by ultralance12 Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:53 pm, Post As of 0.16 Splitters can prioritize one in- and output lane, therefore the above design can supply fully saturated belts if the splitters are set up in a way that prioritizes the output belt (to earlier production) rather than letting items go on. I tried using next-level products (i.e. Add mods to increase your enjoyment, from small tweak and helper mods to complete game overhauls, Factorio's ground-up Modding support has allowed content creators from around the world to design interesting and innovative features. Due to the design of the whole base, there are 4 main rails that come in from each direction and pass through a big lane junction. Valve Corporation. This page was last edited on 23 November 2020, at 11:18. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 1 full input belt gets split into two 50% full belts which get split into 4 belts that are each 25% full. This can be done to reserve room for later expansion, blueprint-ghosts are a good usage for that as they don't allow the belt to be filled with non-usable items. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ =754378586. Mister's Bar and Lanes. how many belts of iron/copper/green circuits should I make, I'm currently planning on doing 4iron,4coppper,2green circuits. Most likely you will need dedicated iron/copper smelting for green circuit production since so many things take them. #Factorio #FactorioBaseTour #FactorioBeltMegaBaseOutro Music: Rubik [NCS Release]Provided by NoCopyrightSoundsYou can find the track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2AydJcUKR8Please check out the Artist by following these links!Electro-Light Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ElectroLight Twitter https://twitter.com/ElectroLightEDM SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/maskedacoustic Distrion SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/distrion Facebook https://www.facebook.com/distrionmusic Twitter https://twitter.com/Distrionoficial Therefore, I usually go down to two. 6 years later and you still respond to almost each and every person. After that I begin to distribute production to separate factories and do not have single main bus for all products. The 4 line meta comes from a time of fixed underground lengths and the need for even balancer sizes. Hmm I was doing 2 lines for green 1 each for blue and red and i also space my lines 4 spaces apart for all my fluids and a litter needs. This means I still have throughput on my iron/copper busses for other things. Hamburg, Frankfurt If there is enough input for the item to saturate a whole belt then putting a lane-balancer in won't help to get more items later on. Whether one uses a bus is often decided before starting a map or when first building an array of furnaces. Additional referece for all that is Factorio: Thanks to everyone who shares their ideas on the forums & YouTube! by vanatteveldt Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:14 pm, Post I tend to only use main busses when bootstrapping up a large train-based base so just iron, copper, steel, green circuits, and maybe gears. spaghetti for everything else. Balancers that are input balanced take evenly from all input belts/belt lanes. I love using helmod to do all calculations in-game, but of course a spreadsheet is fine as well. Factorio SPLITTING OFF THE BUS How to Split off the bus 1.0 Tips and Tricks done quick - YouTube Buy Factorio here: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/factorio?partner=jdplaysMore. how many belts in main bus? : r/factorio - reddit Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. - Groningen, Hamburg This is a good measure to combat "spaghetti factories" as it forces someone to plan a structured layout and move everything to use items from the bus. It includes all the methods you need to take the designs and blueprints from the beginning on constructing your main bus, all the way up to using it to gain the advantage. Click here to open location in google maps. Look at how many different recipes use the thing you have decided to bus, and then estimate how much throughput your factory will need. In essence this means that an n-n balancer is not a functional n-(n-1) balancer. What items one puts on a bus is a personal preference. Maintaining a main bus would require you a lot of effort and time to do it, including re-balancing your belts. There are numerous main bus blueprint designs you can choose from and use when in a match. In general, no block should be greatly than 4 but 1 and 2 are fine. - Here is a checklist of those: READ MORE: Rust game file size: How big is the download? Thanks for this! I have made about two lines of iron and copper in my last few vanilla games. The following designs have the additional property that if the incoming belts are fully saturated then the split-off belt will be full (recall that a single splitter with a single full input belt will by default split off a half-filled belt). While I might leave room for 4x iron/copper, 2x everything else, the setup normally doesn't live long enough for me to flush it out completely. If what you're going for is launching one satellite (beating the game) and researching all techs (for the achievement), in my experience you don't really need a "full" bus. Place assemblers in a grid-like pattern as shown, adding belts, inserters, and power poles. Lubeck, Hamburg The concept of a Main Bus is to put the most used and useful ingredients in a central spot to use for assembling machines. This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator. I'm not a fan of linear buses, but I would urge you to plan out a production target and design according to that. What should be on main bus Factorio? Tutorial:Main bus - Factorio Wiki Since the process can be repeated infinitely, balancers with 2n output belts are easy to create. Rust game file size: How big is the download. But when you discover the most important ones, you'll eventually have a grasp on it. through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hamburg, Berlin (Airport Schonefeld) One of the most notable designs include the use of conveyor belts. So you should generally have 4 iron, 4 copper, 4 green circuits, and then you can do 2/2 steel/plastic to start out, then as you progress and get other resources made you can either leave them local (for gears/copper wire) or add them to the main bus on belts of 2 - so red circuits, maybe batteries etc. Flensburg, Hamburg I've had many playthroughs of the vanilla and mildly modded factorio but until now have consisted of main bus's of ingredients and trains that only bring ores from long distances to feed the fires. The balancers/taps get very large above 4 since your next logical jump is 8. Split off iron in two places (for throughput), and a half-belt of green circuits. Alternatively, one can make split-off setups without priority splitters. