How to use Drones | Satisfactory Logistics Guide

How to use Drones | Satisfactory Logistics Guide
Here we have another logistics guide on how to use drones in satisfactory.
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Drones arrived in update 4, giving us a new way to run logistics in Satisfactory, there are a few niche reasons for using them and today we'll be covering why!
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[@dracoslayer16]

First thing I did with drones was make a port that shipped out batteries to other bases. So far I've found that drones are wonderful at moving uranium and surprisingly at moving liquids. Normally the problem with shipping liquids is getting the empty cans back after shipping but with drones this is a non-issue as they can ship the same empty cans one way, and the full ones back. The throughput can be pretty fast as well when running more packagers as 9 stacks of packaged liquid is quite a bit for most processes.

[@bloggersniffle5358]

I end up using drones probably a lot more than I should just because they're easy and quick to set up. Then I can go to the far corner of the map and build a supercomputer factory and all I have to do is build a drone port, put some batteries in it and a drone and walk away. No need to build a train station and connect it and all that fun stuff.

[@janvavra6515]

I really hope that they will add "throughput counter" to freight stations too.

[@buckethat6888]

The drone ports on the sloping roof look really good, as do those on the sides of buildings (I will definitely nick the latter idea). Awesome video 👍

[@thebloxxer22]

Good idea to make a Drone bay for Battery distribution.

[@FastDuDeJiunn]

Ty for the info. Wanted to know if both ports needed batteries and anything else I may of missed. You answered that and more

[@FastTquick]

I never realized that the drones have both outgoing AND incoming inventories. This should make item transportation much easier than I envisioned. 👍

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

How so?

[@FastTquick]

@@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489 Well, I won’t need to use as many drones for item transfers, for starters.

[@KittenyKat]

Would love to see this revisited now that drones and droneports have been given a quality pass and have been updated!

[@FastTquick]

A great role I envision for drones is for distributing batteries to other drone systems that might need refueling.

[@BlacklusterPally]

i've tryed that but i was not able to figure it out how to make drones scattered around the map all goes to one port and going back to the original port

[@FastTquick]

@@BlacklusterPally I would recommend making separate home and destination ports for each drone rather than overloading a single port with multiple drones. I believe that making multiple drones queue up at a single port isn’t very efficient overall.

[@sn0w181]

@@FastTquick I'm running 1 shipping port for 3 battery distribution ports, each distribution port is servicing 3-5 ports, so far it seems to be working as intended. Admittedly this is only a small scale test set up that is sinking 600 wet concrete per minute. I'm not sure what will happen when I try doing a full factory with just drones

[@bloggersniffle5358]

@@BlacklusterPally I have a battery factory set up near the middle of the map connected to a drone port that goes back to my main base with nothing but batteries. I connected a smart splitter to the outgoing bay of the main base drone port so that it would feed back into the battery section that drones pull from then ran the overflow into my storage or other drone ports. Then any drone that drops off at these main base ports refills their batteries every time they drop off.

[@lioncactus7755]

This video is so helpful thank you lol

[@vargonian]

What if the drone port input is empty? Or has just a few items? Will the drone wait until it's full before heading to the destination? Or will it wait until it hasn't received any items in a while?

[@FNG0000]

Maybe something useful like : How to play Satisfactory without getting divorce

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

Easy answer. If the marriage matters at all, and this is the problem, don't do it. Lol. If, if... if. If it doesn't really matter, why stop playing to even think about it?

[@annabritt4585]

Lol I'm the gamer and I asked my hubby if he wanted to play this with me.....I've never seen him play something so long it's funny.

[@FNG0000]

@@annabritt4585 at the moment 1200 something hours :)

[@matthewdavis5196]

Got drone port 8 at my collection point of materials it won't accept inputs or outputs when I add a drone to the port is says it is unloading even though it has not left yet cant figure out what the problem is when I make a port at the factory it works what is going on

[@natedoesstuff3641]

out of curiosity; if i set my drones up to recieve items from port 1 but port 1 only produces X amount of items, then send it to port 2 to finish filling up it's cargo, then ship to port 3 with a programmable splitter, would that allow for drone circuits or is there something other than load size preventing them from running the circuit?

