Requester Chest gotcha? SOLVED
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 2:24 pm
I know I'll be embarrassed when I hear the answer as it is probably staring me in the face, but I'm stumped. Try not to laugh too hard as you answer.
- I used requester chests in the past and they worked fine.
- I setup a few requester chests asking for basic cliff explosive making materials (coal, sulfur, grenades, steel).
- I did setup a filter for the right item in each requester chest, and I setup the fill limit at 1 stack for each.
- I have solid and continuous roboport coverage.
- I have lots of idle logistic robots.
- I have supply in the logistic network (verified by hitting L, at least 500 items of each). Some are from passive chests at the output of assembly units, others might be getting pulled from storage chests at this time.
- Standing right next to these requester chests I can ask for delivery of these supplies to my character and they come just fine.
- But... there is no delivery to the requester chests, even when the chests are empty.
Am I failing to notice some critical concept about requester chests?
(Feel free to ask additional questions about my setup, or to ask whether I did something... no matter how stupid it might be to do it or not, chances are I missed something really dumb)
SOLUTION:
Discovered that the amounts requested in these chests were zero (0). Not sure how that could have happened, could be user error or a bug. Probably a bug since requestor chests usually give a non-zero default when creating them.
- I used requester chests in the past and they worked fine.
- I setup a few requester chests asking for basic cliff explosive making materials (coal, sulfur, grenades, steel).
- I did setup a filter for the right item in each requester chest, and I setup the fill limit at 1 stack for each.
- I have solid and continuous roboport coverage.
- I have lots of idle logistic robots.
- I have supply in the logistic network (verified by hitting L, at least 500 items of each). Some are from passive chests at the output of assembly units, others might be getting pulled from storage chests at this time.
- Standing right next to these requester chests I can ask for delivery of these supplies to my character and they come just fine.
- But... there is no delivery to the requester chests, even when the chests are empty.
Am I failing to notice some critical concept about requester chests?
(Feel free to ask additional questions about my setup, or to ask whether I did something... no matter how stupid it might be to do it or not, chances are I missed something really dumb)
SOLUTION:
Discovered that the amounts requested in these chests were zero (0). Not sure how that could have happened, could be user error or a bug. Probably a bug since requestor chests usually give a non-zero default when creating them.