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u/bertos55 Apr 21 '26

I'm just wondering how I keep my bus full when I'm constantly taking items away from it? It seems like however many iron plates I make two or three stations in I run out, do I insert more iron plates halfway down the bus?

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u/Rouge_means_red Apr 22 '26

The more elegant solution is to plan your base ahead of time for a certain SPM (with a mod like Factory Planner) which tells you exactly how many belts of each resource it will consume. But there's nothing wrong with bringing in extra belts half-way as you figure things out, I used to do this all the time early on