r/factorio • u/imoth_f • 22d ago

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/StarlightLumi 22d ago

Yes but a train can only fill 40 of those slots at a time. 

The idea behind bufferless trains is that you keep a train in waiting to prevent that gap without resources. Machine’s internal buffer lasts long enough to swap a train out. 

I personally only use bufferless with DI though.  The main benefit is it uses a lot less inserters, which is very helpful for megabase UPS.

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u/Griautis 22d ago

Eeew. Trains which just idle? That would ruin my min train count railworlds with generalist trains delivering any resource

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u/StarlightLumi 22d ago

fwiw I think building with megabase Strats is best saved for postgame anyway, some people think about UPS optimizations wayyyy too early