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I've made an automated system for producing red and green beakers for my labs, and it works, but its a horrible mess, spaghetti. Totally unsatisfied with it, want to rebuild it. Doing plan on paper this time.

Couple of questions about inserters and belts:

1. Do long handled inserters *only* pick up items from the far belt in the case of two parallel belts side by side, or will it pick up from all four tracks?
2. Is there a practical means of selecting which track an inserter will place output items on, or is it in all cases the far track? Is there a standard pattern(s) useful for getting items placed on a particular track of passing belt?

1. Long handed inserters will only pick up from the far belt. So if you have a belt that's right next to the red inserter, you'd need a second inserter to grab items off that belt.

2. Inserters will always put items on the far lane of a belt. No exception. (Though there are mods that add inserters with other behaviour)

Good luck

Gammro wrote:1. Long handed inserters will only pick up from the far belt. So if you have a belt that's right next to the red inserter, you'd need a second inserter to grab items off that belt.

Good luck

So can an assembler have two inserters working on the same side of the assembler (so allowing for one long handed and one standard to access all four lanes of a double belt input feed)?

sure, try to test it.