Detecting whether an inserter is stuck

[picklock]

Is there any other way to determine whether an inserter is blocked because it cannot drop the items it is holding at the target location than detecting if there are items in hand and comparing the held_stack_position with the prop_position? This works in vanilla, but these positions can be different for modded inserters (e.g., Bob's Adjustable Inserters) if the drop_position differs from the vanilla drop_position.

[Osmo]

If mods write to drop_position on a LuaEntity, reading it will return the overriden value
So if you read from an entity and not the prototype it should be fine
Alternatively, you might want to just check if inserter's status is defines.entity_status.waiting_for_space_in_destination

[picklock]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try checking the entity_status.

[picklock]

I have now implemented it with defines.entity_status.waiting_for_space_in_destination.

This status completely passed me by. Does anyone know which version this was implemented in? I couldn't find anything about it.

@osmo: Thanks again for the quick help.

[eugenekay]

This status completely passed me by. Does anyone know which version this was implemented in? I couldn't find anything about it.

2.0.67 added “Improved the mod API search to find union literals, define leaf nodes, and more.”; however this was just the search.

It looks like the property was asked to the API docs in 0.17.0, which contained a lot of Lua improvements.

Good luck!