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As far as building coal power, there's no need to ship the coal back to your central factory to burn it. Just build a row of power plants right at the coal mine and run a power line back to your base. Something I stumbled onto after a couple of days: You can build a belt splitter or merger directly onto a belt instead of building it first and then connecting the belt to it. Just aim at the belt with the merger/splitter selected and it'll snap right on, even if it's up in the air or on a slope.
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Triarii posted:As far as building coal power, there's no need to ship the coal back to your central factory to burn it. Just build a row of power plants right at the coal mine and run a power line back to your base. This changes everything, Jesus Christ. I've been making big old spaghetti factories that have been saved entirely by stacking storage boxes and running conveyors through the sky, but it's been nearly impossible to expand production solely because I can't find room for mergers/splitters. This is amazing. In return for learning this I'll share something I leaned way too late: when you get the color gun you can right click to open up a list of colors (this took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out- I thought it was just a blue gun), and if you change those colors anything you painted with them will retroactively change. Well if you change the first preset that changes the default color of your stuff. As soon as you get the gun you can change the color of everything at once. I discovered that right after painstakingly painting every building in my factory green.
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If I run a splitter, with two outputs, and one of the outputs is stopped (trying to fill the fuel tank of a tractor station for instance) does the other belt then output the full capacity, or still only half?
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Mar 22, 2019 04:09
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Mr. Powers posted:This exists. Where? Tier 6? Or are the splitters self aware of item needs per split belt?
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Went exploring. Found a cave with skittering noises inside. Threw caution to the wind and investigated. Deep inside I was attacked and killed by a terrifying spider horror. 5/5
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So how do you actually drop items in this game? I want to pet the Doggo but he keeps running away from me. 
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I found a crashed probe next to a huge lake with like four of those rear end in a top hat charge dogs clustered around it and a bigger, meaner boss charge dog leading them. I looked at my dinky Rebar Gun with twelve shots left, and I walked away. I did build my base out over a different lake this game though. The Space Elevator is on its own 7x7 platform rising out of the water. It looks pretty drat good.
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Jagged Jim posted:So how do you actually drop items in this game? I want to pet the Doggo but he keeps running away from me. Just drag it off the inventory screen Another thing helpful if you're bad at reading tooltips. You can ctrl+drag between inventories to move all of a type of item between things Slickdrac fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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You can just ctrl-click for all of that type and it'll shift it over. No dragging required. Shift click for just that one stack.
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JuffoWup posted:Where? Tier 6? Or are the splitters self aware of item needs per split belt? I'm not sure what the trigger was, I was at work while my friends played, but in our shared game there is a smart splitter already unlocked and buildable, and we can research in tier 6 a programmable splitter. E: I think they came from researching supercomputers?
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zxqv8 posted:You can just ctrl-click for all of that type and it'll shift it over. No dragging required. Shift click works. Ctrl Click does nothing.
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Well, I finally caved in last night, downloaded the epic games launcher and bought Satisfactory. ... It's quite satisfactory, heh. Put ~4 hours into the grassy plains map and then started a new game in the jungle map. I'm still playing that map nearly 6 hours later.. stayed up all night playing this dumb game, lol. It's really good so far; this is the game that Fortresscraft Evolved wishes it could be. Finally got to coal power about half an hour ago, found a coal patch and set up a mine and decided to set up power right there too since it's an infinite deposit. It's a pure deposit so at 120 coal per minute, I got about 500MW of power to use up now once I build 5 more coal gens. Almost feels like cheating after the hassle I went thru to get biofuel automated and a biogen array.  Edit: Also, I am abusing the gently caress out of the foundations since they aren't affected by gravity or anything. Built a hover platform over the valley next to my base area and put the space elevator there. I still need to do a fuckton of rebuilding and fixing this production line.. recently tore up everything to automate reinforced plates at 30/min thanks to a 10 plate + 24 screw = 3 plate special recipe that happens to use exactly 60 screws per minute. 
