entering the nuclear age in satisfactory

[Chris Solomon]

I have finally unlocked all 8 levels in the hub, and have made my hazmat suit, as well as some ionized radiation filters. but I seem to be encountering what may or may not be a bug. The hazmat filters seem to be being used way too fast. I could not even harvest 2 uranium nodes next two each other before 10 filters were burned up. I expected similar usage rate as the gas mask filters. is it operating normally, or is this a bug?

PS i am currently on experimental so i can use the fluids update

[Princess Luna]

https://satisfactory.gamepedia.com/Hazmat_Suit says "Iodine Infused Filter is the consumable used by the Hazmat Suit. Each lasts for 12 seconds, at maximum radiation." so you many need to equip more filters

[Chris Solomon]

I ended up dying after harvesting some uranium and i burned through an entire stack of hazmat filters in no time flat. I had a hell of a time getting my gear back because of the radiation damage caused by even approaching my dropped gear. I think i may have ended up dying maybe 6 or 7 times before i was able sort out the uranium from everything else and get that stuff far enough away from the radiation so i could re-equip my hazmat suit. not fun.

[Chris Solomon]

geez....12 seconds? thats really poor performance imho. you would think the recipe would be simpler to craft for that low of performance. So how am i supposed to cart around the stuff, when it's so hazardous?

[Yffriium]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

geez....12 seconds? thats really poor performance imho. you would think the recipe would be simpler to craft for that low of performance. So how am i supposed to cart around the stuff, when it's so hazardous?

That's the point of nuclear power. It's so incredibly powerful that it needs downsides.

[NO]

assume you plan on using it for powerplants.

use a miner with conveyor belts.

make plenty of room to build power plants and strong water supply with buffers etc

making the needed components requires decent amount of setup to.

set it all up then have uranium input as last thing and never go near it.

have it all automated and expandable.

consider disposal to.

remember that picking up conveyor belts and other objects will place uranium and other items into your inventory. killing you...

[phillip_lynx]

Do not handmine uranium nodes. Place a miner on it and stay away :).

And for the big blob ontop to free it, take more filters ;)

[Chris Solomon]

How am I supposed to transport the uranium from the mini miner to where ever I need it? Is there a shielded container I can store it in? I don't think the mini miner can hook up to a conveyor belt. Will the mini miner work on the small nodes?

[phillip_lynx]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

How am I supposed to transport the uranium from the mini miner to where ever I need it? Is there a shielded container I can store it in? I don't think the mini miner can hook up to a conveyor belt. Will the mini miner work on the small nodes?

Conveyor belts, Trucks, Trains ....
MK1 (2, 3) on the node and then CTT :)
If you want to transport manualy, make more filters!

And no, on the mini miner you can not CTT. So, more Filters.

[Chris Solomon]

forgive my momentary stupidity....what is CTT?

[Chris Solomon]

yeah, the avatar is a pic of my buddy Kalli. sadly she died of food poisoning during that Chinese pet food contamination debacle five or more years ago. I continue too miss my best cat friend.

any suggestion on automating the crafting of fabric which requires mycelia too make the fabric for the gas filter (which is then used for the hazmat ffilter)? I know the ground plants in caves are a good source. And a really good source is these red and yellow stalk like plants found in the grasslands forest area. only problem with those is, only a few of the those appear to be harvestable. the rest i guess are just decoration or something. for whatever reason, the chainsaw won't cut them down.

[Festive Mints]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

any suggestion on automating the crafting of fabric which requires mycelia too make the fabric for the gas filter (which is then used for the hazmat ffilter)? I know the ground plants in caves are a good source. And a really good source is these red and yellow stalk like plants found in the grasslands forest area. only problem with those is, only a few of the those appear to be harvestable. the rest i guess are just decoration or something. for whatever reason, the chainsaw won't cut them down.

There's an alternate recipe called Polyester Fabric that lets you craft Fabric with Polymer Resin and Water in a Refinery, and another called Polymer Resin that lets you turn Oil straight into Polymer Resin at a much higher ratio rate than other methods, try looking for harddrives until you unlock them.

That will let you fully automate the crafting process if you can get all the other stuff too.
I haven't gotten to nuclear power myself so, I don't know how complicated it will be to set this up.

[Chris Solomon]

me either.... but i have an over abundanceof that purpley crystal resin stuff. more than i can certainly use atm.I have just been dumping the buk of it into either making rubber, plastic and the (not so) AWESOME SINK.

[DrNewcenstein]

By the time you're ready for Uranium, and if you're able to craft hazmat suits, you should have a decent level of conveyor belt and Mk II miners unlocked, so there should be no confusion whatsoever about how to transport it from the node.

Yes, you can run miles of power lines for automated miners.

And don't mine those random blobs of Uranium unless it's absolutely necessary. Some clumps have Mercer Spheres and Somersloops in them. Until those have a use in the game, they're not necessary and can stay right where they are.

[Chris Solomon]

i was refering to the small nodes that are everywhere. they only haave aset amount ofresources in them, then they disappear.

[diet a&w]

I finally decided to try nuclear power. It wasn't too bad. Here are my thoughts.

1) Stay away from concentrations of uranium.

Exposure from a belt isn't bad, just a few filters will last. But if you get near a full container of uranium or accidentally get some in your inventory, you'll burn through filters.

2) Pick a good location.

Find a place where you have water. Keep storage, power, processing, and waste all away from each other. Waste storage in particular, make it very large and very far away.

3) Run belts high overhead and drop down where needed.

I can go through most of my uranium processing factory without hitting radiation. Next to the machines is dicey without the suit, but not too bad.

4) Prepare as much as you can before mining uranium.

Find a real node you can put a full miner on. Setup the transport (probably via train to intermediate storage) and make sure it's running. If you can setup the processing factory too that's even better. Once everything is ready, lay down the miner, connect the belt, and watch it go.