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Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:11 pm
by Pinkishu
Hey there,

notcied when i have items on a conveyor belt and rotate it once or twice quickly, the items on it seem to disappear?

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:18 pm
by MF-
Yes, you lose them.

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:20 pm
by Pinkishu
So ya, thats a bug then ^^

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:34 pm
by wrtlprnft
As far as I can tell, the removed items get inserted to your inventory, just as if you had picked them up.

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:37 pm
by Pinkishu
oh they do? gotta test that

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:33 pm
by MF-
So that's why the raw ores get in my inventory even though I didn't mine any furnaces?

I would still prefer that to be fixed.

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:04 pm
by Pinkishu
MF- wrote:So that's why the raw ores get in my inventory even though I didn't mine any furnaces?

I would still prefer that to be fixed.
Well I guess they made it like that because if you had a belt that turn to the side and you made it point straight, you'd have items clocking up the lanes since they'd not necessarily be on proper side-lanes

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:38 pm
by kovarex
It is feature, not a bug, what else would you do with those items?
You cant leave them there (they would block the belt), you don't want to loose them, and you don't want to move them randomly somwhere.

Putting it in the player inventory seems like the best solution (It is the same when you put some buildings over items on ground)

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:54 pm
by MF-
Aha.. So that's where I _actually_ got those items that randomly appeared in my inventory... I built some inserters earlier than the chests/machines.

Hmm.. You are right, there is no easy catchall solution.
Even if the items were repositioned on the belt, there could still be some leftover items.

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:06 pm
by Pinkishu
kovarex wrote:It is feature, not a bug, what else would you do with those items?
You cant leave them there (they would block the belt), you don't want to loose them, and you don't want to move them randomly somwhere.

Putting it in the player inventory seems like the best solution (It is the same when you put some buildings over items on ground)
Yeah thats a nice feature :P Just didn't notice they go to my inv so i thought they just disappeared

Re: Conveyor Belts eat items

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:56 pm
by SilverWarior
Pinkishu wrote:Yeah thats a nice feature :P Just didn't notice they go to my inv so i thought they just disappeared
You are not the only one. I was just planning to report this as a bug the same as you when I found this thread.