Currently we can display item rate in a time unit or belt via a dropdown menu. My main use case is switching between viewing items/second and items/belt. However using dropdown is cumbersome and unnecessary for only 4 possible options.

Please consider replacing the dropdown menu with 4 icons, so that switching between different views would be faster (1 instead of 2 clicks).

Example:

Additional ref: https://medium.com/@kollinz/dropdown-alternatives-for-better-mobile-forms-53e40d641b53

Describe the Bug

Title.

To Reproduce

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Save file & Username

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Log file

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Space Exploration uses a number of probabilistic recipes which appear to confuse the heck out of the rate calculation.

I have this lab layout, which is is 24 telescopes + 2 labs in two batches, and some astrometrics lab doing UV and visible light observation data;

Selecting the top half;

Selecting the bottom half;

Selecting both;

Yes, there is one lab with the wrong "type" but how if that causing a drop from net rate from 610 => 61 per minute?

Note; a couple QoL mods; but nothing which changes these recipies.

Describe the Bug

You can select the Factorissimo2 buildings as a unit to measure throughput

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have the Factorissimo2 mod installed
2. Use the calculator on something
3. Select units
4. See error

Describe the Bug

When selecting transport belts as the calculation method, a belt type button appears. The tooltip says "right mouse button to clear". However, when cleared, an unrecoverable error occurs:

Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event RateCalculator::on_gui_elem_changed (ID 67)
__RateCalculator__/scripts/gui.lua:336: attempt to index local 'unit_data' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
__RateCalculator__/scripts/gui.lua:336: in function 'update_contents'
__RateCalculator__/scripts/gui.lua:107: in function 'handler'
__flib__/gui.lua:389: in function <__flib__/gui.lua:375>

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start a new game with Rate Calculator enabled. You may also want to have something that gives you quick access to an assembler, such as Creative Mod.
2. Place an assembler and select recipe for it (it probably doesn't matter which but I used Assembling Machine 1 with Transport Belt as the recipe)
3. Open Rate Calculator for the assembler
4. Select Transport Belts from the dropdown
5. Right-click the belt type button
6. An unrecoverable error occurs

Log file

factorio-current.log

When using the rate calculator with Companion Drones almost always you will select them. Can you disable the fuel consumption calculator for them?

Hello,

I would find it very useful if the calculator also shows the maximum power consumption of setups.

greetings

Describe the Bug

I use efficiency modules in electric furnaces. I have a line of 24 furnaces with tier 1 efficiency modules in both slots. This should result in a 60% reduction in electricity usage. The mod gives a total consumption of 1872 kilowatts. I believe this calculation to be wrong, even without factoring in the fact the efficiency modules were being ignored.

This calculation adds together the base (aka resting) consumption and the active consumption. I think, rather, that the base rate is the minimum consumption and so shouldn't be added to the active consumption. I have done tests to verify this in the past when calculating exactly how many solar panels would be needed to power the inserters for a line of boilers.

And, regardless of the correctness of that, this clearly isn't taking into account the effect of efficiency modules. Efficiency modules here should be shaving off 60% from the active consumption.

I believe that the correct calculation here gives 691.2 kilowatts of consumption for the whole line of 24 furnaces, each with two efficiency 1 modules.

Also, I have, sometimes, used efficiency modules with beacons on centrifuges as the total power reduction can actually offset the power consumption of the beacon. Centrifuges are power hungry beasts.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Build a line of 24 furnaces and put efficiency 1 modules in them
2. Use Alt-X (or whatever hotkey you use for the rate calculator)
3. Select the whole line of furnaces
4. Observe that it says they will consume 1872 kilowatts, which is not the correct figure

1. Any timeline/plan to incorporate some of the other rates MaxRateCalc has (like inserters)?

2. What about modded belts with different speeds (also available with MaxRateCalc)?

3. A calculator where you can use the number pad on your keyboard? ( MaxRateCalc's built-in calculator only allow button presses with a mouse)

Thanks for your help. The mod works great and looks nice but it still seems to be missing some features I use often from the other similar mod I mentioned.

Cheers

I wish you would replace "Actual Craft Time" instead. ...or, at least, the one specific feature that I like most about it: the automatic nature of it.

The flow I most often use is:

1. Plop down a factory, and select a recipe for it.
2. Click the factory, and Actual Craft Time pops up telling me input, output, and belt consumption rates.
3. I click the "+1 / +5 factories/furnaces/whatever" button a few times to get the output rate I want.
4. Victory!

The flow I'd like to use is:

1. Press a shortcut button, and be prompted for the product and machine tier with sensible defaults.
2. Now follow steps two through four above.

