Part of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Series overview. While you’re already in the MAM working the Caterium tree, queue up the Power Slugs tree too. Its first node unlocks the Power Shard, the item you use for overclocking, and researching…
Part of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Series overview. Basic Steel Production is the Tier 3 milestone the rest of the tier depends on. Steel is the first material that needs both iron and coal, and it comes out of a…
Back at the raft: bricks, then a Smelter Once your foundations are built out enough to have some spare deck space, you can start setting up the stations that produce your gear. First is the Smelter, which is what the…
Part of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Series overview. Enhanced Asset Security is one of the four Tier 3 milestones, and unlike the other three, it doesn’t add anything to the factory. Instead it upgrades the pioneer, handing over a new…
Running low on scrap? Anchor at an island Scrap comes in from crates, and once you’ve built a wall of nets they pull in a little more on their own, though slowly. So when your rope is piling up faster…
Part 6 of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Previous: Building the Space Elevator. Series overview. Completing Phase 1 at the Space Elevator opened Tiers 3 and 4. This guide starts working through Tier 3 with Coal Power, the first generator you…
The Research Table The build you should not skip in this stretch is the Research Table (fourteen planks and two scrap, under the Other tab), which unlocks most of the crafting tree. In the game it’s “used to research new…
Part of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Series overview. Blade Runners are an early movement upgrade: they boost run speed, double your jump height, and soften fall damage. They come out of the MAM, the research building, but not from the…
Cooking food: the Simple Grill Eventually your food meter starts flashing, and you need to start cooking. The Simple Grill handles it: six planks, one scrap, and three rope, tucked under the Food/Water tab. It “can cook a piece of…
Part of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Series overview. The Jump Pads milestone is a Tier 2 unlock that gives you two buildings that make getting around vertically a lot easier: the Jump Pad, which launches you up or across a…
Steer around small islands (for now) In the very early game you want to avoid the small islands you drift toward, not aim for them. You’ve no real way to steer or reorient the raft yet, and if you run…
Part of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Series overview. While the MAM’s research timer ticks away in the background, it’s a good moment to knock out a few upgrades that make getting around a base, and across the broken terrain outside…
We started a fresh world for this series. Two of the setup choices are worth getting right. Choose Easy mode. Raft has five modes: Creative, Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. On Normal, hunger and thirst drain aggressively, which makes the…
Raft starts you in the middle of the ocean on a 2×2 raft: four wood-and-plastic tiles and a plastic hook, with open water in every direction. There’s no land to gather from, so nearly everything you build starts as debris…
Part 5 of the Satisfactory beginner walkthrough. Previous: Logistics, the Chainsaw and Base Building. Series overview. With belts, fuel, and foundations sorted in Part 4, this last stretch covers scaling the factory up: the Assembler and real mass production, faster…
