Cleanly MERGE Any Foundations Easily!

Have foundations you are try to merge from 2 separate grids, but can't seem to get it perfect? Well, in this video I'm going to show you how to merge foundations from any grid, cleanly. And it's super easy to boot! Also, you can use this technique to improve the look of your factories with angled walls between any foundations! So, in this video I'm going to show you how to cleanly merge any foundations.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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[@NickIlasi]

Merging roads has been driving me CRAZY for years!!!! Thanks so much for showing this.

[@relyengaming]

Welcome! And I'm the same! It's one of those things that I just couldn't ever find an answer to. I'm so glad it was so easy.

[@NickIlasi]

@@relyengaming I wonder if we could use this to make tighter turns.

[@relyengaming]

@@NickIlasi Ooo, I'd love the go drifting the explorer around some really tight corners...

[@NickIlasi]

@@relyengaming use 1/2 width blocks on the curve and I think you could get a nice smooth tight turn. someone generate an explorer!

[@relyengaming]

@@NickIlasi Yea, I definitely need to spend some time playing with this. I noticed on a fresh save with frames set to unlimited the explorer drives much better. Definitely need to setup a play save just for driving :)

[@aswope6051]

This is a literal game changer. I know people say this a lot but these tips LITERALLY fixes one of the largest headaches of this game. Amazing.

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Swope! And i agree, not being able to connect off grid stuff really restrained me from doing certain things. I was thus ecstatic when i figured this out.

[@CloudPhase]

People really need to use more geometry concepts in games like these as they allow for so much easier to make clean builds. I hope that videos like this inspire people to start thinking a bit more abstract when building to make what they envision them in their head.

[@relyengaming]

I could definitely use a geometry refresher myself, who knows what else I could find :)

[@romaindurand]

It's not only geometry, you also need to know that a fondation can snap on a beam, which I didn't !

[@Lyfeel]

It's interesting how every Satisfactory YT channel I follow has an ever so slightly different way to do it. I like yours! :)

[@relyengaming]

Thank you Lyfeel! It really is a simple method that works so well.

[@TheDainerss]

It is all about tricking the snap geometry into doing what you want, but of all the methods, this one seems the easiest.

[@wingtsun1]

I tried to use this beam method ages ago but never knew you had a freeform mode, so was trying to find perfect ratios for straight corners that never looked right.

[@relyengaming]

Yea, this is one of those solutions that had been staring me in the face for months and I didn't realize it until just recently.

[@Qaetan]

I've taken a long hiatus from the game, but seeing you effortless create these angles is inspiring me to reinstall it this instant! I spent so, so, so many hours building and perfecting various circles grids, and this use of beams simplifies that process to seconds. Thanks for sharing, and take my upvote / subscribe you beautiful bastard you!

[@relyengaming]

Love this comment. I'm glad this has inspired you to return to Satisfactory. I look forward to seeing what you come up with your new found inspiration.

[@itessellate4440]

this is GENIUS!! you're smashing it with the godmode tips lately!

[@relyengaming]

Glad you think so Tessellate. This was just a wild hair I tried to figure out after seeing a question many times. I had a wild hair thought while I was driving and couldn't wait to test it when I got home. And here we are.

[@LegosheepIsAwesome]

This video has cured my cancer. I owe it my life.

[@relyengaming]

LOL, that was great Lego :P Glad I could help :)

[@kolr2873]

These tutorials are invaluable for someone learning how to make (good looking) railroad and road systems for the first time. My biggest hurdles prior to roads were learning how to efficiently (and elegantly) manage conveyor belts for screws (and any item that has a high number of items in a single stack) and understanding fluid mechanics in the game, but neither of those were as frustrating as discovering that 2 road networks could be misaligned even if you built them from the world grid. I almost wiped my current save @120 hours from sheer tilt. Where screws and fluids feel like an opportunity for the devs to teach the player game mechanics, the issue of misaligned platforms really feels like a problem they haven't properly addressed in an organic way. Nonetheless I'm relieved that there is a solution, even if it feels hacky, and I'm thankful for your videos on the system that is in place.

[@XoIoRouge]

Just got back into Satisfactory for the millionth time and I was like "Man, I need to find that one AMAZING VIDEO that showed the perfect way to make roads..."

