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Yep. Belts have lower throughput and far more lag end to end.
And you can't use the belt for other types of shipments.

Lower throughput, yes. And I've always said that rail have higher volume than ore and scale exponentially (not much use to go over 4 rails) while belt grow linearly. That ...

One thing that I've thought to help with endgame would be a sort of big " Alien Push " event.

Basically, when you reach endgame (triggered by the space station?), soon you get warned about the start of the event. Instance, a message like "You heard a growl from far away" appear on the screen.

At ...

Great!

But does something exist without using mod?

Basically, I want to optimize my base and one of the things I would like to do is to regroup item production together.

But first, I would like a list where I can easily find which items in the game have similar ingredients. There's the wiki but it's a tough process since you can only look at one ...

The only, only real downside of conveyor compared to train is the increased cost of iron.

No, the real downside of belts are:
1. Space required.
2. Lack of flexibility when expanding - when your mining outpost starts to run out of ore you have to add a new outpost nearby or at least in the same ...

You will change your mind in the "Belt vs. Train" discussion if your base becomes bigger. For 9 belts of iron+copper (i.e. 9x40=360 per second) belts are the prefered choice (IMHO). If your base consumes more than about 1000 per second, which is 25 blue belts, it's a real pain with belts. Then you ...

Just wanted to say that I had the same error today and restarting windows also fixed the issue for me.

Not only conveyor are easy to build with drone remotely but the supply chain is a lot more stable with conveyor while you need to build a buffer with train.


Not true. Mining outpost gradually output less and less ore as the drills in the center have a lot more ore than the ones at the edges ...

Elok, how do the solvable problems that you hit with your train-based outpost get solved by using belts?

If you have a defensive perimeter that protect your whole supply line to send power and drone to your mining station, then you can either use train or conveyor (since your conveyor are ...

Personally, I never use train for a simple reason.

For a mining station to be completly independant, it need :

1- Power
2- Bots
3- Stock to replace what will be destroyed by the Biters

The last time I created a mining station with train, I tried to install solar pannel and Accumulators. But it ...