The ONLY Automated Biomass Burners Setup for Satisfactory 1.0!

[@spectrumdad_]

I'll be streaming tonight, come say hi! Enjoy the launch!

[@Kfimenenpah]

Biomass burners not having an input was sooo annoying and the reason why I never started another playthrough. So glad they finally did it

[@joshwpro4499]

What do they have inputs now ?!?! This is huge. Me the same. I could never play past the first few tiers because of that. Started a new game yesterday. I didn't even notice they have inputs now. xD

[@lilhomie6234]

I couldn’t imagine your struggle without pitting it straight in 😅 I recently started playing thankfully

[@Synthwave_Ash]

Being able to automate the creation and delivery of biofuel is such a HUGE QoL thing for me. I can actually enjoy the early game and not feel like I must get to coal power before anything else. Thanks for another great layout!

[@Grimtheorist]

I found that I had to replace my manifold with a load balancer system because when you're low on biomass, the back burners don't get enough to stay on.

[@Rocky-or4rz]

I start with three containers when I do this build, an extra one to throw biomass going into the third empty input on that merger, I always seem to have some in my inventory so it is nice to have a place to dump it off

[@RickClark58]

I am only using wood as input to my biomass burner setup. You can set the chainsaw to single mode and get wood without all the leaves. I am in the Rocky Desert and there is a forest of dead logs that I am using with single mode and getting wood for days, and I don't have to destroy the forest to get the material.

[@theeastefamily]

I had no idea about single mode!

[@Drakey_Fenix]

@@theeastefamily It was just added with 1.0.

[@taimanchan7490]

straight building mode is so gooooodd~

[@spectrumdad_]

no more spaghetti from you I hope

[@spectrumdad_]

no more spaghetti from you I hope

[@snottytoe6957]

@@spectrumdad_ Comment so nice

[@snottytoe6957]

@@spectrumdad_ He had to say it twice

[@Duurti]

What is the key again I forgot???

[@TimJennings-j8m]

I usually setup a third intake for mycelium since in a several areas you get that too when clearing land. It makes a bunch of biomass and while you are still using biomass burners, you don't really need all that after you make the parachute.

[@frozenheroe3771]

This is amazing! And here I am placing a biomass burner near a group of three machines spread across the factory *face palm*

[@MrCosian]

Thanks!

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you loved it! Thanks a bunch for the support 😊

[@CherylBaiady]

Thanks for the video. I've loved this update with 1.0 and kind of threw my own setup together, but I was hoping you'd post one. Helpful as aways.

[@fruchu]

How are the contructors in 1:46 working without power ? 🤔

[@darrenj232]

Thanks for the tutorial. For some reason I've always struggled with power management. This was so simple and efficient. My life is now less stressful! 😄

[@noahleveille366]

Biomass is now very viable it’s awesome. 3 storage containers. One for leaves, wood and mycelia. Throw them in constructors with somersloops to double output. Turn biofuel into solid biofuel with somersloops again, 4x the biofuel from whatever you harvested. Slam down 25 burners to get around 800MW going, fuel them easy with all that, automate it - you can ride that out to the end of tier 5-6, that’s wild.

[@theral056]

I would highly recommend one improvement on this. In front of the storage for solid biofuel, you have space for one more biomass burner. Add that one in, with a splitter inbetween. That burner will have dips on up to 50% of your solid biofuel production. That first burner then connects to the machines making the biofuel. If you run out of biomass to make more solid biofuel, that generator for your setup will still have full inventory and means your setup can get right back to producing more once you went chopping some trees. That way, if your main fuse blows, it does NOT affect your production of solid biofuel in any way. You just chop some trees, throw in the mats, and go off doing whatever while the other generators get filled again. No manual fiddling to kickstart the energy grid up again just to make new fuel. Just put in the leaves and wood, walk away and a few minutes later you just flip the switch to power your main base up again.

[@stray8303]

THEY FINALLY DID IT!!! Great vid man

[@dfnkt]

I hope to see the ultimate beginner series continue.

[@Kevin986_]

I absolutely love your work. You are teaching me to play.

[@BlackLizardPro]

I didn’t know you can link biomass burners! This will clean up my base so much and make it easier to maintain!!

[@Darth2vids]

Subscribed. Super helpful are the layouts even the old ones.

[@spectrumdad_]

@@Darth2vids thanks! I appreciate that!

