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Press F,change to blueprint mode with R and Ctrl+C...i think...

@Grumpy100pct i didn't even know this feature existed! Was even considering making a post in satisfactory QA asking for it. This saves me hours!

​​@@Grumpy100pct MMB (middle mouse button) is the default to copy a target. Which indeed works in delete mode. So F to enter delete mode, change to blueprint, find a blueprint, press MMB to copy. This only works because delete mode can target blueprints. The copy in delete mode is generally handy, instead of pressing extra buttons to continue building after a wrongful placement. E.g. a bad belt: 1. Build belt wrong way 2. F 3. Hold left click 4. MMB on nearby belt 5. Continue build This flow is better than having to reselect the building. I do, however, suggest having such items on the hotbar and get used to their position. You can almost always press a hotbar item and begin placing it immediately.

Dismantle mode -> Press R to change build mode (like how you do for zoop) -> Press MMB (not scroll) will sample the blueprint

@@KyloBuilds thx buddy! 🥰

In both my recent curve video and HWY video I talk and show the method I use!

Yes, its more work but I really enjoy the outcome of having WAY more trains, trucks, and drones!

lol was geht bei dir? 😂

Not a single soul cares

Thats what she said!

​@dog9302 Excellent! I hoped someone would bite

Vertical Nudge is not in the base game. There are mods that add it in tho...

The method you’re seeing is more efficient for saving sulfur but uses more oil. So it really depends on what you have and what you want to do to determine which alt is the “best” choice. I was thinking the same thing at first lol but I think he mentioned that he already had the sulfur resource coming in.

Every alt recipe has a tradeoff. Sure, you may not make as much power but you'll save on machines or materials, or vice versa.

2 reasons why I am using the alt! 1. I don't have nitric acid unlocked so I cant even make the other one. 2. This alt is very simple, and made making large power quick and easy!

@@KyloBuilds yes the nitric acid roadblock! lol in my current playthrough I built a bunch of refineries and blenders and piped over nitrogen and realized I had a while until nitric acid. I always forget about that!

@@yakob2074 Yep! And I really needed a chuck of power for our next few factories because they are going to be much bigger haha!

They require less setup, but many times trains are "better" than trucks.

I don’t have mk 6 belts. I know this sounds weird but one of the elements of this save is to chose the hard path and transport resources and items long distance for no real reason other than to make the save seem busy 😂

@@KyloBuilds 2x mk5 is still ok :) my first rocket fuel fab is there ;)

Gases act differently in game though

@@ripgfa they act diferently in RL too. But when the game calls names a building Fluid Freight Station and it serves for both liquids and gases it's for a reason and it's correct.

same

I still don't get it. Where's the 1600 from? Wouldn't you just be looking at how much you need, how long the train ride is and multiplay the two to get how much you need to move from one end to the other?

In this case, 10 packagers till unpack the oil. So it’s not bad at all. The other issue is that fluid trains just have a drastically lower throughput.

You can even do them directly in the text fields when editing the over/under-clock values of machines, though there is a character length restriction, so you cannot do longer calculations with multiple sets of parenthesis, etc.

Hard to do, but 100% can happen!

happened to me

It's all about round trip time versus stack size versus belt capacity/ppm. In most cases with a round trip time around 3-5 minutes you can get slightly more than one belt per train car(if you have buffers), but it will always be less than two belts due the to load/unload pause. I usually just do one belt per car for easy math but if you are "optimizing" you may want to do better. Large stack sizes can move a lot more items per minute per car. Small stack sizes can move less per minute per car but usually these are low quantity items anyway. Don't think many of us are pushing 1200ppm of Turbo Motors or Super Computers around the map. Long routes, it is easier to just add a second train that it is to add more cars to one train.

I struggled with them too. I just had to add sorter and buffer for each item. At the end before the factory itself another buffer for each item and before the buffer smart splitter for overflow going directly in the sink so the truck station storage is always emptied. You need to have continuous flow for sorters or they wont work. The sink is for that. Use fastest belts possible in every nook. You can use just one sink if you stack mergers and connect them with belt elevators. The result was not pretty but manageable.😂 I ended up having one truck station per only 3 different items, worked best for me.

Another lesson I learned is that if you have so many items that two of your highest belts can’t support it and you need two truck stations(or more), then you need to have an industrial storage container for each item type, per truck station. I am bringing in quartz, coal, and limestone. There is so much that even two of my highest belts cannot support it, so I need two truck stations. Each output of each truck station smart splits each resource into its own dedicated belt input for an industrial storage. This means I have 6 industrial storages: one for each of the three item types, per truck station. It must be an industrial storage because you need to use both of the two inputs for each one. Merging the lines together will result in backed up belts no matter what. Also, a VERY helpful note for the vehicle route itself: I don’t have trucks, so I must use a tractor. Again, I need two truck stations. But, I do *not* need two trucks. I record a *double* route on my tractor. This means that I start at whatever my start point is, do a loop of picking g up resource and dropping them off at station A, then repeat the loop, but instead drop off at station B, then finish the recording. If you care about neatness, then note that if the two truck stations aren’t right next to each other, one of them(lets say B) will have plenty of extra time to unload, while the other(lets say A) may back up. This will ultimately be fine because B has so much time to make up for A’s overflow, but if you want it to not visually back up, then edit the wait node at station A to be absurdly long, maybe 20 seconds. This gives it extra time to unload while the miners(or other machines or whatever that supply what you’re loading) just give extra resources to station B, which again, has plenty of extra wiggle room.

Thats something I can work on for sure!

@@5353Jumper , the original comment says about trucks, not trains. But thanks for the tip.