I updated the BP Book to include a new design for Kovarex Processing, which eliminates any clogging due to extra U-238 on the lines.

@Talrich77

7 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. We haven't solved that problem yet, so I'll be interested to see what you came up with. Thanks.

@coreben

7 жыл бұрын

hmm i have an issue when i import your BP. imgur.com/a/D0bfT Is this a problem with the string or with my client? I double checked if i copied the complete string

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

@Coreben. I don't know where the problem lies. I just tested in my vanilla game, and I got "blueprint book imported successfully"... and all the blueprints had the correct buildings, etc. Try to import into a completely vanilla game, and make sure your game is updated to the latest version. Also, when you copy the string, go to the google docs page, and press Ctrl+A, (to select All). Then copy & paste.

@coreben

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Kathrine, my game is full vanilla, since i try to get some of the production per time achievements. also im running version 0.15.12 which i think is the latest. Really strange thing...it deletes every building with modules in it and yes i even researched them (which shouldnt be necessary) However, thanks for your answer and keep up with your excellent videos.

@ph0sgene967

7 жыл бұрын

I dont see the kovarex blueprint in the google drive, where is it?

You make the best factorio tutorials on the web, hands down. Not forgetting to mention that they are from over 4 years ago. You're speech and play by play are perfect for teaching. Your tone of voice is loving, sweet, kind, and inviting. Your steps to deliver information takes into account your listeners need to know what they are observing, big things and small things. While you actually go through the process a player would/will in game encounter themselves. You put yourself in your audiance's shoes. Great job and content Kat. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Thank you for helping us.

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

You've really touched my heart with your comment. Thank you so much

I know this tutorial was made 6 years ago, but man is it great! Thanks so much for making these! I look forward to viewing more of your tutorials.

@KatherineOfSky

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! All the data is still the same, the devs didn't change nuclear in all theat time. Glad you found it useful!

First time going nuclear, accidentally made 50 nuclear reactors (1 stack).. I wondered where all my copper was going.

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

Oh dear! Sale at the mall! XD

@leerman22

6 жыл бұрын

I think they made the stack size 10 now in 0.16.

really great video, now I have to go binge watch all of your factorio vids. Goodbye week/month/year

This is great! Such a great video explaining the process. Thank you so much!

I followed this processing layout and am loving the results. I recently upgraded to a 4 reactor setup and thanks to the Kovarex setup I have a ridiculous amount of surplus fuel. I’ve also set my reactor inserted to only grab fuel when steam drops below a certain threshold, which has saved me tons of fuel over time.

I have to say I just started Factorio and your tutorials gave helped me in getting started. Thank you for taking your time to do this and happy gaming.

2k hours in on Factorio, and this is still my go-to for nuclear answers. Love your stuff, KoS. Thank you.

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for showing multiple setups! Great video!

I find myself suddenly becoming a supporter of nuclear power

@rcl8464

5 жыл бұрын

Nuclear power is clean power

@rcl8464

4 жыл бұрын

@petor I was moreso commenting on IRL nuclear haha

@-caesarian-6078

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just like Air Travel or Genetic Engineering, it sounds scary until you understand how it works, then it sounds great

@Walterdecarvalh0100

3 жыл бұрын

@@petormemes its not, solar power needs the construction of solar panels which are inefficient and take up too many resources

@devilgene7330

3 жыл бұрын

@BAHAAGAMER_HD No since it doesn't degrade so once you've built enough for what you want you won't produce any energy pollution anymore, and since the pollution fades away / is absorbed by trees, it's better.

Wow, so amazing and helpful too. Your really good at explaining. Understand that you have the patience for this and us too !

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful!

I always watch about five minutes of a KoS videos and then get so excited about what I have learned, I have to go play Factorio.

Thanks for making such a clear tutorial on this, super helpful!

thanks katherine, again found this video very informative! ;D

thanks a whole bunch for this and the oil tutorial! iv really learned a lot from them.

Your videos are awesome!!! Thanks for the dedication, you're super cool :)

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! :-) I really appreciate your kind words.

really good and informative video thanks for sharing this tutorial!

This was wonderful! Thank you

Such a great video! Thank You

Very nice video. Well done and thank you.

Thanks for all of your Tutorials !

