How I made 144000MW of power in Satisfactory 1.0

[@crazyst3ve01]

The issue you are having with the containers, is exactly why I waited for the blender to get the diluted fuel recipe without needing any clever balancing. It's exactly the same recepie but without the packages on each side

[@DrawingXaos]

yeah, but i have no blenders and im impatient so i have that problem to lol

[@jimcanterak7349]

That water tower idea was so genius, I actually gained some IQ from seeing it. Wtf man, you blew it out of the water. Pun not intended. Or was it?

[@DrawingXaos]

lol thanks, i wish i had a water pun to give you back but im drawing a blank lol.

[@n3zum1]

yeah... but honestly... i still dont understood how does it works... 😕

[@jimcanterak7349]

@@n3zum1 So from what I understand, and I hope Xaos corrects me if I am wrong, the headlift is shared by all pipes in a closed system. Because the lone water extractor pumps the water as high as he needs it to be, and then that same pipe comes back down into the whole system, the game takes into account that lone pipe's headlift and applies it everywhere. At least this is what I got.

[@n3zum1]

@@jimcanterak7349 oh... i think i got it... its kinda like a little cheat since there is no real pressure in the pipes.

[@DrawingXaos]

@@n3zum1 its one of those bugs that works but there is a lot of fluid dynamics that are hard to explain

[@Fydril]

Very nice Factory! Because I get too overwhelmed by big projects, I do my oil factory in modules. I do 5 refineries at a time with 4 blenders, 3 water extractors and 20 Fuel Generators. It takes alot more space, but it helps me stay organized. I am about to start my Nuclear factory with just 10. I am already overwhelmed lol. Awesome job Xaos!

[@DrawingXaos]

lol thanks, yeah big projects like this get out of hand quickly but also you can deny they dont look amazing.

[@coldblooded1379]

Should not have to use blenders

[@Fydril]

I use Diluted Fuel. So I need them.

[@LeoStaley]

Just finished my nuclear production yesterday. Mk 3 miner on impure node, fully overclocked, gave me 300/min uranium ore. 12 manufacturers making alt recipe for encased uranium cells, feeding 12 manufacturers making alt recipe for fuel rods gave me enough rods to feed 36 reactors. Instead I overclocked 18 of them to 2x, and after 30 hours of prep work bringing all the materials to feed them, I had 90k MW, preparing me for the next phase of making nuclear pasta.

[@coldblooded1379]

@Fydril packaged fule is crude an packaged water in the foundry

[@Tenshi_Sora]

2:13 “Package fool” is amazing XD

[@DrawingXaos]

lol all the fools

[@coldblooded1379]

Lol

[@FloydRinehart]

Thanks for showing the factory! I’m trying to figure out how I want to do my first “big” power plant. It’s a process that I really, really want to make my own, but I’m constantly second-guessing myself between maximizing power output, optimizing resources with alt recipes, or scaling up easy ratios. I believe easy ratios is going to be the one winning.

[@DrawingXaos]

Yeah i know what you mean, the bigger the project, the bigger the problems.

[@Reckhs]

Just about to plan my 1.0 fuel power using packaged diluted fuel, and this is inspiring! While I may change the layout and scale, this was so informative! Great explanations on what issues you ran into.

[@BPFACTS88]

this is a really dumb thing to do. Within like 6 hours of playtime it's all gonna be obsolete when rocket fuel comes.

[@DrawingXaos]

No problem, i wish you the best of luck it is a lot to do but is so worth it.

[@alexashgaming7072]

I have a question, why use packaged fuel and not directly diluted fuel in the blender? For saving heavy modular frames?

[@DrawingXaos]

blenders? i dont have those yet. lol

[@alexashgaming7072]

@@DrawingXaos Oh well, I mean that makes sense, getting into my world, in 1.0 I had 1 goal, try out the diluted fuel blender combo

[@alexashgaming7072]

I've actually never invested as much time in a world before, so it's my first time doing this, and I find the calculations, the possibilities, the size, the scale, the elegance of the projects possible in this game to be simply fascinating.

