... to preserve order. How would the user interact with that inventory? How would the blueprint include the contents of that inventory? How would bots place modules into that inventory after blueprinting? Creating an inventory is not the problem. The chest entity already has one. It's the contents ...

... Features New Weapons: Enchant your arsenal with magical weaponry. New Tier of Buildings: Elevate your industrial prowess with advanced structures. Bots: Implement magical bots to automate various tasks. Please note that this mod is a work in progress, and more exciting features are on the horizon! ...

BubstyBoy wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:02 pm

If this event existed, I would use it for a mod I would like to make that gives construction bots personal shields/weapons.

I think you can get basically the same thing using a created_effect script trigger.

If this event existed, I would use it for a mod I would like to make that gives construction bots personal shields/weapons.

... what is shown here. That is one (very) efficient way to do, but it uses robots so that wouldn't correspond to the definition of train loader (w/o Bots). "High" throughput is "subjective", OP could have staggered inserters 4 or 10 ticks aparts but that would have been against ...

Why would this not apply for multiples wagons ? it would mean doing them 1 after the other ? or not possible at all ? i'm not sure what you mean. Ok, I looked more thoroughly. This implementation just loads what has been defined externally. It doesn't even look if there is already something of that...

Hopefully this makes a little more sense... It does make sense, but it's doesn't make it more intuitive for me x) There is an example for your loader. You mention you want multiple wagons for your trains in the end. But your current solution doesn't scale to multiple wagons. I don't mean the size a...

There was a moment where it dawned on me how much other infrastructure needs to be built out to actually use this. Keep this in mind. That's a vital consideration. From my own experience, it's fun to create a solution for some real problem in a controlled lab environment. However, when I start to p...

Bitwise operations are often easier in programming for dealing with power-of-2 numbers. In this case 1<<30 is the same as 2^30, and is exactly 1/4th the range of the 32-bit integer (the full range is exactly 2^32). The particular bits being set here don't actually matter, addition or subtraction wo...

Bitwise operations are often easier in programming for dealing with power-of-2 numbers. In this case 1<<30 is the same as 2^30, and is exactly 1/4th the range of the 32-bit integer (the full range is exactly 2^32). The particular bits being set here don't actually matter, addition or subtraction wo...

It's not clear for me how you fill and refill the chests. In your video, you just insert a few items manually and completely ignore this aspect. But that's vital for practical and automated use. It seems you intend shuffling items with some splitter contraption, then insert them into the chests by ...

Maybe by having the bots pausing for some seconds after deconstructing, to see if you paste the items you've just cut? I don't think those extra seconds before they head back to the mall to drop their load if you don't paste the recently ...

... a (yellow) storage chest, and placing one of each item that I expect to be deconstructed in it (belts, inserters, AM's, power pole,...). All bots will dump the deconstructed items in the chest and go wait in a nearby roboport, and once you start reconstructing, both bots and items are nearby. ...

If when placing a blueprint, instead of just provider and buffer chests being queried for available items, bots in the air on their way to dump their inventory were also queried within a smaller distance than the found item. And with some max radius to speed up the bot search ...

... would be if there's no items stored in the logistics network for that, making the deconstructed item the only option, or if there isn't enough bots to fulfill all the tasks, making it possible that both a construction and deconstruction order exist at once when a bot gets around to it, but ...

Thoughts? 1) That has to be one of the most convoluted way to solve this problem i've ever seen 2) i think for long videos of explanations like those, people sometimes make several cuts and/or bullet points on a list to look at to avoid skipping something or saying another thing twice. 3) It's cool...

... improvements didn't mention anything like this, so I decided to make a post TL;DR Make moving buildings better by making it so that construction bots don't have to travel all the way to a storage chest to store a deconstructed building just for another bot to immediately grab it and carry it ...

I agree with Tertius, and would like to add some: Why? Is this supposed to be a solution to a problem? Because what kind of train has only a single wagon (and no room to expand solution) and high throughput requirements and also carries multiple items in arbitrary configurations? I can't find a use ...

It's not clear for me how you fill and refill the chests. In your video, you just insert a few items manually and completely ignore this aspect. But that's vital for practical and automated use. It seems you intend shuffling items with some splitter contraption, then insert them into the chests by u...