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I placed a bank of new electric furnaces via blueprint and they are not getting built.
They are being made, but they are all going to the requester chests running science production packs.
The new furnaces were eventually placed after the chests filled up.

These should likely be distributed between both chests and ghosts.

That's not a bug. There's an order jobs are processed and the order happens to be requester chests are operated on first before construction jobs.

It caused a major slow down in my expansion, I was trying to get more steel to build more electric furnaces, but couldn't because they were being eaten by the existing processes.
Might be something to look at in a balancing pass.

OldVamp wrote:It caused a major slow down in my expansion, I was trying to get more steel to build more electric furnaces, but couldn't because they were being eaten by the existing processes.
Might be something to look at in a balancing pass.

The problem to that is the same as most problems in Factorio: mine more resources so you have sufficient items for all your needs

I had plenty of resources. What I didn't have was enough furnaces, and I needed more furnaces to make more furnaces.
The fixes were to:
stop research to stop requests and wait for the chests to fill up or
make them by had to bypass the chests or
build a lower tier furnace to make higher tier ones (going backwards to go forwards, sick)