Aavak Can Into Space?! - Let’s Play Factorio Space Age - Part 36

[@Grubbyfoot]

Avaak: spending an hour setting up a system to prevent a hypothetical future in which he had to spend 3 seconds changing a number. This is the sort of relatable content I come here for.

[@ShakalDraconis]

I think I came up with a way to do what Aavak is wanting: 1) sorter combinator reading the contents of the entire outside belt, so that only the least present type is output. 2) that result is used by the grabbers as a filter, so only the least present chunk type is added to the belt. 1 & 2 ensure that from the perspective of the grabbers, a balance of chunks will always be maintained. That just leaves ensuring the crushers are able to output. 3) replace ONLY the individual belt tiles where the crushers are outputting CHUNKS with BLUE belts instead of red. This creates additional space for putting onto the belt ONLY available to the crushers. As the crushers take on/put back thexe extra chunks, the grabbers will still be blocked by a fully packed belt at their point in the loop. But because the crushers are always either chunk FLAT or NEGATIVE, the crushers will never be able to return enough chunks to the belt to overwhelm the extra virtual space created by the blue belt speed.