fast train supply station

Thiske · Post by **Thiske** » Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:05 pm

Recently I watched Fooluaintblack's Channel series on train supply stations and i took it as a chalange to improve upon its last design.
link to the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFB8rn2 ... ObizXMXBPo.
The requirements are:

must be exact
you can change the items you want loaded into the train on a combinator
can remove garbage items/ if some item's amount is to high
can handle multiple wagons

For testing and building I used editor extensions however the combinator and train part can be done without. I also used the same items and amounts as Fooluaintblack used in his example blueprint.
Fooluaintblack's best design:

features:

combinators: 17 decider combinators, 7+2l arithmetic combinator, and 3+l constant combinators where l is the number of wagons
height: 12 blocks
speed: 834 ticks
test setup blueprint:

My new design design:

features:

combinators: 17+32l decider combinators, 7+25l arithmetic combinator, and 2+l constant combinators where l is the number of wagons
height: 26 blocks
speed: 777 ticks
test setup blueprint:

Conclusion: I managed to save of a second but added a ton of complexity.
If anyone is interested then I will try to explain how it works.
I also want to challenge you, the reader, to come up with a faster design.
ps: when you open the blueprint, send the train first to the other station.
ps: English isn't my native langue so sorry for grammar/spelling mistakes.

edit:
I managed to improve my new design even more
Currently my best design:

features:

combinators: 16+37l decider combinators, 8+18l arithmetic combinator, and 4+l constant combinators where l is the number of wagons
height: 24 blocks
speed: 658 ticks
test setup blueprint:

sidenote: unloading with 11 stack inserters takes 610 ticks and thus is only 48 ticks faster