# Preparing for launch

> Canonical source: [Preparing for launch](https://satisfactorybase.its-live.dev/blog/2026-09-01-preparing-for-launch)
> Language: en

The day before SatisfactoryBase went public: hosting, backups, legal pages, a bug reporter — and a pile of planner and map improvements.

2026-09-01


## What's new

Today was the unglamorous half of building a website: a server, a database, an automatic weekly
backup, a health check that tells us when something is down, and a deployment we can repeat without
holding our breath. Alongside that came the imprint and the privacy policy, a cookie banner that
actually gates analytics and advertising instead of just asking politely, self-hosted fonts so no
third party sees your visit, and error reporting so a crash reaches us instead of dying silently in
your browser.

We also gave every public page its own title, description and social preview image, added a sitemap
and told search engines which pages they may index and which they may not — your account, your
worlds and your factories are off limits.

One thing you will see immediately: a **Beta** badge in the navigation and a report button next to
it. SatisfactoryBase is in open beta. Numbers can change, features will move around, and something
will occasionally be wrong. The report button takes a screenshot of what you were looking at and
sends it to us with the page you were on, so we do not have to guess.

Not everything today was plumbing. The Planner learned editable connection lines — drag a segment,
set waypoints, and the belt path stays where you put it, with a Tidy button to reset. Generator
nodes arrived together with a power balance, so a factory can finally tell you whether it feeds
itself. On the Map, extractor settings now live directly on a resource node, purity is colour-coded
red, yellow and green, and the wheel zoom is roughly one level per tick instead of a slow crawl.
Train stations handle multiple cargo types and a fuel port, and assign themselves when you connect
them.

## Why we changed it

The badge and the report button exist because we would rather hear about a problem the moment it
annoys you than read about it in a review three weeks later. And consent gating is deliberate: no
analytics and no ads run until you say yes, and saying no keeps the site fully usable.