Miniloader

by therax

Compact and UPS-friendly 1x1 loaders. Works with train cargo wagons, circuits, filters, and modded belts from Bob's, Krastorio, FactorioExtended Plus, Space Exploration, and Ultimate Belts.

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8 months ago
0.15 - 1.1
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b Loader too slow?

5 years ago

Hello,
thank you for this cool mod.
I don't know if this behavior is intended but the loader can't fill an express belt. There are lot of gaps:
https://imgur.com/a/X0gZFmn
I don't have this with the Loader Redux mod (in the picture the outer ones) With a splitter and a second loader I could fix it but it feels not right (lane in the middle).

Is this intended or a bug? I play 0.17.11

Would be great if you could look over this.

Thank you.

5 years ago

Please fix the insertion speed of the express loader. That thing is definitely not at 45/s. (Extraction speed is correct at 45/s)
Thank you.

5 years ago
(updated 5 years ago)

Seems like this is still broken when loading into a chest?

(using green belts from bobs at 75 item/s)
https://imgur.com/a/LpZ50gB

It's able to unload from a chest at full rate, but it's not able to insert into one at full rate (note one side finishes faster).

Note that the lower tier (purple, 60 items/s) seems to be fine.

5 years ago

Miniloaders are based on inserters, and inserters cannot pull from a belt faster than 60 items/s.
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=58613

5 years ago
(updated 5 years ago)

And what's about 45/s? With the newest update the problem is even worse. The gaps on the belts are huge!
https://imgur.com/a/sdfzWPz
https://imgur.com/a/df63G3x

5 years ago

Inserter behavior seems quite unpredictable when the arm speed is just enough to keep up with a belt. I've had cases where mining and re-building the same miniloader in the same place with the same surrounding setup will sometimes keep up, and sometimes will not. I'll increase swing speed again.

5 years ago
(updated 5 years ago)

Edit: Please ignore what I wrote. It's fixed now (didn't saw that you posted 4 hours ago)! Thank you very much!

Thank you.
For testing, I installed Bos's Logistics. His belts run slightly faster (50/s) and your Miniloder can keep up with this speed (no gaps). I don't know why. https://imgur.com/ZhXNqgJ

To fix this in my world I installed the mod Ultimate Belts and I started to use the second tier (the green one) n the input site. https://imgur.com/a/nHY1Bxw

Replacing the loader over and over again did not help. Unfortunately.
Greetings

5 years ago

Inserters can be really weird. I also saw that there are times where (with the same settings) they can sometimes keep up with a faster belt when they can't keep up with a slower belt. It has to do with the 2 inserters in a miniloader getting synced up so that they're both swinging over to the drop target (chest/container) at the same time, leaving no inserter ready to pick up items from the belt.

5 years ago

https://puu.sh/D4qT9/21fead9b44.gif

Loader too slow for its same color belt

5 years ago

Inserters with stack bonus cannot pick up more than one kind of item at the same time, so when you alternate 4 different item types using splitters like this, you make the inserters have to swing 4 times as often.

5 years ago

I have the ultimate belts mod, wich in thory has miniloaders to match their speed, but same thing happens, there are lots of gaps

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