regal creek
Any pros/cons on leaving vertical vs horizontal spaces for electric poles?
What I mean can be visualized from below blueprint:
https://factorioblueprints.tech/blueprint/55e14ad5-6b86-4c5c-a020-6c339171c874
Here its what I would call horizontal spacing for poles.
Vertical spacing would group miners into 4.
lilac thistle
Its cheaper than using Undergrounds but Undergrounds let you fit more miners on the patch, thats the main pro/con ime
regal creek
Sorry, what's underground?
lilac thistle
If you have the miners output onto an underground you can put the power pole in the space you've made
regal creek
Is it possible to share a blueprint for the idea you describe? I never used these for miners
Ah
Okay.
What about leaving horizontal vs verticla for early game
lilac thistle
Really early game I'd do what your bp is because Undergrounds cost a lot of Iron early game and then when I'd swap when I'm into Green Sci
What do you mean horizontal vs vertical?
regal creek
In above blueprint, poles are on the sides of the miners, that would create a column of space in between next miner column
We could also put them after miners, so that next 4 group of miners would have space for poles
lilac thistle
I get you, didnt realise that was the original q
The blueprint has worse coverage but its way faster to setup, I'd do the faster setup to get rolling quicker
solid raven
you can drag belts
then drag poles next to belts
then drag drills on both sides of the belts
you should end up with less gaps than doing a full vertical or full horizontal gap
should end up being half a horizontal gap
zealous copper
Unless you have some sort of unlimited ores mod enabled, there's not gonna be much of a difference between maximum miner and minimum coverage, cause in both cases you're gonna dry up the ore patches sooner or later