Signal to recipe translation is unclear.
Signal to recipe translation is unclear.
Doing some debugging for the ATOM modpack. It's been found that when using "set recipe" with the circuit network, a couple of recipes are set by signals that are unintuitive even if technically correct. I'd like to change which recipe is the 'default' for a given item signal, but it's not mentioned anywhere I can find how the game decides which one to use, so I don't know what to change.
Re: Signal to recipe translation is unclear.
Thanks for bringing this up, I will document the whole process for 2.1.
As for your specific concern about item signals, it goes through all recipes that produce that item (excludes catalyst-only products), that the machine can produce and that are researched, and picks the first one that works. The signal needs to be positive non-zero too. The desired quality needs to be possible too. Recipes are ordered to the standard ordering, so using group, subgroup, order, then name. That means it's pretty impractical to manipulate this order, but feel free to do so of course.
As for your specific concern about item signals, it goes through all recipes that produce that item (excludes catalyst-only products), that the machine can produce and that are researched, and picks the first one that works. The signal needs to be positive non-zero too. The desired quality needs to be possible too. Recipes are ordered to the standard ordering, so using group, subgroup, order, then name. That means it's pretty impractical to manipulate this order, but feel free to do so of course.