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by Nidan
Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:49 am
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Non-blocking saves?
Replies: 14
Views: 4400

Re: Non-blocking saves?

No, that article talks about copy on write for copying files, i.e. instead of actually copying the file, both old and new are set up to share the same data on disk. What factorio needs is a way of duplicating its process without having to also duplicate all the memory associated to it.
by Nidan
Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:13 pm
Forum: Duplicates
Topic: 2.0.55 - Force unload (0/0 setting) doesnt respect force unload location
Replies: 6
Views: 469

Re: 2.0.55 - Force unload (0/0 setting) doesnt respect force unload location

You could turn things around and instead request barrels on Nauvis' landing pad.
by Nidan
Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:35 pm
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [2.0.55] Heavy oil output per second estimation of coal liquefaction is incorrect when using productivity
Replies: 2
Views: 439

Re: [2.0.55] Heavy oil output per second estimation of coal liquefaction is incorrect when using productivity

The productivity bonus only applies to 65 heavy oil (90 output - 25 input). When you take this catalyst into account, the numbers will match:
90 Heavy Oil/Craft / 5 second/Craft * 0.55 craft speed * (1 + 0.3 prod bonus * (90-25)/90 output without catalyst) = 12.045 Heavy Oil/second

Not a Bug.
by Nidan
Fri Jun 06, 2025 2:06 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Need your help to optimize a buffer zone
Replies: 15
Views: 1036

Re: Need your help to optimize a buffer zone

Does a combined madzuri loader & unloader suffice? If not, why?
by Nidan
Thu Jun 05, 2025 10:56 pm
Forum: Duplicates
Topic: [Kovarex] [2.0.52] parameter formulas produce erroneous results in parameterized blueprints
Replies: 3
Views: 700

Re: [Kovarex] [2.0.52] parameter formulas produce erroneous results in parameterized blueprints

Not a Bug


The kind of blueprint I'm making is a very common one in various guides online, youtube videos, etc. I've made these before in my previous playthroughs. I put a machine down with P0 as recipe and P0 on the storage chest, then requester chest asks for 1 coal, 2 copper, 3 iron etc, then I ...
by Nidan
Sat May 31, 2025 1:08 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Random Number on Selector Combinator
Replies: 31
Views: 2342

Re: Random Number on Selector Combinator


Then there is a "tempering matrice" applied, to this 3rd number, this i recognized as the 3 operations similar to the LSBR
This part :
y = x ^ (x >> u);
y = y ^ ((y << s) & b);
y = y ^ ((y << t) & c);
z = y ^ (y >> l);
Which i felt """confident""" doing in a "loop". Because to turn the last ...
by Nidan
Sat May 31, 2025 10:30 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Random Number on Selector Combinator
Replies: 31
Views: 2342

Re: Random Number on Selector Combinator



Regarding singed vs. unsigned, for most operations the arithmetic combinator supports you don't have to do anything special (That's why two's complement is nowadays the only relevant representation for negative integers.), only division, modulus and right shift(*) are different. Out of these ...
by Nidan
Tue May 27, 2025 1:56 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Random Number on Selector Combinator
Replies: 31
Views: 2342

Re: Random Number on Selector Combinator


but then I was looking at the wikipedia page to try and see if there was a chance i could make one in game, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister. and I could see the n=624 in the C code, but then for other values like "a" "b" "c" and Umask and Lmask, the values are in hexadecimal, and ...
by Nidan
Mon May 26, 2025 1:50 pm
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: GameViewSettings slightly incorrect defaults
Replies: 4
Views: 595

Re: GameViewSettings slightly incorrect defaults

Like PennyJim, I'd list the value that takes priority first. In addition, I'd avoid "and" and "or", lest someone attempts to evaluate the expression. How about "Value of `default_show_value` if set, `true` otherwise"?
by Nidan
Mon May 26, 2025 9:37 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: AI Insights trong Factorio
Replies: 1
Views: 1448

Re: AI Insights trong Factorio

Just to make sure: Which kind of AI? Generative AI which became a big topic in the recent years (example keywords: ChatGPT, LLM), or decades old game AI (for controlling NPCs, enemies, ...)?

