@Nidan, could you please check the blueprint you posted? If I try to use it, Factorio says: "Decompression failed. Input is invalid or incomplete". Maybe it is required to have the mod text plate ? I had it in my game when importing the blueprint book and blueprints contains text plate wi...

At least we're now allowed to have each on the right input. Without that some of these operations are probably impossible. But there is no reason not to allow "wood" / "each" = "each". That one is allowed, it gets used frequently in the blueprints in this thread. (I sh...

Do i have to find/read "Hacker's Delight" to understand ? I know it primarily for the division algorithm and mentioned it since it's basically my source. It contains quite a few tricks for optimizing specific operations or doing something efficiently when your CPU doesn't feature the requ...

Thanks for sharing all those ! I had a look at the other operation but the division got most of my attention even though that's the one i'm the least likely to ever use in game, it feels like it's the one where there is the most to learn from at first, i hope you don't mind some questionning : / di...

Do you mean similar to what was discussed in FFF 151? There's also a bit of an followup in FFF 176.

I occasionally search for blueprints for doing a combinator operation on two wires rather than two signals, i.e. both inputs being "each". But aside from the well known multiplier they seem hard to find (or nonexistent). To finally have a full set I decided to make a book with solutions fo...

I don't think the first turbine needs to build last, it just need to be after the second. If we only look at the first turbine, yes. Once we start considering remainder of each row, where the turbines running full power are at the end, each row (of course excluding the first turbine) must have been...

In the third picture it's again an instantly placed blueprint, so the expected situation is same as in the first picture. But oddly, the first turbines are working at full power. My guess is the first row of turbines wasn't destructed or at least placed earlier than the other turbines. Maybe you us...

Even the simplest rules like (a + b) + c = a + (b + c) do not hold for floating point math. Thus, summing the electricity consumption of all machines and subtracting that from the larger network will likely have a different result than accounting for each machine individually. True for unlimited pr...

I'm sorry if I kind of interrupt the mathematical discussion, but there is something very basic I don't understand. I read about direction and build order. For a long time, I assumed "direction" means the current direction and momentum of a fluid; from left to right or from right to left ...

fluid in pipes (in & out) - is it tricky? No! I hope... electricity (behaves as a single entity) These are floating point math, which has limited precision as opposed to "real" math. Any rounding error introduced due to that might change something that looks like a repeating cycle int...

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@Nidan minimum and minimum_resource_amount is the same.

I linked both since the name is different in data and control stage. The / wasn't meant as division.

Could someone with a wiki account expand https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/ResourceEntity with some explanation how the individual properties tie together? Likewise, a dev add a link to that text to the corresponding properties of LuaEntity? Text suggestion that probably can be improved on: Infini...

Have you considered the idea that the 20% aren't hardcoded, but are also affected by the minimum specified in the prototype? I.e. minimum_yield = prototype_minimum * max(100%, initial_yield) I already looked but didn't find such field, the wiki doesn't, and the source code neither. I search for dif...

This is not the case according to my observation of oil behavior and behavior of infinite ore of Infinite Resources - Normal Yields with setting start at 100% (so initial amount = 100) and min to 5%, the resource doesn't stop at 20% but at 5%. So I don't understand the rule "minimum = max(mini...

https://wiki.factorio.com/Transport_belts/Physics#Belt_positions_and_lengths An item needs 256/24 = 10 2/3 ticks to traverse a blue belt. If you measure three consecutive straight belts you should see an item requiring 11 ticks on two of them and 10 on the third. In your setup the items are 11 * 24...

because we cannot predict where the robot will recharge (the chance, that the plan works as predicted is very low). Why would you say it's low? Whatever roboports exist when the bot departs a roboport are the roboports that are most likely to exist 30 seconds later when the bot needs to recharge. ....

Do you have a source for this? I'd say they simply home in on the destination, calculated each tick, and once reaching low charge divert to a roboport (~ step 3 & 4). I think you may be right actually. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to deal with moving targets nor, as you mention, would enemie...

Presently the game: 1. Checks if bot can reach destination. Upon realizing that it can't: 2. Calculate the point at which it would reach 20% charge, and set that point as the destination. Do you have a source for this? I'd say they simply home in on the destination, calculated each tick, and once r...

Starting again with one miner and a single prod 3 module, that miner has an effective speed of (1 + 10%) * (1 - 15%) = 0,935. To compensate we need to reach an effective speed of 1,1 (i.e. base mining speed plus prod bonus), thus add 0,165 effective speed, which is 0,165 / 0,935 ~ 0,1764 extra mine...