Vanilla crafting combinator [prototype]

[stoic sandal]

Being excited with the new Set Recipe functionality, this is my attempt at creating a multi-crafter machine. Feedback is welcome.

https://factoriobin.com/post/f59p7c

• still prototyping, contains infinity chest and pipes
• refer to constant combinators for the parameters

[scenic barn]

Not bad. Do you have plans for automation of the parameters? Does it thrash if you make high and low too close?

[stoic sandal]

In that case, I think it just changes recipe frequently.

[scenic barn]

like if...

• iron plates is set to 100-101,
• you start making gears and insert 2, you would go below and switch to crafting it (failing to craft the gears)
• now, you start making plates, but before you finish making a plate, it inserts the plates back from the overflow into the inventory, causing it to cancel that as well, and go back to gears
• loop

[stoic sandal]

From my observation, liquid is returned to the pipes after the recipe switch, as long as it has space.

[scenic barn]

I had a trashing problem like this caused by bots... maybe you dont because your ranges are wide enough or crafting is faster then the tick speed of the brain?

[stoic sandal]

All the material in the system is read - storage box, inserter and foundry.

Bots can cause problems, but if you use a passive provider they can only take away and not add items to the system

[scenic barn]

aaaah, I missed that you were reading the foundry for contents and not ingredients

[stoic sandal]

Or you isolate the system from bots using only steel chests, and move only wanted products into logistics chest

Requester chest for green circuits should be fine though

[stoic sandal]

Yea the material void caused by the crafting process was a huge problem for us to solve when I was maintaining the v1.1 crafting combinator mod

[scenic barn]

(im building a very different system with very different goals and constraints I suspect, so don't worry about it, I was just curious to see what you had done to manage it)

[vivid sleet]

have you made something like this for space platforms?

[stoic sandal]

I have not reached the stage yet. I played very slowly.