Case of an Item bomb

[EdGaming]

Hello

I was playing some Factorio lately on version 0.12.19 when I ran into a case where the so called item bomb still could happen.

Originally there was a passive provider chest whitch i wanted to change into a normal chest. I had no steel chest on me so i used a wooden one. Obviously there was not enough room in the wooden chest.

I included an attachment on whitch the item bomb can be seen.

Regards

EdGaming

[Rseding91]

That's by design Replacing containers with larger containers while not having room for the contents causes the contents to spill.

[EdGaming]

So did they actually mean it like this? Because they made it so item bombs wouldn't happen when deleting a chest. So why then when changing the chest to another one?