The key difference is that your calculator is reactive: I can find out how much a collection of things can produce (and how much it'll consume, and what sort of belt feed I need to keep it happy), while Actual Craft Time can be used proactively to figure out how many factories I need.

That workflow covers the 95 percent case for Factory Planer for me: I rarely need to calculate the entire end-to-end production chain, just add one or two simple production lines and then make sure they stay fed. Handle shortfalls by going and doubling production of whatever input fell short.

I love that I can use Rate Calculator to figure out the production of a collection of things, but I'd love it even more if it also supported this proactive "before I build a small thing" workflow.

The one other thing that'd be nice for the proactive use is if the GUI showed up without blocking the center of vision. I'm not saying attached in the left side flow, but if possible a pop-up window I can move that was in the top left, or under the minimap, would be ideal.

You did achieve the goal of fitting with the game UI, though, amazingly well. Good stuff!

PS: I know this is asking you to build something different from what you set out to make, and it'd be entirely legit to just say "no;" no upset or anything if this isn't interesting to you.

Describe the Bug

When selecting an area wit h a pumpjack included, no rate is calculated/

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Select pumpjack
2. Observe no value is shown

Log file

factorio-current.log

used the rate calculator on a PySinkhole (which takes any fluid and voids it)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When designing new layouts I start with the most important step (for me): the machines and how many I need, and so on. At this step I usually have no power available in the build due to the designing phase.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like that the Rate Calculator does include unpowered beacons into account.

I have a question,

I'm have no mod creation expetise so i am not sure how easy/hard this would be.

Your mod is the only one i have seen with the pin gui option.
Is it possible to add that to all the windows from the game through a mod?

the reason i ask this is that i would love that option on combinators so i can have more then one open to debug.

thank you for your time.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When more than seven rows appear in the table you must scroll to see them all, this is annoying when there's no reason that it should be limited by that much. This causes many people to avoid using this mod due to the inconvenience.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Option 1: Add an option in the mod settings to change the maximum amount shown upon generating the table before the overflow scrolling is needed.
• Option 2: Allow the user to grab the corner of the window and/or the bottom edge, allowing them to drag to resize it.
  • Preferably the resizing should move in incremental steps according to the height of a table row.

Describe the Bug

Using a UI scale higher than 100% results in the list becoming horizontally scrollable by a few pixels only when the list has a vertical scrollbar.

Screenshots

100% scale:

125% scale:

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Settings > Interface > UI scale set it to anything above 100%.
   • Also affects high-resolution monitors with automatic UI scale enabled.
2. Use the Rate Calculator to create a list that's tall enough to require a vertical scrollbar.

Describe the Bug

Caused error, said to report to you.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Dragged the rate calculator on top of some labs mid-game in Krastorio 2 and this error occurred. Was working fine all game.

Save file & Username

Here is the latest autosave, if you run this save and repeat what I mentioned above, it will throw the error for sure.
https://gofile.io/d/2ayNgb

Log file

Current.log : https://hastebin.com/aqevuyecic.kotlin

When I creating producing line setup and using modules I must every time select assembler and check rate for exactly the same machine. Is possible to pin window and refresh rate every ssecond?

Crash to main menu after loading save.

See this discussion on MaxRateCalculator. Basically some products shouldn't be affected by productivity as determined by the catalyst_amount property. This tripped me up when using RateCalculator because it shows some recipes using productivity having a net-positive loop when they shouldn't.

As I noticed not all buildings are supported.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/mini-machines
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/micro-machines
I don't know how it was implemented, but a generic approach would automatically support (almost) all modded buildings.

Best regards and thanks for this mod.

Describe the Bug

When closing the GUI the drop down list remains open

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use the calculator on something
2. Open the drop down list, but choose nothing
3. Press Escape to close the GUI
4. See error

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but here goes - My take away from the mod page is that the rate of science pack consumption for x number of labs would be shown by selecting them, but I'm getting nothing. I've tried it with empty labs and with science packs loaded (but not actively researching). What am I doing wrong?

I have a logistic robot factory that has several assembly machines spread out. Some intermediate assemblers, however, aren't always in the same physical "cluster" of the final product they're contributing to; they can sometimes be spread out far apart from each other. If I want to use this calculator for certain assemblers, I either have to select all of them (including unrelated machines, cluttering the UI and slowing calculation times when desired machines are far apart), or select them individually and add up the numbers manually. It would be far easier if there was a way to make multiple selections for a single calculation. Or even a way to just add/remove machines from the last calculation that was made.

