Mixed belts can be beneficial for smelting ore, or producing items with many different ingredients such as Utility science pack. How many main bus lines do you generally use? - Page 2 - Factorio Some people put all lanes together, but I highly recommend a structure of 4 belts, 2 spaces, 4 belts, 2 spaces, and so on, with the piped products on one side. Best use within Bobs or Angles Mods, due to HIGH amount of different Items to feed on a Main Bus. Building a Main Bus. Tutorial:Main bus. Belt balancers utilize the mechanic that splitters output items in a 1:1 ratio onto both their output belts. Obviously water, Acid, Lubricant, and Oil. However when you have 4 lanes you get 60 plates a second. Buy Factorio here: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/factorio?partner=jdplaysMore tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnIE0W-m629c4nhPTspGRVm3. Last edited by Hedning ; Mar 16, 2018 @ 10:07am #1 Nailfoot A rainbow of belts will provide excellent throughput for your factory. 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. In that light, I use a main bus only very early in the game in a bootstrap factory. These simple relations means much less needs to enter the bus if you build them next to eachother. Once I hit the ground running, the main bus goes extinct and gets demolished. By KatherineOfSky. Now red belt can span 6 tiles, which is pretty good for parts of the bus. 1 pipe of sulfuric acid. Some mods (notably Bob's mod), make it so that the higher tier belts have underground belts that can go larger distances. Main bus multi lanes? : factorio - reddit.com 2 belts of plastic 1 belt of stone 1 belt of stone blocks 1 belt of sulfur 1 belt of coal. You can use the belt as an open storage: you can store 80 items in a length of 10 belts, when using both lanes (but for long belts this is a big disadvantage!) Re: How many main bus lines do you generally use? 4 empty lanes for a stone walkway to run/drive through your factory at speed. Factorio SPLITTING OFF THE BUS ⚙️ How to Split off the bus 1.0 ⚙️ Tips ... respectively. It all depends on what volume you want your bus to handle. Automation is the overarching theme of Factorio. 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. How many main bus lines do you generally use? - Factorio The Main Bus Concept / Layout & Tips - Factorio 0.18 Tutorial, Guide ... 4 tile wide between the last buss and the road, for the minimal spaghetti required to line up with the actual factories. If a belt is in the same orientation as the inserter, the item will be placed on the right-hand lane, from the belt's perspective. "Main bus" refers to an organized layout for resource transportation. If you have a single yellow lane of iron plate, you get 15 plates a second to wherever it's going.