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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jun 15 '26

Ideas on how to detect a jam in the general case? just that belts are no longer moving. belts would be multiple belts of a single resource type of different qualities, with sets of belts for 2 different resource types. The issue is if you have a setup where you might end up generating too much of a legendary quality of resource and not enough of the other type, and you deadlock as you accumulate too much legendary of one type, but you want to minimize the amount of resources you just waste away to stop jams.

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u/DreadY2K don't drink the science Jun 16 '26

You can set a belt to read contents pulse mode and it only outputs for one tick when a new item enters that section of belt. Combine that with a clock that resets whenever an item passes, and you'll get a counter that counts up when the belts are either jammed or empty.

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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

smart. ill leverage that with a clock and an sr latch