4 core plant need about 5 steam storage to become wasteless
See my design and the support math :
viewtopic.php?f=208&t=96233

You say tile-able. put in a row.
It is not true, make some math for water supply. Or simply test it by yourself.

peak loads on the order of 60MW+, but that were only short spikes in consumption. 40MW came up pretty often but was still peak-ish. Baseline consumption, just for having the turrets sit around was, 60MW can be supplyed by 10 turbines. Attach 5 steam storages and set 2 trains L CCCC to supply your o...

I don't think I want to create the power locally, as that would substantially increase the footprint of the installation, not to mention the constant fear of running out of steam. Couple steam storages attached to turbines are surprisingly small footprint. You can feed it by a liquid wagon train. S...

ssilk wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:31 pm

when I need to measure fluids, I always use pumps nearby.

How do you measure by pump ?

+1 another improvement to stat screen: in the list of items should show the most significant items. Currentntly, in the left column are most significant items sorted, but in the right not. When open the stat screen it shows me immediately in the top of the second column the lights consume 0,001% of ...

Idea of mine-cell wall is fresh, however, the Price of 80 con-bots is gianormous. This is simply because i overdid it with the enemies to the point their movement got blocked, i doubt such a thing would happen outside the editor. You won't be getting only behemoth enemies to block the way that easi...

Idea of mine-cell wall is fresh, however, the Price of 80 con-bots is gianormous.

The funny thing, lasers are not very strong, but everybody uses them, because they are easy to handle and have a ton of range. Just needs some (or very much) research, but this is a game about research. Flamer has bigger range, than laser. e.g. by your book - laser has a ton of range, flamer has tw...

[*]Fixed that laser and fluid turret bonus, wasn't shown properly in the toooltip. This bonus is not used in vanilla which uses ammo category bonus. (https://forums.factorio.com/96566) [*]Fixed that part of the flamethrower turret and flamethrower ammo turret description, which describes the proper...

I am working on a sentry laser wall based on XKnight 's design which disables power to all lasers except for one "sentry" laser which triggers the other lasers to wake up and shoot. Hello, I am glad someone does proper research to the topic. Some answears : battery charge only when there ...

less locomtives make it go slower so spiders can fallow more closely.
However the spinnig effect and the centrifugal force feel will be lost.

In which situation would it deadlock? Something like that: Screenshot from 2021-03-09 17-35-31.png Your previous design is immune to such deadlocks: it never allows two trains to occupy both bypass lanes in the same direction. as OP requests, bi-directional is side tracks. It means, make the main t...

Energy buffer inside the roboport should be smaller than robo-drone need to recharge. Therfore right afte build, roboport connects itself into grid only if there is a powerline. As a side effect, robport off the grid will not be available for recharge - that is definition of "enough energy"...

Flickering lights is most probably reason of missing SR latch on the power plant connection. I mean the flickering when the lasers start to fight off biters. Every accumulator can provide 300kW and I have thousands of them. Lasers need a lot of power, but only for a very short time. - 150 batteries...

JimBarracus wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:24 am

I also keep using solar, accumulators also prevent flickering lights.

Flickering lights is most probably reason of missing SR latch on the power plant connection.

I work with a lot of accumulators in order to buffer the overproduction. Not a single second of burned uranium is wasted. Is there a reason you use accumulators rather than steam tanks? One steam tank at 500 degrees is something like 100+ accumulators if I am remembering correctly. 1 steam storage ...

A screenshot of your plant with a screen of the power chart would be easier. I am not going to download 180M :D Anyway, here is the plant which actually works. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=96233 The perfect cloverleaf plant. Produce only as much as needed, no waste, no overh...

I left it up to the implementer to decide how to provide the boot power. My own practice was to hook into one of the turbines of the main reactor and use some circuitry to mode-switch whether that contributed to the main grid (normal operation) or was reserved for the reactor itself. The perfect po...

It's actually on this very forum , and yes, I'm quite confident it can run at 100% (well -- nearly. There's a few ticks of delay potentially caused by circuit lag) output because I've tested it to do so. 800turbines times 5,82MW gives 4654MW but your output is 4,3GW. e.g. 300MW about 6% of capacity...

One combinator, does the same trick.