Update: The Blueprints and some extra info is now available here: www.whatdarrenplays.com/satisfactory If you have any issues, let me know! Usually best to join my discord and talk / post screenshots there: discord.gg/wdp
I'm about a hundred and fifty hours in playing (nay, toying) with Satisfactory and still only just starting to get to grips with the very basic elements of automating production. Scaling up these processes and learning how to construct efficient infrastructures are so time-consuming, I'm therefore truly grateful for your well-presented time-saving tips and tricks, especially around the subject of road creation and the use of blueprints, all very much appreciated. 👍
I can't lie, I've come back to this channel after taking a few months break... The quality of your videos has gone up an insane amount and so has your viewership. Should be proud man, it's incredible!
Me too, I was just thinking that. Really enjoyed this video. Channel was recommended by a friend who is new to Satisfactory. I told him I watched a few of your vids when you were just starting out with the game.
The whiteboard work is actually SUPER helpful! The big picture planning of logistics and transport is tricky! Thanks for sharing not only your detail how-to but also your overall plan
You really should shell out the $15-20. This is such a nice game and It's so important to support such studios. Even If you're not totally into the game yet, get it on sale (right now) and give it a try. I bet, it gives you at least 10-15 hours of fun - if it doesn't grab you and pull you into a 300hrs vortex of factory building. It's worth the 15 bucks for exploring the planet alone.
My favorite personal blueprint so far I call the kitchen sink, and it's just a 3x4 foundation with a mam, craft bench, equipment bench, and a sink attached to a biomass burner and storage container with a row of ramps to make it technically 4x4 and easy to get on top without worrying about terrain lol I drop it down constantly
A bit of a tip about Quartz production: The numbers seem really odd, but 22.5 and 37.5 add up to 60, so a normal Mk1 Miner can supply exactly one silica and one crystal constructor.
That's what I came here to say. He could skip all the overclocking and just run four Constructors per node, producing 75 Quartz Crystal and 45 Silica each
Neat! Just checked it out on the Calculator. It also adds up really nicely for alternate recipes: 2x assemblers making Cheap Silica (@ 11.25x2=22.5) + 1x refinery making Pure Quartz Crystal (@ 67.5), giving a total of 90 input for the three buildings. I'm gonna build them in sets from now on!
@@thelastengineer8633 You're not going to be able to easily split your input according to those numbers, but you don't really need to. It's the whole manifold scenario all over again; you'll oversupply some machines, but once those are full, the remainding items go to the previously undersupplied machines.
When I started playing, I dragged belts for kilometers to get everything I need to my central base. I also used belts like walkways to get over lakes and up cliffs and stuff. Just belts everywhere. Once I unlocked the cars and trains and everything, I was so used to the belts and so intimidated by the idea of removing them and figuring out the new system. So I just ignored them all the way. It's very interesting to see how vehicels can be used and how cool the roads actually look. I haven't played Update 8 yet, but when I return, I will definetly try some of your blueprints and try out the explorer. It looks very fun! Thank you for your detailed explanations of everything and for letting everyone use your blueprints. Your series is making me very excited to get back into this game.
You are simply amazing! I just made it to the point where I need to setup roads and trains, this is going to be the biggest help. Even the power tower platforms are going to be an amazing help, you rock and one of my favorite creators so far.
You're the very first video that got recommended on Ytb about satisfactory to me. I clicked on it because it was a new thing on my feed, and because I didn't understood blueprints and nerver bothered to use them. I thought to myself "woaw it's more than an hour long, for a tutorial, that's too much, I'll prolly quit" And I'm halfway through while writing this message; the amount of effort you've put into this tutorial, how you managed to get the flow going, staying interesting, skiping irrelevant moments that others would have kept by lazyness, you sir are admirable. Thank you for your hard work
great videos, I am absolutely going to take inspiration from your roads! one thing I like to do with quartz is combine the silica and crystals in the same production line. for example, one has 22.5 input so two of those is 45, and the other has 37.5 input, two of those is 75. so all four equals an even 120 belt.
Dont know if this is commented on before but if you dont get something usefull out of a harddrive, you can actually just close it down without selecting anything and start the research again.
If you put the power towers in the middle then you have to make every road wider to accommodate them even if it doesn't have a power tower. So that's a lot of extra material since you don't need a power tower in every segment. By having them off to the side you only have to build the extra supports when you need them.
