Do NOT add quality modules to the mines/electric furnaces feeding your main bus. It is poison for your factory, because you can’t just use any quality with any quality.
I’ve had half a dozen spots in my factory come to a halt because ~10 minutes of higher iron quality plates went onto my normal belt, and then clogged a bunch of assembly machines.
That thought had crossed my mind, though there is an inherent problem in that if you don’t have recycling to deal with excess, you’ll still eventually get backed up with higher quality ingredients, or you’ll have to prioritize mines/elec furnaces based on existing need.
If you ever want to clear out a base and you don’t mind robots going crazy… Ctrl-X to cut a blueprint, then place it right back down where it was… the bots will pick up EVERYTHING and then put it down clean
Yeah, I briefly considered that, but I have about 30k belts. Sure, the minority of that is the iron plates belts, but the problem bubbled up through green circuits.
So I think it was easier/quicker to just take a quick look around to see where the poison went.
Do NOT add quality modules to the mines/electric furnaces feeding your main bus. It is poison for your factory, because you can’t just use any quality with any quality.
I’ve had half a dozen spots in my factory come to a halt because ~10 minutes of higher iron quality plates went onto my normal belt, and then clogged a bunch of assembly machines.
Sorters with output priority for higher quality to a provider chest is the way to go if you want to bootstrap quality onto your main production
That thought had crossed my mind, though there is an inherent problem in that if you don’t have recycling to deal with excess, you’ll still eventually get backed up with higher quality ingredients, or you’ll have to prioritize mines/elec furnaces based on existing need.
If you ever want to clear out a base and you don’t mind robots going crazy… Ctrl-X to cut a blueprint, then place it right back down where it was… the bots will pick up EVERYTHING and then put it down clean
Yeah, I briefly considered that, but I have about 30k belts. Sure, the minority of that is the iron plates belts, but the problem bubbled up through green circuits.
So I think it was easier/quicker to just take a quick look around to see where the poison went.