What Does SAM Ore do in Satisfactory? (S.A.M. Ore Use Revealed?!)

[@HamHamDude]

Step one of the diabolical plan: put in a game element with no purpose yet, and drop vague hints about it's end-game usefullness. Step two of the diabolical plan: watch as the community theorizes what the game element could be. Step three of the diabolical plan: pick one of the cool ideas the community thought of and put it in the game. Step four: Profit!

[@n3squ1k666]

That's really old one trick and it comes not actually from gamedev but entrenched here better than other industries.

[@TripleBarrel06]

Alternatively you hint at its secret usefulness but never implement a use, like Miyazaki did with the Pendant in Dark Souls.

[@ruediix]

Some diabolical plan, make the game the community wants! Sounds good for everyone, except the poor saps who mine S.A.M. early!

[@leonomeistro2078]

Stonks

[@ImRandomDude]

Step one: release unfinished game for increased price because of sense of pride and accomplishment Step two: let army of paying customers do quality control and bug hunt for months Step three: release game and thats big IF Step four: profit

[@abhaymahajan4935]

i am just trying to imagine how many times he had to redo this while trying to keep a straight face

[@T0phen95]

I'm pretty sure he didn't even have a straight face in the final recording. Just a big ol' grin while talking.

[@OnyxBMW]

@@T0phen95 Wait, that's not par for the course for him?

[@MikkeMan]

@@T0phen95 Do you mean he had a gay face?

[@cathygaroutte6385]

I like to think he turned off the Mic and laugh like a mad man then laughed some more I know I would trying to read that script

[@ipadaccountyore8085]

I was suprised this got a heart

[@Artanis17]

The end should have been you walking into your new house, fade to black, sound of horses and cart... "Hey you, your finally awake"

[@DevinBidwell]

My hypothesis: The developers have no idea what it's used for, but they put in in the game in order to read others theories and get ideas from it :D

[@XevianLight]

That’s actually genius

[@bmxboisgroup2487]

Or it’s lazy but who cares I think s.a.m. Is a cool guy

[@tylers5952]

​@@bmxboisgroup2487strange alian metal is a guy? Cool

[@Fayfamilyadventures]

If so we can only hope BioWare has done that with mass effect

[@mystic5008]

they playing chess we playin checkers

[@CT-4274]

I'll be honest, I fell for it when you said you knew what it did, but I figured it out when you had a sonic screwdriver.

[@bakyrdpro]

He got me until he turned around a saw the tardis

[@ITNiels]

Yup!... 😆

[@AAron-gr3jk]

NO FLYING MACHINES? not even personal, like the golf cart? Damn. that sucks

[@Ridlinrin]

At first I thought the Sonic screwdriver was like an Easter egg, but then it was just another "damnit kibitz" moment.

[@serdaraytemiz]

You guys are over thinking. Its metal and all metal in game are related to a new level of belts and new production nightmare

[@percevilleburns7100]

If u look at the superposition oscillator in the swamp drop pod requirements, it says that their used in teleportation and dimensional warp technology. So teleportation is basically confirmed

[@EvilSanta482]

Which would be useful as is let alone if they made the map bigger.

[@triffmugurel1063]

thing is , there is a mod with teleport, dont know from were the guy took the design but, u just build 1 in each location, link them and voila, from edge of the map to edge of the map in 1 sec, prob gonna be the same thing but official thing in game and not a mod

[@golden_7899]

lol i wish that i had scrolled down a little biit more asi was commenting. i typed a very long comment about basically the same thing, except i didnt remember the name of it, and after i posted the comment, i scrolled down to see that someone beat me to it

[@EvilSanta482]

@@triffmugurel1063 A lot of the good mods will eventually become features in some regard like the renewable power mod or teleportation. When you have a good community it will immensely help with development and idea generation.

[@Hippida]

It was in game back in alpha days. Several of the machines can be seen in the earliest pictures and trailers

[@linamishima]

The limited SAM ore production is only per restart of the game, which is an unusual game mechanic, and honestly suggests simply that they wanted an easy way to limit players collecting huge stockpiles of an item that currently has no use.

