#Factorio train loading Patch#
#Factorio train loading upgrade#
#Factorio train loading full#

It can be two belts per wagon, and they are almost guaranteed to be fully compressed. 1000-2000, a few dozen roboports, and a ton of power aren't cheap for people that aren't in mega bases. And even if only one wagon-load is requested, all belts will be constantly loading, so everything is at work. It's good for additional storage too, as adding passive provider chests and requester chests triples the typical storage on the train station.

#Factorio train loading full#

Since then, I have changed over to a bot-based loading scheme, which is the absolute fastest you can load a train (6 stack inserters per side constantly moving a full stack of materials, no wasted milliseconds waiting for the belt to move items under the inserters). It can run into issues loading quickly (4 stack inserters strip the belt, so the last 2 on each side typically don't get much), and you're still limited by 4 inserters on each side even if you only need to load a single wagon. Also, make sure the loading system is it's own logistic network (not connected to the rest of your base), so that the bots will be strictly dedicated to loading at that station.I usually use this for loading a train.

#Factorio train loading Patch#

Note that regardless, you'll want a bunch of roboports close to the loading chests, and if you use active providers on the mining patch, roboports around the ore patch as well. I'm sure there are other methods and various hybrid belt/bot systems, but I particularly like the second method. The bots will move ore from the active providers to the storage chests as soon as it's mined, and you prevent miners from backing up (unless all your storage chests get filled), and you'll have lots of ore from them to pour into the requesters. Set the storage chest filters (on all of them) to whatever kind of ore you are mining. Setup a boatload of storage (yellow) chests near the loading station. Option 2: Mine directly into active provider chests. Bots are bad at pulling evenly from passive providers, so you can get some lanes backed up while others are empty. This was the first bot loading setup I tried, and it's convenient, especially with low robot speed research, but it has drawbacks. Option 1: Mine onto belts, belt ore close to the loading zone, insert from belts into passive provider chests. Keeping the request amount low ensures that ore will be distributed evenly. I also changed the loading train schedule to only leave the station when a train is requested (W > 0) otherwise the train(s) will loop through the dummy station endlessly. Blueprint type: Loading Station, Unloading Station, Fluid Loading Station.

Set the request amount such that when fulfilled, there is at least a wagon-load of ore ready to be inserted spread across those 12 chests. Burnys Train Station Blueprint Creator Version 2. Both, and really any bot loading setup, use 12 requester chests per train wagon, each with stack inserter into the wagon. I usually don't even try until well into the mid-game (lots of research done, maybe launched some rockets, but not nearing 'megabase' status). Thanks in advance! (And please be kind I'm sure there's an obvious answer that I'm missing, or a way that I'm thinking about this all wrong!)īots definitely make this easier, and are pretty simple to set up, but take a lot more resources. Is there a better solution than balancers here? I heard robots and circuit network can help with such things, but I'd need an ELI5-style tutorial for that. I tried just splashing splitters around to get things vaguely distributed, but I often end up with some belts/chests backlogged while others are sparse. Even if I only did one side, I haven't seen a lot of 5 to 24 balancers out there, and it still feels ridiculous, when you look at the size of those things. com Train stops are used to denote a place for a train to stop. Example: If a residence has equipment which could draw 6,000 W when all equipment was drawing a full load, drew a maximum of 3,000 W in a specified time, then the demand factor 3,000 W / 6,000 W 0. How do I map these 4-6 belts into my cargo wagons? Should I be looking for a 5 to 48 balancer? That seems a bit ridiculous. Other Factorio Guides: Beginners Train Guide.

#Factorio train loading upgrade#

(Currently red, but I could upgrade them to blue if it would help.) But, my ore patches (currently in the 1-2M range) only produce about 4-6 belts worth of ore.

You can also read the current number of reservations, which will have its own interesting uses. One idea is keeping the train limit set to 0 until there is a full load of ore available at the station. This means there are 4 cargo wagons * 2 sides per cargo wagons * 6 slots per side = up to 48 input stack inserters. The train limit is also controllable with circuit network, so there are even more possibilities. Basically, how do I evenly and efficiently load them? I'm in my second freeplay game and as I scale up to larger ore patches, I'm noticing a recurring problem loading my trains.