Add whitelist/blacklist to loaders

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Add whitelist/blacklist to loaders

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It would be nice if one could set the filter for loaders to blacklist items instead of whitelist.

What ?
Filter inserters have the option to choose between a whitelist or blacklist of items. The same option should exist for loaders,
Why ?
Playing with angles mod there are many repeating setups that only differ in the angles ore they deal with. For example all 6 angels ores need to be crushed resulting in the crushed ore and rushed stone as side product. Those then need to be separated. Using filter inserters one can use two of them, one set to whitelist crushed stone and one set to blacklist crushed stone. This makes it simple to blueprint the ore crushers for different ores.

Not so when using loaders. Now each loader has to be programmed for the specific crushed ore.

Note: For splitters a blacklist for the right side is simply a whitelist for the left side. So they kind of have this option too. Only loaders don't.

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Re: Add whitelist/blacklist to loaders

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5 years have gone by. Is there any comment on this?

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Re: Add whitelist/blacklist to loaders

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Loaders already have blacklist/whitelist for outputs, but not inputs. This can be disabled when creating the loader, so certain mods may have the filter count = 0, meaning that filtering is disabled. There is no point on adding it to input loaders, as what will it do? Back up?
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Re: Add whitelist/blacklist to loaders

Post by Stringweasel »

It might be implemented for 2.0 since there was some rework on loader settings
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