cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602

Introducing a vertical circular bus - A giant O of belts and lifters fully connected allowing for input / output anywhere along the bus.

Pros :

  • Modular, you can build anywhere on the vertical bus stack
  • Limits spaghetti by providing a clear and easy to access API for all players.
  • Very fast to reach all parts of the factory since everything is very concentrated into a cube of productivity.

Cons :

  • Satisfactory netcode doesn’t like SUPER dense areas, so it could become problematic for multiplayer.
  • There is no priority mergers yet in Satisfactory, so if you want to prioritize a input to the bus you downgrade the belts/lifters feeding INTO the priority input, that way the belt will back up and the priority input will provide the bulk of the material.

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  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Please tell me those splitters are just cosmetic and don’t actually work with lifts clipped that far in…

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      1 month ago

      Okay… It’s all cosmetic and it doesn’t actually work.

      but....

      It 100% works! Don’t think of the clipping, just think of it as the logical progression of a splitter in the vertical direction.