18 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Satisfactory

With the release of Satisfactory 1.0 I've compiled a list of tips & tricks that I wish I knew when I started playing the game! Did I miss any good tips for beginners? Let me know if the comments!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 World Grid
1:28 Map Markers
2:25 Ladders
3:11 Holograms
4:09 Search Bar
4:58 Hotbars
5:30 Middle Mouse Button
6:01 Upgrade Tiers
6:50 Deconstruction
7:50 Exploration
9:17 Item Uses
10:15 Family Craft
10:44 Awesome Sink
11:50 Easy Signs
12:50 To-Do List
14:28 Moving Items
15:25 Movement
16:22 Global Theme
17:06 Final Notes

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[dojelnotmyrealname]

Midgame tip for the awesome sink: Smart splitters can let you fill a storage container and chuck the rest into an awesome sink. That way your storage is full and your factory keeps running.

[bedrill]

Tip for hard drive research. Instead of brining all hard drives to base after a looting trip and then waiting 10 minutes for each drive to research, the moment u get the drive, build a MAM station, start research, dismantle MAM and keep going in search of other drives or anything else u are looking for on a trip. The research is going to be done in the meantime as u find another drive most likely, and once u are back to base you are done with research and just pick your desired alternative recipes.

[origin-d.g.]

1) Underclocking linearly reduces production but exponentially decreases power (50% prod = max prod:power rate)
2) Building 2m foundations on nodes allows snapping of miners to the grid. Makes aligning just a bit easier
3) Belts now have a “Straight” build mode as of 1.0! Game does the bending for you
4) Biomass Burners can serve as a great stand-in for power banks as they only burn per required power. Setting up a 12 burner area with the container + constructors allows you to dump your leaves/wood/mycelia in and forget about it. If you’ve got Coal or better running elsewhere you can hook it all up and if power were to spike above normal, you don’t throw the breaker! The biomass setup will cover the spike until you can return it to normal and if never used, they never burn. With enough storage containers and a big enough setup you could have a very robust temporary back up power setup.

[legalhex]

- Read the HUD completely. Almost all of these features (and more) can be discovered just by reading all the text on the screen when you build/destroy or examine a storage container, then see what happens when you press the indicated buttons.

- Zoop build mode. When building, press R until the middle of the screen says Build mode: Zoop. This will allow you to build up to 10 adjacent foundations at a time in a single direction. Also works with ramps & walls.

- All-concrete foundations. This is unlocked via the AWESOME shop and is, in my mind, the best foundation option. The default foundations require both iron plates and concrete, meaning if you run out of either, you need to restock before you can build more. Also, the default foundations have a visible orientation and if you’re like me you hate seeing mismatched foundations next to one another and have to meticulously ensure all foundations are oriented the same way. Concrete foundations by comparison only require concrete and are symmetrical so will never appear mismatched.

[Luxor]

When you change a color, the sliders go only to 1 or 0 but you can type the number yourself and type instead of 0, a -1 or instead of 1, a 2. That makes the colors more vibrant and bright. Especially on concret foundations, black is not a really dark black, it looks very washed out but with the value at -1 instead of 0, you get a really dark black. I hope that was understandable, english is not my first language.

[ToxicRisu]

Quick tip about the storage signs. You can use a square one and just add an image of the item on the face, or sides, of the storage container. This can be useful for when it is night as the signs light up.

[ImJustJAG]

A tip that I don't see a lot of people mention is that you can use the parachute to sometimes scale certain cliffs. You'll glide upwards if you use it against an incline. It's helped me scale mountains at times when there's a jump I couldn't make or an alternate route I had to take.

The parachute can sometimes help you get up as well as get down.

[PaulstheWall]

Another great tip for parsing which items are in containers is to use your disassemble function and mouse over the container. It will show you what is inside!

[inoob]

tip I saw in another video:
-when researching alternate recipes on the Maam, hold onto recipes you are not using yet or the ones you dont want to use as holding onto those choices will eliminate all recipes you have not chosen from future Maam research

[kjetilknyttnev]

Signs is an excellent source of light! Up emitting to max, remove all writing and set the style to a background lightning option. It gives you light in any color with no power cost. Save the color palette, and click ctr+c to copy the signs and ctr+v to paste them, so you only have to manually adjust the first one. I make this on my trainlines, in factory walk lines, and loads of other spaces to take your aesthetics to the next level.
Oh, and the billboard works as a mirror if you remove text and pictures, set emission to 0, and the finish to glossy. It can give you a really cool facade effect for factories too.

[Lybbyc]

you are kidding me... i placed thousands of foundations from point A to B just to make sure i stay at the right grid...

[Glimiril]

Tip for Beginners, when using Conveyor lifts, listen out for a higher pitch sound, it lets you know it is aligned and will snap to an input/output. Very useful when you're trying to make things compact without using so many belts..

