You don't need to put the power switch in range of any pole. Wires reach up to 7 tiles.
True, but that's manual wiring. Which can't be blueprinted.

I would prefer if no manual wiring at all was needed for power switch to work. Either by allowing it to work based on placement only without wires ...

Could the power switch be made 3 tiles wide at least? It being two tile wide means that if two power poles can reach the power switch then those two poles can also reach each other.

This causes an annoying usability issue:
Place down power switch
Place electric pole for right side
Place electric ...

How is that possible after 9 tiles... Rounding errors?

Because in theory if the item-distances align perfectly with the tile entrance AND exit then you get 1 item more than you'd get if the item-distances are not exactly matching up with the tile entrance AND exit... so there's at least a small ...

Pushing mixed fluid types doesn't quite work. But small pumps can "slurp" up to 10 units of some liquid type at it's input. If you need to slurp more then add pipe segments at the output of the pump.

At least I don't think that XKnights suggestion of having a constant integer value of items on a single belt tile is possible from a hypothetical perspective even if the item distance was adjusted to be conform with a belt tile length... there'd still be the moment when there are 4 items on the ...

Isn't the "stacked worlds" system already possible using the multiple surfaces like Factorissimo mod uses? The issue is that it probably be really hard to generate that kind of stuff procedurally while remaining consistent.

I personally would prefer an elevation system more similar to what some old ...

I made a mod which kinda does that:
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Yoyobuae/yoyobuae-transformer

Open it's UI and set a signal type and it will output that signal with the power transferred across it as it's count. For example, set it to signal P and it would output P=1.8M (1.8 MW). It shows the ...

Transformer mod uses an assembler to drain one network and an generator to power the other. With the amount of code used to control these two entities, Accumulator links should have better performance. I recently noticed the existence of the electric-energy-interface entity. It's allows complete ...

Red and green logistic networks.

Assembling machine: set recipe

An example of what would be possible with this feature:
https://youtu.be/cGfAFxHplnE

I've done a furnace using this kind of concept:
https://youtu.be/hKnnk31yKuw

It performs 1:1 replacement of input to output. With the output occupying the exact same space as the corresponding input. System is guaranteed to process all the input so no loopback is needed.

The bad part of my design ...

The furnace setup looks very elegant, but why do you rely on coal when electric furnaces are simpler to operate?
Because tech tree:
Automation --> Electronics --> Circuit Network

I will make a Steel Furnace version. Since by the time Circuit network is researched one would also have steel ...

zebediah49 wrote:To save some work, it's probably easier to just make a Factorio Javascript interpreter. From there we can run an existing Javascript x86 linux emulator, and use that to run Factorio.

My God!! The performance would be atrocious. xD

Matthias_Wlkp wrote:How about porting... Factorio into Factorio circuit network? Indefinite Factorio...

No source code == no port.

I tested in in 0.15, this is how the time used stats looks:

http://i.imgur.com/WYozFpI.png

It fluctuates between 12 and 15 UPS

Zooming out seems to hurt UPS/FPS quite a lot though:

https://giant.gfycat.com/PettyTenseKitty.webm
Maybe this could help (originally posted on Reddit):
Just found ...

Rahjital wrote:Holy crap, 34 megabytes of memory! With that you could store the entirety of Doom 1 and 2 and still have 8MB to spare. That's seriously impressive!

Next challenge: Port Doom 1 and 2 to Factorio circuit network.

Made "a few" improvements to the Furnace design:
https://youtu.be/hKnnk31yKuw

Now it can supply coal as well as ore. And it can also switch between ore types. Note that I had the steel recipe researched, which made things particularly tricky considering output iron plates are on the same belt as ...

Hmm, would have to investigate it more closely to be sure.
After closer inspection I believe that output inserters with inserter stack bonus are bugged.

Output inserters randomly take one cycle longer than necessary to drop their payload on belt even when the free space is there. Which could be ...

It works as long as the 1-to-1 input/output ratio is kept, inserter stack size doesn't change that.


As long as they are synchronized, yes. But the inserters will pick from both sides of the belt with a larger stack bonus while always outputting on the same belt tile. On average this shouldn't ...

[quote="hansinator"For now I want to note some things about your shared furnace belt. There are many builds with shared input output belt on the forum so its problems are well known.[/quote]
Really? I tried searching in forums and on Reddit but couldn't find any shared input/output belt setup.

EDIT ...