Describe the Bug

I created a save, dropped a BP, saved game. Added a mod "No Power Icons" and then attempted to re-load that save and this error popped up.

To Reproduce

Load the save.

Save file & Username

https://gofile.io/d/xeaqkI
Pwnographic

Log file

https://hastebin.com/getovehaga.yaml

The mod Rate Calculator (2.0.0) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event RateCalculator::on_tick (ID 0)
flib/gui-beta.lua:136: attempt to index local 'elem' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
flib/gui-beta.lua:136: in function 'recursive_update'
flib/gui-beta.lua:165: in function 'update'
RateCalculator/scripts/gui/selection.lua:379: in function 'update'
RateCalculator/scripts/selection-tool.lua:166: in function 'iterate'
RateCalculator/control.lua:167: in function <RateCalculator/control.lua:164>

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some of the recipes in Py take in fluid/gas at one temperature and output the same fluid/gas at a different temperature.

Recipe: Hot-stone brick
Ingredients: Warmer stone brick + Outlet gas (stage 4) >=1000C
Results: Hot stone brick + Outlet gas (stage 4) 750C

Describe the solution you'd like

Have rate calculator treat the gas/fluids at different temperatures as different items to be calculated

Additional context

Ideally there needs to be a column for temperature, or an overlay over the gas/fluid with the min temperature required.

Describe the Bug

It doesn't calculate the effect of beacon's modules if the beacon is not powered

To Reproduce

1. put 2 pairs assembling machine+beacone and power one pair only.
2. put prod modules in beacons and calculate the output of every pair, you will see that it calculates the only where beacon is powered (doesn't' matter if assembling machine is powered or not)
3. put green modules in beacons and calculate the power consumption of every pair, you will see that it calculates the only where a beacon is powered (doesn't' matter if assembling machine is powered or not)

let me know if you can't reproduce it and need save and log

p.s. I like your mod a lot, but have to keep using Max Rare calculator as it doesn't' have such bug. Hope you can fix it :)

Thanks and I love your mod! 😄

Edit-Blueprints

When using the calculator on furnaces, if they aren't currently processing an item (therefore no recipe), they don't show any processing time, this makes it effectively useless when building blueprints for furnaces.
Would it be possible to add a default furnace recipe setting or another way of selecting a recipe without live processing?

Describe the Bug

Mod crashes when selecting a miner that ran out of ore
This worked before the mod updated.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Alt+X
2. Drag over a miner marked out of ore
3. See error

Save file & Username

username: baltoaca
The engineer is right next to the miner
Save file https://ufile.io/ykzufsie

Log file

factorio-current.log

Some way to ignore beltboxes in calculations would be welcome. Maybe option to blacklist them or ignore with shift-select.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/deadlock-beltboxes-loaders

Describe the Bug

The mod doesn't calculate how much fuel is consumed in a fluid burning boiler

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have Bob's Power installed
2. Place a Fluid Burning Boiler and provide fuel (here given with Editor Extension)
3. Use the calculator
4. See error

I wish see maximum power that machines consume I t will be very useful to plan power consumption of outpost and using power switches and accumulator backup systems or emergency powersource.

When selecting a group of working or non-working steam engines and their Boilers gives me zero results on Power Production

Below is 2 screenshots, one of the selection and the other of the results. I am playing on Pyblock.

https://imgur.com/a/MRqZxx6

I would have left a comment on the Factorio Mod Portal but I noticed you disabled all comments on all of your mods you produce. I currently use your recipe book, which works GREAT since FNEI doesnt work for modded playthroughs. So thank you for that.

I've got this mod and the max rate mod installed and they always show the same values. It seems to only show the max rate and not how much is actually being produced. A good example of this is where I compared the rate and max rate for some machines that didn't have enough ingredients so they weren't actually producing any items.

The rate mod still showed the same value as the max rate, even though the actual rate would be 0, as it wasn't producing anything. Do I have the wrong expectations of what this mod does? Or is this an issue?

I was looking at the rates for Assembly Machine 2.

In complex production chains it can be hard to match the production and consumption rates of intermediate products exactly, if non-integer ratios or modules are involved. This leads to Rate Calculator overestimating the required inputs.

As a simplified example, suppose item A takes 3 seconds to produce and requires two of item B, which only takes 2 seconds to produce and requires two of raw material C. If you have one machine for A and two for B, you'll produce 20 A per minute and 60 B per minute. Only 40 of those B are consumed each minute, so after buffers fill up the entire chain only requires 80 C per minute instead of 120.

