Blueprint to constant combinator

[RobertSchuh]

Feature request: Like the blueprint to buffer chest, but to constant combinators instead. Those constant combinators could then be wired to buffer chests to obtain the same result, or to trains to make a train that supplies the necessary materials.

[christoph-frick]

One thing the buffer-chest-generator does: it attempts to fill the chests properly. AFAIK you can not do this with combinators+chests, right? You would have to balance the blueprint against the slots in the combinators (or not: we could just use one combinator for one item and link them all), but we would never be able to make this properly work for blueprints, that are larger than the items contained in a (buffer) chest.

To make it work with buffers we would have to create multiple (chains of) combinators and link them to one buffer (or multiple buffers for large blueprints).

Also, I don't know how to make combinators directly work with train wagons (I have not seen an option to send the combinators directly to the train -- but I might have just missed them).

So what I propose is this: have a selector for that feature, where to store the requests for the blueprint in. That would mean, that the tool would need to know the amount of slots and how they can hold (AFAIK the later is agnostic of the target in Factorio, only the amount of slots is relevant).

E.g. I could imagine the following options right now:

• buffer chest (the feature right now)
• regular requester chests just for the fun of it
• constant combinators (linking this up and making use of it is up to the user)
• cargo wagons (saw, that we can create blueprints for wagons; so this would produce a chain of wagons with the content limited to what the blueprint dictates)