Bot sees something to do, bot goes to do it....oh crap, out of power, find nearest connection point and head that way....what was I doing? Not very fancy for "smart" entities to not look ahead of time. My suggestion is to change the pathing mechanic of the robots slightly, to the following...

You've misunderstood me...I'm not saying filter the items on the splitter or make a new splitter type at all. I was suggesting allow red and green circuit wires to be allowed to connect to the current splitters and have an "on/off" usage based on input. For a long time that I can remember,...

I voted "Other" and here's my explanation: Keep track of the research done on each thing. If you switch, you should lose 10% towards that research....because reasons. % can be balanced out, but this is to give a negative effect but not be detrimental either. (plus, when you tell your R&...

I would like a special case addition to this idea....holding shift should ignore special case expansions and rotations. For example, pipes and underground belts currently flip when you place it down, if we do the "hold" special case, then you end up drawing out the lines at maximum distanc...

No, I do not mean the mod....though if someone wants to make this idea into a mod, that would be great because I can't understand the gibberish to make it myself. The idea is simple....allow splitters to accept red/green wire circuit with a test-for GUI. If the test succeeds, splitter works as norma...

Straight to the point....a 1x1 "factory" object that can hold 1 blueprint. (can be inserted in and pulled out) Now for the technical: When a blueprint is placed into this factory, it will activate it based on the position of the factory in relation to itself within the blueprint under no r...