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Assemblers do not accept damaged items as ingredients.

Inserters will still pick damaged items out of chests and attempt to insert them into the assembler.

Since the assembler does not accept this item, the inserter will get stuck holding it over the assembler.

Since assemblers do not accept damaged items, as with other unaccepted items, inserters should not pick them up.

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I just did a quick test (because it looked a bit absurd), on "vanilla" it does work (as intended) with damaged walls, or half used ammunition, so can you be (a lot) more specific?
What (damaged) item is not working for you (in what recipe), and what mods are you using (if there is any)?

HunD34TH wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:03 am viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3638

Describe the problem as best as you can
- What did you do?

Since assemblers do not accept damaged items, as with other unaccepted items, inserters should not pick them up.

Implication is that I used an inserter, an assembler, and a damaged item.

- What happened?

Since the assembler does not accept this item, the inserter will get stuck holding it over the assembler.

-What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!

Since assemblers do not accept damaged items, as with other unaccepted items, inserters should not pick them up.

-Write down the steps to reproduce the bug if you know them.

Inserters will still pick damaged items out of chests and attempt to insert them into the assembler.

-Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?

Inserters will still pick damaged items out of chests and attempt to insert them into the assembler.

... ask a silly question ...

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More interestingly:

I just did a quick test (because it looked a bit absurd), on "vanilla" it does work (as intended) with damaged walls, or half used ammunition, so can you be (a lot) more specific?
What (damaged) item is not working for you (in what recipe), and what mods are you using (if there is any)?

Observed with a damaged accumulator and also a damaged solar panel using a stack inserter from a requester chest into an assembler 3 set to construct satellites. Stack inserter configured to read hand contents (pulse mode).

I will determine if it matters whether or not the requester chest is holding other items, and post back.

Mods:

Thanks for the report however we have no intention of changing this. It would add too much overhead to every inserter for the 99.99%+ use-case of they aren't dealing with damaged items.

Rseding91 wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 1:29 pm Thanks for the report however we have no intention of changing this. It would add too much overhead to every inserter for the 99.99%+ use-case of they aren't dealing with damaged items.

All right. I'll just think of it as one of the maintenance downsides of starting SpaceX from scratch on an alien planet.