Does Sharing Belts Limit Production?
Does Sharing Belts Limit Production?
In a game with a friend we are using one belt down the middle of the furnaces for iron ore and coal. We're noticing that we're having iron problems despite having a lot of miners. Is there anything we can do to combat this?
Re: Does Sharing Belts Limit Production?
One side of one yellow belt can support 10 mines, 12 if you use a splitter for perfect compression.
Upgrade to red belts or build another furnace line if you need more.
Upgrade to red belts or build another furnace line if you need more.
Re: Does Sharing Belts Limit Production?
For the future, I'd recommend keeping coal and ore separate:
- The rate of coal consumption is much lower than the rate of ore consumption
- Coal can be removed if you replace the furnaces with electric
- The rate of coal consumption is much lower than the rate of ore consumption
- Coal can be removed if you replace the furnaces with electric
Re: Does Sharing Belts Limit Production?
We upgraded to red belts and pretty much solved the problem. I added a buffer storage which keeps things running for a little bit but most times, we end up with a backlog of iron now, which is what we were aiming for. But yes, we will be upgrading to electric soon.
Re: Does Sharing Belts Limit Production?
What I do is I use 2 Belts. Each belt has 2 lanes, for a total of 4 lanes. I then use 1 of those lanes for Coal and the other 3 lanes for Ore. Furnaces then use both normal Inserters and Long Inserters to take from this double-Belt, and it works fine.DerivePi wrote: - The rate of coal consumption is much lower than the rate of ore consumption
The Ore-to-Coal consumption ratio isn't 3:1, I think it may be closer to 3.5:1 or 4:1, but 3:1 is the best that can be achieved (I mean, you could do 5:1 with 3 Belts in between the Furnaces as a "Belt spike", and 1 lane on the middle Belt being Coal, but I think 5:1 is too high a ratio).