Yeah, I have observed this a lot when building complicated circuitry. This is really annoying, as it completly breaks any readability. It effectively makes "undo" unusuable in that scenario, because every undo is immediately followed by like half a minute of figuring out which wires I need to remove ...

If a different default would be more useful to you, blueprinting a combinator with those settings could work.


Blueprinting it would take about as many extra clicks to use as setting it manually.
It would also still do nothing per default - the input and output signal would still be set to ...

in my base on Nauvis


See, I am working on a distributed arbitrary request-supply system with dynamic train dispatch for Fulgora (abusing that rail signals can carry wires to connect together all islands), and it's really, really hard to keep the complex conditions separated while also ...

TL;DR
Arithmetic Combinators should, when freshly placed, be configured to multiply by one to reduce the clicks necessary to make it work as a diode, as this is both a common usage and because the current default settings are never relevant.


What?
Currently, when placing a fresh Arithmetic ...

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I really like the potential for fun puzzles with the recyclers and quality levels, it introduces a new kind of setup that I am looking forward to.

My biggest fear is choice paralysis. Should I sort out the odd Legendary circuit for later use? Should I gun for high quality immediately? What should I ...

I personally don't use follower robots at all, but my guess is that they are useful as extra dps, as they shoot additionally to your own weapon of choice.

Did I say that I'm finished? :P

I'm currently working on the 1.4/s High Tech setup, green through Production are already done. Once I have a blueprint for each Pack type, I can create a factory that creates exactly 1.4 packs per second of every type as long as it is supplied with enough material ...

eX_ploit wrote:Why 1.4 packs per second?

By standardizing all of these Blueprints to 1.4 packs per second, upgrading your science pack production is as simple as supplying one additional set of these Blueprints with enough materials. The .4 comes from the Productivity modules.

One of the common problems I face in this game is that no matter what layout I start with, somewhen it always fails because the belts don't have enough throughput and extending the system would make everything weird and ugly. While it may be fun to jury-rig a system to handle in/outputs that it wasn ...

Given that placing ghosts is a thing, it'd be nice if we could use the same feature to add stuff to blueprints directly.

We can already have any imaginable blueprint anyway by simply creating it in another game and saving it locally, so it'd just make 'creating the right blueprint' or 'fixing this ...

Funfact: Construction robots can place circuitry wires without actualy having any available.

If you are willing to put in the work, they are without cost once you have an appropriate blueprint.

DyTech has biter corpses that can be tourned into bones, which in turn can be burned to bone ash which is a fuel.

As a logical consequence, our base ran entirely on corpses from spawners surrounded by turrets.