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Ambaire posted:Well, I finally caved in last night, downloaded the epic games launcher and bought Satisfactory. ... It's quite satisfactory, heh. Put ~4 hours into the grassy plains map and then started a new game in the jungle map. I'm still playing that map nearly 6 hours later.. stayed up all night playing this dumb game, lol. It's really good so far; this is the game that Fortresscraft Evolved wishes it could be. oh hey, you built your factory exactly where mine is on that map (your coal plant area looks almost identical to mine, too). if you put some power shards in the miner you can get up to 300/min which is enough to run all that power *and* feed your steel industry.
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Finally exploring far away, looking for oil. Driving around a big lake, and there's more and more of these creatures that shoot magic missiles. Any tips for dealing with them? They take more rebar gun shots than I can hit before dying to them, and fighting them with the sword isn't very successful either. Edit: They seem to ignore me while I'm in the tractor, but attack as soon as I step off. nielsm fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Hi folks, how do you swim up and down? Also is anyone playing multiplayer? I want to try that with fellow goons.
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Slickdrac posted:Shift click works. Ctrl Click does nothing. So it doesn't. Hmm. I could swear it once did. Perhaps I just mixed it up with Factorio. It really should, though.
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Slickdrac posted:Shift click works. Ctrl Click does nothing. It's Ctrl click and drag. You drag one stack to the desired container and it moves all stacks of the same type.
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Mr. Powers posted:I'm not sure what the trigger was, I was at work while my friends played, but in our shared game there is a smart splitter already unlocked and buildable, and we can research in tier 6 a programmable splitter.
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RVWinkle posted:It's Ctrl click and drag. You drag one stack to the desired container and it moves all stacks of the same type. And we're full circle on this quote chain  nielsm posted:Finally exploring far away, looking for oil. Driving around a big lake, and there's more and more of these creatures that shoot magic missiles. Any tips for dealing with them? They take more rebar gun shots than I can hit before dying to them, and fighting them with the sword isn't very successful either. Best way I've found is to jump over them repeatedly and stab em in the back as you sail over. They're still going to get some good shots, but losing 4 health is better than 12. If there's several, you could ragdoll one of them with the tractor away from the other, then fight it.
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pokie posted:Hi folks, how do you swim up and down? Also is anyone playing multiplayer? I want to try that with fellow goons. I'd be up for trying out multiplayer. Eiba posted:Researching what now? I've reached every base technology, I thought. Was the tech unlocked by scanning something? Have you found Caterium ore? I think it might be the basis for an additional "secret" tech tree. Just finished researching the first stage myself. Slickdrac posted:Best way I've found is to jump over them repeatedly and stab em in the back as you sail over. They're still going to get some good shots, but losing 4 health is better than 12. If there's several, you could ragdoll one of them with the tractor away from the other, then fight it. I managed to kill one, with the sword. They seem to be excessively good at dodging the rebar gun, jumping away as soon as you fire, before the dart hits. I haven't checked, but are there any differences between their colors? I've seen green, yellow, and red ones, and think the yellow and red might be more difficult than the green ones.
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Yeah, you need to find a stack of Caterium ore and plug it into the MAM before you can even make stuff with it, it's the source of the "quickwire" that someone else was wondering how the hell you make. I haven't seen any big deposits of it, just yellow-ribboned rocks, so keep your eyes out. Bauxite and sulfer rocks are also around but I don't think they do anything yet. EDIT: I appreciate that copper ore is green, as in real life. Ambaire posted:Edit: Also, I am abusing the gently caress out of the foundations since they aren't affected by gravity or anything. Built a hover platform over the valley next to my base area and put the space elevator there. I still need to do a fuckton of rebuilding and fixing this production line.. recently tore up everything to automate reinforced plates at 30/min thanks to a 10 plate + 24 screw = 3 plate special recipe that happens to use exactly 60 screws per minute. Hahahah, that is exactly what I am doing right now, maybe in the exact same spot. The jungle map is rich with resources but it's super-cramped, so I'm making my own space by building a giant platform. All these resource nodes right next to a cliff is basically asking for it. Speedball fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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nielsm posted:I'd be up for trying out multiplayer. I am pokie#3161 on Discord. If you prefer some other platform to connect on, let me know. VVV: that's very neat. I never thought of doing that. pokie fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Man, finding a green power slug early on for allowing underclocking is so loving good if you don't mind a bit of extra space. A full speed smelter uses 4MW for 30 items a minute. A half speed smelter uses 1.3MW for 15 items a minute. Two half speed smelters give 30 items a minute for only 2/3 the power draw of a single full speed.
