How to best transport stone?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:37 am
It's beginning to annoy me that Stone is always found in these tiny patches, usually only enough for 1 or 2 mines, rarely 4, whereas Coal/Iron/Copper is found in large patches.
The problem is the huge need for Belts to move the Stone from all these patches to a central Stone-handling area, where it can be further processed into Brick, or into other things that require Stone, e.g. mods such as Landfil. Belts all over the place.
In the MP game I was recently in, which is basically over because we achieved a position of being on top of everything and so it's no longer really interesting, we ended up using Logistics Robots to move the Stone, because it was so annoying. But even with good research, that's only 5 (and realistically often 4) Stone per Robot, and they don't move very fast. That means that most of the Logistics system ends up hauling Stone, instead of other perhaps more important things.
Am I missing something? Have I overlooked a solution? The Landfill mod does require a lot of Stone (20 Stone per 1 Landfull unit), so that eats up a lot, but even beyond that, Stone comes in these annoyingly small patches that makes belting cumbersome. Even before I started using the Landfill mod, the Stone issue bothered me.
The problem is the huge need for Belts to move the Stone from all these patches to a central Stone-handling area, where it can be further processed into Brick, or into other things that require Stone, e.g. mods such as Landfil. Belts all over the place.
In the MP game I was recently in, which is basically over because we achieved a position of being on top of everything and so it's no longer really interesting, we ended up using Logistics Robots to move the Stone, because it was so annoying. But even with good research, that's only 5 (and realistically often 4) Stone per Robot, and they don't move very fast. That means that most of the Logistics system ends up hauling Stone, instead of other perhaps more important things.
Am I missing something? Have I overlooked a solution? The Landfill mod does require a lot of Stone (20 Stone per 1 Landfull unit), so that eats up a lot, but even beyond that, Stone comes in these annoyingly small patches that makes belting cumbersome. Even before I started using the Landfill mod, the Stone issue bothered me.