[@samwisee]

Ya the game developer basically said so as much. They just haven’t gotten around to building things yet

[@BestHakase]

This just looks like they don't want to players make a huge stockpile of it, and just make this little thing with ore production.

[@primes1937]

That's what I was thinking, that sounded more like an anti-frustration feature to keep you from stockpiling a currently useless item

[@superdave6889]

S.A.M. might also be short for "Stabilized Anti Matter" basically antimatter in a stabilizing matrix that makes it much safer to handle. you refine it to make antimatter to be used for power generation.

[@ImKibitz]

DUDE that's such a cool theory! Never thought about it that way!

[@tunatutuncu2221]

You're genius!!!

[@packetlossenjoyer]

some alien material

[@idiomi8556]

Doesn't it say Strange Alien Metal in the item description?

[@superdave6889]

@@idiomi8556 Not sure, i don't have the game, I'm just throwing some ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks.

[@floziller]

the first thing ive ever got from one of the dogs was actualy nuclear waste. i thought it was kind of a welcome to the game :D

[@thebloxxer22]

Have you got T7 yet? Send it to the Nuclear waste Storage site.

[@85matticus]

Be even more of a welcome if you went over to your animal pen and found a dead doggo because of said nuclear waste. LOL

[@melonman4690]

My dog's first ever found item was a power slug

[@VascoCC95]

@@melonman4690 Mine was coal... It's pure luck

[@mre4u422]

@@melonman4690 mine too except it was the yellow power slug

[@jxlianexe]

this moment, when kibiz trolls us with two mods lol

[@KingWolf39]

Or could samore be used in the disposal of nuclear waste?

[@indominusbaz]

If thats all it did that would be a huge let down

[@HISKILP]

nope, waste is something you have to deal with when you go nuclear and nuclear shouldnt be a must have product for SAM because then you are forced to go nuclear

[@anbrucken2871]

@UCNbvcJRdPAwIcMg-x-RB-zw No

[@Urono]

@@HISKILP Agree

[@powerful7845]

So Sam getting rid of nuclear is a bad thing? Also why would you have to do anything? You can do whatever you want.

[@hunterd78]

there is another ore that is not in the game yet, called D.E.A.N. ore . The S.A.M. ore and D.E.A.N ore are smelted into an alloy call Winchestore. This new alloy will be used to make better weapons to help defend against the monsters.

[@MrDunnwall]

Gold comment

[@bryanturnbow8189]

You must think you’re just so clever. …well, you are. I was amused.

[@brickbot2.038]

I'm not cultured enough to get this joke, but I'm sure if I did understand I would be laughing my head off, so have a like.

[@LalleMangaming]

@@bryanturnbow8189 supernatural the show :)

[@jeffmeyer6820]

I too love supernatural

[@LETRODE]

Blud actually predicted the future 5:33

[@jensgerits1665]

fr

[@mitchellwood1014]

I reckon it's gonna be used for some kind of wireless power transmitter. Cabling upwards in large factories and across factory floors is super tedious. Maybe plonk one of those down and not have to worry about cabling together some enormous factory in the late game like the dev says

[@zelmoxious5925]

Developer: "flying machines wont be added to Satisfactory" Drones in Update 4: "SIKE!"

[@Seanie455plays]

I think the Sam ore will be used as the final piece of the space elevator, then the space elevator changes into a planet killer weapon that kills all life. Hence why there are drop pods everywhere. You must succeed where others of failed. Maybe

[@TheInnerstrife]

If you wanted to kill all life on the planet you could just drop the space elevator on it. It's not a large world.

[@ChaBawbe]

@@TheInnerstrife we don't know how big that planet is, we're only visiting around 25km² :P

[@triffmugurel1063]

when u start the game, the A D A or what the cpu name says that ur the few that survived the planet fall, so the crashed drop pods are those who failed

[@hackdesigner]

@SaviorOfNirn FicsYt doesn't waste. The whole planet will be repurposed now as the energy source. As for you... FicsYt doesn't waste.

[@Seanie455plays]

@@triffmugurel1063 I completely forgot about that lol. Well remembered

[@PizzaKing-ev3nn]

Who else is watching this after the new 1.0 teasers?

