Advanced Logistics Hopper

The Advanced Logistics Hopper is a specialized hopper designed to address a number of common manufacturing chain, tight space, and quantity management challenges through a number of additional configurable features.

One of the biggest issues with tight space manufacturing lines is where a conveyor cannot be placed in the desired direction because it would be next to hopper and pull items from it that it shouldn’t. The Advanced Logistics Hopper solves this problem by allowing the individual locking of any hopper face against extraction by conveyor belts, pipes, and generic auto craft (GAC) machines.

A frequent nuisance with building smaller multiblock machines, such as refineries and turbines, is having extra cubes left over because a hopper gave you more than needed, and you didn’t want to spend time tediously inserting them one at time back in to get down to the quantity actually needed. Enough of this. The manual transfer denomination settings let you set the quantity pulled each time you press the extract key. Have some of the blocks in your inventory already? No problem. Your manual extraction action will pull just the amount needed to keep your inventory at the set denomination.

Tired of carrying smaller hoppers around and juggling which ones to use? Or having excess amounts of limited resources sitting in manufacturing line hoppers? The Advanced Logistics Hopper allow setting the maximum hopper capacity to the exact size needed for the application.

Need to hold some manufacturing intermediates back for manual crafting needs? The reserve quantity setting lets you set the number of items to be held in reserve which can only be removed by manual extraction.

A frequent issue with manufacturing chains of items such as Mass Storage Inputs/Output and power boosters, is having units on hand that need to be upgraded, but having no way to insert them into your manufacturing chain because the hoppers are full. The reserve space setting solves this by allowing a set amount of hopper space to be left open for manual insertion only.

Required Research: Basic Logistics

Manufacturing Category: Logistics

Update 5/12/2020:
– Remove debug logging messages.

Update 4/13/2020:
– Fix issues with enforcement of reserve quantity.

Update 2/8/2019:
– Fix to restore machine panel window icon holder sizes back to the original.

Update 2/2/2019:
– Fix typo on info popup text.

Update 1/15/2019:
– Fix machine window hopper permission toggle buttons to update correctly and immediately.
– Fix hopper front text free slot count not updating immediately when the hopper space settings are changed.

Update 1/7/2019:
– Fix Unity visuals of Extractor Units and Mass Storage Limiter Unit to not downgrade to the yellowish hopper appearance.

Update 12/19/2018:
– Catch null player instance on server client right after connect to prevent exception.

Update 10/28/2018:
– Switch back internal machine panel handling to avoid text alignment issues on vanilla machine panels.

Update 9/25/2018:
– Refresh build for release P22.
– Add room awareness.
– Latest UI fixes.

Update 7/10/2018:
– Allow shift/ctrl click on machine panel slots to extract in increments of 10 or 1.

Update 7/6/2018:
– Fix for vacuum toggle not working correctly from dedicated server clients.

Update 5/21/2018:
– Revised recipes to mesh better with new FCE recipe set.

Update 5/20/2018:
– Shift-Q now does permissions rotation like vanilla hopper.
– Add compatibility to work correctly with new basic conveyor inverted mode.

Update 5/4/2018:
– Fix ore/cube re-balancing between adjacent hoppers.

Update 4/25/2018:
– Minor fixes to UI for machine window.