I want to have a single foundry making the copper coil and steel for my railgun shells. (Because of space constraints on the platform and otherwise the copper foundry being way underused with about 5% duty cycle to keep up with the steel.)

Basically I would like to make it craft for example 48 ...

The foundations are probably part of your blueprint. You can edit the blueprint and remove them (right-click the icon).

It's a stochastic process, in the long run completely predictable but in the short term the imbalance could get arbitrarily large.

I generally just get rid of any excess product from it, much easier than trying to balance it perfectly. It's not like scrap is in short supply.

[edit] One more thing ...

Does that still work for you? I'm pretty sure a recent patch made that impossible. At least I can no longer get it to work.

You mean if it works in general? I have an old blueprint that I use, no idea if I can make a blueprint like that again, I've not tried.

Yeah in general, for the past ...

trancexpress wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:17 pm I dont have a supply chain, my blueprint lets bots load the turrets initially

Does that still work for you? I'm pretty sure a recent patch made that impossible. At least I can no longer get it to work.

Plan? What's that? Sounds like a hassle.

If I'm not going to snake new belts through already overloaded areas I'd be bored.

Give the assembler an iron gear wheel signal and it will start making those.

The other option is dedicated roboports separate from the rest of the network serving only specific rocket(s). And then belting the goods in.

To make it easier to understand what's going on, I think it would help to reorder the "each" rule to be first, like this. Red is from the constant provider, green is from the inventory.
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It's not obvious in the screenshot, but the input values on the red line are ...

Basically, for each input signals, ALL conditions are evaluated. For those input signals where the result is true, you get that signal in the "each" output.

I would write it as the following pseudo code:

output = [] # start with an empty list
for each_signal, each_value in signals
if evaluate ...

Put the reserve on a belt...

If it's a mod recipe, the mod needs to provide a signal for the recipe.

Free concrete from scrap recycling. Also foundries can make concrete without iron ore.

The accumulators are set to import from Nauvis, not Fulgora. You have to change the import planet for all items where the game guesses wrong.

That said I also found the "requests fulfilled" set of conditions confusing and will generally just make conditions on cargo amounts.

You only have 206 circuits available in the logistics network, so it can't load 300 circuits into the rocket. The rocket will launch when 300 circuits are available to load.

For the items used for rocket parts, only logistic bots can load them for automatic rocket launches. Inserters would just try to put them into the rocket part production.

When you load them manually instead, you can also launch the rocket manually.

I just put some efficiency modules in a few beacons instead... and pollution goes down to 20%.

It's by design that cargo bays are not accessible for inserters. You would need to write a mod for that.

I don't think explosive rockets are useful with asteroids, just make regular ones.

You could do it from the other side. Just stop takings eggs out of the nests when there's enough science in the planet-side buffers. They don't spoil while in the nest.