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Is there any mod or method to set inserter configuration that it only insert stuff into locomotive fuel inventory but not into the other cells/wagons/chests?

I know, when your train is in automatic mode, and if any wagon stops near fuel inserter, it won't insert fuel into wagon, but in manual mode it didn't work the same.

You can filter the wagon inventory to not allow fuel.

Loewchen wrote:You can filter the wagon inventory to not allow fuel.

Yes, I know it, but sometimes I have misc stuff in wagons and empty slots and I do not want to filter it.

DaveMcW, can you explain how it's works, please? Tried to use it, but it didn't load fuel into locomotive.

I don't think there's any way for an inserter to tell the difference between a locomotive and a cargo wagon. Inserters are dumb beasts, they know whether there's items in front of them, and whether what's behind them wants anything. Locomotives want fuel, so inserters loading locomotives will load fuel, inserters loading cargo wagons will load whatever they want. A mod to disable/enable inserters when trains arrive based on the carriage behind them is doable but ewww.

With some minor constraints you can get flexible train handling now, Add locomotives in pairs to the front and add new stations, for instance, then the 1-x trains can go to the old stations and the 3-xxx trains can go to the new ones but still use all the existing 1-x facilities.

Hmmm, I believe that with 0.15 it changed so that you can no longer take fuel out of a locomotive - so in principle you could just use one inserter to insert fuel, and a second filter inserter (set to fuel types) to take fuel back out of wagons and put it back in the fuel chest - maybe using a circuit condition to suppress the inserter if the outserter is holding fuel to reduce the amount of work the inserters do accomplishing nothing (for example you could use a more advanced circuit, a timer, to supress the inserter for 30s or however long the train is expected to wait for, if the outserter removes fuel from the wagon).

Doing that loop tho, will basically void the "inactivity" condition for your train, won't it?

realm174 wrote:Doing that loop tho, will basically void the "inactivity" condition for your train, won't it?

Not if you use a countdown timer to cease inserting fuel for 30s (or whatever) after fuel has been removed from a wagon.