That's just how splitters work. They don't even try to split each lane individually. The take input (both lanes) and do "one to left, one to right" repeatedly. In your case that leads to all right lane items going left and all left lane items going right. Can also lead to crazy stuff like:...

Solar boiler + Steam Engine = Electricity Solar Panel = Electricity Why? Because: Solar Panel + Accumulator = Electricity (all day) Solar boiler + Storage Tank + Steam Engine = Electricity (all day) A completely filled tank with 100 degrees hot water stores 212 Megajoules! This is the equivalent to...

In sum: Between 33 and 62 keys or clicks (if calced correct). Let's say a good player can do 200 keys per minute, the he needs between 10 and 19 seconds. That would be ok. But a not so good player can click only once per second: he needs in the bad case over 3 minutes. And a beginner takes 5 or 10....

I'm probably missing many important details, but would it be possible to make a mod which "connects" two separate Factorio (headless) instances in some ways? For example, imagine one instance is just power generation. The power generation grid is connected to a special entity which just dr...

Hm. It's useful to use slow belts in some (tricky) situations. An area effect would not allow that. You need to upgrade each belt separately. There are other ways to upgrade mass of belts. I like the idea with the three basic inserters (burner, short -arm, long-arm) and upgrade with modules. :) The...

Even simpler make half of an RS-Latch. One decider always outputing S = 1 while R = 0 and place another decider always outputting R = 1 in the switched off circuit. if power is available R will be 1 and if it's off S is 1. That's the issue the OP is having, when combinators run out of power they st...

At least I find it better than most Linux distributions which suffer technical teething due to how they lack any co-operative effort or vision. Not to speak of usability problems if one digs far into the unknown hells of distribution forks. It's like jumping over the devil's fork itself. It's what ...

When combinators are out of power the freeze their output signal.

So put a clock combinator setup behind the power switch. Then check if the clock is still running (compare current value with past value).

Don't you just need to do it one time and then you can copy&paste the settings around. Or are you saying that even doing it the first time for each production type is to much already?

I'm not getting exactly what you claim to take too much clicks, can you explain with an example?

A separate entity that acts like power pole but does not "auto-connect" anything, does seem useful for circuit networks. It would allow to drop down the blueprints in power pole populated area without worries of those copper wires criss crossing everything. I think the suggestion is valua...

Add more signals in the rest of the rail track. You probably have one huge block of track which goes from the right exit all the way around the loop into the left entrance. You need to add signals to split that block into smaller bits. That's probably something tutorials should talk about. Signals a...

If you could choose how 'Each' summarizes it's result you wouldn't need the special 'Anything' and 'Everything' signals. You are right, you would not NEED the Anything and Everything signals. But just so I am clear what you intend to introduce to the game by removing them, lets try to build the equ...

All the problems are originated from the full belt that can contain 6,7 or 8 items otherwise the design could even be more simple If I'm understanding right that issue could be solved by reading from 9 belt tiles together. Added together 9 belt tiles contain EXACTLY 64 items. Try it with a complete...

It's BASE64 encoded and GZipped. Technically, I think it's just Deflated, as it does not have a gzip header from what I can tell. Weill I just asked the file utility on Linux and it said it was gzip: $ cat blueprint.txt | base64 -d | file - /dev/stdin: gzip compressed data And piping it to zcat ins...

Mehve wrote:I had thought about that, but isn't that sort of circuit setup vulnerable to one of the inserter outputs backing up?

Then make sure that situation doesn't happen.

Or if it can't be avoided then would need to use "Read hand contents(hold)" instead, plus a a couple more combinators.

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/5il6d4/circuit_network/dba2ayb/ +----------------------------+ | Inserter | | Enable: FastInserter = 0 | +-------------------------------+ | Read hand contents (pulse) +-----+--+--+ Decider +--+ +----------------------------+ | | | | | | | | (Fast...

In the sandbox mode there is no player. This has a few negative effects: 1) No armor so one can't carry more 2) No armor so one can't have a personal roboport, limits blueprinting a lot 3) can't drive trains or cars 4) can't test gates reacting to players, e.g. a safe railroad crossing Better just ...

How do you read the blueprint string anyway. It begins with H4sIAAAAAA what does that mean? It's BASE64 encoded and GZipped. Once those two are undone you get something like: do local _={entities={{name="constant-combinator",position={x=-3,y=-1},direction=2,control_behavior={filters={{sig...

Or make it so that putting a blueprint in a logistic requests slot request the source materials instead (if blueprint is non-empty).

What about the blueprint string function? Would be more convenient if that was included in the game. BP string copy&paste to/from clipboard could be more streamlined. BP string mod works, but requires a few steps to get blueprint string out of the game (save BP to file, open BP string output fol...