I finally decided to get this game and do a series on it but wanted to understand the game somewhat before recording or streaming and your videos have helped a ton! Thank you, keep up the amazing work.
Really enjoying update 8. Havnt been copying your builds and progression directions as such, but drawing a lot of inspiration and learning some good techniques. Thanks.
I love the great work you did on the blueprints. But somehow i cant make the road sections to snap to each other when standing on one of them. The next one keeps going up one click. Any idea what i'm doing wrong? Ahh, i was to fast with my question. Have to push R and choose blueprint mode
Blueprints are truly revolutionary for Satisfactory. In previous playthroughs I used to burn out quite quickly, because once you've built a nice building for T1 Iron parts, you don't want to repeat all that detailing/design work over and over. Now, the gameplay moves naturally from building spaghetti early game, to consciously designing in the blueprinter, to building larger factories from modules. I do wish they had taken a bit more inspiration from Factorio -- Copy parts existing in the world to a blueprint, and placing "ghosts" regardless of whether you have the materials yet. Still, even as it is, it's amazing.
Road variant suggestion: Power towers used as support pillars beneath stacked single lane roads, i.e. a lane in one direction beneath a lane in the opposite direction. Ceiling light on the underside of the top road connected to a street lamp on the top of the top road; that way you'll only have to connect a single street lamp between blueprints. Your initial versions look fantastic! Would it be easier to have the lights integrated into your ramps by default and just delete them , or add them after the fact like you're doing so far?
my soul is screaming XD 22.5 quartzcristal and 37.5 silica equals 60 XD so out of 60 quartz you can split it up just fine XD. nice vid man you really helped me out in this game allthough it feels like a dejavu since i stombled across you by watching the manor lords series. keep up the good work my man
DO IT! :P Or wait a little while til I build even more and then you have a lot to follow along to at the same time! (some people have said they have "nothing to do" in the game until they wait for me to progress lol
Just wanted to stop by to say thanks for these videos. I was just getting a little burned out on my current save when I found this series and it has managed to reinvigorate my interest.
I have to say thank you so much for not shilling for blueprints. I know other youtubers like to pad their bottom line but the trove you've shared has let me prune some very annoying Discords that I've been held hostage to just for updated files.
Awesome blueprints, definitely going to use some of those when I'm ready to do the Update 8 playthrough. I do love my power lines running under the road though, just a habit I've built up from when it was only the ugly power poles, and eventually the vastly superior ceiling nodes that could be stuck below the foundations. But with the arch supports that gives me a whole new idea of straight up running a double support beam with a kind of arching connection below the road but the powercables running between the legs if you will. So now say you have 3 foundations between every support or an uneven number anyway, 1 might be better if you want it to look sturdier though that might look cluttery in my opinion. But uneven support gaps and then in the middle of every support gap you place one of those transport towers I think that'll look pretty cool though I'll see when I get there :p
I started Satisfactory again a few days ago, my builds are abysmal, Ive just come across you video, had to sub, im 30 minutes in, and you have shown me so much that id no idea of, thanks, now ive got to watch season 8 all through lol, keep up the great work. "Spaghetti belt" thats how I play lol
I think this game is going to be thriving for a long, long time. There's so much potential here, mostly untapped so far, that I hope the developers really take it all the way!
a suggestion have the snap point you make for the slope on the blue print then just delete after instead of adding and deleting on each application of the slope blue print
Yeah I thought about that, but I also feel like the easiest thing to do is just build ramps up, rather than down, where possible, as they just snap fine that way.
Tip a friend passed on to me, when using the zip line you can toggle right-click to activate it and avoid holding left click forever. I played for far too long before he told me 😅 Love the videos!
I love the way you play through, explain and comment the game. I went through the whole playlist in one go,, and I don't even play the game ! Kudos to you !
36:12 One constructor making silica paired with one constructor making quartz crystal uses exactly 60 raw quartz per minute. Because of this I always plan my quartz production in pairs of constructors.
It's so interesting to see how differently people play these kinds of games. I would totally just leave roads and the power towers just floating in the air with 0 support. If the game doesn't require supports, I rarely put them in if it's for a functional structure. It's probably why my builds always look like spaghetti lol.
