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[Fuinril]

Hello,

What I would like to is an loader / mini-loader like but which would allow me to filter input resources and (here's the catch) dispatch them on the side of the belt I want.

For exemple: a chest contains iron and copper, the loader will output iron on the left side and copper on the right.

Does anyone know about one ?

[shadain597]

Nope, never heard of one. I think the miniloader mod uses a pair of hidden inserters, so I would imagine it's hypothetically possible to set the filters for each separately, but I've never seen it done.

[ConductorSavy TTV]

Pretty sure said miniloader mod included filter variants which may be what OP is searching for.

[Fuinril]

Nop. And here I analyzed the mod code before saying that, the position is hardcoded to {0, 0}.

Eventually belt sorter kind of work but that does not quite solve the loader issue (which is tide with game core design).

I do think what I want is doable (something to replace the infamous 2 chests, two loaders, one central belt design) but afaik I'd have to make it myself (nothing that hard, all the code I'd want exists in miniloader, beltsorter and base splitter).

[shadain597]

Originally posted by Savy:

Pretty sure said miniloader mod included filter variants which may be what OP is searching for.

No, AFAIK they currently filter like anything else: without regard for lanes. You could have 2 different miniloaders, each set to filter one item, and then merge them onto one belt. However, I think OP already knows you can do that; they're looking for a more compact way of doing it.

[Fuinril]

Indeed. And I now understand the design choices beyond this. I have a pretty clear image of the code I need to write to create a mod to do it but kind of fear perf issues.... I'll try it and might share it if I encounter no issue (which I strongly doubt)

[Peter]

Originally posted by Fuinril:

Hello,

What I would like to is an loader / mini-loader like but which would allow me to filter input resources and (here's the catch) dispatch them on the side of the belt I want.

For exemple: a chest contains iron and copper, the loader will output iron on the left side and copper on the right.

Does anyone know about one ?

Miniloaders

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953271332
UI looks a little goofy.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953271346
Controls are at the upper-left corner of the filter loader UI.

[Fuinril]

Miniloader does not actually work like that. I have no idea how you took your first screenshot but I'm quite interested if you could explain it to me.

What mini (or other filter/loader/splitter) mods do is allow multiple filter then proceed every stack of the input, find the first match and then fully transfer it.

What it means is if you're having a chest with say iron plates, copper plates and coal and put a miniloader filtered with iron plates and coal you will output first iron plates on both sides of the lane until there's no more and then you will output coal.

What I was looking for is outputing iron plates on a predifined side of the lane and coal on the other at the same time. Correct me if I'm wrong but I never succeeded doing that with miniloader or any other mod (and did not even succeeded modding it: that's a bit against the "logic" of the game and if I'm pretty sure it should be doable, that's by no way easy)

[Leeux]

In the filter miniloader you can apply a different filter to each lane (it has an UI that lets you switch between left/right and both).

But it's quite buggy... I think a past game update broke that part of the mod some time ago and it has been very unreliable since then... I think the author basically said that it can't be fixed until Factorio devs implement a specific function for it to work again.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Leeux:

In the filter miniloader you can apply a different filter to each lane (it has an UI that lets you switch between left/right and both).

But it's quite buggy... I think a past game update broke that part of the mod some time ago and it has been very unreliable since then... I think the author basically said that it can't be fixed until Factorio devs implement a specific function for it to work again.

Yup. I tried using it in Nullius and basically you have to wire up the settings by hand every time.

They don't copy&paste correctly. They don't blueprint correctly. And they don't CTRL+click copy&paste settings correctly.

Btw. a mod which has native loaders that support lane filters is iirc Krastorio 2.
Based on the native loader prototype as well; so much more performant and stable and miniloader's emulated approach using internal inserters. Basically that was only necessary back when real loaders didn't support loading into vehicles and trains. And they do support that nowadays, so ...