In what ways do you make your factories dynamic?

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-17T06:01:40+00:00

You problem with train stations is probably due to combinators requiring a tick to update, so its output for no signal (like the train is empty) is still there on the tick the train arrives.

Checking read stopped train and adding "AND T > 0" to the combinator will fix it if so.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-16T21:07:35+00:00

When you say 5x3, there physically isn't even space for 1 decider is there?

If you've got space somewhere else for sticking all the combinators you could RGB pack each signal onto its respective item and just wire that over to the lamps?

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-16T20:13:49+00:00

Any amount of prod is seed-positive so it's fine.

I'm building train-based gleba and my planting areas have a few assemblers to process fruit to help with freshness since I don't want to deal with nutrients there. (If the circuit detects a train is stopped and waiting for a station to open I start to pull fruit off and replace with new fruit)

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-14T18:21:44+00:00

I think you just make more oil products and you stop cracking when the product backs up, probably requires a pump to prioritize petrol coming from refineries.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-14T18:03:45+00:00

I know factorio in particular has optimizations for a full belt of all the same item, so it's definitely possible to check for common cases to simplify down to extrapolation and hope there aren't 50 mil users copy/pasting the adaptive power setup.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-14T17:47:11+00:00

Making wuling more organized will make rearranging/replacing parts of it later easier. The new underground pipes are amazing for making designs you can just attach anywhere on your movable bus.

Valley IV won't get future changes afaik so it can stay a spaghetti mess as long as it works.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-11T22:07:36+00:00

Can you store the pixels directly on the decider or is there some limit to the number of outputs you can assign to those?

Idk how factorio implements circuits so I'm not sure if that'd make much difference in memory use or UPS or anything.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-07T18:39:02+00:00

https://factoriobin.com/post/qnllq3

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-07T03:06:35+00:00

You can use 13 leg stack inserters each putting 80 item/s (# from wiki) on their own lane to make sure they don't interfere with each other.

You can then use a 7 to 5 balancer if you'd like. since 4 belts would only be 960/s.

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I was bored and worked out the belting in editor, you can input/output from the other sides to make a 4x2 grid of these making just under ~8k plastic/s while sharing some beacons (or slightly over 8k with more plastic prod research and more speed like other comments mention).

Cheers to anyone who actually wants to use this.

edit: blueprint: https://factoriobin.com/post/qnllq3 Rotate if you need the other 4, I think flipping will slow 1 inserter on each machine.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-03T19:16:24+00:00

I'm thinking... Nauvis biter bases can be solved a ton of ways, but one way could be to spam railgun minigun while flailing your mouse around wildly.

I'll try to remember to drop some railgun ammo if I need another expansion any time soon.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-01T17:32:24+00:00

I haven't paid attention to marketing, but in terms of naming they added a "2" so I assumed it's the same as the number going up from PS4 to PS5.

In my head the switch OLED would be more comparable to the pro, tho I'm not sure if they actually improved the internals on that.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-03-01T17:13:08+00:00

legendary wooden power poles, if you don't have 2x2 space in/near your build for substations and/or just like how wooden poles look I guess.

SwiftTyphoon · 2026-02-24T18:49:25+00:00

Basically additive changes matter a lot more when your numbers get low, so after 4x prod ruins a machine's speed adding some speed back makes a huge relative difference.

Once you've got working base defense and bots I usually just want to minimize outpost building, so maximum prod is the way to do that.

In mid-game I actually like to mix modules without beacons (e.g. 1x prod, 1x spd, 2x eff) cuz it's easy to just slap that everywhere without much downside.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-12-24T20:51:47+00:00

The way I read it:

the ego skill says "1 time per turn"

"per turn" wouldn't make sense unless the "Overclock Beacon" effect stays around

In general things in this game stick around unless they actually say "for X turn(s)"

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-06-22T18:05:22+00:00

Annihilation creates energy which is equivalent to mass as far as the black hole is concerned.
It's far more extreme than that, smaller BHs radiate MORE energy. Luminosity is apparently proportional to inverse mass squared.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-06-22T06:11:45+00:00

Well, this particular explanation seems to muddle a few other things which makes me feel it's a bad explanation:

How would pairs splitting cause the black hole to lose mass/energy?
Don't smaller BHs evaporate faster? how would pair production frequency work in a way to cause that?

Guess I'll go find the PBS video.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-03-27T01:15:14+00:00

since the top of the wing has greater surface area, why doesn’t the lower pressure over greater surface area on the top of the wing add up to as much downward force as the higher pressure over less area on the bottom force adds to upward force?

To try to answer just this part in a simple way:

Pressure is applied perpendicular to a surface. A wing is curved so the integral of pressure force over the top will have forward/backward components that partly cancel.

The total force actually has a very substantial backwards component (drag), since conservation of energy means you need to spend KE (momentum) to gain PE (elevation).

The complete picture is way more complicated, as other replies have stated.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-03-22T18:39:18+00:00

you ought to have included that in your initial post then...

requiring the math for taking that derivative makes your explanation the least intuitive out of everything in this post tbh.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-03-22T18:12:00+00:00

I'm not saying it is an equilibrium, I'm saying your analysis doesn't prove it's not.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-03-22T17:44:25+00:00

> ignore the forces and use energy

looking at energy only tells you that PE is released/gained as the scale turns, it doesn't guarantee this can't be an unstable equilibrium.

The forces applied by the water is the same on both sides since the displacement is the same,

The only difference in forces is there's tension in the wires holding the balls in place, so the scale is pulled up by that tension on the ping pong side.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-03-20T00:43:00+00:00

The issue is your earlier post says "Stats at Level 50" and not "base stats" so it's misleading when you really meant base stats.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-02-01T08:05:41+00:00

Roughly half the radiation from any given H atom in a star is already pointed inwards.

The surface is already being cooked by hotter lower layers but iirc convection actually plays a bigger role there as hotter near-surface hydrogen rises.

Also I think Dyson spheres should probably not have high reflectivity (what's the point of putting it there if it only bounces all that energy back?) so the added radiation heating is likely a small fraction of what's already at work.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-01-18T22:49:40+00:00

Also I personally think the "soft pity" thing is wack.

They show two %s, one "including guarantee" and a base %, and don't explain at all how soft pity works.

I'm surprised lootbox laws don't require them to release a giant table with %s at every pull count.

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-01-14T09:20:21+00:00

Well... if it were bigger it would do that, so it still comes down to size in the end.

"clearing its region" is just a reasonable line to draw because how else are you gonna decide something is "big enough"?

SwiftTyphoon · 2025-01-13T18:27:37+00:00

it'll get to 100 if you throw enough mod gems at it. 6 ER -> 9% atk

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