#robot network

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Solar Creep

For some reason, I really enjoy building a Solar Outpost, supplying it with all the necessary building materials and then just slowly spreading solar panels and accumulators all over the place like in some kind of renewable energy-based Grey Goo scenario (note to self: new idea for a book!).

Just standing in my homebase and letting my Bots do all the work from mapview! Ah, how I love it! I think I would really enjoy to have a game mode where you start without a player character and just a single roboport and a bot or two and building a whole base like that!

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But every. damn. time! I end up with something like this:

You see this shit? They’re misaligned!

I screwed up the spacing at some point and now I have this lopsided part of my solar fields that doesn’t quite fit the rest! Maybe this is a better visualisation:

Now you see? UGH, EVERY TIME! I really don’t want to tear up half of my panels and rebuild them correctly. Especially since I can’t find the starting point of this mess, you know, the place I first screwed up.

But it’s also really bothering me, for some reason. Damn you, brain! Playing Factorio really turns you neurotic about these kind of things!

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Controlling the bots in your network

If you want to control the number of bots in your network, connect a roboport with circuit wire like this:

And change the mode of operation from “read logistic network content” to “read robot stats” like this:

This will to display the total and the available number for each kind of robot. So now you can connect the roboport to an inserter and set it to work only when the respective signal X, Y, Z or T is less than your preferred number of bots:

Personally I prefer to control the number of available bots in my network instead of the total number! Just set the inserter to only put more bots in the roboport, when the available number of bots is e.g. less than 100. This way, you will get more bots as soon as you start running out. Just make sure to have a bit of a buffer in the chest the inserter takes from, crafting them on demand takes a lot of time!

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Is a robot network robbing you?

The more and more we netizens become connected to the internet there is a likely chance you will be a victim of cyber crime.  Netizen Lifestyle looks at ‘Botnets’ and how they operate. ‘Botnets are a much bigger problem than we can imagine. Both in terms of size and impact, because the sheer numbers and possibilities will make you gasp for air.’ The word ‘Botnet’ is a portmanteau of ‘Robot’ and…

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And there’s the new buffer chests of course!

Now as you can see above, these chests can request items from the logistics network like a regular requester chests. Unlike those however, the content of these chests can then still be accessed by the construction bots and also logi bots, BUT - and this is the important part! -  only for delivery to you personally!