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I had hoped that the temporary inserters would stop eating copper while it was waiting for cog wheels.

Probably only because they are temporary inserters, but might be worthwhile to fix.

Do you mean the loaders? I believe the ingested materials are refunded later BUT I agree that it shouldn't accept more resources than it needs to begin with.

The current behavior is distressing to players who are seeing their resources disappear and it has no place in a tutorial given that nothing else in the game behaves like it.

Im working on a better solution for this. Compilatron will refund the items in a much more obvious way.

During focus testing, it was helpful for new players that everything on belts kept moving, so we decided to keep it that way.

New version implemented. Please check it out.