Picklocks Inserter


This mod prevents Inserters to get stuck holding Items.

Utilities
23 days ago
0.17 - 2.0
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i Putting items back onto the belt?

6 months ago

For my automated train loading stations, I have items running around on a sushi belt, waiting for inserters to pick them up - however, occasionally a race condition will occur, picking up an item or stack just as the last wagon slot is being filled, causing the item to get stuck. Because I'm using LTN, this prevents the train from departing; as one or more items are missing from the cargo, and forever will be until manually unstuck.

I tried using this mod to work around the issue, by having it put the item back on the belt, to be picked up by the next inserter cluster in line, however it seems that it does not support putting items back onto a belt, and a quick look at the source code seems to confirm this. I cannot use buffer chests, because items will get stuck in chests that are supposed to be loaded into a different wagon instead. (My automated stations dispense exactly the requested amount of items - this is needed to support multi-item provider stations. For the same reason I cannot have the mod delete the items either.)

Is there any chance you could add item-returning support for belts as well, so that I can make my automated stations work reliably? Many thanks for your work on the mod :)

6 months ago

Hi joepie91!
Thanks for the interest in my mod. I will have a look at it and check if it is possible to put items back on belts without any problems. I don't know when I'll get around to it though, as I don't have much spare time at the moment.

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