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Adds data science elements to blue, purple and yellow science packs, requiring collection, cleansing and analysis of production data across the entire base.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/datascience

Entities

• Sensors to collect data from crafting machines.
• Collectors to receive and aggregate raw data records on punch cards.
• Computers to perform data cleansing and analysis.

Items

• Punch Cards for storing data.
• Raw Data added to blue science recipe.
• Clean Data added to purple science recipe.
• Analysed Data added to yellow science recipe.

Technologies

• Data Collection (red + green)
• Data Computation (red + green + blue)
• Data Analysis (red + green + blue + purple)

Basic Approach

1. Build a normal starter base for red and green science, and the usual engines + mining-drill arrays in preparation for blue science.
2. Craft a bunch of *sensors* and cover all available assemblers, refineries, chemical plants, and furnaces. Just like beacons, sensors have a yellow area of effect overlay. Note that furnaces won't be selection-highlighted but they're still counted by the mod.
3. Craft a collector or two. Supply these with punch cards and raw data records should start to flow. Commence blue science.

Some Vague Aims...

• Link science output to overall base production.
• Make science a bit more interesting with a different game mechanic.
• Complicate just about every blueprint in existence with sensors!
• Replace, or make more indirect, the requirement for intermediate items in higher science pack recipes.
• Think about ways to link this stuff into the circuit network a bit more in the future.
• Think of a way to add a higher-level computer that must be laid out using more than one entity -- Cluster? Cooling?

Hi. Playing Factorio 0.16.36 with no mods installed. While trying to place sensor I keep getting this error: Can you fix this please?

Thanks, seems I have introduced a 0.16.40+ API dependency for find_entities_filtered. Looking into it.

0.1.4 has a fix for find_entities_filtered on 0.16.36.

As I'm rarely playing with 0.16.36 now I appreciate hearing about such bugs. Thank you.

I would like to formally request an update to 0.17.

0.17 update posted.

Sorry for the delay. I want to do new graphics for this one, but it keeps falling down the to-do list. So this is a plain update of the 0.16 version.