If you're going to add a grid during placement, could you also add various range circles (power connection, weapon range, etc)?

Alternately, robots could collide and/or path around each other and/or with some minor randomness to their path.

this might be intentional, but it's weird that it doesn't match all of the other items.

Looks good. I suspect that is the optimal solution for medium power poles. There *might* be a crazy tessellation using substations that is 1-2% better, but I doubt it.

Inserters would still be used for taking things off of belts, and for putting things on belts. And for being faster/longer/smarter than belts.

The current distinction between how output from miners works and how output from everything else works is... weird.

On the topic of new artwork for assemblers... when the chemical plant gets re-skinned, could you please make the activity indicator (currently just the green goo in the tank) visible when the alt info is overlaid?

I almost certainly overlooked the ones in the inventory.

BurnHard wrote:93,1% coverage
18 Miners =162 tiles and 12 tiles extra for chests and medium power pole.

No. 18 miners = 162 tiles, then you have 12 chests + 4 power poles + 2 empty spaces, so it's 162/180 which is 90%.

A new type of belt. When it dead ends into an assembler or chemical plant (or anything else that an inserter can insert to), it automatically inserts the stuff at the end of the belt.

OK, here is my Tier 1/2/3 factory, based on yours. I did not try to include the refinery yet. I think that with a lot of optimization I could make this factory 2 tiles shorter and narrower and include a refinery and two steam engines, but that would require a lot more underground belts and pipes.

There are a lot of posts in the "show your creations" section of this forum with different research factories.

http://www.desura.com/games/great-permutator

http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/th ... gineering/

these come to mind

The problem with that is that you might have T and L connections temporarily while you're building the parallel pipes. I don't really see that as a problem. A recent version included the ability for small amounts of fluid to be pushed out of a pipe, so if you make an accidental/temporary connection...

I, too, would like to see it. I learned a lot about factory setup from that map, including the 3 lane copper-coal-iron conveyor with power poles in the middle.

For now I'm just pumping all my light oil into a steam engine.

Without modules, or with the same amount of modules, one refinery does not produce enough petroleum gas to keep the plastic plant running full time.

I'd be happy if every T made a T or L connection, and parallel pipes did not connect. That seems very simple, and it would resolve the vast majority of use cases for parallel pipes.

Here's the 90% coverage layout. This is two copies of the basic unit. It tiles horizontally as pictured, and the vertical tiling can be flipped vertically and/or shifted horizontally.

Prototype is done, but untested. It sould produce 0,75 flasks per second (T1 to T4). All seems to fit in the 50x50 area of a roboport. :shock: To have the full one flask per second, you need tier 3 factories and 4 tier 2 productivity upgrades in the fatories for T4 flasks. Is it important that it f...

I like this. Very clean. I will base my next science factory on this (closer together, with a combined red+green output belt)