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I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything", but I can't seem to chose any of those options for the second operand, only the first one. Did the logic of them change, or is there a way to re-enable that function?

I'm playing on the latest experimental release

The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything"

Let's see those posts.

Loewchen wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:43 am

The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything"

Let's see those posts.

viewtopic.php?t=124776

The graphics have since changed, but you can see both arithmetic and decider combinators with one of the "*" operands in each of the input fields

The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:25 pm

Loewchen wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:43 am

The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything"

Let's see those posts.

viewtopic.php?t=124776

The graphics have since changed, but you can see both arithmetic and decider combinators with one of the "*" operands in each of the input fields

I don't see any combinator with Anything compared to Anything in that topic.

There was never an option to have anything/everything as the second operand in decider combinator. Selecting each on the right side is only ever allowed if first operand is set to each.

You might mistake the 2nd operator with the output. The output can again contain ANY/ALL/EACH wildcards.

Straight off of the wiki, I need something to do exactly this operation, but this doesnt exist anymore for whatever reason. I did manage to find a weird workaround though.

CosmicTaco wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 8:32 am Straight off of the wiki, I need something to do exactly this operation, but this doesnt exist anymore for whatever reason. I did manage to find a weird workaround though.

Icons were updated since creation of that image.

"each" signal now looks like this (2.0.72):

Yeah sorry I wasnt clear, I know that the icons have changed, but you still can't do this operation. As The_Bros_47874 shows, in the current version this is not possible (it also doesn't work with each, I tested it), whereas in older versions, as shown by the image I posted, it clearly was possible. I have no clue why it might have been removed, or what I might be missing here :/

I wont be discussing this if you cannot state your problem more accurately than saying "it does not work".

OP's first post shows usage of "Everything" signal which never supported having a second special signal.

Tested right now in 2.0.72 the exact setup from the provided picture, it works correctly with the "Each" signal.

Oh this completely my bad im so sorry. Looking back at my old circuits i realise that i was actually using Everything and not Each. This was so stupid of me im sorry for wasting your time