Save Time in Satisfactory With This Easy Blueprint

[@NelsonMinar]

This video was really helpful, thank you. I appreciated that it was relatively short and clear. I'm a new player and it took me nearly 2 hours to get this set up, tested, and working! I'm sure it'd be faster for someone more experienced with the game. The tricky part was getting the lifts to line up nicely through the holes. I'm still confused about whether it's really necessary to place the lifts twice like you do, once above the hole and once below. But I got it working in the end and this is just the kind of video I needed to bridge me to more clean designs. *Edit* further reading suggests there's two ways to use lifts + holes. Either you construct two half-lifts by connecting something to the top or bottom of the hole. That's what this video shows. Or you can construct the lift in one go, all the way from the bottom to the top through the hole. However this second method is more like clipping the lift through the foundation, it just happens to look more or less right. Both methods can work, at least sometimes, and it's easy to get confused when placing lifts and not know whether you're doing one or the other.

[@Thebuird]

Didn't think to put the blueprints on my hotbar-Duh. I was also excited for blueprints and came back to the game after a long break-setup a manufacturer layout with floor holes and got that visual bug. I was super disappointed. I didn't know it was just a bug and would go away after a reload. It's annoying , but way less annoying then changing up my whole design. Thanks for the tips!

[@DrLootCrate]

No prob! Blueprints on the hotbar are often not needed if you are putting down two or three, but if you are doing 24 assemblers around, it becomes pretty handy! Glad you liked the vid

[@JoshDRivia4]

That underfloor power is such a simple idea, don't know why that didn't occur, cheers for the tip!

[@DrLootCrate]

No prob bud. Glad it helped!

[@brodriguez11000]

They can be placed along edges, and subsequently hidden by more foundations.

[@thetoyodacar2264]

I tend to stack assemblers if I have multiple items that I need to make for another recipe. 3 walls high before the next one, then have the assemblers slightly offset from one-another so that you can have all floor holes right beside eachother.

[@Ronin11111111]

I really should set up chainable blueprints for each building. I only have a 10 smelter and 6 foundry one, but I feel like I really should have at least one for each producer building. I like mixing the "multiple rows" style with the "belt down the middle, buildings on both sides" style. Also made a fantastic discovery today, if you use the polymer resin and residual rubber recipes you can get rubber for 40% less crude oil! I only wanted to make 15 turbo motors per minute, but I was really starting to run out of oil, so this helped a lot.

[@DrLootCrate]

I made the 10 smelter one right away, but I found I still liked putting them down 1 by 1. Have you tried the recycled plastic/recycled rubber loop? You can get 1800 rubber from 600 oil. Never tried that polymer resin recipe but will take a look

[@Ronin11111111]

@@DrLootCrate Yes, I saw that on the wiki, that it's the most optimal, but that one seemed more complicated than what I was willing to figure out at the moment. This one is just one extra step and oil tends to be near water, so that's not an issue either. The way it shakes out is like this: 6 Crude Oil can make 4 Rubber or 13 Polymer, and 4 Polymer makes 2 Rubber. You do get less Heavy Oil Residue though, so it's probably less energy efficient. More buildings, less reclaimable energy.

[@thekernelpanic3320]

awesome video, thx!

[@DrLootCrate]

No prob Kernal. Glad you liked it!

[@whiter0473]

This is amazinf

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks bud

[@stuartkowald2943]

I find blueprints don’t work very well on multiple levels as the lifters never seem to connect or face the right direction

[@DrLootCrate]

As I showed towards the end of the video, the lifts look wonky when you first put a blueprint down. If you save and come back they look normal. I haven’t had any functionality problems, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any

[@3XP3RIM3NTA7B0Y5]

GEM TYTY

[@netspidercz]

never though I will fall asleep during 5 minute video

[@DrLootCrate]

Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed your nap