You can also feed the furnace directly with the drill and manually insert some fuel now and then

There are mods for this. For example:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CreepCleaner

You can put speed modules in your depleted oil jacks. And speed beacons where they can reach several jacks. That keeps even depleted oil fields reasonably productive. Otherwise go out further. Just like with ore, oil fields increase in yield the farther they are from the starting location.

You should be able to just buy tokens with real money. Thus players don't have to bother playing the game and Wube can make some easy money.

SoShootMe wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 29, 2022 6:52 am

will have the same charge after a point in time

Exactly. I knew that, but there was no reason to be that pedantic. That one extra measuring accumulator will be charged almost immediately.

Yes. All accumulators on the same net have the same charge. You just need one to measure that. Generally people really just place an extra one at the steam power plant

I'd recommend using an SR-Latch instead of a simple comparison: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Circuit_network_cookbook#RS_latch_-_single_decider_version Otherwise your engines will constantly turn on and off around the switching point. It's also possible to switch the water pumps instead of usi...

Chris1983 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:07 pm

How many green circuit assemblers do I need to fill a yellow belt? Thanks

There are online calculators for this stuff:

https://factoriolab.github.io/list?z=eJ ... MGAGOJB2w_

I don't think it's really a problem. Yes, they store a large amount of plates and this can give a false impression of the activity in your factory, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. Knowing how many plates are buffered on your belts isn't very useful in practice either. As far as ...

I set resources to be pretty rare, but rich. I don't want ore patches everywhere. There are way too many resources that way. And I want to explore a bit and need long rail systems.

Uranium is really optional. Useful, but you don't need it for progression. It's oil that is essential. With videos do you mean on YouTube? There are good tutorials there with varying levels of detail and complexity. Also, basic oil processing is relatively simple. You hook up oil and get only petrol...

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Making gears reduces the amount of items (2 plates to 1 gear), so making them early reduces the amount of belts you need. True, but these days it's really not important. This was a huge issue when military science needed many turrets and chemical science mining drills or assembly machines. The amou...

There are all kinds of different layouts. There is a lot of personal preference in that. It's not just about what works best since tons of layouts work equally well. Red and Green Science can be combined into one sub factory together right next to each other. The more complex sciences should have th...

If you want to pick up artillery munition at one stop, oil at another, repair packs at a third or whatever That isn't really needed at that point. With the logistics network you can have your supply train pick up everything at the same station. Having multiple supply trains would be more practical ...

The latter is probably the most complex circuitry with practical use you can do in vanilla Factorio, which really needs a minimum kind of computer science background or mathematical thinking. You're probably thinking about far more general setups with calling trains on demand to random locations an...

If you are a beginner you'd start with different things. Like circuit based oil cracking, which is just simple "great than" comparisons. Or automated outpost resupply. Advanced stuff like that is really just a bonus. It may have some applications, but it's never necessary even in complex b...

They are an arrangement of splitters to draw from or distribute from belts equally: https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancer_mechanics They still have their uses, but with the introduction of splitter priorities their usefulness on a bus has drastically decreased. People used to split from a bus and then ...

You're playing a character on the screen, not some invisible god/overlord. And as the game progresses your physical presence becomes less important

There are mods to increase reach:
https://mods.factorio.com/query/reach?version=1.1

It really depends on your overall goals and also the design of the base. You can go with 8 belts iron and copper each if you want to go big, but 4 or 6 of each can be fine too. Personally I don't put the copper and iron for the green circuits on the main bus anymore. Those eventually get their own d...