I’ve never seen any RUclips care so much about their watchers that they go into so much extra effort, especially for a tutorial, for any game ever. Making the floor plans, to saying sorry for the mistakes and owning up to it, to sending out your save file and having it all nice in one place on a website. It’s admirable. Good Job man! I appreciate you! Love the content!
You were right, my eyes were glazing over a little bit the last 2 episodes. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy watching them! I just switched my frame of mind to watching you build a really cool looking building while skimming over the details. I appreciate all your efforts to make these videos as high quality as they are! I'm loving the series 😎
good to know you're the kind of guy that admits and owns up to his mistakes, my one problem with the last 2 episodes was you made such a massive build and set up all for simple coal power in a series meant to be a guide, the fact you apologized and admitted your mistake is honestly heartwarming, i can understand how it would be super easy to fall into the "big build big ideas" mindset as a veteran of this game though thats not to say your videos are lost, ill definitely reference them and possibly use the frame of the build in my own future save, the frame is perfect for the chosen terrain and your tips on the water extractors is pretty good and handy
I was too lazy to move everything around like you did last episode so I just made it work lol. I’ve never been smart enough for this game so having a clear guide like this is amazing. Videos are great man.
Great episode. Much appreciation for the detailed look at where you laid the 'cornerstone' this time, as well as quick shots about where a line of foundations should end. It was very easy to get started. I think your statement about walk before you crawl was spot on. It took me just a couple hours to build this compared to a week for the last one. Another suggestion: based on the fact that this a beginner series, and we don't need to watch tem all sequentially, maybe a reminder or two during the course of the video about HOW to copy buildings or settings. You do mention the 'Rule of Two' a lot, so a quick reference to the other basics would reinforce it for us beginners.
You can actually put formulae into the machine overclock number, so if you wanted 1 and 1/3 per minute just type in 4/3 and it'll set it to 133.33333% Then you don't have to worry about rounding so much.
I would love to see a dedicated video of how you plan out all of these factories. I tend to follow along pretty closely because I find it hard to plan it all out or know where to start in the process. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking it would be a great help, at least I hope I’m not.
@ryuined the satisfactory calculator is a bit tough at first but helps a bunch with seeing production numbers. You need to turn off the alt recipes you don't want to use. Also set the power shards to 100, it'll use less splitters and clean up the graph. You can still split anything across however many buildings you want.
I built a modular frames factory in this spot too, the 8 nodes give you 240 ore p/m which you can turn into 10 frames p/m with no waste. So satisfying when the ratios work out like that, you just ahve to split one of the smelter outputs between an iron plate constructor (run at 50%) and an iron rod cosntructor. And make 180 screws p/m which means 1 of the 5 cosntructors runs at 50%. So you end up with 8 assemblers, 3 on reinforced plate and 5 on frames. Thanks for the inspiration, I used tips I've seen from a few of your vids. I've also built the mega coal factory on this save too :D
3:31 instead of writing 88% or even 88.8888% you can write the formula straight into the coal generator, so instead of writing the percentage you can do 40/45 to get as accurate of a result
WIll all due respect, most of the time I played factorio, I redid my previous build to manage space. When I got robots, I converted factorio from a resource management game to a space management game. Satisfactory has another dimension to manage in it. And that's why its fun. So, no need to apologize, you are making great content and keep it that way.
You are scratching my itch while waiting for 1.0 to drop before starting a new factory. So thanks for that. I am not worried about the details and just looking for future inspiration. As a spaghetti aficionado I embrace opportunity to improve.
You forgot to connect one constructor to the merger that is why it was flashing yellow at the end of the video. It was at 42:00 you missed the second to last one for the screw constructors that you were storing up for later use. I love your content!
This really is a lot of work to produce these vids. Quick building tip: don't split iron ingots going into iron rods, instead just build a smelter for each rod constructor and underclock. This saves a little power and makes building simple.
Hi Darren, loving the content! I don't feel all videos need to be under an hour in length, that will be super tricky as you progress! I'm playing along with you currently, doing as you do and loving the journey, definitely always look forward to the new content on Wednesdays, keep up the great work.
This is a fantastic video, the perfect amount of detail in the build, floorplan really helped understanding the layout. You can tell these videos take a lot of time and effort so thanks for making them
34:51 instead of merging all rods and then manifolding them into the screw constructors you could have merged two rod constructors to get 2 belts with 30 rods per minute each and then splitting each belt into 3 screw constructors which will receive the required 10 rods per minute perfectly.
I agree, he made the same mistake on the reinforced plates. I feel like it would take a very long time for the factory to reach 100% efficiency the way he’s done it.
He could and it would technically be more efficient initially but at this scale it would not take long for the belts to fill a few machines, if your struggling with large manifolds I’d suggest switching the machines off at the start of the chain so they fill faster then turning them back on when the machines are more full, this is especially useful I find for fuel generators, especially when dealing with turbo fuel you can end up with 50+ generators off of 1 pipe and filling all that takes ages and you end with a wobbly power graph for a while unless you let them fill first
As a totally brand new player to Satisfactory I came across your channel. You made a mistake with the original planning for the Coal Plant, however you then explained to your viewers the why's and how's and showed how to correct it and included update diagrams. This is far above and beyond a lot of content creators would have done
Great factory, i also a looped iron plates + screws from the containers to another assembler to a corner near storage containers for reinforced plate production & then looped it back to the storage containers (adding extra towards the smelter) to have those covered as well. Screws and plates build in such an excess that this felt really good. Appreciate the video, cheers!
