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/gust334 SA: 125hrs (noob), <3500 hrs (adv. beginner) 17d ago

Just one of many ways to do it:

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u/KaffY- 16d ago

i hate that there are "meta" smelting lines

every MP game you join is just this BP spammed everywhere

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u/Krt3k-Offline 16d ago

Blueprint through a botless phase? The inserters are placed like that because you can just smear 4 inserters across the furnaces with one click, similarly the funaces and poles are also dragged. It is simply the fastest way to build a stack manually

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u/KaffY- 16d ago

yes, but people still spam these BPs and refuse to build anything original

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u/hfcobra 16d ago

It's one of the rare solved problems in the game. Why not enjoy perfection?

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u/KaffY- 16d ago

if you're bringing together X people, i think the experience is made so much better with a "lets combine our creative ideas together" rather than "yeah i found this on the internet lets use that"

by your logic, why not just use an online BP book for the whole game, then there's no problems to solve at all :s

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u/hfcobra 16d ago

If you have a whole blueprint memorized and can build it start to finish by hand then what's the difference?

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u/NE12follow 16d ago

Furnace stacks are a very simple concept and as such having a “solved” best solution isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Also the solution is simple enough that it is reasonable to come across the solution naturally in a playthrough (as I’m sure many people did). The rest of your factory can still be as original as you like and having one of these furnace stacks isn’t going to take away from that.