Logistic network
Logistic network consists of different chests, Logistic robots and Roboports covering the area of one logistic network. Depending on the type and configuration of the chests and area of the Robotic network the robots will transport items between these chests as alternative to the items manually, by belts or Railway network.
The player character can also act as Requester chest in the Logistic network. After researching Character logistic slots. You can configure an amount of Items and Logistic robots will start to move the specified Items from network to your characters inventory.
Usages
This is well useable for creating more and more complex items in your main factory. Low complexity (smelting) can keep using belts.
Network info
Logistic network remembers the numbers of all Items stored in all logistic chests and also the number of all items currently carried by Logistic robots. This information can be seen by hovering a logistic chest: you see the sum of all items in logistic chests or on the way in this logistic network.
How it works
The logistic bots try to fulfill the requests by moving items from storage or provider chest to requester chest.
Order of movement
The bots fulfill all requests with the same priority. The algorithm looks for the next free robot, then the next request in the queue and after giving orders to the robot, this request is put at the end of the queue, so that first all other requests are done. (The results are not optimal; it can happen, that the farest next bot will be requested, even if there is a much closer. Because of this, it's recommended to use the bots not for high throughput. For that are the Railway network much more useful.)
Requests are coming from the requester chests and storage chests.
- a requested item is first looked up in the storage chests, then in the provider chests (storage chests are emptied first)
- if robots are free and there is space left in storage chests, and there are unrequested items in provider chests, the items are moved from provider to a storage chest.
- if a any storage chest already contains items of different type, empty storage chests are filled first. This should avoid having storage chests with 10 different items inside.
Items
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Spawns the Robotic network and with it's coverage also the logistic network. |
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Moves items between logistic chests. |
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Supplies the contained items to the Logistic network. |
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Stores Items currently not requested. |
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Will be filled by Logistic robots until the configured amount is reached. |
At the beginning each robot is carriing only 1 item. This amount can be increased by researching Logistic robot cargo size.
Each type of chest can be connected to a Circuit network by using wires.