At the least, the bots should grab the item from your inventory on the same tick as they leave, before you have a chance to move out of range. I wouldn't mind having bots jump out to lay down some solar panels as I scream by on my way to somewhere and have them eventually catch up, as long as they a...

What if you place a buffer chest next to your passive provider? Have it request 1 item. An inserter will pick that item and start to move it to your PP chest. While in hand, the logistics bots will run off and grab an item out of storage for your butter chest. I can't think of a good way to make it ...

As far as prioritizing types of things (EG deconstruction, then power poles, then other stuff), that seems simple. Just take the existing ghost list, and split it into multiple shorter lists. Each tick, the top priority ghost list is checked as it is now. If no bot can be assigned, then again act as...

I've made an update worth mentioning: By swapping most of the combinators over to using Each, and a bit of futzing to isloate the clock, the memory is now multichannel (everything except S is remembered since that is used for the clocked shifting signal) I've eliminated a tick and a combinator from ...

I had a desire to see my power history and came up with this tonight: PowerHistoryGraph.png It was pretty straightforward, once the plan was set. - The starting block measures an accumulator and divides by 13 to get a 3-bit value (0-7) (Any input could be used of course, as long as you divide it dow...

I think you might have done too much computer science and not enough cheating :) Congrats on sticking it out and actually making legit memory cells that work - you can probably work that into an actual computer. If you don't need to know the exact values, and just want to know if the last change was...

Another complication here is that manual wires which you will need to use in the setup are really badly blueprinted. They do blueprint but poles will automatically interconnect right after you place blueprint if they can reach one another. The suggestion to add circuit connection to radars to detec...

Is there any clever way for a circuit network to detect biters? The majority of my base's power usage is currently going to idle laser towers, and the spikes during an attack are surprisingly small. I'd like to make peril-sensitive firebases that bring additional guns online when there is an imminen...

I think I've solved the problem by with a bit of parallel track to move the exit's connection point. Making the on-ramp and off-ramp be the same block with no forks other than the branch to the stops.
The train should certainly not path to its current location.

I've been suffering this with my copper train trying to do a loop-de-loop through my drill factory, which generates a cascade failure of two thirds of my entire network. If I'm following the thread's speculations correctly, would it help to use varying block sizes with the signals, and ensure a smal...

While that should avoid the rapid switching problem, that much effort is unnecessary, because heat/steam in boilers does not decay if it isn't used by the steam machines and boilers (contrary to nuclear reactors) only burn fuel at the rate that is actually drawn by your system. The overall resource...

I've just made some modular armor, and have the solar panels, but they take a while to juice things up, the fusion reactor is a ways off, and I can't plug in to the main grid. However I do have a whole stack of these copper top batteries. What about using batteries straight out of the chemical plant...

Updated:
Math fix - assembly machine works 25% faster than assumed, saving energy and driving up the efficiency by a few more percent.

The "B" signal is not even necessary. An even simpler way to make it is: "A > 0; Output A = 1" (and feed it back to itself). This one is toggled on with any positive "A" (of any length), and toggled off with any negative "A". A great use for this is to have a...

I had some time on a long car trip and made a spreadsheet to do some figuring for an optimal way to boost chemical energy storage. After I got some interesting numbers out, I was able to wrangle them into an over-unity device. (Sadly not a perpetual motion machine since it can't use the rocket fuel ...

Is it possible to mirror (not rotate) the fluid inputs/outputs on chemical plants? They always seem to be on the most inconvenient side and I haven't been trained to subconsciously lay out my base in the ideal manner yet. If it is smart enough to take either input from either pipe and I simply haven...

I did see those.
I'll play around with the train parts first, but if I can't figure out why it isn't working, then I'll hit those tutorials.

Ok, I've got another thing :D I only discovered the blueprints button after launching my first rocket. I'd scoured the tech tree looking for blueprints, possibly relating to the robots, and given up to assume it was a mod thing. Only now I found the button that means I've had them all along when I e...

The biggest thing IMO: The demo should be updated to a more recent build. My initial contact was through youtube videos. I was playing around with the demo and trying to tweak graphics settings to get it to run well without the terrain and random textures vanishing. Tweaked enough to play the demo s...

You are probably all aware that even a basic base soon requires underground belts to get items from Point A to Point B as the number of factory links becomes non-trivial. I've been playing the demo while trying to find settings that allow my potato of a video card to successfully render everything. ...