The Nuclear Power Plant is MELTING DOWN?!! - Satisfactory

The Nuclear Power Plant is MELTING DOWN?!! - Satisfactory
Satisfactory let's play gameplay today checking out our nuclear power plant... that is melting down. Turns out there are just a few tiny little issues that's causing the entire plant to fail and we have to figure out the issues before we drown in nuclear waste!
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About: Satisfactory
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Pioneering for FICSIT Incorporated means charting and exploiting an alien planet, battling alien lifeforms, creating multi-story factories, entering conveyor belt heaven, automating vehicles, and researching new technologies. The Satisfactory Train update and Nuclear update also adds in trains, train stations, and nuclear power plant to enjoy, if you can handle the nuclear waste that is! In some of our videos, we go over Satisfactory tips and Satisfactory building tips, as well how to build a mega base and manufacturer setup. Our Satisfactory Early Access let’s play ep 1 was started a few months ago, but now we have hundreds of hours since Satisfactory ep 1 and have built a giant base with computer production, supercomputer production, a huge nuclear power plant and hundreds of trains! Our giant train system covers the entire map and gathers uranium, deals with our nuclear waste, and Satisfactory trains are a very satisfactory way of travel!
Satisfactory Update 3 also changed the game entirely adding pipes, Hyper Tubes, the Awesome Shop and Awesome Sink (aka Resource Sink), a new desert biome, a new vehicle, and a ton more!
Zufriedenstellend lass uns das Gameplay spielen im neuen Update!
This Factorio like game has heavy automation, with automated mining, crafting, and you can even automate movement! Follow my Satisfactory Early Access Gameplay for the best base building, best Satisfactory tips, and more!
Satisfactory is an FPS open-world factory building sim by CoffeeStain Studios. You play as an engineer on an alien planet as part of the ‘Save The Day’ program - a program whose goal is to construct a massive machine for a mysterious purpose. Conquer nature, build multi-story factories, and automate to satisfaction!
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[@ImKibitz]

So how long do you think I have before the Reactors break again?

[@TheEvox81]

You're good now. I'm claiming it for your productivity and your sanity.

[@MadMax-yq9ix]

30 days

[@whocares397]

with any luck cause i am a evil bastard every 5 min ^_-

[@jamiebeets15]

Right about......... Now!!!!!😂🤣😂🤣

[@DevvEn]

update 5 release?

[@theforlornknight]

YOU NEED VALVES! On each blender output before it joins the main line, put a valve. This will prevent backflow and preserve your flow rate out. Can do the same on the main line out between each blender output. Same with your water from the extractor to the concrete. Put a valve on the main line before it enters the factory just below the highest point of the hill.

[@ImKibitz]

OH BUD 100% doing this

[@BDOLanni]

@@ImKibitz was literally JUST about to say this exact thing. i do it with every pipeline now

[@bradmcconnochie3204]

I do a dedicated machine/s only ruining on the output from the others, that way it's impossible for it to back up

[@arraybytes]

@@ImKibitz I also believed that was necessary, but I found that if you don't have any flow problems it isn't. However, if you do have flow problems, valves can help you fix it absolutely.

[@Izsharia]

@@ImKibitz I'm using pumps at the described location, it works too.

[@benannan2381]

I never looked at that little graph thingy before. That seems really helpful. Thanks Kibz

[@Vyacheslavskiy]

I know EXACTLY the solution to your pipe problem. If your output pipe (from blenders) will be higher than pipe with valve on it (to blenders), than it will have the priority. Currently you have exactly opposite situation and you're backing up. I've spent 20 extra hours on my fuel power generators to find out this dependency

[@danielraymond7196]

The new update really screwed pipes up and made them extremely temperamental. I've wasted many hours over the same problem as you

[@ImKibitz]

Yoooo that's so weird! I'll try that out too!

