you need roughly 3 belts of plastic and ~20 belts of both copper and iron for 1 full blue belt of processing units. Processing units are super expensive. Factorio calculator https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/67jsi9/factorio_assembly_calculator_updated_to_015/ https://docs.google.com/spread...

I'm working on my first "mega base". I am planning the layout for the later stages now. I've got pretty much all science researched and am ready to scale things up a notch or two. Can someone give me an idea about how many electric smelters of copper, iron, etc., I need to fully saturate a...

Thanks. I got it working now and it is exactly what I needed. My wrists and hands thank all of you.

I know it is kind'of' "cheating", but people with disabilities sure appreciate it. Thanks again. The factorio community rocks.

I've been searching for a while now and can't find a decent layout for yellow/high tech science. Does anyone have a blueprint string or img to share?

Is upgrade planner working with the latest 0.15.9 beta? Using steam, I just usually set the beta to the highest level. I couldn't find any version requirements for upgrade planner. Is there a page that tells us which version of factorio matches a version of upgrade planner? I am not sure if it is ve...

Thanks, I'll check that out.

I tried this mod, https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Mylon/BeltUpgrader , but it crashed the game. An earlier version of it worked, but it only seemed to do the belts and nothing else. Is there another mod or technique for upgrading all belts/splitters/undergrounds to blue? I'm trying to find ways to mi...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... JwUr61IRaw That helped quite a bit. Things I learned that I believe will help newer players: 1. She struggled with iron early on also, even with a few lines of iron. So it is basically a struggle early on if you build big. So by design. 2. Using load balan...

Thanks everyone. My line is initially balanced and saturated, but after splitting off for a couple items, it is no longer saturated. I'll look into limiting some of the items, but some items I seem to be using just as fast as I can use them, like the things involved in potion making. I have 15 or so...

...this was a url to zisteau's vidoes on youtube, but the forum said I couldn't post a url:( I have about 70 hours tinkering with Factorio and love it so far. This weekend I watched most of the zisteau videos where he created a single main bus that had on it about every useful item in the game. He u...