i build focused output dedicated factories so endless spreadsheets aren't needed in my calcs ever, all i ever need is a calculator at best. i know what a main bus is, i just don't believe they are necessary in Satisfactory. i've been playing this game since the Closed Alpha, prior to that i also have a great deal of time in FortressCraft Evolved and a bit into Factorio. When you have a hundred machines on a few hundred foundations, you don't want to have a sudden realisation that you really should have built it all 2 meters higher. A decent-sized coal plant removes that limit, so it's time to start planning a base which will last to the endgame without needing to be torn down. Running on biomass limits how large you can realistically make your base. The 'that'll do for now' approach should end once you have coal power.

But if you've still got a belt of ore on the bus, you can just add another row of smelters and merge the new ingots onto the existing belt. You don't need a belt for iron ore once you've made ingots, right? Well, maybe you'll need more ingots and for whatever reason there isn't space to extend the row any further. If it will (or might) end up going over poison pillars, ensure that it's above the cloud of poison mist. Build the platform high enough to go over every small hill you might encounter. But everything you need is there on the bus, and when you unlock a new recipe you just add another row of smelters/foundries/constructors/assemblers/manufacturers to the end of the bus and another belt to carry the new item. If you need more ingots, you just add more smelters to the row same with anything else.Įventually you need a spreadsheet to keep track of which material is on which belt, and the stacks get so high you take damage if you fall from them. Every time you make something new, the bus gets another belt. Split that off to make iron plates, do it again to make rods, so now the bus has ores, iron ingots, iron plates, and iron rods. So now as well as the ores the bus also contains a belt of iron ingots. Along that belt are splitters, each of which feeds a smelter which feeds a merger, with the merged belt running back towards the bus. Put a splitter on the iron ore belt and run the split-off belt perpendicular to the bus. If you aren't familiar with the concept, you have a multi-lane highway of belts (getting close to 40 belts by the endgame) running straight down the middle of your base. Slower to build (mostly because getting splitters/mergers to be correctly aligned in 3 axes takes forever) but you never need to tear anything down. Originally posted by Kraft51:yeah well tearing down to rebuild a better version is a regular eventOr use a bus layout.

Satisfactory layout