Setting up for early game success in Satisfactory Update 8! | UBG 2

This episode of the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Satisfactory we are exploring whilst cutting down trees, setting up our automated solid biofuel setup, expanding all our productions, and unlocking Tier 2 Milestones!
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[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Just a note on Hard Drive Research, if you don't like the 3 recipes you get, just hit esc, and pick the hard drive again, and hit the research button. You don't need to Save and Reload. I look at it like telling the MAM to search different sectors of the Hard Drive. Also, in some areas you can blow up the rocks so they don't stick out through your foundations. LOL, every time you opened your personal inventory I was saying "Please hit SORT, please hit SORT"

[@spectrumdad_]

Oh cool nice I didn’t know you could just esc and redo it. Cool

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

@@spectrumdad_ Yea, it's been in EXP 8 the entire time, I don't know if they added it on purpose or accidentally, but it makes things a LOT easier, especially when I'm busy building and changing layouts, I don't mind waiting the 10 minutes to try a recipe, the time passes pretty quickly while I'm busy doing all that other stuff.

[@Serexityy_]

huh?? how do you blow up rocks in this game?

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

@@Serexityy_ With the Nobelisks.

[@basalsoon2]

They patched tht

[@Eatongee]

I like your Satisfactory videos. I have completed the game several times over the last 4 years. There are 3 big tips I would say to all beginners. 1. I suggest grabbing all the slugs you can and power shard miners and production machines to the max as you go. As you level up belts, you will benefit greatly. 2. Get miners and production running on all the nodes you can find. You may think you are over producing, but as a beginner you have no idea the scale of the game that is coming. Start with the basics. Wire, plates, rods, then screws, reinforced plates and cable. 3. Don't worry too much about automating the next big item. You can hand craft most, or at the very least hand feed machines until you have enough to feed the space elevator or the hub. The above tips will get you a strong base. Don't even think about steel or caterium until you have a ton of iron and copper products running.

[@ppunion]

One note: Solid Biofuel burns for longer than biomass, even after considering the conversion rate, so even though you don't have enough to feed your burners full stacks of solid biofuel, they will still run longer than on a full stack of biomass each.

[@Imjrueb]

please finish this series because it is truly helping me understand the game

[@Jasonm250]

I just purchased and started playing Satisfactory yesterday. Watching your videos and following along as you explain how things work and check off these milestones has been a HUGE help! It would have taken me weeks to learn some of the things you do on my own. So thank you for this amazing series and going at a pace that we can build alongside you!

[@maxn4648]

Half the fun is creating your own spaghetti factory.....

[@patrickmarks7956]

The literal joy you had finding the cast screws is a vibe for sure. 😅

[@munki83]

I like to keep my biomass production on it's own power grid. That way it's independent of the main power grid and won't cease production if you're struggling with power management. So a single biomass generator and 3 or 4 constructors and a container at the end. It's a fairly small and compact but I found it so useful I converted it to my fuel depo later in the game.

[@thomasbarnett2550]

So I have been playing for about 4 years now. Took a break for about 7 months waiting for U8. Came across your first vid in this series looking for a bit of a refresher and you are giving exactly what any new player would need to know even some tips I wish I knew when I first started :) please keep up the great content in this series I plan on keeping up with them to see how you handle the nuke plants now that the pipe issues should be fixed hehe

[@DjTaylorOIAF]

This is genuinely a great tutorial series. I love that you share little tips along the way and explain the logic behind why you're setting things up the way you are. Super helpful. Thanks.

[@fargalarg]

Would you mind possible including a Top-Down view of certain builds? Sometimes it can go a little quick and I make a mistake 😅

[@Flipnlikecrazy]

timestamps: 0:00 - intro 0:51 - milestone (collect wood and leaves) 2:18 -yapping 2:42 - c h a i n s a w 4:22 - clearing area 4:50 - following river (important btw) 12:10 - MAM 15:50 - platform (also important) 21:14 - solid biofuel automation 24:10 - upgrading to cast screws 27:10 - milestone 28:00 - auto reinforced iron plates 30:50 - stairs 31:00 - more advanced biomass 32:19 - copper expansion 35:13 - milestone 36:25 - concrete expansion 49:27 - yapping 49:55 - finishing concrete 50:04 - outro

[@Miko_of_the_North]

I am new to the game and this has been so helpful. You present this content very well and it`s easy to listen to.