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

I love your tutorials

Thank you so much! I've been having big problems with the old setup since the changes to heat pipes so this will let me get my factory back on track again

@Septimus_ii

7 жыл бұрын

Have you got the blueprints up? I can't see them on the google drive

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! They are sorted at the top: BP Book - Nuclear Power

This base looks amazing, I'm genuinely excited to achieve this on my own save

@KatherineOfSky

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun!

Hey KoS, this is a great tutorial, like all of your tutorials, and you're awesome for sharing your blueprints. I did notice your modular two-reactor-belted BP doesn't quite mesh with the 4 and 6 reactor BP's, the reactors are offset a little relative to the exchanger/turbine arrays compared to the other two. They're terrific blueprints all the same, thank you for sharing them, and for the tutorials!

@KatherineOfSky

Ай бұрын

That's correct.

Wow, new to the game (1 week), and this is completely mind-blowing.

Thanks Katherine!

thank you, this was very helpful! Nuclear reactors in the game were very confusing to me at first

Thank you for the video. It really helped.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great video thank you!

Thanks for this!

maybe a bit late to say this, this game amaze me the most is this whole nuclear feature, from mining the uranium ore to refine it, then at nuclear power plant including heat exchanger, heat pipe, turbine machine. of course this game isn't hardcore nuclear power simulator, but this game offers you a feel that it is you the player make this huge amount of power supply works. I remember the first time i play this game and when i research the nuclear technology i was like whaaaat, cause exactly at that time i am start having power shortage, and when my first nuclear power start working i feel like man this is something i just done to change my entire gameplay, and this kind of feel i never found from other game. and also this is a good tutorial that with clear guidance.

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Grats! Nuclear is a big step!

Thanks, been struggling for setup ideas for power. Having serious power issues and this will help.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Have fun!

With you, nuclear is ... beautiful... and cristal clear!! Good idea to 'write' the ratios & numbers in the video itself.

A different approach for the kovarex process -- you can use a u235 overflow mechanism for generating the u235. Basically; there is a limited buffer to the number of u235 that can be accepted in the centrifuges - it's on the scale of roughly 83 if I recall correctly. If you have a circular belt where the outer part of belt is fed u238 and the inner part of the belt is fed u235; then you wire all u235 that's generated in a centrifuge to go back into the centrifuge -- you need to make sure that you have 3 blue inserts in front of the centrifuge to guarantee that 100% of the u235 gets captured; you'll accumulate u235 until you hit the centrifuge's buffer saturation point at roughly 83 u235... in which case, on the scale of 1 or 2 u235 will move past the 3 blue inserts and you can filter all u235 coming out of the saturated centrifuges into your other systems; at which point your kovarex loop will become a pure u235 generator. The disadvantage to using this technique is that it'll take about 40-50 minutes before a given centrifuge reaches it's saturation point; the advantage is that it requires absolutely no circuit logic, set up the system once and go work on other systems for a while and your kovarex generator will be working before you know it.

Thx! This helped so much :)

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

thx, this was a pretty interesting how to :)

Great vid thanks

Love it!

Thanks. I am not quite at that point yet, still mining the uranium. But nice to have the plans for how to go forward.

just tonight I was looking for ratios on nuke power. I needed to expand. this is so helpful. thanks

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

ok so... this was pretty good... i liked what you explained and how you explained it... suggestions.. make those cuts so we can jump to sections would be really nice cause i only needed 1 little part of this.. but good job

Hello from México, love your videos!

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Issac!

I love these tutorials, and I'd love a quick tutorial on when you should use trains, I haven't ever dabbled in them in a way that is actually useful. Even more specific things like how to use rail signals or chain signals would be even better. I want to make the most efficient factory I can and I don't yet understand how trains are better than belts.

@pennyjim5671

7 жыл бұрын

I've found a different comment saying the same thing and your reply. Sorry for adding some duplication in your comments. :P

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Don't be sorry -- I really enjoy hearing from everyone who takes the time to comment! They are on my list, and I hoping to get to them fairly soon. Quick answer about trains -- the main benefit is that they are faster and cheaper than belts when it comes to transporting mass amounts of materials medium-to-long distances.

seems like I've stumbled across a nice corner of youtube, every here is so friendly...

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel TheFotoPhinish!

