The blueprint improvements are awesome and make me happy, but I'm happier still to hear that Kovarex is enjoying tinkering with things again, and is having a lot of fun building with his son. Very brave to lay out the details of the burnout so frankly, and I think all of us who have been in the indu...

Cool beans. Try wiring a push button to the central power pole with a red wire and trace what happens when you send that initial pulse into the system. I'm also interested to know which parts of OP made sense and which didn't, as I want to get better at explanatory writing.

Correct, this is just painting zones. I haven't got any other blueprints yet, but yeah you'd need stuff to dispatch miners to resources and haulers between depots and miners. I don't get a lot of time to play, so I can't commit to working on designs in MP or whatever.

The device: https://i.imgur.com/qjKSzAf.png Annotated: https://i.imgur.com/7Xrggzs.png 0eNrNWstyszYUfpWOtjUpOoDBXnTX+ZdddNnJeDAojqYgeYRI4mb8AH2QvlifpOKS2MHiIi7+/00SwPo4Ot+5fDrOO9onOTkKyiTaviMacZah7Z/vKKMHFibFPXk6ErRFL1TIXN1ZIRamxY3qE9Y3dF4hymLyhrb4vNKspJKkl2WSJsTKopBdrQPturY3/na10jFa+fvVSvf8uEKESSop...

I think this all looks quite promising. Specific comments: * I never liked how speed module 1 was used as an "alternate circuit" in a bunch of end-game recipes. Having productivity modules in the science pack recipes makes it feel less weird, though now efficiency modules are the odd one o...

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