Satisfactory

I don't play satisfactory or understand this picture, but it does look cool.

This is what I would dream of making if my computer's performance was any better. I'm amazed.

Sadly with significant lag incurred the last time I tried to make a mall even half this size, I ended up switching over to a distributed storage model kept at factories dotted around the map and tapped remotely via drones.

Vertical Bus

Access to the vertical bus is done via vertical stacks of merger's and splitters, a label blueprint keeps the interface organized.

Using floor holes helps create compact access to a vertical lifter.

The top and bottom of the bus are connected with belts that bridge the gap, as well as provide a nice visual indicator of bus activity. For lifters the delete tool will tell you how many items are in a segment to help narrow down issues.

Extensive use of blueprints is necessary in multiplayer to ensure the API is maintained across sessions. It is recommended to have a label on the blueprint with a version number - this will ease refactoring and upgrades later.

Note:

• You can build out empty floors without putting any bus access by using lifter floor holes which allow for connections of any height, useful for placing spacer floors for future growth. its natural to want to put the mall/hub at the top of the base.

The Starter base itself

With 9 levels divided into north and south sides the starter based provides 18 independent work areas. By strictly only using the vertical bus for any floor inputs or outputs the starter base is easy to expand out for extra capacity and limits the amount of spaghetti due to the strict floor based API

Each floor pulls from the Vertical bus, has its own power priority switch.

As a dirty engineer, who loves floating platforms, I’ve found that walls don’t improve game performance much, its object density that really impacts FPS. I did experiment with walls, but didn’t see much of a performance change. So floating platforms for everyone!

A train station at the top of the base, provides access to remote resources. Train stations are HUGE, and the depot quickly became the largest single floor of the starter base.

It is a thing of beauty. Thanks for the description and pictures. Any chance you can share the blueprints?

R&D

Always be iterating on better ways to do vertical stacks! Fun note I can fit 41 floors into the map before hitting the skybox!

A mini-yeet cannon for throwing employees around the factory in a closed loop hyper cannon system