Starting out today, this factory needs an upgrade. This is Steelworks, and when I was building out all the tubeways yesterday, I actually ran out of Steel Beam for the first time.

She’s currently running at a base clock of 12.5%, and with Mk.4 belts, I can get that up to 100%. To do that properly, I need to do some planning work, though.

I made this factory back before I started using Satisfactory Modeler to do belt planning, so I have no idea what beltwork I did to work around the handful of belts in the basic flow plan that need more than a Mk.4 belt.

So, I went through the factory and mapped it all out. Had to cheat a little bit and insert that break in the middle, at the Steel Foundries. When I had those as just normal connections, the whole graph refused to calculate. I have a feeling this is only going to get worse, and I’m gonna have to find another tool for the job, eventually.

Anyway, upgrades made.

Exploration time!

I was REALLY hoping to get enough Mercer Spheres to finish off the upload speed research, but I don’t feel like building ANOTHER leg for a Radio Tower right now. Otherwise, good haul.