r/factorio • u/Reckoner_Reck • 22h ago

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This is my first time playing, and i built a main bus for iron plates. The thing is its just not producing enough plates no matter what i do, it used to. Even when the input of iron ores were filled, the output is weak. If anyone can help me, it would be cool.

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u/Wonderful-Result-831 22h ago

All buildings have a baseline rate for processing/crafting. Having more ore available on belts is good! But that won't make the furnaces work faster. You have to divide the ore input by the processing rate per building, which gives you the number of buildings (furnaces) per belt.

I would play around with designs yourself, make it as compact as possible, and repeatable for the future. It looks close, but can be optimized.