@tylerfehr7883

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was pleasantly surprised. It seems everyone who plays this game on the subreddit or related youtube channels are so mature and willing to help.

@Thalanox

3 жыл бұрын

@@tylerfehr7883 I think it's the high barrier to entry. I've really noticed that the more difficult a hobby is to get in to, the better the community is. Factorio is an engineering game at it's heart. That's a fairly small niche. It takes time and actual learning to get in to the game, plus, it doesn't have a hundred million dollars devoted to marketing.

@greyhunter3271

3 жыл бұрын

We only care about the Holy ratio. All are welcome. Maintain the machine. Keep the forges hot. All hail the machine. But yeah these comment sections are really chill. Lol

@Thalanox

3 жыл бұрын

@@greyhunter3271 Eh, I'm not really devoted to perfect ratios yet. I'm redoing my spaghetti factory right now to just try to straighten out my supply lines. I'm doing my best to make sure that I've got enough room to expand so that I can add those perfect ratios later, but I just want to make sure the factory can do 100% of it's work on it's own so I can focus entirely on optimizing and expanding it. Maybe I'll just restart and build a whole new factory next to my starter factory with all that delicious unlocked tech. I certainly learned enough lessons about how trains and the railway system worked that I want to tear up and rebuild the entire network again and again. I like that I can just swap my attention to whatever I want to work on whenever I get bored, or if I get a bit too frustrated with a problem. I've killed so many biter bases that I never really bothered building walls around my factory. There's plenty of breathing room between the pollution cloud and the biters. I've basically swapped over to solar energy and accumulators by now. My power grid is probably ridiculous considering the average activity and the needs of my factory.

I don't always need the full power (solar power during day, over production) of my reactors therefore I store the steam in storage tanks and only input one fuel cell in each reactor at the same time if the steam in storage drops below a certain limit

@Septimus_ii

7 жыл бұрын

goron111 you really want to keep them going all the time because of the long heating up times

@goron111

7 жыл бұрын

they keep the heat as the heat exchangers dont use up any heat below 500°C, one other plus side is that you can scale the max power output Independent from the heat production. for example you can use the 2x2 reactor setup the with few turbines early on for optima uranium usage

@slash6686

4 жыл бұрын

@@goron111 good idea

@slash6686

4 жыл бұрын

​@@goron111 well the steam keep it's temperature to, it's unrealistic but you can store it at 465°C and the temperature won't decrease, also i have a problem with mod: the iron pipe can't handle more than 465°C and bob power mod allow you to build turbines that can use more temperature than 465°C but you can build pipes that can handle more temperature with bob mod logistic, which i didn't installed first but bob logistic change the craft of logistic component so my whole logistic part of my factory is fucked up, i guess i need to rebuild… To conclude, if you want to install mods, pick modpacks or look for all the mods which are related

You remain one of the best tutorial providers there are. Hope everything goes ok. :)

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I'm contemplating your design for the urarium loop. I'm just building my 2nd factory so I'm still figurting everything out. What I did was make a loop with the 238 on the outside, kovarex enrichment unloading on the inside. And somewhere a splitter that filters the U-238. (now the complicated part in explaining :P) on the other side of the spliter I have the feed from the uranum ore processing. So basically the U238 is on a constant loop, and the feed from the ore processing is filling in the gaps. Only thing I've got to still figure out is how to get the excess U235 off, I still am doing that manually. But love your videos, you have a very good way of explaining things and a pleasant voice to listen too.

Very late, but thank you for the great tutorial! :)

@KatherineOfSky

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you so much for taking the time to create and upload these videos. As well as sharing the blueprints. I think i have seen your name pop up in some twitch streams and have seen your megabase playlist. Is that still viable in the current version of Factorio please ? Would love to have a try of playing along with the videos :)

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

The concepts in the Megabase series are still very valid, though some things like science recipes have changed, and also we have the new splitter functionality, so it wouldn't be necessary to calculate the drop-off points for the lanes of iron/copper, etc. You could simply shift all the items with the splitters, then add new materials later in the bus. After the MP series I'm doing with Caledorn, I will be doing a new vanilla series :-)

Nice!

