What to store?

[Arkane Wisdom]

Much like the title says, what items do I need to keep a stock of and what items should I process into higher tier items?

As an example items like stators, should I just go ahead and process them into motors or keep a stock of them for later use? How much should I keep in stock? 1 industrial storage or multiple? How high of a priority should I make it to keep a stock?

Stuff like that.

[MetalDad]

Depends on what your goals are. I always keep at least one container of every part in stock. But that's mostly because I always have a lot of ideas and just hate tro find out that before I can put those ideas in practice, I have to make all the parts first. And there aree parts of course of which you do need A LOT. Like iron plates, screws, rods, copper wire, cable. So I would reccomend that you at least keep those parts in stock for the incidental jobs.
But hey, just my 2 cents. When you move further up the chain you'll find out what you need the most. Finding this out and finding solutions for it is part of the fun.
If someone would tell you you need 5 containers of X and 7 of Y, what fun would that be?

[The Big Brzezinski]

I'd recommend having every component being produced and stored as an end product at least one factory somewhere. Make designing and building these factories your primary activity. With them running constantly, you'll never have to worry about not having enough parts.

For the stator/motor factory example, I'd say to make sure it's producing more stators than it consumes to make motors. You can send the unused stators off into a storage box next to the motors. You won't bother doing this with the iron rods, rotors, and other such intermediate components because you'll have already made production lines for those parts in the previous phase. Instead, you'll only bother making as many as these parts as the stator/motor factory consumes.

The end result of all this hard work is a constant supply of everything you could possibly need. Ideally, you'd eventually also setup logistics to transfer all these end products to a central warehouse near the space elevator. At that point, fulfilling project parts orders is just your victory lap.

[PsYcHo_O]

It's always a good idea to keep building materials around and having a constant stream of them. You need most materials for some kind of building but of course some are used much more, like concrete, iron plates or iron rods. Some materials are used rarely, like Stators (only used to build power storage).
You will also use certain materials much more during different steps of progression. This is especially true for belt materials. In the beginning you might experience a huge demand for Reinforced Iron Plates to build mk2 belts, but you will use quite a lot less in later stages with mk3 / mk4 / mk5 belts available.

You should also consider that you will need a small amount of most materials for the hard drives and / or tools.

I prefer having a small amount of constant overproduction for almost everything which I usually store in one big container per product (sinking excess) in a central storage hub. Figuring out what / how much you will need for your next project is a big part of the planning process. It's hard to generalize as the amount you need of most products in quite situational, but having a container full of most stuff is never a bad idea.

[Fenix]

I like a container full of everything, that is needed for buildings and vehicles… a couple them for concrete. ( I go through a lot of concrete)
But there are 2 exceptions screws and Stators, I don’t use them enough to need a container for. Stators are only needed for Power Storage, if I need some I’ll just steal some from my motor line. And Screws you just need for The Awesome Shop, I’ll just hand make them if need be.

[Mr.America]

In general, it's best practice to just make a splitter somewhere in each factory producing a part you need for building stuff (basically all parts, except screws prbly) and have that split-off go into a container somewhere. Over time it will fill up, jam that belt and the factory will run as if not split at all. You hardly ever need a full container of something multiple times in a row, except maybe concrete for larger projects, but at that point you should be producing enough to leech of some random factory nearby.

It's not recommended to do this with ores and ingots.

[markuswolfe]

Originally posted by Arkane Wisdom:

Much like the title says, what items do I need to keep a stock of and what items should I process into higher tier items?

Yes.

[NotReallyMyName]

You need to have all resources to be stored at some point or the other, even in small quantities, since you don't need them all the time. There are some resources you don't need for building, like raw resources or ingots, but not all processed items, like powdered copper, is needed for construction either. You can store anything, with the exception of uranium and plutonium, that stuff kills you way too quickly, especially in high enough quantity.

[Ternume]

I like to keep an item mall/storage setup for all parts used to produce other parts, other than ore and ingots. Once I settle down into more semi-permanent bases i'll set up my HUB area surrounded on two or three sides by single storage containers stacked two high (different items with painted walls in front, signs, and pictures to help keep me focused on what i'm looking for). Towards the end game it's somewhere around 48 storage containers that I use (I skip things like biomatter/biofuel/dna, they go into seperate crafting to sink/storage areas) Behind the item mall I normally set my highest tier crafts with a manual storage feed setup (this area changes based on my needs while I build more permanent solutions).

[Apokh]

I use a smart splitter (pverflow) just before it goes to another production line to a container with another smart splitter in front of it which sends the overflow to the Awesome

[apdsmith]

The way I've got things arranged at the big factory I'm building, Seaview, is as follows:

Things aren't stored at all until they reach a branching point on their usage tree. Limestone only gets turned into concrete, so there's no real point storing limestone and concrete. Similarly iron and copper ores (I know there's alternate recipes, I'm not making use of those in this factory) - no point storing copper ore when the only thing I do with it is turn it into copper ingots.

However, once we get to this point, I fill a container with the concrete or copper ingots, and put a smart switch on the front of it to send any excess to the awesome sink.

After this point, most of the intermediate processing gets stored in various containers as part of it's processing. For instance, the motor production line has the container of motors at the end, but also containers of rotors and stators as well. Once the motor container is full, the production line will back up and fill all of the containers with the relevant items.

[grissom]

well. https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Category:Building_materials this are stuff you need for building, as for how much to store, one normal containers should be enough, it's more about how many items per minute are you spending (building stuff) and making then how much is stored at the moment...