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Hello everyone, i cant for the life of me find a way to get combinators to read from the powergrid how many mashines of a specific type there is. I searched the wiki and forums but cant find any possibility to do this. Is there really no combinator that can do this? pls halp

In the vanilla game, i don't think it is possible ( been playing for a few years but ofc i could still discover something new).

And i don't know for sure if a mod would help, there are/were mods called "sensor", like "https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Optera/I ... y%20Sensor" maybe one of them you can use at your advantage but i don't remember using one with that particular function.

Not very helpful, but i can't do better

Inventory Sensor reads as the name implies inventories.

what you want is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Circuit_P ... Combinator

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Mon Apr 20, 2020 7:33 pm

Inventory Sensor reads as the name implies inventories.

what you want is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Circuit_P ... Combinator

Sry, i should have specified that I am searching for somthing that can give me the number of specific mashines thas consume power, like a roboport or pumpjack

It looks like the machine counts are a high-overhead lua-only thing at the moment, you'd have to do a find_entities_filtered checking the connected power grid for anything that might be in range, and it looks like the lua value arbitrarily shows multi-homed devices as attached to just one.