When logistic robots are available one might start moving some items by robots instead of using the bus. it really stacks up over the 5/6 process steps to make a rocket. Click here to open location in google maps. Privacy Policy. Upgrade belts when more throughput is needed. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. (As shown). 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). All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. by Trebor Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:14 am, Post This item has been removed from the community because it violates Steam Community & Content Guidelines. by Aeternus Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:54 pm, Post When more than the number of allowed outputs backs up, the universal balancer behaves like a normal balancer, and may not balance properly. by vanatteveldt Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:14 pm, Post Yea, that's fine, to make gears where they are needed. What should be on main bus Factorio? Keep the main bus, build your new base close to it. This is especially deceiving when the item isn't moving and all belts have filled up as these belts can't carry the amount they lead one to believe they can. The resulting balancer is usually larger than a balancer that was initially designed to be throughput unlimited. All purchases through these links help out the channel and when possible also give you guys discounts!Epic Games Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/?epic_affiliate=jd-plays\u0026epic_gameId=undefinedHumble Bundle Store: https://www.humblebundle.com/?partner=jdplaysHow to find me?-----------------------------------------------------Feel bad about Adblocker? Neatness matters! Maintaining a main bus would require you a lot of effort and time to do it, including re-balancing your belts. Ideally, a balancer should be input and output balanced. For a comparison of belt, logistic robot and railway transport systems, refer to the Transport use cases tutorial. The first bus me and my friend are working on is currently like 8 hours into development and we've just got everything set where we can start making plastic, so it takes a long time. Hannover, Hamburg 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. Buy Factorio here: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/factorio?partner=jdplaysMore tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnIE0W-m629c4nhPTspGRVm35Zr80CZTgWelcome to my Factorio Tutorial series where I'll be trying to teach you guys everything I know about Factorio. Place assemblers in a grid-like pattern as shown, adding belts, inserters, and power poles. Hamburg, Giessen The base uses a combination of Solar and Nuclear power to supply the whopping 30GW of needed power when the factory is going full tilt. The orientation of and how wide the players monitor is also plays a role in this decision. by RLS0812 Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:22 am, Post The direction of a bus, being horizontal or vertical depends on personal preference and how one likes to work on the production that splits off it, which can almost always be expanded for greater use later 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. The idea is that one wants to draw from every belt (and lane even) equally to not have too few items at the current planned production and not have empty and at the same time standing belts of items. Copenhagen, Hamburg - (Many products require both iron plates and gear wheels). The following are 2 designs for a split-off off a 2-wide bus (by reddit user /u/unique_2). The split-offs shown above generally prefer setups near the start of the main bus but will also supply some limited materials to the later setups. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Every item that is used in more than one recipe, got it's own production area with train inputs and train outputs, in my 2700 SPM game. 1.2K 91K views 1 year ago #Factorio #FactorioBaseTour This Factorio Base Tour showcases a magnificent 5.2k SPM (Science Per Minute) Mutliple Main Bus Megabase made by Hornet! 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. Place 2 rows of belts along the assemblers. 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. EDIT: Here is an example of what I call a stage 2 "starter" base. While the core gameplay is in the form of the freeplay scenario, there are a range of interesting challenges in the form of the Scenario pack, available as free DLC. And instead of rebalancing you can use priority splitters. Other times, this is not an option. Lubeck, Hamburg Kharkiv, Hamburg - One downside to this can be that all resources are used up before every machine gets fed. Green & blue circuits share a line going in. The gif on the right shows a 4 4 balancer being fed by two belts, but only outputting one belt which means that its throughput in that arrangement is 50%. Oldenburg, Hamburg READ MORE: Rust: How to fix screen tearing. A corner is not unheard of but very unusual and is often only necessary when a lake appears that is not planned for. Therefore, I usually go down to two. This Factorio Base Tour showcases a magnificent 5.2k SPM (Science Per Minute) Mutliple Main Bus Megabase made by Hornet! - (I normally skip red belts and go straight to blue to save myself the annoyance of replacing the bus 2 times). How many main bus lines do you generally use? You're going to need more than a single belt of iron and copper. I usually go for KatherineOfSky's bus, especially in vanilla or slightly modified vanilla play, which is this: My own personal Factorio super-power - running out of power. - Advertisement Amsterdam, 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 in searches to you, your friends, and admins. For green circuitsi never go more than two for my starter base. - 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. What bus companies operate the routes starting from Hamburg? - It is only visible to you. - Munich, Hamburg Please see the. The easiest way to upgrade belts is simply run along the line, holding down the mouse button to place belts on top of existing ones. Id like to consider starting a train-grid factory that I see people use and I'm just theorizing that I'll come into the issue of picking up ingredients. by astroshak Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:08 am, Post Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. by Rjskeet Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:53 am, Post - Universal balancers can be throughput limited. This is fixed by adding more furnace/mine set ups to keep production high. Search reviews. However, each triangular base section is an entire huge main bus! The Steam Community of Rust shared some insights on how to design and build your main bus. