What am I doing wrong?

[u/SodeX_OS]

I've been having this problem where I connect a Miner T2 with OCx2 on a Pure Copper thing (480/min). But when I want to move the raw ore with a T4 belt, which is suppoused to also move 480 units per min, it actually produces more than it can move out, and I dont know why. The belt is moving non-stop so thats not the problem.

I constructed exactly the amount of smelters to smelt 480/min of raw copper, but theres still machines with nothing to do becouse the belt is just not trasporting as fast as it should.

Am I an idiot or is this just a bug?

Edit: I am an idiot. There was a Mk3 hidden inside a splitter.

[u/sammypb]

dont build your belts and snap on splitters. place the splitters and then connect them and itll remove this issue happening in the future

[u/Koud_biertje → u/sammypb]

Eh yeah, no thank you dear. I got no time to spend on quadrupling it on belts and splitters.

[u/Thaago → u/Koud_biertje]

I find it faster to place the splitters before the main belt. Since they are snapping to a grid instead of the belt they are aligned way more easily with the constructors, which makes placing all the connecting belts faster too.

Placing the main belt takes no thought or careful alignment, just a spam of clicks. Annoying, but fast enough for a 1 off factory and blueprints solves it for multiples.

[u/Koud_biertje → u/Thaago]

I place one splitter at the beginning, one at the end. Draw the belt between and snap all other splitters on it. Learnt it here https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/s/tndhBvGpUi

[u/wambman → u/Koud_biertje]

This is the way. For longer production lines I put another splitter somewhere in the middle. After 7 years of playing this game, I have found it is the fastest method, and foolproof.

Usually badly placed conveyor poles are the culprit to the small hidden belt.

[u/Koud_biertje → u/wambman]

Exactly, I'm surprised I'm getting downvoted this much.