cool, thanks

I had a biochamber producing bioflux and at some point processing was halted long enough for the input items to spoil. even though I had an assembler set to remove spoilage, this does not seem to clear stuff from the input slots. am I missing something or is this a manual cleanup task?

is this the right place to let you know: 772.880 Error MainLoop.cpp:1404: Exception at tick 99362351: The mod Pyanodons Alternative Energy (1.2.20) caused a non-recoverable error. Please report this error to the mod author. Error while running event pyalternativeenergy::on_nth_tick(61) __pyalternati...

thanks - I finally figured this out.

Inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgnB5DKkkQc&t , I thought I'd try to make a similar map, which is attached. Part of the challenge is to complete it without landfill. I'm just starting to play it myself, so let me know if you think it's too easy or too hard.

I'm trying to generate a map outside the normal UI parameter range, so I renamed the example to map-gen-settings.json and made some changes, but I cannot seem to entice Factorio to recognize that. This is on a Mac with Steam. I've seen reference to this file for server Factorio and I'm starting to w...

Thanks for that explanation. Perhaps another easy one: why does FNEI show me 10 recipes for steam, none of which I have the tech for, but doesn't show the one I can do - Boiler plus water?

I'm new to Sea Block and its various mods and I'm using FNEI to try to understand all what I need to make next. Some recipes show a technology in green and some in red, but some have no technology show like this one: Screen Shot 2021-06-06 at 10.51.47 AM.png What does this mean? It's a recipe that I...

That's why I said was not trivial. Once that text is filed into a Smalltalk image, it becomes much more readable: The timestamps in the code are when a method was changed. There is a quite a bit of history available in the browsers.

I have added the source code as an attachment rather than inline due to size. I guess you understand I meant to say "not exactly". Anyway, let me know if you find this useful

Sharing the code is doable, but exactly trivial. It's written in Smalltalk (not everyone's favorite language) and making something simple for others to understand and use would take some thinking. What I was looking to do was something between a purely hand-assembled factory and someone else's bluep...

The part about the existing base was simply a way to generate input to the algorithm, along the lines of: bigBaseEntities ^#( "#('' 1) " #('accumulator' 6019) #('arithmetic-combinator' 75) #('artillery-turret' 18) #('assembling-machine-1' 4) #('assembling-machine-2' 334) #('assembling-mach...

I've been experimenting with generating blueprints automatically from a list of desired outputs in a period of time. Attached is such a blueprint book. In theory it would build all the entities in my current base in about an hour. Or, probably not in an hour as bottlenecks and other inefficiencies w...

Thanks, that was the answer (eventually). It wasn't until I had tried that several times that I really understood what was going on with "circuit_id". All's well now.

How did you create the string? Code external to Factorio (Smalltalk in this case). Uncompressed, it looks like this: {"blueprint":{"icons":[{"signal":{"type":"item","name":"assembling-machine-3"},"index":1}],"entit...

I'm creating blueprints outside of Factorio and have an oddity I can't figure out. I have entities connected with red and/or green wire. In the example below, a green wire between the two wooden chest does not appear when the string is imported. Any ideas? 0eF7VldtuozAQht/FlytccWwO2jdZVcjAJBkJbGSbdq...

ah, thanks. didn't realize there had already been an update.

attached log.

problem is repeatable. no user action at time of error - just factorio running by itself.

Is this the right place to mention The mod LTN - Logistic Train Network (1.15.1) caused a non-recoverable error. Please report this error to the mod author. Error while running event LogisticTrainNetwork::on_nth_tick(2) __LogisticTrainNetwork__/script/dispatcher.lua:73: attempt to index field '?' (a...

yep, that was it. doing cleanup and left a second combinator lurking.