What Factory is Best? Vertical or Horizontal in Satisfactory 1.0 | Tips and Tricks

[@KenzoLeong]

After making Blueprints of Stackable factories, I have never built another large single plane factory. Everything is performing as it should and it's expandable upwards as long as you have the resources to input. 4 Floors x 10 machines are able to utilize 1200 Resources with a 5x5 footprint. It's very convenient to built. :)

[@BabyJeus]

Godlike satisfactory tips here. Thank you jackblade. Ur the dude!

[@jackblade281]

thank you!

[@IndianaBones24]

Just showing some love. Great video!

[@jackblade281]

thank you!

[@Lets_Build_]

Another great vid about production design and how to go about it 😊, the reduced videol length also feels good, its more on point and its easier to remember stuff in the vid 👍, Also when building vertical having big dedicated logisic shafts helps a lot with esier item transportation, and dodnt forget: making some quick drawings with pen and paper to think about layout helps a lot too 😁 ❤

[@jackblade281]

thank you for the addition, realy great tip!

[@arnaultsoizeau8112]

Very interesting. The only thing coming to my mind is that with fluids. Because fluids and verticality used to be a nightmare, and for big oild power plant build, i still prefer to build on slabs.

[@jackblade281]

yea it can be hell, I build from the top down with liquids to avoid any problems, pipe to the top and always move down instead of up

[@mikaellarsson135]

Yeah very true for liquids building flat is so much less work, I did make a vertical oil power plant for reserve oil power where the pumps are on it´s own priority switch, as long as I keep it off all the fuel goes into a giant storage instead, not really that useful but I like pratical controls a lot :)

[@arnaultsoizeau8112]

@@mikaellarsson135 I'm currently on a giant rocket fuel power plant project which will produce 4000 rocket fuel per minute for a 240000 MW potential. this is so much pipes, building verticaly would have involved many pumps, but also, each floor wouldn't have used the same space (building heavy oil, petrolum coke, fuel, nitric acid...) The flat design is more appropriate as I can have different sections, each producing what I need and taking the appropriate space. with no pumps, only the basic 10m headlift

[@mikaellarsson135]

@@arnaultsoizeau8112 Building the generators vertical was a real hazzle , I already had 2 different horizontal fuel power plants so for the third one I made it vertical just because, very annoying for loads of reasons, do not recomend XD

[@arnaultsoizeau8112]

@@mikaellarsson135 I'll go vertical for fuel generators !

[@Fade2GrayOG]

I've gotten into 'Lego brick' modular factory building. It's not the most impressive looking thing, but the standardized repeating designs have their own appeal.

[@jackblade281]

nice! I did that for a while too, with modular one click factories blueprints :P

[@davidg81815]

I think the problem with the cuboid approach is that you end up with a lot of wasted space on some floors. If you make A, B, and C on floor 1, then realize that you can only fit D, and E on floor2, but there's not enough space for F. So do you split up F on multiple floors? Cram in a bit extra of something? Its messy. I think lots of smaller custom sized cuboids would more effectively use space without wasting. One thing you're producing might be best done in a 5x5, another in a 3x8. One size does not fit all.

[@jackblade281]

I agree, I also think a lot of players restrict themselves space wise too much sometimes, not leaving space for expansion, logistics, changes or updates

[@tfishr]

the first 8 minutes of the video is spent staring at the same blank square, the second half is much better visually

[@voidstar.studio]

@@tfishr oh no, gotta overlay some subway surfers since people can't just listen and focus on the talking points

[@indio2111]

Feel free to take the bus design its not that difficult to recreate