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I try to mod the inserter in a way that they work without energy or fuel. The idea is to make them work on outposts without power, so I tried The inserter has still to be connected to the network and shows the red flash icon after being connected. I seem not to have the right idea. Can you help me?

Try a burner inserter with very large starting power.

AntiElite wrote:I try to mod the inserter in a way that they work without energy or fuel. The idea is to make them work on outposts without power, so I tried

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data-updates.lua

for index, inserter in pairs(data.raw.inserter) do
   inserter.energy_per_movement = 000
   inserter.energy_per_rotation = 000
   inserter.energy_usage = "0kW"
   inserter.energy_source.drain = "0kW"
  end

The inserter has still to be connected to the network and shows the red flash icon after being connected. I seem not to have the right idea. Can you help me?

You can fill the energybar every second than you dont need to make it empty

LuziferSenpai wrote:

AntiElite wrote:I try to mod the inserter in a way that they work without energy or fuel. The idea is to make them work on outposts without power, so I tried

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data-updates.lua

for index, inserter in pairs(data.raw.inserter) do
   inserter.energy_per_movement = 000
   inserter.energy_per_rotation = 000
   inserter.energy_usage = "0kW"
   inserter.energy_source.drain = "0kW"
  end

The inserter has still to be connected to the network and shows the red flash icon after being connected. I seem not to have the right idea. Can you help me?

You can fill the energybar every second than you dont need to make it empty

Fuel energy + Script gives energy in every tick = entities in my Creative Mode
One drawback is that you will see the fuel bar when you open the entity's GUI.

Mooncat wrote:

LuziferSenpai wrote:

AntiElite wrote:I try to mod the inserter in a way that they work without energy or fuel. The idea is to make them work on outposts without power, so I tried

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data-updates.lua

for index, inserter in pairs(data.raw.inserter) do
   inserter.energy_per_movement = 000
   inserter.energy_per_rotation = 000
   inserter.energy_usage = "0kW"
   inserter.energy_source.drain = "0kW"
  end

The inserter has still to be connected to the network and shows the red flash icon after being connected. I seem not to have the right idea. Can you help me?

You can fill the energybar every second than you dont need to make it empty

Fuel energy + Script gives energy in every tick = entities in my Creative Mode
One drawback is that you will see the fuel bar when you open the entity's GUI.

There was a MOD with a Combat Inserter that didnt use Power, do you know how? ^^

LuziferSenpai wrote:There was a MOD with a Combat Inserter that didnt use Power, do you know how? ^^

Which mod is it? If you have the mod, you can check it yourself by reading its prototype and script.

Mooncat wrote:

LuziferSenpai wrote:There was a MOD with a Combat Inserter that didnt use Power, do you know how? ^^

Which mod is it? If you have the mod, you can check it yourself by reading its prototype and script.

I know, but i dont know which MOD ^^ But you can read my question in a other Thread and help me there

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=30538 <-- combat inserter

These are all workarounds im not really looking for, isn't there a possibility do make it like - energy_source.type = "none" - ?

AntiElite wrote:These are all workarounds im not really looking for, isn't there a possibility do make it like - energy_source.type = "none" - ?

Nop, because if you nil it than i think the game will say you need it.

Only workarounds works.

The game avoids most settings being set to 0 to prevent "divide by zero" errors (or the checks that would be needed to prevent them).