Changelog

Version: 0.11.5
Date: 2026-09-14
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash in the data-updates stage of sorting inserters to create upgrade chains.
  Features:
    - This mod now correctly makes 'valid' hierarchies of inserter upgrades, restricted to within the same item group, and ignoring inserters in other fast replaceable groups.
  Compatibility:
    - This mod now no longer affects inserters with a footprint bigger than 1×1, (due to technical limitations of current implementation.)
  Other:
    - Corrected a mistake in the settings descriptions.

Version: 0.11.4
Date: 2026-09-14
  Other:
    - Changed chat/console messages to be per-player where relevant.

Version: 0.11.3
Date: 2026-09-11
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed several crashes

Version: 0.11.2
Date: 2026-09-11
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash in the settings paste function, due to a missed argument order refactoring.
    - Fixed a bug in the upgrade logic that made bulk inserters upgrade to fast inserters.

Version: 0.11.1
Date: 2026-09-11
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash in the settings paste hook, due to a missed rename refactoring.

Version: 0.11.0
Date: 2026-09-10
  Features:
    - Made /yasi-fix-inserters force long-handed inserters to extension 4 and all other inserters to extension 2, conforming with vanilla reach, so it can be used to fix broken builds. Since it is a destructive change, it also now requires the user to run the command twice as confirmation.
    - Made automatic deduction of canonical direction more resilient, so off-direction inserters get normalized into one of the 8th semi-cardinal directions.
    - Made automatic deduction of canonical extension level more resilient.
  Balancing:
    - Limited all inserters to only 4 filters, as that is what can be displayed on the model in alt mode.
  Bugfixes:
    - Arm settings with long extension are now prevented from being transferred to yellow and burner inserters, circumventing their limitation.
    - When pasting arm direction settings, the 'mirrored' state of the inserter is now also transferred. Inserters have no obvious indication that they are mirrored, and so pasting the destination inserter moved opposite the source inserter if the mirroring states of the two were different.

Version: 0.10.1
Date: 2026-09-08
  Bugfixes:
    - Added logic in the data-updates stage that assigns fast-replaceable groups to inserters based on their maximum extension length; all short inserters is in one group, all long inserters is in the other.
    - Fixed a bug that pasting a mirrored blueprint over an inserter would trigger a 45⁰ rotation.
  Info:
    - Errata: the hand size of long inserters is 1.3, not 1.5.

Version: 0.10.0
Date: 2026-09-07
  Balancing:
    - Inserter recipe reverted to vanilla for Logistic Science compatibility (even though arguably a direct-insertion build with the burner inserter as an intermediate step is easier to design.).
    - Long-handed inserter recipe made more expensive, same raw materials as vanilla:
      - 2 × iron plate, 2 × iron gear wheel, 1 × electronic circuit
  Control:
    - Introduced per-player setting to disable the 45⁰ rotation steps, if needed.
  Modding:
    - Exposed internal functions as a library:
      - local yasilib = require '__yasi-inserter-love__.scripts.yasilib'
    - The InserterPrototype::hand_size of inserters is now set to 0.75 or 1.5, (0.1 less than in 0.9.1).
  Info:
    - Full changelog added.

Version: 0.9.1
Date: 2026-09-07
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a bug in the on_player_rotated_entity hook which failed to check whether a ghost had LuaEntity::ghost_type == "inserter", causing a crash when the player rotated a non-inserter ghost.
  Info:
    - Bugged version 0.9.0 removed from downloads.

Version: 0.9.0
Date: 2026-09-07
  Major Features:
    - Inserters can now be rotated like 8-directional entities (flamethrower turrets, railgun turrets) with the ordinary rotate key, even after placing (not normally possible with 8-directional entities.) The inserter will be rotated when the drop-off point would be 90° offset from the back of the inserter (the single-leg side.)
    - Inserter pick-up offsset can be independently adjusted of the drop-off offset, in 8 directions.
    - All inserters above long-handed inserters can be configured to have one of four different reach-distances.
      - The four reach levels are: normal reach, drop on near lane; normal reach, drop on far lane; long-handed reach, drop on near lane; long-handed reach, drop on far lane.
    - When pasting entity settings to an inserter, a player setting dictates whether pick-up and drop-off offsets are pasted or not.
      - A hotkey is provided to quickly change this while in-game.
    - Command /yasi-fix-inserters introduced which attempts to convert existing inserters' pick-up and drop-off positions to the 8-direction/4-reach system of YASI.
  Control:
    - Default keybindings:
      - ALT + mouse wheel up      extend inserter arm reach by 1 step.
      - ALT + mouse wheel down    retract inserter arm reach by 1 step.
      - CONTROL + R               rotate inserter pickup position counter-clockwise.
      - CONTROL + SHIFT + R       rotate inserter pickup position counter-clockwise.
      - ALT + mouse wheel click   reset inserter to default pick-up/drop-off offsets.
      - ALT + SHIFT + P           hotkey to toggle the pasting behavior setting.
    - Commands:
      - /yasi-fix-inserters :: for the player's current surface, locate all inserters and bring them in line with YASI's model of inserter configuration.
  Balancing:
    - Inserter recipe changed:
      - 1 × burner inserter, 1 × electronic circuit
    - Long-handed inserter recipe changed:
      - 2 × iron plate, 1 × iron gear wheel, 1 × electronic circuit
    - Fast inserter recipe changed:
      - 1 × long-handed inserter, 1 × steel plate, 1 × electronic circuit
    - Fast inserter technology now requires Steel processing and Automation 1.
    - Recipe and technology changes can be disabled via a startup setting.
    - Adjusted the rotation and extension speeds of regular inserter and burner inserter (small buff.) 
    - Electric inserters now have a small energy buffer, roughly large enough for 3-5 full swings of the hand.
      - The basic inserter no longer has any passive power drain.
    - When dropping off items onto a belt diagonally, the inserter arms are not long enough to reach the far lane of a distant belt.
      - This is done primarily to avoid visual issues, (stretching the inserter arm by 140%,) but also presents and interesting and realistic limtation for the player to work around.
  Modding:
    - Data-Updates stage:
      - InserterPrototype::burner_leech and InserterPrototype::support_custom
      - Inserters with an InserterPrototype::energy_source of type='electric' will automatically be given an internal buffer of computed size.
      - Inserters with an InserterPrototype::extension_speed ≥ 0.05 will be given hand_size=1.6 and support four levels of arm reach; below that cutoff, hand_size=0.85 and only the first two reach levels are supported.
  Compatibility:
    - All internal names in this mod are prefixed with 'yasi-' to avoid namespace collissions.
    - The inserters are not true 8-directional entities in that they are not given the "building-direction-8-way" flag (this causes them to become non-rotatable after placement.) The rotation behavior is accomplished with an on_player_rotated_entity event hook, which does not have support for inserter entities with non-square bases.
      - Actual compatibility behavior with mods such as Inserter Cranes has not been tested.