My goal is to place specific items on the conveyor belt for a factory. In my case, two raw materials are needed: stone and holmium ore. The factory detects what is on the belt and produces the product accordingly. Ideally, the circuit responsible for supplying the materials should handle all the logic beforehand.
There are 2x5 belts, and each lane has its own quality. Now, the circuit needs to do the following:
For the blueprint "Holmium Solution," 1x stone and 2x holmium ore are required, always in pairs per quality. So the circuit detects: there are 2 green stones and 4 green holmium ores. That means the factory can produce holmium twice. Then I place it on the belt—no stone left and no ore missing.
As long as this material is on the supply lane, no other building materials should be placed on the belt.
I translated this from German to English. Do you understand it?
So far, with many attempts, I have mostly made things worse. However, I have still gotten closer to the solution. But it exceeds my capacity. The idea is the foundation for more advanced scenarios.
There must be a way to create a compact solution without relying on logistics and without additional factories that do nothing and only take up space—with a bit of intelligence.
I encountered the following problem during testing: If the blueprint switches too quickly before the liquid is pumped out, the yield disappears. So, the blueprint needs to be held until the liquid has been pumped out.
Another issue was that my suppliers couldn't count properly. I kept experimenting but couldn't understand why exactly 4 resources wouldn't land on the belt. Why is it sometimes 5 or 9 before the inserter stops?
I also added an R-latch as an experiment, which holds the blueprint a bit longer, but now what? I have no more ideas on how to solve this. A simpler solution would be nice—yet still clever.
The whole plan seems to be falling apart despite the possibilities and potential.
Here is the blueprint for the input test:
Here is the blueprint for a single factory for testing. Theoretically, the factory can be extended infinitely downward. That’s the plan.
Optimizing quality processing with automated belt logistics
Optimizing quality processing with automated belt logistics
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