The Xor gate is great for making two smart batteries act like they have the capacity of a large battery, that way your generators can fill up a bank of large batteries completely.

Even though i can see a lot of this may not be extremely useful in most bases this is a great tutorial. Thank you for the examples you provided, I might start using the ribbons now. And the Super Mario bit was great!

Perhaps the only real practical use of the signal distributor or selector is that they can be used as cheap and massive tempshift plates and can be placed behind walls.

I use the Memory Toggle for Natural gas and Hydrogen vent pumps. When the pressure gets above 1500 grams I send a green signal into memory toggle Set port. Below 100-150 grams I send a green signal to the Reset port which means the pump wont send small packets and also wont keep turning on and off and on and off which really annoys me

All basic gates have their uses. For example, I use the XOR gate when I want to manually override using a switch some system output. Usually if don't want to interfere, I set the switch to Red, and the system will "pass along" whatever the system is emitting (e.g. Red or Green). But if I want to force the opposite outcome (e.g. Green or Red), I turn on the switch to Green.

I use memory toggles all the time for things like firing off liquid or gas pumps. For a liquid pump on something like a cool steam vent, you can connect a liquid level to "Set" at 900, and a second sensor to "reset" at 100. This allows you to keep a small pool of water at the bottom that can be used as an additional heat sink between runs, and only pump when you'll have full packets going through the system. Very useful for similar things with gas pumps, like if you have too much CO2, you can set it to run for a bit based on pressure instead of trying to guess "Maybe this will run for 20 seconds" with a buffer gate.

My example of signal selector use: I have a slickster farm, co2 is generated by 4 petroleum generators, each generator turns on only at certain pressure. Problem - a volcano petroleum boiler will break if the output is blocked so I need to generate the fuel only for the running generators and not more. You could use 4 liquid shutoffs with a flow on each set to 2kg of crude oil, but you can also use one liquid meter + liquid shutoff set to 8kg and a signal selector that switches every second between the signal from generators. The second solution is much more precise!

there's an additional undocumented trick with the ribbon, you can stuff a ribbon into a ribbon writer to stack (overload?) the 4 bits onto another 4 bits and so on, up to 31 bits, and the ribbon reader to unstack them. I have no idea what you'd want to use it for in reality, but it's possible. [edit:] it was already discussed in the comments. :)

one of the applications of the signal counter is to set it to count to 1 on advanced mode. This makes a state change detector that generate pulses on rising edges (red->green) or falling edges (green->red) if you stick a not gate in front of it. this is useful for when a constant signal may be undesirable (eg. inputs to the SR latch). Additionally, setting the counter to 1 on regular mode makes it same as a SR latch and if it is set to 2, a T flip flop.

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This game really amazes me, it makes me practice so many of the engineering concepts i only learn in schools and never got to try out in real life. Taught me a bunch too about other disciplien like power overloading, power distribution(my whole base got toasted was my lesson).

1:52 the memory toggle is useful for radbolt collector followed by 2 storage tanks. The last storage is connected to the output machinery, while the first one enables/disabled based on the output storage being full. If the last output storage is requesting radbolts for too long, it sends a signal towards your radbolt generators, who then then on with a memory latch, only disabling once they fired their radbolt (and no request is pending)

Your videos are really excellent. I admire the effort you put in. Thanks for another well explained tutorial.

One example I've seen for the XOR gate is in binary adders. So if you wanted to take two values and combine them.

High quality content as always, thank you!

A good example for the notifier that I use myself is the infinite fish room, I could probably add another path to the overflow if I had more space there, but I prefere to attack 10 to 20 fishes from time to time to keep the room at a manageable number, I use the notifier to let me know when the time comes. same for my Drecko room, it saves excessive pathfinding processing Another quick tip I found out myself by accident, not sure it's in the first guide, but 2 inputs on the same line works like a NOR gate, one less gate to cover LOL Another great tutorial, awesome!!

