Is there a way to dump to a planet any unrequested inventory? Or a way a circuit can dump from the platform.
My space bus sometimes gets over packed and it builds up
Is there a way to dump to a planet any unrequested inventory? Or a way a circuit can dump from the platform.
My space bus sometimes gets over packed and it builds up
10 Comments
Septian@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1y
Constant combinator reading full belt, decider combinator sending an activation signal to an inserter with a filter determined by how much you want to keep. Inserter dumps off the side. It's how my space platform is running right now.
jet@hackertalks.com · 5 pts · 1y
This is great, and totally works, but I'd like to optimize and somehow get stuff down to a planet rather then chucking over the side.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
There are many ways to solve for this problem. For my science platform, I have a priority splitter on iron plates going to science production. Anything that takes the other path goes into cargo and gets sent down.
I couldn't find a vanilla method to limit sending stuff down though, so that can be an issue. For iron, it isn't a problem. I was making far more space science packs than I could consume though and they started building up in my logistics storage. I downloaded Earendel's AAI Signal Transmission mod to allow sending requests to the station. If anyone know a vanilla method to handle this, I'd love to know it, but I couldn't find it. It feels like it should exist.
Septian@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
I think that would require more circuit wizardry than I know how to apply, but the new selector combinator is probably where you want to start. You'll want to try to set a request at the drop platform based on the contents of the space platform.
jet@hackertalks.com · 3 pts · 1y
I thought of a terrible solution. But I don't like it.
On the space platform, depending on what I have too much of, set a predetermined signal on say fish. 1001 equals smelters. On the ground, from a rocket silo, examine the fish request signal, and if I see 1,001, request smelters until the 1001 signal goes away.
Of course, this means maintaining a lookup table numbers to items. I don't like this at all, I will not implement it. But it would work
TaZ@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Use the fish signal, together with a circuit network cpu, to encode and transmit a digital stream of item ids that need to be sent down to the surface... I would go with the inserter over the edge method!
Hugin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Drop off the edge with an inserter. I feed everything into the hub. Then I have an inserter set to read the hub for each chunk type. If it's greater than 5 it gets thrown overboard. For production it's the same just disable the factory when there is enough. That prevents build ups.
Jayjader@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 1y
Not from the platform, but you can control what the landing bay on the surface requests with circuit connections.
jet@hackertalks.com · 3 pts · 1y
Do you know of a way to get circuit data from the platform to the planet?
Jayjader@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 1y
Not at all. I don't even know if the devs have already considered it and decided against releasing it with such functionality.