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Bottleneck

TBy trold

A tool for locating input starved machines.

Bottleneck

Description

The mod decorates assembling machines, furnaces, mining drill, pump jacks, and chemical plants with an indicator light, making it easier to identify bottlenecks in your factory:

  • Green: currently doing stuff
  • Yellow: not currently doing anything, limited by the output
  • Red: not currently doing anything, limited by the input

The above colors are configurable through the settings menu, e.g., swap out yellow for blue for high contrast.

Hotkey to toggle lights: SHIFT + ALT + L

The mod configuration menu (Game menu -> mods) has the following options:

  • Number of machines updated per game tick (Default is 40, i.e. 40 machines/tick * 60 ticks/second=2400 machines/second). This ensures that the mod uses the same amount of time per tick on a small factory as on a large one, but as the factory gets larger, the lights update less frequently. If your factory has 10000 machines, each light will only update roughly once every 4 seconds. Increasing the machines/tick value will improve this at the cost of CPU power.

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