I personally think letting you drop inserters everywhere would be a mistake due to it being used as a very long chest as you said. However, I would say having an output gate that could be built, kinda like a pump to extract the items onto the belt would be fine. Plus you could probably sort things via whitelist or blacklist.morhp wrote: βFri Jul 05, 2024 12:25 pmI don't think anything has been confirmed, but maybe they want to prevent you from basically teleporting items around by building super long chests and just putting inserters where you need to extract the items. That would feel kinda cheaty to me.GregoriusT wrote: βFri Jul 05, 2024 12:07 pmwait wait wait wait wait, those cargo attachments DONT let you use inserters on them?! Did i miss something when reading that FFF?! I really hoped i could use that to make a reeeeeeeally long space ship chest.
But I also don't think it should be robots only.
But I guess the robot solve the available space issue, as if you'd have a lot of items to transfer out, you would then either need a lot of belts, or use belts as a sushi belt and then sort things further. The robots solve that issue by just taking the item where it is needed and calling it a day. So yeah, I'd say having the output gate would be nice. Then again, maybe they also did that since that FFF.