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My first world any tips?

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I bought this game a few days ago and after a bit of getting to know the game I started my first world. I'm mainly grinding science packs for now and I kinda only used what I figured out. I would like some help or tips to make my base more efficient and having to fix some backpacks every couple minutes.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =259285680
You can comment on there if you want to, instead of replying on the forums. I don't have the monsters on either.

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Since you have no biters - go nuts :)

My advice is - try researching all automation (i.e all belts, splitters and inserters) then play with them alone. Try making faster complexes, or smaller ones whichever you prefer.

After that - oil - build some refineries, play with pipes.

Then - research logistic drones - try setting up few roboports and play solely with them.

Finally - try out railroads.

try combining 2 or 3 of things mentioned above and dont forget to make mistakes. Decide what style of play fits you best and experiment trying to achieve that (e.g I like handling large amount of items at once so my bases tend to be huge multitasking machines)

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Garm wrote:Since you have no biters - go nuts :)

My advice is - try researching all automation (i.e all belts, splitters and inserters) then play with them alone. Try making faster complexes, or smaller ones whichever you prefer.

After that - oil - build some refineries, play with pipes.

Then - research logistic drones - try setting up few roboports and play solely with them.

Finally - try out railroads.

try combining 2 or 3 of things mentioned above and dont forget to make mistakes. Decide what style of play fits you best and experiment trying to achieve that (e.g I like handling large amount of items at once so my bases tend to be huge multitasking machines)
Hmm, that's actually a good idea to help with my backup problem. My iron isn't getting to my factories fast enough to make gears so maybe speeding up the iron-belts will make a difference. Thanks :D I've been having a problem with that for a bit. I'm just starting with oil production right now and I hope I don't do something that eventually it isn't worth the effort of fixing and I don't have to start a new world. I'm about to find the research necessairy to make the blue science packs and then i'm going to start automation on that. Again thanks.

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I think that you don't have enough furnaces. You get a lot of iron, but you can't smelt it fast enough so your belts are blocked. Try to make more furnaces on both sides of belts. Furthermore, i think this chest near furnaces is unnecessary. If you will make furnaces on both sides, inserters will put plates on both sides of belt :)

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Miners dont need inserters. They can drop directly onto belt, into chest or even furnace. I attached a screenshot from my 16-hour-game. Maybe you find some ideas for base-design.
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Thanks for the screenshot, many good idea's :-)

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Thanks for the tips :3. I've taken what all of y'all have said and made some changes accordingly: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =259505661
Firstly I was able to get some oil and make my first plastic, which I then used to craft electric furnaces. I think added more miners for copper and coal and made a copper-smelting area and am in the process of expanding and improving the iron-smelting area. Now I am on to making Science Pack 3s for research, which is in my view beyond expensive. But I hope I can have enough plastic-production to keep up with my plastic-demand for Science Pack 3s.

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