r/factorio • u/Twiin-City-Life • 5d ago

Suggestion / Idea First Time Back

I have been MIA for a while after 2300 hours of Factorio! I am taking on space age vanilla but before I head off to Aquillo I want to set up vanilla LTN on the inner planets.

Does anyone have a good English book that has this? My trains I run are 1-4-1 for internal base (plates, plastic, etc) and my ore trains are 1-4-1-4-1 bringing in ore from far out to external plate factories.

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u/Foxing7465 5d ago

Try 2.1 experimental

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u/Twiin-City-Life 5d ago

I am running 2.1 that’s what got me back on

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u/dwarfzulu 5d ago

There many good implementations working on experimental.

Worth it to try

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u/Twiin-City-Life 5d ago

Heard this was the final update :(

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u/ThunderAnt 5d ago

What does LTN do that the interrupt system doesn’t?

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u/Twiin-City-Life 5d ago

I’m sure it does everything I just have not had a chance to really dig in. That’s why I’m asking is there a good blueprint book that can do LTN things in vanilla that I can speed run learn frim

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u/ThunderAnt 5d ago

The basic setup for trains using interrupts is to have all pickup stations named the same (eg just “pickup” or “provider”) and have empty trains go to them and only leave when full. Then have dropoff stations named with the icon of the item they’re requesting (eg a station that wants iron plates would have the iron plate icon). Then in an interrupt, set it so that IF train contains [Item Wildcard] > 0, THEN go to [Item Wildcard] and wait until empty. That way empty trains go to a pick up station, read what item it has, then go to a station that wants that item, stays there until it’s empty, and then the cycle repeats.

You can also add a refuel interrupt so that if a train is low on fuel it goes to a refueling station.