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Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor: Satisfactory is a different game for me depending on the week. Recently I found myself in the thick of the jungle on the far side of the map from the friendly green plains I'd first started building in; I had to go a long way to find iron deposits rich enough to let me build a towering, multi-floor factory dedicated to modular frames. They're just boring metal cubes, but for a week I obsessively arranged a perfectly balanced system of inputs and outputs for each individual component—the iron rods, the iron plates, the steel pipes—until the sum total of all that effort amounted to 21 frames per minute and a glass penthouse overlooking a waterfall at the edge of the world.
