Tutorial:How to play

This page will serve as a basic how to play guide for . Feel free to edit this guide with any tips, tricks, and suggestions.

Basics
Satisfactory is a factory building game, centered about expansion, automation and efficiency. Build and expand your factory to automate the resources required to progress through Milestones, culminating in a fully-upgraded Space Elevator for Project Assembly. As you complete each tier, more game contents are unlocked. The requirements for the next tier become increasingly complex and time-consuming to fulfill, so you are advised to expand your factory to produce the required parts automatically and efficiently.

Player controlled game character, the engineer land on the alien planet named MASSAGE-2(A-B)b with only basic tools to build The HUB. The game narrator ADA provides guides throughout the Tier 0, while Tier 1 to Tier 7 are left for the player to explore. Game contents are mostly unlocked at Milestones and Researches. Milestones, in turn, are unlocked at Space Elevator. Additional contents are unlocked at AWESOME Shop.

There are collectibles scattered around the World which increases factory efficiency, such as Power Slugs and Hard Drives. There are hostile creatures guarding these resources. Combat and exploration are also part of the game play. There is no peace mode in the vanilla game.

= Guide = Satisfactory is an open-ended game. As there is no actual 'Win' condition, players are not required to strictly follow this guide.

Game start

 * At the main menu, have a look at all the controls, video and audio settings. Adjust where necessary.
 * Tick 'Enable experimental subtitle', this allows easier detection of hostile creatures.
 * For running around without the need to hold down every time, un-tick 'Hold to sprint'.
 * Start a New Game.
 * There are 4 starting areas to choose from. They are all connected in the Same world. Free to choose any.
 * For the purpose of this guide, select the 4th - Rocky Desert.
 * Other than the visual difference of the biomes, all starting areas are about the same gameplay difficulty.
 * Enter the session name. Tick 'Friends Only' for hosting multiplayer or leave it as 'Private' for single player.
 * You are advised not tick 'Skip Intro' at the bottom right.
 * Tick only when you are already familiar with the early game, which can save you about tens of minutes of gameplay time.
 * A intro movie will play. Wait for it to end.
 * The intro movie can be skipped by pressing and click 'SKIP INTRO'.
 * In the cut scene, the engineer picks up the Build Gun walks out of the drop-pod.
 * At the start, most of the control keys are locked. As you progress, they will be unlocked progressively.
 * Use to move. Use Mouse to look around.
 * The game narrator ADA will advise you the current objective. Pressing will skip her dialogues.
 * Avoid skipping ADA's dialogues.
 * Have a look at the game's UI.
 * At the bottom right is the shortcut keys, they are updated according to your current keybindings.
 * In this guide, default keybindings will be referred.
 * At the lower left is the engineer's (the game character) health. The health is 100 HP and is divided into 10 segment.
 * You will soon encounter your first combat so keep an eye on it.
 * At the top left is the game version.
 * For multiplayer session, all clients must own the same version of the game as the host to be able to join the game.
 * At the middle left is the current objective as advised by ADA.
 * At the top is the compass.
 * There exist a Map but it is unlocked at much later game stage. Progress through Quartz Research to unlock it.
 * Look around with the mouse. You can see the drop-pod is indicated on the compass.
 * Press to enter dismantle mode.
 * Aim at the drop-pod. It will be highlighted in orange. This means it is targeted to be dismantled.
 * At the center of the screen is the returned items upon dismantle. Usually it is equal to the building cost.
 * In this game, all buildings are 100% refundable.
 * Below the center of the screen is a list of additional control keys.
 * Hold down while aiming a building to dismantle.
 * Press or  or  to cancel dismantle.
 * During dismantle mode, the edge of the screen blinks in red.
 * After the drop-pod is dismantled, the HUB Parts are added to the engineer's inventory.
 * Open the engineer's inventory . Have a look at the UI.
 * There 2 items in the inventory slot: the HUB Parts, and the Xeno-Zapper, which the starter melee weapon.
 * 16 inventory slots are available at the start. Additional slots can be unlocked later.
 * At the bottom left is the sort button. Click this to sort the items.
 * At the bottom middle is the trash slot. Dragging items into it will delete the item permanently.
 * Do not use it now.
 * At the right is the character equipment slot.
 * 1 body slot and 1 hand slot is available at the start.
 * Additional hand slots can be unlocked later. The body slot, however, is limited to 1 slot only.
 * + the Xeno-Zapper to equip it in hand. Alternatively, you can drag it, or double-click it to the hand slot.
 * You can click and drag the HUB Parts towards the outside the inventory UI to drop it onto the floor.
 * Dropped items never de-spawn. Useful when ran out of inventory space or when transferring items in multiplayer.
 * Close the inventory window by pressing.
 * Pick up the HUB Parts by looking at it and press.
 * Notice it displays '+1 HUB Parts (1)'. The +1 means the quantity of the item you have gained during the past moments.
 * The number in the parenthesis indicates the quantity of this item in the inventory.
 * You are advised to look for Iron Ore.
 * As you will soon face the danger, first use the ESC menu to save your game.
 * Autosaves are created at 5 minutes interval, up to 3 autosaves. The interval can be adjusted in 'Options'.
 * If somehow the engineer died, press ESC and reload the last save.
 * If you choose not to reload, you can use to respawn. Engineer respawns with 30% health and all items are dropped onto the floor, contained inside the Death Crate.
 * Sometime the engineer may stuck, you can force-kill the engineer by clicking 'RESPAWN' in the Esc menu.
 * There is no limit on how many times can the engineer respawns. There is no Game Over in this game.
 * Press and hold down then release it to scan for Iron Ore.
 * A blue sphere propagates outwards, and 3 pings can be heard. A Resource Scanner always indicates 3 nearest patches of Resource nodes of the selected ore type.
 * 'Ore' refers to the ore item of the resource.
 * 'Node' refer to the disc-shaped terrain feature that produces unlimited amount of ore.
 * 'Deposit' refer to the rocky features that produces a limited amount of ore. Deposits can only be mined manually (default ).
 * 'Patch' refers to a group of similar resource nodes.
 * Their directions and distances are indicated on the compass.
 * Move towards the nearest Iron patch.
 * Use to toggle between run and walk.
 * Run is faster, however it scares Lizard Doggos away, take note when taming Lizard Doggos in the later game.
 * Press for jump,  to crouch.
 * Crouch before jump for higher and longer jump. Crouch while running downhill will perform a slide.
 * You will move across leaves and branches, press to pick them up as you move.
 * You will need a lot of them to produce power for your factory.
 * Generally, pick up anything you come across.
 * Before reaching the destination, one of the following hostile creatures may be encountered:
 * Hog, Spitter or Flying Crab: Read this page for how to defeat it.
 * Alpha Hog or Alpha Spitter You are not ready for killing this boss. Consider reload your last save and avoid passing the same area now.
 * You probably have reached your destination and might have killed the hostile creatures guarding it.
 * You can now start the mining to continue to progress the game, however,
 * For the purpose of the guide, continue move on to the location as indicated in the image.