[@shocklobster]

The burners at the end starve until everything in front is packed, but this is probably the best it gets. Perhaps it could be more "load balanced" if the feed splitter for the solid biomass was in the middle?

[@gocyclones4142]

Great stuff, man!!! Thank you

[@braize6279]

This is awesome. Every game it's always just "rush to coal" in the most sloppy way possible, just so you can automate power. Now I can dink around and actually make proper and good looking setups, instead of dealing with running around to all the biomass? Damn, talk about quality of life. I'm going to spaghetti the hell out of this, just because I can. Call it "organized chaos" 😃

[@Andrew-kz8dq]

Wow such a useful build gonna copy this

[@MrDecapoda]

Oh hell yeah! Finally.

[@93sr20dett]

So you just load the storage up manually? Or where does the grass and wood come from?

[@Wegetsignal]

Excellent idea!

[@marcbennett9232]

not a bad setup, but I have a few ideas if you want to upgrade it! instead of merging the biomass, add another constructor for the solid biofuel then merge the lines. that way your mk2 line for the central manifold actually does something. then add a third empty container next to your wood input and merge it with the solid biofuel. this is to merge in any extra solid biofuel you may have after running around with your chainsaw. next step, double your biomass burners to 24. they only consume fuel when needed so the more you have the slower they burn fuel. lastly, at the end of the manifold, belt the extra around a storage container placed next to your solid biomass input. this is your solid biomass overflow. the purpose of this is so any biofuel that makes it through the manifold can be used if you have a power failure. since the container is right next to your solid biofuel input, you can just belt the overflow into the input and restart your grid while you go collect more biomass some may say this is all overkill, and you would be right! but ive played a lot of SF+ and this setup has helped immensely. and on the plus side, it burns so slowly I only have to hunt biomass once, maybe twice before coal.

[@Poke-ladd]

Wait biomass has inputs now?

[@izabell6]

But where do you get your electricity for your 2 first constructor if this the base of your power grid? And where is your global output of electricity at?

[@Bart-y3l]

How do you make the belts straight like that?

[@steffengr.5556]

Standard hotkey should be R. The Same when switching to zoop mode when placing foundations, for example. R can be used for many more items, Like conveyor lift changing direction of I/O

[@YamatoAMVs]

after i build this how do i connect my other things to this to get power

[@robertstarkey8677]

When did the biomass burners get inputs?

[@NachitenRemix]

2:33 The only problem here with creating a manifold line instead of a load balancer, is that the inputs (leaves and wood) of this system are not infinite nor a constant rate. So, when you run out of inputs which can happen, you will end up with the first two burners having full fuel, while the other ones are empty. I dont think thats the right solution here.

[@NachitenRemix]

Manifold line doesnt have that disavantage literally everywhere else where your inputs are automatic machines which always produce exactly the same items no matter what.

[@syreplays5079]

Tbh, I don’t use manifolds for anything. Yes load balancing is a chore, but the end product is much more satisfying.

[@coffe06]

how do you enable flymode? So you actually can see what you're building....

[@newtypecyber]

I noticed the wood outputs 300 biomass but leaves only outputs 60 so i hooked up the wood to a splitter and divided the biomass to go into 4 or 5 crafters since they can only take in 60 biomass/minute

[@alstillplays]

By the way the "straight" build mode for conveyors has been around as long as i can remember, it's not exactly new to 1.0

[@spectrumdad_]

@@alstillplays it’s definitely new in 1.0 for official releases.

[@absolutcabbagery3661]

Brand new to the game, the reason they didnt have an input on the biomass burner is probably cause dinks like me might mistakenly assemble 32 together and consequently run around the map like a madman gathering as much meat as possible to feed into a solid biofuel line, and now my game is a hell spent desperately trying to fuel the monster I created with blood gathered from throwing tnt at everything that moves trying in between the desperate combats to put together enough materials to make an automated coal plant powerful enough to escape this nightmare

[@FenixFenix-p5p]

HOW TO get it started to work?

[@andyblizzard]

Nice vid. Thanks. :)

[@hybricechess]

This method is ok, but the last 4-6 biomass burners will lock up due to too little input. Each time you split the conveyer it divides the input by 3. Your first few rows will get all the biomass, after that very little. The best solution is to put a splitter in after the storage then run one conveyer the same way you just did, but run the second converter over the top of the splitters to feed the back half of your arrangement. This evenly distributes the biomass and stops front-loading.

