #7 - 15 Encased Industrial Beams
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Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory simulation game by CoffeeStain Studios that features exploration and combat. The player is a pioneer that is dropped onto an alien planet as part of the 'Save The Day' program and is tasked with charting and exploiting the planet. The player will be exploring the resource rich planet, battling alien lifeforms, creating multi-story automated factories, and researching new technologies.
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[@spectrumdad_]

Hope you are all having a great day! What other layout videos do you want to see?

[@DavK9]

The layout of you making more videos :3

[@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf]

I am repeatedly impressed by the lay outs you make

[@spectrumdad_]

@@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf thanks :) glad you like them!

[@Bigoldog]

aluminum and its derivatives would be cool!

[@AlvindV]

can you do a modular frame and heavy modular frame layout :) Nice vid

[@DDoom33]

We want layouts for all the items!!! These are the best produced and best explained guides on YT. Great work! Only one thing, stop asking if we are interested, take for granted that we want them All! ALL THE GUIDES 😉

[@spectrumdad_]

Haha thanks :) I’ll make them all then! :P

[@Galaxy03083]

​@@spectrumdad_I hope this is true, I will be binge watching them

[@Snuggles5000]

Tbh what would make these guides S tier is a 2-3 second screenshot in the beginning of each section for what the end result of each will look like when it’s done. I usually have to awkwardly pause it when it’s all in screen, when a quick “here’s what it will look like” stationary screenshot at the beginning would make it super easy to follow along. Nevertheless these guides are great and I hope you’ll do more!

[@luangu]

I agree with this.

[@kategerber2893]

I really appreciate how detailed and easy to follow your guides are, having the numbered layout helps so much!

[@enriqueinfante3658]

Please we beg you do the motors/stators etc layouts! Amazing guides and videos, cheers dude!

[@neilsc13]

I just recently started playing Satisfactory and had a ton of layouts everywhere. Since I've found your videos, my world has been running efficiently. Thank you for your great videos! Please keep it up!

[@LordLauri77]

The best guides for Satisfactory, hands down. Clear explanations and easy to follow videos. Keep up the good work!

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks :) Means a lot!

[@robertreyes6959]

Thanks for this. I've been sitting at the point of steel and just finished routing a few coal nodes to my base to start factories. Have been using a lot of your starter layouts and it's been great for helping me to learn more about the game. Would be excited to see more factories for the individual items too!

[@TheSamyrob]

Your content quality is always impressive. I’ve learned a lot from you, thanks for your hard work!!

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! That means a lot!

[@jreverie7018]

Thanks so much for this! I'm new, it helped me grasp not only how to make a steel mill but also how to make a tidy functioning set ups for other nodes! Appreciate it :) subbed

[@rageisalotofwork]

I love your guides and I was excited when I saw there was a steel one I could fit in a 4x4 area. 5 hours later i have remade this factory over and over trying to figure out which part is problem that screws everything up before I scrap the whole thing and start over.

[@strawhat532]

Really love your videos man! Thank you for making them!

[@Wandering_Warden]

Really nice Layouts. I just want to add that you can use the 4th Layout also with the normal Steel production by using 4 foundries running at 100%

[@subspace5679]

This is AWESOME !!! liked and subscribed straight away, please give us more layouts for the steel items! Thank you so much for this!

[@XEyedN00b]

Thank you for this video. I already see some compacting potential with splitter manifolds above collector mergers. I can then make these into modular blueprints that I can plop down with ease. Lovely!

[@tomstanford5045]

I've been searching for something like this for weeks! You're a lifesaver. Ps love your tutorials please keep going

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! I plan on it!

[@dandyxik1118]

Favorite Styles of videos! Very inspirating THX u ❤️

[@nickenzmann8389]

Great Video! One Tip for the Conver Lifts tho: when you start placing them at the foundrys input insteed of the splitter, the Lift looks way better as it is equally long on either side

[@Nemeziis360]

OMG !! ❤ Thank you for this new video !

