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Here's what I ended up with:



The output is now full, but I'm not using it fast enough for it to run at full speed, so it's not at full capacity.

if you have two spaces between each electric drill then you would get a more efficient output, not as fast certainly, but every square of ore would be mined from only one drill and that setup would last longer before you need to relocate, for greater output you could probably bunch up those drills so you could fit more drills per ore deposit.

Dakkanor wrote:if you have two spaces between each electric drill then you would get a more efficient output, not as fast certainly, but every square of ore would be mined from only one drill and that setup would last longer before you need to relocate, for greater output you could probably bunch up those drills so you could fit more drills per ore deposit.

I'm well aware of that. However, if you bunch them up you don't have any place to put the power lines, and you end up with drills that aren't all the same distance from the core. When that happens, the rate must necessarily be lower, because those closer to the core will have fewer opportunities to actually be in use; they'll be blocked by ore coming from drills further up the line. On the other hand, it's probably moot because of the way the game prefers one lane over the other at the T junctions.

Also, the amount of _time_ that a particular deposit lasts is irrelevant; there is a fixed amount of ore in one, and mining it more slowly doesn't extend it. Although I didn't measure the precise rate, I've smelted 50k plates just in an hour or two of testing. My next test will be to ramp that up and try to use it at full speed. I hope the first-level feeders will unblock once I get enough forges.

You need more than 1 belt as an output
And it needs to be a faster belt

Since you chose to only use 1 belt you're limited by the capicity and speed of that belt

With an iron deposit that big i'm betting you can do 3-5 outputs and keep the belts packed as full as the one you got coming out

You don't need such a sophisticated design. A bunch of miners around a winding conveyor belt should do just fine. No T-Intersections; all you have to deal with is the corners.

aside from the fact that i kinda wonder where you got so mutch ore on your map
seems quite unproductive to only have 1 line + having that one line in slow belts.

16 mines + speed modules are usually way more then enough to fill a single line up.

i'm mostly happy if i can place down more then 6 on single ore spot.

Check the dates gentlemen.

These designs are a long way out of date.

sorry didn't check that someone did dig out a corpse ..