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 must expand your factory to produce the required parts automatically and efficiently.

You as an engineer land on the alien planet named MASSAGE-2(A-B)b with only basic tools to build The HUB. The game narrator ADA will guide you 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. So combat and exploration is also part of the gameplay. There is no peace mode in the game.

= Guide = Satisfactory is an open-ended game. You are not required to strictly follow this guide to win the game.

Game start

 * In the game's main menu, have a look at all the controls and video / audio settings. Adjust where necessary.
 * For easier start, make sure the 'Enable experimental subtitle' is on.
 * For running around easily, un-tick 'Hold to sprint'.
 * Choose New Game.
 * There are 4 starting area to choose from. These 4 different locations are connected in the Same world. You are free to choose any. For the purpose of this guide, choose the 4th - Rocky Desert.
 * Other than visual difference of the biomes, all the 4 starting areas are roughly equal difficulty in game.
 * Enter session name. Choose 'Friends Only' for hosting multiplayer or leave it as 'Private' for single player.
 * For the purpose of this guide, do not tick 'Skip Intro'. Tick when you are already familiar for this game, which can save you about 20 mins of game time.
 * A intro movie will play. Wait for it to end and you will walk out of the drop-pod.
 * You can skip the intro movie by pressing and click 'SKIP INTRO'.
 * In the cut scene, the engineer picked up the Build Gun walk out of the drop-pod.
 * At the beginning most of the controls keys are locked. As you progress, they will be unlocked one-by-one. Do not worry.
 * Use to move around. Use Mouse to look around.
 * The game narrator ADA will speak with you. You can press to skip the dialogue.
 * For the purpose of this guide, avoid skipping the ADA's dialogues.
 * Take a look on the game's UI.
 * At the bottom right is your shortcut keys, they are updated according to your customized control.
 * In this guide, default hotkeys will be used.
 * 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 battle so keep an eye on this.
 * At the top left is the game version.
 * For multiplayer, all clients must have the same version as the host to be able to join game.
 * At the left is the current objective as advised by ADA.
 * At the top is the compass.
 * There is a Map but it is locked at much later game stage. You have to progress through Quartz Research to be able to use it.
 * Rotate your body with mouse. You can see the starting drop-pod is indicated on the compass.
 * Press to enter dismantle mode.
 * Face to the drop pod. You will notice it is highlighted in orange. This means it is targeted to be dismantled.
 * At the center of the screen is the returned item upon dismantle. Usually it is equal to the building cost.
 * In this game, all buildings are 100% refundable.
 * Near the bottom of the screen is a hint of additional control keys.
 * Hold down the while aiming a building to dismantle.
 * Press or  or  to cancel dismantle.
 * During dismantling mode, the edge of the screen blinks in red.
 * Dismantle the drop-pod, the HUB Parts is added to the engineer's inventory.
 * Press to access engineer's inventory. Take a look at the UI.
 * You will notice 2 items in the slot: the HUB Parts, and the Xeno-Zapper, the starter melee weapon.
 * At the bottom left is the sort button. You can click this to sort the items. Useful at later game stage.
 * At the bottom middle is the trash slot. Do not use it now.
 * You can drag items into it to delete the item.
 * At the right is the character equipment slot.
 * At the beginning you have only 1 body slot and 1 hand slot. The body slot, however, is limited at 1 slot only.
 * Additional hand slots can be unlocked later.
 * At the top left is the inventory slot. You have 16 slots in the beginning.
 * Additional inventory slots can be unlocked later.
 * + the Xeno-Zapper to equip it in hand. Or you can drag it, or double-click it to the hand slot.
 * You can click and drag the HUB Parts outside the inventory UI to drop it onto the floor.
 * Close the inventory window by pressing . You can pick the HUB Parts up by looking at it and press.
 * Notice it displays '+1 HUB Parts (1)'. The +1 means the quantity of the item you gained during the past moments. The number in the parenthesis indicates the total amount of this item you carried in the inventory.
 * You are instructed to look for iron.
 * You will face the danger. Before you move, use the ESC menu to save your game.
 * Additionally, autosaves are created at 5 minutes interval, up to 3 maximum autosaves. You can adjust this interval in the options.
 * If somehow the engineer dies, 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.
 * You can force-kill the character by clicking RESPAWN in the Esc menu.
 * There is no limit on how many times can an engineer respawns. There is no Game Over in this game.
 * Press to scan for Iron Ore.
 * A blue sphere propagates outwards, and you will hear 3 pings. A resource scanner always indicates 3 nearest patches of resources nodes of the selected ore type.
 * Their directions and distances are indicated on the compass.
 * Move towards the nearest iron ore patch.
 * Press 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 will perform higher and longer jump. Crouch while running 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 came across.
 * Combat. Before you reach your destination, you might encounter one of the following creatures:
 * Hog Read this page for how to defeat it.
 * Spitter Read this page for how to defeat it.
 * Flying Crab Read this page for how to defeat it.
 * Alpha Hog You are not ready for killing this boss. Consider reload your last save and avoid passing the same area now.
 * Alpha Spitter You are not ready for killing this boss. Consider reload your last save and avoid passing the same area now.
 * You have probably reached your destination and might have killed one or two of the Hogs or Spitters.
 * You can now start the mining to continue progress the game, however,
 * For the purpose of the guide, continue move to the location as indicated in the image.