I found this video helpful, which led me, recently, in creating some similar blueprints; but the jank is making it difficult. I had a hard time making T and Cross sections. I have a hard time placing ramps. Once it's done, it's great and looks great. Just make sure to configure your lights before you save your blueprint 🙄 There is a lack of foundation and ramp pieces, and a lack of decals. I had to improvize and rethink some blueprints to get it to work.
Awsome vid mate, really enjoying following the build. Got a question for when you were working out rates for the quartz, so you did 40/22.5*100, why the 100, as you can guess maths is not my strong point
Here's something interesting that I realized while using the blueprints that you've provided and following along with the series: even though I have not purchased the necessary items from the Awesome Shop, I am able to build things like the Power Tower Support parts, so long as I have the materials...
I have ben Play the ned Update 8, how Can you avoid crashing? Legit my game crashes every 30-60 minutes. And last crash I couldn’t even open the game again, I had to restart my computer😢😢
I know this is an old video but leaving the HD pods powered will forever take that much power. So in this video i think you hooked up 2 at 20 MW each so you are forever drawing 40 MW for nothing since you never disconnected the lines.
God damn.. I was so proud of finishing a steel setup for 45 beams and 60 pipes per minute that I thought I could finally tackle trucks instead of kilometres of conveyor belts.. Looks like there's still a lot to learn.
Don't be a goober like me and build all your blueprints in the designer 2 foundations up. Make sure to build them starting from the ground floor of the BP designer or you're gonna have a bad time like I did. Late to this party, but loving the videos!
hello ! i use to descover the game by myself for each milestone and because i know there is a bunch of tutos and videos, once i have understand how the mecanic works, watching your video help me to masterise each Tier ;) thank you very much for sharing your blueprints. I don't have so much time to play so it makes me save a lot !!
I love the concept of roads. I always avoided Trucks after a failed attempt way back a few updates ago. I'd always relied on planet wide stacked belts. Will give it a go in 1.0
In terms of realism, throwing the transmission towers to the side of the road is better imo. I can't speak too much to power infrastructure outside of the US but here, the high voltage transmission lines require quite large easements clear of anything including roads and often ignore the road grid and make essentially straight lines as terrain allows between generating stations and substations, where the voltage is stepped down and you would switch essentially to Satisfactory power poles which DO go along the roadside.
I like the 'quick build' factories - maybe stand on a tall building and do a slow pan just so we could see how things are hooked up and general orientation, shouldn't take but a few seconds. Regardless, thanks!
Absolutely love the videos. I've been following along in every video, although the power plant was a bit daunting. I really appreciate that you uploaded the save file for the power plant. I've used it that save file and I'm hoping to avoid using any more save files. I want to build while following along with your video, although I'm sure there will be some parts missing that I'll need to figure out. And the blueprints, absolutely amazing. I definitely plan to use those for my next playthrough in the desert biome.
we can delete waypoints from pathes, but how nice would it be if we also could move or add waypoints instead of having to record an entire route again because of one missing/bad waypoint, or to create several almost identical routes which differ only in the loading/unloading stations ....
Darren, Have you done a video or posted instructions on where your roads are going and what you're transporting? I started watching the next video on huge refineries, and it seems the roads and trucks are already in place and 'doing their thing'.
Wouldn't it be hard to build a truck station on the side of the hill for the coal pickup? I thought about it, but there seemed to be a lot of boulders and I wasn't sure how tractors do on inclines like that.
49:00 you are at that location but if I play I get much lag and often my game just freezes not even a crash report does anyone maybe know why this happens
19:37 WORKAROUND to "ramp blueprints" not aligning up. @WhatDarrenPlays I found that if you position the blueprint hologram the best you are able, short of vertical alignment, go ahead and build it, and proceed to build another, you'll find that every other build of the blueprint is aligned with the original. Clean up the misaligned builds and you're there. Hope that makes sense. It was one of those frustration moments where I threw my hands and just started laying down blueprints, clicking away, just to find out...wow, that actually worked!
Update: The Blueprints and some extra info is now available here: www.whatdarrenplays.com/satisfactory
If you have any issues, let me know! Usually best to join my discord and talk / post screenshots there: discord.gg/wdp
that answers my next question lol
I'm about a hundred and fifty hours in playing (nay, toying) with Satisfactory and still only just starting to get to grips with the very basic elements of automating production. Scaling up these processes and learning how to construct efficient infrastructures are so time-consuming, I'm therefore truly grateful for your well-presented time-saving tips and tricks, especially around the subject of road creation and the use of blueprints, all very much appreciated. 👍
Remember 22.5+37.5 = 60 :)
Looks like it is still your old version of the road blueprints. I look forward to using the new versions :)
btw, at 20:24 if you hit "R" to toggle between blueprint modes, you can get different snap points. Not sure if that was added in the past 4 months.
