Early Game Designs: STEEL (400/m) & COAL POWER (2700 MW) | 02 | Satisfactory 1.0 | Lets Play

[@coyjin]

I think the fly mode is fine Nilaus but I would suggest people that are just getting started to stay on the ground. There are a lot of fun mechanics like sliding, parachute, zip line, etc that you would miss out on if you just started with flying mode. That said play the way you want to you’re supposed to have fun.

[@christianpaz2781]

Im playing my 1.0 new savegame with fly mode and god mode, its amazing, designig a factory from ground level is so hard, now i cant go back 😂

[@bearmike_360KB]

The zipline is embarrassing to miss. It is simply too good, but of course everyone is just flying around and don't think about art of jumping around power poles. Nevertheless for a KZbinr it is better to show things than spend an eternity to build a platform to do the same thing.

[@sirflimflam]

I think if they just would have caved to creating a 3rd person camera you could temporarily zoom out with this wouldn't have even been an issue. Trying to set things up in first person can be so finnicky at times where as a wide view out just makes the process so much better. I don't want to have to build a observation platform to clime every time I need a bigger view of what I'm working on. I don't know why they were so afraid of it. They're using unreal engine, camera workflows are painfully easy with unreal.

[@coyjin]

@@sirflimflam 100% agree. The fact that you can customize your player makes me feel like it might have been on the table at some point but was scraped for some reason.

[@koko2274]

I use lookout tower most of the time, but honestly having access to flight mode is how i will go for

[@pallenda]

FICSIT was clearly busy saving kittens and puppies over recoloring the space elevator. Cheers for the series Nilaus!

[@temperedfox]

You can change the colour in the customizer, it's set to a different swatch so you can make it different to other buildings if you wish, which is quite nice as you can make it really stand out, or compliment your factory. I went with a black elevator while the rest of my factory is white.

[@ajschwartz3924]

You can color the space elevator with the customizer. It's under the project assembly swatch.

[@AaronRussell]

Fly mode is a must for 2nd or 3rd playthrough. Its good to experience no fly to start.

[@WoWBeater]

Had a 500 hour map that had everything done, started new with only fly mode and with the qol changes, building is so much better.

[@DUUDE_TM]

It's a must for KZbinrs even if it's their first playthrough

[@TheSilentScreamX]

Yeah agreed. It's like Longreach in Factorio. I'm glad I didn't use it for my first playthrough, but it's a lifesaver for repeat plays.

[@PyroYeet]

the space elevator is a different swatch in the customizer :)

[@alexanderwilliams9519]

For anyone who doesn't want to turn on advanced settings but has issues building, please give placing and breaking lookout towers frequently a try. Just keep them on your hotbar and pop up whenever you want to build. Unrelated, but why underclock the steel foundries when the 4 to 3 ratio is right there?

[@Sampugna]

27:00 They have patched the coal issue: Patch Notes: v1.0.0.1 - Build 366202 - Fixed an issue where Coal Generators would stop working after interacting with them in some scenarios @Nilaus I find your approach at building the factories / setting up power VERY interesting and organized! Love the content! I'd echo a lot of comments here and strongly recommend new players do their first playthrough without fly mode and work up to jet packs and hover packs. Honestly though, everyone should play how they want this game is so chill.

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

Coal is always my first priority in a new game. I do not like setting it up, so the faster I can get a power plant out it, the better. I prefer to set it up in the lake SE of here though, since it has, relatively, easy access to 3 Pure Nodes not far away. I can feed it off of those and send any surplus towards my favourite base area at the 6 Normal Iron South of the 4 pure at this starting location. It's, effectively, 120 Iron/sec at Mk. 2 Belts. However, after having enough to build a factory foundation, I always measure it from the cliffs of the 4 Pure, because I bring those in very quickly after getting coal set up and Phase 1 complete. I don't see a need to set up anything beyond what I need to get the 50 Smart Plate and a stockpile of Reinforced Iron plates. The "factory" part of the game does not start for me until Phase 2. Everything before that is just busy work.

[@ranmaskode]

The Space Elevator is simply on a separate color swatch. It is on the Project Assembly Swatch, and not on the Factory Swatch.

