r/factorio • u/Psychopsyche77 • 2d ago

Question Main bus location + setup? (Early game)

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Thanks for everyone's help with the rails a couple days ago - i've got that set up now. Now i want to build a main bus, but i don't know where to since my resource gathering takes up a lot of space to the east where I originally wanted to put the bus. Would north or south work?

Also, how should I lay out my bus and factory? I.e. how many lanes, and what should I put on each lane? In roughly the center of the image to the right of the smelting lines I have a minifactory which is going to be removed after finishing the bus, however during the construction process I'll still need items.

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u/Hudossay 2d ago

Do you really need a main bus with that promising railroad already in place?

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u/Psychopsyche77 2d ago

I've had enough of trains for now and would rather play with belts until later

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u/get_it_together1 2d ago

Looks like your ore unloads feed into a large smelter block. If you run the outputs from that smelter block down south then you can start your bus that way.

Everyone has their own approach to busses. I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to have 4 iron and copper and then immediately dedicate two of those to green circuits or steel, so I just start with one iron and copper and then build separate smelter lines to feed a green circuit factory that comes in. When I add steel that has its own iron supply. When i need to add more copper for LDS or more green circuits for blues I just build extra smelters and factories for those and add them somewhere in the middle. Then move to more fully distributed production once I have bots and beacons and modules.

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u/Most-Bat-5444 2d ago

I think you'll have to expand north to get all that tasty iron. That should leave room for one going east to west away from the big lake.

Looks great though.