u/Civil_Drop533

I promise I'm not going to be posting these everyday. I just wanted to show everyone an update on my blueprint. I learned a lot of useful information from you guys. In this design, I implemented something u/YorkieLon showed me: The ability to run the constructors in different rows for different outputs. I found this very aesthetically pleasing.

This build assumes a 120 iron ore/min throughput, but it's clearly built with scalability in mind. It's easy to add new machines to each row when throughput is increased. I did not remove the redundant splitters and mergers for this reason as well. Also, I find the pocket between the smelters and constructors to be a lovely space that I might be able to fit something in. I'd usually also try to fit in poles, wires, and generators but I wanted to make sure it was still readable for you guys. FYI: I find that power poles look nice on the corners where four foundations intersect.

Lastly, I'd like to thank you guys for all the great input on my previous post. Truly the most wholesome and helpful comments I've ever read. I learned so much from you guys. I hope my blueprint reflects that :). I might post more cool blueprints I like from time to time, especially if I ever get to make a massive one.

Please let me know what you think.

M's are mergers, S's are splitters, dotted lines are foundations, Arrows indicate belts and their direction. I omitted the numbers this time because they won't mean much in the future if I decide to scale up. I'm pretty sure the math checks out here though. A single square on the graph is 1m x 1m.

TL;DR - Thank you so much for your help on my previous post. This is what I learned from it. Hope you like my blueprints. Legend is in the paragraph immediately above this one. Also sorry if this one is harder to read. The lighting made my pencil marks look a bit faint.

Sorry if this is just totally illegible. I'm wondering if this manifold design works at all. I'm newer to the game and have been struggling with certain concepts, but I think I got this right.

For context, I have two impure iron nodes with Mk.1 miners. I merge them at the bottom to have a total throughput of 60 iron ore/min. I know this is technically unnecessary as each miner could just individually feed into a smelter and then a constructor or two depending on the output. I really just wanted to experiment with manifolds and thought the best way to do that with my current resources is to have a single line with a throughput of 60.

I also wonder if this is technically a manifold design as the constructor manifold at the end produces two outputs, iron plates and iron rods. With the current setup, I don't think there's a ton of scalability, as I have to make a lot of changes to the constructor manifold to fit in more constructors later.

M's are mergers, S's are splitters. The dotted lines indicate foundations. Arrows indicate belts and direction, and the little number by the arrow is the throughput/min. A single square on the graph paper is 1m x 1m.

I have a final blueprint that shows power lines, poles, and generators if you're interested in seeing it by the way. I love making blueprints (or really just drawing basic shapes on graph paper).

TL;DR — Is this a manifold design and does it work on paper? Blueprint legend is in the paragraph immediately above this one.