Bulk inserter

Bulk inserter

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• Space Age mod

Recipe
0.5 + 1 + 15 + 1 + 15 → 1
Total raw
41.5 + 32 + 55 + 2
Map color
Health	160 208 256 304 400
Resistances	Fire: 0/90%
Stack size	50
Rocket capacity	50
Dimensions	1×1
Energy consumption	169 219 270 320 421 kW (electric)
Drain	1 kW (electric)
Rotation speed	864°/s 1123°/s 1382°/s 1642°/s 2160°/s
Mining time	0.1
Prototype type	inserter
Internal name	bulk-inserter
Required technologies
Boosting technologies
Produced by

Recipe
0.5 + 1 + 15 + 1 + 15 → 1
Total raw
41.5 + 32 + 55 + 2
Map color
Health	160 208 256 304 400
Resistances	Fire: 0/90%
Stack size	50
Rocket capacity	50
Dimensions	1×1
Energy consumption	169 219 270 320 421 kW (electric)
Drain	1 kW (electric)
Rotation speed	864°/s 1123°/s 1382°/s 1642°/s 2160°/s
Mining time	0.1
Prototype type	inserter
Internal name	bulk-inserter
Required technologies
Boosting technologies
Produced by
Consumed by

Object description

The bulk inserter is an electric inserter that can hold more items in its hand than most other inserter types. Moving as fast as a fast inserter, it transfers more items per cycle, giving it a material flow advantage at the cost of additional power consumption.

When transferring between chests, cargo wagons and other containers it picks up and drops off its entire handful of items instantly. When picking up from or dropping off items onto a transport belt a bulk inserter needs to grab or drop each item individually, increasing the time between arm swings and lowering its potential throughput. In these cases, however, the bulk inserter still has higher throughput than a fast inserter because it swings back and forth less often. The throughput from chest to chest for a fully upgraded bulk inserter is 27.69 items per second, but only 13.85 items/s from chest to express belt.

A bulk inserter cannot carry more items than the item's inventory stack size.

Bulk inserters have the largest inserter hand size and throughput in the base game, but are beaten out by stack inserters in Space Age, which can hold even more items while operating at the same speed.

Stack size

The stack size is increased by the inserter capacity bonus (research) technology. The stack size can be overridden to set how many items it picks up at one time, with the maximum being the highest research level currently unlocked.

Inserter capacity bonus	Stack size bonus	Total stack size
none	0	2
1	+1	3
2	+1	4
3	+1	5
4	+1	6
5	+2	8
6	+2	10
7	+2	12

History

• 2.1.7:
  • Inserters can be flipped to make blueprint flipping reliable.

• 2.0.7:
  • All inserters now have filter option.
  • Renamed from Stack inserter to Bulk inserter.
  • Max energy consumption increased from 133 kW to 169 kW.

• 0.15.0:
  • Added stack inserter override feature.

• 0.13.7:
  • Updated stack inserter tech icon.

• 0.13.6:
  • Now unlocked by their own research.

• 0.13.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Electric system
• Inserters