Another question arises: Should biters/spitters be able to attack flying planes, just like they are able to attack trains? Biters can attack trains because both biters and trains move on the ground. They could perhaps attack planes that are moving on a runway, i.e. planes in the process of taking o...

Sorry for the delay! That makes me wonder what legitimate (in the sense of having no negative effects like UPS penalties) use there is for the power switch Start by not thinking of everything in terms of UPS. With more entities being connectable to the circuit network now there is a bit less need fo...

What does everyone else do with all the fish? I must have 10000 raw fish in storage?? I found this mod which uses fish to make lubricant and heavy oil. Also, I could imagine using this mod together with an aquafarm could be helpful to set up chemical production when there are no significant oil pat...

Can you give practical use cases for each of the filter operations you describe? These sound rather arbitrary so far. I think this thread shows a valid example: Use the value of a signal on the red wire only if that signal (arbitrary value) is also sent over the green wire, discarding the value fro...

From what I've read elsewhere unpowered buildings consume more update time than active but idle ones. I guess you're referring to this post? "Powering down" things is one of the worse ways you can stop a factory. Simply not giving it any resources to consume/use is the ideal way. The prob...

As can be seen in the above screenshot, inserters ready to load into a train go inactive when there isn't a train present. Depleted miners go into inactive state. However the mining drills (that still have ore) that are ready to direct-load into the train do not go inactive when there is no train p...

Station -> Decider combinator Station is set to "read train contents" and "read stopped train". Decider combinator is set to: Each ≠ 0 → N (1) If N = 0 there is no train. If N = 1 there is an empty train (the only signal is train ID). If N ≥ 2 there is a loaded train. That's ele...

I have an additional suggestion, although it does not really fit under this topic as it's not about typing but selecting values by using the slider: Currently, the slider works only for values >0. Would it be possible to let the slider work for negative values as well? Of course, I could use the sli...

So we will have the following English strings: (I am not sure whether to keep the word "cannon" here, I am open-minded to it.) cannon-shell=Armor-piercing (cannon) shell explosive-cannon-shell=High-explosive (cannon) shell uranium-cannon-shell=Uranium armor-piercing (cannon) shell explosi...

Oy, I must confess I've not played in quite some time and my memories seem foggy. I was actually very sure they DID work as you just said they don't. No problem, that can happen. Perhaps it would be a good idea to explain the behaviour of splitters in a tutorial or the introductory campaigns? Not s...

If we want to go traditional I our planet naming structure it would be named for a Roman god. I would vote for Vulcan (forges, fire, blacksmithing) or Athena (wisdom, war, crafts). Vulcan is, unfortunately, already used for a famous fictional planet, but the name could be messed with like Vulcania,...

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 3:35 am

Hope this helps
- No filter, but underground belt is used as a "filter"

That's definitely working, but only for the inner lane. Using a filtered splitter is more flexible because it doesn't matter what lane of the belt carries the item you want to split off.

Bad idea, stepped into that trap myself. The OP wants to split off some of the iron for gears. It sure is tempting to slap down just one splitter -- but if you set the filter, all iron will end there, none of it will get further down the bus Once the gear line backs up (because whatever's using the...

To fix the current issue quickly, I'd remove that filter inserter and slap down a splitter, then turn on filtering and only allow iron plates out the one side. Likely, the last time you played splitters didn't have filtering, and they're a (literal) game changer. Bad idea, stepped into that trap my...

Thank you for the suggestions! I have experimented a bit, and perhaps all that isn't actually needed Haha, of course you're right, just move the braking controller to guard the switch exits, duh. No need to slow the train for the latch, the switch exits are what need protecting. I'm not sure how qu...

A single station can generally only serve one purpose. It can be an ore pickup station. It can be a supply dropoff station. But it can't be both. Generally, that may be true, but it is possible to build such stations. I have a station that serves both as ore pickup and supply dropoff. The downside ...

Yah, that `E` was a holdover, it s/b a `C`, but the idea's useful, you can get a near-arbitrary braking-distance limit by making the braking controller close on B>E and add a red-E signal at the end of the braking distance you want rather than just using the back C signal. it keeps the value until ...

Grrr, the dog (forum) ate my homework (response). Not typing it all over again, but you made his point, the arrangement is not clear and you didn't fully understand it. :-) My interpretation, probably also wrong: Multiple fuel sources. Prioritize solid fuel use. When solid fuel runs low, other fuel...

The general term for railway vehicles is "rolling stock", which also refers to locomotives (and is in fact already used in-game for the "failure to couple" dialog if I'm not mistaken). Might be a bit too technical for first timers though. I guess "… pulls rolling stock"...

Is it really that obvious what is going on? Well, you have two belts with solid fuel coming in from below, plus one with solid fuel and one with coal coming in from the left. You merge the belts so that solid fuel goes out above and redirect coal to the exit on the left below. That much is pretty c...