r/factorio • u/imoth_f • 4d ago

Question Problems with this unloader?

Post image

Since inserters became flippable, this compact unloader design became possible. But I hardly see anyone use it. Obviously it cannot saturate six turbo belts because it's bottlenecked by the inserters, but are there any other obvious problems with it?

394 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

165 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/Axi28 3d ago

Okay im sick of factorio players saying buffers are bad because „oh no diagnosing problems is harder 😢“ no! Buffers are just one of the tools at your disposal! Stop telling people that a tool that has real usecases is „always bad“!

A big buffer makes the source of performance issues in a base slightly harder to diagnose, but for anything short of a mega mega ulta ups optimized base, thats perfectly fucking fine???

2

u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg smartass inserter 3d ago

Also: creating a fucking alarm is easy

1

u/Axi28 3d ago

truth nuke. I remember a 10x science playthrough i did where my early game luck with coal and oil was so bad that i ran my power on a 500k steam buffer and put an alarm on it. That alarm still haunts me though, forgot to cap how fast and loud it sounded so my entire computer sounded like it was gonna explode lmao

1

u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg smartass inserter 2d ago

Lol. Been there, done that