Factorio BA Playthough #6
And welcome back to the play through of Factorio, with Angel's and Bob's mods. If you are have just tuned in, here is what I got up to last time. Starting off this week with Angels Smelting. Here is the proposed Smelting Unit, a small simple thing.
Each Blast Furnace requires 6/s input and output, so using splitters to split the ores across two sides allows for the 6 inserters for input and sneaky belt tricks allow for the 6 inserters out. There is one issue with this, as one output belt on the side will need tweaking when near inserters are researched. Future me, please remember this.
I've also added a little coal to coke unit. This produces 4/s coke to fuel both the Blast furnaces and the manganese production.
Lastly for the iron smelting has a little casting block. I really want to kick start this all but I need to at least demolish the old iron and prepare all the crushed stone to stone for now.
A simple build to take the 6/s crushed stone from each crushing block and converts it into stone bricks for now. Later I'll turn them into walls for easier storage, or just pave the world.
And now to test drive! There are some bottle necks, and I can fix those later, but first there's an issue with the molten iron block. Turns out, the diagonal corners don't get both iron and manganese, and the casting machines are not fully plumbed in. A couple of quick tweaks and finally I have iron production. Next to replicate all this for copper, tin and lead. I'll save you reading what took me a little while, and its only identical copies.
And there we are, all metals, Iron, Copper, Tin and... Lead. Like a middle child, lead has been forgotten again. Oh well, something to build next time. Talking of next time, I think the next project is going to be getting a mall built, but at the same time, I want to get circuits done. I'm a little torn...
But do come back next time to see where I take this growing base next! If you want the blog beamed straight into your inbox, subscribe below! For leaving feedback, catch me in the Angel's discord or leave you opinions below. Thanks again!
Playtime: 14:38:27
