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Buffer chests are handy for "dense" systems.
But buffer chests only request resources from vendors. It is not comfortable.

Is it possible to add a "Request from buffer chest" option to the buffer chests, similar to the "request chest"?

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Буферные сундуки удобны для "плотных" систем.
Но буферные сундуки запрашивают ресурсы только из поставщиков. Это не удобно.

Можно ли добавить в буферные сундуки опцию "Request from buffer chest, подобную "сундуку запроса"?

It's not possible for mods to change that functionality.

That would easily cause loops where two buffer chests are constantly taking from each other. The only easy way to solve that would be to not allow buffer chests to take from a buffer chest with the same request set, but obviously that kinda kills the point of having the option.

Cry

What many people do is have separate logistic networks and at the border between two you place a requester chest on one side and a provider on the other and an inserter to move items across. Add a arithmetic combinator that negates the cotents of the provider chest and sends it to the requester chest. Add a constant combinator to set what and how many items you like to buffer and send that to the requester chest too and set it to "set requests". So anything missing on the provider side gets requested and moved into the other logistic network.

Another option, still with separate logistic networks, is to use trains to refill the buffer chests.

Silari wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 4:58 pm It's not possible for mods to change that functionality.

That would easily cause loops where two buffer chests are constantly taking from each other. The only easy way to solve that would be to not allow buffer chests to take from a buffer chest with the same request set, but obviously that kinda kills the point of having the option.

It would be nice if one could set a level for a buffer chest and have buffer chests draw from any chest with smaller level.

So you start with a provider chest at the assembler. Around that a ring of buffer chests level 1. As you expand you build the next ring as level 2. and so on.