Hayertjez wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:00 pmNice layouts, question what blueprint do you use with the rail in the top right corner?

It looks like an alternative entry/exit for the 2x2 station design at the left.

Build a liquid tank. Put two pumps to drain it. Use wires to connect both pumps to the tank and set pumps activation condition to Any >= 400. Now you have a liquid splitter.

You can connect up to 4 pipes to a tank. At least one will be used to fill it. Therefore, you can build 1-to-2 and 1-to-3 ...

SteveMacGyver wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:21 amSince when do we live in a manual world

Not sure about myself, but you're living there since the moment you enabled game functionality that wasn't in active development for many years, ne?

You can set them manually, just not with a circuit.

I see many factories online with rails gathering supplies off into the distance for miles and miles, all laid out so neatly and in some cases very complicating mining sites/loading bays. How do people with big train setups like this compensate for the fact they are constantly going to changing up ...

Active/inactive toolbar?

Do you mean the top/bottom part of the toolbelt? Or are you saying there is a second toolbelt you can switch to with a keystroke? If the second, that might just be the best hidden secret of Factorio.
There's only one toolbar I'm afraid. But after researching Toolbelt you ...

There are a few suggestions like this.

Though I personally prefer Mechanic Pack (red), Logistics Pack (green), Military (gray), Chemical (blue) and so on.

I usually carry two types of belts with me, even if only a single stack of each, in case I need to weave a bit. One set is at active toolbar, another at inactive toolbar, switchable with a single key as needed.

So I spend a lot of time with yellow/red, then eventually switch to red/blue and ...

I don't see the problem. A roboport can supply you with logistic network contents. Check the amount of coal, and supply either Coal=50 or Wood=50 signal to the requester chest.

IIRC the optimal speed/acceleration are achieved at 1:2 ratio between locos and wagons. So it's 1-2, or 2-4, etc.

Personally I perfer to use 2-4 trains, and when I need something really big, I build a 2-4-2-4. This makes station expansion really easy. Also you can still send a small 2-4 train to a ...

Use barrels. Just don't build a pipe between the unbarreling assembler and the pump. Attach the pump directly to the assembler, otherwise some micro-amounts of liquid will remain in the pipes, perfectly breaking your perfect count.

Personally I would expect that even in that case, floating ...

zOldBulldog wrote:I would like to ask experienced players (at least 1000 hours) to share their overall vanilla (no mods) strategies for getting ore to smelters and more importantly WHY they chose those strategies.

I play 0.15 and wait for 0.17. This strategy works every time.

Use barrels. Just don't build a pipe between the unbarreling assembler and the pump. Attach the pump directly to the assembler, otherwise some micro-amounts of liquid will remain in the pipes, perfectly breaking your perfect count.

Wire signals need some time to propagate. Even if it's just a single tick, it's enough for the inserter to start loading the train because inserter's current signal states that the train does have less than thousand items.

You need to make a more complex system for load control. Two combinators ...

Disable your outpost's receiving station when tanks are full.

When tanks get below set level, enable the station. Train moves out, refills the tanks and goes back while stations gets disabled again.

Pretty sure draining oilfield by burning it would take longer than actually draining it IRL. You can only burn whatever oil comes to the surface naturally after all.

Still, putting an oil patch on fire is a nice idea. It would produce tons of pollution and attract biters, which would be actually ...

I have run into a similar problem at my base once. Didn't have the space to rebuild the station either. So I created a cleanup system:

1. A cargo train can also depart if there hasn't been any activity for some time (ensuring it can leave even though not fully loaded).
2. Another "cleanup" train ...

Picture a train coming to an intersection, and on the right-hand-side of that track put a chain signal on every entry point to that intersection, and put a normal signal on every exit from that intersection.
I usually follow this by "and then stick as many chain signals inside the intersection as ...

JCav wrote:Moving each stack by hand is literally the problem I'm trying to see a QOL fix for.

And other players may see a QoL in the ability to set a limit for the chest that will be honored when you're trying to fill them from inventory, while violation of said limit will be a QoL problem for them.

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