Designing a POWER CONTROL ROOM in Satisfactory Update 8!

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thank you to Prosperous Universe for sponsoring this video, check out the game for yourself here: prosperousuniverse.com/?WhatDarrenPlays& The Blueprints, Logistcs map, Power map and more will be available Dec 26th around 5PM UK time.

[@TheRezro]

I personally would keep Copper Refineries, Keterium Refineries and Sheet Factory on one side. And Light Switches, Pumps and Sinks on another side. Especially as both Pumps and Sings go down. And it would simply look way batter having them aligned.

[@ryangross5446]

"I said it wasnt gonna be that complicated, I straight up lied." This line got me lmao, love this series and this build is everything i was hoping for and more. Awesome video

[@ExRetribution]

Hey Darren, I thought I'd share a way to use power outlets vertically. You can use a beam horizontal across the floor, rotate it, and attach a wall outlet on either side, from there you just connect the outlets to each other, and delete the beam if you want.

[@ryangross5446]

Legend status for posting this

[@moxzy3213]

Need a visual

[@danwarner7922]

Keep it up Darren, your attention to detail is phenomenal. FYI - The giant billboards work as an amazing replacement for those old vanilla lights with the 'fog rays'. The light bounces and does all the good stuff. I dont use vanilla lights ever anymore. Cheers & Happy Holidays!

[@adamwalker3560]

I love the way you found simple, blueprintable power management options, and the belt cutoff is a really nice touch. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into these builds.

[@alabyz1]

The zoom at 1:54:24 creating tension for the viewer was well made :P Good job on the vid.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Haha that emoji you’ve used is perfect

[@karlk7070]

This is the GOAT series of Satisfactory! For ppl keep asking "lock hologram", I think it is becoz you didn't mark this as Episode X, so there are new people hopping in every episode without context.

[@9BallBory]

New player here who is building along with you on the series, this is one of the most impressive series I’ve seen for teaching players. Yes the coal plant really challenged me as I had never even build a single factory before let alone that big thing but I felt very accomplished and still do when I fix something that messes up with it. I haven’t got to building the copper plant but I can’t wait, it’s gonna teach me so much stuff and take me 100 hours game lol but I’ve been loving it. And hopefully when 1.0 rolls around I’ll maybe start a new world and try my best to do things based on my own design to see what I’ve learned. Loving this though.

[@mikecoad7270]

I'm so glad you pointed out that hidden pump hole. I completely forgot about it too.

[@N_a_y_e_n]

I've done vertical power shafts in my "underground" facility. Makes planing even more challenging :)

[@DOCTORLOL]

started waching when the video was out. just finished it. respect for taking the time to make it

[@ballzack57]

One of the most satisfying build videos, from any game, that I have ever seen. You are amazing. And thank you for providing all your stuff too.

[@buttermoth8669]

The logistics is my absolute favorite part I love watching the various parts moving along the belts

[@TitaniumDragoonNeo]

Let's gooooo Christmas special 🎅

[@Mik3yCT]

Those staircase signs are amazing! Awesome job! Everything is looking fantastic!

[@the_ghost__NL]

A 2 hour special couldn't have wished for a better Christmas present 🎁

[@R.o.T.]

(unsure if this was realized recently or not) the pit stop for fuel does work, you have to have the station set to load but not have anything in it. you could delete the stop on the truck path, but then the truck wont get the fuel, it has to dock for that

[@Fobbek]

Love the series. Thanks for all the hard work for our entertainment. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thank you! sorry I took so long to reply, just going over comments I missed and noticed I never said anything back. Thank you!

[@Chaos_Inkarnate]

If you use a beam to cross the gap of the foundation, you can attach a wall outlet to that, makes it look like a floor connection, instead of having the cables going through the floor

[@ethangarofolo8170]

Sick final display there. Beautiful work.

[@a.abdulaziz1679]

wow, what a nice surprize

[@AnthonyMalesys]

It was the fastest 2 hours of my life ! Absolute perfection

[@shimo_96]

To address the fluid buffers at the bottom of the build that don't fill until the top ones are full; this I think is because buffers fill according to head lift, so if there isn't head lift, the buffer will fill and its providing head lift will increase and cap at its max when its full. If there is head lift, the buffer will not fill until there is no more room in the rest of the system after it.