[@JN.0_o]

@@ImKibitz Another solution that I use is to just run one blender from the output of a cluster other blenders (3, I think), plus its own output. Mine never back up that way, even if the production goes all weird from the output belts backing up.

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

Instead of the brute force way with valves, I would have resorted to another brute-force method, attaching a pump to the exit of the buffer tank to give it "priority through pressure." After all, the buffer tanks are allowed to run dry; we _can_ make all acid we need. They create a backlog if they fill up completely, so we must ensure that the acid from tanks is always used if possible.

[@Skorpioartex]

I never got far into the liquid side of satisfactory. What is the back up doing to his setup? I didn't realize too much liquid was bad.

[@marp_625]

The satisfactory soundtrack fills me with efficient feelings every time it plays

[@brunomorenomata7978]

14:40 Kibitz: No, its not going to be the pumps, im a 100% certain The pump: 0m³ flow

[@widget3672]

I think it's oddly calming to see even the almighty Kibz has to double check his factories to be sure they are actually working

[@cobychristensen9903]

Your ability to build these crazy factories is something I can only wish to do.

[@brunothehumble]

Me and my brother ran into this exact issue with the water. End result in our build was we had to run dedicated 300 pipes per reactor with no overclock permitted on the reactors. But we were able to limit the number of required water extractors by over locking the snot out of them. The majority of our power shards are in our water extractors.

[@theperson6167]

Instantly clicked even while watching the news

[@jeffm1381]

yooo same thing I was watching another yt video and instantly switched over

[@theperson6167]

@@jeffm1381 ye I was watching the news and just flicked over as soon as I got my noti also isn't it weird that my phone tells me the second a video comes out but is usually 10 minute late if its a message

[@oliwierkwiatkowski8817]

Kibz, I have been a fan of yours since I discovered you, midway through Season 3. In fact, I loved your content so much, I watched the first half in 3 days, to be up to date. I LOVE your play style, so please keep it up :)

[@ImKibitz]

Thank you brother, glad you're enjoying!

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Kibz : "These pipes of acid are backing up!!" Me : "...Your factory has heartburn?"

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

_From nuke power to puke power in 10 easy steps -- engineers HATE this!_

[@atomspalter2090]

I love satisfactory on this channel. Literally insanely great

[@Vectorspace000]

I have had the same iussue trying to use valves so I can feed something from two fluid sources with specific proportionality. It works when I stay close to it, but if I leave the area then it can back up. I assume that the simplified simulation when you are away is not quite good enough. So instead I have extra machines with higher priority input belts, that use the excess from the earlier machines. In this scenario, I would have three machines fed by the sulfuric acid supply, and the 4th fed by the output from those three and by itself, using a separate pipe not linked to the supply. The 4th would be highest priority on the input belt to ensure the sulfuric acid produced by the three would get used up asap.

[@Hlebuw3k]

You can also just run part of the machines completely off the access sulfuric acid, disconnected form the main source, instead of doing an overflow setup. So, say 5 machines run normally, then 1 runs from the acid that those 5 generate, disconnected from any other source.

[@Vectorspace000]

@@Hlebuw3k that's what I tried to say, but you explained it better

[@Cgeta4]

I had a similar pipe issue with my aluminum process. The output water would be returned to the input, which would be topped up with water from the lake. But it would still clog up eventually, and no layout change and no valve setting worked. I even had the lake water valve set to like 10m³/min and it would still back up, just slower I think what caused it in my case is that whenever the aluminum production stopped, even briefly, water from the lake would still keep going in. The only solution I could find in that case is that any aluminum that backed up would go to the sink so that the refineries would continuously produce without stopping. We really need some priority merger, not just for pipes but for belts too

[@keineangabe8993]

I used a big storage tank to fix this. From the one side connect the lake pump to the tank, but put the tank high enough such that the pump can't fill it to the top. Now, as you have done, connect your excess output to the input of your production but also connect this pipe to the other side of the tank. Now put a pump on this pipe such that it can fill the storage tank up to top. Now you have lake water backing up the production when you need it but as soon as your tank reaches a critical height, no lake water flows in anymore but your excess water can still go into the tank. This is pretty much a complicated priority merger for liquids.

