How to "stack balance" a belt?

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How to "stack balance" a belt?

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Not sure if I missed this, but couldn't find the info on it. So, I have a 4wide belt that has a mixed number of stacked items. How do I "max stack" them all?
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Re: How to "stack balance" a belt?

Post by Tertius »

What is a "4wide belt"? If this is a bus of 4 parallel belts, you're compressing stacks of items on a belt the same way as you compress single items. A stack on a belt is behaving as a single item on the belt.

If you have a mix of stacks, partial stacks and single items, and you want to consolidate them to full stacks only, you need to take the items off the belt and put it again onto the belt with a stack inserter. The stack inserter will (re)construct full stacks of items while putting them back on the belt. There is no means to directly fill up existing non-full stacks on the belt. There is also no means to filter full stacks from partial stacks to just take off and rebuild non-full stacks.
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