Satisfactory Buildings

Quick example: Iron Ingot

The Iron Ingot recipe takes 2 seconds per production cycle. Each cycle consumes Iron Ore × 1 and produces Iron Ingot × 1. These quantities describe one batch, rather than a per-minute flow. When the recipe has several outputs, plan a destination for the other products as well as the item you want.

At the reference operating rate, the input flow is Iron Ore × 30/min and the output flow is Iron Ingot × 30/min. These rates assume ingredients keep arriving and products can leave. A stockpile can hold enough material while its transport connection still supplies it too slowly. Compare each ingredient’s sustained supply and transport capacity against your target output.

The connected production facilities are Smelter. Owning the ingredients and being able to run the recipe in a facility are separate requirements. Check the facility’s input and output forms and power conditions. Before adding machines, distinguish a shortage of incoming ingredients from a blocked output.

The connected unlock requirements are Starting Blueprints. Check their preparation costs and prerequisites too. Compare alternative recipes at the same target output, including raw materials, intermediate products, facilities and throughput. Treating a batch quantity as a per-minute rate, or owned stock as continuous supply, can lead to a factory plan with the wrong scale.