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pokie posted:I am pokie#3161 on Discord. If you prefer some other platform to connect on, let me know. I'd like to try some multiplayer if people are up for it, Xerophyte#0377 on Discord. Could just make a server and link it here, but I have no idea if it's a real problem to do that publicly in Games rather than PGS or something.
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Speedball posted:Bauxite and sulfer rocks are also around but I don't think they do anything yet. Not until the next set of tiers, aluminum is definitely in a later tier, and supposedly gunpowder too (sulfur) with a path to start blowing up boulders/rocks.
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 Really loving this game, here's my new steel processing center, not totally efficient but it's using the entirety of a Mk 3 belt worth of steel - 3 constructors making steel beams and 3 making steel pipes. Also experimented with my first vertical belt, kind of annoying to setup but works well!  
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Xerophyte posted:I'd like to try some multiplayer if people are up for it, Xerophyte#0377 on Discord. Could just make a server and link it here, but I have no idea if it's a real problem to do that publicly in Games rather than PGS or something. Servers are P2P and invite only atm, so unfortunately a dedicated or public(ish) server is not a possibility. I'm really digging this game. The visuals are awesome, the gameplay is great, and once you figure out some quirks at the beginning (like foundations and snapping) things really get fun. I definitely have some things I think could be done differently, like the early-game power not being automatable, and some pain of EA like the game not being super well optimized (on a 970 it chugs hard at medium settings). But overall it's great, I haven't had a ton of time to play it yet and haven't worked through the tech tree but I'm having a great time.
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Taffer posted:Servers are P2P and invite only atm, so unfortunately a dedicated or public(ish) server is not a possibility. Clarification: a Discord server, not a Satisfactory server. A lot of the threads in Games that have discords only put the invite links in PGS or PMs, since reading Games isn't paywalled. I have no idea if that's just paranoia or a legit necessary defense against getting flooded by bots or something.
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Triarii posted:As far as building coal power, there's no need to ship the coal back to your central factory to burn it. Just build a row of power plants right at the coal mine and run a power line back to your base. 
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 I had no idea / couldn't figure it out, even after the 'snap on' comment. This changes everything...
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Oh, wow, the "blade runners" you get from Caterium research are pretty great. Faster running speed, higher jumps, less fall damage threshold. The power poles that have six openings are a nice second.
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Standing on a level 3 belt is terrifying. On the up side if I time my jump right I can use them to launch myself all the way across my base in a single jump.
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nielsm posted:Finally exploring far away, looking for oil. Driving around a big lake, and there's more and more of these creatures that shoot magic missiles. Any tips for dealing with them? They take more rebar gun shots than I can hit before dying to them, and fighting them with the sword isn't very successful either. stand in place and rapidly press a and d. their aim goes to where your current velocity will place you when their shot connects, so you just need to change direction after they shoot. so, if you a and d rapidly, they'll constantly spit to either side of you
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Eiba posted:Researching what now? I've reached every base technology, I thought. Was the tech unlocked by scanning something? Like I said, I'm not sure what the trigger for unlocking it was. I think someone said they scanned a supercomputer in the MAM.
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I unlocked the smart splitter by researching a stack of Quickwire in the MAM, then unlocking the new milestone in HUB. Spoiler for location of Caterium near the grassy plains: Follow this belt from the three iron nodes by a cliff - Cross a patch of sand and ascend onto a cliff overlooking a very deep valley - Caterium node is blocked by two large boulders you can't remove (in EA), but can still place portable miners on it
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Will I find a way to be in or remove this green gas stuff? Also have some pictures of my spaghettifactory  open area  second floor with power production  underneath power production Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Yes, there's a gas mask
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In which situations do y'all use truck stations?Doorknob Slobber posted:open area That coal must have a way to go to get here  . I built like 32 coal plants in the jungle-like area.
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pokie posted:In which situations do y'all use truck stations? yeah I've got two 500 or so meter long belts out to the closest two coal deposits. I'm using truck stations for loading my space elevator. I don't know if its any better than belts I just wanted to use them for something.
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