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Would it be possible to filter chests in the same way you can train wagons?

This would be useful for when using a single chest to store multiple items, and preventing one item from gradually building up making no space for others.

I second this. Would be great for sorting/storage hybrid systems especially.

This suggestion is a mod. It has very low chance to get into vanilla.
should I move it to modding ideas?

Seems like a legit base feature request to me.

Sure, if it became a base feature filters should be exposed in the API.

ssilk wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:42 am

This suggestion is a mod. It has very low chance to get into vanilla.
should I move it to modding ideas?

What mod does this? Would be nice to have it in vanilla.

Hm, I shouldn’t post, when I’ve no time. Sorry.

@Optera: yes, should be made possible via Lua-Api. Mods should be made possible, because now you need a modded wagon on rails... But I think the devs had reasons to not have storage-chests with 48 filter options in vanilla...

@ThatGuyStyx There is no mod. I meant, that this suggestion should be implemented as mod, and not in vanilla.

More arguments: the size of the chests is already pretty small, space is no real issue in Factorio, so I don’t see a problem with having a chest for each item. And for the case you need it: it has a pretty deep puzzle factor do do it without filters; there is more possible as you might think on first view.

True enough. You have to determine stack size of all types of items that might end up in the chest, and use that to determine how full a chest will end up being, use that as a limiter to avoid the chest hitting 100% capacity, so as to ensure there is always room for inserters to insert one of the other item types. It was a pain in the ass for ores, and I imagine it is drastically worse for things with different stack caps.