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Heh, clever

And I guess you can side-load the coal+steel belt onto a underground exit to easily separate the two.

(Now all I need is to find a new coal deposit...)

Nice ! Plus, with the upcoming circuit update, it seems that spacing your drills without overlapping of drilling areas will be useful. Less ore/sec, but ability to read amount of ore remaining more precisely... I think. I'll try your build as soon as 0.13 comes out !

Thanks to DaveMcW, proud to present the productive mining outpost "Iron N1":
(in retrospect I should have started the iron mines at the northern edge of the ore field, so it is easier to expand the steel operations... but that will have to wait until I get blueprints )

Edit: updated screenshot to png and also the new design, with 4 rows of steel smelters and 2 rows of iron smelters. You might need to download the image to see the right hand side (http://i.amcat.nl/iron+steel.png), apparently the width of spoilers is capped?

Station is removed from the screenshot, but included below for backwards compatibility.

Nice design!
Look awesome

vanatteveldt wrote:Thanks to DaveMcW, proud to present the productive mining outpost "Iron N1":

Iron, steel, and trains

(it continues a bit to the right, download and right-click + show image in new tab to see the extremely innovative coal unloading)

(in retrospect I should have started the iron mines at the northern edge of the ore field, so it is easier to expand the steel operations... but that will have to wait until I get blueprints )

Due to terrible jpg-compression I have no idea what I'm looking at / what I'm supposed to see...

Bart wrote:Due to terrible jpg-compression I have no idea what I'm looking at / what I'm supposed to see...

Post updated!

Hm, that definitely is a clever way to combine mining and smelting. However, keep in mind it's one electric miner to two stone furnaces, or one electric miner to one steel furnace. That setup would have full throughput for the miners if it had steel furnaces, but it only has half because of the stone furnaces.

Jackielope wrote:Hm, that definitely is a clever way to combine mining and smelting. However, keep in mind it's one electric miner to two stone furnaces, or one electric miner to one steel furnace. That setup would have full throughput for the miners if it had steel furnaces, but it only has half because of the stone furnaces.

I'm pretty sure the only reason DaveMcW used stone furnaces is because I started by presenting it as an early game (pre-steel) solution. In my later screenshot I use steel smelters. The nice thing about the stone->steel transition is that they are the same size, so it's a drop-in upgrade. (It's annoying that the recipe for a steel furnace doesn't consume a stone furnace like many other upgrade paths do (e.g. belts, assembly, inserters). On the other hand none of the steam -> electric upgrades do, so maybe there is some sort of bigger design decsion).

A second advantage of coal-fired smelting is that you can easily create energy-independent outposts, and don't need to plant big poles everywhere (unless you depend on laser turrets, of course..)

My favourite topic is smelting

It can be more compact
https://gyazo.com/cee9ca4e4f3e0d0b350dc4c49a8fc673

My Chaotic Drone factory

top is explosives , and the chest next to the plastic represents the coal input. built it in a new lvl

my compact oil processing plant. I probably could have made another solid fuel to use up the heavy fuel, but whatever.

testing " research factory "https://youtu.be/s-ODoVS-1TY
compact and easily extensible

Hey, i'm new here but wanted to s how my recent build. Just startet new and lost my recources because of the biters. their base is on the right side so i had to compress the science production, and i'm pretty proud of the result.The best part is, you manually can change the directions of the conveyor belt to "fine-tune" the productivity of the sciencepacks. Hope you like it as much as i do.

So i use shadows combo mod pack to give the game a fresh kick and i just got my second factory evolution completed

It is not entirely my idea, because the main principle was developed by XKnight.
I used his idea and built passive sorter, which can handle objects on both lines with full belt speed. It have also simple overflow protection.
This is a great solution especially for mods, which often created more than one product.

https://embed.gyazo.com/475b0184c5b79c5 ... 081127.gif

Design where you can see how it works.
https://i.gyazo.com/379174809b586fa64d1 ... eedf86.png

It can be easily expanded to sort more item types and handle more input belts.

Neotix wrote: It have also simple overflow protection.
https://embed.gyazo.com/475b0184c5b79c5 ... 081127.gif

So this works with lines backed up?