there is no good vanilla solution for this.
most obvious, produce more.

Your demand seems to be far from that what you can supply.

The advantage is the maximum power usage for each production unit is set based on number of accumulators x 300k. The production unit cannot draw more so cannot effect any other unit's power. But it also cant draw more power because you calculate the maximum power for this setup. As long as you don'...

that jetpack idea sounds stupid/overpowered
If you have trouble being run over by your trains there are blueprints for safe railroad crossings

as a workaround you can use copper wire as an alternative for the train id why copper wire? -stack size 200 -usually not transported by train just put a certain amount in the train to identify it and use circuit condtitions working with the amount of copper wire advantages -not fixed train id -multi...

For my dropoff stations (where i'm dropping off ore or whatever) -connect all the chests together for the first wagon. -Connect those chests to the input of an artimatic conbinator -set the combinator Everything < total Space of the chests minus 1 full wagon ( so this might be something like 78k or...

Just. Calculate. Max. Power. It do not needed fluid calculations. What is changed by tick? MaxPower? pipes count or length? fluid consumption? What? No one actually need that fluid simulation in Nuclear... In Oil production, oil & sub-products can have deviations in flows. Nuclear plants. Do. Not. ...

it do not need any calculations yet... until fuel gone.... wrong, the game has to calculate the fluids constantly all the water going in and all the steam going to the turbines it can't be simpler than solar because solar does not scale in complexity sunlight is one calculation power output is one ...

In what way are buffer chests better at this than storage chests? assumption: you have a bot-based mall you put a bufferchest as the output storage for an assembler you limit the production with a limit for the output inserter you set the request for the produced item to a higher number disasembled...

Should I make Copper and Iron plates on their own belts yes use splitters and underground belts to split lanes anyway, when you reach green sience this setup will be obsolete. my favorite design is to have 4 parallel belts and then a gap of 2 for the yellow underground belts and then the next 4 bel...

How is the fuel consumption calculated though, based on distance or time? If it's time then the speed means it's actually more valuable than we take it for. Since the fuel duration is given in time I guess the time counts when the locomotive accelerates/moves at full speed. Anyway, a locomotive fil...

Here is an example plant: https://imgur.com/a/HHmWn This guy is using 24 blue belts of water barrels per 1/2 blue belt fuel cells for a 20GW plant. I'd say water logistics definitely becomes a concern at that level! I would say, that using barrels to feed a nuclear power plant is a bad idea. Especi...

Rocket Control Units are basically space computers.
Why would they need electric engines?

Modules are magic anyway and rgb units are just electronics.

https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/images/belt_driven_faculty.jpg the first factories had one big steam engine and all the machines inside the factory were belt-driven. Powering single units with dedicated steam engines was never a thing. So it would be more accurate to have ...

your best chance (without cheating) is to go for coal liquification.
You just need a really small amount of heavy oil to get the process started.

Anyway getting enough science to research it can be tedious.

Doesn't a power switch only cost power around the time you change it? Powering up or down beacons being the worst but I assume assembler, mining drills and inserters and so on too. I think that unpowered entities eat ups because they constantly search for power. Idling entities don't. so for exampl...

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Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:59 pm

If you make spidertron, please give him 8 legs if there are not any significant difficulties in 8 leg walking compared to 6 legs. Or otherwise it will be insectron, which has not nearly as high street credibility as spidertron.

Spidertron has to have 7 legs just to annoy everyone.

to defend captured areas: static turrets with activated train station for resupply new nests are usually small groups which can be taken out immediatly; no growth possible benefit: you save on train station names because you don't need dedicated names for every station. ammo demand is relativly low,...

How do you manage unloading with more than twelve items per wagon? Or do you use it as a mobile chest where you grab your material by hand? I usually use one chest for low demand items of which I usually just load one stack and load them with one blue inserter with stack size 1. Stuff like radars or...

I you want precise amounts of items in the train you need to have stack size set to 1.
Just use cargo wagon filters
have one dedicated stack inserter/chest for one item.
Max 12 item types per wagon.
Use placeholder items if you dont need a full wagon
This is the best and easiest solution.

When you make super UPS optimized factories and use assemblers with direct insertions between trains. Inserters and assemblers have all odd numbered width and rails can only bee and even amount of tiles between them, so you may need to use cars/tanks that have an even numbered width. you can place ...