This is one of my most recommended recipes for players to use. Without using any other alternate recipes, you save on all 3 resources needed to make the EIB. However, I also give some examples of other alternate recipes you might want to use to craft the Ingots / concrete. You can also use Moulded Pipes which are great if you’re trying to save on coal. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Encased industrial Beam Breakdown - 0:23 Recipe Breakdown - 1:26 Alternate Recipes You Might Like - 5:05 Conclusion - 9:58 Outro - 10:40 Thanks for watching. Note: This video is about the best recipe to save on resource, not about the ‘best recipe to save you power’. All information displayed is factual with my opinion given at the end or when stated. Any questions or concerns? Comment below. Thank you for watching, Godspeed!🍻
It's extremely iron-inefficient, though. I used it recently to set up some depots before making steel, but I wouldn't dare to include it into large scale production.
True that it costs a lot of Iron but Iron is most common resource in the game. If you are using all MK3 miners overclocked that you got tons of it and combine it with water to make it even more so Iron Pipes becomes one of the best receipes to skip need for Steel in some receipies
Damn you beat me to it. I just unlocked this alternate and I'm really excited to streamline steel pipe production. With a few alt recipes, I'm making 4 engines off a single iron node.
@@XEyedN00b I guess it depends on the stage of the game. When you unlock coal, you might as well use it for energy, once you have access to oil, you use that for energy and coal for steel. Its interesting how as soon as you unlock a resource, it has to battle for energy or materials (coal and steel, oil and rubber/plastic)
@@XEyedN00b I find more iron nodes than I know what to do with, and coal has way too many critical uses, namely energy. Here's some numbers though. No alt recipes and motors take 34 buildings and 3 resources with 204 MW. Iron wire, iron pipe, and steel rotor alt recipes gets you down to 22 building, one resource node and 170 MW (4.3 motors / minute). It will be awesome to put a fully independent, compact motor factory on any good iron node. All the raw parts for motors are also in high demand so it makes a great mini hub in remote areas, or just logistics the motors to a bigger factory to clear some floor space.
I love the pipe recipe for the foundries with concrete too. They pump out a LOT of pipes. Iron Pipe is nice, but I only used it in starter builds. I use a map wide train system with factories spread out in the world and use my train network to feed other factories. Once I got Steel in my network, I don't see much use in iron pipes. I build pipes or beams on site then with the steel from the train network. Good job on your videos, just one little thing: Since you are so specific about Satisfactory 1.0, you might wanna add knowledge about the new pipe and beam recipes too.
The new Iron Pipe recipe in 1.0 is a game changer as well as it allows you to make encased industrial beams from just iron ore and limestone which are two of the most abundant resources in the game It also allows you to make Motors with only iron ore (iron wire + iron pipes for the stators, use an alt recipe for the rotor to make it out of iron wire + iron pipes as well) It does use more iron ore than if you made steel pipes, but coal is a much rarer resource than iron.
I actually use both recipes for my factory, since i don't strive for 100% effeciency and 100% of my factory running 100% of the time, i just try to generate as many resources as possible, and as i build the next steps in the factory figure out what i am missing and build backwards. What this means is sometimes i have a ton of extra steel beams, or extra steel pipes. I set a smart splitter on the steel beam and pipe lines to the encased industrial factories, basically making either recipe when it has extra resources to do so. If i ever feel i am short on EIBs, then that just means i need more steel pipe/beams, and I only have to worry about how to accomplish that. Maybe i use a better steel recipe, or get more coal, or add concrete to make the alt recipes for steel beams or pipes
I think you missed the "easiest" way to make encased beams: Iron pipes and encased industrial pipe. Now all you need is 240 iron ingots and 150 concrete (both of which have "wet" recipes) to make 10/minute. Yes, it does require 2 alt recipes, but cutting coal/coke/sulphur out of the equation and iron is super plentiful.
Clearly his emphasis was on minimizing resource consumption. Iron pipe has no place in that discussion. Iron pipe is a convenience recipe, but logistically is more complex since the input:output is 4:1.
