Inserter Ground Stack

by sparr

Inserters make stacks on the ground instead of just single items, after researching belt stacking.

Tweaks
a month ago
2.1
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Changelog

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-09-12
  Features:
    - An inserter putting something down where a stack of the same thing is already lying adds to that stack instead of stopping on it
    - A bulk inserter empties its whole hand onto the ground rather than leaving all but the first item in it
    - Ground stacks grow to the same depth the item stacks anywhere else, so a tile holds a hundred iron plates or ten barrels
    - Eggs and anything else that hatches when it spoils are left alone, since a pile of them going off at once is a bigger bang than the game would ever have arranged
    - Nothing happens until belt stacking has been researched
    - Works with Bob's Adjustable Inserters, Quick Adjustable Inserters and Smart Inserters: an inserter re-aimed onto bare ground is picked up at once
    - /igs-rescan reads the whole factory again, for an inserter built or re-aimed by a mod that announced nothing
    - Inserters aimed at rail, or at a ghost of something that takes items, are not watched, since neither can be put down on; they are picked up again when the rail or the ghost goes