[@JulianSloman]

They only have two ports that they go back and forth between (their home port and one target port)

[@satisfactoryinc9280]

I just created a 65k Mw nuclear set up that’s all fed by drone ports across the world I have over 100 drones running off a battery supply of 250 per minute they are literally bringing in everything from uranium ore all the way to iron plates. If you make a strong enough battery system drones are extremely useful they do however create a backup system as they do bottleneck the flow naturally but if the drone is docked long enough it allows the supply to refillBefore heading back for another trip try it out you’ll be surprised

[@jaym2112]

Like your channel, but you did a lot of simply reading things I can find in the wiki, thoroughly discussed what I might used them for, but I still don't understand how to actually use them.

[@TheJazzoide]

A bit late to the party, but what if the inventory of the destination is full... and I don't want to sink the items. Will the drone stay at the destination until it unloads? Will it fly back still full? Or does it "know" the demand of the destination before leaving home and stay at home? I wanted to know if I should build dedicated destination (or home) pads for those items. Thanks in advance!

[@RobBossOne]

If you're still looking for the answer to this, they will circle the pad until it's available to unload.

[@TheJazzoide]

@@RobBossOne ok thanks for the answer! I decided to go for dedicated drop pads, so only one drone drops at each pad but no backup affects other deliveries.

[@HellendenGamer]

is it possible for me to have a single drone loop between 3 ports, like, 1 to 2 to 3 or something of the sort i really cannot figure this out

[@TotalXclipse]

Nope, they have a home port and one other that they can go to

[@HellendenGamer]

@@TotalXclipse dammit, thanks for the help, have a good night/day

[@2MACH]

why is my drone stuck on unloading? it leaves the first port and lands at its destination and then wont take off again it has batteries and everything

[@petradellai9538]

I've got 2 drone ports ATM. 1 takes lizard doggo waste the other pressure conversion cubes to my plutonium processor all the way across the map

[@petradellai9538]

the lizard doggo is kind of overkill, but it better than it building up in the main factory

[@mattbrassfield2291]

since its a 3x3 space and DRONE HUB and DRONE itself and on average 3 Storage containers with 5-20 belts attach for per port. Based on if you want to get fancy or Like Storage directly below and Threw the Floor lifts could make more Tighter build. But using these what (9+2+3)x2 2 represent the 2 ports. 28Total item could for a rough build. Now think of tracks from location to location yes they carry a ton of supplies. personally i like packages my Products and Ship them somewhere else for processing, yes the builds come with greater forethought but it is highly more satisfying....

[@Ramash440]

Hold up, is that dev stream footage at 4:56 early game footage ? Looks interesting, never seen that before.

[@delotrium6207]

Devs envisioned Drones from pretty much the start, it was actually one of the first components they added to the game, but then didn't actually put it in when they released the game to public, then they added them back...

[@gus.smedstad]

"We'll be covering information about the drone, as well as it's uses..." Never gets into why you'd use a drone instead of a train.

[@00xenobil00]

terrain, height and no needs for infraestructure

[@aenzian]

The big problem with the drones is the supply of batteries. In addition to ports A and B, you would also need a port C (at the battery factory), which supplies one of the other ports with batteries. And if they aren't used up fast enough, Drone C will block the entire logistics. So it's not really well thought out, because complete automation of the drone ports is not possible. You always have to intervene with batteries yourself. Or do I have a misconception here?

[@LassetUnsSpielen]

same problem here. found any solutions yet?

[@aenzian]

@@LassetUnsSpielen I made an extra port for batteries that powers several stations. To be on the safe side, with an overflow splitter that delivers excess material into the sink.