[@coolcatthecoolcat3271]

This helped me alot thank you❤

[@fRiX15]

Really like the tips you give us, you heloed me with the coal Power plant, now I can give enough Power to my base🎉

[@Sparafucile-kg5hz]

Just started playing the game, and these guides have been a big help! Could you give some pointers on how to route materials over long distances in the early game in order to build up the tech base?

[@fox_pilot_05]

Your Layouts are soo good, I've already used the Iron one's in my new multiplayer world to show my friends how the game works! If you could make more Layouts for the other Item that'd be FIIIIREEE!!

[@muhamedsaad7680]

amazing work keep it up ❤️

[@francemiron91]

Such a great video!! Exactly what I needed!! 😊

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you liked it!!

[@Tigneos]

thanks for making such great videos. Please continue with them. For the next on Modular frames please :D

[@jstm3447]

mate i loved your videos they are superb! btw can you do these layouts for motors/rotors/stators etc.

[@rumpeltv1080]

Thanks a lot. I would like to see more layout from you. ☺

[@johnrtrucker]

I use the blueprint machine and I prefer the recipe that needs iron ingots to really maximize output and my favorite by far is the steel rotor recipe because you can use the same blueprint for both rotors and stators and just change the assembler recipe for a quick motor factory

[@bndoug6672]

I gree with D-Doom33. Please make more of your great videos! Thank you for sharing them with us.

[@matheushubsch1498]

You`re the best. Thank you!!

[@spectrumdad_]

No, You are!

[@danie8267]

I love these videos I couldn’t subscribe any faster

[@txxvictorious4120]

Dude please PLEASE make more videos! These are by far the best Satisfactory setup guides on the internet, it's not even close! Don't leave us hanging brosef

[@spectrumdad_]

Haha next one coming out tomorrow!

[@txxvictorious4120]

@@spectrumdad_ what an absolute LAD!!

[@Nothing2NV]

I definitely want to see those layouts

[@LightsAcapella]

Absolutely adore your videos, I refuse to watch anyone else so please make more layout guides (quartz, caterium, frames etc). Thanks!

[@LightsAcapella]

I would also love to see your take on a sorting and sink system for beginners.

[@spectrumdad_]

Will do! Thanks!

[@MrDecapoda]

OH YEAH! Let's go!

[@jcvd1637]

I used all of your tutorials by following them scrupulously. I have never had as much output on my factories as today and my electricity production is more stable than my bank account

[@zagogames6926]

Very good

[@aravindhanil7235]

How the hell do you only have 4.4k subscribers??? You deserve more man Love your videos

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks :) Means a lot!

[@NoirFusuky]

Uh Nice, The first video was also very helpful :)

[@rremnar]

I usually have to separate the Encased Industrial Beams layout from the rest, because the amount of materials needed is insane. Imagine if you are wanting 60pm, the size of the factory you'd have to build, even with alterate recipes. I usually just have to settle for less because the requirements are just way too much.

[@UhDoggo_]

My current factory is only making 5ppm of the Encased Beams and I’m on tier 4 working on phase 2 of the space elevator. I hope I won’t have to overhaul my factory tooo much for later game but knowing satisfactory I probably will need to.

[@TheDarkLasombra]

Yea this is why I leave the game running all day once I unlock coal.

[@lielianjie484]

Please other guides! Motors, plastics, etc! Great guides!

[@mazzi9020]

so im new to the game and these vids really helped me out so far allthough now im confused youre saying 270 ores i only see 120 so far are there better ones found on the map?

[@jdv5384]

Is it too late to ask for a guide for all the items? Your guides are the best and i love watching them and i use them too now!! :D

[@aussieScumBag]

would love layouts for the phaze 2 components if possible!.. your videos are the best

[@spectrumdad_]

The first one comes out today!

[@Coldpines28]

I love your videos, would love to see a full playthrough

[@JamMaster984]

Great videos! Just subscribed for more....Maybe just a suggestion if thats ok? Not sure if this is on purpose or not, but I noticed you adding the lifts before the foundries. Aesthetically of course, it doesn't look as squished if you add them from foundry to splitter instead of splitter to foundry. Other than that great job, looking forward to watching more vids.