[@WoodlandDrake]

I love hearing the entity or whatever it is talking after having gone through so much of it in my own playthrough, it really is like they are speaking their own language with how consistently poetic and analogistic it is. Before it makes contact with ADA it sounds like it threatening you, but really it is just thinking out loud and almost hoping to make contact with something that will actually reach out to it.

[@m00min01]

Thankyou Nilaus. I tried Satisfactory on update 7 (I think) and after spaghetti base and realised how much more I needed to scale I gave up. Following your starter factory I have found a new love for this game, it's helped me understand and visualise going forward. Now I'm scared at the potential hours I'm going to sacrifice to the greater good of FICSIT

[@238Hero238]

I appreciate that kittens and puppies joke so much😂

[@temperedfox]

I came to the comments to say this but will just like yours! It's one of those, you gotta laugh or you might just cry jokes! 🤣

[@jamieridenour1275]

love the joke….. husband and me just shook our heads when thou who shall not be named said that…. lol

[@Pyromanemac]

​@@jamieridenour1275wah

[@zxxvcc]

That flying mode is cool - makes me consider possibly playing 1.0.

[@Callibree]

As always! Practical no nonsense factory building where the math is accurate. Put in different words, this is how you do it. The look and feel comes later when the awesome shop is bought out. This is why I watch, Nilaus' videos.

[@ThePiachu]

The fly mode makes perfect sense for this kind of playthrough since otherwise it would be so hard to see anything.

[@marshallc6215]

The existing bug is that when you open the UI for coal gens, they stop accepting new coal and you have to save and reload to fix it. As long as you never open the UI (you can instead check coal contents by hovering the gen using the disassemble mode on the build gun) then you're golden

[@christianpaz2781]

Didnt had that problem

[@marshallc6215]

@@christianpaz2781 they may have hotfixed it since last night. There were other bug fixes going out, too, like the executable being named differently on different webstores causing launching errors Edit: yep I have another patch today

[@TheMrCurious]

I appreciate your videos and have followed a lot of the blueprints. For the water for coal power, it would have been great to demonstrate the Water Tower concept so that the water is always flowing for this and future water build needs.

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

fly mode is a really good tool to show us what's going on, yeah. love that choice.

[@jimdiroffii]

Been Looking forward to your new designs for 1.0! Glad to be back.

[@Olden_son]

4:44 that joke, oh my fckn god xD

[@kennythewolf]

The joke was chef's kiss!

[@leerman22]

This elevator deports illegal immigrants to Massage-2(AB)b!

[@OniNaito]

Spicy! Fun fact: The pet eating meme was started by Anthony Harris a self proclaimed neo N@z! of the "Blood Tribe" group that lives in Springfield!

[@JonathanMurray]

Paused to look down here for comments on that... glad my fellow Ficsit employees did not disappoint!

[@mvaiks]

​@@OniNaitoand yet proven true by many accounts including the state's Attorney General.

[@BitsOfInterest]

No architecture? 😮 The factory should be a shrine for the space elevator of course, it's only logical 😂

[@thewones]

I've been in early access for 4 years and didn't know you could do math inside of the overlocking text box until today.

[@BleachWizz]

they added the wheel! it's awesome you can switch between the splitter and merger you can compact a lot now the toolbar c=

[@alan-daniel]

that's been in the game for a while now, at least since early this year (that's when I started playing)

[@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14]

2024 = factory game golden age 😍

[@PatricioINTP]

I use only two mods before this release: something to pause the game, and one to fly around. Now I wonder if having mods will disable achievements, but till SMM is updated for 1.0, I don't know.

[@Skall-ex]

"How many ingots do we have? That's a weird question. No, that's not a weird question." 😂

[@OniNaito]

I like the fly mode for these videos. They're meant to explain builds and ratios etc.

[@vandahlmc7871]

To color the elevator, look in the customizer section and the swatch called "Project Assembly" will let you color the space elevator as well as the platform above.

[@azenker88]

I know I'm really late on this, but instead of using the cheats and missing out on the Steam achievements. I used Satisfactory Calculator and edited in a hoverpack. Made early game building so much easier.

