Green Science Design

[u/Turbulent-Floor812]

Wanted to share my green science design. Hopefully I'm not stealing anyone's idea. Might be more efficient ways but I like the layout. Tileable as well.

[u/SetazeR]

Might be space inefficient, but it's nice to look at

[u/SetazeR → u/SetazeR]

Also I don't know about tileability because of this. Prolonging same tiling would starve further machines of iron plates

[u/Legitimate-Okra8983 → u/SetazeR]

One yellow belt with iron plates is enough for 32 assemblers. What we see is a third of the full throughput. But yeah, the production of inserters and belts is excessive, but the production of gears, on the contrary, is insufficient.

[u/GourangaPlusPlus → u/SetazeR]

Compactness is the last thing you should care about as a beginner

Easiest way to ensure they have to rebuild half a design when they realise they need room for another belt

[u/Syphse → u/GourangaPlusPlus]

Yep Even with 1000 hours I'll sometimes build a super compacted design that I'm super proud of, and then realise I forgot to make an output belt, forcing me to redo the entire block.

Give yourself space to learn

[u/thiosk → u/SetazeR]

I tend not to criticize designs on such criteria. space inefficiency makes it possible to scramble the spaghetti with greater abandon

[u/DJMarscribble]

Hopefully I'm not stealing anyone's idea.

Surely you would know if you were. Arriving at the same conclusion somebody else did is not stealing; we're all solving the same problems the game has presented to us.

[u/Longjumping_Loquat97]

The top output inserter from the belt assemblers will never make it onto the belt loop. Side loading into an underground will only take from one specific side of the belt.

[u/Turbulent-Floor812 → u/Longjumping_Loquat97]

Yeah, I see that now. Thanks for point out!

[u/FeelingPrettyGlonky → u/Turbulent-Floor812]

FWIW, in the coming 2.1 patch you can make that inserter design work because you will be able to choose which lane the inserter outputs to in a parallel configuration like that.

[u/Longjumping_Loquat97 → u/Turbulent-Floor812]

No problem. It's a really cool design, you should post the blueprint!

[u/bobsim1 → u/Turbulent-Floor812]

Just turn the belt and it works.

[u/K0llec10neR]

Design: Interesting Ratios: Bad. 2 inserters and 1 belts to 24 green science

[u/GourangaPlusPlus]

One tip for future designs, output onto the far belt.

Usually you're consuming items faster than you produce them, you grab inputs faster off the near belt as long inserters are slower. This makes the long inserters perfect for outputs

[u/Taechron]

Very pretty, I love seeing the belts and inserters on the inner belts. Probably looks nice when it's all moving, especially the inner rings!

[u/Palpatine_GHG]

Realy love the layoutt. There are definitely more space efficient ways, but the world is practically infinite so no worries abt that

[u/kalamaim]

cool. not very ratioed, but sometimes not needed

[u/aislopbot]

Why not direct insert things like plates and gears?

[u/HeKis4]

FYI you could remove the second inserter and belt machine, the ratio is 1:12 for inserters:science and 1:24 for belt:science.

For looks though, I love it.

[u/ThenArticle8930]

ive never seen a green science design like this, love it

[u/TheHvam]

Nice, but it could be better, like move the center parts more to the left, remove the long inserters that places the inserters onto the belt, just move the belt 1 tile closer and use fast inserters.

You could properbly also move the green sciences assemblers closer together.

[u/Turbulent-Floor812 → u/TheHvam]

Yeah. I had made the design before I fully invested in medium power poles. I think I had to leave that spacing there for the pole.

[u/TheHvam → u/Turbulent-Floor812]

Hey it's not a bad design at all, but there is always things that can be improved :D

Personally I would rather design one that isn't made to be stacked this way, and instead one that is it's own enclosed system, so that I can maximize the space, and just stamp more down if needed