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How much buffer do you use in your factories? And why?

I’m leaving this question intentionally vague. :) any answers welcome

If you’re on a budget, try to get solid fuel into boilers before furnaces.

In ‘standard’ (this word doing a lot of heavy lifting here) boiler setups, you’ll have 2 boilers on either side of a belt for 3.6 MW, with 5 solid fuel buffered in each boiler, and 24 solid fuel buffered on the belt between boilers.

So for 2 boiler to transition to solid fuel, you need to buffer 408 MJ of solid fuel, and it consumes at 3.6 MW. This will eat its buffered solid fuel in just under 2 minutes.

In ‘standard’ furnace setups, each furnace at 90 kW will buffer 5 solid fuel, and the belt that feeds it will have another 8 solid fuel buffered.

So for a furnace to transition to solid fuel, you need to buffe

Saw a post about why people use yellow belts. Figured this PSA was needed after reading replies.

Goal: move 15 steel per second for cheap

Analysis:

1. Construction is not complete until the belt is moving 15 steel per second.

2. A belt can’t move 15 steel per second until it has buffered the appropriate amount of steel on top of the belt. This makes the buffer on top of the belt a cost of construction.

3. A red belt will buffer 4 steel on top while moving 15 steel per second, and a yellow belt will buffer 8 steel on top while moving 15 steel per second.

4. The steel on top of the belt can be broken down to iron ore, just like the crafting cost of yellow and red belt.

Conclusion:

Hello there. I’ve been working on creating some compact stations. I need more inspiration. Who has compact stations for low throughput applications? 0.5-1 belt output. I don’t care how absurd it is.

Here’s 2 item types at 2 belts each in 6 tiles. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/139677590393716737/1056641427376967690/image.png

I love imriks warhammer 3 campaign. I think I’m on imrik campaign #6 in warhammer 3, and I did probably more than a dozen in warhammer 2.

I do be playing with mods that may not be very balanced but I just wanted to share that I was proud to get a 30 turn short victory campaign. Next turn, Tyrion declares war on me. What’s this!?!

Bah, is my own fault. I had 100 influence in the bank. If I had spent that… anyway. Here I go save scumming again.

If anyone hasn’t tried imrik… it’s a fantastic campaign. My strategy has been to get a second lord immediately. With a second lord and some clever ordering you can sack a dwarf city in the starting province, then raise it, then occupy it, and tha

I often see the idea that you should be using yellow belts instead of red belts in the early game, I used to strongly believe this myself - going so far as to say most red belt use is inefficient.

This was rooted in the setup cost of the belts combined with throughput calculations, if you need 30 items per per second, 2 yellow belts cost 3 iron plate, and provide that. Or you can go with 1 red belt, which costs 11.5 iron. So, if you stop the analysis here, it seems the yellow belts are just 3.5x cheaper.

While this has some merit, it’s an outlook that only applies to setup cost. once you include the eventual buffer of items on the belt - things do change a bit.

Now for this to make

Apparently once you more than 10k coins it just registers as 'infinite.' I got up to 100k, but once my base hit about 600 colonists and 800 robots it started lagging on even 1x speed. I think the constant robot flow of vegetables from my farming complex to the engineering, working, and medic / soldier / tourism complexes just caused too much lag.

It was a constant stream of robots moving in and out, I had 4 robotics facilities with 8 charging stations in different areas of the base. 1 connecting to all the airlocks at the spaceport, 1 connecting to all the airlocks at the mining area, 1 on the path in / out of the bio dome region, and 1 in / out of the path into the engineering center.

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Everyone who’s played factorio a bit knows heavy oil solid fuel is pretty garbage.

However, there’s one instance where you may wanna use it - it costs less pollution per solid fuel to make it from heavy oil compared to cracking to light oil and then making it.

Is this worth it? Probably not, but if your oil is very rich and the aliens are everywhere, and for some reason you’re burning solid fuel then the math says this is better than making heavy oil cracking.

Another experience of this game showing me that even the most useless recipes / items can have a practical purpose

We’re gonna assume here that the grid is 100% steam engines + boilers, and every bit of power the solar panels can make during the day is used.

25 solar panels make 42 kW over the course of a day each, so that’s like 1.05 MW of clean energy.

So that’s (1.05 / 1.8) * 30 pollution / min = 17.5 pollution / min saved with 25 solar panels

Now let’s find the impact of 1 electric furnace with 2 eff 1 modules, again we assume the furnace will run constantly. This guy runs at 72 kW and 0.4 pollution / min, compared to its chief competitor at this stage, the steel furnace, which runs at 90 kW and 4 pollution / min.

So you save 18 kW, which is 0.3 pollution / min from boilers, and you save 3.6

Trying to optimize what in my mind could be the laggiest parts of a 2.7k spm factory that I’m thinking of maybe converting to 5.4k spm. Trying to avoid problems before they arise... does anyone have any tips for oil processing? Or any other highly laggy tendencies? For instance how bad is a side load in a build? Is it to be avoided at all costs? Are some okay? How important is belt compression if a side load must be used to achieve it? Are these questions simply un answerable without directly testing a design? How do you go about UPS testing a design?

Anyone know what is going to give the best UPS efficiency for a crude -> plastic build? Basic oil Processing cuts down on complicated fluid logistics to crack the heavy and light oil, but as a result you have a lot more refineries and you need a lot more pump jacks to provide crude oil. I’m leaning towards basic processing because the number of pump jacks needed will decrease as I get my infinite mining productivity. Thoughts? Anyone done concrete testing?

In order to get Tulsi into the debates, we as a community need to come together and help her by becoming the grassroots movement she has called for.

I signed up to volunteer on her website, and have never volunteered for any other candidate. However, all I have gotten are texts to donate. Has anyone else been called upon to do anything different? Please name your state or general location so we all have an idea of what is happening.

If it truly is the case that there is no organization for inspiring door knocking or other political activism, perhaps we should stand up as a community and see if we can provide some. After all, most anyone who I have shared Tulsis candidacy grows to like he

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Wondering if anyone still plays this pretty old modpack. Does anyone know of a more polished gregtech modpack? If you play this, have you ever gotten anywhere near building a fusion reactor?