[2.1.14] No automatic construction request for ghost fast inserters on platform
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 6:59 am
Platform: Windows 10, Steam
What did you do?
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Launched a full stack of fast inserters to a platform that stays in orbit (source - "Science Platform"), counting on it to efficiently fill a mobile platform's (destination - "Fulgora Ship") construction request.
Tweaked an existing platform's design - destination ("Fulgora Ship") - to place more inserters. It has a request group full of inserters (50 of each type) that was unchecked.
Check box state:
1. Construction requests on destination: TRUE
2. Supply other platforms on source: TRUE
3. Supply other platforms on destination: TRUE
What did you expect to happen?
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For a construction request to appear in destination, then for it to be filled from source (or another platform), then for the inserters to be built.
What happened?
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No construction request appears in Fulgora Ship - not even "Fast Inserters" set to zero, just no entry.
Failed workarounds. On destination platform:
1. Delete ghosts and undo
2. Delete ghosts and copy-paste new inserters
3. Delete ghosts and place new inserters
Successful workaround. On destination platform:
1. Created a new request group inserters (from other platforms only)
2. The construction request appears
3. Inserters arrive and were constructed
All of this occurred with both one inserter-from-platforms request or multiple requests (request only 1 and watch them trickle in).
Further testing:
1. Upon construction of the existing backlog of ghost inserters...
2. Delete the temporary inserter request group
3. Place enough new inserters to use up the platform's inventory, creating a ghost
4. Construction requests will appear - for N inserts and zero platform tiles as well
Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
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Always when you load the save
What did you do?
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Launched a full stack of fast inserters to a platform that stays in orbit (source - "Science Platform"), counting on it to efficiently fill a mobile platform's (destination - "Fulgora Ship") construction request.
Tweaked an existing platform's design - destination ("Fulgora Ship") - to place more inserters. It has a request group full of inserters (50 of each type) that was unchecked.
Check box state:
1. Construction requests on destination: TRUE
2. Supply other platforms on source: TRUE
3. Supply other platforms on destination: TRUE
What did you expect to happen?
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For a construction request to appear in destination, then for it to be filled from source (or another platform), then for the inserters to be built.
What happened?
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No construction request appears in Fulgora Ship - not even "Fast Inserters" set to zero, just no entry.
Failed workarounds. On destination platform:
1. Delete ghosts and undo
2. Delete ghosts and copy-paste new inserters
3. Delete ghosts and place new inserters
Successful workaround. On destination platform:
1. Created a new request group inserters (from other platforms only)
2. The construction request appears
3. Inserters arrive and were constructed
All of this occurred with both one inserter-from-platforms request or multiple requests (request only 1 and watch them trickle in).
Further testing:
1. Upon construction of the existing backlog of ghost inserters...
2. Delete the temporary inserter request group
3. Place enough new inserters to use up the platform's inventory, creating a ghost
4. Construction requests will appear - for N inserts and zero platform tiles as well
Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
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Always when you load the save