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bot building priority take from chest:
green > red

this means that when you have your main mall going into red chests, then build a green chest far away because you want to speed up building there, you end up with building in the main base, the bots wont take of the red chest nearby, they will go all the way to the green chest and pick the required materials there...

so it should be green = red for bots to get their items...

what am i missing?

For logistic bots, buffer chests have highest priority as a source (aside from player trash). (EDIT: higher priority over passive (red) providers.)

For construction bots, it's closest to the build ghost, regardless of type.

It's hard to tell from your post, but are you seeing a behavior different from that?

Source: https://wiki.factorio.com/Logistic_netw ... _of_robots

ah ok so maybe the buffer chest was the only available chest containing the items... that could explain it

Yeah, I don't know what you had going on.

And by the way, I made a mistake in what I said about logistic bots... buffer chests are higher priority than red passive, but not highest. But again, that only applies to logi bots. Con bots still don't care (distance to build target only).