Encased Industrial beams or pipes. This is a good video to show with considerations. Thank you, Pickle. I like how this video highlighted Compacted Coal as that is an underestimated fuel. Petro coke is a recipe that is good besides the lack of doubling. It has me considering things for my next tasks. The premise constructed in this video highlights many of those things I am already doing. ... For Encased Industrial Beams (EIB) the recipe starts expensive, but the product line may utilize constructors for the concrete. With normal steel the setup burns 120 iron ore and coal. When injecting solid steel into the product line. Maybe with over clocking smelters to 133.3333% or 40 Iron Ingots pm the recipe does get cheaper by 1/3rd. It gets interesting when adding Iron Alloy Ingot for iron ore and a little copper to effectively double your iron ingots. Or add Basic Iron Ingot for iron ore and odd limestone. But Basic Iron Ingot has a low max output that is better for timings. The good thing about IEB is that the lines could be constructed "in line" by directly belting with lower requirement for low tear logistics. Using Molded Beams and the setup burns through limestone like paper on a bonfire. The recipe gets better at using concrete with fine concrete or rubber concrete. Note that I would not use wet concrete for the basics IEB. I will not defend IEB recipe too. The greatest thing about the IEB is that its base “6”. Requiring fewer assemblers for a target product output. Encased Industrial Pipes is my favored recipe too. As I do like to use normal Smelted Iron or Iron Alloy Ingot and Solid Steel combinations. Often, I have considered separate logistics lines for concrete as I favor fine concrete for the EIP Assemblers and constructor concrete for the Molded Steel Pipes Foundries. If I add Molded Steel Pipes. As cheap as resources is this cooking pallet above. EIP is the setup I am in favor of using with multi-resource. After all most players favor using wet concrete instead of the high output of fine concrete. Fine Concrete uses only 30 silica to 120 limestone. It is not just lower intensity on the power grid. Wet concrete cannot even match my requirements for factory footprint to power as I do use over clocking. And its dependence on water requires delivery of water from packaging to pipeline often leading me to having to build the factory on or near water. As silica is a byproduct of aluminum and using impure quartz nods to make cheap silica as an export. The IEP factory imports silica for the Fine Concrete. It just does not register with my person on why fine concrete is discouraged for wet by some. The greatest thing about EIP is that its base “4” and may be built up to a scale to be competitive with EIB by adding extra assemblers. EIP is one of the recipes that I would never consider Iron Pipe, FYI. It’s because that load of iron ore would be better for my motors. Good video Pickle.
If you use the Alt: Iron Pipes recipe, can't you remove coal from the production line entirely? A lot easier to find an unused iron node nearby than to belt in the rarer coal from somewhere. Certainly in the early-mid game. Great series, thanks!
you can do that but you should keep in mind that it switches from a 1.5 steel to 1 pipe to 4 iron to 1 pipe not too bad of a cost but it is something to keep in mind
I think for your early steel setup it is worth it to not use that because you need so much iron and coal is not yet very valuable but as soon as you rebuild the steel plant in tier 5-6 with MK2 miners I would switch to a full iron-based steel productiton.
glad to see that I chose good one :) I'm not going to some super factory so I probably have more than enough on the mape to waste everything but still I like some mid game optimization. I use ore->iron->steel->pipes->water concrete-> encased pipes :) It was looking like the best and quite simple way without more resources to import so I build mini factory just for this steel stuff. Also it created opportunity to have trains :D Thanks for recommendations
I didn’t realize how good the encased pipe recipe was. Also, the wet concrete recipe is amazing. I have a massive steel production factory and concrete was actually the limiting factor
great video, love the content and some very solid advice. One note however is to the resources, now the abolutely most abundant resourse apart from water of course is Iron, I would deffenetly recomend to go for iron Pipe alt recepie, the reason is that in the grassy fields there is a place with 8 impure iron nodes I did 25 heavy modular frames using only iron and limestone, (did 2 manufacturers with sloops) but for the rest it was all 100% clock nothing special and I was able to do this with MK2 miner and nothing but iron and limestone, it is incredible early/mid game strat
I used Encased Industrial Pipe (pipe + concrete) recipe for and Molded Steel Pipe (steel + concrete) recipes for encased industrial beams, it helped me a ton. I was able to produce 350 steel pipe + 120 encased industrial beams per min with just 780 ore patch. I didn't even used pure iron recipe, alternative recipes are game changer in this game.