[@tomvorat4173]

This is the first tips video that actually changed the way I play, thank you.

[@charlesgreen718]

This is fantastic! I used the same concept to make some diagonals that really make my train foundations less jaggy and much more esthetically appealing. Thank you!

[@relyengaming]

Awesome to hear that it’s proving useful! Cheers!

[@annaandreassen4247]

Ive been looking for this thank you so much

[@relyengaming]

Your welcome! Glad I could help! This is one of those things that I was ecstatic when I realized it would work so easily :)

[@fejus303]

this is a FANTASTIC Video thanks!!!

[@GorgieGus]

Outstanding fix. Thanks.

[@joeviseth5357]

Love this, thank you!!!

[@relyengaming]

You are so welcome!

[@xenos3421]

gorgeous! thanks, I needed that.

[@relyengaming]

Welcome Alex, good to see it's such a useful little trick :)

[@Michblack0000]

This has absolutely revolutionized the way I lay foundations and design buildings. Thank you so much!

[@relyengaming]

Glad to hear it! I'd love to see some of stuff you come up with using this technique! Feel free to post some screenshots on my discord in the future. You can also tag me on the Satisfactory discord if you ever post screenshots there :)

[@thefaithfulcraftsman7471]

Thank you for this tutorial! This will make merging so much easier!

[@relyengaming]

Glad it will be helpful! This totally removes a large roadblock for going off grid.

[@moritzmaywald6841]

This is brilliant, thank you so much!

[@relyengaming]

Happy to help! Cheers!

[@SmokinWarthog]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@relyengaming]

You're very welcome!

[@Arkalius80]

What a wonderful and fairly simple way to do this. This should be pretty easy to remember. Thanks for sharing!

[@relyengaming]

It really is simple, I'm glad you will find it helpful!

[@romanspycher9290]

I just made my trainline around the whole world and had this problem in the end where the start hit the end, it drove me crazy i tryed everything with platforms runways etc, thanks for being awesome :D

[@relyengaming]

Glad to hear it helped! Cheers!

[@dimyxer5913]

Thank you, I have been struggling with this for months!

[@relyengaming]

Glad I could help! This has always been one of those questions there was never a good answer for. I'm glad there finally is one :)

[@rhonin210]

Dude, Brilliant! Love it.

[@relyengaming]

Glad to hear it!

[@dannypickering5623]

This has to be the most helpful satisfactory video i've ever watched. My ocd appreciates it

[@dubbeledraaideur87]

Saw this via reddit on my top feed of today. This is so good I bookmarked it for my Satisfactory tools tab.

[@pinkyandbrain123]

Can I just say: this tutorial reeiterated my love for Satisfactory and building my traintracks singlehandedly

[@relyengaming]

Awesome, always a successful day when I hear something like this :)

[@alexloots6626]

These are great tips. I'll definitely be using them in my builds from now on. Thx 😊 🙏

[@relyengaming]

Great to hear, I can't wait to see how people use this in ways I don't even fathom yet.

[@connoreicher7780]

Absolute King, Thank you for this video

[@relyengaming]

You are very welcome, the response huge on this one :)

[@eastwardtempest205]

Dude that makes so much sense and better than I've done. I've watched others do it differently but yours, hands down by far the best 👌 👍

[@relyengaming]

Yea I’m not aware of anyone else doing it this way (although it’s a ver big community). I was ecstatic when I realized I could do it. Thanks and Cheers!

[@fkraft92]

This is awesome. Thank you for the video. Been playing for 2 years and never thought of this.

[@relyengaming]

Glad to help! And I'm in the same boat, so many times I encountered this or saw this very question asked and I never had a better answer than anyone else. Finally got a wild hair idea and here we are :)

[@halbouma6720]

Awesome, my first factory save is built in sections that aren't in alignment so this will help fix them. The only thing I have to figure out now is to get them at the same height for the merging. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@relyengaming]

You can use the beam snapping to help bring up the lower one. Since foundations snap to the middle of the beam end, you can get half height increases. If you have unlocked the frame foundations in the Awesome shop, the frame floor is only 40cm in height (unlike the 1m foundation being 100cm). So, if snap a beam to the center of a foundation, you then snap a frame floor to it and get a 20cm increase in height. If you get the two heights as close as possible, this method will still work and the height change will be barely noticeable as it will be spread out among the foundations between the two points you are joining. I was playing around this last night, I'll probably do another video soon with some of the edge cases like this for the folks that need it.

