Do items with no inventory stack size still stack on belts?
I would very much like to know the implications of having a stack of nuclear reactors carefully balanced on top of each other.
Belt stacks are additionally limited by the normal stack size of the items, so things like armor, blueprints, artillery shells, cannot stack on belts.
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Can you give a link to the docs for that? I just spent 5 mins in the modding documentation and failed to find it.
Its not official yet, it will be only with the 2.0 release https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-390
Just give us min/max/sqrt functions in the numeric field as well as basic math.
And give us stack size as a dependent variable.
Those would let us do everything needed to set up requester chests safely.
It is using the same math evaluator used for map generation, so the support should be quite good.
Ok, amazing,
but can I make a blueprint where I chose the item it is gonna create, and the Requester chests asks for X times the ingredients ? (and mybe, if the number of items needed is huge, it is configured to only ask x/2 times the ingredients ?)
Good point.
You can't do it now but it would probably make sense to make it possible somehow.
The reasonable thing would be to have an option to add 2 specific numeric parameters:
1) Count of items needed for ingredient#X of recipe Y
2) Craft time of of recipe Y
And these two then could be used in the formula of how much you want to request of the ingredients.
After that, you would have basically the same as the requester chest blueprint, but fully automated with just one recipe (and target count) to ask.
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The most common motivational example is the train unloading station.
Typically, I have the whole setup in a blueprint: rails, train stop, filtered inserters to avoid contamination, etc.
Mp4 playback not supported on your device. The long monotonous process of setting up station after station.
There are 2 ways to solve it in 1.1:
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We've had a lot of requests to talk about map generation. It's difficult to talk about map generation without first
explaining noise expressions.
From time to time we need to talk about noise expressions anyway because they are a critical part of the game, but I
don't think we've ever done a good job of explaining what they actually are at a high level.
We will a closer look at planet mapgen again in the future, but for now this will introduce the basic concepts and act
as a primer for later.
When making a game world in Factorio you need to decide what gets placed where. All you really have to work with is the X and Y position. The terrain generator can't know anything about what is already placed. Somehow you need some code that converts X and Y into the type of tile to place, and which tree...
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It sounds pretty trivial to add a “and inventory empty” condition to the go to depot interrupt if you’re worried about that.
This is what we show in the FFF screenshot.
Will there also be interrupt conditions like "train is currently at station X"?
Use case: Maybe I want my trains to stop by the refuel station only on their way from outpost to main hase, but not on the way to the outpost. Because e.g. my refuel station is better reachable on the way to the main base.
I don't know how this can be done if all interrupts are checked at each station (apart from "hacks" like "check if cargo is full").
For the generic system, it is basically required to allow going to depo or refuel only when the train is empty.
Otherwise, once the system backs up, all the full train will fill the depo and wait there.
Does "global" in the context of train interrupts being global mean that they are the same for each train on the same planet or the same for each train on all planets?
Across all planets.
We have been asked to do something like 'logistic trains' many times. Schedule interrupts provide a more generic system, where logistic trains is just one of the things you can build from it.
RIP native logistic trains, I guess.
I very much hope that we can generate interrupts automatically, because writing the same "if cargo = x, then go to x drop station" interrupt for every single cargo type in the game to make generic trains going sounds like the opposite of what Factorio is.
I 100% agree with this.
We don't have antyhing implemented yet, but we were considering several times to have some kind of generic interrupt possible. So you could say something like:
if ([X] Cargo > 0) -> (go to station [X])
It would only work as long as you would consistently use chat tags to name your stations, but since we (and probably many other poeple) do it anyway, it would be a good option.
Amazing update.
One concern about train limits being held until the train leaves the station: is it possible this will lead to deadlocks if a player tries having [sum of train limits] - 1 trains? If a train has no destination to go, and no trains can leave to take its spot, that seems like a deadlock. To avoid this, I feel like you would need to have no more trains than either [sum of loading limits] - 1 or [sum of dropoff limits] - 1, which could be significantly fewer trains.
This is where the depot and the interrupt "Destination full" comes into play. If it has nowhere to go, you send it to the depo.
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