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We found that our belt's items were static with gaps in after removing a mod that added an item present on that belt.
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To Witness Issue

1. load mod that added the charcoal item (fws_0.1.11): https://mods.factorio.com/download/fws/ ... 000b412b43
2. load save which has full belts of mixed items, everything is fine:

   test.zip

   (1.76 MiB) Downloaded 97 times

3. remove mod and load save, static items on belt with gaps occur.
4. if you interact with the belt in any way it recovers.

In the real game the belt was a long straight with many splitters sending fuel down feeder lines to furnaces, rather than it being a loop as per this demo. However, the belt was fully backed up and stationary with the mixed items prior to the mods removal.

Thanks for the report. This is working as intended: the belt doesn't wake up due to migration removal of items. Most of the game works this way as an intended simplification. If you just go touch the belts (remove an item) they will wake up and start normal movement.

Rseding91 wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:17 pm Thanks for the report. This is working as intended: the belt doesn't wake up due to migration removal of items. Most of the game works this way as an intended simplification. If you just go touch the belts (remove an item) they will wake up and start normal movement.

Can it be force restarted while such migration?