Big Containers UPS+


Adds a selection tool that reduces inventory sizes of storage buildings for UPS savings. Mod created by request!

Utilities
a month ago
1.1 - 2.0
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Storage

i [Not Planned] Blacklist || Whitelist

10 months ago

Hi, now I have installed also the Merging Chests Logistic, so I have much more chests, but I don't need Logictic variants to generate also the UPS+ chests.
I only need the steel chest UPS+ and merging chest steel UPS+.

Maybe there could be added some whitelist to choose only these ones, or blacklist to choose all that do not need to generate UPS+ version.

And for the merging chests, it probably need some wildcard or regex support

10 months ago

Hi Flart, I am hesitant to add such a feature to this mod. I'd like to avoid adding complexity where I can - both to the mod settings and to the code itself - and by making a duplicate of ALL containers I was able to keep multiple aspects of the code easier to understand than they otherwise would be.

I'm assuming that your issue is with how long the game takes to load with the hundreds or thousands of containers generated by Merging Chests - which are then 3x-6x'd by Merging Chests Logistic, which are then all doubled by this mod. Do you think that you could improve that loading time by setting stricter limitations for the Merging Chests mod, or to use something different for robot logistics?

10 months ago
(updated 10 months ago)

I have something like 150x6x2, and I can make it lower, by specifying MC whitelist more thorough.

MC is indeed unique in this regard, so maybe the feature not worth be implemented just for the MC, but from the mod setting side it is simple, whitelist string field, only chests, that include regex as substring is processed. My case: "steel" probably would work.

10 months ago

Hey flart, I added a setting to this mod that allows for skipping logistic containers, so no UPS+ versions of those will be created when it is disabled.

I decided to approach your issue in this way as I can understand the mod feeling unnecessary for logistic chests.
Truthfully, I believe that a whitelist/blacklist feature for this mod would be "solving problems that do not exist".

I don't believe the common user needs exposure to a technical feature such as blacklist/whitelist by way of pattern matching based on a string setting that they are inputting themself. If you are already thinking in terms of regex and substring, you could probably implement this yourself :)

10 months ago

the option for skipping logistic chests is also good, thanks

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