I've made some progress. I'm focusing on a proof-of-concept "speedrun style" exploit for now, in the Factorio sandbox.

I have this contraption:


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It recycles gears (which have a 50% chance of producing iron plate), and if no iron plate is produced, it places a copper ...

Very interesting. How exactly do you think "probing the RNG" would work? You seem to imply that you know how to make it work, but don't explain it.

My guess is that with a recipe that has random output with 50% chance, then whether there's a random output or not reduces (maybe with some error) to ...