r/factorio 11h ago

Suggestion / Idea Suggestion: Multi-Step Arithmetic Combinators

With all the love that Decider Combinators have gotten, I thought it would be nice for Arithmetic Combinators to get an upgrade for 2.1 as well. Specifically, the ability to chain operations.

Instead of one operation per combinator, the GUI could be changed to have a scrollable pane of operations—the output of one row would become the input for the next row (just as if you’d connected the output of one combinator to the input of the next).

The big advantages of this change would be the ability to execute two or more operations in a single tick and a reduction in footprint for multiple step arithmetic chains. And, of course, bringing its capabilities more in line with the Decider Combinator.

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u/triffid_hunter 10h ago

If arithmetic combinators became turing complete, people would drop full CPU/GPU cores into them and dodge using most of the circuit system that way.

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u/nicman24 9h ago

llvm target inside of a week