REJECT Biomass, EMBRACE COAL! - SATISFACTORY Update 8 - Let's Play

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Because there were some issues with trial and error on this build, I've added my save file here: www.whatdarrenplays.com/satisfactory Hopefully that helps anyone trying to recreate it.

[@hurt12398]

Loving this series keep it up.

[@jorihiukka6483]

Can you point me where exactly it is?

[@eclipselmao3208]

Do I need to extract the save file?

[@eclipselmao3208]

Because when I try to open the file it says “cannot open file as archive”

[@Spongybobby]

I keep running in the problem that the power stops because of not enough coal and i did exactly like you did

[@ppunion]

Word of caution for anyone following this build along. There is an issue with where the water extractors are placed in the huge coal power factory. They need to be moved over a bit. It is described in episode 4 of this playthrough. Please upvote this so people see it before making the same mistake.

[@TheKevlar]

I experienced this myself and it was easy to solve. When trying to connect the T-pipes with the extractors they did not fit; the solution is to move the extractors ONE CLICK BACK (min 1:24:00 approx)

[@lolowski55]

Moved over in which direction?

[@pastaondaflawr4676]

@@lolowski55the foundations were extended to 4 on the right side of where he is building the first extractors and he made 8 spaces between the left side and the first set of extractors rather than the 4 that were there previously. I believe he has links posted to a google drive with the updated blueprint if my explaining was confusing.

[@souprmage]

I need to learn to read comments first. But only placed the first 20...brb

[@KiMLoKO1]

god I wish I seen this comment sooner... spent hours making this yesterday. I'm so sad.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

CORRECTIONS: -I placed a wall height of 12m on the logistics floor, it should be 16m, I'll fix this for the next episode. It's not important either way though really. -People are saying my 3 Coal Power setup makes 198MW of power. It does, but it consumes 20MW (the water extractor) so I factored that in for a net gain of 178MW. -I placed a conveyor pole slightly off, it will be fixed. My sincere apologies. -The diagram for the Coal Generator floor has the wrong dimensions in text. It says 47x23 - it should be 47x27 (the diagram spacing is correct, just the text number was off, its fixed in the files in the description) -How can 600 coal feed 45 generators? They're underclocked to 88%. They take 13.2 per minute. Generators can be overclocked or underclocked and they consume the same coal for their power output either way, you don't lose anything by underclocking. It's done this way so that You need 15 water extractors per 45 generators, and 5 extractors per pipe. -You can copy and paste a machines settings; true, but not generators. So you'll have to individually set them to be 88% each. Some people struggled with finding where to start building from, use these timestamps: 31:10 - This is how to get the height of your first foundation. 32:24 - This is the spot where you can start the build from. It shows you a few pillars that will allow you to align your build correctly.

[@MongoJoe87]

Thank you for bringing me back to Satisfactory after i really got burned out and didnt know how to get back into the game!

[@tomaszpankowski8903]

I prefer 20 generators at 100% in one line, they consume 300 coal and 900 water. That's 3 mk2 pipes and 15 water extractors for each 2 lines of generators.

[@ZombieMatt2]

Just a heads up for people following the corrections: I'm having water pipe issues that make the coal plants cycle on and off, and while I haven't fully diagnosed yet, I *think* it's because of the extra 4m of the logistics floor causing head lift issues. An extra pump on the pipes up at the logistics floor seems to solve the issue (and upgrading to Mk2 pumps when you get them would also solve the problem

[@ericleng7570]

There is problem with the mk2 pipe, it will not flow 600 cubic meter of liquid when there is a joint. Pre-filling generator by flipping the switch don't solve this. Some generator will still pause occasionally due to no water. Most suggestion will advise to use 90% of the mk2 pipe volume (540 cubic meter)

[@Mounz4]

@@ericleng7570 i think its a bug of the pipes, i had the same issues even with mk1 pipes and it drove me crazy. Solution i found was to redo the pipes and put the joints somewhere else. It might help for somoene looking into this.

[@craigstow1767]

This is content gold. You're thorough in your explainations, you're easy to listen to as you're clearly an experienced creator, you're funny, and super chill. Keep it coming!

