Satisfactory factory layout planner software#
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High speed connectors to feed super computers.Ī material should be considered a good candidate for a 'helper factory' if it is significantly more 'dense' than it's inputs, and it contains relatively few or easy to source raw resources in it's production. Modular frames to feed heavy modular frames. So I treat them the same way I'd treat ingots or ore, they get mass produced and shipped out in fixed quantities to specific production lines rather than being produced specifically to fuel production of a particular material. Rubber / plastic get exceptions here, they're quite complicated to produce, but producing them at scale at max efficiency is so elaborate and crude is so scarce that it just makes a lot more sense to concentrate production of those materials around the nodes. If it can be used in constructing a building, it gets it's own dedicated production line that doesn't share resources with anything else - unless maybe like, ore, or ingots, or something other raw or basically raw resource. My lowest tier standalone production line would be iron plates. You just need to delete the other part and rebuild it too. Tracks can 'lose' their connection at junctions of you delete one part of the junction.I make an except for less critical stations. We don't have very good control over when trains get to stations, so it's easier just to let stations only service one train.If you made them flat like I suggested, this should be no problem.

Satisfactory factory layout planner zip#

Use factory carts to zip around your train stations.

You can call trains (change their timetables) from stations.

When laying track, take a train with you with all the concrete, pipes, and steel beams you want.

Trains are *just* small enough to fit in tunnels made from the curved pieces without clipping.

This gives it more of a realistic feel and is easier for picking stuff up.

I like to put the stations so that the freight stations face each other.

If you do it right, this lets your stations stay completely flat and easy to cross.

Have trains come in below and leave below the stations.

This lets you put stations in the magic 8 wall construction and have a nice place to do all the belt work. Plus, you can have 3 walls (minus the one meter) below and exactly 5 walls up.

If you plonk your stations down 1m below your current foundation level, the waiting area is flush.

I actually plan my factories around the stations, because the stations are just so dominating. But i'm having a hard time finding any decent designs of rail stations that have this sort of consideration. (two way, you can exit and enter any station from either direction). I've set it up to be future proof for collisiions. PS: I've just set up my first train system, 2 stations. Opinions, patterns, antipatterns, elegant solutions. give em steel and one machine can probs fill your needsĪnyway I'm just wanting to open a conversation about you folks' thoughts on these things. And some are just straight easy questions: I've found the alternate recipe for steel screws. Some of this is case by case, (which is why it's so much fun). Or.should I have dedicated factories for certain items above a certain level that take it from ore/ingots to final product? should any of that production fuel future lines? Why not? why? (I've allowed it be so, if i choose, but I'm still on the fence)

So far what I've done is build a basic production line that feeds a 'mall' for me (very similar to Kibitz storage) Practically speaking I'm not sure how well this works and it seems to be an antipattern according to the community. This to me is a good abstraction and makes two questions very easy: My first instinct when moving from my starter base was to create a centralized storage facility. I'm talking larger 'higher level' design considerations. I've watched tons of hours of youtubers and learned a lot (ImKibitz mostly, even ran around in the guts of his save file)īut I am curious to hear you guys thoughts, ideas, principles you apply. I'm really curious what others have come up with.

Satisfactory factory layout planner software#

I'm having a blast, but in the software world there is a larger community to draw upon when it comes to design patterns. Savoring the problem solving nuggets as I go. But the I've only really automated up to plastic and motors/modular frames/ etc. I've been pretty much milking it as much as I can. I'm a software engineer and this game scratches a very powerful and particular itch for me. I got into this game mid December and it has consumed my life.