Friday Facts #122 - Better circuit network (Part 1)

[Twinsen]

Get the latest info about the circuit network http://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122

[keyboardhack]

Making combinators easier to use is a great step forward!

[Weresmilodon]

FFF not up yet!

It is now.

Edit;

Roboport is connectable to the circuit network. It sends the logistic network contents.

Does this also apply to both active and item robots in the network? (Preferably separately)

Being able to just have a smart inserter load robots into a roboport until a set number of active robots would be wonderful.

[_aD]

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[jeroon]

I agree 100% with _aD, great FFF!

[Twinsen]

Does this also apply to both active and item robots in the network? (Preferably separately)
Being able to just have a smart inserter load robots into a roboport until a set number of active robots would be wonderful.

At the moment it just sends the available items in logistic chests. I plan to make it possible to select what you want to get, either items or the network stats(like the number of available and total construction and logistic robots).

[Yttrium]

That "Nonsense" is what I actually use to check how compressed a belt is, If all materials split perfectly then I know that my belt is "Fully compressed" But if you can change this behaviour without breaking splitter filtering then I'm fine with changing it.

[Xarph]

Could the colors on wires be changed? As red-green colorblind person, copper and green wires look the same, and red wires are almost impossible to see in dirt-settings. If there's an option to make arbitrary colored wires, they could also be used for more complex circuits.

[AssaultRaven]

Could the colors on wires be changed? As red-green colorblind person, copper and green wires look the same, and red wires are almost impossible to see in dirt-settings. If there's an option to make arbitrary colored wires, they could also be used for more complex circuits.

That is a good idea.

But to go a bit further, I'm not color blind and as of a year ago I had 20/20 vision, and I also have trouble seeing wires. They're just so thin! Maybe detail view could make them just a pixel or 2 thicker? Or make their display length configurable between "thin" and "fat?" Which, again, might just need a pixel or 2 difference between those options.

[Weresmilodon]

I plan to make it possible to select what you want to get, either items or the network stats(like the number of available and total construction and logistic robots).

Nice.

[Rseding91]

Could the colors on wires be changed? As red-green colorblind person, copper and green wires look the same, and red wires are almost impossible to see in dirt-settings. If there's an option to make arbitrary colored wires, they could also be used for more complex circuits.

That is a good idea.

But to go a bit further, I'm not color blind and as of a year ago I had 20/20 vision, and I also have trouble seeing wires. They're just so thin! Maybe detail view could make them just a pixel or 2 thicker? Or make their display length configurable between "thin" and "fat?" Which, again, might just need a pixel or 2 difference between those options.

Wires are just sprites You can easily make a mod to replace the sprites with any you'd like.

[Gwynbleidd]

Could the colors on wires be changed? As red-green colorblind person, copper and green wires look the same, and red wires are almost impossible to see in dirt-settings. If there's an option to make arbitrary colored wires, they could also be used for more complex circuits.

I'd also like some colorblind friendly changes or a colorblind config option (lots of games have them now). Regular and advanced circuits, regular inserters and smart inserters, active provider and requester chests all look the same to me.

[V453000]

I am afraid it would become harder to do this properly if you consider that the combinator sprites also include wires, and some other entities as well.

[Zeblote]

In light of all this information, we are considering changing the way splitter works. Possibly by making have a internal state per transport belt lane instead of per item. It split each lane of each belt equally to the output.

No more ugly one sided belts

[ratchetfreak]

Will we be able to mod the circuit network properly in 0.13? To give mods the option to create custom combinators and more complex activation options

At the very least there needs to be a way to get the input into a connector and setting the output. (

[DOSorDIE]

When we can connect the Assembling Machine to the Circuit network to control what they should build would be my dream ...
Then i can make a full automatic fabric that build what it need without that from each type 1 Assembling Machine are needed.
And progamable smart Inserter (Filter) whould be also nice.
Set the smart Inserter to "Signal" then it filter what came as signal.

But the new features also be great ... when we can have it to play with it
Thank you dev team for the great work you make!

[ghoti]

I've had a lot of fun messing with the splitters, turning them into sorting machines. To be honest I'm a little sad to see the behavior changed, but even still, you have my blessing there.

It's funny, it's useless, and it's harmless, but I think it's better that splitters didn't have this unexpected behavior.

[pcmaster160]

In light of all this information, we are considering changing the way splitter works. Possibly by making have a internal state per transport belt lane instead of per item. It split each lane of each belt equally to the output.

No more ugly one sided belts

I like the one sided belts, it's a good indicator of how compressed the belt coming in is (if there are a few that end up in the middle this is shown). In addition it's not like the splitter doesn't fill the inside after the outside lanes are full.

[Smarty]

what is looking good twinsen nice work

[vaderciya]

Is there a circuit/combinator tutorial somewhere that I can watch or read? I want to use them in my factories, but I don't know how they work