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). It is only visible to you. Many balancers fail to balance properly once an output backs up or if an output is not used. - - Use a blueprint book instead of designing your own. What should I put on my new main bus and how many belts of each item? 3 is not wise since it is hard to tap properly and rebalance. Taking two belts off of this won't produce two belts worth of output, the middle one only carries half a belt to each side! Use the belt throughput numbers to determine how many lanes it should have. I think this would be adequate: Oh, I already have blue belts. Would you say that I should have more chopper and iron? You especially want more gears and iron plates because that's what your betls cost to produce. If you look at popular bus designs most of them seem to have 4 belts with 2 spaces in between. Creating a train grid factory. Now red belt can span 6 tiles, which is pretty good for parts of the bus. The priorities can be set in various ways but this should not distract from the fact that more resource input should be added whenever this becomes a concern. Pristina, Hamburg by Trebor Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:14 am, Post Copper Cables: While they are high in demand for green circuits, they are used in almost nothing else. You need to sign in or create an account to do that. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America), http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=661582295, https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/4d3per/belt_balancer_compendium/, Red Circuits (Advanced Circuits) x1 (recommend x2). Munich, Hamburg by astroshak Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:44 am, Post - For more main bus blueprint design options, click here. - For a comparison of belt, logistic robot and railway transport systems, refer to the Transport use cases tutorial. Blue belt can transport 40 items per second fully compressed. there is even enough iron left for "buildy things" (belts, etc). - Oldenburg, Hamburg Steel is usually the one I'm short on. This is done by adding two more splitters at the end of the balancer, as it can be seen here: However most balancers' bottlenecks can't be solved as easily. Yea, that's fine, to make gears where they are needed. Cookie Notice steel, copper cable, iron gear wheel) but it gets way too complicated to belt weave and it winds up making more sense to having dedicated assemblers for each of their end products. If a universal balancer is throughput limited, the bottleneck may be in the loops or the balancer itself. Comati PSG Zentral-Omnibus-Bahnhof Bus terminal, Hamburg, Comati PSG Zentral-Omnibus-Bahnhof Bus terminal. is the fix to just have much larger grid sizes to account for the wait platforms? I also tend to bus 2 steel, 2 plastic, 2 reds, 1 blues, 1 batteries. It's all about trial and error as you start out, you can't be afraid to build something and let it run for a few hours to see how it works - if its not working right delete it and try something else. - by astroshak Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:08 am, Post - Factorio main bus guide: Blueprint, design, alternative and more Chests between each belt structure move items along as well as providing a collection place for pickup. Sharing makes us all stronger and more inspired to come up with new ideas! Using a non-prioritizing split-off will only distribute the shortage, not magically create more production. ): http://www.xtermvideos.comCheck out Factorio at: https://www.factorio.comFactorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. for example, there will be dozens or trains that will want to get at the green circuits, so I will need train wait platforms but I'll need so many of them (have at least one wait platform for each train that wants green circuits just in case of bottlenecks) that there will be a whole grid just made up of wait platforms that not much room for actually making the circuits. there were conveyor belts. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I am currently thinking bigger now and starting a new game with a starter base and then working on building 'towns' that each produce stuff and use trains instead of a main bus to move supplies between the towns. To have all the information in the palm of your hand download our mobile app for free! - How many bus stops and stations are there in Hamburg? I do put steel and batteries on the bus. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. So I'm starting of a new factorio game, planning on making my first rocket in this game. The following amenities are available at Bus terminal bus stop: ATM, Toilet, Luggage storage, Kiosk and Coffee bar Near the bus stop in Bus terminal you can also find: Train station (387 m) and Parking (203 m) In case that you wish to continue your journey from the bus stop, you can find . by Rjskeet Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:53 am, Post Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JD_PlaysMy Twitter For details of upcoming live streams and anything else 280 Char or less: https://twitter.com/JD_Play5Chat with me live on Discord: https://discord.gg/G6FcZPpTwitch for all your Live Steaming needs: https://www.twitch.tv/jdplaysFeel like being hit in the face, with a book? Bus terminal is located approximately 2.2 km from the city centre, which is approximately a 10 minute ride. - https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Tutorial:Main_bus&oldid=182000. It will just depend on you on which design you would do as long as the conveyor belt is included. (As shown). Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. It comes out 83 iron/sec (3.11 red belts), 104 cu/sec (3.9 red belts), and 56 green circuit/sec (2 red belts). Bus or train from Hamburg, timetables and tickets - GetByBus Over time, I've built a large number of factories here are some examples of Main Bus systems that I've used. The concept of a Main Bus is to put the most used and useful ingredients in a central spot to use for assembling machines. Youre allowed to do your bus as you see fit. First of all, you'll need to think of the best area in where to put it. I've had many playthroughs of the vanilla and mildly modded factorio but until now have consisted of main bus's of ingredients and trains that only bring ores from long distances to feed the fires. Aarhus, Berlin However, each triangular base section is an entire huge main bus! Post all other topics which do not belong to any other category. All production. Assembly lines are best placed so that they run perpendicular to the Main Bus. Using iron plates as index 100: Copper: 78 Steel: 7 Plastic: 15 Coal: 13 Iron Gear: 6 Electronic Circuit: 38 Advanced Circuit: 6 Stone Brick: 2 Note that this is for science only. If you don't find any maps or scenarios you enjoy, you can create your own with the in-game Map Editor, place down entities, enemies, and terrain in any way you like, and even add your own custom script to make for interesting gameplay. So, if only one side of that splitter gets input, as can be seen in the gif, it can only output one belt even though the side of the splitter is fed by a splitters which gets two full belts of input. how to design cityblocks : r/factorio The Steam Community of Rust shared some insights on how to design and build your main bus. - This is sometimes done to get Items crafted into a chest for personal use like pipe which only uses Iron plates. Hamburg, Siauliai 4 should be max, as even if you run 4.. you will still run out as the belts just acts as buffer.. the real key is to have more inputs to the main buss, or and give some factorys direct link that matches theyr requirement from the furnaces.