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I have NEVER seen a build-along series with such high quality and clarity. Your level of organization is superb. This is the new gold standard for series of this genre. Seriously man, you should be proud. This is extremely well done.

the fact you give the save files and blueprints for free, and your calming nature is what makes you the best satisfactory creator

For the copper refinery signage, given that you have exactly 26 in a block it would seem like a perfect opportunity to do numbered blocks with letter references, i.e 1A - 1Z, 2A - 2Z etc

Hey Darren, Ambitious is a polite way of saying it. I would say more of a zealous or driven type build. Reminds me of your crystal oscillator build nestled in the edge of the Northern Forest. But it I think you’ve crossed in to a realm you once stated, while building your first starter factory, you’d never be in. Easily comparable to the likes of ImKibits or TotalXclipe, and others, with builds large and grandiose. But what sets yours apart is making these builds doable to beginners and seasoned alike. From the presentations and detailed explanations, making it look easy to the extra time and effort to plan and show the plans and the inner workings. Toping it off, offering to share what you have done to the community as a whole. Even with the longer episodes, its like watching and learning all in one and enjoyable. Something I always look forward to. Normally, I never do channel memberships or the like, but you and your channel are worth it. Yours is the first and only channel I have become a channel member to. And all I can really say is Thank You. For all the extra time you take in the planning, presentation, editing; Thank you. I hope you continue for years to come.

here im making a rubber and plastic factory with 60 refineries total and thought that was a lot. Love the builds man. You're literally the first and only youtuber that I look forward to every week. Thanks man

Thank you for making these. your builds are the perfect thing for when I'm to tired to do all the math myself in the rest of my world.

Oh, man, this soundtrack. I will never forget it. It reminds me of the first season of Satisfactory which I was watching last year. It kept me sane through the war. Thanks for that. And thanks for continuing doing that.

LOL, to be honest, I'm feeling intimidated by this build, but looking forward to it. Loving the series and all the work you're putting into it.

@WhatDarrenPlays you should make a couple extra sets of blade runners, weapons, ammo, jet packs, etc. and place them in the storage chest in the HUB so people who download your save files don’t have to run about and make new sets, they already will have them once you put them in the chest. Just a friendly suggestion. Loving the series so far!!!

The color choices for the copper refinery were inspired. I love the patina teal accents.

I like your aproach with Satisfactory, always watched the mainstreamers and all have this intense megabuilds full of complicated architecture and build glitchs, you have what i define the "soul" of playing satisfactory, planning, preparing and executing, not only building one gigantic factory and the go on, i see you enjoy the process of achieving your goal.

Thank you Darren for all the great entertainment! Really enjoyed this one, love the aesthetics you're getting with the blueprints. And I'm super curious to see how all this early-game work will pay off in the late game! As a channel member I just wanted to say, since you mentioned feeling some pressure to "deliver" with all the added support, I don't expect you to deliver any more than you were already doing before I started paying to support you. Just do you, have fun gaming and I'm sure we'll be here to enjoy whatever comes out of it. I know that's easier said than done but just figured I'd mention it anyway :)

Absolutely loving this series of Satisfactory videos! Hope you keep them going. The quality of them is awesome! 👏

I love this series so much. Thank you.

that highway looks gorgeous. My trucks are currently bumping into cliff faces, rocks, and each other ahah

This build as well as your coal plant have been massive, yet very easy to follow. Thanks for the great layouts and different approach to the beginning stages.

i am always excited whenever one of these episodes release, ive been watching since this series started and ive loved every second of it!

Loving the series,the sacrifice and dedication you put in these videos really shows.

As always, great work! This series is amazing! Looking forward to the next episode.

Yo Delays or not great content man would rather things be right then rushed. Keep up the great work!!

This whole series has been awesome and renewed my love of this game. Thanks so much

Loving your content Darren. Like your indepth way your new series is, makes things so much easier to follow as i havent got the brain power to do it myself ha ha

Love your series I don't play satisfactory, YET but i love the easy tutorials you give

Just want you to know I love all the effort that goes into these videos! Love the extra mile you go to on the website as well!

I appreciate all these videos. While I don't like to copy things, they have given me inspiration to get back in the game and make a world spanning factory. I really loved your power plant model which I have incorporated a lot of. Looking forward to watching the rest of this series.

@whatdarranplays Would be nice to show the satisfactory tools website map with you save loaded. You can show exactly where all the roads and buildings are in a quick screen on your videos. That would be handy

while working out the layout from around 28:35, make sure to join at the road 3 foundations down, just cover the caterium node from above and then start joining towards the road, darren has done that but maybe he forgot to show that, the floorplan shows that the caterium miner is indeed inside the first room

Most intense part this episode was when you walked up that imaginary staircase.. that was dam impressive, I was on the edge.. of my seat.. 0 puns intended 😂 Great video, loving the explanation of the series!