I can't lie, I've come back to this channel after taking a few months break... The quality of your videos has gone up an insane amount and so has your viewership. Should be proud man, it's incredible!
Thank you!
Me too, I was just thinking that.
Really enjoyed this video. Channel was recommended by a friend who is new to Satisfactory. I told him I watched a few of your vids when you were just starting out with the game.
I agree
The whiteboard work is actually SUPER helpful! The big picture planning of logistics and transport is tricky! Thanks for sharing not only your detail how-to but also your overall plan
I don't really play Satisfactory but I'm loving watching the series.
same here, i really wish they came out with satisfactory on consoles
One needs to have an addictive personality and a modicum of OCD to get the most out of Satisfactory. 😉😆
You really should shell out the $15-20. This is such a nice game and It's so important to support such studios. Even If you're not totally into the game yet, get it on sale (right now) and give it a try. I bet, it gives you at least 10-15 hours of fun - if it doesn't grab you and pull you into a 300hrs vortex of factory building. It's worth the 15 bucks for exploring the planet alone.
I'm just waiting to get the parts to build a new rig. Once that's done, this is the first game on my list to get! 😊
@Daedalus1701 hell yeah brother! The factory must grow! Best of luck with the rig and on your playthrough of satisfactory
My favorite personal blueprint so far I call the kitchen sink, and it's just a 3x4 foundation with a mam, craft bench, equipment bench, and a sink attached to a biomass burner and storage container with a row of ramps to make it technically 4x4 and easy to get on top without worrying about terrain lol I drop it down constantly
Minecraft crafting bench type blueprint
The second a comment was made about running belts everywhere my first thought went straight to lets game it out
A bit of a tip about Quartz production: The numbers seem really odd, but 22.5 and 37.5 add up to 60, so a normal Mk1 Miner can supply exactly one silica and one crystal constructor.
That's what I came here to say. He could skip all the overclocking and just run four Constructors per node, producing 75 Quartz Crystal and 45 Silica each
Neat! Just checked it out on the Calculator. It also adds up really nicely for alternate recipes: 2x assemblers making Cheap Silica (@ 11.25x2=22.5) + 1x refinery making Pure Quartz Crystal (@ 67.5), giving a total of 90 input for the three buildings. I'm gonna build them in sets from now on!
but how du i split it? because splitters can only half it?
@@thelastengineer8633 You're not going to be able to easily split your input according to those numbers, but you don't really need to. It's the whole manifold scenario all over again; you'll oversupply some machines, but once those are full, the remainding items go to the previously undersupplied machines.
@@parlaptie ah ok thx
When I started playing, I dragged belts for kilometers to get everything I need to my central base. I also used belts like walkways to get over lakes and up cliffs and stuff. Just belts everywhere. Once I unlocked the cars and trains and everything, I was so used to the belts and so intimidated by the idea of removing them and figuring out the new system. So I just ignored them all the way. It's very interesting to see how vehicels can be used and how cool the roads actually look. I haven't played Update 8 yet, but when I return, I will definetly try some of your blueprints and try out the explorer. It looks very fun!
Thank you for your detailed explanations of everything and for letting everyone use your blueprints. Your series is making me very excited to get back into this game.
You are simply amazing! I just made it to the point where I need to setup roads and trains, this is going to be the biggest help. Even the power tower platforms are going to be an amazing help, you rock and one of my favorite creators so far.
me too haha its perfect timing thanks to him
The amount of work you have done with that blueprints are phenomenal, I think it's worth the slight post delay of the video. Amazing work!
You're the very first video that got recommended on Ytb about satisfactory to me. I clicked on it because it was a new thing on my feed, and because I didn't understood blueprints and nerver bothered to use them. I thought to myself "woaw it's more than an hour long, for a tutorial, that's too much, I'll prolly quit" And I'm halfway through while writing this message; the amount of effort you've put into this tutorial, how you managed to get the flow going, staying interesting, skiping irrelevant moments that others would have kept by lazyness, you sir are admirable. Thank you for your hard work
great videos, I am absolutely going to take inspiration from your roads! one thing I like to do with quartz is combine the silica and crystals in the same production line. for example, one has 22.5 input so two of those is 45, and the other has 37.5 input, two of those is 75. so all four equals an even 120 belt.
