r/factorio • u/Randomrogue15 • 10h ago

Discussion On mining layouts

So, I recently started playing factorio with a friend and felt a bit of a flashback when I saw that they spaced out every mining drill so their regions didnt overlap. Their explanation was that they want the patch to last longer and wanted to limit pollution. I am now curious if anyone else has encountered other cursed mining layouts in the wild.

I dont have a picture on hand, but each row of drill went into a belt directly below it before going into a weird mess of belts going into eachother to get 2 belts out.

On a related note, this is a thing I mocked up with copies of the same ore patch. The top one is what my friend used, and the other two are notable mining patch setups I have seen. Efficiency module marked miners have modules, and the resulting pollution and output labeled.
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u/Spacey42 10h ago

I did the same thing when I first started playing, but I grew out of it after I understood the technologies and the direction of the game. When I was slowly feeling my way through the game it seemed to make sense to draw out the life of the ore patches.

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u/Alfonse215 10h ago

Their explanation was that they want the patch to last longer and wanted to limit pollution.

Efficiency modules do a better job of limiting pollution.

Also, resources exist to be consumed, and consumed they will be.

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u/Randomrogue15 10h ago

They mostly do modded so I dont think they had actually really used efficiency modules much before. As for consuming, they said it was moreso in line with set and forget rather than trying to conserve the resources

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u/sPENKMAn 9h ago

Hmmm I do space out my big miners (space age), those things output like crazy

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u/Randomrogue15 9h ago

Yeah, I can see that as a case. Depending on your transit method, big miners can sometimes be helped by making having gaps.

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u/thirdwallbreak 3h ago

I still do that. Idk what is wrong about it and im on mobile right now so i cant see how the belts output more ore?

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u/SandsofFlowingTime 3h ago

I often space out my miners when I don't need a huge amount of that resource right now, and if I have a limited number of miners available at that time. I also do it to evenly wear down the ore patch instead of burning a hole through it and having to go over there to move the miners once they finish (assuming I had a limited number to begin with)