Efficient Coal Power Plant Layouts | Satisfactory Game

Efficient Coal Power Plant Layouts | Satisfactory Game
100% Efficient Early Game Coal Power Plant Layouts Satisfactory
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Today we're jumping back to coal power to take a look at how you can create a beautifully designed early game power plant that's 100% efficient!
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[@TotalXclipse]

So are you going to do a similar design to what I showed or will you be using the layouts to build your own?!

[@anneputseys4441]

I've been (re)styling my coal generator lines over the past few days to look more like nice buildings before expanding and will def be using these in the new builds! Mostly the input systems, they look very streamlined, nice work! I think I may have gone a bit overboard with detailing on my chimneys, but hey, at least they look nice

[@jamert8820]

I’ve put off oil production until after FICSMAS. I built a giant present for a building and I’m all set to automate the wonder star, and the upstairs area I’ve created a gift mass production line that (when full) will house about 18 million gifts (will take about 133 irl hours to fill) (doing my part to provide presents for my home planet ☺️). Extra nonsense aside…..I have 3 max OC water gens, each feeding 6 coal gens (3 manifolds) that are being fed by an OC’d mk2 miner (normal) producing 270/min. So 18 coal gens in a line producing 1350MW.

[@craigchatterton4164]

Well, one thing you taught me (without mentioning it): I'm in the Northern Forest and I've been fighting for days to get water up to the coal node. Duh! I should be bringing coal DOWN to my water supply. I'll be rebuilding my coal generators now...

[@MarkLongos]

This layout made total sense. I tried it. Thanks for sharing! New sub here

[@jmaslin1751]

Your design is similar to mine! Amazing! Actually, I probably started playing long after you and only recently discovered your channel, so it's a happy coincidence. Feels good knowing this style grabs lots of attention points. Happy building!

[@dondumitru7093]

I personally reserve overclocking to be strictly used on resource Extractors (other than Water), because those are the only things that are actually limited in the game. Everything else is infinite, so it is always more efficient to just build another one, rather than pay the ongoing cost of power and use a Shard which itself is a limited resource.

[@ronhatch9175]

I almost completely agree... but when I set up my first nuclear power plant and realized how many water extractors I'd need without overclocking, I decided that water wasn't going to be the exception anymore. Sure, there's enough water in the game that you don't need to overclock, but that many would be an eyesore that I'd rather avoid.

[@ronhatch9175]

Oh, and as far as getting started, though... I'd recommend an 80% underclock supplying two generators rather than a 150% overclock supplying four. When you first get coal power, no sense in wasting power for that water.

[@dondumitru7093]

@@ronhatch9175 Yah, I do exceptions myself, like hand-fed production lines for making parts for the Space Elevator, I put shards in the Manufacturers rather than build a whole bunch of the buildings. But really my point is to emphasize the things that are actually limited, like resources extracted from nodes, as well as your power production (until you build more, and until you run out of the raw inputs), vs. things that are effectively unlimited like your ability to build another building. And the count of shards is actually limited in the game (unless you use a mod), so shards being limited, they "should" only be used on things that themselves are also limited.

[@SternLX]

Same, I'd rather add another machine and under clock than over clock.

[@TotalXclipse]

Yep, I agree, but I had already shown that it could be done with three extractors, so there's no harm in showing how I'd do a 2-8 setup ☺️

[@Lil_Puppy]

Tip: Pumps also work as valves, you don't need to power them. Fluid 'bounce' can be avoided by prefilling your system before turning it on. Any multiplication of 8:3 will work on a single line if you place a water extractor every 4 generators due to the way water is split at junctions and consumed just afterward but you must complete the full 8:3 sets. So 16:6 and 32:12 on a single Mark I pipeline is possible.

[@CauseOfBSOD]

bear in mind that unpowered pumps will reset head lift to 0

[@Guunie]

Thank you so much for the guide! Biofuel generators have been so far my biggest frustration since starting out recently and I'm so ecstatic about finally being able to automate my power, my second Hard Drive research even gave me compacted coal, so the eight coal burners you suggested is going to end up lasting me a long while! Thank you again!

