Thanks for the blueprints, I incorporated them where I could. div and especially mod got a bit smaller and faster as result. The right shifts using your multipliers are currently the same speed as the ones I had previously, but using more combinators. Maybe there are ways to make them smaller, but ...

MUL can be implemented in 3 cycles, 20 combinators. Hint: Try the identity: ab=((a + b)^2 - (a - b)^2) / 4 Solution: ab=(a/4 + b)^2 - (a/4 - b)^2 ab=((a>>2) + b)^2 - ((a>>2) - b)^2 + (a&2)*b + (a&1)*b You could have mentioned the technical reason for the division by 4. At first glance this ...

almania wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:03 pm

I try to offer all 3 input combos where possible: GRN/RED on the same input connection, or GRN/GRN or RED/RED across two.

I see. Accounting for that makes the output identical, and since it is a straight improvement (-2 ticks, -19 combinators) over the one from the OP, I'll be stealing this one.

There are still wordings i'm not familiar with like : MUL/MULUH/MULSH. It has already been answered, but I'll add my 2c as well: MUL, like in my first post, is obviously multiply. For the other two, it depends on which variant of assembly/abbreviations you currently work with. I was first trying to...

Hi, just got an error: The mod Pyanodons Alternative Energy (1.2.20) caused a non-recoverable error. Please report this error to the mod author. Error while running event pyalternativeenergy::on_nth_tick(61) __pyalternativeenergy__/scripts/wind/wind.lua:94: attempt to concatenate local 'direction' ...

diederTheBeater wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:30 pm

It would be really cool if pinging could be done with CTRL+Click in the map, minimap, and also on the world directly.

Not sure about minimap, but for the other cases that's already possible. Default keybind is ctrl + alt + left click.

If your modem is more than a pure modem, e.g. it has some kind of firewall or NAT or also acts as a router, check if you can configure port forwarding rules for it. If you can't or that doesn't help, you'll have to contact your ISP.

Are you aware of the no base mod? It should help you figuring out the minimal properties you need.

I've recenently managed to design almost-fully-functinoal vector to vector divisor. It has some flaws (i.e., it likes off-by-one errors due to calcuations precision), but it generally works for larger numbers. How it works: Divide a very big constant by a denominator Use vector multiplication to mu...

When you grab the file from Github, you should take the version that matches your currently installed version of factorio, not the newest one. This change from 3 weeks ago is likely giving you trouble. If everything else fails, you can always head to the factorio website and download the whole game ...

Looks normal to me, foundry (tech) unlocks foundry (recipe) which creates foundry (item) which places foundry (entity). In 1.1, techs that only unlock a single thing also tend to follow this pattern. You're right about the naming, but as far as I've seen in the FFF, the corresponding research packa...

And I noticed something else about the unlocked by in the screenshots. The Foundry is unlocked by itself. Have I misunderstood something or is this a mistake? Looks normal to me, foundry (tech) unlocks foundry (recipe) which creates foundry (item) which places foundry (entity). In 1.1, techs that o...

You don't need signals as long as there's only one train. Once you add signals, track that is supposed to be used in both directions always needs them in pairs; having an unpaired signal makes that section of track one way, and if you happen to have unpaired signals on both sides of the track no aut...

short answer: factorio tries to use multithreading whenever possible. For details, see the FFF blog posts; optimizations, including parallelization, are a recurring topic there. The ideas and suggestions section in this forum also has its share of great multithreading ideas(tm) and why they won't wo...

Already possible, default keybind is Shift + Mouse Wheel. In the controls settings it's called Next/Previous Clipboard under the Tools section.

Assignment is "=", not "==". See the Lua 5.2 manual.

Thanks, guys. I think I get it now. Maybe, maybe not… I should have a LOT more space in between my wait area and my drop off area, and then build something like sparr's 4-to-6 mux junction (but perhaps scale it up to 20-to-10 or something). Not necessarily. Depending on how many trains go to each s...

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:35 pm

I would be absolutely shocked if the limit of 300% is not itself moddable.

It is moddable

FFF 375 wrote:This is also why we created an overall machine limit on productivity to be +300% (modifiable by mods if needed)

Locane wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:56 pm

Why not just make underground belts made with "track drag" try to use maximum distance by default? It would circumvent most of the use cases this feature is trying to solve I think.

Underground belts and pipes already work like that.

isn't it a major security issue to be able to run arbitrary code from a remote device ? What you can do via rcon is the same as what any mod and any player with access to /c can do; you're still constrained by the limits of the modding API. And since the server owner has to explicitly enable rcon v...