[@samshaw5014]

I did not realize you could use the nobelisk to clear regular rocks! When v1.0 comes out, I'm going to be SO on top of my game. btw- if you aren't new to the game, would there be a better place to land other than that first area? On one hand, it is the place I'm most familiar with, but on the other hand, materials at the other locations are supposed to be better...

[@notabot1OO1]

Your world is lookin' fine! Thanks for such quality content 💯

[@chrisnicol2851]

Loving the build, yes the colours should represent the usage. I think you should start running global illumination now, looks good! Also it shouldn’t be B for basement but G or GF for ground floor or GL ground level.

[@CaioAletroca]

Good to see you tackle the lighting. I'm in my first playthough, not following you but picking inspiration in your builds. For now there's only one type of ceiling light and it sucks, and the popular mod that adds more lights doesn't work with Lumen. I went with the metal beam across the ceiling and display attached to it, no power and no extra nasty wires on top of it. And a plus that the metal beam painted as deep black looks like conduit, makes the ceiling more busy.

[@thomashenry4798]

I like it when things are darker, I used to work in datacenters as a security guard and I like the massive dark building vibe.

[@lordeath008]

Holy damn, looks like the Death Star with Global Illumination! AWESOME!!

[@SamaelPoisons]

You can remove the light rays by typing "pool.light.lightshaft.count 0" in the console. You can also add it in the engine file to make it permanent.

[@paulorandolph3212]

I love his narration 😂. Its like listening to a a building contractor reading his fanfic at me 🤣

[@danejerustv]

Been enjoying watching through all of the design decisions and whatnot. I'm curious how you have blueprints that are larger than 4x4

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I dont have any blueprints larger than 4x4. They’re all available for download, no mods or tricks or cheats, they all fit within the designer.

[@danejerustv]

@@WhatDarrenPlays I guess some of them being narrow makes them look larger than 4x4 lol, perspective eh? XD

[@supercolonygame]

This series slowly reminds me of Wall-e. All these factories, empty roads for a single person and their trucks.

[@nbroadsword]

It's bigger than expected because its a grower, not a show-er, Darren.

[@leonidiakovlev]

Really nice with the Power Control Room :)

[@momerathe]

Man, those are the neatest power cables I have ever seen.

[@PUREbecoming]

For the algorithm! Love the content.

[@exotixzphantom]

2:50 me every project, ANY game.

[@peterwalker5413]

Thank you for making my OCD happy! 😂❤

[@dylanwarmington3044]

I’m glad that the explorer is still good, I’ve been blaming the new engine but it turns out that my laptop just sucks

[@laslorousseau2647]

Thx a lot!

[@kronosestarfinder9574]

Next update I'd love to see a belt and pipe level so you could make sure your belts are level as your building logistics floors if there isnt a mod for it already

[@AndreLuis-gj7yb]

Great video as always

[@ceratch]

Great video - thanks... one question - wouldnt it be more easy to start delivering all goods (water and the belts) so all belts are backfilled and than start the machine? so it sould get faster to 100%?

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

No, water needs to be delivered first. I’d have to write a very long and complicated answer but the way water works in the games means that if the pipes arent full, the flow rate wont be as fast as it should be. Also, the capacity of water is 50 per machine, so if 5 machines consume 200 lets say, but also have 50 capacity each, what ends up happening is that you only fill the first machine intermittently and not the others. You’d only ever fill them if tou made more water than they consumed, and even then itd take very long time. So you want to “prime” machines by filling the water first, fully filling the inventory of each machine and the pipes too. Then activate the belts

[@ceratch]

@@WhatDarrenPlayssure first water, than the steel or what was it? and after both is delivered and in stock switching on the machines? wouldnt it be faster with the distribution in that way? not sure just was wondering. never mind - i enjoy your satisfactory so much! have a good time

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Machines can’t recieve anything if they are off, that’s why we gotta go through this two stage approach

[@meteorstormz8224]

you can technically put power outlet on floor by putting a painted beam instead of the foundation snap the outlet on it and change back the beam for a foundation and you are good to go :p

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Its as easy as that! :P

[@theos1716]

Gg for all your work

[@RobGregory]

Hi Darren, there is a console command to remove those fake 'light rays' you mentioned in the lightning and signs section - "pool.light.lightshaft.count 0" without the quotes should remove them.

[@MeneghetteMmcs]

Merry Christmas Darren, love u

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thanks! Merry Christmas!

[@D1vergentTv]

how do you make your cinimatic shots?????

