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
0.15 - 1.1
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g Read belt contents

2 years ago

Is there any way to read the belt contents of the miniloader? I have a requestor chest feeding my rocket silo via two miniloaders. The chest items get requested based on circuit signals from the destination planet and rocket silos, etc. But the problem is I can't measure what's actually on the belt of the miniloader, so it's a bit inexact. Any solution?

2 years ago

At this time there is no solution. Miniloaders are a combination of belt and inserters, and it is not easy to read both the belt contents and all the inserter contents.

Even if you could read exact Miniloader contents on a particular tick you would still have to compensate for combinator processing delays. The usual practice is to work around the problem of counting items in transit.

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