The new extended underground belt lengths allow for new constructs in 0.15. Here is one that I liked for beaconed red-circuit production, which includes "on-site" production of plastic and green circuits. *Insert belt-braiding warning here* Five of these give a blue belt. Am including only...

Taipion wrote:Also:

Taipion wrote:I could scale UI to be smaller, but then I can't read it anymore, so a total no-go

oops

Very cool factory! I'm curious, do you only have 30 research labs or is that just one of multiple "modules" for that. I ask because your production number look like they may be much higher than the number of labs you've shown even with all those beacons. Those are all of my labs. Having a...

I wonder if the issue at hand is that expensive recipes changes the cost of the mining drill (which is now included in blue science). If the mining drill cost was the same as in normal play, I think it would make for a smoother progression.

Edit. I see Nasabot suggested something similiar up above.

You can press "L" to view contents of logistics networks, if you have 0.15. There is an option to scale UI size up and down in Options --> Graphics.

Now I figured I would use double header trains Welcome to the dark side :twisted: FWIW, I think RORO stations (with single headers) are superior for ore collection / dropoff because of both (1) the relatively small stack-size of ore compared to stuff like plates, circuits, etc. and (2) the relative...

Ok, Tier-2 stays :) Now the question - should tier-2 speed module consume 3 tier-1 modules (instead of 4) or maybe 4 circuits instead of 5 to compensate for tier-1 speed modules consumption by other recipes? I like the suggestion of making Speed 2s cheaper (instead of cheaper Speed 3s, which are cu...

I wanted to share my first factory of 0.15! It was on the new marathon settings (4x expensive recipes, 4x tech costs). I used no mods or console commands. http://i.imgur.com/7QeJ7Fb.png?1 The factory has a decentralized production structure which takes advantage of the global map-view feature of 0.1...

The problem when logistic networks get too big is that there ends up being longer and longer delays (due to longer and longer distances traveled) between when a bot gets an order to pick up from an active provider and when it deposits those contents into a storage chest. I think what's happening in ...

just to make sure i'm understanding it conceptually, is the idea to reduce stack size of the inserters as the chests approach full so as not to be left with inserters holding either iron or copper plate? i have a multiloading station that i'm wondering if i can use this for. it's like having sushi t...

Can you elaborate on why chunk alignment is relevant here? What will go wrong if I use your system but just offset everything by 3 tiles east and 7 tiles north? i am also curious about this. is it purely for aesthetics when playing with grid debug option turned on? also, these three signals can be ...

well, it's more that priority splitter designs (thus far) don't work nearly as well as splitter-based designs under all types of load/throughput conditions. i use the design on the right when i want to pull a full belt off a 4-lane bus. (design from /u/lordpeppe on reddit.) http://i.imgur.com/nd6eDm...

Tier 2 modules came in extremely handy in my playthrough on the new marathon setting.

My marathon base is designed around minimizing the # of machine interactions, with a particular emphasis on the ore-to-circuit production chain due to how resource intensive circuits are. I'm stamping around copies of this build at sites with nearby iron and copper mines - it makes one blue belt of ...

Koub wrote:FYI, this topic was created before blueprints existed

the dark ages

These roboport centric arrays can be tesselated to construct an even larger blueprint - one that has radar on the edges so it's easy to use the new map-view feature to place new solar. To make things even easier, I have a rail track running down the middle along with a separate blueprint for a drop-...

impetus maximus wrote:i don't know what a LHD is. load haul dump?

left hand drive

Very nice

p.s. i laughed when i saw the curly intersection

@cooltv27

Would it be possible to post a screenshot of your setup?