[@seiofecco]

Great concept! Im looking forward to expand on it... It seems to be the way to build anything to look good!

[@relyengaming]

Looking forward to seeing on what you come up with!

[@Mlowe89]

Wow thanks for making this video!!

[@relyengaming]

You bet! When I discovered this, I knew I had to share it :)

[@kzar99]

perfect solution, easy to follow. Grats!

[@relyengaming]

Thanks glad it made sense, I was hoping I wasn't glossing over it to quickly.

[@pheumann86]

Dude you're a freakin' genious! This has given me sooo much headache... I might literally cry. Thanks so much!

[@relyengaming]

I know how you feel, I avoided so many good ideas simply because I know it would be impossible to connect them afterwards. This will definitely help change the way I build my factories around the map. The design aspect is just a bonus :P

[@Ethanftl]

You’re awesome! Thanks for this

[@relyengaming]

You're welcome! Glad you found it interesting Etoh!

[@kryos457]

Its really awesome, for years i had such problems, its really discovery

[@boyciee7935]

awesome tip I'm passing this video on for sure cheers bro.

[@relyengaming]

Awesome thank you!

[@ravendarkcloud]

OMG, this is amazing! Thank you.

[@relyengaming]

You are welcome Nopetard, glad you liked it!

[@ravendarkcloud]

@@relyengaming I spent 3+ hours last night using it to build a command center.

[@relyengaming]

@Nopetard Awesome! I’d love to see some screenshots of your build when you are done!

[@ravendarkcloud]

@@relyengaming I also found that directing the 4m beam outside makes removing it easier, but does not always work perfectly for some angles.

[@Orblets]

How I wish I had this info 3 months ago. You are a G for this, holy shit!!

[@relyengaming]

You and me both, the choices I would of made in the past had I known I could do this.

[@mayapapaya4952]

What an ABSOLUTE legend WOW!

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Maya! Cheers!

[@satisfictionary0699]

Having found many ways of achieving this, I have to say, this is by far the quickest and most efficient way! THANK YOU!

[@relyengaming]

You’re welcome Satisfictionary! Cheers!

[@JustNilt]

This is absolutely fantastic. Not being able to getting my roads just right always bugged me so this is pure awesomeness. Being able to do angled buildings as well? Pure gravy.

[@relyengaming]

Agreed, going off grid with roads and then trying to bring them back on was always a challenge of trial and error, along with covering up the mess. It’s awesome to finally have a way to bring everything together and have the full freedom of going off grid. I’m still finding more ways to use it.

[@JustNilt]

@@relyengaming Yeah, it's a pain in the rear end, that's for sure. I love how many different uses beams have ended up having. Just wish I'd run across your channel a little earlier. This and your road blueprint one earned a sub either way, though.

[@wolfranium2199]

that the most useful video i've found for making angle roads, building.... thx a lot

[@relyengaming]

Glad it was helpful!

[@als.8327]

Holy moly what a life saver

[@daniellclary]

I started figuring out I could do things like this, but this was still a real helpful vid.

[@relyengaming]

Glad it was helpful, and looking at it, it's one of those things that's simple enough that you realize it's a fix that's been staring at us all for a while.

[@v02dv]

love the vid ty

[@Tachikoma0808]

Your sir really save my day! Now i can build my train/road network without worrying.With these method, not only you can bridge two seprate grids. And no matter what the angle and postiion of the grids are, can always go back to the world grid.

[@relyengaming]

Great to hear, it’s a an awesome feeling to finally be freed from the world grid.

[@kainunens]

Omg! 😵 Thanks a Lot! Big problem solved easy! 🔥

[@relyengaming]

Welcome 👍

[@fluffyflextail]

Been sent by Bitz to share some Satisfactory love, thanks for the alignment methods!

