So I've been playing Factorio for a while now. I've learned how to use most machines and i just need help seeing wether or not this factory is efficient, if not what do i need to change?
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Factory Help? Check if it's efficient?
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404ManDown
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Re: Factory Help? Check if it's efficient?
The layout is decent, u have room to expand. My tips would be:
- If you want for example two kinds of science bottles on one belt make sure that it doenst get mixed, keep green on the left side and red on the right. Otherwise you could have an entire belt full of green bottles and keeping red bottles from reaching the research stations.
- I prefer keeping in- and output materials on separated belts, when you start to scale up those mixed belts going to create havoc in the production.
Offcourse the first rule of Factorio is there no good or wrong way to play it, only your preferred way of playing it.
- If you want for example two kinds of science bottles on one belt make sure that it doenst get mixed, keep green on the left side and red on the right. Otherwise you could have an entire belt full of green bottles and keeping red bottles from reaching the research stations.
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Offcourse the first rule of Factorio is there no good or wrong way to play it, only your preferred way of playing it.
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Re: Factory Help? Check if it's efficient?
Couple of tips from my experience. 
It is probably best to keep Red and Green Science each in their own Lane of the belt rather than mixing them like that. So like Red on the left side of the belt, green on the right, or vice versa.
It is pretty much always better and recommended to directly insert copper cable into the circuit machines rather than belt it. Simply dude to throughput.
Also maybe best to do a separate smelting setup for Iron and Copper rather than mixing them like that. It could cause jams and limit throughput of one of the resources sometimes.
Overall though I'd say you have a pretty decent start.
It is probably best to keep Red and Green Science each in their own Lane of the belt rather than mixing them like that. So like Red on the left side of the belt, green on the right, or vice versa.
It is pretty much always better and recommended to directly insert copper cable into the circuit machines rather than belt it. Simply dude to throughput.
Also maybe best to do a separate smelting setup for Iron and Copper rather than mixing them like that. It could cause jams and limit throughput of one of the resources sometimes.
Overall though I'd say you have a pretty decent start.
