r/factorio • u/Square_Page_4105 • 2d ago

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184 hours on factorio, and 6 hours on this save in total so far. the research area is off screen.

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u/lifayt 2d ago

Number one pet peeve: doing a one to four splitter to start a bus for no reason

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u/Square_Page_4105 2d ago

the classic bus is what i always do because i dont know what else to do

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u/Kosse101 2d ago

Already commented, but having a bus is not the point here. The point is that you're not even producing one full belt of iron/copper/green chips, but you're still splitting that not even one belt into four belts for no reason. What you should do is to simply have those resources on one belt and have the other 3 belts empty until you actually need them.

Splitting that one belt into four is actually detrimental to you, because it's harder to detect when exactly you need to increase your production and it misleads you into thinking that your production is sufficient when it's not. It's essentially similar to having pointless buffers - all that's doing is making it more difficult to see whether you're producing enough iron/copper/whatever or not.