THANKS 🥰🥰

Thanks for a really good tutorial. One thing that would be nice to see covered is how to store the energy. I believe that in recent patches the empty fuel cell is output at the end of the process (which makes sense but wasn't previously the case) and you can then set up a system that stores the steam in tanks and have the turbines feed from the tanks on a per-need basis. You can then have a circuit setup that checks if there is an empty fuel cell in the output chest amount of steam in the tanks is bellow some threshold and only start a new process if that is the case. Otherwise the nuclear plants will just discard the excess energy which is a shame. ..... not that it makes much sense that we can store steam in tanks without it cooling, but there you go. At any rate, I'd be interested in these setups.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

The problem with those kinds of setups is that your energy needs will be fluctuating CONSTANTLY as you build a larger and larger factory, and thus it would be very difficult to figure out how much time you have on x number of tanks at any given period. U-235 is so cheap to produce, I feel like it's not a good use of time to set up those rube-golderberg-esque setups. There are lots of tutorials on the Factorio forums, Reddit and Steam if you desire to play with combinators. Practically speaking, though, setting that up is not worth the effort.

@goffe2282

7 жыл бұрын

Right, but if your power output is too low then you have a problem no matter what, and if it is too high then the extra power is wasted. Unless you have a buffer I don't see how nuclear power can be used effectively on its own, but it would have to be used in conjunction with steam or solar that scales with your current power draw. I must be missing something. If your tanks empty that means that you need another pair of reactors, just as you need to scale up any power system as your factory expands.

@ianpulsford2295

6 жыл бұрын

I love making those sort of setups though in the quest for efficiency! It can be as much, or even more, fun trying to optimise a process as trying to scale up a process. Not sure anyone would play factorio if they didn't like Rube Goldberg-ish machines :P

thank you

@KatherineOfSky

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

thank you thank you thank you

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

wow, this is sooo confusing!! im still stuck at oil, now this :o

Great Guide! That is a lot of power. Is that map in peaceful mode?

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

I used two different maps to record the tutorial. They both had plenty of biters.

How are you using the productivity modules in those centrifuges? I get the message that its not allowed when I try.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You can use them for ore processing, but not for the Kovarex process.

Great game!

You're so good.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Can u please do a train station that is efficient cause I just can't find one that works for me.

Has the ratio changed for heat exchanger to turbine? exchanger is 103/s and turbine is 60/s. Wouldn't that balance out at 3 exchangers to 5 turbines? (309/300) I'm new, so I'm probably missing something.

what I suggest which might be better system is this.put the ore a outside belt with red insertors feeding the centrofusers.then have a belt on inside and one on the other side.have filter inserters one for 235/238.then have either one then t junction onto one belt so each are sorted to each side.this way if the 238 backs up the 235 wont.for the enrichement I have one belt to take the 238 away with a filter insertor then run the belt up the end of the ore processing with a chest been loading/unload onto the side of the belt where the 238 is.when there excess of 235 belt to the other belt where just 235 is been put on.that way u never have 235 stuck on the belt mixed among the 238

Watching this makes me think i'm not that great of a strategist as i thougt i was!.. But i love see you do this!

@GGdude

5 жыл бұрын

just realised this is not your first time around Factorio... I should go back.. Back to the beginning! Back when it all started!

@GGdude

5 жыл бұрын

Thought it was easy.. Man was i wrong.. i got lost at the video list..

@KatherineOfSky

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Joe! If you are looking for a series to start with, my most popular is Entry Level to Megabase :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6yg0rOGeteeiKQ.html

@GGdude

5 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky well i guess i will forget about sleeping the next week! Thank you!

Wow, this is the biggest problem in my factory (lack of Power, that is). I Just couldn't make the nuclear Power work, thanks KOS.

Thank you!👍👍👍🙄🙄🙄

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

Trival detail...it will be slightly faster if you use stack size or 2 and just test on condition of >= 42

Might be worth mentioning that you can put the reactors in a 3x3 grid and the middle one will get a 400% bonus. But you will have to feed it fuel cells manually as well as remove the spent once. :)

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Full Automation or Bust! XD

Wouldn't it be possible to get a 400% bonus if you surrounded a reactor by 4 others? I have not tested it yet, but I mean theoretically you could manually fill the central reactor.

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, people have done that. I need to automate the process, so I am happy with the 300% bonus.

Hold up you could separate the fluid tanks on a fluid wagon back then?