[@ThePdorf]

Good instructions. You explain everything possible/necessary (even with the little important tricks) - but you don't go like other Satisfactory channels into great detail about what exactly has to be placed where - basics excellently explained!

[@PronetoPlayYT]

Man I really got burnt out from that game in the past, but seeing your playthrough and following along really makes me wanna play again. Love your content, so calm and relaxing while easy to follow along!

[@alperentopal8346]

This playlist is literally what I am looking for please upload new episodes. And thank you for making these videos they are beneficial😇.

[@sprigcs]

A Handy tip that i just learned. those "flying crab hatchers" can be snuck up on. Just crouch before they spawn and crawl your way up and stab away to your hearts content.

[@tomchrist4908]

You can sneak up on the fly spawners by crouching. That way you can get a free hit in before they spawn, and when you get better weapons you can one-shot them before the flies spawn at all.

[@spectrumdad_]

I literally did that in the next episode and they just never spawned, sooooo OP!

[@Maditz2010]

Awesome tutorial videos. Helps a newb like me not get overwhelmed on what to do at the start!. One thing I've found about researching hard-drives in the MAM is that if you don't get the cast screws, just hit 'esc' to exit the choices. You can then hit that orange button again and re-roll your choices. It saves finding another hard drive if you've forgotten to save prior.

[@spectrumdad_]

Hope you have an excellent weekend, and hope you enjoy this episode! As usual, let me know if you have any feedback / requests in the comments below. Love you guys! ️ New Episode is out now 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHW3opmgicqqo7s

[@florence2447]

Found the first video really helpful I have played one save before but gave up as I just got confused and felt was doing to much at once however started a new one and this is going to help loads

[@Its-Am4ryllis]

I can't wait for your next upload! I just bought the game a few days ago and this has really helped me with building factories since I got too overwhelmed. I'm doing my steel factories now, but everything's kinda a mess, so I'm looking forward to seeing how you make advanced recipes.

[@2514ben88]

Congrats on a new subscriber, thanks for the video I've learned new ways to set up my factory layouts and make it more efficient, I will probably do two saves from here one waiting for your next episode and one to play around with on my own👍

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! Glad you have been enjoying them. :)

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Yup, the fixed it. You can no longer hit ESC and rescan the hard drive over and over in the MAM

[@marcbennett9232]

great video! as for the alternate recipes, I believe the only check for which recipes it sends you is what phase of the space elevator you are on. for example, as soon as you complete phase 1, without unlocking any of the tier 3 milestones, you can start getting the steel alternates.

[@feralz_vox]

Just one tip : if the alternate recipes choice is not what you expect, instead of reloading the game, just hit escape button, close the research screen, and open it again. You can now start another research on the same hard drive. That's it. I don't know if the escape option is intended by the devs, but it works and I use it all the time. I consider that I would do the same in real life because if, for example, I do the wrong research on a real hard drive in order to find some secret but instead find crappy recipes, then I just consider that my research was wrong and retry until I find something more interesting in it. There is so many data in it...

[@spectrumdad_]

Pretty sure they just patched that actually. It’s in the patch notes that came out yesterday.

[@feralz_vox]

@@spectrumdad_ You re right. I just checked the information in the game. That's so sad.

[@LifesGuardian]

Looks at his Smart Plate, Modular Frame, Rotor, Reinforced Iron Plate, Coal Generator Complex, Full Iron and Copper Parts factories and contemplates restarting because he doesn't like the odds of Cast Screws turning up now... I had no Idea that's how hard drives worked. Thanks boss. Got some serious thinking to do. Edit: Oh! I can save before running the HD and swap. Nice! Crisis averted!

