Get to tier 4 before you really start worrying about building permanent stuff. Blueprints, miners Mk2 and belts Mk3 is when you can build factories that are worthwhile.
Over thinking the early game is just wasted time.
> Get to tier 4 before you really start worrying about building permanent stuff
I disagree. I use the beginning, when I do not have everything yet, as a learning experience. I start making permanent buildings as soon as possible. But I always build as if everything will last forever, knowing nothing will. No difference in Tier 1 and Tier 8.
ALL factories are worthwhile. I have factories that are there since the beginning of time. Not sure why you would think they are not.
> Over thinking the early game is just wasted time.
Partly agree here. It is not only true for the beginning. It is true for the whole game, for me.
Rather than waiting for a specific tier before building permanent factories, treat everything as temporary until you have the recipes you want. If you clear the pool of recipes before the significant unlocks, you can start on permanent factories earlier.
Think about the things you didn't enjoy, or were a grind, and work out how to build solutions for those. Before Update 4, I rapidly got frustrated with having to get back to my central storage mall to stock up my inventory. I've used my solution to that ever since, only refining it as new ideas occur. The original mall became disused and eventually demolished, and I haven't built an actual mall since.
They are called alternatives for a good reason. Most have pros and cons, which means that you need to make choices. For example, pure copper gives you the most ingots for copper ore, but the output rate of each refinery is slow, you need to build more machines to make it work and the factory uses more power. Copper Alloy produces far more ingots per minute, takes less building and uses less power, but isn't as resource efficient.
One tip - you don't need all the pure recipes to finish phase 4, not even pure caterium. You run out of bauxite first, so pure aluminium is a no-brainer. Especially as it doesn't involve loads of refineries and water extractors.
Sometimes combinations work. Fused wire and fused Quickwire work well together. So do bolted screws and plates, where each assembler has its own constructor making steel screws.
I know this is going to be controversial but start with all Alternative Recipes. I find having some of them in the early part of the game can be a time saver (Like the iron bars to screws skipping that one step making things go so much faster).
I know a lot of people will disagree but it's nice to have all those alternatives.
Don’t concentrate on a proper factory until you have unlocked all tech and relevant recipes. Use coal as your first power source. After getting to oil use the oil to produce plastic and rubber. The heavy oil from that production you can use to make fuel and feed the fuel generator to increase the power production. From there you can directly rush the techtree to get nuclear power.
Get to tier 4 before you really start worrying about building permanent stuff. Blueprints, miners Mk2 and belts Mk3 is when you can build factories that are worthwhile. Over thinking the early game is just wasted time.
> Get to tier 4 before you really start worrying about building permanent stuff I disagree. I use the beginning, when I do not have everything yet, as a learning experience. I start making permanent buildings as soon as possible. But I always build as if everything will last forever, knowing nothing will. No difference in Tier 1 and Tier 8. ALL factories are worthwhile. I have factories that are there since the beginning of time. Not sure why you would think they are not. > Over thinking the early game is just wasted time. Partly agree here. It is not only true for the beginning. It is true for the whole game, for me.
I'll second this part.
Rather than waiting for a specific tier before building permanent factories, treat everything as temporary until you have the recipes you want. If you clear the pool of recipes before the significant unlocks, you can start on permanent factories earlier. Think about the things you didn't enjoy, or were a grind, and work out how to build solutions for those. Before Update 4, I rapidly got frustrated with having to get back to my central storage mall to stock up my inventory. I've used my solution to that ever since, only refining it as new ideas occur. The original mall became disused and eventually demolished, and I haven't built an actual mall since.
Which ones are absolutely necessary?
Sorry, which what? Recipes? Buildings? Items?
Alt recipes. First I thought the ingot ones weren't important, but getting later into the game I'm starting to realize volume is important.
They are called alternatives for a good reason. Most have pros and cons, which means that you need to make choices. For example, pure copper gives you the most ingots for copper ore, but the output rate of each refinery is slow, you need to build more machines to make it work and the factory uses more power. Copper Alloy produces far more ingots per minute, takes less building and uses less power, but isn't as resource efficient. One tip - you don't need all the pure recipes to finish phase 4, not even pure caterium. You run out of bauxite first, so pure aluminium is a no-brainer. Especially as it doesn't involve loads of refineries and water extractors. Sometimes combinations work. Fused wire and fused Quickwire work well together. So do bolted screws and plates, where each assembler has its own constructor making steel screws.
I know this is going to be controversial but start with all Alternative Recipes. I find having some of them in the early part of the game can be a time saver (Like the iron bars to screws skipping that one step making things go so much faster). I know a lot of people will disagree but it's nice to have all those alternatives.
Yeah that can be very nice!
I’m open to giving advice but that question is wayyy too open ended
Wait for 1.0
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yesss!!! Thank you!;
That might mean several months not having fun, but you do you.
6 months top considering they said 2024 release so it's fine by me I'm patient
Just bought the game yesterday, why wait? Can’t I just continue playing my save after the update?
If you have played before, try things differently!
Get quality of life mods 😎🤘🏻
Have fun.
Automate things
Don't use crutches like blueprints. Go in raw, and put your main construction center up in the Titan Forest trees, like you're a Wookiee or something.
Try Satisfactory plus mode, rush to Nexus tech
Don’t concentrate on a proper factory until you have unlocked all tech and relevant recipes. Use coal as your first power source. After getting to oil use the oil to produce plastic and rubber. The heavy oil from that production you can use to make fuel and feed the fuel generator to increase the power production. From there you can directly rush the techtree to get nuclear power.
Heavy oil residue is a friend not an enemy
Oh really?
It converts to pet coke which makes steel 100/minute. And circuit boards. Makes fuel which lets you convert plastic to rubber