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I just whipped this thing up and I really like it. I set it up so I can expand it to the east probably as far as I want. The mini steel and belt factory above it will probably be relocated.

(The images got cut off a bit but you get the gist. There is a splitter after every 4 furnaces all the way down.)

So you essentially maximized the output throughput of the smeltery to be able to use four lanes? Seems nice but I bet you'd need to do the same with input belts to deliver enough ore to the furnaces

It looks nice, but there isn't enough space for electric furnaces. Try leaving space between your current furnaces, so you can upgrade to the electric one later.

beny166 wrote:It looks nice, but there isn't enough space for electric furnaces. Try leaving space between your current furnaces, so you can upgrade to the electric one later.

His smeltery is upgrade ready.. Just sayin'

hoho wrote:So you essentially maximized the output throughput of the smeltery to be able to use four lanes? Seems nice but I bet you'd need to do the same with input belts to deliver enough ore to the furnaces

beny166 wrote:It looks nice, but there isn't enough space for electric furnaces. Try leaving space between your current furnaces, so you can upgrade to the electric one later.

True, and I made some modifications as I was going. I ended up plopping 2 of those things back to back with a triple ore belt to feed all of it. And I rebuilt it with some space for the electrics. I've never really used electric furnaces but they definitely have some advantages.



This bad boy can handle 32 furnaces in a row before you start to run into throughput issues. It made for a pretty serious blueprint for end-game shenanigans.

That thing is huge. Can you post picture from your production screen?

Also looking at your minimap seems like it's producing tons of polution maybe consider adding efficiency modules or build more tanks

Pollution, whats that?

This is the "Health Fog" it promotes growth and evolution

beny166 wrote: That thing is huge. Can you post picture from your production screen?

Also looking at your minimap seems like it's producing tons of polution maybe consider adding efficiency modules or build more tanks

Here you go:


This doesn't quite do it justice though (not that you can really read it). I had both iron and copper over 12k at one point. And I played this on peaceful because I wanted to test out some large builds and robot networks and stuff.

Peteza34 wrote:Here you go:
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Man, that's one ugly resolution as well as quality for an image. I can't read anything of the production screen, just take wild guesses of what it might say.

I mean it doesn't really matter anyways, it wasn't working as well as it should have. I found out that if I wanna build large robot powered things, I need to do separate logistic networks for everything.