1. What did you do?
Have a stack inserter with disabled use filters checkbox. It also has a green circuit filter set but its not in use since the checkbox is off. A constant combinator with a green circuit signal is connected to the stack inserter. Give the stack inserter an amount of non green ...

1. What did you do?
Create any parametrized blueprint that leaves a number as an input. Paste the blueprint down. Try to input "2k" or "20*20" into the number field.
2. What happened?
The suffix or formula characters are not allowed in the input field and don't get put in resulting in "2" and "2020 ...

As far as I can tell, there is only 4 recipe types that disallow quality to begin with. Fluid barreling, fish breeding, nutrients from fish/biter eggs & kovarex enrichment.

Fluid barreling is not a real "problem" but it allows to easily quality cycle steel to any higher quality you desire by ...

1. What did I do?
I use the mod "Everything has Quality" https://mods.factorio.com/mod/quality-everything
It gives all machines a base quality chance to deal with by setting "assembler.effect_receiver.base_effect.quality" to a non 0 value.

2. What happened?
This base quality chance gets applied ...

Radixx, your balancer is not a throughput unlimited balancer:

Loading a 16 to 16 balancer with dimensions 16x33 and 56 splitters
Longest underground belt distance is 7 tiles
Output balance: 16/16
Input balance: 16/16
Throughput under full load: 100%
Min Throughput with all combinations: 50 ...

When you walk straight into a water border there is a frame jitter effect: https://youtu.be/MECgrV5k7fQ

Depending on build order the belt after a splitter is not correctly curved:



I recorded a video getting both the correct preview and the wrong one: https://youtu.be/npIozN39IRU

I don't believe the .net framework tool folks are discussing, above, actually attempts to decide whether the blueprint you feed it is a balancer or not... although I could be wrong. Instead, my recollection is that it assumes your blueprint is a balancer, and tests its throughput properties. I'm ...

TheRalph your contraption is not a balancer, though it is pretty close to throughput unlimited. My tool gives following output:

Loading a 8 to 8 balancer with dimensions 16x13 and 32 splitters
Output balance: 0/8
Input balance: 0/8
Throughput under full load: 100%
Min Throughput with all ...

This design is unfortunately copper starved. It only produces 533 circuits per minute, while the nominal speed would be 720/min. Fortunately I was able to come up with a build similar in size (18x19 instead of 19x18) that is not copper starved:

http://i.imgur.com/aKd0XWw.png

0eNqdW9tu4koQ/Bc ...

Thanks for the save. I get a depressing 29 UPS with a 1700X @ 3.8GHz and 3333MT/s RAM with timings 14-14-14-34.

Hmm could I get the save as well? I am interested to see how bad my Ryzen runs it in comparison.

You can gain a lot of performance by upgrading, since you get a massive speed boost from faster RAM in Factorio. DDR3 1600 vs. DDR4 3600 is quite a leap.

I was not able to reproduce this crash and really don't know how it happened. The log says something about entityrenderer.cpp so I didn't expect it to be reproducible anyway.

A dropbox link to log, last autosave and the one mod I was using:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8ge1k5ws6f5cscf ...

Qon wrote:Because it's not necessary and requires work to implement.

The technology graph wasn't necessary either, but is a very nice addition. I for one would absolutely love to see such a dependency graph but for items implemented and would definitively use it.

Well I just designed one for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... _balancer/

When I cut input line 4 and output line 2, line 1 is still full, but lines 3 and 4 aren't completely compressed.

That is thanks to the sorting ability of splitters. The only way to make a truly throughput unlimited balancer is to get a normal throughput unlimited balancer of twice the size, split ...

A similar topic: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=29302
Using a fixed 25% and 80% limit has some drawbacks. My thread introduces a dynamic system that makes sure that the accumulator reserves don't fall below "expected" values. It makes sure accumulators are full at dusk and allows ...

FasterJump wrote:That is not how this works. With prod III modules everywhere, you have cost reduction at each stage of the material processing.

But it is. The english language is context sensitive and our context was prod3 in science assemblers and labs, nothing else.

pichutarius wrote:so needed amount is reduced to (1 - .4)(1 - .2) = .48, which means roughly half as much raw is needed.

That is not how this works. It would be reduced to 1/(1.4 * 1.2) = 0.595, so you still need more than half as much.