Friday Facts #138 - Better Circuit Network III

[Twinsen]

More info about the circuit network
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-138

[nobodx]

Page is loading for me, (except the 2 images). the circuit-changes sounds cool. and congratulations to the 2 Awards

[Jonathan88]

Congratulations on the awards!!!
You deserve them!

[DaveMcW]

Read inserter hand contents!

[ratchetfreak]

• Accumulator is connectable to the circuit network. It sends it's charge level as a percentage.
• Requester chest's requested items can be set automatically from the circuit network.
• Smart inserter can have it's filters set automatically from the circuit network.

much requested features

Additionally for train stations there should be a "trigger departure". and detect train arrival pulse/hold (for when empty trains arrive).

[fishycat]

grats for the two pacmans they are well deserved. now with all this news and a "soon" in my head for the 0.13 release i really got more impatient!

[Originus]

congratulations to the awards, you deserved it!

[terror_gnom]

Nice one Congrats to the Awards and I realy like the changes *thumpsup*

[Rhamphoryncus]

More virtual signals.

Does that include a count of bot types? It would be useful trying to build to a specific bot count as well as when automatically upgrading bot types in mods.

[Zeblote]

So the smart inserter doesn't get removed?

[Hindenobyl]

I see nothing but good things in this one. Congratulations on the well deserved awards.

[Heli]

Congratulations on the awards you deserved them. Circuit network needed some work and improvement and i am happy to see you are doing it .

[Proxy]

The Circuit Network just gets more useful with every new FFF!
man, can't wait to try to build a Display that shows what i am short of.
or the Logistics Pipes System (which is not the best in MMC) to automatically Craft stuff. as counting will mostlikly be easier with 0.13!

[AnarCon]

congrats on the reward, well deserved looking forward to 13

[Xterminator]

First off, congratulations on the awards they are awesome and certainly well deserved!

Although I don't use Circuit Networks a ton right now, all these changes seem awesome and might prompt me to learn more and start using the Circuit Network more. Especially now that Belts and stuff can be connected it would be cool to see the actual throughput of a belt tile or multiple ones. Haha

[brunzenstein]

Congratulations to the well deserved prices ( Many more to come certainly) and for the upcoming feature mentioned in #138:
thank you indeed

[Satis]

So the smart inserter doesn't get removed?

I believe that the old green smart inserter will be replaced with the new purple one.
Also all the other inserters should have the same functionality as the old green smart inserter as well now, once you have researched logistic network

[magals]

on / off constant combinator in manual switch? wtf. better signal using

[GodricSeer]

Mining drill - read the amount of resources remaining, read the Pumpjack resources per minute

This sounds like it will be an awesome update. Will mining drills work like pumpjacks (and handle the fact that they are over more than one resource entity) if we install something like endless resources?

[RackAttack]

So the smart inserter doesn't get removed?

I believe that the old green smart inserter will be replaced with the new purple one.
Also all the other inserters should have the same functionality as the old green smart inserter as well now, once you have researched logistic network

Don't think that's quite true. As I undersand it, the logistics tab won't become available until you research logistics, but the green smart inserter will be available before that and will have its item filtering ability without logistics researched. Other inserters (orange/blue) will not have item filtering abilities, even with logistics researched. Whether or not the new rapid/batch/bulk (purple) inserter will have item filtering is unclear AFAIK, but it's possible I missed it.