Also having the same "issue". The game has been running for about 1.5 in game hours (6 hours real time) and hasn't recovered yet. Hopefully I will get those delicious 3-4 fps back at some point.

Had a bit of a Copper Plate delivery crisis so I have split the left-hand staging into two separate parts to improve throughput, added one more block of smelting and reallocated all the trains using that factory to either the top or bottom staging area. I have also added some more Copper Plate smelt...

Mining All mining outposts are set up using electric mining drills feeding directly into trains. This is by far the most UPS friendly way of doing mining although it is absolutely rubbish until Speed-3 Modules are available and mining productivity has been increased substantially. Mining Outpost.pn...

Rocket Silos Overview Silo.png This picture shows an overview of the Rocket Silos. Low Density Structures, Rocket Fuel and Rocket Control Units are each supplied by two 12-lane stations. Each station feeding in to provider chests (as described under Iron/Copper Smelting). There is then a block of r...

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Plastic This is the design I use for making Plastic. Plastic.png 0eNrNXdtuXEeS/BWBTzu7ovZU1t3A/sO+D4wBRbXtxjQvICnvGIb+fZt2d/OMpi4R0VaPn3QhK05WVUbWJbMyf736uPu8eXza3r9cfffr1fb24f756ru//nr1vP3x/mb3+n8vvzxurr672r5s7q7eX93f3L3+6+PmZv+rV1/eX23vP23+cfWd+/J+2uhhu7t+2vywvd88/bJqakDT2582d9vbm9314+5mL+pbYw803...

Blue Circuits This is the design I use for making Blue Circuits. Blue Circuits LB.png Blue Circuits LM.png Blue Circuits LT.png 0eNq9ncuOXEeOhl9FqNUM4OyJ+8W76dn2GwwaDVlKuwtTKhWqSkYbht59UtJIypFPnPz406mVbcmHwcvPyGCQQf5+89Pdu+PD4+39882Pv9/cvnp7/3Tz43//fvN0+8v9y7sPf/b828Px5seb2+fjm5sfbu5fvvnwXz8dX57+15...

Green Circuits This is the design I use for making Green Circuits. Green Circuits.png 0eNq9XdtuI7kR/ZWBnhLA2pBFNi/zFuQhHxEMFrKmM9uILCmSvNjBwP+elq/acVE6dTryk2FLPl1k3S9k/5jdru777W5YH2aff8yG5Wa9n33+14/Zfvi2XqyOfzt83/azz7Ph0N/Nbmbrxd3xt9t+MX519nAzG9Zf+z9mn/3DzcV/Wuz3/d3talh/m98tlr8N634eTiAEgOhX/fKw26yH...

Steel Smelting Steel smelting is huge. These blueprints take in 16 belts of Iron Ore and output 4 belts of Steel Plates. Steel Part A Ore.png 0eNqlW01v20gM/SuGTi1gt0POl+Rbj3vaBXosgoWTqoEARzZkuWgQ+L+vnNgbo6UkzptLjDgR35Acfswb6qW43x7rfde0fbF+KZqHXXso1t9eikPz2G625+/6531drIumr5+KZdFuns6/3deb4V+L07Jo2u/1...

The requirements for 1350 spm are as follows: 12694 Steel Plate 2460 Lubricant 22687 Sulfuric Acid 964.3 RCU 2063.6 LDS 1031.8 Rocket Fuel 1134.2 Batteries 21941 Plastic 76543 Copper Plate 42850 Iron Plate (excluding Steel Plate requirements) 1466.6 Blue Circuits 8104.6 Red Circuits (excluding requi...

Blue Science.png 0eNq9XdtuXEeS/BWDT7tY0aj7xY/7C/s4MAaU1LYbS1IEL94ZGPr3bdIW1ZYzT0dEsf3kGVmOzsrMqhMnT2Tlbxfvr592d/f728eLH3672H/4dPtw8cM/frt42P98e3X9/GeP/77bXfxwsX/c3Vy8u7i9unn+fx9+2d3sP1xdXz582O9uP+wu764+/O/F53cX+9uPu39d/BA///juYnf7uH/c734HfPk///7n7dPN+9394S+8Qr3fXR1+9QB99+nh8NcP//PwoweIyzjeXfz78M+Sn...

Science Base Overview.png There are 6 stand alone science bases. Each science base is pretty much identical in layout although some bases have a direct stone feed rather than bringing it in by train. The top part is the labs, below this are the Red/Green, Blue, Purple and Yellow science production ...

Calculating the number of labs required to process 1350 spm can be done as follows. From the Wiki, PPS = N x ERS / T[r] where N = “Number of Labs” ERS = “Effective research speed” = (1 + (B[r] /100)) x (1 + (M[r] / 100)) T[r] = “Research cycle time” = 60 secs PPS = “Packs per second” = PPM / 60 B[r]...

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Main Base Overview.png This picture shows the main base (science and malls). The top part is the labs, below this are the Red/Green, Grey, Blue, Purple and Yellow science production areas (described later). Below this are the main science and mall buses, fed by the trains to the left. Below this ar...

All the blueprints shown below are for 1-4 trains. To use them with 1-4-1 trains, the rear rail signal will need to be moved as appropriate. You will need to add an appropriate fuelling mechanism as described above, if required. Station Fuel Unload.png 0eNqVl82OmzAUhV8FedVKeIR/gIRtqy67aldVVZHEk7HqGA...

All the blueprints shown below are for 1-4 trains. To use them with 1-4-1 trains, the rear rail signal will need to be moved as appropriate. Station Fuelling.png 0eNqFkc9OwzAMxl9l8gmkRCorbJAH4MiJG5qmNvOKRZqU/EFUVd4dt2XVBBOcIjv+Pv9sD1CbhJ0nG0ENQNrZAOplgECNrcyYi32HoIAitiDAVu0YRV+RlSG6DrIAsgf8BHWTxb9Cm...

All factories and mining outposts require a staging area for each station block of a size large enough to hold all trains that can visit that block with a few spare. For the main base and science bases which only have a couple of trains per station, a single rail line is enough. A station block is m...

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The most important decision that needed to be made was how long should the trains be as this will impact everything else about the rail layout and hence the overall base layout. The more wagons a locomotive has to pull, the slower it will go. A balance needs to be made between the ratio of locomotiv...