If you're not against the use of mods, then this setup could actually work with a mod called "powered entities".Notxarb wrote:Sorry, but I don't think that would work.vanatteveldt wrote: I was thinking of a method to use substations and four miners facing each other, but it's hard to get a good setup.
I was experimenting with 4-miner units, and I made something like this:
This would be the ultimate-perfect mining setup, if Factorio allowed it (it would also have a coverage of ≈92.31%). But unless the devs (or a mod) made underground belts that can stretch indefinitely, it will not be perfect. Also, there would need to be a way to power all of it, because there is no space included to do that. On top of these, there was a problem mentioned with using belts earlier that told how the miners feeding directly into the ends of the belts will only feed one lane of them. The devs would have to fix this too (like maybe make the miner deposition act as a splitter --feeding alternate lanes).
Anyways, we have the setup, but now we need a substation to power it. You can replace any of the middle miners with a substation, but this would be sloppy and it would drop the coverage all the way down to ≈86.54%, which is redundant. Since this design is theoretically perfect, I don't think any other design, even with 3-miner units, could do better with a substation than what I have now. So, in other words, unless the devs do something, no, that won't happen. Sorry.
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YAY COOL DESIGN!DutchBully wrote:boring, always the buzzkillers.... How about YAY COOL DESIGN? But I guess with Japs the glass is always half empty... whats next?
FYI 351 miners in this image
. Since every miner has its own chest, while in the earlier designs 3 miners shared 2 chests, your design is actually less efficient. Every four miners (36 tiles)use an additional 5 tiles (4 chests plus 1 pole), so your efficiency is 36/41 = 87.8%. The earlier design posted uses 3 additional tiles (2 chests plus 1 pole) per 3 miners for 90% efficiency (with the added benefit of being able to fit in belts instead of chests if desired) viewtopic.php?f=33&t=50256I love this design and I'm trying to implement it but the poles don't seem to cover all the miners or connect to other poles when tiling. What am I missing? I followed the diagram and the poles are in the same spots.BurnHard wrote:Any flaws in this design? I am here at 126/138= 91,3 %
14 miners, 10 chests, 2 power poles, no unused space