 * You can use your resource scanner to pinpoint this location.
 * There will be iron ore nodes on the rocky steps in the 2nd image. We will reserve the space in-front of it for buildings, so we will build The HUB just 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.
 * Go near to the iron ore and prepare for the first combat, if you have not encounter any.
 * Read Hog to learn how to kill it.
 * Scan the iron ore again with.
 * You will see three iron nodes, each marked with a bright circle. On top of that is the resource deposit, which must be manually-mined out before miner can be build on them.
 * Portable Miners are not affected by these resource deposits.
 * Approach the resource deposit and press while looking at the protrusion to start mining. Each will give you 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 deposits are mined out, which the rocky 'tips' are disappeared.
 * You can continue mining by aiming at the resource node (just below the iron deposit), but with a much slower rate.
 * A resource node, never run out.
 * You will see the center of the screen tells you the iron ore is 'normal'. This is the node purity which affects your mining speed.
 * Build The HUB below and to the east of the rocky stage.
 * Press for 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 the second, it will shows 'Can't Afford! You can only build one!'
 * The HUB - foundation is built. Now we have a series of objectives to accomplish to complete the HUB building.

Tier 0

 * 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 it the HUB terminal. Interact to use it.
 * Inside it you can see the Milestones available to unlock. Select 'Tier 0' then click at 'Hub Upgrade 1'. Click 'Select Milestone' to confirm.
 * Read Milestones for a complete list.
 * Its UI 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, try to select the Iron Rod. You will see the option is greyed out, and displays 'Can't Afford Recipe'.
 * Mouse pointing the icon below the 'Cost'. It requires 1 Iron Ingot.
 * Craft at least 10 Iron Ingots. Select it, click at the yellow craft button and hold down the mouse button 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.
 * For convenience, craft all the iron ingot you can afford, consuming all the iron ores you own.
 * With the amount of Iron Ingot you have, craft roughly the same amount of Iron Rods and Iron Plates.
 * Each Iron Rod is crafted from 1 Iron Ingot.
 * 2 Iron Plates are crafted from 3 Iron Ingots. Observe these from the crafting table UI.
 * With some maths, you are advised to use up to 40% of the total iron ingot you have to craft the Iron Rods, and the rest for Iron Plates.
 * Open the HUB terminal to put 10 Iron Rods into it.
 * At the top right you will see 'Relevant Items'. + to put all the required Iron Rods into it.
 * You can also drag-click or shift-click to transfer the items.
 * Click the yellow 'Upgrade HUB' button. You have completed HUB Upgrade 1.
 * Notice there are total 6 upgrades to the HUB.
 * Now proceed with the HUB Upgrade 2.
 * You can see a small storage box appeared beside the HUB terminal.
 * You can store items in it to free up some inventory space.
 * New unlocked HUB feature 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 box and move your hologram away from it.
 * Observes the building cost of the Equipment Workshop. Items are directly consumed from your inventory.
 * You can dismantle it any time to get the full refund.
 * Use the equipment workshop to craft about 5 portable miners.
 * Some items are only craftable at the equipment workshop. Most other items can be crafted at the crafting table.
 * Place 5 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
 * on the ground to place it down.
 * Place 5 of 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.

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).