I really do like the new beacon, good job on that one.

Not the desired solution, but what I did was to bind the different shortcut bars to [ctrl + 1-9]. Took a bit of getting used to but it gave me an effective 60 easily accesible shortcut slots and another 40 more ffort ones.

You can also turn the many-many into many-one-many with a big buffering and packaging station in the middle. That central one of course has to be appropriately huge dimensioned.

So you want an SR-Latch that works on each if understand you correctly? The basic shape is the same as here https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Circuit_network_cookbook#RS_latch_-_single_decider_version, except the decider combinator does EACH > 0 OUTPUT 1 EACH, The restriction is that S and R signal...

if you want to cheat at Solitaire, who cares?

I am looking forward to seeing this launching a rocket with satellite.

I think the pistol should be left in. I actually wrote this post initially arguing the other side but while doing so I changed my mind. On the negative side there is the annoyance of dealing with a worthless pistol item to discard when respawning and some time after start, but that is a rather small...

My 2 cents:
a) or rather !A)!, way to red, does stand out to much.
b) I feel like the new design is a bit to much punk/retro-scifi compared to the rest of Factorio style though I am not 100% on this and would need to experience it in action more.

In my experience I research a lot faster than I used that research so I just let it back up on the belt and don't care about synchronizing production speeds. Once the assembly machines sleep 0 is always equal to 0.

Yeah bluprintbookdeletion desperatly needs a confirmation.

Without the exception to long trains deadlock on themselves and the only way to prevent this (large enough circles were they can't block themselves) also fixes the "crashing into itself" problem with the exception.

I think if someone wants to go seriously megabase big turning off biters is recommended for the CPU savings?

I would call it "notable iron and copper expenditure"

You'd need a workaround. Assuming no other mods you'd have combinators to figure out what should be requested and then you lay a wire connection to the exit of where the two trains wait and open the road for them. You'd probably want a waiting station close to the destination where the trains wait u...

I'd rather describe it as "Go there [], depart when [], go there [], depart when [], etc etc". But I guess that's semantics.

Iirc the pathfinding happens actually rather rarely, so it might not have recalculated the path.

I am still not sure I understand your goal exactly. You want to sort the items in a cluster of chest in such a way that certain chests contain certain types of items? If so (unless you are using buffer chests, which apparently you aren't) why aren't you simply sorting the input lines to those chests?

Do I understand correctly that you want to distribute contents from passive provider chests to other provider chests?

I guess instead of looking for laser turret spikes you could do a rough estimation how many towers you'd expect to fire during an attack at most simultaneusly, depending on your tower setup and then compare that with with the max amount of power possible, that way you wouldn't have to wait for parti...

My general rule of thumb:

1: Estimate the space you think you will need, be generous.
2: Now tile that to a 2X3.
3: Add a good deal buffer around the edges for belts and pipes
4: Make sure that there is still space close by for 2 additional similar sized blocks.