Items on space platform belts are lost when the belt is mined

[dspyz]

If I don't want to lose resources, I find myself carefully rotating and clearing out the belts before mining them. The same goes for items in assembers when the assembler is mined _or_ the recipe is changed

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report however that is currently intended.

[heggart]

What would be then the correct approach to not lose the Items play snake with the belts and put them back into the command center? this really seems pushing the player to a unfun activity

[Rseding91]

The reasoning I was given is: those items are theoretically collected and built from asteroid chunks and will simply be re-built as more chunks show up. Filling the hub with them would add annoyance.

[heggart]

Thanks for the clarification, that being said, it just feel bad loosing some asteroids just for refactoring, but I understand the point.

A follow-up question is If i understood well that mean only items derived from asteroids will be removed?
Is the game capable of identifying when iron ore is from an asteroid or imported from a planet?

Thanks

[heggart]

Can you please help me to understand why some items are removed from belts and others don't. I just understand why asteroids are removed when belt is removed, but I just lost hundreds of quantum chips because of this weird mechanic of some items being deleted and others don't.

For example, bullets are not removed from belts. at least this should be clearly explained on the tutorial or some tooltip

[Muche]

I tested a sample of items, and it seems only intermediates except seeds are deleted. All other items are moved to the hub instead.