I've been trying to build (and likely over engineer) a system to bring an arbitary list of and specific numbers of items to outposts as controlled by the selected values in a constanct combinator; mostly to learn more about how the logic system works.

I'm less interested in "is this a good idea ...

be amazed at the art!!

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from my own experience and some of the bug reports i found whilst looking to see if this has already been suggested; its not uncommon to want to setup a blueprint such that you can specify the recipe the maker building is doing and then have some ...

omgomgomgomg please please please... just spent way to long wrapping my head around how to elimitate unwanted signals with arithmetic inversions and it makes things look so messy when you just need "read contents" on one circuit and "send instructions" on the other

hmmm.... so it works ok if the only thing with the parameter is the recipe in the "maker building" (my approach to em plants is also having the same issue as the chem plants), but i'm using a bunch of circuits/filters etc. that also need to know the "thing" being made.

My current guess is that if ...

I've been playing around with the parameters on the blueprints and have successfully setup a little "drone fed assembler" bp with a parameter setup so you can specify the recipe to make and all the limits/requests/etc. are all handled. Works great, slap it down, pick the thing and away they go :D ...

just run into this, wanted to setup a "logistics drone fed assembler" bp with "number of stacks" to be stockpiled as an input to the bp placement (i.e. p0_s * stack_count as the enable/disable cutoff for the assembler) but since that isn't something concrete in the game i've had to add in a constant ...