I had asked the devs about that, using sockets in lua, and they said that it would cause an instantaneous de-sync with the client and server

Yes there is.
All you need to do is move the screen away from the combinators and hookup the red wires in that order (from the arthmetic unit with the decider on top to the combinator with the lights).

Forget about having factorio in 3d. We can bring 3d Into factorio. GPU.gif This GPU takes in hard coded 3d vectors and displays them on a sceen in 3D. This is very much a W.I.P(work in progress). its mostly just consept at the moment. However there is so much more potental for this. i.e Simple 3d Ga...