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Inserter Throughput Tooltip

by mpodreshetnikov · for Factorio

Hover any inserter (or inserter ghost) to see its maximum throughput in the entity tooltip: items per second with research hand-size bonuses, quality, circuit/manual stack limits, belt stacking and belt speeds taken into account.

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About Inserter Throughput Tooltip

From Factorio Mod Portal

Hover any inserter (or inserter ghost) to see its maximum throughput in the entity tooltip: items per second with research hand-size bonuses, quality, circuit/manual stack limits, belt stacking and belt speeds taken into account.

Inserter Throughput Tooltip

Hover any inserter, or a ghost you are about to build, and its tooltip tells you how many items per second it can move at most, right where it stands.

What you see

  • Max throughput: 80/s (4800/min), chest/machine → belt. The best case for this inserter in its current setup.

Values that involve taking items from a belt are marked with ≈. A note appears when a belt is the bottleneck.

  • Upper limit: 120/s (chest → chest, full hand). What the same inserter could do between two chests.
  • Hand stack size: 16 (5 base + 11 research), belt stacks of 4. Where the hand size comes from.
  • Cycle: 12 ticks = 0.2 s (swing 2 × 4 + drop 4). Where the time goes.
  • Measured (optional): items the inserter really moved while you hovered it.

What is taken into account

  • Any inserter, including modded ones and custom pickup/drop vectors
  • Quality (faster rotation and extension)
  • Hand size research and the inserter's built-in stack bonus
  • Manual and circuit-set stack size limits
  • Item stack size when the moved item is known (in hand or a single whitelist filter)
  • Speed of the input and output belt, output lane capacity
  • Stack inserter belt stacking, including belt capacity research
  • Stacked items on the input belt and pickup lane filters

Accuracy

Every rule was measured in Factorio 2.1.22 by building inserters in a headless server and counting moved items tick by tick, then checked on more than 2,000 random setups:

| Setup | Mean error | |---|---| | chest/machine → chest/machine | 0.2% | | chest/machine → belt | 0.2% | | belt → chest/machine (≈) | ~2% | | belt → belt (≈) | ~2% |

Taking items from a belt is the only approximate part: the hand chases items along the belt, so a small model trained on about 8,000 engine measurements corrects the physics estimate.

Did you know? In 2.1 a fast inserter needs 24 ticks per chest-to-chest cycle, 2.5 items/s per hand item, not 26 ticks and 2.31/s as in older tables.

Assumptions

The value is the best case: a fully compressed input belt, a free output lane, chests and machines that always have items and room. Machine ingredient limits, low power and other inserters taking from the same belt are not included; turn on "Also show measured throughput" to see the real rate.

Settings

  • Map: Show hand stack size, cycle time and upper limit (on by default)
  • Map: Also show measured throughput (off by default)
  • Per player: Also show throughput above the hovered inserter, a text label only you can see (off by default)

Compatibility

  • Factorio 2.1.22 or newer. Space Age and Quality are optional.
  • Works with modded inserters, ghosts, multiplayer.
  • Only inserters that someone is hovering are processed, so there is no cost in big bases.

For modders

local result = remote.call("inserter-throughput", "analyze", entity) -- inserter or inserter ghost
-- result.rate, result.max_rate (items/s), result.cycle (ticks), result.items_per_swing, result.limiter

Source code and the measurement harness: https://github.com/mpodreshetnikov/inserter-throughput-tooltip


Пропускная способность манипуляторов

Наведите курсор на манипулятор (или его призрак), и в подсказке появится, сколько предметов в секунду он может переносить максимум в своей текущей установке.

Что показывается: максимальная пропускная способность (с пометкой, если упирается в конвейер), предел для переноса «сундук → сундук», размер пачки с разбивкой (база, исследования, ограничения), цикл в тиках с разбивкой. По желанию: реально измеренная скорость и надпись над манипулятором.

Что учитывается: любые манипуляторы, в том числе модовые; качество; исследования размера пачки; ограничение стопки вручную или по сети; размер стопки предмета; скорость входного и выходного конвейера; укладка стопками у пакетного манипулятора; стопки на входном конвейере; фильтр полос.

Точность: все правила измерены в Factorio 2.1.22 потиково и проверены на 2000+ случайных установках. Сундуки и машины: ошибка 0,2%. Выгрузка на конвейер: 0,2%. Забор с конвейера: около 2%, помечен «≈».

Допущения: показывается лучший случай: входной конвейер полностью сжат, полоса выхода свободна, машины всегда готовы. Реальную скорость покажет опция «Дополнительно показывать измеренную скорость».

Совместимость: Factorio 2.1.22+, Space Age и Quality не обязательны, мультиплеер, призраки, модовые манипуляторы.

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

License

Published under MIT.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 17d ago.

Inserter Throughput Tooltip on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.0.1, released 2026-10-18

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.0.12026-10-182.1n/a
1.0.02026-10-182.1n/a

Dependencies

  • Optional: [reserved]
  • Optional: quality (factorio_portal, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Factorio Mod Portal as “Mods”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Factorio Mod Portal lists Inserter Throughput Tooltip as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Factorio
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server

Verified at the source

  • ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-19Open ↗
  • ✓Authormpodreshetnikov, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Inserter Throughput Tooltip, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Inserter Throughput Tooltip?

Factorio Mod Portal lists Inserter Throughput Tooltip as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Is it free?

Yes. Inserter Throughput Tooltip is free to download from Factorio Mod Portal. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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