[@JoshHawkes14]

please do more layouts. also would like to see smart plates as well as modular frames

[@spectrumdad_]

Those are my next videos :)

[@Ronin11111111]

My vertical Foundry setup is very similar, but I prefer just stacking splitters on top of eachother.(vertical as in "one belt between 2 rows of machines", horizontal would be "1 belt for 1 row").

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

One thing I'm a little confused about, in your first steel factory, you double up the constructors that are making steel pipes, and leaving only one constructor to make the steel beams. In the game (Exp 8) I'm always short on Steel beams, and always far too many steel pipes. Could I change the doubled up constructors to make steel beams, and have the single constructor making steel pipes, or would that ruin the entire efficiency of the setup?

[@leukermeer74]

1 question why not use m3 conveyors for everything?

[@jjmcg9877]

Can you make a modular frame layout next would really help me out ❤

[@jjmcg9877]

On the encased industrial beams layout can you add smelters before the foundry’s to do the alternate : solid steel ingots to increase the amount of steel ingots?

[@Thomas-yq8ue]

If u want to produce the same amount of Encased beams then u will only need 160 coal and iron for it but at the price of having to smelt it and not using full pontential of nodes if we r talking about pure one's w miner mk2 (240) but could be rlly good alternative if u have only normal ones and u want to sacriface the shard for overclocking the mk2 miner so it makes 160 instead of 120 on normal node :D

[@pofkaxx]

Love your videos! But you might want to mension that in Layout #7 you need to underclock the last machine to 15 items/minute. With all 6 foundrys working at 100% you need 270 coal/iron.

[@disownedpear]

Great, is aluminum coming up?

[@wtmw1337]

ngl I would like to see layouts for pretty much everything ^^

[@spectrumdad_]

Haha 😂 ok! Will do 🫡

[@dunkingdonut1797]

Are there any chance you can do Turbofuel Power Factory? I like the Crude Oil one you did, but what if you could use Turbofuel instead and megasize it for alot of power?

[@spectrumdad_]

I'll add it to the list :)

[@sneezyfido]

Is there a benefit to underclocking rather than throttling input materials? For instance, input would be for 2,5 machines, feeding into 3. The 3rd machine would end up producing half the time, idle the other half. Power consumption is likewise on/off rather than smooth. But wouldn't that average out?

[@Malenta]

I want to see the Versatile framework and the other thing to get to Tier 5 & 6, please!

[@muskls6877]

I'd like to have guides on these cool looking towers as well as these layouts.

[@spectrumdad_]

Noted!

[@Adtomskio]

I don't know which one to chooooose!

[@Kyu1432]

i would love to see an Heavy Modular frame layout

[@spectrumdad_]

I’ll add that to the list :)

[@RmacNet]

whats the logic behind underclocking one of the steel furnaces?

[@Master-of-memes]

pls make one for stators, roters, and everything like that

[@FlannelPrime]

On the first design, what does the splitter straight into merger before the middle constructor do? Looks like it goes 1 belt to 2 belts to 1 belt?

[@spectrumdad_]

Yea so the splitter splits it into 3, then we merge 2 of those outputs together to go into the constructor. The foundry produces 45 steel ingots, but we only need 30 to go in the constructor. The splitter splits the 45 into 3 belts of 15. We merge 2 belts of 15 into 1 belt of 30.

[@FlannelPrime]

@@spectrumdad_ missed that thank you!

[@colinddowd]

Automated wiring and versatile framework would be killer to see.

[@spectrumdad_]

Ok will do!

[@FMouraBR]

Amazing Job, where I can download this Blueprints?

[@spectrumdad_]

The one I mention in this video can be found on my discord. Link in the description :)

[@thundergod6115]

3:50 is a nice design, but a friend and I were building it and had a lot of trouble with the conveyor belts at the top row where the mergers are right next to each other. It's awkward to build, and I think that sometimes there is a bug where the tiny conveyor belt doesn't work properly.

