Heavy Modular Frames in 1 Blueprint! - Guide in Satisfactory Update 7

This is a step by step tutorial by to an awesome Satisfactory blueprint design for a 1 heavy modular frame per minute factory - iron, coal, limestone in and heavy modular frames out, all in one blueprint!
Update 7 in Satisfactory brought us blueprints and I have been working on new builds that simplify some of the more annoying things about building factories, especially working with manufacturers. The ultimate expression of the Satisfactory blueprint is squeezing a whole production into one blueprint - just like this heavy modular frames factory. It's a one click factory!
This design in modular, you can string together as many as you want. Each additional heavy modular frame per minute takes only 6 clicks - 1 to put the blueprint down, 4 to hook up belts, 1 to hook up the power
This is Satisfactory design will be awesome in a standalone heavy modular frame factory or as part of an adaptive control unit or fused modular frame factory.
This tutorial will give you some Satisfactory tips on how to be organized and squeeze a lot of machines into a small area. I show you how I think about squeezing things into a blueprint.
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[@s-nooze]

Great content! I haven't played since before blueprints and these are helping me get caught up!

[@charliebrenton4421]

This is bloody brilliant! I just spent a week over-engineering HMFs! Wish I’da watched this first!! Nice work, My Man! BTW, I’m stealing your design for that lighted box you put the blueprinter in . Nice! 😙👌

[@DrLootCrate]

Charlie, you made my day. Glad you liked it and good luck!

[@pinstripedzebra]

I like the concept a lot! Although myself I will build it as a two-parter with the manufacturer added manually after building it so I can use foundations instead of roofs. Keep it up!

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks Zebra! I don’t blame ya for that approach, it definitely would look better

[@leifgunnartoth8070]

LOVED IT! I was looking for a simple way to set ut a HMF production. This is it! Yes, there could be better ways to do it, using less material and fully utilizing the manufacturer, but hey! This is so simple to put up :D

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks Toth! Glad you liked it. There is no doubt that this could be better, but it was a pretty good first shot. I am going to try and make a few more videos like this I think. I enjoy figuring it out

[@nookschreier]

It never would have even occurred to me that this was possible. Not pretty :) as you said, but a very impressive result.

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks Nookie. I wasn't a hundred percent sure it was possible either. One of the ugliest things I have ever built!

[@pluk8836]

Just hold left-ctrl when you place conveyors it disable the auto snapping :) Also, you can just double clic your stack of power shards to place one automatically on the machine instead of dragging it like you do. Small detail but it's useful when you have to do it multiple times!

[@to-many-cups4906]

If you use the copy and paste function, it does it automatically and is way quicker

[@DrLootCrate]

I was only doing 1 machine of each type, but I agree that is definitely quicker when you have multiple

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks Pluk. Have the benefit of having this channel is getting to crowdsource answers to your problems lol

[@Orrinn123]

Great video. I really like to watch you figure it out yourself while I try my best to the same but ultimately I end up with a far worse design 😂. Seriously though, great content. Would love to see you try to do some blueprint without power shards where possible (I got nothing against using them. Was just thinking for the challenge of it)

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks man! It is always nice to hear from people that like your stuff. That isn’t a bad idea on the no shard, but I think that would make a few of these impossible to do in one blueprint. Not to say they are useful other ones to do with no shards. Probably going to get back to making videos once Satisfactory 1.0 comes out, so be on the lookout for

[@Orrinn123]

@@DrLootCrate Yeah that’s what I figured. Many of these would simply be impossible without shards. I’ll be waiting for those 1.0 videos though!

[@wolwerine0007]

Never Been a Blueprint kind of a person. But I do love the idea.

[@DrLootCrate]

Hanz I go back and forth. I am not going to make a blueprint for every little thing, but I will if it is kind of fiddly to build or I have a design reason too like in my recent small town video

[@briantacker]

Learning you can put a splitter on top of a conveyer lift just blew my mind!

[@DrLootCrate]

Definitely pretty useful in a tight fit!

[@samuraidriver4x4]

Might get a slightly better alignment of the conveyer lifts if you place a foundation and then the lift hole. Might give a little clipping but could straighten the belts out a bit more. I do like the idea.

