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.
Details/Photo Galleries:
- Vertical Bus Details https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602/5288896
- Demonstration of the Vertical Bus in a base: https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602/5288887
- Prototyping details https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602/5288866
Took a bit for me to figure out wtf this was but after seeing your other post this is super cool. I’ve never gotten far enough in satisfactory to implement something like this but everytime I see this giant base screenshots I want to dive in and finish the game.