[@KAS-do8yz]

sub is confirmed.. this elevator is looking crazy with global illumination.. 🤯

[@1stSlug]

I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger voice when Darren said: "Release the copper".

[@chrisross3631]

I love your videos, and the amount of thought and effort that goes into each build is utterly insane. However, I'm a little worried this is going back into the "Big Shell" type of build that killed your motivation to finish the last series. I love the build so far, it's something I would never even dream of, but I don't want you to get burnt out!

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Just one more video on this one, and then its onto some smaller projects for a while! And I won't go crazy with Oil either. You're right to call it out though, "scale-creep" is definitely happening! :P

[@rezs-tech]

Is that Factorio music? How dare you! :P

[@claudiu_ivan]

at 1:52:31 it would not make sense for the tank to fill first as long as you have a pump that empties it constantly.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

It does the same without pumps. Theres no pressure in Satisfactory so while your logic totally makes sense IRL, in the game it always fills the things at the bottom first. The reason it doesnt with a buffer is because a buffer is actually just a pipe in terms of game logic, so things flow through it like a regular pipe until the water has nowhere else to go but fill the pipe itself.

[@naixguy]

Heytch heytch..gotta be Canadian!

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I ain’t Canadian friend!

[@SuliXbr]

It would be much easier to follow allong if you did one block first from start to finish and then expanded later

[@daliusr1584]

Holyy shit 2 hours. Lesgooo

[@wolfdencz6537]

Lets go

[@King6Joker7]

"It will be a simple build!" Says EVERY Satisfactory Player Ever!!!! 🤣😂

[@siddam4252]

When city skylines 2 episode?

[@noahchicoine4780]

OK, hear me out. Love Satisfactory because it's a chill game. But honestly, it's almost too easy. Like once you're producing iron, you don't need to tap another node ever. You'll have all the iron you'll ever need. Unless you really want to go crazy with production. What if there was a hard mode where the nodes produced much less resources, so you had to tap multiples. Or what if nodes didn't just run forever.

[@timcappell71]

How far into the game are you? I just finished all elevator parts, producing a maximum of 2.5 of the last required items per minute and i can assure that I needed a LOT more than one node of iron.😂

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

You could in theory complete the game with just tapping one type of each node. It would probably take 20,000hrs but you can do it. I’m not saying the game is hard, but its not really a reasonable way to play just tapping one iron node… you absolutely would need more than that if you want to make progress and complete the game in 100ish hrs which is actually quite fast by most players standards.

[@timcappell71]

@@WhatDarrenPlays For fun I just used satisfactory calculator to see roughly how many of the last elevator items you can poduce with one copper and one iron node (ignoring all other ressources because I'm lazy). It turns out that you would need 133.33 hours just for all those items to be produced after everything is up and running. That production chain uses 3150 MW of power, which could be produced from one coal node (barely). So let's just say you CAN (maybe) beat the game with one node each, but it would not be fun at all. And I think it would actually make the game harder because you probably need to optimize a lot and you would constantly have to shut down unused factories because you will be power limited. I'm also not sure if this game isn't hard after all. It's definitely another form of difficulty than in other games but I would not describe this game as easy. Especially if you don't use tools like satisfactory calculator. You need to calculate and plan quite a lot and bulding large factories and production chains can make the game feel like a chore. But you also get that nice sense of accomplishment when everything's up and running perfectly. Or that sinking feeling, when you notice that something's not running as it should be and you need to figure out what's gone wrong.

[@noahchicoine4780]

Well I've only tapped 1 node of everything, and I have WAY more material than I'lll ever need for most things. Maybe I'm doing it "wrong" but I just set up like a STACK of like 8 double sized storage containers and fill them with every kind of material, then I set up smelters and turn those into bars, then manufacturers and turn those into whatever I need. I just let my game run 24/7 in the back ground. So it's sort of like an idol game now. It just runs while I sleep then I wake up with more resources than I can possibly burn through. Time over Rate I guess?

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

In that case if they reduced the amount from each node you could still complete everything with one of each, it would just take even longer. Most people don't leave the game running at all times​@@noahchicoine4780

[@TrionYT]

first non member

[@Conceiver_]

Second 🤚

[@xaimm7393]

Beast

[@Viralclipsoffical18]

when u releasing the save file

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

When the build is done!

[@rgreerjr]

The most recent video says it is channel members only? I’m guessing this is just some misclick or whatever when uploading?

