Ex Albio Moves From Hand-Mining to Automated Factory Lines in Satisfactory
Over a stream of nearly five hours, the Nijisanji streamer ended with an assembler turning out smart plates for the next stage of the game.
NIJISANJI — Ex Albio spent a stream of nearly five hours on Saturday building a factory from scratch in Satisfactory, the automation game set on an unknown planet, and finished with an assembler producing smart plates, the parts needed to move on to the next stage.
The streamer opened by saying he had been looking forward to the game for a while. He picked the grassland start, dropped onto the planet and began by mining and crafting by hand, scanning for ore and upgrading the starting hub. By about 21 minutes in he had built an equipment workshop and a portable miner. Along the way he met the planet’s large creatures and fended one off with a stun weapon.
“This game is something else. It’s incredibly fun.” — Ex Albio, partway through the factory build
A guessing game took up a long stretch of the early stream. Ex Albio tried to name recent Nijisanji units, asking chat for hints and working through a long run of near misses. He eventually landed on Poppin’ Parlor, and said the name had surfaced like something coming out of a drawer in his head. He kept building through the stretch, wiring up a generator and smelters.
Automation arrived in the second hour, when conveyor belts started carrying ore on their own and he set up a line to produce reinforced iron plates without end. Power was the recurring problem. Breakers kept tripping as the biomass burners ran out of fuel, and he said solid biofuel was what finally eased the shortage. Later he cut leaves with a chainsaw to keep the burners fed and added storage containers along the belts so production would not stall.
Near the end he placed a large structure and read the story text that came with it, then spent the last hour on the assembler. The first smart plate came out about 4 hours 44 minutes in, and he put the remaining requirement at 38 more. He ended the stream with a lookout tower and said he would carry on with the game next time.
Chat kept up a running commentary on the guessing game and the power failures, and 13 Super Chats came in over the stream.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.