Items "disappearing" in trash slots.
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:01 am
Hello.
I'm quite new to Factorio, and I recently encountered an issue when items I picked up directly from an assembling machine or a furnace didn't go in the main slots of my inventory (e.g. I pick up 10 stacks of 100 iron plates and nothing went into my inventory).
I discovered that the items went into the trash slots (it's new to me because I never really used this feature before, and I didn't notice that it went into the storage chests of my roboport/storing area because I have hundreds of logistic robots and it's quite a storm when I come close to it).
This is not really a problem, I can learn to deal with that, but the thing is if I use some of the items, the ones in the trash slots don't replenish the inventory slots that have designed filters (e.g. I have 3×100 iron plates in reserved filtered slots and 2000 iron plates in the trash slots, when I put 100 in an assembling machine needing them, I only have 200 left in the main inventory slots and I cannot see the trash slots filled with iron plates when I'm on the machine inventory window).
To get my filtered slots refilled, I have to go near my roboport/storing area so robots pick up the trash, put it in the storage crates, then pick again these items to fill my inventory.
I think it would be better if the trash slots were filled only when I come into the 50x50 supply area of my roboport, OR that the trash slots could be used to refill the main inventory filtered slots (the last option would be better as the trash slots would be kindof an extension for the inventory)
I hope that I have been clear enough, thank you for your attention.
I'm quite new to Factorio, and I recently encountered an issue when items I picked up directly from an assembling machine or a furnace didn't go in the main slots of my inventory (e.g. I pick up 10 stacks of 100 iron plates and nothing went into my inventory).
I discovered that the items went into the trash slots (it's new to me because I never really used this feature before, and I didn't notice that it went into the storage chests of my roboport/storing area because I have hundreds of logistic robots and it's quite a storm when I come close to it).
This is not really a problem, I can learn to deal with that, but the thing is if I use some of the items, the ones in the trash slots don't replenish the inventory slots that have designed filters (e.g. I have 3×100 iron plates in reserved filtered slots and 2000 iron plates in the trash slots, when I put 100 in an assembling machine needing them, I only have 200 left in the main inventory slots and I cannot see the trash slots filled with iron plates when I'm on the machine inventory window).
To get my filtered slots refilled, I have to go near my roboport/storing area so robots pick up the trash, put it in the storage crates, then pick again these items to fill my inventory.
I think it would be better if the trash slots were filled only when I come into the 50x50 supply area of my roboport, OR that the trash slots could be used to refill the main inventory filtered slots (the last option would be better as the trash slots would be kindof an extension for the inventory)
I hope that I have been clear enough, thank you for your attention.