Designing a POWER CONTROL ROOM in Satisfactory Update 8!

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Satisfactory Update 8 is OUT NOW! Welcome to PHASE THREE of my Copper and Caterium factory - this ambitious build aims to produce around 12,000 ingots with over 400 refineries. Today adding power control, belt release logic and truck deliveries!
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:36 - Semi-Automation Heavy Modular Frames
00:12:50 - Trucks!
00:14:41 - Power Concepts
00:15:47 - What's Changed
00:17:43 - The Logistics Floor
00:25:02 - The Water Extractors
00:29:01 - Power Control Room Build
00:36:17 - Cable Runners to Refineries
00:49:30 - Why do this?
00:52:02 - Cable Runners to Water
00:58:10 - Lighting & Signs
01:08:08 - Belt Release Room
01:25:01 - Cable Runners to Belt Release
01:29:55 - Fuel Station
01:37:12 - Copper Mining & Delivery
01:50:13 - Priming The Refineries
01:56:30 - Copper Mining & Delivery
01:57:40 - Belt Release and Powering On!
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1. Start - • SATISFACTORY Update 8 ...
2. Space Elevator - • SATISFACTORY Update 8 ...
3. Coal Plant Pt.1 - • REJECT Biomass, EMBRAC...
4. Coal Plant Pt.2 - • BOOSTING COAL POWER! -...
5. Modular Frames - • HOW TO: MODULAR FRAMES...
6. Steel Foundry - • EASY STEEL Foundry in ...
7. Upgrades and Blueprints - • BLUEPRINTS, POWER TOWE...
8. Road Network - • These NEW Blueprints C...
9. Copper Pt.1 - • Building a HUGE REFINE...
10. Copper Pt.2 - • How to do LOGISTICS at...
11. Copper Pt.3 - • Designing a POWER CONT...
12. Copper Pt.4 - • This Quickwire MEGA-Bu...
13. Liquid Biofuel - • UNDERGROUND BIOFUEL Fa...
14. Quartz Crystal - • Building BRUTALISM wit...
15. Iron Factory - • REPLACING my Starter "...
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@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Thank you to Prosperous Universe for sponsoring this video, check out the game for yourself here: prosperousuniverse.com/?WhatDarrenPlays& The Blueprints, Logistcs map, Power map and more will be available Dec 26th around 5PM UK time.

@ryangross5446 5 ай бұрын

"I said it wasnt gonna be that complicated, I straight up lied." This line got me lmao, love this series and this build is everything i was hoping for and more. Awesome video

@Recusant 5 ай бұрын

I'm an electrician. What you've done with your "cable runners" would be very similar to a bus duct if the metal beams themselves were the conductors rather than the wires. Each continuous cable going back to each disconnect (switch) represents a circuit. The room with all the switches is pretty analogous to a switchgear.

@ExRetribution 5 ай бұрын

Hey Darren, I thought I'd share a way to use power outlets vertically. You can use a beam horizontal across the floor, rotate it, and attach a wall outlet on either side, from there you just connect the outlets to each other, and delete the beam if you want.

@ryangross5446 5 ай бұрын

Legend status for posting this

@moxzy3213 3 ай бұрын

Need a visual

@bradcox2750 4 ай бұрын

I have no idea how you kept all of this in order as well as you did. Bravo, sir. Bravo.

@WhatDarrenPlays 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@alabyz1 5 ай бұрын

The zoom at 1:54:24 creating tension for the viewer was well made :P Good job on the vid.

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Haha that emoji you’ve used is perfect

@danwarner7922 5 ай бұрын

Keep it up Darren, your attention to detail is phenomenal. FYI - The giant billboards work as an amazing replacement for those old vanilla lights with the 'fog rays'. The light bounces and does all the good stuff. I dont use vanilla lights ever anymore. Cheers & Happy Holidays!

@adamwalker3560 5 ай бұрын

I love the way you found simple, blueprintable power management options, and the belt cutoff is a really nice touch. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into these builds.

@CHEEKYLAD2002 4 ай бұрын

Wow, causually just dropping that it's a 7+ hour recording session! Makes me both happier at how slowly I'm progressing through the game and daunting at how I'm gonna struggle when I'm only committing a few hours a week to playing🫨 Loving the series though, so helpful and insightful as well as being enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work

@jamikellburns4551 5 ай бұрын

This is why you're my absolute favorite person. A Christmas video! And a like and comment for the engagement.

