15 Beginner Tips You Need To Know In Foundry

15 Beginner Tips You Need To Know In Foundry
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Foundry is a new factory automation game that's releasing to early access, and today I've covered 15 beginner tips you need to know when starting Foundry.

Timestamps
00:00:15 Better Hotkeys
00:00:47 Drones
00:01:07 Build Away From Nodes
00:01:40 Early Exploration
00:02:00 Useful Map Features
00:02:45 Merging items
00:03:28 Hotbars
00:03:55 Copy and Paste Tools
00:04:48 The Rule Of All Factory Games
00:05:15 Storage Lines
00:05:43 Efficient Factories?
00:06:22 Research Focus
00:06:57 The i-Con
00:07:33 Cleaner Factories
00:07:50 High Voltage Power

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About: Foundry

Build a factory optimized to perfection or an artistic masterpiece in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your ever-growing production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to mechanical mastery in FOUNDRY.

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[TotalXclipse]

What's your favourite beginner tip for new players?

[RickClark]

I would add that you can put your platform directly on the resource nodes. It makes it easier for the drones to reach the resources and will help avoid that travel time delay. They will mine under the platform so you aren't blocking anything.

[NZ_Wanderer]

My favourite tip Total, is you can right click any item in your inventory and it will let you build that item straight away in world without having to transfer it to a hot bar :)

[succubuzz]

I like that you can have up to 10 Hotbars if you want, this game is really good, picked it up earlier today and been having fun!

[briannariceweber]

For tip 10 I tend to split off early items from the bus to send to storage. That includes plates, rods, parts, and components. The balancers allow you to prefer one output over the other, so I send the items down the bus first, then into storage. Having a pool of those early items really speeds up hand crafting until you can get your first mall up and running.

[KaneyoriHK]

Fun fact; Tab for inventory and character menus is a Bethesda classic! So it's great for me who tends to use those keybinds the most that Satisfactory has keybinds like that too

[nickjohnson]

Thanks Total! I have had trouble making the switch from satisfactory to this title and DSP simply because you have to automate everything. Not just the parts, the buildings you make with the parts as well.

[Xadoras]

Digging under the base... we all are the at some point in time. If I ever start again, i simply build my production floor 4 walls above the ground, so you skip on the digging part.

[KamramBehzad]

Good points mate. One point from me: The command bars are not limited to 3. That is a setting we can change and add more. I am already using 4 bars.

P.S. I'm always put to shame when I see your tidy and beautifully laid out factories. Fantastic.

[Tekay]

I've started playing Foundry yesterday. With all the incremental item crafting, I started using Storage Containers directly at the end of every production line, but this has become very confusing within the first session. How would you organize those temporary endpoints of the production lines?

[ganjaheadk]

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!

[groam]

Tip: You can use materials that you mine, such as sand, dirt, etc as building blocks (including some constructed goods like concrete). Useful if you dig yourself into a hole or want to create a foundation without using "Building Blocks" (which consume plates and rods). So it's mainly useful for modifying the terrain.

[insaneyoggi]

Subing in wait for your first mega factory :) looking forward to it

[reverance_pavane]

I do find the current rarity of resources is a serious impediment to fun play. Having to run a kilometre long conveyor through a mountain range to resupply your factory gets boring fast (even using explosives). And whilst the developers promis future tech (vehicles and non-exhausting mining) will solve this problem, it does result in a lot of really boring play in the early game compared to other automation games (especially as your original resources are pretty much needed for initial tech research). So it may pay to explore your world first for these second sources, and then leave for a new planet if the terrain and resource occurrence are a result of a bad random seed.

[Sakura]

I would love to watch a let's play series of this.

[josuahroberts]

Thank you so much for this awesome tips video. Now I know how to combine multiple belts into 1 before access to the belt balancing. Do you (or does anyone) have any starting area seeds for flat close nodes etc as I've been spending the majority of the game trying to flatten land and fill inventory with 1000s of dirt blocks lol? I would love the game to have a 'flat starting zone' option in the new game screen.

[lordconradkong]

in settings you can set the hotkey bars to 10

[TubeHarmon]

good tips, just started the other day, liking it a lot

[JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

Curiosity: Does this game have an equivalent of a Minecraft Bedrock Layer?

[Kaminsod]

Is there a easy way to upgrade belts to a faster belt and if you have multiple recipes for like the rods how do you switch between those in a smelter?