Create a way to lock outposts and their production rate to simulate in game resource levels. Once locked the outpost would no longer recalculate based off external factors.
I have gotten this request a lot but I don’t think anyone has thought it through. What it will do will just lead to wrong answers and invalid numbers. What happens when you lock an outpost to taking 100 ore but then only supply it 60? What happens when you connect a locked outpost outputting 100 ingots to a locked outpost taking in 60 ingots? The numbers are just going to be wrong and people will get mad at me when it doesn’t work like that in game.
What you can do is you can use storage containers set to Partially Full. If you surround all the inputs and outputs of your outpost with these it will give you the effective lock that you are looking for. Each storage container will display the difference of the input and output parts and any that are not zero you will need to deal with. You can put these containers outside the outpost, inside the outpost, or make an outpost within an outpost just to have a layer for these storage containers. You can get fancy with them too, say you want the outputs of the outpost to effect down the line but you don’t want a backup effecting the outpost, then put storage containers set to Empty along the outputs so that the backup has a place to go without effecting the outpost.
Emily McMahon
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Oct 31, 2025
The goal with this suggestion is add in an artificial limiter for calculations.
If a outpost can supply 100 ingot but the next step only takes 60 ingots it would show as a highlighted indicator in yellow 100/60 that there is an overflow of product. If an outpost requires 100 but is only supplied 60 then it would show as 60/100 and highlighted in red showing insufficient product being delivered.
Something like this would be really useful for someone that uses the calculator in the fashion of - I am using [X] nodes in [Y] Location to output [Z] product and need to know what the maximum capacity of [Y] Location and what has to be imported from [Y2} location. The artificial limiter would prevent the calculator from making backwards assumptions and limit the calculations to the the current stage of production.
Is it perfect, probably not, but I think it might be something to go off of.
satisfactorymodeler
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Oct 31, 2025
This functionality is exactly what storage containers do.
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satisfactorymodeler
Oct 30, 2025
I have gotten this request a lot but I don’t think anyone has thought it through. What it will do will just lead to wrong answers and invalid numbers. What happens when you lock an outpost to taking 100 ore but then only supply it 60? What happens when you connect a locked outpost outputting 100 ingots to a locked outpost taking in 60 ingots? The numbers are just going to be wrong and people will get mad at me when it doesn’t work like that in game.
What you can do is you can use storage containers set to Partially Full. If you surround all the inputs and outputs of your outpost with these it will give you the effective lock that you are looking for. Each storage container will display the difference of the input and output parts and any that are not zero you will need to deal with. You can put these containers outside the outpost, inside the outpost, or make an outpost within an outpost just to have a layer for these storage containers. You can get fancy with them too, say you want the outputs of the outpost to effect down the line but you don’t want a backup effecting the outpost, then put storage containers set to Empty along the outputs so that the backup has a place to go without effecting the outpost.
Emily McMahon
Oct 31, 2025
The goal with this suggestion is add in an artificial limiter for calculations.
If a outpost can supply 100 ingot but the next step only takes 60 ingots it would show as a highlighted indicator in yellow 100/60 that there is an overflow of product.
If an outpost requires 100 but is only supplied 60 then it would show as 60/100 and highlighted in red showing insufficient product being delivered.
Something like this would be really useful for someone that uses the calculator in the fashion of - I am using [X] nodes in [Y] Location to output [Z] product and need to know what the maximum capacity of [Y] Location and what has to be imported from [Y2} location. The artificial limiter would prevent the calculator from making backwards assumptions and limit the calculations to the the current stage of production.
Is it perfect, probably not, but I think it might be something to go off of.
satisfactorymodeler
Oct 31, 2025
This functionality is exactly what storage containers do.