Loving this series Darren! Quick suggestion for your refinery sign problem (mentioned around 1:05:45 in the video): what about 2 signs, with the left one displaying the hundreds column (maybe with a leading zero so there isn't a weird gap between the hundreds and tens place), and the right one for the tens and ones columns of the machine numbers? It might not completely solve the need for multiple sign edits on each machine, but you could create blueprints for the 0xx, 1xx, 2xx, and 3xx machines so as to minimize the number of sign edits needed. Could be the compromise you were looking for. Thank you for all the effort you put into these videos!

As for the problem in 01:06:40 you could try other number systems like hex. I really like your videos and appreciate the quality and effort so much! Thank you.

I can not praise you enough. the planning, the design, the blueprints and now the save!! Thank you, eventhough I have rebuilt with you its good to compare. One question.. where is your body in the last save so I can pinch all the stuff on you, (zip, blade runners etc).

@WhatDarrenPlays coming right back at you with another quality video! Keep up the amazing work!

best guy doing it, and only youtuber Ive felt compelled to actually become a member. keep it up, fantastic stuff

You mentioned Hydro power around the 19 minute mark. Refined Power is an amazing mod that gives you Hydro, Solar, Wind, and a more complex coal/biomass steam power process. I highly recommend it. In your last series you sometimes mentioned doing a modded to the gills run of the game at some point. I hope to see it.

Thank you so much for the blueprints! I don't follow exactly what you are doing but I'm glad I don't have to design roads

I love your videos man, i dont like get bored halfway though which is amazing

The scope and scale of this is crazy. I've never had the patience to put so much thought and effort into my builds but I imagine it's really rewarding if you do. Awesome series

SATISFACTORY! I am here for it.

Enjoying so much the serie !

1:05:30 One way you could solve the sign problem for the Copper refineries is by making signs that delineate the segments by numbers as well. This means you can keep the number at two digits, but have a sign at the end (and/or front) of the segment telling you what numbered segment it is. Given your set up, you could separate the segments into sets of 13 or 26. For example, if you wanted to look at a specific refinery in the middle of the set up that could be known as Refinery C1-06 or S01-06. Something like that.

The scale your building at now reminds me of Imkibitz but you explain far better. Really enjoying the series.

I will for sure download blueprints of yours it helps alot

I just started my first larger build ever, I was concerned about how big to make it and if it was going to be too big.... definitely NOT worried about that now!

Yes, let's do this!

ty for this video love your content keep it up bro

Thank you so much Darren ❤! You made my day after a shitty day

What I like to do to even out pump heights is to build a water tower - either on the roof or as a separate building. It takes more pumps, but it keeps the amount needed uniform.

For the signing problem what you could do is separede the section by letters and just count the machines for those sections, and in the entry hall if you want to know the total you can place it like a dashboard, Section A - 32 machines, 3405901293123981732 ores per minute

I've watched a lot of different series involving Satisfactory over the course of the game's development and this is by far the one I am or have been most excited for updates on. The scale of these builds is incredible and the fact that we have Blueprints now makes builds like this seem much less intimidating so it's not out of reach for players who may not have as much time. Thanks for sharing everything regarding these builds and your plans moving forward. I can't wait to see what this world looks like next episode, much less what it'll look like in the next couple of months if this continues!

Never has a Satisfactory video make me want to play so many other games! 😂 Half of my attention is on how many different games music you play! Amazing!❤

G'day mate - I am loving your designs (if not a 'bit' big for those who are beginners) however, have you considered the physics of a Water Tower in this refinery set-up, to reduce the amount of pumps required? I use them all the time, and they are fantastic. Potentially this could be located on the inner corner of your dam wall (on the small island there, as you turn the dam from East-West to North-South.... -for those of you who don't know, at the moment in Update 8, if you build a tower that has a head-lift higher than where your tallest point will be of your factories, and take it back down to them, you only need to build one (1) set of pumps to pump the water up to the top of the water tower. Love the walkthrough, loving the blueprints - great job!