[@lolowski55]

absolutly gold, even if it is black gold

[@sw4mpyshut71]

Darren: "Sorry for any offense I've caused, please holster your guns." Me:*Laughs Hysterically* .... *holsters guns.*

[@Callmesysy]

Laughs in 50cal

[@sci7zo]

It wasn't very rootin' tootin' of him to mock us like that

[@vince6621]

That got me bro. Darren funny

[@abcdIforgotTHErest]

For those who want/need Darren's To-Do List To-Do List []Copper Sheets []Hard Drive & Coal []New Equipment []Mini Coal Power []Concrete Boast []Basement []Logistics []Generators Been really loving the series

[@TheDeathMongrel]

With 1.0 release, there is now a giant geyser in the middle of the area, so you will need to update water extractor locations accordingly. Haven't tried it yet on 1.0, but there should be enough room around the geyser. Probably best to watch Darren's entire vid to get an idea of the layout and how you can move things around. Cheers. Also, on the fourth leg of foundations, the floating "tree" Darren points out is no longer chainsawable. It's a permastructure (no nobelisk even) that will be embeded in your western wall.

[@wilgbn]

On top of that, the white box-line around building is now gone 😢

[@ryuined]

the geyser was so sad to see :( looks cool tho

[@wilgbn]

A little update: I am trying to redo the power plant in 1.0 from scratch. Only one water extractor cannot be placed, so I'll overclock one to 200% to compensate. Also, the coal generators cannot be placed back to back the same way as in the video, as the clearance has been fixed.😢

[@ryuined]

​ @wilgbn unfortunately these are built for max clocking in end game so im gonna need to find a way to add an extra one somewhere

[@nschaeffer6229]

I also noticed, that the entire perimeter of the lake has been adjusted, you essentially have to move the entire building 3 foundations north in order to fit the lowest level without encroaching upon a cliff. It doesn't break anything just know you will have to place more conveyers in order to make it neat.

[@tomchrist4908]

Did you know you can sneak up on the hatchers? When you approach while crouching they don't send out the bugs. Then, when you've got explosive rebar you can one shot them without dealing with the buzzing jerks.

[@deeraz]

Actually, if you're at a nice distance you can shoot the first rebar, immediately reload (while it's in flight) and shoot a second one. The second one will land before the hatchers come out and destroy the nest. While you'd have to play around to figure out the distance for that, it's not too narrow of a window - took me two tries to start eyeballing it correctly 100% off the time.

[@grandegeek1130]

I just shoot them from afar and wait for the bugs to despawn

[@TinyFishies1]

thanks! this was very helpful for getting rid of them!

[@MyaMore-cb7zb]

Thanks, didnt know !

[@anakha12]

A handy water pump tip: The moving/pulsing blue circle around the pipe when placing pumps doesn't only show you the direction but will also show you the head lift it will give (use H to lock Hologram). Sorry if you said this in the video, I may have missed it.

[@dulikon6300]

Wow..with the moving point on the blueprint - reshoots, editing.. so much work into these. Great work!!! You are awesome.

[@BlueHawkPictures17]

Just a thing about stairs leading to doors. If you want to stay consistent with OSHA regulation by "Breaking up" stair ways with flat bits, you can also try to start with a flat bit at the door before starting the stairs. I could imagine how frightening it would be to open a door and then not feel anything underneath you after taking the first step 😅

[@GeraldMountaindew]

For those who aren't sure where he started placing the foundations, he isn't along the coast of the lake, but rather the mini island with the thick mushroom a little inward. This tripped me up for 10-20 mins.

[@lizk2223]

yep add a good hr for me

[@Emphino]

This one got me too.

[@whisper8003]

I'm completely lost as to where he started. He "clicked" his camera shutter thing, and suddenly there were foundations placed in the water, but I have no idea where. Then it clicked again, and he was somewhere completely different, and there were foundations going off in different directions. I understand needing to edit out some of the tedium of placing a couple thousand foundations, but if the first foundation is the most important, maybe show where it goes?

[@lizk2223]

@@whisper8003 Iook for the small island actually in the water, you can see a spitter and even a bee thing this is not far from the shore. if you are looking from the lime deposit it is off to your right. The spitter can be hard to see as they are on the top of the weird looking round structure. The water out to this island is low and if you go ahead in the video you will see he has laid some foundations . With your back to the island look to straight and to the left (back towards the lime deposit) Where two sides of the shore meet (at the rocks). You will find a series of natural rock looking spikes in the sand which is where he finishes. I used this point as my starting point because I was able to see the heights in comparison and know that if the last foundation laid was on this spot then by laying the first I would also be right and it worked. I stopped the vid on the very last foundation laid...set my first down in exactly the same place and then counted. Hope that helps it drove me a little nuts

[@Danny_UK]

Yeah I'm trying to follow this right now, new player to this game. I got the gist of it but the foundations of 25x37 just do not fit in where he said. He needs to go a little slower and explain where to place what properly because if we are to follow this and build onto it, it won't work out for many of us. I don't know if they have moved the island in game but when I get to 25 across it goes to far and I made sure I started right at the other end.