[@inthatcaseable]

Algorithm been hitting me with update trailers all night and ended up here.

[@vanessapalacios1023]

Actually, as a fun fact, in one of CSS streams, it was confirmed that S.A.M ore did have a use, it was a machine where you input the ore and then an object of your choosing would come out, in my opinion that sounded useful

[@idiomi8556]

Ohhh kinda like the AWESOME store but automated or omnimatter I think it's called? Mod for factorio

[@wyattr7982]

Maybe it could be a universal ore that can be smelted into any ingot type at a reduced rate

[@Rob-ue7ig]

I died laughing when I saw the TARDIS

[@syrusalder7795]

I've been tricked, i've been backstabbed and ive been quite possibly, bamboozled

[@janis_14]

Imagine one of the devs watching this and getting a heart attack right as he says its already in the code. XD

[@Cosplayinghuman]

They might be wondering who added it

[@Sdw_Bld]

@@Cosplayinghuman I like your pp *profile picture*

[@Cosplayinghuman]

@@Sdw_Bld lol new one I heard

[@TheGamingRobin1]

Frick he was right all along

[@pausmth]

I'm honestly a bit surprised with how close you got with this 4 years ago... ❤

[@RAW_Reality]

Getting a Bill&Ted 3 ad during the TARDIS viewing seemed highly ironic.

[@nic8148]

Factorio dimension when?

[@andrewyates5548]

Oh that would be awesome literally just playing factorio in 3D!

[@monstergamer7963]

There’s a mod that adds factorio items. He’s been working on it for a while and there are actually a lot of things that you can do in it!

[@Neif181]

@@monstergamer7963 you mean a factorio mod that adds satisfactory items, right?

[@andrewyates5548]

@@Neif181 no, it's a satisfactory mod that adds factorio items, I just looked it up lol

[@JMW1906]

... And now we are playing satisfactory in 2D with underground belts, splitters, mergers and biters. Has someone seen my power armor?

[@williamchancellor1522]

I think the "limit" on S.A.M ore is actually just incomplete code, why else would it give you more when you restart your game?

[@alexanderhamilton0]

it's like berries and such, which are limited but replenish when you restart

[@Phoenixstorm36]

@@alexanderhamilton0 berries and nuts replenish over time too 1-2h (didnt stop the time)

[@XxTaiMTxX]

My assumption was that it was to keep you from amassing a massive stockpile of the stuff before it had a purpose... which might ruin the game once it's implemented and you can just "blow through" whatever tiers and such it's used for. Can you just imagine all the players who have set up "refining" points for the stuff already and are just awaiting the update that gives it a purpose in order to activate their machines and wait for them to process the material? I mean... it's not like I did that... or anything... Using smelters... or constructers.... and everything else. It's not like I"m sitting around with a huge crate full of the ore or something and no purpose for it yet. I mean, there's no way players would do something like that just to "rush" all the new content when it comes out.

[@RealSugam]

shh, that's too realistic, let these guys speculate and clickbait.

[@BestHakase]

@@XxTaiMTxX yeah, 100%!

[@lorri1129]

"Players can Solve problems in their factories they might not want to deal with" Robots i'm telling you, they're talking about Robots. Satisfactory is a big inspiration from factorio, and factorio has robots in the late-game so why not in Satisfactory too?

[@thegnomeriseofthepopcornra7315]

What would robots do? We have conveyor belts

[@miguelviola7264]

Probably automation Maybe there will be a super advanced A.I. that builds a blueprint of your bases

[@lorri1129]

Have you guys played or watched factorio? Have you seen what robots do there, we need the same in Satisfactory

[@Binichmoses2]

They denied the idea of blueprints I think teleportation, another power source and ending the game makea the most sense

[@VarenvelDarakus]

inserters , logistics/construction robots , spidetron tank , space satelite , oh wait this is not factorio...just lesser clone:o

[@CollinKeegan]

I think the developer's comments about late game problems suggest that it's teleportation, as I imagine that not having to have conveyor belts and just putting a teleporter pod on each of the outputs and inputs would be much easier, but I think the in-game text of "glistens with possibilities" suggest it being used for cloning, as if the ore can be reconfigured to be anything.

