I was designing a train loader when i came across imho weird behavior of logistic bot dispatch speed. These results would need to be confirmed by someone as it is not too unlikely i just did some stupid mistake. I sadly did not find any comprehensive explanations on how logistic bot spawn works (got tons of unrelated uninteresting links only).
From what i can see, assuming unlimited logistic bots, roboports, and resources in the logistics network, requester chests give these logistic bot spawn amounts:
- A single requester chest:
One logistic bot per tick (slow but understandable) - Two or more requester chests for n_{end} ticks:
where f_{odd} is 0 from 1 to 30, 1 from 31 to 40, 2 from 41 to 50, ..., 7 from 91 to infinity (named accordingly, i have no idea what this is)
My tests are in creative mod, as testing anywhere else is a real pain. Afaik it behaves the same as vanilla in all relevant aspects though. The remainder of the post is about test setup, so people can see if i did silly mistakes:
- Overview of test (just general setup, yeah, which pixel are you supposed to watch), roboports with 14k logobots, duplicator chests for green circuits as item source in the middle
- Small combinator setup to request for a set amount of ticks at lower right (i mostly used void requesters, tested a bit with normal requesters aswell - make sure the chests are on "set requests")
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- As good as i could time it, requesting without circuits gives the same results.
- For more than a few hundred ticks, there will be enough bots in the air to fill all requests rather soon.
- I did not test what happens when
chests are split across different networksor a lot of other options.
update:- looks like this is logistic network local, making it quite annoying. A second requester chest in a different network appears to have no effect.
- The second chest must be requesting something that is available, otherwise it does not count.
- Related post for construction bots, reference only, does not apply to logistic bots: viewtopic.php?p=193621#p193621
- Should these tests be correct, i am unsure if this counts as bug or just very unintuitive behavior.