[@spectrumdad_]

The trick with those is to just hover over the side and left click. As long as you don’t see it on the other exposed sides it worked for the first one. Then just hover slightly towards the other merger. Again as long as you don’t see the ghost belt go to the other entrances you are good and just left click. Getting the feedback is a bit weird I’ll give you that. As far as not working, I use short belts constantly between mergers and lifts and I haven’t had an issue yet, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Hopefully it ends up working for you 👍

[@stevenyalda2362]

For Layout #7 for the Encased Industrial Beams, the 6 foundries can take in 270 ore per minute but the coal and iron provided is only 240. Do you underclock those 6 foundries?

[@spectrumdad_]

Underclock the last one to only produce 15/min.

[@gegalas]

Hey dad, could you make a tutorial on logistics? Really strugling with that

[@zekehorton2464]

Having some issues with layout #2, everything is up and running however, instead of steel ingots, its just spitting out the raw ore, occasionally it spits out the steel ingots. Could this because I'm using impure iron? edit: think I have it figured out, after a bit of reading I believe I need a pure node, with an mk2 to hit the 270/min mark

[@Thomas-yq8ue]

yup not to mention u also need to overclock that mk2 miner since it only mine 240/min on pure :D

[@kaabex1004]

what assembler to put on 50%? He just says the last one but does he mean the left or the right one???

[@spectrumdad_]

I meant the one on the right but in this case any of them would work. As long as 1 is underclocked.

[@aesgjhsf2529]

For layout #2, if you want 240 coal and iron going in (miner mk2 on pure), underclock the foundries to 40 steel a minute

[@spectrumdad_]

Yea that should work. Or overclock the mk2 pure node. Whichever works.

[@AlvindV]

can you do a modular frame and heavy modular frame layout :) Nice vid

[@spectrumdad_]

Thansks! And will do!

[@OrdiNance85]

Hi, im new, just entering steel... On #5 and #5, why are you using smelters instead of foundries? Do those factories require a special recipe? Im thinking I want to go with #5 and #6 instead of #1..... Im just trying to figure out how it works exactly. Thank you! (PS... Please make more beginner/intermediate videos, love your content)

[@spectrumdad_]

They use both smelters and foundries. The smelters is to convert the iron into ingots before sending to the foundries. This allows to make more steel ingots with the same amount of iron coming in. You do need the alternate recipe for solid steel ingots however.

[@Orrinn123]

I would like to ask something. Is there a reason for using different Mk conveyor belts? Other than the cost, does it reduce lag or something?

[@Thomas-yq8ue]

The different Mk of conveyor belts have different capacity of items it can trasport per minute... Mk1 - 60/minute, Mk2 - 120/minute, Mk3 - 270/minute, Mk4 - 480/minute, Mk5 780/minute. Soo lets say u have a mk2 miner on pure node and it mine 240 per minute on 100% if u would connect that miner w anything else w mk1 or mk2 belt the belts wouldnt be able to take the ore away fast enough therefor u would get only those 60 or 120 per minute into the location instead of 240 which would bottleneck the whole factory if u needed 240 per minute for it to run effectively.

[@Orrinn123]

@@Thomas-yq8ue Yeah I get that, that makes perfect sense. But what I was asking is what is the reason for not using the highest mk conveyors all the time. Like if you have a 240 input/output, why not just yse the 480 belt? You can see in the video that he uses different mk conveyor belts for each machine instead of just using the highest one always

[@spectrumdad_]

For me it’s 2 reasons. First the cost, especially when it comes to building still at this early level, you might not have that many items to dish out on the layouts. But the main reason, I love the way everything looks when everything is full and moves constantly without stopping. It’s very satisfying. But I agree it would be more simple to just put the highest belt all the time.

[@Orrinn123]

@@spectrumdad_ Thanks for the clarification

[@xonlybo4506]

You should just make a series of this and show automation for every important item

[@david-flux]

we want the guide for phase 2 of the space elevator!

[@Gilbilly06]

If the answer is in the comments I apologize, I couldn't find it. on #7, is it with the solid steel ingot recipe ?