[@whoistomiam]

This is by far the longest Satisfactory Play through video I've watched. And thank you for making it so.

[@refrka7550]

Hi Darren, this is Luke, Ficsit Community Culture Coordinator. Thanks for all you've done and keep up the good work. However, I am disappointed to hear your thoughts regarding conservation of local flora and fauna. Ficsit manufactures and provides top-quality parts and products for use in countless critical projects throughout the system. Without the maximized acquisition and efficient processing of those resources, Ficsit, and the system, suffer. Please disregard the feelings associated with preservation of the local ecosystem and focus on the completion of your projects. Thank you!

[@GeraldMountaindew]

Loved this factory so much that I started building this at a different location in 1.0. The coal generators no longer allow their bounding box to overlap, so you must space them out so that the back is one tick away from the back of the allotted tile. This means that the pipes also have to be moved tighter together. Additionally, if you don't have enough head lift to get it the water all the way to the generators. consider making a water tower at the end of the pipeline.

[@shmooters5599]

What location did you build it at? I’ve just recently gotten into the game and have been following along, and this has been the first thing that has been impacted a lot by 1.0

[@whutbetripping2682]

@@shmooters5599 I started in the rocky desert, near there is a coastline there is a spot with 4 nodes 2 normal 3 impure, so I am building it there but just leaving a set of 15 gens out and I will combine the 2 impurees onto 1 belt to still power 3 full sets of 15. You can pretty much use this whever you want. As long as you have the room or make the room, and the right amount of water space.

[@ShadowdanceII]

Quote of the day: "Please holster your guns" LOL gold man, pure gold. Loved the video :)

[@neiltheflyingeel4414]

I stand by this man. Dear Darren's Mom and Dad, Darren's life choices are worth it in the end. Keep up the great stuff my guy!

[@melanieamrell4817]

The splitters will now connect directly to the lifts, it’ll save you some time and aggravation lining those up!

[@sgtprylo]

Love your videos. I am currently playing along with this series and learning as I copy what you're doing. If I can make one suggestion: for your huge build, you state how critical it ist o get the basement right. It would be beneficial to take some time to show exactly where the first foundation starts. It took me quite some time looking at the various terrain pieces to see where you started.

[@DrLeckon]

finally found someone with the same problem as me f

[@sikkandharh5123]

Me too

[@dwaynechiasson8334]

I’ve been waiting for this video to release, I’m doing my first Satisfactory playthrough and I have no idea how to set up coal 😂 You are a lifesaver Darren, love the videos man

[@JBQQ4U]

Coal is definitely the biggest step to getting fully into the automation. IDK if I'd call it a difficulty spike, but a major milestone.

[@sebastiaanvanderpas9894]

Yeah same first playtrough, but i could wait a week on coal so i started building one in the northwest but currently building this one aswell got al the pumps in place 🤯

[@samay5902]

easier coal is go to the left side of this HUB and you will see four coal deposits near a big lake, easy energy

[@GamingRoblox87_YT]

​​@@samay5902That's right

Check his older series it's fantastic. I'm just watching it and am at episode 12 of 66. Lots of great tricks and tips.

[@Benbreck]

35:29 (ignore this, just marking where I left off)

[@mattclark6037]

As always, awesome work! I love how ambitious this is for so early in the series. My midkid is devouring your teachings, she is so excited to play and put it all to use!

[@Mr_Severance]

I love the fresh start with satisfactory. I’ve watched the whole previous satisfactory play through. It’s amazing!

[@fangspecter2232]

hey, i started watching this and i gotta say i like the skeletal nature of the current state of your coal power factory, i like the idea of the factory being built all open style like it is right now, i also love how you take time to explain everything, its SOOOO much easier to process it all as my one issue with playthroughs of this game is the scale of everyones builds make it seem more complex then it is

[@matthewfox5374]

I love the hopping around in frustration @17 minutes. I could just hear you thinking wtf lift!?!?

