Majere posted:

So I burned myself out making this 18K SPM Factorio Extended Plus belt base.

https://imgur.com/gallery/0qQXsUU

Then I made some Smelter updates...

https://imgur.com/gallery/3mG62PE

The latest Smelter, while pretty, was horrible for UPS with all the buffer warehouses, so I removed them all and some extraneous balancers(not pictured) and replaced them with inline titanium chests for a small buffer between trains. Making like 1.5Million/min iron plates at 58-60 UPS now. Changed signaling from stacker to drop off stations and throughput is sufficient for uninterrupted production.

After I prettied up the smelters for steel and copper to match the updated iron plate design I had planned on remaking the science base in a similar fashion but my brains is mashed potatoes going back to figuring out a decent layout which would require a lot of belt re-routing and redesigning some blocks for different input methods.

Everything running full steam gets about 40 UPS.