Setting up train stations with circuits and combinators

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Hi, i was trying to set up my train stations in a way that trains circle around different ones and drop off ore to ones that needed more, i tried with decider combinators but all the trains refuse to move and just prefer to sleep at the stations and in the stackers instead.. i could really use some help on how do i do this properly, im dumb and circuits are still confusing af for me

[vagrant patrol]

1. Just wire directly and disable the station no combinator
2. Your combinator has nothing connected to its output

[swift niche]

dynamic limits will make a mess of things

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i noticed that it wasn't connected and did connect it but it still stays in the same exact place

[vagrant patrol]

Combinators have an input and output side

[left nimbus]

i did it to other ones and they kinda work

[swift niche]

dynamic limits are useful when it's unsafe for a train to be parked there indefinitely - ie when you have stations stacked in the same spot

[vagrant patrol]

Although ill say
Limiting stations with circuits is kinda gimmicky

[swift niche]

do you plan on making all the ore pickups and ore dropoffs dynamic? or will some stay static?

[left nimbus]

would it be better to set the train limit manually? or just make multiple different stations with different names instead of the same ones?

[swift niche]

same name for the same purpose

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i planned to eventually make them all dynamic

[swift niche]

static train limits should be set to how many trains can safely sit at that station

[vagrant patrol]

I do every unloading I add I add a train
Limit 1 on all stations
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[swift niche]

for dynamic, you'll want to set it to how many trains can instantly (un)load when they show up

[left nimbus]

so set up a constant in combinator?

[swift niche]

for what?

[vagrant patrol]

Why do you need a combinator?

Nothing we have said uses combinators

[left nimbus]

oh

so best to set train limit as 1 then?

sorry if im asking stupid questions

[vagrant patrol]

Higher limits is for higher throughput stations

Limit 1 can easily handle many systems

[left nimbus]

oh i get it now i think

thanks a lot i will try it and see if it works

[swift niche]

the issue is, where do the trains sit when all the limits are 0?

if you have all static limit dropoffs, and dynamic limit pickups, they can sit in dropoffs

[vagrant patrol]

I'll note
A train waiting full in a loading station isnt bad

[left nimbus]

they do sit at both dropoff and loading stations

thought they would arrive at the station and wait in a stacker but they get stuck

[swift niche]

make those stations you want them to sit at be static

[swift niche]

i was only messing with dynamic limits way back in 1.1 so i didn't have trains go to mines that weren't ready to give a full load
and so they wouldn't get stuck at a depleted mine

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should it be still limited to 1 then?

[swift niche]

static stations should be limited to how many trains you built the station to fit

if it fits 3, limit=3

if it fits 1, limit=1

don't overthink it

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alright thats what i thought

[left nimbus]

yeah i might be making it more complicated than it is lmao

[mild tulip]

Loading and unloading station with circuits.

Image 1: Loading is top, unloading is bottom.

Image 2: Loading setup for train stop

Image 3: Unloading setup for train stop

Blueprint for Schmitt Trigger.

Vague Instructions included in the BP's display panels.

[mild tulip]

Image is schedule setup for the Bricks train group. I'm in process of adding an "empty train" stacker, so it's not 100% automated just yet, but it will also be an interrupt that fires if the train is less than full and has been kicked out of the unload by circuit condition and the loading stops are full/off.

[left nimbus]

thank you for this!!