BLUEPRINTS, POWER TOWERS & MORE in SATISFACTORY Update 8 - Let's Play

[@chrisdewfall7920]

I've over 2000 hours of gameplay since it went into early access so many years ago! But am loving the relaxing pace of your videos and the construction ideas are amazing! things i've never thought of! Ive a special game mirroring your builds as we progressing and its really rekindled my love for the game! Eagerly await the next video each week!

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

That's great to hear!

[@mavrosnyktagenes6611]

2000? Bro I don't know if that's a flex or not 😅

[@chrisdewfall7920]

@mavrosnyktagenes6611 no more a point that even after that time in game am still learning new things and enjoying new content that's all

[@Deez_ostemad]

Im prutte New i just got done Witherspoon phase 2

[@corsontucker]

Not sure anyone has said this but if you right click with zip line tool you toggle on or iff. you don't have to hold left mouse button if you do that. Love your content, keep up the series. Can't wait for 1.0 videos soon

[@Yo_Mama_Smelz69]

I've always just had floating foundations for my roads but seeing your roads inspired me to build with supports and lights! Thanks for the ideas!

[@Snuffa]

"Tractors is where it's at!" That made me chuckle. I'll use the tractor but I'll be thinking of the Explorer :D

[@carlostevanh0104]

This series is so good that i genuinely love it so much that i needed to become a member just to watch the next series! 😅

[@clutchitup8565]

I can't believe I got this game for just 20 bucks cad , what a gem this is my new fav game

[@pablothefable]

15GBP here in the UK, it's an absolute steal, sunk so many hours into it over the holidays.

[@Govindverma9199]

tip: if u want to use packaged water + heavy oil to get more flue than wait for blender where u can do the same thing but no need for packing and unpacking hope this helps

[@frozenherolp9077]

Only if the Fuel is used not to far from the production. If you wanna transport it somewhere via train, then packaging results in a higher amount of movable Fuel. A Blender may make 100 Fuel / min, but you can only package 40/min. For 100 Packaged Fuel you´d need either 1 Blender and 2,5 Packager wich is 99 MW or 1 2/3 Packager and Refinerys wich only costs 63 MW. Therefore: If you want Packaged Fuel and/or Transport it in Bulk far away from the Production-Area, "Diluted Packaged Fuel" is technically more Energieefficient.

[@sagramore]

One tip for those who really like alternate recipes - you don't need to reload the game! Since this update if you open the MAM and don't like any of the recipes offered to you, you can just hit escape and the hard drive goes back in your pack ready for re-analysis. Sure it takes 10 minutes again, but that's just more stockpiled goods while you wait... Equally... if you do like the recipes but can't decide between them, don't leave the MAM before you choose one because the same thing will happen - you're back to waiting 10 mins for 3 new options.

[@sagramore]

Actually it looks like they patched this out about a day after my comment :(

[@austinharrell2821]

@@sagramoreit still works

[@jakenash8362]

Still works as of today. ​@sagramore

[@knightlysleeps]

I just got into this series yesterday and binged every episode. Can't wait for the next one!

[@elenagmunder5657]

SAMEE

[@fang0101]

trucks bringing stuff to the train makes sense tbh thats how its done irl and i think the idea is cool

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thanks, me too! Just seems like it's "what its meant for" type thing.

[@dannymerov]

you can actually rightclick with the zippline and it will hold onto the cable by itself now in update 8

[@ryangross5446]

My god the road looks amazing. I had no idea you could build stuff that looks that good in this game. You have sparked so many ideas in my head of cool things to make! Loving this series!

[@erictripps125]

When making steel pipes: I have calculated peak efficiency and load balancing. When completing game objectives: Just cheese it and throw it on the ground. Max overclocking.

[@patrickbellone621]

I do a very similar road, but I add a sub level concrete walkway. This is where I put my hyper tube, fuel belt and electrical connection. This means wherever the road goes, we have access to fuel and electricity. I also have a side addition for a truck stop. The truck stop taps into the underground belt of fuel. For my sports that run to the ground, I have a hollow version that let's me run conveyor lifts to the ground inside the supports so they are out of sight

[@grobisam]

I love how clean your playthrough of this game is. I'm at the Aluminium step, and my world is a mess of too much temporary setups, and I don't want to have to clean everything with all the inventory management and limited space. So I consider restarting a world while following your instructions. I had the same idea of using Trucks to transport from Miners to Train Stations before going to actual factories, but it needs a lot of preparations, and I can't wait to see how your world is gonna turn out! Thank you for your videos.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thanks! I did a small version of it in my old playthrough, but designing a layout with this in mind now should work much better!