[@Cgeta4]

​@@keineangabe8993 Oooh, now that's clever! I never thought about using different headlifts in combination with tanks before! Very neat! :D

[@LukeWeedy]

I randomly stumbled upon this video, didn't know what the heck was going on... so I watched your season 3 and season 4, bought Satisfactory in the mean time and here I am again!!!

[@jimhall583]

Just watching you track down your issues was so much fun in this video. I am sure all players experience this, although on a lot smaller scale. LOL

[@Namaride]

You know how to build what i only would dream of. So high efficiency.. so big. Truly amazing!

[@printedprops8730]

9:56 sound like the Jester from Skyrim. I too would go insane with a build like this.

[@catt105105]

These videos are awesome, thanks for all of the hard work!!

[@harrisonh7487]

Wow

[@Abhilash_Bandara]

Been waiting for this thank you and I love the video 👍

[@martinhild]

That is an insane amount of power production. Wow!

[@kami8604]

and on the Monitoring side, i play with an excel sheet to have definitve Numbers to Work with :D

[@loganlogan1014]

Ah the wonders of troubleshooting fluids.

[@admiralkase9802]

I have an idea what the problem with the sulfuric acid was. As you mentioned, there was a problem with the concrete production. This means that the consumption of acid was not steady, as the mashiens were idle for a few moments. However there was still as much new acid pumped in as if the mashiens were running at full capacity. This means, that there is more acid pumped into the pipes then the mashiens use, so the pipes fill up and cause the problems you showed in the video. So now that the concrete problem is solved and all the other suff is also comming in as needed, the pipes should not fill up any more. Btw: Love your stuff. I realy enjoy watching your videos. Would be nice if you took the time to answer me whether I could be right with my hypothesis.

[@paulelderson934]

I think you've got it exactly right.

[@100000Andy]

yes I think thats exactly what happend, pipes balance themselves out pretty good, I never used a valve and never had any problems with back loops.

[@ArmchairMagpie]

I had a similar issue with water. I put valves at a certain point with a fixed flow rate to ensure proper ratio. That did do the trick for me. In general, I find the fluid mechanics in this game highly esoteric sometimes.

[@Uderscore]

Big flashbacks to my first big aluminum setup with that whole sulfuric acid issue. Whenever you think you can take advantage of a bit of excess byproduct fluid at the back end of a system and run it back to the back end, it is just inevitable that some part of it will crash itself. You either overproduce and backup the byproduct, or underproduce and don't have enough to balance the system.

[@booki5057]

I tested in much smaller scales (only ten power plant) but I found on Reddit this schematic for priority fluid system that I use to prioritize the output of the blenders over the creation of the sulfuric acid. My blenders always worked on 100 percent efficiency. Ps, I watch your videos every time I'm stuck on design and I want to thank you for all of your help:)

[@fullslackdev]

Mind sharing this schematic or the link to the Reddit post?

[@IsThatDrak]

oooooh that past kibbs! need to have a word with that guy!

[@dino_yt1158]

Instantly clicked I find these videos so entertaining

[@bpaul1201awesome]

Id be going nuts trying to figure all this out like im sure you were. Crazy how complicated this game can get in a hurry. Ill just sit back and watch you do it and enjoy the commentary and not stress out over this game if i was playing it. lol

[@dracoslayer16]

The solution I run when dealing with machines that output liquid is to place a buffer in the line high enough up that the incoming supply can't fill it more than 50% due to head pressure. The machines producing the liquid however are high enough that they can freely fill and take from the buffer. This let's there always be an air gap in the line for output liquids to go. The trick is finding just the right height to place the buffer at.

