I thought if i was to use several fish instead of several gate, then the "required/desired number" of material that i have to setup would be the amount of material sitting in a belt between 2 fish. Which would then allow me to only have 1 connected belt.

Now when i tested with your blueprint and ...

I like the system you explained.

I'm not sure i'll be able to modify it to my need just now, i will need to practice a bit, but the idea of using a sensor for fish and count the item between 2 fish passage to compute the belt content from what i understand is a more elegant way than what i did ...

I think your method could have its own post you already made nice and clear images for it! I'm saying this because (imo) it's not really a "beautiful" sushi belts like the others. The items on the running belts are not well-ordered like on the other method using splitters contraption for insertion ...

I accidentally posted this over in Beautiful Sushi Belts , and I forgot that was the no-combinator forum. Oops.


Here is (yet another) sushi belt by using a fish to count the contents of the entire belt.

Can be expanded to any length. Longer belts will be slow to replenish items because the one ...

Oops, I forgot this was the no-combinator forum.

I moved my creation over here: Ugly Sushi Belts

TL;DR
Please allow the real-time contents of a splitter to be read by circuit network.


What ?
This is not the same as another topic asking to control splitter priorities (yes I tried searching). I am more interested in reading the real-time contents of the splitter similar to reading contents ...

Does this mean an inserter dropping onto an underground belt entrance will also compress, as it used to?

The most significant thing I enjoyed about seeing your mod was since the capsules fly, they don't have the pathing problems that the AAI Vehicles and the Robot Army mods do. Instead of a very long single file line of robots slowly approaching a biter base and getting wiped one at a time, a gaggle of ...

I was really interested in being able to automatically have drones zoom around and fight biter bases, but then I saw the combinator networks in your saved games and I have no idea what's going on and I'm not interested in learning how to build a contraption that complex.

I really hope you can find ...

Oh, right, the blueprint. I forgot to put that back but it's in the first post again now.

So think of the left and right sides of the two output blue belts as four different zones, each fed by three inserters. Each set of three inserters has one combinator. Each inserter along with the associated ...

The original content to the first post is restored.

Sorry for the mess.

Heh, thank you again for your work on this. I really enjoy using the portals and they seem to fit into the Factorio play style so cleanly despite being completely against the lore. It's very strange, but very fun.

Fair enough. I stand by my use of the word pretentious since the "unwarranted, or exaggerated importance" of how large an animated gif is that is being posted to a forum that routinely uses animated gifs to display a concept in-use while playing is not a surprising thing nor a trap for anyone with ...

Of if you want to be pretentious, you can look into webm.
That's a strange way of spelling "being considerate to users on mobile/data caps". The two GIFs you have posted use more than 80% of the bandwidth of the whole page.

My apologies for using all of your limited data allowance. I have ...

I made that one using GifCam. I also used one of the time-control mods to play the game at 15fps (half-speed) so the gif would be easier to see and also smaller in size.

Of if you want to be pretentious, you can look into webm.

I think I solved it. I edited my first post to show the new version.

Well it used to be super convenient that a beacon with modules would not consume power if the factories nearby were idle (if the bonus was not being used by anything nearby). Looks like we lost that feature. Is this on purpose too?

Reviving this in light of the most recent Friday post #191 about GUI improvements.

Please consider this feature request!

Please add a toggle button to turn auto-trash on/off without changing the auto-trash shortcuts or amounts.

Feature Suggestion thread:
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37716&p=226830

There are plenty of times when I want to carry a bunch of some item around with me that is usually an ...

You know companion cubes look an awful lot like chests, and the talking turrets look a lot like turrets, and the Glados potato looks a lot like a combinator, and Glados might look like a radar if you quint your eyes a bit.

Just saying.....