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Side Inserters
Adds shortcut keys to rotate inserter pickup locations in 90° increments, as well as adjust which belt lane items are inserted on.
Long Inserters
Adds long-handed versions of fast, filter, stack and stack-filter inserters.
Comments, criticism, questions and suggestions are all welcome.

hey thanks for these mods, I feel these should be in the base game. but happy to have someone mod them in hoping for the sake of completeness perhaps a long Handed burner inserter might make it in the pack aswell? also, all of your other mods are amazing too!

I consider this essential now, I like being able to pull from/output to underground belts right next to factories.

But why not do as others have suggested and combine the output distance/fine adjustments into a single shortcut? There are currently six positions possible: near-side or far-side, left/right/middle. The middle position isn't really needed, so this could cycle through 4 positions. Or if you detect the belt orientation under the output, only two positions need to be selected between (which belt side).

Added support for adjusting ghost/blueprinted inserters.

I've added anti-clockwise rotation (Ctrl+Shift+R) and adjusted the default binds of the hotkeys - toggling near/far now defaults to Ctrl+F, cycling left/middle/right to Ctrl+Shift+F.

An inserter is 13kW, a long inserter is 19kW

However, a fast inserter is 46kW and a long faster inserter is also 46kW.

The power costs for long variants should either be +6kW or 46% higher to be consistent.

The long inserter uses more power than the basic, but it's also faster.

GotLag wrote:The long inserter uses more power than the basic, but it's also faster.

I see.

Also, I was one who requested the feature for the hotkeys to work in ghost form for Side Inserters. I just tried it out and it seems they are not working despite what the changelog says.

It is indeed working. Ghosts, like inserters with no power, don't move the hand when you change the pickup location.

GotLag wrote:It is indeed working. Ghosts, like inserters with no power, don't move the hand when you change the pickup location.

As you can see from the gif, I'm only able to change it once it has been placed, and not before. I am mashing Ctrl+F the entire time.

A ghost is the semi-transparent result when you place a blueprint or use shift-click to place a building.

GotLag wrote:A ghost is the semi-transparent result when you place a blueprint or use shift-click to place a building.

Oh. Then either you misunderstood my feature request or I phrased it poorly.

Could you make it possible to alter those things while they're in... whatever you want to call this?

Not practically, no.

You could make blueprints of left and right versions, and put those in your hotbar to place when you need an inserter of the appropriate direction.

I don't know why but your mod suddenly stopped working with the newest update, any news? Also where you describe the mod update "Fixes 0.15.17 inserter setting to enable custom pickup/insert locations unless flagged as false", where exactly would I find the false flag?

Today's 0.15.18 update reversed the new behaviour, so I'll fix it in a few hours when I get home from work.

GotLag wrote:Today's 0.15.18 update reversed the new behaviour, so I'll fix it in a few hours when I get home from work.

Oh, awesome, thanks! My whole factory heavily relies on your mod so thank you and keep up the great work!

Fixed.

Thanks for this mod, quite useful to say the least!

What about being able to toggle picking items on near/far side of a transport belt?
Currently inserters always pick up items from the closest lane on the belt. It would be nice for lane balance to have the possibility of making it so that the inserter would pick up the item from the far lane.

Not possible, I'm afraid. I've tried.

Welp, that's too bad.

Is it possible to get the inserters to put more than 2 times the cost of a recipe into an assembler? With enough speed 2x isn't really enough and it doesn't seem like they're going to change the base game.