#Circuit thingie
grizzled bridge
Hey, making thread
Circuit thingie
Hook up a constant combinator on green wire, and a red wire to your chest
on the constant combinator your can set your desired amounts
the decider combinator set to each will then compare whats in the chest, vs what you want
and then you can set a signal for each of the items
and then the output is connected to an inserter
@proud hawk right here ^ ;)
proud hawk
okay lemme read this
grizzled bridge
I use this to upcycle my plates
basically, if the red signal is higher than the green signal, for each of signal types (so each item)
output a signal of 1 for that type
so you can set a filter, depending on what you have in excess
proud hawk
okay this is what I have so far
but hooking up the decider to the inserter doesn't do anything
grizzled bridge
uhh, double check the direction of the combinator
I think you have it hooked on the output side
it has two sides
grizzled bridge
make sure you dont accidentally connect the output to the input side.
I've done this by accident and took me a while to figure out xD
proud hawk
Hook up a constant combinator on green wire, and a red wire to your chest
what is the constant combinator wired to? the decider?
grizzled bridge
yeah, the constant combinator is just for you, to set some constant values. like 1000 normal circuits
you put it on one input (green) on the combinator
and the other input (red) goes to whatever you are storing your items in, so your chest
proud hawk
okay this is what I have
grizzled bridge
yeah give it value
its set to 0 right now
wait lemme step back a moment, what are you trying to do ?those look like recyclers
are you just filtering > normal quality?
proud hawk
yeah so this is a setup that takes excess blue circuits and recycles them down to red and green circuits, i put some quality modules in those recyclers so now they can produce uncommon or rare red/green circuits
grizzled bridge
no circuits needed.
if you want to maintain amounts, you should set something above 0. ;)
do you want to keep a backlog of them?
proud hawk
i want to keep a certain amount of uncommon greens for a mall
grizzled bridge
ahh, ok
proud hawk
and all the circuits of a higher quality get put back on my sushi belt
cause i have a dedicated area to catch all quality items
grizzled bridge
set the uncommon and rares to a value of 200 or something
so you have a couple stacks
This means:
If the value on the red wire is greater than the value on the green wire.
output a signal of 1
the yellow each signal is a special signal, that basically does the comparison for every signal there is
proud hawk
shouldn't the condition by anything instead of each?
grizzled bridge
no, anything will compare any of the values
so regular, uncommon, any
if any of the signals is greater than something
proud hawk
oh so like if commons are above the threshold for uncommons
grizzled bridge
uhh, these circuits are very very general purpose
they basically implement like fundamental logical systems, you'd do in electronics
its hard to say what a usecase for something would be
until you find one for it xD
proud hawk
thats fair
grizzled bridge
but decider combinator compares and decides, so gives some other output value
and the arithmatic combinator does same thing, but instead does some kind of operation on it, like add the values together. or multiply
and then output that as some other signal
proud hawk
so for example right now i have a backstock of 200 uncommon and rare green circuits
so its not taking them out cause theres not 200
grizzled bridge
yeah, if you then do this:
https://i.imgur.com/LDsqQ4K.png
so it only grabs items which it has a signal of
proud hawk
ahhhhh gotcha so it dynamically switches the filter
grizzled bridge
yup
proud hawk
thats fascinating
grizzled bridge
its also very useful for sushi belts with asteroids
you can set the filters on the asteroid grabbers
proud hawk
so it locally keeps a stock of quality circuits locally rather than
this thing ive built
proud hawk
i guess the circuit method is a lot more useful cause then if i have like 300 uncommons then the spare 100 will get put back on to get recycled into quality plates
grizzled bridge
eats like 200 scrap/second
proud hawk
which i would use elsewhere
proud hawk
eats like 200 scrap/second
jeez
grizzled bridge
i dont care for quality on fulgora anymore, its very good early on
holmium is the only thing that matters
proud hawk
so with everything being recycled how do you filter through the quality for things
proud hawk
like do you have a filter for every possible item?
proud hawk
that seems like a nightmare
grizzled bridge
it basically, puts it into chests
and then the inserter takes out everything but gears, and puts it into the next chest
proud hawk
i meant like if i have excess quality green circuits then they'll get recycled into quality plates and then i will need a filter for those quality plates
cause i have a setup like this right now
grizzled bridge
You're still in the early game, and climbing up into legendary everything is a harsh climb
the best way to proceed is exactly the way you are doing it
just push for better quality modules,
and put them in your miners first
then in your reyclers
proud hawk
which means everything that could possibly be recycled will automatically be quality
and say i mine quality scrap and that is an uncommon and that scrap goes into a recycler, that could make it go to rare byproducts?
grizzled bridge
yes it can
proud hawk
ohhhhhhhhh
proud hawk
so stacking quality modules at each stage really increases your total quality production
grizzled bridge
my buddy whos also a programmer, was like: should I add mythic quality? seems pretty easy to add another tier
i told him nooo, I alreadyt have enoguh spaghet
proud hawk
i wonder if people are gonna add infinite quality where it just goes on forever like infinite research
so if i wanted to apply what we did for the green circuits to the red would i have to make another decider and constant combinator?
grizzled bridge
the real secret to getting loads of legendary materials, isnt fulgora btw
grizzled bridge
oh yeah
if you hook up multiple chests to the same wire/circuit network
it just adds the values together
if two chests each have 100 of an item, the signal will be 200
proud hawk
but these are different items red and green circuits
so you COULD do it all on one decider/constant combinator
grizzled bridge
you have 3 circuit networks,
Input A, the green input which was the constant combinator.
Input B, the chest(s) you are checking
Output A, which goes to 1 or multiple inserters
you need two colors of wires, so you can compare two values, hence red and green
@proud hawk this is the real secret to getting legendary materials
you reprocess asteroids over and over, until they go higher quality
with multiple loops
and just rinse and repeat
until you're left with nothing but legendary
proud hawk
you have 3 circuit networks,
Input A, the green input which was the constant c...
so what happens if you have more than two inputs?
grizzled bridge
can either have seperate circuit networks
or add more conditions to the combinator?
it can have multiple conditions
and output can also be an input signal
so you can use it as a 'gate' that only lets a signal through if a condition is met
you can select which of the input wires it just read from
people have built fully functional computers with these signals xD
its like minecraft's redstone, but much more powerful
Factorio was also heavily inspired by modded minecraft, like Tekkit or Feed the Beast
its in one of the earlier devblogs of the game, before 1.0
proud hawk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLKA5zRrQ0
didn't they change the circuit ui since 2.0?