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I want to make a in-game item that has a custom behavior with logistic network.
Is it possible to make custom requests from the network?
Can a requester "chest" request only from passive providers?

Thanks for your help.
The only info i found is this https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ticNetwork
I am not sure what remove_item and insert do.

It's not possible to change the behavior of the logistics network, as in you can't have requester chests request only from passive providers.

as for the insert/remove methods, they simply just either add or remove items from the network using an item stack {name = "an item name", count = 1}, but in this case you can also specify where the item will be removed/added to.. "storage, providers, requester", so in a sense you can use these methods to simulate custom logistics network behavior.

for instance you can use the remove_item method to remove an item from passive providers, and then use the insert method to add the same item into a requester or a storage chest, too bad you can't select a specific chest tho

Thanks for the info.

I tried to use remove_item and insert but the problem I have is that it does without using robots, which kinda defeat the purpose of tying it to the logistic network.

Is there a way to use them with the robots moving the items?

I need to pull only from passive provider to avoid creating a loop between requester and storage.

Yeah the methods run in the background, as in there is no visual indication of it happening using logistics robots, afaik there is no way to simulate/force logistics robots moving to a certain position.. however it can be done with construction robots by placing a fake/invisible entity ghost at the positions you want the robots to be at, but that's not really what you want.