Also having the same "issue". The game has been running for about 1.5 in game hours (6 hours real time) and hasn't recovered yet. Hopefully I will get those delicious 3-4 fps back at some point.

Had a bit of a Copper Plate delivery crisis so I have split the left-hand staging into two separate parts to improve throughput, added one more block of smelting and reallocated all the trains using that factory to either the top or bottom staging area. I have also added some more Copper Plate ...

Mining

All mining outposts are set up using electric mining drills feeding directly into trains. This is by far the most UPS friendly way of doing mining although it is absolutely rubbish until Speed-3 Modules are available and mining productivity has been increased substantially.


Mining ...

Rocket Silos


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This picture shows an overview of the Rocket Silos. Low Density Structures, Rocket Fuel and Rocket Control Units are each supplied by two 12-lane stations. Each station feeding in to provider chests (as described under Iron/Copper Smelting). There is then a ...

Rocket Fuel

This is the design I use for making Rocket Fuel.


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Plastic

This is the design I use for making Plastic.


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Blue Circuits

This is the design I use for making Blue Circuits.


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Green Circuits

This is the design I use for making Green Circuits.


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Steel Smelting

Steel smelting is huge. These blueprints take in 16 belts of Iron Ore and output 4 belts of Steel Plates.


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The requirements for 1350 spm are as follows:
12694 Steel Plate
2460 Lubricant
22687 Sulfuric Acid
964.3 RCU
2063.6 LDS
1031.8 Rocket Fuel
1134.2 Batteries
21941 Plastic
76543 Copper Plate
42850 Iron Plate (excluding Steel Plate requirements)
1466.6 Blue Circuits
8104.6 Red Circuits (excluding ...

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There are 6 stand alone science bases. Each science base is pretty much identical in layout although some bases have a direct stone feed rather than bringing it in by train. The top part is the labs, below this are the Red/Green, Blue, Purple and Yellow science ...

Calculating the number of labs required to process 1350 spm can be done as follows. From the Wiki,

PPS = N x ERS / T[r]

where
N = “Number of Labs”
ERS = “Effective research speed” = (1 + (B[r] /100)) x (1 + (M[r] / 100))
T[r] = “Research cycle time” = 60 secs
PPS = “Packs per second” = PPM / 60
B ...

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This picture shows the main base (science and malls). The top part is the labs, below this are the Red/Green, Grey, Blue, Purple and Yellow science production areas (described later). Below this are the main science and mall buses, fed by the trains to the left. Below this ...

All the blueprints shown below are for 1-4 trains. To use them with 1-4-1 trains, the rear rail signal will need to be moved as appropriate.

You will need to add an appropriate fuelling mechanism as described above, if required.


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All the blueprints shown below are for 1-4 trains. To use them with 1-4-1 trains, the rear rail signal will need to be moved as appropriate.


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All factories and mining outposts require a staging area for each station block of a size large enough to hold all trains that can visit that block with a few spare. For the main base and science bases which only have a couple of trains per station, a single rail line is enough. A station block is ...

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The most important decision that needed to be made was how long should the trains be as this will impact everything else about the rail layout and hence the overall base layout. The more wagons a locomotive has to pull, the slower it will go. A balance needs to be made between the ratio of ...