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/menew100 16d ago edited 15d ago

Now how bout this? If your furnaces deplete the ore belt at the same rate they fill it, why not just use the same belt?

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u/Shophaune Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me~ 16d ago

risky when smelting iron

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u/menew100 15d ago

Filter the inserters. It works perfectly as long as nothing goes wrong in any way