[@Jaredog2006]

Oh god thank soo easy for me no need worry about 😊 but what about saw gas and car?

[@bhuntin08]

Wait... I thought 15 biomass burners was the most efficient because the burn rate of solid biomass was something like 4 per minute and 15*4=60 So with 15 burners would give you 450mw and then if you keep a stash of solid biomass in the burners built into the hub you have a great layer of protection against peaking your power draw and blowing a fuse. The trick to this of course being that once you get coal power and higher you only calculate how many MW of power you have in coal (for example) and meanwhile you feed the biomass burners (including the two on the hub) until they're full so you have 490mw of head room on your coal plant. You do this because biomass won't burn unless there's enough draw for it. So as soon as you see your biomass burners kicking in it's time to either build more coal power generators or move on to oil power.

[@Duurti]

Instead of the merger in between the two constructors making biomass I highly recommend a storage container instead, then feed all biomass to your solid fuel constructor. I've been running this set up for quite some time (modded belt fed power before it was built in).

[@setakh]

I have it in my setup too, but watching how he did it, makes me wonder if it's useful at all? Not sure if you'd lose efficiency, considering its burning slowly in the biomass burners plus there is no 100% uptime with the resource its made of (leaves and trees) either. Or am I missing something?

[@Duurti]

@@setakh Yeah the thing backs up no matter what you do because of the slow burn so it just shoves the biomass into a storage instead of sitting on belts. This way it can keep producing at least til the storage fills rather than the belts.

[@setakh]

@@Duurti Ah nice :) Than all I'll change is the extra constructor that makes solid biofuel, thanks for the info! This game is just so jam-packed with info to learn, its amazing haha!

[@danhatstat6890]

I think wood is more compacted of a resource than the solid fuel, so leaving the the machine 'idiling' when its full is more beneficial For power and resource management. I did add a spitter into the biomass input because i find some laying around sometimes and need to trickle it in

[@ROO1KAT]

Hey, when can we expect the next episode of the ultimate beginners guide? :)

[@spectrumdad_]

@@ROO1KAT hopefully tomorrow

[@Microwaved_Frogs]

Will the starters guide series be continued or is it over?

[@Thommie88]

Hello I dont see the green lines for outline the buildings, can u help me

[@MaBearOriginal]

Will the Ultimate Beginners Guide Episode 6 Ever come out? please🥺

[@spectrumdad_]

Almost done, hoping tomorrow

[@MaBearOriginal]

@@spectrumdad_ I was waiting so long tysm 😀😀😀😀😀 I didnt continue on the save beacuse i didnt know if youre gonna build where i was, also will you be posting UGB more?

[@MaBearOriginal]

Is it like a video or a stream?​@@spectrumdad_

[@spectrumdad_]

@@MaBearOriginal It's a video, but I did do a cam in this one to try it out.

[@MaBearOriginal]

@@spectrumdad_ thanks, you got a time of it dropping? I got on in the morning and im on to wait for this vid to drop

[@FenixFenix-p5p]

why are you creating storage container for biomas?

[@braize6279]

Because it's the main supply to the burners. In other factory games, and this one, it's called a "buffer" or a "buffer chest" or an "oversupply" whatever you want to call it. This way you can always just dump your grass and wood into the main, and never worry about it backing up. Now, that said, will you ever fill up those raw material containers with grass and wood? Probably not. But this keeps the biomass constructors working. That, and lets be honest, storage containers aren't exactly that expenisve. And it's easy to just grab your chainsaw and vehicle fuel from there too

[@L6Jeremy]

This was a great video! Im about to redo my setup. I dropped sub for more vids like this!

[@Becker511]

Would love there is a thing to collect leaves and wood by itself 😅

[@Ambient5oul]

Can someone advise please, need some help! For some reason I have no power on the constructors to process leaves and wood stage, before placing down biomass Burners. I chose recipes and set up at the start of the video explains, but no power?

[@spectrumdad_]

@@Ambient5oul make sure you connect the constructors to the biomass burners

[@Ambient5oul]

@@spectrumdad_ spectrum, Thanks for reply. My issue is before putting down biomass burners. In the video, up until 1:40 mins he has power without having any biomass burners connected. I'm at the 1:40 in the video and have no power to process the leaves and wood :( my constructors are locked, meaning no clock rate, overclock area viewable. I noticed when he clicks on the solid biofuel constructor you can see at the bottom on the overclock area clock rate etc is active, @ 1:34. When I click on my constructors, I see metal plates over the overclock area and locked?

