A screenshot of Satisfactory showing a nitrogen pipe extending toward the aluminum factory.
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Streamer’s Log: HermitFactory is chuffed about nitrogen

Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!

I hope you enjoyed my account of yesterday’s HermitFactory stream, where I leveraged our first access to automated smelted aluminum to build a heat sink factory and pioneer a nitrogen pipeline.

I started this stream by giving Hypno a tour of the nitrogen harvesting area, and used that trip as a chance to finish painting the nitrogen pipes grey for consistency.

Hyp was curious about what nitrogen could be used for, and learned that you could combine it with sulfuric acid to make rocket fuel. Since rocket fuel sounds out of this world, Hypno wanted to start blending some up at the petroleum processing facility I agreed to extend the nitrogen pipe there while Hyp started tapping the nearest sulphur nodes.

I reached the petroleum facility so quickly that I decided to continue the nitrogen pipeline toward my heavy modular frames factory. Hyp’s conveyors and my pipeline met under the intersection to the heavy modular frames loading dock.

A screenshot of Satisfactory showing a nitrogen pipe and two sulphur lines passing under a road.

Once I reached the heavy modular frames loading dock, I ran the pipe up the building to the current top floor. I set up some temporary industrial storage units for the heavy modular frames and aluminum casings until I could properly convey and truck those over and fed it all into a blender to kickstart production of fused modular frames.

A screenshot from Satisfactory showing a blender with inputs for nitrogen, aluminum casings, and heavy modular frames configured to output fused modular frames.

Xisuma logged in a bit after us and began adding walls around the aluminum complex. I really liked the skylights and the sloped roof. The shed on the top serves as street level access.

A screenshot from Satisfactory showing that Xisuma added walls and a roof to the Aluminum processing complex

Once those walls were up, it was time to take a hard look at the spaghetti electrical job I’d done when I set up the heat sink production line yesterday.

A screenshot of satisfactory showing a messy electrical setup.

I removed over a dozen poles and set up outlets along the walls and beams and am pretty pleased with the results:

A screenshot of satisfactory showing wired running from outlets to machines neatly. The storage containers are now labelled with billboards displaying a picture and the name of the contents of each.

I was just about to wrap up for the day when I realized that my truck routes had  trucks crossing each others depots. I did my best to clean up the mess quickly, then shut the trucks’ auto-pilots down for the day. I’m going to take a fresh crack at that problem tomorrow.

Thanks for joining me for this Satisfactory streamer’s log! If you’re curious about catching a HermitFactory stream yourself, please remember that you can always keep an eye out for upcoming shows via my streaming calendar at https://joehills.net/soon/

Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.

Keep adventuring!