[@billschannel8214]

For anyone coming to this months later, the pipe floor holes are still bugged. All of my floor holes in the lower levels worked as intended, but not a drop of water was getting upstairs to the coal generators. And if anyone's wondering, I had no problem with the pumps, they worked as advertised. Having read the warnings about the floor holes, I deleted the upper pipes and floor holes as well as the relevant foundation, reran the pipes straight up, and replaced the foundations, clipping and all. Not as neat, but it works. I understand it has to do with specifically how you build, but I decided to bypass the whole circus instead of futzing with it.

[@ZizzlyWizard]

For anyone wanting a better way to transfer resoruces for this massive project, unloxk the truck and setup a path for it to follow as well as 2 truck stations for unloding and loadin. Transfer the needed stuff from your home base and put the truck on auto pilot. It will take resources from your base and move it to the truck station at the new area automatically. The only trick to doing this is setting up platforms for the truck to drive on

[@0TioDudu0]

The vertical misalignment at 20:20 is probably caused by a rock peaking through the foundations. A solution would be to build higher foundations to stay further away from the ground.

[@MCJamZam]

1h45min of pure bliss, thanks again Darren!

[@martin2998]

Absolutely loving the new series. Following this way is so easy. Thank you

[@ttv_aus_justanothergamer4156]

Also you can't build the Coal Generators as close to each other as in the vid back to back, I think they patched that in the 1.0 release. Just FYI for anyone else thinking they have placed them wrong.

[@sunname6252]

20:20 ish Yeah, those edges around standard foundations are something you can place structures on and it messes with alignments, plain concrete floors in the awesome shop are always my first purchase because of it.

[@stephanbecker7918]

I must say, I am impressed with your video and commentary quality, doing it like a real professional! By far Satisfactory creator I am most impressed by!

[@tannerdevore]

Dude I've taken the longest break from satisfactory. You have robbed me of my break with this new series 😊

[@EccentricWarmonger]

At the 56 minute mark, where you say, don't worry about the railing going into the ground...my OCD kicked into high gear and I almost cried. LOL.... Love the videos!!!

[@tremendoustripod]

Am I the only one who on 1.0 has a huge geyser in the middle of this lake making it real weird to follow this build?

[@J8Designs]

did u find a solution?

[@charlesanderson9071]

Gotta say, I like the changes you have made in this new series! Looking forward to the next.

[@EnderKhaos]

Really appreciate the time effort you take to make the layouts and diagrams, makes it so much easier to follow. Can’t wait for the next video although this one is taking a lot of time to finish

[@IainB]

Love your videos Darren. The first two videos were easy to follow along. I feel like this video had some stuff that you did in the background that we had to play catch-up with.

[@aoi831]

I'm new to satisfactory so this series really helped me get started. But also I normally 'watch' by listening to the video as i get stuff done myself so i didn't notice until my 3rd time around your wonderfull text commentary throughout the video and especially at the end XD

[@ashleymartin3260]

1:07:08 if you’re forward planning to the point you have mk3 miners and can do max resources, wouldn’t that just be overshadowed by stuff like fuel generators and eventually nuclear?

[@InjectTheWaste]

still worth using all your power resources you shouldn't turn off coal just because you've got new power sources

[@Njordin2010]

Yeah but its not worth your time that much then to develop old sources. This wasn't a good idea for a beginner style video. ​@@InjectTheWaste

[@WillRhyne]

Its taken me all day to get thru 37 minutes of this one😂

[@nolanparcell638]

Love this series I can never find a good satisfactory series but this one is great!!

[@lambdaboss5528]

"so I can tell my mom and dad that my life choices were worth it in the end". One of the funniest lines I've heard in an intro. Really enjoyed videos 1&2 and looking forward to this one.

[@AmericanSuperman813]

I am building as you do i. These videos. I am a vet to this game and its just relaxing following along. Im curious if you could put that todo list you use on the right in the description so i can copy paste it in. No worries if you cant. Just a QoL ask. Great content. Im stoked for this one.

[@albertonimara5926]

i've been playing about 100 hours on the game, reaching on every playtrough that i did to computers max., but know that i starte watching this playtrough i've been wainting for the episode like crazy. U explain everithing sooooo good and make it very easy to new players and mid game ones like myself. Great work and greating from Spain.

[@kirkanderson1776]

This build guide is pretty sweet. You have given me more confidence in exploring since watching this video and the rest in the series. I found your channel after I had started so I have some explosives that helped. I kind of wished you'd speed run the journey over to the blue crater for reference but I found it nonetheless. The map pics definitely helped greatly! Keep up the great work!!