 * You can use the Resource Scanner to pinpoint this location.
 * There are three iron nodes on the rocky steps in the 2nd image. We will reserve the space in front of it for factory buildings. We will build The HUB just a little bit right of it.
 * The build menu is currently locked until the first Iron Ore is mined.
 * Near the right side of the steps is the Beryl Nut. Pick it up. It is a type of Healing item.
 * Continue Reading: Beryl Nut
 * Go near to the Iron patch and prepare for the first combat, if you have not encounter any.
 * Read Hog to learn how to kill it.
 * Scan for Iron Ore again with.
 * Each Iron nodes is marked with a bright circle. The rocky part on top of that is the resource deposit, which must be manually-mined out before a miner can be built on them.
 * Portable Miners are not affected by these resource deposits.
 * Approach the resource deposit and press while looking at the deposit to start mining. Each will give about tenths up to hundreds of Iron Ore.
 * All resource deposits are 'pure'. They quickly ran out upon mining and never respawn.
 * Repeat until all three Iron deposits are mined out, which the rocky 'tips' are disappeared.
 * You can continue mining by aiming at the Iron node (the flat disk-shaped thing just below the iron deposit), but with a much slower rate.
 * Resource nodes are infinite. Continue reading: Resource Node.
 * At the center of the screen indicates the Iron Ore is 'normal'. This is the node purity which affects the mining speed.
 * About 80 Iron Ores should be enough.
 * Build The HUB below and to the East of the rocky stage.
 * Open build menu . Click on 'The HUB' to select its hologram. Aim at a flat ground. Use wheel to rotate it.  again to confirm the build.
 * At the center is the building cost of the building. It displays '1 HUB Parts'.
 * As there is only 1 HUB Parts in a game, it is not possible to build more than 1 HUB in a game.
 * If you attempt to build more than one, it displays 'Can't Afford! You can only build one!'
 * The HUB - foundation is built. Now there is series of objectives to accomplish to complete the HUB building.

