How to Get Five Belts of Ore to Feed All Smelters
You can either use a full belt of ore on either side, or add faster belts. Most people simply build a standard smelting setup of 12 funaces in length, and just add multiple lines of these/
I always use a full belt of ore and a full belt of coal. Even though a full belt of coal is overkill, the full belt of ore is not. I never mix coal and an ore on one belt because experience has taught me I will NEED both lanes of that belt for ore eventually.
Heck, eventually that won't be enough either.
I always use a full belt of ore and a full belt of coal. Even though a full belt of coal is overkill, the full belt of ore is not. I never mix coal and an ore on one belt because experience has taught me I will NEED both lanes of that belt for ore eventually.Heck, eventually that won't be enough either.
It just depends on your building style. Once I get steel furnaces I have red belts... and after that, I convert to electric funaces and redesign the entire structure.
I always use a full belt of ore and a full belt of coal. Even though a full belt of coal is overkill, the full belt of ore is not. I never mix coal and an ore on one belt because experience has taught me I will NEED both lanes of that belt for ore eventually.It just depends on your building style. Once I get steel furnaces I have red belts... and after that, I convert to electric funaces and redesign the entire structure.Heck, eventually that won't be enough either.
To be honest, once I am at electric furnaces, I am smelting-in-place so it wouldn't matter anyway. But my original base is usually still operational and I don't usually upgrade it past steel furnaces. Don't ask me why, I just prioritize the expansions and as long as the original build is "good enough", I leave it be.
Last edited by Nailfoot; 10 Feb, 2017 @ 1:50am
That smelter setup is pretty good, it takes a full belt of ore and outputs a full belt of plates.
Now look at what you're doing with the input, you are taking a full belt of iron and divide it between the 2 smelters so they only get half a belt each even though you designed them to eat a full belt.
The solution would be to have 1 full belt of ore input for each smelter.
Last edited by !?!; 10 Feb, 2017 @ 4:10am
He's reaching max throughput of a single belt of ore. Easiest way to fix this without overhauling everything would be to run a second line of iron ore from the mine along the first, and plug it into the open "input" slot of the very first splitter. The second line will make up for the fact that the first belt is being split in half, and provide the other half in order to keep the belts full.
Even if you change it up to having a dedicated ore and dedicated coal belt as input and use long inserters (preferred method) you'd still run into throughput issues of yellow belts. You simply can't run any more ore on that belt. Upgrade it to reds, or run a second line.
This is genrally a setup I use for my resource processing http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=861694513
Keeping coal on its own belt gives you a lot more throughput to keep all that ore flowing.
Plus after you get electric furnaces, you can just remove the coal belts and expand the line. Doesn't take that long to covert it over.
Last edited by Canyew; 11 Feb, 2017 @ 6:35am
Thanks everyone for the help with the hows and whys of my problem and for the solutions
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/discussions/2/135508662493041371/
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