[@crazemon]

You need a pump on the return line for your sulfuric acid coming from the blenders, and not one on the 'fresh' acid line. That way the return line gets 'priority' feeding back into the system before it takes fluid from the fresh pipe. I remember reading that somewhere, and it seems to have solved my own feedback problem!

[@clifflee4316]

The moment you figured it out I felt so much joy for ya. Lol

[@f-r-o-g-m-a-n8787]

Nice job Kibitz i just stared watching your vids and there amazing thx so much for you good content btw this is a good probelm solving game and just is great thx

[@joe_limon]

If you have a recirculation setup that keeps backing up. Tee off of the recirc line into two stacked buffers. Link the two buffers and then tie the top buffer into your sink. This will ensure you only sink excess that manages to pressure up into top buffer.

[@yourgamerpal1984]

Satisfactory will be released after elon musk completes his colony on mars.

[@Jmvesey]

Little did you know we've been controlling robots and building it for him...

[@LimpRichard]

It will never release bro

[@yourgamerpal1984]

Elon has to do it and kibs will have to have a stable nuke plant. Only then satisfactory will release.

[@dinowizard0213]

@@Jmvesey So does that mean Lets Game it Out's factory is real?

[@SuperduckMusic]

We still need further prosessong of nuclear waste tho :)

[@Elbrasch]

You don't have to sink it. You can prioritize the 100 m3 sulfuric acid output by using the height trick. Have the acid producing refineries ~9 meters below the input for the plutonium cell, put a buffer tank on top of it, presto. The buffer tank is ~4 meter in height, so the 10 meter headpressure will fill it only up ~25%. So there is always space for the acid output.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Kibitz, after finding a MKI pipe in his MKII pipeline: "No, I wouldn't have done that. That's not a past Kibitz mistake to make. He wouldn't have done that."

[@beratkavall7273]

5:43 try add 2 mk1 pumps where the sulfuric acid out of the refinery comes and enters in the blenders

[@FrexieFrex]

Yeessss thank you finally!!! :D

[@_Aarius_]

An easy way to solve the pipe problem is to make as many blenders as requiring the total output, +1, and then join all outputs (including their own) to those few blenders. put them at the start of the other resources so theyre prioritised. It will ensure output acid will be consumed first as much as possible and youll still get the same overall output of cells

[@eliasseldon1644]

Long time follower here. This is my new favourite. Congrats on the ongoing success.

[@Cl0ud897]

10:06 I think we FICSedIT

[@kelathos]

I love me some kibs builds.

[@Ange1ofD4rkness]

Oh the joys of fluids! I still have headaches where I have enough water being produced, but the system doesn't deliver it all the way (Need to test some new thing)

[@user-rt9pe8dp1q]

- What are these shiny trinkets in your pockets? - These are the nuclear waste, I don't like to dump things ya know...

[@clouddroutYt]

That water input does look like the whole world’s water input.

[@nuttyboi6645]

This video captures the process of programming perfectly

[@sou7ution]

Insane build, Bro! :-O

[@Bender24k]

Love it.

[@apero17]

I think you forgot to set a water extractor at 2.5 at 16:26 bc its light is yellow not white as an overclocked would be (the first one on the left)

[@cg21]

2:45 This is called back pressure 😀

[@kmarl87]

I seen that you have used some pumps on your sulfuric acid setup. Pumps can be used as a priority system, as well as pipes being on the top or bottom. You need pumps on the sulfuric acid output pipes that run back to the input. Then the game should take the output acid first before taking another source, or at least at a higher ratio. And at 16:25 you can see quite a bit of 300 pipe, just make sure that won't bite you in the butt, build everything in 600 pipe.

