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I personally would keep Copper Refineries, Keterium Refineries and Sheet Factory on one side. And Light Switches, Pumps and Sinks on another side. Especially as both Pumps and Sings go down. And it would simply look way batter having them aligned.
"I said it wasnt gonna be that complicated, I straight up lied." This line got me lmao, love this series and this build is everything i was hoping for and more. Awesome video
I'm an electrician. What you've done with your "cable runners" would be very similar to a bus duct if the metal beams themselves were the conductors rather than the wires. Each continuous cable going back to each disconnect (switch) represents a circuit. The room with all the switches is pretty analogous to a switchgear.
Hey Darren, I thought I'd share a way to use power outlets vertically. You can use a beam horizontal across the floor, rotate it, and attach a wall outlet on either side, from there you just connect the outlets to each other, and delete the beam if you want.
I love the way you found simple, blueprintable power management options, and the belt cutoff is a really nice touch. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into these builds.
This is the GOAT series of Satisfactory! For ppl keep asking "lock hologram", I think it is becoz you didn't mark this as Episode X, so there are new people hopping in every episode without context.
Keep it up Darren, your attention to detail is phenomenal. FYI - The giant billboards work as an amazing replacement for those old vanilla lights with the 'fog rays'. The light bounces and does all the good stuff. I dont use vanilla lights ever anymore. Cheers & Happy Holidays!
Hey Darren! Regarding why your trucks are stopping at the Coal truck station, it’s because of the way recording the routes works. Basically, when you record Truck paths, you don’t actually have to stop and press the unload/load key, you only have to go through the « bounding » box of the truck station, and it will automatically create a « Stop node » for the truck. This is why they are stopping at the Coal (refuel) Truck Station. To prevent them from stopping, all you have to do is hop on all of your trucks, show the paths, physically walk to the yellow stop sign under the truck station, interact with it, and delete it. They should still get refuelled, but they won’t stop.
Yeah I was actually experimenting with this, and once I noticed the node I removed it…. However it seems the trucks try to avoid the bounding box of the station, trying to go around or glitching through it, so I think I’ll probably just feed the coal over to the other stations, or, just let them stop on their way in as they seem to form a queue anyways which is fine, i was more worried they’d collide at the entrance or block it.
Hum, that’s weird. Could it be because removing the stop node now creates a slightly different path and the interpolation between the previous and next node makes it a bigger turn? To be honest I’m just speculating at this point. Trucks seem to work best when we are not looking at them unfortunately. Anyway, keep up the good work!
New player here who is building along with you on the series, this is one of the most impressive series I’ve seen for teaching players. Yes the coal plant really challenged me as I had never even build a single factory before let alone that big thing but I felt very accomplished and still do when I fix something that messes up with it. I haven’t got to building the copper plant but I can’t wait, it’s gonna teach me so much stuff and take me 100 hours game lol but I’ve been loving it. And hopefully when 1.0 rolls around I’ll maybe start a new world and try my best to do things based on my own design to see what I’ve learned. Loving this though.
Wow, causually just dropping that it's a 7+ hour recording session! Makes me both happier at how slowly I'm progressing through the game and daunting at how I'm gonna struggle when I'm only committing a few hours a week to playing🫨 Loving the series though, so helpful and insightful as well as being enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work
The amount of effort is crazy. I'm a big fan of doing power management, so this episode was extra interesting. On the mining enclosures, I actually think this one looks better than the closed ones you made, something about having minimum infrastructure on remote locations appeal more to me.
Man, BEST SATISFACTORY VIDEOS ON YT!!!! Your channel is so, so good..... Totally Outstanding! I cannot wait to see what and how you handle an oil base and Oil power. THANK YOU for all these!
absolutely love the series, never played satisfactory but watching you plan, build and troubleshoot the different factories gets my engineer brain waaaay excited
Darren, this is masterful / glorious / unhinged / wildly dedicated / extremely impressive. Thank you!! Hope you had a nice holiday time, and travel was gentle to you.
I know I am late to the party for update 8, i haven't played since update 5 so I am excited to get back to it. Thank you so much for all your hard work not just with the video but also all the effort that went into organizing all of the blueprints ect for us to download! Well done sir!
I can’t afford to upgrade or fix my pc of 10 years and it offically broke down and died recently, satisfactory was my comfort game and being able to experience it again has been wonderful, thank you😊
Hey Bud, I have a potato PC that in NO WAY OR FORM will be able to play this game. I love following what you do and your effort is noticed. Seriously well done on the planning and execution.
