I just ran two belts each side, with old-fashioned long-arm inserters for the further belts. They were fast enough. The beacon rows are then at right-angles to the belts, which tunnel under them. But this isn't fully beaconed, is it? Or it is a sushi belt. I'm speaking of the classic 8-beacon rows,...

I tried many sushi belt implementations (they have item mixing in common with your setup), but was never fully satisfied with the result. The labs at the end of the sushi ring often got not enough packs, so they stayed inactive. I'm a very recent convert to using sushi belts for (megabase) labs. It...

Wait, cliff explosives are set to unlock later, once you reach another planet? This is... absurd, please don't do it. It would be just annoying, nothing else. +1 Everything else sounds either good or reasonable, but not this. At a pinch I could live with the ability for bots to use cliff explosives...

Taipion wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:30 am

Can you tell me more about those stop limits? What do they do?

There's a good description in the original FF that introduced them: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=90207

If you don't control where which trains goes and rely on rng, some train stops will be empty while others are full and you'll end up with a train trying to unload into one where the chests are full while the next one is empty. This is what per-stop train limits are for. In the simplest case, just s...

for the tank, you can just as well get a Power Armour MK1 The tank is mid-game tech (early blue science) and costs 668 resources to make. Explosive cannon shells are only about 15 resources each (the same as a grenade and much less than a poison or defender capsule), and you don't need very many: t...

You should have: a chain signal somewhere between each train stop and the point where it merges into the shared exit track; and a rail signal at the final exit point. You could also add an additional chain signal on the exit track just before each merge point; they might increase throughput slightly...

Hello, I'm having difficulty reproducing this. Is this a consistent crash, or did it only happen this one time? It was a one-off. Did you close Factorio from the menu's "Exit" button, or in some other way? I can't really remember now: it would either have been from that "Exit" b...

Qilili wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:02 am

Is there any data about how these resources are distributed with default settings?

With default map generation settings, minerals are generated in the approximate ratios:
iron-ore 10
copper-ore 8
coal 8
stone 4
uranium-ore 0.9
(these are from 'base_density' in 'resources.lua')

OS X 13.0.0, mac-arm64, steam.

Save-file and log attached.

Just wondering. Not very. Tracks are cheap, and even the trains are not expensive. Also, is it worth creating a railway system for a resource patch that's roughly a radar's base range away from your base? I wouldn't start a rail system for a resource patch that close, but once you've got rail conne...

But now get enough water with trains to to nuclear power input station for 2*8 reactors. For 16 cores you can just pipe it direct from a nearby lake: tedious but effective. For really big nuclear power stations people often prefer to build on a lake: expensive in landfill, but much simpler. Each di...

I think you must have uploaded the wrong save file. I can find nothing on the map resembling the chest-fed array of level 3 assemblers in your screenshot.

It still doesn't work, both trains are saying 'no path' The rest of the tracks just run completely independantly so I don't have any more signals any where else, am I meant to? Attached is what I think is the same as the image you posted I think you have the chain and standard signals the wrong way...

The bottom-middle 2 setup when slowed down to speed 1/4 seemed to show the version with the input priority on the top most splitter with a slightly better result, being more often showing 90 than 89 compared to the same setup without the input priority As expected. The left-hand input to the last s...

loader90fast.png No attempt at mechanical balancing. The splitters just stuff as much as possible into the upstream side-loading belts, while ensuring there is an overflow path that goes further downstream. this one seemed wrong to me because the material on the right belt can never go in the left ...

I prefer the previous one: 1 tile smaller and simply consumes 2 blue belts, which is usually the output of 2 production lines. I don't use blue belts much for routine transport. Even in a multi-megabase, there are only two ingredients that are both sufficiently valuable to justify blue belts for bu...

It's ugly My artistic soul is mortally wounded. What is wrong with elegant simplicity? Seriously though, you want ugly? Here's ugly (and cheap): loader90fast.png No attempt at mechanical balancing. The splitters just stuff as much as possible into the upstream side-loading belts, while ensuring the...

I don't think the loop-backs are needed for the 6-chest version. I can get full throughput with loader90.png 0eNrdWNtu2zAM/ZVBj4PdWRffgn3C/mAoAsfREmGJbEhy0aDwv09ymjpIzMb0W/eSwBcdkofUIeU3sjl0sjVKO7J6I1ZXbeyaeGfUNly/klUekRNZFX1EVN1oS1a//Wtqp6tDeMGdWklWRDl5JBHR1XG4Mo2O6720joRleis9Du2jhwutq+q/sdJWGifN1W...

When putting items on a belt, the gap needed at the insertion point doesn't need to be large enough to fit a whole item. Items already on the belt will be pushed back or held in place until there's proper spacing again. I hadn't thought about that aspect. You are right that it will help to maintain...