Hi, great mod so far! How do you get started with the AI Cores? I can see the unlocks which I assume speeds up the crafting, but to begin with it takes 40 seconds to craft a stable AI Core and the unstable one it takes to craft blows up after 30 seconds. I'm stuck :)

Hi, once a craft has started, it won't blow up, so the whole challenge is to prevent unstable cores to be created faster than you can accept them as ingredients. In my test, I made each stable assembly behind an unstable assembly, and connected the two machines so that unstable's crafting is only active when the ingredients are ready and the machine is free to go. There might be other ways though.

Like this image
https://assets-mod.factorio.com/assets/b80e16820479a40ff899c0e075b054c998c352af.png
But as you see, I was sloppy and they still blew up.

I've been trying to make a combinator wired to an inserter that only inserts 1 every 40 seconds but I can't get it working (I'm new to combinators). Would that be the solution?

What I did was even more basic: just connect the two machines, set the second to "read ongoing recipe", which will output a stable core signal when it's creating one, and set condition "only active when stable core signal = 0"

Do you have a blueprint? I'm still fighting with this.

Something like this for example

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

It's probably not foolproof, but it's a start!

Here's how I solved it.

The Decider Combinator checks that the receiving Data Processor has enough data in it no cores being worked on and that the output chest has room for another core