Prepare yourselves for even more ways to enjoy your automated life with Satisfactory Update 1.2! Now available to download, this new update brings some new features, quality-of-life changes, and plenty of patch notes to dig through. Grab your Satisfactory friends and take a look below at everything that Coffee Stain Studios has been working on.

What's New in the Satisfactory 1.2 Update?

While this is update 1.2, it's still in the Experimental phase. That means you'll have to enable the game's Experimental branch in order to access this new content. As is always the case with the Experimental portion of Satisfactory, the developers strongly encourage caution. This build isn't entirely stable. So make sure you back up your saves in case anything happens that might erase your hours of hard work. As far as new content goes, Satisfactory has now received a massive overhaul to rain. Not only does it make the world look more dynamic with wind, fog, and more detailed wetness, but you can personally adjust the intensity of rain in the settings. Additionally, more changes have been made to improve controller support. Dynamic Gamepad Swap, for example, now allows you to switch between your controller and mouse & keyboard simply by interacting with one or the other. No more menu and settings hopping required! Now, you can also rebind your controller keybindings to completely customize your gameplay input. There have also been significant changes to vehicles. First, the entire vehicle pathfinding system has been rebuilt from the ground up. This means that Vehicle Paths should now function more reliably while offering more options for automating and customization. Throw in the handful of new buildables and quality-of-life changes, and this is a fairly sizable update for Satisfactory enthusiasts and their pals to enjoy.

Satisfactory 1.2 Patch Notes (Experimental Version)

Here is the full list of patch notes and new content you can look forward to in Satisfactory Update 1.2:

New Weather Settings

• Default
• Dry
• The Great MASSAGE-2 (AB)b
• Clear
• Raining Kittens and Puppies
• Extreme

New World Settings

• Visor effect raindrops: on/off
• Rain post processing: on/off
• Thunder: on/off
• Fog density slider

Controller Support Additions

• Dynamic Gamepad Swap
  • You can now switch from Mouse & Keyboard to Controller without having to change between them in the options menu.
• Rebindable keybindings for Controller

Vehicle Overhaul

• Vehicle path automation has been remade and optimized with additional settings available
• Vehicle suspension improvements
• Fluid Stations and Fluid Trucks have been added to the game

Creative Mode

• The Advanced Game Settings Menu has been renamed to Creative Mode

Game Modes Menu

• A new menu for Game Modes has been added. When starting a New Game, you can adjust the following settings:
  • Cost Multipliers
    • Space Elevator Deliverable Cost Multipliers
      • 0.25
      • 0.50
      • 0.75
      • 1 (Default)
      • 2
      • 5
      • 10
      • 25
      • 50
      • 100
    • Recipe Parts Cost Multiplier
      • 0.25
      • 0.50
      • 0.75
      • 1 (Default)
      • 1.25
      • 1.50
      • 1.75
      • 2
    • Power Consumption Multiplier
      • 0.25
      • 0.50
      • 0.75
      • 1 (Default)
      • 2
      • 5
  • World Randomization
    • Resource Node Randomization
      • Default
      • Random
      • Basic Resource Rich
      • Advanced Resource Rich
      • Fossil Fuel Rich
    • Resource Node Purity
      • Default
      • All Pure
      • Mostly Pure
      • Average
      • Mostly Impure
      • All Impure
      • Random
    • World Seed
      • Shows the current world seed so you can share it with friends; currently, other settings have to be manually matched on top of sharing the seed
      • Default world seed for a vanilla game is 0

Photo Mode

• One new colour filter
  • "I know what you are"
• One new effect filter
  • "Blueprint"
• All photo mode poses also have new variants for when the pioneer is using a hover pack
• Selfie Mode added

New Buildables

• SPWN: Unlockable as part of the Alien Technology MAM Research tree, and costs the following to craft:
  • 1 Mercer Sphere
  • 11 SAM Fluctuator
  • 20 Steel Pipe
• Upgraded Power Connectors: Unlockable as part of the Alien Technology MAM Research tree, and costs the following to craft:
  • 15 Computer
  • 50 High Speed Connector
  • 500 Quickwire
• Pipeline T-Junction: Unlockable as part of the Tier 3 - Coal Power Milestone
• Cross Beam: Unlockable as part of the Beam Expansion Pack in the AWESOME Shop

Real Pause Menu

• Now on by default, this allows you to completely pause the game by pressing ESC

Quality of Life Changes

• Console Parity
  • All the changes that have come from the Console version, including bugfixes are now part of the PC version as of this 1.2 Update
• Options Menu
  • We’ve done a full pass of the Options menu and all settings and creating consistency with the terminology and values
• Hologram rotation mode
  • Found in Options > Controls, with this option you can change what the default rotation is when holograms are created by the buildgun, you can choose between:
    • Static
    • Spawn Facing Player
    • Always Face Player
  • As well as control what is the relative rotation to the player, between:
    • Relative Rotation to Player
      • Parallel
      • Perpendicular
• Left handed train signals
  • Sampling a left handed signal will now correctly give a left handed signal instead of a default right handed signal
• Manta art update
  • The Flying Manta has gotten a new visual overhaul
• Signs
  • After several years of seeing you all use signs as lights and building thousands of them we finally caved in, Signs can now be zooped :)
  • Additionally, zooped signs on the ground will have a pole attached to them