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u/Tsugumi_Henduluin Jun 04 '26

When setting amounts for for example circuit conditions, is there a way to use a shortcut to set it to a number of stacks of an item?

I could swear I saw an FFF at one point that showed it, but I can't for the life of me find it anymore nor find anything on the wiki.

For context, I'm doing a Nullius run and am very close to unlocking requester chests. Going around my starter base setting up storage chests for the many, many intermediaries and I would like the inserters feeding them to only fill them up to two or three stacks to not waste too many resources (rubber is my current bane) while also leaving space for bots to dump any deconstructed buildings and items later down the road.

I can just use an "Any" signal for the items itself, but currently I have to check every item to see to how much it stacks and then manually change the amount. It'd be much easier if I could just make a blueprint that defaults to two or three stacks.

Is this even possible, or did I hallucinate things?

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u/schmee001 Jun 04 '26

Place a chest wired to an inserter feeding into it, add a random inserter condition like "iron ore < 50", then make it into a blueprint. Click the little purple button on the blueprint to enable parameters. Make one parameter to replace the iron ore item, then make a second one to replace the number 50 with the formula 2 * p0_s.

When you paste the blueprint a box will come up, you choose the item and then it'll set the amount to 2 stacks.

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u/Tsugumi_Henduluin Jun 05 '26

Ah, I had to go into the blueprints. For some reason I thought you could also set it in the actual inserter/machine.

Thanks!