[@SilortheBlade]

Caterium is always something I prioritize early as it is so much easier working with 7 power connections rather than 4.

[@zgal88]

Not to mention getting the switches early for overflow into sinks, especially on 24/7 servers. Leave those puppies goin when you're away doing other things, and come back to a full container and a bunch of tickets 👍

[@the_dead_knight3]

if you do want to automate space elevator parts sync them till you need them its a good constant source of tickets because space elevator parts give you tons of points or just sync them when your done filling the elevator

[@dragonmaster1500]

51:18 Something I've discovered, don't know if you've found out since the video was recorded, if you right-click with the zipline instead of left click it will toggle on until you hit right click or change your active equipment. You can even jump with space and accelerate with shift, it and those long range power towers (which can allow you to move directly past, unlike the short range poles) are basically my go to for long distance travel between my factories in the early mid game, and an accelerated jump combined with the parachute can give some serious airtime.

[@K9RacingAndStuff]

You actually can fit coal generators in the blueprint designer, and oh boy does it make coal generators at scale so much nicer.

[@jamesmason5015]

You don't need to remove the boulder blocking the Caterium in the south of the map. A miner will still snap onto it.

[@NiallKearney]

Yeap, I have a Caterium setup using that spot and it's working away. Maybe it was an issue in Darren's build.

[@MaxLastfogel]

Loving the series and your delivery of it. It's got me back into playing Satisfactory and I'm having fun building along. Looking forward to the next with roads, which I've always struggled with ... much less trains ... to be able to connect the factories.

[@abfab065]

Hello Darren..love the series..i have been following along step by step with you. I got a little lost when you first set up the big coal plant, but thankfully and mercifully you released your save which i promptly downloaded and started using from that point on. Now I am at the 1st expansion of the power plant and i followed you with the powering up of the number of water extractors, I upgraded the 4 miners to Mk2 and over clocked to 200% giving 240 coal per minute. I upgraded all the belts to Mk3 up to the first set of splitter where they change to Mk2 belts and then to Mk1 belts leading to the lifts taking the coal to generator. All of the generators are under clocked to 88.888% Some of the generators all the way to the left of where the belts come in are starved for coal. The first three all work at 100% and have 100 coal in them..the others actually get to 0 coal and go offline until 1 coal comes into it..I have tried force feeding 100 coal into the generators that are missing it and for a while I get a straight line and 4800mw production, but soon after the coal dissipates again from certain generators. For example the far back generator are all working at 100%. Any idea what could be wrong? Appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks

[@kataskatowski5740]

Darren, thanks for uploading this playthrough. It's really fun to watch you playing Satisfactory. Kepp going!

[@shawnp6653]

Thanks for the tips of the 5 crash sites - there is one by the crater I spent an hour looking for :( Went a bit further NW and got #5. Thanks for the effort and helping me learn Satisfactory. edit: fpund it, got it :)

[@TheWarriorXander]

I think this is the most excited I've been for a game patch since my days of raiding in WoW (WotLK and Cataclysm) Also excellent video Snutt, can tell you put some work into this one.

[@AmericanSuperman813]

51:38 You can now toggle the grabber being on or off with Right click. During EXP there was a slight visual bug where it would grab the wire even if it didnt look like it was activated. Just retoggle and the visual comes back.

[@Tyrope]

I like how you went on to explain that if you double the input, you double the amount of coal generators... Well, yes. It's not "coincidence" or "happen to work out mathematically". You're just... doubling it. xD Good vid tho, as always.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I guess when you put it like that it sounds simple 😝 I was more surprised because there are 4 miners, but there are 3 pipelines. Because of the layout, you can just match the number on a *single pipeline* to *one* belt. That does seem like a coincidence to me, that 240 coal on a single belt requires 240 water on three pipes. The coincidental part of it is that a normal generator requires 15 coal and 45 water, you would never normally think to match water to coal in the setup, but because I’ve broken it into three pipelines (much to peoples annoyance who say it should be 8 generators to 3 extractors), then you can match the numbers. Makes for easy building I guess!