[@matheusbertho_]

Nice video!! about the energy factory, i like to make an internal circuit to supply the infrastructure separate to main energy, this makes my coal generator never stop, if a use more energy then i have the energy shutdown but the coal, and water is aways fully filled.

[@SirHackaL0t.]

‘What we need to do is we need to…’ 😉

[@coyjin]

The coal bug seems to be related to the burner UI don’t open it unless you have too and to jump start it just put some coal in and that seems to restart it. If you want to see the amount of coal that is in it you can use the de constructor and it will tell you how much coal you would get from its inventory.

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

You can most diffiinently color it. It uses another swatch then factory does. Simply use that to color it.

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

4:50, and this episode got spicy.

[@Rogerfoulger]

defo fly mode I can't live without it these days

[@roadtrain_]

Given you've done this so many times I can see why you want the flymode. I myself do think it should be earned, and at the very least only be used for showcasing. At the very least you should stop using it once you get a jetpack.

[@MelfiortheOne]

You can color elevator with new "Finishes" you can purchase them in the shop

[@drgonzolalalala]

I've built my first coal plant yesterday evening and I have to say building pipes is just awkward in this game. Really surprised it's still this clunky post release

[@Stormcrownn]

For content creation, fly mode makes sense. It can be hard to discern what the layouts are if you are trying to follow along.

[@gavinpowell4607]

play like normal and then do a quick edit to show an overhead view of the entire layout. It's not hard, he just wants to optimize the fun out of the game. I'd say he is on the spectrum, I know a guy that behaves this way in work, and he has mentioned he is.

[@beewyka819]

4:44 🗣📢 THEY'RE EATING THE FUCKING DOGS

[@nickwarden5134]

I'll have to watch later, I need to catch up in-game so I'm not spoiled on any of the new story elements. Love the videos as always.

[@mvaiks]

I always build a water tower to stabilize the water flow.

[@solartrash6146]

Water/oil towers are yhe best strat for fluids.

[@callum.dokkodo]

Perfect timing! Im just about to leave work and butcher a coal build

[@callum.dokkodo]

Regarding fly mode: it's absolutely cheaty, especially if you're going around and getting all the harddrives and slugs, but if it means you can get further in this series before Factorio 2.0 launch then I'm all for it. Plus we all know you're perfectly capable of 100%ing this game without it. I'd say the main gripe as a viewer is that you're probably going to use a lot of alternate recipes that most players won't have access to because they didn't go hunt them/use online resources to find harddrives. It does however make for a much more pleasant viewing experience and it's so much easier to see what's going on with the builds so I'm in favour of cheating

[@roguemajin46290]

the elevator changes as u lv it up as well

[@deredware9442]

Nilaus Looking at a wall of concrete: "Its a beautiful game"

[@gavinpowell4607]

...yep.

[@SooperValar]

Love your videos, its just such a shame that people cant follow allong on the youtube videos. was hoping for a little more heres everything i did between episodes and at least show an overview.

[@Xepent]

Would love a 55 minute episode 3

[@kelshake]

Wish they had a build camera mode like no mans sky does

[@hobosmash7755]

In a 3D game like this, the perspective makes a huge difference; fly mode is great!

[@vincent4365]

How do you plan on routing more coal to the generators once you get more nodes? If you use a conveyer merger just to get them in line together wouldn't that create a redundancy?

[@Willsamazing]

This. I'm confused how he is getting coal to all 36 plants when Mark 2 belts can only supply enough coal for 16.

[@vincent4365]

@@Willsamazing I ended up just creating another conveyor path of coal above my original one and routed it through using stackable conveyor poles which you have unlocked from the start. There's probably a more efficient way to do this with load balancing or something but this is what worked for me.

[@HelloDonkey9]

Such a cute small coal plant.

[@GoldensGames]

Cool design

[@thefactorymustgrowlarger3947]

23:14 Whoosh™, now featuring automatic foundry rotation :) PS. Patch today claims to fix the coal bug

[@koofendorfin5871]

4:44 😭😭cmon man

[@pryan37bb]

"They're eating the lizard doggos!"