[@ThomasTerry]

Please release these asap I need all the help I can get with this game 😭

[@popcanter188]

If you're trying to get cast screw you can actually just press escape on the selection screen and then rescan the hard drive.

[@Gamerxx11xx]

very informative and pleasant to listen to 👍

[@DonCorleoneNL]

Dude this is so INSANELY usefull! Thanks for making this. Liked and subbed right away after seeing one ep :)

[@bazza426]

Just got this game today, your videos are helping me load's thank you.

[@sw0rdz]

Heres a tidbit. Chainsaws can remove groups of plants in an area. Makes cleaning out an area easier.

[@ChrisClines]

Yes another video! Love the ways you really explain stuff it’s a god send my friend!

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! Means a lot! Enjoy!

[@ChrisClines]

You are more than welcome sir :)

[@johnwalker6108]

Great series! You got yourself a new subsciber here as well. Fingers crossed you upload more episodes 🤞

[@Yanikchan]

Excelent video once again! Just a note on making roads: I don't think they end up aligning very well after too many curves even if you just use the grid. I love building roads and I often end up in cases where they don't align even tho they do start from the same grid. But there are plenty of methods to re-align them, so nowadays I don't bother much with the grid lol

[@marlowkrach6325]

Dude you have mastered this! The way you remember everything and rates per minute is incredible! How many hours do you have in this game (not important just curious)? The only thing I would say is that you can double click to add the fuel in quickly into generators :) much love

[@azudevcr]

Thanks for these videos!! You are brilliant

[@Sylat]

RIP Crab boss that will never be.

[@treycox33]

Great content. Maybe longer vids or more frequent uploads. Learning a lot (bought the game last week) and trying to play along.

[@tugboat242]

i agree with this whole comment haha, longer vids, more, and am learning a lot, I've played the game for a bit but hardly get anything decent looking or, perfectly laid out

[@TheFreakySam]

I Like And Subbed :D this helped me out a ton

[@Krikns]

Thank you for this great content. It helps me a lot in learning how to play this game!

[@ForsakenFenix]

Just a note You don't need at Yellow slug for overclocking, You just need 2 blue slugs One to unlock making power shards and then you need to Power Shard Plus Some Iron plates and Wire to unlock OC Yellow and Purple Slug just unlock turning them into shards

[@bobschuon5908]

Well, since to overclock you need the shards.... ;-)

[@wayneyessir6350]

The biomass burners that come on the little starter base are less efficient than the ones you can build.

[@RickClark58]

I am enjoying the series. Great tips and information.

[@Damanien]

So happy you posted. Lets goooo!

[@salmonclares]

Thanks for this episodes

[@El-Burrito]

I think they moved that raw quartz spawn since you made this video. It's just a limestone node for me

[@MrDecapoda]

Chock-full of useful info as usual! 👍

[@andrewgrace4410]

Thank you😸👍🏾

[@Jmdeleeuw-]

Some of your poles are offset by 1 'position' and it's driving me crazy xD Very interesting to see your approach to this game tho. Love these videos.

[@spectrumdad_]

:/

[@XiaoKA_]

nice video, but those flying mergers and splitters, hurts my eyes haha

[@Wegetsignal]

Oh yeah Satisfactory time!

[@UncleBandaids]

Thanks for another great one!

[@NevzatKoparan]

i played this game like 40-50 hrs before. i guess i understand what you did in the video because of i played before. There is no answer almost all WHY questions. Teaching the game is like less important.I think it is not ultimate beginner series, it's like for average player.Maybe changes later. Of course I like this series and can't wait next upload.

[@pranavghantasala6808]

The more I see of this series the more I realize what an awful starting area the grassy fields is. Definitely keeping that in mind for my next playthrough

[@thedino4088]

Keep up the work and keep uploading!

[@Ilandria.]

You don't actually need to revert your save to re-roll the hard drive, if you just cancel out without making a selection after seeing the options, you get the hard drive back and can just do the research again. This is nice because you can keep working on other stuff while re-rolling in the background every 10 mins until you get what you'd like. It also feels less like cheese and that it's intentionally made that way, since you're not reverting a save at any point. ... Unless they recently changed this, then nvm and I'm sad.

