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Can you write scripts in factorio? You can do that in mindustry.

by Aperocky 4y ago

falcolas 4y ago
Better, you can (effectively) build logic with gates directly.
- Aperocky 4y ago
  Unsure, never played factorio before, but in mindustry each different "CPU" can execute different scripts to utilize their surroundings. I'd imagine that's more "efficient" than eking out a logic using gates?
  - falcolas 4y ago
    Depends on your persistence. I've seen a full "mall" (factories building factory items) that dynamically built requests from scratch; no queued items. I've also seen delivery systems which will send a train with the requested items from your central base to your current location.
thenipper 4y ago
As the other comment said you can do gates. You can also write lua mods. I’ve done that for some stats/dashboarding.
dexwiz 4y ago
Within the game, Factorio has basic logic circuits that have ladder logic qualities. The circuits only have a few primitives: constants, comparators, and basic math. You don't ever have to use circuits to complete the base game, and most use cases can be solved with only a few circuits. But of course people have used them to write full graphics pipelines like any programmable game system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic Outside the game, Factorio also has full support for mods written in LUA. I am not a modder, so I can't comment on its relative power versus other mod systems, but Factorio has a handful of overhaul mods that change the entire game. Since its moddable, people have created mods that allow you to write LUA logic for the circuits instead of the basic math operations/comparators. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Moon_Logic https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Moon_Logic
p_l 4y ago
Others already mentioned built-in combinator logic and moon logic addon, there's also addon that let's you write in a simple assembly language - think having few bytes of memory for program and data and connecting to the same logic network as combinator logic does. You can do fairly complex stuff this way.
hajile 4y ago
Mindustry needs to lose the scripting system as it’s terrible. ShapezIO has a better idea with an overlay to do that stuff (albeit with more restrictions). A flow based system would be far better. It’s easier for non programmers (which is also more fair) and could visually look and function more like normal mindustry.

Can you write scripts in factorio? You can do that in mindustry.

falcolas 4y ago

Better, you can (effectively) build logic with gates directly.

Aperocky 4y ago
Unsure, never played factorio before, but in mindustry each different "CPU" can execute different scripts to utilize their surroundings. I'd imagine that's more "efficient" than eking out a logic using gates?
- falcolas 4y ago
  Depends on your persistence. I've seen a full "mall" (factories building factory items) that dynamically built requests from scratch; no queued items. I've also seen delivery systems which will send a train with the requested items from your central base to your current location.

thenipper 4y ago

As the other comment said you can do gates. You can also write lua mods. I’ve done that for some stats/dashboarding.

dexwiz 4y ago

Within the game, Factorio has basic logic circuits that have ladder logic qualities. The circuits only have a few primitives: constants, comparators, and basic math. You don't ever have to use circuits to complete the base game, and most use cases can be solved with only a few circuits. But of course people have used them to write full graphics pipelines like any programmable game system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic Outside the game, Factorio also has full support for mods written in LUA. I am not a modder, so I can't comment on its relative power versus other mod systems, but Factorio has a handful of overhaul mods that change the entire game. Since its moddable, people have created mods that allow you to write LUA logic for the circuits instead of the basic math operations/comparators. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Moon_Logic https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Moon_Logic

p_l 4y ago

Others already mentioned built-in combinator logic and moon logic addon, there's also addon that let's you write in a simple assembly language - think having few bytes of memory for program and data and connecting to the same logic network as combinator logic does. You can do fairly complex stuff this way.

hajile 4y ago

Mindustry needs to lose the scripting system as it’s terrible. ShapezIO has a better idea with an overlay to do that stuff (albeit with more restrictions). A flow based system would be far better. It’s easier for non programmers (which is also more fair) and could visually look and function more like normal mindustry.