Tier 0-1

 * Go onto the HUB, at the center is a Craft Bench. Interact to use it.
 * Observe the various items that you can craft.
 * To close the Craft Bench UI, press.
 * At its opposite is the HUB Terminal. Interact to use it.
 * In its UI you can see a selection of Milestones available to unlock. Select 'Tier 0' then click at 'Hub Upgrade 1'. Click 'Select Milestone' to confirm.
 * Read Milestones for a complete list.
 * It prompt you to input 10 Iron Rods to complete the milestone. Close the UI by pressing.
 * Notice the milestone requirement is displayed at the top-right of the game screen.
 * Open the Craft Bench again and select the Iron Rod. Its option is greyed out, and displays 'Can't Afford Recipe'.
 * Mouse pointing the icon below the 'Cost'. This means an Iron Rod requires 1 Iron Ingot to craft.
 * Craft at least 10 Iron Ingots. Select it, click at the craft button and hold down to craft 10 of it.
 * You may also press for crafting. Find some heavy gadget such as a mobile phone to press on your keyboard space key. Useful for AFK crafting.
 * For convenience, craft all the Iron Ingot you can afford, consuming all the Iron Ores you own.
 * With the amount of Iron Ingots you have, divide half of the ingots to craft Iron Rods and Iron Plates.
 * At the end of the craft you should have slightly more Iron Rods than Iron Plates.
 * Open the HUB terminal to put 10 Iron Rods into it.
 * At the top right you will see 'Relevant Items'. + to transfer all the required Iron Rods into it.
 * You can also drag-click or shift-click to transfer the items.
 * Click the 'Upgrade HUB' button. You have completed HUB Upgrade 1.
 * Do not rush for HUB Upgrade 2 yet. Use the remaining resources to start some automation.

Tier 0-2

 * There are total 6 upgrades to the HUB. We can preparing for the HUB Upgrade 2.
 * A small storage box is added beside the HUB terminal.
 * You can store items in it to free up some inventory space.
 * New unlocked HUB features are marked with exclamation ! mark.
 * Open your build menu and build an Equipment Workshop just outside and near The HUB.
 * Press to open. Select 'Production' then click on 'Equipment Workshop'.
 * New unlocked buildings are labelled with 'new'. Mouse hover it to clear the label.
 * If the hologram intersects with the existing buildings, you will not be able to build it. Observe the red color hit box and move the hologram away from it.
 * Observes the building cost of the Equipment Workshop. Items are directly consumed from your inventory.
 * If the ingredient is insufficient, go back to the Craft Bench to craft more.
 * You can dismantle a building any time to get back the full refund.
 * Use the Equipment Workshop to craft about 5 Portable Miners.
 * Equipment are only craft-able at the equipment workshop. Most other items can be crafted at the crafting table.
 * Place 5 Portable Miners at the Iron node.
 * Go back to the Iron node location and stand at the center of the nearest node.
 * Double to equip the Potable Miner in hand-slot.
 * on the ground to place it down.
 * Place them in an arc shape, centered at you.
 * Notice this will unequip the Xeno-Zapper from your hand-slot.
 * For your own safety, equip back the Xeno-Zapper after you have done.


 * After a few seconds, go thorough all of them and click 'Grab All' each to take the Iron Ores.
 * From now on you don't need to manually mine the ores.
 * A Portable Miner stop mining after the output slot is filled with a stack of ore, that is, 100.
 * With at least 100 Iron Ore in the inventory, go back to the HUB.
 * Use the Craft Bench to craft the necessary items required to complete the Milestone - HUB Upgrade 2.

