I got a loader in my base that wont allow me to remove it. It says will be removed when rail is unoccupied but there is nothing there. In fact it consists only of three piece of bulk rail loader. The actual loader is visible but is not an entity on the map. (no yellow square). Any advise how to remove it?

Sounds like you may have used Instant Desconstruction from a Creative Mode mod, and so the mining/deconstruction logic was not triggered.

You can remove these by hovering your cursor over each of the 3 rails and running the following command:

/c for _, e in pairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{position=game.player.selected.position}) do e.destroy() end

thnx, worked perfectly, but i never used such a mod

Hmmm, can you think of any other mods you may have used that interfere with how buildings are mined?

not really, if i do it again it can get mined.

this can happen if the fake-chest gets destroyed by explosion damage

this can happen if the fake-chest gets destroyed by explosion damage

This has been handled properly for many versions now. I just re-tested the current version and explosion damage does cause the entire railloader to be destroyed with nothing left behind.

weird then - or maybe it's a weird interaction with Cargo Ships mod? because I'll occasionally lose the BRL Chest when placing waterways right beside (when using BRLs to un/load carbo ships and boats)