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river solar Oct 9, 2024, 2:04 AM

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I'm just wondering if my belt and inserter automation is good.

woeful vector Oct 9, 2024, 2:06 AM

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That's an interesting choice 🙂

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You don't really have a need to be filling 3 Iron Chests each of Yellow Belts and Yellow Inserters. I would recommend reducing that to 1 each

ornate summit Oct 9, 2024, 2:07 AM

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You definitely don't need three chests of each, try 3 stacks

river solar Oct 9, 2024, 2:13 AM

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I limited all the chests to one stack

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and now im working on my red science

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What are the best ratios for green science?

woeful vector Oct 9, 2024, 2:27 AM

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There are science ratios in the cheatsheet linked in the #quick-questions channel description

river solar Oct 9, 2024, 8:30 PM

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Can someone tell me how to increase iron plate output without steel furnaces

untold zealot Oct 9, 2024, 8:56 PM

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24 stone furnaces in a row fill one lane of a yellow belt
if you want to fill both lanes, you need to sideload the belt like this:

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ok, I got the numbers wrong
your furnace stack is not yet too long

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you need more input belts though
you only have one lane of iron ore going in, so you only get at most one iron plate lane out

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if you don't want to rebuild half your furnace stack to make space, there's an alternative:
use the belt in the middle as output belt instead.

woeful vector Oct 10, 2024, 2:20 AM

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untold zealot 24 stone furnaces in a row fill one lane of a yellow belt if you want to fill bo...

~~Isn't the issue here that only a half belt of ore is getting fed in to a furnace stack built for a whole belt?~~ Oh wow, discord was stupid and I thought I was scrolled to the bottom

untold zealot Oct 10, 2024, 2:44 PM

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happens to me twice a week trianglepupper

cosmic fulcrum Oct 10, 2024, 8:46 PM

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river solar I'm just wondering if my belt and inserter automation is good.

It's very good
I'd recomment putting iron_gear_wheel onto the other side of the electronic_circuit belt and bump / copper_cable producers up to 6

cosmic fulcrum Oct 10, 2024, 8:47 PM

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river solar Can someone tell me how to increase iron plate output without steel furnaces

Don't bother increasing it, build an new 24-furnace stack and upgrade everything to steel furnaces

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You gonna need 1 copper line, 3 iron lines, and 1 iron/1 steel line, or so

river solar Oct 11, 2024, 1:12 AM

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How should i set up a furnace stack for steel?

woven vapor Oct 11, 2024, 3:07 AM

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You can either set it up the same as iron but replace ore for plates. Or you can insert from the plate furnaces directly into the steel furnaces

untold zealot Oct 11, 2024, 6:19 AM

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example of a DI Furnace stack
the power poles to the right are required to power the inserters

river solar Oct 11, 2024, 11:57 PM

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should this be enough iron and copper

fair ridge Oct 12, 2024, 12:00 AM

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Yes and no

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If enough is the point before too much there is never enough as there practically can't be too much

You can always add more production though if you need more. It's not like you build the stack then poof furnaces are locked for the remainder of the run

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I'd say as long as its a whole number of full belts of copper and iron and steel is at most around half of where your iron ore goes it's fine

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Finish that far left(not to get political) copper stack

river solar Oct 12, 2024, 12:27 AM

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should i have 4 stacks for each ore?

ornate summit Oct 12, 2024, 1:17 AM

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Eventually about 4, 1 is usually enough until Blue Science or so, by which time setting them up will be faster

Your setup can only feed 6 miners per side BTW, 12 per array

fair ridge Oct 12, 2024, 2:19 AM

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Ohh wait
I just realized youre feeding a half belt of iron to make a full belt of plates @river solar

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That is impossible

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It will be half belts not full belts out of those stacks

river solar Oct 12, 2024, 2:27 AM

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How should I fix that?

fair ridge Oct 12, 2024, 2:30 AM

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+faq sideload

naive jasperBOT Oct 12, 2024, 2:30 AM

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Sideload

fair ridge Oct 12, 2024, 2:30 AM

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Dont feed half belts into it

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Feed a full belt then split

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You had somewhat of a right idea here but overcomplicated it

river solar Oct 12, 2024, 2:34 AM

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Thats how Ive had it set up

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and i should change it to the one with splitters?

fair ridge Oct 12, 2024, 2:36 AM

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Yes because thats all half belts being put in

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Also you don't need that many coal belts

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1 coal belt iirc runs 26 furnace stacks

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I forgot what tier of belt did that though

river solar Oct 12, 2024, 2:38 AM

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Its just one full coal belt split into 4

fair ridge Oct 12, 2024, 2:46 AM

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why waste all those belts then?

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split as close to the split as you can

river solar Oct 12, 2024, 2:50 AM

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Mostly because thats what most of it looks like

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I think I fixed it

cosmic fulcrum Oct 12, 2024, 8:23 AM

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river solar should this be enough iron and copper

Yes this 2/3/1 yellow is enough (tho you are missing 0.5 bricks)
It will keep you to blue/grey science easily
Then you gonna need 4/2/2 red and I see you have plans for that

cosmic fulcrum Oct 12, 2024, 8:23 AM

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river solar I think I fixed it

Hmmmmmmmm

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well yes you did

river solar Oct 12, 2024, 8:23 PM

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I couldnt think of any other way of fitting it in such a small area

cosmic fulcrum Oct 13, 2024, 4:15 AM

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naive jasper

The right one on the gif helps alot for this builds
And since the coal belt is shared (you need 1/5 coal belt per iron belt or whatever), you only need 1 coal belt you split off

untold zealot Oct 13, 2024, 7:27 AM

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Jarqs is doing that. The immediate improvement I can see is moving those contraptions close to the furnaces.

river solar Oct 13, 2024, 1:45 PM

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I tried thinking of a way to put them close to the furnaces but I struggled to find space

untold zealot Oct 13, 2024, 1:53 PM

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don't worry. as long as it works and you don't need that space, it's good enough

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