[@michaelturner2806]

Thanks very much for this! I just got the game a few weeks ago, and I'm glad I followed starter advice of: don't look anything up, get your feet wet first to learn what you need to do, and only look up plans afterwards. Once I did that, and realized how much of a pain it was to transport coal far and water much farther and uphill, I found this video. Starting with my third new save, I've gone with the three water stations to eight coal plants pretty much as you show, though with ugly clipping with the pipes and conveyors, which I can just build walls around to hide. Getting mark 2 miners and finding two normal coal nodes right by a big lake, I've actually repeated the layout three more times because why not? I'm now easily producing three times as much as my max consumption, which should give me plenty of room to grow and take my time before scrambling to get oil figured out halfway decently.

[@Cynosureepr]

Just wanted to say thanks - I am 18 hours in and I was so sick of gathering/processing fuel and re-filling my 8 biogenerators... now I have enough power for a whole city and can actually relax a bit and work on automating things. You've opened me up to a whole new experience.

[@IRMentat]

i got to 5 additional biofuel (not on hub) before focusing down the tech and hunting down the coal. The upkeep was driving me nuts. I kept the biofuel for overflow (because the power storage seems super temperamental) as I had already automated the chainsaw fuel by that point. Later also added in a biomass system due to the green goop landing pads as the lucky earlygame jetpack is near impossible to fuel up without bagging it for 3-4 minutes between uses.

[@TerrisDWDC]

Fantastic tutorial, so well explained. Your building tips do inspire creativity. Thanks for uploading.

[@TheKnightArgent]

Great, clear step-by-step. Very well produced.

[@Tim1999.]

Thanks for the inspiration!:) We build our first 64 Coal Generators all in blocks of 16 or 8 in this style , looks so good 😍

[@LightWarriorK]

Brought my first U5 coal plant online last night; I'm getting pretty quick with it. The fun part for me is the startup sequence, with the biomass cold boot powering the miners to pre-load the generators to avoid the manifold "spin-up." Then the water extractors, and once the coal comes online connect their outputs to the startup grid and power down the biomass. Only then connect to the main grid. It's better once I get Switches and can make it a pretty control room, and I can't wait to incorporate signs and soft clearances!

[@juanmoyano94]

i just created a new world on satisfactory and im looking for coal power plant layout. I said, uhhh maybe some TotalXclipse old videos is that i need. so im here again. thank you for your videos

[@roberthilburn]

I always enjoy using the tall smoke stack looking things for the generators, and refineries, to make the buildings look more industrial. Although there is the mark 2 pipe, with 600 limit, I've heard it was bugged in the past and am a little wary of using it. Although farming biomass isn't always a pain... I built a small biofuel gen building, that has a lower floor to convert all of the biomass into solid biomass, that contains about 20 biofuel generators in the beginning of my game. Reason being is that while clearing areas, and creatures, I normally end up able to feed them all easily. Plus since biofuel has the awesome perk of not using the fuel, unless needed, I have a buffer when I do start with coal and build bigger than originally anticipated.

[@CauseOfBSOD]

ah yeah, it doesn't use the fuel unless needed still have my original bio generators fuelled to act as a very small bit of spare capacity

[@LolmenTV]

OMG! What an awesome and elegant construction! I am exciting to make this project for my factory!

[@SternLX]

Alternative piping that stops the fluid bounce on 8 Generator lines. Feed 2 Water Extractors in from 1 end of the single Manifold that's connected to all 8 Generators. Much like done here but without the upside down U's and from the End rather than staggered in the middle. Feed the 3rd Extractor using a + Junction between Machines 5 & 6. This extra insert fills in the space at the other end of the Single Manifold pipe. As long as you keep the Manifold at the same level or no less than 2m below(you can go above of course)the Generator's inputs you should get Zero back flow. I suggest letting the Generators and water network pre-fill by switching them off before letting the whole think run.

[@NeonVchewbing]

This is so useful, Thank you!

[@craigrushworth3955]

Will be trying this build tonight thanks.

