[BUG] stack inserter max speed

Comments: 4

• 25 Nov
  stefanda

  This is "by design".
  
  Inserters moving items between machine/container/belt hubs without any belt work (nearly) as expected with (almost) 720/min.
  Inserters can grab and drop a full stack instantly.
  
  Belts are different, as each item to/from the stack the inserter has needs too move forward until the inserter can drop/grab the next one. this causes the loss of performance.
  
  Unfortunately this isn't explained at all in the game and very counter intuitive.
  
  It works different to e.g. Satisfactory or found, where belts are attached right to machine/containers in/outputs
  
  One way to get a higher throughput with belts is turning the belt piece inserters interact with into a hub which splits to/merges from three separate belts.
  Another, more silly way would be removing all belts and using rows of containers instead.
  
  It's doesn't just affect 720 Inserters but all kinds and tiers, depending on the belt/inserter conditions.

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• 25 Nov
  stefanda

  With that said:
  
  There is currently a mod in the making that will make items on belts behave like for satisfactory/foundry
  Loaders will shove them betwen machines and belts.

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• 25 Nov
  laugexd

  if this is by design, then it should show the actual speed it operates at, doesn't matter what is limiting it, if something is limiting it in perfect conditions, it should just show the speed it operates with in those perfect conditions, anything else is just going to confuse the player.

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• 26 Nov
  stefanda

  Fully agreed!
  In fact, the way inserter, belt, machine rates are shown doesn't help at all in its current implementation, as it only states the theoretical maximum.
  
  E. G. An mk2 drill can only output 2160 ore/min (3 maxed stack inserters) but with enough core clusters provided that can quickly turn into 5000
  
  I always wished there were a real live statistics display but it never happened. Kind of made that feature useless.

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