@KatherineOfSky

2 ай бұрын

Yep

Why the steam turbines aren't running with full capacity when you have this _optimal_ setup? The steam turbines say that their maximal electricity production is 5.8 MW, but I haven't found any explanation on how to achieve that. With some of my setups some of the steam turbines run on this maximal capacity and some don't produce anything, and some other setups produce this homogeneous result, that you also have, where all of them run on the same _sub-maximal_ capacity. Would like to have them all run on the maximal capacity - any ideas on how to achieve that?

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

You need to be using maximum power in your factory: the game throttles all forms of steam engines to only produce what is needed.

@T12J7

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky Okay. Thanks for the info 👍

nice voice and nice video Great Work on all ;-)

Holy mother of kender - that is complicated!

Soo, just got back into the game within the past day and noticed we finally have nuke power (and weapons and ammunition to boot, just missing the fatman launcher turret lol), kinda surprised plutonium wasn't tossed in side by side with uranium as that was more of a challenge for both making power and weapons.

Uranium fever has done and got me down :3

Thanks for the ratios and the setup. Just one question, Why not let the result of one centrifuge directly feed the next centrifuge in a circular fashion. Then have a chest between the first and last. then take out whatever is greater than 40?

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

That's another option! There are many ways to do the sertup.

@grovepjp

6 жыл бұрын

KatherineOfSky it only works using loaders though

Hey Katherine,, Im confused,, my game/map apparently has no green patches and more worryingly, there is no 'Nuclear' anything to be found in the research list,, any ideas whats going on? I have only had the game a week.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Nuclear is only available in the experimental version: steamcommunity.com/app/427520/discussions/0/1319961868331763542/

@rusrad74

7 жыл бұрын

Ah!! that would be it then!! lol,,, many thx for quick reply!

12:24 suddenly pipe-duck :-D

theres a slight inefficiency with your korvax processing, if you use the circuit network you can ensure theres ALWAYS no more than 40 u-235 in the korvax process, instead of having unnecessary amounts of u-235 going around the way i did it, was setting a timer that ensures everytime korvax enrichment finishes, a inserter will take out 1 u-235 then wait for the process to finish

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not bothered if there's extra in the machine. When it gets to the end of the line, it's in a box anyway :-)

@EnderCrypt

6 жыл бұрын

wow, thats an impressivly quick response thats true, when you get a few thousands of u-235 it doesent really matter, but automation early on takes forever, so being able to get a stack of multiple refiners that dont require more than 40 u-235 really saves time ^^ ps. awesome video, keep up the good work ^^

I couldnt find your blueprints conrerning the kovarex processing!

@PabloMorlock

4 жыл бұрын

forget, found it! :D

At the 17:27 mark, we see that 6 reactors require 80 heat exchangers - yet the layout shows 7 x 12 exchangers = 84 exchangers. I'm running into water supply issues and just wondering if that has something to do with it.

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

If you use the BPs from the drive, the 6x reactor setup has 7 lines of HEs/Turbines. Each of those needs its own water connection. (The few extra HEs/Turbines are not relevant to the setup, since it is based on how much water throughput per pipe.)

Hi Katherine, could you please make a tutorial on trains and everything related? And thanks for this awesome Nuclear Power tutorial :)

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! I have train tutorials on my list!

@mistertitus6814

7 жыл бұрын

I look forward to the trains tutorial. I've put 139 hours into Factorio myself by now, and i'm sure you have a few multiples of that yourself, but i still find your videos fun and enlightening. Can always learn something new, even if it's just a different way of doing the same thing, but better!

I always wait till I get Kovarex then let it run for a while before building reactors, Kovarex combined with spent fuel reprocessing and my Uranium mines almost shut down. Because Kovarex takes so much U-235(40 units per centrifuge) to get started, I start it before I need reactor power and set up a continuous recycling system only inputting U-238 when needed and let it run, after you get 40 centrifuges it will output 41 extra u-235 every cycle and should cover all your U-235 needs for reactors, bombs and nuclear fuel cartridges plus you won't have to figure out what to do with all that extra U-238. Of course that is for an medium average size base, a megabase would definitely require a larger processing facility.

+KatherineOfSky - why do productivity modules change the ratio on the Kovarex Enrichment Process? Are you sure?

