The main goal of Satisfactory is to send materials through the Space Elevator so that humankind can build a space station to save the human race. This is done is phases where each phase requires you to fabricate a certain amount of different objects. There are a total of 4 phases and I've just completed phase 2 after taking a break from the game for nearly 3 months.
Phase 2 overview
Completing phase 2 requires you to manufacture 1000 smart platings, 1000 versatile framework and 100 automates wiring. Sounds easy enough in writing but this requires a good few hours of setting up your factories to work together. There's so many different materials and items that has to be manufactures and then used to create these parts. It's not an easy task.
I failed to mention in my last post about Satisfactory that half of the reason I tore down my old factory to build a new one was so that I could easier complete phase 2. Having a better overview of all those base materials really helped me when setting up the factory that would produce these phase 2 items.
I'll have to take iron ore and smelt it into ingots so that I can forge them into either iron rods or iron plates. The iron rods are then turned into screws which are used together with the iron plates to create reinforced iron plates. They are then used together with more iron rods to create modular frames. The modular frames are then used together with steel beams to create the aforementioned versatile framework.
In the last paragraph I didn't even mention the process to create steel, cables and a ton of other materials needed to produce the rest of the materials. All in all there's around 200 (or more, I've lost count) factory buildings producing materials that in the end get fed into three final assemblers that put together the final items I need to complete phase 2. It feels kinda crazy building a massive factory producing thousands of products each minute for it all to culminate in the production of barely 5 automated wirings a minute. But that's how it goes.
It took me roughly 60 hours to reach the point of completing phase 2. Work now of course immediately starts on phase 3, where I need even more advanced materials. I'll be able to unlock a fair amount of new things now including oil powered generators, trains to transport materials between factories and the dreaded manufacturer building that requires four different inputs to create a single item.
This is gonna require so much planning going forward...
All images in this post are screenshots taken by me.