[@alexashgaming7072]

@@DrawingXaos also thanks for responding to every comment, you're very committed! Cool! And thank you for supplying me with another megaproject idea!

[@DrawingXaos]

@@alexashgaming7072 No problem, an im like you, im spending so much time on this 1.0 build because the game is fully out and time to really enjoy it. that is also the reason i am not so much further into the game than everyone else seems to be.

[@faked8586]

I’ve basically made the same factory, same recipes and amount of power generated, except I didn’t stop at fuel and went all the way to rocket fuel. And instead of all that oil I just used one 600 line. After using 3 of those power booster things and the other power plants from my save I got my total production up to 200GW I’m very happy with myself if you couldn’t tell 😁

[@DrawingXaos]

Nice, yeah you can do so much more going into rocket fuel, so when i update this place....

[@martinsouden6010]

Great video! Glad you took the time to talk us through it. After I built a turbo fuel power station I started working on a little city of road, rail and individual buildings to build the basics (each starting from the ore). I half regret it now, as it’s taking me an age.

[@DrawingXaos]

yeah i know what you mean. and thank you, i didnt know if this video would help that many people but a lot of individuals really like it.

[@shrike6243]

If you can source the sulfur and coal, you can take it a step further and process the fuel into turbofuel, you can double the net power output from the same quantity of crude.

[@DrawingXaos]

thats the plan. all the way to rocket fuel. but first, mid tier base.

[@Knives2.0]

Diluted fuel and nitro rocket fuel is way more efficient (in the next phase) but if you are new to the game a good first build. That's the whole point of a sandbox factory building game, we each find our own path! Good overall vid though.

[@DrawingXaos]

Thanks, i did my best lol

[@100timezcooler]

You could just package everything at the bottom level and unpackage at the top. That gets rid of ALL headlift issues, since you only ever have fluid coming out at the top floor

[@DrawingXaos]

yes true, i was thinking that. i should have built that way but didnt do water till it was to late.

[@martinsouden6010]

@@100timezcooler but then the pipes wouldn’t be adding to the look. I do less efficient things like this sometimes just because it looks better (sometimes on purpose, and sometimes by accident when I realise and do “doh!” moment!

[@sneezyfido]

A bunch of packagers might take more power than pumps

[@thewonderer1165]

Thanks for the video So glad u made it

[@DrawingXaos]

No problem. i know a bunch of people were curious.

[@thewonderer1165]

@DrawingXaos ya I'm like how did he make it it's Huge lol great build tho I mean 144000 power now that's somthing I need heck somthing even one 3rd of that is even fine by me glad u finally get to understand how to do power

[@linglongpagota6195]

Metal beams act as power rails for the wall power nodes?

[@DrawingXaos]

no but they do help to make smol power things and not waste time with the large ones.

[@Sancti1988]

why do you dont use turbo fuel? is there any major issue with it?

[@DrawingXaos]

There is a plan. if i make fuel, and make power with that fuel, then i will have enough power to make turbo fuel, and then rocket fuel. if i make a big station for rocket fuel at first, its not going to work.

[@Evan_Ivanov]

You can do more with another recipe without package/unpacking. You use old recipes from old updates. use the recipe for obtaining diluted fuel from water and fuel oil in a mixer, rather than packaging and unpacking

[@DrawingXaos]

i dont have blenders unlocked.

[@Evan_Ivanov]

@@DrawingXaos oh, ok

[@ppeez]

Why dont you overclock gens?

[@DrawingXaos]

they are overclocked. or do you mean refineries?

[@braednwakl4335]

I’ve been working on a nuclear power factory recently and it’s only gonna make 150,000 mw, before I saw this video I thought that was a lot 😭

[@DrawingXaos]

that is a lot, did you see the comments telling me i made more power than there end game... lol.

[@RubyOneTake]

I made a smaller one of these using blenders, i don't have any aluminum being made, so i just used materials i found from drop pods, there's so much aluminum, computers, and heavy frames, so i was able to finish phase 3 and unlock blenders all without making computers, heavy frames, or any aluminum products My current powerplant makes 17580MW, which I've attached to batteries and two factories making everything i need to make a turbo fuel plant at the blue crater lake, using blenders! I didn't want to deal with packaging

[@DrawingXaos]

Nice, i know the feeling.

[@crazylolsbg]

Why didn't you wait till you get blenders? Are they less power efficient?

[@晴刻-b2k]

It's not about power efficiency, but crude oil efficiency, if you use normal heavy oil residue/crude oil to fuel, it get less compare to diluted (package or blender it's same)

[@crazylolsbg]

@晴刻-b2k ok thank you, I just wanted to know about the blender and packager difference

[@晴刻-b2k]

@@crazylolsbg the difference is just packager×2 and you have to make advance part like radio control unit etc. without having that amount of power

[@crazylolsbg]

@@晴刻-b2k true

[@DrawingXaos]

this set up will be redone when i go into rocket fuel. but for now i need a mid tier base and a lot of construction before i get there, so i might as well get power set before then.

[@jefferychartier2536]

nice job bro! Dam...

[@DrawingXaos]

lol thank you.

[@Necrotechian]

to be honest i think you should have gone all in with the 2 half-circles cut off from the thing and copied it on the subsequent floors.... also made me think if you should include a outwards half circles on the seaside halves sides but theres some rock in the way and then when you were talking about drones taking the polymer resin away from there at some point it made me think of the drones blocky form and i was like if you squint a lot you could add wings to that building and make it kinda look like a drone.... so making the wings somewhere like the water packager height and to hold the drone ports on each side of the building could be something... and it should probably be high enough to not clip with anything on the sides... on a side note to decoration.. because its slightly elevated from the ground have you considered adding lights there to make the underside of the building glow with some color? also flood lights lighting the water extraction area popped into my head as an idea... perhaps not with purely white light but for example with a light blue or red tint for example could work out as a aesthetic to indicate there is some light to go out there to fix stuff when it breaks type of deal...

[@DrawingXaos]

with the ability for each floor to work properly that is not a bad idea. dang, i must redesign lol

[@kzar99]

new A.D.A. interactions (at least for me)... try to unlock 3 researches quickly, while she talks (unlock one, she speaks, unlock quickly 2 more). Have fun. Also in MAM, after the 3 fast unlocks, in the next unlock hit ESC in the popup. Have more fun.

[@DrawingXaos]

Lol that sounds fun.

[@sectornova8615]

How do you flying? What mod do you use for that?

[@DrawingXaos]

mods dont work yet, just activate advance game settings from the main menu then go into the settings in the game and click on flying. enjoy

[@sectornova8615]

@@DrawingXaos gotcha

[@coldblooded1379]

Why wouldn't you watch the 600 pipes aka trun 3 extractors around 6 extractor facing each other

[@DrawingXaos]

480 works better

[@coldblooded1379]

@DrawingXaos still have to use a 600 pipe an if you center it out an do the math you get the lift you need to package the water on a floor just above an use 0 pumps

[@coldblooded1379]

= more power less 💪 less effort

[@NicolasFlopper]

I farmed Somersloops and built like 20 power augmentors have 160 Gigawatts of power with only about 45 Fuel Generators built.

[@DrawingXaos]

lol

[@Ayeooh]

Are you over clocking the refineries? My math is only adding up 80 heavy oil residue refineries getting 3200 crude oil. Where the 192 Diluted packaged fuel refineries need 5760 heavy oil residue. Am I missing something?

[@DrawingXaos]

no overclocking on the refineries. 4,320 Crude oil, makes 5,760 HOR, to make 11,520 Diluted packaged fuel.

[@Ayeooh]

@@DrawingXaos so how many HOR refineries do you have? Because I only count 80, no?

[@DrawingXaos]

@@Ayeooh 192 refineries

[@Ralphopotamus]

I just finished my 40000 MW plant (first one with diluted fuel). Im planning on a turbofuel and nuke plant at some point. I might not need them, but I just want to

[@BPFACTS88]

the setup in the video and also your idea are both really dumb things to do. Within like 6 hours of playtime it's all gonna be obsolete when rocket fuel comes.

