Re: Basic resource management

I'm wondering now how to best "split things up" so that I can manufacture different types of intermediate product. Obviously I need gears in lots of different things. Should I set up a space that just makes gears and puts those onto a belt and then send that belt to my other parts to make transport belts and science packs and inserters etc. Or should I have each "product making facility" make it's own intermediate product. Obviously it's much harder in the beginning without underground belts to arrange all of this.

Both things work: Making special areas for every intermediate product and then transporting it to other assemblers or building "autonomous" lines which produce a special product and everything needed for that. And every combination of both work as well.
I wouldn't look how others did it at least not in the beginning. Setting up blue science production for the first time was the most enjoyable part of my factorio experience. You'll get it right eventually and once you did it you want to do it again in a more "efficient" manner.

I can give you just one advice build bigger and leave more space open then you think you need to.

I second this motion. I learned a lot setting up my first factory before seeing how others did it.
The way I did it was very cramped and not expandable which I now will keep in mind when I start again. In fact, since I cleared out the biters from near my base I am considering rebuilding my industrial centre nearby to make it more efficient and expandable. That half the fun of Factorio - tweaking your setups...
Statistics: Posted by Zordah — Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:36 am