[@relyengaming]

Awesome! Glad you found it useful

[@Goodgu3963]

This is one of the best satisfactory life hacks I have ever seen! Thank you so much!

[@relyengaming]

Glad you liked it! And I like that life hack term, should of said that instead of trick 😅

[@timcha69]

I was gonna say something like "you just gotta use the world grid" but this way surprised me. Nice work!

[@jeffreyspinner5437]

Tyvm!

[@ZildoghUNTER]

That was great, wow, thank you :)

[@relyengaming]

You bet! Glad it helps!

[@dannymerov]

Oh wow! 1500+ hours in and I did not know! Very usefull and easy indeed! Thnx dude

[@relyengaming]

You're welcome! I'm in a similar boat with 4000+ hours and just discovered this. So many times I have avoided going off grid because of this problem. So happy there is a solution now.

[@procrastinathor4594]

Wow that is impresive

[@Spidedk]

I really don't comment often on KZbin. But this time I gotta! This is amazing. Best tip I've ever seen to Satisfactory.

[@relyengaming]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Daavee467]

Thanks a lot for this nice guide to have clear edges without any gaps!

[@relyengaming]

Glad it was helpful!

[@stadtverkehr]

You are a genius! 🙏

[@relyengaming]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@KleinesElflein]

this is very nice - thank you :)

[@relyengaming]

Glad you like it!

[@Pina-Azwel]

Never played this game. Popped up in my recommendations. Very cool and easy to understand. 10/10 👌

[@relyengaming]

Welcome and thanks Dylan! Satisfactory is an open-world first person factory building game. Definitely a lot of fun, lots of freedom and creativity. Definitely worth a look if you found it interesting!

[@Pina-Azwel]

@@relyengaming just got paid, might have to check it out!

[@relyengaming]

@Dylan Johnson - KFP Yuri Connoisseur If you do, let me know what you end up thinking about it! Definitely worth checking out some of the trailers ahead of time.

[@rogieam]

i literally ran into this last night, and said FI, seen this, and i want to thank you soo much for this.

[@relyengaming]

Glad to hear it helped, I know this is someone many people run into at some point. I know I have many times.

[@SamWinters]

I think this legit deserves the term "game changer"

[@relyengaming]

Haha, too kind Jarin, thank you :)

[@Brunker1andonly]

I never seen this game, but I can say this tutorial is very helpful

[@relyengaming]

Lol, glad it helps you do something you've never seen :P

[@charliehostile8844]

best trick ever, thank you

[@relyengaming]

Welcome Charlie! Glad you liked it!

[@DistracticusPrime]

Very satisfying! It's a few steps, but automatic precision is totally worth it. I've spent way too many hours with MicroManager trying to nudge two corners into alignment. You just made several worlds a better place.

[@relyengaming]

Glad to hear it, I love using this little trick for various things now. But, I'm so glad I can go off grid now without worries.

[@wheelsdan]

Awesome hack love it thank you for that our roads and paths always look wrong but now we can fix them 😀

[@relyengaming]

Awesome, glad to hear it’s helpful to you!

[@Haldoe]

THIS genius is way of doing thing fixes half the problems of building roads and other form of transpoer lines

[@relyengaming]

Yea, it really does open up a whole area of creativity as we don’t have to be constrained by a single grid.

[@johnnywalker472]

Thank you so much, this has been buggin me endlessly.

[@relyengaming]

You're very welcome! This has bugged us all, happy that there is finally a solution :)

[@brttini]

MAN I LOVE YOU

[@relyengaming]

Thanks, Thininja, glad you like it!

[@joeman123964]

this helps lol i honestly just created my hub, then branched off of it, so all factories were on the same grid no matter where i went.

[@relyengaming]

Yea, I think many of us are in a similar boat where we did our best to stay on a grid to avoid having to deal with this jagged jank. But this trick really helps remove that barrier.

[@YoungChunds]

You be saving lives out here

[@relyengaming]

Lol, it's my good deed for the year :P

[@ivankonishi7979]

Criminally underrated video

[@mariochartrand3308]

You're a life savior

[@thebigboi5357]

Holy shit, this is beautifully simple! I will be using this a ton

[@relyengaming]

Glad to hear it, I will be as well.

