Splitter side loading using a drill doesn't work

[namek]

Is this an expected and desired behavior?

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Edit: Please don't mind that it's not coal, I know inserter cannot feed copper into a driil.

Thank You.

[Zavian]

I believe that is intended behaviour.

I think the drill is trying to insert into the splitter after the splitter has merged the belts.

The easiest alternative would be to just add a piece of belt heading east, and side-load onto the southbound belt.

[namek]

I believe that is intended behaviour.

I think the drill is trying to insert into the splitter after the splitter has merged the belts.

The easiest alternative would be to just add a piece of belt heading east, and side-load onto the southbound belt.

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I know I thought I'll optimize it a bit using splitters... and as far as I remember inserters can directly throw items into a splitter and it works.

[Engimage]

Dropping items on a splitter often results in unexpected behaviour as you can drop items on the output side of the splitter which has no use for you. It was even so that actual rotation of the blueprint could cause designs to fail on this part so you should avoid dropping items on the splitter at all.

Generally drills will drop items to the rightmost part of the belt relative to output arrow so possibly this will work if you turn splitter backwards.
However I do not see any sense in this (and even worse with underground belts facing outwards) cause you can obviously replace this with just a common belt piece facing the belt.

[namek]

Dropping items on a splitter often results in unexpected behaviour as you can drop items on the output side of the splitter which has no use for you. It was even so that actual rotation of the blueprint could cause designs to fail on this part so you should avoid dropping items on the splitter at all.

Generally drills will drop items to the rightmost part of the belt relative to output arrow so possibly this will work if you turn splitter backwards.
However I do not see any sense in this (and even worse with underground belts facing outwards) cause you can obviously replace this with just a common belt piece facing the belt.

Those underground belts are only for taste of the design reasons and as you can see it works perfectly with them, have no practical purpose. Thanks. Actually a lot of stuff in my base is just for "it looks better this way" thing.