Dont know if this is commented on before but if you dont get something usefull out of a harddrive, you can actually just close it down without selecting anything and start the research again.
If you put the power towers in the middle then you have to make every road wider to accommodate them even if it doesn't have a power tower. So that's a lot of extra material since you don't need a power tower in every segment. By having them off to the side you only have to build the extra supports when you need them.
I finally decided to get this game and do a series on it but wanted to understand the game somewhat before recording or streaming and your videos have helped a ton!
Thank you, keep up the amazing work.
Excited to see what you create. Satisfactory is a great game, but it’s not for everyone. Take your time and have fun!
Hello i am qshnx and i am giving in most of darrens satisfactory videos facts! FACT #3 You can give a lizard doggo berries to tame them
You could leave the snap point blocks in as part of the blueprint to make it easier to put them in.
I was looking forward to this episode as I haven't used roads or large transport networks before so this will come in very handy.
Really enjoying update 8. Havnt been copying your builds and progression directions as such, but drawing a lot of inspiration and learning some good techniques. Thanks.
I love the great work you did on the blueprints. But somehow i cant make the road sections to snap to each other when standing on one of them. The next one keeps going up one click. Any idea what i'm doing wrong? Ahh, i was to fast with my question. Have to push R and choose blueprint mode
OMG, thank you for this!
Blueprints are truly revolutionary for Satisfactory.
In previous playthroughs I used to burn out quite quickly, because once you've built a nice building for T1 Iron parts, you don't want to repeat all that detailing/design work over and over. Now, the gameplay moves naturally from building spaghetti early game, to consciously designing in the blueprinter, to building larger factories from modules. I do wish they had taken a bit more inspiration from Factorio -- Copy parts existing in the world to a blueprint, and placing "ghosts" regardless of whether you have the materials yet. Still, even as it is, it's amazing.
Road variant suggestion: Power towers used as support pillars beneath stacked single lane roads, i.e. a lane in one direction beneath a lane in the opposite direction. Ceiling light on the underside of the top road connected to a street lamp on the top of the top road; that way you'll only have to connect a single street lamp between blueprints.
Your initial versions look fantastic! Would it be easier to have the lights integrated into your ramps by default and just delete them , or add them after the fact like you're doing so far?
my soul is screaming XD 22.5 quartzcristal and 37.5 silica equals 60 XD so out of 60 quartz you can split it up just fine XD. nice vid man you really helped me out in this game allthough it feels like a dejavu since i stombled across you by watching the manor lords series. keep up the good work my man
Darren you make me wanna start a new world and play along, loving this series so much, keep up the Good work
DO IT! :P Or wait a little while til I build even more and then you have a lot to follow along to at the same time! (some people have said they have "nothing to do" in the game until they wait for me to progress lol
I like Terry.
Make sure to disconnect the crashed drop pods or they will continue to draw power.
by any chance you read this how important are road and trucks set up
That infinite hole is not infinite 😂
Thk , i leave a comment for help algoritm, and for ur share
I have always hated roads... until now! I'm excited to get your blueprints and connect my entire world!
Terry becoming hostile cracked me up
This is my rover Terry, and this is my other rover Terry... 😂
You really like minecraft music lmao, me too
56:11 "The tractor knows where it is..."
Just wanted to stop by to say thanks for these videos. I was just getting a little burned out on my current save when I found this series and it has managed to reinvigorate my interest.
FINALLY! I hope you could pump up the release of satisfactory videos, 1 per week is not enough!
Please update your discord link, I think the link is expired.
The link works now, there was a discord outage which prevent server benefits, such as the custom link. Works now!
I just bought satisfactory because of you
I have to say thank you so much for not shilling for blueprints. I know other youtubers like to pad their bottom line but the trove you've shared has let me prune some very annoying Discords that I've been held hostage to just for updated files.
