KhrisKruel wrote:And here I am trying to figure out how to expand to two working labs efficiently. I think I'm playing this game wrong

There is no such thing as playing this game wrong my friend

The only thing that should be important to you is how fast you want things to happen!

As of 0.10.0, burner inserters will fuel themselves, but you must provide the first fuel in order for it to keep going. So just drop one coal in each burner inserter and it'll feed itself, then the drill.

Well I'll be! This makes perfect sense then. I will add your screenshot to the page and ...

Actually, the way it runs currently I think is reasonable. Have a burning miner with another in front. It means you have to fuel the one behind, but you have fuel inserters anyway. From the stage of having it the way my guide works until you get electrical power I think is a reasonable way to do it.

Ah yes. I think I had an example or was going to put one in and then forgot to do so. In reality I think most people would skip burner inserters because electricity is so easy to make. I was going to put it in for completeness. I will go back and look at it in a couple of hours and fix it up. Thanks ...

Turtle wrote:Personally, I don't like smelting on-site. What happens when your ore field runs dry? You have a lot more stuff to move and setup at your new location.

That is a very good point and I think I strongly agree with you on it.

Hi Guys, thought I would plug this here as well. I have started writing the quick start guide for factorio on the wiki for new players who need a little help starting from the beginning. Hope this helps some people. Feel free to offer suggestions on what to write, anything that needs fixing and ...

Hi guys,

I've been working on the quick start wiki page for those who need help starting out in the game. I'm going to continue trying to update it and hopefully it will become something useful to all the newbies out there

I don't understand why you wouldn't process your ore on site? Is there any reason not to have your smelting out where your ore is being produced and THEN loading it onto the train?

That layout is absolutely amazing. I'll have to try and build it sometime.
Is there a chance that you could get the total of all the machine that you used in that build? using a blueprint or something?
Want to know how many bloody assemblers I'm going to need to create.

Hi guys,

Looking around the forum, there are lots of schematic style sketchs (created in autocad?)
e.g:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4965
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4568

I don't understand how anyone reads these! Do you download them and zoom in ...

I don't understand how people read these schematics. They look nice and such, but I can't tell what anything is! Am I missing something?