[@marqui_games974]

What's exactly the math behind the concrete machine?

[@craigwhite1202]

Thanks for the video

[@jasperwillem]

How do you build several ramps for the slug pickup?

[@MichaelGoodness]

As far as I can tell I've setup my concrete production exactly as you've done, but only three Constructors are running at 100% efficiency. The other (which is the one being fed directly from the closest limestone Miner, with the remaining 15 units being split to the second Constructor) doesn't get any higher than 84%. Not a huge deal, but I'm confused why that is.

[@russelllogan6630]

Same here. I've noticed this on all my manifold systems. Is it a bug?

[@MichaelGoodness]

@@russelllogan6630 nope, it’s a legit inefficiency. Found the answer in the official Discord, but too lazy to hunt it down again. My solution was to split one of the belts into 2x30, then merge each of those with the other 2x60, resulting in 2x90 belts. Each of those then feeds a pair of Constructors, providing a “perfect” 45 units of limestone each.

[@russelllogan6630]

Still haven't found a good explanation for why this happens, if it is legit. Seems to happen on these reverse manifolds. Here's how I got round the problem. 1. On the 60 line: insert a splitter in front of the initial splitter which is in front of the 1st constructor, 2. Change the splitter in front of the 1st constructor to a merger so it receives 30 from the new splitter 3. Set up a new splitter behind where the initial splitter/new merger was, so that the line at right angles to the 60 line is splitter, merger, 1st constructor. This splitter receives 30 from the new splitter on the 60 line and outputs 15 to the new merger in front of the 1st constructor and 15 to the merger in front of the 2nd constructor. 4. Lift the 120 line up over the new splitter. 5. Remove the conveyor line that runs from the merger in front the 2nd constructor to the new merger in front of the 1st constructor. Hope this is clear enough. I think it involves less change than setting up a new load balancing network.

[@Masterfader2105]

It's because the input of a splitter is divided by the number of connected outputs. For example: you feed the splitter with 60 units per minute and split into 2 belts. Each of the outputs get 30 units. Splitters don't care about how many units are needed. They simply distribute the input equally to the outputs.

[@CaptainCool223]

Hey, could you share your saves on satisfactory mod loader for people without patreon, thanks

[@gotchaSix]

Isn't the whole point that you pay for the patreon to get the saves?

[@Ggddtghhdddd]

Time after time after time GIVE ME SCREWS

[@pallenda]

Maybe it's a bug currently, but when the result of a hard drive scan is complete, I can click ESC to cancel the choice and scan the same hard drive again. I found out by accident.

[@DonCorleoneNL]

How do you expand those concrete floors by a row btw? Thats not in the game right, its a mod?

[@Draco.Invictus]

Cast screws? With very little effort and the right choices, you can completely eliminate screws from the game. Stitched Plate is the first step towards that goal.

[@spectrumdad_]

Don’t get me wrong. End game, getting rid of screws is a must.

[@zackjohnson9928]

dang 2 minute's to upload and already 3 comments

[@kinda_bad_at_life]

thank you, do you know when the next one will come out?

[@kinda_bad_at_life]

you said even if you don't have cast screw then build a cast screw setup

[@jasperwillem]

How do you add something to the hot bar?

[@thedeebo410]

Open the menu where you select what you want to build, hold your mouse cursor over the item you want to hotbar, and then just press the number key you want to assign it to. Also, in case you didn't know, you have ten hotbars that you can cycle through by holding Alt and scrolling the mouse wheel.

[@ibims654]

I realy love u

[@criticaltipper7699]

Why is your storage box so much bigger then mine

[@colin1730]

What were the stingers for?

[@spectrumdad_]

We will get to it in the third episode. But pretty much M.A.M. research.

[@Waduu08]

no updates?

[@jasperwillem]

How to upgrade a belt?

[@thedeebo410]

You just have the belt you want to change to equipped and then click on a belt segment.

[@razorsgaming3757]

when is step 3 coming out Dad?

