I need help?

[SvenMokveldje]

Hello Everybody
At my games everything goes quite well at the beginning until I hit a point where I need to expand my production of iron and copper. Do you have tips.
Also in one world I managed to not make it all spaghetti but then later I had the same (I already had electric furnaces) What can I do?

[Serenity]

Plan your furnaces in a place where you can expand them. Both to the sides and in one direction vertically. Then you can add more furnace lines. And later make them longer. For example red belt can handle twice as many furnaces as yellow belt.

With electric furnaces and red belt you can do 24 per side for a total of 48 per output belt (for iron or copper. Steel is different). Then when you need more output add another line. Which then of course needs more ore to feed it. The belts to run the output to the factory bus also need plenty of room.

If you don't have space you can also do smelting somewhere else entirely and bring in the iron plates per train. I will eventually do that in my current game as the space in my iron and steel area is somewhat constricted.

[Peter34]

If you don't have space you can also do smelting somewhere else entirely and bring in the iron plates per train. I will eventually do that in my current game as the space in my iron and steel area is somewhat constricted.

That also gets easier with the Tier 3 Electric Furnaces, because then you can do your smelting, to Iron/Copper/Steel Plate, locally where the Mine is, without requiring a Coal patch nearby or having to Belt in Solid Fuel.

One could in theory go further, e.g. if there is a Copper Ore patch near an Iron Ore patch, one could smelt to Copper/Iron Plates and produce Electronic Circuits locally, then use a Train to move those into the base.

[Serenity]

The ore will run out eventually though unless you play with very large/very rich maybe. It's better to plan for bringing the ore per train on one station and removing the product with another station