@karlk7070 4 ай бұрын

This is the GOAT series of Satisfactory! For ppl keep asking "lock hologram", I think it is becoz you didn't mark this as Episode X, so there are new people hopping in every episode without context.

@HaiImCirus 5 ай бұрын

This is.. insane. Props for your dedication, loving the series. Inspired me to reopen satisfactory myself the other day.

@user-cz4tv3eb9r 5 ай бұрын

Hey Darren, I think that the trucks automatically create nodes when you pass under a station you may have to go back into the routes and delete them

@mikecoad7270 5 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you pointed out that hidden pump hole. I completely forgot about it too.

@maciejzielinski4499 5 ай бұрын

I've done vertical power shafts in my "underground" facility. Makes planing even more challenging :)

@just_dadam Ай бұрын

Love the idea of the ventilation floor that also allows you to hide the cables really well, the build is awesome I must say

@ballzack57 4 ай бұрын

One of the most satisfying build videos, from any game, that I have ever seen. You are amazing. And thank you for providing all your stuff too.

@_JustMonika 5 ай бұрын

The amount of effort is crazy. I'm a big fan of doing power management, so this episode was extra interesting. On the mining enclosures, I actually think this one looks better than the closed ones you made, something about having minimum infrastructure on remote locations appeal more to me.

@northgaming5841 4 ай бұрын

absolutely love the series, never played satisfactory but watching you plan, build and troubleshoot the different factories gets my engineer brain waaaay excited

@Appl_Jax 26 күн бұрын

My biggest takeaway from this as a intermediate player, is that I'm grossly underutilizing awesome sinks. The whole "throw all the ore into the sink when 'off'" is genius.

@colebucket1982 Ай бұрын

24:40 “And that’s it” 😂😂😂

@DOCTORLOL 5 ай бұрын

started waching when the video was out. just finished it. respect for taking the time to make it

@TitaniumDragoonNeo 5 ай бұрын

Let's gooooo Christmas special 🎅

@benwhite24 5 ай бұрын

Man, BEST SATISFACTORY VIDEOS ON YT!!!! Your channel is so, so good..... Totally Outstanding! I cannot wait to see what and how you handle an oil base and Oil power. THANK YOU for all these!

@TobyDK2209 4 ай бұрын

1:54:50 The pipe has no decimals, but the valve has one decimal. At .4 and down you round down, at .5 and up you round up (Basic math)

@tim.dedopulos 5 ай бұрын

Darren, this is masterful / glorious / unhinged / wildly dedicated / extremely impressive. Thank you!! Hope you had a nice holiday time, and travel was gentle to you.

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

My holiday begins tomorrow! Back then on the 31st! And thank you :)

@johanswart9556 8 күн бұрын

Hey Bud, I have a potato PC that in NO WAY OR FORM will be able to play this game. I love following what you do and your effort is noticed. Seriously well done on the planning and execution.

@delroyclarke1989 5 ай бұрын

Love the build 😊 keep it up, watched all the way through 🙌 Merry Christmas

@Mik3yCT 5 ай бұрын

Those staircase signs are amazing! Awesome job! Everything is looking fantastic!

@TheRealOgreBane 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Darren! Love your stuff!

@MCJamZam 5 ай бұрын

Seriously impressive that you (mostly) pre-planned all of this! The build is turning out really really nice, can't wait to see it after a cosmetic pass. Merry Christmas and happy new year Darren, and thanks for this mega-episode to end off the year!

@gemmel3197 5 ай бұрын

I really like you power management implementation. I'm going to use it in my factories.

@RonYacketta 2 ай бұрын

18:25 LOL, love your honesty!

@BlackBull77 5 ай бұрын

Great planning mate. Very happy to see everything working smoothly. Happy holidays

@the_ghost__NL 5 ай бұрын

A 2 hour special couldn't have wished for a better Christmas present 🎁

@nicolasauffret2757 5 ай бұрын

Really cool video ! Congrats on archiving this mega built !

@martinohnenamen6147 5 ай бұрын

Big applause for getting that factory run, master job.