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Every video is members only for 1-2 days. It’ll be out Sunday for all

[@kennybeach342]

Are you listening to the factorio soundtrack while playing satisfactory? Or am I just crazy lol

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Yes, I pretty much rotate between minecraft and Factorio music depending what im doing. Minecraft when exploring or building small outside, Factorio when I’m in a factory working on the internals!

[@kennybeach342]

@WhatDarrenPlays I love it! I am loving this play through, it has given me so many ideas for what I can do. Just finished the guts of my own coal plant and working on the exterior (though I am getting steel up first) also, I would LOVE to see you do a factorio play through, that game is easily my favorite game

[@zLuckyMedic]

"It's actually relatively simple" 😢

[@christophermcguffey2514]

:)

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Why all at the same time 😝

[@christophermcguffey2514]

@@WhatDarrenPlays lol Because I watch some of the videos on my TV with the KZbin app, and I don't like writing comments that way. I wanted to catch up and comment and like some comments and the videos to help spread and hopefully help your reach go further with the youtube algorithm lol... Hope that makes sense haha

[@christophermcguffey2514]

@@WhatDarrenPlays And I otherwise don't know what else to comment on that everyone hasn't already said so I just do a little ol smily face

[@CaptainCrackSparrow]

A 'pro license that gives advanced features for mid to late game players'. That's a long way of saying pay to win.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Its more like quality of life features, you can see it on their website, can compare normal to pro license, and it lists everything they do. They’re adamant that there’s no pay to win and no mtx along the way, just a subscription.

[@Recusant]

I'm an electrician. What you've done with your "cable runners" would be very similar to a bus duct if the metal beams themselves were the conductors rather than the wires. Each continuous cable going back to each disconnect (switch) represents a circuit. The room with all the switches is pretty analogous to a switchgear.

[@bradcox2750]

I have no idea how you kept all of this in order as well as you did. Bravo, sir. Bravo.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Thank you!

[@AidanHardy-z9k]

Hey Darren, I think that the trucks automatically create nodes when you pass under a station you may have to go back into the routes and delete them

[@jamikellburns4551]

This is why you're my absolute favorite person. A Christmas video! And a like and comment for the engagement.

[@HaiImCirus]

This is.. insane. Props for your dedication, loving the series. Inspired me to reopen satisfactory myself the other day.

[@delroyclarke1989]

Love the build 😊 keep it up, watched all the way through 🙌 Merry Christmas

[@waltdickerson5212]

You can manage the power lines a lot easier with priority power switches. Just run a main power line through the factory. Then put a priority power switch at each branch to the refinery block. The "A" circuit goes back to the main power line and the "B" circuit to the refinery block. You can then manage the priority power switches from any other priority power switch and turn off the switches remotely. It will allow you to eliminate all those power lines and blueprints for lines.

[@elijahmceachin2820]

Henry? Was that his name? Could have swore it was something different. Wasn't is terry?

[@theshosher]

Where's the next episode my dude

[@_JustMonika]

The amount of effort is crazy. I'm a big fan of doing power management, so this episode was extra interesting. On the mining enclosures, I actually think this one looks better than the closed ones you made, something about having minimum infrastructure on remote locations appeal more to me.

[@Lord_Sunday]

I’ve never felt more betrayed when you hyped up the animation and then walked away XD

[@JigglyTof]

Hey Darren! Regarding why your trucks are stopping at the Coal truck station, it’s because of the way recording the routes works. Basically, when you record Truck paths, you don’t actually have to stop and press the unload/load key, you only have to go through the « bounding » box of the truck station, and it will automatically create a « Stop node » for the truck. This is why they are stopping at the Coal (refuel) Truck Station. To prevent them from stopping, all you have to do is hop on all of your trucks, show the paths, physically walk to the yellow stop sign under the truck station, interact with it, and delete it. They should still get refuelled, but they won’t stop.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Yeah I was actually experimenting with this, and once I noticed the node I removed it…. However it seems the trucks try to avoid the bounding box of the station, trying to go around or glitching through it, so I think I’ll probably just feed the coal over to the other stations, or, just let them stop on their way in as they seem to form a queue anyways which is fine, i was more worried they’d collide at the entrance or block it.

[@JigglyTof]

⁠Hum, that’s weird. Could it be because removing the stop node now creates a slightly different path and the interpolation between the previous and next node makes it a bigger turn? To be honest I’m just speculating at this point. Trucks seem to work best when we are not looking at them unfortunately. Anyway, keep up the good work!