I've been using the pure iron ingot, solid steel ingot, and encased steel pipes combined with wet concrete when making encased beams for a long time now..I guess since update 6. With 1.0, I started using the iron pipe recipe to cut out foundries and tried out the molded steel pipes which seems useful if there's plenty of limestone in the area and you don't mind extra foundries
Good Tip but I got tired of hunting or cheating hard drive for every new save. So, I'm doing 100% hard drive free playthrough now and it's actually fine. Basic recipes are not wrong. Just some hard drive alt recipes can be good for some purpose. If I'm gonna build insane factory for RUclips video, I might need them but as a regular gamer, I actually don't need any. So, I can just enjoy this video without taking notes or doing some effort to remember!
The "downside" such that it is, from using the steel pipe recipe is you need more machines to get the same output than with the beams. The normal recipe generates 50% more EIBs per machine per second. So, to get 12 EIB/s, you'd need 2 of the original recipes and 3 of the alternate recipes. You'll also need 3 pipe constructors compared to 2 pipe constructors. Though that swings back the other way when you consider the number of machines to handle the extra ingots and concrete. Honestly, the biggest reason to use the default recipe over the advanced recipe is you may have more useful things to spend your hard drives on and the alternate
I always chase resource efficiency so encased pipe is one of the recipes I consider absolute top tier - just better in every way. If I have to put down more machines, oh well. I'm getting like 30% more bang for my buck. The only place I draw the line is doing particularly convoluted setups to shave off slight amounts of resource usage. But encased pipes is just "more of two steps in the chain" which is easy.
The Leached Ingot recipes are almost always worth it if you don't care about using Sulfur for the Sulfuric acid. The only exception being Copper where you actually get less out of it. The Leached Copper Ingot recipe is much more space efficient but you actually get less wield out of it as apposed to the Pure Copper Ingot recipe (not including the space it takes to make the Sulfuric Acid of course).
I first want to say that your videos are very helpful and much appreciated. But this has bothered me whenever I hear it in your videos: it's "nuclear", not "nucular" 😅
So far the best setup for me has been limestone iron - iron pipes - the alternate recipe for iron using limestone is even better than the pure iron with water alternate- working on a copper to bauxite to uranium setup atm
my favorite recipe for steel lingot is solid steel lingot is like the base but better if you combine with the pure iron lingot, yes i know water and refinery but you produce a lot of steel lingots
I use the iron ore and limestone to double the output of the iron then use the alt steel recipe combining iron and coal to get another boost to output.
Any recipe that reduces/eliminates the need for steel beams or screws is a good recipe. That said, you gotta get past your love affair with the pure ingot recipes. Yes, they are much more efficient, but once you start building on a large scale, you will go insane with all the water extractors, pipes, and extra process steps. Iron is widely abundant in the world. No need to worry much about maximizing it as a resource. It's useful in certain scenarios, but usually just an activity trap to save something that is overly abundant.
The iron pipe recipe is OP I made a factory producing 4 havey modular frames per minute (can be 8 if I 4 more loops) and it uses only iron, water, and limestone
6:20 you skipped over the fact that compacted steel is by far the slowest steel recipe, so to you need far more foundries, and power, to use it And this power will come from coal or oil (until you setup nuclear), so I wonder if it actually saves on resorces
Compact steel is bad. I was looking at using it to make steel where i have a pure iron node with a mark 2 miner and a 50% speed boost. It would have taken 70 foundries to keep up. Yes it would have nearly doubled my output but that's just too much factory when it's easy to find more resource nodes.
I understand the struggle, specially in early game. What i like to do is use the parachute as best as i can, and if i'm tired of searching, use the map editor to find them easily, i know it's not fair but it's a game isn't it? You should enjoy it how you like it
Really good if you have a lot of iron (especially with Pure Iron) and don't want to pipe in coal. However, it uses up an incredible amount of raw iron. With Solid Steel Ingots, you use about 20 iron ore and 20 coal a min for 20 pipes. With iron pipes, you need *100* iron ore a minute for *25.* That's a 1:1 ratio turned into a 4:1 ratio, although it does reduce energy costs a bit.
