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Auto Inserter

• Name: Auto-Configuring Smart Inserters
• Version: 0.1.0
• Factorio-Version: 0.12.5
• License: Feel free to use/modify/include without limits. No warranty.
• Release: 2015-09-1
• Download-Url:

  auto-inserter_0.1.0.zip

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• Website: Right here~
• Category: Helper Item
• Tags: Convenience

Description
Place an auto inserter between logistic chest (requester/provider) and assembly and it sets filters/requests/limits automatically. This is just a convenience for setting up logistic production. The automatic setup only happens on placement! After that it's just an expensive smart inserter. If it sets up correctly it should set its filters to give an easily visible cue that it worked.

I added this under the Big Mess since I'm not sure whether I want to...

.. continue working on it.
.. remove the new item and just add the functionality to smart inserters.
.. remove the new item and just add the functionality to a tool for clicking on smart inserters and such.

In any case it works and is useful, so there we go. Feedback? I adore feedback.

Zwobot wrote: .. remove the new item and just add the functionality to smart inserters.

That's one way to go that I can agree with, but it should come with a price - maybe a research ?

.. remove the new item and just add the functionality to a tool for clicking on smart inserters and such.

Even better in my opinion - make a tool that you click the assembler with (left click) and then click (left again) the smart chest/inserter to impose the necessary items and amounts - should be very useful and cool

find a picture of a wrench like this one:

can you make a video? I do not understand how it works

That's an interesting mod. Did you know you can copy-paste from an assembling machine onto a requester chest to automatically set the request filters to that of the assembling machines recipe?

Rseding91 wrote:That's an interesting mod. Did you know you can copy-paste from an assembling machine onto a requester chest to automatically set the request filters to that of the assembling machines recipe?

That's already built into the game? cause if it is that's great news!

jockeril wrote:

Rseding91 wrote:That's an interesting mod. Did you know you can copy-paste from an assembling machine onto a requester chest to automatically set the request filters to that of the assembling machines recipe?

That's already built into the game? cause if it is that's great news!

Yup it is buit in, but was only added in 0.12 so it may not be widely known yet.

Factorio Version 12.20

Lactor wrote:

Factorio Version 12.20

To fix this, open every .lua file in the mod and replace game.on_ with script.on_

Zeblote wrote:

Lactor wrote:

Factorio Version 12.20

To fix this, open every .lua file in the mod and replace game.on_ with script.on_

it works THX!!

@ Zeblote - THX !

Updated to 0.13.15. Cannot guarantee it is bug-free or that it will smoothly update from 0.12 saved games, and multiplayer will be spammed with messages.

- Removed the auto-inserter and moved functionality to filter-inserter.
- Input request slots now default to 4 times the recipe amount.
- Output now changes the provider chest to 1 stack capacity rather than using the circuit network.
- New localization messages.
- Limited options in the config.lua. These are verbose for error reporting and ingredient_request_multiplier for requester chests.

Waiting to hear back from the original author before posting to the mod portal.