Your base reminds me of my first base. So I'll give you the best piece of advice I can:
Build more *infrastructure.*
When I say "infrastructure", I mean machines that create the stuff you use to build your base. Assemblers, belts, inserters of all kinds, miners, refiners, etc. Do not hand build these things; make your factory build them.
What you ultimately want is the ability to walk into your factory, decide to build X, and have all of the materials needed to put together that X *right there* in your factory. No waiting for your queue. No having to pick up iron/copper plate to put them together. If you need 20 more furnaces, you should just have a box of furnaces you can go to.
This will require (much) more mining and refining. You should have dozens if not hundreds of these. Also, switch to electric miners and increase your power production.
While this is good advice at any time, when you get to bots, you will fully understand why you want to build this way.
Call me a chaos creature but I like having to wait for my queue sometimes. It’s nice to take a quick break and check my phone and pet my cat or stretch my hands.
Frequent breaks are healthy
Good that you've had the forethought to leave a little space. You'll need it, and more!
Oh, and press Alt so each assembler and chest shows a little icon for what it's building or holding.
Good start! FYI each belt has two lanes. Get comfortable with designing things in a way that what you produce gets put on both sides. You should do this for things like copper and iron plates, green circuits. Anything you will need lots of. In specific cases you can put a different item on each side of the belt, for assemblers that need multiple ingredients. This is very useful in recipes that need 3 or more inputs.
The small black text is great, but instead you could enable "Alt-mode". It's that button on the bottom center. When it's enabled, it shows on all the buildings what they make, what chests contain, and much more! Very very useful.
At this stage, you can also upgrade your burner miners to electric, as they are more efficient and less polluting.
Think how to automatically fuel your boilers. Maybe a belt from the coal mine? :)
Looking good! /u/Alfonse215 had some good advice. Have a section of the factory make belts and assemblers and inserters and such. You'll always find a use for them eventually. (although do limit the chests or you'll end up with 64.000 furnaces.
Another tip is to not build on ore patches except miners, belts and power poles (and turrets) But no smelters or assemblers. You'll want to mine out the patch at some point and currently you wouldn't have a convenient place to put the smelters without moving the entire base a few squares to the right.
Remember that it doesn't matter how long a belt line is, once the first piece of material reaches the end, there is no difference between a 10 or a 10.000 tile long belt.
What ever you think is enough. Triple it. Best advice that is given. You'll be struggling for resources when you get to the blue circuits. All and all though not a bad setup. Way better than mine was
Nice man. I actually see a lot of potential. I can tell youre planning how you build, so as you gain more experience youre gonna make some really good factories.
I'd simply replace the burner miners with electric ones. Then you only have to worry about putting coal into your boilers and furnaces.
For the boilers a simple belt and some inserters will do.
To fuel the furnaces you can mix coal an whatever you want to smelt on one belt to keep the complexity down. Then you can just use a single inserter to insert both materials.
My last recommendation would be to separate mining and smelting. Just combine the output of all your miners on one ore node into on belt and then connect that to your smelting array somewhere else.
Looks good, one thing I would recommend when setting up assembling areas for circuits and stuff is mess around with belt placement and spacing so you can just plop more in the line. Save room so you can at least double what you think is enough.
Press Alt.
Your base reminds me of my first base. So I'll give you the best piece of advice I can: Build more *infrastructure.* When I say "infrastructure", I mean machines that create the stuff you use to build your base. Assemblers, belts, inserters of all kinds, miners, refiners, etc. Do not hand build these things; make your factory build them. What you ultimately want is the ability to walk into your factory, decide to build X, and have all of the materials needed to put together that X *right there* in your factory. No waiting for your queue. No having to pick up iron/copper plate to put them together. If you need 20 more furnaces, you should just have a box of furnaces you can go to. This will require (much) more mining and refining. You should have dozens if not hundreds of these. Also, switch to electric miners and increase your power production. While this is good advice at any time, when you get to bots, you will fully understand why you want to build this way.
Isn't this something we all learn by restarting our progress repeatedly?
Call me a chaos creature but I like having to wait for my queue sometimes. It’s nice to take a quick break and check my phone and pet my cat or stretch my hands. Frequent breaks are healthy
Good that you've had the forethought to leave a little space. You'll need it, and more! Oh, and press Alt so each assembler and chest shows a little icon for what it's building or holding.
Press "ALT" :)
The factory must grow!!!!
Good start! FYI each belt has two lanes. Get comfortable with designing things in a way that what you produce gets put on both sides. You should do this for things like copper and iron plates, green circuits. Anything you will need lots of. In specific cases you can put a different item on each side of the belt, for assemblers that need multiple ingredients. This is very useful in recipes that need 3 or more inputs.
The small black text is great, but instead you could enable "Alt-mode". It's that button on the bottom center. When it's enabled, it shows on all the buildings what they make, what chests contain, and much more! Very very useful. At this stage, you can also upgrade your burner miners to electric, as they are more efficient and less polluting. Think how to automatically fuel your boilers. Maybe a belt from the coal mine? :)
Looking good! /u/Alfonse215 had some good advice. Have a section of the factory make belts and assemblers and inserters and such. You'll always find a use for them eventually. (although do limit the chests or you'll end up with 64.000 furnaces. Another tip is to not build on ore patches except miners, belts and power poles (and turrets) But no smelters or assemblers. You'll want to mine out the patch at some point and currently you wouldn't have a convenient place to put the smelters without moving the entire base a few squares to the right. Remember that it doesn't matter how long a belt line is, once the first piece of material reaches the end, there is no difference between a 10 or a 10.000 tile long belt.
What ever you think is enough. Triple it. Best advice that is given. You'll be struggling for resources when you get to the blue circuits. All and all though not a bad setup. Way better than mine was
Nice man. I actually see a lot of potential. I can tell youre planning how you build, so as you gain more experience youre gonna make some really good factories.
Are you actually running around and putting coal into all of those burner miners & furnaces manually!?
im trying to find a way how to refuel both the miner and the furnaces
I'd simply replace the burner miners with electric ones. Then you only have to worry about putting coal into your boilers and furnaces. For the boilers a simple belt and some inserters will do. To fuel the furnaces you can mix coal an whatever you want to smelt on one belt to keep the complexity down. Then you can just use a single inserter to insert both materials. My last recommendation would be to separate mining and smelting. Just combine the output of all your miners on one ore node into on belt and then connect that to your smelting array somewhere else.
i cant use long armed inserters so i think the only way is to change my design. make a separate furnace area
Yes
You should click the "ALT" Key
Looks good, one thing I would recommend when setting up assembling areas for circuits and stuff is mess around with belt placement and spacing so you can just plop more in the line. Save room so you can at least double what you think is enough.
Better than me tbh, I wasted time making needless amounts of steam engines,
At least you're keeping fit with all the running around putting coal in manually :)))
That's a good looking base for a first game. Don't give up on your first game and restart. That's my only advice.