@@JD867 If you go above and beyond, you can turn 5 iron ore into 15 steel pipes, with liberal use of limestone, of course: Basic Iron Ingot -> Solid Steel Ingot -> Molded Steel Pipe. That might be a bit of an overkill, though...
@JD867 i just didn't know if he was aware of it because all of his videos don't mention that recipe but I've got all of grasslands nodes with a mk 2 on it I just want to save coal for my compacted coal power plant
This is one of my most recommended recipes for players to use. Without using any other alternate recipes, you save on all 3 resources needed to make the EIB.
However, I also give some examples of other alternate recipes you might want to use to craft the Ingots / concrete. You can also use Moulded Pipes which are great if you’re trying to save on coal.
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Encased industrial Beam Breakdown - 0:23
Recipe Breakdown - 1:26
Alternate Recipes You Might Like - 5:05
Conclusion - 9:58
Outro - 10:40
Thanks for watching.
Note: This video is about the best recipe to save on resource, not about the ‘best recipe to save you power’. All information displayed is factual with my opinion given at the end or when stated. Any questions or concerns? Comment below. Thank you for watching, Godspeed!🍻
Water + iron ore -> iron ingot -> pipe
Water + limestone -> concrete
Pipe + concrete -> encased
thx the video was not the well made for this amount of information i needed
REFINERIES GALORE
and we can use iron pipe recipe, skipping the steel part totally!
This is my favorite setup... cut out steel entirely for 2 out of the three main steel products is just *chefs kiss*
Yep, it lets you save the coal to create enough nobolisk to blow up the whole world at once
Steel is super easy, and it's so many more resources to get iron pipe set up, more miners, more smelters, more constructors, seems like a huge hassle
It's extremely iron-inefficient, though. I used it recently to set up some depots before making steel, but I wouldn't dare to include it into large scale production.
True that it costs a lot of Iron but Iron is most common resource in the game. If you are using all MK3 miners overclocked that you got tons of it and combine it with water to make it even more so Iron Pipes becomes one of the best receipes to skip need for Steel in some receipies
You can also use the iron pipe alternate recipe for the pipe to cut out coal completely.
Damn you beat me to it. I just unlocked this alternate and I'm really excited to streamline steel pipe production. With a few alt recipes, I'm making 4 engines off a single iron node.
True, but it is very iron hungry. If you have coal to spare I would go for molded pipes instead
@@XEyedN00b I guess it depends on the stage of the game. When you unlock coal, you might as well use it for energy, once you have access to oil, you use that for energy and coal for steel. Its interesting how as soon as you unlock a resource, it has to battle for energy or materials (coal and steel, oil and rubber/plastic)
@@XEyedN00b I find more iron nodes than I know what to do with, and coal has way too many critical uses, namely energy.
Here's some numbers though. No alt recipes and motors take 34 buildings and 3 resources with 204 MW. Iron wire, iron pipe, and steel rotor alt recipes gets you down to 22 building, one resource node and 170 MW (4.3 motors / minute). It will be awesome to put a fully independent, compact motor factory on any good iron node. All the raw parts for motors are also in high demand so it makes a great mini hub in remote areas, or just logistics the motors to a bigger factory to clear some floor space.
And... To make it complete.... Pure Iron ingots with water.... And tada. Extreme output
I love the pipe recipe for the foundries with concrete too. They pump out a LOT of pipes.
Iron Pipe is nice, but I only used it in starter builds. I use a map wide train system with factories spread out in the world and use my train network to feed other factories. Once I got Steel in my network, I don't see much use in iron pipes. I build pipes or beams on site then with the steel from the train network.
Good job on your videos, just one little thing: Since you are so specific about Satisfactory 1.0, you might wanna add knowledge about the new pipe and beam recipes too.
1:15 Spinning Reinforced Iron Plates?! This is crazy new 1.0 technology man
The new Iron Pipe recipe in 1.0 is a game changer as well as it allows you to make encased industrial beams from just iron ore and limestone which are two of the most abundant resources in the game
It also allows you to make Motors with only iron ore (iron wire + iron pipes for the stators, use an alt recipe for the rotor to make it out of iron wire + iron pipes as well)
It does use more iron ore than if you made steel pipes, but coal is a much rarer resource than iron.
