Welcome to the community. ^^ What’s your preferred smelting setup and why? Productivity Modules in the electric smelter rows, Speed Modules in the beacon rows (hooked up to some circuit network to shut them off when the smelters are idling). As simple as that. Because it is the most efficient setup....

Ah nice. I am someone who always sets tree density to max. So I will appreciate some of the forest paths. ^^ But I am also with some of the other people saying that what the maps lack most is some shallow-water rivers and streams flowing in the canyons and connecting some of the lakes. Especially if...

Ok, Stupid question: Why is the clover interchange so terrible? Because of the "weaving"-issue, as described here in the Problems section of Cloverleafs wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverleaf_interchange#Problems Basically you still have traffic that is crossing on the sam...

Impatient wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:14 pm

How does this compare to a cloverleaf interchange?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverleaf_interchange

Windmills, Turbines, Pinavia interchanges and the likes are generally better for traffic because they don't have the "weaving" issue that classic clover-leafs have.

mmmPI wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:08 pm

Well joining random multiplayer games or reading the forum have some good sides because you get to see how other people do a lot and can learn from that. Also their ideas, on how they plan to use the new train features

The true endgame is the official forum.

Always. In every game. ^^

I just remembered something that is only slightly related but still important to this debate! The new Train Stop Priorities can make it so you use up the mixed ore patches first before trains from the other patches get used. Just remember to limit the amount of trains to the amount of SINK stops as...

Building over a ressource patch is a mistake i did in some of my first game when i run out of starting iron ore because i built things on the iron patch and i had to move them around all the time; Experiencing that very problem mentionned earlier :D Well, good. I am obviously not building over a re...

About mods: Yes, I bet one of the first genuine 2.0 mods would be the feature I'm requesting. To avoid wasted time with name discussions and duplicated effort with creating, installing and managing mods, I'm proposing this for inclusion in the vanilla game. Adding the ability to name things the way...

That is a lot of combinator logic connections to make the “generic” assemblers. Seems like it would be far easier to have multiple assemblers It is definitely more a "proof of concept" example to show what can be done; and only a few people will use it exactly in this fashion because they...

It seems so, but the real worth of ore in the ground is that it's out of the way. Don't process stuff until you really need it. You still have all options. I just reorganized my current map, converting old mines with 4 wagon stations to "new" mines with 8 wagons. And I tell you, this is a...

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, in context of the current miners and 1.1, the costs of them compared to the factory as a whole and all the resources I'm mining up are negligible. I mean, when the resource patches are getting into the billions before taking productivity into account, for me, personally,...

Maybe, maybe not. That being said, I may not use the big ones in that packed of a pattern, either. I don't know yet as they're not available to try out. ;) That make sense we can't really gauge the cost of a legendary big mining drill ( full of legendary modules ) just now. And the topic is about o...

Yea, sorry. I already wrote that I stand corrected in the next reply afterwards. ^^ Anyway the cap will be there; It is extremely unlikely that they will cut the Recycler because a feature like it has been discussed and been among the most requested additions over the past 10 years. And together wit...

mmmPI wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:02 am

I do the opposite, i put them as far away as possible while still leaving no gap and covering every ore tile most of the time.

My reasonning is that replacing mining drill is annoying, so when i place 1 i make sure it will last long.

Same here.

FuryoftheStars wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:35 am

Personally, I can't wait to have belts that will trigger you all.

I guess some men just want to watch the world burn. ^^

I would only favor "stack belts" to be their own thing if... IF... they would do that instead of the nausea-inducing additional green tier of belts. Then the green tier could be the "stack belt". I would make that one as fast as blue, but with the benefits that you can stack item...

Currently, if a process slows or stops, input belts will backup and be fully packed. If the stacks aren't full, then the belt will not be fully packed. My question is, how will this affect throughput? I don't see it having any significant impact once the process is running again, and if the process...

[...] I had a similar thought process when I picked mine on the previous page. :lol: The more I think about it however and the more discussions I read in various places... I think in practice the community will settle to refer to the levels from Q1-Q5, or they go by colors; so everyone immediately ...

:? Yeah, that's a "you" problem with self control. :lol: (Just don't buy it until after... you don't need to play it day 1! :D ) That said, they did say last August, I think it was, that it'd be about a year. While I suppose there is always the chance of an earlier release, it's more like...

I don't think ramps will necessarily make this thread obsolete. Even with them there will still be size vs throughput optimisation to be had. Though perhaps not as many ways to really push throughput alone. Maybe a throughput / tiles used metric could be useful? If only you could floodfill landfill...