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.#Factorio1.0 #FactorioFundamentals #Tutorial-----------------------------------------------------Want to help out the channel? Use a blueprint book instead of designing your own. These items are often just put into chests for personal use rather than on a bus. - With splitter priorities that were added in 0.16 it is very simple to split off a belt from a main bus while ensuring good throughput properties. That means that a splitter can be used to put an equal amount of items on two belts. 6 years later and you still respond to almost each and every person. - Some of the most popular companies departing from Hamburg are: Comati PSG, DTG Deutsche Touring GmbH, Sindbad, Union Ivkoni, Winew and Rute Auto. Some people like to have fluids part of their bus which could include: Having all possible items on a bus results in a huge wide bus with a lot of belt-buffer for expensive items and standing belts of output-items that won't get used in another process. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. One of the most popular alternatives is the modular outposts. The concept of a Main Bus is to put the most used and useful ingredients in a central spot to use for assembling machines. Belt balancers utilize the mechanic that splitters output items in a 1:1 ratio onto both their output belts. - Valve Corporation. Place 2 fast inserters in, and 1 fast inserter going out of the Gear Wheel assembler. Plastic x1 (recommend x2) Batteries x1. Your resources still come from a mine somewhere, so your bus will get thinned out after a while even with balancing. The easiest way to do a two-material split off is to start with the position of the belt near the assembler, and work backwards. And instead of rebalancing you can use priority splitters. - if its easier on the group to explain, I'd be happy to be suggested a video that covers such dilemmas and any others that I'm not yet imagining. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.Join forces with other players in cooperative Multiplayer, create huge factories, collaborate and delegate tasks between you and your friends. People Also Viewed. - by Rjskeet Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:05 am, Post by Hannu Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:28 am, Post This may happen at a later stage in the game up to which a bus is a very good tool to reduce clutter. 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. Aarhus, Berlin The width of the bus can become a problem if it is very wide. There is no real right answer just whatever works best for your set up. I dont make any two buses identical unless Im following a blueprint for some starter base. 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Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ =754378586. The following is a split-off off a 4-wide bus. This page was last edited on 31 August 2020, at 10:02. Hamburg, Flensburg This page was last edited on 23 November 2020, at 11:18. Hamburg, Frankfurt This means I still have throughput on my iron/copper busses for other things. This is sometimes done to get Items crafted into a chest for personal use like pipe which only uses Iron plates. 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 also have a return bus that carries science packs back to the lab area. I've never been a fan of the central bus. For me my last base that could launch three rockets every half hour had 4 belts iron, 4 belts copper, 2 belts green (but was starting to bottleneck, should have built 4 lanes green), 2 belts steel (from its own supply of iron ore and smelting, i.e. Green Science will share the other side. If you look at popular bus designs most of them seem to have 4 belts with 2 spaces in between. A throughput limited universal balancer may only have the capacity for a few unused outputs. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). Balancers are used to evenly distribute items over multiple belts or multiple belt lanes. That means that a splitter connected to two input belts will evenly distribute those items onto the the two output belts. Even if you only have 2 rows of green circuits, you might be just fine provided you can make enough of them, but most people do 4 for large bases. Mad respect. by MobRules Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:12 am, Post I think this would be adequate: Oh, I already have blue belts. There are also over 200 trains on the map.Overall a very impressive and extremely satisfying base, both visually and with its huge and efficient production capabilities. These balancers can balance evenly between any inputs and any outputs. Press J to jump to the feed. First of all, you'll need to think of the best area in where to put it. All production. don't steal from the 4 belts of iron), 2 belts red circuits, 1 plastic, 1 belt blue circuits, 1 belt with half regular and half electric engines, 1 belt of batteries. Sometimes this can be fixed by looping the unused output back around the balancer and distributing it among the inputs. Assembly lines are best placed so that they run perpendicular to the Main Bus. Split off a full belt of red circuits to go closest to the assemblers, since they are needed in highest quantity. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Main reason I run a 4/2/2 bus for my start base is that it allows me to produce continuously produce a SP3 and PM3 module in yellow assemblers and still have enough resources for 10/12/24 science in blue assemblers. Having smaller groups of only one or two is also not a bad thing. I do put steel and batteries on the bus. Two science packs made efficiently and traveling together on the same belt!