[@DrLootCrate]

That is a great idea and I think it would work. I literally just finished recording another video like this but for computers. Where were you 4 hours ago?? 😂

[@samuraidriver4x4]

@@DrLootCrate playing satisfactory.😂 Just started playing again after a hiatus since update 6. Just got the blueprints unlocked and at the point I want to automate heavy modular frames, did a quick youtube search for that and found your video🤣

[@DrLootCrate]

@@samuraidriver4x4 awesome! It’s a great time to get back into the game. Glad you found my vid! As I said, be on the look out for a similar video for computers in the next few days.

[@samuraidriver4x4]

@@DrLootCrate I really like this update, especially the option to set the fauna to retaliate instead of aggressive. Didn't like the constant combat when exploring. Did spawn in powershards and hard drives this playthrough.

[@abmorse1]

I love these one-click factory concepts! Been working on one for motors that will stack as a vertical manifold so I can make skinny towers instead of long buildings. After fighting with blueprint floor holes for too long, I accepted that I'll need elevators on the outside, so it won't be as elegant as I'd like, but it'll be a start. One design change I've adopted is to bring in iron ingots instead of ore. It reduces the machine count and frees up some floor space, and I'll do a one click accessory smelter building or use refineries for the alternate recipe depending on where I need the factory.

[@DrLootCrate]

That is a good idea for a motor tower and for bringing in ingots instead of ore. That would definitely free up some space. As you said, might be a good plan to have a smelter building blueprint and then a stack of other blueprints. Interesting!

[@abmorse1]

@@DrLootCrate Finally got the motor blueprint working last night. Testing and fixing blueprints is a painful process. I'm dreading having to update it when I unlock the next belt tier. The smelter building should be A LOT easier.

[@DrLootCrate]

@@abmorse1 it really is, especially if you misbuild them in the wild and having to tear them down piece by piece. Just to make sure that you know that you can replace belts by looking at them with new belt and clicking to upgrade. You don’t need to delete and rebuild

[@abmorse1]

@@DrLootCrate Yeah, I get why they don't allow machines /belts to work within the blueprint machine, but that means you have to save the blueprint, build it somewhere nearby, connect some inputs to test it, fix each problem twice (once on the test bed, once in the blueprint machine), then tear it all down for each test run. (which I did twice because of mistakes before I finished up the exterior aesthetics)

[@dandpsy]

I've gone from compact towers to long factories. I really enjoy the simplicity of them

[@raymondrogers1705]

Catwalk crossings can also be built apon, and I beleive the floor holes work on them as well. And they don't have the funky snap points.

[@DrLootCrate]

I just tried this for another video and I cannot put a floor hole 🕳️ into a catwalk Bummer. I wish I could. It was worth a try

[@terminatorpetniga903]

Nice factory, but what are the inputs for the coal iron and limestone ?

[@shlomster6256]

Nicely done. I love the part about the doorway. Doesn't that happen a lot?

[@DrLootCrate]

Haha yes! Especially with these designs to chain together. I normally remember with more self contained designs…I once trapped myself inside!

[@lunchmoneyfor2]

I’m kinda in a devils cycle because I need trains to transport materials to my HMF factory BUT I need HMF for trains. So what should I do improvise a factory or craft them by hand? Love the video by the way!

[@DrLootCrate]

I always made a 1 HMF per minute factory before I got trains in a location where you had coal, iron, and concrete together. There are plenty of those. But hand crafting a few isn’t a bad shout if you need to. Glad you liked the vid.

[@Alx56]

If you only need about 1 stack of a material you havent really set up yet the Awesome shop is a great alternative. (i used it for aluminium to unlock tiers)

[@metallisgames]

"Just hold down J+F11 and it will stop doing that." Try Alt+F4!

[@DrLootCrate]

The most useful shortcut of all!’

