errant tusk
Is the left design generally more favorable than the right?
I'm a new player who was looking for some inspiration and common design patterns in factorio.school
I very often see the left design used instead of right design. They both seem to do the same thing except the left one is 1 tile "wider", has easier construction, and same inserter speed for the input (two long-hands).
frail glacier
uh why would you ever use left one?
red inserter throughput is lower than other fast inserter
twin trout
uh why would you ever use left one?
This was a speed run strat to not have to switch objects. Casually it is less optimal
frail glacier
yeah i guess, not really familiar with speedrun strat myself. but raw throughput wise, its terrible
nocturne oyster
it might not matter, depending on the recipe
frail glacier
hmm, bigger footprint, lower throughput, more inserter active timing, not upgradable inserter, and almost all left design can be converted into right one. the only plus so far is faster build as ArcDM said
sounds all around terrible for me, at least thats from general playthrough perspective
abstract viper
Is the left design generally more favorable than the right?
I'm a new player wh...
the left is faster to build but doesn't work for high throughput recipes
and is less space effecient
severe current
they like to be braided like the bad belts they are
uneven verge
you also unlock long insrters before fast inserters
delicate walrus
you can easily draw third belt with that gonna go underground between inserters. that way you gonna be able to have variance of 6 items and use it for building whatever stuff like miners/factories/chemical plants/etc that doesn't require a lot of passtrough and eventually buffers up
civic storm
yeah i guess, not really familiar with speedrun strat myself. but raw throughput...
it really doesn't matter for most recepies that require you to build large before you get bots like blue science, red circuts, engines, bot frames
in many speedruns even the output inserter will be red so you can just drag them all at once
soft kettle
You can just add another row of red inserters per machine to the left one to increase throughput
Less optimal? Maybe. Does it actually matter? Pretty much never, frankly
earnest tartan
As has been mentioned, it’s just faster to hand-build and allows a 3rd belt input (not that it even happens for assemblers)