Fast transport belt manufacturing issue

[Hamster]

It seems the amount of items which is required to produce is not correct. (at least when you try to manufacture 5 piece at a time)

As you know you need:
1 transport belt and 5 gear for 1 fast transport belt.
1 transport belt require 1 gear and 1 steel plate
1 gear require 2 steel plate.
So if this number are correct, you would need 5x13 steel plate to produce 5 fast belt.

But this is what happens:
I do not have any transport belt in my inventory, and try to manufacture
5 fast belt, when I start the procedure, it shows that it started to produce 27 gear and 3 transport belt.

However in the end, in my inventory I found 5 fast transport belt, and 1 transport belt.
And it only consumed 59 steel plates.

This problem I discovered first in 0.12.12, however it's still in 0.12.15

PS: can we get the option to SAVE or manually SET the screen size?
So if I make the screen bigger (windowed mode) it does not remember it when start it again.

[Choumiko]

1 transport belt require 1 gear and 1 steel plate

But this is what happens:
I do not have any transport belt in my inventory, and try to manufacture
5 fast belt, when I start the procedure, it shows that it started to produce 27 gear and 3 transport belt.

However in the end, in my inventory I found 5 fast transport belt, and 1 transport belt.
And it only consumed 59 steel plates.

Transport Belt is produced 2 at a time, so for 1 gear 1 iron plate you get two, that's why it crafts 3 times the recipe and you end up with one transport belt as a leftover

[Rseding91]

Transport Belt is produced 2 at a time, so for 1 gear 1 iron plate you get two, that's why it crafts 3 times the recipe and you end up with one transport belt as a leftover

Exactly.

[Hamster]

I see... thanks for explaining.

[prg]

PS: can we get the option to SAVE or manually SET the screen size?
So if I make the screen bigger (windowed mode) it does not remember it when start it again.

If you happen to be using Linux, you can use some window matching utility like devilspie2 for this.

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if get_window_class() == "factorio" then
        undecorate_window()
        set_window_geometry(100, 100, 640, 480)
end

KWin even has a GUI for this, somewhere in the window menu -> special window/application settings. I suspect similar tools for other systems would exist, too.