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i'm disappointed, it's the same one but more of them ?

Yeah, that's fair, it does at least settle on that nifty rate and consume its input near-as-dammit exactly, I wasn't trying for either of those results and the pair of coincidences still tickles my fancy, that's all there really was to that ...

Kinda thinking there may be an intended solution…

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Here it is again with the switchback to the second lane inside the beacon box, '238 recycling so it takes only what it needs from the main supply belt, and supply control done with an actually usable splitter and express belt rather than a not-so-usable-in-a-real-map inserter-to-magic-land. It does ...

One convenience wire, self-start, jam-proof, minimum size, can handle an all but full belt. The wire automates a one-time chore that guarantees external jam recovery, reverse the final-output loader at will to test.
To do without the wire disable or remove the wired '238 '235 inserters yourself once ...

Coffee, you'll get better effective cs from P3's in the centrifuge, and you can squeeze it down by a 1m×12 row.Try the bp I fixed up to include boosted S3s in the beacons just now.

p.s. loved the through-line squishies so much I had to build it too. I don't see how to make it tilable without a wire ...

yes I didn't state my title very accurately.


That does seem to be a theme here. Here's a blueprint of a reoriented-for-pretties-and-convenience version to make it easier, since I've found my own reasoning about things I can't represent accurately to be unreliable.

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Maybe try the actual designs people post to help you rather than telling the people giving you gifts how you imagine their gifts are dumb and broken and then building something different?

Stop feeding in external '235 once you've got started, it's why your output's clogged. The centrifuge will eventually buffer several full loads ahead of the one in the oven.

And, now you're not going for smallest, you're going for fastest. Here:

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drop 40 '235 in ...

Note that the red belt demonstrates a shorter pathway that can be used when the machine is less motivated.

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Ah, the belt gave out :oops: . This is somewhat close to optimal, it uses quyxkh's trick of using a low speed belt to force ejection. I did not know that ...

I hadn't bothered going for a do-it-all 'cause as you say the fixes are easy, but giving it a shot led me to this, which surprised and pleased me with how well it works, so, thanks for the prodding!

Really, though, I think you can start with the one on the left here and extend to the row as desired:

Take the filter off the '235 loader, replace the '238 loader with an underground exit, the back '238 unloader fills, that saves the side lane.

Ah. I get it now, the problem is it's *documented* to be passed as a uint32, and if the code's doing what the docs imply it'll wrap the event tick a few million years before game.tick starts getting wonky. My bad, it makes so little sense that it'd actually do that truncation I couldn't see it even ...

lua5.2 numbers are iee754 doubles, which can represent exact integers up to 53 bits.

lua5.2 doesn't *have* a uint64 type, so you're kind of out of luck.

Fortunately, 2^53 ticks is more than two million years. Much more.

You can update the configs, I do this for check-updates. Factorio has `-c` to pick the config file, if it had a `-C` to force particular config settings for this run you could `factorio -C interface.check-enable-replay-checkbox=true` to force replay enabled for this run. But for now if you want it ...

One option is to make an expedition, clear the map out well past your pollution cloud and maybe then some, basically as far as you can. Keeping clean territory clean is a whole lot easier than dealing with biter hordes. .67 is still kinda early and the map you're looking at doesn't look scary, get ...

There's no such thing as perfect but lua's got tons of upsides *as a language* at modding/console interface scale. Yes, it's inadequate for large-scale development, and yes, its weaknesses at scale start showing up before then, but on its home stomping grounds it's more on target than tcl or ...

Powering down can save UPS if you drain buffers and idle inserters before powering the subsection, but that doesn't work if you're using belt backpressure to stop production since the unload inserters will never sleep, the stuff in the picture will save power but last I looked will also drain UPS ...

I think just rewording the operator tooltips will do it for any who are blindspotting when they try to tinker and interpret

ANY:

Input: If any input signal meets the condition(s), the test is passed with every input signal
Output: the first passed signal respecting item order is processed ...