I plan to do my own little thread on this soon but coming at it from the belt side of things as there's a much bigger issue that bot throughput power or beacon power IMO. But IMO if there's an issue with blueprinting with beacons. make it so no machine can benefit from more than one beacon, up the a...

Consider this, Fluid wagons currently hold 75k fluid which can be separated into up to three different types. Cargo wagons with barrels can hold 100k fluid in up to 40 varieties. Back in 0.12 a practical wagon would be half full and half empty barrels, meaning that on a practical level it is easy t...

Honestly cutting the fluid wagon size down does not strike me a sa good thing.

One note to the above discussion, if Nuclear powered miners where allowed you'd have to come up with some system of giving burner miners a mining area bigger than their physical size. Otherwise a good chunk of the ore will never get mined. The downside of burner miners is that you have to move them...

I can think of a few more: A number of items have multiple ways for how the can interact with the circuit network, would be nice for items connected to multiple wires to have option to assign each function to a different wire. Also ability to read contents of individual roboports, also ability to en...

One note to the above discussion, if Nuclear powered miners where allowed you'd have to come up with some system of giving burner miners a mining area bigger than their physical size. Otherwise a good chunk of the ore will never get mined.

Assuming 1 nuclear fuel has the same MJ capacity as one fuel rod, 11 hours and change for the inserter. Not sure on steel furnace, can't remember the draw.

EDIT: I have no idea how i missed everything above, best guess second page i never saw

Best guess for whats happening. Nuclear saltwater driving a power turbine.

I'm fully aware if that, i even reference it in the OP. But if your trying to clear out a decent sized area it can add upto a lot of extra work and guesstimating about how much area you need to clear. Being able to do that just by shift click placing the roboport+power states or even a big piece of ...

TL;DR A suggestion for a blueprint compatible way of automating logistics network based tree and rock clearing and, (assuming the bots can do it), filling of water space. What ? This would be really simple. Every roboport would have a blueprint rememberable set of tickboxes, (3 to be exact), added ...

COol idea with the water. Might have to steal that, curious what's the output? Got my own design i was going to share soon, curious how it compares.

FFS, I figured out why the turbines have that odd 5.8 MW rating. You can feed the heat exchangers with steam from boilers (1.8 MW each) and this simply adds to the 10 MW each heat exchanger normally outputs! The turbines have that odd 5.8 MW rating because it's actually 5.82 MW. The math is as foll...

The early game is designed to be simple, oil is what breaks you into the mid game and eventually end game because of its complexity. Having done several playthroughs the base game is pretty simple already, I wouldn't want to simplify it further. I'm not saying it should be simpler, i'm saying it sh...

I think the problem with a lot of the not a bug examples i've seen that fall into the type the Op is talking about is: It doesn't matter if somthing is a bug or not if it's detrimental to overall gameplay experiance. Most people tend to assume that a lot of examples of the later are also the former,...

The ratio to final products is relative to the supply. If you decrease the oil requirement or increase the products of crude oil you're detracting from the huge setups required to maintain large factories. I think oil processing to final products is pretty good right now, my oil processing section ...

The first and most important point i'd make is that the main bus concept works perfectly so long as you aren't putting too much iron or copper in to start with. Assuming you can remember what exactly it is that each item you can produce is use for, (and thus dead end bus lines at appropriate points)...

I did note that i'd realised the crafting speed was sufficient, also whilst fixing it didn't bring it to a full belt, i double checked, (i've just had an afternoon nap), and realised it needed more power ooops. Don't have any mods installed, running moddless for now for achievements but assuming the...

Hit post too soon due to misclick, tired ughhh. bed soon for nap i think.

Actually i'm going to have to duplicate your design, grrr. Because from what i'm seeing it shouldn't be able to produce that much. First your copper wire crafting speed isn;t high enough to sustain more than around 33 a sec, second, even if you could magic up enough wire to run things from a product...

That may take a while, but i'll start typing and see how long it takes .