Out pops 1 express belt of Electronic Circuits. Did I miss something, however? Is there an issue with this design? You are short about 1/4 of your assemblers needed to compress a blue belt. IF your goal is to MAX out a blue belt (with no modules) IIRC you need 16 Green Assy 3s and something like 19...

A very good point - now that you have mentioned it, I vaguely recollect that the original design may well have done that & changed to red belt where the balancer is.

I confess to being a little bemused. Around 12 months ago, when I was fresh-faced and still quite new to Factorio, I did a LOT of research on the forums and Reddit to gain some thoughts and insights into designs for various parts of my bus and rail setup. This solution for green circuits was posted ...

Did you click on the "Read" button first? And it would be helpful if you could show a screenshot of your blueprint

You can also use the Smart Trains mod by Choumiko, which enables trains to send signals about presence, capacity, remaining fuel, etc, back to a circuit network via the Smart Train Stations.

Dave, you never cease to amaze me with your Factorio skills. That is... Extremely impressive

That's a good, original idea. You may, however, like to consider using small pumps (which can also be wired to a circuit network), connecting them to the tanks and using them to allow/disallow either the raw material (Light/Heavy oil) or water (bearing in mind that cutting off either resource will s...

It's not clear on the picture, but the circuit assemblers feed onto a splitter between alternate pairs of assemblers, which then feeds in turn onto the underground belt, thus achieving full compression :-) Oh, and where the copper feed belts balance, they also downgrade from blue to red for efficien...

Very similar build that I use is here: It uses more undergrounds, rather than having the iron belt weave in and out, but works pretty well. Blueprint H4sIAAAAAAAA/61dX4/aSAz/Kqt9hhPOHwiqeLqH+xgVC7k2EiQoCbpWq/3uxybctYSMx/bPT5VK7LHHP3s84xnvsXk5NYf96eXr7r2s+6qvym73/l7vz+Xu 9e991y+ruivbvmxfF5emu/3e1Lv3H...

The thing to remember, I think, is the inserter research. With that, _any_ inserter can be used to pick up from anywhere up to 3 tiles away and deliver likewise. I actually have one inserter picking up plastic bars from a belt 3 tiles below it and moving them (over an intervening belt) to the near s...

I played the tutorial and one game on my own, but then I made the mistake of watching a stream so I already knew all the efficient setups. I'm looking forward to installing Bob's Mods so I can work it out myself ^^ Oh, DB... I installed Bob's entire collection earlier this week. And yes, I'm back t...

KatherineOfSky has done some YouTube stuff, although I am not sure if there is an entire LP series. She is also the author of two of the best guides on Steam that I have ever read.

I strongly suspect that she will be the result of the "belt diva" search suggested above

In honour of a tirelessly-working community modder, and someone who earns my regular curses (in a good way), mine is definitely called "Bob"

For me, loop wins every time. It does depend on how big you plan to build your rail network (bi-directional is ok for smaller setups), but I always plan for high traffic. I also find that, while there is the disadvantage of having to lay twice as much track, I prefer not having to drag an extra loco...

I have also found this to be a really good guide from complete rail noobishness to reasonably advanced network design principles

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... ts_23_and/

But mine's working! :mrgreen: You are a star, Siggboy, and I am extremely grateful for both your assistance and your hard work designing and implementing this amazing system. I'd buy you a drink, but then I would probably be arrested for Internet stalking or something, but please be aware that this ...

Looking good, although why do you have all of those fluid tanks? If your refineries are configured correctly, you should only need a tank for Lube and (arguably) either a few as a PG buffer and/or a crude oil buffer.

You may also want to allow extra accumulators if you are using laser turrets, in case the biters attack at night :-) This, of course, is another argument in favour of gun turrets. Also consider that, with a convenient local source of crude oil, you can use flamethrower turrets for the outpost defens...

I will begin with a disclaimer: I'm not good with combinators. My brain, however, is normally ok with logic, and it seems to me that the solution on the last page pretty much covers the original question. Here's my outline on the setup: 1 tank each of PG, LO, HO, Lube Pumps to control the input line...

And that kinda requires power. The OP's question was how to power his pumpjacks