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Since the 1.16 patch (plaing with bobs mods) I noticed that a requester chest inserting repair-packs into a roboport creates an infinite loop.

The inserter takes the repair-packs from the requester chest and puts them into the roboport.
Then logisitc robots take the repair-packs from the roboport to fill the open requests from the req. chest.

This kinda makes the repair-pack slots in roboports useless, since they will clogg up the system with redundant tasks.

Is this working as intended, did I miss something or is this a bug?

cheers

Confirmed it also happens in vanilla. It looks like roboport repair pack slots now count as passive providers.

Kefur wrote:This kinda makes the repair-pack slots in roboports useless

They have been useless for a long time, people are constantly asking for them to be changed or removed.

Is this working as intended, did I miss something or is this a bug?

This has been addressed already, the slots in the roboports exist to allow bots to directly land without need to unload at a logistic chest first, filling them up via inserter conflicts with that purpose.

TL;DR: Don't put repair packs into roboports with inserters. Just leave them in whatever provider chest.

You were never supposed to put repair packs directly into roboports. If you just put them into logistic chests or passive provider chests (or with 0.16 in a buffer chest) the robots would just pick up a repair pack and repair stuff.
If they had leftovers of the repair pack they would just dump it into the roboport.
The issue pre 0.16 was that these repair packs in the roboports were only available for the robots that were already in the roboport. If all the construction bots were ordered to another roboport for example to build something, the repair packs were left and without construction robots they were not available to the nework anymore. With 0.16 this issue is solved because the repair packs are now part of the logistic network and are available to all bots regardless where those bots are.

So I guess the proper way to do this now is to put a buffer chest requesting repair packs near your roboport.

ManaUser wrote:So I guess the proper way to do this now is to put a buffer chest requesting repair packs near your roboport.

Or near the Place where the biters come...