firefly762
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6 years ago Just erased a very long explanation because I just realized what you're trying to relay. So you're trying to find out how many items/sec 163 electric drills will output on an iron ore patch, correct? And inputting it into the calculator it seems to divide your 163 input by just over two for some reason (163/2.0999742334). Is that an accurate abbreviation of your issue?
If I'm correct (forgive me if I'm not and my breath is about to be wasted), I'm not sure why the calculator does that, but you are correct something doesn't seem right. As for how much your drills will put out, the actual formula factorio uses is (MP-MH)MS/MT = items/sec/drill. MP = Mining Power MT = " Time MS = " Speed MH = " Hardness For iron ore it would come out as (3-0.9)0.5/2 = 0.525 iron ore/sec*163 drills = 85.575 iron/sec
Hope that helps...and makes sense :/
Cheers
DragooKnight
When trying to find out how much ore a specific number of miners will make with A#, the number of miners and resulting ore appears to be less-than-halved. Compare the A# output of iron plate and steel in example one which uses less electric miners than the number in example two's iron ore field (from one of my new iron patches), which itself outputs less miners and ore production than example one uses. PS: It appears, on further study, that it divides the a# of miners by their mining speed in some way, so stone gives you even less miners than iron. (how coherent was my report? I'm new to this)
