Space platforms : trash unrequested
Space platforms : trash unrequested
Is there a way to dump to a planet any unrequested inventory? Or a way a circuit can dump from the platform.
My space bus sometimes gets over packed and it builds up
Constant combinator reading full belt, decider combinator sending an activation signal to an inserter with a filter determined by how much you want to keep. Inserter dumps off the side. It's how my space platform is running right now.
This is great, and totally works, but I'd like to optimize and somehow get stuff down to a planet rather then chucking over the side.
There are many ways to solve for this problem. For my science platform, I have a priority splitter on iron plates going to science production. Anything that takes the other path goes into cargo and gets sent down.
I couldn't find a vanilla method to limit sending stuff down though, so that can be an issue. For iron, it isn't a problem. I was making far more space science packs than I could consume though and they started building up in my logistics storage. I downloaded Earendel's AAI Signal Transmission mod to allow sending requests to the station. If anyone know a vanilla method to handle this, I'd love to know it, but I couldn't find it. It feels like it should exist.
Drop off the edge with an inserter. I feed everything into the hub. Then I have an inserter set to read the hub for each chunk type. If it's greater than 5 it gets thrown overboard. For production it's the same just disable the factory when there is enough. That prevents build ups.
Not from the platform, but you can control what the landing bay on the surface requests with circuit connections.
Do you know of a way to get circuit data from the platform to the planet?
Not at all. I don't even know if the devs have already considered it and decided against releasing it with such functionality.