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Right now when picking up an entity with a grid like a tank, it's equpment grid items are also stored with the Tank. This is perfect and how it should be.

This feature should be expanded to also store all ammo and fuel as well when picking up the vehicle/entity. It should only store all the fuel and ammo slots along with the equipment grid. It should not store the inventory as that could be abused to carry more items then a player should be able to even though I'm torn on this feature. Spending a minute to load up the inventory of a vehicle only to accidentally pick it up is really annoying so I kind of also want the inventory to be stored when picking up the entity, but I see how this can be abused and more cheaty so the inventory should probably be the only thing not stored. Though at the same time, the player can already carry hundreds of trains on them along with thousands of other things.

I prefer this approach: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Nexela/autofill

ssilk wrote:I prefer this approach: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Nexela/autofill

Yeah, that is good, but it doesn't fill all the fuel slots for example fully (mabye if configuration is changed, but not by default).

It's extremely useful but it doesn't help with the problem where if you request fuel from the logistics network and trash extra, then every time you place a vehicle your bots will bring you more fuel, and every time you mine up your vehicle, your bots will come and remove fuel from you. This is because you get the extra fuel from the vehicle you mined. This results in storage chests being filled up with excess fuel and over time can use quite a portion of your storage chests.

I think we should have both features in the game. When you place a vehicle, it will auto fill it with whatever it can from your inventory, but it will also remember what it contains (aside from inventory) when you pick it up. The vehicle should also be auto filled from player inventory while driving and using ammo and fuel. This should all be part of vanilla.

If we get the ability to customize the guns on vehicles (which is a logical extension of already having equipment grids), then this would be a requirement. Ie. I don't want to customize the weapons on my vehicle every time I put it down.

As an extension I think it would be great if when placing a vehicle it would remember it's cargo from the last time it was placed and try to auto fill it with the same quantity of items from the player inventory.

Also it would be great to have a place you can park vehicles like tanks and cars and have them auto fueled and auto configured with equipment grid items. Also this feature should allow for auto filling it's cargo with items as desired.