Factory Production Line Calculator uses only the stated values, rules, or dated dataset supported by this calculator's method. The result is a planning comparison and does not guarantee a price, trade, score, or outcome.
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Production line setup
Enter the known values, calculate once, and review the main answer with its supporting details.
Formula 1.0.014 inputs
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How to use: Enter the requested values below, then select Calculate to review your result.
Independent domain review pending
current Satisfactory production, clocking, amplification, recipe-data, and factory-planning mechanics: Single-line batch, cycle, ratio, clock, machine, and ordinary production-building power arithmetic is engineering-tested, but the active build, generator and extractor exceptions, amplification, Advanced Game Settings, recipe availability, fluid units, byproducts, machine idle behavior, and four-decimal in-game configuration require independent review before release.
Effective 2026-08-03 · Scope: Satisfactory ordinary production-building single-line planning under current clock and power rules · Review by 2026-11-03
Calculates per-minute batch rates, exact and whole machine counts, a final-machine clock, configured output and input flow, and ordinary production-building power from one fully entered Satisfactory recipe line.
Inputs
Enter your values
Required fields stay visible; optional choices appear when needed.
Step 1
Versioned production-line planning
A production line starts with one verified recipe before clocks and power enter the plan
Record the game build, recipe batch, cycle time, machine, input ratios, output target, and base power that you actually intend to use. The worksheet converts that one declared line into per-minute flow, installed-machine count, a final-machine clock, and ordinary production-building power without consulting a hidden recipe database.
Install whole machines, then tune only the final machine
Recipe scope
One entered and dated production line
Rate basis
Batch quantity × 60 ÷ cycle seconds
Power model
Base MW × (clock ÷ 100)^1.321928
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Scale one full machine
Multiply its 100% output rate by the entered clock percentage divided by 100. Production and ingredient consumption for an ordinary recipe line scale with that operating rate.
02
Divide target by full-machine rate
The quotient is the exact machine equivalent. Round upward once to obtain buildings to install; rounding down would knowingly leave the requested steady-state capacity short.
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Leave earlier machines at the selected clock
If the exact count is fractional, full machines before the last retain the chosen clock. The worksheet solves the final building's mathematical clock for the remaining output, but the game stores clock speed to four decimal places; entering that setting can therefore leave a very small surplus or shortfall.
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Respect the supported clock floor
The planner observes the current 1% minimum and 250% maximum described by the official Wiki. A target below the minimum configurable output may therefore produce a small declared surplus rather than an impossible sub-1% setting.
A production line starts with one verified recipe before clocks and power enter the plan:The exact machine equivalent is a capacity ratio; the factory still needs a whole number of buildings.
Turn a batch recipe into a common per-minute flow
A recipe interface usually describes an output amount per cycle and a duration at 100% clock. Dividing 60 seconds by the cycle duration gives cycles per minute; multiplying by output per cycle gives the machine's base output per minute. Apply the same cycle rate to each entered input quantity so the ledger compares consumption and production on one time basis instead of mixing batch totals with rates.
Labels matter as much as numbers. Preserve whether a line handles items or cubic metres of fluid, whether the recipe is standard, alternate, modded, or synthetic, and which ordinary production building runs it. A target of 60 units per minute is ambiguous if the source recipe, build, and unit context are missing. This page refuses to guess those identities from familiar-looking quantities.
Install whole machines, then tune only the final machine
The exact machine equivalent is a capacity ratio; the factory still needs a whole number of buildings.
Scale one full machine
Multiply its 100% output rate by the entered clock percentage divided by 100. Production and ingredient consumption for an ordinary recipe line scale with that operating rate.
Divide target by full-machine rate
The quotient is the exact machine equivalent. Round upward once to obtain buildings to install; rounding down would knowingly leave the requested steady-state capacity short.
Leave earlier machines at the selected clock
If the exact count is fractional, full machines before the last retain the chosen clock. The worksheet solves the final building's mathematical clock for the remaining output, but the game stores clock speed to four decimal places; entering that setting can therefore leave a very small surplus or shortfall.
Respect the supported clock floor
The planner observes the current 1% minimum and 250% maximum described by the official Wiki. A target below the minimum configurable output may therefore produce a small declared surplus rather than an impossible sub-1% setting.
Clock speed changes throughput and ordinary-machine power differently
Production is proportional
For an ordinary production building, 150% clock means 1.5 times the base cycle rate. Every input must be available at the corresponding scaled rate or the theoretical output will not be sustained.
Power is nonlinear
The official advanced-clock reference gives the production-building model base MW × (clock/100)^1.321928. Doubling output in one building therefore costs more than double its base power, while distributing a target across underclocked buildings can reduce power at the expense of space.
The final machine has its own power
Calculate the partially clocked final building separately instead of multiplying every installed building by full-clock power. This distinction is why whole-machine count and configured line power can change differently.
Generators and extraction limits stay outside
Generators use a different linear clock relationship. Extractors use the 1.321928 power exponent, but resource-node purity, extraction limits, and their distinct input model are not represented by this single recipe line. Production amplification, idle consumption, and altered-world rules also stay outside, so entering those cases here would give a tidy but incomplete answer.
Use the output as one node in a larger factory balance
Configured capacity is not proof that belts, pipes, miners, upstream recipes, byproducts, buffers, or downstream consumers can carry the flow. Compare every input rate with its supplier and every output with transport limits. If the source recipe changes after an update, revise the batch, duration, power, and labels together rather than preserving an old ratio under a new name.
This single-line worksheet does not choose alternate recipes or optimize an entire production graph. Its purpose is auditability: another player can reproduce one rate calculation from the recorded build and source date, then decide where that line belongs in a broader plan.
Move to a neighbouring planner when the resource model changes
For user-declared ores, attempt probability, and expected output value rather than continuous factory flow, use Entered-Recipe Expected-Value Calculator. Its probability ledger should not be imported into a Satisfactory rate line.
For actions, experience, materials, GP, and play time toward an Old School RuneScape skill target, open the Construction XP and Materials Planner. Whole training actions are a ceiling problem, not a machine-clock problem.
To inspect a clock change as a baseline percentage question without any game assumptions, use the Percentage Calculator and state whether you mean percentage change, percentage points, or a simple ratio.
The worksheet has no live recipe or factory connection
This independent planner is not affiliated with or endorsed by Coffee Stain Studios or the official Satisfactory Wiki. It does not read a save file, installed Docs data, mods, belts, recipes, or patches. Every identity and number comes from the user, so the in-game interface and current official documentation remain the authority when the entered scenario disagrees with play.
Target and configured output
Target output compared with the capacity of whole machines when the final machine is adjusted to its calculated or minimum clock.
2 values. The highest is Target output at 90.00/min.
Entered-base power comparison
Ordinary production-building power for the adjusted final machine versus running every installed machine at the entered full clock.
2 values. The highest is Configured final clock at 34.18 MW.
Entered input ratios
Per-cycle entries converted into required target flow and configured whole-line capacity without summing unlike item or fluid units.