After a lot of experimentation with combinators I've slowly but surely moved towards the idea of "less is more". The blueprint below - a mixture of my own ideas and some inspiration from others - uses just one arithmetic combinator and one constant combinator. Feed it separate or unsorted ...

I've heard this a lot "it's more UPS intensive" seems the catchall counter to "bots should be better". I don't see any reason why this would be noticably more UPS intensive. The operations involved are: 1. like 4 multiply operations to find the location the robot would recharge ...

Tertius' screenshot has more tightly woven belts than necessary, but I ended up with 2/3 the number rather than 1/2 Sorry, I can't count. I meant 2/3 (like your screenshot). If the expansion does increase the number of different science packs from 7 to 10 it will be needed again, since the woven de...

Once you also accept red belts and make the lab lines shorter (which you should anyway), you can just fold two different colors with underground belts using a very direct approach [...] This is what I was trying to create in the first place. It's not that nice and colorful as [Khagan's] 8-beacon se...

Therenas wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:14 am

Just want to note that this is a very valid issue, but hard to explain without an image, which the runtime docs don't support yet, so I'll likely wait on that.

"ASCII art"?

Some time ago, the behaviour of underground belts was changed, must be pretty recent, I'd say last year. They now forcefully change direction, and you can not have two underground belts facing eachother terminating. Can this behavoiur be reverted via settings? I don't think so, but are you sure it ...

Hello! Loving the mod. Second attempt. So far 4d4h14s. I've also been (mostly!) enjoying playing IR3 for the first time, but quite badly in my own estimation (please bear this in mind :)), having just automated the Electrum analysis pack the last time I played the save. I note there are significant...

Hm, I wonder if the straight lines even add anything useful to the junction. For me they make it just more complicated. They are definitely more complicated, but (aside from possible performance differences which are also affected by other factors) three benefits spring to mind: If you have built a...

In vanilla, you can't read how much fuel a train has, so you must flip the problem around: bring fuel to trains instead of trains to fuel. This also has the advantage that refueling happens when the train is stopped anyway, instead of requiring a diversion and an extra stop (even if only occasional)...

I haven't noticed any change in behaviour; I have always noticed "missing materials" counts being incomplete, and slow responses, when the number of ghosts is large. This arises from the way they are processed that is done in order to limit performance impact, trading one source of bad UX ...

Genhis wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:29 am

Also, there is a handy windows shortcut to quickly move applications between screens: Win + Shift + left/right arrow key

A shortcut with an almost perfect mnemonic for the key presses: shift windows left/right (surely not a coincidence).

BotsOnStrike wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:33 pm

Based on this, I assume there is a hard cap for how many job checks the game does per update.

Have a read of Increase bot queue processing rate.

It almost certainly is a mod incompatibility - though possibly only due to a bug in one or more mods. Ensure Factorio itself and mods are up to date. Then try disabling mods that are not required for, or specifically listed as compatible with, Krastorio 2. If that works, you can experiment with comb...

A collision on short strings of text would be a big discovery, I would love to see it. Hardly ;). You mean a collision using an algorithm such as one of the SHA family - which would be a good choice to meet the "trivial" requirement and reliable in practice. Another reliable alternative w...

A belt marked for deconstruction stops transporting items; this is the intended behaviour as far as I know.

If that's not the situation you are trying to describe, I think you need to explain more clearly: steps to replicate, the expected result and the actual result.

On another note, I assumed the thing I wanted was the default behavior for the probability based on the way uranium processing is set up [...] A boolean could be used to determine AND or OR for the results list. Perhaps make this thread a feature request? It should be easy enough to add A setting o...

There are many trains (I lost count) with no path to either "Green Chips - Out" or "Iron Plates - Out". You can find them (amongst those that have no problem) by opening the Train overview (O) and filtering (Ctrl+F) the Trains list for those stop names. I didn't manage to spot wh...

This is already a feature unlocked by Construction robotics research, which also enables their automated replacement and can be researched relatively soon after acquiring oil. I would say it is a deliberate choice (much as you must unlock assembling machines to enable automated crafting, which can b...

This feels little clunky to me, since that handler needs to fire every `offset` ticks. That seems fine if offset is one minute, but if that offset is less (e.g. 30 seconds, or even 10 seconds), it's going to fire a *lot* without doing anything useful, and that seems wasteful. Even checking (say) ev...

is there a way to get back the old hotbar(quickbar?) from the older versions of the game (0.16 and earlier)? As Silari wrote, the short answer is "No"; the hot/quick bar is fundamentally different now (it's just shortcuts rather than part of inventory)... i really liked being able to just...