Asteroid collectors track asteroid chunks with their projected path intersecting with the collector - each collector does this individually.


Long time ago solar panels and belts (and fluid pipes, not so long ago :)) were tracked individually, and ate significant chunk of cpu time, until they ...

Refer to
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=652937#p652937

Circuit-controlled asteroid collectors may miss some chunks if they change filters too frequently because we have to search all chunks on the surface to find new valid candidates - there is a 300-tick cooldown between full ...

Setup
An asteroid chunk flies into collector area. Collector is in "working" state and has matching filter.

Expected
Chunk is picked up by collector

Actual
Sometimes (very rarely) chunk is ignored and flies past all collectors. If collector is deconstructed and re-built (ctrl-z) again in ...

Setup :
Electromagnetic plant with recipe involving multiple fluids.
Fluid system segments reach beyond screen in the same direction.

Steps :
Hover mouse cursor over the plant.

Actual result :
Multiple arrows are drawn over each other near screen edge, pointing to the rest of the fluid segments ...

Setup:
Furnace with single inserter which loads both ore and coal.
There is some ore in the furnace.
Steps:
While inserter is swinging with coal in hand, manually place full stack of coal into furnace.
Actual result:
Inserter is stuck in "Target full" state. It will not move even when furnace ...

One belt in versions 6.98 and 6.99 seems to have ore on the wrong side.

DaveMcW wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:14 pm I removed a beacon from Flomz v2.1

Nice! Transport line performance should improve as well.

Looks good! Also some parts looks familiar :)


Yeah, output belt layout was inspired by your version)
Although inserter placement is changed to always interact with belt on underground input part, closer to the beginning of a transport line.


Can you prep it next time?


Sure, is there an ...

V2.1, should be significantly faster:
Managed to reduce number of separate CNs to 3
Now using a single belt and 9 furnaces

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It seems that number of express loaders and chests considerably affects UPS (notice the difference between Stevetrov_1feed and Stevetrov_2feed).
We should probably try to elimitate this factor since there are no such entities in real megabases, and creating a half-belt in a real game often doesn't ...

Welcome here! Why not put signals 0/1/2/3/4 on the same wire?


My reasoning was

Number of networks remains O(1) anyway, so I assume that overhead is negligible.
Number of networked inserters is the same in both cases => shouldn't impact performance
Yet number of wakeup calls is exactly 1 ...

Was invited to post my version here, so here it is.
Inserter timings calculation is described here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalfactorio/comments/svbupq/how_to_make_a_fully_compressed_belt_via_inserter/

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