[@Annabelleumvrchat]

Craziest thing happened yesterday while playing satisfactory. I went to the hub to unlock a milestone and sitting on the floor of the hub was a ficsit NPC. I checked my multiplayer and it was a private session. Weirdest thing I've ever experienced playing the game

[@georgelopez2001]

bottle necks, yes, tons of fun😂

[@thedarkaplier]

You also need like a energy storage farm where you can store massive amounts of residual energy so just in case of emergency you can keep running everything without worrying to much

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

Reactors should be able to meltdown, releasing strong radiation over a large part of the map until the reactor is fixed. This would also encourage people to build their reactors farther away from their base.

[@Broockle]

It could also softlock a whole base until you get more gear xD But forcing players to respect nuclear power would be a fun twist

[@connorallen162]

At 10 seconds into the video I was like "it has to be the water" hahaha

[@sirkies]

oh man, this mk 1 segment halving pipe througput is too real. I remember troubleshooting my pipe network for turbofuel powerplant for hours only to find tiny segment which was almost entirely hidden under the pump.

[@ratchet1freak]

you could put an extra blender that is fed purely from the outputs of the other blenders

[@Thiloyeah]

This game already looks awesome and is still improving. Nice potential show-off.

[@Dohyden2]

no no no, you don't have to sink the acid. Try pumps first. a pump on each blender if you have to. I am certain that pips can back flow and cancel the pressure. As the devs have said "They don't want to 100% say how pipes work" I am sure there is something funky with fluid pressure and if you added pumps it might start working.

[@friedorange5999]

i was like all the necular reactors and smoke is beautiful then i relised im a monster XD

[@TrentHouliston]

When I had that fluid problem the only way I could solve it was with active pumps. Basically valves still won't flow when there is the same amount of fluid on each side since there is no pressure gradient. So both sides of the valve just fill up anyway. With a pump it ensures that the output side of the pump is very full (and therefore has higher pressure and will take priority) and the input side is almost always empty (so the blenders always have somewhere to output to)

[@kdpflush]

The most satisfying thing about satisfactory is finding that needle in the haystack

[@Weksav]

Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporateeeeddd

[@the_glorious_thing]

Pro tip, when building nuclear water pipes take mk 1 pipes off your hotbar

[@MetalKid007]

I believe the problem is that your line merges into the same height pipe. If the main line goes up and your output merges into the pipe going up, then it will take priority over the main line.

[@kdub7706]

I'm sure there has to be a "smart splitter" for liquids. ie: only go down one pipe once the other is full.

[@TalesofCalandria]

Oh my, this Dimensions... I discovered yesterday my first Aluminum production Line and i'm now stuttering with the power. Spent today some work on a new power Plant and after houres of work I was afraid to strangle myself up with Oil and Water Pipelines. But now seeing your nuclear Moloch is absolute i- n s a n e-. There must be people from Coffee Stain out there, watching the videos, constantly shaking their heads in pure consternation... =D

[@tyrantking9120]

now that you fixed the concrete i would have though the acid would be fine, acid was being backed up because blenders were running idle while waiting for concrete. so acid was not always being consumed but it was always being added in

[@rawcus918]

You could put the pump after the return junction to fix it and you should always put fluid buffers elevated above everything and let it gravity feed.

[@rawcus918]

When I payed this game i always made a water tower type thing with a series connection going to it and parallel coming off it.

[@atomspalter2090]

maybe the sulfuric acid built up because of the concrete-thing

[@JeffR110]

Ive noticed with even my small nuke setup of 8 plants, I still have one dip out of power randomly cuz of water issues. It should have more then enough coming to it, it do just be weird like that

[@kami8604]

pumps between every Pipe intersection and on turns!

[@SurfinAlec]

was the acid backing up because there wasn’t enough concrete so it stopped making the output acid and the new acid kept going in so there was no room for the output acid?

[@ssssss7532]

In that case the sink would break everthink

[@lfla0179]

Never cut the water too close. Run water at 75% or something. Add one extractor and one large tank on top of everything.

