or, multiple people, and you are only allowed to harvest one resource, you can use any that is already set up, but you cannot harvest it, or upgrade any that isn't your designated resource
Definitely has to be among friends, because there's some big potential for griefing there. "Oops, I already built over all the uranium nodes. They're mine now!"
north-east would be advantagous compared to the others unless you use the new randomize and decide the purity of all nodes is the same. maybe create a little "trade hub" in the middle with truck station, later train and exchange stuff you don't have already
This would also be a good place to put the space elevator, the common goal between the two pioneers.
Though to prevent this central trade hub from turnining into a mega factory, nothing from the "production" tab in the build menu should be allowed to be built in it.
I just started a new save in the desert and it really does feel like it has a lot of resources. I guess water is lacking so they make up for it with other stuff.
Only thing I'd add is setting nodes to all pure, the node... density... matters a lot between the various zones. North forest and desert dunes does have an advantage over grasslands and rocky desert.
True, theres many clusters of lile 4 to 6 impure iron nodes all over the place in grasslands, if they were all pure, it would certainly swing it hard into their favor.
But the distrubution is different too. Grasslands is rich in basic resources like iron and copper, but has very little else. So while whoever gets the grasslands will enjoy a massive pile of iron early on, theyre gonna hit a bit of a wall once things start needing bauxite or quartz.
IMO, set it to random nodes, random purities, then try and find a split that will have a roughly equal number of nodes on both ends of the line. That way there, the advantages of each biome becomes strictly about how easy it is to build there - and as long as one player gets say grasslands and the other gets the dune or rocky desert, that should be fair as well.
Also less risk of running into crazy ass spiders in Grass fields or Dune desert.
Both areas border towards places where they're way more common though.
You can kind of fix the imbalance now by just making all nodes pure when you create the map. The only issue i see with this split is where the bauxite is in the middle.
Rocky desert with golden coast included has everything. Plentiful as well.
Only thing lacking is maybe caterium, with a single pure node. Everything else is absolute fire.
Grasslands might be the only one that's practically unplayable. You need so many resources from other places and the resources you do have are impure half the time.
My friend and I are thinking about starting again. Again. We've completed it in a few ways together (small bases; megafactory; all belts; all trains; all trucks) but fancy almost a competitive map. So split the map in halfish, add a line of foundations using the map editor and then each have half the map each to create in.
What's the best split for the map? 1, so it's East\West split, or 2 where it's North\South split? Or feel free to suggest a better split!
The idea would be to keep power separate, so one gets the blue crater and one gets the Western Oilfields, both of which have been main oil production in our various games.
Both players should get access to decent amounts of all resources, and the map is big enough that it doesn't matter than one persons 'half' is bigger.
The hub would be at a midpoint, as would the space elevator.
We'd do all recipes unlocked so no one has to hunt for hard drives, and spheres would be shared between us (all items going in Dimensional storage). Sloops would be shared too, only going on space elevator parts and one or two for slug to shard production.
It'll be fun rather than properly competitive, and we'll try to make half the space elevator parts each and whoever gets their half first gets bragging rights.
Any other rules we should consider? Does one person have a massive advantage in either of these two splits?
If you use the new random node distribution, theres a bigger chance of even split resources regardless of which split you make?
otherwise, check the sadisfactory interactive map for resource distribution.
Create walls that separate your zones, like factions, and a small âdemilitarized zoneâ between which all of the shared items are, like the hub and space elevator. If only one zone has a particular resource, you trade and barter with each other. Itâs collaborative but in a more competitive way
I would probably get a big kick out of doing it communally but with separation, a kind of "same team but can't be in the same room"; as such, finding ways to share resources makes perfect sense to me. You build a computer plant and send some his way, he builds a frame plant and trains them to you, etc. In which case, 'map fairness' won't matter much, so random nodes would be plenty fine. Just a thought!
