I Answered 13 Of Your MOST Burning Satisfactory Questions

[@TotalXclipse]

Hope you found this useful! Would you like another video like this with your follow up questions?

[@dustinyoung3069]

Do you know if its possible to sort or reognaize the Dimensional Depot list? Its just a running tally in the order of what i first uploaded, and it would really help to be able to sort the list, either by name or by resource type like the crafting bench. As it stands its kinda a cluttered mess and i dont see any way to fix it (besides starting a new save). Also, despite having played for years, i feel like a LOT of your fantastic past guides are due for a 1.0 refresh. I think your content pipeline has quite a bit in it....

[@liamglasel]

I have never bothered with anything other than manifolds, i know balancers are great but so is seeting up and running your factory stage by stage to let everything backup before the next layer

[@Queldonus]

Definately agree on biomass. I make 12(easy to balance), gather every bit of leaves and wood that I run across while exploring for early hard drives and slugs, and stock them up as heavy as I can. When I get coal online, I leave them set up. 12 bio burners are a 360MW reserve that can keep your grid from crashing if you have a feed issue at your coal plants or if you get carried away on a build and run over your stable power. I only take them down when I can mass deploy batteries as a replacement.

[@Red49er85]

it's crazy how much having belt fed biomass burners changes the game progression feel. I just finished phase 2 without bothering with my coal plant yet, something I never would have dreamed of doing before

[@tryctan2399]

for question 6 we rushed to the end of the game and unlocked everything (just some stuff left like portals and 2-3 mam research) we're planning to make a single, huge factory that has a large powerplant and since this is our objective "speedrunning" the game was the best option to start the main stuff as soon as we could i'd say only rush if you already played the game before. you should just enjoy your first playthru as normal.

[@zachcreger6128]

So many people talk about load balancing, but I've always just gone with overproduction and send overflow to the awesome sink. I can't be the only one doing this

[@Jude-yk9uc]

definitely seems to be the best way to avoid a head ache with balancing

[@LunarrMyst]

That’s the point of it so why wouldn’t a lot of people do this haha

[@raymarshall6721]

I do that too. I throw enough at it I don't have to worry about lags

[@justintime5021]

I think the only time I really used load balancing was when loading nuclear fuel into reactors because I was only producing a very small amount and a manifold would have taken like 100 hours to fill

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

If you're building large areas of foundations I've found that 4 maxed depots are still not fast enough, once you run through the 5 stacks.

[@sickre]

Please put text on screen for each question to help skip through the video

[@paradox...]

The built-in todo list is the single greatest addition to the game.

[@MightiestBeard]

I have found that if I have a long manifold, like 8+ machines, it is beneficial to just add a splitter to the front and send half the mats from one side and half from the other, and merge them at a machine somewhere in the middle. That seems to distribute items enough to keep them from taking FOREVER to get backed up and come fully online. Also, RE: permanent factories, the first factory I always wind up putting real time into organizing and keeping clean is my late-early game factory, which spits out r. iron plats, rotors, mod frames, and smart plates. Before that I do try to keep spaghetti to a minimum, but I don't REALLY fret much about it.

[@jangohemmes352]

For keeping track of what you were doing: use signs for indicating item count at input/output. It saves you so much headscratching if you can pick up where you left off and know exactly how much stuff you have

[@LunarrMyst]

You to do list also has a notes section!

[@Red49er85]

​@LunarrMyst I swear one day I'll actually use that feature...

[@paradox...]

Absolutely! I have signs everywhere telling me how many PPM (parts per minute) are flowing through any which point

[@Psykout]

Hard agree on the biomass. I am just starting out, but have some experience with factorio. It was very easy to take your biomass setup, switch it to a vertical layout and feed two converters making biomass from the leaves and wood I was gathering when exploring for nodes. The whole system is stocked, with a storage container buffer, that I don't have to think about my energy at all as I play with how I want to design my layouts.

[@MrChitakifsy]

Dimensional depots are a game changer, while working my way through phase 2 and 3 I automated and fed every building material i needed to have a basically infinite creative mode xD Took some running around collecting mercer spheres but man it was worth it, now i can just relax, fly around in my hoverpack and grow the factory wherever i want.

[@Daiwie44]

Nice to have chapters, but it would be more useful to see the actual question/topic instead of "Question number". Great video!! There's more to explore here!

[@DavidUtau]

It's 100% so he gets more time visualized, which is kinda predatory.

[@TotalXclipse]

Actually it was because I couldn't find a short enough title for each question 😅

[@andrewhoughton8606]

The point for me that changes thing is tier 4 I get blueprints unlocked u get power line towers and u get MK2 miners that is where I start to redesign my first base as u also have by now access to hole for belts on floor and wall along with pipes. U should by now have ladders stairs and catwalks that allow easy up and down movement.

[@TheKnightArgent]

Dood, I'm sure you've heard this before, but your voice is made for making videos. Have enjoyed it for years now.