Awesome blueprints, definitely going to use some of those when I'm ready to do the Update 8 playthrough. I do love my power lines running under the road though, just a habit I've built up from when it was only the ugly power poles, and eventually the vastly superior ceiling nodes that could be stuck below the foundations. But with the arch supports that gives me a whole new idea of straight up running a double support beam with a kind of arching connection below the road but the powercables running between the legs if you will. So now say you have 3 foundations between every support or an uneven number anyway, 1 might be better if you want it to look sturdier though that might look cluttery in my opinion. But uneven support gaps and then in the middle of every support gap you place one of those transport towers I think that'll look pretty cool though I'll see when I get there :p
I started Satisfactory again a few days ago, my builds are abysmal, Ive just come across you video, had to sub, im 30 minutes in, and you have shown me so much that id no idea of, thanks, now ive got to watch season 8 all through lol, keep up the great work. "Spaghetti belt" thats how I play lol
I think this game is going to be thriving for a long, long time. There's so much potential here, mostly untapped so far, that I hope the developers really take it all the way!
a suggestion have the snap point you make for the slope on the blue print then just delete after instead of adding and deleting on each application of the slope blue print
Yeah I thought about that, but I also feel like the easiest thing to do is just build ramps up, rather than down, where possible, as they just snap fine that way.
Tip a friend passed on to me, when using the zip line you can toggle right-click to activate it and avoid holding left click forever. I played for far too long before he told me 😅 Love the videos!
I love the way you play through, explain and comment the game.
I went through the whole playlist in one go,, and I don't even play the game !
Kudos to you !
Good video. The power supports I think would look better with a single column support it looks too massive.
36:12
One constructor making silica paired with one constructor making quartz crystal uses exactly 60 raw quartz per minute.
Because of this I always plan my quartz production in pairs of constructors.
It's so interesting to see how differently people play these kinds of games. I would totally just leave roads and the power towers just floating in the air with 0 support. If the game doesn't require supports, I rarely put them in if it's for a functional structure.
It's probably why my builds always look like spaghetti lol.
I found this video helpful, which led me, recently, in creating some similar blueprints; but the jank is making it difficult. I had a hard time making T and Cross sections. I have a hard time placing ramps. Once it's done, it's great and looks great. Just make sure to configure your lights before you save your blueprint 🙄 There is a lack of foundation and ramp pieces, and a lack of decals. I had to improvize and rethink some blueprints to get it to work.
Awsome vid mate, really enjoying following the build. Got a question for when you were working out rates for the quartz, so you did 40/22.5*100, why the 100, as you can guess maths is not my strong point
Another awesome video! Thanks for all of the entertainment and for all the helps you provide.👍
Here's something interesting that I realized while using the blueprints that you've provided and following along with the series: even though I have not purchased the necessary items from the Awesome Shop, I am able to build things like the Power Tower Support parts, so long as I have the materials...
I have ben Play the ned Update 8, how Can you avoid crashing? Legit my game crashes every 30-60 minutes. And last crash I couldn’t even open the game again, I had to restart my computer😢😢
I know this is an old video but leaving the HD pods powered will forever take that much power. So in this video i think you hooked up 2 at 20 MW each so you are forever drawing 40 MW for nothing since you never disconnected the lines.
I only use belts. over the entire map hehe
Virgin Trains & Roads Vs Chad conveyor belt bus
God damn.. I was so proud of finishing a steel setup for 45 beams and 60 pipes per minute that I thought I could finally tackle trucks instead of kilometres of conveyor belts.. Looks like there's still a lot to learn.
Don't be a goober like me and build all your blueprints in the designer 2 foundations up. Make sure to build them starting from the ground floor of the BP designer or you're gonna have a bad time like I did.
Late to this party, but loving the videos!
hello ! i use to descover the game by myself for each milestone and because i know there is a bunch of tutos and videos, once i have understand how the mecanic works, watching your video help me to masterise each Tier ;) thank you very much for sharing your blueprints. I don't have so much time to play so it makes me save a lot !!
I love the concept of roads. I always avoided Trucks after a failed attempt way back a few updates ago. I'd always relied on planet wide stacked belts. Will give it a go in 1.0
In terms of realism, throwing the transmission towers to the side of the road is better imo. I can't speak too much to power infrastructure outside of the US but here, the high voltage transmission lines require quite large easements clear of anything including roads and often ignore the road grid and make essentially straight lines as terrain allows between generating stations and substations, where the voltage is stepped down and you would switch essentially to Satisfactory power poles which DO go along the roadside.
I like the 'quick build' factories - maybe stand on a tall building and do a slow pan just so we could see how things are hooked up and general orientation, shouldn't take but a few seconds. Regardless, thanks!
