In any case, with 0.13 version, it should be easier, so it might pay to wait until that comes out and then adjust the solution to the new tools available. To maximize inserter pickup items should be provided to an end belt in only a single line. wdoesit/ All these splitters are pretty pointless for it's functionality, at least in this configuration. is connected to the filter inserters (which are set to 'set filters'. What you got there is MadZuris train loader. is set to Each -1, so it will output the negative amount of each thing that's on the train. Blueprint type: Loading Station, Unloading Station, Fluid Loading Station. The train stop is wired to the input of the arithmetic combinator. Burnys Train Station Blueprint Creator Version 2. You will need to ensure that your train delay can allow for it to arrive just after loading the smart chests has started, and stay until the smart chests have emptied themselves onto the train, else if the train leaves before loading the train has finished, it and the next train will end up with partial loads. Use 1 arithmetic combinator and 1 constant combinator. It also assumes that each train can hold the amount of items from the chests totally, else you end up with the next train carrying the leftovers. But I dont see why this is an improvement over simply using belts to transport. Note that this assumes that you always have enough materials for 5,000 items to be loaded evenly across the train wagons. In Factorio I think youre meant to use trains to transfer materials over large distances, such as in the campaign where there is a mining outpost some distance away and youre meant to use a train to transfer the materials from the outpost to your main base. When the amount of materials in the chest reaches 0, lock the train inserters and unlock the chest inserters. When the amount of material in all the chests is > 5000, lock the chest inserters and unlock the train inserters.ДЈ. At the same time, unlock the chest inserters to load the smart chests.Дў. Lock the train inserters to prevent loading a train. Edit: Now that I say that, I am going to try that out. 0 favorites Compact Big Bertha Artillery train. 109 favorites NeoVortexs Train Stations Book - LHD 3-8 (v3.0) 0 favorites 1430 plate per second. Search the tags for mining, smelting, and advanced production blueprints. 102 favorites NeoVortexs Train Stations Book - LHD 3-8 (v3. At that point, there is no way to better optimize loading a train short of logistics (requester chests being filled by thousands of bots) to make it so stack inserters don't even pause the milliseconds it takes to get 12 items under their claws before turning. Find blueprints for the video game Factorio.

Most Recent Most Favorited Create Known Issues. Since you are using bots, you would need more space with the requestor chests feeding smart chests linked which count the amount of materials in all of them.ДЇlying Bots -> Requestor Chest -> Chest Inserter -> Smart Chest -> Train Inserter -> (Train)ДЎ. Find blueprints for the video game Factorio. since you have 48 chests, and 5000/48 = 104.17, but inserters will insert their load size, so if it is at max, it will be 5 items at a time, so you will (I am assuming) end up with 105 items in each chest in this instance. 3 railed ships (tanker, cargo ship, small boat) 1 vehicle boat (SHIFT + ENTER to board) Water ways (rails), port (train stop), buoy and chain-buoy (rail signals), retractable rail bridge (makes crossing rails and water ways possible) Oil rig (to pump offshore oil), floating electric pole (transmit but doesn't distribute electricity. Note that there will be slight variance due to carry numbers. Similarly, if a train is heading to the right, the left side of the track is toward the top of the screen and the right side is toward the bottom of the screen.Why not move the checking a step back and limit the amount of material entering the chests to be loaded onto a single train to around 5000? So if a train is heading downward, the left side of the track is toward the right of the screen and the right side is toward the left of the screen. The terms left and right are relative to the direction that the train is facing, not the left or right of the screen.

you don't understand what 'left' and 'right' mean, and.

This means that any 6 belt system feeding each car can be no more than 7 spaces wide. Each train car can be fed by up to 6 inserters and has 1 space between it and the next car. If you think you have a working station that's on the left side of the track, it means that Optimal for train loading, this design splits four belts into six while balancing both the output load and amount taken from the four feeding belts. had to place it on the left for it to work. Originally posted by Biggles:Thanks guys, i watched a 30 minute guide that said stations were meant to be on the right side, but i had it on the right and it wasnt working.

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