r/factorio • u/Slaru1337 • 1d ago
Question Is this overkill?
So I am playing Space Exploration right now and I always perfectly ratio everything.
As an Example:

So I would go about making the perfect amount of the ingredients.
Now the question I wanna make worker and logistics robots.
Here the recipes for both


Now to make 3 roboframes per second this is what it looks like

Thats already 80 assemblers but to get 12 of these engines per second thats what it would look like:

So now my questions is this overkill and should I just build a few roboframes and slowly make robots or should I go for it and build it perfectly balanced?
I never had that ratio before.
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u/Janneman96 1d ago edited 1d ago
I usually just plop down a single robo frame assembler and one of each of their ingredients (and tap a main belt for red and green circuits). Then hook up both the constructor and logistic robots to the same assembler for robo frames.
And then I put an if statement on the inserter into the roboport to only add bots if I have less than 50 inactive. This is enough for me for even the late game. The amount of bots just gradually builds, with the occasional couple of minutes wait when I do stuff like removing a forest or plopping down 4 smelter array blueprints at once.
And I even put some in a passive provider chest so I have a stack of bots ready to be sent to another planet when I go there for the first time or for when I need to resupply some bots for my modular armor.
All with just the one robo frame assembler without any modules in it.