@tommymason9440 4 ай бұрын

Loving the series!

@mickroutledge706 3 күн бұрын

Can't believe you blue balled me on seeing that hot glowing rod enter the hole

@martin2998 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the great content. Really loving the series. More 2 hour episodes please ha ha

@a.abdulaziz1679 5 ай бұрын

wow, what a nice surprize

@shroomzy5000 2 ай бұрын

Hey Darren, you figured out the wire clipping thru floor problem, you just only used it on the ceiling lol use the beams to place wall outlets on floor, thats what i be doing lol

@annieaussie9161 3 ай бұрын

Magnificent! Thank you

@gamingtrucker1940 5 ай бұрын

If you use a beam to cross the gap of the foundation, you can attach a wall outlet to that, makes it look like a floor connection, instead of having the cables going through the floor

@R.o.T. 3 ай бұрын

(unsure if this was realized recently or not) the pit stop for fuel does work, you have to have the station set to load but not have anything in it. you could delete the stop on the truck path, but then the truck wont get the fuel, it has to dock for that

@SMARTZ1985 4 ай бұрын

Priority power switches are like having a remote control anywhere you can tab into mains power you can build an additional switch and turn any other switch on and off. I think this would make it easy to do things like turn off belt locks while standing at the fluid buffers watching for the machines to fill up

@Itz_Ripeyy 4 ай бұрын

Hey Darren I love your factorio playthrough!

@Mako_Shogun 4 ай бұрын

Hi Darren I don't know if it has been mentioned or if you know, but there is a way to take care of the outlet from the floor to a ceiling to not be a power pole like you are talking about around minute 39 of this video. If you use pillars and stack two on top if each other. So you can see one and one under that then delete the top one you can attach an outlet to the top of the pillar that will be flush with the floor after deleting the top one. 39:12. Then you delete the pillar, and and can put an outlet on the bottom of the foundation directly below then string them together 😊. Hope this helps. Excellent work otherwise

@nbroadsword 4 ай бұрын

It's bigger than expected because its a grower, not a show-er, Darren.

@notabot1OO1 4 ай бұрын

Your world is lookin' fine! Thanks for such quality content 💯

@raghavagrawal52 5 ай бұрын

Woahhh! Thanks darren

@XeridoxVisualArts 5 ай бұрын

20:24 "Split Happens" ... I just found that really funny lol. Great video btw! I'm considering doing some vids on Satisfactory myself... I agree, lumen does look really good, except for the shadows...they're just too dark I think.

@JigglyTof 5 ай бұрын

Hey Darren! Regarding why your trucks are stopping at the Coal truck station, it’s because of the way recording the routes works. Basically, when you record Truck paths, you don’t actually have to stop and press the unload/load key, you only have to go through the « bounding » box of the truck station, and it will automatically create a « Stop node » for the truck. This is why they are stopping at the Coal (refuel) Truck Station. To prevent them from stopping, all you have to do is hop on all of your trucks, show the paths, physically walk to the yellow stop sign under the truck station, interact with it, and delete it. They should still get refuelled, but they won’t stop.

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I was actually experimenting with this, and once I noticed the node I removed it…. However it seems the trucks try to avoid the bounding box of the station, trying to go around or glitching through it, so I think I’ll probably just feed the coal over to the other stations, or, just let them stop on their way in as they seem to form a queue anyways which is fine, i was more worried they’d collide at the entrance or block it.

@JigglyTof 5 ай бұрын

⁠Hum, that’s weird. Could it be because removing the stop node now creates a slightly different path and the interpolation between the previous and next node makes it a bigger turn? To be honest I’m just speculating at this point. Trucks seem to work best when we are not looking at them unfortunately. Anyway, keep up the good work!

@jacksonquinn1472 5 ай бұрын

I’ve never felt more betrayed when you hyped up the animation and then walked away XD

@nehtomal 3 ай бұрын

I havent finished all the videos yet, but I would be interested in a cosmetic focused video !

@mohammedm.hussien1751 5 ай бұрын

The best Christmas present I’ve received yet

@AndreLuis-gj7yb 5 ай бұрын

Great video as always

@BluntAsh 5 ай бұрын

I've been watching since your old satisfactory save. Congrats on the sponsor!