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, you can no longer use productivity modules in the Kovarex Process centrifuges.

@billroberts10

7 жыл бұрын

My apologies - was referring to the Uranium Enrichment process. I got the feeling you were inferring that the Productivity Modules affected the ratios.

If I'm not using 7 steam turbines, I'm wasting the uranium fuel or does it consume the fuel slower? (at the moment I have one nuclear reactor and only 1 heat exchanger connected to 2 steam turbines)

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

The fuel burns at a constant rate, whether or not you are using all the power it provides..

Does this still work after the heat coil patch?

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

Yep

Dammit, my uranium setup backs up with too much Uranium 238 which means the 235 cant come around again to feed into the machines. Not sure how i can solve this problem.

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

You can add chests for 238, or change one to an active provider (but make sure you change it back once you get enough 235).

@ianpulsford2295

6 жыл бұрын

It's possible to end up with too much if you don't mine enough and let the process run away. I use combinators to turn kovarex off if I have more than 1:19 U235:U238 (1:13 I think I read somewhere if you factor in fuel cell reprocessing).

Wow! My base is puny and simplistic compared to this. I want to start with the nuclear process for the fun of it. I have about 200 hours in this game, and have never even put down a single piece of rail yet. Thanks for the video!

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Indeed, most ore settings are plentiful for launching a rocket. Only when you get to launching multiples do you really need to venture further afield with trains. I quite enjoy designing rail networks, so I like to put my resources at low frequency!

The x6 Nuclear Power Blueprint in your Googledrive is missing the left Heatpipe (if you build it Reactors on top)

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Fixed.

@Slybby

7 жыл бұрын

:-) is a very nice build thx to you and Mike c

Hey Katherine, is there a way to prevent centrifuges from taking more than 40 35 each time so each one of them just run with 40 and leave the +1 for other purposes ? I mean finding a way with wires etc... I'm struggling with this... Thanks for your videos :)

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. There are various complicated circuit arrangements that you can do. I recommend searching the Factorio forums / Steam, as there are some usable builds there. In my own playthroughs I have not found such precision necessary, since I always have sufficient production.

@keraunos94

4 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineOfSky Ok thx I will make deeper searches ! Bests

@Dekedence

4 жыл бұрын

I struggled to get my head around this too. I found this YT video (plus blueprint in the description): kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJiKss2yqsq1ocY.html Basically, it's a tile-able set-up of enriching centrifuges. You belt feed the U-238 in (like you would with furnaces and assemblers), but the clever bit is a circuit network on the output line (U-235 only due filter inserters). It basically pulls the 40 pieces needed to kick-start the process again and lets the 41st piece go. With that, you can belt it away, put it in a provider chest etc. You still need to manually kick-start each centifuge the first time, but that's pretty trivial considering it all just runs automatically after that.

question on your kovarex set up. I have been using that from your blueprint. after mine is running to complete the line, the out put off 235 and 238 starts to back up. I end up with so many 235s that the 238s can't get through. does this happen on yours? I have started adding a line of filter inserters to take off the 235 and put it back on a single side of the belt to keep it clear.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

I have not had that happen to me until all my U-235 was backed up. (And then I effectively just shut down ore processing all together since I had enough 238 to last for ages!) That's a valid concern, however. I will re-do the BP so that 235 has priority.

@zentrino336

7 жыл бұрын

KatherineOfSky I didn't think about how much 238 I had at that point. I probably did have enough to run my nuke power for ages. lol

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

I have just updated the BP book with a better Kovarex process -- now there will be NO clogging! :-)

@zentrino336

7 жыл бұрын

KatherineOfSky I'll have to see what your solution was to see how I did compared to yours. 😁

I took great plans from Avasva . It help me a lot with my own solars.

So is this the new Nuclear Power plant set up or the old one? I heard they changed some things like how far heat can travel for instance.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

This is the new one. (The other video says "OLD" in the title)

@ricgoosens

7 жыл бұрын

KatherineOfSky awesome thanks!

Is there any reason to have more than 1 U235 to every 19 U238? I let my Kovarex run away for a little while and ended up with way more than that so now I've shut it down for a while.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

If you are making a lot of atomic bombs, you'll need a ton of 235.

@wallybahny

7 жыл бұрын

That explains it - haven't researched A-bombs yet. Thanks!

