An intermediate product, used in weapons and manufacture of other products, providing a belt balancing/smart inserter puzzle late game. You can also throw it as a weapon, place it down like a mine, or fill a chest with it for an expensive large explosive. It could be even harder so you have to keep ...

Leaving a gap of half an item between items for the heavy inserters seems like a good balance. Absolutely to preserve interesting optimisation problems and really add to the richness of all the options.

Good thinking on the topic merge

I see that fast inserters are exactly twice as fast as red inserters, but they cannot be braided, so they come out the same as the calculations above for braided red.

It explodes if you place it on a belt too close to another one of itself, dropping itself and the belt onto the floor and triggering nearby items on the belt to do likewise. The same happens with being on any fast belt or logistics robot that gets held up, as happens when the container it's going to...

Same here with the belts, it's quite an advanced factory but nearly all yellow, as belt movement isn't what holds things up, and I too deliberately use red and yellow belt together. Ssilk, that mod is a nifty idea, possibly seems a bit quick. I was thinking for the un-modded game if it's something y...

Posted before merge:

Moving items using a chain of alternating container, fast inserter, container, fast inserter etc...

Throughput as in items moved in some amount of time. Blue belts move about 40 items per second.

With all upgrades to inserters done in the lab.

Oh, thanks, sorry.

It could be interesting to have an item thats volatile to transport, mining itself (putting itself on ground) and likewise with the belt/robot/container it's on/in under certain conditions. I was particularly thinking of the conditions being that it was placed on a blue belt, or on any belt whiten a...

Question asked before merge:

What has the most throughput? Fully lab upgraded box/(fast inserter) chains, with lots of stack bonus, or blue belt?

Crawlers would be a robot that slowly crawls the base, moving either randomly or systematically between neighbouring buildings, making some change. Able to be set to replace a bulding/belt with another of the same size, swapping with items from a steel chest size inventory. Counting inserters would ...