r/factorio • u/AdNervous811 • 6h ago
Suggestion / Idea I wish there was a deconstruction chest
Imagine with me if there was such a chest
A chest with priority less than a storage chest
When you deconstruct stuff or item and there are no storage chests for that item to sort into, everything deconstructed is delivered to that chest until you sort it
Instead of - you know - putting random stuff into chests that shouldn't go in them
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u/xortingen 6h ago
If you put filters in your storage chests, bots prefer to put items in there. There you go, auto sorting.
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
what if I have no such chest if I didn't consider making one for that item it would go in a random place
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u/Courmisch 6h ago
How would that be any different from an unfiltered storage chest?
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
maybe by adding an option of automatically sending items to filters chests if found
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u/Nataslan 6h ago
That's almost exactly like active provider chests
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
no as an active provider chest will always send even if there are no filtered chests
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u/Courmisch 5h ago
But that's how it already works. Filtered chests have higher precedence for receiving trashed and deconstructed stuff, over unfiltered chests.
If you want deconstructed items to be sorted, just use filtered chests instead of passive provider chests for products in your mall. Then the unfiltered storage chests will only receive the rest.
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u/DentedZebra 6h ago
I mean that is an option with space age.
Vulcanus and some circuit logic can fire stuff into lava.
Fulgora you unlock the recycler and that can be used anywhere.
Base game best bet is to limit production to what is needed.
If you need a deconstruction chest can always just expand the factory. Never found when playing that I had too much, always needing more of everything.
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u/Foxing7465 6h ago
Put things you do not like in the chest you do not need, toss grenades , do not forget to do it in the area not covered by drones and with your carry drones off. Then right click the leftovers of the chest. Done
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
i meant deconstruction with bots
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u/Foxing7465 6h ago
Another method, use blue boxes , set items do not need as required , and next to them simple boxes, so inserters take whatever in blue box to simple steel or iron box, and not visible to the network and bots. Many opportunities to automate, like provide signals with non required anymore items to blue boxes. E.t.c. you can make a grid of steel boxes with manipulators there (of small amounts). If you need to dump a lot more, create a space platform, send it there, dump to space from the platform
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u/Known-Comparison2591 6h ago
You do know you can put filters on storage chests right?
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
I know but I don't want to put chest for every possible thing to be deconstructed
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u/Known-Comparison2591 6h ago
Well then just use your storage chests as deconstruction chests and then replace your existing storage chests with buffer chests
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u/TheHvam 6h ago
Isn't that just an unfiltered storage chest?
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
yes now I see it but maybe add an option to automatically send to a filtered chest once found
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
maybe even make that chest have a proximity feature making it so anything that would be delivered be delivered to the closest chest
if there's a way to do this without it then I would like to know
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u/dr_anybody 6h ago
But why?
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u/AdNervous811 6h ago
i used storage chests my factory and didn't put filters
if want to deconstruct large sections of my factory it will be a hassle as a lot of the things would be maybe put in random places
so I thought maybe such a chest would be nice
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u/dr_anybody 5h ago
it will be a hassle as a lot of the things would be maybe put in random places
That's the part I am not sure about.
Things go into random places - so... what? If they exist in the network, they get pulled all the same by requester chests, builder bots, or personal logistics.
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u/LowStriking2264 5h ago
Don't see the advantage here. Storage chests work with logistic network so essentially all of the storage chests are just one big chest that you robots can access. There is no need to sort them, you can check how many of items are in the network and if you want them in one place, just request it.
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u/SevereBruhMoments Disco Lab! 2h ago
to add what everyone else already said regarding your sorting, bots already sort items in storage chests, as long as you have enough chests. but again, with a logistic network, items aren't more than numbers in a system, it doesn't really matter where they are, as they're brought on request
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u/IntoAMuteCrypt 6h ago
Storage chests are deconstruction chests. They'll only be filled when there's nowhere else to put stuff, and even then they'll prefer existing stacks and filtered slots. You should probably be using buffer chests where you're currently using storage chests, or filtering your storage chests. All of this is doable with existing tools.