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Hi,

if I put a mining drill on the stone patch, with inserter and wooden box, it will produce coal instead of stone. If I pick the patch manually, it will produce stone. [0.12.24]

Cheers,
Gabriele

Can you post a screenshot of the ore the miner is sitting on?

If it's sitting on stone + coal ore it will cycle between all the available ore in its work area.

Sure, please find the attached screenshot.

Same with iron to coal, same screen:

I believe the inserter is grabbing the coal from the burner mining drill and that's what you're seeing as "getting coal from stone/iron"

The mining drill will push out the results directly onto a belt or chest in front of it - no need for the inserters there. That will "fix" the issue you're having.

more info on this :
https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... lls#Output

It did the trick. So, actually the only way something can exit from an object with an exit arrow is... the exit arrow? IMHO, it is a bit weird that a crane pointed to a drill will remove its fuel.

it's really only the case for drills and it's very useful I would say. It greatly simplify building mining outpost.

And since it's mining ore it make sense that this stuff would just be dumped on a belt I think.

Agreed. Thank you all, great support for a great game.