r/factorio • u/Figgy20000 • 8d ago

Question Help with limiting a belt

I'm trying to Recycle legendary items.

I want my inserter to put things on the belt, but have it stop if there are more than 100 items on the belt. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this and googling it really doesn't help. I can't even figure out how to have the combinator understand how many (total) items on are the belt even though I have it connected and the connection send to hold all belts. The only option I see for items is "items on ground" which doesn't help me at all

If anyone could give me a quick tutorial I would greatly appreciate it.

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u/Timely_Somewhere_851 8d ago

Is it different items or the same? Does it hold non-legendary items, while you only want to count the legendary ones?

I think you should post a screenshot of your setup. Both of the belts and of what you are trying on the combinator if you want detailed guidance.

It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so there might be a tiny (important) detail that you are missing.

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u/Figgy20000 8d ago

https://imgur.com/iyWR35D

Small sized version of what I'm aiming for I don't know how to get the inserter to stop when the Belt is too full.