BasjeRoosje wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:51 am

I got killed by a train

So you met one of the most lethal enemy in the game already! That's quick progress!

Simple and extendable: simple kovarex.png Although there is an important difference to the OP's design - the extra U-235 will be put into the centrifuges until these are too full. You won't get it out first. I wonder if the OP's design always works, though - apparently it does for him in his game. ...

Those are my most compact designs for: -unloader which works only for fully consumed belt -unloader which works even with unevenly consumed belt -loader which works only for compressed belt -loader which works even with uncompressed belt but they are all so simple, I'm probably not the first one to...

For my sub-factories which need a lot of a specific material, I use a trainstation with several unloading "platforms" which are all named equally. So my delivery trains will be distributed between those and supply all production lines. Additionally, I have a specific waiting area for each ...

Why wouldnt you just have the alarm go off when something is in the chest? So the alarm could only turn on for the first time when something get into the chest. The chest itself could only handle binary state (empty -> non-empty) for one time. We may use memory to remember the previous state of the...

I think the easiest solution is to not tie the inserter to the clock at all. Let it clean up the belt as fast as possible.

The clock itself can be used to stop the alarm after 10 seconds.

Your have no safeguard for unbalanced lane consumption in your design. Do you have that downstream somewhere? Each crate's content will end up 50% on the left and 50% on the right lane. That is ensured by the three splitters right after the inserters. So even if only one lane is pulled away it will...

sfreeddom wrote: ↑

Thu May 21, 2020 3:47 pm

But the problem is that alarm would come very short and you could barely notice that belt is contaminated.

You could trigger the alarm in case the chest isn't empty. So the alarm will endure after the cleanup.

That's a simple but highly useful creation.

You could pair it with an automatic belt cleaner which is equally simple - a filtered inserter using a blacklist to remove all "junk" from a belt which doesn't belong there.

But for eg gears it is the other way around. So why not produce them centralized? It would require less throughput on the bus. Still we don't put gears on the belt. Why not? The reason I don't do this is that there are many products which need both gears and iron plates as input. If I put both of t...

... why not combine a 4 lane and a 2 lane balancer - and use the different belt speeds of yellow, red and blue belts to achieve a balanced pull? ... That caught my eye. The reason why not to use different belt speeds to achieve ratio splitting or ratio pulling is because it only works if the input/...

There is no definite answer. Let's check the pros and cons of each method: Trains: ++ massive capacity + capacity can be easily extended by adding more trains - needs extensive infrastructure around it (stations and rails) - not feasible to use for direct insertion to consumers Belts: + Easy to hand...

Using six chests means that I need a train unloading or loading at the station only 50% of the time to get the actual throughput to fill a blue belt. With only four belts you need to achieve a ratio of 75%. That makes train schedules more robust. Also, most 1:3 balancers are wider than 3 squares. Th...

I was experimenting a lot with different designs for loading and unloading from trains to belts. I use a side of a train to fill up a single blue belt. My requirements for the balancers is: - They should fill up/draw from each chest equally - They should lead to a fully compressed belt (for unloadin...

I had the same issue to solve some time ago and came to my own solution which doesn't need any underground belts:



It's actually pretty simply and even nice and symmetric.

You could also put some junk into the rocket as an expensive way to get rid of it.

Could it be that your copper inserter is not connected properly to the station?

If it doesn't receive any signal for copper at all it is assumed to be 0, so it will be always active.

Is it for quick loading on a train? For these I have this 1:6 Splitter for one sided loading. You could simply use two of those to get 1:12 if necessary somehow. 20200119200922_1.jpg 0eNqdmd1uozAQhV9l5WtYefwLvEYvV9UqSa2utQQQmKpRlHdfkrTbqHHEzFyhkPhjPB7POSZHsW3nMIyxS6I5irjru0k0v45iiq/dpj3fS4chiEbEFPai...

This time bulk is even 26% faster, probably because I used 6 inserters per assembler. Were there supposed to be any pictures in that post, because i don't see any? 26% sounds like far too much. I mean, the recipe progress needs to be calculated every tick independantly of the recipe length, so unle...

In most cases the reason for "impure" belts is that something is messed up. ;) It can easily happen while setting up the belts by misplacing one belt which leads to an unwanted merge or an imporperl belt loading. You might even have corrected that yet, but just oversaw that some copper pla...