[@dondumitru7093]

My very strong recommendation is to NEVER attempt to consume the max liquid capacity of any pipe. So for Mk.1 Pipe, don't put consumers that total 300, and for a Mk.2 Pipe, don't put consumers that total 600. Just don't do it. You might be tempted to do it because "100% efficient" but the headaches are just not worth it. And if the liquid happens to be Water, always, always, always overproduce Water into the Pipe. If you don't do this, you will spend HOURS trying to troubleshoot why your buildings are not quite getting enough liquid, and especially for power generation that means your power production will end up fluctuating instead of being rock-solid. Honestly, save yourself a huge amount of headache, and just always over-produce water, and always under-consume from any Pipe, if you possibly can. The fundamental mechanism that causes the problems is that because Pipes are not directional, liquids can actually slosh back-and-forth within pipes, and having the pipe content being fully consumed just means more room in the pipe for sloshing. You need enough room in the pipe to keep it "pressurized" (which causes it to act in a more unidirectional way), which means not having consumers that consume the full capacity of the Pipe, and having extractors that push at least a little bit extra into the Pipe. (If you are dealing with Oil or another liquid, then you'll need to end up using Fluid Buffers in order to get the full production capacity out of the Extractors and to smooth out the flow thru Pipes, but that is a more advanced topic.)

[@nickjohnson9640]

Well said. I spent hours and hours chasing my tail only to discover that mk2 pipes weren’t carrying the full 600 cubic meters with a quick online search. Then I started down the rabbit hole of checking my pipes and discovered the same situation you describe in my coal plant with the sloshing ;)

[@arminb3939]

Or you let gravity help you out.

[@erlingnesbakken9871]

I have 20 nuclear power plant with a 600 line of water connected to 2 plants (maximum usage), it’s at about a 60-70m incline, I’ve had no issue.

[@djolegameplay1089]

I have problem, I have 100 coal in my first 3 and sometimes 4 generators and others have 0, how should I fix that?

[@dondumitru7093]

@@djolegameplay1089 Does the coal from the source stop and start, or does it keep running continuously? If it is continuous and some generators are starving, it means you simply don't have enough coal to feed all the generators. If it is stop and start, then something is wrong with the belt connections for the generators which are getting 0 coal.

[@JayBigDadyCy]

Love your tutorials. Personally I'd build the base for the coal generators up a little so all that clipping underneath isn't going on. I know it isn't visible... But I KNOW it's there lol. I like to build the entire base up and then build the extractors underneath. Similar to how Nihlaus (sp?) Has done in he is vids. But I use the pipe holes and have the pipes 1 off the floor ( so I can still walk underneath them and so I can easily line up the pipe cross to the hole, hopefully they create some easier way to do this in the future)

[@achrisnic]

Thanks for this TotalXclipse. This design worked, however I needed to use 3 water pumps to get a good water flow.

[@zelwinters1981]

It's been a year, but I'm relatively recent to the game. I'm replying that he overclocked his water extractors to 150%, so two units simulate three, but at a high cost versus three actual extractors. You probably know this now, though.

[@achrisnic]

@@zelwinters1981 oh ok thanks. I didn't realise he overclocked his extractors.

[@Altek2k]

This helped loads, thanks!

[@Kitten202021]

I love this so much, it’s cute, simplistic and very compact - which I love trying to doin my factories.

[@TylerStillPlayz355]

I've actually done very similar pipeline work, except I had the water run from under the coal plants so I had to use regular U junctions on my setup to help spread the water.

[@MrDarkSilver]

I always added the holes after placing the elevator belts. now i see how to use them properly! :)

[@markgilmore2017]

Thank you TX, nice and clear. Used.

[@stormfire962imastarcitizen5]

Interesting build and I also find it even more interesting how do you use the pipes as a manifold. I personally might build like using the buffer tanks since it gives it a unique look and also creates a gravity feed to increase the pressure in the pipe preventing any backflow from occurring. But to each of our own since we both have different thoughts and tastes on what things should look like and we both like to express ourselves a certain way. Thank you for sharing this with us and keep up the good work that you do. Also God bless you sir and please stay well, safe and hopefully enjoy your life which I would imagine it's a good one.

[@Davo1219]

I like putting wall power junction underneath the floor, usually on the end of the foundation used under the unit, even on the ceiling underneath too.

[@deeraz]

As always a great build, and I'm still being surprised with what's possible to do with the new tools and pieces that were added in U5. The whole build process is just so much smoother now, it's easier than ever to experiment and try out new things, and with all the new pieces all the experiments look better than ever of course. Update 5 really invigorated the game for me. Can't wait to see what builds you'll create with a few more weeks of experimenting.

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

I like to leave a 1 meter space for the coal holes, so you can see the flow of coal into each generator... could also have glass roof as floor to see the flow i guess.

