Lubricant: Used in making Electric Engines & Express (blue) level belts, splitters and undergrounds. by Rjskeet Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:55 am, Post If you don't have red circuits yet, don't worry -- you're just planning for the future! A bus often starts at the smelting of iron, copper and steel, and then over time and distance gains more and more different items. This item has been removed from the community because it violates Steam Community & Content Guidelines. When more than the number of allowed outputs backs up, the universal balancer behaves like a normal balancer, and may not balance properly. The orientation of and how wide the players monitor is also plays a role in this decision. Really quite unique in my opinion.The factory utilizes 2-8 single length single headed trains for the raw material transportation. Heya Gmanicus! Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). Green & blue circuits share a line going in. Cookie Notice Although a main bus can give you a huge advantage, it's still up to you if you want to use it. Place a regular inserter and a long armed inserter to feed each Science assembler. Place inserters as per screenshot -- only inserters need long-arms. You can replace splitters and undergrounds similarly by just placing upgraded versions on top of the old, (without the need to deconstruct them). Usually I make factories which consume 500 k - 1M iron plates per hour (4-8 blue belts), but three trains transport iron to green circuit factory, steel factory and main base (in which science packs are produced). This is a good measure to combat "spaghetti factories" as it forces someone to plan a structured layout and move everything to use items from the bus. by Hannu Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:28 am, Post Grouping differing items together can cause problems when splitting them off, hence only groupings of two differing items is recommended. Groningen, Hamburg at minimum put 4 productivity 3 modules on the rocket silo for to reduce supplies needed for the rocket by 40%. Comati PSG Zentral-Omnibus-Bahnhof Bus terminal, Hamburg, Comati PSG Zentral-Omnibus-Bahnhof Bus terminal. If there is enough input for the item to saturate a whole belt then putting a lane-balancer in won't help to get more items later on. Taking two belts off of this won't produce two belts worth of output, the middle one only carries half a belt to each side! This Factorio Base Tour showcases a magnificent 5.2k SPM (Science Per Minute) Mutliple Main Bus Megabase made by Hornet! For the belt close to the assembler, split off half a lane of iron plates. Steel is usually the one I'm short on. Berlin, Hamburg So you should generally have 4 iron, 4 copper, 4 green circuits, and then you can do 2/2 steel/plastic to start out, then as you progress and get other resources made you can either leave them local (for gears/copper wire) or add them to the main bus on belts of 2 - so red circuits, maybe batteries etc. There are alternative designs, for example, using splitter priorities to fully prefer the setups near the start of the main bus and only allow materials to go through to a later setup if that earlier setup's needs are satisfied. - by Aeternus Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:54 pm, Post So I'm starting of a new factorio game, planning on making my first rocket in this game. You'll want production running while you work to keep you supplied. Creating a train grid factory. Split off a full belt of red circuits to go closest to the assemblers, since they are needed in highest quantity. It is advisable to leave space between the groups of belts of one item for underground belt to surface and for other things to cross the bus. If you don't find any maps or scenarios you enjoy, you can create your own with the in-game Map Editor, place down entities, enemies, and terrain in any way you like, and even add your own custom script to make for interesting gameplay. Using a non-prioritizing split-off will only distribute the shortage, not magically create more production. Oldenburg, Hamburg The split-offs shown above generally prefer setups near the start of the main bus but will also supply some limited materials to the later setups. ): http://www.xtermvideos.comCheck out Factorio at: https://www.factorio.comFactorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. To balance belts it has to be made sure that the output belts contain an equal number of items from each input belt. Now red belt can span 6 tiles, which is pretty good for parts of the bus. One downside to this can be that all resources are used up before every machine gets fed. - To be throughput unlimited, a balancer must fulfil the following conditions: Balancers often do not fulfill the second condition because of internal bottlenecks. 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But for some other parts of the bus you can easily do 6 belts next to each other Gears: While the ratio of iron plates to iron gear wheels is advantageous ratio-wise, (2 plates makes 1 iron gear wheel), I've found (through real experimentation) that it is much more efficient to make Gears locally. But when you discover the most important ones, you'll eventually have a grasp on it. Paris, Hamburg - The resulting balancer is usually larger than a balancer that was initially designed to be throughput unlimited. Same with the production that is to the side of the bus, leave space between the builds for later expansion or belts that go between, at least three, six to ten is fitting. Putting a lane-balancer after a split-off is not necessary most of the time as the rest moves on if the belt has no draw or if only one lane is used. This may happen at a later stage in the game up to which a bus is a very good tool to reduce clutter. I still need to put skynet back in =P. Search reviews. steel, copper cable, iron gear wheel) but it gets way too complicated to belt weave and it winds up making more sense to having dedicated assemblers for each of their end products. We have located 2 bus terminals and one bus stop in Hamburg. Valve Corporation. It includes all the methods you need to take the designs and blueprints from the beginning on constructing your main bus, all the way up to using it to gain the advantage. These are being used to transport items and put some of it in the centre spot (which is the main purpose of a main bus). Id like to consider starting a train-grid factory that I see people use and I'm just theorizing that I'll come into . 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You could be the first review for Hamburg Legion Lanes. Ideally, a balancer should be input and output balanced. Belt Balancers - how they work and how to make them, Finding balance: A guide to belt balancers, https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Balancer_mechanics&oldid=183149. There's a lot to consider when building a main bus. don't steal from the 4 belts of iron), 2 belts red circuits, 1 plastic, 1 belt blue circuits, 1 belt with half regular and half electric engines, 1 belt of batteries. Watching the trains move through the junction is so satisfying and mesmerizing! I do put steel and batteries on the bus. by Serenity Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:18 pm, Post Munich, Hamburg Balancers also use the mechanic that splitters take an equal amount of items from both input belts. This means I still have throughput on my iron/copper busses for other things. That way at every step along the bus a few items are split off and used up and when the production comes to a stop the items go on to be used by the next production. Re: How many main bus lines do you generally use? Most likely you will need dedicated iron/copper smelting for green circuit production since so many things take them. I tried using next-level products (i.e. The direction of a bus, being horizontal or vertical depends on personal preference and how one likes to work on the production that splits off it, which can almost always be expanded for greater use later on. Hamburg, Copenhagen I am currently thinking bigger now and starting a new game with a starter base and then working on building 'towns' that each produce stuff and use trains instead of a main bus to move supplies between the towns. That means that a splitter can be used to put an equal amount of items on two belts. by vanatteveldt Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:14 pm, Post If a universal balancer is throughput limited, the bottleneck may be in the loops or the balancer itself. For more information, please see our