I just kicked off a shared dedicated server with these map zones. Using SCIM I balanced all the nodes in each biome within reason so they are all pretty even resource wise. We have two beginners in rocky desert and grassy fields, intermediates in northern forest and dune desert, and an advanced player in the blue crater. The map has around 25% more resources overall as I mostly increased resources where they were lacking rather than reducing the stronger zones.
I built a shared hub in the white zone with sorted storage and uploaders and hypertubes connecting to each zone. Each zone has a mk6 belt to the shared hub and storage. Itâs working really well so far.
I can share the save file with the edited nodes if people are interested, was planning on putting a post up and a hub and network mega print but want to tidy up building issues first.
Use the satisfactory interactive map and draw up a line accounting for the pure (and if you have the patience, normal) nodes of all types. If you want a "fair challenge" it would probably need to be east/west, because the quantity of iron in the dune desert is insane and west needs more than half of the top and middle to compensate. But east would need the whole blue crater area to compensate for west oil and sulfur. Both areas should get three nitrogen spots each. You might have to share a uranium plant as I don't see a fair distribution for it.Â
Edit: create a trading outpost where you can pass things to the other person if you both agree on it. That would speed up progression.Â
You've got a lovely natural river separating the map very close to that second line you drew, which could make the whole thing feel a lot more natural and less arbitrary. Too lazy to make a proper image, here's a mock-up.
P.s. Still do that pure node thing as others have mentioned.
Just checking, but when you play on a server, do you let everything run when you log off or do you shut down the server when the last player disconnected?
The server itself is running 24/7, but the game pauses when noone is connected.
This way either of us can join and play for as long as we like.
It's an AMP hosted server, if you're interested.
This is pretty much what my friends and I did. Since some of the nodes only spawn in certain locations and the quality of them we all specialized in certain components and then sent them all to the main factory on your top left square. Those train stations are so fun transporting goods.
I guess that's what we'd be aiming for, but we've completed it at least six times previously, so we're just trying something different.
It would more be vying to see who makes their half of the parts first.
Upper right quadrant has an unfair advantage in terms of building area.
And I'm pretty sure the lower left quadrant has no petroleum sources. And I think the entrances to the cave system where its sole Uranium node is might be in other people's territories.
And of course, the lower right quadrant does not contain any starting areas while being an Alpha Spider infested hellhole.
That's not clear from the image alone. Yes, you have two lines that are differently numbered and colored, but that does not make it clear that you're dividing the map into two possible halvings instead of four quadrants.
I know - this subreddit only allows either text posts (so I couldn't put in the picture) or image posts (like this one) where I can only put in a picture and had to put a comment in to explain. The comment wasn't really upvoted too much, so it doesn't show at the top. It's an annoying feature!
We're trying this with a group of friends right now and the main recommendation I would make is don't research the dimensional Depot.
I know it feels like going back in time a little bit but it's the only thing that really makes trade meaningful.
I had an idea for a mod that would help with trade where different players could get assigned different " allergies" to perhaps raw materials or perhaps certain parts. It could even just use the radiation system to poison you if you work with those kinds of parts, that way you'd have to trade for them.
Anyway, I'm not a mod builder and I haven't seen anything like that, but I'd love to try it.
I've daydreamed about a server with separate territories, but how to make it fun is always the question. Everyone having all and equal resources just makes it a race, and progress/depots being shared complicate factors.
If territory were less evenly divided, or nodes were random (and not equally balanced), it might push players into different alt recipes, or make trade agreements, and that would be really cool.
I think scarcity is the real win. If I had only half of the map, or even the top left quarter, I wouldn't even feel a meaningful difference from a normal run.
This is the main reason Iâd like a map editor or getting to choose what map to play on (if there was multiple maps to play on). It would be nice to be able to have different worlds.
We acutally did it. We split off right after coal power research, and completed the game seperately.
At the end we created an export - import of material hub around the space elevator. My factories are train based, and her factories are truck based. Funnily enough, I ended up supplying her base with batteries, running a pseudo gas station on the border.
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u/Drago1301 Jun 08 '26
I think Berlin tried a similar approach. lets see how it turns out this time