Satisfactory Somersloop Guide: Power Augmenter & Production Amplification

🎯 The core idea

Somersloops are a hard cap of 106 alien artifacts in the entire world, and they only do two things — power your grid for free through the Alien Power Augmenter, or double a machine's output for no extra input through Production Amplification. Both break the game's normal rules, and both are worth spending deliberately rather than on the first machine you think of.

• free costs nothing
• cheap small cost
• setup needs preparation
• grind pays off slowly
• skip the thing to stop doing

The basics: a hard-capped, one-time resource

There are exactly 106 Somersloops in the entire world (confirmed on the current Satisfactory Wiki) — a hard, non-renewable cap, not an ever-refreshing collectible. They sit in hard-to-reach spots or areas guarded by hostile creatures, and the Object Scanner (once researched in the MAM) makes them much faster to track down. Before Satisfactory 1.0 they were purely decorative collectibles; the 1.0 update gave them their two current uses.

Because the total supply is fixed for the entire game, spending Somersloops is a genuinely permanent decision — there's no "grinding more" once you've committed one to a build.

Use #1: The Alien Power Augmenter

The Alien Power Augmenter is unlocked through the Alien Technology branch of the MAM. Getting there costs 2 Somersloops up front — one to unlock scanning for Somersloops themselves, one for the Augmenter research — leaving 104 for actually building Augmenters. Each Alien Power Augmenter costs 10 Somersloops to construct, which caps you at a maximum of 10 Augmenters in a single playthrough.

1. Research the Power Augmenter via Alien Technology in the MAM freeCosts 2 Somersloops total for the unlock chain, before you've built a single Augmenter. 1:23

How much power an Augmenter actually adds

Each Augmenter generates 500 MW independently, needing no fuel at all, and also multiplies your grid's base production: unfueled, one Augmenter adds a flat 10% boost, two add 20%, and all ten add a full 100% boost — and that multiplier applies after each Augmenter's own 500 MW has already been added to your base total.

Later in the game you can raise an Augmenter's boost from 10% to 30% by feeding it 5 Alien Power Matrices/min — a late-game item that acts as special fuel and is expensive to produce, so this upgrade is realistically an end-game-only investment rather than something to plan around early.

1. Feed 5 Alien Power Matrices/min to raise an Augmenter's boost from 10% to 30% grindA genuine upgrade, but Alien Power Matrices are costly enough that this is realistically an extreme-late-game project. 3:28

Use #2: Production Amplification

Unlocking Production Amplification costs one more Somersloop, leaving 103 in your total budget after both research paths. Once unlocked, you can insert Somersloops directly into a production building to multiply its output without any extra input materials — the tradeoff is a steep jump in power draw: a fully-slooped, non-overclocked machine consumes 4x as much power as the same machine unslooped.

Different building types have different slot counts and therefore different maximum boosts:

Filling only some of a building's slots gives a partial boost proportional to how many are filled — a Manufacturer (4 slots) with just 1 Somersloop gives a 25% boost rather than the full 100%. Anything not listed in that table cannot be slooped at all, since Somersloop slots only exist on specific building types.

Because Somersloops are capped for the whole game, it's worth being deliberate about which recipes you amplify — spending them on a material you could simply mine more of (iron plates, for example, when iron ore is effectively unlimited) wastes a non-renewable resource on a problem belts already solve.

Where Production Amplification actually earns its keep

The best use case isn't your main factory line — it's recipes whose input can't be automated. Power Slugs are the standout example: they're a limited (if fairly plentiful) resource that produces Power Shards for overclocking, and a Shard can't be converted back into a Slug. Slooping Power Shard production effectively doubles the naturally-occurring Power Shards you'll ever get, so it's worth holding off on cracking Slugs into Shards until Production Amplification is unlocked, if you can.

The same logic extends to two more unautomatable chains: alien remains (processed into Alien Protein, then Alien DNA Capsules — slooping both machines in that chain compounds to 4x the DNA Capsules, which is a lot of AWESOME Sink points) and, less critically, biomass and Solid Biofuel production, which can meaningfully ease early-game power if you can reach Production Amplification early via crash-site circuit boards.

1. Prioritize Somersloops on unautomatable recipes, not your main belts cheapPower Shards, Alien DNA Capsules and biofuel are the standout cases — items with capped or manual-only inputs, where doubling output has no automated alternative. 5:30
2. Prefer single-slot buildings (Smelters, Constructors) for your Somersloop budget cheapA 1-slot building gets a full 100% boost from one Somersloop, which stretches a limited resource much further than a 4-slot building needing four just to match it. 6:32

How this guide was fact-checked

Every specific number in this guide — 106 total Somersloops, the 10-Somersloop cost per Alien Power Augmenter (max 10 Augmenters), 500 MW generated per Augmenter, the 10%/30% unfueled/fueled grid boost figures, 5 Alien Power Matrices/min to reach the 30% tier, the 4x power cost of amplification, and the exact 1/2/4-slot building lists — was cross-checked against the current Satisfactory Wiki's Somersloop, Production Amplifier and Alien Power Augmenter pages, all reachable and current, and matched the source video's figures exactly. This is consistent with the Content Plan's note that this is a well-sourced, correctly post-1.0 pick.

What this guide doesn't answer

This guide doesn't give specific Somersloop map locations or a farming route — the video (and this guide) treats the Object Scanner as the tool for finding them rather than listing coordinates, since exact spawn points are better suited to an interactive map than a text guide. It also doesn't cover Alien Power Matrix production in detail, since the video treats that recipe chain as a late-game side project rather than walking through building it.