What is the purpose of the priorities here? How would this differ in terms of throughput if the priorities were removed? They incourage the items to flow through the "bypass". Its necessary when the input is not full, but more than 1 belt. As an exmaple; If the inputs were on belt 1 and 2...

As per this reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/18sixvb/smelting_iron_ore_directly_into_steel_steel/ . I tried to create a blueprint for Prod3 furnaces to smelt iron ore into steel without losing any productivity. The math is pretty easy with 20% bonus, 5 crafts makes 6 products...

The 5 splitters aren't meant to act as a true balancer, only as a medium to maintain throughput. And it's not my own design. It was found here in this stack overflow thread where it was verified mathematically, which lead to me exploring this area in the first place. https://math.stackexchange.com/q...

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https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/494213001004711946/911646925558784030/unknown.png What is the purpose of the priorities here? How would this differ in terms of throughput if the priorities were removed? They incourage the items to flow through the "bypass". Its necessary when the...

The bottom furnace is getting 2 miners

So I've found that making a 2n+1 Router can be done by adding 4 splitters to the 2n router IF V=2 I've made a 7 and a 9 belt router from the 6 and 8 belt respectively. Though they do need a few minor priority adjustments the extra lane is pretty simple to add https://media.discordapp.net/attachments...

I ended up finding the optimal 2:6 balancer of conventional balancing but didn't think it was worth posting since a 2 second search afterwards ended up showing its been found.

I got interested in creating a 2-6 balancer for myself and actually came across a more compact version of the 1-6 thats upgradeable to 2-6 just by abusing splitter throughput and priority outputs. Though I'm sure this only works at maximum throughput (1-2 Blue Belts input) https://media.discordapp.n...

The Flow Router (FR) can be characterised as a "Universally Throughput Unlimited" (UTU) Belt Balancer that may or may not balance inputs or outputs. It is a sister to the Balancer, not a child of it. As a Balancer can equally be characterised as an input/ouput balanced FR that may or may n...