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Output factories into a single inventory slot only accessable by external machines #195

Open koalalord9999 opened 3 years ago

koalalord9999 commented 3 years ago

Describe the the feature you'd like I'm suggestiong that when you're using an ultimate factory for instance, all items in the output slots of identical ID's are seen by external machines or cables as a single item stack. By this, I mean: 9 slots of 2 gold dust can be extracted by an ultimate logistical transporter in one operation, instead of pulling each output slot individually

Describe alternatives you've considered There are not really any that suit this suggestion, that I know of

Additional context This would be especially useful for large autocrafting farms. I'm using xnet as my item retreival and it only pulls from 1 output slot at a time, and even when using advanced ones, it can only pull 4 items per operation, never allowing the last 5 slots to be withdrawn until the machine stops making new items

pupnewfster commented 3 years ago

Truth be told this strikes me more as an xnet limitation if it can only pull from one slot at a time if you want to pull a specific item and it is spread across a few slots (if memory serves our transporters handle pulling all at once assuming it isn't past their rate limit). For now this can probably be worked around by having the factories auto eject into a chest and then pulling from that using xnet as it will be a bit more "sorted/compacted".

I can see the benefits of this request which is why I am leaving it open, except I highly doubt it will ever be implemented as it would be a massive headache to do so properly without just adding a bunch of overhead.