Logistic rocket: all one kind of item?

[valenti_scott]

Hello-
I'm still new to the art of making logistics request from orbit, or another planet, from an item from Nauvis. It looks like the entire rocket gets filled up with copies of the one item - it never mixes two or more kinds of items on the rocket?

Am I getting this right? So if I want some green electronic circuits from Nauvis, I get a whole rocket full (quite a few circuits!)

[Fel]

This is meant to be used for automation, which is why it works like this.
The alternative would be to only send what is requested as soon as it is requested, potentially sending mostly empty rockets (they might be cheaper than before but they are not free), or put what is requested in the rocket and wait for it to be full before launching, which could delay the launch quite a bit as well.

Of course, the system is not perfect, since it doesn't allow you to only request what you currently need (for non-automated stuff), but that's how it works at least.
I kind of wish we had a way to overwrite that when we request a specific amount of things that are not for automation.

[valenti_scott]

Hi Fel, what you are saying makes sense.

About the only thing I can think of is that maybe a rocket could be half-loaded with one kind item and the other half with something else.

Or, the rocket loads with various type of items and waits until full.

[Defektiv]

They may have fixed that in the recent patch I haven't tested it but there is something listed about it in the patch notes. It has been annoying though to only be able to pack a rocket with different item types if you are present to do it yourself, otherwise asking for 100 plastic meant it packed the rocket with 1000 and then cargo dropped 900 back down right after before moving on to the next item request.

[antoniosteve]

You can actually get around the "full rocket" restriction with the custom minimum payload option - if you only want 500 of something that stacks to 1000, you can set the minimum for that item to 500 to compensate when setting the request up in the platform.

[Nonotorious]

You can drop a ghost in the rocket inventory remotely, it's usually a full stack of whatever but you can right click i think to change the amount.
If you're talking about the auto logistics request then that will send a full amount it can up which is a waste of rockets but w/e.

[Defektiv]

Yeah but it will then just send up a partially filled rocket for each item type you are sending instead of filling the rocket up with whatever it can from the entire request. I am hoping that is what this fix means with the patch that came in a little while ago.

Bugfixes:
- Fixed rocket silos requesting more items than necessary. (https://forums.factorio.com/116949)

[RiO]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Yeah but it will then just send up a partially filled rocket for each item type you are sending instead of filling the rocket up with whatever it can from the entire request. I am hoping that is what this fix means with the patch that came in a little while ago.

Bugfixes:
- Fixed rocket silos requesting more items than necessary. (https://forums.factorio.com/116949)

No. That bug-fix was for a particular off-by-one error which caused the code to schedule one more fully-loaded rocket than necessary.

The current intention is actually that rocket silos which are set up for automatic platform request satisfaction send up full stacks. Because it minimizes resource waste on building half-filled rockets.

There's currently an artificial limitation on sending up single-product rockets, but the Wube dev-team has already stated that after they've handled the bulk of bug-fixing on which their current focus is, they may consider the community input on the ask for multi-product rockets and look at actually implementing them.

[Yomi]

I would love to have multi item rockets on auto. Since this ruined my plan on Gleba. So now i have to rework export.
If platform request full rocket load composed of 2 items. It should work. Or if i could launch rocked by logic circuits...