[@eriafi]

Awesome designs, now I feel bad about mine and they will be redone XD. One question though, if the power plant consume 45 m3/min of water, 6 power plants is 270, shouldn't the water extractor be underclocked a bit more than to supply 300?

[@Nilaus]

fluids are weird and I originally set them to 90 each but then it started fluctuating because everything was consumed, so it worked better to have a little bit of excess water in the pipes

[@eriafi]

​@@Nilaus Good to know, I will check mine with that in mind to see if it happens to solve it, thanks

[@ZakisHereNow]

Where did you get 18 coal plants from? If you have a 120 belt and each plant takes 15, that’s 8 per belt. 8+8=16 per side not 18? Or did I miss something?

[@ZakisHereNow]

37:53 clearly only 8 plants are running per side!!

[@PrOxAnto.]

He has the Mk.3 Belts which carry 270 per minute and then probably overclocked the Mk.2 Miners to output the same as the belts can carry. A Mk.2 Miner can be overclocked to 300 Coal per minute so he set it to 270 manually, same reason why he set the Water Extractors to 100 per minute since they only need 1620 in total (he's producing 1800 with the 18 he set up so he can go lower if he wants to)

[@akuokami1677]

Yes i needed more of this

[@Evansgr123]

Can you show what it looks like under that platform? The sky is just concrete to those poor creatures!

[@DennisRyu]

Still wonder if there are new easter eggs or maybe story elements with the alien voice thing. It talks about a temple a lot, even tho I do understand it means a body with that I wonder if there actually is a hidden temple somewhere on the map now. Not spoiling myself so not watching a lot of the 1.0 videos other then ones like this that still deal with early game.

[@giray899]

even though the lifts make the snapping sound they sometimes dont connect fully and still need a tiny bit of belt, especially when connecting them from wallholes to machines, is that another bug?

[@MJ97]

The space elavator is colored in my map

[@roguemajin46290]

god 2600+ hrs b4 1.0 and cant wait to put that many more in 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@memory_stick]

Ooh good that trumpet joke just was sooo perfect xDxD thx for the already amazong vid. Gonna need to watch the whole thing now, don't I

[@shunporn]

1st time satisfactory viewers would be lost at this point

[@Nilaus]

Correct, but I have done many other series that are still equally valid with more detailed designs.

[@EbolaWare]

It's a "Let's Play" not a tutorial.

[@dm24240]

love how you unlocked the smart splitter yet thats a mid-game tech and isnt really possible early on

[@thesinhound]

You can unlock smart splitter EXTREMELY early on. It's generally the 2nd thing I rush, the 1st being Blade Runners. I always have both of those before I actually build my starter base.

[@kielovpyriel3752]

I am extremely confused how you got 270 coal per minute for each side of the power plant when you only had 2 normal nodes? Can someone explain?

[@tarnokka]

I am confused with how you figure out the build numbers and clocking ratios

[@nerdwana]

Why build the coal generators so high up? you are already at water level, you could have submerged the coal generators slightly in the water, so that they are 1m under the platform you used for the water pumps and the water would not need the pipe pumps

[@Digital_Renaissance81]

Can you make a tutorial for newbies with the steam game like Satisfactory Modeler

[@ultimateiks89]

When entering the game, the error "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" appears. How to fix it?

[@Bart-y3l]

how do you change the default colour of your buildings?

[@ESPONO974]

Press X and change the colors on the very first slot

[@lannart84]

Question. Why did you do 200% divided by 3? Still cant wrap my head around that one.

[@BarbiesBack976]

Anyone know how to use fly mode? I use to use SMM but it says its not for 1.0 yet. Are people still using this and its working anyways?

[@Liwet.]

Why manually set the percentages? Wouldn't some bottleneck in the system cause it to automatically reduce output?

[@OniNaito]

One reason may be that if the machines are starting and stopping all of the time your power becomes very inconsistent.

[@PaulPhillabaum]

Nihaus.. saving kittens and puppies on smart plating at a time.

[@harmondaniels5108]

Flight mode is nice and easy, but being grounded make it easier to build actual nice looking buildings.. When able to fly all the time all builds end up looking like a circuitboard and not a factory building..

