Boogieman14 wrote:Exactly, it changes nothing for players that don't know/need/use it.

And the outpost problem is just one example that made me think of this, I'm fairly certain minds far smarter than me can come up with lots of other ways to leverage a feature like this.

Yeah, bitmasking is kind of a big deal.

I just want to say how impressed I am with Factorio's performance. I've played nearly a complete playthrough (no rocket silo, though I have the infrastructure in place to do it easily), and I have not encountered a single hiccup--it's been a steady 60fps from start to finish. That's with thousands o...

Dark_star wrote:PFR could power AM and one tile area around AM for inserts

I like this. It's a high enough cost that it will never trivialize power lines, but we could have max-density logistic factory layouts with it.

Agree with you that it is a very specialized need. I think that it would add complexity that would not nessisarily be needed. As for your outpost 'problem', I would've recommend having the outposts on separate circuits, so the values do not get mixed up. Does it add any complexity, though? If you d...

I really appreciate the effort, and I learned quite a bit by reading about what you tried. Thanks!

I just swapped the bindings for build and blueprint in the control options. Now I can build manually with shift-click if I ever want to, and just click for bot-assisted building.

It works well enough that I think this suggestion is no longer necessary.

Really great idea, and necessary if we want mods to be able to provide "first-class entities" in Factorio. Maybe when a blueprint is created, on_blueprint_created could be called for each entitity in the blueprint, and the return value of that function should be a table (or nil, if nothing...

supersparten125 wrote:thanks 4 the help ill try that soon

p.s when the bites come at me will they go for the turret or me

Whichever comes into their aggression range first.

I thought about coding that up myself. Thanks for saving me the trouble!

That takes care of most of the problem. The personal car sure would be cool, though.

polling the held slot is a good thought; belts are pretty much the worst-case for this, but I think it'll be manageable. Hopefully by 0.13 we'll have a way to test signals values that isn't slightly evil, though in this case we only have to do the one test per item type, so it's less evil than when...

oh, no, definitely don't check every item in the game XD That would be... evil. Yeah, like you edited in later, using the source inventory to build the candiate list to test is the way to go. It only needs to update about as fast as the inserter can perform an operation, so I'd try to tune it that ...

Awesome! I've just gotten started with modding Factorio, and I've been trying to think of a way to do this without direct access to the circuit network. Apparently we can check an arbitrary number of conditions (e.g. are green circuits > 0?) per tick, yes? So by checking every item in the game manua...

If I'm going to be removing more than one or two objects, I just use the deconstruction planner and let my personal bots take care of it.

For players with large rail networks, it's common to carry a locomotive around in case we need to take a train somewhere. Fuel is a constant annoyance, though: it takes an extra inventory slot, and several extra steps to insert it, every time we use the train. To streamline the process, it would be ...

I'd love to have an inserter that would filter based on the circuit network: it will grab anything that has a signal on the input wire with a positive value.

It's done with a science tree now, which is absurd and shouldn't be there in the first place. (I think somwhere even the devs called it a bad compromise.) I don't think it's too absurd. Supposing the character understands that all these technologies exist, it still doesn't mean he knows every detai...

SHiRKiT, I'm sure that could be useful, but it doesn't sound like it addresses the suggestion I'm making: Disables the personal roboport you are wearing when you go inside your construction network. You CAN'T have more than 10 construction robots on all of your inventory (quickbar and main), or this...

I think there are some workarounds to get the output that I'm looking for, but AFAIK there is no way to have a smart inserter whose filter consists of items on the wire with positive values. That would be extremely useful and I'm pretty sure there's no way to arrange it in vanilla. Edit: I think thi...

FishSandwich wrote:how'd you do it BTW?

http://deepdreamgenerator.com/

I haven't had any luck getting this to work, so I think it's just not the way smart inserters behave. But I want to be sure before I make a suggestion for a new, better kind of inserter. I want my smart inserter to move any item which is present on the circuit network input signal with a positive va...