Amendments: With the addition of blueprints, you can now you make complex railroad supports in the blueprint machine and very easily apply them to your rail network.

Forget a guide to making rails. This should be a guide to making guides. The video chapters, slow speaking pace, lack of stuttering/backtracking, visual representation with colors....it's all so clean and easy to follow. Really great work!

This is not only the best rail guide I've watched by far, this is one of the best guides I've ever seen for any game period. You should be proud of this guide. I'm just starting to lay down tracks for my train network, that I honestly was not looking forward too because it seemed complicated. This guide is just what I needed.

I know nothing about trains, then watched this. I made this timestamp list for myself but feel free to pin it for others. 3:25 Attaching pillars to suspended track 5:20 Placing Stations 8:42 Segments 10:11 Organic Rails Across Open Terrain 12:34 Minimum Incline 13:46 Smooth Seamless Inclines 14:15 Minimum Bridge Height 15:55 Inclined Turn 17:25 Max Turn Limit 18:10 45 Degree Turns (While placing a foundation look down at another foundation hold Ctrl, and Scroll Mouse Wheel, will rotate the foundation using the one under it as an anchor. Use this method to rotate your 2 meter foundation the slack normally for an "almost" bump free 45 incline, this requires only one additional step and doesn't need the painted beam) 20:50 Smallest U-Turn 23:15 Simple Intersections 23:50 Branching Rails 25:13 Complex Intersections 28:10 Signal Placement 29:30 4 Way Intersection with Signals 29:40 The Roundabout 34:38 Roundabout with all Signals 37:52 Small Roundabout 2 direction 38:43 Clip Foundation to Rail Trick

Very helpful as always 🙂 Regarding trains slowing down before signals, you can actually avoid that: - Moving trains do actually not just check the next block signal, they check ALL the block signals that are within their current braking distance. This means that a heavy train going 200 kmh (the highest speed any automated train by now is allowed to reach) will check block signals much further ahead than a empty train doing 50 kmh. So the train always looks ahead far enough, so that it can properly (without cheating physics) come to a stop in front of the next red signal/station. A block signal sstandard setting is green. So unless something is blocked, a series of block signals wont stop a train from maintaining 120 kmh. A path signal standard setting is red. Trains treat it as red signal and as such begin to brake in sufficient distance to come to a full stop. Since it it a good idea to place block signals regularly, the train often will already begin to brake even though it has several green block signals ahead, just so that it could stop in front of the (red) path signal if it has to: This often leads to a slowdown, because the braking distance of the train is often longer than the distance between the block and the path signal: Scenario: Lets assume equal signal distance and a braking distance of 4 signals: Block Signal Block Signal Block Signal Block Signal Block Signal Path Signal Block Signal Block Signal - all signals in braking distance are green, maintain speed Block Signal - Path signal is counted as red, beginning to brake Block Signal - braking Block Signal - braking Block Signal - The request for a path is only send once the train passed the last block signal in front of the path signal. Only now, the path signal will check the path and turn green. Path Signal - now turning green, train accelerates again Block Signal To avoid trains slowing down, the distance between the last block signal and the path signal, has to be longer than the braking distance of the train. Then the green path signal can be requested in time and the train will keep running at full speed. :-)

Toasters might be my 2nd favorite kitchen appliance now...

This is gold. It is criminally underappreciated. Where is 3rd part? ;)

Satisfactory never kept my attention long enough before to get to the point of planning (much complexity in the later game). This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

This has been the first rail guide that has finally made sense to me! Thanks for being so straightforward and helpful

man i wish i had this guide when i started building my railroad network a few months ago, i learnt all the topics you talked about in your videos (path vs block, intersection) though sheer blood and tears and 30+ hours of trial and error

You sound just like Josh from Let's game it out, it is like he has 2 channels, one where me makes games suffer and the other where he does the literal opposite. Either way thank you for this series, I've been struggling with trains lately

These have been so full of information, and have seriously helped me so much in my solo world!! I lost it at the Hypocrite Alert XD I really hope to see your channel take off dude, Quality Content!!

you, sir, are the reason i love my train network i just started it, but with your guides it was really easy! thank you for your work! your videos have a really high level of entertainment. if all of what we see in the videos is from your savegame, i would love a tour through your world

Dude, I'm the kind of guy who loves consistency, and the measurements you laid out work in my brain perfectly. I am going to make the best train lines ever, thanks to your measurements. Ohhhh it'll be soooo gooooood

Bro this guy is a legend

honestly, of all the guides i've watched on the topic of making railroad intersections, this one made me understand it the best, so thank you for this video!

I was getting insane trying to figure it out how to make inclined railroads. Thanks!

