[1.1.9] Spidertron inventory management not behaving as expected

[Niphyr]

The spidertron inventory is not behaving as I would expect (as the player inventory does):

1. The inventory is not sorted (or sortable) making it very difficult to view the contents at a glance
2. Logistics and Construction bots are content creating half-stacks of items, using up extra inventory space

For the second one, below is a screenshot showing an example. There is a logistics request for 50 steel chests, and spidertron has them but there are two stacks of 25 each. The expected behaviour is one stack of 50. I am unsure if this is being caused by construction bots taking from the "wrong" stack or logistics bots putting them back on the "wrong" stack.




This behaviour does not happen with a sorted player inventory, leading to no inventory slots being wasted. It may be as simple as having an option to keep the spidertron's inventory sorted.

[Xorimuth]

It is an intentional decision by the devs not to auto-sort the spidertron inventory. I think that it should be sorted, so I added it into my mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SpidertronEnhancements

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report however none of that is a bug. Robots will fill any not-full item stack when putting items into the spidertron inventory (as they always have with any inventory).

[Niphyr]

Thanks for the mod link and thanks for the clarification

[invisus]

Picker Inventory Tools also allows to sort Spidertron inventory, but allows it without the other enhancements, if that is something you're into...