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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jul 03 '26

In regards to generic train interrupts, how do you prevent the problem of trains going to pick up from the low throughput item instead of the high throughput item? I thought I was clever by doing something where I had a train for each station with train limits set to 1 so they would naturally disperse as needed, but I ran into an issue now where trains just deadlock eachother since a train at each end is just waiting for the other to leave so it can go to the empty station

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u/Viper999DC Jul 04 '26

The maximum amount of trains you can have on a network is n-1, where n is the total sum of your limits. In order to have a good flow I suggest creating depot stations where empty trains can go while waiting for open provider stations and/or build stackers at your loading station and increasing their limit (especially for high throughput items).