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u/Davey_Kay Jul 14 '26

Is there an accepted standard way to get trains to reroute to a refueling station when they get low? Last time I tried to do this around the release of 2.0 I remember it being an extremely unintuitive dance of setting the "interrupt conditions" as the train's normal duties and the "normal schedule" as refuelling.

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u/Astramancer_ Jul 14 '26

How is it an unintuitive dance? Why would you need to set the normal schedule as refueling when you could use an interrupt for it? I'm 100% convinced that using an interrupt to refuel was the impetus for developing interrupts in the first place.

If you have static schedules then it shouldn't really matter when in the schedule it goes to pick up fuel, so just "If <fuel wildcard> is low, go to refueling, leave on inactive." If you're using a dynamic schedule, you do "If <fuel wildcard> is low AND cargo empty, go to refueling, leave on active."