Filter inserter vs stack filter inserter

[darius456]

After 3 years of playing factorio i noticed that filter inserter has 5 filter slots, but stack filter inserter has only 1. This is intendent or not.

[Caine]

This is intendent [sic] or not.

yes

[darkfrei]

You can always change it https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Settings_Filter_Inserter

[HurkWurk]

two different goals here.
the stack inserter is meant to load more at a time. the limit of 5 is due to what most recipes use (5 ingredients or less) so that you can filter what the stack inserter grabs if its grabbing from a shared resource (such as a storage chest)

the filter inserter is meant to pick out one thing. (and is much cheaper than a stack inserter which replaces it to some degree)

[bobingabout]

two different goals here.
the stack inserter is meant to load more at a time. the limit of 5 is due to what most recipes use (5 ingredients or less) so that you can filter what the stack inserter grabs if its grabbing from a shared resource (such as a storage chest)

the filter inserter is meant to pick out one thing. (and is much cheaper than a stack inserter which replaces it to some degree)

that's backwards to what he said. He said the stack filter only has 1 slot, but the non-stack filter has 5 slots.

But similar logic applies:
The filter inserter is the "Smarter" of the two, and can filter out multiple different resources for a machine.
The stack filter inserter can move items a lot faster, so the trade off for this is that it's less smart, and can only filter 1 type of item.

[Zool]

Does anyone know a way to include a NOT logic into the inserters filter? like to grab anything that is not iron? Sure, you can do it the other way, and grab any iron of a belt, but on belts that can have very mixed stuff on them, its a pain to make sure to have inserters for any single item that could potentially be in there.

[darkfrei]

Does anyone know a way to include a NOT logic into the inserters filter? like to grab anything that is not iron? Sure, you can do it the other way, and grab any iron of a belt, but on belts that can have very mixed stuff on them, its a pain to make sure to have inserters for any single item that could potentially be in there.

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