6/8/2023 0 Comments Factorio buffer chestThis is why I sometimes prefer the slightly different approach I describe in my answer here. The setup in the image does not use this, but it can be used to prioritize where robots fetch from. The key here is that there is currently no direct way to automate switching of chest types or stop providing something, but requester chests can be told to only request items when a circuit condition is met.Īnother important thing to note is that fetching objects from Storage chests take priority over fetching from Passive Provider chests. (Note: Depending on your bot and inserter upgrades, you may never get exactly the number of items you request, but you will never get less than that in one delivery.) The inserter "overfills" the requester even if it's not requesting anything, as long as the total amount of plates is below 200 in the logistics network (NOT the circuit network), to allow a larger buffer than just 1 item at a time. Once something empties the provider the requester will once again request 1. The right combinator will add -1 copper plate to the sum requested (totalling to 0), but only when the provider chest has anything in it.īasically that system will request 1, immediately move it to the provider, which one tick later adds -1 to the requested amount. The left combinator sends out 1 copper plate as long as the roboport reports there is less than some amount available in the logistics system. The requester chest will sum all its circuit inputs and request exactly that. The setup in the OP's linked image works something like this: Even the imgur picture doesn't help because I don't understand what's going on or why that is supposed to work, but I get the feeling that the picture above is supposed to solve a slightly different problem.Ĭan anyone shed some light on either why the above combination works, or a better solution to my problem? This seems like something I should be able to automate (isn't that Factorio's motto?) with a circuit combination, but I don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about how to do it on Reddit. The problem is after all the construction is done, I need to then make sure I remember to swap out the PP chests for requester chests to refill the cache, and then once all the dust settles, swap the requester chests back to PP chests. Say I want to plonk down another thousand solar array's, to facilitate build time I'd be handy if I could have a set of Passive Provider Chests stocked with panels, accumulators and substations ready to go. So I've come across multiple scenario's where it would be very handy to have cache's of certain items closer to a build site.
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