Use table.deepcopy like this: local drill = table.deepcopy(data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill']) data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'] = nil drill.type = "assembling-machine" drill.crafting_speed = 1 drill.crafting_categories = {"mining"} data:extend({drill})

If the drills are outputting to something different than all the assemblers, that might make a difference, but one things the drills have to deal with that the assemblers don't is the resource field underneath them.

I have 1800 vanilla drills and all together they are 0.2 to 0.3 ms. Perhaps the issue is the modding? How much ore are you producing per minute though according to the production graph? About 200K altogether, which given your scale is probably nowhere near what you're putting out. But the issue app...

I have 1800 vanilla drills and all together they are 0.2 to 0.3 ms. Perhaps the issue is the modding?

I previously built something similar but the trains became a snarled up mess, largely due to the fact that I'm playing in a natural world with lots of water, and building a full grid would have required tremendous amounts of landfill to build tracks over water just to make sure the trains could get ...

My centrifuges output to a belt that one space down the line they can input from. Anything that makes it past this (surplus 235, plus the 2 238 that are output from the process), then get side joined to the input belt so they are on the inside lane (inserters preferentially pick from the inside). Th...

In the real world, animals that evolved on flat, largely featureless plains have difficulty with pathfinding to a strong draw around obstacles like a fence even when they are familiar with both sides and have been lead from one side to the other many times. Since the biters live on such a world, it ...

Place a programmable speaker, and hook it up with a red or green wire to the train stop. Set the train stop to "Read train contents". Set the speaker to sound the alarm when "artillery shell" = # (however many the train can carry). I will warn you the alarms can be loud so you pr...

I suggest you use train limits instead of unreachable stops. I don't see a large drop in performance with that map, but I do have a fairly beefy computer, and there is a small drop in perf when marking one of the intersections for deconstruction. The drop goes away when I replace the unreachable sto...

All right! So, for example, if I research Steel Processing, the Research UI shows [ Red x5s ] x50 So this means, each lab takes 5s to process a pack, and I need 50 packs in total? Stated differently, if I had 50 labs (all supplied), I'd research the tech in 5s, since that is the minimum time taken ...

The time it takes depends on what you are researching. If you look in the technology screen, the time required to consume each set of beakers required for the tech is shown next to the beaker types required. So Automation takes 10s to consume 1 red beaker, and you then have to do that 10 times (so 1...

jamiechi1 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:09 am

Dealing with pointers is trivial and can be learned in 5 minutes.

The rules of chess are trivial and can be learned in 5 minutes.

bormand wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:28 am

1000 of each pack. Excluding military, probably.

IMO, excluding military makes the whole thing significantly easier, and it's not a mega- or giga- without all 7.

Whatever language it is, it's got to hide pointers and memory management from the modder. I've interviewed CSE graduates who couldn't deal with that stuff, I wouldn't try to make Joe Random try to do it. no way. garbage collection is one of the worst parts about Lua, and it's incredibly inefficient...

Whatever language it is, it's got to hide pointers and memory management from the modder. I've interviewed CSE graduates who couldn't deal with that stuff, I wouldn't try to make Joe Random try to do it.

I think the solution is that the bots should not park in the roboport if there is still stuff to build! If they try to charge off an unpowered roboport and exhaust its small internal buffer, they should find the closest roboport with power to charge, not just park.

I have a spreadsheet where I worked out the bare minimum for the tech required to get to rocket, and iron ore came out to 225k. Note this doesn't include the cost to build anything else, including the silo and rocket itself, just the tech.

See viewtopic.php?f=66&t=28946

Use a decider combinator with an Anything output.

ptx0 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:07 pm

also it's weird they aren't called turrents like everyone else in the world calls them.

Who is everyone else? The only language I can find that comes close is the Dutch torentje.

Redpossum wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:18 pm

"accidentally hit the spacebar and lit my production line on fire"

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