The beauty of this game is that you can build things however you want. If you want to have five belts of iron plates feeding smelters to output one belt of steel, go for it. If you want to have five belts of iron ore feeding five doubled-up smelting columns, that makes the iron plates then directly ...

While you're optimising things, may I remind you that researching an arty range upgrade is still a great way to have your game grind to a halt? Even placing a new arty 2 roboport ranges forward from your existing arties is enough to take a lengthy coffee break. That has already been severely optimi...

Turn off your personal Roboport. Deconstruct the base Roboport(s) so the area you want to work in is not covered by them. Turn your Roboport back on. Construct/deconstruct what you want to do. Once done, turn your Roboport back off. Use construction orders to have base bots rebuild the Roboport(s) y...

You have two choices, I think, to achieve what you want ... 1 : put a bunch of Storage Tanks downstream of the Steam Turbines. Steam they don’t need is passed through, and you collect it in those tanks at the end. When the reactors run out of heat, you still ahve the steam, and can delay inputting ...

You have two choices, I think, to achieve what you want ... 1 : put a bunch of Storage Tanks downstream of the Steam Turbines. Steam they don’t need is passed through, and you collect it in those tanks at the end. When the reactors run out of heat, you still ahve the steam, and can delay inputting m...

I admit, I’m not playing Death World. So ... forgive me if this isn’t really applicable. What I usually do if I need to wall off an area for defense, and I want to use Turrets instead of Laser Turrets (which are longer ranged but a bit weaker at a given tech level, or given parity in researches), is...

Yup. The “Thundering Herd” ...

Ok. How’s this? You want to make a centralized smelter for your Iron Plates. You want your Iron Ore delivered by train at one side, and you want the Iron Plates to be picked up by train on the other side. How many things want Iron Plates? A lot. So, you need to set up enough Iron Ore coming in. And ...

TC, tell your friend’s parents to get off their butts and do their research. Rating systems are not enough, parents should be looking into what their kids are doing beyond “someone else says its ok” or “someone else says its not ok”. Those ratings systems are a manifestation of the abrogation of par...

It will both be more effective and more work in the future. More effective, because you are reducing the traffic on your rail network. It takes two trains to carry the ore that one train of equal length can carry in plates. It takes four trains to carry in ore what one train of equal length can carr...

The color of wire is just there for player distinction. It has no bearing upon the circuit network. Connecting two wires to an entity has that entity sharing all signals across both wires. It does not matter if they are two red wires, two green wires, or one red and one green. I am not sure it is po...

Unfortunately, connecting the red and green wires to the inserters like that meshes their signals together, too. My own experience with filter inserters involves setting the filters manually, or through a constant combinator. Use case on that last is when setting up a large lab area, with belts on t...

I leave the ore unloading station at the smelter on, always. Mines, however, I turn on and off based upon how much ore they have available. I connect all of the chests associated with one cargo wagon together, and put them to the input of a Decider Combinator. If I have ore greater than or equal to ...

I once played a game with Alien Loot Economy up and running. I deliberately left biter nests up and running, within my pollution cloud, to gather the alien ores left behind by biters. Watching them gather before the assault, they just gathered up into a giant ball. Since that ball always melted to m...

I may be wrong, but if you are trying to avoid that second train, I think your only option is adding another cargo wagon to your existing train, to carry the product and waste product back. I don’t believe it possible to set a cargo wagon’s filters by circuit condition. Maybe a mod would let you do ...

Guys i need your brains. I need balancer that would balance items from one belt to another 12. I have one belt with iron and i need to split it to another 12 belts but i need it balanced so my furnaces are most efficent. Thx for help. <3 It takes 48 Stone Furnaces to eat a full Yellow Belt of ore. ...

Honestly, the solution is probably in a different direction than where you’re looking. How much time does it take, once the steam tanks are depleted, before you are making enough steam again? Lets say (its not, but for illustration purposes) it is 34 seconds. At 34 seconds before the steam tanks run...

I know that Factorio is not a RTS game. I also know that it is basically presented in that style. Multiplayer (and AAI) aside, you’re an Army of One. One thing I like about RTS games, such as Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires, and the like, was that you did have to build a new base each map. One t...

Buffer chests are kind of an odd thing. They mix aspects of Requestor and Passive Provider chests, while not really accomplishing the purpose of either of those chests. Honestly, they don’t really have all that much of a use, imo. I tend to have a mall that outputs to Steel Chests, and once I start ...

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Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:36 pm

You can sideload water for a 1.1 GW plant. using 3 pumps and a tank, you can feed 28 heat exchangers.

Does that single pipe segment between the three Offshore Pumps not restrict the flow too much?

How much more could you get if you had the Offshore Pumps feeding directly into the Storage Tank?