I've already finished three mega bases (the last one was a 2.7k SPM), and was searching for some good ideas for my next attempt. In my last base I used the new train limits to connect my suppliers and requesters - i.e. I had a train line for each good (like iron plates) picking those up whereever th...

The purple one needs gravel and concrete instead of stone, but then rail production is not nearly sufficient. Maybe receipt changed recently? Purple doesn't need concrete, and I don't know what you mean with gravel. It needs raw stone for rails, and stone bricks for electrical furnaces. This should...

Thanks for the reply. It's nice to understand the deeper mechanics in here. Well, it's not really an issue as I'm overproducing by a safe margin. And in doubt I can just lengthen the belt and merge them later.

Until now I always thought that if you sideload a belt into another belt which is already fully compressed on that side, that the items on the incoming belt will wait. But now I saw a different behaviour. I designed a production line for a full blue belt of green science. According to my math, I nee...

I've finished two megabases (1k and 2k SPM), and I'm currently building one aimed for 2.7 SPM. And for none of those three I had a massive blueprint ready for the whole base. I have a library of blueprints of certain production lines (like a row of beaconized furnaces), which I used in the past and ...

The question is how you want to build your mega base. Perhaps change the playstyle for something new. Did you just continuesly expand whatever you have as a shortage, slowly growing your base? You might try to do speifically planned approach. Calculate how much of everything you need. Start with bui...

First at all - the balancer looks absolutely fine to me. To make it more compact, you could move the splitter at the right directly behind the corner, and use an underground belt to connect it to middle splitter. This would give you the room to move the splitter on your left side together with all t...

Wube's handling of quality is definitly outside of the norm compared to other game developers. I always was amazed what kind of bugs were solved which 99.9% of the players will not even notice. But this helps to keep out follow up bugs. I wonder about Kovarex's background: This seems to be quite unt...

For my new, large base consisting out of lots of seperate logistic networks I wanted to make sure that any "junk" is recycled properly by sending it to a part where it is either produced (and therefor distributed again) or consumed. As I have connected all my different subfactories with re...

I also have 2N-design which is easily expandable. It's based on another example I found on this forum, I just simplified it a little bit. You need to build this on a long lake. This design is even more compact and achieves 219 kW/tile. This is possible as the outgoing strips are not as wide as a rea...

Ehm - compiler standards exist, but believe it or not - these standards do not define everything. Including the size of some standard data types. So there is quite some wiggle room for the implementation of compilers. At work (we develop brake system controllers for cars) we only use explicit data t...

In general - if you use roundabouts make sure that no train is longer than your roundabout size. Many people warn from using them, although I had never real issues with them. Although I did follow that important rule with the train length limitation. Even if under normal circumstance trains don't re...

For my new base I want to use the trainlimit mechanics. One thing I don't fully comprehend right now are which stations are chosen if there is more than one available. Case 1: There are three stations with the name "Copper - Loading". Let's call them A, B and C. One train wants to move to ...

Kovarex is one of the things where you can build simple things, but also highly optimized. My latest design used some new tricks I learned and is beaconized, tileable, and starts itself while only taking exactly 80 U-235 for its processing per centrifuge. https://i.imgur.com/rjc0zSt.jpg The upper be...

There are lots of threads about UPS optimizing for mega bases. I wonder at which production level in general the UPS becomes a concern, though. Last year I built a 1k SPM megabase without any real consideration for UPS optimization. It runs fine and doesn't drop below 60 UPS. With 1.0 I started a ne...

Hm, there's definetly some mod involved in here. Could this be the problem?

I research up to mining productivity 10 (So I get double output), enough weapon upgrades (1 or 2 infinite for bullets makes walls with gun turrets impenetrable and I think I have about 4 for explosions to make clearing by spidertron faster). After that I research follower counts as dummy research b...

Could you build your alarm in an independent electrical network to make sure it’s always powered, then connect the alarm to an accumulator that is connected to the base power? Which is a separate electrical network. No combinators required. Are you telling me my approach is overengineered? :x But y...

For outposts I wanted to ensure that I don't overlook that the power connection to it might be accidently cut, for example if a power pole is deconstructed by the natives. So I prepared a power outage detector with its own emergency power supply. "Accidently" it works as "brown-out&qu...

I put the flame turrets in the front for a simple reason - they have loads of hit points. If large groups of enemies arrives including behemoth spitters, a few of them might get a shot before being roasted and gunned down. Gun turrets go down after a few hits, while flame turrets will be able soak ...