Personal logistics and autotrash whitelist mode for spidertron

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Personal logistics and autotrash whitelist mode for spidertron

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Add a way to autotrash everything not directly requested by the logistics tab in the spidertron

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The addition of the logistic grid to the spidertron has been amazing, I absolutely adore it.
What I am missing, is a way to specify "autotrash everything I don't actively request in the logistic tab".
Why ?
The usecase is very simple - I have a "builder" spidertron I use to construct and deconstruct mining outposts. What often happens is, that some outpost items occasionally get stuck in the spidertron, and occupy precious spidertron inventory space.
Unless I go ahead and add EVERY item by hand and set it to 0 (which I have done, and I copy from that spidertron) I have to manually doublecheck inventories that they are not stuck with "unwanted" items.
This goes against the automation spirit of factorio in my opinion.
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https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AutoTrash will allow you to do that :)
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Xorimuth wrote:
Mon Mar 28, 2022 5:04 pm
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AutoTrash will allow you to do that :)
Sweet, thx, didnt know about that one. But perhaps the small whitelist thing has its merit nevertheless.
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TL;DR
Give spidertrons the ability mark all items that are not requested as trash.

What ?
You have a spidertron deconstruct some things, but not all the items it collects are requested in its logistics. Manual intervention is required to stop its inventory from being clogged up.
Why ?
Makes spidertrons more self-managing.

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That two independent topics are so equally similar is a good sign, that there is really a need to fix the problem.
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Xorimuth wrote:
Mon Mar 28, 2022 5:04 pm
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AutoTrash will allow you to do that :)
No, it doesn't. It ends up polluting the logistic requests of the spidertron with every item not requested. It's not a proper solution.

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Mod works... for larger modpacks that's practically a required feature.

It does still raise the question why it shouldn't be easier to manage construction bots in spidertrons in vanilla too.

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This should be implemented in vanila as well, I don't use mods (due to achievements etc.), so it's a pain doing everything manually.

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Afaik it is stated in the new FFF that it is indeed implemented now, but I don't remember where it was stated or what were the specifics.
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