I actually use both recipes for my factory, since i don't strive for 100% effeciency and 100% of my factory running 100% of the time, i just try to generate as many resources as possible, and as i build the next steps in the factory figure out what i am missing and build backwards.
What this means is sometimes i have a ton of extra steel beams, or extra steel pipes. I set a smart splitter on the steel beam and pipe lines to the encased industrial factories, basically making either recipe when it has extra resources to do so. If i ever feel i am short on EIBs, then that just means i need more steel pipe/beams, and I only have to worry about how to accomplish that. Maybe i use a better steel recipe, or get more coal, or add concrete to make the alt recipes for steel beams or pipes
I think you missed the "easiest" way to make encased beams: Iron pipes and encased industrial pipe. Now all you need is 240 iron ingots and 150 concrete (both of which have "wet" recipes) to make 10/minute. Yes, it does require 2 alt recipes, but cutting coal/coke/sulphur out of the equation and iron is super plentiful.
Of course that's the way to go. And of course you won't see it here😂
Clearly his emphasis was on minimizing resource consumption. Iron pipe has no place in that discussion. Iron pipe is a convenience recipe, but logistically is more complex since the input:output is 4:1.
@@TehCartzrefineries.
@@ErwinPPP if you’re referring to the ‘pure iron ingot’ refinery recipe, solid steel ingot can also benefit from that so it’s a wash.
Encased Industrial beams or pipes. This is a good video to show with considerations. Thank you, Pickle. I like how this video highlighted Compacted Coal as that is an underestimated fuel. Petro coke is a recipe that is good besides the lack of doubling. It has me considering things for my next tasks. The premise constructed in this video highlights many of those things I am already doing.
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For Encased Industrial Beams (EIB) the recipe starts expensive, but the product line may utilize constructors for the concrete. With normal steel the setup burns 120 iron ore and coal. When injecting solid steel into the product line. Maybe with over clocking smelters to 133.3333% or 40 Iron Ingots pm the recipe does get cheaper by 1/3rd. It gets interesting when adding Iron Alloy Ingot for iron ore and a little copper to effectively double your iron ingots. Or add Basic Iron Ingot for iron ore and odd limestone. But Basic Iron Ingot has a low max output that is better for timings.
The good thing about IEB is that the lines could be constructed "in line" by directly belting with lower requirement for low tear logistics. Using Molded Beams and the setup burns through limestone like paper on a bonfire. The recipe gets better at using concrete with fine concrete or rubber concrete.
Note that I would not use wet concrete for the basics IEB. I will not defend IEB recipe too. The greatest thing about the IEB is that its base “6”. Requiring fewer assemblers for a target product output.
Encased Industrial Pipes is my favored recipe too. As I do like to use normal Smelted Iron or Iron Alloy Ingot and Solid Steel combinations. Often, I have considered separate logistics lines for concrete as I favor fine concrete for the EIP Assemblers and constructor concrete for the Molded Steel Pipes Foundries. If I add Molded Steel Pipes.
As cheap as resources is this cooking pallet above. EIP is the setup I am in favor of using with multi-resource. After all most players favor using wet concrete instead of the high output of fine concrete. Fine Concrete uses only 30 silica to 120 limestone. It is not just lower intensity on the power grid. Wet concrete cannot even match my requirements for factory footprint to power as I do use over clocking.
And its dependence on water requires delivery of water from packaging to pipeline often leading me to having to build the factory on or near water. As silica is a byproduct of aluminum and using impure quartz nods to make cheap silica as an export. The IEP factory imports silica for the Fine Concrete. It just does not register with my person on why fine concrete is discouraged for wet by some.
The greatest thing about EIP is that its base “4” and may be built up to a scale to be competitive with EIB by adding extra assemblers. EIP is one of the recipes that I would never consider Iron Pipe, FYI. It’s because that load of iron ore would be better for my motors. Good video Pickle.
If you use the Alt: Iron Pipes recipe, can't you remove coal from the production line entirely? A lot easier to find an unused iron node nearby than to belt in the rarer coal from somewhere. Certainly in the early-mid game. Great series, thanks!
Thats what I'm doing in my factory.