(unsure if this was realized recently or not) the pit stop for fuel does work, you have to have the station set to load but not have anything in it. you could delete the stop on the truck path, but then the truck wont get the fuel, it has to dock for that
You can manage the power lines a lot easier with priority power switches. Just run a main power line through the factory. Then put a priority power switch at each branch to the refinery block. The "A" circuit goes back to the main power line and the "B" circuit to the refinery block. You can then manage the priority power switches from any other priority power switch and turn off the switches remotely. It will allow you to eliminate all those power lines and blueprints for lines.
Hi Darren I don't know if it has been mentioned or if you know, but there is a way to take care of the outlet from the floor to a ceiling to not be a power pole like you are talking about around minute 39 of this video. If you use pillars and stack two on top if each other. So you can see one and one under that then delete the top one you can attach an outlet to the top of the pillar that will be flush with the floor after deleting the top one. 39:12. Then you delete the pillar, and and can put an outlet on the bottom of the foundation directly below then string them together 😊. Hope this helps. Excellent work otherwise
Seriously impressive that you (mostly) pre-planned all of this! The build is turning out really really nice, can't wait to see it after a cosmetic pass. Merry Christmas and happy new year Darren, and thanks for this mega-episode to end off the year!
If you use a beam to cross the gap of the foundation, you can attach a wall outlet to that, makes it look like a floor connection, instead of having the cables going through the floor
Priority power switches are like having a remote control anywhere you can tab into mains power you can build an additional switch and turn any other switch on and off. I think this would make it easy to do things like turn off belt locks while standing at the fluid buffers watching for the machines to fill up
To address the fluid buffers at the bottom of the build that don't fill until the top ones are full; this I think is because buffers fill according to head lift, so if there isn't head lift, the buffer will fill and its providing head lift will increase and cap at its max when its full. If there is head lift, the buffer will not fill until there is no more room in the rest of the system after it.
Hey Darren, you figured out the wire clipping thru floor problem, you just only used it on the ceiling lol use the beams to place wall outlets on floor, thats what i be doing lol
My biggest takeaway from this as a intermediate player, is that I'm grossly underutilizing awesome sinks. The whole "throw all the ore into the sink when 'off'" is genius.
I tried building a warehouse with a row of truck stations, I had a similar issue where tractors driving past a truck station would automatically load/unload. I got annoyed with that (and their incessant getting stuck / physics glitching) and deleted the whole thing lol (using trains now instead... love that they have an actual rail forcing them to behave) edit: by the way, thanks for this holiday-time episode! you're amazing, and all your hard work is very appreciated! hope 2024 is a great year for you
20:24 "Split Happens" ... I just found that really funny lol. Great video btw! I'm considering doing some vids on Satisfactory myself... I agree, lumen does look really good, except for the shadows...they're just too dark I think.
So, the truck thing: if you drive even close to another station, you need to go back and delete that node before you save the route or it tries to pick up or drop off at every opportunity, not just the ones you planned. Super annoying and means you have to drive every route twice (especially if you're trying to do nice one way systems for your vehicles) because those nodes don't show up until you've completed the path. That said, I am in awe of the scope and planning of your builds. My current strategy is "as small as I can get away with" and "we'll finish the aesthetics later". Happy Christmas!
I did not realize you could use the nobelisk to clear regular rocks! When v1.0 comes out, I'm going to be SO on top of my game. btw- if you aren't new to the game, would there be a better place to land other than that first area? On one hand, it is the place I'm most familiar with, but on the other hand, materials at the other locations are supposed to be better...
Good to see you tackle the lighting. I'm in my first playthough, not following you but picking inspiration in your builds. For now there's only one type of ceiling light and it sucks, and the popular mod that adds more lights doesn't work with Lumen. I went with the metal beam across the ceiling and display attached to it, no power and no extra nasty wires on top of it. And a plus that the metal beam painted as deep black looks like conduit, makes the ceiling more busy.
Loving the build, yes the colours should represent the usage. I think you should start running global illumination now, looks good! Also it shouldn’t be B for basement but G or GF for ground floor or GL ground level.
I feel like a few episodes back he said we're gonna do a few small factories and then proceeds to build a single factory thats bigger than all mine combined
Next update I'd love to see a belt and pipe level so you could make sure your belts are level as your building logistics floors if there isnt a mod for it already
you can technically put power outlet on floor by putting a painted beam instead of the foundation snap the outlet on it and change back the beam for a foundation and you are good to go :p
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The Blueprints, Logistcs map, Power map and more will be available Dec 26th around 5PM UK time.
I personally would keep Copper Refineries, Keterium Refineries and Sheet Factory on one side.
