It seems to me that there is a pattern that a lot of the community simply does out of habit. I also find that the notion that I have to build a robot factory for "1 per second" seems really overkill. It seems to me, therefore, that the "standard" concept of 4x iron, 4x copper, 4x GC bus is really unbalanced. It's obvious from train movements that the residual "main base" does not have a demand for iron plate, copper plate and green circuits that is equal. I now have separate rail served hubs for copper smelting, iron and steel smelting, RGB circuits and all things petroleum (with mining outposts feeding to the smelters), with a "main base" for the science, build everything, robot builder, module maker and rocket builder (the modules will probably get relocated to the RGB factory next). I have a rail-world map I'm building out to something bigger than just a starter base. After the smelter, there is no demand (apart from concrete). So why do people persist in carrying 4 whole lanes of copper on past green circuits? Why four whole lanes of green circuits past red and blue? Your smelter needs 4 lanes of iron ore and 4 lanes of copper ore, but do you bus those through your whole factory? Of course not. People don't bus four lanes of copper ore along their bus because it only gets used in one place: smelting. If you put your green, red and blue circuit builders at the start of your bus, just next to the smelters, there really is no need for 4 whole lanes of either copper or green circuits to go any further than that. You need a load of green circuits, but again most of that goes into red and blue circuits. You certainly need lots of copper smelting, but the overwhelming majority of that copper goes to one place only: green circuits. The bus, almost always, is built to have 4 lanes each of iron plates, copper plates and green circuits all the way along, with other lanes for other ingredients in much smaller quantities. Next to the smelters is a green circuit array, feeding 4 lanes of green circuits, with a build-everything, a red and a blue circuit factory, a 1-per-second science build and a 1-per-second robot factory in the middle, with a module factory and rocket parts factory at the far end.
FACTORIO MAIN BUS FULL
Those lanes run the full length of the bus. At one end of the main bus you have smelters to feed 4 lanes each of iron plates and copper plates, a couple of lanes of iron and one of stone bricks. I've noticed a fairly standard concept for a main bus for most of the youtubers I've watched.
I've watched a load of youtube playthroughs and built some half decent factories myself.
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