Suggestion: Assembling Machine can store items

[spazzedskittle]

Hi, my suggestion is that the assembly machines have a storage bin that could be for specific items. To explain this, id like to start off with saying the assembly machines are kinda hard because they can only pass the item they are making on. Imagine if your trying to make something that takes two items like the red research bottle (could be one of the many items though). This takes two items, a copper plate and a cog.

First you have to have an assembly machine that takes iron plates and turn them into cogs.

transport belt iron---> assembly machine 1 ---> Cog.

next you have to get that cog and a cooper plate to another assembly machine.

transport belt iron ---> assembly machine 1 --> Cog
_____________Transport belt copper plate---> Assembly machine 2 ---> red Research thing.

What would be cool is, (my suggestion ) if we could just store specific items in Assembly machine such as the copper plate. that way we dont need to have an entirely different segment connect to assembly machine 2 to get it.
in essence i could connect copper and iron to assembly machine one and even though the assembly machine doesn't need copper for cog i could still have it as a pass through.

transport belt iron and copper---> Assembly machine 1 --> cog and copper ---> assembly machine 2 ---> Red research thing.

the point is i could build everything in a line instead of having to connect things weirdly later in the line.

The level of Assembly machine could have more storage spots. So a level 3 assembly machine could have 3 things passed through it instead of only a single thing like the assembly machine 1 has.

[ssilk]

So your suggestion is not to store items in assembly (which is already the fact), but a multi-purpose assembly?
Hint: You can change the topic yourself.

[Deadly-Bagel]

Come back when you've launched a rocket in at least four separate games

Factorio is an automation and logistics game. The fun of it is working out how you can efficiently provide iron to your green circuit assemblers, or how best to lay out your science so that enough resources get to everything. Compact belt production is a fantastic example, try making blue belts, underground belts and splitters using only a single green belt assembler (not exactly fast but underground belts and splitters don't need a very high production for normal factories). You also want to use requester chests as a buffer so when replacing belts, they are automatically upgraded into blue versions.