Yea!! I thought you gave up on this series. I was hoping you didn’t. I am following along with your play through. I even downloaded your saved game. Thanks for that btw, I really wasn’t looking forward to building that coal plant. Keep up the awesome work ❤

This is why I like overclocking. Just by going 200% you have cut the total amount of machines you need in half. I have a caterium plant at the very same waterfall, and am using the 3 closest pure nodes, one being at the falls. Refineries overclocked to 200% can have 10 supported by a single 480 belt of ore (what I am up to atm) That means with 3 nodes being mined, each at 480 items a min atm, I can handle 30 refineries (or 60 if you don't overclock them). Plus water wise 1 extractor also overclocked can supply up to 5 of them with mk. 1 pipes. On top of all of that it is already built with Mk. 5 belts in mind, using a smart splitter at the end of the row of 10 refineries with it set to overflow. Beyond it, is another 10 refineries, all waiting for when I update the belt work to 780 items a min. Thus, 20 refineries can support 1 pure node at current max item per min (780), needing just 4 water extractors to provide water to them in groups of 5. Or double each number if you are going with no overclock. This also means doing the same setup, needing only 16 refineries for pure copper for 480 line, or 26 for 780 with overclocking. All from a single pure copper node.

Yea boi. Finally some good content on KZfaq

This is the third time YT has played this video for me this week.... And the third time I've listened to it just enough to recognize it. Thanks for the background noise :)

Nice if you read this months later I hope. Yes, I'm recreating this completely. Your videos are amazingly put together. Downloads of the blueprints and diagrams are indispensable. Thank you for a nice experience in the game. many thanks

37:17 that can not be OSHA certified 😂

Dam fine job.

Beautiful builds

Been following and building along as ive never used vehicles, blueprints or proper looking factories (usually just looks basic and messy) enjoying it so far had to use your save after mine corrupted when starting this build its helping me learn alot more about the game

Great video! I know people don't liikke to mod their game, but go get 'Infinite Nudge". Allows vertical nudging...just save yourselves the frustration.

An option I thought of instead of using numbers for the machines, is letters. A to ZZ is 676 values, plenty to cover all of those machines. If I recall correctly each "area" is 18 machines so you could use the first letter as a "segment" and the second letter for each machine AA, AB => segment a, machine a; segment a, machine b. I hope that makes sense.

Dude these videos are amazing

Hey Darren, loving the series, Would it be possible for you to make an updated road network image with the new roads since the last one?

That's one of the best builds I've seen in Satisfactory so far! great job!! and thank you for all the effort, is the save file updated?

I wish I could leave a comment on the series. This has been the best instructional video on Satisfactory ever! The whole series is great!

i saw you were struggling putting the dam sections in place, in those cases when u select the lock mode on builds u can use arrows on the keyboard to move the thing of 1meter in all directions I Hope it helps you. Amazing video bud keep it up💪

For your signs at 1:05:52 You could use a higher base. If you only had 256 I'd suggest using hexadecimal. If you've got less than 360 you could do base 36 for the tens (0-9 then a-z) digit and keep just base 10 for the ones digit.

Me like satisfactory Me like big buildings Me like what darren plays

You are really doing a Great Job Darren. So a BIG thanks for creating these episodes. I Have been following your episodes now from the start with update 8. I also created al the stuff. Few minor building errors I probably did make but overall it is mostly the same. Had some problems with the powerplant because of the water extractors you changed later on in the next episode. Big diffrence with my game is that you did only 40 hours to start at this factory and I did somewhere between 80-90 hours so I had a few more stone stored 😂

I feel like they should introduce mega sized refineries and such so that 400+ of a specific building isn’t necessary. By the time you need the production amounts of 400 refineries, there should be super sized versions unlocked

OH I HAV EBEEN WAITING!!!!!! HERE WE GO!

Looks very intimidating by the size alone, just wonder if it wouldnt have made more sense to build up more of the basic materials production like steel and iron to support these massive builds. Just feels like a massive leap forward for the little industry "we" as in those who play along with you, have build yet. But as always great work to show and make it easy to follow along with you sharing blueprints and explanations :)

Thank you for the vids. Its inspiring me to be more creative in this game. Now if only I could get a group of ppl together to play. If anyone's up for having a chill satisfactory multiplayer server hmu (busy dad life, etc). I'll host it!

Hey @whatdarrenplays appreciate the build guides, was wondering how the instructions differ if you are trying to import your blueprints onto a hosted server save

Hi, I would like to suggest something, I don't know if there are other people in this situation but, my suggestion is to have a video or a segment in the video that you show how to build the blueprint itself. I know that it could be a lot of more work and I totally understand if you chose to not do so, but the reason I suggest that is that some people like me play at GeForce Now and it is not possible to upload blueprints to the cloud machine (well, I didn't find a way when searched it up), and knowing how to build the blueprints could be useful to recreate the blueprints in that cases. PS: english is not my primary language so sorry for any sentence errors, I hope that I was able to communicate my thoughts

As a newcomer my jaw dropped with this episode... Bro is the Chief Engineer!

