Making ALL THE ALUMINUM in the World! - Satisfactory 1.0

[@ImKibitz]

Been going pretty crazy on the 'side projects' to get the save ready for the next public release. Hopefully good to release once this project is done, and then posted on Patreon - www.patreon.com/c/imkibitz

[@sosigram537]

Hey man, great video as always. Just letting you know that I think you forgot the output buffer on the trainstations. Irregular bauxite flow is pretty bad, as it leads to water backing up and stopping the whole system.

[@ImKibitz]

@@sosigram537 Figured someone else would notice, I was reviewing things yesterday and realized I eff'ed up big time 😅

[@Unused14]

I was wondering if you would be able to visit Cities Skylines II again? If not it’s ok.

[@gregritferdjr]

@@ImKibitzWhy didn’t you go for the standard aluminum ingot recipe with silica? You would have a 66.6% yield over 50% with pure aluminum ingot.

[@gregachard6375]

"Fluids are really weird" proceeds to draw what happens just like IRL lul

[@thephantom7121]

Look real fluid physics are also weird

[@SomeOne-ph1gw]

@@thephantom7121 he ain't wrong though

[@andromidius]

Yeah, mostly due to a lack of pressure modelled into the physics. With pressure water can flow upwards quite easily - but in Satisfactory we have to work around that. Takes getting used to - and even then it still throws me off from time to time.

[@mike12799]

I definitely have to applaud the developers, using real world fluid dynamics,and physics properly

[@harrisonlorens3585]

@@mike12799they absolutely do not use either real world physics or fluid dynamics properly lol

[@God_Reaver]

R.I.P the truck at 2:48

[@ImKibitz]

Yo WHAT??! LOL

[@God_Reaver]

@@ImKibitz i had too go back cuz i thought i saw the truck flipping, and too my supprise, it flipped xD

[@absolutecompletenonsense143]

Bro spontaneously did a backflip

[@Cool-Game-Dev]

@@ImKibitzYou should probably fix that

[@God_Reaver]

@@absolutecompletenonsense143 fr xD it's like ''look at this trick''

[@Kevie33]

Love that Kibz didn't think of merging 3*120 belts to get his 1*360 belt. But got to say that the balancer looks way cooler 😉

[@derangedstove]

I thought I was tripping and went to calculate it myself lol, well it still works

[@pranavghantasala6808]

Just finished an exam and a semester design review, my favorite game got a massive update and to top it all off, Kibitz posted? Today is a hell of a good day! Edit: The game is Derail Valley. Just thought I should mention that

[@pootispiker2866]

Pimp my train. If you don't watch Hyce go check that stream out. You can put underglow on the locomotives now

[@thephantom7121]

It might seem silly with the fluid physics going anywhere as long as the end result is lower but that is actually how fluids and siphons work

[@logan9699]

I mean, is that not intuitive though...? Like I'd like to think people understand that - we have water towers literally everywhere, why else would we build em

[@Erricano614]

Most Satisfactory youtuber ever

[@we1rd92]

lmao that truck bugging out at 2:49, classic 💀

[@aggiedudesa9206]

“Super easy, barely an inconvenience” The thing! He said the thing!

[@maxsalmon4980]

Wow wow wow wow wow wow.... ... ...wow.

[@Raegoer]

KZbinrs referencing each other is tight!

[@Blar17]

So, you got a reference for me? Yes sir, I do.

[@Morinaka25]

I'm surprised you don't know about pipe junction priorities, and how it would simplify your water set up for the refineries, while also making sure water never backs up. If you put a vertical pipe junction before the input of the sloppy alumina refinery, run the middle to the refinery, run water from extractors to the top input, and the excess water from the alu scrap refinery to the bottom input, the junction will always pull all the water it can from the bottom, then from the top. This means that the extractors only supplement the water supply from the scrap recipe, so it can never back up; you can literally dump as much water as you like into the top of the junction and it will always exhaust the bottom input first.

[@renevile]

too much work it's easier just to split the refineries up, one set uses fresh water and one set uses recycled water, at the correct ratios offcourse.

[@gemmel3197]

Took me three playthrough before I discovered this. Haven't had a aluminum nightmare sine. It just works.

