immibis wrote:Inserters can remove from the input or fuel slots if there are no output slots. This applies to burner mining drills, for example.

Really? I'll have to test this. So you can use an inserter to remove fuel from a burner mining drill?

My take on this mod also has an 0.5x speed button, for fighting biters in slow motion. You might add that?

I would love to have this, especially if it provides a way to find out where specific items are stored in the network.

I can't play in high graphics (mac bug) so I didn't know they should look different. I can confirm this bug in low graphics mode.

Are you referring to the night vision and exoskeleton icons being smaller than they should be? The inventory looks the same for me. I never used modular/power armor before 0.9, so I don't know if it should look different.

Are you playing in low graphics mode? I am.

Right now there is a threshold where inserters stop inserting into a building. For assemblers it seems to be double the requirements for the recipe in the assembler. For a boiler it's some static number of items or amount of fuel?

My first idea would be to allow an inserter to grab ingredients/fuel ...

Providing even amounts of coal and iron ore is inefficient, as is having twice as much capacity for iron plate output as for iron ore input.

However, it would be very difficult to make better ratios in such a small base (I will try!), so good work overall.

inserters can only remove items from the output slot of a building, never from the fuel or input slots. this applies to boilers, assemblers, chemical plants, etc.

I like this idea, especially with it producing something useful.

You might also consider basing it on the chemical plant and having it require water as an input.

crafting is definitely a network

To maximize mining speed you want to maximize miner density. Zig-zag belts waste space (and are slower!), and so do power lines.

In your example, for every 36 squares of miner there are 7 squares of conveyor and 1 square of power, so you've covered 82% of the ground with miners.

Here's a layout ...

ray4ever wrote:- The ideal ratio is 1 water pump, 14 boilers and 9 steam engines (see power row)

You don't seem to have connected all of the steam engines together here.

I would love to see an N-way splitter and/or a smart splitter.

How do you physically put 2 gears in the same location? If it does but staggers them then it will push other gears around and become a chaotic mess. Coding for that seems like a mess.
Two gear entities would never exist in the same location. They would be 0.28 units apart on the belt, as usual ...

AlexPhoenix wrote:How the game must determine or you do all items from stratch or you use smart craft?

Each item in the queue would have a flag for whether it was added manually or automatically. If it was added manually, then it's not eligible as a component of future things being added.

If an inserter has a stack size bonus, so it could grab two items from a chest, then when it grabs one item from a conveyor it might check to see if its target wants more than one of that item, and if so AND if there's a second item within grabbing distance then grab a second one.

I think someone on IRC figured this out. It's 100 or 500 divided by 60, having something to do with the target framerate of the game. So, 1.67 seconds for copper and iron, 8.33 seconds for steel.

I'm with immibis. Unless I'm playing the supply challenge or deathworld and counting every single resource I spend, I've pretty much always got enough resources to build structures as fast as I want to.

So, today while I was having a day off from factorio, I created this: https://github.com/bluecube/factorio-lua-tools

We should join forces! https://github.com/sparr/factorio-data-extract

I'll clone yours tonight or soon and see if it makes sense for me to abandon mine and work on a fork of yours ...

If you don't mind picking up coal from multiple containers, try this: