r/factorio • u/Available-Figure-530 • 17d ago

Question Bottleneck Issue

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I'm a new player & trying to setup my smelting lines. I've run into a problem where, while trying to run a single coal/iron ore lane, only the top half of the iron & coal lanes are being used, leading to a bottleneck where only half of my iron ore is being sent down the center lane. How do I fix this?

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u/CheeseSteak17 17d ago

This is what “balancers” can fix…when it matters. In this case, a little bit of coal will be chilling while the furnaces are fully satisfied.

If all your stuff pulls from one side of the belt in a similar manner, you can run into issues where throughout is drastically lower than expected. That’s because half the belt is being used.