That's the issue, on the screenshot buffer chests are (almost) all empty, while the request is set to 4800. Yet robots are sending items to Storage chests. This worked well in v1: train station unloading to active provider chest, buffer chests with requests to 100% of capacity, and Requester chest for train loading. Now it stopped to work.However, if the buffer chest is satisfied, the robot will then pick a storage
Your example is behaving correctly because the buffer chest is only requesting one iron plate. It will auto-trash the 901st iron plate but only if that was inserted by other means.crystalin wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 7:01 pm Hi,
Not sure if it is a similar issue as I don't have deep knowledge of the game but when using a buffer chest, the robot will not use it even if the chest has the requested item and the limit is higher than its current content:
In 2.0.28 I still see this issue - buffer chests with large unfulfilled requests, active provider with lots of items, logistic bots selecting to put items in storage chests (including unfiltered storage chests) over the buffer chests. Buffer chest requests are very slowly fulfilled (as in, they don't get absolutely zero items).Rseding91 wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:57 pm The "Target priority" should be true. However, if the buffer chest is satisfied, the robot will then pick a storage, and if on the way to the storage the buffer then is emptied or starts wanting more - the robot won't change targets.
Knowing how strange Factorio entity update can be, please consider looking at entity deployment order and (I'm not joking) relative orientation (I observed some updates happening in the standard reading order)yaongi wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 1:35 pm This morning I tried to replicate the issue in the editor mode, but couldn't replicate. Priority was as described in the wiki.
I had enabled experimental updates last night and was running a newer version (though couldn't see anything in the patch notes related).
I re-enabled the same mods I was using, still worked as expected in editor mode.
Reloaded my save (which was just before I noticed the issue, continued placing train station blueprints, and the issue seemed to reoccur.
Went back to editor mode and expanded the simulation to be more like the situation in game. Still couldn't replicate.
Went back to game, undid placement of station blueprints I'd put down, reworked them slightly (for other reasons), and placed again. This time the situation didn't replicate in game, and buffer chests were having requests fulfilled.
So I failed to properly replicate, and my original save is not a great case, since I still had to place some more blueprints down to cause the issue (and these were in my blueprint library which have had the contents overwritten...).
Two things changed - game version, and blueprints, and I'd need to spend more time trying to isolate (made harder by unrecoverable modifications I made to blueprints). I think, if it continues working I'll stop trying to replicate now. The situation I originally saw was exactly as described in the first post however.