[@DrawingXaos]

Nice, turbo fuel seems to be a fav in 1.0

[@patrickh3055]

i dont get it i have 2 power pkants my small one with 32 fuel generator and my big one with 456 so total of 488 on 250% i check every plant so many times it runs perfectly with full tanks, but my power generation is on 299800 with minimal fluctuations but normaly its need to be a perfekt 305000 MW this triggers me so much ich checked everything so many times

[@DrawingXaos]

your best bet is to cut off groups of generators and find the ones that are not running the best, and work backwards from there.

[@BenReynoldsDIY]

i mean your looks more impressive but im happy with my 80,000 mw off a single pure node using the somersloops on the diluted fuel blenders. thanks for the tutorial all your builds are impressive.

[@DrawingXaos]

Nice, yours sounds amazing as well.

[@highmindgaming9849]

This is nuts because i did 1200 oil and made 80k power with this set up and the hardest part to me besides the damn packagers was the compacted coal (because i did turbo fuel). i ended up doing 16 overclocked and slooped ... so i didnt have to get rescources from everywhere at blue crater. I also did containers for the empty cans at first and just left 4 full and 4 empty but they kept doing weird shit. i did 320 gens ( did 4 rows of 80 needs a pump every 10 with long lines)... and it took like 70 hours. lol well powers solved for a while at least.

[@DrawingXaos]

Compacted coal, what fun. I can't wait to do rocket fuel

[@ppeez]

My current setup uses 1350 crude and im making exactly 300.000mw in 480 fully overclocked gens. How do you only make 80k from 1200 crude?

[@highmindgaming9849]

@@ppeez you make 4 lines of 300 so T1 pipes into 10 refieries each so 40 , then making heavy oil res that 1600 a min you put that into 53 refieries last one uncerclocked at 33 percent making diluted packaged fuel , wich makes 3180 fuel per min then you take that and put that into unpackagers and then128 refineries with compacted coal and get 2400 turbi fuel per min and then make 4 rows of 80 fuel generators .. and put a pump every ten to keep the line going. 320 x 250 a Gen thats 80GW with 3 power boosters im making 105GW turbo fuel burns at a slower rate 7.5

[@ppeez]

@@highmindgaming9849 ah ok youre only making turbo, thats why its so little power i was wondering how you managed that

[@ObserverRl]

Спасибо

[@DrawingXaos]

No problem

[@bullydungeon9631]

I'm doing this right now but 65000 mega watts, I couldn't bring myself to do your size without infinite power shards

[@DrawingXaos]

lol understandable. i build what others wont so they dont have to.

[@sneakycodfish2359]

Just have to point this out, you have to use capital letters for MW 😉 Looking forward to watch the video tho😊

[@DrawingXaos]

aaaahhhh, nice, thank you. i no good with the words part of things lol. im changing it right now good looking out.

[@R34P3R52]

Looks like I am unable to join your discord

[@DrawingXaos]

did you hit the thumbs up on the area you spawned? or will it not work at all?

[@LGB-FJB]

Water tower you say? Reminds me of kinstruction's last playthrough.

[@aaavellone]

indeed, but water towers have been around for a while.

[@DrawingXaos]

neat, im shocked more people dont use them already, been around since update 3 or 4.

[@BPFACTS88]

why are you in phase 2 working on this kind of stuff? Within like 6 hours of playtime it's all gonna be obsolete when rocket fuel comes.

[@krolgosh4055]

why should it be obsolete? 144kMW of power still are 144kMW of power... regardless of what comes ‘later’.

[@BPFACTS88]

@@krolgosh4055 biggest problems are: 1. it takes away from time spent on actually completing the game 2. it takes tons of resources more than the rocket fuel setup (100% more than for the stock rocket fuel, 70% more than for the nitro rocket fuel), these resources could be spent on actually completing the game 3. it uses way more power for the same power output than the rocket fuel recipe

[@waterfence3]

Because they want to. Next question

[@DrawingXaos]

this is set 1 in rocket fuel production.

[@BPFACTS88]

@@DrawingXaos it's not. there's no packaging in rocket fuel production.

