Best spot for a mega factory

[Agent Frank Horrigan]

What is the best spot for a mega factory where I'm near an ocean while being near most of the resources needed as well as the nodes being Pure? So far people have been saying its the Dunes area but is there an area that is more green with waterfalls for a nice environment while also having a good amount of resources nearby? If the desert dunes is the best area I will just settle for that one.

[Obz3hL33t]

Swamp is pretty good. "That One Spot" where Nortthern Forest, Rocky Desert, and Crater Lake meet is I think the consensus favorite. There's also a vote for that clearing in the petrified forest. I think Umop likes that spot, so I'll let him chime in if he wants to speak up for it.

Oil Island is ridiculous. Yes you can get oil from the sandy beach north of Northern Forest, but to get enough is inconvenient with cliffs and poison gas and so forth. Oil Island is just a bunch of mostly high-quality nodes all crammed together.

[kLuns]

By the time you can build on big scale you can pick whatever you like and bring in all the goodies to that place.

[HuMaNgUtAn]

I would vote for the Golden Coast (in the west) as the best spot. Loads of flat beaches / ocean to build on with most of the resources very close by, and every resource in the game except uranium within a reasonable distance. It also has a lot of of pure nodes.

[umop-apisdn]

Use the interactive map[satisfactory-calculator.com] to find a starting spot that suits all of your needs; there are quite a few places where easily-accessible pure nodes are available for multiple resources, in close proximity to one another.

Any place with at least 1 copper, 2 limestone, and 3 iron nodes will do, and by the time you need more resources, transportation will be more readily available. Nearby Quartz, Caterium, and Sulfur nodes are a definite bonus, as well as an easy pathway to Coal and Oil.

Originally posted by Obz3hL33t:

There's also a vote for that clearing in the petrified forest. I think Umop likes that spot, so I'll let him chime in if he wants to speak up for it.

I do like my spot in Titan Forest, but that's more about the challenge of getting there and successfully carving out a home, despite the large number of big nasty creatures and the challenges involved in navigating the terrain, as well as being near the absolute center of the map (and that beautiful waterfall dropping down into the swamp) than it is about any short-term gains available in the region. Just west of there does make for a very nice late-game hub, but I wouldn't advise it for the early game unless one is going out of their way to make things difficult for themselves.

Dangle Spires (the beach on the southwest of the continent) has many of the same game-affecting benefits, without requiring nearly as much fighting and travel time to get there... although since it's in the southwest, your expansion is limited to the north and eastward directions.

As for which is the "best" place for an early-game HUB or late-game megafactory, I think I'm torn between the previously mentioned "That Place" (ie, the junction between Northern Forest and Rocky Desert) and the Dune Desert between the waterfall and the pillar with the crashed pod at its base.

Both offer a wide variety of resources, many of them in "pure" form. The lake above the waterfall at Dune Desert provides a good source of water that never needs pumping, and there's a staggering amount of iron in the dunes, not to mention all of that mostly flat and open terrain to build on... but the number and variety of resources and their proximity to one another is probably still enough to weigh in favor of "That Place", so long as one remembers to watch where they place their feet.

After the release of Update 6, I think the mesa between Dune Desert and Spire Coast will be popular, but "That Place" will still be the "best" starting location.

[MJS WARLORD]

i started in an awkward area near the grassy fields i later made a huge foundation area on water to the west of this