Thank you so much for taking time to make these: how to -videos. I haven't played too much Satisfactory ( 300-400hrs) and usually I have problems with.. lets say everything. Watching you to build everything from ground up and explaining your thought process helps me to understand the game more. And top of all that, you are quite entertaining. Would be nice to see you do this live( with your mistakes(if you make them) and all).
Just for your concerns - I had the game bought for a few years now and never touched because there was too much stuff I didn't know how to address. With the update 8 I found your video and that was a great, no-nonsense play along. It allowed me first: do a quick automation at start with biomass (i wouldn't ever get the idea of running and gathering grass), how to automate, how to build, use inventory, use upgrades and so on. It was sometimes overwhelming (it took a while initially to understand how are you able to put many foundations at a time or mass delete), but never too much. Now im more or less up to speed and I understand what's up. With my limited time for gaming it is exactly what i need to make it through and have fun, and then to have resources and understanding to do my own stuff. And errors are required, especially after you give a proper explanation and reasoning. Errors helps to learn. I still think though you made way too high floors, and that the transport network should be hidden, but that is just because I understood what's that about ;)
Future video suggestion here Maybe do a somewhat “update day” where you upgrade your all factory’s using MK2,and so on, miners for maximum protection. Of course I can understand how that may be difficult and make for a extra long video but, just an idea. Much love keep up the good work ;3
It is good to see the mistakes and the solutions. Even if you are following along with a play, mistakes are going to be made and needed to be solved. Problem solving is a necessary skill and if you have a perfect play, then you don't see how to solve a problem when it inevitably happens. The truth is, we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. This is especially true for beginners, where problem solving is a skill that should be learned early on so that when that person back themselves into a corner, they know how to get out of it.
very new player here and found your videos, I started following along and building how you did just pausing the video to build. I got to the last episode with some issues i caught like when you only put the wall up 12m even tho you said 16m some i didnt catch but it never put a bad taste in my mouth for the game or your videos! Its a game about adapting, overcoming and solving. that what makes it fun. Your content is awesome and i appreciate you realizing it might be more difficult for newer players. im going to continue to watch and progress thanks to you!
I can say I played Satisdactory since the release on Steam. I decided recently since update 8 has came to Early Access to start over. I am on Modular Frames currently and I was watching the video after this and I can say I found this video "How To: Mod Frames" very easily through the playlist and easily understandable description. I think your "layout" per say you describe in the video during the begging is perfect! Keep up the good content. Looking forward. New sub :)
This guy deserves way more subs than he has. The amount of work going into these episodes, both on camera and behind the scenes is insane, but in the best way! I only started playing this game little over 10 days ago and have watched a few series which have been helpful with making the basics but once I got to Coal Power and Steel it all became quite messy and I stupidly started in the desert but this series has been great so far. I am considering following along from this episode onwards and making the buildings to my own style but I am way more focused on the logistics, I am quite technically minded and like to see the numbers from my head working out in the world. This factory is, sooo satisfying to watch turn on and work and all the numbers work so well. Thanks Darren for such a great series so far and I am excited to see where it goes from here! You earnt my Sub after the two massive videos on the Coal Plant because its genius! Keep up the great work and sorry for the essay lol.
I am enjoying your tutorials. Learning how to fix issues is a huge part of that. I appreciate how much effort you put into your builds. I just finished building the coal plant with only 36 power plants so far, ready to expand as needed. I will start on this build soon, keep up the great content! 👍
When watching similar channels, their argument for having alot of editing and staying under 25-30mins is "I don't think people would watch 1-2hours episodes of me building", I just giggle and think... if only they knew how hooked I am on Darren's series just cause of that reason!
I was so looking forward to this, as someone who watched and rewatched every episode and played along with precision millimeter placement. I am enjoying this so much and has taught me a lot in getting back into Satisfactory U8. Thank you - I hope we make it to nuclear as I never did that in my play sessions. I last plaed U6 and got to trains. Thank you thank you thanks...
I'm loving this series and since I'm just starting to play satisfactory its awesome being able to follow along and see different ways to do things. Thanks so much!
If you had been at my place whilst I was building the coal power then you may well have had an education in "old lady" expletives. It was such a challenge and I do have it working...kinda, the water is still buggy as heck which causes the power to waiver....I spent hours and hours trying to troubleshoot the water. I found a document you supplied that showed a system where the water flowed continuously in what could be called a circular motion and am trying that as a final solution before I give up. You have nothing to apologise for, yes some bits were not shall we say...great, however it works and I can now adapt that for my other builds. This one was great right up until the walkways, these seem like a pretty low priority in the whole build but I had no clue how you constructed it and working that out was the longest part of the it for me. The rest was brilliant, great job well done!!! I will be building along with the rest of the series as this seems to keep me organised and on track. I would usually be charging around in buggies with spaghetti everywhere and not making enough of anything. So thank you!
thank you so much for the save file man. i was following along from the beginning and was starting to lose hope during episode 4 but now i'm right back on track! you're the man!!!!