[@ohfeel4498]

I reccomend using rocket fuel! much more efficient

[@DrawingXaos]

that is the plan. but later.

[@asmylia9880]

how does someone keep the sanity with that?

[@DrawingXaos]

wait.... you get to keep your sanity? whoa, that is crazy lol

[@yanakievful]

ok, everything else is handy and dandy, really man I did not know that one water tower can work for all 100 water extractors.... I know that one tower worked for one 600 pipe and was doing every several extractors set up with their own water towers, but this single one working for all of them..... jesus....

[@DrawingXaos]

i know right.

[@manaflask8826]

So one water tower line connects to every water pipe lines, thereby making them all into a single connected water pipe line

[@LeoStaley]

Bro there's no reason to use packaged fuel, just use the blender to make diluted fuel directly, removing the packaging and unpackaging steps.

[@DrawingXaos]

i dont have blenders. =(

[@aarow_outlast]

I’m Just trying to figure out how you get enough power to run this 🤣

[@DrawingXaos]

batteries help a lot.

[@HORNOMINATOR]

you'll be happy when it comes to rocket fuel, but looks nice

[@DrawingXaos]

when i get to rocket fuel this whole thing will be reworked lol

[@ppeez]

​@@DrawingXaoswhat a waste of time lmao

[@DrawingXaos]

@@ppeez not a waste if i had fun doing it right

[@ppeez]

@@DrawingXaos you used what, like 4k crude/m for 144.000mw? My current setup uses 1350 crude and makes 300GW. Put that into perspective lmao

[@DrawingXaos]

@@ppeez well it all comes down to fun... did you have fun building it? i had tons of fun building mine. if mine took longer than i had more fun. Perspective is fun.

[@garrettcadeau1801]

27:15 haha sharted ones.

[@DrawingXaos]

lol

[@garrettcadeau1801]

@ big bro really replies to every comment🫡

[@DrawingXaos]

@@garrettcadeau1801 without fail. =)

[@bermandustin]

Trubo heavy fuel alternate is much better. No packaging or water involved; just a lot of sulfur

[@DrawingXaos]

that is for the future. right now i only have tiers 5 & 6 unlocked.

[@deejeh9494]

​@@DrawingXaospeople always forget this. I would love to use pure ingot recipes... if I had refineries unlocked 😅

[@BPFACTS88]

​@@deejeh9494 it literally takes 6 hours to get to refineries from the start. You're talking as if it would take days to get to that point...

[@deejeh9494]

@@BPFACTS88 I played with a few people who were new to the game. It was a good reminder. But also, some people don't play the same as you. Don't forget you have to unlock the alt recipe.

[@ppeez]

Actually if you want to make rocket, turbo and rocket standard are the most efficient recipes because you can recycle the compacted coal.

[@imasonite]

Not a fan of the package method, the blender diluted fuel reigns supreme.

[@DrawingXaos]

Fair

[@coldblooded1379]

Under clock

[@DrawingXaos]

Under clock what?

[@sakugam]

Now if you ever want to go step further, then unlock turbofuel from MAM research. With compacted coal added to fuel, you could use less than half of that total fuel and still produce more power when fuel gens use turbofuel. For example, to produce 150,000 MW, you would need 5400 fuel (9x600 pipes), which is pumped to 240 Refinery (to produce turbofuel, for which you need total of 3600 compacted coal (3600 coal + 3600 sulfur)). Total turbofuel produced would be 4500, which is enough for 600 fuel gens. And total amount of crude oil needed is 2025.

[@HORNOMINATOR]

just skip that and go rocket fuel

[@BPFACTS88]

the setup in the video and also your idea are both really dumb things to do. Within like 6 hours of playtime it's all gonna be obsolete when rocket fuel comes.

[@DrawingXaos]

naw rocket fuel is where im heading later. but that is when i do the rebuild. and have drones.

[@DrawingXaos]

but i will need fuel when i make my rocket fuel. so i need part of this set up. and the goal is to turn this into rocket fuel. then have a massive amount of power.

[@coldblooded1379]

Wasting power

[@DrawingXaos]

Not for what I have planned