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@waltdickerson5212 4 ай бұрын

You can manage the power lines a lot easier with priority power switches. Just run a main power line through the factory. Then put a priority power switch at each branch to the refinery block. The "A" circuit goes back to the main power line and the "B" circuit to the refinery block. You can then manage the priority power switches from any other priority power switch and turn off the switches remotely. It will allow you to eliminate all those power lines and blueprints for lines.

@paulorandolph3212 5 ай бұрын

I love his narration 😂. Its like listening to a a building contractor reading his fanfic at me 🤣

@arthurod44 5 ай бұрын

amazing work

@emile4249 5 ай бұрын

Everything looks great. Makes me wanna play again. ❤

@shimo_96 4 ай бұрын

To address the fluid buffers at the bottom of the build that don't fill until the top ones are full; this I think is because buffers fill according to head lift, so if there isn't head lift, the buffer will fill and its providing head lift will increase and cap at its max when its full. If there is head lift, the buffer will not fill until there is no more room in the rest of the system after it.

@benwhite24 5 ай бұрын

OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@leonidiakovlev 4 ай бұрын

Really nice with the Power Control Room :)

@lordeath008 5 ай бұрын

Holy damn, looks like the Death Star with Global Illumination! AWESOME!!

@LightningA98 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! :D

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Same to you! Happy New Year!

@user-kw1ph5wu4s 5 ай бұрын

I must admit I've been using your saves and blueprints for gaming for the last few days. Thank you very much 👍

@raelynne79 5 ай бұрын

So, the truck thing: if you drive even close to another station, you need to go back and delete that node before you save the route or it tries to pick up or drop off at every opportunity, not just the ones you planned. Super annoying and means you have to drive every route twice (especially if you're trying to do nice one way systems for your vehicles) because those nodes don't show up until you've completed the path. That said, I am in awe of the scope and planning of your builds. My current strategy is "as small as I can get away with" and "we'll finish the aesthetics later". Happy Christmas!

@samshaw5014 13 күн бұрын

I did not realize you could use the nobelisk to clear regular rocks! When v1.0 comes out, I'm going to be SO on top of my game. btw- if you aren't new to the game, would there be a better place to land other than that first area? On one hand, it is the place I'm most familiar with, but on the other hand, materials at the other locations are supposed to be better...

@chrisnicol2851 5 ай бұрын

Loving the build, yes the colours should represent the usage. I think you should start running global illumination now, looks good! Also it shouldn’t be B for basement but G or GF for ground floor or GL ground level.

@millertime08 5 ай бұрын

I tried building a warehouse with a row of truck stations, I had a similar issue where tractors driving past a truck station would automatically load/unload. I got annoyed with that (and their incessant getting stuck / physics glitching) and deleted the whole thing lol (using trains now instead... love that they have an actual rail forcing them to behave) edit: by the way, thanks for this holiday-time episode! you're amazing, and all your hard work is very appreciated! hope 2024 is a great year for you

@PHErholt 3 ай бұрын

A little late, but if you turn on nodes you can delete the stop node

@MeneghetteMmcs 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Darren, love u

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Merry Christmas!

@supercolonygame 5 ай бұрын

This series slowly reminds me of Wall-e. All these factories, empty roads for a single person and their trucks.

@laslorousseau2647 26 күн бұрын

Thx a lot!

@momerathe 5 ай бұрын

Man, those are the neatest power cables I have ever seen.

@PUREbecoming 5 ай бұрын

For the algorithm! Love the content.

@CaioAletroca 5 ай бұрын

Good to see you tackle the lighting. I'm in my first playthough, not following you but picking inspiration in your builds. For now there's only one type of ceiling light and it sucks, and the popular mod that adds more lights doesn't work with Lumen. I went with the metal beam across the ceiling and display attached to it, no power and no extra nasty wires on top of it. And a plus that the metal beam painted as deep black looks like conduit, makes the ceiling more busy.

@IainB 5 ай бұрын

TWO HOURS! LET'S GO!!!!!

