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Good day,

I would like to request a Slow Inserter. It will pick up and drop only 1 item, regardless of the inserter bonuses, and it would be great if you can set the interval in seconds. (Insert a single item once every X seconds)

The reason for this request is that when I need to supply a chest with a low number of items, a huge amount will arrive instead, because of the belt travel time of those items. Especially now that all inserters have received a bonus, even more items end up at the destination than in the past.

Thanks.

Why not try to use just one tile of chest, so you will have a small buffer effect, but mostly it is acceptable - only for things like e.g. towers especially in the early game, this is a little bit too much to produce... you get 50 towers then. Having a more detailed control about the chest and limiting, you could achieve this effect slightly... But anyways i believe this is too small thought, and maybe i've just not found a better way to do it with the current possibilities.

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dog80 wrote:Why not try to use just one tile of chest, so you will have a small buffer effect, but mostly it is acceptable - only for things like e.g. towers especially in the early game, this is a little bit too much to produce... you get 50 towers then. Having a more detailed control about the chest and limiting, you could achieve this effect slightly... But anyways i believe this is too small thought, and maybe i've just not found a better way to do it with the current possibilities.

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"one tile of chest" is the same as modding in a chest with a capacity of one, or limiting an existing chest using the [ X ] feature. However, even one tile of chest does allow for one type of item at its maximum stack size, e.g. the chest might be able to hold 100 iron plates and the inserters won't care how much to put in every turn.

Inserter boni (bonuses?) apply to every inserter, and stack inserter boni apply to every inserter that has the stack = true property set, which currently is the stack inserter and the stack filter inserter.
This means that modders are not able to create an inserter that isn't affected by the inserter capacity bonus as every inserter follows the inserter bonus setting by default.

if it's pulling from a belt, you can wire it to a pole with a green or red wire.
then set it to 'read hand contents', with the enable condition *anything < 1
after grabbing one item it will be forced to drop it before picking up another.

for grabbing from chests/vehicles there is an exploit with a constant combinator floating around the forums.

[edit] Creative Mode mod let's you set stack bonuses for Stack inserters, as well as non-stack inserters.