Conveyor Lift

experimental

A Conveyor Lift is a mechanism that transports items vertically. This feature is released at 30 April 2019 4pm GMT in experimental version. It has 6 tiers similar to conveyor belts. It cannot be used to transport anything other than items. It can be directly connected to belt connector on machines, such as miners or constructors.

You can rotate its output direction by using mouse wheel. The input rotation is same as the building rotation. Use mouse movement to change it's height, it can go either up or down with an increment of 2 meters. The min vertical distance is 4 meters and the max is 48 meters. Similar to conveyor belts, you can upgrade a conveyor lift in-place.

Lift direction
The building of lift always starts with its starting point and ends with its ending point.
 * To build an upward lift, click on the floor, or snap to any existing machine, belt or splitter. Move your mouse UPWARD to adjust the height. Use mousewheel to rotate the output direction then click AGAIN to confirm.
 * To build a downward lift, first build a suspending foundation, either attached to the top of cliff or a elevated floor. Drag a short segment of belt towards the suspending foundation, then remove the foundation and the belt pole. Now you have a suspending belt, you can build the downward lift. When building the lift, first click at the belt, then drag DOWNWARD to adjust the vertical fall, but don't too much until it sinks into the ground. Use mousewheel to rotate the output then click again to confirm.
 * For conveyor walls or machine facing the cliff, you can directly build a downward lift without building the suspending belt.
 * As the lift height is limited to 48 meters, you may need to join several of them to form a longer vertical lift, such as for mining the quartz above the uranium.

Graphic glitch

 * Although there seems to be a 1 meter gap at the joint, the lift is actually connected. You can check this by observing if the items are moving through. Engineer can move through this gap.
 * Sometimes a downward lift also display the items are moving upward. You can check the actual item movement by observing the input and output belts.

Tiers
There are currently 4 tiers of conveyor lifts available in the game:

Unreleased
There are two unreleased conveyor lift tiers planned for future updates:

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