PRACTICAL GUIDE
Diagnose a bottleneck before expanding the layout
A low output is a symptom. The useful first task is to identify which relationship prevents the system doing what you expected.
Separate correctness from capacity
In shapez, an item can be transformed incorrectly or produced too slowly. Those failures require different changes. Confirm what the process makes before optimising how quickly it makes it.
Trace one dependency
Follow the relevant material or journey upstream until you find an identifiable constraint. A missing connection and an inadequate producer are different problems.
Change one useful thing
Make a revision that tests a hypothesis. If the limiting point moves, that is information about the network rather than proof that the first change accomplished nothing.
Games and primary references
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