Overstocked requester chests.

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Overstocked requester chests.

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Hi, this has been driving me mad for ages so hopefully there is a solution or I'm just missing something.

When I set a requester chest to stock an item I click on what I want and then the quantity bar automatically comes up with the maximum stack size available.
Every bot then instantly launches and before I can tell the chest to only stock 10 of the item there are 200 sitting in it.

How can I stop this happening?

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Re: Overstocked requester chests.

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the default request amount mod.
makes the default request amount to be 1.
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When you set an item, it defaults to a full stack (normally 200 or 100 or even 10, depending on the item). So when you change, they had the request of 200 and they will fill it up. It's a drawback of the current way things are working. You can:
1. Ignore and let the items to be consumed (valid for intermediary products and basic resources).
2. Wait for bots to deliver, pick the items from the chest and drop in an Active Provider (I do this all the time).
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Thanks for your answers. I feel better that it's not something obvious I was missing.

I will go and check out the mod, thanks again.
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Thanks for this one - I know now why Titan mod changes all items to have default request amount of 1 :D
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