@leerman22

7 жыл бұрын

I don't like how the centrifuges make 100% "boom stuff uranium" at random. I'd much rather these things stringed together enriching uranium gas by 2% each time and moving on to the next, removing the depleted uranium gas down another line to be "metalized" for later use. If you wanted to make a bomb you would need at least 45 of these together (>90% boom stuff), some real work mid-game. That way you can adjust the potency of fuel, or use a breeder reactor instead of koravex/magic (they magically remove 3 neutrons from the uranium) to make even more (MOX) fuel or "boom stuff plutonium". Breeder reactors need >20% enriched core to even start.

way too complicated for me to understand i'll come back in a few weeks when i've sussed the robots & their infrastructure

@azureperite5298

3 жыл бұрын

@@dunkmastercloud4818 now i am wondering as well

does the neighbor bonus affect the rate of fuel consumption, or does it just massively boost efficiency?

@KatherineOfSky

6 жыл бұрын

It makes the fuel produce more power. But the time for fuel depletion doesn't change.

@Mernom

6 жыл бұрын

KatherineOfSky do you actually need both to be running? Or just having a few reactors together is a passive bonus?

Help! I'm only getting about 210MW out of my 4 Reactor setup. I see I need 5 pumps, but I don't seem to be getting the water into the system correctly. How do I attached 5 pumps in a smart way? Especially given the fact there is only 4 pipes and I assume the last pump needs to add water to all four pipes.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

You should have each pipe on a separate pump -- don't attach them together -- the fluid mechanics in the game are weird.. If you are using my BPs, each pipe needs its own pump. If this is a design that you've created, it sounds like the array is too long -- you need to move some boilers to a separate pipe, since pipe capacity does have limitations.

@SamuelHauptmannvanDam

7 жыл бұрын

I used yours, but for your 4 reactor setup, there are only 4 pipes and 5 pumps are needed to get maximum output. It isn't the end of the world to build another, setup, but yea - I was just curious/wondering about the setup.

@KatherineOfSky

7 жыл бұрын

I just checked the BP -- you don't need 5 pumps. Each column of steam turbines is 20 machines long, served by one pump. Each turbine consumes 60/s * 20 = 1200 /s. 1 water pump produces 1200 fluid/s. It's perfectly matched.

Has something major changed since this video was released? (and blueprints published) I tried the 2 reactor model blueprint (chests, not belts) ... ratio of 2R : 16HE : 27ST : 2OSP ... should be getting me 160MW The turbines spun up as expected once the heat exchangers got to 500ºC, but each turbine was only doing ~1.5MW (because they're only getting 16/s steam instead of the full 60/s). I checked the heat exchangers, and it seems that only the two nearest the shoreline were actually producing steam at full capacity (103/s). I checked the two offshore pumps and sure enough neither were doing the full 1200/s. I feel like it has something to do with fluid mechanics; the distance the water needs to travel between offshore pump and first heat exchanger. Although I do recognise that there's 20 lengths of pipe for each 'run' and the wiki says that should still be doing 1169/s. I tested an offshore pump direct into a storage tank, and it ran at 1200/s (until the tank was full).

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Is your water too far from the end of the array? Are you *consuming* enough power to make the turbines run at full?

@Dekedence

4 жыл бұрын

Ok, turns out I'm a dumbass! I didn't realise that steam turbines, even when in a nuclear setup, throttle themselves based on the power your factory needs. I'd been using an array of steam turbines (not steam engines) with the coal-powered boilers as a stop-gap, a slightly wobbly but generally stable 90MW array, before getting a decent amount of U-235 / fuel cells. It's my first ever play-through of Factorio, so I thought I was being smart by not dismantling the coal-powered array until I was sure the new 2-reactor setup could handle the load. Of course, the fact that the coal-powered array existed meant that the nuclear setup wasn't really trying. As soon as a dismantled it, the nuclear spun up properly. All not lost though ... through this trial and error, I've realised by placement should be properly up against the shoreline instead of a little inland (my first choice). As I spotted that my water throughput is only at ~66/100 and therefore I'm only getting 2/3 output from each turbine (~4.3MW).

@KatherineOfSky

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you found the issue! First playthrough and tackling nuclear is very impressive! Keep having fun with the game! :-)

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