Stay Organized
It’s tempting to build what the Satisfactory community refers to as rat-tail factories–a long, endless string of machines connecting to machines. But that’s not sustainable. You’ll find a pair of pure iron nodes near that Rocky Desert starting point, for example. Eventually you’ll have Mk3 Miners on each, and those will lead to multiple Smelters, which will lead to Constructors producing iron plates, iron rods, and screws, which will lead to assemblers producing reinforced plates, leading to more Constructors producing modular frames, and so on, and you’ll need multiple machines producing some of those, or overclocked machines pumping them out at breakneck pace.
Laying all those machines on the ground is possible, but it quickly becomes harder to decipher than one of those “networking nightmare” photos where hundreds of cables are all jumbled together without labels. By the time you make it through the Tier 2 milestone, you have all the tools you need to really start building your factory in earnest, and that’s when you’ll want to start thinking about longer-term organization.
