Heyo Just jumping into a random episode to look what the factorio community is up to. it looks like a good and fun watch for newer players or people interested in seeing whats factorio about =) Its good to see some examples of making a parameterized blueprint that are not rushed in explanation. I got two suggestions to your bot mall blueprint I found really helpful in my playthrough that helps alot with keeping storage clean and makes managing storage alot less work down the line: - Limit the inserter instead of the chest by connecting its inserter to the bot network (one of the top right symbols when inserter is opened) and using "disable when Parameter0 less than X" on it - Replace the red chest with yellow provider chests and set its filter to the Parameter0. This allows bots to bring back items to the mall (for example yellow belts) and they will be used up for crafting higher stuff instead of stockpiling in nirvana. Bots will put items back to its yellow chest and no other item will be stored in there when its filtered. With the limiter on the inserter you can make that number a parameter that you can input when placing the blueprint to fine tune the limit you want instead of the "2 stacks" you have right now. And it will work with multiple copies allowing them to craft in parallel but they will still respect the total limit.
Thanks, I'm trying not to make anything too complicated right off the bat so it's not too hard to follow for newer players. Having the quantities of everything managed centrally sounds like a pretty good next step! It would make things scale a lot better too. I did things a different way in my other save where each cell has it's own constant combinator allowing for recipe swapping but it got unwieldy too XD
Heyo
Just jumping into a random episode to look what the factorio community is up to. it looks like a good and fun watch for newer players or people interested in seeing whats factorio about =)
Its good to see some examples of making a parameterized blueprint that are not rushed in explanation.
I got two suggestions to your bot mall blueprint I found really helpful in my playthrough that helps alot with keeping storage clean and makes managing storage alot less work down the line:
- Limit the inserter instead of the chest by connecting its inserter to the bot network (one of the top right symbols when inserter is opened) and using "disable when Parameter0 less than X" on it
- Replace the red chest with yellow provider chests and set its filter to the Parameter0.
This allows bots to bring back items to the mall (for example yellow belts) and they will be used up for crafting higher stuff instead of stockpiling in nirvana. Bots will put items back to its yellow chest and no other item will be stored in there when its filtered.
With the limiter on the inserter you can make that number a parameter that you can input when placing the blueprint to fine tune the limit you want instead of the "2 stacks" you have right now.
And it will work with multiple copies allowing them to craft in parallel but they will still respect the total limit.
Thanks, I'm trying not to make anything too complicated right off the bat so it's not too hard to follow for newer players.
Having the quantities of everything managed centrally sounds like a pretty good next step! It would make things scale a lot better too.
I did things a different way in my other save where each cell has it's own constant combinator allowing for recipe swapping but it got unwieldy too XD
That parameter stuff is pretty cool, I had no idea how to go about it so thanks for explaining it :D
@@ragnarok5067 Glad I could help! :D