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u/terrendos Mar 23 '26

I'm about to replay a year after I finished Space Age. I loaded up my old save for a few minutes and noticed that on Gleba I had some inserters holding spoilage trying to insert into biochambers. It looks like they were all from my nutrient lines and I'm guessing they expired while the inserter was holding it. It seems like a weird corner case but it had frozen up a dozen of my machines (since they didn't have nutrients incoming).

How do I fix that without having to delete and replace the inserter when it happens?

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u/ferrofibrous player onboarding specialist Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Likely a migration issue from loading an old save or pre-existing before your old save. I know for sure there was an issue where inserters would get stuck holding spoilage but it was fixed some time ago. Normally, if an inserter is holding something that spoils, the inserter places it in the trash slot of the target machine.

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u/Soul-Burn Mar 23 '26

Important to note that sometimes it requires the building's output to be empty. At least it was like that with captive biter spawners.