Tier 0-3

 * You have unlocked the Smelter. It automatically smelts Iron Ingot.
 * You need Wire to build it.
 * Scanner: Copper Ore unlocked. To be able to craft wires you are required to mine Copper Ores.
 * Press and Hold the scanner button, the scanning wheel appears. Use mouse to move around the wheel and select 'Copper'.
 * A quick tap of the Resource Scanner key re-scans the last selected resource type without popping up the resource wheel.
 * A resource scanner has a cooldown of 25 seconds.
 * The Copper node is not far away from your base. Bring along 3 Portable Miners.
 * Free up at least 5 inventory slots by moving some items (leaves, woods, Iron Ores) into the personal storage box beside HUB terminal.
 * There will be a Spitter guarding the Copper node, be prepared.
 * You will get a handful of Copper Ore from the copper deposit. Place 3 Portable Miners on the Copper node.
 * Just beside it is a Limestone node. Mine out its deposit.
 * You do not need to place portable miners there, as there is another Limestone node just in front of your base.
 * Find the Limestone node in front of your base by visually looking for it and place 3 Portable Miners there.
 * Behind the HUB is a Biomass Burner. Use + to transfer all the Leaves into it.
 * Its UI states that it generates 20 MW of Power. Each leaves will last for 0.8 seconds.
 * It displays 'NO CONNECTION' as we have yet to connect any power consumer building to it.
 * Build a Smelter nearby and connect to the Biomass Burner with a Power Line.
 * Craft necessary Wires, Cables and Iron Rods for the building material.
 * Build a Smelter only. Soon you will be able to build more.
 * In the Smelter UI, select 'Iron Ingot'.
 * If you wish to craft Copper Ingot, you can switch the recipe by clicking at the top left 'Select Recipe', then click 'Copper Ingot' to change it.
 * If you change a building's recipe, all its contents will be returned to your Inventory.
 * Put 100 Iron Ores into the Smelter. Have a look at its UI.
 * On the left is the input ingredient and the consumption rate.
 * On the right is the output product and the production rate.
 * In addition, this tells you how much Power this building is consuming and how much time is required to do a crafting cycle (in this case, an Iron Ingot).
 * After 100 Iron Ingots are produced, the Smelter stops. Use + to take out all the Iron Ingot. Put in another stack of Iron Ore.
 * A stack of Iron Ore is 100 Iron Ore. See individual item page to find out their stack size.
 * Take a look at the Biomass Burner again.
 * Notice how quickly the Leaves are being consumed. Although it displays '0.8 seconds', each Leaves item lasts for 4 seconds.
 * This is because all Power Generators, such as Biomass Burner, consumes Fuels proportionally to their power consumption.
 * Currently only 20% of the Power is being utilized (4MW of 20MW). So its fuel last 5 times longer (20 / 4 = 500%).
 * With all the Iron Ingots produced from the Smelter, complete the HUB Upgrade 3.
 * As manual crafting Ingots require a lot of crafting clicks, using Smelters instead can be effective.

Tier 0-4

 * With the Limestones obtained from the Limestone deposit just now, craft them all into Concretes.
 * The Power Pole enable you to connect more Smelters to the Power Grid.
 * As 5 * 5 MW = 20 MW, 5 Smelters can fully utilize a Biomass Burner.
 * Open the build menu and add 4 Smelters, 3 Power Poles and 7 Power Lines to the To Do List.
 * Notice the ingredient required are displayed in the To Do List window at the right. Craft all necessary ingredients.
 * Go back to the respective resource node and grab the ores from the Portable Miner if required.
 * Below the screen is the building Hotbar. You can set up to 10 buildings hotkeys.
 * The hotkeys allows you to build without opening the build menu.
 * Open the build menu and mouse hover the 'Smelter'.
 * Press to set its hotkey to 5.
 * You can set it to other numbers as well, but avoid hot keys 1 to 4 as they are reserved for other buildings.
 * Build 4 additional Smelters, in-line with the first.
 * Press the hotkey for Smelter.
 * Have a look at the additional control keys as displayed below the screen.
 * Notice which keys are assigned to 'Building Eyedropper' and 'Snap to Guideline'. The eyedropper enables you to copy a building's hologram.
 * Press and hold the key assigned to 'Snap to Guideline' and aim the Smelter hologram at the existing Smelter side surface.
 * Use this method to build several buildings in-line.
 * While snapping, you can use wheel to rotate the hologram.
 * Dismantle the existing Power Line.
 * This is the tricky one. A Power Line is visually sagged down, but its hitbox is a straight line.
 * Aim the Power Line near the Biomass Burner and dismantle it.
 * Build 3 Power Poles and connect them all with Power Lines as in image.
 * Make use of the hot keys and feel free to customize them.
 * Ensure each Power Pole is connected to at most 2 buildings, leaving 2 connector slots to chain to the next Power Pole.
 * If you have connected it wrong, you can always dismantle the power line.
 * Better Power Poles can be unlocked later.
 * Set 4 Smelters smelting Iron Ingots and 1 Smelter for Copper Ingots.
 * If the Biomass Burner stops, collect more Leaves and feed into it (about 500 leaves).
 * Complete HUB Upgrade 4.

