Coal Plant and process

[cragley5]

6 hours later and I'm still trying to figure out the format.

1. Coal Plant
2. Connect to Coal process Plant
3. Connect to Storage????? Stuck here
4. No idea


I have viewed several youtube videos and read through some of the posts.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I don't want to give up on the game.

Very frustrating way to spend a sunday

[kiky]

Coal mine produces 1000T *% of source (so a 56% of source coal mine produces 560t of coal ore a day) IF there is always enouht Workers.

you might or might not want an inbetween storage for coal ore and its hard to say what will work better, but when in doubt a storage is better than no storage.

You want to have enough ore processing plants to handle all the coal ore you produce.
the output will be lower than the input due to the refinement process.
so there will be a new total number of stored material.

you want an inbetween storage after processing for sure.

now there is multible ways to go:
you see coal is one of the more vercitile resources and is used in about every second product one way or the other.

most likely you will use some on site (for example for heating or powerplant, bricks)

some you might or might not move to an other resource, or get that resouce here too (f.E. Steel, cement production)
In that case you need to figure out ways to move it around.
- is it little volume, use trucks.
- is it high volume, use trains,
- is it next door, use converyors
- is it medium volume and nearby, use cablecars

and some you might want to export, best use trains here.

i hope that helps.

[ChalwaBechatex]

Use conveyors engines to push resources to next building.

Just connect with conveyors- it only allows overflow to pass.

This is totally “logical” behaviour.

Similar problem with factory connections - they either overflow and push or factories suck materials. If this is not direct (no crossing) connection you need forklifts.

[John Moridin]

Coal mine -> Small Aggregate Storage (Coal Ore) -> Conveyor -> Coal Processing Plant -> Large Aggregate Storage (Coal)

Or

Coal mine -> Conveyor-> Small Aggregate Storage (Coal Ore) -> Conveyor -> Coal Processing Plant -> Conveyor -> Large Aggregate Storage (Coal)

[Elessar_warrior]

There is no logic really of what you are suggesting. The coal plant isn't a heavy coal consumer.
But if you want it there it goes: coal mine > aggregate storage > coal processing > aggregate storage > coal power plant

[cragley5]

Originally posted by John Moridin:

Coal mine -> Small Aggregate Storage (Coal Ore) -> Conveyor -> Coal Processing Plant -> Large Aggregate Storage (Coal)

Or

Coal mine -> Conveyor-> Small Aggregate Storage (Coal Ore) -> Conveyor -> Coal Processing Plant -> Conveyor -> Large Aggregate Storage (Coal)

Brilliant!


Thank you so much for your assistance.

[Incrediblejimmy]

Originally posted by cragley5:

6 hours later and I'm still trying to figure out the format.

1. Coal Plant
2. Connect to Coal process Plant
3. Connect to Storage????? Stuck here
4. No idea


I have viewed several youtube videos and read through some of the posts.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I don't want to give up on the game.

Very frustrating way to spend a sunday

Kinda depends what you want to use the coal for, and where that is - you either connect whatever you want to use the coal for (heating plant, power plant, steel production, brick factory, cement factory, etc.), or you connect to some sort of infrastructure that transports (truck loading, train loading, cable car, etc.) the coal to said facilities, or the customs office for export - or any combination of these things...

*I would advise to ad storages as buffers inbetween though, so Mine->Storage->Processing->Storage->User/loading station

[melkij]

I would also like to add that several Processing plants will be needed for almost any coal mine.

Pro tip: the conveyor tower can only transfer 600 tons of ore per day, so it will limit the productivity of mine on rich deposits. It makes a lot of sense to connect the mine with a conveyor belt (without a conveyor tower) to a storage. Then use several exits from the storage to processing factories.