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You know what would be awesome? A huge number of belts in sequence, all full of items. Problem: There is no way to get them down from the conveyor belts, because all you got is a long handed inserter, which has a maximum range of two belts. What if you have three belts or more?
If this is the case, a Multi-Belt-Inserter is suitable.

It can look like this:



It's similar to the huge cranes you can find at ports.



Pros: Can cover a large variable number of belts at once.
Cons: Not as fast as a normal inserter, needs more resources, needs more space, and maybe more electricity.

I don't really why I should use it for now, because fast inserter are good enough, but I like the Idea ^^. Maybe something used to load trains ?

For those of us building large complex factories with large belts running long distances. There will be plenty of people that won't use it like I don't use trains.

Sounds like we need to start making mods!

Well, at the moment you can only take from 12 belts on every assembly machine. So, we definitely need such a useful "multi-multi-belt-inserter" Not to mention the possibility to supply at least 24x48 different items using bots. Because of course bots are not the case.

I moved it out of "won't implement", because there is no reason to put it into there. (for me it looks like it was moved there accidentally)