how to set up furnaces at the start?

[Abomination]

my convayer allways bottlenecks at the furnace, is there a better way to use furnaces?

[Abomination]

also are there electric furnaces

[Abomination]

also, is there a way to automate reseach, i see mega bases that are so neat and tidy and have everything all done nicely but i have no clue how thats done

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

Originally posted by Moth:

my convayer allways bottlenecks at the furnace, is there a better way to use furnaces?

There are a number of common furnace arrangements. Basically they boil down to this:
Feed coal on one side of the belt and ore on the other side of the belt.

A full yellow belt of coal+ore will feed 24 stone furnaces and output half a yellow belt of iron/copper plates. Generally two of these arrays are placed on opposite sides of the same output belt for a full belt of output.

Steel furnaces are twice as fast and so are red belts.

Electric furnaces are definitely a thing, but they are honestly not really generally all that great until the endgame where you're using modules. Without modules, they move at the same speed as steel furnaces.

Originally posted by Moth:

also, is there a way to automate reseach

If you mean automatically selecting the next tech to research - Not unless you're using mods.

If you mean automatically producing science packs to feed into labs - Yes. It's kind of the core of the game.

[Abomination]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

Originally posted by Moth:

my convayer allways bottlenecks at the furnace, is there a better way to use furnaces?

There are a number of common furnace arrangements. Basically they boil down to this:
Feed coal on one side of the belt and ore on the other side of the belt.

A full yellow belt of coal+ore will feed 24 stone furnaces and output half a yellow belt of iron/copper plates. Generally two of these arrays are placed on opposite sides of the same output belt for a full belt of output.

Steel furnaces are twice as fast and so are red belts.

Electric furnaces are definitely a thing, but they are honestly not really generally all that great until the endgame where you're using modules. Without modules, they move at the same speed as steel furnaces.

Originally posted by Moth:

also, is there a way to automate reseach

If you mean automatically selecting the next tech to research - Not unless you're using mods.

If you mean automatically producing science packs to feed into labs - Yes. It's kind of the core of the game.

i tried useing the splitter but all the items are split to the right which then blocks all the ore, how do i get it to feet to the left of the convayer

[impetus_maximus]

how i split ore/fuel.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1212972896
*ignore the furnace layout.

[Abomination]

Originally posted by impetus maximus:

how i split ore/fuel.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1212972896
*ignore the furnace layout.

so basically the the splitter will take from both convayers and split that into 1 convayer?

[impetus_maximus]

Originally posted by Moth:

so basically the the splitter will take from both convayers and split that into 1 convayer?

yes. it strips from both 'lanes' equally.

[Aidanya]

Also note that there is 1 piece of space between the furnaces.
This is for later. Stone/Steel furnaces occupy a 2x2 area.
The later electric furnaces are 3x3. So leaving 1 space in between and using long inserters makes it upgradable later to the bigger furnaces.