Automation
This page contains information about blocks and machines that are used to automate production.
Conveyor Belts
Conveyor Belts are blocks used to transport items. They can pick up dropped items or items from Conveyor Ejectors. Conveyor Inserters can take items from Conveyor Belts. If there are no Conveyor Inserters present, the item will be dropped at the end of the conveyor belt line.
Conveyor Belts have 4 different types: normal (yellow) Conveyor Belts, Double-Lane (red) Conveyor Belts, Triple-Lane (purple) Conveyor Belts and Express (green) Conveyor Belts.
There are 3 different recipes for crafting Conveyor Belts:
Double-Lane and Triple-Lane Conveyor Belts are upgrades of normal Conveyor Belts (they are crafted normal/double belts and iron/steel plates). They can take inputs from multiple sides.
Express Conveyor Belts are faster versions of normal Converyor Belts. They are crafted with normal Conveyor Belts and Engine Lubricant.
Belts are directly inspired by Factorio.
Conveyor Inserters/Ejectors
Conveyor Inserters are blocks that take items from Conveyor Belts and output them into a storage space. Conveyor Ejectors are the opposite; they take items from storage and place them onto Conveyor Belts.
Conveyor Inserters have 21 storage slots, but Ejectors have only 9. However, Ejectors can be upgraded with Ejection Speed and Stack Ejection Upgrades (up to level III).
The Ejector has a whitelist/blacklist system (the default mode is blacklist with no restrictions - this means that everything will go through). To change between whitelist and blacklist, click the white arrow pointing to whatever is enabled. To add an item to the whitelist/blacklist, click on one of the blue squares next to the storage space with the item you want to add.
Conveyor Ejector recipes:
Conveyor Inserter recipes:
Conveyor Splitter
The Conveyor Splitter is a type of Conveyor Belt that splits items evenly onto 2 lanes.
It's crafted with 6 Steel Ingots, 2 Pneumatic Pistons and a Vacuum Tube.
The Splitter can be used to split a Belt's output into 2 lanes, or create belt balancers, setups that balance out imbalanced lanes to prevent clogging.
Splitters are also taken directly from Factorio. For information about belt balancers, see Balancer Mechanics.
Conveyor Sorters
Conveyor Sorters are blocks that can sort various items to a specific conveyor belt.
The sorter has 6 outputs with 5 slots each, making it able to route multiple items to one belt. The outputs have 3 modes:
- Whitelist, where it routes if the item matches with the filter
- Blacklist, where it route if the item does not match with the filter
- Wildcard, if the item doesn't match with any of the filters
It is made with 4 Insulators, 4 Pneumatic Pistons, and 1 Integrated Circuit Board.
Material Automation
Producing vast quantities of materials is vital during the mid- to late-game for the incredibly advanced and complex machines you'll be producing. Always keep in mind the infinitely renewable resources available to you, including bedrock ores and bedrock oil.
These machines are useful for extracting the two aforementioned materials indefinitely and automatically:
- The Large Mining Drill, which, when provided with the appropriate drill-bit and fluid, can mine Bedrock Ore.
- The Hydraulic Fracking Tower, which, when provided with Fracking Solution, can extract Crude Oil from Bedrock Oil.