[@CHEEKYLAD2002]

Wow, causually just dropping that it's a 7+ hour recording session! Makes me both happier at how slowly I'm progressing through the game and daunting at how I'm gonna struggle when I'm only committing a few hours a week to playing🫨 Loving the series though, so helpful and insightful as well as being enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work

[@TheRealOgreBane]

Merry Christmas Darren! Love your stuff!

[@shadowforgedgamerz520]

Hey Darren, Hope all is well. I'm a recent addition to the Satisfactory Universe and been playing about 4-5 weeks now. I was watching another one of your videos here from the past and remembered I wanted to ask you about the Blueprints [because you bang out lots of them and that's cool] to see what can be done when making "bigger pieces" and placements after the fact. Let me explain: I've made custom sections of Highway sections of road for an Elevated "freeway system" I'm making in preparation for getting trucks and begin making factory locations with truck support. Now my question: Is there a way to "adjust or nudge" huge pieces up or down [not back and forth but literal up and down] because I cannot for the life of me find a specific place out in mid air close or away that'll allow me to LINK my blueprint piece to the existing highway and save myself literal days of time on the build. Any suggestions? - Nyl of ShadowForged.

[@turosianarcher8771]

So... you thought you could slip your mistake past us without owning up to it? Bad KZbinr! ;) 33:01...ran right past the first connection of the mains and left the rest unpowered. Very clear at 45:48 and that whole segment that the 2nd set of switches have no text and are unpowered. When you came back to the power room at 49:00, and I saw the switches fixed, I was ready to move on, but then you said: "From testing, everything seems to be hooked up and working just fine." Nope. Raging jerk mode on: Own up to it! Show how easy it is to make a mistake like that and make the rest of us feel better about our own screw-ups! *sigh* On a happier note, the fact that someone is 11 videos and is paying this close attention to your work shows the overall quality of both your videos and your builds. We only criticize the ones we care about...loving the content and the great ideas your builds have given me so far! Watching this series to gear back up for 1.0 coming soon, and I will totally and unabashedly steal a half dozen of your ideas for my own new playthrough. Keep the great work coming!

[@raghavagrawal52]

Woahhh! Thanks darren

[@LeonGames]

Now if they would only add the option to nudge up and down... Pretty Please @CoffeeStainStudios

[@TAMHTM65]

For this game, what size must the machine's specs be at a level that can be played? To create a lot, at the middle level, ryzen5600 rx6700xt ram32 in medium settings, is it enough to play? Sorry if the language is incorrect.

[@namelessking8905]

I;m playing the game while watching videos. Note to pioneers. The toxic spiders love to play dead.

[@johanswart9556]

Hey Bud, I have a potato PC that in NO WAY OR FORM will be able to play this game. I love following what you do and your effort is noticed. Seriously well done on the planning and execution.

[@dariuscarpenter7211]

I know I am late to the party for update 8, i haven't played since update 5 so I am excited to get back to it. Thank you so much for all your hard work not just with the video but also all the effort that went into organizing all of the blueprints ect for us to download! Well done sir!

[@Jepper482]

Hi Darren i love your videos. I just build the first 32 coal generators of the coal power plant but the pipes that go through the ceiling into the generators keeps on breaking. If it’s running after some time there won’t go any water through those parts anymore. But when I replace one of them the three generators in that line will go back on. Do you know how to fix that?

[@shroomzy5000]

Hey Darren, you figured out the wire clipping thru floor problem, you just only used it on the ceiling lol use the beams to place wall outlets on floor, thats what i be doing lol

[@dimitri877]

Every time I watch one of your vids I feel the urge to play Minecraft instead of Satisfactory... ;)

[@bennievaneeden2720]

I feel like a few episodes back he said we're gonna do a few small factories and then proceeds to build a single factory thats bigger than all mine combined

[@tehNashty]

Were you still mad at Terry for trying to kill you? I saw your road rage! How honky!

[@benwhite24]

OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nehtomal]

I havent finished all the videos yet, but I would be interested in a cosmetic focused video !

[@tim.dedopulos]

Darren, this is masterful / glorious / unhinged / wildly dedicated / extremely impressive. Thank you!! Hope you had a nice holiday time, and travel was gentle to you.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

My holiday begins tomorrow! Back then on the 31st! And thank you :)

[@alomac8976]

You kidding me? I love logistics and conveyor belts!

[@mickroutledge706]

Can't believe you blue balled me on seeing that hot glowing rod enter the hole