Sorry a noob question. I'm really new to the game so here goes...
Say I have a full belt (let's say yellow belt) of copper plates coming in. How can I calculate how many level 2 Assembly Machines it can feed properly?
And please don't just say tell the right number but explain how to calculate it so I can do it myself in the future
How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
You can find the belt throughput here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Belt_transport_system, the consumption of your assembly machines depends obviously on the recipe: Recipe input x crafting speed / crafting time.
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Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
https://dddgamer.github.io/factorio-cheat-sheet/
Has solutions and formulas for most common situations.
Has solutions and formulas for most common situations.
Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
So if I use Assemble Machine 2 and make copper wire:Loewchen wrote:You can find the belt throughput here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Belt_transport_system, the consumption of your assembly machines depends obviously on the recipe: Recipe input x crafting speed / crafting time.
Recipe input = 1
Crafting speed = 0.75
Crafting time = 0.5
1*0.75/2 = 1.5 copper per second.
Yellow belt throughput is 13.33/s
So 13.33/1.5 = 8.88
So 1 full yellow belt cam feed 8.88 copper wire machines. So I should propably build 9
Correct?
Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
Yes.Tseitsei wrote:Correct?
Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
ThanksLoewchen wrote:Yes.Tseitsei wrote:Correct?
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Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
Technically "yes", but putting wires on the belt halves your throughput compared to copper plates and creating the wires where needed ("direct inserting").
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Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
Yeah I am currently direct feeding them in to green circuit assemblers. So I now have 9 copper wire machines feeding in to 6 green circuit machinestheolderbeholder wrote:Technically "yes", but putting wires on the belt halves your throughput compared to copper plates and creating the wires where needed ("direct inserting").
Bad example
This setup seems to be working nicely...
Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
Orrrr............ u just skip all this math nonsense and use a very handy mod which just shows u how much items per sec it produces (counting beacons and so on ofc)
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Re: How to calculate the number of machines a belt can support?
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/helmodnuhll wrote:Orrrr............ u just skip all this math nonsense and use a very handy mod which just shows u how much items per sec it produces (counting beacons and so on ofc)
dont have the name currently in my brain, if i dont forget ill edit it (or u google urself if you interested in it)