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small question here


If I want things to be delivered on chest under two different roboport area, so that one provider is at roboport 1 and the requester is at roboport 2, how can I do that?

and how I can prevent it from happening? (if it is the default behaviour)

Roboports have a smaller area of influence for logistics (the orange zone). When the zones of two or more roboports touch or overlap they are linked together to form a single network. This will show as a dotted line between the linked roboports (if they have power).

To prevent roboports from linking, you need to build them far enough away from each other so that the orange zones don't touch.

If you want to send items from one roboport to another roboport that isn't linked, you'll need to design how to transport the items yourself according to your needs. A simple example would be a request chest in one area that feeds to a provider chest in the other, and a wired smart inserter to control the transfer.