Copper wire- which recipe to use?

[Edmund Greyfox]

I'm wondering which copper wire recipe those of you have advanced to tier 7 are using, and why? It looks like Caterium wire is the most efficient, but i don't want to commit to that and then discover that I need the Caterium for something else once I've unlocked tier 7 and more alternate recipes. Any advice is appreciated.

[Grandaddypurple]

Really depends on what you intend to use. I'd advise you to use copper and caterium for both your wire and quickwire. The efficiency gain is tremendous

[matke587]

I am using iron wire....meaning I only need to tap onto iron nodes for wire and cables

[Edmund Greyfox]

Do you mean the alternate recipes that combine copper and caterium ingots to make wire/quick wire? I set up the new factory in the SW of the grassy plains, so decent copper deposits are a bit hard to come by, but i can probably make that work. I'd need to go farm those recipes first though. Thing is, i have a pure caterium node right behind my base which would make setting everything up to just use caterium simple, and the map shows there is another one just a bit to the NW. As usual the problem is that i don't know how much caterium I'm going to end up using later, so deciding whether to use it now or save it for something else is difficult.

[sansee]

https://satisfactory.gamepedia.com/Wire

I agree, it really depends on what you want and what you need.

To my needs I actually don't need that much quickwire, but I do need much much more wire, so I convert a lot over to wire... especially since I use the stitched plate recipe.

And adding water I get even more wire! :D

[Edmund Greyfox]

I've got the iron wire recipe, i just don't like the output per minute for it and the power cost is the highest of any of the recipes. Once again, i could make it work, but other then eliminating the need for copper I'm not so sure it's worth the speed reduction and energy costs.

[Edmund Greyfox]

Sansee,

I've been pouring over the wiki looking a the recipes, but it only takes me so far since i don't know how many of each of the products that use wire/cable I'm going to need/want to produce yet. Right now I'm just trying to get everything in place so that i can automate everything up through the tier 6 parts that i need for the space elevator to unlock tier 7, and to leave myself in a good place to make those tier 7 parts without needing to seriously expand or rebuild my production lines. I guess i've been going about this backwards, since i'm trying to build the inputs for everything without knowing just how much of any of it i will need.

[sansee]

Yeah, personally I think the iron to wire recipe is not worth it, only as a last resort.

Looking at the quickwire table one doesn't seem to need too much of it (only limiter and HS-connector, for normal recipe), that's why I'm using much of it to wire, now at least.

I might change later for alt-computers, but I'll see how the numbers flow...

[sansee]

Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox:

I've been pouring over the wiki looking a the recipes, but it only takes me so far since i don't know how many of each of the products that use wire/cable I'm going to need/want to produce yet.

I understand that. I just build and try to make it work, if it doesn't I just change it. But then again, I build for full belts, and then adding more belts as I need.

[Edmund Greyfox]

I'm just trying to think ahead and build it "right" the first time so that i don't have to go back and rebuild constantly like i did in factorio. I designed this factory with the idea that I'd be able to increase production by just increasing inputs to each floor and adding a few more machines to the line to make the outputs with no change in layout. I'm only producing 1-2 things per floor, so everything is designed to flow up to the floors making the more complex products. The problem is that i can't change 1 thing on a floor without changing everything on the floor, and that i can't produce the complex parts on higher floors until the basic layout and recipe decisions on the lower floors are finalized.

In this particular case, i have to decide how I'm going to make wire, and once the decision is made and i have the wire flowing upwards changing anything will be a major pain.

[Edmund Greyfox]

I ended up going with Grandaddy purple's suggestion and am using the caterium/copper recipes for both wire and quickwire. Took me most of the day to redesign the layout, but both are now being produced on the same floor at a decent rate (450 wire and 350 quickwire pm).