I did some math earlier, and it turns out that if you are taking from a box burner inserters use less total energy than other inserters with the added bonus of avoiding the power death spiral. Fueled burner inserters became part of vanilla recently, and they are cheap, so there really is no reason t...

Lupoviridae wrote:I ended up dropping the binary build and going for a 32-bit build instead, since the binary build was mostly just to help me learn how computers work.

Now this is what I was looking for!

I feel like we've had this exact conversation before...

sillyfly wrote:https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 26&p=77007

I was messing around with combinators and I designed a way to split up a signal into any base-n parallel signals. Shown is the input 987654321 broken down into 9 digits decimal. It's basically a combination of the following: N^x progressive multiplier, divider and modulus operator. I figured a way t...

If I had access to the wiki, I would prolly delete every reference to buffer systems, belt lane swappers and rebalancers, and rail loops designs. I am not surprised that absolutely none of my designs have made it into the wiki, as my design philosophy directly conflicts with much of the conventional...

Ooooooooooh. Those inserters. Well now I feel stupid. Yeah, those are kinda needed for any design... actually, now that I think about it, you could have miners directly feeding boilers without inserters. That kinda limits the placement of power systems to "directly on top of coal patches" ...

At least I haven't seen any leak-free implementations of it that do not depend on using at least one inserter doing the magic somewhere controlling it all so to have the least amount of wiring and I've seen pretty much all implementations by now over here, on wiki or reddit. And that even I'm not u...

There are ways of providing backup steam power without any use of inserters, combinators, or even colored wire. Such a system would even faster and more responsive to power demands.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but you may not be the best man for the #2 option, Xterminator. I recall a recent post on the /r/ where you made the bold claim that you had mastered all the 0.11 mechanics, but you just recently figured out how to make the 3:2 circuit build work correctly. This ...

Anything I can do, I can do better.... (sing along) I can do anything better than me!

evidently nothing new to see here

super fast clock circuit (I can't tell if it is 30Hz or 60Hz, I think it's 30Hz)

New train station design is up:

Post 0.12 update: I reran these tests with the new 0.12 inserter mechanics and the results are that 2 rows of long inserters is exactly the same speed as 1 row of fast inserters. There is now no longer any benefit to having 2 rows of reds. It had a good run, while it lasted.

A side note: if you launch another rocket after entering sandbox mode from death after launching a rocket, your launch counter resets to 1, and counts up from there after each subsequent launch.

I was rather confused when I was suddenly in sandbox mode, so I narrowed it down until I figured out what was causing it.

I found a work around before I saw the reply. I replaced control.lua from a 0.12 save file into the broken save and that worked.

My megabase save, that has been through the scenario editor, and has been played on multiplayer, can't load. None of my save files that have been through the scenario editor will load, and gives me the same error.

It jumped in front of me! - Destroy a tank by running into a rock

Rock Are The True Enemy - Destroy 500 Stone Rocks

I have found that, through extensive experimentation, water storage has minimal utility, and is incredibly inefficient when it comes to space. Want a way to provide perfect backup steam power when it is needed and only then? want to minimize space and maximize effectiveness? I've posted about it bef...