I will take a look later but I do not think it's going to work.

I was trying to build a balanced logistic train station.

- Hence it could be any number of items.
- I have no way to guarantee that values of the signal would be unique in anyway.

I'm necroing this topic because we need a way to iterate through a signal for more complex programs. Currently, if you want to iterate through an input with no particular properties, the only possibility would be a giant mess with at least N+n combinators with N the number of different items and n t...

I want to iterate through a collection of signals, but I can't find an elegant way to iterate if many signals have all the same value. Sadly the special signal "Anything" isn't an output. Example: Input=10 of all signals Output= any single one of those I could even do if the output isn't c...

I second all those propositions of making automatic belt turns.

Basically belt must behave like laying roads in a building game.
It should also allow you to put a wider "road" (2 to n belts side by side), which some mods do.

The holes that would start to appear as you apply stackify and destackify would be a bit like reminders in integer divisions. I also don't see a use for computing number of items carried by bots through STACKIFY. It's actually a simple operation that's independent from item stack size, it just depen...

principle seems interesting, problem though I'm thinking about is if you're trying to assess your entire logistics network to see if you need more storage and say you have 100 items in stacks of 1 spread out over multiple chests does that return 100 stacks cause I'm trying to count how many stacks ...

Summary: currently in the game it's easy to know *QUANTITY* of items, but we lack an easy way to compute *SPACE*  of items (the number of stacks of blue belts in your logical system for instance). SPACE is usually important in a factory, but it's even more important in a train-centered Factorio. Giv...

I love almost all the changes proposed, I'm pleased to see ghost building extended (still not enough in my opinion). One important lesson I think from 0.15 is about Blueprints. Blueprints are great in 0.15, except for one thing, they're cumbersome as physical items. Hence it'd be nice if: - Blueprin...

steinio wrote:On and off is the best example for a boolean.

You only need one new signal...
On = 0 building chest whatever is off
On = 1 it's on

But =0 is the default value for a signal in Factorio, and =0 values actually don't get transmitted in a network I thought?

Another idea for OFF:

When a logistic chest receive the signal OFF, it stops being logistic until it is turned back ON again (so they just become a steel chest).

Actually I like it, but since ON is the preferred default I think only OFF is needed: If OFF has any value the device turns off, but still needs standby power. So as long as the OFF signal is given device is turned off. This prevents from turning something off but not be turned on again. This seems...

So 0.15 just applied a factor x10 to all liquids, but the mechanics are still valid? Thanks for the links.

Ah sorry dumb answer from me, I didn't realize the kind of problems overlapping network could create, like networks competing for tasks.

edit: I'm dumb, ignore this. 1. Seems like it would be a bit too complicated. I'm all for 2, which also makes 1. unneeded. In practice the game can already manage multiple logistic networks, as long as they don't touch each other.  It would be nice if we could overlap them, and I am curious if that'...

Offshore pump pumps 1200 water/sec, pipes can handle 1200 fluid/sec only over <= 14 pipes and 900 fluid/sec over <= 224 pipes. Your setup has more than 14 pipes between offshore pumps and heat exchangers and 1 heat exchanger needs a little bit more than 103 water/sec, therefore you need to keep 1 p...

Interesting links ssilk, but whether it's implemented as UNDO (via a trashcan or something) or a warning, I think this is a good suggestion. A book is even more painful than a single blueprint to delete accidentally. I once deleted one (small one) because I clicked on the trashcan, mentally thinking...

When an element of the circuit network receive the special signal OFF, it powers off (and does not transmit it to its output of course). When it receives the signal ON, it turns back ON. When an element that is wired to the circuit network receive signal OFF, it would ignore being wired until it is ...

Another idea: microchip: basically a mini-factory / modular armor type interface where you can add more combinators and that have a red+green input and a red+green output. Optionally make them have 'connectors' at the side where if you place two microchips side by side the red+green side output of ...

Even if we don't get the more fancy implementation Lav is suggesting, a simple * or a symbol next to shortcut that shares a key could be helpful given the high number of controls this game can use.

Please don't presume of people playstyle, that's just assholish. I don't know if you're talking to me or OP but I do automate my science and my labs. I certainly have a faster tech rate than 1 potion per minute. With that tech rate, it would take so long to reach bots or rocket tech (20h+? 50h?). Yo...