[raiguard][2.0.45] EM Plant fluid shortage when using Set Recipe option

[1WheelDude]

When an EM plant is configured to use the Set Recipe option when two different fluids are used for each recipe, the EM plant refuses to let one of the fluids into the recipe reservoir to begin crafting. Nothing is indicated to the player that the machine contains another fluid, so essentially the machine appears broken, or bugged. According to users in the Factorio discord, an "invisible pipe" is what allows fluids to travel through the EM plant and it is this fluid box that is blocking the input of another fluid. The point of this bug is to somehow address the miscommunication to the user of what is wrong, or perhaps design the EM plant to discard the inputs when recipe is changed. When the machine contains non-fluid materials and the recipe is changed, contents are put into the output for discarding, but this is not something seen due to the invisible pipe within.

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[raiguard]

Yeah, this is because of the double-buffering as you mentioned. I plan to improve this situation for 2.1.