[@janodelic2615]

Thanks for all the videos. Bought the game at update 3 and was watching most of your satisfactory videos since then for inspiration. I think thanks to you, I finally beat the game yesterday after almost 200 hours. My Aluminium setup only broke about 4 times during that ^^’

[@NithinJune]

10:48 this is how it works in real life too btw

[@Dreamshadow1977]

I want to thank you for talking through some of your processes. It really helps in learning some of the more advanced methods for handling materials and making the factory grow.

[@daniel_kbn1391]

11:00 that's just gravity, cuz it works irl too

[@Thetreeboar]

Thank you for explaining how the load balancing works - I noticed you said on stream that numbers drop way off as soon as you math, so wanted to say that I appreciate the explanation and that it's helpful to me :)

[@XDY8]

Loving the video and regular updates, cheers mate

[@nitricoxidegod]

Thank you for the load balancer info. Very much appreciated. Beautiful setup.

[@JP-ry8qt]

This is such a great series kibz. Thanks for the effort you're making 🎉

[@BobRaygen]

I recently made an aluminum setup. I used the sloppy alumina, but also the alternate to use petroleum coke instead of coal to get even more aluminum scrap for max scrap production. I threw some smelters down for now, but I will eventually gather the silica needed to produce max aluminum without needing SAM, or at least for now.

[@thibaudsonnerat8962]

2:49 Average drunk driver behavior by the truck

[@russko118]

11:05 that's how fluid really works in real life

[@follar00]

Kibs run your water outfeed loop under the two refineries. Bring it into a vertical junction, and the new water in the top of that vertical junction. Solves all of the clogging problems.

[@impwizard9732]

Alustupidium is now its name. Now everyone agrees about the name.

[@lilith-thelustdemon5174]

Rip Aluminimimun

[@jaranth]

Your dedication to exact efficiency is godlike... WHERE do you get the patience?! Kudos!

[@mhymullaney]

I'm almost 300 hours into my 1.0 playthrough and have just barley finished my fuel power plant, and still have only a tiny temp aluminum setup. This game takes my life away. 😂

[@conroygreyfin7011]

Im at 260 hours on my 1.0 playthrough (haven't played since before trains) and I have collected a lot spheres, sloops and HDD's, am on the second to last phase and I still barely have a proper aluminum set up. I build, move on, go back and redo things so often. And not a chance I could build factory and fill it up. I have to build production first and aesthetics after. This game has become a comfort to life but it's also cursed me to think about production lines even in my sleep.

[@Rwdphotos]

In my experience, the exit valve needs to be set to max to allow for variation in flow. If you limit it to the exact flow, it’ll back up bc pipes tend to produce an average and not a continuous amount, so when it does a burst above the valve limit, it’ll back up slightly, and will add up over time. Also, you may as well belt it as if you had mk6 belts, but just underclock things for now to match the belt output until they can be upgraded.

[@trex5391]

Seeing the sheer scale of his factory motivates me to do my own but kibitz is too crazy

[@superkaiwese3123]

1:18 i made a massive aluminum factory in end game because i needed a few aluminum it took hours to build but i ended up beating the game a few days later, never ended up using it, it was worth it just to look as it as i would boost myself all over the world though.

[@420handgrenades]

Making ALL the aluminuminum and then some! This will definitely take more than one episode. Very nice!! Keep er up kibz!

[@roberto01989]

omg math bro..... BALANCE 3*120=??? :D 4x600 to spliter and take 120belts to merger x3 cheers done so much wasted place haha

[@DDXITguy]

Careful on your aluminum setup. You feel into the water stall trap. When they backup the system will stall. You need to add awesome sinks in the production so they never back-up

[@juleczeknl9749]

Yo new video lets gooo!🎉🎉 keep up the gud work kibitz❤

[@joaquins8056]

'Super easy, barely an inconvenience'

[@johannstein5199]

The "water tower mechanik" isnt just a ingame mechanik, world wide we use water towers in the same way, pump it up to a high point and from there on gravety does its job. Thanks for the video cant w8 for the next one!

[@pookieish]

With a mk2 blueprint, you can make a single blue print that eats water, coal, and bauxite and spits out AL ingots. Not sure it would be more efficient at this scale, but it saves a ton of time on a smaller project.

[@Phishion]

14:22 I dont get it? Why would he have to balance the conveyers? The 780 belts are good enough for 600 bauxite. Am I missing something?