[@Govindverma9199]

51:21 u can press right click to toggle it hops this helps

[@billschannel8214]

A small quibble, but It really isn't that much more trouble to set the caterium up quick and dirty with a regular miner. Run the power out to the southern node and run a foundation bridge to the island it's on. You CAN build a miner over the node without breaking the rock. Route the caterium wherever you want, near or far. One constructor for ingots, another for quickwire, and a storage box. This isn't 100% optimized, but it's a fast process. Just let it run and you'll have a storage box full of quickwire in no time. I don't know why Darren glosses over the mk 2 power poles. they're easy to make and a LOT more useful than the mk 1's.

[@djfinny]

Glad i found this series, I'm hooked already waiting for the next one

[@MU4DD1B]

You can lock the zipline to on by pressing right click. It doesn't look like it due to a visual glitch but when you go near a line you lock onto it without holding the button for a long time

[@davidreese1044]

Loving this series!!!

[@auchwaswisser]

Thank you for this go-through! I didn’t buy the game just jet but it’s something I’ll have on my list! Anyway… great content! Love to support it!

[@BakaGrappler]

Actually, Darren, if you ESC when selecting a recipe, the hard drive goers back into your inventory and you can try again. You're not stuck with that 3 recipe draw, you can redo it for another 10 minutes of research.

[@rizzotherat4807]

I was looking for this response before I replied myself. Done this many times, only pain is you have to wait another 10min to redo it. Worth it IMO.

[@Mage_man]

In the US putting white dotted line in the middle of the road means traffic is going in the same direction. Yellow in the middle signifies two lanes of opposing direction of travel. In the UK using a dotted white line in the middle signifies that there are two opposing directions of travel unless signed as a one way street.

[@telx7]

Awesome series! I just now noticed that I´ve caught up with the episodes... you can´t leave me without guidance!!!

[@qshfnx_]

Hello i am qshnx and i am givinf facts in this playlist nearly every video FACTS #2: You don’t have to hold left click when using the zipline,just click once right click.

[@shrapnelite]

what I did for the power plant was actually max out the belts to 270 and put the generators back to 100%. that allows you to still add 9 more to each line. I then used three water pumps on each line but underclocked them to 90m3 each

[@master_macros]

Yet another wonderful episode. Your style of teaching is great. I am following along and the details are great to watch and learn. Thank you.

[@garthrs]

Following along is teaching me alot!

[@petlemons]

52:30 Bi-directional lines, like 2 directional lines, or 1 bidirectional line. Technically they are 2 bidirectional lines haha

[@Incommensurableme]

I love the minecraft soundtrack in the background, though I keep thinking I left my Minecraft open. lol

[@LightningA98]

Thanks Darren! :D

[@pitrex111]

FYI, maybe it's a bug but in update 8 you can leave alt recipe select screen with esc and you get refounded hard drive that you can spin for another 10 minutes to get a reroll

[@zackjohnson9928]

If you build out 3 delete the center and stand on on of the platform you can easily align the first blueprint

[@madsrohdekramme3629]

Not sure if you know, but if you press escape when you get your choices from the Hard drive, you get your hard drive back, and can analyse again. Only thing lost is the 10 minutes :)

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Its actually been patched out recently!

[@madsrohdekramme3629]

@@WhatDarrenPlays What! I did it the other day. Gonna check again tonight :D I usually only use it to get cast screws and Encased Industrial Pipes

[@bradydavis8377]

I love how you are teaching the game. I have learned a ton for these videos. I am just waiting to be able to buy a pc and this will be the first game I get and play.

[@momerathe]

If you're taking suggestons, I'd really like to see a base that leans hard into drones. Seems like by the time you get them you don't really need them.

[@MrMarnus]

Well done for achieving everything you did in that video! Before you break down everything in that starting area, have you thought of turning that into like an inventory factory? Just slowly make a little bit of everything? It helps to have a little of everything for when you're constructing factories etc.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Some people have asked if I'll make a central storage. I'm not sure yet if or how I'll do that, but I do plan on making a Caterium, Quartz, Iron and Copper factory in the next 4 episodes, and these 4 factories will make pretty much everything I need to build everything (as well as the already existing Steel factory) I also plan to build a road network over these 4 episodes, so in theory I could have trucks deliver the materials I want somewhere, or just to the next build site. I like the idea of setting up the infrastructure just for a build before even doing it! Bring the materials to me, rather than I go and get them.

[@MrMarnus]

It may be interesting to setup a system where every overflow that would go into an awesome sync would then be split into the sync and a box. That box could then be loaded into a train that goes around the world to different factories and picks up the bits and bobs. Then off loads at a central place that divides everything using smart splitters into a row of boxes?

