Building an effective main bus involves several crucial considerations: Identify the essential items running down the middle of your factory. These will generally be iron plates, copper plates, green circuits, red circuits, and plastic. Steel plates, gears, and coal are other. The concept of a Main Bus is to put the most used and useful ingredients in a central spot to use for assembling machines. This is a good measure to combat "spaghetti factories" as it forces someone to plan a structured layout and move everything to use items from the bus. This is also a downside. If you want to get away from spaghetti designs, building a Main Bus will allow you to reach a vast throughput of materials through your factory. The challenge, as the size of the base grows ever more significant, is to maintain some sort of organization. Best main Bus configuration? Ive seen some people make main conveyors that have a wide range of resources on them, what is the best configuration for resources, I tend to have a conveyor with Iron/steel, then one with.
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