Network combinator
Note
New in 0.0.9. Needs the research "UTL: Network combinator" (after "UTL: Loading control", with chemical science).
The UTL network combinator outputs the state of a UTL network as signals. It controls nothing itself – what the signals do (lamp, display, cargo landing pad …) is up to your own wiring.
Click the combinator to open its window:
| Field | Effect |
|---|---|
| Network | which network it reads – on its surface and for its team |
| Include linked networks | also count linked networks (star), see Networks |
| Output | one of the four modes below |
| Count goods on the way | stock also counts goods currently in trains on their way to requesters |
At the bottom the window shows what it currently outputs.
| Mode | Signals |
|---|---|
| Stock | per good, what providers in the network offer (storages: what is above the minimum) |
| Storage stock | per good, what is stored in the network's storage stations |
| Shortage | per good, what requesters need and nobody in the network offers |
| Trains | UTL signals, see below |
In Trains mode, the trains whose home depot is in this network are counted:
| Signal | Meaning |
|---|---|
| UTL: Trains in total | all trains of the network |
| UTL: Trains free in depot | waiting for a job |
| UTL: Trains on the way | running a job |
| UTL: Running deliveries | jobs in the network |
| UTL: Trains low on fuel | should refuel soon |
| UTL: Trains without path | cannot find a path |
| UTL: Trains from linked networks working here | other networks' trains help out here |
| UTL: Trains of this network working elsewhere | own trains help out elsewhere |
The values refresh about once per second.
- Lamp: mode "Shortage", lamp with condition [Copper plate] > 0 – it lights up as soon as copper is missing.
- Too few trains: mode "Trains", condition [UTL: Trains free in depot] = 0 – time for more trains.
- Space Age: wire mode "Shortage" to a cargo landing pad and enable "Set requests" there – whatever the rail network lacks is requested from orbit. UTL itself sends nothing to platforms.
- Scenario "UTL examples": at the start a network combinator in mode "Trains" with a lamp – it lights up while a train is on a delivery.
- Tips & tricks: "Network combinator".