2.1.7 Recyclers not using right side of belt

[waterBear]

Recyclers used to output to the right side of a belt in the configuration pictured. Now they output to the left side. This change in behavior has broken several of my designs. Is there a way to adjust which side of the belt a recycler uses, similar to an inserter, or is this an undocumented change or possible break?

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[emolon]

Inserters and pretty much everything always output to the right handside, but now it has changed and you can change which side the inserter outputs on. So now blueprints can be flipped without issue. I don't know about recyclers, try pressing H or V depending of orientation. If the output side changed with the update I think this might be a bug ?

[waterBear]

That does not fix it. H moves the output from one side of the recycler to the other, as does V. I tried R and all the other default options.

I think this was probably intended and just unfortunate. Recyclers are asymmetrical so pressing H changes the output side of the belt with the new system at the same time as it flips the entire entity horizontally. They had to pick one orientation to output right, and the one they picked happens to conflict with some number of builds from 2.0.X.

At least...that is what I now strongly suspect. This is probably going straight into the "won't fix" category, but that's OK. I was able to modify my designs to work with 2.1.7.

[boskid]

Thanks for the report however there are no bugs here. Unfortunately there are some behavior changes but it was simply not possible to not have any behavior changes, because keeping previous behavior would mean players will report broken blueprint flip and changing behavior means players will report broken builds. This change was intentional to make drop position consistent with recycler graphics and due to blueprint flip consistency changes everything reported here is fully intended.

[waterBear]

Thanks for the report however there are no bugs here. Unfortunately there are some behavior changes but it was simply not possible to not have any behavior changes, because keeping previous behavior would mean players will report broken blueprint flip and changing behavior means players will report broken builds. This change was intentional to make drop position consistent with recycler graphics and due to blueprint flip consistency changes everything reported here is fully intended.

Understood. Thanks for taking a look Boskid.

Still loving 2.1.7 though Good luck to the crew working through all the bugs. I'm sure a ton of people are in on the beta.