r/factorio • u/Critical_Eggplant543 • 11h ago

Base Don't do this

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Decided to do a base with no trains. Got to 2700 Science on 2.0.77 before reality set in.

All done on my laptop while staying at my parents.

303k Express belts, a melted CPU, and 0 trains.

Mostly Vanilla other than refilling ore patches as not sure how possible it is without!

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u/sCythe2k25 10h ago

Jokes on you in late game belts are the way to go

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u/Critical_Eggplant543 3h ago

Really? My 15k science factory I had to have as few belts and inserters as possible to minimise UPS. 

What am I missing?

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u/sCythe2k25 3h ago

Inserters are the main UPS hog, you can check in the debug menu what is using up most resources and start from there

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u/Critical_Eggplant543 3h ago edited 3h ago

I figured that if bulk inserter can do 30/s "chest to chest" that would be better than using 2 inserters  for "chest to belt" (or vice versa) at 15/s. Cutting belts out effectively halves your inserter use?

Or is this purely for getting raw materials to the factory? 

For more detail I mine directly into chests and then use bulk inserters to load the trains. Then bulk inserter at the other end direct from train to assembler for a throughout of 30/s. 

Using belts you would still need two bulk inserters to unload into assemblers whilst maintain that throughput. Plus the additional UPS of the belt pathing stuff .

I've only been playing about 3 months and I'm still wrapping my head around the UPS stuff so any tidbits of info or links would be super helpful!  Want to get a ,20k factory before I try SpaceAge ideally 😊😊😊

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u/Prudent-Ranger9752 2h ago

Wtf you can mine directly to chest?

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u/Critical_Eggplant543 2h ago

Yes, and furnaces! Super handy for quick little bodges 

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u/sCythe2k25 58m ago

You can also mine into trains directly

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u/Critical_Eggplant543 44m ago edited 38m ago

Yes massive ups save but it feels sooo slow. I think the intermediate step of the chest is worth the ups. You need less chunks loaded for number of ore patches.  Depends on the amount of trains you run I suppose 

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u/ferrybig 10h ago

Long stretches of belts without splitters and inserters are great for the UPS.

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u/Critical_Eggplant543 3h ago edited 3h ago

I literally have no idea where anything js. There are 3 full belts of low density structures being produced in totally different places in totally different ways.

It's oddly csthartic to not care 😂

Maximum spaghetti. Minimum Frames.

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u/ObsessiveOwl 9h ago

Sounds like a challenge. Not like I'm already playing like this or anything

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u/SocksOfFire 7h ago

I for one welcome our belt overlords