[@LassetUnsSpielen]

@@aenzian Thanks, so no way around making tons of batteries

[@aenzian]

@@LassetUnsSpielen No :)

[@titleatptitleinsertcoordin3701]

Is it really impossible to ride a drone? Man I really want to ride one, is there some techniques so I don't fly off?

[@alanwatts8239]

Maybe try mods

[@XadeGrimm]

Now I just wanna try using drones to transport all the raw nodes to one location and build one mega factory with only 2 exceptions 1 fuel power plant 2 battery factories transported by train to drone ports.

[@anthonystahl8996]

Trying to setup a single nuclear reactor, drones are transporting uranium, fluid canisters, packaged nitric acid, and electromagnetic control rods

[@slash4156]

There a guy who put 384 drones under the maps and Leads to one drone port

[@slash4156]

The guy who put 384 drones under the map is let game it out

[@LassetUnsSpielen]

@@slash4156 is it the guy who made a giant conveyeor belt tornado filled with nucular waste?

[@Oxsanna]

I preshot the thump up button since I didnt play the update yet and seeing this on video gave me anxiety xD So a tutorial would be awesome to my lil' brain xD

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

You thumbed a button, because seeing the video that contained the button gave you anxiety? And that is somehow connected to what others do? What are you saying?

[@judytaydzinska3487]

"HOWEVER" FOREVER !

[@JulianSloman]

How to use drones - doesn't explain how to supply the batteries reliably to the drones (given that we can't do circuits). Do we really need a as many ports at the battery making facility as we want to power elsewhere? So drone energy cost is at min 2 depots if you only want one battery factory? Edit: unless you have one central storage where you target that one from the battery factory to supply it with batteries and all other drone ports target it also (picking up batteries there)... That would be nice. I guess you could hybrid these and supply multiple drone ports with one battery delivery port as long as they're close enough for conveyer belts once there... hm. Circuits really would be nice.

[@TotalXclipse]

Drones only need to be fed batteries by one of the ports not both. But you could use one drone to delivery batteries to an array of drone ports.

[@Sam_Saraguy]

At your battery factory: Connect batteries to the battery inputs of all drone ports at your battery factory. Name one of them "Battery Supply" and then ALSO connect batteries to the INPUT (the regular input, not the battery input) of that drone port. Now any drone that lands there will fill up with batteries. Do NOT set a destination for this port, or assign a drone to it. It just sits there waiting for drones from other places to land and fill up with batteries. Now at each set of drone port remote locations where you want to be able to supply batteries to drones (batteries are only needed at one end of a drone route): Name one drone port "Batteries Incoming, Northern Forest" for example. Assign a drone to it, and set a destination for that drone port of "Battery Supply" (the battery factory port you set up above). Give that port a stack of batteries in the fuel slot (not the incoming or outgoing inventory) so the drone can fly. The drone will fly off to your battery factory, fill up with batteries and return. Now connect the OUTPUT of the "Batteries Incoming" drone port to the BATTERY inputs of all of the drone ports at that location, including the battery input for the battery supply drone. Done. Provided your battery factory can keep up, drones will now remain constantly supplied with batteries 😀

[@JulianSloman]

@@TotalXclipse by array you mean a bunch of drone ports in belting distance from each other, right? I ended up doing two ports at battery factory: free one (pickup) and one with unassigned drone (one off / emergency delivery) At Sulfur Lake Northern Forest had two ports, one battery pickup one nitrogen dropoff - and then at Nitrogen Delivery I only needed one port since it would fill up when visiting Nitrogen Dropoff (which had batteries). Kind of worked, but do wish I could have one supply drone flying all over the map doing battery drops

[@dewmguy]

nu-cle-ar, not nuk-u-lar

[@Alex__32]

Your world is really impressive looking. I'm still learning the game and haven't even reached nuclear power yet.

[@fmkmovies6854]

9 min video and 6 advertisements. WTF

[@TotalXclipse]

That sucks. Really odd given KZbin has placed a maximum of three ad slots on the video, they must really like you!

[@jayhome2715]

Very wordy video on something that should have taken 30 sec