Weird issue with itemducts, is this normal?

[Poisontoast]

So whenever I go to the moon via portal or rocket my itemduct sorting system no longer works. Items just sit in the sorting boxes and are never pulled. I have 2 sorting systems and both of them stop working. A small one and a massive one (think the Furturama Central Bureaucracy episode). Breaking some of the tubes and replacing them doesn't seem to work. Restarting the server works fine.

 

I figured this might be the size but the smaller one also stops working. I think I might need a chunk loader or something to fix it. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue or something similar and if its worth reporting. I personally don't think t serious enough to submit a ticket but it would be cool to find a fix.

[islands420]

try useing a popet stand to chunk load, other wise you may have to switch over projectred transportation 

[Kalbintion]

Yeah if the chunk that contains the sorting system is unloaded, it will fail to do anything. This is often remedied with some sort of chunk loader (poppet shelf is only one example, but there are others)

[Poisontoast]

I will try it and see if it works. Thanks for the help!

[Dweller_Benthos]

I found this as well, since my item system spans three chunks (use F9 to see where chunk boundaries are) I created three poppet shelves to keep each of the chunks loaded and it works fine. My hotbar stock of bread is kept at full with the item system, a stock keeper chip and that player inventory block (forget it's name).

 

Using the poppet shelves as chunk loaders also fixed problems I was having with item and fluid duct systems that spanned chunk boundaries.