Egg Cracker and storage priority

This is the correct behavior.

 

The egg cracker is a resource consuming machine. It requests resources to be delivered to it from the ground or any storage compactor. Immagine your scenario if this was a coal generator and ask if the behavior seems intuitive now.

 

The solution to your problem is to have an autosweeper collect the eggs and load that conveyor rail into a smart storage compactor by another sweeper that is not in range of the egg cracker. Have another sweeper in range of both the storage and the cracker which is only enabled when storage is full. Prohibit manual use everywhere applicable, and keep the storage out of reach.

Edited June 22, 2018 by zerat

The Egg Cracker can not be automated.

Also if you set any storage to 9 and store coal and have a coal generator set to 6 then the behavior is that dupes fill up the storage first.

Edit: Just tested the above scenario... it appears you are correct which means you can not use storage to cache a certain number of eggs without the Dupes cracking them unless smart storage is controlling a checkpoint or door into a room containing the cracker.

So I guess my bug report is not a bug after all

Edited June 23, 2018 by Deadpan110