It's very likely items can only be stacked on belts. and even if not, it's trivial to make the stacked items have a proportionally lower stack size to their... stack size.MrGrim wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:56 pmI dunno, gonna be honest this is the first one that's had me kinda worried. Now a 2 wagon train can outperform 8 wagon trains. This feels like a very big move towards scale up rather than scale out, and scaling out has always been where Factorio's emergent complexity, the part that makes the game so compelling and interesting, shines.
I guess we'll see when it's all put together. That new inserters looks more promising and interesting than a 4th tier belt tho. That animation looks _bad_ even with the shading. The new inserter is 75% of the total new belt capacity. Maybe just have that and not the weird looking belt?
On another front, might I request allowing items to set a max limit on the 'stack size' they can be placed in? It sounds like it could be useful to have.