I see 2 problems with unbalanced chests. 1) only a few inserters are unloading the train slowing that down. 2) full belts at the start but then some chests run dry and the rest aren't enough to fill the belt 1) that's only when the belt is backed up and slow, and chests are almost full. So, I don't...

I don't believe there are any errors but feel free to provide some input =) Well, I can't, so I'm probably wrong. :) Surprisingly, seems like a 3-way crossing really can't be permanently gridlocked, even if it's made of totally regular signals, without a chain signal. If there is no gridlock on exi...

20170112224330_1.jpg As far as I can see both your designs have some errors. A simple rule of thumb is: you use regular signals when on straight rails, regular again when on an exit from an intersection, and a chain signal on the entrance from an intersection and inside it. So, the train will not e...

If you generally have the ore belt backed up all the way to the station, and use the station as a buffer so it is often over 1/3 full, then keeping the chest content balanced helps unloading speed. I suspect that is not the case either. If I have ore belts backed up for some time (which is often th...

...What you want instead is 3 inserters filling the belt nearly full Well, *I* prefer the belt full. Not "nearly". And I don't really care about balancing unload just for the sake of balancing. Full belt will unload trains faster than "nearly full belt" anyway. And I like to hav...

more than that - circuit unload is slower too. It doesn't fill even one red belt from 6 fast inserters.

one suggestion. wire all the unloading from chest to belt inserters together (for each car). set them to read hand contents (hold), enable when * (everything) = 0 that way they will not favor one chest over anotther. chests will be unloaded evenly and make unloading from trains quicker. Not tried i...

Azraelle wrote:Do you even really need the splitter at all?

It's useful when consumption is not even on the lanes.

Don't understand your problem. It's not a problem, it's idea and suggestion. Why the length of 11 has been chosen? Why not 10 or 12? Will some balance be broken if it will be one tile longer? Or maybe underground pipe should have the length od the underground belt? I'd like to have it 12 tile-long....

Please, make underground pipe 1 tile longer. It breaks my factory every so often. :) Like I use 2-4-2-4-2-... bus design (like this: ..vvvv..vvvv..vvvv.. ), as many of us do. Because it's so convenient to use underground belts under 4-belt-bus. And then I have to use underground pipe only 6-tile lon...

GamingCrayon wrote:just set it down on the ground to not take up inventory.

... if we could instead "re-use" green ammo ...

Just put them into the wooden chest and blow it up with your red ammo. Or drive a tank over it.
All with wooden posts, burner miners, old armor, etc.

impetus maximus wrote:while in your layout the belt side balancer works since your only feeding it from 2 single sides, check out this splitter for balancing full belt sides.

In fact in this case we can do it even simpler: And it will work just perfect and will need much less belts.

one suggestion. wire all the unloading from chest to belt inserters together (for each car). set them to read hand contents (hold), enable when * (everything) = 0 that way they will not favor one chest over anotther. chests will be unloaded evenly and make unloading from trains quicker. Thank you, ...

Oh, and more than that: let the inserter drop the item IF there is another inserter taking out of that tile.

But there are legitimate designs that deposit stuff on the ground, so that another inserter can pick it up. I suppose that's what circuits are for. Put a chest, make inserter sure that chest is empty before inserting, and that's it. With a chest you can even have stack bonus. Does it happen so ofte...

Is it really necessary to let inserters drop items on the earth? Wouldn't it be better if the inserter will hold the item until something appears at the destination? Like a chest, assembler or a belt. It's kind of annoying when I disassemble some spaghetti-project, take out an assembler or belt and ...

I don't need more than 1 belt to unload my trains -- they are 1-1 (1-loco, 1-car). If I need more ore delivered, I just use more trains (and more stations sometimes). :) With only 1 belt the station can be very compact. This time it's only 4-tiles between rails, with chest-buffer and balanced lane o...

It means in the end that you have one item more in the inventory while the only added game-value is, that you don't need to place a lamp every three or four poles. Do you want to say that "it means the game will be somewhat easier"? It won't be simpler, it will just be less irritating. I ...

Please, either add lights on electric poles by default (or after lights are researched), or add an item "medium/big electric pole with lights". It would be really more convenient and easier. Left it "only white light" without circuits. That complexification shouldn't be in the ga...

Please-please-please...make blueprints green science too! With saved to disk blueprint book.
Would be great even without constr.bots at all !