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Im working on a Project and i need full yellow belt of electric mining drills, desing has gotten me headache so i need help

Are you wanting a factory block that can produce that? Or just a source of that (e.g. using a loader/cheats).

1 : Lay a yellow belt

2 : Add mining drills on both sides, output facing towards belt

3 : add power poles to power that on both sides (pro tip : they work better if connected to a power source).

4 : Add drills and power poles until your output belt is full.

You're welcome

You mean something like this:

Be aware that the mining drill needs 20x iron plates (the iron needed for the 3 full belts of green board are not taken into account). Hence, you will need 20 full belts of iron plates input (of which you convert 50% into gears) for 1 full belt of mining drills.

I believe that you cannot place 13.3 drills per second -- even with bots this would be a real challenge... Hence, this question relates to blue science.
Do you really want 2 full belts of blue science?
That would be a mega base. You should use productivity and speed (beacon) modules. And you need buffer chests (wooden boxed, not the newly discussed ones) to handle the transfer rate into the assembly machine. Figure the details out yourself. This is what factorio is about!

Bauer wrote:Be aware that the mining drill needs 20x iron plates (the iron needed for the 3 full belts of green board are not taken into account). Hence, you will need 20 full belts of iron plates input (of which you convert 50% into gears) for 1 full belt of mining drills.

I believe that you cannot place 13.3 drills per second -- even with bots this would be a real challenge... Hence, this question relates to blue science.
Do you really want 2 full belts of blue science?
That would be a mega base. You should use productivity and speed (beacon) modules. And you need buffer chests (wooden boxed, not the newly discussed ones) to handle the transfer rate into the assembly machine. Figure the details out yourself. This is what factorio is about!

Yea, i was going for megabase with bit of twist, yellow belts only and sience production of full belt, it turned out to be just lagfest, after i got production sience going i was starting to see how impossible it would be without bots

I have the same question, but I don't have a specific output goal. I just want a good beaconed design for making mining drills, assuming green circuits and iron plates as input.

The belt routing is making my head hurt.

I guess we had the same idea (yellow belt of each science pack, no bots).

For mining drills, I make the gears separately from the drills itself:


2 blue belts of gears from 4 belts of iron.

Drills:


1 yellow belt of drills from 1 blue + 1 red belt of gears and 3 blue + 1 red of iron (3+1 yellow would also be enough)