is there no "type in console" cheats for materials?

[BlackViper]

cant get arsed to make everything by hand untill i get coal electricity....

[kLuns]

This a a building game, build your way to coal power.

[Aven]

You can trade coupons for materials in the Awesome Shop if you are struggling that much getting started. Sink the high end materials you find around crash sites for easy early coupons.

[EdibleSponge_]

None that I know of. According to the wiki, the "giveitem" command exists in the console but is non-functional. You can use the interactive map save editor (https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map) to spawn items, but aside from external tools, I think Aven's suggestion is the closest you'll get.

Still, coal isn't that far away. Power on!

[Taco Cat]

There are these useful buildings called "biomas burners" which can be used until coal is available

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Mr Treffnix:

There are these useful buildings called "biomas burners" which can be used until coal is available

wich you have to fill over and over..
they seem to change that you need a little of advanced stuffs to get through tire 1
. im just to lazy to stand in the "making table" and hold down the mouse butten fo 30 min to get there. xD

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by BlackViper:

Originally posted by Mr Treffnix:

There are these useful buildings called "biomas burners" which can be used until coal is available

wich you have to fill over and over..
they seem to change that you need a little of advanced stuffs to get through tire 1
. im just to lazy to stand in the "making table" and hold down the mouse butten fo 30 min to get there. xD

Press the space bar when you want to craft stuff.

[Vectorspace]

The devs are considering adding a creative mode, but not until at least v1.0 because they need players playing the vanilla game, for feedback and telemetry on balance and progression.
If you really want creative, then the Pak Utility mod can enable no build cost, no power cost, and more.

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by BlackViper:

Originally posted by Mr Treffnix:

There are these useful buildings called "biomas burners" which can be used until coal is available

wich you have to fill over and over..
they seem to change that you need a little of advanced stuffs to get through tire 1
. im just to lazy to stand in the "making table" and hold down the mouse butten fo 30 min to get there. xD

1) You do not need to hold the mouse button. You can simply press space bar once
2) filling all your biomas burners with solid biofule will last long enough to do other stuff. Its not like you have to refill them every 2min...

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Vectorspace:

The devs are considering adding a creative mode, but not until at least v1.0 because they need players playing the vanilla game, for feedback and telemetry on balance and progression.
If you really want creative, then the Pak Utility mod can enable no build cost, no power cost, and more.

dont want creative.. im just to tired to go through the build the parts yourself thingy and adding gras to those electric stuffs all the time... want coal so i can leave the game on to fill storages up and then come back when i have alot of many things.
got a 1 year old to run after all day long so its hard to get time to play nowdays.

[SourHammer]

Just use the Pak mod. It enables the !give item funtion along with flying and other stuff like god mode

[ShadowMystic]

Since you open to 'cheating', rather than a command to give you stuff, I think there are save editors that let you unlock stuff, so I think you can just unlock coal power?

Alternatively, a 'legitimate' method I use is rush to chain saw and clear cut an full inventory's worth of leaves and wood for a constructor line that makes Solid Biofuel. Overbuild biomass burners(they only burn enough to meet demand) so they can hold a lot of fuel and you don't have to refuel as often.

I put in quotes because I mean no judgement in either method. Whatever makes the most fun for you.

[ShadowMystic]

Originally posted by Mr Treffnix:

Originally posted by BlackViper:

wich you have to fill over and over..
they seem to change that you need a little of advanced stuffs to get through tire 1
. im just to lazy to stand in the "making table" and hold down the mouse butten fo 30 min to get there. xD

1) You do not need to hold the mouse button. You can simply press space bar once
2) filling all your biomas burners with solid biofule will last long enough to do other stuff. Its not like you have to refill them every 2min...

On #1, I was playing a good 10 hours before my wife joined me in the game. 5 minutes later she discovers it(something I hadn't realized...) *facepalm*

[gusgblaw]

You can easily get to phase two on like 6-8 biomass burners with very minimal hand crafting
I dont think you've located where your problem is.

[luntacarsus]

Originally posted by SourHammer:

Just use the Pak mod. It enables the !give item funtion along with flying and other stuff like god mode

Also has !creativepower to remove electricity requirements completely. (Buildings still have to be attached to a power pole though, iirc)

[random9q]

Originally posted by Mr Treffnix:

You do not need to hold the mouse button. You can simply press space bar once

And here I was about to suggest just putting the mouse pad on top of the mouse button. I completely missed this, probably a nice little QoL addition somewhere back in one of the updates that I didn’t see.

Suffice it to say, though, there’s more than one way to be lazy!