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I have a lot of extra stuff in my logistics network. I use buffer chests to pass stuff to the network for building. I want to use buffer chests further away as well. The problem is if I put a buffer or requestor chest at the beginning of the production line so extra stuff goes back on I can't use provider chests at the end. My more distant buffer chests would work but it would make a loop. So my buffers aren't buffering. What do?

I have a lot of extra stuff in my logistics network. I use buffer chests to pass stuff to the network for building. I want to use buffer chests further away as well. The problem is if I put a buffer or requestor chest at the beginning of the production line so extra stuff goes back on I can't use provider chests at the end. My more distant buffer chests would work but it would make a loop. So my buffers aren't buffering. What do?

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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Ahh, I see. You're also trying to optimize construction robot flight time with buffer/storage chests at the far location. That's a fools errand and the devs have said so themselves. If your bots are taking too long to build something far away, then you have one of two problems.

  1. You don't have enough roboports, and the bots are just sitting around waiting to recharge.
  2. You don't have enough bots.
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I have loads of both. I have roboports all the way out there and my robot construction lines run straight to a roboport. I have 140k construction robots in service. But the flight time is loooong, even with all but the white tech completed.

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I read through most of the comments and while this is less of an answer towards the bots issue here is what I ended up doing for long distance construction.

I used Trains, I had requester chests fill filtered train wagons at the Mall(central construction factory) ,12 item types per wagon to make sure nothing got stuck on inserters and as many wagons or multiple Trains to cover every item I wanted automated.

The logistic system can send signals based on its active requests, so if construction bots are looking for 30 yellow belts that signal can be sent to a filter inserter to grab yellow belts off the wagon. The train station can also be set with signals to only be active when there are requests and the Trains can be smart and leave when they run out of any item.

I used this to automate the construction and resupply of my outer ring of walls and auto expand them, while their roboports were cut off from my production area so bots wont spend half an hour trying to fly 2-3 stone walls at a time.

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Can I have your map?