[@alessandrodevoto5764]

GENIUS

[@gaetan5161]

Wow ! Genius 100%

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Gaetan!

[@thekernelpanic3320]

awesome video! thx

[@relyengaming]

Glad you liked it! Cheers!

[@SlayTheSins]

So smart I love it

[@relyengaming]

Cheers SlayTheSins!

[@stevesells5893]

This is sooo good

[@relyengaming]

Agreed, I was super ecstatic when I found it worked :)

[@siretrasher1]

great tip !!!

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Sire! Glad it helped!

[@pyrolucky5741]

I recently had to merge a train track. This is gonna help alot

[@relyengaming]

Glad it helps! I am still pondering the new possibilities that come with not being limited by a grid!

[@Mgsgenesis]

This is great dude, useful tip :)

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Genesis! Was super stoked when I realized this could work.

[@Mgsgenesis]

@@relyengaming i will be using this for sure

[@relyengaming]

@@Mgsgenesis I've been playing around with on and off for the last couple of days, trying to find other ways to abuse it :)

[@Warp9pnt9]

I'm running a bus across some gnarly terrain today, laying about 12km of pipe, and I needed to do this, but completely forgot how, and failed miserably trying to get the desired result. So, here I am again, 5 months later, relearning stuff I forgot. Glad it's here!

[@Warp9pnt9]

Hmm, it still doesn't quite work over long distances (about 40 foundations). There might be a limit to how far apart these two should be for them to align seamlessly.

[@relyengaming]

If you are connecting parallel foundations, it gets worse the further apart they are due to geometry. Try turning the end point foundations towards each other. You'll have an easier time.

[@Keldaria68]

Well, you sir have earned a follow

[@relyengaming]

Thank you Keldaria! Cheers!

[@SirFandingo]

You genius!

[@Avargatoth]

Thats dope!!!

[@relyengaming]

yah, I'm still playing around with it, trying to find the limits :)

[@Avargatoth]

@@relyengaming you should see the industrial complexes im making in mine haha these skills will help a ton

[@relyengaming]

@@Avargatoth Would love to see it. Feel free to hope on my discord at any time and drop some screenshots. I love seeing what other people do, so much creativity out there to draw inspiration from.

[@TheMrTact]

Holy cow. That is damn impressive.

[@relyengaming]

Thanks TheMrTact, glad you think so!

[@certhass]

im using beams and freeform a lot but never thought about using them in this way, nice trick

[@relyengaming]

Yea, it’s one of those things that I don’t normally think about either. But I’m trying to consider if there are other hacks that can take advantage of this kind of thinking.

[@genefulm]

OMG thanks!

[@relyengaming]

👍 Your welcome :)

[@theodorefreeman]

Awesome!

[@relyengaming]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@thebrickcraft]

This is so usefull! Doing stuf like that was always really annoying.

[@relyengaming]

Agreed, my factory OCD would totally make me avoid this problem whenever I could. Now we all don't have too :)

[@Om_nom_nom_nom]

Thank you

[@relyengaming]

Welcome!

[@SloboTV]

AMAZING

[@tollefsen9398]

Thanks 😍😁😁

[@relyengaming]

Welcome 😊

[@benrickman3538]

Brilliant

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Ben :P

[@gus.smedstad]

I had no idea Freeform mode on beams was even a thing. This is super useful.

[@relyengaming]

Oh yea, freeform mode provides a lot of options.

[@forest.3102]

It's a genius! So grateful for showing this, now most of the roads will be clean; but how did you found that?

[@relyengaming]

Thanks Forest! It's a very similar technique that I've been using to make clean pillar curves around my roads (you can see it in my Beautiful Roads video). I recently did the blueprint roads video and saw someone asking this question on reddit about this very problem; the same question I'd seen asked in comments, in chats, and on other discords. So, I decided to try and make a video about solutions, but I found I didn't really have a better answer than anyone else. Fast forward a little bit later when I was out running an errand while thinking about it. I simply remember saying to myself, "I wish I could do the same thing to foundations that I do with pillars..." And that's when it hit me and I thought, why couldn't I? Foundations snap to beams, just a little different than pillars. So, I got home, gave it a shot and it worked. A few tests later and the video was born.