@drastik29 Hey I'm like really new to the game as in I started 4 days ago lol. Could you possibly explain how to use the save file, I'm not much of a tech wizard. It would be much appreciated.
I had that, after spending like 8rl hours following you step by step in last two episodes. and then i had to redo the watergenerators, redo the logistict celing, that had alot of coal plants on top, yh i was a little burned out. the reason we dont complain is because we know you spend ALOT of time on the build, you did all the thinking, building and ontop of that the editing of your video. but i have to say all the negative feeling where gone at the end of the previous episode. not only did you several times appoliged and owed up to your mistakes. also the end result on my game looks stunning! Thank you so much for your video's! 🙏
Hi there. Total beginner in satisfactory (just bought the game) and in factory game in general. I've been building on my own until I hit tiers 5 and 6... And felt a bit overwhelmed about how to tackle the rest. I've build some "optimized" factory, but very messy floor. I had the feeling that I was doing something wrong, and obviously my logistics wasn't going to work for the next phases. So I started to look for tutorials on buses and logistics, but most of the content actually only explains that buses should be raised and contains belt... duh. + Every walkthrough starts in northern forest or dune desert. Obviously as a noob, I started in grassy fields. And then I found the serie, watched it from the first episode even though I did it all. And I must say this is the most well explained things I've seen so far. And I don't mind about the errors, actually I like it : content creator building incredible factory in once as if it was nothing tends to demotivates me. The game is about trials and errors. Seeing thoses and how to fix them is really inspirationnal. SO anyway, thanks for your work and time
I can’t wait to see what approach you take for tackling steel. I’m also curious as to your plans for the oil nodes in blue crater, since you’ve used the whole lake for coal and didn’t seem thrilled with how transporting via train worked out in your last series.
Would be super interesting to see some sort of walkthrough/post in how you plan your factories and what tools you use to do it (diagrams etc) This is something I was really struggling with when I used to play and one of the reasons I got burned out around phase 6. I never really enjoyed using satisfactory tools either and as far as I know you don't either? Anyway, thanks a lot for starting a new series, really got me hyped to play again :)
I legit use pen and paper lol. Idk, it's somewhat fun to do something analog in a world where everything can be done on a computer. Of course, for detailed calculations I do use a calculator or Excel. But honestly, give pen and paper a shot, maybe craft a fancy binder while you're at it ;)
Don't be too hard on yourself for the first episodes. It was definitely a bit ambitious to start with that but I enjoyed it. I dont think you will have lost many viewers over it. I'm a more experienced player but really need inspiration on better organisation and decoration. Really enjoying this so far.
Love your videos. Realy hope you get more views you def deserve it. The amount of effort put into this is amazing! Just a little thing about your math. If somthing is recurring like lats say 0.333.. if you add that up 3 times its not 0.9999 its 9.999... (recurring) witch is the same as 1. In theory you will never do the 0.0001 extra rods per minute. All of your rods are perfectly consumed by the assemblers. Hope that gives you a little piece of mind, knowing that your factory is perfectly balanced.
I'm new. Built a coal power plant. It took 6-7 days. I was already a MK2 miner, MK3 lines and blueprints, when I saw your videos. So I decided to build all 180g at once. After a lot of mistakes and reworks, I built something that works. As a result, the energy jumps between 5000-6500. Perhaps the problem is the pipes, because... distant generators do not have enough water. Of the differences. I placed the pipes on the logistics floor 1 meter higher so that they do not impede movement (maybe this affected productivity, but I doubt it). Thanks for your hard work. This game mekes you feel like you worked a shift at a factory.
Could be Mk1 pipe lurking somewhere in the line. Just look at the flow in the pipe before it enters the first machine. Should be near 600. Other common problem is that you have to let the pipes fill up before turning on the machines. Switch off a few in a row and put them on again when the pipe is topped up. Fluid buffers higher than the pipes to the machines also help with fluctuations.
Try place the pumps higher, that was an issue for a lot of people. And just work on one line until its working, then you can do the others. So follow the extractors, on a pipe, all the way up to the coal generators you have. Turn off the generators if you want, and fill the pipes with water, then turn on the generators and you should be able to trace any problems if there are any.
@igorsjankovskis1466 ah, my bad. I thought you had all generators running. And with mk1 pipes you have a lot of pipes to run all. But the other part is still valid. Every time you handle any type of fluid, full pipes before starting.
Everybody makes mistakes and hell I made a ton and I was following a tutorial xD I do appreciate the save file availability, now I have a good idea of how the power system works I can skip ahead to what I would have anyways and keep up :)
Absolutely AWESOME, Such a great start to a series (the ability to follow but also make it your own), yeah it went abit wrong (was fixable) I believe things happen for a reason. Looking forward to next episode.
I like this build and enjoy the way you make such an effort to get the production chains balanced. I think that I'll be deviating from this a bit - running the eight miners at 200% and moving the other iron area into this building so I can clean out the original area. BTW, setting all the power plants to 88.8888% for 24 MW of electricity seems like a lot of work but having an even 2,400 MW is so appealing that I know I'll be doing that before I build anything else.