[@SH33333SH]

Pure nodes with mk3 miners can't be dealt with 780 belts as they produce 1200, 600 is normal nodes

[@Bob1324]

ITS THE BEST TIME OF THE DAY (thank u for being amazing 😭)

[@brianmeade5527]

I'm waiting for the moment Kibz realizes he has to redo most of this because 1200/min lines now exist and pure bauxite nodes as well. Edit: Nevermind, just got to 14:28, though he will still have to redo the basics floor.

[@Vaelosh466]

For those that are looking for easier options this can be done much more simply if you're OK with relying on item backup. For the refineries, set up the six refineries next to each other with each the opposite direction, e.g. north-south-north-south-north-south, and set each alternating one to sloppy alumina and normal scrap, such that the water output from the scrap is next to the water input for the sloppy alumina. Connect all water pipe output/inputs together with big pipe network between all refineries, connect the output of each sloppy alumina to the input of aluminum scrap (this can be one output to one input), and hook up a line of bauxite and a line of coal to the appropriate inputs. With this setup you can put as much input water as you want into the water side and the refineries making scrap will always get prioritized by the game to be emptied first. Don't ask me why this works, just believe in Snutt. I haven't tried this with the input water being shared with other setups as well, but it would probably still work. For balancing belts with more items than your one conveyor can carry (and especially if the input belts have different numbers of materials or the numbers don't split nicely with splitters), industrial storage boxes are your best friend. Industrial containers will take up to 2 belts worth of items at full speed and output up to 2 belts at full speed. However it will only do this when there is more than one item in the container so if it's empty and not getting items at full speed on both belts it will favor one, which is fine because that one will eventually fill up its machines and only take what it needs after that. For more belts, set up 4 containers, 2 in front of 2, and belt up to 4 belts into the inputs, then set up the outputs so that one belt from each container goes into the one in front of it, and one goes into the one in front and to the side of it. Again this may require waiting for some belts to become full but it will eventually balance if you have input >= output. You can do this with splitters and mergers too but I've found this takes up less room and has the advantage of letting you pre-fill with items to fill out the belts faster.

[@timovdbroek]

the vid we've been waiting for

[@addison6536]

the way he splits the bauxite and coal exploded my mind

[@Acecam737]

This is precisely why I just started putting shards in everything, since I know, I can manufacture them later and there are far more slugs than ever before a mixed, together with the shoops yeah i have shards for days

[@TAiiNE]

This massive redo is why I highly recommend future planning when building out factories. Even if you are only on 240 or 480 belts, if you don't want to rip up the whole setup as you progress build it out as if you had Mk6 belts and Mk 3 miners. If a 1200 line can support X machines, build that many, use smart splitters set to overflow and you have a stacked line that resources will only flow to the number of machines the current belt speed setup can support. A simple belt upgrade expands it. Outputs are treated much the same, only with temp divides to account for current belt speed incase the production max's out the belts you have. I Did this when making quickwire, 480 belts... 6000 quickwire spread across 13 of them until I could upgrade and then these lines were merged with the placement of a single belt. Upgrade of belts also doubled the production as the belts could handle more coming in and so it overflowed to more machines. No need to build anything but replace and add a few belts. Fluids are a set it and forget it kind of thing. Most of my early production before 600 pipes will forever remain at 300, if they work fine as is there's zero point to 'merge' two or so setups just because you got 600 pipes. Example you have an overclocked extractor providing 280 water to 5 machines and you have several setups of it... it works fine with 300 pipes. Just because you get 600 pipes there's zero reason to waste the resources to upgrade it all just to 'merge' two setups together. If it's still doing the same thing it's a pointless change just to have an extra pipe join the two.

[@bigchungusthe3rd668]

One thing your videos have taught me is that I have been vastly underestimating the amount of space I need to make myself for my factory

[@Psy_an]

kibs i gotta say i love this series. one of the few ill click off another vid to watch

[@garrisonraine795]

I love how we're at the same point in tech but vastly different in production, Im literally only using the swamp bauxite

[@nolen560]

i remember when i was building a steel foundry and had to load balance for the first time. figured it out without any tutorials just me and my big* brain. took forever but was super proud of myself when i finished.

[@davidvankasteren361]

You are a madman! Loving it!

[@tuijavirtanen4396]

He is back again! The factory must grow.

