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I have two fully-filtered cargo wagons, each with twelve corresponding fast inserters and twelve filtered chests. However, despite being properly-located with non-empty chests, some of the inserters refuse to insert.

This is on Win 10, version 14.22, no mods, on a 14.22-0 base map.

• Cargo wagons are fully-programmed. There's not a single unfiltered slot. Unfiltering a slot doesn't get anything un-stuck--it just loads from one of the working inserters.
• Twelve item types, with twelve inserters, with twelve chests. One item each. (Ignore the double in the top right corner in the screenshot--that one exception isn't helping or hurting.)
• Train track is straight, at least for the station and all the inserters; this isn't a problem with a bend or curve.
• Inserters are fast inserters, so there's nothing to filter; normal, filter, and stack inserters show the same behavior. Switching, rotating, and deleting/recreating the inserters does not help.
• Not all of the inserters/chests/items fail to fill. Some work, and some don't.
• The slots can be filled manually just fine. Filling and emptying the slot doesn't help.
• I have all stack bonuses, but this isn't a partial-stack problem seen elsewhere. The cargo wagons have entirely-empty slots waiting for items, but the inserters won't let go.
• Toggling between automatic and manual train control doesn't help anything.

See attached screenshot, which is the steady-state; nothing is loading or unloading. Any insights or workarounds would be greatly appreciated. Thank you devs for a fun and addictive game!

From the picture it looks like the chests and inserters on the top are one tile too far away.

Leave it to me to look everywhere except the obvious. (Thanks.)

everyone has done it.

pro tip. if you want to double the items you insert into a train, use long handle handed inserters.

impetus maximus wrote:everyone has done it.

pro tip. if you want to double the items you insert into a train, use long handle inserters.

long.handle.train.png

Or use stack inserters that move 12+ items per swing instead of 3 per swing and also move faster because of the shorter distance.

when i said double, i meant double the # of different items you can load. not the volume.
you know since with stack bonuses it can jam inserters loading a train with multiple items.

impetus maximus wrote:long handle inserters

Long handed inserters.

Sorry, but that really bothers me.

daniel34 wrote:

impetus maximus wrote:long handle inserters

Long handed inserters.

Sorry, but that really bothers me.

apologies. corrected.

if you want to be -really- picky, it should be named "long REACH inserter". the claw/hand looks to same to me on every inserter.