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I don't know if this is a problem with the adjustable inserters mod, or with the core game mechanics, but it's obviously only reproducible with adjustable inserters so I thought I'd ask here first.

Basically, if I'm trying to unload from a wagon using an inserter that is diagonally in front of the wagon, it works normally at first, but whenever a new train arrives it stops working. It's like it doesn't correctly recognize the location of the arriving wagon. But if I do something that causes the inserter to refresh itself (like opening the settings dialog, changing pickup/drop location then changing it back) it temporarily starts working, until the train leaves and next one arrives.

I'm not sure about the exact scope of the problem. Occasionally i get the issue when the inserter is diagonally behind the wagon too, and sometimes not. Another weird thing is that picking up from the middle of the wagon using a 3 tile long pickup still works, even if the inserter is diagonally in front of the wagon. So maybe it only affects the front 2x2 tiles.

Could you post a screenshot? I can imagine it's a game limitation, where only the inserters next to the track receive the trigger that a cargo wagon has stopped there.

Since the adjusting of inserters is actual game feature (mod only adds UI for it) you should post this as a bug report.
Prefferably with save where the issue is easily visible.

It seems that inserter is not looking properly at it's pickup location in this case.

As Orzelek said. My mod only uses features available in the game to present a GUI to allow you to customise it. There's not really anything I can do to fix the mentioned issue, though I'm not sure how willing the game devs will be to fix it, as it's not something normally available in the base game.

I submitted a bug report. I managed to find a case where this happens with vanilla long handed inserters as well, so maybe they'll have to listen now. Well, it's a pretty low priority bug, but one can always hope.

I'm glad I stumbled across this, was using diagonals to unload coal from one train to load it into others, and kept wondering why all my trains keep running out of fuel xP