[@85matticus]

So many emotions at once. He figured it out, I must know. Wait do I really want to know? I went from happy to sad and now I'm just laughing. great video

[@samljer]

S.A.M Ore is probably for a final tech tier, or an "alien" technology tree that isnt available. but going to minecraft would be hilarious. imagine seeing your factory in glorious 5 pixel graphics.

[@danhibiki2]

3:42 "to solve problems around their factories they dont want to deal with at that point" Clearly they're referring to teleportation. Specifically teleporting items from 1 machine to another which will clear up the need to use belts. IIRC Planet Nomads had a "wifi way" of handling items and storages

[@nikitashilov9758]

It is soo weird to see it 2 years later... and it's still actuall

[@Metalusko]

The reason probably why u have to reset your session to collect more is that they don't want you to accumulate this resource before it has usage. There was also theory on the Satiswiki about this for having dimensional storage so you could take anything from it if you build another ones etc but nice job with the last theory mate :D you got me rly laughing :D

[@Rxckyy.]

ENDER CHEST IN SATISFACTORY???????

[@xarfram]

I think you're on the right track with teleportation, but I was thinking something more along the lines of wireless power. Unlike belts, there's not really any challenge to setting up power cables--you just need enough of them. So maybe it could be used for some kind of "quantum power pole," where everything in a radius around it (including other quantum poles) is automatically connected to power. Maybe there's even several tiers with varying radii, and each is more expensive than the last

[@rwxstudio7173]

And Update 4 introduced zip lines. A new form of transportation and uses existing power lines.

[@TheExileFox]

Going back to the alpha, before the cheat buildings, here's what has been considered: Mass Storage (probably connected to the pocket dimension) Raw resource converter (example; input 2 iron ore, output 1 caterium ore) Sam ore might be required to build these - hence you can't spam them around the world.

[@secretworkaccount4601]

@4:50 Kibitz: "But hey, that's just one theory". My head: "A FILM THEORY!"

[@purpledragon1945]

So fun seeing this post 1.0 to answer, to make some crazy **** and simulate ores

[@Frozzones]

I legit jumped to the video's description after you revealed your last theory just to make sure this wasn't uploaded it on April 1st. Perfect April Fool's joke.

[@florianmsn9941]

Same here :D

[@arturmonteirodacosta170]

The first doggo I ever found gave me nuclear waste, so it was a radiation bomb walking behind me, after that traumatic experience I never domesticated doggos again.

[@capthavic]

Wow not to jinx it but I've got few SAM ore from my doggos and only one nuclear waste barrel in all my playtime. As for my hypothesis, SAM ore will act as an "every material" that you can transmute into any other resource you need.

[@gummy8847]

This aged surprisingly well 😨

[@TyranntX]

Coffee Stain: No flying machines! Also Coffee Stain: Here, have a drone!

[@scorpionCJ78]

The Wiki still lists S.A.M. Ingots required to make S.A.M. Fluctuators needed for Remote Storage & Converter. Just like Dark Matter to make Quantum Computers for Superposition Oscillators.

[@stefano7538]

"Flying machines would NOT be added to Satisfactory" A HA!..... seriously though great video!

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

Is this an out-of-season April Fool's joke? (Bonus points if you get the reference)

[@roluf]

starts with D ;)

[@elginx]

Wow!

[@ByngerX]

The Immortal question

[@matt1871]

Satisfactory on mobile?

[@12HitCombo]

Don't you guys all have phones?

[@Purfunxion]

Given the most recent teaser for 1.0 I'm gonna guess SAM ore might be used for quantum technology. The fact it caps as 50 is probably just to avoid the player wasting their time on a resource that currently has no purpose.

[@Mangaka-ml6xo]

I wonder what use the Mercer Spheres and the Somersloops will have, I suppose I also wonder in general if they are connected to the story as well as what this said story is going to be...Quite looking forward to the game being in a released state.