46:23 wait .. maybe I just don't get why .. but isn't it now uneven split? The first one got 1/2 and the two other ones get 1/4 .. so 20 - 10 - 10 .. Am I wrong?😅
i enjoy seeing your perspective on factory building and ill continue to watch your series as im building my own world too. its not bad that you make mistakes, it happens and its okay. personally i dont view this as a tutorial series as much because of that but you cant learn how to fix mistakes without first making them so its balanced, kinda XD
I really liked that you planned the coal power plant for end game belts and miners, this base could also have been planned for easy expansion to 8x mk3 250% miners. I'm still following your lead for the most part, because your build plans are well thought out. Thanks!
Thanks! I liked that you showed what the discord has come up with, I do think they deserve be credited/have their names attached next time XD. Hope you can show your potential with the blueprints soon, the previous series has shown can do real cool shit.
oh so much easier to wrap my head around then the coal power plant! nice little factory. got it knocked out in a a few hours of play. decorated and detailed myself though. so mine looks slightly different. on to steel!
on my 4th restart of this game and seem to have followed the same route as you (maybe not as big or fancy) with coal power then modular frame factory. Really looking forward to seeing you complete this game and an epic nuclear power plant. Metal gear .... no ... it can't be ....
I am in the middle of replicating the Coal Power plant in the Rocky Desert start but with the challenge of having to make it a different shape. The 4 Normal Coal nodes that most Rocky Desert folks go to have water nearby but it is a long thin area instead of being wide. I ended up making a long floor with columns of the coal generators in thin vertical rows (like three rows of four capital letter I). There were some annoying curved rock scenery down at the water level but I am managing to build round it by spacing out the water extractors as needed.
I wasn't bothered about the mistakes because i'm regularly making them myself and i think a lot of people, it not most, feel the same way. It was a spectacular project and the end justifies the way, so all good.
Regarding whether or not to stick the splitter directly onto the top conveyor lift, I agree it looks weird but having the splitter just floating in front of it looks weird too. So if I gotta choose, I'll choose the more convenient option :)
Hey Darren! Love your Satisfactory series. Can you explain how you were able to put the numbers in the small square signs? Or, point me to a video where you explain it? (sorry if I missed it)
It's tough to explain in text, but when you click a sign and open its panel, there should be an "element settings" button to click, or something like that. When you click it, you can scroll down a list of styles for the sign, one of which is a big number/letter.
If we don't need a lot of module frames right now we can feed the extra into an AWESOME Sink for extra tickets! I moved the lifts off the back of the storage to make room for a splitter between the storage container and the lift. The splitter feeds into mergers between them which feed out to another set of mergers and lifts to feed the sink. It's a net positive storage of screws, and rods (I didn't hook up the plates to the sink) and will maintains a full storage container of modular frames even if you remove some.
yet, another awesome video! thanks again man, for the time you have put into this, for us. I for one really appreciate it! hey, so how did you do the calculations to get the %88.8888 for the generators?
really like this set up for the 8 iron but i built the same thing but in the air above the miners that way just had to feed the iron up to the factory above it or strait to where it was needed 🙂
"Right on the edge of a big cliff, with our eight COAL deposits..." Guess we aren't the only ones still reeling from the coal episodes. LOL. Love your videos though.
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I’ve never seen any RUclips care so much about their watchers that they go into so much extra effort, especially for a tutorial, for any game ever. Making the floor plans, to saying sorry for the mistakes and owning up to it, to sending out your save file and having it all nice in one place on a website. It’s admirable. Good Job man! I appreciate you! Love the content!
that pause and "i dont think he saw us" when the ray flew over slayed me. i love darren. super chill and soothing
You were right, my eyes were glazing over a little bit the last 2 episodes. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy watching them! I just switched my frame of mind to watching you build a really cool looking building while skimming over the details. I appreciate all your efforts to make these videos as high quality as they are! I'm loving the series 😎
good to know you're the kind of guy that admits and owns up to his mistakes, my one problem with the last 2 episodes was you made such a massive build and set up all for simple coal power in a series meant to be a guide, the fact you apologized and admitted your mistake is honestly heartwarming, i can understand how it would be super easy to fall into the "big build big ideas" mindset as a veteran of this game
though thats not to say your videos are lost, ill definitely reference them and possibly use the frame of the build in my own future save, the frame is perfect for the chosen terrain and your tips on the water extractors is pretty good and handy
I was too lazy to move everything around like you did last episode so I just made it work lol. I’ve never been smart enough for this game so having a clear guide like this is amazing. Videos are great man.
Me too
Great episode. Much appreciation for the detailed look at where you laid the 'cornerstone' this time, as well as quick shots about where a line of foundations should end. It was very easy to get started. I think your statement about walk before you crawl was spot on. It took me just a couple hours to build this compared to a week for the last one. Another suggestion: based on the fact that this a beginner series, and we don't need to watch tem all sequentially, maybe a reminder or two during the course of the video about HOW to copy buildings or settings. You do mention the 'Rule of Two' a lot, so a quick reference to the other basics would reinforce it for us beginners.
