Not my usual kind of blog content1.

My friends and I had some fun this past Christmas doing the Satisfactory advent calendar. After unlocking the snow makers and the trees, I really wanted to make some sort of skiing/snowboarding build. It just... wasn't something that the game innately supported? I thought about making a slope for the factory cart until I experimented and found you can actually do a sort of long slide with the crouch slide to feel like skiing.

So now we have a ski slope in our factory x3.

Rules to keep a crouch slide going

As long as you follow a few rules, you can pretty much crouch slide as long as you want.

• As long as you're holding Shift + W + C (sprint + forward + crouch) when you make contact with the ground, you will keep all your momentum into the slide.
• You always need to maintain a minimum velocity or the slide will end.
• You cannot go on an upward slope (anything over a 1x ramp), even if you have enough momentum. It will cancel the slide.

Knowing this, you can build weird things to slide on things like pipes and hypertubes. You can slide into jump pads and maintain your slide momentum at the end. You can make little jumps if you have enough speed and continue sliding when you land. Some examples of the more interesting pieces in the ski slope.

Things I have not explored that could be cool: Hypertube accelerators; Bigger and badder jumps than the small ones I made; Anything with conveyors

Tips for building your own

If you're building your own slope, here's a couple tips.

• The only slopes you gain speed on are the 4x slopes. Too many 2x ramps, 1x ramps and flat foundations in a row and your speed will drop too low and you'll lose the slide.
• If you want to decorate your slope with white walls to make it feel more snowey, make sure not to use them on the actual slopes you slide on. The lip sometimes causes you to lose your speed and it'll make sliding harder.

You can see below how to make sure you don't have the wall lips on the end of the foundations.

Anyway, if you want the save, feel free to message me (contact on home page). And have fun building your own :3