[@BL4ckViP3R]

Your first oil pipe could use a wall hole ;P Other than that I like the compact layout of the supplying belts and pipes!

[@CobraTrainer]

I just did a coal powerplant last weekend and it looked extremely alike to this lol. I had a 32 coal plant build though, so it was a but scaled up, but the basics of running the pipes and stuff from below were the same. I didnt have fancy walls though, so yours look much better :)

[@ssrocky4gaming]

Man I am glad I have found this video I just started this game for the first time and built my first ever coal factory, its not the prettiest this I have ever seen you can check it out as I stream myself not self promoting but I built it on stream and have it on my channel in day 3 on this game lol, have a look at it its a disaster, maybe you can give me some pointers on it and maybe join me in game some day and have a look at the rest of my builds and help me fix it hint hint lol......I might build this build you have here as a replacement to what I have just to get more power and efficency. Thanks again for doing these vids for everyone I am amazed at what you can do.....

[@steeljawX]

This is pretty informative, as I pretty much do a rule of 2:1:3 (2 extractors, 1 miner mk II, to 3 generators) to get it working. It's not 100% efficient as there's backups on both the water and coal, but it works decent enough. I just have the misfortune of laying down a battery bank of probably about 50 batteries that are mostly charged now and they're 1 meter off to one side and they don't fit neatly into the wall grid. . . . It's one of those Satisfactory memes you only get if you've done something kind of similar. Easier solution almost seems like it'd be better to reconstruct the entire floor instead of losing all of that power, but yeah. It's my cringe.

[@nameless0f]

damn, that's clean

[@OlaftheGreat]

My coal plants usually consist of "Hey, there's a coal node here, might as well throw down a generator or two!" So yeah, despite the one plant I have that looks really nice, the rest is an OCD-triggering nightmare factory(pun very much intended).

[@xanthik6205]

you can have the pipe floor holes one step closer to the coal generator if you have the pipe build setting on noodle

[@CauseOfBSOD]

3:15 im pretty sure you can also have 2 extractors on one side, and one on the completely opposite side. you can also then double this up, having 2 extractors on both sides and 2 in the middle for double the coal power plants

[@MrAPOD]

Nice video. I'm curious how you make the smooth flying camera? Been trying some mods bit can't find anything that provides smooth and controlled movement.

[@TotalXclipse]

Ficsit cam or Pak utility to fly 🙂

[@jonilarsen-haikarainen8733]

In a previous video you stated that the elevators can not change directions while placing. That you must place the input first. This is at least no longer true. You can use the R key to change the direction of it now.

[@TotalXclipse]

Yes. That came in Update 5.

[@kailanirhys6107]

Have not played in a very long time. Am I understanding correctly, that power plants now use max resources, and you can either capture their power in a battery bank. Or the power is just lost?

[@alectrix3790]

17:10 I think my left ear brokeXD Just kidding ;) Good Video

[@TotalXclipse]

Ouch me too. No idea what that's from

[@craigchatterton4164]

@@TotalXclipse OMG that was *you*?!?! I live in the country so my first thought was a mouse. I stopped the video and spent a bunch of time looking around for what caused that noise... lol :-)

[@justgivenofox9543]

just finished up my coal plant. 12 water extractors, 36 coal generators, 2 270 lines of coal, 2700MW. not the best, definitely a barebones look; not aesthetically pleasing but it's getting the job done

[@huwhughes]

got two of these puppies set up. 1200MW. :) now to redo my starter builds lol

[@psudodrake]

So, with a Pure Node, I have 5 generators being watered by 2 water pumps using Mark 3 belts and Mark 1 pipes. Whether 5 or 8 setup is more efficient, I think they balance each other out, as 1 water pump will run 2.5 coal generators

[@TotalXclipse]

It's not quite 2.5 so you'll have one generator turning on and off due to lack of water it's something like 2.3. as for the coal node if it's pure that's 120 coal which it sufficient for 8 gens which is why I tend to try to do sets of 8 gens at a time ☺️

[@AJ213Probably]

Overclocking the generators saves coal and water gives you more power. Don't know why they did it like that, but it's nice.

[@happytimeharry363]

I wish I was smart enough to understand what you are saying. I need flow charts or sumthin'. I just spent an hour setting up two coal generators, and can barely comprehend what I have done.

[@Cytex69]

Please do a Video about Fuel Generator, i would love to see how that goes , my Factory doesnt use 100% of the Fuel

[@DeadPixelGaming]

Absolutely incredible! You are the "CathrineOfSky" (Factorio) for Satisfactory. Quick question though, will this build run off of one coal node? Loving the guides.

[@TotalXclipse]

It depends on the type of node a pure node with MK1 miner can run 8 generators a normal node can run 4 or a poor node 2. Double this if youre using a MK2. Thanks for the compliment!

[@userfortytwo]

Great stuff! - and btw; The copyright free music you have linked to, is it freely available for anyone to use or only on your personal videos and media creations? Best regards

[@TotalXclipse]

Glad you're enjoying the content! Yes the music is freely available to use for everyone, if you have any issues, you just let me know. But I do ask that you link back to the spotify page for anyone who wants to use it :)

[@fritzcolburn]

Maybe things have changed somewhere but this appears to be a good layout only for 6 generators. The last 2 in line are offline due to fuel more than they're online. Unless I missed a detail somewhere... MK2 miner and conveyors. Now that I think about it this is the same issue I was having months ago.

[@skylarc6063]

Another solution to the '8 generators, 3 water extractors' is to have single pipe running across all your generators, fed by 2 water extractors on one side, and 1 extractor on the other end. No issues at all, no need to make u bends.

[@advmx3]

I have the most love/hate relationship with Satisfactory, sometimes I call it SADisfactory because of it. Everything runs fine for me from Coal to Fuel generators, but when I need to start the Nuclear situation, I get real sad xD. Gonna have to get a mod that makes my hoverpack works with the hazzmat suit, I can't play this game without that anymore XD.

[@SirPunch2Face]

Well luckily, they just announced today that Update 6 will bring in multiple body equipment slots, so I'm assuming that's going to mean you can do things like hazmat suit+jetpack or hoverpack at the same time without any mods =]

[@caesaraugustus8281]

@@SirPunch2Face yup amen for that!

[@DhiscoStu]

When you're like "I could do with an easy, basic guide as a total novice" and 3mins in it's all "just re-enforce your tripple-split sub-manifold" and I'm like "ooooh kaaaaay"

[@SweetChuckPi]

I'm really disappointed about the snapping of pipes only to buildings. It would be really helpful to have the pipe junctions be able to snap to the floor and wall holes as well as the pipe supports.

[@aluckyshot]

There are wall and floor pipe junctions available in the awesome shop with tickets from your awesome sink.

[@MasterYurmas]

То как лифты соединяет одобряю, я так же делаю в упор их везде)))

[@KuribPlays]

I just started coal plant but I have no overclock/underclock nor able to find those slug all over the place. What is the best ratio for water extractor/coal plant.

[@ScarryHarry93]

Have you made a guide on overclocked coal generators and how to effieciently made a good setup on that? Even though it uses more power o nthe extractor, I noticed overclocked generators require increasingly less resources to a max of like 91m^3 water and just over 30 coal, barely twice the resources at 250% (though I'm pretty sure the power max is also slightly less than a new generator) I haven't ran all the numbers, but the trade-off of extractor power is lower than the increased generator production, making it worth it from what I can tell. It also almost perfectly uses a single pure coal node per 4 generators - but the problem is, you couldn't really use an extractor that's not overclocked on 2 or more generators, making resources and space required for water much higher. (not that coppers hard to come by, and I'm not sure if there's better pipes and extractors later in the game as I've never made it to space elevator lvl 3 yet)

[@polareclipse3118]

Just a quick question how many coal nodes do you recommend?

[@abaronofchivalry5176]

So I have a question. I have the water running using backup generators, and the coal running as well with all of the components in the correct directions, but no coal is feeding into the power plants?

[@thecrazypain9978]

His pipe setup is way nicer then my spaghetti setup

[@AvidNarwhal829]

I hooked everything up as shown in the video. With a few aesthetic tweaks only to the outside of the building. For some reason even after i kick start the system yhe furnaces furthest away from my coal miner randomly shut down, shutting doen the entire system with it. Ive tried some basic troubleshooting but cant find a solution... any tips?

