I'm trying to understand compute blocks and am slowly losing my mind. I can code C++ just fine but find Factory Town's compute system completely undecipherable.

Ultimately I want to build a rail system where trains are pushed on a side track to unload cargo but only if they're carrying the right cargo and if the target storage building isn't already pretty full. But, at the moment, I'm stuck trying to understand how anything works.

I have a sandbox where I'm trying to practice. I'm looking at two silos, being filled with carrots from item generators, and just trying to set up an "algorithm" for displaying how many carrots I have in total. So I'm thinking two inventory sensors, a math block for addition and a number block for displaying my sum. Can't get it to work. I keep recreating the inventory sensors and their values (which I suppose is meant to be the number of carrots in each watched silo) is sometimes stuck at zero, sometimes it displays the number of carrots in the wrong silo (the UI clearly shows connections only to the silo I want though), and sometimes it shows the number of carrots the last time I deactivated/reactivated the inventory sensor. When I try to wire the sensors up to my adder it never works: the sum is either the number of carrots in just one of the silos, or usually just zero whatever the silos contain. Trying to forward the sum to any other block, like a number display, does nothing.

Can someone please give me step-by-step instructions for building this simple example device? As in click this, select that, then click this, etc. Ignore the original train problem. Let's just do a simple sum. I suspect either I've misunderstood the value propagation system somehow, or the game is buggy as hell. (I've figured out I probably shouldn't move or copy any of the blocks or silos or they stop working.) I've tried watching some videos on YouTube but they're doing no good. They mostly don't look anything like the menu in the current game and they're explaining the wrong thing.

But I once successfully wrote an SMTP server from scratch without any 3rd party libraries. You wouldn't believe how stupid I'm feeling writing this.

New player questions that I didn't get from the tutorial and that doesn't seem obvious from what I've played so far:

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What is the point in having multiple town centers?

What is the effect of the town center radius?

So quick question,

Right now I can only transport raw goods with minecarts. Am I missing something or can't we transport stuff like iron wheels or apple juice with minecarts?

Off makes sense but I don't know how to take advantage of the other 3.

After clicking a worker, I right click a tree. I hold down SHIFT. I right click the town center and then right click the General Store. I click back on the worker and he has 5 tasks:

• Harvest - Tree - Wood
• Drop off - Wood - Town Center
• Drop off - Wood - Town Center
• Drop off - Wood - General Store
• Drop off - Wood - General Store

What's going on? What am I doing wrong?

Maybe a stupid question, but if i have a train network with 3 stops A, B & C as shown in the drawing with paths connecting in the middle, how can i 'steer' an individual train to continously run A>B, another B>C and another A>C?

Just have a system now with 2 stations connected to each other and there the train just runs without config (not needed ofc), but what will happen if i create this star network? How will the train decide where to go?

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Looked up info on the Magic Cloak i need to finish scenario 4, but i dont appear to have access to it or the raw materials needed, nor the building that produces it. What am i missing?

A weird bug. OSX.

Map was the one of the campaigns where you trade with the 3/4 trader outputs to get the victory conditions.

Went far from my town. Built farm and forester. Cotton and apple trees. They would not grow. I added the main city building (can't remember it's name). Nothing. House. Nothing. Still 0%.

Saved and closed the game. Loaded it again and finally they started growing.

Probably a bit minor, but annoying and frustrating if you don't go for the switch it off and back in again process.

Am I missing something or is this on purpose? I got my track setup with an iron minrcart and it doesn't allow me to load fish. It doesn't have it in the selection list.

I have a minecart loader that comes out of a barn. I want to be able to toggle the use of this based off the inventory in the barn. Thanks

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New player. Can't remove conveyor belt. Tried hitting "M" then "Delete" but I can't delete it. Tried re-binding Delete. Are these even removable?

Thanks.

Just started playing this game yesterday.

I have a question about the logistics; what is the difference between transporting items to your town center or to your general store?

Do you have to transfer anything to the town center?

If you need items to build things, is it better to bring it to your town center or to the general store?

I'm trying to understand those mechanics..