[@rmstitanica3204]

My archnophobia activated for a few seconds when you were fighting the giant stinger

[@sebbes333]

8:10 I always LOVE the concept of connecting different games with each other, it would be SO AWESOME is dome games actually did this! :D

[@Blackh0ess]

I would love if they made it into a device that can copy paste structures/setups and with every bit of Sam ore you add to it, you can copy more and larger structures

[@Evergreen64]

OMG! I just realized that the planet we are on must be the Hotel California! We can get there but we can never leave!

[@Mythtician]

Facts. Nasa been trying for centuries.

[@justinwhite2725]

5:30 there is a mod for Minecraft that did this. Ender chests could be made with Ender pearls and they had a 3 color combination. Chests with the same combination would open to the same pocket dimension allowing you access to the same contents in different places. You could hook machines up to it to effectively teleport items into your production systems.

[@flyingfish6903]

Clearly it's used to craft weapons to defeat the Mecha-Kitty.

[@Duck0.1]

"Flying machines will not be added to satisfactory" drones

[@yajmsdepseudo]

It was all good and nice theories 'til 7:45 " to make a sonic screwdriver" i recognize the mod, you won't fool me XD

[@ckwins1]

the teleportation sounds right as when you find a certain drop pod it asks for an item that mentions something about teleportation

[@souliris]

The ending.. You trying to break the universe?

[@Draslyn]

4 years ago he predicted somersloop output duping, but presumed it would be done with sam. maybe this is where they got the idea?

[@Kuwaiden]

Yup, this is the content I subscribed for

[@JB52520]

The Tardis inside the Tardis had legit Dr. Who vibes. My hair was standing up with how wrong that was.

[@doughbrie]

* slow clap * masterful trolling sir. Bravo.

[@mre4u422]

Me: reads the title and gets excited Also me: realizes the video is almost a year old and people are still asking what it does so the information in the video probably isn't accurate

[@drklgnds1838]

Next video: what is the mercer sphere

[@DjurrenArt]

I legit thought it was a bug when I couldn't mine it. Would be a cool feature if it can be used for more than just a teleporter. Like a fabricator that can make items instantly, faster transport that doesn't use fuel, a power source, or can be weaponized.

[@somebodysomething5777]

I personally think that the SAM ore will become infinite when the update that makes it useful comes out, and I thhink it will add in some kind of teleportation

[@Glitchinventers]

probably not

[@andrewyates5548]

I agree, but I think the mining speeds will be cut in half of normal unfortunately.

[@somebodysomething5777]

Andrew Yates yeah, totally

[@TechnicalParadox]

If they say it's going to used to easily solve problems my theory is that it will be used to teleport items from one conveyor to another, so that you don't have to deal with the logistics. Also explains why it would be limited.

[@ariellazovic1815]

Psicologist: you can't hear words the sound of words: SUPAKOMPIUTAAAAAH

[@commenturthegreat2915]

Psicologist

[@cybercat0564]

Who can't hear words?

[@commenturthegreat2915]

@@cybercat0564 הפסיכולוג

[@flawmore]

Two of the crashed pods that we can't open yet requires "superposition oscillator" and "quantum computer" to open. In quantum physics - superposition translates to things being at two positions at the same time. I think this sounds like either cloning or teleportation.

[@gt_masterman]

Well, the limited quantity might just be a bug and s.a.m. ore is simply used for tier 8 in quantum stuff

[@idiomi8556]

Nope, tier 8 out and nothing, same with artifacts. I think it's either a placeholder or some form of teleportation/wireless power

[@Goobashoobaguy]

youre right about the pocket dimension thing, but it uses mercer spheres instead

[@DevSphere2]

Naaahh bro had a vision or sum bruh geez💀

[@KiithNaabal]

I set up SAM ore miners ASAP and link them to containers. When I quite playing and restart next time it produces another batch. After a few weeks you get your containers full of it!

[@AugmentedGravity]

Four years later still nothing

[@clevoro]

Sam ore was literally the first thing a doggo ever brought to me

[@zalexville]

That ending doh xD

[@SleepyMongoose]

I suspect they have no idea what SAM ore does. The devs release super vague teasers all the time and encourage the community to guess, then they probably look through the guesses and pick one they like. (just like they did with the coupons)

[@BROADBANNED]

I think Snutt watched this video and copied @ImKibitz idea....