@bennievaneeden2720 4 ай бұрын

I feel like a few episodes back he said we're gonna do a few small factories and then proceeds to build a single factory thats bigger than all mine combined

@Jepper482 4 ай бұрын

Hi Darren i love your videos. I just build the first 32 coal generators of the coal power plant but the pipes that go through the ceiling into the generators keeps on breaking. If it’s running after some time there won’t go any water through those parts anymore. But when I replace one of them the three generators in that line will go back on. Do you know how to fix that?

@SamaelPoisons 3 ай бұрын

You can remove the light rays by typing "pool.light.lightshaft.count 0" in the console. You can also add it in the engine file to make it permanent.

@pietroruggiero2872 5 ай бұрын

Hey Darren are you going to fix the belts that you place fast when building the truck stations?

@thomashenry4798 5 ай бұрын

I like it when things are darker, I used to work in datacenters as a security guard and I like the massive dark building vibe.

@cryswhyle 5 ай бұрын

Darren: "It's actually relatively simple." My brain: 🤯

@PhrazeMuzik 5 ай бұрын

Instead of painted beams for cable runners, use small signs to indicate what the cable powers.

@cypher759 5 ай бұрын

I Think the Copper-Caterium factory could as well make oil with all the space. to get the oil to the build you might put the pipes under the road.

@KAS-do8yz 5 ай бұрын

sub is confirmed.. this elevator is looking crazy with global illumination.. 🤯

@theos1716 5 ай бұрын

Gg for all your work

@ceratch 5 ай бұрын

Great video - thanks... one question - wouldnt it be more easy to start delivering all goods (water and the belts) so all belts are backfilled and than start the machine? so it sould get faster to 100%?

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

No, water needs to be delivered first. I’d have to write a very long and complicated answer but the way water works in the games means that if the pipes arent full, the flow rate wont be as fast as it should be. Also, the capacity of water is 50 per machine, so if 5 machines consume 200 lets say, but also have 50 capacity each, what ends up happening is that you only fill the first machine intermittently and not the others. You’d only ever fill them if tou made more water than they consumed, and even then itd take very long time. So you want to “prime” machines by filling the water first, fully filling the inventory of each machine and the pipes too. Then activate the belts

@ceratch 5 ай бұрын

@@WhatDarrenPlayssure first water, than the steel or what was it? and after both is delivered and in stock switching on the machines? wouldnt it be faster with the distribution in that way? not sure just was wondering. never mind - i enjoy your satisfactory so much! have a good time

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Machines can’t recieve anything if they are off, that’s why we gotta go through this two stage approach

@1stSlug Ай бұрын

I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger voice when Darren said: "Release the copper".

@user-gx6gv7jm5t 4 ай бұрын

I’m like this looks cool maybe I should start my own (shows underneath) maybe not

@ircey 5 ай бұрын

When will there be a save file for this part? Looks amazing!

@D1vergentTv 5 ай бұрын

how do you make your cinimatic shots?????

@meteorstormz8224 5 ай бұрын

you can technically put power outlet on floor by putting a painted beam instead of the foundation snap the outlet on it and change back the beam for a foundation and you are good to go :p

@WhatDarrenPlays 5 ай бұрын

Its as easy as that! :P

@PHErholt 3 ай бұрын

A little late, but if you turn on nodes you can delete the stop node on truck stations

@kronosestarfinder9574 5 ай бұрын

Next update I'd love to see a belt and pipe level so you could make sure your belts are level as your building logistics floors if there isnt a mod for it already

@lauhic677 Ай бұрын

thanks

@naixguy Ай бұрын

Heytch heytch..gotta be Canadian!

@WhatDarrenPlays Ай бұрын

I ain’t Canadian friend!

@joedunning6973 4 ай бұрын

How do you guarantee that your trucks deliver a steady and never ending stream of copper so your factory doesnt run out for any period of time? What are the numbers being delivered?

@WhatDarrenPlays 4 ай бұрын

Simple: Let's say a miner is making 780 per minute filling a truck station. A truck arrives, picks up material, and then drives onto the factory. As long as the truck loads everything out of the truck station, then you know that you're delivering 780 per minute consistently. The other check is that the truck station should never fill up completely. It's capacity is 4800, so it should never hit 4800 because that means the miner(s) aren't operating. You can also check that the miner is running at 100% productivity. If its not, it means your throughput has fallen. And that's it. If you have either of those issues, you just add another truck to the same route.