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

This is why I don't like the idea of central storage... sounds like so much work! haha. I'll think about it, something like that would probably be best for programmable splitters rather than smart splitters because of the amount of items... But the idea of sinking resources, and just splitting that line for trains or trucks to deliver somewhere sounds good, its a neat way to build up resources but also make sure they don't get backed up on-site! @@MrMarnus

[@norbzzz]

I dont know if that was true 6 monthes ago, but for the recipe, once the drive is scanned, if you just hit escape without selecting a recipe, you can scan it again and it will show other recipe... No need to save and reload

[@djfinny]

With regard to hard drive scanning, if you don't like the result of the HDD scan, you can just press escape and do it again (wait another 10 minutes)

[@umomentvideo1330]

Hello! Just want to mention that you can snap mergers and splittetrs to lifts. No need to build towers of splitters and such. I just recently started using this option and it made building manifolds so much faster for me. Also saves a little bit of space.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Yeah I mentioned this in a recent video, I dont do it because it doesnt look as nice imo. I mentioned it to let others know if they prefer it though!

[@umomentvideo1330]

​@@WhatDarrenPlays Fair enough. I must have missed that video.

[@keithclark9719]

i was wondering if Darren was going to do something with the world logistics. but his idea of training resources in to a factory and truck from miners to stations will be very interesting. he will be able to build big and tall buildings like that.

[@gazzalanche]

ANy chance of a list of hard drive recipes you unlocked? I have followed but haven't been doing the drives just yet... Matching them would be handy. Thanks Darren!

[@richardbraakman7469]

1:06:27 There's a yellow slug floating in the air :)

[@Morf95]

I have 200h into this game and I never knew you had a boost with shift on the zipline...

[@alexandercolon4771]

55:54 bro if u use 3 water extractors and underclock them at 75% u can have that 270 water and use full capacity of the belts and those 18 coal generators at 100%

[@RinnyKokonoe]

Me when Darren gets Inverted Ramps instead of double ramps: "Whyyyyyy"

[@MrJamesbondo07]

i always thought it was caterium because it caters to your power needs or something

[@FruitLoops_]

After you research a hard drive, if you just click Escape without selecting anything, you get the hard drive back and can research it again. It's a good way to get different recipes.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Patched out im afraid!

[@horenpa2]

@@WhatDarrenPlayshmmmm still works for me 😅 updated and all on steam normally

[@GuyPelletier]

Another fine video and the humility, ah, so rare :)

[@sarahr.1076]

Great videos, can't wait for the next one.

[@russelllogan6630]

Hi there. Thanks for this series. I am following along. Of all the things that confound me in this game, your jump up 6m onto the road in the blueprint designer is the most perplexing. How are you achieving this?

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Hm, I can’t quite remember but I think there is a blueprint piece for 6m incline, using foundation ramps and thats what I used. The blueprints are available for download for free so it should just be in there. Sorry if I’ve misunderstood something

[@zLuckyMedic]

These must take forever yo prepare and design

[@tslater2005]

Sooo good to watch your videos🎉 cant wait for the next one❤

[@Spleensgaming]

Love the video Darren!

[@buukman6827]

Is it possible I can just follow along this on the main early access build? Least concerning around the fact there could be some possible differences I'm unaware of

[@getoffmeow]

the bleeped f*ck hypertubes made me lol. hypertube cannons do rule though

[@elijahmceachin2820]

haha that got me too

[@LancelotSwe]

What is your reason of building 3 pieces of road instead of one blueprint with 3? Did the same with lights on my railroad blueprint, had two different blueprints, put down one with lights then two without. Really never used tractors or trucks, the fuel is what stopping me. Will be fun to see how you solve that!

[@ionutdeju8996]

Congratulations on 100k subs

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thank you!

[@ukz_rob_p]

Are you doing any more to this series

[@elijahmceachin2820]

I never truly understood the overflow aspect of smart splitters. You can just use a regular splitter and when the box gets full it splits into the sink. You don't necessarily need a smart splitter for that.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Let's say you're feeding a machine 60 iron ingots per minute, but the machine takes 45 iron ingots per minute. If you leave it, then the 60 iron ingots will back up, and cause the smelter to stop/start. If you split it before it entered, you'd break off 30 and sink it, which would cause your machine needing 45 to stop start. If you use a smart splitter, it will just break off 15. This is just an example, I know you could say "well you should use all the iron ingots for something" but its just an example of how in the middle of a production chain, when things get more complex later, that you can breakaway any excess and send it somewhere else, rather than splitting a specific amount.