You can actually put formulae into the machine overclock number, so if you wanted 1 and 1/3 per minute just type in 4/3 and it'll set it to 133.33333%
Then you don't have to worry about rounding so much.
I would love to see a dedicated video of how you plan out all of these factories. I tend to follow along pretty closely because I find it hard to plan it all out or know where to start in the process. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking it would be a great help, at least I hope I’m not.
agreed
@ryuined the satisfactory calculator is a bit tough at first but helps a bunch with seeing production numbers. You need to turn off the alt recipes you don't want to use. Also set the power shards to 100, it'll use less splitters and clean up the graph. You can still split anything across however many buildings you want.
Man, nudging the conveyer belts is a gamechanger.
I built a modular frames factory in this spot too, the 8 nodes give you 240 ore p/m which you can turn into 10 frames p/m with no waste. So satisfying when the ratios work out like that, you just ahve to split one of the smelter outputs between an iron plate constructor (run at 50%) and an iron rod cosntructor. And make 180 screws p/m which means 1 of the 5 cosntructors runs at 50%. So you end up with 8 assemblers, 3 on reinforced plate and 5 on frames. Thanks for the inspiration, I used tips I've seen from a few of your vids. I've also built the mega coal factory on this save too :D
Knocked it out of the park!! So well planned and executed. Well done!
3:31 instead of writing 88% or even 88.8888% you can write the formula straight into the coal generator, so instead of writing the percentage you can do 40/45 to get as accurate of a result
WIll all due respect, most of the time I played factorio, I redid my previous build to manage space. When I got robots, I converted factorio from a resource management game to a space management game. Satisfactory has another dimension to manage in it. And that's why its fun. So, no need to apologize, you are making great content and keep it that way.
You are scratching my itch while waiting for 1.0 to drop before starting a new factory. So thanks for that. I am not worried about the details and just looking for future inspiration. As a spaghetti aficionado I embrace opportunity to improve.
You forgot to connect one constructor to the merger that is why it was flashing yellow at the end of the video. It was at 42:00 you missed the second to last one for the screw constructors that you were storing up for later use. I love your content!
This really is a lot of work to produce these vids. Quick building tip: don't split iron ingots going into iron rods, instead just build a smelter for each rod constructor and underclock. This saves a little power and makes building simple.
Loving the series. Thanks for the time you're putting in each video and the sacrifice of spending your personal downtime to do this .
This human being is just awesome. I've been av/as technician with him. Never have I ever seen as much of a professional that he is! Love ya lad!
Hi Darren, loving the content! I don't feel all videos need to be under an hour in length, that will be super tricky as you progress! I'm playing along with you currently, doing as you do and loving the journey, definitely always look forward to the new content on Wednesdays, keep up the great work.
This is a fantastic video, the perfect amount of detail in the build, floorplan really helped understanding the layout. You can tell these videos take a lot of time and effort so thanks for making them
2:09 actually I appreciated you making a mistake and showing us how you went about fixing it without deleting everything and starting over.
I agree 100% as we all make them and I learn more from this..
34:51 instead of merging all rods and then manifolding them into the screw constructors you could have merged two rod constructors to get 2 belts with 30 rods per minute each and then splitting each belt into 3 screw constructors which will receive the required 10 rods per minute perfectly.
this method is a better balancer imo
I agree, he made the same mistake on the reinforced plates. I feel like it would take a very long time for the factory to reach 100% efficiency the way he’s done it.
He could and it would technically be more efficient initially but at this scale it would not take long for the belts to fill a few machines, if your struggling with large manifolds I’d suggest switching the machines off at the start of the chain so they fill faster then turning them back on when the machines are more full, this is especially useful I find for fuel generators, especially when dealing with turbo fuel you can end up with 50+ generators off of 1 pipe and filling all that takes ages and you end with a wobbly power graph for a while unless you let them fill first
As a totally brand new player to Satisfactory I came across your channel.
You made a mistake with the original planning for the Coal Plant, however you then explained to your viewers the why's and how's and showed how to correct it and included update diagrams.
This is far above and beyond a lot of content creators would have done
26:43 say no more, we got your back buddy. Congrats on the 100K 🙌 You're making such quality content, I love it!
The transition at around 3:13. Chef kiss.
Great factory, i also a looped iron plates + screws from the containers to another assembler to a corner near storage containers for reinforced plate production & then looped it back to the storage containers (adding extra towards the smelter) to have those covered as well. Screws and plates build in such an excess that this felt really good. Appreciate the video, cheers!
Thank you so much for taking time to make these: how to -videos. I haven't played too much Satisfactory ( 300-400hrs) and usually I have problems with.. lets say everything. Watching you to build everything from ground up and explaining your thought process helps me to understand the game more. And top of all that, you are quite entertaining. Would be nice to see you do this live( with your mistakes(if you make them) and all).
Just for your concerns - I had the game bought for a few years now and never touched because there was too much stuff I didn't know how to address. With the update 8 I found your video and that was a great, no-nonsense play along. It allowed me first: do a quick automation at start with biomass (i wouldn't ever get the idea of running and gathering grass), how to automate, how to build, use inventory, use upgrades and so on. It was sometimes overwhelming (it took a while initially to understand how are you able to put many foundations at a time or mass delete), but never too much. Now im more or less up to speed and I understand what's up. With my limited time for gaming it is exactly what i need to make it through and have fun, and then to have resources and understanding to do my own stuff.