Thank you very much! I despaired of the roundabout before. With you detailed explanation for the "Fully Funtional Roundabout" it was really easy and it has also a lot of connection points for train rails coming in or going out. You saved my day! 👍👍👍

how the f does this only have 85 likes, most useful video for train rails i have ever seen thank you man!

Thanks Toaster for making yet another very informative and excellent video. Please continue making videos about Satisfactory.

You can make a "tiny" 4-way unholy roundabout by entering at the main compass points and exiting at intercardinals for example enter at East and exit at South-West. This will make it fit all directions but it will not ne centered or if you center the exits, it looks funky, and yes, the entrances and exits will corss over each other

Dude thank you so much, couldn't find a video to figure out how the path signals worked and you did it perfectly in one screenshot!

Best satisfatory tutorial i have ever seen , great work .

Wow… the visualizations are extremely precise and provide the highest level of clarity while also leaving absolutely no room for misinterpretation. Not that my rating matters, but 10/10 guide, my guy. I genuinely appreciate this.

Great guide and your deadpan humor is awesome. I loved when you shot up the rails in frustration, lol. You got my sub!

Excellent video. Lot's of good information presented in a way that accommodates my ADD.

I'm glad to see someone created a video of everything I learnt throught trial and error with trains. Good work.

Holy shit this guide is amazing. It's so comprehensive without being overly complicated by using a bunch of game jargon that confuses everything and not being explained well enough. While I understand trains are amazing I really have hated them, up until now. I'm stoked to plan out my new and improved line using these awesome mechanics. Very well done.

Jfc. The mini rant about the 90 degree turn at 15 min mark is the reason I'm here. Building an actual rail network (vs just point to point that I've been using to learn things) for the first time and that has been frustrating me to no end. Glad to know that's just the way it is and it's not me being bad at measuring things. Thank you

This is the greatest tutorial ever for building "organic" rail lines I have ever seen, holy moly! Every time I start a new save it always dies around setting up a rail network - Making the train stations is easy. Making the intersections is crisp and technical. But connecting the pieces across country through the terrain? Hours of headache until I just give up. This is going to change everything!!

Almost 250 hours into Satisfactory and THIS is the video I've been hunting for. Thank you so much!!

After searching for "Train/Railroad Guide for Satisfactory" in KZfaq, and got the ever-ending STATION GUIDE, I found this GEM, Thanks a lot.

Excellent - the clearest and to straightest to the point video on rails I've seen - now to rip up the abomination it took me hours to complete...

Coming from Factorio I really wanted to get my hands on the railway system, to the point where my friends started calling me the fat conductor because I was always going on about trains and I am pretty bulky. I'd read up on the differences between Factorio's and Satisfactory's signal systems, and I didn't think it'd be too complex to set up. When I finally tried it out in a private test world, I think I quit within 5 minutes of fiddling with rails because of the amount of jank involved. I'm grateful I persevered though, and figured out ways to build more consistently, and I loved this video because I learned a lot, especially about inclines and ramps. That being said, I think it's a very poorly-made game mechanic, and needs some tlc.

Toaster, these vids are amazing! kudos to the work, information and great funny delivery ! :D

3 days of 4-5 hour sessions and watching all of your videos at 3 times each i was finally able to create trains that work. Thank you so much.

Thnx, this helps alot. especially the organic railroad.

Excellent tutorial! Diagrams and construction is shown in a consistent manner. Other like-topic videos take to long to get to a point; frequently go off topic; and, worst, use the game camera as a pointing tool that can only result in motion sickness for those susceptible to such. Keep up the good work! Other KZfaq gamer could learn a thing or two from this video to make their creations better.

Can't wait for part three! Great videos btw. Love the detail and humor

I love the detail you go into and how many examples and charts you show. This is the best Satisfactory guide series I've found, thank you so much!

"Just get on with it." Awesome.

Excellent as always! Cudos.

By far one of the best methods of tutorials (imo not just limited to satisfactory). Hope to see more of such series, maybe with other games too! The editing is top notch and keep the light humor in the videos :P Waiting to see you blow up some day. Best of luck man!!

Great Video, Thanks for making it.

I have not played since update 3, and i restarted last week with update 7 and a new mega factory thanks for the train guides, since there were significant changes in the train system, this helped me a lot, even as a player with 700+ hours

I really do wish I cld do more than just lik this video. I'm building my first rail network (finally! A game I can be proud of!!!) And this is making I possible

This was incredibly helpful and enlightening, thank you.

This guide earned you the immediate follow, like, and subscribe, ring the bell, etc. I don't have rumble, but my man, this guide is a life saver!

