Hey any ideas to solve this problem I am having?

[halcyon crater]

delete the third one or add another belt of ore

[dreamy pewter]

you're taking 3 belts of iron plates, then trying to squish them into one belt, then split that one belt out into 4.

[halcyon crater]

also one red belt of ore can only supply 48 steel furnaces
people typically build them in stacks of 48

[dreamy pewter]

i can't see the ore supply for the furnaces but i imagine you're making the same mistake there, you gotta have 3 full belts at all times if you want to consume 3 full belts

[dreamy pewter]

yeah that is less than one red belt of ore, so you don't have enough ore to make 1 red belt of plates let alone 3

[hybrid belfry]

got it so i need to make more miners and then the problem will be solved. I only had 3 of them cause I was stuck at normal furnaces and just got the better ones

[dreamy pewter]

that's a start yeah. and rather than having that one vertical belt through the middle of the ore patch, put all your ore on several horizontal belts, then merge them together using splitters. covering an ore patch that size with miners would make about 2 red belts worth, i think

[hybrid belfry]

so just fill up the entire thing with miner and instead of having the belt on the ore patch put it outside of it?

[halcyon crater]

yes
also you can use undergrounds to fit the power poles without sacrificing space for miners

[hybrid belfry]

so just like alot of these

and connect the ends of them

[muted leaf]

yeah

[dreamy pewter]

i just looked through the discord and found someone's screenshot which is a decent example
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[halcyon crater]

the underground thing

[hybrid belfry]

way better then what I was jsut doing

[halcyon crater]

it is a bit expensive though

[dreamy pewter]

red underground belts cost a lot of iron

[muted leaf]

i prefer to just keep it cheap to build, tiling every 8 high instead of 7

[hybrid belfry]

how are we looking

[dreamy pewter]

not bad with the miners, but you are still side-loading everything onto one belt. you want to use splitters instead, like this:

also the little lane-swapper things in the first example i posted above aren't super necessary

also also, please take screenshots during the day

[wide spear]

Using red belts but yellow undergrounds doesn't increase throughput. The speed will be limited by the slower undergrounds

[muted leaf]

can use yellow belt at the lower flow rate on the left, and red belt at the higher flow rate on the right

[hybrid belfry]

I know they were placeholders they are all red belts now I was waiting till I automated red undergrounds