Factorissimo2


Factorissimo adds factory buildings to Factorio. Place them down, walk in, build your factories inside!

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3 years ago
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i [Bug / Suggestion] Factory Circuit connector - only for 15 signals

7 years ago

Hello. I set up a factory MK1 as a kind of processing unit. It processes some signals inside.
So Im playing with factory circuit connector - and found the limit of 15 signals (items). Factory circuit connector (input) gets many signals, lets say 20. Factory circuit connector (output) put out only 15 signals. 5 Signals are lost. Is there a way to increase this limit?

7 years ago
(updated 7 years ago)

Edit2: solved! we need 2 changes.
- first change is discribed in "initial Post" - increase the number of slots of factory circuit connector output.
- second change: we need to increase a number of updates of circuit connections. How to: go to C:\Users[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\Factorissimo2_2.1.7.zip\Factorissimo2_2.1.7\connections
File: circuit.lua. Search for "transferred_signals" here you can change the number from 15 to 90. Now it seems work.

How about adjustible or auto adjustible number of slots / number of updates? You can define for it a local variable in output connector. So it will be for every special output connector a different number.
Or an other way is, you read the number of signals of input connector and set this number for "item_slot_count" and "transferred_signals".

Edit: not solved. just found how to increase number of slots, but the forwarding of signals doesnd work.

Initial post:
Solved!
Changed in mods (C:\Users[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\Factorissimo2_2.1.7.zip\Factorissimo2_2.1.7\prototypes
in File utility.lua search for "item_slot_count". I increased this value from 15 up to 90. Works fine for me.
Maybe is this limit auto-adjustible?

7 years ago

I don't wish to update the number of transferred signals, because circuit connections are ridiculously bad for your UPS (it's just Lua being Lua, nothing I can do about that), and larger amounts of signals cause proportionally more processing time. So the low number of signal slots is there on purpose, to make people think twice about using circuit connections more than absolutely necessary, and also to limit the UPS impact of someone trying to send their entire logistics contents through a circuit connection anyway.

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