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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Blighting Paradise & Melting Craniums: Let's Play Factorio!
 
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Bonfire Lit
Jul 9, 2008

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Veloxyll posted:

And wondering if I spent one too many crafts on refineries. (have refineries, 111 crafts used). Need to build plastics line, then batteries. And sciences. o god so much to make
The refinery is the last item you have to craft by hand (it has 5 ingredients, so you need an assembler 3, which requires plastics), so if you have one of those, you're good.

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Bonfire Lit
Jul 9, 2008

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MarquiseMindfang posted:

Does Iron continue being a ridiculous bottleneck forever
Oh yes. Also everything else will become a bottleneck too. But that's what trains are for!

Thotimx posted:

Splitters don't work in reverse, but you can merge two lanes of product.
They do work in reverse:

In a real factory only do this with the same types of items. There's basically never a reason to do this kind of mixing. Using two different items on the same belt in different lanes is fine, but mixing multiple types of items on the same lane is a recipe for disaster. Luckily, splitters handle that correctly too:
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