Non-stop Inserters mod?

[gumble]

I heard of a mod called Loaders Redux, but when i looked it up it wasn't there. Inserters only letting 2 items be in an assembler at a time screws up a huge chunk of my conveyor belt with gears. Are there any mods to make inserters non-stop move items into and out of things?

[Killcreek2]

No, the default behaviour of inserters is to put 2x recipe-cycles-worth of materials into a crafting machine, not "only 2 items". (So if the recipe needs 2 copper & 10 steel & 4 green chips, inserter will put more in whenever the amount inside the crafter drops below 4 copper / 20 steel / 8 chips.)

This is intentional, so that the first crafter along a belt does not greedily stockpile all the available resources, thus starving the other crafters after it. Instead, all the crafters get a few cycles of product so all can work simultaneously.

(I don't see any benefit in forcing inserters to load more ingredients than the machine can actually use...)


Loader redux mod is still there, btw ~ https://mods.factorio.com/mod/LoaderRedux

[serker31]

Originally posted by Killcreek2:

(I don't see any benefit in forcing inserters to load more ingredients than the machine can actually use...)

Same here. Usually problem is that inserter can't move enough product into machine in time, you should use better inserters or more inserters in this case. Or maybe redesign the manufacturing line, if slow long-handed inserter forced to move things in bulk.

Loaders are mostly irreplacable if you use some heavily modded beaconized setup with 10x+ crafting speed and something like 0.5 crafting time.