I couldn't justify dealing with binary ram at this point, having a good, fast, and seemingly reliable 32-bit memory cell to work with instead. As for the rest of the computer, well, other than memory and the ALU, all that's really left is an instruction decoder, and possibly a bank of ROM for enteri...

@lupoviridae: nice! Seems like a rather different approach from mine, particularly in generating the pulses. I've got one that adds addressing somewhere, but haven't gotten it properly tiling yet; I actually needed this one for something in my game, while the addressable memory banks, I have thought...

I haven't tested all four corner cases, but at least for corners going from up and to the right, as in the screenshot, hitting the key to pick up items nearby picks up from the wrong side of the belt from the outside when you are in range of only one side. The spot where I noticed it... http://puu.s...

Came up with a basic register that works without having to break numbers down into binary first, just stores a 32-bit input value directly in a combinator when it gets a write signal. http://puu.sh/jaTHG/03e2ff75f4.jpg H4sIAAAAAAAA/+WWbW/aMBDHvwryy82pCBRKVXlfpJoi1z66kxw7ujjTUMR3nxOYSgJJDO02aXsZfL47/...

binary is so messy. http://puu.sh/jaCXx/04e2e6106f.jpg This is a 32-bit register. constant combinator on the left is providing inputs - address on A (working on a tileable blueprint for addressable memory, almost there), value in iron, and a write signal on '0'. Output read from the "+" co...

I noticed a few days ago that an arithmetic combinator set to do, say, "A + 1" will output nothing if it had no A signal in it's inputs, and that was disappointing but didn't seem like a bug per say. However, I've just found that, actually, it will output nothing only if it has no circuit ...

came to check if this had been reported and clarified, I'm disappointed this is intended behavior. My expectation was that these were conditional gates, and if the test is true, the selected signal will be passed through to output (or generated as 1 for output regardless of input, if you tick output...

It's possible to bridge specific info from, or at least, results of simple tests against, the logistics network into a circuit network using smart inserters and a smart chest. Just have a smart inserter putting a fish, or whatever, into the smart chest if the logistics network has, say, less than 5,...

@peter it actually works right now, but for a "proper" 0.12 version it needs to add the same circuit network support that regular lamps have.

re: science in particular, with the wide variation in research speeds, buffers really make more sense than aiming for balance. Sometimes you'll be doing 30s research, other times 60s, to set up production to handle the 30s leaves you producing double on the 60s ones. And that's not even figuring for...

@Sander Buruma: nope, you're right, I realized somewhat later that those 10 were completely redundant, just never came back to update my post here. I shared a save (at someone's request) on reddit that one with them removed as well as the 3 digits pictured.

With the release of 0.12.0, we're finally getting our hands on combinators, and while some of the most coveted practical applications have to wait until we get additional sensors and circuit-network-enabled devices in 0.13, there's a lot of things, but practical and impractical, that can be done wit...

This is one of those mods I can't live without, so just went to see about updating it for 0.12.0. It seems to work as-is, though there is some oddness with displaying the names of recipes in the menu. Filled a storage tank with water, then disconnected from the well and shifted it back and forth, ba...

I'd be in favor of rails as the source of power, and I'd actually go for 2 tiers of electric trains. The first electric engines you could build would be the most expensive, being essentially one of the current engines, but with an electric instead of regular engine as well as an accumulator. They wo...

nice mod, good chance I'll be using it in the future. A suggestion though. If it were me, I would make 2 new kinds of "barrels," one a tank, like a propane tank, specifically for the gasses (just petroleum gas, in vanilla, but other mods may add other gasses, not sure?) and the other made ...

Right. I'm releasing a new version. Sorry about the delay (I wish I had an excuse for abandoning the project for 4 months, but I don't. Sorry). quick scan of the thread and I didn't see anyone reporting it already, apologies if I missed it. Trying to run the app crashes with a .net exception "...

quick scan of the thread and I didn't see anyone reporting it already, apologies if I missed it. Trying to run the app crashes with a .net exception "Could not find a part of the path [...]" where the path is in ~AppData\Roaming. I'm using the portable version of factorio (the .zip rather ...