[@moonchild8642]

I think your design is pretty awesomesauce as a first attempt... Its a really dirty design, and yeah, it works :) I have 2 comments for you on your design... (1) I think the steel pipe rod is much more efficient in resources, though i'm not sure you can fit that into the size of the 4x4x4, haven't tried myself, and i will not.. i'm not trying to be critical, you're thought process is awesome, and how you show people how to work this out for themselves is totally +1, but i think HMF's are better as a modular design. of several 4x4 BP's. I'm currently working on a modular design for a steel facility similar to your thoughts, and think you should try with the steel rod recipe and (f-ing) screws instead of the mod frame recipe, its incredible more iron efficient. designs such as this are about being able to plunk down something like a concrete factory when needed w/o ceremony or thought, your oscillator design is such a thing as well *hug*, this one is a little too hacky, and i think you know that too. Good thoughts, keep em comiming, i hope to collab with you at some point :)

[@moonchild8642]

also... have you noticed how ceiling mounts are removing the need for a sandwich layer? its a huge game-changer, right?

[@moonchild8642]

also merry xmas :)

[@DrLootCrate]

Great comment. I agree that HMFs would probably be better with two blueprints together and maybe just overclock the manufacturer if necessary. This one is definitely hacky. It was more of a personal challenge than something really useful. I too prefer the oscillator design and video…I needed a bit more coffee before this one!

[@Spectre4490]

Interesting, also how u open machine GUI from 10 meters away? I my world i need to walk vey close to open machine GUI, about 2 meters

[@DrLootCrate]

Great question! I didn’t do anything. It just works for me like that.

[@nikelsad]

I think it's thanks to the hoverpack.

[@Alx56]

Its the Hoverpack

[@amitcausewhynot1660]

is it only me or he just didnt show how he did the limestone input?

[@noahduncan5524]

what mods do you use

[@DrLootCrate]

None at all. Vanilla

[@trouble3172]

Should I be using blueprints? I’m doing everything without guides and I just built a heavy frame factory that does 2.5 a min but it took me like 4hrs to work everything out lmao, now I’m coming to see if I was efficient, obviously not lol

[@EnderSpy007]

Honestly just getting ANYTHING set up early enough and you'll be fine. I've not had HMF's automated and I just placed an aluminum factory... it's been a pain. But I've just had power problems and the solutions required more and more stuff. Now I'll go back and automate everything, I swear...

[@trouble3172]

@@EnderSpy007 I quit playing like 6 months ago when I hit phase 4 but u reminded me I gotta beat that shit, so I’m playing now. But yea u sound like ur in trouble

[@flo7165]

Can you release the files somewhere for free?

[@DrLootCrate]

All my blueprint files are reserved for my patreons…I like to give a nice benefit to my biggest supporters. If you aren’t in to that, no problem at all. I made a free step by step guide for you to build it yourself

[@guccipucci3941]

This is a blueprint for the Heavy Encased Frame, not the Heavy Modular Frame… Including like 5 alternate recipes, maybe note that somewhere in the title or description…

[@linzenmeyer]

Nice video. Nowhere near optimized tho...you're gonna make ONE heavy frame per minute which means, when automated, it will take almost an hour to make ONE computer, when I can make about 50 computers by hand in that amount of time. I like your one click idea but I would love to see OPTIMIZED 1-click builds. Get rid of the walls and the "starter" manifolds. If you get rid of those, the modules will be much easier to implement. You're gonna have a bunch of walls blocking your access when trying to drop more than one of these at a time.

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks! I am a little confused by your comment. Computers don’t use heavy modular frames. I hear you in the walls, later in the video I made a hole after realizing that problem. Those are the type of omission that happened since I did this on the fly and didn’t plan it

I think this frame is hard. Try use all Uranium in NPP. I finished this shit and have 40 NPP on Uranium and i must build 80 NPP yo use Plutonium NPP... From 600 Uranium i potantialy have 300 000 energy and mind pain

[@DrLootCrate]

I am about to start a nuclear build actually. I am ready for the pain

[@Alx56]

This wasnt very good, alot of power cells for only 1/min. It would have been better if you tried doing it to make it as efficient as possible and not worry about clipping so much

[@asdfasdfasdf283]

Boo hoo

[@lewiskelly14]

Misleading thumbnail

[@DrLootCrate]

In what way?

[@Alx56]

@@DrLootCrate in the way that it is christmas themed i guess