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mspielberg / factorio-railloader

Rapidly load and unload trains of bulk materials.
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Bulk Rail Loader will not load Raw Fiber from Pyanodon HighTech mod #11

Closed ChurchOrganist closed 6 years ago

ChurchOrganist commented 6 years ago

Hi, As I said in the title, Bulk Rail Loader will not load Raw Fiber from Pyanodon HighTech mod.

We have the "Allowed Items" setting set to Any, but it still won't load them. I've even tried adding them to bulk.lua but it makes no difference.

Regards Michael

ChurchOrganist commented 6 years ago

What is even more strange is that the Bulk Rail Unloader will unload Raw Fiber!!!!!!

Regards Michael

mspielberg commented 6 years ago

Works fine for me:

https://imgur.com/a/r2joQod

Possibly a conflict with another mod? I can have a look at your save if you like.

ChurchOrganist commented 6 years ago

There's something else going on here.

I haven't tracked down exactly what it is, but sometimes the bulk loaders won't load for some peculiar reason.

So far I have established that it is likely to happen with bulk loaders placed by bots from a blueprint, and I'm also beginning to suspect that LTN might be playing a role here.

Anyway, here's a link to a save which illiustrates the problem. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gUbJGvYZaUiqNZrkUa1Kdo-B-VZXIRNh/view?usp=sharing

The loaders with the red train in the station will not load the wagons with stone, but the ones on either side are working properly.

Oh - in case it spawns you at the map start, the Sttion you need to go to is Stone Mine #5 which is at the NW of the map near Pyanodon PowerPlant B.

You can download the mods from https://factorio.i-craft.de/en/serverlist/2766

The loaders feeding the hoppers are currently removed so that the amount of stone in them can be kept to manageable proportions.

ChurchOrganist commented 6 years ago

Looks as though it's LTN - replacing the LTN station with a normal one cures the problem

mspielberg commented 6 years ago

The BRLs are misaligned. The two platforms on the left are correct, the two platforms on the right have the BRLs one tile too far to the south.

The way a BRL works is an invisible inserter grabs from the BRL's inventory and drop one tile to the south, where the last tile of the cargo wagon pokes out from under the BRL. As you have the two on the right side aligned, the cargo wagon is entirely covered by the BRL, and "one tile to the south" turns out to be the gap between the wagon and the next one to the south.