And errors are required, especially after you give a proper explanation and reasoning. Errors helps to learn. I still think though you made way too high floors, and that the transport network should be hidden, but that is just because I understood what's that about ;)
Future video suggestion here
Maybe do a somewhat “update day” where you upgrade your all factory’s using MK2,and so on, miners for maximum protection. Of course I can understand how that may be difficult and make for a extra long video but, just an idea. Much love keep up the good work ;3
It is good to see the mistakes and the solutions. Even if you are following along with a play, mistakes are going to be made and needed to be solved. Problem solving is a necessary skill and if you have a perfect play, then you don't see how to solve a problem when it inevitably happens. The truth is, we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. This is especially true for beginners, where problem solving is a skill that should be learned early on so that when that person back themselves into a corner, they know how to get out of it.
very new player here and found your videos, I started following along and building how you did just pausing the video to build. I got to the last episode with some issues i caught like when you only put the wall up 12m even tho you said 16m some i didnt catch but it never put a bad taste in my mouth for the game or your videos! Its a game about adapting, overcoming and solving. that what makes it fun. Your content is awesome and i appreciate you realizing it might be more difficult for newer players. im going to continue to watch and progress thanks to you!
The jagged roof point towards the sunrise.
Actually beautiful when you see the shadows coming and going.
I can say I played Satisdactory since the release on Steam. I decided recently since update 8 has came to Early Access to start over. I am on Modular Frames currently and I was watching the video after this and I can say I found this video "How To: Mod Frames" very easily through the playlist and easily understandable description. I think your "layout" per say you describe in the video during the begging is perfect! Keep up the good content. Looking forward. New sub :)
It's amazing how quick you can progress through the milestones if you know what you're doing! 😆 Well done!
This guy deserves way more subs than he has. The amount of work going into these episodes, both on camera and behind the scenes is insane, but in the best way! I only started playing this game little over 10 days ago and have watched a few series which have been helpful with making the basics but once I got to Coal Power and Steel it all became quite messy and I stupidly started in the desert but this series has been great so far. I am considering following along from this episode onwards and making the buildings to my own style but I am way more focused on the logistics, I am quite technically minded and like to see the numbers from my head working out in the world. This factory is, sooo satisfying to watch turn on and work and all the numbers work so well. Thanks Darren for such a great series so far and I am excited to see where it goes from here! You earnt my Sub after the two massive videos on the Coal Plant because its genius! Keep up the great work and sorry for the essay lol.
Thank you! And i enjoy reading long positive comments :P
I am enjoying your tutorials. Learning how to fix issues is a huge part of that. I appreciate how much effort you put into your builds. I just finished building the coal plant with only 36 power plants so far, ready to expand as needed. I will start on this build soon, keep up the great content! 👍
Well documented and well presented, thanks👍
Thank You...your off the cuff comment about right clicking on the colors swatches was super helpful to me😊
Glad it was helpful!
Very nice dude. You have cone a long way since that first episode. Makes me want to get back into satisfactory.
When watching similar channels, their argument for having alot of editing and staying under 25-30mins is "I don't think people would watch 1-2hours episodes of me building", I just giggle and think... if only they knew how hooked I am on Darren's series just cause of that reason!
Keep it up man! I hope you have as much fun making these as we do watching them!
I was so looking forward to this, as someone who watched and rewatched every episode and played along with precision millimeter placement. I am enjoying this so much and has taught me a lot in getting back into Satisfactory U8. Thank you - I hope we make it to nuclear as I never did that in my play sessions. I last plaed U6 and got to trains. Thank you thank you thanks...
I love the look of this power facility, especially how you ran the belts with the incoming coal. Great job!
I'm loving this series and since I'm just starting to play satisfactory its awesome being able to follow along and see different ways to do things. Thanks so much!
If you had been at my place whilst I was building the coal power then you may well have had an education in "old lady" expletives. It was such a challenge and I do have it working...kinda, the water is still buggy as heck which causes the power to waiver....I spent hours and hours trying to troubleshoot the water. I found a document you supplied that showed a system where the water flowed continuously in what could be called a circular motion and am trying that as a final solution before I give up. You have nothing to apologise for, yes some bits were not shall we say...great, however it works and I can now adapt that for my other builds. This one was great right up until the walkways, these seem like a pretty low priority in the whole build but I had no clue how you constructed it and working that out was the longest part of the it for me. The rest was brilliant, great job well done!!!
I will be building along with the rest of the series as this seems to keep me organised and on track. I would usually be charging around in buggies with spaghetti everywhere and not making enough of anything. So thank you!
Excellent. Not even playing at the moment, just waiting for Update 8. But your videos are so watchable. Thanks.
thank you so much for the save file man. i was following along from the beginning and was starting to lose hope during episode 4 but now i'm right back on track! you're the man!!!!
@drastik29 Hey I'm like really new to the game as in I started 4 days ago lol. Could you possibly explain how to use the save file, I'm not much of a tech wizard. It would be much appreciated.