[@U2031]

@@Ambient5oul If I understand the problem correctly, you should manually craft some biomass and add it directly to the burners, which should kick start the automated process. With the old biomass burners you could even add wood and leaves directly but I've not tried 1.0 yet, but I'm sure it would still work the same way. You could just add 5 0r 10 to each one to get enough power to get things started off. Is that the issue you're having?

[@Ambient5oul]

issues is i don't have output multiplier showing on constructor next to overclock, its locked. basically, i cant process leaves and wood like he does before he places the biomass burners.

[@U2031]

​@@Ambient5oul The video is just to demonstrate the layout, you won't have the jetpack unlocked either at this stage, but he uses it to show from above where everything goes. If you get the whole thing set up and then put some crafted fuel into the burners, it should fire up and start producing. You also won't have mk2 belts but you can add them afterwards. Don't get too hung up on the details, just get it down and get it powered. Your main base has two biomass burners, hook those up to this and you should be set. Let us know if you're still stuck and we'll figure out where the problem is.

[@Warp9pnt9]

No matter how many times I listen and read the hard coded subtitles, I hear, "Crazy F**KERS at CSS...". 🤣

[@FenixFenix-p5p]

Im playing nomral mode. how to automate grass input? ?

[@orlagh277]

You can't, they say automatic because you couldn't load fuel into burners by belt in early access. It's more automatic than before but not fully automatic.

[@jm-po6bs]

Nice vid

[@AnchorJG]

how is this better as a manifold? it's just going to choke on itself unless you already have so much biomass to begin with

[@catonthekbd]

Snutt recommended making biomass burners load-balanced so you get maximum output

[@Shhmio]

yea I just bought the game. (Factorio Player here) and the burners at the end of the line dont end up getting enough solid fuel to sustain this setup. Seems kinda flawed

[@IraRomfh]

This is what I just don’t understand EVERYONE is making these manifold and wondering why they have power problems. They just ignore it because coal is right around the corner. I was really hoping for something new here but alas I have to keep looking.

[@jeremyjedlicka1473]

i don't understand why you wouldn't want to load balance. Its your power grid, if you don't fill the back, it shuts down. You want them to go into your burners evenly.

[@The6232888]

how do you fly ;( ,and sorry noob is here how did you power 1st 2 constructers

[@orlagh277]

When I read automatic, I assumed you're gonna show how to collect leaves/wood automatically too. Only started in 1.0 so didn't have the context of biomass burners not having an input.

[@kledonmushroomjuice643]

That's impossible without mods. The goal is to reach coal for that.

[@setakh]

Was wondering about the correct setup, I kind of overkilled it with adding one more constructor to make the solid biofuel, but it seems 1 is more than enough! Sweet! I'll just need to put this on top of a platform so it doesn't take up so much room ^^; (but I'm at the very beginning so it will take some time). And damn, I still tried to do the 90° with the conveyors, totally missed that you can do it with the straight mode! \o/

[@danhatstat6890]

You techinally need 2 for wood but the belts just jam anyway so its kinda a waste

[@xx_omaga772_]

you will not have any problem with power with this setup until endgame and further xD

[@zackjohnson9928]

And you can keep it hooked up as a back up power station incase anything happens

[@ahmetcanbuyukduvenci3470]

do you think you are edison?

[@4WDJeepDriver]

Early game? I think not. I don't have access to half this stuff.

[@5353Jumper]

Still a little sad they kept the tedious need for power poles. Would have loved a daisy chain capability on the machines. I find it takes away from the game long term to have to connect each machine to a power pole. It is ugly. And far late game that is a lot more objects needed on the map harming performance and game engine limits. Will be going back to the Daisy Chain mod pretty early in my new playthrough.

[@LifeIsAComedyDontOverDoIt]

I dont know why these youtubes promotes manifold lines which is garbage at efficiency my eyes are in pain seeing these videos 😭🤣🙃

[@onetwo3763]

Do not make this rush coal power I usually have coal before I unlock solid biofuel.

[@orlagh277]

First play through and i made this on a smaller scale before I got coal working, it's not that much work and saves you having to craft biofuel by hand

[@CrazyGamingOnline59]

There's been a belt fed Biomass burner as a mod for a while...