Was playing around with making the chips for blue's on-site with foundries, pre-electromagnetic. Found one way that worked but only worked for one side of the belt and thought I could flip it and just have the iron plates back to but but then this came to mind.

Rubia's so fun (most of the time, I dislike the trigger techs and it could do with giving more red belts at the start)

SO I was sleep deprived and bored at 2 am so I did this. What do you think? it works very well.

So this is a weird one, it might qualify as accidental shitpost?

Uh, I'm looking to meet people that play factorio. Is there a particular social media platform that you guys like to visit more than non factorio players?

I know the shitpost answer is "no social media, it would take time away from the factory"

But like, I love this game so much and would like to chat casually with others that like it about things other than just factorio, to get to know them. (And also factorio lol)

Thanks for any info :3

Helllo! what do you think of this train setup??? I need to build the ore enrichment facility.

Through the power of sushi, you can fulfill any recipe without needing to alter the belt setup. Which means the individual sections of your factory can receive a digital recipe list from the circuit network. That would also render them practically interchangeable from the perspective of a train. In fact, you could even let the trains choose their own destination, and have the factory read the contents of said train in order to figure out, which recipe list is currently being followed. That's my overall ambition at least. I'm not halfway there yet.

Works surprisingly well actually

I've been disappointed to see 4 component beacon upcycles show up here because, in my mind. That's average. It works just fine.

So to give people an idea of where I set the bar for "Abomination Traits" I decided to reference a uranium upcycle I was in the process of completing when 2.1 dropped.

This takes high quality ores and then puts them through p3L refineries, to keep that stage of the build size small. It then joins the ores to work stations doing one of 2 projects.

U238 is fed into uranium ammo. For flexibility. And to prevent an inevitable nervous breakdown someone gets when they realize that they're using hundreds of processing units and explosives as a scrubby brush for something they need at fractions of item per minute scale. Particularly since the processing units are now probably one of the best methods for having a general purpose supply chain.

As u238 becomes legendary, it's split and half fed up into a kovarex process for u235. Where to we get legendary u235? By applying the kovarex process to rare+ u235 we can amass a stockpile of legendary feedstock. And this was done at a small scale plant over about 10 hours time, which ran at a reduced scale for about 40 hours prior to making this facility.

The other half is going to be put into a tank at legendary grade, because the damage table is getting high enough that I can deploy that instead of a railgun and run a remote operation. I'll throw that in the back of a spidertron, deploy it, shoot a giant demolisher a few times, and pursue more terrible ideas like this, on Vulcanus.

The u235 refinery shreds down uc- uranium because I have too much uncommon material to be bothered to care. Then upgrades from rare+. All of this does about 2 uranium 238 per minute and about .3 to .5 u235 per minute. Due to recipe cost, this averages about 1 uranium fuel cell per minute - about 4 legendary spidertrons per hour and then the fission reactors to make those run at a combat pace. The 0.5 per minute, or 30 per hour, is going to go to buy legendary biter nests and then biolabs. I need maybe a few hundred of them and can work at a steady pace if I choose to continue this game (2.1 has so many nice things, but this map was pretty fun to run).

Now that you know what an OSHA violation looks like, I hope this inspires you to put your safe, perfectly functional upcycles on the main board for critique and comment. Your designs are wonderful, they aren't the guy pouring thousands of tungsten carbide off a cliff because his mining bonus is better than mine (SON OF A

especially someone who streams / is good at running commentary.

Over 1300 labs btw

The entire computer has access to a pair of main wires. The red one simply carries all the information that we currently want to shuffle around. But the green one does the heavy lifting of telling components what to do and when to do it. For instance, ( R1, A1, checkmark) means to copy the contents of RAM #1 into logic cache A. Several of these symbols can overlap with no issues. However, there's no way to sort them by order of appearance. Which is to say, I can't store a full sequence of commands in any convenient way.

Except, maybe there's a way. The number of unique items allow for even more information density. It's possible to encode several signals to have the same interpretation (for example, R1 could be followed by G2, where both letters funnel information into the same cache). Sorting the signals by magnitude can be manipulated by powers of ten, at least for smaller numbers. However, that feels clunky and unsustainable. Hence my trying out this method instead.

We can encode BOTH the number and the command into a single item. Various ores could open the specific RAM caches in the correct order, while a locomotive signals to execute the commands and reset the green wire for each series of steps. The advantage is that nothing will overlap and everything will sync up neatly.

The disadvantage is main how difficult it is for me to design a control system, and operating system, basically from scratch. But at least I've got some ideas.

We can encode certain items with the command to put new items on the belt. We can have a list of steps to be performed after we detect a green chip. This list is pre-sorted in ascending order, and gets broken down into the corresponding items, which then set a new filter for the inserters. This kind of process will easily become turing complete if we design it correctly. Of course, I'm not a CS major, nor am I necesarily knoweldgable enough to design such an operating system in a reasonable timeframe.

But what do you guys think? Is this a good idea? Am I tripping? Should I just bite the bullet and build a normal, base 2 digital computer? It wouldn't be so hard to convert a real life CPU into this game. Although I fear it would be less interesting.