left bloom
Hoping I'm making this clear - is it possible to use combinators or some other mechanism to toggle the activation of an inserter pulling items from a chest or belt dynamically based on the contents of another chest/belt/building?
IE inserter will pull copper ore from a belt if its less than 500 in a chest, and if iron on the same belt drops below 500 it will switch to moving iron ore.
fallow fiber
Yes, what have you tried? Should just need two decider combinators I think
jovial charm
or one if you're clever
left bloom
Yes, what have you tried? Should just need two decider combinators I think
This is the setup, I have the decider combinators sending a signal for the item that should be activated if its less than X, but I can't figure out how to get the inserter to insert based on whichever item is lowest, and then add that item until it is full
jovial charm
This is the setup, I have the decider combinators sending a signal for the item ...
if the cutoffs are the same, you can get the lowest value in the chest with a selector combinator
can do something like
chest -> selector(min) -> decider each < 500 -> each(1) -> inserter
left bloom
I was able to get it to work like this:
jovial charm
oh, 50, not 500
left bloom
Wired the chest to the input on the comb, the output to the inserter, and then the inserter set to enable if anything =1
this was just a test
jovial charm
what you've shown will set the filters for iron and copper if either are below 50
left bloom
increasing the quantity it stopped working
it will fill all of one till the other reaches 250
breaking it back out to 2 deciders resulted in filling the chest to 250 of each kind.
left bloom
can do something like
chest -> selector(min) -> decider `each < 500 -> each(1)` ...
not sure i understand this setup
jovial charm
what exactly do you want it to do?
just fill iron and copper up to the desired amount?
or to try and fill the lower value first until ful, then others?
or to just always work on the lowest?
jovial charm
not sure i understand this setup
which part of it?
left bloom
I want the inserter to dynamically see what item from a list of many are missing from a chest, enable itself to fill only that item from a mixed belt to a set amount, and then disable until any one of that item gets to a certain minimum threshold
jovial charm
so you want a latch, and to lock out any other item types until it's done?
are all the high and low values the same?
left bloom
I essentially want what a requestor chest does - set a stack of items to whatever defined values until it reaches that value then stops requesting more
except I want the inserter to do the actual pulling from a belt to place into the chest, only when that item is low enough in the chest.
jovial charm
will there be more than 5 item types?
left bloom
no
jovial charm
ah, easy
jovial charm
in a constant combinator put in how many of each item you want
iron ore(50), copper ore(50), green chip(1250), steel plate(400)
wire it to a decider on green
wire the chest to the same decider on red
(R)each < (G)each -> each(1)
wire the decider output to the inserter
left bloom
(R)each < (G)each -> each(1)
Can you model this? Maybe i'm not understanding what you mean
aaah, the chest and constant need to be different color wires
jovial charm
yes
left bloom
okay it is working exactly as expected.
jovial charm
wire colours are a useful 2.0 feature
there are ways to make it work for >5 item types
and to do exact fill
and pretty much whatever else you'd want it to do, ie latching
left bloom
the exact fill would be useful
but in my specific usecase i don't think it matters
i'm not using stackers
jovial charm
to do exact fill it'd need to either set the hand size to the smallest filter available, or to read the belt and choose the item based off that
i normally read the belt (normally a chest in my case, chest -> train)
left bloom
that's very interesting
would it require an additional combinator to control the stacksize?
jovial charm
normally
source has (each)item AND destination needs (each)item -> anything(how much is wanted) will select one signal that is available to be moved
then a second decider each > 0 -> each(1),stackcount to set the filter (each(1)) and hand size (stackcount)