[@elijahmceachin2820]

Ohhh yea that makes sense. I just realized I was strictly talking about the end product as opposed to ore or something in between the final product. I just use a regular splitter for the end product when a box gets full. But that totally makes sense. Thank you@@WhatDarrenPlays

[@_JustMonika]

let's say you have 30 items/min left over: - with smart splitters, those 30 items will go into a box until it's full, then they'll go into the sink. - without smart splitters, 15 items will go into a box and 15 will go into the sink, initially. If you're using those materials for building, you want everything to go into a box first so you'll always have those items available.

[@nkome9932]

Amazings videos the only thing that i dont understand are the manifolds at coal power plant i try to do the same wilth my power plan but the generator goes on and off and never get the full power

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Download my save and you can see how its done!

[@nkome9932]

@@WhatDarrenPlays Sure i will, cause now im running a balancing spliters arrange

[@nkome9932]

Ok i figured out i just overflow the system, fill all the coal gen with a stack and then star all the system

[@jordangregory7016]

Do you plan to upload a more recent save file?

[@siegfriedkonig1754]

Just download the infinite nudge mod, its really awesome

[@corbechev7833]

Justice for Hypertubes...

[@blufalcon9957]

“Effectively”

[@Lilymc999]

Can anyone please help me I am thinking to buy this game but i have a asus tuf a15 laptop with ryzen 7 4800h and rtx 3050 75 watt tgp with 16 gb ddr4 ram Can i run it smoothly also in higher stages? Please someone help me with the suggestion I am really stucked 😞

[@oliverdanneberg1394]

why did you stop sharing the whole save file of the game after the coal power factory?

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I only showed it for that factory as it was quite a complex build I didnt explain well enough, so I shared the save so people could see it exactly. Not sharing the save again unless I make a bug mistake and need to give it out again to help. The main reason not to is other youtubers have mase videos about my save and also continued on pretending its their own, or at least not saying that its someone elses.

[@Zakalwe0448]

Does anyone happen to know what microphone Darren is using? His voice sounds really nice.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Shure SM7B Before that I had a Samson C01u Both sounded pretty much the same to me

[@Zakalwe0448]

Thank you for the info!

[@Kaneisback2]

They fucked up the glowy billboard lights D:

[@MikeJuburri]

Thank you so much for the great content as usual! much love from Iraq! I was just wondering if you'll ever make a guide for turbofuel when you get there, in blue crater since the math is a bit hard and I'm horrible at it :D

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Yes, I plan to use Turbofuel, but haven't decided where I'll do that yet. Possibly the Spire Coast in the North. I'd like a change of scenery, so don't plan on building Oil in Blue Crater for a long time. However I'm not sure when. Caterium, Quartz, Iron and Copper and 4 factories I plan to build before doing Oil, so it's at least a month away.

[@MikeJuburri]

A month! And that’s lots of factories! Omg that’s way aways but it’s fine I will keep enjoying the videos you post till then! I don’t think I’ve ever seen such relaxing and easy to learn from content creator when it comes to games for sure so keep it up! Any plans on something like farthest frontier? Any similar games? It seemed one of the best games besides manor lords but manor lords isn’t coming out anytime soon 😢

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I've got a full playthrough of Farthest Frontier on the channel already actually - its 20 parts long, and I build everything you can in the game (or could) kzbin.info/aero/PLCmmkwcxcfMgZjGhY6Jq_pCjv00TXjgdi @@MikeJuburri I may play it again when it reaches 1.0, and definitely Manor Lords in April when that releases.

[@Darcy-the-idiot]

Hey bro are you stream tomorrow because tomorrow is my birthday

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Yep, will be streaming today!

[@nikolamaricic1672]

nice game good

[@dalewise3076]

😊

[@denniswwilliams838]

Please update your files, Thanks.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

All updated now, I'll also be adding to the blueprints over the next few days but the inital 3 I made are there now. If you have any issues, ping me on discord, though I'll try catch my comments as best I can.

[@denniswwilliams838]

Thanks love your stuff, also Cities Skylies 1 and 2@@WhatDarrenPlays

[@christophermcguffey2514]

:)

[@SprayInk-Kreatïv-Nouveau]

now... Xbox When

[@AlleluyaChuu]

Did you just say HyperTube su** ? Really.. Jeeeez.. Shame on you xD