Inserters pulling from a box
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:05 pm
If I have a box being loaded by one inserter, and pulled from by three inserters, most of the time it cycles through the three inserters, each one taking its turn at pulling an item from the box.
However sometimes, for reasons I can't discern, one or two of the inserters won't pull any items, and their outputs will remain barren until the other(s) are completely backed up - which in some cases may never happen.
Usually, removing and re-building the structure fixes the issue, but sometimes it remains broken even after re-building. This is also happening with the modded entity I'm creating (which uses the inserter-box-inserters structure mentioned above, and is the actual reason I can't just "use a normal belt balancer").
Is this something I can fix myself, or - since I'm making a mod - can detect/fix in code?
However sometimes, for reasons I can't discern, one or two of the inserters won't pull any items, and their outputs will remain barren until the other(s) are completely backed up - which in some cases may never happen.
Usually, removing and re-building the structure fixes the issue, but sometimes it remains broken even after re-building. This is also happening with the modded entity I'm creating (which uses the inserter-box-inserters structure mentioned above, and is the actual reason I can't just "use a normal belt balancer").
Is this something I can fix myself, or - since I'm making a mod - can detect/fix in code?