I had that, after spending like 8rl hours following you step by step in last two episodes. and then i had to redo the watergenerators, redo the logistict celing, that had alot of coal plants on top, yh i was a little burned out. the reason we dont complain is because we know you spend ALOT of time on the build, you did all the thinking, building and ontop of that the editing of your video. but i have to say all the negative feeling where gone at the end of the previous episode. not only did you several times appoliged and owed up to your mistakes. also the end result on my game looks stunning! Thank you so much for your video's! 🙏
Hi there. Total beginner in satisfactory (just bought the game) and in factory game in general. I've been building on my own until I hit tiers 5 and 6... And felt a bit overwhelmed about how to tackle the rest. I've build some "optimized" factory, but very messy floor. I had the feeling that I was doing something wrong, and obviously my logistics wasn't going to work for the next phases.
So I started to look for tutorials on buses and logistics, but most of the content actually only explains that buses should be raised and contains belt... duh. + Every walkthrough starts in northern forest or dune desert. Obviously as a noob, I started in grassy fields.
And then I found the serie, watched it from the first episode even though I did it all. And I must say this is the most well explained things I've seen so far. And I don't mind about the errors, actually I like it : content creator building incredible factory in once as if it was nothing tends to demotivates me. The game is about trials and errors. Seeing thoses and how to fix them is really inspirationnal.
SO anyway, thanks for your work and time
I can’t wait to see what approach you take for tackling steel. I’m also curious as to your plans for the oil nodes in blue crater, since you’ve used the whole lake for coal and didn’t seem thrilled with how transporting via train worked out in your last series.
I like your style, I think you're doing a good job with this satisfactory play through. Love all the on screen blueprints!
Would be super interesting to see some sort of walkthrough/post in how you plan your factories and what tools you use to do it (diagrams etc)
This is something I was really struggling with when I used to play and one of the reasons I got burned out around phase 6. I never really enjoyed using satisfactory tools either and as far as I know you don't either?
Anyway, thanks a lot for starting a new series, really got me hyped to play again :)
Yeah same for me. I just started new save in update 8 and doing basically everything he does.
I legit use pen and paper lol. Idk, it's somewhat fun to do something analog in a world where everything can be done on a computer. Of course, for detailed calculations I do use a calculator or Excel. But honestly, give pen and paper a shot, maybe craft a fancy binder while you're at it ;)
Don't be too hard on yourself for the first episodes. It was definitely a bit ambitious to start with that but I enjoyed it. I dont think you will have lost many viewers over it. I'm a more experienced player but really need inspiration on better organisation and decoration. Really enjoying this so far.
Love your videos. Realy hope you get more views you def deserve it. The amount of effort put into this is amazing! Just a little thing about your math. If somthing is recurring like lats say 0.333.. if you add that up 3 times its not 0.9999 its 9.999... (recurring) witch is the same as 1. In theory you will never do the 0.0001 extra rods per minute. All of your rods are perfectly consumed by the assemblers. Hope that gives you a little piece of mind, knowing that your factory is perfectly balanced.
I'm new. Built a coal power plant. It took 6-7 days. I was already a MK2 miner, MK3 lines and blueprints, when I saw your videos. So I decided to build all 180g at once. After a lot of mistakes and reworks, I built something that works. As a result, the energy jumps between 5000-6500. Perhaps the problem is the pipes, because... distant generators do not have enough water. Of the differences. I placed the pipes on the logistics floor 1 meter higher so that they do not impede movement (maybe this affected productivity, but I doubt it). Thanks for your hard work. This game mekes you feel like you worked a shift at a factory.
Could be Mk1 pipe lurking somewhere in the line. Just look at the flow in the pipe before it enters the first machine. Should be near 600.
Other common problem is that you have to let the pipes fill up before turning on the machines. Switch off a few in a row and put them on again when the pipe is topped up. Fluid buffers higher than the pipes to the machines also help with fluctuations.
Try place the pumps higher, that was an issue for a lot of people. And just work on one line until its working, then you can do the others. So follow the extractors, on a pipe, all the way up to the coal generators you have. Turn off the generators if you want, and fill the pipes with water, then turn on the generators and you should be able to trace any problems if there are any.
@@Lars1690i only have MK1 pipes, like the pump. not unlocked mk2 yet
@igorsjankovskis1466 ah, my bad. I thought you had all generators running. And with mk1 pipes you have a lot of pipes to run all.
But the other part is still valid. Every time you handle any type of fluid, full pipes before starting.
Everybody makes mistakes and hell I made a ton and I was following a tutorial xD I do appreciate the save file availability, now I have a good idea of how the power system works I can skip ahead to what I would have anyways and keep up :)
I love your perfectly straight blue line.
Absolutely AWESOME, Such a great start to a series (the ability to follow but also make it your own), yeah it went abit wrong (was fixable) I believe things happen for a reason. Looking forward to next episode.
I am absolutely loving this series and I am hoping you keep making this more!❤
I like this build and enjoy the way you make such an effort to get the production chains balanced. I think that I'll be deviating from this a bit - running the eight miners at 200% and moving the other iron area into this building so I can clean out the original area.
BTW, setting all the power plants to 88.8888% for 24 MW of electricity seems like a lot of work but having an even 2,400 MW is so appealing that I know I'll be doing that before I build anything else.
