Or you have a mixed coal / ore input belt and put the furnaces next to each other so they both draw from the same belt. You get very long smelter lines this way, but it has the same width as other smelters which can be an advantage.

Sounds fun, I'll have a try when I get game time again

Couldn't you even place some 'tripwire' lasers a bit further out, and rely on mines + flames for real defense? Somehow I dislike lasers, they feel too cheaty...

Land mines sound cool :) Are there good ways to detect an attack? I guess you could use oil use from flamethrower (tank level goes down), ammo use by gun turret (belt moves), laser turret accumulator draw. Do people use anything like this, or is "once every 10 minutes" fine, and replace th...

I used to be a walls guy, but as said, artillery outposts are a dramatic (and good) change in expansion and defense. In my current game I'm using artillery outposts with artillery turrets plus flame and gun turrets for defense. The resupply train has one wagon (with ammo, repair packs, barrels, etc)...

Well I agree that that suggestion is a great idea, but it seems that my fellow Dutchman wants to improve on overall factory balancing and throughput, whereas my suggestion is aimed at optimizing single designs... (also, his suggestion seems like quite a GUI challenge, while my suggestion should be a...

When designing plants in creative mode, I generally want to ensure optimal production for some configuration. For low numbers, you can check whether production matches the statistics in the [p] screen. However, for numbers >1k it goes into scientific notation, meaning we can't see whether we're prod...

@OP cool design, interseting way to approach it. I think you would need to put more than one offshore pump on each water pipe as 16 exchangers need over 1600 water per second, which is more than a single offshore pump can provide. I also have a tileable solution per 4 reactors here: https://forums.f...

Cool!

See also the discussion over here: viewtopic.php?f=208&t=69428

But I also say that my way may or may not suit your playstyle. If you mastered automatic supply trains and the entire infrastructure behind it then you might be a lot more happy with that. The way I set it up is relatively simple: 1- All stations of the same type (mining outpost, defensive outpost,...

@MeduSalem

Very interesting, I thought it would be hopeless, but you've convinced me to go and try as soon as I get back home in a couple weeks. I use automatic supply train to outposts, so I guess they could actually double as buffers.

I could see (unupgraded) Artillery made weaker : shorter ranged (and worms longer-ranged, so that behemoth worms can duel with it, at least on automatic fire), moved to late blue / early yellow science ; and rocket-launched, unlimited-range ICBM's added as an end-game weapon : I think artillery is ...

But for Vanilla the way I am doing it is that I use roboports in parallel of the railtrack. Basically blueprints of straight/interseciton/curved railsections that also contain roboports and also radars... making it possible for me to expand the railnetwork remotely over the mapscreen without having...

I think two elements are important: 1) Really big ore patches. Get those sliders all up to max, and explore primarily in one direction to get distance 2) Semi-Automatic building of outposts. The best I got was driving there with FARL, then setup a 'bare bones' outpost myself which contains the train...

Yeah, I did the same: I made a spacer (with hazard concrete) that shows the location of the reactions, trenches, and outer limit; and a landfill blueprint that you can just plop down over a (partial) lake.

Thanks for making / updating this mod! Question: I want to do "positive filter", i.e. specify which stations I want to include rather than exclude. Quite simply, all my PAX stations start with A (so they're sorted to top), so I'd like to set the filter to exclude everything except stations...

The general pattern for designing a high-throughput intersection seems to be: For each incoming line: 1- branch off separate tracks for each direction it could go to (normally 3, here 7) 2- provide a buffer 3- go to destination while crossing a minimum number of other tracks 4- provide a buffer 5- m...

Just a small reminder: for this to be remote buildable you will need radar coverage. Is there room to add radars to the design? Whoops, never thought about that. Good thing, the answer is 'yes'. You can place a radar next to the roboport close to the channel, which provides enough coverage. I haven...

OK, that was actually easier than expected. Had to fiddle a bit with the pumps and layout to get something pleasing, but quite happy with the result. Setup: - Chunks of 2x4 reactors, i.e. 4 on each side. This should give 640MW, it gives 638-639, but I guess that's good enough for now. - 64 heat exch...

Cool design. I was trying to get a nice 2x4 working. I was trying 'banks' of 8 reactors as that is very easy for the fluid dynamics and each reactor needs 2x8 exchangers, but it was quite bulky and hard to find room for the pumps. Every reactor needs 103.1 fluid input/output, so it's quite constrain...

Makes sense. I'll see if I can find a way to use 3 pumps per side, but I guess that might be a challenge

(the nice thing is, of course, nothing is ultimately scarce in the end, except maybe UPS. So whether you are optimizing simplicity, elegance, U235, space use, etc, is up to you...)