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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

Thanks for the report however that is currently intended.

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

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.

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