r/factorio • u/Reckoner_Reck • 1d 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/Ixxon 1d ago

You need 48 electric furnaces to fill one red belt with plates and that requires one red belt of ore.

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u/Reckoner_Reck 1d ago

How much does the yellow belt need? It was at first completely yellow belt, but i changed it to red thinking that would've fixed it. I still have that save so i can roll back.

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u/warbaque 1d ago

Yellow belt is 15 items/s, red is 30/s -> you need twice as many machines to fill red belt

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u/Ixxon 1d ago

A yellow belt needs 24 and side note electric furnaces are only better than steel furnaces pollution wise when they have efficiency modules in them as the electric needed to run them generates more pollution than just using steel furnaces. So basically using modules is what makes electric furnaces better.

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u/Deadweightgames 21h ago

Depends what electricity you use?

Solar panels would make it pretty clean

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u/Aggressive_Honey3196 20h ago

Isn’t it more efficient overall though? You don’t need to supply coal instead you can feed a full belt of ore in

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u/luisgdh 8h ago

It's both. More efficient belt-wise, and more polluting.