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Conveyor Belts inSatisfactoryare key components for building any sort of automation and setting up a production line. Without the ability to autonomously transport materials and items from one location to another, players would have to rely on manual transportation to do the task.
Conveyor Belts are not available at the very start of the game, during the tutorial. They need to be unlocked bycompleting certain milestones in the HUB. This is to prevent new players and beginners from being completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of things to do inSatisfactory. Here is how it works.
How To Make Conveyor Belts Mk.1
Conveyor Belt Mk.1 can be unlocked by completing theHUB Upgrade 4 Milestone in Tier 0. After the Milestone is completed, players will be able to craft Conveyor Belt Mk.1 through the build menu under the Logistics Tab. Conveyor Belt Mk.1 requires the following materials to craft:
Iron Plate
1 (Increases with length)
Iron Plates can be crafted by mining Iron Ore, processing it into Iron Ingots, andrefining them into Iron Platesat a Crafting Bench or a Constructor.
How To Use Conveyor Belts
Conveyor Belts cannot be used byPortable Miners. Players will need to place a Miner Mk.1 or above to automate this process
A Conveyor Belt needs to be connected to an output and an inputinSatisfactory. It’s easy to identify whether a port is an output or an input by looking at any structure’s hologram in the build menu. The orange port is the input, and the green port is the output.
If the hologram does not snap into place, it means that the two ends of the Conveyor Belts are connected to invalid targets (like two outputs) or that the turn rate for the Conveyor Belt is not physically possible.
If the hologram is yellow instead of blue, it means there is a clipping error, where the pathing you’re using is running throughother objects like treesor other buildings. This can be safely ignored, and pressing the LMB will create a functional belt.
How to Unlock Better Conveyor Belts
Progressive tiers of Conveyor Belts are called Mk.2, Mk.3, Mk.4, and Mk.5. Each progressive tier of Conveyor Belt can be unlocked by completing the relevant Milestone in the HUB. These will unlock naturally as the game progresses and players complete FICSIT’s objectives. Here are the details:
60
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 4
120
270
480
780
Tier 7 - Logistics Mk.5
1x Alclad Aluminum Sheet
The only difference between Conveyor Belts of different tiers is the speed at which they transport materials. Conveyor Belt Mk.2, for example, is twice as fast as Mk.1, the Mk.3 is 4.5x faster than Mk.1, and so on. However, simply upgrading all Conveyor Belts in a production chain without any forethought will not yield proportional results. This is because the bottleneck in many production lines is not the speed at which the materials are being transported but the processing speed for refining those materials.
Pressing N and typing in “Conveyor” will quickly bring up all craftable structures with that name. This is a much faster way of selecting which items to build instead of navigating the build menu.