[@xiztence]

Commenting for the algorithm! Truly monstrous work on these episodes, very well done!

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

Seeing you build and just talk it through helps me extremely much, i'm coming from factorio and i'm thinking to small and still in 2D

[@noahrawlins2825]

Really learned a lot watching these first few episodes. My tip is for figuring out the lift from the Extractors if you really want to min/max your pump placement. The extractors don't show lift like the pumps so it's hard to see if you've used up the 10 they provide. But you can put a temporary pump at the level of the extractor pipe and see what it shows as the headlift. Make sure that's under 10 to your next pump and then you can take the temporary pump off.

[@R33F3RMONSTER]

The minecraft music is a nice touch. Great series so far, cant wait to see you get into the late game

[@blinkmuch]

This is top notch guide. I enjoy watching and learn shit ton as well. Cudos to you mate. Thanks for making my factory look like total rubbish by simply making a foundation.

[@dodomaestri2166]

Always thought this game was much too complicated, never imagined you'd be able to make so simple and interesting

[@Saaihead]

19:32 You can actually attach a splitter or merger directly to a conveyor lift, it snaps right to it.

[@kiritosblades]

for that right angle you did on the box to splitters, you could have deleted the extra splitter after connecting the box leaving only the floating belt and just right angled into the actual input splitters without leaving that extra splitter @WhatDarrenPlays

[@the_ttr]

Biomass burner shows max fuel consumption, not actual. so solid fuel will be if output will be 30MW. On grapth you have orange line (Consumption), black (production) and grey (capacity). Biomas burner are only load-folow power plants, their production is matching demand; coal power is constant-load. If you look again @22:00 you will see you have higher production (from coal) than demand, so biomass is not used The "clock" is not movin, it shows how much it will use on full-load draw

[@lolowski55]

I really do appreciate that every little pro tip in Your videos.

[@S4ns]

I like how everyone builds these aesthetically pleasing nice efficient factories and I'm just like, "SOME SPHAGET HERE SOME LASAGNA THERE, AND THE MARINARA!"

[@dinoj2082]

I finally got around to building this and I had an issue with the pipes on the logistic floor, they were right in line with the conveyors and pipes for the generators in the front of the building. I made my pump room wider so it's a 5 X 3 Rectangle rather than a 3 X 3 square in the basement. As always, loving this series! Also, the way the electrical poles fit in between the back-to-back generators, absolutely brilliant!

[@Chris-rd6tk]

Great series Darren! i been watching these over and over building along. thank you for taking the time detailing the build.

[@CaydenPark-p1g]

Love this game it’s always fun to see how other people play and build. I like these longer videos too so don’t worry about them running long.

[@Enpious]

Im never one to follow guides, but your videos are always a treat as a do my own builds! Though yours always look better then mine, so I do learn!

[@HayMax22]

At 18:00 and 24:20 I'm gonna be the "technically" guy. The power consumption for overclocking is still exponential despite what others may say, it's just that it follows a logarithmic curve instead so it appears on a graph different than a standard whole number exponent. The exponent is not a whole number. The exponent is 1.321928 which is the same as log2(2.5).

[@gavinclark8941]

Love your work, Sir! Informative, entertaining, and no yibber yabber. Well, just enough yibs, not enough yabs. Magic!

[@kngdrgn5852000]

The bugs i know currently with pipes. 1 mk2 pipes will occasionally drop below 600 flow rate. 2 when a pipe to an existing pipe, junction, and wall/floor hole the connection isn't recognized by the game. Hole connection bug is common, and the others are rare. Both have been mentioned by Coffee Stain.

[@sakibomb-p4l]

Oh man, been enjoying this but i think i am screwed lol.... Since Satisfactory 1.0 has come out. This Lake has a giant Steam Geyser in the middle....

[@frostbite3998]

yeah i noticed and before 1.0 came out i had everyhing laid out. Is that gonna be a problem you think?

[@tonyllinx]

Been building this following your video. Good god... my head hurts. This is probably something you can do in a couple of hours... I've been doing this for like 7 hours. So many 'no, thats not quite right'. This game is going to give me nightmares. Great videos by the way.

[@jhc9000]

So i just started playing satisfactory for like 20 hours now and your videos have been super helpful getting me up to speed. I wont lie that this video had me overwhelmed.. but i used it as inspiration to practice and get my "bob ross on" and make "Happy Little Factories". That being said I feel there is a fundamental system flaw that is being missed in the design of this power plant. A lot of the weird percentages are being done to avoid exceeding the max flow of the mk 1 pipes (300). However the design with a manifold layout divides producers and consumers (its a PubSub design pattern at heart - software engineering speak).. For instance if you do [ (Pump) (Pump) -> (Plant) (Plant) (Plant)] you are guaranteed to have traffic issues. There is mathematically a solution to do coal without weird ratios that works with the mk1 pipes. You can either use mk1 belts or mk2 belts for the coal.. latter of course being more efficient.. 120/min coal will always supply 8 plants. 8 plants consume 360 water, which is supplied by 3 pumps. If you create a token ring system you can design it such that you never exceed the 300 threshold. Though the valves on pumps and plants are one directional the pipes are not.. They are one big pool. That being said for every 8 coal plants do this [ (pump) (plant) (plant) (plant) (pump) (plant) (plant) (plant) (pump)] you can even chain these .. key is just creating T junction from the plant or pump to the main artery .. as long as pump to plant ratio is 3/8 and there are 120 coal for every 8 coal plants you are golden. No weird calculators for early game players. Keep up the great work!

[@jhc9000]

One more thing.. Players could be forgiven for assuming pipes are identical to belts.. They are in fact not at all.

[@TerkanTyr]

Fading out your own rambling got me chuckling, that was fantastic.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I'm glad! And I hope this has allowed my use of posish

[@TerkanTyr]

@@WhatDarrenPlays oh no that was inexcusable and I'm in correspondence with the Hague's ICC about it, but yes it will likely yield a milder ruling.

[@rockteergaming]

for the small power plant the spliters can be placed directly on the lifts

[@vikruus7997]

Another great series! Really enjoying it, thanks.

[@mikefaz2696]

Great tips - never thought of setting up temporary coal power while I build a bigger system.

[@mattallin3553]

was waiting for you to continue!...but an hour and 45 minute video?! lets goooo!!!! got my steak and potatoes, rum and coke, and ready to relax...lets go!!!!

[@natebosma5922]

Previous episodes, not chopping down trees: "I'm an enviromentalist in Satisfactory" This episode: *builds huge coal burning plant on top of a lake, destroying the ecosystem totally* Love these videos, they are amazing both for info on the game and just the production quality. And you make great commentary while playing.

[@johnfarnell4144]

i am really enjoying your videos. been watching for awhile now & you gave me the confidence & creative ideas to try some big builds myself. i just fully dismantled my starting set up to change it into a big factory. its time consuming but i can see it will be well worth it.

[@moosewatson8024]

Thankfully, there is now a "creative mode", and you can load up your save with it. As long as you don't save over the load, you can easily plan out factories without cost or restrictions.

[@peterpanini7785]

Ayo, aprreciate the effort you put in with the diagrams and explanations. It turns out really nice and informational. Enjoyed it.

[@ausjoy4008]

Quick heads up, after following this build to a T, I had a lot of issues with water getting to each generator (15 gens). Now this might sound odd, it’s hard to explain over text but I’ll try my best at the fix that has got me 88.8888% on 15 gens using mk 2 pipes. Scrap all the vertical pipework on the middle floor, just have a pipe running over to the side of the first gen, run the single pipe through the roof with a pipe floor hole. Now have this pipe running horizontal; making sure they are higher than the lifts that go into the gens. Add a junction above each water input to the gen and noodle the pipes into the gens from there. Essentially your feeding the gens from the top using pumps and gravity instead of pumps trying to force water up the pipes. If anyone has questions I’m happy to try and explain it better, I just suck at explaining things😂 but it’s nice seeing my pipes straight capped at 600m3, they don’t fluctuate at all.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

I’ve provided a save file for people on how to get it working with mk2 pipes in the description!

[@tobypass108]

This is sooo good. I built my factory all on one level. Didn’t know you could use pipes and elevators through floors! My factory is a mess. I have loads of materials up to tier 6 - now I need to delete everything and put it in loads of crates and start again - thanks - loving this series … keep it coming 😊

[@colinhendry6116]

I'm only 17hrs into the game total, definitely have only gotten more overwhelmed (in a good way) for stuff to do ever since I unlocked Tier 2 lol. I really appreciate the UI tips, building advice, and explaining why certain items are being placed the way they are in the build. That additional info during these first 4 episodes has got me trying to design my own layout! I'ts not going to produce as much power, but that's because I'm cutting into my space with foundries. My one nitpick for these episodes is the stark contrast from episode 1 & 2 to this one. I've spent 8hrs planning/building my set-up, and I'm not even close to half way done--got me reminiscent of the numerous Minecraft builds I start and don't finish. But, I'm gonna try to complete it!

