22 guides
Satisfactory guides
From using the planner to comparing recipes, planning power and closing loops — every guide follows the real game data and the solved numbers.
Using the planner
- Your First Production Plan — A Guided Tour of the PlannerEnter a target rate in the Satisfactory production planner, read the resources, buildings, power and flow it returns, then save, share and export the plan to Excel.
- Choosing Alternate Recipes — Reading Output per Machine, per MW and per IngredientCompare output per machine, output per MW and output per ingredient using the real numbers behind the standard and alternate Iron Plate recipes.
- Planning Power — From Coal to Fuel to Nuclear, Fuel Chain IncludedCompare the output and fuel consumption of coal, fuel and nuclear generators, and plan power together with the mining, refining, water supply and waste each option brings.
- When to Use Somersloops and Power Shards — Double Output and What It CostsCompare Somersloops and Power Shards by output multiplier, ingredient consumption, building count, units required and clock-adjusted power draw.
- Working with the Excel Export — Six Sheets and How to Migrate Your Own SpreadsheetUse the six sheets of the Excel export for construction, item balance, extraction and logistics, and migrate safely from a spreadsheet you built yourself.
- Getting Coal Power Running — Building Around a 600 MW Block of EightThe fuel and water ratios of the Coal-Powered Generator, how to size mining, water and belts around a block of eight generators, and how the numbers shift when you switch to Compacted Coal or Petroleum Coke.
- Oil Products, From the Ground Up — Plastic, Rubber, Fuel and Where the Residue GoesThe ratios of the standard Crude Oil chains for Plastic, Rubber and Fuel, and a side-by-side comparison of the three outlets for the Heavy Oil Residue you cannot avoid producing.
- The Aluminum Chain — Three Stages, and Balancing Water Against SilicaThe three-stage chain from Bauxite to Aluminum Ingot broken down into per-minute rates, what to do with the Water the line gives back, where to source Silica, and how to read the power and resource caps.
- AWESOME Sink Points — Deciding What to Sink From the DataHow sink points are assigned, what an aggregate of every recipe says about how much one more production step is worth, and what the multiplier looks like across a whole chain from raw ore.
- Clock Speed and 100% Efficiency — Why Power Scales as the 1.32 PowerWhat over- and underclocking actually do to power draw, the three ways the planner turns a fractional machine count into real buildings, and when a Power Shard is worth its power cost.
- Reading the Build List — What to Build and How ManyHow to read the build list: machine counts per step, recipes and clock speeds, belt and pipe tiers, and the per-section and overall totals.
- The Strongest Alternate Recipes and When to Use Them — Ore, Buildings and Power Compared with Real NumbersPure Iron Ingot, Steel Screws, Solid Steel Ingot, Wet Concrete, Diluted Fuel, Fused Quickwire and other high-impact alternates, compared with the standard recipes at the same output: ore saved, buildings saved, power added, plus how to use them in the planner and when they backfire.
Loop setups
- How the Complete Oil Recycling Loop Works and How to Build It300 per minute each of Plastic and Rubber, with Fuel circulating between the two halves of a fully closed recycling loop.
- How the Aluminum Refining Water Loop Works and How to Build It120 Aluminum Ingot per minute, reusing the Water that the Aluminum Scrap step sends back upstream.
- How the Packaged Diluted Fuel Canister Loop Works and How to Build It120 Fuel per minute: package the Water, then recover the Empty Canisters after dilution and use them again.
- How the Battery Water Loop Works and How to Build It60 Battery per minute, returning the Water produced along the way to the Alumina Solution step.
Power setups
- How Diluted Fuel Power Works and How to Build It2,500 MW, following Crude Oil through Heavy Oil Residue and Diluted Fuel into Fuel-Powered Generators.
- How Turbofuel Power Works and How to Build It2,000 MW, using the power chain that turns Compacted Coal and Fuel into Turbofuel.
- How a Uranium-Only Nuclear Plant Works and How to Build It5,000 MW from Uranium Fuel Rod alone: the smallest nuclear setup, and the one where the Uranium Waste has to be stored.
- How Reprocessing Uranium Waste into Plutonium Fuel Works and How to Build It5,000 MW with every bit of Uranium Waste reprocessed into Plutonium Fuel Rod and burned, so that only Plutonium Waste remains.
- How a Closed Nuclear Loop with Ficsonium Works and How to Build It5,000 MW with Plutonium Waste turned into Ficsonium Fuel Rod and burned as well, so that no nuclear waste is left at all.
- How Simplified Nuclear Power with Alternate Recipes Works and How to Build It2,500 MW of nuclear power built from alternate recipes, so the uranium chain never touches Sulfuric Acid and runs on belts alone.