I recently spent a bunch of time hunting for drives and you really get to enjoy all the beautiful biomes. Plus grab spheres and sloops along the way.

Got so many drives that I ran out of recipes to unlock! I’m at Tier 8 and haven’t even hit the hard drive achievement. This is great since I now have a lot of options for how to use different areas of the map that were previously gonna be a pain because a resource was far. The alts mean I don’t need some things or can produce a lot more of something that was sparse.

It’s an alt recipe, so you’d need to unlock it with a hard drive roll first.

Oh, boy! You’re in fire a treat. This thing is amazing. Enjoy!

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Pipeline_Manual.pdf

I solved this by putting a valve on the extractor water near the junction to limit it and prevent back flow. I also reduced the extractor to the correct amount, though I don’t think that’s necessary.

IIRC, this is also the solution in the FICSIT Pipeline Manual. It’s always worth another read through!

I just want to say: you aren’t alone! This is my first time through and everything was going mostly good until I finished T7. Now it feels very overwhelming.

What part is overwhelming for you?

My biggest issue is the factory has gotten quite spread out and items are being created and split up and going to different places. So even if I know I’m making enough cable or copper sheets, I don’t know that a given line actually has enough. The organic growth that was happening has hit a wall and I need a new strategy.

Feels like my options are:

1. Overprovision everything so I guarantee there’s enough everywhere.
2. Figure out a new plan. :-)

#1 feels like it’s a stop gap and it’s just turning this from a now problem into a later, harder problem.

So, I’ve started roaming the map again grabbing spheres, sloops, and drives. I’ve also made some smelting BPs and tapped a bunch of nodes. Thinking I’ll ship those ingots somewhere and get some new production lines going. Dunno if I want to do mega base or smaller factories. It’s a beautiful world, so that’s been fun.

I’ve also started watching some YouTube vids, but It’s not been as helpful as I hoped. When someone with 6000 hours builds something, there’s a ton of internalized thinking happening that you don’t hear and that’s the stuff I need/want.

So, I’ll just start experimenting soon with all those ingots I’m producing and see what happens.