[@CrazyBeardedGamer]

Dude really went from i dont know what the hype about these blade runners are for to, these are an absolute game changer in one season.

[@Coachmattyj]

This series has been so fun to watch man

[@louissafranek5250]

you became my favorite youtuber when you mentioned interstellar... great video man

[@simonsmallchua1984]

Love you work, but in my version a few things are slightly different, like getting quartz/silica which took me way off track and time to find. Then going to blue lagoon thingo, at 28:00 there was a gigantic jumping spider that I couldn't get past and lost all my stuff. None your fault just quirky. One general feedback is when you're travelling long distances, open up the map every now and then on your way there, and zoom out, so we know where you're going.

[@patrickgraves5390]

I appreciate that you giving your save file. I rather build my own factories but i do use some build esthetics from you. I just dont feel like i grinded a factory build if its not from own mind despite building it. As always thank you for your videos.

[@Phantomneko-r4w]

I've found that the best way to avoid using pumps is to create a water tower that's quite high. Pump the water up the tower and bring the pipes down the other side towards the plant. The pressure created by the downward flow will negate the need for pumps to the generators. It's a really handy technique.

[@nacicelik1954]

For 19:00 -20.00 how the split mechanism works, for my logic it work like in total 60 coal 30 for the 1th, 15th for the2th, 15 for the 3th splitter, Does the splitter works like that or 20,20,20 for each for that build?

[@LancelotSwe]

Nice video! When you get blueprints you should take your time and make a lot. I made all the different materials 4x4 foundations with 1-4m. And a lot of conveyer buses with right and left turns. It took a while to make but really saved time later on, just planting down a long conveyer beltline.

[@dodomaestri2166]

1:00:32 the second belt support is not alligned, I'm sorry but it's hurting my brain.

[@TheGryPilgrim]

For the coal, I just found out myself, you can basically manifold the water easy to do 3 water pumps to 8 gens, with no slow down or underclocking. Just link two pumps one pipe, then one solo, run it up and connect 3 generators, then join the two incoming water pipes and run one line the rest of the way. Made my life tons easier.

[@punkathet6431]

satisfactory newb here...just got the game on the steam sale...great videos thanks for all you do...cheers

[@Akazi_o7]

Im having a problem with a drill, it kind of clips through the foundations and it looks weird, its the first drill you place which is at 55:20 do you know what to do?

[@jamikellburns4551]

Ayyyyye. Thanks for making my day. Wish you the best in life! Always look forward to your uploads

[@shawnp6653]

So nice to get the Blade Runners and the mini coal power plant. For making coal only runs, I built a personal storage box on the coal power plant platform, dumped stuff there, and then my personal inventory could carry more coal.

[@danielhomant2832]

In regards to under locking your initial coal plant. A more effective method would have been putting in 2 underclocked water extractors would fully supply 3 coal generators with less power consumption than that single water extractor, resulting in a net gain of more power for the same coal consumption.

[@ysharros]

Amazing build, very educational for a Satisfactory noob like me -- thank you for the time and effort this clearly took to do.

[@WhatDarrenPlays]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andreaspitsch9004]

You're on fire, man. Keep it up!

[@adamwalker3560]

At 47:01 , I sincerely hope you meant to say 12, and not 16... Otherwise, you're in for a bumpy ride. 4m walls x 3 = 12m logistics floor. 12 looks correct, according to your past builds, so... Lol

[@xiratak6429]

jump cuts make it very hard to locate where you are w/o a map between them or coords w/e

[@skulking]

Loving the series so far cant play satisfactory due to not owning a pc but really enjoy watching you play

[@fang0101]

i love this area so if you could can you plz do a short video where you started or a montage video for 1.0 cause i think they changed the lake, cause i'm confused where you and how to place the foundation like you did i been comparing to the video and blueprints but it doesn't work out

[@wilgbn]

He started on the little "island", near the cascade. I know it is a bit confusing to do this build in 1.0, but with a little tweaking, it will work just fine.