Re: Let's see your clever builds
Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 1:15 pm
I wanted to try out a build to make all four sciences in one layout with just the raw materials as inputs (except for petroleum gas) and this is what I came up with:
This is in too low a resolution to be useful. Can you try again with a larger image?Maja153 wrote:I have a pretty complex design that i uploaded to a section i started as well
Do you mean a grid of yellow chests or a line of alternating red chests and inserters from one yellow chest?AutoMcD wrote:I usually just drop a pile of storage chests. Can you explain the advantage of this?
Like 2 or 3 yellow chests near each roboport. Seems like plenty of storage.. There's requester chests for nearly all the ore feeds to get things where they need to be eventually. Also a boiler that ran out of coal, I have a requester chest to direct all the wood into it. Outside of that there's what, a few outdated peices of weapons and armor, the occasional random stuff from clearing out inventory or drones that had to turn back when you ran out of range. So yeah, just some yellow chests seems to cover it. I don't see the purpose in the massive storage array, and certainly in that configuration.alan2here wrote:Do you mean a grid of yellow chests or a line of alternating red chests and inserters from one yellow chest?AutoMcD wrote:I usually just drop a pile of storage chests. Can you explain the advantage of this?
You can use a bunch of yellow chests as a central storage location for a mining or smelting operation that uses active provider chests. That way you can continue to mine or refine because the output chest never fills up, only the storage center.AutoMcD wrote: Like 2 or 3 yellow chests near each roboport. Seems like plenty of storage.. There's requester chests for nearly all the ore feeds to get things where they need to be eventually. Also a boiler that ran out of coal, I have a requester chest to direct all the wood into it. Outside of that there's what, a few outdated peices of weapons and armor, the occasional random stuff from clearing out inventory or drones that had to turn back when you ran out of range. So yeah, just some yellow chests seems to cover it. I don't see the purpose in the massive storage array, and certainly in that configuration.
Why so many roboports? Is it just to get the extra charging stations?MadZuri wrote:advancedcircuits
I'm using this one (quite old) build from this forum:cjmarsh wrote:I wanted to try out a build to make all four sciences in one layout with just the raw materials as inputs (except for petroleum gas) and this is what I came up with:
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Thank you for the Blueprint - excellent - one can learn a lotAru wrote: