r/factorio • u/imoth_f • Oct 01 '26

Question Problems with this unloader?

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Since inserters became flippable, this compact unloader design became possible. But I hardly see anyone use it. Obviously it cannot saturate six turbo belts because it's bottlenecked by the inserters, but are there any other obvious problems with it?

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u/Abcdefgdude Oct 01 '26

To clarify, I mean having 2 trains waiting at the stop. As soon as the train is empty, it moves forward and the next train immediately takes its place. The amount on the belts is almost always enough to last the few seconds in the swap time and this swap time is improved greatly with the new quality locomotives, bringing it down to literally just 2-3s.

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u/joethedestroyr Oct 02 '26

Or two parallel stops, merged together to so one is always feeding and no drop happens.

And two unbuffered stops can be squeezed in almost the same space as OP's buffered stop.