Tier 0-5

 * The Conveyor Belt is unlocked, but we do not use it first.
 * Continue manually feed the Ores into the Smelters for Ingots.
 * Rush for HUB Upgrade 5.
 * Additional Limestones can be obtained from the Limestone node in front of your HUB, if you have not placed Portable Miners on it.

Tier 0-6

 * The second Biomass Burner is added to The HUB. Connect it to the Power Grid.
 * Build a Power Line between it and the nearest Power Pole. Notice its Indicator Light is blinking Red.
 * Further reading: Indicator Light
 * Feed it with Leaves. Notice its indicator color turns green.
 * We are going to build 5 Constructors in front of the Smelters, and connect them one-to-one, which act as a temporary production area.
 * Add 5 Constructors to the TO DO List.
 * Estimate how many Power Poles you need for the constructors: $$Ceil (5/2) = 3$$, We need 3 Power Poles. Add them to To Do List.
 * Add another 10 Cables.
 * Add 50 Conveyor Belts.
 * The Constructors require Reinforced Iron Plates (a.k.a. RIP) which can be complex to craft at the moment. So we add its ingredient to the To Do List as well.
 * Open Codex, the in-game simplified encyclopedia.
 * Click Recipe -> Parts -> Reinforced Iron Plate, it displays 6 + 12  = 1
 * Mouse hover its recipe, then click 'Add to To Do List' until 10 RIP are added to the list. Hold down to add 10 groups at once.
 * Its ingredient, 60 Iron Plates and 120 Screws are automatically added to the list.
 * You can mouse-scroll the To Do List to see the items hidden below.
 * Alternatively, an item's recipe can be viewed by using a Craft Bench.
 * on the item's name will allows you to add it to the To Do List.


 * Manual craft all the material required to fulfill the To Do List.
 * It might seems more troublesome than just rushing for Hub Upgrade 6, but this is an investment, it benefits in the long run.
 * Set a hotkey for Constructor and make use of it.
 * Stand in front of the middle Smelter, press the 'Snap to Guideline' key and aim at the ground some distance away.
 * Build 2 Constructors each to the left and right of the existing Constructor, using the snap key.
 * Connect each with Conveyor Belt. If a Power Pole is in the way, deconstruct the Power Pole.
 * If the belt is too long, you might need additional Iron Plates.
 * Connect all buildings with Power Pole and Power Line.
 * Set the Constructor in front of the Copper Ingot Smelter to 'Wire'. The next for 'Iron Rod', and the remaining 3 for 'Iron Plate'.
 * Feed the Copper and Iron ores into the Smelter and watch the finished products come out from the Constructor.
 * You will need a lot of leaves to keep the Biomass Burners running.
 * When gathering the leaves you will run into more hostile creatures.
 * Your first bootstrap factory is completed, however they will soon be removed.
 * Open the build menu, then click at the right side 'Clear List' to remove the leftovers in the To Do List.
 * Complete HUB Upgrade 6.

Tier 1

 * Immediately remove all leaves from the 2 Biomass Burners.
 * Craft them into Biomass, then insert them into the burners again. They lasts much longer.
 * When interacting with any of the Power Pole or Biomass Burner, pull down the lever at the left to reset the breaker
 * Take a look at the new buildings available:
 * Biomass Burner - we are going to build 12 of them, in addition to the 2 mini burners attached to The HUB.
 * Space Elevator - Used to unlock Milestones Tier 3 and above, particularly the Tier 3 - Coal Power which is our next long-term target.
 * Our current priority is Tier 1 - Logistics

Logistics

 * Craft 100 Concrete with the Craft Bench.
 * Grab the produced items from your bootstrap factory and complete Tier 1 - Logistics.

