Alright addicts, lets see what y'all are cooking up for idiotic and completely unreasonable SPM numbers to test the limits of the sim now.

When working with 8 beacon layouts, sometimes you get a splitter right in the middle of your 3 space wide beacon throwing off your beautiful symmetry. I propose a 3 belt wide splitter, input one belt in the "middle" and 2 outputs on the far sides leaving a gap in the middle on the output side. you ...

Might want to give Train Supply Manager mod a try. For example, in my smelter, I have it setup with a "holding stacker" such that a train is waiting with a full load of ore in the stacker. When a station is low on ore a train is called from that holding station. Once it unloads completely the train ...

This is easy enough, just chain all the belts together with wire to a constant combinator. Set the combinator to output 1 copper symbol or pretty much anything else. Set each wired belt to enable if that symbol is greater than 0. Turn the "belt gate" on and off by turning the constant combinator on ...

I'll give it a try.

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Works surprisingly well. Even better, in conjunction with disabling the station if it has less than the average of all other stations. Trains are using all 12 stations very fairly evenly. Even if a train's destination station was disabled en-route, it stops close enough ...

I have a large smelter with 12 pickup stations in a row (all named the same). The issue is trains will only use the first 4 stations, with 8 others unused. Even if I set those 4 stations to be disabled if a train is present, other trains will wait at a signal until that station is free, instead of ...

Thank you! Back to building big

I was in the middle of designing a gigantic oil base, perfect timing!

You can revert to version 17.66 (instead of "Latest") in your steam settings if you want to load up your game in the mean time.

HawkDZero wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:44 pm hello, i see an error while trying to load factorio with all extended plus mods, says error loading in extended plus machines

graphic files need to be updated for the new chemical plants.

https://i.imgur.com/v8b9ep3.jpg

That should be enough! Each column of furnaces takes 4 belts of ore and spits out 1 belt of Steel at the bottom. (yes 4 belts of ore then 4 belts of iron plate fit down a standard 12 beacon square!) It is very tall layout. I had it less tall and much wider but ...

Got it. If I understand correctly, MiniLoaders are just 2 inserters hiding under the box?

Is there a way to make loaders take evenly from both sides of a belt? I built a rather large Factorio Extended base with "MiniLoaders" that input belt contents evenly from both sides of the belt into machines. However, Miniloaders are a very large drain on UPS and I switched them all to Deadlocks ...

still not working! ;D

The save game is artificially limited to 18.

Just set the game speed to 1 and you should get a few more ups =)

/c game.speed=1