Agreed, vulcanus goated (after mech armour and cliffies)

There’s a small machine at the resource inputs that gets full resource priority and keeps a couple chests full of spoilage handy as well. Eggs decay fairly slowly so it doesn’t take that much to keep one circulating.
It’s not a perfect solution but saves needing manual intervention for at least as long as it takes me to look back there again

For shutdown I have a few circuits monitoring the inputs/outputs to check if we’re getting backed up or running dry on either of the fruits. If that’s the case the input belts are stopped, egg->egg duplicator inserters are disabled and the chests that hold the one egg being recirculated go into trash mode.

There is a separate unit that constantly ensures there are at least a couple eggs avaliable and “requests” (buffer chest) any excess and is surrounded by turrets.

During startup (science below limit and ingedients on input belts) the spoilage->nutrient inserter is enabled which priority feeds just the first three chambers that make flux. Once any flux has been made (>0 flux on the belt || flux->nutrient machine working) the spoilage inserter stops. That’s enough for the flux->nutrient machine to start and the whole system becomes self sustaining.
As part of startup a requester chest requests 1 egg, the rest of the egg duplicators are setup in such a way that they propagate down the line (a direct inserter between them is enabled if the recirculating chest for the next chamber is empty and the egg->sci inserter gets disabled). Once there are eggs in the recirculating chests the startup is considered complete and the requester chests turn off.

There’s also a chest that pulls from the main nutrient line to make sure there’s always loads of spoilage ready for a restart.

That circuit networks can be useful for things other than just making CPUs and jukeboxes

I love hearing about this perspective. I 100% agree on bringing bots to every planet but found gleba to be the most belt intensive (not using the most belts but using the most belt tricks).
I think I only used bots to handle saving restart spoilage and removing eggs on factory shutdown/resuppling the initial one on startup

45 hrs

I originally used splitters but then switched to just filtering the inserters pulling from the loop. Since the loop recycles anyway it didn’t matter if they missed some/the splitters felt like overkill.
For overflow I had inserters controlled by logi levels feeding into recyclers

I love seeing all the different approaches to this. My solution was to break all the recipes up into dependency tiers (coils & gears T1, circuits T2, inserters T3 etc.), which would then let me use the sorting on the advanced combinator to sort the execution. I guess it kinda works how the player crafting queue works:

counter cell holding an index
If logi_requests[index] is not craftable: increment index (counter resets at logi_requests.len)
If we “lock on” to something craftable we save it to mem
Calculate the total resources required (raw and intermediates) using lookup combinators and have that all on a line
Raws get requested, intermediates get “oned out” by a decider and then multiplied by the tier values.
That then gets picked by an advanced combinator which is sorting it by low to high and sent to the assembler.
It then makes as many as needed before moving onto the next thing until eventually it satisfies the saved logi request
It then resets the counter and everything starts again.

I liked that it was resilient to constantly changing network requests and made efficient use of the logi bots with bulk requests

Eh it’s probably actually just gated by people finishing the game. I’m at 35 hrs in my first save, slowed down a bit by the no yellow/purple cheeve and have finished fulgora and vulcanus but disliked the gleba mechanics so much I’ve started playing other games again.

With a set of precog blueprints I see the under 40 being pretty casually doable too

Funnily enough it was HD2 that finally convinced a few of my friends to hop on over the Linux

I kinda love this as a challenge idea. Vegan run

Can I cuss the software for being terrible and then git blame in silence right after?

Roughly like this…

Common Valve W

I’ve put in about 12 hrs so far and honestly the sheer amount of added qol is slightly overshadowing the dlc for me a little bit. The ease of it all feels so comfy. Feels like I can get so much more done in a fraction of the time

All of the improvements are fantastic, I love them so much. The whole game is just QoL soup

They do host them on their servers, sort of (if you’re asking how ad brokers work that’s a bit of a different scope).

Does poo have to be on your desk to smell it?
The post office (website) is telling you (your computer) to go over and pick up a parcel of poo (an ad) that’s there for you.
You say no, I don’t think I will (adblock/poo block)

Wow that’s a pretty damning indictement of the product.

To be able to go from “pirated games tend to sell more” all the way to “pirated games with this added not only negate that effect but go so far as to sell fewer copies” is an impressive feat

It’s tough for any public companies to compete because they keep setting off their own footguns, ensuring they don’t succeed in the space. As long as Gabe is around I’m okay with this one (1) monopoly, as a treat.