[crooked-v]

I wonder if the same thing would be possible for Rimworld, using some level of abstraction over pawns (as input/output connections) and minimum room configurations.

[codetrotter]

Or for Minecraft. Probably Verilog to Minecraft has been done already.

[Twirrim]

https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL came up on a google search.

Factorio's advantage is the blueprints / blueprint strings, which would make it easy to transfer stuff in to the game.

[waste_monk]

How would the clock work for that? wouldn't want part of the "die" to fall out of sync because someone stopped to grab a meal or fight an crazed boomrat.

[regularfry]

That just sounds like somewhere you'd want clockless design. The brute force way to do it is to replace the clock with a "ready" signal from each subcomponent, so the next in the chain only does its thing when it knows all the inbound signals are good.