[@TheAniMob]

Hey quick question, when I split the conveyer belt multiple times the last coal generator or two is barely even on half the time. Do you have any fixes/how many resource nodes should the coal supply come from. (This is probably a dumb question but I’m pretty new to the game, and do not fully understand how each part works)

[@TotalXclipse]

When you place down an miner building click on it, you should see in the lower left the production of coal. A coal generator uses 15 coal per minute. So divide the production number by 15 and that will give you how many coal generators that miner can run. But note along a manifold the initial generators will be prioritised first

[@SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE]

Hey can i ask how do you flip that pipe T junction upright? I just started playing and i didnt lnow you can do that

[@JayretchCool]

Is it possible for you to update the aluminum production process please?

[@bp-brainproblem483]

3:31 don't like it because of backflow. i like using valves and multiple input pipes with 300M3

[@DanielCoffey67]

Interesting - by U8 the Yellow Slug at 2:10 has evolved into a Purple one.

[@mattr8750]

"we pledge to be 100% carbon powered by 2035"

[@mitch131996]

Doesn't splitting belts inline like that split unevenly?

[@jackj6219]

I'm currently running 3 over clocked extractors to 11 gens with only 3 coal using mark 3 conveyors.

[@lannart84]

Not sure if i do something wrong but when i try have the pipe go upp in the pipeline floor hole i dont get enought flow upp to my coal generator. i have max flow upp to the hole but on the other side there is almost nothing. Only thing that helps its eather to put another layer upp so i can fit a pump ore drag the pipe and clip the pipe throw the floor in to the generator. enyone has the same problem?

[@Pothead2633]

Having an issue with the water pumps, set it all up just like you did. But for some reason the pumps don't fill up or pump properly they don't fill up their own tank and also don't produce enough water to fill the rest of the pipes any suggestions?

[@markp9196]

Have you found a solution to this? i have the same problem now

[@Mezazine123]

hey. i cannot get the water running. overclocked both ends to 150%, but only one generator is pumping. i thought i followed the guide, but i cannot find the mistake. ideas? i am feeding the system from the other end, might this be a problem?

[@royalaxe]

if you wanted the coal delivered evenly, youd make an expanding pyramid design of conveyor splitters...

[@TotalXclipse]

At full capacity manifolds work as efficiently as load balancers, but take up less room, hence why I've done that here 🙂

[@tyerikkerink3851]

bit late but what Swatch/Colors are you using??

[@Dauskas]

None of them seem to be getting enough water despite all the water pipes underneath being full of water. One of the pumps also just turns off while the other keeps pumping.

[@richardloccz9730]

More basic beginner videos please

[@TotalXclipse]

I'll see what I can do

[@ofcatarina]

Manifold lines never seem to work for me. The generators at the end will always be at a deficit, they will turn off constantly. No amount of time will fix this issue. I also manually filled each generator with coal to try and kick start it. They just drain out and go back to idle, while the first 3 in the line stay capped at 100. You would think that since they are at 100 the overflow would be enough, but even the 4th generator stays at 1 or 0 ore just idling on and off. This doesn't change with time.

[@daniikotze2348]

is there a way to skip tiers to get to a mid to high tier to start building in creative ?

[@TotalXclipse]

Use Pak utility to unlock all? But the struggle is where the fun is 🙂

[@Slix36]

yo, have they changed the size of spltters? i'm trying to stack them as you do but there is so much more clipping through the ceiling. Edit: nvm, i know where i've fucked up.

[@Gledii]

are these pipeline holes unlocked later in the game or it need to be adquire in the awesome shop? cheers

[@caesaraugustus8281]

awesome shop

[@ollllj]

wait, the power storage buildings act like power poles? replace all power poles is say!

[@hen4183]

damn I suck lol, you said your first 10 hours you can get coal lol. I just unlocked it but I gotta change up my efficiency for my other resources to make the material for building it haha.

[@samolson9640]

Can you add the matrials needed in the furture?

