regular inserters will move more IPS, for less energy, than one fast inserter. You should only ever use fast inserters when space constrained. As Koub has pointed out, this is not surprising. The simplest tool that does the job is usually also the cheapest. Stack inserters are much better by the ti...

AmericanPatriot wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:20 pm

The spidertron is currently slower than the player, and much slower than a train.

A fairer comparison is with the tank. I'd expected the spidertron to be faster, but you need two exoskeletons just to match the speed of a tank with rocket fuel.

5thHorseman wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:24 pm

I was under the impression that huge circuit networks of hundreds of belts was a ups drain.

All I can say is that with the continually moving loop I _did_ notice a UPS slowdown, but with the circuit activated belt, on a considerably larger scale, I don't.

The power drain of a couple of inserters on the belt is completely dwarfed by, like, the power drain of everything else ever in your factory, Absolutely. I put that point last because it is by far the least important. including the inserters driving the turrets themselves. Depends how many turrets ...

for the application in the OP -- an ammo belt feeding turrets along a wall -- my solution was to build a looping belt. That's exactly what I did until I came up with the method in the OP. I think the inserter-controlled loop has several disadvantages compared with the circuit-controlled version: Yo...

sthag wrote: ↑

Mon May 25, 2020 4:08 pm

There is this icon for the fluid section in the menu which always tricks me in thinking it's the section for science packs.

+1. Always.

From the main menu there's a "Map Editor" button. It's the same thing as clicking "new game -> /editor" just wrapped in a button. Which is great -- if you already know that the Map Editor is actually a good tool for testing factory designs and messing around with blueprints (act...

I'd say Editor mode is very important in the sandbox mode, so there must be more obvious way to know it even exists. Maybe some toggle button on the screen. I played too much time without it. +1 I'd done quite a lot of planning and blueprint-cutting in the sandbox before discovering the editor mode...

I'd do this by digitising. Emit 1 for each channel with demand and 1 for each channel with supply, and send to the inserter only those channels with a total of 2. 0eNrlVtGOmzAQ/Jd9rMwpkHBESO2PVJXlmKVZNdjINlGjiH+vDT1CLwkHUfp0L1EW7NnZnR3jM+wODdaGlIP8DCS1spB/P4Oln0ocwjN3qhFyIIcVMFCiCpF1Qv6KSjo4NBEpi8b/...

200 spm (including military) in 148x156 for a density of 0.52 sci/h/m2. The base can be further shrink down using blue belts. But maybe its just your intermediate base, not end game base. if you going over 1000 spm , you would need at least 27 blue belts just for iron ore alone. sadly, bots are mor...

As the TV chefs say, here is one I made earlier. 200 spm (including military) in 148x156 for a density of 0.52 sci/h/m2. (I'm still tinkering with the expanded version which will be 1200spm in significantly less than 6 times the space.)

You can read accumulator value through the circuit network; it is hardcoded to the alpha key "A". A minor quibble: 'A' is the default channel for accumulator level, but it isn't hardcoded. You can set it to anything you like in the accumulator's panel (and put values from different accumu...

I have now played quite a bit with the new gui and I like it, but it has some drawbacks as well... [...] request get cluttered with items which should only be trashed and aren't of interest, also it is hard to order the items when you add something later – easily fixable by either allowing (custom?...

The artillery is weird. It doesn't lob. It just shoots straight across and hits anything in the way like a tree or a bug which wastes the ammo if you want a nest. I assume you mean the tank cannon, rather than the actual heavy artillery. Yes, it's a direct fire weapon. So (mostly) are real tank gun...

The point to me is that lubricant is literally the only thing in the entire game that requires you to provide extra space for whatever side product you're forced to make. Perhaps the only thing in the infinite game (i.e. when you have all non-infinite tech), but in the midgame (before uranium-tippe...

Whenever I go for more Oil, I usually dont think of how much I can get off the Oil Spots, because in the end it is always the same 2 Oil per second (yes they can spawn with lower but when does that ever happen apart from starting areas). It's the other way round: 2/s is the minimum, not the maximum...

In my games I basically never build lights Me neither; do without until you get night-vision, problem solved. Until that point, what actually irritates me most is that the headlights of the car and tank are noticeably less powerful than the miner's lamp on the players helmet. Sometimes I'm reduced ...

There is a simple circuit trick that can be played with belts and that I have found useful for a number of different jobs. I've not noticed it discussed anywhere here (but doubtless will now be pointed to a large number of previous posts). I call it a 'sparse belt'. It's just a line of several belts...

Why become bluer at night when things get redder as the sun goes down? Direct sunlight gets redder as the sun is going down; but once the sun has gone down, the remaining twilight illumination is via the sky, and is, yes, blue. Later again, there's just starlight (and moonlight, if Nauvis has a moo...

In the attached save, the hovering conbot can't place the rail, since the cliff immediately to the left is blocking it. But the cliff didn't get marked for removal when placing the track ghost (and still doesn't if I repeat the ghost placement). This seems to be exactly the opposite problem from top...