You could use signal multiplexing to send 16 states over a ribbon cable, just syncing the clock would be difficult but as long as the clocks don't drift they could be set up once

I like to use memory toggles in material production, such as refined metals, plastic, glass, and steel. Use a timer to send a pulse to the Set, and connect a smart storage bin to the Reset. By default, I'll often send a timed pulse of green for one second and red for 599 seconds, with a line shared across an area, but it can be done at shorter intervals for a higher resolution. Effectively, what this does is it performs a materials check once a cycle. If the bin is under capacity - say it's set to hold ten tons of steel - then it will enable the connected refinery until the bin is filled. This technique can be used with refrigerators, along with liquid and gas storage tanks as well. I also often use them in temperature regulation, particularly for machines that are needed to add heat to a system. Attach a thermal sensor to each port, then set the Reset sensor to the opposing side of your target range, and the Set sensor to your receding threshold. For example, if you have a cool slush geyser that you want to use to water some bristle blossoms, you can fill a small 4x2 enclosed block with a liquid medium such as crude or petroleum, set a liquid heater into it, and run the output from the geyser pumps through the pool with radiant pipes. It will likely require some specified tuning, but a memory toggle would be used to regulate the heater to prevent it from flicking on and off by setting the Reset sensor to be green when above 30 degrees, and the Set sensor to green when below 20 degrees. This will effectively keep the pool between 20 and 30 degrees. This system can also be used with pumps, but it tends to be a bit less useful for them unless you can't leave a vacuum but want to have a steady stream without flickering.

I used an XOR in a system where I needed to switch on a pump for only 5s after a green signal has been sent for 3s. So I put the output of both filters to the XOR meaning the pump will switch on after 3s since that would send a green to one input, and then switch it off after another 5s when the second filter sends a green to the second input

the memory toggle and signal counters have always seemed interesting to me, but the memory input confused me too much to bother messing with them. thank you for the tutorial with sample builds.

The multiplexing buildings are... Perhaps a little too advanced for me, but I've still made use of them for like, 'override' switches. As an example, using the airlock regolith chewer meteor defense from the other tutorial bite, I can use the signal selector to force the chewing to remain on, great when testing or if I'm having power issues that cause the blast doors to open slowly. I've also used them to put in an override for my gantry automation.

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The memory toggle can be great for power cutoff. Let's say you have a duplicant transport station that takes 960 watts. Just set two wattage sensors, one with "under (wire total capacity - power consumed by building)," so for conductive wire and duplicant transport station it would be 2000-960=1040. So first wattage sensor "under 1040" sends green to S terminal on memory toggle. And "over (wire total capacity)" for second wattage sensor. So "over 2000" sends green to R on memory toggle. This will ensure the unit only works when it won't overload the system. . Simply using a single wattage sensor leads to the unit just repeatedly turning on and off as it goes over 2000 when it turns on, and under 2000 when it turns off. This is not only annoying to hear the sound effect repeatedly played, but extremely inefficient. . I use memory toggles for a lot of things honestly, usually things that have upper and lower limits I want to enforce. But that's a particularly good use that can be applied even near the beginning of the game to minimize heat generation from needing tons of transformers or multiple power systems.

I could see the multiplexers being used to cram even more data into a ribbon or wireless transmitter.

The "4-bit" automation wire is actually a 31-bit wire and the reader/writer widgets are actually bit-shifting operators, and when a single-bit wire is connected, it takes the lowest bit. This means that using readers and writers that have multi-cables on both sides, we can pack up to 31 signals on a single multi-cable. The logical operators operate over all bits in parallel. I've used this to implement some computational circuits, just for fun.

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i like using the signal counter in my sandbox save to count cycles and trigger an automated notifier so i can, say, run my petro boiler prototype for 100 cycles to see if it breaks itself again or if its probably safe to build in my main save

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I have use the XOR gate in game. I use it to set a steam chamber for refuel rockets, where I use a sensor to a AND gate that is connected to a XOR to the same port ( A on AND and A on XOR ) to detect temp on the steam room, then use the B on the AND gate to detect the water temp of a room with a heater to make heat for the aquatunner stay on when needed. If the A on the AND & XOR is on asking for more temp the XOR will turn on the heater, if the B on the XOR is also on ( to much heat on the heater ) it will stay off waiting for the aquatunner to cool it down, if the steam room needs more heat but if the heater is already hot stay off, if the heater is to cold it turn on, if the steam room do not need more heat it will turn off A & B

I actually did use it for creating a logic that allows to switch the target of one source of radbolt storage to another both in different directions. The radbolts have to travel upwards through my mining outpost and split in space to either left or right interpl launcher. Also it is only allowed to shoot if the storage chamber is full so it doesn't empty the chamber before the radbolts arrive and the signal can switch

