Low priority Automatic Dispensers infinite store materials errand loop

I did more testing and saw some inconsistencies as well. In my screen shots above, the dupes were looping the partially filled bleach stone bin. I did another test as well and only when the storage bin was 100% full would the dupe move some of the storage bin (higher priority storage) material to the automatic dispenser (lower priority storage). However if the storage bin was less than 100% full, the dupe would not take material out of the storage bin and put it into the automatic dispenser. So maybe in some cases they do this loop for partially filled bins, and with another test, they only do it for 100% full storage bin (or some higher percentage).

I compared this to a conveyor loader which actually worked like I expected. Neither a dupe nor a Auto-Sweeper would move the materials to it unless it was a higher priority.

Until Klei fixes that, you can try this mod, it should help https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1889255373

Edited September 2, 2023 by Duck986

Or you can try this design

The important is to keep the central tiles (which contains thousands of tons of items) out of reach of both your duplicants as well as the dispensers on top. Offloading the items in the storage compactors on the top left prevents the loop.

As only storage compactors are available to duplicants, they can be kept at the same priorities (I keep them at 3 to secure an "automated sweeping job" without having to think about it.

This design is inspired from the quantum stockpile in dwarf fortress.

Edited September 4, 2023 by GDP