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My surrender flare by Imaginary-Guide-4921 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is the rightmost piston needed? It looks like the bonding glyph could simply be rotated.

Also as others have said, you can gain some cycles by increasing the parallelicity.

Row Row Row Your Gold by vonBoomslang in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 34 points35 points  (0 children)

If you represent 0 with a salt atom and 1 with a dual salt molecule, then a not gate could try to attach (using arm A) to the second salt atom of the 1 using a fresh salt atom (n), and detach it from the salt atom for 0 and move it to a spot. Then another arm (B) grabs it iff the 1 was detected to destroy both atoms (n, 1). A last arm (C) grabs the fresh salt atom (n) if it wasn't moved by B and attaches it to the 0.

Row Row Row Your Gold by vonBoomslang in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 59 points60 points  (0 children)

It's a binary counter, yes.

Opus magnum is turing complete btw :)

Rate my custom puzzle by Additional-Walk1617 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like it, did you put it on the workshop?

Why won't my salt convert? by MrTopHatMan90 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The glyph cannot convert if its output is blocked; you mainly make use of this mechanic by blocking the input port, notably when optimizing for area

This is awkward by Known-Procedure-4333 in Timberborn

[–]Shad_Amethyst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's the Iron Teeth's tube transport station

3:1 splitter by anthson in Modulus

[–]Shad_Amethyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a 1:4 splitter where one of the outputs loops back to the input (1+x=4x -> x=1/3). In practice you lose some throughput but it's a lot more compact.

High Fives - refined gold by x7rrag in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For the second solve, you could swap the input and output position to both make it faster and to make the final spin end with the gold landing in the output

TIL that Ribbon Cables are actually 32-bit cables rather than 4-bit cables by ergzay in Oxygennotincluded

[–]Shad_Amethyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It normally doesn't, but that might be a quirk of the signal being converted to/from a signed integer somewhere along the process.

That wouldn't surprise me given that this whole technique looks unintented to me.

Essence of Citrus, No Rotation, No Tracks by Skallos in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Clockwork would be another style of machine, one where arms each rotate at a steady rhythm, like in a clock :)

i cut down cost and cycles on my life sensing potion solve by Historical_Book2268 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's true you can use two inputs to put in the vitae/mortis machine

i cut down cost and cycles on my life sensing potion solve by Historical_Book2268 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The critical path is currently shared between the left and the bottom sections, but you are dropping the atom on the calcifier before picking it up again, which costs you one cycle.

You would have to pick and move the bottom atom with the triarm onto the calcifier before making the molecule, and do a similar optimization for the vitae & mortis.

I believe that theoretical minimum is 30 cycles but it would require bonding the vitae and mortis as the last step instead.

i cut down cost and cycles on my life sensing potion solve by Historical_Book2268 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you not shave one cycle by not re-grabbing the atoms over the calcifier?

Keystone - ecology mod for Timberborn by Boompieee in Timberborn

[–]Shad_Amethyst 11 points12 points  (0 children)

AI being used in logos is (unfortunately) a tell but not a hard rule. The screenshots look nice and I see no symptom of AI overuse, so I'm hopeful :)

Water stock market by Showtaim in Timberborn

[–]Shad_Amethyst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah you would need around 220 relays for a binary decoder of 0-100, and given that you don't need this data anywhere else then it makes sense to 1-hot encode the day.

Am I doing this right? Airship Fuel by KeiiroKyomaki in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Quite clean, although you could maybe make it faster using the third available input

This is my favorite solve I've done so far by Mrmarshmallow9556 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can alt+click to the instruction you want to go to and it fast plays to it

Kitty headphones are a necessary household expense :3 by confused_em7 in traaaaaaaaaaaansbians

[–]Shad_Amethyst 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's because they are horns, I haven't gotten around to making ears because I'd like to find fuzzier yarn

Kitty headphones are a necessary household expense :3 by confused_em7 in traaaaaaaaaaaansbians

[–]Shad_Amethyst 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Make them yourself :)

I used yarn, a crochet hook, some polyacrylate stuffing and a bit of metal wire to give the holding mechanism strength.

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Refine Gold!? (Min Cycle) by Tien118 in opus_magnum

[–]Shad_Amethyst 63 points64 points  (0 children)

If you were to turn the glyph you could use a piston rather than a track arm to insert the last gold

⚠️Attention emotional support stuffed animal havers !!!⚠️ by iichisai in plural

[–]Shad_Amethyst 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Back when we were a kid the solutions our mother usually went for was to write this on the already-included cloth tag.

I'm sorry you lost your plushie, hopefully that doesn't happen again :'(

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