Miniloader

by therax

Compact and UPS-friendly 1x1 loaders. Works with train cargo wagons, circuits, filters, and modded belts from Bob's, Krastorio, FactorioExtended Plus, Space Exploration, and Ultimate Belts.

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7 months ago
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b Miniloaders loss circuit connections from blueprint sometimes

2 years ago

Miniloaders loss circuit connections (red/green wires) from blueprint sometimes if they have been built by bots or via instant building in the editor mode.

2 years ago

I can't understand on what principle it sometimes connects and sometimes does not connect these wires

2 years ago

Could you fix this? I can provide more info/examples if needed.
it's a pain, because I cannot use blueprints - it require re-place blueprints over placed and constructed miniloaders (force it with shift + click).
so, we cannot use blueprint as it was designed: place ghost and forget about it - bots will do all work for you.

2 years ago

Hi there, i got the same issue that is reported from saaadel.
First i was thinking it is caused by mod: colorblind circuit network, but is seems to be also a vanilla bug.
Hope it will be fixed soon. :)

2 years ago

Hallo, problem persists in my game as well weather using personal robots or network robots. Placed blueprints will lose some or all the connections on the mini loaders to other circuit connected entities. Running 1.1.35 Factorio. Running Newest version of Mod 1.14.2

2 years ago

Problem persists even with instant blueprints using Creative Mod. Problem persists through other versions as well, I went through 4 of the previous versions back to 1.13.1 and still encountered this problem with circuits missing sometimes in constructions made from blueprints. Problem persisted even when removing all other mods and playing a vanilla game with only the miniloaders Mod and Creative Mod enabled.

2 years ago

Do you have a sample blueprint string or a save game where this problems comes up every time? This has been reported before but it has also been random/inconsistent which makes it difficult to fix.

2 years ago

Do you have a sample blueprint string or a save game where this problems comes up every time? This has been reported before but it has also been random/inconsistent which makes it difficult to fix.

Yes. This Print places with no wires on miniloaders in my game:

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This Print Places down with no wires in my game:

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This has been very inconsistent till I noticed something:

I did my own testing and it seems that upgrading or modifying an existing blueprint with miniloaders by changing the miniloader type causes the blueprints circuits to be corrupted/lost when using the upgrade planner feature or by using the select new contents for blueprint feature. I think this may be the cause because if I reapply the circuits manually then create a brand new blueprint of that construction the wire issue stops. So from my tests Upgrading or modifying the contents of the blueprint causes the wire issue in my game.

Here is a save file that contains a book with known issues with miniloaders:
https://mega.nz/file/mosCiBra#ZHMjKEEkXo7zy-cqdgmC1p81MJcFLCo3oRnQhDSNdN4

2 years ago

Thank you for both the blueprint string and the reproduction steps. There is a bug in Factorio having to do with the "select new contents for blueprint" feature. I have implemented a workaround which should prevent blueprints with miniloaders from getting corrupted when using "select new contents," and also a (less reliable) workaround for when placing damaged blueprints that should hopefully prevent the circuit wire connections from being lost when the blueprints are built. These fixes should be released soon after I test them some more.

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