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I still suck sooooo bad at this, but I've worked out that half my issues at least are not giving myself enough space to do things in.
This is the source of much evil in Factorio. However much room you think you need, double it. No that's still too small.
Of course, for any given factory design maxim, you can find dozens of posters on Reddit who are deliberately breaking it and still having fun. The game isn't at all prescriptive. There is no right way.
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I've tried to avoid spoilers regarding the best layouts ( apart from having to look up how splitters work ) and so I doubt my patented "Ingredients Carousel" set up,
If I understand you correctly, this is a moderately common design pattern, often called "sushi belts".
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It does seem as if you can "complete" it now, but I'm SO far from that it may as well not exist.
Launching a rocket isn't too hard to get to. But it's only a small value of "completed."