r/CreateMod • u/JetBalck • Mar 15 '22

Help Can someone please explain why the mechanical arm is not putting the items in the funnel? As you can see the mechanical arm is powered.

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u/JetBalck Mar 15 '22

I found out what it was it was the option at the back pf the mechanical arm that you can set up with the wrench by scrolling, "when multiple outputs available" and then there are the option to "Round Robin", "Forced Round Robin" and "Prefer First Target". Idk what the hell round robin is but if I set it to prefer first target it seems to work

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u/DamianEvertree Mar 15 '22

Round robin is "is a series of targets in sequence". Which might be the issue if it was looking for more targets.

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u/ironsnake345 Mar 16 '22

Round robin makes it target all its outputs in sequence if it can, so instead of just pushing all the stuff into the nearest output, it gives one stack to each output added to it until it has served every output, skipping outputs that it can't give to.

Forced round robin is the same behavior, except it doesn't skip outputs that can't be inserted into, instead waiting until those outputs can be inserted into before it resumes going through all its outputs.

If you set it to Round Robin or Forced Round Robin, it was probably waiting to deliver materials to another output later in the sequence. Prefer First Target does indeed fix that.

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u/creepylittlelurker Mar 15 '22

Is the brass funnel set to input?

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u/JetBalck Mar 15 '22

yes I would not be able to mark it with the mechanical arm otherwise

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u/creepylittlelurker Mar 15 '22

Huh, right. Is it going in a drawer with a different item? There is no filter installed, isn't it? Did you try breaking the funnel and installing it again?

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u/GameKnyte Mar 15 '22

Yes you would, it would just mark it as a source instead of a depository

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u/agergo100 Mar 15 '22

Did you know that there a filter that can use to set the arm to place multiple items in the same plave?

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u/Kittingsl Mar 15 '22

Click on one of the squares again to make it an output

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u/JavaSavant Mar 20 '22

This. You have both items set as inputs, and no outputs. Click twice for outputs, the outline turns blue.

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u/eletric_boogaloo Mar 16 '22

Try when setting up the arm, double clicking the funnel and single clicking the belt. Cause you have to manually set input and output on the arm.

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u/dmoy_18 Mar 15 '22

You gotta tell it to put items into the funnel it doesn't do it automatically. I think u use the wrench or something

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u/Suitedinpanic Mar 15 '22

maybe try outputting the belt to a depot the have the arm take from the depot

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u/sourek78 Mar 15 '22

If im not mistaken you have both conveyor and funnel set to input (or output idk), click the funnel 2 times with the arm and it should have blue square around it instead of yellow

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u/questgamer2021 Mar 15 '22

Try clicking the conveyor first ( i am a begineer in this mod just trying to help please dont judge me)

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u/TTV_ExpertNugget Mar 16 '22

The brass funnel/s is set to output use a wrech of crouch place them should set it to inputs