These videos have been so helpful - really looking forward to Part 3!

Very thorough tutorial. Thank you very much. I was wondering how the junktions work with the implementation of signals, but you cleared that up for me. Appreciate you :)

I just randomly found your account! I can't believe you're only at 2k subs, but you still produce such well-thought-out videos. This whole series was/is insanely helpful - and it's become my go-to video if I ever need to refresh my knowledge about something regarding trains. Keep the good quality coming, and you'll go places, mate! You're awesome!:D

i have actually never seen your channel before but this was exactly the video i needed for starting my train network. You just got an extra sub for this great guide. Keep making these great guides they are extremely useful.

I have been searching so long to find this video again. This is the best guide for getting the rail turns right. I am so glad I found it again. Saving it to a playlist now ^^

superb!

Nice guide!

This video is sooo good and a great help to make proper rail networks in satisfactory... Thank you for all the valuable info presented in the easiest way to understand.

Thank you

GD dude this video is amazing! Hands down the best tutorial video. And the signs! Priceless. Thank you so much for the work you put into this video. ❤️

tons of great info here! excited to work it into my railways. thanks for sharing this wealth of info. best of luck be efficient

I just found out about your three part guide and it is by far the best one out there! You explain things so well with good humour in there. Looking forward to future stuff and liked and subbed ofc :)

Been playing with rail for a while now, needed a quick refresher and saw this. Very well done. I actually watched the full video as there are a lot of items tossed in that I never knew about, especially the parts about attaching foundations and stuff to rails themselves.

This might be one of the best guide video's I've seen so far! I watched it from start to finish when I encountered the exact problem at 14:55 after 2 hours of trial and error and went completely mental because I couldn't get it right, and didn't know what was wrong! Thank you for all the time and clear instructions. This will give me a real boost in creating my first rail network! Awesome job!

thx , that was just what i needed.......

I'm barely over 100hrs in and now completely regret everything I did to make my railways work. Thanks for the insight and the existential crisis of redoing it all 👍

Funny, very informative and nice to watch. Many thanks to your effort! GREAT JOB 💪

thank you

best video i found so far, just unlocked trains and slapped some track down to play and see what i can do and now im stuck with a load on the train, but your video was super informative and will use what i learned here, cant wait to see what else you have in store for me. thanks

It's been said below, but this is an amazing guide (as are the other parts in this series). To the point, tons of info, great examples, perfectly illustrative visuals, and a few jokes to keep it fun without being too wordy. This must have been a ton of work, but this was one of the best guides I've seen for any game. Good show, sir.

You could use pillars to place power connections beneath rail segments too

Just unlocked the train a few days ago.....bless god i found your video...the game is just so silly in terms of building tracks....I spend too much hours fixing crazy looking curves....

Great video! Bonus roundabout, instead of 9x9 you can make a 7x7 but have to make the traffic flow the oposite direction on the roundabout, so... go left!

Well, OK - this was not only incredible useful, but also perfectly narrated and presented. I tried building a Train Network with Update 5, but quickly quit that endeavour because of the shown flaws. You made me wanna give it another try.

nice and complex :)

this video is very good. thanks for it. wish u had time to keep making satisfactory content :)

For the record, the toaster is my second most favorite kitchen appliance. Okay, yes, I love my air fryer, but it's in storage ATM. I miss it, but even if I had it I would be using my toaster more anyway.

Dude... this is the best video on trains ever. The code behind the railway building system is awful and gave me a fear of the trains in this game, but your video has given me the encouragement to try trains out. Thanks man, I will now build a passenger train from one part of the map to the other, just to test the waters. EDIT: Finished the train and it's really cool, game changing! Thanks for the in depth help!

I want to add a couple of useful pieces of info - For S Bends, the minimum distance between straights varies with how much of an offset we're talking about. These distances are grid axis, not point to point. For a 8m offset (1 foundation), the minimum distance is 23m (3 foundations minus a meter). For a 16m offset (2 foundations), the minimum distance is 33m (4 foundations plus a meter). For a 24m offset (3 foundations), the minimum distance is 40m (5 foundations even). For a 32m offset (4 foundations), the minimum distance is 45m (5 foundations plus 5 meters). For a 40m offset (5 foundations), the minimum distance is 49m (6 foundations plus 1 meters). For a 48m offset (6 foundations), the minimum distance is 51m (6 foundations plus 3 meters). For a 56m offset (7 foundations), the minimum distance is 52m (6 foundations plus 4 meters). For a 64m offset (8 foundations), the minimum distance is 53m (6 foundations plus 5 meters). For a 72m offset (9 foundations), the minimum distance is 53m (6 foundations plus 5 meters). Not an error. For a 80m offset (10 foundations), the distance is too long for a single track to connect. I wouldn't be surprised if these can be effected by the same little glitch that you have with 90 degree bends, so maybe add a meter or two to all of them where it matters. Or round up to the nearest whole foundation. So - 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 foundations. Edit - Oh, also there's a few particular blueprints I find to be really handy. Make yourself a pair of opposing 45 degree bends and a 90 degree bend that's comprised of the two 45s. They don't connect when you place them, but they're still really good to help you quickly and easily get the spacing and such.

