Alchemy Factory: Tags with Spaces Are Bugged (Workarounds)

The problem

My unloader is set to "Linen Rope" and it's unloading wagons tagged as "Linen"

What players suggest

If you hover your mouse cursor over the (?) when setting the tags, it specifically says it matches if the starting letters/numbers match. This allows you to perform advanced routing of wagons. For example, if you have a wagon tagged with "F3 Linen", then have a track sorter set to match "F3" for floor 3, any wagon starting with "F3" including "F3 Rope" will match the filter and be sent off to…

That is working as designed. "21.f" matches the starting characters of "21.fert" wagons. That is exactly how the mouse-over tip describes it. If your wagon is tagged with "21.fert", any device will have a positive match if it is set to any of the following: 2 21 21. 21.f 21.fe 21.fer 21.fert If you have a space instead and it says "21 fert", any device will have a positive match if set to: 2 21…

my system works and i have 500 tags. they just changed how the system worked. it used to have to be a total match on both the loader and unloader. now it does not. and the same goes for the switches. they read more then just the first two cahacters. some of my stuff that was working fine stopped when they did the last up date. it'e not a big thing but I did have to make every tage it's own and…