And Light Switches, Pumps and Sinks on another side.
Especially as both Pumps and Sings go down. And it would simply look way batter having them aligned.
"I said it wasnt gonna be that complicated, I straight up lied." This line got me lmao, love this series and this build is everything i was hoping for and more. Awesome video
I'm an electrician. What you've done with your "cable runners" would be very similar to a bus duct if the metal beams themselves were the conductors rather than the wires. Each continuous cable going back to each disconnect (switch) represents a circuit. The room with all the switches is pretty analogous to a switchgear.
I have no idea how you kept all of this in order as well as you did. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
Thank you!
Hey Darren, I thought I'd share a way to use power outlets vertically. You can use a beam horizontal across the floor, rotate it, and attach a wall outlet on either side, from there you just connect the outlets to each other, and delete the beam if you want.
Legend status for posting this
Need a visual
I love the way you found simple, blueprintable power management options, and the belt cutoff is a really nice touch. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into these builds.
This is the GOAT series of Satisfactory! For ppl keep asking "lock hologram", I think it is becoz you didn't mark this as Episode X, so there are new people hopping in every episode without context.
Keep it up Darren, your attention to detail is phenomenal. FYI - The giant billboards work as an amazing replacement for those old vanilla lights with the 'fog rays'. The light bounces and does all the good stuff. I dont use vanilla lights ever anymore. Cheers & Happy Holidays!
This is.. insane. Props for your dedication, loving the series. Inspired me to reopen satisfactory myself the other day.
Hey Darren! Regarding why your trucks are stopping at the Coal truck station, it’s because of the way recording the routes works.
Basically, when you record Truck paths, you don’t actually have to stop and press the unload/load key, you only have to go through the « bounding » box of the truck station, and it will automatically create a « Stop node » for the truck. This is why they are stopping at the Coal (refuel) Truck Station.
To prevent them from stopping, all you have to do is hop on all of your trucks, show the paths, physically walk to the yellow stop sign under the truck station, interact with it, and delete it. They should still get refuelled, but they won’t stop.
Yeah I was actually experimenting with this, and once I noticed the node I removed it…. However it seems the trucks try to avoid the bounding box of the station, trying to go around or glitching through it, so I think I’ll probably just feed the coal over to the other stations, or, just let them stop on their way in as they seem to form a queue anyways which is fine, i was more worried they’d collide at the entrance or block it.
Hum, that’s weird. Could it be because removing the stop node now creates a slightly different path and the interpolation between the previous and next node makes it a bigger turn?
To be honest I’m just speculating at this point. Trucks seem to work best when we are not looking at them unfortunately.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
This is why you're my absolute favorite person. A Christmas video! And a like and comment for the engagement.
The zoom at 1:54:24 creating tension for the viewer was well made :P Good job on the vid.
Haha that emoji you’ve used is perfect
New player here who is building along with you on the series, this is one of the most impressive series I’ve seen for teaching players. Yes the coal plant really challenged me as I had never even build a single factory before let alone that big thing but I felt very accomplished and still do when I fix something that messes up with it. I haven’t got to building the copper plant but I can’t wait, it’s gonna teach me so much stuff and take me 100 hours game lol but I’ve been loving it. And hopefully when 1.0 rolls around I’ll maybe start a new world and try my best to do things based on my own design to see what I’ve learned. Loving this though.
Wow, causually just dropping that it's a 7+ hour recording session! Makes me both happier at how slowly I'm progressing through the game and daunting at how I'm gonna struggle when I'm only committing a few hours a week to playing🫨
Loving the series though, so helpful and insightful as well as being enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work
Love the series. Thanks for all the hard work for our entertainment. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
I'm so glad you pointed out that hidden pump hole. I completely forgot about it too.
Hey Darren, I think that the trucks automatically create nodes when you pass under a station you may have to go back into the routes and delete them
The amount of effort is crazy. I'm a big fan of doing power management, so this episode was extra interesting. On the mining enclosures, I actually think this one looks better than the closed ones you made, something about having minimum infrastructure on remote locations appeal more to me.
started waching when the video was out.
just finished it.
respect for taking the time to make it
I've done vertical power shafts in my "underground" facility. Makes planing even more challenging :)
Man, BEST SATISFACTORY VIDEOS ON YT!!!! Your channel is so, so good..... Totally Outstanding! I cannot wait to see what and how you handle an oil base and Oil power. THANK YOU for all these!
