Inserters

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Inserters are the fundamental structures of a factory, and are a vital component in almost all contraptions. They look and work like a robot-arm and take items from behind and place them in front of it, if the object in front of it has enough space to accomodate for it.

Inserters will:
* Pick up [[Items]] off the [[Ground]], off a [[Transport belts|Transport belt]], or from any object that has [[Storages/Stack|stacks]] (eg. [[Storages/Chests]], [[Furnace]]s, [[Assembling machine]]s)
* Place the moved item onto the ground, on a transport belt, or into any object that has stacks.
[[File:inserter.jpg|350px]]

=== Inserter mechanics ===
Inserters will act differently depending on what they are moving items to/into so as not to monopolize all of the items being picked up and allow other machines and inserters on the same transport belt to have items.

=== Insertion Limits ===
Inserters will not insert into certain buildings if they already have, or are above of, a certain amount of items; it will simply seize to function until space has been made, and it will resume insertion. It's not possible for a inserter to overfill, or spill, items.

For example, if a boiler has 5 pieces of fuel in it, then an inserter will not insert additional fuel until it has 4 or less.

* [[Boiler]]s, [[Burner inserter]]s and [[Furnace]]s will not accept more than 5 x [[Fuel]].
* [[Gun turret]]s will not accept more than 10 x [[Magazine]] (since v0.8.4).
* [[Assembling machine]]s: will not accept more than twice the items needed in the recipe.
* [[Lab]]s: will not accept more than twice the items needed for one research point.
* For smelting, [[Furnace]]s have the same limits as assemblers. Example: no more than 10 x [[Iron plate]] is accepted for smelting into [[Steel plate]].

=== Placing ===
*Transport belts: Inserters will always place the item on the further lane.
* [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3920 for orthogonal belts, inserter place items in the direction of their rotation]. This is by default up for horizontal or left for vertical placed inserters. When taking from a belt, they can change sometimes this direction!

==== How to change lanes ====

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3916

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3920

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4486

== Types ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Item !! Total raw !! Max power !! Speed (Rot/[[Game-second|sec]]) !! Range ([[Tile|tiles]]) !! Special
|-
| {{imagelink|burner-inserter|Burner inserter}} || {{icon|iron-plate|3|Iron plate}} || 180 W ([[Fuel|burner]]) || 0.6 (1x) || 1 || Only inserter using [[Fuel]]. Since v0.10.0 it will inset items with fuel value into itself when it has an empty inventory.
|-
| {{imagelink|inserter|Inserter}} || {{icon|iron-plate|4|Iron plate}} {{icon|copper-plate|1.5|Copper plate}} || 12.6 W ([[Electric network|electric]]) || 0.8 (1.4x) || 1 || Standard inserter.
|-
| {{imagelink|long-handed-inserter|Long handed inserter}} || {{icon|iron-plate|7|Iron plate}} {{icon|copper-plate|1.5|Copper plate}} || 18 W ([[Electric network|electric]]) || 1.1 (2x) || 2 || Only inserter with higher range.
|-
| {{imagelink|fast-inserter|Fast inserter}} || {{icon|iron-plate|8|Iron plate}} {{icon|copper-plate|4.5|Copper plate}} || 31.5 W ([[Electric network|electric]]) || 2 (3.5x) || 1 || Basic faster inserter.
|-
| {{imagelink|smart-inserter|Smart inserter}} || {{icon|iron-plate|12|Iron plate}} {{icon|copper-plate|10.5|Copper plate}} || 44.1 W ([[Electric network|electric]]) || 2 (3.5x) || 1 || Only inserter connectable to [[Circuit network]]s and with configurable working condition, such as filtering in only a specific set of items
|-
|}

== Special behavior ==

* [[Inserters/Interaction with other Entities]]
* [[Inserters/Instead of belt]]: Use it instead of a belt
* [[Inserters/Reduce power consumption]]
* [[Inserter item stack size]]: Inserter moves more than an item per turn, works only for transport from stack to stack
* [[Inserters:Focus/Grep-Points]]
* [[Inserters/Priority]]
* [[Storages/Sorting]] (extended filtering)

== See also ==
* [[Electric network]]
* [[Transport network]]

[[Category: Items]] [[Category: Transport network]] [[Category: Circuit network]]

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