My steel is only used for beams in 1 save, soon to be both saves.
you can do that but you should keep in mind that it switches from a 1.5 steel to 1 pipe to 4 iron to 1 pipe not too bad of a cost but it is something to keep in mind
I think for your early steel setup it is worth it to not use that because you need so much iron and coal is not yet very valuable but as soon as you rebuild the steel plant in tier 5-6 with MK2 miners I would switch to a full iron-based steel productiton.
glad to see that I chose good one :) I'm not going to some super factory so I probably have more than enough on the mape to waste everything but still I like some mid game optimization. I use ore->iron->steel->pipes->water concrete-> encased pipes :) It was looking like the best and quite simple way without more resources to import so I build mini factory just for this steel stuff. Also it created opportunity to have trains :D Thanks for recommendations
I didn’t realize how good the encased pipe recipe was. Also, the wet concrete recipe is amazing. I have a massive steel production factory and concrete was actually the limiting factor
great video, love the content and some very solid advice. One note however is to the resources, now the abolutely most abundant resourse apart from water of course is Iron, I would deffenetly recomend to go for iron Pipe alt recepie, the reason is that in the grassy fields there is a place with 8 impure iron nodes I did 25 heavy modular frames using only iron and limestone, (did 2 manufacturers with sloops) but for the rest it was all 100% clock nothing special and I was able to do this with MK2 miner and nothing but iron and limestone, it is incredible early/mid game strat
I used Encased Industrial Pipe (pipe + concrete) recipe for and Molded Steel Pipe (steel + concrete) recipes for encased industrial beams, it helped me a ton. I was able to produce 350 steel pipe + 120 encased industrial beams per min with just 780 ore patch. I didn't even used pure iron recipe, alternative recipes are game changer in this game.
I use it too, it uses many limestone but i think it´s better
I love these recipe breakdowns, please keep doing them
I've been using the pure iron ingot, solid steel ingot, and encased steel pipes combined with wet concrete when making encased beams for a long time now..I guess since update 6. With 1.0, I started using the iron pipe recipe to cut out foundries and tried out the molded steel pipes which seems useful if there's plenty of limestone in the area and you don't mind extra foundries
Good Tip but I got tired of hunting or cheating hard drive for every new save. So, I'm doing 100% hard drive free playthrough now and it's actually fine. Basic recipes are not wrong. Just some hard drive alt recipes can be good for some purpose. If I'm gonna build insane factory for RUclips video, I might need them but as a regular gamer, I actually don't need any. So, I can just enjoy this video without taking notes or doing some effort to remember!
The "downside" such that it is, from using the steel pipe recipe is you need more machines to get the same output than with the beams. The normal recipe generates 50% more EIBs per machine per second. So, to get 12 EIB/s, you'd need 2 of the original recipes and 3 of the alternate recipes. You'll also need 3 pipe constructors compared to 2 pipe constructors. Though that swings back the other way when you consider the number of machines to handle the extra ingots and concrete.
Honestly, the biggest reason to use the default recipe over the advanced recipe is you may have more useful things to spend your hard drives on and the alternate
I always chase resource efficiency so encased pipe is one of the recipes I consider absolute top tier - just better in every way. If I have to put down more machines, oh well. I'm getting like 30% more bang for my buck. The only place I draw the line is doing particularly convoluted setups to shave off slight amounts of resource usage. But encased pipes is just "more of two steps in the chain" which is easy.
4:34 The clipping hurts my soul but aside from that, great video as always! Thanks for the effort!
You should take a look at the assemblers he has set up 20 second later lol
The Leached Ingot recipes are almost always worth it if you don't care about using Sulfur for the Sulfuric acid. The only exception being Copper where you actually get less out of it. The Leached Copper Ingot recipe is much more space efficient but you actually get less wield out of it as apposed to the Pure Copper Ingot recipe (not including the space it takes to make the Sulfuric Acid of course).
I first want to say that your videos are very helpful and much appreciated. But this has bothered me whenever I hear it in your videos: it's "nuclear", not "nucular" 😅
So far the best setup for me has been limestone iron - iron pipes - the alternate recipe for iron using limestone is even better than the pure iron with water alternate- working on a copper to bauxite to uranium setup atm
my favorite recipe for steel lingot is solid steel lingot is like the base but better if you combine with the pure iron lingot, yes i know water and refinery but you produce a lot of steel lingots
Hey Bud, can you make a tier list of alternate recipes? There is an old vid like that but not for 1.0. Thanx for great work!
