You can use two decider combinators. Both set to activate if "each" (under the signals category) is less than the minimum number of ticks you want the alarm to go off for (300 for 5 seconds). One of the combinators is set to ouptut "each" with a value of the input count, and the ...

That should work yes. I don't really have any sort of hard rule to share, but basically if you have a loop to a splitter with only one output available, it won't have enough output to clear the other input under all conditions. With the splitter to share the left and center input belts, that allows ...

I don't think you should put output priority on a balancer. That just unbalances everything. Of course you get less throughput without output priority. But only for a few seconds until the looping belt is full. And then it works as it should. A balancer is for balancing in the first place. Throughp...

If you want a balancer that works in every combination of input and output, no questions asked, for example a 4 to 4 that can be used as anything up to 4 to 4 and balance correctly, you basically need to build an 8 by 8 balancer, and have each output splitter have 1 standard output and 1 loopback, a...

For your 3:1 balancer, make sure to set output priority to the right on the output balancer. Otherwise if you have a full blue belt on the leftmost input and nothing on the right inputs, half of it will feed back into the input, and the output will be only 1/2 speed. or set the input priority on th...

For your 3:1 balancer, make sure to set output priority to the right on the output balancer. Otherwise if you have a full blue belt on the leftmost input and nothing on the right inputs, half of it will feed back into the input, and the output will be only 1/2 speed. Both balancers are correct. The ...

Move the standard signal (the one just at the rear of the top locomotive) on the upper rail back by one spot, and put a chain signal in it's place. This way it has to be able to reserve the entire bypass before it ever moves to a position where it can't reevaluate it's path and chose the top route.

I think Nosferatu is right. To expand a bit, Decider Combinators along with Arithmatic Combinators have an input side and an output side that can each connect to a network independently, but can also be wired together. You likely have both the chest and the inserter only wired to the input side of t...

The requirement for a signal to turn yellow is not just that the train has pathed through it, but also that the train does not have enough stopping power to stop before passing through it. The signal will turn yellow, and all other signals into the block will turn red to prevent them from conflictin...

What are the specs of the dedicated server, such as CPU and RAM?

So to be clear, your abstraction would not 100% match the factorio simulation since walking away and returning after some time, objects on belts would not be in the same location as if you stayed in visual range of them the whole time? If you are taking a more loose approach, yes. Otherwise you cou...

I didn't say it was necessary, I just want to be clear on what we are talking about here. Sacrificing accuracy for speed is an interesting trade-off, but a completely different discussion than the challenges of how to make an accurate abstraction without actually running the whole simulation.

So to be clear, your abstraction would not 100% match the factorio simulation since walking away and returning after some time, objects on belts would not be in the same location as if you stayed in visual range of them the whole time?

If you have a set of assemblers making red science from iron plates and copper plates, what is the method to provide the abstraction. The challenge I see is how to determine the state of the intervening iron gear belt from a given tick in the future. Say the player walks away from the factory, it ge...

using XZ compression and default settings from GNU tar, recompressing all elements in a desync report cut the size in half which is the difference between being able to share it with the developers, or being unable to. Do keep in mind that tar xz makes a solid archive. The individual files containe...

Try my GTTS mod which I wrote to provide more than 60 FPS: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GTTS/downloads Install, then go into mod options and set the target UPS to your desired value. I would recommend 120, 160, or 240 depending on your monitors refresh rate, other values will work, but objects on b...

If you are expecting to drive trains manually on a track, you should place the entrance signal to that intersection well ahead of the intersection itself so that you reserve the intersection block earlier while driving manually. At least far enough ahead that any trains that have already reserved th...

I have not had as much time to keep up on changes to the game recently, but I do want to keep this mod up to date. Has there been any progress by the devs on changes to the fluid model? Prior to 0.17 they had several ideas going around, but none of it made it into 0.17. Any information on when that ...

I fixed some issues that prevented the mod from starting, updates the metadata and version number for 0.17. While the changes in 0.17 are expansive, the only one that really affects the mod is the fluid flow calculation change. I have been pretty busy the past few days, so I have not had a chance to...

Is it not 256 units (pixels) per tile? The slowest speed a belt functions at currently is 0.00390625 or 1/256, and the throughput is 1.666... That means that the current 0.03125 or 1/32 for yellow belts is already 8 units per tick, and belt spacing is 72 units. Not that I would disagree with reduci...