Helmod: Assistant for planning your factory

by Helfima

Assistant for planning your factory. Can calculate required ingredients, products, machines, modules, and beacons. Can also calculate power production / consumption.

Utilities
25 days ago
0.14 - 2.0
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g [Feature request] Constant combinator containing inputs/sec

16 days ago

Hello and good day!

So I've been considering some ways to try to make better parameterized blueprints. And I was thinking it could be very helpful if we could get a combinator which contains the list of inputs/outputs that helmod shows in a given layer. https://i.imgur.com/qClO670.png

For example in this photo, somewhere near the output, I could click a button and it would make a combinator which has the pre-selected signals of 1000 hot air, 30 aromatics, 3 sulfur, and 2 coke. Near the input, I could select one that has all of those signals as well. I realize you can't have decimal amounts of signals, so it would probably be best to round UP (such that no signals go to 0) any signals less than 1, and for all other values, round to nearest whole number (or round up for all is probably fine too).

Bonus optional ideas to further expand the idea:
1) have the ability to separately make combinators for fluids vs items, since often those are separate train stations

2) have the ability to apply a scalar to all values (like multiply them all by 1000) before rounding [probably in the helmod settings]. So this way you can preserve accurate decimal values if you want to. For our example above, we'd set the scalar to 1000 in the settings, and then when we go to get the output combinator, it would have 300,000 for pressurized air, and 301 for copper wire, etc.

2) similar to the combinator which contains the buildings, we'd have a setting for whether it grabs the inputs/outputs for JUST that layer, or for sub-layers as well (not sure if this is possible or not with how helmod totals inputs/outputs)

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