I'm working on my own mod pack for convenience and so others can get a look at the mods I'm using when they ask.

Version 0.0.1 of this mod is broken, because I entered `base >= ???` as a dependency in info.json, and "???" is not a version. I attempted to fix that in version 0.0.3. Locally, I have ...

To clarify, I am not challenging the fact that Solar is O(1) while Nuclear is at best O(n), and so the UPS impact of Solar will always be negligible. Solar will ALWAYS outperform Nuclear at any quantity of output, and the bigger the output, the bigger the performance gap will be.

However, Nuclear ...

Conventional wisdom is that big bases need to use solar power, because nuclear power needs to move steam and heat around, and fluid calculations are expensive -- whereas a solar array of unlimited size only requires a single calculation. In "Big O" terms, Nuclear is at best O(n) while Solar is O(1 ...

Interesting. Removing the roboports helped? Even with no bots in them?

I could probably make a python script that would parse the benchmark outputs into csv, if you would find that easier.

Ok, I can post the saves later today.

That result surprised me too, but I didn't want to re-run it just because it surprised me, since that's a well-known methodological bias in scientific sampling. If someone else would attempt to replicate my results and got something different I'd *love* to know.

Cool. I should really learn graphviz. Then I could generate these automatically.

I've done some benchmarks of various electronic circuit processes. I may compile some benchmarks for red and blue circuit builds in another thread at a later date.

Criteria for inclusion

- Produces fully compressed blue belts of electronic circuits
- Productivity mk3 x 4 in all assemblers ...

Gotcha, I misunderstood about the U-turns. Thanks for the explanations!

I strongly prefer intersections that do not support lane changes and do not support U-turns.

I know that will sound crazy to some folks and I don't want to derail this thread with debates about it. :D But it means I actually agree with sparr that it would be useful to be clear about this.

However ...

Agree, I would expect prod modules in the furnaces to perform better than speed. But I would love to be proven wrong about this.

Edit 3: This is strictly of aesthetic significance, but what's the reason for moving the gap between beacons on the leftmost cell of each row? It is not consistent with the beacons around the other smelters.

This is needed to have a 12 beacon coverage in this compressed layout. If all beacons ...

disentius wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:56 pm So, i tried to make a "proper" benchmark...

Hey, was mine improper?

Did some benchmarks vs Nilaus' masterclass BPs.

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If you want to compare designs for UPS, the best way is to build a map full of the same design (say 10k steel per minute) and run the command line UPS tool.

factorio.exe --benchmark "savename.zip" --benchmark-ticks 10000


Great tip, thank you! I compared the steel bp from Nilaus' master class ...

Why include the timer mechanism inside the smelter? Is there any penalty associated with using a single clock attached to a global circuit network?

Edit: The signals are inconsistent between the rows in the last version posted. Here's what I suggest:

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I tried making a 6 width version of "Hash" by Kano96, but I got a way lower score on testbench. Not sure if I screwed up the BP or if I screwed up the testing. Anyone else want to try?

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Thanks for the videos, but I was hoping for a blueprint string? It's not obvious how this is working.

I think that having (or even risking) a less than fully compressed output belt is unacceptable for a few reasons, but others here might disagree.

You could have a three belt segment buffer after each inserter to hold the 12 items.
You could also have all but the last machine clocked, then let the last machine back up and fill in the gaps: this would result in all the previous inserters emptying their hand contents quickly.


Do the ...