You can give multiple train stops the same name. The train will pick whichever one has the fewest number of occupied blocks along the route. However, it chooses that path before it leaves the previous station and doesn't re-check very often to see if faster routes open up (something like once every ...

use a SR-latch to force the inserters feeding them to turn off and at the same time turn on the inserters that will put the items on the train. A latch isn't actually needed here. In this situation it is easier to use rail signals. You can force an entry signal red to prevent the train from enterin...

You don't have a problem with the setup, you just need more ore. There are more iron patches out on the map. Have fun trying to collect them with aliens all around.

Personally, I always consider my starting base a "bootstrap" base and don't bother trying to scale it too far. I tend to build no more that 24 of each type of smelter, and for circuits I usually build around 12 green, 12 red, and only 4 blue. I don't worry about the ratios too much or if t...

Sorry, I don't follow your example. Can add more specifics? Exactly which stations you mean, which signals, and what kind of "adjustments" might cause this? All the relevant signals and stations are visible on my screenshot.

Yeah, you have to get rid of the signals on the loop. This is the roundabout that I use. The bypass tracks here aren't needed to avoid deadlocks, they're just for speed:

Ok, I'll try adding signals there as well. Might just be a bug. Thanks for the help.

Yeah, sometimes trains will path through empty stations and that should be fine; as far as I can tell it's all signaled properly to allow for that. You can see in the second screenshot all the possible routes to access that block. I don't know specifically from which one the fuel train came. There a...

Yes, it's happened several times. The first time I just ignored it and hoped it didn't happen again. The second time I was busy with other stuff and didn't feel like trying to figure it out. I think this is the third time now. It's definitely a reoccurring issue. It's always happened off-screen, and...

The track at the bottom is intended to be part of the same block. You can see on the right side that all of the access to that track is marked with chain signals. Sorry if it's a bit confusing. I could add signals there, but it shouldn't need them as far as I can tell, so I want to understand what i...

Then I need to "park" them somewhere in the base after unloading their contents The simple answer is to "park" them at the unloading station with a condition to stay until they are empty. As long as you don't need that resource then the station should be backed up and they can't...

I have over 500 hours in this game and have never had a signaling problem that I couldn't solve until now. I have this collision and I can't figure out why: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/82591828990931558/1CCA5117EB514A2A1DCB8694201CD72200542DD4/ Here is a view without (most of) the ...

Your output is full (the 93 carbon). It will not insert until that is cleared. Ah, right. My mistake was that the carbon image is a light grey and it looks very similar to the ghost image. The number 92 is obvious now (there are so many because I hand loaded 200 coal) but when I first built it ther...

Athmagor wrote: Have you chosen the recipe?

Yes.

Hi. I'm on 0.13.13 and I've got a problem where inserters will not put coal into the chemical furnace as an ingredient. They only fill the fuel slot. Am I doing something wrong?

lpw wrote:

taiiat wrote:i see... 'train' isn't a Verb so therefore the confusion.

It kinda is. With the meaning of forming a "train" of biters.

I don't believe that you will find that definition in any dictionary.

Read through the thread, and I also agree on how my bases are always nice and tidy until I start to make oil, then it devolves into this absolute mess. I always had this problem as well, until I made one very simple design change that solved everything: I reserved space on my main bus for fluids ri...

While some people are probably smart enough not to put storage tanks this close together, for those of us that are not, I would expect to be able to walk between these two diagonally placed tanks:

When I use inserters that pick items up directly off the ground they will not drop their items until they have a new item ready to pick up. They work correctly if I put a single belt piece on the pickup square instead of using the ground directly.

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