In this simple example, having two machines for A and three for B would of course match perfectly, but in more complex chains with many different ratios it may require tens or even hundreds of machines to achieve perfect balance. And without a perfect balance the errors accumulate through the chain so you may end up having entire extra machines in earlier stages if you simply build enough to satisfy the next stage's demands.

I would like to have a way for Rate Calculator to account for this and calculate the inputs based on only the items that can be consumed by further stages of the chain. Items which are not consumed by any of the selected machines can be assumed to be outputs of the entire chain and should be accounted for at full production capacity.

Describe the Bug

load game with Industrial Revolution mod as well and you get loading game error

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

load game with Industrial Revolution mod as well and you get this
https://imgur.com/a/85SlBuz

there is no save file as the game doesn't load. npuldon

Hi. When selection includes ghosted tiles calculator appears to check every single tile, drastically increasing calculation time

Thank you for updating this mod for 1.1 so quickly, I really like it so far. I really like that you have belts as a unit of measure, but if you have time, I would like to suggest you also add inserters.

Error while running event RateCalculator::on_gui_elem_changed (ID 67)
RateCalculator/scripts/rcalc-gui.lua:210: attempt to index local 'unit_data' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
RateCalculator/scripts/rcalc-gui.lua:210: in function 'update_contents'
RateCalculator/scripts/rcalc-gui.lua:62: in function 'handler'
flib/gui.lua:352: in function 'dispatch_handlers'
flib/gui.lua:138: in function <flib/gui.lua:138>"

Can provide a save if requested.

Describe the Bug

The Rate Calculator incorrectly calculates a beaconed plastic setup.

The following setup is a fully beaconed 4 chemical plant setup (8 beacons/plant). This setup creates 2,8k plastic per minute.
See Calculator
This is also verified save below (Editor Extensions required)

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Load the Save Game
2. Use the calculator on the chemical plants
3. The calculator produces the following stats, this is off by about 700 plastic
   

Be certain to reproduce the issue on the same save file that you upload.

Save file & Username

Save:
MRC.zip

Username:
Roang

Log file

Not a crash, can upload if needed.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When designing new layouts I may not have the machines (esp. beacons and modules) with me. Also I like to use the ghost placing feature of factorio to arrange new layouts instead of continously building and deconstructing the same machines.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd love to have Rate Calculator to include ghost machines and beacons into the calculation.

There are two ways to this crash:

1. Select some trees --> crash
   or
2. Select some trees, change measurement to pollution --> crash

399.060 Error MainLoop.cpp:1281: Exception at tick 2139062: 模组 速率计算器 [Rate Calculator] (2.0.0) 引发了无法恢复的错误。
请向模组作者报告此错误。

Error while running event RateCalculator::on_tick (ID 0)
flib/gui-beta.lua:136: attempt to index local 'elem' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
flib/gui-beta.lua:136: in function 'recursive_update'
flib/gui-beta.lua:165: in function 'update'
RateCalculator/scripts/gui/selection.lua:379: in function 'update'
RateCalculator/scripts/selection-tool.lua:166: in function 'iterate'
RateCalculator/control.lua:167: in function <RateCalculator/control.lua:164>
403.944 Quitting: user-quit.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When using the rate calculator on a nuclear reactor, it doesn't take heat exchangers into account - it doesn't calculate the steam output / water consumption

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd love for it to pick up on those entities and calculate those 2 values.

As a nice to have, we could introduce a heat measure, having reactors as producers of heat and exchangers as consumers (not sure of this rate exactly, but it could be nice to use the neighbour bonus to output the correct value)

Additional context

no context

Describe the Bug

I've had this mod installed for a while and just installed CircuitControlledSilo and now get this error on startup:

Failed to load mods: Error in assignID: entity with name 'smart-rocket-silo-red' does not exist. It was removed by CircuitControlledSilo.

Source: rcalc-selection-tool (selection-tool).

Mods to be disabled:
• CircuitControlledSilo (1.0.2)
• RateCalculator (1.0.3)
• extended-descriptions (1.0.12)

extended-descriptions is probably not involved, it just touches everything.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Load the save file

Save file & Username

Save file

My username is sonaxaton

Log file

factorio-current.log

Describe the solution you'd like

From factorio discord:

It would be cool if rate calculator could store the last 5 or so calculations and allow you to quickly view them.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When designing new layouts I may not have the machines (esp. modules) with me. So it often happens, that the are requested to be place into machines by bots (but not available currently).

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd love to have Rate Calculator to include requested modules in machines and beacons into the calculation.

Describe the Bug

Mod fails to load with IR2

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Industrial Revolution 2 and Rate calc are incompatible at the moment.

Save file & Username

Not necessary?

Log file

https://pastebin.com/tvhAq7t1