Hi.

I installed your mod and didnt notice that it doesnt send the items to the network, it does in fact throw them to the ground.

Now, the problem is that I had Warehouses (mod) with thousands of items and those got thrown all over. Unfortunatly I didnt notice this because I use the warehouses in remote locations. And thus saved with this state -.-'

... yah, what a mess.

Anyway.. there is a mod called Overflow Chest that needed to solve the same problem as you: send items back to the network.

In their case, the chest works like a better buffer chest by switching from requester to passive provider on the fly. In your case, what you could do is instead of converting to passive provider, you could convert to active provider, thus forcing bots to clear the contents of the chest until you are good with the amount of things in it.

You could, if you wanted to mix items, spawn an hidden active provider and then transfer the "excess" items into it. Bots would pick stuff up from that instead.

Unfortunately, with the current behavior of throwing things to the ground, this isnt very useful

yea i heard of that mod after i made this one, and i didn't really want to do any switching logic in order to not break anything when this mod is added/removed to a save.

dumping them to the ground is indeed not ideal, but for my personal usecase i have it combined with repair towers which can quickly pickup dropped items.

so in a nutshell, my way is not the best way, but for my ocd its the only clean solution, besides i only tend to use buffer chests when i control them via the circuit network, sounds like the warehouses are permanent buffer chests?

Basically, I am using Warehouses the same way as a normal buffer chest, but at a much bigger scale. Its not long term storage

i'd like to let you know that i have revisited this mod in my latest modding project: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/the-geneva-suggestion

at the time of writing this the behavior is that buffer chests opt into this behavior if you an active provider chest is placed adjacent to it,
and instead of overflow it just moves all the items without a filter into the active provider chest periodically :)