Inserter Belt

[sparr]

A new type of belt. When it dead ends into an assembler or chemical plant (or anything else that an inserter can insert to), it automatically inserts the stuff at the end of the belt.

[Balinor]

Yes Please.

[Lee_newsum]

that is what an "Inserter" is for

[ray4ever]

I think that inserters should be used for this to keep the game mechanics streamlined.

[TGS]

Yeah, unfortunately I think this would all but negate the need for standard inserters.

[BurnHard]

Someday I am thinking, that the furnaces should work like miners. The are fed by inserters with coal and ore, but they have an automatic output like miners.

[sparr]

Inserters would still be used for taking things off of belts, and for putting things on belts. And for being faster/longer/smarter than belts.

The current distinction between how output from miners works and how output from everything else works is... weird.

[ssilk]

I think this suggestion handles only one special case, for all other it is unusable or contra productive.