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Next step, I think, is gonna be to setup water.

As it happens, I only need 4 Water Extractors in total, so I can divide them up into 2 per side.

However, this is the point where I hit a design snag. I realized that the way I had all the Refinery banks laid out was going to result in quite a lot of splitting and crossover of the water pipes. After like half-an-hour of brainstorming, I decided on a solution that involves reorganizing most of the Refineries, and more importantly, rebuilding the 2 Diluted Packaged Fuel loops, so that they're on opposite sides of the building. This is actually something I kiiiiiinda wanted to do yesterday, but I didn't have a compelling-enough reason to do it. Now I have several reasons.

Specifically, the advantage I was thinking of yesterday is that if the smaller bank of just 2 Refineries is on the same side of the building as the resource trunk, and then I don't center it, I get a nice open space where I can bring resources into the building.

And I can go ahead and plop down the Water Extractors on that side, as well.

Logistics work.

At this point, I've got interconnectivity between machines mostly done, so it's time to bring in resources.

One caveat: with the way all these lines ended up, one of them (Iron Ore) is on the wrong side. I need to figure how to weave it between the lines that need to move on to the next factory, so I can pull it off here.

Orrrrrrrr.... I can go re-weave it way back at the source.

Kinda tough to see, but the two belts that were crossing over each other before now don't, eliminating the issue.

Presumably, I'll put a wall here, eventually. We'll see.

Lots more logistics work.

Now, this here I can't help but smile about. I've got two banks of Refineries producing Plastic, one from Fuel, and one from Polymer Resin, which then need to combine to feed into making Recycled Rubber, which is the product I actually NEED. Unfortunately, the two Plastic banks are not adjacent, and this was the last bit of logistics I laid in, so I was having trouble finding a nice path to route a belt, between other stuff that's already there.

Until I realized that the only thing between the two Plastic Banks is the big long line of Polymer Resin.... whose belt isn't saturated. It's a Mk.3 belt carrying 135.31/m, which is coincidentally the identical saturation of the Plastic belt I'm trying to route. And the max belt I can use is Mk.4.

That's right, I have a legitimate use-case for a sushi belt. Only the second time ever, for me.

So long as neither Plastic nor Polymer Resin backs up to this here Smart Splitter, this should work flawlessly. I think. I've never done something QUITE like this before, so I also added the overflow line there, on the side. The AWESOME Sink for the whole building is probably gonna end up right nearby, so I can connect that up later.

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