If you use circuits to disable a belt and then use z to manually place items on the belt, you can fit an unreasonable amount of items if you drag the mouse in the same direction as the belt is facing. It seems to place one item for each fram that the mouse is moving. In the image i managed to place ...

Combinators 1-3 are for turning the long red signal into a 1 tick pulse so that combinator 4 adds one every time the signal registers a train.
In other words: It should output a signal for precisely 1 tick when the input changes from 0 to 1.

here it is very important to remember that a combinator ...

This is quite similar to my RAM module for my combinator computer. Except that my version relies more on external pulses rather than internal pre-processing(ie it doesnt auto-override like yours do but for me it is fine as it it takes longer to pre-process the correct input anyways)

The rightmost ...

For me in the new tutorial: "Ok so they want me to prepare for more biters, sure, i will just plonk down some turrets and put a few walls infront and it will be fine".
5 min later: "Omg, there was way more biters than i expected " (rip)
Restart: "lets get serious with the defences here." (puts ...

One thing i also miss is the ability for the programmable speaker to display custom signals. You can already set a constant Icon and a name but it would be nice for both of them to come from the Circuit network, so you could have things like: "Science outpost 1 is low on:" and then an Icon of a ...

Or you could have a dummy item on the belt, iron plate maybe, and using that to see if there has passed 100 ammo for every lap of the iron

That code does not work, use this instead:

//using zlib;

public static string Decode(string base64)

{

if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(base64)) return "";

var enc = new UTF8Encoding();

return enc.GetString(Decompress(Convert.FromBase64String(base64.Substring(1))));

}



public static ...

When an inserter inserts ammo into artillery turret, what is the limit at when it wont put in any more?

Edit: Found out that it is 5 after 30 seconds of testing...

Update: i got it to compress by doing base64 decoding but factorio dont accept it even when i add the 0 in front.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
string path = @"C:\Users\erihor\OneDrive\Visual Studio\ConsoleStuff\Input";
string line = File.ReadAllText(path);
var B = ZipStr(line);
Console ...

I really want to encode now since the decoding was only to get the structure of the json text.
However, decoding dont work at all either.


static void Main(string[] args)
{
string path = @"C:\Users\erihor\OneDrive\Visual Studio\ConsoleStuff\Input";
string line = File.ReadAllText(path);
var B ...

Thanks. Is there a way to go the other way in my c# code automatically or do i have to go via the site to fix it up every time?
If so, am i on the right track with my current code(if i reverse it)?

Ah. I dont Think that is possible without mods...

Left click on any electric pole

I want to have a c# program to create Blueprint strings for combinators.
I have some problem with turning the raw Blueprint string into something readable.
What I want is a function to decode the string into a useful json text and Another to do the opposite.

I have the zlib api to help decode it ...

thx man. I will maybe give some progress updates if you are intrested. Will probably make a separate post about this thing when it gets closer to completion.

Did i mention it can also compute pi to 6 decimal places?

My goal is to program breakout on my combinator computer. Its super "off topic" depending on how you see it but it is quite fun (and hard).
At some time i want to try to figure out if i can make an irl program to compile some code into a Blueprint string that fits into the combinator computer ...

If you look closely on the assemblers you can clearly see where the animation restrarts, and when you see it it is quite hard to unsee...

I modified it to use a pulse extender instead:

0eNrNmVuOmzAUhvdiqS8VtNgGQpBaqZ3LJqpRRMCZWAWDjEmbjlhA99GVdSU1ISGEALGjDJ2XkRjIx8n/n1vgBSzjgmScMgH8F0DDlOXA//YCcvrMgrj6n9hmBPiACpIAA7AgqY5WQS5MwQOWZykX5pLEApQGoCwiP4EPS+MiIeBUrBMiaGiGabKkLBApbzFQ+WQAwgQVlNQh7Q62C1YkS8LlBQ3qR5pGhJnhmuRC3iBLc ...

The problem is that the inserters are trying to grab from a belt, they cant do that when given 0ne tick pulses, becauce they need to move a bit to reach the item and by that time the pulse is already over.

It looks like you are trying to enable a different amount of inserters depending on the ...

Also, you said that you wanted 18 inserters to run depending on the value of the input signal.

If i understand correctly you want a constant with a number from 0-18 telling each of the 18 Clocks if it should go or not, and send a pulse to the corresponding inserter.

You can get away with having a ...