[@lucasjaffre]

There are some hints and buildings that require same ore in the official wiki

[@dreamsparkle42]

that was fantastic just brilliant lol good meme 10/10 would meme again

[@righty5890]

Kibitz: "Pocket dimension" Me: Laughs in SCP-106

[@lightball1414]

It was a terrible color. It looked like used automobile oil on wet asphalt.

[@imperator5228]

As to the teleporter theory, the Quantum Oscillator you hovered over for a drop pod last video did saw it was used for teleportation; so SAM ingots could be used to make Quantum Oscillators that then would allow teleporter boxes or something, or personal teleporters, or even both.

[@LifeOn2WheelsVlog]

Moiga!

[@gabehembling1088]

on my first time playing i collected some sam ore did nothing with it after a while died with it on me and lost it forever and i never found more sam ore on the world since

[@1fachnureric]

Too early to read comments :(

[@benmillion1660]

EinfachNurEric ur first

[@thomast1014]

same

[@WildeFyre69]

Ha ha ha ha ha - Never, never, never go into a Tardis when you are already in a Tardis. You could get caught in an inter-dimensional loop FOREVER with no hope of ever getting out again. Great video Sirra! Cheers!

[@lukaszu8011]

Imagine SAM ore will be required to build teleporters which trasports you to another dimension in same locations but completely different in any perspective, adding another layer to the game ( new biomes, technologies, new strange monsters, more dangerous , more fun, etc ). That would be cool.

[@cHydrae]

could be a way to essentially rebirth your world, or even turn it into hard mode, like terraria

[@sephypantsu]

pocket factories would be really cool. Imagine building your entire factory inside a pocket dimension

[@joyhoward6105]

I saw a video of someone hacking in tier 8, there was a master storage container, which, when more are built, would act like an ender chest from Minecraft

[@jardane]

Developer: there won't be flying vehicles Also Developer: we added flying drones!

[@ExceedProduction]

I could imagine SAM metals being needed for a teleportation device that allows you to teleport items across the map in an instant, easing the burden on logistics. Probably needs a crapton of power to do so, like, a disproportionate amount. "But why make other transportation obsolete?" Trains made long-distance conveyors obsolete and drones made train-difficulties in rough terrain obsolete. Teleportation can make both obsolete in the long-distance department. The energy use and limited nature could offset that advantage, making teleportation useful but not omnipresent. "Power isn't finite!" It sort of is. Since we can only mine a certain amount of ressources max, there is a limit to power-generation. Now, people who build systems large enough to mine that much stuff also need infrastructure that consumes a lot of power in turn, which are usually those with mega-factories. Their consumption sort of matches their production. With high-energy buildings like the particle accelerator coming in, it means enormously high energy consumption would make teleportation a concern for these players as well. In turn, casual players would be faced with a large logistical challenge to overcome, not trivializing their game. They can but don't have to use SAM buildings.

[@Alpha_x_x]

If a doggo brings me me nuclear waste I might literally disown him immediately

[@firetawgc]

My theory is that it will be something to deal with plutonium waste, mercer sphere will be used for fusion power and sommersloop will deal with fueling fusion power. Just a thought

[@maelys199]

Pretty sure tier 8 on the wiki mentions something about a container you can use materials from while away from it, that uses SAM

[@Ardy_Visser]

Honestly how awsome would it be to just travel between games like that.

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

When ya are done looting Minecraft, ya should Warp to the Portal Universe & steal some Portal Guns! :D

[@wta1518]

My theory as to why you can only get a limited amount is: 1) bug 2) they don't want you to stock up on it until it has a use 3) there is actually a reason

[@Karin029_]

End of video: And now you're thinking with portals.

[@JRiffle_HeaveHoStudio]

Quantum storage bin. The outputs are wormholes powered by SAM ore, and warp items to a factory eliminating the need for long logistics lines, drones, or trains.

[@crash_hunter8659]

I would love to get a Mass-Item-Transporter. Like it has a huge Storage you fill up at place A and than you also have to feed Teleportation-fuel into the machine. When it reachs a value of fuel, all items in the Storeage gets teleported to B. Transport massiv item numbers from A to B with high costs. That would put the programable splitters into realy good use after all.