Both are, of course, not intelligent but apply some algorithms to their input data. Regarding game AI, I'd ...
by Nidan
Fri May 09, 2025 12:26 am
Forum: Duplicates
Topic: [2.0.47] Decider combinator thinks negative number greater than 0
Replies: 2
Views: 254

Re: [2.0.47] Decider combinator thinks negative number greater than 0

Not a Bug, as per the discussion following this post .

Outputting Anything when the condition is not using Each will output a single signal out of the input signals. In particular, Anything will pick the first input signal in some game defined order that roughly resembles the order the items appear ...
by Nidan
Thu May 08, 2025 6:57 am
Forum: Show your Creations
Topic: Combinator cookbook 2.0
Replies: 50
Views: 13840

Re: Combinator cookbook 2.0

coffee-factorio wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 4:22 am
Tertius wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:56 pm
Tertius' setup gives the pairwise minima min(Each[red], Each[green]), the selector combinator min(all input signals). Calling both operations minimum is perfectly fine. You just need to be precise and indicate which of them is meant, if there's risk of confusion.
by Nidan
Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:52 am
Forum: Combinator Creations
Topic: CPU with x86-ish instruction set, 10 IPS [Factorio 1.x compatible]
Replies: 21
Views: 2665

Re: CPU with x86-ish instruction set, 10 IPS [Factorio 1.x compatible]



The question is, what is it supposed to do? Validating something without a goal to validate against is … difficult.
This =>

I then tried to make a program that would count up to 314 and restart for a few hours.

Where "few hours" is time spent trying, not the amount of time the program is ...
by Nidan
Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:36 pm
Forum: Combinator Creations
Topic: CPU with x86-ish instruction set, 10 IPS [Factorio 1.x compatible]
Replies: 21
Views: 2665

Re: CPU with x86-ish instruction set, 10 IPS [Factorio 1.x compatible]

Interesting work.

Re 2.0 combinators: The changes made in 2.0 really shine when you're frequently working with Each. Stuff that's rather cumbersome in 1.x reduces to a single combinator in 2.0. With the goal of sticking close to x86, these improvements become mostly meaningless. The selector ...
by Nidan
Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:47 pm
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [2.0.43] Electromagnetic plants having larger fluid storage
Replies: 5
Views: 367

Re: [2.0.43] Electromagnetic plants having larger fluid storage

raiguard is planning to improve this for 2.1, see e.g. 128174 and 126571.
by Nidan
Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:59 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Unbeatable anti-cheat.
Replies: 24
Views: 7400

Re: Unbeatable anti-cheat.


2)Cheating on achievement can be done the same way, but it's even easier, you can just be a bunch of spectators while other people do all the hard work or edit your filesave later on.


With a little bit of modding, you can also trivialize the steam/unmodded achievements. Get or make yourself a ...
by Nidan
Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:49 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: What makes Foundries able to craft transport belts?
Replies: 4
Views: 400

Re: What makes Foundries able to craft transport belts?

Space age changes happen in the space-age mod:

data/space-age/base-data-updates.lua
by Nidan
Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:18 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Multiple Fluid Selector Circuitry
Replies: 33
Views: 2427

Re: Multiple Fluid Selector Circuitry


Simplifying a bit, I read the instructions as:
$1 := max(in_r1, in_r2)
out_1 := signal in_g1 value $1 if $1 < in_r3 else signal R value in_r3


I would like to have a single (decider) combinator

Impossible. While a decider combinator can evaluate arbitrary logic, it'll either produce all it's ...
by Nidan
Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:09 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Multiple Fluid Selector Circuitry
Replies: 33
Views: 2427

Re: Multiple Fluid Selector Circuitry

I'm not saying that the arithmetic combinator is the mapping; it is not. As consequence, your attempt at interpretation went off the rails. I don't even know how that mapping is supposed to look like (mathematically), the description is quite vague.

From

For example map signals '1', '2' and '3 ...
by Nidan
Tue Apr 08, 2025 5:08 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Multiple Fluid Selector Circuitry
Replies: 33
Views: 2427

Re: Multiple Fluid Selector Circuitry

Apparently I managed to miss the "mapping" in the part I quoted and focused on the "filtering" part...


Say we have 3 Signals on one wire channel. With some conditions met I'd like to map them to a yet unspecified but dynamic 4th signal type that's given on the other wire channel. For example map ...

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