After fiddling with my bots and them loading chests not evenly I finally came up with this solution.
Not sure if it is useful for someone else but for me it works quite well.

This setup works like the well known mazuri loader but with bots and can balance load a train station (or whatever else ...

Would be nice if the used satellites would be shown in the consumption tab of the production statistics. Then you would have an easy measure for at least the science rockets. If you are at 60 satellites per hour you have 1RPM (or whatever it is called now :)). Not sure if the lack of satellites in ...

you have to include the curved rail into the filter ... just search for it in the filter options

I hope this helps

Hey mate..


This is not necessary. A properly signaled station with multiple stops will work without the circuit logic. Trains automatically go to an empty station with the same name if one is occupied. Take this bit out and I think your setup will work as intended.


hmm I did not know this .. I ...

Hey mates.

Currently if you have a blueprint with power poles in it the connections for the copper cables are not saved within the blueprint. Could I suggest that they - well are saved as well (like the circuit wires). I know it is more of a visual feature but it drives me nuts when I turn on the ...

Hey mates.

I would like to have this declared as bug as well .. there is a bug report about this issue in the 'solved bugs section'. I disagree that this is caused by a glitchy network or has no application at all. Lemme give you an example and you can see the application in the attached save. My ...

Hay Mates.

I was eager to test the new train signal and found a little bug :) ..

If you have the following setting and check the 'Read Stopped Train Signal' -> then escape the menu and reopen it -> the setting is not saved and it is unchecked again.

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Hey mates,
Version: 0.15.10


There is still an issue with the forward 'inching' :). Not sure if it is related to the circuit condition bug.

My setup: The schedule this time is A - B. Conditions at A as shown in the images below (basically it does if train in station read the cargo -> if cargo > 0 ...

It reacts in an instant .. My whole factory works with energy spikes because I switch off and on fully beconed sections on demand. You can adjust the response by setting the border for Switch 2 ..with A = 99% as setting the whole setup jumps to full load in no time. It works because all turbines ...

Hey mates.

I played around with a nuclear setup that can coop with solar energy and came to this solution: (there are still some question - see at the end of this post)

Base Layout:
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The idea was to use the internal heat storage in the heat pipes as buffer - compared to steam ...

Hi mates.

-> Version: current 0.15.7 new game started in 0.15.0

situation: I have a train schedule set up as in (picture 1). So the train goes A -> B -> A -> C. Station B and C are bound to conditions and can be disabled. When both stations are disabled the schedule only has multiple stations A ...

Seams the shorter version is the way to go ....
The condition is x=64 in this case and I had to shift the first wire after the splitter because it gave the false item count from time to time.

Well you can do this with only wires as well ... not sure if it is viable because you need the space for the wires.

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I have not fully tested it yet but it looks ok so far. Maybe with a bit more thinking you could get away with ...

If you just want to know if the belt is fully compressed you are right with the plus mode .. but if you want to calculate the deviation from the max throughput the pulse mode will not work because you can not detect which side ticks. Though there is some interesting math for the plus mode, in theory ...

Wow ... just wow .. very impressive.

I would like to see this thing in action - so plz make a nano factory out of this concept.

Take Care
Case

While playing around with belt throughput I found this very simple detector. It works for all belts and can detect even the slightest deviation form the max throughput - instantly.

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Just place 9 wires in a row and set it to 'read ...

Hey mate,
I played a bit with your idea and came to this ..
Not sure if it fits for a speed run but it has a more constant output ... compared to yours with is more periodic it seams.

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If you play a bit (or do the math) for the inserters (yellow/blue - to balance both belts) you ...

I do! (like it)

How do you have the decider and constant combinator set up (near the tool chest)? Perhaps you found a solution to my tool migration problem (from chest to roboport, as a pack of ten gets picked up by the bots and the leftovers are returned to the port instead of the chest).

Its ...

Hey mates..
Interesting thread. My defence is not really "laser free" but its pretty close :). Its based on gun cover that every turret platform can provide and somewhat optimised on this. If you look at the screen shot for the gun cover you can see that the laser turret and the flame thrower ...

Hey mates..

After doing a bit factorio math I came up with this thing here. The screen shot shows a bot delivery configuration - though, but it is easily adjustable to be belt feeded. Just route the iron through the top green circuit line and feed the copper from the bottom. I use this setup in a ...