Keep a minimum in the platform hub

[pat]

I'll pilot my yacht to Fulgora and pop down to do some construction for a while. While the platform is orbiting, it's building more iron plate than it can use, so I've got the cargo landing pad requesting it to be sent down.

But I'd like a minimum amount to remain up in the platform hub. Can't figure out how to do this.

[PunCrathod]

Make a longer belt and do not store the iron plates the platform uses in the hub.

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by PunCrathod:

Make a longer belt and do not store the iron plates the platform uses in the hub.

Could also connect the inserter to the belts and read all, and only insert once there's a minimum amount of iron on the belts... I think. Haven't played in a few weeks...

[PunCrathod]

Originally posted by GunRunner89X:

Originally posted by PunCrathod:

Make a longer belt and do not store the iron plates the platform uses in the hub.

Could also connect the inserter to the belts and read all, and only insert once there's a minimum amount of iron on the belts... I think. Haven't played in a few weeks...

I just used a priority splitter at the start of the belt.

[königplatzen]

I wonder, if you could enable the checkbox "unload" based on circuit condition.
But maybe it helps to just enable it manually or drop the iron manually.

Other than that, the other mentioned solutions seems ok. Maybe build up an ammo buffer instead of the iron and iron only, if you have excess, which can be dropped

[Vyndicu]

Originally posted by pat:

I'll pilot my yacht to Fulgora and pop down to do some construction for a while. While the platform is orbiting, it's building more iron plate than it can use, so I've got the cargo landing pad requesting it to be sent down.

But I'd like a minimum amount to remain up in the platform hub. Can't figure out how to do this.

Create a new request for iron plates on the Yacht Space Platform.

Set maximum to the number of iron plates that you want to keep (50 on the right box in this screenshot).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411917921

[Fel]

Originally posted by Vyndicu:

Create a new request for iron plates on the Yacht Space Platform.

Set maximum to the number of iron plates that you want to keep (50 on the right box in this screenshot).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411917921

Sadly this seems to be a half-working measure from my tests and the returns from several other people.

More specifically, it works fine while in orbit above that planet, and the drops waiting to be sent respect the "requests all fulfilled" (or whatever the wording for it is) departure condition.
But while moving between planets, for some reasons the surplus acquired then are sent to the trash slots even if the destination planet does not have this request setup.
You can end up sending items down on the wrong planet that way because things in the trash slots are sent down regardless of actual requests.

For some basic items like iron plates, sending some to a planet that doesn't really need it isn't that big of a deal, but it is still worth keeping in mind because it means that you end up sending less to the correct planet.
For more complex items it can be a bit annoying because you would then have to send them back up to the platform.

Hopefully this gets fixed at some point (requests based on a planet trashing items when not above the planet is plain weird) but at least that is how it works for now.

[god bless you]

If there is only one ship on the orbit, you can set the request on landing pad by checking the request of that ship from rocket silo.

The plan is like this.
Spaceship: request iron plate from 1000 ~ 2000
Rocket silo: read the request of this spaceship. If there are less than 1k iron plates on the ship, you will get a positive number of iron plate on the circuit on rocket silo side.
Then you can use a decider combinator to disable the request inside landing pad by this circuit signal.

But this is will not work if there are 2 or more ships on the orbit.
Rocket silo will read all requests of every spaceships and sum up them into a single output.
That will break the plan.

[Vyndicu]

Originally posted by Fel:

Sadly this seems to be a half-working measure from my tests and the returns from several other people.

More specifically, it works fine while in orbit above that planet, and the drops waiting to be sent respect the "requests all fulfilled" (or whatever the wording for it is) departure condition.
But while moving between planets, for some reasons the surplus acquired then are sent to the trash slots even if the destination planet does not have this request setup.
You can end up sending items down on the wrong planet that way because things in the trash slots are sent down regardless of actual requests.

For some basic items like iron plates, sending some to a planet that doesn't really need it isn't that big of a deal, but it is still worth keeping in mind because it means that you end up sending less to the correct planet.
For more complex items it can be a bit annoying because you would then have to send them back up to the platform.

Hopefully this gets fixed at some point (requests based on a planet trashing items when not above the planet is plain weird) but at least that is how it works for now.

The Space Platform Hub cargo will overfill with iron plates and block other items from being placed in the Space Platform Hub inventory.

At least, I assume that iron plates aren't being regulated for some reason or another.


I agree that while moving, it can potentially be a problem, but OP can toggle it off before leaving the current world. OP has indicated that it is his personal "Yacht," which implies that it doesn't move around much without a passenger.

[Fel]

Oh, I missed the personal ride part of OP's post (or rather read it and forgot about it while answering you, which is bad on my part because context does matter a lot).
It is definitely the best way to regulate things for a personal ride that is just filling up.

[PunCrathod]

Originally posted by Vyndicu:

Originally posted by pat:

I'll pilot my yacht to Fulgora and pop down to do some construction for a while. While the platform is orbiting, it's building more iron plate than it can use, so I've got the cargo landing pad requesting it to be sent down.

But I'd like a minimum amount to remain up in the platform hub. Can't figure out how to do this.

Create a new request for iron plates on the Yacht Space Platform.

Set maximum to the number of iron plates that you want to keep (50 on the right box in this screenshot).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411917921

Last I checked setting the max on the request on the platform overrides any settings on the landing pad. It will start dropping iron even if the landing pad is not requesting it. Which can cause it to get filled and unable to receive other things.

[Fel]

It does drop regardless of requests, that's even the whole point of the "trash" slots.

If you use it, you need to be more active on unloading the landing pad but you usually want to do that anyway once you start scaling up and having multiplke platforms moving around automatically.

[königplatzen]

Originally posted by Vyndicu:

Originally posted by pat:

I'll pilot my yacht to Fulgora and pop down to do some construction for a while. While the platform is orbiting, it's building more iron plate than it can use, so I've got the cargo landing pad requesting it to be sent down.

But I'd like a minimum amount to remain up in the platform hub. Can't figure out how to do this.

Create a new request for iron plates on the Yacht Space Platform.

Set maximum to the number of iron plates that you want to keep (50 on the right box in this screenshot).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411917921

Nice, didn't know that.