I really feel like there has to be a decent use for the signal distributor, but I just can't get an idea to work out properly. Like if you only want to run one machine out of four so that you don't overload a grid or something? Maybe something like: if the water reservoir is low (C1 on), determine which geyser has more spare liquid (C2) and pump it out to send to the base reservoir. Otherwise (C1 off) you can turn your reservoir pump back on to send to the rest of your base. Not like it's going to be turned off for long enough to drain the pipes on your SPOM or anything. Though you could just use the refined metal from all that automation to just make better power wires instead. Your wiring situation would have to be pretty messed up if you ended up with a decor penalty due to that solution. Maybe mixed industrial brick management if you have limited resources? C1 lots of steam | C2 high temperature on|on - steam turbines on on|off - petroleum generators on off|on - import water off|off - tepidize bottom pool Might have use with a blueprint mod so that automation can cover situations that should never happen, like the bottom ones. Still pretty useless if you just make a petroleum boiler and slickster ranch instead

I use a combination of XOR gates and signal counters to fuel my Hydrogen and Liquid O2 rockets. Input the amount of tanks that need refueling and it's set. Reset the signal counter whenever rockets need refueling. Meanwhile, I use the Signal Distributor in a weird way. One single flick of one single switch cycling between four different signals, activating one out of four things at a time.

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You can combine the XOR with 2 smart batteries and a energy cutoff to make a very simple contraption that charges every jumbo batteries you have to its Max capacity and then shutoff the generators until all 40Kj (or less, you can use the minimal threshold to configure that) has been used.

Very good

the XOR gate is something i have used before for petroleum boilers. as with the memory toggle, a filter or buffer gate can be used to force a red output, closing or opening whatever is on the other end of the output line. although i have never used it for anything else, i imagine it may have value with timer sensors, or controlling multiple storage tanks. where the output of both would cause overflow somewhere else. as for multiplexing.................

The Signal Selector and Signal Distributor accept ribbon cables, meaning you could multiplex 16 signals on a ribbon cable. Still can't find a use either, though.

I used memory gate to construct an AT throttling, since I need to cool a hot salt water and I didn't have steel at my disposal. So it was like it gets hot, S to disable AT, then on lower temperature R to enable it back.

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i've never even dare to attempt to know what those multiplexing things work, they kinda look intimidating because of those many ports e complexity. I'll never use it but it was nice to at least understand how they work! memory toggle is indeed very useful when you truly understand how it wokrs

An example for the XOR switch is setting it up for a liquid or gas container where you don't want to mix the liquids or gases. It would only permit another line as long as the room is empty of the other material, alternatively could be used to switch an ice box to a heating box. Not an advanced ONI player btw, so the practicality of this I am unsure of and I don't know where the complications could arise. Could be used for situations where there isn't enough room for the base.

You could probably multip!ex 8 bits over a single automation ribbon. Two address bits and two data bits, effectively. But the demux logic would be way more expensive than just 8 wires. Though, now I want to build a 8 bit computer distributed across the planetoids. RAM planet, ALU planet, microcode planet. That's definitely a good use of my time

I've used signal selectora with rockets, and solos cargo loaders, so I can load a colony ship with a specific quantity of materials to set up a new base in a new asteroid. More reliable than using the canisters and hoping you loaded 1000 refined metal, 600 plastic and 400 raw metal instead of 2000 raw metal

I have a signal distributor in my current playthrough reading from a ribbon to control a central pumping hub which transports liquids throughout my base. There were simpler and better ways to do it, but it is perfectly functional with no edge cases and I enjoyed spending a few hours getting it to work. I guess the thing it can do that a simple ribbon can't on its own is to force each signal receiver to share the same on/off status and for only one receiver to be able to receive a signal at a time. This has some minor applications, for example if you're using the same line of pipe to carry multiple fluids ala a bus. Sorry to ruin your count of 69 comments.

Memory toggle is good for draining Hydrogen from the roof of the base

Hold up... You got an and, a xor, and a memory cell.... You have everything you need to build a computer

Is there a way to get a signal for a difference in sensor data using 2 sensors. Like: If dT

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What happens in the case of multiple automation broadcasters and receivers? Can you choose which output goes to which input?

At some point I am goint to make a large environment system using steam cooling for rain in a glass dome. Maybe make an artificial atmosphere that generates faster then the vacuum. This should help.

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Ribbons and default game rocket control.

So here is my use case for the XOR gate: I needed a short, green pulse to reset my liquid meter valves when flipping a switch. I connected the switch to a shortly timed buffer and filter gate, each one connected to one of the inputs of the XOR-gate. When flipping the switch, the buffer and filter gate will produce a green and red signal (or vice versa) for the configured time, before defaulting to the color of the switch, which will produce the green pulse at every state change of the switch Which essentially saved me from the arduos task of manually switching back to red.

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Using the multiplexing is just to multi flex on the normies.

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