What happens in your instance is train calculates its path to the station somewhere long before it actually arrives here (most likely from its previous station), because trains calculate and recalculate their paths only when they need to stop, with chain signals being exception (they actually don't ...

You can make a counter somewhere to store how many trains are on their way to the destination at any given moment. It would require additional signal to work from sending station to the destination without any additional fancy pulse logic. [a] is the signal in my example. Send [a = -1] single pulse ...

The other day i tried to find any 4 belts per row smelting design on the internet, din't find anything close to what i was looking for (which is odd), so i ended up building one myself. 4 belts per row smelter.png 0eNqlne1uHLcOhm+l8O+4GPFDmsmtHBSFk2x7DDi2sbZ7WhS597NudhMjnRmRj36ltZNXI4kvSVEk9ffVh7uXw...

Offshore pump pumps 1200 water/sec, pipes can handle 1200 fluid/sec only over <= 14 pipes and 900 fluid/sec over <= 224 pipes. Your setup has more than 14 pipes between offshore pumps and heat exchangers and 1 heat exchanger needs a little bit more than 103 water/sec, therefore you need to keep 1 p...

Aeternus wrote:Or kludge it with an extra arithmatic combinator R+0 = Q, then test for Q>1000 output Q after that.

Then better have (R > 1000 | R) -> (R + 0 | Q).

Devs, PLEASE do it.

While we're on the nitpicky subject, there should not be two items with the same name (Battery) in the game IMO.

Hi, doxsroxs. Although i don't play with mods and don't know anything about siggboy's setup, i thought that sharing my expirience of dealing with "Matching and system throughput" might be useful, though i don't know if that information actually fit into Smart Train mod realities. As i said...

Oh gosh, i always hate all those little things trying to stole ticks of work from my network. This in particular was always a strange thing to me: why would anyone want to get black^2 from this condition? And even if someone would, it's easy to just set black^2=black arithmetic combinator in paralle...

Hi, Trives. Now I've tried a TON of different ways to store it. But the issue I'm having is when the two digits hit Zero and S outputs, it out puts 4-5 pulses, instead of 1 single pulse. It actually outputs X (S) for ~1 second (~60 ticks, exact number may differ by few ticks due to specific combinat...

wondering if i should build it with only a locomotive on one side, or one on each side. The ratio of loco/wagon will affect top speed and a loco at the end of the train like L-CCCC-L counts as an extra wagon getting pulled. https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/3oavpk/trains_and_ratio_of_wagon...

It depends on the scale of your network, and can be important for the type and size of crossings you have to make, and the size/layout of the stations. I typically run 2-4 (locs/wagons) unidirectional trains for heavy cargo, 1-2-1 for distant mining outposts, 1-2 for fluid transfer, and some smalle...

Ok, Tier-2 stays :) Now the question - should tier-2 speed module consume 3 tier-1 modules (instead of 4) or maybe 4 circuits instead of 5 to compensate for tier-1 speed modules consumption by other recipes? I'm not sure that it makes a difference. The consumption of T1 modules in science should be...

So do I need to double my pipes (so 2 adjacent rows of pipes) all around my turbines for steam transport, or just make more connections from one long straight pipe at the exchangers to one long straight pipe at the turbines? Just keep all the earlier mentioned by me ratios per 1 pipe and please don...

The graphics settings don't affect it to me, i just checked it on lower settings - still no bars. With any researches, only in labs.

Just a little reminder for everyone with (water < N) in their nuclear reactor setups: don't forget to change it to steam to not waste any fuel cells. I already wasted some...

I was hoping that I didn't have too many pipes between the pumps and exchangers, but I guess that's not the case, as I have seen the exchangers hover around 170ish water as the reactor is coming up around 2 GW's. Do you think adding a second pump per pipe would suffice, or do i need to do a complet...

Thank you for the bluestring info. Can't believe I missed that.... As for the water pumps, I read somewhere on here that 1 pump can supply a little over 11 exchangers, so I should be good on the water part of it. I haven't noticed any dips or slowdowns in production of steam. The heat pipes don't g...

After some further tweaking and testing, the reactor actually is working as intended, except that its not liking being the backup pulse generator. It would be better to run this as the primary power source for the factory. I've been watching it at 1.8 GW load for awhile and it works just fine. The ...

Utterbob wrote:My .14 factory produces well over a million iron per SECOND

Wait, what? 1000000 iron per second, 25000 blue belts?