Talk:Smart Splitter

This page might require a cleanup as its mechanic has been recently updated. Kwjcool321 (talk) 15:46, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Overflow Splitter?
(First thing first, I haven't played this game (can't afford currently), but I have watched plenty of videos).

Can this rule be (ab-)used to create an "overflow splitter"?


 * "The outputs are processed in a specific order: center output first, left output, right output."

I'm thinking you have your main line, from that you split of item X (just to be sure you don't get some unknown items, not really needed if it's a pure line) using a Smart Splitter.

From that new line you put ANOTHER Smart Splitter (the actual overflow splitter), then you connect the CENTER (important) output to your main production line, and any of the side outputs to your overflow line (to the AWESOME Sink), you set this 2'nd Smart Splitter to filter the SAME item on BOTH the Center & Side outputs, THIS is what creates the "overflow splitter" because according to the rule above, the center output should have priority over the side outputs.

What do you think?

Would this work?

Can someone test this in game & (make a video?) come back with he results, please?

-- Sebbes33324:46, 7 March 2020 (UTC)


 * This is interesting and could be tested to verify. Currently, overflow splitters can be handled by vehicle stations (I might do a tutorial on the wiki later).
 * Ondar111 (talk) 09:29, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Just tried, for some reason, if I set the same item for straight and right, it will ONLY send items to the right and none straight, stopping the input... that's a bug and should be reported.
 * Ondar111 (talk) 12:29, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Given the later tests, I don't consider this to be a bug, possibly a "feature" kind of bug, because usually when you have a "main line" of some items & want to use a Overflow Splitter, you probably want the overflow to continue straight forward (center output), otherwise you have to build some crazy looking belt contraption where the side belts feed back into the next (center) input, either giving it a "stair case design" or some kind of chained S-shape, but when it works as it currently does, you just get a straight I-shape with primary side belt splitting off from the main line.
 * I suggest we just re-write the rules in this Wiki-article to actually match reality.
 * -- Sebbes333 17:17, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Interesting, what happens if you cut off the side belt (that apparently is the "primary belt"), will it re-direct to any of the other belts ("secondary belt" aka. overflow belt) instead? Or will it just stop the sorter?
 * -- Sebbes333 20:21, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * If I cut off the belt that is being filled, it will send it to another possible output. Ondar111 (talk) 15:10, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * YES! then it means that the Smart Splitter CAN be used as an Overflow Splitter :D
 * It just need to switch around the outputs compared to how it was initially thought to be.
 * -- Sebbes333 16:25, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I can't replicate this. When i connect center and right outputs to the Smart Splitter and set Wire for both of them, it just splits them in two like a regular splitter, no 'prioritized' behaviour observed. Screenshots
 * SerGreen (talk) 18:50, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah, but Vehicle Stations or also Train Stations are so bulky and shouldn't need to be a component in a sorting system just to handle overflow, I have also seen solutions where you chain 10-20 splitters & mergers so only like 0.1% of the throughput is diverted in normal operation, but 100% when overflowing, but none of these solutions are really good. However, if this can work it would kind of revolutionize how items can be handled in game, you can with just one single Smart Splitter (per item) have a central storage or production, & when a line overflows you just Sink the items.
 * -- Sebbes333 20:50, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Train Stations are humongous for this purpose, but Truck Stations, if placed close to each other, don't take *that* much space. This is also the only 100% effective method. Ondar111 (talk) 15:10, 9 March 2020 (UTC)