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Splits conveyor belts in three.
Useful to move parts and resources from oversaturated conveyor belts.
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2× Iron Plate2× Cable The Conveyor Splitter is a logistic structure that takes items from a single input Conveyor Belt or Lift and outputs them between three other belts.Construction
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The Conveyor Splitter and Conveyor Merger have fairly large collision boxes which are likely to obstruct additional parallel belts. For example, a splitter for Screw belt is likely to block the construction of Iron Plate belt. It is advised to build other nearby belts before building the splitter/merger.
Stacking
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You can stack the splitters and/or mergers on top of each other, each stacking offset by 2-meter height.
Splitters can be built directly onto straight sections of existing Conveyor Belt, even if the belt is elevated or sloped. This makes it easy to split items off of raised or stacked belts without first having to stack splitters up to the correct height. When placing splitters on an existing belt, they do not snap to the foundation grid, even if the belt is on the ground level.
Splitters and Mergers cannot be built directly onto a building's belt connector (so attempting to extract items out of an overclocked Miner faster than the speed of a belt is not possible. You can snap Splitters and Mergers onto either end of a Conveyor Lift.
Conveyor splitting styles
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Usage
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A splitter splits items from one input conveyor into one, two or three connected output conveyor(s), the input side must be connected to a belt for it to function. If one output conveyor is backed up, the splitter will attempt to split the items among the remaining output belts, if all output conveyors are backed up, the splitter will stop splitting and build up its buffer of nine items and finally stopping the intake from the input conveyor.
All types of splitters operate at a rate of 2 000/min, however, the fastest conveyor is 780/min.
Types
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There are three types of splitters available, each with different sorting capabilities.
Basic
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The standard splitter plainly split items between its outputs in sequence. If any output is full, it will distribute the incoming items into the remaining outputs evenly.
Smart
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Main article: Smart SplitterEach output can have a filter set to either "None", "Any" "Any Undefined", "Overflow" or one specific item type.
Programmable
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Main article: Programmable SplitterFunctions just like a Smart Splitter, but multiple filters (items) can be set for each output.
Trivia
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Gallery
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The old splitter appearance as in the E3 trailer
The old splitter appearance as in the dev blog video
A splitter can be built onto an existing belt.
Splitting a belt from a Miner to feed two Smelters.
Splitters can be stacked on top of each other.
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