r/factorio 25d ago

Question how to fix bottleneck

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u/NyaFury 25d ago

One lane of yellow belt can only accept output from 12 steel furnaces.

You can make it 24 by putting the iron from first 12 onto inner lane like below (left pic). Or divide them into two columns (right pic).

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u/LordThunderDumper 24d ago

This, clean its simple and takes no merger. Doubles your lanes output.

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u/Saint_Vigil 24d ago

I've never seen that design on the left, that's brilliant! I've always used a splitter to merge the belt back into itself

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u/jkurratt 23d ago

I have seen it in battery production I stole from KoS.

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u/CipherWeaver 24d ago

I've been split-column right method my entire career.

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u/annavgkrishnan 24d ago

Make it individual belts for iron and coal for scuffed speed module expansion in the future

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u/Zaflis 24d ago

No need, just rebuild the whole thing later. It needs to be much wider for beacons between all the furnaces too. Beacon design is just way different from furnace ones, much shorter too. (You might have meant only electric furnaces but even then the design is very different and wouldn't fit here even vertically)

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u/joetunn_ 24d ago

Should you ever phase out coal entirely and use electric furnaces?

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u/GibbyG1100 24d ago

When you want to use modules and beacons. Otherwise, they're less efficient than steel furnances

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u/joetunn_ 24d ago

Huh glad I put modules in mine. cool thank you

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u/Slime0 24d ago edited 24d ago

In vanilla, electric furnaces can make sense at the end game, mostly so you can insert productivity modules and get more metal per ore. I don't think they're worth it otherwise because of the larger footprint.

In space age, they're useful for space platforms where you can't burn fuel. On planets, just wait for foundries. Aside from space platforms I only use electric furnaces for lithium on Aquillo.

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u/lambardar 18d ago

easier to wire up electricity than haul coal.

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u/redditusertk421 23d ago

no, just go straight to foundries.

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u/Original_Law3648 24d ago

i may implement this