[@inoob26]

"Don't make sushi lines" (Me sweating profusely for using the sushi line for central storage and Assembler crafting)

[@eselratte]

it works fir central storage. mk6 makes it even more usefull. Just use 2 since you have 2 Inputs in Containers means you can put in 2400 Items per minute

[@dustinyoung3069]

My central storage has been rendered obsolete by connecting a dimensional storage to the end of every product line. I always have a stack of everything at my fingertips. Start by doing this with reanimated SAM, and you'll always have materials on hand for another dimensional storage. ;)

[@martenfredin213]

Manifold vs balancing. First is easy to build and the second looks better (more satisfactory). I use manifold 99% of the time and if you build it in the "correct" order and start each section directly the problem with saturation will be minor. That problem is a function of the fact that normal stacks are a lot larger (good for storing) than is needed for most recipes. That buffer in the machine is good and even necessary sometimes when using trains. Most of the time that buffer is just time sink cost for starting up a line. My suggestion would be to unlock the ability for "UNDER-stacking" a machine at the same time as you unlock over and UNDER-clocking. Range from, exactly one cycle (for that recipe) to the normal one stack, and that those settings are included in copy/paste. Less startup time but more sensitive to variations of the input line. (trains etc)

[@Crosstowndonkey]

Total! I started a fresh save I. 1.0 and I’ve just finished phase 4! The thermal prop and nuclear pasta were pretty tough. I’m gonna finish the same for the first time ever soon

[@JasonEllingsworth]

A lot of people don't realize what the alien tech did to change the game for how you could build more optimally. The idea of a central storage is dead. Not at all needed anymore. There is also almost no reason for a mega base other than wanting to build that way. Instead, it is optimal to build smaller factory units modularly. Use a whole node to produce just plates. Another to make just wire. Another to make just cable, etc. and at each one, place a dimensional depot. Use smaller train lines only when necessary to get one factory's resource to another in order to produce the next item in a production chain. With the alt recipes that allow producing heavy modular frames and motors with only iron nodes, you can make really compact factories for these items to go right in to a storage depot. So instead of bringing all your materials to a central location, it is now completely viable and better in my opinion, to just have many outposts all contributing to the dimensional depot. This of course means you'll be doing a lot of hunting for mercer spheres, but its easy enough to do when you are already out grabbing hard drives. They are everywhere. I have 72 of them still after using about 15 on depots, and maxing out the research nodes.

[@aoeuable]

The general truth about balancers vs. manifolds is that it's dependent on stack size and throughput. If you have large amounts of items coming through with a tiny stack size, any manifold will saturate pretty much instantly. If you have an item coming through every other minute and they stack to 500, yeah that's going to take a while. So you probably really want to balance your nuclear power plants, and you probably don't want to balance things like smelting lines as they're prone to be saturated before you build the rest of the factory, anyway. Between that there's a huge span, and where your exact cutoff is is a more personal question. Oh there's also manifold length, and in some cases the neatest option is to feed your manifold from the centre to cut it in two. Like with a coal power plant, four plants to each side, the two manifolds will saturate much quicker than if you had a single eight-long one.

[@dragpl381]

in my playthru im thinking about making central storage but then adding in a dim depo above the containers that i might need more often

[@Hamstarin]

Banger video bro, keep it up!

[@Exocrime]

if you loose track of what you want to do, you can use the notepad on the right side to make your own notes and reminder.

[@Bullminator]

Hm... i am planning to make a central storage that is feed by drones. Right now all materials from tier 1 and 2 are feed into single location (but also those extra mats are used on megafactory). Getting Alternate: Classic Battery is gona be pain, but at least you dont have to deal with damn fluids.

[@loonboon8926]

ty

[@BlindedByAnotherCat]

Still confuse with how train works, like if you have main depot at yout base, how to manage all the items that delivered to your base from different train depot?

[@Extem1]

Question one says it starts at 1:00 when it actually starts at 0:45

[@yanakievful]

Here is a more late game question, I've maxed one brauxide pure node, how do I know the split between aluminum casings, alunimum sheets, fluid tanks etc.?

[@5353Jumper]

I just overbuild everything and load balance the ingot distribution. Then it all works out later as you build the late game stuff. If one of the ingot uses does not get demand it backs up and increases the supply to the other uses of the ingot.

[@smstnitc]

I fully upgraded the dimensional depo and its still not enough concrete being uploaded fast enough for the amount of building im doing. Granted theres a lot of blueprints im using that i created in previous playthroughs, but ywah, resources can go fast. I just started putting multiple uploaders for steel and concrete. Hopefully thats enough, but probably not, heh.

[@k0lpA]

I disagree with your take on the central storage. It's really not worth the trouble of making one anymore, dimensional storage is the way to go. You don't need that many spheres because you don't need the updates for it that much, only a bit of uploading speed but like you said you can just put more dimensional storage to increase that so it's not worth spending 7 spheres to double the speed when you really only need 1 or 2 resources to upload faster, just put another dimensional storage at the end of that item's production line, for 7 sphere you can make these two items upload like 4 times faster. As for storage space upgrades I don't think they are worth it, maybe 1 but you can just pull stacks when it's full. Only issue I had is with things that don't stack very high like modular frames, gotta remember to pull some from time to time or building manufacturers is a bit of a pain. But even then, I think the waiting time for it to refill would be way less long than going all the way back to a central storage most of the time and you can just decorate or build something else while it builds up.

[@Nautius_Maximus]

At the 11:00 mark: That is insane! Is there enough crude to keep up with the demand of that many refineries? Or is that all refineries (crude, acid, aluminum, nitrogen)? That is amazing.

[@michanoyva7734]

Will there be a central computer for switching on and off individual power networks?

[@Zach.M_]

You forgot to put the planning video in the description :(

[@TotalXclipse]

It's there, scroll to the bottom after the chapters

[@blast.507]

It feels wrong to be this early

[@GreasyMidget]

Its so hard to listen to some of your videos because the levels are all off. there is a low level echoy sound that you need to fix. sounds like you are talking in a cave. sound like you have too much bass in your levels.

[@takeetos1]

Where's the let's play 😢

[@TotalXclipse]

Episode ones already out - don't expect more than one a week though 😅

[@jan939]

oh we early early - nice.