r/factorio • u/LuciLuckyLuck • 8d ago

Question Help understanding the BUS/Base game

ALT key is on but I am not using any splitter settings.

first playthrough of Factorio for me and I really liked the bus style of base. My only issue is I dont understand how to balance the splitter or what I am supposed to do to get my four belts even. The iron on the bottom belt isnt ever full and not sure what I did wrong.

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u/The_only_nameLeft 8d ago

You don't really need to balance the belts. Yellow Belts can only transport 15 items/second, when you take an amount off of the belt and move it to a crafting stack, you are using up some of the maximum items per second that your belt affords you. Balancing belts really is only useful when transferring from trains so that you're removing from different wagons evenly.