A small thing, performance wise the best for the game is “one huge electric network where everything always has power”. Not having power or going from having to not and back end up making the overall game performance worse.

With that in mind, designing game mechanics to actively encourage and make that ...

... that construction robots dispatch for item requests was too slow in networks with many unfulfillable requests. (https://forums.factorio.com/127543 ... color is upgraded.
Fixed agricultural tower having insufficient electric buffer size when crane_energy_usage was larger than energy_usage ...

... middle of beacon's saved data, entire 12 bytes were all part of the electric energy source: energy source type (1 byte), electric network index (4 bytes), priority index (1 byte), type index (2 bytes) and entity index (4 bytes); in that specific order. It looks like the cpu when trying to save a ...

Factorio already has a well-laid-out Electrical Priority System ; it just happens that most machines and Inserters share the same Priority so that your ... Burner Inserter for redundancy.

The specific behavior of the Electric Network is customizable via the Lua API , which means that there is already a ...

... this number in the back of your mind as we go along that went toward electric energy production).

I have calculated in-game and using factorio lab ... that is not too far from both fruit farmable areas for roboports network coverage.
Start the early Gleba bootstrap factory (cargo landing pad ...

... again.

I tried to put the leg-nutrients inserter on a separate electric network behind a power switch (similarly controlled by amount of nonleg-nutrients). It does disable the inserter mid-swing, so it lowers the chance of it happening, but it's not foolproof, as inserter has a small electric ...

... this mod is now broken.
-- Removed LuaEntity::neighbours support for electric poles and power switches.
-- Removed LuaEntity::connect_neighbour and ... a circuit condition.

Basically I used this to disable the Solar Power network, when I had a certain amount of Nuclear power. Since once Nuclear power ...

... if the landfill ghosts are already there.
Added a third graph to the electric network overview to track the charges of accumulators over time. (https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408)
Added a new alert for construction and logistic robots that can't find free space in a roboport.
Added a new alert ...

Regarding the optimization of the electric network
My assumptions may be wrong, but I think they may be partially useful.
I'm not sure, but I think that machine processing is already paralleled, then you can do the following
I think that in general it is possible to abandon a separate pipeline for ...

... of lateral thinking in optimizations, I'm curious as to both why electric network updates do have such a heavy memory bandwidth impact, and whether that impact could be avoided in the common case.

This is not about programming, this is about CPU and memory hardware. To be able to speed things ...

... of lateral thinking in optimizations, I'm curious as to both why electric network updates do have such a heavy memory bandwidth impact, and whether that impact could be avoided in the common case.

In thinking about how the electric network behaves, machines exist at a given priority , operate in ...

Thanks for the report, I don't think it is a bug. You have electric networks overlay enabled which renders above entities in cursor.

Oooh, you're right, I hadn't noticed that. Without the overlay enabled it does indeed work; that's probably why I remembered that this is supposed to work. Could the ...

... we wait, I decided to share my implementation of a logistics train network system in vanilla.

System: Vanilla Train Network
Goal: The system ... stations must be united into one global network (for example, by big electric poles along the entire railway), both red and green wires.
More than ...

... in every tick for every pole? And by empty pole we are talking about electric networks, not poles, right?

It's per electric network. For a pole disconnected from everything else that makes it 1 electric network. It happens because the normal electric network process makes a buffer big enough to ...

In 1.1 the cost for an empty electric pole is O(Number-Of-Entity-Prototypes * 3)


Could you explain more why this is happening in every tick for every pole? And by empty pole we are talking about electric networks, not poles, right?
My guess is that it's for maintaining stats electric network usage ...

... consumers: lubricant

Lubricant is needed in very small quantities for electric motors.
We need a lot of rocket fuel and sulfur and plastic.
We need ... the nearest area, which would transmit a list of enemies to the logical network and this would make it possible to turn on turrets with rare or ...

... I set up a dedicated boiler or three, fed wood from the logistics network, and the steam engines are on their own separate power grid, and the ... long to produce and I tend to need them elsewhere.


Yes, every other electric source such as steam engines, steam turbines or solar cells should be ...

... set up a circuit and switch that reads the overall power level of the electric grid, and shuts off the main when it runs low, leaving the laser independent and fully powered?


The only information you can read from the circuit network relating to the electric network is the charge of an accumulator ...

... removing all energy from the silo energy bugger every tick, the fixed electric_input_flow_limit means it can still only draw a maximum of 18MW.

It's ... I checked was over a year ago), accumulators have low priority in the network and it's inconvenient in my scenario for them to be powered last over ...

Ok, I have decided now, how I will do it.

I create an electric-energy-interface for every network, totally seperat from the belts.
The belts have no buffer so every change in the network will effect every belt in the same way, of course in percentage, because all electric entities of the same priority ...