I use the iron ore and limestone to double the output of the iron then use the alt steel recipe combining iron and coal to get another boost to output.
I prefer leeched iron to make ingots, then go with the Iron Pipes recipe. Then make Concrete Encases Pipes. It is a great system.
thanks for the video
good stuff :)
Any recipe that reduces/eliminates the need for steel beams or screws is a good recipe.
That said, you gotta get past your love affair with the pure ingot recipes. Yes, they are much more efficient, but once you start building on a large scale, you will go insane with all the water extractors, pipes, and extra process steps. Iron is widely abundant in the world. No need to worry much about maximizing it as a resource. It's useful in certain scenarios, but usually just an activity trap to save something that is overly abundant.
8:27 it actually doesn't increase power consumption, since you gain productitivty on the foundry. It goes from 16 to 12 + 4 = 16.
The iron pipe recipe is OP I made a factory producing 4 havey modular frames per minute (can be 8 if I 4 more loops) and it uses only iron, water, and limestone
Iron pipe is a great recepie if you dont want to use coal. Means you can make encased beems with only Iron and Limestone
At 01:12 you are right KitKat are underrated
I use the compacted coal from my power plant that makes a lot of rocket fuel and I make 2,400 stealing kits per minute
6:20 you skipped over the fact that compacted steel is by far the slowest steel recipe, so to you need far more foundries, and power, to use it
And this power will come from coal or oil (until you setup nuclear), so I wonder if it actually saves on resorces
At 0:01 I'm predicting it's iron pipes and encased industrial pipe
Forgot the molded pipe recipe for even more efficiency!
Compact steel is bad. I was looking at using it to make steel where i have a pure iron node with a mark 2 miner and a 50% speed boost. It would have taken 70 foundries to keep up. Yes it would have nearly doubled my output but that's just too much factory when it's easy to find more resource nodes.
Would aluminum beams / casted beams make it viable?
I'm still looking for the encased pipe recipe.
Why don’t you use Iron pipes to make it? Am I missing something?
1:05 dupe loop spotted lol
I don’t do that. I added that they just to show what the mark 4 belts look like. Despite this just being a creative world, I don’t use exploits.
Hey there was no judgement, it's a single player game, do what you want :)
@micha I had the same thought of iron pipes.
nice video, but the compacted steel ingot is 100% increase and not 200% :)
06:15
what happened to the third recipe??
silica and limestone is like 200 concrete a min
steel beams real use is construction and plutonium fuel rods and that is it
Use iron pipe and you don't need coal
Don't suppose anyone knows whats this diagram app Pickle is using?
Hey! It’s called Miro :)
@@TheValhallanPickle Thanks bud, and thanks for your awesome vids, hunting those HDDs for those goody recipes!
Can't be bothered to find hard drives ):
They have great loot, and you can grab mercer spheres and Summer sloops while you search
I understand the struggle, specially in early game. What i like to do is use the parachute as best as i can, and if i'm tired of searching, use the map editor to find them easily, i know it's not fair but it's a game isn't it? You should enjoy it how you like it
you must be new to the game, considering that I've been using this recipe for the last 2 years.
The App?
What about the iron pipe alt?
Really good if you have a lot of iron (especially with Pure Iron) and don't want to pipe in coal. However, it uses up an incredible amount of raw iron.
With Solid Steel Ingots, you use about 20 iron ore and 20 coal a min for 20 pipes. With iron pipes, you need *100* iron ore a minute for *25.*
That's a 1:1 ratio turned into a 4:1 ratio, although it does reduce energy costs a bit.
@@JD867 If you go above and beyond, you can turn 5 iron ore into 15 steel pipes, with liberal use of limestone, of course: Basic Iron Ingot -> Solid Steel Ingot -> Molded Steel Pipe.
That might be a bit of an overkill, though...
@JD867 i just didn't know if he was aware of it because all of his videos don't mention that recipe but I've got all of grasslands nodes with a mk 2 on it I just want to save coal for my compacted coal power plant
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