I find myself using relative snapping an awful lot more than absolute, yeah.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1647718681333536056/2CCAC2E775B72F7AD615A0484B28FDE69DA158F1/ An arithmetic combinator set to subtract used fuel cells from fresh fuel cells, outputting the result as fresh fuel cells, acts as a memory cell. It is wired input to output, and then to the two...

Nosferatu wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:26 pm

Have you heard the shocking news?
A deep brownout can freeze your precious combinator contraptions.

Ironically enough, the problem that the linked post was talking about was stuff not freezing in a brownout.

Another alternative would've been to split the barrel train's wagonload half and half with filtered slots. It cuts the train's throughput, but how much acid are you really using?

Ok, did some work on the measurement side of things; it's no longer quite so slapdash: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1647718493145228172/EFF4583F7FF56F3C145A284010BDAEA462832D4D/ Now incorporates a direct UPS in the form of a solar panel and accumulator for the pumps, reactor inserters,...

Not just blueprints, but actual placed entities. Refineries, chemical plants, assemblers, belts, inserters, you name it.

Yes this would allow building properly mirrored chemical plant/oil refinery runs, freed from the curse of chirality. I consider that a plus.

That is exactly why I moved away from belt busses and switched to a modular rail network. I always ran out of room to add belts to the bus. If I run into bottlenecks with the rail system all I need to do is drop down another production module. If the main line starts getting too much traffic I simp...

But wow, so much to think about. For this map, the Oil deposits were wayyyyy to the SE, and I didn't plan well for that. I now use trains to bring light oil, heavy oil, plastic and blue circuits from the Oil deposits. Maybe I should have just brought the crude oil? That's my preference. Fluids are ...

Durr wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:59 am

I'm not really a fan of the free energy thing either. I wouldn't mind if it needed to use fuel to run.

Nuclear fuel, perhaps?

I'd begrudge sacrificing the inventory space, though.

I would like that, yes.

In combination with some relatively simple circuits to close a station's entry signal it's not really possible to have an 'overused' station any more. Build as many trains as you have your train limits set and you'll never encounter it again: your trains will distribute themselves among the network,...

You know, I honestly thought they were damaged by friendly fire rockets, given how much damage my spidertrons take when they swarm up and deathblossom :v

Yeah, sorry for not including that initially. I didn't realize it was MP only until you told me you couldn't repro it and I went and did a quick check in SP and then couldn't repro it either. Was wondering if I was going nuts until I realized there was a distinction I'd missed :v

The easiest way to address a spaghetti base is to build a clean one a little ways off. Use the working output of the spaghetti base to bootstrap the next one, which you can design more cleanly because now you have a better idea of what's needed and how to lay it out. I tend to think in terms of asse...

Woops! I just threw it together as an example since I knew it could be done; unfortunately in that game the rail net is RHD, so I wound up with the same layout you did. Then I copied it & converted it to LHD for the screencap, but I guess I missed some bits. Obviously you'd want to actually sign...

If I'm not mistaken, you can't do that optimally with that rail spacing. I tried to do the same thing as you, but failed. I could solve my issue with the help I got from hansjoachim. (designed my own intersection, only reused the rail spacing). You can, but not with RHD. Take mmmPI's layout, switch...

Please.

It seems to work correctly. You probably didn't select the source entity correctly. Do you have some exact steps to reproduce the issue? Shift-click is also the keyboard shortcut for "Remove pole cables", so if there is nothing to paste, the cables are removed from the side the mouse is c...

I was *wondering* where my post went :v

Yes indeed.