Changelog

Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2026-06-16
  Changes:
    - Added a mod thumbnail.

Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-06-16
  Changes:
    - Loading no longer needs Smart Filter Inserter or any wiring. PTL drives each loading buffer chest's logistic request directly as an exact amount (minimum = maximum), so robots never over-deliver and the wagon lands on exactly the planned amount, with no overshoot, leftover or trash churn. (Smart Filter Inserter still works if you have it.)
    - The loading buffer pre-stages while the train is still inbound and is kept empty when idle, so loading is near-instant on arrival and anything dropped into the buffer by hand flows back to storage on its own.
    - Unloading inserters are switched on and off by the mod (active only while a train is actually unloading there), so the signal-U wire is no longer needed. Bays that both load and unload are handled.
    - Trains wait for the real result instead of leaving on inactivity: a load finishes when every item is loaded (or the wagon is full), an unload when the wagon is empty. A train that genuinely can't finish (a provider that can't supply it, or a full destination) is reported by the stuck-train warning instead of leaving with a partial load.
  Bugfixes:
    - Loads no longer over-deliver in robot-cargo-sized chunks (e.g. 4 for a request of 2) that left a leftover churning back and forth.
    - An excess load no longer hangs near the end with a robot shuttling the last stack in and out.
    - One provider feeding several requesters at once no longer has its live load manifest clobbered by other inbound deliveries.
    - A train left "returning" at a depot is recovered instead of sitting idle and tying up the train pool.
  Features:
    - New /ptl-chest command: inspect a chest's contents and logistic requests.
    - Removed the optional Inventory Sensor dependency (no longer used).

Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026-06-14
  Changes:
    - Loading is now exact: a provider advertises one item's remaining at a time, so the loading inserter (with Smart Filter Inserter) sets an exact stack size and never overshoots small-count items. The inserter loads back-to-back, so total load time is essentially unchanged. Fluids still load together through their pumps.
    - Unloading now empties the whole wagon at the destination and lets any surplus rebalance through normal stocking, instead of trying to stop at a target. Simpler, and a train no longer leaves carrying leftover cargo.
    - The "give up waiting" window for loading, refuelling and unloading is now a map setting (default 10s). Set it high to keep a stuck or parked train in place while you inspect it.
    - A provider pre-stages a delivery's items into its loading buffer while the train is still en route, so loading starts the moment it arrives.
    - A station now emits its outstanding shortfall ("shopping list") and its surplus on the Reader output even when no train is assigned, so base logistics can be wired to it.
  Bugfixes:
    - Sinks no longer release a train before its wagon is empty (the give-up timer could fire instantly on a sink, and later treated a steadily-draining wagon as stalled).
    - A train that skips a full or unreachable scheduled stop is recovered and sent back to a depot instead of looping forever.
    - A train re-parked at a depot with a stale schedule (manual reschedule / desync) is detected and its delivery cancelled, instead of sitting idle.
    - A train stopping to refuel is no longer mistaken for a skipped stop and wrongly recovered.
    - A still-loaded train is detoured through a Sink before parking, rather than parking with cargo.
    - Train-to-station layout detection no longer misreads stations that share a stretch of rail.
    - Manually-parked trains are accounted for when choosing a return depot.
  Features:
    - Strict-outpost mode: a station can be set to keep only the items it requests, shipping anything else to a Sink.
    - New /ptl-station command (inspect the hovered stop); /ptl-debug now writes a full state dump to script-output/ptl-debug.txt.

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-06-11
  Features:
    - Declarative stock targets: each station declares the level to keep of an item or fluid; the network tops it up toward the target and drains anything above it.
    - Automatic dispatch: idle depot trains are routed to carry goods from stations with a surplus to stations below their target, then returned to a free depot.
    - Station roles via a Station Configurator entity: Normal (provides and requests), Depot (idle trains wait here), Refuel (low-fuel trains divert here), Sink (absorbs leftover overstock no station wanted).
    - Exact loading: a provider advertises the precise remaining amount to load. Items pair with Smart Filter Inserter; fluid pumps are cut off automatically at the target.
    - Train-to-station layout matching: only trains whose carriages match a station's loaders (cargo wagons at item loaders, fluid wagons at pumps, exact length) are sent, in either orientation.
    - Multi-item deliveries: one train can carry several items from the same provider in a single trip.
    - Need-based priority: when supply is scarce, the most-depleted station is served first.
    - Refueling: trains low on fuel divert to a Refuel stop before returning to their depot.
    - Auto-onboarding: a new automatic train left with an empty schedule routes itself to a free depot and joins the pool; stranded trains running an old route are reclaimed.
    - Warnings: a clickable map ping when one of the mod's trains is stuck with no path / no depot, and when two provider/requester stops share a name (which would misroute trains).
    - Settings ride blueprints and copy-paste: each station's mode, role and fluid deadband are stored in its own combinator fields, so they survive blueprinting, ghosts and save/load.
    - Configurable fluid request deadband (per map and per station) so steady draw, like steam for power, does not trigger constant trickle deliveries.
    - Debug commands: /ptl-debug, /ptl-dump, /ptl-matches, /ptl-deliveries, /ptl-refresh-schedules.