Factorio in Factorio v0.4

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Factorio in Factorio v0.4

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Koub wrote:it can't be done
Inspired by some comments in the Tetris in Factorio thread, I decided to take a swing at making a combinator Factorio.
Or at least, combinator conveyor belts. I'll probably work out combinator miners, smelters, and assemblers pretty soon; they'll be put on this thread.
If you want to take any of this and run with it, go for it.

Transport Belts

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(this gif uses v0.3, but it gets the point across)

Here's one single unit (one side of a single item's-length of a conveyor) unpacked. Many of the arithmetic combinators have been converted to deciders, but it still functions exactly the same under ordinary operating parameters, and less stupidly when messed with. When I finally add inserters in v0.5, the changes will come in very useful (and I'll rewrite this now half-obsolete explanation).
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The minus combinators are the storage units, set to EACH-BLUE: EACH. In v0.4 this was changed to a decider set to BLUE==0: EVERYTHING.
The set of three combinators on the bottom sends 1 BLUE if the left item "slot" is full and the right item "slot" is empty. Unless something goes wrong, the storage unit should only ever have a single item signal, which is of value 1, so the 1 BLUE empties the slot. In v0.3 the divider (BLUE/2: BLUE) was changed to a decider (BLUE==2: 1 BLUE) because using a divider was stupid, although it turned out to be necessary for v0.4.
The set of 2 combinators on the top are set two EACH*BLUE: EACH and BLUE*-1: BLUE. That is, when they receive 1 BLUE, they send whatever's in the left storage to the right storage, minus the blue. In v0.4, the EACH*BLUE combinator is changed to a decider set to BLUE==1: EVERYTHING.

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I drop 5 red wire into my, er, 3d scanner, which uploads them INTO THE MATRIX.
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Even the belt is terminated, the items just stop there, just like they're supposed to.

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Re: Factorio in Factorio

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I fit the belts into a proper square tile, and fixed the flashy-annoying problem by changing the lights from the green wire to the red wire. This causes moving items to smear over 2 lights at a time for single tick, but it still looks good, and since the lights are for display anyway I figure it doesn't matter.

I wasn't able to follow up on making adjacent items move all at once instead of waiting for each one to go in turn--the simple solution I had in mind would cause things to try to move forward if their was an empty space BEHIND them. I figure I'll leave it as is, instead of trying to make a more complicated solution, since the belts are faster than the actual ones anyway--especially if you don't account for scale : P

Next will be adding functionality for more than 1 I/O direction for a single cell, which I think will move this project from "huh, neat." to actually interesting.
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Re: Factorio in Factorio v0.4

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I started labeling versions to keep track of everything! I feel so organized.

v0.4 converted more of the arithmetic combinators to deciders, and added the ability of straight belts to act as T or + junctions. It turns outputting to multiple cells is harder than inputting from multiple cells, though, so inserters are postponed till v0.5.

I also investigated the amount of items on belts and corrected one of the assumptions I made (that the inside and outside of curved belts had the same number of items, and that they are traversed at the same speed). I also found that belts aren't exactly 3 items long, but no way am I changing it--the actual value is a reprehensible 25/7, or very very close to that.
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