[@Gilbilly06]

nope, I had to modify it for the alt recipe, i used 6 smelters

Why do you alway split inputs like this? I mean, im new to the game, so may be wrong in this but if you split 120/m ore in 4 splitters this means first is getting 60/m and the last one only 15/m or? I had constantly issues that 1st smelter/constructor/foundry was getting full while the last one was toggling to idle for a while. Also when i manually set inouts to the full it drained faster then was refilling.. So when i updated it a bit with one splitter into two splitters and then into factory it divided all inputs to 30/m and when filled to full it keeps full

[@spectrumdad_]

What you are describing is the difference between manifolds(mine) and load balancers (yours). I’ll have a video on this soon but they both will work at 100%. Mine will take less space and complexity but yours will be quicker at efficiency.

@@spectrumdad_ Thanks for responding to this! So the overall rate is still the same no matter how it distributes? Anyway will look at that video :) Thanks

[@minibusdriver3271]

any chance you can do a computer factory

[@luangu]

Why the mergers in Layout #1?

[@mre872]

On the first one I don’t understand how it works. If 120 iron/coal comes in to the first splitter won’t 60 go in to the one that needs 45 and then split the other 60 to the one that needs 45 which gives it 30 and then 30 to the last one

[@minibusdriver3271]

can i use mk.2 belts

[@spectrumdad_]

Yep, sorry it depends which one. The first one yes, but some of these require Mk.3 as explained in the video. Anything over 120 on a belt requires the Mk. 3 in this video.

[@jjmcg9877]

Can someone explain the point in under clocking. I’m new to satisfactory but I don’t get how it increases efficiency.

[@spectrumdad_]

For one, it reduces the power consumption of a machine, which is always nice if you don’t use it fully. Also If a machine is not provided enough materials to run 100% efficiently, it will power off and then turn back on when it does get enough materials. But this process isn’t instant. There is a delay and it can cause issues backing up throughout your entire factory, making troubleshooting problems hard. So if you know you will never provide enough materials, underclock.

[@jjmcg9877]

Thank you for explaining that it helped a lot ❤

[@H3RNDAWG]

*IMPORTANT for max efficiency!* make sure to underclock all the assemblers to do 5/min and one foundry to do 15/min.

[@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf]

It's been a while since I saw a new video. Did it just take a long time to make or did life happen? Edit. I need to get back into satisfactory

[@spectrumdad_]

I already had a few weeks out of Country vacation planned before I started all this along with back to back illnesses. But I'm back now doing more content :)

[@Biosh0ck22]

so why does my industrial container only gives out steel and zero coal ?

[@shook5959]

Could you do an aluminium one

[@spectrumdad_]

I'll add it to the list :)

[@mateomontoya3610]

leaving my comment for the algorithm

[@s-nooze]

400 hours in this game realizing how bad I am at it 😂

[@csanadtofalvi9434]

There is creative/sandbox mod?

[@spectrumdad_]

Pak Utility can do some things like fly, no cost, no power, etc…

[@ratsterful]

love the content & easy to follow layouts. Still waiting for you to do the starter factory ( you did in starter factory shorts.

[@landenferringer977]

Wait I did step by step but the foundry isn't taking in the iron ore and all the foundrys are set to make the right stuff it's just not taking it in

[@spectrumdad_]

Depending on the layout you used, might have to double check the recipe. One takes iron ore, the other takes iron INGOTS.

[@amirjiggy93]

how are you floating in the air while doing all this..sorry noob question

[@spectrumdad_]

It's the Pak Utility mod, I use it only to show the layouts better.

[@Disorrder]

comeoooon, why didn't you pack layouts into blueprints? Why 8x5, not 8x4?!

[@jee7482]

how can u fly like that?

[@spectrumdad_]

At the time it was a mod, but in Update 8 there is an advanced game mode you can set to allow fly mode. Then you’d double tap space to enable it. But I suggest you don’t use it on your first playthrough. Later on in the game you unlock a hover pack that does the same thing.

[@jee7482]

@@spectrumdad_ i just play for 10 hours,can u make layout for coal generator ? understandable ofcourse for beginer

[@fancen]

alright

[@Adtomskio]

I haven't even got 270 iron or coal per minute....

[@EliasT.-ph1mh]

Honestly. I'd be super interested in factory layouts and ideas. I feel like mine is super basic. Because seeing the preview of your factory layout made my mind nut.