By the way, changing the filters using signals also does not trigger the inserter to wake up. Probably not worth an own issue thread, because it seems related to this one.

I tried fixing it with combinators. Basically, if the held item count does not change for 2-3 ticks, time out and set the hand limit to 1. My current solution only works partially and sometimes gets stuck until the next item on the belt passes the inserter because changing the hand size does not cau...

I can confirm that this also happens if the configured stack size is equal to the number of held items, not just greater. EDIT: Also, when an item passes on a belt below the inserter, that also causes it to evaluate its hand limit and drop the held item(s). I was trying to solve the excessive wait t...

Made my day.

See attached video. Two of them were stomping around on my nice belt spiral for a few minutes (shame!). First one disappeared (did not record at the time), then the other one, which I recorded:

Yes, I missed this today, too.

Yes, please. Some are very unintuitive.

Let's called a "mixed input throughput issue". The input and inserter throughput are fine for non-mixed payloads. Yeah, I can imagine that changing a constant to a member variable (or method call :o) in such a code path that can run tens of thousands of times per tick is problematic. Anywa...

This! But even better than a filter would be a limit. I have a platform on Aquilo that collects copper and iron in space, which is requested on the ground. However, if the ground is low on iron, it can pull all the iron down and starve the platform's ammo production of metals, so the platform gets b...

Thank you for the explanation. Pollution spreading at 1 Hz makes sense, although in that case I would expect some kind of a step function and not a smooth sine-like wave. But it's not really important so I can live with a simplified explanation.

Thank you boskid. I thought this was broken (or at least unintended), because it almost completely negates the quality effect in some cases.

Problem Higher quality bulk inserters are significantly faster than normal quality bulk inserters for belts containing a single item type. However, as soon as the items are mixed on the belt (e.g. crusher or recycler output), higher quality inserters are nearly useless. See the following video for ...

Since linking my newly created factorio.com account with my steam account I don't get achievements anymore, neither in Steam nor in the Factorio achievement list. After linking my account I connected to my friend's game which we have been playing together for a few days, and my inventory content was...

Very well said, thank you! Everything else in Factorio you can calculate and plan, but heating on Aquilo is pure trial and error. Which is really frustrating because a screwup on Aquilo likely means that you have to spend minutes booting up your heaters again and maybe even fly home to import fuel....

I was looking at the production stats early in the game, and noticed this strange pollution absorption of the tiles: Screenshot 2024-10-24 234551.png Why is the absorption sinusoidal when the production is not? Nothing else in my production oscillates at this 1 Hz frequency. Iron ore is the only oth...