Well.... An interesting discussion here. Just realized i made what Eradicator promised above. Great minds think alike :mrgreen: As I understand zOldBulldog's challenge: - Equal unloading of trains under all circumstances - Unconstrained output (full consumption of output) as high as possible - Focus...

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Tested

Nah,
There is no wrong in factorio:)

What do you want to optimize exactly?
power use
production speed
footprint
pollution production
output
.....

If you now that, we can try to help.
These forums have all kinds of crazy optimization stuff so look around for ideas.

yep.

https://imgur.com/a/sgAsj#lsEagUO

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=58728&start=40#p360163 https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=58728&start=40#p360198 https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=58728&start=40#p360395 All output balanced with unrestricted flow. You do need b...

yup.

Ah:)
Thanks Dave. Can i Lease your brain for a while?

and you need only 3 beaconed refineries for a full belt of plastic
Bit of beltugliness to stuff the blue belt output, though.

Inspiring:)

I use this green vanilla build: With Miniloaders it becomes like this:

@Kovarex: Excellent solution, Removing the link to possible personal info @youdoomt: Need to inform, yes. Need consent, no. If Wube anonymizes the logs by - removing the ip adress (this is one of the gdpr parts lawyers are going to get rich over) - other possible personal info (Personal here has a w...

GDPR has a goal. Give more rights to individuals about the collection, status, and access to their personal data as these are collected by companies and government agencies Are you collecting personal data of EU members? Then these rules apply. (GDPR art 5) lightly shortened for clarity Personal dat...

Cranky, aren't we?

I put a picture in for clarity, and forgot to mention it was an illustration to the first answer.

Not recommended because of this: My main objection: the read contacts right. my contacts have never agreed to sharing their contact details, and tapatalk sells the info for advertisements and (in app) purchases. In the EU tis is probably against the GDPR(new EU wide privacy regulation) since today. ...

this? Output: Duplicate signals only
Constant combinators are input simulators, send signals with value 1
If incoming signals are actual amounts, convert them to 1 first.

Have not found a good good high throughput balanced train to chest unloading solution yet. Madzuri's trick (average chests, then stop loaders for chests above average) kills high speed throughput, but guarantees even chest loading/unloading. I use this lane balancer atm for even chest unloading, fou...

@Slayn: - Not extensible beyond 4 wagons - Not enough throughput chest->inserter->belt* 1. If your train is longer than 4 wagons, getting it in and out of the station before your 6 belts empty the buffer is a bigger problem. 2. Outputting to a splitter doubles inserter throughput. Outputting to a s...

@Slayn: Arkanoids! spaceship indeed :D Beautiful, has 2 problems: - Not extensible beyond 4 wagons - Not enough throughput chest->inserter->belt* *to get > 3 blue belts per wagon, you need more than 1 inserter per chest, and 12 chests per wagon. see the OP @zOldBulldog: DaveMcW's is brilliant, and t...

yep, you do
(U235 insertion count)
it's not in the blueprints

Here is another variation of a "lazy Kovarex". Posted a faulty version elsewhere... this is v2 I wanted a feed and forget solution and work around the "insert 80 235 here" thing and came up with this: - only inserts 40 U235 - no bots. (just because) - tilable - beaconable - backp...

This one fails your requirements 2,3 and 4 :) Biggest difference is that mine does balanced unloading, with full throughput/always with a balancer attached Well... you cannot have a cake and eat it. Welcome to everlasting battle between esthetics, functionality, and usability. (to say nothing of blu...