There is more accuracy in every episode than there is in my entire life
Hey, don't feel bad. i'm really enjoying your content, good luck and keep up the great Satisfactory work
you put so much work and thought in it. and uploading 3 playthrus of different games. youll have that 100k subs soon no doubt about it.
46:23 wait .. maybe I just don't get why .. but isn't it now uneven split?
The first one got 1/2 and the two other ones get 1/4 .. so 20 - 10 - 10 ..
Am I wrong?😅
i genuinely look forward to these videos ! constantly checking for an new one im hooked ! keep up the good work
Came home and saw this ... completed my day, man ❤🎉
i enjoy seeing your perspective on factory building and ill continue to watch your series as im building my own world too. its not bad that you make mistakes, it happens and its okay. personally i dont view this as a tutorial series as much because of that but you cant learn how to fix mistakes without first making them so its balanced, kinda XD
Absolutely love your content and your vibe, keep going the good work, subbed.
If for example you want to paste 40/3. Hit N put it in the calculator and copy/paste to the machine. Solves the rounding errors on most systems.
Dude, your videos are lovely and the resources you provide are great. Well done keep it up
Absolutely loving the series Darren. Thank you so much
FREAKING OUTSTANDING! Amazingly done Brother! TY SO MUCH for these Videos!
I really liked that you planned the coal power plant for end game belts and miners, this base could also have been planned for easy expansion to 8x mk3 250% miners.
I'm still following your lead for the most part, because your build plans are well thought out. Thanks!
This Layout still works in 1.0👍 Thanks...
I REALLY hope they give us the option to rename and add/remove color swatches in version 1.0.
Thanks! I liked that you showed what the discord has come up with, I do think they deserve be credited/have their names attached next time XD. Hope you can show your potential with the blueprints soon, the previous series has shown can do real cool shit.
oh so much easier to wrap my head around then the coal power plant! nice little factory. got it knocked out in a a few hours of play. decorated and detailed myself though. so mine looks slightly different. on to steel!
on my 4th restart of this game and seem to have followed the same route as you (maybe not as big or fancy) with coal power then modular frame factory. Really looking forward to seeing you complete this game and an epic nuclear power plant.
Metal gear .... no ... it can't be ....
I am in the middle of replicating the Coal Power plant in the Rocky Desert start but with the challenge of having to make it a different shape. The 4 Normal Coal nodes that most Rocky Desert folks go to have water nearby but it is a long thin area instead of being wide.
I ended up making a long floor with columns of the coal generators in thin vertical rows (like three rows of four capital letter I). There were some annoying curved rock scenery down at the water level but I am managing to build round it by spacing out the water extractors as needed.
The color coding is really helping out!
Really loving this play through at such detail. Thank you
I wasn't bothered about the mistakes because i'm regularly making them myself and i think a lot of people, it not most, feel the same way. It was a spectacular project and the end justifies the way, so all good.
How did you get all the power shards. Also, my concrete production is slow no matter what I do
great episode! Hope you'll continue this series until the end of the game 😛
Regarding whether or not to stick the splitter directly onto the top conveyor lift, I agree it looks weird but having the splitter just floating in front of it looks weird too. So if I gotta choose, I'll choose the more convenient option :)
My mind is blown! Would love to figure this stuff out on my own but god the planning and maths is something I'm so bad at!
Hey Darren! Love your Satisfactory series. Can you explain how you were able to put the numbers in the small square signs? Or, point me to a video where you explain it? (sorry if I missed it)
It's tough to explain in text, but when you click a sign and open its panel, there should be an "element settings" button to click, or something like that. When you click it, you can scroll down a list of styles for the sign, one of which is a big number/letter.
Nice quick and easy, loved this episode!
Looking forward to the next one, hope you upload it soon :)
If we don't need a lot of module frames right now we can feed the extra into an AWESOME Sink for extra tickets!
I moved the lifts off the back of the storage to make room for a splitter between the storage container and the lift. The splitter feeds into mergers between them which feed out to another set of mergers and lifts to feed the sink.
It's a net positive storage of screws, and rods (I didn't hook up the plates to the sink) and will maintains a full storage container of modular frames even if you remove some.
Really liked this one and looking forward to the Steel factory
yet, another awesome video! thanks again man, for the time you have put into this, for us. I for one really appreciate it! hey, so how did you do the calculations to get the %88.8888 for the generators?
really like this set up for the 8 iron but i built the same thing but in the air above the miners that way just had to feed the iron up to the factory above it or strait to where it was needed 🙂
I like how you have the same habit as me of not being able to stand still when looking at stuff but have to jump all the time.
this floor plan explanation is great! 👍
quick question when doing manifolds isn't it better to go from the center to the sides? instead of from one end to another?
thanks!!!
"Right on the edge of a big cliff, with our eight COAL deposits..." Guess we aren't the only ones still reeling from the coal episodes. LOL. Love your videos though.
How did you make this flow diagram on 26:31? Is it something automated or did you just did it manually? Look's nice.
Manually
Really wish we could have more custom swatches.
Same, should be able to just click “add swatch” and have as many as you like
Just in time for the end of my workday. Thanks!