I had some time off this week and… ended up not spending much time in Satisfactory because we had trouble with the furnace and then I had trouble with my internal systems. (We’ll just leave it at that.) This evening I eked out a couple of hours of progress, though, including the revival of an idea I tinkered with in a previous save but never implemented: A power control building.
I’ll be clear, this is a slightly ridiculous creation. If I want to put a power control switch in charge of a building’s state of on/off-ness there are much, much easier ways to go about it. Simply putting the switch by the main doorway and making sure that’s the only point at which power enters the factory building would do the job.
But… I have a Blueprint Designer and so far all I’ve done with it is create railway structures and light fixtures. Clearly I’ve been limiting myself. Why not have some fun?
Using the 5×5 Mk2 Designer space I set out a 3×3 bed of concrete foundations, then created “stairways” where the front/back doors go. For purely silly aesthetic reasons I walled the interior with the “half-pipe” foundations making a floorway bounded by curved floors that become walls. Just off-center inside the building is the point of the exercise, a power control switch. I perched it atop a small piece of decorative steel beam for “didn’t just want it sitting on the floor” reasons.
I ran a set of concrete pillars horizontally along the “wall” closest to the power switch as a way to hide most of the power cabling. This gives me a power wart at each end of the building, easy to reach.
Then, through the power of nudging, I surrounded all this with windowed walls and slapped some glassed roofing on top. To finish it off I put steel walls all around, used some more beams (regular and painted) for trim, and saved the blueprint for later deployment in the field. Huzzah!
I’ll be the first to admit this isn’t terribly practical. It eats up nearly as much space as a two-platform railway station. But it’s fun and that counts for a lot when you’re busy making factories for your corporate overlords. Don’t we all need a bit of self-indulgent fun in our lives? And hey, it doesn’t look too shabby:
