A barrel can take 25 fluid... a stack can hold 10 barrels... thats 250 fluid per slot, a chest hast 48 slots... 12000 fluid per chest and tile... and with 9 chests you have 108000 fluid on the same area as a storage tank. But that kind of storage density comes at a price: 4392 steel! Trade-off, tra...

The assembler putting out a signal of residue-items I think is more elegant. It is straight forward, just use a filter inserter to exsert items from the assembler And what stops the output inserter from "exerting" these residue items to output belt. The output inserter would need to be fi...

I don't want to have to deal with entering perfect amounts of items in a system that doesn't even support insertion of perfect items without mind boggling setups that defy any reason and useabillity. Then just allow bots to take out residual items when recipe changes. The Crafting Combinator mod do...

I used a mod which allows changing assembler recipe and actually built something that works: https://youtu.be/cGfAFxHplnE My thoughs: A clever circuit network setup can workaround all the issues mentioned above. It's not easy, then again it shouldn't be Issues with input inserters locking up are sol...

Around two years ago on a Vader-san stream...

That space is used when the belt tile is connected to the circuit network.

Which leads me to wonder, apart from soem very clever stuff with circuits, what else can you use them for? Around two months ago I was asking myself a similar question. Have been tinkering with circuit network stuff ever since. :D I made this a few days ago (used a mod to allow changing assembler r...

BenSeidel wrote:Lost an eyebrow? what did you connect together!

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You don't need to put the power switch in range of any pole. Wires reach up to 7 tiles. True, but that's manual wiring. Which can't be blueprinted. I would prefer if no manual wiring at all was needed for power switch to work. Either by allowing it to work based on placement only without wires, or ...

Could the power switch be made 3 tiles wide at least? It being two tile wide means that if two power poles can reach the power switch then those two poles can also reach each other. This causes an annoying usability issue: Place down power switch Place electric pole for right side Place electric pol...

How is that possible after 9 tiles... Rounding errors? Because in theory if the item-distances align perfectly with the tile entrance AND exit then you get 1 item more than you'd get if the item-distances are not exactly matching up with the tile entrance AND exit... so there's at least a small win...

Pushing mixed fluid types doesn't quite work. But small pumps can "slurp" up to 10 units of some liquid type at it's input. If you need to slurp more then add pipe segments at the output of the pump.

At least I don't think that XKnights suggestion of having a constant integer value of items on a single belt tile is possible from a hypothetical perspective even if the item distance was adjusted to be conform with a belt tile length... there'd still be the moment when there are 4 items on the til...

Isn't the "stacked worlds" system already possible using the multiple surfaces like Factorissimo mod uses? The issue is that it probably be really hard to generate that kind of stuff procedurally while remaining consistent. I personally would prefer an elevation system more similar to what...

I made a mod which kinda does that: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Yoyobuae/yoyobuae-transformer Open it's UI and set a signal type and it will output that signal with the power transferred across it as it's count. For example, set it to signal P and it would output P=1.8M (1.8 MW). It shows the cur...

Transformer mod uses an assembler to drain one network and an generator to power the other. With the amount of code used to control these two entities, Accumulator links should have better performance. I recently noticed the existence of the electric-energy-interface entity. It's allows complete co...

Red and green logistic networks.

Assembling machine: set recipe

An example of what would be possible with this feature:
https://youtu.be/cGfAFxHplnE

I've done a furnace using this kind of concept: https://youtu.be/hKnnk31yKuw It performs 1:1 replacement of input to output. With the output occupying the exact same space as the corresponding input. System is guaranteed to process all the input so no loopback is needed. The bad part of my design is...

The furnace setup looks very elegant, but why do you rely on coal when electric furnaces are simpler to operate? Because tech tree: Automation --> Electronics --> Circuit Network I will make a Steel Furnace version. Since by the time Circuit network is researched one would also have steel furnaces ...