History VideoGame / Satisfactory

** For April Fools 2024, Coffee Stain went with a video that is a TakeThat at Creator/{{Nintendo}}, having Snutt Treptow speak in mock Swedish (despite Snutt being a native Swedish speaker), announcing that the game is coming to the Platform/NintendoSwitch, and then showcasing the game running on the Switch... running at a sorry 7 frames per second. The video ends with the hands of a frustrated dev (or tester) flushing the Switch down the toilet.

** For April Fools 2024, Coffee Stain went with a video that is a TakeThat at Creator/{{Nintendo}}, having Snutt Treptow speak in mock Swedish (despite Snutt being a native Swedish speaker), announcing that the game is coming to the Platform/NintendoSwitch, and then [[RealityEnsues showcasing the game running on the Switch running at a sorry 7 frames per second]]. The video ends with the hands of a frustrated dev flushing the Switch down the toilet.

* AprilFoolsDay: For 2021, Coffee Stain Studios slipped several pranks into a seemingly innocuous Update in Experimental- firstly, the players are given a big head. Next, Lizard Doggos are scaled up to be humongous and randomly will have a pioneer helmet on. Then, they scaled down the Curious Creatures to be around the size of a lizard doggo. Lastly, they replaced the hogs with the Walkers from VideoGame/{{Sanctum}}. And as icing on the cake, they purposedly reintroduced the typo "error" trolling attempt they made sometime in Update 3. In true April Fools fashion, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard this backfired on them]] when unaware players [[http://twitter.com/SatisfactoryAF/status/1377921798524833792 flooded their QA site]] with bug reports on the above changes.

** Liquid Biofuel. On paper it is the ultimate form of Biofuel, indeed it has the highest energy per unit and energy per Biomass and in fact equals the energy of Fuel refined from oil. Unfortunately it combines the downsides of both Biomass and liquid fuels. Being a Biomass product you can't automate the collection of its raw material, and being a liquid means it must be packaged - which costs Plastic to make Empty Canisters that are not refunded when the fuel is consumed - to be used in vehicles or Biomass Burners. To add insult to injury despite its higher energy per unit the smaller stack size means more frequent refueling is necessary compared to Solid Biofuel when used in vehicles or Biomass Burners. Liquid Biofuel also cannot power the Chainsaw or Jetpack or used to make Turbofuel. It can be used unpackaged in Fuel Generators but the energy gain compared to burning the required Solid Biofuel in Biomass Burners is so small it's probably not worth the extra expense.[[note]]It takes 90 Solid Biofuel per minute in a Refinery to make 60 cubic meters of Liquid Biofuel per minute. The Solid Biofuel can sustain 22.5 Biomass Burners generating a total of 675 MW. The Liquid Biofuel can sustain 5 Fuel Generators generating a total of 750 MW, a gain of only 75 MW. Then you have to subtract the 30 MW required by the Refinery bringing the net gain down to only 45 MW, and then subtract the energy for the Water Extractor and any Constructors making Solid Biofuel. On top of that Fuel Generators are FAR more expensive to build than Biomass Burners.[[/note]]

* AWinnerIsYou: The reward for spending hundreds of hours exploring resources, bashing tons of hostile alien animals, weaving a massive network of conveyor spaghetti, building a massive factory capable of cranking out thousands of extremely complex parts, building nuclear reactors capable of providing the gigawatts needed to power all that, building even more machines to deal with radioactive pollution, setting up complex production lines, carefully optimizing them, and eventually getting to the point where you can finally make 4000 Assembly Directors, 4000 Magnetic Field Generators, 1000 Nuclear Pastas and 1000 Thermal Propulsion Rockets... is the exclusive FICSIT Employee of the Month golden cup. Zigged-zagged in that this is not the final prize of the game and is inserted to keep players busy while Coffee Stain is still working on the final two tiers and the last few updates before the game is pushed into final release.

The game can be played solo or in online co-op; there's no hard-coded limit to the number of co-op players, but the developers only seriously tested up to 4 players at a time. Being an early access game, there are still a fair amount of bugs and yet-to-be-added content. The game currently exists in two versions: 'Early Access', which contains the most stable updates, and the 'Experimental Branch', which is used for testing updates before they get pushed into the main game.

** As an {{Anti Frustration Feature|s}}, if you are at full health you can fall any distance without dying. You'll be ''almost'' dead, but so long as you make sure to consume some healing items before trying a risky bit of platforming, you can fall a hundred feet or a thousand and walk away.

** Crossing over into TooDumbToLive, Nobelisk consists of a large explosive mining charge carried in the right hand and its detonator carried in the left. So what does the Pioneer do with both their hands full after throwing a charge? They whack the detonator with another hunk of high-ex material. ([[FridgeBrilliance Then again, high explosives are supposed to be absolutely safe and completely impossible to detonate if they are not armed and ready]]).

* PlayerNudge: Automation isn't instantly unlocked, you have to feed your first machines by hand and craft some parts. This helps the player understand how important it is to have a passive income of parts rather than crafting everything. The last piece of automation that stays missing is power. As your factory grows you'll need to feed ever more biomass burners by hand, until you finally unlock coal power, which can be set up and forgotten.

--> ''Do you wanna build it? You will finally have a friend!''
--> '''Disclaimer''': Is not actually your friend.

** Nuclear power plants generate nuclear waste – which, like the raw materials and fuel itself, is very deadly to be around. Before update 4 there was no official way to get rid of it; you could only stash it away in a very far away place, just like in Real Life. Update 4 added a loophole to get rid of it by reprocessing it into plutonium fuel rods that can be fed to nuclear plants or disintegrated in the AWESOME sink, but not without caveats: it's a very expensive process that requires lots of parts, many different materials and a particle accelerator, which is the most expensive machine in the entire game, and if you dare use plutonium fuel to power your nuclear plants, you're going to have to deal with even more dangerous, actually for real undestroyable plutonium waste.

* VideoGameDelegationPenalty: Machines craft things at a much slower pace than the player character can do by hand. [[SubvertedTrope However]], you have more important things to do than handcrafting screws and plates, and setting up multiple factories across the gameworld will pay off in the long run. Further subverting this trope is that later in the game (project assembly parts, then anything made at a refinery, blender or accelerator) you come accross recipes that you have no choice but to automate, as they cannot be crafted by hand. And as you start increasing the scale of your factory, you'll soon be automatically crafting dozens of times faster than you'd be able to do by hand.