[@spectrumdad_]

Friday morning :)

[@cabride70]

😀

[@rubyn.-.]

Aie a new spectrum vid

[@monk3y655]

how long we must wait for episode 3?

[@spectrumdad_]

Already editing it :)

[@dunnock343]

Solid biofuel isn’t efficient though. You barely double the time it burns compared to biomass and it does 4 biomass to create 1 solid biofuel. It’s more efficient to use biomass. I would like to be wrong, so correct me if so.

[@spectrumdad_]

It’s actually 2 biomass per solid biofuel. A biomass has 180mj of energy so 2 for 360mj vs a solid biofuel which is 450mj. It’s actually like a 25% increase in efficiency.

[@salmonclares]

What do you say at 5:25? Zoom mode? Thanks!

[@pallenda]

Zoop :)

[@salmonclares]

Thx!@@pallenda

[@spectrumdad_]

Sorry must be my accent :P, yes zoop!

[@marlymarlmarl]

I made a new game on desert to kinda follow along and at 10:18 I have sulfur not quartz :| oh well I'm sure I'll find quartz somewhere!

[@spectrumdad_]

It's ok, we won't use it for a bit anyways, not until we setup a miner on an actual node. Not a problem :)

[@marlymarlmarl]

@@spectrumdad_ figured it's no biggie. Already went and explored to try find coal and died a bunch to wildlife, got random ramps going up and around cliffs and such. Very fun game and your videos are helping me start out much faster. Thank you!

[@marlymarlmarl]

@@spectrumdad_ also my base is much more spaghetti than yours, wow you really do like to keep your setup neat! LOL

[@spectrumdad_]

@@marlymarlmarl yea haha 😂.

[@marlymarlmarl]

@@spectrumdad_ just got some coal back to the base on a loooooooooong conveyor belt and got 3 coal generators cranking :D Looking forward to your next video to see how inefficient I've been 🤣

[@booyaman85]

R U still doing to make more vids, or is this going to die in its infancy?

[@jasperwillem]

Tips: next time explain please what a chansaw is in the context of this game, before crafting it. Also, you never explained what a foundation is, while bringing it up several times already in the last episode and this one early on. Later on, suddenly you build an "assembler", what does that do?

[@Mc_Riib]

Chainsaw.. Chainsaws things Foundation.. Foundation for things Assembler.. Assemblers things

[@jasperwillem]

​@@Mc_Riib you are probably a native speaker?

[@Mc_Riib]

@@jasperwillem ahhhhhh okay. I just unlocked chainsaw yesterday. Chainsaw cuts down the trees and you get a lot of wood from them. Also noticed you can use the chainsaw on the bushes too and it gives a bit more leaves and wood occasionally rather than picking them up by hand. Foundation. When building on the ground especially with the conveyor belts they are like free placing so some times hard to line them up. If you put down a foundation then it gives you more of a grid feel when placing them. ** Press Ctrl and the foundation will snap to the world grid. That way if your building a little structure around say your miners. Also building a structure in the distance. If the foundations are both snapped to the world grid then even though they are separated they are still placed in a way that if you built a path between them they would snap together perfectly.. foundations are super useful I use them everywhere while building conveyor belts then just delete the foundation when your done and the belts stay. Assembler is like the constructor. But how the constructor takes in per se iron ingot and makes the plates or a rod. The assembler is for if you want to automate like the Reinforced Iron Plate. It has two inlets and one outlet. So you feed into it Iron plate to one inlet and screw to the other inlet. Which produces from the outlet the reinforced iron plate. So it just automates the stuff that takes multiple materials to make.

[@Wittk0]

funny thing, your raw quartz is coal in my savegame. how is this possible? :D

[@spectrumdad_]

That's odd. No matter anyways, we don't use it until we get an actual quartz mine going in the 4th episode.

[@dagoelius]

Dame shame the chainsaw cant be used as a weapon.

[@DonJohnson-qr1lk]

You have some severe OCD my friend

[@Fleshbits1]

You went into what mode and clicked and brought the ramps down? zoot mode? huh? How do you do that?