The downside to choosing to store as Solid/Rocket Fuel over fluid form is lost flexibility. If you suddenly had demand for LO or PG, you have to process more crude to fill it, whereas if you store LO and PG, you now have a reserve which could fill that demand without even needing to run your refine...

One train deadlock is possible in roundabout. I was able to test my idea: Cause of deadlock would be breaking train path while in middle of roundabout. This could be easily done by bitter attack or player rebuilding rails. These are not situations an intersection should be able to handle. If it can...

So you just want a place where you collect all stuff you make so you can pick it up? Why don't you do it with bots? And why not just have a box for every item type or something? And why do you want that flexibility anyway? You can just manually set filters on your inserters. There is really no reaso...

Known bugs: when a bunch of items over the belt so that more than 1 sensor see it, and you take that item of the chest. What do you exactly mean by this? Do you mean that this go wrong when an item is at the border of 2 belts so 2 belt sensors see that item at the same time? Then the solution is si...

So, does anyone have an idea how this is stored in ram in such a way that it is accessible in realtime? This prior post details some aspects of the world generation, as does this wiki page . It is procedurally generated using Perlin noise. (In principle they could have used any parameterizable loca...

Alright, I'm done experimenting. Thanks, you've finally put me on the right track. First of all, regarding your last example: The combinator that does "each + 1" is not necessary, you can simply put "-2^31" in the constant combinator (instead of calculating "2^31-1+1" ...

But it can work at full speed. What you do is instead of having the constant combi output a -2 (or whatever is appropiate) you replace that -2 signal with the contents of the chest. Yes, but I do not want several combinators per chest. Actually I'd have a simpler solution that only needs 1 combinat...

So apparently the max map size is 2000km by 2000km. 1km = actually 1000 tiles. So that is 2M * 2M tiles = 4000000000000 tiles 4*10^12 tiles!! I have just 8 gigs of ram. That means 8 * 10^9 * 8 bits = 64 * 10^9 bits. That doesn't even come close to 4*10^12 bits you'll need if you store every tile us...

So apparently the max map size is 2000km by 2000km. 1km = actually 1000 tiles. So that is 2M * 2M tiles = 4000000000000 tiles 4*10^12 tiles!! I have just 8 gigs of ram. That means 8 * 10^9 * 8 bits = 64 * 10^9 bits. That doesn't even come close to 4*10^12 bits you'll need if you store every tile usi...

But you can also use a trick to let inserters pick up any number of items at a time. Then they'll never have items left in their hand. I described it in another post ( https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28110 ). Yeah I saw that solution (that's why I came here, you linked to it fro...

Wait... did anyone notice.... 2000km x 2000km = 2M * 2M tiles = 4000000000000 square tiles. = 4x10^12!!! I have just 8 gigs of ram. If every tile took up a single bit this wouldn't be enough by far. You would need 465 giga byte. Now I am reeaaaly curious how you guys store the map in ram. There has ...

What's the problem in putting like 16 tanks for PG and LB (with pumps at exit) and a lot of chemical plants to convert HO/LO instantly before they start blocking the whole process? In other words - what is the purpose of storing HO/LO? The point is that the oil resource / well is used economical an...

This is becoming more and more a duplicate of https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28268 But you can also use a trick to let inserters pick up any number of items at a time. Then they'll never have items left in their hand. I described it in another post ( https://forums.factorio.com/...

Hi, I've run into a related problem that merits discussion in this thread, maybe somebody has good ideas. I need a train loader that loads items according to a filter. It's not a loader for a supply train, it's a regular outpost loader that supplies more than one type of resource. For example, imag...

What's the problem in putting like 16 tanks for PG and LB (with pumps at exit) and a lot of chemical plants to convert HO/LO instantly before they start blocking the whole process? In other words - what is the purpose of storing HO/LO? The point is that the oil resource / well is used economical an...

These numbers are : active assemblers with that recipe / total assemblers with that recipe / total assemblers in game (all recipes) same things with furnaces. I understand what they are. I am proposing to remove that last number (total number of assemblers) from the table and simply show it once so...

I have a feature request, a question and 2 possible a bug reports. In the object screen (the lower part of the main screen) there are number concerning the number of machines that create the selected object. active assemblers/total assemblers with that recipe/total assemblers. Question : Why is that...

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That is perfect

Thanks!

No problem!

What you can do is to set your belt that are hooked up to your circuit network to pulse mode. You then figure out whether the inserter should pick it up. That is, if the chest already has 4 different item types and whether the item is one of the item types already stored. For that you can hook up th...

U don't need combinators you can connect the pumps directly to the tanks. Huh! Yea, you're right. I would still need the combis to shut off the pumps to cracking and solid fuel production though. I don't want them to run unnecessarily or when I need all my fluids for consumption for acid etc. I als...