I've never been so happy to be behind on the series. I need a good binge of this content. Thanks for the great uploads!
absolutely love the series, never played satisfactory but watching you plan, build and troubleshoot the different factories gets my engineer brain waaaay excited
One of the most satisfying build videos, from any game, that I have ever seen. You are amazing. And thank you for providing all your stuff too.
Darren, this is masterful / glorious / unhinged / wildly dedicated / extremely impressive. Thank you!! Hope you had a nice holiday time, and travel was gentle to you.
My holiday begins tomorrow! Back then on the 31st! And thank you :)
I know I am late to the party for update 8, i haven't played since update 5 so I am excited to get back to it. Thank you so much for all your hard work not just with the video but also all the effort that went into organizing all of the blueprints ect for us to download! Well done sir!
Love the idea of the ventilation floor that also allows you to hide the cables really well, the build is awesome I must say
Sick final display there. Beautiful work.
The logistics is my absolute favorite part I love watching the various parts moving along the belts
I can’t afford to upgrade or fix my pc of 10 years and it offically broke down and died recently, satisfactory was my comfort game and being able to experience it again has been wonderful, thank you😊
Let's gooooo Christmas special 🎅
A 2 hour special couldn't have wished for a better Christmas present 🎁
It was the fastest 2 hours of my life !
Absolute perfection
Hey Bud, I have a potato PC that in NO WAY OR FORM will be able to play this game. I love following what you do and your effort is noticed. Seriously well done on the planning and execution.
(unsure if this was realized recently or not) the pit stop for fuel does work, you have to have the station set to load but not have anything in it. you could delete the stop on the truck path, but then the truck wont get the fuel, it has to dock for that
Those staircase signs are amazing! Awesome job! Everything is looking fantastic!
You can manage the power lines a lot easier with priority power switches. Just run a main power line through the factory. Then put a priority power switch at each branch to the refinery block. The "A" circuit goes back to the main power line and the "B" circuit to the refinery block.
You can then manage the priority power switches from any other priority power switch and turn off the switches remotely. It will allow you to eliminate all those power lines and blueprints for lines.
Hi Darren I don't know if it has been mentioned or if you know, but there is a way to take care of the outlet from the floor to a ceiling to not be a power pole like you are talking about around minute 39 of this video. If you use pillars and stack two on top if each other. So you can see one and one under that then delete the top one you can attach an outlet to the top of the pillar that will be flush with the floor after deleting the top one. 39:12. Then you delete the pillar, and and can put an outlet on the bottom of the foundation directly below then string them together 😊. Hope this helps. Excellent work otherwise
wow, what a nice surprize
Seriously impressive that you (mostly) pre-planned all of this! The build is turning out really really nice, can't wait to see it after a cosmetic pass. Merry Christmas and happy new year Darren, and thanks for this mega-episode to end off the year!
Big applause for getting that factory run, master job.
If you use a beam to cross the gap of the foundation, you can attach a wall outlet to that, makes it look like a floor connection, instead of having the cables going through the floor
Priority power switches are like having a remote control anywhere you can tab into mains power you can build an additional switch and turn any other switch on and off. I think this would make it easy to do things like turn off belt locks while standing at the fluid buffers watching for the machines to fill up
I havent finished all the videos yet, but I would be interested in a cosmetic focused video !
To address the fluid buffers at the bottom of the build that don't fill until the top ones are full; this I think is because buffers fill according to head lift, so if there isn't head lift, the buffer will fill and its providing head lift will increase and cap at its max when its full. If there is head lift, the buffer will not fill until there is no more room in the rest of the system after it.
Love the build 😊 keep it up, watched all the way through 🙌 Merry Christmas
You kidding me? I love logistics and conveyor belts!
I’ve never felt more betrayed when you hyped up the animation and then walked away XD
I've been watching since your old satisfactory save. Congrats on the sponsor!
Much appreciated!
I love his narration 😂. Its like listening to a a building contractor reading his fanfic at me 🤣
Hey Darren, you figured out the wire clipping thru floor problem, you just only used it on the ceiling lol use the beams to place wall outlets on floor, thats what i be doing lol
My biggest takeaway from this as a intermediate player, is that I'm grossly underutilizing awesome sinks. The whole "throw all the ore into the sink when 'off'" is genius.
I tried building a warehouse with a row of truck stations, I had a similar issue where tractors driving past a truck station would automatically load/unload. I got annoyed with that (and their incessant getting stuck / physics glitching) and deleted the whole thing lol (using trains now instead... love that they have an actual rail forcing them to behave)
edit: by the way, thanks for this holiday-time episode! you're amazing, and all your hard work is very appreciated! hope 2024 is a great year for you
A little late, but if you turn on nodes you can delete the stop node
Your world is lookin' fine! Thanks for such quality content 💯
I really like you power management implementation. I'm going to use it in my factories.
OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the great content. Really loving the series. More 2 hour episodes please ha ha
Woahhh! Thanks darren
The best Christmas present I’ve received yet
Magnificent! Thank you
I like it when things are darker, I used to work in datacenters as a security guard and I like the massive dark building vibe.
20:24 "Split Happens" ... I just found that really funny lol. Great video btw! I'm considering doing some vids on Satisfactory myself... I agree, lumen does look really good, except for the shadows...they're just too dark I think.
So, the truck thing: if you drive even close to another station, you need to go back and delete that node before you save the route or it tries to pick up or drop off at every opportunity, not just the ones you planned. Super annoying and means you have to drive every route twice (especially if you're trying to do nice one way systems for your vehicles) because those nodes don't show up until you've completed the path.
That said, I am in awe of the scope and planning of your builds. My current strategy is "as small as I can get away with" and "we'll finish the aesthetics later". Happy Christmas!
I must admit I've been using your saves and blueprints for gaming for the last few days. Thank you very much 👍
Can't believe you blue balled me on seeing that hot glowing rod enter the hole
18:25 LOL, love your honesty!
This series slowly reminds me of Wall-e. All these factories, empty roads for a single person and their trucks.
I did not realize you could use the nobelisk to clear regular rocks! When v1.0 comes out, I'm going to be SO on top of my game. btw- if you aren't new to the game, would there be a better place to land other than that first area? On one hand, it is the place I'm most familiar with, but on the other hand, materials at the other locations are supposed to be better...
It's bigger than expected because its a grower, not a show-er, Darren.
Merry Christmas Darren! Love your stuff!
Good to see you tackle the lighting. I'm in my first playthough, not following you but picking inspiration in your builds.
For now there's only one type of ceiling light and it sucks, and the popular mod that adds more lights doesn't work with Lumen.
I went with the metal beam across the ceiling and display attached to it, no power and no extra nasty wires on top of it. And a plus that the metal beam painted as deep black looks like conduit, makes the ceiling more busy.
Great planning mate. Very happy to see everything working smoothly.
Happy holidays
Loving the build, yes the colours should represent the usage. I think you should start running global illumination now, looks good! Also it shouldn’t be B for basement but G or GF for ground floor or GL ground level.
TWO HOURS! LET'S GO!!!!!
Thank you for making my OCD happy! 😂❤
Been enjoying watching through all of the design decisions and whatnot. I'm curious how you have blueprints that are larger than 4x4
I dont have any blueprints larger than 4x4. They’re all available for download, no mods or tricks or cheats, they all fit within the designer.
@@WhatDarrenPlays I guess some of them being narrow makes them look larger than 4x4 lol, perspective eh? XD
I feel like a few episodes back he said we're gonna do a few small factories and then proceeds to build a single factory thats bigger than all mine combined
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! :D
Same to you! Happy New Year!
Man, those are the neatest power cables I have ever seen.
For the algorithm! Love the content.
24:40 “And that’s it” 😂😂😂
Hey Darren I love your factorio playthrough!
Holy damn, looks like the Death Star with Global Illumination! AWESOME!!
Really cool video ! Congrats on archiving this mega built !
Darren: "It's actually relatively simple."
My brain: 🤯
You can remove the light rays by typing "pool.light.lightshaft.count 0" in the console. You can also add it in the engine file to make it permanent.
Really nice with the Power Control Room :)
Thx a lot!
Loving the series!
I’m glad that the explorer is still good, I’ve been blaming the new engine but it turns out that my laptop just sucks
1:54:50 The pipe has no decimals, but the valve has one decimal. At .4 and down you round down, at .5 and up you round up (Basic math)
Everything looks great. Makes me wanna play again. ❤
sub is confirmed.. this elevator is looking crazy with global illumination.. 🤯
I Think the Copper-Caterium factory could as well make oil with all the space. to get the oil to the build you might put the pipes under the road.
I’m like this looks cool maybe I should start my own (shows underneath) maybe not
Next update I'd love to see a belt and pipe level so you could make sure your belts are level as your building logistics floors if there isnt a mod for it already
amazing work
Instead of painted beams for cable runners, use small signs to indicate what the cable powers.
you can technically put power outlet on floor by putting a painted beam instead of the foundation snap the outlet on it and change back the beam for a foundation and you are good to go :p
Its as easy as that! :P
I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger voice when Darren said: "Release the copper".