Concept: Either a Mk2 radar dish or tech-tree-expanded functionality that allows radars to point out resources in the unexplored wilds. Details: While perusing the Facebook group, I've noticed a lot of people showing maps that seem to have little or no resources of a certain type - usually oil or st...

I have a train set up to leave a station on the following conditions: Fluid > 5,000 crude oil OR 5 seconds of inactivity But even though oil is entering the fluid wagon, the train will take off after five seconds, with far short of the 5,000 units of crude oil. The pumping of fluid into the wagon do...

Do you even really need the splitter at all?

I'm counting 30 LO->Petro cracking plants, not 28.

This is great! I've been trying to figure out a decent module production design, but this looks better than anything I've come up with. I'll have to use it in my factory (and in my video series, with credit to the creator, of course)!

There's a stickied thread at the top of this subforum talking about priority splitters:

viewtopic.php?f=202&t=32817

From what I understand of the OP's needs, this should do the trick.

I've recently installed a power switch that activates the connection from my steam generators if accumulator charge is less than 5%. The steam generators always have solid fuel, fed from my fluid processing facility, and the inserters are burner-level. When it clicks over, power is up and running im...

I have several pages in my notebook dedicated to stuff like this. Keeps me entertained on my work breaks.

Right now I'd rate the difficulty / tedium of setting up each of the science packs, as well as the concepts needed to create them, as thus: (scale of 1 to 10) SP1: 1 (mining, smelting ore, creating gears in an assembler, laying belts, etc. - basic stuff, really) SP2: 3 (multiple chains of assemblers...

If your trains aren't using all the stations, then you don't have enough trains / enough need to justify the extra stations. Any situation that I can imagine that would warrant train stations sharing a name, it wouldn't matter which station they used, as long as at least one was available when neede...

I'm running a series on YouTube where I am attempting to build a megafactory for the first time, starting from scratch, learning as I go. Each episode is roughly 20 minutes in length, with game play footage sped up 300%. Yes, this format was stolen inspired by Bentham/Mangledpork. https://www.youtub...

Tnarg wrote:Added a new version to top post.

Is there a reason for the gap in the first set of inserters?
Cool design, though. I may have to try this in my MegaFactory series.

I have no idea how people get so much red circuit production Your Red Circuit production line is very clumsy (and the Blue one, too). If you build that way you waste a lot of space and belt and it just makes things more awkward than necessary. Red Circuit is extremely easy, you only need 3 ingredie...

I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind some of the little twists and bumps in your belts, and why there are inserters moving items from the belt to another part of the same belt. Particularly in your coal line, you have inserters doing a more complicated version of what a single splitter wou...

I've started building my next factory based on this concept: http://i.imgur.com/30Xxbxt.jpg Research Facility http://i.imgur.com/10I1NSm.jpg Liquid Processing (still need to add lubricant and switch my refineries over to Advanced Processing) http://i.imgur.com/xkpeewR.jpg Green circuit and steel pro...

http://i.imgur.com/m0BkSFV.jpg I feel kinda overwhelmed when I compare my rinky-dink first factory to everyone else's. It was a tiny thing, with only mining facilities located in other areas (you can see them on the mini-map) but it got me through my first game. For reference, here's my second fact...