Too many entities means unreasonably big manufacturing location. In the end game, some people like to have a factory that makes all the possible entities in the game.It's fun when you discover that you can use or connect an entity in many different ways. One of the core fun things about Factorio is that you can combine few things in many ways.It's easier to get into the game without being overwhelmed by an unreasonable amount of content.I also have kind of a design rule to try not add new entities in the game(not just combinator entities, entities in general), for a number of reasons: If you want to geek out and create a computer that calculates prime numbers you can do it, but this is not the main function of the combinators. Simple comparisons and simple arithmetic.ДЄn intended side effect is that you can fairly easily make a turing machine. The main purpose of the circuit network is to make it easy to do basic factory logic like 'start this pump when petroleum gas < heavy oil + light oil'. I would like to talk a bit about some of the rules I created for myself when designing the way combinators and circuit network works. The power switch you already know about.Д¬ombinator and circuit network design concepts.Requester chest's requested items can be set automatically from the circuit network.Roboport is connectable to the circuit network.Other possibilities were sending RGB codes or setting a specific condition for each color, but I decided for the simple option.

When the condition inside the lamp passes, instead of lighting up white, it will use that color. The way it's done is by sending a color signal to the lamp. It's has a small light on it to show that Now there is an on/off switch in the gui to make this a bit simpler. The constant combinators were often used to turn some logic on and off. Showing all the necessary information in such a small space is tricky, so for now some icons are shown, including input and output arrows. The constant combinator can now also be rotated so you can make the connections easier to see and understand.Д¬ombinators will show some info in alt mode.

Having a bunch of them connected close to each other didn't look nice and was hard to understand, so Vaclav made a couple of improvements to the sprites, including making them smaller. I'll be talking about the improvements that have been done so far in 0.13 to the circuit network. This week's Friday Facts is brought to you by Robert aka Twinsen aka that Romanian dude aka the Combinator guy.

Factorio circuit network