No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything", but I can't seem to chose any of those options for the second operand, only the first one. Did the logic of them change, or is there a way to re-enable that function?

I'm playing on the latest experimental release
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything"
Let's see those posts.
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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Loewchen wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:43 am
The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything"
Let's see those posts.
viewtopic.php?t=124776

The graphics have since changed, but you can see both arithmetic and decider combinators with one of the "*" operands in each of the input fields
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:25 pm
Loewchen wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:43 am
The_Bros_47874 wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm I've seen some old posts where a decider combinator has both of its inputs as "anything"
Let's see those posts.
viewtopic.php?t=124776

The graphics have since changed, but you can see both arithmetic and decider combinators with one of the "*" operands in each of the input fields
I don't see any combinator with Anything compared to Anything in that topic.
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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There was never an option to have anything/everything as the second operand in decider combinator. Selecting each on the right side is only ever allowed if first operand is set to each.
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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You might mistake the 2nd operator with the output. The output can again contain ANY/ALL/EACH wildcards.
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Straight off of the wiki, I need something to do exactly this operation, but this doesnt exist anymore for whatever reason. I did manage to find a weird workaround though.
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CosmicTaco wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 8:32 am Straight off of the wiki, I need something to do exactly this operation, but this doesnt exist anymore for whatever reason. I did manage to find a weird workaround though.
Icons were updated since creation of that image.

"each" signal now looks like this (2.0.72):
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Yeah sorry I wasnt clear, I know that the icons have changed, but you still can't do this operation. As The_Bros_47874 shows, in the current version this is not possible (it also doesn't work with each, I tested it), whereas in older versions, as shown by the image I posted, it clearly was possible. I have no clue why it might have been removed, or what I might be missing here :/
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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I wont be discussing this if you cannot state your problem more accurately than saying "it does not work".

OP's first post shows usage of "Everything" signal which never supported having a second special signal.

Tested right now in 2.0.72 the exact setup from the provided picture, it works correctly with the "Each" signal.
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Re: No longer able to chose any of the "anything/each/everything" option on the second operand on a decider combinator

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Oh this completely my bad im so sorry. Looking back at my old circuits i realise that i was actually using Everything and not Each. This was so stupid of me im sorry for wasting your time :(
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