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This is my latest ship with an asteroid reprocessor built into it. I spent about 3 weeks creating the reprocessor, blueprinted it then packed it into a square and blueprinted that, then put it in the ship. Ran the ship (Firefly) to Vulcanus and back successfully ...

eugenekay: agreed. Still, I will avoid this technique unless I have no other choice.

ah! @atomizer you were right! The values are not exactly 10k. they were e.g 10015. So that explains it. Great! thanks.
@eugenekay Yes, I saw that technique, its a little crazy to use such features because sooner or later they're going to switch to 8 byte integers I guess, in fact they already have ...

So I was trying to understand this article with blueprint: https://forums.factorio.com/118296, and the technique used to balance the asteroid grabber content was to use a constant combinator with a decider combinator. The constant combinator was set to 10k each of metallic, carbon, oxide asteroids ...

Hi Mbas, wow, I am bedazzled! I'm still very much a beginner, so I don't understand all the control mechanism you have in there. Your description was a good overall intro, but the actual mechanisms you are using to achieve your purpose, I still don't understand all that.

For instance, where are ...

It sounds like you have the right type of insight to offer fellow players who might be stuck at the same point.
Hey, the only insight I have on this: the Alt X (reveal mode) causes the combinator to be difficult to see the wiring color unless you know exactly what to look for I guess. With the ...

Ah! thanks. I was fixated on adding the feedback of the memory cell using the same red wire as went into the input. I switched the feedback to green and lo! it works. Much thanks. Its all not as hard as one thinks, but getting one's thinking into line with reality is a challenge. It would be great ...

I am cracking my skull trying to understand the example at: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Circuit_network_cookbook#Memory_Cell_/_Counter, The green inserters are not connected to the memory cell output, only the output of the green inserters is connected to the input of the memory cell. How can ...

Hi @astroshak Yes! I used that pattern myself in the past. This time around, I was trying to avoid that limitation of 12 items per wagon introduced by having only one request filter per chest. I tried adding in multiple request filters per chest but then found that the inserters would a) try to load ...

Hi torne, hey thanks for the feedback. Now it makes sense. Although, I successfully built and tested a 12 beacon setup following the kirk calculator, and I only used 3 prod3's per assembler, and got the right flow rate. I guess the fourth prod3 isn't always needed. I like the 8x8 beacon setup better ...

Hey guys, thx for your feedback. It made me rethink my question, which in retrospect was a little half-baked! I understand now, that having filter slots in chests wouldn't solve any of the problems I was having loading a supply wagon. I now use a chest with multiple request filters, and only one ...

Hey guys, I'm not sure I understand the kirk calculator (Using version 0.17): https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#zip=dZDbCgJRCEX/5jx1aLpD4Mc4jpR0bqgD9fc17/Yi6ILtYi/oCFM+3PJ1SorOYIkGHFOVBuc0c3Hg91A2y67YbHT1vJ3TUmGc0jKDbZPgcE3iXA1w9V7RpbdsJNyI80B63fV+mfanXekPMRcKYZUijvoJIT25CmEJ4dC+rPT36 ...

Hey guys, I'm seeing the need for having filters on each slot of a requester or buffer chest. The reason is I want to be able to transfer multiple products from chest to chest without having a free for all at the receiving end. Is this a reasonable thing to want to have? Has this idea been ...

Great stuff! I'm glad I stared this thread. I also experienced a couple of blackouts, not pleasant. I try to always keep a chest of coal nearby so I can manually get the steam engines rolling again. Luckily they were'n't too overloaded by all the extra lasers I had added into the network in the ...

I've been seeing the "slo mo" bug since 0.13.11. and I can say that for an existing game, 0.13.12 didn't fix it.

I couldn't run with 0.13.10 because it was crashing due to other bug when crafting.

I am running Linux with Steam, 4K display.
I notice that the "slo mo" happens right after a save ...

Hey Beeblebrox, that was very good feedback. Indeed you are right. I can just place an accumulator near a pole attached to my network, detach this network from the steam engine network, but re-connect via a power switch (left in off position). Connect the accumulator to the power switch with red ...

Hi Breith, here is string for the test rig:

H4sIAAAAAAAA/9VY7W6bMBR9lYrfUAHmq9o8aX2NakIOOKklYyPbZI1Q3n2GpC04DTEZzbp/pff43nvO/cCh5HeUF4je5bDFTBFFsIRty1CFoSMrRKlHUVU7
bs2lNnIG2xf44O6gl+337gVc4NsCA0tgHzm1xCW2gS0cHqhYA61DD4HNSirUmQ0u93GHBPexhVPQQSMLYGgLjGyBfejQFghsc7TxGNp6jGw9RqZHTpHwasQw ...

Sorry, I'm a dunce I guess. But the instructions to import a blueprint don't make sense to me.
craft a blueprint, got that.
Now, click what? I don't have an icon that matches the icon shown. I'm running 0.13.9.
There is something in square brackets, what? [.] or something. What does that mean?
Thx

After getting a crash in my 0.13.9 game (and posting the bug), I tried a brand new game with this version. As soon as I tried to craft a pick axe, boom, game closed. Forgot to mention, I was running this game from Steam client on Linux

There

I guess my game updated automatically to 0.13.10. As I was crafting a blueprint, about 1 min into game, before it was fully crafted, factorio closed. I tried running from command line, but there was nothing written. Is there a log file somewhere?
I am attaching my game
Mark_6.zip

I found the log ...