Absolutely love the videos. I've been following along in every video, although the power plant was a bit daunting. I really appreciate that you uploaded the save file for the power plant. I've used it that save file and I'm hoping to avoid using any more save files. I want to build while following along with your video, although I'm sure there will be some parts missing that I'll need to figure out. And the blueprints, absolutely amazing. I definitely plan to use those for my next playthrough in the desert biome.
we can delete waypoints from pathes, but how nice would it be if we also could move or add waypoints
instead of having to record an entire route again because of one missing/bad waypoint,
or to create several almost identical routes which differ only in the loading/unloading stations ....
12:40 that looked amazing!!
not sure why Coffee Stain is deathly allergic to vertical nudging and half-width walls
binged the playlist today and now a new episode 🎉
Darren,
Have you done a video or posted instructions on where your roads are going and what you're transporting? I started watching the next video on huge refineries, and it seems the roads and trucks are already in place and 'doing their thing'.
been loving the series ! the roads look amazing they really add to the world.
Train blueprints soon
Next videos: Copper | Quartz | Sulfur | Caterium | Iron | Motors | Transport Hub
So... in 7 videos, yes :P
@@WhatDarrenPlays look forward to it, I need to experiment with caterium, left at around update 5 came back update 8 after finding your series
250h in and from the intro I learn, that you can throw the Nobelisk, not just drop it. Wow.
Can you connect the wires between the streetlights in the blueprint so you don't have to backtrack so much?
Do trucks actually work now? in update 7 they'd randomly stop working and refueling.
You might have used walls, for snapping road segments that go down, that would have been much easier.
i dont know if its cheating but if you dont like the MAM result, you can press esc and get the hard drive back and scan it again and again.
Building roads and zip lining across power lines… Anyone else getting Death Stranding vibes? rofl
My man takes out the whiteboard, now I feel like am in school learning how to become a builder LMAO
My man takes out the whiteboard, now I feel like am in school learning how to become a builder LMAO
Wouldn't it be hard to build a truck station on the side of the hill for the coal pickup? I thought about it, but there seemed to be a lot of boulders and I wasn't sure how tractors do on inclines like that.
49:00 you are at that location but if I play I get much lag and often my game just freezes not even a crash report does anyone maybe know why this happens
holycrappp this guys have roads ?????????????? my factory is a litteral mess , and no efficient at all and this dude have road lol
Love your videos, the moment you started placing the road bps I went and grabbed them.
The rogue truck part absolutely killed me 😂 I would love to know why he did that ! Ahahaha
Love the inclusion of Minecraft soundtrack in every episode. Very fitting.
Can somebody please tell me where to get the planner so you can layout your production from miners through smelter and constructor to assembler.
Man the blueprints and documentation you provide for these are so helpful. Really next level attention to detail Cheers
Wish I found you when I started playing this. These are amazing!
HE'S GONE ROGUE
these blueprints will really help me. thanks for sharing! keep creating greats contents man.
You can put rails in the foundation gaps. Edit: nevermind! XD
I can suddenly see very clearly how the next 300 hours of my life are going to go.
jak byś jeszcze w trakcie oglądania rozdawał cukierki to by było okey super podoba mi się .
i go straight for trains every playthrough and then bp and finally i build more than my starter mall
I;ve never been a big fan of the road vehicles in this game. Always preferred the trains.
I thought I noticed it earlier in the series, but I heard it for sure this episode and, if I may, the Minecraft music is a nice touch
So should I be using trucks to bring ores to a train station that then takes everything to a factory for crafting?
added your mods but sadly the roads don't connect so pointless really to use them but nice work.
The empty highways feel almost eerie in the way they are.
Oh ? Blueprints ? For Free ? On a Drives ?
Take my likes, you deserve it !
19:37 WORKAROUND to "ramp blueprints" not aligning up. @WhatDarrenPlays
I found that if you position the blueprint hologram the best you are able, short of vertical alignment, go ahead and build it, and proceed to build another, you'll find that every other build of the blueprint is aligned with the original. Clean up the misaligned builds and you're there.
Hope that makes sense. It was one of those frustration moments where I threw my hands and just started laying down blueprints, clicking away, just to find out...wow, that actually worked!
18:25 You can also just hold shift to sprint down the lines while zipping
so its impossible to build down ramps bec ths game bans vertical nudging for some reason