Guys i need your brains. I need balancer that would balance items from one belt to another 12. I have one belt with iron and i need to split it to another 12 belts but i need it balanced so my furnaces are most efficent. Thx for help. <3 It takes 48 Stone Furnaces to eat a full Yellow Belt of ore. ...

Honestly, the solution is probably in a different direction than where you’re looking. How much time does it take, once the steam tanks are depleted, before you are making enough steam again? Lets say (its not, but for illustration purposes) it is 34 seconds. At 34 seconds before the steam tanks run...

I know that Factorio is not a RTS game. I also know that it is basically presented in that style. Multiplayer (and AAI) aside, you’re an Army of One. One thing I like about RTS games, such as Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires, and the like, was that you did have to build a new base each map. One t...

Buffer chests are kind of an odd thing. They mix aspects of Requestor and Passive Provider chests, while not really accomplishing the purpose of either of those chests. Honestly, they don’t really have all that much of a use, imo. I tend to have a mall that outputs to Steel Chests, and once I start ...

disentius wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:36 pm

You can sideload water for a 1.1 GW plant. using 3 pumps and a tank, you can feed 28 heat exchangers.

Does that single pipe segment between the three Offshore Pumps not restrict the flow too much?

How much more could you get if you had the Offshore Pumps feeding directly into the Storage Tank?

You don’t need a mod for that. If you use Landfill and fill in a lake (making sure not to fill in where you want your Offshore Pumps to go) and then build the reactor setup entirely on that Landfill .. you can include the Landfill in your BP. It WILL NOT put Landfill where dry land is, but by includ...

A 40% increase in Productivity means a about a 28% reduction in materials needed. For every 5 you produce, you got a bonus 2, for a total of 7. 2/7 is roughly 28%.

Their application is only niche because, by the numbers, speed and productivity modules are more effective at producing goods. Obviously, they are far more effective at producing pollution as well. But, by reducing both pollution and energy usage, they also serve to do something that the pollution s...

To me, lane balancing is not so much about maintaining a full downstream belt (that’s what using Splitters to shift materials is for) but rather, to ensure full use of the belt upstream. Its not so much about trying to make a full belt out of a half belt of materials downstream, but ensuring equal d...

I tend to do what Coppercoil pictured, except I also output prioritize that first splinter, to the side. Output priority means that that side will get as much of the splitter’s input as it can handle. Yes, this starves stuff further on, but that’s honestly what the second splitter there is for (to m...

Unless I’m not understanding the picture, you are simply using Reactors as a heat pipe. Does that make a difference?

You’re welcome!

Was not remarking upon the designs that can be done with solar, only that compared to nuclear, it has a massive footprint for the same amount of power. Thus, big cannot be a con of nuclear, not when the other popular option is even bigger.

Big is not a con. There isn’t any such thing as a small nuclear setup when trying to provide a lot of power.

Also, if you think nuclear is big on a per MW basis, look at solar.

vanatteveldt wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 09, 2019 1:40 pm

- you're allowed to use any number of buildings, modules, etc. You can use other items (e.g. heavy oil) as a catalyst, but cannot require a supply.

This would suggest that no, Uranium is not allowed.

Overall I cannot disagree with the idea that more in game information would be a good thing. That’s kind of the entire point of this entire thread, is it not?

There are several things the game does not explain well. Armor/resistance being but one of them. That your machines stop working if *one* output is backed up is another. That fluid flow through pipes decreases as the overall pipe length grows, but that this can be alleviated with enough pumps, is ye...

Yea. Armor resistances are not fractions, they are a combination of two numbers, separated by a slash. The first is the flat amount of damage reduced from the hit. The second is the percentage of damage after that reduction that gets ignored. If you have physical 3/20% and get bit for 8 damage ... t...

That is actually rather similar to what I do for my reactors ... only difference is, I extend the steam generators a bit due to the inclusion of roboports, and radars, that allow me to simply issue build orders from afar. Ugly? Perhaps - though beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But its somethin...

That is actually rather similar to what I do for my reactors ... only difference is, I extend the steam generators a bit due to the inclusion of roboports, and radars, that allow me to simply issue build orders from afar. Ugly? Perhaps - though beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But its something...