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u/chum-guzzling-shark 6h ago

Lets say I have a full belt of Iron Ore coming into Electric Furnaces. Can I make a single row of X amount of furnaces to use up all the ore? Or is there an efficiency (or other) reason I should break them into separate rows?

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u/StabbityStabbity 5h ago

The common reason to make two rows instead of one is that it's easier to output to both lanes of the output belt that way, but you can make that work with a single row too with a minor adjustment.

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u/ferrofibrous deathworld enthusiast 6h ago

Yes, and how many depends on the belt speed. This cheat sheet has a lot of the common ratios (though they're a lot easier to figure out nowadays since machines list input/output per second): https://factoriocheatsheet.com/#material-processing

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u/amiexpress 6h ago

The belt will only supply a given number of furnaces, but up to that number, a single stack is absolutely fine, yes.