This is really cool.

When you were designing this, why did you go with -2 as the magic number for your combinators? Did -1 not work because it caused some technical issue with the circuits, or did you choose -2 for some more abstract reason?


This has technical reasons.

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This is really cool.

When you were designing this, why did you go with -2 as the magic number for your combinators? Did -1 not work because it caused some technical issue with the circuits, or did you choose -2 for some more abstract reason?

After many nights of experimenting, I finally found what is possibly the best memory cell you could make.

I'm super excited about it because it is simpler than every other design I tried, but has many useful properties that every other attempt lacked:
Keeps control signal separate from data 1 tick ...

I was wondering about this too. In the game data, the recipe for pentapod eggs and most other recipes with loops do have a flag set for productivity bonuses to ignore a portion of the output. But for bacteria cultivation and fish breeding, this flag is not set, so the full output gets the ...

Not being able to read fuel on biochamber, i agree is somewhat of a limitation, but i'd rather read the ingredients, and not have those messed up in signal wiring, with the current fuel, which i assume is always going to be nutrient. It gets problematic to me when you want to use quality nutrient ...

Is the 5 minute time window to change your mind not enough or even better than an “are you sure” box?

Dear Wube,

It looks like the recycling time for an item is meant to be 16 times faster than the recipe craft time for that item (in practice, 8 times faster when taking the recycler 0.5 crafting speed into account). This is the case all items except the ones that have a recipe craft time of 0.5 ...

Reservation upgrade

All the more advanced interrupt schedule systems heavily depends on the train stop reservation limit. This is what prevents all the trains in your system trying to go to one stop.
But there was one little problem with the system, which could even cause traffic jams/deadlocks ...