[request] Infinite and void chest

[y.petremann]

Hello, when doing some test, I don't want to mine and make thing because it would make me working more on the machine to get those things than on the machine I originaly wanted to works on.

So I simply thought about a chest that would contain what we want (using filter menu?) in large amount (10 stacks) replenished each times somethings is pulled from it.

Another idea is it would also act as a void chest that would empty itself each time something is put inside.

Finally a infinite and void storage tank would be really awesome (as I know we can't do that with test mode)

[FreeER]

The test mode mod does allow you to fill a chest with an item (from a selection menu), though I don't believe it refills it (of course you can just setup roboports and a few full provider/requester chests to place the items on a belt or directly). If you're doing any large amount of testing then the test mode mod is pretty much a necessity
As for voiding items I created a /dev/null chest (essentially the same), it's about half way down on my mod thread, there's two versions (one requiring a research to unlock and one that just costs some iron), of course if you're using the test mode mod then you can get it for free from it's menu regardless

[y.petremann]

The test mode mod does allow you to fill a chest with an item (from a selection menu), though I don't believe it refills it (of course you can just setup roboports and a few full provider/requester chests to place the items on a belt or directly). If you're doing any large amount of testing then the test mode mod is pretty much a necessity
As for voiding items I created a /dev/null chest (essentially the same), it's about half way down on my mod thread, there's two versions (one requiring a research to unlock and one that just costs some iron), of course if you're using the test mode mod then you can get it for free from it's menu regardless

I already use test mode and I actually make very large amount of tests and it's really annoying to refill the chests when they are empty.
I'm using 600 items per minutes, here some comparaisons on the base of a chest :

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Item                 Stack size    Time to empty

coins                100000        5 days 13 hours and 20 minutes,
alien artifacts      500           40 minutes,
smelted resources    100           8 minutes,
raw resources        50            4 minutes

I was also asking for the void chest only to have them unified.

[Neotix]

dev/null-chest mod https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =33&t=4380