Can you make a conveyor switch, to stop and start flow with buttons

insane!

Does this work with other conveyor mods or will they clash?

Thanks for the quick reply! I figured that was the case, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. I'm curious if it would be possible to create a conveyor tube that allows only items through, but no gasses, or the inverse. Right now I use a bulky method making an airtight area in a maintenance area and controlling the flow of oxygen by opening and closing the vents.

Sadly not; Sorters have the same problem, it's a game limitation. Gases and conveyors in general interact kinda weirdly, and in this case they don't check against the direction flags on the conveyor nodes

Just curious... But does this also prevent gasses from flowing both ways through the one-way conveyors?

Would love to see more one way conveyor blocks or a large ship splitter conveyor

not that im one to complain but it replaces the large corner conveyor

Should be added to base game

Hmm, dunno if/how that would work, but I'll try it, should be interesting to see heh

I think he means a sorter that can move components from containers on ones side of it to the other (like from the assembler to the container), but still allows movement in the other direction (like from the container to the assembler to be disassembled). If a block like this existed, it would be a very simple alternative to sorting scripts.

correct, both ways but still filters...

Not quite sure what you mean by bidirectional sorter tbh. Something like a sorter with an input and 2 outputs? Or one that lets items go both ways but still filters?

amm, they already exist, they are called Ordinator, i think...

now , if someone would come up with a bi-directional sorter :)

@Clockwork168 so in other words you would have to cut the connections alltogether (for the game engine at least) and catch item requests from all buildings to do every item transport through your mod instead. okay, i see that would be a lot of work and that only if you would be able to catch all item requests to begin with - which probably would only be possible by modding each building individually...

@Killtech @Clockwork168 Making space engineers to something like satisfactory would be a great idea. Only thing missing is a drill that goes down forever. I know there is mods that do that stuff, but its only something like lasers or black holes not actual drills.

Also for a simple solution for limited-flow conveyors you should check the Chutes mod. It adds a rotor that has a screw shaped head that pushes objects forward with limited speed.

And also making real limited-flow conveyors could be possible with containers that have a script that pushes the items inside the container slowly towards another. They just need to look like they are conveyors instead of a containers.
Check the Automatic Inventory Management script, that would give a good example on how to do that kind of script.

That may or may not have been the inspiration for this heh ;)

Limited-flow conveyors aren't possible unfortunately, due to how conveyors work. They just check if there's a path between blocks, and the items essentially teleport into the receiving inventory, in whatever amount the block requested

A small yet important step towards Satifactory like factory lines. If one would also add flow limits we would really need to start thinking about designing out production chains.

Sorters can make everything go one direction. That is what I was implying.

They dont sort Charlie, EVERYTHING goes ONE way...

Basically sorters?