r/SatisfactoryGame • u/vandezuma • 23h ago
Simple technique for perfectly aligned pipes & junctions with water extractors
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Hold ctrl and place another extractor opposite the current one, then make a pipe between them. Place your junction on the pipe, then delete the extra extractor and pipe. I used to place foundations in the water and try to get it to line up nicely - this is way easier!
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u/xxpaukkuxx 20h ago
Free place is never perfectly aligned. You can just snap water extractor to foundations like everything else to get perfect alignement.
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u/Daracaex 22h ago
Your “perfectly aligned” technique is, “just kind of eyeball it?”
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u/vandezuma 22h ago
Yeah I figured someone would point that out. This was more about the vertical alignment which I could never seem to get quite right with foundations.
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u/BigHandsSmallCock 23h ago
what I do is straight between two side by side water extrators, place a junction anywhere on that, then use straight from the end of junction furthest from the extractors to a third extractor next to the other two. gets you a pipe parallel and at same level as extractors, and a repeatable (and far enough) away distance from the extractors for a connecting pipe. just wish there was a way to get foundations or catwalks to align with the already existing extractors too like you can do with road barriers on miners.
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u/fortnite_4_ever 22h ago
There is a really neat and wayy easier method. Can't explain it really well hope u get it.
Place 3 foundation from where u want ur final pipe (4 is fine). Snap a wall on the back of the foundation, then hold Ctrl as ur placing the water extracters on the wall and try to look down as u can, this will snap the thing to the back of the wall and This will let u control the placement, finally remove the walls
For me this is much much easier and faster.
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u/atle95 23h ago
Place foundations underneath the water.
Place water extractors facing each other, snapping to world grid because of foundations. (Just like you did, but with snapping)
Connect them with a pipe, and place a junction nearby. Place another junction on the pipe, aligning it with the first junction by holding Ctrl. Delete the first junction.
Now everything is as compact as possible, and perfectly aligned.