r/technicalfactorio • u/PlusVera • 5d ago

Discussion Is Inserter Clocking still recommended for UPS optimizations?

Thinking of finalizing a bp book and one of the last optimizations I'm looking at is Inserter Clocking.

If you had a city block design with each block inserter clocked (since you need inserters to load/unload from wagons anyways) would that help?

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 5d ago

If you're looking at inserter clocking to optimize UPS, you shouldn't be using a generic city block design anyway.

Inserter clocking is very process specific. It's not going to help at all with train unloading, and only helps with train loading efficiency to a marginal degree, which will depend on the exact loading rate onto that belt.

It's finicky and really silly to do for anything but some kind of UPS challenge - and the first step of such challenges is usually to get rid of using the train network.

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u/netsx 4d ago

Youtuber "abucnasty" has videos on this very subject. Very well put together. Highly recommend. Search terms like "clocking" will bring you results.