[@Kymss-j9z]

How do I start? When do we get these metals

[@CostelloDamian]

Why wouldn't you build your generators lower so you don't need to pump it?

[@chimmy_jim]

Gotta scapegoat some group for his inhumane policies! Great series, thanks!

[@Schildhuhn]

Building everything in fly mode seems kind of cheesy to me. That's essentially nullifying one of the biggest challenges in satisfactory, planning and building in 3d. Looking at a finished build in fly-mode seems totally reasonable.

[@Nilaus]

Biggest challenge: seeing what you are doing

[@Callibree]

Nilaus uses fly mode for demonstration and instruction. He's not playing the game in the context this is my personal factory. Everything he does here is "this is what" and "this is how". I'm going to show in the most convenient way because you are my audience.

[@drac124]

Satisfactory is good but so annoying to play. You are playing sandbox, so you fly over everything, which is the fix for many problems in this game. You are supposed to make a HUGE factory and you are so small, and can't see things straight. In Dyson Sphere Program you can fly, you have robots to help. Factorio you already have top view. I wanted to love Satisfactory but the gameplay is too wearisome.

[@jasenmorin4936]

OMG you're bad Nilaus. the kitties and puppies went around the world i guess. Did you notice that the elevator ports have been fixed. you can belt them and its straight.

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

That joke hit me hard.

[@PyroYeet]

4:50 WAHT? idk what's happening in polotics but uuh damn

[@JeneralMills]

It's a reference to Trumps comments during the US presidential debate

[@PyroYeet]

@@JeneralMills oh, US politics, no way they pulled the "immigrants are eating your pets!" Card. What is it with politicians and hating immigrants

[@nickolson5952]

@@PyroYeet American Conservatives are deathly afraid of people who are different than them. :( I thought the same thing he did when I heard the in game dialogue.

[@Olden_son]

@@PyroYeet Trump did, 2 days ago on debates with Harris :D That was such a joke, omfg!

[@masterzedric]

​@@PyroYeet Also the "free transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants" seems to be the word soup for the day, just not from the debate.

[@rafascd12]

For playing, no fly mode, for showcasing and play through like this, it’s fine…

[@tmanook]

My biggies issue with Satisfactory is having everything in your face. I don't mind the first person much of the time, but I don't like seeing the tools and hands. When building I badly want 3rd person. Feels so constraining.

[@martinibomb]

Nilaus has played too much Factorio, he cant function without that top down view lmao

[@DarkFirze]

Algorithm

[@bdoggtoronto]

Please don't use your designs on your thumbnails if possible. Some of us follow you but don't necessarily like spoilers the day after a game is launched. Thanks for all your hard work. Edit: Yes, seeing Nilaus' designs is like looking at the answers at the back of the book. I like comparing after at least giving things a go.

[@tlmonk3414]

he builds like he’s playing factorio, not satisfactory. super sharp dude but there are better ways to build in satisfactory

[@henrylarson1]

Not the Trump jab hahaha

[@michaelseparovich]

Theyre eating the lizarddoggos. Theyre eating the cats

[@WoWBeater]

Funny story if you actually look, there are some reports.... I'll edit this to say i have zero support either way. It's just silly that literally everyone is lying.

[@gavinpowell4607]

Sorry man I can't watch how you play this game any more. The giant platform so you don't see the game at all, just this dull platform, the flying mode, you're just optimizing all the enjoyment out of Satisfactory. You look like you're really into it, which is awesome, but definitely not my style.

[@Nilaus]

Lots of creators spend their time building beautiful inefficient factories. That is not my style; I want to showcase the designs easily and clearly. The aesthetics are up to you

[@dominikvonlavante6113]

Boring designs. Try vertical design, especially with a staggered vertical grid for the smoke stacks of the coal plants.

[@Nilaus]

I've done many cool designs, but ultimately you build it, ship the items and never see that factory again that you spent 10+ hours designing. If you like the design phase then sure, but I want to play the factory game. Luckily there are plenty of other creators who go into lots of detail to make architecture rather than factories

[@OniNaito]

It's the engineer vs architect debate lol. I come to Nilaus for clean builds, ratios, and being effective. I have other creators for pretty things, but I'm more of a utilitarian anyway lol.