[@normanpaschke52]

That's how you trouble shoot and debug :thumbsup:

[@smstnitc]

it's always water... even when you don't think it could possibly be water, it's always water

[@Mohammad-be2dy]

You are the Best

[@patrickheredia1431]

Your amazing at this shit. I'm boggled just watching.

[@adammurdoch1708]

when it comes to output acid or water i always prefer to have that go into a different set of machines where their outputs are prioritized makes for easier restarts

[@randomgmtr478]

I wonder if the problem was the fact that the blenders were not getting enough concrete causing sulfuric acid to stop flowing due to the machines inactivity and when they activate the leftover sulfer gets stuck.

[@arraybytes]

I ran into a similar problem with my fule generators where I was providing exactly the same amount of fule as the generators required and I had unstable power until I stopped one and let them fill before restarting. Then my power was nice and contestant.

[@schmerz6604]

I've been having the same issue on mathematically balanced fluid systems.

[@TheMuteStreamer]

@ImKibitz hi, i am Draco and I love to watch your content. from the BOOPS Tm (Patent Pending), to the amazing sound of Confused Kibitz ( Buy one get one doubly confused!) to the FACT that you were the one that got me to drag out and empty my steam wallet, i thank you for all the funny good times. im just sad i was not here to see it start. i also am good to try to catch the streams! see ya next time! *BOOPS OUT*

[@unwucht1529]

The sulfuric acid backing up is one of the reasons why I am considering to switch to the alternate recipe for Uran cells, requiring Silica, Sulfur and Quickwire... not sure yet which recipe to prefer

[@PPetracek]

what is the keyboard shortcut for transferring one thing with one button? 4:41 :O

[@Rook277]

i think its shift and double click,i can be wrong because i didn't play satisfactory for a long time

[@thejedimaster32]

CTRL + click will move all of that item (whereas SHIFT + click will move a single stack)

[@deltacx1059]

Batteries would be great, maybe a massive battery tower.

[@ipex8772]

I don't know the inner workings of your pipe system, so correct me if I'm wrong. But if the sulfuric acid pipes going to the blenders are 300 lines and 4 blenders need 400, you return the 25 sulfuric acid they produce back into the system. But the pipes are still 300 pipes so they can't support the additional sulfuric acid coming back from the blenders. I think you just need bigger pipes. (I hope my english was good enough to get my point and as I said I don't know if the pipes are 300 pipes.)

[@ZZ-jj1sm]

They are 600 pipes so they hold enough fluid

[@Sworn973]

I never trust the self feeding loops, like you did in the sulfuric acid, they work until something breaks, either energy, other product or anything, than the pipes get full and the doom is unleashed. What I do is always have one or two machines that runs only out of the waste product, or simple having more machines than you can product, so you can't ever get a full pipe dead lock.

[@metenrog]

Thank god it wasn’t a waste issue.

[@Quinten154]

Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? We got some work to do with the nuclear power plants.

[@dazley8021]

I've read somewhere that there's like an issue with pipe manyfolds.

[@Xadhoom80]

I had a similar problem with Aluminium production where you recirculate water, i ended up putting a storage tank on the input side high up, and a MK2 pump on output from refineries, so the MK2 pumps should have been able to fill the storage tank, but the regular water pumps could not pump water that high. this way i could always empty the output side of refineries and the regular water pumps could not add more water since they could not push water that high. a bit silly solution, but hey, it worked. edit: i think the problem is the blenders don't run 100%, so you keep adding acid from your production line, while you ain't consuming the same amount. a 3rd way, could be to reduce the added intake even more but then you would never run 100% up time, i think you had that earlier (wrong intake amount on valve) and they at least kept working some 80% then?

[@techno_hierarchy]

I had a similar problem but my water pipes became unconnected with the extractors causing the pipes to only take water occasionally it was the worst

[@kltechnerd8177]

Seeing all those reactors makes me jealous.

[@florex__]

If you want to upgrade a MK1 pipe you can just point to it with MK2 pipe in your hand and replace it without destructing it first :)