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I'm trying to create a setup where I can give a single assembling machine automated recipe inputs based on what my chests are low on. It's easy enough to give the machine a recipe to start with using decider combinators, but the problem is that once it either satisfies demand or runs out of a single ingredient, it gets "stuck" having leftover ingredients inside (see screenshot) and cannot change to a new recipe. Anyone know a solution to this?
drifting rock
I'm trying to create a setup where I can give a single assembling machine automa...
that's not the reason it's not changing; it's only receiving the green circuit signal so that's what the recipe is set to
by the way, if it did change, it would spit the ingredients out into the trash slots
fluid cave
Yeah, recipe change moves all items into the trash slots. For that there are two solutions:
Only load the right amount of ingredients so trash slots are not needed. That requires control of inserters. (hard)
Or a chest for trash items. (easy)
Items from the trash chest can be fed back whenever the same item is crafted again.
-# I just realised I could use the requester chest for that - using two chests is an artifact from earlier versions of this
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It is receiving inputs for both items
fluid cave
that's not the reason it's not changing; it's only receiving the green circuit s...
It might recieve multiple signals, but the first one (signal order - not signal value; basically what order items have in the GUI) is selected
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I think the issue is I need to find a way to turn off a recipe input when it runs out of ingredients for it?
Or just make sure it never runs out
ok yeah turning off the circuit input caused it to spit out its contents and change to the other one
fluid cave
I'd say develop this thing in stages. Get it to work with the assumptions ingredients never run out first.
cunning dove
I'd also note, it may be a good idea to make it something you actually would want to use
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yes, this is just proof of concept for now
cunning dove
gonna be real, swapping between green circuits and red science is not gonna help you, but swapping between medium and large power poles will
fluid cave
And they have the same ingredients. If you run out, you can't craft either. So that's not a problem.
At least not one within that bp.
cunning dove
setups like that are called many things from smartmall to automalls
some form of alternative mall, and they're helpful albiet imo kinda gimmicky on nauvis
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I think I solved it
if I add a condition to check there are sufficient ingredients remaining as well, then it turns off the recipe if it runs out. Now all I have to do is filter the trash output back to the ingredients
cunning dove
I don't know where they are, but someone made a python script to make a single combinator able to output any item able to be crafted with the ingredients you input into it
fluid cave
If that works for you, great.
You'll eventually realise it's not generic enough. You don't want to set the conditions for ingredients for every single item you want to craft.
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Right, I am just trying to figure out the theory now and make it practical later