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One-Way Conveyors
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27 Jun, 2019 @ 4:37pm
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One-Way Conveyors

Description
Now includes small and medium versions!

Adds versions of the straight and curved conveyor tube that allow items to travel in only one direction.
Direction of flow is indicated by arrows on the tube.

Mostly made this to see if it would work, and as an alternative to using sorters purely to control item travel direction.

Can be used in any place you'd want a conveyor "diode", but don't need to filter specific items.


Known weirdness:
- Emissive arrows will glow green whether the tube is connected correctly or not; this is a limitation of the conveyor block-class. May end up changing them to a different color to prevent confusion.
- Due to the type of conveyor-connection node used, open-ended tubes can be used to access the conveyor network. (Unintended feature? heh)
19 Comments
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tlc09387 10 Feb, 2021 @ 1:10am 
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.
Clockwork168  [author] 9 Feb, 2021 @ 3:38pm 
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
tlc09387 8 Feb, 2021 @ 11:15pm 
Just curious... But does this also prevent gasses from flowing both ways through the one-way conveyors?
Godzilla fan for life 25 Feb, 2020 @ 6:08am 
Would love to see more one way conveyor blocks or a large ship splitter conveyor
-= MEADY =- 31 Dec, 2019 @ 5:14pm 
not that im one to complain but it replaces the large corner conveyor
Heliux 8 Sep, 2019 @ 2:17am 
Should be added to base game
Clockwork168  [author] 3 Jul, 2019 @ 5:40pm 
Hmm, dunno if/how that would work, but I'll try it, should be interesting to see heh
nathan2000 3 Jul, 2019 @ 5:54am 
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.
Skallabjorn 2 Jul, 2019 @ 7:48pm 
correct, both ways but still filters...
Clockwork168  [author] 2 Jul, 2019 @ 5:01pm 
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?