Renai Transportation


The most unhinged ways to transport items and yourself around your factory. Fling items around with Thrower Inserters, launch your trains off ramps, and soar through your base on electric ziplines!

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b Bounce Pad Problems

3 months ago

I'm having various problems with bounce pads, and I'm not certain if there's just unspecified limitations to them or if these are just bugs.

First, thrower inserters seem very particular on whether they'll throw to a bounce pad depending on what inventory they're pulling from and what they're throwing to. For example, if I try to send biter eggs from a captured nest to a box via bounce pads, the inserter or ejector hatch will refuse to work unless there's a belt for it to land on somewhere along the path. Whether any set up will prefer that intermediary belt to be closer to the source or destination also seems random.

The other big issue I'm having is that director bounce pads are just all over the place right now. If I set up filters on it, it seems random on which direction the items will go or if they'll even bother respecting filters in the first place. In the filter menu, I find I have to put the filter on the row above the label instead of below. Even then, some items will just ignore filters altogether, or simply refuse to bounce in a certain direction no matter which filter the item is placed in. The bounce pad will even light up with the correct directional color, but the item will still bounce in the wrong direction, ignoring the filter.

3 months ago

There's been a problem since 2.0.50 where inserters don't interact with bounce pads the same as they used to. I'm still not sure what the change is but all the Bounce pads are reskinned Constant combinators so that they can "store" data in them when blueprinted. For some reason ever since 2.0.50, inserters won't swing towards Constand combinators anymore which is causing a lot of the weird inconsistency issues you're seeing. Not sure what the fix is yet unfortunately 😓

3 months ago

Good to know. I've at least been able to side-step some issues by just shuffling director bounce pads around until items decide to cooperate, but here's hoping some Factorio update fixes the issues you're having.

3 months ago

Oh the Director bounce pad thing is a bug, the direction filters were shifted so things would bounce the wrong way lol. I fixed that in the newest version but yeah idk what to do for the inserters yet

3 months ago

Oh, awesome, I'll get the update. That's probably the bigger issue right now, the other bounce pad weirdness isn't difficult to work around, even if a bit annoying, haha.

3 months ago

Think it might be related to this line of the changelog?
Fixed that inserters could get stuck when captured spawners would revert and be re-captured. (more)
https://forums.factorio.com/128751

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