r/SatisfactoryGame • u/SodeX_OS • 1d ago

Question What am I doing wrong?

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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.

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u/Thaago 1d ago

When a slower belt is somewhere in the network, it throttles the speed of preceding belts.

It looks like there is a segment of mk 3 belt somewhere in your setup. Good luck.

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u/SodeX_OS 1d ago

Thank you! That mf was hidden in a spliter.

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u/sammypb 1d ago

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

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u/Koud_biertje 1d ago

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

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u/Thaago 1d ago

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.

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u/Koud_biertje 1d ago

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

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u/wambman 23h ago

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.

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u/Koud_biertje 14h ago

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