[@Toughbeard]

if I have space I under clock my pumps to push 100lt so it can feed 2 generators. I feed a water tank then divide the output to 2 generator and call it a day. it also allows me to seperate the power grids easier if I need to. And it is more compact and fits in smaller puddles. 8 generators plus 3 pumps work fine but If something goes wrong your whole power system fails. I will spend the extra resources to make more buildings. I am frankly against compact building styles in Satisfactory. Makes no sense. you have awhole continent for your to expoint but you build tightly... When I build I first build tightly but remove one machine from in between. so I always have one machine space in between. And I always run manifolds now because it is infinitely expandable. One thing I have learnt playing Satisfacory is that because its prerelease we are getting more features and sometimes these break your factory because you didnt plan for it. I just started a new game with Update 6 experimental and right now I am building everything on ground first. in my initial setup and creating the initial parts factory seperately not connected to grid yet. and I am leaving 2 machine spaces in between machines and every machine has atleast one power storage next to it. The output lines will connect to a conveyor loop that pushes Items all over the factories so I have access to material in all my factories. my reasoning is that Satisfacory is growing and the factories needs to be expandable easily and if you decide you want to change it, the whole systems should not come to an halt.

[@HackedGlitch265]

Do you set up 2 or 3 water extractors? Because I see 2, but I keep seeing everyone say it's 3 for 8 coal generators?

[@TotalXclipse]

At 3 minutes I mention it's 3 -8. The end build features overclocked extractors as you can tell by the blue light above them :)

[@seliasthemage]

What I do is I don't turn the water on to start. I wait till all plants are full, then I turn the water on.

[@ikibiki8753]

So i tried to rebuild the water system and somehow my outer ones on the right would not get enough water. Anyone has an idea how i can fix that, or better what the problem could be?

[@GrillerRohde]

Maybe it’s the waterflow

[@Jbob1390]

I think I'm confused. I followed the build to T, even with the overclocking to 150% on the water extractors, and using a mark 2 conveyor belt all the way to the coal source, and my last 4 generators are still sporadically turning on and off because they aren't receiving coal as fast as the other generators. Is it something I've done wrong or is this just how the build is and if I want more power I need to route from a second coal source?

[@TotalXclipse]

If you've done it correctly then this will happen until the manifold fills up, you just need to leave it running - should be fine when you return to it in an hour or so

[@Keldor314]

If you want it to fill up faster, you can shut off each of the generators until they're all full. Or just shut off the water, that involves less button pushing.

[@firetobstertheultimate2732]

So How Many Coal Nodes And Water Extactors Do I Need To Run 20~ Coal Generators?

[@Blackkatt]

Would be great if you had made it more realistic. ATM you switches clip with the glass. And the pipe under your conveyor lifts will clip with the pipes when they pulsate...

[@TotalXclipse]

You have the blueprints you can build it exactly as you like.

[@Calcearius]

Descend was the word you were looking for I think, not decline ;)

[@Cynatr]

First 5-10 hours... Me on hour 50: What have I been doing?

[@trublwalkn5132]

ive followed every single step but only the first 4 coal generators are on, is there a way to fix this problem?

[@on3v1]

where i can find this place for build it?

[@CassidyHansen]

Cool tutorial! But, you think someone can achieve this within the first 5 to 10 hours??? Maybe if it's not your first playthrough? Maybe I'm just slow oops

[@TotalXclipse]

I think the basic ones I showed are doable the cleaner systems might take a little longer but you'll be using coal until you unlock fuel which might take another 10 hours

[@devious4789]

you forgot to add WATER PUMPS

[@jorisvanhandenhove5865]

me: on my first coal power plant starts off with 36 of them, I definitely need that much until I get to fuel power

[@migdalinhasnolastname708]

How do you get the pipeline junction to rotate so it's facing up instead of side-to-side?

[@johnnn76]

By using scroll wheel.

[@migdalinhasnolastname708]

@@johnnn76 Scroll wheel turns it horizontally. I think the answer is to use the "change placement style" (? can't remember right now what it's called). I haven't tried it. I went with a simpler design that uses 4 water extractors all set to 75%. It uses a bit more power, but doesn't seem to have the problem of intermittent idling of the coal plants due to backwash.

[@caesaraugustus8281]

@@migdalinhasnolastname708 scroll wheel effects it based on direction the pipe is going. rotates vertically if pipe is going horizontal, or horizontally if pipe is going vertically. :)

[@alenko2682]

How is the extractor powered without using the biomass burner and make it self sufficient?

[@TotalXclipse]

Use the biomass gens to kick-start the coal generators, and then once that happens connect the goal generator to that circuit and you should be able to run the water extractors from that power.

[@fancen]

yes

[@Vlambulance]

I'm unable to get my coal to my last 2 generators. the coal keep on going down all the time, do you know why that is? it truely frustrates me allot :/