Automatic Dispenser storage priority is bugged

 

I think I have the same. I have a setup in which I had hoped to circumvent having to manually issue sweep orders everywhere. The top dispensers accept always at prio 4, while bottom ones are sweep only. The access to them is mutually exclusive, to prevent endless walking around, pinking the item up and putting it back in the dispenser. That works fine.

However, the moment an outside bin is involved things mess up. The red arrow indicates a resupply to a high prio storage bin, which is great! But for some reason the dupes that have acces to the low prio dispenser, take items out of the high prio storage bin to drop it back in the central storage area.

On 11.08.2019 at 11:43 PM, Xcone said:

However, the moment an outside bin is involved things mess up. The red arrow indicates a resupply to a high prio storage bin, which is great! But for some reason the dupes that have acces to the low prio dispenser, take items out of the high prio storage bin to drop it back in the central storage area

Potential workaround: 1. Place a low priority smart compactor that blocks door to storage-hole when half-full. 2. Another high priority one to block dispenser when compactor half-empty.

This way dispenser won't empty storages, unless they are full, and dupes won't top storages off.

Edited August 19, 2019 by AndreyKl