[@NotEnoughAttention]

On the load balancer, all you had to do to get second 360 belts was merge the 120 lines 3 by 3

[@OccasusRaven]

16:10 When kibitz went grazy

[@bestbattle]

I finished a freaking mechanical degree but when I see myself in Satisfactory having to calculate and load balance I just lose myself. Then I see a new video from Kib and enjoy

[@zacharymichael9718]

Kibitz talking about mathing out even splits, meanwhile I'm slapping down splitters and mergers until it just works.

[@reyalsregnava]

Quality of life: Run power on ceiling nodes attached to the bottom of the belt scaffolding and train tracks(it may need beams can't remember) over the pit.

[@EpicCat5548]

14:54 Ah, yes, we love our Ryan George references

[@NoisyCricket784]

Love your vids they are one of the things I constantly look forward too keep it up.

[@sparkyails123]

Neat, loved the video Kibitz.

[@graine12345]

Kibitz satisfactory video, me happy

[@Jallahruud]

Damn youre really on the grind! Thank you kibitz!

[@BleachWizz]

19:00 - hmm I understand load balancing, but connecting to a splitter with 3 120 belt to a merger WILL create a 360 belt as long as you provide more than that to it. so basically you split into a splitter with this settup and it overflows with the rest necessary oh nice you even took it a step further.

[@0o0ification]

These alternate recipe recommendations are invaluable. Now, I just need a time machine to get back all the hours getting the original recipes to work…

[@shredder354]

I like how you passed the bauxite underneath the belt instead of just running them to opposite splitters. unnecessary spaghetti is the best spaghetti

[@valtarg1299]

I'm surprised you didn't go for the electrode scraps

[@BenRat-cy7rn]

lets goo finally new video!!!!!! i love you kibitz

[@georgi5236]

Ru gonna make a new Dyson Sphere Srogram series? Also loved the video.

[@siriuslul4762]

how often did you fall into the big hole in the middle?

[@greenscorpeon3]

As it currently stands you will have throughput issues with the belts coming from the trains. When trains stop at a station, the stations inputs and outputs become locked. So in reality you have 780 i/m - the time station is locked per train cycle. To solve this you have to set up a large bin next to every train station and unload into it with both belts (so the station is emptied out faster into the bin, resulting in it being empty when the train comes back). Then from the bin you can just move that one belt that you already have

[@gemmel3197]

There is going to be problems with his water. The new water pipe needs to be higher than the recycle pipe when they merge. Also using Electrode Aluminum Scrap I found the numbers are much easier and make more scrap/ingots. Love the video as always.

[@dsmith9456]

Holy hell, all your stuff is amazing. So much going on and all pretty much neat and lovely looking. I do not know how you do it, even if I know how you do it, I dont know how you do it. Really well done, I hope your getting paid well for all this work because it is more than just a hobby at this point. Cant wait to see what on earth you will do when the Christmas stuff comes out.

[@dr.paulwilliam7447]

me: wins game with one refinery for alumina, one refinery for alu scrap in the entire world. Fully overclocked plus somerslooped to be fair. But only one of each. ImKibitz: all the alumina in the world is mine! Hundreds of refineries for the build god…

[@giliamgoossens9988]

Mr Kibs. I've been wondering. Why dont you place a smart splitter to put any overflow on items in the ticketmachine? That way your whole factory stays in motion without stalling all the items on the belts. Plus you make a ton of tickets that way!

[@topside1981]

Considering I have a calculus test later today this was probably the easiest math I will hear all day

[@renevile]

can't wait for the next episode where all the refineries break because of the water. there is a simpler way than the valves, just slpit up the plants so all the recycled water feeds some refieneries and the fresh water feeds the rest. that way it can never break due to backing up.

[@drabsavage8571]

YASSSS!!!! NEW EPISODE 🤩🤩

[@gamingandlifeonwheels2104]

Did he really say"my brain is kaputt"? 😂 Greetings from Germany 😊

[@robertscholz2814]

By using Sommersloops in the refinerys with the sloppy recepie you can produce alot of "free" water, feeding back (so much that you dont need to input any new water from waterextractors once all the pipes are filled) and to use for pure ingot recepies/steamed sheets and so on. Reduced the amount of waterextractors by alot in my playtrough...plus you get double the aluminuminum-solution to make scraps to smelt down.

[@Deode-d4h]

I can barely watch this video, I feel like an imposter when I watch someone play vs when I play Satisfactory. It's the oddest feeling feeling ever considering it's just a hobby.

