u/C0rinthian

TL;DR - I ran a train :D

Following up on So close, yet so far...

I took this as an opportunity to apply the techniques in Satisfactory 1.0 Tutorial: Easy Point & Shoot Smooth Railways Anywhere to extend my rail line, and connected the coal nodes I was interested in with my existing rail line running along the coast.

Video is the initial test run of the line after I setting it up. I'm pretty happy with the result!

TODO: smooth out some wiggles and a corner that's sharper than it needs to be, remove all the guide beams, add signals, and actually start moving the coal.

Sometimes a project isn't as big as it looks when you're staring at the map.

So I'm hip deep in Phase 4, at the point where I need to be making Supercomputers and Fused Modular Frames. I want to start getting drone logistics set up, but that means dealing with something I've so far avoided: packaged fuel.

I've got all the alts needed for a rocket fuel plant, and have been figuring out where I want to put one. Then I realized: One of the four crude oil nodes I have tapped on the coast is just feeding some refineries set for the default plastic/rubber recipes. Completely superfluous and can be repurposed. I have a regular oil node *right there* just waiting to be used.

Check the map:

• Aluminum foundry just to the north. Check.
• Pure Sulfur to the south. Check
• Nitrogen to the south. Check

Now I just need some Coal. "No problem. It's just coal. How hard could it be?" I say to myself, blind to my naïvete. Look at the map. Find a pure node nearby, just waiting to be plundered. There it is. Quick adventure, in and out.

"Oh I'll just run a train line" I chuckle, full of foolish ambitions. I scout the terrain, quickly remembering the brutal verticality of the Jungle Spires. "Maybe there's a path through the caves" I plead, clearly in the bargaining stage.

Now here I stand. I *could* just use lifts and belts to get the coal up and over. But that isn't Satisfactory. So now I'm thinking about belting it all south to meet up with my vestigial coal power plant, turning that basin into a coal supply station that connects up with rail lines in the Grass Fields.

This little maneuver's going to cost me 51 hours...