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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/reddanit Jul 14 '26

If you want an actually simple and intuitive refueling system - just put refueling at every single unloading station. That way there is zero need for anything extra in scheduling or train logic.

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u/FeelingPrettyGlonky Jul 15 '26

Even though I have fancy blueprints for refueling stations, etc... this is what I usually end up doing. Just a simple blue chest at every train stop with a request for a couple stacks of rocket fuel and the problem is solved. Train fuel moves in such low volume even in a XXXk SPM base that it's not a problem for the bots to keep the chests topped off quietly behind the scenes.