For all of you (2) who have been saying: "Too bad Factorio does not have a computer I could use to control my factory"
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Has anyone found a practical use for the output (input count) function of the decider combinator? Actually I use this configuration quite a bit as a (spill) gate. Typically I may have a lot of signals that are gated by a condition specified by two signals (e.g. X=Y: everything=count) If it's just a...

This is one solution. incdec.jpg How it works: The two arithmetic combinators make a pulse generator or a one shot (as explained in Combinators 101). Incoming data gets passed by the combinator on the top and then 1 tick later gets negated by the one on the bottom. The effect is a single pulse havin...

Nice! Now see if you can do it with 3 combinators.

I would have to agree that some sort of standard is needed for this task and where else better to obtain this standard, but to create it here :) The thing about the standards is that everybody has one! :lol: Seriously though, creating a standard is a lot of work and requires participation from the ...

Until that happy day where we have a viable CDL (i.e. Combinator Description Language) You could try this: Label the image. Like this. circuit_ann.jpg specify the nodes e.g. (1) [signal_x>signal_y :signal=count] (2) [signal_x>signal_y :signal=count] (3) [signal_x=signal_y :signal=count] .. and conne...

A very good (if long overdue) question! 1. Notation to describe individual combinators is possible but would require standardization and buy in. (e.g. [Ea <0; Ea = ct] , [A > 4; B = 1] , [A*-1; A], etc.) 2.Describing connections between the combinators (i.e. the network) is a difficult topic. I have...

The perils of including a turing complete system within your game

Perils, what perils? If that's the worst that can happen, then bring it on. I'm almost certain that the Laundry Files scenario is just fiction and could never happen in RL or Factorio..... I think


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Very nice work!
So what's next? Pacman or Space Invaders?

Certain numbers do not display right anymore in their binary form since 2147483648 can not be put in. Correct, this is due to the integer definition that Factorio uses where 2^31 is the largest positive #. Decoder should work up to 2^30 (i.e. 30 bits) and maybe up to 2^31-1. . When result is greate...

As much as I find the suggestion to remove it very troll-ish I'm still wandering whether the original argument was theological or trollological :) Time will tell, I guess Explain why big buildings giving out high power sparks to wires are needed for basic logic operations, when there are small circ...

Has anyone that isn't you actually figured out how that works? Maybe not this one as it's a work in progress, but I can think of several people in this forum who have posted structures of equal or greater complexity. BTW I posted an earlier version of this along with a reasonably detailed explanati...

So I'm confused. Why is something like this WRONG?

Not sure if I've got this right
200 cells@ 65 tiles/ cell + ~500 for the display ~13500/1024 =13+ chunks = EPIC!

I could not load blue print due to error: Unknown entity basic-pressure-plate. In the meantime my WAG is that you are using a form of Godelization .

Seems now I'm in a right direction - got an idea of a SR-latch to start/stop the clock :) Let me know if you still need the blueprint If you are just looking for a memory design, you might want to consider this RAM.jpg This is one memory cell. Additional ones can be daisy chained using red wires . ...

I'm not sure if you are dealing with binary signals or whether you are looking to delay or extend the signal, but this may be of help delay.jpg Description 1. Test signal generator consisting of a clock, and two deciders that generate blue =1 and green =5 signals on tick 5 (green is the signal) 2. S...

Half-way through the design of my CPU, I came across your post. Three thoughts popped into my head a) Wow!, He did it! :shock: b) But I wanted to be the first :( and now I'm 5 months late :lol: c) Must. Not. Look. Now that I'm well into finalizing design of MK 2, I'm free to congratulate you, and as...

the best game i can relate to when describing it would be homeworld 2 +1 Such an idea is great for PVP but the biters aren't really an enemy worthy of sending a robot army after +1 And this is where (my) confusion lies. Are we talking about PvP or PvE, both, neither? A clarification from the develo...