[0.17.50] Belt/Inserter Asymmetry
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 5:35 pm
As I began to upgrade yellow belts to blue, but not the inserters, I noticed some asymmetry I thought was addressed recently. Maybe this is an edge case. It shows that yellow inserters have more trouble collecting blue belt content that is closer to them. To show this, I used cheat mode to create two simple scenarios.
The first uses yellow inserts to place content onto the blue belt, and then yellow inserts to remove the content, where the yellow inserts are restricted to collecting only 1 item:
If you load the save, then place down the electric supply, you'll end up with this result after 100 items are placed on each belt
For the bottom belt, all 100 items are collected, but for the top belt only 33 items are collected, with 67 making their way through to the end container.
This is then flipped by moving the items to the other side of the belt:
The result is a mirror of the first
While the mirroring is a good thing in a way, the question remains? Is it intentional or accidental that the inserts have more trouble collecting from one side of the belt than the other?
The first uses yellow inserts to place content onto the blue belt, and then yellow inserts to remove the content, where the yellow inserts are restricted to collecting only 1 item:
If you load the save, then place down the electric supply, you'll end up with this result after 100 items are placed on each belt
For the bottom belt, all 100 items are collected, but for the top belt only 33 items are collected, with 67 making their way through to the end container.
This is then flipped by moving the items to the other side of the belt:
The result is a mirror of the first
While the mirroring is a good thing in a way, the question remains? Is it intentional or accidental that the inserts have more trouble collecting from one side of the belt than the other?