This is like those Wprk training videos. However, useful and funny

my dude really delivered. like and comment for the algorithm people he deserves it #notapaidactor

nice vids !

VERY Helpfull. I think the best Train building guide i have seen so far, and i have seen a few :) And now i know why i cannot get those 3x3 turns to work :)

38:42 This, is exactly what I needed. I'd super thanks you when your channel has this feature turned on. Mark my words :)

Great vid! Choo-choo!

Seriously, no, seriously, this is the best train guide. Very well presented too! One caveat I did notice. I tried the "paths on entrances and blocks on exits" and was stumped, as all blocks would work, but adding paths just didn't. What I found out, generally by a lot of shouting and expletives and about an hour or so of weeping, that the 'game' sees an entrance irrespective of direction. So I had to also add path signals to the reverse of the entrance as well - I know I am not explaining it well, but I did put a post on steam about it with a pic. Anyhow, without this guide I wouldn't have got part way through the pain of path signals 😁

TotalXclipse set the bar for Satisfactory tutorials, and you cleared it.

there's also 7x7 roundabout but it's meant for tight rails on 2 foundations

Thanks! This helped me figure out the basics of trains and get further into the game than my previous attempts. One question about the chained inclines though, is that not the same as two 2m ramps ascending one after the other, as opposed to spending 2 foundations to extend, then stack a 2m ramp on a 2m foundation?

When I watched this 3 part video guide, specially with this 3rd one, I was thinking to myself "come on, how hard can it be? it's like conveyor belts but bigger." Oh boy was I wrong... Railways are so annoying to build my will to keep playing hit a brick wall. And building them wasn't where the frustrations ended, they're so slow that you'd have to fill them twice or more as much as you need each trip if you want your factories to never stop.

Great memes with a nice guide attached

STOP SERACHING This is THE TRAIN GUIDE with Path and Block signals illustrated and explained. Jesus man you saved a lot of lives with this one. GG ❤

Great tutorial as usual. One comment though: your turns are not really 3 by 3 foundations. You start at an edge of a foundation (say at the upper edge of the foundation at the bottom of your screen around 27:30 in the video) and you go to the middle of your third foundation (to the left for example, going up only 2.5 foundations and 2.5 foundations to the left), making your turns in fact to be 2.5 by 2.5 foundations. That's why your 90 degree turns between start and end segments won't work. I place my traintracks from the center of a foundation to the center of another foundation. Those are exactly 3 by 3 and those 90 degree turns are possible without any problems. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bt6co9KdzZyyY3U.html

If you want your 90 degree turn to connect to an end segment you need to place both the starter and end segment 1 more space back. So you need a 3x3 L shape, a starter segment that ends 1 space before the L shape and the end segment that begins 1 space past the L shape.

14:55 becasuse if you connect a start and end segment with a turn, it sadly isnt a "sharp and crisp Turn" anymore. I saw that on big Turns i did on my network. Like, did a 180, the first 90 i built Start -> Turn -> End, the second one i built like Start -> End -> Turn, and driving over that felt odd, because the second part the Train suddenly steered just a tiny bit more into the turn -> the angle is steeper, wich explains the error on the shortest possible turn. Laying these Turnbuilding Techniques above each other makes it clear what happens.

Maybe a simpler way of explaining the grid placement on the T- and 4-way intersections is to start with a square grid that is the width of your network, and then add 4 foundations off of each edge of that square.

I can't pay attention to what you're saying because I ceep getting distracted by the funny footage XD

Wow, I feel smarter now.

5:51 This is hilarious!!!

Love these guides, these are full of useful info. Well edited and quite humorous as well. I don’t like a lot of the more popular satisfactory channels, most of them have irritating personalities, I couldn’t imagine myself sitting through a 40minute kibitz video without wanting to noose myself, but after a 40minute Toaster video I’m wanting to see more. Would you consider doing a let’s play series on a new save perhaps?

Hey toaster. Wouldn't it be great to have a simple check box in settings, to default poles to snap to left or right driving for trains.

17:47 this is probably a floating-point thing where it is off by an imperceptible amount