Blueprint reader combinator

by IlyaSM

This mod adds combinator, that provides items in blueprint as signals.

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a month ago
1.1 - 2.0
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Circuit network Blueprints

g Use-Cases Beyond Vanilla

a month ago

Hi!

Interesting looking mod! It made me curious...

Since 2.0 if you hold a blueprint and click the Add Section button in a logistics request or constant combinator, the items and quantities in the blueprint are added as requests/signals respectively.

This is pretty similar to how Blueprint reader combinator is described. However it looks like BRC still has a few features that make it distinct from the vanilla implementation:

  1. It reads contents from a blueprint item (I think). This could be useful if you want to do some kind of automation to read blueprints dynamically by inserting/removing blueprints with inserters etc. A pretty advanced use-case, but could be neat. (Maybe it's possible to create a dense read-only memory bank?)
  2. Read contents of all blueprints in a blueprint book recursively. The vanilla implementation only reads the currently selected blueprint in a book, not the whole book.
  3. You can make it count items of all qualities as normal.

Do I understand correctly? What use-cases did you have in mind when you built it?

27 days ago
  1. Hmm, that sounds possible, ok, I will look into api and perhaps there would be a way to implement it.
  2. Blueprint reader combinator can read blueprint books as well, in that case output = sum of each item in each blueprint
  3. There is already an option to do it. Actually right now it's a global option, perhaps it can be moved into each combinator.

This mod originally was created for 1.1 version of factorio, where it wasn't possible to create logistic request based on blueprint. Also it's quite useful in combination with overhaul mods such as Space Exploration.

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