[coreparadx]

On top of being able to do math in the search bar, you can do math in just about any input box. For example if I have a build that calls for 6.312 constructors to output 302 of something, I will build 7 and then set the output of one to <total output>/<total constructors> or 302/7, then use the copy config and paste it to the remaining constructors (which I bound to mouse 4 and 5 for convenience). I find this easier than doing 6 @ 100% and then one at 31.2% clock, as you can just do one then copy/paste it. On top of that they all consume and produce at the same rate then.

[eripertti]

Exploration tip: You can use parachute to CLIMB. Yes, just press shift and aim at a steep incline that you normally could not stand on and you will climb that incline with your parachute. I know, it defies all logic but it just works. You can climb most cliffs with just this technique and can sometimes be even faster than using jetpack.

[KindaWolfish]

Starter Tips:

You can place a power pole on a wire between two other poles.

When you spoke about the family for holograms, this also applies to blueprints. You can also temp move blueprints to a set group if you plan to only use those ones during a set build for faster toggling. You can also put blueprints into other blueprints as you would any other buildable.

You can find a lot of material around crash sites you can sink for a lot of coupons. Also each item has a set amount of points, and more points are needed for the next ticket, so it's less about putting too much of the same item in i.e. if you only put in rods and then put in plates as their value is simular it won't effect your points that much. If you do not plan to sink these then try and create AI Limiters as a fast alternative means for fast coupons, they are not that complicated to make and only need constructors and possibly an assembler if don;t plan to do the last step by hand.

When you hand craft hitting spacebar once will craft for you, you do not need to hold it down.

If you are collecting wood and leaves for your biofuel, if you hold down e while you collect one you will automatically pick them up as you target them. Ontop of that if you hit tab and open your inventory while doing this it will temp lock the autocollector so you do not need to hold down E either, bear in mind though that this will make using the area effect on chainsaw on anything but chainsaw-only options (such as trees) hard. Chainsaws also only use solid biofuel so it is good to have them in storage if you plan to use it when landscaping.

Harddrives. You need two of these within the Sulphur tech tree which allow for more efficient uses of coal and fuel which may be important for your builds.
When you research your hardrive it will prioritise the items you can build based on your current tier progress, and when it gives you your choice of options to pick from and you do not choose either it removes them temp from the pool of choices your next drive will offer, so if you don't care for either or do not need that specific option just yet don't take it. There is only a list of 10 it will display additional researches will just get hidden as there is no scroll bar in the library.

You can save the name of a colour you like for easy usage later. There is also some community colours people have posted on reddit and the official satisfactory discord.

On the line for the categories at the top right when you unlock alternative materials you can toggle between them there. bear in mind different materials need different items e.g. concrete no longer uses plates but requires more concrete per foundation.

When you are running around you can press H to hide your hands or whatever you were holding onto (originally there was mods for this purpose).

Stingers are terrifying. And are not susceptible to fall damage (stuff that would kill you it walks off). They can also get stuck inside of rocks and still try and jump scare you.

Falling from any height at full health will not kill you.

And above all there is no wrong way to do anything. You build what you want, and do stuff at your own pace. Heck there are some really epic stuff people have done with beams that has nothing to do with factory building but creates awesome massive sculptures, just enjoy the game.

[NanakiPL]

Extra tip for upgrading: you can upgrade splitters to smart splitters by holding Ctrl.

[VitorCarnevalli]

You Can copy and paste recipes from machines, for example If you build a constructor and set it to produce concrete, you Can "Cntrl C" literally, that recipe, and then by looking to the next machine, as it highlights, you click "cntrl V" and The recipe Will be copied directly in to it, this Will also copy any configurations you make to overclocking. That also works for signs.

[ShelLuser]

In the early game don't bother with ladders, but use the stackable conveyer pole instead. You don't have to unlock it, it's cheap to make and... it has a ladder on the side which makes this an ideal solution. Best of all: it also provides you with a small platform on top which you can stand on. From there you can then build some foundation if you need to reach places.

[TheLostSoul]

Here's my additional tips I would have liked to see in this vid.

* For finding items in containers, I like to whip out the dismantle gun and hover over the containers. The list of what you receive for dismantling the container includes its contents.
* Regarding crafting families, instead of holding "E" you can also tap "E" and it will cycle through the items too.
* There is a certain troublesome enemy type that you can sneak up on by crouching and it won't detect you, even when attacking it.
* The To-Do List also includes a notepad if you click on "Edit To-Do List". You can also hover over the right side of the screen when in the build or inventory screens and the side of the screen will darken, if you click on the darkened area, you can open the To-Do List that way. There are public and private note sections for online play.

[Fissiccisst]

One cool tip for overclocking. If the bar is being annoying to slide or you already know exactly what you want, you can click on the % or the output and manually type in your desired % or output. Copying and Pasting configs will also automatically deposit the power shard and set the overclock in addition to just the selected recipe!