You're right. Months ago I used the text as description and did not realize the groups are global. The copied combinator had a named group.

The second issue is also gone now - I believe, I got confused and loaded a different game than intended. Thanks for your response.

I don't know how I did it, but yesterday I copied a constant combinator and every time I change the settings of one, the other mirrors it.

Probably related to this is a different weird behaviour. Every time I load the game, the settings of these two combinators are reset to contain only nutrients ...

... of Factorio

I just caught myself hitting 'q' in gimp multiple times to deselect things and wondered why it didn't work, until i realized i'm not in Factorio. Actually after thinking about it i'm not even sure what my tired brain tried to achieve. I either wanted to drop the tool i was using or ...

and created a trash sorter which turned out to be much more. Blueprint and documentation of why and how and everything is here: https://factorioprints.com/view/-N98MSus72WaKny3W9BW

My base is at about 400 SPM and trash got out of hand, so I built this and i'm glad I did :mrgreen:


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