mrvn wrote: PS: One problem might be that I use locomotives mk3, which have a rather large fuel capacity. That's a lot of nuclear fuel per locomotive. Any tricks to only load 2 fuels per train?

Put wood (or any other burnable) into the other fuel slots.

I've been using this for about 60+ hours in a game, seems to work very well. Could you please make a 4 reactor version? 480MW Square Version: 0eNrdXU1v48wN/isLH4t4ofmUFLSnAr311AI9FC8Cx1GywuvYqWwv3u0i/72yEztfJOd5tN3LXnaRRHzE4XAocsjhfJ9dr/bdw9Cvd7PL77N+uVlvZ5f//j7b9nfrxerwu923h252Oet33f3sYrZe3B9+2u66...

So maybe not just a double row of heat exchangers. How about 6 rows so the heat pipe connects to 4 points (2 each) on the reactors? In practice I've found that once the entire setup is at at least 500 degrees, heat spreads very quickly across it, so the steam stored in the measuring tanks, turbines...

You can also just add a few extra heat pipes or steam tanks (without wires) to get more buffering. Heat pipes should also allow you to extend this to 4 reactors without extra heat exchangers or turbines. They just have to be able to buffer 3 times as much heat. Makes it 3 times as fuel efficient. Y...

- Does this design conserve fuel when not needed? Or are more steam tanks essential for that? It conserves fuel by exploiting the very large heat capacity (and perfect insulation!) of nuclear reactor components. Basically, the setup is allowed to cool down to nearly 500 degrees, then fuel is insert...

Wiping the battery charge is a balancing mechanic for the very reason OP has tried to abuse. A backpack full of batteries represents unlimited power and armor modules simply aren't intended to work that way. Otherwise what's to stop you from doing the same with shields or roboports or any other ite...

The correct way to use them with just the modular armor is to mine them as they try to recharge. Painful indeed, but you should be using real roboports instead. Even for things you think personal ports are necessary. Personally I do fine with Modular Armor setups w/ something like 2 roboports, 2 ba...

It ought to be possible to use a mechanism like hitpoints of damaged items: each battery has a charge between 0 and full, but when you transfer them into your inventory you get a single stack with the charge averaged out. This way you never gain or lose charge by transferring batteries around, it me...

I stopile iron plates without limits. There is nothing else to do with iron ore... Yeah but that's intermediates and things needed in thousands per minute, it makes sense to produce those things non-stop and I can't really think of any intermediate or intermediate-ish thing (i.e. stone brick, concr...

With a power armor setup of 2 reactors, 6 MK2 batteries, night vision goggles, and 13 MK2 energy shields, you become more powerful on foot than in a tank. It's pretty balanced actually and IMO the Tank is favored. Tank is intrinsically fast, about the same as having 2 exos, and doesn't slow down wh...

It's not about needing them non-stop. It's about placing a blueprint and then needing them non-stop for 5 minutes. Is this how you actually play? Because it seems to me the design pattern of placing an assembler in advance and producing a stockpile of the things in a chest in advance of needing the...

While dreaming/wishing, why not allow more effects? Pollution, speed and productivity could all be legit qualities of fuel. Even if productivity isn't used in the base game it'd be a cool property for mods, say for example Coke could give a 10% productivity boost over Coal.

But fast transport belts? I easily use up 400 of them and then keep right on going using 400 more. If you build them with requester chests than a 30s buffer is totally reasonable. If not too small. I don't think the assembler would run continiously here with only 30s buffer. The thing is I don't th...

I think it could easily stand to limit default requests to 1 stack: if the player truly needs a higher throughput they can always increase it manually. For example, a Heat Exchanger will cheerfully request 1200 copper plates and a fast underground belt is happy to request 1500 iron gears - those qua...

What I mean is that each tick fluid flows in either one direction or the other, relative to each pipe. I'm pretty sure there's nothing happening at a larger scale. Yes, flow does propagate in some directions better than others but that is to be expected with this model (because each pipe takes its o...

I imagine a pump consumes more UPS than pipes as it is an active power-consuming entity that calculates its power usage according to how much fluid is moved each tick (and vice-verca, it also has to take into account power availability to see if it can move fluid), this is probably more expensive th...

@BlakeMW: "Too few turbines" does make it easier to always have them fully running. And i was speculating that maybe if the input pipes are always full they only flow "in one direction" and not in both. Also other machines have certain optimations if they run "at full speed...

If stock had something like Angel's check valve I'd use that instead. You only need to measure 1 turbine pair to know what all of them are doing (unless something wonky is going on). I somehow doubt that keeping fluid boxes full makes any difference to UPS because I'm pretty sure the game is emptyin...

These seem like pretty good arguments for allowing productivity throughout the science chains. When you think about it, productivity doesn't particularly make setups less complex, to the contrary putting aside bots it can make them more complex because you want to work in beacons which makes space m...

I also use 1:2 nearly exclusively. One of the nice things about 1:2 is it's slightly turbine rich meaning it can act as a buffer. Each exchanger+2 turbines stores 600 steam, this is only enough for about 5s at full load, but if the heat exchanger is still pumping out steam it allows the turbines to ...