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worldly ermine
I think that Factorio, even Space Age/2.0 with its train interrupts, can't correctly implement a single station that can request multiple types of items. I tried this recently, and I needed to be able to rename train stations with circuits and that does not exist.
The issue is that without ability to rename the station (and thus signal which item type it's requesting), it's difficult, infeasible (or perhaps impossible) in 2.0 to design a station that would always be brought the items it uses in the exact ratio that matches how much of each item it uses. Without a lot of attention to detail, you can imagine that the station is brought too few of one type (and the factory stalls) or too many of another type (and the train never finishes unloading and is stuck at the station).
I've been looking into a mod for this instead, because I also want a single receiving station to service a factory with multiple input types. The mod Project Cybersyn looks promising and I started experimenting with it (I found 2 other mods that might work but this seemed most promising). Using the BP book they provide, within 20 minutes I had a simple demo setup and working with a station that requests 2 different types of items, and 2 provider stations that each provide one type of item (I read that multi-type providers also work). So I'm moving forward with using this mod to design a train-based factory that has 1 input station for all input types (even liquids but I have not tested that yet, but I have reason to believe it will work too) for an entire factory/city block.
digital dock
I think that Factorio, even Space Age/2.0 with its train interrupts, can't corre...
Thank you, I appreciate the detailed response to this. I'm still fairly new at the game and this concept is definitely more than I need for the time, it does seem like an interesting challenge to solve though and could have some real practical use.
worldly ermine
How about something like this instead?
What does that do? The picture doesn't tell me much. How does it prevent deadlock in the factory and deadlock in the train system?
wanton shadow
What does that do? The picture doesn't tell me much. How does it prevent deadloc...
basically, two requesters stations on the same set of chests
worldly ermine
Interesting idea! Clever.
I guess it doesn't work for 3 or more inputs, because of the track forking limits. 🙁