In fff#394 we see we can read the current ingredients from assembling machines in 2.0. We cannot read the output or input inventory, but we're able to read the ingredients required by the current recipe. This way, we're able to automate requester chest requests.

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I use barrels for supplying a "portable" artillery outpost with flamethrower turrets. I use this outpost for bulk clearing areas without the need to provide stationary infrastructure except rail tracks and electricity, which need to be built anyway. That outpost is built in enemy territory...

If you look into the logfile, you see not only saves to C:\Users\mille\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\saves fail, also mod downloads to C:\Users\mille\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\temp fail. However C:\Users\mille\AppData\Roaming is part of the Windows user profile and is freely accessible for all apps with n...

Yes, that's better than the pause function of the real game. You can halt and single step all action while doing everything as if the game was running: looking, scrolling, building, inspecting, changing things. Only if you want to see how the game will behave after all changes, you need to continue ...

which depict admirably how i envision a young an innocent Tertius falling on an unknown planet and acting all young. Reading your comment i felt compelled to share sorry :D That's my inspiration n1 for a future clip to the song if there is one x) Nice video :) Our associations and our fantasy are t...

Forget concrete - I can't wait to see the polution effects and damage to this wonderful biome. It looks like a "Target-rich environment", if you will. But more importantly... "Gleebah"? "Glehbuh"? "Glehbay"? "Glaybay"? "Glehbah"? Wikipedia...

I'm going to resurrect this thread since there is still the issue that literally no-one with German locale can see what keybindings are configured with Ctrl + Shift. I'm honestly bewildered that every German user has to install ixu's mod for reading the keybindings... I didn't know there is a mod t...

As far as I see, you want to buffer excess material. A few ideas how this can be accomplished with less wiring in different ways. You don't need that bypass to extract excess items. Just insert everything into the buffer chests and extract at the same time. 1-3 are examples that are not able to fill...

This example activates red lights after 600, 700, 800, 900 ticks of inactivity of the output inserter. Use the blueprint and investigate the settings of the output inserter, of the two combinators and of the lamp conditions. The combinator works as tick counter. It has its output looped back to the ...

The standard method of evenly filling multiple chests is called "madzuri" according to the user who first showed it. The concept is to compute the average content of all chests with one combinator and enable inserters whose chest has less than the average and disable inserters whose chest ...

Yes, this can be implemented by using a decider combinator as counter. It counts from 0, and as reset condition use a signal obtained from the environment near the machine you intend to monitor. For example reading the hand of the output inserter of an assembling machine or the belt piece under the ...

Looks really beautiful. What a pity we're polluting and tainting this paradise with our factory. It's already a pity how the forests on Nauvis 1.1 get thinned and greyed with the inevitable pollution.

As far as I remember the past fff, it's just the decider combinator that will have a wire selector for input and output. I don't remember any fff screenshot from other devices with that functionality. Not even the new selector combinator.

I think the real issue here might be separating the request signal from the set contents signal. Chests only have 1 hookup point, and a signal on a wire has neither an identifier of the entity that created it nor a "direction" on a wire, so a requester chest outputting its contents would ...

I played around with this contraption and changed the control concept. I don't know if I reinvented what you referred to in your OP, but here it is anyway. The major change is that I keep an inventory of all items on the belt, not just peeking at 4 selected tiles. This way I just control "inser...

Using programmable speaker as a custom alarm machine without any sound is conceptually kinda weird, but feel free to crate a separate thread in the Ideas and Suggestions section. The programmable speaker is the only device that's able to create a user defined alert visible in my GUI. Or isn't it? I...

I spotted a small accuracy error (not your fault but mine). The counter counts from 1..800, not from 0..799, so Q=9 for one tick when T=800, so for one tick the first belt isn't activated where it's supposed to be. This is a correction, with a smaller period and interval. If you need exactly the sam...

Very interesting. The challenge is to get a delicate balance between ore and coal on one lane, while you cannot fully control from which lane inserters will grab the ore. Usually it's the near lane first, but if gaps get too big inserters will also pull from the far lane. And the latency between det...

This seems a circuit that enables one belt for 100 ticks, then the other for 100 ticks, then repeat. You vary the interval by changing I in the constant combinator. To extend this to more belts, it depends on what you want. In case you want to control 8 belts, and enable the first belt for 100 ticks...