That principle was illustrated with the increased number of chem plants needed for cracking, when comparing no beacons/modules to with beacons/modules.

There’s a reason you can almost get by with 1:1 instead of 3:2 when making green circuits once you start working modules into the mix.

It changes the ratios a lot. According to the Factoriocheatsheet.com/#oil-refining page, the accurate ratio of AOP refineries to crackers is 20 refineries, 5 HO->LO crackers, 17 LO->PG crackers. Let’s look at that first, shall we? Refineries have a speed of 1. Chem plants also have a speed of 1. AOP...

15/30/45 items/sec, or 900/1800/2700 items/min. Most people use items/sec, by the way, unless talking science, which is talked about per minute. For Steel Furnaces (craft speed 2) you need 24/48/72 furnaces to turn a full belt of ore into a full belt of plate. Electric Furnaces are really there for ...

Adding a few seconds of inactivity to the departing condition would allow the train to finish refueling before trying to go to its next stop.

Another Question, is there a easy way to increase my Warehouse stacks? In some cases i only have a stack of 10 and a lot of 40 stacks. thats is hard to play :) If you mean stacks of material in warehouses, I’m going to suggest something radical here… don’t use warehouses. Send materials straight to...

As long as the machine in question is both able to take the wire (meaning, not an Assembly Machine of some sort) and within the Logistics Network range of a roboport, you can just connect wirelessly, to operate on the contents of the logistics network. An Inserter may be told only to put Red Belts i...

Can’t speak to the first two, but not being able to “place” water is deliberate. Biters cannot swim, so the ability to place water all around your base would give you an unbreakable “wall” and that would be overpowered.

Not sure what you are really attempting to do here, but have you tried hooking a memory cell up to the inserters putting stuff on and taking stuff off the belt? For best results, hook the “on” inserters to an arithmetic combinator (Each X1, output Each) and the “off” inserters to another arithmetic ...

While building logistic network supply bridges is one option, the better one has been mentioned by someone else : supply trains. Put the supply station in the middle of the area it serves, and only enable the station when supplies run low. You can use the same station name for each logistics network...

Break that network up into smaller, discrete networks. Bots fly directly to where they want to go. Concave networks are not a good idea, because they will fly outside the covered area, and if the trip is long enough, have the exact issue you are describing. Reposition your ports so that your network...

Honestly, it I think that moving to two one-way tracks IS the optimization called for here. Either you are trying to time things so that you get material just in time as needed, or you upgrade the single two-way track to a pair on one-way tracks. And in the face of what upgrading to the latter offer...

If you have things set to enable when a C signal (for example) is 1 … you can either add -1 to the C signal, or multiply the C signal by 0, to get it to 0. A 0 signal does not actually have a value of 0; it has a “null” value instead and is ignored. Anything set to Enable when C = 1, or C > 0, will ...

Hmm. While I don’t think there’s a way (unless you somehow jigger it to turn signals red) to have the train use the Until Passenger Present wait condition, how’s this? Leave the refueling station (whatever one you plan on providing it fuel at) off the circuit network, with a Train Limit of 1, so the...

I would suggest taking the very slow approach of using Stack Size 1 for the loading Filter Inserter. This way, it loads exactly the number desired, and is not trying to put 3 more of an item into a slot that can only hold 2. IMO if loading multiple items into a train, its better to use multiple Requ...

I can think of a way to set the train to come to you; but what I cannot really come up with is a way to reset the system after you’ve gotten off the train.

Try this, maybe? Wire all the miners together, to get the ore in the field they sit upon. Have a Constant Combinator set to 1 Ore part of this, too. Wire them all to a Decider Combinator, Ore < 2 output Ore = 1. Wire that to an Arithmetic Combinator, multiply Each * 15999, output Each. Wire that out...

Robot count for any given subfactory is a tough one, IMO. I once set up automatic delivery of bots when either logistic or construction bot available was less than 10. I had nowhere NEAR enough roboports; though I had quite a few in that outpost. I eventually went back because it was not producing a...

That’s an idea. Put a watcher signal in place and as soon as it goes red from a train entering the roundabout, have the signal conne to g/separating that side’s I let and outlet gets turned red too? Not sure if that would impact normal operation of the signal though. Might need a separate specially ...

Make sure the roundabout is larger than the train is long. Or, avoid using roundabouts. Your choice.

I have never used a speaker. I tend not to make uranium munitions : nuclear rocket, nuclear ammo, nuclear shotgun ammo. By the time I’d invest in these, PLD are on the scene. I do not automate Burner Miners, but I will (early on) automate assembly of Burner Inserters, Boilers, and Steam Engines. I n...