Satisfactory: How to Use Jump Pads and the U-Jelly Landing Pad

A Jump Pad beside a U-Jelly Landing Pad being placed as a green build hologram in Satisfactory

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 gap, and the U-Jelly Landing Pad, which catches you at the other end.

The U-Jelly Landing Pad

Both buildings live in the Build Menu under Transport, in a Jump Pads category of their own. The U-Jelly Landing Pad is the round one. Its whole job, per the in-game description, is to generate a speed-dampening jelly that “guarantees a safe landing,” so it’s what you drop wherever you expect to come down from a height. It draws 5 MW and costs 2 Rotor, 20 Cable, and 200 Biomass. The only line item worth planning around is the Biomass; you’ll have Rotors and Cable to spare by this point.

The U-Jelly Landing Pad selected in the Satisfactory build menu showing 5 MW power and its Rotor, Cable and Biomass cost
The U-Jelly Landing Pad in the build menu (Transport > Jump Pads). It runs on 5 MW and costs 2 Rotor, 20 Cable, and 200 Biomass, and its in-game description reads: “Generates a speed-dampening jelly. Guarantees a safe landing.”

Placed, it’s a wide green pad on a hexagonal base. Here’s one going down next to a Jump Pad, which gives a sense of the footprint: the landing pad is the big round target, and the Jump Pad is the smaller launcher beside it.

A Jump Pad beside a U-Jelly Landing Pad being placed as a green build hologram in Satisfactory
A U-Jelly Landing Pad going down (green build hologram) with a Jump Pad already placed alongside it. The landing pad is the wide round target you aim for; the two are meant to work as a pair.

The Jump Pad

The Jump Pad is the other half. Step on it and it fires you up and forward, and it’s meant to be aimed at a landing pad so the trip finishes soft instead of costing you health.

You can take the milestone and not build either until you’ve got a route that actually needs them.

Keep going: the walkthrough overview lists every part of the series in order.