Dude the soundtrackchoice is on point, first i was curious why my factorio had its soundtrack playing double until i noticed it was in your game and after that also Minecraft? 10/10

Really good video and commentary

i do see an issue with the truck manifold system youre going to use. since the last one will use less ore than the other ones, if the spacing between your trucks isnt optimal at anypoint, the stations storagecapacity might be maxed out and therefor the next truck could dump less or in one of the first stations and dump its remaining ore into the last station, which in turn will make one of the first stations have a deficit in ore input. i hope it makes sense to you, the way i explained it. the remedy for this issue, is to run all your truckstations outputs except the 120 one, through "belt balancers" and have the 120 output station have an overflow back into one, or multiple, of the earlier stations, so that any excess ore dumped in the last station, due to truck spacing, will overflow back in all the 780 lines and get balanced between them. there are a few of videos about belt balancers im pretty sure and im very sure a google search will show the calculator page with some examples. basically you can connect any ammount of unequal input belts to a series of splitters and mergers to get equal output belts. in theory your truck manifold are equal input belts, but as soon as theyre not spaced perfectly and a stations buffer is full, they will become unequal, thats why you do need this system to not run into issues later on. you were talking about the foot print size because with stacking refineries, you would need alot more pumps. its very worth, imo, to use water towers to provide headlift in tall buildings. there are videos of how to make them on youtube. i havent finished the video yet, so i dont know if you run into this next thing, but i hope youre aware that the oceans water has its own border of where you can actually place water extractors. there is a gap between the world border and this "water border" where its visually water, but you cant place water extractors there. hope this helps! looks like a great build so far!

Awesome series! I really appreciate all your effort! One question regarding your road ramps though... how do you get the vertical alignment correct? The first ramp aligns correctly for me, but for the next section of 3x3(?) the middle blueprint refuses to align vertically. The closest I get is 1m off. Close enough? 😂 I've tried switching build mode and using foundations but regardless the blueprint aligns to its' own grid.

Factorio music on a satisfactory game, nice touch :D

Hey, loving the series great stuff. Can I suggest the early jet pack mod for the perpous of showing the builds. It's difficulty to get a good picture at times.

Awesome Videos. First Channel i became a Member of. Just a quick question. You said you were going to give the length and positions of your roadnetwork but i cant seem to find it. Any help would be very appreciated.

Legend has it Ficsit satellites had to alter their orbit to account for the change in gravity due to the new copper factory recently built by some ambitious Ficsit "property".

I've seen those "leftovers" on belts myself already quite a bit even though i'm just about 180h into the game (not only save but really THE game :D ). It can be a little irritating at times. The Dam looks great by the way and your videos are quite inspiring to pick up ideas even though i try to figure out my own factory/transportation builds.

23:50 You could set up a truck route to deliver concrete to you. Might by worth the time it takes as I suspect you're going to use many many tons of it. ;)

Excited to see todays live stream.

You are a legend

Is that the Factorio music in the background? Love that game lol

Love the Factorio music, but Factorio series when? 😉

Hey @WhatDarrenPlays, great video 👍 But I have one question. You produce ton of cables, wire and so on. Then you will deliver it to the other factories instead producing it locally. But how do you get the right amount of eg cables in the right factory?

Hey darren! Great video as always! I do wanna ask tho Why not have the certain trucks responsible for certain nodes and stations instead of manifold 4800 / 5 is 960 and thats easily divisible by alot of numbers, so we'd just need to find resource nodes that sum up to 960 to each station.. if ya know what i mean Since we are already doing "divide and conquer" with roads, i feel like that makes sense!

Hi, finding your series got me playing Satisfactory again, I can't see the new save nor the new blueprints on your gdrive however.

I only found your channel recently and I have rapidly become a loyal fan. (to the point I am considering starting the Cities Skylines games along with you) I have a question though. Currently I have 0 of the alternative recipes you aim to use. Is there a point to committing to such a big factory without having the recipes?

I love the factorio music

49:35 hey Darren, just an idea. What do u think about curving the edges of the truck stations? In the row of stations u can curve the edges by making it fully cylindrical to make it look smoother and not so flat if that make any sense ^^’ lmk what u think?

One thing I think you didn't really explain is /why/ you need this massive output of copper ingots.

17:57 they said they don't want to do renewable energy in the game because they want it to be about resource constraints, but mayyyybe hydropower because there's limited waterfalls