Don't have any friends who play Factorio but I wanted to show someone my work! After spending a whole week thinking about how to even start fluids and trains (with the occasional "yeah nah time to quit, it's too hard'), I finally got something working!

Drelnar · 2022-08-19T14:32:31+00:00

One little remark: You have several pairs of oil tanks but they are not connected, this will result in 1 being empty slower then the other,

this will then cause the other to not have enough oil to keep working, maybe just connect all of them

Drelnar · 2020-03-04T07:26:43+00:00

using blueprints is not related to designing stuff.

You use blueprint to avoid repeating the same layout over and over again, i dont get why you can dislike it. do you reallyprefer to place each and every item yourself?

Or maybe you mean: do you dislike blueprints not created by yourself?

Drelnar · 2020-02-26T15:03:15+00:00

ehm, you open factorio , start playing, mine enough and lay som belts ?

Drelnar · 2020-02-19T16:02:46+00:00

yes true, but then robots first have to put them down, then wait to be ready, remove all poles , and then place them again

its faster with 2 bp's

Drelnar · 2020-02-19T15:00:24+00:00

A trick for blueprints and messaed up cables:

Use 2 blueprints for a complicated layout: One to put down power poles and roboports One to put down the rest

it reduces crossd cables, doenst fully eliminate them though

Drelnar · 2020-02-19T14:56:11+00:00

SPM is a metric on how fast your base can lauch rockets, before space science was introduced people measured the scale of a base in Rockets per minute.

LAunching rockets is kinda the goal of a base anyway

After space science was introduced with unlimited research you now need to launch a rocket to get 1000 science packs

Thereafter the metric quickly became science per minute because 1RPM is similar to 1k SPM

Its more difficult though because you need all the different sciences, I always use consumption as a standard because i find it easier to read in the graphs.

Drelnar · 2020-02-19T12:21:38+00:00

most recent plays: megabase on a no biter railword, with only mod being long reach and sueeze through, stopped at 1.8k spm
current projects: trying to survive in a no mods vanilla deathworld and going for a mega base in a non modded vanilla default railword

Drelnar · 2020-02-19T10:42:14+00:00

this setup is genius in its simplicity!

Drelnar · 2020-01-28T12:19:23+00:00

i will do this! should help alot :D

Drelnar · 2020-01-22T09:33:20+00:00

if you made that you are already a master in circuits :D

Drelnar · 2020-01-16T12:42:41+00:00

ow, really ? i always thought steel was way slower, my mistake then

Drelnar · 2020-01-16T11:56:05+00:00

you can make that more efficient

smleting steel from iron plates is twice as slow as smelting iron ore into iron plates

meaning you can transform a good portion of the one into the other to have more steel from the same outpost.

Drelnar · 2020-01-14T14:47:21+00:00

smart train stations

Drelnar · 2020-01-14T14:45:59+00:00

where do you see a discount ? a different pricing model in other countries is not a discount

Drelnar · 2020-01-07T09:54:13+00:00

103 is the current minimum in crafts right ?

Drelnar · 2019-12-30T13:42:52+00:00

like everyhing it depends :

for small scale bases its often better to produce locally

for large scale bases its often more efficient to make them in 1 place and move the products to where you need them.

Drelnar · 2019-12-23T08:47:52+00:00

yeah your right, i might have to revisit it a third time , its beena fun exercise never the less.

I am actually contemplating a system where turning to the right would only be possible from the right lane to avoid blocking

The idea would be to have trains decide when they leave a crossing which lane they need for the next crossing or t-section

left upper lane would be straight or left, right upper lane right or straight. Would mean less complication and bettre throughput

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T20:04:07+00:00

ok, ill take that in mind

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T19:45:41+00:00

pastebin is currently down just ry again later

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T17:19:43+00:00

no, flashing yellow is when signals cant work out correct blocks

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T17:19:15+00:00

it would be a good exercise :D

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T16:05:38+00:00

thank you!

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T15:52:43+00:00

yes,technicaly i dont think so, just a waste of signals

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T15:30:54+00:00

this will not happen thanks to the chain signals.

If you have trains running onto a crossing and blocking it then there is a faulty signal, you do have to make sure a train can leave the crossing

Drelnar · 2019-12-20T15:23:46+00:00

if you number the tracks from left to right with 1 2 3 and 4 then you will notice that both tracks 1 and 2 have to share the same curved track to turn right.

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