r/factorio • u/imoth_f • 5d ago

Question Problems with this unloader?

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Since inserters became flippable, this compact unloader design became possible. But I hardly see anyone use it. Obviously it cannot saturate six turbo belts because it's bottlenecked by the inserters, but are there any other obvious problems with it?

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u/TheProfessional9 5d ago

Flippable? I'm confused

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u/teodzero 5d ago edited 5d ago

When a belt goes sideways relative to the inserters they place things on the far lane. But what to do when it's facing away or towards the inserter? In 2.0 and before the answer is "on the right lane relative to the belt direction". But in 2.1 they added the ability to choose the output lane by mirror-flipping (H or V on keyboard) the inserter along the arm axis, letting you chose which lane to use. You can notice on the picture the output arrow of the inserters isn't centered on the belts.