Nest Alert

by Morlot

Know when the biters are coming. A dedicated combinator detects if nests are in your pollution cloud – connect it to a speaker and be prepared.

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a month ago
2.0 - 2.1
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i [Rejected] Time setting

2 months ago

is it possible to add settings to change pool rate to 1 min, 10 min etc?

a month ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

I looked into this, but unfortunately it can't be done cleanly. The mod reads pollution consumption from the game's flow statistics, and those are only available as averages over fixed time windows (5 s, 1 min, 10 min, …). So a longer poll rate wouldn't just check less often — it would also make the alert inaccurate in both directions:

Clearing nests wouldn't clear the alert right away. With a 10-minute window, the consumption from the past 10 minutes is still counted, so the alarm would keep going for up to ~10 minutes after the last nest is gone.

Switching to a longer interval could trigger a false alarm. The 10-minute window already contains recent history, so if nests were around a moment ago, the alert would fire immediately — not because nests are there now, but because they were within the window.

Because of that, I'd rather keep the fixed 5-second rate so the alert stays reliable. Hope that makes sense!

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