Im cirrently on Tier 2, I have not built the Space elevator yet, but I have really big problems with the assemblers

So, I currently have 2 iron Plants: 1 with a 120/min drill, going into 3 smelters, 2 of them producing iron Plates and 1 being split into iron rods and the iron cast screws

And now I built a second plant from right besides it with 180/min, going into 6 30/min smelters, however even the mk2 conveyor bottlenecks the smelters

However even this way I still only produce enough screws for the rotors, so I still need another 60/min for the reinforced plates

So since I dont have a third iron node by the next 300m my only options are basically to either turn the whole plant into a plate and rod plant each and get a third one from somewhere to get the screws, or I can just redirect the screws from the other plant and let the rotors lag behind

If anyone had other ideas, I would appreciate it

Also, as a bonus: How in Ficsits godforgiven name can I scale these assemblers? Like, If I need 2 Iron entire Pure grade iron plants to build even 1 assembler for each, and the mk2 smelters and stuff only unlock once I got to Tier 3 or 4 already, how can I realistically even finish the Space Elevator project?

  • LuffyOP
    4•13 days ago

    Because I dont have a vehicle yet, and therefore I have to build a really long conveyor belt

    Edit: Thanks for the idea, since I only need plates and screws for the reinforced stuff, I can just make this plant as reinforced plate only, and another one for the Rotors, which would solve both my problems

    • slazer2au
      7•13 days ago

      You will have to build long ass belts until you get trains. So make the belt.

      • LuffyOP
        3•13 days ago

        now Thats just great

        do you have an idea how many of those plants I probably need to effectively do the space elevators phase 1?

        • @[email protected]
          5•13 days ago

          If you want to really nerd out on the balancing/belt counts/everything there’s a ton of different calculators online where you can input what you want and they’ll spit out how many machines you need for everything.

          Or you can do like I did, just mess around until you have something remotely sensible with some spaghetti on top and have fun while doing it ;)

    • @[email protected]
      3•13 days ago

      Ayyy (⁠☞ﾟ⁠ヮﾟ⁠)⁠☞ Now you’re thinking like a FICSIT pioneer! If you want some more “ideas”, Let’s Game It Out on YouTube has some classic Satisfactory content - it’s a way earlier build of the game in his early videos about it so it doubles as an adventure in video game archeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYYhL9Vt8o

      I will say, you can make any old spaghetti bullshit work. Waiting a long time for some parts isn’t that big a deal because you can spend that time building out lines to new nodes. The “real game” though, in my opinion, is building a factory you could post to /c/CablePorn. The aesthetics are so much harder to nail than just building an efficient production line. And don’t build small just because you don’t have resources right now, build big and you’ll get the resources to finish it later.

      If you build anything you’re proud of, post screenshots!