How to best transport stone?

[Peter34]

It's beginning to annoy me that Stone is always found in these tiny patches, usually only enough for 1 or 2 mines, rarely 4, whereas Coal/Iron/Copper is found in large patches.

The problem is the huge need for Belts to move the Stone from all these patches to a central Stone-handling area, where it can be further processed into Brick, or into other things that require Stone, e.g. mods such as Landfil. Belts all over the place.

In the MP game I was recently in, which is basically over because we achieved a position of being on top of everything and so it's no longer really interesting, we ended up using Logistics Robots to move the Stone, because it was so annoying. But even with good research, that's only 5 (and realistically often 4) Stone per Robot, and they don't move very fast. That means that most of the Logistics system ends up hauling Stone, instead of other perhaps more important things.

Am I missing something? Have I overlooked a solution? The Landfill mod does require a lot of Stone (20 Stone per 1 Landfull unit), so that eats up a lot, but even beyond that, Stone comes in these annoyingly small patches that makes belting cumbersome. Even before I started using the Landfill mod, the Stone issue bothered me.

[ratchetfreak]

trains, bots?

[boro]

For remote small patches you can always just mine them into a chest and go pick it up when they're depleted. Sometimes doing things manually takes less effort than automating them.

[PROTOS]

belts,bots inserter

[RoddyVR]

For remote small patches you can always just mine them into a chest and go pick it up when they're depleted. Sometimes doing things manually takes less effort than automating them.

This. if you have a lot of these patches, and you really want to mind away all of them, i would suggest a self building blue prin that mines the whole thing into chests (or even strait into a car that you can come drive away later).
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self building blue print

a large enough area of miners that dump ore into what you want and a roboport powered by solar panesl off to the side. place the blueprint, build the roboport, storage chest and a few solar panels and then just dump some construction bots into the roboport and the needed building materials into the chest and walk away, come back in a while to deconstruct.

Or just ignore the smaller patches and go further out from your base and find a gigantic stone patch that is worth setting up a train stop for.
Though i'm not really sure that the base game scales patches as you go further out.