For using train stations for different kind of wares the simplest way to achieve it I can think of is to use a bot based unloading system. Just load everything into active provider chests, and have active requester chests nearby specifically for the goods you need. The bots can do the sorting for yo...

Inserters are naive. Using two inserters to pull from the same source will *not* double your input speed because they will mostly just interfere with each other. You have to use circuits (or stack size override) to force the inserters to pull from the source in alternating order. For examples i rec...

With beacons and speed modules we can speed up production speeds a lot - but in my experience the theoretical speed up can't be actually reached if the production time is too low. If I speed up the already fast recipes with 0.5s base time up a lot to theoretical value below 0.1s per production cycle...

I personally put all the obsolete stuff in a chest and ran over with a tank. After finding a few wooden power poles afterwards, I built a small slalom course with them. While missing some of them I obviously hit one of my large power poles instead, of course.

It's like owning an electric car (i.e. Tesla) and arriving at the parking lot which has 4 charging spots (that are taken) ... but lots of other empty spaces. I've wondered why Roboports are the way they are too. There are no non-electric bots to take up those spaces. The Borg have ports in every sl...

For stackers/stations that get that busy I put a repath-forcing pair in front of the entry chain, that works, it's just "now pick the closest open stop according to the _current_ track conditions". I can see how forcing a repath at _every_ chain brake would be a bad idea, think about a (f...

You should definetly think about using productivity and speed modules. For example - just adding two productivity modules Level 3 in each lab will give you 20% more effective research, so you only need to produce 8333.3 science per hour instead of 10 000. Add productivity modules to other expensive ...

As far as I understand trains prefer the shortest route if possible. They might divert if a train is already in a section they'd like to pass as this gives a penalty on their own distance calculation. But this is not the case here - your trains are both outside of this area, and there is no rule whi...

I don't feel like pulling up the whole blueprint ; how does your centrifuge get refilled with u-235? I filter remove u-235 into a plain chest, and then use a plain inserter to move from one plain chest to another, and then re-insert u-235. Only if there's excess does it pull from the second box (us...

Also - if you want to get both ore and coal on the belt make sure that each lane gets exactly one of those, or you'll end up in stopped production should ore run out and coal block both lanes. (Which will happen very soon as coal is needed in significant lower numbers.) To achieve that, you have to ...

I wanted to design an efficient Kovarex enrichment processing which should fulfill two requirements: 1. It shall provide the produced U-253 immediately and only retain its existing catalyst. 2. It shall not produce too much U-253 depleting the U-258 reserves. The basic setup for this looks like this...

Thanks for the hints! I now also cleaned up the other side of my base, and now I think the next best step to set up a basic rail network first with a few central lines. After that I'll experiment with some prototypes of stations. If those prototypes work, I can apply them and start to build the actu...

Lanebalancers make sure the input is balanced when the output is unevenly consumed. splitters dont do this , they treat every lane separate. example: lanebalancing example.gif Oh, yea, this is what actually started my little confusion. I wanted to take one arm off my bus and process it as steel, bu...

I don't think there is an "optimal" build - it depends heavily on the player's preferences. For example for combat - how do you plan to fight those natives? If you're setting out to fight them on foot, having some exosceletons inside is worth it to be able to dodge the spitters and outrun ...

After finishing several games with different patches I finally wanted to go build a mega base with a science production of 1000 per minute. I've started with a modest factory to get all the non-repeatable research and acts as mall. Now the research is done, and I want to prepare everything for going...

Your first splitter just acts a balancer - so afterwards you have a 50:50 distribution on your two lanes. The fourth splitter is actually just a "merger" which makes sure that you draw from both lower and upper belt equally. The other two split up half of the lower and upper belt as alread...

I guess that's a balancing issue. Later in the game the biters are no threat to your base anymore, so there must be something else which can cause damage and force you to do repairs. :lol: Inside my base I only use a car, though at least most times the crashes don't directly destroy the thing I run ...

I just double checked. In my new game where I have currently a 20% Bonus I have gun turrets loaded with standard ammo, doing a base damage of 5. If it was just a 40% bonus overall, the effective damage would be 7. But it is 7.2 - which means the game first applies the 20% damage bonus for the ammo, ...

My personal nitpicking is to make sure to not leave any small ore patches around. Even if it is a hassle to mine that small patch empty - I'll do it, I can't stand to believe that I left precious resources in the ground!

Gun turrets have one siginificant advantage to laser, though: The damage bonus is squared. They get the inreased damage from the bullets and the same procentual increase on top from the turret. So if you have +100% damage researched, laser turrets will do double damge, while gun turrets will do 4 ti...