This adds "universal palleting" for common intermediate products. Pallets can be loaded and unloaded at assembling machines -- like barrels! Each pallet holds 100 items for transport, with a pallet stack size of 1, and takes 10 seconds to (un)load.
This increases belt throughput substantially, at the cost of more logistical complexity at the beginning and end of transport.
The standardized 100 item stack size also makes pallets more dense for ores but less dense for more refined intermediates like circuits. This makes it more space efficient to palletize ore before transporting by train, but not everything.
With a stack size of 1, pallets are also significantly faster to unload from trains -- and can easily be transferred between cargo wagons with red inserters!
There is now a Setting to palletize all items in the game -- including items from mods. It works with several common mods I tested, but do let me know if you find issues with any other mods.
Changelog:
Version: 0.16.3
Date: 23. 01. 2018
General:
- Reduced pallet (un)load time to 1 second
- Fixed bug where items with stack sizes < 100 would loose items during pallet unload
- Migrated to github
Mod Support:
- Fixed bug with Bob's ores crashing
- Fixed bug with Bob's electronics not being craftable in assembling machines
Version: 0.16.2
Date: 12. 01. 2018
General:
- Added "pallets of pallets"
- Changed empty-pallet stack size to 10
- Changed (un)load time to 6 seconds
- Fixed more localization descriptions
Mod Support:
- Added Bob's Ores support
Version: 0.16.1
Date: 8. 01. 2018
General:
- Added "mini icons" on pallets as an alternative to pallet tints
- Fixed localized descriptions
Mod support:
- Added support for mods via "palletize everything" option in settings
Version: 0.16.0
Date: 7. 01. 2018
General:
- Added Factorio v0.16.x support
- Improved pallet tint colors
- Bug fixes
Version: 0.15.0
Date: 6. 01. 2018
General:
- Initial release
- Added empty-pallet
- Added pallets for vanilla intermediate products