Obstacle Clearing

 * We will set up a mid-term starter factory now.
 * Remove the Portable Miners on the Iron Node and put the ores into the Smelters.
 * Add 1 Miner Mk.1, 2 Splitters, 2 Smelters, 4 Constructors and 2 Storage Containers to the To Do List.
 * Estimate the amount of Power Poles, Power Lines and Conveyor Belt you will need.
 * Build a Miner at the right-most Iron node, that is, nearest to your HUB.
 * On the compass it is at the East-most.
 * Rotate the Miner to face the plain area outside before actually built it.
 * A building hologram aimed at non-foundation rotates at 10 degrees interval.
 * Build 2 Smelters in front of it with the a Smelter aligned with the Miner. Set both to 'Iron Ingot'.
 * Connect the aligned Smelter and the Miner with belt. (image TODO)
 * Aim a Splitter at the middle of the belt and built it. (image TODO)
 * Connect the Splitter with the second Smelter. (image)
 * The other side of the Splitter you may leave it empty.
 * This is the basics of splitting a belt and we will based on this in most of the starter factory.
 * Continue reading: Splitter
 * Have a look at the Miner and Smelter's UI.
 * A Miner Mk.1 produces 60 Iron Ores per minute. Continue reading: Miner Mk.1
 * A Smelter requires 30 Iron Ores per minute. Continue reading: Smelter
 * 60 / 30 = 2, a Miner Mk.1 output is sufficient for 2 Smelter. This ratio is correct.
 * Build the constructors as per image below. Connect them with belts and power. Set recipes as shown in image. (image TODO)
 * Troubleshooting:
 * Why I cannot connect them with belt - Make sure your buildings are rotated properly. Buildings has input (green arrow) and output (orange arrow).
 * Encroaching other's clearance - Moves your buildings around, ensure sufficient space in-between.
 * Estimate your power usage and build necessary Biomass Burners.
 * Build additional Biomass Burners nearby the initial 2 Biomass Burners.
 * Link them all into the same power grid for easier management.
 * Have a storage container nearby, storing all the Leaves, Woods and Biomass for easier refill. (image TODO).

TODO

Tips and Tricks

 * In early game, pick up leaves as you walk. They are essential biomass as an early-game power source.
 * Almost every resource patch is guarded by creatures such as Fluffy-tailed Hogs. Approach with caution and kill it. Pay attention to the sound they make.
 * Remove the deposits that rest on the resource node so that you can place a Miner on it. You need to hand-mine it. The deposit give you 50-100+ ores.
 * Leave sufficient space between buildings so that you can connect them with belts later.
 * After placing a Constructor, buffer it with a Storage Container by placing after it to have a consistent supply of components ready to go.
 * Watch out for power demand. Make sure the power capacity is always higher than the peak power demand.
 * A Power Pole has 4 connections, 2 for buildings, 2 for chaining to other poles. Later in the game you will have better options.
 * You can align your buildings by looking for the thick green lines. Build Foundations for easier snapping.
 * Be creative. Use belts, ladders or foundations to reach hard-to-access areas.
 * The quickest route to coal power is Hub Upgrade 5 -> Part Assembly (Tier 2) -> Space Elevator first delivery -> Coal Power. After getting the coal power set up, come back and complete the Tier 1 Milestones.
 * Use the Conveyor Pole Stackable & Conveyor Lifts for elevated conveyors combined with Splitter for the most efficient use of ground space.
 * While your factory is slowly crafting the parts, you could bring your weapon and explore the World.
 * Some treasures are located on the high ground. Others are hidden inside caves.
 * When taking a screenshot with the in-game tool (default ), the screenshot will be saved at . Un-equipping the handheld item before entering photo mode allows for an unobstructed screenshot.
 * You can use photo mode as binoculars by zooming in (use the to change the FOV).
 * Do not panic if you get yourself killed, you can always make your way back to the location of the death to get back your items.
 * Red berries refills 1 hp bar, nuts refills half a hp bar, redish muchrooms also fill 2 hp, do not go nuts (pun intended) with eating them, you need them(all 3) to make the 'health inhalator' later-on to restore your complete health back to 100% (see Health).