[@jonathanlonsdale3404]

5.03 , My head hurts

[@turkersubasi]

Before aluminum part you weren’t explaining much of what you are doing so i was confused. Now that you are explaining with numbers it is so much clearer to follow automation

[@matthewli488]

Your whole factory is based on exact input and output and you limit your factories in small rooms which means you don't have room for expansion.. Good luck rebuilding your rooms and factories when you upgrade the belts

[@FixItOrNot]

Can you use splitters directly off your 900 plus per minute outputs, to split them to 450 each? That way you have belt capacity and enough shmelters to handle the throughput?

[@andre_601]

I personally would've used a lift for the stations to take from the bottom port and move it up... Feel like it would look cleaner that way.

[@emilandersson9954]

When you harvest so many nodes by train, do you calculate how many items you get att train station? Or do you just loop trains and hope you dont build to many machines for that input? And if you calculate, do you have any tips on how you can calculate trains in and output? Love your videos! 🤟

[@Dr.Cosmar]

I usually create a 4m platform for an industrial water tank to sit on, and from the pump I run the pipe as parallel as possible, only adding pumps and calculating the required amount to get to the storage tank. Sometimes, just doesn't matter how far I go, I only need about 1-2 pumps at key points. I can have 1 tank feeding 19 coal factories before I have to consider a second line or under clocking. Another hidden mechanic, hydro hammer is a thing in this game. You just don't get to hear the knock. It happens when you do what I do, which is textbook, then instead of waiting for your tank to fill, you just flip everything on and walk away. Your machines will get starved of water, and the tank will not fill, at the same time the pumps will shut on and off... why's that? The water is sloshing back and forth. There's too much empty space, and the machines don't get filled at the same rate. I think there's a way to balance pipes, but I haven't cracked phase 4 yet, and I don't like spoilers. Use valves, laminate the flow. You can prevent the sloshing by ensuring, for example, a 600m3 pip carrying 480m3 of water, carries only 480m3 of water to the tank, creating a consistent pressure and inevitably eliminating the water hammer taking your stuff offline.

[@XAORESS]

We need MOOORE aluminuminum, brother !

[@alienescaner1394]

I have a question dear Kibitz. Are you using any modular factory building for any part (like plastic etc). Or using only one single megafactory building for all of them? “Just put a miner/extractor for every single mining spot and line the belts to the stations, carry them all to one single building. Split them to the smelters->constructors--> assemblers ……. Ta daa, you have rubber 🏆 “ is that what you did? Cuz I want to do this and not sure if this will work

[@alecdacyczyn]

Your recirculated water is gonna jam up. Even if your valve is exact it still happens. When it happens make a overflow drain (inverted U and headlift mechanics) leading down to a coal gen or wet concrete refinery or whatever.

[@999erh]

In case you didn't know, you can do overclocking at less than 250%. 😀

[@TrautBox]

You may want to save SAM to use later for end game

[@JavierSalcedoC]

Mr Kibz please give biofuel for the jetpack a try. it's on the game for that

[@Mdfan3071]

Bauxite❌❌ Boheitay✅

[@zw98]

Just in time for my lunch break!

[@patmalloy3569]

If I had to redo all that initial work I would cry and say the hell with it.

[@Takrit.]

for your load balancing (19:58), in your example you had 4 240 belts and wanted 360; why not combine 2 of these into 480 with a mk4 belt, then split it into a mk4 and a mk 2 belt so you get 360 and 120, then maybe combine the 2 120 belts into 240 (if that helps later, it might help more if you keep them as 120)? in fact, you could combine them with the excess 120 from your 1200 belt

[@Creebercraft945]

Aluminuminum is the only acceptable way to say aluminum.

[@qbabq]

I really enjoyed :D I wish I have a better laptop that could handle factories like Yours without any problems...

[@Franklin_Johanessan]

HELL YEAH BROTHER ❤

[@bloctom9484]

Have you seen the electrode aluminium scrap alternate recipie ? Is it not more efficient in bauxite usage?

[@alexsiemers7898]

Its around 10% more scrap from alumina solution but I imagine he wants as much oil going to plastic/rubber as possible

[@DoomsDay117x]

SUPAH numbers!

[@Apollos1986]

Why do you need load balancing when you can use smart splitters and set one output to overflow? Using regular splitters for 3 machines from one side will yield uneven loading. From the 720 belt the first machine gets 360 and the other 2 get the other 360. Overflow setup is superior in many applications.